i pretty much am OK with that, and as i said, it's pretty much the same with apple, sure an iphone 2G might be updateable to 4.0, but it is totally meaningless, since all significant features will be disabled anyway.
The main reason i want 2.2 at least is the large performance increases due to new JIT compilers and such in that release, for the rest i'm perfectly sure that android currently has the functionality that i want out of a smartphone
As for the legend, i love the formfactor/look, but as i understand it, its core hardware is slightly below the high-end stuff such as the desire, so basically i'm hoping that by the time i get to renew my plan, HTC will have launched another evolution of the hero-legend line, with slightly beefed up specs, and at least 2.2 standard, if they havent, i will probably be perfectly happy with a legend
my 3 year old nokia already has a front facing camera, and is capable of video-calls. I never did it, because i dont care about it, but the technology has been around for ages...
Not to mention that wifi-only is increbidly lame, what do we have all these high speed wireless technologies for anyway?
There is some painfull truth in this, generally support for android devices is much less sure then for the iphone, but if you look at what the actual updates are, i'd say android still has the upper hand. From what i've seen iphone os updates add stuff like cut/paste functions, and to a minor degree larger stuff like multi-tasking (which i dont consider true multi-tasking, but that's another debate)
personally i currently like the HTC legend, but since my contract still has some time on it, i'll probably get its succesor running 2.2, should be quite awesome
What? a list of tech cults without apple at the top? Granted apple today isnt so much about tech as it is about shiney and 'it just works', but come on....
perhaps yes, but somehow i doubt spaceX can get enough launches scheduled to satisfy demand, even if every launch from now on is flawless
But yeah, Falcon-1 only did 1,5 tons to LEO, that is barely a mid-size car these days, Falcon-9 brings SpaceX well into competition teritory, never mind F-9 Heavy
AFAIK the soyuz launcher had a to-LEO mass of ~7 tones, compared to ~20 tons for the russian proton, or ~10 for this Falcon-9, or up to 35 for a Falcon-9 Heavy (according to the almighty wikipedia...)
not the same. Without radar, you have to trust both the honesty of the cop, and his ability to accurately determine speeds of motor-vehicles (and failing to judge this correctly isnt evil, so malice isnt a factor). With radar, you have to only trust that the cop is honest..
The simple fact is that a machine will always be more accurate for measuring stuff, humans can easily miss-judge by 10-20%
You're so stuck on hating Apple that you don't even know what the other companies are.
WTF? the topic at hand is the whole apple thing, oldspewey already mentioned other companies, how the hell does it matter wether he names some (or perhaps all? perhaps according to you only if you know the entire customer-list for foxcon, are we allowed to speak) of those companies?
by that logic, arent we, as consumer, all also responsible for our supply chain?
Not to say that because we are the final link the chain, apple gets to do whatever they want, but perhaps the morally right thing to do would be to stop buying apple products
perhaps nuke simulations have indeed reached a level where more crunching power isnt worth it anymore, why build a complete new system to do a blast-sim if your existing machine does it in two days. Perhaps there isnt a market for more then X blast simulations per year..
anyway WOW, 40960 NEW nodes... If every BGL node is a single U of rackspace, then even ignoring network/UPS/etc requirements, that means adding 1000 racks, to the already existing ~1500...
he never said he couldnt figure it out, just that it is less then optimal in terms of usability (which i whole-heartedly agree with)
These days i hardly use pc-based media players (maybe VLC for streams), but i had my days with winamp/amarok/rythmbox, and currently i use itunes for my ipod touch. The last time i tried to update my ipod, it wouldnt work right (the drag/drop thing didnt work, only syncing), and i cursed and fiddled for half an hour before i found that some illogical, misnamed option actually disables drag/drop in the interface.
anyway, in terms of interface i find itunes to be very unusable, the only reason i use it is because i enjoy my ipod touch, but i actually dread syncing up again, even though my music lib could use a freshening up.
get yourself Linux and take one of the long stable release cycles, eg Ubuntu LTS.
This only works from a financial vantage point. even ubuntu LTS is only supported for 3 years (shorter then any windows version), and in fact LTS releases from ubuntu are more something to stay away from. Their idea of LTS is 'keep everything the same as on release', meaning large bugs/issues are never resolved, you would be better off keeping up with new releases (off course testing in advance and skipping one if needed)
the new audio stack had a pretty heavy impact on network performance in vista pre-sp1 (playing audio would drop network throughput to 10% max). This to me means that either a) the guy programming the IO scheduler was fresh out of college b) there is some shit going on that is not in the best interest of the user.
