It's the same resolution as the Droid and Nexus One. There are really only 2 main screen resolutions out there.
If your QA is backing up for android, maybe you did a bad job porting. Or maybe you should have designed for android to begin with.
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So past biased journalism excuses present stupid editorializing? Perhaps you and I really don't read the same slashdot if you think they have been kind to Google in the past year or two.
Ah well. Don't worry, I don't expect much more than a false equivalency from someone with a link to Politico in their sig.
Happy Holidays.
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That's the whole point of el reg though. They hate everyone:)
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CmdrTaco, kdawson(troll), all of you, need to chill it with the rhetoric. If I wanted sensationalist news I could easily hit up Fox or MSNBC. Of course while it's important to hold Google accountable once in awhile. But they are one of the biggest supporters of open source, and all you guys do is beat them over the head with a stick as if they are Microsoft. Sometimes I wonder if the editors here ever really grew up. Open source is great. It's one of the great achievements in human cooperation. But to belittle anyone who doesn't take the plunge 110% is really small of you guys. It's a good thing there are parts of the OSS community that welcome partial contributions with more open arms than do Slashdot editors.
I'm not sure this will go over well, but I have karma to burn and sometimes we need to turn the mirror back on ourselves.
Weird -- I've had a somewhat opposite experience. I had a VZW store employee tell me a way to save money by buying from the website instead of in store from him.
Retail can often be hit or miss like that though, I can't think of any retail business that doesn't suffer at least some bad apples like that. Not saying your experience was isolated, but who knows.
I don't know a lot about Exchange, but couldn't you also say it would be really nice for Exchange to support more standards for other devices to connect? (IMAP maybe?). Seems an appropriate devil's advocate question. Cue Keanu Reeves.
I'd say it would be about equal to the Droid. Here's the rumors I've heard/read:
- Processor speed will probably beat the droid,
- HTC SenseUI will be nice,
- Battery will probably be worse due to the stronger processor.
- Screen should be nice an beautiful like the droid's, maybe ever more stunning.
- Haven't heard anything about an LED flash like the droid's
- No hardware keyboard
- Sounds like T-Mobile's (weird flavor of?) GSM.
- HTC Trackball v Moto'd directional pad
- No discount, so looking at $300-800 ish?
Full bias disclosure: I own a Droid and love it. Plan to marry it. Verizon has me by the balls in the prenup though.
I don't understand. Building new plants and ramping up production is insurmountable? Obviously it takes significant time and investment, but what does that have to do with anything?
AMD could have made a deal to supply all of Dell's chips in just a couple years, couldn't they? Seems you're talking about the pace of changing vendors and the pace of the business in general. While the issue here is the behavior of the competition in trying to prevent any change from ever taking place. Certainly the more a smaller competitor gets shut out of the market, the harder it is to get back in the game. But that seems more like a magnifying effect of the original anti-competitive actions.
I'm not very knowledgeable about USB flavors but I think I'm like most people in hoping they just settle on a standard. The Marketriod Speak of the USB people is exactly what's been wrong with all of this. First there was Hi-Speed USB, then USB 2.0, then Hi-Speed USB 2.0, Then Ultra-Titanium Jet-Powered-Turbo USB, then something where they claimed you'd get 76 virgins for using USB.
Honestly, I think even some of the geekiest computer users start to not care when bombarded with all this nonsense. Ultimately it's a cable -- we want it to be universal, and fast. Nothing complicated there. Sadly the USB standard seemed to gain the most traction in the market despite it's fractured flavors/versions.
So if it ends up being eSATA, Firewire, or USB 3.0 or something else, I hope they just make it simple and fast. It's a cable - it shouldn't have compatibility problems or be used to confuse users with marketroid speak.
If Google were to pay the ISP to peer to that edge hardware though, wouldn't this in effect be the same thing?
I mean wouldn't it create a disincentive for the ISP to upgrade their network except for the peers to their Premium Business Partners (TM)?
Whether they actually degrade net traffic, or do so via apathy and lack of innovation, isn't the end result for users the same? Isn't this apathy what Microsoft is so often accused of, and due to their monopoly, is accused of having a much more severe impact?
I'm not saying I disagree with you, but I'm sure to some people this kind of edge caching, and an ISP charging for prioritized bandwidth, can be somewhat-reasonably seen as different shades of grey. So maybe instead of railing on a guy about what Net Neutrality means, maybe you could point out the difference? To me, one obvious difference is that the end users of ISP services still have a recourse in fighting for better service via the government if a net neutrality law were in place. It could be argued that ISP's are abusing their local monopolies, and not providing the service they promised when being granted the monopoly. Whereas if there was no net neutrality, the ISPs could counter that argument by saying they are providing service, just different levels of it, perhaps even many different levels: Home, Media Center, Business Pro, Ultimate, etc.
