Your parent post has a point. For example, if you look around a bit you'll notice the man is often expected to do 50% of all housework, but take care of computers, cars and repairs alone. And carry all the heavy stuff. Worse, if something upsets this balance, expect the relationship to deteriorate, like he said.
Many have also understood equal rights as everything being equal all the time, measured per day, which is stupidly inflexible.
Men and women both have their faults, but feminist indoctrination has really screwed up a lot of the latter. That said, I wouldn't give up on real relationships with mature people. They're out there too.
I care about hardware specs, and I would probably choose any Android device over iPhone OS. BUT, and this is a big but, staring at raw hardware specs is even more stupid with phones than with computers. They're not even running the same OS.
Just to make a point:
521MB RAM vs 256MB RAM - How much of this is actually free after the OS is loaded? What proportion of apps are statically linked (if the OS has poor libraries)?
1GHz vs 600MHz - a) Is the theoretically faster speed achieved with a pipeline that's too long (see Netburst)? b) Even if it's faster, is it actually noticeable or are most operations I/O-bound? c) What operations are hardware accelerated in each OS?
5MP vs 3MP - And lens quality?
AMOLED vs TFT - Whatever, show me photos with daylight and I'll see what I think.
Traditionally, when someone dislikes something that others like, we prefer to let things be as they naturally are. Your right to swing your fist... face... etc.
This means people who like graffiti don't get to impose it on others' buildings, and likewise people who hate snow don't get to remove it from others. While this is seemingly illogical, since one action adds and the other removes, the point is that clean buildings and snowy winters are the default state.
Even from a practical viewpoint, trying to decide which amoral position is "correct" would just result in endless arguing while we could be doing something more productive.
Plus there's the fact that the rest of the world is trying to fight pollution while these geniuses are regularly spraying chemicals into the air because they think rain is unpleasant. Thanks guys!
It is now more important than ever to distinguish between 'Linux' the kernel and 'Linux' the unix-like complete system. Just a friendly reminder for when you go looking - most devices on that page are not what the name implies.
That's why I mentioned two operating systems. Nokia's yesterday's technology is still dominating market share, and their new line of phones (N900) has been available for about a month.
I use Maemo every day, and usability is excellent. It may take you a few minutes longer to figure out than the iPhone does, but it's not unintuitive and the task switcher is amazing.
Judging by market share, Nokia is number one with Symbian. Judging by operating system technology, Nokia is number one with Maemo. Who exactly do they need to catch up with and how?
T-Mobile recently launched a new pricing scheme. You'll pay less per month if you bring your own phone, and you're not locked into the contract. I'd look into that. But you're right that the providers have been known to discourage unlocked phones by forcing people to pay the same regardless.
I don't know what you're implying there, but it's well known that Intel beats the crap out of all the other manufacturers. By now it's probably ok to buy a few of the other products, but I don't know which they are.
Haven't you noticed? Nowadays we don't vote with our wallets any more, we just dash to the lowest up front cost and then start bitching when we realize we can't act like children. Then we do it again with the next company, because we now "hate" the first.
Once again, you get what you pay for. The guy above you probably bought his phone on credit through a network operator, and blames the platform for his own failure to buy an uncrippled device.
Mind you, I think the security model changed after the N95. Now you have to self-sign your code, but whatever.
Who's stopping you from writing an open source OS for a phone you've bought? They're suing a device manufacturer. This isn't a simple case of ridiculous software patents, even though it may turn out some of them have a software component.
Because otherwise it would be crap? We're not even talking about sound compression algorithms here, but stuff that needs serious R&D. You think >10Mbps downlink for your phone comes for free?
Think about it this way: would you rather have a patented standard everyone contributes to or have Nokia and Samsung privately decide on something they'll use together and shut everyone else out?
Read the press release. Nokia has spent 40 billion euros in R&D over the last two decades. Wireless communication is probably not quite as simple as one click shopping.
Maemo version 1 was released in 2005 on the Nokia 770. Before Android, before the iPhone. Just because Nokia's roadmap was a bit longer doesn't mean they weren't showing the way.
In six months we'll have all our lightweight desktop apps running on our phones and people will finally realize just how far ahead of everyone else Nokia really is.
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Do you even have to ask after all the articles on slashdot? Nokia N900. (Not Ubuntu, but meets all your other criteria.)
Your parent post has a point. For example, if you look around a bit you'll notice the man is often expected to do 50% of all housework, but take care of computers, cars and repairs alone. And carry all the heavy stuff. Worse, if something upsets this balance, expect the relationship to deteriorate, like he said.
Many have also understood equal rights as everything being equal all the time, measured per day, which is stupidly inflexible.
