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About the flash on iphone thing, heres my experience with flash on android. #1 yeah it does kill battery with a quickness. Pretty sure one hour of flash video would kill a full charge on my droid 2 with extended battery (and make my phone hot enough to fry an egg)
#2 You can turn it off. Dont want it? You dont have to use it.
#3 It seems pretty stable. Never had any crashing issues or anything.
Pretty sure if it ever came to iphone it would be about the same.
You need to go back to being Cappadonna... bring this drama to a fucking crescendo.Quote:
Originally Posted by TonK
lol
i do now thanks to the internetQuote:
Originally Posted by TonK
although i'd have been fine without ever learning what it was
It competes with Apple and it would render most of the appstore redundant. That's the reason it's not on the iPhone.. anything else you hear is propaganda.Quote:
Originally Posted by Force
Example: Grooveshark.
fucking internet... how does it work?Quote:
Originally Posted by Average Joe
Lies.Quote:
Originally Posted by Average Joe
Lol, any luck hooking your "Dell Lap Top" battery to your iPhone yet? Get that battery life up yet?Quote:
Originally Posted by Terry Bogard 1
fucking wires... how do they work?
Wish I had the drive to be a total asshole once again.Quote:
Originally Posted by VanillaThunder
Getting old.
I think we all are.Quote:
Originally Posted by TonK
My passion went from fury to big fucking guns, hunting and camping.
come the apocalypse, it'll just be tuesday for me, 'cept I'll have about 20 deer, bobcats and coyotes hanging outside my tent; ready to become dinner, a hat and a few nice rugs.
acting like an asshole is for the youngQuote:
Originally Posted by TonK
it's funny how most of us around here were total asses but now are pretty calm
i'd definitely say if you're still an ass by 30 you're doing something wrong
You know, that's true.Quote:
Originally Posted by Average Joe
Heh.
They aren't assholes like we were... where we'd get you to post pics of your pathetic cock and post them online... or make you want to off yourself because you can't get laid... not like back in OUR DAY!
i wonder what Stevo spoke to my president about...
I know people on here that are doing it wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by Average Joe
I think he is preparing for the end.
http://www.wimp.com/livedie/
If you wana fast forward through his stories to the death stuff fast forward to10:00.
Wait... Did Steve Jobs just say that pretty much all innovations (including, something so non-innovative as multiple font faces, which have been in print well before even the Japanese used their woodblocks) in personal and home computing are thanks to him dropping out of college? LOL, I love how he sort of graces over the real reason he was tossed out of Apple. It probably had nothing to do with him being a belligerent asshole and their top talent refusing to work for him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Terry Bogard 1
Steve Jobs is a self important douche but he is right in many ways in terms of innovation. The comparison between Microsoft Vs. Apple is like comparing the Private Sector to the Public Sector, night and day difference. One is dull and by the book while the other offers "Out of the Box" thinking and is certainly more laid back. The real difference is obviously one runs the world and the other has fat nerds waiting in line to buy over priced I-Phones (Did I spell that right) that don't send pictures or have the number 7 selectable until 6 mos later with the I-Phone 3G15double QBZ and the 15 other version released over and over again.Quote:
Originally Posted by nruva
I am , however, extremely excited for the I-Pad 2.
http://www.wimp.com/ipadtwo/
LOL, the only thing Steve Job innovates is new ways to steal ideas from other companies and pretend they were his own.Quote:
Originally Posted by Terry Bogard 1
um.. duh. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by nruva
This is why I give Apple people a hard time.
Being fair, Apple does give some technologies a wide early adoption that may make them more successful (ie eSATA - why does the common PC needs this and what inspiration do manufacturers have to include it?). They've also turned over a lot of code to the open source community over the years (CUPS, Bonjour/Avahi). They also, rarely, give credit where credit is due - Apple engineers have admitted that Avahi is hugely better than Bonjour ever was.
But for every success...... you have some douche bag claiming that Apple invented the internet before Al Gore and how 100% original and innovative OSX is....
