Don't sell the fuck out to political parties and destroy your credibility.
He wasn't paid by the governor to produce these videos.
If Khan would like to go over these issues, do it in a political science course, do it in a history course...
Khan academy is no longer just about math. They've been expanding into many difference topics.
...but do it in the past tense as a learning resource.
Are you kidding me??? Do you also think school history/civics/geography/political science teachers should stay out of current events as well? Do you seriously want high school kids not to learn about the latest wars/conflicts the US is in, the results/statistics of the latest US elections, or the meaning behind some of the latest newspaper headlines regarding our economy or our budget deficits?
The newer iPads have the resolution and speed to do PDFs justice; but capacitive touchscreens aren't exactly god's gift to stylus-based annotation. Yeah, they sell capacitive styluses; but it isn't exactly a Wacom...
The Samsung Note tablets are not just capacitive. They can distinguish between your fingers and the pen. It's not even modal. In other words, if you're reading something, you can just use your finger(s) to flip the pages and the pen to highlight what you want. The tablet even knows when you're just hovering your pen over it, or whether you're actually touching the screen with it. It's quite amazing.
My only recommendation is that you if you get such a tablet, you get the latest version of the Note -- not the original Note. Samsung did a much better job integrating this technology in their latest version.
I'd love to have a 7-8 inch Surface...if the price was around $250-280 and it included Microsoft Office. Instead, I'm moving my wife and kids Nexus 7s ($200/pop) and hooking them up to Google Docs. I've even abandoned my iPad/iPod infrastructure at this point - tablets are way too fragile (and easily stolen) to be paying $400+ for each one.
If your kids need to write more than just a few words, or more than a few paragraphs for school, then they'll need a tablet with an integrated keyboard/trackpad like the Android Asus Transformer, or the Microsoft Surface (I do not recommend getting a third party bluetooth keyboard with a standalone tablet). The Asus Transformer does cost $350, so it's still less than half the price of a Surface, but $350 is still outside of your price range. So I'll recommend you something else.
The $200 Asus Nexus 7 is great for media, games, and browsing/reading, but it's not that great for typing and cutting and pasting. So instead of multiple "Nexus 7s", I'd suggest you get at least one Samsung Chromebook and one (or two) Nexus 7s. The Chromebook is not Android-based, it's not touch-based, and it's obviously not as fun a device as an Android tablet, but it comes at $250 a pop, it weighs little, it turns on instantly, it comes with an 11.6 inch screen, it has incredible battery life, and it's great for things like email and typing essays (and sharing the same device between multiple family members/guests).
Reply all serves a very important function when running large multi-day problem resolution threads that require large amounts of collaboration on a global scale.
It sounds like your company needs a web-based issue tracker, or a wiki, with its own built-in notification/subscription/approval request system.
Now we'll have to see if they have a slider with a decent size touchscreen. The full keyboard is nice but the screen on my BB is too small to make using the thing worthwhile.
Their first flagship BB10 phone has a decent-size touch-screen (with no keyboard, not even a sliding one).
If you want a keyboard, you'll have to wait, or you'll have to go to Android. There are a number Android phone models that have keyboards and touchscreens combined, it's just that those types of phones are not very popular, both sliding ones and non-sliding ones.
For instance, my Motorola XPRT World phone looks just like an old Blackberry phone (with a slightly larger screen but no sliding keyboard), and it is true that the experience suffers.
Unfortunately things such as this reflect the will of much of the population there...
I doubt that. Out of the entire population, only 20% are Saudi citizens (the rest are migrant workers with no say in anything). Out of that 20%, less than half are women. So this means, that this new system is being supported by less than 10% of the population.
In fact the saudi arabian government has expiremented with loosening the laws on women but have been met with death threats and back lash from the population from trying such things.
Death threats? Obama gets death threats and back lash from the far-right every day. That doesn't mean he lets them set the agenda.
