I use Mythtv at home. it strips out commercials from TV.
All the computers run privoxy on them to effectively block ad's in a secure way.
I typically only listen to ipod in the car, my wife listens to sirius, but she always changes the channel when ad's come on.
WE are 100% in control of our senses. Nobody get's any adverts to us unless we allow it. It's funny, I'll hear about a movie from a co-worker and they freak when I did not know about it... "TV ad's have been running for a month!" I dont have ad's on my tv.
Sorry but it goes further than that. Patents in general are all evil and nothing more than greedy asshat tools.
Honestly, look at small things from every handset, if all the good things were unencumbered with patents the smartphones today would utterly rock in usability and function. But we are stuck with A having this, B having that, and C having the other and then all the rich assholes whining to mommie government that billy took their ball.
It's ALL bullcrap. every bit of it. It's why we dont have on demand everything at a reasonable price in our homes, it's why we dont have better cars, it's why our smartphones all have a bit of them that has suckage.
Plain old greed. Dont read into it as anything else. Nokia is greedy. Apple is greedy. HTC is greedy. EVERYONE is greedy.
Fact: most people around you are ragingly stupid. If this was not the case then there would be tens of thousands in DC screaming for the heads of most senators and HO Reps. It's why I think teay party members are morons. They need to be SCREAMING for the constitution to be upheld and all the crimes against the USA that destroys freedom be repealed now and any senator that voted for it be hung in the gallows.
but no they are whiney know nothings that prefer a fake security feeling over freedom. They actually prefer LESS freedom.
If we were smart, we would be on the verge of the second civil war right now.
Just 100 years ago most homes did not have electricity or even indoor toilets. Hell we were barely out of the Renaissance era. WW-I did not start until 1914 and at the beginning it was incredibly low tech. Sword fighting was still taught to military personnel.
Honestly, Wait until 2110. WE will have full walking humanoid bots (which will be dumb, send a dog design, they are faster, more agile and capable of doing more.)
Cripes the technology changes over the past 10 years have been more than the past 100. Honestly launching delicate ugly bags of water into space is really dumb for real exploration.
Incorrect. Colonization of other worlds with an INSTANT human population is impossible without manned flight. Colonization via other longer term means can be done with several seeding launches.
Creating life forms that can thrive in the target environment is far easier than terraforming it. we just gotta wait for them to evolve and call home.
"Doesn't have multitasking" - I won't listen to Pandora while I read email.
Sorry but most smartphones did not do this either. A very VERY small number of people want this. and many that did have it on a WM5 phone hated it as the phone would crawl because of having apps in the background running consuming processing power. My older Nokia smartphones also suffered from multitasking apps. nothing like getting the battery sucked dry and the phone taking 12 seconds to answer a call because of some damn app in the background using up the system resources.
"No replaceable battery" - I won't use it on the plane to watch that movie, that way I can make sure to call a cab when I land.
I have never met a person that carries around spare phone batteries. Plus anyone that even had a Palm Treo had the same problem. not easy to replace battery on smartphones has been a theme. Ever try to replace the battery in a Blackjack? the battery door self-welded shut every time you put it back on.
"It can be tethered now" - I have AT&T and they don't allow tethering, but the AT&T 3G network is so crappy I won't even bother.
It always was able to tether if you got away from a sociopath carrier. Unlock it to go to t-mobile and you can add a tethering app or more recently use the built in function.
I have been a smartphone user for over a decade. I have used them all. and I currently have an iPhone because the apps that work with my workflow are on it, I don't have to reboot it weekly, and being a phone is first priority to it. I have never had a call I could not answer because the damned phone was busy... Unlike Windows Mobile phones. or have a phone freak on certain callers... like my Nokia E62 did.
there are some "neat-o" things I would like to do. Like have the phone report my GPS location every 15 seconds to my server at home. It would be cool to have the house see that I am on my way home and turn the heater on the hot-tub on when I am within a 15 minute distance, or make other decisions when it senses I am on a return path. but I can live without that, or simply grab the phone, fire up the crestron app and press the button myself.
