Agreed. MSE is the the only free antivirus worth anything. The rest are being monetized and try to trick you into buying the paid ones, if they don't just plain suck. Also the only one I don't feel is slowing down my computer. Before MSE, I just didn't use any, the AV was worse than the rare virus infection.
I had Avast on one computer a while ago. That was actually quite unobtrusive. That or MSE would be my choice.
Yeah, I'm sure Microsoft pays and keeps paying for negative publicity. I'm betting those are created by some Microsoft hating trolls. And based on replies they seem to be quite successful.
Isn't that a better test of people's memory than poor reading comprehension and listening skills?
Some supporting arguments would help, as one might perhaps argue that if a person doesn't consider the issue to be completely binary, it doesn't really matter what the initial answer was...
Then this just shows people trust their previous judgement blindly, when told they answered a certain way they assumed that answer reflects their position on the topic and that since it's their position it's right, rather than being self-critical and asking themselves again if that answer is the correct position.
Ultimately this just proves how futile it is to have an argument (especially on the Internet). The one you are arguing with is going to stick to his or her argument and just keep generating stuff to support it. (And logically the same applies to both parties of the argument...)
Of course, there are always exceptions. People (Sometimes even I) do sometimes realize that they were wrong.
Offtopic, but (in my opinion) interesting: Your karma can actually be decreased by getting a +5 (with karma modifier) comment. If it happens to get an overrated mod. This moderating system is quite curious.
It's remarkable how on every phone story there's a post made simultaneously with the article about how great the Lumia is.
Microsoft really needs to hire less obvious shills.
Six first posts from six most recent phone stories. Based on stats, 0 were hidden. The first 'shilly' looking one (the last one on the list) does not mention Lumia and may be a troll or a fanboy. I think same applies here. If only for the reason that I don't see why someone would pay for posting crap that gets modded to oblivion. Much more efficient would be for example get a ton of articles about your phone published. Then again, I guess if Apple is what Slashdotters want to read about, Apple articles we get.
Anyway, do you want to qualify that 'every phone story' or are you just bashing?
Actually. I double checked. And Lumia is mentioned at all only in comments of ONE of those articles. And that was going for funny with grip gloves
At the moment 3 out of 4 of your most recent comments bash Microsoft, Lumia, WP. So I guess I'll just conclude that you must be the one with an agenda. I guess thre's just no relying on UID. And before you ask, I own a Symbian phone and did not even consider buying WP 7.5 one. WP8 I am considering. Would buy a Meego phone if new ones were released.
I'm thinking that this is an advertisement. Perhaps not an actually paid one, but this one is "from the best-of-class dept." and a few hours later we get another iPhone 5 story from the "got-to-have-one dept". Or perhaps just a bait for messages. I don't know.
Agreed. Cell phones are cheap as fuck. It's the service that beats you down.
Isn't that just how it looks like (at least) in the USA? Is this because you don't demand options, or don't care about options (as everybody will just take the most expensive phone anyway)? I mean, you have here people thanking their operator that they 'only' have to pay $40 a month and it covers (sub)urban California 'pretty well'. Is this a case of Stockholm syndrome or just looks like one (to an outsider)?
Drives with more platters in them usually have better price to storage capacity ratio. And the density can be increased. I would not be surprised if these were cheaper (relatively) than the current server HDDs. Probably not significantly faster though.
Time is, I think, the real issue for consumers. If you can put your phone on a table, or whatever, for 30mins and have it completely recharged this will do well. But I have a feeling that inefficiency will make it something for when you sleep, so you can wake up to fully recharged gadgets. I can't see wireless providing more juice than most gadgets use so having them in public places, coffee shops. etc., will not overcome the inevitable flat battery, just delay it for a bit.
The efficiency is around 70%, so it will certainly delay the flat battery. Especially if the phone were to do wireless syncing at the same time (so less syncing would be needed when it is on its own battery...)
Seriously, this.
