"Google video rentals will also be unavailable because the device will be no longer protected by a security mechanism.
You'd expect large companies to run press releases past someone with basic English comprehension, wouldn't you? I don't know what it is about definite/indefinite articles. They don't seem very complicated to me. Perhaps they just don't exist in some other languages, like the retarded male/female "the" you get in French and German.
Why would you want to avoid Android just because other Android users might make bad choices? Why would you care how easily a clueless user can click on `yes, install some random crap which claims to be a virus-checker`? I don't.
I gave up caring a few years ago. I protect my online banking, amazon etc passwords (write them down at home, long and random) but everything else I couldn't care less. If my Slashdot/openid etc ones get guessed or whatever then I'll just create a new account. Don't kid yourself that anyone cares about your online persona - they don't. Friends will get an email from you about your new G+/facebook account. Everyone else will just not be interested in "RandomInternetGuy10248034034" now being known as "RandomInternetGuy23038908343". It's just not worth the mental effort remembering, nor the paper writing down 40 odd passwords. It's just some website.
> And Christmas Day, NOTHING should be open but 7-11 and a few gas stations.
I'm not in the US, and my point is partly that "the holiday around the 25th of December" is not meaningful to most of the people on the planet. Also, even in those countries where it is, many people still have to work. I'm pretty glad that nurses, police etc are still available to keep society going on that day.
Who cares? 2.3 is all you need. Seems like nothing but small, unimportant updates for ages now. No point in getting ICS for the sake of it, just like there was (is, in a lot of cases) no point in corporate windows users upgrading from XP to Vista or 7.
Go away. If you've been following the website you'll see they're around 3 weeks behind schedule but have finished the whole design process and are now testing the hardware before mass production. Do you even know what vaporware is?
Next year it'll be the Transformer Prime and Google's tablet. Apple might bring out the iPad 3, it might not. Whatever. As a platform - the important thing - Apple's star is waning. You can't compete with the rest of the industry just because some fan boys prefer how the screen scrolls when you swipe it, or whatever.
Forgive me piggybacking here, but I've a web question. I read Slashdot predominantly on my phone (doesn't everyone?), but once you get 5 or 6 levels of replying in, the posts become unreadable. Each reply has a shorter width then the one above, meaning you end up with a handful of characters per line, and the rest of the horizontal space as just that - space. Is that really how it's supposed to be - completely unreadable? Is there no way of overriding it and saying 'look, I know it's a reply due to the context`. I've tried poking around in the various options within Slashdot, but I don't understand what most of them do, and the so-called help is completely useless and doesn't describe what the options mean nor how to use them. I think the problem is that the designers of Slashdot believe everyone is using a monitor so you'd probably need to be about 30 or 40 levels in to get to the same problem.
I'm using Dolphin HD on Android but a friend with an Apple phone has the same problem. Is there an answer?
Firefox - Too little, too late? Too little: Doesn't sound like it, given the writeup of this release. Too late: An install of pretty much any software is one click away. No software is too late - a later version can fix the problems of earlier versions. Most users don't have any problems with memory usage, don't care about how the footprint compares with this or that version of chrome etc.
> A computer could know the entire state of the game, and look through every game in > history to determine the outcomes of each choice a coach has at a particular moment.
Isn't that like picking this weeks lottery numbers based on up to the minute analysis of how previous draws have gone?
I just don't understand how bookmarks work on Chrome. Why can't I have what I have on Firefox - a menu item I can click on to get a scrollable list of bookmarks? I don't want a whole empty row just for a single bookmark button, and I don't want a bookmark `frame` or tab, or whatever. Why can't I have an icon somewhere which gets me my full list of bookmarks. Just like in Firefox.
That need might well come if your power bills go up 3000% in the next 10 years, your disposable income plummets and the cost of pointless new gadgets (phones, tablets, consoles) rises exponentially. You'd give it all up in a heartbeat.
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Or you could knowingly buy a fake violin for $1, 000,000 if you want to launder some money. The possibilities for crime on eBay are almost limitless!
> Why do they insist on this kind of language?
Because English isn't a first language.
They probaby meant something like:
"Google video rentals will also be unavailable because the device will be no longer protected by a security mechanism.
You'd expect large companies to run press releases past someone with basic English comprehension, wouldn't you? I don't know what it is about definite/indefinite articles. They don't seem very complicated to me. Perhaps they just don't exist in some other languages, like the retarded male/female "the" you get in French and German.
