You're holding it wrong, you want to get lost, these pictures should be that colour, wifi connections should use your wireless bandwidth, battery life is supposed to be that poor if you use it (especially for facebook), those scratches are normal out of the case, this new connector is far better than the old one and adapters are the best you can get.
best iPhone ever.
Good question. For me, purity, everything being in the 'right' place. After using SCO Unix for so many years (pre-crazyness), slackware felt right. The install was the same, it put things pretty much in the same place, tons of scripts/code I had just worked right off, and when they didn't, it was intuitive to fix. Also used to keep up to date with linux kernels more actively than others (probably because it assumed it's users were more techy and wouldn't have a problem editing what's needed).
As to why to use it today compared to more friendly distros? Hmm, tough call. I'm not aware of anything it does that others don't do these days (though it's been a few years since I've used it in anger, probably a VM laying around somewhere with it). I'll download it, set it up in a VM (always useful to have for various reasons), and get back to the thread!
Yeah, I don't mind admitting that I don't fully get it. Google+ is their product, Google Search is their product, it seems really strange that anyone else can come in and say 'I know you've got your own search, and your own social network, and Facebook won't LET you search their results, but... you preferring your own search results for your own social network, we don't want you to do that' that's kinda obvious being called Google+, seems strange.
Does this mean Google isn't allowed to do anything else because they have a search engine? Does Microsoft's
If it really IS because of preferring their own search engine, surely the EU should be focusing on Facebook and telling them to allow Google to index their records?
Aye, this is all a bit odd to me.
It'd be like a Ford car dealership getting in trouble because it's not selling Lada's on the forecourt as well?
The competition is complaining that Google isn't showing their competing products? (and which competing products DO go up against Google)? Surely any complaints against Google would apply equally to Bing/Yahoo who also offer advertising/webemail/storage?
Very, very odd move, reeks of dodgy dealings behind the scenes rather than actual problems here.
Analogy time;
"but their cars go faster, it's not fair" "ok Ferrari, you have to slow down your cars so your competition doesn't look as bad"
"this library is offering books for free! that's not fair!" "ok libraries, you have to start charging so book stores don't look as bad"
You realise that these phones can send emails/ftp/ssh the dump back to your real machine(s) with high end gpus, and wait for the password to appear. right?
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Someone's not being truthful about all this. Scary that my first thoughts are Apple and the FBI first over anonymous hackers!
So they've got a million from/somewhere/ then. If not the FBI, next logical guess would be Apple, where else could they be from? (maybe a carrier? Are they all on the same network I wonder?)
Or bluetooth perhaps.
One of the reviews said it did 3g for data, so if bluetooth is supported, paired up, use GrooveIP over the 3g connection, and you've got a phone!.
Would prefer a regular samsung phone with that lens (or a camera with a real phone).
Know how you feel. I had a few voip ideas and at the moment, I can't find anyone actually with a product out that does what I had planned, but when looking at patents, it's a minefield. There's so many patents I could see as/almost/ being the same, methods of communicating type stuff, control channel, that if I did well, I'm sure there'd be a line of lawyers. Still, the lawyers I've spoken with are happy to start the ball rolling, and have recommendations on lawyers to hire WHEN I get sued. They know how the lay of the land is at the moment.
I've given up.
That slim chance to make enough money to pay for lawyers to fend off the others? Stuff it, not worth the headaches.
Aye, GVoice, even now, is great, but it still has a bit to go. Google just needs to stop wasting time and buy TMobile already! Wifi calling wherever possible, TMobile when away from a wifi. Sure we'll see some cool tech in Kansas City with their rollout.
Apps, yeah, pretty much the same, though I do find it odd, that Google, being THE search engine, their app store is... faffy... to search through. I don't find it easy to find stuff in the apps. The web playstore is marginally better, but even so, needs work. Main issue is the actual install screen on the devices themselves. Simple usability things like, let me search alpha/time/type. If I click an app to install it, and hit back, take me back to the same position in the list so I don't need to keep scrolling scrolling scrolling.
Strongly suspect this is Google's endgame in their Fiber run. Once you've got 100Gbp, and all your neighbours too, why not allow the wifi module (also provided by Google) to share it out to nearby devices. Hangouts, Google voice, you could have an effective metropolitan wifi with ludicrous speeds.
These devices should come with the basic app market/store and as little else as possible. When signing up, offer the basics, browser/email, and a list of suggested good to haves, but the lighter these things are on base install, the better. Ok, might be a pain for some people getting a device that's 'empty' and needs 5 mins of installing before it's considered useful, but sure would make upgrades easier later with having no apps baked in.
Strange thing is though, we seem to be going backwards on rez. My Dell xps from... 4? years ago had a much better rez (and quality of screen) than the current Dell XPS's. Dell seem to be racing to the bottom, when, as we've seen, there IS a market for high rez pixel displays, just not on non-Apple machines it appears at this time, which is annoying, as I'd like to get a non-Apple laptop with that size.
Maybe, I do think though there must be a slight fear from anyone creating tech that a few key players may try and claim later. Many tech companies must be dragging lawyers in to design sessions perhaps, just to cover themselves. Having lawyers over your shoulders is going to get people thinking how not to get infringed, maybe not what's the best way to solve a problem.
