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

T4CT

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!

iOS

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.




Sent from my iPhone

Tef

Blake you sonnova...

End

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

Munkus Beaver

Wait this isn't about the LSATs.

End

smart phone what are you doing in law school, smart phones can't be lawyers

Tef

I thought the apple was eating the android

Blake T

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.

Tef

You fucked up the last thread so fuck you and your opinions!

Cilla Black

The worst thread title

worse even than brackets

Blake T

What did I do.

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

T4CT

i'll crowdsource the thread title

what are we looking for here

Blake T

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 T

It's like showing off how advanced your watch is to the guy who likes to collect 19th century time pieces.

Blake T

T4CT wrote: »

i'll crowdsource the thread title

what are we looking for here

Spelling errors: The thread.

Blake T

You were pretty much phoning in the thread title though.

Munkus Beaver

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?

Blake T

Not due to a computer error. That root cause was engine oscillation.

They were still ok.

Cokebotle

Blake T wrote: »

You were pretty much phoning in the thread title though.

Smartphoning in the thread title?

>.>

Blake T

Cokebotle wrote: »

Blake T wrote: »

You were pretty much phoning in the thread title though.

Smartphoning in the thread title?

>.>

THAT WAS THE JOKE.

T4CT

tempted to take that one

Cokebotle

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.

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...

T4CT

you're all better people for this title

Munkus Beaver

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!

Blake T

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 Beaver

Well.

Did you have them?

Cokebotle

Munkus Beaver wrote: »

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"!

Big Red Tie

iphoooooone 555555

Blake T

I think one of them was he may have asked me if we had Mexican.

So yes.

Blake T

I tried to trick him into believing in drop bears.

That was no dice.

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

Tef

Blake T wrote: »

I think one of them was he may have asked me if we had Mexican.

So yes.

barely

Blake T

Well the same thing could be said about America and vegetables so it all evens out.

T4CT

Big Red Tie wrote: »

iphoooooone 555555

so close I can taste it

fuck

but it feels so far

Cokebotle

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!

Blake T

Oh yeah I've been there it was really good.

Tossrock

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.

Tossrock

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).

Blake T

That is more using the right tool for the right job though.

Blake T

Man, the fantastic four has left me so jaded now that I know what cosmic rays actually do.

Shazkar Shadowstorm

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

KalTorak

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?

Marth

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.