1. Consistent data sharing between applications 2. A decent on-screen keyboard. Personally I like the sliding-style ones like Swype and Swiftkey and iOS doesn't do that eithre, but one of my biggest annoyances with iOS is that Apple's keyboard does not change the state of letters on-screen when the shift key has been pressed. 3. Ability to download arbitrary files and organize data in arbitrary ways. 4. Widgets. I'm not a huge fan of them, but it sure is nice to see a list of my e-mails with subject lines right on my home screen. 5. Set default apps to non-Apple options.
DLNA interoperability can be surprisingly poor and using DLNA means using bandwidth-inefficient MPEG2 video and crummy stereo audio, which is kind of a let down if you have decent source files to work with.
My uncle was classified as a "First Responder", so according to some or other Homeland Security policy he's federally mandated to have always-on high speed internet access in his home.
There's nothing but state parks and corn fields around his property for probably five miles in any direction. Cable TV isn't even available in the nearest town, which has a population of a few hundred people.
So Verizon bought a 5m x 5x plot of cornfield directly across the street from his house and built a tiny little exchange. It serves my uncle and six homes that happen to be near enough to access it and it's the fastest DSL connection I've ever used.
From WHAT? Loading,apks from torrent sites? Installing apps from random Chinese app stores? Clicking on every mobile porn site ad he could find? I've never encountered an Android device with a malware problem. I'm sure that they exist but for normal users of the Google and Amazon app stores I have a hard time believing that it's a serious problem.
I really don't care what other people do. A technology that's tied to a single piece of hardware for no reason other than inconvenience is in no way useful to me. It amazes me that so many people who own phones that are fully capable of using SMTP to deliver a message would instead bother to deal with all the limitations of texting in the first place.
Google Voice does a number of things far better than any other system that more than make up for whatever deficiencies the author believes it might have.
I will preface this by saying that I am a Sprint cellular customer, so Google Voice can be fully integrated into my telephone service.
1. My cell number is integrated in to Google Voice. This means that I can answer calls from anyplace I happen to be logged in to the desktop version of Gmail or have the Google Voice app installed. This means that I do not need to have my phone tied to my actual person 24 hours a day. I can answer a call while I'm reading on a tablet in my bathtub or while my phone is charging in another room.
2. Google Voice transcribes voicemails so that they are delivered as E-mails, so that I don't have to listen to them. This is worth actual money to me. I hate voice mail with a passion.
3. I dislike SMS messages because, again, I don't like having to have my telephone permanently anchored to my body. Google Voice allows me to filter and deliver SMS messages as if they were E-mails and to respond to them as such. SMS messages never hit my phone. I've never opened the SMS app on it. I just respond to e-mails. Again, this is a tremendously valuable service.
If I'm missing something from not having texts delivered to my phone, I don't know and I don't care what that is, because as far as I'm concerned, Google Voice is doing every single thing I want it to already.
If you have a compute task that's not bound by I/O or RAM such as media transcoding, a faster CPU can be quite helpful. My time to reencode a BD dropped by almost 30% in a move from Lynnfield to Ivy Bridge versions of i7; that's not insignificant for a process that still takes hours. Putting aside my dubious need, we're not that far from consumer 4k video and the increased demands that will bring.
It's genuinely enjoyable. I suggest the "Formula D" or "Gloom" episodes to get a taste of the experience, but when I found the series I binged and watched them all in a single afternoon. And then went out and bought $150 worth of games. It's been fundamental in my efforts to start a real-live gaming group, since the reaction to new episodes of TableTop has absolutely been one where one of my friends shows up with the thing from the most recent episode at our next outing. King of Tokyo and Once Upon a Time were both present at my last game night and no one even mentioned them at any of our earlier meetings.
Anyway, Wil Wheaton is infectiously enthusiastic about the games he's playing. Tabletop is truly more compelling than about 95% of the stuff that can be found on TV.
