What does it matter that the stations are in the desert? What's important is not the absolute temperature that a station records, but its variance over time, and I believe that the desert perfectly satisfies your demand that the stations should not be anywhere near people and their filthy heating habits.
Practically, your first paragraph demands that weather stations should not be near people, and the second that they should not be where there are no people. You're either a very misguided individual or a very subtle troll, and Poe's Law makes me unable to decide which.
If you don't have a cell phone, don't have electricity (allow me to doubt that) and deal only in cash, then I agree that you would have not be affected. The issue was never only about consumer devices. You may not realize, but GPS is used for precise timing in wireless cellphone towers and other communications systems, financial networks, the power grid, FAA weather reporting, and many other things, all of which would have been affected by LightSquared.
So let me get it straight... because he disagreed with you, you resorted to calling him douchebag, jealous, ignorant, unbalanced, creepy, fucked up and out of touch.
I'm probably nitpicking a much too subtle joke, but it's a bit disingenuous to count the iPhone and Ipod Touch as different devices, since one is just an iPhone without the phone part, basically. And Android also ships on media players such as Egreat R200S, so it's at best a tie between them.
Well, I can argue that it's you who is raising the strawman, since there is no difference between micro and macroevolution, at least not in the sense that the creationists are using it. Macroevolution is mainly just a subterfuge to define evolution on too grand a scale to be observed in one's lifetime, hence unproven. An then you get to the same old tired argument about falsified fossils, and the rest of the pseudointellectual dance. That's not an argument, that's the definition of a useless discussion, since the ID party is never going to accept a common set of rules for a burden of proof to advance this argument into a useful debate.
Windows are not grouped willy-nilly on the taskbar. They are grouped by the order in which they were opened, so there's a temporal flow to them. Your bird's eye view is useless when there are multiple document opened in a program and they are all similar looking, because you still have to mouseover and read their title.
You misunderstood the "caring" part. I just meant that I don't care to betatest or use Gnome, or Unity, Windows 8, or Lion, because their ideas are not demonstrably better and are, frankly, not worth my time. I've stopped at Snow Leopard, Windows 7 and I'm considering migrating my Ubuntu 10.4 install to Debian Mint. Interface designers seem to have simultaneously lost their marbles as far as I'm concerned.
I'm not complaining about power user needs not being met and in fact I was not claiming to be a power user anywhere in my previous post. I'm just annoyed that I can't leave someone with an Ubuntu install and be reasonably secure that I won't be hearing from them very soon. Because I used to do that and then Unity springs up and people call to tell me that everything's broken and those Linux people are stupid.
I don't patronize people by calling them "consumers" meaning that I really think they are stupid and that "power users" are smart. People mostly use computers to do things, not to use computers for their own sake. Doing things may mean simply reading the web and composing an email, or viewing photos, chatting online with their kids or grandkids, or designing a house for all I know. The interface shouldn't make things more difficult, undiscoverable, indescribable, illogical. People have said many bad things about the Ribbon interface (I mostly like it), but no one denied that at list that thing was trying to be discoverable and logical.
And, in a response to a post you made above that says that users make a big fuss about changes and than swallow the pill anyway, I bring you the recent example of Vista, where users stayed away in so effectively that even Microsoft had to acknowledge that they make a mistake.
In my country we have a saying: when two people tell you that you are drunk, you go home and sleep it off. The Gnome and Ubuntu/Unity developers are drunk, are being told that they are drunk, and they are challenging everybody with a broken bottle. This is going to end bad for all parties.
Yeah, except that those solutions seem to have problems if you have more than 1 window open. Why should that make me happy? What exactly are they doing that's better or more efficient than those task bars and window list that you disdain so much? Why should I care?
30% of $60 is $18, not 8. Also I wouldn't necessarily trust IFixIt's BOM estimates, because I don't think they have any way of determining the discounts that a big company such as HP can get. And I bet those discounts are impressive. If we're in the area of colon sourced estimates, probably anything over 300 would put them in the black, all expenses considered.
Oh yes they do. You say about 3G killing battery life. My 2007 Nokia N82 has no problem with 3G. It still holds about three days on a charge with 3G on after all these years. Apple said that 3G sucked for battery life, when in fact it sucked for their battery life, not for the competitors. They never admit when they can't do something properly and just say "this sucks, you don't really need it".
