Maybe you should stop obsessing about dick. YOU are the one who has a problem with size. YOU are the one who seems to be threatened by the fact that someone else might have a bigger one than you. And YOU are the one that thinks that there is some relation between touch pad size and penises.
And just to make your insecurities worse, I'll fill you in on a secret. When women tell you that size doesn't matter... They are just trying to spare your feelings.
Ironically, it is YOUR response that stems from a world that is primarily based on first-person shooters. The world has been filled with the use of violence being used to solve real large scale problems. It has been used throughout history, and is still in heavy use today. We are talking about people who claim that we are at the end of the world, and that the continued use of fossil fuels will lead to the early death or extreme suffering of their own children as well as the rest of humanity. Their claims put the oil companies in the role of the worst human rights offenders of all time. It places them as dwarfing the evil of Mussolini, Pol Pot, and Hitler combined.
We are not talking about claims of "It will make the Dow Jones drop by 10 points." We are not even talking about "Tens of thousands will die". We are talking about claims of an extinction level event. They are also claiming that we are at that tipping point now.
Only someone who has grown up in a world where violence is primarily fiction on a TV screen would make the comment that you just made.
This must be the kind of app that the carriers meant when they said that it would be a problem if they allowed "Unauthorized Applications" on the network. See, they were right all along.
If you just happen to look out your front door to see if the mailman is coming, and you keep doing that throughout the day, is it "lucky" that you just *HAPPEN* to get up and walk over to the door *BEFORE* it was possible to know that the mailman had arrived. Would you consider that good luck?
I would go so far as to say that not only is dkleinsc wrong about now in that he is intentionally missing the intent of the word "Now" in context, but is wrong on what now means at all. Since as far as modern science knows, information cannot move faster than the speed of light, no event can really be said to be happening "now". The best you could ever say is "maybe now". The meaning of the word in the article isn't just a "valid" way to look at the universe. It is darn near the ONLY way to view the universe, and with using the word "now" to mean that earliest you could detect it given the speed of light, the word becomes virtually unusable in our language.
It doesn't even need to do that. If GoToMyPC were to put out an Android and iOS client tomorrow at a price that didn't break the bank, laptops would be a niche product within a year.
Honestly, the fact that they run a web browser means that they will always have a place. I was doing some home automation in my house about the time the iPod came out. The touch screens that interfaced with the system were in the range of $1200. Since all of the systems have web interfaces too, an Android or Apple tablet is a steal for that purpose. I would expect to see a lot of of them used for kiosks as well. A full PC with a touch screen is going to be a lot more expensive, and limit the form factor way more than putting a tablet in the box.
They will have their day. The problem is that the ones that have existed in the past generally were laptops with touch screens. Laptop are not built to have people poking at the screen, so the 'netveribles' of the past were just not built for the task they were trying to fill. It will be things like the Transformer that will bring that form factor to masses. The missing piece that is missing from both Android and iOS is an easy way to screen share to the desktop back at home. It can be done, but the software isn't ready for the masses.
You sound like the old mainframe guys complaining that those PC things are not "real" computers. They are just toys, and real work can't be done on them.
Come on man, don't make ME the guy defending Apple. If you want to complain about their products or users, at least complain about something real. It's not like they don't have their warts.
Why do people think this is a good insult. It isn't. The first thing I thought when I saw the iPod touch was, "This is neat, but it would be really cool if it was way bigger."
The iPad IS a large iPod Touch, and that is a good thing. Your complaint makes about as much sense as complaining that the 50" TV is just an over sized 13" TV.
It's not like manufacturer warranties are necessarily better. I have two identical Gateway computers that I got at Costco sitting here, and they both exhibit the same problem of rebooting if the weather gets up to about 78 degrees. The only reason I considered the computers was because Costco had their name on the box offering a second year warranty.
Gateway says that I can keep shipping it in to them for them to test the system, but all they do is turn it on and let it run for an hour. If it doesn't fail within an hour, they pack it up and ship it back to you. Costco's response to this is that they will have someone in their call center sit on the phone with you while the Gateway India call center explains to you that a one hour test is testing everything, but you can ship it back in again, and they will test it another time.
I'm not a fan of Apple, but only someone in with their head in the sand doesn't know that there are real live keyboards for the iPad. You see, it has this thing call bluetooth. You don't even need a special keyboard. Just a bluetooth keyboard.
