If you look at mac, they did it once and have made improvements but the UI has not changed much over time. Even since prior os x. People get used to the way it works and it woks fine.
MS changes each os release, people get confused and some people need retraining on it. I don't see the benefits in all their changes. It just confuses people.
One because we had a difference of opinion on another tax that did not pass ( I was against and he was for it). One because I don't know why, he thought I deleted him, but he deleted me.
The result. Whatever dude!
First don't friend everyone that comes along just because they said hi at a bar or wherever or you knew they from way back. People change! So friend people who are only your friends. If you have 1000 friends, they are not your friends, they are fans or acquaintances. Second, setup groups of people and put friends in a friend group, and acquaintances in a different group and family in another group. Then when you post stuff you can determine who sees what on facebook. You can also setup groups like close friends, distant friends, old friends, acquaintances, family, distant family, relatives that I never met but my mom says they know me, predators, and so on.
One problem I see is that in CA when you buy a new car they do not give you license plates, they give you a sticker on the front of your car. The cameras take pictures of the back of your cars, like the ones on the bay bridge when people run through the fastrak lanes without the fastrak going off or without a fastrak device.
So there is potential for people who get a new car to get a free bridge ride!
The second issue and they dealt with this in England was differences in license plates and the love 'borders' that people put on their plates that obscure the numbers. Thus there is potential there to loose revenue.
My guess is that the tollbooth toll taker people are way over paid. What should be a minimum wage job probably pays 100k a year or something ridiculous like that.
I will say that I am glad that they are looking at cutting expenses, maybe they can cut the hikes on the tolls or at least stop increasing them.
I think android is moving to fast. In the last year we saw 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 and now 3.0. I think they need to scale back to annual releases because phone makers don't or can't keep up and then people end up upset because they are not on the latest version of the OS. Also not everyone wants to root their phone and install some cyanogenmod version or other hacked version. I'm not saying that there is anything wrong with people doing that, but the average phone user wants to buy a phone that will not be out of date in 6 months. I also realize that not all android phones suffer this, but there are many that came out with 1.x last year and still have not been upgraded to 2.x and many wont see 2.3. When apps stop coding to the 1.5 version and 1.6 version as many are doing that makes a phone that is less than a year old outdated and then upsets customers. If you are on a 2 year contract then you screwed after 6 months, you will probably not be doing an android phone again and now that iphones will run on verizon this could be trouble for android.
I think the idea of locking it down would work if they would give people the upgrades on the phones to the latest and allow people to uninstall things like amazon store or some of the other crapware that they install on those phones.
Sorry, I'm just a little peaved at them as I bought one of their cliq xt's with the understanding that it would be upgraded in June 2010 and still no upgrade. Soon I think I will be able to get away from this phone and say bye bye to motorhola.
If you buy an unlimited plan, the word unlimited means there is no limit. This is saying that there is a limit. Isn't this fraud? Any laywers up for a class action lawsuit? What does this mean for video conferencing??
actually most mobile clients do not show email headers nor do they show URL's like a browsers location bar. So if the title says wells fargo and looks like wells fargo then how are they gonna know the location is actually youjustgothackedonyourmobile.com
The way a patent works is the claims in the patent need to be invalidated for the patent to be invalidated. So unless IBM is claiming exactly what you may have blogged about and you blogged about it more than a year ago, it would not be prior art. Even if you did blog exactly what they were claiming, if they changed the wording semantics a little they could get around that. Also they have made it easier to get stupid patents.
Are the phone makers any better when it comes to GPL compliance?
So does the GPL cover things like when a company like Motorola or Samsung add their custom UI on top of android? Do they release the kernel source changes too?
I have a cliq xt and still waiting for the 2.1 upgrade that will probably never happen unless I root and custom rom it, so can I send it up? I'd be able to get a new phone and maybe able to talk my cell provider into giving me something else instead!
It's not the different hardware that is the problem it is that it is not handled by the android API's. The API's should abstract that away from a developer so that they code for one size and not have to worry so much about the other sizes.
The bigger problem with android is the incompatibilities between OS versions and the fact that it makes some phones end up on different versions of the OS than other phones. Like gingerbread is 64 bit so I hear, but previously all versions were 32 bit. (Not sure if that is true). However I do know some phones are not capable of getting past eclair and others are left on cupcake. This means that some get the new market upgrade and others are left behind. Add in vendor customizations to the UI on top of that and the end user has well a worse than windows PC experience with their phone.
