Pants and purses... I wear tight skinny jeans: little room in the pockets for bullshit. I also often wear jackets, where a bulge from a breast pocket would be unsightly.
I'm lucky my wallet fits in my jeans.
Holy shit, why don't you just carry a purse? Or would it be too hard to find one to match your skinny jeans?
Heh...
Because I have a tiny phone, a tiny kindle, really tiny wallet, and a small number of keys. I don't carry much with me, because I'm out and about ALL THE TIME. ;^)
I carry my ten commandents stone tablet sized smartphone in a custom designed waterproof pelican case. I am far too manly and enormous for your tiny Iphones, which are primarily for small children and women.
*drags gigantic smartphone out from the back of a uhaul* My hands are just too big. Oh and Yeah.... it has Beats by Dre® audio..... *loads up Final Fantasy III rom*
I have a Motorola Droid Bionic with an extended battery, which brings it from 1735 mAh to 2760 mAh. It has a 4.3" screen (960x540), and the extended battery makes it a bit thicker and heavier. I could kill someone with this thing.
But you know what? I use it relatively heavily and charge it only at night and I still never run out of battery. How many people can say that about their phone?
I have small hands for a guy. I wish I could have bigger, more manly hands. My hands are in fact the average size for a woman.
I have the same phone as Rym and I just about reach every part of the screen with my thumb using one hand like he can. I chose the phone based on cost, aesthetics and features.
I'm surprised that trend is for bigger phones when I struggle and my hand size is average (if we exclude men).
Maybe I should have looked at all the pink phones...
Didn't you crack your screen a while ago Rym? Is that expensive to replace? It being curved and all.
Simple solution: if you want freedom you'll insist on devices that run Free Software otherwise you'll be taken ad-vantage of orworse
"What we are playing for is the same thing always: rights of users. But users' rights are about to take a very different form than they have taken in the past. In 2006, we say, a home is some real estate containing appliances. In 2016, however, a home will be a digital entertainment and data processing network with some real estate wrapped around it.
Now, who do you want to have the keys to your home? You? Or the people who deliver movies and pizza? This is really about whos going to have the keys to the home next decade, we say."
I like freedom a lot, but I'm not going to use broken/old/no-good technology just because it's more free. Yeah, would love to run Linux on my desktop, but not being able to play all the games is too much of a price to pay for that small amount of freedom.
I like freedom a lot, but I'm not going to use broken/old/no-good technology just because it's more free. Yeah, would love to run Linux on my desktop, but not being able to play all the games is too much of a price to pay for that small amount of freedom.
When the release Steam and Source for Linux, will you stick with Windows as your main partition?
I'm not trying to prove a point or anything, just curious.
I like freedom a lot, but I'm not going to use broken/old/no-good technology just because it's more free. Yeah, would love to run Linux on my desktop, but not being able to play all the games is too much of a price to pay for that small amount of freedom.
When the release Steam and Source for Linux, will you stick with Windows as your main partition?
I'm not trying to prove a point or anything, just curious.
Yes. Even if Steam is on Linux, it will have hardly any games. Unless we reach some point where more of the really important games run on Linux, and not on Windows, there's no reason to switch. Linux would have to somehow become a superior gaming experience overall in terms of library and polishedness.
Remember, anything I do on Linux I can do in a Linux virtual machine inside of Windows perfectly. Running games inside a VM on Linux is awful. Even if it works with wine or whatever, it's not perfect and is a pain in the ass.
Here is the future I see. Starting with Windows 8, Windows starts to suck and starts dying a slow death with no revival ever. Apple doesn't make OSX any better for game developers, and abandon desktops entirely. People continue to make games for iOS, but that does not displace PC gaming. Lots of average people abandon desktop PCs entirely, but desktops still exist almost entirely for games and for professional workstations.
PC game developers make all their games for Windows/Linux. Eventually Windows 9 or 10 sucks so much and the Linux situation improves enough that you start to see a handful of real PC games that are Linux exclusive. Also, one of the Linux desktop experiences emerges as not sucking so much and is adapted by the major distros.
Windows still has an unfathomably large library of software and games spanning back decades, but it doesn't matter. Computers are so powerful by this point that you can emulate or virtualize whatever is necessary for those games with no performance penalty, and in many cases a performance bonus. That means a Linux machine will play the Windows version of Crysis 2 as well as my current computer plays it now running Windows.
At that point Windows will die except in business environments that still depend on it.
Here is the future I see. Starting with Windows 8, Windows starts to suck and starts dying a slow death with no revival ever.
While your prediction seems sound, I'd wait to see what happens after Windows 8 before really going along with it. I remember people - particularly users and enthusiasts of a particular operating system - predicting something much like that with Vista.
Here is the future I see. Starting with Windows 8, Windows starts to suck and starts dying a slow death with no revival ever.
While your prediction seems sound, I'd wait to see what happens after Windows 8 before really going along with it. I remember people - particularly users and enthusiasts of a particular operating system - predicting something much like that with Vista.
I went the opposite way on Vista. I thought Vista was just fine, and the people ranting and saying how bad it was were just believing in the bad press. Can someone here name something that was actually wrong with Vista?
