Well you could use a terminal (ah the old command line) or an X Terminal. Oh wait the 1980's just called saying they were right in the first place and "we told you so".:)
Of course the biggest problem most corporations face even going back to the start of computing is do you trust your administrators? If they don't then I suggest a couple of bricks and a nice cave (paintings optional).
When talking about a one on one human conflict fists could be used however most early humans would not train to toughen their hands, after-all why should they when a club, sword, spear or projectile weapon could easily take-down a human attacking with just his fists, even if those fists are like "hands of stone". It is also much easier to train for hunting or even war when you have a weapon in your hands and it is far less painful.
Actually ext4 is way faster than ext3 and has been out a few years now. I make all my file-systems ext4 including my backup disks and have never had any issues. The only thing I have FAT on is some flash drives that I sometimes use to transfer files to MS Windows machines and it is rare for me to go the other way since I normally don't have anything I want on MS Windows machines.
I did try BtrFS about a year ago but for home use I found it not worth the effort (actually it is really easy) and I am very familiar with AdvFS and ZFS as well as many other types of file-systems. Oh well I guess I will wait for BtrFS to become more main stream.
BTW the original AC post was very good troll since it was only praising Microsoft file-systems and seemed ignorant about other highly reliable enterprise file-systems such as ext3 which is being superseded by ext4 and JFS to name a few. It must also be noted that JFS is IBM's enterprise file-system that is also run on multimillion disk farms and computer systems and is open source which means it also runs on Linux and is fully supported by IBM.
Partly it was because you couldn't make a widescreen CRT
Note true, when LCD screens were starting to come out and the lower end were becoming affordable you could also buy widescreen (16:9 ratio) CRT TV's as well however these CRT TV's were fairly small (approx 25 to 30 inch) and very heavy when compared to the new LED/Plasma widescreen TV's. fast forward a few years and CRT's could not compete against the much cheaper LCD's and even cheaper Plasma's and were phased out.
Today you would be hard pressed to get a CRT TV since you can get LED/LCD and Plasma screens that are so much cheaper with a very acceptable contrast ratio. In fact you can easily buy a 55 plus inch solid state with 3D capability TV for under $1000 and smaller screen sizes are even cheaper. Even if you really want a monitor you could get a 27 inch plus for under $600 which has IPS, 6ms and is 2560x1440.
As for you last statement I could not agree more however with regard to the LG TV in the article, take a look at the specs and you will see it's contrast ratio is 1000:1 which considering an LED/LCD TV is normally in the order of 2,000,000:1 (plasma is even better again) is very poor.
I expect people will have Office on their computer and mobile device.
If you have a corporate computer the chances you will have Microsoft Office installed on it. As for mobile devices the only people I could see having MS Office installed on their device are managers or people who have a corporate supplied phone although there would be exceptions who IMHO have more money than sense.
The average home user would not normally have MS Office installed on their PC or mobile phone since you should pay for that product although I would be fairly confident in stating that many home users with a MS OS on their PC (ie the majority) would pirate MS Office which IMHO is crazy since you can get free Office Software that is almost as good as MS Office.
Now comes the interesting part. Lets be honest here, how home many people who use an Office suite of software know how to really utilise it i am fairly sure that of the many millions who have Office suites installed on their PC (corporate or home) the majority would only know and use about 5 to 20 percent of what that suite is capable of. Yes there are power users but they are very much in the minority.
If I were Microsoft, I would just charge the customer an extra 30% on top of whatever base price I wanted to charge. If the customer asks, "Hey, why is this so much more expensive than on the Windows app store?" explain to them how Apple's pricing works.
Somehow I don't think the average customer cares. They want the cheapest price for the product and for the average home user there are plenty of free Office Suites available that will do the job that they require or should I say "think that they will require".
FreeBSD 4.0 - 4.12 will always have a place in my heart right there with the Windows fan boys loving XP as its golden age.
