You can run unsigned code on Android. There's an option you can enable in the settings. Then you can just drop a.apk onto the device via USB, wifi, whatever, and install it manually.
You can download CAB files, or use special EXE files, to install stuff outside of Microsoft's app store on Windows Mobile too.No option enabling required. In fact, before they made their app store, that was the only way to do it. The best app store for winmo is Omarket anyway, which offers tons of freeware for download instead of the expensive (especially in MS's store) winmo commercial apps.
I know I'm going to regret this, but since you seem to be a tolerant person of good will, I will respond honestly and respectfully. Hopefully neither of us are like the people who want to execute that poor journalist this article was about, and can tolerate each other's human rights to think what we wish to think.
John 14:11 is perhaps the second-most obvious (though there are countless other examples): "Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves."
Absent the claim about believing through miracles, a claim of a prophet that is explicitly rejected in the Torah as a method of proof. The test is if he asks us to change our religion, in which case he is a false prophet, not if he produces miracles - which the Torah tells us to not heed.
The rest of that sentence, by the way, about G-d being in one etc, could nearly be said by any Chabad Chasid, though not in precisely those words.
In this text, he's using "in" in an existential manner; it refers to coexistence and coequality of essence and substance.
You're adding in the trintarian stuff now, do you really want to try to prove the Council of Nicene from the NT?!
The most-most obvious, however, is John 8:58: "Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM." This is the crucial one because "Yahweh" is simply ancient Hebrew for "I am." At the time, there were something like four or five extant claims to being the messiah. But the one guy calling himself Yahweh was considered a blasphemer.
YKVK is more than just I Am, it's the ground of existence, being and becoming to put it in western terms, something none of flesh and blood could claim of themselves. That's getting into theological territory, however.
There is a reason why the other claimants to being the messiah got more Jewish followers, such as Bar Kochba who had many thousands of Jewish followers including Rabbi Akiva shortly after the events depicted in the NT, or Sabbatai Tzvi who had half a million followers in the 17th century CE before his apostacy to Islam. We believe in the Tanakh's description of what the messiah is, and not the author of the Gospel of John, and according to you, what the protagonist of the Gospels said of himself. We have no reason to believe that either our religion changed, or what our scriptures and traditions say the Messiah is, is not the case. There are many good reasons to believe, however, that xtianity is another religion other than Judaism.
After the destruction of the temple by the Romans, Judiasm has had a two-thousand-year identity crisis. Many Jews no longer believe in a moshiach. Others think the moshiach will be just an event, or an idea. A mere concept that will somehow change the world. But in the original Hebrew texts (from before 200 CE, so predating talmudic texts like the mishnah), the moshiach was definitely a person.
I don't wish to be disrespectful, but you are misinformed about Jewish history, and Jewish texts, and overall Jewish belief outside of the Reform and Conservative movements which only began recently and themselves claim to be a "progression" from prior beliefs anyway so they wouldn't disagree with my assessment. The Mishnah and Gemara and all Orthodox Jews (i.e. all Jews until about a hundred and fifty years ago) believe the messiah is a person. Definitely a person, not a deity, or even a mere idea. A person, nearly as great as Moses our Teacher, who will transform the world for good, more than evil men have tried to transform the world for bad in the 20th century and other times.
The belief that he's a mere concept or event that you cite is that of Reform Judaism, not a "2,000 year identity crisis", but from a now almost uniquely American identity crisis. (Originally German, as Reform, was started to combat antisemitism in Germany by making Judiasm less "particular"
The impression of fanaticism comes from the few noisy/powerful fanatics. Who probably sit and read news reports about the few noisy/powerful fanatical Christians in the West.
