It's typical HP though. Their line was "invent", it's not "The computer is personal again", why do you think they changed this? The creativity was smashed out of the company years ago and their desire to actually push the envelope and do something that will turn our heads is gone.
This said, if they do pull their finger out of their collective arsehole maybe we might see some actual competition to the iPad - because at this stage, there's nothing that comes close on qualtiy, price or OS to the iPad.
Sure, there's devices "in the pipeline" and Honeycomb is becoming the "iPad killer" for all the fandroids out there. Really, these phrases just mean that there's nothing yet and I really doubt that Honeycomb will be able to beat out what Apple has in store at this stage. The only device I see as bringing it to the iPad party is the Blackberry Playbook - the interface is smooth, it looks well engineered, and there's no fragmentation (it's going to be a tablet OS from the get go). Google really could learn a thing or two from both RIM & Apple when it comes to tablets, or just bail out of the game.
Here's hoping that Web OS doesn't fall flat on it's face because HP lost all the creative minds years ago.
This is true, I have been keeping my 24" Samsung as my main screen because of the 1920x1200 resolution (my 2nd screen is an Asus 24" 1920x1080).
I think there's room for both consoles and PC games as there always has been, it's just some gaming companies are getting lazy and going console style for everything. Sure it works with things like DCUO, I use my 360 controller with that and it works great, but other games it's just terribad.
The only way this will change is if people refuse to buy bad ports from console to PC, then the designers will have to actually do the hard yards and create the PC version with PC players in mind.
Quite interesting. Aside from the financial side, I think getting stuff played via internet radio and the like is more about exposure, though it is good to see that self-pressed CDs make the most for the artist (not that this wasn't obvious already).
The problem is that you will earn a lot less by changing from free to pay for (even if you only charge $3 p/m) due to people's perception of value. You've already set the value of the service at free, to charge feels like the subscriber is getting ripped off. These internet radio stations do make money via advertising, so there is no need to charge.
I have stopped using sites/services that have either changed what is available to non-paying subscribers or started charging for the service. I see my friends doing the same thing. It's better to make a little off a lot of users than make a lot of a few users. It's a lot harder to expand your user base if you charge for something they can get elsewhere for free.
Agreed, blatant spin is easier to deal with, bullshit filter gets triggered early. News sources that pretend to be "fair and balanced" (to steal the Fox line) but are really spun to buggery are the hard ones to deal with. I prefer to get my news from multiple sources and make up my own mind.
Same, maybe one day we can just not pay people but simulate the games... one can only wish.
PS: There is only one type of football, and it's only played with your feet. Don't worry, this is not just aimed at Americans, but my own countrymen/women too (Aussies). I suppose you can't call it the NHL (National Handball League) as that acronym is already taken.
I'm not an "apple minded individual" I bought an iPhone 3G as there were no Android phones in Australia at the time other than really early releases that were, at best, shoddy, and just as Android soft locks you in due to purchases, so does iOS devices. I was more than happy to go with an Android tablet, as I stated, so I really don't see how this shows me as "apple minded".
You're belittling my buying choices because I chose to go with a mature platform rather than a rushed to market platform. I was anticipating that Google would release an awesome OS, but my hopes were dashed when I played with an Android device and installed a VM of Android way back when the initial phones were released. It was half baked at best, broken at worst.
You're talking as though your "level of consciousness" is somehow higher but you say things like "who really wants something on iOS", I'd say you have the same level of maturity as the initial releases of Android did. Sure, Android has matured, but not all handsets have been updated. To be honest, I don't want to have to potentially kill my device just so I can get the latest version of the OS. I buy phone to make calls, browse the net a bit, get my emails, and run apps I find useful, not to play around with (I run a VMWare ESXi platform for that).
If you can't handle the truth that Android tablets were rushed to market and that Android is fragmented, maybe you should find something else to be a zealot about.
This is not true, the updates are not done via the store, they are done via carrier updates (or via your computer if you install community updates). This has nothing to do with the Android Market. Some older phones don't even have the Android Market on them, nor do they have updates to give them the store.
