The existing Android 2.2 tablets are orders of magnitude more complex than the Ipad. Sorry but the two just aren't compatible in terms of functionality.
Cite some specific examples how, many of us aren't following the releases that closely.
Personally I'm still not convinced tablets aren't a fad, much like an overpriced Tamigotchi or flares.
From my experience, tablets replaced netbooks. Netbooks were all the rage 2 years ago, and it started what, in 2007? Now they are hardly mentioned anymore. They first came in the 7" screen size and quickly moved up, and for all intents and purposes quickly became your average 12" notebook albeit thinner and with a low-end CPU. My walmart used to have 3 on display a year and a half ago, and since thing chiseled it down to one. They replaced that space with iPads.
I don't think these type of tablets are fads. It's just a realization you don't always need a keyboard, a physical one at least. When I really want to type, I'm on my desktop with an ergonomic keyboard. It also depends what you're doing with it - a person with a budget for only one computing device probably will take a notebook that can do a little bit of everything. After that, it's all up to your needs. Something will come along eventually that merges these functions in something even more convenient, but that form factor could be at least a decade or two away (I'm thinking disposable sheets with printed on screens that can be folded, etc).
Are you joking? Considering what they play the players, some iPads are pocketchange if it does what they want, refreshes way faster, and they probably can get custom apps made to change plays on the fly and other functions they need.
Not sure if Kindle is pincode protection yet or anything although remote wiping has been proven by Amazon a while back. The one thing a kindle will be better at might be sunlight readability (even then, when I owned an earlier one, the glare of pure, direct sunlight just made any screen impossible to read).
In any case, cost probably is not the primary consideration.
If it weren't for the enviro-nuts and not-in-my-backyarders who think electricity magically comes from the socket and not instead from coal plants and the like.
I don't like Geek "culture" because it's another thing telling me what I should be into.
I like what I like, and that is that. I don't want to go from one "mainstream" culture just to look for acceptance into a niche one (of there is many).
Just don't need it. Whoever decides what is geek, or mainstream, or something else: great. Now leave me out of it.
Maybe you fell for ifixit's trap instead... that $9.99 isn't so cheap, you can get the screwdriver for less (~2) at other places. I notice ifixit's founder's comment about Apple making users blood boil in the article as well, just to have a handy solution available...
In the 1.5 years I owned it, I haven't had a single urge to open up my 3GS. Maybe if the battery becomes crap... although I'm as likely to upgrade it and forget it. And notebooks I generally only open to add RAM and swap the drive out to replace with SSD. I'm sure this kit sold a lot more now thanks to this article than people would really have had use for it... just so they can unscrew their iPhone and put philip head screws in it instead in the off-chance they may ever want to open it up when their newly acquired pentabulor screwdriver is out of reach?
If it's too long for you, the gist is that we have SO MANY DAMNED LAWS that even the authorities can't count them. We're no longer in the land of common sense things, simply of arbitrary rules. Plus, thanks to treaties, even owning a lobster may sometimes be illegal.
So it's up to the Police/Prosecutor discretion, or if you are a smart person, you leave the discretion in your hands. So the best advice IS NOT TO GIVE the authorities any ammo against you. This is a police state, the table is tilted, guilty until proven innocent so many times it's not funny, so don't throw any balls on the table to begin with. Encryption is perfect for this.
As an example, you get a text from a buddy: "You coming to smoke up 2night?" Now, he may be joking, but do you want to explain that to a cop? Heck no, it's your business, not his, to begin with.
[quote]When Kernell was sentenced last November, Judge Thomas Phillips said that the the son of state democratic representative Mike Kernell should serve his 366 day punishment at a halfway house, describing it as "a sufficient restriction of the defendant's liberty".[/quote] Unfortunately, we as a country have no sense on perspective. Some people get a whopping 7 years for killing someone and this guy is getting 1/7 of that. If he broke into a house (something more serious), he probably would have gotten less as a first offense. These long punishments are expensive to the taxpayer!
And look how long it took to get to sentencing, it's been over 2 years! Twice the length of his sentence! Punishments are more effective if closer to the crime to reinforce what they are for. Can't imagine what costs were involved in this relatively open and shut case.
It should have been a 3 month misdemeanor served in 2008 and forgotten about.
Uh, that's like saying because of some new initiative police employ failed because it only drove murder down 80% and not 100% in that you're setting the bar for success way too high.
