Because you can't control the close substitutes that are being sold either. For example, all three major video game consoles are like iPhones
Are you talking about the custom ROM on a HTC Desire or Samsung Galaxy S?
I already have a dumbphone on a $7/mo plan with Virgin Mobile USA; I don't want another $60/mo phone line. Why do the devices you mention cost $600, compared to an iPod Touch that costs one-third that?
Do you see the progression. Don't change the subject because you were wrong.
BTW, a Motorola Milestone costs A$500. A HTC Desire costs A$600 whilst an Ipod touch costs A$400 (400 != 1/3 of 600). But the Ipod is locked down and cant make phone calls or use mobile internet.
PC has the most single-player games and online games, yes. But as I've pointed out elsewhere, localhost multiplayer is underrepresented in PC games,
Umm...
You've heard of a Lan party right. I was playing things like TankWars against my sibling when the console was trying to figure out how to handle two buttons. Blizzard still faces backlash over the lack of LAN play in StarCraft II (despite the fact all you have to do is log onto Battle.net and then start a game) Besides if you want to go back to the origin of "localhost multiplayer" Chess has both platform beaten.
For example, apart from Street Fighter IV and MUGEN, fighting games are console-only.
And strategy games are PC only. So are flight simulators. MMORPG's too (although apart from superior net code, there's no reason but they keep failing on the Console for some reason). Different games have different audiences, so your point being?
Also, I mentioned tank wars, I can still run that on my modern gaming rig (any rig including my phone, it's a flash game now but I have the original installer as I long ago transferred all my floppies to HDD). Can I plug my Street Fighter II cartridge into my Wii?
Yes, I still have a whole bunch of old SNES carts lying around. N64 as well. Comparatively I have no (surviving) games for my PS2, which became an overbuilt and unreliable DVD player or my Xbox, which became a media centre before becoming a stand for a Media Centre PC.
Yes, like a history of thoughtful design and a slew of devices that work much better than their competitors for normal usage patterns, despite having fewer "and the kitchen sink" features.
A history of guerrilla marketing primarily based on lies perpetuated by fanboys.
Point in case:
If I want to get $ALBUM off my friends computer onto my phone I have to: Iphone
1. find another mass storage device.
2. copy the file to the mass storage device.
3. get to a computer which has I tunes that my phone is "activated" on.
4. plug in the mass storage device.
5. copy the file to the Itunes library.
6. Find my Apple(TM) Iphone cable.
7. plug in my phone.
8. sync it with Itunes (provided I sync all media not just selected ones).
Android and Nokia
1. find a generic USB Micro cable (or USB Mini, they are about $3 from anywhere).
2. plug my phone in to my friends computer.
3. copy and paste the files I want.
Really thoughtful design, and all the features including Kitchen_Sink.apk
I'm a iPhone/iPad owner and developer. I have toyed around with Android, and although competitive in the smartphone market, it honestly is no iPhone alternative
I'll translate:
"I've made my bed with Apple. I've looked at an Andriod phone, once on the internet and whilst I pay some random tribute to make me seem like I'm not a fanboy but I'll praise Apple immediately after because my ego will never permit me to conceive that anything could ever be better".
You're judgement is somewhat clouded, but you have it half right. Android will not destroy the Iphone, ultimately Apple will do that. Android's competition is not Apple, it's Blackberry. Apple have never understood the key to success, get the enterprise and you get the world. RIM and MS took this approach and look where they got, large segments of the markets that Apple have been powerless to even encroach upon.
At this point I'd say there are 3 companies that can honestly compete with Apple and none seem to be interested in doing so:
See my above statement. Apple is a non-competitor to Sony, MS and Nintendo. So much of a non competitor it's not even worth mentioning.
Mobile gaming is nothing in the west. It's something in Asia (Japan and China specifically) but they are not open markets and Apple has never been able to penetrate a contested market. The iGaming fad will be over in a year or so. As soon as enough Andorid, Symbian and Meego phones support Flash 10 a copy of a flash game will no longer sell for US$5.99.
I'd like to pass something back to the guy who discovered this bug. So just a few Q's.
I'm not that guy but I hope you dont mind if I have a go at answering them.
