Configure your home network to bandwidth cap at whatever you want to simulate and you can get it to perform better or worse than your local area.
Right. It's not just bandwidth caps, it's drop outs, changing conditions, etc. Sorta like you'd get if you walked around your neighborhood or town or whatever and tried it out.
What do you mean by non-millionaires? I get the whole populist concept that you should be able to get anything you want for free just because you want it...
Or maybe he just wants to make a minimal investment. It's nice to know that wisdom is a trait of people with a sense of entitlement.
Seriously though why do you need data from a carrier instead of just wifi?
Why doesn't it make sense to test the phone under the conditions your customers will likely use it under? If his flash game takes too long to load, he's not going to know that using wifi.
90% of our stuff here in the US is from China. It's cheap. That's all that matters. Mass censorship, brutal putdowns of dissent, etc. - none of that matters.
Oh puhleeease You lot bitch when we stick our noses in, then you bitch when we don't. Nobody's asking for our help so shut up.
It's not performance, it's the interface. It's also a philosophical design choice made by tablets and smartphone manufacturers. You don't want to use a mouse with these devices, that's what your laptop is for.
No, but the ones not visible are doing stuff. Recording data, downloading data, playing music, even just maintaining state.
Interestingly I can view multiple apps at once too, and see their displays update concurrently, which is also useful at times.
Yeah, it would be nicer to have a proper window layout capability, but given the form factor it would be less useful overall. On a tablet however..
Sure, but the point I'm making is the Apps for these devices are typically full screen. I'm not talking about multi-tasking, I'm talking about the fact that you don't need a window manager to use them. (That's also why you don't need a mouse to use the device.)
Flamebait? Okay, let's try this exercise: I'm going to take his post and change the names of those involved:
Microsoft is doing good job improving Internet Explorer. They hunted down and patched thousands of bugs from Internet Explorer 8. Not only that, they took the succesful look that Opera has and made Internet Explorer look as good as Opera. I wish they would make the interface a little bit snappier, but it's ok! They're also the only browser with Chrome to fight bad the big guys and doesn't support the evil H.264 - someones have to fight for our rights! And I hope Microsoft makes the next version as secure as Firefox with its sandboxing and all the extra security features Mozilla has build on FireFox.
Please explain to me how this post wouldnt' be considered paid-for-and-bought.
Mozilla is doing good job improving Firefox. They hunted down and patched thousands of bugs from Firefox 3. Not only that, they took the succesful look that Opera has and made Firefox look as good as Opera. I wish they would make the interface a little bit snappier, but it's ok! They're also the only browser with Chrome to fight bad the big guys and doesn't support the evil H.264 - someones have to fight for our rights! And I hope Mozilla makes the next version as secure as IE9 with its sandboxing and all the extra security features Microsoft has build on Windows 7.
Good job mozilla!
Do you get a good dental plan with the Mozilla Foundation?
Even my long-dead HTC Tornado(Windows Mobile 5) did multi-tasking so that I can listen to my music while browsing the web. iPad fails utterly in that sense alone.
a.) You were not 'browsing the web' on your Windows Mobile 5 device, you were peeking through a crack in the wall hoping to find a small glimpse of the site you were trying to see.
b.) No incarnation of the iPad failed at what you describe.
The reason why tablets are popular is not because of their features. It's because you can carry the damn things around with you without your arm falling off.
It's also worth mentioning that the tablets are 'instant on' and their single-app-at-a-time usage means much quicker responsiveness. This is the main reason they are content consumption devices instead of content creation.
You'd think this would be blindingly obvious to the netbook fanboys given how long smartphones have been around.
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Do you think stores want to basically throw stuff away because some idiot decided he didn't like it or some asshole "bought" it just to try it out?
Yes. Their sales go up when people feel that big purchases are less risky.
Ah, so you are "celebate", not a virgin, right?
Hahaha!
Stop trying to make the world fit your ego and learn to accept facts as facts.
Facts don't get the word 'insightful' next to your name.
Configure your home network to bandwidth cap at whatever you want to simulate and you can get it to perform better or worse than your local area.
Right. It's not just bandwidth caps, it's drop outs, changing conditions, etc. Sorta like you'd get if you walked around your neighborhood or town or whatever and tried it out.
Flying all over the world...
I said nothing like that.
Because bandwidth is extremely variable?
Uh that's not a reason to use wi-fi, that's a reason to test using an actual cellular signal.
