I'm not surprised that there will be lens flare when having a bright source like the sun near the frame. This is why we have lens hoods. I wonder if we would have the same flare if we angled the phone away from the sun by a very little and use our hand as a sun shade?
I don't care if its Apple or Samsung. When you have a tiny lens flush with the camera body and almost no blockage of off axis light sources you are bound to have lens flare. The customer support letter giving advice to angle the camera away from a bright light source is good advice for any phone camera.
I think for lying during selection Hogan should be charged with perjury and contempt of court.
So does that mean you have proof that he intentionally lied in order to get back at Seagate?
Was he specifically asked about his relations with Seagate or was it strictly about Samsung?
Do you have proof that his prior dealings with Seagate affected his performance in the Jury?
In summary, I don't think helmets ever should be made mandatory, and may actually have the unintended consequence of making the remaining cyclists less safe.
Wrong conclusion. In your story, helmets didn't make cycling less safe. The accident prone demographic was no longer hidden in the much smaller population of cyclists. The tendencies of the accident prone demographic aren't affected by wether or not the rest of the cycling community wears a helmet.
I also wonder haw many of these accidents are from BMX enthusiasts and teenagers trying a stunt for youtube, since the injury involved a bicycle it is counted amongst the same group as a couple riding their bike in the park.
The real problem is that I'm an adult and I can decide for myself whether or not I will wear a helmet. The government doesn't need to make this decision for me.
True. Personally I don't care, but if you insist on riding your bicycle on the road as if it is a car the very least you can do is wear a helmet. I don't know why cyclists insist they deserve to be on the road amongst the traffic and yet refuse to follow the same traffic laws as everyone else. I've seen several cyclists just dart out in the middle of an intersection without even slowing down for the stop sign or worse the red light.
Unfortunately one day one of these cyclists will dart out in front of a car, get hit, and then sue the driver for brain damage that could have been easily prevented by a helmet. If they made a law that said that the lack of helmet equals lack of legal standing for head injuries then I'm okay with that. Until that day, you shouldn't have a choice that may burden someone else.
Some of us don't need P2P, some of use have to transfer data point to point and use the same ISPs (backhaul) as the consumer. I understand your desire for P2P, since I too find it useful when downloading something that is more popular than a traditional server farm can handle. However I'd like to point out that home consumers are on the bottom tier of service with the big ISPs. This is probably just as well since the non-home use users pay significantly more.
If only we had more co-op ISPs where the membership can decide traffic limits and each member shares the cost of access to the backbone, hardware purchasing and maintenance, and a couple of full time employees being paid a decent (but not great) wage. Hmm, if only there was a way to crowdsource the start up capital... hint hint.
It's easier to think of it as a bulk discount agreement. Microsoft agreed to purchase at least X amount of electricity and in return the power company agreed to provide a discount based on that amount. If Microsoft failed to use X amount of electricity then the power company would back charge for the difference between the agreed rate and the non-discount rate.
Ummm, in your protester example to be accurate they were arrested for trespassing not protesting. They were on the company property blocking the entrance to the business. Regardless of their motivation they were arrested for violating the law.
Do you honestly think they would explicitly state that the employees were arrested for forming a union? They were fired which made them trespassers and gave the police the authority to make the arrest. You probably believe the Chinese press would explicitly say the employees were arrested for forming a union. They would instead say that the arrests were made on similar grounds as the ones in the US.
If you really think the situation here is even remotely similar to there, then you are clearly very clueless. Go travel. See the world. Come back when you've acquired a clue.
I wasn't the one to coin that particular phrase, actually. I read it in an editorial from some tech website... it got me to thinking... soldered RAM, sealed cases, no (easily) removable battery.... it's becoming a commodity in the Appleverse.
Actually iFixit has determined that the iPhone5 is easier to repair than the previous iPhones.
I think you still have to factor in travel time, waiting periods, and so forth. For $70, you can most likely get a replacement Android battery shipped two-day air via Amazon (I did that for my Galaxy S. It was around $39 IIRC.)
Or I could just drive two blocks to my local Apple store and have the battery replaced.
I have not been pleased with the direction of OS X,
I haven't had any problems with OS X. With a few tweaks my desktop operates the same it always has. I run mixed environment of Linux/OS X and haven't had my desktop get in the way.
