The same could have been said about Myspace just a few years ago; then suddenly most people stopped using it and converted to Facebook. I don't know what Facebook's magic formula was, but it worked and there isn't any real competition coming for them any time soon.
Wasn't it Blockbuster who ran the mom and pop video rental stores out of business with their corporate muscle?
Speaking of Mom and Pop video stores, when my favorite local video store was steamrolled out of business by Blockbuster, he fired back (literally) by using half of his store to manufacture illegal fireworks! Every year near the end of June, the video store was packed with customers, until one day a manufacturing accident created a big explosion and a big fire. My brother was nearby when it went down, and said there were rockets flying through the streets, and saw the owner get carried out on a stretcher with lots of charred skin! He eventually recovered, and still makes the fireworks but in a different location.
Sadly this guy had one of the biggest collections of NES and SNES games I've ever seen, as well as a massive collection of 80s and 90s VHS pr0n that I never got to see (but always peeked behind the curtain to get a glimpse of the box covers); all was destroyed in the fire.
Let me tell you the story of my famous drill. When I was a teenager, my father and I were hiking in the woods and came across an old pile of garbage that someone had dumped. It looked like it had been sitting there for at least five years, and had obviously been through many seasons with plenty of rain and snow. We took it home with us and decided to clean it up. We disassembled it, gave it a brief cleaning, lubed it, and replaced the power cord because the existing cord was frayed and the insulation was dryrotted. We plugged it in and to our surprise it worked! It's from the early 50s, and is a perfect example of quality craftsmanship, when things were designed to last decades.
I did too, however every time I restart my browser it's back on. I only store cookies during the current session, and that instant search setting gets wiped away each time I close the browser.
I remember back in College during the recruiting fair most tech companies were giving out free t-shirts with their logos. One friend of mine said to another, "You have a URL on your shirt, NERD!" to which he responded, "What's a URL, NERD?"
This is the Facebook/Twitter generation... these 'tools' (including SMS) make it easy for someone to have ZERO physical interaction with any other individuals, yet stay connected and let everyone in their circle know what they're doing, as well as knowing what everyone else is doing.
My wife has friends who are also stay-at-home moms who literally live on Facebook (8+ hours a day) and behave as if they have important social lives when in reality they don't have any real interaction with other people. It's sad. My wife closed her account a while back and doesn't use facebook anymore, and now we rarely hear from those facebook-addicted friends. We're out of their online social circle, so it's almost like we don't exist to them.
Meanwhile we meet and socialize with our non-facebook-addicted friends and have much more interesting conversations, along with real face-to-face interaction which results in much more fulfilling relationships with these friends.
The "Very Light Car No. 98" seats four and is built on a steel frame of mostly aluminum parts.
Does that mean the frame is steel, and the rest of the car is mostly aluminum? Where do the titanium and composite materials come from? Shoddy journalism!
Fortunately for most users (those with phones that are rootable), there's a big development scene devoted to owning your device. I'm not so sure I trust these third party firmwares, however I figure they can't be much worse than the official ones from the carriers.
You should still be careful with that; once you withdraw it, immediately transfer it from your paypal-linked bank to a different bank since PayPal has that bank information and could easily reverse a charge.
Yeah, I read the article too! The original poster said the G2 doesn't have the slick 5-row physical keyboard that the G1 has, but instead a 4-row keyboard. I was simply commenting that it doesn't matter which physical keyboard it has since it also comes with Swype..
I'm in the same boat. Hardcore BB user, switched to EVO + Swype. At first it didn't seem like I was typing fast, but then I realized it is faster than typing manually on the blackberry (though not always as precise).
Ah, but it comes with Swype! There's no need for a physical keyboard.
I'm being somewhat serious. I love the physical keyboard on a blackberry, but haven't found any others that even come close. I was reluctant to switch to an all-glass handset, but after getting used to swype it's not bad at all! The only issue is that for some reason they don't support the DEL key in any of the terminal emulators I've used.
Someone commented recently on a different/. article about how the processors aren't necessarily the battery hogs; the displays are the culprits. Judging by the battery usage on my Android handset, I'd agree with that.
Actually I am Catholic, but I still wouldn't care. I know a consecrated wafer is a special thing, but it still looks, smells, and tastes like a (usually stale) wafer. I remember as a kid seeing a friend of mine put a wafer in his pocket and almost get tackled by an usher!
People just need to lighten up about everything in life. Not everyone is going to share your beliefs, so just accept it and learn to get along.
