You can use Skype if you wish. Somehow I see alternatives gaining traction.
Skype used to be great and everyone was on it. Now not so much. I have a lot better luck getting people on Google Talk. And Skype just seems to suck a lot lately in terms of dropped calls, stuttering sound and slow status updates. On my Android tablet it runs for an average of maybe 10 minutes before the app crashes. Looks to me like quality control ended when Microsoft bought the business.
Of course I meant that I don't want two dongles... a USB and a MIDI. Obviously, tablets are not coming with MIDI input any time soon. And you wasted perfectly good internet bandwidth with that comment exactly why? To avoid admitting that leaving out the USB port is a deficiency, whether Apple does it or Samsung does it? Well avoid away. I expect you will see dedicated USB ports on pretty well all Android tablets from now on, and I hope Apple continues to use a dongle for that because there should be as many reasons as possible to buy from somebody other than Apple.
Oh great. Just throw away the speak too. Look, nearly every interesting piece of electronics I own has a USB port. It is a requirement that my tablet have one too. Just one of many examples: midi in. No I don't want another dongle, it's enough of a mess as it is. Another example: all of my cameras. I'll stop there, I hope you get it. Maybe you only watch Youtube with your tablet.
I work for a mobile apps company. We *always* develop for iOS first, and if it's successful we'll port to Android.
Judging from the app stats, your company is looking like it's well on the way to being an outlier. To tell the truth, I detest Java but for your average knuckledragging app bucket shop, Java is the way to go. You can be really mindless in Java and still get something that basically works. Then port to Objective C if it works out.
Of course the leet Android coders write it in C++ and just use a Java wrapper to start it.
Virtually no vendors these days include a restore CD. Instead they include a junkware riddled "restore partition." Microsoft stopped letting them include clean OEM install CDs years ago.
Just one more bar in the jail called Windows Hell[tm]. Well, it will all start to become a fading memory when BYOD fills first the corporate world with Android and Apple devices, then the domestic world. The writing on the wall says that Microsoft's desktop business is due to wither to smaller than their console business over the next 5 years. And without the desktop monopoly to create the tie in Microsoft's server business will start to wither too. After a while Microsoft will be a console vendor of a stature somewhat less than Nintendo, and Steve Ballmer will still be the CEO.
Truly spoken like someone who has never given a presentation. Here is a better platitude for the situation: whatever can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time.
And that was spoken like someone who's computer is a cheap linux PC.
And that was spoken like someone who couldn't think of a retort. At least you Apple cultists keep me entertained, carry on.
That is exactly the reason I (and many others judging from the forum traffic) did not get a Galaxy tab. Luckily, there is plenty of choice in the Android market and I doubt Samsung will make the mistake of leaving out the USB port again.
I dont get the drooling over Retina Display. Unless you are a graphics professional, i just dont see the use-case for it.
The point of the Retina Display is, it was a way for Tim Cook to come up with a differentiating feature for the ipad 3 without possessing an ounce of creativity. Maybe next time he will manage to come up with something that doesn't require twice the power draw.
I'll take an ethernet dongle and smile if it's attached to a 15.4" laptop with a 2880x1800 screen.
I would kick myself for spending over a thousand dollars for a latop without an ethernet port, whatever the screen size or resolution. I will tolerate the inconvenience in a tablet or phone where the RJ45 will not physically fit but not in a laptop.
No, WiFi is ubiquitous. Ethernet is becoming a legacy connections
Haha, is that an example of "thinking different"? WIFI is just a physical transport for Ethernet. Now, I would perceive it as a great limitation if I had no option to connect my tablet or other portable device to a wired network. Fortunately that is no problem with a USB dongle. Of course, Apple would never dream of leaving out the USB port. Oh wait...
A presenter must always be prepared, validate their ability to deliver BEFORE getting up to present, and supply backup.
Truly spoken like someone who has never given a presentation. Here is a better platitude for the situation: whatever can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time.
Requiring a dongle for an ubiqitous need like USB is just stupid beyond belief. That alone is a reason I will never own an ipad, even if it was not a walled garden and a DRM trap, which it is, so there are two more reasons I will never own one. Just saying.
I thought I made it clear that I disagree with your disagreement with the author, and that you do not understand what true hacking is. You think it is a synonym for crappy work. Sorry, but you are way off base.
Anyway, you are obviously no hacker so what makes you think you are a good judge of who is and who is not a great hacker?
Why the hell would someone like that want to work for peanuts, creating miracles out of thin air with no budget?
The article did not say anything about working for peanuts, just not having resources... that is, not being in a position to command a dozen code monkeys to go write crap code based on specs concocted on powerpoint slides and design documents not worthy of the name. I am not sure I agree with the premise that a great hacker cannot be even greater by being able to farm out some of the work. But that is not the main point.
On the contrary, great hackers usually become widely recognized as such, to be in demand, and to come in at the top end of the salary scale. If they chose to work for anyone that is.
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What's more fascinating than discussing ads?
Squirting a Zune track?
You can use Skype if you wish. Somehow I see alternatives gaining traction.
Skype used to be great and everyone was on it. Now not so much. I have a lot better luck getting people on Google Talk. And Skype just seems to suck a lot lately in terms of dropped calls, stuttering sound and slow status updates. On my Android tablet it runs for an average of maybe 10 minutes before the app crashes. Looks to me like quality control ended when Microsoft bought the business.
