AND, thats because, chrome does NOT install in the usual "program files location". IT installs in the USER's profile. Hence, no need to security elevation (UAC), but more headaches for sys admins, as the software is not installed int he usual location, and can causes issues with remote profiles, etc.
Well, when I was a teacher, (and even now in my professional life), I used to ask everyone a simple question.
"What is the difference between a Programmer, a Software Engineer, and a Hacker?"
To which i give the answer: "When presented with a square hole and a round peg and told to integrate: The programmer will say, it cannot be done. The Engineer will re-engineer the hole and/or the peg in order to fit properly, the Hacker does the same, but with a Hammer."
However, in any real project (especially agile) you need people with all three mentalities. You need the developers to code the menial stuff, allowing the engineers to focus on the more chalenging aspects, and sometimes you need the hacker mentality to meet a particular deadline, as long as you have a long term plan to refactor that code later.
Actually my greatest concern is that over here in the UK, our data plans are relatively "ok priced" from some providers, but no way as good as they used to be a couple of years back. 3 still provide unlimited plans, T-Mobile provides a 10gb plan, which you can use for anything, including voip, tethering, etc, for abotu £28 ($35).
However, whenever USA increases something, we find the UK providers following suite to "harmonise" the market.. grrrr.
I humbly disagree. I am European, and i can say, that although Nokia was never "bad", they didn't always have the "tech" hardware, or software, their price tags warrented.
I have owned, or had access to a huge variaty of phones from 1997, to present, including the Nokia 8110 ( the Matrix phone), 6150, 6210, 8210, Ericsson T68, T610, P800, S700, K800, N95, Moto v3i, and many other brands, including HTC, and Apple.
Take the early days (1995 - 1996) when i first got my mobile phone. Of the "big three", Nokia Ericsson and Motorola. Moto was known for "cheaper" but relatively solid, if basic phones. Nokia's flagship was the 2110, and Ericsson had the EH337. The Ericsson phone was by far better build quality, was more robust, had more "features".
Nokia then brought out the 8110 in 1996 (the same phone that later appeared in the Matrix) and that phone pushed Nokia into the market due to its style, and "number of ringtones". However, the phone was not as well built as Ericsson, and arguably lacked many key features (keyguard, clock, etc). the Phone was a marketting success for Nokia, not nessesarily a tech one. I had one myself.
After that, Nokia improved their platform, starting with the 6110, the 2110, which launched the infamous "nokia ui" together with the prorietry Ringtones/Logos, etc. The current Series 40 is an evolution from that. Right up until 2001 with the release of Ericsson T68, Nokia had the UI experience that beat other manufacturers.
Their tech may have not always been the most advanced: indeed Others had POP email, Bluetooth, open ringtones/picture support. Nokia's first bluetooth implementations were a joke, with phones being shipped with bluetooth on and discoverable as standard, resulting in those Nokia users being easy pickings for BlueJacking. Even today, Nokias implementation of Bluetooth although a lot better than android/iphone/ and most others, are still not as good as most comparable Sony Ericsson feature phones, still not supporting multi connections. Their email support still doesnt support IMAP idle in a sane way (Sony ericssons have been supporting that since the K800i)
However the Nokia UI, and propritry customisations drove the market. The problem for nokia came when they originally released the Series 60, they wanted to emulate the Original Nokia UI as much as possible. It was argued that UIQ by Symbian was a better implementation, which would have been more "touch friendly" from the go, as it was already a pen interface.
This was what caused the huge legacy problems in the future. When I got my Nokia N95, although i was really impressed by the hardware, the tech was amazing, the software was really confusing, and long in the tooth. For example: - Nokia still has the same T9 implementation it had on earlier phones, whereas other manufactureres have improved the technology incredibly. - 3 different places to set varies WiFi parameters (grrr) - disjointed settings, lack of clarity.
This was the reason Nokia messed up. IT wasnt as much that the Apple iphone touch interface was soo "good", whcih admittedly it was, it was more the case that Series 60 became so "bad", and apple just polished up.
And you sir do an epic fail. read very carefully the GPs post, and see he said that ALL PS3s play PS1 games. He is correct. You are correct with regards to the PS2, however.
Not really, the logistics of carrying a train across a ferry, is far more higher than just going by train to departure port, taking ferry, then catching another train at the destination.
