Attic fan might help, but your point is taken. As for how they did it in the past, they just suffered. My father-in-law grew up in Dallas and didn't have any A/C at all in his house until he was in third grade (~1960) and none in any of his elementary or secondary schools.
But what about your lows? Can't you open the windows at night to cool off? Glancing at last year's weather it looked like you really needed AC about ten days if you did that.
By contrast, although my home in the Southeast never gets really cold, we had 61 straight days this summer in which the temperature never fell below 20 C.
Apple doesn't have the experience that Google got out of 1-800-GOOG-411, of collecting a vast number of American voices speaking colloquial English. They need to limit it to the 4S for the time being in order to keep the total data load below threshold.
No doubt. Those users are the worst thing about having an Android phone.
I like my Android phone. It does what I need, it does it fairly smoothly. It's not as slick as my iOS devices, but I'm used to the downsides of Android and for the moment I'd rather deal with them than deal with the downsides of iOS. But the fanbois are just awful.
Redundant measures cost money. When you're talking about a director of marketing, they cost a lot. Can the company afford to have a backup director of marketing?
"The graveyards are full of indispensable men" is far more true than people want to admit. The world will go on, but there's no rule that says the company will.
Don't ever work for less than your full market value if you don't want to get screwed. If you take stock options or a percentage ownership, hire a very, very good lawyer to write the terms for you - because you will be diluted out of existence otherwise.
Steam, actually, as vast quantities of the Pearl River are turned into vapor. (Plus the relatively small amount of water vapor made by the combustion of liquid hydrogen.) If you plan to fire a rocket against a fixed point for over eight minutes, you'd better have one hell of a good cooling (and noise-damping) system. Fortunately for them, they do.
What would you put it in the hands of? "Corporations" are just about everything you know - in modern America almost every group of people is set up as a corporation. Churches, schools, the Chamber of Commerce, the local alternative weekly, restaurants, bars, soccer leagues, mom-and-pop stores, professional associations, 527's, EVERYTHING. The government? I'll pass, thanks.
If you ban "corporations" from spending money on political campaigns, you will only create a very special group (the media corporations) that will be the only corporations whose viewpoints will matter. You can't stop them from reporting the news, of course; that would violate the First Amendment. But if they become the sole gatekeepers of information, then you're just saying you'd rather that the only free speech belong to people who own newspapers, TV stations, and radio stations.
We talk about how Bush had a DUI when he was young, or Obama admitted to smoking weed and doing cocaine. But those are peccadilloes compared to what, e.g., JFK was using while in office - heavy doses of all kinds of stuff. Why didn't the American people hear about that? Or about his call girl habits? Because the press decided to stay quiet.
That's not an ad, it's an in-store display. I'm talking about the advertisements, on TV and in magazines. Go to Youtube, or Google Image Search. Search for "iphone ad". Watch them. Like, say, this, the first four iPhone ads. It doesn't tell you about the camera, or the storage, or any of that. It shows someone using the phone to listen to music, watch video, surf the web, check out their pictures, and make a phone call.
Heck, just go here. They talk about an 8 MP camera and a dual-core chip. Normal people get megapixels the same way they got megahertz - more must be better. So they use that. It talks about Siri, it talks about iCloud, it talks about iOS 5, and at the very bottom of the page in grey type it says you can get one starting at $199. The only page you can get to that even tells you it comes in different capacities is the one labeled "Tech Specs".
not really a meaningful comparison of device capability. It is more a comparison of out of the box capability
I know that, and you know that. I can set my Android phone up to do these things, and you could too. But what do you do when your cousin, your neighbors, your parents, and your friends ask you what to get? You can do what you like, but I'm going to recommend the one I don't have to support. Doesn't work? Call Apple.
No, my question was why the average user would care. Apple has a range of storage options on their phones, but they never advertise on it - it's when you get into the store that you see the different size options.
In terms of why you would want them in a phone, as opposed to a computer:
Android pros: can get Swype, has widgets, 4G available. Variety of screen sizes and manufacturers. If rooted, you can run wifi tethering app and conceal said fact from your wireless provider. Google Navigation offers free turn-by-turn directions. Android cons: manufacturers often do not update system software, 4G radios eat battery, interface generally less polished. (Concrete example: many, many apps have settings which are only available if you hit the menu button on a specific screen, and while some apps do a very good job of this many do not.)
iPhone 4S pros: very speedy user interface/apps, unsurpassed app store selection, camera that offers touch-to-focus and a faster response, superb industrial design. Software updates delivered for at least two years. iPhone 4S cons: battery cannot be removed, no SD card slot if you want more storage. No 4G available.
Those are, of course, all my opinion, but I've actually used both, and like I said: I'm on Android at this point mainly for Swype. I use texting for work a lot.
This is the page showing the prices before taxes, fees, or discounts on VZW. 900 minutes/mo = $60, unlimited text= $20, unlimited data=$30 (grandfathered in). $110/mo, minus discount, plus fees.
Realized I should respond to both parts of your comment. My experience with Siri is that it's at least as good as Google's voice-to-text was a year ago, and that it's a lot more capable - the voice-to-text part of Siri isn't the part that's interesting, it's that it has natural language processing and can interact with your data much more capably than Android's Voice Actions.
tthomas48 says he pays $35/mo for unlimited data on his wife's Android phone. I pay about $100/mo on Verizon for unlimited text, data, and 900 minutes of calls, after you factor in work discount, taxes, and fees.
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Attic fan might help, but your point is taken. As for how they did it in the past, they just suffered. My father-in-law grew up in Dallas and didn't have any A/C at all in his house until he was in third grade (~1960) and none in any of his elementary or secondary schools.
He probably means 42 days in a row over 100.
But what about your lows? Can't you open the windows at night to cool off? Glancing at last year's weather it looked like you really needed AC about ten days if you did that.
