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Google Preps Devs For One-Size-Fits-All Android
alphadogg writes "Google is preparing Android developers for the latest edition of its Android mobile operating platform that will work the same on both tablets and smartphones. Scott Main, the lead tech writer for Google's Android Developers Blog, reminded developers on Monday that the newest edition of Android — dubbed 'Ice Cream Sandwich' — will 'support big screens, small screens and everything in between.' Main also emphasized that Android would maintain 'the same version ... on all screen sizes' going forward."
When is the manufacturer of my (small screen) device going to ALLOW me to update it without Cyanogen?
Google needs to force the carriers to keep their androids up to date. This buy a new phone for the latest android version is bullshit.
More of the software where I can't delete certain apps without rooting the device.
Deep Joy...
{apps such as Twitter is what I'm talking about}
I'll be interested to see how they handle the UI design. Architecturally, resolution and screen size independence aren't exactly trivial(especially if you are on a serious battery budget and can't just scream "THROW MORE FUCKING VECTORS AT IT!!!" any time you run into a scaling question); but, so long as the device's screen is accurately reporting its resolution, size, and DPI, it isn't a thicket of unsolved or fundamentally intractable problems.
The question of how to do a UI that scales to make efficient use of different screen sizes, though, is a bit trickier: the best UI for a teeny little screen almost certainly isn't suited to a larger one, or to a large, but low resolution, TV-style screen at a good distance from the user.
Are they just going to have a few hardcoded presets(phone, tablet, TV?) that use the same architectural foundation? Will it be a single 'windowing' mechanism that follows certain layout rules that result in different effects based on screen size and DPI?
Yay more XML soup!
Ostensibly random capitalization of words is the retarded alternative to writing in such a way that people don't need fucking big "emphasis here" signs vomited all over a post that could contain some sense, buried under a ton of Gene Rayesque obfuscation and general word wankery.
-- Using the preview button since 2005
Or you can moderate then post anonymously. Why, do you need people to know it's you posting and not someone else? Do you really need that credit?
FYI, I modded the parent offtopic.
Twitter, I wouldn't mind. It's more apps like NASCAR that I couldn't care less about. Are there really that many fans of NASCAR on Sprint??? What's next?? an unremovable app for Vagesil on all Sprint phones??? It's not like Sprint is a low-cost carrier to begin with.
Which just goes to show you that no good deed goes unpunished.
Aha!
Are they just going to have a few hardcoded presets(phone, tablet, TV?) that use the same architectural foundation? Will it be a single 'windowing' mechanism that follows certain layout rules that result in different effects based on screen size and DPI?
Android has been doing this for a while, choosing at runtime which resources to serve up based on DPI. The source tree of an Android app has 3 'drawable' directories under res/ (drawable-ldpi, drawable-mdpi, and drawable-hdpi) and it picks the best one for each situation.
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Literacy at a level where people can communicate between the lines died decades ago. It's very hard to hide from the onslaught of lolspeak, the conflation of they're/their/there/your/you're and other linguistic degeneracies. Encouraging people to communicate in an intelligent manner? Not going to happen. Not with this generation.
I hate printers.
And when you post AC after modding, the mods you made are rolled back (and lost).
I posted above, checking the AC box after moderating. Moderation was withdrawn. It appears you have to log out to comment after moderating.
I won't bother moderating again.
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Are we going to see it released once ICS starts rolling out?
I have left slashdot and am now on Soylent News. FUCK YOU DICE.
Because your post comes across with a Score: 0 (if you post AC) which most people would have filtered out unless they're moderating.... So, if you're posting in the hopes of someone actually reading your comment, then posting as AC is not a great idea.
... now, if Google could only find a way to be able to push out Android OS updates onto ALL handsets, regardless of manufacturers, we'd be cooking with gas.
Android's greatest asset is that it's open*. Sadly, it's also it's greatest enemy. When Google creates a new version of Android, let's say Jelly Bean, everyone should be to upgrade to it, regardless of whether HTC, Samsung, LG, etc. made the phone.
Unfortunately, the manufacturers like to tweak stuff, almost to the point where things like Facebook are tied into the sodding ROM.
If Google can find a way around this and still allow the partners to pop out the phones, then you'll soon find that the only barrier to the upgrades will be your phone simply being too old (not enough RAM, for example).
My HTC Desire will never get an OS higher than 2.2, which is a shame as the OTA update feature sounds pretty cool.
