Mother of god you are an idiot. The government is not a family. Banks aren't lending because they don't trust the economy will improve. But both banks and corporations are sitting on record amounts of cash. The government can pay off its debt at anytime by printing a $15 Trillion coin. The money will go into banks and never be lent out, causing no inflation. Debt isn't the issue, it's the lack of spending that's the real issue. The government needs to jumpstart the economy with a massive stimulus.
People like you are all the same. The whole "this ain't 1999", as if bad times are unavoidable and we've all gotta "suck it up" and head onwards. You freaks don't know how to deal with a society that is so ungodly wealthy thanks to modern technology. You *want* and *revel* in economic dishevelment and social disarray. It makes you feel "better" as you tighten your finances while others don't.
I agree with h4rr4r. You had ALL the power in that situation. You had the entire company management on their knees begging you to stay. You could have asked for ANYTHING and they would have folded. Instead you yourself gave up everything. How horrific of a negotiator can you be? Mother of god... are you one of the socially illiterate neckbeards who populate this site or just utterly brainless?
When did American become full of unempathic sociopaths? When did neocons/libertarians stumble upon their brilliant propaganda scheme to turn Americans against each other?
Dude, what you described *is* innovation. It's like the Japanese bringing just-in-time manufacturing to the auto industry. It's just supply side innovation, rather than client-side.
Samsung has a history of ripping off competitors and breaking various laws. They're not good at doing anything requiring bold action or independent thought.
What is it with white males and their groveling at the feet of women? It's all about a woman's body or a woman's child, and has nothing to do with the male input.
If it weren't for Google dumping a free OS onto the market and giving up net neutrality to sign a deal with the devi...Verizon, several competitors with fantastic mobile OS's wouldn't have gone bankrupt. Palm/webOS and Nokia/Meego are the two most obvious. Likely anyone who had thoughts about entering the mobile OS industry gave up once Google gave away their iOS clone for free. Now only an entrenched giant with guaranteed profits from another industry- Microsoft- is willing to give the OS market a shot. Google deprived us of a renaissance of OS and device innovation for the sake of unbridled greed.
Given Siri is an extremely resource intensive program, and Apple has to constantly ramp up server support for the millions of new users it adds every week, it makes sense why they wouldn't immediately make Siri available on 100-200 million+ iOS devices simultaneously.
The iPhone 3GS runs an underclocked CPU running at 600 MHz. It received iOS 5 and runs it perfectly. The iPhone 3G contained the exact same hardware as the iPhone 2G, the original iPhone released in June 2007. Until just a few months ago the 3G ran the latest version of iOS.
If the Galaxy S, a "halo" phone from a year back, can't run the latest version of Android, something is desperately wrong with Google's OS.
Only problem with iPhone is the lack of text reflow in the browser. I don't understand why the vast majority of iOS users haven't been more vocal about this issue. Only in iOS 5 did Apple add the "Reader" function in Safari, but that doesn't work with forums like slashdot or article comments like with arstechnica.
It's a lot like how OSX will get 6 hours on a particular laptop, but Windows on that same exact device will get 4 hours. There's nothing Samsung can do about Android's inefficiency.
The iPhone 3G came out in June 2008, 4 months before the first Android phone ever (T-Mobile G1). It runs the same CPU as the iPhone 2G, which came out June 2007. So no, iOS 5 is not possible.
The Galaxy S ICS mod came out so quickly b/c the Nexus S is essentially the same phone and is receiving the update.
The choice in hardware is mostly an illusion. Aside from a qwerty keyboard, there's no real innovation or attempts to do something new. At best we got the Xperia play, which hasn't been updated or matched by other developers, and nothing else. Android is the Windows of smartphones.
"There are Android phones on the market that are smooth as silk and have 20+ hour battery life." Such as? Android lags behind one's touch and has worse battery life on all phones.
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Mother of god you are an idiot. The government is not a family. Banks aren't lending because they don't trust the economy will improve. But both banks and corporations are sitting on record amounts of cash. The government can pay off its debt at anytime by printing a $15 Trillion coin. The money will go into banks and never be lent out, causing no inflation. Debt isn't the issue, it's the lack of spending that's the real issue. The government needs to jumpstart the economy with a massive stimulus.
People like you are all the same. The whole "this ain't 1999", as if bad times are unavoidable and we've all gotta "suck it up" and head onwards. You freaks don't know how to deal with a society that is so ungodly wealthy thanks to modern technology. You *want* and *revel* in economic dishevelment and social disarray. It makes you feel "better" as you tighten your finances while others don't.
