I problem with firefox is that I left a page open that auto-refreshes and firefox ate up my battery. So I tried auto-killing it when I lock the phone. But then I have to deal with that 2 1/2 seconds of loading on initial start and have to reload all my pages that I could have left open.
Then firefox doesn't super Eagle the image rendering, so images are pixelated instead of interpolated like it is on the stock browser
Oh and the clicking is weird. Whatever is at the bottom of your touch zone is what you end up tapping, instead of what is dead center of your touch zone. I mean, I sort of see why that is, but there were numerous occasions when I first got it when I couldn't get the damned thing to follow a link squeezed in between two other links.
I don't mind the no flash
I have an atrix 4G so I dont notice any speed problems...
You do realize you can e-mail them and they will waive your fees. They log the status of the boxes and can easily confirm that a box went full at some point in the day and even if its just for a few minutes you'll get a refund for that day.
Sounds like someone didn't learn their lesson in high school when they were given swirlies for talking like a complete nerd. I suppose I wouldn't expect any less from "LulzSec".
The iPhone has essentially become the Model-T of smart phones. Any color as long as its black... Or white... and now look everyone has one
Other people want to be a little more unique and own the sports car they can mod, customize, call their own, and blow away the model-Ts in terms of speed, performance, and fun
Ironic how Apple is the company that used to advertise how owning an Apple computer made you different.
The awesome part is that when some joker returns his Atrix because its "too slow", you can turn around it buy it refurbished for half price!
Actually seriously, I just got an atrix not too long ago and from what I've seen the biggest problems have nothing to do with apps in themselves:
Large widgets (in terms of screen real estate) slow down the interface much like a large sprite will slow down your 3d game. Clearly this is caused by double-rendering if not other inefficiencies
Live backgrounds slow things down. Duh. My screen doesn't always turn on immediately when I press the on button to get out of sleep, and I've linked it to my pretty live background.
Really, when I scroll with my finger, FIGURE OUT WHAT I AM DOING BEFORE DOING IT. I cannot believe that that Apple got something as simple as finger scrolling right and yet Android (or maybe motorblur, whichever) is still rough around the edges this late in the game in that I can scroll down a webpage and suddenly have it think I clicked a link that my finger happened to cross over. Same with me tapping an app on the damned motorblur main screen, having it highlight, but not having it launch. I even cranked up the "responsiveness vs. accuracy" setting to full accuracy and this still happened. Even the browsers all color links as visited if you do a scroll starting with the link. And don't get me started with the flash ads for videos that have a pause or full screen button in the corner and yet tapping that button brings me to a web page instead. The firefox app also has some really funky tap functionality where it picks the link thats at the bottom of your finger, not the center of it, and sometimes gets confused if you have multiple links under your finger and won't ever pick the dead center one. Its as if android has no standardized "tap" functionality in their SDK or something.
I do like their neat battery manager that tells me that "Phone Idle" is my #1 drainer when its not my screen... but I have to question if they employed any tricks to help reduce that number (turning the NAND off... partitioning the DRAM, caching it, and turning off most of it... etc). For example, I found the automatic brightness to be too aggressive and too bright most of the time than is necessary. I really shouldn't have to download an app to toggle that on and off to save battery.
Oh yeah, they also disabled more than two fingers on the touch hardware even though the touch hardware supports it.
But its not an apple product, and I like the customization, the ability to watch flash vidoes, the speed (tegra 2!), and other things
It has been said that criminals try to rationalize their crimes often times by thinking that they are just playing by the rules of life, even if its not the rules of society. An example would be a car thief who finds a car unlocked in downtown New York. They might steal the vehicle and rationalize it as a sort of "finders keepers", where if they didn't steal it, someone else would come along and steal it instead. "If I don't, someone else will, so I might as well benefit". You might say that is a ridiculous assertion to make, but if you found a $50 laying in the parking lot, you would probably pick it up and keep it thinking that someone else would take it if you didn't, and any hope of the original owner finding their missing $50 is a lost cause.
