Windows Mobile was by far the best - and certainly most powerful - handheld operating system, even if somewhat complicated to use. But I prefer that approach to an OS that is extremely dumbed down. You know how they say: it you make something easy enough to be used by idiots, only idiots will use it.
The smart thing to do is to give the user the choice to either shut down an application or send it to the background, making the shutdown the default action. This is how I used to work with Windows Mobile and was very good.
The coppers dealing with murdered children are not the same ones who are doing the mob control, and those of them who deal with internet are again different people with different specialisations. So those who are actually responsible for the thing this discussion is about, should be IT savvy. If they are not, then they are simpletons indeed.
I've been using PDAs and touchscreen phones for a decade and the capacitive screen was a significant step back in terms of accuracy. It also mirrors like hell. If you cannot see the contents of a resistive touchscreen, you definitely should see a doctor about it.
It also ignores the fact that the corporations already charge as much as the market can bear so by rising the prices as an answer to higher corporate taxes the corporations risk to lose customers quickly.
Dude, you are talking out of your arse. there were lots of tablets with Windows CE, no hard disks, not much weight and good battery life. Also resistive touchscreens are way more precise than a capacitive one so they are better suited for content creation.
iPad is successful because of marketing - months before the device could be bought there were iPad news and speculations through the press every day.
the soviet invasion of poland was just russia getting back its former territories which poland has taken two decades earlier when they invaded the still young ussr.
In other words, there is some limited progress that took decades and a lot of brain power to achieve. No sudden deus ex machina solution magically appearing, no guy that thought "oh, I see that there is a need for cancer cure, let's invent one".
But some people just insist to believe in some technological fairy.
Rather relax, a solution will magically appear as soon as it is needed. Yeah right. Like, for example, the cure for cancer automatically appeared as soon as it was needed.
That is not quite right Literature is very important because most people learn and widen their ken through literature. And music is very much mathematics if you think about it.
IMO, the real death spiral for WM started with iPhone - which would be shortly after WM6.
That is true, but only because the alternative to WM5 were even worse. I remember that I preferred to work with a totally unstable WM6 beta than with WM5 on my HTC Universal.
I wholeheartedly agree on that, which is why I bought a Nexus One a week after WP7 feature set was announced on MIX'10. I do not intend to swap that for a WP device anytime soon.
I know what you mean. I am still with Windows Mobile (HTC HD2), but I will start using Android as soon as the applications I use are ported (probably early next year). It is a bit sad actually, I've used lots of WM devices through the years and enjoyed it a lot, not least thanks to XDA developers.
I remember once having a home-made valve guitar preamp (nothing fancy, just a single 6N2P and a solid state cab sim) put together on a prototyping PCB in my hand luggage. It went fine through at the TLL, but at the HEL my hand luggage was rigorously searched.
One other time I had a disassembled Strat clone in my luggage (SXF airport) cushioned by some spare t-shirts. I was called by the security, they then searched the guitar parts for explosives and called some other security staff just to have a look at the bloke who was actually stupid enough to transports a disassembled guitar wrapped in his t-shirts.
Yep, WM2003 was a very decent mobile OS for its time. Unfortunately, WM5 really sucked before the release AKU3.5, WM6 was what WM5 actually was supposed to be, and WM6.1 and WM6.5 were downward disappointing.
WP7 lacks everything I actually liked at Windows Mobile. It is probably interested for social networking kind of people, but not for those who want a mobile PC in their pocket.
The reason is 50 Hz frame rate for PAL and 60 Hz for NTSC.
The 50 Hz frame rate (half frames actually which leads to 25 full frames per second) is also the reason why cinema movies (which use 24 fps) are sped up on PAL video.
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It is a Russian saying that basically means the same as the English "pot calling the kettle black".
Thanks, Hobson.
Windows Mobile was by far the best - and certainly most powerful - handheld operating system, even if somewhat complicated to use. But I prefer that approach to an OS that is extremely dumbed down. You know how they say: it you make something easy enough to be used by idiots, only idiots will use it.
