There isn't any farm land near Omaha itself. Back in 1977, they did have actual stockyards where they still slaughtered animals, but they closed a long time ago. If you lived close to the stockyards back then, I'm sure you would have been able to smell them. But that was decades ago.
Omaha today has a concert/convention center downtown that is ranked in the top 10 nationally for the acts it gets and attendance. It has the #1 ranked community theater in the country, the #1 ranked children's theater, the #2 ranked zoo, and it was called the amateur sports capital of the country because of all the sporting events. The Orpheum gets all the Broadway touring shows. There are plenty of comedy clubs and improv groups. The Holland has tons of concerts and shows as well. We have art-house theaters alongside mega-plexes and IMAXes. We have movie theaters where you can get food and beer at your seat in the theater, which everyone needs. Rick Mueller (former GM of the Saints and Broncos, now working with the Eagles) told me last year (when he was working in Omaha) the Midtown Crossing theater is the best theater he's seen anywhere in the country.
The local music scene has been praised as one of the best in the country. It has been reported there are more restaurants per capita than any city in the country (likely also due to the fact that Omaha has more millionaires per capita than any city in the country and people like to eat out here).
Downtown in the Old Market there is a great bar scene, with shopping and more restaurants that I hung out in as a young bachelor. In recent years there has been a lot of new development and urban renewal of other neighborhoods.
I've lived on both coasts and in plenty of big cities. 1977 was 25 years ago, so I imagine things were fairly different then. But I'd never say there is nothing to do here. Again, magazines keep rating it the #1 city in the country to live in for a reason.
No, but I know they have engineers who work in the datacenter that neighbors me (Council Bluffs, IA). And the Omaha metro area to which it belongs is routinely named one of the best cities in the country for cost of living.
1) This was at launch, which goes to my point of what have they done in recent years? And they didn't invent the app store. Carriers had their own app stores first. 2) Blackberry phones had 10+ hours of active battery before the iPhone. And Apple hasn't been the only company pushing mobile battery technology. 3) Who honestly makes phone purchase decisions by how thin it is? And they aren't the only ones pushing this envelope. The iPhone 4S was the thinnest, until a few Android phones beat it, and now the iPhone 5 is thinner. 4) My wife has been known to read books on her phone, but I don't know anyone else who does this. Android did have book reader apps first, and so did BlackBerry. But again, like most Apple "innovations" they do it later and act like they did it first. 5) Apple has 68% market share. So they do have the best selling tablet, but it isn't like they are the only tablet selling well.
Have you used the phone? Even with tons of apps installed and running, it is snappy and fast. The EU and NA versions of the S3 have different processors. The EU is actually a quad core processor, and the NA version is a dual core that is compatible with LTE. The clock speed is higher (1.5 GHz vs 1.0) than the Apple CPU, and it is built on the newer ARM core. The Samsung CPU is based on the A15 ARM core as opposed to the A9 core used by Apple.
Everyone I've demoed the phone to has been blown away by how fast it is, even with about 50 apps running in the background. Once Jelly Bean drops, it will be even faster.
Needed on the memory-hungry Android platform
I've never seen any evidence that Android is more memory-hungry than iOS. I do appreciate that I can directly kill processes in Android and I have zero control over that in iOS.
Compromising design and SD cards are a relic from a time when you wouldn't just stream your media.
What if you don't want to eat up your bandwidth if you have a data cap? What if you don't have a signal? Loading from SD is just faster than streaming. Being able to expand local storage and stream as well is a clear win.
An unproven technology that has security (see recent Galaxy S3 hack through NFC at Pwn2Own) and privacy implications that appears to be focused on mobile payments where we believe Passbook to be a superior solution.
Microsoft is requiring every single Windows 8 phone and tablet to have it. Apple has a number of NFC patents and clearly intends to use it at some point, but has yet to deliver on it. NFC has been around since 2002 and is heavily used in Japan. It isn't new, unproven technology.
Made possible only by making the S3 1.2mm thicker than the iPhone 5.
The S3 is 1 mm thicker, not 1.2. It is 13% thicker, but has 33% more battery. Samsung engineering win there.
With a scratch-prone lens, as opposed to our high scratch-resistant sapphire lens.
Both are listed as scratch-resistant lenses. But the iPhone 5 sapphire lens should be more scratch resistant. That is a minor win for Apple there. It should be noted that the front-facing camera is still nicer on the S3, and Apple just now caught up to features many Android phones have had for over a year (photos during video, panorama mode, etc). And Apple still can't do burst photos like Android.
