Balls. Facebook is useful, it's just not *as useful or essential* as the media hype has made out.
It's great for keeping in touch with distant friends (and that is a valid form of friendship, despite what some people on/. seem to claim that friendships are a binary go-out-for-a-beer-or-you're-dead-to-me), organsing events/parties whatever, publicising trivial stuff, whatever.
It won't go away, but it probably won't change the world (any more).
~$80,000 really isn't that much money if you learn to SACRIFICE and save you money
You're a dick. You can't conjure up enough imagination to picture that saving tens of thousands of dollars is beyond a good proportion of the population? Really?
Land of Opportunity, huh...? Apparently if your parents can't save for you then you don't deserve education.
And your reply is testimony to the "kinda shitty" attitudes with our modern society. Character is what you do when no one will ever know what you did. You and he have none. I would love to reply under my login, but evidently replies like this keep my karma level in the basement.
Hm... I don't disagree, but hiding behind an AC and then judging someone on what they do when unknown? You know that 'character' is also questionable when you hide your identity just because some people might disagree with you?
Just spent the week at the Game Developers Conference in SF and this seemed to be a bit of a recurring theme from having conversations with a couple mobile developers. The cost of supporting Android is too high in many cases and not worth the effort.
Once of the sessions I sat in on (can't remember who it was now, embarrassingly - I think it was PopCap talking about Bejeweled - not a bit player) pointed out that Android has many many variants on many different handsets. Even though the market size is roughly the same as iOS (his numbers were around ~250m each), iOS has way fewer variants to deal with, whereas Android had many.
I think this is a natural issue from the two models, with iPhone's headstart it's only now that Android are getting comparable numbers. You can imagine this is going to change though, with the wider variety of manufacturers and handset form factors Android phones are outselling iPhones by almost 2-to-1. How long until the installed base is significantly bigger and starts earning more support time?
The whole match is playing out so similarly to the Mac-vs-PC in the 90s...
Remember, the police are not your friend. They deal all day every day with people trying to get the better of them, get around them, there is no way a person can be in that job and not be affected by it.
Not sure I've ever seen denial that blatant before.
Of course you could put your fingers in your ears and believe what you want to believe, or you could look at some of the early previews and see for yourself that your claim is bullshit.
The threat to india is men on foot or motorbikes with rifles and explosives in their backpacks. Fighter aircraft aren't very useful to counter that kind of an opponent.
-jcr
Yes because a country can only deal with one possible threat or problem at a time. All other threats apart from the most obvious one are irrelevant and can be ignored...
So basically, you're saying "It's different, therefore I find it scary and view it with suspicion."
Yeah, great. That mindset has served mankind very well over the years.
Jeez... we're not talking a moral choice here, we're talking about a technical standard. And if you do something different from the standard and nobody can think of a good reason... but they *can* think of a number of nefarious reasons... that's a pretty good basis for suspicion.
If you had even an ounce of imagination or empathy you might consider that perhaps different people have different bodies, and different sensitivities. Good for you that you don't have problems. Perhaps other people aren't as lucky as you, and perhaps their capacity for repetitive movement isn't what yours is.
You have just used a whole two anecdotes to judge thousands of other people. What a bigot.
However, since you are not the only person affected when you have an accident (even one through no fault of your own) then you really shouldn't have complete autonomy on what you are allowed to pilot.
Yea regulations, I get to pay extra for car and continue paying extra over its entire life in added fuel, because regulations require it be built to protect me from myself. Here's a crazy thought drive responsible, which includes not doing so while drunk or sleepy, and all that safety stuff would be less necessary.
And... of course... protect *everyone else* from your good (or bad) driving.
Excuse me for shouting, but it seems that there's a massive hole in your and several people's logic in this discussion: YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY PERSON WHO IS AFFECTED BY YOUR CAR.
We all think we're better drivers than we are. Don't think you're infallible, even a perfect driver will have unexpected things (oil, ice, tire puncture) that they won't be able to deal with. Then when you hit me in my car or as a pedestrian, I will be much happier that some safety standards were inflicted on your vehicle.
So in other words, you're an idiot that doesn't do any research on the products you buy. If people refuse to buy unsafe cars *gasp* then no businessman in his right mind would make them. Smarten up, dummy.
Of course if you thought about this *for a second* you'd realise that democratising safety is going to be a non-starter. If there are "idiots" around who will do no research on what they buy then *there will be manufacturers around to make them*. And since we all have to live in the same world then we all have to be at risk from those products.
*Thankyou*. I'm an Android dev too, and it constantly astonishes me that the form of "fragmentation" that most of the tech world complains about (OS version number) has nothing to do with the form of "fragmentation" that actually causes me any sort of real problem (screen aspect ratios / device bugs / differing OS implementations).
