Give me a ubuntu rom that works and I'll install it myself.
Yeah, I talked to a Ubuntu guy at an Android conference about this who was showing off a dual Android-Ubuntu runnin Mororola Atrix II. His position was fairly much 'no', since they want to sell this to manufacturers as a feature they can have. Shame, though I can see their point of view.
I can't speak for Europe in general, but you are mostly incorrect for the UK. Fuel duty is calculated on a quantity basis, which is most of the tax. VAT is calculated on a price basis, but that is minor compared to the duty.
Yes, because it's always possible to work with the best programmers the world can provide. In the *real* world there is a finite availability of top programmers, and they might not be working where you are.
You show yourself to be very naive if you think that every business has the time to let you do TDD, and will provide you with a perfect, experienced team of developers.
Separate from how this particular guy acted in this situation, don't you think we're in a ridiculous situation where you must beg and plead with Apple to incorporate a *charging connector*. This is technology that every other manufacturer have standardised on, but Apple continue to screw over everyone with their proprietary, *restricted* design.
Why are we still in the situation that a charging connector has to be licensed, by a company that can say no for any reason? This is silly!
Something tells me he is more upset that somebody else won't be paying for all of those things for his personal gain. Well guess what: When you live by the "free" service you die by the "free" service.
More than that, he's a hypocrite. If you reply to his post he gets very uppity if you're not super-polite, and there's not really any debate allowed. If you don't agree with him he will delete your comment. (as happened to me)
His argument being: "You're a guest here, play by my rules". Fine, but guess what, Flickr, and all sites, have a similar policy.
Most educated christians and muslims and Jews have no problem with evolution, despite the stereotypes thrown about on slashdot by people obsessed with a certain minority. While establishing his theory of evolution, and for many years after Charles Darwni himself continued to be a practicing Christian
As an "educated" Christian myself who believes in Evolution led by God,
Unfortunately they are fundamentally incompatible. You cannot have evolution led by anything, because then it becomes not evolution, but very gradual incremental design.
The question is - why are people buying these computers?
Um... because not everyone in the world has the skills and time? Sure, you and me like to build our own, but most people want a PC that works out of the box (Having said that, the last two computers I bought were custom at-the-shop builds because I don't have the inclination to do it myself anymore). Don't those people deserve a computer that works properly?
The Register was described as being "a publication with an open pro-Microsoft bias".
Not really, they generally have an anti-everything bias (tag line is "Biting the hand that feeds IT"), and occasionally revel in saying things that go against the generally accepted geek point of view. I read every day, and I don't think they have a pro-anything bias.
Starting with a stupid sexist accusation like that makes me and many other people ignore the rest of your comment. Perhaps you have a valid point about her behaviour in office, but if you're unable to make it without a completely unjustified sexual slur, then you don't deserve to be heard.
Forgive the assumption, but I could bet real money that you're white and male. You might feel differently if you were judged your whole life on appearance alone.
Torchwood was generally unwatchable, you can't turn a children's show (Who) into an adult show simply by added sex and swearing, but that's what they tried with Torchwood. Atleast Miracle Day tried something a bit different, and I think was stronger for it.
Ah, they do push a little though don't they? The number of iPhones I've seen that have been 'upgraded' into uselessness because they can't run the latest version of iOS at a reasonable speed... Useful quality, that...
The fragmentation of the Android platform is ridiculous. Not only do you have to worry about processors, screen ratio, resolution and anything else hardware related... you also have to worry about fragmentation of the operating system. Some people might have gingerbread and haven't upgraded to ice cream sandwich yet. And perhaps their phone can't handle the newest version. On top of that users may not have enough technical knowledge to fix it.
I don't know how to say this without sounding harsh but: Yes, you have to worry about those things, like a *professional software developer*. Before mobile we used to have to worry about different versions of Windows, different screen sizes, different computer speeds and hardware capabilities. Somehow we survived!
I've never understood this blindness, the dominance of iOS was always only going to be temporary, different price points, sizes, models were always going to win out in the end. It's happened before with PCs, it's happening with mobile.
