I also understand that in US schools they're taught metric measurements as well as imperial measurements (however I'm sure the focus is vastly in favour of imperial units)
Actually, all of my classes were in metric. They don't teach imperial in school. At least, not in Texas (anti Texas rants in 3, 2, 1.....)
In school, I only learned metric. I learned imperial at home. In American schools, they generally don't teach imperial anymore. In every science and math class, the first thing students are told is that most measurements will be done in metric. In science classes, the first week is teaching metric. In math, the conversion is generally either part of the problem solution or the numbers are already in metric.
There's always packet sniffing, and numerous other techniques for the truly paranoid to figure out what is being sent and received on an Android device. The Nexus line just so happens to be the easiest to ensure nothing untoward is going on...
On any of these devices (iphone / nexus / etc) what makes you think the "disable GPS" actually disables the GPS?
How do you know it isn't like the "close door" button on an elevator?
All these devices have features that aren't there for the users and are there for law enforcement. You can't turn them off.
Who knows where the Eye of Steve falls in this range? The only way to be sure is a faraday cage for your phone, which probably won't help your reception (though you might not notice if you've got AT&T).
Well... I guess the source code for the Nexus phones would be good enough to let you know that it does what it says it does. Since most of iOS is closed source, we can't investigate it the same way as we can for a Nexus phone, which runs pure Google Android.
The problem is that all the good products aren't being put in the retail stores that do exist. They are only available in the carrier stores, which means that the customer makes the mistake of assuming the product is bad if the carrier is bad.
The problem is that Microsoft hasn't built out any new stores since the first few... An extremely small percentage of people in the USA can get to a Microsoft store. Building out retail stores is useless unless you plan on making it easily available to large portion of people.
If the solution is to start building retail stores and hiring people to explain the products like Apple does, then go for it! Samsung, Motorola, HTC, Acer, ViewSonic, etc. should build their own stores and sell the products directly. They'd get wider margins, which means they can offer at slightly lower prices. Additionally, people are pulling away from the carrier centric model, because quite frankly, most carriers treat their customers horribly because they know that they can. Customers are not inclined to judge products solely on the product like they do for Apple devices because there's no clear separation of the product from the carrier. Most people's logic is something like: "Oh, AT&T is terrible, that means all the devices that run on AT&T's network are bad too." While their Android devices have some serious suckage, in general the device does not equal the carrier in suckage. Unfortunately, that's how must people think.
Decoupling the device from the carrier is the best way to fix this problem.
I first watched Doctor Who on my local PBS station, they were showing a Third Doctor story... I think it was "Inferno." I later went to the library and checked out all the videos and books they had on Doctor Who (this was before the 2005 series arrived). My favorites wound up being the Third, the Sixth, and the Eighth Doctors. Though I do love the Eleventh.... He's quirky, kooky, and fun!
HTC said the Desire Z family in Canada, America, and Europe would be getting Gingerbread in June or July. I expect that the G2 will get it quicker than that because the G2 does not use HTC Sense.
It'll get Gingerbread fairly quickly, since it is running near-stock Android. Plus, I'm sure someone will cook up a Gingerbread ROM for the G2X in the meantime.
Ahh, but if you don't optimize for multithreading, then apps on dual core phones suffer a lot. However, optimizing for multiple threads does give performance benefits on both single and dual core devices.
I'd recommend the T-Mobile G2X, it works world-wide since it supports UMTS 850/1700/1900/2100 and GSM 850/900/1800/1900. If you buy it for the full price, you can get it unlocked immediately. It's a powerful dual core phone that runs near-stock Android, which is perfect for development!
Well, after the acquisition is complete, all T-Mobile customers immediately get access to AT&T's 1900MHz spectrum. So those iPhones will suddenly have 3G. Also, every T-Mobile customer will be able to choose between T-Mobile towers or AT&T towers in areas where both companies have towers.
