I have 3 mp3 players; cell phone, and amp which all run on mini-usb; so I have a dock for the cell at work; and a microusb cable on an extender coming around the back up to the front of the desk for easy access. Only thing that is lackign from microusb; is cuncurrent playback + charging; my Zune (gasp) has the best sound quality of anything I have; but proprietary charger for dock:(
>And modern conservatism is good because it takes from those who don't have much and gives to those who are already rich...
I would more so say it is not taking from those who don't have and giving to the rich; but not taking from the rich and giving to those who do not have.
You can debate/denounce the merits of that distinction; but to me it is a big one.
Wow. Your the reason I dislike apple, and you made my point. Your Majorly misinformed about either what you have; or what your missing with your iPhone; and most likely a combination of the two. I'll go through your list of reasons iPhone is better and look at them.
Look cool: iPhone is shiny.
8 hours of talk time: I get ~4, iPhone with 8 will have me. But oh look, I place a new battery in I got for 10 dollars on ebay and I have 8. While you pay apple 100 to replace. Consider that a draw in a year when the iPhone is getting 2 hours?
Display: 240x320 is lower than the iphones.
128mb flash: I have a 2gb micro sd card I picked up for 20 bucks in my HTC. Believe it or not; options for upgrading storage are a *good* thing not a bad thing.
Media viewing/management: I can install third party apps to do the same tasks, but the iPhone is a better overall media player.
Media Content: When you realize you can play *any* format not just those which apple deems "acceptable", things open up a bit on the media format front.
Web Viewing: Have you used mobile opera? Works remarkably well. Did I mention Tabbed browsing? Finger sliding to scroll web pages? Yea, windows mobile has it.
Visual Voicemail: iPhone has it, I do not.
Multiple Buttons: iPhone has a more intuitive interface. See how many "taps" to write a text message by chance. I could just hit "screen on" and then use my finger to click on "text message", but I prefer to tap the button on the side to go right there.
No on screen keyboard. Happen to notice how iPhone's intuitive on screen keyboard introduces iTypos way more prevalent than on a slide out keyboard? + HTC on slide out.
Google integration. I have fully functional Google maps on my HTC; I type address in, it searches, I tap where I want it to go, then pan/zoom with a finger press to see what I want to see.
Oh, and for clarification, I just called them and had the modems MAC registered to the account I made the day before when I had them setup cable, and it worked within 20 minutes.
I do admit I hate the cable box though... I haven't decided whether to dump it or not yet...
I am a new comcast customer actually, and I havn't had many problems. I'm on their 20/mo 6mo for 6mbps plan in the pittsburgh area, and aside from every other week the modem needing reset (I went to walmart and bought a surfboard, did self install) I am happy with the service.
kinda like the Hulk, limitless power translates directly into limitless power
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This is an unusual viewpoint here on slashdot, but honestly, so long as they stick to bettering each other through competition rather than belittling each other, I'm all for it. When one company decides to launch whole hearted smear campaigns rather than improve their product, or, even worse, decides it's more cost effective to buy out the competition, that's where I get worried, and in honesty, most major corporations have done one, if not both.
Would you consider Apples PC vs Mac advertisements a smear campaign?
Sitting in line at the store provides us normal people with endless seconds of merriment; and aside from dealing with the possible odor while walking past; how does it "unoptimize" the situation for anyone aside from those whom want to get there when the store opens and get theirs?
Your discovery of the inefficient food court does not parallel this situation in my mind; I would like a bit more clarification if I am missing something?
i personally just set up filters in my gmail; if it fits certain criteria (such as dealing with an internship) it goes into an internship folder. My girlfriends emails? Automatically passed to their own folder just in case i need to find something she sent me quickly ("What do you mean you don't know when our anniversary is?" *gmail loading* "uh, of course i do hun, don't be silly" *done load, quick search "Then what is it" *awkward pause as email is opened* "It's june 15th of course" "ah i love you i'm sorry for doubting you" "No problem honey, remember that night out with the guys next week...")
So far in this stage of its life; XBL has only been available to Xbox customers. Thus we wait till XBL comes out for Revolution, PS3, and possibly PC before a true comparison.