Face it. Saudi Arabia is a highly hierarchical structure. The minority in power do not want to let go any of its power. That's why we're getting laws like that one.
That doesn't really. Even in niche technology circles, we sometimes belong to different clusters of people we know. A better question would be to ask the organizer who he invited? And how many of those were women? And where he publicized his calls for speakers?
Organizing a conference of good speakers is incredibly difficult. Speakers cancel all the time. The organizer should have never cancelled that event. That's disrespectful to both the speakers who already committed to the event and to the audience who RSVP'd (some of them women).
If the organizer feels there was really a problem, he should just have pledged to make more an effort to include more women the next time around. Usually, that involves partnering with a Womans' technology-related/ruby-related organization at least six months in advance, if not a full year in advance, to publicize the call for speakers and to coaxe more of its women members to apply.
Just stick with the damn cards. If you lose it, your bank will send you a free replacement, and it's instantly disabled.
So this won't affect Square at all. Square is for accepting payments, by sliding a card through it.
The same goes for LevelUP, LevelUP is the equivalent of keeping a photocopy of your credit card (both front and back) in your wallet. You lose your wallet, you've obviously lost your card.
The only example where things get dicy is this Dwolla payment solution. Dwolla is for account to account transactions (without going through Visa or Mastercard). It's a lot cheaper because of this, but then, you don't have any of the traditional protections for fraud (unless they're spelled out separately specifically in their terms of use, which honestly, I haven't even bothered to read).
he and his 17 year old girlfriend are being chased around town by the cops for unlicensed drug manufacture, posession of an unlicensed firearm and suspicion of making crystal meth. Hes also wanted for questioning in the death of an american ex-patriot. hes not answering routine police questions and hes rambling on about secret plots to decapitate dead animals and collect his friends. John McAfee is a textbook example of drug-induced psychopathy.
McCafee claims his girlfriend is 20 years old. Did you really see someone else claim she was younger? Or are you making it up yourself? Looking at her picture, I'd say she even looks older than 20 years old.
Also, the decapitation of his buried dead dogs can easily be explained. The cops are doing ballistics analysis on the bullets. Also, it's customary to only take the head of a dog when testing for rabbies. And the analysis of the dogs is important for the cops, because their theory is that his neighbor poisoned his dogs, not that his dogs had rabbies (thereby going to a potential motive for wanting to kill the neighbor).
Also, no one seems to be disputing the fact that cops have rounded up his entourage and kept some of them in jail. Nor does he describe it as some kind of "secret plot". Those are your words, not his. Here are his words exactly:
After the murder of Mr. Faul, the police began a systematic roundup of my friends and associates. So far, those arrested include:
Eddie Ancona – my best friend in Belize. Eddie is a consistent attendant at the local church. He does not drink. He does not smoke. He has never used drugs. He has a loyal wife and a young son. His only crime is being my best friend. He is still in jail and is being charged with trumped-up charges.
Cassian Chavarria – my caretaker of two and a half years. Cassian is one of the most honest men I have had the pleasure to know. He is reliable and competent. I would trust him with my life. He, like Eddie, has been jailed for a week.
A cab driver named Cesar. I regret not knowing his last name. His only crime was driving me into town the day of the murder. I am told he has since been released.
William Mulligan – my British bodyguard. He was arrested and has been sent to the Government penitentiary in Hattieville.
Williams wife, Stefanie Mulligan – she was arrested with her husband. She had just arrived for the weekend. He had not seen her for months. I am told that, since she was breastfeeding, she was temporarily released.
My housekeeper Priscilla – I regret again not knowing her last name. She is one of the most decent people I have known. I am told she has been released but charges may be filed.
The list will grow. I am asking all people of conscience to read this blog, especially the links in the “Background” section, and see the ugly truth unfolding here. Speak out. Write your congressmen. Write the Prime Minister. Do what you can. These people are suffering and will continue to do so irrespective of my actions. They will become yet another bleak statistic in the web of injustice clutching the heart of this country.
