i was going to "buy" a free Galaxy S2 for my mother in law 2 months ago. main reason was that it was getting ICS and maybe even Jellybean.
as far as the point updates, don't really care if my phone has 4.2.1 and the latest is 4.2.2. i update my iphone 5 to the latest ios when its released, but don't really see any difference. the one difference i saw was a bug where my phone wouldn't work with my car's USB except on locally stored music. it was fixed in the last month and now i can listen to spotify and pandora via my car's USB port
only reason to buy an iphone over android at this point is games. i play real racing 3 on my iphone 5 and the graphics are about as good as my xbox 360. ipad 4 has better GPU and will be slightly better.
and if you have an apple TV you can output the game to your TV to make it like a real game console and that takes CPU power as well as a nice wifi router
the CPU and GPU in the iphone 5 were cutting edge for 2012. i'm playing Real Racing 3 and the graphics are about as good as the xbox
MHz or GHz speed has never been a good predictor of actual processing power. Intel sold 4GHz CPU's 10 years ago. the 2GHz ones they sell now are A LOT faster
cpu/gpu architecture and the having the software actually take advantage of the hardware features will give you better performance than paper specs
at least the S4 is going on sale next month for the next 6 months i have to read how the Tegra 4 is the most awesomenest mobile chip even though there aren't any products on sale that have it. but all i have to do is keep waiting and not buy anything else
is there any software that actually takes advantage of this? there are only a few games that take advantage of the iphone 5's graphical power
not like most people are going to dump their S3 or iphone 5 and run out to buy the S4 just because it gets better numbers i know someone who is going to buy the Galaxy S3 this week if he gets if for $99 on T-Mobile. he doesn't need the S4's power and price
how is this different than every other time in history?
even in the USA 50-75 years ago if you were born into the wrong family you had almost ZERO chance of going to college. even after WW2 and the GI BILL only a minority of people ever went to college
i'm guessing they cost as much or more than a normal auto taxi. sure there is less carbon footprint, but the trip takes a lot longer which means the person has to charge more per passenger
what's the point of paying more to take more time to arrive at your destination?
no, the fact that all the carriers in the USA use different technologies and use different frequencies is what makes it hard
AT&T and T-Mo are on UMTS but use very different frequencies that require different radio chips sprint is on CDMA where the carrier has to add your phone to their network verizon is now on a standard network but with LTE frequencies being different around the world, international versions will not work
the US government already knows my financial situation since i file my taxes and everyone sends the IRS copies of their financial records. what else is the government going to find out about me?
i have a few GB of documents in there. every few months i will scan in some financial documents to have an extra copy. IRS audit taught me the value of keeping records. sometimes i use a few GB for sharing photos. or if i'm on vacation i will upload the vacation photos to dropbox in addition to icloud just in case. i'm doing some writing that i plan to publish on amazon and i use dropbox for that as well. the 30 day restore feature is awesome
there is a huge use case for these other than using them to share pirated movies or your porn collection
shouldn't be too hard to trace all packets coming out of an ISP's network in Russia and decode them? or at least decode enough packets for part of a call
and how many fiber connections go into russia from foreign countries? for all we know the FSB has tapped them all and is reading all the data the NSA was doing something like this a decade ago with Narus appliances
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you can already resell your Oxycontin scripts on the street. i know of people who may or may not make $1000 a month doing so.
but copyright is the least of your problems
i was going to "buy" a free Galaxy S2 for my mother in law 2 months ago. main reason was that it was getting ICS and maybe even Jellybean.
as far as the point updates, don't really care if my phone has 4.2.1 and the latest is 4.2.2. i update my iphone 5 to the latest ios when its released, but don't really see any difference. the one difference i saw was a bug where my phone wouldn't work with my car's USB except on locally stored music. it was fixed in the last month and now i can listen to spotify and pandora via my car's USB port
so why are the "slower" intel CPU's of today so much faster than the 4GHz monsters they sold 10 years ago?
games?
only reason to buy an iphone over android at this point is games. i play real racing 3 on my iphone 5 and the graphics are about as good as my xbox 360. ipad 4 has better GPU and will be slightly better.