Yes I do remember installing MS Windows XP when it first came out and getting a virus when I forgot I was connected to the Corporate network although I never had any issues when installing a distribution of Linux.:)
Today Linux has suceeded it and can now scale to 64 processors.
With the 3 kernel Linux can scale to 512 processors.
Linux has a journaling file system now
Linux has had a journaling file-system for many years now such as ext3 (approx 2001). Of course I should also mention ext4, JFS, XFS and even BtrFS to name a few.
A large percentage of office workers work at large companies.
And your point?
Large companies require enterprise level support systems, something that Microsoft, and the Windows ecosystem, does a good job providing and which Linux just doesn't have.
Yes that is true but what do you mean by the "enterprise" buzzword? As for using a Linux distribution or a Microsoft distribution both work well. I personally in my capacity as a professional engineer have been using a native Linux OS on my company laptop and also as home for many years and have not had any issues and I work for a Fortune 500 company.
Linux on the desktop (the server room is a different matter) has not gained traction in first world countries mainly because for many companies, company policy mainly dictates that a Microsoft solution is to be used even though that results in lock-in.
You are not the average user driving sales. Joe Shmoe doesn't give a crap about that. Windows XP/Vista/7 still work fine for Joe.
The problem is the average home computer user has no idea about computing mainly because they have be told that they don't need to learn the basics and the new (inset your preferred OS here) is so intuitive they don't have to learn anything.
When a person goes to purchase a personal computer (especially in first world countries) they get a PC with the latest MS Windows software on it (ie. "The Microsoft Tax) so that person unless they have been informed and are genuinely interested that there are other OS's available they will stick to the OS which was on the PC at the time of purchase. Even if the person wants to put an alternative OS on their PC they need to have come computing knowledge (README's do help) before they can do it. As a test get a group of computer illiterate people and give them a copy of MS Windows and a distribution of Linux or even BSD and they won't be able to install that software without reading something.
I always hear from people that it's to hard to learn computing basics even though they can use particular applications that require a considerable amount of learning yet they show little or no interest in learning computing basics, but when something goes wrong like a virus then they complain bitterly when nearly always it is their own fault.
How come neither of the links actually describe how this malware infects the machine in the first place? I'd say that's quite an important piece of information completely missing.
From the article. "Since the command is appended to the end of rc.local, there might actually be shell commands that result in the command not being executed as intended".
The only way to write or edit rc.local is as root, however if you are running a Fedora distribution rc.local does not exist.
That is true, however under Linux you get an update download of Chrome (now Version 23.0.1271.64) about 48MB while a Firefox update is less than 9MB. Not sure about MS Windows since I don't use it now, however i do remember when I did that Firefox updates where actually deltas which were only a few MB.
As of writing (my last update was 2 days ago) I still only have version 16.0.2 of Firefox. Now compare that with the latest version of Chrome which is 23.0.1271.64.
Why use Open Office when it was forked to Libre Office over two years ago? I have been using Libre Office in professional collaborative projects for that length of time, prior to that I actually used Open Office. In the organisation I work for (fortune 500 company) I don't have any issues working with people who use Microsoft products and that has surprised many in management since I run a pure Linux distribution (ie. no dual booting). Ok I do have a MS Windows XP virtual machine for those annoying things that require Microsoft related applications however I rarely need to fire up my virtual machine.
Also the chosen Macro langue is painful at best, it may make sense to ppl with a lot of programming experience, but your general office staff or average Joe? no way..
I don't know your qualifications and I don't care however you are looking down on the clerical staff. It has been my job on occasion to teach clerical staff as well as professional engineers and scientists on how to use computing systems and I make no distinction between them. If a person wants to learn they will and I have found that any person can learn computing applications if you approach them the right way.
When it comes to macros I always point out that if a macro is wrong then you are going to have major problems. In business you need a macro to be certified not home grown because it was some ones good idea at the time. With Word Processing, Spreadsheets and Presentation software keeping it simple yet concise is the best approach and use the most appropriate tools for the job at hand.