Lukianoff notes that baby-boom Americans who remember the student protests of the 1960s tend to assume that U.S. colleges are still some of the freest places on earth.
Wasn't it always like that? In the 60s, the Universities just used tear gas and violent beat-downs by riot police.
Obviously, this Ann Coultier isn't worth getting beaten up, getting a criminal record over, and expelled from school if her supporters are just going to fold at the first tiniest little sign of disapproval.
If you wanted to play a game on the PS3, you either had to buy it, or go through convoluted steps or modify the hardware in ways that often left you unable to use that console online for multiplayer games. Every console marketed in the last decade has tried to follow the same business model.
Doesn't Valve/Steam essentially come with its form of account-based DRM and essentially focuses more on multiplayer games precisely because of this issue you've highlighted? Please someone correct me if I'm wrong. I don't actually have a Steam account.
"They obviously want to use google cookies if they click the +1 button. "
As you can see from their official sample code for google +1 buttons, their button doesn't need to be clicked to track users across domains since their url gets loaded as soon as their script loads.
<!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render. --> <div class="g-plusone" data-annotation="inline" data-width="300"></div>
<!-- Place this tag after the last +1 button tag. --> <script type="text/javascript"> (function() { var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text/javascript'; po.async = true; po.src = 'https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })(); </script>
Did they pledge that they would only track the google +1 clicking users? And not the non-clicking ones? If they didn't promise anything at the time, then they could have done anything they liked with the data.
...because when someone learns a foreign language, they're also exposed to a foreign culture.
Personally, I doubt I'd be exposing myself to Korean culture if I didn't have access to almost real-time human translations of Korean movies and TV dramas.
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.
This results in consumers blaming your product. It doesn't work on their phone, this app sucks, the company sucks, etc.
However, releasing on iOS... you only have to worry about a couple of configurations of phone (you can even stipulate that your app only works on 3GS or 4 and above or whatever) and a few different screen ratios/resolutions.
The parts I highlighted in bold hint that you've never developed in Android.
Filtering your app so that it's only install-able on the latest Android OS versions is easy. The same goes for filtering your app so that it's only find-able/install-able on devices that have particular feature sets. This is done in the Manifest. It's Android 101.
Also I know users like to complain, but very few developers really need to develop on anything newer than Gingerbread. And it really depends on which features you want to use. You can probably even go much lower than Gingerbread in many cases.
Actually no, the pre-caching is done on an area basis.
In fact, if you're going to pre-cache just 5 minutes before going somewhere and before leaving your home wifi network, it's probably not going to work. It doesn't download just what you need, it downloads everything in a rectangle area that you've specified, thus forcing you to wait a few hours to download everything the first time you enable it.
To make their application more user-friendly, they should recommend that people pre-cache their maps when they first install/update the application, not just before the user goes on a trip somewhere (by then, it's usually too late, and it's a bad first impression for users to have).
To put it in perspective, UPS drives 3.3 billion miles each year. In contrast, Google's cars have driven "only" 5 million miles in total.
Sorry to burst your bubble. Google doesn't just use Google's cars for its maps and traffic information.
It uses every Google Navigation and Google Latitude users' moving car for real-time map and traffic information. It's been doing that for a number of years now. And it's not the only one. TomTom and Waze have been doing this for a while too.
As a result, the maps that they're using are not only more up-to-date, since the couriers need to keep them updated in order to stay in business, but they're also more able to work in data such as traffic patterns and the like, since the couriers put in FAR more time and miles on the road than the technology companies.
Again, sorry to burst your bubble, but NavTeq (now owned by Nokia) the largest mapping provider in the World may have been one of the biggest innovators of the 90s, but ever since companies like TomTom and Google came on the scene, it's only been playing catch-up to them.
Besides, NavTeq does supply mapping information and mapping data to Google and to everyone else, but it has just been the slowest one to innovate. And if you ask me, Google has practically invented crowdsourcing, making its own users do free work for them, so it does surprise the hell out of me when someone arrives at the opposite conclusion.