I know someone who worked in Saudi Arabia, which is the only way foreigners are allowed to visit there except for the Hajj. They indeed cut off hands for theft, and heads for blasphemy. The latter, executions by sword, are performed by the hundreds per-year there in public stadiums. Maybe the average Saudi Arabian is a peaceful modern-day westerner in his outlook, I'm not a mind-reader. The average Saudi Arabian, however, does not vote, as they have a monarchy, and the only opposition to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia there are even more religiously fanatical and anti-western (if that can be believed) than the Monarchy itself, i.e. Al-Qaeda. Have you actually traveled extensively in the Muslim world, or do you just blindly assume it's like the US except for with turbans or something?
The second question was obviously rhetorical, and meant to point out that the one talking to him was skirting the point of acknowledging that he is God. He acknowledged his Godhood on several other occasions, making this one out to be a denial is to ignore the rest of his words.
Out of idle curiosity, and it really is idle because I'm not a believer in the NT even if he does say that, where exactly does he say that plainly? I don't mean just reinterpreting something he said as a rhetorical denial, I mean a place where he says. "I am the son of God" or "I am God". Incidentally, the Jewish version of the messiah is not a deity-in-flesh kind of thing, so if he said he was the Messiah (which he doesn't appear to quite owe up to either) he isn't saying that. I also mean "red letter" stuff, as the apostles were mostly gentiles or highly assimilated Jews who spoke Greek who were quite probably previously members of groups such as Mithraism prior to their becoming members of the new faith, and the Greco-Roman culture wasn't exactly known for a lack of syncretic tendencies.
You haven't explained why they need to produce material that's enriched beyond what's needed for nuclear power production, and in excess of what's needed for domestic medical needs as they've also claimed it's for. It's clear they're trying to obtain nuclear weapons.
Iran was offered safe nuclear power, i.e. that Russia or some other neutral country would do the producing of the fuel. Negotiators many times offered that as the main condition to lifting of sanctions in exchange for them stopping producing the stuff that's refine-able into nuclear weapons. Iran said no, we have to for "national pride" make it ourselves. Either they have a heck of a lot of national pride over making Uranium-235 of a grade better than what's needed for power reactors, or they are trying to acquire nukes. I suspect the latter.
Good post, but you should have been more careful about some of your facts, like the foreign aid one, it detracts from the truth of the rest of what you say.
- a Jew
Several people said the same thing about Nokia phones, but they according to XDA have carrier IQ also. There's no way to be sure unless your phone is open source.
Can't even one smartphone maker do a decent clamshell design?
Sprint (and Boost Mobile) got RIM to make one for them recently, the Blackberry Style, but the gadget blogs were too busy laughing at the fact that it was a clamshell to notice it was one of RIM's better phones. (As opposed to the Pearl Flip, which like all Pearls, was a piece of garbage.) It's end-of-lifed at Sprint already, though Boost Mobile, a prepaid subsidiary, still has some in stock.
if the reasons android phones get rooted were because of linux kernel exploits don't you think it would be a problem for all linux devices and servers?
No, because these are local exploits, which aren't as big a deal as a remote exploit for a server. They are enough to root an Android phone though.:-)
Linux kernel will be pwned? As in, once Linux reaches X% desktop share, all of the sudden a bunch of kernel exploits will be found? How? The value of a kernel exploit today, either local or remote, is already enormous. If they are already found at the rate they are introduced, then what does the popularity have to do with it??
I hate to inform you of this, but local root exploits are very common in the Linux kernel. How else do you think Android phones get rooted? They have to either via Linux kernel exploits, or Android exploits, and due to the well-known nature of the former, it's usually those when available. (They usually are.)
In Great Britain, T-Mobile has only a 500MB data plan for new customers (originally *all* customers, but the backlash was too great). They have an ad campaign now saying "don't view video or download files, save that for your computer at home".
Several DOS emulators are available for Windows Mobile. Here's a thread about it on XDA. XDA Forums by the way is a great resource for both Windows Mobile and Android device hacking. (Especially HTC devices, but they support some other popular phones too.)
That is the problem with the whole "regulation is bad" dogma. In Brazil telecom companies are forced to use the standards, in a way that I can freely hop between carriers at will. And my phone number is MY phone number. No matter what carrier I contract, my number goes with me. That's how a free market was supposed to work. Competition, folks.
