It has "hubs" with Textual heading which might or might not make sense in non-Latin1 languages especially if some of the glyphs are cut off.
This assumes that Windows Phone l10n developers are hopeless dumbasses who don't check how their translated texts look on the screen. Have you actually seen a truncated label in WP7, or are you indeed making shit up?
Have you actually seen a windows phone 7 screenshot or video of it in action? The last letter of heading title is almost always off the screen. Ok, Mr. Pedantic, it is not technically truncated but it is cut off from the view port which to me looks stupid and unfinished but I guess the hipsters at MSFT think it is "cool" or "ironic".
The point is that it looks too much like a website and the text takes up way too much space not to mention that it does not even fit on the screen.
If the color is not to your liking, you change it. That was what he was trying to explain to you. Now that you realize color can be changed, that is no good either?
Metro isn't any more typography heavy than any other mobile OS. English centric? In what way specifically? You are desperately making up stuff as you go, are you not?
It has "hubs" with Textual heading which might or might not make sense in non-Latin1 languages especially if some of the glyphs are cut off.
If color is all you're on about, you can choose the light theme and the background (system-wide) is white. The dark theme is on by default, partly for style and partly because it's more energy efficient on the AMOLED screens.
So then everything is they the opposite might not be what someone wants either. You also don't address the fact that Metro is typography heavy which means it is English centric effectively.
That metro calendar reminds me of really shitty websites from the 90's. Calendars should be on a light background and you should use a high contrast colour for the text to stand out from the background instead of blending into it.
The entire metro "experience" reminds me of many flash websites from the late 90's to early 2000's and it will not scale well to other latin character set languages let alone non-latin ones like Chinese and Japanese.
Nokia made a huge mistake hiring Stephen Elop and going with WIndows Phone 7. They should have chosen either Maemo or Meego, ported the Symbian UI framework for backwards compatibility and developed a modern competitive UI to compete with iOS and Android.
I'll never buy a Nokia device regardless of OS.
Before you label me as a blind Nokia hater, my second cellphone was a Nokia (first being a Motorola "Brick" flip phone). I am also a Finnish citizen so I would like to see Nokia find a way to survive. I just don't see Windows Phone 7 as the right way forward.
While the idea of using an Apple-like magnetic connector is cool, there are a lot of issues:
(1) Some of us do work where having strong magnets laying around on a desk is a bad idea. (2) The Apple MagSafe adapters have been highly unreliable, and Apple won't license to third-parties, so you're stuck buying another Apple adapter which will then fail. (3) There can be reports of metal fragments and other magnetic particles sticking to the plug and causing problems.
Normal people aren't clever enough to program, just like normal people aren't clever enough to use Linux (hence it's low market share). If kids aren't interested in programming, its because they aren't clever enough and don't have the spark - in which case we can just let them join the rest of the hurd and do mundane 9-5 job for the masses, its all they can imagine doing anyway.
You could not be more out of touch. The reason for the low marketshare is the the lack of applications and games. Fragmentation of the linux platform is what causes this lack of software. If everyone could agree on a linux base set of libraries including audio subsystems and one common default GUI toolkit then you would see higher adoption by developers outside of the "open source' community. The lack of programs like Adobe photoshop keeps end users from even considering it as a platform for everyday use.
My mother uses iTunes (on Windows 7) because of her iPod, and it regularly blocks the UI while converting and transferring files, it's pathetic. And no, it wasn't swapping.
For Windows, Foobar2000 is the only decent music player I've used.
iTunes might take more ram than your favourite program Foobar2000 but then again iTunes is a cross platform application so it has to load some additional libraries on windows to compensate whereas Foobar2000 (what kind of idiotic nerd name is that?) is a windows only native application that probably does a lot less.
Firefox is also a cross platform application and it seems to take up more memory on every platform it runs on that what one would expect but that probably again has to do with the cross platform nature of.
I just took a look at "Foobar2000" and it is looks like a windows 2000 application. The UI is worse than some of the linux players mentioned on here. It uses a lot less memory because it does almost nothing out of the box except being a basic "music" only player.
So maybe what you are really complaining about is the broken VM management system in the windows kernel were you actually have to care how much memory a program is using. If you have 2 GB or more of memory and lots of space on your HD for swap, you should not care unless if there was a memory leak. Unix OSes like OS X and unix-like OSes like Linux do not seem to have any issues with running applications that use a lot of VM.
I don't know how the hell you got modded insightful. I've never had any issue with Best Buy and I never had any problem with iTunes either at home on Snow Leopard or on Windows 7 at work. Maybe you have a shitty PC with not enough RAM and too much bloatware running in the background.
Do you obsessively look at how much ram a program uses? I judge programs based on more than one criteria and as long as the software is responsive then it is not using too many resources.
unlike the iPad, many of the android tablets have HDMI ports. so yes, plugging in to a projector is easy.