2.2 to 2.3 is far more than a "minor revision". It is a new major version considering all the system changes, UI changes, API additions and updates, etc.
Not really. There are changes but Android is remarkably good at keeping newer version backwards compatible. I've been professionally developing for Android for 2 years and I can remember perhaps a couple of times I've needed special code to deal with different versions.
The real problem with fragmentation is different hardware device implementations (and bugs), and different hardware speeds. There aren't easy ways to work out what class of device you're instlaled on, and lowest-common-denominator programming slips in.
People focus on OS versions and I have no idea why, I suspect they're not actually Android developers.
The solution for SMS as my bank implements it, is that SMS is never sent to a forwarded number. That's arranged between the bank and the carriers or so, I don't know the technical details, but SMS is sent only to the original number. That's already a safeguard against arranging numbers to be forwarded, which other commenters note is quite easy to accomplish.
This isn't the same as number porting. Porting is rerouting a number to a different SIM card, effectively permanently changing the network operator for a paritcular number. Many customers will have this on their number,so if you stop it then you won't be able to use SMS for possibly a majority of users.
It seems like most people, especially geeks, want to take the easy route and try get a job.
Or... you might find that running a business and writing software are very different skills. Running a business takes you away from the thing that you actually want to do! I know, I used to freelance, but now I work in an office where someone collects the money and finds the client. Much happier.
All good advice. Now you carry out that advice when travelling at 70MPH on a busy motorway. Not everybody knows the systems of their car as well as you do, and even those that do are liable to be panicked by the situation.
How you can argue that potentially locking the steering wheel isn't losing control of your car is beyond me. Are you sure you can find the 'accessories only' position of the key when under that sort of stress?
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Facebook on the other hand is not useful.
Balls. Facebook is useful, it's just not *as useful or essential* as the media hype has made out.
It's great for keeping in touch with distant friends (and that is a valid form of friendship, despite what some people on /. seem to claim that friendships are a binary go-out-for-a-beer-or-you're-dead-to-me), organsing events/parties whatever, publicising trivial stuff, whatever.
It won't go away, but it probably won't change the world (any more).
~$80,000 really isn't that much money if you learn to SACRIFICE and save you money
You're a dick. You can't conjure up enough imagination to picture that saving tens of thousands of dollars is beyond a good proportion of the population? Really?
Land of Opportunity, huh...? Apparently if your parents can't save for you then you don't deserve education.
The mere fact that a book written by someone nearly 70 years ago is still under copyright is ridiculous
Count on Slashdot to turn a story about naziism into an anti-copyright rant.
Is this an example of reverse-Goodwin's law?
and yet the normal Windows user will still have never heard of Gnome, nor will they care when you tell them about it.
...and then the average dissatisfied user can remain in their mire if they don't care about better things...
And your reply is testimony to the "kinda shitty" attitudes with our modern society. Character is what you do when no one will ever know what you did. You and he have none. I would love to reply under my login, but evidently replies like this keep my karma level in the basement.
Hm... I don't disagree, but hiding behind an AC and then judging someone on what they do when unknown? You know that 'character' is also questionable when you hide your identity just because some people might disagree with you?
The USS Constitution, launched in 1798, retired from active service in 1856, after 58 years of active service.
Pah... amateurs...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Victory
Just spent the week at the Game Developers Conference in SF and this seemed to be a bit of a recurring theme from having conversations with a couple mobile developers. The cost of supporting Android is too high in many cases and not worth the effort.
Once of the sessions I sat in on (can't remember who it was now, embarrassingly - I think it was PopCap talking about Bejeweled - not a bit player) pointed out that Android has many many variants on many different handsets. Even though the market size is roughly the same as iOS (his numbers were around ~250m each), iOS has way fewer variants to deal with, whereas Android had many.
I think this is a natural issue from the two models, with iPhone's headstart it's only now that Android are getting comparable numbers. You can imagine this is going to change though, with the wider variety of manufacturers and handset form factors Android phones are outselling iPhones by almost 2-to-1. How long until the installed base is significantly bigger and starts earning more support time?
The whole match is playing out so similarly to the Mac-vs-PC in the 90s...
There are a number of reasons:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=97484157416073610
Remember, the police are not your friend. They deal all day every day with people trying to get the better of them, get around them, there is no way a person can be in that job and not be affected by it.
Not sure I've ever seen denial that blatant before.
Of course you could put your fingers in your ears and believe what you want to believe, or you could look at some of the early previews and see for yourself that your claim is bullshit.
http://www.osnews.com/story/25264/Did_Android_Really_Look_Like_BlackBerry_Before_the_iPhone_
The threat to india is men on foot or motorbikes with rifles and explosives in their backpacks. Fighter aircraft aren't very useful to counter that kind of an opponent.
