Which one will be able to be upgraded to Honeycomb? I wouldn't buy an Android tablet before their tablet version of software became available, regardless of the hardware. Are there any upgrade paths that *either* vendor (Dell or Samsung) has specified? I feel some early adopters will be left out in the cold.
"Google wants a good cleam fresh start. Why? Because they are primarily content providers, that's why. Their stake is more closely aligned with the users of the internet as we share a common interest -- good, usable content, without irregularities or problems. Good for us; good for Google."
Pardon? Google exists as a corporation; to make money. Period. Look at WebM as an untapped, unrestricted ad platform and you'll see Google's market. To think of this as an open source crusade is ludicrous.
I work for a government agency and the pictures we take on taxpayer's time are public property. I've seen photos we've shot being used in magazines, web sites, screen savers and in industry publications (which were actually photoshopped to promote their products). It's the reason NASA releases all sorts of neat images because it's a publicly funded entity.
I wish the guy the best of luck but I doubt he's going to get any compensation.
"No-one truly needs an iPhone. Either go without or buy a more open alternative."
How about us people that went with the less sucky alternative? I don't give a rat's ass if it's open source or not, give me something that works. I bought a few smartphones before the iPhone came on the scene and frankly, they fucking sucked. Windows Mobile had how many years to perfect their operating system? Yet they sat on their ass until the iPhone came along. The same can be said of Nokia, SE, HTC and just about every phone manufacturer. Don't diss Apple's iPhone for it's walled garden and tight control; Be ecstatic that for once there's competition in the mobile space. If Apple hadn't come along with their iOS we'd still be using shitty WAP browsers and complaining about our data plans.
"They don't innovate. They scrape the internet looking for ideas, making products that are "just different enough" to avoid existing patents, and they buy up startup companies just as you describe. Just because Apple has better press management skills doesn't mean they don't have similar business practices. Apple is not an exception -- stop dodging this just to please the fanboys."
Windows Mobile was on the market for how long? Why the fuck did it take so long to get a decent phone interface? You can bitch a lot about Apple (I'm a Mac user & i own an iPhone4) but regarding them as "just different" is seriously doing them a disservice. They aren't some saving grace, but they do drag the tech sector kicking and screaming towards reality. Witness the iPhone, iPad, iPod.
In reality, Apple spends 10% of the marketing that Microsoft does.
Get him a dedicated GPS device. What are they, under $100 now? They work off satellites and don't require any spotty cellular phone triangulation. Do it. You seriously don't want to be the guy who sent his father out into the woods with sub-par gear. That's how people fucking die.
I live within eyesight of Mt. Hood so I don't take a "quick jaunt in the woods" at face value. Prepare for the worst, pack your gear like it'll be the last trip you ever take.
"On the other hand, consider the following formulation: You buy a product. It's your property. The person who sold it to you doesn't like the way you're using it, so they break the product you bought. They don't compensate you for your lost product or offer a refund."
Sounds a bit like the shitstorm from the XBox Live bans. Hard to believe there's terms of services on hardware devices, but it's a brave new world.:(
"and basically throws 25 years of Windows usability standards out the window."
That's odd you mention that, considering the last two releases of Windows (Vista & 7) both have different interfaces (Vista with Aero, 7 with it's dock, er, task bar). I like how Google implemented its tabbed interface, but there is room for improvement. I find it fascinating that 10 years ago, IE *was* the internet! Now FF and Safari (along with WebKit dominating in the mobile space) have begun to push aside IE's presence on the internet. Who said the browser wars were over?:)
FTFA: "Importantly, it won't require the hardware upgrades that Vista demanded, partially because the hardware has caught up"
Yes, but how does it do on my old hardware that struggled with Vista in the first place? I know Mac OS 10.1 > 10.2 > 10.3 > 10.4 gave me better performance on the same hardware. It wasn't until I moved to Leopard that I REALLY noticed my PowerBook 1Ghz PPC chip was at it's limit.
"It's possible. "Extremely cheap, convenient, and worry-free" can beat "Free, hard to find, and worried-about-malware-and-getting-sued"."
That's, I think, exactly the reason iTunes is the juggernaut that it is... Quality: Good Enough to the ears of mere mortals. Cheap: People arguing over the price of iTunes music while sipping on a $7 Sapporo? Awesome. Worry free: Is there a remote vector to inject a virus/trojan? Possibly. It'd be damn hard though. I'm more worried about Apple releasing a version of iTunes that's buggy as hell and messes up my music library that I've spent years building. That's why I keep backups though!;)
I read this somewhere else, but: "If youth doesn't wannabe, they don't trytobe and they won't become. Creativity should be the #1 thing encouraged." Get them involved.
"all for 300 baud... watching those characters come in..... just about as fast as you could read..."
I'm not old enough to remember 300 baud, but I do remember trying to surf porn with a US Robotics 9600 baud modem...
Back then you'd get line by excruciating line of erotic flesh and just about the time you were about to see a nipple, mom would come walking into the room. Game over.:(
"Leading the call for reform is the not-necessarily-altruistic AMD, who gripes that MM07 was created in Intel's labs and rigged so Intel chips would outscore AMD chips, which draw more power when idle."
Instead of complaining that the test is rigged, maybe creating processors that draw less power when idle would be a good idea?
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I can blame the "retina screen" for poor translation to actual size... "No, really, you need to lower your resolution a bit to appreciate it!"
Which one will be able to be upgraded to Honeycomb? I wouldn't buy an Android tablet before their tablet version of software became available, regardless of the hardware. Are there any upgrade paths that *either* vendor (Dell or Samsung) has specified? I feel some early adopters will be left out in the cold.
