You absolutely cannot maintain an automobile all by yourself. You must purchase parts and materials from vendors. In fact unless your car was built before the '70s it relies on closed source software to run. If these parts are no longer on the market you are more SOL than XP users on EOL day. They can still use XP to their hearts' content; your car just won't work.
What's more- if your gas tank starts to leak in a ten year old car the manufacturer will definitely not fix it. That's normal owner maintenance.
The fact that you think a person has to indefinitely maintain any software they've ever written leads me to believe you don't know much about software development.
If you don't pay for regular maintenance (which costs more per year than a single OS license) I think you will find that your automobile will not last longer than an OS.
I post facts; you post facts but omit the whole story.... It's hardly misleading when it does in fact do exactly that.
When I buy an iPad can I plug in my SD card? No? You mean you omitted the part about needing to buy an additional dongle?
You keep insisting you cannot do something that you can; why would you state something so plainly false? It would reduce trust of your views in the anyone reading your posts.
Can you or can you not install apps to an SD card on an iPad? Without Jailbreaking (we'll assume for a second the user knows they need a "camera connection kit" and does not think it is a ridiculous requirement).
You are wrong. Cell data is not that expensive; but more importantly in everyday life WiFi is pervasive.
Cell data is expensive. Denying that is asinine. Wifi is not pervasive in any useful measure. It may almost always be present but it is not very helpful to have an encrypted AP. Yes I have wifi at home and at work but both of those places my tablet is really only going to be used as a remote control. Where are the number one spots media on a tablet is useful? Probably trains, buses, bus stops, malls. Some of those will have wifi, some of them will have poor quality wifi and most of them will have no wifi. No matter what remote storage has degraded availability over local.
I am not quite sure exactly what you are going on about "well off enough to buy a tablet" and their "networking environment". They really have nothing to do with each other. Large metropolitan areas occasionally have good wifi availability. More often than not, though, a few key points have wifi access here and there. I imagine you will find a small percentage of the united states has open wifi availability. You may only travel between work and your home but many people "well off enough to buy a tablet" probably leave their little city bubble and would like to listen to music while doing it.
In any case I am more reassured now that you are a troll. Definitely one of the best (possibly the very best) I've seen on Slashdot so congrats on that. What concerns me is how often people agree with your most likely (hopefully) trolls. Troll on.
You might be OK misleading people even in jest; I am not. I want people to know how things work so they can intelligently decide between devices.
You say that but your post history shows the opposite. You clearly aim to mislead people when you say the iPad supports expandable storage. You are always sure to fully articulate any shortcoming in another product:
No you cannot just forget about it. You can't put applications on it. You have to remember to save media to it separately.
You cannot do that on an iPad so this is not a pro/con list between the two devices. Neither do this. Nor does it change the fact that once my SD card is in the device I can forget about it.
You always overlook the shortcomings of any Apple implementation:
You swap some data out to external storage, just as Microsoft recommends.
You already know for a fact Microsoft does not recommend you buy a dongle so you can temporarily plug in an SD card. If it was the other way around and Microsoft's tablet required a dongle we both know you would be proclaiming how terrible of an experience that is.
The only time such expansion really matters is for something like a long trip with spotty access to data connections, so in the end that difference does not really matter much.
Just plain false. Cell data is expensive (and only available on a small percentage of tablets) and wifi is in no way ubiquitous enough in most of the world to make "the cloud" a viable alternative to local storage.
Hardly larger than an SD card? Who cares? The microSD card fits inside my phone and any other device that takes an SD card.
I'm not sure why pointing out that having to purchase a $30 add-on that hangs out of a device (in other words cannot be left in all the time) makes me an "android folk". Android is not even in the discussion so you can relax- the boogeyman isn't out to get you here.
I am terribly sorry if the truth offends you; a hard life is in store for you I fear.
Not quite sure what that really means. You seeming like a troll doesn't hurt my feelings at all.
It's a little hard to understanding[sic*] how pointing out a fact is misleading.
I'm fairly certain you know exactly why it is misleading but I will spell it out anyway. The Surface has an SD slot. I could plug an extra N gigabytes of additional space into it and forget about it. The iPad does not. The iPad apparently has an add-on called a "camera connection kit" made to load pictures which appears to also allow loading other media as well. This is not plug in and forget. This is: "hope you remembered to bring it when you feel the urge to use it". Most people do not even know this exists; fewer would use it.
