not really... it's not actually a people vs corporations thing, it's a rich vs the rest thing. Big corporations just happen to fit in the "rich" category, where as most people don't. incorporating yourself doesn't magically give you enough money to get around the rules.
Are you sure? from my understanding of current laws, accessing US only services from outside the US, may in fact break several laws. (I'm not saying these laws are right, only that the laws are that messed up!)
We do sell things to asia, but they don't require containers, they require bulk cargo holds... And here lies the problem, we ship empty both directions, just with different types of ships.
Raw materials go one way, finished products go the other. empty container ships going back to asia pass the empty bulk carriers going back to north america.
my 2 year old tomtom can handle that "waypoint along route" and it will list the target stores that are on your route, with each one listed as to how much of a detour it is, you then select the one you want.
In my area I can be sure, because I have seen the inside of the cell towers where it was removed from and have seen the old units in the large bin out back of the main telco warehouse with my own eyes...
What's your definition of freedom? for you it may be forking and modifying, for many people it's simply being able to run whatever you want on it. And if that's your definition, Android is already there.
By that metric I can almost guarantee that windows phone has more market share then everyone... (what with it being the leading desktop OS and all)
But it's a ridiculous metric. I don't care what other devices they have put a similar OS on to.
This is just one of those ridiculous arguments that apple fanbois keep clinging to to pretend their favourite OS is ahead in the market when in actual fact tehir market share is falling quickly.
If you live in the US, no... if you live in a civilized country, yes. "not fit for purpose" seems to be a european thing, north america doesn't put such constraints on their corporations as holding them accountable to the advertising on the box...
Uhhh...Its IE. Does ANYONE other than corporate drones forced by BOFHs still use IE? hell my dad is 70 years old and clueless and even HE don't use IE anymore!
As someone who spends all day every day going in to other people's houses to set up their internet connections, I can tell you that the vast majority use IE. I'd say somewhere around 25-50% have another browser installed, but most of those people still use IE as their default, the percentage that use something other than IE as their default browser appears to be well bellow 10%
I've seen many of these bots with exactly this problem. While I won't profess to be able to program a bot that would pass the turing test (or for that matter, much of anything) I just can't understand why nobody has come up with a bot that can remember what it said 2 lines earlier!
While it may be possible to do this on a very small scale, there are many safeguards against this. Any one person will not likely count more than 1000 ballots total in an election as there are several people counting in each polling station, and many polling stations in each riding. additionaly ballots are all accounted for, you can't just get extra ballots to stuff the boxes (or to trade out) because it is tracked exactly how many were printed, how many were used, how many destroyed, and how many left over. each ballot is handed out under the supervision of multiple people, and is accounted for against the list of voters.
I'm not saying there is no way to do this, but I am saying that it is highly unlikely anyone could do enoug of it to affect the outcome of an election.
If you are interested in politics at all, I highly recommend working at a polling station during an election. It is a real eye opener and really goes to show to what lengths we have gone to protect our right to vote.
That is the first time I've heard someone present the actual solution to the early posting of poll results... of course I'd be pretty upset if I worked at a poll in the atlantic provinces and had to sit around for a few hours twiddling my thumbs while the rest of the country voted before I could count the ballots (by that point the poll staff just want to get it over with and go home)
But considering how quickly votes get counted anyway, you're probably on to something here.
In Canada? I've never taken more than 10 minutes for the entire process. Even with 100% voter turnout (something we haven't really ever seen) I think everyone would have to show up at exactly the same time to vote for a delay anywhere near that. a polling station rarely serves an area with more than a couple thousand people.
Employers legally have to give you 3 hours off work while the polls are open to vote. If you can't vote in that time... especially considering the longest it's ever taken me was still less than 10 minutes.
In Canada ballot counting is done under the supervision of representatives from all of the candidates, The ballots themselves are also kept for possible later re-counting if there is any question at all about the validity of the results.
That is a far cry from an online system where that would be almost impossible.
