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how do elves even know how to build a god damn Smartphone anyways

T4CTT4CT BAFTA-NOMINATEDNAFTA-APPROVEDRegistered User regular
edited December 2012 in Social Entropy++
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Boom Smartphones

We carry around devices in our pockets that are more powerful than the computers that (allegedly) put us on the moon. It's some weird shit to know that hypothetically instead of texting your friend about the size of the omelette you just made using Omelette Maker Pro on your new Zune Phone, you could be blasting monkeys and shit into fucking space.

This is a thread to talk about your smartphones and tablets and sometimes people talk about computers too 'cause you're all archaic and still use those for things.

Did you just get a nifty old Smartphone? Or maybe a new one because getting an old Smartphone would be weird? You're gonna need some apps. The best way to find apps you want is to browse around the App or Play store, and discover neat things. And then post them here because we all like nice apps (for example if you find an app about blasting monkeys and shit into space please let me know). But if you're lazy or starved for neat things, you can look in these spoilers at some apps we like.

Mouse over the icons for descriptions. Clicking them will take you to their page in whatever store they belong in so you can set them to download to your devices!

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I am in the middle of making this OP super cool which means there are no android apps here yet because I don't feel like adding the icons and stuff tonight and I won't stand for sub-par appearance. I'll add it in later or something I promise.




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  • TefTef Registered User regular
    Blake you sonnova...

    help a fellow forumer meet their mental health care needs because USA healthcare sucks!

    Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better

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  • EndEnd Registered User regular
    The question is

    did the android take a delicious bite out of that apple
    or does the apple have its mouth open wide, about to eat that android

    no don't answer that question

    I wish that someway, somehow, that I could save every one of us
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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Wait this isn't about the LSATs.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • EndEnd Registered User regular
    smart phone what are you doing in law school, smart phones can't be lawyers

    I wish that someway, somehow, that I could save every one of us
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  • TefTef Registered User regular
    I thought the apple was eating the android

    help a fellow forumer meet their mental health care needs because USA healthcare sucks!

    Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better

    bit.ly/2XQM1ke
  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    I have a calculator from 1996 that is more powerful than a moon computer.

    Fuck. My vaccuum cleaner has more brains than an Apollo rocket. It is no longer an impressive thing to say.

  • TefTef Registered User regular
    You fucked up the last thread so fuck you and your opinions!

    help a fellow forumer meet their mental health care needs because USA healthcare sucks!

    Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better

    bit.ly/2XQM1ke
  • Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    The worst thread title

    worse even than brackets

  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    What did I do.

    I wasn't the one going to jailbreak his phone to install something that is available on the app store.

  • T4CTT4CT BAFTA-NOMINATED NAFTA-APPROVEDRegistered User regular
    i'll crowdsource the thread title

    what are we looking for here

  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    Also the Apollo computers (and NASA's underlying philosophy with computers) was to use purposely old and antiquated computers because it was proven to reliably work. How many times does your phone crash in a month?

  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    edited September 2012
    It's like showing off how advanced your watch is to the guy who likes to collect 19th century time pieces.

    Blake T on
  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    T4CT wrote: »
    i'll crowdsource the thread title

    what are we looking for here

    Spelling errors: The thread.

  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    You were pretty much phoning in the thread title though.

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Blake T wrote: »
    Also the Apollo computers (and NASA's underlying philosophy with computers) was to use purposely old and antiquated computers because it was proven to reliably work. How many times does your phone crash in a month?

    Apollo 13?

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    Not due to a computer error. That root cause was engine oscillation.

    They were still ok.

  • CokebotleCokebotle 穴掘りの 電車内Registered User regular
    Blake T wrote: »
    You were pretty much phoning in the thread title though.

    Smartphoning in the thread title?

    >.>

    工事中
  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    Cokebotle wrote: »
    Blake T wrote: »
    You were pretty much phoning in the thread title though.

    Smartphoning in the thread title?

    >.>

    THAT WAS THE JOKE.

  • T4CTT4CT BAFTA-NOMINATED NAFTA-APPROVEDRegistered User regular
    tempted to take that one

  • CokebotleCokebotle 穴掘りの 電車内Registered User regular
    Blake T wrote: »
    Cokebotle wrote: »
    Blake T wrote: »
    You were pretty much phoning in the thread title though.

