Too complicated (for most people). Either you can trust a link, or you can't. If you can't, then adding certificates or whatever is an ugly kludge because you're expecting people to understand too much. A better solution, in my opinion, would be if Google (and other companies who support OpenID) had a tab in their Gmail site somewhere for websites you've signed up to, and to connect to those sites from your Gmail account. If a website was compromised, Google could immediately pull access to the site for everyone immediately. Yes, you have to trust Google for this to work, but...well, you trust them anyway if you've a gmail account, and it wouldn't be just Google offering this service.
In some countries it's impossible as they're not on the market yet. Also, Google takes a cut - Amazon could take a smaller cut. And, as has been pointed out, Amazon can market apps. A lot of developers are currently complaining that best-selling apps appear high up the lists and sell even more, whereas newer stuff is way down the list and only get seen by really bored people with a lot of time on their hands.
It's StackOverflow I've used. But it's a stupid system. Because, as I said, you go to log onto site A, and it takes you to site B and says `site A wants you to log in` and you're supposed to enter site B's credentials. But I don't want to have to type in site B's credentials, because that's my Gmail account, and it could be a fake site if site A isn't to be trusted/gets hacked etc. So you have to create a fake account on site B for site A. I'd rather just create an account on site A and be done with it.
Yeah, then it'll be India, or (parts of) Africa, or South America. Being the loser makes you cheap, then you catch up, then you fuck up and it's someone else's turn.
If that's the one where, when you click on it it takes you to a page that looks like the Google login page and asks you to log in, then that's your answer right there.
> Google needs to work on providing a HAL for graphics acceleration and fix the GC strategy of Dalvik or create a "universal binary" standard for C based development on > android if it wants to compete against Windows Phone 7 let alone iOS.
They're already outselling ios. There's nothing to fix in the GC - you can write stuff to avoid random glitches if you do obvious stuff like stop allocating/freeing memory on then fly. I'm I'm not sure what your problem is with C/C++ on Android - it's already there and it works (should you need it).
Linux viewers are fine. You can view PDFs with them. I don't see the problem. I also don't get what's going on with all the security problems. Surely most people who use PDF viewers use them because they've got a PDF file from somewhere they want to view. Furthermore, the PDF file has a mixture of text and images. There's no need for a viewer of those sorts of files to need javascript support or anything else which can introduce security problems, is there? They just need a 'surface' of some sort to render text and graphics into. There's a problem providing this functionality? Really?
There aren't really many Android tablets out yet, and the main reason for that is that Google haven't yet finished Android 3.0 which is believed to be the one which will handle large displays nicely, and let them access the market. 3.0 might be out soon, but that might be after 2.4, which is due out in the next few months. (If I were Google I'd have not bothered releasing 2.3 last month, and instead held on for 2.4, and I'd only have done that if 3.0 was really some way off. Then again, perhaps there IS no 2.4 and it'll go straight from 2.3 to 3.0).
Once 3.0 is out, I'm confident that the Android tablet scene will really kick off, and prices will drop massively. The Galaxy Tab has already been dropped to US$499 so we're getting there.
I had a Nokia phone, and to be fair, it didn't cost anything to boot once I'd bought it, although the replacement screen wasn't cheap. Then it was stolen, and I got an Android and laughed for a short while about how much better it (indeed any Android phone) is compared to any Nokia phone.
It's a little gaudy, isn't it? Perhaps an improvement would be one which was a little less tacky. Also, why is it dropping? What's that symbolic of? Wouldn't one which rose from the floor to some maximum height, combined with a light show/fireworks etc be a little more interesting?
> Last time I checked, investigation was a part of due process, especially when it involves a court order or warrant.
That's a little disingenuous. If you can't investigate without depriving someone of a server for months, then the investigation shouldn't be allowed, in my opinion, otherwise people will do just that - punish under the guise of an investigation. Take an image or whatever - whatever you can do in 24 hours or whatever is deemed fair.
You know, it's odd for a country with so many vocal opponents of socialism endorsing this bizarre situation of private defense/aerospace companies being funded by the taxpayer with very little in the way of end results.
