My phone has locked up 3 times in over 2 years of owning it. Less than any other phone I've seen.
Cross platform development? Java? And why does it need to be cross platform? The other big boys certainly aren't.
"Why the hell do you think I'm using a free (as in, any way you like) OS at home?" Because you don't like paying for shit and you have an irrational hatred of Microsoft. Also, you are a young male nerd who's time is worth very little, so you can waste it on Linux.
"Touch screens *are* useful. However, having a number of hardbuttons is vital." I should be able to use the entire phone without touching the damned touch screen at all. Same goes with mice. I don't know about you, but I use my keyboard for just about everything. The mouse comes into play for idle shit, such as games and fucking around on the web. It's a preference, but it's also a usability issue. Buttons are by far more reliable than touch screens. And if my touchscreen breaks, I want to still be able to use my phone.
"That sounds awfully big" Nope. Check out the BlackJack, BlackJack II or SamsungEpix (BlackJack 3 basically). Full qwerty. Nice size. None of this half qwerty shit that one blackberry tried to pull.
Windows Mobile isn't that slow. It's no more unstable than any other phone I've tried. Expensive? It was free, and the phones with it are all priced lower than comparable blackberrys/etc.
I dismiss Apple because they're Apple, too. But I dismiss Apple in general because I hate their design, I hate their build quality, and I hate their lack of customer service. Apple Care my ass, they'll still charge you a billion dollars to fix something that was their fault, and deny it all the way to the bank.
I see a market of Polaroid camera users. I see it has shrunk to abysmal levels. I see that it will continue to shrink as even the most die hard of users have their cameras fail. I see that over the next decade or so, the number will too low to be profitable even in the most ideal of situations.
Hey, maybe I'll start up a company that sells floppies, blank cassettes, and, if I'm feeling lucky, DVD Tuesday will be followed by Betamax Wednesday.
"Like it or not, there are legitimate reasons for giving special treatment to some people."
Nope. All people should be treated (by the government, my taxes, etc.) equally. (Having a separate class for the problem/retarded kids is fine by me, as it benefits all involved.)
"We're not all born equal" Correct, we are not.
"certainly nobody better, but certainly many worse off." Incorrect, and a logical fallacy. Some people ARE simply better than others. Deal with it.
As for not understanding it, I understand it just fine. Kid acts like a kid, isn't parented properly, and then gets labeled and drugged up. The vast majority of ADD/ADHD cases are bullshit misdiagnosis that parents buy into because they want something to blame other than themselves.
There ARE cases where it's a real problem, but to create a label of ADD/ADHD and pump kids full of drugs that do more harm than good is a farce and a tragedy. People used to do it the hard way, and guess what, it worked. Kids were taught discipline and self control and parents were held responsible.
Hey, they said "everyone". That means all 7 billion + (yes, we're past 7) people. ALL.
Traditional swords have a use - they're historical, some people view them as art, and some people think they're infinitely better than current swords not made by traditional methods.
It's a lot harder to argue for Polaroid film as a historic/art piece for display (the camera body sure, but the film?). Polaroids have been displaced by better cameras. Better in every damned way. If you want instant prints, they STILL SELL Polaroids that print from the camera, without relying on Polaroid film. They have travel photo printers. Photo printing services and kiosks are ubiquitous.
Because you'd need a mechanism for exposing the chemicals to light.
You could fairly easily have a camera that operates in either mode, but not both at the same time (digital pic or instant pic).
With a lot of work, you could have a camera that is a digital camera, but also does a single instant print. You'd have huge issues with getting the optics right. You need the SAME IMAGE (geometrically) to go to the film and to the sensor. But the sensor and the film have completely different requirements for exposure time, amount of light let in, etc. Even if you could tweak the sensors and the chemicals a bit to be more in line, you'd never get them to output the same thing. And of course, you have to split that incoming light perfectly in two (one view for the film one for the sensor), and you're basically neutering the quality of both. Forgot fast shots or shots where the lighting isn't fucking perfect.
