I don't think it's actual porting so much as just some background forwarding of voicemail messages; at least, I had a "new Google number", and the changes allowed me to set up my normal cell number like that.
I bet they have had something like this in-house since the beginning. They probably just cleaned up the interface so they could offer it to the public.
Hopefully we can use Wine, or something.
I had the same thought -- but it does seem a bit ludicrous, doesn't it? I mean, we *know* they have a Linux program that can read the kindle format, and have since the beginning... because they shipped it on the Kindle.
and it worked long before opera mini (you don't even have the name correctly, keep trolling pal) became available, opera mini released in 2006. Before that all mobile browsers besides IE mobile sucked donkey balls.
I suspect *you* are just trolling but Opera Mini and Opera Mobile are two different products -- granted you can run both on Windows Mobile, although I believe you need the touchscreen edition to run Opera Mobile. (I would identify it by name, but they change the names of the touchscreen and non-touchscreen versions frequently; that's marketing and not a flaw of the OS, though.)
Also, you are incorrect -- at least for touchscreen devices. I recall Opera Mobile existing long before Opera Mini, although older versions were not nearly as nice as the latest and were pay. Further, there was NetFront and a free browser I can't remember the name of that pretty much was PIE with a better interface and tabs -- this was all back in 2003 or 2004.
PIE vs Opera/other... depends on the sites you use, by which I mean "I am being polite and PIE has never been good enough for me and constantly fails on sites not designed for mobile." Deepfish was rather nice, though, and I hear Internet Explorer Mobile 6 is going to be a welcome improvement.
(Don't say that I shouldn't expect my mobile browser to do full sites -- I recognize the difficulty and only need to look to Mozilla Fennec's predecessor Minimo to see how awfully slow it can be done, but Opera Mini *and* Mobile are very good at it.)
Finally, WM Address book and outlook sync might be nice, if you use windows... I wouldn't know. I find them distinctly "meh, it's alright" but wouldn't know what to compare them to.:) WM is *very* open in terms of PDAnet, so I stick with it.
I am amazed how many people don't get that. I've seen Microsoft fans cheerfully bash Linux on netbooks and say Linux lost its chance and so on... and I just don't get it. Even if they can't stand Linux, I don't think anyone disputes the fact that the Linux option is why XP is so cheap and Windows 7 was focused on performance.
Does the thought that someone, somewhere, might be happy without paying the Microsoft tax annoy them that much? Or did they just not... think?
Roll back expectations? Screw that. I expect the economy to skyrocket, a full switch to a green economy, and mars colonies at the stroke of noon this January 20th.
*My* expectations are going to crash all at once in a blaze of glorious stupidity.
You do understand that the chance of the president getting involved in the choice of what operating system to use in the white house is about as likely as the CEO of IBM getting involved in the choice of what brand of toilet paper to use in their office in Bangalore, don't you?
So now that Palmisano chose bounty, what are the chances of both?:)
'Cause you take a speed/performance hit depending on what kind of graphics it is using. It can be small or huge, depending on the game.
I've found VirtualBox works great for Civ3 and Wine works (with a lot of tweaking) for Civ4, but Civ4 inside VirtualBox is unplayable and Civ3 in Wine is very, very slow.
FreeCiv works great and is nativ,e by the way. Curiously, I've heard rumors other games exist.
According with Spamhaus the top 10 countries the 1st one is US, then at 1/3-1/4 of that amount is china, then Russia, UK, etc. Would be interesting to see UN/US army invading those countries from 1st to last.
With headlines like 'Third World War has begun,' '20000 US Soldiers in US,' and 'China Army crossed China's borders'...
I hear the UK is already setting up a transitional government to guide the citizens of the UK toward democracy, with new laws designed to eliminate spam.
Mr Pickens, with a national debt of about 30K per head, an imploding housing market, a possible depression and soaring exchange rates to other currencies, weren't you like, broke, 5 years ago ?
The more the exchange rate soars, the easier paying off the debt will be. That's the problem with floating currencies... and it's a bad idea to make hyperinflation so positive for the government.
But it's going to hurt when/if it hits, and not at all just the U.S. Fortunately, we actually could still recover. All it would take is a few decades of budget surplus, like we were running before we cut taxes and attacked Afganistan and Iraq.
If we could just turn back the clock eight years and make the guy who won the popular vote president instead...
I read that suggestion, too, back when the AVG User Agent was unique and never changed.
I get the impression that the past state of affairs being the past state of affairs is due to that advice being followed.
Oh, but I would pay for all their video games if they did away with copy protections... and I would say I certainly count as a pirate, since even though I don't *play* games with copy protection, either, I'm sure they count the loss of my purchase as "piracy".