Well the legal definition specifies "lascivious" media rather than some laundry list of people, poses and acts. I suspect there's Kim Possible and My Little Pony erotic fan-art posted on Tumblr and Deviantart that meets the technical criteria for child pornography every day.
It might be worth pointing out that it's precisely this attitude that makes the issue of finding proper justice so damned important for this issue. The law protects the accused, the guilty and the innocent, and it not our place absent the facts presented to a learned judge or jury of peers to decide otherwise. But hey if you want to start burning witches or castrating the mentally ill there's probably someplace in central Africa that would be happy to have you.
I have a giant TV and an expensive AV setup, but I still watch streaming videos on a tablet. Watching The Daily Show is part of my morning bathroom routine and it's a lot easier to carry my Galaxy Tab from my bedroom to my bathroom to the kitchen than it is to turn on my TV, Amp, Receiver and then wake up the PC that I use to stream internet content.
On the other hand, I really dislike Netflix's streaming videos. I might watch an occasional documentary that way, but I prefer to get nice, rippable discs from the snailmail service so I can at least get the full experience for the movies I do choose to enjoy.
One of my clients had a Netware 3.12 machine on site that operated continuously about about 16 years. It was retired unceremoniously when they moved to a new location, but that machine did not in all its life have a hardware fault or abend.
I use it in large part because so many of the browser addons I like on my desktop systems work just fine with it, and also because I can have a different set of standard browser cookies for various things and maintain some professional/personal separation.
The only real problem I have with it is that many, many "mobile" web sites seem to be coded with the assumption that all mobile browsers are WebKit, so mobile sites are occasionally inconvenient to visit.
Try scratching the label side. You'll find that it's much easier and more productive to damage that side anyway since it's closer to the aluminum coating.
What did I say that sounds like "I want to overclock a fleet of business desktop systems?" In my experience, Asus's definition of "stable" and mine are two entirely different things.
But yes, I would not even remotely trust an Intel enthusiast-class system board. Their LGA2011 boards aren't really impressive at all. That's the point when Asus and Gigabyte and some of the other goofy hobbyist brands actually do make sense. For once.
Yes. I run Intel exclusively. I don't have a problem with AMD CPUs as such, but no one operating in AMD-land is building system boards as generally reliable as are found on the Intel side of the fence. It does indeed help that there's an extremely narrow range of products where AMD is currently competitive for both price and performance at the moment, but I'd still rather deploy a small fleet of Intel-based systems and have the known-quantity experience than the crap-shoot of what Gigabyte or Asus might have for AM3+ this week.
I also like the fact that I can still find new-in-box Intel-branded motherboards even a couple years after production has stopped. This is really valuable if you have any reason to value uniformity in your configurations, which I certainly do.
It's functionally the same thing in my case. I'm close enough to Intel's Louisville RMA depot that they'll have my RMA'd products the day I get authorization and have another one on a truck back to me the next day.
It still speaks very highly of their logistical operation that they process and ship returns that quickly.
In my experience, Intel's boards seem to be considerably more reliable. I'm sure my sample size is small, perhaps 100 systems per year, but I have had a much, much lower incidence of problems with Intel motherboards than with Asus or Gigabyte, and MSI doesn't even deserve to be mentioned in the same breath with those two.
Intel boards are actually made by Foxconn, so it's possible that this will be a change in name only, but I do also value the fact that I can get an RMA on a motherboard from Intel within two business days. Neither Gigabyte nor Asus offer anything like that level of service and paying a little extra for it is entirely justifiable.
Really, the Hackmaster stuff is ludicrously high quality and is clearly made as a labor of love by a bunch of people who aren't exactly going to make a fortune for their efforts. I pirated all the out of print gaming stuff too, just for nostalgia's sake. But Hackmaster is a living project and those guys deserve the attention and support.
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1. Consistent data sharing between applications
2. A decent on-screen keyboard. Personally I like the sliding-style ones like Swype and Swiftkey and iOS doesn't do that eithre, but one of my biggest annoyances with iOS is that Apple's keyboard does not change the state of letters on-screen when the shift key has been pressed.