What do you mean by non-millionaires? I get the whole populist concept that you should be able to get anything you want for free just because you want it...
Or maybe he just wants to make a minimal investment. It's nice to know that wisdom is a trait of people with a sense of entitlement.
Seriously though why do you need data from a carrier instead of just wifi?
Why doesn't it make sense to test the phone under the conditions your customers will likely use it under? If his flash game takes too long to load, he's not going to know that using wifi.
* Goes off running to go show this to his creationist "friends"...*
You do realize that if you get noisy, they will too, right?
90% of our stuff here in the US is from China. It's cheap. That's all that matters. Mass censorship, brutal putdowns of dissent, etc. - none of that matters.
Oh puhleeease You lot bitch when we stick our noses in, then you bitch when we don't. Nobody's asking for our help so shut up.
The New York Times publishes an article about China's great firewall, and puts it behind a firewall.
[The rest of this post is censored, to make it truly meta]
This is why I hate when people misuse the word censorship.
um, laptops work just like desktops. a power supply converts AC to DC and feeds the DC power to the computer and its components.
Right. Now, assuming I knew that when I posted, can you see why I would still have made that post?
Mr. Shatner won't start his ninth decade until his 81st birthday.
Yeah!! Double dumb ass on you!!
You had that ability 5 years ago, it was called the TabletPC, and it didn't catch on.
OMG! Someone said something positive on /.! It must be a paid shill!
Take a good look at the accusations of 'shill' lately.
It's not performance, it's the interface. It's also a philosophical design choice made by tablets and smartphone manufacturers. You don't want to use a mouse with these devices, that's what your laptop is for.
No, but the ones not visible are doing stuff. Recording data, downloading data, playing music, even just maintaining state.
Interestingly I can view multiple apps at once too, and see their displays update concurrently, which is also useful at times.
Yeah, it would be nicer to have a proper window layout capability, but given the form factor it would be less useful overall. On a tablet however..
Sure, but the point I'm making is the Apps for these devices are typically full screen. I'm not talking about multi-tasking, I'm talking about the fact that you don't need a window manager to use them. (That's also why you don't need a mouse to use the device.)
Flamebait? Okay, let's try this exercise: I'm going to take his post and change the names of those involved:
Microsoft is doing good job improving Internet Explorer. They hunted down and patched thousands of bugs from Internet Explorer 8. Not only that, they took the succesful look that Opera has and made Internet Explorer look as good as Opera. I wish they would make the interface a little bit snappier, but it's ok! They're also the only browser with Chrome to fight bad the big guys and doesn't support the evil H.264 - someones have to fight for our rights! And I hope Microsoft makes the next version as secure as Firefox with its sandboxing and all the extra security features Mozilla has build on FireFox.
Please explain to me how this post wouldnt' be considered paid-for-and-bought.
My smartphone can run multiple apps concurrently.
You have multiple overlapping windows running at once?
Mozilla is doing good job improving Firefox. They hunted down and patched thousands of bugs from Firefox 3. Not only that, they took the succesful look that Opera has and made Firefox look as good as Opera. I wish they would make the interface a little bit snappier, but it's ok! They're also the only browser with Chrome to fight bad the big guys and doesn't support the evil H.264 - someones have to fight for our rights! And I hope Mozilla makes the next version as secure as IE9 with its sandboxing and all the extra security features Microsoft has build on Windows 7.
Good job mozilla!
Do you get a good dental plan with the Mozilla Foundation?
They switched to laptops?
You can't have sex on a laptop... my $500 table wins!!!
Uh, yeah, which gets used for sex more in your home, the laptop or the table....
Even my long-dead HTC Tornado(Windows Mobile 5) did multi-tasking so that I can listen to my music while browsing the web. iPad fails utterly in that sense alone.
a.) You were not 'browsing the web' on your Windows Mobile 5 device, you were peeking through a crack in the wall hoping to find a small glimpse of the site you were trying to see.
b.) No incarnation of the iPad failed at what you describe.
The reason why tablets are popular is not because of their features. It's because you can carry the damn things around with you without your arm falling off.
It's also worth mentioning that the tablets are 'instant on' and their single-app-at-a-time usage means much quicker responsiveness. This is the main reason they are content consumption devices instead of content creation.
You'd think this would be blindingly obvious to the netbook fanboys given how long smartphones have been around.
No, vote for the dudes who have a trajectory of being honest and working for the people.
Really, is it that difficult to at least read the Wikipedia entry of each candidate?
Hahaha!