I can never figure out why it matters so much to people like you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Supasaru
I use whatever technology works and works well for the solution.Quote:
Originally Posted by SouthtownKid
At the end of the day, though.... Apple is a bit like Japhei.
Apple lies and rebrands things (just like Japhei)
Apple fails to deliver (just like Japhei)
Apple claims credit for things they didn't develop or developed in unrelated tandem (just like Japhei)
Apple rarely gives credit (like Japhei)
Apple has few brilliantly happy customers (like Japhei)
Apple is far less efficient, more expensive and extremely unreliable when compared to other sources (like Japhei)
.... this list of comparisons can go on for four pages.
Of course, like Japhei customers, some Apple customers are actually blissfully happy - even impressed - with both Apple and Japhei's services.
So, in a nutshell, if I strutted up to ng.com and told them all they were all stupid and wrong about Japhei because I bought one product from him successfully....
.....when well educated and established members have gotten shafted by Japhei all over teh internetses... Disregarding all of their wisdom for "hey, gee whizbang, these are cheaper than originals and this dudes skill is unparalleled!"..... You all would eat me alive and would have significantly legitimate concerns about my sanity and well-being in promoting transactions for Japhei.
Apple is the same story with a different name.
There is no happy place - you can find teh drama in the OSS community, in Redhat Linux, in Microsoft, Google..... but at least have your facts straight if you're going to champion "UNIX" on PC hardware and falsely claim divine innovation has blessed the Steve jobs as the 10th Vishnu Avatara.
More of THE SAME BULLSHIT from Jobs, seriously, his tumor really needs to act up.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/gaming....ex.html?hpt=C2
What Apple hopes you didn't notice about iPad 2
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2011/TE...2.magic.gi.jpg
(CNN) -- It was a magical performance from a consummate performer, on that we can all agree.
Speaking for a little more than an hour, in a voice that has lost little of its calm intensity, Steve Jobs mesmerized the audience Wednesday at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, and by extension the world.
His introduction of the iPad 2 did quadruple duty -- it enticed mainstream customers, wowed spec-hunting tech geeks, tweaked his competitors and pleased Wall Street. Future presidential candidates would do well to study it.
Essentially, Jobs was selling a dream that could set your rib cage thumping with desire.
"Technology alone is not enough," he said in one of the day's more lyrical asides. "Technology married with liberal arts, humanities, yields the result that makes our hearts sing."
Full disclosure: Yeah, I want to buy one, too.
Do you think you'll buy the new iPad? Tell us why.
But a dream-made reality comes with limitations and imperfections, especially in the gadget business. Like any good magician, Jobs used sleight of hand to distract from the things we're not supposed to see.
On the morning after, it's time to take leave of our hearts, return to our heads and name them.
Man on wire
Magicians who use wires in their act don't let you see them, but that doesn't mean they aren't there. In this case, the wire is the same old white cable that you'll have to use to sync your iPad to your PC or Mac from Day One.
Yes, apps such as Audiogalaxy or Air Server let you stream music and video to the iPad via Wi-Fi, but they don't remove the need to hook up to iTunes to back up or sync content for most apps.
In a device that's supposed to be about effortless connecting, and a world that is moving to cloud syncing, this is an increasingly clunky throwback.
Memory man
How much memory will the new iPad have? We don't know, because Jobs didn't tell us. Given that he ticked off all the other major specs of the device, it seems an odd omission. Could it be because its memory is exactly the same as the original iPad -- 256 megabytes?
That would look embarrassingly paltry next to iPad competitors such as the Motorola Xoom or the HP Touchpad, which both boast 1 gigabyte of RAM.
Gadget blog Gizmodo claims an Apple employee quoted 256 megabytes when demonstrating the product, only to have the claim walked back by a PR handler. We'll wait for better proof.
But there is another kind of memory that we know is exactly the same on iPad 2: storage space. The Apple tablet still maxes out at 64 gigabytes. Sure, the competition isn't beating that yet. But given the standard pace of technological improvement, one would expect a 128-gigabyte hard drive by now. Could tablet design have reached some kind of inherent size limit?