So when someone does virtual breaking and entering because the virtual back door was virtually unlocked, you have to ask what line of thought is crossing their minds. When my neighbor's door is unlocked, should I enter it and steal their TV because I think someone else is bound to do it instead?
Strangely enough, my cable internet was dropping connections, so on my Atrix I disabled my wireless and watched Conan in HD using a 3 bar HSPA+, and it actually started fast and ran smooth (no buffering).
Of course, I wonder how much content I can even watch with the 2 GB plan. Would be useful if I could see the bitrate of what I'm watching...
Real problem is that AT&T's 3G signal doesn't travel through walls very well.
Switching from an iPhone to an Atrix 4g though, I'm seeing that the iPhone definitely made AT&T's network seem crappier than it really was. The atrix even handles Edge data a bit faster than the iphone 3G on a purely throughput perspective.
Checks are unmarked to prevent theft. Would you prefer it had big dollar signs on it and said "moola moola moola inside!"
Of course, I get junkmail that looks like checks. Some asshat mortgage insurance company with a 1600 Pennsylvania Ave return address sends me junk mail once a week, thinking I"m going to one day hit my head, become retarded, and get fooled. On it it's labeled "Important" and has all this "post master: only deliver to addressee" crap on it, and it has "2011" written to mimic the the way the US designates their tax forms. Oh yeah, perforated edges like checks normally have.
Yup, just Earth's natural way of cooling it self. Heat energy -> kinetic energy to overly simplify it. As the ice caps melt, more precipitation will be in the atmosphere. Which means more clouds. Besides the reflection of sunlight clouds provide they also help create storms, where energy is used to create... well what storms do yah know? Its a big negative feedback loop. Earth couldn't had gotten to where it is now without it. The question is how habitable is Earth (for us) at the extremes of the cycles, and how much we may influence those extremes by digging stuff up and sending it into the atmosphere.
The same slashdot editors who rejected my simple article that points out that there is still a bug in iOS (verified on the latest firmware for my iPhone 3G and my wife's iPhone 4G) where a Calendar alert will occur one hour later than you set it for. 2 hours early is 1 hour early, 1 hour early is... not early at all. Half hour early is a half hour late... Amazingly when I went to look this up all I saw was a few articles from non-major sources (i.e. forums) mentioning it not working (I live in Mountain Time btw). Apparently for some people it goes off an hour early instead of an hour late. I have no way of setting a calendar alert a half hour early, and this bug is OLD and A BIG DEAL.
Actually you could have 3d sunglasses - using mirrors to enhance your depth perception. The glasses would widen the distance between the eyes which in turn would exaggerate the perceived distance something is without having to rely on isometric visual cues. Such glasses could be really useful for games like baseball where a ball in flight has no isometric visual cues to help you determine it's speed/trajectory.
I've done some experimentation after playing games in 3d and found that my brain consistently underestimates the distance something is on pure depth alone.
People used to think 15 mph in a car was too fricken fast.
You have to get used to it. It really helps to practice with stereograms
And the problem isn't the 3d movies, its the 3d tech in the movie theaters and the ignorant morons who run them. (At least) one of the regal theaters where I live plays their 3d movies with left-eye right-eye synchronously instead of simultaneously. It also had an IMAX where I watched avatar with the first reel 1 frame out of sync between the eyes
they'll probably replace it with a law that says you have a sign a form and put your self on a public registry every time you buy something with caffeine in it.
On a side if not entirely off topic note, I've come to the conclusion that there are (at least) 4 points to the political spectrum, not 2:
1. Conservative 2. Liberal 3. Progressive 4. Regressive
I've come to the conclusion that most republican candidates are Conservative/Regressive while many Democratic candidates are Liberal/Progressive. Libertarians are Regressive/Liberal, and most of the remaining parties are some point in between those 3. People who are highly Progressive aren't represented by a political party that I know of. Note that I am listing the stronger trait first.
