The main phone apps could be so much better. When I look someone up, I may want to phone them, or I may want to message them. This takes far, far too many clicks.
Your HTC software must be very different from mine. On mine, when I pull up someone's contact card it's a single tap to phone them, message them, or whatever.
Freedom isn't free, and by buying and jailbreaking an iPhone you financially support Apple's douchebaggery and encourage the development of more crippled, locked down systems, perhaps with more effective jails.
Why do that when you can have an Android phone which you're encouraged to hack on, with real multi-tasking and an open source OS?
It took them what, a couple days to react to the issue and start working on a fix, (the hiring of the antenna engineers we saw recently) so they're obviously trying to fix the problem. There's nothing to be gained by harassing them while they work on a fix for you, that will almost certainly be free.
Hahahaha.
Yeahright.
The antenna engineers are just to make sure that the iPhone 4GS doesn't have the same problem. They're not going to fix the iPhone 4. They'll just tell you to use a rubber case. I'd put money on it.
Personally I think we're still in a transition period and now that those homes have computers starting when the child is born (and whose parents had computers) we will start to see better parenting skills and regulation with computer usage.
When I first heard some examples of DAB broadcasts people had recorded and uploaded to the Internet, I thought the uploader must have done something wrong. Now I've read your info about the bitrates, I realize no, DAB's just crap.
128kbps MPEG-2? Ugh. I wouldn't listen to talk radio at that bitrate.
(I predict that DAB is one of those "too late" interim formats that will die quickly, and that radio is going to move to TCP/IP based streaming.)
Yeesh. SyncML? Have you ever looked at that standard? Ghastly.
Besides, converting CalDAV to SyncML on the server side shouldn't be hard, since CalDAV is iCalendar files in a set of directories on a WebDAV server, and SyncML is iCalendar files wrapped in XML and sent to a SyncML server across whatever protocol the vendor chooses. In fact, a quick Googling suggests that there are already numerous SyncML to CalDAV gateways, including open source ones.
I've owned Nokia phones. They were great in the 90s. Then they took forever to start shipping quad band handsets, and I switched to Sony Ericsson. Then they went through that period where most of their designs looked like they were put together by crack-smoking monkeys.
Then came Maemo. The N770 looked interesting. I saw them drop support for it and bring out the N800. I actually bought one of those, and they dropped support for it and brought out the N810. Then they dropped support for that and brought out the N900, with a smaller screen. Meanwhile, Maemo was GTK... then it was switching to Qt... and now it's dead, replaced by MeeGo. No doubt in another year they'll drop all support for fixes for the N900, and a year after MeeGo is released they'll drop it for something else, and all the while they'll be asking why developers aren't interested in their platform and users aren't interested in their phones.
I thought that Oblivion was a tremendously varied mixed bag. [...] Good game design should be intuitive and the leveling system was anything but. You had to read up and study on how to do it correctly.
Not to mention that whenever you leveled up, everything else in the game mysteriously leveled up as well, in a way that was so painfully obvious it totally broke my suspension of disbelief. When the wolves mysteriously turned into timber wolves I realized leveling was pointless.
I also couldn't get past the fact that Oblivion was accessed by diving into giant flaming vaginas, which took you to a place you knew was evil because there was blood everywhere. Was the game designed entirely by gay men? They should have had an evil demoness called Menses to finish it off.
Yup, parent is right. SMS message delivery is not guaranteed as per GSM specifications. The network is allowed to drop them on the floor if the recipient device is not reachable, the network is overloaded, or whatever.
If they'd made an MPEG-4 file available, I'd have downloaded it and given it a try, but the pain of converting Matroska into something I can play--and maybe having the conversion fail--isn't worth it.
(If anyone knows of reliable open source MKV to MP4 conversion software, I'd love to find some...)
I am fortunate enough to be the child of a professional smart-ass who intentionally gave all his children two middle names so that we would not fit into the computer systems of the era.
I changed my name to a single word years ago. That screws up a lot of databases. For a while the bank had to hand-address my monthly statements. I'd get some questions about my credit card too.
I've gone back to mostly using my family name again, but I still have no middle name, which messes with the assumptions of particularly bad software. It also gives me a handy way to track who uses which databases for junk mail, though, as I can use a different letter for different databases.
Imagine how sick of it I am, since I posted the same idea before xkcd, and now get people sending it to me as a wonderfully amusing thing xkcd thought up...
Or you code in some language where Unicode support is not there by default, and you have to jump through hoops to get it working.
Like, say, PHP. Or stable Ruby.
Stable Ruby has Unicode. 1.9 is stable. We're up to 1.9.1 now.
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Your HTC software must be very different from mine. On mine, when I pull up someone's contact card it's a single tap to phone them, message them, or whatever.
Three slides of "We love our users". Oh really?
If you love your users, set them free. End the iPhone/iPad jail.
I'm a Mac and iPod user, but the jail has made me an Android phone user.
