That's still a pretty good tick on the processor. Windows 7 eats up 0% at idle with all the bling turned on. The taskmanager is the only thing that reports cpu usage. I never liked compiz on linux because it always involved a decent amount of resource drain, even with accelerated drivers. I'm sure its better than when I last tried it, but I want 100% of my cpu all the time if possible.
Expanding into new markets? It cost them 1.5 billion to get into the video games market. Only microsoft can afford to throw away cash like that just to stay competitive. Can they adapt to new markets fast enough to remain competitive? That's the question and I'm sure they've looked at the microsoft of the future where the PC does not exist anymore. Whether that plays out or not is still in the cards, but while I'm a pretty big fan of Windows 7 overall, everything else they've done has been rather underwhelming. I can't think of a single non PC related product that is all that wow worthy. Look at bing. How much money have they now wasted on something that has basically generated no revenue for them? Its probably good google has competition in the search market, but I'd rather not see it come from Microsoft. Who knows. Maybe a google dominated future is far scarier than anything microsoft could have concocted....
Quick question. If I leave data roaming on, won't I get charged by AT&T? There have been situations where I could get on an AT&T tower and nothing else, but was far too afraid to use their data for fear of horrific charges. Are you saying that AT&T will let me use their data at edge speeds without charge?
500 is a lot of money to spend on a phone. Its tempting, but the lack of a physical keyboard is kind of a deal breaker. Maybe when they start to get cheap used, but right now even used ones are about 400. I could almost buy a half decent laptop for that kind of money. I've just been kind of waiting for something half decent to upgrade to, that won't cost me a ton of money. The new mytouch slide is not all that interesting either. Froyo is looking pretty sexy though. Most of what I use my phone for is mytracks when I take long hikes, the music player, reading news and some occasional web browsing. My lowly G1 handles all of these tasks just fine, though it may not be as lightning fast as the N1. I'm more than ok waiting a second or two before my e-mail opens up though. I mean this thing is still way faster than any phone I've ever used before. If this is considered low end anymore, I can only dream of where things will be in a couple more years.
Huh? Copy and paste works just fine with text on my g1 and that phone is getting downright ancient by today's standards. Multitasking works fine too and doesn't kill the battery. What kills the battery on phones is not nearly the cpu that runs at 50% at its slowest. The first battery killer is the screen. You can literally watch the battery drain when the screen is at full brightness. Turn it down a notch or so and it gets a lot better. The next serious killer is the radio. Any kind of constant connection with the tower that involves data is sure to drain battery like nothing else. Especially if you are in an area of spotty coverage. I can have 2-3 background processes running and my phone will last for a very long time at idle with the screen off. Any well written service in android should just poll once in a while and that's it. Its too bad there doesn't seem to be any way to incorporate push functionality in android apps, though I could be wrong about that. I know that google talk works on push, but meebo just opens a constant connection. Anyways, I personally see mobile 7 as a pretty big step backwards in a lot of ways for power users. Microsoft once again felt a need to try and copy something and came up with a fairly inferior product IMHO.
How great can they possibly be doing? They are over two years late to market and they don't even have the same feature set as the OS they are coding to replace. This is the classic microsoft at its best. Another me too product. The sad thing is that they practically reinvented the smartphone market with windows ce and for the longest time, their OS drove the best phones out there. The iphone should have been a wakeup call that the desktop centric approach of CE was not the right way foward, but its now 2010, and Microsoft is finally getting around to releasing its iphone slaying OS, and is once again too late to the party. Android will easily eclipse iphone in market share in the next year or so and will start to eventually become a real contender to blackberry if they can add some features that the corporations are looking for like better exchange sync, better security (tracking, remote wipe), and a few other things. I think android can easily win the race and it seems that the manufacturers are all hedging various bets on the future of the platform as well. More competition is good, but if you ask me I think most people will see windows mobile as a has been. I guess the market will decide ultimately.
Sure. T-mobile won't nickel and dime you and they have generous caps on data. I've never paid more on my bill than the original stated amount. If you already have a compatible phone you can go month to month, contract free, or you can pay the full amount for the phone and avoid the contract. I was kind of dumb and did the contract, but I really have no complaints at all as I'm only paying like $30 more than I was before for just voice/sms and I can wirelessly tether with my laptop. They just bumped local speeds to 2.5.3mpbs on average and it should eventually get nearer to 7mpbs for me as their HSPA+ rollout completes, but I'm already pretty happy with the speed I have now for it being wireless and all. I can even watch hulu or netflix, which is pretty decent, though data consumption is awfully high.:)
I second this. I have T-mobile and while their android phone selection is kind of sucking right now, I can still get away with wireless tethering for free and they have one of the largest caps (10 gigs). I've easily blown through 2-5 gigs already this month. They also just boosted their speeds locally and I'm now pulling like 2.5-4mbps, which is a lot better than the 1mbps I was getting previously. Don't know when I'll start to see speeds over 5mbps, but I should probably upgrade to the latest radio. The worst they do to the people that exceed their caps is drop them down to edge, which still at least leaves their phones somewhat usable. Every other provider wants to nickel and dime you to death. Boost is good for cheap phone service, but their network is terrible and nowhere even near edge quality. I'd feel pretty bad for anyone that bought their proposed android phone. Its going to be rather painful. Seems like sprint is content to milk the old nextel network for all its worth.