I just don't get why this is such a popular idea, unless I remind myself that the average person is more or less technically uneducated, and doesn't understand that it's wildly energy inefficient. Also, echoing other comments on this topic: This is far from a new idea, and again: there are reasons we haven't gone this way before, but nobody seems to understand that.
Nothing serious about the inefficiency. We are not talking about cars, we are talking about 5W chargers...
Charging cables double as data cables. How would people react if you got rid of data cables entirely? Wireless syncing is nice, but I find I usually go for the cable. It's faster and has less chance of error, plus no drain on the phone's battery.
If the phone does the wireless syncing on the wireless charging pad there probably won't be much of drain on the phone's battery:)
I currently sync my phone and laptop via bluetooth without errors. Although I do use cable sometimes if I am in hurry or low on battery, so speed may be an issue. (But well, the cable option isn't actually disappearing yet...)
What's wrong with that? The CreativeCommons licence that Wikipedia uses allows exactly this, if people want a hard copy of some information instead of having to view it online then why shouldn't they be allowed to?
Well, perhaps nothing as such. Then again, some of them were a bit obnoxious. I don't remember what exactly I was searching, perhaps a PS3 controller or something like that, but one of the best results (at that time) was one of these books. Only after reading it became clear that this thing that I believed to be a reasonably priced controller was actually not so reasonably priced book from Wikipedia
I should start selling photographs of items on Amazon, if people want an actual photograph of an item instead of having to take it themselves (or even worse, buy it), they should have this opportunity. To be fair, I should probably include "you are buying a photograph" in small print.
I do believe that he is implying that your interpretation of the picture is leaning towards Apple. And your interpretation is a bit curious. Perhaps accidentally, but curious anyway.
In the original Samsung states that the multitouch is harder to develop against, and Apple states that this just isn't true. In your version Samsung is saying that the whole thing sucks and Apple partially agrees.
If you are going to exaggerate, you should exaggerate both statements, not exaggerate one and mitigate the other. ('No, it may actually be better')
Ya know..... it would be simpler for customers if they just used "hours":
"The Glow last over 30 hours with glowlight; over 60 hours without glowlight." - "Amazon Paperwhite lasts 56 hours even with the light..... almost double that without."
It would be simpler for us, but I believe that for most customers that half an hour a day value (I hope they at least have the same daily amount) does give a better estimate on how long they can actually use the device without recharging ^.^ Actually, a value over 20 hours is all I would need...
Interesting change in wording. That means 56 days of reading 1-hour per day instead of 62 days. Meanwhile Barnes advertises "over 2 months" for their nooks.
Are you quite sure?
Barnes on Nook Glowlight:
Read for over 1 month on a single charge with GlowLight on (based on a half hour of daily reading time)1
Read for over 2 months with GlowLight off (based on a half hour of daily reading time)1
Amazon on Kindle Paperwhite:
"So we worked on our power management — Kindle paperwhite can get eight weeks of battery life even with the light on.
What's wrong with actual footage? Seriously, is that so hard to do? Truck companies figured that one out a while back, show a picture of a truck doing something really notable and than in the fine print in the bottom you put "actual demonstration". Makes it all the more impressive.
I'm guessing they didn't have the actual phone ready at the time they were shooting that commercial.
And yes, it should have stated that it was a simulation of the finished product. Although I'm pretty sure that whatever the camera was, it did have OIS on in the shot...
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Sorry, not an expert, but you might find this article (about AMD Steamroller) interesting. At least check the short "Looking Forward: High Density Libraries". They are rebuilding hand-drawn diagrams to be more efficient. http://www.anandtech.com/show/6201/amd-details-its-3rd-gen-steamroller-architecture/2
Agreed. MSE is the the only free antivirus worth anything. The rest are being monetized and try to trick you into buying the paid ones, if they don't just plain suck. Also the only one I don't feel is slowing down my computer. Before MSE, I just didn't use any, the AV was worse than the rare virus infection.
