Can write and install apps on your iPhone without having to pay Apple any money for that right?
Android's SDK is free, and you only have to pay a one time $25 fee if you want to publish the app in the market. However, unlike the iPhone/iPad you don't HAVE to publish in the market as you can link to the install files and people can install them if they chose.
As far as I know not only do you need an Apple computer to be able to write iPhone/iPad apps, but you have to pay $100/per year/ for the right to do so.
Looks like others got to this before I did, and they all answered it well. =P
The reason it's done this way is so that the APK installation process can present and verify the rights before the app even runs. As opposed to letting an app run merrily until it tries to do something it needs permission for for the first time.
In the FroYo Market app it's also used with the user-settable permission to auto-update per App. Apps will update automatically so long as their required permissions don't change. If they do, it gets flagged as needing a Manual update.
So that covers both AT&T and T-Mobile's frequencies if I''m reading that right. I can't imagine they wouldn't do the same for ADP3, especially if it's HTC who's making it as they made the ADP2.
Or if the rumors turn out to be true wait for it to be offered as the 3rd Developer Phone. Pay the $20 to be an Android developer and buy it outright.
I hope they do so... the Hero version they have currently with 1.6 on it is getting long in the tooth. Especially once Gingerbread comes out and needs 1GHz, 3.5" screen, etc...
Both were given in this update as exemptions, but they're not the same thing at all.
Jailbreaking is used to install non-Apple approved apps onto the device. This is something that Android (at least non AT&T Android) devices support out of the box, as does RIM, etc.
Carrier restrictions are another thing entirely. However to do that, you/do/ have to Jailbreak first I believe. But you don't have to change carriers just because you jailbreak. =P
based on a seven year-old contract he never bothered to assert any rights under and is therefore barred by the statute of limitations.
Contracts start and end, but have nothing to with a Statute of Limitations in and of themselves.
Breach of a contract has a seven year period under New York law; however that would be from when the breach occurred. Which is entirely possible to be when he contacted Zuckerberg asking who he was going to sell "their" website to, and how much they looked to make. As soon as Zuckerberg would have responded "You don't own anything" the breach timer would start. Not from when the contract was signed.
(That's all of course asuming that those events happened, which I'm not saying they did.)
Verizon has licensed Droid from Lucasfilm. Every Android handset they have is named with Droid.
The Moto Droid is the only one of them to not have any further qualifier in the name, however Droid Eris, Droid X, Droid Incredible, Droid 2, etc. are not all Motorola.
And that is coming online shortly in the revamped Market.
Along with (for 2.2/FroYo devices) a true cloud to mobile device system where you can even install software on your android device from the website on another system (along with so much more.)
Your first sentence is correct, but your second is a bit lacking in understanding I think.
The technical specifications that they're requesting access to usually are the specifications for the entire product. Let's take, for sake of example a Video card.
The specification covers not only just how the device interfaces to the computer, but also how the VRAM and GPU integrate, etc.
In other words all the driver will tell someone who hasn't signed the NDA is how to access the hardware, but not how the parts of the hardware work with each other.
That's how maintaining the NDAs would be advantageous to companies.
The problem with your comment is not all people are morons. If we reduce the available tools and languages to account for the lowest common denominator then we deserve the crap which would be created.
Those who can safely and productively create code in languages like C and C++ should be encouraged to continue to do so. Don't blame the tool, blame the user.
And yes, it isn't a problem with guns; It's entirely with people who use them.
I agree with everything you've said. The "problems" that most people like to toss around with C/C++ are not the fault of the language, but the programmer.
Apparently, 'certifed ethical hacker' is an actual cert one can get. But I don't think I would the term 'hacker' to appear anywhere on my resume.
I've actually taken a CEH prep course, but that was because my boss had been pressuring me to take a class, and it was a week away from work paid.
The information it covers is very basic, the vast majority of it is based on the "tools" used. They spend a bit of time covering how you're supposed to operate as a CEH, but there's so much material that even with five full day classes we were rushed when moving through it all.
Better Yet, tape the Business reply envelope to a Brick (wrapped in shipping paper), the Post Office has to deliver it, and it will cost the receiving company a fortune in shipping costs.
'According to rule 717.243(b) in the Domestic Mail Manual, when a business reply card is "improperly used as a label" -- e.g., when it's affixed to a brick - the item so labeled may be treated as "waste."'
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Can write and install apps on your iPhone without having to pay Apple any money for that right?
Android's SDK is free, and you only have to pay a one time $25 fee if you want to publish the app in the market. However, unlike the iPhone/iPad you don't HAVE to publish in the market as you can link to the install files and people can install them if they chose.
As far as I know not only do you need an Apple computer to be able to write iPhone/iPad apps, but you have to pay $100 /per year/ for the right to do so.
Looks like others got to this before I did, and they all answered it well. =P
The reason it's done this way is so that the APK installation process can present and verify the rights before the app even runs. As opposed to letting an app run merrily until it tries to do something it needs permission for for the first time.