I've no idea how they could do this, but I expect those with more knowledge of how OSes work would be able to answer.
(PS - please don't say that people can just root and install a custom ROM, as the average man on the street has no idea how to do this, and it is he things like this need to consider)
* no, don't start on what Stallman thinks - it's the closest you'll get to a phone that will has a global reach without closing it up entirely. A truly open system would be so fragmented that one would become completely unrecognisable from the other.
THE HONOUR OF THE KNIGHTS - CC Licensed Sci-Fi Novel
I never played with an Android device until I bought my Asus Transformer. When I set it up for the first time, I thought all the requests for my Google identity info were just to set up accounts, but it turned out that the tablet was just like the phone-- Google still treats it as a personal device.
While this isn't new to someone who knew Android well already, it came as quite a shock to me. After all, I planned to use my tablet like a netbook-- handing it off to other people who need to use it when I don't. I can't do that, though, because all someone has to do is hit that GMAIL icon and be automatically signed into my accounts. The same with the Android Store.
What Android needs for me to fully enjoy using it as well as for me to suggest it for other users is to provide the option to treat the device like a potentially public device as does Windows, Linux, and Mac OS. It should not be assumed that the primary owner always has control of the device. It should require loging in for any GMAIL user and the device should not be tied directly to a Google account identity.
I'll continue to use my Asus Transformer as is, but only until there's a tablet friendly of Ubuntu up and running... or maybe I'll stick with Android if such changes are made. But until then, I won't be buying another tablet as an upgrade and I will continue to stay out of the smartphone market.
The realistic best we can get is hackable phones and CM7
The problems with CyanogenMod are 1. loss of hardware warranty and 2. once you install it, you lose applications that are exclusive to Android Market, such as Chase Bank's check deposit application, unless you warez the Android Market application.
If people were just buying the phone themselves, and get SIM card from the carrier, complaints won't be directed to the carrier.
In that case, carriers damn themselves by not offering a discount on service for buying a phone up front. T-Mobile has "Even More Plus", which includes such a discount, but it's rumored to disappear the moment the acquisition by AT&T closes. Two out of the three remaining nationwide carriers don't use removable subscriber identity modules anyway: instead of CSIM, the CDMA2000 carriers (VZW and Sprint) program the subscriber identity directly into the handset.
Are there really that many fans of NASCAR on Sprint???
Sprint is the title sponsor of NASCAR's top racing series.
I want to up date my G-Tablet with ice cream sandwich. I'll also need some display drivers. I'm looking at you, NVidia.
(disclaimer: I'm a lazy parasite who has great toys because I benefit from the fruits of the labor of others. I don't actually need the source code and drivers, the awesome devs who breath new life into the G-Tablet on a monthly basis are the ones who will need them. Thank you all so much for your amazing efforts).
There will be tablet bodies that are screen only and no brains for me to plug my phone into.
Imagine where you could your phone as a phone, a tablet, or plug a keyboard / mouse into it and use it for browsing / word processing, etc.
All the major tablet and phone OSes work this way, even the recently-defunct ones like WebOS, so I'm not sure why this is a surprise. These are designed to be personal individual devices used by one person. You want another login, buy another device. (That part is by design to sell more things).
Portable versions of Firefox, GIMP, LibreOffice, etc
That's great.. So, any chance of getting some native SVG support for drawables?
There are some third party libs for it, but if you're going to actively target "any resolution" then svg support would be obvious, no?
It's The Golden Rule: "He who has the gold makes the rules."
And while your at it, desktop docks with real screens and full keyboards and mice, for your phone. (though touch screen full size screens might come in handy since that's what we'll all be used to when not docked.
This is the future, it just depends on how long it take for a manufacture to come out with everything packaged correctly to be perfectly usable.
Asus transformer is a nice attempt, though reviews indicate it still has to many rough edges for mainstream acceptance.(never used one though)
Think about it, one device, take with you everywhere. All your software and documents with you anytime. We're basically getting there with hardware with mobile CPU's with 2+ cores, and 1+ Ghz. 32gb storage easy, and 64 or 128 not being far off.
About the only thing I'm not super excited about is the OS shift, though I've begun to accept the fact that to accomplish this unified personal computing platform, we'll need a new OS.
Those who can, do.
I assume this APK is the same APK (aka. akowals ... akowals1@twcny.rr.com ) that trolls Ars as well as here. Same style of writing, same attitude...
http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=812192
Why, do you need people to know it's you posting and not someone else? Do you really need that credit?