If something you describe came to pass, the RIAA/MPAA/others would have won because it would reduce sharing dramatically by restricting it to a select few rather than the world at large. I've encountered several password protected downloads before, and I gave up rather than waste the time hunting down the password or anything else. And such a shift towards encryption/password_protected sharing would make the copyright associations happy that, in the general public's perception, that it's far more convenient and easier to buy the damn thing.
I wouldn't want to be on such a internet, personally.
Competition? There is plenty, especially from Droid.
What I want from Apple is choice. I hope the next iPhone can be bought unlocked for a reasonable choice.
AT&T is okay in the states... but they just rape you with expensive roaming fees when you travel the world. Calls being $1+ per minute if their cheap... and local to that area. $2+ a minute if calling back home. OTOH, I can get calling cards that connect me for $0.02 a minute when I call home to the states via landline.
If Apple wants me as a repeat iPhone customer, they better offer me a factory unlocked phone here in the states (no $800 unlocked iPhones from Canada/Hong Kong, I know they exist and are legit, just too much $$$) and let me put in my own prepaid sims when I jump country to country.
Otherwise, my next phone is a Nexus S or something, even though I greatly prefer iPhone in both hardware quality and software ease. I'm sure a lot of other small business travelers who don't have an expense account to offload on their corporations feel the same way.
This isn't a defense of Google. It just seems that corporations are never called to task for deplorable behavior unless they forgot to grease the right wheels.
It won't become the internet's SSO, simply because it requires way too many companies to willingly put way too much power into the hands of a partner that probably does not have their interests at heart. Microsoft already tried a passport years back.
At best, it will become a secondary feature on some websites, but not a required one.
I don't even trust OpenID, much less Facebook. Plus, I'm not going to let a host of important accounts be compromised by a single sign in -- it would be fine for forums and the like, but not anything of even moderate importance.
I love iPhone, but I hate Itunes on the desktop. In my limited experience with it, the way to transfer music to the device isn't intuitive, nor how to back up the files, or downloading them from the device to the computer should the Windows go bad. I can't imagine it better for the other file types -- I presuppose all this is some sort of concession to the MPAA/RIAA for one reason or another.
I guess I have the same complaint with a lot of software these days. Even photo managers like iPhoto or Picasa or confusing to the extreme for me when it comes to these operations -- as a long time computer geek, I'm used to manipulating files and not having those structures hidden from me in order to construct some different type of analogy like photo rolls (perhaps easier on a newbie) on the software's behalf. Which is why I find something like Digikam much easier for me, and since I'm not hardcore on music, just use Pandora.
I fully know standards for all types of things have been around for a long time, but either they were voluntary or just a number a company could work towards or surpass but with a design of their discretion. I'm specifically thinking of a company wanting to include some type of induction scheme like a soniccare toothbrush to charge their phones -- perhaps in an attempt to waterproof it without it needing to be "plugged" into a charger.
And considering the push into smart phones and bigger and bigger batteries, will the 5 watts that USB MAY provide be enough to charge it in time? What about data transfer?
Not if the drop in crime can be attributed to a portion of potential criminals being wary of cameras in general -- it's hard to imagine anyone knowing where all the cameras are, even in rural areas.
I dont believe that is the case, but I figured I would throw it out there.
And modern engines need no more than 30 seconds of idling to be "warmed up" for driving."
My 2007 Honda Civic may need 30 seconds for the engine to be ready to pull loads, but in 20 degree fahrenheit weather, it needs 12 minutes at least or I'll be driving around with fogged up glass. (Extremely dangerous).
Although I would like tips to reduce that somehow.
Consider the US Foreign Policy, Military, and the "power" we project around the world, in particular to protect resources, much of it oil, and to keep the middle east stabilized - and the fact that our Military uses the same amount of oil as a small nation -- and then tell me again that oil doesn't get subsidized.
The US subsidizes a lot of things through it's might, like other country's defenses and the like as well. But all in the end for resources. Those $14B and $37B over years is a drop in the bucket over a $800B a year military (doesn't include the ongoing wars iirc).
If we really paid the cost of our oil, it would be easily twice as much as it's now, at the least.
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Cite some specific examples how, many of us aren't following the releases that closely.
From my experience, tablets replaced netbooks. Netbooks were all the rage 2 years ago, and it started what, in 2007? Now they are hardly mentioned anymore. They first came in the 7" screen size and quickly moved up, and for all intents and purposes quickly became your average 12" notebook albeit thinner and with a low-end CPU. My walmart used to have 3 on display a year and a half ago, and since thing chiseled it down to one. They replaced that space with iPads.