We believe our connector...
It is inexcusable to change to yet another proprietary connector in 2012 and not support USB 3.0. It will have slower transfer speeds and require proprietary adapters.
I didn't say Apple didn't innovate with the first iPhone. I said in the past few years, Apple hasn't been innovating with their phones. Now they're the ones wholesale copying.
The S3 came out months before the iPhone 5. The S3 has:
Higher resolution screen Twice as much ram SD card slot NFC Faster CPU Most powerful battery Nicer front camera USB 3.0 support
So Apple can't keep up with Samsung's hardware months later, and Samsung's hardware is cheaper. As for size, the iPhone 5 is slightly thinner and weights just a little less, but the S3 has a much bigger screen and more internal components. And how has Apple innovated with hardware engineering the past few years with the phone?
And I can go on all day about software innovations that blow the iPhone away. I still carry an iPhone 4S for work, and have been an iPhone owner for my personal phone since the 3GS. As someone who literally carries both an S3 and a 4S every day, the S3 is a far superior phone on pretty much every level.
Apple wins in GPU benchmarks, but Apple hasn't innovated with the iPhone in a while. All the key features in both iOS 5 and iOS 6 existed in Android and Windows Mobile first.
When they announced the 4S and 5, you'll note neither have any key innovations.
People want to credit for the full-screen bar phone with multi-touch as this brilliant design that everyone copied. In reality, it is a common sense design that appeared in sci-fi for a reason. Once it became affordable to make it reality, then 3 different companies came up with the same design at the same time (LG, Samsung, Apple). What has Apple done since then literally other than copy heavily from those around them?
The President can not deploy troops for more than 90 days without Congress approving it. So even when it isn't called war, the President can't go to war with a country without Congress backing it and financing it.
When the DA and police went into OJ's house, they video taped the whole thing. It makes it hard to suggest they were planting evidence as being video taped, especially given how incompetent they were. They went in before the search warrant was final, so a lot of their early findings were then inadmissible. They had a bag with blood they couldn't use for example. The police were too inept to frame him.
But they had blood from OJ's bathroom where he cleaned up, and sold of Goldman's blood there. As well as some of OJ's blood at the crime scene.
And OJ wrote a tell-all confession book "If I Did It" which covers all the details of the murders. But I'm sure he was framed. The police randomly killed two people to frame OJ, because at that point in time, everyone fucking hated Nordberg.
I didn't say it merited that. However, it did receive the most coverage. So to not have heard of it despite the massive coverage, you'd have to be an idiot or complete pariah.
Finding someone who isn't aware of the single most covered news item of the year, means finding someone who is an idiot or an absolute social pariah.
Just because someone had heard of the case in the news didn't mean they couldn't look at evidence in an objective manner. However, selecting idiots meant they ignored the damning DNA evidence.
OJ wasn't simply tabloid news. OJ fleeing in the White Bronco, being arrested, and the investigation leading up to his trial was the largest news story that year, and perhaps of the decade.
Finding someone who wasn't particularly familiar with him, or biased by existing coverage at that point meant finding absolute idiots or social pariahs who avoided all news outlets.
That and the jury was 12 idiots selected because they never read the news and weren't that familiar with the events. When the prosecution was able to show all their DNA evidence, they presented the evidence as a series of numbers and odds. The jurors said in exit interviews they had no idea what they were listening to, and thusly ignored all the DNA evidence.
No OS or software is ever 100% secure. But the notion that Linux isn't targeted for lack or market share ignores the enterprise server market and the internet (where Linux does have significant market share). Linux proves to be far more secure in perhaps the most important markets.
OS X is up to 15% of the desktop/laptop market share, and the number of exploits is still fairly small despite market share. They aren't bulletproof as an OS, but they are far more secure than Windows. And frequently, the attack vectors on OS X and Linux are largely the same as Windows (browser plugins, PDFs, etc).
Performing the same tasks is actually easier in Linux. Microsoft has had a lot of usability regressions since XP. And given how easily it is to get spyware and viruses in Windows, you spend all this time fixing your OS rather than using your PC.
Running with Linux means you just use your PC without having to fight it.
My last there Windows 7 boxes I built had standard motherboard chipsets, standard NICs, standard video cards, etc. and they weren't supported out of the box. Yet each worked perfectly out of the box with Linux. I did manually install proprietary video card drivers, but the open source ones worked fine.
I don't think I've done a Windows install in my lifetime where the hardware all worked out of the box, ever. This includes OEM enterprise hardware (Dell and HP servers and desktops). Eventually I made slipstream install images that included these drivers, but Windows didn't have them natively.
