That, to a large extent, is the problem. It's a perfectly reasonable thing for you to say, don't get me wrong, but 9/10 of the population would look at you and say, "Firmware? Is that some kind of new exercise plan? What do kernels have to do with it? Is their a corn diet too?"
And they don't have to care. The N1 is perfectly usable out of the box. If you want to, you can tweak it and make it even better. If you don't, it will still work just fine. How is that a problem?
If you get an app from the App Store it just work on your phone
This will unavoidably become less true as iPhone hardware improves. Already there are apps that work well on the 3GS but not the slower versions, and most existing iPhone apps look lousy when pixel-doubled on the iPad.
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Apple is somehow preventing me from going to amazon and ordering the parts for a new gaming PC?
No. They are however trying to sue Android out of existence, which would leave zero viable open platforms for mobile computing.
I owned an Apple II. It was neat. There was, however, nothing religious or spiritual about the experience. It played games and I did some word processing and my first programming. It was a device. Period.
Yes, and you didn't have to beg Apple for permission to do any of that. Whereas today if you jailbreak your iPad to install a Python interpreter, according to Apple you're a criminal.
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Yes, it really is amazing how the party line turned on a dime from "Macs are easy to use" to "Macs, like all non-touchscreen computers, are utterly unusable for anyone who isn't a loser geek". Also, while Microsoft was correctly slammed by the courts for making it slightly more inconvenient to run competing browsers, there's no problem at all with Apple banning any apps that might possibly interfere with their business models.
It's really not that bad. I was surprised at how many bouncing balls I could get my Nexus One to animate at 30fps without any attempt at code optimization. And the NDK works great if you can isolate your CPU-intensive code into separate methods.
Somehow Apple has managed to convince lots of people that ease of use and hackability are necessarily inversely correlated, which is bizarre considering that Mac OS X itself is an excellent counterexample.
I might be. I enjoy games but am far from a hardcore gamer. I've been completely out of the PC gaming world for many years, due to the annoyance of keeping my hardware up to date and my refusal to allow it to be compromised with malware like StarForce. If this service actually works, which I'm still hugely skeptical on, I'd definitely consider it for a reasonable price.
At least the OnLive model is more honest than crap like UbiSoft's always-connected DRM. With OnLive it's clear that you own nothing and are just paying to rent games. With insane DRM you get to pay the higher cost of "buying" the game, and you still don't actually own anything.
That said, I won't believe their service is usable for midrange or higher games until I see it in person.
Exactly. This isn't an argument in support of Apple locking down the iPhone app store, it's an argument for preventing Macs from using flash drives. Is that what you want?
You've obviously never heard of agricultural subsidies
I have, and they suck. But even if all $16 billion went directly to lowering food costs (I expect most of it is just pocketed by rent-seeking corporations), that's around $50 per American, which is a tiny fraction of what we spend ourselves.
The problem is that health insurance is mostly tied to employers. There are both "capitalist" and "socialist" solutions to that. A capitalist solution is to make people responsible for their own insurance, with subsidies for those who either can't afford it or are uninsurable due to preexisting conditions. And treat it as actual insurance that only covers large expenses, so you get rid of the pointless paperwork for routine treatments. Of course, this would require us to abandon our bizarre mindset that nobody should directly pay for medical care.
That's the approach we take for food, which unlike medical care is a constant necessity for everyone. Poor people get subsidies, but the government doesn't own or micromanage farms or grocery stores.
Heh, you're welcome. Stack Overflow might work better for that in the future; Google has directed me there several times to find solutions for my Android issues.
TFA said that the Droid required third-party apps to use multi-touch. I assumed that meant low-level third party drivers. Maybe I misunderstood the article.
Yeah, multitouch is exposed in the Android API, it's just that the built in apps didn't take advantage of it. TFA also failed to mention that an update for the Nexus One was released which added multitouch capabilities to those apps.
At least one. And two apps that would otherwise have been written for the iPhone are on the Android Market instead. Yes, I don't matter in isolation. But there are quite a few of us that still cling to the wacky notion that we should have control of products that we purchase.
For Apple to have "China like rules" they would be throwing people in jail for writing the apps for android that they don't like.
