The warranty at $99 / 2 yrs sure beats the $7.50 mo for an Android warranty.
Wow, someone on Slashdot admits to taking the sucker's bet that is extended warranties? Do you just have a habit of frequently dropping your phones in the water or something?
iOS unjailbroke simply cannot run a virus. No app can change the effect of my system, so everything I do is safe and hassle free. There are minus of that, like I can't change the default keyboard to the Smart Keyboard I like but the plus is 0 worry.
I don't think you understand the "walled garden" very well -- this is unsurprising, given that you think it's a feature. No Android application that you get through the Android Market can do anything to 'change the effect of your system' either unless you specifically give it permission, and every permission they require is listed right up front. I'll grant that some are overly broad, but at least you get to see them, whereas AFAIK they are completely invisible to iOS users.
1) Reading the documentation of the programming language, library or software in question.
Personally, I consider the output of a Google/Stack Overflow search to be part of the documentation of the programming language. I'm not sure why someone would choose to ignore a valuable resource.
If I can find a code snippet that does what I want it to, rather than having to write it from scratch, great. In particular, I'd rather spend my time working on application logic than low level dealings with the OS.
Let me just say: fuck Creativity Software and fuck any programmer willing to work for them. There's this thing called 'ethics' and if they choose to violate the most basic premises to enable people to do shit like this, the outcomes are also on *their* heads. None of this "just doing my job" bullshit.
I don't really care about this at all; in fact, it's a perfectly reasonable thing to do -- with one caveat. They must at least have an option to run non-Mac store applications on the computer. If we ever get to a point where we can't run arbitrary code on general purpose computers without some sort of special permission from the manufacturers, we're fucked.
What about "What sort of jacket should I wear today?" That seems like a slightly more useful question to ask, but I'll bet Siri can't tell you jack shit about that because nobody has coded that specific phrase for a nice marketing soundbite. In Android, I just look at the weather widget and I'm done, but in reality, I just look out the window because I'm not an idiot.
Tell my sister I'll be late
What if you have two sisters? Is it really that difficult to say the person's name?
In Android, you hold down the search button and say "text " -- it's unambiguous and easy. It's not 100% accurate, but neither is Siri.
Don't worry, the Apple fanbois were making the EXACT SAME COMMENTS months ago when people were pointing out that Android could already do voice recognition out of the box.
And apparently you don't know how to drive your phone with voice commands. I've also got an EVO 4g and it works fine. It's still faster to just type in most cases though, and the 4S isn't any better -- I watched the thing misunderstand my girlfriend trying to text me for several minutes to see how it worked, and she still ended up having to go back and correct the text by hand.
"It's funny that the anti-X people acknowledge that X produces unwanted effect Y. Why don't they call for every possible source of Y to be eliminated?" Because that would be absurd, and sometimes you have to pick your battles, and the battle they've chosen is meat, not methane.
Never mind that a lot of anti-meat people would also be perfectly happy with overall human population reduction as well.
Consent was withdrawn weeks after the fact. If that's rape, then it's not safe for any man (or woman, presumably, but we all know how 'equal' the law is when it comes to sex crimes) to have sex, ever.
As opposed to having to convict him in a foreign court in his absence where he'd be unable to put up any sort of defence if he didn't turn up? Because that's fair too.
As someone else pointed out, accused != charged != convicted. And it's really fucking sad that this needed to be pointed out.
My wife's HTC Droid Eris is virtually unusable even though it's still on a two-year contract.
So when she bought it, it was unusable? I mean, that's your implication: it hasn't received updates to make it usable, so it has remained in an unusable state.
Why would you buy an unusable device to begin with? Have you asked her this?
To be fair, Apple only has about 45% of the gross denial in the smartphone market vs Android's 52%. However, they control nearly 80% of the net denial.
We get it. You want to believe that global warming isn't happening; we'd all like to believe that. The evidence is against you though, and pedantic no-true-Scotsman arguments aren't going to change that.
