That's basically the reason why the simultaneous usage of an iPad and multiple iPhones to hold your cards (also a notion ink adam? and multiple EVOs) will likely be the more popular alternative.
I already read a lot about people discussing how awesome they think the whole scrabble tile rack app is. I hope this type of interesting usage continues.
I was under the impression that iDevices could handle more than two inputs at a time? The first paragraph mentions that only up to a pinch is polled at a time?
Research any new product before purchasing it and you'll discover a long list of problems that it has. No product is without issues.
Wait just a second there. Are you telling me that...that...previous iphones had problems too? That's just silly talk.
It's a well known fact that them OTHER phones have had a laundry list of problems in years past. Things like no native apps, no removable battery, no GPS, no 3G internet, AT&T, no 1700/2100 MHz 3G support, no video capture, terrible GPS reception, AT&T, overheating, AT&T,...
4)... after licking, or otherwise moistening, my thumb so it's conductive enough to bridge those two pieces of metal...
5)... in an area that already has really crappy reception.
wait...don't tell me, are you implying that the only people who're having the problem are the oily (from pizza) or the sweaty that live in basements? And the majority of the people who're complaining choose to do so....on the internet?
Anecdote: Tried this out today, it's not quite as simple as you'd hope. The canned answer to the proximity sensor issue was to install the brand new iOS 4.0.1 . Even asked the guy if it would have mattered if I came in a couple hours earlier, before the firmware was available, and he said the first thing he would've done is restored to 4.0 and see if that did it.
I mentioned how intermittently the home button wouldn't turn the screen on from standby, apparently he's "never heard of that issue" and I would have to try the new firmware for a while and see if it continues.
Really the guy's response to a whole host of issues and questions I brought up like dropped calls, that many people said was enough to warrant a replacement, was that they need the device to be on the new firmware while the problems pop up so they can run a diagnostic and THEN replace the phone.
On the one hand I understand the need to ferret out the phone hypochondriac's among us, but at the same time I can't help but be immensely frustrated knowing that the home button and dropped calls and even possibly the proximity sensor issues will pop up again, and I'll take it back in and finally get the replacement I deserve for clearly faulty hardware. Meanwhile it becomes a massive waste of time to jump through these hoops.
My dad had a problem with his iPhone awhile ago, it shut down after about an hour or so of using the 3G constantly. The genius restored it and said to try it out and bring it back if it has any problems. He goes outside, plays a game for a half hour. It shuts down. He brings it back in and finally gets his replacement.
The apple stores are already crowded with a clusterfrack of people at all times, stop wasting everyone's time so damn much, Apple.
If the Leica camera was as fragile and slippery to hold as the iPhone 4 is, where one drop could destroy the screen or make a scratch on the screen, which for the iPhone 4 happens to be the entire focus of the device, then it would probably be just as good of an idea to put a case on a Leica camera as it is for the iPhone 4.
I've never used a Leica, but I assume that it at least isn't as easy to drop one as the iPhone 4. Do Leicas come with the unassuming wrist strap to keep you from making terrible mistakes? I'd probably use my iPhone without a case while walking on concrete if I could attach a *gasp*! wrist strap to it.
Appreciating untouched beauty only goes so far until preserving that beauty becomes more of a focus.
Anyone else thought at some point that this new iteration has one strange problem: it seems to be built for dedicated pirates.
Of course, the battery is set up to void your warranty if you do anything to it, but the whole pandora battery thing, as useful as it obviously was in helping you install custom firmware, it's not like that was the only ever way to install custom firmware, and besides, a warranty sticker on the battery won't stop someone from using a battery trick to hack a PSP Go if the process is documented well enough.
Anyway, I've had a phat psp since launch, a slim since launch, skipped out on the 3000 series since it was too similar to the slim, and the largest memory stick I've had has been 4GB, and 1GB before that. I can imagine having a whole 16GB built in to the thing would be a hell of a reason to buy a PSP Go if it supported custom FW. I know it would certainly be nice to be able to have my entire PS1 library on my PSP, which if I'm not mistaken is/was only possible using custom FW or if Sony offers every single one for digital distribution. The PSP makes an EXTREMELY good GBA too, plus the buttons are basically an SNES controller right there.
