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Second quarter could show the first year on year decline in Apple iPad sales
0. phoneArena 25 May 2013, 08:18 posted on
After almost three years of dominating the tablet industry, the Apple iPad has seen its hold on the market start to crack; according to KGI analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, shipments of Apple's slate may show a year-over-year decline for the current quarter. This has never happened before to the iPad and Kuo expects to see a sequential decline in shipments from the first quarter as well...
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1. mafiaprinc3 (Posts: 532; Member since: 07 May 2012)
great news for apple,now come with something new and not the same "the new ipad" with the same look and software updates
10. anywherehome (Posts: 971; Member since: 13 Dec 2011)
Forget anything new except for a robbery from Android...... as usual
17. lyndon420 (Posts: 4405; Member since: 11 Jul 2012)
What? Apple won't create anything new, but Google is going to somehow steal it anyway? Just kidding....I know what you meant.
70. anywherehome (Posts: 971; Member since: 13 Dec 2011)
You mean stolen statusbar and almost every new feature iOS5,6 stolen from Android? Deal with that...... almost Every new feature of iOS is a robbery from Android, just search in Google:
"ios5 rip-off android"
Without quotes
Deal with that :-)
81. darkkjedii (Posts: 21369; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)
Normally you count everything out. What happened?
23. appleDOESNT.com (banned) (Posts: 456; Member since: 19 Nov 2011)
What does the world expect? The 5th ipad in 3 years and all 5 are $500 plus and pretty much the same thing. Ya, all the iSeeps have theirs (so no one else is buying them now) and even they are sick of plunking down another $600 for the same ol same ol iPad
36. Droiddoes (unregistered)
That's the wrongest thing I've heard all day.
39. amiaq (Posts: 509; Member since: 30 Jun 2012)
Yeah!! Android are stealing apple customers!! What are you going to do about it?
95. anywherehome (Posts: 971; Member since: 13 Dec 2011)
To clap with a satisfaction :-)
19. fanboy1974 (Posts: 1345; Member since: 12 Nov 2011)
Apple still has a chance with the iPhone brand but the tablets will never have the same domination. While I see Apple releasing a $200 on contract 5" iPhone (within the next 3 years; lol) I don't see Apple wanting to price battle with Android. Google does it better at a cheaper price.
35. darth8ball (Posts: 520; Member since: 02 Aug 2011)
Tim Cook already said the iPhone screen will not get bigger
38. Droiddoes (unregistered)
Yup. Just another example of apple REFUSING to listen to what their customers want, and TELLING them what apple feels they need.
Which is fine by me, I am very curious to see just how far their stock can drop.
64. TROLL (banned) (Posts: 4851; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
I"m with you all the way!
Apple deep down south!
69. faisolbauuz (Posts: 121; Member since: 05 Jan 2013)
Isnt steve jobs already said 3.5 inch is ideal size for phones and doesnt want to make it bigger ?
75. Droiddoes (unregistered)
Jobs is dead and buried, who gives a f*ck what he thought?
80. darkkjedii (Posts: 21369; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)
You're alive, and no one gives a crap what you think. Yeah yeah yeah meathead, cartoon life, no job family or friends, only happiness is being hated on PA. Did I get it all?
82. Droiddoes (unregistered)
LMAO, damn kid I got RIGHT under your skin didn't I? SO MUCH butthurt. Drink a juice box and go lift something heavy. Lift it out, Tiny.
85. darkkjedii (Posts: 21369; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)
No you could never get under my skin. It's just so much fun having you try, and I'll be enjoying it every time you post. I just like manipulating you, it's really funny making you think of stuff to say. Now get to it.
87. Droiddoes (unregistered)
OK pal, keep telling yourself that. You'll enjoy it right up until the point you Hulk out and have another meltdown LOL
2. SonyFindOneDroidple (Posts: 797; Member since: 11 May 2013)
I am waiting for ios7
High hopes set
4. xperiaDROID (banned) (Posts: 5629; Member since: 08 Mar 2013)
You better set your hope to Medium, don't set it too high.
I'm waiting for the iOS 7 as well and my hope is medium because I don't want to get too disappointed if something disappointing happens. If you know what I mean.
Medium hope set.
7. SonyFindOneDroidple (Posts: 797; Member since: 11 May 2013)
Ah i see, just like the announcemnt of galaxy s4. The expectations were too high..
The recent concept render of ios7 was really sexy and classy. If any android manufacturer can produce something like that, i will be a hardcore fanboy.. i just cant figure out why these android manufacturers do not want to move away from traditional stock android style.. i mean there are android launchers out there with classy and different look, example the buzz launcher, the homepacks are really classy :)
14. xperiaDROID (banned) (Posts: 5629; Member since: 08 Mar 2013)
Yes, I agree with you, the recent concept render of iOS 7 was really sexy and classy.
Android manufacturers don't want to move away from traditional stock Android style is because........Well, you know how to say "traditional stock Android style" right? Android manufacturers don't want to move away because stock Android is Android's own traditional style. That's why Android is the best because it is highly customizable, if you don't like stock Android or the manufacturer's own UI, you can customize it with many launchers.
I hope you will get what I mean. lol My english is not so good..
15. SonyFindOneDroidple (Posts: 797; Member since: 11 May 2013)
Yah you're right. Im just looking for an android manufacturer that will give something different so that "first touch and look will BOOm impress me " haha
5. mafiaprinc3 (Posts: 532; Member since: 07 May 2012)
seriously,your giving the guy a thumbs down because he is waiting for ios 7 and have high hopes set,get a life idiots
6. xperiaDROID (banned) (Posts: 5629; Member since: 08 Mar 2013)
Not me, I gave him a thumbs up.
9. SonyFindOneDroidple (Posts: 797; Member since: 11 May 2013)
Ask doctor who. Comment #3 haha
66. TROLL (banned) (Posts: 4851; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
That's right!
And looks like you're one of them? Well you actually are!
You're the "Drone " ! Not us, you i$???p™
12. anywherehome (Posts: 971; Member since: 13 Dec 2011)
Hopes just for a colour change and another row of icons? :-)
13. SonyFindOneDroidple (Posts: 797; Member since: 11 May 2013)
S***.. When can people learn to wait before throwing anything?
If it will just be a simple color change and another row of icon( which i doubt because they will stick with 4inchs display) then meH!
But Apple should've learned something now and making difference
94. anywherehome (Posts: 971; Member since: 13 Dec 2011)
deal with that Apple steals, rip-offs Android...experience is valuable and good aiming ;)
just dealt with that:
goo DOT gl/NM0so
goo DOT gl/Lp12u
3. Doctor.Who (Posts: 5; Member since: 23 May 2013)
Apple's iDown ...
8. RaKithAPeiRiZ (Posts: 1488; Member since: 29 Dec 2011)
how about a $99 firesale ....
11. Dorothy69 (banned) (Posts: 498; Member since: 21 May 2013)
"One is the large number of cheap 7 inch Android tablets that have been flooding the market"
Yeah and, ironically, a lot more can be done with those so-called "cheap" 7-inch tablets.
Ipads are for little farm mammals that spend their days grazing; REAL folks don't have time to graze.
16. bucky (Posts: 2583; Member since: 30 Sep 2009)
I don't get when fan droids say this. Besides gimmicks, what can an iPad not do that a droid tablets can??
18. tedkord (Posts: 11733; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
It depends on your definition of gimmick. Apple fans call Samsung features gimmicks, but I find many to be extremely useful. Smart stay is brilliant, and so is smart rotation. Their camera apps are awesome. Gesture based features, like direct call and silence when face down are good, too.
I have found that when it comes to features, most fan boys consider any feature the competition has as gimmicky, any feature their device has as innovation at its finest.
22. SonyFindOneDroidple (Posts: 797; Member since: 11 May 2013)
+1 but not just Apple fans,,..
Please include multi-window, samsung link, sidesync, palm swipe to screencapture, sNote, spen, Knox, more NFC capabilities than others, etc etc
How can people hate a manufacturer that knows how to make a smartphone smarter. A manufacturer that doesn't rely on hardware specs bumps. A manufacturer that continuously providing difference in software. A manufacturer that even a Galaxy Music (a low-end with dual front speakers) will have jelly bean.
26. bucky (Posts: 2583; Member since: 30 Sep 2009)
All of the above is done on the iPad through one app or another. I still don't see anything that the iPad can't do.
