In the old days, you were right. You are no longer right - smartphones are for everybody. Except in developing nations, nobody even carries dumbphones any more.
The issue with fragmentation is more real in the Android space than it is with home computers. That's a disingenuous comparison. The console games that require specialized controllers generally come with them. With Android phones, the problem is that there is a lot of software that simply won't run well or at all, on brand new devices. There's not always any good way to tell, either - you simply buy something that doesn't work and you are screwed.
Kudos to your wife for getting flash on her Android phone, but unfortunately many flash games suck on anything other than a desktop computer.
Anyway, many people think that fragmentation is very real, and it isn't just Apple apologism. Your whole post smacks of disingenuity.
Back in the 17th, 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries, typography and page layout was an art. Fonts had complex ligatures and kerning, there were very fancy page decorations, and the first word of the next page of the book was always placed at the bottom right (really!) so you didn't have a break between page flips.
This all went away after WWII, and in some cases even earlier, as some bean counters figured out that they were using a few more gallons of ink per year on what was essentially duplicated information, or page decorations which served no immediate informational purpose.
Anyway, it's ironic that people are complaining about low quality in an industry which has thrived printing whatever will make a quick buck on recycled toilet tissue for the past 50 years.
Awesome. This comment was posted pretty much right after the article, and GPLJonas only started posting today. He's whoring some two bit Microsoft "solution" that is "coming soon" and this is getting to be a regular feature on Slashdot.
In case you didn't know, the Queen mis German and one of the top things that soured Britain's view of Anazi Germany was their elimination of the aristocracy. In fact, that and the very effective and clever Nazi banking reforms are the primary reasons for the British anti-Nazi attitude.
I heard Rockmelt spies on you to an even larger degree than Chrome, and that it actually searches your hard drive for credit card numbers and bank account information.
The budget's there, it's just that NASA is involved in a million and one things that have nothing to do with space exploration and travel these days.
If NASA stops doing atmosphere science (the NOAA does that) and biology (NSF grants to universities do that) and etc they will find they have the money to actually put people into space again.
The problem is that in order to attempt to expand their budget infinitely, their purview has also expanded beyond any reason.
No, Android is not outselling iOS. They may move a few more units, but overall, nobody really buys Android devices. They get them for free because they are cheap end to throw in.
Everybody with an iOS device actually bought it, on top of paying for their plan.
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Hold the phone closer, or rotate it into landscape mode.
Reflow fucks up page rendering half the time anyway, so it's not really that useful.
In the old days, you were right. You are no longer right - smartphones are for everybody. Except in developing nations, nobody even carries dumbphones any more.
The issue with fragmentation is more real in the Android space than it is with home computers. That's a disingenuous comparison. The console games that require specialized controllers generally come with them. With Android phones, the problem is that there is a lot of software that simply won't run well or at all, on brand new devices. There's not always any good way to tell, either - you simply buy something that doesn't work and you are screwed.
Kudos to your wife for getting flash on her Android phone, but unfortunately many flash games suck on anything other than a desktop computer.
Anyway, many people think that fragmentation is very real, and it isn't just Apple apologism. Your whole post smacks of disingenuity.
Back in the 17th, 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries, typography and page layout was an art. Fonts had complex ligatures and kerning, there were very fancy page decorations, and the first word of the next page of the book was always placed at the bottom right (really!) so you didn't have a break between page flips.
This all went away after WWII, and in some cases even earlier, as some bean counters figured out that they were using a few more gallons of ink per year on what was essentially duplicated information, or page decorations which served no immediate informational purpose.
Anyway, it's ironic that people are complaining about low quality in an industry which has thrived printing whatever will make a quick buck on recycled toilet tissue for the past 50 years.
Awesome. This comment was posted pretty much right after the article, and GPLJonas only started posting today. He's whoring some two bit Microsoft "solution" that is "coming soon" and this is getting to be a regular feature on Slashdot.
Well Safari, for one, uses Cocoa widgets for drawing the UI. Mozilla uses XUL, etc.
They all use Webkit to draw the *web views* but those are different from the UI.
Six hundred thousand dead Iraqis say that civilian casualties are just fine. Fallujah does too.
His foundation is just a way to dodge taxes, and help big pharma and the people who want strict population control.
Gates' views on population control and his foundation's role in realizing it are all quite clear and public.
In case you didn't know, the Queen mis German and one of the top things that soured Britain's view of Anazi Germany was their elimination of the aristocracy. In fact, that and the very effective and clever Nazi banking reforms are the primary reasons for the British anti-Nazi attitude.
A minor point, but the Unix pipe is capable of passing any kind of data, not just text.
Powershell is OK but let's not kid ourselves about it being "object oriented" - that's just marketing speak.
Google's role is not to help you command and master information. It is to sell you products, and SEO has all but ruined Google.
Google is finished. It may take a few years for this to really hit home, but it is true.
You can simply use NFS.
It's ironic that you call it icrap when Apple products are much better built than the competition. Or you're stupid.
I wouldn't sell Russia short. Unlike the USA, they even managed to hold on to manned space travel when their economy imploded.
We are riding bitch with Ivan son.
Intel was also the driving force behind Meego and Moblin and Maemo and lost interest in all of them.
Intel is terrible at seeing software through to completion, other than their compiler.
I heard Rockmelt spies on you to an even larger degree than Chrome, and that it actually searches your hard drive for credit card numbers and bank account information.
I think he means he doesn't trust a "free" browser made by ad salesmen.
The budget's there, it's just that NASA is involved in a million and one things that have nothing to do with space exploration and travel these days.
If NASA stops doing atmosphere science (the NOAA does that) and biology (NSF grants to universities do that) and etc they will find they have the money to actually put people into space again.
The problem is that in order to attempt to expand their budget infinitely, their purview has also expanded beyond any reason.
No, Android is not outselling iOS. They may move a few more units, but overall, nobody really buys Android devices. They get them for free because they are cheap end to throw in.
Everybody with an iOS device actually bought it, on top of paying for their plan.
They understand this, but they are Jesuitical liars.
They're taking a cue from NASA's play book.
I'm no doctor but I can tell that wound is infected.
Unfortunately it will take a better company than the welfare case GM to build one that is any good.
It's the combination of having a machine that's half as thick, has twice the battery, and has a real OS that you are paying for.
You're certainly welcome to try to gouge my eyes out, tough guy.
My point is that a higher quality laptop made with actual metal, with a better battery, is going to cost more money.
It's a luxury item in the sense that it costs a bit more, but you are paying for form and function, not just cache.