Yep, this is by law that all cell phones (in the US at least) must provide the capability to locate it and listen in on the mic remotely. I've heard they can even active the mic if the phone is off (for a certain amount of time depending on the battery), but not sure about that last part.
I do have a G1 with root and flashed bootloader, etc. But I believe the code for this is embedded into the hardware somewhere though. Does anybody know if OpenMoko phones pass FCC regulation? I'm sure if not its because of this, since the hardware and all is open, it can probably be de-actived -- if its even on there at all.
Wrong, you can install from the web - download an.apk directly from the browser on the device and install it. You can also push it using the android toolkit from your computer. Nothing like the iPhone when it comes to apps, as far as building apps the possibilities are endless.
You can even push your own updates, pretty much flash the entire device just using the Android Tool Kit, people are down-grading to RC29 where they had root access now, try that on an iPhone.
I am counting success here as the crew survived - obviously, not all of these missions did everything they were supposed to do.
I think its more important to look at missions accomplished and if not fully accomplished what percentage and what we actually earned in return from it.
That's not to say 1% death toll to 4% is not a significant amount better than before.
T-mobile gives you your unlock code after 3 months of service, or you can get it the same day if you pay full price for the phone. Technically you could then use it on any GSM network or just use it as a Internet device on wireless lans or something and not pay for T-mo service anymore (as long as your contract is up).
You can download Android apps directly from the web to the phone and install, push them to the phone from your computer using the android tool kit or download them from Android Market. In the market you can even find a J2ME installer that lets you install JAR files off the web.
I have an ssh client and terminal emulator that I downloaded directly from the Market, plus a few other apps for rss, meebo for AIM (so it doesn't use up text messages), games, Compare Everywhere for scanning bar-codes and finding deals, and more all from the Market. There is even half working VNC viewer that I found online. They've got an iTunes remote that works nice, but I need one for Rhythmbox or Elisa on Ubuntu. With the "openness" that Android does provide, you can get really creative and innovative though.
That's not to say you can't push it even further by jail-breaking and installing Debian ARM or some other GNU/Linux OS. This little thing could be a low powered router with a few extra features and much more jail-broken. I'm trying to get a rig going where I can just have it be the media player for my car, I mean it's even got streaming Internet radio (imeem & last fm so far). I'm all for openness, I was contemplating getting the OpenMoko before this, but I really don't have much to complain about with Android so far. Hopefully T-mobile doesn't fuck it up.
Wow, thanks Google, I was just able to reboot from my browser. Sheesh! I mean I even have an ssh client on my G1, I could have really fucked it up while just messing around on one of my servers remotely.
For a work around I guess you could just type "(enter)cat(enter)" in the beginning so all keystrokes won't actually get executed (till you ctrl+c), at least there's no ctrl on the keyboard (that I know of). The first exploit was pretty blah, security circus, yada yada -- this can be pretty serious though, someone could def fuck up their device by mistake.
And Palin doesn't scare you!? McCain has a few heartbeats left, and I just don't see Palin really making her own decisions, she'll get played more than Bush. Believe me I'm more conservative in normal circumstances, when it comes to any type of regulation, size of government, taxes, etc. But neo-conservative is not the same as conservative. I guess you could see voting for a 3rd party is the same as throwing a vote away, but if that was the case voting against Obama was pretty much a waste of time as well. He had this won months ago.
Whoever ran as a Democrat had this won months ago.
It doesn't matter who you vote for, as long as you vote.
If you don't vote, your giving a vote to someone else.
If you don't vote, you can't complain of the outcome
So when shit hits the fan, you can't really complain because you agreed to vote on something and even if the vote didn't go your way you still agreed that this was the best way to go about it win or lose.
How do you figure you wouldn't do anything at all though? You can not vote and be very active in pushing something else.
It was just a question, I will be voting. People that claim you have nothing to complain about if you don't vote, or any of the later phrases I now hear on TV, are drinking too much Kool Aid. Especially when in all reality your vote counts very little. You DID NOT DO ANYTHING by voting besides stating you have some type of opinion (and we all know what opinions are like...)
There's other ways to look at things and more productive ways to bring about change than voting.
What if you're complaining about the system as a whole? Voting would be quite hypocritical then. Unless your voting for a guy thats running on the basis of changing the system, but running within the system... I guess.
An iPhone user is not going to find anything positive about the G1, they're locked into their contract for another 2 or 3 years.
The fact I can install apps bypassing the market, download from the browser or transferring the.apk to the memory card squats on any iPhone functionality. No Skype for iPhone either;) (iSkoot for Android).
correction: "so far the only complain I have" -> "the only complaint I have" (I was excited:)
Isn't it a good thing for your camera to be 'very light sensitive'?
What I mean is the light has to be perfect in the room, or nearly perfect sunlight to get a decent picture. Same goes for scanning bar codes, God forbid some of your shadow is in the way. When the light is right though the picture is very crisp.
You can't really do this, well not as is besides the drivers because Android depends on a lot of hard keys. It does not even have an on screen keyboard (that I've seen). I actually HAVE to use my menu, back & home buttons.
