Comment Re:Apple forcing IT shops to buy elsewhere (Score 1) 715
You forgot something, eventually Apple will have to do what their users in IT want
Why? They seem to be making a lot of money selling consumer-focussed devices directly to consumers.
You forgot something, eventually Apple will have to do what their users in IT want
Why? They seem to be making a lot of money selling consumer-focussed devices directly to consumers.
Chortle. That's as good as Amazon stating that the Kindle is a "bestseller."
Yeah, but in Amazon's defence, every single novel written in the last eight years has been a "bestseller", according to their blurbs. By that logic, how could the Fire not be a bestseller?
The correct word is exploit. Companies have become very customer hostile, while continuing to play up marketing that tells you how fantastic they are and how wonderful your life will be if you use their services.
"Customer hostile" is not correct either. It implies that users are also customers, which we are not.
So who are the customers? The customers are the advertisers who buy aggregate customer data, or advertising space. The customers are the people who actually pay for the service.
The users are the product.
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FIFY.
Yes, supersampling will always look better than filtering. The biggest advantage of MLAA is with the low-end graphics hardware such as mobile phones, netbook, integrated GPUs; anything without enough grunt to perform "proper" AA. Or in situations where the processing power is better used elsewhere, MLAA might be used to free up resources for other tasks.
Obviously, the image quality is going to be worse than multisampling or supersampling, but much better than no AA at all.
The modern world requires trust. A breakdown of which will result in anarchy.
Insightful comment. Older currencies were based on precious metals, or coins, or beads... whatever; anything relatively scarce could be used as currency. Modern currencies are based on trust. Trust that a bank will not lose your money. Trust that someone will repay a debt. Trust that the central bank will not devalue the currency to the point where your money is worthless.
Modern currency is trust.
At the other end of the spectrum, my GF's kindle usually lasts about 2-4 weeks. But she just got 7 weeks out of it; she's been very busy at work lately and hasn't been using it much. (FWIW, that's the Kindle 3 WiFi model, not the 3G model).
Either way, it lasts long enough that you don't need to worry about the battery at all.
I think the OP's point is that, in the n900, there are actions which are consistent across applications; but with Android, actions will be different depending on the application.
I rarely use Android, and I've never used the n900, so I can't really comment on either. But as an iOS user, I can say that there are a few applications which behave differently.
For example, in iOS, most apps place a "back" button in the top left of the screen. Also, most apps will autosave a text field as soon as it is modified. So the usual workflow is: open a menu item, make modifications (which are saved automatically), tap the back button. This workflow is very common among third-party applications.
However, one app doesn't autosave; instead, it has a "save" button in the top right. It also replaces the "back" button with a "cancel" button. The result is that I often cancel changes that I wish to retain.
Most iOS apps behave consistently, but when they don't, it causes problems. And inconsistencies will cause problems within any platform, even Android.
Sound breaks? Bash, Wireless fucks up? Bash. Video problems? Bash. Hell the answer to EVERY question in Linux is bash.
Life getting you down? Bash.
Boss riding your ass? Bash.
Spouse getting on your nerves? Bash.
Co-worker won't shut up about pet llama? Bash.
Hell. The answer to EVERYTHING is Bash!
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