It's better to compare apples vs. other apples. Sure, there may be less crime in Japan, armed and unarmed. But you need to have Japanese people to realize that difference.
For the record, Japan is considered an eastern country. You may want to compare the US with the United Kingdom, United States has a murder rate of 4.2%. United Kingdom has a murder rate of 1.2%. Even Australia only has a murder rate of 1.0%.
What I've never understood is the non-user replaceable battery with (now almost all) Apple products.
To be fair. I'm using the same removable battery that came with my Android phone. My last Android phone that I upgraded from still has its original battery. I haven't purchased a replacement battery for either of my smartphones. I may have been lucky, but I have gone over 2 years of heavy use on my current phone (knock on wood).
Why create a disposable anything at that price? And if its not disposable, why do people sign up to be stuck taking the device (laptop/phone) to the Apple Store so they can overcharge labor and materials?
The battery is replaceable, so I think the disposable comment is hyperbole. I don't see it that big a deal to take it to Apple to have it replaced. It's covered by the original warranty and Applecare covers it longer. If you didn't have a service plan and its out of warranty, your looking at $80. Samsung's S3 battery is listed at $70. I can probably find the battery for around $50 online somewhere. So at most, I risk paying an extra $30 on the off chance I need a replacement battery and I don't mind trying my luck at one of those discount battery stores. At the very least, I risk paying an extra $10.
Anyway it seems people trade-in their old phones for the new one every two years, so the battery is probably a non-issue anyway. Except for those who buy used iPhones.
Your argument is attempting to provide that nobody should have a gun legally because you just can't know that a specific individual won't use it for crime. My argument is that you CAN know that criminals will obtain guns illegally, and you CAN know that a subset of people who have guns will use them for legal purposes of defense of themselves and neighbors, and that arming these citizens is more ideal than not arming them. All other factors are other arguments--such as an armed citizenry being a dangerous climate for violent crime, a deterrent, etc. Criminals tend to move to or develop where crime is easier and less risky; that's great, but even if it weren't true we'd still be at an advantage having a strong, armed non-criminal citizenry.
I made no such argument. I just pointed out that your statement was nonsense used as political rhetoric since it automatically excludes all people who used a gun in a crime, despite the fact that perpetrators were in fact law-abiding citizens when they acquired the gun.
Now I'll point out that your scary story does not align well with reality.
Your rhetoric creates a straw man that the average US citizen has a high risk of home invasion, when the FBI crime statistics say otherwise. In fact you are most likely be victimized by someone you know than a complete stranger. This includes domestic disputes and arguments that got out of hand and deadly because one of the participants had ready access to a firearm. Unfortunately in a lot of cases, the bad guy was the one with the gun. Also, your scary story doesn't take into account the lower crime rates of other western countries that do have restrictions on gun ownership.
No, 'law-abiding' is intended to mean that the citizens are lawful and use guns for lawful use. They're criminals when they commit crimes. Shooting a motherfucker that's in your house coming at you and your kids with a samurai sword is not a crime.
I think you just proved my point, also I said nothing about self defense. If they're criminals when they commit crimes, what were they just prior to pulling the trigger? Let me guess, "law-abiding citizen".
Samsung has incredible hardware. The Galaxy series of phones have all been quite remarkable. Their OLED technology puts out color gamut that makes Plasma TVs look like they were painted with pastel watercolors.
There have been reports about problems with the WiFi on the S3. Also the review for the hardware have been favorable except that several reviewers commented that the display on the S3 is noticeably dimmer than the S2 and competing phones (CNET has one such review).
I'm thinking about getting an S3 but am waiting for the WiFi issue to be resolved. I depend on WiFi calling on my current Android phone when I'm out in the middle of nowhere and WiFi problems is a deal breaker for me. Luckily my current Android phone works well enough for me not to be in a hurry for a replacement.
They try so hard to be like Apple... they've smoked Apple on the hardware side, but the lack of quality on their software side just completely spoils their phones. So when a 0 day flaw pops up that allows one to completely take over a phone, it doesn't surprise me. Results like this usually correlate with high software engineer turnover with low management turnover, which should points to a solution: fire the management.
