Yeah, as a former Windows Mobile user, the one thing I miss on Android is the ability to select text by swiping; then you can copy it to the clipboard with a long tap+proper option on context menu (or even easier, Ctrl+C if you have a physical keyboard). Well, that, and the ability to "reverse tether", i.e. get network access from a PC, and seamless access to SMB resources.
Not that it's bad, but it's unnecessary except for certain niches (for example, I have yet to see a freeware burner that gives you the same degree of control over some obscure optical drive file system settings and the burning process).
That aside, the other applications that come with it and presumably justify its price are utter rubbish. All those media "organizers", players, editors, virtual drives and extractors feel painfully bland, limited and sluggish if you have used free specialized alternatives.
Unfortunately you can't jail corporations, which are the only guilty part in this (no, a corporation and the people who run it are not the same thing). Ah, the joys of incorporating.
A: No assurance is or can be made that the License includes every essential patent. The purpose of the License is to offer a convenient licensing alternative to everyone on the same terms and to include as much essential intellectual property as possible for their convenience. Participation in the License is voluntary on the part of essential patent holders, however.
So you are in no way more protected by using the restricted H.264 license than you are by using the open VP8 license in the US.
True in theory. But in practice, if you're going to sue an MPEG LA-licensed H.264 user for patent infringement, the MPEG LA licensors just can't let you win as that would set a dangerous precedent for them. So good luck litigating against a consortium that includes Apple, Microsoft, Sony, Samsung, Philips, LG, Siemens, Toshiba, etc.
I was implying that communism at large scale is impossible without totalitarianism.
That's a paradox. Totalitarianism is against the principles of communism. On the other hand, communism at large scale is impossible given the human nature.
There has never been a truly communist state, totalitarian or not. Cuba, the USSR and soviet block, China, North Korea... None of those ever were actually communist.
Well, that specific requirement can be met with other operating systems. For example, I don't think the Nexus series (and I don't mean the Google Phone) will run under Windows.
Like some have stated here, there are many schools of Buddhism and their beliefs vary, but in general Buddha is not seen as a deity. It may refer to the historic Gautama Buddha, the concept of Buddha nature or a human that has attained supreme enlightenment. None of these are deities. Other beings in Buddhism, such as the Devas, are closer to what is referred to as deity in other religions, but not quite.
Looks like I unfairly accused you of ignorance about the situation in Europe, apologies.
Some elements in the American Church probably use Creationism as a political tool, but I still believe the following of Creationism in the US can't be explained as just a political tool. It's not the only wacky belief that enjoys a following which is significant and far greater than in Europe (the Church of Scientology springs to mind...).
And I don't think religion as a subject at school helps bring down extreme fundamentalist beliefs. Just look at countries with Islam as state religion where Islam is taught at school.
In Europe (and presumably the Americas outside of the US), there is generally no strict separation between church and state
Nothing personal, but somebody please mod this overrated... Shame you ruined an otherwise perfectly fine post. You were making sense while you were talking about what you knew (the US). But the quoted sentence is dead wrong, with zero factual support. An Insightful +5 can't get away with that. Please.
I honestly want to give you the benefit of doubt and assume you were not trolling or flamebaiting, but attempting to provide a reasoned explanation for the GP. But the sentence above is so flawed, it just can't go unnoticed.
First, you lump together "Europe (and presumably the Americas outside of the US)" when it comes to religion - state relations. Nice generalization there. Second, the fact that religion is taught at school does not mean there is "no strict separation between church and state"; that's absolute nonsense.
We are talking about so many countries it's just impossible to make clear statements... But for instance the EU is officially secular, very few of those countries have a "state religion" and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU grants freedom of religion and the parents' right to ensure their children's education respects their religious convictions or lack thereof. Indeed religion is not mandatory at school in some countries, and in others it is not taught unless the parents explicitly request it.
Perhaps in the USA, the Church uses Creationism as a political tool, but it still needs a population that follows. So please refrain from jumping to conclusions about "Europe (and presumably the Americas outside of the US)" and their relations with the Church. In Europe, Creationists have basically zero following and are laughed off not because religion is taught at school, but because they fool no one and everybody sees through them as the loonies/charlatans that they are.
From the previous story I understood they had raised 23 grand (not 170) readily available (rather than pledges).