"The following pie chart and table is based on the number of Android devices that have accessed Android Market within a 14-day period ending on the data collection date noted below."
Hrmm, once I've got the apps I want I don't access the App Store for a month or two at a time.
Unfortunately that graph is not ALL devices, only devices that have accessed the market in the last 14 days prior to 02/02/11.
The problem with this kind of "support" is that you are relying on the hardware being picked up by the community and developed for. What happens when your hardware isn't picked up by the community and the maker decides to EOL it before the contract ends? Or it ends up like the Motorola or Sony handsets where trying to root it is all but impossible?
Android tabs are a bit of a joke at the moment, and I'm advising all of my friends keen to get one to wait until their favourite flavour of manufacturer has Honeycomb tabs. Otherwise you're gambling on a possible update by the community should the manufacturer EOL it.
I was keen to get an Android tab mid last year, but there was nothing about. I got an iPad and have been pleased with my purchase. Sure, it didn't come with os 4.X, but it has it now and I know apple aren't going to drop support for the iPad when the iPad 2 comes out. Just as my iPhone 3G didn't lose support when the 3GS or the 4 came out.
1) the Daily Mail is a bottom feeder tabloid 2) Andrew Wakefield's research paper was pulled by The Lancet due to back room deals with the supporting agency of the anti-vaccine crusaders.
Wow, you really are a fool. You have no idea about herd immunity, nor do you understand how vaccines have changed the world.
Polio is still a massive problem in the 3rd world, as is TB and other diseases that have been all but eradicated in industrialised nations. All it would take is a generation if idiots like you to put the industrialised world back to where the 3rd world is.
Having lived in Cambodia and seen first hand what polio, TB, measles outbreaks, and the like can do, well, I can assure you that vaccination is worth it. Whether it is 100% effective or not. Again, herd immunity.
Your arguments don't hold up when looking at outbreaks from an immunologists point of view. The whole idea is herd immunity, not that the vaccine works on everyone. Once vaccination rates are above 90% it's quite difficult for a disease to move from small outbreak to pandemic. Your argument that there's no mention of how many vaccinated people caught the measles means nothing, it's actually the worst way to back your argument up - There's no data on this therefore it must exist!
Questioning something with an intelligent argument backed up by research and logic is valid, questioning without any intelligent argument and using a lack of data to back your argument up is beyond stupid.
I must agree with him, and I didn't realise how bad this was in the US until I saw a documentary the other night on the "war against vaccination" in the US. Pretty much the people against vaccination keep changing the reasoning why the vaccinations are "bad".
One minute it's the MMR vaccines that cause autism, then it's the mercury based preservatives, then it's the amount of shots kids get, blah blah blah. Basically all the reasons have been refuted by scientific studies (Denmark was used quite often as they keep medical records on all their citizens).
One of the anti-vaccine idiots even had the balls to say that it was up to the scientific community to disprove that vaccines are dangerous.
Jim Carey and that other bitch both need to be hurt with hot pokers. The simple fact that autism becomes apparent at the time when kids get their vaccinations does not mean that the vaccinations cause autism. In fact, the studies showed that vaccinated kids had the same rate of autism as non-vaccinated kids.
Pseudo-science will always win because the media outlets can get "passionate" famous people behind the campaigns.
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One of the countries with the lowest rates of rape (Japan) actually has rape simulation games.
Wonder how Fox would spin that?
It's typical HP though. Their line was "invent", it's not "The computer is personal again", why do you think they changed this? The creativity was smashed out of the company years ago and their desire to actually push the envelope and do something that will turn our heads is gone.
This said, if they do pull their finger out of their collective arsehole maybe we might see some actual competition to the iPad - because at this stage, there's nothing that comes close on qualtiy, price or OS to the iPad.