I'm assuming you've never actually done a clean install of Windows.
It isn't just printers, but with each new Windows release, they leave behind a lot of legacy hardware (old wireless cards, webcams, gamepads, etc) that will not get new drivers.
Legacy hardware support is MUCH better in Linux than Windows. It isn't even close.
I know this is meant as a joke, but the reality is that Linux truly is ready for the desktop right this second.
1. Xorg.conf nightmares ended years ago. 2. A fresh Windows install means a lot of your hardware doesn't work and you have to hunt for drivers from third party websites. This is particularly fun if it is your wireless network card that isn't working. For the most part, hardware "just works" in Linux these days. 3. Out of the box on a Linux install, you likely have most of the apps you already need. If you don't, then installing and managing your software is a breeze. 4. Even as people praise Windows 7, it did retain a lot of usability regressions from Vista. It is somewhat a matter of opinion, but I'd contend that KDE is the most usable desktop out there currently. If you disagree, you can run Unity, Gnome 3, or whatever you want in Linux. You're not bound to one UI you don't like (such as the new Metro UI in Windows 8). 5. Linux can pass the Grandma test. People often suggest you have to re-learn a new OS. I'd contend that it is easier to give Grandma a KDE desktop than a Windows 8 PC. I converted my 60 year old mother to openSUSE and KDE. She was reticent at first, but came to really like it. 6. Linux is secure. You don't have to worry about viruses, spyware, etc. You spend your time using your computer as opposed to fixing your computer. 7. Have a Windows app you can't leave behind? There is a decent chance it runs in Wine. And since we have shifted more to web-based apps, desktop apps are less important today than they were 10 years ago.
No OS or desktop is perfect, but if you did an objective comparison today of what is the easiest and best OS to run on your desktop/laptop for most people today, I truly believe Linux would come out on top.
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There isn't any farm land near Omaha itself. Back in 1977, they did have actual stockyards where they still slaughtered animals, but they closed a long time ago. If you lived close to the stockyards back then, I'm sure you would have been able to smell them. But that was decades ago.
Omaha today has a concert/convention center downtown that is ranked in the top 10 nationally for the acts it gets and attendance. It has the #1 ranked community theater in the country, the #1 ranked children's theater, the #2 ranked zoo, and it was called the amateur sports capital of the country because of all the sporting events. The Orpheum gets all the Broadway touring shows. There are plenty of comedy clubs and improv groups. The Holland has tons of concerts and shows as well. We have art-house theaters alongside mega-plexes and IMAXes. We have movie theaters where you can get food and beer at your seat in the theater, which everyone needs. Rick Mueller (former GM of the Saints and Broncos, now working with the Eagles) told me last year (when he was working in Omaha) the Midtown Crossing theater is the best theater he's seen anywhere in the country.
The local music scene has been praised as one of the best in the country. It has been reported there are more restaurants per capita than any city in the country (likely also due to the fact that Omaha has more millionaires per capita than any city in the country and people like to eat out here).
Downtown in the Old Market there is a great bar scene, with shopping and more restaurants that I hung out in as a young bachelor. In recent years there has been a lot of new development and urban renewal of other neighborhoods.
I've lived on both coasts and in plenty of big cities. 1977 was 25 years ago, so I imagine things were fairly different then. But I'd never say there is nothing to do here. Again, magazines keep rating it the #1 city in the country to live in for a reason.
No, but I know they have engineers who work in the datacenter that neighbors me (Council Bluffs, IA). And the Omaha metro area to which it belongs is routinely named one of the best cities in the country for cost of living.
Google has datacenters in Iowa, South Carolina, Georgia, Oklahoma, and Oregon. Those are all cheap places to live.
The fact that Google salaries top Microsoft's on average with those locations says something.
Were you running KDE in Ubuntu perhaps? Their packages suck.
KDE in openSUSE, Fedora, Arch, etc. is much more stable.
What about the new $159 model that didn't get the Fire HD moniker?
ST:TNG showed swiping to scroll up in a document on a PADD, for example.
1) This was at launch, which goes to my point of what have they done in recent years? And they didn't invent the app store. Carriers had their own app stores first.
2) Blackberry phones had 10+ hours of active battery before the iPhone. And Apple hasn't been the only company pushing mobile battery technology.
3) Who honestly makes phone purchase decisions by how thin it is? And they aren't the only ones pushing this envelope. The iPhone 4S was the thinnest, until a few Android phones beat it, and now the iPhone 5 is thinner.