I don't hate Samsung at all, in fact if I were to get an android again I would probably go Samsung. I just don't like the mindless bashing of a quality tablet based on fanboism alone.
The main things that keep me with the iPad are
-screen mirroring (wirelessly and seemless for xbmc)
-great selection of optimized apps
-smoothest and lag free
-seemless connection with other apple products
-battery life
-quick to charge
-change songs of 3rd party apps using the headset
-apple warranty in store
-software updates right away with the rest of my apple products
The mirroring and changing songs through headset is the biggest thing for me and I have yet to find android versions.
28. Dorothy69 (banned) (Posts: 498; Member since: 21 May 2013)
Let me translate your post:
The main things that keep me with the iPad are
-screen mirroring (wirelessly and seemless for xbmc)
I have a friend who tried the same thing and when he had problems he called Apple; they said they were working on a new accessory called iMirror.
-great selection of optimized apps
And, they all cost $10.99 (monthly, each)
All new because the old ones from my iPad 2 are all iObsolete.
-smoothest and lag free
(Unlike your wife)
-seemless connection with other apple products
Through a revolutionary Thunderport plus accessories (sold separately)
-battery life
You use it at Starbucks like everyone else and keep it plugged in (that's why it never dies before you get home to plug it back in).
-quick to charge
At Starbucks (only if there's an available outlet because you have to compete with the other iPads and iPhones).
-change songs of 3rd party apps using the headset
OMG, can't break a nail doing it the other way
-apple warranty in store
Because you need to be just as co-dependant as everyone else making an appointment at the Genius Bar.
-software updates right away with the rest of my apple products
Until they discontinue all your other products and you have to buy a brand new everything (again).
The real reason you love it so much is because you've spent thousands on everything you need to make that wittle Pad work the way it should.
29. bucky (Posts: 2583; Member since: 30 Sep 2009)
Insulting ones wife over the net behind a keyboard.....mighty ballsy of you. I simply stated my points about iPads in an iPad article.
Your parents buy you everything or my tax money so it's easy for you to bash others choices.
Btw, you still didn't disprove anything.
30. WHoyton1 (Posts: 1635; Member since: 21 Feb 2013)
you want to know why i choose android over ios every time...here i go (bare in mind im goin out in an hour so sadly this list will have to be shorter than it should be...)
1.apps-apple doesnt have keyboard replecement or launchers does it? (and dont give me that bs that the ipad keyboard is already perfect...)
2. Choice-i can choose between hundreds of brands from the mighty Samsung to the unheard of chinese brands...so if one of them doesnt cut it the others will...
3. customization-the amount of apps, morphs , ROMs etc. you can find on android out numbers ios 10000000 to 1!
4. Flash-yes i can use flash you cant haha
5. Ópen Source- Whatever you say....closed source has nothing on open source!
6.UI- omg they added and extra row of icons that improves the ui sooooo much....is what i would never say.....
7. Support-Apples support is useless compared to support offered by samsung or google
8.Selecting default applications to open files.
9.Making Chrome my default browser.
10.Viewing apps, no matter what folder they're in, in an alphabetical list.
11.Installing different keyboards -- for example, Swype.
12.Viewing windows containing a live feed of appointments or emails (widgets).
13.Using any micro-USB cable to charge my phone, tablet or Kindle.
14.Receiving automatic, unattended updates to the operating system and applications.
15.Making multiple aliases for apps, not simply moving apps around.
16.Using Google Now [Google's search app and personal assistant].
17.Viewing summaries of notification messages. For example, "25 new messages" instead of 25 individual notices.
18.Using NFC [near field communications -- radio technology that enables two devices to wirelessly trade data when they are within close range of each other].
need anymore reasons just contact me ;)
31. bucky (Posts: 2583; Member since: 30 Sep 2009)
I fully agree with many of those points. In my situation, i have already spent countless hours on xda and outside of it. Changing and moving and poking and flashing etc was getting old for me and i just wanted something that did everything straight from the box.
1-keyboard is pretty much perfect
2-always nice to have choice of different brands
3-dont care for customization as everything is a touch away as it is
4-flash is ok but im finding less and less requirement for it on a tablet. still nice to have i guess
5-im definitely a pc guy so i get what youre saying there but again, its nice having one rock solid OS-both have their benefits
6-UI is a matter of choice
7-apples support is the best bar none
8-default apps i have no argument for. Hoping they update that (probably not though)
9-believe it or not chrome was very laggy when i had the nexus 4. Safari is a great browser too
10-i can sort apps as i choose
11-again, really think apple pretty much nailed it with the keyboard.
12-i have an icon i can just tap on.
13-i do miss having that but $5 at the local flea market gets me a new cable
14-auto updates are in IOS
15-not sure what you mean there.
16-Apple has google now. too much drain for me
17-i have an icon for that.
18-nfc has yet to be important for me as i have not seen it yet.
Honestly, i get what youre saying and understand your viewpoints but again, its all there on apple in a simpler fashion which is what i want at this point. It is pretty damn boring though.
33. WHoyton1 (Posts: 1635; Member since: 21 Feb 2013)
Yeh...well...I guess it's all about what the user prefers and in your case it's iOS, I would have loved to change your mind but I can see I'm not going to lol :)
34. bucky (Posts: 2583; Member since: 30 Sep 2009)
Oh no. I'm still back and forth about the 2. Sometimes I wish I could afford both lol.
If IOS 7 doesn't have something new I'm probably jumping ship as I'm due for a new upgrade in October.
47. darkkjedii (Posts: 21369; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)
Ok that's why YOU choose android, but countless others choose iPads. Just like what you like and don't worry about the others. How hard is that? Bash the iPad all you want...it'll only keep you away from it. You bash it while others bank on it, watch movies on it, and just do what they do, and enjoy it... Who cares dude? I mean really when all your bashing is done and you're done pounding you're chest feeling all big, cuz you insulted someone's wife on the web, and not to their face cuz you'd get your a** whipped and you know it...who cares mr Internet bully?
51. InspectorGadget80 (unregistered)
Ok Mr. Bully u bas on every article bout android. You're still blind as a bat and don't want too admit android evolve faster than apple ios. No COMPANY have the right too BAN A product when we the consumer giving our hard earn cash too a product we want too buy. Y cause Apple don't want too compete or end up like they were during the 90s.
53. darkkjedii (Posts: 21369; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)
I never bash android. Stop lying and start proving it by posting the link to he article I bash on. You are a liar so prove it post the link
54. darkkjedii (Posts: 21369; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)
And for the record I've said several time that android has made far greater strides during its existence than iOS has. Stop lying and post the link that shows me bashing android.., liar
55. Droiddoes (unregistered)
LMAO @ dat roid rage! Best meltdown I've seen in a while LOL.
58. darkkjedii (Posts: 21369; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)
Dude you couldn't make me mad no matter how hard you tried. As far as the rood rage joke though, thank you. I take that as a compliment, cuz I know how you and most other techies look...fat couch potatoes or skinny wimps. I'm huge gard handsome, or tall dark and handsome bro. You're jealous cuz you don't look like me. I notice all you do now is comment a "Roid Rage" insult thinking it'll make me mad...nope, but it does make me happy. All mine is natural the result of hard work bro lol. Now back to inspetorgadget80, he's a liar, you are a jealous hater, and I'm a stud. I also love red thumbs cuz it means I'm pissing off android fanboys NOT android user in general.
76. Droiddoes (unregistered)
LOL nah u MAD
78. darkkjedii (Posts: 21369; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)
Lol nah you keep trying though, my fiancé and I find it funny. Faceless nameless, random text on the web can never reach me. Until next time, and think of some good ones. You've seem to have run outta stuff to say over the months. Reminder: cartoon life, no job, family, or friends ummmm oh yeah only happiness is getting hated on PA. That should help you out. And here's a +1 for ya bro
83. Droiddoes (unregistered)
You sure about that, because you sure seem fixated and remember things I said that I had forgotten about. While I am touched that I am such a memorable presence in your life, it is too funny that you actually show/discuss being trolled with your fiance. I am sure she was very impressed with how you got destroyed by my pointing out you have the english and spelling skills of a dim witted 5th grader.
LMAO, literally tells his wife to be, you are so pathetic dude.
86. darkkjedii (Posts: 21369; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)
More is needed from you bro. I liked the old you more, bring back the old droiddoes. As jigga says "we don't believe you, you need more people" lol. Go hard or go home puppy.
