Having CM since my HTC Dream, yes, the fact that Samsung collaboration with the open source community is next to non-existent will drive my next phone choice. Smasung has been plainly lying to the community for years. promising tons of stuff and delivering nothing. The source they publish is wildly different from the source in their device, tons of proprietary stuff prevent quality versions of CM to be developped for Galaxys except spending countless days reverse engineering stuff. Contrast that to Sony Mobile who has been delivering lots of things, stays close to AOSP, and actually helps the community getting there...
(From a Linux geek still happy with a "dumbphone", but considering Android)
Can you use Android without serving yourself up to Google?
Is it true that you have to have a Google account to start up your phone?
Can you (easily) install apps by just downloading them to your computer and then transferring to the phone?
Do you have to give up your credit card info and name/address to sign up for the Google app store? (In light of the recent story that app developers get all your info, I don't know if I want every 2-bit app to get that info. The info itself could be worth more than the 99 cents for the application.)
Also, do free apps also get your personal information?
Any hints or links re: using Android without the all-seeing eye?
Builtin app replacement recommendations?
The phone you buy comes pre-loaded with the Google Apps (calendar, gmail, Talk....). Those require a google account indeed, and may require you to set up one when you start the phone for the first time (through a non-skippable Wizard). But the phone is perfectly usable without ever actually using those AND with a bit of rooting, you can remove them.
Open Source being what it is, community built versions of Android ship without the google apps included (because Google forbids the distribution of those proprietary apps), so you have a perfectly usable phone without any link to google. You have to be careful while chosing your phone, though, not every phone is supported with the same level of quality (hint: these days, the Good Guys (tm) who provide some driver and low level library source are Sony with their Xperia T, V, Z,...)
+1 to that. Plus it has been well translated into various languages (don't know if the OP is a native english speaker). The end tends to be somewhat more difficult to go through but is still as enjoyable.
Yes, and in return, you have one or several channels that are rely less on advertising resources for their survival. You also get news that is written more by real journalists and less by corporate bullies with political agendas (yes, I'm talking about Fox)... while still be independant from their government. You also get shows and other stuff that would not be considered mainstream enough to make money... Some countries decide that it's worth it to have some sort of tax on everybody to promote/create/garantee that sort of stuff. You have the right to disagree of course.
So, two and half centuries ago, there were quite different values in place. What's so shocking about it?
The shocking thing is that you guys still carry on with a constitution written at that time although your values have changed and large part of it are now so obsolete that it requires NRA money to keep it in place. While modern countries change theirs every generation or so to keep up with how we evolve.
Sorry for not knowing you guy's constitution by heart (not mine) but, isn't there written something in there about people being equal, with no discrimination for sex, race, religion,... If the constitution forbids race-based prejudice, doesn't it also forbid race-based voting choice?
Wouldn't it be great if people learned foreign languages ? If people would allow foreigners to puplish in their on language ?... Yeah too much to ask, I guess.
I know I am wildly off-topic, but why is Google banning tethering apps and why is that an issue at all? Android has the WiFi hotspot by default, which enables any WiFi device to use the mobile device's internet connection.
Or am I missing something?
Carriers are all to happy to remove features from the phones they sell only to sell you the features as an added option. Hence they're not happy when someone comes ang gives that feature for free.
Of couse it is a disaster. The store is US only for starters. Android developers have a hard enough time making money without purposefully isolating yourself to some 5% or 10% of the global Android market. I don't know why anyone would publish anything exclusively on the Amazon appstore. They better bet getting huge payoffs from Amazon to do s.
So "the rest of the world" would amount to 5 or 10% of the whole Android ecosystem ?? That would be a reason to laugh seeing the way they're sold in Europe and east-Asia. I wouldn't say the US market amounts to 10% of the global android market but certainly not 90%
Neither. 6000' are an design evolution from the 5000', (not a radical change). in each series there are products for different market segments. So you'll have some higher end 5000 series products outpacing lower end 6000' products.
So click decline on the EULA screen. Part of the EULA says that if you decline the manufacturer is responsible for giving you a refund.
Indeed, and in some countries (Europe mainly, I don't know much about the situation overseas) there's been several court cases where the guy declining the EULA and wanting a refund won against the retailer who denied it to them.
