No, there's a distinction made between "feature phones" and "smart phones" because smart phones can DO a lot more. I have a friend with a "feature phone" and it annoys him to no end that it's completely useless when compared to the smart phones the rest of our friends have (his contract isn't up for a new phone for like another 4 months). I hate to break it to you, but even the crappiest flip phone has a calendar, address book, and often can add in some extra programs - are you really going to try to claim that those are "smart phones"?
Wrong. Look at the rest of the world, where Android beat out the iPhone awhile ago. Yes, when Verizon gets the iPhone, iPhone market share will increase SOME, but not by massive amounts because the majority of people who want an iPhone already switched to AT&T and bought an iPhone. Contrary to popular myth, the majority of people are not so enamored of Verizon that they wouldn't change to AT&T if they really wanted an iPhone.
Here's a clue: It's easily twice as good as not having multi-tasking. Which was so unimaginably awesome back when we didn't have it.
Well technically the iPhone still doesn't have multi-tasking - it has the OPTION for apps to use pseudo-multitasking. Only Apps that Appled designed and include in the OS are capable of actual multitasking.
You mean that the App Store, having almost a two year lead, has more apps? Wow, who'd have thought? Of course you fail to acknowledge the fact that only recently has there been a serious marketing effort for Android. It still doesn't change the fact that when it comes to buying phones, Android is massacring the iPhone. The Android tablets actually running an OS haven't even come out yet, nor are there really any Android iPod competitors (because Android doesn't NEED any), so when the Honeycomb tablets come out and we see Android tablet sales slaughter iPad sales, what excuse will you make then?
I actually don't want there to be only one OS for phones - I want at least 2-3 so that there's competition and motivation for them to keep improving their OS. However, I AM eager for the 100% undeniable proof that Android has bitchslapped iOS just to 1) shut up fanboys who constantly whine and troll and 2) get businesses who refuse to make apps for any OS but iOS to make apps for the phone with a larger marketshare.
Except that this IS comparing the iOS operating system with the Android system. Just because Apple is foolish enough to severely limit the number of models is NOT Google's problem. I love how every time an article comes out about Android's rapid growth, Apple fanboys come out of the woodwork trying to make excuses for why you can't compare Android market share to iOS market share.
You can also create your own custom libraries as well - but you don't care about that. I bet you still use an original Pentium with 16 MB of ram because "I still have to use a keyboard and mouse, so it's the same number of clicks either way".
You do realize that the rest of us laugh as you sit there defiantly using something that's obsolete while the world passes you by, right?
I don't fear change, but I do question change that impedes the way I prefer to use MY computer.
That is exactly what I'm talking about. You've decided that X is the only option for you and you refuse to look at any new options presented. There's a huge difference between trying new options and saying "Nah, I still like X best" and this childish refusal of trying something new and giving it a chance.
Woooosh. Instead of YOU having to click a thousand times through menus and folders to find something, you type part of a word and the COMPUTER searches it for you instantly. Seriously, WTF is up with all the people terrified of learning something new? Did you have these same panic attacks when XP came out? 2000? 98? 3.1? DOS? Technology changes and improves constantly - if you can't deal with that, then you shouldn't be using it.
As far as libraries, it's not about mis-information. I have a folder on my machine that contains all my media that I care to listen to on that machine. I do not have network drives, I do not need network drives, and I don't have my files all spread out in every third folder that I downloaded them to at one time. I keep my folders organized and keep everything within three to four clicks.
Yes, and due to your ignorance of libraries, you're using 3-4 clicks when you could do it in 1-2 clicks. Your files will be in the same location on your machine, the library just provides a way to link folders into one larger "folder" so if you have work documents in one folder and personal documents in another, you can click the documents library and see them all, yet still separated into "work" and "personal".
I find the stubbornness of people like you who refuse to even try something new that will likely make things better for you a sign of incompetence. You're like a person screaming that they don't need one of those new fangled automobiles, your horse and buggy works just fine.
I'm not telling you that you HAVE to use anything, I'm saying stop being a bigot and give it a damn chance before you dismiss it as crap. But that's up to you. I you want to make your life more difficult and refuse to try anything new because you're scared shitless of any sort of change, that's your own mental issue.
