Why do they wait 17 months to stream sports events? Seriously, you guys need to work on your prose style a bit. These huge run-on sentences are a pain to read.
Centre? That's nothing but elitists trying to distance themselves from the low-brow American and aping the erudite and superior European
Oh gawd. Not everything is about "elitists". When you see two spellings used, it's hard to remember which one is correct for your country. Probably most people who say "centre" think that that's the correct spelling when you talk about a building as opposed to a geometrical concept.
Words don't have social standing? Try saying "what the fuck" next time you go for a job interview. If you live in the UK, the way you use language is a major class signifier. I remember mentioning the movie "Educating Rita" to a British colleague, and wincing at his characterization of the title character.
I agree that the whole concept of a "war on terror" is bogus. But that's not strictly an American thing. To quote George Orwell, "Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
The center/centre thing is interesting. Lots of words that end in "re" in British English end in "er" in American English, mainly because in the early 1800s Americans thought it was patriotic to use their own spelling rules. Since Canadians use British spelling, and a Canadian accent sounds pretentious to an American ear (as a member of a Canadian family who grew up in southern California, I have first-hand experience of this), using "centre" does indeed sound pretentious to many Americans But I suspect that in many cases (including this one) people just think that "centre" is the correct spelling.
It would be cool to live in a place where you don't have to lock your door. But if you know you live in a place where that's a bad idea, not locking your door is negligent.
Right you are. That's the issue that I should have thought of: you need new functionality that hard to engineer into a embedded OS. So even though it's overkill, you end up embedding a complete PC or smartphone in your device. I've actually seen it happen before.
That will be the main selling point of Android-based cameras: the networking Just Works. If you don't want to use it to play Angry Birds, nobody's making you.
Jeesus. You're like the 20th person to accuse me of being an apologist for LulzSec. What part of "I'm no fan" do you not understand???!!!
Oh yeah, I must be fan of LulzSec if I say anything bad about Sony. I'm down on both of them. Can you wrap your feeble little brain around that simple concept?
Yeah, most people are clueless about the Internet. But that said, it's also true that polls are easily skewed by the wording of a poll question, or the way it is asked.
I'm not seeing them. Perhaps you're mistaking other compacts for VWs? Portlanders do tend to drive those. Part of it is our proverbial greenness, but also the narrow streets in the older neighborhoods are a pain to drive a big car through.
All of which applies only to the part of PDX west of Oregon Route 213. East of it is technically the same city, but things are more car-centric. Naturally, there's a big cultural gap, with them viewing us as airheaded treehugging socialists, and us viewing them as knuckle-dragging tea-baggers.
Actually, I've only lived here for a year, but I think I have it right.
If the non-phone features of your phone are that unimportant, why not carry a feature phone and save money? But all those apps are important, or you wouldn't bother. And in that case you should care about what OS you use, since that determines which developer/user ecosystem you participate in.
And if you honestly don't care about that, then why don't you have an iPhone? They do have many technical and usability advantages. I can say that without being accused of being an Apple fanboy, since the ecosystem issues guarantee that I will never own an Apple mobile device of any kind.
The camera is a different matter simply because it's likely to be your secondary mobile device, and you don't need both of them to be an application platform.
Unless your eyes are better than mine, my phone cameras seem to be bloomproof.
The "smell this" pointed to some really nice flowers, which east-side PDX has in abundance during spring. Sorry, no dog poop, the yuppies in my neighborhood are uptight about such things. As am I, come to think of it.
And I think you missed my, or maybe just didn't read far enough. If I'm going to spend hundreds of dollars on a dedicated camera instead of getting by on my phone camera, I must be a serious photography. Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I can't see serious photographers working with the simple-minded photo software that runs on mobile devices.
I can't be bothered to argue with your (usual) misinformation about Concorde. But mistaking Charlton Heston's spaceship for a scramjet is just unacceptable!
...whether these cameras will have enough additional functionality to justify the added cost and weight when most people already have a serviceable camera in their phone...
Yeah, if you only want to take quick snapshots and you don't care about the quality, any phone camera will do. But even among phones, camera quality varies.
For a long time, I carried a Motorola Droid X with an 8 MP camera. I didn't buy it for the camera, but having the camera made me fall into the habit of taking pictures whenever I saw something interesting. (I'm a serious pedestrian living in a town with a lot of interesting architecture and views.) The results were pretty cool.