I had Avast on one computer a while ago. That was actually quite unobtrusive. That or MSE would be my choice.
Or just trolls.
Yeah, I'm sure Microsoft pays and keeps paying for negative publicity. I'm betting those are created by some Microsoft hating trolls. And based on replies they seem to be quite successful.
Bad execution or too subtle?
Isn't that a better test of people's memory than poor reading comprehension and listening skills?
Some supporting arguments would help, as one might perhaps argue that if a person doesn't consider the issue to be completely binary, it doesn't really matter what the initial answer was...
Then this just shows people trust their previous judgement blindly, when told they answered a certain way they assumed that answer reflects their position on the topic and that since it's their position it's right, rather than being self-critical and asking themselves again if that answer is the correct position.
Ultimately this just proves how futile it is to have an argument (especially on the Internet). The one you are arguing with is going to stick to his or her argument and just keep generating stuff to support it. (And logically the same applies to both parties of the argument...)
Of course, there are always exceptions. People (Sometimes even I) do sometimes realize that they were wrong.
Offtopic, but (in my opinion) interesting: Your karma can actually be decreased by getting a +5 (with karma modifier) comment. If it happens to get an overrated mod. This moderating system is quite curious.
We are in agreement if by kinda cool you mean one of the coolest, if not the coolest, web comic ever, so far.
It's remarkable how on every phone story there's a post made simultaneously with the article about how great the Lumia is.
Microsoft really needs to hire less obvious shills.
Six first posts from six most recent phone stories. Based on stats, 0 were hidden. The first 'shilly' looking one (the last one on the list) does not mention Lumia and may be a troll or a fanboy. I think same applies here. If only for the reason that I don't see why someone would pay for posting crap that gets modded to oblivion. Much more efficient would be for example get a ton of articles about your phone published. Then again, I guess if Apple is what Slashdotters want to read about, Apple articles we get.
Anyway, do you want to qualify that 'every phone story' or are you just bashing?
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3123189&cid=41361797
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3121629&cid=41360879
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3121469&cid=41356895
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3120581&cid=41350393
http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3118973&cid=41345035
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3119907&cid=41345619
Actually. I double checked. And Lumia is mentioned at all only in comments of ONE of those articles. And that was going for funny with grip gloves
At the moment 3 out of 4 of your most recent comments bash Microsoft, Lumia, WP. So I guess I'll just conclude that you must be the one with an agenda. I guess thre's just no relying on UID. And before you ask, I own a Symbian phone and did not even consider buying WP 7.5 one. WP8 I am considering. Would buy a Meego phone if new ones were released.
I'm thinking that this is an advertisement. Perhaps not an actually paid one, but this one is "from the best-of-class dept." and a few hours later we get another iPhone 5 story from the "got-to-have-one dept". Or perhaps just a bait for messages. I don't know.
I bet you didn't know that Apple offers it's own version of Accidental Damage Handling (ADH) before this article...
Agreed. Cell phones are cheap as fuck. It's the service that beats you down.
Isn't that just how it looks like (at least) in the USA? Is this because you don't demand options, or don't care about options (as everybody will just take the most expensive phone anyway)? I mean, you have here people thanking their operator that they 'only' have to pay $40 a month and it covers (sub)urban California 'pretty well'. Is this a case of Stockholm syndrome or just looks like one (to an outsider)?
Drives with more platters in them usually have better price to storage capacity ratio. And the density can be increased. I would not be surprised if these were cheaper (relatively) than the current server HDDs. Probably not significantly faster though.
Well, it's not exactly penta-band LTE anyway...
Time is, I think, the real issue for consumers. If you can put your phone on a table, or whatever, for 30mins and have it completely recharged this will do well. But I have a feeling that inefficiency will make it something for when you sleep, so you can wake up to fully recharged gadgets. I can't see wireless providing more juice than most gadgets use so having them in public places, coffee shops. etc., will not overcome the inevitable flat battery, just delay it for a bit.
