You have just said that Apple and the S3 are of a similar price and that Apple make a lot more money. It seems to me that would suggest that Apple are giving you much less for the same price.
You need to actually use a galaxy S3 before calling Samsung a copy cat. The machine they give you is so far ahead of the iPhone its unbelievable! I have had all of the iPhones except the 5 and I can tell you that the actual functionality of the S3 is at least six years ahead. The only thing the iPhone does better than Android on the S3 is sync with iTunes on a Mac. Fortunately I donneed to sync with iTunes any more. Im starting to wish Id bought an Android tablet now even though I still like my iPad.
When the screen is off, you still get a little flashing LED to tell you if you missed a call or text
Receive a text, lift phone to ear and the phone calls the sender
Looking at a contact? lift phone to ear and the phone calls the sender
In a meeting and a call comes in? Simply turn the phone face down on the desk and it mutes the sound
Screen stays on while you are looking at it even if you are not doing anything
Walk past a train station and the phone gives you a timetable card, photos of the area and recommends places you might like to see nearby but not intrusively
Notification center is actually really rather useful. Not just notifications but things pop up in it like transit control when you play music etc
Pinch Screen and then go straight to the home screen you were looking for. No more flipping franticly from screen to screen looking for the icon you were after
Kill apps but pressing home button and then swiping away the ones you dont want rather than the laughable IOS method
Widgets on the screen that provide useful one touch things like the torch or your alarm or a book marked web page
A load of gesture controls e.g. touch screen and move phone to pan around a zoomed photo (gimicky but cool)
Seamless sharing of media to an enormous number of things including XBMC
A USB PORT!!!! So you can drag and drop things from PC to phone
A zoom on the camera:)
An FM Radio
I can do this all night and I havent even started to consider things that you can do if you root your phone!
I like the Direct Call feature myself and the little flashing LED when youve had a call or text while your phone screen was off.
Also, today, i discovered you can make any contact into a little photo icon your home screen. A nice little touch. I keep accidently finding useful things it does. I was rather surprised when a photo I was looking at suddenly appeared on my TV. I happened to have XBMC on at the time:)
Oh and you want some nicer transitions Nova works fine on stock Samsung.
I have all the iPhones except the iPhone 5. When IOS6 came out and I realised that not only did it have nothing I wanted, it also took away something I did. So I was never going to upgrade and decided now was the time to try the Galaxy SIII
I have had it about two months now and I have to say I had NO IDEA that IOS was so far behind. I have been genuinely shocked that Samsung and Google have been quietly putting so many great little features into the OS and I knew nothing about it. IOS is still pretty much in the same place it started from.
One would assume a person with such a low UID on/. would have a better grip of a false dichotomy fallacy. Assault is not speech, obviously your logic system is broken. You have repeated this same false dichotomy several times.
The whole reason I moved from my corporate issued Blackberry to my own personal smartphone was to get better mapping.
but now I see little overall usability difference.
I do. I have been an iPhone user since the first one and have all of them and an iPad and three Macs but when I looked at the feature list of IOS6 I realized for the second time Apple produced a major release that had nothing I particularly wanted. I saw that I would never want to uprade to IOS6 especially as I dont want Siri on my iPad. My devices became essentially unsupported.
The day of the IOS6 release I went out and bought a Galaxy S3. It took a day or two to get used to but I am simply amazed how far ahead Android is. The thing that surprised me most is how far Android is ahead in simple usability features that individually dont mean much like displaying as entire incoming text on the status line or going straight from lock screen to the app you wanted, or even calling a number simply by puttting your phone to your ear but when taken together, these little features just make IOS look five years old.
Did exactly the same. Was a KDE user since before 1.0. I think it was KDE Beta 2 where I started. KDE 4.0 changed things for me. Why put up with all the worst aspects of a OSX like UI without the easy hardware configuration. May as well run OSX. SO now all my machines are Macs. I dont think OSX is as good as KDE 3.5 on Linux but its UI is only about as crappy as KDE4.X but I get to plug bits of hardware in without thinking too much about it. A real shame.
