The existing Android 2.2 tablets are orders of magnitude more complex than the Ipad.
Spoken like that guy who needs to cut off a 1/2" dowel rod and pulls out the saw horses, circular saw, extension cords, clamps and half a dozen other items in order to do it.
I'm more the handsaw on the knee kind of guy--the simplest tool that will get the job done.
"Which is more important--quality and lower-tech or bug-ridden and bleeding edge? There's no real answer to this, as it's a matter of perspective."
You are partly right. There actually is an answer to this which is born of the only perspective that matters in the marketplace--the customer. Clearly, the number of customers who want "bug-ridden and bleeding edge" is far smaller than the number who want "quality and lower-tech."
From TFA "Bing has been watching what people search for on Google, the sites they select from Google’s results, then uses that information to improve Bing’s own search listings."
Two things to note: 1) this statement says that Bing is using the user searches and user selections to improve its own search results, not the Google search returns; 2) the article doesn't exclude the (probably very great) likelihood that Bing also tracks user selections from searches executed on Bing to improve its own results.
Nothing to see here (other than Google's fear of losing search share), so move along.
Mod this post up. IANAVN (I am not a Visual Neuroscientist) but I noticed the same thing. If I narrowed the focus to a specific section of the circle, even when it was moving, I could see the color , shading, or shape changes with no problem. I had a hard time focusing on the entire ring at the same time when moving.
Just as an aside, is this really news? Don't most of us recognize from everyday life that it takes more effort to focus on details of moving objects, the faster the objects are moving relative to our visual frame? For instance: standing next to the highway, it is difficult to read the writing on the side of a truck, but if you are in the adjacent lane in a car going nearly the same speed, it is easy, or if you are standing farther away than the side of the highway it is easy to read.
Maybe you don't understand what drives stock price: growth. If you want to invest $20,000.00 today in MS and get $20,000.00 back 20 years from now, you probably want MS to keep doing what it is doing. It does do it well, but it also owns the market for what it does. If MS has 90% of the OS and Applications market, how does it grow unless the entire market enlarges? Ever wonder why Apple's stock is on fire? It has three product lines, all with massive growth potential. Look at the Mac. It was at about 2.5% marketshare a few years ago, now it is at about 10%. That's 400% growth. I want to see MS experience even 10% marketshare growth. It can't. This is why it is imperative that MS seek new markets and new product lines. This is a valid business strategy, not a bipolar episode.
Besides, Google TV sucks ass, so all MS has to do is make a slightly cheaper, slightly less ass-sucky product and it should be able to capture some marketshare.
With YouTube, Google had a business plan of copyright infringement of IP from various networks. Now Google releases a device to make money off freely available content from those same providers and the providers have said "no." Strikes me Google might just have to start spending money on producing products, rather than trying to mooch off everyone else. Sure, it's worked pretty well so far, but Google can't really expect everyone else to remain stupid, just because they have been stupid thus far.
Actually, I don't know of any OS, even Windows, that forces users to install Adobe products. I'm running OSX and XP and I have successfully managed to not install Adobe products on both OSes.
Maybe you are running Chrome. I haven't used it, but since Google is Adobe's new favorite butt-boy, maybe it forces Adobe products on its users.
I really don't think we can lay bad application design onto the OS developers. Maybe we should just blame the application developers.
Right. Google "accidentally" copied and pasted the wrong code segment, and "accidentally" ended up loggin more than they "intended" to. Wink. Wink. They also "accidentally" never noticed that their storage media was filling up must faster than originally planned.
Why would they be logging any information at all from unencrypted wifi? I drive around all the time with an iPhone and an iPad and I sometimes even "borrow" open wifi bandwidth. I have never once purposely or "accidentally" logged any information coming from the wifi. Maybe I'm just dense, but I can't even imagine how I could "accidentally" log data.
They "disclosed" the information after they got caught.
If Microsoft had done this, people would be throwing an absolute shit fit. Google does it and people fall all over themselves tying to explain how Google wouldn't do anything bad, it was all just a tragic "accident."
Dude, stop drinking the Google kool-aid. Seriously, you Google fanboys take the prize. We Apple fanboys can't even hold a candle to you.
Excellent point. Linux does it so much better. That is why MS and Apple are struggling for a couple of factions of a percent of market share against the desktop Linux behemoth.
FTFS: mobile devices account for 2.6% of web traffic, but the iOS accounts for only 1.1% so it doesn't have a dominant position. However, if those figures are correct, then the iOS has roughly 47% of the mobile market, which is probably the biggest single slice of that pie.
