I wouldn't be surprised to see RIM gone in 3-4 years. Their niche has been the corporate world and integration with pre-existing corporate software. Even a half-assed attempt by Microsoft would be enough to take over RIM's customer base.
Not to get into another smartphone flame war, but I've never been impressed by Blackberry's ability to do anything. I know they were so much better than the competition pre-iPhone, but with iOS, Android, and (internationally) Symbian, I don't really understand how they exist other than through corporate agreements that haven't expired yet. Does anyone out there LIKE Blackberries (for reasons other than that you're used to them by now)?
Damn right. I'm from the US. There isn't another non-slang word in English to describe me except "American". USian is something that nerds on Slashdot write. In some languages, like Spanish, such words exist (estadounidense/a). But, in other languages, the English pattern prevails - in Persian, the word for "someone from the US" is "Amrika-i".
I don't know why people are so shocked that we would try to get some beginnings of a pattern going and tend to call the US "America" for short when it's not in doubt what was meant.
I'm still not able to find anything that says he made an actual attempt to give it back (everything seems to credit a roommate for calling Apple, not him), but even if he had, the recourse is to call the police, not auction it off. This would be no different than putting it on eBay.
"Suspect Brian Hogan, the affidavit says, knew very well that the phone belonged to Apple engineer Robert "Gray" Powell, and that he, Hogan, was deliberately trying to sell someone else's property rather than return it. "Sucks for him," Hogan allegedly said to his roommate.
The affidavit also claims the editors of Gizmodo, who bought the phone from Hogan for somewhere between $5,000 and $10,000, also knew they were on the wrong side of local laws that forbid the purchase of such items, which the law treats as stolen. Gizmodo allegedly withheld part of its payment until July, to see if the phone was indeed Apple's new model.
There are delicious moments of humanity in the story. Hogan claimed he gained possession of the phone when a drunk bar patron helpfully but mistakenly handed it to him. Powell thinks the phone may have fallen out of his backpack onto the floor of the bar as he sat talking with his uncle.
Hogan's female roommate -- not his girlfriend -- called Apple after Hogan connected the iPhone to her computer, because she feared Apple would track her computer over the Internet. Steve Jobs personally emailed Gizmodo editor Brian Lam and asked him to return the phone."
It's an issue because most people don't watch their Facebook accounts like a hawk. I don't have any idea what this new feature even is beyond this summary, nor how to find it. Someone could do this to me and I wouldn't know for a week or more.
More plainly, this feature sounds absolutely useless and I can't understand why they would change it from the previous Facebook Groups system. Why would having OTHER PEOPLE tell the world what affiliations I have be useful? You may as well make my Facebook info page be editable.
This is NOT a good analogy. The iPhone was found in a bar, and the jackass that "found" it knew whose it was and made no attempt to give it back. This device was intentionally left attached to the car, with the hope that it would never be found. Basically, the two situations are opposites of each other.
I agree with most of your points, but it remains true that the average iPhone app is nicer than Android's stuff. (For reference, I have a Droid now, and I used to have an iPhone.) It shouldn't really matter WHY it's true to a consumer.
I have what I need, but iPhone's selection tends to be more polished, and developers seem to spend a lot more time on the iPhone version of their app if they have an iPhone and a Droid version. An easy side-by-side comparison would be Pandora or Urbanspoon.
This is getting better, slowly, but it does often feel like the Android selection is a step behind. Not a deal breaker for me, but it is frustrating, given most Android phones have better specs than the iPhone.
Botched how? It was delayed by a bit, but for a good reason, and at least Verizon tries to announce these upgrades ahead of time. And I can't really complain about an easy-as-pie OTA upgrade.
I have a Droid and I have no clue what V-Cast even is, or how to get to it.
I have Market, which damn well better stay there. I can also download and install.apk files from the internet.
One-click rooting is now available for other Android phones, and easy on the Droid. I haven't really bothered because the stock software is fine. I can even tether, and Verizon's network makes this a pleasant experience.
But yes, with all your sadface removed, the Fascinate looks like a nice phone.
I promise I'm not playing dumb (though, on this, I may BE dumb), and this really, really isn't meant to be trollish or anything, but when does GSM/CDMA come into play?