For a minute there I thought this was about ToysRUs.
I don't.
Why would you want to avoid Android just because other Android users might make bad choices? Why would you care how easily a clueless user can click on `yes, install some random crap which claims to be a virus-checker`? I don't.
Assume what you like - that's not how it works.
Who cares what he would or wouldn't have loved?
I gave up caring a few years ago. I protect my online banking, amazon etc passwords (write them down at home, long and random) but everything else I couldn't care less. If my Slashdot/openid etc ones get guessed or whatever then I'll just create a new account. Don't kid yourself that anyone cares about your online persona - they don't. Friends will get an email from you about your new G+/facebook account. Everyone else will just not be interested in "RandomInternetGuy10248034034" now being known as "RandomInternetGuy23038908343". It's just not worth the mental effort remembering, nor the paper writing down 40 odd passwords. It's just some website.
> And Christmas Day, NOTHING should be open but 7-11 and a few gas stations.
I'm not in the US, and my point is partly that "the holiday around the 25th of December" is not meaningful to most of the people on the planet. Also, even in those countries where it is, many people still have to work. I'm pretty glad that nurses, police etc are still available to keep society going on that day.
... And stores run by non-Christians.
Yeah it seemed obvious that was what he meant. You don't tend to discussion ethics in discussions about business.
So you have no evidence or examples then?
No, the first sentence was:
"I guess they won't be getting Ice Cream Sandwich without rooting either."
Who cares? 2.3 is all you need. Seems like nothing but small, unimportant updates for ages now. No point in getting ICS for the sake of it, just like there was (is, in a lot of cases) no point in corporate windows users upgrading from XP to Vista or 7.
They're allowed to do so, aren't, and are suffering because of this? I think you should approach Google and tell them where they're going wrong.
Android is open source. Google is in no position to demand anyone does anything.
Go away. If you've been following the website you'll see they're around 3 weeks behind schedule but have finished the whole design process and are now testing the hardware before mass production. Do you even know what vaporware is?
Yeah, but.... who gives a shit?
Next year it'll be the Transformer Prime and Google's tablet. Apple might bring out the iPad 3, it might not. Whatever. As a platform - the important thing - Apple's star is waning. You can't compete with the rest of the industry just because some fan boys prefer how the screen scrolls when you swipe it, or whatever.
The same way jpegs can be.
Forgive me piggybacking here, but I've a web question. I read Slashdot predominantly on my phone (doesn't everyone?), but once you get 5 or 6 levels of replying in, the posts become unreadable. Each reply has a shorter width then the one above, meaning you end up with a handful of characters per line, and the rest of the horizontal space as just that - space. Is that really how it's supposed to be - completely unreadable? Is there no way of overriding it and saying 'look, I know it's a reply due to the context`. I've tried poking around in the various options within Slashdot, but I don't understand what most of them do, and the so-called help is completely useless and doesn't describe what the options mean nor how to use them. I think the problem is that the designers of Slashdot believe everyone is using a monitor so you'd probably need to be about 30 or 40 levels in to get to the same problem.
I'm using Dolphin HD on Android but a friend with an Apple phone has the same problem. Is there an answer?
Firefox - Too little, too late?
Too little: Doesn't sound like it, given the writeup of this release.
Too late: An install of pretty much any software is one click away. No software is too late - a later version can fix the problems of earlier versions. Most users don't have any problems with memory usage, don't care about how the footprint compares with this or that version of chrome etc.
> A computer could know the entire state of the game, and look through every game in
> history to determine the outcomes of each choice a coach has at a particular moment.
Isn't that like picking this weeks lottery numbers based on up to the minute analysis of how previous draws have gone?
I just don't understand how bookmarks work on Chrome. Why can't I have what I have on Firefox - a menu item I can click on to get a scrollable list of bookmarks? I don't want a whole empty row just for a single bookmark button, and I don't want a bookmark `frame` or tab, or whatever. Why can't I have an icon somewhere which gets me my full list of bookmarks. Just like in Firefox.
That need might well come if your power bills go up 3000% in the next 10 years, your disposable income plummets and the cost of pointless new gadgets (phones, tablets, consoles) rises exponentially. You'd give it all up in a heartbeat.
Huh?