But also..what if you have a car that has a bit older head unit that isn't bluetooth or otherwise wireless capable and need the jack to plug your phone into it to play?
How many people are buying a new $650 phone, but have a car so old it doesn't have Bluetooth?
Serious question...
Me. My used 350z convertible doesn't have bluetooth. I have the iPhone 6s plus. No one cares about the iPhone, but the car draws compliments every now and then.
It was a heavy laptop, a shoulder bag, the charger, various travel documents, phone charger, pens and other bag cruft. Placing an asymmetric load like that on your shoulder for a long time is not good.
I lug a laptop on my shoulder every day. I travel a lot. Once laptops got light enough, the asymmetric pain in my shoulder went away. This is a good thing.
was facepalm worthy from the get go. But it continues to be facepalm worthy in criticizing the study.
The study was not worthless. It failed to show a statistically significant link. But it might have. The study was big enough that a real effect would have stuck out like a sore thumb. That it didn't, but some weird weak relationships were seen in fact puts a bound on the maximum size of the problem : I.E. In some contexts (gender, ludicrously powered phone, being a mouse) the effect of cell phone radiation doesn't cause excess tumors over the expected rate with a pretty good confidence.
The press started out all "OMG! Cell phones cause cancer!!!!". Then after the criticism of the hyperbole they went all "OMG!!! That study was shite!!!". The problem is with the press, not the study.
Go spend a winter in Denver, when the inversion traps the air and brown smog envelops the city. It is not as bad as Beijing, but still one of the worst cities in America for air quality. The summer is nice.
In the US there is not much in the way of government regulation of electronics, except when it comes to RF emissions (think FCC).
The regulations around causing fires are principally imposed by insurance companies (hence the name Underwriters Laboratories). Not getting UL certification for your product will make it hard to get product liability insurance.
Of course if you are a nameless manufacturer from a place far far away, liability insurance is more expensive than just being impossible to locate after your product explodes.
In other places there are government imposed safety certifications (Think C.E.). Take a look on the nearest wall wart power supply and look at the bazzilion markers for different certifications for different places.
They win the war when they get Android off of Java. Then Oracle loses.
All their Java alternatives are not just the idle tinkering of a corp with too much money. I strongly suspect that after living with Java so long, they've learned to hate it with a depth of hatred similar to my hatred Verilog. They would love to be free of Java APIs and have the world use an API of their own creation. Is java2go or java2dart a thing?
Well add Dual SIM, micro SD slot and enough frequencies to work around the world and that would be my phone. As it is I have a travel phone and a home phone.
I don't know why Google doesn't just force updates like Apple does.
Google doesn't have the source code that was used to build the binaries on non-Nexus devices, and doesn't have the keys needed to sign those binaries so that the device will run them.
There's this new technology that was developed some time in the 1970s, whereby software is built in independent linkable blocks that can be independently compiled and updated. They certainly could drop a signing system into AOSP that enabled such updates and put up adverts accusing any vendor who disabled it of performing dick moves of the highest order. All these things are possible.
Sure, if the only obstacles were technical. I'll grant that I only mentioned the technical obstacles in the interest of brevity, but the deeper issues underlying the technical ones are ones of relationships. Android is an ecosystem, not a product, and device manufacturers insist on a high degree of control over what they deliver to their customers. They are willing to accede to the compatibility requirements enforced by the compatibility test suite in order to get permission to install Google's apps and give their devices access to the Play store, but Google's control has very definite limits.
Yes. Openness doesn't prevent crap. On the plus side, I was able to fix the thermal sensor problem in the N4 by changing a few lines of code and recompiling Android (to filter out short term thermal sensor outliers) and then later with a sliver of cardboard once it was found to be the crappy connector between the body and the case back with the GPS antenna and the battery thermal sensor. The N5 was much better.
It's Android was full of bloatware that took some eradication. The back is hard moulded plastic, that's probably a good thing functionally. It's not as fast as the Nexus 5 for instance. So not a premium phone by any means, but dual SIM, a robust case, burner price and the right frequencies for China & Malaysia works for me when traveling.
I don't know why Google doesn't just force updates like Apple does.
Google doesn't have the source code that was used to build the binaries on non-Nexus devices, and doesn't have the keys needed to sign those binaries so that the device will run them.
