That's why we Linux lovers love Linux. Linux is an incredibly powerful OS that runs on anything from those overpriced digital photo frames to supercomputers on the top-100 list. As a result, it quite nicely runs on superphones too... including under Android. What you keep hoping Windows will achieve has been done already.
Really? You mean the N64 and Gamecube weren't massive failures?
"In September 2009, IGN named the GameCube the 16th best gaming console of all time, behind all three of its competitors: the PlayStation 2 (3rd), Dreamcast (8th), and Xbox (11th). Aside from the Virtual Boy (which did not make the list at all), it was the only Nintendo console to not make the list's top 10."
Nintendo managed to sell about 30 million N64s but that's fewer than the PS3 has sold, so no, Nintendo was NOT the leader when the Wii came out, the Wii was a come-back.
cf. my earlier post to compare modern console sales numbers.
Umm, no offense, but the PS2 has sold 153.19 million units as of March 31, 2011. The 360 has only sold 65.8 million as of January 19, 2012. And yes, I know what I'm comparing -- the PS2 has been out much longer, but Sony still has the majority of installed devices out there. Don't forget there's also 55.5 million Playstation 3s out there, as of September 30, 2011.
Unlike Microsoft, Sony is still actively selling both consoles.
I have yet to see Kinect as an important gaming feature. As the Sony propaganda says so well, buttons are really useful even with motion controls.
Also I'm still waiting for a AAA 360 title that actually runs at any level of HD internally. These 540p upconverts are blurry blocky messes. I like my PS3 exclusive 720p and 1080p games.
Bought myself a brand-new phone in the box at Christmas, and when I powered it up it had photos on the memory card of girls walking by the booth. Obviously the sales guy had tested it out, and had no camera skills I might add.
The reason she asked is because by using it it becomes a health hazard to anyone else and therefor the store has to return it to the vendor for refund where one assumes it is destroyed. By not admitted you had used the product you've put someone else's health at risk. Congrats, you're an asshole.
Personally, if anyone asks about in-home PC service, I usually try to steer them into bringing the unit into the store (I'm sure my boss would throw a fit if he knew that), but some people are downright afraid of disconnecting and reconnecting all the cables on their desktop and are willing to pay hundreds of dollars to have a repair tech come to their home and fix everything. If that's what you want, we're not going to argue, and if it's really that helpful a service to offer, then we'll gladly help out.
... after having one of my customers physically destroy all three USB ports on a laptop trying to plug things in incorrectly, I can understand that fear. Sadly.
Friends don't let friends buy hardware at Futureshop. To be fair, I often tell people to go browse Futureshop to see things in person, but don't buy it there.
Most fun salesman I ever dealt with at Futureshop offered to give me $80 off a device if I would agree to buy the $60 protection on it, since despite the overall savings, he gets no grief for discounting the item if he sells a protection plan.
Work on your own; adding negative spin to something just for the sake of doing so isn't a valid arguing point. If you want to claim something's bad, do so with actual rationale. Spinning something just to make it sound bad puts you at the level of a politician and much below that of whomever wrote the style guide you're trying to criticize.
If you believe that, I'd ask you what you believe a fair trial to be.
I'm sorry but popular opinion is actually counter-productive to fairness in a trial situation. "Have you heard of the accused or read anything about them? yes? Go home. Next juror please."
And when you know you'd lose in a fact-based trial situation, you can go out and disseminate whatever biased data you want to the public and rather than having anyone do the detective work or research on whether your statements are valid, just bet on most people agreeing with your spin.
Its worth pointing out that you can buy dual-sim phones for the people who need such devices. Also, SIMs can easily be inserted under a small lid with gasket to be changed from the outside without fully breaking the phone's seal.
So your commander says "your mission is to take this fort, its held by the enemy and we need to show the locals that we're on their side."
Preaching or mission statement?
Your boss says "this music player has too many seams, we want no visible seams on our devices, our goal is to be smooth and look stylish."
Preaching or mission statement?
There's some blur between the concepts, but to refer to every attempt to explain a point of view as preaching is simply to be obtuse and difficult and attempt to sway opinion away from that of the presenter.
Google is presenting their desire for the Android platform, and trying to convey it in a way that will make sense to app developers who wish to be part of that platform. Is it at all like preaching? sure. But to call it preaching is to add a lot of negative spin that isn't necessary and shows bias.
Water resistance tagging is regulated in the USA. Its possible some manufacturers would lie, but it does actually require testing and approval to use those markings.
I once somehow got chocolate into my camera case (sigh) and found out the hard way when I removed the camera again afterward and found it had dried chocolate on it. Of course, it did no harm, but its a pain to clean off properly.
Meanwhile my daughter has a "drop-proof + waterproof + coldproof" camera from Olympus that is wonderful precisely because even though she's extremely careful of it, we can worry a bit less if something untoward happens. As an aside, she's never used it underwater or in the cold because she values her devices too.
Parenting note: I taught my child how to handle DVDs (at the time) and electronics properly at about 3 yrs old. "This is how you do that" is much more productive than "don't touch that" in the long run. Now she's the one who sighs when her friends grab devices and discs improperly.
To be fair, that's actually way too close to the source for my comfort.
I'm not saying they did, and I'm quite sure they did not, but Mocality could completely make up everything in this story. I'd much prefer a traditional news organization to have done the research on this so I have some third party confirmation rather than trusting the self-declared harmed party.
I believe in cloud-sourcing the news as much as the next guy, but this is when investigative reporting is most valuable. Serious accusations require serious and skilled reporting.
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That's why we Linux lovers love Linux. Linux is an incredibly powerful OS that runs on anything from those overpriced digital photo frames to supercomputers on the top-100 list. As a result, it quite nicely runs on superphones too ... including under Android. What you keep hoping Windows will achieve has been done already.