Having knocked out a few UI's with things that, in retrospect,/could/ be close to what Apple are claiming (though on a terminal, not a mobile device) in... late 80's/early 90's, so many of these things look familiar, and may be the thing we'd have come up with. Getting it prototyped/designed on an Amiga, then working on x-windows, with the later MS Windows versions looking very similar. If I'd have made a version for a mobile version, it'd have looked the same again, icons on the bottom, scrollable top part. That a UI I created 20+ years ago, copying my own design onto a mobile device could get me sued for crazy bucks, scares the living snot out of me.
The point about it dragging in the euro stuff though is I think spot on, and why this really is going to be crazy for a time yet. The nerf bat really can take out some odd bystanders.
By the end of this, the whole landscape is going to look very different.
Hard to say how exactly, but everyone aware of the licensing between each other could lead to some hilarious later complaints 'hey, wait, you're charging us this much, and them HOW much?!??!"
That IBM 'accidentally' sent the full version of the license to Reuters, and then went 'oops'... Wonder if it was an accidentally on purpose. They may be feeling that their part of the deal isn't as good as they'd have liked.
And of course, Microsoft is never happy when their business practices are opened to scrutiny.
This Apple vs Samsung court time now is going to keep being repeated, both in appeals, and other companies getting upset with each other. Apple's certainly caused some serious havoc in the phone business, wonder if this was the levels they imagined.
As always, no matter who wins (this stage), we all lose cool tech. Wish they'd just sorted it out amongst themselves with reasonable licensing fees.
Projected sales perhaps? And it's interesting that they went after the 7.7, as that IS the one usually with the cellular connection (there's a wifi model as well, but I think Apple's intent was to aim for the 3G version).
And as I think we can see the market direction, the difference between smartphones/tablets is shrinking to be smartdevices that use wifi/3g/led blinking/chirping to communicate around them, so Apple's thinking 'lets get this war won now by claiming any device, rather than having to fight this again for every future disruptive tech'
This is a proxy war against Google, they know it, we know it, it's obvious they'll let slip sometimes what they see the big picture as.
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Bah, now you've made me want to get one.
You're holding it wrong, you want to get lost, these pictures should be that colour, wifi connections should use your wireless bandwidth, battery life is supposed to be that poor if you use it (especially for facebook), those scratches are normal out of the case, this new connector is far better than the old one and adapters are the best you can get. best iPhone ever.
Ha! Someone who's used Slackware a lot before I can see!
Good question. For me, purity, everything being in the 'right' place. After using SCO Unix for so many years (pre-crazyness), slackware felt right. The install was the same, it put things pretty much in the same place, tons of scripts/code I had just worked right off, and when they didn't, it was intuitive to fix. Also used to keep up to date with linux kernels more actively than others (probably because it assumed it's users were more techy and wouldn't have a problem editing what's needed). As to why to use it today compared to more friendly distros? Hmm, tough call. I'm not aware of anything it does that others don't do these days (though it's been a few years since I've used it in anger, probably a VM laying around somewhere with it). I'll download it, set it up in a VM (always useful to have for various reasons), and get back to the thread!
Yeah, I don't mind admitting that I don't fully get it. Google+ is their product, Google Search is their product, it seems really strange that anyone else can come in and say 'I know you've got your own search, and your own social network, and Facebook won't LET you search their results, but... you preferring your own search results for your own social network, we don't want you to do that' that's kinda obvious being called Google+, seems strange. Does this mean Google isn't allowed to do anything else because they have a search engine? Does Microsoft's If it really IS because of preferring their own search engine, surely the EU should be focusing on Facebook and telling them to allow Google to index their records?
Aye, this is all a bit odd to me. It'd be like a Ford car dealership getting in trouble because it's not selling Lada's on the forecourt as well? The competition is complaining that Google isn't showing their competing products? (and which competing products DO go up against Google)? Surely any complaints against Google would apply equally to Bing/Yahoo who also offer advertising/webemail/storage? Very, very odd move, reeks of dodgy dealings behind the scenes rather than actual problems here. Analogy time; "but their cars go faster, it's not fair" "ok Ferrari, you have to slow down your cars so your competition doesn't look as bad" "this library is offering books for free! that's not fair!" "ok libraries, you have to start charging so book stores don't look as bad"
You realise that these phones can send emails/ftp/ssh the dump back to your real machine(s) with high end gpus, and wait for the password to appear. right? I
Maybe, but then we have the ? to denote a question when it could be detected in the text surely(?). !sarcasm punctuation would be the same.
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Someone's not being truthful about all this. Scary that my first thoughts are Apple and the FBI first over anonymous hackers! So they've got a million from /somewhere/ then. If not the FBI, next logical guess would be Apple, where else could they be from? (maybe a carrier? Are they all on the same network I wonder?)
It was obvious he shouldn't have limited his opinion to just the airport, but the whole of Doncaster.
Or bluetooth perhaps. One of the reviews said it did 3g for data, so if bluetooth is supported, paired up, use GrooveIP over the 3g connection, and you've got a phone!. Would prefer a regular samsung phone with that lens (or a camera with a real phone).