Now, if you wanted a camera that could do both and print out multiple prints, the you'd need some sort of fucking projector system in the camera. Hmmm, maybe if you had the sensor in front and the film behind, you could load up a pic, point the camera at a bright light source (the source to expose the film) and use the sensor as a sort of projection filter. Would require a new type of sensor to be able to fill both roles, and your quality would be limited by both the steadiness of the light source you're pointing it at and the resolution and range of your sensor. PATENT PENDING, BITCHES. MY IDEA.
Amateur pornographers often used Polaroids to avoid having to develop their film at a store.
Especially useful for test shots with new models/actors. Decent enough results, you don't have to worry about the photomat guy making extra copies and selling them, a lot more cost-effective than contracting out to a more trusted source for developing (since most photos will be trashed / paper clipped to an application for a pro photo/film shoot), and a lot easier to say "here are all the photos" when you land a contract / the model/actor bails out.
Also useful if it's pics of you and your significant others that you don't intend to sell/distribute, and of course, for anything that is super freaky, borderline illegal, or illegal.
"If everyone runs in one direction [i.e. digital photography], it creates a niche market in the other."
Uh, no, not if EVERYONE runs in one direction. Either way, it's pretty much a retarded business decision. Let's bring back those cameras that used 35 mm film AND showed you an (estimated) instant view of it on an LCD.
It's all part of the pussification and nanny-statification of America. Leveling the playing field only stifles the desires of those who are better and sets up the weaker individuals for huge disappointment later on in life (or it would if the rest of us didn't have to keep propping them up).
A map of the electrical activity of a brain can be used to identify an electrical problem in the brain?
Not surprising at all. Headline fails. (The method used to interpret the scans and identify ADHD IS newsworthy. The fact that they're using EEGs is totally not headline material.)
Moran. The drug thing was a reference to the FDA threatening Cheerios.
Domestic terrorists most often claim nothing in common. Believing in the Constitution and defending it make you a freedom fighter. If that brings up feelings of terror in the politicians, then sure, they're going to label that person as a terrorist.
Typical/. post. Windows Mobile is the best option.
It works just as well as any other phone OS (or "platform"). If you don't like it, change it. If you want an app, buy it. If you want an app, but don't want to pay, steal it. If said app doesn't exist, make it.
The strength of Windows Mobile is the fact that there are endless hacks for it and there are tons of people using it and fiddling with it (in a developer sense).
The physical design of phone will affect your usability orders of magnitude more than the underlying OS. I don't give a shit what OS my phone has. I demand a full qwerty keyboard first and foremost. I demand a LACK of touchscreen bullshit (having one is fine, but everything sure as hell better navigable/usable without it). I demand shit that doesn't flip or slide or do some other bullshit that will just be one more thing to break. Etc.
By far the most important application any phone can offer (beyond the phone/address book functions, obviously) is a good web browser. 99% of what's on sale for the iPhone is stupid shit that should be a stupid shitty web page.
You dismiss Windows Mobile because it's Windows. Yet, and this might hurt your head, it is the best choice if you want to be "free" and still have an assload of options available to you. You can pay for them or not, and you can justify your behavior by saying they are or are not just baubles.
For 99% of them, that would be the corporation, of course.
Any person in the community developing their own baubles (can't believe I typed "bobbles" back there...) that are worth a damn will be monitored. Once the successful ones reach a certain level of success, they will be approached and assimilated.
Further baubles from said individual will simply be a marketing exercise in tapping into your consumer culture of choice, while maintaining the guise of "indie" status.
Sony and Microsoft both take HUGE losses on their hardware initially, and hope to make money in the long run on software.
Nintendo, on the other hand, MAKES money on each console they sell (and does so at the launch of the console), AND develops/publishes lots of their own games, in addition to relying on the 3rd party licensing fees that MS and Sony bank on almost exclusively.