I don't think these type of tablets are fads. It's just a realization you don't always need a keyboard, a physical one at least. When I really want to type, I'm on my desktop with an ergonomic keyboard. It also depends what you're doing with it - a person with a budget for only one computing device probably will take a notebook that can do a little bit of everything. After that, it's all up to your needs. Something will come along eventually that merges these functions in something even more convenient, but that form factor could be at least a decade or two away (I'm thinking disposable sheets with printed on screens that can be folded, etc).
Are you joking? Considering what they play the players, some iPads are pocketchange if it does what they want, refreshes way faster, and they probably can get custom apps made to change plays on the fly and other functions they need.
Not sure if Kindle is pincode protection yet or anything although remote wiping has been proven by Amazon a while back. The one thing a kindle will be better at might be sunlight readability (even then, when I owned an earlier one, the glare of pure, direct sunlight just made any screen impossible to read).
In any case, cost probably is not the primary consideration.
If it weren't for the enviro-nuts and not-in-my-backyarders who think electricity magically comes from the socket and not instead from coal plants and the like.
I don't like Geek "culture" because it's another thing telling me what I should be into.
I like what I like, and that is that. I don't want to go from one "mainstream" culture just to look for acceptance into a niche one (of there is many).
Just don't need it. Whoever decides what is geek, or mainstream, or something else: great. Now leave me out of it.
MS stock has been flatlining the past decade. Ballmer is a dog, chasing another car/successful_product instead of innovating on their own.
Nothing to see here, move along.
or even new TV series. Srsly.
Maybe you fell for ifixit's trap instead... that $9.99 isn't so cheap, you can get the screwdriver for less (~2) at other places. I notice ifixit's founder's comment about Apple making users blood boil in the article as well, just to have a handy solution available...
In the 1.5 years I owned it, I haven't had a single urge to open up my 3GS. Maybe if the battery becomes crap... although I'm as likely to upgrade it and forget it. And notebooks I generally only open to add RAM and swap the drive out to replace with SSD. I'm sure this kit sold a lot more now thanks to this article than people would really have had use for it... just so they can unscrew their iPhone and put philip head screws in it instead in the off-chance they may ever want to open it up when their newly acquired pentabulor screwdriver is out of reach?
Who modded this snarky, dumbass comment up?!
I take it you have never seen the video, "DON'T TALK TO THE POLICE!" by Professor James Duane and Officer George Bruch:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8167533318153586646#
If it's too long for you, the gist is that we have SO MANY DAMNED LAWS that even the authorities can't count them. We're no longer in the land of common sense things, simply of arbitrary rules. Plus, thanks to treaties, even owning a lobster may sometimes be illegal.
So it's up to the Police/Prosecutor discretion, or if you are a smart person, you leave the discretion in your hands. So the best advice IS NOT TO GIVE the authorities any ammo against you. This is a police state, the table is tilted, guilty until proven innocent so many times it's not funny, so don't throw any balls on the table to begin with. Encryption is perfect for this.
As an example, you get a text from a buddy: "You coming to smoke up 2night?" Now, he may be joking, but do you want to explain that to a cop? Heck no, it's your business, not his, to begin with.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgZKjJt-TkU
[quote]When Kernell was sentenced last November, Judge Thomas Phillips said that the the son of state democratic representative Mike Kernell should serve his 366 day punishment at a halfway house, describing it as "a sufficient restriction of the defendant's liberty".[/quote]
Unfortunately, we as a country have no sense on perspective. Some people get a whopping 7 years for killing someone and this guy is getting 1/7 of that. If he broke into a house (something more serious), he probably would have gotten less as a first offense. These long punishments are expensive to the taxpayer!
And look how long it took to get to sentencing, it's been over 2 years! Twice the length of his sentence! Punishments are more effective if closer to the crime to reinforce what they are for. Can't imagine what costs were involved in this relatively open and shut case.
It should have been a 3 month misdemeanor served in 2008 and forgotten about.
Uh, that's like saying because of some new initiative police employ failed because it only drove murder down 80% and not 100% in that you're setting the bar for success way too high.
If something you describe came to pass, the RIAA/MPAA/others would have won because it would reduce sharing dramatically by restricting it to a select few rather than the world at large. I've encountered several password protected downloads before, and I gave up rather than waste the time hunting down the password or anything else. And such a shift towards encryption/password_protected sharing would make the copyright associations happy that, in the general public's perception, that it's far more convenient and easier to buy the damn thing.