IMHO, windows has NO business what so ever using my resources to enforce some 3rd party's content restrictions on me, especially if im not even using their content..
I will agree with you that i havent seen any impact when using windows 7 for a year (beta obviously), but on a philosophical level, that shit aint right
Bull, microsoft is allowed to charge whatever they want for their software, and limit support to however short they want, just as long as they dont promise 10 years when selling and suddenly cut it down
XP hasnt been for sale for years (save for some archaic netbooks)
Your equation would mean adobe would need to support CS5 for 200 years, since i can get Gimp for free, and obviously $1,50 is more then enough for support...
Besides, if you bought your system from hp/dell/$OEM, you have no claim what so ever to direct MS support anyway, in that case $OEM is responsible
i think it has been demonstrated before that the approval process doesnt (always) include a complete code-review, some malicious code has gotten in IIRC
Granted, it would be frikkin hard to hide the ability to download and run a flash-plugin in code so that it wont be found. Not to mention that if you dont succeed the first time, apple will be on their guard the next time.
Otherwise, if the flash option is hidden at first, hardly anyone will be really drawn to install FF unless they offer another killer feature. Then when they reveal the option, apple will drop it from the app-store within a nano-second, so i doubt either way that they could achieve a large number of flash-available iphones this way..http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/05/27/1326245/Firefox-Home-Coming-To-iPhone-Browser-Next?art_pos=2#
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i pretty much am OK with that, and as i said, it's pretty much the same with apple, sure an iphone 2G might be updateable to 4.0, but it is totally meaningless, since all significant features will be disabled anyway.
The main reason i want 2.2 at least is the large performance increases due to new JIT compilers and such in that release, for the rest i'm perfectly sure that android currently has the functionality that i want out of a smartphone
As for the legend, i love the formfactor/look, but as i understand it, its core hardware is slightly below the high-end stuff such as the desire, so basically i'm hoping that by the time i get to renew my plan, HTC will have launched another evolution of the hero-legend line, with slightly beefed up specs, and at least 2.2 standard, if they havent, i will probably be perfectly happy with a legend
my 3 year old nokia already has a front facing camera, and is capable of video-calls. I never did it, because i dont care about it, but the technology has been around for ages...
Not to mention that wifi-only is increbidly lame, what do we have all these high speed wireless technologies for anyway?
There is some painfull truth in this, generally support for android devices is much less sure then for the iphone, but if you look at what the actual updates are, i'd say android still has the upper hand. From what i've seen iphone os updates add stuff like cut/paste functions, and to a minor degree larger stuff like multi-tasking (which i dont consider true multi-tasking, but that's another debate)
personally i currently like the HTC legend, but since my contract still has some time on it, i'll probably get its succesor running 2.2, should be quite awesome
well yeah, but i'd hardly call the newton fanclub (never saw one, IRL or online) a significant portion of the kool-aid drinkers..
What? a list of tech cults without apple at the top? Granted apple today isnt so much about tech as it is about shiney and 'it just works', but come on....
perhaps yes, but somehow i doubt spaceX can get enough launches scheduled to satisfy demand, even if every launch from now on is flawless
But yeah, Falcon-1 only did 1,5 tons to LEO, that is barely a mid-size car these days, Falcon-9 brings SpaceX well into competition teritory, never mind F-9 Heavy
AFAIK the soyuz launcher had a to-LEO mass of ~7 tones, compared to ~20 tons for the russian proton, or ~10 for this Falcon-9, or up to 35 for a Falcon-9 Heavy (according to the almighty wikipedia...)
It must help that they generally are just full hot of air...
not the same. Without radar, you have to trust both the honesty of the cop, and his ability to accurately determine speeds of motor-vehicles (and failing to judge this correctly isnt evil, so malice isnt a factor). With radar, you have to only trust that the cop is honest..
The simple fact is that a machine will always be more accurate for measuring stuff, humans can easily miss-judge by 10-20%
You're so stuck on hating Apple that you don't even know what the other companies are.
WTF? the topic at hand is the whole apple thing, oldspewey already mentioned other companies, how the hell does it matter wether he names some (or perhaps all? perhaps according to you only if you know the entire customer-list for foxcon, are we allowed to speak) of those companies?
by that logic, arent we, as consumer, all also responsible for our supply chain?
