Correct, I have seen Android Phones in the $170 USD range, boxed, unlocked and not clonish in nature. . Here you can get a decent generic tablet, new! for the same price than a used Touch 2nd Generation, around $100 USD. Obviously I'm not going to compare Generic tablets to Apple products in battery life and other niceties, the iPod touch make the perfect palm that Palm never delivered for one. And for someone that somehow needs[1] an iOS Device, the touch it's a no brainer.
[1] Advertising and design shops I know and sometimes work with (since ages Apple territory), are moving to platforms and tools based on iOS. Also haven found a reliable way to test a mobile website in the iOS stack w/out the device itself. One would say Advertising companies would support Android coming from Google, an advertising company and all, but you can't spell Advertising Agency w/out smug, bling and marketing powered IT decisions. Advertising people usually are too busy doing pot and redwhiskybull to want to fiddle around w/ computers and nerdy stuff, they probably want "just works" more than anyone else.
This is no IT territory, this is Darwin's one. It should be common sense to use OFFICIAL apps for banking and sensitive stuff, If you don't get it it's not the platform problem since the phone is probably smarter than the user. In ancient times lack of common sense will make you a Lions dinner, so, in the end is not that much of a drama nowadays.
I don't even trust sensitive accounts or logins on my tablet, being non-rooted and having a software stash 100% legal. It's sad to say but I probably would trust more in iOS for such tasks (only good thing to say about the walled garden) but I'm not buying Apple until the OCDed CEO leaves, I'll stick w/ my live cd's/USBs for sensitive stuff, tyvm.
Why? Tablets and MPs w/out android market are the cheaper ones, you don't see anyone w/ the latest Samsung or Motorola android phone or tablet without the Market. If you're not willing to invest in a good device probably your not going to invest in apps anyway. I know, My first tablet was the lowest end available Android 1.6 and all, I still rooted it and installed the Market and have spent no more than$20 USD on apps, mostly because I love F Droid. Ahhh the freedom.
ionists were focusing on gradually replacing all seats of power in the US with sympathizers
Clearly I haven't been keeping up with the news
Seems legit;)
On a more on topic comment: You forgot Apple evangelists, Linux zealots and Winblow$ Luzerz, Also a debate betwen C++ and Java fanboys while exploring VI and emacs connections to goat.cx and how Google knows it all and it's going to show your donkey-midget-tentacles-porn searches to YOUR WIFE!.
Sometimes I think slashdot is like a polymorphic meme.
Hipsters in the dystopian 2050 will use iPhones 1G bolted awkwardly (you know, holding it wrong) to their faces as a rebel sign against the oppression of the Big Apple Brotherhood and the persistent iTelescreen watching incessantly from every corner, since every corner of this brave new world have a Min-iStore.. all of them tripleplusgood.
Yes, future int the hands of Apple is so fucked up that hipsters are the closer thing to a guerrilla.
Coomand line is a toughcrime Linux is oppression We have always been at war with Oracle Successful campaigns in the Microsoft front Production of earbuds have increased 5000%
No,/. is not pro Apple and thats what shills are trying to change. I've read here Apple users that make perfectly coherent arguments for choosing Apple but also you see people that react violently to any claim that Apple is a dud, quote obscure numbers and statistics and always manage to firehose even the most irrelevant articles containing the word iPhone.
Like the digg ring of circlejerking and the Fark club of approval, Slashdot have an organized group of people that openly promote Apple while the majority of people here just feel sick about the blatant and unsolicited spam. All this while Taco *ca chin* his way to the pagehits bank.
And you hearing this from that guy in marketing that have several Apple devices, so I must be biased thanks to be immune to marketing poison.
You are right it was not Columbine, But in the investigation of a School shooting probably not in a developed nation showed that the perpetrators trained and practiced warfare strategy in TF or CSS before actually committing the crime. I just can't remember the incident's name.
I'm a big fan of Quake, still playing Q2 and Quakelive, and I know that violent video games do not really make you a violent person. But for people that are on the Schizotypy road, games actually can fuel and desensitize even more. It's like saying that industrial grade Flight Simulators does not have influence on commercial jet pilots.