Anyway, the "pledge" thing makes sense in this case, because what they're trying to do (a fully distributed, server-less social network) is extremely difficult or impossible to do. Yeah I know about DHT and kinda works for file sharing (by far less efficiently than tracker torrents), but even if they managed to pull that off, slow performance when looking up information and sections of the data being unavailable at times would be showstoppers. An even worse problem would be securing profile information and updates, since this facebook-killer project was ignited by privacy concerns.
I read TFA. So yeah, distributed is the only way to pull this off without massive centralized resources. But unless run your own server 24/7 (something which "your mom" to paraphrase TFS is certainly not going to do), how does the network store your profile/status updates/etc? They get stored in some stranger's server, right? So instead of handing over your data to facebook, you hand it over to some perfect stranger(s). Yay, privacy-wise, this is so much better than facebook! Because this is not an invitation for spammers, voyeurs or otherwise malicious users to run servers so that they can eavesdrop on you.
I am sure they have some sort of secure design in mind for servers, but once this gets deployed, and especially being open source (which, in general, I have nothing against), it's just a matter of time before someone cracks the heck out of it.
On my modest HTC Tattoo (Android 1.6) data and routes are downloaded pretty quickly on 3G. When you alter the route it recalculates it in a breeze. It's almost as fast as good offline navigators such as Tomtom or Copilot.
2G speeds with the internet. Which let's face it, thats the whole reason for a phone like these anyhow.
By "a phone like these" do you mean the iPhone, or smart phones in general?
More to the point,
how well does Google Maps turn-by-turn navigation work on 2G speeds? Here it works like a charm on 3G, even with the fancy satellite view enabled, but I cringe at the idea of trying that on 2G.
Great news for developers... Let iDevices fade into oblivion with their closed operating system and their watchdog policy on App Store. Though nothing is as open as Maemo. HTC hardware running maemo, now that would be one kick ass phone.
Slashdot Mirror
where does the environmental issue come in?
Waste in the form of brine.
Yeah, as a former Windows Mobile user, the one thing I miss on Android is the ability to select text by swiping; then you can copy it to the clipboard with a long tap+proper option on context menu (or even easier, Ctrl+C if you have a physical keyboard). Well, that, and the ability to "reverse tether", i.e. get network access from a PC, and seamless access to SMB resources.
Not that it's bad, but it's unnecessary except for certain niches (for example, I have yet to see a freeware burner that gives you the same degree of control over some obscure optical drive file system settings and the burning process).
That aside, the other applications that come with it and presumably justify its price are utter rubbish. All those media "organizers", players, editors, virtual drives and extractors feel painfully bland, limited and sluggish if you have used free specialized alternatives.
That's probably not a hybrid but two drives: a SSD and a magnetic drive.
Unfortunately you can't jail corporations, which are the only guilty part in this (no, a corporation and the people who run it are not the same thing). Ah, the joys of incorporating.
VGA on an XT? Wow. Any VGA app (let alone Win 3) must have run like a slideshow.
A: No assurance is or can be made that the License includes every essential patent. The purpose of the License is to offer a convenient licensing alternative to everyone on the same terms and to include as much essential intellectual property as possible for their convenience. Participation in the License is voluntary on the part of essential patent holders, however.
So you are in no way more protected by using the restricted H.264 license than you are by using the open VP8 license in the US.
True in theory. But in practice, if you're going to sue an MPEG LA-licensed H.264 user for patent infringement, the MPEG LA licensors just can't let you win as that would set a dangerous precedent for them. So good luck litigating against a consortium that includes Apple, Microsoft, Sony, Samsung, Philips, LG, Siemens, Toshiba, etc.
(resubmitted unintentional AC post...)
I was implying that communism at large scale is impossible without totalitarianism.
That's a paradox. Totalitarianism is against the principles of communism. On the other hand, communism at large scale is impossible given the human nature.
There has never been a truly communist state, totalitarian or not. Cuba, the USSR and soviet block, China, North Korea... None of those ever were actually communist.
Well, that specific requirement can be met with other operating systems. For example, I don't think the Nexus series (and I don't mean the Google Phone) will run under Windows.
LaVeyan Satanism has a God. Yourself.
That's right.
Also, "imaginary friends" != Yourself
How do you be patient?
I can has patience? I had a patience but grammar eated it.
AC? This must be a glitch, I'm pretty sure I didn't check the AC box.
Like some have stated here, there are many schools of Buddhism and their beliefs vary, but in general Buddha is not seen as a deity. It may refer to the historic Gautama Buddha, the concept of Buddha nature or a human that has attained supreme enlightenment. None of these are deities. Other beings in Buddhism, such as the Devas, are closer to what is referred to as deity in other religions, but not quite.