Anyway, with all the strange design choices Sony has made with the PSP Go, maybe it was all to appeal to or get more cash from casual scriptmonkey dedicated pirates as soon as the inevitable custom FW hack surfaces? For instance:
1. No UMD drive: pirates never use this anyway, so save on the cost of the possibly most expensive part of the PSP, the mechanical disc reader.
2. LARGE internal storage: more space for all the games that have until now been filling up a memory stick
3. a whole new suite of cables/accessories to buy: This is where Sony can get some money from otherwise cheapskates: proprietary hardware! Gotta have that component cable, hate the stupid look of the "old accessory" dock. Gotta get that sixaxis since I don't have a PS3 just to use for the PSP. New expensive non-standard USB cable means more money spent on Sony hardware when I lose it or break it.
and finally...
4. DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION!: What many might not realize is that digital distribution can possibly keep someone from pirating. Why wait for a fix to be released for that mininova ISO if it's just waiting to be bought and downloaded IMMEDIATELY without the need to swap UMD discs? Why wait till I get home to download off the pirate bay when I can crack open my psp here on the toilet at school and get the game right now, legitimately? Also, I can see the argument from a non-pirate that "hey I gotta go to gamestop to buy the new monster hunter, but why don't I download it in the meantime since I'm gonna be ripping it anyway..." and then just forget to go to gamestop or feel stupid going to gamestop and buying it after you find out it sucks or you're almost done beating it anyway.
In a similar vein, I can attest how much Steam convinces me to buy more games digitally even when I could just as easily pirate them to see what they're like. I must have redownloaded Left 4 Dead about 10 times in the past month just because I like to keep some more free space on my 80GB SSD, knowing that it's easy as crap to redownload whenever I wanna kill some zombies. Popcap games must be the easiest games to pirate in the history of PC games but I still preordered the CRAP out of PLANTS VS ZOMBIES just so I knew I could play it as soon as possible and redownload it on every machine I own, easily and quickly. I haven't played it for a while but I get supreme satisfaction just redownloading it and remembering how awesome it is. Same thing for Defense Grid, easy as pie to pirate but I knew I'd love it from the moment I heard about it, had it not been for Steam I wouldn't have bought it just because I didn't feel like trying to find it in a store. Is it even available on store shelves?!
I've heard horror stories about buying from the lenovo outlet or trying to finagle your way into a return without a restocking fee or something, but I just got done having two unparalleled experiences with them. Bought a refurbished t400 and a refurbished x200 tablet and they are both exceptional, especially when considering how much I paid for them.
Also, although I know several have mentioned many similar things about thinkpads above, first of all the t400 is a great standard laptop. I got mine with a 2.26 ghz dual core, dvd+r dl ultrabay burner, switchable graphics (ati 3470 and intel 4500hd, the intel i assume has acceptable linux support and the switchable graphics work great in windows 7 RTM), 1440x900 LED backlit 300 nit LG matte screen, 9 cell battery for over 7 hours of battery life in power saving mode, a full copy of office '07 and vista business 32 which is eligible for a free W7 Pro upgrade on october 23 all for a total of $660 including tax. This is a steal for the quality of laptop I got. I configured it with the same options as new from their website with heavy coupon usage and it came out to 1000-1100.
There are several reasons why the thinkpad has basically survived all sorts of comparisons to other laptops since I bought it:
1. every thinkpad comes with a trackpoint/ultranav, which aside from being rare on a laptop these days is (if I researched correctly) a trackpoint 4th generation with many improvements over the few competing brands. This is extremely obvious when comparing to the "pointing stick" on a year old dell latitude. Also, I'm not sure but I think other trackpoints may not have the second set of mouse buttons right above the trackpad like thinkpads do. Again, the Dell Latitude I can compare it to does NOT. The middle ultranav button is particularly useful with the ultranav software, turning it into a trackpoint scroll.
