And how much does the contract cost? It's not free, you know. Personally, I'm on a plan that costs USD ~18/mo with 1 GB data included. From what I can see, AT&T's cheapest plan with data costs USD 59.99 a month (300 MB). Unless I'm mistaken, it looks like they charge extortive amounts for their plans to hide the cost of the phone in the contract.
The fact that it can silently upload personal data without user acknowledgement means other, lower profile apps can do the same. Since Apple didn't care about Path doing it, I'm sure it was OK for others to do it as well, which means they do.
Yes, you're wrong. Stephe Jobs obsessed over style, and the turtlenecks were of course a conscious choice; part of his 'concerns for world domination', if you will. And even if he didn't care, the difference of making a choice and having other making the choice for you is still an essential difference. So you failed to address my point while covering yourself in bullshit as a defence. The GGP is right: you're an idiot.
Steve Jobs probably liked blue jeans and black turtlenecks, and made that choice out of thousands of options. He did not go out to make it the only option for everyone. See that essential difference? In fact, it's pretty much similar to those who want to stick with MATE instead of choosing between following Gnome's antics or switching to another desktop.
So yeah, using MATE fragments Linux like black turtlenecks fragment fashion, and it takes away annoying and trivial choices like wearing the same takes away choices. What were you trying to say again?
What I was saying was that X11 does not give you network transparency for free, not that network transparency in X11 is inherently costly in itself. X11 delivers network transparency at the cost of being a massive patchwork of ancient crud. As for shared memory magically being 'as fast as anything else', that's simply untrue.
X11 doesn't give you network transparency for free, it does it at the cost of being a crummy and overly complex set of ancient technologies that no one uses any more. And the network transparency itself is based on how a window system was expected to work 20 years ago, meaning it's extremely inefficient with modern applications (GTK, Qt, etc.). Ever tried running Firefox across a LAN with X11? It's not a pleasant experience. Perhaps NX improves it. Sticking with X11 simply because it has one outstanding feature would be fine only if that one outstanding feature wasn't implemented so poorly.
There's no reason why the networking protocol needs to be built into the display server, and no reason why a display server that does not have its own networking protocol has to do without network transparency. From what I've seen, Wayland is flexible enough to allow for networking in multiple ways.
It's a bit funny that the persecution of the early Christians get so much attention (any attention at all really), considering that it's only a couple of hundred years compared to the Christian persecution of all other religions and non-religions the following 1700 years.
It's a photo app that turns the images from your already crap phone camera into even worse photos in the style of a broken Polaroid camera, like all the other photo filter apps out there, but this one is tied to one specific web service. Basically, it takes shittier photos under worse terms.
Is it really all that hard? I'd just look at one of the many price grabbing sites and filter by resolution. You don't need hundreds of options as long as you've got the option to buy what you need. To me, a 24" IPS 1920x1200 monitor costing twice as much as a 22" 1080p TN screen seems a decent buy. I'm tempted to upgrade.
I live in Europe, and have had a very mild winter. It's true, though, that we had a slight dip below average the first week of February. I think it might have something to do with being just outside the high pressure area that settled over central Europe, bringing winds from Siberia.
Some carriers publish lists of their top selling phones. I've seen the Lumia 800 doing well in the Netherlands, Sweden and Norway. None of those are strong markets for Nokia anymore.
There's one thing to make the Lumia 800 stand out among other WP7 phones: it looks great. It also does seem to do rather well in some markets, unlike most other WP7 phones.
And Meego is dead anyway. Nokia can, should, and probably will in some way develop Meego/Maemo Harmatton further, as they still seem to develop Qt further. But going with Tizen and dumping Qt -- and for what? -- would be dumb, and is unlikely to happen.
Perhaps not, but there's no evidence that I'm wrong. Just a bunch of fanboys trying to spin things in Apple's favour, with no evidence whatsoever. Until I see proof, I say you're a bunch of lying shitweasels. Which already is proven true, of course.
Right. As if that would work: "Yeah, those guys on the other side of the room get breaks and shorter work hours, since they do stuff for Apple. You guys need to stop yapping, or you'll taste the whip again." I'm just saying that you're lying.
Yes, and since a bunch of the other phone brands are made in the same Foxcon factories, that piece of propaganda is evidently just that: propaganda. But keep spreading it around. Some people may be stupid enough to believe it.
Bullshit. Not only does a merge of Android kernel features not mean you can play angry birds under some regular Linux distro (you'll need, oh, Dalvik and Android's windowing system which is not X11), you can already play Angry Birds in Chrome, no Wine required. The kernel is entirely irrelevant. If you don't know what you're talking about, just shut up.
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And how much does the contract cost? It's not free, you know. Personally, I'm on a plan that costs USD ~18/mo with 1 GB data included. From what I can see, AT&T's cheapest plan with data costs USD 59.99 a month (300 MB). Unless I'm mistaken, it looks like they charge extortive amounts for their plans to hide the cost of the phone in the contract.