I've read it for you. The code doesn't come from Adobe, Google wrote it themselves. It also uses Google's new sandboxed plugin API, so it would be less of a security concern even if it did.
(I'm surprised you got two replies who also didn't RTFA.)
I would like to know how you can eat comfortably at 3 meals a day for $3.25 in the US, yet alone $10. Seriously. Have you seen prices in the grocery lately? Mine wants $4/lb for green peppers for fucks sake.
Not really. An Iphone isn't terribly more expensive than any of the better flip phones from a few years ago. The data plan costs, but on T-mobile I pay $95 a month on contract and that is only $35 more than what I was paying without data, so it didn't seem all that unreasonable to spend an extra $1 a day for fully available internet that I can wirelessly tether with my laptop. T-Mobile's cap is 10 gigs too. A lot better than AT&T's current 2 gigs.
I use adblock everywhere until it breaks something. I guess I'm pure evil. Considering that I would love to live in an advertisement free society I find this somewhat liberating. I don't watch TV or listen to the radio either. Slashdot has ads nearly permanently turned off anyways. (they must think I'm swell) God knows I don't venture very far away from this festering pit.
It depends on your definition of "safe." You see the bacteria burn oxygen in their metabolic process. Too many of them feeding at once and suddenly there is not enough oxygen to sustain any sort of sizable lifeforms. Already this is happening in the gulf, and considering that at least half of the gulf was already a dead zone due to lack of oxygen, this implies that most of the gulf will become a massive dead zone. Its really hard to say what the long term effects of any of this can be. Also there is always the looming threat of a hurricane coming and stalling operations as well as dumping a great deal of oil along the coast with the storm surge. Yeah. The oil eating bacteria is certainly a solution, and is better than just leaving the oil there to soak into wetlands and lakes and whatnot. I mean if you already have something that is incapable of sustaining life, at least restoring it somewhat helps. I don't think they need to introduce any new bacteria. There seem to be enough naturally occurring strains already out there doing their jobs. The great thing about bacteria is that they reproduce at a phenomenal rate and will just keep increasing their blooms and spreading along with the oil. Will they solve the problem? Certainly not, but they are indeed helping a great deal.
Good point. The real question is: why would developed countries deliberately strip themselves of manufacturing capability in order to transfer their wealth to developing countries for the dubious benefit of poorly-made products and the loss of domestic jobs?
Pure fucking corporate greed. The Waltons weren't happy with their pile of billions. Oh and heavy industry was killed by the EPA, because in third world shitholes, you don't have to worry about messy problems like massive industrial pollution and the labor is damned near free and unionless.
Yeah, and at what cost? Virtually all of our manufacturing centers have moved to mexico or china. Heavy industry in the US is nearly non existent. If we could have kept the industrial powerhouse that used to be the united states going, then workers would have had more cash to spend and the prices wouldn't be so bad comparatively. The only one that this benefits is the corporation that has now dropped its manufacturing costs to the floor. Every dollar we spend that goes to china just takes a dollar out of an american worker's pocket. We are so fucked. I don't think the average joe could possibly realize how we just sold the inheritance to our american empire to china so the waltons could make a few more billion. If people cared about how much our country has been raped and pillaged with purely self serving interests we might not be in this mess.
China is still a communist country to boot. The CEOs and politicians that pushed for china to join the WTO should all be shot. Who's bright idea was it to put china as a permanent member on the humans right council in the UN? China is not even an ally. They were mighty upset recently when we put an aircraft carrier on that side of the pacific in case North Korea starts firing missiles. Why is china massively building up its military?
I want to know how anyone who can possibly remember watching Tienanmen Square on television could possibly think to themselves "Hmmm....maybe I should build a factory there." This is no different than the train barons who used chinese labor to build their railroads, since they were both cheap and dispensable and could even be brought into indentured servitude. Foxconn is just following the fine american tradition of chinese exploitation. What happens when America is broke and not buying things from china anymore? China is not our ally......
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That's still a pretty good tick on the processor. Windows 7 eats up 0% at idle with all the bling turned on. The taskmanager is the only thing that reports cpu usage. I never liked compiz on linux because it always involved a decent amount of resource drain, even with accelerated drivers. I'm sure its better than when I last tried it, but I want 100% of my cpu all the time if possible.