Progressive means your goal is to fix what is wrong, Regressive means your goal is to revert back to the way things were or to intentionally ignore what is wrong based on philosophy. Progressive people don't necessarily make things better (not every engineer is a GOOD engineer), it is simply their goal to make things better.
This happened to my sister, who isn't really a dumb person. After talking with her I've come to establish the profile of an individual that would fall for these kinds of attack:
1. They are very trusting of something when they do trust it. This behavior is often associated with people who do well at school and follow their parents advice/beliefs 2. They don't use their computer much anymore, mainly relying on their phone instead 3. They own a computer that came pre-installed with an antivirus brand they don't recognize, so all they know about is that they wouldn't recognize it if it gave them a pop-up 4. Their anti-virus is expired and they falsely believe an expired anti-virus would detect viruses but refuse to to clean them 5. They get this fake virus full screen banner when they visit a trusted website. In my sister's case it was hotmail.com. This leads me to suspect it could had been either a rogue banner or she has a virus on her machine prior to the incident 6. Money is not an issue for them so they would rather throw money (and their credit card information) at an immediate problem ("YOUR COMPUTER HAS A VIRUS") than stop and think about the situation they aren't familiar with and try to deduce what is really happening 7. They don't read the newspaper in detail much anymore so they miss the millions of columns that have already warned about this scam
Fortunately she called me within minutes of installing the software and realized it all started to be very suspicious. We then got a new credit card number, disputed the charges, and used system restore (which is apparently all that is needed to get rid of this particular fake anti-virus).
I think a lot of people would disagree that Mac users are "less gullible" than windows users. Considering Apple is lauded for being "such a good marketing company that can get people to pay significantly more for a product that the competition charges a bit less and also provides more features" would actually scream to me that "apple buyers are more gullible".
Not trying to say my "fact" is more truthy than yours but hopefully you see the problem with that statement now that is supported by bad statistics from that fanboi article you link to (for example, how about "making ads look like windows pop-ups are more effective than making them look like apple pop-ups").
by telling them anything they didn't buy from the app store is unrecoverable from their iphone when they do something as required as a firmware upgrade? Apple intentionally broke the "update" feature on apps for everyone who wasn't using the latest iOS version. You had to use "update all" because the update button on individual apps won't work.
When I updated my firmware on my iphone on a new computer (the hard drive on my old one failed) I had to take the extra effort to get a 3rd party tool to download everything I didn't buy from apple from my iphone, lest hunt down everything from where I originally got it.
Easily a case of an anti-competitive practice, and it harmed me by making me waste time. Had I a lot of files that weren't bought from the iTunes store it would had been worst since the demo apps come with a file limit. If I was an old grandma I would have considered those files lost for good.
Yes, apple is evil and my iphone is the only apple product I will have ever bought.
On the bright side this isn't like what Idaho is facing where some unqualified idiot was mistakenly elected and then turns around and drops a plan that his republican cronies support but the rest of the population doesn't that involves firing teachers and replacing them with laptops and online classes.
Yeah, they want to give the laptops to 9th graders and expect them to survive 4 years.
And the businesses who would directly benefit by supplying the online classes gave donations to help him get elected.
Except you get mothers with screaming children in their backseat who match the speed of the car on their right... who might be slowing down to do a right turn. I get this a bunch of the time down an 8-mile road with two lanes. You get reasonable people, and then you get the slow accelerating jerks who speed match and "school bus drive". This breeds people who are impatient or may have a legitimate reason to get from point A to point B in a specific time frame and are forced to cut you off the moment you make space because they are sure you are going to take your sweet ass time getting your car in motion at the next stop light or slow everyone down so they miss the green and are forced to wait through a red or more.
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[quote]I'd love to see the ship that spread whales to the North Atlantic in its ballast tanks..[/quote]
Dude, me too. Imagine the look on their faces when they empty their tanks and find THAT!
I problem with firefox is that I left a page open that auto-refreshes and firefox ate up my battery. So I tried auto-killing it when I lock the phone. But then I have to deal with that 2 1/2 seconds of loading on initial start and have to reload all my pages that I could have left open.
