Generally, people who can hear the high-pitched whine of a TV or the whine of transformers can also hear hard drives whine and find all the whining noise annoying. People going deaf won't know what the hell I am talking about.
Personally I hate it when Rodimus Prime whines. Good thing they brought back Optimus Prime to put him in his place.
I really like the slider but am looking forward to the upcoming apps that are being developed for change in screen rotation without having to use the slider and also the upcoming additions to Android early next year that will allow for a softkeyboard. But having made some posts on here and other sites directly from my G1 really makes it worthwhile. Did I mention I pay 15 bucks less per month for unlimited data than anyone who owns an iPhone will?
As long as much of the world uses Windows, most of the mobile world will use Windows Mobile on smartphones. Such is the way of the world. Personally I'm rooting hard for Google with Android because I think it'll end up being a much more robust OS than the Windows Mobile platform, and being open automatically makes it better than anything Apple puts out.
When you call the iPhone a smartphone, god kills a kitten. Apple determines what software is allowable on the iPhone, and most of the apps on it are for entertainment purposes or is garbage. The main use for the thing, as admitted by Apple, is to basically have an iPod phone that delivers your need for both a cell phone and a music/video device. The iPhone isn't even in the same sentence as phones such as some of those made by RIM, HTC, etc in the smartphone argument. It's a music/video/toy phone.
As far as WiMax, I believe in the technology but not that it will save Sprint. They have far too many financial and other issues that will end up crippling the company. Actually, wouldn't be shocked if they spin off the WiMax portion completely and just keep it called Clearwire, and then sell off Nextel. You laugh, but laugh when this becomes a reality in less than 5 years.
Yeah, one of many reasons why I just left Verizon for T-Mobile. They lock down any feature of a phone they cannot figure out a way to charge for or feel that would rival one of their sold services, and they cannot even get a reasonable selection of quality phones. And don't you dare call phones such as the Voyager quality phones or I'll smack you in the face. Was getting near the end of my contract with Verizon and needed to replace my old phone (started crapping out from being dropped too many times) and quickly realized that Verizon carries probably the biggest selection of shitty phones I've ever seen. It's as if they commissioned Fisher Price to develop the shells for almost all of their phones. The only great phones they have are made by RIM.
This comes from your apparent vast experience with the G1, right?/endsarcasm.
I got a G1, and the thing is an absolute dream. About my only complaint if that there isn't a great selection of good carrying cases so far and I find myself relying on the sleeve that came with it. The slider is solid feeling, the phone as a whole has a very durable feeling to it and the bottom is not "glued on." I actually find that the angle of the bottom makes it easier to use the hardware keys and only slightly interferes with using the keyboard.
Mainly because Samsung phones look cheap and have poor software for the most part. Not 100% true but true of many of their phones. HTC, RIM, and Nokia are the companies I would say make generally rock solid phones, for the most part. Of course, you could say that of the three, only Nokia makes actual phones, and RIM and HTC make PDAs that you can make phone calls from.
Won by default. If she had been able to continue fighting she might have won on the grounds that it was named after her. She can't help that her parents named her Sony, and who says she should have to change her name. Plus, the two businesses aren't even competitors. If I was a judge I'd have thrown it out on those basis' alone. Sony tried to imply that her naming her restuarant Sony's Resturant hurt their name or somehow helped her business simply because of the name, or that they were somehow affiliated with her. You'd have to show that she did real damage to their name or that she benefited somehow because of using the name, or that it indeed was used in an infringing manner. All she simply had to claim was that she named the shop after herself, show proof of her name at birth with a birth cert, and have a reasonable judge. The judges in this country by and far are not reasonable, Sony had a warchest to fight this legal issue with a team of crack lawyers, and there you have it. If Chevy Chase opened up a steakhouse and called it Chevy's Steakhouse, do you think honestly that Chevrolet would win a lawsuit against him? Nope, because he can afford to fight that legal battle. It's all about the benjamins.
Seriously I didn't even fucking know EA had forums, nor did I care to post in them. How many of you fuckers fucking posted in their fucking forums anytime in the last fucking year? What.the.fuck.
I guess I'm banned from Slashdot.org and World of Slashdot now.:*(
Ok, let me rephrase. Nothing in Apple's history that applies to modern computers. Let's try to focus on technology that is more powerful than a Nintendo NES. You and I both know that the current Apple company is a far cry from that Apple.
Sony didn't win. The lady just couldn't afford to continue the legal battle and gave in. Because justice in our civil court system (and sometimes in the criminal side as well) is bought rather than won.
LOL seriously I had no idea what Twitter even was. So I went to the site, watched the video on the site, and yeah...who the fuck finds Twitter useful, really? Like I give a shit if some dude who I might know likes baseball or not. If he's really a friend, do you think I won't know that he likes Baseball, and really if I didn't know, would it make my life less meaningful? Jesus, people need to open their doors and go outside for a few hours each day, their brains are starting to become oxygen deprived.
The source is freely available. Requires a Mac or *nix to build the source, but it can be used even in non-phones (although I don't know how much sense that would make, other than maybe in an internet appliance perhaps). Can't be built currently on Windows, but that would not make much sense anyways. The bigger question is when are we going to see a non-big company release of an Android device, and who is it going to come from?
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Generally, people who can hear the high-pitched whine of a TV or the whine of transformers can also hear hard drives whine and find all the whining noise annoying. People going deaf won't know what the hell I am talking about.
Personally I hate it when Rodimus Prime whines. Good thing they brought back Optimus Prime to put him in his place.
