You know, windows phone doesn't need articles in crappy tech blogs to inspire FUD.
Windows 8 is a market place dud. Like WebOS before it. No matter how much tech bloggers like you, if the market doesn't like you, pack it up. It would be one thing if they had a niche and made money. Problem is, they're not making money on windows phone. Microsoft cant afford to keep flushing cash away.
How many windows 8s can they afford? They're not a well oiled machine like Apple, nor are they like Amazon or Google and use other lines of business to keep themselves afloat while they try things in other markets.
The major problem Microsoft faces is that outside of enterprise, who *needs* Microsoft?
Most people don't think about switching phones before their contract is up. The people who do are either (a) raving fanbois, (b) exceedingly disgruntled with their phone, (c) have lost their existing phone due to some mishap, or (d) getting some kind of deal. But I would bet that a large majority of customers don't change their phones until their contract is up.
Yeah but those people tend to be journalists and tech bloggers who are beating on the drum that anything older than six months is boring.
The problem that causes is that when the mainstream press digs into mobile, they turn to these guys who are complete morons.
More importantly, who buys a phone in less than a year after their last?
I do, or I'm about to.
So I had my smartphone stolen and I needed to replace it. Being the Apple fanboy that I am, I opted for a iPhone 5.
I hate my provider, and my plan is up in May. So I'm thinking about switching to Verizon. Which would necessitate a new phone. So I'm going to switch to a 5S when that gets released.
I agree though that the notion that every year needs to deliver NEW! NEW! NEW! is ridiculous. However, with the case of Samsung, they've dug into Apple and RIM for stagnating and what do they do...? Release a spec bump of their previous flagship model.
You can see the additional details. You can't see the individual pixels, but text rendering will be MUCH crisper and I believe color reproduction gets better.
The only misstep here is that Android doesn't seem to have robust support for >320DPI screens and I don't think that going to 1080P is good for the ol' supply chain(then again; they manufacture these things so...)
If Android were truly resolution independent, then sure. It makes perfect sense to stuff the highest density display.
What I don't understand is the IR port. Between that and the stylus with the Note, it makes me wonder why Samsung wants to drag us back to the bad old days of Windows Mobile.
The larger social context here is that nobody gives a damn. It's apathy and indifference on a mass scale. There's no need to make vague motions towards a "larger social context", as though that means something more than "people are fucking self-centered, lazy assholes." It doesn't sound as academic, as intellectual, to say that, but it's closer to the truth.
It's also really fucking lazy. Because this isn't about JUST Swartz.
How many people are in prison or on death row or even dead because prosecutors are under pressure to get convictions? Or how many Governors are just simply unwilling to grant pardons or approve parole because of Willie Horton?
Ignoring why is so superficial and what's wrong with our political system right now. No amount of voter or finance reform will matter unless we stop responding to having hot buttons pressed and giving into sensationalization. Our problem is a lack of nuance, not ethics. No one wants to sit through a longer news story or have to hear about the grey areas.
I don't know if this is historical or not, but that's the problem.
Right now the media is reporting that Eric Holder will not rule out the use of drone strikes on American soil.
What they didn't report on is that even military intervention is such an extreme reaction to anything that it's generally not anything we have to worry about. It's an extremely extraordinary circumstance, the weight of which is lost in the cultural zeitgeist.
Absolutely agree. But who wants to ever have to answer to being reasonable?
Again, the problem isn't just the lack of prosecutorial restraint, its certainly a problem there is also the problem of "why should anyone have being rational a problem?"
We also need a sea change in both jurisprudence and how we view crime. You know part of this is him trying to keep his ass out of hot water in the mainstream press. If we change how we as a people view crime and justice, there wouldn't be this snap call to be "tough on crime."
Rationality has left our culture. It's happening on both sides, but in Swartz's defense, and those who are outraged by Holder and everyone involved, now is not the time for well reasoned disconnected logic.