I also still have not found a single Apple-hater that does not change their mind when I actually show them what I do with my phone that they CANT do with theirs. (lack of "app for that"(tm)(r) on their platform mostly)
Recently the biggest was sitting at a bar, talking to a client, filling out and sending them an invoice and then processing a credit card payment over the phone right there after they got the invoice. A colleague freaked and instead of doing his typical, frothing at the mouth apple-hate, started asking serious questions about it more.
mandrake died the day that "mandriva 10" came out. before that they were on the cutting edge and the most useful and pretty darn stable. they were betterthan RedHat at the time.
Then the mess happened. Unstable, broken, etc.... People left in droves.
you dont have that with IE now. so why must a change have features you dont already have?
I'd love to drive a ford instead of a chevy, but only if it has a 1500HP engine, 6 wheel drive, gets 90mpg at 200mph and I can turn a dial to change the paint color.
1 - Why? Android-x86 + existing hardware = Linux based tablet system. 2 - any fool with $500.00 and enough education can do this in an afternoon. 3 - Slashdot crowd is all talk and no action. They are identical to every other group out there. 4 - Basing it on Android means you have an instant software base 5 - PRofit will only be for big companies like dell (they already have one on it's way) or the china manufacturing companies making this stuff. Sales margins will be razor thin.
you beat the webdesigners severely for using flash. Because you could have simply given a link to the College's iphone/ipod friendly (moble.college.edu) site and not have to force the user to install an app.
A lot of these "informational" apps are garbage that could have been done better with a simple website.
It's just a jump to the left And then a step to the right With your hands on your hips You bring your knees in tight But it's the pelvic thrust that really drives you insane, Let's do the Time Warp again!
leaving them wide open has EVERYTHING to do with it. Almost all the exploits for routers out there try the stock passwords first to gain access to them. This has been how these attacks have worked for the past 2 years.
Ok, I'll wager that. I personally switched 5 windows users that have ZERO pc education to linux.
guess what, they still do the same things. They go online to read email, they go to facebook, they play farmville, they look at and uploade photos to flikr.
It is a complete myth that most users download and install software or want ot play the latest PC game. Most dont. they want to go online, go to youtube, google, hulu, etc...
The best part, I have after 5 months now, received 3 thank you letters from the latest converts. Their computer "just works" and they love it.
There is a fundamental difference where Windows fails and Unix works.
as a user you NEVER HAVE TO GIVE THEM ROOT ACCESS. Ever! I can as a user install software, make changes, Hell I can change Xorg settings and never touch/etc if I blow the hell out of things I only blow the hell out of it for me.
windows? I have to write to that abortion called the registry that is in the system folder., Oops install software? I need to write to system and system32. Look I got me a open door into the system...
Honestly, it's utter retardation that windows works the way it does. there should NEVER be a reason to write to the OS files. put software DLL files in/program files/system put software settings in a seperate registry. NOTHING should be able to go into/windows for any reason unless it's an OS update or a driver update and only done via Administrator.
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You might be. I'm not and my family is not.
I use Mythtv at home. it strips out commercials from TV.
All the computers run privoxy on them to effectively block ad's in a secure way.
I typically only listen to ipod in the car, my wife listens to sirius, but she always changes the channel when ad's come on.
WE are 100% in control of our senses. Nobody get's any adverts to us unless we allow it. It's funny, I'll hear about a movie from a co-worker and they freak when I did not know about it... "TV ad's have been running for a month!" I dont have ad's on my tv.
Sorry but it goes further than that. Patents in general are all evil and nothing more than greedy asshat tools.
Honestly, look at small things from every handset, if all the good things were unencumbered with patents the smartphones today would utterly rock in usability and function. But we are stuck with A having this, B having that, and C having the other and then all the rich assholes whining to mommie government that billy took their ball.
It's ALL bullcrap. every bit of it. It's why we dont have on demand everything at a reasonable price in our homes, it's why we dont have better cars, it's why our smartphones all have a bit of them that has suckage.