Then I had to replace the phone with a Motorola Triumph with a 5 MP camera. Picture quality suffered. Wouldn't have mattered so much to me if the previous camera hadn't introduced me to the joys of casual photography. When I have the time and money, I will certainly buy a more serious camera and take some classes.
Will that camera be Android-powered? The way the article goes at it (is there enough added functionality?) is exactly backwards. It assumes you live in an Android-powered world and are looking for the best way to integrate your picture-taking into it. For my part, I'll look at all low-end cameras, Android or not, and see which has the physical and electronic features that will work for me.
I suspect that Android is overkill for a dedicated camera and that one of those special purpose, nameless OSs that most cameras come with will suit me better. But I'm withholding judgment until the time comes.
I Googled Project Thor, and discovered that it all came from the fervid brain of Jerry Pournelle, who still thinks it was a great idea.
Jeez. There was a time when I actually enjoyed Pournelle's fiction, and even welcomed a little right-wing hawkish ranting to go with it (helped put the story in context). Now I can't read even a single sentence by him without rolling my eyes and saying "What an idiot!" Either I grew up or he got stupider. Probably a bit of both.
If Matthew Broderick had been a normal teenager he would have noticed that he was alone in his room with Ally Sheedy and turned off his computer. But no, he had to ignore her and hack into NORAD. There's a lesson in that.
Yeah, that's crazy. But then, we ignore a ton of problems that need fixing so we can build airplanes that cost billions of dollars each to fight guerrillas armed only with cheap knockoff assault rifles. That's not nearly as crazy, but it's out there.
...that they're still a world power. That means building a lot of expensive, useless weapons, because that's what world powers do. Ah, for the good old days, when you could just round up the slaves and put up a pyramid!
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Why do they wait 17 months to stream sports events? Seriously, you guys need to work on your prose style a bit. These huge run-on sentences are a pain to read.
Centre? That's nothing but elitists trying to distance themselves from the low-brow American and aping the erudite and superior European
Oh gawd. Not everything is about "elitists". When you see two spellings used, it's hard to remember which one is correct for your country. Probably most people who say "centre" think that that's the correct spelling when you talk about a building as opposed to a geometrical concept.
This is why I don't watch cable "news".
Actually, Brits spell it "centre".
Words don't have social standing? Try saying "what the fuck" next time you go for a job interview. If you live in the UK, the way you use language is a major class signifier. I remember mentioning the movie "Educating Rita" to a British colleague, and wincing at his characterization of the title character.
I agree that the whole concept of a "war on terror" is bogus. But that's not strictly an American thing. To quote George Orwell, "Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
The center/centre thing is interesting. Lots of words that end in "re" in British English end in "er" in American English, mainly because in the early 1800s Americans thought it was patriotic to use their own spelling rules. Since Canadians use British spelling, and a Canadian accent sounds pretentious to an American ear (as a member of a Canadian family who grew up in southern California, I have first-hand experience of this), using "centre" does indeed sound pretentious to many Americans But I suspect that in many cases (including this one) people just think that "centre" is the correct spelling.
Interesting. Not obvious to me. I guess that's the sort of thing you learn to see when you're serious about photography.
It would be cool to live in a place where you don't have to lock your door. But if you know you live in a place where that's a bad idea, not locking your door is negligent.
Right you are. That's the issue that I should have thought of: you need new functionality that hard to engineer into a embedded OS. So even though it's overkill, you end up embedding a complete PC or smartphone in your device. I've actually seen it happen before.
That will be the main selling point of Android-based cameras: the networking Just Works. If you don't want to use it to play Angry Birds, nobody's making you.
Jeesus. You're like the 20th person to accuse me of being an apologist for LulzSec. What part of "I'm no fan" do you not understand???!!!
Oh yeah, I must be fan of LulzSec if I say anything bad about Sony. I'm down on both of them. Can you wrap your feeble little brain around that simple concept?
So this is actually all about a personal animus against Apple. Kind of lame of you to pretend that you had an actual opinion.
Yeah, most people are clueless about the Internet. But that said, it's also true that polls are easily skewed by the wording of a poll question, or the way it is asked.
I'm not seeing them. Perhaps you're mistaking other compacts for VWs? Portlanders do tend to drive those. Part of it is our proverbial greenness, but also the narrow streets in the older neighborhoods are a pain to drive a big car through.