Im not a pilot but I would rather hope that when an auto-pilot disengages, it would leave things as they are rather than releasing the thrust!! You cant just let a plane stall because the auto pilot disengages. At the altitude these planes fly at, there isnt much leeway between stall speed and "bits of plane falling off" speed so you REALLY want to know what speed you are travelling at relative to the air around you and dont want that changing without a very good reason.
Given there were storms in the area I guess airspeed would have been jumping all over the place as well as altitude. If the computers couldnt fly it, Im pretty sure the pilots couldnt either because even in clear blue sky you cant tell your air speed from looking out the window.
My understanding is that the pitot tubes icing up is a very bad thing and if you cant get down to warmer air to de-ice them, youre in trouble.
Furthermore, I dont think anyone knows for sure if the messages received from the plane are the cause of the problem or a result of a completely different problem.
I hope they find those black boxes though and they are still in a fit state to clarify what happened to this plane.
Trouble is, for you to determine it is a recurring problem, then it will have to have failed at least twice. Personally I like to try and avoid the second time.
For those of us who have been doing this for years and years, we find that Unix boxes rarely fail for everyone at once unless you are doing the one application per VM cost FAIL. It is usually not acceptale to take down finance because the system is not working for HR. Problems that affect the entire machine are usually easy enough to track down and work around, if not fix.
I had only the bottom sensor tripped and this was due to having a long call AFTER getting out of a jacuzzi and having a rather sweaty head. Still, it at least gave me the motivation for taking my iphone apart and scratching away at metal bits inside it until it started working again.
This is the one issue that means my next phone will be Android.
Many of my friends don't do anything except change ISP or sometimes place of work. They then send out a mail to people they think might be interested. Some of these friends they perhaps communicate with once a year or so and some of them don't always read all their mails.
Some people have several e-mail addresses and sometimes prefer messages to go to one address and sometimes to the other.
The single point of failure in your system is relying on people caring about what they do half the time.
A Facebook message requires only that a person change their own target e-mail address. Stupid, maybe but simple and effective.
Might do but it wouldn't mean the same thing. "One" used like this is an indefinite pronoun and therefore is similar to the plural "you" or "people in general".
Excellent, though somewhat ridiculous, observation. However, it leaves me wondering how many times you reviewed your own post, in order to ensure you weren't making an arse of yourself, only to fail regardless.
If he really did say planes fly through desert sand and used this an argument for the safety of volcanic ash, h's a total idiot and anything else he may have said, or dribbled, can be safely ignored.
Nobody sad anything about banks not using good hardware. Most large multinational organisation have software and data thats been around for at least fifteen years.
I don't think you really understand what Y2K meant.
Even with years of effort, the place I was at on the day still had perl programs rolling the date to 00 and very nearly screwed up large financial portfolios.
The reason nothing happened is precisely because people like me spent three years or more making sure nothing happened.
Even then, some things did actually happen.
Your "test" is totally unworkable. Sure it will pick up BIOS problems and a few other trivial things that turned up on peoples desktops but if you have a global bank with hundreds of bespoke and off the shelf applications and enormous amounts of data, in hundreds of databases all dependent on each other a) you can't just duplicate it and b) you were in for a great deal of hurt if you did nothing. I know, people like me proved it.
Trouble with flying above it is that you have to still fly through it to get above it and you have to fy through it to land again if, as most flights were, the entire journey was wihiin Europe.
They didn't take passengers up with them but they did say "hey we didn't die on our flight" in order to get public opinion to pressure the authorities into opening the airspace. The fact that the useful data obtained from their flight was as close to zero as makes no difference (and they knew it) was an irrelevance for them.
You saw no volcanic ash because it was microscopic and several thousand feet in the air. The British scientific plane that went up, loaded with specialised instruments that could actually detect volcanic substances in the air and could test densities landed with the pilot saying they had a couple of scary moments. They could smell the sulphur and they wouldn't fly a jet liner up there.
The cloud covered the whole of Europe from Scandinavia down to Northern Italy. There were no corridors that anybody could detect. They may have been there but if you cant find them, you cant fly along them.
I am sorry you got stuck and I probably would have felt more like you in your situation but fortunately these kinds of decisions are not taken by people in desperate situations.
