IIRC, it was originally supposed to be a trilogy, but he changed that to 6 either during or shortly after writing A Game of Thrones. Then, while writing A Feast For Crows, he decided he had too much to cover in that book, so he split it into 2 and this is the second half of that.
This from the company who encumbers Android with Blur? Keeping the user's social network username and password on and accessing said services Moto's servers instead of from the phone itself is not what I consider "protecting the user."
I love my Droid, but I will not be buying another Moto Android phone if they keep loading it up with Blur and locking down the bootloader.
The "Do Not Call" list is not effective. In fact, it made it worse for me because I went from getting two or three calls from telemarketers a week to five or six calls a day from all the loopholes (politicos, "charities," and surveys) which quadruples during election season. The loopholes used the list to farm numbers.
And yet my cell phone (for which I have only given the number to friends, family, and coworkers) gets 4 or 5 calls from robodialers every day. Different numbers every time, but the same 4 recordings (won a cruise, reduce my credit card debt, refinance my mortgage, or get health insurance for my family) are always used.
I've filed dozens of FCC complaints, but the calls keep coming because there's nothing to identify the scammers and they're falsifying caller id.
Rocco: Fucking what the fuckin' fuck who the fuck fuck this fuckin' how did you two fuckin' fucks fuck! Connor: Well, that certainly illustrates the diversity of the word.
But the OP brings to mind Londo Mollari of Babylon 5: "The Council can go to hell! And the emergency session can go to hell! And you, Vir, you can go to hell too - I would not want you to feel left out."
My Motorola Droid isn't locked down. I probably would have gotten a Nexus One if it had made it to Verizon, but it didn't. And switching to AT&T or T-Mobile wasn't an option, since Verizon is the only network with halfway decent coverage where I spend most of my time.
Unless things change drastically, however, my next phone will not be a Motorola.
Actually, the fact that they are illegal aliens makes them all criminals. There are legal methods of entering the country. They may be obeying all other laws, but they are still breaking the law.
However Droid X and 2 are everything the Droid is and more with or without the Keyboard.
Except they have Blur on them instead of vanilla Android. That makes a big difference to me because, in my experience (with a Droid 2), Blur is terrible. Yes, I can replace the home screen and not use the widgets, but that doesn't correct the lower level changes that Moto made which ruined the experience for me. Back to a regular Droid for me.
The Droid 2 and Droid X also have Blur. They refuse to call it "Motoblur" on those phones, but it's still there. Blur is the reason I sent back the new Droid 2 I was sent as a warranty replacement in favor of a refurb Droid. Blur broke too much.
I think it's clear that riding a motorcycle at 127mph in traffic while doing wheelies is pretty fucking illegal. What the police department did about the recording is very wrong but that's a separate issue. The initial traffic stop was completely justified and the guy should lose his license if not worse. Don't make him into some kind of innocent victim.
The 127mph (65mph speed limit there with non-rush hour traffic normally going 70-80) and doing the wheelie should be fined, but I'm 90% certain that's not what the traffic stop was for since neither cop would have seen it. When he passed the speed trap, he was going 69 (won't get ticketed for that normally) and when he passed the off duty cop in his unmarked or private car (I'm not sure which - I couldn't spot lights or non-standard antenna on the Malibu) he was doing 82 (maybe a ticket, maybe not - depends on the flow of traffic). None of that justified the plain clothes/off-duty cop coming out with his gun drawn and never showing his badge (you can see it when he holstered his gun, but he never tried to display it).
Wrong. Droid is Verizon's naming scheme for Android phones on their service only half of which have been Motorola phones. Droid Eris and Droid Incredible were by HTC, not Motorola. Even the "Droid by Motorola" is officially the Motorola A855.
There are plenty of people who drive with both feet now. The problem is, they are often applying pressure (even in small amounts) to both pedals at the same time. I've been passed by people on the highway who were accelerating past 70 with their brake lights on. Sometimes they're so bad, you can even smell the brakes overheating while they drive at highway speeds. People who do this often wear through brakes faster, burn more gas (gotta fight the brakes, after all), and are a risk to those around them (brake lights always on removes a distinct visual cue that they are slowing down/stopping).
I don't think so. These companies aren't the ones implementing 802.11 tech, they're reselling it. They should only be able to go after the actual infringing implementers, not every step along the way. In general, that means companies like Broadcom, Marvell, and Intel, not the companies that use their chips in their products or the companies that resell them.
