Light years ahead?? How? OS X is one of the least customizable OS's out there. Its apple's way or the highway. Seriously, what does it do that windows can't??
Apple's quality hardware??
You mean the exact same hardware that gets used to make Windows PCs? Apple gave up its exotic hardware long ago. Now its just a basic intel board you can buy for half the cost of what apple is going to sell it to you for.
Next you'll be telling me that os x is magical. God you apple fans live in a fantasy world.
Yes, but it would break a lot of the functionality of your phone. No more email updates (if you use gmail at least), Maps wouldn't remember any of your previous locations. Etc etc. Google has a ton of stuff baked into android that completely revolves around your google account. None of that information is stored locally. Google at least lets you managed what data they store on you. Its not google I would be worrying about. Its the fed that is building huge databases on american citizens.....
Like pinch to zoom? Unified search across the device and internet at once? I mean wow. What amazingly innovative features! Maybe all android phones should go back to being single touch, because you, multi-touch is somehow an innovation worthy of a fucking patent. This country makes me sad. The consumer loses over and over again while companies like apple and microsoft try to sue their way into gaining market share, while using bullshit patents to strip each other of device features. So samsung owes apple $1bn. So what. Who do you think produces a lot of the hardware that goes into the iphone? All this public drama hides the fact that these companies have been deeply in bed for a long time.
that's what i'm taking from it. I mean basically they've all been copying from each other. the physical design of the iphone is nothing revolutionary imo. certainly not worth a design patent.
Exactly. All I have to say is FUCK YOU APPLE. I can't wait to go piss on steve job's grave. Ideas, dna, information....all of these things should be unpatentable. if you create some new machine, great. you deserve a patent. a new drug? sure why not? what is going on in software patents is very odious. suddenly basic concepts that have plenty of prior art are all now patentable. I think if you word your patent with enough technical terms eventually you confuse the patent examiner so much that they have no idea what you are even trying to patent and just pass it on. I mean these companies are literally filing thousands of patents everyday. Opening up to global patents is probably an even worse idea.
Why is the crocodile virtually unchanged from ancient times? if you ask me its because they hit upon an evolutionary design that was highly effective and they never had to adapt further. there are plenty of examples of living fossils. just because they don't evolve much because their adaptions make them well suited for their environment is not a flaw in evolution. its is an example of evolution being successful and producing an effective design.
The only thing stock on a nascar car is the fact that it has 4 wheels. They share nothing in common with their production counterparts. Even the body is a big fake fiberglass costume.
they did this to me too. i considered it bad faith as i was promised to never be capped. the official line is that there always was a cap. funny. i downloaded tens of gigs every month and never was capped until they rolled out the 2gb plan.
that's an interesting question. i recently bought a transformer tablet with keyboard dock and a gameboy dsi xl. to be honest, there just aren't enough games for the 3ds to get me all that excited, also I really wanted to finally complete dragon quest ix and finally play the ff4 remake. I loaded up the tablet with as many games as I could, and while the graphics are astonishing, not many games are really all that compelling for more than a quick run. I've noticed the shift in mobile gaming to casual. I'm sure as android matures and reaches deeper into the market more developers will produce quality games for it, but to be honest the dsi still has so many good games even though its graphics are pretty awful in comparison. The FF3 port to android is alright, but to be honest, the graphics are so bad that the low resolution of the ds helped hide that. It looks like a pixelated mess on the tablet. If you ask me, controls are the big obstacle. Anything onscreen takes up a bit of space and any kind of action game becomes an exercise in frustration due to the lack of tactile feedback. FPS are especially annoying imo. I don't see the 3ds flopping, so there are a few rounds left to this fight, but convergence seems inevitable. I was thinking that the ds would be perfect as an android device that played ds games......
The fact that abuses, whether they happen or not, can occur with little in way of checks or balances is a severe problem. We have an nsa agent saying that they are collecting communications without a warrant. That's illegal, regardless of who they are targetting. You're saying you trust them to "do the right" thing with that information? Seriously??
I've been using windows 7 since the release candidate. I had a bunch of blue screens early on due to bad drivers, but now the drivers have stabilized on 64-bit and a blue screen is pretty rare. On this new laptop I have yet to see one. Though I am seeming to have latency issues and part of it is the sound card drivers suck and Im stuck with the acer drivers or some other oem's drivers that may or may not be compatible with my chip. I have it mostly sorted, but I shouldn't have to deal with this crap in 2012. Installing windows should be like click....click....done. Having to spend hours troubleshooting awful drivers and tracking down better ones wasn't fun 10 years ago and its really sucking now. The funny part. The microsoft supplied drivers are perfect. Too bad they don't have the dolby processor built in that makes the speakers not sound really quiet and awful. Oh well, fallout 3 plays smoothly and lightroom/photoshop run well. That's all that matters.:)
Try opening a folder with a bunch of large (over 1gb) tiff files. It will bring explorer to its knees. Actually any directory with a large number of extremely large files is not a good idea. It takes a long time to read through all those files.