My number goes with me, if I chose to, in the US too, I think the UK has this regulation as well. I'm not sure who's market you have in mind for that one.
Of course, the US happens to have a lack of standards, especially with regards CDMA vs GSM and the existence of two standards even for GSM 3g, that make keeping your actual phone, if it's a smartphone, difficult. (Even if you're switching from T-Mobile to AT&T with an unlocked phone, or vice versa, you're unlikely to be able to do better than EDGE speeds on your new carrier; and as for CDMA carriers, there is no such thing basically as an unlocked CDMA phone, and even if you hack one most CDMA carriers besides Cricket don't accept phones from other carriers on their network.)
I thought to myself, "why is CCP making you able to transport PLEX, which costs real money, outside of a station? Nobody is dumb enough to fly around with PLEX in their hold, even in 1.0, they're wasting their time." I was wrong.;-)
A few weeks ago EVE allowed you to be able to take PLEX outside of a station. That doesn't of course, mean that it's very smart to do so just because CCP decided to allow you to.:)
Which really isn't a terribly large prediction considering that the iPad has probably sold close to two million units already.
It is a terribly large prediction, sorry. For the simple reason that HP is not Apple.
HP doesn't seem to have much trouble selling more computers than Apple, I'd say it is a terribly small prediction considering that...
The only reason why tablet PCs from them didn't sell was that Tablet PCs sucked, from no fault of HP's (the reason was Microsoft's execution of the tablet platform.) If they've managed to fix that, they'll sell a respectable amount of these. It has the potential to sell more actually, just as Android phones have now sold more handsets than the iPhone.
Proprietary closed platforms, no matter what their benefits, never historically outsell more open computational platforms if a little bit of mass production scale and places to sell the product are behind them, and HP has both of those.
For now I'd either go with Android, bank on Google and Java and that environment, or wait for MeeGo to grow up a bit and then develop what amounts to a standard Linux system (linux, GNU coreutils, etc...).
Either way you'll need to write some code for touchscreen UIs, but at least both platforms are pretty darn open.
WebOS has some open stuff in the base layer, but their entire GUI layer is pretty much closed, right? So why would anyone choose to develop for it? I mean, if you want a closed-source environment, why wouldn't you just go with Apple's offerings?
If you haven't used it, grab the free SDK (works on Linux, Mac, and Windows) and take a look at the emulator or take a look at a Palm Pre/Pre Plus. Palm's WebOS has a very smooth interface, something Android is missing to some extent. Also, programming for WebOS is quite open and they allow and even *encourage* modifications and unofficial applications outside the "app catalog", which makes it a lot more open than the iPad.
Unless you want to modify the GUI engine itself (which is basically just a way to throw pixels for a WebKit/V8-based Javascript engine, and for PDK apps, a way to manage slightly SDL, and OpenGLES, and the SDL is part of the GUI that is open source....) WebOS is just as open from a practical standpoint as Android if not slightly more open since no rooting is needed whatsoever. Also, one can modify apps and make themes easily since everything is just Javascript text files basically. (You get a root prompt to do what you want with with the SDK!) When's the last time you could modify Google Maps on Android, for just one example? You can do that with WebOS, closed source or no closed source, the source is there.:-) Homebrewers have added features to it, such as Google Latitude, that Google disabled on WebOS because they have a bit of preferential treatment to Android and their former board member Apple rather than little rival Palm.;-) Also, many other included apps have all sorts of modifications available for them called "patches". It's very much in the spirit of open source. You can even grab alternative kernels, and enhance the performance of your Pre or Pre Plus (I don't know if they bothered making alternative kernels for the Pixi yet, though that could be interesting...)