"Google wants a good cleam fresh start. Why? Because they are primarily content providers, that's why. Their stake is more closely aligned with the users of the internet as we share a common interest -- good, usable content, without irregularities or problems. Good for us; good for Google."
Pardon? Google exists as a corporation; to make money. Period. Look at WebM as an untapped, unrestricted ad platform and you'll see Google's market. To think of this as an open source crusade is ludicrous.
I prefer that as my video playback of choice. I don't want want the sub par solution.
At what point does Google become a really useful resource to one that becomes downright creepy?
IANAL, but the way this was explained to me:
I work for a government agency and the pictures we take on taxpayer's time are public property. I've seen photos we've shot being used in magazines, web sites, screen savers and in industry publications (which were actually photoshopped to promote their products). It's the reason NASA releases all sorts of neat images because it's a publicly funded entity.
I wish the guy the best of luck but I doubt he's going to get any compensation.
"No-one truly needs an iPhone. Either go without or buy a more open alternative."
How about us people that went with the less sucky alternative? I don't give a rat's ass if it's open source or not, give me something that works. I bought a few smartphones before the iPhone came on the scene and frankly, they fucking sucked. Windows Mobile had how many years to perfect their operating system? Yet they sat on their ass until the iPhone came along. The same can be said of Nokia, SE, HTC and just about every phone manufacturer. Don't diss Apple's iPhone for it's walled garden and tight control; Be ecstatic that for once there's competition in the mobile space. If Apple hadn't come along with their iOS we'd still be using shitty WAP browsers and complaining about our data plans.
Oh wait, we still do that.
"They don't innovate. They scrape the internet looking for ideas, making products that are "just different enough" to avoid existing patents, and they buy up startup companies just as you describe. Just because Apple has better press management skills doesn't mean they don't have similar business practices. Apple is not an exception -- stop dodging this just to please the fanboys."
Windows Mobile was on the market for how long? Why the fuck did it take so long to get a decent phone interface? You can bitch a lot about Apple (I'm a Mac user & i own an iPhone4) but regarding them as "just different" is seriously doing them a disservice. They aren't some saving grace, but they do drag the tech sector kicking and screaming towards reality. Witness the iPhone, iPad, iPod.
In reality, Apple spends 10% of the marketing that Microsoft does.
Get him a dedicated GPS device. What are they, under $100 now? They work off satellites and don't require any spotty cellular phone triangulation. Do it. You seriously don't want to be the guy who sent his father out into the woods with sub-par gear. That's how people fucking die.
I live within eyesight of Mt. Hood so I don't take a "quick jaunt in the woods" at face value. Prepare for the worst, pack your gear like it'll be the last trip you ever take.
"80% of Android users value freedom of choice"
And 100% of Android users want the ability to remove shovelware from their phone without having to root it.
"On the other hand, consider the following formulation: You buy a product. It's your property. The person who sold it to you doesn't like the way you're using it, so they break the product you bought. They don't compensate you for your lost product or offer a refund."
:(
Sounds a bit like the shitstorm from the XBox Live bans. Hard to believe there's terms of services on hardware devices, but it's a brave new world.
There's an app for that!
"and basically throws 25 years of Windows usability standards out the window."
:)
That's odd you mention that, considering the last two releases of Windows (Vista & 7) both have different interfaces (Vista with Aero, 7 with it's dock, er, task bar). I like how Google implemented its tabbed interface, but there is room for improvement. I find it fascinating that 10 years ago, IE *was* the internet! Now FF and Safari (along with WebKit dominating in the mobile space) have begun to push aside IE's presence on the internet. Who said the browser wars were over?
...And I see a lot of floating dots.
"HTML 5 Canvas Experiment Hints At Things To Come"
Seizures?
FTFA: "Importantly, it won't require the hardware upgrades that Vista demanded, partially because the hardware has caught up"
Yes, but how does it do on my old hardware that struggled with Vista in the first place? I know Mac OS 10.1 > 10.2 > 10.3 > 10.4 gave me better performance on the same hardware. It wasn't until I moved to Leopard that I REALLY noticed my PowerBook 1Ghz PPC chip was at it's limit.
"...improving their Japanese search results, for example. (Google is beginning to do this, but their search results still suck badly.)"
Because googling "I want to stick my tentacles in $1" isn't easy, even for Google?
That's, I think, exactly the reason iTunes is the juggernaut that it is... Quality: Good Enough to the ears of mere mortals. Cheap: People arguing over the price of iTunes music while sipping on a $7 Sapporo? Awesome. Worry free: Is there a remote vector to inject a virus/trojan? Possibly. It'd be damn hard though. I'm more worried about Apple releasing a version of iTunes that's buggy as hell and messes up my music library that I've spent years building. That's why I keep backups though! ;)
Is you.
I read this somewhere else, but: "If youth doesn't wannabe, they don't trytobe and they won't become. Creativity should be the #1 thing encouraged." Get them involved.
Hi! A/S/L? :p
"all for 300 baud ... watching those characters come in..... just about as fast as you could read..."
:(
I'm not old enough to remember 300 baud, but I do remember trying to surf porn with a US Robotics 9600 baud modem...
Back then you'd get line by excruciating line of erotic flesh and just about the time you were about to see a nipple, mom would come walking into the room. Game over.
"It's like non-Apple MP3 players."
/joke :)
Not pretty, difficult to use, full of useless options and a minor player in the market?
Seeing how the election has gone so far, ummm, an M4 or AK-47?
Instead of complaining that the test is rigged, maybe creating processors that draw less power when idle would be a good idea?
In the last 20 years, the web browser has done the most to change the way we use computers.
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