Also helps if it has lots of colourful pictures.
Ran into a pubstomp group in L4D2 the other day. All of them had furry pr0n sprays. After 2 maps I think "Shit, this team is getting fucked. No... wait... furries... shit, we're being yiffed."
Why does this shit randomly go through my mind. 
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
I had an iPhone for 2 years, then moved through a few different Android devices -- a HTC Hero, a Samsung Moment, a Motorola Droid and now a Motorola Droid X. none of these behave all that much differently than the other as I'm seeing in this thread. They all behave relatively similarly to one another.
As for the Droid Incredible and Droid X being proof that "Motorola sees their customers as hostile entities"? Are you a fucking retard, RIG? The Droid Incredible is an HTC product, for one. The stuff about the Droid X bricking itself if people try to hack it? Also been proven false -- the initial rumor gained a shitton of steam when someone leaked that information, and multiple people have proven that it was just that -- a rumor. Hell, the phone was rooted shortly after it came out! And they're getting close to being able to get custom Bootloaders on there. The whole eFuse shit was WAY overblown.
But no, the OS does not play "RADICALLY different" depending on the hardware. The only big difference is the skin that some company puts over it, and said skin does not change the functionality all that much. HTC Sense is fairly close to vanilla Android functionally. It doesn't have "crippling" things on top of it. The worst "offender", Motoblur, is on low end phones that'd run Android like crap anyways, with or without Motoblur. The Motoblur stuff that IS used on the Droid X is easily eliminated (I had it all gone and didn't have to deal with it 5 minutes after I started using my phone). It is entirely too easy to get rid of the "crap" on any of the phones if you don't want it there.
Android OS is damned nice and, for those who are willing to tweak their OS a bit to fit what they want, it is far superior to iOS. That isn't to say iOS is crap -- it is quite good and, when considering phones straight out of the box, is superior. The power and functionality of Android OS comes from the modifying and changing of the various OS elements to fit what you want to do with your phone. So basically, if you want it to work better out of the box and don't want to tweak stuff, go iPhone. If you can tweak a bit, go Android.
Oh, and for those looking for something iPad like that don't like iOS -- Android tablets are in the pipe and should be out by the end of the year. Falaanla Marr fucked around with this message on 07-31-2010 at 12:59 AM.
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
Setting brand arguments and the like aside, here's a particularly good read on the subject of tablet/slate computing. Damnati fucked around with this message on 08-02-2010 at 10:26 PM.
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java the thoughts aquire speed, the teeth acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
THANKS FOR THE HELP GUYS. I totally don't want to stop posting for another two years anymore. Maradon! fucked around with this message on 08-02-2010 at 10:43 PM.
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Maradon! attempted to be funny by writing:
It's a good thing I posted this thread, I had no idea that a new kindle was coming out in August and you guys were so hot over your tablets that you only barely managed to suggest so.THANKS FOR THE HELP GUYS. I totally don't want to stop posting for another two years anymore.
Given your expressed interest in the Kindle, I assumed you knew; can't speak for anyone else.
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java the thoughts aquire speed, the teeth acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
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Peanut butter ass Shaq Steven Steve booooze lime pole over bench lick:
Does the new Kindle have proper .pdf, .txt., .doc, .djvu, .htm, etc. support or do I have to jizz all over Jeff Bezos's face again?
I don't even know but improved .pdf support is listed as one of the reasons they are coming out with a new version.