I believe a good smartphone has both good hardware and software. Unfortunately for Samsung, this means that the crappy software on their phone equates to a crappy smartphone. Despite this I think your assessment is a little unfair to both companies. They both have different priorities:
Samsung is trying to be bleeding edge with their flagship phone, so expect them to push the limits of their software developers. Anyway Samsung seems to be relying on hardware specs on the advertising lately, and so I don't expect them to wait for QA prior to releasing the next big phone. I think most people who already have an Android phone are used to having non-polished software, so Samsung is just addressing the demand for better hardware by the Android enthusiasts who probably root their phone immediately anyway.
Apple on the other hand is over engineering their phones. They try to not add hardware features that their software isn't ready to support. Most of their market runs the iPhone as is, and therefore I agree with Apple's strategy. J.D. Powers seem to agree that Apple's system engineering approach is satisfying consumer expectations.
I suspect that if you ask an Android fan what's important they will answer: Open software, fast cpu, cutting edge hardware, removable battery, and expandable memory. If you ask an Apple fan the same question, they will answer: Sleek styling, lightweight, tight-integration with their other Apple products, ease of use, no software issues, a large number of apps, and an easy to use App store. Since both camps have differing objectives and the fan base fervently believe that their world view is the best, we will continue to have these fanboy wars.
I do find Samsung's current advertising a little distasteful and childish. I hope Samsung doesn't view the Android community that way.
Cool. A security exploit was found and now it can be fixed. A rational person would go, I'll just disable NFC and be okay.
This being slashdot, we'll have more than our fair share of people insisting that this proves that Android is somehow inferior than their favorite brand of OS. This will in turn lead to Android fans pointing out how the other OS was also hacked. The next thing you know, we have an all out fanboy war on the comments. It's as if Slashdot editors are planning on this.
Isn't there any cool news for geeks that isn't related to a cell phone?
I have seen no data on gun proliferation that indicates that allowing guns into the hands of law-abiding citizens increases murder rates. It does increase death in assaults and home-invasions.
This is a trick statement used by politicians and NRA members. I understand what you are trying to say, but be aware that your statement is self-fulfilling since people who were law-abiding prior to using their gun in a crime will no longer be in that same category afterwards and can be conveniently overlooked.
For all we knew, Amy Bishop was a law abiding biology professor before she went on a shooting spree next door to the building I'm in on the UAH campus and killed three colleagues and seriously wounded three more.
One could argue that civilized people don't imprison people for extended periods of time. One could also argue that civilized people don't imprison people at all. So what do you do with someone who is hellbent on killing everyone?
One could argue that giving punishment for crime committed has always been a part of civilization since the beginning. Therefore by definition civilized people would imprison people for extended period of time or even punish them by death. Unless of course your definition of civilization is an idealized one where crime is never committed and thusly never punished.
On my way home yesterday, I misplaced my boarding pass somewhere between the airport coffee shop and the TSA checkpoint. I was able to use the airline app on my Android phone to present an electronic version of my boarding pass and was able to board my plane. I was also able to board my connecting flight using the same app. I don't see how Apple's current version would act any different, especially since the iPhone doesn't have NFC.
Sure Apple applied for a patent, but it as past performance has shown, it doesn't necessarily mean that they will actually deliver it to the consumer. At least not right away. When and if they do, if it means going through the checkpoint faster then I'm all for it. I mean TSA is already rummaging through my stuff and looking at my naked image, how much more intrusive can they really get?
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On one of my telephotos I get a rainbow. Isn't it cool how different lens materials have different flare characteristics?
I'm not surprised that there will be lens flare when having a bright source like the sun near the frame. This is why we have lens hoods. I wonder if we would have the same flare if we angled the phone away from the sun by a very little and use our hand as a sun shade?
I don't care if its Apple or Samsung. When you have a tiny lens flush with the camera body and almost no blockage of off axis light sources you are bound to have lens flare. The customer support letter giving advice to angle the camera away from a bright light source is good advice for any phone camera.
Another Gizmodo troll article.
So does that mean you have proof that he intentionally lied in order to get back at Seagate?
Was he specifically asked about his relations with Seagate or was it strictly about Samsung?
Do you have proof that his prior dealings with Seagate affected his performance in the Jury?
Cool! It goes with the dorky outfits they make you wear if you work outside for a living.
Wrong conclusion. In your story, helmets didn't make cycling less safe. The accident prone demographic was no longer hidden in the much smaller population of cyclists. The tendencies of the accident prone demographic aren't affected by wether or not the rest of the cycling community wears a helmet.
