You're getting modded down, obviously by supporters of those sites. However, it's true--DailyKos was infamous for its "screw them" post regarding dead soldiers in Iraq, and since the campaign consultant scandal, Kos posts so little that the site has become a place for user "diaries." Basically, it's just user-submitted articles now that only serve to pat liberals on the back for being liberals.
Huffington Post was Ariana Huffington's attempt to create a left-wing version of the Drudge Report, right down to the name. It seems like it's just a bunch of celebrity news and pseudo-science. I've never understood why it was ever taken seriously by anyone.
Right-wingers have their kooky sites too, but then they have some mature, balanced ones like PowerLine. They get their message out, but they're not crazy or hateful about it. I can't speak to what is considered a mature, balanced left-wing site, but I'm sure one is out there. The problem is that liberalism tends to be so fueled by emotion that it drives centrists away, and if a moderate liberal expresses any hint of contradiction with the party line, they get attacked by other liberals.
The interface goes from being perfectly usable to damn slow, and applications running on the phone constantly run out of memory and crash.
What are you talking about? I didn't experience this at all when I upgraded my older iPod touch. Can you cite any specific applications that are constantly crashing?
what motorola or sony handset hasn't been rooted? I can see you're a bit of an apple minded individual, which tells me that we're not talking on the same level of conscious
You can't even write English properly, so let's not start throwing out mental quips.
Meanwhile, ipads are equally crap, not worth their money, and who really wants something on iOS? Ipad was simply first, but that doesn't mean they are better, just that they had a lead. People who buy an ipad simply don't know better, that no tablet that exists right now is in good shape for use. I mean really, reading, board games? get a laptop/computer to do it better and cheaper. There's pretty much nothing that a tablet does better at the moment other than simply being in a different form factor.
I picture every Android user stereotype like this--an angry, bitter person convincing themselves that they're smarter and more enlightened than the people who choose iOS devices.
Where did all this ridiculous, vitriolic Apple hatred come from? Slashdot was usually critical but supportive of Apple, but when Android came out, a flood of Google fanboys turned the comments section into their personal blog to rant about the dumb, ignorant Apple users they hate so much. Android is not that great, and half of Android smartphone users are considering a switch to the iPhone, according to a recent survey. So maybe there's something to it. Maybe they like the responsive interface, the great design, and the lack of malware?
The stereotype of the Apple users is that of a smug, condescending tool, yet it's the Android fanboys who have proven themselves to be the most bitter, antisocial, religious people I've ever seen online. Every iOS article on Slashdot now receives a flood of anonymous comments bashing the platform and personally insulting its users. It's reached suspicious levels of predictability.
That you got modded up "Insightful" is ridiculous Absolutely nothing in your post is backed by any evidence, and some of your points don't even make sense logically. If most Android tablets "kick the crap out of the iPad, hardware and software-wise," why is the iPad the #1 tablet? Let me guess--people are just sheep, right? And you're one of the few enlightened ones? Calling the iPad a glorified iPhone is stupid when the iPad's interface is redesigned for the larger screen. The Galaxy Tab really is just a scaled up Android phone.
Once again, you're an anonymous Android supporter posting in an Android article--I'd like to note how many anonymous supporters mysteriously show up in every Android or iOS article. I'm sure there will be a ton in this article as well. Android has become like a religion for bitter Apple-haters, a reason to convince yourself that you're smarter than other people. The only reason Android smartphones outsell iPhones is because they're on multiple carriers while iPhone is only on one--and that's changing later this month. Without carriers to force them onto people, Android tablets have fallen flat on their face. People simply prefer iOS. The interface is light years ahead, and the OS itself is more responsive and smooth. It's a technically and aesthetically superior experience.
Best of all, it's not controlled by carriers and doesn't have a bunch of unremovable junkware and malware.
So they're going to do "custom applications" just for a playbook? Is this something that a single team is going to take on all by itself or is the entire league going to develop this.
Each team. I find it amusing that people seem so bewildered by the idea of developing a custom app. Football teams pay millions a year for player salaries, but it's impossible to believe that they'd write their own custom, secured, personalized playbook apps? Teams compete with each other technologically (e.g. training equipment), and if the Cowboys start using their own secret playbook app on the field, competing teams will develop their own to keep up.
Most likely, the NFL will just want to use some pre-existing canned app that isn't necessarily specialized to their particular situation.
