As far as support, it depends on the size of the project and how involved the developers are. There are a ton of small scale projects that are good at what they do, but are abandoned. You'll get no support for those.
I consider myself to be a reasonable person, and I take it very seriously. Though there's really no way to convince you that I'm reasonable, just a there's no way to convince you that OWS is serious. There will always be a segment of the population that is threatened by the idea that the system might be able to change.
Most of the printed flyers passed out as OWS NY were from gorups that self-identified as communist.
Generally those are the most vocal of the protesters. And the main socialist groups do claim to have started the movement. I disagree with GP that it's only the minority that are "communist" (they aren't, they're in fact socialists, but since most people seem to confuse the two I'll leave it at that). It's a large majority of them. To them, OWS is just a step in the chain: reform -> revolution. I'm opposed to radical revolution, at least so far, but I'll work with anyone who wants reform. Goodness knows we could use it.
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Seriously? Can someone else verify this? I'd love to do it but I've already bricked my phone last month and really can't afford to get another one if I brick it again....
Ya know that's an interesting point. My housemate just got an iPhone 6 days ago and already it tells him he has used 0.5 GB of traffic. He has no idea why, since he's not a heavy web user at all (though he does have Facebook/Twitter installed on it so that might be the reason...).
But if you purchase it from Nokia does it work with the network you want it to? I'd prefer to keep Verizon as my provider. If I buy a phone from Nokia can I be sure that it will work on Verizon's networks?
Um, I hate to point it out, but what you just said (prove yours before I prove mine) tells me that you can't prove it, so you're just drawing attention away from it.
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That's a good point. Rental cars cost maybe $30 a day if you get a nice one (sometimes a little more on weekends). Sure you do have to pay for gas, but if you have a fully electric vehicle that you drive to work and everywhere else, then it's the only gas you'll have to buy that year.
I suppose they could always have some sort of GPS embedded in the battery to track down theft (no I'm not advocating another hit against privacy I'm just saying it's a lot easier to track a stolen battery, especially one that costs so much, than stolen gas). Or, they could set it so the battery had to be programmed to work with a certain car. This could be done in a few seconds by the battery station attendant using a machine at the station, but would effectively make stealing the battery pointless, as it wouldn't give charge unless the car's computer gave it the right code.
On the other hand the computer would need a charge in order to give the code which would require ANOTHER battery...
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That's a good point.
As far as support, it depends on the size of the project and how involved the developers are. There are a ton of small scale projects that are good at what they do, but are abandoned. You'll get no support for those.
Yes, some of them are silicon based (ie news-feed aggregator bots... though that would be more binary based rather then silicon based, wouldn't it?).
Ya know I imagine if some alien entity put a giant message telling us not to land on a certain planet that's the first place NASA would go...
Isn't that called cancer?
I consider myself to be a reasonable person, and I take it very seriously. Though there's really no way to convince you that I'm reasonable, just a there's no way to convince you that OWS is serious. There will always be a segment of the population that is threatened by the idea that the system might be able to change.
As far as I can tell, for them reform means less government power... Though I could be wrong. That's certainly what it means for me.
Most of the printed flyers passed out as OWS NY were from gorups that self-identified as communist.
Generally those are the most vocal of the protesters. And the main socialist groups do claim to have started the movement. I disagree with GP that it's only the minority that are "communist" (they aren't, they're in fact socialists, but since most people seem to confuse the two I'll leave it at that). It's a large majority of them. To them, OWS is just a step in the chain: reform -> revolution. I'm opposed to radical revolution, at least so far, but I'll work with anyone who wants reform. Goodness knows we could use it.
Hippies are not the only demographic represented in the OWS protests, and not even the largest.
Doesn't the later version of GPL allow for this? I seem to recall someone on /. saying Android was under GPLv3
Oh aye, the core Android likely doesn't, but as far as the stuff the carriers sell us... I wouldn't put it past them.
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Seriously? Can someone else verify this? I'd love to do it but I've already bricked my phone last month and really can't afford to get another one if I brick it again....
Ya know that's an interesting point. My housemate just got an iPhone 6 days ago and already it tells him he has used 0.5 GB of traffic. He has no idea why, since he's not a heavy web user at all (though he does have Facebook/Twitter installed on it so that might be the reason...).
Not if you have a physical keyboard (which a lot of phones do these days) and the keylogger is embedded in the chipset.
But I hadn't commented until just then.... Did you even bother to see who replied to you? :P
CAN you prove that the iPhone doesn't have spyware on it? I agree that Android probably does.
But if you purchase it from Nokia does it work with the network you want it to? I'd prefer to keep Verizon as my provider. If I buy a phone from Nokia can I be sure that it will work on Verizon's networks?
Wow, you have some seriously shitty networks
Yes. Yes we do. That's what happens when there are only three major networks in the entire country (at least this country).
Isn't T-Mobile being bought up by AT&T? I wonder if they'll keep that discount around.
Um, I hate to point it out, but what you just said (prove yours before I prove mine) tells me that you can't prove it, so you're just drawing attention away from it.
Default Android is open. The versions that handset makers put on phones tends to be more closed off because they've made it that way.
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Some people in the comments are tossing around $5,000, but I am not sure where they got it from...
That's a good point. Rental cars cost maybe $30 a day if you get a nice one (sometimes a little more on weekends). Sure you do have to pay for gas, but if you have a fully electric vehicle that you drive to work and everywhere else, then it's the only gas you'll have to buy that year.
I suppose they could always have some sort of GPS embedded in the battery to track down theft (no I'm not advocating another hit against privacy I'm just saying it's a lot easier to track a stolen battery, especially one that costs so much, than stolen gas). Or, they could set it so the battery had to be programmed to work with a certain car. This could be done in a few seconds by the battery station attendant using a machine at the station, but would effectively make stealing the battery pointless, as it wouldn't give charge unless the car's computer gave it the right code.
On the other hand the computer would need a charge in order to give the code which would require ANOTHER battery...
Well yeah... But you're kinda sad anyway if you're living in your mom's basement.