I also wonder haw many of these accidents are from BMX enthusiasts and teenagers trying a stunt for youtube, since the injury involved a bicycle it is counted amongst the same group as a couple riding their bike in the park.
True. Personally I don't care, but if you insist on riding your bicycle on the road as if it is a car the very least you can do is wear a helmet. I don't know why cyclists insist they deserve to be on the road amongst the traffic and yet refuse to follow the same traffic laws as everyone else. I've seen several cyclists just dart out in the middle of an intersection without even slowing down for the stop sign or worse the red light.
Unfortunately one day one of these cyclists will dart out in front of a car, get hit, and then sue the driver for brain damage that could have been easily prevented by a helmet. If they made a law that said that the lack of helmet equals lack of legal standing for head injuries then I'm okay with that. Until that day, you shouldn't have a choice that may burden someone else.
I'm sure he'll still agree that helmets aren't important...
Some of us don't need P2P, some of use have to transfer data point to point and use the same ISPs (backhaul) as the consumer. I understand your desire for P2P, since I too find it useful when downloading something that is more popular than a traditional server farm can handle. However I'd like to point out that home consumers are on the bottom tier of service with the big ISPs. This is probably just as well since the non-home use users pay significantly more.
If only we had more co-op ISPs where the membership can decide traffic limits and each member shares the cost of access to the backbone, hardware purchasing and maintenance, and a couple of full time employees being paid a decent (but not great) wage. Hmm, if only there was a way to crowdsource the start up capital... hint hint.
It's easier to think of it as a bulk discount agreement. Microsoft agreed to purchase at least X amount of electricity and in return the power company agreed to provide a discount based on that amount. If Microsoft failed to use X amount of electricity then the power company would back charge for the difference between the agreed rate and the non-discount rate.
Do you honestly think they would explicitly state that the employees were arrested for forming a union? They were fired which made them trespassers and gave the police the authority to make the arrest. You probably believe the Chinese press would explicitly say the employees were arrested for forming a union. They would instead say that the arrests were made on similar grounds as the ones in the US.
There's letters on my phone?
You only asked for one example, so here you go: 23 people arrested for protesting against being fired for trying to form a union. I could find more examples, but you only asked for one.
How about for the way they look even though they have papers?.
I have. It's amazing people still think we're #1.
Don't forget the scumbag western conservatives who openly outsource labor to countries with the lowest labor costs...
You're correct... Shame on those scumbags for providing jobs to poor Chinese workers. Those workers should remain on farms or worse... Oh wait.
Actually iFixit has determined that the iPhone5 is easier to repair than the previous iPhones.
Or I could just drive two blocks to my local Apple store and have the battery replaced.
I haven't had any problems with OS X. With a few tweaks my desktop operates the same it always has. I run mixed environment of Linux/OS X and haven't had my desktop get in the way.
The Lightning connector is much easier to insert into the phone versus the micro-USB. Eyesight isn't improving for some of us here.
Then again it's just a connector, get over it and move on.
For the record, Japan is considered an eastern country. You may want to compare the US with the United Kingdom, United States has a murder rate of 4.2%. United Kingdom has a murder rate of 1.2%. Even Australia only has a murder rate of 1.0%.
To be fair. I'm using the same removable battery that came with my Android phone. My last Android phone that I upgraded from still has its original battery. I haven't purchased a replacement battery for either of my smartphones. I may have been lucky, but I have gone over 2 years of heavy use on my current phone (knock on wood).
The battery is replaceable, so I think the disposable comment is hyperbole. I don't see it that big a deal to take it to Apple to have it replaced. It's covered by the original warranty and Applecare covers it longer. If you didn't have a service plan and its out of warranty, your looking at $80. Samsung's S3 battery is listed at $70. I can probably find the battery for around $50 online somewhere. So at most, I risk paying an extra $30 on the off chance I need a replacement battery and I don't mind trying my luck at one of those discount battery stores. At the very least, I risk paying an extra $10.
Anyway it seems people trade-in their old phones for the new one every two years, so the battery is probably a non-issue anyway. Except for those who buy used iPhones.
A better source of information: http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/vdhb.pdf
I made no such argument. I just pointed out that your statement was nonsense used as political rhetoric since it automatically excludes all people who used a gun in a crime, despite the fact that perpetrators were in fact law-abiding citizens when they acquired the gun.