Sorry, just realized that you didn't write that post. Still, the point remains that you seem terrified of change, regardless of if it's change for the better.
And absolutely NONE of what you wrote here had anything to do with what I wrote. You cited specific complaints about Win 7. I gave you factual information that your complaints are merely that you do not know how to use it's features and that if you did, you would no longer have these complaints.
You seem like one of those people who's utterly terrified of any change what so ever. Seems odd to find someone like that on Slashdot, but it takes all kinds, eh?
Really? You call not only searching file names (programs and data) but also the CONTENTS of any test based file (email, text documents, presentations, etc) to be "not looking too deeply"?
It comes across more like you're of the "If it doesn't print gold coins, it's crap" type of mentality.
I can't stand the libraries functionality for Windows 7... but I'm a bit controlling when it comes to putting files where I want and not where the OS thinks I should put them.
Oh, so you're just misinformed. You can customize that and add your own folders and point multiple folders to it (it creates sub sections in the libraries). I do this with my music, documents, and videos that are not only local but also on external drives as well - it's made life a thousand times easier than when I used XP.
I've also pretty much resorted to using Classic Shell at home because I couldn't stand having to search for everything all the time.
OK, how do you use it "for months" and NOT have learned where things are already? Secondly, you don't NEED to search - hit windows then type what you want in the search bar and it's RIGHT THERE. I never wasted the time learning where to find all of my usual tools, it's far simpler to hit the windows key and type the first three letters and hit enter.
I think your complaints about Win 7 all revolve around you not knowing how to fully use it.
So you want to go back to a less easy to use file browser and lose the amazing search bar from Win 7? You're probably one of those people who throws a fit if you use a new keyboard with some of the keys (say volume control) in a different location.
Try actually using Win 7 for a couple of days - you'll never want to go back.
All I can figure is that you've never actually used Windows 7. It offers a LOT of improvements - to name a few (in no particular order): 1) a vastly improved Windows Update that also requires significantly less reboots after updating (the majority of updates you don't need to reboot) - it also does a great job of tracking down drivers for hardware that you don't have the drivers for (for instance, my wireless card for my desktop only has a 32-bit XP driver from the manufacturers site - yet Win 7 is able to locate an official 64-bit Win 7 driver for it) 2) significantly better utilization of multi-core processors 3) it allows for far more RAM in 64-bit versions (this is useful for many things, whether it's gaming, CAD, if you're a 3D artist, running virtual machines, etc) 4) the search bar makes it dead simple to find basically anything (programs, files, specific emails or documents searched by content) all from one spot - this is great for idiot users who can't figure out where anything is - you can just start typing what you want and it'll pop up in the search results as you type 5) it supports new hardware (right now that's not an issue, but in a few years it will be) 6) like it or not, new software IS developed for Win 7 and support for XP will be phased out.
Those are all just things off the top of my head. I'm sure if you used it you'd find even more reasons to want Win 7 over XP.
There are a few sections of Ohio where they do heavily police the highway (I live right by one such area), but that is NOT the norm. Hell, I've had plenty of times going past police while doing 15+ mph over the speed limit and didn't get such much as a second look from them.
Wow, what an idiot. It has nothing to do with people driving drunk - it has to do with NOT harassing people who are NOT drunk and NOT violating the US Constitution.
Well, you live in California, so I'm not surprised.
I live in Ohio and if the police tried this, it would be a blood bath because people over here will defend themselves and their rights with deadly force if necessary. Seeing as how there are far, far fewer cops than total population in Ohio, this would result in the utter decimation of the police force (as well as probably a few judges being dragged out of their homes and shot as well).
I do believe you've been asleep for the past decade. Now all they have to do is say they have "reason to suspect you of terrorist activities" and you lose all rights.
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No, there's a distinction made between "feature phones" and "smart phones" because smart phones can DO a lot more. I have a friend with a "feature phone" and it annoys him to no end that it's completely useless when compared to the smart phones the rest of our friends have (his contract isn't up for a new phone for like another 4 months). I hate to break it to you, but even the crappiest flip phone has a calendar, address book, and often can add in some extra programs - are you really going to try to claim that those are "smart phones"?