Really? You mean the N64 and Gamecube weren't massive failures?
"In September 2009, IGN named the GameCube the 16th best gaming console of all time, behind all three of its competitors: the PlayStation 2 (3rd), Dreamcast (8th), and Xbox (11th). Aside from the Virtual Boy (which did not make the list at all), it was the only Nintendo console to not make the list's top 10."
Nintendo managed to sell about 30 million N64s but that's fewer than the PS3 has sold, so no, Nintendo was NOT the leader when the Wii came out, the Wii was a come-back.
cf. my earlier post to compare modern console sales numbers.
Umm, no offense, but the PS2 has sold 153.19 million units as of March 31, 2011. The 360 has only sold 65.8 million as of January 19, 2012. And yes, I know what I'm comparing -- the PS2 has been out much longer, but Sony still has the majority of installed devices out there. Don't forget there's also 55.5 million Playstation 3s out there, as of September 30, 2011.
Unlike Microsoft, Sony is still actively selling both consoles.
Native Android apps actually still run within the JVM. Scripts are run as the user created dynamically to match the developer of the app.
I have yet to see Kinect as an important gaming feature. As the Sony propaganda says so well, buttons are really useful even with motion controls.
Also I'm still waiting for a AAA 360 title that actually runs at any level of HD internally. These 540p upconverts are blurry blocky messes. I like my PS3 exclusive 720p and 1080p games.
Ironically this considering it had an external power brick to help dissipate heat.
Bought myself a brand-new phone in the box at Christmas, and when I powered it up it had photos on the memory card of girls walking by the booth. Obviously the sales guy had tested it out, and had no camera skills I might add.
This.
Friends don't let friends buy hardware at Futureshop. To be fair, I often tell people to go browse Futureshop to see things in person, but don't buy it there.
Most fun salesman I ever dealt with at Futureshop offered to give me $80 off a device if I would agree to buy the $60 protection on it, since despite the overall savings, he gets no grief for discounting the item if he sells a protection plan.
Sad.
Wouldn't bleaching the originals be destruction of currency?
Work on your own; adding negative spin to something just for the sake of doing so isn't a valid arguing point. If you want to claim something's bad, do so with actual rationale. Spinning something just to make it sound bad puts you at the level of a politician and much below that of whomever wrote the style guide you're trying to criticize.
Precisely. I'm sick and tired of people who claim to be scientists getting mad because someone else disagrees with them.
Put out your theories, show your supporting work, let others criticize it all they want, take the good, ignore the bad, and move on.
People disagreeing with you is a fact of life. Trust me, I fix computers for a living and have much better annoying beliefs to deal with every day.
If you believe that, I'd ask you what you believe a fair trial to be.
I'm sorry but popular opinion is actually counter-productive to fairness in a trial situation. "Have you heard of the accused or read anything about them? yes? Go home. Next juror please."
And when you know you'd lose in a fact-based trial situation, you can go out and disseminate whatever biased data you want to the public and rather than having anyone do the detective work or research on whether your statements are valid, just bet on most people agreeing with your spin.
Its worth pointing out that you can buy dual-sim phones for the people who need such devices. Also, SIMs can easily be inserted under a small lid with gasket to be changed from the outside without fully breaking the phone's seal.
So your commander says "your mission is to take this fort, its held by the enemy and we need to show the locals that we're on their side."
Preaching or mission statement?
Your boss says "this music player has too many seams, we want no visible seams on our devices, our goal is to be smooth and look stylish."
Preaching or mission statement?
There's some blur between the concepts, but to refer to every attempt to explain a point of view as preaching is simply to be obtuse and difficult and attempt to sway opinion away from that of the presenter.
Google is presenting their desire for the Android platform, and trying to convey it in a way that will make sense to app developers who wish to be part of that platform. Is it at all like preaching? sure. But to call it preaching is to add a lot of negative spin that isn't necessary and shows bias.
Point of note: with inductive charging and bluetooth, there's no need for our phones to have external electrical contacts at all anymore.
Water resistance tagging is regulated in the USA. Its possible some manufacturers would lie, but it does actually require testing and approval to use those markings.
cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Resistant_mark
They reply to that concern in their youtube videos and use sealed bottled water in all their later videos on purpose to prove the point.
A bag of rice is very handy too ... absorbs liquid quickly.
I once somehow got chocolate into my camera case (sigh) and found out the hard way when I removed the camera again afterward and found it had dried chocolate on it. Of course, it did no harm, but its a pain to clean off properly.
Meanwhile my daughter has a "drop-proof + waterproof + coldproof" camera from Olympus that is wonderful precisely because even though she's extremely careful of it, we can worry a bit less if something untoward happens. As an aside, she's never used it underwater or in the cold because she values her devices too.
Parenting note: I taught my child how to handle DVDs (at the time) and electronics properly at about 3 yrs old. "This is how you do that" is much more productive than "don't touch that" in the long run. Now she's the one who sighs when her friends grab devices and discs improperly.
A waterproof book in the bath is a lot nicer than a paper book when either is soaking wet.
If so, he should take it to court and let it stand.
The court of public opinion is only used by people without sufficient proof to use a real court.
To be fair, that's actually way too close to the source for my comfort.
I'm not saying they did, and I'm quite sure they did not, but Mocality could completely make up everything in this story. I'd much prefer a traditional news organization to have done the research on this so I have some third party confirmation rather than trusting the self-declared harmed party.
I believe in cloud-sourcing the news as much as the next guy, but this is when investigative reporting is most valuable. Serious accusations require serious and skilled reporting.