Behind the screen
Contrary to what the rumor mill had been expecting, there was no improvement in screen resolution -- meaning the iPad 2 is already lagging behind the iPhone 4, with its much-touted retina display. (An iPhone 5 is expected later this year.)
And while Jobs told us how many frames per second of video the new iPad's cameras would shoot, he didn't mention megapixels. This is not a spec he has been shy about announcing when it came to iPhone models.
Holding back?
In all the hoopla, it's easy to forget that many features announced for iPad 2 were expected -- and were technically possible -- in iPad 1. It was widely remarked at the time that Apple was deliberately holding back built-in cameras, for one, so that the iPad 2 could launch with a larger splash.
Barring some mass outbreak of leaks at the notoriously tight ship that is One Infinite Loop, we'll likely never know the truth. But we do know that one "new" feature touted Wednesday -- the ability to use the mute button to lock the orientation of the screen -- was originally available in iPad 1. The button only changed its purpose when iOS4 was introduced.
So what, if anything, is Apple deliberately holding back for iPad 3? A memory boost? Retina display? Cloud sync? Stereo speakers? (Yes, the iPad 2 is still mono.)
One thing we can be pretty sure of -- there will be another peerless presentation of achingly beautiful tablet technology this time next year.
Don't worry. Nobody will make you buy one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Terry Bogard 1
iPad is such bullshit, you can buy better netbooks for half the money with more power and you can even directly access the hard drive, imagine that!:rolleyes:
http://helloexactly.ytmnd.com/Quote:
Originally Posted by Doctor Shroom
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Originally Posted by Doctor Shroom
That's dumb.Quote:
Originally Posted by Terry Bogard 1
How the hell am I supposed to ostracize reasonable people that use reasonable devices from my professional clique without the iCrap products?
I mean... if we all used the same devices and could accomplish the same work... that's like Mark of the Beast shit right there.
And have you seen Windows and Linux communities? All the people are rude as if they expect you to intuitively use features rather than spend all day blogging about how someone has discovered a way to shoehorn functionality like Flash into an iPad.
And Windows has viruses... You don't see viruses on the iPad! I'm secure. Can't be hacked. Apple protects me.
Oh, one moment, I have to reconnect to this public Wifi spot at Starbucks......
The circlejerk continues.
People still use the "apple doesn't get viruses" argument? Bullshit lie.
Ugh.Quote:
Originally Posted by Terry Bogard 1
That's disgusting, dude.
Don't hate Steve Jobs, hate the 'journalists' that praise everything he does as the second coming.Quote:
Originally Posted by Terry Bogard 1
Also a good point.Quote:
Originally Posted by LoneSage
Time to start the betting pool for whether he'd be the one unveiling iPad 3.
Not really.Quote:
Originally Posted by Terry Bogard 1
It's not exactly the journalist to blame that people are purchasing their content. Either people want to hear about the product, or someone else wants you to hear about it.
wanna put a couple g's down on a long bet?Quote:
Originally Posted by SNKorSWM
http://www.longbets.org/
http://fashionmasters.co.cc/wp-conte...r2-460x322.jpg
:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol: :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
lol
They all look like one-on-one bets. Is it possible to make a pool?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sex Lord Tyrannus
ed: guess not. http://www.longbets.org/faq
This remains so true, just need to swap out a few products equivalents.
http://oit.utk.edu/macvolplace/graph...hone_guide.jpg
Ive been surfing on the same mac every day for 5 years and never picked a single thing up,i did download an antivirus checker thing and it was clean.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doctor Shroom
Windows just isnt safe no matter how many anti virus programs you have,linux is where its at.
iLolledQuote:
Originally Posted by Terry Bogard 1
The Apple I'm typing this on has been sitting on my desk since June of '06. I have never had a single virus or piece of spyware on my computer (I actually ran a scan a few months ago for the hell of it and came up with nothing)...I run no active "protection" software, I've never had a single catastrophic OS or hardware failure either.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doctor Shroom
Guess I'm just lucky huh?