Men and women both have their faults, but feminist indoctrination has really screwed up a lot of the latter. That said, I wouldn't give up on real relationships with mature people. They're out there too.
I care about hardware specs, and I would probably choose any Android device over iPhone OS. BUT, and this is a big but, staring at raw hardware specs is even more stupid with phones than with computers. They're not even running the same OS.
Just to make a point:
521MB RAM vs 256MB RAM - How much of this is actually free after the OS is loaded? What proportion of apps are statically linked (if the OS has poor libraries)?
1GHz vs 600MHz - a) Is the theoretically faster speed achieved with a pipeline that's too long (see Netburst)? b) Even if it's faster, is it actually noticeable or are most operations I/O-bound? c) What operations are hardware accelerated in each OS?
5MP vs 3MP - And lens quality?
AMOLED vs TFT - Whatever, show me photos with daylight and I'll see what I think.
Traditionally, when someone dislikes something that others like, we prefer to let things be as they naturally are. Your right to swing your fist... face... etc.
This means people who like graffiti don't get to impose it on others' buildings, and likewise people who hate snow don't get to remove it from others. While this is seemingly illogical, since one action adds and the other removes, the point is that clean buildings and snowy winters are the default state.
Even from a practical viewpoint, trying to decide which amoral position is "correct" would just result in endless arguing while we could be doing something more productive.
Plus there's the fact that the rest of the world is trying to fight pollution while these geniuses are regularly spraying chemicals into the air because they think rain is unpleasant. Thanks guys!
It is now more important than ever to distinguish between 'Linux' the kernel and 'Linux' the unix-like complete system. Just a friendly reminder for when you go looking - most devices on that page are not what the name implies.
That's why I mentioned two operating systems. Nokia's yesterday's technology is still dominating market share, and their new line of phones (N900) has been available for about a month.
I use Maemo every day, and usability is excellent. It may take you a few minutes longer to figure out than the iPhone does, but it's not unintuitive and the task switcher is amazing.
Judging by market share, Nokia is number one with Symbian. Judging by operating system technology, Nokia is number one with Maemo. Who exactly do they need to catch up with and how?
Oh, it's actually even simpler than that. Enable the extras repo in the package manager, then install rootsh.
Does the exact same thing, of course, but it's so nice to have a real package manager.
The second page you link to seems outdated. Many fixes are "planned for Fremantle", and that OS version is already shipping. Also see oFono.
T-Mobile recently launched a new pricing scheme. You'll pay less per month if you bring your own phone, and you're not locked into the contract. I'd look into that. But you're right that the providers have been known to discourage unlocked phones by forcing people to pay the same regardless.
I don't know what you're implying there, but it's well known that Intel beats the crap out of all the other manufacturers. By now it's probably ok to buy a few of the other products, but I don't know which they are.
While I don't know if this will help in your particular situation, I've found random sluggishness like that much reduced after I got an Intel SSD.
Haven't you noticed? Nowadays we don't vote with our wallets any more, we just dash to the lowest up front cost and then start bitching when we realize we can't act like children. Then we do it again with the next company, because we now "hate" the first.
Well he certainly shouldn't blame the software platform.
Case in point: MSHTML breaks the standards, while many people whine about how others using WebKit* are leeching off Apple's innovation.
*KHTML
Once again, you get what you pay for. The guy above you probably bought his phone on credit through a network operator, and blames the platform for his own failure to buy an uncrippled device.
Mind you, I think the security model changed after the N95. Now you have to self-sign your code, but whatever.
Who's stopping you from writing an open source OS for a phone you've bought? They're suing a device manufacturer. This isn't a simple case of ridiculous software patents, even though it may turn out some of them have a software component.
Because otherwise it would be crap? We're not even talking about sound compression algorithms here, but stuff that needs serious R&D. You think >10Mbps downlink for your phone comes for free?
Think about it this way: would you rather have a patented standard everyone contributes to or have Nokia and Samsung privately decide on something they'll use together and shut everyone else out?
Are you kidding or do you really not know that it's not shipping yet?
It's funny how Nokia is seen as the evil 500 pound gorilla rather than a 500 pound penguin that puts demoscene videos in its ads.
Read the press release. Nokia has spent 40 billion euros in R&D over the last two decades. Wireless communication is probably not quite as simple as one click shopping.
Better not go swimming then.
Maemo version 1 was released in 2005 on the Nokia 770. Before Android, before the iPhone. Just because Nokia's roadmap was a bit longer doesn't mean they weren't showing the way.
In six months we'll have all our lightweight desktop apps running on our phones and people will finally realize just how far ahead of everyone else Nokia really is.
And then there's the .mobi domain for mobile devices, because the more characters you have to type on your phone, the better, obviously.
What kind of keyboard do you have? The actual combo is altgr-+.