Currently my android phone is stuck at 1.5 and so I don't get the new market update, but have been told by the manufuckturer that it will be updated to 2.1 by.. well they keep slipping the date, so I'm about thinking never and my apps are slowly one by one no longer working. It makes me think about getting an iphone because I know apple will at least provide me with a recent os experience for the 2 year contract that I am on.
It is partly googles fault too over this, as they should be discouraging phone makers from adding their custom ui crap on top and not releasing all that as open source.
This isn't new information. This has been known for a while.
You buy an android and you pretty much HAVE to have a google account so all your data can be 'in the cloud'. If it has moto blur then moto has a copy too.
You install facebook on your iphone, blackberry, android or whatever and then all your contacts are on your phone and 'in the cloud'. Most of the apps that are free have ads and it is pretty standard practice for advertisers to want as much info about someone as possible. This is not anything new and it has been known for a while on these devices.
You can write your own apps, but good luck with that, start an open android market, but then you can have all sorts of rogue apps taking who knows what kind of data about your computer or you can live with this.
The same thing happens online when you visit a web site, only they use cookies and try to gather as much info as possible. I suppose at some point google or the android community or apple will add in an anonymous feature on the phones, but until then you either live with it or don't get a smart phone.
Why use chrome when there is android-x86. Granted the project is in it's early stages, but it is shaping up nicely and I have froyo installed already on a desktop, with mouse and keyboard and no touch screen.
motorola has a habit of making android phones and then not keeping their oses up 2 date. not sure how other cell makes are, but this happens. Does it run stock android or does it have motobloat, er motoblur?
Google has done faceted browsing in their image search, macys.com has added faceted browsing in this browse, and this seems to be the 'next in thing'. I do think that faceted browsing would be nice in a file manager.
I'm so looking forward to when speech to text actually comes to the desktops. It would be nice to be able to talk to my computer like I talk to my phone (my android actually does pretty good speech recognition).
Welcome to the new age! That changed during the Bush Administration (Jr not Sr), to first to file. It was actually done for situations where two companies invented the same thing about the same time, but one company filed a patent first. Instead of going through a dispute of who actually invented it, the idea is that first to patent is first to invent.
Guess what? Looks like their is a loophole in that one. As these patent trolls are not even inventing anything, but stealing other peoples ideas.
Personally I think patents on software / hardware algorithms should just be banned completely. Unfortunately we are moving in the wrong direction with patents in the US.
It's not that the US does not have smart people it is that the US does not have people that want to get into IT and people here are lazy and don't want to learn. They want to drink bear and smoke lots of pot (aka dope). Parents here also try to make it easier for their children so their children don't have to work as hard to get anything. IT takes work.
Personally I think 'American' companies that outsource are not really 'American' companies. Many companies care more about their bottom line and their stock price then who does the work. As long as they have an American presence they can call themselves an American company. I know of MANY that have a small number of people in the US (like 15 to 30) and then hundreds in India or China or Pakistan. Not really an American company but their stock trades on the US stock markets not the international markets and that is what they want.
Really though all OS's have their vulnerabilities, doesn't matter who makes em they all have em. Welcome to software!
The real issue here is how quickly these are fixed and how easy it is for the end user to get that fix. All major desktop software have done a decent job of making it easier to get the updates, the end user just has to either allow the install or maybe do a click through update. Phones are moving in that direction but some move quicker than other. I hope in time android will be at a point where it will get updates out at a normal pace to end users. I do think that android could learn a few things from ubuntu and other linux distros that have automatic updates. Even vendor supplied roms need to learn something from this process.
I wonder if one can sue a vendor if there is a browser vulnerability that gets fixed in android source but does not make it to their phone?
It's both actually. The company I work for has 3 different contractor groups to cut costs. Contractors pay their own benefits, and guess what most of them are from India, and we have much work that gets done offshore in India as well.
The other half of the problem is that many people in the US do not get into tech they do business. So most of the business sense in this company is Americans and much of the rest of the work is done by both H1Bs, offshore India and other India born now living in America, possible green card / future citizens.
In reality this is not going away, so as Americans we need to learn how to deal with this and figure out where our place is in this kind of workplace.
Oh and no I don't like it but as I said it is not going away no matter who is president or in congress.
why not better engines with hybrid technology as well? I'll tell you why, so big oil can keep their death grip on all those who drive cars and so that bicycle advocates and environmentalist can have a reason to continue to hate cars and think they are evil.