Refund ranged from the retail price of Windows Home edition to a flat amount (100$ or so) to 1/4th or 1/5th of the total price of the computer on which the software was installed. This refund was not limited to Windows per se but also included all the preinstalled software that the retailer paid.
The biggest pirates have been using rapidshare and other similar services for months if not years... and these services are not covered by Hadopi. Only true p2p networks are (Donkey and Torrent, mainly)
The regulators (FAA, JAA) specifiy very broadly what has to be done. after that it's up to the Aircraft designers to do the job, and there's constant communcation between authorities, aircraft design office and suppliers.
What I actually meant is that the backup power for flight controls is no longer hydraulic but electric and supplied by RAT. Electrical actuators are used instead., which simplifies the hydraulic system tremenduously since only two independant networks are required. So the RAT actually powers that flight controls elec backup. fly by wire (the command un control, not the actuators) is a given here and not at all concerned by this topic. You DON'T have to have hydraulic to control modern planes. (A380 and after, B737-800 and after, although Boeing is known to be a little conservative (i.e. late) in that area.
No. (although you answer completely beside the point, we're talking about the safety of buzzword external means of recording)
On modern airplanes, the RAT (ram air turbine) is an electrical generator not hydraulic). It supplies DC emergency electrical network and a few flight control power.
It's not at all academic. The RAT helped save many aircrafts from crash.
(pneumatic is the air intake at engine level that supplies part of air conditionning and pressurization systems)
Except it's not the FAA or JAA's job to design & contract for those black boxes. It's Boeing and Airbus that have to do that. And yes, they do research a lot.
As you said, it's a matter of conservative tech more than cloudy Union protests. Tech for DFDRs VDRs are supposed to still be working when almost everything else has failed. When engines, elec generators, hydrolics and pneumatics power have all failed, you don't have much left, and your sattelite uplink has very LOW priority among things that still need to be powered in emergency condition. Not to mention that uplink above the South Pole IS tricky.
Emergency conditions like that are supposed to happen somthing like 1 time every 10 or 100 million flight hours. What is the failure rate of sattelite uplinks ? of Sattelites ? what is the probablity of not beeing in sight of a sattelite ? what is the chance that the sattelite network you want to use won't be in use in 30 years when your plane finally needs it ?
Basically the recording systems have to be designed to that no matter the external conditions, it should work with the highest possible certainty. This pretty much rules out everything outside the aircraft
Why do you think GPS is still not the primary means of Navigation ? because it's UNSAFE. It's failure rate is not disclosed with enough certainty, it's reliance on government systems is unacceptable. (__foreign__ government, for 90% of the usefull world), the continuous maintenance of this network is not garanteed. It's exactly the same for Data Recorders. You just cannot trust the kind of technology enough for it to be the basis of your recording tools.
Airlines and governments are welcome to use any modern means of navigation, maintenance communication,... whatever, as __additionnal__ means of safety, but all this goes pretty much out of the window when serious problems arise aboard planes.
The summarry fails at more than basic science, it also fails at basic wine science. The year written on the label in very often **not** the year the grape actually grew but the year the wine was bottled. Wich can be anywhere between a few weeks to many years later. I'm a little worried nobody mentioned that before.
Most parts of middle east have had feodal structure for thousands of years. Yes, thousands. long before these religions were born. That means kings, chiefs, lords,... yet, when they get conquered, they're told to build a democracy which they are not culturally prepared to. Then they're told that the most extremist aspect of their religion is a bad thing that must be erased (as much as I'd like to, I don't think we'll see someone telling a US extremist to forget about creationism).
Great, so maybe now Arabs will see what their leaders say in English to the Western press, which is completely different from what they say to their own people.
And maybe now westerners will see what their leaders say in Arab to the arab press, (blah blah blah...)
English leader in english: They must surrender to our way of life and forget all about their culture ! CRUSAAAAADE !
English leader in Arab: please keep bombing our cities so that we can keep our people in control through fear. Oh and don't forget to set the price of oil high enough so that they stay too poor to be educated.
Arab press : "English leaders use double speech" (-- yeah, THEY make the effort to learn foreign languages).
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Definitely!
Having CM since my HTC Dream, yes, the fact that Samsung collaboration with the open source community is next to non-existent will drive my next phone choice.
Smasung has been plainly lying to the community for years. promising tons of stuff and delivering nothing. The source they publish is wildly different from the source in their device, tons of proprietary stuff prevent quality versions of CM to be developped for Galaxys except spending countless days reverse engineering stuff.