The iPhone only has 1 button which could be considered the menu, but then theres no way to get back to your desktop as there is no exiting of programs they are left open until Android decides it should close it because you have other apps open and that one has been inactive for a while.
I really wanted one for the longest but the software is not nearly complete. I mean Android is barely complete as far as apps go and OpenMoko is even farther behind on that.
You should be able to port Android onto your OpenMoko though, I'm sure that will be one of the first non-G1's to have it.
Android though I would say is open enough for me, the HTC hardware is closed and all but I've been able to download separate apps right from the browser and install them on my G1, without even touching T-Mobiles Android Market.
You can install apps from the market, internet or the memory card. I've been able to install an iTunes remote through the memory card thats not yet available in the market. Too bad it didn't work with Rythmbox, but still I was able to install other apps with out going through T-mobile.
I'm very optimistic about how far hackers can take this. I mean look what they do with closed source propriety stuff. They might have a few road blocks purposely put there but have already given us a huge jump just by releasing the OS source.
Got my G1 yesterday. What I've played with so far is pretty nice, the camera is very light sensitive though, so far the only complain I have.
You can install apps from the market, internet or memory card, and the possibilities are endless just with the original OS. Can't wait for some hacked versions of Android so I can really have some fun though.
Supposedly Christopher Columbus recorded seeing fire in the sky (or lights because fire was the only light they knew - it was on the history channel). Before that also what do you think the 'fire in the sky' was, even though this was in the bible and we all know how reliable that is, parts of the bible are known to be somewhat historically correct.
How do you figure this is the case though? Last I heard (being lazy in looking up figures) UK's second largest religion is Islam on its way to be first. The UK is not dealing with daily suicide bombings or are they in any worse of a situation as far as terrorism goes than the US.
The US I can also assure you has a higher population of Muslims than Jews, Buddist or any other religion besides Christianity and more people die here from peanut allergies each year than terrorist. We have a bigger problem with school shootings, and none of those kids have yet to be Muslim.
The only reason the western world has less religious nutbags is because we sent most of the Jesus warriors to the middle east a few years ago.
On a more serious note though, at least you realize that all religions had to deal with this. When people are depressed and held down by leaders though, or manipulated by other nations they seem to take religion, their only out, more seriously. Not condoning it at all, but this is probably what sped us up in helped us come out of that era.
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Yep, this is by law that all cell phones (in the US at least) must provide the capability to locate it and listen in on the mic remotely. I've heard they can even active the mic if the phone is off (for a certain amount of time depending on the battery), but not sure about that last part.
I do have a G1 with root and flashed bootloader, etc. But I believe the code for this is embedded into the hardware somewhere though. Does anybody know if OpenMoko phones pass FCC regulation? I'm sure if not its because of this, since the hardware and all is open, it can probably be de-actived -- if its even on there at all.
Wrong, you can install from the web - download an .apk directly from the browser on the device and install it. You can also push it using the android toolkit from your computer. Nothing like the iPhone when it comes to apps, as far as building apps the possibilities are endless.
You can even push your own updates, pretty much flash the entire device just using the Android Tool Kit, people are down-grading to RC29 where they had root access now, try that on an iPhone.
I think its more important to look at missions accomplished and if not fully accomplished what percentage and what we actually earned in return from it.
That's not to say 1% death toll to 4% is not a significant amount better than before.
Ehh, Europe is pretty far from the US.
T-mobile gives you your unlock code after 3 months of service, or you can get it the same day if you pay full price for the phone. Technically you could then use it on any GSM network or just use it as a Internet device on wireless lans or something and not pay for T-mo service anymore (as long as your contract is up).
You can download Android apps directly from the web to the phone and install, push them to the phone from your computer using the android tool kit or download them from Android Market. In the market you can even find a J2ME installer that lets you install JAR files off the web.
I have an ssh client and terminal emulator that I downloaded directly from the Market, plus a few other apps for rss, meebo for AIM (so it doesn't use up text messages), games, Compare Everywhere for scanning bar-codes and finding deals, and more all from the Market. There is even half working VNC viewer that I found online. They've got an iTunes remote that works nice, but I need one for Rhythmbox or Elisa on Ubuntu. With the "openness" that Android does provide, you can get really creative and innovative though.
That's not to say you can't push it even further by jail-breaking and installing Debian ARM or some other GNU/Linux OS. This little thing could be a low powered router with a few extra features and much more jail-broken. I'm trying to get a rig going where I can just have it be the media player for my car, I mean it's even got streaming Internet radio (imeem & last fm so far). I'm all for openness, I was contemplating getting the OpenMoko before this, but I really don't have much to complain about with Android so far. Hopefully T-mobile doesn't fuck it up.
Wow, thanks Google, I was just able to reboot from my browser. Sheesh! I mean I even have an ssh client on my G1, I could have really fucked it up while just messing around on one of my servers remotely.