No, because we're talking about $3.00 per device. Apple will eat it, and instead start building up other foundry companies to build the Ax SoC's and take the billion dollar business away from Samsung.
Typical case of small short term gain, big long term loss.
Well... maybe, depends on whether Samsung are figuring that that's the route Apple is taking anyway (Apple have taken a few pieces of iPhone in-house recently to save costs) and are making hay while they still have a competitive advantage. If Samsung guess that Apple will eventually transition away from them as a supplier (and given the ongoing animosity, it's not a bad guess) then while they are they will want to squeeze their customer.
eg, a chess app rejected because the chat bubbles looked too much like Apple's, a audio streaming app update that is rejected for using "excessive data usage". The fact that updates get caught, and decisions reversed, to me kindof reinforces the whole 'whim' thing.
Isn't this the problem with the whole model though? You have to make the app, invest the thousands to make it work, and only then, after you've spent the money do you get to find out whether it was a complete and total waste or not. Based entirely on a large multinational's whim.
I've created one Hello World app, just to see how it works. I've followed directions, didn't do anything to snoop around. The result is that it needs Phone ID somehow. I suspect that many app programmers do nothing to snoop around, but automatically request more permissions than actually needed, probably because the programming IDE does this automatically.
Can you not just use the ANDROID_ID which doesn't require any permissions?
> I wish the Nexus 7 had what most Android tablets lack: a full-size USB port (or SD card slot) to make such OS experimenting easier.
*Sigh*. Really? *Really?* You want to ruin the design by putting an oversized USB socket just because it would save 1 person in hundreds of thousands from having to buy an adapter? Which you probably own anyway?
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Give me a ubuntu rom that works and I'll install it myself.
Yeah, I talked to a Ubuntu guy at an Android conference about this who was showing off a dual Android-Ubuntu runnin Mororola Atrix II. His position was fairly much 'no', since they want to sell this to manufacturers as a feature they can have. Shame, though I can see their point of view.
I can't speak for Europe in general, but you are mostly incorrect for the UK.
Fuel duty is calculated on a quantity basis, which is most of the tax. VAT is calculated on a price basis, but that is minor compared to the duty.
You're working with the wrong programmers then.
Yes, because it's always possible to work with the best programmers the world can provide. In the *real* world there is a finite availability of top programmers, and they might not be working where you are.
You show yourself to be very naive if you think that every business has the time to let you do TDD, and will provide you with a perfect, experienced team of developers.
Separate from how this particular guy acted in this situation, don't you think we're in a ridiculous situation where you must beg and plead with Apple to incorporate a *charging connector*. This is technology that every other manufacturer have standardised on, but Apple continue to screw over everyone with their proprietary, *restricted* design.
Why are we still in the situation that a charging connector has to be licensed, by a company that can say no for any reason? This is silly!
Something tells me he is more upset that somebody else won't be paying for all of those things for his personal gain. Well guess what: When you live by the "free" service you die by the "free" service.
More than that, he's a hypocrite. If you reply to his post he gets very uppity if you're not super-polite, and there's not really any debate allowed. If you don't agree with him he will delete your comment. (as happened to me)
His argument being: "You're a guest here, play by my rules". Fine, but guess what, Flickr, and all sites, have a similar policy.
I'm searching for the joke in your post but I'm at a loss...
Um... surely how much you care depends on how many you're going to do...? 450 CDs at an hour each would take months!
Most educated christians and muslims and Jews have no problem with evolution, despite the stereotypes thrown about on slashdot by people obsessed with a certain minority. While establishing his theory of evolution, and for many years after Charles Darwni himself continued to be a practicing Christian
As an "educated" Christian myself who believes in Evolution led by God,
Unfortunately they are fundamentally incompatible. You cannot have evolution led by anything, because then it becomes not evolution, but very gradual incremental design.
The question is - why are people buying these computers?
Um... because not everyone in the world has the skills and time? Sure, you and me like to build our own, but most people want a PC that works out of the box (Having said that, the last two computers I bought were custom at-the-shop builds because I don't have the inclination to do it myself anymore). Don't those people deserve a computer that works properly?