All of which applies only to the part of PDX west of Oregon Route 213. East of it is technically the same city, but things are more car-centric. Naturally, there's a big cultural gap, with them viewing us as airheaded treehugging socialists, and us viewing them as knuckle-dragging tea-baggers.
Actually, I've only lived here for a year, but I think I have it right.
If the non-phone features of your phone are that unimportant, why not carry a feature phone and save money? But all those apps are important, or you wouldn't bother. And in that case you should care about what OS you use, since that determines which developer/user ecosystem you participate in.
And if you honestly don't care about that, then why don't you have an iPhone? They do have many technical and usability advantages. I can say that without being accused of being an Apple fanboy, since the ecosystem issues guarantee that I will never own an Apple mobile device of any kind.
The camera is a different matter simply because it's likely to be your secondary mobile device, and you don't need both of them to be an application platform.
Unless your eyes are better than mine, my phone cameras seem to be bloomproof.
The "smell this" pointed to some really nice flowers, which east-side PDX has in abundance during spring. Sorry, no dog poop, the yuppies in my neighborhood are uptight about such things. As am I, come to think of it.
Thanks. This town pretty much demands to be photographed.
And I think you missed my, or maybe just didn't read far enough. If I'm going to spend hundreds of dollars on a dedicated camera instead of getting by on my phone camera, I must be a serious photography. Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I can't see serious photographers working with the simple-minded photo software that runs on mobile devices.
Huh? I didn't take that many pictures of cars to begin with. And no, VWs are not that common here.
I can't be bothered to argue with your (usual) misinformation about Concorde. But mistaking Charlton Heston's spaceship for a scramjet is just unacceptable!
...whether these cameras will have enough additional functionality to justify the added cost and weight when most people already have a serviceable camera in their phone...
Yeah, if you only want to take quick snapshots and you don't care about the quality, any phone camera will do. But even among phones, camera quality varies.
For a long time, I carried a Motorola Droid X with an 8 MP camera. I didn't buy it for the camera, but having the camera made me fall into the habit of taking pictures whenever I saw something interesting. (I'm a serious pedestrian living in a town with a lot of interesting architecture and views.) The results were pretty cool.
Then I had to replace the phone with a Motorola Triumph with a 5 MP camera. Picture quality suffered. Wouldn't have mattered so much to me if the previous camera hadn't introduced me to the joys of casual photography. When I have the time and money, I will certainly buy a more serious camera and take some classes.
Will that camera be Android-powered? The way the article goes at it (is there enough added functionality?) is exactly backwards. It assumes you live in an Android-powered world and are looking for the best way to integrate your picture-taking into it. For my part, I'll look at all low-end cameras, Android or not, and see which has the physical and electronic features that will work for me.
I suspect that Android is overkill for a dedicated camera and that one of those special purpose, nameless OSs that most cameras come with will suit me better. But I'm withholding judgment until the time comes.
"Effective deterrent"? What, their current ability to obliterate the planet isn't enough?
Nobody's making excuses for anybody. Lulzsec was malicious, Sony was negligent. Neither is entitled to use the other as an excuse.
I Googled Project Thor, and discovered that it all came from the fervid brain of Jerry Pournelle, who still thinks it was a great idea.
Jeez. There was a time when I actually enjoyed Pournelle's fiction, and even welcomed a little right-wing hawkish ranting to go with it (helped put the story in context). Now I can't read even a single sentence by him without rolling my eyes and saying "What an idiot!" Either I grew up or he got stupider. Probably a bit of both.
If Matthew Broderick had been a normal teenager he would have noticed that he was alone in his room with Ally Sheedy and turned off his computer. But no, he had to ignore her and hack into NORAD. There's a lesson in that.
Yeah, that's crazy. But then, we ignore a ton of problems that need fixing so we can build airplanes that cost billions of dollars each to fight guerrillas armed only with cheap knockoff assault rifles. That's not nearly as crazy, but it's out there.
I think if anybody started positioning atomic weapons in orbit, people would get uptight. Maybe uptight enough to launch a pre-emptive strike.
...that they're still a world power. That means building a lot of expensive, useless weapons, because that's what world powers do. Ah, for the good old days, when you could just round up the slaves and put up a pyramid!