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> the Search charm in Windows 8 are infinitely superior to the Start Menu navigation or the Start Menu search in Windows 7.
I find that classic shell does a better job of searching for what I want, than the Windows 8 (or Windows 7) search.
Ahmed is both an Arabic and Islamic name. Ahmed means "most praised" and is sometimes used as a name for Mohammed, the founder of Islam. It is believed that naming your son with this name will bring blessings to your home.
Now, considering this, it does not seem wrong to call it an Islamic name. Certainly, it is a common Arabic name. But why? More than likely, because the most common religion in Arabic speaking countries is Islam.
Is Jesus a Christian name, or a Hebrew name (or, tongue somewhat in cheek, a Latino name)? It is a very common name in Latin America, but then, Latin America is overwhelmingly Christian.
I would be very surprised if Ahmed's family is not Muslim. If they were not Muslim, it seems unlikely they would choose a name so favored by Muslim Arabs. But it is possible, of course.
You are right, and it should have read
"or change the fact that downloading a digital copy does not deprive anyone of their copy, or that digital piracy is not the equivalent to theft."
So what if I go into a store pick up the last copy of the latest release movie. I then wander around the store, carrying the disk, no one else can buy it. After this I get a phone call from my partner saying they've downloaded the film. So I go and put it back on the shelf, don't have to buy that now.
What's the difference? The store has deprived of the ability to sell that last copy of the movie for 90 minutes. So as you suggest I should pay a rental fee right? Everything is awesome right, no one has been deprived of anything that they rightfully deserved.
The difference is, the store permits you to carry around their copy as part of the cost of running a store. They take the (small) chance that items picked up won't actually be purchased. The cost to them of you carrying it around for 90 minutes it minimal (probably zero in most cases, since they have enough stock to "float" the supply while you stupidly carry it around). For the last item, you could potentially cost them a sale, but if it is a sell-out item, then they will probably sell it shortly after.
All of which is irrelevant, because they are willing to lend you the movie while in the store as part of their business cost. That is their choice. That in no way extrapolates to any conclusion that stealing a disc does not result in lost income, or that downloading a digital copy does not deprive anyone of their copy, or that digital piracy is not the equivalent to theft.
My post makes sense, because the point was to show that the calculations were not significant.
> It is 13% thicker, but has 33% more battery.
He lists both percentages side by side as if it means something. It doesn't. More importantly, the thinner the phone is, the less impressive it is to see an improvement for a "percent" increase in width. Significantly, if a phone is wider and taller (both of which the S3 is), the more space it adds by getting thicker.
I'm not saying Samsung didn't do a better job here--rather, that his was not the way to show it. My counter example demonstrates that a seemingly impressive statistic isn't, always, such as getting "100% more battery for a 50% increase in thickness." It sounds impressive at first, but it really isn't.
Your argument that 33% "more" battery was achieved with only 1mm is more useful, but still ignores the rest of the dimensions. Also, I don't know if you/he mean battery capacity or battery life. If it's life, links to studies testing the life would be important (typically, there will be several, and they will all disagree somewhat).
Again--I think the S3 is a fine phone and I'm not knocking it, just the comparison of two non-comparable percentages. Another counter example might have been, "I gained 100 lbs by only eating 5% of my body weight." Impressive, but I didn't mention how much I weighed before.
Oh, and the Windows phone OS design is ALSO an indication that you can build something that isn't anything close to the iOS design.
Well, what's interesting is the Apple phone looks more like Windows (or Windows Mobile/CE) than it does like a Windows Phone. So, maybe we can conclude that Microsoft went out of their way to avoid looking like an iPhone. Perhaps they did it to differentiate themselves in a saturated market, or perhaps they were trying to avoid a lawsuit. Either way, they aren't successful, so it's not really a good example.
Sure, you can make a phone that doesn't use a grid of icons, but why would you want to? After all, grids of icons satisfy the requirement of choosing what to run next, and most of us have years of experience using them.
(I realize grids of icons aren't exactly/only what Samsung was sued over, but Windows Phone's lack of said grid is what makes it look so different, IMO).
err, "increasing the thickness".
> The S3 is 1 mm thicker, not 1.2. It is 13% thicker, but has 33% more battery.
> Samsung engineering win there.
That depends on how much thickness comes from the battery. For example if the battery were 50% of the thickness, then you could get 100% more battery by only increasing the width by 50%. Engineering win?