Not only does TELUS allow tethering, they actively encourage it. When they updated my Motorola milestone to froyo they bundled a tethering app that was not previously there. Additionally they are selling wifi only tablets and bragging that you don't need a separate data plan, you can simply use tethering. (according to the website "Share one data plan between your smartphone and tablet at no extra cost. It's easy, affordable, worry-free and secure." (bold text in original))
Now as for the plans themselves... these need major work, the biggest plan you can buy from TELUS is 5gig. They simply don't sell a bigger plan than that. I find this rather abysmally low.
ummmm... my location bar is visible, but it's not editable (Nautilus 2.32.2.1) that's been my major gripe in nautilus too. it just shows an icon of your current folder, and the folders leading up to it, you can click on one of them to go to it, but you can't simply click and type... a feature I would really like to figure out how to enable!
But who is to say that increasing technology even needs increasing energy consumption?
Every appliance today uses less electricity than the equivalent one manufactured 20-30 years ago, and some replace more than one device using less power than either one did individually. I use far less energy at home now than I did 15 years ago, and I've got more technology too, my furnace is more than twice as efficient, my insulation is significantly better, my light bulbs use about 1/3 the energy, my fridge uses less, even my stereo uses less power. The electric bill each month confirms that I'm just not using as much as I once did, despite adding 2 computers, wireless network router, network storage device, a DVD player, 2 smart phones, and various other gadgets that never even existed 15 years ago.
There are just so many different unknowns that making any long term predictions that far out, or that all encompassing is just absurd.
Maybe the galaxy is different, but all the Android 3.X devices I've seen so far have a circle where you slide the lock icon to any border of the circle to unlock.
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As a Canadian I fully agree... though I must say, I'm not sure which airline is which in your comparison...
let's not overlook Siri, which looks to be the future of smartphones.
If their only revolutionary selling point is a feature that the competition has had for several years... doesn't bode well..
not really... it's not actually a people vs corporations thing, it's a rich vs the rest thing. Big corporations just happen to fit in the "rich" category, where as most people don't. incorporating yourself doesn't magically give you enough money to get around the rules.
Are you sure? from my understanding of current laws, accessing US only services from outside the US, may in fact break several laws. (I'm not saying these laws are right, only that the laws are that messed up!)
We do sell things to asia, but they don't require containers, they require bulk cargo holds...
And here lies the problem, we ship empty both directions, just with different types of ships.
Raw materials go one way, finished products go the other. empty container ships going back to asia pass the empty bulk carriers going back to north america.
my 2 year old tomtom can handle that "waypoint along route" and it will list the target stores that are on your route, with each one listed as to how much of a detour it is, you then select the one you want.
No rooting is required to do it on android, there's a simple checkbox and that's it.
In my area I can be sure, because I have seen the inside of the cell towers where it was removed from and have seen the old units in the large bin out back of the main telco warehouse with my own eyes...
What's your definition of freedom? for you it may be forking and modifying, for many people it's simply being able to run whatever you want on it. And if that's your definition, Android is already there.
Can you install applications on iOS4 that are not approved by apple?
Can you install applications on android3.0 that are not approved by google?
Yes, Android is MORE open/free. Is it FULLY open/free? not even close, but it's ahead of iOS by a couple of fairly important items
By that metric I can almost guarantee that windows phone has more market share then everyone... (what with it being the leading desktop OS and all)
But it's a ridiculous metric. I don't care what other devices they have put a similar OS on to.
This is just one of those ridiculous arguments that apple fanbois keep clinging to to pretend their favourite OS is ahead in the market when in actual fact tehir market share is falling quickly.
If you live in the US, no... if you live in a civilized country, yes.
"not fit for purpose" seems to be a european thing, north america doesn't put such constraints on their corporations as holding them accountable to the advertising on the box...
Uhhh...Its IE. Does ANYONE other than corporate drones forced by BOFHs still use IE? hell my dad is 70 years old and clueless and even HE don't use IE anymore!