Next thing you know, they'll be going after the consumers for buying infringing products.
Of course the treaty didn't say anything about unmanned flights and this is where the SR-91 comes into it. This *might* be a picture of a SR-91. The cockpit makes me wonder what I'm looking at, if it can be piloted/unpiloted. I don't know for sure. Kudos to Yankee engineering though, it looks fast.
No "might be" about it. Those are *definately not* pictures of Aurora. They're pictures of a prop from the (VERY, VERY BAD) movie Stealth. It's even mentioned in the Aurora article you linked.
The OP specifically mentioned the "original EDGE iPhone" (which you call the iPhone 2G) running the same version as an iPad or 3GS. That will not be true once iPhone OS 4.0 is released because Apple chose it not to be. The original iPhone and the iPhone 3G have the same CPU, RAM, GPU, display, camera, and storage (the lowest level - 4GB - got dropped with the 3G version) and yet, somehow, the iPhone won't be able to be upgraded to OS 4.0 while the 3G will..
A decent keyboard on a slider. Blackberry is good at this.
Um.. No they aren't. They've never put out a slider before. They've pretty much stuck with the same form factor since the late 1990's when they changed from being two-way pagers to email/phone devices. They've narrowed it for a more standard "candybar" form and put out a couple versions of their flip-phone, but never a slider before. One is rumored to be coming with OS 6.0 later this year, but no official announcements yet.
A decent screen that can be read in both direct sunlight, as well as usable at night. AMOLEDs work.
The AMOLED panels used in phones are notoriously bad at readability in direct sunlight. Maybe if Samsung can convince everyone to use their Super AMOLED panels..
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IIRC, it was originally supposed to be a trilogy, but he changed that to 6 either during or shortly after writing A Game of Thrones. Then, while writing A Feast For Crows, he decided he had too much to cover in that book, so he split it into 2 and this is the second half of that.
This from the company who encumbers Android with Blur? Keeping the user's social network username and password on and accessing said services Moto's servers instead of from the phone itself is not what I consider "protecting the user."
I love my Droid, but I will not be buying another Moto Android phone if they keep loading it up with Blur and locking down the bootloader.
I believe you mean F*T*C (Federal Trade Commission), not FCC (Federal Communications Commission).
The "Do Not Call" list was effective ...
The "Do Not Call" list is not effective. In fact, it made it worse for me because I went from getting two or three calls from telemarketers a week to five or six calls a day from all the loopholes (politicos, "charities," and surveys) which quadruples during election season. The loopholes used the list to farm numbers.
And yet my cell phone (for which I have only given the number to friends, family, and coworkers) gets 4 or 5 calls from robodialers every day. Different numbers every time, but the same 4 recordings (won a cruise, reduce my credit card debt, refinance my mortgage, or get health insurance for my family) are always used.
I've filed dozens of FCC complaints, but the calls keep coming because there's nothing to identify the scammers and they're falsifying caller id.
Personally, I go with Boondock Saints:
Rocco: Fucking what the fuckin' fuck who the fuck fuck this fuckin' how did you two fuckin' fucks fuck!
Connor: Well, that certainly illustrates the diversity of the word.
But the OP brings to mind Londo Mollari of Babylon 5:
"The Council can go to hell! And the emergency session can go to hell! And you, Vir, you can go to hell too - I would not want you to feel left out."
No laws are being broken.
I beg to differ. This is a clear violation of Wheaton's Law: "Don't be a dick!"
My Motorola Droid isn't locked down. I probably would have gotten a Nexus One if it had made it to Verizon, but it didn't. And switching to AT&T or T-Mobile wasn't an option, since Verizon is the only network with halfway decent coverage where I spend most of my time.
Unless things change drastically, however, my next phone will not be a Motorola.
Actually, the fact that they are illegal aliens makes them all criminals. There are legal methods of entering the country. They may be obeying all other laws, but they are still breaking the law.
She just needs to remember the universal greeting..
Bah weep gragnah weep nini bong!
Sorry, but my vote goes to Doctor Who. Hard to beat the experience and knowledge of a Time Lord.
However Droid X and 2 are everything the Droid is and more with or without the Keyboard.
