sorry, but no way. i've got an old hp omnibook 510 with a p3/1.2 ghz. it is MUCH slower than a lenovo ideapad s10e with an atom n270/1.6 ghz. the little netbook feels at least twice as fast with the same amount of RAM.
It is new for me that calling someone an asshole is now considered polite speech in the USA.
Anyway, reference.com makes a big mistake, a mistake neo-nazis especially like: the difference between patriotism and nationalism.
You see, patriotism is all about loving the country where you were born. Nationalism, on the other hand, is a whole different beast. A nationalist classifies "us", that is, his fellow nationalists of his particular country, and "them" - the rest, especially citizens of other countries. After this classification, a nationalist puts his country and his group beyond good and evil and the "them" group as bad.
A patriot may like the way of life of his country, a nationalist would force it to everyone else. So, as you see, it is a form of bigotry.
European, and especially russian Neo-nazis use the mistake mentioned above when they say: We are patriots, why do you protest against us, do you hate your country?
I could say, of course, that the difference between a patriot and a nationalist is the same difference as between a loving father and a child molester (they both love children) but it would be a passable analogy only in terms of the gap size between those two terms.
There is as much wrong with nationalism as with any other bigotry. It seems from your speech that you are not only a bigot, but also a pretty uncultivated one, filled with hatred which seems to be the most important purpose in your life. Poor you.
And by the way, just to explain, why you are delusional in this particular case: If such a thing actually happens, if every country would use its own root servers, most bigots of your kind wouldn't even know that it has happened. They will happily live in their small national part of the internet, as they already do now.
The only people who would suffer are those who speak more than one language and who do care what happens outside their sandboxes.
Mine is a HTC Wizard (TI OMAP850), it has ~200Mhz and 64Mb memory. Linux on this particular device blows windows mobile away in speed, running from the SD card.
My mother uses HTC Blue Angel (Xscale PXA263 400MHz, 128 MB RAM, WM6) My father uses HTC Himalaya (Same specs, WM2003) I currently use HTC Touch HD (Qualcomm MSM 7201A 528 MHz, 288 RAM, WM6.1). Before that I used HTC Universal (Xscale PXA270 520Mhz, 64 MB RAM, WM6.1). My parents' devices are my even older ones.
HTC Wizard sucks, though, you have at least a point there.
Just look at the iphone and be amazed how responsive the device is.
iPhone allows background processes? That is new for me. Also, iPhone is a pretty closed device. The same firmware has to run only on iPod Touch and only allow the user very limited resources. Not so Windows Mobile - you have the power to do pretty much everything there. Lack of multitasking has killed PalmOS back then.
I certainly wouldn't call it a "personal computer", much less a "different paradigm", LOL. Windows mobile is a very limited subset of win32 as you know.
It is not about Win32, it is about what you can do with it. A Windows Mobile handheld is a full blown personal computer with the power of desktop PCs from some years ago and it shows. The proof is that you can run Windows 98 in emulator in Windows Mobile. Try to do that on iPhone;-)
IMHO, the closest you can get from a PC (personal computer) is running Linux on it. If you take a chance of learning a little more about it, you will realize that you can run most of GNU applications there without having to rewrite them (if the device has enough CPU and memory of course). For example: GCC (the compiler) runs just fine.
Tried it out and I don't see the point. Linux might be faster (although WM6.1 is already pretty fast and WM6.5 even more so) but it lacks the applications I need. Same reason why I don't use Linux on the desktop anymore.
Latest Nokias with symbian can do that too, without abusive delays and without crashing.
That one was good. Don't believe to heresays, try it out yourself, you will talk differently.
my windows mobile pda opens the phone app in under two seconds even while the turn to turn navigation software is working. so much for years you stated. even my parents, both having a windows mobile device, have no problems short of an occasional need to reboot every two or three months (the price for custom roms).
anyway, windows ce is a real multitasking operation system and allows the applications to multitask, too, which makes it pretty powerful. it can happen, that a background process or a shitty written application eats all the cpu time causing a slight response delay. if you are unpatient and click everywhere hunderds of times when an application doesn't response instantly all of your actions would be executed the moment the device starts responding again, thus slowing the system to a crawl.
the problem in this case is not the device, it is you, because you use the device wrong and shouldn't have bought it in first place. if you need a phone for emergencies, by all means, buy the simplest phone possible (and i have seen very simple devices like nokia 3210 crash - i used to develop for the first generation nokia operating system).
a pda phone with windows mobile isn't a phone. it is a wearable handheld personal computer with a phone function - a complete different paradigm. you don't buy a new personal computer because skype needs two seconds to start, do you?
