You can bet a dollar to a doughnut that they have some clever verbiage buried deep down in the EULA that removes their responsibility in some meaningful way.
I wish you luck. I can tell you I have games today I played back before Windows 95 took over.
At least you didn't pay full retail for the games. That helps. Personally I'm not sold. I'm not into paying for the same game twice. I'm angry that I've had to do it before.
I just wanted to add to this that one thing the reader I had for my Palm device had that I haven't seen elsewhere was the 'auto scroll' function. I loved laying in bed on my side and just watching the text rise. That was a great way to read a book and I wish I could find something like that on my iPhone.
Yet, the failure of the PSP Go suggest the exact opposite; some people like their physical media.
Or it suggests that people don't want to re-buy content. We'll never know because Sony didn't consider the idea that existing PSP owners would want to upgrade to it and convert all their existing games to it.
...and Firefox continues to be far superior as a general browser thanks to the available extensions.
For some this is awesomely true. For a lot of people, it's extra hassle to find, maintain, and sync them across their machines, plus there's potential for security risks and stability problems.
There is no reason for anyone to continue using proprietary browsers such as Opera or IE.
Opera has a better interface. It is more lean. It's a smaller download. For most people all the functionality is right there ready to go. It's less likely to be the butt of a security problem than the browsers with a bigger marketshare.
Until then, please no more Opera stories...just let it die in peace.
Then watch Firefox 'innovations' come to a screeching halt.
the interface has not been "fixed" because there is nothing wrong with it in the first place, the window behavior is unintuitive and annoying on microsoft windows because despite it's name, windows has really shitty window management.
That's just a sugar coated way of saying it's not really cross-platform. OO and FF don't have these complaints.
Tell me, when you're doing your hobby, say, gardening, what would you do if some random schmuck came up to you and said "I really like peas, and you aren't planting any, so you suck. You should plant peas."?
That depends. Before he does that, are a bunch of people running around telling everybody to stop eating their store bought groceries and to eat from my garden instead?
I am saying that I hear a LOT more from people saying what Apple fans would say than I am from the actual fans. Especially in threads that nothing to do with either.
That's been known for a while. The question is, why on Earth did they not test the phones properly? And by properly, I mean in real world circumstances. It's not real world to have it covered in a fake mock up of a previous iPhone.
Remember that whole Gizmodo thing? Apple knew that's what would happen.
Funny you should mention that. I hacked my PSP so I could have the ISOs on the memory card instead of lugging discs around. All the software I have on my PC is backed up to my hard drive so I don't need to go hunting for discs whenever re-install time comes. Frankly, I want all my DVDs ripped to my HD, I just haven't gotten around to spending the time doing that.
I don't care about lending or selling. I do care about damaged media and plain old convenience. Give me digital so my apartment has more physical space available, just don't time-bomb it with DRM.
For all the young people who only started using Windows as recently as 10 years ago, he's referring to the pre-2000 versions of Windows that crashed all the time. Back then, Alt+Ctrl+Delete rebooted the machine instead of bringing up Task Manager. If you go back even further, to around 1995, IE was known for being unstable.
Sorry to ruin the fun, this joke's so old I figured it required a little explanation for those 25 and younger.:)
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This meme isn't fashionable anymore. You were supposed to post an XKCD comic instead.
You can bet a dollar to a doughnut that they have some clever verbiage buried deep down in the EULA that removes their responsibility in some meaningful way.
What company with an app store wouldn't?
Let's hope that by then lobbying efforts haven't made it a detectable 'crime' to even think about that.
You are definitely more optimistic than I am. Video games are rapidly becoming 'pay full price to rent'.
I wish you luck. I can tell you I have games today I played back before Windows 95 took over.
At least you didn't pay full retail for the games. That helps. Personally I'm not sold. I'm not into paying for the same game twice. I'm angry that I've had to do it before.
... until they go out of business. Heh.
