Blu's Tango phone barely has the system specs to run Froyo. It sounds on par with the HTC Wildfire I had a while back. Blu phones are usually offered by the smaller cell providers and pay as you go plans. The upshot is the Tango is already pre-rooted. The downside is you probably won't find too many ROMs for that phone as the hardware is pretty limited.
Don't complain. Do something about it. Root it and install Ice Cream Sandwich. Go to youtube and search for instructions on rooting your phone. QBKing77 does a ton of videos that walk you through doing it. Look up a rooting video FOR YOUR DEVICE.
If you've never done it before (I assume) you will need Odin for windows and the appropriate rooted kernel. Once you have installed a rooted kernel you can reboot into clockworkmod recovery and begin installing ROM images for your device.
I'm no guru, but I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 (Sprint's Epic Touch variant). I'm running an Ice Cream Sandwich based ROM called Blu Kuban. Great stuff. I can block ads in free software. I can overclock my CPU. I installed Beats Audio to optimize my sound playback. You'll even be able to flash more recent modem firmware to give you improved signal strength for improved connections. Change your user interface, themes, even boot animations.
Or you can wait for your provider to push ICS and you might get it around the same time everyone else is upgrading to Jelly Bean.
Some people at slashdot look at Apple and it's walled garden app store and feel like Apple is creating a trapped audience who can only download what Apple feels is OK.
And they are right. But some people who want a simple "it just works" device are willing to accept that model and they don't care about concepts like open source.
I'll extend that to many of IT professionals who have spent years getting the dreaded "my computer is broken" phone calls. They have pointed friends and family in Apple's direction because... it's just works.
Grandma doesn't build her own kernel. She doesn't see a walled garden. She sees a device that works without throwing a ton of alarming messages at her.
... by simply pointing out legal concerns often are obstacles to children doing things many adults take for granted. One strongly worded note on a law firm's letterhead is usually enough to make a principal or superintendent do something boneheaded.
I was thinking about "depicted as" and now I wish I had phrased that differently. Yes, Boy Scouts is officially opposed to participation by GLBT people. I had not meant to imply otherwise.
I cannot think of a large scale secular organization that parallels the function of Boy Scouts that is more inclusive in this respect.
They teach crafts, hard work and leadership. The problem is Boy Scouts has become stigmatized, lampooned, and in recent years depicted as homophobic. Girl Scouts spends too much time focused on selling cookies.
Public schools wouldn't put a saw or hammer in a child's hand. It would take five minutes for an upset parent or a lawyer to show up. You can thank our overly litigious society for closing doors on an idea like this. And as a parent, I can tell you I'd need a high level of trust in the instructor before I let them take my kids alone into the woods.
Everyone knows Larry Page has no respect for personal boundaries but the programmers at Google disappoint me for enabling his relentless pursuit of killing privacy.
>> "What did we get from MS? "Here are two things we made, they won't be able to run the same programs, we're not going to really demo any of it, we won't tell you the price, we won't tell you when it's shipping, and none of you here get to play with it." It was a fucking amateur production from start to finish."
It's a nice way to pump your stock price - lots of press coverage but none of the burden of a shipping product.
Apart from the video card issue, I hate auto makers for playing this game. Good for MA. They catch a lot of crap but this is good legislation. I hope other states follow their lead.
I think Torvalds less critical of closed source drivers and more critical of closed specs. Nouveau would be improved greatly if Nvidia provided more transparency on the hardware.
>> "Because back in the early nineties, we were obnoxious....I'm not kidding. We'd bring in the Amiga into every discussion. How it was the best computer in the world. How you suck for having a PC or Mac. How Bill Gates sucks because he won't support our wonderful computer system. "
Very true. I was an Atari ST guy. Man, you guys pissed me off so much. And what REALLY sucked was I knew deep down the Amiga was the better machine. I carried a stupid torch for Atari that looking back was completely unjustified. The Amiga could do things that the Atari "will do soon". And that "soon" eventually defined the whole experience of owning an ST. One empty promise after another. It was always an experience in "good, but it will soon be better than Amiga". And it never happened. Jack Tramiel and his idiot son ran the company into the ground.
By the time I purchased my next computer ('92) I went with a 486. Every once in a while I would look at the ST collecting dust in the closet and consider just how stupid the whole thing had been.
I keep a few favorites on my phone for when I'm driving and stream when I'm looking for something new to listen to. I have enough 3G dead spots around where I drive it's difficult to stream when I'm in my car. I mainly stream from LastFM and Pandora.
