I got moded troll for a baseball analogy that devolved into something about fryed chicken. I don't know much about baseball so I made up something to be funny and got modded troll.
My brother keeps chickens. You can get eggs without a rooster. In fact you can get eggs with just one chicken living in your back yard. Not very many, but you can.
It's like the pitcher in the batting cage throwing balls at the other pitcher to see if he gets mad. Then in the real game he dose not throw baseballs, but zip lock bags full of backing soda, because the other pitcher is throwing newspapers, and if you hit a flying newspaper with a bag of backing soda fried chicken falls from the sky. But only on days of the month that are prime numbed. Because in real life the pitcher in the batting cage would also have sack of tomatoes to snack on after he strikes out. If the fired chicken hits a tomato then it would create a love quark. And if you get enough love quarks then you can make a small black hole that will suck up the whole of everything in a matter of a bizzillion years. But you see that's why you have the fried chicken. Black holes hate fried chicken, so if you create a black hole just toss some KFC at it and then it will evaporate into a puff of mashed potatoes. That's why you need a pitcher, to hit the black hole with a chicken wing before it has a chance to fall to the centre of the sun.
That's what I thought. I wonder what Yahoo! would do if it's software could only be installed by the user, and not by other software. Perhaps they will strike a deal with Microsoft to get back at Firefox.
Yeah, your right. That was a stupid thing to say. How about I claim that flash memory sucks battery life to save face...Yeah that's it. It's a battery life thing!
Yeah, we can make it so the GPS lasts longer, but do you want lots of people out without the smarts to bring a paper map and a magnetic compas out in the bush with their iPhone and an 'never-lost toppo app'?
People think 'ohh I can't get lost, I have a GPS(tm) I can try something exciting like explore that canyon' and then they get stuck, lose their single, and end up needing rescue. When if they were smart they would stick to a well marked trail.
At least if some one gose out and buys a quality GPS unit (they are not all the same) before they do something stupid they might survive a bit longer without rescue. Basically I'm hoping the nice sales people tell the customer that they are stupid that they should not forget this on the trail.
Then again, Lunchbox the Cadaver Dog says even smart people can be tripped up by depending on electronics.
Standalone units are great for camping and hiking in areas with no cell phone single. They are dedicated to one thing, so if you only need one thing you can save a lot of hardware space and battery life by having it do just the one thing. They could be even lighter if they only had the on-board storage to hold the maps you need, as opposed to topographical maps of the entire western US, as well as road data and a bunch of other 'white pages' type junk. Also, if you are out in the back woods and your GPS dies because it's wasting it's battery looking for a cell phone signal that is nonexistent you are kinda stuck. (You should always carry a map and a compass, gps isn't the answer for everything). So, yeah, I doubt standalone units are going to die out any time soon.
Think about home sales right now, not long ago homes in my area were selling for about $1,000,000. However the price has decreased to around $800,000 to $700,000 and they are still dropping (Yeah the joy of CA). However homes are being pulled off the market and sitting, vacant, not even being rented. Why? Because they have already decided that they need to get more than the current sale price. Logically, they know it is imposable, and that bubble prices won't be back soon enough to make holding on to the real-estate and paying maintenance profitable. Still they are anchored to one million dollars. (PS My area is mostly people who purchased back in the 60's and 70's and have lived in there homes seance then. Mostly homes for sale are inheritance, or some one who is down sizing because the kids moved away. We don't have many people who bought in the bubble and can't afford to sell because sale price is lower than the mortgage)
Um..No I go from my cube to my bike to my apartment with my wife. The windows are normally open and I have a great view of the mountains. We spend our vacations camping (as in tents, fire and bacon, not FSPs) I couldn't live with DVD's because I've figured out the end by the first five minus of most films. You might be able to handle it but it would drive me nuts.
On the other hand, a mars colony is basacly going to be a hamster cage for people. Imagine living with just four plastic walls and an algae tank to look at. It would be like work without internet. I would rather have rock pools and some place to pretend I was on earth.
The thing is, you don't get face in phone syndrome nearly as much with smart phones. They can do all sorts of stuff, but when I go out and see what people are doing with their phones I see smart phone users making a call and then putting their phone away, or sending an e-mail and putting their phone away. However I see iPhone users with face in palm for hours, and the phone stays out when they are done with it; on the table in front of them, like it will run away if they aren't looking at it.