I know somebody poked fun at an iPad's lack of expandable storage but it was not a personal attack against you. You are not an iPad. You know what people mean when they talk about expandable storage. You know the iPad does not have it in the same sense. Nonchalantly claiming the iPad has expandable storage is a lie of omission.
Having to buy and carry around an add-on is functionally the same to you? And only "slightly" less convenient?
The more misleading drivel I read from you the more convinced I become that you are Slashdot's best troll ever; Poe's law in action. It is solid platform for a Slashdot troll.
Did I miss the headlines when all those services decided they refused to be listed unless they got a share of phone book profits? Last I noticed all of those services paid to be listed more prominently in phone books and anywhere else they can get their name and contact information displayed.
Instead we should all listen to what a bunch of neckbeards, a group with a documented history of being mostly oblivious to ascetics, tells us looks good.
Get off your high horse. This hardline anti-skeuomorphic drivel is just a techno-hipster talking point. Don't act like you're smarter than people based on what they find visually appealing.
It can be eye candy and some people do like it. Whether or not you like it does not change the fact that many people do seem to genuinely think it looks good.
Which was exactly what the AC said. The neglected child would also probably not get the recommended nutrition. The issue was not that parents perform a necessary service. The issue was that nutrition was probably a larger contributor to poor development than how the infant was "treated by their mothers".
It is misleading to say that "this study shows that children need momma's love more than anything else in the world" when it most likely boils down to "nutrition starved brain develops poorly". Probably get more attention from the former though- even Slashdot picked it up despite being hardly relevant and having no scientific merit.
I'm sure Mac's miniscule market share at the time was what drove peripheral manufacturers of the time to go with USB. USB would still be popular today if Apple never made it out of the garage and so would the smartphone.
It "works right" out of the box for non-technical users, something sadly impossible for an Android device since you have to be technical to secure them properly.
Since when? Your use of extreme hyperbole and cognitive dissonance to defend Apple never ceases to boggle my mind.
When it is the majority that is the problem it ceases to be "some bad apples". I see at most 5% of cyclists using any kind of hand signals where I'm from. Less than half that bike at night have lights.
I have never understood why bicycles are the only "vehicle" allowed to hold up traffic like that. If I used my car to hold up a lane to 10km/h I would certainly get a ticket for holding up traffic. Bicycles get away with it because they're usually easier to get around but that isn't always true depending on the road.
If you were writing in pseudo-code and not in a real language then why were you talking about it producing different results in different languages? The whole point of pseudo-code is to be a simplified syntax that gets the concept across to be programmed into the language of choice.
I'm really not sure what you're talking about with your "Two, separate, operations" but assignment and comparison are definitely related to regular people. If you tell someone that something is being made the same as another they assume the two things are equal.
"then" is not a valid keyword in too many though. In all seriousness though, if you want conciseness in your programming language (I certainly do) assignment and equality comparison are probably going to be similar because they are closely related concept.
Hardly. If you do anything the least bit complex (as in you have anything more than 1 object with an alpha layer and the user doesn't zoom their browser at all) your alpha rendering goes down the drain. To work around this you have to use microsoft's -ms-filter: blah.blah.AlphaImageLoader. So that means special CSS for any RGBA PNG on the page. That's not what I would consider "supported" in any meaningful sense of the word.
Or maybe they can voice their opinion about why they're not buying a device that they otherwise would. Therein informing the company that they might want to change things.
Four sentences and you completely ignored two of them. This is why you might seem deluded. Skipping 50 years of progress would probably miss a good chunk of progression. Like all those tiny computers that have come out in that time.
I do quite a bit of real work in IDEs that cram lots of stuff on the left and right side of the text editor. High resolution wide screen monitors are great for real work. What real work are you talking about? Looking at webpages from the 90s?
They didn't? Samsung makes dozens of different models of cell phones. Ranging from candybar, flip-phones, blackberry style front keyboard, sliders. It just so happens that their lineup that competes with the iphone is gasp the same form factor as the iphone.
You can't claim to be the inventor of something that you saw another do first. You keep confusing the word invention and innovation; they are not the same thing. My point was that it is not innovation to wait for someone else to research and bring the price down then throw it in consumer goods. And the question was never who made it cheaper: "They take a concept then make it shiny, and sell it" - The Parent Post. Which you reiterated in your post.
Innovations and inventions come from everywhere and are all built off thousands of years of progress. A lot of people get a little miffed when a company comes along and tries to claim the invention of things that they saw elsewhere first.
And the people that developed and researched it made the invention and the innovation. The company that threw it in a consumer product once it became cheap enough to do that did neither.