Has anyone emailed or called the FCC and the FTC and told them that the merger shouldn't be allowed? I wonder if people even know that that the FCC and FTC exist and have the ability to stop ridiculousness like this. Everybody I know is giving up hope because they believe they have no way to make a difference!
I say NAY! I can make a difference about this whole thing! I emailed the FCC and the FTC, I emailed my Congressmen, and I emailed my Senators about this whole thing. Every single one of you reading this article and not liking what is happening should do what I did. If you can, do more! Spread the word about contacting the right people to protest it. Start a petition if you wish. Call those agencies and tell them they shouldn't allow the acquisition!
Americans do have power, we are just trained not to use it! So get off your asses and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
This has been a public service announcement by RoyalGeekWorld Enterprises, a subsidiary of Binary Outcast.:P
They aren't supposed to be taking it away from you. The government is forcing the free-to-air stations to migrate from analog broadcast systems to digital broadcast systems, in order to free up a huge chunk of spectrum and to meet the date that all analog systems are to be shut down.
You're confusing Socialism with political repression. Socialism doesn't need to be single party governance. Just because it happens to be that way most of the time doesn't mean it has to be that way all the time.
We are a Constitutional Federal Democratic Socialist Republic, technically. We have a Constitution, we use a Federal system of governance, we use democracy for elections, socialism for helping old or needy people, and we are a country of the people. So, technically, we are a Constitutional Federal Democratic Socialist Republic.
They can't do that. Many parents rely on students' cell phones as a way to track them (I don't agree with doing this, btw), as well as staying in contact with them when something unexpected happens (I do agree with this, though).
The court wouldn't allow it. If the court has to, they will search for an independent third party that has absolutely nothing to do with the case if neither SCEA or Hotz can provide a sufficiently neutral third party to examine the systems.
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Wouldn't eliminating philosophy as a Ph.D. be a rather bad idea? After all, Ph.D means "Doctor of Philosophy."
Do you?
Actually, all cars in the USA from 1980s onward include both KPH and MPH on the speedometers.
I also understand that in US schools they're taught metric measurements as well as imperial measurements (however I'm sure the focus is vastly in favour of imperial units)
Actually, all of my classes were in metric. They don't teach imperial in school. At least, not in Texas (anti Texas rants in 3, 2, 1.....)
In school, I only learned metric. I learned imperial at home. In American schools, they generally don't teach imperial anymore. In every science and math class, the first thing students are told is that most measurements will be done in metric. In science classes, the first week is teaching metric. In math, the conversion is generally either part of the problem solution or the numbers are already in metric.
There's always packet sniffing, and numerous other techniques for the truly paranoid to figure out what is being sent and received on an Android device. The Nexus line just so happens to be the easiest to ensure nothing untoward is going on...
On any of these devices (iphone / nexus / etc) what makes you think the "disable GPS" actually disables the GPS?
How do you know it isn't like the "close door" button on an elevator?
All these devices have features that aren't there for the users and are there for law enforcement. You can't turn them off.
Who knows where the Eye of Steve falls in this range? The only way to be sure is a faraday cage for your phone, which probably won't help your reception (though you might not notice if you've got AT&T).
Well... I guess the source code for the Nexus phones would be good enough to let you know that it does what it says it does. Since most of iOS is closed source, we can't investigate it the same way as we can for a Nexus phone, which runs pure Google Android.
The problem is that all the good products aren't being put in the retail stores that do exist. They are only available in the carrier stores, which means that the customer makes the mistake of assuming the product is bad if the carrier is bad.
The problem is that Microsoft hasn't built out any new stores since the first few... An extremely small percentage of people in the USA can get to a Microsoft store. Building out retail stores is useless unless you plan on making it easily available to large portion of people.