As an affected developer (actually from 3 years ago), I can tell you that it is a worldwide removal.
Are you talking about the same case? The trademark "Memory"? Or a similar trademark case involving a different trademark/company?
Like I said in my previous posts, in which I looked up the actual European trademarks, those European trademarks were only registered in the non-English speaking countries -- which makes this highly suspicious.
Many of the Android ones I have dealt with offer calling over WiFi, but it still counts towards your minutes, even if it's going to someone on the same network, also on WiFi.
*Unless you use a third party app.
Name the carrier in question please.
What you're describing is absolutely not the case with either Sprint, or T-Mobile (my only two reference points).
(* and yes, I'm talking about Google Talk, in both video and voice mode, which I use all the time)
I think it's mostly about integration, as in, you'll still go through the wi-fi connection even if you dial the number, as long as the target number belongs to a BB. For those other apps. the other user needs to be using them, along with a separate account, etc.
Android already has this, it's called gmail.
Through gmail, I can use Google talk, which uses both video and voice, and which also works on mobile data (not just wifi), and I can also use Google Voice, which intercepts my long distance phone numbers dialed on my phone to go over voice over ip.
With Android, the integration is already there. And everyone using Android already has a gmail account, so there is no need for separate accounts.
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Don't sell the fuck out to political parties and destroy your credibility.
He wasn't paid by the governor to produce these videos.
If Khan would like to go over these issues, do it in a political science course, do it in a history course...
Khan academy is no longer just about math. They've been expanding into many difference topics.
...but do it in the past tense as a learning resource.
Are you kidding me??? Do you also think school history/civics/geography/political science teachers should stay out of current events as well? Do you seriously want high school kids not to learn about the latest wars/conflicts the US is in, the results/statistics of the latest US elections, or the meaning behind some of the latest newspaper headlines regarding our economy or our budget deficits?
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/economy/income/2010-08-10-1Afedpay10_ST_N.htm
It's a well-known fact that Federal employees get paid much more than State employees.
Here we're talking about State employees, not Federal employees.
The newer iPads have the resolution and speed to do PDFs justice; but capacitive touchscreens aren't exactly god's gift to stylus-based annotation. Yeah, they sell capacitive styluses; but it isn't exactly a Wacom...
The Samsung Note tablets are not just capacitive. They can distinguish between your fingers and the pen. It's not even modal. In other words, if you're reading something, you can just use your finger(s) to flip the pages and the pen to highlight what you want. The tablet even knows when you're just hovering your pen over it, or whether you're actually touching the screen with it. It's quite amazing.
My only recommendation is that you if you get such a tablet, you get the latest version of the Note -- not the original Note. Samsung did a much better job integrating this technology in their latest version.
Forget battery life - price is way too high.
I'd love to have a 7-8 inch Surface...if the price was around $250-280 and it included Microsoft Office. Instead, I'm moving my wife and kids Nexus 7s ($200/pop) and hooking them up to Google Docs. I've even abandoned my iPad/iPod infrastructure at this point - tablets are way too fragile (and easily stolen) to be paying $400+ for each one.
If your kids need to write more than just a few words, or more than a few paragraphs for school, then they'll need a tablet with an integrated keyboard/trackpad like the Android Asus Transformer, or the Microsoft Surface (I do not recommend getting a third party bluetooth keyboard with a standalone tablet). The Asus Transformer does cost $350, so it's still less than half the price of a Surface, but $350 is still outside of your price range. So I'll recommend you something else.
The $200 Asus Nexus 7 is great for media, games, and browsing/reading, but it's not that great for typing and cutting and pasting. So instead of multiple "Nexus 7s", I'd suggest you get at least one Samsung Chromebook and one (or two) Nexus 7s. The Chromebook is not Android-based, it's not touch-based, and it's obviously not as fun a device as an Android tablet, but it comes at $250 a pop, it weighs little, it turns on instantly, it comes with an 11.6 inch screen, it has incredible battery life, and it's great for things like email and typing essays (and sharing the same device between multiple family members/guests).