I wouldn't want to be on such a internet, personally.
For some movies. that would be a bonus feature.
Competition? There is plenty, especially from Droid.
What I want from Apple is choice. I hope the next iPhone can be bought unlocked for a reasonable choice.
AT&T is okay in the states... but they just rape you with expensive roaming fees when you travel the world. Calls being $1+ per minute if their cheap... and local to that area. $2+ a minute if calling back home. OTOH, I can get calling cards that connect me for $0.02 a minute when I call home to the states via landline.
If Apple wants me as a repeat iPhone customer, they better offer me a factory unlocked phone here in the states (no $800 unlocked iPhones from Canada/Hong Kong, I know they exist and are legit, just too much $$$) and let me put in my own prepaid sims when I jump country to country.
Otherwise, my next phone is a Nexus S or something, even though I greatly prefer iPhone in both hardware quality and software ease. I'm sure a lot of other small business travelers who don't have an expense account to offload on their corporations feel the same way.
Uh huh.
http://caffeinatedthoughts.com/2011/01/regarding-giffords-gunman-being-crazy-is-not-an-ideology/
You people trying to turn this into a political issue are disgusting.
This isn't a defense of Google. It just seems that corporations are never called to task for deplorable behavior unless they forgot to grease the right wheels.
It won't become the internet's SSO, simply because it requires way too many companies to willingly put way too much power into the hands of a partner that probably does not have their interests at heart. Microsoft already tried a passport years back.
At best, it will become a secondary feature on some websites, but not a required one.
I don't even trust OpenID, much less Facebook. Plus, I'm not going to let a host of important accounts be compromised by a single sign in -- it would be fine for forums and the like, but not anything of even moderate importance.
I love iPhone, but I hate Itunes on the desktop. In my limited experience with it, the way to transfer music to the device isn't intuitive, nor how to back up the files, or downloading them from the device to the computer should the Windows go bad. I can't imagine it better for the other file types -- I presuppose all this is some sort of concession to the MPAA/RIAA for one reason or another.
I guess I have the same complaint with a lot of software these days. Even photo managers like iPhoto or Picasa or confusing to the extreme for me when it comes to these operations -- as a long time computer geek, I'm used to manipulating files and not having those structures hidden from me in order to construct some different type of analogy like photo rolls (perhaps easier on a newbie) on the software's behalf. Which is why I find something like Digikam much easier for me, and since I'm not hardcore on music, just use Pandora.
America has been doing this for decades with European companies.
Your head is in the sand if you think this is new with China.
I fully know standards for all types of things have been around for a long time, but either they were voluntary or just a number a company could work towards or surpass but with a design of their discretion. I'm specifically thinking of a company wanting to include some type of induction scheme like a soniccare toothbrush to charge their phones -- perhaps in an attempt to waterproof it without it needing to be "plugged" into a charger.
And considering the push into smart phones and bigger and bigger batteries, will the 5 watts that USB MAY provide be enough to charge it in time? What about data transfer?
I'm not sure. It's been like this from the beginning and all my other cars have acted like this.
Doesn't a heater core need hot coolant to work? Now, if I driving, it'd heat up in 4 minutes instead of 12, but that's rather dangerous.
I might be in a cold humid area for all I now. But I'm talking 20 degrees Fahrenheit here.
Not if the drop in crime can be attributed to a portion of potential criminals being wary of cameras in general -- it's hard to imagine anyone knowing where all the cameras are, even in rural areas.
I dont believe that is the case, but I figured I would throw it out there.
My 2007 Honda Civic may need 30 seconds for the engine to be ready to pull loads, but in 20 degree fahrenheit weather, it needs 12 minutes at least or I'll be driving around with fogged up glass. (Extremely dangerous).
Although I would like tips to reduce that somehow.
Consider the US Foreign Policy, Military, and the "power" we project around the world, in particular to protect resources, much of it oil, and to keep the middle east stabilized - and the fact that our Military uses the same amount of oil as a small nation -- and then tell me again that oil doesn't get subsidized.
The US subsidizes a lot of things through it's might, like other country's defenses and the like as well. But all in the end for resources. Those $14B and $37B over years is a drop in the bucket over a $800B a year military (doesn't include the ongoing wars iirc).
If we really paid the cost of our oil, it would be easily twice as much as it's now, at the least.
I agree. Too many people here scared of their own shadows.
If you and anyone else wants to get into this sort of thing, or just RC planes in general, may I suggest RCGroups.com:
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/index.php
It's an awesome forum.