if a worker doesn't like his job, he is free to quit, isn't he?? if he can't find a better job, then he should face the fact that he is expecting too much from his skill set. unions are the worst kind of bullies, they distort market forces and hurt everyone (including their members). if a verizon worker actually does work that is worth more than what he makes at verizon, he should not have any problem getting such a job elsewhere. but no, we'll form a union and commit crimes, and try to squeeze undeserved money out of people who do the actually valuable work (innovation and/or research).
My point re: bluetooth file transfer is that iOS uses the OS X bluetooth stack since it is derived from OS X. and OS X does do bluetooth file transfers, so there's no technical reason why the iPhone cannot - it wouldn't be hard to add it to iOS, especially if it was send-only on a per-app basis (to better fit with the way the filesystem is designed on iOS).
whatever, the bottom line is that i can send/receive files over bluetooth using my 10 year old dumbphone and i can't do that on the latest iteration of iphone. and you are actually reaffirming my original point: non-nokia cellphone manufacturers (including apple) remove features from their devices on the request of operators.
As far as "the iPhone can't do tethering", well my iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS would beg to differ. I use them with tethering all the time (and they are not jailbroken). It works just fine. So you might "really dunno what I'm talking about" because you are ignorant of the features of the phone and instead just repeating some often-modded-up lie on slashdot about it not being able to tether.
Just to make it clear: the iPhone 3g, 3GS and 4 support tethering by default out of the box with no jailbreaking.
i dunno where you got this magical device from but all operators (that i know of) who sell iphone do not allow you to do tethering. google it up, people who can do tethering out-of-the-box on an iphone should be a minuscule minority.
whenever i have needed to change the battery on my phone, i just took it to the shop where they sell batteries and they change it for me. i neer have to do it myself. is this not possible with iphones? i doubt it.
iphone does not do tethering, i really dunno what you're talking about. also, it does not do bluetooth transfer. again, i don't understand the fucking point of you writing "OS X can do it, so iOS can, it's just not enabled." you could just have said, "you're right, other phones including iphone disable features on the request of operators."
yeah right, so every other teenage asshole can download the rip of the latest vita game and install it on his vita. forget it, piracy is a real threat to game consoles (unlike music) and sony have shown us that they will go to ridiculous lengths to thwart piracy attempts.
Go to some EU countries, or even third world and you'll see the exact opposite. That's why nokia is still the king of phones across third world - it's phones are actually honest to god cheap rather then "costs you an arm and a leg, but will cut them off slowly over 2 years as you pay its actual price".
this is it. nokia doesn't disable features like bluetooth file transfers and tethering on its phones like the others. because it sells directly to users. it charges a price people think fair for the phone and then people are free to pay a fair price for their network usage. in us, the cost of the phone and the network usage is all mixed up, hidden. you simply do not know how much you are paying to the device manufacturer and how much to the carrier. and this lack of transparency keeps the prices a bit high. what i've found is that if i buy a phone for $300 (~14k INR), and then use a prepaid sim, it turns out to be a lot cheaper than getting a phone (almost) free and paying $20 (~800 INR) every month for the network. also, phones bought directly from the manufacturer are usually easier to hack into and modify.
my laptop can be configure to act out a middle click if i press both buttons, or if i do a double finger tap. i thought all laptops could do this now? how is a tap on the touchpad slower than ctrl+tap? i'm not sure about this but i think abp in chrome actually does block ads, not just hide them.
in chrome for blocking flash and stuff like that there's a built in feature. go to about:flags and enable click2play. then enable it in the plugin settings. it works exactly like flashblock!
ie9 is actually a pretty sweet alternative to ff now. its very fast, clean ui, and does not freeze up like ff does. also, there's no performance hit of opening a lot of tabs. also it has very nice gpu acceleration and uses much less battery. but i still stick to chrome just because it is as fast as ie9, and also has loads of extensions.
snap links plus- sounds mildly useful quickdrag- wtf?? ever heard of middle click?? abp- chrome has it now. element hiding- abp does this in chrome modify headers- i don't need this, and i suppose you also don't *really* need it. fireftp- useful canadian english- lol wut? ietab- chrome does this 100x better morning coffee- i dunno anything about this one, but if you just wanna open some websites at once, you can create a bookmark folder or something. chatzilla- people still use irc in the age of fb and gmail chat? dev tools- agree
so i think you would agree that now is the time to switch.
i assume suspend is what you call 'sleep'? if yes, then i must disagree. it takes only 1-2 seconds for my win7 laptop to wake. and battery usage is negligible while sleeping. why the fuck would you wanna kill all processes, close all apps every time you stop using your pc? just let it sit inside the ram.
i suppose its becoming too commonplace in the us for people to care anymore. but when a govt that has so much else of importance on its plate wastes resources on such shitty things, it IS news.
i'm glad that all my (fb/gmail, etc) web traffic is encrypted. and since google stood up to china, i'm sure they'll never open up their data to indian govt either.
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if a worker doesn't like his job, he is free to quit, isn't he?? if he can't find a better job, then he should face the fact that he is expecting too much from his skill set. unions are the worst kind of bullies, they distort market forces and hurt everyone (including their members). if a verizon worker actually does work that is worth more than what he makes at verizon, he should not have any problem getting such a job elsewhere. but no, we'll form a union and commit crimes, and try to squeeze undeserved money out of people who do the actually valuable work (innovation and/or research).