Contrast that to Sony Mobile who has been delivering lots of things, stays close to AOSP, and actually helps the community getting there...
(From a Linux geek still happy with a "dumbphone", but considering Android)
Can you use Android without serving yourself up to Google?
Is it true that you have to have a Google account to start up your phone?
Can you (easily) install apps by just downloading them to your computer and then transferring to the phone?
Do you have to give up your credit card info and name/address to sign up for the Google app store? (In light of the recent story that app developers get all your info, I don't know if I want every 2-bit app to get that info. The info itself could be worth more than the 99 cents for the application.)
Also, do free apps also get your personal information?
Any hints or links re: using Android without the all-seeing eye?
Builtin app replacement recommendations?
The phone you buy comes pre-loaded with the Google Apps (calendar, gmail, Talk....). Those require a google account indeed, and may require you to set up one when you start the phone for the first time (through a non-skippable Wizard). But the phone is perfectly usable without ever actually using those AND with a bit of rooting, you can remove them.
Open Source being what it is, community built versions of Android ship without the google apps included (because Google forbids the distribution of those proprietary apps), so you have a perfectly usable phone without any link to google. You have to be careful while chosing your phone, though, not every phone is supported with the same level of quality (hint: these days, the Good Guys (tm) who provide some driver and low level library source are Sony with their Xperia T, V, Z, ...)
+1 to that. Plus it has been well translated into various languages (don't know if the OP is a native english speaker). The end tends to be somewhat more difficult to go through but is still as enjoyable.
Curiosity is a judge on America's Got Talent?
And then right after that...
Curiosity is a judge on a patent case trial.
Yes, and in return, you have one or several channels that are rely less on advertising resources for their survival. You also get news that is written more by real journalists and less by corporate bullies with political agendas (yes, I'm talking about Fox)... while still be independant from their government. You also get shows and other stuff that would not be considered mainstream enough to make money... Some countries decide that it's worth it to have some sort of tax on everybody to promote/create/garantee that sort of stuff. You have the right to disagree of course.
So, two and half centuries ago, there were quite different values in place. What's so shocking about it?
The shocking thing is that you guys still carry on with a constitution written at that time although your values have changed and large part of it are now so obsolete that it requires NRA money to keep it in place. While modern countries change theirs every generation or so to keep up with how we evolve.
Sorry for not knowing you guy's constitution by heart (not mine) but, isn't there written something in there about people being equal, with no discrimination for sex, race, religion,... If the constitution forbids race-based prejudice, doesn't it also forbid race-based voting choice?
Wouldn't it be great if people learned foreign languages ? If people would allow foreigners to puplish in their on language ?...
Yeah too much to ask, I guess.
I know I am wildly off-topic, but why is Google banning tethering apps and why is that an issue at all? Android has the WiFi hotspot by default, which enables any WiFi device to use the mobile device's internet connection.
Or am I missing something?
Carriers are all to happy to remove features from the phones they sell only to sell you the features as an added option. Hence they're not happy when someone comes ang gives that feature for free.
Who the hell is crazy enough to try to stream a full show episode over 3G ? Get a grip, people, use wifi like everybody.
My bad
Of couse it is a disaster. The store is US only for starters. Android developers have a hard enough time making money without purposefully isolating yourself to some 5% or 10% of the global Android market. I don't know why anyone would publish anything exclusively on the Amazon appstore. They better bet getting huge payoffs from Amazon to do s.
So "the rest of the world" would amount to 5 or 10% of the whole Android ecosystem ?? That would be a reason to laugh seeing the way they're sold in Europe and east-Asia. I wouldn't say the US market amounts to 10% of the global android market but certainly not 90%
The old school typewriter is also really cool...
http://www.spinninghat.com/product/typescreen
You have to create your own HDCP receiver with the key to decrypt the thing.
Neither.
6000' are an design evolution from the 5000', (not a radical change). in each series there are products for different market segments. So you'll have some higher end 5000 series products outpacing lower end 6000' products.
So click decline on the EULA screen. Part of the EULA says that if you decline the manufacturer is responsible for giving you a refund.
Indeed, and in some countries (Europe mainly, I don't know much about the situation overseas) there's been several court cases where the guy declining the EULA and wanting a refund won against the retailer who denied it to them.