2. While my 300-nit LED screen is certainly bright enough to make the keyboard visible in the dark, negating the use of the nice thinklight, it is still nice to have for when you want a light to read some paper documents or read a real book. Also, by using the thinklight to illuminate the keyboard, you can save battery life by reducing screen brightness. I have no idea how to compare to a backlit keyboard in terms of battery life, but I assume it is much less since I've read of troubles involving NOT using the keyboard backlight when it is not necessary.
3.The ultrabay slot I'm sure is a feature on other business laptops, I was actually looking at a fujitsu lifebook and read about its modular bay. Of course, that is a $1800 tablet so let's just say when you can buy an hdd adapter off ebay from hong kong for $15 making the use of two HDDs in a 660 dollar laptop that's pretty incomparable right there. Unfortunately the ultrabay battery apparently dies real quick since it is depleted completely before the main battery so I doubt I'll ever get one of those to have an equivalent of a 12 cell battery in my thinkpad.
4. I'm not sure how ubiquitous this is nowadays, but the latest thinkpads all support sata II 3.0 gbps in the main bay. Right now sitting pretty is an intel SSD at full speed, and a standard 160GB HDD in the ultrabay slot, giving the best of both SSD/HDD worlds.
5. Battery life is great, easily less than 10000(10?) MW when in power saver/intel graphics, giving me 8 hours of battery life on the 80000(80?) MWh refurb 9 cell that came with. Plus, 4 cell batts that sit flush in the t400 to fit my incase 15" macbook fluffy sleeve are $35 on the outlet. 6 cells (sticking out less than 9 cell) are $41 and I don't know how much 9 cells are since mine came with one.
6. the ATI 3470, while obviously not a champion graphics card, plays every game I throw at it except maybe Crysis. I have a quad core desktop if I want supreme graphics anyway. A bonus is that the t400 is one of the few real "lap"tops out there, since even when gaming it doesnt burn my lap like basically every other "notebook" out there. Left 4
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I would give everything i own for a little bit more.
Stop giving everything for a drop of whiskey and maybe you irish can get started on that world domination business.
That's basically the reason why the simultaneous usage of an iPad and multiple iPhones to hold your cards (also a notion ink adam? and multiple EVOs) will likely be the more popular alternative.
I already read a lot about people discussing how awesome they think the whole scrabble tile rack app is. I hope this type of interesting usage continues.
Seriously, wizards. Make this!
It may never happen, wizards is already showing its disdain for tapping in Duels of the Planeswalkers.
I was under the impression that iDevices could handle more than two inputs at a time? The first paragraph mentions that only up to a pinch is polled at a time?
Research any new product before purchasing it and you'll discover a long list of problems that it has. No product is without issues.
Wait just a second there. Are you telling me that...that...previous iphones had problems too? That's just silly talk.
It's a well known fact that them OTHER phones have had a laundry list of problems in years past. Things like no native apps, no removable battery, no GPS, no 3G internet, AT&T, no 1700/2100 MHz 3G support, no video capture, terrible GPS reception, AT&T, overheating, AT&T,...
Six feet!? That's quite a drop!
It's pretty natural for normal people to swing iPhones around their heads and balance them on top of door frames. You must be using it wrong.
"New clear bumper flavor, made out of glass!"
4) ... after licking, or otherwise moistening, my thumb so it's conductive enough to bridge those two pieces of metal...
5) ... in an area that already has really crappy reception.
wait...don't tell me, are you implying that the only people who're having the problem are the oily (from pizza) or the sweaty that live in basements? And the majority of the people who're complaining choose to do so....on the internet?
What does this mean?!
Anecdote: Tried this out today, it's not quite as simple as you'd hope. The canned answer to the proximity sensor issue was to install the brand new iOS 4.0.1 . Even asked the guy if it would have mattered if I came in a couple hours earlier, before the firmware was available, and he said the first thing he would've done is restored to 4.0 and see if that did it.
I mentioned how intermittently the home button wouldn't turn the screen on from standby, apparently he's "never heard of that issue" and I would have to try the new firmware for a while and see if it continues.
Really the guy's response to a whole host of issues and questions I brought up like dropped calls, that many people said was enough to warrant a replacement, was that they need the device to be on the new firmware while the problems pop up so they can run a diagnostic and THEN replace the phone.