Fake!
I say we loose all trademark laws. Why defend such retardedness?
How can a dead piece of meat be sad?
Froyo is enough for me to want to upgrade. I'm amazed that dalvik didn't have JIT from the start.
Expanding into new markets? It cost them 1.5 billion to get into the video games market. Only microsoft can afford to throw away cash like that just to stay competitive. Can they adapt to new markets fast enough to remain competitive? That's the question and I'm sure they've looked at the microsoft of the future where the PC does not exist anymore. Whether that plays out or not is still in the cards, but while I'm a pretty big fan of Windows 7 overall, everything else they've done has been rather underwhelming. I can't think of a single non PC related product that is all that wow worthy. Look at bing. How much money have they now wasted on something that has basically generated no revenue for them? Its probably good google has competition in the search market, but I'd rather not see it come from Microsoft. Who knows. Maybe a google dominated future is far scarier than anything microsoft could have concocted....
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How do you like paying the extra $10 just for the privilege of using the phone? Do you even get 4g in your area?
Quick question. If I leave data roaming on, won't I get charged by AT&T? There have been situations where I could get on an AT&T tower and nothing else, but was far too afraid to use their data for fear of horrific charges. Are you saying that AT&T will let me use their data at edge speeds without charge?
500 is a lot of money to spend on a phone. Its tempting, but the lack of a physical keyboard is kind of a deal breaker. Maybe when they start to get cheap used, but right now even used ones are about 400. I could almost buy a half decent laptop for that kind of money. I've just been kind of waiting for something half decent to upgrade to, that won't cost me a ton of money. The new mytouch slide is not all that interesting either. Froyo is looking pretty sexy though. Most of what I use my phone for is mytracks when I take long hikes, the music player, reading news and some occasional web browsing. My lowly G1 handles all of these tasks just fine, though it may not be as lightning fast as the N1. I'm more than ok waiting a second or two before my e-mail opens up though. I mean this thing is still way faster than any phone I've ever used before. If this is considered low end anymore, I can only dream of where things will be in a couple more years.
Huh? Copy and paste works just fine with text on my g1 and that phone is getting downright ancient by today's standards. Multitasking works fine too and doesn't kill the battery. What kills the battery on phones is not nearly the cpu that runs at 50% at its slowest. The first battery killer is the screen. You can literally watch the battery drain when the screen is at full brightness. Turn it down a notch or so and it gets a lot better. The next serious killer is the radio. Any kind of constant connection with the tower that involves data is sure to drain battery like nothing else. Especially if you are in an area of spotty coverage. I can have 2-3 background processes running and my phone will last for a very long time at idle with the screen off. Any well written service in android should just poll once in a while and that's it. Its too bad there doesn't seem to be any way to incorporate push functionality in android apps, though I could be wrong about that. I know that google talk works on push, but meebo just opens a constant connection. Anyways, I personally see mobile 7 as a pretty big step backwards in a lot of ways for power users. Microsoft once again felt a need to try and copy something and came up with a fairly inferior product IMHO.
How great can they possibly be doing? They are over two years late to market and they don't even have the same feature set as the OS they are coding to replace. This is the classic microsoft at its best. Another me too product. The sad thing is that they practically reinvented the smartphone market with windows ce and for the longest time, their OS drove the best phones out there. The iphone should have been a wakeup call that the desktop centric approach of CE was not the right way foward, but its now 2010, and Microsoft is finally getting around to releasing its iphone slaying OS, and is once again too late to the party. Android will easily eclipse iphone in market share in the next year or so and will start to eventually become a real contender to blackberry if they can add some features that the corporations are looking for like better exchange sync, better security (tracking, remote wipe), and a few other things. I think android can easily win the race and it seems that the manufacturers are all hedging various bets on the future of the platform as well. More competition is good, but if you ask me I think most people will see windows mobile as a has been. I guess the market will decide ultimately.
No cut and paste. No multitasking like Android. Lame.
Well. Tethering would be easy to figure out if someone were doing it. It is against their end user agreement.
Sure. T-mobile won't nickel and dime you and they have generous caps on data. I've never paid more on my bill than the original stated amount. If you already have a compatible phone you can go month to month, contract free, or you can pay the full amount for the phone and avoid the contract. I was kind of dumb and did the contract, but I really have no complaints at all as I'm only paying like $30 more than I was before for just voice/sms and I can wirelessly tether with my laptop. They just bumped local speeds to 2.5.3mpbs on average and it should eventually get nearer to 7mpbs for me as their HSPA+ rollout completes, but I'm already pretty happy with the speed I have now for it being wireless and all. I can even watch hulu or netflix, which is pretty decent, though data consumption is awfully high. :)
I second this. I have T-mobile and while their android phone selection is kind of sucking right now, I can still get away with wireless tethering for free and they have one of the largest caps (10 gigs). I've easily blown through 2-5 gigs already this month. They also just boosted their speeds locally and I'm now pulling like 2.5-4mbps, which is a lot better than the 1mbps I was getting previously. Don't know when I'll start to see speeds over 5mbps, but I should probably upgrade to the latest radio. The worst they do to the people that exceed their caps is drop them down to edge, which still at least leaves their phones somewhat usable. Every other provider wants to nickel and dime you to death. Boost is good for cheap phone service, but their network is terrible and nowhere even near edge quality. I'd feel pretty bad for anyone that bought their proposed android phone. Its going to be rather painful. Seems like sprint is content to milk the old nextel network for all its worth.