Seriously, you're glossing over a very important point. Acceptance of that risk is fine, rationalizing it away is unwise.
Miniscule? Heh.
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Wow.
I just wanted to add to this that one thing the reader I had for my Palm device had that I haven't seen elsewhere was the 'auto scroll' function. I loved laying in bed on my side and just watching the text rise. That was a great way to read a book and I wish I could find something like that on my iPhone.
You paid the price to keep something that'll only exist as long as Steam is in business.
Yet, the failure of the PSP Go suggest the exact opposite; some people like their physical media.
Or it suggests that people don't want to re-buy content. We'll never know because Sony didn't consider the idea that existing PSP owners would want to upgrade to it and convert all their existing games to it.
OSS programming is helpful on the ol' resume. The analogy is only useless if you artificially draw a line somewhere giving one side an advantage.
That's so lawyeresque.
FTFY.
...and Firefox continues to be far superior as a general browser thanks to the available extensions.
For some this is awesomely true. For a lot of people, it's extra hassle to find, maintain, and sync them across their machines, plus there's potential for security risks and stability problems.
There is no reason for anyone to continue using proprietary browsers such as Opera or IE.
Opera has a better interface. It is more lean. It's a smaller download. For most people all the functionality is right there ready to go. It's less likely to be the butt of a security problem than the browsers with a bigger marketshare.
Until then, please no more Opera stories...just let it die in peace.
Then watch Firefox 'innovations' come to a screeching halt.
the interface has not been "fixed" because there is nothing wrong with it in the first place, the window behavior is unintuitive and annoying on microsoft windows because despite it's name, windows has really shitty window management.
That's just a sugar coated way of saying it's not really cross-platform. OO and FF don't have these complaints.
Tell me, when you're doing your hobby, say, gardening, what would you do if some random schmuck came up to you and said "I really like peas, and you aren't planting any, so you suck. You should plant peas."?
That depends. Before he does that, are a bunch of people running around telling everybody to stop eating their store bought groceries and to eat from my garden instead?
Oh.. heh.
I'm glad I didn't go into default auto-argue-mode. :D
Have a good weekend.
I don't think I understand what you mean. Are you saying Apple intentionally gave the phone to Gizmodo?
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Wait.. wait.. I can translate this:
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Hey!
I am saying that I hear a LOT more from people saying what Apple fans would say than I am from the actual fans. Especially in threads that nothing to do with either.
Who gives a shit?!
You're on the wrong site, dude.
Haha I thought I was watching an episode of the Venture Brothers for a moment.
Go for super science!
That's been known for a while. The question is, why on Earth did they not test the phones properly? And by properly, I mean in real world circumstances. It's not real world to have it covered in a fake mock up of a previous iPhone.
Remember that whole Gizmodo thing? Apple knew that's what would happen.
What the difference between a Mac fanboy and a bicycle?
Slap a chain on a bicycle and it doesn't blog endlessly about how being chained up is an improvement.
What's the difference between a Google fanboy and a bicycle?
Slap a chain on a bicycle and it doesn't blog endlessly about how iPhone users are chained up.
Funny you should mention that. I hacked my PSP so I could have the ISOs on the memory card instead of lugging discs around. All the software I have on my PC is backed up to my hard drive so I don't need to go hunting for discs whenever re-install time comes. Frankly, I want all my DVDs ripped to my HD, I just haven't gotten around to spending the time doing that.
I don't care about lending or selling. I do care about damaged media and plain old convenience. Give me digital so my apartment has more physical space available, just don't time-bomb it with DRM.
For Internet Explorer, Ctrl+Alt+Delete is tops
For all the young people who only started using Windows as recently as 10 years ago, he's referring to the pre-2000 versions of Windows that crashed all the time. Back then, Alt+Ctrl+Delete rebooted the machine instead of bringing up Task Manager. If you go back even further, to around 1995, IE was known for being unstable.
Sorry to ruin the fun, this joke's so old I figured it required a little explanation for those 25 and younger. :)