Although I am glad that this very evil person is no longer with us, I am not going to "celebrate", as my mind and heart is still with the victims and their families. For them, nothing is going to bring back their loss. The death of a man who either directly caused their death, or helped spawn the ideology that caused others to kill, represents a shallow victory.
This man caused the deaths of many, and instigated a sense of fear that today still affects millions accross the world in security, and other issues.
I will be tweeting and celebrating only when the tide of intolerance, and evil fanaticism is eradicated totally, and myself and my family can look forward to living free in a world where we do not have to fear that a person is plotting to kill me, just because my views of life and liberty is different to theirs.
Unfortunately, although the artist would certainly love you for that. The record label they are associated with will not, and its the record label that has the legal resources to still do you in.
Actually I would say that Top Gear is NOTHING LIKE Fox News (which still tries to cast itself as serious, and more importantly have viewers who genuinely think its serious).
Top gear prides itself for being brash, corney and the viewers over here in the UK fully understand that. Even my wife, who is about as serious about documentries and facts, love the show. She sees it as greatly humourous and entertaining. We think the three are huge cocks, and totall idiots.. But we love em for it! And both of us are immensly jealous, and would love to have their jobs!
The only people that really complain about Top Gear, dont really watch, nor understand it.
I am sure that you have got a huge number of responses that is equally confusing!:)
The thing is, on a windows laptop, they are all pretty much the same with only minor differences in technology.
I am going to try and step back and give you a different peice of advice. ASk your wife to go to a local computer store and see each model one by one, and try and use it. Test the ergonomics, and so on. And choose based on that.
Ultra B*llsh*t. I have seen the term being used many years ago. Watford Electronics in the UK, had a section of its store called... you guessed it.. App Store. And watford electronics were in business since the 80's (they are defunt now, and have been bought by Sava Stores)
Nobody trademarked it before because.. its obvious, and its a generic term that describes what is beign sold.
Apple popularised the app store iPod/iPhone/iPad app store to advertise a feature available on their devices (the ability to easily add and run third party apps that have been verified by Apple). They are hardly the first, the only, nor the last. However, thanks to their marketing they are certainly having a huge mindshare.
Apple have used SEO techniques (and marketting) to ensure their app store whitewashes Google/Yahooo/Bing results. That doesnt mean they were the first/last or only.
Bullshit. Back in 1983, I was buying the INPUT magazine for programming the ZX Spectrum. They had a section called "Applications", consisting of.. you guessed it.. Applications. Source code that we could type to do intresting stuff. In fact the term Applications was used back then to differentiate from "Games", "Utlities", "System".
Binaries/Programs/EXEs/packages/JARs/WARs/Assemblies refer to a "runnable code" and often describes the FORMAT of the runnable code/Distributions (with EXEs being specific to MS DOS and its descendants).
Even Android has a section called Games, and a section called Applications in its Market
Point being, the word Applications were used long before the Mac/Next. In fact the term binaries/exe/programs are generic terms
I really cant believe you have written the above. You are wrong, and yet you present what you wrote as fact. Your Reality field is really screwing up your thought process.
This is not QUITE true. there are two types of Bluetooth file transfers, one called OBEX, which is supported an nearly ALL phones (except the iphone), and Bluetooth FTP, which is not so well supported.
You do not "NEED" a file system for OBEX, hence why even many Feature Phones (including the Sony Ericsson T68i from 2002, which had niether file system or External Card) support it well.
iPhone simply does not support OBEX due to copyright issues, nothing else.
Ok, to respond to the issue about provider lockdowns. Unfortunately this is an issue with ALL phones (except the iPhone). The providers like to "customize" their phones, and android phones are also victims of this butchery. the iPhone does not suffer so much because of Apples "approach", but thats why they have different tarrifs. I have a sim free HTC Desire, and get all the features advertised, so i get the hotspot, and stuff built in, I didnt need to root the phone, nor even download an app. But I know some providers who disable that feature on their customisations. Again blame the providers, not android, because android DOES have the feature built in (since 2.2). The HTC desire also has wired tether built in. The iPhone is unlikely to have the hotspot functionality for a while, thoguh appaerently it does have wired tether.