So far, the gaming divisions of MS and Sony are deep in the red. Sega deep. But both MS and Sony see their gaming divisions as hooks for their brand, so they continue to keep their broken model alive.
Nintendo is primarily a game company and needs to make a profit through games to survive. Nintendo works for themselves and considers 3rd party profits gravy, and is fucking rolling in cash. Obscene amounts of cash.
When will corporations realize that community support is the best way to drive success?
When it's true. Sorry nerds, the best way to drive success is to dangle shiny bobbles in front of the plebes, and charge them out the ass for it. Deal with it.
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You know now what you must do.
My phone has locked up 3 times in over 2 years of owning it. Less than any other phone I've seen.
Cross platform development? Java?
And why does it need to be cross platform? The other big boys certainly aren't.
"Why the hell do you think I'm using a free (as in, any way you like) OS at home?" Because you don't like paying for shit and you have an irrational hatred of Microsoft. Also, you are a young male nerd who's time is worth very little, so you can waste it on Linux.
"Touch screens *are* useful. However, having a number of hardbuttons is vital."
I should be able to use the entire phone without touching the damned touch screen at all. Same goes with mice. I don't know about you, but I use my keyboard for just about everything. The mouse comes into play for idle shit, such as games and fucking around on the web.
It's a preference, but it's also a usability issue. Buttons are by far more reliable than touch screens. And if my touchscreen breaks, I want to still be able to use my phone.
"That sounds awfully big"
Nope. Check out the BlackJack, BlackJack II or SamsungEpix (BlackJack 3 basically). Full qwerty. Nice size. None of this half qwerty shit that one blackberry tried to pull.
Windows Mobile isn't that slow. It's no more unstable than any other phone I've tried. Expensive? It was free, and the phones with it are all priced lower than comparable blackberrys/etc.
I dismiss Apple because they're Apple, too. But I dismiss Apple in general because I hate their design, I hate their build quality, and I hate their lack of customer service. Apple Care my ass, they'll still charge you a billion dollars to fix something that was their fault, and deny it all the way to the bank.
Exactly my point.
The headline states that a company is claiming eeg scans can help identify ADHD.
That's not news.
I see a market of Polaroid camera users.
I see it has shrunk to abysmal levels.
I see that it will continue to shrink as even the most die hard of users have their cameras fail.
I see that over the next decade or so, the number will too low to be profitable even in the most ideal of situations.
Hey, maybe I'll start up a company that sells floppies, blank cassettes, and, if I'm feeling lucky, DVD Tuesday will be followed by Betamax Wednesday.
"Like it or not, there are legitimate reasons for giving special treatment to some people."
Nope. All people should be treated (by the government, my taxes, etc.) equally. (Having a separate class for the problem/retarded kids is fine by me, as it benefits all involved.)
"We're not all born equal"
Correct, we are not.
"certainly nobody better, but certainly many worse off."
Incorrect, and a logical fallacy. Some people ARE simply better than others. Deal with it.
As for not understanding it, I understand it just fine. Kid acts like a kid, isn't parented properly, and then gets labeled and drugged up. The vast majority of ADD/ADHD cases are bullshit misdiagnosis that parents buy into because they want something to blame other than themselves.
There ARE cases where it's a real problem, but to create a label of ADD/ADHD and pump kids full of drugs that do more harm than good is a farce and a tragedy. People used to do it the hard way, and guess what, it worked. Kids were taught discipline and self control and parents were held responsible.
Ghostbusters?
Hey, they said "everyone". That means all 7 billion + (yes, we're past 7) people. ALL.
Traditional swords have a use - they're historical, some people view them as art, and some people think they're infinitely better than current swords not made by traditional methods.
It's a lot harder to argue for Polaroid film as a historic/art piece for display (the camera body sure, but the film?). Polaroids have been displaced by better cameras. Better in every damned way. If you want instant prints, they STILL SELL Polaroids that print from the camera, without relying on Polaroid film. They have travel photo printers. Photo printing services and kiosks are ubiquitous.