It also resembles a standard Linux distro more under the hood than Android really, which is a very good thing, almost all the frameworks you'd find on a Linux desktop, like gstreamer, are there, and the file system hierarchy should be familiar as well. Only the N900 really has it beat as far as that goes, and the N900 is a little *too* Unixy in the interface department unlike WebOS. (Though if you insist, the Homebrew folks have developed Qt and X11 for WebOS too, which makes a wealth of ugly apps such as even OpenOffice, if you want to really torture yourself trying to run it;-), available for WebOS.;-) Maybe OpenOffice will run better on the HP Slate though...)
Incidentally this highlights another advantage of WebOS, frequent over the air updates that often add speed and functionality. Hopefully HP can keep up the pace that Palm has.
Well, the browser has gotten better since it is now based on a later version of WebKit and V8 than before. I never have had infinite reloads and crashes here, even with desktop Gmail web browsing, though doing that on a screen the resoluton of the Pre's is for masochists only.
I've used a Palm Pre, it's UI is slick, intuitive and a joy to use.
Then I tried to get an SSH client, there isn't one as far as I could tell.
There are two command line ones, DropBear and OpenSSH, in homebrew.
I thought "oh that's fine I'll use VNC web access" but then remembered it's implemented as a Java applet.
VNC clients are available, either via PalmOS emulation (they work fine) or via Linux framebuffer apps. Hopefully they'll work on getting X11, which is also available and works with remote X11 protocols, to cooperate with some VNC app soon for those who don't want to run one in "Classic", the emulator.
The browser sucked, Gmail got stuck in infinite reloading loops when it wasn't outright crashing the browser (to be fair it didn't crash the OS).
You were trying to view the desktop Gmail in a mobile browser?? That's bound to have usability issues on any phone. Besides, the email client supports Gmail. Use it. (Mutters about people using browsers for everything.)
I tried finding an application repository, no joy.
There is one major one, has over a thousand apps, patches, and themes. It's called PrewareIn addition, you can load beta apps for the app catalog using Preware or Appscoop, and other feeds you can put into Preware exist, mostly for testing, alternate kernels, and such.
I tried an h.264 video, no support. I looked at developing for it, then found I couldn't use programming languages, I was forced to cludge together "applications" with document mark up languages. I gave up.
You give up too easily. The PDK allows you to program in C/C++ for it with Linux frameworks - it's more Linuxy then than Android. Or you can develop using ordinary Linux apps Homebrew style, though for display you'll need to install X11 for SDL or program it to use SDL and/or OpenGLES if it's a game using the Homebrew toolkit or the official PDK. Even before they added SDL to the frameworks with firmware 1.3.5, WebOS is recognizably Linux in many ways that Android is not
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Windows Phone 7, on the other hand, has to be jailbroken - because Microsoft seems to think copying Apple is a good idea now.
You can run unsigned code on Android. There's an option you can enable in the settings. Then you can just drop a .apk onto the device via USB, wifi, whatever, and install it manually.
You can download CAB files, or use special EXE files, to install stuff outside of Microsoft's app store on Windows Mobile too.No option enabling required. In fact, before they made their app store, that was the only way to do it. The best app store for winmo is Omarket anyway, which offers tons of freeware for download instead of the expensive (especially in MS's store) winmo commercial apps.
Absent the claim about believing through miracles, a claim of a prophet that is explicitly rejected in the Torah as a method of proof. The test is if he asks us to change our religion, in which case he is a false prophet, not if he produces miracles - which the Torah tells us to not heed. The rest of that sentence, by the way, about G-d being in one etc, could nearly be said by any Chabad Chasid, though not in precisely those words.
You're adding in the trintarian stuff now, do you really want to try to prove the Council of Nicene from the NT?!
YKVK is more than just I Am, it's the ground of existence, being and becoming to put it in western terms, something none of flesh and blood could claim of themselves. That's getting into theological territory, however. There is a reason why the other claimants to being the messiah got more Jewish followers, such as Bar Kochba who had many thousands of Jewish followers including Rabbi Akiva shortly after the events depicted in the NT, or Sabbatai Tzvi who had half a million followers in the 17th century CE before his apostacy to Islam. We believe in the Tanakh's description of what the messiah is, and not the author of the Gospel of John, and according to you, what the protagonist of the Gospels said of himself. We have no reason to believe that either our religion changed, or what our scriptures and traditions say the Messiah is, is not the case. There are many good reasons to believe, however, that xtianity is another religion other than Judaism.