I have very little faith in "memory optimizers". Dont get me wrong, i too did download some task killers once, but then after speaking to an android dev from google, I was told that i am doing far more harm than good, as I am preventing the OS from learning and adapting to different apps memory patterns.
As an anecdote, I know someone who downloaded a system manager for rooted phones. This tool allows you to calibrate the cpu speed to try and get better battery performance. Lets just say it didnt work. Initially the phoen was running "too slow" and didnt update things correctly. Then he tweaked another setting that he read on a forum, and the cpu ended up being overdriven, and overheated (normally the os protects against that sort of stuff).
I agree that the iphone is better "quality"! and that the iphoen app store seems to have better stuff there!
I think its more of a case of WHY you need to root/jailbreak the phone which is where Android and iOS differ.
There are many reasons to root/jailbreak a phone: 1) Install own built apps/non marketplace apps 2) defeat the chroot jail (iOS) or access root user(android), in order to run an app that accesses APIs/features that normally need root (typically low level system software), such as network analysers, rootkits, etc 3) Install custom firmware 4) Modify radio/sim access/etc (remove provider lock)
Android (generally) allows developers to install their own apps (and apps from the net) without using the marketplace, via a single checkmark, therefore you do not need to root the phone for reason 1.
Sure, an app can do naughty stuff even without rooting a phone, but you have the guarentee that the dodgy app can be removed completely (thanks to the security present) and is unable to get root access and do dodgy stuff liek install a rootkit, etc. Each app in android runs under its own user account, and cannot low level access something it doesnt have permission to do. Its like being able to install an application/service under unix but ensuring said service doesnt run as root.
For the majority of applications this is fine, anyone who says thats not ok, and that they need to root the phone is usually mis-informed. There are apps that need rooting, but seriously, just think about it! would you run an app in linux that requires you to run as root, that is not part of the kernal? No matter how usefull that root app is, there is always a huge risk that either the app has some hidden malicious code, or has a vulnerability that a black hat can use to make it malicious.
When you say that you cannot install WHAT you want on your droid without rooting it, I am wondering what it is that you are trying to install, that requires you to root it, is it a simple app, or something that could cause risk in the future? I apologize if i am wrong, but that statemment appears like trolling?
The thing is with iOS, you HAVE to jailbreak to install apps from outside of the App Store, that poses an all or nothing approach which is ultimately not as safe as the android option. Remember on IOS you cannot tell from permissions what an app is about to do as it doesnt have the same sandboxing that android has with its dalvik vm.
If you were to choose option 2, 3 or 4, you will need to root/jailbreak both platforms, but then you are on your own, and potentially at risk. Imagine you have an app which accesses your bank, or even access your bank via the web. Without rooting/jailbreaking, a malicious code cannot access that code/transaction. Once you jailbreak/root, all bets are off.
The point is you can root/jailbreak either phones to be able to do certain things with an implied level of risk, however, only androids allows you to install arbtirary programs, without having to do so.
I have a 120GB SSD for Windows 7 coupled with a 1TB HD (which i used a OBE to move the Documents and settings folder to). This results in a fairly decent performance improvements (Win 7 Ultimate boots in less than about 8 seconds)
I am intending on getting a second SSD for Linux, again moving the/tmp/~ and various others to the HD.
Sony Ericson is NOT Sony. It has enough "erricsson" to make that difference clear.
SE has had a history of being more "open" and "standards compliant" than most other phones.
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Ok, I really dont want to flame here, and I respect your time to answer me. I still think you may have misunderstood my intention.
The "so called" YLOD is not from a "design fault", but more as a "Manufacturing fault" of the machine in concern. They are both vastly different things, because a design fault can effect any machine. a manufacturing fault affects just that machine, and thats what manufacturer warrantys are for.
Yes, I know it really sucks when your PS3 displays a Yellow Light. But as its usually a manufacture fault, you are able to get it replaced under warranty, and in that Sense, Sony have (at least in the past) known to even fix PS3s just over the 1 year period, out of goodwill.
Those who feel that a machine should last "longer" than the 1 year, can either get an extended warranty, or for example if they live in the UK, can use the some of the consumer rights available and take it up with the retailer.
What i really didnt like was the way some people on blogs, etc, make out the YLOD is a design fault, and perpatrate it as such, just so they can get their PS3 fixed well outside waranty. I guess its human nature to find a common fault, and as things get more complex, and with the example shown by the XBOX peopel are comming to uninformed decisions.
