₦airaland Forum

basher:
You post would have made more sense if you had included people like Ben Okri and Wole Soyinka in the list of people we celebrate. By limiting that list to people of Igbo extraction, you are concluding that anybody who questions the validity or the motive behind these allegations is Igbo. What does this then make you?? More dangerously, you have concluded that these allegations are true.

On the contrary, it is people like you blinded by (ethnicity) that jump to biased conclusions that are the problem with Nigeria. You try to come across as unbiased but failed woefully.

Coming from you who has been trying to paint a picture of Emeagwali being hounded by the Yoruba media, this post of yours is dripping with hypocrisy!

otumfour:
Android everything SGS user btw- SUPER AMOLED SCREEN keeps me away from my lcd tv tho

Haba! Enough with this Super AMOLED screen jo. Even iPhone 4 users with a better screen no dey make this kain noise.

How you go compare HD screen on LCD Tv to phone screen? Hyperbole, much?

otumfour:

Keep consoling yourself for not being able to snag an iPhone 4

Double N:
Andriod 2.2 (Froyo) does it on all devices!. As for the best apps being on the iphone i can't deny that (being an iphone guy as well). If only Oga Jobs can be more open minded with the device(and i'm not talking about jail-breaking here).

You re-inforce my point. How many Android phones are running legit versions of FroYo now? What happens to the HTC hero, Dream, Magic? What of the Xperia X10 (still struggling to get 2.1). What of the Dell Streak?

Of course, rooting and installing one of the Cyanogen mods will fix that, but it'll then no longer be a case of 'built in by default'.

Double N:
Oga Prince the Andriod does the 3G Hotspot Thingy by default! No need for 3rd Party apps. . The Iphone is still a Wicked Device anytime any-day though.

Nope. Some Android ROMS on some android phones.


The iPhone still gets the best apps first. And the best accessories too

MrPrsdent:
here we go again

the only reason SR,Next and nairaland dwell on this man is because he drives traffic to their sites

happy debating/insulting anyway,

while Emeagwali is busy making money,others are busy talkin'

here we go again

the only reason SR,Next and nairaland dwell on IBB is because he drives traffic to their sites

happy debating/insulting anyway,

while IBB is busy making money,others are busy talkin'



See what i did there?

jmaine:
The man Emeagwali is recognized worldwide and most yet to realize their full potential are busy castigating him, What a shame. Now here is my question, what have you done worth praising yourself even it involves hype. I see no reason for all this post over someone regarded as a scientist of note. will all your tantrums collect that precious[b] Gordon Bell[/b] prize from him. He hyped himself okay, but does that tarnish his achievement as an inventor of the the first program[b] to apply a pseudo-time approach to reservoir modeling.[/b] Oya make una go invent una own small steez before una begin dey cast stone.


You feel say him get time, the guy has other worries to think  of liking making more money off his hype  . FG investiagating him! so funny when i see this phrase !

Do you clowns know how many famous scientists have been ridiculed by the international community after they were found to have been involved in fraud and hoaxes?

The same people who were salivating at the news that some of the global warming claims had been doctored are now the ones whining about Nigerians pulling others down.

LeoMax:
That Guy is my hero anytime anyday. You morons that keep criticizing will never match his shoes till the day you mother(f)uckers die. Again, I dont wanna see any post about Emeagwali here again, or I will here the best hacke(rs) to shot this site down, this is no threat, but a guarantee. Admin take note.

Ah, an e-threat! How scary  

ALMUSTAQIM:
Edo tells striking doctors: Resume work or be fired

….You can’t intimidate us, doctors insist

BENIN—THE face-off between doctors in Edo State and the state government, deepened, weekend, following the threat by the state government to sack any doctor under its employ, who failed to resume work today.

But in a swift reaction, the state chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, Dr. Philip Ugbodaga, described the threat as “provocative,” saying that “no doctor was summarily employed by the state government, so no doctor can be summarily dismissed by Edo State government and we cannot be intimidated.”

It will be recalled that doctors in the state embarked on indefinite strike action to press for the release of the former Chief Medical Director of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital , UBTH, Prof. Eugene Okpere, who was kidnapped penultimate week.

Since then, the doctors extended the strike to protest what they described as incessant kidnapping of doctors in the state and general insecurity. But breaking its silence, weekend, on the ongoing strike, which it condemned and described as unacceptable, the state government, through a statement by the Secretary to the State Government, SSG, Mr Pally Iriase, said “from reports collated so far, many innocent persons have died as a result of the strike/industrial action.

Vanguard Newspaper

Dear Mr. SSG, from the reports collated so far how many Edo State citizens have died as a result of kidnapping? How many have been permanently traumatized from being kidnapped?

You're kidding me, right? Someone offered you 33k for a used 8GB ipod touch and you didn't take it?!
8GB!!

Well, good luck with finding a buyer at 30k. Not for an 8GB ipod touch.

Just let me catch any of you Emeagwali apologists ever come here to complain about fraud and corruption in Nigeria.
Instead of taking a 'Zero tolerance' to fraud and dishonesty, you're here trying to shield it because "he is one of our own".