88. Droiddoes (unregistered)
Can someone translate that from "ghetto ass retard" to English for me?
48. darkkjedii (Posts: 21369; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)
Bucky just let em talk man, buy what Bucky likes and kick back and enjoy Buckys purchase.
67. TROLL (banned) (Posts: 4851; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
Shut up, go away! You are a disgrace to society and public®
46. darkkjedii (Posts: 21369; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)
You put all that thought into that creative, and utterly useless post. If that post was designed to persuade him to ditch his iPad, you failed. If that post was designed to make him dislike the iPad, you failed. If that post was designed simply to insult the iPad and turn people away from it, you failed. The iPads sales have gotten smaller due to the saturation of good tablets on the market, combined, with those waiting for the next iPad like myself. I'm still using my iPad 3... When the iPad launched it had complete market share obviously, however all the android and windows tablets put together aren't outselling the iPad... They're simply cutting into its market share like they should. The larger iPads, and the mini are out selling their counterparts. The iPad has like 46-50% and the others make up the rest. My numbers might be off a little, but name one non iPad that has outsold the iPad for that model year, and not just for 30 days or a quarter, but for the year. It's easy to come on PA, and insult people for their choice of the iPad...funny thing is, droiders praise choice but only when that choice is android. The iPad has its quirks just like android windows, and BB tablets, yet it consistently outsells them, and outperforms them where it counts most...customer satisfaction rate, and globally being catered to. Automakers, hotels, factories, airlines, hospitals, schools, colleges, the NFL, NBA, and NASA use the iPad yet you claim it sucks. It's light weight, portable, fast, intuitive, gets steady updates, is catered to by tons OS businesses, has the highest customer satisfaction rate, and the smallest return rate, great battery life, a friggin gazillion iPad optimized apps, and extremely high resale value...tell me how that sucks. Oh I know specs lol no quad core lmao...news flash the people who drive iPad sales, you know the ones called the mainstream consumer, you know the ones that number in the hundreds of millions unlike we techies. Yeah them, they don't care about specs, they care about performance...the iPad performs the best, and sells the most, and is returned the least. Why do you think MS is attacking the iPad in its ads and not android? Attack the top dog not the also rans.
56. Droiddoes (unregistered)
Did we abolish paragraphs while I wasn't looking or something? No one is going to read that wall of text.
61. darkkjedii (Posts: 21369; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)
You did idiot. That's why you commented lmao. Dude you're a joke, I actually like having my own personal little troll who follows my posts like a puppy following his master. I own you dude you're my troll puppy lol. Now make sure to type a good comment to this. Droiddoes LMAOOOOO what a F'ing joke.


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. - Northeast State Community College is nearing the completion of design work for the Downtown Center renovation in Johnson City.
We learned once the plans are finalized, the college will issue bids for construction. There will be two phases to the building process, but by the end, they hope to have 17 classrooms.
President of the College, Dr. Janis Gilliam says they're on a tight schedule. "We're hoping to get the classes up and running next fall. It's going to be a little tight with the construction, but we're looking forward and are very excited about it, hoping to get classes off and going next fall," she said.
We're told, the building's exterior has been renovated with a new coat of paint and signage will be placed on the building very soon.

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For entertainment what would you do?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4K6ZxDwi34 or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3UHIDmvJ6o ~( Alucard God of Death. Otaku God. 10,000 points. Ich Will "I want" My Reich)~
~Sometimes I wish life could be as simple as a beautiful painting/drawing. But In truth to the artist its never that simple.~
Sometimes I wish life could be as simple as a beautiful painting/drawing. But In truth to the artist its never that simple.
or do something random :D =D
currently playing legend of zelda, conkers bad fur day, tak and the guardians of gross, and ratchet and clank going commando
i love legend of zelda im currently trying to get twilght princess :D =D
i got it emulated into my laptop and it sucks dik...only cuz of the controls
i hate games on the computer especially racing games :D =D
i finally beat the game!!!
all four bottles
all weapons and items
killed every skulltula
and today pwnd Ganondorf
I watch movies from net.I am big movie freak. so for this i watch movies for entertainment.
Zelda is awesome but I have to say I HATED Wind Waker. Orcarina of time was the best, right now I'm playing Shadow Man The Second Coming and Soul Caliber, I'm reading The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory, and watching Trinity Blood, In manga I'm reading The Loudest Whisper vol 2 IIILove... is just a different kind of pain.
i just couldnt beat it :. :) =) =D
same here, i almost beat it, but i was ten and got confused at the ganondorf part lol
~Nan Kuru Nai-Sah~
i was confussed at the cave part close to the end :D =D
u mean the one in the graveyard?
at gordons cave (well the part after that when u have to help the gordon people) =)
lol, but yea i kno that place...u dont play it anymore right?
it's on the nitendo 64
plus MM
i like to play mines but the controllors are sorta broke
met a guy who fixes them and i bought two new ones :P
i'll just go to preplay and buy new ones =D
Love... is just a different kind of pain.
i was confussed at the cave part close to the end :D =D
Love... is just a different kind of pain.
to me that game is hard, im the only one in my house to not beat it >_< (execpt my mom)
< =D =) =. :D :) :. =P =f =B =b =O =X XD >D 8D 8) =5 =E =H :P :B X) >) 0) -) -D 0D o_O >
According to me it is good movie.


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SUMMERTON South Carolina wildlife officials say a dead manatee has been found on Lake Marion, more than 100 miles from the Atlantic Ocean.
The state Department of Natural Resources said the manatees carcass was found Tuesday, and the animal likely died from the recent cold weather, although wildlife officials will examine the body.
Experts say manatees arent unusual off the South Carolina coast, and they sometimes end up in freshwater rivers as they move around the East Coast looking for food. But they say it is unusual that this manatee managed to make it up the Cooper River and through the dams and locks on Lake Moultrie into Lake Marion.
Wildlife officials say they did get a few reports of a manatee in the lake before the animal was found dead.


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Analyzing Google Analytics
Carpenters are admonished to measure twice but cut once — a reminder that good decisions flow from good data. Getting things right at the outset means less time and money spent fixing things later — or rebuilding from the ground up.
So what's carpentry have to do with the web?
Think of Google Analytics as a virtual tape measure. It helps anyone — from Web pros to business owners like you — understand how your site is performing. It also helps you identify where "remodeling" is needed to improve the user experience or boost sales.
Here's how it works:
- Google Analytics reports — generated by installing the Google Analytics Tracking Code — tell you how many unique visitors you have, how popular certain pages are, and how much time people spend on certain pages.
- From there, the data can be interpreted to tell you more about your site performance. For instance, are users visiting a page in droves but scurrying away just as quick? High "bounce rates" for seemingly popular pages could mean that the page is failing to meet users' expectations, perhaps because of poor design or outdated content.
- Additional Google Analytics features — Custom Reports and Advanced Segments —allow you test the effectiveness of certain types of landing pages. The Google Analytics blog highlights these tools by taking us through a fictional e-commerce website that sells empanadas, and showing how to encourage each visitor to purchase as many treats as possible.
By using Google Analytics to measure what you're doing now — and test what's working and what's not — you can create a structure solid enough to build on in the future.
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Picking the Right Browser
What if you developed a website based on a content management system optimized for one or two browsers? And then found out that your client is using neither — and can't access your system or tools?
Say "buh-bye" to your new business.
Or, what if you sign a contract with a new online vendor for a key business process — accounting, for instance — only to find out that the application runs on an outmoded browser, forcing your entire team to ditch their upgrade or run two different versions of the same browser, one to work with the application, and one for everything else?
Say "buh-bye" to your sanity.
The new choice in browsers — with Firefox, Opera, Safari, and Google Chrome challenging the still-dominant Internet Explorer (IE) — is forcing us to change the way we think about and choose browsers.
A central question in evaluating Web browsers is this: What, exactly, does your business — or your customers — do online?
Do you rely on Web-based applications for many of your business processes? If so, picking a compatible browser is vital — as is making sure it remains so even as new versions of the application are released.
Many Web-based applications will run on almost all browsers, but exceptions abound. Constant Contact, the well-known Web-based email marketing tool, supports some browsers but not others (one of its rivals, Vertical Response, also works best in Firefox or IE). As eWEEK recently noted, other applications will run on most browsers, but may not perform optimally in each.