Don't take this too personally ( I don't even know you) but your comment kind of makes you sound like a terrible boss. You should be defending your developers to the client. Is it really so hard to explain to a client that letting your devs blow off steam for 5 minutes gets them a better product overall? This should be a opportunity for you to show them what they are getting that's so good. A chance to point out the benefits of working with you. And if your client relationship is really so fragile as to make an easter egg put it in jeopardy then you have bigger problems to worry about.
*Unless this is some kind of health care or military or other critical safety related application
Not everyone thought the mouse was a good input at first. This type of UI may have speed advantages as well as visualization advantages we may not completely see yet. CAD comes to mind here. But I suppose ASCII art CAD is enough for some people:)
But it sure provides powerful blackmail opportunity for someone who holds the well-documented other end of the email exchange. It has been noted that Sarah does have a predilection for hiring former high school classmates. What do they have on her?
uh, friendship?
Don't get me wrong, I very much dislike Palin, but WTF are you talking about? Are you claiming they have some old HS gossip on her? Maybe she made up a rumour about how one of the other girls stuffs their bra?
Ok ok actually that would be kind of fun to learn about. With pictures.
So what's the difference between sending a whistle blower email anonymously to a reporter and saying "H1! my f3llow 3recti1e dy5funcktion Fr@nds!" to your 100,000 of your closest personal buddies?
Ok. You win the sweeping generalization of the day award.
(dont take that too personally, we've all won that at one time or another)
Personally, I think books are great. They can provide in-depth look at a focused topic. The internet, on the other hand, is (generally) more of a mass collection of tidbits of information. Both have their usage.
I also am a big fan of unchaining from the desk. It's good for your health, your eyes, and your sanity. And I find it easier to lug a book around on the subway then trying to connect to the unavailable internet on a lap heater.
YMMV
As to the topic though, I am not sure how useful it is to learn computers in high school. I would hope there would be more of a college prep approach. However, I am not such a blind idealist that I believe every student will be going to college. Still, the question seems a bit idealist itself -- to think a single class in computers at the high school level would prepare a student to enter a professional workforce seems a stretch. But I may be over-analyzing it.
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Ah good to know, thanks.
WinDroid?
It's the same resolution as the Droid and Nexus One. There are really only 2 main screen resolutions out there.
If your QA is backing up for android, maybe you did a bad job porting. Or maybe you should have designed for android to begin with.
So past biased journalism excuses present stupid editorializing? Perhaps you and I really don't read the same slashdot if you think they have been kind to Google in the past year or two.
Ah well. Don't worry, I don't expect much more than a false equivalency from someone with a link to Politico in their sig.
Happy Holidays.
That's the whole point of el reg though. They hate everyone :)
CmdrTaco, kdawson(troll), all of you, need to chill it with the rhetoric. If I wanted sensationalist news I could easily hit up Fox or MSNBC. Of course while it's important to hold Google accountable once in awhile. But they are one of the biggest supporters of open source, and all you guys do is beat them over the head with a stick as if they are Microsoft. Sometimes I wonder if the editors here ever really grew up. Open source is great. It's one of the great achievements in human cooperation. But to belittle anyone who doesn't take the plunge 110% is really small of you guys. It's a good thing there are parts of the OSS community that welcome partial contributions with more open arms than do Slashdot editors.
I'm not sure this will go over well, but I have karma to burn and sometimes we need to turn the mirror back on ourselves.
Weird -- I've had a somewhat opposite experience. I had a VZW store employee tell me a way to save money by buying from the website instead of in store from him.
Retail can often be hit or miss like that though, I can't think of any retail business that doesn't suffer at least some bad apples like that. Not saying your experience was isolated, but who knows.
I don't know a lot about Exchange, but couldn't you also say it would be really nice for Exchange to support more standards for other devices to connect? (IMAP maybe?). Seems an appropriate devil's advocate question. Cue Keanu Reeves.
figure a bell curve if you're having trouble ;)
I'd say it would be about equal to the Droid. Here's the rumors I've heard/read: - Processor speed will probably beat the droid, - HTC SenseUI will be nice, - Battery will probably be worse due to the stronger processor. - Screen should be nice an beautiful like the droid's, maybe ever more stunning. - Haven't heard anything about an LED flash like the droid's - No hardware keyboard - Sounds like T-Mobile's (weird flavor of?) GSM. - HTC Trackball v Moto'd directional pad - No discount, so looking at $300-800 ish? Full bias disclosure: I own a Droid and love it. Plan to marry it. Verizon has me by the balls in the prenup though.