For a work around I guess you could just type "(enter)cat(enter)" in the beginning so all keystrokes won't actually get executed (till you ctrl+c), at least there's no ctrl on the keyboard (that I know of). The first exploit was pretty blah, security circus, yada yada -- this can be pretty serious though, someone could def fuck up their device by mistake.
Lying (or misleading) is always easier on the wallet my friend.
And Palin doesn't scare you!? McCain has a few heartbeats left, and I just don't see Palin really making her own decisions, she'll get played more than Bush. Believe me I'm more conservative in normal circumstances, when it comes to any type of regulation, size of government, taxes, etc. But neo-conservative is not the same as conservative. I guess you could see voting for a 3rd party is the same as throwing a vote away, but if that was the case voting against Obama was pretty much a waste of time as well. He had this won months ago.
Whoever ran as a Democrat had this won months ago.
Also, 2008 has 2 months left and that's all Bush.
Exactly. And thus the big push for :
So when shit hits the fan, you can't really complain because you agreed to vote on something and even if the vote didn't go your way you still agreed that this was the best way to go about it win or lose.
How do you figure you wouldn't do anything at all though? You can not vote and be very active in pushing something else.
It was just a question, I will be voting. People that claim you have nothing to complain about if you don't vote, or any of the later phrases I now hear on TV, are drinking too much Kool Aid. Especially when in all reality your vote counts very little. You DID NOT DO ANYTHING by voting besides stating you have some type of opinion (and we all know what opinions are like...)
There's other ways to look at things and more productive ways to bring about change than voting.
What if you're complaining about the system as a whole? Voting would be quite hypocritical then. Unless your voting for a guy thats running on the basis of changing the system, but running within the system... I guess.
An iPhone user is not going to find anything positive about the G1, they're locked into their contract for another 2 or 3 years.
The fact I can install apps bypassing the market, download from the browser or transferring the .apk to the memory card squats on any iPhone functionality. No Skype for iPhone either ;) (iSkoot for Android).
Forget blocking telemarketers, this is great for blocking collection agencies and pesky credit card companies. :)
Hmm, sounds like a great Android App, with a community maintainable blacklist where you can list numbers under different groups, etc.
correction: "so far the only complain I have" -> "the only complaint I have" (I was excited :)
What I mean is the light has to be perfect in the room, or nearly perfect sunlight to get a decent picture. Same goes for scanning bar codes, God forbid some of your shadow is in the way. When the light is right though the picture is very crisp.
You can't really do this, well not as is besides the drivers because Android depends on a lot of hard keys. It does not even have an on screen keyboard (that I've seen). I actually HAVE to use my menu, back & home buttons.
The iPhone only has 1 button which could be considered the menu, but then theres no way to get back to your desktop as there is no exiting of programs they are left open until Android decides it should close it because you have other apps open and that one has been inactive for a while.
I really wanted one for the longest but the software is not nearly complete. I mean Android is barely complete as far as apps go and OpenMoko is even farther behind on that.
You should be able to port Android onto your OpenMoko though, I'm sure that will be one of the first non-G1's to have it.
Android though I would say is open enough for me, the HTC hardware is closed and all but I've been able to download separate apps right from the browser and install them on my G1, without even touching T-Mobiles Android Market.
You can install apps from the market, internet or the memory card. I've been able to install an iTunes remote through the memory card thats not yet available in the market. Too bad it didn't work with Rythmbox, but still I was able to install other apps with out going through T-mobile.
I'm very optimistic about how far hackers can take this. I mean look what they do with closed source propriety stuff. They might have a few road blocks purposely put there but have already given us a huge jump just by releasing the OS source.
Got my G1 yesterday. What I've played with so far is pretty nice, the camera is very light sensitive though, so far the only complain I have.
You can install apps from the market, internet or memory card, and the possibilities are endless just with the original OS. Can't wait for some hacked versions of Android so I can really have some fun though.
Supposedly Christopher Columbus recorded seeing fire in the sky (or lights because fire was the only light they knew - it was on the history channel). Before that also what do you think the 'fire in the sky' was, even though this was in the bible and we all know how reliable that is, parts of the bible are known to be somewhat historically correct.
You probably got a Broadcom wireless adapter. Even XP can't save you from that.
Aye, I contribute by testing.
How do you figure this is the case though? Last I heard (being lazy in looking up figures) UK's second largest religion is Islam on its way to be first. The UK is not dealing with daily suicide bombings or are they in any worse of a situation as far as terrorism goes than the US.
The US I can also assure you has a higher population of Muslims than Jews, Buddist or any other religion besides Christianity and more people die here from peanut allergies each year than terrorist. We have a bigger problem with school shootings, and none of those kids have yet to be Muslim.
The only reason the western world has less religious nutbags is because we sent most of the Jesus warriors to the middle east a few years ago.
On a more serious note though, at least you realize that all religions had to deal with this. When people are depressed and held down by leaders though, or manipulated by other nations they seem to take religion, their only out, more seriously. Not condoning it at all, but this is probably what sped us up in helped us come out of that era.