Lufthansa did not send up ten flights. There was one German flight that flew a flight that increased in altitude by 1000 feet every ten minutes or so up to 40000 feet. At the time the cloud was estimated to be about 15000 up in the air. The CEO was on the flight and no instruments were on board to say what concentration of ash they were flying through. For all anyone knows they weren't flying through any.
You may be confusing the number of Lufthansa flights with the 50 that were given special permission to fly through German airspace the day before the whole of Europe lifted the ban.
You may be right that the law should be changed or you might be wrong. However, I would suggest that you needs facts before you change the law and there weren't any. Given the fact that nobody knew but models suggested you'd have planes falling out of the sky over Europe, I think the right thing was done.
The technical people tell you it will all go tits up and everyone spends an enormous amount of time, money and effort making sure it doesn't happen. It then doesn't happen and everybody goes "What the hell did we spend al that money for" despite the fact that it "not happening" is exactly why they spent that money.
The airline response to the shut down of European airspace is exactly the same.
Because you have more engines to fail that makes it safer? The issue is all the engines failing. It doesn't really matter if you have thirty eight engines if none of them are working. The idea that you can glide to safely into Heathrow airport because your engines flamed out at 8000 feet is the kind of thinking these regulators fortunately, do not subscribe to.
We do not know the effects of the volcanic on these planes and we won't know for a long time yet.
This is a knee jerk reaction to being stuck in Frankfurt longer than you wanted. If you do not know how much ash brings down a plane, do you think it's a good idea to allow planes to fly through the stuff?
The "test" flights by a few airlines added nothing to the discussion apart from the fact that it was safe, at that moment, to fly a short time through an unknown concentration of ash, over that particular country and then swan about for a couple of hours 20000 feet above the cloud. I will not fly on those airlines again. They demonstrated total disregard for their passengers by staging a stupid publicity stunt, clouding the waters of a serious technical evaluation and all for commercial gain.
Comparing the problem to the 9/11 closure is a bit silly really.
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You have just said that Apple and the S3 are of a similar price and that Apple make a lot more money. It seems to me that would suggest that Apple are giving you much less for the same price.
I think that is true.
You need to actually use a galaxy S3 before calling Samsung a copy cat. The machine they give you is so far ahead of the iPhone its unbelievable! I have had all of the iPhones except the 5 and I can tell you that the actual functionality of the S3 is at least six years ahead. The only thing the iPhone does better than Android on the S3 is sync with iTunes on a Mac. Fortunately I donneed to sync with iTunes any more. Im starting to wish Id bought an Android tablet now even though I still like my iPad.
I do think the iPhone looks nice though,
Ok, in no particular order
When the screen is off, you still get a little flashing LED to tell you if you missed a call or text
Receive a text, lift phone to ear and the phone calls the sender
Looking at a contact? lift phone to ear and the phone calls the sender
In a meeting and a call comes in? Simply turn the phone face down on the desk and it mutes the sound
Screen stays on while you are looking at it even if you are not doing anything
Walk past a train station and the phone gives you a timetable card, photos of the area and recommends places you might like to see nearby but not intrusively
Notification center is actually really rather useful. Not just notifications but things pop up in it like transit control when you play music etc
Pinch Screen and then go straight to the home screen you were looking for. No more flipping franticly from screen to screen looking for the icon you were after
Kill apps but pressing home button and then swiping away the ones you dont want rather than the laughable IOS method
Widgets on the screen that provide useful one touch things like the torch or your alarm or a book marked web page
A load of gesture controls e.g. touch screen and move phone to pan around a zoomed photo (gimicky but cool)
Seamless sharing of media to an enormous number of things including XBMC
A USB PORT!!!! So you can drag and drop things from PC to phone
A zoom on the camera :)
An FM Radio
I can do this all night and I havent even started to consider things that you can do if you root your phone!
Actually they have Touch Wiz on top of Android and it is surprisingly good and actually rather innovative.
I like the Direct Call feature myself and the little flashing LED when youve had a call or text while your phone screen was off.
Also, today, i discovered you can make any contact into a little photo icon your home screen. A nice little touch. I keep accidently finding useful things it does. I was rather surprised when a photo I was looking at suddenly appeared on my TV. I happened to have XBMC on at the time :)
Oh and you want some nicer transitions Nova works fine on stock Samsung.
