It's just that those people don't care about the fact that they don't own what they've bought -- they're more afraid of being owned when playing games. The console is theirs in that they get to keep it permanently, and apart from that it's just a gateway to a games service. They were never going to use it for anything but further consumption of things they don't own. Come to think of it, Sony and Apple are pretty much the same in that regard.
Wrong. iOS prompts you when the phone tries to use the GPS, which is unnecessary and not generally used for location data. For advertising purposes, coarse location data based on wifi and/or mobile hotspots are used.
Even the racist morons have left the site now. The only ones left are the ones craving for Crawford, and a few with no place else to go. However, I just had a story on the FP, so I'm happy with it as it is.
Anyhow, if you didn't have a GPS or if your GPS was turned off it may have defaulted back to generic ads.
No. The phone can get coarser location data from wireless and mobile networks. But you can turn off that kind of location data as well. With both of them off, I always wondered why Angry Birds used to advertise for bicycles in Atlanta, Georgia, considering I really need a bicycle somewhere in Norway, but apparently some ad servers can guess your location from which DNS server you use, and I used Google's DNS on my local network at the time.
In Pandora's case, both the Android and iPhone versions of its app transmitted information about a user's age, gender, and location, as well as unique identifiers for the phone, to various advertising networks. Pandora gathers the age and gender information when a user registers for the service.
So I can't really see how Apple's system is all that much better. (And no, you don't need to use GPS to send location data, and neither is it used by advertisers.)
Actually, the UI is fairly unique. Well, sure, it still uses windows, and it's entirely true that the window decorations are awful with far too wide grey title bars, but I'm pretty sure the menu system is different from any other desktop and tablet.
Wrong. "The year of Linux on the desktop" has been a joke at least since Windows XP stopped being a joke, back in 2002 (initially, it was considered a bloated memory hog with stability problems). You're pretending to criticise something which is already said with irony.
Desktop wars are for fanboys and corporate giants. The rest of us simply don't care.
After IE6 fell as the dominant browser and OpenOffice gained good enough compatibility with MS Office, Linux has been fully usable on the desktop for those people who care about using it. It's not like I care that you prefer Windows 7 (a fine OS in my opinion), as long as your choice doesn't make my life more difficult. 10 years ago, it would: the web was full of buggy and IE-specific code, OpenOffice wasn't out yet, and the most important video playback format was the CSS-encrypted DVD, with no functional player available for Linux. We needed market share (or so we thought) to get the attention of IE6-minded web designers. Instead, open source produced a better browser that after a while took away Microsoft's dominance on their own platform.
These days, the web works, media playback under mplayer beats everything[1], and if someone sends me a.docx file that gives me problems, I ask them to save it as.doc instead. In some cases, that.doc will actually crash OpenOffice. And you know what? If it does, it will also crash Microsoft Word 2003 on Windows as well.
Of course, there are trade-offs. But that goes both ways. Or all three ways, if you want to count in the Mac. People who make premeditated decisions are usually willing to live with their trade-offs.
[1] Naturally, some encrypted formats aren't available, but then I'll just download the unencrypted version instead.
Your news site? Would that be Free Internet Press, followed by a whopping 109 people? No, sir, that doesn't put you anywhere near the 0.05%. Millions of people use Twitter, your site just doesn't have much presence there.
I'm not sure it's all that much of a status symbol, really. Either you're a real life somebody with a lot of followers, or you're an internet nobody with a lot of followers. Tweet a lot, be helpful and engage in discussions, and you'll gain followers, but I don't think being big on Twitter gives all that much status, even on Twitter.
But sure, the whole social networking concept does appeal to vanity to a sickening degree.
No, instead you chose to compare it to a Bugatti because you're an utter wanker. Fact of the matter is that the N8's camera is only slightly better than the ones found in similarly expensive phones from Sony Ericsson, whereas the cars you chose for your blatantly false analogy are in completely different categories.
Although untrue, the OP explicitly said he considered the Desire HD, whose camera is very poor compared to anything by Sony Ericsson. Then again, he was also concerned about obsolescence, so SE might be a bad choice, considering their poor software upgrade record and locked-down bootloader. The Nexus S is easily upgradeable and has a fairly decent if unspectacular camera, so it might be a better compromise.
You can take your silly Bugatti comparison and stick it; the N8 is still only a camera phone, miles away from any professional digital cam.
If you need a good camera, why not buy a Nexus S or one of the new Sony Ericssons instead? HTC's cameras are fairly poor.
I'd say the N8 is a pretty safe buy anyway, as the Desire HD (along with the rest of today's smartphones) will be pretty much obsolete by 2013 as well.
I got those with my old Radeon 9800 Pro with the flimsy original cooler when I played Oblivion. After swapping the cooler for a bigger (and quieter) solution, I never had a crash. For some reason, it was only with Oblivion, and I never had the problem with any of my later cards.
The most interesting part of this "story" is of course the fact that it's much more an advertisement for Samsung's competition as a story in itself. "We: more honest than our competitors." It certainly isn't news.
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Just do it, then, and stop whining.
It's just that those people don't care about the fact that they don't own what they've bought -- they're more afraid of being owned when playing games. The console is theirs in that they get to keep it permanently, and apart from that it's just a gateway to a games service. They were never going to use it for anything but further consumption of things they don't own. Come to think of it, Sony and Apple are pretty much the same in that regard.