People should be taught both and then left alone to decide which one makes more sense.
Well said, my muslim brother!
It never ceases to amaze me how many biology teachers in the UK don't even know the Qur'an well enough to even do that.
It's not like we're asking science teachers to believe, just to teach it. Sheesh! We're not asking for much.
Reply all serves a very important function when running large multi-day problem resolution threads that require large amounts of collaboration on a global scale.
It sounds like your company needs a web-based issue tracker, or a wiki, with its own built-in notification/subscription/approval request system.
Now we'll have to see if they have a slider with a decent size touchscreen. The full keyboard is nice but the screen on my BB is too small to make using the thing worthwhile.
Their first flagship BB10 phone has a decent-size touch-screen (with no keyboard, not even a sliding one).
If you want a keyboard, you'll have to wait, or you'll have to go to Android. There are a number Android phone models that have keyboards and touchscreens combined, it's just that those types of phones are not very popular, both sliding ones and non-sliding ones.
For instance, my Motorola XPRT World phone looks just like an old Blackberry phone (with a slightly larger screen but no sliding keyboard), and it is true that the experience suffers.
Unfortunately things such as this reflect the will of much of the population there...
I doubt that. Out of the entire population, only 20% are Saudi citizens (the rest are migrant workers with no say in anything). Out of that 20%, less than half are women. So this means, that this new system is being supported by less than 10% of the population.
In fact the saudi arabian government has expiremented with loosening the laws on women but have been met with death threats and back lash from the population from trying such things.
Death threats? Obama gets death threats and back lash from the far-right every day. That doesn't mean he lets them set the agenda.
Face it. Saudi Arabia is a highly hierarchical structure. The minority in power do not want to let go any of its power. That's why we're getting laws like that one.
Oh.. that changes the picture... doesn't it?
That doesn't really. Even in niche technology circles, we sometimes belong to different clusters of people we know. A better question would be to ask the organizer who he invited? And how many of those were women? And where he publicized his calls for speakers?
Organizing a conference of good speakers is incredibly difficult. Speakers cancel all the time. The organizer should have never cancelled that event. That's disrespectful to both the speakers who already committed to the event and to the audience who RSVP'd (some of them women).
If the organizer feels there was really a problem, he should just have pledged to make more an effort to include more women the next time around. Usually, that involves partnering with a Womans' technology-related/ruby-related organization at least six months in advance, if not a full year in advance, to publicize the call for speakers and to coaxe more of its women members to apply.
They are actually using the drones to harass the hunters by scaring the birds they are hunting.
The pigeons are inside cages and they're released as needed for the hunters. This has nothing to do with scaring the birds.
Just stick with the damn cards. If you lose it, your bank will send you a free replacement, and it's instantly disabled.
So this won't affect Square at all. Square is for accepting payments, by sliding a card through it.
The same goes for LevelUP, LevelUP is the equivalent of keeping a photocopy of your credit card (both front and back) in your wallet. You lose your wallet, you've obviously lost your card.
The only example where things get dicy is this Dwolla payment solution. Dwolla is for account to account transactions (without going through Visa or Mastercard). It's a lot cheaper because of this, but then, you don't have any of the traditional protections for fraud (unless they're spelled out separately specifically in their terms of use, which honestly, I haven't even bothered to read).
he and his 17 year old girlfriend are being chased around town by the cops for unlicensed drug manufacture, posession of an unlicensed firearm and suspicion of making crystal meth. Hes also wanted for questioning in the death of an american ex-patriot. hes not answering routine police questions and hes rambling on about secret plots to decapitate dead animals and collect his friends. John McAfee is a textbook example of drug-induced psychopathy.