This is like someone trying to resurrect pogs.
Haha. No.
Why would they "use a polaroid to check the exposure"? That makes no sense.
No sense at all!
Because you'd need a mechanism for exposing the chemicals to light.
You could fairly easily have a camera that operates in either mode, but not both at the same time (digital pic or instant pic).
With a lot of work, you could have a camera that is a digital camera, but also does a single instant print. You'd have huge issues with getting the optics right. You need the SAME IMAGE (geometrically) to go to the film and to the sensor. But the sensor and the film have completely different requirements for exposure time, amount of light let in, etc. Even if you could tweak the sensors and the chemicals a bit to be more in line, you'd never get them to output the same thing. And of course, you have to split that incoming light perfectly in two (one view for the film one for the sensor), and you're basically neutering the quality of both. Forgot fast shots or shots where the lighting isn't fucking perfect.
Now, if you wanted a camera that could do both and print out multiple prints, the you'd need some sort of fucking projector system in the camera. Hmmm, maybe if you had the sensor in front and the film behind, you could load up a pic, point the camera at a bright light source (the source to expose the film) and use the sensor as a sort of projection filter. Would require a new type of sensor to be able to fill both roles, and your quality would be limited by both the steadiness of the light source you're pointing it at and the resolution and range of your sensor. PATENT PENDING, BITCHES. MY IDEA.
Amateur pornographers often used Polaroids to avoid having to develop their film at a store.
Especially useful for test shots with new models/actors. Decent enough results, you don't have to worry about the photomat guy making extra copies and selling them, a lot more cost-effective than contracting out to a more trusted source for developing (since most photos will be trashed / paper clipped to an application for a pro photo/film shoot), and a lot easier to say "here are all the photos" when you land a contract / the model/actor bails out.
Also useful if it's pics of you and your significant others that you don't intend to sell/distribute, and of course, for anything that is super freaky, borderline illegal, or illegal.
"If everyone runs in one direction [i.e. digital photography], it creates a niche market in the other."
Uh, no, not if EVERYONE runs in one direction.
Either way, it's pretty much a retarded business decision. Let's bring back those cameras that used 35 mm film AND showed you an (estimated) instant view of it on an LCD.
How about those cameras that saved to floppies?
RETRO COOL AMIRITE?
It's all part of the pussification and nanny-statification of America. Leveling the playing field only stifles the desires of those who are better and sets up the weaker individuals for huge disappointment later on in life (or it would if the rest of us didn't have to keep propping them up).
Lame? Crippled? Handicapped? Handicapable? Disabled?
DIFFERENTLY ABLED.
Stupid? Moron? Idiot? Simpleton? Retard? Slow? Dunce? Challenged? Developmentally Disabled?
SPECIAL NEEDS.
Problem child? Acting up? Bad parenting? Acting Out? Attention Seeking Behavior?
ADD/ADHD.
Bastard? Child of a broken home? Single mother?
SINGLE MOTHER BY CHOICE.
F? Red ink? Sad face?
EVERYONE GETS A GOLD STAR FOR TRYING.
Math? Science? Girls not testing as well as boys?
TALK IN GROUPS ABOUT HOW MATH MAKES YOU FEEL.
Reading? Spelling? Grammar? Kids don't speak English?
LANGUAGE IS ALWAYS EVOLVING, WHY TEACH IT?
Hard? Difficult? Unfair?
CULTURE AND GENDER BIAS IN TESTING.
A map of the electrical activity of a brain can be used to identify an electrical problem in the brain?
Not surprising at all. Headline fails.
(The method used to interpret the scans and identify ADHD IS newsworthy. The fact that they're using EEGs is totally not headline material.)
Moran.
The drug thing was a reference to the FDA threatening Cheerios.
Domestic terrorists most often claim nothing in common. Believing in the Constitution and defending it make you a freedom fighter. If that brings up feelings of terror in the politicians, then sure, they're going to label that person as a terrorist.
