As soon as they open the source code it will be made possible.
The problem is that you may not then be able to upload modified versions to the T-Mobile handset. But that's where open hardware comes in. I hesitate to say openmoko. because I think it's likely a little underpowered, but the principle is there.
"Besides, I think the real reason the phone companies are lamenting people not fully utilizing all their phone features is money. If your using all the phone features your paying more money on your service plan either by having a more expensive plan with data service or having a basic plan and pay through the nose per text message or per kbyte of data transferred. "
I'll say it again because I'm like broken record -
This is a US phenomenon. There was a newspaper article here in the UK a couple of days ago saying over 50% of people here do use their cameras. This is because phones here come with USB cables or bluetooth, and software to transfer pictures (or show up as mass storage).
In the US the networks have poisoned people's use of their handsets by limiting them and then demanding money to do things like move music or pictures around. It's really weird.
"I'd prefer it if the darned phones merely plugged into your USB port and you could pull the darned photos off the camera yourself. Haven't found one that'll let you do that yet. For now I'll carry the camera along with the phone."
Every phone in europe. If not as a USB mass storage device (many are) or Bluetooth equivalent, then with some free (as in beer) software that comes with the phone.
Seriously. This is why people don't use these feature, the US market is extremely warped by the networks sucking money out of people for no good reason, to the extent that people seem to be scared to do anything with the phone other than make calls in case they get stuck with an enormous bill.
Actually, I wonder if this is a US thing. There was a newspaper report over here in the UK a couple of days ago saying that over 50% of brits do actually use the cameras on their phones.
Personally, I love device convergence. Why the hell would I want to carry a load of separate devices when this one general-purpose computer in pocket size format with a few radios and lenses can do it all?
The camera is obviously never going to be professional quality, but the rest can be just as good as any separate PDA or media player.
This is one area where the accepted slashdot consensus ("just give me a phone!") is really rather luddite.
I really don't like the changes to the start menu. I mean, that horrible little explorer window embedded in the start menu itself? What was the thinking behind that?
Otherwise I haven't got many complaints you haven't already covered, the UAC pissed me off no end...
Likewise. Myself I use a Linksys NSLU2 running debian off a 4GB USB stick. I run Postfix for SMTP and Dovecot for IMAP.
Just find yourself an ISP that can give you a static IP and doesn't mind sorting out rDNS for our domain, plus a registrar that will let you do SPF - job done.
"I think that if I wrote a newspaper article saying "Barack Obama is a pedophile" should be entirely acceptable within the eyes of the law. Yes, I know it's not true, but shouldn't the public be educated enough to know that completely unfounded statements, no matter the source, shouldn't be trusted?"
Good luck with that, the public are fucking morons.
Actually, the accusation of him trying to seduce students is enough to get him fired (and if true, possibly locked up). That's specific enough to be libellous.
elephant buttsniffer is one thing, pedo-perv that hits on students is another.
"Now, if they could prove that the MySpace page was made by the student while they were at school, that'd be understandable, but in this case they should have notified the parent and left it up to the parent to decide appropriate punishment."
Umm, no. It's this or sue for libel. The kid got off lightly really.
I never understood why that killed the John Kerry campaign. I personally don't see anything wrong with changing your opinions when faced with new evidence. In fact the other position - not doing so - seems the mad one to me.
(BTW, no opinion on whether Kerry would have been a good pres, I'm not USian, just a facet of the last campaign I found weird)
They've cut out about half the content, and large chunks about what they'll do for kids.
Either they've had advice that they shouldn't be promising definite things (makes it harder to weasel out of stuff later) or they're just cutting down the page size for some reason.
I don't know about you, but I don't want my toaster or my light switch given a public IP address, or any connectivity to anything at all.
My toaster has a function - make toast. I push the thingy down, it heats bread. I don't want it suggesting different toast-related foodstuffs, phoning home to see if it's allowed to make my toast today or catching fire because some leet H4XX0R has found a way to break in and override the thermal cutoff.
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As soon as they open the source code it will be made possible.
The problem is that you may not then be able to upload modified versions to the T-Mobile handset. But that's where open hardware comes in. I hesitate to say openmoko. because I think it's likely a little underpowered, but the principle is there.
Well, Android is actually just google-shininess on top of Linux, so I'd say it adds to the Linux share, rather than warranting its own.
Move to europe
"Besides, I think the real reason the phone companies are lamenting people not fully utilizing all their phone features is money. If your using all the phone features your paying more money on your service plan either by having a more expensive plan with data service or having a basic plan and pay through the nose per text message or per kbyte of data transferred. "
I'll say it again because I'm like broken record -
This is a US phenomenon. There was a newspaper article here in the UK a couple of days ago saying over 50% of people here do use their cameras. This is because phones here come with USB cables or bluetooth, and software to transfer pictures (or show up as mass storage).