Sure, there's devices "in the pipeline" and Honeycomb is becoming the "iPad killer" for all the fandroids out there. Really, these phrases just mean that there's nothing yet and I really doubt that Honeycomb will be able to beat out what Apple has in store at this stage. The only device I see as bringing it to the iPad party is the Blackberry Playbook - the interface is smooth, it looks well engineered, and there's no fragmentation (it's going to be a tablet OS from the get go). Google really could learn a thing or two from both RIM & Apple when it comes to tablets, or just bail out of the game.
Here's hoping that Web OS doesn't fall flat on it's face because HP lost all the creative minds years ago.
When the walls fell!
This is true, I have been keeping my 24" Samsung as my main screen because of the 1920x1200 resolution (my 2nd screen is an Asus 24" 1920x1080).
I think there's room for both consoles and PC games as there always has been, it's just some gaming companies are getting lazy and going console style for everything. Sure it works with things like DCUO, I use my 360 controller with that and it works great, but other games it's just terribad.
The only way this will change is if people refuse to buy bad ports from console to PC, then the designers will have to actually do the hard yards and create the PC version with PC players in mind.
Quite interesting. Aside from the financial side, I think getting stuff played via internet radio and the like is more about exposure, though it is good to see that self-pressed CDs make the most for the artist (not that this wasn't obvious already).
The problem is that you will earn a lot less by changing from free to pay for (even if you only charge $3 p/m) due to people's perception of value. You've already set the value of the service at free, to charge feels like the subscriber is getting ripped off. These internet radio stations do make money via advertising, so there is no need to charge.
I have stopped using sites/services that have either changed what is available to non-paying subscribers or started charging for the service. I see my friends doing the same thing. It's better to make a little off a lot of users than make a lot of a few users. It's a lot harder to expand your user base if you charge for something they can get elsewhere for free.
But I don't live in the US...
Agreed, blatant spin is easier to deal with, bullshit filter gets triggered early. News sources that pretend to be "fair and balanced" (to steal the Fox line) but are really spun to buggery are the hard ones to deal with. I prefer to get my news from multiple sources and make up my own mind.
Being spoon fed any news is a bad thing.
Same, maybe one day we can just not pay people but simulate the games... one can only wish.
PS: There is only one type of football, and it's only played with your feet. Don't worry, this is not just aimed at Americans, but my own countrymen/women too (Aussies). I suppose you can't call it the NHL (National Handball League) as that acronym is already taken.
Not sure about you, but I speak Modern English. Then again, you might be American... but you'd need to mention Middle English rather than Old English.
Anyway, I thought you were leaving... I said bye, you didn't return the courtesy. My heart is breking. *sad Nod*
I'm not an "apple minded individual" I bought an iPhone 3G as there were no Android phones in Australia at the time other than really early releases that were, at best, shoddy, and just as Android soft locks you in due to purchases, so does iOS devices. I was more than happy to go with an Android tablet, as I stated, so I really don't see how this shows me as "apple minded".
You're belittling my buying choices because I chose to go with a mature platform rather than a rushed to market platform. I was anticipating that Google would release an awesome OS, but my hopes were dashed when I played with an Android device and installed a VM of Android way back when the initial phones were released. It was half baked at best, broken at worst.
You're talking as though your "level of consciousness" is somehow higher but you say things like "who really wants something on iOS", I'd say you have the same level of maturity as the initial releases of Android did. Sure, Android has matured, but not all handsets have been updated. To be honest, I don't want to have to potentially kill my device just so I can get the latest version of the OS. I buy phone to make calls, browse the net a bit, get my emails, and run apps I find useful, not to play around with (I run a VMWare ESXi platform for that).
If you can't handle the truth that Android tablets were rushed to market and that Android is fragmented, maybe you should find something else to be a zealot about.
Yep, Motorola have been great with their devices, their Xoom isn't going to screw over customers at all.
FYI, I haven't had my iPad on a plan ever. I cut my own sim and it's on pre-paid.
I could pose the same question to you, but I know you're just trolling.
Not true, Android has been ported to run on iPhones.