What does the NFL have to do with this? What each team uses for its playbooks is up to the team. The NFL doesn't make that decision.
Do you think that those prominent apple logos on the gear you see in so many TV shows are put there out of the kindness of the producers' hearts?
Macs tend to just look better than PCs, which matters for TV and film. Usually, you the Apple logo on the back is covered or replaced with a fictional alternative.
iPad makes "zero sense?" Did you read the article, discussing animations, videos, full-color illustrations, and more? Seriously, how does an iPad make zero sense?
After Android, Slashdotters switched from critical but supportive of Apple to virulently and emotionally anti-Apple. They're the people standing in the corner of a party with their arms crossed, bitter that everyone else is having fun, calling them "sheep" under their breath.
There are also a suspiciously high number of anonymous pro-Google/anti-Apple supporters in every article, and a few Google employees have confirmed that they have accounts here.
That's for the public store. Any other anonymous paid shills going to show up? They do in every Google and Apple article to post in support of Android and against iOS, and there's a reason they do it anonymously. They're already littering these comments with misinformation.
I guess in Slashdot-land, you can just respond to a fact with "I don't believe it."
An enterprise license lets you avoid the app store and load whatever you want onto "any device of them." If you want to go through an Apple-hosted, public app store, then of course you must abide by certain restrictions, just as you must abide the restrictions of any other platform manufacturer, from Nintendo to Sony.
I love how correcting someone about enterprise iOS development is somehow a "smug bullshit attitude." You're obviously posting anonymously again to defend your post.
Dear Civix (since you're posting anonymously to defend yourself),
Ironically, in your totally insane burst of sweaty nerd rage, you illustrated many stereotypes of the basement-dwelling Apple-hater, complete with a random reference to Steve Jobs. If Apple isn't taken seriously in technology discussions, why are they one of the leaders of the industry that Google and Microsoft copy endlessly? Where Apple goes, everyone follows. That drives guys like you absolutely crazy, which is funny.
iOS is losing ground? Uh, see you in line for a Verizone iPhone.
Hey, I'm sure the government can be trusted. I sure can't wait for "net neutrality" and having the FCC--the same organization that flipped out over Janet Jackson's nipple and drove broadcasters like Howard Stern off the air--regulating internet traffic and telling sysadmins at ISPs how to manage the traffic on their private networks. Sure sounds neutral to me.
I love how, when a submission is critical of a Slashdot darling like Google, everyone suddenly has journalistic standards and points out the story's bias. However, it never goes the other way.
There's something really ironic about a Slashdot poster complaining about bias. Slashdot is one of the most virulently anti-Microsoft, pro-Google communities on the web. You actually use terms like "Bingsheep" when Slashdotters defend Google for driving vans through neighborhoods and "accidentally" storing people's emails and passwords for indexing purposes? If the companies were reversed--if it was Microsoft who had been caught indexing people's personal data, Slashdot would have torn them to pieces over it. Just one example of many regarding bias.
No kidding. I'm used to nonsense from "industry analysts", but this takes the cake. It's a complete non-sequitur. This never was a question of reverse-engineering. It's a question of straight-up ripping off results.
Except that Bing didn't "rip off results." It responded to the click data that Google's employees gave it for those search terms, even if it came from Google.com. Has ANYONE posting here actually read up on what happened? Fucking hell.
On a related note, what's with all the Google-bashing recently? First the idea (which has now turned into a meme) that Google's search result are not the gold standard for search anymore
Try a search for a StackOverflow question sometime and enjoy the long stream of non-SO sites that simply copied the question and surrounded it by ads. Google's search results are not always the gold standard anymore. Another problem is that they have hard-coded their services to appear as the #1 result for certain search terms, which violates their claims of a non-biased search results page. Yahoo Finance is way more popular than Google Finance, yet Google Finance always appears at the top. If Microsoft was doing this, Slashdot would be shredding them to pieces over it. Google? Nobody seems to even notice.
and now the idea (probably soon to be turned into a meme) that Google can't handle competition and is resorting to FUD?
You apparently believe that any and all criticism of Google is merely a meme, an unusual trend of Google-bashing that shouldn't appear on Slashdot. I realize that Slashdot has been sucking Google's teat for YEARS, so witnessing the world outside the bubble of Slashdot and seeing that people are critical of Google may be unusual to you, but the fact is that Google has been losing engineers to Facebook, and Bing has been gaining marketshare at a steady pace. Remember when Google suddenly copied Bing's start page for a while before reverting it?
