Yes, and this time actually support it please. My original Kindle DX feels about as abandoned as they get - not a single update, unlike the smaller, non-premium cost models, to browser functionality, only one freaking image per periodical... it's ridiculous. I will not buy another Kindle until I see assurance that it isn't going to get ignored, support wise, the same way the original DX has been.
Using non-genuine techniques and materials in advertisements to make products more appealing!? What is the world coming to! Why can't Nokia be more like fast food industry, where all vegetables rolling across the screen are as fresh and dew-covered as the ones we get in our burgers; or more like the deodorant industry, which clearly demonstrates the female-attracting effects of a man on a horse; or beer commercials where anything is possible! For shame Nokia, for shame!
1. Soccer mom goes to Google.com 2. Soccer mom searches for "iTunes" to download some MP3's 3. Google says "Did you mean Amazon Music?" 4. Repeat for all Apple products, for millions of soccer moms around the world.
*grin*
P.S. 5. Stop doing it when Apple sues you for it. Instead adjust ranking engine to list Apple sites on the second page of the results. Then, make it so all your applications don't work in Safari, offer Chrome instead. Basically, forget the whole not being evil shtick and beat Apple in their own game.
Hear that sound? That is the sound of every single person, myself including, who were on the fence or waiting to buy the SIII rushing to buy one, before it is "banned". And even if they don't... wait for 6 months, Samsung can just release the same SIII with a different shell, avoiding the dreaded "rectangle with rounded corners" patent, and be back in the game again.
Let's see, last year Samsung's revenues were 134 billion... profits - 14 billion... considering 80% growth since 2012, we can assume most of it was from mobile devices... so in the end, this is chump change to them, maybe a 10% reduction on the bottom line earnings from those phones. I think they'll be fine. People didn't buy their phones because they looked like iPhones, so they will continue buying them just as well.
Someone mod parent informative please. The only thing I could add, is we should probably wait and see what this will look like when it's actually released, but yeah, all excellent point.
Right, use Chrome as the example of a privacy-conscious application... it's not like it sends not only every URL you type in the location bar, or knows and pre-fetches every possible combination of the URL while you're typing it, or anything. It doesn't take URL's you're typing and try to suggest search results for those words either, no sir! And it definitely, definitely doesn't let Google store and analyze all of that information against your account, should you happen to be logged in to Gmail or anything.
ikr. a little while ago there was an easter egg of a hardcoded admin username and password in some HP hardware... recently there's an easter egg of some hardcoded keys... fun fun fun.
I don't have anything against Microsoft. In fact, I think that if the user is not an idiot - most of their recent products are fantastic. However, Windows 8 interface, to the extent to which I was introduced with Zune client for Windows is the most confusing, unintuitive thing I had ever had a misfortune of having to use.
But don't fear - we all know that by Microsoft's OS release pattern (...-98-Me-XP-Vista-7), every second OS has to suck in order to make the next one look better. Windows 8 is going to suck, because it's supposed to. Let it go and just wait for the next one, it will be great.
How is it decentralized if you have exchanges and a very much centralized MasterCard issuing cards for it? The only thing that comes close to being decentralized is the minting process, and even that isn't decentralized but rather distributed to private parties as opposed to being done in a limited number of dedicated facilities. I wouldn't be surprised that this is Bitcoin's attempt at staying alive by giving federal governments what they want.
Wasn't the whole point of Bitcoin for it to be anonymous, like cash? Wouldn't having a card, with your name on it, to transfer Bitcoins to/from defeat that purpose, or at the very least flag you as a suspicious-individual-dealing-with-shady-untrackable-currency-used-by-hackers in the yes of the feds?
I would like to see a tablet that is capable of 7.5 hours of video playback. Heck, I would like to see any device that is capable of that without recharging.
For about a year, Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble were almost completely alone in the 7-inch tablet market.
At the risk of inciting a slew of "that lone BlackBerry user" trolling, PlayBook was not only around for the past year, it predates both of those by quite some time...
Magnets don't hurt kids, irresponsible parents who don't keep harmful things away from their kids and don't pay attention to what their kids are doing, hurt kids. Are you going to be banning every possible small object that could be swallowed by a child now?
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Yes, and this time actually support it please. My original Kindle DX feels about as abandoned as they get - not a single update, unlike the smaller, non-premium cost models, to browser functionality, only one freaking image per periodical... it's ridiculous. I will not buy another Kindle until I see assurance that it isn't going to get ignored, support wise, the same way the original DX has been.
Siri etc that perform searches bypassing Google
Where does Siri get its search results from? :|
Russians would have just hammered that bolt in with a hammer and let the next guy figure out what to do with it. That's the Russian way.