McCafee claims his girlfriend is 20 years old. Did you really see someone else claim she was younger? Or are you making it up yourself? Looking at her picture, I'd say she even looks older than 20 years old.
Also, the decapitation of his buried dead dogs can easily be explained. The cops are doing ballistics analysis on the bullets. Also, it's customary to only take the head of a dog when testing for rabbies. And the analysis of the dogs is important for the cops, because their theory is that his neighbor poisoned his dogs, not that his dogs had rabbies (thereby going to a potential motive for wanting to kill the neighbor).
Also, no one seems to be disputing the fact that cops have rounded up his entourage and kept some of them in jail. Nor does he describe it as some kind of "secret plot". Those are your words, not his. Here are his words exactly:
After the murder of Mr. Faul, the police began a systematic roundup of my friends and associates. So far, those arrested include:
Eddie Ancona – my best friend in Belize. Eddie is a consistent attendant at the local church. He does not drink. He does not smoke. He has never used drugs. He has a loyal wife and a young son. His only crime is being my best friend. He is still in jail and is being charged with trumped-up charges.
Cassian Chavarria – my caretaker of two and a half years. Cassian is one of the most honest men I have had the pleasure to know. He is reliable and competent. I would trust him with my life. He, like Eddie, has been jailed for a week.
A cab driver named Cesar. I regret not knowing his last name. His only crime was driving me into town the day of the murder. I am told he has since been released.
William Mulligan – my British bodyguard. He was arrested and has been sent to the Government penitentiary in Hattieville.
Williams wife, Stefanie Mulligan – she was arrested with her husband. She had just arrived for the weekend. He had not seen her for months. I am told that, since she was breastfeeding, she was temporarily released.
My housekeeper Priscilla – I regret again not knowing her last name. She is one of the most decent people I have known. I am told she has been released but charges may be filed.
The list will grow. I am asking all people of conscience to read this blog, especially the links in the “Background” section, and see the ugly truth unfolding here. Speak out. Write your congressmen. Write the Prime Minister. Do what you can. These people are suffering and will continue to do so irrespective of my actions. They will become yet another bleak statistic in the web of injustice clutching the heart of this country.
Lukianoff notes that baby-boom Americans who remember the student protests of the 1960s tend to assume that U.S. colleges are still some of the freest places on earth.
Wasn't it always like that? In the 60s, the Universities just used tear gas and violent beat-downs by riot police.
Obviously, this Ann Coultier isn't worth getting beaten up, getting a criminal record over, and expelled from school if her supporters are just going to fold at the first tiniest little sign of disapproval.
If you wanted to play a game on the PS3, you either had to buy it, or go through convoluted steps or modify the hardware in ways that often left you unable to use that console online for multiplayer games. Every console marketed in the last decade has tried to follow the same business model.
Doesn't Valve/Steam essentially come with its form of account-based DRM and essentially focuses more on multiplayer games precisely because of this issue you've highlighted? Please someone correct me if I'm wrong. I don't actually have a Steam account.
I am a vegetarian, mostly vegan...
I'm glad you're no longer a liar and a sex criminal.
"They obviously want to use google cookies if they click the +1 button. "
As you can see from their official sample code for google +1 buttons, their button doesn't need to be clicked to track users across domains since their url gets loaded as soon as their script loads.
<!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render. -->
<div class="g-plusone" data-annotation="inline" data-width="300"></div>
<!-- Place this tag after the last +1 button tag. -->
<script type="text/javascript">
(function() {
var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text/javascript'; po.async = true;
po.src = 'https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js';
var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s);
})();
</script>
Did they pledge that they would only track the google +1 clicking users? And not the non-clicking ones? If they didn't promise anything at the time, then they could have done anything they liked with the data.
...because when someone learns a foreign language, they're also exposed to a foreign culture.
Personally, I doubt I'd be exposing myself to Korean culture if I didn't have access to almost real-time human translations of Korean movies and TV dramas.
