Structurally, the "screen" is glass touchscreen bonded to glass LCD underneath. Taking the back off reveals that that too is nothing significant.
Making the underlying LCD a little wider/taller would not impact the outer dimensions and in my opinion would only improve the unit.
I have a 4 and I do find myself tapping accidentally when I grip the device.
From my old WinCE PDAs, WinMo phones and through Android I've always maintained that a large screen is important for a device that you will spend a lot of time looking at intently.
Games, the net, e-books, movies, SSH and pictures all require your eyes to be pointed at a screen for long periods of time. The bigger the screen the easier on your eyes it is, I would have thought. Plus, when you're using tabbed browsing, or you can't get rid of the status bar, you really need the extra screen real estate.
If desired though, these products usually have the capability for being very invasive. eg: TV set top boxes can record all kinds of info about your viewing habits: every button push on the remote can be recorded, effectively recording much about your viewing habits.
I've always assumed this was the case, which is why I make a point of pushing the mute button every time the commercials start.
I will point out that I'm in the UK though; I couldn't afford the power to recharge the remote's batteries if I were to follow this strategy in the USofA.
Even with the parts about hardware not working, ACPI fans/power management going mad, Flash (diediedie) being good, Exchange integration and almost hitting the "WTF is compile???" (but skirting around it nicely), he still managed to get a +5.
Would that all trolls were as good at eliciting a careful considered and well thought out reply that deals successfully with these issues, that someone might read and find useful.
Kudos to JCholewa for giving such a large FU to all the FUD in the post.
It isn't about the best technology, it's about market penetration and availability.
Windows has never been the best, nor most efficient technology for x86 32/64, but it's always been the most popular.
I remember having a floppy that created IPX drivers for NE2000 compatibles to run on coax, and yes, we all went out and discovered "networking" at that time.
AdLib, SB and GUS were all present in most games, but SB was the one that all games had. Under DOSbox everything that has SB has sound.
GUS should have black boxed the Creative gear (even when AWE32 came out people were still using 8bit SBs) to help with some of the crap we have now. Driver standardisation could have come about a lot earlier if people like me didn't have to carry around floppies full of drivers for different chipsets. It wasn't just sound, as far as VGA goes I had Cirrus Logic, but I kept others on hand, including SciTech's uniVBE gear for LAN parties.
Patenting, copyrighting and closed source gear has turned this opportunity into a minefield as far as computers that "just work" goes. If your gear works better, is prettier and has better warranty than the next guy you will sell more units. Locking every other player out just means that people resent your industry and you for not playing nicely. The consumer wants your gear, and if you don't perform well enough they will buy someone else's. Don't make that hard to do or they won't buy your gear again. SONY.
On 16 November 2006, it was announced that BT were making an offer for all shares in Plusnet. The BT deal (worth approximately £67m) was declared unconditional on 24 January 2007 (after OFT approval was granted).
I suggest that both you and the GP should probably take a look at the Virgin Throttling for higher speed lines.
I'm on the M service and I can raep (oops, my ED side is showing) torrents like they're... free, as long as I do it at the right time.
Knowing when those times are and having a decent aftermarket firmware on my router which I can set cron jobs in means that I can throttle up and down at the right times so I don't get 5 hours of shit slow service twice a day.
I'm on size M and I do OK. It does take me forever to get up to the 2-1 ratio that I always reach before killing a torrent though.
Just for the info of anyone reading this, not necessarily you; ALWAYS encrypt your BitTorrent traffic, ALWAYS use HTTPS to download your.torrent files and ALWAYS seed to more than 1-1 ratio!
I'm really trying to find something to replace it before I dump it.
I got the iOS updated Skype client last week and looked up how to downgrade it to 3.5.
I'm annoyed at the ads, I'm annoyed at the Windows client being so crowded and full of crap and I'll stick with the Linux client as much as possible.
If I find something that works through NAT and on my Android/iOS devices I'll be dumping Skype rather smartly, because my definition of "useful software" is not ad-riddled bloated crap, which is what Skype has become on Windows, and is going to be on all platforms soon (IMO).
According to sources I won't cite here, three.co.uk let you have "all you can eat" data (I think that means "unlimited" but that word has been purloined by people who mean "limited" when they use it) that you can tether legitimately from your phone or using one of their dongles.
And they then get added to IMEI blacklists that make the phone useless.*
Carrier locks have nothing to do with fraud or theft, unless it is fraud on the part of the carrier by making people use the phones they sold them on their generic network signal.