Then firefox doesn't super Eagle the image rendering, so images are pixelated instead of interpolated like it is on the stock browser
Oh and the clicking is weird. Whatever is at the bottom of your touch zone is what you end up tapping, instead of what is dead center of your touch zone. I mean, I sort of see why that is, but there were numerous occasions when I first got it when I couldn't get the damned thing to follow a link squeezed in between two other links.
I don't mind the no flash
I have an atrix 4G so I dont notice any speed problems...
Stocks that do not ever pay dividends, buy other companies by printing stock, and pay their managers by issuing stock, are a pyramid scheme.
Actually dollars are backed by gold locked up in the treasury. Ever heard of Fort Knox?
You do realize you can e-mail them and they will waive your fees. They log the status of the boxes and can easily confirm that a box went full at some point in the day and even if its just for a few minutes you'll get a refund for that day.
Sounds like someone didn't learn their lesson in high school when they were given swirlies for talking like a complete nerd. I suppose I wouldn't expect any less from "LulzSec".
I'd have to disagree. To use a car analogy:
The iPhone has essentially become the Model-T of smart phones. Any color as long as its black... Or white... and now look everyone has one
Other people want to be a little more unique and own the sports car they can mod, customize, call their own, and blow away the model-Ts in terms of speed, performance, and fun
Ironic how Apple is the company that used to advertise how owning an Apple computer made you different.
The awesome part is that when some joker returns his Atrix because its "too slow", you can turn around it buy it refurbished for half price!
Actually seriously, I just got an atrix not too long ago and from what I've seen the biggest problems have nothing to do with apps in themselves:
Large widgets (in terms of screen real estate) slow down the interface much like a large sprite will slow down your 3d game. Clearly this is caused by double-rendering if not other inefficiencies
Live backgrounds slow things down. Duh. My screen doesn't always turn on immediately when I press the on button to get out of sleep, and I've linked it to my pretty live background.
Really, when I scroll with my finger, FIGURE OUT WHAT I AM DOING BEFORE DOING IT. I cannot believe that that Apple got something as simple as finger scrolling right and yet Android (or maybe motorblur, whichever) is still rough around the edges this late in the game in that I can scroll down a webpage and suddenly have it think I clicked a link that my finger happened to cross over. Same with me tapping an app on the damned motorblur main screen, having it highlight, but not having it launch. I even cranked up the "responsiveness vs. accuracy" setting to full accuracy and this still happened. Even the browsers all color links as visited if you do a scroll starting with the link. And don't get me started with the flash ads for videos that have a pause or full screen button in the corner and yet tapping that button brings me to a web page instead. The firefox app also has some really funky tap functionality where it picks the link thats at the bottom of your finger, not the center of it, and sometimes gets confused if you have multiple links under your finger and won't ever pick the dead center one. Its as if android has no standardized "tap" functionality in their SDK or something.
I do like their neat battery manager that tells me that "Phone Idle" is my #1 drainer when its not my screen... but I have to question if they employed any tricks to help reduce that number (turning the NAND off... partitioning the DRAM, caching it, and turning off most of it... etc). For example, I found the automatic brightness to be too aggressive and too bright most of the time than is necessary. I really shouldn't have to download an app to toggle that on and off to save battery.
Oh yeah, they also disabled more than two fingers on the touch hardware even though the touch hardware supports it.
But its not an apple product, and I like the customization, the ability to watch flash vidoes, the speed (tegra 2!), and other things
It has been said that criminals try to rationalize their crimes often times by thinking that they are just playing by the rules of life, even if its not the rules of society. An example would be a car thief who finds a car unlocked in downtown New York. They might steal the vehicle and rationalize it as a sort of "finders keepers", where if they didn't steal it, someone else would come along and steal it instead. "If I don't, someone else will, so I might as well benefit". You might say that is a ridiculous assertion to make, but if you found a $50 laying in the parking lot, you would probably pick it up and keep it thinking that someone else would take it if you didn't, and any hope of the original owner finding their missing $50 is a lost cause.
