We should tell North Korea if they continue we will test a couple minuteman ICBMs on their capital, invade from the South, and just end this silliness.
Not true, I'm a software engineer I spend all day looking at LCD screens. I read books on my phone (while not tablet size it's 4.7" screen is big enough for me) all the time and backlit screen does not bother me at all. The people that are bothered by it will stick with e-ink. I don't like having to turn on a light at night if I want to read. But the cool reader android app I use lets you set the back light as a slider so it can be very dim for reading in the dark. If it didn't have that feature I would not like reading in the dark with a bright backlight.
My contract is up in August and so am I as a customer after about 8 years. Last summer we could keep our unlimited plans through upgrades. This summer they want to screw me over now... no more money for you Verizon.
I don't mind the new start menu in W8 really (go to the tiles and right click and select all apps) but the main issue I have is you can't adjust the tile font size. On a regular pc and monitor this isn't a problem but I'm running this system on a PC hooked up to my TV so 1080P and sitting back 6-7 feet the tile font is so small I can barely read it you can zoom it out but not in for some reason. I'm sure there's a way to set it I just haven't found it. My desktop though is blown up to good size and can be read easily so having the start menu back will be nice.
Flash runs too slow. It's fine for some things but a Facebook game I play Castle Age Heart of Darkness it runs in slow motion. Load it in Chrome without changing anything and it runs fine. So because of that I got used to Chrome and use it under Windows now too.
Facebook is full of obviously fake named gaming accounts. You can report them but FB rarely suspends them. Anyone joining up to Facebook and listing Farmville University as their school or something should be blocked by FB automatically.
Zynga is killing themselves with all the spam your friends crap. I've played some of the ville games and the thing that really kills them is the spam 100 of your "friends" to get this or that and continue in the game. They'd make a lot more money sticking more with the sandbox than the spam.
We didn't need guitar hero 1,2,3,Aerosmith, Metallica, band hero, world tour, 5, etc that were not all compatible with one another. Harmonix had it right supporting the same platform through multiple versions. I think most people just got tired of the genre. My family has hundreds of DLC tracks for Rock Band, used to play it a ton. We just burned out on it.
If I want to post a picture from my phone for people to see and comment on why the hell would I want to send an email to all those people with the picture? Much easier to share it on my G+ page because my phone uploads every pic automatically to my private G+/Picassa album. Facebook I play some games like Castle Age and have hundreds and hundreds of friends.
But apparently on by default or something. I don't know my wife posted her first picture on it and it had a link underneath with our exact address on Google maps. She didn't enable it she just took a picture with the Google+ Android app.
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TRS80 and Apple ]['s when I was in 6th, 7th grade. Went to college for electronics but I'm a sr level software engineer today.
Are you sure with the aliases of Wang Dong and SuperHard this isn't some Chinese gay porno movie making unit?
We should tell North Korea if they continue we will test a couple minuteman ICBMs on their capital, invade from the South, and just end this silliness.
People have never heard of ZTE and Huawei? http://www.mycricket.com/cell-phones/by/zte http://www.mycricket.com/sitesearch?site=all+mycricket.com&q=Huawei+ Cricket sells them both in the US.
Not true, I'm a software engineer I spend all day looking at LCD screens. I read books on my phone (while not tablet size it's 4.7" screen is big enough for me) all the time and backlit screen does not bother me at all. The people that are bothered by it will stick with e-ink. I don't like having to turn on a light at night if I want to read. But the cool reader android app I use lets you set the back light as a slider so it can be very dim for reading in the dark. If it didn't have that feature I would not like reading in the dark with a bright backlight.
Read on paper? Insane tree murderer!
I just saw a stupid show on TV the other day "Rat Bastards" where guys were hunting large 30 lb swamp rats in the Bayou with AR15s haha.
My contract is up in August and so am I as a customer after about 8 years. Last summer we could keep our unlimited plans through upgrades. This summer they want to screw me over now... no more money for you Verizon.
When is the UK going to force blocking of Google, Bing, etc? Did any of these brilliant censors ever think to search for torrents there?
No what they got rid of is the racist teachings of La Raza in Southern Arizona to illegal alien Mexicans to foster hate against the "man" in Arizona.
I don't mind the new start menu in W8 really (go to the tiles and right click and select all apps) but the main issue I have is you can't adjust the tile font size. On a regular pc and monitor this isn't a problem but I'm running this system on a PC hooked up to my TV so 1080P and sitting back 6-7 feet the tile font is so small I can barely read it you can zoom it out but not in for some reason. I'm sure there's a way to set it I just haven't found it. My desktop though is blown up to good size and can be read easily so having the start menu back will be nice.
welcome our sexy, urban dwelling, bee swarm overlords
Flash runs too slow. It's fine for some things but a Facebook game I play Castle Age Heart of Darkness it runs in slow motion. Load it in Chrome without changing anything and it runs fine. So because of that I got used to Chrome and use it under Windows now too.
But here we are run by corporations. The TSA's buddies that own the scanner companies need to build their new mansions on taxpayer money.
Facebook is full of obviously fake named gaming accounts. You can report them but FB rarely suspends them. Anyone joining up to Facebook and listing Farmville University as their school or something should be blocked by FB automatically.
My cell phone has a blacklist. You may call my phone once after that I blacklist and I'll never know you called and you can't leave a message.
Zynga is killing themselves with all the spam your friends crap. I've played some of the ville games and the thing that really kills them is the spam 100 of your "friends" to get this or that and continue in the game. They'd make a lot more money sticking more with the sandbox than the spam.
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Haha too true. I use Gimp but I can't stand the UI on it. This will be a much welcome change for me.
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Same here. Mine's not updated.
We didn't need guitar hero 1,2,3,Aerosmith, Metallica, band hero, world tour, 5, etc that were not all compatible with one another. Harmonix had it right supporting the same platform through multiple versions. I think most people just got tired of the genre. My family has hundreds of DLC tracks for Rock Band, used to play it a ton. We just burned out on it.
If I want to post a picture from my phone for people to see and comment on why the hell would I want to send an email to all those people with the picture? Much easier to share it on my G+ page because my phone uploads every pic automatically to my private G+/Picassa album. Facebook I play some games like Castle Age and have hundreds and hundreds of friends.
Did you read some of the IRC logs from the lulzsec channels? They are obviously teenagers.
But apparently on by default or something. I don't know my wife posted her first picture on it and it had a link underneath with our exact address on Google maps. She didn't enable it she just took a picture with the Google+ Android app.