If you are developing online products or experiences for your customers, are you assuming everyone will gain access using the same browser? If so, you might be making a big — and costly — mistake. More and more people are attracted to different browsers for different reasons, so taking the time to find out where they are — um, browser-wise — might go a long way to establishing good customer relations and generating repeat business.
A single solution for picking the best browser probably eludes us, but here are a few tips:
- Evaluate what you're doing most online to make sure your choice of browser won't conflict with your online applications, slow you down, crash your systems, or frustrate your staff.
- Investigate and test browsers to see which one — or which mix of two or more — works best for certain tasks.
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Kyaw Soe, who moved to Buffalo from Burma, speaks eight languages – and he needed all of them Friday.
Inside the new 9,000-square-foot Vineeta International Foods market on Grant Street, two blocks north of West Ferry, people from India, Iraq, Burma, Nepal, Bangladesh and other distant lands, explored the aisles and sampled Indian dishes that included samosas, jalbe, ladoo and chai.
They were there for the market's grand opening, and Soe, an employee, helped customers as they perused the large selection of produce, frozen foods, grains, flours and spices intended for a growing immigrant population.
"The response is very, very good. Whatever I was hoping, more than that," said Sujata Chauhan, who owns the market with her husband, Rajender.
A lifelong vegetarian, she was born in a village near Delhi and has a bachelor's degree in English and mathematics from a college she and her husband attended. The couple opened their grocery store with little fanfare a month ago.
Shoppers expressed gratitude at being able to find products previously unavailable or hard to find in the region.
"We need this type of market for Buffalo, an Indian and Pakistani and Bangladesh market," said Mdrezaur Rahman, a U.S. citizen from Bangladesh.
"This is exciting, the first time in Buffalo we have a very big Indian store and a lot of varieties," said Bobby Varun, shopping for ingredients for Delhi Chaat, the Indian restaurant he owns in Amherst. "The prices are very good, and I wish them good luck with their new business."
The Chauhans own the similar but considerably smaller Lincoln Park Market on Niagara Falls Boulevard, nearly six miles away.
They first considered opening a market on the West Side after observing more and more customers from immigrant communities arriving by car or bus to shop.
That led them to buy the building near Breckenridge Street, which previously housed Aaron's Rental Center, for $400,000.
The couple received assistance from Buffalo's Office of Strategic Development, the Common Council and Buffalo State College Small Business Development Center, which helped them with planning, financing and finding investors.
"We're pretty excited when an immigrant family, entrepreneurs, decide to marshal resources, put together a very strong strategic plan, work with the investment community, the City of Buffalo and the council members, and buy this amazingly large building and set up this rocking store right here in the city," said Susan McCartney, who directs the Buffalo State center.
It's the second big investment by Indian immigrants on the block. In September, brothers Lakhi and Mathon Singh bought Frontier Liquor, across the street,
While Vineeta International Foods primarily offers food and spices from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal, it stocks plenty of offerings from Indochina, the Middle East and Africa, as well as some dairy and grocery items found in typical Buffalo stores.
Sujata Chauhan said if customers don't see what they're looking for, she will try to order it.
Vineeta – named for the Chauhan's 13-year-old daughter – also offers wholesale prices for small ethnic stores and restaurants.
They plan to add at least one more aisle, more freezer cases, refrigerated cases for produce and to possibly experiment with offering prepared meals.
"Sue and Raj have done a tremendous job," said Mayor Byron W. Brown. "There are a lot of offerings from India and around the world to serve the growing international community and population we have in the City of Buffalo, and in particular the West Side. I think this will definitely be a catalyst for further development."
Assemblyman Sean Ryan also hailed the newest addition to a struggling section of Grant Street that's in transition.
"It's great in many ways. There are several vacant buildings on Grant Street, but it serves the community, it's in a long-vacant building, and it shows a great commercial interest. We've seen movement," Ryan said.
Diane Hinman, who lives in Kenmore and works downtown, searched shelves that held roasted fennel seeds, basmati rice, lentils and crushed chili powder, imagining the culinary possibilities.
"I would just love to learn to cook some of these. I found the gee [clarified butter], and specially made noodles, and I'm going to try to construct a recipe after talking to the owner," Hinman said.
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Situated in the historical district, this hotel is within a 15-minute walk of Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Company and Museum and Portland Observatory. Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Children's Museum of Maine are also within 1 mi (2 km).
Hotel Features
Along with an indoor pool, this smoke-free hotel has a fitness center and a bar/lounge. Free full breakfast is provided, as well as free WiFi in public areas, a free airport shuttle, and a free manager's reception. Additionally, a spa tub, a 24-hour business center, and a conference center are onsite.
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In addition to an indoor pool, Residence Inn by Marriott Portland Downtown Waterfront provides a spa tub and a fitness center. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast as well as a complimentary manager's reception (may not be available daily). A computer station is located on site and high-speed wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary.
This 3-star property offers access to a 24-hour business center and meeting rooms. Event facilities measuring 3000 square feet (279 square meters) include a conference center. This business-friendly hotel also offers barbecue grills, coffee/tea in a common area, and concierge services. An area shuttle within 3 mi and a roundtrip airport shuttle at scheduled times are complimentary for guests. Onsite parking is available (surcharge).
Residence Inn by Marriott Portland Downtown Waterfront is a smoke-free property.
- 24-hour front desk
- Free airport transportation
- Total number of rooms - 179
- Number of floors - 5
- Bar/lounge
- Barbecue grill(s)
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Guests are offered a complimentary full breakfast. The hotel offers a complimentary manager's reception on select days.
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An indoor pool and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a fitness center.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
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- Golf lessons available nearby
- Segway rental/tour nearby
To make special requests for accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
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Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
- Pets allowed for an extra charge of USD 100 per stay
- 2 per room
- Specific rooms only, restrictions apply
- Pet-friendly rooms can be requested by contacting the property at the number on the booking confirmation
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- No onsite parking is available.
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No rollaway/extra beds available
Noise-free rooms not guaranteed
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- Self parking fee: USD 12 per day
- Pet fee: USD 100 per stay
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The Powder Magazine will celebrate its 300th anniversary at 11 a.m. Saturday. South Carolina historian Walter Edgar will talk, and its new exhibit will be unveiled. The public is invited. For more information, contact Info@Powder Magazine.org.Its normal hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday-Saturday and 1-4 p.m. Sunday.
It outlasted a plot to blow it up, a poor design and more than 250 years of functional obsolescence.
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100,000Approximate number of bricks used to build structure3 feetThickest part of brick walls$400,000Cost of renovation in the 1990s13 yardsDistance from a 1700s mortar strike(Its closest known call) 4Number of its distinctive groin arches(used in the design so the building would implode in case of an explosion)Other livesThe Powder Magazine also has been used as a stable, a wine cellar and a print shop.
Charleston's Powder Magazine — which marks its 300th birthday next week and is widely considered South Carolina's oldest public building — is nothing if not a survivor.
The 900-square-foot brick and stucco hut at 79 Cumberland St. stored gunpowder for only a few decades since it was built in 1713. It has had a far longer stint as one of the city's smallest museums.
While the building itself is very old, its exhibits are brand-new, said Alan Stello, director of the Powder Magazine and author of "Arsenal of History," a new book on the magazine's rich past.
"We went around the whole room and updated everything," he said. "For the first time in its history, the story of the Powder Magazine has been properly told."
The story begins in the early 18th century, when Charles Towne was the only walled city in English North America, and the colonists chose a spot along its northern wall to store powder.
It was built with about 100,000 bricks and designed so its roof would blow off should the gunpowder inside ever ignite — minimizing damage to nearby people and buildings.
But the magazine was considered obsolete as early as the 1740s, as the city's walls began to come down and new homes and churches began sprouting up next door, said Nicholas Butler, public historian with the Charleston County Library.
Meanwhile, its architecture was sturdy but not effective in controlling the Lowcountry's sticky climate.
"It's mostly brick, but there was a wooden-frame floor and elements in other parts of it. They were experiencing pretty significant rot, and the powder was spoiling because of humidity," Butler said.
A $400,000 renovation a decade ago found that its roof leaked, probably for centuries, and its design included timbers in the walls and foundation that rotted away long ago, compounding structural problems. It has had several roofs and several floors.
