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It's like a living Gingerbread House, if the front door was an anus.

Nearly as batshit insane as the gingerbread man from "Brother's Grimm".

Still quite happy so far. I have noticed that the battery seems to drain more quickly than with Gingerbread- not sure if that's due to my simply playing with it more.

Also, there was one weird thing that happened. The phone shut off and rebooted in the middle of a call! Now if there's one thing that any phone should be good at, smart or otherwise , it's making calls, It had never happened before, and hasn't happened again, so we'll let that slide for now.

As for general operation, yes the phone is really, really snappy. Apps seem to launch more quickly and there are no delays when scrolling through menus. The camera is a huge improvement- yes it's pretty much instant now, and the automatic panorama feature is really cool. I wonder how Google managed to pull off the quick camera thing, as phone cameras are notoriously slow to launch and use. Hell, it's the same camera, just a software change, so I'm curious.

Anyhow, all the best to you and yours for the Holidays. I personally celebrate Festivus, but haven't yet been defeated in the Feats of Strength, so I guess it's not yet over!

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
Because of the many vast improvements over my old phone, I'm still quite thrilled with it, but my problems are a bother. Connectivity is definitely spotty. Most times I have no 4G and when I do, most times a speed test will result in surprisingly low transfer rates (5-9mbps down), but occasionally I'll get 20mbps/19mbps (down/up).

Also for whatever reason, during some phone calls it's been giving me high-pitched electronic squealing/squeaking/cracking that's like needles in the ear drums. Problem is I have time to exchange it, but since they are so scarce, I probably won't be able to.

Awesome that you got ICS on your phone. Are you enjoying it? Is it pretty snappy? I'm more than happy with how incredible the OS is versus the old Androids. Since they say it's purely a software improvement, does ICS provide zero-delay photos for you now?

In reply to this comment by therealblankman:
Sorry to hear about your troubles with the Galaxy Nexus. Has it got any better? Are you having the signal problems that others are reporting?

I'm still happy with the ICS update. My only mild disappointment is that Face Unlock isn't part of the package with my Nexus S, maybe later on they'll add it or maybe it's only for the Galaxy... who knows.

cookies and milk all over the world? i'd say that's an american phenomenon. over here (GER) for example children get their presents on the evening of 24th, not on the morning of 25th. interested where the Kris Kringle the clip says originated from germany comes from? It's "Christkind": before christmas was heavily americanized during the last few years presents where delivered by Christkind, an angel-like figure. the modern image of Santa Claus - named "Nikolaus" - i.e. a white-bearded man dressed in red usually only appeared for celebration of Dec. 6th, a day much more similar to the US version of christmas: children put their boots (compare: christmas stockings) out front on the evening of Dec 5th to find them filled with gingerbread, oranges and some small presents on the morning of Dec 6th. so what has happened the last few years? "Nikolaus" (with which the holiday of Dec 6th shares its name with) became "Weihnachtsmann" (translates to Christmas-man) and the younger kids believe he is responsible for their presents on Dec 24th. so basically in Germany you have two stories folks believed in when they were kids, depending on how old they are. but neither of them involves cookies and milk :-)

and on a personal note: it's a shame really that especially media propagates the US version of christmas. as a German parent nowadays it's hard to pass on the christmas version of your own childhood and that of your parents. if you raise kids and want to give them a story to believe in for a few years you are constantly competing with the "other" version of christmas, at least confusing kids in what is "real". it really saddens me that i cannot relive many of the traditions of my own childhood with my kids (hint: Christkind's method of present delivery differs from that of Weihnachtsmann's). but i guess that's what ever-changing culture does to you :-)

Happy Holidays fellow sifters, whatever version you want to believe in :-)

Thank you.

In reply to this comment by oritteropo:
I loved the gingerbread : You were with some distinguished company there! I think that Pollock, Mondrian, and dotdude were the three most successful projects, with an honourable mention to Rousseau.

I loved the gingerbread You were with some distinguished company there! I think that Pollock, Mondrian, and dotdude were the three most successful projects, with an honourable mention to Rousseau.

dannym3141:

Claiming that people should stop burning fossil fuels would HEAVILY dent the income of just about every country because of how much tax they can charge from it. Britain's economy is almost based on fossil fuel tax. How can you possibly argue that they are a politically influenced source over fossil fuel use when they criticise such a money earner?

