In the meantime, MS can become something like Apple.
i hope you're wrong. i don't want another apple. the only thing with any little bit of innovation out of apple was iphone. now they're more into making irrelevant updates to their hw and patent trolling. at least ms is completely incompetent, even at doing evil.
vinay rai is probably a paid puppet hired by this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapil_Sibal he is a minister in the government and there was a huge public outcry when his attempts to force facebook into censoring stuff were leaked by the press. so this vinay rai is just another tactic to subdue the issue and get a court order so that facebook has no option but to comply.
this is true. this thing is all about one idiotic (and corrupt) minister (Kapil Sibal), trying to control online media to prevent people from criticizing the prime minister and others in the government. nothing to do with 'offensive' content.
an extremely small minority of the people ever resort to rioting to make sure only U rated content is available. any educated, sensible person is very unlikely to hold such an opinion. also, fuck them. the constitution of india guarantees me free speech. if you're gonna start censoring stuff on the web, you're in violation of the constitution itself.
actually, nobody other than chrome can do that instant search thing, also only chrome can do the gmail desktop notification thing. google news works properly only on chrome. these are some things i noticed. little things, but they sure look like 'leveraging monopoly' to me, except they don't actually have a monopoly on anything other than search.
yeah, since there is nothing after 'cheers,' i kinda feel stupid everytime, because i waste half a sec looking for your name below it, and its not there. its completely stupid of me, i know.
i would say that chrome's success can be attributed equally to its quality and google leveraging it everywhere on its websites. even on the main google.com page.
english is not my first language. but i'm sure i did not make such a big error in my post that the reader would not be able to understand the meaning behind my words. ps- i probably score higher than you in SAT.
rock solid reliability my ass. my friend's iphone 3g got upgraded to ios4. sucked so much that he went and bought an htc within twenty days. and the problem with ios is you can either go and buy a new overpriced device every year or you can't download any apps. at least my 5800 still functions excellently and i can still find apps that you still can't install on an iphone. like swype, or a bittorrent client.
On the final issue, the rock solid reliability of iOS is worth more than any number of "swype keyboard" customisations.
maybe *you* don't need a smartphone, but i do! i've been saying this forever: iphones are not smartphones. they are just overpriced, overhyped, shiny toys with *very* basic features. anyone who actually needs a general purpose computer in their pocket can't stay satisfied with an iphone. ask yourself: what features do you actually use on your iphone that were not available in a sony ericsson feature phone at the time the first (horribly limited) iphone was launched?
If Windows doesn't need maintenance any more, how come friends running Windows still complain to me that their PCs have ground to a halt and ask if I can help them?
because maybe all those guys are idiots or something. my laptop is working fine. my brother's laptop is working fine. most of my friends' laptops are working fine. the last virus my pc had was ~9 years ago. and it wasn't much of a hassle to remove it either. 90% of the world's pcs are working fine, if they weren't they would have switched by now.
Actually all these "happens automatically" things you mention are half the problem. All these apps running services trying to phone home at boot up means it's a long time after boot up before a Windows machine becomes responsive.
now i have never used osx for an extended period of time, but i'm sure it has as many background auto tasks as windows has, if not more. and i suspect apple sneaks on you much more than microsoft does. if defragging and driver updates are not happening in the background on osx, then its a very shitty os. i'm sure it does these things and a lot more. also, what version of windows did you last use?? are you sure it was not win 98? because vista onwards the system is responsive the moment the desktop is visible.
The point is to get away from the big mess of the desktop--the constant maintenance, driver updates, antivirus updates, defragmenters, and other utilities.
i don't get it. hardly anyone does any of those things today. there's no maintenance needed unless its a hardware failure. driver updates happen automatically, antivirus updates happen automatically, defragger runs automatically. this is true for both windows and osx. personally, i find that ios dumbs it down too much, restricting the usefulness of my device. for example, you simply can't use the swype keyboard on an iphone.
blah...blah...blah...I'm an intellectual female, and blah...blah...blah
LOL!!! is this some kind of joke?? what kind of sane person says 'i am an intellectual'? this sort of behavior actually says you're a dumb idiot or a troll (and i need a nice whooshing).
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In the meantime, MS can become something like Apple.
i hope you're wrong. i don't want another apple. the only thing with any little bit of innovation out of apple was iphone. now they're more into making irrelevant updates to their hw and patent trolling.
at least ms is completely incompetent, even at doing evil.
vinay rai is probably a paid puppet hired by this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapil_Sibal
he is a minister in the government and there was a huge public outcry when his attempts to force facebook into censoring stuff were leaked by the press. so this vinay rai is just another tactic to subdue the issue and get a court order so that facebook has no option but to comply.
this is true. this thing is all about one idiotic (and corrupt) minister (Kapil Sibal), trying to control online media to prevent people from criticizing the prime minister and others in the government. nothing to do with 'offensive' content.