Please not to be mocking the quality. Is very cheap, very very cheap...for you sir I have very good price because I am liking your face. Now observe as I perform peculiar head movement which means yes, no, don't know and I understand.
There's essentially one version of Android. V1.5. All updates since then are minor. Target 1.5 and you're sorted. Updates don't break anything - that sounds like BS to me. Care to cite me an example.
Re screen sizes etc: Put your design into XML files and have Android load the relevant one. Made your design flexible and it handles most of it for you. In the same way that you don't design your websites specifically to handle 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768 etc etc.
It's not fragmentation, it's choice. If you only want to do a game/app for powerful devices with large screens, go for it.
Living in this major city will definitely be pricey and cost of goods and services can be twice as much compared to smaller towns in the United Kingdom. This was captured in Britain Expat Forum last January 6,2009:
I looked it up. It's a result of the Israel airforce deliberately flying too fast and too low over the land they illegally occupy to traumatize the civilian population, and cause miscarriages amongst the animals which form.....woah! Is that the new Justin Bieber single?
He's explaining why the soldiers do it - for fun. What's your answer? If it's not for fun, then why do it?
In the rest of your rambling post you talk a lot of shit. You can't say than an organisation lacks credibility because of criticisms of one of its leaders. It's releasing information which a lot of people find interesting. Clearly it's made him a target for smears, and you, like a lot of other 'useful idiots' walk right into it. But this say a lot about you, and not very much about Assange, who's not actually been convicted of any crime yet, and the one for which he's being pursued by the Swedes is a bit of a non-crime in my opinion.
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Too complicated (for most people). Either you can trust a link, or you can't. If you can't, then adding certificates or whatever is an ugly kludge because you're expecting people to understand too much.
A better solution, in my opinion, would be if Google (and other companies who support OpenID) had a tab in their Gmail site somewhere for websites you've signed up to, and to connect to those sites from your Gmail account. If a website was compromised, Google could immediately pull access to the site for everyone immediately. Yes, you have to trust Google for this to work, but...well, you trust them anyway if you've a gmail account, and it wouldn't be just Google offering this service.
In some countries it's impossible as they're not on the market yet. Also, Google takes a cut - Amazon could take a smaller cut. And, as has been pointed out, Amazon can market apps. A lot of developers are currently complaining that best-selling apps appear high up the lists and sell even more, whereas newer stuff is way down the list and only get seen by really bored people with a lot of time on their hands.
It's StackOverflow I've used. But it's a stupid system. Because, as I said, you go to log onto site A, and it takes you to site B and says `site A wants you to log in` and you're supposed to enter site B's credentials. But I don't want to have to type in site B's credentials, because that's my Gmail account, and it could be a fake site if site A isn't to be trusted/gets hacked etc. So you have to create a fake account on site B for site A. I'd rather just create an account on site A and be done with it.
Yeah, then it'll be India, or (parts of) Africa, or South America. Being the loser makes you cheap, then you catch up, then you fuck up and it's someone else's turn.
If that's the one where, when you click on it it takes you to a page that looks like the Google login page and asks you to log in, then that's your answer right there.
> Google needs to work on providing a HAL for graphics acceleration and fix the GC strategy of Dalvik or create a "universal binary" standard for C based development on
> android if it wants to compete against Windows Phone 7 let alone iOS.
They're already outselling ios. There's nothing to fix in the GC - you can write stuff to avoid random glitches if you do obvious stuff like stop allocating/freeing memory on then fly. I'm I'm not sure what your problem is with C/C++ on Android - it's already there and it works (should you need it).
Throw in a powerful fan, and price it up at about £50 and I'm in!
> And let me use quotes, and +/-, and basic boolean logic.
You can do all of those with google. Go here:
http://www.google.co.uk/advanced_search
create your search term using the UI and see what string it comes up with as its search term.