In the FroYo Market app it's also used with the user-settable permission to auto-update per App. Apps will update automatically so long as their required permissions don't change. If they do, it gets flagged as needing a Manual update.
You list the permissions your app needs in the AndroidManifest.xml file. They're not computed by what the app does in code.
So you had a permission there which you did not need.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's like that (though maybe not that much storage.)
Here's the radio specs from the ADP2:
* GSM/GPRS/EDGE Quad band
* 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
* WCDMA 1700/2100 MHz : BC4
* 2100 MHz : BC1
* HSPA Speed HSDPA 7.2 Mbps
* HSUPA 2 Mbps
So that covers both AT&T and T-Mobile's frequencies if I''m reading that right. I can't imagine they wouldn't do the same for ADP3, especially if it's HTC who's making it as they made the ADP2.
Or if the rumors turn out to be true wait for it to be offered as the 3rd Developer Phone. Pay the $20 to be an Android developer and buy it outright.
I hope they do so... the Hero version they have currently with 1.6 on it is getting long in the tooth. Especially once Gingerbread comes out and needs 1GHz, 3.5" screen, etc...
Jailbreaking != Carrier Changing
Both were given in this update as exemptions, but they're not the same thing at all.
Jailbreaking is used to install non-Apple approved apps onto the device. This is something that Android (at least non AT&T Android) devices support out of the box, as does RIM, etc.
Carrier restrictions are another thing entirely. However to do that, you /do/ have to Jailbreak first I believe. But you don't have to change carriers just because you jailbreak. =P
based on a seven year-old contract he never bothered to assert any rights under and is therefore barred by the statute of limitations.
Contracts start and end, but have nothing to with a Statute of Limitations in and of themselves.
Breach of a contract has a seven year period under New York law; however that would be from when the breach occurred. Which is entirely possible to be when he contacted Zuckerberg asking who he was going to sell "their" website to, and how much they looked to make. As soon as Zuckerberg would have responded "You don't own anything" the breach timer would start. Not from when the contract was signed.
(That's all of course asuming that those events happened, which I'm not saying they did.)
From what I've read they are, and it will be. =P
Google has stated that Android 3 should be supported on any 1GHz+ device on the market currently.
So that leaves out the first Droid and lower, but the N1 and up (DI, DX, EVO, etc) should all be able to run it without problem.
As others have stated, that's incorrect.
Verizon has licensed Droid from Lucasfilm. Every Android handset they have is named with Droid.
The Moto Droid is the only one of them to not have any further qualifier in the name, however Droid Eris, Droid X, Droid Incredible, Droid 2, etc. are not all Motorola.
He says in the video it's a TFT-LCD. Just grayscale and not backlit. Hence the 10 hour life.
Not eInk. No interest from me in using it as a reader, or much of anything else I guess.
Motorola has said the Droid will, and probably soon.
I'd also imagine any 2.1 device like the Droid Eris will too. So most all of the "recent" android phones should.
We'll see.
And that is coming online shortly in the revamped Market.
Along with (for 2.2/FroYo devices) a true cloud to mobile device system where you can even install software on your android device from the website on another system (along with so much more.)
but just to be pedantic (since that's what the last 3-4 levels of this thread has been about), to have a "majority" you have to exceed 50%.
Incorrect. Unless you're talking a majority between two parties.
Otherwise you need > (100% / numberOfParties)
You have about as much to say about it as the designer of a muffler would have about what kind of stereo the company wants to put into the car.
Or they could release those same percentages where the browser was mobile safari on an iphone...
Computers are handy state machines, not a relationship.
I take it you haven't seen the latest generation of case mods.
then why hasn't Stallman done it?
(I feel so dirty for typing that.)
Your first sentence is correct, but your second is a bit lacking in understanding I think.
The technical specifications that they're requesting access to usually are the specifications for the entire product. Let's take, for sake of example a Video card.
The specification covers not only just how the device interfaces to the computer, but also how the VRAM and GPU integrate, etc.
In other words all the driver will tell someone who hasn't signed the NDA is how to access the hardware, but not how the parts of the hardware work with each other.
That's how maintaining the NDAs would be advantageous to companies.
- My two bits and a ha'penny.
They have those tools (Java, etc)
The problem with your comment is not all people are morons. If we reduce the available tools and languages to account for the lowest common denominator then we deserve the crap which would be created.
Those who can safely and productively create code in languages like C and C++ should be encouraged to continue to do so. Don't blame the tool, blame the user.
And yes, it isn't a problem with guns; It's entirely with people who use them.
I wish I had mod points right now.
I agree with everything you've said. The "problems" that most people like to toss around with C/C++ are not the fault of the language, but the programmer.
No, they don't. And no, they won't.
To quote:
'According to rule 717.243(b) in the Domestic Mail Manual, when a business reply card is "improperly used as a label" -- e.g., when it's affixed to a brick - the item so labeled may be treated as "waste."'
Do they know The Secret of NIMH?
*hides*
I hope not.
I've lived here my whole life and can only take so much.