I'm from the United States, so it's never really been an issue. It's pretty hard to end up in another country here. The only other country I've been to with a cell phone in tow was China, and I was able to roam, with data, on their networks there. I have a Verizon-branded phone, which I understand uses the non-rest-of-the-world-friendly protocol. I was NOT on 3G in China, but I never tried data roaming in an area where I'd expect 3G (think rice paddies).
Is there something fundamentally problematic with the US using a different system (besides some phones not being available here and vice-versa), or is this more of a "why is the US so weird" thing, like the metric system?
Yeesh. Sorry guys, true open source isn't worth dealing with dialup-quality speeds in 2010. Android comes close enough. *pets my badly scratched first-generation Droid*
More importantly, how the fuck is this ironic, if you have Eric Schmidt quoted as being against this the whole way through?
Party #1 is against something
Party #2 does that thing
Party #1, as far as anyone can tell, is still against that thing
Irony? (Profit?)
Why? Not trolling. Getting caught three times seems excessive. There are mistaken identities, botnets, etc etc, and of course a sternly worded letter isn't the same as being found guilty. But it seems you have to be doing something either very extreme or very stupid to get caught three times.
I would hope there'd be some sort of rebuttal mechanism (the ISP should take the customer's written reply to the DMCA letter writer into consideration or something). But let's cut the shit - they have an IP and can watch you download whatever you're downloading. This isn't rocket science.
Full disclosure: Charter has forwarded a "Hey, stop downloading The Office" letter from NBC/Universal to me before. It was written in good taste, and hell yeah, I had downloaded three seasons' worth of stuff without intending to pay for any of it (this was before they had streaming on nbc.com or anything).
Others have said things to the effect of "the judge didn't want/is too busy to look through citations", but it's actually more than that. It would be flat-out inappropriate for the judge to do so because he/she would essentially be making the case for the litigant.
It's the responsibility of the lawyer to come prepared. This one wasn't.
Seriously? Eastern European, benign cross-cultural misunderstanding, an hour and a half has passed, and nobody swooped in with an "in Soviet Russia" joke?
We handle everything we make without HL7. But we don't make everything. So we use HL7 to talk to the stuff we don't make.
So yeah. There's a standard, everyone who feels like staying in business uses it, and it's not even hard to use. What's the author of the article whining about, anyway?
It'll be a great day when Wikipedia will admit to itself that it's not actually an encyclopedia, it's something better. (Come on - if we're not supposed to talk about the article in the talk page, then give us a discussion section!)
Until that day, though, maybe we're stuck wondering whether x article would really be in an encyclopedia.
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I second Office 2010. I never thought I'd get used to the ribbon style, but here we are.
I wouldn't be surprised to see RIM gone in 3-4 years. Their niche has been the corporate world and integration with pre-existing corporate software. Even a half-assed attempt by Microsoft would be enough to take over RIM's customer base.
Not to get into another smartphone flame war, but I've never been impressed by Blackberry's ability to do anything. I know they were so much better than the competition pre-iPhone, but with iOS, Android, and (internationally) Symbian, I don't really understand how they exist other than through corporate agreements that haven't expired yet. Does anyone out there LIKE Blackberries (for reasons other than that you're used to them by now)?
Damn right.
I'm from the US. There isn't another non-slang word in English to describe me except "American". USian is something that nerds on Slashdot write. In some languages, like Spanish, such words exist (estadounidense/a). But, in other languages, the English pattern prevails - in Persian, the word for "someone from the US" is "Amrika-i".
I don't know why people are so shocked that we would try to get some beginnings of a pattern going and tend to call the US "America" for short when it's not in doubt what was meant.
And on a more funny note, many Latin Americans will say "norteamericano" to mean someone from the United States. Whatcha think of that, Canada?
I'm still not able to find anything that says he made an actual attempt to give it back (everything seems to credit a roommate for calling Apple, not him), but even if he had, the recourse is to call the police, not auction it off. This would be no different than putting it on eBay.
Yeah. How could we forget about the Isle of Man?
http://venturebeat.com/2010/05/14/iphone-search-warrant/
It's an issue because most people don't watch their Facebook accounts like a hawk. I don't have any idea what this new feature even is beyond this summary, nor how to find it. Someone could do this to me and I wouldn't know for a week or more. More plainly, this feature sounds absolutely useless and I can't understand why they would change it from the previous Facebook Groups system. Why would having OTHER PEOPLE tell the world what affiliations I have be useful? You may as well make my Facebook info page be editable.