Off the top of my head,
Many Buddhist sects.
(Neo-)Druidism.
LaVeyan Satanism.
WinMX also supports Unicode. Not Gnutella, but from what I read on Wikipedia, still widely used in Japan. Worth a try.
Looks like I unfairly accused you of ignorance about the situation in Europe, apologies.
Some elements in the American Church probably use Creationism as a political tool, but I still believe the following of Creationism in the US can't be explained as just a political tool. It's not the only wacky belief that enjoys a following which is significant and far greater than in Europe (the Church of Scientology springs to mind...).
And I don't think religion as a subject at school helps bring down extreme fundamentalist beliefs. Just look at countries with Islam as state religion where Islam is taught at school.
In Europe (and presumably the Americas outside of the US), there is generally no strict separation between church and state
Nothing personal, but somebody please mod this overrated... Shame you ruined an otherwise perfectly fine post. You were making sense while you were talking about what you knew (the US). But the quoted sentence is dead wrong, with zero factual support. An Insightful +5 can't get away with that. Please.
I honestly want to give you the benefit of doubt and assume you were not trolling or flamebaiting, but attempting to provide a reasoned explanation for the GP. But the sentence above is so flawed, it just can't go unnoticed.
First, you lump together "Europe (and presumably the Americas outside of the US)" when it comes to religion - state relations. Nice generalization there. Second, the fact that religion is taught at school does not mean there is "no strict separation between church and state"; that's absolute nonsense.
We are talking about so many countries it's just impossible to make clear statements... But for instance the EU is officially secular, very few of those countries have a "state religion" and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU grants freedom of religion and the parents' right to ensure their children's education respects their religious convictions or lack thereof. Indeed religion is not mandatory at school in some countries, and in others it is not taught unless the parents explicitly request it.
Perhaps in the USA, the Church uses Creationism as a political tool, but it still needs a population that follows. So please refrain from jumping to conclusions about "Europe (and presumably the Americas outside of the US)" and their relations with the Church. In Europe, Creationists have basically zero following and are laughed off not because religion is taught at school, but because they fool no one and everybody sees through them as the loonies/charlatans that they are.
From the previous story I understood they had raised 23 grand (not 170) readily available (rather than pledges).
Anyway, the "pledge" thing makes sense in this case, because what they're trying to do (a fully distributed, server-less social network) is extremely difficult or impossible to do. Yeah I know about DHT and kinda works for file sharing (by far less efficiently than tracker torrents), but even if they managed to pull that off, slow performance when looking up information and sections of the data being unavailable at times would be showstoppers. An even worse problem would be securing profile information and updates, since this facebook-killer project was ignited by privacy concerns.
Next thing they will be turning down is WinMX. With audiogalaxy gone, things look all gloom and doom for P2P music downloads.
Ironically Slashdot just greeted me with this suggestion: "Become a fan of Slashdot on Facebook". Way to support Diaspora!
I read TFA. So yeah, distributed is the only way to pull this off without massive centralized resources. But unless run your own server 24/7 (something which "your mom" to paraphrase TFS is certainly not going to do), how does the network store your profile/status updates/etc? They get stored in some stranger's server, right? So instead of handing over your data to facebook, you hand it over to some perfect stranger(s). Yay, privacy-wise, this is so much better than facebook! Because this is not an invitation for spammers, voyeurs or otherwise malicious users to run servers so that they can eavesdrop on you.
I am sure they have some sort of secure design in mind for servers, but once this gets deployed, and especially being open source (which, in general, I have nothing against), it's just a matter of time before someone cracks the heck out of it.
iPhone != Mac
On my modest HTC Tattoo (Android 1.6) data and routes are downloaded pretty quickly on 3G. When you alter the route it recalculates it in a breeze. It's almost as fast as good offline navigators such as Tomtom or Copilot.
2G speeds with the internet. Which let's face it, thats the whole reason for a phone like these anyhow.
By "a phone like these" do you mean the iPhone, or smart phones in general?
More to the point, how well does Google Maps turn-by-turn navigation work on 2G speeds? Here it works like a charm on 3G, even with the fancy satellite view enabled, but I cringe at the idea of trying that on 2G.
Great news for developers... Let iDevices fade into oblivion with their closed operating system and their watchdog policy on App Store. Though nothing is as open as Maemo. HTC hardware running maemo, now that would be one kick ass phone.