Yes.
Not only do I want the credit (although occasionally I will have to live with the results of saying something stupid) but I want other people to log in so that I can friend or foe them, and alter their comment scores. That way I can screen out the most blithering of idiots.
Consequently, I do not read AC comments unless I am very bored, or they are so short that I can read them without really thinking — I am the fastest reader I know and one-liners get parsed without my conscious control. (Seems like potential for a vuln...) I must assume that the poster is a dumbfuck and/or troll.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
So I'm not part of 'most people'.
Good to know.
Google and Cyanogen came to very nice terms quite some time ago about gapps.
Are there any public details about under what terms the separate package may be provided?
People think these phones cost $200, when in fact they're closer to $600. It's all hidden in carrier subsidies and people a) are too stupid to realize it or b) would rather spend "future" money than "now" money.
Aha, an ARSTECHNICA douche? I love it when you dolts from the online 'NEST of "ne'er-do-wells" @ arstechnica try this! Why?
Ok - LMAO:
Ask Jeremy Reimer & Jay Little (the self-proclaimed" expert on Exchange" who got SHOT DOWN IN FLAMES on where Memory Optimization programs actually were shown by Microsoft documentation no less, as unhalting frozen Exchange Servers -> http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/internals-and-architecture/the-memory-optimization-hoax#feedbackAnchor and how Reimer got caught impersonating myself, and Mr. Martin Meszaros who denounced Reimer too publicly for doing it )
Ask them how they felt after trying to "take me on" over @ Windows IT Pro & being trashed on technicals there (Reimer's too much of a dolt to try it himself so he brought in Little & a doctoral candidate in Jarrett DeAngelis/StarKruzr (who also ended up agreeing with what I stated in the end, no less, lol)).
Jeremy Reimer in particular really TRULY makes me laugh: There's a guy who trolls others, thinks it's "cool to do", & yet has to marry some broad from overseas (paid for bride, lol) who is a stripper!
Talk about WEAK!
No kids on Reimer's part either after YEARS of "marriage" (man, more like the evidence of a 'coverup' on his part, & for his TRUE sexual orientations I say)... lol, either he needs a "splint" or a dose of viagra - that, or he's a "closet fag", lmao!
* LMAO - I mean, after the above URL, do you *think* your edited or IMPERSONATING posts of myself fool anyone after the above?
"I assume this APK is the same APK (aka. akowals ... akowals1@twcny.rr.com ) that trolls Ars as well as here. Same style of writing, same attitude..." - by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20, @10:34AM (#37455704)
The attitude comes from kicking your "ne'er-do-well" arstechnica off topic trolling asses wherever you try this with me... & I do so, just "too, Too, TOO EASILY" (just "2 EZ'ly", lol, every damned time!).
I, on the other hand, also don't have to ASSUME anything, what with your weak link of edited posts (by "MWNH"/The man with no head (no balls is more like it, lol)) that impersonated me in many of them... especially vs. "GOD" (same person as "The Man With No Head" (balls, lol), because I busted "them" both using the SAME EMAIL ACCOUNT, lol... your multiple account bullshit you fools use also made you look like the asses you are, easily, also!)).
(You arstechnica goofs, you're all the same: WEAK, effete, & foolish "underachievers of the internet" (which you ARE widely referred to as)).
APK
P.S.=> On your "best day"? You dolts from arstechnica can't even BEGIN to try to "take me on" in computing technicals even with your "best people" technically, & you certainly do NOT possess the intellect to get the better of myself in anything else either... do yourselves a favor - get over it, "U FAIL vs. APK" as-per-your-usual doltish trolling off topic illogical adhominem attack utilizing selves, as always... period!
... apk
Why does it matter? As long as communication occurred, why get hung up on the grammar rules? FAR too many people use grammar nazism to make up for their lack of original thought. Communication is there to facilitate transfer of thought, if a successful thought transfer occurs, why does it matter how the thought was contained?
Good-bye
I think the fact that they are breaking up parts of the system into Apps that are automatically updated by Google will be fantastic, such as the browser. The more they break out of the base system, the more control they have over updates, ironically.
Also, they should take the opportunity to unify the UI a bit more. I'm not saying go iPhone, but I think it could be done better.
Any time people leave the default, you're not doing it well enough, be it a dev or a user, such as leaving the default keyboard for Swype, TouchPal, or FlexT9.
