Re:Is there a technical reason for no OTA updates?
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Any data on whether those folk who aren't upgrading their Android phone are happy with the device they have and don't feel the need to upgrade to the latest and shinyest just for props? Didn't think so.
Anecdotally, I will be keeping my DesireHD for a good few years. I don't need to upgrade, so I guess you can stick me in the 60% who don't upgrade to another Android handset. Because mine is awesome.
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The Sensation looks remarkably like the DesireHD with a higher DPI screen and extra 200Mhz clockspeed. As such, you may find a custom ROM more stable and responsive than a bloated carrier ROM.
Having said that, Sense is a very nice UI and I never had any issues with it. I just prefer ADW and like the ability to trim the permissions of certain apps (game with read phone identity? DENIED). There really is very little going against rooting an Android phone. You should be able to find all the information you need here
Apple phones have one price; Expensive. Either you pay £500 for the phone and no contract, or you pay £35 per month for 2 years and £100 for the phone.
Android phones span numerous hardware platforms, and have a huge price gradient. Android devices can be bought by more people because it's available for less.
Seems like *knowingly* selling stolen items could turn into a sh^Htstorm of legal charges very easily. Especially if you can prove intent; and it wouldn't be too hard to prove with a $5k pricetag.
I'm on the 4th column at the moment, and so far all I've read are "Honourable Friends" thanking "right honourable Gentlemen" for introductions, support, thanking them for the thanks, offering support for other amendments which in turn gets further thanks for the support, and reciprocal thanks for their thanks!
Can't they just talk about sorting out these crappy laws instead of thanking each other?
"They" wrote software to make refining centrifuges crap out. "They" can probably make a crude interface to make a drone head back to base and drop it's ordnance onto the toilet block.
Less than IT (and English, if I'm honest) literate folk I know of have attempted to find Brittany Ferries information by going to google and entering "britney" as the term. That turned up a few results which weren't at all to do with holidays to France.
You have quoted the Daily Mail. Any argument or point you made is automatically discarded out of hand for being biased, factually inaccurate, or simply fabricated entirely. They are a peddler of inflammatory right-wing bias and malign disinformation.
I put more stock in the journalistic integrity of News Corp over the Associated Newspapers Ltd.
No, this is why you boot a LiveCD OS with MAC cloning capability, use public WiFi connections, and then only use web of trust networks to communicate with others.
The trick is to avoid being caught in the first place; Encryption is a liability once you are.
I was under the impression that consumer contract in England could not supersede your statutory rights. Therefore, how could the police officer state that he can confiscate the man's camera? He was not under arrest for any criminal offence (and hadn't committed one either), and any offence he may have committed would be purely civil (breach of conditions of entry, leading to tresspass)?
Even with your explanation above, this smacks of Officer Friendly not knowing the law and just making stuff up for the purpose of intimidation.
Unfortunately, our elections are set up in such a way that the only real effect third party candidates can have is to siphon support away from the mainstream candidate they most resemble
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!
The more you peddle this bullshit line, the more people will believe it. Spouting it in this company makes you look like a bipartisan shill, and I know you're not trying to do that.
Instead of trudging out the "wasted vote" rhetoric, bring up the minority parties in discussion. Overhear some folk talking about "lesser of two evils"? Help them see that there is another way. The more who believe, the more likely change will be.
Do you purposefully miss out the important parts of linked stories just to pad it out with science buzzwords like quantum, chaos, and string theory?
The actual part of the story which is important:
"That kind of off-the-charts intelligence comes with a conundrum, though: Because he's only 13, Gabriel is not emotionally ready to handle programs designed for older students. His intellectual abilities raise the question: How do you map out an education for a boy at the extreme end of the gifted population?"
She's a teacher. The "acceptable failure" (my words) isn't supposed to be a reason to dismiss students out of hand, it's so a teacher can still hit targets even if they have some kids who simply cannot grasp the concepts being taught.
Jobs and his company are based entirely on control of other people's property. You can't put the OS on your own hardware, you can't run your own apps on the iPod Touch / iPhone without hacking it, you can't use products which directly compete with Apple's offering on either either (heh). Are you all forgetting iTunes prior to the catalogue being converted to DRM-free MP3s?
Horrible people can do good things just as good people can do horrible things, and a lot of the things Jobs did in computing were horrible. Pretty, and king of usability, but all a thing veneer on something fundamentally malign.
I've worked in a secondary school with performance based pay, and I've heard at least one member of staff tell a disruptive student that in the performance based pay scheme, there is room to let one or two children utterly fail in order for the rest to achieve, and that he was one of the "acceptable failures".
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Any data on whether those folk who aren't upgrading their Android phone are happy with the device they have and don't feel the need to upgrade to the latest and shinyest just for props? Didn't think so.
Anecdotally, I will be keeping my DesireHD for a good few years. I don't need to upgrade, so I guess you can stick me in the 60% who don't upgrade to another Android handset. Because mine is awesome.
The Sensation looks remarkably like the DesireHD with a higher DPI screen and extra 200Mhz clockspeed. As such, you may find a custom ROM more stable and responsive than a bloated carrier ROM.
