My wife just replaced her Samsung Galaxy with a google Nexus. Worlds of difference between her old galaxy S3 and the Nexus 5 in terms of performance. Plus there is a lack of "little" things that annoyed her on the Galaxy.
key word: old of course if you compare a 3 year old phone with the latest money can buy, you are going to be impressed. compare the nexus 5 with the galaxy s5 and you will see: - samsung has vastly better battery - much faster - better screen - real buttons that dont eat up your pixels to display black - much better camera/video - much more storage - small but useful features like ir blaster, heart rate sensor, temperature sensor, barometer, hygrometer, etc - many useful software features (face tracking, gestures, multi window, file transfer using nfc+wifi etc) - much better support (lg sux) - need i go on?
its not as bleak as you make it out to be. bribing is prevalent, it seems. but booth capturing is rare and there's a lot of noise if there's a hint of anything like that happening anywhere.
The prime ministerial candidate from the currently ruling party was caught doing exactly that.
incorrect. he was just looking at the machine and talking to polling officials. even this behavior is unacceptable but it's still far away from capturing the booth.
The voting machine could be watching you.
now you're just being paranoid. there is no way the EVM could be storing any info about the voter because there is no way to enter that info, no way to store it and no way to do anything with that hypothetical info once the vote is cast.
i'm reminded of the tintin book flight 714 by the whole mh370 episode. except that the passengers weren't harmed by the aliens, just got their memories erased.
i have tried to use similar software but it never really worked out for me. i mean, not everything in my notes is a flowchart! but i've had this nagging feeling that maybe i don't know how to use mind maps properly.
Giving lectures, on the other hand, is the most efficient way to learn.
this is truer than most people realize. i had a teacher who divided the syllabus into parts at the start of the semester, and gave each student one part to teach. everyone knew their parts well in time and had time to prepare. the portion i had to take up, i didn't even need to study for the final, just the other topics. i wonder how well my score could have been if i would have taught the whole syllabus.
Yet, no matter how you take your notes, attending lectures is the least efficient way to learn.
i don't know about this. many people don't attend lectures and get copies of notes from multiple people. then decipher those notes, and make their own notes. i tried it a couple of times (classes are boring!) and i feel this is the least efficient way to learn. people take notes for themselves. the notes are full of individual quirks, mnemonics, povs to look at a concept, etc. it's very tough to grasp the crux, and form your own understanding. in comparison, teachers usually present the topic as is, without much of an individual spin.
the s4 is such a nice piece of hardware, but they have burdened it with at least 15 redundant apps. why do i need two browsers, 2 music players, 2 email clients, 2 sms clients, 2 voice thingies, 2 notes, 2 galleries, 2 video players, 2 book readers, 2 app stores? i'm surprised it still works as well as it does. and no way to remove the crap. even microsoft doesn't include as much crap, and all of that is removable. here, neither google, nor samsung is willing to back down. i like apps from both samsung and google, i can use both variants of the browser, for example. please one of you be the bigger person and let me remove your app!
but just disabling is not enough. if you go into play store and click "update all", everything gets updated, including disabled apps. atleast that's what i'm seeing with this wretched chaton.
1000x this. Foursquare has been the most obvious purchase for facebook since the beginning. Instead of buying unrelated crap (instagram/whatsapp), Zucky should just buy foursquare and integrate the whole functionality. It will be the first acquisition which would add real value.
but why would your friend use ie on his sewing machine? imo, xp is perfectly fine for such embedded uses, but please move on when it comes to your personal general purpose computer.
so people are actually using that piece of shit called "firefox for android"? just switch to chrome. excellent support for hundreds of tabs, simple+cool+responsive ui. in fact the tab switch ui is better than the desktop version's tab bar.
and the other tabs fade into the background to be less of a distraction when youâ(TM)re not using them.
multiple extensions were able to do this, long ago. and with more customization too.
The Firefox menu has moved to the right corner of the toolbar and puts all your browser controls in one place.
the logic is: it's better because it's identical to chrome.
The menu includes a âoeCustomizeâ tool that transforms Firefox into a powerful customization mode where you can add or move any feature, service or add-on.'
this "customization mode" is a joke. it's just a super watered-down version of the customize toolbars feature. it has about a 10th of the functionality, but cool pretty animations and cute gridlines.
