What donations? Oh, you mean the donations that could have been made but for which there is no evidence, and whose existence or otherwise is nothing to do with the original article? Maybe that's why no-one has mentioned it. Besides you. Does that make you a nobody? Perhaps it does.
There were more than a few pushes and shoves. There were broken bones, cracked skulls and a dead bloke called Ian Tomlinson (at an earlier protest). Have you never heard that two rights don't make a wrong? The fact that others use greater force shows nothing about whether we should be allowing greater force to be used by British police.
Eh? "Make a person more interesting"? That's not the point of an app. Apps help you get shit done more effectively.
A dedicated cooking app works much better than a web app. Ditto for medical apps, property search apps and online banking apps. More responsive, greater flexibility, etc etc.
I don't want to have the Epicurious website open when I cook, I want the Epicurious app (at a minimum -- I'd rather have a Jamie Oliver app or ebook open).
I think we're in agreement on what's needed, but disagree about how much it cost. I said "a range of good apps that are optimised for the reduced processing power and ram the tablet has cf an iPad", you said "recompile Android for the hardware and do the same to the software that came with the thing". But: - good screens are expensive - putting the effort into effective tailoring of the software is also pricey, if you want to do a decent job
I agree that the chip doesn't cost that much and that vanilla Android is a non-starter.
This is a pile of cock. Rioters have been busy beating the shit out of each other, police, journalists, bystanders, shopkeepers etc. The notion that any injuries caused are simply accidental is risible.
Bollocks. The police have no qualms about using force against large crowds, as they showed during the student protests. But they are used to dealing with *protest*, not rioting. As a result, they're too brutal for the former, and ineffective against the latter.
Ya know, from several thousand miles away, you might want to be a bit more cautious about your jumps to conclusions. Tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets have *never* been used in mainland Britain, despite a very long history of rioting. The police and gov't will be well aware that those tactical options exist, but will be extremely reluctant to deploy them as it would be a tacit admission that other tactics were no longer working, would represent a major escalation of force and a serious erosion of policing-by-consent, and be very difficult to turn back from.
Well, you know what they say: don't assume, it makes an ass out of u and me. In this case, more you. The common characteristics of the rioters are youth, poverty and ethnic diversity, as you can see for yourself by looking at the hundreds of photos online.
No. The whole of N17 needs the kind of *love* that Camilla Batmanghelidjh provides so amazingly at Kid's Club. People are behaving like this because they have known no love care or affection in their horrible bleak lives. You have to be extraordinary to *not* grow up to be a twat under those circumstances.
The reductio ad absurdum of your argument, though, is that you'll only trust solutions you've built yourself. Which doesn't really work for comms between you and another living breathing person.
You've got this the wrong way round. BlackBerry has been loudly and publicly saying they're going to help the police because they're worried about the damage to their brand if they're seen as the technology that Helps Young Thugs Riot.
Just on the offchance that this is a serious question: - Cooking apps - Medical apps - Property search apps - Online banking apps To name but four categories where people are making extensive use of apps. I also use TVguide.co.uk and iPlayer an awful lot.
Mod this puppy up! *This* is what consumers care about. And rightly so: they want something that feels high-value, works smoothly out-of-the-box with little learning, and that won't break.
I'm pretty sure that the facts don't bear your assertion out. I can't find it readily, but I'm sure I've seen research that says that iPad users download quite a lot of apps, spend more per app than the iPhone/other smartphone users do, and use the apps more extensively. The larger form factor makes a big difference.
I buy the theory. The practice may be quite tricky, because I think the aspect most consumers are unlikely to want to compromise on is the UX, which is the bit that's expensive to produce. They want a fluid and responsive interface. That means a good screen, a decent chip and a range of good apps that are optimised for the reduced processing power and ram the tablet has cf an iPad. I really doubt resistive screens can be made to fly, tbh.
Riiiight. My version of the facts involve quoting the number of phones, iPads, Macs and iPods sold and the growth/decline rates for each. Your facts are... your own opinions: "phones in general are a mature market" "dominated by entrenched players" etc.
Anyways, I'd love to see you put the "Apple statistics" into context against the entire market. Just to see your arse hang out even further. So go on, man up and do it.
Did you really intend to fail a reading comprehension test that badly in public? The OP said: "iPhone is the single most sold smartphone *brand*". That was the whole fucking point of his post! Brand, not OS. (And profits, not volume)
Jeez, it would be nice if people would argue from the actual facts.
Apple's consumer electronics markets are evaporating? I mean, seriously?
Just to remind ourselves of the facts, here: "The Company sold 20.34 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 142 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 9.25 million iPads during the quarter, a 183 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 3.95 million Macs during the quarter, a 14 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 7.54 million iPods, a 20 percent unit decline from the year-ago quarter."
It's a shame your logic doesn't match your vocabulary. Why the fuck would you think that I think that *every* argument contrary to mine is horseshit? Do you not see the logical fallacy and essential narcissim (to use your oh-so-clever phrasing) in imagining that because I disparage your argument in this way, I do the same with everyone else? I disparage your argument as horseshit because it is internally inconsistent, is contrary to the evidence available to us, and is clearly driven by your ideological motivation rather than any care for the facts. Back in your box, twatmeister, where you can learn not to use words like "definitive" to describe arguments you then go on to rubbish.
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I'd be more interested if they could expose either the criminal non-crimes or the non-criminal crimes. Tautology is fun to see.
What donations? Oh, you mean the donations that could have been made but for which there is no evidence, and whose existence or otherwise is nothing to do with the original article? Maybe that's why no-one has mentioned it. Besides you. Does that make you a nobody? Perhaps it does.