You can't tell anybody with a straight face that the pilot of a UAV bombing some Terrorists (tm) somewhere feels the same constrains before pulling the trigger compared to the average infantry on the ground. I've been closer to do stupid things fueled by Tarantino movies than Quake.
Maybe Columbine could be the a good example where games ACTUALLY are relevant to the shootings, too bad it was the first event of it's kind in a long time, so all the news people have to do is figure out a pattern "every madman lately have been player of war games" and you have a story.
News people don't care, see NotW's complete disregard for human and logical behavior.
By constant repetition and Pavlovian dynamics, Terrorism == Muslim extremists. I didn't happened as a coincidence, ratings after 9/11 used to favor media that was more openly hateful towards Muslims.
This is non news in the context that it does not help to promote the Muslim Terror agenda, it's even dangerous in an ADHD ridden society to derail a good and long lasting discourse by the glitch of some blonde Christian conservative racist, a demographic profile thats not so irrelevant.
tl;dr Blame the gamez!!! corrupting our society!!! think of the children etc.
Once you get to the absolute copy of the original analog or binary, scientifically demonstrable from the IT and SE departments and tools, theres no need to further compress it. As lots of people have argued above us, there no reason for everybody to not be using FLAC, only that Apple thinks it's not cool enough to shove a simple FLAC codec or hardware support because they have ACC ALAC, (wich is not bad) and everybody know that if it doesn't exist in iPod land is not woth the attention of the general public. rockbox FTW
I have always said, when I can go to the iTunes store and buy the original tracks of a song, free of mixing and crap, I would probably go bankrupt and insane learning to mix my own versions of the songs over and over and over. Musical industry give us the digital carcass of what once was an analog unrestricted manifestation. * pointing fingers* You're not getting a dollar from my pocket until then media industry!
No, really have you ever heard a master? Is not hard to compare a master rip (usually 192/24 FLACs) from the sound of the CD ripped by $codec and $format. Is not hard, FOR SCIENCE! go to piratebay and download an MFSL and compare, I suggest this one Since it's easy to find a Beatles anywhere CD to rip from.
I'm not even audiophile I have a mix of 2 old Sylvania speakers poorly restored, soldered and taped together driven by a cheap Creative 5.1 system (Sylvanias connected to the 5.1 in a 4 front, 2 center 1 woofer combination[1]) probably 20% of my connections show corrosion.. And I can hear the difference, and a friend and client that is sound engineer can tell the difference (I did a double blind test to him in obvious disbelief about my Frankenstein) he pitted an original vinyl from SPLHCB vs. my FLACS. == Pretty much the same.
Anyone got that DVD-Audio (192/24 DTS/Dolby) of Pink Floyd's dark side of the moon in cuadraphonic mix leaked from EMI?? From the glorious master tapes? Come and tell me it sounds the same as the lame CD I have collecting dust in a box, It's not the same thing it's not even worth comparing. CD's are probably the most overrated thing in musical media.
You don't need to be an audiophile or have an expensive rig to tell the difference between variations in formats and mixing when we are talking about music before the era of the loudness war. Sometimes is not about soundPenis or bragging rights, it's just music, the most elaborate and universal form of "drug" known since ages and it's subjective, numbers can't tell what people feel when listening to music they love, get over it.
[1] Why not just the 5.1 like a normal person? Well the 2 Sylvanias are cute, I restored from almost nothing and are useful tables, I'm not claiming old speakers can let you feel the mythical "vacuum tube dimension" either but music from the era of those speakers, 1979, sounds better than in modern sound systems. And I could not care less since theres little music from that period that I like:P
Lurking in the Android 1.6 filesystem I found some config files that store the WIFI passwords in plain text, Shocked? not really, Would I trust my Credit card info or server passwords on a smartphone? No way, not yet. But certainly there should be a way for the data to be not so obvious to retrieve. Was I using some sort of sniffer or forensic tool? nah just root explorer. No system can be 100% secure but please rise the bar a bit.