Utter rubbish! You lot are as bad as IBB et al that you criticize so vehemently.

Please, remember that this is the Politics section. What you posted has nothing to do with Politics.

PStylish:

May all the enemies of the President die! In Jesus' Name. Amen.

What a stupid prayer!

austino01:
there is freedom of speech that gives one the right to open his or her mouth wide to say whatever is a free world and is not a do or die market buy it or u leave it.

Good thing you didn't try to deny the 'crippled device' part.

All i was just doing is giving advice. No one is gonna pay 140K for a locked iPhone 4.

fxproff:
everyone is funny here, to have a BB is not all about BIS plan BB is a phone like everyother cell with high facilities, i have a BB and i activate the BIS when i want, i can afford the Plan but i see no use since i have a 24hrs internet on my laptop, so u shouldnt say BB is useless without BIS,
for you that wantto browse u can always use your WAP, that will be deducting from your credit , for surfing the net ONLY.

Without the BIS facilities, the BB is one of the lamest smartphone platforms out there. If you weren't going to use BIS, then buying a BB instead of a vastly superior Android device is rather puzzling.

I pity you. At a time when people are desperately selling off their locked iPhone 4s for lower than 100k, you're here trying to flog off a crippled device to the unwary.
You better find a low enough price to sell that iPhone 4 before you find yourself holding a dud.

I'm surprised people are complaining about data services on Android phones in Nigeria. On my friend's ancient G1, he never had any problems connecting to MTN or Glo packages.

belushi7:
I didnt say you cannot achieve all that with your jailbroken iphone. read my post again. i said after reading reviews and users opinions, i settled for android. but truly, i dont need to root my sgs for example just to bluetooth to another phone brand and i can put in a video call to any phone brand i like that supports 3g compared to iphone's facetime. My conclusion on picking android over ios was based on 1. reviews, 2. users opinions and 3. using it in nigeria. I will not discourage anyone from getting his iphone, my preference for now is android.
And really, rooting my sgs was just done by one click. nothing stressful.

Then stop posting misleading information about 'open' and 'closed'.
You can also make video calls to other phones via the iPhone's front facing camera without using facetime. There are FREE 3rd party apps that do this. See what i mean about misleading information?

Jailbreaking iOS devices is also one click using limerain/greep0ison. See?


No offence/beef meant, i'm just clearing the air. if you notice, i have been praising the SG S as a really solid device. Anyone with that phone is cutting edge

twinskenny:
it seem texaz got hatred for ANDROID fone,

Nothing can be further from the truth. I love what Google's doing with Android. They have really fantastic hardware and if i wasn't using an iPhone i'd be on the Android platform.

However, i dislike misleading info and undeserved praise. I don't have to be an 'Android hater' before i point out misleading facts.

belushi7:
galaxy s please, and the screen is now joke. i have mine set at 30% brightness and still people marvel at the super amoled screens clarity. the black colour is sooo deep, and like i said, this is at 30%, imagine at 100%! my reason for choosing sgs is because with android you can still get a lot of things done( as an open source) unlike the iphone. both phones are not supported in nigeria but with the tons on free apps in the android market, you'll have more than enough. We all know the problems with jailbreaking your iphone, i dont think i want a phone as a patient. on the other side, even with an unlocked galaxy s, you are good to go without any problem and you will enjoy your sgs to the fullest.

1. There are more free apps on the iPhone AppStore than on Android Market
2. jailbreaking is typically much easier than rooting your android phone

Do you guys even know what you're talking about sef? smh.

Mr President is palling around with crooks, I see.

Abagworo:
Nigerians deserve to know the truth.Nothing wrong with telling us that the militants decided to release the hostages after negotiations.

Kidnapping is a serious criminal offense in Nigeria. It can cause severe emotional trauma for the victims and their families. The people that did the kidnap are heinous criminals that should be fished out and punished (executed, IMHO)
Telling us that some 'activist' reached out and 'negotiated' with the criminals means nothing. The only meaningful thing is to arrest, prosecute and punish these crooks. The 'activist' should be squeezed for as much information as she can divulge.
That is all.

belushi7:
androids are very good. i use the sgs. but you guys should not hound those in love with their symbian, they have their reasons too for choosing symbian. I have come a long way, started with nokia, then sonyericsson, after which i went on with windows mobile and now with android. i leave each of those platforms to get the satisfaction i desire in the new ones. windows mobile (x1) for me then was slow and after reading through what ios and android has to offer, i picked android. the galaxy s is just it for me now. i have been on xda developers for years now and doubt if i can use any closed system smartphone (bb, iphone). i have since rooted and installed custom rom on my sgs (bionix fusion 1.2), its damn snappy even though i am yet to enable the lagfix on it. right now i am reading quadrant score of 880, if i apply the lagfix it will be in the range of over 2000, you can imagine the speed.
however, i will also like to argue for those on symbian that they do have some advantages. like they can purchase paid apps with our nigerian debit cards while we can only download free apps (although there are plenty of them, more than enough sef). Also the google map is not as detailed as the ovi map (with free voice navigation). these are support systems that nokia has made available for their nigerian users which google is yet to do. I have in fact been shopping for better map for my sgs like garmap and co.

