Yes, I would agree with you. Just get an android phone in the first place! Besides, the iPhone won't have the Home, Back, Menu, Talk, or End buttons or a trackball and almost every (if not every) android phone has the majority of these buttons, so I don't see how the iPhone could be used effectively with the Android OS.
Real hardware? Get a Nexus One. It beats the iPhone in nearly every way. Note that I am not bashing Apple, I love the iPhone's beautiful interface, I just don't like their locked down app store policies.
I've got a Nexus One and I easily get 2 days and sometimes 3 out of it. Unless I'm constantly listening to music, playing games, or using the GPS. You just have to make sure that Bluetooth, Wifi, and the GPS are turned off when you aren't using them.
1) "Is apple going to let me use it:" Sure, you can use it. You'll void your warranty, but once you've bought the hardware, if you want to smash it with a hammer or load something else on it, they're not going to waste time and effort chasing you down.
Note that the iPhone has more than just a "processor [that] can run arbitrary code" -- it has a CPU, memory, a general user interface, and could, in the absence of deliberate software restrictions on the part of Apple, be used as a small mobile computer (which happens to have the ability to connect to a cell phone network). This is not as extreme as running NetBSD on a toaster, or repurposing a car's microcontrollers for some other task -- the iPhone has all the hardware needed to be used for general consumer-grade computing, albeit in a pocket sized form factor.
So, if I stuffed an iPhone under my couch cushion, then now my couch "has all the hardware needed to be used for general consumer-grade computing" and it is a computer too! Awesome!
Just having the hardware doesn't make it a computer.
Just because those companies don't provide an IDEAL experience doesn't mean that someone who disagrees with them would not still want to purchase their products. All that is required for a person to purchase a product is for the perceived gain to be greater than or equal to the cost. Someone may think that the XBox or Wii or whatever is worth the price that it is set at now, but STILL think that it would be better if it were a more open platform. Do you disagree with any of the policies of any of the politicians in your respective country? If so, then why don't you move? On a someone related note, as far as Sony is concerned, someone may have purchased the PS3 while it was still pretty "open" (you could install Linux or whatever if you wanted to) and now Sony is taking away their rights with the crappy stuff they are doing now.
Well if you bring religion into it, one could argue by that definition that we are not life either as we depend on God to provide us food through plant/animal growth.
That's the difference between man-made and God-made according to most religions. That reminds me of a joke I heard once. A scientist who perfected cloning confronted God one day and said "We don't need you anymore. We can create humans ourselves!" So God challenged him to a contest. If the scientist could create a more perfect man, God would leave. The scientist accepted and proceeded to pick up a handful of dirt. "Wait, wait, wait... hold on a second!" said God, "Get your own dirt!"
Connect a computer (I use a Mac Mini) to the TV and use Boxee. That will give you YouTube and Hulu as well as shows on nbc.com, cbs.com, abc.com, etc. In addition, if you don't use Boxee, you get a full computer with a (potentially) massive monitor. Alternatively, you do not need a computer and you can get a dedicated Boxee box.
In Windows just press Start -> Games -> Browse -> Click To Play.
Microsoft got rid of the "Start" button in Windows Vista. It is the "Windows" button now. Apparently they realized that it was not intuitive to click the "Start" button when you wanted to "Stop" (i.e. shutdown/sleep/hibernate) your computer.
Yes, I think that there would be a problem with contacts as moving your eyes would move the contacts along with them, so you really couldn't look at a different parts of the contact. You could only see the part that was currently in front of your pupil (and even then, there would be focusing issues). But glasses would work. I work for a company that creates little monacle screens for the military that work quite well actually. They use a series of lenses to make the screen appear farther than it is, which makes it much easier to read.
I'm more worried that your cock has a hinge, because that means that robots are posting on slashdot and for all I know I am the ONLY real person doing so which would mean that I am living in a fake world created for me by robots. I must be Keanu Reeves.
Yes, but you can't switch back and forth between an iPhone and iPad by simply moving your card over. You would have to go to AT&T and get the card exchanged every time. I don't think someone is going to get rid of an iPhone and switch to an iPad permanently. Unless of course that person never makes phone calls on the iPhone.
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Yes, I would agree with you. Just get an android phone in the first place! Besides, the iPhone won't have the Home, Back, Menu, Talk, or End buttons or a trackball and almost every (if not every) android phone has the majority of these buttons, so I don't see how the iPhone could be used effectively with the Android OS.
Real hardware? Get a Nexus One. It beats the iPhone in nearly every way. Note that I am not bashing Apple, I love the iPhone's beautiful interface, I just don't like their locked down app store policies.
I've got a Nexus One and I easily get 2 days and sometimes 3 out of it. Unless I'm constantly listening to music, playing games, or using the GPS. You just have to make sure that Bluetooth, Wifi, and the GPS are turned off when you aren't using them.
