This is just a job for the marketing department. Instead of pushing for thin phones vs their competitors, they should be pushing for battery life. Then the competitors will also need to push for battery life. Imagine an iPhone 6+ with the thickness and the curved back of an old iPhone 3GS. The battery life would probably be at least twice of what it is now.
I find the thickness of my old iPhone 3GS to be just perfect, especially with the curved plastic back. Our hands aren't designed to hold rectangles with sharp edges.
1. Netflix costs more than The Pirate Bay: true 2. Netflix has a lower selection than The Pirate Bay: true, including and especially the latest releases and obscure titles (if they're still seeded) 3. Netflix has less usability than The Pirate Bay: false*
* Netflix is just plain easier. I can sit down in front of the TV, start my AppleTV, navigate to something I want to watch, click play.
To do the same thing with The Pirate Bay, I'd have to sit at my computer, search their website, filter out all the weird containers like DivX and MKV, try to find a non-HD file that would take multiple hours to download, make sure the MP4 version I choose has subtitles and will play on my AppleTV, download the file, wait for at least 30 to 60 minutes for the download, add to my iTunes library and then finally watch the movie on my TV. That's nowhere near as convenient as Netflix.
While the selection of Netflix Canada still is nowhere near par with the U.S.A. version, it's a whole lot better than it was at the beginning. And for the price they're asking, it's still better than renting half a dozen DVDs per month.
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It means that the printer needs more legal size paper.
Yeah, well... I'm gonna go build my own operating system. With blackjack and hookers.
I wonder what kind of Oreo you get with #ricomicconfail2014.
I read the title as "World War II Tech DeLorean Deployed As GPS Backup In the UK".
Followed by "They had time travel in WW2?"
So, Hypercard is like Festivus?
This is just a job for the marketing department. Instead of pushing for thin phones vs their competitors, they should be pushing for battery life. Then the competitors will also need to push for battery life. Imagine an iPhone 6+ with the thickness and the curved back of an old iPhone 3GS. The battery life would probably be at least twice of what it is now.
I find the thickness of my old iPhone 3GS to be just perfect, especially with the curved plastic back. Our hands aren't designed to hold rectangles with sharp edges.
Nintendo DSi owner here. Dropped the damn thing over 100 times. Still working.
Phones are still in their "just because we can do it doesn't mean we should" phase.
Thinnest vs battery life, touch-screen displays that to up to the edge vs usability, etc.
Let's form squadrons of pilots who will fly their own drones equipped with weapons to take down the unauthorized drones.
1. Netflix costs more than The Pirate Bay: true
2. Netflix has a lower selection than The Pirate Bay: true, including and especially the latest releases and obscure titles (if they're still seeded)
3. Netflix has less usability than The Pirate Bay: false*
* Netflix is just plain easier. I can sit down in front of the TV, start my AppleTV, navigate to something I want to watch, click play.
To do the same thing with The Pirate Bay, I'd have to sit at my computer, search their website, filter out all the weird containers like DivX and MKV, try to find a non-HD file that would take multiple hours to download, make sure the MP4 version I choose has subtitles and will play on my AppleTV, download the file, wait for at least 30 to 60 minutes for the download, add to my iTunes library and then finally watch the movie on my TV. That's nowhere near as convenient as Netflix.
While the selection of Netflix Canada still is nowhere near par with the U.S.A. version, it's a whole lot better than it was at the beginning. And for the price they're asking, it's still better than renting half a dozen DVDs per month.
It's not their fault, they were not properly edumacated.
If you can't even quarantine a single person, how's that going to work when you get hundreds, thousands and millions of people infected?
We're better off staying inside our basements.
The only way to reduce your own risk of being contaminated is to stay isolated.
Slashdot readers live in the basement and never go outside.
If ebola goes on a rampage world-wide, the only survivors will be people who stayed in isolation.
The future belongs to the nerds.
Don't forget that civilization will also end on january 19th, 2038 at exactly 03:14:08 UTC.
(Australian government looks at U.S.A. data retention laws)
Australian government: You call that data retention laws?
(Australian government pulls out their own data retention laws)
Australian government: THAT'S data retention laws.
I guess that would be one way of stopping assholes.
That's still better than what I get from my ISP.
Oh, 2.5 hours you say? Sorry, I thought you said 2.5 weeks.
Posted on october 7th, 2014.
It sounds more like extrasensory perception to me.
Next up: the fingerprint scanner in your iPhone can also do palm reading!
The problem happens when you lose one of them.
I wouldn't call a hive a "hut", but yeah, beavers do make huts.
Heisenberg compensators? Are those parts of the flux capacitor or parts of Mr. Fusion?
You see any other animal doing mud huts? We should be getting back to mud nests!
Come on man, they're just small cartoon horses.