In the US the networks have poisoned people's use of their handsets by limiting them and then demanding money to do things like move music or pictures around. It's really weird.
That's fair, but it's a special case.
Then again, my phone has no camera. But then it's a Neo Freerunner, so I'm probably supposed to solder one on myself.
This seems to be another facet of the warped US market.
All of the phones I've had in the last 6 or so years have come with a USB cable and free (beer) software to do that stuff.
"I'd prefer it if the darned phones merely plugged into your USB port and you could pull the darned photos off the camera yourself. Haven't found one that'll let you do that yet. For now I'll carry the camera along with the phone."
Every phone in europe. If not as a USB mass storage device (many are) or Bluetooth equivalent, then with some free (as in beer) software that comes with the phone.
Seriously. This is why people don't use these feature, the US market is extremely warped by the networks sucking money out of people for no good reason, to the extent that people seem to be scared to do anything with the phone other than make calls in case they get stuck with an enormous bill.
Actually, I wonder if this is a US thing. There was a newspaper report over here in the UK a couple of days ago saying that over 50% of brits do actually use the cameras on their phones.
Personally, I love device convergence. Why the hell would I want to carry a load of separate devices when this one general-purpose computer in pocket size format with a few radios and lenses can do it all?
The camera is obviously never going to be professional quality, but the rest can be just as good as any separate PDA or media player.
This is one area where the accepted slashdot consensus ("just give me a phone!") is really rather luddite.
Meaning technically complete but with no method to update what's on the phone?
Does that mean we might be able to make a version for other phones (freerunner) though?
Get back to /b/ you moron
I really don't like the changes to the start menu. I mean, that horrible little explorer window embedded in the start menu itself? What was the thinking behind that?
Otherwise I haven't got many complaints you haven't already covered, the UAC pissed me off no end...
Likewise. Myself I use a Linksys NSLU2 running debian off a 4GB USB stick. I run Postfix for SMTP and Dovecot for IMAP.
Just find yourself an ISP that can give you a static IP and doesn't mind sorting out rDNS for our domain, plus a registrar that will let you do SPF - job done.
"I think that if I wrote a newspaper article saying "Barack Obama is a pedophile" should be entirely acceptable within the eyes of the law. Yes, I know it's not true, but shouldn't the public be educated enough to know that completely unfounded statements, no matter the source, shouldn't be trusted?"
Good luck with that, the public are fucking morons.
Actually, the accusation of him trying to seduce students is enough to get him fired (and if true, possibly locked up). That's specific enough to be libellous.
elephant buttsniffer is one thing, pedo-perv that hits on students is another.
"Now, if they could prove that the MySpace page was made by the student while they were at school, that'd be understandable, but in this case they should have notified the parent and left it up to the parent to decide appropriate punishment."
Umm, no. It's this or sue for libel. The kid got off lightly really.
You're right, it's not even that exciting!
I never understood why that killed the John Kerry campaign. I personally don't see anything wrong with changing your opinions when faced with new evidence. In fact the other position - not doing so - seems the mad one to me.
(BTW, no opinion on whether Kerry would have been a good pres, I'm not USian, just a facet of the last campaign I found weird)
They've cut out about half the content, and large chunks about what they'll do for kids.
Either they've had advice that they shouldn't be promising definite things (makes it harder to weasel out of stuff later) or they're just cutting down the page size for some reason.
Either way, bit of a non story.
Politician changes mind, big whoop.
Given that most of the stuff you've ever listened to is in 44.1 KHz and 16bit (CD), I doubt you could either.
You don't magically gain resolution when you encode a cd, you know.
lol.
My time is very valuable, but a large part of that is directly because of all the time I have invested in Linux.
Linux software development and administration is big business. Linux is not only free, it actually pays you!
They're a special type of pea, I believe the affect is achieved by boiling them for several weeks.
You need to chill out.
What's a functional alcoholic by your definition anyway? I've heard people called that because they goth through a six pack in a week...
I have end to end with port forwarding. And what's more, most of my devices don't have any exposure to the big bad internets at large.
I don't know about you, but I don't want my toaster or my light switch given a public IP address, or any connectivity to anything at all.
My toaster has a function - make toast. I push the thingy down, it heats bread. I don't want it suggesting different toast-related foodstuffs, phoning home to see if it's allowed to make my toast today or catching fire because some leet H4XX0R has found a way to break in and override the thermal cutoff.
I would question whether a college has any business judging people to such an extent on somethng as trivial as a can of beer.
OTOH, this is the good 'ol US of A we're talking about. Weirdos.