It even happend to the normally respectable BBC watchdog program, who also caught onto a campaign to investigate, and ended up with serious egg on their faces with trying to imply the YLOD was a design fault (the facts simply did not add up).
i copied what the parent said, but i am sure it can be established the original author meant fiancee, and therefore my comment still stands
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Stop mentioning the RROD, and the YLOD on the same breath, they are totally different things.
The only similarities are: The RROD is a GENERAL PURPOSE HARDWARE failure displayed by the XBOX360. The Yellow Light is a GENERAL PURPOSE HARDWARE failure displayed by the PS3.
Both are designed to display a general hardware fault.
The differences are: MOST (greater than 95%) of RROD were caused due to a COMMON design fault, that appears to affect an extraordinary (ie above avarage) amount of XBOX 360s, and is fixed in later models. Since a "common fault" Microsoft have responded, by creating a special warranty for that particular fault. There does exist other failures that can cause a RROD, but are proportinally far less than the COMMON DESIGN FAULT. In that generation of Xboxes, the inumber of incidents especially by the common fault caused its failure to be high. It appears that these days, the Xbox is much more reliable, and now appears to be industry average in terms of fults.
the "Yellow Light" syndrom is shown when a hardware error occures (drive failure, hdd failure, system failure, fan failure). There is no COMMON DESIGN FAULT known that causes it, and the actual incidents of the yellow light (indeed and other faults) seems to be extremely rare (less than industry average).
I am not a sony fanboi, i have all three consoles. But to put the RROD and the so called YLOD on the same phrase is disingenious.
Its like putting a Kernal Panic, and a Blue Screen on Death on the same light. Both mean the same thing, but what causes them, and the frequency of occurances are vastly different.
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AND, thats because, chrome does NOT install in the usual "program files location". IT installs in the USER's profile. Hence, no need to security elevation (UAC), but more headaches for sys admins, as the software is not installed int he usual location, and can causes issues with remote profiles, etc.
Re-read the GPP, he wanted to ATTACH a KEYBOARD, and MOUSE/MOUSEPAD.
a Better link would be:
http://www.asus.com/Eee/Eee_Pad/Eee_Pad_Transformer_TF101/
Well, when I was a teacher, (and even now in my professional life), I used to ask everyone a simple question.
"What is the difference between a Programmer, a Software Engineer, and a Hacker?"
To which i give the answer:
"When presented with a square hole and a round peg and told to integrate: The programmer will say, it cannot be done. The Engineer will re-engineer the hole and/or the peg in order to fit properly, the Hacker does the same, but with a Hammer."
However, in any real project (especially agile) you need people with all three mentalities. You need the developers to code the menial stuff, allowing the engineers to focus on the more chalenging aspects, and sometimes you need the hacker mentality to meet a particular deadline, as long as you have a long term plan to refactor that code later.
Actually my greatest concern is that over here in the UK, our data plans are relatively "ok priced" from some providers, but no way as good as they used to be a couple of years back. 3 still provide unlimited plans, T-Mobile provides a 10gb plan, which you can use for anything, including voip, tethering, etc, for abotu £28 ($35).
However, whenever USA increases something, we find the UK providers following suite to "harmonise" the market.. grrrr.
I humbly disagree. I am European, and i can say, that although Nokia was never "bad", they didn't always have the "tech" hardware, or software, their price tags warrented.
I have owned, or had access to a huge variaty of phones from 1997, to present, including the Nokia 8110 ( the Matrix phone), 6150, 6210, 8210, Ericsson T68, T610, P800, S700, K800, N95, Moto v3i, and many other brands, including HTC, and Apple.
Take the early days (1995 - 1996) when i first got my mobile phone. Of the "big three", Nokia Ericsson and Motorola. Moto was known for "cheaper" but relatively solid, if basic phones. Nokia's flagship was the 2110, and Ericsson had the EH337. The Ericsson phone was by far better build quality, was more robust, had more "features".
Nokia then brought out the 8110 in 1996 (the same phone that later appeared in the Matrix) and that phone pushed Nokia into the market due to its style, and "number of ringtones". However, the phone was not as well built as Ericsson, and arguably lacked many key features (keyguard, clock, etc). the Phone was a marketting success for Nokia, not nessesarily a tech one. I had one myself.