I agree with h4rr4r. You had ALL the power in that situation. You had the entire company management on their knees begging you to stay. You could have asked for ANYTHING and they would have folded. Instead you yourself gave up everything. How horrific of a negotiator can you be? Mother of god... are you one of the socially illiterate neckbeards who populate this site or just utterly brainless?
You're an idiot who needs to take Macroeconomics 101 before mouthing off like a retard tea partier.
Clinton passed NAFTA, stuffed the treasury while national infrastructure decayed, and let the dot com bubble occur.
When did American become full of unempathic sociopaths? When did neocons/libertarians stumble upon their brilliant propaganda scheme to turn Americans against each other?
Actually most people outside the US get to see the world. Tons of European and Asian tourists all over.
Insurance is the very definition of getting someone else to pay for you.
The iPhone 4S's GPU Hulk Smashes the SGS 2's GPU. The A5 chip is a dual-core version of the PS Vita's quad-core GPU.
How do you read text in the iOS browser without text reflow?
But iOS doesn't have text reflow in the browser. How the devil do you read text without using a magnifying lens?
Dude, what you described *is* innovation. It's like the Japanese bringing just-in-time manufacturing to the auto industry. It's just supply side innovation, rather than client-side.
Google search isn't even a monopoly in Korea. They have like 10% market share.
Google hasn't made much of anything off Android. It wasted $12 billion on Motorola for ripping off iOS instead of doing cheap licensing deals.
Samsung has a history of ripping off competitors and breaking various laws. They're not good at doing anything requiring bold action or independent thought.
What is it with white males and their groveling at the feet of women? It's all about a woman's body or a woman's child, and has nothing to do with the male input.
If it weren't for Google dumping a free OS onto the market and giving up net neutrality to sign a deal with the devi...Verizon, several competitors with fantastic mobile OS's wouldn't have gone bankrupt. Palm/webOS and Nokia/Meego are the two most obvious. Likely anyone who had thoughts about entering the mobile OS industry gave up once Google gave away their iOS clone for free. Now only an entrenched giant with guaranteed profits from another industry- Microsoft- is willing to give the OS market a shot. Google deprived us of a renaissance of OS and device innovation for the sake of unbridled greed.
Given Siri is an extremely resource intensive program, and Apple has to constantly ramp up server support for the millions of new users it adds every week, it makes sense why they wouldn't immediately make Siri available on 100-200 million+ iOS devices simultaneously.
The iPhone 3GS runs an underclocked CPU running at 600 MHz. It received iOS 5 and runs it perfectly. The iPhone 3G contained the exact same hardware as the iPhone 2G, the original iPhone released in June 2007. Until just a few months ago the 3G ran the latest version of iOS.
If the Galaxy S, a "halo" phone from a year back, can't run the latest version of Android, something is desperately wrong with Google's OS.
Only problem with iPhone is the lack of text reflow in the browser. I don't understand why the vast majority of iOS users haven't been more vocal about this issue. Only in iOS 5 did Apple add the "Reader" function in Safari, but that doesn't work with forums like slashdot or article comments like with arstechnica.
The A5 chip has yet to be jailbreaked. You also can't jailbreak an iOS device and thus access vulnerabilities with a rogue program.
It also means Sony's giving up on competing with "Apple TV", while Samsung's gearing up to rip off Apple yet again.
This alpha 7 build of CM9 reveals lag on Nexus S: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQmaCKbpwxE
>Also my girlfriend's Galaxy S II gets put on a charger about every 2 days, and the dual core makes it incredibly snappy.
Great, the GS2 is a good phone, but actual reviews show the SII's battery life still pales in comparison to the iPhone's:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4971/apple-iphone-4s-review-att-verizon/15
It's a lot like how OSX will get 6 hours on a particular laptop, but Windows on that same exact device will get 4 hours. There's nothing Samsung can do about Android's inefficiency.
The iPhone 3G came out in June 2008, 4 months before the first Android phone ever (T-Mobile G1). It runs the same CPU as the iPhone 2G, which came out June 2007. So no, iOS 5 is not possible.
The Galaxy S ICS mod came out so quickly b/c the Nexus S is essentially the same phone and is receiving the update.
The choice in hardware is mostly an illusion. Aside from a qwerty keyboard, there's no real innovation or attempts to do something new. At best we got the Xperia play, which hasn't been updated or matched by other developers, and nothing else. Android is the Windows of smartphones.
"There are Android phones on the market that are smooth as silk and have 20+ hour battery life."
Such as? Android lags behind one's touch and has worse battery life on all phones.
Jobs is dead. Get over yourself.
Always buy phones used. The 3 month old Droid Bionic already sells for $280 on ebay. 6 month old phones go for $150.