By contrast, although my home in the Southeast never gets really cold, we had 61 straight days this summer in which the temperature never fell below 20 C.
Speech recognition is not the really cool part of Siri.
Apple doesn't have the experience that Google got out of 1-800-GOOG-411, of collecting a vast number of American voices speaking colloquial English. They need to limit it to the 4S for the time being in order to keep the total data load below threshold.
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No doubt. Those users are the worst thing about having an Android phone.
I like my Android phone. It does what I need, it does it fairly smoothly. It's not as slick as my iOS devices, but I'm used to the downsides of Android and for the moment I'd rather deal with them than deal with the downsides of iOS. But the fanbois are just awful.
Whoosh.
Redundant measures cost money. When you're talking about a director of marketing, they cost a lot. Can the company afford to have a backup director of marketing?
"The graveyards are full of indispensable men" is far more true than people want to admit. The world will go on, but there's no rule that says the company will.
lesson learned from my two years at that school...I'm not allowed to use that word.
You had to go to school with black people to figure that out?
Don't ever work for less than your full market value if you don't want to get screwed. If you take stock options or a percentage ownership, hire a very, very good lawyer to write the terms for you - because you will be diluted out of existence otherwise.
You're saying what is supposed to happen. He's talking about what actually does. That's the discrepancy.
Touché.
Steam, actually, as vast quantities of the Pearl River are turned into vapor. (Plus the relatively small amount of water vapor made by the combustion of liquid hydrogen.) If you plan to fire a rocket against a fixed point for over eight minutes, you'd better have one hell of a good cooling (and noise-damping) system. Fortunately for them, they do.
What would you put it in the hands of? "Corporations" are just about everything you know - in modern America almost every group of people is set up as a corporation. Churches, schools, the Chamber of Commerce, the local alternative weekly, restaurants, bars, soccer leagues, mom-and-pop stores, professional associations, 527's, EVERYTHING. The government? I'll pass, thanks.
If you ban "corporations" from spending money on political campaigns, you will only create a very special group (the media corporations) that will be the only corporations whose viewpoints will matter. You can't stop them from reporting the news, of course; that would violate the First Amendment. But if they become the sole gatekeepers of information, then you're just saying you'd rather that the only free speech belong to people who own newspapers, TV stations, and radio stations.
We talk about how Bush had a DUI when he was young, or Obama admitted to smoking weed and doing cocaine. But those are peccadilloes compared to what, e.g., JFK was using while in office - heavy doses of all kinds of stuff. Why didn't the American people hear about that? Or about his call girl habits? Because the press decided to stay quiet.
That's not an ad, it's an in-store display. I'm talking about the advertisements, on TV and in magazines. Go to Youtube, or Google Image Search. Search for "iphone ad". Watch them. Like, say, this, the first four iPhone ads. It doesn't tell you about the camera, or the storage, or any of that. It shows someone using the phone to listen to music, watch video, surf the web, check out their pictures, and make a phone call.
Heck, just go here. They talk about an 8 MP camera and a dual-core chip. Normal people get megapixels the same way they got megahertz - more must be better. So they use that. It talks about Siri, it talks about iCloud, it talks about iOS 5, and at the very bottom of the page in grey type it says you can get one starting at $199. The only page you can get to that even tells you it comes in different capacities is the one labeled "Tech Specs".
When you talk about sideloading apps you have left all realm of what normal, non-technical people should do.
In my opinion, Apple is offering the best real-world experience for the most people.
So, in a long-winded manner, you completely agreed with me when I said that
And the iPhone 4S, despite lacking 4G, is in most ways the best phone on the market.
not really a meaningful comparison of device capability. It is more a comparison of out of the box capability
I know that, and you know that. I can set my Android phone up to do these things, and you could too. But what do you do when your cousin, your neighbors, your parents, and your friends ask you what to get? You can do what you like, but I'm going to recommend the one I don't have to support. Doesn't work? Call Apple.
No, my question was why the average user would care. Apple has a range of storage options on their phones, but they never advertise on it - it's when you get into the store that you see the different size options.
In terms of why you would want them in a phone, as opposed to a computer:
Android pros: can get Swype, has widgets, 4G available. Variety of screen sizes and manufacturers. If rooted, you can run wifi tethering app and conceal said fact from your wireless provider. Google Navigation offers free turn-by-turn directions.
Android cons: manufacturers often do not update system software, 4G radios eat battery, interface generally less polished. (Concrete example: many, many apps have settings which are only available if you hit the menu button on a specific screen, and while some apps do a very good job of this many do not.)
iPhone 4S pros: very speedy user interface/apps, unsurpassed app store selection, camera that offers touch-to-focus and a faster response, superb industrial design. Software updates delivered for at least two years.
iPhone 4S cons: battery cannot be removed, no SD card slot if you want more storage. No 4G available.
Those are, of course, all my opinion, but I've actually used both, and like I said: I'm on Android at this point mainly for Swype. I use texting for work a lot.
This is the page showing the prices before taxes, fees, or discounts on VZW. 900 minutes/mo = $60, unlimited text= $20, unlimited data=$30 (grandfathered in). $110/mo, minus discount, plus fees.
It's pretty safe to say that someone with a Slashdot account is not an average user.
Realized I should respond to both parts of your comment. My experience with Siri is that it's at least as good as Google's voice-to-text was a year ago, and that it's a lot more capable - the voice-to-text part of Siri isn't the part that's interesting, it's that it has natural language processing and can interact with your data much more capably than Android's Voice Actions.
tthomas48 says he pays $35/mo for unlimited data on his wife's Android phone. I pay about $100/mo on Verizon for unlimited text, data, and 900 minutes of calls, after you factor in work discount, taxes, and fees.