And these cheap Android tablets are always - *always* - shit. Even the Nexus 7 is cheap shit, with reports of faulty units all over the internet. If you want to make something good, there'll be a market for it. Finally there are good Android tablets around, but you're not going to get one for $45.
I would never install any software given to me by some random person on the street. I'll go to a reputable site, check out a file with an MD5 checksum, then install it. The idea that you'd take this stuff, install it then use it to do home shopping/banking etc is just hilarious.
This stunt sounds like something a security firm would to do show how stupid people are when it comes to anything related to computers.
> Just because something is obvious in the physical domain, applying it to a control on a device isn't also > obvious necessarily
Sure it is. You just go `i'll do a code version of that`. You see slide-to-unlock on a front door - you do a code version of it. What's not obvious about it? Even if you argue that the first instance of something from the real world being copied on a computer is original and not obvious, the second you see it you should go `ah, yes, I can model other computer visual phenomena on physica, real-word events/objects`.
I wouldn't mind if patents lasted one year, or the fine for breaching them for £50 or something. You can't pull a companies products from market from something obvious and simple. It's just wrong.
Uh...who gives a fuck about athletes? Leave, then? You're not bringing any money in, as statistically more events will be in some other country than your own. More importantly, it's your hobby/job - it's no more interesting to my than anyone else's. As for the rich - well, we'll cope. Someone else will take their place. And, of course, they're not currently paying as much tax as they perhaps should anyway, so leaving won't make a lot of difference.
It'll take you about 5 hours to explain what you want, send it back a few times to fix it, then have an uneasy feeling it'll stop working when the clocks go forward, the 13th day of the next month, new years day etc.
They do this all the time in Greece though. Too stupid, poor or lazy to develop their own military planes, they buy them from the UK etc. Then, when people from the UK take pictures on holiday in Greece they get arrested for spying! Uh, we know all about your military planes - we sold them to you! You're not a major player - you're like Turkey level. You can have a little fight with Turkey about whatever 'fuck-all' people of shit you like to argue about, just leave regular people with a life out of it, okay?
> Read through the over 1000 comments, again and again the fact that it fails to > have expandable storage comes up as a comment.
LOL! Uh...they're joking! I'm a regular on that site and I've posted the same comment! You'll also see "not an iPhone" whenever any phone deal is posted (including iPhones) etc.
Doesn't matter if they want it. They can't have it. It doesn't work, and therefore fails the cost effectiveness criteria of the NICE protocol.
If they want it, they can pay for it. If it's on the NHS, I'm paying for it. It's bad enough that I have to pay for all sorts of religious bollockry for similarly irrational, weak minded fucking idiots.
> That should probably be illegal for publicly traded stocks
I don't see why, if this was made clear when it floated. It's not like anyone can say `wait, you mean I can't save up and buy Facebook in instalments, a few shares at a time?`.
Yeah, if Apple cares about this sort of thing I have no problem with all the lawsuits if the result was just the loser having to put a little note on their webpage saying `a bunch of idiots who were too stupid to get out of jury duty thinks this phone looks a little like that phone`, but still letting everyone else - who, frankly, don't give a shit - buy one.
I also earnestly hope that Google (Motorola), Samsung, HTC etc all stick together and use their patents against Apple at every opportunity. It would be delicious if the new iPhone got pulled form the market, or had 4G removed, etc.
I've been online since 1997, and I've never, ever clicked on an advert other than in error. I've never bought anything because of an advert either. They're pointless.
Perhaps the winner could get a Windows phone. A Windows 8 phone, that it - no point in even giving away the current generation as you won't be able to upgrade them!
Slashdot doesn't render well on any mobile browser. I've tried Dolphin, Chrome, Firefox and the stock one on Android 4.0.4 (s3) and (most of those browsers on) 2.3.4 and 2.3.7 and it's horrible. I'm actually quite suprised at how little effort has been spent on this site for mobile. In particular, if you try and click on your user name at the top right of the screen you get the `options` and `accounts` links; it's impossible to click the username itself. Also, each subject doesn't wrap properly, forcing you to scroll left and right to read long ones. Finally, while I'm ranting, the options screens are completely unintuitive, which the little question mark link for help just restating the name of the option - not very helpful. Isn't there someone involved with Slashdot who can turn the mobile (view of this) site into something to be proud of? Failing that, just do a native Android app and be done with it.
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You've not seen Viola Hero 3? Awwwwesome, dude.
Er..decline of Microsoft? Are you talking about share price, profit...or just people babbling about them on websites?
Take me to your researcher!!
And these cheap Android tablets are always - *always* - shit. Even the Nexus 7 is cheap shit, with reports of faulty units all over the internet. If you want to make something good, there'll be a market for it. Finally there are good Android tablets around, but you're not going to get one for $45.
Building stuff for Apple, ironically.