Having said that, Sense is a very nice UI and I never had any issues with it. I just prefer ADW and like the ability to trim the permissions of certain apps (game with read phone identity? DENIED). There really is very little going against rooting an Android phone. You should be able to find all the information you need here
Apple phones have one price; Expensive. Either you pay £500 for the phone and no contract, or you pay £35 per month for 2 years and £100 for the phone.
Android phones span numerous hardware platforms, and have a huge price gradient. Android devices can be bought by more people because it's available for less.
Seems like *knowingly* selling stolen items could turn into a sh^Htstorm of legal charges very easily. Especially if you can prove intent; and it wouldn't be too hard to prove with a $5k pricetag.
I agree completely! Now, what's a ststorm?
I'm on the 4th column at the moment, and so far all I've read are "Honourable Friends" thanking "right honourable Gentlemen" for introductions, support, thanking them for the thanks, offering support for other amendments which in turn gets further thanks for the support, and reciprocal thanks for their thanks!
Can't they just talk about sorting out these crappy laws instead of thanking each other?
"They" wrote software to make refining centrifuges crap out. "They" can probably make a crude interface to make a drone head back to base and drop it's ordnance onto the toilet block.
Damn right. Then some idiot turns up and suggests paying the licensing fee in Bitcoin.
Oh, wait...
Less than IT (and English, if I'm honest) literate folk I know of have attempted to find Brittany Ferries information by going to google and entering "britney" as the term. That turned up a few results which weren't at all to do with holidays to France.
That sure was a lot of words just to say "The law's different up here." :)
â5 a month on a VPN and BT don't see shit about my internet use.
I'm fairly sure there's an over-quoted soundbite from John Gilmore to be repeated here.
You have quoted the Daily Mail. Any argument or point you made is automatically discarded out of hand for being biased, factually inaccurate, or simply fabricated entirely. They are a peddler of inflammatory right-wing bias and malign disinformation.
I put more stock in the journalistic integrity of News Corp over the Associated Newspapers Ltd.
No, this is why you boot a LiveCD OS with MAC cloning capability, use public WiFi connections, and then only use web of trust networks to communicate with others.
The trick is to avoid being caught in the first place; Encryption is a liability once you are.
Bees are where it's at
Hi, and thanks for the information.
I was under the impression that consumer contract in England could not supersede your statutory rights. Therefore, how could the police officer state that he can confiscate the man's camera? He was not under arrest for any criminal offence (and hadn't committed one either), and any offence he may have committed would be purely civil (breach of conditions of entry, leading to tresspass)?
Even with your explanation above, this smacks of Officer Friendly not knowing the law and just making stuff up for the purpose of intimidation.
As an ex EVE player, all I can say is...
Mod parent up.
Unfortunately, our elections are set up in such a way that the only real effect third party candidates can have is to siphon support away from the mainstream candidate they most resemble
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!
The more you peddle this bullshit line, the more people will believe it. Spouting it in this company makes you look like a bipartisan shill, and I know you're not trying to do that.
Instead of trudging out the "wasted vote" rhetoric, bring up the minority parties in discussion. Overhear some folk talking about "lesser of two evils"? Help them see that there is another way. The more who believe, the more likely change will be.
Do you purposefully miss out the important parts of linked stories just to pad it out with science buzzwords like quantum, chaos, and string theory?
The actual part of the story which is important:
"That kind of off-the-charts intelligence comes with a conundrum, though: Because he's only 13, Gabriel is not emotionally ready to handle programs designed for older students. His intellectual abilities raise the question: How do you map out an education for a boy at the extreme end of the gifted population?"
It'll only slow him down. He's destined for great things, and will carve his own way in life to whatever destination he wishes.
Don't dare subject him to the state brainwashing the rest of us proles have to endure.
She's a teacher. The "acceptable failure" (my words) isn't supposed to be a reason to dismiss students out of hand, it's so a teacher can still hit targets even if they have some kids who simply cannot grasp the concepts being taught.
Jobs and his company are based entirely on control of other people's property. You can't put the OS on your own hardware, you can't run your own apps on the iPod Touch / iPhone without hacking it, you can't use products which directly compete with Apple's offering on either either (heh). Are you all forgetting iTunes prior to the catalogue being converted to DRM-free MP3s?
Horrible people can do good things just as good people can do horrible things, and a lot of the things Jobs did in computing were horrible. Pretty, and king of usability, but all a thing veneer on something fundamentally malign.
He specifically states he was not happy to see Jobs die.
I see you trollin'.
This would require the employing world to stop looking at exam scores as the primary metric for eligibility when hiring.
I'm open to ideas for alternatives, though.
I've worked in a secondary school with performance based pay, and I've heard at least one member of staff tell a disruptive student that in the performance based pay scheme, there is room to let one or two children utterly fail in order for the rest to achieve, and that he was one of the "acceptable failures".
Not sure if she has that job anymore.
If I had enough money to not worry about not having enough money, I could concentrate on being happy instead of making sure I have enough money.
Money doesn't buy happiness, but it certainly makes being happy a lot easier.
Whereas in other jurisdictions the cop would lose their job, or end up in jail themselves
Tell that to Jean Charles de Menezes. You'll probably need a medium, though.