Stop destroying slashdot. Stop dumbing it down. Stop "simplifying" it.
You want to improve it?! Let us comment on stories longer and make the search functionality ACTUALLY WORK.
I'm so pissed off about this I'm not even cogent. I just "fixed" the previous "update." Now I'll have to Google that setting again. Whoever advised this is not your friend, they are trying to eliminate a news source.
I'm so disappointed in you all.
They don't need to have anything to do with it. Sometimes it's good enough to just have one singular great self-contained story. Not sequels. Not game DLC. Not prequels. Just more good stories.
You mean like the Animatrix? They've done it already.
Defending the matrix sequels follows, why am I doing this:
That's what I thought too. They were still in the matrix. How else could Smith move from one to the other? HE'S A FUCKING COMPUTER PROGRAM. Yea but since Neo can see into the Matrix maybe the outside Smith is some other robot but Neo just knows that it's Smith.
And it only makes sense. The mystery guy they refer to in the first Matrix who "freed the first of us" and could "reshape the matrix to how he wished". Remember him? When he freed the first of the resistance fighters, who was piloting a ship to catch them and keep them from drowning??? You've got a chicken-and-the-egg problem there. I thought it was a given that they were still in the matrix.
Maybe he realized he was in the Matrix and worked out his real muscles so he could swim genius! That's also quite consistent with Buddhism, the Matrix movies make a lot more sense if you fill in blanks with... aw who am I kidding they don't make sense.
My third movie would have had Neo be the first guy to figure that out - the "outside world" is still the matrix. The matrix does nothing but generate realities to keep you from questioning where you are. And the reason why the matrix is doing this? What's the point? Well that'd be cool. Maybe it was an anti progress message much like the whole machines taking over thing, why must we move forward. Are we sure we're headed in the right direction? Things seem to be moving faster... I mean Buddhism's all about the joy of passivity, non thinking, non action. Maybe humanity will eventually confront the nature of life and be destroyed.
My idea for a sequel had nano- techn (called Midiclorians) and elves and a dragons!
This level of information about people isn't necessary. The improvement of direct advertising is so huge it would still be ginormous without using confidential information. Yes it's a terrifying prospect but Google can't devote effort to reassuring everyone without becoming that little bit of spin-doctor evil.
What they need is for people to really love being at the campus and buy into the uber geek element of their info lunches. It's cool that you can do something that amazing at lunch but if you look at is a corporate training and brainstorming it seems a little dull, hopefully the "geeks learn for fun" thing will keep the Google team ticking and cohesive.
It's those guys who spend all day negotiating with law enforcement and other corporations who will want to take Google into dangerous waters to be more "attractive." As long as Googlers remember how destitute corporate America is and that they have "The new shizzle" when it comes to advertising they shouldn't have any problems, they don't need to bend to anyone.
This is stupid, the issue is can we produce the things we need without working 10+ hours a day. Since the industrial revolution the answer has been a resounding yes. Now American's pay for a free market economy by working 8 hours a day until they are 70. Communists pay in other ways. The Amount people produce X and the amount people consume (Hey why not) Also X are the same amount, waste, profit generation, interest payments (for a business often 25%+), executive salaries, the "I dun invented this" payoff, bribery, interest group donations, change the system. But it sounds like you'd just say, that's economics because the right says it is and always will be and the last time we considered changing it we killed people to keep it that way (Yay McCarthyism)!
Meanwhile the idiots on the right (If you're not making 200,000+ and doing something honest you are one!) totally believe that it's fine to get screwed if they get a tax break with it, not realizing that since they make up 80% of the population them receiving a tax break is basically just inflation and won't produce any actual improvement in the standard of living, meanwhile they won't embrace any actual improvement because Big Government is Bad/Our leaders are crooks. Meanwhile the right wing leadership IS CROOKS and keeps telling them that the other party is selling pipe dreams. Don't get me wrong I think that it's fine to have a couple billionaires around, I appreciate the fact that 99.999% of their income isn't needed for cost of living. I just also appreciate that money = time and those billions are basically hundreds of slaves held in their basement, I hope they don't spend the money to torpedo their opposition or on vain projects to serve themselves.
What is Growth? Improvement in quality of living, n'est pas? Certainly government spending can directly produce "Growth" that should be it's entire purpose. Circuitously spending on corporations in the hopes they will produce "Growth" works in certain circumstances but the main reason for it is the covenant of government not to compete with business.