So when someone does virtual breaking and entering because the virtual back door was virtually unlocked, you have to ask what line of thought is crossing their minds. When my neighbor's door is unlocked, should I enter it and steal their TV because I think someone else is bound to do it instead?
Strangely enough, my cable internet was dropping connections, so on my Atrix I disabled my wireless and watched Conan in HD using a 3 bar HSPA+, and it actually started fast and ran smooth (no buffering).
Of course, I wonder how much content I can even watch with the 2 GB plan. Would be useful if I could see the bitrate of what I'm watching...
Real problem is that AT&T's 3G signal doesn't travel through walls very well.
Switching from an iPhone to an Atrix 4g though, I'm seeing that the iPhone definitely made AT&T's network seem crappier than it really was. The atrix even handles Edge data a bit faster than the iphone 3G on a purely throughput perspective.
Hopefully everyone who saw Robin Williams Live on Broadway...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhmwcmOPemk
Checks are unmarked to prevent theft. Would you prefer it had big dollar signs on it and said "moola moola moola inside!"
Of course, I get junkmail that looks like checks. Some asshat mortgage insurance company with a 1600 Pennsylvania Ave return address sends me junk mail once a week, thinking I"m going to one day hit my head, become retarded, and get fooled. On it it's labeled "Important" and has all this "post master: only deliver to addressee" crap on it, and it has "2011" written to mimic the the way the US designates their tax forms. Oh yeah, perforated edges like checks normally have.
Here's your raisins!
pfft, screw that, we're going with complete optical implants!
The iEye
Yup, just Earth's natural way of cooling it self. Heat energy -> kinetic energy to overly simplify it. As the ice caps melt, more precipitation will be in the atmosphere. Which means more clouds. Besides the reflection of sunlight clouds provide they also help create storms, where energy is used to create... well what storms do yah know? Its a big negative feedback loop. Earth couldn't had gotten to where it is now without it. The question is how habitable is Earth (for us) at the extremes of the cycles, and how much we may influence those extremes by digging stuff up and sending it into the atmosphere.
The same slashdot editors who rejected my simple article that points out that there is still a bug in iOS (verified on the latest firmware for my iPhone 3G and my wife's iPhone 4G) where a Calendar alert will occur one hour later than you set it for. 2 hours early is 1 hour early, 1 hour early is... not early at all. Half hour early is a half hour late... Amazingly when I went to look this up all I saw was a few articles from non-major sources (i.e. forums) mentioning it not working (I live in Mountain Time btw). Apparently for some people it goes off an hour early instead of an hour late. I have no way of setting a calendar alert a half hour early, and this bug is OLD and A BIG DEAL.
Actually you could have 3d sunglasses - using mirrors to enhance your depth perception. The glasses would widen the distance between the eyes which in turn would exaggerate the perceived distance something is without having to rely on isometric visual cues. Such glasses could be really useful for games like baseball where a ball in flight has no isometric visual cues to help you determine it's speed/trajectory.
I've done some experimentation after playing games in 3d and found that my brain consistently underestimates the distance something is on pure depth alone.
People used to think 15 mph in a car was too fricken fast.
You have to get used to it. It really helps to practice with stereograms
And the problem isn't the 3d movies, its the 3d tech in the movie theaters and the ignorant morons who run them. (At least) one of the regal theaters where I live plays their 3d movies with left-eye right-eye synchronously instead of simultaneously. It also had an IMAX where I watched avatar with the first reel 1 frame out of sync between the eyes
they'll probably replace it with a law that says you have a sign a form and put your self on a public registry every time you buy something with caffeine in it.