On the one hand I understand the need to ferret out the phone hypochondriac's among us, but at the same time I can't help but be immensely frustrated knowing that the home button and dropped calls and even possibly the proximity sensor issues will pop up again, and I'll take it back in and finally get the replacement I deserve for clearly faulty hardware. Meanwhile it becomes a massive waste of time to jump through these hoops.
My dad had a problem with his iPhone awhile ago, it shut down after about an hour or so of using the 3G constantly. The genius restored it and said to try it out and bring it back if it has any problems. He goes outside, plays a game for a half hour. It shuts down. He brings it back in and finally gets his replacement.
The apple stores are already crowded with a clusterfrack of people at all times, stop wasting everyone's time so damn much, Apple.
If the Leica camera was as fragile and slippery to hold as the iPhone 4 is, where one drop could destroy the screen or make a scratch on the screen, which for the iPhone 4 happens to be the entire focus of the device, then it would probably be just as good of an idea to put a case on a Leica camera as it is for the iPhone 4.
I've never used a Leica, but I assume that it at least isn't as easy to drop one as the iPhone 4. Do Leicas come with the unassuming wrist strap to keep you from making terrible mistakes? I'd probably use my iPhone without a case while walking on concrete if I could attach a *gasp*! wrist strap to it.
Appreciating untouched beauty only goes so far until preserving that beauty becomes more of a focus.
Anyone else thought at some point that this new iteration has one strange problem: it seems to be built for dedicated pirates.
Of course, the battery is set up to void your warranty if you do anything to it, but the whole pandora battery thing, as useful as it obviously was in helping you install custom firmware, it's not like that was the only ever way to install custom firmware, and besides, a warranty sticker on the battery won't stop someone from using a battery trick to hack a PSP Go if the process is documented well enough.
Anyway, I've had a phat psp since launch, a slim since launch, skipped out on the 3000 series since it was too similar to the slim, and the largest memory stick I've had has been 4GB, and 1GB before that. I can imagine having a whole 16GB built in to the thing would be a hell of a reason to buy a PSP Go if it supported custom FW. I know it would certainly be nice to be able to have my entire PS1 library on my PSP, which if I'm not mistaken is/was only possible using custom FW or if Sony offers every single one for digital distribution. The PSP makes an EXTREMELY good GBA too, plus the buttons are basically an SNES controller right there.
Anyway, with all the strange design choices Sony has made with the PSP Go, maybe it was all to appeal to or get more cash from casual scriptmonkey dedicated pirates as soon as the inevitable custom FW hack surfaces? For instance:
1. No UMD drive: pirates never use this anyway, so save on the cost of the possibly most expensive part of the PSP, the mechanical disc reader.
2. LARGE internal storage: more space for all the games that have until now been filling up a memory stick
3. a whole new suite of cables/accessories to buy: This is where Sony can get some money from otherwise cheapskates: proprietary hardware! Gotta have that component cable, hate the stupid look of the "old accessory" dock. Gotta get that sixaxis since I don't have a PS3 just to use for the PSP. New expensive non-standard USB cable means more money spent on Sony hardware when I lose it or break it.
and finally... 4. DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION!: What many might not realize is that digital distribution can possibly keep someone from pirating. Why wait for a fix to be released for that mininova ISO if it's just waiting to be bought and downloaded IMMEDIATELY without the need to swap UMD discs? Why wait till I get home to download off the pirate bay when I can crack open my psp here on the toilet at school and get the game right now, legitimately? Also, I can see the argument from a non-pirate that "hey I gotta go to gamestop to buy the new monster hunter, but why don't I download it in the meantime since I'm gonna be ripping it anyway..." and then just forget to go to gamestop or feel stupid going to gamestop and buying it after you find out it sucks or you're almost done beating it anyway.