The efficiency is around 70%, so it will certainly delay the flat battery. Especially if the phone were to do wireless syncing at the same time (so less syncing would be needed when it is on its own battery...)
Seriously, this. I just don't get why this is such a popular idea, unless I remind myself that the average person is more or less technically uneducated, and doesn't understand that it's wildly energy inefficient. Also, echoing other comments on this topic: This is far from a new idea, and again: there are reasons we haven't gone this way before, but nobody seems to understand that.
Nothing serious about the inefficiency. We are not talking about cars, we are talking about 5W chargers...
I would read this with a pinch of salt (I probably would not often charge two devices at the same time), but it is pretty informative. http://www.wirelesspowerconsortium.com/technology/total-energy-consumption.html
Charging cables double as data cables. How would people react if you got rid of data cables entirely? Wireless syncing is nice, but I find I usually go for the cable. It's faster and has less chance of error, plus no drain on the phone's battery.
If the phone does the wireless syncing on the wireless charging pad there probably won't be much of drain on the phone's battery :)
I currently sync my phone and laptop via bluetooth without errors. Although I do use cable sometimes if I am in hurry or low on battery, so speed may be an issue. (But well, the cable option isn't actually disappearing yet...)
Perhaps. Although I do wonder who wants to pay $15-50 for a few (outdated) pages of Wikipedia. I'm inclided to consider those 'books' to be spam.
What's wrong with that? The CreativeCommons licence that Wikipedia uses allows exactly this, if people want a hard copy of some information instead of having to view it online then why shouldn't they be allowed to?
Well, perhaps nothing as such. Then again, some of them were a bit obnoxious. I don't remember what exactly I was searching, perhaps a PS3 controller or something like that, but one of the best results (at that time) was one of these books. Only after reading it became clear that this thing that I believed to be a reasonably priced controller was actually not so reasonably priced book from Wikipedia
I should start selling photographs of items on Amazon, if people want an actual photograph of an item instead of having to take it themselves (or even worse, buy it), they should have this opportunity. To be fair, I should probably include "you are buying a photograph" in small print.
I do believe that he is implying that your interpretation of the picture is leaning towards Apple. And your interpretation is a bit curious. Perhaps accidentally, but curious anyway.
In the original Samsung states that the multitouch is harder to develop against, and Apple states that this just isn't true. In your version Samsung is saying that the whole thing sucks and Apple partially agrees.
If you are going to exaggerate, you should exaggerate both statements, not exaggerate one and mitigate the other. ('No, it may actually be better')
Indeed, simpler for us.
Ya know..... it would be simpler for customers if they just used "hours":
"The Glow last over 30 hours with glowlight; over 60 hours without glowlight." - "Amazon Paperwhite lasts 56 hours even with the light..... almost double that without."
It would be simpler for us, but I believe that for most customers that half an hour a day value (I hope they at least have the same daily amount) does give a better estimate on how long they can actually use the device without recharging ^.^ Actually, a value over 20 hours is all I would need...
Interesting change in wording. That means 56 days of reading 1-hour per day instead of 62 days. Meanwhile Barnes advertises "over 2 months" for their nooks.
Are you quite sure?
Barnes on Nook Glowlight:
Read for over 1 month on a single charge with GlowLight on (based on a half hour of daily reading time)1 Read for over 2 months with GlowLight off (based on a half hour of daily reading time)1
Amazon on Kindle Paperwhite:
"So we worked on our power management — Kindle paperwhite can get eight weeks of battery life even with the light on.
What's wrong with actual footage? Seriously, is that so hard to do? Truck companies figured that one out a while back, show a picture of a truck doing something really notable and than in the fine print in the bottom you put "actual demonstration". Makes it all the more impressive.
I'm guessing they didn't have the actual phone ready at the time they were shooting that commercial.
And yes, it should have stated that it was a simulation of the finished product. Although I'm pretty sure that whatever the camera was, it did have OIS on in the shot...