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You absolutely cannot maintain an automobile all by yourself. You must purchase parts and materials from vendors. In fact unless your car was built before the '70s it relies on closed source software to run. If these parts are no longer on the market you are more SOL than XP users on EOL day. They can still use XP to their hearts' content; your car just won't work.
What's more- if your gas tank starts to leak in a ten year old car the manufacturer will definitely not fix it. That's normal owner maintenance.
The fact that you think a person has to indefinitely maintain any software they've ever written leads me to believe you don't know much about software development.
Why should an automobile last longer than an OS?
If you don't pay for regular maintenance (which costs more per year than a single OS license) I think you will find that your automobile will not last longer than an OS.
I post facts; you post facts but omit the whole story. ... It's hardly misleading when it does in fact do exactly that.
When I buy an iPad can I plug in my SD card? No? You mean you omitted the part about needing to buy an additional dongle?
You keep insisting you cannot do something that you can; why would you state something so plainly false? It would reduce trust of your views in the anyone reading your posts.
Can you or can you not install apps to an SD card on an iPad? Without Jailbreaking (we'll assume for a second the user knows they need a "camera connection kit" and does not think it is a ridiculous requirement).
You are wrong. Cell data is not that expensive; but more importantly in everyday life WiFi is pervasive.
Cell data is expensive. Denying that is asinine. Wifi is not pervasive in any useful measure. It may almost always be present but it is not very helpful to have an encrypted AP. Yes I have wifi at home and at work but both of those places my tablet is really only going to be used as a remote control. Where are the number one spots media on a tablet is useful? Probably trains, buses, bus stops, malls. Some of those will have wifi, some of them will have poor quality wifi and most of them will have no wifi. No matter what remote storage has degraded availability over local.
I am not quite sure exactly what you are going on about "well off enough to buy a tablet" and their "networking environment". They really have nothing to do with each other. Large metropolitan areas occasionally have good wifi availability. More often than not, though, a few key points have wifi access here and there. I imagine you will find a small percentage of the united states has open wifi availability. You may only travel between work and your home but many people "well off enough to buy a tablet" probably leave their little city bubble and would like to listen to music while doing it.
In any case I am more reassured now that you are a troll. Definitely one of the best (possibly the very best) I've seen on Slashdot so congrats on that. What concerns me is how often people agree with your most likely (hopefully) trolls. Troll on.
You might be OK misleading people even in jest; I am not. I want people to know how things work so they can intelligently decide between devices.
You say that but your post history shows the opposite. You clearly aim to mislead people when you say the iPad supports expandable storage. You are always sure to fully articulate any shortcoming in another product:
No you cannot just forget about it. You can't put applications on it. You have to remember to save media to it separately.
You cannot do that on an iPad so this is not a pro/con list between the two devices. Neither do this. Nor does it change the fact that once my SD card is in the device I can forget about it.
You always overlook the shortcomings of any Apple implementation:
You swap some data out to external storage, just as Microsoft recommends.
You already know for a fact Microsoft does not recommend you buy a dongle so you can temporarily plug in an SD card. If it was the other way around and Microsoft's tablet required a dongle we both know you would be proclaiming how terrible of an experience that is.
The only time such expansion really matters is for something like a long trip with spotty access to data connections, so in the end that difference does not really matter much.
Just plain false. Cell data is expensive (and only available on a small percentage of tablets) and wifi is in no way ubiquitous enough in most of the world to make "the cloud" a viable alternative to local storage.
I'm not sure why pointing out that having to purchase a $30 add-on that hangs out of a device (in other words cannot be left in all the time) makes me an "android folk". Android is not even in the discussion so you can relax- the boogeyman isn't out to get you here.
I am terribly sorry if the truth offends you; a hard life is in store for you I fear.
Not quite sure what that really means. You seeming like a troll doesn't hurt my feelings at all.
It's a little hard to understanding[sic*] how pointing out a fact is misleading.
I'm fairly certain you know exactly why it is misleading but I will spell it out anyway. The Surface has an SD slot. I could plug an extra N gigabytes of additional space into it and forget about it. The iPad does not. The iPad apparently has an add-on called a "camera connection kit" made to load pictures which appears to also allow loading other media as well. This is not plug in and forget. This is: "hope you remembered to bring it when you feel the urge to use it". Most people do not even know this exists; fewer would use it.
I know somebody poked fun at an iPad's lack of expandable storage but it was not a personal attack against you. You are not an iPad. You know what people mean when they talk about expandable storage. You know the iPad does not have it in the same sense. Nonchalantly claiming the iPad has expandable storage is a lie of omission.