Here is the future I see. Starting with Windows 8, Windows starts to suck and starts dying a slow death with no revival ever.
While your prediction seems sound, I'd wait to see what happens after Windows 8 before really going along with it. I remember people - particularly users and enthusiasts of a particular operating system - predicting something much like that with Vista.
I went the opposite way on Vista. I thought Vista was just fine, and the people ranting and saying how bad it was were just believing in the bad press. Can someone here name something that was actually wrong with Vista?
The mass of restrictive DRM "Features" built right into the core of it would be the worst, but also the horrible instability at launch, a legion of compatibility issues, the performance issues that were present even on clean and fresh systems, the $400 dollar ultimate edition that only really gave you a poker game, some language support, and a backup utility that should have been standard, the near-broken DX10 support at launch.
Vista was always way more unstable than any Windows 7 machine I've ever used. Most people I've talked to have expressed similar sentiments.
As always, my computer works no problem!
Unlike always, Microsoft actually admitted this was a problem with Vista, and committed to fixing it, which to their credit, they did reasonably well.
Here is the future I see. Starting with Windows 8, Windows starts to suck and starts dying a slow death with no revival ever.
While your prediction seems sound, I'd wait to see what happens after Windows 8 before really going along with it. I remember people - particularly users and enthusiasts of a particular operating system - predicting something much like that with Vista.
I went the opposite way on Vista. I thought Vista was just fine, and the people ranting and saying how bad it was were just believing in the bad press. Can someone here name something that was actually wrong with Vista?
The mass of restrictive DRM "Features" built right into the core of it would be the worst, but also the horrible instability at launch, a legion of compatibility issues, the performance issues that were present even on clean and fresh systems, the $400 dollar ultimate edition that only really gave you a poker game, some language support, and a backup utility that should have been standard, the near-broken DX10 support at launch.
Never had any of those issues. Is there DRM in Vista that isn't in Windows 7?
Never had any of those issues. Is there DRM in Vista that isn't in Windows 7?
Nope. But you didn't ask that. Your exact question was "Can someone here name something that was actually wrong with Vista," Which I did. You may not have had any problems, but let us not forget your sample size is miniscule.
My sample size is somewhat bigger, though admittedly biased, as I work in computer repair.
To be fair, while larger, it's still pretty damned tiny. I don't think the three of us put together have even seen as many computers as Microsoft vista's install base, even though it was a wildly unpopular version of the OS.
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Because I have a tiny phone, a tiny kindle, really tiny wallet, and a small number of keys. I don't carry much with me, because I'm out and about ALL THE TIME. ;^)
I think this is really only a problem for waifish girly-men. Us Real Men wear clothes with enough room to carry a chainsaw.
But you know what? I use it relatively heavily and charge it only at night and I still never run out of battery. How many people can say that about their phone?
I have the same phone as Rym and I just about reach every part of the screen with my thumb using one hand like he can. I chose the phone based on cost, aesthetics and features.
I'm surprised that trend is for bigger phones when I struggle and my hand size is average (if we exclude men).
Maybe I should have looked at all the pink phones...
Didn't you crack your screen a while ago Rym? Is that expensive to replace? It being curved and all.
"What we are playing for is the same thing always: rights of users. But users' rights are about to take a very different form than they have taken in the past. In 2006, we say, a home is some real estate containing appliances. In 2016, however, a home will be a digital entertainment and data processing network with some real estate wrapped around it.
Now, who do you want to have the keys to your home? You? Or the people who deliver movies and pizza? This is really about whos going to have the keys to the home next decade, we say."
- Eben Moglen The Hardware Wars and the future of Free Software
Same goes for the robots in your pocket which by and large don't respect your freedom at all currently.
I'm not trying to prove a point or anything, just curious.
Remember, anything I do on Linux I can do in a Linux virtual machine inside of Windows perfectly. Running games inside a VM on Linux is awful. Even if it works with wine or whatever, it's not perfect and is a pain in the ass.
Here is the future I see. Starting with Windows 8, Windows starts to suck and starts dying a slow death with no revival ever. Apple doesn't make OSX any better for game developers, and abandon desktops entirely. People continue to make games for iOS, but that does not displace PC gaming. Lots of average people abandon desktop PCs entirely, but desktops still exist almost entirely for games and for professional workstations.
PC game developers make all their games for Windows/Linux. Eventually Windows 9 or 10 sucks so much and the Linux situation improves enough that you start to see a handful of real PC games that are Linux exclusive. Also, one of the Linux desktop experiences emerges as not sucking so much and is adapted by the major distros.
Windows still has an unfathomably large library of software and games spanning back decades, but it doesn't matter. Computers are so powerful by this point that you can emulate or virtualize whatever is necessary for those games with no performance penalty, and in many cases a performance bonus. That means a Linux machine will play the Windows version of Crysis 2 as well as my current computer plays it now running Windows.
At that point Windows will die except in business environments that still depend on it.
Actually, I've seen a couple blue screens on Windows 7. Never on Vista.