* In the UK this happens. Does the other side of the pond use the IMEI database to make iPhones into iPod Touches too?
1. Hide your SSID (this in itself requires crazy measures to get around, far beyond a script kiddie)
Utterly wrong. Most skiddies will be using Linux (backtrack) with Aircrack-ng. Unknown SSIDs show their MACs up immediately. You don't need the network name to crack WiFi, just the MAC.
I had cause to replace a seatbelt socket on a Ford a few months back.
Imagine my annoyance when I discovered it needed a T-45 and I only had up to T-30.
This afternoon I had cause to attempt a service on an espresso machine. It had security screws on two of eight in the baseplate, which I have a bit for. The problem came when I tried to insert the bit, surrounded by the holder into the small recess.
I will just go out and buy another screwdriver. A £1 screwdriver is cheaper than a £50 shop repair.
I have a huge collection of Torx bits from changing the cases on mobile phones. Those lovely people in China always seem to include a toolkit with the shells.
The showstopper for me is the lack of an aftermarket keyboard.
I can live with a lot of Android functionality being missing on iOS (4.3.3, Cydia), but I don't like not having SwiftKey. Hell, I'd even take the Gingerbread default. The iOS non-predicting auto-correcting keyboard is just dross.
Having to dual boot to run iTunes is a real PITA, but I can live with that too. I suppose if I invested a few hours one day I could get either USB through VirtualBox working or gPod (both of which I've tried with little or no success in the past).
As a media player with stable Skype and SIP the iPhone4 makes a great secondary device with long battery life, but my ZTE Blade with CM7 will stay as my primary phone.
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Structurally, the "screen" is glass touchscreen bonded to glass LCD underneath. Taking the back off reveals that that too is nothing significant.
Making the underlying LCD a little wider/taller would not impact the outer dimensions and in my opinion would only improve the unit.
I have a 4 and I do find myself tapping accidentally when I grip the device.
From my old WinCE PDAs, WinMo phones and through Android I've always maintained that a large screen is important for a device that you will spend a lot of time looking at intently.
Games, the net, e-books, movies, SSH and pictures all require your eyes to be pointed at a screen for long periods of time. The bigger the screen the easier on your eyes it is, I would have thought. Plus, when you're using tabbed browsing, or you can't get rid of the status bar, you really need the extra screen real estate.
It's not "international," it's Americo-centric.
This is not a criticism.
And even the high-up fruit that we get on this site might not be aware of the knowledge centres of Airstrip One.
If desired though, these products usually have the capability for being very invasive. eg: TV set top boxes can record all kinds of info about your viewing habits: every button push on the remote can be recorded, effectively recording much about your viewing habits.
I've always assumed this was the case, which is why I make a point of pushing the mute button every time the commercials start.
I will point out that I'm in the UK though; I couldn't afford the power to recharge the remote's batteries if I were to follow this strategy in the USofA.
God made us so that we could change our physiology to adapt to new conditions like "gas mixture, temperature, air pressure, radiation, or nutrients".
I actually mean evolution, but Texas is a big place and karma isn't free.
We might do stranger things ...
As trolls go, it was a great one.
Even with the parts about hardware not working, ACPI fans/power management going mad, Flash (diediedie) being good, Exchange integration and almost hitting the "WTF is compile???" (but skirting around it nicely), he still managed to get a +5.
Would that all trolls were as good at eliciting a careful considered and well thought out reply that deals successfully with these issues, that someone might read and find useful.
Kudos to JCholewa for giving such a large FU to all the FUD in the post.
Install with anything you like, then use YaST to remove the crap and install whatever you want.
There might even be a version of KDE3.x in a repo somewhere if you really want to see openSUSE doing what it did best.
Don't be silly, only pirates use .torrents for movies and music *sigh*
It isn't about the best technology, it's about market penetration and availability.
Windows has never been the best, nor most efficient technology for x86 32/64, but it's always been the most popular.
I remember having a floppy that created IPX drivers for NE2000 compatibles to run on coax, and yes, we all went out and discovered "networking" at that time.
AdLib, SB and GUS were all present in most games, but SB was the one that all games had. Under DOSbox everything that has SB has sound.
GUS should have black boxed the Creative gear (even when AWE32 came out people were still using 8bit SBs) to help with some of the crap we have now. Driver standardisation could have come about a lot earlier if people like me didn't have to carry around floppies full of drivers for different chipsets. It wasn't just sound, as far as VGA goes I had Cirrus Logic, but I kept others on hand, including SciTech's uniVBE gear for LAN parties.
