Most people don't really know that you can do this, or are aware that you can, but don't know how. I know it is incredibly easy for technical people, but it is fairly daunting for the non-technical.
More importantly, most people that play on consoles have absolutely no clue how to play a video game with a mouse and keyboard. It strikes them as extremely unnatural. I'm aware that people proficient with a mouse and keyboard can smoke someone using console controls, but the idea of using a mouse and keyboard strikes the majority of the population as daunting and non-intuituve.
The point is that it doesn't matter that using a PC is better, because most people wouldn't even know where to start. You can laugh at them and call them stupid, but that doesn't change the market.
I'm a WP7 user, and very happy with my decision. I've used iOS, WM6, and Android - hated iOS and it's page after page of little icons, hated WM6 until HTC Sense (would have stayed with that on my HD2 if apps were coming out), and loved Android (HD2 and a Desire) except it began to feel like iOS+.
May I ask, why have you owned so many phones? Not trolling at all, really just curious. I've seen many similar posts on other stories and it always blows my mind that people seem to have owned like 5 different phones within the past two years. Is this so that you can test software on multiple platforms, or do you just like to swap out a lot?
Also, what is this gem of a school where I can have my computer labs taught by a sophomore? Most schools use grad students who have at least built up some experience.
so do Google a favour and invite your non-tech-savvy friends to a demonstration of your media serving rigs (assuming you've gone to the trouble of making it demo friendly and can resist the urge to fiddle with technical stuff while you're showing them)
Just to make sure that I'm understanding you correctly, I should invite over some friends that aren't very tech savy and don't like spending time fiddling with electronics, so I can show them a demo of a media server and convince them that they should get one too. Before hand, I want to "invest some time making it demo friendly" so that it looks really easy to use. When I do the demo, I should avoid showing them how complex it all really is. Then they can go home and buy the same stuff that I have, with the expectation that they can just plug it in and it will all work. Is that what you were going for?
A better analogy is a store, as this is what it is. This is a store that is not selling a product that is essentially an advertisement for a competitor. The App Store doesn't sell an Android related product just like Walmart doesn't sell the Target coupon guide, McDonald's doesn't give out Burger King advertisements, and Best Buy doesn't stock Ultimate Electronics fliers.
The iPhone was nothing new either, smartphones have been around almost a decade
To insinuate that the iPhone is comparable to the smartphones that came before it is dishonest. Would you really choose to go back to the set of smartphone UI's that existed before the iPhone?
Powered by Samsung's own 1GHz ARM Cortex A8-based Hummingbird processor with a four-inch Super-AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, it's no wonder Samsung has sold over 5 million Galaxy S phones.
No doubt it is the 1GHz ARM Cortex A8-based Hummingbird and Super-AMOLED that have people rushing to the stores.
Agreed. I don't drive the same car as any of my friends. I don't really share the same musical tastes as many of my friends. I would hate to be searching for information on something and see a bunch of links that are relevant to what my friends like. If I'm looking up a web page on the band Spear of Destiny, will I see links to the Wolfenstein sequel just because one of my friends "likes" it, and Bing decides that it is relevant?
For real? People have speculated for years now about the iPhone moving to Verizon. There have been countless stories on slashdot based on mere rumors. Now we see the first evidence of this potentially happening, and this isn't worthy of making it onto slashdot?
No, this has nothing to do with price fixing. Price fixing would be if Amazon conspired with Apple and the Android market place to set industry prices for smart phone applications.
Think of this in terms of other industry: Barnes and Noble could freely decide that every book that they sell will cost $50, despite the fact that those books come from a number of different authors. This would not be price fixing, and I imagine that many customers seeking cheaper books would go to stores like Amazon, etc.
However, if Barnes and Noble got together with Amazon and several other major book sellers, and determined that they would all sell all books for $50, that would be price fixing.
I was on a walk at night several months ago and a woman drove by with the dome light on in her car. With the inside of her car being perfectly illuminated against the darkness, I could clearly see that she was reading a book. This was especially scary, as she was driving through a school zone in a neighborhood with many children and few lights (reduced light pollution, I think is the goal). I would expect that if she had driven by a cop, she would have been pulled over and sited for reckless endangerment. Why should this be different for texting?
