Do such platforms exist? Is there a smartphone that allows you to download and install random staff from the Internet as a PC does? Or are all of them basically just mobile storefronts to the manufacturer's shop?
Droid does.
(Sorry, couldn't resist.)
But yes, Android phones let you download and install apps from the internet in addition to apps from the Android Market. There's a checkbox in the system settings to turn this capability on or off, but it's easy to find (at least on Android 1.6). Also, it only enables/disables *installing* the apps. Once they're installed, you can disable it and they'll continue to run, so if you're concerned about random stuff installing itself, you can leave the feature disabled most of the time, then enable it only when you want to install something, and disable it again afterward.
If I'm reading the summary correctly, it's about building this kind of list:
- Alice became a fan of Wonderland. [Become a fan of Wonderland] - Bob just won an apple in the Halloween tournament. [Play Halloween] - Carol is attending the Yadayada concert [RSVP] - Dave and Ellie are now friends - Frances joined the group, "I Hate Software Patents" [Join "I Hate Software Patents"] - Greg commented on Hayden's status. [Read comment]
Probably a key element in it is trying to make the list relevant enough to the user that they'll want to click on the "Become a fan of..." or "Play..." or "RSVP..." links.
Just because a behavior is banned doesn't mean people have actually stopped doing it. California's ban has been in place for a year and a half now, and I still regularly see people driving while talking on their phones. So hand-held phone use has reduced in these areas. How much?
The other thing to consider is that at least the California law allows you to use your cell phone while driving as long as you use a hand-free system, like an earpiece or a car system that acts as a speakerphone. I seem to recall that other studies have shown that hands-free cell phone conversations are just as distracting as conversations carried out while holding the phone. (The article spends a whopping one sentence on this.)
Really, not a joke, serious proposal: can't we just force everyone to eat peanuts, lots of peanuts, and let Nature take its course? In one generation just get rid of these allergies once and for all. I prefer that to altering everyone's lives to accomodate an allergy that a tiny percentage of the population has.
Speaking as someone whom your proposal would kill, I'm gonna say... no.
Besides, you're assuming that allergies are 100% genetic in origin, while current research seems to indicate a combination of genetic and environmental factors. A single generation isn't going to do it.
Netflix agreed to this because they are getting a discount on their DVD purchases and letting them cut costs.
I'm sure that's a big part of it...but the press release also mentioned that WB is giving them access to more of its catalog for their streaming service.
With physical DVDs, if WB refuses to sell directly to Netflix, they can always send someone to Costco, buy a bunch of DVDs, and rent them under the first sale doctrine. With streaming, they need an active contract with WB to do it (legally) at all. If WB decides not to renew that contract...well, there goes their streaming service. Or at least anything from Warner Bros.
I had two systems, both 64-bit Fedora, that I tried Chrome on. On one, Flash worked fine from the moment I installed Chrome. On the other, Chrome didn't even notice the plugin existed. Flash (32-bit, wrapped with mozilla-plugin-config) worked just fine in Firefox on both computers. When I compared the two systems, it turned out that one was missing a symbolic link. The file is in/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins-wrapped, but Chrome was looking in/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.
The same is true with software. Years after Opera dropped the registration fee and ads and went 100% free-as-in-beer, there were still people who thought you had to pay for it or suffer through ads in your toolbar.
I don't see anything in the article that says they'll be waiting another year to test it at higher energies. I do see that they expect to do physics with it "next year" -- i.e. in the calendar year 2010, which is only a month away.
Yeah, it reminds me of upgrading a Linux system that uses third-party repositories. You always get a warning that some things might not work correctly.
Now, if it silently uninstalled iTunes, that would be something else.
Pulseaudio has never quite worked right for me, either, and I use Fedora. In my case, audio either works or it doesn't, and I haven't quite been able to nail down a consistent pattern.
FamilyTime 400 w/ unlimited nights & weekends, $50/month for two phones. I don't think this particular plan is still available, though.
For the G1, T-Mobile offers two data plans to go with whatever phone plan you have: $25 for unlimited data or $35 for unlimited data WITH unlimited text messages. (At the time I bought my phone, the $25 plan also included 400 text messages, but I think they're itemized separately now unless you get the $35 plan). I assume it's the same for the MyTouch, Cliq, etc.
So if you got a really basic, say, $30 single-line phone plan, you could add $25 for data and use an Android phone for $55/month (probably closer to $60 with fees).
It's not the same virus. H1N1 is a general description of a class of flu viruses, not a name for a specific one. This one is a mix of previously-known swine, avian and human flu viruses.
One difference: the seasonal flu vaccine is based on predicting ahead of time which strains of flu are likely to circulate during the upcoming flu season and targeting those strains. Sometimes the predictions are accurate, sometimes they're not. The H1N1 vaccine targets a specific strain that we know is circulating.