There's this new technology that was developed some time in the 1970s, whereby software is built in independent linkable blocks that can be independently compiled and updated. They certainly could drop a signing system into AOSP that enabled such updates and put up adverts accusing any vendor who disabled it of performing dick moves of the highest order. All these things are possible.
So vote with your wallet and only buy phones with unlocked bootloaders.. On the upside, they are usually cheaper and come with nice options like dual sim.
It's a rotten choice. There's no phone with great hardware AND an unlocked bootloader. (Great hardware means pluggable SD card and battery, and camera and other hardware that doesn't randomly screw up or stop working.)
The Nexuses are the closest you will get. The hardware seems to be good these days and they are certainly not bootloader locked. I have a Lenovo for travel that's got all the ports and dual SIM. That was unlockable in the sense that all it took was a google search.
Escape room games are opening all over Europe. Stay in a hotel or backpacker's that attracts foreigners, and among the brochures of local attractions you're like to find a leaflet advertising "[City X]'s best escape game!". But I can't help but suspect this is a fad that's not going to remain popular more than another year or two. Converting a space to an elaborate escape room must require significant investment. Are these places even going to stay open long enough to pay it back?
Can you still get a maintenance contract on a Series 1 computer? How expensive would that be???
It's called hiring all the people in the world who know how it works and giving them a safe job until retirement, followed by nice contract jobs every few weeks once you're into retirement.
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But also..what if you have a car that has a bit older head unit that isn't bluetooth or otherwise wireless capable and need the jack to plug your phone into it to play?
How many people are buying a new $650 phone, but have a car so old it doesn't have Bluetooth?
Serious question...
Me. My used 350z convertible doesn't have bluetooth. I have the iPhone 6s plus. No one cares about the iPhone, but the car draws compliments every now and then.
I don't need no stinking google to express uninformed opinions on Slashdot.
It was a heavy laptop, a shoulder bag, the charger, various travel documents, phone charger, pens and other bag cruft. Placing an asymmetric load like that on your shoulder for a long time is not good.
If I was homeless I would agree.
I lug a laptop on my shoulder every day. I travel a lot. Once laptops got light enough, the asymmetric pain in my shoulder went away. This is a good thing.
It becomes your business when the buyers tell you they are going to use the money orders to purchase stolen credit card numbers.
http://www.int-comp.org/career...
By that definition, it's also irrelevant whether the exchange is of currency, products, or services.
But they were lying. They were not going to buy credit card numbers.
>Thinner and lighter are fine qualities for a cellphone but not for a laptop.
My shoulder disagrees.
was facepalm worthy from the get go.
But it continues to be facepalm worthy in criticizing the study.
The study was not worthless. It failed to show a statistically significant link. But it might have. The study was big enough that a real effect would have stuck out like a sore thumb. That it didn't, but some weird weak relationships were seen in fact puts a bound on the maximum size of the problem : I.E. In some contexts (gender, ludicrously powered phone, being a mouse) the effect of cell phone radiation doesn't cause excess tumors over the expected rate with a pretty good confidence.
The press started out all "OMG! Cell phones cause cancer!!!!". Then after the criticism of the hyperbole they went all "OMG!!! That study was shite!!!". The problem is with the press, not the study.
Cleaner air and water.
Go spend a winter in Denver, when the inversion traps the air and brown smog envelops the city. It is not as bad as Beijing, but still one of the worst cities in America for air quality. The summer is nice.
But there's less oxygen, so you car can't rust.
>there's a 90% chance at least 3 other people had those same ideas at the same time you did
Nope. Not a chance.
As time has progressed, I've started to ponder if any patent is really "legimate".
I've got a few good ones. We build them all and they go into real products. I wouldn't describe any of them as obvious.
And the sausage casing people.
In the US there is not much in the way of government regulation of electronics, except when it comes to RF emissions (think FCC).
The regulations around causing fires are principally imposed by insurance companies (hence the name Underwriters Laboratories). Not getting UL certification for your product will make it hard to get product liability insurance.
Of course if you are a nameless manufacturer from a place far far away, liability insurance is more expensive than just being impossible to locate after your product explodes.