My phone has more RAM than your computer for christ's sake! Quit being such a cheapskate and buy a couple of sticks. Hell, my laptop came with 8 gigs and it was pretty cheap.
I fully realize this. We all decide to greater and lesser degrees what is ok and what is not. I'm probably a hypocrite. FWIW, even when I bought music, I could only ever afford used CDs. So after acquiring thousands of CDs over the years (and losing them), not much of that money ever went to an artist. Was I stealing the music then? I mean, the only one that was benefiting was the store owner. I'm pretty poor now even. Spending $16 on an album so someone can make less than a buck in the end for recording it, while the RIAA and studios lines their pockets seems like a real waste of my money if you ask me. Trent Reznor had it right. Music has no inherent value anymore. It might as well be free. Feel free to point out further contradictions.:)
I second this. I downloaded this game and while it is a decent shooter, I really hate how so many android games are moving towards the free to play model. I would rather just pay $10-15 for a game and be done. Here's the other problem. If your game doesn't work because they didn't optimize it for your device, you are probably out of whatever you payed after you download the whole thing. The refund window is a measly 15 minutes. Too many people download a whole game to find out they've been beat out of $5 and usually have no way to get that money back and are left with a broken game. I did pay $15 for FFIII, and it was a good buy. GTA3 for $5 was really about the right price though IMO.
So you are saying that if you could steal and get away with it, you would. Wow. Maybe you should reevaluate your moral standards or lack thereof!
The only thing I will "steal" anymore is ancient games made by out of business companies or companies that see no value in reselling a game. I already have a pretty vast collection, so all my game acquisitions lately have been through steam or google play. I must admit I stopped buying music years ago, but in my defense, I refuse to see any of my money to go companies that will sue people for infringement and yet not pay their own artists what they are owed. The RIAA is a scam and a cartel. I've paid good money for games though. I want people to keep making them.
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Actually windows 7 was a vast improvement over XP. If you can't see that, then I guess you don't really know shit.
Light years ahead?? How? OS X is one of the least customizable OS's out there. Its apple's way or the highway. Seriously, what does it do that windows can't??
Apple's quality hardware??
You mean the exact same hardware that gets used to make Windows PCs? Apple gave up its exotic hardware long ago. Now its just a basic intel board you can buy for half the cost of what apple is going to sell it to you for.
Next you'll be telling me that os x is magical. God you apple fans live in a fantasy world.
i just tried out aide. its pretty sweet. the moment i compiled to an apk and installed i was hooked.
Yes, but it would break a lot of the functionality of your phone. No more email updates (if you use gmail at least), Maps wouldn't remember any of your previous locations. Etc etc. Google has a ton of stuff baked into android that completely revolves around your google account. None of that information is stored locally. Google at least lets you managed what data they store on you. Its not google I would be worrying about. Its the fed that is building huge databases on american citizens.....
Because in the 90s the only operating system people ran was windows. Riiiiiight. Maybe for PC users it was the dark ages......
Like pinch to zoom? Unified search across the device and internet at once? I mean wow. What amazingly innovative features! Maybe all android phones should go back to being single touch, because you, multi-touch is somehow an innovation worthy of a fucking patent. This country makes me sad. The consumer loses over and over again while companies like apple and microsoft try to sue their way into gaining market share, while using bullshit patents to strip each other of device features. So samsung owes apple $1bn. So what. Who do you think produces a lot of the hardware that goes into the iphone? All this public drama hides the fact that these companies have been deeply in bed for a long time.
that's what i'm taking from it. I mean basically they've all been copying from each other. the physical design of the iphone is nothing revolutionary imo. certainly not worth a design patent.
Exactly. All I have to say is FUCK YOU APPLE. I can't wait to go piss on steve job's grave. Ideas, dna, information....all of these things should be unpatentable. if you create some new machine, great. you deserve a patent. a new drug? sure why not? what is going on in software patents is very odious. suddenly basic concepts that have plenty of prior art are all now patentable. I think if you word your patent with enough technical terms eventually you confuse the patent examiner so much that they have no idea what you are even trying to patent and just pass it on. I mean these companies are literally filing thousands of patents everyday. Opening up to global patents is probably an even worse idea.
Why is the crocodile virtually unchanged from ancient times? if you ask me its because they hit upon an evolutionary design that was highly effective and they never had to adapt further. there are plenty of examples of living fossils. just because they don't evolve much because their adaptions make them well suited for their environment is not a flaw in evolution. its is an example of evolution being successful and producing an effective design.
