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Wow, that's a lot of misguided nonsense you've got there. Sorry, I just can't bother to criticise it all. But where the hell did you get "Anything other than the kernel = "application"" from? Make it up yourself? It's factually untrue. If you don't bother with the most basic facts, the rest of your "analysis" is necessarily going to be wrong. Also, tl;dr.
You agree only because you're an idiot. There's more to storytelling than cut scenes, and plenty of ways to create a story in a computer games. Your preferences are simply not interesting.
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It's got nothing to do with politics, people with different preferences just happen to build different things.
Hm, I guess you are a moron, and an Apple fanboi to boot, getting all defensive about Android, since it was one of six examples. Honest with yourself? No.
I own a smartphone with a 2.5" touchscreen (now retired), and the only problem with it is that it's close to unusable. Even with my slender thief/aristocrat's hands, it's just annoying to use. It's great for what it is (a tiny smartphone that can do all sorts of smartphoney things), but for typing or touching icons, links and widgets, bigger simply is better. Then again, a mechanical keyboard is always better for typing.
As for tablets, I don't really see the point. Anything you need to put in a bag in order to carry it with you isn't really mobile, and a 10" tablet can't do much you can't do with a 5" phone. I can see phones and tablets converging, but not at tablet sizes.
You could, of course, use Android without the Google integration (quite possible) or simply Something Else Entirely, like Meego, Symbian, Bada, WebOS, Blackberry or whatever. Choosing the iPhone for your privacy is just plain moronic.
It's corporate Newspeak: impossible to interpret so that it can regain factuality, but vague enough so that the writer may pretend he didn't lie. It's a terribly dishonest and slanted piece of writing, that's all. Of course, most commenters choose to believe it's true, and further remove themselves from reality. Slashdot has truly become the web's #1 source for ignorant dumbfuckery.
Microsoft just had their highest quarterly revenues ever, and hid their profits by writing off a 2007 $6B acquisition. It's all tax deductible, you know.
There's so much dumb wishful thinking in this thread.
So who the fuck enters 'mcdonalds staff assault professor' into Google on random now then? Similar with 'Dr Mann McDonalds'. The first hit is The Register, the others seem to be geek sites as well. It hasn't reached the mainstream media, and no one cares.
Not quite true. There have been a number of small innovations in CyanogenMod, some of which apparently have found their way into AOSP Android (like swiping to remove notifications in ICS, I believe). At least with Android, the possibility for community innovation is there.
LOL. I searched the page for the word 'fault', expecting exactly this kind of apologist nonsense: 'it's not Apple's fault!' Apple's got thousands of paid PR shills and lawyers, they don't need your help, fanboi.
There isn't any data to support that, so it's most likely untrue. Still, it's the kind of anti-MS bullshit that gets you a cheap +1, insightful from the fanboy mods around here.
Bullshit. No one needs a tablet. It comes without a keyboard and can only be used for buying more stuff -- hence its popularity in the Old Media. No one who uses a PC for traditional PC stuff like typing documents or email would be better served by a tablet. Very few people currently buy tablets instead of PCs -- they buy them in addition, because they're already online practically 24/7, and need something more suitable for the couch. And still, despite everyone already owning a PC -- more people are buying PCs than are buying tablets, even though few people have tablets, and fewer yet need them.
Oh and by the way -- a five years old midrange PC is vastly more powerful than any current ARM tablet.
Not for mobile phones (this thing is for Android), since you typically want to hold it in one hand while typing with the index finger of the other. Or if you're lucky enough to have an old T9 device, typing with the thumb of the hand you're holding the phone in (which is still possible with touch screens, but sucks big hairy goat balls). If I wanted to bother with reinventing the keyboard layout, I'd look at how to get something like Swype or SlideIT to work more efficiently and less error-prone using the thumb only.
Wikimedia actually has fairly detailed statistics on how it's accessed, including the most popular apps. The 4.15% is for the Android browser, tablet and mobile combined, but the apps are largely irrelevant, with a combined user share of half that of Opera (desktop).
That would make sense if the experience of forced obsolescence and locked bootloaders on e.g. Motorola wouldn't make their customers prefer a better brand, like Samsung, instead. After all, you get to keep your apps on a newer version of the same OS from a different manufacturer. If anything, with Android you're free to choose a manufacturer that gives you the better service.
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Wow, that's a lot of misguided nonsense you've got there. Sorry, I just can't bother to criticise it all. But where the hell did you get "Anything other than the kernel = "application"" from? Make it up yourself? It's factually untrue. If you don't bother with the most basic facts, the rest of your "analysis" is necessarily going to be wrong. Also, tl;dr.