4) My wife has been known to read books on her phone, but I don't know anyone else who does this. Android did have book reader apps first, and so did BlackBerry. But again, like most Apple "innovations" they do it later and act like they did it first.
5) Apple has 68% market share. So they do have the best selling tablet, but it isn't like they are the only tablet selling well.
That the processor can barely drive
Have you used the phone? Even with tons of apps installed and running, it is snappy and fast. The EU and NA versions of the S3 have different processors. The EU is actually a quad core processor, and the NA version is a dual core that is compatible with LTE. The clock speed is higher (1.5 GHz vs 1.0) than the Apple CPU, and it is built on the newer ARM core. The Samsung CPU is based on the A15 ARM core as opposed to the A9 core used by Apple.
Everyone I've demoed the phone to has been blown away by how fast it is, even with about 50 apps running in the background. Once Jelly Bean drops, it will be even faster.
Needed on the memory-hungry Android platform
I've never seen any evidence that Android is more memory-hungry than iOS. I do appreciate that I can directly kill processes in Android and I have zero control over that in iOS.
Compromising design and SD cards are a relic from a time when you wouldn't just stream your media.
What if you don't want to eat up your bandwidth if you have a data cap? What if you don't have a signal? Loading from SD is just faster than streaming. Being able to expand local storage and stream as well is a clear win.
An unproven technology that has security (see recent Galaxy S3 hack through NFC at Pwn2Own) and privacy implications that appears to be focused on mobile payments where we believe Passbook to be a superior solution.
Microsoft is requiring every single Windows 8 phone and tablet to have it. Apple has a number of NFC patents and clearly intends to use it at some point, but has yet to deliver on it. NFC has been around since 2002 and is heavily used in Japan. It isn't new, unproven technology.
Made possible only by making the S3 1.2mm thicker than the iPhone 5.
The S3 is 1 mm thicker, not 1.2. It is 13% thicker, but has 33% more battery. Samsung engineering win there.
With a scratch-prone lens, as opposed to our high scratch-resistant sapphire lens.
Both are listed as scratch-resistant lenses. But the iPhone 5 sapphire lens should be more scratch resistant. That is a minor win for Apple there. It should be noted that the front-facing camera is still nicer on the S3, and Apple just now caught up to features many Android phones have had for over a year (photos during video, panorama mode, etc). And Apple still can't do burst photos like Android.
We believe our connector...
It is inexcusable to change to yet another proprietary connector in 2012 and not support USB 3.0. It will have slower transfer speeds and require proprietary adapters.
I didn't say Apple didn't innovate with the first iPhone. I said in the past few years, Apple hasn't been innovating with their phones. Now they're the ones wholesale copying.
The S3 came out months before the iPhone 5. The S3 has:
Higher resolution screen
Twice as much ram
SD card slot
NFC
Faster CPU
Most powerful battery
Nicer front camera
USB 3.0 support
So Apple can't keep up with Samsung's hardware months later, and Samsung's hardware is cheaper. As for size, the iPhone 5 is slightly thinner and weights just a little less, but the S3 has a much bigger screen and more internal components. And how has Apple innovated with hardware engineering the past few years with the phone?
And I can go on all day about software innovations that blow the iPhone away. I still carry an iPhone 4S for work, and have been an iPhone owner for my personal phone since the 3GS. As someone who literally carries both an S3 and a 4S every day, the S3 is a far superior phone on pretty much every level.
Apple wins in GPU benchmarks, but Apple hasn't innovated with the iPhone in a while. All the key features in both iOS 5 and iOS 6 existed in Android and Windows Mobile first.
When they announced the 4S and 5, you'll note neither have any key innovations.
People want to credit for the full-screen bar phone with multi-touch as this brilliant design that everyone copied. In reality, it is a common sense design that appeared in sci-fi for a reason. Once it became affordable to make it reality, then 3 different companies came up with the same design at the same time (LG, Samsung, Apple). What has Apple done since then literally other than copy heavily from those around them?
And yet they play the victim.
The President can not deploy troops for more than 90 days without Congress approving it. So even when it isn't called war, the President can't go to war with a country without Congress backing it and financing it.
When the DA and police went into OJ's house, they video taped the whole thing. It makes it hard to suggest they were planting evidence as being video taped, especially given how incompetent they were. They went in before the search warrant was final, so a lot of their early findings were then inadmissible. They had a bag with blood they couldn't use for example. The police were too inept to frame him.
But they had blood from OJ's bathroom where he cleaned up, and sold of Goldman's blood there. As well as some of OJ's blood at the crime scene.