Please. It is far more common to have a projector with a VGA port than an HDMI port unless if you are only talking about "new" projectors but anyway, an HDMI adaptor is available for the iPad 2 which not only mirrors the display but allows you to plug in a charger at the same time. With the iPad, you can plug in either the HDMI or VGA adaptor. If you only have an HDMI port then you would have to have an HDMI to VGA adapter which might be harder to find if you lost it and hand to get a new one.
I find my google calendar on my HTC Desire much nicer.
Most corporations don't want Google or any other outside company knowing the details of their internal operations including meetings and the subject of those meetings. That is why they use Blackberries, since the info is not held on RIM servers, but only on the corporation's servers. If I owned a company I would never allow employees to schedule meetings on Google Calendar. In fact, I would make that a firing offence. Company business is company business, and nobody else's; including Google's. Whoever comes out with a way to keep information secret for companies the way RIM does, they will be able to put the nail in RIM's coffin.
I don't think you understand how the blackberry eco-system works. Everything goes through RIM servers and if you send an email with your BB to someone outside of the company, it goes through the "internet" after travelling through the RIM servers.
Without Flash iPad is half-bake and half working. Who in the right mind buy an iPad just for game when it already available on phone, and who would buy an iPad for surfing when you can not watching flash in Facebook or Youtube.
Without apps, the android tablets are half baked. You might as well just get a cheap e-reader if apps don't matter to you.
Facebook and Youtube videos work very well. You can browse to a page on Youtube and the video will play just fine on the iPad. No flash needed.
The iPhone/iOS system has had a dedicated app for Youtube from the very beginning.
Interesting story. Sounds like pure FUD since you are suggesting that you could not find a free FTP client under 20MB in size? Really? If you did not completely make it all up then it sounds like the network connection on your Nexus One kept on crapping out before it could finish the download. Blame your shitty carrier or your shitty android phone that cannot maintain a stable tether.
BTW, were you trying to get photos off the iPad? You don't need FTP for that, just email them from within the photos app.
Answer me this. How can, either via religion or any other philosophy, someone else tell me what to do with my body? I can't think of anything more fundamentally a human right than control over your own body. And for a reason why? Because it's MY body. What other reason is needed?
Do you have children? A spouse or significant other? Parents who are alive? Siblings? If you answered yes to any of those and you think that you have a "right" to kill yourself because only you are affected then you are both out of touch with reality and extremely selfish. People who kill themselves are cowardly and selfish because they don't consider how what they are doing will affect others.
It must really suck being you. You have no hope, no sense of decency or justice and apparently no belief in free will. After all, you probably believe that we are programmed automatons driven by instinct alone derived from our DNA. That sounds like such a sad and pointless existence.
You seem so damn sure of your "belief" that there is no god. Do you have a problem with criminals breaking into your house, stealing all of your stuff and killing or otherwise harming them or yourself?
You see, we have laws in society to protect the average citizen from people who have chosen to take a darker path. If you enjoy the fruits of law and order but rally against it then you are a hypocrite.
You keep on using that word like you think you know what it means. Fascists sought state control of the economy for the benefit of the state and many of the "fascist" movements actually had their roots in the labour movements. The OP sounds more like a neo-liberal to me.
Why do the rich need to be growing their income at a rate of 30% in recent years while the middle class real income is flat and the poor real income is actually shrinking?
Citation needed. Are you just talking about the US? My pay has more than kept up with the inflation and I consider myself middle class or at least upper middle class.
If he is stuck in a part time position then he is probably does not show any initiative. Showing some initiative should be the first step and trying to pursue full time status. If you cannot move up to full-time then how do you expect anyone to give you a raise?
We have both models in Canada for the iPhone at least. You can buy a "subsidized" iPhone at a carrier with lock-in or by a factory unlocked iPhone directly from an Apple store paying the full price for the phone but then you have the freedom to choose a carrier (we have several HSPA carriers to choose from) and also use local SIMs when travelling abroad.
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It has "hubs" with Textual heading which might or might not make sense in non-Latin1 languages especially if some of the glyphs are cut off.
This assumes that Windows Phone l10n developers are hopeless dumbasses who don't check how their translated texts look on the screen. Have you actually seen a truncated label in WP7, or are you indeed making shit up?
Have you actually seen a windows phone 7 screenshot or video of it in action? The last letter of heading title is almost always off the screen. Ok, Mr. Pedantic, it is not technically truncated but it is cut off from the view port which to me looks stupid and unfinished but I guess the hipsters at MSFT think it is "cool" or "ironic".
The point is that it looks too much like a website and the text takes up way too much space not to mention that it does not even fit on the screen.
Sigh.