1) "Is apple going to let me use it:" Sure, you can use it. You'll void your warranty, but once you've bought the hardware, if you want to smash it with a hammer or load something else on it, they're not going to waste time and effort chasing you down.
They may not chase you down for using it, but they may block you from using it in the first place.
Note that the iPhone has more than just a "processor [that] can run arbitrary code" -- it has a CPU, memory, a general user interface, and could, in the absence of deliberate software restrictions on the part of Apple, be used as a small mobile computer (which happens to have the ability to connect to a cell phone network). This is not as extreme as running NetBSD on a toaster, or repurposing a car's microcontrollers for some other task -- the iPhone has all the hardware needed to be used for general consumer-grade computing, albeit in a pocket sized form factor.
So, if I stuffed an iPhone under my couch cushion, then now my couch "has all the hardware needed to be used for general consumer-grade computing" and it is a computer too! Awesome!
Just having the hardware doesn't make it a computer.
Just because those companies don't provide an IDEAL experience doesn't mean that someone who disagrees with them would not still want to purchase their products. All that is required for a person to purchase a product is for the perceived gain to be greater than or equal to the cost. Someone may think that the XBox or Wii or whatever is worth the price that it is set at now, but STILL think that it would be better if it were a more open platform. Do you disagree with any of the policies of any of the politicians in your respective country? If so, then why don't you move? On a someone related note, as far as Sony is concerned, someone may have purchased the PS3 while it was still pretty "open" (you could install Linux or whatever if you wanted to) and now Sony is taking away their rights with the crappy stuff they are doing now.
all those people who say the iPhone/iPad is not a computer because things like this are "impossible"
I don't think it's the Apple fanbois who are saying that...
Somewhere, right now, Steve Jobs is throwing a chairman of the board out a window that would make even Steve Ballmer say "DAMN!"
ftfy.
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They're not lego robots but you mean like this or this?
How would you remove a row from the middle or top though?
Well if you bring religion into it, one could argue by that definition that we are not life either as we depend on God to provide us food through plant/animal growth.
That's the difference between man-made and God-made according to most religions. That reminds me of a joke I heard once. A scientist who perfected cloning confronted God one day and said "We don't need you anymore. We can create humans ourselves!" So God challenged him to a contest. If the scientist could create a more perfect man, God would leave. The scientist accepted and proceeded to pick up a handful of dirt. "Wait, wait, wait... hold on a second!" said God, "Get your own dirt!"
It doesn't die of old age, but it still might be "stupid" and walk into the path of an oncoming bus and "die"...
These kind of sharks? http://www.cafepress.com/sk/sharkbear
Why include the ' é ' but not the ' ï ' in the word ' naïveté '? You might as well just say naivety...
Dang... this work? \m/ >.< \m/
Nice choice of links! I especially like "popup"... I don't have mod points, so I'll just give you this: \m/ >. \m/
BTW, Boxee is not only for Mac. It's for Linux (and I use that one on my laptop) and Windows (my office desktop) as well.
Connect a computer (I use a Mac Mini) to the TV and use Boxee. That will give you YouTube and Hulu as well as shows on nbc.com, cbs.com, abc.com, etc. In addition, if you don't use Boxee, you get a full computer with a (potentially) massive monitor. Alternatively, you do not need a computer and you can get a dedicated Boxee box.
Or your toaster or your bed's headboard?
In Windows just press Start -> Games -> Browse -> Click To Play.
Microsoft got rid of the "Start" button in Windows Vista. It is the "Windows" button now. Apparently they realized that it was not intuitive to click the "Start" button when you wanted to "Stop" (i.e. shutdown/sleep/hibernate) your computer.
Yes, I think that there would be a problem with contacts as moving your eyes would move the contacts along with them, so you really couldn't look at a different parts of the contact. You could only see the part that was currently in front of your pupil (and even then, there would be focusing issues). But glasses would work. I work for a company that creates little monacle screens for the military that work quite well actually. They use a series of lenses to make the screen appear farther than it is, which makes it much easier to read.
I'm more worried that your cock has a hinge, because that means that robots are posting on slashdot and for all I know I am the ONLY real person doing so which would mean that I am living in a fake world created for me by robots. I must be Keanu Reeves.
AT&T will even swap yours for a microsim now
Yes, but you can't switch back and forth between an iPhone and iPad by simply moving your card over. You would have to go to AT&T and get the card exchanged every time. I don't think someone is going to get rid of an iPhone and switch to an iPad permanently. Unless of course that person never makes phone calls on the iPhone.
BTW, this is all if you ignore the first sentence of his post... "Found in the city of their greatest competitor"...