In RFC terms: A seasonal flu vaccine MAY protect you from seasonal flu. An H1N1 flu vaccine SHOULD protect you from H1N1 flu.
I'm paying $85/month for two lines from T-Mobile, including unlimited data on my G1 and messaging on my wife's phone. Admittedly it doesn't have unlimited calling (except for calling each other), but there are enough minutes on the plan that we haven't gone over in...actually I'm not sure we've ever gone over. (Obviously YMMV depending on how many minutes you need.)
Yeah, $85/month adds up to around $1000/year -- but again, that's for two phones. I haven't looked at prices recently, but I suspect a comparable plan for just one phone would be around $50/month including data.
I'm not sure what the previous versions were called, but Google's Android OS recently released Cupcake. Next up is apparently Donut, then Eclair, then Flan.
So, have you got some specs for exactly the way IE and Gecko handle every single case of non-standard code? Including cases where it's clear the code is broken, but it's not clear what the author meant, and multiple interpretations are equally valid?
No? There's no specification? They'll have to reverse-engineer it by visiting every page on the internet with IE and Firefox and seeing what those browsers do with them? Gee, that sounds workable!
Because this one is aimed at high-functioning mobile browsers, not at bare-minimum browsers. The old mobile site is practically text-only and breaks each article into dozens of tiny pages in order handle low-bandwidth and low-memory devices. The newer site is more focused on formatting the page to maximize space and readability on a device that can handle modern web pages, but has a teeny tiny screen.
So far, I haven't seen them do any automatic redirecting. But they do detect iPhone and Android browsers on the regular site and add a link at the top of the page saying "View this page on Wikipedia's mobile site."
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Droid does.
(Sorry, couldn't resist.)
But yes, Android phones let you download and install apps from the internet in addition to apps from the Android Market. There's a checkbox in the system settings to turn this capability on or off, but it's easy to find (at least on Android 1.6). Also, it only enables/disables *installing* the apps. Once they're installed, you can disable it and they'll continue to run, so if you're concerned about random stuff installing itself, you can leave the feature disabled most of the time, then enable it only when you want to install something, and disable it again afterward.
If I'm reading the summary correctly, it's about building this kind of list:
- Alice became a fan of Wonderland. [Become a fan of Wonderland]
- Bob just won an apple in the Halloween tournament. [Play Halloween]
- Carol is attending the Yadayada concert [RSVP]
- Dave and Ellie are now friends
- Frances joined the group, "I Hate Software Patents" [Join "I Hate Software Patents"]
- Greg commented on Hayden's status. [Read comment]
Probably a key element in it is trying to make the list relevant enough to the user that they'll want to click on the "Become a fan of..." or "Play..." or "RSVP..." links.
Cell phone companies should be prohibited from providing a signal to a phone traveling over X MPH.
What about passengers, or people on trains?
Just because a behavior is banned doesn't mean people have actually stopped doing it. California's ban has been in place for a year and a half now, and I still regularly see people driving while talking on their phones. So hand-held phone use has reduced in these areas. How much?
The other thing to consider is that at least the California law allows you to use your cell phone while driving as long as you use a hand-free system, like an earpiece or a car system that acts as a speakerphone. I seem to recall that other studies have shown that hands-free cell phone conversations are just as distracting as conversations carried out while holding the phone. (The article spends a whopping one sentence on this.)
Viola, violation of freedom of speech.
I don't think that's what they usually mean by orchestrating a plan.
Really, not a joke, serious proposal: can't we just force everyone to eat peanuts, lots of peanuts, and let Nature take its course? In one generation just get rid of these allergies once and for all. I prefer that to altering everyone's lives to accomodate an allergy that a tiny percentage of the population has.
Speaking as someone whom your proposal would kill, I'm gonna say... no.
Besides, you're assuming that allergies are 100% genetic in origin, while current research seems to indicate a combination of genetic and environmental factors. A single generation isn't going to do it.
Netflix agreed to this because they are getting a discount on their DVD purchases and letting them cut costs.
I'm sure that's a big part of it...but the press release also mentioned that WB is giving them access to more of its catalog for their streaming service.
With physical DVDs, if WB refuses to sell directly to Netflix, they can always send someone to Costco, buy a bunch of DVDs, and rent them under the first sale doctrine. With streaming, they need an active contract with WB to do it (legally) at all. If WB decides not to renew that contract...well, there goes their streaming service. Or at least anything from Warner Bros.