No seriously, if MS had not led all these corporations to code to IE6 we would not all be stuck with IE6. I guess this is a little bit of a lesson for corporations, place NICE or we'll end up with crap for 10 year longer than anyone should have that crap.
MS should come up with a way for people to upgrade to IE7,8 and 9 and have a 'run in IE6' mode that is 100% compatible with IE6. This should be a switch that is set in a browser ( take a lesson from spoon.net/browsers MS!!!!). Then companies can deploy this with pre-configured sites and the end users will just get it and stuff will work. Doing so will allow us all to move off of IE6 quicker. Also they should update windows 2000 to IE7, because there are people that are still on that OS, or they should offer them XP/ upgrades dirt cheep.
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MS changes each os release, people get confused and some people need retraining on it. I don't see the benefits in all their changes. It just confuses people.
no really, wasn't this one of the opening couch jokes on the simpsons?
The result. Whatever dude!
First don't friend everyone that comes along just because they said hi at a bar or wherever or you knew they from way back. People change! So friend people who are only your friends. If you have 1000 friends, they are not your friends, they are fans or acquaintances. Second, setup groups of people and put friends in a friend group, and acquaintances in a different group and family in another group. Then when you post stuff you can determine who sees what on facebook. You can also setup groups like close friends, distant friends, old friends, acquaintances, family, distant family, relatives that I never met but my mom says they know me, predators, and so on.
So there is potential for people who get a new car to get a free bridge ride!
The second issue and they dealt with this in England was differences in license plates and the love 'borders' that people put on their plates that obscure the numbers. Thus there is potential there to loose revenue.
My guess is that the tollbooth toll taker people are way over paid. What should be a minimum wage job probably pays 100k a year or something ridiculous like that.
I will say that I am glad that they are looking at cutting expenses, maybe they can cut the hikes on the tolls or at least stop increasing them.
I think android is moving to fast. In the last year we saw 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 and now 3.0. I think they need to scale back to annual releases because phone makers don't or can't keep up and then people end up upset because they are not on the latest version of the OS. Also not everyone wants to root their phone and install some cyanogenmod version or other hacked version. I'm not saying that there is anything wrong with people doing that, but the average phone user wants to buy a phone that will not be out of date in 6 months. I also realize that not all android phones suffer this, but there are many that came out with 1.x last year and still have not been upgraded to 2.x and many wont see 2.3. When apps stop coding to the 1.5 version and 1.6 version as many are doing that makes a phone that is less than a year old outdated and then upsets customers. If you are on a 2 year contract then you screwed after 6 months, you will probably not be doing an android phone again and now that iphones will run on verizon this could be trouble for android.
I think the idea of locking it down would work if they would give people the upgrades on the phones to the latest and allow people to uninstall things like amazon store or some of the other crapware that they install on those phones.
Sorry, I'm just a little peaved at them as I bought one of their cliq xt's with the understanding that it would be upgraded in June 2010 and still no upgrade. Soon I think I will be able to get away from this phone and say bye bye to motorhola.
If you buy an unlimited plan, the word unlimited means there is no limit. This is saying that there is a limit. Isn't this fraud? Any laywers up for a class action lawsuit? What does this mean for video conferencing??
actually most mobile clients do not show email headers nor do they show URL's like a browsers location bar. So if the title says wells fargo and looks like wells fargo then how are they gonna know the location is actually youjustgothackedonyourmobile.com
The way a patent works is the claims in the patent need to be invalidated for the patent to be invalidated. So unless IBM is claiming exactly what you may have blogged about and you blogged about it more than a year ago, it would not be prior art. Even if you did blog exactly what they were claiming, if they changed the wording semantics a little they could get around that. Also they have made it easier to get stupid patents.
So does the GPL cover things like when a company like Motorola or Samsung add their custom UI on top of android? Do they release the kernel source changes too?
so is it April 1st already? Oh wait they said faux news.
I have a cliq xt and still waiting for the 2.1 upgrade that will probably never happen unless I root and custom rom it, so can I send it up? I'd be able to get a new phone and maybe able to talk my cell provider into giving me something else instead!
The bigger problem with android is the incompatibilities between OS versions and the fact that it makes some phones end up on different versions of the OS than other phones. Like gingerbread is 64 bit so I hear, but previously all versions were 32 bit. (Not sure if that is true). However I do know some phones are not capable of getting past eclair and others are left on cupcake. This means that some get the new market upgrade and others are left behind. Add in vendor customizations to the UI on top of that and the end user has well a worse than windows PC experience with their phone.