-jcr
Yes because a country can only deal with one possible threat or problem at a time. All other threats apart from the most obvious one are irrelevant and can be ignored...
So basically, you're saying "It's different, therefore I find it scary and view it with suspicion."
Yeah, great. That mindset has served mankind very well over the years.
Jeez... we're not talking a moral choice here, we're talking about a technical standard. And if you do something different from the standard and nobody can think of a good reason... but they *can* think of a number of nefarious reasons... that's a pretty good basis for suspicion.
If you had even an ounce of imagination or empathy you might consider that perhaps different people have different bodies, and different sensitivities. Good for you that you don't have problems. Perhaps other people aren't as lucky as you, and perhaps their capacity for repetitive movement isn't what yours is.
You have just used a whole two anecdotes to judge thousands of other people. What a bigot.
However, since you are not the only person affected when you have an accident (even one through no fault of your own) then you really shouldn't have complete autonomy on what you are allowed to pilot.
Yea regulations, I get to pay extra for car and continue paying extra over its entire life in added fuel, because regulations require it be built to protect me from myself. Here's a crazy thought drive responsible, which includes not doing so while drunk or sleepy, and all that safety stuff would be less necessary.
And... of course... protect *everyone else* from your good (or bad) driving.
Excuse me for shouting, but it seems that there's a massive hole in your and several people's logic in this discussion: YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY PERSON WHO IS AFFECTED BY YOUR CAR.
We all think we're better drivers than we are. Don't think you're infallible, even a perfect driver will have unexpected things (oil, ice, tire puncture) that they won't be able to deal with. Then when you hit me in my car or as a pedestrian, I will be much happier that some safety standards were inflicted on your vehicle.
So in other words, you're an idiot that doesn't do any research on the products you buy. If people refuse to buy unsafe cars *gasp* then no businessman in his right mind would make them. Smarten up, dummy.
Of course if you thought about this *for a second* you'd realise that democratising safety is going to be a non-starter. If there are "idiots" around who will do no research on what they buy then *there will be manufacturers around to make them*. And since we all have to live in the same world then we all have to be at risk from those products.
I mean, *come on*, think before you post!
*Thankyou*. I'm an Android dev too, and it constantly astonishes me that the form of "fragmentation" that most of the tech world complains about (OS version number) has nothing to do with the form of "fragmentation" that actually causes me any sort of real problem (screen aspect ratios / device bugs / differing OS implementations).
Oh. Right. Fair enough!
You can't argue that the gun isn't to blame for the death of the person who got shot with it in much the same way.
A gun has no will, therefore can have no blame.
And a communications website has no intent either...
It was apparently the French that threatened it in Battle of Agincourt because the English archers were too good.
Whether this is true or a myth though is up for debate...
2.2 to 2.3 is far more than a "minor revision". It is a new major version considering all the system changes, UI changes, API additions and updates, etc.
Not really. There are changes but Android is remarkably good at keeping newer version backwards compatible. I've been professionally developing for Android for 2 years and I can remember perhaps a couple of times I've needed special code to deal with different versions.
The real problem with fragmentation is different hardware device implementations (and bugs), and different hardware speeds. There aren't easy ways to work out what class of device you're instlaled on, and lowest-common-denominator programming slips in.
People focus on OS versions and I have no idea why, I suspect they're not actually Android developers.
The solution for SMS as my bank implements it, is that SMS is never sent to a forwarded number. That's arranged between the bank and the carriers or so, I don't know the technical details, but SMS is sent only to the original number. That's already a safeguard against arranging numbers to be forwarded, which other commenters note is quite easy to accomplish.
This isn't the same as number porting. Porting is rerouting a number to a different SIM card, effectively permanently changing the network operator for a paritcular number. Many customers will have this on their number ,so if you stop it then you won't be able to use SMS for possibly a majority of users.
It seems like most people, especially geeks, want to take the easy route and try get a job.
Or... you might find that running a business and writing software are very different skills. Running a business takes you away from the thing that you actually want to do! I know, I used to freelance, but now I work in an office where someone collects the money and finds the client. Much happier.
[Citation needed]
I would be grateful if this bit of 'humour' could not be posted to *every single vaguely cloud-related post*.
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2356014&cid=36928876
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1683582&cid=32542918
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2499970&cid=37882212
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2489600&cid=37805882
Christ. It was only mildly amusing to begin with, let it go.
All good advice. Now you carry out that advice when travelling at 70MPH on a busy motorway. Not everybody knows the systems of their car as well as you do, and even those that do are liable to be panicked by the situation.
How you can argue that potentially locking the steering wheel isn't losing control of your car is beyond me. Are you sure you can find the 'accessories only' position of the key when under that sort of stress?