This idiot plans to insult 1.3 billion people, 1.29recuring billion of which have never done him any harm.
Perhaps the 1.29 billion who have never done any harm should simply dismiss this guy as a lunatic and not get their panties all up in a bunch being offended over such a stupid action.
I'm a christian and an American, yet I don't get offended when I see people burning bibles or American flags; I look at them like they're idiots. Sure, the symbolism of their action is bad, but it's still just a book - it's nothing I'm going to lose sleep over.
My "final exams" usually destroyed my overall averages in most of my engineering classes. I simply wasn't a good test taker, no matter how much in advance I prepared. I never had a problem understanding theories and the substance behind the course material, but just didn't do well at taking tests. I never had a problem with the courses that were project-based; I aced the two graduate level EE design courses I took, as a direct result of coming up with an interesting project idea, implementing it, and delivering a detailed summary. The funny thing is those courses are most directly related to all the real-world work I've done, and they had the most impact on preparing me to be a real engineer (not just a code monkey).
IPoAC has been successfully implemented, but for only nine packets of data, with a packet loss ratio of 55% (due to user error[1]), and a response time ranging from 3000 seconds(~54 minutes) to over 6000 seconds(~1.77 hours). Thus, this technology suffers from poor latency. Nevertheless, for large transfers avian carriers are capable of high average throughput when carrying flash memory devices.
Is it "freely" available, and is it officially supported on all Android devices?
Swype's business model is OEM licensing. I'm not sure who they're partnered with, but it didn't come on my phone. I found a.apk online and installed it, and I absolutely love it! I would have no problem whatsoever paying $10 or even $20 for it. The problem is that there's no way to buy Swype unless your phone already came with it.
Flash works just fine on the handsets with 1GHz processors, with no choppiness or lag... but what good is flash on a 4.3" screen? I find that it doesn't respond very well to on-the-fly resizing (pinch zoom) and really doesn't add to my "web browsing experience." Perhaps a developer could design a flash page specifically for a mobile device, but in that case a non-flash mobile optimized webpage/site would be much better.
I'm glad I have the option to run it if I want, however I currently have my device configured to only run on-demand, not automatically when I load a page that has it. I wouldn't miss it if my device didn't support it, however I would probably be bummed if I didn't have the option to at least use it if I chose to.
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The same could have been said about Myspace just a few years ago; then suddenly most people stopped using it and converted to Facebook. I don't know what Facebook's magic formula was, but it worked and there isn't any real competition coming for them any time soon.
Just stay away from Buckyballs; they're poor quality.
Wasn't it Blockbuster who ran the mom and pop video rental stores out of business with their corporate muscle?
Speaking of Mom and Pop video stores, when my favorite local video store was steamrolled out of business by Blockbuster, he fired back (literally) by using half of his store to manufacture illegal fireworks! Every year near the end of June, the video store was packed with customers, until one day a manufacturing accident created a big explosion and a big fire. My brother was nearby when it went down, and said there were rockets flying through the streets, and saw the owner get carried out on a stretcher with lots of charred skin! He eventually recovered, and still makes the fireworks but in a different location.
Sadly this guy had one of the biggest collections of NES and SNES games I've ever seen, as well as a massive collection of 80s and 90s VHS pr0n that I never got to see (but always peeked behind the curtain to get a glimpse of the box covers); all was destroyed in the fire.
Let me tell you the story of my famous drill. When I was a teenager, my father and I were hiking in the woods and came across an old pile of garbage that someone had dumped. It looked like it had been sitting there for at least five years, and had obviously been through many seasons with plenty of rain and snow. We took it home with us and decided to clean it up. We disassembled it, gave it a brief cleaning, lubed it, and replaced the power cord because the existing cord was frayed and the insulation was dryrotted. We plugged it in and to our surprise it worked! It's from the early 50s, and is a perfect example of quality craftsmanship, when things were designed to last decades.
So sliding and composited street view aren't gimmicks?
I did too, however every time I restart my browser it's back on. I only store cookies during the current session, and that instant search setting gets wiped away each time I close the browser.
I remember back in College during the recruiting fair most tech companies were giving out free t-shirts with their logos. One friend of mine said to another, "You have a URL on your shirt, NERD!" to which he responded, "What's a URL, NERD?"
This is the Facebook/Twitter generation... these 'tools' (including SMS) make it easy for someone to have ZERO physical interaction with any other individuals, yet stay connected and let everyone in their circle know what they're doing, as well as knowing what everyone else is doing.