and if you have an apple TV you can output the game to your TV to make it like a real game console and that takes CPU power as well as a nice wifi router
umm samsung and apple
BB might own the super secret enterprise market, but most of it is gone. apple and samsung are more than good enough for most corporate email
if i was to leave iphone for android it would be the S4 or the Note
couldn't care less about rooting and tooting. its like the shade tree mechanics of 30 years ago. people have nothing better to do with their devices.
the CPU and GPU in the iphone 5 were cutting edge for 2012.
i'm playing Real Racing 3 and the graphics are about as good as the xbox
MHz or GHz speed has never been a good predictor of actual processing power. Intel sold 4GHz CPU's 10 years ago. the 2GHz ones they sell now are A LOT faster
cpu/gpu architecture and the having the software actually take advantage of the hardware features will give you better performance than paper specs
at least the S4 is going on sale next month
for the next 6 months i have to read how the Tegra 4 is the most awesomenest mobile chip even though there aren't any products on sale that have it. but all i have to do is keep waiting and not buy anything else
holy crap
is there any software that actually takes advantage of this? there are only a few games that take advantage of the iphone 5's graphical power
not like most people are going to dump their S3 or iphone 5 and run out to buy the S4 just because it gets better numbers
i know someone who is going to buy the Galaxy S3 this week if he gets if for $99 on T-Mobile. he doesn't need the S4's power and price
Who gives a shit between tcp and Udp in this case
She downloaded and distributed copyrighted songs. The distributed part is what got her
Since it sells with 2 year old cpu's
Or was it 2 generation old cpu's
how is this different than every other time in history?
even in the USA 50-75 years ago if you were born into the wrong family you had almost ZERO chance of going to college. even after WW2 and the GI BILL only a minority of people ever went to college
student loan interest is TAX DEDUCTIBLE
these crazy loans are not
the US has the lowest interest rates in a generation. smart thing to do is to consolidate your loans and lock in the low rates.
how much were the pedicabs?
i'm guessing they cost as much or more than a normal auto taxi. sure there is less carbon footprint, but the trip takes a lot longer which means the person has to charge more per passenger
what's the point of paying more to take more time to arrive at your destination?
no, the fact that all the carriers in the USA use different technologies and use different frequencies is what makes it hard
AT&T and T-Mo are on UMTS but use very different frequencies that require different radio chips
sprint is on CDMA where the carrier has to add your phone to their network
verizon is now on a standard network but with LTE frequencies being different around the world, international versions will not work
google can't buy RIAA, its not a company. its a lobbying organization made up of member companies
we already do collect rain water
upstate NY the rain falls into lakes and rivers and then into the NYC water system
i don't think its feasible collecting rain water straight from the sky though
everyone knows my financial situation since the credit agencies sell their data as well
the US government already knows my financial situation since i file my taxes and everyone sends the IRS copies of their financial records. what else is the government going to find out about me?
dropbox is for file sharing
like say you are writing a scientific paper, you can keep it in a shared dropbox folder so everyone will always have access to it.
i have a 11GB free dropbox account
i have a few GB of documents in there. every few months i will scan in some financial documents to have an extra copy. IRS audit taught me the value of keeping records.
sometimes i use a few GB for sharing photos. or if i'm on vacation i will upload the vacation photos to dropbox in addition to icloud just in case.
i'm doing some writing that i plan to publish on amazon and i use dropbox for that as well. the 30 day restore feature is awesome
there is a huge use case for these other than using them to share pirated movies or your porn collection
i see geeks still don't have a sense of humor
but dropbox works fairly well for what you are describing
that's like grandma's tech now
yeah, because google puts your data into al bore's social security lockbox and won't ever use it for marketing
shouldn't be too hard to trace all packets coming out of an ISP's network in Russia and decode them? or at least decode enough packets for part of a call
and how many fiber connections go into russia from foreign countries? for all we know the FSB has tapped them all and is reading all the data
the NSA was doing something like this a decade ago with Narus appliances