(Or more to be even safer but since the biggest cities and therefor property value lies close to the sea I assume one don't want to take it to the extreme and buy land out in nowhere. On the other hand I count on it to be usable both in the case of rising sea levels but also to produce food for a bigger population.)
Well, something you can be sure of is that whatever stocks you have most likely don't represent true value.
So looking at that solid stuff may seem better.
But on the other hand you and everyone else hope your stocks will show unreasonable value increases over time, and as long as that's true you may want to gamble and hold onto them some more hoping everyone will keep on playing that stupid game. Money for nothing..
So what if it sucks? it's cheap to produce and sells acceptably well.
Now you sound like someone over at Apple.
That's good for employees and stock-holders but most of us around here are consumers. And for the consumer it matters a freaking lot.
While Sony and Microsoft lost a fortune with their super-duper-powerful machines, Nintendo is profitable all the way. IT PRINTS MONEY!
I think the Xbox360 generates money by now. Doubt the PS3 was a profitable endeavor but on the other hand PS1 and PS2 probably was (though by then they wasn't the most powerful consoles, PS1 for a while maybe PS2 less so than even the Gamecube.)
If nothing else the PS3 may have bought Sony the whole Blu-ray market and that's probably profitable for them.
I'd still pick a Wii but then I'm a pirate so I would just see it as a cheap investment to get a bunch of games I would like to try out. The PS3 fails in that regard (and that's probably a big reason why it sells in less volume. For instance imho the original Xbox was totally uninteresting until the mod-chips and bigger harddrives helped it out..)
Wii being a Nintendo product I assume that's "suck" in the Super-Nintendo kind of way (maybe slightly less durable thanks to using discs.)
Sure it's slow but whatever there's something really wrong with the hardware I have no idea.
For instance I remember how many more had problems with their PS2 lasers than with the Gamecube one (though to be honest the Ps2s where probably put to more use..) and I'm pretty sure Xbox360 failure rates are much higher than Wii ones.
As a European (British), I have yet to see or know of one person make or receive a video call, its just not that widespread and plenty of new phones on the market don't have front facing cameras.
Ok, don't know about current gen, I have a 5+ year old Ericsson GSM phone without wap, mms and whatever crap configured, bought it for 250 sek used years ago:D
Anyway the whole catch for 3G back then and as advertised through the company 3 was video calls (free video calls to others with 3 I think) and the people who bought them was mostly deaf people who finally got a way to communicate with their friends by a distance.
And phones like Sony-Ericsson Z800 which was quite early (not really), quite "cheap" and was 3G had a front facing camera for video calls. Maybe they have dropped it by now because what people care for and sees as a benefit with 3G is higher data speeds instead of video calls, back then phones didn't had browsers.. (and 3G didn't really catched on that fast either.)
I've only received two MMS but well, I don't have it configured, lack friends and don't have a phone camera. I know one of them was from a girl who sent an image of herself from the phone though, so I assume some people used it that way, or maybe to make "more fun" messages. Though nowadays e-mail, facebook and IM services would make it just as good.
Never the less they have added MMS capability? Haven't they? And they have made it 3G instead of GSM even though GSM was very basic (over here) even when the first one was released, and I'm quite sure it will get a front-facing camera at some time, no matter whatever it will be used for video calls or iChat/Skype.
All of those are things I would had expected to be there from version 1. And I hate Apple for cripple in purpose. I do understand it's a good market strategy because then they can sell items again, even though they never sell the best or most worth/$ item, they seem to be happy with the later and less sales for bigger profit on each item and resells to those who buy. They do the same with VRAM(/HDDs/..) on macs (HDD can be fixed though, cheap out on VRAM can't.)
Thats one significant exclusion in 4 major iterations of hte OS
Major iterations and major iterations.
Aren't they more like rebrands of the OS for each new feature update/fix of the phone?