If its social engineering its still a concern because it falls within criteria of "security exploit".
Yes and no. A social engineering attack is entirely dependent on the user believing it (OMG This Virus is going to shred my dog and burn my hard drive), the root cause of this is most often stupidity and unfortunately there is no known fix for stupid (well, there is education but that has mixed results).
Its a problem we face that can be exploited so it's a yes but its a problem we cant fix with a patch so also it's a no.
Unless you're stipulating is its just a mere prank/joke.
It can be used for jokes and pranks as it has been done in the past but now it's being used for bullying (harassment).
Class 0 SMS or not, shouldn't there be something at the application level to stop it from putting up nasties on the screen? Does pressing "dismiss" get rid of it?
I agree, I dont know why class 0 SMS is still being automatically displayed/not saved, especially with the potential for abuse. Pressing "dismiss" does get rid of it, further more it does not save it (the only reason it's so good for bullying is that there is no evidence).
Last I checked, none of the Apple phone line up has bricking fuses built in. In fact, if you try and jailbreak a phone with the wrong software, it just doesn't work. No perma-brick, unlike some Android phones.
Neither do any Android phones.
No fanboyism here, just pointing out an error in your reason.
None here either, but pointing out a flaw in your reasoning.
BTW, I have installed custom ROM's on my Milestone which has the supposed functionality you describe. It doesn't perma-brick, you just need to restore the device to factory settings (via the boot-loader).
There's a bit of a difference between distance and time with reaction specifically as it takes you the same time to react regardless of what speed you're going, however when it comes to stopping and braking the two can be interchanged in that context (going faster increases both time and distance for stopping and braking).
How much voice control? "Find nearest gas station" sounds like a handy thing to do, without trying to peck away at a (virtual) keyboard while driving. (We'll assume the driver is using a dash mount). Does the iPhone do this? Maybe it does, I wouldn't know.
On the Iphone it's all for American accents. search for "G'day mate" on an Iphone and you'll get "gay playmate", well I suppose they understand their target audience.
Google voice search was worse back in the 1.5 days, basically you had to have the same accent as a Google engineer. It's improved a lot in the 2.0 and 2.1 days and seems to handle my Australian accent OK although it just cant search for some suburbs, Applecross is fine, Nollamara give it some trouble but dont even thing of searching for Toodyay or Paraburdoo.
Just imagine what the the headline "Android phones can now maintain battery capacity at greater than 80% after an average day of use" would create.
So you want Google to design a new screen, processor and GSM transmitter that automatically uses less power?
I haven't yet met a smart phone with significantly better battery life then an Android phone, this is due to the hardware not the software. They all last about a day, on my Moto Milestone (GSM Droid) I can easily get a charge at 6 PM Friday to last until 6 PM Sunday, the only reason I cant do this on the weekdays is that I work on the edge of a 3G cell, so I'm constantly swapping between 3G and 2G (which takes up power). The Iphone 3GS and 4 have terrible life compared to the Milestone, I never see them very far away from their chargers where as I only charge mine once every 24 hours.
But the 2.2 update was about making Android faster, battery saving magic is probably in the next release.
Could one of the fanboys please point out where the OP was trolling.
plugs the security hole exploited by the iPhone Dev Team to allow pain-free jailbreaking of the iPhone 4...
The harder Apple fights to lock the phones the more it will push developers and power users to Android.
Although we've seen plenty of examples that the more open platform doesn't always win, in this case the open platform also has big time corporate backing and service. Android is a viable alternative to iPhone, for many people the superior alternative.
Apple has been pursuing the walled kingdom strategy for so long, I don't think they even consider other models. There's no compromise. Apple's way or the Java highway.
It seems to me that the OP was expressing a perfectly valid opinion. The fact you disagree with it does not make it a troll.
Although we've seen plenty of examples that the more open platform doesn't always win,
I think this is less of a case of "the most open platform doesn't always win" and more of a case of "the most closed platform always loses" which has plenty of historical examples (most poignantly from the now defunct Apple Computers).
There are more open platforms then Android such as Maemo. Although Android is fairly open so I suppose it's the difference between Linux and OpenBSD (don's flame resistant suit and lets loose the dogs of FOSS fanboyism).