Oh...you are responding to the ssca being stock...nm...long day
The only thing stock on a nascar car is the fact that it has 4 wheels. They share nothing in common with their production counterparts. Even the body is a big fake fiberglass costume.
they did this to me too. i considered it bad faith as i was promised to never be capped. the official line is that there always was a cap. funny. i downloaded tens of gigs every month and never was capped until they rolled out the 2gb plan.
oh wait.....
that's an interesting question. i recently bought a transformer tablet with keyboard dock and a gameboy dsi xl. to be honest, there just aren't enough games for the 3ds to get me all that excited, also I really wanted to finally complete dragon quest ix and finally play the ff4 remake. I loaded up the tablet with as many games as I could, and while the graphics are astonishing, not many games are really all that compelling for more than a quick run. I've noticed the shift in mobile gaming to casual. I'm sure as android matures and reaches deeper into the market more developers will produce quality games for it, but to be honest the dsi still has so many good games even though its graphics are pretty awful in comparison. The FF3 port to android is alright, but to be honest, the graphics are so bad that the low resolution of the ds helped hide that. It looks like a pixelated mess on the tablet. If you ask me, controls are the big obstacle. Anything onscreen takes up a bit of space and any kind of action game becomes an exercise in frustration due to the lack of tactile feedback. FPS are especially annoying imo. I don't see the 3ds flopping, so there are a few rounds left to this fight, but convergence seems inevitable. I was thinking that the ds would be perfect as an android device that played ds games......
Government can't be trusted. Expect the worst.
The fact that abuses, whether they happen or not, can occur with little in way of checks or balances is a severe problem. We have an nsa agent saying that they are collecting communications without a warrant. That's illegal, regardless of who they are targetting. You're saying you trust them to "do the right" thing with that information? Seriously??
I agree fully. That's a nice piece of writing, who wrote that?
They are the new microsoft....and they are far more evil.
I've been using windows 7 since the release candidate. I had a bunch of blue screens early on due to bad drivers, but now the drivers have stabilized on 64-bit and a blue screen is pretty rare. On this new laptop I have yet to see one. Though I am seeming to have latency issues and part of it is the sound card drivers suck and Im stuck with the acer drivers or some other oem's drivers that may or may not be compatible with my chip. I have it mostly sorted, but I shouldn't have to deal with this crap in 2012. Installing windows should be like click....click....done. Having to spend hours troubleshooting awful drivers and tracking down better ones wasn't fun 10 years ago and its really sucking now. The funny part. The microsoft supplied drivers are perfect. Too bad they don't have the dolby processor built in that makes the speakers not sound really quiet and awful. Oh well, fallout 3 plays smoothly and lightroom/photoshop run well. That's all that matters. :)
That's actually a pretty impressive clone.
Try opening a folder with a bunch of large (over 1gb) tiff files. It will bring explorer to its knees. Actually any directory with a large number of extremely large files is not a good idea. It takes a long time to read through all those files.
My phone has more RAM than your computer for christ's sake! Quit being such a cheapskate and buy a couple of sticks. Hell, my laptop came with 8 gigs and it was pretty cheap.
I fully realize this. We all decide to greater and lesser degrees what is ok and what is not. I'm probably a hypocrite. FWIW, even when I bought music, I could only ever afford used CDs. So after acquiring thousands of CDs over the years (and losing them), not much of that money ever went to an artist. Was I stealing the music then? I mean, the only one that was benefiting was the store owner. I'm pretty poor now even. Spending $16 on an album so someone can make less than a buck in the end for recording it, while the RIAA and studios lines their pockets seems like a real waste of my money if you ask me. Trent Reznor had it right. Music has no inherent value anymore. It might as well be free. Feel free to point out further contradictions. :)
I second this. I downloaded this game and while it is a decent shooter, I really hate how so many android games are moving towards the free to play model. I would rather just pay $10-15 for a game and be done. Here's the other problem. If your game doesn't work because they didn't optimize it for your device, you are probably out of whatever you payed after you download the whole thing. The refund window is a measly 15 minutes. Too many people download a whole game to find out they've been beat out of $5 and usually have no way to get that money back and are left with a broken game. I did pay $15 for FFIII, and it was a good buy. GTA3 for $5 was really about the right price though IMO.
So you are saying that if you could steal and get away with it, you would. Wow. Maybe you should reevaluate your moral standards or lack thereof!
The only thing I will "steal" anymore is ancient games made by out of business companies or companies that see no value in reselling a game. I already have a pretty vast collection, so all my game acquisitions lately have been through steam or google play. I must admit I stopped buying music years ago, but in my defense, I refuse to see any of my money to go companies that will sue people for infringement and yet not pay their own artists what they are owed. The RIAA is a scam and a cartel. I've paid good money for games though. I want people to keep making them.