Point? Apple/OSX can get viruses, its nothing new. Fact is nobody gives a shit about Apple so actual viruses are quite rare compared to windows which like, almost everybody uses on this planet.
Apple just isn't interesting enough for hackers, crackers and other riff-raff.
You're lucky that you use a product that isn't worth the time to target when the cracker can write a virus or malware that can target 1000x more computers. It has nothing to do with the technology.Quote:
Originally Posted by smokehouse
And that is great. Who cares why?Quote:
Originally Posted by Doctor Shroom
So tell me STK, what was it like working with the ENIAC back in the day? I guess the radiation made you immortal, kinda like the food in Fallout 3 that never goes bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by SouthtownKid
The Windows machine in the corner of my room has been ... well, a lot of places, as of sometime in 2005. I have never had a single virus or piece of spyware on my computer. I occasionally run Malware Bytes just to check - which is not a realtime scanner at all and never come up with anything. I run no active "protection" software, I've never had a single catastrophic OS or hardware failure.Quote:
Originally Posted by smokehouse
By the way, it runs Vista upgraded from XP.
I guess that means Vista beats Apple (I've got one year over you) and upgrades from XP weren't as catastrophic as, I dunno... the entire world claimed. That must mean there was never any issues with the service packs, either.
All hail Vista in it's pseudo-real-world-exaggerated-example triumph over Apple!
.... the things you can prove definitively wrong in a quick 15 minute scan of the crap around an apartment. Who would've thunked it.
All i know is ive been using pcs since windows 3.11, and never had any issues until the last year or so, and suddenly ive been hit with tons of spyware. Im on my third installation of windows in the last year. Something is up, cause once the inital installation is done i dont put anything else on my computer. Just use it for the occasional game, irc, and web surfing (use opera). And im not clicking links that look suspicious, and check all my mail through yahoo mail. Im seriously not doing a single thing different, yet my machine has been hosed a bunch just recently. Im using win xp pro in case anyone wonders.
On top of that, every version of windows ive used thus far has issues with the installation slowing down over time even without being infected.
I was planning on getting a mac later this year due to that. Yeah ill be missing out on the occasional game i want (sacred 3, torchlight 2, dungeon seige 3Anyone have any comments?
Also, i was hoping the ipad 2 specs would be a bit better. I was hoping for more storage, a higher res, and more ram. ios is getting kind of bloaty plus as the os matures so do the aps and how much memory theyll use. Rumors are itll have 512mb, which is the bare minimum these days IMO. I was hooing for at least a gb.
Still though, its getting a version of garage band that looks absolutely stellar, and thats gonna be hard to pass up.
Try Microsoft's Security Essentials. It's a shame Microsoft can't include it with the Windows installation.
Might also be worth trying an upgrade to 7 if you're re-installing the OS that much anyways.
Security essentials eh? ill check it out in a few.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eric
Id be tempted to go for win7 now, but i was waiting until i built something new. And if im switching to mac no sense in buying a $200 operating system antways.
This is how i look at it really. Buy a macpro, and if i hate it, sell it. MAcs seem to hold their value fairly well so i doubt id be losing much if i sold it within a few months. And if i like it, awesome.
What i fishing for really though is more info/opinions/experience with the myth that macs dont slow down over time.
Have you done a clean install of the operating system yet? Windows computers come with so much shit trying to sell you stuff that you must reinstall the operating system just to get rid of them. As far as mail, you name is out there, get a new email address.
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Originally Posted by Force
I used to maintain quite a few crapples in a business office last year.Quote:
Originally Posted by Force
Like any OS, if the user decides to randomly install garbage or do stupid stuff.... ya, they slow down over time just like Windows.
And you know what...? Linux can have the same problems if someone goes nuts installing or mis-installing stuff.
It's usually less noticeable in Mac/Nix (I would mention it's the same kernel, but someone would have heart failure, so let's say same process accounting), but just like the "Macs don't get malware" gig..... it's not impossible.