4.0.1 is far from perfect - how about addressing a few of the following bugs before worrying about jailbreakers:
- Poor Bluetooth compatibility. Accessories that worked under iOS3 are flaky (or do not work at all) in iOS4. Lots of BT functions are broken - phone book transfer - switching between audio and handsfree results in no audio, frequent BT disconnects...etc.
- Occasionally upgrades to 4.0.1 result in poor battery life and excessive operating heat from the device (I have seen this on at least 5 phones). Wiping the device and restoring the phone fixes the issue (in every case so far) - so it's an upgrade problem
- Pathetic performance on the 3G model. Either make the performance better or exclude the device from further upgrades.
- Poor radio performance. I have heard a few complaints from my users that cellular radio performance is worse after the iOS4 upgrade. Phones frequently fail-over to Edge when 3G is available on other devices.
But none of these can be exploited to circumvent their control over your^H^H^H^H their phone. Please get your priorities in order.
Installing non-app store apps? I wouldn't call that basic
Installing non-Microsoft apps? I wouldn't call that basic.
No.. Wait... I would.
the phone is just not designed and promoted to work that way
So it's like we've always said, it's Apple's way or the highway and if you want to do anything that is not "approved" like using your own mail client well your SOL. This is not a feature, dear fanboys. Imagine if MS said you can only you IE on Windows without hacking it.
I guess VoIP is verging on basic, but there are apps that work over wifi - the 3G restrictions are carrier based.
BZZZZT, wrong
But thanks for playing.
Stock Android and Nokia phones on Australian telco's can use Skype or other VOIP services over 3G where as a stock Iphone cannot. Why, well because the law in Australia says I pay for the data I can use it however I like and the carrier doesn't get a say in it. The 3G restriction is phone based.
Your understanding is incomplete. Tethering was always possible on the iPhone, but since AT+T did not want to allow it,
Tethering was not always available on the Iphone, it was a feature added into the 3rd revision of the OS and could be disabled at the carriers behest.
Enabling no-added-cost tethering is the best reason to jailbreak an iPhone.
Enabling tethering is the best reason to buy a different phone that supports the functionality outside of the carrier and doesn't restrict the applications you can install.
You do realize that the iPhone does tethering, but AT&T charges $20 to enable it? That is a carrier restriction, not an Apple restriction.
This is what I dont get about Apple fanboys, they claim Apple is "not like the other companies" yet they do the exact same things.
The problem with the mobile phone industry, as is so often pointed out by Apple fanboys in Android discussions is the carriers. Well I agree but Apple is doing exactly nothing to move us away from that system. The problem is vertical integration, the carriers control the hardware, software and the service. Apple in this instance has still got the hardware and software married to each other, then they are having an affair with the carrier by removing/selectively enabling features the carriers dont want.
Lambaste Google all you want about the N1, at least with Android I have the source code and as impractical as it seems I _can_ make my own phone (w/ obligatory blackjack and hookers).
That actually has to do with the GSM Spec. It's flash or class 0 SMS (classes defined at the bottom of that page) which is not saved. Granted Apple should not have set the phone to automatically display class 0 SMS's but it's mostly social engineering.
Class 0 SMS's have been used a lot in cyber bullying lately.
1) Less reaction time when something unexpected happens - blow a tire, new pothole, sudden curve, animal in the road, child in the road, broken down car in the road...
A bit of a nitpic but an important one. Your reaction time does not decrease, at higher speeds the distance you travel in that same time increases (reaction distance). The reaction time for an alert driver is 1.5 seconds whilst a distracted driver averages about 3 seconds so the reaction distance at 60 KM\h is 25 to 50m whilst 100 KM\h is 40-80m.
No they are not. They are numbers that are based on the best speed under all conditions. Multiple factors have been taken into account such as stopping distance, reaction distance, flow of traffic, population density, traffic density, zoning and more.
Of course they're arbitrary. In the UK you have a speed limit of 60mph (max) for single lane roads, 70 mph for dual-carriageways motorways.