You didn't need apps when the Iphone was launched, and web apps were going to be enough for everybody. Other manufacturers such as Samsung would just have said "App development will be implemented in a later update". And it will be painted in the press, as it is now, as having launched an unfinished product.
O about multitasking killing battery life - that wasn't true for the competitors, but Apple lied and said it as if it was.
Or about a front facing cam - third party apps such as Skype would have used it, as they have done on other devices. but Apple wanted to have FaceTime ready and sell it as the best thing since sliced bread, even if I could do it on my phone 5 years before. In fact one of the selling points for the 3G implementation in Europe was the possibility of having video calling.
That's exactly the problem. Gnome has no business offering experimental user experiences. If they like the Shell concept so much, they should have established a separate project. As the stewards of one of the biggest FOSS desktop environments they should give the users what the users want, or else not be surprised when everybody badmouths them on the internet for guinea-pig-ing us on it.
There is indeed the famous Henry Ford quote “If I asked people what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.”. Unity or Shell are not, unfortunately, the next Model T. They are practically saying that we do not need to move faster than on foot and that we are being fussy when we say that we need to get to work every day and that work is too far.
Wristwatch cell phones already exist, and some of them are even dual SIM. They are pretty bulky, similar in a way with sports watches that have GPS, pedometers, heart monitors and other stuff, but most of the bulk is the battery. They last about a day, which is pretty normal for a phone, but abysmal for a watch. They may not have acceptable size and weight for you or me, but it's clear they already have their buyers. For what it's worth, i have seen normal watches that are bulkier than the cell phone ones.
What do you mean that people don't care about the hot-swapability of the SIM? People now know that they can but any GSM phone from any manufacturer, put in the SIM card and it will work. They don't even think about the possibility that it wouldn't.
A custom format from Apple would mean that in order to change the phone you would need to get a new SIM from your provider, probably for free, but it will take days, and you won't be able to use your new phone in the mean time (not your old phone either, since they block the old SIM when you require a switch), thus making switching away from Apple really suck.
That's pretty much the definition of manufacturer lock-in.
As far as I know, Microsoft does not offer to patch Office if you have no Office installed. That would be illogical, since Microsoft Update supports several versions of Office, not just the last one, and patches are specific for the version to which they apply. Patches offered are for the installed Microsoft software and for some software partners. I have several Windows 7 computers at home and at work and, for example, Office patches do not appear for computers that have no Office, or Zune or Silverlight for computers that do not have them installed in the first place.
You are either logged on the wrong computer, remember things wrong, have a borken Office uninstall on the server (so it does not appear on the list of installed programs, but is found in the registry when scanning by Windows Update) or simply you have Office installed on the server. Occam's razor says the latter is the most probable.
Well, for example, My Name Is Earl did not have a laugh track. It was great for me, since the jokes that "hit" would be completely unexpected. A laugh track is laid over jokes that are really not even remotely funny, and you become sort of jaded and are not able to appreciate the really good ones when they come. I believe that a show such as the Big Bang Theory would be pretty funny if it didn't have a laugh track, but as is stands it isn't. A laugh track is supposed to clue people on the really "geek" jokes on the show, and in doing so kills it for those that would be able to appreciate them on their own.
The link you posted refers to the original Xbox, released in 2001 and discontinued in 2005. The previous poster was correct, the Xbox 360 does indeed have a 3-core 3.2 GHz PowerPC CPU, similar but not quite the same with the PS3's Cell.
Apple is not the biggest PC vendor and never were. They claimed to be the biggest mobile PC vendor, counting the iPad as a PC, which it really isn't, not more so than the Iphone, anyway. By numbers shipped, it's third in the US, just about tied with Acer which will overtake it soon, if it hasn't already, and worldwide it's not anywhere near top three. Even in the US Dell sell more than double the number of units than Apple. Ditto for the world market, where Apple's presence is symbolic, not even making it in the top 6. HP is the biggest PC maker in the world. Source: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20101013007002/en/Global-PC-Market-Maintains-Double-Digit-Growth-Quarter
First, Mac is a PC. And most PCs can run OS X, they are just not allowed to. Windows 7's system requirements are the same as for Windows Vista. And guess what, 7 was faster, not slower than Vista.