But all in all, i will still choose my android for now over the symbian, it gets the work done and the hardware is not as bulky as the average nokia (the sgs is 9.9mm thin)  and the UI is far more interesting/ exciting.

@na2day, thanks for the tunein radio app, i sure need one cos my sgs is an unlocked t-mobile vibrant version, it doesn't come with fm radio like the I9000 and with a 6gig plan from glo, its more than adequate for our internet hungry android.

You guys just spout the term 'closed' and 'open' as if you really know what you're talking about. You can't install any of the custom roms on your android devices without rooting it. Similarly your iPhone remains closed until you jailbreak it. Once jailbroken, the iPhone is pretty much open.

I can't understand why people would whine about the iPhone being a 'closed platform' when the freedom is just a jailbreak away, then they'd turn around and go through the more tedious rooting process on their android devices.

hobat4cash:
The problem i have with some people is not criticizing this lady when she errs, besides i don't tolorate ministerial rascality, but my problem with this persons is that they don't commend this lady when she does well they rather keep silent but come baring their fangs when she errs. This to me smacks of double standards. The people know themselves, please one love.

What has she done well in recent times?
When she wrote that infamous memo, wasn't she excessively praised?

Abeg the woman has nothing to offer as Information minister. All she does is move from one gaffe to another these days.

So she is in contact with criminals. Why exactly has this woman not been taken into custody and questioned?

This is the Politics section. Can't you clowns respect that?

Here's a more direct comparison.
We'll compare FIFA 2011 on the iPhone and PSP.

FIFA 11 PSP Screens
https://image.gamespotcdn.net/gamespot/images/2010/279/988952_20101007_640screen003.jpg

https://image.gamespotcdn.net/gamespot/images/2010/279/988952_20101007_screen004.jpg

https://image.gamespotcdn.net/gamespot/images/2010/279/988952_20101007_640screen009.jpg



FIFA 11 iPhone 4 Screens

https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4085/5039166314_5d29954639_z.jpg

https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4086/5038547381_3c2c4e02ac_z.jpg

https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4145/5039173992_c76c5d9359_z.jpg


Now honestly, which one looks better?

The only wasted money i see here is all the funds spent on your education.
So many years of study and you still don't know that paragraphing long articles is the proper thing to do to make it easy for people to read.

ElRazur:
Op, you need to make a fair comparison.

Iphone4 is newer and will probably have better specs

PSP on the other hand is a bit dated now. Also like already mentioned some game out there will trounce that of the Iphone4.

It may be worth adding that screen shot is never a good comparison, it may have been enhanced or post processed. Just my two cent.

Yep, it's an unfair comparison because the iPhone 4 is newer.
I never said the iPhone is a better gaming device than the PSP. All i talked about was the graphics capabilities.
Most PSP games look far better than most iPhone games because of the game budget, development time etc. But as more and more studios are putting the effort into mobile game development, we're seeing the superior GPU and CPU start to make the difference.

I have the RAGE game, and i can assure you that there is no image manipulation. But don't take my word for it. Get a friend with an iPhone 4 to download Epic Citadel from the App Store. it's free and it's made with Unreal Engine 3. Prepare to be blown away


I know the PSP2 will be awesome. I have my sights set on getting a Nintendo 3DS. That's gonna be one awesome machine too

[quote author=Da_b¤§§. link=topic=554042.msg7184440#msg7184440 date=1290289223]god of war about 2-3 yrs old can even beat dat not to talk of 2010 games[/quote]Nada. Infinity Blade is running on Unreal Engine 3 on the iPhone 4. The PSP can't handle that. The level of detail in that Infinity Blade screenshot is way higher than that in that God of War screenshot. You no dey see texture quality? Don't forget that Unreal Engine 3 on the iPhone 4/iPad is running at a far higher resolution that the PSP is capable of.

We're talking of graphics capabilities also, not just actual games.

You know who John Carmack is? He's come out to say that the iPhone 4 is theoretically capable of dishing out visuals better than what you see on the Wii. The PSP is still inferior to the PS2.

[quote author=Okija_juju link=topic=548998.msg7185828#msg7185828 date=1290311332]@ Double N

SO you are saying I could go ahead and purchase the HTC Desire Z as against the Blackberry Torch (which I was gonna settle for since it seems all Networks have a plan that covers it).[/quote]I beg you, sir, FLEE from the Blackberry Torch. FLEE!! FLEE!!

The BB Torch is still around 100k. Use that money to buy a Samsung Galaxy S for 80 - 85k. It's vastly superior.

I cannot understand why people can open their eyes and spend 100K and above for a BB Torch. That's one phone that isnt worth the money.

[quote author=Da_b¤§§. link=topic=554042.msg7182778#msg7182778 date=1290269692]guy just dont compare
u are in love with iphone4
but dont just compare[/quote]I've shown some screenshots to back up my claims. I suggest you do the same or keep quiet.

And FYI, i've gone through 4 PSPs from December 2005 to my current PSPGo.