Patenting, copyrighting and closed source gear has turned this opportunity into a minefield as far as computers that "just work" goes. If your gear works better, is prettier and has better warranty than the next guy you will sell more units. Locking every other player out just means that people resent your industry and you for not playing nicely. The consumer wants your gear, and if you don't perform well enough they will buy someone else's. Don't make that hard to do or they won't buy your gear again. SONY.
Sorry, had a beer, ranted a bit. <big grin>
ED = Encyclopædia Dramatica. but never go there, you will be offended by some of the content.
Even mentioning it in certain places will get you ostracised.
Because Slashdot and extended characters don't always work, the æ is this symbol.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Plusnet#Acquisition_by_BT
On 16 November 2006, it was announced that BT were making an offer for all shares in Plusnet. The BT deal (worth approximately £67m) was declared unconditional on 24 January 2007 (after OFT approval was granted).
I suggest that both you and the GP should probably take a look at the Virgin Throttling for higher speed lines.
... free, as long as I do it at the right time.
I'm on the M service and I can raep (oops, my ED side is showing) torrents like they're
Knowing when those times are and having a decent aftermarket firmware on my router which I can set cron jobs in means that I can throttle up and down at the right times so I don't get 5 hours of shit slow service twice a day.
I'm on size M and I do OK. It does take me forever to get up to the 2-1 ratio that I always reach before killing a torrent though.
.torrent files and ALWAYS seed to more than 1-1 ratio!
Just for the info of anyone reading this, not necessarily you; ALWAYS encrypt your BitTorrent traffic, ALWAYS use HTTPS to download your
For years I've thought that WASTE was a great solution looking for a problem.
I would love to find a source of sashimi grade fish here in my part of the UK.
It can be done.
So always keep a small screwdriver handy.
I'm really trying to find something to replace it before I dump it.
I got the iOS updated Skype client last week and looked up how to downgrade it to 3.5.
I'm annoyed at the ads, I'm annoyed at the Windows client being so crowded and full of crap and I'll stick with the Linux client as much as possible.
If I find something that works through NAT and on my Android/iOS devices I'll be dumping Skype rather smartly, because my definition of "useful software" is not ad-riddled bloated crap, which is what Skype has become on Windows, and is going to be on all platforms soon (IMO).
My Motorola MR1 could receive texts, but not send them.
The two line LCD display wasn't really geared towards SMS.
According to sources I won't cite here, three.co.uk let you have "all you can eat" data (I think that means "unlimited" but that word has been purloined by people who mean "limited" when they use it) that you can tether legitimately from your phone or using one of their dongles.
Up to five years in jail in the UK stops a lot of people from doing it, that and it's actually quite hard to find the instructions on "nice" forums.
And they then get added to IMEI blacklists that make the phone useless.*
Carrier locks have nothing to do with fraud or theft, unless it is fraud on the part of the carrier by making people use the phones they sold them on their generic network signal.
* In the UK this happens. Does the other side of the pond use the IMEI database to make iPhones into iPod Touches too?
1. Hide your SSID (this in itself requires crazy measures to get around, far beyond a script kiddie)
Utterly wrong.
Most skiddies will be using Linux (backtrack) with Aircrack-ng. Unknown SSIDs show their MACs up immediately. You don't need the network name to crack WiFi, just the MAC.
Are you talking about me?
I had cause to replace a seatbelt socket on a Ford a few months back.
Imagine my annoyance when I discovered it needed a T-45 and I only had up to T-30.
This afternoon I had cause to attempt a service on an espresso machine. It had security screws on two of eight in the baseplate, which I have a bit for. The problem came when I tried to insert the bit, surrounded by the holder into the small recess.
I will just go out and buy another screwdriver. A £1 screwdriver is cheaper than a £50 shop repair.
I have a huge collection of Torx bits from changing the cases on mobile phones. Those lovely people in China always seem to include a toolkit with the shells.
The showstopper for me is the lack of an aftermarket keyboard.
I can live with a lot of Android functionality being missing on iOS (4.3.3, Cydia), but I don't like not having SwiftKey. Hell, I'd even take the Gingerbread default. The iOS non-predicting auto-correcting keyboard is just dross.
Having to dual boot to run iTunes is a real PITA, but I can live with that too. I suppose if I invested a few hours one day I could get either USB through VirtualBox working or gPod (both of which I've tried with little or no success in the past).
As a media player with stable Skype and SIP the iPhone4 makes a great secondary device with long battery life, but my ZTE Blade with CM7 will stay as my primary phone.