If the color is not to your liking, you change it. That was what he was trying to explain to you. Now that you realize color can be changed, that is no good either?
Metro isn't any more typography heavy than any other mobile OS. English centric? In what way specifically? You are desperately making up stuff as you go, are you not?
It has "hubs" with Textual heading which might or might not make sense in non-Latin1 languages especially if some of the glyphs are cut off.
Hubs are a bad idea.
If color is all you're on about, you can choose the light theme and the background (system-wide) is white. The dark theme is on by default, partly for style and partly because it's more energy efficient on the AMOLED screens.
So then everything is they the opposite might not be what someone wants either. You also don't address the fact that Metro is typography heavy which means it is English centric effectively.
That metro calendar reminds me of really shitty websites from the 90's. Calendars should be on a light background and you should use a high contrast colour for the text to stand out from the background instead of blending into it.
The entire metro "experience" reminds me of many flash websites from the late 90's to early 2000's and it will not scale well to other latin character set languages let alone non-latin ones like Chinese and Japanese.
Nokia made a huge mistake hiring Stephen Elop and going with WIndows Phone 7. They should have chosen either Maemo or Meego, ported the Symbian UI framework for backwards compatibility and developed a modern competitive UI to compete with iOS and Android.
I'll never buy a Nokia device regardless of OS.
Before you label me as a blind Nokia hater, my second cellphone was a Nokia (first being a Motorola "Brick" flip phone). I am also a Finnish citizen so I would like to see Nokia find a way to survive. I just don't see Windows Phone 7 as the right way forward.
While the idea of using an Apple-like magnetic connector is cool, there are a lot of issues:
(1) Some of us do work where having strong magnets laying around on a desk is a bad idea. (2) The Apple MagSafe adapters have been highly unreliable, and Apple won't license to third-parties, so you're stuck buying another Apple adapter which will then fail. (3) There can be reports of metal fragments and other magnetic particles sticking to the plug and causing problems.
Citation needed.
Normal people aren't clever enough to program, just like normal people aren't clever enough to use Linux (hence it's low market share). If kids aren't interested in programming, its because they aren't clever enough and don't have the spark - in which case we can just let them join the rest of the hurd and do mundane 9-5 job for the masses, its all they can imagine doing anyway.
You could not be more out of touch. The reason for the low marketshare is the the lack of applications and games. Fragmentation of the linux platform is what causes this lack of software. If everyone could agree on a linux base set of libraries including audio subsystems and one common default GUI toolkit then you would see higher adoption by developers outside of the "open source' community. The lack of programs like Adobe photoshop keeps end users from even considering it as a platform for everyday use.
"but then again iTunes is a cross platform application"
Not an excuse. A properly designed application can be cross-platform and still perform well.
Firefox, GIMP, and Pidgin are my favorite three examples.
It works fine on my work laptop. You must be doing something wrong or obsessing about how much memory it uses.
too much bloatware running in the background.
Like iTunes?
My mother uses iTunes (on Windows 7) because of her iPod, and it regularly blocks the UI while converting and transferring files, it's pathetic. And no, it wasn't swapping.
For Windows, Foobar2000 is the only decent music player I've used.
iTunes might take more ram than your favourite program Foobar2000 but then again iTunes is a cross platform application so it has to load some additional libraries on windows to compensate whereas Foobar2000 (what kind of idiotic nerd name is that?) is a windows only native application that probably does a lot less.
Firefox is also a cross platform application and it seems to take up more memory on every platform it runs on that what one would expect but that probably again has to do with the cross platform nature of.
I just took a look at "Foobar2000" and it is looks like a windows 2000 application. The UI is worse than some of the linux players mentioned on here. It uses a lot less memory because it does almost nothing out of the box except being a basic "music" only player.
So maybe what you are really complaining about is the broken VM management system in the windows kernel were you actually have to care how much memory a program is using. If you have 2 GB or more of memory and lots of space on your HD for swap, you should not care unless if there was a memory leak. Unix OSes like OS X and unix-like OSes like Linux do not seem to have any issues with running applications that use a lot of VM.
I don't know how the hell you got modded insightful. I've never had any issue with Best Buy and I never had any problem with iTunes either at home on Snow Leopard or on Windows 7 at work. Maybe you have a shitty PC with not enough RAM and too much bloatware running in the background.
Do you obsessively look at how much ram a program uses? I judge programs based on more than one criteria and as long as the software is responsive then it is not using too many resources.
The 3G model iPads are also capable of making phone calls but it just is not enabled in the firmware. So again, what is the OP's point?
unlike the iPad, many of the android tablets have HDMI ports. so yes, plugging in to a projector is easy.