Dramatically fewer people reading Murdoch's crap, and he's still not making any money.
Looks like success from where I'm sitting.
Freedom isn't free, and by buying and jailbreaking an iPhone you financially support Apple's douchebaggery and encourage the development of more crippled, locked down systems, perhaps with more effective jails.
Why do that when you can have an Android phone which you're encouraged to hack on, with real multi-tasking and an open source OS?
Extracts from George Orwell's "iPhone Four".
Hahahaha.
Yeahright.
The antenna engineers are just to make sure that the iPhone 4GS doesn't have the same problem. They're not going to fix the iPhone 4. They'll just tell you to use a rubber case. I'd put money on it.
Like with TV, right?
Beat you to it...
When I first heard some examples of DAB broadcasts people had recorded and uploaded to the Internet, I thought the uploader must have done something wrong. Now I've read your info about the bitrates, I realize no, DAB's just crap.
128kbps MPEG-2? Ugh. I wouldn't listen to talk radio at that bitrate.
(I predict that DAB is one of those "too late" interim formats that will die quickly, and that radio is going to move to TCP/IP based streaming.)
Yeesh. SyncML? Have you ever looked at that standard? Ghastly.
Besides, converting CalDAV to SyncML on the server side shouldn't be hard, since CalDAV is iCalendar files in a set of directories on a WebDAV server, and SyncML is iCalendar files wrapped in XML and sent to a SyncML server across whatever protocol the vendor chooses. In fact, a quick Googling suggests that there are already numerous SyncML to CalDAV gateways, including open source ones.
Truth hurts, eh Nokia fanboys?
I've owned Nokia phones. They were great in the 90s. Then they took forever to start shipping quad band handsets, and I switched to Sony Ericsson. Then they went through that period where most of their designs looked like they were put together by crack-smoking monkeys.
Then came Maemo. The N770 looked interesting. I saw them drop support for it and bring out the N800. I actually bought one of those, and they dropped support for it and brought out the N810. Then they dropped support for that and brought out the N900, with a smaller screen. Meanwhile, Maemo was GTK... then it was switching to Qt... and now it's dead, replaced by MeeGo. No doubt in another year they'll drop all support for fixes for the N900, and a year after MeeGo is released they'll drop it for something else, and all the while they'll be asking why developers aren't interested in their platform and users aren't interested in their phones.
Not to mention that whenever you leveled up, everything else in the game mysteriously leveled up as well, in a way that was so painfully obvious it totally broke my suspension of disbelief. When the wolves mysteriously turned into timber wolves I realized leveling was pointless.
I also couldn't get past the fact that Oblivion was accessed by diving into giant flaming vaginas, which took you to a place you knew was evil because there was blood everywhere. Was the game designed entirely by gay men? They should have had an evil demoness called Menses to finish it off.
Not to mention Lisp, which has been around since the 50s as a tool for solving problems by building domain-specific Lisp variants.
In another episode, you see that Moonbase Alpha has a solarium. That's why they had the bikinis.
I have no explanation for why the windows were openable. I don't remember that bit. Perhaps I should watch the episode again...
I prefer Objective-C to Python, .NET or C++.
I don't mind Java, though.
(In particular, Objective-C is so much better than C++ that it's really tragic that C++ became the dominant OO extension of C.)
Running it on Linux.
That was my observation, anyway, until I gave up waiting for them to fix it and switched to Chrome.
What, you've tried dropping it 1m onto its edge? Brave man. (Or did you mean only the antenna problems?)
I'd wait for the next quarter's Android vs iPhone sales figures before saying that.
I've never been into the Civ games, but I'd buy Alpha Centauri II. I wish Firaxis would develop it.
Yup, parent is right. SMS message delivery is not guaranteed as per GSM specifications. The network is allowed to drop them on the floor if the recipient device is not reachable, the network is overloaded, or whatever.
So this is a pretty stupid idea.
If they'd made an MPEG-4 file available, I'd have downloaded it and given it a try, but the pain of converting Matroska into something I can play--and maybe having the conversion fail--isn't worth it.
(If anyone knows of reliable open source MKV to MP4 conversion software, I'd love to find some...)
I changed my name to a single word years ago. That screws up a lot of databases. For a while the bank had to hand-address my monthly statements. I'd get some questions about my credit card too.
I've gone back to mostly using my family name again, but I still have no middle name, which messes with the assumptions of particularly bad software. It also gives me a handy way to track who uses which databases for junk mail, though, as I can use a different letter for different databases.
It's not a question of claiming. There are people who genuinely have no surname.
If you need to sort by surname, have a surname field and allow it to be null and decide where you want null values to sort.
However, also have a name field that doesn't assume any particular format, and use that for display.
Imagine how sick of it I am, since I posted the same idea before xkcd, and now get people sending it to me as a wonderfully amusing thing xkcd thought up...
Stable Ruby has Unicode. 1.9 is stable. We're up to 1.9.1 now.