If the solution is to start building retail stores and hiring people to explain the products like Apple does, then go for it! Samsung, Motorola, HTC, Acer, ViewSonic, etc. should build their own stores and sell the products directly. They'd get wider margins, which means they can offer at slightly lower prices. Additionally, people are pulling away from the carrier centric model, because quite frankly, most carriers treat their customers horribly because they know that they can. Customers are not inclined to judge products solely on the product like they do for Apple devices because there's no clear separation of the product from the carrier. Most people's logic is something like: "Oh, AT&T is terrible, that means all the devices that run on AT&T's network are bad too." While their Android devices have some serious suckage, in general the device does not equal the carrier in suckage. Unfortunately, that's how must people think.
Decoupling the device from the carrier is the best way to fix this problem.
This reminds me of the Inspector Gadget movie, where the prosthetic foot is controlled by the will of the user...
Indeed.
I first watched Doctor Who on my local PBS station, they were showing a Third Doctor story... I think it was "Inferno." I later went to the library and checked out all the videos and books they had on Doctor Who (this was before the 2005 series arrived). My favorites wound up being the Third, the Sixth, and the Eighth Doctors. Though I do love the Eleventh.... He's quirky, kooky, and fun!
HTC said the Desire Z family in Canada, America, and Europe would be getting Gingerbread in June or July. I expect that the G2 will get it quicker than that because the G2 does not use HTC Sense.
It'll get Gingerbread fairly quickly, since it is running near-stock Android. Plus, I'm sure someone will cook up a Gingerbread ROM for the G2X in the meantime.
Ahh, but if you don't optimize for multithreading, then apps on dual core phones suffer a lot. However, optimizing for multiple threads does give performance benefits on both single and dual core devices.
I'd recommend the T-Mobile G2X, it works world-wide since it supports UMTS 850/1700/1900/2100 and GSM 850/900/1800/1900. If you buy it for the full price, you can get it unlocked immediately. It's a powerful dual core phone that runs near-stock Android, which is perfect for development!
It is possible, since AT&T is known for going against their word later on, when it suits them...
Well, after the acquisition is complete, all T-Mobile customers immediately get access to AT&T's 1900MHz spectrum. So those iPhones will suddenly have 3G. Also, every T-Mobile customer will be able to choose between T-Mobile towers or AT&T towers in areas where both companies have towers.
Has anyone emailed or called the FCC and the FTC and told them that the merger shouldn't be allowed? I wonder if people even know that that the FCC and FTC exist and have the ability to stop ridiculousness like this. Everybody I know is giving up hope because they believe they have no way to make a difference!
I say NAY! I can make a difference about this whole thing! I emailed the FCC and the FTC, I emailed my Congressmen, and I emailed my Senators about this whole thing. Every single one of you reading this article and not liking what is happening should do what I did. If you can, do more! Spread the word about contacting the right people to protest it. Start a petition if you wish. Call those agencies and tell them they shouldn't allow the acquisition!
Americans do have power, we are just trained not to use it! So get off your asses and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
This has been a public service announcement by RoyalGeekWorld Enterprises, a subsidiary of Binary Outcast. :P
StraightTalk GSM uses AT&T and T-Mobile networks.
They aren't supposed to be taking it away from you. The government is forcing the free-to-air stations to migrate from analog broadcast systems to digital broadcast systems, in order to free up a huge chunk of spectrum and to meet the date that all analog systems are to be shut down.
You're confusing Socialism with political repression. Socialism doesn't need to be single party governance. Just because it happens to be that way most of the time doesn't mean it has to be that way all the time.
We are a Constitutional Federal Democratic Socialist Republic, technically. We have a Constitution, we use a Federal system of governance, we use democracy for elections, socialism for helping old or needy people, and we are a country of the people. So, technically, we are a Constitutional Federal Democratic Socialist Republic.
They can't do that. Many parents rely on students' cell phones as a way to track them (I don't agree with doing this, btw), as well as staying in contact with them when something unexpected happens (I do agree with this, though).
The court wouldn't allow it. If the court has to, they will search for an independent third party that has absolutely nothing to do with the case if neither SCEA or Hotz can provide a sufficiently neutral third party to examine the systems.
Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger is 35 as of this year, not 31....