I think it's fair to say that it's not that all Americans are ignorant, just that the loudest Americans, that the rest of the world has to deal with are pretty damn ignorant. Seriously, the world is full of stupid, ignorant people but you Americans have your own special breed that is almost totally unique.
Yeah but even Jesus seemed to be a bit of a condescending, tree killing dickish person. Of course when the bible says something awesome happens Christians take it literally and claim it happened just as it's written, but when Jesus does something dickish, like killing a tree simply because he wanted fruit but the tree was out of season then it's "meant as a metaphor" so say people "who have r teh studied the bible for yearz and yearz", so what the fuck do I know.
I've not seen Ancient Aliens in the UK, but we have a show called "Most Haunted" here where they visit so called, haunted places, and it pretty much sounds like the same thing, any noise, anything slightly strange that can't instantly be explained is labelled as a ghost.
...or the crazy glint on the face of first crackpot president, that decides to point it at whichever country the USA has decided is the bad guy next time around. Sorry, couldn't resist.
As much as I'm against Sony's recent lockdown on things like this, what they are doing here is perfectly acceptable, if you want to hack your console then you shouldn't expect to be able to use the online game servers, they need to control hackers and cheaters. This is no different from Microsofts stance.
You seem a little out of touch with a number of things you've posted, for example those independent handset makers are selling phones that are very much intended to be rooted (in fact they are rooted, out of the box), that's the whole point. I'm not even sure what you're talking about. I'm not talking about Samsung or HTC here.
You can also add to the list WebOS, which has a small option to turn on "developer mode", which when selected roots the phone, that's it, a simple press of an option. Microsoft is also going down the same route with Nokia WP7's.
I do get your want for a rooted open phone, I just don't think the outlook is as bad as you say it is. Google and indie handset makers are selling rooted Android phones out of the box. Several large handset makers like HTC make their phones relatively simple to root and others allow a simple developer mode toggle that roots the phone for those that want to.
Thanks for this, I LOVED WebOS on my Pre but I just couldn't handle the bad hardware. I love my Android phone but I honestly will think about a WebOS phone and tablet in about a year. So yeah, this is really good info for me, I hardly had the phone before I managed to break the slider (and then again on another before I gave up)
Apart from Google selling root friendly Android phones, as well as some small independent handset makers selling root friendly Android phones, HTC selling phones that can be rooted with a mouse click and the only actual handset maker to back up your claim of locking down the bootloader that I know of is Motorolla. Also Microsoft is embracing the hacker community over Windows 7 phone thus far.
So yeah, other than all those phones.
I know you might find this hard to accept, but Apple actually did this with the iPad. The first iPad version of iOS never hit the iPhone and iOS 4 wasn't available on the iPad at release. They slowly blended them together, which, shock horror, is pretty much exactly was Google is doing with Android.
I once had a psychiatrist friend tell me "I never have had a straight person beg me 'Doc - you've GOT to make me gay!', but I've had a lot of gay people beg for me to make them straight."
While I agree I don't think anyone would ever beg to be made gay (I mean, lets face it, if you did want to be made gay then I'd imagine you probably already are gay), someone begging to be made straight is likely doing it because society is telling them they are freaks/whatever and making them feel like they have to conform or "be normal", creating a long line of gay people that grow up loathing themselves.
Then some people (the "you don't see me shouting about bein' a hetro' " type) wonder why so many gay people, finally at terms with being gay and happy with themselves, like to shout it out loud and be in peoples faces with it.
It's not a "creative interpretation" to refer to android.git.kernel.org as Android. I will clarify this, with some additional information that may surprise some, on my blog soon.
Hurray! More views for your blog, you pretty much got what you wish for at Christmas.
I'll do a couple of follow-up posts on my blog these days to respond to some of the misconceptions and misinformation out there.
My blog never made a specific claim about Android devices containing certain code.
Please don't, you've trolled your blog more than enough already. You can try and Houdini your way out of your bull crap with "I never actually said that" like comments but it clearly read that way to just about any who read it.
The thing is, (and I do plan on giving some money to Wiki next week) the huge "personal appeal" banners are more intrusive than some small (but likely very well paying) adverts would ever be.