As far as I've read, all the new PS3 slim units have universal power supplies, even if the outer label does not say so. So they only need to mind the power plug.
Allow me to disagree, but i think they end up in jail because they sold crack. It's not like the juries made them do it. I agree to the second part, though.
Well, all is well if the only thing you could compare the original 2007 Iphone to was a 2004 Nokia model. Now I understand that for you the Iphone was a revolution. For someone who stayed current with the market, it wasn't.
I don't believe you ever had a Symbian phone. For one, they didn't use styluses because they had no touch screens. The method you described may apply to windows mobile, although having used it only on very rare occasions I cannot confirm that. But on Symbian at least you just start the browser, type the address (it implicitly starts with the cursor already on the address field, you just type) or select it from bookmarks and indeed the connection menu pops up with a list of available connections, allowing you to select one and that's pretty much it. You do not need to close the connection manually and I don't think that ever was the case with Symbian.
That doesn't mean that it wasn't clunky, but you have to remember that they did not use touch screens. What Iphone did was leapfrog Windows Mobile that indeed clung stupidly to the idea that a phone should work the same way as a desktop computer so that people would not need to learn a new interface. There were other manufacturers that had the same idea at the time, such as LG, but Apple executed and marketed it way better. It was not a revolution though, it was an evolution that would have happened without them anyway.
Apple just delivered the market a swift kick in the pants, as the manufacturers at the time were really trying to drip-feed innovations and segment the market to aberrant extents (such as Sony Ericsson with phones that were marketed for youth, but made them choose between camera or mp3 player, because there was no way that someone into music would like to take good photos), and we all benefited from this.
But, again, it wasn't a revolution, it was just evolution, although it certainly wasn't marketed as such.
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What does it matter that the stations are in the desert? What's important is not the absolute temperature that a station records, but its variance over time, and I believe that the desert perfectly satisfies your demand that the stations should not be anywhere near people and their filthy heating habits.
Practically, your first paragraph demands that weather stations should not be near people, and the second that they should not be where there are no people. You're either a very misguided individual or a very subtle troll, and Poe's Law makes me unable to decide which.
If you don't have a cell phone, don't have electricity (allow me to doubt that) and deal only in cash, then I agree that you would have not be affected. The issue was never only about consumer devices. You may not realize, but GPS is used for precise timing in wireless cellphone towers and other communications systems, financial networks, the power grid, FAA weather reporting, and many other things, all of which would have been affected by LightSquared.
So let me get it straight ... because he disagreed with you, you resorted to calling him douchebag, jealous, ignorant, unbalanced, creepy, fucked up and out of touch.
I believe that you just proved his point.
In that case, Conwon D3 is one example of an Android media player, and a very good one going by the reviews. Android wins again! /jk
I'm probably nitpicking a much too subtle joke, but it's a bit disingenuous to count the iPhone and Ipod Touch as different devices, since one is just an iPhone without the phone part, basically. And Android also ships on media players such as Egreat R200S, so it's at best a tie between them.
Well, I can argue that it's you who is raising the strawman, since there is no difference between micro and macroevolution, at least not in the sense that the creationists are using it. Macroevolution is mainly just a subterfuge to define evolution on too grand a scale to be observed in one's lifetime, hence unproven. An then you get to the same old tired argument about falsified fossils, and the rest of the pseudointellectual dance. That's not an argument, that's the definition of a useless discussion, since the ID party is never going to accept a common set of rules for a burden of proof to advance this argument into a useful debate.
Windows are not grouped willy-nilly on the taskbar. They are grouped by the order in which they were opened, so there's a temporal flow to them. Your bird's eye view is useless when there are multiple document opened in a program and they are all similar looking, because you still have to mouseover and read their title.
You misunderstood the "caring" part. I just meant that I don't care to betatest or use Gnome, or Unity, Windows 8, or Lion, because their ideas are not demonstrably better and are, frankly, not worth my time. I've stopped at Snow Leopard, Windows 7 and I'm considering migrating my Ubuntu 10.4 install to Debian Mint. Interface designers seem to have simultaneously lost their marbles as far as I'm concerned.