I have all the iPhones except the iPhone 5. When IOS6 came out and I realised that not only did it have nothing I wanted, it also took away something I did. So I was never going to upgrade and decided now was the time to try the Galaxy SIII
I have had it about two months now and I have to say I had NO IDEA that IOS was so far behind. I have been genuinely shocked that Samsung and Google have been quietly putting so many great little features into the OS and I knew nothing about it. IOS is still pretty much in the same place it started from.
I loved my iPhones but Ill never go back.
One would assume a person with such a low UID on /. would have a better grip of a false dichotomy fallacy. Assault is not speech, obviously your logic system is broken. You have repeated this same false dichotomy several times.
Does having a low UID make you smart?
Now I feel much better!
The whole reason I moved from my corporate issued Blackberry to my own personal smartphone was to get better mapping.
but now I see little overall usability difference.
I do. I have been an iPhone user since the first one and have all of them and an iPad and three Macs but when I looked at the feature list of IOS6 I realized for the second time Apple produced a major release that had nothing I particularly wanted. I saw that I would never want to uprade to IOS6 especially as I dont want Siri on my iPad. My devices became essentially unsupported.
The day of the IOS6 release I went out and bought a Galaxy S3. It took a day or two to get used to but I am simply amazed how far ahead Android is. The thing that surprised me most is how far Android is ahead in simple usability features that individually dont mean much like displaying as entire incoming text on the status line or going straight from lock screen to the app you wanted, or even calling a number simply by puttting your phone to your ear but when taken together, these little features just make IOS look five years old.
This!
Did exactly the same. Was a KDE user since before 1.0. I think it was KDE Beta 2 where I started. KDE 4.0 changed things for me. Why put up with all the worst aspects of a OSX like UI without the easy hardware configuration. May as well run OSX. SO now all my machines are Macs. I dont think OSX is as good as KDE 3.5 on Linux but its UI is only about as crappy as KDE4.X but I get to plug bits of hardware in without thinking too much about it. A real shame.
Im not a pilot but I would rather hope that when an auto-pilot disengages, it would leave things as they are rather than releasing the thrust!! You cant just let a plane stall because the auto pilot disengages. At the altitude these planes fly at, there isnt much leeway between stall speed and "bits of plane falling off" speed so you REALLY want to know what speed you are travelling at relative to the air around you and dont want that changing without a very good reason.
Given there were storms in the area I guess airspeed would have been jumping all over the place as well as altitude. If the computers couldnt fly it, Im pretty sure the pilots couldnt either because even in clear blue sky you cant tell your air speed from looking out the window.
My understanding is that the pitot tubes icing up is a very bad thing and if you cant get down to warmer air to de-ice them, youre in trouble.
Furthermore, I dont think anyone knows for sure if the messages received from the plane are the cause of the problem or a result of a completely different problem.
I hope they find those black boxes though and they are still in a fit state to clarify what happened to this plane.
Trouble is, for you to determine it is a recurring problem, then it will have to have failed at least twice. Personally I like to try and avoid the second time.
For those of us who have been doing this for years and years, we find that Unix boxes rarely fail for everyone at once unless you are doing the one application per VM cost FAIL. It is usually not acceptale to take down finance because the system is not working for HR. Problems that affect the entire machine are usually easy enough to track down and work around, if not fix.
They refused to fix my 3GS.
I had only the bottom sensor tripped and this was due to having a long call AFTER getting out of a jacuzzi and having a rather sweaty head. Still, it at least gave me the motivation for taking my iphone apart and scratching away at metal bits inside it until it started working again.
This is the one issue that means my next phone will be Android.
Many of my friends don't do anything except change ISP or sometimes place of work. They then send out a mail to people they think might be interested. Some of these friends they perhaps communicate with once a year or so and some of them don't always read all their mails.
Some people have several e-mail addresses and sometimes prefer messages to go to one address and sometimes to the other.
The single point of failure in your system is relying on people caring about what they do half the time.
A Facebook message requires only that a person change their own target e-mail address. Stupid, maybe but simple and effective.
Can't see the issue myself.
In one small way it is. You don't have to manage changes in your friends e-mail addresses if you use Facebook. They do it themselves.