-The government doesn't censor (plenty of stories on RIM, etc., on Slashdot re: that)
there was no censorship in the rim case, it was a breach of privacy, allowing the government to intercept bbm messages, etc.
an extremely small minority of the people ever resort to rioting to make sure only U rated content is available. any educated, sensible person is very unlikely to hold such an opinion. also, fuck them. the constitution of india guarantees me free speech. if you're gonna start censoring stuff on the web, you're in violation of the constitution itself.
other music players build the library metadata on their own quite nicely.
actually, nobody other than chrome can do that instant search thing, also only chrome can do the gmail desktop notification thing. google news works properly only on chrome. these are some things i noticed. little things, but they sure look like 'leveraging monopoly' to me, except they don't actually have a monopoly on anything other than search.
same could be said for microsoft.
microsoft made it impossible to use netscape? or anything else? i think you didn't quite understand the whole matter.
yeah, if he had his sig turned on. exactly my point.
yeah, since there is nothing after 'cheers,' i kinda feel stupid everytime, because i waste half a sec looking for your name below it, and its not there. its completely stupid of me, i know.
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we seem to have a troll at hand! i simply must stop replying to scum like this!
i would say that chrome's success can be attributed equally to its quality and google leveraging it everywhere on its websites. even on the main google.com page.
completely offtopic, but please don't put a comma at the end of your posts :)
english is not my first language. but i'm sure i did not make such a big error in my post that the reader would not be able to understand the meaning behind my words.
ps- i probably score higher than you in SAT.
i dunno, i found all of fox news' recent articles about sopa quite 'fair and balanced'.
rock solid reliability my ass. my friend's iphone 3g got upgraded to ios4. sucked so much that he went and bought an htc within twenty days. and the problem with ios is you can either go and buy a new overpriced device every year or you can't download any apps. at least my 5800 still functions excellently and i can still find apps that you still can't install on an iphone. like swype, or a bittorrent client.
On the final issue, the rock solid reliability of iOS is worth more than any number of "swype keyboard" customisations.
maybe *you* don't need a smartphone, but i do! i've been saying this forever: iphones are not smartphones. they are just overpriced, overhyped, shiny toys with *very* basic features. anyone who actually needs a general purpose computer in their pocket can't stay satisfied with an iphone. ask yourself: what features do you actually use on your iphone that were not available in a sony ericsson feature phone at the time the first (horribly limited) iphone was launched?
If Windows doesn't need maintenance any more, how come friends running Windows still complain to me that their PCs have ground to a halt and ask if I can help them?
because maybe all those guys are idiots or something. my laptop is working fine. my brother's laptop is working fine. most of my friends' laptops are working fine. the last virus my pc had was ~9 years ago. and it wasn't much of a hassle to remove it either. 90% of the world's pcs are working fine, if they weren't they would have switched by now.
Actually all these "happens automatically" things you mention are half the problem. All these apps running services trying to phone home at boot up means it's a long time after boot up before a Windows machine becomes responsive.
now i have never used osx for an extended period of time, but i'm sure it has as many background auto tasks as windows has, if not more. and i suspect apple sneaks on you much more than microsoft does. if defragging and driver updates are not happening in the background on osx, then its a very shitty os. i'm sure it does these things and a lot more. also, what version of windows did you last use?? are you sure it was not win 98? because vista onwards the system is responsive the moment the desktop is visible.
The point is to get away from the big mess of the desktop--the constant maintenance, driver updates, antivirus updates, defragmenters, and other utilities.
i don't get it. hardly anyone does any of those things today. there's no maintenance needed unless its a hardware failure. driver updates happen automatically, antivirus updates happen automatically, defragger runs automatically. this is true for both windows and osx. personally, i find that ios dumbs it down too much, restricting the usefulness of my device. for example, you simply can't use the swype keyboard on an iphone.
people don't want features anymore, they want shiny. so why should nokia bother?
blah...blah...blah...I'm an intellectual female, and blah...blah...blah
LOL!!! is this some kind of joke?? what kind of sane person says 'i am an intellectual'? this sort of behavior actually says you're a dumb idiot or a troll (and i need a nice whooshing).
i dunno, spending ~5k on watching movies seems kinda stupid. i'd rather watch 10 movies a year at teh cinemas.
3d is new. we need to wait a bit and filmmakers will come up with stuff that makes 3d as indispensible as audio.
steve jobs was great, he stole it from picasso.
that was a really well balanced article from fox news!!
You missed out stevejo.bs
ftfy.