To throw in another wrinkle, Android supposedly has 17% of the smartphone market while iOS has 24% and RIM has 39%. Do Blackberry users, not surf the web?
Well, see, the Cherrypal promises to make you an eternal fraud virgin. Every time you get your fraud cherry popped, your Cherrypal will put it back in. That's the promise of this new technology.
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I quit reading Consumer Reports when the dip-shit reviewer told me that the Nissan 300ZX had "questionable styling" and "limited seating options."
If you are still reading Consumer Reports, I feel sorry for you, but CmdrTaco will love you.
The lesson is: judge sports cars by sports car criteria; judge electronic devices by criteria appropriate to the device. CmdrTaco failed to do that.
For example, a force that does not wear uniforms and hides among civilians is both not entitled to the protections of the conventions, but also is the responsible party in any attack that kills those civilians. You wear uniforms and try to avoid the civilians so that your enemy won't attack your civilians.
No. This is simply poorly-researched revisionist nonsense. I guess you have never heard of the French Resistance or any of the various other national resistance movements supported by the Allied during WWII.
GCIV Article 33. "No protected person may be punished for an offense he or she has not personally committed. Collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited."
Civilians are "protected persons" and the restriction is against the occupying power.
The fact that the parent was modded to a 4 proves how little slashdotters know about law. Maybe we should stick to praising Linux and dissing Windows.
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So basically the reviewer has picked a iPad to review using it for tasks for which is is completely unsuited and is disappointed that it doesn't have features that is is advertised to NOT HAVE (i.e. flash).
Well, I really wanted something new to wipe my ass with. See, toilet paper is too flimsy and my finger keeps diggin' into shit. So I bought an iPad, hoping it would solve all my problems, but I found it too hard and too cold and the shit kept cloggin the little button-thingy, and it was too expensive to be disposable.
My conclusion is that the iPad will be an epic fail.
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Yes, it can. The reviewer seems completely ignorant of the features of the machine he is reviewing.
Well, since Wisconsin apparently in an alternative retro-universe where people print emails rather than just reading them on the screen, we might as well assume that they still use old-style CRT's that form letters by lighting green or amber pixels on an otherwise dark screen.
Clue: e-ink does not melt your eyes like a TFT with a backlight...
Right. And I suppose you have replaced your computer monitor with an e-ink screen.
Since most of us spend all day in front of a computer staring at text on a TFT screen with backlight, I can't imagine that a little casual reading with it will "melt [our] eyes" if they haven't been melted already. Besides, at this point, haven't most of us learned how to reduce eye-strain by turning down the brightness or moving the monitor farther away or other things?
I used the Nokia 770 for a long time as an ebook reader. I really loved it. The screen was excellent and the volume buttons were correctly placed for paging forward adn backward one handed and it was about the size of a thin DAW paperback from the 70's. For the price, how could you beat the 770? Great battery life, excellent screen, wifi, plenty of expandable RAM, oh yeah, and it was a real computer with other functionality as well. IMHO, the Kindle doesn't even come close.
I'm with you that the iPad is probably going to be the winner, just depends on the size and the otehr functionality.
Slashdot is not representative of the computer using market as a whole. I venture to guess that most computer users do not have jobs as programmers, systems administrators, or video content creators. I don't. I'm a trial attorney.
For me, the iPad has more promise than any computing device since the original Newton. I envision being able to carry with me entire files to the court and acccess them in a simple and intuitive manner (unlike a laptop which is cumbersom and cannot really be carried around the courtroom). I will also have constant access to my calendar, my contacts, my billing database, and my email. Althouhgh most of what I would do on this device involves the manipulation of previously created documents, I would certainly be able to make notes during the trial, and, if required, I will be able to create full documents on the road and send them out as necessary (something a phone is simply too small for).
I would imagine that Doctors, Sales Agents, architects, engineers, and many other professionals who have to do "field work" would find this far more useful than traditional laptops.
Remember, just because you spend most of your time in front of a computer sitting on a flat surface, doesn't mean that everyone does. There are huge numbers of us who do not, but we have not been adequately served by a reasonably priced computing device until (potentially) now.
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The existing Android 2.2 tablets are orders of magnitude more complex than the Ipad.
Spoken like that guy who needs to cut off a 1/2" dowel rod and pulls out the saw horses, circular saw, extension cords, clamps and half a dozen other items in order to do it.
I'm more the handsaw on the knee kind of guy--the simplest tool that will get the job done.