"It's a wonderful, tough old building," Butler said, "but as a powder magazine, it was never that successful."
However, it was lucky.
In 1731, it managed to dodge destruction when an informant foiled a plot to blow it up as a diversion to steal from nearby homes.
In 1780, a mortar shell fell within 13 yards of the building, in what might have been its closest call. (The building was empty of powder during the Union Army's 567-day siege at the end of the Civil War. In fact, the Manigault family used it to store thousands of bottles of Madeira wine when that war began).
Its survival also reflects the power of the press.
In 1897, The News and Courier (a forerunner of this newspaper) published a plea to save relics from the city's colonial past.
The newly formed National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of South Carolina took heed and made the Powder Magazine its first project five years later, Stello said.
That's when they purchased it for $1,000 from the family that had owned the property for generations.
As a result, the building also plays a uniquely important role in the story of Charleston's preservation movement: It was Charleston's first building purchased specifically to be saved for its historical significance.
Evan Thompson, director of the Preservation Society of Charleston, said, "Looking back at the history of preservation in Charleston, it's a landmark in that regard."
Robert Russell, an architectural historian with the College of Charleston, said the Lowcountry has lost its earliest buildings — those built shortly after the first English colonists arrived in 1670.
"Charleston doesn't have a lot of colonial architecture, so we tend to exalt the stuff we've got," he said.
Not only does the magazine survive from the colonial era, it has not been substantially expanded or rebuilt.
There are no frills here, no heating or air conditioning, and no restrooms, public or private — just a few light bulbs.
"Its essential form is intact. It was a simple building, and it remains so," Russell said. "It's not hard to imagine what it looked like when it was first built."
So in a city whose preservation hinges on finding creative new uses for old buildings, the Powder Magazine is a sort of exception — a building that has survived largely because of how well it has marked the passage of time.
Maybe more than any other downtown landmark, it reflects how the heavily militarized colonial Charleston has given way to a picturesque city considered among the world's top vacation spots.
"It's a beloved building," Russell said, "not so much because it's all that useful for stuff, but because it's a standing reminder of the long history of the city, which is a good thing."
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Surrogate Model Algorithms for Computationally Expensive Black-Box Global Optimization Problems
Müller, Juliane
Publication type: Doctoral dissertation
Issue date: 2012-11-28
Belongs to: Tampereen teknillinen yliopisto. Julkaisu - Tampere University of Technology. Publication;1092
University: Tampereen teknillinen yliopisto - Tampere University of Technology
Faculty: Luonnontieteiden ja ympäristötekniikan tiedekunta – Faculty of Science and Environmental Engineering
Department: Matematiikan laitos – Department of Mathematics
Surrogate models (also called response surface models or metamodels) have been widely used in the literature to solve continuous black-box global optimization problems that have computationally expensive objective functions. Different surrogate models such as radial basis functions, kriging, multivariate adaptive regression splines, and polynomial regression models have been used in various applications. It is in general however unknown which model will perform best for a given application, and computation time restrictions do not allow trying different models. Thus, in the first part of this thesis, a family of algorithms (SO-M, SO-M-c, SO-M-s) based on using a mixture of surrogate models is developed. The second part of the thesis extends the research in using surrogate models for mixed-integer (algorithm SO-MI) and purely integer (algorithms SO-I) optimization problems. Finally, a real world application problem arising in the agricultural land use management of a watershed is examined (algorithms SO-Ic). The algorithm SO-M uses Dempster-Shafer theory to combine information derived from various model characteristics in order to determine the influence of individual models in the mixture. Extensions of SO-M with respect to the sampling strategy (algorithms SO-M-c and SO-M-s) have been compared in numerical experiments, and it was found that whenever it is a priori unknown which surrogate model should be used, it is advisable to use a mixture model in order to prevent accidentally selecting the worst model. It could be shown that mixture models containing radial basis function interpolants generally work very well, whereas using only polynomial regression models should be avoided. Moreover, algorithms using mixture models often outperform the algorithms that use only the single models that are contributing to the mixture. Although there are many computationally expensive black-box optimization applications that have besides continuous also integer variables, or that have only integer variables, algorithms for solving these types of problems are scarce. In the second part of this thesis two algorithms, namely SO-MI for mixed-integer problems, and SO-I for purely integer problems have been developed and were shown to find accurate solutions for computationally expensive problems with black-box objective functions and possibly black-box constraints. The constraints were treated with a penalty approach and numerical experiments showed that the surrogate model based algorithms outperformed commonly used algorithms for (mixed-) integer problems such as branch and bound, and genetic algorithms. Also NOMAD (Nonsmooth Optimization by Mesh Adaptive Direct Search) has been included in the comparison. NOMAD is suitable for integer and mixed-integer black-box problems, but its performance for these problem types has not been studied in the literature. In the numerical experiments, NOMAD also proved superior as compared to branch and bound and the genetic algorithm, but it performed worse than SO-I and SO-MI for most test problems. Lastly, the algorithm SO-I has been further extended to directly handling constraints with a response surface. The algorithm, SO-Ic, has been developed specifically for a watershed management problem that has only one constraint, but SO-Ic is easily generalizable for problems with more constraints. In the considered application problem parts of the agricultural land in the Cannonsville reservoir watershed in upstate New York have to be retired in order to decrease the total phosphorus runoff to a given limit at minimal cost. A computationally expensive simulation model has to be used to compute the costs and phosphorus runoff. The performance of SO-Ic has been compared to a genetic algorithm, NOMAD, and the discrete dynamically dimensioned search algorithm on three problem instances with different sizes of the feasible region. The surrogate model based algorithm SO-Ic performed also for these problems significantly better than all other algorithms and could be shown to be the most robust.
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6 Things No One Tells You About Living on a Farm
#3. Pollution Becomes a Part of the Landscape
Cities are filthy places filled with filthy people. However, most of them are constantly being cleaned. You see a dirty diaper on the street every now and then, but it's a brand new dirty diaper every day. In the country, no one is there to clean it up. That diaper will stay there until the world's most depressed coyote attempts suicide.
When someone's tractor breaks down, their solution is almost certainly to push it out of the way and get to it later. Within a few months, nature starts to eat it, and now there's a tractor in that spot for the rest of all time. Old combines, plows, tools, trespasser skeletons, cars ... they become landmarks as permanent as trees and home to twice as many wolverines. Most farmers produce as much rusty metal junk as they do food. Plus, every home in the country includes an ancient pump house, barn or shed that is only there for teenage spiders to explore each other's bodies. No one will ever go inside until a horror movie's location scout spots it from the road.
#2. There's No Such Thing as a Vacation
When you live on a farm, you can't leave. It isn't like asking a friend to come over and water your plants. An unmilked cow dies in screaming pain. Unweeded thistles will devour your crops and launch seeds into every neighboring county. Your sprinkler system is watching for your truck to drive away so it can malfunction and turn your garden into a mud wrestling pit.
If you let an egg sit under a chicken over the weekend, its yolk turns from a delicious breakfast into a veiny fetus. Once a week I had to drive a riding lawn mower past the hives of my dad's irritable, lunatic bees, and I still say cracking eggs open was the most stressful job on the farm. Each egg I cracked had a higher and higher chance of dropping a face and placenta into the bowl, and I was raised American, so we only ate face and placenta on Chinese New Year.
The maintenance required to keep a farm going never ends. You can handle it in two ways: hiring workers or breeding workers. People in the country don't have sex with donkeys because it's fun -- they're trying to create centaur children to work their fields. Which brings me to my next point ...
#1. In the Country, All Your Neighbors Are Insane
No one likes their neighbors. For instance, every time Mexico scores a goal, mine blow an air horn until it's just an ordinary can. But they are infinitely better than the neighbor who pulled a shotgun on me and my brother when we were playing Rambo too close to his cabin. I was 8 and he was 11, and this madman actually shrieked the words, "GET OFF MY PROPERTY!" In a way it was flattering that a grown man saw us and went straight for the shotgun, since despite our headbands and M60-like sticks, we would have run like hell from a lunatic with only a shovel or a kitchen knife.
Wild hermits are unusual, but everyone in the country owns a gun, and like all gun owners they fantasize all day about using them. I wasn't sure why until we got our first solicitor. When it takes them 30 minutes to get to your front door, Jehovah's Witnesses do not take "Suck my balls" as an answer.