Currently my android phone is stuck at 1.5 and so I don't get the new market update, but have been told by the manufuckturer that it will be updated to 2.1 by .. well they keep slipping the date, so I'm about thinking never and my apps are slowly one by one no longer working. It makes me think about getting an iphone because I know apple will at least provide me with a recent os experience for the 2 year contract that I am on.
It is partly googles fault too over this, as they should be discouraging phone makers from adding their custom ui crap on top and not releasing all that as open source.
You buy an android and you pretty much HAVE to have a google account so all your data can be 'in the cloud'. If it has moto blur then moto has a copy too.
You install facebook on your iphone, blackberry, android or whatever and then all your contacts are on your phone and 'in the cloud'. Most of the apps that are free have ads and it is pretty standard practice for advertisers to want as much info about someone as possible. This is not anything new and it has been known for a while on these devices.
You can write your own apps, but good luck with that, start an open android market, but then you can have all sorts of rogue apps taking who knows what kind of data about your computer or you can live with this.
The same thing happens online when you visit a web site, only they use cookies and try to gather as much info as possible. I suppose at some point google or the android community or apple will add in an anonymous feature on the phones, but until then you either live with it or don't get a smart phone.
Why use chrome when there is android-x86. Granted the project is in it's early stages, but it is shaping up nicely and I have froyo installed already on a desktop, with mouse and keyboard and no touch screen.
motorola has a habit of making android phones and then not keeping their oses up 2 date. not sure how other cell makes are, but this happens. Does it run stock android or does it have motobloat, er motoblur?
It's not the first electric car, unless they are talking about this http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aacarselectrica.htm or one of these http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aacarselectric2a.htm. I believe that GM made a car at one point that few were on the road that were electric back in the 1990 called the EV1. Why is this called the 'first' instead of the return of electric cars.
I'm so looking forward to when speech to text actually comes to the desktops. It would be nice to be able to talk to my computer like I talk to my phone (my android actually does pretty good speech recognition).
Guess what? Looks like their is a loophole in that one. As these patent trolls are not even inventing anything, but stealing other peoples ideas.
Personally I think patents on software / hardware algorithms should just be banned completely. Unfortunately we are moving in the wrong direction with patents in the US.
Personally I think 'American' companies that outsource are not really 'American' companies. Many companies care more about their bottom line and their stock price then who does the work. As long as they have an American presence they can call themselves an American company. I know of MANY that have a small number of people in the US (like 15 to 30) and then hundreds in India or China or Pakistan. Not really an American company but their stock trades on the US stock markets not the international markets and that is what they want.
The real issue here is how quickly these are fixed and how easy it is for the end user to get that fix. All major desktop software have done a decent job of making it easier to get the updates, the end user just has to either allow the install or maybe do a click through update. Phones are moving in that direction but some move quicker than other. I hope in time android will be at a point where it will get updates out at a normal pace to end users. I do think that android could learn a few things from ubuntu and other linux distros that have automatic updates. Even vendor supplied roms need to learn something from this process.
I wonder if one can sue a vendor if there is a browser vulnerability that gets fixed in android source but does not make it to their phone?
I'm so close I could walk there :) (No seriously I'm across the street from an apple store)
The other half of the problem is that many people in the US do not get into tech they do business. So most of the business sense in this company is Americans and much of the rest of the work is done by both H1Bs, offshore India and other India born now living in America, possible green card / future citizens.
In reality this is not going away, so as Americans we need to learn how to deal with this and figure out where our place is in this kind of workplace.
Oh and no I don't like it but as I said it is not going away no matter who is president or in congress.
why not better engines with hybrid technology as well? I'll tell you why, so big oil can keep their death grip on all those who drive cars and so that bicycle advocates and environmentalist can have a reason to continue to hate cars and think they are evil.
MS should come up with a way for people to upgrade to IE7,8 and 9 and have a 'run in IE6' mode that is 100% compatible with IE6. This should be a switch that is set in a browser ( take a lesson from spoon.net/browsers MS!!!!). Then companies can deploy this with pre-configured sites and the end users will just get it and stuff will work. Doing so will allow us all to move off of IE6 quicker. Also they should update windows 2000 to IE7, because there are people that are still on that OS, or they should offer them XP/ upgrades dirt cheep.