You agree only because you're an idiot. There's more to storytelling than cut scenes, and plenty of ways to create a story in a computer games. Your preferences are simply not interesting.
It's got nothing to do with politics, people with different preferences just happen to build different things.
It's so amazing that these dumb, irrelevant comments still get positive moderations on Slashdot.
Hm, I guess you are a moron, and an Apple fanboi to boot, getting all defensive about Android, since it was one of six examples. Honest with yourself? No.
Huge screens of glass also tend to break prematurely.
I own a smartphone with a 2.5" touchscreen (now retired), and the only problem with it is that it's close to unusable. Even with my slender thief/aristocrat's hands, it's just annoying to use. It's great for what it is (a tiny smartphone that can do all sorts of smartphoney things), but for typing or touching icons, links and widgets, bigger simply is better. Then again, a mechanical keyboard is always better for typing.
As for tablets, I don't really see the point. Anything you need to put in a bag in order to carry it with you isn't really mobile, and a 10" tablet can't do much you can't do with a 5" phone. I can see phones and tablets converging, but not at tablet sizes.
You could, of course, use Android without the Google integration (quite possible) or simply Something Else Entirely, like Meego, Symbian, Bada, WebOS, Blackberry or whatever. Choosing the iPhone for your privacy is just plain moronic.
Correction: it's non-deductible. Still, it will look better writing it off this quarter as opposed to taking a loss when Windows 8 is released.
It's corporate Newspeak: impossible to interpret so that it can regain factuality, but vague enough so that the writer may pretend he didn't lie. It's a terribly dishonest and slanted piece of writing, that's all. Of course, most commenters choose to believe it's true, and further remove themselves from reality. Slashdot has truly become the web's #1 source for ignorant dumbfuckery.
Microsoft just had their highest quarterly revenues ever, and hid their profits by writing off a 2007 $6B acquisition. It's all tax deductible, you know.
There's so much dumb wishful thinking in this thread.
So who the fuck enters 'mcdonalds staff assault professor' into Google on random now then? Similar with 'Dr Mann McDonalds'. The first hit is The Register, the others seem to be geek sites as well. It hasn't reached the mainstream media, and no one cares.
Translated into English: Look at me! Look at me! I've got an opinion!
Not quite true. There have been a number of small innovations in CyanogenMod, some of which apparently have found their way into AOSP Android (like swiping to remove notifications in ICS, I believe). At least with Android, the possibility for community innovation is there.
LOL. I searched the page for the word 'fault', expecting exactly this kind of apologist nonsense: 'it's not Apple's fault!' Apple's got thousands of paid PR shills and lawyers, they don't need your help, fanboi.
HTML6 will include sarcasm detection for the ironically impaired.
Wow, a rebuttal that pretty much concedes every point.
There isn't any data to support that, so it's most likely untrue. Still, it's the kind of anti-MS bullshit that gets you a cheap +1, insightful from the fanboy mods around here.
Why do the dumb and dangerous drivers insist on driving German cars?
Bullshit. No one needs a tablet. It comes without a keyboard and can only be used for buying more stuff -- hence its popularity in the Old Media. No one who uses a PC for traditional PC stuff like typing documents or email would be better served by a tablet. Very few people currently buy tablets instead of PCs -- they buy them in addition, because they're already online practically 24/7, and need something more suitable for the couch. And still, despite everyone already owning a PC -- more people are buying PCs than are buying tablets, even though few people have tablets, and fewer yet need them.
Oh and by the way -- a five years old midrange PC is vastly more powerful than any current ARM tablet.
Not for mobile phones (this thing is for Android), since you typically want to hold it in one hand while typing with the index finger of the other. Or if you're lucky enough to have an old T9 device, typing with the thumb of the hand you're holding the phone in (which is still possible with touch screens, but sucks big hairy goat balls). If I wanted to bother with reinventing the keyboard layout, I'd look at how to get something like Swype or SlideIT to work more efficiently and less error-prone using the thumb only.
Thanks. Now I know which key all my breadcrumbs hide under.
Wikimedia actually has fairly detailed statistics on how it's accessed, including the most popular apps. The 4.15% is for the Android browser, tablet and mobile combined, but the apps are largely irrelevant, with a combined user share of half that of Opera (desktop).
When you take a hemp break, it naturally influences the length of your footsteps as you chill out more. Not so much an invention as a discovery.
That would make sense if the experience of forced obsolescence and locked bootloaders on e.g. Motorola wouldn't make their customers prefer a better brand, like Samsung, instead. After all, you get to keep your apps on a newer version of the same OS from a different manufacturer. If anything, with Android you're free to choose a manufacturer that gives you the better service.