And OJ wrote a tell-all confession book "If I Did It" which covers all the details of the murders. But I'm sure he was framed. The police randomly killed two people to frame OJ, because at that point in time, everyone fucking hated Nordberg.
I didn't say it merited that. However, it did receive the most coverage. So to not have heard of it despite the massive coverage, you'd have to be an idiot or complete pariah.
Finding someone who isn't aware of the single most covered news item of the year, means finding someone who is an idiot or an absolute social pariah.
Just because someone had heard of the case in the news didn't mean they couldn't look at evidence in an objective manner. However, selecting idiots meant they ignored the damning DNA evidence.
That isn't justice.
OJ wasn't simply tabloid news. OJ fleeing in the White Bronco, being arrested, and the investigation leading up to his trial was the largest news story that year, and perhaps of the decade.
Finding someone who wasn't particularly familiar with him, or biased by existing coverage at that point meant finding absolute idiots or social pariahs who avoided all news outlets.
That and the jury was 12 idiots selected because they never read the news and weren't that familiar with the events. When the prosecution was able to show all their DNA evidence, they presented the evidence as a series of numbers and odds. The jurors said in exit interviews they had no idea what they were listening to, and thusly ignored all the DNA evidence.
No OS or software is ever 100% secure. But the notion that Linux isn't targeted for lack or market share ignores the enterprise server market and the internet (where Linux does have significant market share). Linux proves to be far more secure in perhaps the most important markets.
OS X is up to 15% of the desktop/laptop market share, and the number of exploits is still fairly small despite market share. They aren't bulletproof as an OS, but they are far more secure than Windows. And frequently, the attack vectors on OS X and Linux are largely the same as Windows (browser plugins, PDFs, etc).
Again, that is my point.
Performing the same tasks is actually easier in Linux. Microsoft has had a lot of usability regressions since XP. And given how easily it is to get spyware and viruses in Windows, you spend all this time fixing your OS rather than using your PC.
Running with Linux means you just use your PC without having to fight it.
My last there Windows 7 boxes I built had standard motherboard chipsets, standard NICs, standard video cards, etc. and they weren't supported out of the box. Yet each worked perfectly out of the box with Linux. I did manually install proprietary video card drivers, but the open source ones worked fine.
I don't think I've done a Windows install in my lifetime where the hardware all worked out of the box, ever. This includes OEM enterprise hardware (Dell and HP servers and desktops). Eventually I made slipstream install images that included these drivers, but Windows didn't have them natively.
I'm assuming you've never actually done a clean install of Windows.
It isn't just printers, but with each new Windows release, they leave behind a lot of legacy hardware (old wireless cards, webcams, gamepads, etc) that will not get new drivers.
Legacy hardware support is MUCH better in Linux than Windows. It isn't even close.
I haven't run Ubuntu in a few years, but shouldn't it ask you for localization options in the installer?
Most of my Windows 7 installs have been an absolute pain as far as drivers go.
I know this is meant as a joke, but the reality is that Linux truly is ready for the desktop right this second.
1. Xorg.conf nightmares ended years ago.
2. A fresh Windows install means a lot of your hardware doesn't work and you have to hunt for drivers from third party websites. This is particularly fun if it is your wireless network card that isn't working. For the most part, hardware "just works" in Linux these days.
3. Out of the box on a Linux install, you likely have most of the apps you already need. If you don't, then installing and managing your software is a breeze.
4. Even as people praise Windows 7, it did retain a lot of usability regressions from Vista. It is somewhat a matter of opinion, but I'd contend that KDE is the most usable desktop out there currently. If you disagree, you can run Unity, Gnome 3, or whatever you want in Linux. You're not bound to one UI you don't like (such as the new Metro UI in Windows 8).
5. Linux can pass the Grandma test. People often suggest you have to re-learn a new OS. I'd contend that it is easier to give Grandma a KDE desktop than a Windows 8 PC. I converted my 60 year old mother to openSUSE and KDE. She was reticent at first, but came to really like it.
6. Linux is secure. You don't have to worry about viruses, spyware, etc. You spend your time using your computer as opposed to fixing your computer.
7. Have a Windows app you can't leave behind? There is a decent chance it runs in Wine. And since we have shifted more to web-based apps, desktop apps are less important today than they were 10 years ago.
No OS or desktop is perfect, but if you did an objective comparison today of what is the easiest and best OS to run on your desktop/laptop for most people today, I truly believe Linux would come out on top.
Mostly correct.
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