I was thinking along the same lines, but I think google is being incompetent rather that evil here, is not in their best interest to lock people out of gmail or, say.. adwords. I hope they fix it or else probably the 2 account route will be available for those that really need them, or Google can play Nazi and scare people away. Anyway where are the numbers?
Business email in Gmail? You are doing it wrong, they say they can't offer the reliability people need for a critical missions. You get that when you go to the forums looking for help when your email is locked and you cry you are are losing money. Buy a domain, link all web services to recover/fall back from that mail and be done with it. Or get a Google apps account which gives you full MEAT support 24/7, I'm going to do it, when I can transfer my data from several other google accounts into the paid one, not available to 100% of the services.
I'd welcome a Google+ invitation, want to test the water before creating the definitive accounts, anyone?
Yes I remember that story here on/. back in the day, My perception of Apple changed that day too, before that I usually considered Apple as reasonable option when shopping for gadgets, I'm still buying an iPod touch but the iPad purchase got cancelled now that ThinkPad will have a serious (as in not consumer oriented) tablet.
I don't even criticize the fact that the batteries are bolted to the machine because thats what make possible to deliver the laptop design which is a nice and usefull added value for Apple products. Problem? then don't buy an apple laptop, is that simple.
But when people argues that OS X it's hacker prof or that iPhones own the "phone" market or that Apple Batteries are easy to change, it's time when you ask yourself if you're being trolled, shilled or simply preached about non-existent facts.
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Correct, I have seen Android Phones in the $170 USD range, boxed, unlocked and not clonish in nature. . Here you can get a decent generic tablet, new! for the same price than a used Touch 2nd Generation, around $100 USD. Obviously I'm not going to compare Generic tablets to Apple products in battery life and other niceties, the iPod touch make the perfect palm that Palm never delivered for one. And for someone that somehow needs[1] an iOS Device, the touch it's a no brainer.
[1] Advertising and design shops I know and sometimes work with (since ages Apple territory), are moving to platforms and tools based on iOS. Also haven found a reliable way to test a mobile website in the iOS stack w/out the device itself. One would say Advertising companies would support Android coming from Google, an advertising company and all, but you can't spell Advertising Agency w/out smug, bling and marketing powered IT decisions. Advertising people usually are too busy doing pot and redwhiskybull to want to fiddle around w/ computers and nerdy stuff, they probably want "just works" more than anyone else.
This is no IT territory, this is Darwin's one. It should be common sense to use OFFICIAL apps for banking and sensitive stuff, If you don't get it it's not the platform problem since the phone is probably smarter than the user. In ancient times lack of common sense will make you a Lions dinner, so, in the end is not that much of a drama nowadays.
I don't even trust sensitive accounts or logins on my tablet, being non-rooted and having a software stash 100% legal. It's sad to say but I probably would trust more in iOS for such tasks (only good thing to say about the walled garden) but I'm not buying Apple until the OCDed CEO leaves, I'll stick w/ my live cd's/USBs for sensitive stuff, tyvm.
Why? Tablets and MPs w/out android market are the cheaper ones, you don't see anyone w/ the latest Samsung or Motorola android phone or tablet without the Market. If you're not willing to invest in a good device probably your not going to invest in apps anyway. I know, My first tablet was the lowest end available Android 1.6 and all, I still rooted it and installed the Market and have spent no more than$20 USD on apps, mostly because I love F Droid. Ahhh the freedom.
Also, nice to know that nobody pirate iOS apps.
You may want a doctor to check that spotty panorama
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ionists were focusing on gradually replacing all seats of power in the US with sympathizers
Clearly I haven't been keeping up with the news
Seems legit ;)
On a more on topic comment: You forgot Apple evangelists, Linux zealots and Winblow$ Luzerz, Also a debate betwen C++ and Java fanboys while exploring VI and emacs connections to goat.cx and how Google knows it all and it's going to show your donkey-midget-tentacles-porn searches to YOUR WIFE!.
Sometimes I think slashdot is like a polymorphic meme.
Hipsters in the dystopian 2050 will use iPhones 1G bolted awkwardly (you know, holding it wrong) to their faces as a rebel sign against the oppression of the Big Apple Brotherhood and the persistent iTelescreen watching incessantly from every corner, since every corner of this brave new world have a Min-iStore.. all of them tripleplusgood.