Know how you feel. I had a few voip ideas and at the moment, I can't find anyone actually with a product out that does what I had planned, but when looking at patents, it's a minefield. There's so many patents I could see as /almost/ being the same, methods of communicating type stuff, control channel, that if I did well, I'm sure there'd be a line of lawyers. Still, the lawyers I've spoken with are happy to start the ball rolling, and have recommendations on lawyers to hire WHEN I get sued. They know how the lay of the land is at the moment.
I've given up.
That slim chance to make enough money to pay for lawyers to fend off the others? Stuff it, not worth the headaches.
Aye, GVoice, even now, is great, but it still has a bit to go. Google just needs to stop wasting time and buy TMobile already! Wifi calling wherever possible, TMobile when away from a wifi. Sure we'll see some cool tech in Kansas City with their rollout. Apps, yeah, pretty much the same, though I do find it odd, that Google, being THE search engine, their app store is... faffy... to search through. I don't find it easy to find stuff in the apps. The web playstore is marginally better, but even so, needs work. Main issue is the actual install screen on the devices themselves. Simple usability things like, let me search alpha/time/type. If I click an app to install it, and hit back, take me back to the same position in the list so I don't need to keep scrolling scrolling scrolling.
How's the grading curve work these days though, surely only 30% SHOULD be getting A-C's?
Strongly suspect this is Google's endgame in their Fiber run. Once you've got 100Gbp, and all your neighbours too, why not allow the wifi module (also provided by Google) to share it out to nearby devices. Hangouts, Google voice, you could have an effective metropolitan wifi with ludicrous speeds.
These devices should come with the basic app market/store and as little else as possible. When signing up, offer the basics, browser/email, and a list of suggested good to haves, but the lighter these things are on base install, the better. Ok, might be a pain for some people getting a device that's 'empty' and needs 5 mins of installing before it's considered useful, but sure would make upgrades easier later with having no apps baked in.
Strange thing is though, we seem to be going backwards on rez. My Dell xps from... 4? years ago had a much better rez (and quality of screen) than the current Dell XPS's. Dell seem to be racing to the bottom, when, as we've seen, there IS a market for high rez pixel displays, just not on non-Apple machines it appears at this time, which is annoying, as I'd like to get a non-Apple laptop with that size.
That's it I'm sure. With the ouya gaming box thingy, then this really should have been a gaming box too. Nexus (G)amer.
Then you have; https://plus.google.com/u/0/100241261662852079434/posts/12kf2e2BGjn that's 2004 I believe (probably filmed earlier than shown on tv of course) Then before that in 2003; https://plus.google.com/u/0/100241261662852079434/posts/En6cqNeQqDJ There's stuff before that? Probably.
Maybe, I do think though there must be a slight fear from anyone creating tech that a few key players may try and claim later. Many tech companies must be dragging lawyers in to design sessions perhaps, just to cover themselves. Having lawyers over your shoulders is going to get people thinking how not to get infringed, maybe not what's the best way to solve a problem. Having knocked out a few UI's with things that, in retrospect, /could/ be close to what Apple are claiming (though on a terminal, not a mobile device) in... late 80's/early 90's, so many of these things look familiar, and may be the thing we'd have come up with. Getting it prototyped/designed on an Amiga, then working on x-windows, with the later MS Windows versions looking very similar. If I'd have made a version for a mobile version, it'd have looked the same again, icons on the bottom, scrollable top part. That a UI I created 20+ years ago, copying my own design onto a mobile device could get me sued for crazy bucks, scares the living snot out of me.
The point about it dragging in the euro stuff though is I think spot on, and why this really is going to be crazy for a time yet. The nerf bat really can take out some odd bystanders.
By the end of this, the whole landscape is going to look very different. Hard to say how exactly, but everyone aware of the licensing between each other could lead to some hilarious later complaints 'hey, wait, you're charging us this much, and them HOW much?!??!" That IBM 'accidentally' sent the full version of the license to Reuters, and then went 'oops'... Wonder if it was an accidentally on purpose. They may be feeling that their part of the deal isn't as good as they'd have liked. And of course, Microsoft is never happy when their business practices are opened to scrutiny. This Apple vs Samsung court time now is going to keep being repeated, both in appeals, and other companies getting upset with each other. Apple's certainly caused some serious havoc in the phone business, wonder if this was the levels they imagined. As always, no matter who wins (this stage), we all lose cool tech. Wish they'd just sorted it out amongst themselves with reasonable licensing fees.
What Android phone did you use in 07?
Does seem that way doesn't it?
Projected sales perhaps? And it's interesting that they went after the 7.7, as that IS the one usually with the cellular connection (there's a wifi model as well, but I think Apple's intent was to aim for the 3G version). And as I think we can see the market direction, the difference between smartphones/tablets is shrinking to be smartdevices that use wifi/3g/led blinking/chirping to communicate around them, so Apple's thinking 'lets get this war won now by claiming any device, rather than having to fight this again for every future disruptive tech' This is a proxy war against Google, they know it, we know it, it's obvious they'll let slip sometimes what they see the big picture as.