Thank you, now I know to never buy absolutely anything from this company and never recommend it to anyone, as a matter of fact warning people about buying anything from them would be the responsible thing to do.
Thereare a couple of insightful posts by a Google engineer addressing this specific myth. The original reddit comment, where your comment originally came from, generated a very interesting discussion on the subject over at G+.
Actually, one of the listed items is the Mars Descent Imager (MARDI):
...a small camera located on Curiosity's main body, will record video of the rover's descent to the Martian surface (which will be accomplished with the help of a hovering, rocket-powered sky crane)
It very likely won't be a live HD youtube stream of the entire landing but it should allow us to see part of the landing process.
Stop buying non "Google experience" phones. I've stuck with the Nexus series ever since the HTC fiasco in Canada with the OS upgrades. Couldn't be happier.
The community design document can be found here. They're effectively preventing anyone from creating a mobile computer device that is rectangular in shape with round corners. Unbelievable.
How is this only an Android problem? The summary clearly states it relates to both Android and iPhone apps. Should the title have a brand modifier based on the number of times said brand appears in the summary? Ridiculous.
#5273 +(30069)- <erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is.
More details here. Growing up in Peru, and experiencing many earthquakes in my life time, you would think I would recognize an earthquake but I didn't feel a thing. 5.5 isn't a small shake either.
As someone who had a flight scheduled to go through an area that was affected by the ash, I say absolutely not. I don't care what the airlines say or how many millions they are losing. I think I will trust the engine manufacturers and their engineers rather than some airline suit sitting in his office when it comes to putting my life at risk in this context.
Yah the official "blog" for android.com developers hosted through blogspot. I guess if you had bothered to actually read where you were, you would have known that.
"How will Apple feel about Hulu as a potential competitor to iTunes? "
The fact that we even have to ask questions like this (because they are valid questions given Apple's practices) is what keeps me from buying and recommending Apple products.
However, unsubsidised phones (i.e. those we have paid a full price to buy) are also forced to update, even for people who run custom firmware that *already* has the 911 issue fixed.
According to this post, for rooted phones with the 911 fix, you can call Rogers and have them restore your data. Are they not doing that anymore?
For those interested, there are further discussions here and here.
In my case, I use Linux exclusively so this weekend I had to hunt down a Windows XP box (since it doesn't work on 7) that I could use. There was no way I was going to trust the clowns at a Rogers store nor wait for the SD card to get shipped.
As much as I like Android and the whole concept of an open mobile platform, there is still a lot of work to do in terms of letting all members of that mobile ecosystem know who is resposnible for what. The entangled mess that is the mobile industry in Canada will be a challenge.
Thanks to Rogers' constant habit of sticking their stinky paws in the ROM to customize it with their useless icons (amongst other things), "supported" upgrades to Android devices such as the HTC Magic and HTC Dream are VERY difficult. Part of the reason Rogers was even able to release the fix so quickly was because a vocal group of us has been pushing Rogers and HTC to stop this nonsense and letting us upgrade - I'm sure work had already gotten started. I am curious about what would have happened if Rogers and HTC had continued with their no upgrades plans.
"I'm not entirely sure what this article is trying to prove. Android has been out for a year. It takes most software companies 6 months to ready a new release, test it, and put it out to market. If anyone (carriers or manufacturers) are interested in keeping their hardware on dated software, that won't be clear until at least June."
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Thank you. I thought I was alone in thinking that the world had gone absolutely crazy with the amount of messaging services out there.
Thank you, now I know to never buy absolutely anything from this company and never recommend it to anyone, as a matter of fact warning people about buying anything from them would be the responsible thing to do.
There are a couple of insightful posts by a Google engineer addressing this specific myth. The original reddit comment, where your comment originally came from, generated a very interesting discussion on the subject over at G+.
Agreed. My left eye twitches if I don't balance parenthesis properly.. in code or written language.
Actually, one of the listed items is the Mars Descent Imager (MARDI):
It very likely won't be a live HD youtube stream of the entire landing but it should allow us to see part of the landing process.
"the manufacturers do not upgrade the phones"
Stop buying non "Google experience" phones. I've stuck with the Nexus series ever since the HTC fiasco in Canada with the OS upgrades. Couldn't be happier.
So .. in the last few days we've had Tornados, Earthquakes and now a Hurricane? Someone is pissed at us.
The community design document can be found here. They're effectively preventing anyone from creating a mobile computer device that is rectangular in shape with round corners. Unbelievable.
Went to a talk on this at IO this year, here is Google's take on it.
And you opted-in for it to do so.
Worth mentioning in Android's case is only used for caching so the data gets overwritten every so often. Unlike iPhone's
Here is a post on Waton's wagering by IBM Research.
How is this only an Android problem? The summary clearly states it relates to both Android and iPhone apps. Should the title have a brand modifier based on the number of times said brand appears in the summary? Ridiculous.
Obligatory bash.org quote:
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<erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is.
Just downloaded it for my HTC Magic (2.1) on Rogers and the 3G calling works perfectly. Used it on a free 1-800.
More details here. Growing up in Peru, and experiencing many earthquakes in my life time, you would think I would recognize an earthquake but I didn't feel a thing. 5.5 isn't a small shake either.
As someone who had a flight scheduled to go through an area that was affected by the ash, I say absolutely not. I don't care what the airlines say or how many millions they are losing. I think I will trust the engine manufacturers and their engineers rather than some airline suit sitting in his office when it comes to putting my life at risk in this context.
Yah the official "blog" for android.com developers hosted through blogspot. I guess if you had bothered to actually read where you were, you would have known that.
Knowing is half of the battle.
But it's got a JVM and JVMs take byte code...
Actually, Android uses Dalvik VM which uses .dex files instead. So no, you can't just take any traditional bytecode file and run on Android straight.
or like...
"How will Apple feel about Hulu as a potential competitor to iTunes? "
The fact that we even have to ask questions like this (because they are valid questions given Apple's practices) is what keeps me from buying and recommending Apple products.
According to this post, for rooted phones with the 911 fix, you can call Rogers and have them restore your data. Are they not doing that anymore?
For those interested, there are further discussions here and here.
In my case, I use Linux exclusively so this weekend I had to hunt down a Windows XP box (since it doesn't work on 7) that I could use. There was no way I was going to trust
the clowns at a Rogers store nor wait for the SD card to get shipped.
As much as I like Android and the whole concept of an open mobile platform, there is still a lot of work to do in terms of letting all members of that mobile ecosystem know who is resposnible for what. The entangled mess that is the mobile industry in Canada will be a challenge.
Thanks to Rogers' constant habit of sticking their stinky paws in the ROM to customize it with their useless icons (amongst other things), "supported" upgrades to Android devices such as the HTC Magic and HTC Dream are VERY difficult. Part of the reason Rogers was even able to release the fix so quickly was because a vocal group of us has been pushing Rogers and HTC to stop this nonsense and letting us upgrade - I'm sure work had already gotten started. I am curious about what would have happened if Rogers and HTC had continued with their no upgrades plans.
"I'm not entirely sure what this article is trying to prove. Android has been out for a year. It takes most software companies 6 months to ready a new release, test it, and put it out to market. If anyone (carriers or manufacturers) are interested in keeping their hardware on dated software, that won't be clear until at least June."
What part of "HTC has indicated that they do not plan any Android 1.6 upgrades for either the Rogers Dream or Magic but will instead remain on the 1.5 platform" did you fail to understand? This has nothing to do with a testing period. HTC and Rogers have confirmed they do NOT plan to upgrade beyond 1.5 bug fixes.