This very idea is based upon a lot of wrong information about people with Autism.
Well, it probably does depend on the kind of autism someone has.
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Even Google? Since when? The 30% taken by the Google Market goes to the Carrier, not Google. So in the case of AT&T, AT&T made zilch on each iPhone app sold through the app-store, but it made 30% on the Android apps sold through the Market.
This reminds me of a presentation I participated in about Metro UI design as Windows Phone 7 was first coming out.
Windows Phone 7 goes right against its very own design principles. For instance, instead of calling email email, or using the sound principles of metro design that were introduced to us, it labeled its email program Outlook, and uses the icon of MS Outlook. The same goes for pretty much everything on that phone, from the home button which looks more like a windows icon than anything else remotely making sense, and any of the other MS-related products on that phone.
It's like Microsoft paid a ton of money to have some good design and some good usability design done for their mobile platorm, but then didn't give any of those people the actual authority to veto any stupid idea coming from their Marketing/Brand managers.
It can be annoying at times, but it keeps the holocaust deniers at bay.
Why would you want to? Do you fear that holocaust denying will suddenly become accepted by the mainstream Canadian population if you get rid of that law? Somehow, I doubt that.
The question is what to do about them if they are driven until the battery is drained, which is not an issue for bicycles. If that becomes prevalent it will increase costs.
Yep, it's like people driving a rented car until the fuel tank is completely empty, or like people returning a rented car with less fuel than the rental place asked them to return with. It does increase the cost, but it increases that cost only to the person who doesn't bother.
I don't see why this is so usual bitching subject about it. So after all you people aren't happy that Linux gets to smartphones, even if it means it's on low end phones?
Embedded Linux coming to smartphones doesn't guarantee that it will be an open platform for consumers or hackers.
Besides, Embedded Linux was already being used as a base for OpenMoko, WebOS, SideKick, Meego, Android, and probably several other less open phone operating systems.
You don't like this asshole? Don't work for him. NOBODY is forcing you to work for him.
Yes, but the government is pretty much forcing you to pay into unemployment insurance.
So what are you suggesting exactly? That workers refuse to pay unemployment insurance, therefore risking an audit and possibly prison/fines, or that they refuse to collect on that insurance after having already paid into it?
They make money when the property is sold; displaying ads is only a means to selling the property.
You're assuming brokers have exclusivity over each property they list. In some jurisdictions, this is a given, but in others, it's not. And I really don't know about Canada? Do you live in Canada?
The term "time line" is such a common generic term. I doubt their suit has any legal standing.
If it did have legal standing, then we would see sites like Dictionary.com suing every site that had a dictionary, or Sex.com that sued every news site that had a sex carried column. It would freeze the Internet as we know it and all sites would be required to use pig latin to communicate (until most common pig latin terms are monopolized, and then we'd only be left with gibberish if we're lucky).
...and this is an original book in French. It's not a translation of a German book. I don't know where you found this misinformation.
I read it in one of one the comments here. Is that not the same book? Aren't you Raphaël Hertzog?
I did not hire anyone...
That's not what I was alluding to. If you want me to spell it out for you, then I shall.
I think repeatedly calling your book a "bestseller" because it happened to be a "bestseller" on amazon.fr for a single morning (or perhaps even less time than that) is misleading. Please consider your (slashdot) audience before making claims like that. Many of us know how such temporary rankings can be gamed. After all, most of us have dealt with web sites, apis, and analytics, in the past, and/or in our day-to-day jobs.
Any phone smart enough to run Linux us smart enough to run WP7.
Yes, but they were probably talking about embedded Linux, not what you currently think of when you think of the Linux stack, or even the x86 Linux kernel.
And in that sense, no, embedded Linux can have a much smaller footprint than WP7. Have you even seen the minimum requirements for WP7? They're not super high by today's standards, but they're not super low either. I think Microsoft even stated it as a benefit that they were not going to start their phone with low end hardware.
I'm not really understanding why it's going to take 15,000 euro.
2-hour lunch breaks, 15 min smoke breaks, 5 week vacations, and 35 hours work week. It all adds up.
Plus the original work was in German. I don't understand why they would first translate it in French, and then translate the French version into English. That part makes no sense to me.
"It was even the most sold book on Amazon.fr for an entire morning." [emphasis mine]
Plus it sounds like they hired a sleazy American marketing expert. Those guys are not cheap. That's probably already 10,000 euros down the drain from the get go on the Marketing guy alone.
Yes, but do not underestimate the influence of open source developers and of the Java 'community' among IT Departments. They may not make the final purchase decision, but they can certainly affect it.
For example, when a fire breaks out at X place, there's information on hand about what is normally found there. Let's say it's a warehouse...does that warehouse keep anything particularly dangerous in storage, and if so, what kinds of dangers does it pose?