I can flick through websites using the scroll wheel with minimal effort. I don't feel like waving my hands to do common tasks.
Oh but you can talk as well. I suppose this would work at home but in the Office? I think it won't be long before signs saying "shush!" are common otherwise few people could get any work done. Now a telepathic interface would be more useful except for the migrains:)
Most smartphone users don't even know how to use the phones. I see them all the time going "Oh Wow! I didn't know it could do that!" after they've had the damn thing for a year or more. If it has a browser that's all most know or care about. Oh....and the facebook app.
Sigh! there is always the Facebook app. I do like the Maps and Navigation (all free) tools on my android phone, basically set and forget and without touching your phone it will voice navigate to were you want to go in nearly all cities.
Ok Android has a little under 600,000 apps while Apple has a little over 600,000 and Desktop Linux has something of the order of 2,000 plus major applications which work extremely well for the desktop. In fact I actually use Fedora 17 on my laptop which I also use for work.
- Excellent, easy to use GUI.
Were the hell have you been these last couple of years? Linux distros have been using GUI since the mid 1990's.
- No Command line shit required to do stuff.
If you don't like the command line then you don't have to use it. In fact you would rarely if ever use the command line for applications such as Office, Graphics, Web browsing, Video display/manipulation as well as listening to music. But the command line is there if you want to use it for more complex things. Of course maybe the command line is a little to hard for you to grasp since it appears to be "shit" to you.
- Great fonts
I have access to 10's of thousands of fonts for Fedora 17 and can install them locally for myself or globally. Other distros can do the same.
How much customisation do you want? If I want I can also customise my GUI running under Fedora but like my Android phones (HTC desire HD and Samsung Galaxy S3) I prefer to keep my GUI workspace clean, simple and highly functional.
If you think this is bad wait a couple of more years for smart tv's to start needing these kinds of updates.
People expect their tv's to last 10+ years without a simple software update some of those tv's won't be working right.
I have a smart TV but I don't depend on a third party supplier to provide TV listings. Even though my TV can display from the internet and can use DLNA I mainly treat my TV as just a monitor and get most of my stations from Foxtel. As for games my TV automatically switches when I fire up my PS3 and switches back when I have finished. Even my PS3 can display TV channels although not the ones my wife or myself likes to watch.
The trouble is that many people using free to air TV expect many things but when they are told a particular free service has finished they get upset.
"... they have no incentive to let you know what is showing on other channels."
There is a ridiculously simple -- and INEXPENSIVE -- solution to this problem:
In principle yes in practice no. Since the TV stations are in competition with each other it requires an independent provider to collate and display the TV guides, however these suppliers run the risk of incurring the ire of the TV stations so in some cases they have to have a "understanding" or pay each station, so if you as the consumer want this then you have to pay for it.
Here in Australia (I assume the same for other countries) Foxtel displays all TV listings at least a week in advance and has been doing it for years. Depending on your subscription, if you have the set-top box (Foxtel - of course) with recording capabilities you can record up-to 2 channels at a time and watch another or playback what you have previously recorded. It must be noted that one commercial channel for years did not allow publishing of their TV guide.
If you have free to air TV services you are really are at the mercy of the TV station management and/or the TV guide provider(s). You can complain all you want but if you expect a free service then too bad.
Why, not a single malware application can be installed on a banana! They too are immune.
Therefore bananas are now the most secure OS
No that is not true the best is Apple. The problem you do have is deciding which version you want such as "Granny Smith", "Red Delicious", etc. However unlike the banana which can go brown fairly quickly compared to the Apple you do have to watch out for worms.:)
In fairness, the newer Android phones are all/mostly shipping without an SD card slot. That's the trend, at least. It's quite disheartening.