There were more than a few pushes and shoves. There were broken bones, cracked skulls and a dead bloke called Ian Tomlinson (at an earlier protest). Have you never heard that two rights don't make a wrong? The fact that others use greater force shows nothing about whether we should be allowing greater force to be used by British police.
Eh? "Make a person more interesting"? That's not the point of an app. Apps help you get shit done more effectively.
A dedicated cooking app works much better than a web app. Ditto for medical apps, property search apps and online banking apps. More responsive, greater flexibility, etc etc.
I don't want to have the Epicurious website open when I cook, I want the Epicurious app (at a minimum -- I'd rather have a Jamie Oliver app or ebook open).
I think we're in agreement on what's needed, but disagree about how much it cost. I said "a range of good apps that are optimised for the reduced processing power and ram the tablet has cf an iPad", you said "recompile Android for the hardware and do the same to the software that came with the thing". But:
- good screens are expensive
- putting the effort into effective tailoring of the software is also pricey, if you want to do a decent job
I agree that the chip doesn't cost that much and that vanilla Android is a non-starter.
This is a pile of cock. Rioters have been busy beating the shit out of each other, police, journalists, bystanders, shopkeepers etc. The notion that any injuries caused are simply accidental is risible.
Bollocks. The police have no qualms about using force against large crowds, as they showed during the student protests. But they are used to dealing with *protest*, not rioting. As a result, they're too brutal for the former, and ineffective against the latter.
Ya know, from several thousand miles away, you might want to be a bit more cautious about your jumps to conclusions. Tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets have *never* been used in mainland Britain, despite a very long history of rioting. The police and gov't will be well aware that those tactical options exist, but will be extremely reluctant to deploy them as it would be a tacit admission that other tactics were no longer working, would represent a major escalation of force and a serious erosion of policing-by-consent, and be very difficult to turn back from.
Sorry to hear about your friends. That is horrific for them.
Well, you know what they say: don't assume, it makes an ass out of u and me. In this case, more you. The common characteristics of the rioters are youth, poverty and ethnic diversity, as you can see for yourself by looking at the hundreds of photos online.
No. The whole of N17 needs the kind of *love* that Camilla Batmanghelidjh provides so amazingly at Kid's Club. People are behaving like this because they have known no love care or affection in their horrible bleak lives. You have to be extraordinary to *not* grow up to be a twat under those circumstances.
He's probably confusing it with Totteridge, which is.
The reductio ad absurdum of your argument, though, is that you'll only trust solutions you've built yourself. Which doesn't really work for comms between you and another living breathing person.
BBM is encrypted.
You've got this the wrong way round. BlackBerry has been loudly and publicly saying they're going to help the police because they're worried about the damage to their brand if they're seen as the technology that Helps Young Thugs Riot.
Just on the offchance that this is a serious question:
- Cooking apps
- Medical apps
- Property search apps
- Online banking apps
To name but four categories where people are making extensive use of apps. I also use TVguide.co.uk and iPlayer an awful lot.
Mod this puppy up! *This* is what consumers care about. And rightly so: they want something that feels high-value, works smoothly out-of-the-box with little learning, and that won't break.
I'm pretty sure that the facts don't bear your assertion out. I can't find it readily, but I'm sure I've seen research that says that iPad users download quite a lot of apps, spend more per app than the iPhone/other smartphone users do, and use the apps more extensively. The larger form factor makes a big difference.
I buy the theory. The practice may be quite tricky, because I think the aspect most consumers are unlikely to want to compromise on is the UX, which is the bit that's expensive to produce. They want a fluid and responsive interface. That means a good screen, a decent chip and a range of good apps that are optimised for the reduced processing power and ram the tablet has cf an iPad. I really doubt resistive screens can be made to fly, tbh.
Riiiight. My version of the facts involve quoting the number of phones, iPads, Macs and iPods sold and the growth/decline rates for each. Your facts are ... your own opinions: "phones in general are a mature market" "dominated by entrenched players" etc.
Anyways, I'd love to see you put the "Apple statistics" into context against the entire market. Just to see your arse hang out even further. So go on, man up and do it.
Did you really intend to fail a reading comprehension test that badly in public? The OP said: "iPhone is the single most sold smartphone *brand*". That was the whole fucking point of his post! Brand, not OS. (And profits, not volume)
Jeez, it would be nice if people would argue from the actual facts.
Apple's consumer electronics markets are evaporating? I mean, seriously?
Just to remind ourselves of the facts, here:
"The Company sold 20.34 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 142 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 9.25 million iPads during the quarter, a 183 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 3.95 million Macs during the quarter, a 14 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 7.54 million iPods, a 20 percent unit decline from the year-ago quarter."
Oh, you build unibody cases at home, do you? Interesting, you must have quite a sophisticated setup.
It's a shame your logic doesn't match your vocabulary. Why the fuck would you think that I think that *every* argument contrary to mine is horseshit? Do you not see the logical fallacy and essential narcissim (to use your oh-so-clever phrasing) in imagining that because I disparage your argument in this way, I do the same with everyone else? I disparage your argument as horseshit because it is internally inconsistent, is contrary to the evidence available to us, and is clearly driven by your ideological motivation rather than any care for the facts. Back in your box, twatmeister, where you can learn not to use words like "definitive" to describe arguments you then go on to rubbish.
You are misunderstanding the point the poster was trying to make. This is what he meant:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/23/dell-xps-15z-review/
Look at what the review says about build quality and aesthetics. You may not value unibody, but lots of people do.