I don't wish to be disrespectful, but you are misinformed about Jewish history, and Jewish texts, and overall Jewish belief outside of the Reform and Conservative movements which only began recently and themselves claim to be a "progression" from prior beliefs anyway so they wouldn't disagree with my assessment. The Mishnah and Gemara and all Orthodox Jews (i.e. all Jews until about a hundred and fifty years ago) believe the messiah is a person. Definitely a person, not a deity, or even a mere idea. A person, nearly as great as Moses our Teacher, who will transform the world for good, more than evil men have tried to transform the world for bad in the 20th century and other times.
The belief that he's a mere concept or event that you cite is that of Reform Judaism, not a "2,000 year identity crisis", but from a now almost uniquely American identity crisis. (Originally German, as Reform, was started to combat antisemitism in Germany by making Judiasm less "particular"
I know someone who worked in Saudi Arabia, which is the only way foreigners are allowed to visit there except for the Hajj. They indeed cut off hands for theft, and heads for blasphemy. The latter, executions by sword, are performed by the hundreds per-year there in public stadiums. Maybe the average Saudi Arabian is a peaceful modern-day westerner in his outlook, I'm not a mind-reader. The average Saudi Arabian, however, does not vote, as they have a monarchy, and the only opposition to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia there are even more religiously fanatical and anti-western (if that can be believed) than the Monarchy itself, i.e. Al-Qaeda. Have you actually traveled extensively in the Muslim world, or do you just blindly assume it's like the US except for with turbans or something?
Out of idle curiosity, and it really is idle because I'm not a believer in the NT even if he does say that, where exactly does he say that plainly? I don't mean just reinterpreting something he said as a rhetorical denial, I mean a place where he says. "I am the son of God" or "I am God". Incidentally, the Jewish version of the messiah is not a deity-in-flesh kind of thing, so if he said he was the Messiah (which he doesn't appear to quite owe up to either) he isn't saying that. I also mean "red letter" stuff, as the apostles were mostly gentiles or highly assimilated Jews who spoke Greek who were quite probably previously members of groups such as Mithraism prior to their becoming members of the new faith, and the Greco-Roman culture wasn't exactly known for a lack of syncretic tendencies.
You haven't explained why they need to produce material that's enriched beyond what's needed for nuclear power production, and in excess of what's needed for domestic medical needs as they've also claimed it's for. It's clear they're trying to obtain nuclear weapons.
Iran was offered safe nuclear power, i.e. that Russia or some other neutral country would do the producing of the fuel. Negotiators many times offered that as the main condition to lifting of sanctions in exchange for them stopping producing the stuff that's refine-able into nuclear weapons. Iran said no, we have to for "national pride" make it ourselves. Either they have a heck of a lot of national pride over making Uranium-235 of a grade better than what's needed for power reactors, or they are trying to acquire nukes. I suspect the latter.
Good post, but you should have been more careful about some of your facts, like the foreign aid one, it detracts from the truth of the rest of what you say. - a Jew
Several people said the same thing about Nokia phones, but they according to XDA have carrier IQ also. There's no way to be sure unless your phone is open source.
Nobody has posted on this yet, but even iPhone, Nokia, and Blackberry phones; not to mention Android phones, get "Carrier IQ" in their stock ROMs: http://www.xda-developers.com/android/the-rootkit-of-all-evil-ciq/
Can't even one smartphone maker do a decent clamshell design?
Sprint (and Boost Mobile) got RIM to make one for them recently, the Blackberry Style, but the gadget blogs were too busy laughing at the fact that it was a clamshell to notice it was one of RIM's better phones. (As opposed to the Pearl Flip, which like all Pearls, was a piece of garbage.) It's end-of-lifed at Sprint already, though Boost Mobile, a prepaid subsidiary, still has some in stock.
if the reasons android phones get rooted were because of linux kernel exploits don't you think it would be a problem for all linux devices and servers?