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I have 3 mp3 players; cell phone, and amp which all run on mini-usb; so I have a dock for the cell at work; and a microusb cable on an extender coming around the back up to the front of the desk for easy access. Only thing that is lackign from microusb; is cuncurrent playback + charging; my Zune (gasp) has the best sound quality of anything I have; but proprietary charger for dock :(
GNU Screen + Vim for mulit-user editing, I'm sure the other functionalities can be replicated as well.
It's not blood for oil; it's blood for money for those whom deal with oil. What do you think will happen if you stir up war in the middle east?
I would more so say it is not taking from those who don't have and giving to the rich; but not taking from the rich and giving to those who do not have.
You can debate/denounce the merits of that distinction; but to me it is a big one.
It's a Bose Wave radio, of course it's going to have shitty sound.
MS Fanboy; whilst typing this from my Ubuntu box.
I thank you graciously for making my point vividly.
Look cool: iPhone is shiny.
8 hours of talk time: I get ~4, iPhone with 8 will have me. But oh look, I place a new battery in I got for 10 dollars on ebay and I have 8. While you pay apple 100 to replace. Consider that a draw in a year when the iPhone is getting 2 hours?
Display: 240x320 is lower than the iphones.
128mb flash: I have a 2gb micro sd card I picked up for 20 bucks in my HTC. Believe it or not; options for upgrading storage are a *good* thing not a bad thing.
Media viewing/management: I can install third party apps to do the same tasks, but the iPhone is a better overall media player.
Media Content: When you realize you can play *any* format not just those which apple deems "acceptable", things open up a bit on the media format front.
Web Viewing: Have you used mobile opera? Works remarkably well. Did I mention Tabbed browsing? Finger sliding to scroll web pages? Yea, windows mobile has it.
Visual Voicemail: iPhone has it, I do not.
Multiple Buttons: iPhone has a more intuitive interface. See how many "taps" to write a text message by chance. I could just hit "screen on" and then use my finger to click on "text message", but I prefer to tap the button on the side to go right there.
No on screen keyboard. Happen to notice how iPhone's intuitive on screen keyboard introduces iTypos way more prevalent than on a slide out keyboard? + HTC on slide out.
Google integration. I have fully functional Google maps on my HTC; I type address in, it searches, I tap where I want it to go, then pan/zoom with a finger press to see what I want to see.
Fanboy much?
I like how you compare the iPhone to landing on the moon. The scary thing is there are people who will put them in the same boat. Sad.
http://wireless.itworld.com/4267/071114iphonetypos/page_1.html Nifty on screen keyboard which impairs actual keying no less. But Shiny. Oh so shiny.
or... It's just a really shiny phone? My HTX Herald can do everything an iPhone can do, and more. "pretty" does not mean "more"
do you think possibly he has a different phone than you? an n95 possibly? Or maybe you already climbed back under your bridge.
Only 1.0? Note their talking about updates to zune 1.0 here.
Oh, and for clarification, I just called them and had the modems MAC registered to the account I made the day before when I had them setup cable, and it worked within 20 minutes.
I do admit I hate the cable box though... I haven't decided whether to dump it or not yet...
I am a new comcast customer actually, and I havn't had many problems. I'm on their 20/mo 6mo for 6mbps plan in the pittsburgh area, and aside from every other week the modem needing reset (I went to walmart and bought a surfboard, did self install) I am happy with the service.
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/eWorminate
err, love the typo. "kinda like the Hulk, limitless anger translates directly into limitless power"
kinda like the Hulk, limitless power translates directly into limitless power
Sitting in line at the store provides us normal people with endless seconds of merriment; and aside from dealing with the possible odor while walking past; how does it "unoptimize" the situation for anyone aside from those whom want to get there when the store opens and get theirs?
Your discovery of the inefficient food court does not parallel this situation in my mind; I would like a bit more clarification if I am missing something?
cooling breeze among the flames; mod parent up
i personally just set up filters in my gmail; if it fits certain criteria (such as dealing with an internship) it goes into an internship folder. My girlfriends emails? Automatically passed to their own folder just in case i need to find something she sent me quickly ("What do you mean you don't know when our anniversary is?" *gmail loading* "uh, of course i do hun, don't be silly" *done load, quick search "Then what is it" *awkward pause as email is opened* "It's june 15th of course" "ah i love you i'm sorry for doubting you" "No problem honey, remember that night out with the guys next week...")
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virii
phone is your belt eh? Just think what that would do to your sperm count... Don't want geeks reproducing anyway do they..
honest
violent angry drunken sex though... that can be entertaining at times...