3. Ability to download arbitrary files and organize data in arbitrary ways.
4. Widgets. I'm not a huge fan of them, but it sure is nice to see a list of my e-mails with subject lines right on my home screen.
5. Set default apps to non-Apple options.
DLNA interoperability can be surprisingly poor and using DLNA means using bandwidth-inefficient MPEG2 video and crummy stereo audio, which is kind of a let down if you have decent source files to work with.
Funny, true story:
My uncle was classified as a "First Responder", so according to some or other Homeland Security policy he's federally mandated to have always-on high speed internet access in his home.
There's nothing but state parks and corn fields around his property for probably five miles in any direction. Cable TV isn't even available in the nearest town, which has a population of a few hundred people.
So Verizon bought a 5m x 5x plot of cornfield directly across the street from his house and built a tiny little exchange. It serves my uncle and six homes that happen to be near enough to access it and it's the fastest DSL connection I've ever used.
From WHAT? Loading ,apks from torrent sites? Installing apps from random Chinese app stores? Clicking on every mobile porn site ad he could find? I've never encountered an Android device with a malware problem. I'm sure that they exist but for normal users of the Google and Amazon app stores I have a hard time believing that it's a serious problem.
I really don't care what other people do. A technology that's tied to a single piece of hardware for no reason other than inconvenience is in no way useful to me. It amazes me that so many people who own phones that are fully capable of using SMTP to deliver a message would instead bother to deal with all the limitations of texting in the first place.
Google Voice does a number of things far better than any other system that more than make up for whatever deficiencies the author believes it might have.
I will preface this by saying that I am a Sprint cellular customer, so Google Voice can be fully integrated into my telephone service.
1. My cell number is integrated in to Google Voice. This means that I can answer calls from anyplace I happen to be logged in to the desktop version of Gmail or have the Google Voice app installed. This means that I do not need to have my phone tied to my actual person 24 hours a day. I can answer a call while I'm reading on a tablet in my bathtub or while my phone is charging in another room.
2. Google Voice transcribes voicemails so that they are delivered as E-mails, so that I don't have to listen to them. This is worth actual money to me. I hate voice mail with a passion.
3. I dislike SMS messages because, again, I don't like having to have my telephone permanently anchored to my body. Google Voice allows me to filter and deliver SMS messages as if they were E-mails and to respond to them as such. SMS messages never hit my phone. I've never opened the SMS app on it. I just respond to e-mails. Again, this is a tremendously valuable service.
If I'm missing something from not having texts delivered to my phone, I don't know and I don't care what that is, because as far as I'm concerned, Google Voice is doing every single thing I want it to already.
If you have a compute task that's not bound by I/O or RAM such as media transcoding, a faster CPU can be quite helpful. My time to reencode a BD dropped by almost 30% in a move from Lynnfield to Ivy Bridge versions of i7; that's not insignificant for a process that still takes hours. Putting aside my dubious need, we're not that far from consumer 4k video and the increased demands that will bring.
It's genuinely enjoyable. I suggest the "Formula D" or "Gloom" episodes to get a taste of the experience, but when I found the series I binged and watched them all in a single afternoon. And then went out and bought $150 worth of games. It's been fundamental in my efforts to start a real-live gaming group, since the reaction to new episodes of TableTop has absolutely been one where one of my friends shows up with the thing from the most recent episode at our next outing. King of Tokyo and Once Upon a Time were both present at my last game night and no one even mentioned them at any of our earlier meetings.
Anyway, Wil Wheaton is infectiously enthusiastic about the games he's playing. Tabletop is truly more compelling than about 95% of the stuff that can be found on TV.
Well the legal definition specifies "lascivious" media rather than some laundry list of people, poses and acts. I suspect there's Kim Possible and My Little Pony erotic fan-art posted on Tumblr and Deviantart that meets the technical criteria for child pornography every day.