Linux viewers are fine. You can view PDFs with them. I don't see the problem. I also don't get what's going on with all the security problems. Surely most people who use PDF viewers use them because they've got a PDF file from somewhere they want to view. Furthermore, the PDF file has a mixture of text and images. There's no need for a viewer of those sorts of files to need javascript support or anything else which can introduce security problems, is there? They just need a 'surface' of some sort to render text and graphics into. There's a problem providing this functionality? Really?
> We could even go with the fashion industry's concept, which doesn't have any copyright protection at all.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/retailing/article4036308.ece
There aren't really many Android tablets out yet, and the main reason for that is that Google haven't yet finished Android 3.0 which is believed to be the one which will handle large displays nicely, and let them access the market. 3.0 might be out soon, but that might be after 2.4, which is due out in the next few months. (If I were Google I'd have not bothered releasing 2.3 last month, and instead held on for 2.4, and I'd only have done that if 3.0 was really some way off. Then again, perhaps there IS no 2.4 and it'll go straight from 2.3 to 3.0).
Once 3.0 is out, I'm confident that the Android tablet scene will really kick off, and prices will drop massively. The Galaxy Tab has already been dropped to US$499 so we're getting there.
But can they log in sans serif?
I had a Nokia phone, and to be fair, it didn't cost anything to boot once I'd bought it, although the replacement screen wasn't cheap. Then it was stolen, and I got an Android and laughed for a short while about how much better it (indeed any Android phone) is compared to any Nokia phone.
It's a little gaudy, isn't it? Perhaps an improvement would be one which was a little less tacky. Also, why is it dropping? What's that symbolic of? Wouldn't one which rose from the floor to some maximum height, combined with a light show/fireworks etc be a little more interesting?
> Last time I checked, investigation was a part of due process, especially when it involves a court order or warrant.
That's a little disingenuous. If you can't investigate without depriving someone of a server for months, then the investigation shouldn't be allowed, in my opinion, otherwise people will do just that - punish under the guise of an investigation. Take an image or whatever - whatever you can do in 24 hours or whatever is deemed fair.
Sure, it's a punishment. "If you allow this sort of thing, we're going to take your servers and hang onto them for months".
Whoosh!
You're right, of course. The human brain has evolved slowly over millions of years, and won't adapt to cope with 3D any day soon.
You know, it's odd for a country with so many vocal opponents of socialism endorsing this bizarre situation of private defense/aerospace companies being funded by the taxpayer with very little in the way of end results.
Please not to be mocking the quality. Is very cheap, very very cheap...for you sir I have very good price because I am liking your face. Now observe as I perform peculiar head movement which means yes, no, don't know and I understand.
On the plus side I'm sure it was cheap.
There's essentially one version of Android. V1.5. All updates since then are minor. Target 1.5 and you're sorted. Updates don't break anything - that sounds like BS to me. Care to cite me an example.
Re screen sizes etc: Put your design into XML files and have Android load the relevant one. Made your design flexible and it handles most of it for you. In the same way that you don't design your websites specifically to handle 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768 etc etc.
It's not fragmentation, it's choice. If you only want to do a game/app for powerful devices with large screens, go for it.
http://www.expatforum.com/articles/cost-of-living/cost-of-living-in-the-united-kingdom.html
Living in this major city will definitely be pricey and cost of goods and services can be twice as much compared to smaller towns in the United Kingdom. This was captured in Britain Expat Forum last January 6,2009:
I looked it up. It's a result of the Israel airforce deliberately flying too fast and too low over the land they illegally occupy to traumatize the civilian population, and cause miscarriages amongst the animals which form.....woah! Is that the new Justin Bieber single?
He's explaining why the soldiers do it - for fun. What's your answer? If it's not for fun, then why do it?
In the rest of your rambling post you talk a lot of shit. You can't say than an organisation lacks credibility because of criticisms of one of its leaders. It's releasing information which a lot of people find interesting. Clearly it's made him a target for smears, and you, like a lot of other 'useful idiots' walk right into it. But this say a lot about you, and not very much about Assange, who's not actually been convicted of any crime yet, and the one for which he's being pursued by the Swedes is a bit of a non-crime in my opinion.