I would never install any software given to me by some random person on the street. I'll go to a reputable site, check out a file with an MD5 checksum, then install it. The idea that you'd take this stuff, install it then use it to do home shopping/banking etc is just hilarious.
This stunt sounds like something a security firm would to do show how stupid people are when it comes to anything related to computers.
I can sell you a third camera, to watch the second.
Of course, when I say `I` I mean `government suppliers`, and when I say `sell you` I mean `sell to the government out of money you've paid in taxes`.
> Just because something is obvious in the physical domain, applying it to a control on a device isn't also
> obvious necessarily
Sure it is. You just go `i'll do a code version of that`. You see slide-to-unlock on a front door - you do a code version of it. What's not obvious about it? Even if you argue that the first instance of something from the real world being copied on a computer is original and not obvious, the second you see it you should go `ah, yes, I can model other computer visual phenomena on physica, real-word events/objects`.
I wouldn't mind if patents lasted one year, or the fine for breaching them for £50 or something. You can't pull a companies products from market from something obvious and simple. It's just wrong.
No, but its non propriety software might.
Uh...who gives a fuck about athletes? Leave, then? You're not bringing any money in, as statistically more events will be in some other country than your own. More importantly, it's your hobby/job - it's no more interesting to my than anyone else's. As for the rich - well, we'll cope. Someone else will take their place. And, of course, they're not currently paying as much tax as they perhaps should anyway, so leaving won't make a lot of difference.
It'll take you about 5 hours to explain what you want, send it back a few times to fix it, then have an uneasy feeling it'll stop working when the clocks go forward, the 13th day of the next month, new years day etc.
They do this all the time in Greece though. Too stupid, poor or lazy to develop their own military planes, they buy them from the UK etc. Then, when people from the UK take pictures on holiday in Greece they get arrested for spying! Uh, we know all about your military planes - we sold them to you! You're not a major player - you're like Turkey level. You can have a little fight with Turkey about whatever 'fuck-all' people of shit you like to argue about, just leave regular people with a life out of it, okay?
> Read through the over 1000 comments, again and again the fact that it fails to
> have expandable storage comes up as a comment.
LOL! Uh...they're joking! I'm a regular on that site and I've posted the same comment! You'll also see "not an iPhone" whenever any phone deal is posted (including iPhones) etc.
Doesn't matter if they want it. They can't have it. It doesn't work, and therefore fails the cost effectiveness criteria of the NICE protocol.
If they want it, they can pay for it. If it's on the NHS, I'm paying for it. It's bad enough that I have to pay for all sorts of religious bollockry for similarly irrational, weak minded fucking idiots.
Learning to speak Estonian? You're better off learning C, Java etc.
> no.. the wrong thing was to use a google api in the first place
No, the problem was it was unsupported.
>. it's totally random how they shut things down or roll them up - unsupported or not, this particular api had a pretty good run.
It's unsupported. You can't just complain about it after the fact.
> That should probably be illegal for publicly traded stocks
I don't see why, if this was made clear when it floated. It's not like anyone can say `wait, you mean I can't save up and buy Facebook in instalments, a few shares at a time?`.
Yeah, if Apple cares about this sort of thing I have no problem with all the lawsuits if the result was just the loser having to put a little note on their webpage saying `a bunch of idiots who were too stupid to get out of jury duty thinks this phone looks a little like that phone`, but still letting everyone else - who, frankly, don't give a shit - buy one.
I also earnestly hope that Google (Motorola), Samsung, HTC etc all stick together and use their patents against Apple at every opportunity. It would be delicious if the new iPhone got pulled form the market, or had 4G removed, etc.
> If you want to live in society, you have to follow society's rules
Where does it say that?
I've been online since 1997, and I've never, ever clicked on an advert other than in error. I've never bought anything because of an advert either. They're pointless.
Privacy? It's been submitted to YouTube!
Linux Mint LXDE/XFCE. Ubuntu, but without the nonsense.
When there is an alternative which is free, works on all mobile phones regardless of carrier/manufacturer, and is (almost) instant.
Perhaps the winner could get a Windows phone. A Windows 8 phone, that it - no point in even giving away the current generation as you won't be able to upgrade them!
Slashdot doesn't render well on any mobile browser. I've tried Dolphin, Chrome, Firefox and the stock one on Android 4.0.4 (s3) and (most of those browsers on) 2.3.4 and 2.3.7 and it's horrible. I'm actually quite suprised at how little effort has been spent on this site for mobile. In particular, if you try and click on your user name at the top right of the screen you get the `options` and `accounts` links; it's impossible to click the username itself. Also, each subject doesn't wrap properly, forcing you to scroll left and right to read long ones. Finally, while I'm ranting, the options screens are completely unintuitive, which the little question mark link for help just restating the name of the option - not very helpful. Isn't there someone involved with Slashdot who can turn the mobile (view of this) site into something to be proud of? Failing that, just do a native Android app and be done with it.