In other words, they have reduced the memory footprint not by tackling whatever process is hoarding memory like Scrat stacking acorns in his giant hollow tree, but by throwing away items that use memory but are otherwise static (images).
More to the point, they are throwing away data that might actually be useful, apparently in an attempt to cover for data that they can't figure out how to garbage collect.
As a long time Firefox user (since Phoenix 0.2), my frustration got to a boiling point last week and I switched to Chrome, despite 2 or 3 things that I really prefer about Firefox (type ahead find being one). I really don't care how much RAM is being used (I have 12GB)--what drives me crazy is the UI lag that inevitably occurs after using Firefox for a few days.
The electrolysis project being put on hold for the foreseeable future basically confirms we will never see a UI responsive Firefox. I appreciate the attempts to not waste memory (especially for lower mem devices), but if doubling the amount of RAM used would somehow speed things up, I'd gladly accept using 2GB of RAM. Unfortunately, with Firefox, the more RAM, the slower the UI goes.
With Chrome, the more RAM, the more...RAM. Nothing slows down. Chrome may not be a memory saver, but it is a time saver compared to Firefox.
As someone who works near the Solyndra plant (and at a firm that supplied Solyndra with products), and who knows a former employee of Solyndra, I can say there was more of an issue than the Chinese. Yes, the Chinese dumped on the market, and yes, this made it difficult for Solyndra to survive...but, there was a culture of incredible waste at Solyndra. Everything purchased had to be top dollar. As is often the case when a company has too much money, many things were bought that were unnecessary, and problems were usually fixed by throwing more money at it. My friend is an engineer and observed many times designs had to be reworked because of incompetence and lack of attention to detail. But this was accepted, because there was plenty of money. When the money ran out, it was too late to change.
Solyndra probably couldn't have survived, anyway, but they did themselves no favors. And the huge investments made into Solyndra only encouraged them to be wasteful. Sometimes a budget results in a better product.
I had to respond, for the Final Fantasy Adventure sig. Awesome
Sigh.
narCONon is a $cientology front group. It has repeatedly been found either ineffective or downright harmful.
Narcotics Anonymous, on the other hand, is an actual treatment program, the name of which $cientologists deliberately mirrored in their scam setup in order to confuse people into thinking narCONon is somehow legitimate.
Which is modeled after AA, which, in turn, has its origins in the Oxford Group, which was based on Christianity. Meetings start with prayers, members are encouraged to accept that only a "higher power" can save them from alcohol, and the meetings are frequently held in churches (sometimes called Christian AA groups).
It has also been found to be ineffective, offering no increase in success over other methods of trying to "quit.":
The intentions of AA/NA might be slightly better than narCONon, but they are no more effective.
You can have my i760 for $20
You can't just change the UI. All the apps depend on the old style ui, so you have to scrap them, too. So you might as well start from scratch at that point.
Coming from someone who used iPaqs, SCH-i760 (love that hardware), and HTC Touch Pro (sprint model). I've tried every addon shell in the book, and IMO, they are all terrible--even while being better than stock WinMo 6.5. Touch-flo is pretty but not a great design.
After using my Droid for a while, I've realized that styluses just suck. Sure, there's the occasional small link that's hard to click on with my finger, but that's better than needed a stylus to navigate a scrollbar because none of the dialogs in WinMo fit in one screen.
And the performance. Oh, the performance. My Touch Pro was supposed to have such amazing hardware. But menus would lag to open, typing a txt message was deplorably slow (type 10 chars, watch 3 show up, then lag, then the other 7 shoot out 2 seconds later), and trying to dial a phone number was very frustrating--the dialer app would not be running "full speed" for a few seconds after opening. I also missed calls when I couldn't get the phone app to respond.
WinMo is arguably the most powerful phone OS out there. The configuration changes you can make are seemingly limitless. But it's still the worst experience. WebOS, Apple, and Android all deliver responsiveness and low "number of clicks to change setting", which I believe is key.
But if Amazon also hoped the Kindle DX would become the next iPhone or iPod on campuses, it failed its first test. At the University of Virginia, as many as 80% of MBA students who participated in Amazon's pilot program said they would not recommend the Kindle DX as a classroom study aid (though more than 90 percent liked it for pleasure reading).
Because the iPhone was recommended as a study aid? Being the "next iPhone" does not mean it has to be recommended for study. Duh.
Abstainer, n.: A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"