"Which is more important--quality and lower-tech or bug-ridden and bleeding edge? There's no real answer to this, as it's a matter of perspective."
You are partly right. There actually is an answer to this which is born of the only perspective that matters in the marketplace--the customer. Clearly, the number of customers who want "bug-ridden and bleeding edge" is far smaller than the number who want "quality and lower-tech."
From TFA "Bing has been watching what people search for on Google, the sites they select from Google’s results, then uses that information to improve Bing’s own search listings."
Two things to note: 1) this statement says that Bing is using the user searches and user selections to improve its own search results, not the Google search returns; 2) the article doesn't exclude the (probably very great) likelihood that Bing also tracks user selections from searches executed on Bing to improve its own results.
Nothing to see here (other than Google's fear of losing search share), so move along.
Yeah, I have to agree with you. We have to trust Google. Our eyes lie. Are minds are warped. Only Google is TRUTH. Queue the fanboi choir.
Mod this post up. IANAVN (I am not a Visual Neuroscientist) but I noticed the same thing. If I narrowed the focus to a specific section of the circle, even when it was moving, I could see the color , shading, or shape changes with no problem. I had a hard time focusing on the entire ring at the same time when moving.
Just as an aside, is this really news? Don't most of us recognize from everyday life that it takes more effort to focus on details of moving objects, the faster the objects are moving relative to our visual frame? For instance: standing next to the highway, it is difficult to read the writing on the side of a truck, but if you are in the adjacent lane in a car going nearly the same speed, it is easy, or if you are standing farther away than the side of the highway it is easy to read.
Maybe you don't understand what drives stock price: growth. If you want to invest $20,000.00 today in MS and get $20,000.00 back 20 years from now, you probably want MS to keep doing what it is doing. It does do it well, but it also owns the market for what it does. If MS has 90% of the OS and Applications market, how does it grow unless the entire market enlarges? Ever wonder why Apple's stock is on fire? It has three product lines, all with massive growth potential. Look at the Mac. It was at about 2.5% marketshare a few years ago, now it is at about 10%. That's 400% growth. I want to see MS experience even 10% marketshare growth. It can't. This is why it is imperative that MS seek new markets and new product lines. This is a valid business strategy, not a bipolar episode.
Besides, Google TV sucks ass, so all MS has to do is make a slightly cheaper, slightly less ass-sucky product and it should be able to capture some marketshare.
Yeah, I was wondering about that one too. Any conception I can come up with doesn't look good, so they must have much better imaginations than I do.
With YouTube, Google had a business plan of copyright infringement of IP from various networks. Now Google releases a device to make money off freely available content from those same providers and the providers have said "no." Strikes me Google might just have to start spending money on producing products, rather than trying to mooch off everyone else. Sure, it's worked pretty well so far, but Google can't really expect everyone else to remain stupid, just because they have been stupid thus far.
No man is so evil that he cannot turn around and receive God's embrace.
In light of rampant Catholic pedophilia, that statement creates a really creepy image.
Actually, I don't know of any OS, even Windows, that forces users to install Adobe products. I'm running OSX and XP and I have successfully managed to not install Adobe products on both OSes.
Maybe you are running Chrome. I haven't used it, but since Google is Adobe's new favorite butt-boy, maybe it forces Adobe products on its users.
I really don't think we can lay bad application design onto the OS developers. Maybe we should just blame the application developers.
Right. Google "accidentally" copied and pasted the wrong code segment, and "accidentally" ended up loggin more than they "intended" to. Wink. Wink. They also "accidentally" never noticed that their storage media was filling up must faster than originally planned.
Why would they be logging any information at all from unencrypted wifi? I drive around all the time with an iPhone and an iPad and I sometimes even "borrow" open wifi bandwidth. I have never once purposely or "accidentally" logged any information coming from the wifi. Maybe I'm just dense, but I can't even imagine how I could "accidentally" log data.
They "disclosed" the information after they got caught.
If Microsoft had done this, people would be throwing an absolute shit fit. Google does it and people fall all over themselves tying to explain how Google wouldn't do anything bad, it was all just a tragic "accident."
Dude, stop drinking the Google kool-aid. Seriously, you Google fanboys take the prize. We Apple fanboys can't even hold a candle to you.
Excellent point. Linux does it so much better. That is why MS and Apple are struggling for a couple of factions of a percent of market share against the desktop Linux behemoth.