I guess they must be using Google.:-)
All kidding aside, this kind of stuff would make a super compelling demo.
But the real questions are, how does such a system behave under load? how accurate is the data being collected? And what do the firefighters say about this system when none of their higher ups are around? After all, super cool demos of some technologies are easy to make. They're easy to mock up, and easy to cherry-pick successful anecdotes from, as long as you're the one in charge of the system yourself.
As someone who reprocesses sensor data from Caltrain's freeway traffic sensors, I have to agree with you. A third of those sensors do not work at all. And since they're only sensors, and are not visible to the general public, nor are they really a safety issue, I doubt that they'll get fixed anytime soon.
Taking a top-down city planning approach may seem super attractive to city administrators. After all, it would make central city planning seemingly more powerful and more Sim City like, but such an approach almost never takes into account all the workarounds, data massaging, and the pragmatic human fixes that take place every single day at the much lower echelons.
All the things being cut out are really very specific Google technologies, that would be hard to duplicate and even do as well a job as Google has.
For instance, Google's cloud-2-devices service is still being operated as a closed beta, so it's not like all Android developers even have access to it in the first place (although, we've been promised access to it multiple times already). And the speech-to-text api (I really think the journalist meant speech-to-text, not "text-to-speech") is also another feature that's deeply dependent on Google's cloud infrastructure (because the speech recognition really occurs on Google's servers, not on the phone).
And between the Live Wallpaper and the Launcher limitation, I'm not surprised that they're not supporting those two like Android, after all even as an Android developer, I would expect the PlayBook launcher to remain similarly the same as before. After all, they never said that they would replace their os with Android, only that they were going to be able to play Android apps on their os.
Cell phone communications require synchronous communications and P2P is mostly asynchronous in nature.
Take for instance the standard smartphone. It has no fan, no swap memory, and its limited battery life is its biggest constraint. Run a P2P app on it and just see what happens. It will run super hot in your pocket. And its battery could get drained long before you ever get a chance to make your first phone call of the day.
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This very idea is based upon a lot of wrong information about people with Autism.
Well, it probably does depend on the kind of autism someone has.
Even Google? Since when? The 30% taken by the Google Market goes to the Carrier, not Google. So in the case of AT&T, AT&T made zilch on each iPhone app sold through the app-store, but it made 30% on the Android apps sold through the Market.
This reminds me of a presentation I participated in about Metro UI design as Windows Phone 7 was first coming out.
Windows Phone 7 goes right against its very own design principles. For instance, instead of calling email email, or using the sound principles of metro design that were introduced to us, it labeled its email program Outlook, and uses the icon of MS Outlook. The same goes for pretty much everything on that phone, from the home button which looks more like a windows icon than anything else remotely making sense, and any of the other MS-related products on that phone.
It's like Microsoft paid a ton of money to have some good design and some good usability design done for their mobile platorm, but then didn't give any of those people the actual authority to veto any stupid idea coming from their Marketing/Brand managers.
It can be annoying at times, but it keeps the holocaust deniers at bay.
Why would you want to? Do you fear that holocaust denying will suddenly become accepted by the mainstream Canadian population if you get rid of that law? Somehow, I doubt that.
The question is what to do about them if they are driven until the battery is drained, which is not an issue for bicycles. If that becomes prevalent it will increase costs.
Yep, it's like people driving a rented car until the fuel tank is completely empty, or like people returning a rented car with less fuel than the rental place asked them to return with. It does increase the cost, but it increases that cost only to the person who doesn't bother.
I think your #1 is for trademarks, not patents.
And this is news???
At least, the HP ceo won't feel completely alone now.
I don't see why this is so usual bitching subject about it. So after all you people aren't happy that Linux gets to smartphones, even if it means it's on low end phones?
Embedded Linux coming to smartphones doesn't guarantee that it will be an open platform for consumers or hackers.
Besides, Embedded Linux was already being used as a base for OpenMoko, WebOS, SideKick, Meego, Android, and probably several other less open phone operating systems.
You don't like this asshole? Don't work for him. NOBODY is forcing you to work for him.
Yes, but the government is pretty much forcing you to pay into unemployment insurance.
So what are you suggesting exactly? That workers refuse to pay unemployment insurance, therefore risking an audit and possibly prison/fines, or that they refuse to collect on that insurance after having already paid into it?
They make money when the property is sold; displaying ads is only a means to selling the property.
You're assuming brokers have exclusivity over each property they list. In some jurisdictions, this is a given, but in others, it's not. And I really don't know about Canada? Do you live in Canada?
One silver lining at least is that
HTC is one of the very few hardware manufacturers that does provide official instructions for rooting your own device.