Somehow, it doesn't surprise me even slightly to learn that Andrew Orlowski is a dick...
The Register was described as being "a publication with an open pro-Microsoft bias".
Not really, they generally have an anti-everything bias (tag line is "Biting the hand that feeds IT"), and occasionally revel in saying things that go against the generally accepted geek point of view. I read every day, and I don't think they have a pro-anything bias.
it was this whore
Starting with a stupid sexist accusation like that makes me and many other people ignore the rest of your comment. Perhaps you have a valid point about her behaviour in office, but if you're unable to make it without a completely unjustified sexual slur, then you don't deserve to be heard.
Grow the fuck up.
Yeah! Wait.... what?
Yet *you're* the first one to mention race...
Forgive the assumption, but I could bet real money that you're white and male. You might feel differently if you were judged your whole life on appearance alone.
Torchwood was generally unwatchable, you can't turn a children's show (Who) into an adult show simply by added sex and swearing, but that's what they tried with Torchwood. Atleast Miracle Day tried something a bit different, and I think was stronger for it.
Apple doesn't push.
Ah, they do push a little though don't they? The number of iPhones I've seen that have been 'upgraded' into uselessness because they can't run the latest version of iOS at a reasonable speed... Useful quality, that...
The fragmentation of the Android platform is ridiculous. Not only do you have to worry about processors, screen ratio, resolution and anything else hardware related... you also have to worry about fragmentation of the operating system. Some people might have gingerbread and haven't upgraded to ice cream sandwich yet. And perhaps their phone can't handle the newest version. On top of that users may not have enough technical knowledge to fix it.
I don't know how to say this without sounding harsh but: Yes, you have to worry about those things, like a *professional software developer*. Before mobile we used to have to worry about different versions of Windows, different screen sizes, different computer speeds and hardware capabilities. Somehow we survived!
I've never understood this blindness, the dominance of iOS was always only going to be temporary, different price points, sizes, models were always going to win out in the end. It's happened before with PCs, it's happening with mobile.
No, because we're talking about $3.00 per device. Apple will eat it, and instead start building up other foundry companies to build the Ax SoC's and take the billion dollar business away from Samsung.
Typical case of small short term gain, big long term loss.
Well... maybe, depends on whether Samsung are figuring that that's the route Apple is taking anyway (Apple have taken a few pieces of iPhone in-house recently to save costs) and are making hay while they still have a competitive advantage. If Samsung guess that Apple will eventually transition away from them as a supplier (and given the ongoing animosity, it's not a bad guess) then while they are they will want to squeeze their customer.
I am thrilled to hear that we have a cure for cancer.
If you look carefully, I think you will find that all healthcare systems let people with cancer die.
Oh... don't be a dick. You know very well that he's talking about the provision of appropriate treatment regardless of current financial state.
And yes, we currently have a cure for several types of cancer.
You do know it took them a *year* to approve the original Google Voice app?
http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/apple/20-classic-apple-app-store-rejections-654230
eg, a chess app rejected because the chat bubbles looked too much like Apple's, a audio streaming app update that is rejected for using "excessive data usage". The fact that updates get caught, and decisions reversed, to me kindof reinforces the whole 'whim' thing.
Isn't this the problem with the whole model though? You have to make the app, invest the thousands to make it work, and only then, after you've spent the money do you get to find out whether it was a complete and total waste or not. Based entirely on a large multinational's whim.
I've created one Hello World app, just to see how it works. I've followed directions, didn't do anything to snoop around. The result is that it needs Phone ID somehow. I suspect that many app programmers do nothing to snoop around, but automatically request more permissions than actually needed, probably because the programming IDE does this automatically.
Can you not just use the ANDROID_ID which doesn't require any permissions?
> I wish the Nexus 7 had what most Android tablets lack: a full-size USB port (or SD card slot) to make such OS experimenting easier.
*Sigh*. Really? *Really?* You want to ruin the design by putting an oversized USB socket just because it would save 1 person in hundreds of thousands from having to buy an adapter? Which you probably own anyway?