You say that like it is insane to believe it. It really isn't. It is no more insane that believing that anyone running for president is going to lie to you. Yes it is unfortunate, but that doesn't make it true. When peoples livelihoods are on the line, they frequently start rationalizing poor choices. When that is combined with religious fervor, things can quickly get out of hand.
The lack of wide scale rebellion actually throws a lot of doubt into my mind when it comes to climate 'scientists'. If someone outlined their plan to kill your spouse and child, you could verify that the plan would work, and they were clearly in the middle of carrying it out, what would you do? Would you just start flailing your arms? Would you you write reports about it that you already know is going to fall on def ears? With the killer in his car on his way to your home and his gun loaded, are you going to go into the office and check to see if the bullet in their heads will kill them in 1/2 second, or 3/4 of a second? No, you are going to lay in wait for them to burst through the door, and you are going to kill them first.
Every single climate research who claims the end is near, has a family, and has not joined a rebellion to destroy our oil consuming culture, loses a lot of credibility. They are predicting the end of human life as we know it within their own children's lifetime after all.
As I understand it, Google needed to get a tablet optimized version of Android out sooner rather than later. Android 2.3 is in pretty good shape against iOS on phones, so they moved forward with 3.0 as a tablet OS with the intention of merging the two in the following version. This was to prevent the iPad from gaining an even larger first mover advantage. It was also to address the fact that tablet makers were going to sell Android tablets. Either Google get out a version that was optimized for tablets, or version 2.3 was going to get put on the tablets.
So, Google didn't abandon the phone OS, they just acknowledged that they needed to take a shortcut to tablets.
I really hate when people pull out Occam's Razor. It is a ridiculous idea from the start. At the end of the day, the simplest explanation for EVERYTHING is "That's the way God wanted it". This leads me to believe that they don't actually believe it, but instead use it as an appeal to authority.
I find it funny how many people consider the statement that the iPad is just a giant iPod Touch as an insult to the iPad. The first thing I thought of when I handled an iPod Touch was "This is kind of neat. It would be way cooler if it was the size of a sheet of paper." Sure the iPad is a little smaller than a sheet of paper, but the form factor is still good.
Getting VPN working properly on Android would make the Transformer that device. Most people still have computers at home. VNC is available for every platform, and tethering is now common. Being able to use your full desktop PC or Mac from your tablet that can also be a laptop would bring something entirely new to the table.
I am the opposite. I don't want a data plan for my tablet. I want my phone to tether. I do keep looking the Transformer. The ability to, well, transform between a laptop and a tablet holds a lot of value for me. The single problem that keeps me from leaving my laptop at home 80% of the time is the lack of good pptp. Pptp VPN just doesn't work on Android. It is in the menu. It can make the connection. It just doesn't pass any data over the VPN connection. If it worked, a tablet with a keyboard combined with VNC and tethering to my phone would make the tablet cover 80% of my laptop usage.
Limiting it model to model or manufacturer to manufacturer is stupid. By that standard, the C64 won the desktop wars, as it was until recently (and may still be) the single best selling model of personal computer. That doesn't mean that the IBM PC compatibles didn't clean Commodore's clock.
You are right though about comparing Android to iOS. It might, MIGHT make sense to split phone/non phone, but I wouldn't, as it makes a clear cut comparison cloudy. It is silly for people to claim that an iPod touch isn't just a different sized iPad and Vs. versa.
I'm just thinking that it isn't new anymore if they have opened it and take a part out of the box. GameStop will be marking all of these boxes as "Used" right?
You seem to be confused about what the American school system entails. Our schools do not smack of intellectual elitism. our schools smack of ANTI-intellectual elitism. Drive around the US. Look at the signs in front of the schools. They don't pronounce the schools Math club, or literature club. The proudly declare the schools sports team. Most of the complaints about our schools is in that they are not intellectual enough.
The arts can be just as important as math and science.
I'm going to say something unpopular here... No they can't. Art is not, has never been, and never will be as important as math and science. The very concept that it is even in the same league as math and science is absurd. Art is great, but it is what you do when you have your math and science done. Art leaves you with an empty belly and markings on your cave wall. Math and science give you safe, healthy food. Art gives you a really pretty quilt to lay under when you are dying young from some disease. Math and science give you medicines to not die young in the first place.
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Maybe you should stop obsessing about dick. YOU are the one who has a problem with size. YOU are the one who seems to be threatened by the fact that someone else might have a bigger one than you. And YOU are the one that thinks that there is some relation between touch pad size and penises.