Of course I meant that I don't want two dongles... a USB and a MIDI. Obviously, tablets are not coming with MIDI input any time soon. And you wasted perfectly good internet bandwidth with that comment exactly why? To avoid admitting that leaving out the USB port is a deficiency, whether Apple does it or Samsung does it? Well avoid away. I expect you will see dedicated USB ports on pretty well all Android tablets from now on, and I hope Apple continues to use a dongle for that because there should be as many reasons as possible to buy from somebody other than Apple.
USB is not a ubiquitous need for a tablet.
Oh great. Just throw away the speak too. Look, nearly every interesting piece of electronics I own has a USB port. It is a requirement that my tablet have one too. Just one of many examples: midi in. No I don't want another dongle, it's enough of a mess as it is. Another example: all of my cameras. I'll stop there, I hope you get it. Maybe you only watch Youtube with your tablet.
How does a gap shrink and get bigger at the same time?
By bullshit designed to get page hits?
I work for a mobile apps company. We *always* develop for iOS first, and if it's successful we'll port to Android.
Judging from the app stats, your company is looking like it's well on the way to being an outlier. To tell the truth, I detest Java but for your average knuckledragging app bucket shop, Java is the way to go. You can be really mindless in Java and still get something that basically works. Then port to Objective C if it works out.
Of course the leet Android coders write it in C++ and just use a Java wrapper to start it.
I bet you have a mirror over your bed in an earthquake zone.
You cannot do any sort of substantial alteration to it and expect them to take it back.
Changing the contents of the hard disk is not an alteration, troll.
You haven't bought any laptops in a while, have you?
That seems to be a growing trend.
Virtually no vendors these days include a restore CD. Instead they include a junkware riddled "restore partition." Microsoft stopped letting them include clean OEM install CDs years ago.
Just one more bar in the jail called Windows Hell[tm]. Well, it will all start to become a fading memory when BYOD fills first the corporate world with Android and Apple devices, then the domestic world. The writing on the wall says that Microsoft's desktop business is due to wither to smaller than their console business over the next 5 years. And without the desktop monopoly to create the tie in Microsoft's server business will start to wither too. After a while Microsoft will be a console vendor of a stature somewhat less than Nintendo, and Steve Ballmer will still be the CEO.
Truly spoken like someone who has never given a presentation. Here is a better platitude for the situation: whatever can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time.
And that was spoken like someone who's computer is a cheap linux PC.
And that was spoken like someone who couldn't think of a retort. At least you Apple cultists keep me entertained, carry on.
"Will" is future tense.
That is exactly the reason I (and many others judging from the forum traffic) did not get a Galaxy tab. Luckily, there is plenty of choice in the Android market and I doubt Samsung will make the mistake of leaving out the USB port again.
Requiring a dongle for an ubiqitous need like USB is just stupid beyond belief. That alone is a reason I will never own an ipad
Luckily for Apple they have 600 million customers who are more rational than you.
It must be great having 600 million gullible customers. To tell the truth, I don't care what they do with their grocery money, I was talking about me.
I dont get the drooling over Retina Display. Unless you are a graphics professional, i just dont see the use-case for it.
The point of the Retina Display is, it was a way for Tim Cook to come up with a differentiating feature for the ipad 3 without possessing an ounce of creativity. Maybe next time he will manage to come up with something that doesn't require twice the power draw.
I'll take an ethernet dongle and smile if it's attached to a 15.4" laptop with a 2880x1800 screen.
I would kick myself for spending over a thousand dollars for a latop without an ethernet port, whatever the screen size or resolution. I will tolerate the inconvenience in a tablet or phone where the RJ45 will not physically fit but not in a laptop.
No, WiFi is ubiquitous. Ethernet is becoming a legacy connections
Haha, is that an example of "thinking different"? WIFI is just a physical transport for Ethernet. Now, I would perceive it as a great limitation if I had no option to connect my tablet or other portable device to a wired network. Fortunately that is no problem with a USB dongle. Of course, Apple would never dream of leaving out the USB port. Oh wait...
the common image of the Apple user is of the screenplay writer sitting at Starbucks
That does not reflect reality. In fact, screenplay writers usually serve at Starbucks.
A presenter must always be prepared, validate their ability to deliver BEFORE getting up to present, and supply backup.
Truly spoken like someone who has never given a presentation. Here is a better platitude for the situation: whatever can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time.
Requiring a dongle for an ubiqitous need like USB is just stupid beyond belief. That alone is a reason I will never own an ipad, even if it was not a walled garden and a DRM trap, which it is, so there are two more reasons I will never own one. Just saying.
You've got it all wrong. For a machead the style is the substance.
Wait, no, you're wrong, in 2013 it will be the "new iphone" and in 2014 it will be the "really new iphone".
The song is funny but the dancing sucks.
I thought I made it clear that I disagree with your disagreement with the author, and that you do not understand what true hacking is. You think it is a synonym for crappy work. Sorry, but you are way off base.
Anyway, you are obviously no hacker so what makes you think you are a good judge of who is and who is not a great hacker?
Why the hell would someone like that want to work for peanuts, creating miracles out of thin air with no budget?
The article did not say anything about working for peanuts, just not having resources... that is, not being in a position to command a dozen code monkeys to go write crap code based on specs concocted on powerpoint slides and design documents not worthy of the name. I am not sure I agree with the premise that a great hacker cannot be even greater by being able to farm out some of the work. But that is not the main point.
On the contrary, great hackers usually become widely recognized as such, to be in demand, and to come in at the top end of the salary scale. If they chose to work for anyone that is.