    Smartphoning in the thread title?

    >.>

    THAT WAS THE JOKE.

    :mrgreen:

    In other news, imo.im is a pretty neat chat app. Gonna see how badly it affects my battery life over the next couple of days...

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  • T4CTT4CT BAFTA-NOMINATED NAFTA-APPROVEDRegistered User regular
    you're all better people for this title

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Blake T wrote: »
    Cokebotle wrote: »
    Blake T wrote: »
    You were pretty much phoning in the thread title though.

    Smartphoning in the thread title?

    >.>

    THAT WAS THE JOKE.

    Is this one of those Australian things like a billabong? We don't get your crazy gibberish words, Blanket!

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    I wish I could remember all of the inane "so in Australia do they have" questions that bogey asked me.

    It was like I was a moon person to him.

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Well.

    Did you have them?

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • CokebotleCokebotle 穴掘りの 電車内Registered User regular
    Blake T wrote: »
    Cokebotle wrote: »
    Blake T wrote: »
    You were pretty much phoning in the thread title though.

    Smartphoning in the thread title?

    >.>

    THAT WAS THE JOKE.

    Is this one of those Australian things like a billabong? We don't get your crazy gibberish words, Blanket!

    Watch out for the "after darks"!

    工事中
  • Big Red TieBig Red Tie beautiful clydesdale style feet too hot to trotRegistered User regular
    iphoooooone 555555

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    Beasteh wrote: »
    *おなら*
  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    I think one of them was he may have asked me if we had Mexican.

    So yes.

  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    I tried to trick him into believing in drop bears.

    That was no dice.

    Vivienne's sister on the other hand....

  • TefTef Registered User regular
    edited September 2012
    Blake T wrote: »
    I think one of them was he may have asked me if we had Mexican.

    So yes.

    barely

    Tef on
    help a fellow forumer meet their mental health care needs because USA healthcare sucks!

    Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better

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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    Well the same thing could be said about America and vegetables so it all evens out.

  • T4CTT4CT BAFTA-NOMINATED NAFTA-APPROVEDRegistered User regular
    iphoooooone 555555

    so close I can taste it

    fuck

    but it feels so far

  • CokebotleCokebotle 穴掘りの 電車内Registered User regular
    Blake T wrote: »
    I think one of them was he may have asked me if we had Mexican.

    So yes.

    To be fair, I wouldn't really call it "Mexican". But I also grew up less than an hour from Juarez, Mexico, so I may be somewhat biased and snobbish when it comes to Mexican food.

    Although there was one place I went with some friends that was really, really good!

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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    Oh yeah I've been there it was really good.

  • TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    Blake T wrote: »
    Also the Apollo computers (and NASA's underlying philosophy with computers) was to use purposely old and antiquated computers because it was proven to reliably work. How many times does your phone crash in a month?

    That's not really true. NASA tends to use the most powerful computers available that meet their mission parameters, which are different from the needs of consumer electronics. IE radiation hardening, multiple redundancy levels, etc.

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  • TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    For example, they used core rope memory on the Apollo guidance computers, which was unusual in that it was literally strands of wire encoding data. However, this was actually pretty advanced stuff at the time in terms of physical information density, and had the important property of being completely unaffected by cosmic rays (which can flip bits in standard magnetic memory).

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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    That is more using the right tool for the right job though.

  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    Man, the fantastic four has left me so jaded now that I know what cosmic rays actually do.

  • Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    restoring my iphone to non-jailbroken iphone is eating up my morning, in which i planned to return to the gym

    but this takes precedence

    my friend works today and friday so i'm gonna go get me a new 4S sometime then

    poo
  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    Blake T wrote: »
    Man, the fantastic four has left me so jaded now that I know what cosmic rays actually do.

    ...so cosmic rays are a real thing?

  • MarthMarth Registered User regular
    Argh I looked at Instacast and now I kinda wish I hadn't gotten Pocket Casts. I'm sure both are equally good, Instacast just looks a little better.

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