My concern with this whole locked down phone thing is that it seems prone to vandalism from the company itself. I'd much rather update my phone when I need a feature then fear losing features from manufacturer updates.
The next generation of phone technology seems to be VOIP, but if you go with these companies you're going to continue to find that there are problems or the apps are removed from the store or whatever.
By buying into a closed ecosystem we're reverting to the feature creep, poor code quality, costly proprietary codecs, slow manufacturer updates and all the other hurdles that we're still overcoming pulling our PCs out of the clutches of business.
It's not that it hurts you per se, it's that it prevents US from getting the things we know WORK.
This is foolish, the iPhone will be forgotten like OS2 Warp and Android will be everywhere! The iPhone is supposed to be "the one true phone" but it was designed to appeal based on simplicty. The perception of simplicity needs to remain for apple to hold onto it's customers. That's an illusion with huge costs.
Apple needs to evolve or die, and I don't think people are ready for an iPhone with more Gizmo's yet because they know nothing or they would have bought Android plus Apple simplifies everything with no choices and no training.
I'm not sure anymore. I think Google looked at it's income streams and decided that if they started to mooch profits they could literally have ALL THE MONEY.
By offering an open platform they pull people close enough that they can talk to them, selling things will come next. Right now, they're just selling us, and the phone companies can pay them "ALL THE MONEY" if they play nice.
So now we know that an unmodified Windows Phone (7, ugh) sends 50 megs of data, to Microsoft, every day. And they're not even fixing it?
This is the height of arrogance, not listening to their user's requests for control over a feature, which could be accomplished with a release in a day, assuming they have some kind of elaborate "settings" system or something. Scary Version: Data = Big Brother.
Windows 7 Phone,
Will be successful if they do it right. Windows 7 is broken in several minor ways making space for a quick successor. Just tie features of that OS into your phone culture and you'll be just as successful as Apple was.
Diatribe: Microsoft will be able to offer the best deal to law enforcement who will accept damaging the other networks.
$167? That's still insane. We finished this debate, they should pay nothing. Consider how many artists you can produce for $47 million dollars. We should be fine for a few years of online downloading.
The only thing to come out of this is that the record industry screws their artists in every way imaginable. We already knew that.
I went here to try and help you. http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Main_Page Then I realized you're an idiot. Buy THE DEVELOPER PHONE! It costs $160! OR even better find an IT guy to help you make the transition to Smart Phones! What no one does that?! No wait I do that!
Buy a portable voip phone. Don't pay for cell service, unless of course you want to.
phaistoscommunications.com - we sell phones for people who hate phone companies.
Well presumably they are trying to find acceptable free applications to serve their user base. They might have made note that many files share an encoding with a closed video codec.
First VOIP now media, where did all this closed codec shit come from again. I thought we dealt with this in 1998?
Maybe it's one of the inevitable cycles of software, maybe it's the same old corporations up to the same old tricks.
No it's not like technology.
It is an oligopoly sold by the state. In most cases the state's goal is to maintain control, therefore they add increasing amounts of regulation. This keeps small players out. Meanwhile the big players justify their ridiculous prices by saying they need to pay some of it to the government. Each area seems fine on it's own but combined they produce reduced network performance.
Android phones can be updated to the newest OS version. There are some hardware specific games out there but the underlying OS has excellent backwards compatibility.
I hate people who look at the first number and compare it to other REAL numbers. $10 of each of your bills goes to the phone. And of course you need to buy a high end plan, probably $60+. That's not a reasonable price anymore.
Google has been involved in the design of three Android phones. The HTC G1 (Dream/Magic), the Nexus One, and coming soon the G2.
The G1 is the perfect phone, iPhone touch screen + slide out keyboard. The nexus one is an iPhone clone, looks simple and pretty with a heavy processor so they can say "we're one better!". The G2 is based on the same design as the G1 but will have more processing power (and hopefully 802.11n [which will make local wireless networks offer better urban coverage than corporate wireless networks].
So yes, Google is involved beyond the software. With GREAT results.
Cheers!
P.S. my favorite Android application is Nimbuzz. I also have a voice stress analyzer and a metal detector which I think are pretty cool. What apps are everyone loving for Android? Is there a pirate g729a-u solution?
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Stop destroying slashdot. Stop dumbing it down. Stop "simplifying" it. You want to improve it?! Let us comment on stories longer and make the search functionality ACTUALLY WORK. I'm so pissed off about this I'm not even cogent. I just "fixed" the previous "update." Now I'll have to Google that setting again. Whoever advised this is not your friend, they are trying to eliminate a news source. I'm so disappointed in you all.