Please. It is far more common to have a projector with a VGA port than an HDMI port unless if you are only talking about "new" projectors but anyway, an HDMI adaptor is available for the iPad 2 which not only mirrors the display but allows you to plug in a charger at the same time. With the iPad, you can plug in either the HDMI or VGA adaptor. If you only have an HDMI port then you would have to have an HDMI to VGA adapter which might be harder to find if you lost it and hand to get a new one.
Companies that did a 360 on their products and did OK:
Motorola
Are you trying to quote Tony Vivaldi? http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0010514/
I think you mean that they did a 180. Doing a 360 would put you back in the same direction as if you stood still.
Most corporations don't want Google or any other outside company knowing the details of their internal operations including meetings and the subject of those meetings. That is why they use Blackberries, since the info is not held on RIM servers, but only on the corporation's servers. If I owned a company I would never allow employees to schedule meetings on Google Calendar. In fact, I would make that a firing offence. Company business is company business, and nobody else's; including Google's. Whoever comes out with a way to keep information secret for companies the way RIM does, they will be able to put the nail in RIM's coffin.
I don't think you understand how the blackberry eco-system works. Everything goes through RIM servers and if you send an email with your BB to someone outside of the company, it goes through the "internet" after travelling through the RIM servers.
So fair and balanced would be where the reviewer raves about how awesome the Android tablet is while ignoring its shortcomings?
Without Flash iPad is half-bake and half working. Who in the right mind buy an iPad just for game when it already available on phone, and who would buy an iPad for surfing when you can not watching flash in Facebook or Youtube.
Without apps, the android tablets are half baked. You might as well just get a cheap e-reader if apps don't matter to you.
Facebook and Youtube videos work very well. You can browse to a page on Youtube and the video will play just fine on the iPad. No flash needed.
The iPhone/iOS system has had a dedicated app for Youtube from the very beginning.
Interesting story. Sounds like pure FUD since you are suggesting that you could not find a free FTP client under 20MB in size? Really? If you did not completely make it all up then it sounds like the network connection on your Nexus One kept on crapping out before it could finish the download. Blame your shitty carrier or your shitty android phone that cannot maintain a stable tether.
BTW, were you trying to get photos off the iPad? You don't need FTP for that, just email them from within the photos app.
I would guess that your post was pure fiction.
Being a big iPhone that can't make phone calls?
Which is different from most Android tablets how? You can always use Skype, Facetime or one of IM clients that support video conferencing?
Answer me this. How can, either via religion or any other philosophy, someone else tell me what to do with my body? I can't think of anything more fundamentally a human right than control over your own body. And for a reason why? Because it's MY body. What other reason is needed?
Do you have children? A spouse or significant other? Parents who are alive? Siblings? If you answered yes to any of those and you think that you have a "right" to kill yourself because only you are affected then you are both out of touch with reality and extremely selfish. People who kill themselves are cowardly and selfish because they don't consider how what they are doing will affect others.
It must really suck being you. You have no hope, no sense of decency or justice and apparently no belief in free will. After all, you probably believe that we are programmed automatons driven by instinct alone derived from our DNA. That sounds like such a sad and pointless existence.
You seem so damn sure of your "belief" that there is no god. Do you have a problem with criminals breaking into your house, stealing all of your stuff and killing or otherwise harming them or yourself?
You see, we have laws in society to protect the average citizen from people who have chosen to take a darker path. If you enjoy the fruits of law and order but rally against it then you are a hypocrite.
I don't consider religion a "legitimate" basis for anything.
Your words betray your prejudice.
Human right - rights regarded as belonging fundamentally to all persons
That is defined by law which has its root in moral codes of various cultures over the centuries.
Fundamental - serving as a basis supporting existence or determining essential structure or function
Again, you are quoting something that is defined by law and not inherent in human nature. By nature, we are selfish and uncivilized.
Does this mean that we should be polluting more to compensate?
Steve Jobs liked to say "BOOM" a lot in his demos in the past.
yeah ok fascist.
You keep on using that word like you think you know what it means. Fascists sought state control of the economy for the benefit of the state and many of the "fascist" movements actually had their roots in the labour movements. The OP sounds more like a neo-liberal to me.
Why do the rich need to be growing their income at a rate of 30% in recent years while the middle class real income is flat and the poor real income is actually shrinking?
Citation needed. Are you just talking about the US? My pay has more than kept up with the inflation and I consider myself middle class or at least upper middle class.
If he is stuck in a part time position then he is probably does not show any initiative. Showing some initiative should be the first step and trying to pursue full time status. If you cannot move up to full-time then how do you expect anyone to give you a raise?
We have both models in Canada for the iPhone at least. You can buy a "subsidized" iPhone at a carrier with lock-in or by a factory unlocked iPhone directly from an Apple store paying the full price for the phone but then you have the freedom to choose a carrier (we have several HSPA carriers to choose from) and also use local SIMs when travelling abroad.