What surprises me is how little I miss my collection from my Ipod. I have 1 or 2 gigabytes of music stored on my phone, nowhere near the collection I kept on my 5th gen Ipod (which I have given to a friend)
One advantage of streaming is no more specter of the RIAA. It's somebody else's server, somebody else's problem.
The whole point of the article is few theaters have an easily upgradable option, that this will be an expensive upgrade. This isn't just flashing a new firmware. The whole reason they were showing the 10 minute clip at CinemaCon is because they were selling the new format to theaters that weren't ready.
So far there is only a short term demand - two films, Hobbit 1 & 2. And while The Hobbit(s) are a sure fire hit, theaters keep roughly 15-20% of a ticket sale. That's not very much scratch to help pay for a new projector. The rest goes to the distributor and studio. (The concession stand is the only pure profit section of a movie theater, which is why the price of Mike and Ikes is so damn high.)
People forget one of the reasons Avatar made so much money is it sat in many theaters for 36 weeks. There wasn't much content available for all of the newly upgraded IMAX screens. How to Train Your Dragon was the only film competing for the same screens. It's unlikely The Hobbit films will have such an extended run. They will have a shorter window to justify the expensive upgrades to the theater.
The safe bet for most theaters will be to run the 24 FPS version.
Show me another summer tent-pole film being shot in 48 FPS. Are theaters expected to break even on their hardware investment from their take on one film? Unlikely. Where's the commitment from studios to 48 FPS? Theaters need a future lineup of films that utilize the new projectors to justify such an expense. Also there is mixed work of mouth on viewer reaction to the new framerate, so that ups the gamble for early adopters who might be buying the next Edsel.
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...why did we need the law?
Blu's Tango phone barely has the system specs to run Froyo. It sounds on par with the HTC Wildfire I had a while back. Blu phones are usually offered by the smaller cell providers and pay as you go plans. The upshot is the Tango is already pre-rooted. The downside is you probably won't find too many ROMs for that phone as the hardware is pretty limited.
Apple and your service provider lock cool stuff on your iPhone too.
I forgot to add I was able to enable my phone as a hotspot, something Sprint has locked by default. They want you to pay extra for that.
Doing anything for the first time is scary.
This is XDA's forum for your phone:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1114
Here's a page of how to root your model:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1594650
Here's a youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUT5JcnJHgk
Go boldly.
>> "Void that warranty. Void it with gusto. Void it in the first week of owning your phone and don't look back."
Amen.
Don't complain. Do something about it. Root it and install Ice Cream Sandwich. Go to youtube and search for instructions on rooting your phone. QBKing77 does a ton of videos that walk you through doing it. Look up a rooting video FOR YOUR DEVICE.
If you've never done it before (I assume) you will need Odin for windows and the appropriate rooted kernel. Once you have installed a rooted kernel you can reboot into clockworkmod recovery and begin installing ROM images for your device.
I'm no guru, but I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 (Sprint's Epic Touch variant). I'm running an Ice Cream Sandwich based ROM called Blu Kuban. Great stuff. I can block ads in free software. I can overclock my CPU. I installed Beats Audio to optimize my sound playback. You'll even be able to flash more recent modem firmware to give you improved signal strength for improved connections. Change your user interface, themes, even boot animations.
Or you can wait for your provider to push ICS and you might get it around the same time everyone else is upgrading to Jelly Bean.
Your source for getting the most from your phone:
http://www.xda-developers.com/
Some people at slashdot look at Apple and it's walled garden app store and feel like Apple is creating a trapped audience who can only download what Apple feels is OK.
And they are right. But some people who want a simple "it just works" device are willing to accept that model and they don't care about concepts like open source.
I'll extend that to many of IT professionals who have spent years getting the dreaded "my computer is broken" phone calls. They have pointed friends and family in Apple's direction because... it's just works.
Grandma doesn't build her own kernel. She doesn't see a walled garden. She sees a device that works without throwing a ton of alarming messages at her.
... by simply pointing out legal concerns often are obstacles to children doing things many adults take for granted. One strongly worded note on a law firm's letterhead is usually enough to make a principal or superintendent do something boneheaded.
I was thinking about "depicted as" and now I wish I had phrased that differently. Yes, Boy Scouts is officially opposed to participation by GLBT people. I had not meant to imply otherwise.
I cannot think of a large scale secular organization that parallels the function of Boy Scouts that is more inclusive in this respect.
