I got back to the hotel I'm staying at and... well when you get on wifi there, any web page you go to is replaced with their "Welcome to our Hotel!" with a 'Connect to internet" button on the upper right. The TouchPad did give me a little window peeking at that page, but it was cropped. No amount of scrolling would let me see the upper right portion of the page!! Then my girlfriend goes "try rotating the tablet..." I did as she said and a sliver of the button on the right was now visible, I clicked on it and managed to finally make it connect so I could hit the T&C button.
HP's already started off on the wrong foot with me.
By counter-argument do you mean you're asking for a list of reasons why movies pretty much killed plays or an explanation of why sitting in the back of the theater is not like standing in the room as events are taking place?
The difference in cost doesn't account for the difference in box-office returns. People still have to want to go to the movies in order for box-office receipts to come in.
If it were truely a throat ramming, it wouldn't work, nor would the success of the movie fluctuate with the quality of the stereo conversion.
If you look in the mirror, your arsehole would look like it has steve jobs' dick in yours arsehole. does that mean anything to you other than you being Apple's bitch?
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Can't understand a word - can you pull Steve Jobs' dick our of your mouth first? Thank you.
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And the worst fanbois.
Better case over fucking rectangles and squares?? Why don't you go and suck Jobs' dick? Oh wait....!
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Aha.. the typical apple asshole who assumes anybody who hates apple is automatically a google/android fan. Sorry to burst your bubble, I hate Apple V2.0 way before Android was even thought of. Why don't you go back to sucking Jobs' dick? Oh wait!
If people "wanted" it, there would be no need for "gimmicks"...
No. If we had the technology to give them what they want, there'd be no need for gimmicks. If you have a smart phone in your pocket, you already understand this concept.
No, the people want to be entertained. Sometimes they want a good story, sometimes they want a spectacle, sometimes they want to see something familiar.
They most certainly did not gererate billions in revenue by forcing theaters to project in 3D. Even the Lone Gunmen would scoff at that dumb theory.
The industry? People want 3d. They've always wanted 3D. There's no 'shoving' about it. Haven't you wondered why 3D has been a reoccuring gimmick and that each time it resurfaces with better technology it makes MORE money?
I just got my Touchpad today. I can't wait to see how much friendlier it is... but I have to seriously ding HP on this one issue: I cannot run the tablet until I get it on a Wifi source to click agree on their Terms and Conditions. Boooo!
Guess I'll find out when I get home what it's like. Apple's the same way, the iPad requires an iTunes sync. Actually.. I don't think I had to do anything like that at all with the Galaxy Tab. I want to play with my gadgets before I get home, dammit!
Well, for starters, as in this case, the unintended consquences of that suggestion would put you in danger. Then there's the matter of NS involving survival of brutality and mating. Not sure why I'm explaining this, really.
If you're going to argue that that particular shape is radically different from dozens of others which came before it or that it's somehow not obvious or simply the next step from designs like the one below then you're an idiot.
Speaking as someone with a Tab, iPad, and HP Touchpad, I'll come forward and admit I am an idiot. All three tablets are rectangular in shape. They all have rounded corners. They all have a black screen and bezel. In short, if I were to use a just a few words to desribe them, they'd sound identical. If I were to show you all three , side by side, you'd have a much better insight into this case.
The iPad and the Tab, despite having different dimensions, are similar enough they can be easily confused. I personally actually confused them before on a few occasions. For example I called upstairs and asked one of my coworkers to bring down my iPad the next time he came my way. A half an hour later, he arrived, and I tried to grab it out of his hands. He yanked it back and said "s'not yours!" He was holding his own Tab that he just purchased.
Meanwhile, I'm sitting here with my freshly delivered HP Touchpad. Uh, no, there's no mistaking this one for the other two. The radius of the bezel is different. It has a round bumper around it. The 'button' looks more like a hole for a speaker . It's obvious that HP came up with their own take on it. Whereas in Samsung's case it looks like they pored every detail of the iPad and mimicked it as closely as possible.
