You today do not understand why touch failed any more than those that tried in the 80s. Your link repeats the same invalid complaint that those who don't understand user input make today.
And that is an example of a faux environmentalist. Instead of having intergenrational and global ethics, you push your pet peeve of wanting people to have a crappy standard of living. What long term thinkers who are understand cause, effect and probability, pushing public transportation is not even on the radar. Unrestrained breeding means that public transportation will still lead to a life of living in post-civilized chaos, water wars, and utter poverty. Restrained breeding means that private transportation is sustainable.
Faux-environmentalists like you encourage the destruction of the planet while patting yourself on the back for trying to make everybody's life is worse than it needs to be.
It is an issue of a stereotype (Not completely unearned) handing on longer than what makes sense. Stereotypes tend to be like this. They often have a basis in truth that gets blown way out of proportion and then kept around long after the original basis has disappeared.
True, it is more a case of making the share croppers. It doesn't make the businesses doing it any less evil, and it isn't any less destructive you our national economy.
The thing that gets me is that most phones have removable batteries. Why are the manufacturers not selling overpriced back plates with double, triple and quadruple sized batteries? It just cant be that expensive to make a replacement back plate.
I would assume that the benefit you get with a 1080p display is that there is no scaling being done between the on-screen picture, and what gets output to the HDMI.
I would like to see it done the way that the iPhone does it. Put the keyboard in a case that has a slide out keyboard. This way we get the economies of scale with the phone and can even decide to add the keyboard 6 months after we bought the phone.
I frequently replace my batteries as well. Since I am not wearing skin tight clothes and I am an adult, so my pockets are adult sized, I am not pressed for a paper thin phone. When available, I will usually replace the existing battery with one that is double or triple the capacity. I have a T-Mobile G2. The replacement battery adds 1/4 inch to the thickness of the phone and triples the battery capacity. This allows me to leave tethering on all the time, have my phone kick on the GPS every 3 minutes to log it's location, and still run all day under heavy load without worrying about running out of power.
Removable batteries mean a battery door. This makes the phone thicker.
This is a red herring for. Manufacturers and apologists will say it to explain away bad engineering. It is used because while it it technically true if no other factors are considered, once proper engineering is applied, it becomes an insignificant factor. If there was a hard line between the thickness of phones with replaceable batteries and those without, MAYBE the excuse would carry some weight. Looking at the available phones, and we see that plenty of phones with replaceable batteries that are noticeably thinner than their non-replaceable battery counterparts.
In theory removable batteries mean thicker phones. In practice they do not.
I don't know about you, but I don't think I know a single person who isn't running Linux a at this point. Sure a lot of them also run other OSes, but they all run Linux.
It isn't the fact that the screen is vertical that would prevent people from getting a touch screen. As much as people looking for an excuse to hate Win8 want to deny it, a touch screen does not have to, nor should it replace a mouse and keyboard. The problem is that a touch screen is way to expensive for most people to rationalize for the functions it would improve. Without lots of people buying the touch screens the price will stay to high.
So, MS overdid the touch features on their OS in an attempt to push users to buy touchscreens. If enough people buy them, the price will come down. Unfortunately, since MS overdid the touch on Win8, they gave people who want to hate Win8 an valid excuse and pushed a lot of people who wanted to like Win8 in to the hating Win8 camp along with them.
This is a perfect example of why public transportation fails. The only time it is attractive is if you somehow make driving a car is even crappier than public transit. When you have decent roads, are not in a massively overpopulated area and don't have crazy laws like suggested above, cars pretty much always win.
I never understood peoples obsession with wanting paper to decompose quickly in land fills. Paper is carbon. Putting it in the ground and not having it decompose is the sequestering of carbon. I can understand people being upset about the environmental cost of producing paper, but once it is paper, and it is in a landfill, having it decompose just increases the chance of the carbon getting back into the environment.