My wife has friends who are also stay-at-home moms who literally live on Facebook (8+ hours a day) and behave as if they have important social lives when in reality they don't have any real interaction with other people. It's sad. My wife closed her account a while back and doesn't use facebook anymore, and now we rarely hear from those facebook-addicted friends. We're out of their online social circle, so it's almost like we don't exist to them.
Meanwhile we meet and socialize with our non-facebook-addicted friends and have much more interesting conversations, along with real face-to-face interaction which results in much more fulfilling relationships with these friends.
Where's the 3D metal printer that I've been waiting for? Come on, it's 2010...
Does that mean the frame is steel, and the rest of the car is mostly aluminum? Where do the titanium and composite materials come from? Shoddy journalism!
Fortunately for most users (those with phones that are rootable), there's a big development scene devoted to owning your device. I'm not so sure I trust these third party firmwares, however I figure they can't be much worse than the official ones from the carriers.
You should still be careful with that; once you withdraw it, immediately transfer it from your paypal-linked bank to a different bank since PayPal has that bank information and could easily reverse a charge.
Yeah, I read the article too! The original poster said the G2 doesn't have the slick 5-row physical keyboard that the G1 has, but instead a 4-row keyboard. I was simply commenting that it doesn't matter which physical keyboard it has since it also comes with Swype..
I'm in the same boat. Hardcore BB user, switched to EVO + Swype. At first it didn't seem like I was typing fast, but then I realized it is faster than typing manually on the blackberry (though not always as precise).
Ah, but it comes with Swype! There's no need for a physical keyboard.
I'm being somewhat serious. I love the physical keyboard on a blackberry, but haven't found any others that even come close. I was reluctant to switch to an all-glass handset, but after getting used to swype it's not bad at all! The only issue is that for some reason they don't support the DEL key in any of the terminal emulators I've used.
Someone commented recently on a different /. article about how the processors aren't necessarily the battery hogs; the displays are the culprits. Judging by the battery usage on my Android handset, I'd agree with that.
Actually I am Catholic, but I still wouldn't care. I know a consecrated wafer is a special thing, but it still looks, smells, and tastes like a (usually stale) wafer. I remember as a kid seeing a friend of mine put a wafer in his pocket and almost get tackled by an usher!
People just need to lighten up about everything in life. Not everyone is going to share your beliefs, so just accept it and learn to get along.
Perhaps the 1.29 billion who have never done any harm should simply dismiss this guy as a lunatic and not get their panties all up in a bunch being offended over such a stupid action.
I'm a christian and an American, yet I don't get offended when I see people burning bibles or American flags; I look at them like they're idiots. Sure, the symbolism of their action is bad, but it's still just a book - it's nothing I'm going to lose sleep over.
Amen.
My "final exams" usually destroyed my overall averages in most of my engineering classes. I simply wasn't a good test taker, no matter how much in advance I prepared. I never had a problem understanding theories and the substance behind the course material, but just didn't do well at taking tests. I never had a problem with the courses that were project-based; I aced the two graduate level EE design courses I took, as a direct result of coming up with an interesting project idea, implementing it, and delivering a detailed summary. The funny thing is those courses are most directly related to all the real-world work I've done, and they had the most impact on preparing me to be a real engineer (not just a code monkey).
Bird is the word!
Is it "freely" available, and is it officially supported on all Android devices?
.apk online and installed it, and I absolutely love it! I would have no problem whatsoever paying $10 or even $20 for it. The problem is that there's no way to buy Swype unless your phone already came with it.
Swype's business model is OEM licensing. I'm not sure who they're partnered with, but it didn't come on my phone. I found a
10-15 hours? That's normal standby battery life on my HTC EVO if Google Maps and Google Talk are left running and lightly used.
Flash works just fine on the handsets with 1GHz processors, with no choppiness or lag... but what good is flash on a 4.3" screen? I find that it doesn't respond very well to on-the-fly resizing (pinch zoom) and really doesn't add to my "web browsing experience." Perhaps a developer could design a flash page specifically for a mobile device, but in that case a non-flash mobile optimized webpage/site would be much better.
I'm glad I have the option to run it if I want, however I currently have my device configured to only run on-demand, not automatically when I load a page that has it. I wouldn't miss it if my device didn't support it, however I would probably be bummed if I didn't have the option to at least use it if I chose to.