Apple has filed comments with the US Copyright Office saying that jailbreaking is and should remain a criminal act. So it actually is their position that you should go to jail for enabling "your" iPhone to run apps they don't approve.
i can buy any common device (and lots of uncommon ones) and plug it into the mac
And according to your logic, you shouldn't be allowed to do that unless Apple has specifically approved the device. Otherwise you'll be sure to suffer incompatibilities and errors.
and they've made more clear their stance (which appears to only frown on anything against the law, associated with porn, or against the carrier contracts, but all else is fair game)
Not remotely. There's that whole "duplicates functionality" gray area which is used as an anti-competitive club, political apps have been rejected, and swimsuits are now apparently "associated with porn". And don't even think about allowing users to create their own software with something like Squeak on the iPad.
I don't understand why this argument hasn't come up during the health-care debates.
It has, but only by Republicans in half-hearted attempts to move away from employer-based coverage. Democrats generally want to increase mandates on companies to provide insurance for their employees.
how the hell did we arrive at this retarded status quo
Mainly government intervention. Wage controls during WW2 prevented companies from paying higher salaries to attract workers, so they offered "free" health insurance as a workaround. The practice stuck around due to inertia and the favorable tax treatment of employer-provided insurance. It wasn't that bad at the time because people didn't change jobs nearly as often, and medical care was much less expensive (because it was much less capable). Today tying health insurance to employment is a horrible system, which conservatives have been pointing out for years. Of course when McCain proposed a small step away from it by changing the employer tax deduction to an individual deduction, Obama and the Democrats instantly demagogued the issue falsely claiming it was a tax increase.
are you resisting because you have a better solution? (crickets)
Wyden-Bennett is a far superior bill. And if I were designing a reform bill, I'd treat health insurance like food. Some people can't afford food, so we either provide it directly or give them food stamps; we don't have the government take over or micromanage farms and grocery stores. Get rid of employer-provided insurance and have people buy their own policies, give subsidies to the poor, and have a "public option" providing catastrophic coverage for those who are otherwise uninsurable.
And heaven help you should you do what they fear you or others could do if your code has a serious bug; spam or interrupt the cell network or a local wifi network.
Which explains the constant cellular outages caused by thousands of rogue apps on Android phones. That's pure fear-mongering by Apple and the carriers to keep their lock-in.
I'm guessing that they do. I'm also guessing that they understand the difference between "public" and "private", and thus aren't surprised that things that are expressly labelled as "public" are exposed to the public, and chose to send information that they don't want seen by the public through mechanisms identified as "private".
Who you've been emailing used to be and should be private. With the default settings in Buzz, it becomes public. That's not not evil.
The Android API has always supported multitouch, and the recent update for the Nexus One adds multitouch for the browser and maps and images. Presumably there was a legal situation with Apple that's now been resolved.
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Apparently Apple believes that multitasking and folders are strengths...
And they don't have to care. The N1 is perfectly usable out of the box. If you want to, you can tweak it and make it even better. If you don't, it will still work just fine. How is that a problem?
This will unavoidably become less true as iPhone hardware improves. Already there are apps that work well on the 3GS but not the slower versions, and most existing iPhone apps look lousy when pixel-doubled on the iPad.
No. They are however trying to sue Android out of existence, which would leave zero viable open platforms for mobile computing.
Yes, and you didn't have to beg Apple for permission to do any of that. Whereas today if you jailbreak your iPad to install a Python interpreter, according to Apple you're a criminal.
Yes, it really is amazing how the party line turned on a dime from "Macs are easy to use" to "Macs, like all non-touchscreen computers, are utterly unusable for anyone who isn't a loser geek". Also, while Microsoft was correctly slammed by the courts for making it slightly more inconvenient to run competing browsers, there's no problem at all with Apple banning any apps that might possibly interfere with their business models.
It's really not that bad. I was surprised at how many bouncing balls I could get my Nexus One to animate at 30fps without any attempt at code optimization. And the NDK works great if you can isolate your CPU-intensive code into separate methods.
The thing is, that's often true. We shouldn't have a Bear Patrol, even if there really are occasional bear incursions.
Somehow Apple has managed to convince lots of people that ease of use and hackability are necessarily inversely correlated, which is bizarre considering that Mac OS X itself is an excellent counterexample.
I might be. I enjoy games but am far from a hardcore gamer. I've been completely out of the PC gaming world for many years, due to the annoyance of keeping my hardware up to date and my refusal to allow it to be compromised with malware like StarForce. If this service actually works, which I'm still hugely skeptical on, I'd definitely consider it for a reasonable price.