I dont know about the UK but here in AU, 50 KM\h (Embrace the Metric system) for built up areas, 60 for main roads and roads not in built up areas, up to 90 for major roads and up to 110 KM\h on highways and freeways. All of these roads have different purposes, conditions and environments as well as speed limits that suit those environments and allow the fastest possible travel with a good level of safety.
There are plenty of times when you can get to 180 mph (talking about bikes) and not be dangerous.
Define plenty. I live in Western Australia, I can literally drive along a highway at 100 KM\h for 3 hours and not see another soul and I would never define the kinds of places where you can safely drive at 290 KM\h as being plentiful. In fact given the results of an impact or loss of control at that speed I wouldn't call it safe at all but if you are going to do it, do it where you'll wont kill anyone else.
Reaction distance and stopping distance are very important so try to pay attention. Reaction distance is how far you travel before your brain registers that you need to stop, braking distance is how long it takes the vehicle to stop once the brakes have been engages and stopping distance is the combination of both.
An alert driver has a reaction time of 1.5 seconds which gives them a reaction distance of 25m at 60 KM\h and 120m at 290 KM\h, a distracted driver has a reaction time of 3 seconds which gives them a reaction distance of 50m at 60 KM\h and 240m at 290 KM\h. So it's reasonable to assume you will travel between 120 and 240 metres before even slamming on the brakes. Now stopping distance varies a lot between vehicle types, tyres, road surface, temperature and so forth. At 40 MPH (64 KM\h), an Ariel Atom will take approximately and additional 40 metres to stop giving it a total stopping distance of 65 metres (Source and Graph).
Now at 100 MPH (160 KM\h) you have a reaction distance of 66-130m and a breaking distance of 180m giving you a minimum stopping distance of 246m. Amusing the graphs trend continues we can say the breaking distance for 180 MPH is around 260-280m and add the reaction distance (120-240m) and your stopping is between 380 and 510m, which means that anything that pops up around 300m away will get splattered and you along with it (any land vehicle capable of 180 MPH is not built to withstand serious impacts).
I can't believe the number of posts on this thread which on any other subject would have attracted a derisory "but think of the children" flood of sneers.
Nice strawman but as I've demonstrated above there is real science behind it. But forget the children, think of the my local council (and they are _MY_ local council) who have better things to do then scrape you and the remains of your bike off of whatever object you smashed into. Far better uses of my tax dollars then fixing up the roads and other objects you decided to take out with an act of stupidity.
I'm from the Philippines and what really surprises me is how the guard was able to afford the iPhone.
I've been to the Phils a few times (cheap for an Aussie).
The cops, they are all on the take and quite openly. A lowly guard would be earning a pittance officially (actually it would be quite high for Philippine wages, maybe up to 200 USD a month) but he will always get his share of the graft *cough* sorry, I mean Tea Money.
Cops in third world nations can operate like the Mafia with little resistance. Asking for bribes/protection money is commonplace especially when you're white (white == money).
I'm a bit surprised that the prison allows the guards to keep their phones with them on duty. While not for this specific reason, there's all kinds of ways in which this can go wrong,
It's the Philippines, stop applying western logic.
Seriously, competent police are hard to find over there and definitely not without a handout.
The fact the officer in question had an Iphone is proof he's getting income outside his regular wage. Police earn about 6, maybe 8000 PHP (sub 200 USD) a month for a lowly guard job. I reckon "distracted" is an excuse the press would buy.
Further more, clearly you've never tried to separate a Pinoy from their phone, you'll need the jaws of life just to try.
Things sensitive to heat more likely to fail during the warmer part of the year?
Not for the reasons you think.
MBA: Drone, turn off this heating system, it's summer now. Sysadmin: The heating system is also the cooling system, it's keeping the servers cool. MBA: Turn it off anyway, this is costing us hundreds of dollars.
Some weeks later. MBA: Why did the server fail, it cost us thousands of dollars. Sysadmin: Because dickless told us to turn off the cooling system.
You've got to bear in mind that the retirement package is index-linked to the rate of inflation. It costs a lot of money to genetically inflate a chicken to that size.
Do you have any idea how hard it is to find one comely maiden of virtue true in today's society?
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Do you see the progression. Don't change the subject because you were wrong.