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.
This results in consumers blaming your product. It doesn't work on their phone, this app sucks, the company sucks, etc.
However, releasing on iOS... you only have to worry about a couple of configurations of phone (you can even stipulate that your app only works on 3GS or 4 and above or whatever) and a few different screen ratios/resolutions.
The parts I highlighted in bold hint that you've never developed in Android.
Filtering your app so that it's only install-able on the latest Android OS versions is easy. The same goes for filtering your app so that it's only find-able/install-able on devices that have particular feature sets. This is done in the Manifest. It's Android 101.
Also I know users like to complain, but very few developers really need to develop on anything newer than Gingerbread. And it really depends on which features you want to use. You can probably even go much lower than Gingerbread in many cases.
In other news, RIM just renamed one of its Blackberry10 SDKs to LittleGreenRobotWithTwoAntennas Development Kit (LDK).
As long as you don't leave the cached route...
Actually no, the pre-caching is done on an area basis.
In fact, if you're going to pre-cache just 5 minutes before going somewhere and before leaving your home wifi network, it's probably not going to work. It doesn't download just what you need, it downloads everything in a rectangle area that you've specified, thus forcing you to wait a few hours to download everything the first time you enable it.
To make their application more user-friendly, they should recommend that people pre-cache their maps when they first install/update the application, not just before the user goes on a trip somewhere (by then, it's usually too late, and it's a bad first impression for users to have).
It can pre-cache, but you have to enable it specifically. It's one of the experimental google labs inside your Google Maps/Navigation application.
To put it in perspective, UPS drives 3.3 billion miles each year. In contrast, Google's cars have driven "only" 5 million miles in total.
Sorry to burst your bubble. Google doesn't just use Google's cars for its maps and traffic information.
It uses every Google Navigation and Google Latitude users' moving car for real-time map and traffic information. It's been doing that for a number of years now. And it's not the only one. TomTom and Waze have been doing this for a while too.
As a result, the maps that they're using are not only more up-to-date, since the couriers need to keep them updated in order to stay in business, but they're also more able to work in data such as traffic patterns and the like, since the couriers put in FAR more time and miles on the road than the technology companies.
Again, sorry to burst your bubble, but NavTeq (now owned by Nokia) the largest mapping provider in the World may have been one of the biggest innovators of the 90s, but ever since companies like TomTom and Google came on the scene, it's only been playing catch-up to them.
Besides, NavTeq does supply mapping information and mapping data to Google and to everyone else, but it has just been the slowest one to innovate. And if you ask me, Google has practically invented crowdsourcing, making its own users do free work for them, so it does surprise the hell out of me when someone arrives at the opposite conclusion.
As an affected developer (actually from 3 years ago), I can tell you that it is a worldwide removal.
Are you talking about the same case? The trademark "Memory"? Or a similar trademark case involving a different trademark/company?
Like I said in my previous posts, in which I looked up the actual European trademarks, those European trademarks were only registered in the non-English speaking countries -- which makes this highly suspicious.
Do they?
Many of the Android ones I have dealt with offer calling over WiFi, but it still counts towards your minutes, even if it's going to someone on the same network, also on WiFi.
*Unless you use a third party app.
Name the carrier in question please.
What you're describing is absolutely not the case with either Sprint, or T-Mobile (my only two reference points).
(* and yes, I'm talking about Google Talk, in both video and voice mode, which I use all the time)
I think it's mostly about integration, as in, you'll still go through the wi-fi connection even if you dial the number, as long as the target number belongs to a BB. For those other apps. the other user needs to be using them, along with a separate account, etc.
Android already has this, it's called gmail.
Through gmail, I can use Google talk, which uses both video and voice, and which also works on mobile data (not just wifi), and I can also use Google Voice, which intercepts my long distance phone numbers dialed on my phone to go over voice over ip.
With Android, the integration is already there. And everyone using Android already has a gmail account, so there is no need for separate accounts.