Politics aside, fossil fuels remain the cheapest, most abundant source of energy, and new supplies of it are being discovered all the time. I never said people should stop burning them.

I hesitate to even mention that "science" as a global community is above reproach in ways that hardly anything else can be due to the method of a scientist. If you are not performing science for truth and discovery, you are not a scientist, so you're not part of the community anymore. That's why it's above reproach. I'm sure you'll argue with me about that, but i know that you'd argue about the time of day if you were proven to be wrong.

I'm not arguing, but I am astonished you would believe scientists are above politics (and reproach), not because the scientific method is flawed, but because scientists are fallible humans with their own beliefs and interests. As W. Pennypacker said in so many words, governments reward scientists which confirm a pre-determined outcome (like secondhand smoke killing 100 billion people a year). Junk science is real; it may not be everywhere, but it's out there. And not just "the oil companies" which have "scientitians" in their corner.

Another thing, gang. Over the last few years, global warming hysteria has been relentless. It's the alarmists who declared, "The debate is over." There was even one smug a-hole who compared "climate deniers" to Holocaust deniers. Classy! There was the faked data scandal. These are not the actions of scientists confident in their conclusions. Yet the lazy media continues to back the alarmists without question.

100 storylines blaming climate change as the problem:

1. The deaths of Aspen trees in the West
2. Incredible shrinking sheep
3. Caribbean coral deaths
4. Eskimos forced to leave their village
5. Disappearing lake in Chile
6. Early heat wave in Vietnam
7. Malaria and water-borne diseases in Africa
8. Invasion of jellyfish in the Mediterranean
9. Break in the Arctic Ice Shelf
10. Monsoons in India
11. Birds laying their eggs early
12. 160,000 deaths a year
13. 315,000 deaths a year
14. 300,000 deaths a year
15. Decline in snowpack in the West
16. Deaths of walruses in Alaska
17. Hunger in Nepal
18. The appearance of oxygen-starved dead zones in the oceans
19. Surge in fatal shark attacks
20. Increasing number of typhoid cases in the Philippines
21. Boy Scout tornado deaths
22. Rise in asthma and hayfever
23. Duller fall foliage in 2007
24. Floods in Jakarta
25. Radical ecological shift in the North Sea
26. Snowfall in Baghdad
27. Western tree deaths
28. Diminishing desert resources
29. Pine beetles
30. Swedish beetles
31. Severe acne
32. Global conflict
33. Crash of Air France 447
34. Black Hawk Down incident
35. Amphibians breeding earlier
36. Flesh-eating disease
37. Global cooling
38. Bird strikes on US Airways 1549
39. Beer tastes different
40. Cougar attacks in Alberta
41. Suicide of farmers in Australia
42. Squirrels reproduce earlier
43. Monkeys moving to Great Rift Valley in Kenya
44. Confusion of migrating birds
45. Bigger tuna fish
46. Water shortages in Las Vegas
47. Worldwide hunger
48. Longer days
49. Earth spinning faster
50. Gender balance of crocodiles
51. Skin cancer deaths in UK
52. Increase in kidney stones in India
53. Penguin chicks frozen by global warming
54. Deaths of Minnesota moose
55. Increased threat of HIV/AIDS in developing countries
56. Increase of wasps in Alaska
57. Killer stingrays off British coasts
58. All societal collapses since the beginning of time
59. Bigger spiders
60. Increase in size of giant squid
61. Increase of orchids in UK
62. Collapse of gingerbread houses in Sweden
63. Cow infertility
64. Conflict in Darfur
65. Bluetongue outbreak in UK cows
66. Worldwide wars
67. Insomnia of children worried about global warming
68. Anxiety problems for people worried about climate change
69. Migration of cockroaches
70. Taller mountains due to melting glaciers
71. Drowning of four polar bears
72. UFO sightings in the UK
73. Hurricane Katrina
74. Greener mountains in Sweden
75. Decreased maple in maple trees
76. Cold wave in India
77. Worse traffic in LA because immigrants moving north
78. Increase in heart attacks and strokes
79. Rise in insurance premiums
80. Invasion of European species of earthworm in UK
81. Cold spells in Australia
82. Increase in crime
83. Boiling oceans
84. Grizzly deaths
85. Dengue fever
86. Lack of monsoons
87. Caterpillars devouring 45 towns in Liberia
88. Acid rain recovery
89. Global wheat shortage; food price hikes
90. Extinction of 13 species in Bangladesh
91. Changes in swan migration patterns in Siberia
92. The early arrival of Turkey’s endangered caretta carettas
93. Radical North Sea shift
94. Heroin addiction
95. Plant species climbing up mountains
96. Deadly fires in Australia
97. Droughts in Australia
98. The demise of California’s agriculture by the end of the century
99. Tsunami in South East Asia
100. Fashion victim: the death of the winter wardrobe


