People buy Android because they want something billed as "better than iPhone, with a smaller pricetag." They're certainly not built for freedom, as anyone gets them.
Huh? That makes absolutely no sense.
Apple users and developers get excited about Apple announcements...
Then I got one, and discovered that you didn't have to become a wild-eyed fanboi to appreciate its utility.
I don't even make or receive that many POTS calls--most of my voice calls are done using Skype on the laptop--but I really like being able to reach my daughter on the other side of the world via voice or video, anytime. It is also handy being able to check mail.
Maps + GPS has helped me out a lot a couple of times when I've got lost in unfamiliar cities where all the signs were in a non-Latin alphabet.
I'm also using my smartphone to learn how to read and write Chinese characters (see "Getting lost in places with non-Latin signage", above). This is an application I have a hard time imagining getting to work anywhere nearly as well on any other platform. (And it actually works heaps better with the smartphone form factor than it does with a tablet.)
And in an area with highly variable weather, it is very helpful to be able to check conditions/forecast/radar on the go.
If you're coding for the iPhone, you deal with iPhone 5 screen resolution and iPhone 4/4S. That's 2 screen resolutions. Try coding for Android, while having fun doing it;)
To an iOS developer who hard-codes screen resolutions and aspect ratios like a Guttenberg-press typesetter would at the end of the 15th century, dealing with screens of different resolutions, different aspect ratios, and different sizes like Android does would seem like an insurmountable task...
Bing-O. I would give you my last mod point if I'd not already posted in this discussion.
Any GUI developer these days who cannot handle fluid layout needs to get back to McDonald's straight away.
Smile, smile, smile when some overworked jackapple in the airline's marketing department, confused by this spike in the data, paints a rainbow on a Dash-8 because the data mining algorithm says that'll make it 20% cooler.
Why not? Last time I flew from Coffs Harbour to Sydney, it was aboard a Qantas Dash-8 that had been painted bright pink.
This was not exactly a secret when it was going on. (I was in college at the time.) It was pretty much common knowledge that we were providing help to just about anybody who expressed an interest in going to Afghanistan and kicking some Commie butt on America's behalf.
Sounds like you're burning up lots of funds on airfare that could be used to help people who need it right in your own neighbourhood. But I'm glad that it makes you feel better.
Thanks for pointing up one of my principal objections to the Abrahamic religions: The abhorrent notion lying at the root of all of them--that humans must pay God off every so often by sacrificing one of their number.
Also, woosh. My point was that popular culture (like music) is heavily biased against bureaucrats without ever considering that there might be reasons for them to exist.
And for the record, I don't worry about the government. Corporate power dwarfs it.
Ok, next time I'll make sure to say that I'm arguing with you, instead of trying to agree with you.
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What did Jason Voorhees ever do to deserve being associated with SCO?
They still have desks?
And it didn't happen in the USA.
Then--like the Roman Empire and the birth of Barrack Obama--it never happened!
People buy Android because they want something billed as "better than iPhone, with a smaller pricetag." They're certainly not built for freedom, as anyone gets them.
Huh? That makes absolutely no sense.
Apple users and developers get excited about Apple announcements...
TFTFY.
And Apple have made it pretty clear that they've no interest whatsoever in that section of the market.
I used to think like you.
Then I got one, and discovered that you didn't have to become a wild-eyed fanboi to appreciate its utility.
I don't even make or receive that many POTS calls--most of my voice calls are done using Skype on the laptop--but I really like being able to reach my daughter on the other side of the world via voice or video, anytime. It is also handy being able to check mail.
Maps + GPS has helped me out a lot a couple of times when I've got lost in unfamiliar cities where all the signs were in a non-Latin alphabet.
I'm also using my smartphone to learn how to read and write Chinese characters (see "Getting lost in places with non-Latin signage", above). This is an application I have a hard time imagining getting to work anywhere nearly as well on any other platform. (And it actually works heaps better with the smartphone form factor than it does with a tablet.)
And in an area with highly variable weather, it is very helpful to be able to check conditions/forecast/radar on the go.
If you're coding for the iPhone, you deal with iPhone 5 screen resolution and iPhone 4/4S. That's 2 screen resolutions. Try coding for Android, while having fun doing it ;)
To an iOS developer who hard-codes screen resolutions and aspect ratios like a Guttenberg-press typesetter would at the end of the 15th century, dealing with screens of different resolutions, different aspect ratios, and different sizes like Android does would seem like an insurmountable task...
Bing-O. I would give you my last mod point if I'd not already posted in this discussion.
Any GUI developer these days who cannot handle fluid layout needs to get back to McDonald's straight away.
(P.S. It's "Gutenberg".)
Smile, smile, smile when some overworked jackapple in the airline's marketing department, confused by this spike in the data, paints a rainbow on a Dash-8 because the data mining algorithm says that'll make it 20% cooler.
Why not? Last time I flew from Coffs Harbour to Sydney, it was aboard a Qantas Dash-8 that had been painted bright pink.
If a one of you had any balls they could turn your country into a charnel house...
If you think that phrase has positive connotations, you are mistaken.
This is based on the notion that everything already belongs to some human, and other humans must pay him for it.
This would be amusing if the consequences weren't so dire.
You can't be free if somebody controls your access to food, shelter and medicine.
You say that as if someone doesn't already.
This was not exactly a secret when it was going on. (I was in college at the time.) It was pretty much common knowledge that we were providing help to just about anybody who expressed an interest in going to Afghanistan and kicking some Commie butt on America's behalf.
...keep in mind that would foster a great deal of global instability and subsequent hatred.
Causing large numbers of sentient beings to suffer greatly (and for no good reason apparent to them) often leads to such things.
(Merely an observation. Not intended as criticism.)
Sounds like you're burning up lots of funds on airfare that could be used to help people who need it right in your own neighbourhood. But I'm glad that it makes you feel better.
Thanks for pointing up one of my principal objections to the Abrahamic religions: The abhorrent notion lying at the root of all of them--that humans must pay God off every so often by sacrificing one of their number.
If Jesus returned today, the first thing he'd say is, "You turned my teachings into a RELIGION?! What is the matter with you people?"
That Wikipedia article is full of non sequiturs, and was written primarily by someone trying to drum up support for their (very bad) book on the subject.
Not just a river in Egypt.
Radical counterproposal: Why not remove the income-based restrictions instead?
Even better, why not just guarantee everyone a minimum income that's sufficient to cover the basics?
You give me hope for the future. Thank you.
Like the man said...
Why don't you put down your XBox and your Cheetos and come outside to play? It's already looking to be a nice day out here.
*puts phone back in pocket, resumes watching deer graze about 10m away*
Spying *is* oppression.Think about it.
Also, woosh. My point was that popular culture (like music) is heavily biased against bureaucrats without ever considering that there might be reasons for them to exist.
And for the record, I don't worry about the government. Corporate power dwarfs it.
Ok, next time I'll make sure to say that I'm arguing with you, instead of trying to agree with you.
That's all well and good, but it does nothing to address the point that, by 1969, computers were anything but a novelty in the aerospace industry.
Whether or not they met some mystery "big balls" criterion peculiar to you has nothing to do with it.