There are plenty of games worth spending your money on that don't use those annoying kinds of DRM, just as there are plenty of songs likewise available for purchase that do not use DRM -- and more all the time.
(Not rhetorical:) Can we say the same about politicians?
I think he means that we should amend the constitution because trying to interpret the 2nd Amendment away *is* "intellectually dishonest". There is more than enough material about the thought processes of those who wrote the amendment that it is perfectly clear what they meant, and there is a perfectly legal way to change and remove that without attempting to use semantic gymnastics to redefine what was previously made law... namely, another amendment.
Yeah... news flash: the United States was not a British colony (sorry, Dominion) at either time.
The money and arms we sent the allies prior to war was absurd, particularly for a country not involved... and we can all see how grateful the Europeans are for the Marshall Plan.
Thanks; I'd like to see what jokes would come out of that myself, before it got overused and died out.
Or failed to die, this being Slashdot.
Well, you can't, but I think there is only a burden of proof when trying to convert someone or argue for the use of religion alone as policy. For me, there is a very real social benefit to it all.
Oh, certainly gods are easier to prove in D&D. I was referring to the fact that there is a DM... and that, for example, the world of Forgotten Realms is only around 40 years old, however much the weight of evidence is on the scale of centuries. Some characters even have "memories" that go back ages earlier.
Heck, leaving religion out if it, I can't prove that we're not all in the 22nd Century version of The Sims, a new game started five minutes ago. Or even more frightening, Civilization XII.
I agree, as far as introducing kids to open source software goes, the Gimp is probably a bad choice.
Something simpler -- maybe tux paint -- would be best.
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I don't think it's actual porting so much as just some background forwarding of voicemail messages; at least, I had a "new Google number", and the changes allowed me to set up my normal cell number like that.
I bet they have had something like this in-house since the beginning. They probably just cleaned up the interface so they could offer it to the public. Hopefully we can use Wine, or something.
I had the same thought -- but it does seem a bit ludicrous, doesn't it? I mean, we *know* they have a Linux program that can read the kindle format, and have since the beginning... because they shipped it on the Kindle.
... or they could install sinks and hand-washing stations in every room.
This sounds very reasonable. I would like to join in those insisting hospital workers wash their hands instead of getting vaccines.
Sigh. If only the two were not mutually exclusive, it might be possible to do both.
I use Visual Studio exclusively when developing in Windows. My only complaint is the lack of multi-monitor support but that's coming in 2010.
So... I hear you can use it with multiple monitors if you run it in Linux under wine. Should make your projects a little less complicated.
Especially QA.
and it worked long before opera mini (you don't even have the name correctly, keep trolling pal) became available, opera mini released in 2006. Before that all mobile browsers besides IE mobile sucked donkey balls.
I suspect *you* are just trolling but Opera Mini and Opera Mobile are two different products -- granted you can run both on Windows Mobile, although I believe you need the touchscreen edition to run Opera Mobile. (I would identify it by name, but they change the names of the touchscreen and non-touchscreen versions frequently; that's marketing and not a flaw of the OS, though.)
:) WM is *very* open in terms of PDAnet, so I stick with it.
Also, you are incorrect -- at least for touchscreen devices. I recall Opera Mobile existing long before Opera Mini, although older versions were not nearly as nice as the latest and were pay. Further, there was NetFront and a free browser I can't remember the name of that pretty much was PIE with a better interface and tabs -- this was all back in 2003 or 2004.
PIE vs Opera/other... depends on the sites you use, by which I mean "I am being polite and PIE has never been good enough for me and constantly fails on sites not designed for mobile." Deepfish was rather nice, though, and I hear Internet Explorer Mobile 6 is going to be a welcome improvement.
(Don't say that I shouldn't expect my mobile browser to do full sites -- I recognize the difficulty and only need to look to Mozilla Fennec's predecessor Minimo to see how awfully slow it can be done, but Opera Mini *and* Mobile are very good at it.)
Finally, WM Address book and outlook sync might be nice, if you use windows... I wouldn't know. I find them distinctly "meh, it's alright" but wouldn't know what to compare them to.
2500 people have been eaten by sharks while in a tall building? Do you have a source for that?
Depends; do you accept Wikipedia?
I am amazed how many people don't get that. I've seen Microsoft fans cheerfully bash Linux on netbooks and say Linux lost its chance and so on... and I just don't get it. Even if they can't stand Linux, I don't think anyone disputes the fact that the Linux option is why XP is so cheap and Windows 7 was focused on performance.
Does the thought that someone, somewhere, might be happy without paying the Microsoft tax annoy them that much? Or did they just not... think?