As someone who spends all day every day going in to other people's houses to set up their internet connections, I can tell you that the vast majority use IE. I'd say somewhere around 25-50% have another browser installed, but most of those people still use IE as their default, the percentage that use something other than IE as their default browser appears to be well bellow 10%
how about moonlight doesn't work with firefox 5 or 6...
I haven't been able to use moonlight on linux for quite a while.
I've seen many of these bots with exactly this problem. While I won't profess to be able to program a bot that would pass the turing test (or for that matter, much of anything) I just can't understand why nobody has come up with a bot that can remember what it said 2 lines earlier!
While it may be possible to do this on a very small scale, there are many safeguards against this.
Any one person will not likely count more than 1000 ballots total in an election as there are several people counting in each polling station, and many polling stations in each riding. additionaly ballots are all accounted for, you can't just get extra ballots to stuff the boxes (or to trade out) because it is tracked exactly how many were printed, how many were used, how many destroyed, and how many left over. each ballot is handed out under the supervision of multiple people, and is accounted for against the list of voters.
I'm not saying there is no way to do this, but I am saying that it is highly unlikely anyone could do enoug of it to affect the outcome of an election.
If you are interested in politics at all, I highly recommend working at a polling station during an election. It is a real eye opener and really goes to show to what lengths we have gone to protect our right to vote.
No, The article is in reference to Canada, hence I am responding in the context of Canada.
That is the first time I've heard someone present the actual solution to the early posting of poll results... of course I'd be pretty upset if I worked at a poll in the atlantic provinces and had to sit around for a few hours twiddling my thumbs while the rest of the country voted before I could count the ballots (by that point the poll staff just want to get it over with and go home)
But considering how quickly votes get counted anyway, you're probably on to something here.
In Canada? I've never taken more than 10 minutes for the entire process. Even with 100% voter turnout (something we haven't really ever seen) I think everyone would have to show up at exactly the same time to vote for a delay anywhere near that. a polling station rarely serves an area with more than a couple thousand people.
Employers legally have to give you 3 hours off work while the polls are open to vote. If you can't vote in that time... especially considering the longest it's ever taken me was still less than 10 minutes.
In Canada ballot counting is done under the supervision of representatives from all of the candidates, The ballots themselves are also kept for possible later re-counting if there is any question at all about the validity of the results.
That is a far cry from an online system where that would be almost impossible.
Not only does TELUS allow tethering, they actively encourage it. When they updated my Motorola milestone to froyo they bundled a tethering app that was not previously there. Additionally they are selling wifi only tablets and bragging that you don't need a separate data plan, you can simply use tethering. (according to the website "Share one data plan between your smartphone and tablet at no extra cost. It's easy, affordable, worry-free and secure." (bold text in original))
Now as for the plans themselves... these need major work, the biggest plan you can buy from TELUS is 5gig. They simply don't sell a bigger plan than that. I find this rather abysmally low.
ummmm... my location bar is visible, but it's not editable (Nautilus 2.32.2.1) that's been my major gripe in nautilus too. it just shows an icon of your current folder, and the folders leading up to it, you can click on one of them to go to it, but you can't simply click and type... a feature I would really like to figure out how to enable!
But who is to say that increasing technology even needs increasing energy consumption?
Every appliance today uses less electricity than the equivalent one manufactured 20-30 years ago, and some replace more than one device using less power than either one did individually. I use far less energy at home now than I did 15 years ago, and I've got more technology too, my furnace is more than twice as efficient, my insulation is significantly better, my light bulbs use about 1/3 the energy, my fridge uses less, even my stereo uses less power. The electric bill each month confirms that I'm just not using as much as I once did, despite adding 2 computers, wireless network router, network storage device, a DVD player, 2 smart phones, and various other gadgets that never even existed 15 years ago.
There are just so many different unknowns that making any long term predictions that far out, or that all encompassing is just absurd.
Maybe the galaxy is different, but all the Android 3.X devices I've seen so far have a circle where you slide the lock icon to any border of the circle to unlock.
How is that the same as Apple's version?