If they had a killer UI, it would discourage fragmentation. There are some great UIs out there that they could purchase and integrate, such as Go Launcher or ADW Launcher. I think they should also be stricter on the hardware so that there is also better driver support between phones. Then again, that's the CyanogenMod talking for me, which probably is less important to mainstream users.
I8-D
Just look at the Chromebook. I don't see why this wouldn't eventually translate. The problem is purchased apps. I can't imagine them letting you install a $20 app on a phone just because you borrowed it.
One mod does support Guests, from what I've read. MIUI. You have to root and flash to get it, just like CyanogenMod, but it's gotten great reviews.
I8-D
Whatever they say would be completely and utterly irrelevant [...] They have no idea of the relevant costs of producing a phone.
The phone manufacturer is trying to get out of producing a firmware update for existing phones, not get out of producing phones. The costs of producing a phone "would be completely and utterly irrelevant" to the costs of producing a firmware update for existing phones. If the CM team can produce a firmware update for existing phones, what makes it infeasible for a multinational to produce the same firmware update for existing phones?
I have read the page that you and other Anonymous Cowards have cited, and nothing on that page tells me clearly how the CM team is authorized to distribute the separate Google Apps package.
Hmm? What?
If the application is written for the smaller screen why not allow it to run in an area on the screen the size of the smaller device? I've moved to writing interfaces in SVG and use a container. If your moving between 320x240 480x320 640x480 then you don't have many problems letting it stretch or shrink. If your writing a UI that needs to go from 320x240 and 1080p you have to really rethink text, constantly adjust text, or create limits to the size it can grow. I prefer the later. Having an XML file tell the UI to change panels or manipulate the width and height attributes using percentages while leaving the viewBox to remain your UI's maximum size... No offense meant, but just sounds like a dirty hack.
320x240 - 800x600
svg id='outerSVG' width='100%' height='100%' viewBox='0 0 800 600'
800x600 - 1080p
svg id='outerSVG' width='50%' height='50%' viewBox='0 0 800 600'
I definitely like the idea of compartmentalizing your application. However, I don't see how expanding the UI to include additional parts is a good thing. That just forces people into situations of liking one way and not another, IMHO. If it makes sense switching views from one piece to another why not leave it like that on both devices. I guess I'm just partial to compact UI.
Having to work for a living is the root of all evil.
Unless you log out before posting.
Singularity: a belief in the "God" idea with the "demiurge" relation inverted.
Mr. "SiDeWaLk-ShRiNk" wannabe of /.? You know - the one you do NOT possess to your name/credit??
You jokers from arstechnica: You truly DO make me laugh, & hugely @ that... when will you finally accept that you just plain do NOT have the mental faculties & intelligence to get the better of me, in anything???
"I guess that confirms it..." - by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20, @01:13PM (#37457630)
Sure does - that I can literally DEMONSTRATE how you psychos stalked me to Windows IT Pro, & were:
1.) Caught impersonating me (so much for your "edited impersonation links" of myself) when Jeremy Reimer not only impersonated myself on his forums & @ arstechnica, but also did the same to Mr. Martin Meszaros as well!
(LMAO - U R "BUSTED", noob!)
2.) Got blown away when that constantly off-topic unqualified wannabe stooge in the computer sciences Jeremy Reimer had to bring in "the best & brightest" from arstechnica in Jay Little (blown away on the fact that Exchange servers can be unfrozen when halted BY MEMORY OPTIMIZATION TECHNOLOGY no less, proof was Microsoft's own "fix" for it no less, & after Little literally SAID "I am an Expert on Exchange"... lol, so much for "arstechnica experts", eh?).
3.) Reimer then brought in a Notre Dame CSC doctoral candidate student in Jarrett DeAngelis, who ended up agreeing with 99% of my points I made there... utterly HILARIOUS (& he was caught by myself trying to say "I am not Jarrett DeAngelis" but had to admit it in the end... liars doth NOT experts make!).
& far more... you people RUINED yourselves trying to take me on, face it. You're known liars & psycho-stalkers of others online. It makes me laugh I got under your skins SO BADLY, you STILL try to 'rile me' & what you don't realize is, is this:
You always make me laugh, & make my day, because it only allows me the further opportunity to throw this all back in YOUR FACES, shaming you publicly.
* I love it...