Not to say that because we are the final link the chain, apple gets to do whatever they want, but perhaps the morally right thing to do would be to stop buying apple products
* Hire a hitman.
For some reason i parsed that as
* Hire batman.
At first, that sure made for some weird as visual :P
perhaps nuke simulations have indeed reached a level where more crunching power isnt worth it anymore, why build a complete new system to do a blast-sim if your existing machine does it in two days. Perhaps there isnt a market for more then X blast simulations per year..
anyway WOW, 40960 NEW nodes... If every BGL node is a single U of rackspace, then even ignoring network/UPS/etc requirements, that means adding 1000 racks, to the already existing ~1500...
he never said he couldnt figure it out, just that it is less then optimal in terms of usability (which i whole-heartedly agree with)
These days i hardly use pc-based media players (maybe VLC for streams), but i had my days with winamp/amarok/rythmbox, and currently i use itunes for my ipod touch. The last time i tried to update my ipod, it wouldnt work right (the drag/drop thing didnt work, only syncing), and i cursed and fiddled for half an hour before i found that some illogical, misnamed option actually disables drag/drop in the interface.
anyway, in terms of interface i find itunes to be very unusable, the only reason i use it is because i enjoy my ipod touch, but i actually dread syncing up again, even though my music lib could use a freshening up.
when it comes to IE6, i wish they would...
hell, if they can hack my work-system and destroy lotus notes too... (yeah i know, not MS software, it's even worse)
get yourself Linux and take one of the long stable release cycles, eg Ubuntu LTS.
This only works from a financial vantage point. even ubuntu LTS is only supported for 3 years (shorter then any windows version), and in fact LTS releases from ubuntu are more something to stay away from. Their idea of LTS is 'keep everything the same as on release', meaning large bugs/issues are never resolved, you would be better off keeping up with new releases (off course testing in advance and skipping one if needed)
true, XP sp3 just got cleared a few months ago by our IT dept.
Granted, that is global policy for a company with 90000 employees and multiple levels of national/international management..
i ran win 7 beta on a machine with a sempron 3000+ and 1gb of ram, roughly the same horsepower as my 2003 athlon XP 2600+
It ran just fine, untill i tried to do five things at once, at which point the ram just wasnt sufficient, which it wouldnt have been in XP either...
I suggest you actually try windows 7 before slagging it off, it is worlds appart from vista
the new audio stack had a pretty heavy impact on network performance in vista pre-sp1 (playing audio would drop network throughput to 10% max). This to me means that either a) the guy programming the IO scheduler was fresh out of college b) there is some shit going on that is not in the best interest of the user.
IMHO, windows has NO business what so ever using my resources to enforce some 3rd party's content restrictions on me, especially if im not even using their content..
I will agree with you that i havent seen any impact when using windows 7 for a year (beta obviously), but on a philosophical level, that shit aint right
it is not getting worse.
You havent been using ubuntu for long have you?
Typing this from within a fresh fedora 13 install, and i love it
Bull, microsoft is allowed to charge whatever they want for their software, and limit support to however short they want, just as long as they dont promise 10 years when selling and suddenly cut it down
XP hasnt been for sale for years (save for some archaic netbooks)
Your equation would mean adobe would need to support CS5 for 200 years, since i can get Gimp for free, and obviously $1,50 is more then enough for support...
Besides, if you bought your system from hp/dell/$OEM, you have no claim what so ever to direct MS support anyway, in that case $OEM is responsible
hell, my dads practice still runs the administration software on a pair of 15 year old win 95 machine
Granted, they are not net connected, and run stable (since they do very little), so it works..
they could even add in:
1.5) leak previously undisclosed vulnerability to the underground
That should kill off XP in a few months (gotta allow the IT managers some time to get their shit together)
i think it has been demonstrated before that the approval process doesnt (always) include a complete code-review, some malicious code has gotten in IIRC
Granted, it would be frikkin hard to hide the ability to download and run a flash-plugin in code so that it wont be found. Not to mention that if you dont succeed the first time, apple will be on their guard the next time.
Otherwise, if the flash option is hidden at first, hardly anyone will be really drawn to install FF unless they offer another killer feature. Then when they reveal the option, apple will drop it from the app-store within a nano-second, so i doubt either way that they could achieve a large number of flash-available iphones this way..http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/05/27/1326245/Firefox-Home-Coming-To-iPhone-Browser-Next?art_pos=2#
wow, using mysql soully as a messaging system?
once again all my desire to try KDE has been destroyed..