Refund ranged from the retail price of Windows Home edition to a flat amount (100$ or so) to 1/4th or 1/5th of the total price of the computer on which the software was installed. This refund was not limited to Windows per se but also included all the preinstalled software that the retailer paid.
The biggest pirates have been using rapidshare and other similar services for months if not years... and these services are not covered by Hadopi. Only true p2p networks are (Donkey and Torrent, mainly)
The regulators (FAA, JAA) specifiy very broadly what has to be done. after that it's up to the Aircraft designers to do the job, and there's constant communcation between authorities, aircraft design office and suppliers.
What I actually meant is that the backup power for flight controls is no longer hydraulic but electric and supplied by RAT. Electrical actuators are used instead., which simplifies the hydraulic system tremenduously since only two independant networks are required. So the RAT actually powers that flight controls elec backup. fly by wire (the command un control, not the actuators) is a given here and not at all concerned by this topic.
You DON'T have to have hydraulic to control modern planes. (A380 and after, B737-800 and after, although Boeing is known to be a little conservative (i.e. late) in that area.
No. (although you answer completely beside the point, we're talking about the safety of buzzword external means of recording)
On modern airplanes, the RAT (ram air turbine) is an electrical generator not hydraulic). It supplies DC emergency electrical network and a few flight control power.
It's not at all academic. The RAT helped save many aircrafts from crash.
(pneumatic is the air intake at engine level that supplies part of air conditionning and pressurization systems)
Except it's not the FAA or JAA's job to design & contract for those black boxes. It's Boeing and Airbus that have to do that. And yes, they do research a lot.
As you said, it's a matter of conservative tech more than cloudy Union protests.
Tech for DFDRs VDRs are supposed to still be working when almost everything else has failed. When engines, elec generators, hydrolics and pneumatics power have all failed, you don't have much left, and your sattelite uplink has very LOW priority among things that still need to be powered in emergency condition. Not to mention that uplink above the South Pole IS tricky.
Emergency conditions like that are supposed to happen somthing like 1 time every 10 or 100 million flight hours. What is the failure rate of sattelite uplinks ? of Sattelites ? what is the probablity of not beeing in sight of a sattelite ? what is the chance that the sattelite network you want to use won't be in use in 30 years when your plane finally needs it ?
Basically the recording systems have to be designed to that no matter the external conditions, it should work with the highest possible certainty. This pretty much rules out everything outside the aircraft
Why do you think GPS is still not the primary means of Navigation ? because it's UNSAFE. It's failure rate is not disclosed with enough certainty, it's reliance on government systems is unacceptable. (__foreign__ government, for 90% of the usefull world), the continuous maintenance of this network is not garanteed. It's exactly the same for Data Recorders. You just cannot trust the kind of technology enough for it to be the basis of your recording tools.
Airlines and governments are welcome to use any modern means of navigation, maintenance communication,... whatever, as __additionnal__ means of safety, but all this goes pretty much out of the window when serious problems arise aboard planes.
The summarry fails at more than basic science, it also fails at basic wine science. The year written on the label in very often **not** the year the grape actually grew but the year the wine was bottled. Wich can be anywhere between a few weeks to many years later. I'm a little worried nobody mentioned that before.
Most parts of middle east have had feodal structure for thousands of years. Yes, thousands. long before these religions were born. That means kings, chiefs, lords, ... yet, when they get conquered, they're told to build a democracy which they are not culturally prepared to. Then they're told that the most extremist aspect of their religion is a bad thing that must be erased (as much as I'd like to, I don't think we'll see someone telling a US extremist to forget about creationism).
And this prejudiced comment gets modded "Insightful"? I would have understood "funny", even though I don't think it is, but absolutely not insightful.
That's the beauty of managing a country-centric website. You would like to believe it's pretty much international, untouched by national bias...
Great, so maybe now Arabs will see what their leaders say in English to the Western press, which is completely different from what they say to their own people.
And maybe now westerners will see what their leaders say in Arab to the arab press, (blah blah blah ...)
English leader in english: They must surrender to our way of life and forget all about their culture ! CRUSAAAAADE !
English leader in Arab: please keep bombing our cities so that we can keep our people in control through fear. Oh and don't forget to set the price of oil high enough so that they stay too poor to be educated.
Arab press : "English leaders use double speech" (-- yeah, THEY make the effort to learn foreign languages).