On a side if not entirely off topic note, I've come to the conclusion that there are (at least) 4 points to the political spectrum, not 2:
1. Conservative
2. Liberal
3. Progressive
4. Regressive
I've come to the conclusion that most republican candidates are Conservative/Regressive while many Democratic candidates are Liberal/Progressive. Libertarians are Regressive/Liberal, and most of the remaining parties are some point in between those 3. People who are highly Progressive aren't represented by a political party that I know of. Note that I am listing the stronger trait first.
Progressive means your goal is to fix what is wrong, Regressive means your goal is to revert back to the way things were or to intentionally ignore what is wrong based on philosophy. Progressive people don't necessarily make things better (not every engineer is a GOOD engineer), it is simply their goal to make things better.
This happened to my sister, who isn't really a dumb person. After talking with her I've come to establish the profile of an individual that would fall for these kinds of attack:
1. They are very trusting of something when they do trust it. This behavior is often associated with people who do well at school and follow their parents advice/beliefs
2. They don't use their computer much anymore, mainly relying on their phone instead
3. They own a computer that came pre-installed with an antivirus brand they don't recognize, so all they know about is that they wouldn't recognize it if it gave them a pop-up
4. Their anti-virus is expired and they falsely believe an expired anti-virus would detect viruses but refuse to to clean them
5. They get this fake virus full screen banner when they visit a trusted website. In my sister's case it was hotmail.com. This leads me to suspect it could had been either a rogue banner or she has a virus on her machine prior to the incident
6. Money is not an issue for them so they would rather throw money (and their credit card information) at an immediate problem ("YOUR COMPUTER HAS A VIRUS") than stop and think about the situation they aren't familiar with and try to deduce what is really happening
7. They don't read the newspaper in detail much anymore so they miss the millions of columns that have already warned about this scam
Fortunately she called me within minutes of installing the software and realized it all started to be very suspicious. We then got a new credit card number, disputed the charges, and used system restore (which is apparently all that is needed to get rid of this particular fake anti-virus).
I think a lot of people would disagree that Mac users are "less gullible" than windows users. Considering Apple is lauded for being "such a good marketing company that can get people to pay significantly more for a product that the competition charges a bit less and also provides more features" would actually scream to me that "apple buyers are more gullible".
Not trying to say my "fact" is more truthy than yours but hopefully you see the problem with that statement now that is supported by bad statistics from that fanboi article you link to (for example, how about "making ads look like windows pop-ups are more effective than making them look like apple pop-ups").
by telling them anything they didn't buy from the app store is unrecoverable from their iphone when they do something as required as a firmware upgrade? Apple intentionally broke the "update" feature on apps for everyone who wasn't using the latest iOS version. You had to use "update all" because the update button on individual apps won't work.
When I updated my firmware on my iphone on a new computer (the hard drive on my old one failed) I had to take the extra effort to get a 3rd party tool to download everything I didn't buy from apple from my iphone, lest hunt down everything from where I originally got it.
Easily a case of an anti-competitive practice, and it harmed me by making me waste time. Had I a lot of files that weren't bought from the iTunes store it would had been worst since the demo apps come with a file limit. If I was an old grandma I would have considered those files lost for good.
Yes, apple is evil and my iphone is the only apple product I will have ever bought.
On the bright side this isn't like what Idaho is facing where some unqualified idiot was mistakenly elected and then turns around and drops a plan that his republican cronies support but the rest of the population doesn't that involves firing teachers and replacing them with laptops and online classes.
Yeah, they want to give the laptops to 9th graders and expect them to survive 4 years.
And the businesses who would directly benefit by supplying the online classes gave donations to help him get elected.
Except you get mothers with screaming children in their backseat who match the speed of the car on their right... who might be slowing down to do a right turn. I get this a bunch of the time down an 8-mile road with two lanes. You get reasonable people, and then you get the slow accelerating jerks who speed match and "school bus drive". This breeds people who are impatient or may have a legitimate reason to get from point A to point B in a specific time frame and are forced to cut you off the moment you make space because they are sure you are going to take your sweet ass time getting your car in motion at the next stop light or slow everyone down so they miss the green and are forced to wait through a red or more.