However, anyone who think it is okay to take property from group A and give it to group B is a communist. You can't take it from group A unless you believe property is yours to take.... held in common.
Okay, then, so you're giving up: medicare, social security, non-toll roads, all forms of insurance, public schools, libraries, the armed forces, etc? Guess what, all those things are possible ONLY by taking stuff from Group A and giving it to Group B. Throwing around words like socialism and communism is just further proof you're impossibly ignorant. But that's okay, because I'm sure it FEELS true to you.
They forever screwed themselves because they used to charge people to use it. When there's a ton of competition, and it's free? Yeah.
So did Netscape, which eventually turned into Firefox. I don't think that has anything to do with it. Opera has great technology, and no understanding of what most users want in a (default) user interface. They also seem to have no clue that most users never change default settings, so it doesn't matter how configurable it is.
You mean like how they didn't test with Opera 10.70 beta? Or how they didn't even use the latest release version of 10.62?
That's not surprising - Opera hasn't caught on, and probably never will. You know the difference between Opera and technologies like Amiga and OS/2? Me, neither. "You hear that, Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability." And lemme tell ya, being an Opera user doesn't make you Neo. *shrug*
They must mean to an EXTERNAL display, because the display on the device is only capable of 600 pixels vertically, which is pretty far from 720p, much less the 1080p of 'full HD'.
What exactly is the point of jetpacks supposed to be? They don't seem to be useful for any civilian or military purposes that other technologies aren't more appropriate. Is the obsession with jetpacks just about being like a comic book superhero?
Look, sometimes you need an emergency escape plan, like if the Slayer comes after you just because you try to take over Sunnydale. I mean, c'mon, ALL the cool evil kids try to take over Sunnydale! It's a right of passage!
Besides, if you're a Joss Whedon fan with a jetpack, you can be like a leaf on the wind! A very LOUD leaf on the wind. With a similar lifespan as a Whedon show, probably.
And in conclusion, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, might I just add that if you don't understand the appeal of a jetpack, you're dead inside. And that's sad.
Real patriots would also buy my Lincoln memorial medallion. Made out of solid zinc, electroplated in the purest of copper. This handsom medallion will look stunning in your change bowl. Only five dollars each plus shipping.
>>If you think the 'feel' is the same between a C64 and an Amiga, you never used them, or you have a REALLY bad memory.
Command Line Interface? Check. Music-quality sound? Check.
C64 was 'music quality'? It was nothing comapred to the Amiga. And the Amiga had a GUI with a CLI (that was still in GUI mode, which was why it was a slow CLI). Methinks you might want to actually fire up those Amigas behind you.:)
And saying both were 'less than 0.01 GHz in speed' doesn't compare them very well. One is less than 1MHz, and one is around 7MHz, one 8-bit, one 16-bit. They were nothing alike aside from the company name.
Android 2.2 doesn't support HD displays (only via video out like HDMI), unless they've extended it somehow. Otherwise we'll have to wait for Gingerbread (3.0?). 2.2 only supports up to something like 854x480 for the main display, I'm pretty sure.
Yes, Steve Jobs wants Adobe gone or under his control for a variety of reasons, but if Flash was less bloated, it would've been on the iPhone immediately.
Right, because Steve Jobs lets difficult technical issues stop him getting what he wants. Steve Jobs isn't doing you any favors by removing choice. If you have Flash capability, you can choose to use it or not, like the rest of us already do. If there's some site or application or game that simply won't work without it, you're screwed. Choice is always good.
Heh. Even with four cores and 4 gigs of RAM, I still automatically Noscript Flash, for "technical" reasons.
Exactly so - you have that choice; no one decided for you.
So what the heck is wrong with making a phone or pad that supports HTML, and not plugins?
What's wrong with making a phone or pad that supports HTML *and* plugins? Because there's no technical reason in the world to do that. Such products already exist. Those are shackles Mr. Jobs is putting on your wrists, not iFreedom Bracelets.
Generally, if you're intelligent enough to fear one STD, you're intelligent enough to fear all of them. I find it hard to imagine someone whose promiscuity hinges on the existence of a cure for just one of them.
Well, one kills you and the other doesn't. High-order risk vs low-order risk. Combine that with human nature, and I bet you'll see a massive resurgence in Herpes cases once HIV is cured.
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"That's not surprising - Opera hasn't caught on, and probably never will"
Opera is always the second or third, but in ALMOST EVERY benchmark. That means something.
It's not always about the technology, otherwise we'd all be using Amigas with Dvorak keyboard layouts.
Or OS/2. Or BeOS. It's a long list, even in the computer world.
No native Gopher support?
I don't care if it's native Gopher or imported Gopher, as long as it's here legally.
However, anyone who think it is okay to take property from group A and give it to group B is a communist. You can't take it from group A unless you believe property is yours to take.... held in common.
Okay, then, so you're giving up: medicare, social security, non-toll roads, all forms of insurance, public schools, libraries, the armed forces, etc? Guess what, all those things are possible ONLY by taking stuff from Group A and giving it to Group B. Throwing around words like socialism and communism is just further proof you're impossibly ignorant. But that's okay, because I'm sure it FEELS true to you.
They forever screwed themselves because they used to charge people to use it. When there's a ton of competition, and it's free? Yeah.
