Is every company which licenses IP to manufacturers also engaging in a scam? Because..and you might want to sit down first.. there are many, many items on the average phone/pc which have been licensed.
The more people who reject that ridiculous, paid-for service (unless you frig your headers, and want to scroll down about 10 pages to get to the 'hidden' answers), and instead use Stack Overflow, which is free and attempts to promote the best answers and encourage some sense of community, the better for everyone.
I keep reading about this clown, the demonstrations against him etc, but it all seems to boil down to one thing - the lack of a credible alternative. As long as there isn't one, he's going to be in power. This simple fact seems to have escaped the Italian voting public for years now. Is it really hard to find someone in Italy who's not a crook and who wants to be president?
"As a professional software developer, I wasn't prepared to stand by and watch other professional software developers suffer as a result of crimes carried out by my previous employer, nor did I want to participate in the aiding and abetting of criminals just because they're paying me.
Stigma? Please! Only a company which commits illegal acts would have a problem with this.
> Android will continue to climb for a while on the geek factor and all the positive press by those same geeks, but > most families don't have geeks to guide their purchases.
What have geeks got to do with Android sales? They probably account for 0.00001 of purchases. Nobody gives a shit what geeks think/do. People are buying Android phones because people like Android phones.
I don't have to google anything - I just have to look at Android sales. Anything else is just sad nerds blogging shit because they have no social life. You can safely ignore them.
No it doesn't. Blackberrys have stupid little keyboards, whereas my Desire has a large, usable onscreen keyboard. Phone? Why is a Blackberry better than an Android for phone calls? "the like"? What's that? App support? Games? Ease of use? Blackberries are for girls, or people who get given them to use at work because their company is run by idiots who just don't get it.
Either that or they're hoping all their shit is going to crash Chrome and give it the same shocking reputation for security, speed and standards compliance that IE has always had.
Then we'll see how the hardware compares with other Android devices! My money is on it being a rather inferior experience with an even worse battery life than more current Android phones.
> Talking with friends that deal with handsets in retail they are starting to see "Android burnout" as customers have > been warned away from Android by the glut of CCC (Cheapo Chinese Crap) running Android and frankly barely > functional
That's not something the current amazing sales of Android devices suggests is happening elsewhere; perhaps your friends need to learn how to sell phones more effectively? No-one's going to turn down a HTC Desire just because some other company has produced an inferior phone.
But they've already screwed up. They had to choose Android or Windows, and they chose Windows. Textbook Nokia. Who's going to want a Nokia phone running Windows? It's not even like they had to chose one or the other! I went Nokia N70 -> HTC Touch Diamond (yeah, Windows!) -> HTC Desire. Can you guess which is the best phone by about a million miles?
Some decisions just don't make any sense no matter which way you look at it.
Don't forget to read the whole page first, including hiliarious "faq" questions like "Why am I being redirected to update 967715 when I was looking for update 953252?".
Sorry, does that install the illegal Sony rootkit which gets ignored because the law is manifestly not designed to go after rich/powerful people/companies, or uninstall it?
Aren't you better off taking RAW photos, and only sending out JPEGs. When someone wants to pay you for it you can give them the RAW. Whenever there's any kind of ownership dispute you can always pull out the RAW file and they can't. I'm not sure this has been tried in court but I can't see you losing.
It's crapware, not bloatware. Bloatware is shit like Microsoft's apps which are huge and slow but are at least 'functional' in some sense of the word.
Crapware is all the toolbars and trial virus checkers and other rubbish which is responsible for your machine taking 20 minutes to boot up and the drive light to never quite go out.
My opinion won't change no matter when the current turmoil ends. If companies in the UK can choose to pay foreign workers less money than UK workers because they don't have the same obligation in terms of holiday, maternity, insurance etc (to say nothing of health and safety issues, minimum age/wage etc) then there's going to be a problem for UK workers. Not sure what you mean by `old imperial countries` - the US is not a very old country at all, but the same applies to them.
Because while we live in separate countries and pay tax locally to pay for education, police, hospitals etc etc the idea of sending money abroad to people who don't pay tax in your country, and making it harder for people from your country to find work weakens your country.
I'm completely unpatriotic, not racist etc etc. This is nothing to do with nationalism or anything like that - just economics.
There's also the not insignificant problem of customers leaving your company if they phone up for help and can't understand a fucking word the person is trying to say. In the UK you fairly frequently see "uk call centre" mentioned up front as a selling point.
Why isn't everything encrypted on Android all the time? And the web? I don't understand. It's not like it's financially or computationally expensive. Can people just not be bothered?
It makes sense that some games won't work on phones. I can't imagine certain games, perhaps like Monopoly, Risk etc, working on a phone. I have a Desire and I wouldn't read a pdf of a magazine on one, but I might on a tablet.
Just remember that if the app doesn't run on one device then it's probably meant for the other one. If you can't find it in the marketplace for your device then it's for the other one. If you get something running on one but it the app doesn't fill the screen, or you don't see the whole of the app on your screen then it's probably running on the wrong device.
I have a windows install, a couple of Ubuntus, an Android phone, an old Windows mobile phone. It's really not all that hard. If in doubt, check that what you're going to buy/install works on the hardware you own.
My phone is Android 2.2. I don't understand all this fragemention people are talking about. Am I supposed to be having trouble running software on it or something? What can't I do if this 'problem' didn't exist?
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Is every company which licenses IP to manufacturers also engaging in a scam? Because..and you might want to sit down first.. there are many, many items on the average phone/pc which have been licensed.
The more people who reject that ridiculous, paid-for service (unless you frig your headers, and want to scroll down about 10 pages to get to the 'hidden' answers), and instead use Stack Overflow, which is free and attempts to promote the best answers and encourage some sense of community, the better for everyone.
