New cell phone.. reccomended

[sgreger1]

ok.

I'm an android user and I haven't had any crashes or suffered from lack of apps that I want and the quality is excellent. There has been absoloutely no degradation in performance since I got it so I've got absoloutely no idea what you're on about. Is this something iphone users just tell themselves to make themselves feel better about the cash they're forking out cause from an Android users POV this is total crap.

Don't think I'm an Android defender over iphone - I don't care. I just call geek crap when I hear it.

No, that is just my personal experience with people I know. I have no idea what the larger experience is, maybe I just know people who got the short end of the stick. And I don't see what this thing is about iphones being expensive, it was $199 which isn't that bad, then $80 a month. I mean the service plan is the same price as android, and the phone costs $199 up front, so how much more expensive is that than android phones? What does the best android phone cost?


I don't know, I was loyal to windows for years, but after experiencing the difference with apples products I can't go back. I share the sentiment that they are bastards for having DRM and being a closed marketplace etc, but there are times when I prefer that as well. Everything has a purpose, and for phones the iphone could not possibly be outperformed in terms of what I need a phone for. I could see why some people prefer android, but after having tried both I definitely prefer the $199 i-phone.

[sgreger1]

Don't know where else to put this, but linux users will get a giggle.


Big match the other day between supercomputer AI and Jeopardy all-time champions or something. Computers name is watson, and it won. Here's an alternate outcome:

[lxskllr]

That's bullshit. Windows has sucked for the last like 4 versions, i've owned every one of them. Why is it chic to have something that requires intensive user-side knowledge to operate it, why is windows better because it requires you to maintenance it more and protect it more actively from viruses etc?

And why does it always get slow so fast, every single computer i've ever had.

User error ;^)

I've had exactly 1 virus ever. I got that when I had a brief cranial/rectal inversion(user error). My Vista box was installed Sept 07, and it's just as fast as the day I installed it. I don't do anything special. I just use it. The DOS versions of Windows kind of sucked, but everything kind of sucked. It was still immature technology, and no one was doing anything that great by today's standards. They worked with what they had.

Btw, Apple's starting to recommend running A/V. That whopping 2% increase in usage has gotten them targeted more with viruses. Apple isn't any more secure than Windows. It's just that no one gave enough of a shit to go through the trouble of writing viruses nobody would run :^D

Edit:
LoL! at Jeopardy :^D

[BadAxe]

There is nothing better quality than Apple. I have iPad, iPhone, MacBook Pro and wouldn't trade them for the world. All dem Apple haters are just jealous. <awaiting flames>

Thats really funny. Is that part of an act? Cause you will have people rolling if thats stand up. Thanks man. Made my morning.

I recently got the Samsumg Epic (Sprint) and I can not believe how good this phone is. 1st time i have ever raved about one of my cell phones. Its my 3rd droid phone, but this one just rocks. Haven't even had to root it to get it running better. The 4g kicks ass (I am in a big 4g area), the speed is great, very few lockups or freezes, I am just thrilled, and so happy not to have an Iphone. I love my Ipod, but I am not an apple phanboy in anyway. Decent products, but not the end all by any means.

[devilock76]

What is new in windows 7 anyways? Windows doesnt srem to ever get better when they upgrade it, did they get it right this time?

There is one thing that is a definite improvement. SU/SUDO style permissions. Granted not something you can really do at the CLI like in *nix systems but what they started in Vista they got right in Windows 7 (at least as much as Redmond can get something right).

This is significant because of the main reason malware populates so quickly in the consumer Windows world yet does not in the corporate Windows world (as much) nor in *nix systems (as there are *nix viruses). The reason is yoru typical Windows consumer user is logged in as admin all the time. XP and earlier you couldn't do much without that. In the *nix world that is a definitive no no (well Ubuntu and a few other distros don't agree but I digress and if using said distros change that).

Unix people are tought from day 1, you never log in as root. Without this permission set malware is limited to the actions a user account can do. This is what protects *nix systems. In Windows 7 they actually made the run as administrator features work and work without being overly intrusive (like they were in Vista). So my one Windows 7 box at home I actually have an account name root where all admin and installation work is done.

It isn't all roses though. In Windows 7 they changed the whole Windows networking and file/print sharing to something that older windows machines can't connect to (not easily) and so far samba seems to puke at. If it isn't one thing it is another with Windows. I guess they wanted people to have to go all or nothing with Windows if they did any home networking.

Ken