I see whole famlys at restaurants all berried in their iPhones, not looking up, not talking, just tapping and shoveling food. This happens at burger joints and at nice restaurants. I see poor and rich alike ignoring the world in favor of the iPhone. Other phones might be as good, form an objective standpoint, but other phones don't get the godlike status in peoples lives.
I just realized I went off on a tangent and didn't finish up my point. The iPhone is not, in my opinion, a smart phone, and so to de-iThrone the iPhone it will take something that isn't a smart phone, but something new and never thought of before. My bet is on some slick hardware running Android, as it is the most flexible combination I can think of right now. Perhaps something from Arochs.
I state them as separate because the people I know with iPhones use them differently than other smart phone users. I have had some one hand me their iPhone with a map loaded to show me how to get to a restaurant, something normally done verbally or with a quick sketch. I know iPhone users who keep their complete photo collection on their phone, most people use the phone to hold snapshots only. A friend of mine uses his iPhone to watch movies, no other smart phone user I know keeps movies with him. The iPhone is, in my opinion, a portable media computer with phone functionality. The first real attempt to make a Tricorder prehaps, but the difference between an iPhone and the average smart phone is as great as the difference between the average smart phone and my moms cell phone without a camera.
Yeah, let's not talk about Android. Actualy the way I cut up phone users by what they do with their phone:
1) Cell Phones: people who make calls and take some pictures (aka my mom and dad)
2) Cell Phones with Keyboards, text heavy IM users who make calls, (aka me, my wife, ect).
3) Smart Phones: Appointments, e-mail, text msgs, perhaps twiter, and phone calls (My boss and his blackberry buddies)
4) The iPhone: People who mostly use internet access and send messages.
And on a related note, I was out for pizza the other night and counted over 10 iPhones. The reason they were so easy to spot was that people who had them were face to the phone and not talking for most of the night. Once it was the joke that Nerds would prefer to IM than talk, but in the collage/partying side of the restaurant it was all nose to phone, and in the back their was a Magic the Gathering group that was laughing and talking and interacting with each-other. Perhaps the next joke will be that every one likes IM and txt better, but nerds are trying to be all smart practice using their vocabulary and talk face to face.
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I got moded troll for a baseball analogy that devolved into something about fryed chicken. I don't know much about baseball so I made up something to be funny and got modded troll.
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Your UID is way too high for you to be an old person. If you had a two or three digit number you might be old.
My brother keeps chickens. You can get eggs without a rooster. In fact you can get eggs with just one chicken living in your back yard. Not very many, but you can.
It's like the pitcher in the batting cage throwing balls at the other pitcher to see if he gets mad. Then in the real game he dose not throw baseballs, but zip lock bags full of backing soda, because the other pitcher is throwing newspapers, and if you hit a flying newspaper with a bag of backing soda fried chicken falls from the sky. But only on days of the month that are prime numbed. Because in real life the pitcher in the batting cage would also have sack of tomatoes to snack on after he strikes out. If the fired chicken hits a tomato then it would create a love quark. And if you get enough love quarks then you can make a small black hole that will suck up the whole of everything in a matter of a bizzillion years. But you see that's why you have the fried chicken. Black holes hate fried chicken, so if you create a black hole just toss some KFC at it and then it will evaporate into a puff of mashed potatoes. That's why you need a pitcher, to hit the black hole with a chicken wing before it has a chance to fall to the centre of the sun.
[X] wristwatch makes a better tea timer than a cell phone
In other news, the federal government is switching to a 13 month calendar as of 2010 in order to make life simpler for payroll accountants.
That's what I thought. I wonder what Yahoo! would do if it's software could only be installed by the user, and not by other software. Perhaps they will strike a deal with Microsoft to get back at Firefox.
not infest, but inhabit.
Then the periodic table of elements would be completely irrelevant and we would need to re-wright chemistry, physics, and quantum mechanics.
170 lbs. Sorry don't have it in kilograms
Yeah, your right. That was a stupid thing to say. How about I claim that flash memory sucks battery life to save face...Yeah that's it. It's a battery life thing!
People think 'ohh I can't get lost, I have a GPS(tm) I can try something exciting like explore that canyon' and then they get stuck, lose their single, and end up needing rescue. When if they were smart they would stick to a well marked trail.