Minnie Mouse. Since social engineering is the most noble kind of engineering.
Wrong. iOS prompts you when the phone tries to use the GPS, which is unnecessary and not generally used for location data. For advertising purposes, coarse location data based on wifi and/or mobile hotspots are used.
And has been, ever since they turned to Fascism back in 2001.
Even the racist morons have left the site now. The only ones left are the ones craving for Crawford, and a few with no place else to go. However, I just had a story on the FP, so I'm happy with it as it is.
Anyhow, if you didn't have a GPS or if your GPS was turned off it may have defaulted back to generic ads.
No. The phone can get coarser location data from wireless and mobile networks. But you can turn off that kind of location data as well. With both of them off, I always wondered why Angry Birds used to advertise for bicycles in Atlanta, Georgia, considering I really need a bicycle somewhere in Norway, but apparently some ad servers can guess your location from which DNS server you use, and I used Google's DNS on my local network at the time.
According to WSJ, who had the an article the other day,
So I can't really see how Apple's system is all that much better. (And no, you don't need to use GPS to send location data, and neither is it used by advertisers.)
Actually, the UI is fairly unique. Well, sure, it still uses windows, and it's entirely true that the window decorations are awful with far too wide grey title bars, but I'm pretty sure the menu system is different from any other desktop and tablet.
Wrong. "The year of Linux on the desktop" has been a joke at least since Windows XP stopped being a joke, back in 2002 (initially, it was considered a bloated memory hog with stability problems). You're pretending to criticise something which is already said with irony.
Desktop wars are for fanboys and corporate giants. The rest of us simply don't care.
After IE6 fell as the dominant browser and OpenOffice gained good enough compatibility with MS Office, Linux has been fully usable on the desktop for those people who care about using it. It's not like I care that you prefer Windows 7 (a fine OS in my opinion), as long as your choice doesn't make my life more difficult. 10 years ago, it would: the web was full of buggy and IE-specific code, OpenOffice wasn't out yet, and the most important video playback format was the CSS-encrypted DVD, with no functional player available for Linux. We needed market share (or so we thought) to get the attention of IE6-minded web designers. Instead, open source produced a better browser that after a while took away Microsoft's dominance on their own platform.
These days, the web works, media playback under mplayer beats everything[1], and if someone sends me a .docx file that gives me problems, I ask them to save it as .doc instead. In some cases, that .doc will actually crash OpenOffice. And you know what? If it does, it will also crash Microsoft Word 2003 on Windows as well.
Of course, there are trade-offs. But that goes both ways. Or all three ways, if you want to count in the Mac. People who make premeditated decisions are usually willing to live with their trade-offs.
[1] Naturally, some encrypted formats aren't available, but then I'll just download the unencrypted version instead.
There's no division, it's two separate projects with separate origins.
No, they don't.
s/retarded crap/retarded crap about iGadgets/g. If it's a retarded non-story, and it's on Slashdot, it's most likely yet another story hyping Apple.
Also, the stories are generally more accurate than the rest of the year.
Actually, it was satirical, showing the folly of your simpleton desires.
Your news site? Would that be Free Internet Press, followed by a whopping 109 people? No, sir, that doesn't put you anywhere near the 0.05%. Millions of people use Twitter, your site just doesn't have much presence there.
I'm not sure it's all that much of a status symbol, really. Either you're a real life somebody with a lot of followers, or you're an internet nobody with a lot of followers. Tweet a lot, be helpful and engage in discussions, and you'll gain followers, but I don't think being big on Twitter gives all that much status, even on Twitter.
But sure, the whole social networking concept does appeal to vanity to a sickening degree.
Only 0.05%? Now, that would be news.
Actually, that should read as 0.05% of Twitter users are big celebrities.
No, instead you chose to compare it to a Bugatti because you're an utter wanker. Fact of the matter is that the N8's camera is only slightly better than the ones found in similarly expensive phones from Sony Ericsson, whereas the cars you chose for your blatantly false analogy are in completely different categories.
Although untrue, the OP explicitly said he considered the Desire HD, whose camera is very poor compared to anything by Sony Ericsson. Then again, he was also concerned about obsolescence, so SE might be a bad choice, considering their poor software upgrade record and locked-down bootloader. The Nexus S is easily upgradeable and has a fairly decent if unspectacular camera, so it might be a better compromise.
You can take your silly Bugatti comparison and stick it; the N8 is still only a camera phone, miles away from any professional digital cam.
If you need a good camera, why not buy a Nexus S or one of the new Sony Ericssons instead? HTC's cameras are fairly poor.
I'd say the N8 is a pretty safe buy anyway, as the Desire HD (along with the rest of today's smartphones) will be pretty much obsolete by 2013 as well.
I got those with my old Radeon 9800 Pro with the flimsy original cooler when I played Oblivion. After swapping the cooler for a bigger (and quieter) solution, I never had a crash. For some reason, it was only with Oblivion, and I never had the problem with any of my later cards.
I'm pretty sure you have a hardware error.
The most interesting part of this "story" is of course the fact that it's much more an advertisement for Samsung's competition as a story in itself. "We: more honest than our competitors." It certainly isn't news.