Someone died because a prosecutor turned the screw over an incident where no money was lost, no lives were lost and by all measure, relatively harmless.
To blame Holder or the prosecutor specifically ignores the bigger social context at work. That needs to change. We need to not forget what happened here.
Sure, but, they're not affixing tracking to websites. That's all on sites that leverage their advertising network and G+.
Sorry dude, you've squirreled your way into kook territory. There's all sorts of legitimate reasons why Google doesn't want to let residential customers host their own servers. Including liability and support issues dealing with people running shit arbitrarily on port 80/440 or whatever service you're running.
It's not hypocritical to say that it's not OK to run servers on their residential service when they're not doing the same thing at all. You're conflating issues and being incredibly unreasonable.
Net Neutrality is about user to server access. They're not prioritizing Google search over DuckDuckGo or GMail over Outlook.com, or YouTube over Vimeo.
If they're caught doing THAT then yes, that's hypocritical and extremely evil. Not that that's likely; that's not the game Google plays.
FWIW, I agree that Google's tracking and crapping up of the internet isn't that great. I think it's a net negative(and wildly unsustainable; I can't imagine AdWords or whatever they're ad network is called now is sustainable in the long term). They have to keep consuming our personal information to keep afloat. They have very few revenue streams they can leverage and it's kind of crazy. We're extremely dependent on Google as a society and I'm left to wonder if Google is too big to fail. I don't know and I hope not.
The problem with the PS3 SDK is that they assumed console developers would take their jobs seriously and learn different ways to take advantage of different software and hardware. Every dev complaint I've heard thus far has been, "This is like nothing I've ever used before; what do you mean I have to learn something new?" In short, if it isn't DirectX on Windows or mostly SDL, developers will complain loudly.
Given how much bad software is out there, and I've written my fair share(and your share, and your share and your share...), I'm just willing to more err on the side of "suck it up, life sucks and then you get hit by a bus."
Did I mention graphics? I said SDK. A lot of developers have been bitching about the ps3's SDK. Even if the games look great, that doesn't mean the SDK doesn't suck.
But I'm willing to err on the side of Sony here because the notion that developers are whiny and spoiled is more attractive to me.
Well, they could've coexisted with the Xbox if the play station 3 didn't cost 599 at launch. Well, there's also the argument that the SDK could've been better, but I tend to think of developers as whiny. Not to mention spoiled considering the Xbox tool chain was directx and the windows kernel running on PowerPC.
Still. The idiocy of Sony wasn't spitting in Billy G's face, it was fucking up the ps3
Other than Samsung, who else is making money on mobile? Certainly isn't htc or RIM.
To say that Apple can't win without a plurality of the market forgets the fundamental truth of business which is to make profit, not market share.
This is why the pc industry is in such shit right now. Short sighted shitty attitudes towards consumers and the commoditization of technology. Android is quickly going the same route if not already there.
Who cares if you're selling big if you aren't going to be around in six months?
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it's in a patent encumbered, non-open format! Even worse, it's inside of an AVI container. :)
You know, windows phone doesn't need articles in crappy tech blogs to inspire FUD.
Windows 8 is a market place dud. Like WebOS before it. No matter how much tech bloggers like you, if the market doesn't like you, pack it up. It would be one thing if they had a niche and made money. Problem is, they're not making money on windows phone. Microsoft cant afford to keep flushing cash away.
How many windows 8s can they afford? They're not a well oiled machine like Apple, nor are they like Amazon or Google and use other lines of business to keep themselves afloat while they try things in other markets.
The major problem Microsoft faces is that outside of enterprise, who *needs* Microsoft?
Most people don't think about switching phones before their contract is up. The people who do are either (a) raving fanbois, (b) exceedingly disgruntled with their phone, (c) have lost their existing phone due to some mishap, or (d) getting some kind of deal. But I would bet that a large majority of customers don't change their phones until their contract is up.