And just to make your insecurities worse, I'll fill you in on a secret. When women tell you that size doesn't matter... They are just trying to spare your feelings.
Ironically, it is YOUR response that stems from a world that is primarily based on first-person shooters. The world has been filled with the use of violence being used to solve real large scale problems. It has been used throughout history, and is still in heavy use today. We are talking about people who claim that we are at the end of the world, and that the continued use of fossil fuels will lead to the early death or extreme suffering of their own children as well as the rest of humanity. Their claims put the oil companies in the role of the worst human rights offenders of all time. It places them as dwarfing the evil of Mussolini, Pol Pot, and Hitler combined.
We are not talking about claims of "It will make the Dow Jones drop by 10 points." We are not even talking about "Tens of thousands will die". We are talking about claims of an extinction level event. They are also claiming that we are at that tipping point now.
Only someone who has grown up in a world where violence is primarily fiction on a TV screen would make the comment that you just made.
This must be the kind of app that the carriers meant when they said that it would be a problem if they allowed "Unauthorized Applications" on the network. See, they were right all along.
A better analogy would be...
If you just happen to look out your front door to see if the mailman is coming, and you keep doing that throughout the day, is it "lucky" that you just *HAPPEN* to get up and walk over to the door *BEFORE* it was possible to know that the mailman had arrived. Would you consider that good luck?
Maybe you should have used one of these http://rainbowsystem.com/?gclid=CIDg6eq67aoCFcYUKgodLjW3PQ
I would go so far as to say that not only is dkleinsc wrong about now in that he is intentionally missing the intent of the word "Now" in context, but is wrong on what now means at all. Since as far as modern science knows, information cannot move faster than the speed of light, no event can really be said to be happening "now". The best you could ever say is "maybe now". The meaning of the word in the article isn't just a "valid" way to look at the universe. It is darn near the ONLY way to view the universe, and with using the word "now" to mean that earliest you could detect it given the speed of light, the word becomes virtually unusable in our language.
They were always transparent and easy to spot. It is you that has changed.
It doesn't even need to do that. If GoToMyPC were to put out an Android and iOS client tomorrow at a price that didn't break the bank, laptops would be a niche product within a year.
Honestly, the fact that they run a web browser means that they will always have a place. I was doing some home automation in my house about the time the iPod came out. The touch screens that interfaced with the system were in the range of $1200. Since all of the systems have web interfaces too, an Android or Apple tablet is a steal for that purpose. I would expect to see a lot of of them used for kiosks as well. A full PC with a touch screen is going to be a lot more expensive, and limit the form factor way more than putting a tablet in the box.
Both my Android phone and my Android tablet run Netflix just fine.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.netflix.mediaclient&hl=en
They will have their day. The problem is that the ones that have existed in the past generally were laptops with touch screens. Laptop are not built to have people poking at the screen, so the 'netveribles' of the past were just not built for the task they were trying to fill. It will be things like the Transformer that will bring that form factor to masses. The missing piece that is missing from both Android and iOS is an easy way to screen share to the desktop back at home. It can be done, but the software isn't ready for the masses.
You sound like the old mainframe guys complaining that those PC things are not "real" computers. They are just toys, and real work can't be done on them.
Come on man, don't make ME the guy defending Apple. If you want to complain about their products or users, at least complain about something real. It's not like they don't have their warts.
Why do people think this is a good insult. It isn't. The first thing I thought when I saw the iPod touch was, "This is neat, but it would be really cool if it was way bigger."
The iPad IS a large iPod Touch, and that is a good thing. Your complaint makes about as much sense as complaining that the 50" TV is just an over sized 13" TV.
It's not like manufacturer warranties are necessarily better. I have two identical Gateway computers that I got at Costco sitting here, and they both exhibit the same problem of rebooting if the weather gets up to about 78 degrees. The only reason I considered the computers was because Costco had their name on the box offering a second year warranty.
Gateway says that I can keep shipping it in to them for them to test the system, but all they do is turn it on and let it run for an hour. If it doesn't fail within an hour, they pack it up and ship it back to you. Costco's response to this is that they will have someone in their call center sit on the phone with you while the Gateway India call center explains to you that a one hour test is testing everything, but you can ship it back in again, and they will test it another time.