After that, Nokia improved their platform, starting with the 6110, the 2110, which launched the infamous "nokia ui" together with the prorietry Ringtones/Logos, etc. The current Series 40 is an evolution from that. Right up until 2001 with the release of Ericsson T68, Nokia had the UI experience that beat other manufacturers.
Their tech may have not always been the most advanced: indeed Others had POP email, Bluetooth, open ringtones/picture support. Nokia's first bluetooth implementations were a joke, with phones being shipped with bluetooth on and discoverable as standard, resulting in those Nokia users being easy pickings for BlueJacking. Even today, Nokias implementation of Bluetooth although a lot better than android/iphone/ and most others, are still not as good as most comparable Sony Ericsson feature phones, still not supporting multi connections. Their email support still doesnt support IMAP idle in a sane way (Sony ericssons have been supporting that since the K800i)
However the Nokia UI, and propritry customisations drove the market. The problem for nokia came when they originally released the Series 60, they wanted to emulate the Original Nokia UI as much as possible. It was argued that UIQ by Symbian was a better implementation, which would have been more "touch friendly" from the go, as it was already a pen interface.
This was what caused the huge legacy problems in the future. When I got my Nokia N95, although i was really impressed by the hardware, the tech was amazing, the software was really confusing, and long in the tooth. For example:
- Nokia still has the same T9 implementation it had on earlier phones, whereas other manufactureres have improved the technology incredibly.
- 3 different places to set varies WiFi parameters (grrr)
- disjointed settings, lack of clarity.
This was the reason Nokia messed up. IT wasnt as much that the Apple iphone touch interface was soo "good", whcih admittedly it was, it was more the case that Series 60 became so "bad", and apple just polished up.
And you sir do an epic fail. read very carefully the GPs post, and see he said that ALL PS3s play PS1 games. He is correct. You are correct with regards to the PS2, however.
Not really, the logistics of carrying a train across a ferry, is far more higher than just going by train to departure port, taking ferry, then catching another train at the destination.
Although I am glad that this very evil person is no longer with us, I am not going to "celebrate", as my mind and heart is still with the victims and their families. For them, nothing is going to bring back their loss. The death of a man who either directly caused their death, or helped spawn the ideology that caused others to kill, represents a shallow victory.
This man caused the deaths of many, and instigated a sense of fear that today still affects millions accross the world in security, and other issues.
I will be tweeting and celebrating only when the tide of intolerance, and evil fanaticism is eradicated totally, and myself and my family can look forward to living free in a world where we do not have to fear that a person is plotting to kill me, just because my views of life and liberty is different to theirs.
Unfortunately, although the artist would certainly love you for that. The record label they are associated with will not, and its the record label that has the legal resources to still do you in.
It was the Ford GT (the new one) Clarkson got ribbed for that as it was continually needed filling up.
Actually I would say that Top Gear is NOTHING LIKE Fox News (which still tries to cast itself as serious, and more importantly have viewers who genuinely think its serious).
Top gear prides itself for being brash, corney and the viewers over here in the UK fully understand that. Even my wife, who is about as serious about documentries and facts, love the show. She sees it as greatly humourous and entertaining. We think the three are huge cocks, and totall idiots.. But we love em for it! And both of us are immensly jealous, and would love to have their jobs!
The only people that really complain about Top Gear, dont really watch, nor understand it.
I am sure that you have got a huge number of responses that is equally confusing! :)
The thing is, on a windows laptop, they are all pretty much the same with only minor differences in technology.
I am going to try and step back and give you a different peice of advice. ASk your wife to go to a local computer store and see each model one by one, and try and use it. Test the ergonomics, and so on. And choose based on that.
Thats my advice.
Apple switched FROM POWER TO x86, and it had nothing to do with compatibility!
Ultra B*llsh*t. I have seen the term being used many years ago. Watford Electronics in the UK, had a section of its store called... you guessed it.. App Store. And watford electronics were in business since the 80's (they are defunt now, and have been bought by Sava Stores)
Nobody trademarked it before because.. its obvious, and its a generic term that describes what is beign sold.
Apple popularised the app store iPod/iPhone/iPad app store to advertise a feature available on their devices (the ability to easily add and run third party apps that have been verified by Apple). They are hardly the first, the only, nor the last. However, thanks to their marketing they are certainly having a huge mindshare.