You sound like a butthurt tobacco smoker playing the victim card now that people have finally stood up and said, "we don't like that shit and you can't do it without adversely affecting everyone around you; do it somewhere else." Try walking into a restaurant with a large boombox (do they still even have those?) blaring and see how quickly your ass gets booted out; then try to see why smoking is the same situation.
It was only fairly recently that it became impossible to discharge student loan debt in bankruptcy, yet up to that point somehow the situation you described never came to pass.
Of course, now that the banks have shown us how to fuck everything up and then come to the government with their hands out, maybe the more cynical amongst us will start taking a more "me-first" approach to more things as well.
Sales vs. shipped matters only early on in a product lifecycle. There's a huge difference between 1,000,000 shipped but 900,000 sitting on shelves vs. 550,000 shipped and 500,000 sold. 1M shipped doesn't mean jack shit if 90% are sitting unwanted on store shelves.
After a product has been selling though? The sold vs. shipped rate is basically the same thing. It's not like the retailers are just ordering them and throwing them out like expired heads of lettuce.
It's not that Apple had poor sales, it's that Samsung had good sales. But similarly to how when someone else introduces a new feature, their successes don't count.
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The warranty at $99 / 2 yrs sure beats the $7.50 mo for an Android warranty.
Wow, someone on Slashdot admits to taking the sucker's bet that is extended warranties? Do you just have a habit of frequently dropping your phones in the water or something?
iOS unjailbroke simply cannot run a virus. No app can change the effect of my system, so everything I do is safe and hassle free. There are minus of that, like I can't change the default keyboard to the Smart Keyboard I like but the plus is 0 worry.
I don't think you understand the "walled garden" very well -- this is unsurprising, given that you think it's a feature. No Android application that you get through the Android Market can do anything to 'change the effect of your system' either unless you specifically give it permission, and every permission they require is listed right up front. I'll grant that some are overly broad, but at least you get to see them, whereas AFAIK they are completely invisible to iOS users.
--Jeremy
1) Reading the documentation of the programming language, library or software in question.
Personally, I consider the output of a Google/Stack Overflow search to be part of the documentation of the programming language. I'm not sure why someone would choose to ignore a valuable resource.
If I can find a code snippet that does what I want it to, rather than having to write it from scratch, great. In particular, I'd rather spend my time working on application logic than low level dealings with the OS.
--Jeremy
Let me just say: fuck Creativity Software and fuck any programmer willing to work for them. There's this thing called 'ethics' and if they choose to violate the most basic premises to enable people to do shit like this, the outcomes are also on *their* heads. None of this "just doing my job" bullshit.
--Jeremy
These two logos look absolutely nothing alike, except that they have some vaguely roundish shape and a couple of leaves on top.
But if you easily confuse these, then I suppose that makes your stance on the whole Galaxy Tab nonsense a little clearer.
--Jeremy
I don't really care about this at all; in fact, it's a perfectly reasonable thing to do -- with one caveat. They must at least have an option to run non-Mac store applications on the computer. If we ever get to a point where we can't run arbitrary code on general purpose computers without some sort of special permission from the manufacturers, we're fucked.
--Jeremy
Will I need a raincoat?
What about "What sort of jacket should I wear today?" That seems like a slightly more useful question to ask, but I'll bet Siri can't tell you jack shit about that because nobody has coded that specific phrase for a nice marketing soundbite. In Android, I just look at the weather widget and I'm done, but in reality, I just look out the window because I'm not an idiot.
Tell my sister I'll be late
What if you have two sisters? Is it really that difficult to say the person's name?
In Android, you hold down the search button and say "text " -- it's unambiguous and easy. It's not 100% accurate, but neither is Siri.
--Jeremy
Don't worry, the Apple fanbois were making the EXACT SAME COMMENTS months ago when people were pointing out that Android could already do voice recognition out of the box.
