Looks like someone is about to start And getting a patent wouldn't help much in this day and age where products like this can just be shipped from countries that don't allow such stupid patents.
They have that and it's called GeeksPhone. The price for mine was better than Google's developer handset and even though it originally came with Android 1.5 they have provided 2.2 (Froyo) and 2.3(Gingerbread). It comes rooted and their forums will happily help you with whatever mod you want to attempt.
I no longer care what Motorolla or anyone else does because I have a phone that does what I want.
I just checked with both the latest stable and the latest beta and it is nothing like how you say it is.
I see "Allow local data to be set" or "Block sites from setting data"
I can set individual sites to "session only" but I can't set "session only" as a default and whitelisting a site does not keep it safe from the clear data on exit option like it does in Firefox.
Chrome's cookie control still needs a lot of work.
The nice thing about Firefox is the ability to whitelist cookies and then have it clear anything not whitelisted on browser close. Chrome's cookie controls are still not even close to that and it's the one feature that keeps me off Chrome.
Forget morale and retention and think bug count. My boss used to have us work late nights to meet deadlines and we ended up losing more time fixing bugs added to the code while we were overtired than we did actually adding new features.
After having worked for an ISP I can tell you that most of the customers will want to log in at the same time so you really do need an ip for everyone.
I suspect two things will happen: 1. Vendors who treat their legacy users badly will get dumped in favor of vendors who treat them well. 2. As the phones become cheaper people who care about their apps will buy their phones independent of their cell carrier.
My boss gave me his old phone that came with Android 1.5 and the first thing I discovered when I checked with the Vendor is that they had 3 major updates since the phone came out so it's now running Android 2.2. Not all of the phone makers are crap.
It was... but then Google had the idea to not actually trust what web pages said about their own content. I really don't miss the large set of search exclusions I had to use back in those days to avoid links designed to game the search engines.
Microsoft recognizes that a lot of Windows prefer Firefox over IE and they won't change that any time soon users. On a laptop this change will save battery life and improve performance by offloading work from the CPU. MicroSoft isn't out money if you use FF over IE but they are out money if you decide to use some other OS because it has better battery life or plays movies better.
You are correct. A completely free system would start by replacing the Bios with OpenBios or something similar. Then you need to switch to a CPU that doesn't use firmware. Once you are done that the following things also tend to have an embedded processor: Any decent RAID card, most SCSI cards, any of the higher end network cards, pretty much all video cards, CD/DVD/Blu-Ray players and hard drives.
Win Modems are a bad example since most were essentially sound cards with phone jacks bolted on and the ability to hang up. They didn't just need a binary blob, they required a windows service running in the back ground to decode the modem settings.
Normal ADSL2+ isn't for dedicated lines but the Annex I mode is only for dedicated lines since it renders DSL filters completely useless. It is an optional mode that both the DSL modem and DSLAM need to have working and enabled for it to work.
Top 3 searches for "narrowband" on Google also allow for it be used in an audio context and so does dictionary.com: "Narrowband can also be used with the audio spectrum to describe sounds which occupy a narrow range of frequencies." -Wikipedia
I've also had the technicians at several DSLAM manufacturers refer to it that way.
Think of phone line as roughly the same as speaker wire. Narrowband and is narrow because it is restricted to the narrow part of the frequency range that the phone company cares about for encoding voice data. Broadband transmits a range of frequencies that are outside the narrow range that the phone company uses for voice data that extends from just inside our hearing range to well outside of it.
To make the whole thing more fun there is an ADSL 2+ mode designed for dedicated date lines that uses the entire frequency range but it only adds around 64k to the overall transfer speed.
I'm wondering why it took 3 months to get her to hand over the password. Not defending what she did but why couldn't they just preform a password reset?
It really doesn't seem like either her or her employer were all that competent.
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And yet it does. I'll give you the possibillity of frying the PS/2 Port even though I've only seen it happen with older keyboards. But I've been hot plugging PS/2 keyboards and mice for close to a decade now and Linux has always detected the new device straight away.
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On Linux PS/2 keyboards and mice are hot plugable.
Indeed.. I can't tell you how often I've been approached with ideas that are not just difficult but impossible to implement. My overall favorite is my friend's father who wanted me to predict stocks for him but didn't know any of the math.. "look you can see the graph goes up or down"
Or just plain dishonest. "we need a phone card system but we need to be able to change the length of a minute"
And then there are the throwbacks to the year 2000. "I need a web page so I can put ads on it. What do you mean I need content.. isn't the page enough?"
They may be blocking 6to4 addresses to avoid attempting to run connections over a likely unstable link. It is something Apple fans slam Linux for not doing
That is the price you pay for letting the carrier subsidize your phone My GeeksPhone One wasn't that expensive and came pre-rooted with a boot menu (selectable by holding camera+ volume up on startup) that lets me backup/restore the rom, load OS updates and export the ROM as a USB drive.
I found that as I got older my tastes got narrowed down to a subset of what they were. I don't tolerate crap music, games, TV or books as much as I used to. Before I still like the odd new thing but it has to be good.
I also find myself having to constantly remind myself that I used to be just as bad when I was younger rather than getting annoyed about the things the kids are enjoying.
Dog intelligence varies widely by breed. My dog had no problem with cupboard doors and most of his training involved teaching him not to do things simply because he could.
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Looks like someone is about to start And getting a patent wouldn't help much in this day and age where products like this can just be shipped from countries that don't allow such stupid patents.