In a similar vein, I can attest how much Steam convinces me to buy more games digitally even when I could just as easily pirate them to see what they're like. I must have redownloaded Left 4 Dead about 10 times in the past month just because I like to keep some more free space on my 80GB SSD, knowing that it's easy as crap to redownload whenever I wanna kill some zombies. Popcap games must be the easiest games to pirate in the history of PC games but I still preordered the CRAP out of PLANTS VS ZOMBIES just so I knew I could play it as soon as possible and redownload it on every machine I own, easily and quickly. I haven't played it for a while but I get supreme satisfaction just redownloading it and remembering how awesome it is. Same thing for Defense Grid, easy as pie to pirate but I knew I'd love it from the moment I heard about it, had it not been for Steam I wouldn't have bought it just because I didn't feel like trying to find it in a store. Is it even available on store shelves?!
I've heard horror stories about buying from the lenovo outlet or trying to finagle your way into a return without a restocking fee or something, but I just got done having two unparalleled experiences with them. Bought a refurbished t400 and a refurbished x200 tablet and they are both exceptional, especially when considering how much I paid for them.
Also, although I know several have mentioned many similar things about thinkpads above, first of all the t400 is a great standard laptop. I got mine with a 2.26 ghz dual core, dvd+r dl ultrabay burner, switchable graphics (ati 3470 and intel 4500hd, the intel i assume has acceptable linux support and the switchable graphics work great in windows 7 RTM), 1440x900 LED backlit 300 nit LG matte screen, 9 cell battery for over 7 hours of battery life in power saving mode, a full copy of office '07 and vista business 32 which is eligible for a free W7 Pro upgrade on october 23 all for a total of $660 including tax. This is a steal for the quality of laptop I got. I configured it with the same options as new from their website with heavy coupon usage and it came out to 1000-1100.
There are several reasons why the thinkpad has basically survived all sorts of comparisons to other laptops since I bought it:
1. every thinkpad comes with a trackpoint/ultranav, which aside from being rare on a laptop these days is (if I researched correctly) a trackpoint 4th generation with many improvements over the few competing brands. This is extremely obvious when comparing to the "pointing stick" on a year old dell latitude. Also, I'm not sure but I think other trackpoints may not have the second set of mouse buttons right above the trackpad like thinkpads do. Again, the Dell Latitude I can compare it to does NOT. The middle ultranav button is particularly useful with the ultranav software, turning it into a trackpoint scroll.
2. While my 300-nit LED screen is certainly bright enough to make the keyboard visible in the dark, negating the use of the nice thinklight, it is still nice to have for when you want a light to read some paper documents or read a real book. Also, by using the thinklight to illuminate the keyboard, you can save battery life by reducing screen brightness. I have no idea how to compare to a backlit keyboard in terms of battery life, but I assume it is much less since I've read of troubles involving NOT using the keyboard backlight when it is not necessary.
3.The ultrabay slot I'm sure is a feature on other business laptops, I was actually looking at a fujitsu lifebook and read about its modular bay. Of course, that is a $1800 tablet so let's just say when you can buy an hdd adapter off ebay from hong kong for $15 making the use of two HDDs in a 660 dollar laptop that's pretty incomparable right there. Unfortunately the ultrabay battery apparently dies real quick since it is depleted completely before the main battery so I doubt I'll ever get one of those to have an equivalent of a 12 cell battery in my thinkpad.
4. I'm not sure how ubiquitous this is nowadays, but the latest thinkpads all support sata II 3.0 gbps in the main bay. Right now sitting pretty is an intel SSD at full speed, and a standard 160GB HDD in the ultrabay slot, giving the best of both SSD/HDD worlds.
5. Battery life is great, easily less than 10000(10?) MW when in power saver/intel graphics, giving me 8 hours of battery life on the 80000(80?) MWh refurb 9 cell that came with. Plus, 4 cell batts that sit flush in the t400 to fit my incase 15" macbook fluffy sleeve are $35 on the outlet. 6 cells (sticking out less than 9 cell) are $41 and I don't know how much 9 cells are since mine came with one.
6. the ATI 3470, while obviously not a champion graphics card, plays every game I throw at it except maybe Crysis. I have a quad core desktop if I want supreme graphics anyway. A bonus is that the t400 is one of the few real "lap"tops out there, since even when gaming it doesnt burn my lap like basically every other "notebook" out there. Left 4