FTFS: mobile devices account for 2.6% of web traffic, but the iOS accounts for only 1.1% so it doesn't have a dominant position. However, if those figures are correct, then the iOS has roughly 47% of the mobile market, which is probably the biggest single slice of that pie.
To throw in another wrinkle, Android supposedly has 17% of the smartphone market while iOS has 24% and RIM has 39%. Do Blackberry users, not surf the web?
Is "state of the art data center" new slang for "penis"?
I thought that was a picture of Joachim Phoenix and that maybe he had gotten released from hip hop rehab.
Well, see, the Cherrypal promises to make you an eternal fraud virgin. Every time you get your fraud cherry popped, your Cherrypal will put it back in. That's the promise of this new technology.
I quit reading Consumer Reports when the dip-shit reviewer told me that the Nissan 300ZX had "questionable styling" and "limited seating options."
If you are still reading Consumer Reports, I feel sorry for you, but CmdrTaco will love you.
The lesson is: judge sports cars by sports car criteria; judge electronic devices by criteria appropriate to the device. CmdrTaco failed to do that.
For example, a force that does not wear uniforms and hides among civilians is both not entitled to the protections of the conventions, but also is the responsible party in any attack that kills those civilians. You wear uniforms and try to avoid the civilians so that your enemy won't attack your civilians.
No. This is simply poorly-researched revisionist nonsense. I guess you have never heard of the French Resistance or any of the various other national resistance movements supported by the Allied during WWII.
GCIV Article 33. "No protected person may be punished for an offense he or she has not personally committed. Collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited."
Civilians are "protected persons" and the restriction is against the occupying power.
The fact that the parent was modded to a 4 proves how little slashdotters know about law. Maybe we should stick to praising Linux and dissing Windows.
So basically the reviewer has picked a iPad to review using it for tasks for which is is completely unsuited and is disappointed that it doesn't have features that is is advertised to NOT HAVE (i.e. flash).
Well, I really wanted something new to wipe my ass with. See, toilet paper is too flimsy and my finger keeps diggin' into shit. So I bought an iPad, hoping it would solve all my problems, but I found it too hard and too cold and the shit kept cloggin the little button-thingy, and it was too expensive to be disposable.
My conclusion is that the iPad will be an epic fail.
Yes, it can. The reviewer seems completely ignorant of the features of the machine he is reviewing.
Well, since Wisconsin apparently in an alternative retro-universe where people print emails rather than just reading them on the screen, we might as well assume that they still use old-style CRT's that form letters by lighting green or amber pixels on an otherwise dark screen.
What fucking German hasn't heard of World War II, the last time they thought a totalitarian state was a good idea?
Clue: e-ink does not melt your eyes like a TFT with a backlight...
Right. And I suppose you have replaced your computer monitor with an e-ink screen.
Since most of us spend all day in front of a computer staring at text on a TFT screen with backlight, I can't imagine that a little casual reading with it will "melt [our] eyes" if they haven't been melted already. Besides, at this point, haven't most of us learned how to reduce eye-strain by turning down the brightness or moving the monitor farther away or other things?
I used the Nokia 770 for a long time as an ebook reader. I really loved it. The screen was excellent and the volume buttons were correctly placed for paging forward adn backward one handed and it was about the size of a thin DAW paperback from the 70's. For the price, how could you beat the 770? Great battery life, excellent screen, wifi, plenty of expandable RAM, oh yeah, and it was a real computer with other functionality as well. IMHO, the Kindle doesn't even come close.
I'm with you that the iPad is probably going to be the winner, just depends on the size and the otehr functionality.
Slashdot is not representative of the computer using market as a whole. I venture to guess that most computer users do not have jobs as programmers, systems administrators, or video content creators. I don't. I'm a trial attorney.
For me, the iPad has more promise than any computing device since the original Newton. I envision being able to carry with me entire files to the court and acccess them in a simple and intuitive manner (unlike a laptop which is cumbersom and cannot really be carried around the courtroom). I will also have constant access to my calendar, my contacts, my billing database, and my email. Althouhgh most of what I would do on this device involves the manipulation of previously created documents, I would certainly be able to make notes during the trial, and, if required, I will be able to create full documents on the road and send them out as necessary (something a phone is simply too small for).
I would imagine that Doctors, Sales Agents, architects, engineers, and many other professionals who have to do "field work" would find this far more useful than traditional laptops.
Remember, just because you spend most of your time in front of a computer sitting on a flat surface, doesn't mean that everyone does. There are huge numbers of us who do not, but we have not been adequately served by a reasonably priced computing device until (potentially) now.