Roll back expectations? Screw that. I expect the economy to skyrocket, a full switch to a green economy, and mars colonies at the stroke of noon this January 20th.
*My* expectations are going to crash all at once in a blaze of glorious stupidity.
You do understand that the chance of the president getting involved in the choice of what operating system to use in the white house is about as likely as the CEO of IBM getting involved in the choice of what brand of toilet paper to use in their office in Bangalore, don't you?
So now that Palmisano chose bounty, what are the chances of both? :)
The solution is obviously to use Unix timestamps for everything.
Ever eat a nice steak? mmm tasty. Ever try eating the turds the next morning? Not quite as good, is it?
I'm 100% willing to take your word for it.
'Cause you take a speed/performance hit depending on what kind of graphics it is using. It can be small or huge, depending on the game. I've found VirtualBox works great for Civ3 and Wine works (with a lot of tweaking) for Civ4, but Civ4 inside VirtualBox is unplayable and Civ3 in Wine is very, very slow. FreeCiv works great and is nativ,e by the way. Curiously, I've heard rumors other games exist.
According with Spamhaus the top 10 countries the 1st one is US, then at 1/3-1/4 of that amount is china, then Russia, UK, etc. Would be interesting to see UN/US army invading those countries from 1st to last.
With headlines like 'Third World War has begun,' '20000 US Soldiers in US,' and 'China Army crossed China's borders'...
I hear the UK is already setting up a transitional government to guide the citizens of the UK toward democracy, with new laws designed to eliminate spam.
Mr Pickens, with a national debt of about 30K per head, an imploding housing market, a possible depression and soaring exchange rates to other currencies, weren't you like, broke, 5 years ago ?
The more the exchange rate soars, the easier paying off the debt will be. That's the problem with floating currencies... and it's a bad idea to make hyperinflation so positive for the government.
But it's going to hurt when/if it hits, and not at all just the U.S. Fortunately, we actually could still recover. All it would take is a few decades of budget surplus, like we were running before we cut taxes and attacked Afganistan and Iraq. If we could just turn back the clock eight years and make the guy who won the popular vote president instead...
There are a lot of great reasons to bike, but $$ isn't one of them.
It is in this city -- and, I imagine, many others -- but that's due to how expensive it is to park rather than gas.
Of course, it all depends on location, location, location.
I read that suggestion, too, back when the AVG User Agent was unique and never changed. I get the impression that the past state of affairs being the past state of affairs is due to that advice being followed.
Sherlock Holmes is my hero. This is great! Now I can cite repairing PCs as prior experience when I try to become a detective.
(For some reason, "I read every Hardy Boy's book" doesn't go over as well...)
Oh, but I would pay for all their video games if they did away with copy protections... and I would say I certainly count as a pirate, since even though I don't *play* games with copy protection, either, I'm sure they count the loss of my purchase as "piracy".
There are plenty of games worth spending your money on that don't use those annoying kinds of DRM, just as there are plenty of songs likewise available for purchase that do not use DRM -- and more all the time.
(Not rhetorical:) Can we say the same about politicians?
I think he means that we should amend the constitution because trying to interpret the 2nd Amendment away *is* "intellectually dishonest". There is more than enough material about the thought processes of those who wrote the amendment that it is perfectly clear what they meant, and there is a perfectly legal way to change and remove that without attempting to use semantic gymnastics to redefine what was previously made law... namely, another amendment.
But *cue a Kennedy driving a car into the path of the particle stream* doesn't have the same ring to it.
Yeah... news flash: the United States was not a British colony (sorry, Dominion) at either time. The money and arms we sent the allies prior to war was absurd, particularly for a country not involved... and we can all see how grateful the Europeans are for the Marshall Plan.
Thanks; I'd like to see what jokes would come out of that myself, before it got overused and died out. Or failed to die, this being Slashdot. Well, you can't, but I think there is only a burden of proof when trying to convert someone or argue for the use of religion alone as policy. For me, there is a very real social benefit to it all.
Oh, certainly gods are easier to prove in D&D. I was referring to the fact that there is a DM... and that, for example, the world of Forgotten Realms is only around 40 years old, however much the weight of evidence is on the scale of centuries. Some characters even have "memories" that go back ages earlier. Heck, leaving religion out if it, I can't prove that we're not all in the 22nd Century version of The Sims, a new game started five minutes ago. Or even more frightening, Civilization XII.
I've yet to hear a proof that there is no God that would not serve equally well to prove there is no DM when used in-character in D&D.
I agree, as far as introducing kids to open source software goes, the Gimp is probably a bad choice. Something simpler -- maybe tux paint -- would be best.