This country is fucked.
Typical /. post.
Windows Mobile is the best option.
It works just as well as any other phone OS (or "platform").
If you don't like it, change it.
If you want an app, buy it.
If you want an app, but don't want to pay, steal it.
If said app doesn't exist, make it.
The strength of Windows Mobile is the fact that there are endless hacks for it and there are tons of people using it and fiddling with it (in a developer sense).
The physical design of phone will affect your usability orders of magnitude more than the underlying OS. I don't give a shit what OS my phone has.
I demand a full qwerty keyboard first and foremost.
I demand a LACK of touchscreen bullshit (having one is fine, but everything sure as hell better navigable/usable without it).
I demand shit that doesn't flip or slide or do some other bullshit that will just be one more thing to break.
Etc.
By far the most important application any phone can offer (beyond the phone/address book functions, obviously) is a good web browser. 99% of what's on sale for the iPhone is stupid shit that should be a stupid shitty web page.
You dismiss Windows Mobile because it's Windows.
Yet, and this might hurt your head, it is the best choice if you want to be "free" and still have an assload of options available to you. You can pay for them or not, and you can justify your behavior by saying they are or are not just baubles.
For 99% of them, that would be the corporation, of course.
Any person in the community developing their own baubles (can't believe I typed "bobbles" back there...) that are worth a damn will be monitored. Once the successful ones reach a certain level of success, they will be approached and assimilated.
Further baubles from said individual will simply be a marketing exercise in tapping into your consumer culture of choice, while maintaining the guise of "indie" status.
Console gaming industry, you say?
We've got Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft.
Sony and Microsoft both take HUGE losses on their hardware initially, and hope to make money in the long run on software.
Nintendo, on the other hand, MAKES money on each console they sell (and does so at the launch of the console), AND develops/publishes lots of their own games, in addition to relying on the 3rd party licensing fees that MS and Sony bank on almost exclusively.
So far, the gaming divisions of MS and Sony are deep in the red. Sega deep. But both MS and Sony see their gaming divisions as hooks for their brand, so they continue to keep their broken model alive.
Nintendo is primarily a game company and needs to make a profit through games to survive. Nintendo works for themselves and considers 3rd party profits gravy, and is fucking rolling in cash. Obscene amounts of cash.
Piss
Jeepers, creepers.
Where'd you get those peepers.
And if you're the best, you simply give yourself a pension and numerous titles/awards/etc..
[Scene: Bender in a beach chair. Solar panels deploy from his head]
Bender: Sweet photons. I don't know if you're waves or particles, but you go down smooth.
Nudar: Sir, would you care to sign our petition?
Bender: I support and oppose many things, but not strongly enough to pick up a pen.
Nudar: That's just what the guys who oppose the things you support want you to do.
Bender: Really? Down with those guys!
Flebb: And we'll need your e-mail address.
Bender: Hmm, they say you shouldn't give out your e-mail address.
Nudar: Right. That's just what those same guys say.
Bender: Them again?
[Bender signs "bender@ilovebender.com" under "awong76@marslink.com" and "zoidberg@freemail.net"]
Just like how you should stop making broad generalizations as to the amount of holes ""forward" thinking believer"s fill their stories with.
Religious people should put loaded guns to their heads and pull the triggers -- God will forgive.
There's a pretty big religion out there that says suicide gets you eternal damnation in hell. Might want to look that up.
Why is it that the internet atheismos are always the LEAST educated about religion (yes, even less educated than the blind followers)?
I thought Norway WAS Sweden.
You know, like Holland and Deutschland. Damned Dutch. Good waffles though.
When will corporations realize that community support is the best way to drive success?
When it's true.
Sorry nerds, the best way to drive success is to dangle shiny bobbles in front of the plebes, and charge them out the ass for it.
Deal with it.
The internal storage on this device is broken, actually. Do not use it.