At least the OnLive model is more honest than crap like UbiSoft's always-connected DRM. With OnLive it's clear that you own nothing and are just paying to rent games. With insane DRM you get to pay the higher cost of "buying" the game, and you still don't actually own anything.
That said, I won't believe their service is usable for midrange or higher games until I see it in person.
Exactly. This isn't an argument in support of Apple locking down the iPhone app store, it's an argument for preventing Macs from using flash drives. Is that what you want?
I have, and they suck. But even if all $16 billion went directly to lowering food costs (I expect most of it is just pocketed by rent-seeking corporations), that's around $50 per American, which is a tiny fraction of what we spend ourselves.
The problem is that health insurance is mostly tied to employers. There are both "capitalist" and "socialist" solutions to that. A capitalist solution is to make people responsible for their own insurance, with subsidies for those who either can't afford it or are uninsurable due to preexisting conditions. And treat it as actual insurance that only covers large expenses, so you get rid of the pointless paperwork for routine treatments. Of course, this would require us to abandon our bizarre mindset that nobody should directly pay for medical care.
That's the approach we take for food, which unlike medical care is a constant necessity for everyone. Poor people get subsidies, but the government doesn't own or micromanage farms or grocery stores.
It's also going to be the biggest magnet for phishers ever.
And I'm sure you apply similar reasoning when analyzing the socialist policies of Stalin and Mao.
Heh, you're welcome. Stack Overflow might work better for that in the future; Google has directed me there several times to find solutions for my Android issues.
As a counter-anecdote, I've found Android development to be much easier than the iPhone. Header files and manual memory management in 2010, no thanks.
Regarding your specific problem, make sure your API level is set to 3 or higher in your project's properties in Eclipse.
Yeah, multitouch is exposed in the Android API, it's just that the built in apps didn't take advantage of it. TFA also failed to mention that an update for the Nexus One was released which added multitouch capabilities to those apps.
At least one. And two apps that would otherwise have been written for the iPhone are on the Android Market instead. Yes, I don't matter in isolation. But there are quite a few of us that still cling to the wacky notion that we should have control of products that we purchase.
Apple has filed comments with the US Copyright Office saying that jailbreaking is and should remain a criminal act. So it actually is their position that you should go to jail for enabling "your" iPhone to run apps they don't approve.
And according to your logic, you shouldn't be allowed to do that unless Apple has specifically approved the device. Otherwise you'll be sure to suffer incompatibilities and errors.
Not remotely. There's that whole "duplicates functionality" gray area which is used as an anti-competitive club, political apps have been rejected, and swimsuits are now apparently "associated with porn". And don't even think about allowing users to create their own software with something like Squeak on the iPad.
It has, but only by Republicans in half-hearted attempts to move away from employer-based coverage. Democrats generally want to increase mandates on companies to provide insurance for their employees.
Mainly government intervention. Wage controls during WW2 prevented companies from paying higher salaries to attract workers, so they offered "free" health insurance as a workaround. The practice stuck around due to inertia and the favorable tax treatment of employer-provided insurance. It wasn't that bad at the time because people didn't change jobs nearly as often, and medical care was much less expensive (because it was much less capable). Today tying health insurance to employment is a horrible system, which conservatives have been pointing out for years. Of course when McCain proposed a small step away from it by changing the employer tax deduction to an individual deduction, Obama and the Democrats instantly demagogued the issue falsely claiming it was a tax increase.
Wyden-Bennett is a far superior bill. And if I were designing a reform bill, I'd treat health insurance like food. Some people can't afford food, so we either provide it directly or give them food stamps; we don't have the government take over or micromanage farms and grocery stores. Get rid of employer-provided insurance and have people buy their own policies, give subsidies to the poor, and have a "public option" providing catastrophic coverage for those who are otherwise uninsurable.
Which explains the constant cellular outages caused by thousands of rogue apps on Android phones. That's pure fear-mongering by Apple and the carriers to keep their lock-in.
Who you've been emailing used to be and should be private. With the default settings in Buzz, it becomes public. That's not not evil.
And that's just an artifact of how we set up the calendar. The only natural holidays are the solstices.
The Android API has always supported multitouch, and the recent update for the Nexus One adds multitouch for the browser and maps and images. Presumably there was a legal situation with Apple that's now been resolved.