"Yes, it's much better to have a single organization that can decide for me what apps I can decide to buy and sell. One that can block apps for any reason or no reason at all."
I appreciate the spunky Android upstart trying to compete with the big dog iOS but Android has some huge obstacles to overcome if even major players like Angry Birds is frustrated with Android and EA offers 60+ iOS apps but only a dozen Android games.
"I hear ya, but on the other hand your new 1155 mobo is likely to have 6 GB/sec SATA and USB 3.0 which your existing 1366 mobo most likely does not have."
"Dropping $300 on every processor generation Intel makes is a waste of money. If you got that much to spend, buy a more expensive CPU and keep it a generation or two longer. It not like it goes broke just because it's not the newest toy anymore, you know."
My real complaint is Windows Product Activation freaks out when you install a new motherboard.moremore. I've lost more data changing motherboards than I have changing CPUs, hard drives, video cards or all other hardware combined. Upgrading a motherboard is an all day process, since I have to dig the old motherboard out and put the new board in and deal with Windows issues and drivers.
Swapping out a CPU is as simple as popping off the heatsink and changing cpus.
I'm all for bigger and better but it's a pain to throw away a $500 motherboard every 18 months because Intel decided they want to change the socket.
On the other hand the latest 6-core processors from AMD still support 3+ yr old AM2+ motherboards. It's nice to see someone still looking out for the budget shopper.
Some of us have been on the Internet since before you were born and have hotmail accounts before google even existed. I have emails I received in the 90s still stored in hotmail.
I don't understand how they can lose data, with a gigabyte costing less than 5 cents (2000 gigabytes is less than $100) why can't they keep backups? My entire gmail account is stored within 35 cents worth of hard drive space.
I wouldn't be surprised if AMD secretly released the hack to sell more $300 cards. Seriously what idiot is still paying $300+ for a video card in 2010? 2001 called and what their video card prices back.
"What's next? Charging a husband who read his wifes diary."
They mentioned that this would be a slippery slope: ""What's the difference between that and parents who get on their kids' Facebook accounts?" attorney Deborah McKelvy said. "You're going to have to start prosecuting a whole bunch of parents.""
and that this statute is worded to fight hackers breaking into government systems and private businesses, not go after husbands or parents.
This Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper is just wasting tax payers money. The guy being charged was also a IT guy for Oakland County, I wonder if this is some kind of personal revenge?
I've seen a lot of videos like yours on youtube, and besides the cool music I'm not sure why this one is on slashdot at all. Did geeks not know you could attach a camera to R/C planes?
But Gollum wasn't human, he didn't have to have all the human characteristics we expect. Same with Avatar, not human so we're not looking for certain things.
I was expecting young Jeff Bridges to be of similar quality and he was not. Instead I was treated to special effects similar to 2007's Beowulf.
Which isn't to say those are bad but you're talking 4 years in CGI, there should have been a night and day difference. Beowulf was good for 2007. Tron: Legacy was not good for 2010. Some scenes were downright embarrassing, I have a feeling they'll clean it up some more before DVD and BD release.
"we'll talk again next time you get playful with your significant other in a secluded, but public, spot. or in your living room without the drapes drawn."
Smartphones are built pretty tough actually, and there are tons of wonderful 3rd party cases that can make iPhones pretty indestructible.
I think a charger + case all-in-one would be the best bet, similar to the mophie juice pack air because swapping batteries out of a phone while on the battlefield doesn't sound like such a hot idea to me. No smartphone has a long enough battery life anyway, so a second battery in a case would probably be best, and maybe the case could have a easily swappable battery. Sure Mophie could make something suitable if you were ordering 100,000+ from them.
"Is it a coincidence that all this talk about nuking other countries is coming a couple of weeks after the release of that cable by Wikileaks?"
Maybe I'm just rational, but if I just found out my ally doesn't really have my back against my enemy, I would have to re-think the whole enemy thing and reassess why my enemy was still my enemy and see if I could use this to my advantage rather than threatening nuclear war.
I see no advantage of threatening nuclear war, if I was North Korea I would ask China and South Korea for a few trillion in aid and open the borders.
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The hate because beta is suppose to mean the software is still being tested, it's not ready for release to the general public, you're not suppose to run around and recommend everyone in the world download it and use it.
I really, really don't like the recent idea that websites and software should be in beta for years. Next thing you know we'll see products and cars and food in "beta" and when something goes wrong manufactures will say "well, it was in beta..."
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Same, doesn't work in Chrome 8.0.552.215. How ironic Google would release tools that don't work on their own browser...
Hey Google, should I use IE to view the Google Body Browser? Wonder if Windows Live would ever recommend I use Chrome...
"This actually sounds... Like a great idea to have two numbers reach the same phone."
You can have that now with Skype on the iPhone. Incoming skype calls will ring just like a regular call but with a different ringtone and it works rather well over 3G but you do have to have a steady 3G or WiFi connection, if you venture to areas that drop down to Edge service then you won't receive Skype calls anymore.