Everything else you said is pretty damn accurate.:)
I got my Samsung S3 two weeks ago and that came with a micro SD card slot. If I want i can add a micro 32GB SD card for approx AU$24 (approx US$24). Of course price for an SD card does depend on it's class however in the majority of cases the cheaper card will do the job but I can change if I wish unlike the iPhone 5 which is not upgradeable once you decide on the model.
I have the Samsung Galaxy S III and my wife has the iPhone 5. I actually got a fairly good deal on my new phone however my wife's phone is about AU$20 more expensive per month for the 16GB model (my S3 also has 16GB and it can be upgraded further with a micro SD card) and 1.5GB download per month. While I think my S3 is the better phone my wife thinks her iPhone 5 is better. Which is the better phone?
I think the following site gives a reasonable inter-comparison between the two smart phones, however which is the best depends on what you want a the phone for, Personally I like the S3's huge screen (720 x 1280 pixels, 4.8 inches to the 5's 640 x 1136 pixels, 4.0 inches) although the 5's overall size is only marginally smaller (S3 is 136.6 x 70.6 x 8.6 mm to the 5's 123.8 x 58.6 x 7.6 mm). The S3 has a quad processor while the 5''s has a dual and the S3's battery is replaceable and has a much longer life.
Sure I prefer my S3 over my wife's iPhone 5, however she is very happy with her phone especially since the screen is much larger than her original iPhone 4 and the look and feel of the 5 to the 4 is virtually the same. Now if only she wouldn't bug me over the iTunes app which only runs on Mac's or MS Windows although I have seen some software that allows an iPhone to connect to a Linux machine it looks like a bit of reading is on order or I can use a virtual machine which I do know works.
One thing I do know is that the iPhone has a huge following and many people upgrade their phone when their contract expires like both myself and my wife did so I would not be overly surprised if original iPhone users are going to upgrade to the iPhone 5. Also keep in mind that most people don't care about specs but do care about prestige and Apple does have that in spades so many people are going to get an Apple iPhone 5 and that is that.
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Well you could use a terminal (ah the old command line) or an X Terminal. Oh wait the 1980's just called saying they were right in the first place and "we told you so". :)
Of course the biggest problem most corporations face even going back to the start of computing is do you trust your administrators? If they don't then I suggest a couple of bricks and a nice cave (paintings optional).
Whithout a means to cut their nails very short I highly doubt primitive people could ever make a fist to actually punch something.
Ever heard of chewing your nails?
When talking about a one on one human conflict fists could be used however most early humans would not train to toughen their hands, after-all why should they when a club, sword, spear or projectile weapon could easily take-down a human attacking with just his fists, even if those fists are like "hands of stone". It is also much easier to train for hunting or even war when you have a weapon in your hands and it is far less painful.
I will second a very capable troll. :)
Actually ext4 is way faster than ext3 and has been out a few years now. I make all my file-systems ext4 including my backup disks and have never had any issues. The only thing I have FAT on is some flash drives that I sometimes use to transfer files to MS Windows machines and it is rare for me to go the other way since I normally don't have anything I want on MS Windows machines.
I did try BtrFS about a year ago but for home use I found it not worth the effort (actually it is really easy) and I am very familiar with AdvFS and ZFS as well as many other types of file-systems. Oh well I guess I will wait for BtrFS to become more main stream.
BTW the original AC post was very good troll since it was only praising Microsoft file-systems and seemed ignorant about other highly reliable enterprise file-systems such as ext3 which is being superseded by ext4 and JFS to name a few. It must also be noted that JFS is IBM's enterprise file-system that is also run on multimillion disk farms and computer systems and is open source which means it also runs on Linux and is fully supported by IBM.
Partly it was because you couldn't make a widescreen CRT
Note true, when LCD screens were starting to come out and the lower end were becoming affordable you could also buy widescreen (16:9 ratio) CRT TV's as well however these CRT TV's were fairly small (approx 25 to 30 inch) and very heavy when compared to the new LED/Plasma widescreen TV's. fast forward a few years and CRT's could not compete against the much cheaper LCD's and even cheaper Plasma's and were phased out.