Every new version I find forums people screaming about the lack of this exact feature so I'm pretty sure they know.
Thankfully I got mine before they sold out but knowing them the next phone will be GSM only.
They have that and it's called GeeksPhone. The price for mine was better than Google's developer handset and even though it originally came with Android 1.5 they have provided 2.2 (Froyo) and 2.3(Gingerbread). It comes rooted and their forums will happily help you with whatever mod you want to attempt.
I no longer care what Motorolla or anyone else does because I have a phone that does what I want.
I just checked with both the latest stable and the latest beta and it is nothing like how you say it is.
I see "Allow local data to be set"
or "Block sites from setting data"
I can set individual sites to "session only" but I can't set "session only" as a default and whitelisting a site does not keep it safe from the clear data on exit option like it does in Firefox.
Chrome's cookie control still needs a lot of work.
The nice thing about Firefox is the ability to whitelist cookies and then have it clear anything not whitelisted on browser close. Chrome's cookie controls are still not even close to that and it's the one feature that keeps me off Chrome.
Forget morale and retention and think bug count. My boss used to have us work late nights to meet deadlines and we ended up losing more time fixing bugs added to the code while we were overtired than we did actually adding new features.
After having worked for an ISP I can tell you that most of the customers will want to log in at the same time so you really do need an ip for everyone.
I suspect two things will happen:
1. Vendors who treat their legacy users badly will get dumped in favor of vendors who treat them well.
2. As the phones become cheaper people who care about their apps will buy their phones independent of their cell carrier.
My boss gave me his old phone that came with Android 1.5 and the first thing I discovered when I checked with the Vendor is that they had 3 major updates since the phone came out so it's now running Android 2.2. Not all of the phone makers are crap.
Try Canada. You can host in Vancouver, Montreal or Toronto and get good speed/low latency to the US mainland.
It was... but then Google had the idea to not actually trust what web pages said about their own content. I really don't miss the large set of search exclusions I had to use back in those days to avoid links designed to game the search engines.
Think: acceleration and battery life.
Microsoft recognizes that a lot of Windows prefer Firefox over IE and they won't change that any time soon users. On a laptop this change will save battery life and improve performance by offloading work from the CPU. MicroSoft isn't out money if you use FF over IE but they are out money if you decide to use some other OS because it has better battery life or plays movies better.
I made a typo. That last part should be modem communication rather than settings.
You are correct. A completely free system would start by replacing the Bios with OpenBios or something similar. Then you need to switch to a CPU that doesn't use firmware. Once you are done that the following things also tend to have an embedded processor: Any decent RAID card, most SCSI cards, any of the higher end network cards, pretty much all video cards, CD/DVD/Blu-Ray players and hard drives.
Win Modems are a bad example since most were essentially sound cards with phone jacks bolted on and the ability to hang up. They didn't just need a binary blob, they required a windows service running in the back ground to decode the modem settings.
Normal ADSL2+ isn't for dedicated lines but the Annex I mode is only for dedicated lines since it renders DSL filters completely useless. It is an optional mode that both the DSL modem and DSLAM need to have working and enabled for it to work.
Top 3 searches for "narrowband" on Google also allow for it be used in an audio context and so does dictionary.com:
"Narrowband can also be used with the audio spectrum to describe sounds which occupy a narrow range of frequencies." -Wikipedia
I've also had the technicians at several DSLAM manufacturers refer to it that way.
Think of phone line as roughly the same as speaker wire. Narrowband and is narrow because it is restricted to the narrow part of the frequency range that the phone company cares about for encoding voice data. Broadband transmits a range of frequencies that are outside the narrow range that the phone company uses for voice data that extends from just inside our hearing range to well outside of it.
To make the whole thing more fun there is an ADSL 2+ mode designed for dedicated date lines that uses the entire frequency range but it only adds around 64k to the overall transfer speed.
I'm wondering why it took 3 months to get her to hand over the password. Not defending what she did but why couldn't they just preform a password reset?
It really doesn't seem like either her or her employer were all that competent.
And yet it does. I'll give you the possibillity of frying the PS/2 Port even though I've only seen it happen with older keyboards. But I've been hot plugging PS/2 keyboards and mice for close to a decade now and Linux has always detected the new device straight away.
On Linux PS/2 keyboards and mice are hot plugable.
Indeed.. I can't tell you how often I've been approached with ideas that are not just difficult but impossible to implement. My overall favorite is my friend's father who wanted me to predict stocks for him but didn't know any of the math.. "look you can see the graph goes up or down"
Or just plain dishonest. "we need a phone card system but we need to be able to change the length of a minute"
And then there are the throwbacks to the year 2000. "I need a web page so I can put ads on it. What do you mean I need content.. isn't the page enough?"
They may be blocking 6to4 addresses to avoid attempting to run connections over a likely unstable link. It is something Apple fans slam Linux for not doing
That is the price you pay for letting the carrier subsidize your phone My GeeksPhone One wasn't that expensive and came pre-rooted with a boot menu (selectable by holding camera+ volume up on startup) that lets me backup/restore the rom, load OS updates and export the ROM as a USB drive.
I found that as I got older my tastes got narrowed down to a subset of what they were. I don't tolerate crap music, games, TV or books as much as I used to. Before I still like the odd new thing but it has to be good.
I also find myself having to constantly remind myself that I used to be just as bad when I was younger rather than getting annoyed about the things the kids are enjoying.
Dog intelligence varies widely by breed. My dog had no problem with cupboard doors and most of his training involved teaching him not to do things simply because he could.