I would say the opposite. I do want to see Han Solo sitting in a bar bragging about his glory days and complaining about his jedi bitch ex-wife. What I don't want to see is an attempt to make Han out as some 70 year old who is at the peak of his physical prowess. Time moves on. Han Solo should be old. That doesn't stop him from firing a blaster when the other guy isn't ready though.
Who didn't know that Top Gear staged stuff. I've only seen 3 episodes and it was overtly clear that they stage stuff. In one of them, they even showed them sabotaging one of the cars and laughing about it. I assumed that staging stuff was supposed to be part of the show's "charm".
By that logic, you could call the iPhone a Palm Pilot knockoff. The iPhone is just a PDA with a phone attached. When it was intorduced, that was the trend. Merge the cell phone and the PDA.
Actually DNS IS a free market. Each DNS server certainly is free to do whatever kind of domain name translation they wish. The market has spoken and what it has said is that it WANTS a central authority. The only power that ICAAN holds is that of the monopolist. All of the users go to ICAAN, so if you don't use their product, you don't exist. ICAAN's power is that of the monopolist. Not that of government regulation.
Ok, that is pretty funny. The sad part is that there would be people who were happier with the rwa2 progress bar than with the current ones. We just need a toggle that lets the people who demand an accurate progress bar to get it, while those of us that can accept progress bars that are not exact can get our stuff faster.
I would go farther than that and say that Libre Office has 100% of what the typical user needs. Google Apps has 99%. The Office App requirements haven't really changed much over the last 15 years. The last must have word processing feature MS added was real time spell checking. My accountant pal couldn't get buy without Excel, but the typical user isn't even coming close to bumping their head on the OO/LO spreadsheet.
The one thing MS does still have on OO/LO is that it looks prettier.
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You today do not understand why touch failed any more than those that tried in the 80s. Your link repeats the same invalid complaint that those who don't understand user input make today.
And that is an example of a faux environmentalist. Instead of having intergenrational and global ethics, you push your pet peeve of wanting people to have a crappy standard of living. What long term thinkers who are understand cause, effect and probability, pushing public transportation is not even on the radar. Unrestrained breeding means that public transportation will still lead to a life of living in post-civilized chaos, water wars, and utter poverty. Restrained breeding means that private transportation is sustainable.
Faux-environmentalists like you encourage the destruction of the planet while patting yourself on the back for trying to make everybody's life is worse than it needs to be.
It is an issue of a stereotype (Not completely unearned) handing on longer than what makes sense. Stereotypes tend to be like this. They often have a basis in truth that gets blown way out of proportion and then kept around long after the original basis has disappeared.
True, it is more a case of making the share croppers. It doesn't make the businesses doing it any less evil, and it isn't any less destructive you our national economy.
I would buy an HTC Pure Marathon.
The thing that gets me is that most phones have removable batteries. Why are the manufacturers not selling overpriced back plates with double, triple and quadruple sized batteries? It just cant be that expensive to make a replacement back plate.
I would assume that the benefit you get with a 1080p display is that there is no scaling being done between the on-screen picture, and what gets output to the HDMI.
I would like to see it done the way that the iPhone does it. Put the keyboard in a case that has a slide out keyboard. This way we get the economies of scale with the phone and can even decide to add the keyboard 6 months after we bought the phone.
I frequently replace my batteries as well. Since I am not wearing skin tight clothes and I am an adult, so my pockets are adult sized, I am not pressed for a paper thin phone. When available, I will usually replace the existing battery with one that is double or triple the capacity. I have a T-Mobile G2. The replacement battery adds 1/4 inch to the thickness of the phone and triples the battery capacity. This allows me to leave tethering on all the time, have my phone kick on the GPS every 3 minutes to log it's location, and still run all day under heavy load without worrying about running out of power.
Removable batteries mean a battery door. This makes the phone thicker.