Yeah but those people tend to be journalists and tech bloggers who are beating on the drum that anything older than six months is boring.
The problem that causes is that when the mainstream press digs into mobile, they turn to these guys who are complete morons.
If my entertainment depended on the entertainment at the bar, then my life took a wrong turn somewhere.
More importantly, who buys a phone in less than a year after their last?
I do, or I'm about to.
So I had my smartphone stolen and I needed to replace it. Being the Apple fanboy that I am, I opted for a iPhone 5.
I hate my provider, and my plan is up in May. So I'm thinking about switching to Verizon. Which would necessitate a new phone. So I'm going to switch to a 5S when that gets released.
I agree though that the notion that every year needs to deliver NEW! NEW! NEW! is ridiculous. However, with the case of Samsung, they've dug into Apple and RIM for stagnating and what do they do...? Release a spec bump of their previous flagship model.
My experience with IR in PDA/Smart Phones has been limited range, power consumption and flaky angles meant that IR went the way of the dinosaur.
Also, these aren't the same LCDs that Apple used. Apple NEVER used those awful PenTile displays.
The best displays are by Sharp, not Samsung. So...
You can see the additional details. You can't see the individual pixels, but text rendering will be MUCH crisper and I believe color reproduction gets better.
The only misstep here is that Android doesn't seem to have robust support for >320DPI screens and I don't think that going to 1080P is good for the ol' supply chain(then again; they manufacture these things so...)
If Android were truly resolution independent, then sure. It makes perfect sense to stuff the highest density display.
What I don't understand is the IR port. Between that and the stylus with the Note, it makes me wonder why Samsung wants to drag us back to the bad old days of Windows Mobile.
In the case of Anwar al Awlaki, YouTube made it really easy from him to out himself as such too.
The whole Eric Holder thing is just ridiculous.
The larger social context here is that nobody gives a damn. It's apathy and indifference on a mass scale. There's no need to make vague motions towards a "larger social context", as though that means something more than "people are fucking self-centered, lazy assholes." It doesn't sound as academic, as intellectual, to say that, but it's closer to the truth.
It's also really fucking lazy. Because this isn't about JUST Swartz.
How many people are in prison or on death row or even dead because prosecutors are under pressure to get convictions? Or how many Governors are just simply unwilling to grant pardons or approve parole because of Willie Horton?
Ignoring why is so superficial and what's wrong with our political system right now. No amount of voter or finance reform will matter unless we stop responding to having hot buttons pressed and giving into sensationalization. Our problem is a lack of nuance, not ethics. No one wants to sit through a longer news story or have to hear about the grey areas.
I don't know if this is historical or not, but that's the problem.
Right now the media is reporting that Eric Holder will not rule out the use of drone strikes on American soil.
What they didn't report on is that even military intervention is such an extreme reaction to anything that it's generally not anything we have to worry about. It's an extremely extraordinary circumstance, the weight of which is lost in the cultural zeitgeist.
Absolutely agree. But who wants to ever have to answer to being reasonable?
Again, the problem isn't just the lack of prosecutorial restraint, its certainly a problem there is also the problem of "why should anyone have being rational a problem?"
This vaguely sounded disconnected and appealing to rationality when that was the thing I was arguing against.
I advocate for well reasoned and thoughtful outrage.
Uh.
What he did was really illegal.
SHOULD it be super illegal? No. Of course not.
We also need a sea change in both jurisprudence and how we view crime. You know part of this is him trying to keep his ass out of hot water in the mainstream press. If we change how we as a people view crime and justice, there wouldn't be this snap call to be "tough on crime."
Rationality has left our culture. It's happening on both sides, but in Swartz's defense, and those who are outraged by Holder and everyone involved, now is not the time for well reasoned disconnected logic.
Someone died because a prosecutor turned the screw over an incident where no money was lost, no lives were lost and by all measure, relatively harmless.