No one else than Apple would had made a new smartphone (for the european market at least) without 3G, without frontfacing camera, without videocalls and without MMS ability when the first version came out. IMHO it just look like they sell more of the same. Kinda like Nintendo with GBA and DS updates (except I doubt Nintendo cripple them on purpose, "oh let's make these buttons really awkward so someone buy the next version!") Sure you want the newest one / most features if you get a new one but it's hardly a new product of its own.
Though I'm no iPhone expert by any means, but I won't look at the iPhone as four generations of a phone. The earlier ones are way too recent and way too expensive to be considered crap you just throw away every half-year or such.
Yeah, flash _is_ trash. And I thank Apple for helping us getting rid of flash dependency but as long as it's needed to access all the web I don't wanna be without it.
One man uninstalling flash won't stop websites from using it.
But can you install them on any Android phone? Which I think is what he was after.
To me it seems like Android is mostly open-source for the phone manufacturer to modify and do whatever they want to as long as Google get control over the users data and platform.
That's good and all for them.
But personally I would had wanted something which was open for me as user, with upgradeable and tweakable installations.
I don't know if drivers are an issue at all but if they are I would had wanted the phone manufacturer to send their patches back to Google which would had added them to their source.
Beyond that I just want a phone not controlled by the vendor with an easy to replace firmware so that I can just build the latest android version and put it on the phone, eventually with any hacks or tweaks I want.
AFAIK this isn't the current situation and hence as far as being a user goes the openness doesn't have much of a benefit at all.
I don't own an Android phone so I may have understood things wrong, when it comes to replacing "firmwares" on the phone I assume in some cases that may make you lose vendor-specific software (highly likely), be hard or worked against by the phone manufacturer (no vendor supplied solution, lack of drivers/phone knowledge, signed and eventually encrypted firmware.)
Bad as it may be I remember reading how all oil dumped into the sea outside Kuwait ended up being more beneficial (according to the article that is...) to the environment (guess that's seen in a very short perspective to) since it was the fishing industry which affected life in the area the most and thanks to the spill nature got a way to catch up.
Reading the fucking article all I can say is that the stuff on the wall in the photo in the article looks much better than that rat anyway. Now if only people could stop tagging everything.
Yeah, anyone believing Blizzards success comes from only releasing good games should really have their brains checked in for service.
Macs where it's at.
"Omg, have you seen this new game? It's amazing! It runs on OS X!", though, if said by a mac user I guess one can understand his excitement no matter what crap title it would be said about. Atleast it's a game, for a mac!..
I know they would have a problem to enforce the i-part of the name but I've always thought it was funny if they started complaining on the iPad name vs iPaq. Don't know how the juridical field for that look though:D. Probably impossible.
I don't see why I would want yet another platform. Vendor specific tweaks (rather addons possible to install on stock firmware please) on top of Android would make much more sense to me than yet another OS.
The applications will always be more important than the OS choice.
And I would still have my TI-85 from the same time if I haven't put it in a backpack together with flavoured oat milk before taking the train Örebro -> Göteborg back in.. say 2004?
Milk carton where open -> Lain down in car to the train -> wet backpack -> salts & batteries in calculator = Fail.
Not as "cool" as the HP48G but well, nothing wrong with it to this date except some ICs lost their legs in the process. Would had worked just fine if that wouldn't had happened even today, why would I need anything else?
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Put it all under the mattress. Seriously.
Buy land 30 meters above sea level ..
(Or more to be even safer but since the biggest cities and therefor property value lies close to the sea I assume one don't want to take it to the extreme and buy land out in nowhere. On the other hand I count on it to be usable both in the case of rising sea levels but also to produce food for a bigger population.)
Well, something you can be sure of is that whatever stocks you have most likely don't represent true value.
So looking at that solid stuff may seem better.
But on the other hand you and everyone else hope your stocks will show unreasonable value increases over time, and as long as that's true you may want to gamble and hold onto them some more hoping everyone will keep on playing that stupid game. Money for nothing ..
So what if it sucks? it's cheap to produce and sells acceptably well.
Now you sound like someone over at Apple.
That's good for employees and stock-holders but most of us around here are consumers. And for the consumer it matters a freaking lot.