My point re: bluetooth file transfer is that iOS uses the OS X bluetooth stack since it is derived from OS X. and OS X does do bluetooth file transfers, so there's no technical reason why the iPhone cannot - it wouldn't be hard to add it to iOS, especially if it was send-only on a per-app basis (to better fit with the way the filesystem is designed on iOS).
whatever, the bottom line is that i can send/receive files over bluetooth using my 10 year old dumbphone and i can't do that on the latest iteration of iphone. and you are actually reaffirming my original point: non-nokia cellphone manufacturers (including apple) remove features from their devices on the request of operators.
As far as "the iPhone can't do tethering", well my iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS would beg to differ. I use them with tethering all the time (and they are not jailbroken). It works just fine. So you might "really dunno what I'm talking about" because you are ignorant of the features of the phone and instead just repeating some often-modded-up lie on slashdot about it not being able to tether.
Just to make it clear: the iPhone 3g, 3GS and 4 support tethering by default out of the box with no jailbreaking.
i dunno where you got this magical device from but all operators (that i know of) who sell iphone do not allow you to do tethering. google it up, people who can do tethering out-of-the-box on an iphone should be a minuscule minority.
whenever i have needed to change the battery on my phone, i just took it to the shop where they sell batteries and they change it for me. i neer have to do it myself. is this not possible with iphones? i doubt it.
iphone does not do tethering, i really dunno what you're talking about. also, it does not do bluetooth transfer. again, i don't understand the fucking point of you writing "OS X can do it, so iOS can, it's just not enabled." you could just have said, "you're right, other phones including iphone disable features on the request of operators."
playing games on iphone is like you gave a child a packet of m&ms. playing on the vita will (hopefully) be like eating at a lavish buffet.
yeah right, so every other teenage asshole can download the rip of the latest vita game and install it on his vita.
forget it, piracy is a real threat to game consoles (unlike music) and sony have shown us that they will go to ridiculous lengths to thwart piracy attempts.
if anyone can sell consoles at a loss for long enough to drive out others and turn profitable it is sony.
Go to some EU countries, or even third world and you'll see the exact opposite. That's why nokia is still the king of phones across third world - it's phones are actually honest to god cheap rather then "costs you an arm and a leg, but will cut them off slowly over 2 years as you pay its actual price".
this is it. nokia doesn't disable features like bluetooth file transfers and tethering on its phones like the others. because it sells directly to users. it charges a price people think fair for the phone and then people are free to pay a fair price for their network usage. in us, the cost of the phone and the network usage is all mixed up, hidden. you simply do not know how much you are paying to the device manufacturer and how much to the carrier. and this lack of transparency keeps the prices a bit high.
what i've found is that if i buy a phone for $300 (~14k INR), and then use a prepaid sim, it turns out to be a lot cheaper than getting a phone (almost) free and paying $20 (~800 INR) every month for the network. also, phones bought directly from the manufacturer are usually easier to hack into and modify.
they removed the samsung logo and emphasized the front camera a bit, too.
have you actually used a nokia mid/n900? it works much better than iphone.
no. go read a bit about widgets. iphone doesn't do them.
they changed the fucking aspect ratio. this is the definition of misleading.
my laptop can be configure to act out a middle click if i press both buttons, or if i do a double finger tap. i thought all laptops could do this now? how is a tap on the touchpad slower than ctrl+tap?
i'm not sure about this but i think abp in chrome actually does block ads, not just hide them.
in chrome for blocking flash and stuff like that there's a built in feature. go to about:flags and enable click2play. then enable it in the plugin settings. it works exactly like flashblock!
ie9 is actually a pretty sweet alternative to ff now. its very fast, clean ui, and does not freeze up like ff does. also, there's no performance hit of opening a lot of tabs. also it has very nice gpu acceleration and uses much less battery. but i still stick to chrome just because it is as fast as ie9, and also has loads of extensions.
snap links plus- sounds mildly useful
quickdrag- wtf?? ever heard of middle click??
abp- chrome has it now.
element hiding- abp does this in chrome
modify headers- i don't need this, and i suppose you also don't *really* need it.
fireftp- useful
canadian english- lol wut?
ietab- chrome does this 100x better
morning coffee- i dunno anything about this one, but if you just wanna open some websites at once, you can create a bookmark folder or something.
chatzilla- people still use irc in the age of fb and gmail chat?
dev tools- agree
so i think you would agree that now is the time to switch.
i find 3.6 to be the latest version which still works reasonably even with ~40 tabs open.
that is stupid. osx>>>linux
in cases where iphones, or ipads are involved, all bets about consumer sanity are off. occam's razor cowers in terror before the rdf!
i assume suspend is what you call 'sleep'? if yes, then i must disagree. it takes only 1-2 seconds for my win7 laptop to wake. and battery usage is negligible while sleeping. why the fuck would you wanna kill all processes, close all apps every time you stop using your pc? just let it sit inside the ram.
any addon problem is automatically mozilla's problem.
^^this
i suppose its becoming too commonplace in the us for people to care anymore. but when a govt that has so much else of importance on its plate wastes resources on such shitty things, it IS news.
i'm glad that all my (fb/gmail, etc) web traffic is encrypted. and since google stood up to china, i'm sure they'll never open up their data to indian govt either.
completely unlike the cia/nsa/fbi, right?