I already have Android in my dashboard. a simple double din CHINA car stereo running Android 4.2 is 80X better than any of the crap that FORD or GM has ever came up with.
WAYZE is the best navigation app in the world for User interface, I can even report a cop location with very little attention taken from the road.
I installed one of the older "CAR MODE" launchers and it's even better. I can customize it to hell and back in my driveway and then enjoy ease of use and even voice control to the point that I can say,"ok google, text my boss that I will be late due to traffic"
BOOM! the text message is off and I did not have to do anything but hold down the home button.
Whatever GM,FORD,Toyota,Honda,BMW,Mercedes, or whoever car company tries to come up with will be a complete worthles turd compared to a dirt cheap $500 Ebay china stereo with regular old android on it.
They use segmented AP's designed for heavy use. My company installs Cisco Meraki in arenas that will have 10,000-40,000 people in them and they can handle the load if you set it all up right.
Not last week when I was sitting there for 4 hours... I am betting my work phone Verizon LTE was faster than their wifi though... Gotta love tethering and making the company pay for it.
"Depending on humans to do battery maintenance doesn't work,"
you mean, Depending on average consumer humans to do battery maintenance doesn't work, they can barely maintain a gas car with oil changes and other very simple maintenance.
And I agree, the average person is way, way, too stupid to remember to take proper care of things.
"Where is the government going to come up with the billions of dollars to buy out the investors in those companies?"
We found more than that to fund killing people in the middle east for more than 10 years... It would not be hard at all to find the funds to buy up all the backbone companies.
a very reliable XBMC Netflix plugin for linux is around the corner... faking a Mac running Safari will be easy so we can get netflix goodness in the best Media center you can have.
If it was all OPEN Protocols and well documented so that anyone can interface to this stuff, I'm all for it. But the automotive world had to be slapped with federal mandate to use ODB-II because the assholes at GM,Ford, and Chrysler were hell bent on their own secret sauce.
If I as a shade tree mechanic can not diagnose and change settings on a system, then it's a bad design. right now I can on any car with my laptop and interface box. ODB-II forced the hands of car makers to not be dicks. The problem is they started to separate the interfaces so they could be dicks again. BMW for example has two separate systems one requires a special device to talk to the main systems and the ODB-II is only used for engine management.
Luckily that has been reverse engineered and you can get an interface to their kBus.
Heavy regulation by HONEST people is needed for the automotive industry. Because you can not trust those scumbags that run those companies to do the right thing.
So I have written software sitting on a bucket in the electrical closet many times. One place they were grinding the cement floors, so I found the only room that was not a cement cloud, the womens bathroom. Behind the racks in an AV closet on the floor. One place had no heat at all until my software was up and running, it was winter, so I was in my car with a 200 foot cat5e ran to inside the building to a small switch, and then into their network.
Nope. It comes from people that have actual scruples and do not like seeing people being used and abused. I'm highly paid as I have a rare and large skillset, Plus I can step into management easily to avoid it.
But I see that IT really needs a Trade union. First to stop the bullshit of the MCSE morons from polluting the IT pool. second to stop businesses from whoring out people and treating them like shit.
Structure it exactly like the electricians unions and to get in you need to takes tests, spend time on the job under an expert, etc...
I'm guessing you have ZERO clue as to how the electricians union works.
National Lottery every 4 years, The military holds a completely open drawing of all the names of US citizens. The names are drawn and researched to as if they are felons or natural born and age limits. They are then collected by plain clothed personell and taken to Washington where their first 2 weeks are to decide publically who is to be president and vice president. the rest are senators and reps from their associated states. You can not say NO, you are forced to do this at gunpoint.
After 4 years, you are taken back home and given an additional 4 years of pay on top of what you were paid as a thank you for your service. and the process starts over.
No "career politicians" no Master Degree Political Science holders. average RANDOM citizens in forced paid servitude.
It will be massively better than the shithole corrupt system we have now.
Like Electricians? companies cant pull this shit on Electricians, if IT people would pull their heads out of their ass and unionize the problem would solve it's self overnight.
I bought an HTC ONE M8 and after 30 days wish I had not bought this crap riddled thing and bought a Nexus or google play edition instead.
Android phones from carriers and manufacturers are utter crap because of all the useless garbage they shovel into it. HTC Sense and Blink Feed is complete garbage.
A pure Android phone is 800X better than anything you can buy out there. Why Google allows HTC and AT&T to utterly molest the OS with their crap I'll never understand.
A lot of us really do need powerhouse laptops and I really could use a 4ghz-5ghz boosted quad i7 laptop. I really hope we get some real performance in the upper end soon.
Teenagers can do actual work like mowing lawns, etc... I pay a local teen $20 every 2 weeks to mow my lawn, he has 30 houses he mows in the neighborhood, so he is bringing home $600 tax free every 2 weeks. Pretty damn good money for a kid.
and he is undercutting the lawn services by 50% making it easy to get clients.
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Yup, back in the 90's all you had to do was wardial and find the sign's dial in. most of the time the password was retarded simple like 12345.
90% of those are called on the father by the vengeful bitch that is trying to punish the father.
I already have Android in my dashboard. a simple double din CHINA car stereo running Android 4.2 is 80X better than any of the crap that FORD or GM has ever came up with.
WAYZE is the best navigation app in the world for User interface, I can even report a cop location with very little attention taken from the road.
I installed one of the older "CAR MODE" launchers and it's even better. I can customize it to hell and back in my driveway and then enjoy ease of use and even voice control to the point that I can say ,"ok google, text my boss that I will be late due to traffic"
BOOM! the text message is off and I did not have to do anything but hold down the home button.