In other places there are government imposed safety certifications (Think C.E.). Take a look on the nearest wall wart power supply and look at the bazzilion markers for different certifications for different places.
if you choose to smoke pole.
I googled. Now I know.
Diesel is the solution
No it's the solvent.
If you aren't part of the solution, you are the precipitate.
Answering my own question:
https://github.com/kevoree/jav...
http://sma.github.io/stuff/jav...
Google won the battle but lost the war.
They win the war when they get Android off of Java. Then Oracle loses.
All their Java alternatives are not just the idle tinkering of a corp with too much money. I strongly suspect that after living with Java so long, they've learned to hate it with a depth of hatred similar to my hatred Verilog. They would love to be free of Java APIs and have the world use an API of their own creation. Is java2go or java2dart a thing?
And the answer is Nexus 6P.
It has everything you just said.
The stock android experience is gorgeous.
Well add Dual SIM, micro SD slot and enough frequencies to work around the world and that would be my phone. As it is I have a travel phone and a home phone.
I don't know why Google doesn't just force updates like Apple does.
Google doesn't have the source code that was used to build the binaries on non-Nexus devices, and doesn't have the keys needed to sign those binaries so that the device will run them.
There's this new technology that was developed some time in the 1970s, whereby software is built in independent linkable blocks that can be independently compiled and updated. They certainly could drop a signing system into AOSP that enabled such updates and put up adverts accusing any vendor who disabled it of performing dick moves of the highest order. All these things are possible.
Sure, if the only obstacles were technical. I'll grant that I only mentioned the technical obstacles in the interest of brevity, but the deeper issues underlying the technical ones are ones of relationships. Android is an ecosystem, not a product, and device manufacturers insist on a high degree of control over what they deliver to their customers. They are willing to accede to the compatibility requirements enforced by the compatibility test suite in order to get permission to install Google's apps and give their devices access to the Play store, but Google's control has very definite limits.
Yes. Openness doesn't prevent crap. On the plus side, I was able to fix the thermal sensor problem in the N4 by changing a few lines of code and recompiling Android (to filter out short term thermal sensor outliers) and then later with a sliver of cardboard once it was found to be the crappy connector between the body and the case back with the GPS antenna and the battery thermal sensor. The N5 was much better.
The money shot is here
It's Android was full of bloatware that took some eradication. The back is hard moulded plastic, that's probably a good thing functionally. It's not as fast as the Nexus 5 for instance. So not a premium phone by any means, but dual SIM, a robust case, burner price and the right frequencies for China & Malaysia works for me when traveling.
I don't know why Google doesn't just force updates like Apple does.
Google doesn't have the source code that was used to build the binaries on non-Nexus devices, and doesn't have the keys needed to sign those binaries so that the device will run them.
There's this new technology that was developed some time in the 1970s, whereby software is built in independent linkable blocks that can be independently compiled and updated. They certainly could drop a signing system into AOSP that enabled such updates and put up adverts accusing any vendor who disabled it of performing dick moves of the highest order. All these things are possible.
So vote with your wallet and only buy phones with unlocked bootloaders.. On the upside, they are usually cheaper and come with nice options like dual sim.
It's a rotten choice. There's no phone with great hardware AND an unlocked bootloader. (Great hardware means pluggable SD card and battery, and camera and other hardware that doesn't randomly screw up or stop working.)
The Nexuses are the closest you will get. The hardware seems to be good these days and they are certainly not bootloader locked. I have a Lenovo for travel that's got all the ports and dual SIM. That was unlockable in the sense that all it took was a google search.
Escape room games are opening all over Europe. Stay in a hotel or backpacker's that attracts foreigners, and among the brochures of local attractions you're like to find a leaflet advertising "[City X]'s best escape game!". But I can't help but suspect this is a fad that's not going to remain popular more than another year or two. Converting a space to an elaborate escape room must require significant investment. Are these places even going to stay open long enough to pay it back?
Corporate team building games. They'll do fine.
Can you still get a maintenance contract on a Series 1 computer? How expensive would that be???
It's called hiring all the people in the world who know how it works and giving them a safe job until retirement, followed by nice contract jobs every few weeks once you're into retirement.
$30 buys a local prepay SIM with LTE in Canada. This is what I do.