Do you really expect free people to surrender to THIS?

>> ^mxxcon:
>> ^Lawdeedaw:
>> ^mxxcon:
the movie is called "Puss IN Boots"
this movie has too many puns. it'll fail

Thanks for letting me know that. Now I must read the Gingerbread Man to my daughter (She just shoved it into my face...) o/0
Also--if it fails like the pun-filled Shrek, eh, it won't do to bad. That was almost one of the best pun-factory ever seen.

yes, but shrek had some sort of charm that i'm not feeling from this movie.


But then the Puss In Boots trailer must show all the comedy for people to watch it--not the depth that made me fall in love with Shrek.

>> ^Lawdeedaw:

>> ^mxxcon:
the movie is called "Puss IN Boots"
this movie has too many puns. it'll fail

Thanks for letting me know that. Now I must read the Gingerbread Man to my daughter (She just shoved it into my face...) o/0
Also--if it fails like the pun-filled Shrek, eh, it won't do to bad. That was almost one of the best pun-factory ever seen.

yes, but shrek had some sort of charm that i'm not feeling from this movie.

>> ^mxxcon:
the movie is called "Puss IN Boots"
this movie has too many puns. it'll fail


Thanks for letting me know that. Now I must read the Gingerbread Man to my daughter (She just shoved it into my face...) o/0

Also--if it fails like the pun-filled Shrek, eh, it won't do to bad. That was almost one of the best pun-factory ever seen.

>> ^AdrianBlack:

I thought that maybe the ice cream truck symbolized the gingerbread house. I'm sure if the Grimm story witch had wheels, she would have driven temptation to them as well.
Hansel and Gretel were also abducted in their own way, as they were kept and locked up. >> ^Opus_Moderandi:
I didn't catch the hansel & gretel reference either... maybe because they were abducted in this version? In the Brothers Grimm story, didn't they wander around til they came to the witches ginger bread house?



Aha.... ginger bread ice cream truck, now it's all coming together.

I thought that maybe the ice cream truck symbolized the gingerbread house. I'm sure if the Grimm story witch had wheels, she would have driven temptation to them as well.
Hansel and Gretel were also abducted in their own way, as they were kept and locked up. >> ^Opus_Moderandi:
I didn't catch the hansel & gretel reference either... maybe because they were abducted in this version? In the Brothers Grimm story, didn't they wander around til they came to the witches ginger bread house?

I wouldn't bother with this any more but the fact that it's the EVO is a sore spot.

The EVO has to be one of the WORST phones I've ever touched (yes I own one, I own many many phones), if you want a decent Android phone, the Nexus One is the best at the moment. Don't even start on the Droid, I don't understand any one who likes that piece of junk, looks like ass, feels like ass, nothing special hardware wise.

There is nothing wrong with loving Android, as in the OS, also I understand some of the points in the video are about Android in general but the EVO is rubbish, the only time I ever touch it is when I need to test something and even then, I dread it.

I'm not currently in possession of the iPhone 4 but I've been using iOS4 for a while, it is an excellent OS, Android has its merits but it is still playing catch up. Maybe Gingerbread.

>> ^choggie:
http://www.rasputina.com/>> ^ctrlaltbleach:
weird is that Evanescence?

http://www.rasputina.com/


The music is Rasputina but the video is a mashup of others. Evanescence is definitely one as well as Dresden Dolls, and I'm pretty sure I saw a Bjork nipple in there as well.