I'm not complaining about power user needs not being met and in fact I was not claiming to be a power user anywhere in my previous post. I'm just annoyed that I can't leave someone with an Ubuntu install and be reasonably secure that I won't be hearing from them very soon. Because I used to do that and then Unity springs up and people call to tell me that everything's broken and those Linux people are stupid.
I don't patronize people by calling them "consumers" meaning that I really think they are stupid and that "power users" are smart. People mostly use computers to do things, not to use computers for their own sake. Doing things may mean simply reading the web and composing an email, or viewing photos, chatting online with their kids or grandkids, or designing a house for all I know. The interface shouldn't make things more difficult, undiscoverable, indescribable, illogical. People have said many bad things about the Ribbon interface (I mostly like it), but no one denied that at list that thing was trying to be discoverable and logical.
And, in a response to a post you made above that says that users make a big fuss about changes and than swallow the pill anyway, I bring you the recent example of Vista, where users stayed away in so effectively that even Microsoft had to acknowledge that they make a mistake.
In my country we have a saying: when two people tell you that you are drunk, you go home and sleep it off. The Gnome and Ubuntu/Unity developers are drunk, are being told that they are drunk, and they are challenging everybody with a broken bottle. This is going to end bad for all parties.
Yeah, except that those solutions seem to have problems if you have more than 1 window open. Why should that make me happy? What exactly are they doing that's better or more efficient than those task bars and window list that you disdain so much? Why should I care?
30% of $60 is $18, not 8. Also I wouldn't necessarily trust IFixIt's BOM estimates, because I don't think they have any way of determining the discounts that a big company such as HP can get. And I bet those discounts are impressive. If we're in the area of colon sourced estimates, probably anything over 300 would put them in the black, all expenses considered.
I don't see how that contradicts anything I've said. You've basically resorted to an ad hominem.
Oh yes they do. You say about 3G killing battery life. My 2007 Nokia N82 has no problem with 3G. It still holds about three days on a charge with 3G on after all these years. Apple said that 3G sucked for battery life, when in fact it sucked for their battery life, not for the competitors. They never admit when they can't do something properly and just say "this sucks, you don't really need it".
You didn't need apps when the Iphone was launched, and web apps were going to be enough for everybody. Other manufacturers such as Samsung would just have said "App development will be implemented in a later update". And it will be painted in the press, as it is now, as having launched an unfinished product.
O about multitasking killing battery life - that wasn't true for the competitors, but Apple lied and said it as if it was.
Or about a front facing cam - third party apps such as Skype would have used it, as they have done on other devices. but Apple wanted to have FaceTime ready and sell it as the best thing since sliced bread, even if I could do it on my phone 5 years before. In fact one of the selling points for the 3G implementation in Europe was the possibility of having video calling.
That's exactly the problem. Gnome has no business offering experimental user experiences. If they like the Shell concept so much, they should have established a separate project. As the stewards of one of the biggest FOSS desktop environments they should give the users what the users want, or else not be surprised when everybody badmouths them on the internet for guinea-pig-ing us on it.
There is indeed the famous Henry Ford quote “If I asked people what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.”. Unity or Shell are not, unfortunately, the next Model T. They are practically saying that we do not need to move faster than on foot and that we are being fussy when we say that we need to get to work every day and that work is too far.
Wristwatch cell phones already exist, and some of them are even dual SIM. They are pretty bulky, similar in a way with sports watches that have GPS, pedometers, heart monitors and other stuff, but most of the bulk is the battery. They last about a day, which is pretty normal for a phone, but abysmal for a watch. They may not have acceptable size and weight for you or me, but it's clear they already have their buyers. For what it's worth, i have seen normal watches that are bulkier than the cell phone ones.
What do you mean that people don't care about the hot-swapability of the SIM? People now know that they can but any GSM phone from any manufacturer, put in the SIM card and it will work. They don't even think about the possibility that it wouldn't.
A custom format from Apple would mean that in order to change the phone you would need to get a new SIM from your provider, probably for free, but it will take days, and you won't be able to use your new phone in the mean time (not your old phone either, since they block the old SIM when you require a switch), thus making switching away from Apple really suck.