They don't need to have anything to do with it. Sometimes it's good enough to just have one singular great self-contained story. Not sequels. Not game DLC. Not prequels. Just more good stories.
You mean like the Animatrix? They've done it already.
Defending the matrix sequels follows, why am I doing this: That's what I thought too. They were still in the matrix. How else could Smith move from one to the other? HE'S A FUCKING COMPUTER PROGRAM.
Yea but since Neo can see into the Matrix maybe the outside Smith is some other robot but Neo just knows that it's Smith.
And it only makes sense. The mystery guy they refer to in the first Matrix who "freed the first of us" and could "reshape the matrix to how he wished". Remember him? When he freed the first of the resistance fighters, who was piloting a ship to catch them and keep them from drowning??? You've got a chicken-and-the-egg problem there. I thought it was a given that they were still in the matrix.
Maybe he realized he was in the Matrix and worked out his real muscles so he could swim genius! That's also quite consistent with Buddhism, the Matrix movies make a lot more sense if you fill in blanks with... aw who am I kidding they don't make sense.
My third movie would have had Neo be the first guy to figure that out - the "outside world" is still the matrix. The matrix does nothing but generate realities to keep you from questioning where you are. And the reason why the matrix is doing this? What's the point?
Well that'd be cool. Maybe it was an anti progress message much like the whole machines taking over thing, why must we move forward. Are we sure we're headed in the right direction? Things seem to be moving faster... I mean Buddhism's all about the joy of passivity, non thinking, non action. Maybe humanity will eventually confront the nature of life and be destroyed.
My idea for a sequel had nano- techn (called Midiclorians) and elves and a dragons!
Whoa!
This level of information about people isn't necessary. The improvement of direct advertising is so huge it would still be ginormous without using confidential information. Yes it's a terrifying prospect but Google can't devote effort to reassuring everyone without becoming that little bit of spin-doctor evil.
What they need is for people to really love being at the campus and buy into the uber geek element of their info lunches. It's cool that you can do something that amazing at lunch but if you look at is a corporate training and brainstorming it seems a little dull, hopefully the "geeks learn for fun" thing will keep the Google team ticking and cohesive.
It's those guys who spend all day negotiating with law enforcement and other corporations who will want to take Google into dangerous waters to be more "attractive." As long as Googlers remember how destitute corporate America is and that they have "The new shizzle" when it comes to advertising they shouldn't have any problems, they don't need to bend to anyone.
This is stupid, the issue is can we produce the things we need without working 10+ hours a day. Since the industrial revolution the answer has been a resounding yes. Now American's pay for a free market economy by working 8 hours a day until they are 70. Communists pay in other ways. The Amount people produce X and the amount people consume (Hey why not) Also X are the same amount, waste, profit generation, interest payments (for a business often 25%+), executive salaries, the "I dun invented this" payoff, bribery, interest group donations, change the system. But it sounds like you'd just say, that's economics because the right says it is and always will be and the last time we considered changing it we killed people to keep it that way (Yay McCarthyism)!
Meanwhile the idiots on the right (If you're not making 200,000+ and doing something honest you are one!) totally believe that it's fine to get screwed if they get a tax break with it, not realizing that since they make up 80% of the population them receiving a tax break is basically just inflation and won't produce any actual improvement in the standard of living, meanwhile they won't embrace any actual improvement because Big Government is Bad/Our leaders are crooks. Meanwhile the right wing leadership IS CROOKS and keeps telling them that the other party is selling pipe dreams. Don't get me wrong I think that it's fine to have a couple billionaires around, I appreciate the fact that 99.999% of their income isn't needed for cost of living. I just also appreciate that money = time and those billions are basically hundreds of slaves held in their basement, I hope they don't spend the money to torpedo their opposition or on vain projects to serve themselves.
What is Growth? Improvement in quality of living, n'est pas? Certainly government spending can directly produce "Growth" that should be it's entire purpose. Circuitously spending on corporations in the hopes they will produce "Growth" works in certain circumstances but the main reason for it is the covenant of government not to compete with business.
Shop first at the dollar store. Create competition.
There are companies that want to produce a good enough product at a great price and sell LOTS of them, then there are IPOs.
If Slashdot is too low brow they can limit mod points, force more meta-moderating, etc. It is a brilliant system.
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Main_Page
Big and growing community.