Wrong. Look at the rest of the world, where Android beat out the iPhone awhile ago. Yes, when Verizon gets the iPhone, iPhone market share will increase SOME, but not by massive amounts because the majority of people who want an iPhone already switched to AT&T and bought an iPhone. Contrary to popular myth, the majority of people are not so enamored of Verizon that they wouldn't change to AT&T if they really wanted an iPhone.
Here's a clue: It's easily twice as good as not having multi-tasking. Which was so unimaginably awesome back when we didn't have it.
Well technically the iPhone still doesn't have multi-tasking - it has the OPTION for apps to use pseudo-multitasking. Only Apps that Appled designed and include in the OS are capable of actual multitasking.
You mean that the App Store, having almost a two year lead, has more apps? Wow, who'd have thought? Of course you fail to acknowledge the fact that only recently has there been a serious marketing effort for Android. It still doesn't change the fact that when it comes to buying phones, Android is massacring the iPhone. The Android tablets actually running an OS haven't even come out yet, nor are there really any Android iPod competitors (because Android doesn't NEED any), so when the Honeycomb tablets come out and we see Android tablet sales slaughter iPad sales, what excuse will you make then?
I actually don't want there to be only one OS for phones - I want at least 2-3 so that there's competition and motivation for them to keep improving their OS. However, I AM eager for the 100% undeniable proof that Android has bitchslapped iOS just to 1) shut up fanboys who constantly whine and troll and 2) get businesses who refuse to make apps for any OS but iOS to make apps for the phone with a larger marketshare.
Except that this IS comparing the iOS operating system with the Android system. Just because Apple is foolish enough to severely limit the number of models is NOT Google's problem. I love how every time an article comes out about Android's rapid growth, Apple fanboys come out of the woodwork trying to make excuses for why you can't compare Android market share to iOS market share.
You can also create your own custom libraries as well - but you don't care about that. I bet you still use an original Pentium with 16 MB of ram because "I still have to use a keyboard and mouse, so it's the same number of clicks either way".
You do realize that the rest of us laugh as you sit there defiantly using something that's obsolete while the world passes you by, right?
I don't fear change, but I do question change that impedes the way I prefer to use MY computer.
That is exactly what I'm talking about. You've decided that X is the only option for you and you refuse to look at any new options presented. There's a huge difference between trying new options and saying "Nah, I still like X best" and this childish refusal of trying something new and giving it a chance.
Woooosh. Instead of YOU having to click a thousand times through menus and folders to find something, you type part of a word and the COMPUTER searches it for you instantly. Seriously, WTF is up with all the people terrified of learning something new? Did you have these same panic attacks when XP came out? 2000? 98? 3.1? DOS? Technology changes and improves constantly - if you can't deal with that, then you shouldn't be using it.
As far as libraries, it's not about mis-information. I have a folder on my machine that contains all my media that I care to listen to on that machine. I do not have network drives, I do not need network drives, and I don't have my files all spread out in every third folder that I downloaded them to at one time. I keep my folders organized and keep everything within three to four clicks.
Yes, and due to your ignorance of libraries, you're using 3-4 clicks when you could do it in 1-2 clicks. Your files will be in the same location on your machine, the library just provides a way to link folders into one larger "folder" so if you have work documents in one folder and personal documents in another, you can click the documents library and see them all, yet still separated into "work" and "personal".
I find the stubbornness of people like you who refuse to even try something new that will likely make things better for you a sign of incompetence. You're like a person screaming that they don't need one of those new fangled automobiles, your horse and buggy works just fine.
I'm not telling you that you HAVE to use anything, I'm saying stop being a bigot and give it a damn chance before you dismiss it as crap. But that's up to you. I you want to make your life more difficult and refuse to try anything new because you're scared shitless of any sort of change, that's your own mental issue.
Sorry, just realized that you didn't write that post. Still, the point remains that you seem terrified of change, regardless of if it's change for the better.
And absolutely NONE of what you wrote here had anything to do with what I wrote. You cited specific complaints about Win 7. I gave you factual information that your complaints are merely that you do not know how to use it's features and that if you did, you would no longer have these complaints.