No, because these are local exploits, which aren't as big a deal as a remote exploit for a server. They are enough to root an Android phone though. :-)
Linux kernel will be pwned? As in, once Linux reaches X% desktop share, all of the sudden a bunch of kernel exploits will be found? How? The value of a kernel exploit today, either local or remote, is already enormous. If they are already found at the rate they are introduced, then what does the popularity have to do with it??
I hate to inform you of this, but local root exploits are very common in the Linux kernel. How else do you think Android phones get rooted? They have to either via Linux kernel exploits, or Android exploits, and due to the well-known nature of the former, it's usually those when available. (They usually are.)
In Great Britain, T-Mobile has only a 500MB data plan for new customers (originally *all* customers, but the backlash was too great). They have an ad campaign now saying "don't view video or download files, save that for your computer at home".
Several DOS emulators are available for Windows Mobile. Here's a thread about it on XDA. XDA Forums by the way is a great resource for both Windows Mobile and Android device hacking. (Especially HTC devices, but they support some other popular phones too.)
and they say that the iPhone can't do things that Android and WinMo can do!
That is the problem with the whole "regulation is bad" dogma. In Brazil telecom companies are forced to use the standards, in a way that I can freely hop between carriers at will. And my phone number is MY phone number. No matter what carrier I contract, my number goes with me. That's how a free market was supposed to work. Competition, folks.
My number goes with me, if I chose to, in the US too, I think the UK has this regulation as well. I'm not sure who's market you have in mind for that one.
Of course, the US happens to have a lack of standards, especially with regards CDMA vs GSM and the existence of two standards even for GSM 3g, that make keeping your actual phone, if it's a smartphone, difficult. (Even if you're switching from T-Mobile to AT&T with an unlocked phone, or vice versa, you're unlikely to be able to do better than EDGE speeds on your new carrier; and as for CDMA carriers, there is no such thing basically as an unlocked CDMA phone, and even if you hack one most CDMA carriers besides Cricket don't accept phones from other carriers on their network.)
I thought to myself, "why is CCP making you able to transport PLEX, which costs real money, outside of a station? Nobody is dumb enough to fly around with PLEX in their hold, even in 1.0, they're wasting their time." I was wrong. ;-)
A few weeks ago EVE allowed you to be able to take PLEX outside of a station. That doesn't of course, mean that it's very smart to do so just because CCP decided to allow you to. :)
Which really isn't a terribly large prediction considering that the iPad has probably sold close to two million units already.
It is a terribly large prediction, sorry. For the simple reason that HP is not Apple.
HP doesn't seem to have much trouble selling more computers than Apple, I'd say it is a terribly small prediction considering that...
The only reason why tablet PCs from them didn't sell was that Tablet PCs sucked, from no fault of HP's (the reason was Microsoft's execution of the tablet platform.) If they've managed to fix that, they'll sell a respectable amount of these. It has the potential to sell more actually, just as Android phones have now sold more handsets than the iPhone.
Proprietary closed platforms, no matter what their benefits, never historically outsell more open computational platforms if a little bit of mass production scale and places to sell the product are behind them, and HP has both of those.
For now I'd either go with Android, bank on Google and Java and that environment, or wait for MeeGo to grow up a bit and then develop what amounts to a standard Linux system (linux, GNU coreutils, etc...).
Either way you'll need to write some code for touchscreen UIs, but at least both platforms are pretty darn open.
WebOS has some open stuff in the base layer, but their entire GUI layer is pretty much closed, right? So why would anyone choose to develop for it? I mean, if you want a closed-source environment, why wouldn't you just go with Apple's offerings?
If you haven't used it, grab the free SDK (works on Linux, Mac, and Windows) and take a look at the emulator or take a look at a Palm Pre/Pre Plus. Palm's WebOS has a very smooth interface, something Android is missing to some extent. Also, programming for WebOS is quite open and they allow and even *encourage* modifications and unofficial applications outside the "app catalog", which makes it a lot more open than the iPad.