I'm not a fan of Apple, but only someone in with their head in the sand doesn't know that there are real live keyboards for the iPad. You see, it has this thing call bluetooth. You don't even need a special keyboard. Just a bluetooth keyboard.
You say that like it is insane to believe it. It really isn't. It is no more insane that believing that anyone running for president is going to lie to you. Yes it is unfortunate, but that doesn't make it true. When peoples livelihoods are on the line, they frequently start rationalizing poor choices. When that is combined with religious fervor, things can quickly get out of hand.
The lack of wide scale rebellion actually throws a lot of doubt into my mind when it comes to climate 'scientists'. If someone outlined their plan to kill your spouse and child, you could verify that the plan would work, and they were clearly in the middle of carrying it out, what would you do? Would you just start flailing your arms? Would you you write reports about it that you already know is going to fall on def ears? With the killer in his car on his way to your home and his gun loaded, are you going to go into the office and check to see if the bullet in their heads will kill them in 1/2 second, or 3/4 of a second? No, you are going to lay in wait for them to burst through the door, and you are going to kill them first.
Every single climate research who claims the end is near, has a family, and has not joined a rebellion to destroy our oil consuming culture, loses a lot of credibility. They are predicting the end of human life as we know it within their own children's lifetime after all.
As I understand it, Google needed to get a tablet optimized version of Android out sooner rather than later. Android 2.3 is in pretty good shape against iOS on phones, so they moved forward with 3.0 as a tablet OS with the intention of merging the two in the following version. This was to prevent the iPad from gaining an even larger first mover advantage. It was also to address the fact that tablet makers were going to sell Android tablets. Either Google get out a version that was optimized for tablets, or version 2.3 was going to get put on the tablets.
So, Google didn't abandon the phone OS, they just acknowledged that they needed to take a shortcut to tablets.
I really hate when people pull out Occam's Razor. It is a ridiculous idea from the start. At the end of the day, the simplest explanation for EVERYTHING is "That's the way God wanted it". This leads me to believe that they don't actually believe it, but instead use it as an appeal to authority.
I find it funny how many people consider the statement that the iPad is just a giant iPod Touch as an insult to the iPad. The first thing I thought of when I handled an iPod Touch was "This is kind of neat. It would be way cooler if it was the size of a sheet of paper." Sure the iPad is a little smaller than a sheet of paper, but the form factor is still good.
Getting VPN working properly on Android would make the Transformer that device. Most people still have computers at home. VNC is available for every platform, and tethering is now common. Being able to use your full desktop PC or Mac from your tablet that can also be a laptop would bring something entirely new to the table.
I am the opposite. I don't want a data plan for my tablet. I want my phone to tether. I do keep looking the Transformer. The ability to, well, transform between a laptop and a tablet holds a lot of value for me. The single problem that keeps me from leaving my laptop at home 80% of the time is the lack of good pptp. Pptp VPN just doesn't work on Android. It is in the menu. It can make the connection. It just doesn't pass any data over the VPN connection. If it worked, a tablet with a keyboard combined with VNC and tethering to my phone would make the tablet cover 80% of my laptop usage.
Limiting it model to model or manufacturer to manufacturer is stupid. By that standard, the C64 won the desktop wars, as it was until recently (and may still be) the single best selling model of personal computer. That doesn't mean that the IBM PC compatibles didn't clean Commodore's clock.
You are right though about comparing Android to iOS. It might, MIGHT make sense to split phone/non phone, but I wouldn't, as it makes a clear cut comparison cloudy. It is silly for people to claim that an iPod touch isn't just a different sized iPad and Vs. versa.
I'm just thinking that it isn't new anymore if they have opened it and take a part out of the box. GameStop will be marking all of these boxes as "Used" right?
You seem to be confused about what the American school system entails. Our schools do not smack of intellectual elitism. our schools smack of ANTI-intellectual elitism. Drive around the US. Look at the signs in front of the schools. They don't pronounce the schools Math club, or literature club. The proudly declare the schools sports team. Most of the complaints about our schools is in that they are not intellectual enough.
The arts can be just as important as math and science.
I'm going to say something unpopular here... No they can't. Art is not, has never been, and never will be as important as math and science. The very concept that it is even in the same league as math and science is absurd. Art is great, but it is what you do when you have your math and science done. Art leaves you with an empty belly and markings on your cave wall. Math and science give you safe, healthy food. Art gives you a really pretty quilt to lay under when you are dying young from some disease. Math and science give you medicines to not die young in the first place.