That's pretty much the definition of manufacturer lock-in.
As far as I know, Microsoft does not offer to patch Office if you have no Office installed. That would be illogical, since Microsoft Update supports several versions of Office, not just the last one, and patches are specific for the version to which they apply. Patches offered are for the installed Microsoft software and for some software partners. I have several Windows 7 computers at home and at work and, for example, Office patches do not appear for computers that have no Office, or Zune or Silverlight for computers that do not have them installed in the first place.
You are either logged on the wrong computer, remember things wrong, have a borken Office uninstall on the server (so it does not appear on the list of installed programs, but is found in the registry when scanning by Windows Update) or simply you have Office installed on the server. Occam's razor says the latter is the most probable.
Well, for example, My Name Is Earl did not have a laugh track. It was great for me, since the jokes that "hit" would be completely unexpected. A laugh track is laid over jokes that are really not even remotely funny, and you become sort of jaded and are not able to appreciate the really good ones when they come. I believe that a show such as the Big Bang Theory would be pretty funny if it didn't have a laugh track, but as is stands it isn't. A laugh track is supposed to clue people on the really "geek" jokes on the show, and in doing so kills it for those that would be able to appreciate them on their own.
The link you posted refers to the original Xbox, released in 2001 and discontinued in 2005. The previous poster was correct, the Xbox 360 does indeed have a 3-core 3.2 GHz PowerPC CPU, similar but not quite the same with the PS3's Cell.
Apple is not the biggest PC vendor and never were. They claimed to be the biggest mobile PC vendor, counting the iPad as a PC, which it really isn't, not more so than the Iphone, anyway. By numbers shipped, it's third in the US, just about tied with Acer which will overtake it soon, if it hasn't already, and worldwide it's not anywhere near top three.
Even in the US Dell sell more than double the number of units than Apple. Ditto for the world market, where Apple's presence is symbolic, not even making it in the top 6.
HP is the biggest PC maker in the world.
Source: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20101013007002/en/Global-PC-Market-Maintains-Double-Digit-Growth-Quarter
First, Mac is a PC. And most PCs can run OS X, they are just not allowed to.
Windows 7's system requirements are the same as for Windows Vista. And guess what, 7 was faster, not slower than Vista.
As far as I've read, all the new PS3 slim units have universal power supplies, even if the outer label does not say so. So they only need to mind the power plug.
Allow me to disagree, but i think they end up in jail because they sold crack. It's not like the juries made them do it. I agree to the second part, though.
Well, all is well if the only thing you could compare the original 2007 Iphone to was a 2004 Nokia model. Now I understand that for you the Iphone was a revolution. For someone who stayed current with the market, it wasn't.
I don't believe you ever had a Symbian phone. For one, they didn't use styluses because they had no touch screens. The method you described may apply to windows mobile, although having used it only on very rare occasions I cannot confirm that. But on Symbian at least you just start the browser, type the address (it implicitly starts with the cursor already on the address field, you just type) or select it from bookmarks and indeed the connection menu pops up with a list of available connections, allowing you to select one and that's pretty much it. You do not need to close the connection manually and I don't think that ever was the case with Symbian.
That doesn't mean that it wasn't clunky, but you have to remember that they did not use touch screens. What Iphone did was leapfrog Windows Mobile that indeed clung stupidly to the idea that a phone should work the same way as a desktop computer so that people would not need to learn a new interface. There were other manufacturers that had the same idea at the time, such as LG, but Apple executed and marketed it way better. It was not a revolution though, it was an evolution that would have happened without them anyway.
Apple just delivered the market a swift kick in the pants, as the manufacturers at the time were really trying to drip-feed innovations and segment the market to aberrant extents (such as Sony Ericsson with phones that were marketed for youth, but made them choose between camera or mp3 player, because there was no way that someone into music would like to take good photos), and we all benefited from this.
But, again, it wasn't a revolution, it was just evolution, although it certainly wasn't marketed as such.
The american Ford Fusion has no relation to the european one. The european one is a slightly bigger Fiesta and the american one is a big sedan.
Well, you should, at least you'd have the same mother in law. The devil you know and all that.
Also: when?!