Most of the latter part of my childhood was spent playing Commander Keen, it was truly one of the best games I ever played. I adored it. That's really all I had to say, but I had to post just to say it. My Ubuntu login screen has Commander Keen as my user icon at work, I'd love to see the code released as OSS.
While I agree that there is no reason fighting games shouldn't be on the PC, there is clearly very little want for them, Capcom dropped the game from PCs because people just didn't buy it which had nothing at all to do with fragmentation. I still can't think of a PC developer that has complained about fragmentation and then dropped the PC to develop totally for consoles, Bungie is the only one I can think of that intended for their game to be on PC but ended up elsewhere and again, that had nothing to do with fragmentation.
It was EVE Online, and I agree it was pretty cool that it worked at all on a Mac or Linux but hack job or not it didn't work out of the box, I'm not even sure how you can say it wasn't working out of the box because mine, well, wasn't working out of the box. I can't even remember the last Windows game I played that didn't work out of the box, I have a feeling it was Everquest II, and that was a day one MMO release.
The point being, not that I'm a Windows fan or a Mac hater (because I'm not, far far from it) but statements that "if you buy a game for Windows... it never works out of the box" and "if you buy a game for the Mac, guess what, it works out of the box" are basically, utter lies. Even if the limited number of Mac games I've played ALL work out of the box (and maybe they mostly all do), it still doesn't make "Windows games never work out of the box" true.
As a matter of fact, the whole reason my gaming machine is still Windows and the rest of my life is Linux is because I can stick a DVD in the drive, install the game and be playing it without any messing. The days where I had to hack at my autoexec.bat in DOS just to get a game to start are long long ago.
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I think it's fair to say that it's not that all Americans are ignorant, just that the loudest Americans, that the rest of the world has to deal with are pretty damn ignorant. Seriously, the world is full of stupid, ignorant people but you Americans have your own special breed that is almost totally unique.
Yeah but even Jesus seemed to be a bit of a condescending, tree killing dickish person. Of course when the bible says something awesome happens Christians take it literally and claim it happened just as it's written, but when Jesus does something dickish, like killing a tree simply because he wanted fruit but the tree was out of season then it's "meant as a metaphor" so say people "who have r teh studied the bible for yearz and yearz", so what the fuck do I know.
I've not seen Ancient Aliens in the UK, but we have a show called "Most Haunted" here where they visit so called, haunted places, and it pretty much sounds like the same thing, any noise, anything slightly strange that can't instantly be explained is labelled as a ghost.
...or the crazy glint on the face of first crackpot president, that decides to point it at whichever country the USA has decided is the bad guy next time around. Sorry, couldn't resist.
As much as I'm against Sony's recent lockdown on things like this, what they are doing here is perfectly acceptable, if you want to hack your console then you shouldn't expect to be able to use the online game servers, they need to control hackers and cheaters. This is no different from Microsofts stance.
...and apply a WebOS like switch that roots the phone instead. I'm having trouble seeing what the problem is.
You seem a little out of touch with a number of things you've posted, for example those independent handset makers are selling phones that are very much intended to be rooted (in fact they are rooted, out of the box), that's the whole point. I'm not even sure what you're talking about. I'm not talking about Samsung or HTC here. You can also add to the list WebOS, which has a small option to turn on "developer mode", which when selected roots the phone, that's it, a simple press of an option. Microsoft is also going down the same route with Nokia WP7's. I do get your want for a rooted open phone, I just don't think the outlook is as bad as you say it is. Google and indie handset makers are selling rooted Android phones out of the box. Several large handset makers like HTC make their phones relatively simple to root and others allow a simple developer mode toggle that roots the phone for those that want to.
Sorry but I'm having trouble seeing where Apple have come off badly in all that...
Thanks for this, I LOVED WebOS on my Pre but I just couldn't handle the bad hardware. I love my Android phone but I honestly will think about a WebOS phone and tablet in about a year. So yeah, this is really good info for me, I hardly had the phone before I managed to break the slider (and then again on another before I gave up)
...er criminals...?