At least if some one gose out and buys a quality GPS unit (they are not all the same) before they do something stupid they might survive a bit longer without rescue. Basically I'm hoping the nice sales people tell the customer that they are stupid that they should not forget this on the trail.
Then again, Lunchbox the Cadaver Dog says even smart people can be tripped up by depending on electronics.
Standalone units are great for camping and hiking in areas with no cell phone single. They are dedicated to one thing, so if you only need one thing you can save a lot of hardware space and battery life by having it do just the one thing. They could be even lighter if they only had the on-board storage to hold the maps you need, as opposed to topographical maps of the entire western US, as well as road data and a bunch of other 'white pages' type junk. Also, if you are out in the back woods and your GPS dies because it's wasting it's battery looking for a cell phone signal that is nonexistent you are kinda stuck. (You should always carry a map and a compass, gps isn't the answer for everything). So, yeah, I doubt standalone units are going to die out any time soon.
Think about home sales right now, not long ago homes in my area were selling for about $1,000,000. However the price has decreased to around $800,000 to $700,000 and they are still dropping (Yeah the joy of CA). However homes are being pulled off the market and sitting, vacant, not even being rented. Why? Because they have already decided that they need to get more than the current sale price. Logically, they know it is imposable, and that bubble prices won't be back soon enough to make holding on to the real-estate and paying maintenance profitable. Still they are anchored to one million dollars. (PS My area is mostly people who purchased back in the 60's and 70's and have lived in there homes seance then. Mostly homes for sale are inheritance, or some one who is down sizing because the kids moved away. We don't have many people who bought in the bubble and can't afford to sell because sale price is lower than the mortgage)
Um..No I go from my cube to my bike to my apartment with my wife. The windows are normally open and I have a great view of the mountains. We spend our vacations camping (as in tents, fire and bacon, not FSPs) I couldn't live with DVD's because I've figured out the end by the first five minus of most films. You might be able to handle it but it would drive me nuts.
On the other hand, a mars colony is basacly going to be a hamster cage for people. Imagine living with just four plastic walls and an algae tank to look at. It would be like work without internet. I would rather have rock pools and some place to pretend I was on earth.
Am I the only one who thought the fertility idol icon was funny, considering cannabis is thought to cause...er...shrinkage.
I was trying to mod funny and hit overrated.
I see whole famlys at restaurants all berried in their iPhones, not looking up, not talking, just tapping and shoveling food. This happens at burger joints and at nice restaurants. I see poor and rich alike ignoring the world in favor of the iPhone. Other phones might be as good, form an objective standpoint, but other phones don't get the godlike status in peoples lives.
Our whole planet has already been pwned by Frankie and Benjy.
I just realized I went off on a tangent and didn't finish up my point. The iPhone is not, in my opinion, a smart phone, and so to de-iThrone the iPhone it will take something that isn't a smart phone, but something new and never thought of before. My bet is on some slick hardware running Android, as it is the most flexible combination I can think of right now. Perhaps something from Arochs.
I state them as separate because the people I know with iPhones use them differently than other smart phone users. I have had some one hand me their iPhone with a map loaded to show me how to get to a restaurant, something normally done verbally or with a quick sketch. I know iPhone users who keep their complete photo collection on their phone, most people use the phone to hold snapshots only. A friend of mine uses his iPhone to watch movies, no other smart phone user I know keeps movies with him. The iPhone is, in my opinion, a portable media computer with phone functionality. The first real attempt to make a Tricorder prehaps, but the difference between an iPhone and the average smart phone is as great as the difference between the average smart phone and my moms cell phone without a camera.
1) Cell Phones: people who make calls and take some pictures (aka my mom and dad)
2) Cell Phones with Keyboards, text heavy IM users who make calls, (aka me, my wife, ect).
3) Smart Phones: Appointments, e-mail, text msgs, perhaps twiter, and phone calls (My boss and his blackberry buddies)
4) The iPhone: People who mostly use internet access and send messages.
And on a related note, I was out for pizza the other night and counted over 10 iPhones. The reason they were so easy to spot was that people who had them were face to the phone and not talking for most of the night. Once it was the joke that Nerds would prefer to IM than talk, but in the collage/partying side of the restaurant it was all nose to phone, and in the back their was a Magic the Gathering group that was laughing and talking and interacting with each-other. Perhaps the next joke will be that every one likes IM and txt better, but nerds are trying to be all smart practice using their vocabulary and talk face to face.