Yes, future int the hands of Apple is so fucked up that hipsters are the closer thing to a guerrilla.
Coomand line is a toughcrime
Linux is oppression
We have always been at war with Oracle
Successful campaigns in the Microsoft front
Production of earbuds have increased 5000%
WHATS NOT TO LIKE!!?
The power point is strong in this one
No, /. is not pro Apple and thats what shills are trying to change. I've read here Apple users that make perfectly coherent arguments for choosing Apple but also you see people that react violently to any claim that Apple is a dud, quote obscure numbers and statistics and always manage to firehose even the most irrelevant articles containing the word iPhone.
Like the digg ring of circlejerking and the Fark club of approval, Slashdot have an organized group of people that openly promote Apple while the majority of people here just feel sick about the blatant and unsolicited spam. All this while Taco *ca chin* his way to the pagehits bank.
And you hearing this from that guy in marketing that have several Apple devices, so I must be biased thanks to be immune to marketing poison.
I only could figure it out when I'm not holding it wrong :(
35% would sell a kidney! for a good place on the line. Whats the point of getting an iDevice w/out the "human moth" ritual?
You are right it was not Columbine, But in the investigation of a School shooting probably not in a developed nation showed that the perpetrators trained and practiced warfare strategy in TF or CSS before actually committing the crime. I just can't remember the incident's name.
I'm a big fan of Quake, still playing Q2 and Quakelive, and I know that violent video games do not really make you a violent person. But for people that are on the Schizotypy road, games actually can fuel and desensitize even more. It's like saying that industrial grade Flight Simulators does not have influence on commercial jet pilots.
You can't tell anybody with a straight face that the pilot of a UAV bombing some Terrorists (tm) somewhere feels the same constrains before pulling the trigger compared to the average infantry on the ground. I've been closer to do stupid things fueled by Tarantino movies than Quake.
Maybe Columbine could be the a good example where games ACTUALLY are relevant to the shootings, too bad it was the first event of it's kind in a long time, so all the news people have to do is figure out a pattern "every madman lately have been player of war games" and you have a story.
News people don't care, see NotW's complete disregard for human and logical behavior.
By constant repetition and Pavlovian dynamics, Terrorism == Muslim extremists. I didn't happened as a coincidence, ratings after 9/11 used to favor media that was more openly hateful towards Muslims.
This is non news in the context that it does not help to promote the Muslim Terror agenda, it's even dangerous in an ADHD ridden society to derail a good and long lasting discourse by the glitch of some blonde Christian conservative racist, a demographic profile thats not so irrelevant.
tl;dr
Blame the gamez!!! corrupting our society!!! think of the children etc.
Funny that both things are usually caused / created by this particular country... Oh wait.
So if you play video games you're a nutjob in progress trying to conceal a mass murder..
in MEDIA-SPEAK (tm):
SO.. you kids are into gamez? Watchout! They maybe psychotic nutjobs planning the next mass murder!!!1
Behold the magical juicer!
Certainly the Rip Rig sounds like it could help (aside from the monstercables snake oil)
Once you get to the absolute copy of the original analog or binary, scientifically demonstrable from the IT and SE departments and tools, theres no need to further compress it. As lots of people have argued above us, there no reason for everybody to not be using FLAC, only that Apple thinks it's not cool enough to shove a simple FLAC codec or hardware support because they have ACC ALAC, (wich is not bad) and everybody know that if it doesn't exist in iPod land is not woth the attention of the general public. rockbox FTW
I have always said, when I can go to the iTunes store and buy the original tracks of a song, free of mixing and crap, I would probably go bankrupt and insane learning to mix my own versions of the songs over and over and over. Musical industry give us the digital carcass of what once was an analog unrestricted manifestation. * pointing fingers* You're not getting a dollar from my pocket until then media industry!
No, really have you ever heard a master? Is not hard to compare a master rip (usually 192/24 FLACs) from the sound of the CD ripped by $codec and $format. Is not hard, FOR SCIENCE! go to piratebay and download an MFSL and compare, I suggest this one Since it's easy to find a Beatles anywhere CD to rip from.