Apart from Google selling root friendly Android phones, as well as some small independent handset makers selling root friendly Android phones, HTC selling phones that can be rooted with a mouse click and the only actual handset maker to back up your claim of locking down the bootloader that I know of is Motorolla. Also Microsoft is embracing the hacker community over Windows 7 phone thus far. So yeah, other than all those phones.
I know you might find this hard to accept, but Apple actually did this with the iPad. The first iPad version of iOS never hit the iPhone and iOS 4 wasn't available on the iPad at release. They slowly blended them together, which, shock horror, is pretty much exactly was Google is doing with Android.
I once had a psychiatrist friend tell me "I never have had a straight person beg me 'Doc - you've GOT to make me gay!', but I've had a lot of gay people beg for me to make them straight."
While I agree I don't think anyone would ever beg to be made gay (I mean, lets face it, if you did want to be made gay then I'd imagine you probably already are gay), someone begging to be made straight is likely doing it because society is telling them they are freaks/whatever and making them feel like they have to conform or "be normal", creating a long line of gay people that grow up loathing themselves. Then some people (the "you don't see me shouting about bein' a hetro' " type) wonder why so many gay people, finally at terms with being gay and happy with themselves, like to shout it out loud and be in peoples faces with it.
It's not a "creative interpretation" to refer to android.git.kernel.org as Android. I will clarify this, with some additional information that may surprise some, on my blog soon.
Hurray! More views for your blog, you pretty much got what you wish for at Christmas.
From any angle Android's Java reliance seams like a bad move.
You don't actually have to write any Java to create Android apps now, you could use 100% C++ if you wanted, as of 2.3.
I'll do a couple of follow-up posts on my blog these days to respond to some of the misconceptions and misinformation out there.
My blog never made a specific claim about Android devices containing certain code.
Please don't, you've trolled your blog more than enough already. You can try and Houdini your way out of your bull crap with "I never actually said that" like comments but it clearly read that way to just about any who read it.
It's going fucking awesome for me and my custom 2.3 lightweight ROM running HTC Desire, thank you very muchly.
AH! At last, someone explaining it to me in simple terms.
The thing is, (and I do plan on giving some money to Wiki next week) the huge "personal appeal" banners are more intrusive than some small (but likely very well paying) adverts would ever be.
Most of the latter part of my childhood was spent playing Commander Keen, it was truly one of the best games I ever played. I adored it. That's really all I had to say, but I had to post just to say it. My Ubuntu login screen has Commander Keen as my user icon at work, I'd love to see the code released as OSS.
Chrome is pre-installed with Flash and Chrome also auto-updates.
While I agree that there is no reason fighting games shouldn't be on the PC, there is clearly very little want for them, Capcom dropped the game from PCs because people just didn't buy it which had nothing at all to do with fragmentation. I still can't think of a PC developer that has complained about fragmentation and then dropped the PC to develop totally for consoles, Bungie is the only one I can think of that intended for their game to be on PC but ended up elsewhere and again, that had nothing to do with fragmentation.
typo, was meant to read - *how you can say it WAS working out of the box* Proof read Monkey, proof read.
It was EVE Online, and I agree it was pretty cool that it worked at all on a Mac or Linux but hack job or not it didn't work out of the box, I'm not even sure how you can say it wasn't working out of the box because mine, well, wasn't working out of the box. I can't even remember the last Windows game I played that didn't work out of the box, I have a feeling it was Everquest II, and that was a day one MMO release. The point being, not that I'm a Windows fan or a Mac hater (because I'm not, far far from it) but statements that "if you buy a game for Windows... it never works out of the box" and "if you buy a game for the Mac, guess what, it works out of the box" are basically, utter lies. Even if the limited number of Mac games I've played ALL work out of the box (and maybe they mostly all do), it still doesn't make "Windows games never work out of the box" true. As a matter of fact, the whole reason my gaming machine is still Windows and the rest of my life is Linux is because I can stick a DVD in the drive, install the game and be playing it without any messing. The days where I had to hack at my autoexec.bat in DOS just to get a game to start are long long ago.
The last... 50 or so (random number)... Windows games I bought, all worked out of the box. The last 1 Mac game I tried to play, didn't.