Plain old greed. Dont read into it as anything else. Nokia is greedy. Apple is greedy. HTC is greedy. EVERYONE is greedy.
You just came of age of wisdom? Welcome!
Fact: most people around you are ragingly stupid. If this was not the case then there would be tens of thousands in DC screaming for the heads of most senators and HO Reps. It's why I think teay party members are morons. They need to be SCREAMING for the constitution to be upheld and all the crimes against the USA that destroys freedom be repealed now and any senator that voted for it be hung in the gallows.
but no they are whiney know nothings that prefer a fake security feeling over freedom. They actually prefer LESS freedom.
If we were smart, we would be on the verge of the second civil war right now.
dude, we are barely out of the stone age.
Just 100 years ago most homes did not have electricity or even indoor toilets. Hell we were barely out of the Renaissance era. WW-I did not start until 1914 and at the beginning it was incredibly low tech. Sword fighting was still taught to military personnel.
Honestly, Wait until 2110. WE will have full walking humanoid bots (which will be dumb, send a dog design, they are faster, more agile and capable of doing more.)
Cripes the technology changes over the past 10 years have been more than the past 100. Honestly launching delicate ugly bags of water into space is really dumb for real exploration.
Europa?
Incorrect. Colonization of other worlds with an INSTANT human population is impossible without manned flight. Colonization via other longer term means can be done with several seeding launches.
Creating life forms that can thrive in the target environment is far easier than terraforming it. we just gotta wait for them to evolve and call home.
Yup.
Plus they choose to ignore.. iPhone sales have doubled in the past year.
Over 1 million ipads sold in the past 45 days.
The apple haters simply plug their ears and scream.... LA..LA...LA...LA.... I CANT HEAR YOU!
"Doesn't have multitasking" - I won't listen to Pandora while I read email.
Sorry but most smartphones did not do this either. A very VERY small number of people want this. and many that did have it on a WM5 phone hated it as the phone would crawl because of having apps in the background running consuming processing power. My older Nokia smartphones also suffered from multitasking apps. nothing like getting the battery sucked dry and the phone taking 12 seconds to answer a call because of some damn app in the background using up the system resources.
"No replaceable battery" - I won't use it on the plane to watch that movie, that way I can make sure to call a cab when I land.
I have never met a person that carries around spare phone batteries. Plus anyone that even had a Palm Treo had the same problem. not easy to replace battery on smartphones has been a theme. Ever try to replace the battery in a Blackjack? the battery door self-welded shut every time you put it back on.
"It can be tethered now" - I have AT&T and they don't allow tethering, but the AT&T 3G network is so crappy I won't even bother.
It always was able to tether if you got away from a sociopath carrier. Unlock it to go to t-mobile and you can add a tethering app or more recently use the built in function.
I have been a smartphone user for over a decade. I have used them all. and I currently have an iPhone because the apps that work with my workflow are on it, I don't have to reboot it weekly, and being a phone is first priority to it. I have never had a call I could not answer because the damned phone was busy... Unlike Windows Mobile phones. or have a phone freak on certain callers... like my Nokia E62 did.
there are some "neat-o" things I would like to do. Like have the phone report my GPS location every 15 seconds to my server at home. It would be cool to have the house see that I am on my way home and turn the heater on the hot-tub on when I am within a 15 minute distance, or make other decisions when it senses I am on a return path. but I can live without that, or simply grab the phone, fire up the crestron app and press the button myself.
I also still have not found a single Apple-hater that does not change their mind when I actually show them what I do with my phone that they CANT do with theirs. (lack of "app for that"(tm)(r) on their platform mostly)
Recently the biggest was sitting at a bar, talking to a client, filling out and sending them an invoice and then processing a credit card payment over the phone right there after they got the invoice. A colleague freaked and instead of doing his typical, frothing at the mouth apple-hate, started asking serious questions about it more.
It's called Orkut. google has had a Social site longer than facebook has existed.
it's wildly popular outside the usa.