Unless you want to modify the GUI engine itself (which is basically just a way to throw pixels for a WebKit/V8-based Javascript engine, and for PDK apps, a way to manage slightly SDL, and OpenGLES, and the SDL is part of the GUI that is open source....) WebOS is just as open from a practical standpoint as Android if not slightly more open since no rooting is needed whatsoever. Also, one can modify apps and make themes easily since everything is just Javascript text files basically. (You get a root prompt to do what you want with with the SDK!) When's the last time you could modify Google Maps on Android, for just one example? You can do that with WebOS, closed source or no closed source, the source is there. :-) Homebrewers have added features to it, such as Google Latitude, that Google disabled on WebOS because they have a bit of preferential treatment to Android and their former board member Apple rather than little rival Palm. ;-) Also, many other included apps have all sorts of modifications available for them called "patches". It's very much in the spirit of open source. You can even grab alternative kernels, and enhance the performance of your Pre or Pre Plus (I don't know if they bothered making alternative kernels for the Pixi yet, though that could be interesting...)
It also resembles a standard Linux distro more under the hood than Android really, which is a very good thing, almost all the frameworks you'd find on a Linux desktop, like gstreamer, are there, and the file system hierarchy should be familiar as well. Only the N900 really has it beat as far as that goes, and the N900 is a little *too* Unixy in the interface department unlike WebOS. (Though if you insist, the Homebrew folks have developed Qt and X11 for WebOS too, which makes a wealth of ugly apps such as even OpenOffice, if you want to really torture yourself trying to run it ;-), available for WebOS. ;-) Maybe OpenOffice will run better on the HP Slate though...)
Incidentally this highlights another advantage of WebOS, frequent over the air updates that often add speed and functionality. Hopefully HP can keep up the pace that Palm has.
Well, the browser has gotten better since it is now based on a later version of WebKit and V8 than before. I never have had infinite reloads and crashes here, even with desktop Gmail web browsing, though doing that on a screen the resoluton of the Pre's is for masochists only.
I've used a Palm Pre, it's UI is slick, intuitive and a joy to use.
Then I tried to get an SSH client, there isn't one as far as I could tell.
There are two command line ones, DropBear and OpenSSH, in homebrew.
I thought "oh that's fine I'll use VNC web access" but then remembered it's implemented as a Java applet.
VNC clients are available, either via PalmOS emulation (they work fine) or via Linux framebuffer apps. Hopefully they'll work on getting X11, which is also available and works with remote X11 protocols, to cooperate with some VNC app soon for those who don't want to run one in "Classic", the emulator.
The browser sucked, Gmail got stuck in infinite reloading loops when it wasn't outright crashing the browser (to be fair it didn't crash the OS).
You were trying to view the desktop Gmail in a mobile browser?? That's bound to have usability issues on any phone. Besides, the email client supports Gmail. Use it. (Mutters about people using browsers for everything.)
I tried finding an application repository, no joy.
There is one major one, has over a thousand apps, patches, and themes. It's called PrewareIn addition, you can load beta apps for the app catalog using Preware or Appscoop, and other feeds you can put into Preware exist, mostly for testing, alternate kernels, and such.
I tried an h.264 video, no support. I looked at developing for it, then found I couldn't use programming languages, I was forced to cludge together "applications" with document mark up languages. I gave up.
You give up too easily. The PDK allows you to program in C/C++ for it with Linux frameworks - it's more Linuxy then than Android. Or you can develop using ordinary Linux apps Homebrew style, though for display you'll need to install X11 for SDL or program it to use SDL and/or OpenGLES if it's a game using the Homebrew toolkit or the official PDK. Even before they added SDL to the frameworks with firmware 1.3.5, WebOS is recognizably Linux in many ways that Android is not
You aren't going to use up a 100GB cap with 128kbps internet radio.