APK
P.S.=> This makes me laugh the most here, the attempts @ adhominem illogical attacks, completely off-topic (the trademark of the 'NEST OF "ne'er-do-wells" of Arstechnica):
"Large ego" - by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20, @01:13PM (#37457630)
Hmmm, for someone minus a PhD in the psychiatric sciences, you surely have a "large ego" yourself, attempting to judge me, eh? Get over yourself, "ne'er-do-well"... lol!
", name dropping" - by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20, @01:13PM (#37457630)
Yea, that's right: I dropped a few names like Jay Little, Jarrett DeAngelis, & Jeremy Reimer (arstechnica off-topic illogical adhominem attack utilizing trolls) - showing anyone reading JUST WHAT KIND OF CHARACTER (rather the lack thereof on your parts) you arstechnica goofs possess - none of any value.
"assumption"by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20, @01:13PM (#37457630)
Well, seeing as you seem to be assuming YOU are not only a psychiatrist, but also an English prof. below? I wonder who is "assuming" a BIT TOO MUCH about themselves here?? Not I... lol!
"poor vocabulary/grammar"by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20, @01:13PM (#37457630)
Ahem: Care to show us your PhD in English, OR, your "certification as the master of how to post online"?
(Again, both of those things that you possess neither of??)
"... sounds like a sociopath. "by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20, @01:13PM (#37457630)
Ahem/Again: Care to show us your PhD in Psychiatry?" per my subject-line above?
How about your formal examination of myself, with yourself in possession of years-to-decades of professional hands-on LICENSED PRACTICE in the psychiatric sciences on YOUR PART???
LOL, typical
Minus any documented provable certified by accredited academic institutions on his part of course, of his being an actual expert in how to write himself. Typical troll b.s. is all he was about, plain and simple.
"I am the fastest reader I know"
lol this sounds like the kind of pathetic teenage loser bragging that goes on amongst nerd club members. i'm willing to bet that all your weenie friends say exactly the same thing (and add "also, drinkypoo smells of pee-pee and is ugly" at the end of it).
Or you can have a browser open that isn't logged in and a browser open that is. Plus point: you can post anonymously and then mod yourself up to have an immediate boost to the dizzy heights of +1.
You seem to be a tad on the tense side. You may find it useful to put on some soothing music and relax in a scented bath.
However, I'd be willing to give you mod points for using the word "effete", except that, alas, I have no mod points.
The "down-moderation", completely TECHNICALLY unjustified in the realm of the computer sciences, OR business!
APK
P.S.=> Is THAT seriously the "best" you effete jokers have that down-moderated me? Pitiful... but, then again, considering the arstechnica "online psycho-stalker stooges" showed up & I embarassed them SO BADLY with their own misdoings directed my say since 2001?? Makes sense they'd try to "hide it" with a downmod... lol - man, I am laughing SO HARD right now, but I have to ask a question of the downmodder:
IS YOUR FAVORITE COLOR "TRANSPARENT"? I ask, because your effete off-topic trolling tactics, along with the downmod, are easily seen through... too easily!
... apk
I am laughing my ass off to be honest about it... & enjoying this actually! Why? Ok:
I.E.-> To me? This is "high-comedy", especially shooting down the trolls & their WEAK illogical off-topic adhominem attacks - especially those from arstechnica in the series of replies here...
(I love "doing them in" especially in fact & with their OWN stupidities I have evidences of of which I only posted a FRACTION of as they stalked me to many forums online for a decade!)
APK
P.S.=> Yes, believe-it-or-not - They've QUITE LITERALLY stalked & trolled me, literally, for a decade online on & off @ various forums!
The funniest part, is their constantly being caught in:
1.) Impersonating myself, AND others
2.) Email harassing me\
3.) Libelling me via edited pictures of myself, & songs they make
4.) Literally MAKING DEATH THREATS & more such as stating "don't hire APK" which is criminal literally to do!
(All of which their ISP's were notified & tracked them, as well as law enforcement - which stopped Jeremy Reimer, Jay Little, & Jarrett DeAngelis COLD in their tracks doing it no less)
They're caught in "std. troll fare tricks" like using multiple account tricks & such to do so as well!
Plus, face it: Arstechnica trolls showing up here to attempt to do so again?
PLEASE, lol - Just MORE clear evidence to support my statements/case here, easily...
That's they though - Lame & low trolls, as well as STUPID being caught in doing the above too, lol!