And apparently you don't know how to drive your phone with voice commands. I've also got an EVO 4g and it works fine. It's still faster to just type in most cases though, and the 4S isn't any better -- I watched the thing misunderstand my girlfriend trying to text me for several minutes to see how it worked, and she still ended up having to go back and correct the text by hand.
But anyway, the irony, it is delicious.
--Jeremy
I find it amusing how penny-wise and pound-foolish most of you "my tax dollars shouldn't go to THAT" people are.
--Jeremy
"It's funny that the anti-X people acknowledge that X produces unwanted effect Y. Why don't they call for every possible source of Y to be eliminated?" Because that would be absurd, and sometimes you have to pick your battles, and the battle they've chosen is meat, not methane.
Never mind that a lot of anti-meat people would also be perfectly happy with overall human population reduction as well.
--Jeremy
4) I guess we can just forget innocent until proven guilty and all that.
--Jeremy
Consent was withdrawn weeks after the fact. If that's rape, then it's not safe for any man (or woman, presumably, but we all know how 'equal' the law is when it comes to sex crimes) to have sex, ever.
--Jeremy
As opposed to having to convict him in a foreign court in his absence where he'd be unable to put up any sort of defence if he didn't turn up? Because that's fair too.
As someone else pointed out, accused != charged != convicted. And it's really fucking sad that this needed to be pointed out.
--Jeremy
By your logic, absolutely nobody outside of congress is qualified to have an informed opinion on politics.
--Jeremy
Two posts ago you were calling them 'pussies' too.
Such a big man you are.
--Jeremy
My wife's HTC Droid Eris is virtually unusable even though it's still on a two-year contract.
So when she bought it, it was unusable? I mean, that's your implication: it hasn't received updates to make it usable, so it has remained in an unusable state.
Why would you buy an unusable device to begin with? Have you asked her this?
--Jeremy
To be fair, Apple only has about 45% of the gross denial in the smartphone market vs Android's 52%. However, they control nearly 80% of the net denial.
--Jeremy
We get it. You want to believe that global warming isn't happening; we'd all like to believe that. The evidence is against you though, and pedantic no-true-Scotsman arguments aren't going to change that.
--Jeremy
You sound like a butthurt tobacco smoker playing the victim card now that people have finally stood up and said, "we don't like that shit and you can't do it without adversely affecting everyone around you; do it somewhere else." Try walking into a restaurant with a large boombox (do they still even have those?) blaring and see how quickly your ass gets booted out; then try to see why smoking is the same situation.
--Jeremy
Guess what: the system you described already exists (minus the skull), but with added bonus of a huge law enforcement cancer grown on top of it!
--Jeremy
It was only fairly recently that it became impossible to discharge student loan debt in bankruptcy, yet up to that point somehow the situation you described never came to pass.
Of course, now that the banks have shown us how to fuck everything up and then come to the government with their hands out, maybe the more cynical amongst us will start taking a more "me-first" approach to more things as well.
--Jeremy
Don't most people go to college so they can get a good job?
Sadly, this is true. There used to be a time, though, when people went to college to get a good education.
--Jeremy
He was mocked by many more hundreds of thousands on Twitter and other sites.
Oh no. Whatever will he do if the Twitterverse is making fun of him?
--Jeremy
Unless those individuals incorporate; incorporation somehow isn't as evil as unionizing or any other form of 'collectivism'.
--Jeremy
Sales vs. shipped matters only early on in a product lifecycle. There's a huge difference between 1,000,000 shipped but 900,000 sitting on shelves vs. 550,000 shipped and 500,000 sold. 1M shipped doesn't mean jack shit if 90% are sitting unwanted on store shelves.
After a product has been selling though? The sold vs. shipped rate is basically the same thing. It's not like the retailers are just ordering them and throwing them out like expired heads of lettuce.
--Jeremy
It's not that Apple had poor sales, it's that Samsung had good sales. But similarly to how when someone else introduces a new feature, their successes don't count.
--Jeremy