So if you're developing an iPhone app you only have to test on 4 or 5 devices, iPhone 4 running iOS4, 3GS running 3.x and 4.x, and 3G running 3.x and 4.x, and iPhone running 3.1.3. If you're developing a Droid app you have dozens of devices with different software configurations you must test on or risk angry customers, and every time you want to update or Google pushes out a new version of Droid you again have to do testing on dozens of devices.
I know Android is the most popular smartphone OS but honestly I think it's going to self-implode, customers will eventually get tired of fragmentation issues, with apps not working and frustrated developers, and they'll either give up on smartphones entirely or turn to Blackberry or iOS.
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Horsepower is overrated.
V8 in a 20 yr old sports car had about 200hp and modern four cylinder engines achieve 200hp that while still getting 31mpg
"Yes, it's much better to have a single organization that can decide for me what apps I can decide to buy and sell. One that can block apps for any reason or no reason at all."
And yet over 70,000,000 iPhones have been sold since 2007 all at $200+ (compared to free Android phones with contract) and there have been thousands of iPhone developers that have become millionaires due to app sales while even Angry Birds struggles with Android fragmentation with over a dozen Android devices Angry Birds will NOT work on.
I appreciate the spunky Android upstart trying to compete with the big dog iOS but Android has some huge obstacles to overcome if even major players like Angry Birds is frustrated with Android and EA offers 60+ iOS apps but only a dozen Android games.
"I hear ya, but on the other hand your new 1155 mobo is likely to have 6 GB/sec SATA and USB 3.0 which your existing 1366 mobo most likely does not have."
Likely? Source? Sandy Bridge doesn't guarantee USB 3.0, it's not even part of the chipset features
"Dropping $300 on every processor generation Intel makes is a waste of money. If you got that much to spend, buy a more expensive CPU and keep it a generation or two longer. It not like it goes broke just because it's not the newest toy anymore, you know."
True, but why do I need to buy a new motherboard too? LGA 775 lasted from 2.6ghz Pentium 4s until 3ghz Core 2 Quads. Socket 939 came out in 2004 and was used from 1ghz Athlon 64s to 3.2ghz dual-core Athlon 64 X2. These sockets lasted through several CPU generations without change.
My real complaint is Windows Product Activation freaks out when you install a new motherboard. more more. I've lost more data changing motherboards than I have changing CPUs, hard drives, video cards or all other hardware combined. Upgrading a motherboard is an all day process, since I have to dig the old motherboard out and put the new board in and deal with Windows issues and drivers.
Swapping out a CPU is as simple as popping off the heatsink and changing cpus.
"Hurray, you belong to 1% of the market. "
great statistic, where exactly did you get that 1% from? Do you seriously think only 1% of PC users dislike upgrading motherboards?
So the rumors are true: according to the article all Sandy Bridge CPUs are Socket LGA 1155, replacing the 18 month old LGA 1366 and 17 month old LGA 1156.
I'm all for bigger and better but it's a pain to throw away a $500 motherboard every 18 months because Intel decided they want to change the socket.
On the other hand the latest 6-core processors from AMD still support 3+ yr old AM2+ motherboards. It's nice to see someone still looking out for the budget shopper.
Some of us have been on the Internet since before you were born and have hotmail accounts before google even existed. I have emails I received in the 90s still stored in hotmail.
I don't understand how they can lose data, with a gigabyte costing less than 5 cents (2000 gigabytes is less than $100) why can't they keep backups? My entire gmail account is stored within 35 cents worth of hard drive space.
RTFA: "Otherwise known as mSATA, the diminutive SSD form factor pipes Serial ATA signaling over a mini PCI Express connector."
So that's a Mini PCIe connector, not SATA
Yeah I just looked that up:
6950 = $300
6970 = $360
$60 savings, yippy!! 20% off!!
I wouldn't be surprised if AMD secretly released the hack to sell more $300 cards. Seriously what idiot is still paying $300+ for a video card in 2010? 2001 called and what their video card prices back.
"Why should you give up all personal integrity just because you're in a relationship?"
You shouldn't, but you don't need a cop if your wife is hacking your facebook, you need a divorce lawyer.
"What's next? Charging a husband who read his wifes diary."
They mentioned that this would be a slippery slope:
""What's the difference between that and parents who get on their kids' Facebook accounts?" attorney Deborah McKelvy said. "You're going to have to start prosecuting a whole bunch of parents.""
and that this statute is worded to fight hackers breaking into government systems and private businesses, not go after husbands or parents.
This Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper is just wasting tax payers money. The guy being charged was also a IT guy for Oakland County, I wonder if this is some kind of personal revenge?
I've seen a lot of videos like yours on youtube, and besides the cool music I'm not sure why this one is on slashdot at all. Did geeks not know you could attach a camera to R/C planes?