I don't understand. Building new plants and ramping up production is insurmountable? Obviously it takes significant time and investment, but what does that have to do with anything? AMD could have made a deal to supply all of Dell's chips in just a couple years, couldn't they? Seems you're talking about the pace of changing vendors and the pace of the business in general. While the issue here is the behavior of the competition in trying to prevent any change from ever taking place. Certainly the more a smaller competitor gets shut out of the market, the harder it is to get back in the game. But that seems more like a magnifying effect of the original anti-competitive actions.
Honestly, I think even some of the geekiest computer users start to not care when bombarded with all this nonsense. Ultimately it's a cable -- we want it to be universal, and fast. Nothing complicated there. Sadly the USB standard seemed to gain the most traction in the market despite it's fractured flavors/versions.
So if it ends up being eSATA, Firewire, or USB 3.0 or something else, I hope they just make it simple and fast. It's a cable - it shouldn't have compatibility problems or be used to confuse users with marketroid speak.
If Google were to pay the ISP to peer to that edge hardware though, wouldn't this in effect be the same thing?
I mean wouldn't it create a disincentive for the ISP to upgrade their network except for the peers to their Premium Business Partners (TM)?
Whether they actually degrade net traffic, or do so via apathy and lack of innovation, isn't the end result for users the same? Isn't this apathy what Microsoft is so often accused of, and due to their monopoly, is accused of having a much more severe impact?
I'm not saying I disagree with you, but I'm sure to some people this kind of edge caching, and an ISP charging for prioritized bandwidth, can be somewhat-reasonably seen as different shades of grey. So maybe instead of railing on a guy about what Net Neutrality means, maybe you could point out the difference? To me, one obvious difference is that the end users of ISP services still have a recourse in fighting for better service via the government if a net neutrality law were in place. It could be argued that ISP's are abusing their local monopolies, and not providing the service they promised when being granted the monopoly. Whereas if there was no net neutrality, the ISPs could counter that argument by saying they are providing service, just different levels of it, perhaps even many different levels: Home, Media Center, Business Pro, Ultimate, etc.
Don't take this too personally ( I don't even know you) but your comment kind of makes you sound like a terrible boss. You should be defending your developers to the client. Is it really so hard to explain to a client that letting your devs blow off steam for 5 minutes gets them a better product overall? This should be a opportunity for you to show them what they are getting that's so good. A chance to point out the benefits of working with you. And if your client relationship is really so fragile as to make an easter egg put it in jeopardy then you have bigger problems to worry about.
*Unless this is some kind of health care or military or other critical safety related application
Is it just me or have we gone full-frontal-funnyfarm with the analogies and adjectives here?
Not everyone thought the mouse was a good input at first. This type of UI may have speed advantages as well as visualization advantages we may not completely see yet. CAD comes to mind here. But I suppose ASCII art CAD is enough for some people :)
Sounds like you're complaining.
But it sure provides powerful blackmail opportunity for someone who holds the well-documented other end of the email exchange. It has been noted that Sarah does have a predilection for hiring former high school classmates. What do they have on her?
uh, friendship?
Don't get me wrong, I very much dislike Palin, but WTF are you talking about? Are you claiming they have some old HS gossip on her? Maybe she made up a rumour about how one of the other girls stuffs their bra?
Ok ok actually that would be kind of fun to learn about. With pictures.
This is what I have found with just about all his games, they are good -- but he is some kind of megalomaniac of the game world.
Except if they need to license the patent back from whomever they sold it too. This is the common great swindle of privatization.
Obama co-sponsored several hundred pieces of legislation in the Senate. Where are you pulling this from?
[citation needed] seriously would like to read sources, have no opinion on your claim just curious.
So what's the difference between sending a whistle blower email anonymously to a reporter and saying "H1! my f3llow 3recti1e dy5funcktion Fr@nds!" to your 100,000 of your closest personal buddies?
lipstick.
whooosh!
(dont take that too personally, we've all won that at one time or another)
Personally, I think books are great. They can provide in-depth look at a focused topic. The internet, on the other hand, is (generally) more of a mass collection of tidbits of information. Both have their usage.
I also am a big fan of unchaining from the desk. It's good for your health, your eyes, and your sanity. And I find it easier to lug a book around on the subway then trying to connect to the unavailable internet on a lap heater.
YMMV
As to the topic though, I am not sure how useful it is to learn computers in high school. I would hope there would be more of a college prep approach. However, I am not such a blind idealist that I believe every student will be going to college. Still, the question seems a bit idealist itself -- to think a single class in computers at the high school level would prepare a student to enter a professional workforce seems a stretch. But I may be over-analyzing it.