I rode the bus with moon-headed children who were by the very literal definition of the word inbred. I got in a fist fight with one of them in fourth grade, and I have a vivid memory of my deadliest karate blows having no effect on his indefinably wrong face. The house nearest to ours had actual booby traps on it. The point is, people don't move away from civilization because they're normal. My parents did it so that when the Soviets dropped ICBMs on us, we would have a defensible compound. From paratroopers? Mutant survivors? I honestly never asked, but we had enough jam and canned corn to outlast their siege.
I learned how to throw a tomahawk before I learned how to throw a football, which was ridiculous since if we were involved in a ranged altercation, there weren't enough people in the state of Oregon to soak up my family's ammunition supply. My folks used to turn off the electricity on weekends to prepare us for a life of self-sustained everything. I had so many knives and spears stashed in tree forts that my version of Home Alone would have been rated NC-17, and my parents thought that was rad. I should have made it clear earlier that when I said, "In the country, all your neighbors are insane," I was mostly talking to the people living next to me.
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HTC One X+ coming to T-Mobile with 1.7GHz Tegra 3+ processor?
0. phoneArena 25 Jul 2012, 12:13 posted on
That mysterious HTC Era 42 handset that showed up on a leaked T-Mobile screenshot a few weeks ago is apparently the HTC One X+; and what does the plus sign indicate? How about a 1.7GHz Tegra 3 plus processor of course!...
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1. Birds (Posts: 1157; Member since: 21 Nov 2011)
Is this their strategy all along? lol Well to be frank, even thought the Tegra 3 is very efficient, as well as ICS/JB, this will need a 2,500+ Milliamp battery...
26. erikiksaz (Posts: 170; Member since: 22 Apr 2010)
Agreed, no bigger battery = no care.
43. ghostkilla1388 (Posts: 50; Member since: 11 Jun 2012)
Bigger battery in the same size foot print or smaller = awesome!
47. Jasonhunterx (Posts: 111; Member since: 20 Jul 2011)
battery size doesn't actually say how well battery will perform iphone only has 1430Mah an performs great
54. Schuler2828 (Posts: 59; Member since: 04 Jul 2012)
Yeah but it runs apps, Sense I think is the most complicated software there's is constantly running live themes and etc. Therefore you need a bigger battery take out the software and put something that takes less ram and you will have a better battery life.
2. MeoCao (unregistered)
HTC should learn from SG3 to have removable battery and memory expansion slot, and JB is a must.
3. remtothemax (Posts: 260; Member since: 02 May 2012)
okay, this is probably my biggest complaint against android
didn't htc release their "flagship" like only a few months ago?
i would be pissed if i paid two or three hundred for a flagship device
only to have the company undercut me four months later with a better device
i think it's a bigger problem because it isn't even a constant process
it feels like a one two punch kind of a deal
htc with the one x and motorola with the droid razrs relased phones and then quickly updated them
just make it awesome the first time around like the sg3, geez
4. networkdood (Posts: 6330; Member since: 31 Mar 2010)
by the time it gets out to t-mobile, it will probably be 9-12 mnths removed from the last HTC model.
Honestly, it does not bother me because these companies need to produce multiple models for money.
63. Schuler2828 (Posts: 59; Member since: 04 Jul 2012)
Your forgetting the Incredible 4G LTE But I agree with what your saying.
5. Galen20K (Posts: 541; Member since: 26 Dec 2008)
technically it is still basically the same Flagship phone they've already release albeit slightly upgraded, but at its heart still the same phone. having said that I'm excited about that even tho I've already bought and love my 32GB Galaxy S III Pebble blue. Always room for new tech!
48. KParks23 (Posts: 620; Member since: 13 Oct 2010)
What the he'll u guys talking about t-mobile does not have a one x they have the lower end one s..
50. D.Aceveda (Posts: 396; Member since: 30 Jun 2012)
The One S and One X are the same aside from their screens and sizes of internal memory....What the hell are YOU talking about?
53. g2a5b0e (Posts: 3724; Member since: 08 Jun 2012)
Actually not true. They have the same internal memory in the U.S., but the One S not only has a smaller screen, it has a lower resolution qHD screen as opposed to the One X's 720p S-LCD screen. Another reason the One S is considered lower end than the One X is because the international version of the One X has a quad-core processor, while the One S has a dual. The international One X also has double the internal memory.
55. Schuler2828 (Posts: 59; Member since: 04 Jul 2012)
So shouldn't high end phones have a better battery?
66. Birds (Posts: 1157; Member since: 21 Nov 2011)
That doesn't matter to me because the tegra 3 is 40 nanometer architecture design while the kraits are 28 nm.... CPU wise the kraits will be just as good as tegra 3 simply for the fact that the architecture is much more advanced. Tegra 3 is great and all but when you sit down and look at the chipsets specs, it seems that it was rushed out for phones and tablets (Don't get me wrong, it is still great). Not to bash Nvidia but this has been the year of the Snapdragon, easily..
68. D.Aceveda (Posts: 396; Member since: 30 Jun 2012)
Your comment was pointless. I already pointed out the only difference was the screens. We are talking about the US versions not the International versions so your comment about the quad core processor is invalid. Next.
69. g2a5b0e (Posts: 3724; Member since: 08 Jun 2012)
Don't try to be dismissive because you were wrong. You can just admit it instead.
70. D.Aceveda (Posts: 396; Member since: 30 Jun 2012)
Nobody is being dismissive. Fact is you are wrong and an idiot. You made a pointless comment and brought up the international version of the One series of phones when this article is about the US versions coming to T-Mobile US. Get over it. Thanks.
71. g2a5b0e (Posts: 3724; Member since: 08 Jun 2012)
I'm an idiot because you're wrong? You obviously can't make comments without resulting to petty insults. Love the maturity on this site. Grow up, guy.
73. KParks23 (Posts: 620; Member since: 13 Oct 2010)
The Aceveda guy is obviously but hurt... there is a huge difference screen size screen resolution and the type of screen even used and the processor and the battery is unknown... The morons on this Site always amaze me
75. D.Aceveda (Posts: 396; Member since: 30 Jun 2012)
Blow me.
74. D.Aceveda (Posts: 396; Member since: 30 Jun 2012)
You made a pointless comment. I can't really insult you any further because your stupid comments have done that for me. Next.
7. Seannyc (Posts: 59; Member since: 21 Jul 2012)
This is the reason I can't buy andriod phones anymore, they literally release a better phone every month or weeks. They need to slow down.
8. ilia1986 (unregistered)
Are you going to stop buying food because every day they update the store with food with longer shelf life compared to what you got yesterday? No? I didn't think any different..
10. Galen20K (Posts: 541; Member since: 26 Dec 2008)
Exactly! I have my Galaxy S III and I absolutely love it. Will it always be the top end smart phone on the market forever? no. Will it make my phone any less spectacular once something new and slightly better come out? absolutely not, I will still love it just the same. - )
13. remtothemax (Posts: 260; Member since: 02 May 2012)
it's not that i want it to be the top forever
its like buying a car that gets 60mpg and goes 0-60 in 6 seconds only to have them release a new version of the same car at the same price that gets 120mpg and does 0-60 in 4 seconds
15. ilia1986 (unregistered)
First of all - that new car isn't going to go to 120mpg. Maybe to 62 when it's a REALLY huge hardware improvement over the last model. Is the Note 2 going to be faster than the SGS3? Yes. Twice as fast? Definitely not.
Second of all - that happens all the time. New stuff keeps coming up. The wise man does his research and makes his bet on the product which gets him the most bang for his buck.
19. remtothemax (Posts: 260; Member since: 02 May 2012)
okay, i used exaggeration for emphasis
but that is what this is
this is not a .2ghz bump, this is a significant update that could include things other than just the processor
yes, new phones are coming out all the time
but the note and the sg3 are not competitors...
oh my gosh, samsung is copying apple. they've been leaving clues, i just had an epiphany sg3 backwards is...3gs. haha, weird i'm joking! i'm joking geez, it was just a random thought
anyhow, i would not be pissed if i bought the sg3 and the note 2 came out
it is a completely differnt phone
i would be hella pissed if they came out with the sg3+ or something because it is identical to my phone, it is just better
it is replacing my phone
this is why it is a problem
35. ilia1986 (unregistered)
Most of the time - the benefit is insignificant. And again - if you plan ahead - you know what to buy, and when.