There's 3,000+ very similar FPV RC airplane videos on youtube, why did this one make it to slashdot? Cool music?
But Gollum wasn't human, he didn't have to have all the human characteristics we expect. Same with Avatar, not human so we're not looking for certain things.
"simulated Jeff Bridges in Tron: Legacy is pretty decent"
Compared to? I thought it looked horribly fake compared to a young Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2009's Terminator Salvation
I was expecting young Jeff Bridges to be of similar quality and he was not. Instead I was treated to special effects similar to 2007's Beowulf.
Which isn't to say those are bad but you're talking 4 years in CGI, there should have been a night and day difference. Beowulf was good for 2007. Tron: Legacy was not good for 2010. Some scenes were downright embarrassing, I have a feeling they'll clean it up some more before DVD and BD release.
"we'll talk again next time you get playful with your significant other in a secluded, but public, spot. or in your living room without the drapes drawn."
If you're getting "playful" in public or in the living room with the drapes open then you really want to get caught. There's even a medical term for this: Martymachlia, and it's an extreme form of exhibitionism. Martymachlia is a sexual deviancy and according to the US Supreme Court a person could be help in civil confinement indefinitely for exhibitionism.
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Bling? The ability to know that the person you're shooting at is friendly? I don't think I'd call that bling, that seems pretty important to me.
Smartphones are built pretty tough actually, and there are tons of wonderful 3rd party cases that can make iPhones pretty indestructible.
I think a charger + case all-in-one would be the best bet, similar to the mophie juice pack air because swapping batteries out of a phone while on the battlefield doesn't sound like such a hot idea to me. No smartphone has a long enough battery life anyway, so a second battery in a case would probably be best, and maybe the case could have a easily swappable battery. Sure Mophie could make something suitable if you were ordering 100,000+ from them.
"Is it a coincidence that all this talk about nuking other countries is coming a couple of weeks after the release of that cable by Wikileaks?"
Maybe I'm just rational, but if I just found out my ally doesn't really have my back against my enemy, I would have to re-think the whole enemy thing and reassess why my enemy was still my enemy and see if I could use this to my advantage rather than threatening nuclear war.
I see no advantage of threatening nuclear war, if I was North Korea I would ask China and South Korea for a few trillion in aid and open the borders.
I thought they were all home schooled?
The hate because beta is suppose to mean the software is still being tested, it's not ready for release to the general public, you're not suppose to run around and recommend everyone in the world download it and use it.
I really, really don't like the recent idea that websites and software should be in beta for years. Next thing you know we'll see products and cars and food in "beta" and when something goes wrong manufactures will say "well, it was in beta..."
Same, doesn't work in Chrome 8.0.552.215. How ironic Google would release tools that don't work on their own browser...
Hey Google, should I use IE to view the Google Body Browser? Wonder if Windows Live would ever recommend I use Chrome...
"The test, funded by Microsoft That says it all."
page 12 of the test PDF:>
"ABOUT THIS TEST This private test was contracted by Microsoft’s SmartScreen product team..."
Paid for by Microsoft, although really google should just ignore these fake tests since IE usage has dropped from 45% to 28% while Chrome went from 4% to 20% from Jan 09 thru Nov 2010.
So shut-up Google, you're winning.
""Narrowband" did *not* apply to modems in any technical way."
The internet disagrees
"This actually sounds... Like a great idea to have two numbers reach the same phone."
You can have that now with Skype on the iPhone. Incoming skype calls will ring just like a regular call but with a different ringtone and it works rather well over 3G but you do have to have a steady 3G or WiFi connection, if you venture to areas that drop down to Edge service then you won't receive Skype calls anymore.
"The fragmentation issue is honestly just marketing nonsense."
Android fragmentation is real. Even the ever-so-popular Angry Birds had "severe performance issues" due to fragmentation and had to create a second Angry Birds game for low-end Android devices.
Droid has no less than 8 different versions, from 1.1 to 2.3, in addition to whatever custom wrapper or branding the manufacture or carrier added, and dozens of different kinds of handsets, all with different cpus, gpus and memory. iOS has at most 2 versions, 3.x and 4.x, (1.x and 2.x is used by less than 3% of iPhones) and at most 4 handsets, iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4.
So if you're developing an iPhone app you only have to test on 4 or 5 devices, iPhone 4 running iOS4, 3GS running 3.x and 4.x, and 3G running 3.x and 4.x, and iPhone running 3.1.3. If you're developing a Droid app you have dozens of devices with different software configurations you must test on or risk angry customers, and every time you want to update or Google pushes out a new version of Droid you again have to do testing on dozens of devices.
I know Android is the most popular smartphone OS but honestly I think it's going to self-implode, customers will eventually get tired of fragmentation issues, with apps not working and frustrated developers, and they'll either give up on smartphones entirely or turn to Blackberry or iOS.