This is a red herring for. Manufacturers and apologists will say it to explain away bad engineering. It is used because while it it technically true if no other factors are considered, once proper engineering is applied, it becomes an insignificant factor. If there was a hard line between the thickness of phones with replaceable batteries and those without, MAYBE the excuse would carry some weight. Looking at the available phones, and we see that plenty of phones with replaceable batteries that are noticeably thinner than their non-replaceable battery counterparts.
In theory removable batteries mean thicker phones. In practice they do not.
I don't know about you, but I don't think I know a single person who isn't running Linux a at this point. Sure a lot of them also run other OSes, but they all run Linux.
Because they want to sell the tablets?
It isn't the fact that the screen is vertical that would prevent people from getting a touch screen. As much as people looking for an excuse to hate Win8 want to deny it, a touch screen does not have to, nor should it replace a mouse and keyboard. The problem is that a touch screen is way to expensive for most people to rationalize for the functions it would improve. Without lots of people buying the touch screens the price will stay to high.
So, MS overdid the touch features on their OS in an attempt to push users to buy touchscreens. If enough people buy them, the price will come down. Unfortunately, since MS overdid the touch on Win8, they gave people who want to hate Win8 an valid excuse and pushed a lot of people who wanted to like Win8 in to the hating Win8 camp along with them.
This is a perfect example of why public transportation fails. The only time it is attractive is if you somehow make driving a car is even crappier than public transit. When you have decent roads, are not in a massively overpopulated area and don't have crazy laws like suggested above, cars pretty much always win.
That also passes the sniff test and should ALSO be looked into.
I never understood peoples obsession with wanting paper to decompose quickly in land fills. Paper is carbon. Putting it in the ground and not having it decompose is the sequestering of carbon. I can understand people being upset about the environmental cost of producing paper, but once it is paper, and it is in a landfill, having it decompose just increases the chance of the carbon getting back into the environment.
I would say the opposite. I do want to see Han Solo sitting in a bar bragging about his glory days and complaining about his jedi bitch ex-wife. What I don't want to see is an attempt to make Han out as some 70 year old who is at the peak of his physical prowess. Time moves on. Han Solo should be old. That doesn't stop him from firing a blaster when the other guy isn't ready though.
Who didn't know that Top Gear staged stuff. I've only seen 3 episodes and it was overtly clear that they stage stuff. In one of them, they even showed them sabotaging one of the cars and laughing about it. I assumed that staging stuff was supposed to be part of the show's "charm".
By that logic, you could call the iPhone a Palm Pilot knockoff. The iPhone is just a PDA with a phone attached. When it was intorduced, that was the trend. Merge the cell phone and the PDA.
Unless these are the chicks you are doing: http://pinterest.com/picwar/hot-star-wars-chicks/
If you believe in the future that energy is cheap and mass is expensive
Past. Star Wars happened a Long, Long Time Ago.
Actually DNS IS a free market. Each DNS server certainly is free to do whatever kind of domain name translation they wish. The market has spoken and what it has said is that it WANTS a central authority. The only power that ICAAN holds is that of the monopolist. All of the users go to ICAAN, so if you don't use their product, you don't exist. ICAAN's power is that of the monopolist. Not that of government regulation.
Ok, that is pretty funny. The sad part is that there would be people who were happier with the rwa2 progress bar than with the current ones. We just need a toggle that lets the people who demand an accurate progress bar to get it, while those of us that can accept progress bars that are not exact can get our stuff faster.
I would go farther than that and say that Libre Office has 100% of what the typical user needs. Google Apps has 99%. The Office App requirements haven't really changed much over the last 15 years. The last must have word processing feature MS added was real time spell checking. My accountant pal couldn't get buy without Excel, but the typical user isn't even coming close to bumping their head on the OO/LO spreadsheet.
The one thing MS does still have on OO/LO is that it looks prettier.
How many people in this list would pirate instead of pay.
True, Open office make several million dollars a day in profits for Microsoft.
So cheap that it is included in the motherboard.