It might be worth pointing out that it's precisely this attitude that makes the issue of finding proper justice so damned important for this issue. The law protects the accused, the guilty and the innocent, and it not our place absent the facts presented to a learned judge or jury of peers to decide otherwise. But hey if you want to start burning witches or castrating the mentally ill there's probably someplace in central Africa that would be happy to have you.
At least newer Android versions allow you to disable apps you don't want. I had to root my HTC Evo to get rid of Facebook and the Sprint NASCAR app.
I have a giant TV and an expensive AV setup, but I still watch streaming videos on a tablet. Watching The Daily Show is part of my morning bathroom routine and it's a lot easier to carry my Galaxy Tab from my bedroom to my bathroom to the kitchen than it is to turn on my TV, Amp, Receiver and then wake up the PC that I use to stream internet content.
On the other hand, I really dislike Netflix's streaming videos. I might watch an occasional documentary that way, but I prefer to get nice, rippable discs from the snailmail service so I can at least get the full experience for the movies I do choose to enjoy.
One of my clients had a Netware 3.12 machine on site that operated continuously about about 16 years. It was retired unceremoniously when they moved to a new location, but that machine did not in all its life have a hardware fault or abend.
From the demo video, I'm kind of drooling over the split screen setup it can do, especially on a high resolution device like a Nexus tablet.
I use it in large part because so many of the browser addons I like on my desktop systems work just fine with it, and also because I can have a different set of standard browser cookies for various things and maintain some professional/personal separation.
The only real problem I have with it is that many, many "mobile" web sites seem to be coded with the assumption that all mobile browsers are WebKit, so mobile sites are occasionally inconvenient to visit.
Try scratching the label side. You'll find that it's much easier and more productive to damage that side anyway since it's closer to the aluminum coating.
What did I say that sounds like "I want to overclock a fleet of business desktop systems?" In my experience, Asus's definition of "stable" and mine are two entirely different things.
Tyan does not make inexpensive boards for vanilla desktops. I can remember a time when they did, but that was probably the mid-90s.
Typhoon, probably.
But yes, I would not even remotely trust an Intel enthusiast-class system board. Their LGA2011 boards aren't really impressive at all.
That's the point when Asus and Gigabyte and some of the other goofy hobbyist brands actually do make sense. For once.
Yes. I run Intel exclusively. I don't have a problem with AMD CPUs as such, but no one operating in AMD-land is building system boards as generally reliable as are found on the Intel side of the fence. It does indeed help that there's an extremely narrow range of products where AMD is currently competitive for both price and performance at the moment, but I'd still rather deploy a small fleet of Intel-based systems and have the known-quantity experience than the crap-shoot of what Gigabyte or Asus might have for AM3+ this week.
I also like the fact that I can still find new-in-box Intel-branded motherboards even a couple years after production has stopped. This is really valuable if you have any reason to value uniformity in your configurations, which I certainly do.
It's functionally the same thing in my case. I'm close enough to Intel's Louisville RMA depot that they'll have my RMA'd products the day I get authorization and have another one on a truck back to me the next day.
It still speaks very highly of their logistical operation that they process and ship returns that quickly.
In my experience, Intel's boards seem to be considerably more reliable. I'm sure my sample size is small, perhaps 100 systems per year, but I have had a much, much lower incidence of problems with Intel motherboards than with Asus or Gigabyte, and MSI doesn't even deserve to be mentioned in the same breath with those two.
Intel boards are actually made by Foxconn, so it's possible that this will be a change in name only, but I do also value the fact that I can get an RMA on a motherboard from Intel within two business days. Neither Gigabyte nor Asus offer anything like that level of service and paying a little extra for it is entirely justifiable.
I have a strong preference for Aldiko, among the Android e-reader apps I've tried.
Really, the Hackmaster stuff is ludicrously high quality and is clearly made as a labor of love by a bunch of people who aren't exactly going to make a fortune for their efforts. I pirated all the out of print gaming stuff too, just for nostalgia's sake. But Hackmaster is a living project and those guys deserve the attention and support.
Goddammitsomuch. Link fail. Here.
and the hot girlfriend's tumblr, as my penance.