They teach crafts, hard work and leadership. The problem is Boy Scouts has become stigmatized, lampooned, and in recent years depicted as homophobic. Girl Scouts spends too much time focused on selling cookies.
Public schools wouldn't put a saw or hammer in a child's hand. It would take five minutes for an upset parent or a lawyer to show up. You can thank our overly litigious society for closing doors on an idea like this. And as a parent, I can tell you I'd need a high level of trust in the instructor before I let them take my kids alone into the woods.
Everyone knows Larry Page has no respect for personal boundaries but the programmers at Google disappoint me for enabling his relentless pursuit of killing privacy.
>> "What did we get from MS? "Here are two things we made, they won't be able to run the same programs, we're not going to really demo any of it, we won't tell you the price, we won't tell you when it's shipping, and none of you here get to play with it." It was a fucking amateur production from start to finish."
It's a nice way to pump your stock price - lots of press coverage but none of the burden of a shipping product.
TSIA
Apart from the video card issue, I hate auto makers for playing this game. Good for MA. They catch a lot of crap but this is good legislation. I hope other states follow their lead.
Let's take a user interface designed for music players and cell phones and inflict it on Desktop and Tablet users!
"Nvidia compatible hardware accelerator detected. Enable Nouveau?" Yes No
I think Torvalds less critical of closed source drivers and more critical of closed specs. Nouveau would be improved greatly if Nvidia provided more transparency on the hardware.
>> "Because back in the early nineties, we were obnoxious....I'm not kidding. We'd bring in the Amiga into every discussion. How it was the best computer in the world. How you suck for having a PC or Mac. How Bill Gates sucks because he won't support our wonderful computer system. "
Very true. I was an Atari ST guy. Man, you guys pissed me off so much. And what REALLY sucked was I knew deep down the Amiga was the better machine. I carried a stupid torch for Atari that looking back was completely unjustified. The Amiga could do things that the Atari "will do soon". And that "soon" eventually defined the whole experience of owning an ST. One empty promise after another. It was always an experience in "good, but it will soon be better than Amiga". And it never happened. Jack Tramiel and his idiot son ran the company into the ground.
By the time I purchased my next computer ('92) I went with a 486. Every once in a while I would look at the ST collecting dust in the closet and consider just how stupid the whole thing had been.
I keep a few favorites on my phone for when I'm driving and stream when I'm looking for something new to listen to. I have enough 3G dead spots around where I drive it's difficult to stream when I'm in my car. I mainly stream from LastFM and Pandora.
What surprises me is how little I miss my collection from my Ipod. I have 1 or 2 gigabytes of music stored on my phone, nowhere near the collection I kept on my 5th gen Ipod (which I have given to a friend)
One advantage of streaming is no more specter of the RIAA. It's somebody else's server, somebody else's problem.
You need signoff WoW more often. It's been well know for a while the Hobbit is being told in two volumes.
The whole point of the article is few theaters have an easily upgradable option, that this will be an expensive upgrade. This isn't just flashing a new firmware. The whole reason they were showing the 10 minute clip at CinemaCon is because they were selling the new format to theaters that weren't ready.
So far there is only a short term demand - two films, Hobbit 1 & 2. And while The Hobbit(s) are a sure fire hit, theaters keep roughly 15-20% of a ticket sale. That's not very much scratch to help pay for a new projector. The rest goes to the distributor and studio. (The concession stand is the only pure profit section of a movie theater, which is why the price of Mike and Ikes is so damn high.)
People forget one of the reasons Avatar made so much money is it sat in many theaters for 36 weeks. There wasn't much content available for all of the newly upgraded IMAX screens. How to Train Your Dragon was the only film competing for the same screens. It's unlikely The Hobbit films will have such an extended run. They will have a shorter window to justify the expensive upgrades to the theater.
The safe bet for most theaters will be to run the 24 FPS version.
Show me another summer tent-pole film being shot in 48 FPS. Are theaters expected to break even on their hardware investment from their take on one film? Unlikely. Where's the commitment from studios to 48 FPS? Theaters need a future lineup of films that utilize the new projectors to justify such an expense. Also there is mixed work of mouth on viewer reaction to the new framerate, so that ups the gamble for early adopters who might be buying the next Edsel.
>> "Linux needs Nvidia. Nvidia doesn't need Linux."
Android is Linux. If Nvidia wants to eventually deal itself out of the cell market they can be my guest.