Yeah, a better law would have been:
"....teens who receive explicit images won't be charged if they took reasonable steps to delete it"
The term "time line" is such a common generic term. I doubt their suit has any legal standing.
If it did have legal standing, then we would see sites like Dictionary.com suing every site that had a dictionary, or Sex.com that sued every news site that had a sex carried column. It would freeze the Internet as we know it and all sites would be required to use pig latin to communicate (until most common pig latin terms are monopolized, and then we'd only be left with gibberish if we're lucky).
Last I checked, Sprint took out the 5 Gigs monthly limit from their terms and services, or are you speaking of their data-only plans (without voice)?
I do not smoke...
Way to go for killing the joke...
...and this is an original book in French. It's not a translation of a German book. I don't know where you found this misinformation.
I read it in one of one the comments here. Is that not the same book? Aren't you Raphaël Hertzog?
I did not hire anyone...
That's not what I was alluding to. If you want me to spell it out for you, then I shall.
I think repeatedly calling your book a "bestseller" because it happened to be a "bestseller" on amazon.fr for a single morning (or perhaps even less time than that) is misleading. Please consider your (slashdot) audience before making claims like that. Many of us know how such temporary rankings can be gamed. After all, most of us have dealt with web sites, apis, and analytics, in the past, and/or in our day-to-day jobs.
See my reply to Buxy below.
Any phone smart enough to run Linux us smart enough to run WP7.
Yes, but they were probably talking about embedded Linux, not what you currently think of when you think of the Linux stack, or even the x86 Linux kernel.
And in that sense, no, embedded Linux can have a much smaller footprint than WP7. Have you even seen the minimum requirements for WP7? They're not super high by today's standards, but they're not super low either. I think Microsoft even stated it as a benefit that they were not going to start their phone with low end hardware.
I'm not really understanding why it's going to take 15,000 euro.
2-hour lunch breaks, 15 min smoke breaks, 5 week vacations, and 35 hours work week. It all adds up.
Plus the original work was in German. I don't understand why they would first translate it in French, and then translate the French version into English. That part makes no sense to me.
"It was even the most sold book on Amazon.fr for an entire morning." [emphasis mine]
Plus it sounds like they hired a sleazy American marketing expert. Those guys are not cheap. That's probably already 10,000 euros down the drain from the get go on the Marketing guy alone.
I'm surprised the Slashdot editors didn't write something like:
"HTC Now Selling Unlocked Phones"
"Now AT&T Upping the Ante by Selling Unlockable Phones!"
Yes, but do not underestimate the influence of open source developers and of the Java 'community' among IT Departments. They may not make the final purchase decision, but they can certainly affect it.
For example, when a fire breaks out at X place, there's information on hand about what is normally found there. Let's say it's a warehouse...does that warehouse keep anything particularly dangerous in storage, and if so, what kinds of dangers does it pose?
I guess they must be using Google. :-)
All kidding aside, this kind of stuff would make a super compelling demo.
But the real questions are, how does such a system behave under load? how accurate is the data being collected? And what do the firefighters say about this system when none of their higher ups are around? After all, super cool demos of some technologies are easy to make. They're easy to mock up, and easy to cherry-pick successful anecdotes from, as long as you're the one in charge of the system yourself.
As someone who reprocesses sensor data from Caltrain's freeway traffic sensors, I have to agree with you. A third of those sensors do not work at all. And since they're only sensors, and are not visible to the general public, nor are they really a safety issue, I doubt that they'll get fixed anytime soon.
Taking a top-down city planning approach may seem super attractive to city administrators. After all, it would make central city planning seemingly more powerful and more Sim City like, but such an approach almost never takes into account all the workarounds, data massaging, and the pragmatic human fixes that take place every single day at the much lower echelons.
I doubt it.
All the things being cut out are really very specific Google technologies, that would be hard to duplicate and even do as well a job as Google has.
For instance, Google's cloud-2-devices service is still being operated as a closed beta, so it's not like all Android developers even have access to it in the first place (although, we've been promised access to it multiple times already). And the speech-to-text api (I really think the journalist meant speech-to-text, not "text-to-speech") is also another feature that's deeply dependent on Google's cloud infrastructure (because the speech recognition really occurs on Google's servers, not on the phone).
And between the Live Wallpaper and the Launcher limitation, I'm not surprised that they're not supporting those two like Android, after all even as an Android developer, I would expect the PlayBook launcher to remain similarly the same as before. After all, they never said that they would replace their os with Android, only that they were going to be able to play Android apps on their os.
Cell phone communications require synchronous communications and P2P is mostly asynchronous in nature.
Take for instance the standard smartphone. It has no fan, no swap memory, and its limited battery life is its biggest constraint. Run a P2P app on it and just see what happens. It will run super hot in your pocket. And its battery could get drained long before you ever get a chance to make your first phone call of the day.