BTW, a Motorola Milestone costs A$500. A HTC Desire costs A$600 whilst an Ipod touch costs A$400 (400 != 1/3 of 600). But the Ipod is locked down and cant make phone calls or use mobile internet.
Umm...
You've heard of a Lan party right. I was playing things like TankWars against my sibling when the console was trying to figure out how to handle two buttons. Blizzard still faces backlash over the lack of LAN play in StarCraft II (despite the fact all you have to do is log onto Battle.net and then start a game) Besides if you want to go back to the origin of "localhost multiplayer" Chess has both platform beaten.
And strategy games are PC only. So are flight simulators. MMORPG's too (although apart from superior net code, there's no reason but they keep failing on the Console for some reason). Different games have different audiences, so your point being?
Also, I mentioned tank wars, I can still run that on my modern gaming rig (any rig including my phone, it's a flash game now but I have the original installer as I long ago transferred all my floppies to HDD). Can I plug my Street Fighter II cartridge into my Wii?
Yes, I still have a whole bunch of old SNES carts lying around. N64 as well. Comparatively I have no (surviving) games for my PS2, which became an overbuilt and unreliable DVD player or my Xbox, which became a media centre before becoming a stand for a Media Centre PC.
A history of guerrilla marketing primarily based on lies perpetuated by fanboys.
Point in case:
If I want to get $ALBUM off my friends computer onto my phone I have to:
Iphone
1. find another mass storage device.
2. copy the file to the mass storage device.
3. get to a computer which has I tunes that my phone is "activated" on.
4. plug in the mass storage device.
5. copy the file to the Itunes library.
6. Find my Apple(TM) Iphone cable.
7. plug in my phone.
8. sync it with Itunes (provided I sync all media not just selected ones).
Android and Nokia
1. find a generic USB Micro cable (or USB Mini, they are about $3 from anywhere).
2. plug my phone in to my friends computer.
3. copy and paste the files I want.
Really thoughtful design, and all the features including Kitchen_Sink.apk
I'll translate:
"I've made my bed with Apple. I've looked at an Andriod phone, once on the internet and whilst I pay some random tribute to make me seem like I'm not a fanboy but I'll praise Apple immediately after because my ego will never permit me to conceive that anything could ever be better".
You're judgement is somewhat clouded, but you have it half right. Android will not destroy the Iphone, ultimately Apple will do that. Android's competition is not Apple, it's Blackberry. Apple have never understood the key to success, get the enterprise and you get the world. RIM and MS took this approach and look where they got, large segments of the markets that Apple have been powerless to even encroach upon.
See my above statement. Apple is a non-competitor to Sony, MS and Nintendo. So much of a non competitor it's not even worth mentioning.
Mobile gaming is nothing in the west. It's something in Asia (Japan and China specifically) but they are not open markets and Apple has never been able to penetrate a contested market. The iGaming fad will be over in a year or so. As soon as enough Andorid, Symbian and Meego phones support Flash 10 a copy of a flash game will no longer sell for US$5.99.
Only two industries in the world refer to their customers as "users".
Now they both sell tablets.
I'm not that guy but I hope you dont mind if I have a go at answering them.
Yes and no. A social engineering attack is entirely dependent on the user believing it (OMG This Virus is going to shred my dog and burn my hard drive), the root cause of this is most often stupidity and unfortunately there is no known fix for stupid (well, there is education but that has mixed results).
Its a problem we face that can be exploited so it's a yes but its a problem we cant fix with a patch so also it's a no.
It can be used for jokes and pranks as it has been done in the past but now it's being used for bullying (harassment).
I agree, I dont know why class 0 SMS is still being automatically displayed/not saved, especially with the potential for abuse. Pressing "dismiss" does get rid of it, further more it does not save it (the only reason it's so good for bullying is that there is no evidence).
ugh, I dont.
I think Jenna Jameson is the ultimate argument about quality over quantity. Making something bigger does not make it better.
Neither do any Android phones.
None here either, but pointing out a flaw in your reasoning.
BTW, I have installed custom ROM's on my Milestone which has the supposed functionality you describe. It doesn't perma-brick, you just need to restore the device to factory settings (via the boot-loader).