Having the TouchPad in my hands here really drives that point home. Frankly, all of the tablets I've encountered, except for the Tab, were actually pretty distinct in their own right. If I brought any of those ones I saw at Best Buy in people'd ask me what the 'not-iPad' is I was holding. Frankly, Samsung made a big boo-boo here. Not for legal reasons, but for the simple fact that if people see another 'iPad' floating around, then they're not seeing that Samsung had created a worthy alternative.
I don't have much of an opinion as to whether or not Apple has or should have a strong legal ground here. I do, however, think Samsung blatantly and foolishly copied their design. Why they'd go out of their way to not make their product distinct and, of all the baffling things, they'd intentionally set out to create ill will with a partner that's making them oodles of money is beyond me.
So I have two tablets that look like twin brothers, and a third that looks like one of them brougth their girlfriend along. The tablet you linked to looks like some stranger wandered along. I'm an idiot. Okay. Just try to remember that when you simnplify something down to a handful of words, you can make anything seem like anything else. If you really do think anybody is an idiot for it, go take your favorite song, listen to its various remixes, then imagine somebody walked up to you and said "you're an idiot, those songs are identical."
Take a closer look at those 'PADDs'. They do not look like iPads, they're not even minimalist in any practical sense of the word. You won't find any variant of the PADD that looks like an iPad for the simple reason that they didn't want the props to just look like a nicely cut piece of plexiglass.
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Yessir! I upgraded to 3.04 this morning, cant wait to see!
I got back to the hotel I'm staying at and... well when you get on wifi there, any web page you go to is replaced with their "Welcome to our Hotel!" with a 'Connect to internet" button on the upper right. The TouchPad did give me a little window peeking at that page, but it was cropped. No amount of scrolling would let me see the upper right portion of the page!! Then my girlfriend goes "try rotating the tablet..." I did as she said and a sliver of the button on the right was now visible, I clicked on it and managed to finally make it connect so I could hit the T&C button.
HP's already started off on the wrong foot with me.
i am reading a book right now that echos my feelings on this far better than i can articulate...
It's not because he watched less TV than you, he's just a better writer.
Take a look at this comment, it may answer your question:
http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2482736&cid=37757330
^^ As long as this happens, there'll be lotsa iPhone stories.
Minor UI tweak not coming to open-source browser, even though several people would rather prefer it did!
That isn't the story.
By counter-argument do you mean you're asking for a list of reasons why movies pretty much killed plays or an explanation of why sitting in the back of the theater is not like standing in the room as events are taking place?
The difference in cost doesn't account for the difference in box-office returns. People still have to want to go to the movies in order for box-office receipts to come in.
If it were truely a throat ramming, it wouldn't work, nor would the success of the movie fluctuate with the quality of the stereo conversion.
If you look in the mirror, your arsehole would look like it has steve jobs' dick in yours arsehole. does that mean anything to you other than you being Apple's bitch?
...
Can't understand a word - can you pull Steve Jobs' dick our of your mouth first? Thank you.
...
And the worst fanbois.
Better case over fucking rectangles and squares?? Why don't you go and suck Jobs' dick? Oh wait....!
...
Aha.. the typical apple asshole who assumes anybody who hates apple is automatically a google/android fan. Sorry to burst your bubble, I hate Apple V2.0 way before Android was even thought of. Why don't you go back to sucking Jobs' dick? Oh wait!
I'm sorry, could you repeat that? Heh.
Heh. Are you serious?
If people "wanted" it, there would be no need for "gimmicks"...
No. If we had the technology to give them what they want, there'd be no need for gimmicks. If you have a smart phone in your pocket, you already understand this concept.
The people want a good story.
No, the people want to be entertained. Sometimes they want a good story, sometimes they want a spectacle, sometimes they want to see something familiar.
They most certainly did not gererate billions in revenue by forcing theaters to project in 3D. Even the Lone Gunmen would scoff at that dumb theory.