You seem like one of those people who's utterly terrified of any change what so ever. Seems odd to find someone like that on Slashdot, but it takes all kinds, eh?
Really? You call not only searching file names (programs and data) but also the CONTENTS of any test based file (email, text documents, presentations, etc) to be "not looking too deeply"?
It comes across more like you're of the "If it doesn't print gold coins, it's crap" type of mentality.
I can't stand the libraries functionality for Windows 7... but I'm a bit controlling when it comes to putting files where I want and not where the OS thinks I should put them.
Oh, so you're just misinformed. You can customize that and add your own folders and point multiple folders to it (it creates sub sections in the libraries). I do this with my music, documents, and videos that are not only local but also on external drives as well - it's made life a thousand times easier than when I used XP.
I've also pretty much resorted to using Classic Shell at home because I couldn't stand having to search for everything all the time.
OK, how do you use it "for months" and NOT have learned where things are already? Secondly, you don't NEED to search - hit windows then type what you want in the search bar and it's RIGHT THERE. I never wasted the time learning where to find all of my usual tools, it's far simpler to hit the windows key and type the first three letters and hit enter.
I think your complaints about Win 7 all revolve around you not knowing how to fully use it.
So you want to go back to a less easy to use file browser and lose the amazing search bar from Win 7? You're probably one of those people who throws a fit if you use a new keyboard with some of the keys (say volume control) in a different location.
Try actually using Win 7 for a couple of days - you'll never want to go back.
All I can figure is that you've never actually used Windows 7. It offers a LOT of improvements - to name a few (in no particular order): 1) a vastly improved Windows Update that also requires significantly less reboots after updating (the majority of updates you don't need to reboot) - it also does a great job of tracking down drivers for hardware that you don't have the drivers for (for instance, my wireless card for my desktop only has a 32-bit XP driver from the manufacturers site - yet Win 7 is able to locate an official 64-bit Win 7 driver for it) 2) significantly better utilization of multi-core processors 3) it allows for far more RAM in 64-bit versions (this is useful for many things, whether it's gaming, CAD, if you're a 3D artist, running virtual machines, etc) 4) the search bar makes it dead simple to find basically anything (programs, files, specific emails or documents searched by content) all from one spot - this is great for idiot users who can't figure out where anything is - you can just start typing what you want and it'll pop up in the search results as you type 5) it supports new hardware (right now that's not an issue, but in a few years it will be) 6) like it or not, new software IS developed for Win 7 and support for XP will be phased out.
Those are all just things off the top of my head. I'm sure if you used it you'd find even more reasons to want Win 7 over XP.
Besides, isn't it called something terrible these days like "Windows Live Hotmail"?
Well apparently with this new "upgrade" they're changing the name to Windows Dead Hotmail.
Yes but in Europe when a holiday falls on a weekend, they just take a whole week off..... ;-)
I've had to work all weekend. Thanks for reminding me of my crappy job and why I'm in grad school.....
Hell I barely touch the text application. Between phone calls, email and Twitter DMs there's no reason I ever need to.
Wait, you Tweet to your Dungeon Master? Seems like a waste of effort if he's sitting at the same table.....
Bugger the exorbitant cost, my next phone will be an iPhone 4. I'm sure it'll have foibles of its own, but they're unlikely to be in the basic usage.
As long as you don't count making a phone call or the alarm working "basic usage". =D
There are a few sections of Ohio where they do heavily police the highway (I live right by one such area), but that is NOT the norm. Hell, I've had plenty of times going past police while doing 15+ mph over the speed limit and didn't get such much as a second look from them.
Wow, what an idiot. It has nothing to do with people driving drunk - it has to do with NOT harassing people who are NOT drunk and NOT violating the US Constitution.
Well, you live in California, so I'm not surprised.
I live in Ohio and if the police tried this, it would be a blood bath because people over here will defend themselves and their rights with deadly force if necessary. Seeing as how there are far, far fewer cops than total population in Ohio, this would result in the utter decimation of the police force (as well as probably a few judges being dragged out of their homes and shot as well).
I do believe you've been asleep for the past decade. Now all they have to do is say they have "reason to suspect you of terrorist activities" and you lose all rights.
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