if you need a device for listening to music, watching occasional movies, reading books, surfing the web, making some calculations, doing turn to turn navigation, full PIM and a lot more - all things you can do at home on your pc, but on the go and with a small device, then a windows mobile pda phone is the right thing for you. but only in that case.
if you are not a power user and if you cannot be bothered to learn how to use the device then keep your hands of windows mobile. it is not for you. it doesn't mean that it is bad, though.
i own lots of windows ce and windows mobile devices and develop for them since 2004. and contrary to what you write they are very practical and were exactly that since windows mobile 2003 while cheap phones are one trick ponies and iphones just became more or less useful since firmware 3.0.
what do you want with a fast operating system that cannot do all the things you want to? i'd rather stick with a slower but more powerful one.
Even more insightful because trains very much work in Russia. Russia has one of the world's largest railway track webs and a couple of world's longest single railway tracks.
Have you ever heard of wolfhounds? They are calles that not because they resemble wolfs but because they were used for wolf hunting. Sheperd dogs were used to protect the herd from wolves. As you see, it is not that easy.
Which can happen very fast. Do you know the typical main battle tank operational range in the field? And a tank would be way more efficient than a walking robot.
Faster, yes, but not more efficient. Humans can march on for hours and hours when quadrupled animals would need a rest. And yes, humans have less problems with different terrains. Ever watched dogs going downstairs?
bullshit. a carrier can only block anything in windows mobile if you are too stupid to press the soft reset button once just before the carrier customisation installation is started. windows mobile even clearly gives you three seconds of forewarning to do this.
Sure, HBCI with a chip card is the way to go in the terms of security, but mTAN is the way to go in the terms of comfort - you can do banking from anywhere.
Aw come on. Fish reproduction is actually quite fascinating. There are for example some fish (corydoras) which reproduce through oral sex. That's right, the corydoras females give the corydoras males a blowjob and then fertilise their eggs with the collected sperm.
Actually there are lots of buses in new cars. CAN bus is used for component interconnection. LIN bus is used for sensors. MOST bus is used for car multimedia. FlexRay is the replacement for CAN bus but not yet widely used. That UART mentioned is just a diagnostic output.
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sorry, but no way. i've got an old hp omnibook 510 with a p3/1.2 ghz. it is MUCH slower than a lenovo ideapad s10e with an atom n270/1.6 ghz. the little netbook feels at least twice as fast with the same amount of RAM.
Actually, partly even worse. There were no checks for internal flights in the USSR, they didn't even look at the papers.
It is new for me that calling someone an asshole is now considered polite speech in the USA.
Anyway, reference.com makes a big mistake, a mistake neo-nazis especially like: the difference between patriotism and nationalism.
You see, patriotism is all about loving the country where you were born. Nationalism, on the other hand, is a whole different beast.
A nationalist classifies "us", that is, his fellow nationalists of his particular country, and "them" - the rest, especially citizens of other countries. After this classification, a nationalist puts his country and his group beyond good and evil and the "them" group as bad.
A patriot may like the way of life of his country, a nationalist would force it to everyone else. So, as you see, it is a form of bigotry.
European, and especially russian Neo-nazis use the mistake mentioned above when they say: We are patriots, why do you protest against us, do you hate your country?
I could say, of course, that the difference between a patriot and a nationalist is the same difference as between a loving father and a child molester (they both love children) but it would be a passable analogy only in terms of the gap size between those two terms.
There is as much wrong with nationalism as with any other bigotry.
It seems from your speech that you are not only a bigot, but also a pretty uncultivated one, filled with hatred which seems to be the most important purpose in your life. Poor you.
And by the way, just to explain, why you are delusional in this particular case:
If such a thing actually happens, if every country would use its own root servers, most bigots of your kind wouldn't even know that it has happened. They will happily live in their small national part of the internet, as they already do now.
The only people who would suffer are those who speak more than one language and who do care what happens outside their sandboxes.
Mine is a HTC Wizard (TI OMAP850), it has ~200Mhz and 64Mb memory.
Linux on this particular device blows windows mobile away in speed, running from the SD card.
My mother uses HTC Blue Angel (Xscale PXA263 400MHz, 128 MB RAM, WM6)
My father uses HTC Himalaya (Same specs, WM2003)
I currently use HTC Touch HD (Qualcomm MSM 7201A 528 MHz, 288 RAM, WM6.1).
Before that I used HTC Universal (Xscale PXA270 520Mhz, 64 MB RAM, WM6.1).
My parents' devices are my even older ones.