I've read it for you. The code doesn't come from Adobe, Google wrote it themselves. It also uses Google's new sandboxed plugin API, so it would be less of a security concern even if it did.
(I'm surprised you got two replies who also didn't RTFA.)
I'm not. Who actually reads articles here?
I would like to know how you can eat comfortably at 3 meals a day for $3.25 in the US, yet alone $10. Seriously. Have you seen prices in the grocery lately? Mine wants $4/lb for green peppers for fucks sake.
Not really. An Iphone isn't terribly more expensive than any of the better flip phones from a few years ago. The data plan costs, but on T-mobile I pay $95 a month on contract and that is only $35 more than what I was paying without data, so it didn't seem all that unreasonable to spend an extra $1 a day for fully available internet that I can wirelessly tether with my laptop. T-Mobile's cap is 10 gigs too. A lot better than AT&T's current 2 gigs.
I use adblock everywhere until it breaks something. I guess I'm pure evil. Considering that I would love to live in an advertisement free society I find this somewhat liberating. I don't watch TV or listen to the radio either. Slashdot has ads nearly permanently turned off anyways. (they must think I'm swell) God knows I don't venture very far away from this festering pit.
Uh a DVR in 1989? So here's the question. Could it read and write at the same time? And how did you fit that much data through such a small bus?
It depends on your definition of "safe." You see the bacteria burn oxygen in their metabolic process. Too many of them feeding at once and suddenly there is not enough oxygen to sustain any sort of sizable lifeforms. Already this is happening in the gulf, and considering that at least half of the gulf was already a dead zone due to lack of oxygen, this implies that most of the gulf will become a massive dead zone. Its really hard to say what the long term effects of any of this can be. Also there is always the looming threat of a hurricane coming and stalling operations as well as dumping a great deal of oil along the coast with the storm surge. Yeah. The oil eating bacteria is certainly a solution, and is better than just leaving the oil there to soak into wetlands and lakes and whatnot. I mean if you already have something that is incapable of sustaining life, at least restoring it somewhat helps. I don't think they need to introduce any new bacteria. There seem to be enough naturally occurring strains already out there doing their jobs. The great thing about bacteria is that they reproduce at a phenomenal rate and will just keep increasing their blooms and spreading along with the oil. Will they solve the problem? Certainly not, but they are indeed helping a great deal.
Good point. The real question is: why would developed countries deliberately strip themselves of manufacturing capability in order to transfer their wealth to developing countries for the dubious benefit of poorly-made products and the loss of domestic jobs?
Pure fucking corporate greed. The Waltons weren't happy with their pile of billions. Oh and heavy industry was killed by the EPA, because in third world shitholes, you don't have to worry about messy problems like massive industrial pollution and the labor is damned near free and unionless.
Yeah, and at what cost? Virtually all of our manufacturing centers have moved to mexico or china. Heavy industry in the US is nearly non existent. If we could have kept the industrial powerhouse that used to be the united states going, then workers would have had more cash to spend and the prices wouldn't be so bad comparatively. The only one that this benefits is the corporation that has now dropped its manufacturing costs to the floor. Every dollar we spend that goes to china just takes a dollar out of an american worker's pocket. We are so fucked. I don't think the average joe could possibly realize how we just sold the inheritance to our american empire to china so the waltons could make a few more billion. If people cared about how much our country has been raped and pillaged with purely self serving interests we might not be in this mess.
China is still a communist country to boot. The CEOs and politicians that pushed for china to join the WTO should all be shot. Who's bright idea was it to put china as a permanent member on the humans right council in the UN? China is not even an ally. They were mighty upset recently when we put an aircraft carrier on that side of the pacific in case North Korea starts firing missiles. Why is china massively building up its military?
I want to know how anyone who can possibly remember watching Tienanmen Square on television could possibly think to themselves "Hmmm....maybe I should build a factory there." This is no different than the train barons who used chinese labor to build their railroads, since they were both cheap and dispensable and could even be brought into indentured servitude. Foxconn is just following the fine american tradition of chinese exploitation. What happens when America is broke and not buying things from china anymore? China is not our ally......