To blame Holder or the prosecutor specifically ignores the bigger social context at work. That needs to change. We need to not forget what happened here.
Yes. Heaven forbid someone take downs. Site designed for piracy.
There's no legitimate excuse for piracy in most of the first world. It's white whine at its best.
Boohoo. You can't torrent contest of chairs or whatever. Big stinking deal. Stop conflating freedom of information with piracy.
Seriously?
You try running an ISP and tell me if home servers are at all a good idea.
Sure, but, they're not affixing tracking to websites. That's all on sites that leverage their advertising network and G+.
Sorry dude, you've squirreled your way into kook territory. There's all sorts of legitimate reasons why Google doesn't want to let residential customers host their own servers. Including liability and support issues dealing with people running shit arbitrarily on port 80/440 or whatever service you're running.
It's not hypocritical to say that it's not OK to run servers on their residential service when they're not doing the same thing at all. You're conflating issues and being incredibly unreasonable.
Net Neutrality is about user to server access. They're not prioritizing Google search over DuckDuckGo or GMail over Outlook.com, or YouTube over Vimeo.
If they're caught doing THAT then yes, that's hypocritical and extremely evil. Not that that's likely; that's not the game Google plays.
FWIW, I agree that Google's tracking and crapping up of the internet isn't that great. I think it's a net negative(and wildly unsustainable; I can't imagine AdWords or whatever they're ad network is called now is sustainable in the long term). They have to keep consuming our personal information to keep afloat. They have very few revenue streams they can leverage and it's kind of crazy. We're extremely dependent on Google as a society and I'm left to wonder if Google is too big to fail. I don't know and I hope not.
Looks like APK has a contender for local /. loon.
I don't care. Some guy hammering the upstream or hosting god knows what just isn't a good deal for residential providers.
The ps3 with backwards compatible hardware still plays ps2 games.
Really? I have pages and pages of apps. Rather than memorize where that rarely used but critical app is, I just search.
I can buy a car, spend within my means and get a car.
I can waste money on a car by spending outside of my means and get a really flashy car.
They paid way too much for Moto Mobility. 12 billion? Sheesh. Ouch.
1a. Stop wasting money on patent based acquisitions.
The problem with the PS3 SDK is that they assumed console developers would take their jobs seriously and learn different ways to take advantage of different software and hardware. Every dev complaint I've heard thus far has been, "This is like nothing I've ever used before; what do you mean I have to learn something new?" In short, if it isn't DirectX on Windows or mostly SDL, developers will complain loudly.
Given how much bad software is out there, and I've written my fair share(and your share, and your share and your share...), I'm just willing to more err on the side of "suck it up, life sucks and then you get hit by a bus."
Did I mention graphics? I said SDK. A lot of developers have been bitching about the ps3's SDK. Even if the games look great, that doesn't mean the SDK doesn't suck.
But I'm willing to err on the side of Sony here because the notion that developers are whiny and spoiled is more attractive to me.
Well, they could've coexisted with the Xbox if the play station 3 didn't cost 599 at launch. Well, there's also the argument that the SDK could've been better, but I tend to think of developers as whiny. Not to mention spoiled considering the Xbox tool chain was directx and the windows kernel running on PowerPC.
Still. The idiocy of Sony wasn't spitting in Billy G's face, it was fucking up the ps3
Other than Samsung, who else is making money on mobile? Certainly isn't htc or RIM.
To say that Apple can't win without a plurality of the market forgets the fundamental truth of business which is to make profit, not market share.
This is why the pc industry is in such shit right now. Short sighted shitty attitudes towards consumers and the commoditization of technology. Android is quickly going the same route if not already there.
Who cares if you're selling big if you aren't going to be around in six months?
How is unlocking a phone a right?
I agree with the sentiment, but here in New York, I pass by several scummy electronics shops who sell unlocking services for phones.
Do they have a right to do this? Somehow I don't think so.