While Sony and Microsoft lost a fortune with their super-duper-powerful machines, Nintendo is profitable all the way. IT PRINTS MONEY!
I think the Xbox360 generates money by now. Doubt the PS3 was a profitable endeavor but on the other hand PS1 and PS2 probably was (though by then they wasn't the most powerful consoles, PS1 for a while maybe PS2 less so than even the Gamecube.)
If nothing else the PS3 may have bought Sony the whole Blu-ray market and that's probably profitable for them.
I'd still pick a Wii but then I'm a pirate so I would just see it as a cheap investment to get a bunch of games I would like to try out. The PS3 fails in that regard (and that's probably a big reason why it sells in less volume. For instance imho the original Xbox was totally uninteresting until the mod-chips and bigger harddrives helped it out ..)
Wii being a Nintendo product I assume that's "suck" in the Super-Nintendo kind of way (maybe slightly less durable thanks to using discs.)
Sure it's slow but whatever there's something really wrong with the hardware I have no idea.
For instance I remember how many more had problems with their PS2 lasers than with the Gamecube one (though to be honest the Ps2s where probably put to more use ..) and I'm pretty sure Xbox360 failure rates are much higher than Wii ones.
Yes, reusable have proven to be the way to go, but ... going millions of miles.
Exactly! I tried it out with my boxers but they got really smelly!
As a European (British), I have yet to see or know of one person make or receive a video call, its just not that widespread and plenty of new phones on the market don't have front facing cameras.
Ok, don't know about current gen, I have a 5+ year old Ericsson GSM phone without wap, mms and whatever crap configured, bought it for 250 sek used years ago :D
Anyway the whole catch for 3G back then and as advertised through the company 3 was video calls (free video calls to others with 3 I think) and the people who bought them was mostly deaf people who finally got a way to communicate with their friends by a distance.
And phones like Sony-Ericsson Z800 which was quite early (not really), quite "cheap" and was 3G had a front facing camera for video calls. Maybe they have dropped it by now because what people care for and sees as a benefit with 3G is higher data speeds instead of video calls, back then phones didn't had browsers .. (and 3G didn't really catched on that fast either.)
I've only received two MMS but well, I don't have it configured, lack friends and don't have a phone camera. I know one of them was from a girl who sent an image of herself from the phone though, so I assume some people used it that way, or maybe to make "more fun" messages. Though nowadays e-mail, facebook and IM services would make it just as good.
Never the less they have added MMS capability? Haven't they? And they have made it 3G instead of GSM even though GSM was very basic (over here) even when the first one was released, and I'm quite sure it will get a front-facing camera at some time, no matter whatever it will be used for video calls or iChat/Skype.
All of those are things I would had expected to be there from version 1. And I hate Apple for cripple in purpose. I do understand it's a good market strategy because then they can sell items again, even though they never sell the best or most worth/$ item, they seem to be happy with the later and less sales for bigger profit on each item and resells to those who buy. They do the same with VRAM(/HDDs/..) on macs (HDD can be fixed though, cheap out on VRAM can't.)
Thats one significant exclusion in 4 major iterations of hte OS
Major iterations and major iterations.
Aren't they more like rebrands of the OS for each new feature update/fix of the phone?
No one else than Apple would had made a new smartphone (for the european market at least) without 3G, without frontfacing camera, without videocalls and without MMS ability when the first version came out. IMHO it just look like they sell more of the same. Kinda like Nintendo with GBA and DS updates (except I doubt Nintendo cripple them on purpose, "oh let's make these buttons really awkward so someone buy the next version!") Sure you want the newest one / most features if you get a new one but it's hardly a new product of its own.
Though I'm no iPhone expert by any means, but I won't look at the iPhone as four generations of a phone. The earlier ones are way too recent and way too expensive to be considered crap you just throw away every half-year or such.
OS for making phone calls? Yes.
OS capable at doing all the stuff you expect your desktop PC to do including being able to install thousands of apps? Probably not so much.
Or well, as long as a webkit browser and webapps isn't enough, which they may be.