Today you would be hard pressed to get a CRT TV since you can get LED/LCD and Plasma screens that are so much cheaper with a very acceptable contrast ratio. In fact you can easily buy a 55 plus inch solid state with 3D capability TV for under $1000 and smaller screen sizes are even cheaper. Even if you really want a monitor you could get a 27 inch plus for under $600 which has IPS, 6ms and is 2560x1440.
As for you last statement I could not agree more however with regard to the LG TV in the article, take a look at the specs and you will see it's contrast ratio is 1000:1 which considering an LED/LCD TV is normally in the order of 2,000,000:1 (plasma is even better again) is very poor.
I expect people will have Office on their computer and mobile device.
If you have a corporate computer the chances you will have Microsoft Office installed on it. As for mobile devices the only people I could see having MS Office installed on their device are managers or people who have a corporate supplied phone although there would be exceptions who IMHO have more money than sense.
The average home user would not normally have MS Office installed on their PC or mobile phone since you should pay for that product although I would be fairly confident in stating that many home users with a MS OS on their PC (ie the majority) would pirate MS Office which IMHO is crazy since you can get free Office Software that is almost as good as MS Office.
Now comes the interesting part. Lets be honest here, how home many people who use an Office suite of software know how to really utilise it i am fairly sure that of the many millions who have Office suites installed on their PC (corporate or home) the majority would only know and use about 5 to 20 percent of what that suite is capable of. Yes there are power users but they are very much in the minority.
If I were Microsoft, I would just charge the customer an extra 30% on top of whatever base price I wanted to charge. If the customer asks, "Hey, why is this so much more expensive than on the Windows app store?" explain to them how Apple's pricing works.
Somehow I don't think the average customer cares. They want the cheapest price for the product and for the average home user there are plenty of free Office Suites available that will do the job that they require or should I say "think that they will require".
FreeBSD 4.0 - 4.12 will always have a place in my heart right there with the Windows fan boys loving XP as its golden age.
Yes I do remember installing MS Windows XP when it first came out and getting a virus when I forgot I was connected to the Corporate network although I never had any issues when installing a distribution of Linux. :)
Today Linux has suceeded it and can now scale to 64 processors.
With the 3 kernel Linux can scale to 512 processors.
Linux has a journaling file system now
Linux has had a journaling file-system for many years now such as ext3 (approx 2001). Of course I should also mention ext4, JFS, XFS and even BtrFS to name a few.
Linux is not as viable as you might think
Really, in what way?
A large percentage of office workers work at large companies.
And your point?
Large companies require enterprise level support systems, something that Microsoft, and the Windows ecosystem, does a good job providing and which Linux just doesn't have.
Yes that is true but what do you mean by the "enterprise" buzzword? As for using a Linux distribution or a Microsoft distribution both work well. I personally in my capacity as a professional engineer have been using a native Linux OS on my company laptop and also as home for many years and have not had any issues and I work for a Fortune 500 company.
Linux on the desktop (the server room is a different matter) has not gained traction in first world countries mainly because for many companies, company policy mainly dictates that a Microsoft solution is to be used even though that results in lock-in.
You are not the average user driving sales. Joe Shmoe doesn't give a crap about that. Windows XP/Vista/7 still work fine for Joe.
The problem is the average home computer user has no idea about computing mainly because they have be told that they don't need to learn the basics and the new (inset your preferred OS here) is so intuitive they don't have to learn anything.
When a person goes to purchase a personal computer (especially in first world countries) they get a PC with the latest MS Windows software on it (ie. "The Microsoft Tax) so that person unless they have been informed and are genuinely interested that there are other OS's available they will stick to the OS which was on the PC at the time of purchase. Even if the person wants to put an alternative OS on their PC they need to have come computing knowledge (README's do help) before they can do it. As a test get a group of computer illiterate people and give them a copy of MS Windows and a distribution of Linux or even BSD and they won't be able to install that software without reading something.