64. Schuler2828 (Posts: 59; Member since: 04 Jul 2012)
I say this over and over, peoples contracts expire at different times so say they were gonna get the SGS3 when there contract was up oh look at that a better phone is coming out that's perfect for them.
21. remtothemax (Posts: 260; Member since: 02 May 2012)
yes, that is great
but are you telling me you wouldn't be the least bit disappointed if samsung announces the samsung galaxy IIIs next week with advanced features and capabilities?
25. ilia1986 (unregistered)
If you had the SGS3 - and DID your research - and KNEW the specs of the SGS3s and - and concluded that the SGS3 has more bang for your buck - then no.
28. remtothemax (Posts: 260; Member since: 02 May 2012)
did the owners of the one x or the droid razr have any way to know about the next two phones
or the gs2 skyrocket surplanting the gs2 in a couple months?
that is when it smarts
all technology gets obsoleted
but as a geek i like that new technology feel and this feels kind of unfair
31. ilia1986 (unregistered)
Yes. The specs of both of them were known before their launch.
You DO get robbed of that feeling that your device is the best of everything else out there after a few months - but feelings do not cost money.
33. remtothemax (Posts: 260; Member since: 02 May 2012)
wow, that reflects brilliantly on samsung's perspective of me as a customer
i haven't picked a new smartphone yet
but at least apple wines and dines you before they...
60. Schuler2828 (Posts: 59; Member since: 04 Jul 2012)
The Razr Maxx is kinda old now but is still a sick ass phone with Ice cream sandwich and the best battery on the market. If your phone does what it needs to for now then why should you be mad about a new phone?
39. true1984 (Posts: 823; Member since: 23 May 2012)
why not? they did that with the GS2
16. remtothemax (Posts: 260; Member since: 02 May 2012)
okay, let me use your own example to argue the point
a lot of food has a shelf life of days, especially once its opened
the term of use is extremely short
i wouldn't be angry if they released new food a coulpe of days into my purchased food because i am going to have to buy more food in a day or two anyways
it is totally differnet if i buy a "flagship" device where the term of use is twenty-four months
to have them release the same phone but better as a new replacement flagship four or five months into the life cycle
leaving me with an effecitvely discounted phone for over a year and a half
this is exactly the problem lumia 900 owners are having if you want to deny it's a problem
23. ilia1986 (unregistered)
Not a problem.
You bought a phone for let's say - 800$ (unlocked). let's say that this phone indeed has a "term of use" for 24 months (which is BS of course since the phone can function as long as it's functional, but let's ignore this fact for now). Let's say that after 6 months a new - better phone comes in - which also costs 800$.
Now - after 6 months - your phone has the effective value of about 18/24*800 = 600$ since 6 months have passed. If you were to sell it - you'd probably sell it for 600$ - because you paid 200$ for the 6 months you've been using it. Now, if you want to buy the new 800$ phone - which also has let's say a "term of use" of 24 months - you'd have to pay 800$ - to get another 24 months.
So in total - you're paying 800 - 600 + 800 = 1000$ for 30 months of usage.
In other words - your phone started decreasing in value the moment you bought it. If new phones were released every 2 years - at the end of the 2 years - the value of your phone is effectively close to 0 according to the logic you set in your post.
Of course - this is a very rough example - and you could buy a 750$ phone which would be be worth more than a 900$ phone even after a year - and thus you have to conduct a careful market research, and always know what's coming ahead. A person who bought let's say the SGS2 when it came out for 750$ earned much more than the one who bought the Droid Bionic for the same price (for example).
29. remtothemax (Posts: 260; Member since: 02 May 2012)
i'm talkign contractually here
on contract you can't just sell it and walk away without penalties
also, i use my phones for a long period of time
my current phone turns three this year
if they are shoving a two year contract down my throat, i would expect a good six months grace period to enjoy my phone as the top of the line for the company i purchased from (if i did indeed buy it when it first came out)
i am not talking about people who buy the iphone 4s in a month
i'm talking about people who buy the iphone 5 in three
32. ilia1986 (unregistered)
I dunno how contracting in the US goes. Here in Israel - no matter where you buy your phone - it's unlocked - and you can sell it on day 1.
If this is an issue in the US system - you wouldn't expect all the manufacturers just band together and say "Hey hold on a bit - we can't release that phone yet because of the stupid absurd US contracting system. Let's wait 24 months because little Johny just signed a contract with some US carrier and he would be very disappointed if we ship the phone now.", now, would you?
34. remtothemax (Posts: 260; Member since: 02 May 2012)
in the us you can get most high end smartphones between two and three hundred dollars if you buy them on a contract
and we tend to get some of them earlier, which is why you have the mistaken notion that people would know about the upcoming phones, especially with motorola
i am not asking them to wait two years for me
i'm just saying give me six months
don't undercut me three months into my contract with the latest and greatest when there is no reason to
36. ilia1986 (unregistered)
Well as far as I know - you guys actually get top end phones last. Except for the diephone, that is. HTC one X, SGS3, SGS2, SG Note all came to Europe first - and then to you. And if the Europeans know how to do their research - so should you.
As for contracts - if you are bound to a contract and can't resell your phone - well - that's the price you pay for having top phones for 200 - 300$. Just so you know - here top phones cost about 1,000$!
37. remtothemax (Posts: 260; Member since: 02 May 2012)
but that adds to my point
you guys have had the htc one x for a while now
we just got it
and now they are releasing a new update to it
this is where the market sucks and where it should change to make it more consumer friendly
nokia, apple, and blackberry all have very clear, very understandable line ups that do what they want them to
i am refering to windows 8 and bb10 not the past stuff
there will be three or four lumia devices, it will be easy to know what you are getting into, you can make an educated choice without having to worry about them releasing a slightly beefed up model two months after you buy
and the expereince won't suffer for it, because they can focus on a few premium products
rather than having to deal with hundreds of slightly different phones that all need to be coded differently because they each have a slightly different advertiseable feature
38. ilia1986 (unregistered)
Yes, you just got the HTC one X. But we might soon get the HTC one X2 or whatever it's called - so you must choose - buy the One X now, or wait for a bit until the X2 comes along. That depends on how much you need you wait, and how advanced the X2 is compared to the X. It's called market research.
Now, the advantage of Android over all the diephones, Nokias, blackberries whatever, is that even a 2 year old phone - let's say - the Nexus S - get's the latest software version - Android 4.1 in this case - today. Heck, even a 3 year old phone will be capable of running 4.1 via a custom Rom.
62. Schuler2828 (Posts: 59; Member since: 04 Jul 2012)
This guy knows his s**t, I like that!
44. downphoenix (Posts: 3165; Member since: 19 Jun 2010)
Yea, but the Lumia was already behind the curve when it first came out. Obsolete out the door.
51. ilia1986 (unregistered)
Then don't buy it. It's that simple.
61. Schuler2828 (Posts: 59; Member since: 04 Jul 2012)
The Lumia 900 wasn't a high end phone though?
46. SonyFTW2020 (Posts: 311; Member since: 03 May 2012)
aaa no, but it doesnt mean i will buy the new food on the shelf either.... I would probably walk in the store and say "wow" look at the new stuff, but once i seen the "new" price i would then continue to buy what i have always been buying...seannyc is right in a way and the only way to keep up with this flow would to be either satisfied with what you have, or you can sell what you have to get what you want....your choice...the thing is although these new phones are getting stronger and quicker, the apps and requirements have been LONG met with the current chipsets they have in them now.....There really isnt any thing you could throw at these phones that it wouldnt be able to handle so upgrading is almost pointless unless you're just a tech freak and cant ignore the hype of new technology trying to make you feel like you are missing out on something...
52. ilia1986 (unregistered)
I guarantee you that in 6 - 12 months - there will be so many graphically - and CPU - intensive apps - that your 1Ghz 512MB Ram smartphone won't be able to handle it. Look at PCs during the mid 2000's. Let's say 2006 - the dawn of the dual core processors. Everything except high end games could be run by a single core 2Ghz machine with 512MB of Ram. Look at 2012 - today - that machine would now struggle to run anything more than a web browser. And why? Because there was an explosion in multi-core CPUs, and everyone started taking advantage of it.
