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Danger Makes Free Sidekick SDK Available
DivideByZero writes "Turns out that Danger, Inc. has finally gotten around to making the SDK (Sign up here) available for the Hiptop (Released in the US as the T-Mobile Sidekick) - free of charge . The Hiptop/Sidekick has been mentioned previously on Slashdot.)"
how mcuh does one of these cost ? And what is the monthly fee that I pressume it needs to connect ?
t-mobile.com and danger.com didn't seem to have this info. t-mobile.com made me select a state and city, but had no options for city, and then gave me the error that I needed to specify a city . . . someone needs to be fired.
Why can't they see fit to distribute the SDK free of charge without any strings attached? Why must they either charge you an arm and a leg for the kit or make you sign up to some sort of "approved" list of developers?
If there's anything of Microsoft's that ought to be emulated, it's their SDK distribution policy.
I have been pwned because my
intel is even this very minute embedding me into the Trollorama 4000 XP chip.
ph33r.
Leading the partnership for a Slashdot-Free Slashdot, Son of Dog
Anyone had a look at this? What is development for the SideKick like? What kind of model/style? What language? Presumable C or C++.
(I'm a big platform/PDA nerd, yes)
Working toward a usable PDA environment in the spirit of Newton OS: Dynapad
The SDK is quite Nice... uses J2SE and comes with a good bit of example code that is licensed BSD Style...
Its good stuff!
I love the the classifications of developer they offer:
* Hobbyist
* Open Source
* Professional
* Corporate
* Malicious Hacker
Gee, I wonder if the last one flags me as a terrorist... *grin*
ph34r teh p0w3r 0f th3 c0w
EETimes has a teardown of the hiptop... Engineers will get a chuckle out of finding the part that won't die!! There's also a block diagram.
(hint: it's a national part on the same side as the processor)
HIV Crosses Species Barrier... into Muppets
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The Iraqi leader, and possibly his two sons, were said to be in a private house built over an underground bunker in southern Baghdad.
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What happened next, one senior administration official said Thursday, ''has created one of the great mysteries of the first day of the war -- did we hit anyone and if so, who did we get?''
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On Thursday night, officials were still holding out hope that one of the American 2,000 pound bombs and nearly 40 Tomahawk cruise missiles, each carrying 1,000 pounds of explosives, may have struck Saddam or one of his sons, Qusay and Uday.
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''It may take days,'' the official said, ''to sift through it all.''
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The mystery deepened as intelligence agencies monitoring Iraqi communications detected a significant drop in intercepted conversations among the top leaders of the country. Some officials speculated that Iraq's leadership had gone underground, others believed that, as one official put it, ''their phones melted.''
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Either way, it was a surprise start to the war. It began close to 3 p.m. on Wednesday, when George Tenet, the director of Central Intelligence, got the tip that Saddam and his top leadership might be in the fortified bunker in Baghdad.
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Tenet raced to the Pentagon to discuss the information with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, then spoke to General Richard Myers, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.
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''There was no question about the legality of the target, but there was some discussion about how solid the information was and who might actually be there and when,'' said a senior official. ''The conclusion was that even though we didn't know for sure, it was an important target in any case.''
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General Tommy Franks, the commander of allied forces in Iraq, had already begun planning a strike with Tomahawk cruise missiles against the bunker, the official said, and ordered the F-117A fighter jets aloft in preparation to strike -- even before Bush signed the attack order.
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Franks, who was at his forward command post near Doha, Qatar, had the same intelligence information from CIA. officers in the field that Tenet was giving Rumsfeld, the official said.
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Around 3:30 p.m., Tenet and Rumsfeld carried the information to a meeting with Bush and his top national security officials in the Oval Office. For three hours, the group discussed the source of the information, how likely it was to be true, and the risks of the operation. They spoke to Franks and came to the decision, the official said, that Tomahawk cruise missiles alone would not destroy a bunker that intelligence showed was buried under layers of dirt and concrete.
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Assembled for the discussion about the attack was Bush's war council: were Vice President Dick Cheney, Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, national security adviser Condoleeza Rice, White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card Jr., and General Richard Myers of the air force, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. The group concluded that it was imperative to send the F-117s, which can carry ''bunker buster'' bombs, a much heavier payload than a cruise missile.
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According to senior government officials, Bush listened impassively as his top aides debated what might be done, weighing, as minutes ticked by whether to stick with the meticulously scheduled opening of the war with the extraordinary possibility that the United States could land a potentially lethal blow against the Iraqi regime.
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''This was the end of the 48-hour period for Saddam to get out of Iraq,'' said one official. ''So to have at that very moment when you're considering starting a conflict, to have a fairly good idea of knowing where senior most leaders are, is a pr
CNN confirms it: Iraq is dieing.
Let's ignore the rhetoric and look at the facts. bleh bleh bleh, kreskin, Iraqi Leader Saddam Hussein, bleh bleh bleh
Fact: Iraq is dead
That was what killed it for me. The Sidekick is tied to a single provider, they won't tell me how much it's going to cost per month, and they still expect me to pay $200 for the unit as well? I don't think so...
GCHQ Quantum Insert installed. If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak
Saddam: Hello?
George W Bush: Can you hear me now?