My android phone came with 2 email clients. One that was just for gmail, the other that was for everything. I only have gmail accounts on my phone and I don't use the gmail email client because I don't like it as much. It only came with one browser though.
Shortly after I got the phone I installed Firefox Mobile and Opera Mobile, so even though it only ships with one browser, it takes 5 minutes to install a new one from the included marketplace app.
I did a similar thing except it wouldn't have been cost effective for me to switch carriers due to the family plan that I am on. I have had an iPhone 3g since release because it WAS the best smartphone at the time. Since then, I've been waiting for ATT to finally get a good Android phone at a good price. Saturday I upgraded to the Infuse 4g for $50 on sale. In a couple of hours I had all the functionality of my iphone including syncing with itunes plus a bunch of other stuff I didn't even know the android could do. I don't understand why people bitch and moan all day about how evil apple is. If it bothers someone so much, they should just buy a different product and get over it.
An intelligent person would say its a bit of that and a bit of the drive not being used by the vast majority of mini owners.
Oh really? I used mine yesterday to rip half a dozen cd's. A more intelligent person would say it's a good idea to not alienate your customers. In my household there is a macbook, a mac mini, and two iphones. My next laptop will be a PC. My next desktop already is a PC. And my next phone will be android. Not for this reason alone, but a series of stupid decisions apple has made over the last 3 years. Such as releasing IOS4 for 3g iphones making them unusable, and their OS release/support schedule that means my 3 year old white macbook will no longer receive any official updates from Apple.
I was thinking it was more like forcing them to provide a key to a door. But you are right, that fails because you can't force them to provide a key that may not even exist. Thanks for the well thought-out response.
How is this any different than acquiring a warrant to search someone's home? People are worried about this being abused? Fine, require a warrant to search someone's laptop.
I'm not against them, but find it REALLY hard to find time for them. Code reviewers are busy too, if I'm ready to check in that doesn't mean someone else is ready to code review.
If she only needs to spend an hour or two trying it out, just give her an Ubuntu Live CD. It will boot up in a few minutes, and has a few apps preinstalled. You even get JUST enough disk space to install a couple of apps with synaptic. This is as good a 'trial' as anything else and takes zero setup time.
When you are playing the game on the controller's screen, the system will still handle all of the processing. It streams the video to the controller so you are limited to the resolution of the screen on the controller in terms of detail. Games should look just as good when played on the controller as they do on your tv screen.
I actually managed to switch from iOS4 to iOS3 on my 3g iPhone. It took about 4 hours. All part of Apple's nickle and dime scheme. 1) Release update that ruins phone by slowing it down considerably 2) Make it impossible to downgrade (by any official means) 3) Watch the sheep all buy the new iPhone 4.
Needless to say, my next phone will be an android. The samsung infuse looks nice (I have to stay with ATT)
I've been suspicious of PCG reviews for years now. They gave the original Crysis a 96. They gave Half Life 2 a 94. I am pretty sure that there isn't a single person on PCG staff who would have said at the time "I like Crysis as much as HL2" because Crysis deserved a 70 by their scale and everyone knows it. I am pretty sure they get paid for their review scores.
"Google today announced Google Wallet [...] Google could push coupons via its new Google Offers service; your health insurance company might be interested in your sodium intake."
And I won't have to use it or be affected by it at all.
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I guess this guy hasn't heard of the most popular online game right now?
I did :(
They took that away with the latest Ubuntu release IIRC, if you are on 11.04 or earlier though you are good.
Much faster than hunting around for the TF2 shortcut. I launch almost every windows application in this way.
Yeah, I use a GUI because I love typing commands so much.
What are you doing on slashdot?
Except it's not being deployed for a hospital, it's being deployed for an insurance company. At what point to Doctor's ever enter this equation?
Pretty sure he was making a joke.
Try to find a slim PS3 that has 3.55 or earlier firmware. Runs snes, genesis, gba, nes games just fine.