I did say it was a nitpic.
There's a bit of a difference between distance and time with reaction specifically as it takes you the same time to react regardless of what speed you're going, however when it comes to stopping and braking the two can be interchanged in that context (going faster increases both time and distance for stopping and braking).
On the Iphone it's all for American accents. search for "G'day mate" on an Iphone and you'll get "gay playmate", well I suppose they understand their target audience.
Google voice search was worse back in the 1.5 days, basically you had to have the same accent as a Google engineer. It's improved a lot in the 2.0 and 2.1 days and seems to handle my Australian accent OK although it just cant search for some suburbs, Applecross is fine, Nollamara give it some trouble but dont even thing of searching for Toodyay or Paraburdoo.
So you want Google to design a new screen, processor and GSM transmitter that automatically uses less power?
I haven't yet met a smart phone with significantly better battery life then an Android phone, this is due to the hardware not the software. They all last about a day, on my Moto Milestone (GSM Droid) I can easily get a charge at 6 PM Friday to last until 6 PM Sunday, the only reason I cant do this on the weekdays is that I work on the edge of a 3G cell, so I'm constantly swapping between 3G and 2G (which takes up power). The Iphone 3GS and 4 have terrible life compared to the Milestone, I never see them very far away from their chargers where as I only charge mine once every 24 hours.
But the 2.2 update was about making Android faster, battery saving magic is probably in the next release.
Are you talking about the custom ROM on a HTC Desire or Samsung Galaxy S?
Wonder why I'm a PC gamer?
You know, the PC, the "console" with the most games available for it.
It seems to me that the OP was expressing a perfectly valid opinion. The fact you disagree with it does not make it a troll.
I think this is less of a case of "the most open platform doesn't always win" and more of a case of "the most closed platform always loses" which has plenty of historical examples (most poignantly from the now defunct Apple Computers).
There are more open platforms then Android such as Maemo. Although Android is fairly open so I suppose it's the difference between Linux and OpenBSD (don's flame resistant suit and lets loose the dogs of FOSS fanboyism).
But none of these can be exploited to circumvent their control over your^H^H^H^H their phone. Please get your priorities in order.
Installing non-Microsoft apps? I wouldn't call that basic.
No.. Wait... I would.
So it's like we've always said, it's Apple's way or the highway and if you want to do anything that is not "approved" like using your own mail client well your SOL. This is not a feature, dear fanboys. Imagine if MS said you can only you IE on Windows without hacking it.
BZZZZT, wrong
But thanks for playing.
Stock Android and Nokia phones on Australian telco's can use Skype or other VOIP services over 3G where as a stock Iphone cannot. Why, well because the law in Australia says I pay for the data I can use it however I like and the carrier doesn't get a say in it. The 3G restriction is phone based.
Tethering was not always available on the Iphone, it was a feature added into the 3rd revision of the OS and could be disabled at the carriers behest.
Enabling tethering is the best reason to buy a different phone that supports the functionality outside of the carrier and doesn't restrict the applications you can install.
This is what I dont get about Apple fanboys, they claim Apple is "not like the other companies" yet they do the exact same things.
The problem with the mobile phone industry, as is so often pointed out by Apple fanboys in Android discussions is the carriers. Well I agree but Apple is doing exactly nothing to move us away from that system. The problem is vertical integration, the carriers control the hardware, software and the service. Apple in this instance has still got the hardware and software married to each other, then they are having an affair with the carrier by removing/selectively enabling features the carriers dont want.
Lambaste Google all you want about the N1, at least with Android I have the source code and as impractical as it seems I _can_ make my own phone (w/ obligatory blackjack and hookers).
As much as I hate defending Apple,
That actually has to do with the GSM Spec. It's flash or class 0 SMS (classes defined at the bottom of that page) which is not saved. Granted Apple should not have set the phone to automatically display class 0 SMS's but it's mostly social engineering.
Class 0 SMS's have been used a lot in cyber bullying lately.