Whatever GM,FORD,Toyota,Honda,BMW,Mercedes, or whoever car company tries to come up with will be a complete worthles turd compared to a dirt cheap $500 Ebay china stereo with regular old android on it.
BMW had that. They even had a navigation system that only talked to you and nobody liked it. Every single person wanted a moving map display.
My Sister in law has a car that has the light come on for oil changes. She simply puts tape over that spot so she does not have to look at it.
They use segmented AP's designed for heavy use. My company installs Cisco Meraki in arenas that will have 10,000-40,000 people in them and they can handle the load if you set it all up right.
I am betting Atlanta has Cisco Meraki Installed.
Not last week when I was sitting there for 4 hours... I am betting my work phone Verizon LTE was faster than their wifi though... Gotta love tethering and making the company pay for it.
"Depending on humans to do battery maintenance doesn't work,"
you mean, Depending on average consumer humans to do battery maintenance doesn't work, they can barely maintain a gas car with oil changes and other very simple maintenance.
And I agree, the average person is way, way, too stupid to remember to take proper care of things.
Community Wifi is also targeted with this. My experience was from Comcast targeting the one community WiFi project we had running and was shut down.
we were illegally providing internet service for free without paying franchise fees to the local government to the tune of $10K a month.
It's a fucking Mobster kickback is what it is...
"Where is the government going to come up with the billions of dollars to buy out the investors in those companies?"
We found more than that to fund killing people in the middle east for more than 10 years... It would not be hard at all to find the funds to buy up all the backbone companies.
a very reliable XBMC Netflix plugin for linux is around the corner... faking a Mac running Safari will be easy so we can get netflix goodness in the best Media center you can have.
If it was all OPEN Protocols and well documented so that anyone can interface to this stuff, I'm all for it. But the automotive world had to be slapped with federal mandate to use ODB-II because the assholes at GM,Ford, and Chrysler were hell bent on their own secret sauce.
If I as a shade tree mechanic can not diagnose and change settings on a system, then it's a bad design. right now I can on any car with my laptop and interface box. ODB-II forced the hands of car makers to not be dicks. The problem is they started to separate the interfaces so they could be dicks again. BMW for example has two separate systems one requires a special device to talk to the main systems and the ODB-II is only used for engine management.
Luckily that has been reverse engineered and you can get an interface to their kBus.
Heavy regulation by HONEST people is needed for the automotive industry. Because you can not trust those scumbags that run those companies to do the right thing.
So I have written software sitting on a bucket in the electrical closet many times.
One place they were grinding the cement floors, so I found the only room that was not a cement cloud, the womens bathroom.
Behind the racks in an AV closet on the floor.
One place had no heat at all until my software was up and running, it was winter, so I was in my car with a 200 foot cat5e ran to inside the building to a small switch, and then into their network.
Closed systems that go out of date quickly and are incompatible with anything newer.
Want an Example? BMW 525 Iphone cradle system. doesn't work with the iPhone 5, 5c or 5s.
Nope. It comes from people that have actual scruples and do not like seeing people being used and abused. I'm highly paid as I have a rare and large skillset, Plus I can step into management easily to avoid it.
But I see that IT really needs a Trade union. First to stop the bullshit of the MCSE morons from polluting the IT pool. second to stop businesses from whoring out people and treating them like shit.
Structure it exactly like the electricians unions and to get in you need to takes tests, spend time on the job under an expert, etc...
I'm guessing you have ZERO clue as to how the electricians union works.
In fact there are laws in place that indemnify police from being sued or punished from wrongdoing.
That is how fucked up the whole system is.
The "fuck freedom, I want security" people like you are more scary than a terrorist with a nuke.
No we need RANDOM government.
National Lottery every 4 years, The military holds a completely open drawing of all the names of US citizens. The names are drawn and researched to as if they are felons or natural born and age limits. They are then collected by plain clothed personell and taken to Washington where their first 2 weeks are to decide publically who is to be president and vice president. the rest are senators and reps from their associated states. You can not say NO, you are forced to do this at gunpoint.
After 4 years, you are taken back home and given an additional 4 years of pay on top of what you were paid as a thank you for your service. and the process starts over.
No "career politicians" no Master Degree Political Science holders. average RANDOM citizens in forced paid servitude.
It will be massively better than the shithole corrupt system we have now.
Like Electricians? companies cant pull this shit on Electricians, if IT people would pull their heads out of their ass and unionize the problem would solve it's self overnight.
I bought an HTC ONE M8 and after 30 days wish I had not bought this crap riddled thing and bought a Nexus or google play edition instead.
Android phones from carriers and manufacturers are utter crap because of all the useless garbage they shovel into it. HTC Sense and Blink Feed is complete garbage.
A pure Android phone is 800X better than anything you can buy out there. Why Google allows HTC and AT&T to utterly molest the OS with their crap I'll never understand.
good! I am glad I break those laws. I hope to break more of them today. Got any other laws that are fun to break?
A lot of us really do need powerhouse laptops and I really could use a 4ghz-5ghz boosted quad i7 laptop. I really hope we get some real performance in the upper end soon.
Teenagers can do actual work like mowing lawns, etc...
I pay a local teen $20 every 2 weeks to mow my lawn, he has 30 houses he mows in the neighborhood, so he is bringing home $600 tax free every 2 weeks. Pretty damn good money for a kid.
and he is undercutting the lawn services by 50% making it easy to get clients.
I have had that for well over 15 years, Two contact closures work perfectly over wires embedded in the wall.
Greed.