So did Netscape, which eventually turned into Firefox. I don't think that has anything to do with it. Opera has great technology, and no understanding of what most users want in a (default) user interface. They also seem to have no clue that most users never change default settings, so it doesn't matter how configurable it is.
You mean like how they didn't test with Opera 10.70 beta? Or how they didn't even use the latest release version of 10.62?
That's not surprising - Opera hasn't caught on, and probably never will. You know the difference between Opera and technologies like Amiga and OS/2? Me, neither. "You hear that, Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability." And lemme tell ya, being an Opera user doesn't make you Neo. *shrug*
I'd like to see Chrome 7 results in there...
there will be a torrent of these applications being release to the world.
Good thing I have a private tracker account. :)
I know the droid x does hdmi. Its the only one ive heard of having it.
EVO 4G has it.
the device is capable of Full HD playback
They must mean to an EXTERNAL display, because the display on the device is only capable of 600 pixels vertically, which is pretty far from 720p, much less the 1080p of 'full HD'.
If the actual content holds your interest (and I admit, about the only example of that which I can think of is Avatar) you don't even notice.
The only reason Avatar kept my interest was by keeping me busy counting how many times Cameron ripped off his VASTLY superior prior movie, Aliens.
But not as we know it.
> Wow, I'm tired. Rite of passage, not right. Ugh.
You have redeemed yourself. I am happy to report that hara-kiri will not be necessary in this case.
I dunno, I'm still feeling pretty ashamed. I should perhaps seek some help from a mental health professional to deal with this.
Hang on, since when do you measure sorting performance using a distance indicator? And an imperial one at that!
The GTX480 can make the Kessel Run in 18 Parsecs, too.
And why should I have to add "Kessel" to my spelling dictionary? Geez.
Wow, I'm tired. Rite of passage, not right. Ugh.
What exactly is the point of jetpacks supposed to be? They don't seem to be useful for any civilian or military purposes that other technologies aren't more appropriate. Is the obsession with jetpacks just about being like a comic book superhero?
Look, sometimes you need an emergency escape plan, like if the Slayer comes after you just because you try to take over Sunnydale. I mean, c'mon, ALL the cool evil kids try to take over Sunnydale! It's a right of passage!
Besides, if you're a Joss Whedon fan with a jetpack, you can be like a leaf on the wind! A very LOUD leaf on the wind. With a similar lifespan as a Whedon show, probably.
And in conclusion, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, might I just add that if you don't understand the appeal of a jetpack, you're dead inside. And that's sad.
If it's pinball and it's not Medieval Madness, it almost certainly sucks.
TROLLLLLLLSSSS!
No duct tape fix, not an industrial engineering student worthy of respect. He could make a fine machinist, though. He should go with his true talent.
Real patriots would also buy my Lincoln memorial medallion. Made out of solid zinc, electroplated in the purest of copper. This handsom medallion will look stunning in your change bowl. Only five dollars each plus shipping.
P.K. Winsome, is that you?
>>If you think the 'feel' is the same between a C64 and an Amiga, you never used them, or you have a REALLY bad memory.
Command Line Interface? Check.
Music-quality sound? Check.
C64 was 'music quality'? It was nothing comapred to the Amiga. And the Amiga had a GUI with a CLI (that was still in GUI mode, which was why it was a slow CLI). Methinks you might want to actually fire up those Amigas behind you. :)
And saying both were 'less than 0.01 GHz in speed' doesn't compare them very well. One is less than 1MHz, and one is around 7MHz, one 8-bit, one 16-bit. They were nothing alike aside from the company name.
You would get exactly the same "feel" as you get with an old C=64 or Atari or Amiga machine.
If you think the 'feel' is the same between a C64 and an Amiga, you never used them, or you have a REALLY bad memory.
Android 2.2 doesn't support HD displays (only via video out like HDMI), unless they've extended it somehow. Otherwise we'll have to wait for Gingerbread (3.0?). 2.2 only supports up to something like 854x480 for the main display, I'm pretty sure.
Yes, Steve Jobs wants Adobe gone or under his control for a variety of reasons, but if Flash was less bloated, it would've been on the iPhone immediately.
Right, because Steve Jobs lets difficult technical issues stop him getting what he wants. Steve Jobs isn't doing you any favors by removing choice. If you have Flash capability, you can choose to use it or not, like the rest of us already do. If there's some site or application or game that simply won't work without it, you're screwed. Choice is always good.
Heh. Even with four cores and 4 gigs of RAM, I still automatically Noscript Flash, for "technical" reasons.
Exactly so - you have that choice; no one decided for you.
So what the heck is wrong with making a phone or pad that supports HTML, and not plugins?
What's wrong with making a phone or pad that supports HTML *and* plugins? Because there's no technical reason in the world to do that. Such products already exist. Those are shackles Mr. Jobs is putting on your wrists, not iFreedom Bracelets.
Generally, if you're intelligent enough to fear one STD, you're intelligent enough to fear all of them. I find it hard to imagine someone whose promiscuity hinges on the existence of a cure for just one of them.
Well, one kills you and the other doesn't. High-order risk vs low-order risk. Combine that with human nature, and I bet you'll see a massive resurgence in Herpes cases once HIV is cured.
Once HIV is curable, people will find out the hard way that they never did come up with a cure for Herpes.