This is a good point, although it strikes me as odd that it would need actual legislation. If I hit you while driving because I am by distracted by eating a lobster dinner, assembling a model airplane, or text messaging, I would expect to be charged with negligent operation of a vehicle. I would assume this would be a 12 point violation even if I am in a minor accident. If I actually killed you, I would assume I would be charged with manslaughter due to gross negligence.
I can see this carrying over to allowing police to pull me over for certain actions while driving: if a police officer sees me driving while carving a turkey in my lap, I don't think that they would need a law forbidding turkey carving while driving to pull me over. Likewise, I don't see why it should require a law to pull someone over who is obviously not looking at the road while texting or dialing a phone.
The real solution then would be to have some sort of PR campaign explaining that driving while heavily distracted is an offense regardless of what you are doing.
I love my Netflix account, but I do find it difficult to make sure that I don't miss movies when they make it out to video. I tend to try to keep an eye out on the New Releases section of Netflix, but even that doesn't seem to work. The other day my friend mentioned he had rented McGruber, and I swear I never saw that listed as a new release for Netflix.
Netflix's new release section has a problem that I've observed on all other sites that list new releases: the big movies get thrown in the same jumbled mess of a page as all of the latest direct-to-DVD crap, yoga videos, and children's cartoon collections. Sure, I like stumbling upon new movies I haven't heard of, but a lot of the time I just want to see what big releases are making it to DVD. I've yet to find a decent site that ranks new releases by popularity. Any recommendations?
As much as I will always hate Blockbuster for charging me $250 late fees on single movies back in the day, there was something nice about walking the store and browsing the new releases. You could use the number of copies of a movie to point out the popular releases, and even if you had missed that a movie had come out several months ago, it would probably still be on the wall.
The analogy would be a lot more similar to what we're originally discussing if there was a cheap microwave we could feed the recipe into, which would then cook us a meal from the recipe - a LOT better than you typically could cook it yourself.
You bring up an interesting point. If 'meals' could be easily replicated in much the same way that recorded songs can be copied, would that mean that a given combination of ingredients/techniques should now be provided protection under the law? As the GP put it, would there no longer be cause for people to further develop recipes if anybody could trivially reproduce them at the proper level of quality?
Something along the lines of "Stories on deficiencies of Facebook are a magnet for narcissists and people with low self-esteem with small friend lists."
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Most people don't really know that you can do this, or are aware that you can, but don't know how. I know it is incredibly easy for technical people, but it is fairly daunting for the non-technical.
More importantly, most people that play on consoles have absolutely no clue how to play a video game with a mouse and keyboard. It strikes them as extremely unnatural. I'm aware that people proficient with a mouse and keyboard can smoke someone using console controls, but the idea of using a mouse and keyboard strikes the majority of the population as daunting and non-intuituve. The point is that it doesn't matter that using a PC is better, because most people wouldn't even know where to start. You can laugh at them and call them stupid, but that doesn't change the market.
But what of the Gelgameks?!?!
May I ask, why have you owned so many phones? Not trolling at all, really just curious. I've seen many similar posts on other stories and it always blows my mind that people seem to have owned like 5 different phones within the past two years. Is this so that you can test software on multiple platforms, or do you just like to swap out a lot?
Also, what is this gem of a school where I can have my computer labs taught by a sophomore? Most schools use grad students who have at least built up some experience.
Sounds like a personal hobby of yours...
Using your logic, combined with your comment on the Android bug story, you should never comment on a performance or security related issue again.
Just to make sure that I'm understanding you correctly, I should invite over some friends that aren't very tech savy and don't like spending time fiddling with electronics, so I can show them a demo of a media server and convince them that they should get one too. Before hand, I want to "invest some time making it demo friendly" so that it looks really easy to use. When I do the demo, I should avoid showing them how complex it all really is. Then they can go home and buy the same stuff that I have, with the expectation that they can just plug it in and it will all work. Is that what you were going for?
Pheww, should be no problem with that restriction lifted.
A better analogy is a store, as this is what it is. This is a store that is not selling a product that is essentially an advertisement for a competitor. The App Store doesn't sell an Android related product just like Walmart doesn't sell the Target coupon guide, McDonald's doesn't give out Burger King advertisements, and Best Buy doesn't stock Ultimate Electronics fliers.
Ok, so if I mail you either a free iPad or a free N810, which would you prefer?