Using non-genuine techniques and materials in advertisements to make products more appealing!? What is the world coming to! Why can't Nokia be more like fast food industry, where all vegetables rolling across the screen are as fresh and dew-covered as the ones we get in our burgers; or more like the deodorant industry, which clearly demonstrates the female-attracting effects of a man on a horse; or beer commercials where anything is possible! For shame Nokia, for shame!
I don't see how that could be end of Apple.
1. Soccer mom goes to Google.com
2. Soccer mom searches for "iTunes" to download some MP3's
3. Google says "Did you mean Amazon Music?"
4. Repeat for all Apple products, for millions of soccer moms around the world.
*grin*
P.S. 5. Stop doing it when Apple sues you for it. Instead adjust ranking engine to list Apple sites on the second page of the results. Then, make it so all your applications don't work in Safari, offer Chrome instead. Basically, forget the whole not being evil shtick and beat Apple in their own game.
Hear that sound? That is the sound of every single person, myself including, who were on the fence or waiting to buy the SIII rushing to buy one, before it is "banned". And even if they don't... wait for 6 months, Samsung can just release the same SIII with a different shell, avoiding the dreaded "rectangle with rounded corners" patent, and be back in the game again.
Let's see, last year Samsung's revenues were 134 billion... profits - 14 billion... considering 80% growth since 2012, we can assume most of it was from mobile devices... so in the end, this is chump change to them, maybe a 10% reduction on the bottom line earnings from those phones. I think they'll be fine. People didn't buy their phones because they looked like iPhones, so they will continue buying them just as well.
Someone keep an eye on the Samsung Galaxy designers... I bet they're about to have "an accident"...
Someone mod parent informative please. The only thing I could add, is we should probably wait and see what this will look like when it's actually released, but yeah, all excellent point.
How do you people thing virus scanners work?
Erm, by checking against a local signature database of known viruses or running local heuristic checks?
Right, use Chrome as the example of a privacy-conscious application... it's not like it sends not only every URL you type in the location bar, or knows and pre-fetches every possible combination of the URL while you're typing it, or anything. It doesn't take URL's you're typing and try to suggest search results for those words either, no sir! And it definitely, definitely doesn't let Google store and analyze all of that information against your account, should you happen to be logged in to Gmail or anything.
ikr. a little while ago there was an easter egg of a hardcoded admin username and password in some HP hardware... recently there's an easter egg of some hardcoded keys... fun fun fun.
I don't have anything against Microsoft. In fact, I think that if the user is not an idiot - most of their recent products are fantastic. However, Windows 8 interface, to the extent to which I was introduced with Zune client for Windows is the most confusing, unintuitive thing I had ever had a misfortune of having to use.
But don't fear - we all know that by Microsoft's OS release pattern (...-98-Me-XP-Vista-7), every second OS has to suck in order to make the next one look better. Windows 8 is going to suck, because it's supposed to. Let it go and just wait for the next one, it will be great.
- easily through the Internet
- without needing to trust any third party.
- irreversible by design
Just because they don't put word "anonymous" in there, doesn't mean that isn't the intention.
I second Ghostery, even with AdBlock and Noscript, it still picks up trackers.
How is it decentralized if you have exchanges and a very much centralized MasterCard issuing cards for it? The only thing that comes close to being decentralized is the minting process, and even that isn't decentralized but rather distributed to private parties as opposed to being done in a limited number of dedicated facilities. I wouldn't be surprised that this is Bitcoin's attempt at staying alive by giving federal governments what they want.
DX still lets you browse anything you want... it has no WiFi so disabling 3G on it would piss some people off.
Wasn't the whole point of Bitcoin for it to be anonymous, like cash? Wouldn't having a card, with your name on it, to transfer Bitcoins to/from defeat that purpose, or at the very least flag you as a suspicious-individual-dealing-with-shady-untrackable-currency-used-by-hackers in the yes of the feds?
To read? To replace paper with? What else are they going to use, some backlit screen gadget?
I would like to see a tablet that is capable of 7.5 hours of video playback. Heck, I would like to see any device that is capable of that without recharging.
I guess Slashdot editors don't read Slashdot... this was posted here over a year ago already http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/13/1527242/Bill-Gates-Looks-to-Reinvent-the-Toilet
For about a year, Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble were almost completely alone in the 7-inch tablet market.
At the risk of inciting a slew of "that lone BlackBerry user" trolling, PlayBook was not only around for the past year, it predates both of those by quite some time...
You took one for the team.
Magnets don't hurt kids, irresponsible parents who don't keep harmful things away from their kids and don't pay attention to what their kids are doing, hurt kids. Are you going to be banning every possible small object that could be swallowed by a child now?
this nonsense must stop
have spent a lot of money on their products
'Nuff said. Nothing will stop as long as you keep giving them money.