The industry? People want 3d. They've always wanted 3D. There's no 'shoving' about it. Haven't you wondered why 3D has been a reoccuring gimmick and that each time it resurfaces with better technology it makes MORE money?
That was not a three dimensional display. It was a 2D display that looked like the image was hovering over the table.
It's like saying a bottle rocket is the same concept as a Space Shuttle Booster.
Oh, well according to popular opinion, that means a holographic projector cannot be patented, then.
I just got my Touchpad today. I can't wait to see how much friendlier it is... but I have to seriously ding HP on this one issue: I cannot run the tablet until I get it on a Wifi source to click agree on their Terms and Conditions. Boooo!
Guess I'll find out when I get home what it's like. Apple's the same way, the iPad requires an iTunes sync. Actually.. I don't think I had to do anything like that at all with the Galaxy Tab. I want to play with my gadgets before I get home, dammit!
Well, for starters, as in this case, the unintended consquences of that suggestion would put you in danger. Then there's the matter of NS involving survival of brutality and mating. Not sure why I'm explaining this, really.
If you're going to argue that that particular shape is radically different from dozens of others which came before it or that it's somehow not obvious or simply the next step from designs like the one below then you're an idiot.
Speaking as someone with a Tab, iPad, and HP Touchpad, I'll come forward and admit I am an idiot. All three tablets are rectangular in shape. They all have rounded corners. They all have a black screen and bezel. In short, if I were to use a just a few words to desribe them, they'd sound identical. If I were to show you all three , side by side, you'd have a much better insight into this case.
The iPad and the Tab, despite having different dimensions, are similar enough they can be easily confused. I personally actually confused them before on a few occasions. For example I called upstairs and asked one of my coworkers to bring down my iPad the next time he came my way. A half an hour later, he arrived, and I tried to grab it out of his hands. He yanked it back and said "s'not yours!" He was holding his own Tab that he just purchased.
Meanwhile, I'm sitting here with my freshly delivered HP Touchpad. Uh, no, there's no mistaking this one for the other two. The radius of the bezel is different. It has a round bumper around it. The 'button' looks more like a hole for a speaker . It's obvious that HP came up with their own take on it. Whereas in Samsung's case it looks like they pored every detail of the iPad and mimicked it as closely as possible.
Having the TouchPad in my hands here really drives that point home. Frankly, all of the tablets I've encountered, except for the Tab, were actually pretty distinct in their own right. If I brought any of those ones I saw at Best Buy in people'd ask me what the 'not-iPad' is I was holding. Frankly, Samsung made a big boo-boo here. Not for legal reasons, but for the simple fact that if people see another 'iPad' floating around, then they're not seeing that Samsung had created a worthy alternative.
I don't have much of an opinion as to whether or not Apple has or should have a strong legal ground here. I do, however, think Samsung blatantly and foolishly copied their design. Why they'd go out of their way to not make their product distinct and, of all the baffling things, they'd intentionally set out to create ill will with a partner that's making them oodles of money is beyond me.
So I have two tablets that look like twin brothers, and a third that looks like one of them brougth their girlfriend along. The tablet you linked to looks like some stranger wandered along. I'm an idiot. Okay. Just try to remember that when you simnplify something down to a handful of words, you can make anything seem like anything else. If you really do think anybody is an idiot for it, go take your favorite song, listen to its various remixes, then imagine somebody walked up to you and said "you're an idiot, those songs are identical."
Nerds and Geeks should be very careful about recommending Natural Selection.
Take a closer look at those 'PADDs'. They do not look like iPads, they're not even minimalist in any practical sense of the word. You won't find any variant of the PADD that looks like an iPad for the simple reason that they didn't want the props to just look like a nicely cut piece of plexiglass.
Dude, please, settle down.
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I'm sorry to tell you this, but you seriously jinx'd yourself.
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Is it really his fault that his comment hit so close to home?
Oh, I found the problem. The database was set to write-only!
... from 2005?