A bit of a nitpic but an important one. Your reaction time does not decrease, at higher speeds the distance you travel in that same time increases (reaction distance). The reaction time for an alert driver is 1.5 seconds whilst a distracted driver averages about 3 seconds so the reaction distance at 60 KM\h is 25 to 50m whilst 100 KM\h is 40-80m.
No they are not. They are numbers that are based on the best speed under all conditions. Multiple factors have been taken into account such as stopping distance, reaction distance, flow of traffic, population density, traffic density, zoning and more.
I dont know about the UK but here in AU, 50 KM\h (Embrace the Metric system) for built up areas, 60 for main roads and roads not in built up areas, up to 90 for major roads and up to 110 KM\h on highways and freeways. All of these roads have different purposes, conditions and environments as well as speed limits that suit those environments and allow the fastest possible travel with a good level of safety.
Define plenty. I live in Western Australia, I can literally drive along a highway at 100 KM\h for 3 hours and not see another soul and I would never define the kinds of places where you can safely drive at 290 KM\h as being plentiful. In fact given the results of an impact or loss of control at that speed I wouldn't call it safe at all but if you are going to do it, do it where you'll wont kill anyone else.
Reaction distance and stopping distance are very important so try to pay attention. Reaction distance is how far you travel before your brain registers that you need to stop, braking distance is how long it takes the vehicle to stop once the brakes have been engages and stopping distance is the combination of both.
An alert driver has a reaction time of 1.5 seconds which gives them a reaction distance of 25m at 60 KM\h and 120m at 290 KM\h, a distracted driver has a reaction time of 3 seconds which gives them a reaction distance of 50m at 60 KM\h and 240m at 290 KM\h. So it's reasonable to assume you will travel between 120 and 240 metres before even slamming on the brakes. Now stopping distance varies a lot between vehicle types, tyres, road surface, temperature and so forth. At 40 MPH (64 KM\h), an Ariel Atom will take approximately and additional 40 metres to stop giving it a total stopping distance of 65 metres (Source and Graph).
Now at 100 MPH (160 KM\h) you have a reaction distance of 66-130m and a breaking distance of 180m giving you a minimum stopping distance of 246m. Amusing the graphs trend continues we can say the breaking distance for 180 MPH is around 260-280m and add the reaction distance (120-240m) and your stopping is between 380 and 510m, which means that anything that pops up around 300m away will get splattered and you along with it (any land vehicle capable of 180 MPH is not built to withstand serious impacts).
Nice strawman but as I've demonstrated above there is real science behind it. But forget the children, think of the my local council (and they are _MY_ local council) who have better things to do then scrape you and the remains of your bike off of whatever object you smashed into. Far better uses of my tax dollars then fixing up the roads and other objects you decided to take out with an act of stupidity.
You pay tax in the Philippines?
Wait, now I've stopped laughing, you pay tax in the Philippines and dont know how incompetent and corrupt the PNP (Philippine National Police) are.
That one will keep me chuckling all day.
I've been to the Phils a few times (cheap for an Aussie).
The cops, they are all on the take and quite openly. A lowly guard would be earning a pittance officially (actually it would be quite high for Philippine wages, maybe up to 200 USD a month) but he will always get his share of the graft *cough* sorry, I mean Tea Money.
Cops in third world nations can operate like the Mafia with little resistance. Asking for bribes/protection money is commonplace especially when you're white (white == money).
It's the Philippines, stop applying western logic.
Seriously, competent police are hard to find over there and definitely not without a handout.
The fact the officer in question had an Iphone is proof he's getting income outside his regular wage. Police earn about 6, maybe 8000 PHP (sub 200 USD) a month for a lowly guard job. I reckon "distracted" is an excuse the press would buy.
Further more, clearly you've never tried to separate a Pinoy from their phone, you'll need the jaws of life just to try.
Not for the reasons you think.
MBA: Drone, turn off this heating system, it's summer now.
Sysadmin: The heating system is also the cooling system, it's keeping the servers cool.
MBA: Turn it off anyway, this is costing us hundreds of dollars.
Some weeks later.
MBA: Why did the server fail, it cost us thousands of dollars.
Sysadmin: Because dickless told us to turn off the cooling system.
Do you have any idea how hard it is to find one comely maiden of virtue true in today's society?
Imagine trying to find three.