Having to buy and carry around an add-on is functionally the same to you? And only "slightly" less convenient?
The more misleading drivel I read from you the more convinced I become that you are Slashdot's best troll ever; Poe's law in action. It is solid platform for a Slashdot troll.
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Did I miss the headlines when all those services decided they refused to be listed unless they got a share of phone book profits? Last I noticed all of those services paid to be listed more prominently in phone books and anywhere else they can get their name and contact information displayed.
Instead we should all listen to what a bunch of neckbeards, a group with a documented history of being mostly oblivious to ascetics, tells us looks good.
Get off your high horse. This hardline anti-skeuomorphic drivel is just a techno-hipster talking point. Don't act like you're smarter than people based on what they find visually appealing.
It can be eye candy and some people do like it. Whether or not you like it does not change the fact that many people do seem to genuinely think it looks good.
Which was exactly what the AC said. The neglected child would also probably not get the recommended nutrition. The issue was not that parents perform a necessary service. The issue was that nutrition was probably a larger contributor to poor development than how the infant was "treated by their mothers".
It is misleading to say that "this study shows that children need momma's love more than anything else in the world" when it most likely boils down to "nutrition starved brain develops poorly". Probably get more attention from the former though- even Slashdot picked it up despite being hardly relevant and having no scientific merit.
I'm sure Mac's miniscule market share at the time was what drove peripheral manufacturers of the time to go with USB. USB would still be popular today if Apple never made it out of the garage and so would the smartphone.
It "works right" out of the box for non-technical users, something sadly impossible for an Android device since you have to be technical to secure them properly.
Since when? Your use of extreme hyperbole and cognitive dissonance to defend Apple never ceases to boggle my mind.
When it is the majority that is the problem it ceases to be "some bad apples". I see at most 5% of cyclists using any kind of hand signals where I'm from. Less than half that bike at night have lights.
I have never understood why bicycles are the only "vehicle" allowed to hold up traffic like that. If I used my car to hold up a lane to 10km/h I would certainly get a ticket for holding up traffic. Bicycles get away with it because they're usually easier to get around but that isn't always true depending on the road.
If you were writing in pseudo-code and not in a real language then why were you talking about it producing different results in different languages? The whole point of pseudo-code is to be a simplified syntax that gets the concept across to be programmed into the language of choice.
I'm really not sure what you're talking about with your "Two, separate, operations" but assignment and comparison are definitely related to regular people. If you tell someone that something is being made the same as another they assume the two things are equal.
"then" is not a valid keyword in too many though. In all seriousness though, if you want conciseness in your programming language (I certainly do) assignment and equality comparison are probably going to be similar because they are closely related concept.
I'd say that gives the same result in most programming languages. "Parse Error".
Hardly. If you do anything the least bit complex (as in you have anything more than 1 object with an alpha layer and the user doesn't zoom their browser at all) your alpha rendering goes down the drain. To work around this you have to use microsoft's -ms-filter: blah.blah.AlphaImageLoader. So that means special CSS for any RGBA PNG on the page. That's not what I would consider "supported" in any meaningful sense of the word.
Or maybe they can voice their opinion about why they're not buying a device that they otherwise would. Therein informing the company that they might want to change things.
Four sentences and you completely ignored two of them. This is why you might seem deluded. Skipping 50 years of progress would probably miss a good chunk of progression. Like all those tiny computers that have come out in that time.
I do quite a bit of real work in IDEs that cram lots of stuff on the left and right side of the text editor. High resolution wide screen monitors are great for real work. What real work are you talking about? Looking at webpages from the 90s?
They didn't? Samsung makes dozens of different models of cell phones. Ranging from candybar, flip-phones, blackberry style front keyboard, sliders. It just so happens that their lineup that competes with the iphone is gasp the same form factor as the iphone.
Please point out where Apple's patent describes anything but a rectangle.
You can't claim to be the inventor of something that you saw another do first. You keep confusing the word invention and innovation; they are not the same thing. My point was that it is not innovation to wait for someone else to research and bring the price down then throw it in consumer goods. And the question was never who made it cheaper: "They take a concept then make it shiny, and sell it" - The Parent Post. Which you reiterated in your post.
Innovations and inventions come from everywhere and are all built off thousands of years of progress. A lot of people get a little miffed when a company comes along and tries to claim the invention of things that they saw elsewhere first.
And the people that developed and researched it made the invention and the innovation. The company that threw it in a consumer product once it became cheap enough to do that did neither.