Google is an advertising company with a closed source, proprietary search engine. I don't get the blind fanboyism for an advertising company that's interested in indexing all your personal data for advertisers. It's as if the fact they give you a free email service and use Linux on their webservers erases all bad things they could possibly do.
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You're getting modded down, obviously by supporters of those sites. However, it's true--DailyKos was infamous for its "screw them" post regarding dead soldiers in Iraq, and since the campaign consultant scandal, Kos posts so little that the site has become a place for user "diaries." Basically, it's just user-submitted articles now that only serve to pat liberals on the back for being liberals.
Huffington Post was Ariana Huffington's attempt to create a left-wing version of the Drudge Report, right down to the name. It seems like it's just a bunch of celebrity news and pseudo-science. I've never understood why it was ever taken seriously by anyone.
Right-wingers have their kooky sites too, but then they have some mature, balanced ones like PowerLine. They get their message out, but they're not crazy or hateful about it. I can't speak to what is considered a mature, balanced left-wing site, but I'm sure one is out there. The problem is that liberalism tends to be so fueled by emotion that it drives centrists away, and if a moderate liberal expresses any hint of contradiction with the party line, they get attacked by other liberals.
What are you talking about? I didn't experience this at all when I upgraded my older iPod touch. Can you cite any specific applications that are constantly crashing?
You can't even write English properly, so let's not start throwing out mental quips.
I picture every Android user stereotype like this--an angry, bitter person convincing themselves that they're smarter and more enlightened than the people who choose iOS devices.
Where did all this ridiculous, vitriolic Apple hatred come from? Slashdot was usually critical but supportive of Apple, but when Android came out, a flood of Google fanboys turned the comments section into their personal blog to rant about the dumb, ignorant Apple users they hate so much. Android is not that great, and half of Android smartphone users are considering a switch to the iPhone, according to a recent survey. So maybe there's something to it. Maybe they like the responsive interface, the great design, and the lack of malware?
The stereotype of the Apple users is that of a smug, condescending tool, yet it's the Android fanboys who have proven themselves to be the most bitter, antisocial, religious people I've ever seen online. Every iOS article on Slashdot now receives a flood of anonymous comments bashing the platform and personally insulting its users. It's reached suspicious levels of predictability.
Sure, that's reassuring. "You may or may not be able to rely on unpaid volunteers to support your hardware."
That you got modded up "Insightful" is ridiculous Absolutely nothing in your post is backed by any evidence, and some of your points don't even make sense logically. If most Android tablets "kick the crap out of the iPad, hardware and software-wise," why is the iPad the #1 tablet? Let me guess--people are just sheep, right? And you're one of the few enlightened ones? Calling the iPad a glorified iPhone is stupid when the iPad's interface is redesigned for the larger screen. The Galaxy Tab really is just a scaled up Android phone.
Once again, you're an anonymous Android supporter posting in an Android article--I'd like to note how many anonymous supporters mysteriously show up in every Android or iOS article. I'm sure there will be a ton in this article as well. Android has become like a religion for bitter Apple-haters, a reason to convince yourself that you're smarter than other people. The only reason Android smartphones outsell iPhones is because they're on multiple carriers while iPhone is only on one--and that's changing later this month. Without carriers to force them onto people, Android tablets have fallen flat on their face. People simply prefer iOS. The interface is light years ahead, and the OS itself is more responsive and smooth. It's a technically and aesthetically superior experience.
Best of all, it's not controlled by carriers and doesn't have a bunch of unremovable junkware and malware.
Okay, thanks for confirming that you don't know what you're talking about.
Next.
Each team. I find it amusing that people seem so bewildered by the idea of developing a custom app. Football teams pay millions a year for player salaries, but it's impossible to believe that they'd write their own custom, secured, personalized playbook apps? Teams compete with each other technologically (e.g. training equipment), and if the Cowboys start using their own secret playbook app on the field, competing teams will develop their own to keep up.
What does the NFL have to do with this? What each team uses for its playbooks is up to the team. The NFL doesn't make that decision.
As if any of you are involved with television and film whatsoever and can speak on this.
Macs tend to just look better than PCs, which matters for TV and film. Usually, you the Apple logo on the back is covered or replaced with a fictional alternative.
iPad makes "zero sense?" Did you read the article, discussing animations, videos, full-color illustrations, and more? Seriously, how does an iPad make zero sense?