Maybe they have, but just didn't find them very funny. They're like Dilbert, or TheRegister etc - how shall I put this..."not universally enjoyed"?
Depends. Will there be Jews?
I keep reading about this clown, the demonstrations against him etc, but it all seems to boil down to one thing - the lack of a credible alternative. As long as there isn't one, he's going to be in power. This simple fact seems to have escaped the Italian voting public for years now. Is it really hard to find someone in Italy who's not a crook and who wants to be president?
> "Why did you leave you last organization?"
"As a professional software developer, I wasn't prepared to stand by and watch other professional software developers suffer as a result of crimes carried out by my previous employer, nor did I want to participate in the aiding and abetting of criminals just because they're paying me.
Stigma? Please! Only a company which commits illegal acts would have a problem with this.
> Android will continue to climb for a while on the geek factor and all the positive press by those same geeks, but
> most families don't have geeks to guide their purchases.
What have geeks got to do with Android sales? They probably account for 0.00001 of purchases. Nobody gives a shit what geeks think/do. People are buying Android phones because people like Android phones.
I don't have to google anything - I just have to look at Android sales. Anything else is just sad nerds blogging shit because they have no social life. You can safely ignore them.
No it doesn't. Blackberrys have stupid little keyboards, whereas my Desire has a large, usable onscreen keyboard. Phone? Why is a Blackberry better than an Android for phone calls? "the like"? What's that? App support? Games? Ease of use? Blackberries are for girls, or people who get given them to use at work because their company is run by idiots who just don't get it.
Either that or they're hoping all their shit is going to crash Chrome and give it the same shocking reputation for security, speed and standards compliance that IE has always had.
I'm enjoying my HTC Desire phone (although I wish multi touch wasn't so utterly broken on it - you should be glad you have a HD instead!)
Then we'll see how the hardware compares with other Android devices! My money is on it being a rather inferior experience with an even worse battery life than more current Android phones.
> Talking with friends that deal with handsets in retail they are starting to see "Android burnout" as customers have
> been warned away from Android by the glut of CCC (Cheapo Chinese Crap) running Android and frankly barely
> functional
That's not something the current amazing sales of Android devices suggests is happening elsewhere; perhaps your friends need to learn how to sell phones more effectively? No-one's going to turn down a HTC Desire just because some other company has produced an inferior phone.
But they've already screwed up. They had to choose Android or Windows, and they chose Windows. Textbook Nokia. Who's going to want a Nokia phone running Windows? It's not even like they had to chose one or the other! I went Nokia N70 -> HTC Touch Diamond (yeah, Windows!) -> HTC Desire. Can you guess which is the best phone by about a million miles?
Some decisions just don't make any sense no matter which way you look at it.
What do you mean? It's simple - look at this page:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967715
Don't forget to read the whole page first, including hiliarious "faq" questions like "Why am I being redirected to update 967715 when I was looking for update 953252?".
Isn't the 'problem' that monitors and tvs are already quite high resolution enough for everything they're required for by most users?
Sorry, does that install the illegal Sony rootkit which gets ignored because the law is manifestly not designed to go after rich/powerful people/companies, or uninstall it?
Aren't you better off taking RAW photos, and only sending out JPEGs. When someone wants to pay you for it you can give them the RAW. Whenever there's any kind of ownership dispute you can always pull out the RAW file and they can't. I'm not sure this has been tried in court but I can't see you losing.
He could be recording tv/radio on his PC, or rendering some music into a .wav in realtime.
But perhaps your band just plain sucks, and Angry Birds is the only thing between you and the door.
I'd just like to point out at this point that Leffe beer rocks.
It's crapware, not bloatware. Bloatware is shit like Microsoft's apps which are huge and slow but are at least 'functional' in some sense of the word.
Crapware is all the toolbars and trial virus checkers and other rubbish which is responsible for your machine taking 20 minutes to boot up and the drive light to never quite go out.
My opinion won't change no matter when the current turmoil ends. If companies in the UK can choose to pay foreign workers less money than UK workers because they don't have the same obligation in terms of holiday, maternity, insurance etc (to say nothing of health and safety issues, minimum age/wage etc) then there's going to be a problem for UK workers. Not sure what you mean by `old imperial countries` - the US is not a very old country at all, but the same applies to them.
Because while we live in separate countries and pay tax locally to pay for education, police, hospitals etc etc the idea of sending money abroad to people who don't pay tax in your country, and making it harder for people from your country to find work weakens your country.
I'm completely unpatriotic, not racist etc etc. This is nothing to do with nationalism or anything like that - just economics.
There's also the not insignificant problem of customers leaving your company if they phone up for help and can't understand a fucking word the person is trying to say. In the UK you fairly frequently see "uk call centre" mentioned up front as a selling point.
Why isn't everything encrypted on Android all the time? And the web? I don't understand. It's not like it's financially or computationally expensive. Can people just not be bothered?
It makes sense that some games won't work on phones. I can't imagine certain games, perhaps like Monopoly, Risk etc, working on a phone. I have a Desire and I wouldn't read a pdf of a magazine on one, but I might on a tablet.
Just remember that if the app doesn't run on one device then it's probably meant for the other one. If you can't find it in the marketplace for your device then it's for the other one. If you get something running on one but it the app doesn't fill the screen, or you don't see the whole of the app on your screen then it's probably running on the wrong device.
I have a windows install, a couple of Ubuntus, an Android phone, an old Windows mobile phone. It's really not all that hard. If in doubt, check that what you're going to buy/install works on the hardware you own.
My phone is Android 2.2. I don't understand all this fragemention people are talking about. Am I supposed to be having trouble running software on it or something? What can't I do if this 'problem' didn't exist?