I really like the slider but am looking forward to the upcoming apps that are being developed for change in screen rotation without having to use the slider and also the upcoming additions to Android early next year that will allow for a softkeyboard. But having made some posts on here and other sites directly from my G1 really makes it worthwhile. Did I mention I pay 15 bucks less per month for unlimited data than anyone who owns an iPhone will?
As long as much of the world uses Windows, most of the mobile world will use Windows Mobile on smartphones. Such is the way of the world. Personally I'm rooting hard for Google with Android because I think it'll end up being a much more robust OS than the Windows Mobile platform, and being open automatically makes it better than anything Apple puts out.
When you call the iPhone a smartphone, god kills a kitten. Apple determines what software is allowable on the iPhone, and most of the apps on it are for entertainment purposes or is garbage. The main use for the thing, as admitted by Apple, is to basically have an iPod phone that delivers your need for both a cell phone and a music/video device. The iPhone isn't even in the same sentence as phones such as some of those made by RIM, HTC, etc in the smartphone argument. It's a music/video/toy phone. As far as WiMax, I believe in the technology but not that it will save Sprint. They have far too many financial and other issues that will end up crippling the company. Actually, wouldn't be shocked if they spin off the WiMax portion completely and just keep it called Clearwire, and then sell off Nextel. You laugh, but laugh when this becomes a reality in less than 5 years.
Yeah, one of many reasons why I just left Verizon for T-Mobile. They lock down any feature of a phone they cannot figure out a way to charge for or feel that would rival one of their sold services, and they cannot even get a reasonable selection of quality phones. And don't you dare call phones such as the Voyager quality phones or I'll smack you in the face. Was getting near the end of my contract with Verizon and needed to replace my old phone (started crapping out from being dropped too many times) and quickly realized that Verizon carries probably the biggest selection of shitty phones I've ever seen. It's as if they commissioned Fisher Price to develop the shells for almost all of their phones. The only great phones they have are made by RIM.
Not earth shattering, but certainly a step in the right direction.
This comes from your apparent vast experience with the G1, right? /endsarcasm.
I got a G1, and the thing is an absolute dream. About my only complaint if that there isn't a great selection of good carrying cases so far and I find myself relying on the sleeve that came with it. The slider is solid feeling, the phone as a whole has a very durable feeling to it and the bottom is not "glued on." I actually find that the angle of the bottom makes it easier to use the hardware keys and only slightly interferes with using the keyboard.
Mainly because Samsung phones look cheap and have poor software for the most part. Not 100% true but true of many of their phones. HTC, RIM, and Nokia are the companies I would say make generally rock solid phones, for the most part. Of course, you could say that of the three, only Nokia makes actual phones, and RIM and HTC make PDAs that you can make phone calls from.
Won by default. If she had been able to continue fighting she might have won on the grounds that it was named after her. She can't help that her parents named her Sony, and who says she should have to change her name. Plus, the two businesses aren't even competitors. If I was a judge I'd have thrown it out on those basis' alone. Sony tried to imply that her naming her restuarant Sony's Resturant hurt their name or somehow helped her business simply because of the name, or that they were somehow affiliated with her. You'd have to show that she did real damage to their name or that she benefited somehow because of using the name, or that it indeed was used in an infringing manner. All she simply had to claim was that she named the shop after herself, show proof of her name at birth with a birth cert, and have a reasonable judge. The judges in this country by and far are not reasonable, Sony had a warchest to fight this legal issue with a team of crack lawyers, and there you have it. If Chevy Chase opened up a steakhouse and called it Chevy's Steakhouse, do you think honestly that Chevrolet would win a lawsuit against him? Nope, because he can afford to fight that legal battle. It's all about the benjamins.
Seriously I didn't even fucking know EA had forums, nor did I care to post in them. How many of you fuckers fucking posted in their fucking forums anytime in the last fucking year? What.the.fuck. I guess I'm banned from Slashdot.org and World of Slashdot now. :*(
Ok, let me rephrase. Nothing in Apple's history that applies to modern computers. Let's try to focus on technology that is more powerful than a Nintendo NES. You and I both know that the current Apple company is a far cry from that Apple.
So you've discovered them all have you? All infinity of them? Man, I'm getting you to do my math homework from now on.
It still won't affect the sales of the G1 and similar phones here in the US if the hardware quality is lacking, which is likely.
Informative, Depressing, what again is the difference?
You mean like that "used to be really good comedian but is now an asshat like most of the good comedians of the 80's" Chevy Chase?
Most slashdot users would pull a groin muscle if they tried to squat.
Or even easier, get a life.
Well, I'll see your friendster and napster account names and raise you Prodigy and The Sierra Network account names.
You should be modded informative for certain.
We haven't even discovered all of the prime numbers, so how can this be the case? Plus, who the fuck cares about twitter?
Sony didn't win. The lady just couldn't afford to continue the legal battle and gave in. Because justice in our civil court system (and sometimes in the criminal side as well) is bought rather than won.
I guess it depends on if you give a fuck about Twitter. I personally don't, so it isn't important to me.
LOL seriously I had no idea what Twitter even was. So I went to the site, watched the video on the site, and yeah...who the fuck finds Twitter useful, really? Like I give a shit if some dude who I might know likes baseball or not. If he's really a friend, do you think I won't know that he likes Baseball, and really if I didn't know, would it make my life less meaningful? Jesus, people need to open their doors and go outside for a few hours each day, their brains are starting to become oxygen deprived.
What the fuck is a twitter? Can I spend it?
The source is freely available. Requires a Mac or *nix to build the source, but it can be used even in non-phones (although I don't know how much sense that would make, other than maybe in an internet appliance perhaps). Can't be built currently on Windows, but that would not make much sense anyways. The bigger question is when are we going to see a non-big company release of an Android device, and who is it going to come from?