PS: tab mix plus features don't work properly with tree style tabs anymore. the last thing i was holding on was because i loved to have a vertical tabbar and set double click on tab bar to open a new tab. and its gone. and i dunno whose fault it is. but since the breakage happened with the 29 update, i am inclined to believe it was mozilla, and not the extension authors (who have always been the value adders for firefox, imo).
if chrome took ideas from australis and implemented them before australis was released, well kudos to chrome! they show how an efficient team should work. and shame on firefox, for copying every single ui element from chrome, and taking so long to do that, too!
it never says its uploading to google+. it just says "turn on auto upload? it will keep your pics safe blah blah" not one word about google+. i hate shills like you who are ready to accept anything google shits onto the device YOU paid for.
it defaults off, thats true. but they use a very sneaky message to get you to enable the auto upload thing as soon as you open the gallery. and you get a fucking notification on EVERY SINGLE PHOTO YOU EVER CLICK! you get 3 notifications actually. one on your phone, other on every single google webpage you visit (including chrome start tab), third as an email in your gmail inbox. and what does the notification say?
your photo is ready to be shared
it was ready to be shared the moment i took it, bitch! there's this neat android feature called share using which you can share your photos!
i live in india, and i don't know anybody who does NOT use whatsapp. literally everyone uses it. every nokia phone (dumb/smart), every android, and even some local branded dumbphones have whatsapp. unlimited texting is not a thing over here. data is much, much cheaper. also, with texts you can't send pics, or audio, or video. and sms is not instant messaging. whatsapp is like fb chat, but on your phone. also, i been using it for 3-4 years, and they always renew my subscription for free every year. and even if this stops happening in the future, 50 bucks (INR) per year is literally negligible compared to any other cost in your life.
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My wife just replaced her Samsung Galaxy with a google Nexus. Worlds of difference between her old galaxy S3 and the Nexus 5 in terms of performance. Plus there is a lack of "little" things that annoyed her on the Galaxy.
key word: old
of course if you compare a 3 year old phone with the latest money can buy, you are going to be impressed. compare the nexus 5 with the galaxy s5 and you will see:
- samsung has vastly better battery
- much faster
- better screen
- real buttons that dont eat up your pixels to display black
- much better camera/video
- much more storage
- small but useful features like ir blaster, heart rate sensor, temperature sensor, barometer, hygrometer, etc
- many useful software features (face tracking, gestures, multi window, file transfer using nfc+wifi etc)
- much better support (lg sux)
- need i go on?
please people, stop being stupid.
ditto \(o_O)/
"Nice fucking huge Samsung phone you have there, kid. Shame if your messages to iPhones all get lost."
ftfy
its not as bleak as you make it out to be. bribing is prevalent, it seems. but booth capturing is rare and there's a lot of noise if there's a hint of anything like that happening anywhere.
The prime ministerial candidate from the currently ruling party was caught doing exactly that.
incorrect. he was just looking at the machine and talking to polling officials. even this behavior is unacceptable but it's still far away from capturing the booth.
The voting machine could be watching you.
now you're just being paranoid. there is no way the EVM could be storing any info about the voter because there is no way to enter that info, no way to store it and no way to do anything with that hypothetical info once the vote is cast.
i'm reminded of the tintin book flight 714 by the whole mh370 episode. except that the passengers weren't harmed by the aliens, just got their memories erased.
it looks really good to me. i wish my desktop apps looked like this. lean, mean, no nonsense, blinding fast to load. what's not to like?
post a bug report.
i have tried to use similar software but it never really worked out for me. i mean, not everything in my notes is a flowchart! but i've had this nagging feeling that maybe i don't know how to use mind maps properly.
Giving lectures, on the other hand, is the most efficient way to learn.
this is truer than most people realize. i had a teacher who divided the syllabus into parts at the start of the semester, and gave each student one part to teach. everyone knew their parts well in time and had time to prepare. the portion i had to take up, i didn't even need to study for the final, just the other topics. i wonder how well my score could have been if i would have taught the whole syllabus.