My android phone did everything out of the box that my iphone did without any tinkering. 5 minutes later it did more than my iphone ever would.
My android phone came with 2 email clients. One that was just for gmail, the other that was for everything. I only have gmail accounts on my phone and I don't use the gmail email client because I don't like it as much. It only came with one browser though. Shortly after I got the phone I installed Firefox Mobile and Opera Mobile, so even though it only ships with one browser, it takes 5 minutes to install a new one from the included marketplace app.
I was going to buy the new Settlers game, then I didn't because of the DRM. I guess that's somehow success.
I did a similar thing except it wouldn't have been cost effective for me to switch carriers due to the family plan that I am on. I have had an iPhone 3g since release because it WAS the best smartphone at the time. Since then, I've been waiting for ATT to finally get a good Android phone at a good price. Saturday I upgraded to the Infuse 4g for $50 on sale. In a couple of hours I had all the functionality of my iphone including syncing with itunes plus a bunch of other stuff I didn't even know the android could do. I don't understand why people bitch and moan all day about how evil apple is. If it bothers someone so much, they should just buy a different product and get over it.
An intelligent person would say its a bit of that and a bit of the drive not being used by the vast majority of mini owners.
Oh really? I used mine yesterday to rip half a dozen cd's. A more intelligent person would say it's a good idea to not alienate your customers. In my household there is a macbook, a mac mini, and two iphones. My next laptop will be a PC. My next desktop already is a PC. And my next phone will be android. Not for this reason alone, but a series of stupid decisions apple has made over the last 3 years. Such as releasing IOS4 for 3g iphones making them unusable, and their OS release/support schedule that means my 3 year old white macbook will no longer receive any official updates from Apple.
Yeah, my 3 year old laptop running 10.6 is ANCIENT. Never again will I buy an apple computer or phone.
It's 9.99 now, but late last year it was 8.99. In less than a year they have almost doubled the price without adding anything to the service.
I was thinking it was more like forcing them to provide a key to a door. But you are right, that fails because you can't force them to provide a key that may not even exist. Thanks for the well thought-out response.
How is this any different than acquiring a warrant to search someone's home? People are worried about this being abused? Fine, require a warrant to search someone's laptop.
I'm not against them, but find it REALLY hard to find time for them. Code reviewers are busy too, if I'm ready to check in that doesn't mean someone else is ready to code review.
apt-get install thunderbird (or your distro's equivalent)
If she only needs to spend an hour or two trying it out, just give her an Ubuntu Live CD. It will boot up in a few minutes, and has a few apps preinstalled. You even get JUST enough disk space to install a couple of apps with synaptic. This is as good a 'trial' as anything else and takes zero setup time.
When you are playing the game on the controller's screen, the system will still handle all of the processing. It streams the video to the controller so you are limited to the resolution of the screen on the controller in terms of detail. Games should look just as good when played on the controller as they do on your tv screen.
Honestly, I'm dying to know. What crime did Geohot commit?
I actually managed to switch from iOS4 to iOS3 on my 3g iPhone. It took about 4 hours. All part of Apple's nickle and dime scheme. 1) Release update that ruins phone by slowing it down considerably 2) Make it impossible to downgrade (by any official means) 3) Watch the sheep all buy the new iPhone 4. Needless to say, my next phone will be an android. The samsung infuse looks nice (I have to stay with ATT)
I've been suspicious of PCG reviews for years now. They gave the original Crysis a 96. They gave Half Life 2 a 94. I am pretty sure that there isn't a single person on PCG staff who would have said at the time "I like Crysis as much as HL2" because Crysis deserved a 70 by their scale and everyone knows it. I am pretty sure they get paid for their review scores.
"Google today announced Google Wallet [...] Google could push coupons via its new Google Offers service; your health insurance company might be interested in your sodium intake."
And I won't have to use it or be affected by it at all.
Why don't you just keep using skype?