How did your post get +5 Insightful?
Uh, there are multiple ways to read PDFs on an iPad. Word of advice--don't come to Slashdot for buying tips.
Is this the Microsoft strategy of counting units shipped rather than units actually bought?
What in the hell are you talking about? You can barely even write properly.
After Android, Slashdotters switched from critical but supportive of Apple to virulently and emotionally anti-Apple. They're the people standing in the corner of a party with their arms crossed, bitter that everyone else is having fun, calling them "sheep" under their breath.
There are also a suspiciously high number of anonymous pro-Google/anti-Apple supporters in every article, and a few Google employees have confirmed that they have accounts here.
That's for the public store. Any other anonymous paid shills going to show up? They do in every Google and Apple article to post in support of Android and against iOS, and there's a reason they do it anonymously. They're already littering these comments with misinformation.
I guess in Slashdot-land, you can just respond to a fact with "I don't believe it."
An enterprise license lets you avoid the app store and load whatever you want onto "any device of them." If you want to go through an Apple-hosted, public app store, then of course you must abide by certain restrictions, just as you must abide the restrictions of any other platform manufacturer, from Nintendo to Sony.
I love how correcting someone about enterprise iOS development is somehow a "smug bullshit attitude." You're obviously posting anonymously again to defend your post.
Dear Civix (since you're posting anonymously to defend yourself),
Ironically, in your totally insane burst of sweaty nerd rage, you illustrated many stereotypes of the basement-dwelling Apple-hater, complete with a random reference to Steve Jobs. If Apple isn't taken seriously in technology discussions, why are they one of the leaders of the industry that Google and Microsoft copy endlessly? Where Apple goes, everyone follows. That drives guys like you absolutely crazy, which is funny.
iOS is losing ground? Uh, see you in line for a Verizone iPhone.
Love,
bonch
The NFL wouldn't be involved--the teams would pay for their own licenses. Also, how is paper less waterproof than an iPad?
You can get an enterprise license for in-house iOS development.
I think this is warranted:
"Pwned."
Hey, I'm sure the government can be trusted. I sure can't wait for "net neutrality" and having the FCC--the same organization that flipped out over Janet Jackson's nipple and drove broadcasters like Howard Stern off the air--regulating internet traffic and telling sysadmins at ISPs how to manage the traffic on their private networks. Sure sounds neutral to me.
I love how, when a submission is critical of a Slashdot darling like Google, everyone suddenly has journalistic standards and points out the story's bias. However, it never goes the other way.
There's something really ironic about a Slashdot poster complaining about bias. Slashdot is one of the most virulently anti-Microsoft, pro-Google communities on the web. You actually use terms like "Bingsheep" when Slashdotters defend Google for driving vans through neighborhoods and "accidentally" storing people's emails and passwords for indexing purposes? If the companies were reversed--if it was Microsoft who had been caught indexing people's personal data, Slashdot would have torn them to pieces over it. Just one example of many regarding bias.
Except that Bing didn't "rip off results." It responded to the click data that Google's employees gave it for those search terms, even if it came from Google.com. Has ANYONE posting here actually read up on what happened? Fucking hell.
Try a search for a StackOverflow question sometime and enjoy the long stream of non-SO sites that simply copied the question and surrounded it by ads. Google's search results are not always the gold standard anymore. Another problem is that they have hard-coded their services to appear as the #1 result for certain search terms, which violates their claims of a non-biased search results page. Yahoo Finance is way more popular than Google Finance, yet Google Finance always appears at the top. If Microsoft was doing this, Slashdot would be shredding them to pieces over it. Google? Nobody seems to even notice.
You apparently believe that any and all criticism of Google is merely a meme, an unusual trend of Google-bashing that shouldn't appear on Slashdot. I realize that Slashdot has been sucking Google's teat for YEARS, so witnessing the world outside the bubble of Slashdot and seeing that people are critical of Google may be unusual to you, but the fact is that Google has been losing engineers to Facebook, and Bing has been gaining marketshare at a steady pace. Remember when Google suddenly copied Bing's start page for a while before reverting it?
Google is an advertising company with a closed source, proprietary search engine. I don't get the blind fanboyism for an advertising company that's interested in indexing all your personal data for advertisers. It's as if the fact they give you a free email service and use Linux on their webservers erases all bad things they could possibly do.