"because really, most of the historical content was either not that relevant or not that hard to move."
It's because it's not that relevant. Moving it not a problem because photos people already have on their pc.
People really dont care about things that are more than 3 days old on social network sites.
facebook did it with Myspace. They pulled the majority of their users to facebook. the next big thing will suck facebook dry as well.
mandrake died the day that "mandriva 10" came out. before that they were on the cutting edge and the most useful and pretty darn stable. they were betterthan RedHat at the time.
Then the mess happened. Unstable, broken, etc.... People left in droves.
Agh!
you know nothing of trapping a German..
Sauerbraten, a huge glass of Weizenbock, and a Kuchen.
Even Diter would be tempted....
you dont have that with IE now. so why must a change have features you dont already have?
I'd love to drive a ford instead of a chevy, but only if it has a 1500HP engine, 6 wheel drive, gets 90mpg at 200mph and I can turn a dial to change the paint color.
Step 1 - replace Firefox or Chrome icon with the blue E.
step 2 - set the new browser to default and remove all ability of the user to fire up IE for web browsing.
Step 3 - there is no step 3. if they ask, It's a new version of the "internet" and they need to get used to it.
No thanks.
Ok I gotta go, let's shut down and power down the laptop to pack up...
Firefox is updating .... I have to wait....
Windows now wants to update... I have to wait.....
no thanks. Update when I tell it to and NEVER do an automatic update.
Nevermind....
http://www.amazon.com/Archos-160-Internet-Tablet-Android/dp/B002OL2PM4
Already exists. Go buy it.
1 - Why? Android-x86 + existing hardware = Linux based tablet system.
2 - any fool with $500.00 and enough education can do this in an afternoon.
3 - Slashdot crowd is all talk and no action. They are identical to every other group out there.
4 - Basing it on Android means you have an instant software base
5 - PRofit will only be for big companies like dell (they already have one on it's way) or the china manufacturing companies making this stuff. Sales margins will be razor thin.
Flash provides developers a common ground.
Yup. Abysmal performance and instability on every platform. It's uniform across the board.
It get's worse with every release as well.
you beat the webdesigners severely for using flash. Because you could have simply given a link to the College's iphone/ipod friendly (moble.college.edu) site and not have to force the user to install an app.
A lot of these "informational" apps are garbage that could have been done better with a simple website.
This week's memo at Apple has it as follows....
It's just a jump to the left
And then a step to the right
With your hands on your hips
You bring your knees in tight
But it's the pelvic thrust that really drives you insane,
Let's do the Time Warp again!
THAT is apple's stance.
leaving them wide open has EVERYTHING to do with it. Almost all the exploits for routers out there try the stock passwords first to gain access to them. This has been how these attacks have worked for the past 2 years.
Ok, I'll wager that. I personally switched 5 windows users that have ZERO pc education to linux.
guess what, they still do the same things. They go online to read email, they go to facebook, they play farmville, they look at and uploade photos to flikr.
It is a complete myth that most users download and install software or want ot play the latest PC game. Most dont. they want to go online, go to youtube, google, hulu, etc...
The best part, I have after 5 months now, received 3 thank you letters from the latest converts. Their computer "just works" and they love it.
And most of them run a half assed version.
It's why DDWRT and OpenWRT are so popular. the stock Firmware on most routers are a joke at best, and a utter mess at worst.
HUH?
There is a fundamental difference where Windows fails and Unix works.
as a user you NEVER HAVE TO GIVE THEM ROOT ACCESS. Ever! I can as a user install software, make changes, Hell I can change Xorg settings and never touch /etc if I blow the hell out of things I only blow the hell out of it for me.
windows? I have to write to that abortion called the registry that is in the system folder., Oops install software? I need to write to system and system32. Look I got me a open door into the system...
Honestly, it's utter retardation that windows works the way it does. there should NEVER be a reason to write to the OS files. put software DLL files in /program files/system put software settings in a seperate registry. NOTHING should be able to go into /windows for any reason unless it's an OS update or a driver update and only done via Administrator.