I always hear from people that it's to hard to learn computing basics even though they can use particular applications that require a considerable amount of learning yet they show little or no interest in learning computing basics, but when something goes wrong like a virus then they complain bitterly when nearly always it is their own fault.
That is confusing. :( I kept thinking amd64 is only for AMD and not Intel.
They are both fully binary compatible.
How come neither of the links actually describe how this malware infects the machine in the first place? I'd say that's quite an important piece of information completely missing.
From the article. "Since the command is appended to the end of rc.local, there might actually be shell commands that result in the command not being executed as intended".
The only way to write or edit rc.local is as root, however if you are running a Fedora distribution rc.local does not exist.
You do realize Chrome has the same release cycle?
That is true, however under Linux you get an update download of Chrome (now Version 23.0.1271.64) about 48MB while a Firefox update is less than 9MB. Not sure about MS Windows since I don't use it now, however i do remember when I did that Firefox updates where actually deltas which were only a few MB.
As of writing (my last update was 2 days ago) I still only have version 16.0.2 of Firefox. Now compare that with the latest version of Chrome which is 23.0.1271.64.
Also the chosen Macro langue is painful at best, it may make sense to ppl with a lot of programming experience, but your general office staff or average Joe? no way..
I don't know your qualifications and I don't care however you are looking down on the clerical staff. It has been my job on occasion to teach clerical staff as well as professional engineers and scientists on how to use computing systems and I make no distinction between them. If a person wants to learn they will and I have found that any person can learn computing applications if you approach them the right way.
When it comes to macros I always point out that if a macro is wrong then you are going to have major problems. In business you need a macro to be certified not home grown because it was some ones good idea at the time. With Word Processing, Spreadsheets and Presentation software keeping it simple yet concise is the best approach and use the most appropriate tools for the job at hand.
I can flick through websites using the scroll wheel with minimal effort. I don't feel like waving my hands to do common tasks.
Oh but you can talk as well. I suppose this would work at home but in the Office? I think it won't be long before signs saying "shush!" are common otherwise few people could get any work done. Now a telepathic interface would be more useful except for the migrains :)
Most smartphone users don't even know how to use the phones. I see them all the time going "Oh Wow! I didn't know it could do that!" after they've had the damn thing for a year or more. If it has a browser that's all most know or care about. Oh....and the facebook app.
Sigh! there is always the Facebook app. I do like the Maps and Navigation (all free) tools on my android phone, basically set and forget and without touching your phone it will voice navigate to were you want to go in nearly all cities.
- Nice app names, mostly
Ok Android has a little under 600,000 apps while Apple has a little over 600,000 and Desktop Linux has something of the order of 2,000 plus major applications which work extremely well for the desktop. In fact I actually use Fedora 17 on my laptop which I also use for work.
- Excellent, easy to use GUI.
Were the hell have you been these last couple of years? Linux distros have been using GUI since the mid 1990's.
- No Command line shit required to do stuff.
If you don't like the command line then you don't have to use it. In fact you would rarely if ever use the command line for applications such as Office, Graphics, Web browsing, Video display/manipulation as well as listening to music. But the command line is there if you want to use it for more complex things. Of course maybe the command line is a little to hard for you to grasp since it appears to be "shit" to you.
- Great fonts
I have access to 10's of thousands of fonts for Fedora 17 and can install them locally for myself or globally. Other distros can do the same.
How much customisation do you want? If I want I can also customise my GUI running under Fedora but like my Android phones (HTC desire HD and Samsung Galaxy S3) I prefer to keep my GUI workspace clean, simple and highly functional.
If you think this is bad wait a couple of more years for smart tv's to start needing these kinds of updates.
People expect their tv's to last 10+ years without a simple software update some of those tv's won't be working right.