You're such a total wanker, Basil. Get your head out of Steve Jobs's rotting asshole.
The fact that it can silently upload personal data without user acknowledgement means other, lower profile apps can do the same. Since Apple didn't care about Path doing it, I'm sure it was OK for others to do it as well, which means they do.
Yes, you're wrong. Stephe Jobs obsessed over style, and the turtlenecks were of course a conscious choice; part of his 'concerns for world domination', if you will. And even if he didn't care, the difference of making a choice and having other making the choice for you is still an essential difference. So you failed to address my point while covering yourself in bullshit as a defence. The GGP is right: you're an idiot.
Steve Jobs probably liked blue jeans and black turtlenecks, and made that choice out of thousands of options. He did not go out to make it the only option for everyone. See that essential difference? In fact, it's pretty much similar to those who want to stick with MATE instead of choosing between following Gnome's antics or switching to another desktop.
So yeah, using MATE fragments Linux like black turtlenecks fragment fashion, and it takes away annoying and trivial choices like wearing the same takes away choices. What were you trying to say again?
Lololwhut? You think direct rendering of OpenGL somehow reduces the complexity of X.org? Idiot.
What I was saying was that X11 does not give you network transparency for free, not that network transparency in X11 is inherently costly in itself. X11 delivers network transparency at the cost of being a massive patchwork of ancient crud. As for shared memory magically being 'as fast as anything else', that's simply untrue.
X11 doesn't give you network transparency for free, it does it at the cost of being a crummy and overly complex set of ancient technologies that no one uses any more. And the network transparency itself is based on how a window system was expected to work 20 years ago, meaning it's extremely inefficient with modern applications (GTK, Qt, etc.). Ever tried running Firefox across a LAN with X11? It's not a pleasant experience. Perhaps NX improves it. Sticking with X11 simply because it has one outstanding feature would be fine only if that one outstanding feature wasn't implemented so poorly.
There's no reason why the networking protocol needs to be built into the display server, and no reason why a display server that does not have its own networking protocol has to do without network transparency. From what I've seen, Wayland is flexible enough to allow for networking in multiple ways.
It's a bit funny that the persecution of the early Christians get so much attention (any attention at all really), considering that it's only a couple of hundred years compared to the Christian persecution of all other religions and non-religions the following 1700 years.
It's a photo app that turns the images from your already crap phone camera into even worse photos in the style of a broken Polaroid camera, like all the other photo filter apps out there, but this one is tied to one specific web service. Basically, it takes shittier photos under worse terms.
Is it really all that hard? I'd just look at one of the many price grabbing sites and filter by resolution. You don't need hundreds of options as long as you've got the option to buy what you need. To me, a 24" IPS 1920x1200 monitor costing twice as much as a 22" 1080p TN screen seems a decent buy. I'm tempted to upgrade.
It's small compared to bigger things, true, but big enough to have different weather in different parts.
Yeah, it's a pretty big place, Europe.
There's perhaps more to Europe than you think.
I live in Europe, and have had a very mild winter. It's true, though, that we had a slight dip below average the first week of February. I think it might have something to do with being just outside the high pressure area that settled over central Europe, bringing winds from Siberia.
Some carriers publish lists of their top selling phones. I've seen the Lumia 800 doing well in the Netherlands, Sweden and Norway. None of those are strong markets for Nokia anymore.
You may wish that to be true, but that doesn't make it so. It also happens to be incorrect.
There's one thing to make the Lumia 800 stand out among other WP7 phones: it looks great. It also does seem to do rather well in some markets, unlike most other WP7 phones.
And Meego is dead anyway. Nokia can, should, and probably will in some way develop Meego/Maemo Harmatton further, as they still seem to develop Qt further. But going with Tizen and dumping Qt -- and for what? -- would be dumb, and is unlikely to happen.
While "true", the realistic alternative is the firmware blob residing in ROM on the graphics card.
Perhaps not, but there's no evidence that I'm wrong. Just a bunch of fanboys trying to spin things in Apple's favour, with no evidence whatsoever. Until I see proof, I say you're a bunch of lying shitweasels. Which already is proven true, of course.
Right. As if that would work: "Yeah, those guys on the other side of the room get breaks and shorter work hours, since they do stuff for Apple. You guys need to stop yapping, or you'll taste the whip again." I'm just saying that you're lying.
Yes, and since a bunch of the other phone brands are made in the same Foxcon factories, that piece of propaganda is evidently just that: propaganda. But keep spreading it around. Some people may be stupid enough to believe it.
Bullshit. Not only does a merge of Android kernel features not mean you can play angry birds under some regular Linux distro (you'll need, oh, Dalvik and Android's windowing system which is not X11), you can already play Angry Birds in Chrome, no Wine required. The kernel is entirely irrelevant. If you don't know what you're talking about, just shut up.