The smart thing to do is to give the user the choice to either shut down an application or send it to the background, making the shutdown the default action. This is how I used to work with Windows Mobile and was very good.
The tolerances are not the only part of it. M16 magazines used to suck and the gas system is very dirty.
Also I've been told that Russian soldiers are drilled to use short bursts.
The coppers dealing with murdered children are not the same ones who are doing the mob control, and those of them who deal with internet are again different people with different specialisations.
So those who are actually responsible for the thing this discussion is about, should be IT savvy. If they are not, then they are simpletons indeed.
Christian democrats are usually both in name only.
Mine was playing Dark Forces on a PC with only 4 megabytes of RAM. Yes, it was slow, but it worked.
OS/2 really was great.
No, I am talking about this one for example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMpad.
I've been using PDAs and touchscreen phones for a decade and the capacitive screen was a significant step back in terms of accuracy. It also mirrors like hell. If you cannot see the contents of a resistive touchscreen, you definitely should see a doctor about it.
It also ignores the fact that the corporations already charge as much as the market can bear so by rising the prices as an answer to higher corporate taxes the corporations risk to lose customers quickly.
Well, to be honest, Estonian woods were extensively cut after the independence.
Dude, you are talking out of your arse. there were lots of tablets with Windows CE, no hard disks, not much weight and good battery life.
Also resistive touchscreens are way more precise than a capacitive one so they are better suited for content creation.
iPad is successful because of marketing - months before the device could be bought there were iPad news and speculations through the press every day.
What exactly seems to be so difficult in understanding the words "will and motive"?
Yes, it is. Just look at this:
http://izismile.com/2009/06/29/apartment_building_fell_down_in_china_12_pics.html
the soviet invasion of poland was just russia getting back its former territories which poland has taken two decades earlier when they invaded the still young ussr.
Have you ever tried to hammer nails in with a microscope?
It is entirely possible, but it is not very practical. Same as your suggestion.
In other words, there is some limited progress that took decades and a lot of brain power to achieve. No sudden deus ex machina solution magically appearing, no guy that thought "oh, I see that there is a need for cancer cure, let's invent one".
But some people just insist to believe in some technological fairy.
Rather relax, a solution will magically appear as soon as it is needed.
Yeah right. Like, for example, the cure for cancer automatically appeared as soon as it was needed.
Well, please explain why arithmetic is not math.
That is not quite right
Literature is very important because most people learn and widen their ken through literature.
And music is very much mathematics if you think about it.
That is true, but only because the alternative to WM5 were even worse. I remember that I preferred to work with a totally unstable WM6 beta than with WM5 on my HTC Universal.
I know what you mean. I am still with Windows Mobile (HTC HD2), but I will start using Android as soon as the applications I use are ported (probably early next year). It is a bit sad actually, I've used lots of WM devices through the years and enjoyed it a lot, not least thanks to XDA developers.
I remember once having a home-made valve guitar preamp (nothing fancy, just a single 6N2P and a solid state cab sim) put together on a prototyping PCB in my hand luggage. It went fine through at the TLL, but at the HEL my hand luggage was rigorously searched.
One other time I had a disassembled Strat clone in my luggage (SXF airport) cushioned by some spare t-shirts. I was called by the security, they then searched the guitar parts for explosives and called some other security staff just to have a look at the bloke who was actually stupid enough to transports a disassembled guitar wrapped in his t-shirts.
Yep, WM2003 was a very decent mobile OS for its time. Unfortunately, WM5 really sucked before the release AKU3.5, WM6 was what WM5 actually was supposed to be, and WM6.1 and WM6.5 were downward disappointing.
WP7 lacks everything I actually liked at Windows Mobile. It is probably interested for social networking kind of people, but not for those who want a mobile PC in their pocket.
The reason is 50 Hz frame rate for PAL and 60 Hz for NTSC.
The 50 Hz frame rate (half frames actually which leads to 25 full frames per second) is also the reason why cinema movies (which use 24 fps) are sped up on PAL video.
What war?
The war in Iraq officially ended in 2003, with lots of flag waving.
The documents released by Wikileaks are for the period 2004-2009.