Might do but it wouldn't mean the same thing. "One" used like this is an indefinite pronoun and therefore is similar to the plural "you" or "people in general".
That will be ten dollars please.
Excellent, though somewhat ridiculous, observation. However, it leaves me wondering how many times you reviewed your own post, in order to ensure you weren't making an arse of yourself, only to fail regardless.
If he really did say planes fly through desert sand and used this an argument for the safety of volcanic ash, h's a total idiot and anything else he may have said, or dribbled, can be safely ignored.
Nobody sad anything about banks not using good hardware. Most large multinational organisation have software and data thats been around for at least fifteen years.
I don't think you really understand what Y2K meant.
Even with years of effort, the place I was at on the day still had perl programs rolling the date to 00 and very nearly screwed up large financial portfolios.
I think you missed my point!
The reason nothing happened is precisely because people like me spent three years or more making sure nothing happened.
Even then, some things did actually happen.
Your "test" is totally unworkable. Sure it will pick up BIOS problems and a few other trivial things that turned up on peoples desktops but if you have a global bank with hundreds of bespoke and off the shelf applications and enormous amounts of data, in hundreds of databases all dependent on each other a) you can't just duplicate it and b) you were in for a great deal of hurt if you did nothing. I know, people like me proved it.
Trouble with flying above it is that you have to still fly through it to get above it and you have to fy through it to land again if, as most flights were, the entire journey was wihiin Europe.
They didn't take passengers up with them but they did say "hey we didn't die on our flight" in order to get public opinion to pressure the authorities into opening the airspace. The fact that the useful data obtained from their flight was as close to zero as makes no difference (and they knew it) was an irrelevance for them.
You saw no volcanic ash because it was microscopic and several thousand feet in the air. The British scientific plane that went up, loaded with specialised instruments that could actually detect volcanic substances in the air and could test densities landed with the pilot saying they had a couple of scary moments. They could smell the sulphur and they wouldn't fly a jet liner up there.
The cloud covered the whole of Europe from Scandinavia down to Northern Italy. There were no corridors that anybody could detect. They may have been there but if you cant find them, you cant fly along them.
I am sorry you got stuck and I probably would have felt more like you in your situation but fortunately these kinds of decisions are not taken by people in desperate situations.
Lufthansa did not send up ten flights. There was one German flight that flew a flight that increased in altitude by 1000 feet every ten minutes or so up to 40000 feet. At the time the cloud was estimated to be about 15000 up in the air. The CEO was on the flight and no instruments were on board to say what concentration of ash they were flying through. For all anyone knows they weren't flying through any.
You may be confusing the number of Lufthansa flights with the 50 that were given special permission to fly through German airspace the day before the whole of Europe lifted the ban.
You may be right that the law should be changed or you might be wrong. However, I would suggest that you needs facts before you change the law and there weren't any. Given the fact that nobody knew but models suggested you'd have planes falling out of the sky over Europe, I think the right thing was done.
The Y2K bug is a good analogy actually.
The technical people tell you it will all go tits up and everyone spends an enormous amount of time, money and effort making sure it doesn't happen. It then doesn't happen and everybody goes "What the hell did we spend al that money for" despite the fact that it "not happening" is exactly why they spent that money.
The airline response to the shut down of European airspace is exactly the same.
Sorry!
Because you have more engines to fail that makes it safer? The issue is all the engines failing. It doesn't really matter if you have thirty eight engines if none of them are working. The idea that you can glide to safely into Heathrow airport because your engines flamed out at 8000 feet is the kind of thinking these regulators fortunately, do not subscribe to.
We do not know the effects of the volcanic on these planes and we won't know for a long time yet.
This is a knee jerk reaction to being stuck in Frankfurt longer than you wanted. If you do not know how much ash brings down a plane, do you think it's a good idea to allow planes to fly through the stuff?
The "test" flights by a few airlines added nothing to the discussion apart from the fact that it was safe, at that moment, to fly a short time through an unknown concentration of ash, over that particular country and then swan about for a couple of hours 20000 feet above the cloud. I will not fly on those airlines again. They demonstrated total disregard for their passengers by staging a stupid publicity stunt, clouding the waters of a serious technical evaluation and all for commercial gain.
Comparing the problem to the 9/11 closure is a bit silly really.