I have a smart TV but I don't depend on a third party supplier to provide TV listings. Even though my TV can display from the internet and can use DLNA I mainly treat my TV as just a monitor and get most of my stations from Foxtel. As for games my TV automatically switches when I fire up my PS3 and switches back when I have finished. Even my PS3 can display TV channels although not the ones my wife or myself likes to watch.
The trouble is that many people using free to air TV expect many things but when they are told a particular free service has finished they get upset.
"... they have no incentive to let you know what is showing on other channels."
There is a ridiculously simple -- and INEXPENSIVE -- solution to this problem:
In principle yes in practice no. Since the TV stations are in competition with each other it requires an independent provider to collate and display the TV guides, however these suppliers run the risk of incurring the ire of the TV stations so in some cases they have to have a "understanding" or pay each station, so if you as the consumer want this then you have to pay for it.
Here in Australia (I assume the same for other countries) Foxtel displays all TV listings at least a week in advance and has been doing it for years. Depending on your subscription, if you have the set-top box (Foxtel - of course) with recording capabilities you can record up-to 2 channels at a time and watch another or playback what you have previously recorded. It must be noted that one commercial channel for years did not allow publishing of their TV guide.
If you have free to air TV services you are really are at the mercy of the TV station management and/or the TV guide provider(s). You can complain all you want but if you expect a free service then too bad.
Why, not a single malware application can be installed on a banana! They too are immune. Therefore bananas are now the most secure OS
No that is not true the best is Apple. The problem you do have is deciding which version you want such as "Granny Smith", "Red Delicious", etc. However unlike the banana which can go brown fairly quickly compared to the Apple you do have to watch out for worms. :)
In fairness, the newer Android phones are all/mostly shipping without an SD card slot. That's the trend, at least. It's quite disheartening.
Everything else you said is pretty damn accurate. :)
I got my Samsung S3 two weeks ago and that came with a micro SD card slot. If I want i can add a micro 32GB SD card for approx AU$24 (approx US$24). Of course price for an SD card does depend on it's class however in the majority of cases the cheaper card will do the job but I can change if I wish unlike the iPhone 5 which is not upgradeable once you decide on the model.
I have the Samsung Galaxy S III and my wife has the iPhone 5. I actually got a fairly good deal on my new phone however my wife's phone is about AU$20 more expensive per month for the 16GB model (my S3 also has 16GB and it can be upgraded further with a micro SD card) and 1.5GB download per month. While I think my S3 is the better phone my wife thinks her iPhone 5 is better. Which is the better phone?
I think the following site gives a reasonable inter-comparison between the two smart phones, however which is the best depends on what you want a the phone for, Personally I like the S3's huge screen (720 x 1280 pixels, 4.8 inches to the 5's 640 x 1136 pixels, 4.0 inches) although the 5's overall size is only marginally smaller (S3 is 136.6 x 70.6 x 8.6 mm to the 5's 123.8 x 58.6 x 7.6 mm). The S3 has a quad processor while the 5''s has a dual and the S3's battery is replaceable and has a much longer life.
Sure I prefer my S3 over my wife's iPhone 5, however she is very happy with her phone especially since the screen is much larger than her original iPhone 4 and the look and feel of the 5 to the 4 is virtually the same. Now if only she wouldn't bug me over the iTunes app which only runs on Mac's or MS Windows although I have seen some software that allows an iPhone to connect to a Linux machine it looks like a bit of reading is on order or I can use a virtual machine which I do know works.
One thing I do know is that the iPhone has a huge following and many people upgrade their phone when their contract expires like both myself and my wife did so I would not be overly surprised if original iPhone users are going to upgrade to the iPhone 5. Also keep in mind that most people don't care about specs but do care about prestige and Apple does have that in spades so many people are going to get an Apple iPhone 5 and that is that.
Yes I can display the page fully on my laptop display (1600x900). I don't need reading glasses I need a microscope. :)
1080p is crap mate.
"640 x 480 should be enough for anyone"? :)
Strat
Not true 80 x 24 is good enough. Got to love those chunky graphics :)