Yet, no matter how you take your notes, attending lectures is the least efficient way to learn.
i don't know about this. many people don't attend lectures and get copies of notes from multiple people. then decipher those notes, and make their own notes. i tried it a couple of times (classes are boring!) and i feel this is the least efficient way to learn. people take notes for themselves. the notes are full of individual quirks, mnemonics, povs to look at a concept, etc. it's very tough to grasp the crux, and form your own understanding. in comparison, teachers usually present the topic as is, without much of an individual spin.
Surface pro with one note on it.
the s4 is such a nice piece of hardware, but they have burdened it with at least 15 redundant apps. why do i need two browsers, 2 music players, 2 email clients, 2 sms clients, 2 voice thingies, 2 notes, 2 galleries, 2 video players, 2 book readers, 2 app stores? i'm surprised it still works as well as it does. and no way to remove the crap. even microsoft doesn't include as much crap, and all of that is removable.
here, neither google, nor samsung is willing to back down. i like apps from both samsung and google, i can use both variants of the browser, for example. please one of you be the bigger person and let me remove your app!
but just disabling is not enough. if you go into play store and click "update all", everything gets updated, including disabled apps. atleast that's what i'm seeing with this wretched chaton.
why would *anyone* use swype now? samsung phones have built in swiping keyboard, so do nexus phones. i guess it's those other 10% android suckers.
Facebook should by Foursquare.
1000x this. Foursquare has been the most obvious purchase for facebook since the beginning. Instead of buying unrelated crap (instagram/whatsapp), Zucky should just buy foursquare and integrate the whole functionality. It will be the first acquisition which would add real value.
this is standard behavior on windows. but for some misguided reason they still want you to triple-click in linux distros.
but why would your friend use ie on his sewing machine? imo, xp is perfectly fine for such embedded uses, but please move on when it comes to your personal general purpose computer.
so people are actually using that piece of shit called "firefox for android"? just switch to chrome. excellent support for hundreds of tabs, simple+cool+responsive ui. in fact the tab switch ui is better than the desktop version's tab bar.
and the other tabs fade into the background to be less of a distraction when youâ(TM)re not using them.
multiple extensions were able to do this, long ago. and with more customization too.
The Firefox menu has moved to the right corner of the toolbar and puts all your browser controls in one place.
the logic is: it's better because it's identical to chrome.
The menu includes a âoeCustomizeâ tool that transforms Firefox into a powerful customization mode where you can add or move any feature, service or add-on.'
this "customization mode" is a joke. it's just a super watered-down version of the customize toolbars feature. it has about a 10th of the functionality, but cool pretty animations and cute gridlines.
PS: tab mix plus features don't work properly with tree style tabs anymore. the last thing i was holding on was because i loved to have a vertical tabbar and set double click on tab bar to open a new tab. and its gone. and i dunno whose fault it is. but since the breakage happened with the 29 update, i am inclined to believe it was mozilla, and not the extension authors (who have always been the value adders for firefox, imo).
if chrome took ideas from australis and implemented them before australis was released, well kudos to chrome! they show how an efficient team should work. and shame on firefox, for copying every single ui element from chrome, and taking so long to do that, too!
so?
Perhaps you should go and look at a nexus device and how it handles photos before making a fool out of yourself.
it never says its uploading to google+. it just says "turn on auto upload? it will keep your pics safe blah blah" not one word about google+. i hate shills like you who are ready to accept anything google shits onto the device YOU paid for.
it defaults off, thats true. but they use a very sneaky message to get you to enable the auto upload thing as soon as you open the gallery. and you get a fucking notification on EVERY SINGLE PHOTO YOU EVER CLICK! you get 3 notifications actually. one on your phone, other on every single google webpage you visit (including chrome start tab), third as an email in your gmail inbox. and what does the notification say?
your photo is ready to be shared
it was ready to be shared the moment i took it, bitch! there's this neat android feature called share using which you can share your photos!
i live in india, and i don't know anybody who does NOT use whatsapp. literally everyone uses it. every nokia phone (dumb/smart), every android, and even some local branded dumbphones have whatsapp. unlimited texting is not a thing over here. data is much, much cheaper. also, with texts you can't send pics, or audio, or video. and sms is not instant messaging. whatsapp is like fb chat, but on your phone.
also, i been using it for 3-4 years, and they always renew my subscription for free every year. and even if this stops happening in the future, 50 bucks (INR) per year is literally negligible compared to any other cost in your life.
Symbian got updates ALL the time.