Apple have used SEO techniques (and marketting) to ensure their app store whitewashes Google/Yahooo/Bing results. That doesnt mean they were the first/last or only.
Bullshit. Back in 1983, I was buying the INPUT magazine for programming the ZX Spectrum. They had a section called "Applications", consisting of.. you guessed it.. Applications. Source code that we could type to do intresting stuff. In fact the term Applications was used back then to differentiate from "Games", "Utlities", "System".
Binaries/Programs/EXEs/packages/JARs/WARs/Assemblies refer to a "runnable code" and often describes the FORMAT of the runnable code/Distributions (with EXEs being specific to MS DOS and its descendants).
Even Android has a section called Games, and a section called Applications in its Market
Point being, the word Applications were used long before the Mac/Next. In fact the term binaries/exe/programs are generic terms
I really cant believe you have written the above. You are wrong, and yet you present what you wrote as fact. Your Reality field is really screwing up your thought process.
This is not QUITE true. there are two types of Bluetooth file transfers, one called OBEX, which is supported an nearly ALL phones (except the iphone), and Bluetooth FTP, which is not so well supported.
You do not "NEED" a file system for OBEX, hence why even many Feature Phones (including the Sony Ericsson T68i from 2002, which had niether file system or External Card) support it well.
iPhone simply does not support OBEX due to copyright issues, nothing else.
Thanks for clarifying that!
I understand what you are trying to say.
Ok, to respond to the issue about provider lockdowns. Unfortunately this is an issue with ALL phones (except the iPhone). The providers like to "customize" their phones, and android phones are also victims of this butchery. the iPhone does not suffer so much because of Apples "approach", but thats why they have different tarrifs. I have a sim free HTC Desire, and get all the features advertised, so i get the hotspot, and stuff built in, I didnt need to root the phone, nor even download an app. But I know some providers who disable that feature on their customisations. Again blame the providers, not android, because android DOES have the feature built in (since 2.2). The HTC desire also has wired tether built in. The iPhone is unlikely to have the hotspot functionality for a while, thoguh appaerently it does have wired tether.
I have very little faith in "memory optimizers". Dont get me wrong, i too did download some task killers once, but then after speaking to an android dev from google, I was told that i am doing far more harm than good, as I am preventing the OS from learning and adapting to different apps memory patterns.
As an anecdote, I know someone who downloaded a system manager for rooted phones. This tool allows you to calibrate the cpu speed to try and get better battery performance. Lets just say it didnt work. Initially the phoen was running "too slow" and didnt update things correctly. Then he tweaked another setting that he read on a forum, and the cpu ended up being overdriven, and overheated (normally the os protects against that sort of stuff).
I agree that the iphone is better "quality"! and that the iphoen app store seems to have better stuff there!
I think its more of a case of WHY you need to root/jailbreak the phone which is where Android and iOS differ.
There are many reasons to root/jailbreak a phone:
1) Install own built apps/non marketplace apps
2) defeat the chroot jail (iOS) or access root user(android), in order to run an app that accesses APIs/features that normally need root (typically low level system software), such as network analysers, rootkits, etc
3) Install custom firmware
4) Modify radio/sim access/etc (remove provider lock)
Android (generally) allows developers to install their own apps (and apps from the net) without using the marketplace, via a single checkmark, therefore you do not need to root the phone for reason 1.
Sure, an app can do naughty stuff even without rooting a phone, but you have the guarentee that the dodgy app can be removed completely (thanks to the security present) and is unable to get root access and do dodgy stuff liek install a rootkit, etc. Each app in android runs under its own user account, and cannot low level access something it doesnt have permission to do. Its like being able to install an application/service under unix but ensuring said service doesnt run as root.
For the majority of applications this is fine, anyone who says thats not ok, and that they need to root the phone is usually mis-informed. There are apps that need rooting, but seriously, just think about it! would you run an app in linux that requires you to run as root, that is not part of the kernal? No matter how usefull that root app is, there is always a huge risk that either the app has some hidden malicious code, or has a vulnerability that a black hat can use to make it malicious.
When you say that you cannot install WHAT you want on your droid without rooting it, I am wondering what it is that you are trying to install, that requires you to root it, is it a simple app, or something that could cause risk in the future? I apologize if i am wrong, but that statemment appears like trolling?