I had two systems, both 64-bit Fedora, that I tried Chrome on. On one, Flash worked fine from the moment I installed Chrome. On the other, Chrome didn't even notice the plugin existed. Flash (32-bit, wrapped with mozilla-plugin-config) worked just fine in Firefox on both computers. When I compared the two systems, it turned out that one was missing a symbolic link. The file is in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins-wrapped, but Chrome was looking in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.
Adding a symbolic link solved it.
More info: Getting Flash to work on Google Chrome for 64-bit Linux.
The same is true with software. Years after Opera dropped the registration fee and ads and went 100% free-as-in-beer, there were still people who thought you had to pay for it or suffer through ads in your toolbar.
...to assign the patent to an anti-spam organization, then watch as they sue spammers into oblivion for patent infringement!
I don't see anything in the article that says they'll be waiting another year to test it at higher energies. I do see that they expect to do physics with it "next year" -- i.e. in the calendar year 2010, which is only a month away.
Yeah, it certainly sounds like they'd be creating a derivative work, and it would be hard to argue that the changes are transformative.
"No, it's, uh, a parody of the book you thought you were buying!"
Yeah, it reminds me of upgrading a Linux system that uses third-party repositories. You always get a warning that some things might not work correctly.
Now, if it silently uninstalled iTunes, that would be something else.
Pulseaudio has never worked OK for me.
Pulseaudio has never quite worked right for me, either, and I use Fedora. In my case, audio either works or it doesn't, and I haven't quite been able to nail down a consistent pattern.
FamilyTime 400 w/ unlimited nights & weekends, $50/month for two phones. I don't think this particular plan is still available, though.
For the G1, T-Mobile offers two data plans to go with whatever phone plan you have: $25 for unlimited data or $35 for unlimited data WITH unlimited text messages. (At the time I bought my phone, the $25 plan also included 400 text messages, but I think they're itemized separately now unless you get the $35 plan). I assume it's the same for the MyTouch, Cliq, etc.
So if you got a really basic, say, $30 single-line phone plan, you could add $25 for data and use an Android phone for $55/month (probably closer to $60 with fees).
It's not the same virus. H1N1 is a general description of a class of flu viruses, not a name for a specific one. This one is a mix of previously-known swine, avian and human flu viruses.
http://www.flu.gov/individualfamily/about/h1n1/index.html
One difference: the seasonal flu vaccine is based on predicting ahead of time which strains of flu are likely to circulate during the upcoming flu season and targeting those strains. Sometimes the predictions are accurate, sometimes they're not. The H1N1 vaccine targets a specific strain that we know is circulating.
In RFC terms:
A seasonal flu vaccine MAY protect you from seasonal flu.
An H1N1 flu vaccine SHOULD protect you from H1N1 flu.
$100/month?
I'm paying $85/month for two lines from T-Mobile, including unlimited data on my G1 and messaging on my wife's phone. Admittedly it doesn't have unlimited calling (except for calling each other), but there are enough minutes on the plan that we haven't gone over in...actually I'm not sure we've ever gone over. (Obviously YMMV depending on how many minutes you need.)
Yeah, $85/month adds up to around $1000/year -- but again, that's for two phones. I haven't looked at prices recently, but I suspect a comparable plan for just one phone would be around $50/month including data.
NASA posted a great composite shot a few years ago showing the full moon and the Andromeda galaxy at the same angular scale.
Astronomy Picture of the Day: Moon over Andromeda.
I was horrified a few years ago to see a T-shirt featuring a cartoonish Yoda with the phrase mangled into something like, "Try not, there is only do."
I'm not sure what the previous versions were called, but Google's Android OS recently released Cupcake. Next up is apparently Donut, then Eclair, then Flan.
If the website was "full" - as you put it - it would be impossible for any subsequent pedants to join. This is not the case.
Not necessarily. Some containers can expand. A balloon can be full of hot air, and you can still add more (up to a point).
So, have you got some specs for exactly the way IE and Gecko handle every single case of non-standard code? Including cases where it's clear the code is broken, but it's not clear what the author meant, and multiple interpretations are equally valid?
No? There's no specification? They'll have to reverse-engineer it by visiting every page on the internet with IE and Firefox and seeing what those browsers do with them? Gee, that sounds workable!
Because this one is aimed at high-functioning mobile browsers, not at bare-minimum browsers. The old mobile site is practically text-only and breaks each article into dozens of tiny pages in order handle low-bandwidth and low-memory devices. The newer site is more focused on formatting the page to maximize space and readability on a device that can handle modern web pages, but has a teeny tiny screen.
Compare:
Mona Lisa on new mobile site.
Mona Lisa on old mobile site.
Now tell me which one you'd rather read, assuming you had a device that could handle both.
So far, I haven't seen them do any automatic redirecting. But they do detect iPhone and Android browsers on the regular site and add a link at the top of the page saying "View this page on Wikipedia's mobile site."