Do you have 30 million dollars to risk and feel lucky? Well do ya PUNK?
No but I live in EU.
In Sweden even so I couldn't care less, even if I knew it was wrong I would still do it ;D
If you can flash the device, then yes, you can install them on any phone. It's a replacement of the OS.
No shit, but:
1) Can I flash it with my custom firmware or are they signed somehow?
2) Will it work?
If one of 1 or 2 isn't true then it fails ..
I just want an upgradeable phone. Retarded to trash the complete phone just to get a software update when the hardware is fine as is.
Flash doesn't things you just can't do with the web using any other technology.
That doesn't matter shit for the user, only for the developer.
Either you can view the content or you can't.
Without flash you can't.
Simple as that and rather inconvenient. Shit or not.
.. oh, and regarding flash:
Yeah, flash _is_ trash. And I thank Apple for helping us getting rid of flash dependency but as long as it's needed to access all the web I don't wanna be without it.
One man uninstalling flash won't stop websites from using it.
But can you install them on any Android phone? Which I think is what he was after.
To me it seems like Android is mostly open-source for the phone manufacturer to modify and do whatever they want to as long as Google get control over the users data and platform.
That's good and all for them.
But personally I would had wanted something which was open for me as user, with upgradeable and tweakable installations.
I don't know if drivers are an issue at all but if they are I would had wanted the phone manufacturer to send their patches back to Google which would had added them to their source.
Beyond that I just want a phone not controlled by the vendor with an easy to replace firmware so that I can just build the latest android version and put it on the phone, eventually with any hacks or tweaks I want.
AFAIK this isn't the current situation and hence as far as being a user goes the openness doesn't have much of a benefit at all.
I don't own an Android phone so I may have understood things wrong, when it comes to replacing "firmwares" on the phone I assume in some cases that may make you lose vendor-specific software (highly likely), be hard or worked against by the phone manufacturer (no vendor supplied solution, lack of drivers/phone knowledge, signed and eventually encrypted firmware.)
Bad as it may be I remember reading how all oil dumped into the sea outside Kuwait ended up being more beneficial (according to the article that is ...) to the environment (guess that's seen in a very short perspective to) since it was the fishing industry which affected life in the area the most and thanks to the spill nature got a way to catch up.
Or something such.
And it was huge volumes then to.
Reading the fucking article all I can say is that the stuff on the wall in the photo in the article looks much better than that rat anyway. Now if only people could stop tagging everything.
What?!! 4.3 billion people live in USA, UK and France?
Except Blizzard games isn't cider "ports."
Not to forget it's already a better gaming platform than macs :D
Yeah, anyone believing Blizzards success comes from only releasing good games should really have their brains checked in for service.
Macs where it's at.
"Omg, have you seen this new game? It's amazing! It runs on OS X!", though, if said by a mac user I guess one can understand his excitement no matter what crap title it would be said about. Atleast it's a game, for a mac! ..
Pay twice for half the performance and 1/1000 of the games!
No because Apple fail in making macs a viable gaming platform. Or well, guess one could simply conclude they just fail at large I suppose.
I know they would have a problem to enforce the i-part of the name but I've always thought it was funny if they started complaining on the iPad name vs iPaq. Don't know how the juridical field for that look though :D. Probably impossible.
I don't see why I would want yet another platform. Vendor specific tweaks (rather addons possible to install on stock firmware please) on top of Android would make much more sense to me than yet another OS.
The applications will always be more important than the OS choice.
.. right, they also make printer accessories.
That is a problem everywhere, I feel the same about girls born 1979, Amiga, Ericsson, ..
And I would still have my TI-85 from the same time if I haven't put it in a backpack together with flavoured oat milk before taking the train Örebro -> Göteborg back in.. say 2004?
Milk carton where open -> Lain down in car to the train -> wet backpack -> salts & batteries in calculator = Fail.
Not as "cool" as the HP48G but well, nothing wrong with it to this date except some ICs lost their legs in the process. Would had worked just fine if that wouldn't had happened even today, why would I need anything else?