Except they have Blur on them instead of vanilla Android. That makes a big difference to me because, in my experience (with a Droid 2), Blur is terrible. Yes, I can replace the home screen and not use the widgets, but that doesn't correct the lower level changes that Moto made which ruined the experience for me. Back to a regular Droid for me.
The Droid 2 and Droid X also have Blur. They refuse to call it "Motoblur" on those phones, but it's still there. Blur is the reason I sent back the new Droid 2 I was sent as a warranty replacement in favor of a refurb Droid. Blur broke too much.
A home replacement will only hide the Blur launcher and widgets. It doesn't do anything about the core apps that Motorola replaces in Blur.
What? Like the Daimler Motorized Carriage?
Sorry, but I can't afford $6,000,000 for a hard drive..
I think it's clear that riding a motorcycle at 127mph in traffic while doing wheelies is pretty fucking illegal. What the police department did about the recording is very wrong but that's a separate issue. The initial traffic stop was completely justified and the guy should lose his license if not worse. Don't make him into some kind of innocent victim.
The 127mph (65mph speed limit there with non-rush hour traffic normally going 70-80) and doing the wheelie should be fined, but I'm 90% certain that's not what the traffic stop was for since neither cop would have seen it. When he passed the speed trap, he was going 69 (won't get ticketed for that normally) and when he passed the off duty cop in his unmarked or private car (I'm not sure which - I couldn't spot lights or non-standard antenna on the Malibu) he was doing 82 (maybe a ticket, maybe not - depends on the flow of traffic). None of that justified the plain clothes/off-duty cop coming out with his gun drawn and never showing his badge (you can see it when he holstered his gun, but he never tried to display it).
Wrong. Droid is Verizon's naming scheme for Android phones on their service only half of which have been Motorola phones. Droid Eris and Droid Incredible were by HTC, not Motorola. Even the "Droid by Motorola" is officially the Motorola A855.
There are plenty of people who drive with both feet now. The problem is, they are often applying pressure (even in small amounts) to both pedals at the same time. I've been passed by people on the highway who were accelerating past 70 with their brake lights on. Sometimes they're so bad, you can even smell the brakes overheating while they drive at highway speeds. People who do this often wear through brakes faster, burn more gas (gotta fight the brakes, after all), and are a risk to those around them (brake lights always on removes a distinct visual cue that they are slowing down/stopping).
I don't think so. These companies aren't the ones implementing 802.11 tech, they're reselling it. They should only be able to go after the actual infringing implementers, not every step along the way. In general, that means companies like Broadcom, Marvell, and Intel, not the companies that use their chips in their products or the companies that resell them.
Next thing you know, they'll be going after the consumers for buying infringing products.
Alright. I'll bite.
Emacs isn't a web browser!
It's an operating system. And it's still ahead of Microsoft!
Of course the treaty didn't say anything about unmanned flights and this is where the SR-91 comes into it. This *might* be a picture of a SR-91. The cockpit makes me wonder what I'm looking at, if it can be piloted/unpiloted. I don't know for sure. Kudos to Yankee engineering though, it looks fast.
No "might be" about it. Those are *definately not* pictures of Aurora. They're pictures of a prop from the (VERY, VERY BAD) movie Stealth. It's even mentioned in the Aurora article you linked.
.. just ask The Hammer how it's done.
Comcast's customer service is so bad they drove a 75 year old lady to taking a hammer to the local office.
The OP specifically mentioned the "original EDGE iPhone" (which you call the iPhone 2G) running the same version as an iPad or 3GS. That will not be true once iPhone OS 4.0 is released because Apple chose it not to be. The original iPhone and the iPhone 3G have the same CPU, RAM, GPU, display, camera, and storage (the lowest level - 4GB - got dropped with the 3G version) and yet, somehow, the iPhone won't be able to be upgraded to OS 4.0 while the 3G will..
A decent keyboard on a slider. Blackberry is good at this.
Um.. No they aren't. They've never put out a slider before. They've pretty much stuck with the same form factor since the late 1990's when they changed from being two-way pagers to email/phone devices. They've narrowed it for a more standard "candybar" form and put out a couple versions of their flip-phone, but never a slider before. One is rumored to be coming with OS 6.0 later this year, but no official announcements yet.
A decent screen that can be read in both direct sunlight, as well as usable at night. AMOLEDs work.
The AMOLED panels used in phones are notoriously bad at readability in direct sunlight. Maybe if Samsung can convince everyone to use their Super AMOLED panels..