I'm not even audiophile I have a mix of 2 old Sylvania speakers poorly restored, soldered and taped together driven by a cheap Creative 5.1 system (Sylvanias connected to the 5.1 in a 4 front, 2 center 1 woofer combination[1]) probably 20% of my connections show corrosion.. And I can hear the difference, and a friend and client that is sound engineer can tell the difference (I did a double blind test to him in obvious disbelief about my Frankenstein) he pitted an original vinyl from SPLHCB vs. my FLACS. == Pretty much the same.
Anyone got that DVD-Audio (192/24 DTS/Dolby) of Pink Floyd's dark side of the moon in cuadraphonic mix leaked from EMI?? From the glorious master tapes? Come and tell me it sounds the same as the lame CD I have collecting dust in a box, It's not the same thing it's not even worth comparing. CD's are probably the most overrated thing in musical media.
You don't need to be an audiophile or have an expensive rig to tell the difference between variations in formats and mixing when we are talking about music before the era of the loudness war. Sometimes is not about soundPenis or bragging rights, it's just music, the most elaborate and universal form of "drug" known since ages and it's subjective, numbers can't tell what people feel when listening to music they love, get over it.
[1] Why not just the 5.1 like a normal person? Well the 2 Sylvanias are cute, I restored from almost nothing and are useful tables, I'm not claiming old speakers can let you feel the mythical "vacuum tube dimension" either but music from the era of those speakers, 1979, sounds better than in modern sound systems. And I could not care less since theres little music from that period that I like :P
Oh right /. does not have private messaging, or it does?
Anyway send Google + invitation to brownsky67gmail, tyvm
Lurking in the Android 1.6 filesystem I found some config files that store the WIFI passwords in plain text, Shocked? not really, Would I trust my Credit card info or server passwords on a smartphone? No way, not yet. But certainly there should be a way for the data to be not so obvious to retrieve. Was I using some sort of sniffer or forensic tool? nah just root explorer. No system can be 100% secure but please rise the bar a bit.
I was thinking along the same lines, but I think google is being incompetent rather that evil here, is not in their best interest to lock people out of gmail or, say.. adwords. I hope they fix it or else probably the 2 account route will be available for those that really need them, or Google can play Nazi and scare people away. Anyway where are the numbers?
Business email in Gmail? You are doing it wrong, they say they can't offer the reliability people need for a critical missions. You get that when you go to the forums looking for help when your email is locked and you cry you are are losing money. Buy a domain, link all web services to recover/fall back from that mail and be done with it. Or get a Google apps account which gives you full MEAT support 24/7, I'm going to do it, when I can transfer my data from several other google accounts into the paid one, not available to 100% of the services.
I'd welcome a Google+ invitation, want to test the water before creating the definitive accounts, anyone?
Actually, I think that every point in the universe could be considered the center (aka the middle of space.)
heh reading that would make for an interesting afternoon for someone on LSD
The marketing, is strong in this one.
But yes, just tell DP^n^n^n^BP thay can drill there, Brace for Cthulhu's rage for messing with his private pool.
*smash space-time continuum wall* Oouuhh Yeeaahh!
Yes I remember that story here on /. back in the day, My perception of Apple changed that day too, before that I usually considered Apple as reasonable option when shopping for gadgets, I'm still buying an iPod touch but the iPad purchase got cancelled now that ThinkPad will have a serious (as in not consumer oriented) tablet.
I don't even criticize the fact that the batteries are bolted to the machine because thats what make possible to deliver the laptop design which is a nice and usefull added value for Apple products. Problem? then don't buy an apple laptop, is that simple.
But when people argues that OS X it's hacker prof or that iPhones own the "phone" market or that Apple Batteries are easy to change, it's time when you ask yourself if you're being trolled, shilled or simply preached about non-existent facts.
Does your shill-o-meter model have mode-resolving? that one which tell if the shill is in Praise_Apple mode or Bash_Google mode?
Did Apple and Facebook partnered to create the black ops known in the underground as iTurfbook?