My concern with this whole locked down phone thing is that it seems prone to vandalism from the company itself. I'd much rather update my phone when I need a feature then fear losing features from manufacturer updates.
The next generation of phone technology seems to be VOIP, but if you go with these companies you're going to continue to find that there are problems or the apps are removed from the store or whatever.
By buying into a closed ecosystem we're reverting to the feature creep, poor code quality, costly proprietary codecs, slow manufacturer updates and all the other hurdles that we're still overcoming pulling our PCs out of the clutches of business.
It's not that it hurts you per se, it's that it prevents US from getting the things we know WORK.
Noticed the same thing myself.
This is foolish, the iPhone will be forgotten like OS2 Warp and Android will be everywhere! The iPhone is supposed to be "the one true phone" but it was designed to appeal based on simplicty. The perception of simplicity needs to remain for apple to hold onto it's customers. That's an illusion with huge costs.
Apple needs to evolve or die, and I don't think people are ready for an iPhone with more Gizmo's yet because they know nothing or they would have bought Android plus Apple simplifies everything with no choices and no training.
I'm not sure anymore. I think Google looked at it's income streams and decided that if they started to mooch profits they could literally have ALL THE MONEY.
By offering an open platform they pull people close enough that they can talk to them, selling things will come next. Right now, they're just selling us, and the phone companies can pay them "ALL THE MONEY" if they play nice.
So now we know that an unmodified Windows Phone (7, ugh) sends 50 megs of data, to Microsoft, every day. And they're not even fixing it?
This is the height of arrogance, not listening to their user's requests for control over a feature, which could be accomplished with a release in a day, assuming they have some kind of elaborate "settings" system or something.
Scary Version: Data = Big Brother.
Windows 7 Phone, Will be successful if they do it right. Windows 7 is broken in several minor ways making space for a quick successor. Just tie features of that OS into your phone culture and you'll be just as successful as Apple was.
Diatribe: Microsoft will be able to offer the best deal to law enforcement who will accept damaging the other networks.
$167? That's still insane. We finished this debate, they should pay nothing. Consider how many artists you can produce for $47 million dollars. We should be fine for a few years of online downloading.
The only thing to come out of this is that the record industry screws their artists in every way imaginable. We already knew that.
I went here to try and help you. http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Main_Page Then I realized you're an idiot. Buy THE DEVELOPER PHONE! It costs $160! OR even better find an IT guy to help you make the transition to Smart Phones! What no one does that?! No wait I do that!
Buy a portable voip phone. Don't pay for cell service, unless of course you want to. phaistoscommunications.com - we sell phones for people who hate phone companies.
Well presumably they are trying to find acceptable free applications to serve their user base. They might have made note that many files share an encoding with a closed video codec.
First VOIP now media, where did all this closed codec shit come from again. I thought we dealt with this in 1998?
Maybe it's one of the inevitable cycles of software, maybe it's the same old corporations up to the same old tricks.
No it's not like technology. It is an oligopoly sold by the state. In most cases the state's goal is to maintain control, therefore they add increasing amounts of regulation. This keeps small players out. Meanwhile the big players justify their ridiculous prices by saying they need to pay some of it to the government. Each area seems fine on it's own but combined they produce reduced network performance.
Android phones can be updated to the newest OS version. There are some hardware specific games out there but the underlying OS has excellent backwards compatibility.
I hate people who look at the first number and compare it to other REAL numbers. $10 of each of your bills goes to the phone. And of course you need to buy a high end plan, probably $60+. That's not a reasonable price anymore.
Google has been involved in the design of three Android phones. The HTC G1 (Dream/Magic), the Nexus One, and coming soon the G2.
The G1 is the perfect phone, iPhone touch screen + slide out keyboard. The nexus one is an iPhone clone, looks simple and pretty with a heavy processor so they can say "we're one better!". The G2 is based on the same design as the G1 but will have more processing power (and hopefully 802.11n [which will make local wireless networks offer better urban coverage than corporate wireless networks].
So yes, Google is involved beyond the software. With GREAT results.
Cheers!
P.S. my favorite Android application is Nimbuzz. I also have a voice stress analyzer and a metal detector which I think are pretty cool. What apps are everyone loving for Android? Is there a pirate g729a-u solution?
50MB is enough to contain a day's worth of audio recording and a full keylog. Spooky.
Take control of your phones people! They are the greatest anti-fascism device you'll ever own.
Now to get the government to provide anonymous Internet use and direct democracy!