(E.G.-> In fact, I show SOME evidence(s) of that here in my replies to they, & it's only a fraction from Windows IT Pro forums, but there's more from majorgeeks, ntcompatible.com & more as well)
Yes - they "have issues" & mainly with their own "geek angst"!
(Funniest part is, I haven't been to "arstechnica: NEST OF "ne-er-do-wells online", since 2001 in fact)
HOWEVER - they do have 1 REDEEMING QUALITY - they're very easy to "get the best of" with facts & documentations of their idiocies, and they're quite "blunted" in intelligence in debate & easy to get the best of - in short, they're amusing dolts @ least, lol...
... apk
Looks like someone hit a nerve.
APK seems to have silenced them as he always does, so you're right. He hit them on the head and they shut up and run as is trolls' usual.
Hell, I browse at -1 so I can see the whole discussion and not just what popular opinion has decided for me.
Well shit, I've been 'wasting' mod points lately. I'll have to correct that.
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
my guess is that they're not going to do anything about the current, borked version (3.2). On the Asus eeePad, it is, as a Klingon might say, "A piece of gagh. The company is without honor."
Since 2001, dolt. So, so much for your bullshit statement quoted here:
"I assume this APK is the same APK (aka. akowals ... akowals1@twcny.rr.com ) that trolls Ars as well as here." - by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20, @10:34AM (#37455704)
IF you call telling the truth via facts &/or documentations that are often used to backup my statements trolling, then YOU'RE FULL OF IT, troll.
As far as arstechnica though? Well, after all - There's NOTHING there of value to learn, since I often had to help OR correct their "best & brightest" in coding in their arsware for instance!
E.G. #1 of 2 - COOLMON, which the coder had NO errortrapping code in, which if performance counters were set "off" (they do NOT come for free, so turning them off saves CPU cycles/RAM/Other forms of I-O etc.) it would crash - I had to TELL him HOW to "get around it" via programmatic checks in the registry for it, ala > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc784382(WS.10).aspx as one method, OR, using extctrlst.exe from the reskit (tracing it shows the appropriate registry entries it makes to shut down perf. counters on various services etc.)).
E.G. #1 of 2 - The late Aryeh Holzer (whom I actually LIKED, since he wasn't the "typical trollish ne'er-do-well" that infests their forums largely & he did SetiSpy before he passed on) also got a tip from me on how to make his app use less CPU (ala the SAME I did for the folks in UltraDefrag, one of INFOWORLD's top 8 apps in fact recently from the Open Source world -> http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2435272&cid=37443252 because his app needed it so the actual SETI exe would run with more CPU possible allocation while his monitoring app was minimized).
There's others as well, & it was what made me realize they're mostly a pack of noobs, & largely for the most part, what I called them here: The 'NEST of "ne'er-do-wells" online @ arstechnica - home of the underachievers of the internet", lol!
APK
P.S.=> Lastly, & probably MOST IMPORTANTLY here in closing? The FACT you came here to bother myself, & basically gave away the fact you come from arstechnica SHOWS WHO THE TRUE TROLLS ARE, especially no balls ones like yourself that post as AC & don't even "sign off" as I do with your intials... you're pitiful, and STUPID to top it all off!
... apk
Big screens
Small screens
Any size at all
You can make them stick
If you throw them at the wall
same.
... wait, what?
Because successful communication requires the rules of language to actually be consistent between the communicator and the communicatee. Sure, I might be able to interpret a sentence like "i hd d wurst day eva fml" at the moment, but at the rate we're going, within a decade the English language will have completely devolved into a mess of mutually unintelligible sets of syntax so different that communication between different groups will present a real problem.
I have no problem, for example, with things like the use of the split infinitive, as it can be argued to enhance certain aspects of writing style, but where is there an argument for eliminating all the homonyms of "there" and just using that spelling for "they're" and "their"? Really, there is no compelling argument, and the only time I've heard this advocated is by lazy people who can't be bothered learning the correct forms.
I hate printers.
Why stop there? I could fire up a second computer and use one for AC, commenting one for moderating!
At what point does the level of inconvenience become too much? Two different browsers open for the same website is in and of itself an idiotic situation to put people in.
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Let's say you own three computers, which is not at all unreasonable - one desktop, one laptop and one tablet is reasonably common. Then you can have five or six browsers open, a collection of sock-puppet accounts and a few ACs. Troll as an AC and boost to +5 Insightful. Immediate Slashdot domination is yours!
Of course it's idiotic :) Two browsers on the same website is already looking a bit... unhinged.