11. MistB (Posts: 581; Member since: 07 Jul 2012)
Actually, 2012 has been quite a quiet year for flagship phones and at least at lot more sensible since 2011. Now we all know Samsung has 2 flagships a year, the Note and the Galaxy S Series, besides the note 2 what other high end device has Samsung actually announced since May 3rd excluding tablets, I'm struggling. no doubt all of their advertising and sponsorships have solely been focused on the S3 and S3 alone, no other phone yet from Samsung which has bettered it. But it's a once a year phone like Apple, only difference is that Samsung has the Note series which is also once a year.
HTC has the one series, this is just a different version of the One X but effectively the same phone. I ask you, what other High end quad core phone has HTC announced since showing this at MWC, what other week or month did they OFFICIALLY announce a 1.6 ghz superphone that has rendered their one x obsolete since February, exactly, it's been 6 months and no sign of this talk about phones getting released every week, it's more like every six to eight months for high end and one-two months for budget handsets . Remember, a better version may be for international markets but it is without a doubt, still the same phone. What will break this steady release however is the introduction of 5 nexus phones which will complicate things.
41. JC557 (Posts: 1523; Member since: 07 Dec 2011)
So basically since it's inconvenient for you, people who have different upgrade schedules must make do with less choice?
20. flamemee (Posts: 3; Member since: 23 Jul 2012)
You're looking at this from your own selfish point-of-view. People are rolling off their contracts all the time that are not in the same schedule as you. When that happens, most people would want to buy an up-to-date device right away. They don't want to have to make a choice whether to buy a 6-month old device or wait another 6-months for the next model. Get it?
30. remtothemax (Posts: 260; Member since: 02 May 2012)
see, but it works fine with iphone
there is not need to make a new phone with a half better processor and more ram and a higher quality screen every few months
the iphone does it once a year and they control the content market essentially
so even with the 1.5ghz quad cores and 2 gbs of ram
infinity blade, shadow gun, rage, etc. were all designed to work on an 800mhz dual core with .5gb of ram
and they work fine quite frankly
so what is the point of taking away the new phone feeling so quickly because everyone needs an up-to-date device right away to play the content that is definately not advancing as fast as processor speeds and ram are increasing
45. MeoCao (unregistered)
More choice for consumer is never a bad thing. But HTC should care about those who bought their devices with timely updates.
56. Schuler2828 (Posts: 59; Member since: 04 Jul 2012)
What if your upgrade was in 2 months wouldn't you want to get the best phone for that time frame not a phone that was released in April?
6. torr310 (Posts: 842; Member since: 27 Oct 2011)
larger battery capacity & 2GB RAM would be great
14. g2a5b0e (Posts: 3724; Member since: 08 Jun 2012)
I'm with you on that. With Samsung already futureproofing their flagship phones with 2GB of RAM, there's no reason HTC shouldn't do the same. I would also like to see all that's the been mentioned above--a bigger battery capacity (at least 2,000 mAH), removable battery, & expandable storage. I don't truly expect them to include all those features, but they would be truly knocking it out the park if they did. In any event, this is looking like the phone I'll be upgrading to when I'm due in 3 months.
9. eman99 (Posts: 369; Member since: 03 Aug 2010)
yes by all mean by the time it comes out (like forever)


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A Letter to the Editor in the Sept. 28, 2010, Tomahawk Leader:
Elizabeth Burmaster, the Madison idiot that is now running Nicolet College in Rhinelander, is the one that started all of that stuff with the name of Tomahawk Hatchets. This arrogant reaper of tax dollars doesn't even know that a hatchet is an object and not an American Indian maiden's name. The one thing she does know well is how to blow our property tax dollars. Burmaster organized a retreat for 10 of the college's highest paid officers spending thousands of taxpayer dollars this past July at the exclusive Red Crown Lodge on Trout Lake. Burmaster had the college billed $3,708 for exclusive property use, including single occupancy lodging and recreation, conference, and dining facilities, and for meals and service charges. The retreat was billed as professional development meetings and took place July 21 and 22. The breakdown was $2,280 for the property use and lodging, as well as $810 for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and a $618 service charge. The attendees are some of the highest paid staff members at the college. Burmaster makes $162,035 a year plus $50,673 in benefits for a total compensation package of $212,708. All totaled, the combined compensation package for those 10 Nicolet officials that attended the retreat is $1,503,111. With those kinds of salaries these "public servants" should be able to buy the own meals and given the scale of the facilities at the college there should have been at least one open conference room in open in July. If they needed privacy for their "Professional Development Meetings" shut the bleepin' door.
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Just three dollars will grant you admission to the Ball State men's and women's basketball doubleheader Saturday as part of the Ball State Basketball Bonanza at Worthen Arena.
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The 7 Dumbest Things Students Do When Cramming for Exams
Plan A
The first and most important thing is to actually deal with it, because running away from college only dumps you in the real world faster. And make no mistake: In the game of life college isn't even easy mode, it's the bonus level. You want to enjoy it all the way to the end. Here are seven ways your brain can trick you into studying without actually learning anything.
#7. Osmosis Doesn't Work
Listen, students, this might sound crazy but it's important: You are not squirrels. You may be hyperactive mammals frantically running around trying to mate, hibernate and look hilariously retarded in online photographs, but there's an important difference: Hoarding things doesn't help you. Students spend the days leading up to exams stockpiling handouts, photocopies, printouts and textbooks by the video game logic that simply owning books makes you smarter.
My INT score is higher than my IQ.
Your head won't absorb knowledge because you built a library on your table. If you find yourself doing this, simply take a deep breath, and tell yourself it's not your fault. You're trying to cram three months worth of information into a brain that stress has tricked into thinking it's being chased be a bear. Hell, you're lucky you're not wearing your socks on your hands right now.
But that doesn't mean you should let yourself off the hook when you notice yourself doing this. In my time working at universities, one thing I noticed without fail was that the terrible students would "study" by piling up work all around them, then sit there wasting time and being miserable until the clock said they were finished. Which is actually brilliant preparation because that's exactly the type of job they'll get.
Instead, try starting with something manageable like reading one book you were supposed to have read. And when you do, keep in mind that ...
#6. Highlighters Aren't Magic
If you've ever been to college, or a coffee shop within two miles of one, you've seen a student painting their notes like a My Little Pony in drag. In Thailand. We shouldn't have to explain that highlighter pens aren't like supermarket scanners -- they might drag bright lights over things but they don't instantly upload data.
If fluorescent pink burned information into brains no one would be against gay marriage.
Again, this is just your brain flipping out. People having nervous breakdowns revert back to infancy and start flinging their poop around. You're having 40 percent of a nervous breakdown, and reverting to preschool logic. "I'll take the most essential parts of my course and COLOR THEM IN! Yay!"
It's understandable, but it's profoundly stupid. If you notice yourself lighting a textbook up like TRON fanfic, drop the highlighter. Instead, try writing out the key points of your reading material on a separate page you can study easily and anywhere. If that sounds like too much work, well done, you've just found out why people highlight instead.
#5. Stop Nest Building
In times of stress, the Examinated Student (Stressus Procrastinatus) can spend over an hour crafting the perfect study nest to defend itself from guilt. It all has to be just right, from lighting to coffee, because every single thing that needs to be fixed is another reason not to actually study yet. Some students spend longer trying to reach the perfect setup than Buddhist Monks spend trying to reach Nirvana, and with less tangible results.
I simply can't study without at least one photogenic minority in shot.
#4. If You're Re-Reading, You're Probably Not Really Studying
Re-reading your notes does not count as studying, even if it is the easiest way to technically study while watching Mad Men. Also, you're ruining Mad Men. Watch Mad Men, and then set aside time to actually engage with the material. If you're in science or engineering, do problems. If you're in history, write out key elements of a period in a paragraph, or try to teach the chapters you've read to your lazy roommate who didn't read them, and have him try to teach you the ones he read.
If you're in English lit, put down the play you already read, and write a one page essay discussing how Hamlet was the greatest pussy of all time. Do something, anything, which tests your knowledge or makes you actually think, then use your notes to find out what you'd forgotten. Then do the problem again. Instead of sitting and reconfirming, "Yep, I sure can read this language all right!"
You've surely earned a B.A. in Cracked Appreciation by now.
Fake studying is the worst waste of time since the American pilot of Doctor Who. If you don't want to study, there are bars full of other people having more fun than you while not studying. And while they're screwing themselves, they figure they might as well screw each other. You'll always find the best college parties just before the exams. You're missing that by studying, so make sure it's worth it.