Now I'll point out that your scary story does not align well with reality.
Your rhetoric creates a straw man that the average US citizen has a high risk of home invasion, when the FBI crime statistics say otherwise. In fact you are most likely be victimized by someone you know than a complete stranger. This includes domestic disputes and arguments that got out of hand and deadly because one of the participants had ready access to a firearm. Unfortunately in a lot of cases, the bad guy was the one with the gun. Also, your scary story doesn't take into account the lower crime rates of other western countries that do have restrictions on gun ownership.
I think you just proved my point, also I said nothing about self defense. If they're criminals when they commit crimes, what were they just prior to pulling the trigger? Let me guess, "law-abiding citizen".
There have been reports about problems with the WiFi on the S3. Also the review for the hardware have been favorable except that several reviewers commented that the display on the S3 is noticeably dimmer than the S2 and competing phones (CNET has one such review).
I'm thinking about getting an S3 but am waiting for the WiFi issue to be resolved. I depend on WiFi calling on my current Android phone when I'm out in the middle of nowhere and WiFi problems is a deal breaker for me. Luckily my current Android phone works well enough for me not to be in a hurry for a replacement.
I believe a good smartphone has both good hardware and software. Unfortunately for Samsung, this means that the crappy software on their phone equates to a crappy smartphone. Despite this I think your assessment is a little unfair to both companies. They both have different priorities:
Samsung is trying to be bleeding edge with their flagship phone, so expect them to push the limits of their software developers. Anyway Samsung seems to be relying on hardware specs on the advertising lately, and so I don't expect them to wait for QA prior to releasing the next big phone. I think most people who already have an Android phone are used to having non-polished software, so Samsung is just addressing the demand for better hardware by the Android enthusiasts who probably root their phone immediately anyway.
Apple on the other hand is over engineering their phones. They try to not add hardware features that their software isn't ready to support. Most of their market runs the iPhone as is, and therefore I agree with Apple's strategy. J.D. Powers seem to agree that Apple's system engineering approach is satisfying consumer expectations.
I suspect that if you ask an Android fan what's important they will answer: Open software, fast cpu, cutting edge hardware, removable battery, and expandable memory. If you ask an Apple fan the same question, they will answer: Sleek styling, lightweight, tight-integration with their other Apple products, ease of use, no software issues, a large number of apps, and an easy to use App store. Since both camps have differing objectives and the fan base fervently believe that their world view is the best, we will continue to have these fanboy wars.
I do find Samsung's current advertising a little distasteful and childish. I hope Samsung doesn't view the Android community that way.
Cool. A security exploit was found and now it can be fixed. A rational person would go, I'll just disable NFC and be okay.
This being slashdot, we'll have more than our fair share of people insisting that this proves that Android is somehow inferior than their favorite brand of OS. This will in turn lead to Android fans pointing out how the other OS was also hacked. The next thing you know, we have an all out fanboy war on the comments. It's as if Slashdot editors are planning on this.
Isn't there any cool news for geeks that isn't related to a cell phone?
This is a trick statement used by politicians and NRA members. I understand what you are trying to say, but be aware that your statement is self-fulfilling since people who were law-abiding prior to using their gun in a crime will no longer be in that same category afterwards and can be conveniently overlooked.
For all we knew, Amy Bishop was a law abiding biology professor before she went on a shooting spree next door to the building I'm in on the UAH campus and killed three colleagues and seriously wounded three more.
One could argue that giving punishment for crime committed has always been a part of civilization since the beginning. Therefore by definition civilized people would imprison people for extended period of time or even punish them by death. Unless of course your definition of civilization is an idealized one where crime is never committed and thusly never punished.
On my way home yesterday, I misplaced my boarding pass somewhere between the airport coffee shop and the TSA checkpoint. I was able to use the airline app on my Android phone to present an electronic version of my boarding pass and was able to board my plane. I was also able to board my connecting flight using the same app. I don't see how Apple's current version would act any different, especially since the iPhone doesn't have NFC.
Sure Apple applied for a patent, but it as past performance has shown, it doesn't necessarily mean that they will actually deliver it to the consumer. At least not right away. When and if they do, if it means going through the checkpoint faster then I'm all for it. I mean TSA is already rummaging through my stuff and looking at my naked image, how much more intrusive can they really get?