To insinuate that the iPhone is comparable to the smartphones that came before it is dishonest. Would you really choose to go back to the set of smartphone UI's that existed before the iPhone?
If I have a bunch of content hosted on my computer, and I deny your request to access it, I am somehow preventing freedom of speech?
No doubt it is the 1GHz ARM Cortex A8-based Hummingbird and Super-AMOLED that have people rushing to the stores.
Agreed. I don't drive the same car as any of my friends. I don't really share the same musical tastes as many of my friends. I would hate to be searching for information on something and see a bunch of links that are relevant to what my friends like. If I'm looking up a web page on the band Spear of Destiny, will I see links to the Wolfenstein sequel just because one of my friends "likes" it, and Bing decides that it is relevant?
For real? People have speculated for years now about the iPhone moving to Verizon. There have been countless stories on slashdot based on mere rumors. Now we see the first evidence of this potentially happening, and this isn't worthy of making it onto slashdot?
No, this has nothing to do with price fixing. Price fixing would be if Amazon conspired with Apple and the Android market place to set industry prices for smart phone applications.
Think of this in terms of other industry: Barnes and Noble could freely decide that every book that they sell will cost $50, despite the fact that those books come from a number of different authors. This would not be price fixing, and I imagine that many customers seeking cheaper books would go to stores like Amazon, etc.
However, if Barnes and Noble got together with Amazon and several other major book sellers, and determined that they would all sell all books for $50, that would be price fixing.
I was on a walk at night several months ago and a woman drove by with the dome light on in her car. With the inside of her car being perfectly illuminated against the darkness, I could clearly see that she was reading a book. This was especially scary, as she was driving through a school zone in a neighborhood with many children and few lights (reduced light pollution, I think is the goal). I would expect that if she had driven by a cop, she would have been pulled over and sited for reckless endangerment. Why should this be different for texting?
This is a good point, although it strikes me as odd that it would need actual legislation. If I hit you while driving because I am by distracted by eating a lobster dinner, assembling a model airplane, or text messaging, I would expect to be charged with negligent operation of a vehicle. I would assume this would be a 12 point violation even if I am in a minor accident. If I actually killed you, I would assume I would be charged with manslaughter due to gross negligence.
I can see this carrying over to allowing police to pull me over for certain actions while driving: if a police officer sees me driving while carving a turkey in my lap, I don't think that they would need a law forbidding turkey carving while driving to pull me over. Likewise, I don't see why it should require a law to pull someone over who is obviously not looking at the road while texting or dialing a phone.
The real solution then would be to have some sort of PR campaign explaining that driving while heavily distracted is an offense regardless of what you are doing.
I love my Netflix account, but I do find it difficult to make sure that I don't miss movies when they make it out to video. I tend to try to keep an eye out on the New Releases section of Netflix, but even that doesn't seem to work. The other day my friend mentioned he had rented McGruber, and I swear I never saw that listed as a new release for Netflix.
Netflix's new release section has a problem that I've observed on all other sites that list new releases: the big movies get thrown in the same jumbled mess of a page as all of the latest direct-to-DVD crap, yoga videos, and children's cartoon collections. Sure, I like stumbling upon new movies I haven't heard of, but a lot of the time I just want to see what big releases are making it to DVD. I've yet to find a decent site that ranks new releases by popularity. Any recommendations?
As much as I will always hate Blockbuster for charging me $250 late fees on single movies back in the day, there was something nice about walking the store and browsing the new releases. You could use the number of copies of a movie to point out the popular releases, and even if you had missed that a movie had come out several months ago, it would probably still be on the wall.
...I should buy an HP tablet so that I can use a printer?
You bring up an interesting point. If 'meals' could be easily replicated in much the same way that recorded songs can be copied, would that mean that a given combination of ingredients/techniques should now be provided protection under the law? As the GP put it, would there no longer be cause for people to further develop recipes if anybody could trivially reproduce them at the proper level of quality?
Yes, genius, lol, genius
Yeah, I've noticed the same at my job at K-mart. No one there seems to care about buying iPhones, you can smell that the end is near for Apple.
Something along the lines of "Stories on deficiencies of Facebook are a magnet for narcissists and people with low self-esteem with small friend lists."
No, it is like a coca cola bottle with a coca cola logo on it.