This is not true, the updates are not done via the store, they are done via carrier updates (or via your computer if you install community updates). This has nothing to do with the Android Market. Some older phones don't even have the Android Market on them, nor do they have updates to give them the store.
"The following pie chart and table is based on the number of Android devices that have accessed Android Market within a 14-day period ending on the data collection date noted below."
Hrmm, once I've got the apps I want I don't access the App Store for a month or two at a time.
Unfortunately that graph is not ALL devices, only devices that have accessed the market in the last 14 days prior to 02/02/11.
So you're saying that I have to buy a phone from Google or suck it up and deal with fragmentation?
The problem with this kind of "support" is that you are relying on the hardware being picked up by the community and developed for. What happens when your hardware isn't picked up by the community and the maker decides to EOL it before the contract ends? Or it ends up like the Motorola or Sony handsets where trying to root it is all but impossible?
Android tabs are a bit of a joke at the moment, and I'm advising all of my friends keen to get one to wait until their favourite flavour of manufacturer has Honeycomb tabs. Otherwise you're gambling on a possible update by the community should the manufacturer EOL it.
I was keen to get an Android tab mid last year, but there was nothing about. I got an iPad and have been pleased with my purchase. Sure, it didn't come with os 4.X, but it has it now and I know apple aren't going to drop support for the iPad when the iPad 2 comes out. Just as my iPhone 3G didn't lose support when the 3GS or the 4 came out.
bye...
The Amish vaccinate and their autism rates are lower.
What's your point?
Two things:
1) the Daily Mail is a bottom feeder tabloid
2) Andrew Wakefield's research paper was pulled by The Lancet due to back room deals with the supporting agency of the anti-vaccine crusaders.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield
Nice trolling there. Chiropractors are not doctors.
It's funny, Bill has become quite an international hero after being seen as the devil of IT.
As a businessman, I despise him. As a philanthropist, well, he's fast becoming a hero of mine.
I feel so conflicted.
Wow, you really are a fool. You have no idea about herd immunity, nor do you understand how vaccines have changed the world.
Polio is still a massive problem in the 3rd world, as is TB and other diseases that have been all but eradicated in industrialised nations. All it would take is a generation if idiots like you to put the industrialised world back to where the 3rd world is.
Having lived in Cambodia and seen first hand what polio, TB, measles outbreaks, and the like can do, well, I can assure you that vaccination is worth it. Whether it is 100% effective or not. Again, herd immunity.
Your arguments don't hold up when looking at outbreaks from an immunologists point of view. The whole idea is herd immunity, not that the vaccine works on everyone. Once vaccination rates are above 90% it's quite difficult for a disease to move from small outbreak to pandemic. Your argument that there's no mention of how many vaccinated people caught the measles means nothing, it's actually the worst way to back your argument up - There's no data on this therefore it must exist!
Questioning something with an intelligent argument backed up by research and logic is valid, questioning without any intelligent argument and using a lack of data to back your argument up is beyond stupid.
I must agree with him, and I didn't realise how bad this was in the US until I saw a documentary the other night on the "war against vaccination" in the US. Pretty much the people against vaccination keep changing the reasoning why the vaccinations are "bad".
One minute it's the MMR vaccines that cause autism, then it's the mercury based preservatives, then it's the amount of shots kids get, blah blah blah. Basically all the reasons have been refuted by scientific studies (Denmark was used quite often as they keep medical records on all their citizens).
One of the anti-vaccine idiots even had the balls to say that it was up to the scientific community to disprove that vaccines are dangerous.
Jim Carey and that other bitch both need to be hurt with hot pokers. The simple fact that autism becomes apparent at the time when kids get their vaccinations does not mean that the vaccinations cause autism. In fact, the studies showed that vaccinated kids had the same rate of autism as non-vaccinated kids.
Pseudo-science will always win because the media outlets can get "passionate" famous people behind the campaigns.
That's right, because there's nothing but the US... insular nations become fascist nations.