This is NOT a good analogy. The iPhone was found in a bar, and the jackass that "found" it knew whose it was and made no attempt to give it back. This device was intentionally left attached to the car, with the hope that it would never be found. Basically, the two situations are opposites of each other.
I agree with most of your points, but it remains true that the average iPhone app is nicer than Android's stuff. (For reference, I have a Droid now, and I used to have an iPhone.) It shouldn't really matter WHY it's true to a consumer.
I have what I need, but iPhone's selection tends to be more polished, and developers seem to spend a lot more time on the iPhone version of their app if they have an iPhone and a Droid version. An easy side-by-side comparison would be Pandora or Urbanspoon.
This is getting better, slowly, but it does often feel like the Android selection is a step behind. Not a deal breaker for me, but it is frustrating, given most Android phones have better specs than the iPhone.
Botched how? It was delayed by a bit, but for a good reason, and at least Verizon tries to announce these upgrades ahead of time. And I can't really complain about an easy-as-pie OTA upgrade.
I have a Droid and I have no clue what V-Cast even is, or how to get to it.
I have Market, which damn well better stay there. I can also download and install .apk files from the internet.
One-click rooting is now available for other Android phones, and easy on the Droid. I haven't really bothered because the stock software is fine. I can even tether, and Verizon's network makes this a pleasant experience.
But yes, with all your sadface removed, the Fascinate looks like a nice phone.
I promise I'm not playing dumb (though, on this, I may BE dumb), and this really, really isn't meant to be trollish or anything, but when does GSM/CDMA come into play?
I'm from the United States, so it's never really been an issue. It's pretty hard to end up in another country here. The only other country I've been to with a cell phone in tow was China, and I was able to roam, with data, on their networks there. I have a Verizon-branded phone, which I understand uses the non-rest-of-the-world-friendly protocol. I was NOT on 3G in China, but I never tried data roaming in an area where I'd expect 3G (think rice paddies).
Is there something fundamentally problematic with the US using a different system (besides some phones not being available here and vice-versa), or is this more of a "why is the US so weird" thing, like the metric system?
Yeesh. Sorry guys, true open source isn't worth dealing with dialup-quality speeds in 2010. Android comes close enough. *pets my badly scratched first-generation Droid*
More importantly, how the fuck is this ironic, if you have Eric Schmidt quoted as being against this the whole way through? Party #1 is against something Party #2 does that thing Party #1, as far as anyone can tell, is still against that thing Irony? (Profit?)
Why? Not trolling. Getting caught three times seems excessive. There are mistaken identities, botnets, etc etc, and of course a sternly worded letter isn't the same as being found guilty. But it seems you have to be doing something either very extreme or very stupid to get caught three times.
I would hope there'd be some sort of rebuttal mechanism (the ISP should take the customer's written reply to the DMCA letter writer into consideration or something). But let's cut the shit - they have an IP and can watch you download whatever you're downloading. This isn't rocket science.
Full disclosure: Charter has forwarded a "Hey, stop downloading The Office" letter from NBC/Universal to me before. It was written in good taste, and hell yeah, I had downloaded three seasons' worth of stuff without intending to pay for any of it (this was before they had streaming on nbc.com or anything).
Seriously? It's one of the first questions answered in the FAQ.
Others have said things to the effect of "the judge didn't want/is too busy to look through citations", but it's actually more than that. It would be flat-out inappropriate for the judge to do so because he/she would essentially be making the case for the litigant.
It's the responsibility of the lawyer to come prepared. This one wasn't.
Mississippi?
Seriously? Eastern European, benign cross-cultural misunderstanding, an hour and a half has passed, and nobody swooped in with an "in Soviet Russia" joke?
Agreed. This whole discussion is useless until we implement a standard "grinning purple faces per second" benchmark for processor comparisons.
That's cool. The students were using it to do their homework, but yeah, yours is nice too.
We handle everything we make without HL7. But we don't make everything. So we use HL7 to talk to the stuff we don't make. So yeah. There's a standard, everyone who feels like staying in business uses it, and it's not even hard to use. What's the author of the article whining about, anyway?
Meh. That's why people should just go enterprise. =)
You mean HL7?
It'll be a great day when Wikipedia will admit to itself that it's not actually an encyclopedia, it's something better. (Come on - if we're not supposed to talk about the article in the talk page, then give us a discussion section!) Until that day, though, maybe we're stuck wondering whether x article would really be in an encyclopedia.