Did I say that we should let the rich "get away with anything"? No. I said that taxing the rich "very heavily" is a bad idea. I didn't say that they should be allowed to "fuck you over" and "try their best to enslave you" either.
Unfortunately, the PCB trick doesn't work anymore. Atleast not on the drives (from the same batches) I've tried. I've done it successfully >10 years ago myself, so I know it wasn't impossible.
That article is patently absurd. It complains about no interaction from the users. No shit. They're eating and watching BBC. Perhaps they don't want food all over their tablet and/or is satisfied with actually watching 20 seconds of BBC without compulsively fingering the display?
Then it goes on to complain about people drawing on paper instead of on the pads. So what? Perhaps mspaint wasn't available on tablets that early. That doesn't make it less of a tablet.
Then it rambles on about them not showing device interaction again, and noting that other devices use voice control or keys. So what? That it does not show interaction does not mean that interaction is not possible.
And wtf does how it is used relate to how it looks?
Have you tried a bigger phone? My Galaxy Nexus fits excellently in my pocket, and I have no issues picking it out of my pocket. I wonder how many iFans will suddenly forget those issues when the iPhone grows in size. (I am not calling you a fanboy)
Somewhere in between $50 and $90 is $72.49, which is the price for the Oval Elephant: http://www.ovalelephant.com/p-2062-mini-pc-android-linux-linaro-a10-chip-1gb-ddr3-ram I've bought one of them, and it was shipped today. It's got a fair bit more oomph (1,5GHz Allwinner A10) than the RPI, a much neater package, an much more ram. Oh, and it's got 4GB internal flash, so you're not dependant on a SD card. It also has BGN wifi built in. It should shortly be able to run XBMC on android 4, although without HW decoding yet. It can also run linux.
Of course, it's slightly more than twice as expensive as the RPI. But it's way more than twice as valuable IMO.
What kind of high end audio/video are you talking about? Blu-Ray is <40Mbit/sec. Which is no problem with a Class 4 or 6 SD-card. And certainly no match for a 100mbit network.
No, the Nexus Q can do way more than the RPI. The hardware decoding support on the RPI is abysmal due to licencing costs. While it may play 1080p.mkv just fine, it can't decode most streaming video I've tried. Eg. Norways national broadcaster NRK has most of its programming online, available for streaming, including live TV. On the RPI it's useless. On pretty much everything else I've run XBMC on, it's awesome. If the Q work well with XBMC, I'm considering replacing my mini-ITX system with it. And I'd rather use my two RPIs for something they don't suck at.
Apple is a company. As a company, it is going to do whatever it can legally do to thwart its competition.
It is not obliged to be an asshole. Other companies can do exactly the same, but they don't. Because they're not comprised of sociopaths. The problem isn't solely "in the system", but also in the companies that are immoral assholes. They're not doing something illegal. That doesn't mean that what they're doing is good.
Most gamers I know are more focused on FPS than resolution. There simply isn't enough oopmh on current display adapters to drive a extra-high res display at >60FPS in bleeding-edge games.
Do you think Google will yank the service without providing people ample warning? It's storage. It's most likely pretty darn easy to download your files and upload them somewhere else.
I've crossed over from the land of Linux (on the desktop atleast) to Windows. I still have to look up PCI IDs and google them to figure out what the heck things are. Laptops are the worst by far.
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Did I say that we should let the rich "get away with anything"? No. I said that taxing the rich "very heavily" is a bad idea.
I didn't say that they should be allowed to "fuck you over" and "try their best to enslave you" either.
Which causes them to move, and take a bunch of jobs with them. Excellent. Who does that fuck again? Oh, you're right, the rest of us.
Unfortunately, the PCB trick doesn't work anymore. Atleast not on the drives (from the same batches) I've tried. I've done it successfully >10 years ago myself, so I know it wasn't impossible.
Good plan. Let's not use a non-fossil power source because "someone might make money off it".
Except the sum Samsung proposes is $0.0049. Which isn't .5 penny. It's pretty much half a penny, but rounded down.
They're only attacking their biggest competitor. There are other tablets which look sufficiently alike to warrant a lawsuit.
That article is patently absurd. It complains about no interaction from the users. No shit. They're eating and watching BBC. Perhaps they don't want food all over their tablet and/or is satisfied with actually watching 20 seconds of BBC without compulsively fingering the display?
Then it goes on to complain about people drawing on paper instead of on the pads. So what? Perhaps mspaint wasn't available on tablets that early. That doesn't make it less of a tablet.
Then it rambles on about them not showing device interaction again, and noting that other devices use voice control or keys. So what? That it does not show interaction does not mean that interaction is not possible.
And wtf does how it is used relate to how it looks?
They do have similar functionality. They're both powerful tablets.
If someone did, you could bet your ass Apple would be all over them.
Have you tried a bigger phone? My Galaxy Nexus fits excellently in my pocket, and I have no issues picking it out of my pocket.
I wonder how many iFans will suddenly forget those issues when the iPhone grows in size.
(I am not calling you a fanboy)
The Galaxy Nexus has 9PPI less than the iPhone retina display. Can you see the difference without a magnifying glass?
Somewhere in between $50 and $90 is $72.49, which is the price for the Oval Elephant: http://www.ovalelephant.com/p-2062-mini-pc-android-linux-linaro-a10-chip-1gb-ddr3-ram
I've bought one of them, and it was shipped today. It's got a fair bit more oomph (1,5GHz Allwinner A10) than the RPI, a much neater package, an much more ram. Oh, and it's got 4GB internal flash, so you're not dependant on a SD card. It also has BGN wifi built in. It should shortly be able to run XBMC on android 4, although without HW decoding yet. It can also run linux.
Of course, it's slightly more than twice as expensive as the RPI. But it's way more than twice as valuable IMO.
I've found your tinfoil hat.
Bogus backdoor: http://erratasec.blogspot.no/2012/05/bogus-story-no-chinese-backdoor-in.html
What kind of high end audio/video are you talking about? Blu-Ray is <40Mbit/sec. Which is no problem with a Class 4 or 6 SD-card. And certainly no match for a 100mbit network.
No, the Nexus Q can do way more than the RPI. The hardware decoding support on the RPI is abysmal due to licencing costs. While it may play 1080p .mkv just fine, it can't decode most streaming video I've tried. Eg. Norways national broadcaster NRK has most of its programming online, available for streaming, including live TV. On the RPI it's useless. On pretty much everything else I've run XBMC on, it's awesome.
If the Q work well with XBMC, I'm considering replacing my mini-ITX system with it. And I'd rather use my two RPIs for something they don't suck at.
It is not obliged to be an asshole. Other companies can do exactly the same, but they don't. Because they're not comprised of sociopaths. The problem isn't solely "in the system", but also in the companies that are immoral assholes. They're not doing something illegal. That doesn't mean that what they're doing is good.
The correct answer is "vi".
That is, if the pattern does not loop back on itself. Unfortunately, last time I checked, that was impossible on Android phones.
Most gamers I know are more focused on FPS than resolution. There simply isn't enough oopmh on current display adapters to drive a extra-high res display at >60FPS in bleeding-edge games.
It doesn't say that the thousand words are necessarily different from the thousand words contained in the previous picture.
Do you think Google will yank the service without providing people ample warning? It's storage. It's most likely pretty darn easy to download your files and upload them somewhere else.
It's "pretty seamless" when you're technically inclined. Those users I know with Hotmail-adresses are not.
I've crossed over from the land of Linux (on the desktop atleast) to Windows. I still have to look up PCI IDs and google them to figure out what the heck things are. Laptops are the worst by far.
Thank you.