"I am the fastest reader I know"
lol this sounds like the kind of pathetic teenage loser bragging that goes on amongst nerd club members.
Sorry, but I was so unpopular, they didn't want me in the nerd clubs, either.
Simple truth remains that they trained some of us in a "gifted" class to speed-read using a machine and it really works. I was the fastest of the lot. I don't just read books, I eat them, and quickly, without ketchup.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
I don't think so - LEARN TO READ, idiot. Fix your dyslexia, you brain damaged dolt!
You have reading problems. I read each post here just fine.
Android bug lets attackers install malware without warning:
By Dan Goodin in San Francisco - Posted in Malware, 20th September 2011 19:40 GMT
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/20/google_android_vulnerability_patching/
PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:
"The second bug resides in the Linux kernel where Android originates and makes it possible for installed apps with limited privileges to gain full control over the device. The vulnerability is contained in code device manufacturer have put into some of Android's most popular handsets, including the Nexus S. The bug undermines the security model Google developers created to contain the damage any one application can do to the overall phone"
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* "Eat THAT", naysayer trolls... because it "2nd's the motion" of the op I replied to, & bolsters my statements about Linux in general!
APK
P.S.=> Would you also like to see the # of unpatched security vulnerabilities that reside in the Linux KERNEL ALONE (not everything else that only compounds it & worsens it in a FULL LINUX DISTRO either, mind you) that's 4x that of nearly ALL OF WHAT MS GIVES USERS & DEVELOPERS TO DO BUSINESS + DEVELOPMENT WITH as well?
(Yes, I can produce that data in seconds, from a reputable & reliable source (SECUNIA.COM) that shows that from a good source that specializes in it... )
So, "give up the ghost" already, noobz - I've got you outsmarted & OUT-THOUGHT from the "get-go" here, & I can back it up, with ease...
... apk
Disable Performance Counters = 1 can be added to ANY service that has a Performance subkey beneath:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services
These are the pertinent entries for Windows 7:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\.NET CLR Data\Performance
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\.NET CLR Networking\Performance
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\.NET CLR Networking 4.0.0.0\Performance
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\.NET Data Provider for Oracle\Performance
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\.NET Data Provider for SqlServer\Performance
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\.NETFramework\Performance
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\BITS\Performance
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\ESENT\Performance
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Lsa\Performance
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\MSDTC\Performance
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\MSDTC Bridge 3.0.0.0\Performance
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\MSDTC Bridge 4.0.0.0\Performance
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\MSSCNTRS\Performance
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Network Inspection System\Performance
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\rdyboost\Performance
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\RemoteAccess\Performance
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\ServiceModelEndpoint 3.0.0.0\Performance
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\PerfDisk
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\rdyboost\Performance
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\RemoteAccess\Performance
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\ServiceModelEndpoint 3.0.0.0\Performance
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\ServiceModelOperation 3.0.0.0\Performance
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\ServiceModelService 3.0.0.0\Performance
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\SMSvcHost 3.0.0.0\Performance
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\SMSvcHost 4.0.0.0\Performance
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Spooler\Performance
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\TapiSrv\Performance
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Tcpip\Performance
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\TermService\Performance
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\UGTHRSVC\Performance
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\usbhub\Performance
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Windows Workflow Foundation 3.0.0.0\Performance
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\WmiApRpl\Performance
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\WSearchIdxPi\Performance
* To disable them, again - set Disable Performance Counters = 1, or on the converse, set it equal to 0 to re-enable/enable them!
APK
P.S.=> This is in regards to where I helped Arstechnica's COOLMON program fix a bug & institute PROPER ERROR HANDLING in its code mentioned in the post prior to this one... I like to be as EXACT as possible, so - there you are (for my own reference too, this made my bookmarks)... apk
Seems that the trend is to dump the desktop for a combined TV / Desktop device.
Hard disk is external via USB connection or perhaps bluetooth.
Leslie Satenstein Montreal Quebec Canada
within a decade the English language will have completely devolved into a mess of mutually unintelligible sets of syntax so different that communication between different groups will present a real problem.
How exactly is that new? English has never really had a sane fixed syntax.
Don't reply to him, he's off topic and no expert in English (where's his PHD in English?) and has zero reading comprehension it seems (but we all know he's just trolling scum). Remember: Don't feed the trolls.
Only nerve touched was a funny bone because apk made me laugh at you trolls.