"A seemingly ordinary day at the Transbay Transit Center construction site became a mammoth day of discovery Monday when a mild-mannered crane operator reached deep into the earth and pulled out a tooth.
He proceeded to shout in a peculiar dialect and then slide barefoot down the spine of his crane to the bedrock below. Excited about this new discovery... or maybe it was that it was quittin time, he sang a catchy little tune and pushed his car home. According to legend, he had ribs for dinner.
So combined with the micro-SD card, which most people stick semi-permanently in their android device for more storage, any generic USB thumb drive, or camera that acts as a drive,etc., can be plugged in for quick transfers.
My Tab does not have a micro-SD card or any other port. It certainly doesn't have Micro or Mini USB.
Its the opposite of how things work on Apple devices, which is to say it's practical convenient connectivity.
It's exactly how Apple does it. I have *one* cable I can charge my Tab with. I also haven't been able to update my Tab to ICS without Samsung's blessing until a month or so ago. So... pitchforks, right?
Oh, there are a few that it's worth saving the ire for, ones that have a history of killing employees, customers and the general public through their lax safety controls or their corrupt entanglements with crooked governments. Let's save the rage for where it's actually justified.
Is there a company we routinely bitch about here on Slashdot that fits this bill?
If I am mugged in view of a speed camera and it catches the incident, why can they not admit it?
I can offer a guess: Speeding cameras are specifically designed to only catch speeders. Their design, placement, and programming of when and how many pictures to take all orbit around the idea of catching a speeder. From a legal point of view that may be enough to cause all sorts of legal loopholes and defense arguments.
Or maybe it's something silly like: "There's no easy mechanism to pull up whatever photos we have at 2:32pm when you were mugged."
When Eolas won the patent case against Microsoft many years ago, lots of people around here were pumping their fist in the air, happy that Microsoft had finally gotten a black-eye over their browser. I remember posting something to the effect of: "You don't actually want Eolas to win this one. If they win against Microsoft, they can win against anybody."
Today I think Slashdotters would agree with me. It's a nice change.
Just think: If this technology lives up to its promise, Slashdotters fighting in the great OS Flamewar could create their own automated sentries to fight back with phrases like "reality distortion field' and "rounded corners". Maybe we can finally end all this bloodshed!
Slashdot Mirror
Do you have the 10.1?
"A seemingly ordinary day at the Transbay Transit Center construction site became a mammoth day of discovery Monday when a mild-mannered crane operator reached deep into the earth and pulled out a tooth.
He proceeded to shout in a peculiar dialect and then slide barefoot down the spine of his crane to the bedrock below. Excited about this new discovery... or maybe it was that it was quittin time, he sang a catchy little tune and pushed his car home. According to legend, he had ribs for dinner.
So combined with the micro-SD card, which most people stick semi-permanently in their android device for more storage, any generic USB thumb drive, or camera that acts as a drive,etc., can be plugged in for quick transfers.
My Tab does not have a micro-SD card or any other port. It certainly doesn't have Micro or Mini USB.
Its the opposite of how things work on Apple devices, which is to say it's practical convenient connectivity.
It's exactly how Apple does it. I have *one* cable I can charge my Tab with. I also haven't been able to update my Tab to ICS without Samsung's blessing until a month or so ago. So... pitchforks, right?
Any "smart phone" has plenty of CPU power to be a USB host, and various Android devices have been promoting that feature for several months.
They've also been proudly promoting their dreadful battery life.
My Galaxy Tab's cable looks similar to Apple's pre-Lightning cable.
So are we ready to sharpen our pitchforks and light our torches at Samsung?
There are no "fake" sounds, only sounds being passed off as something else.
Heh.
They're real sounds, they're just not from the actual landing. :-P
I didn't realize we had sound effects recorded in a Martian atmosphere.
Oh, there are a few that it's worth saving the ire for, ones that have a history of killing employees, customers and the general public through their lax safety controls or their corrupt entanglements with crooked governments. Let's save the rage for where it's actually justified.
Is there a company we routinely bitch about here on Slashdot that fits this bill?
If I am mugged in view of a speed camera and it catches the incident, why can they not admit it?
I can offer a guess: Speeding cameras are specifically designed to only catch speeders. Their design, placement, and programming of when and how many pictures to take all orbit around the idea of catching a speeder. From a legal point of view that may be enough to cause all sorts of legal loopholes and defense arguments.
Or maybe it's something silly like: "There's no easy mechanism to pull up whatever photos we have at 2:32pm when you were mugged."
His Jobs-Ness was 100% absolutely against it...
Um, no he wasn't. He was against making the phone bigger, not taller. He was all about it fitting comfortably in the hand.
Wasn't that because Eolas specifically promised to not sue Mozilla or any other open source browser?
Yep, which is a pretty weak reason to celebrate. If Eolas has the power, there's nothing preventing any other company from gaining that power, too.
This is why it's a bad idea to blind-rage against any company.
I wish accusations of shillness would be accompanied by proof of why what they said is wrong. "He's wrong cos he's paid!" Doesn't work. Sorry.
Summary: "The common complaint about Linux really isn't a valid complaint if you argue using pedanticism and moving goal posts!"
I've never actually seen a Linux Apologist before.
When Eolas won the patent case against Microsoft many years ago, lots of people around here were pumping their fist in the air, happy that Microsoft had finally gotten a black-eye over their browser. I remember posting something to the effect of: "You don't actually want Eolas to win this one. If they win against Microsoft, they can win against anybody."
Today I think Slashdotters would agree with me. It's a nice change.
Funny that Sony managed to do it.
Uh, yeah, Sony did that by playing the 'demand' part of the equation, not the 'supply' bit.
This wasn't flamebait. I recently had a sig with a line about licking butts.
Sorry ya took the hit for me taking that down, man.
He was asking for people's experiences, not legal advice. The range of comments that beat yours were already an interesting read.
*That's
10% more money is not that much...
It is if you squirrel it away for retirement.
Are AT&T's data rates really that high??
It's a serious question. Remember how once upon a time we could eat raw meat?
How do we know that through their evolution they didn't lose their ability to last even longer out there than they do now?
You wouldn't be confused if you knew the difference between a shill and a satisfied customer.
Just think: If this technology lives up to its promise, Slashdotters fighting in the great OS Flamewar could create their own automated sentries to fight back with phrases like "reality distortion field' and "rounded corners". Maybe we can finally end all this bloodshed!
Seriously, though, these fanboi pissing contests, while close to the dumbest shit I've ever encountered, do make for fairly entertaining reading.
I agree.