The thing is with iOS, you HAVE to jailbreak to install apps from outside of the App Store, that poses an all or nothing approach which is ultimately not as safe as the android option. Remember on IOS you cannot tell from permissions what an app is about to do as it doesnt have the same sandboxing that android has with its dalvik vm.
If you were to choose option 2, 3 or 4, you will need to root/jailbreak both platforms, but then you are on your own, and potentially at risk. Imagine you have an app which accesses your bank, or even access your bank via the web. Without rooting/jailbreaking, a malicious code cannot access that code/transaction. Once you jailbreak/root, all bets are off.
The point is you can root/jailbreak either phones to be able to do certain things with an implied level of risk, however, only androids allows you to install arbtirary programs, without having to do so.
I have a 120GB SSD for Windows 7 coupled with a 1TB HD (which i used a OBE to move the Documents and settings folder to). This results in a fairly decent performance improvements (Win 7 Ultimate boots in less than about 8 seconds)
I am intending on getting a second SSD for Linux, again moving the /tmp /~ and various others to the HD.
Yet, TRIM support is only available from Lion (10.7)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM
People forget that Sony Ericsson still has that "Ericsson" part. I agree with you however, and hope someone mods you up.
Sony Ericson is NOT Sony. It has enough "erricsson" to make that difference clear.
SE has had a history of being more "open" and "standards compliant" than most other phones.
Ok, I really dont want to flame here, and I respect your time to answer me. I still think you may have misunderstood my intention.
The "so called" YLOD is not from a "design fault", but more as a "Manufacturing fault" of the machine in concern. They are both vastly different things, because a design fault can effect any machine. a manufacturing fault affects just that machine, and thats what manufacturer warrantys are for.
Yes, I know it really sucks when your PS3 displays a Yellow Light. But as its usually a manufacture fault, you are able to get it replaced under warranty, and in that Sense, Sony have (at least in the past) known to even fix PS3s just over the 1 year period, out of goodwill.
Those who feel that a machine should last "longer" than the 1 year, can either get an extended warranty, or for example if they live in the UK, can use the some of the consumer rights available and take it up with the retailer.
What i really didnt like was the way some people on blogs, etc, make out the YLOD is a design fault, and perpatrate it as such, just so they can get their PS3 fixed well outside waranty. I guess its human nature to find a common fault, and as things get more complex, and with the example shown by the XBOX peopel are comming to uninformed decisions.
It even happend to the normally respectable BBC watchdog program, who also caught onto a campaign to investigate, and ended up with serious egg on their faces with trying to imply the YLOD was a design fault (the facts simply did not add up).
Anyway, thanks for your reply
(PS sorry for any bad spelling/typos)
i copied what the parent said, but i am sure it can be established the original author meant fiancee, and therefore my comment still stands
Stop mentioning the RROD, and the YLOD on the same breath, they are totally different things.
The only similarities are:
The RROD is a GENERAL PURPOSE HARDWARE failure displayed by the XBOX360.
The Yellow Light is a GENERAL PURPOSE HARDWARE failure displayed by the PS3.
Both are designed to display a general hardware fault.
The differences are:
MOST (greater than 95%) of RROD were caused due to a COMMON design fault, that appears to affect an extraordinary (ie above avarage) amount of XBOX 360s, and is fixed in later models. Since a "common fault" Microsoft have responded, by creating a special warranty for that particular fault. There does exist other failures that can cause a RROD, but are proportinally far less than the COMMON DESIGN FAULT. In that generation of Xboxes, the inumber of incidents especially by the common fault caused its failure to be high. It appears that these days, the Xbox is much more reliable, and now appears to be industry average in terms of fults.
the "Yellow Light" syndrom is shown when a hardware error occures (drive failure, hdd failure, system failure, fan failure). There is no COMMON DESIGN FAULT known that causes it, and the actual incidents of the yellow light (indeed and other faults) seems to be extremely rare (less than industry average).
I am not a sony fanboi, i have all three consoles. But to put the RROD and the so called YLOD on the same phrase is disingenious.
Its like putting a Kernal Panic, and a Blue Screen on Death on the same light. Both mean the same thing, but what causes them, and the frequency of occurances are vastly different.