HTC Wizard sucks, though, you have at least a point there.
iPhone allows background processes? That is new for me. Also, iPhone is a pretty closed device. The same firmware has to run only on iPod Touch and only allow the user very limited resources. Not so Windows Mobile - you have the power to do pretty much everything there. Lack of multitasking has killed PalmOS back then.
It is not about Win32, it is about what you can do with it. A Windows Mobile handheld is a full blown personal computer with the power of desktop PCs from some years ago and it shows. The proof is that you can run Windows 98 in emulator in Windows Mobile. Try to do that on iPhone ;-)
Tried it out and I don't see the point. Linux might be faster (although WM6.1 is already pretty fast and WM6.5 even more so) but it lacks the applications I need. Same reason why I don't use Linux on the desktop anymore.
That one was good. Don't believe to heresays, try it out yourself, you will talk differently.
electric heaters aren't very popular in europe.
my windows mobile pda opens the phone app in under two seconds even while the turn to turn navigation software is working. so much for years you stated. even my parents, both having a windows mobile device, have no problems short of an occasional need to reboot every two or three months (the price for custom roms).
anyway, windows ce is a real multitasking operation system and allows the applications to multitask, too, which makes it pretty powerful. it can happen, that a background process or a shitty written application eats all the cpu time causing a slight response delay. if you are unpatient and click everywhere hunderds of times when an application doesn't response instantly all of your actions would be executed the moment the device starts responding again, thus slowing the system to a crawl.
the problem in this case is not the device, it is you, because you use the device wrong and shouldn't have bought it in first place. if you need a phone for emergencies, by all means, buy the simplest phone possible (and i have seen very simple devices like nokia 3210 crash - i used to develop for the first generation nokia operating system).
a pda phone with windows mobile isn't a phone. it is a wearable handheld personal computer with a phone function - a complete different paradigm. you don't buy a new personal computer because skype needs two seconds to start, do you?
if you need a device for listening to music, watching occasional movies, reading books, surfing the web, making some calculations, doing turn to turn navigation, full PIM and a lot more - all things you can do at home on your pc, but on the go and with a small device, then a windows mobile pda phone is the right thing for you. but only in that case.
if you are not a power user and if you cannot be bothered to learn how to use the device then keep your hands of windows mobile. it is not for you. it doesn't mean that it is bad, though.
so, you basically want to say that apple makes products for the stupid?
i own lots of windows ce and windows mobile devices and develop for them since 2004. and contrary to what you write they are very practical and were exactly that since windows mobile 2003 while cheap phones are one trick ponies and iphones just became more or less useful since firmware 3.0.
what do you want with a fast operating system that cannot do all the things you want to? i'd rather stick with a slower but more powerful one.
I agree.
Delphi always was the best tool for developing Win32 software.
Exactly.
Iron is pretty much the most important fertiliser for aquatic plants.
Even more insightful because trains very much work in Russia. Russia has one of the world's largest railway track webs and a couple of world's longest single railway tracks.
Have you ever heard of wolfhounds? They are calles that not because they resemble wolfs but because they were used for wolf hunting. Sheperd dogs were used to protect the herd from wolves. As you see, it is not that easy.
Which can happen very fast. Do you know the typical main battle tank operational range in the field? And a tank would be way more efficient than a walking robot.
Faster, yes, but not more efficient. Humans can march on for hours and hours when quadrupled animals would need a rest. And yes, humans have less problems with different terrains. Ever watched dogs going downstairs?
then you really should see the extended special edition of t2.
Trabant was not a soviet car, it was a GDR designed and made one.
you are the utter ignoramus here.
kids these days. no education but a stupid opinion to everything.
bullshit. a carrier can only block anything in windows mobile if you are too stupid to press the soft reset button once just before the carrier customisation installation is started. windows mobile even clearly gives you three seconds of forewarning to do this.
Sure, HBCI with a chip card is the way to go in the terms of security, but mTAN is the way to go in the terms of comfort - you can do banking from anywhere.
Aw come on. Fish reproduction is actually quite fascinating. There are for example some fish (corydoras) which reproduce through oral sex. That's right, the corydoras females give the corydoras males a blowjob and then fertilise their eggs with the collected sperm.
Uhm, actually you are wrong, some fish (poecilidae like guppys or swordtails) do fuck.
Why, X Files or Babylon 5 were very descent series back then. Much better than current crap.
Actually there are lots of buses in new cars. CAN bus is used for component interconnection. LIN bus is used for sensors. MOST bus is used for car multimedia. FlexRay is the replacement for CAN bus but not yet widely used. That UART mentioned is just a diagnostic output.