And yet, you can build innovative products that still incorporate open standards and even open code.
And you can build innovative closed products that run on open systems.
And you can build profitable support and customization businesses on completely open products.
And you can incorporate open concepts and interoperability into closed products.
There are lots of options in today's world that can bring openness and standards into play. But one wouldn't know that listening to only what big corporations and lobbyist say and push.
>"It's a persistent myth: reboot your Unix box when something goes wrong or to clean it out."
I have been using and admin'ing Unix (and Linux) systems for over 22 years. I have *never* heard of such a rumor. I hear it all the time for MS-Windows boxes and MS-Windows servers. And many appliance-like boxes based on MS-Windows (like our horrible security camera system) have rebooting itself BUILT-IN. But for Unix/Linux???? I think not.
It sounds you are using your phone to provide IP to other devices. You can just use ssh on those "other devices" to port forward anything you like. There is no need for any special phone nor software running on the phone when the IP traffic itself is already encrypted.
You misinterpreted my statement. 95% of Android phones are not "Google" phones, and do not encourage rooting and replacement of the firmware as a "development" phone.
I was not meaning implying it was excessively difficult or impossible to root or re-image 95% of Android phones.
Reflashing the firmware *is* a form of jailbreaking. Why should one have to go through that just because they want to remove a forced "Bing" as their search engine, remove crapware from the phone, or change the user interface?
Yes, it is nice that the few Google-designed phones allow easier firmware replacement, but WebOS allows you to do most anything you want by giving you root without having to replace the OS. It doesn't require hacking and looking for loopholes and breaking every time there is an update like 95+% of all Android phones do. That is a much friendlier approach.
I agree that overclocking and such could damage hardware. But instead of companies being obsessed about locking up the OS, they should simply lock the clock so the hardware can't be overclocked.
>"It would be great if Sony, Apple, Microsoft, and several Android phone makers would implement a simple development switch in their phones "
Inotherwords, it would be great if they did what Palm/WebOS already did years ago. With WebOS Linux phones, you just enter a code (that everyone knows) and wham, you have root. Zero hacking required. Plus, I don't think it "voids the warranty". Why would it? It is just software. I can see where maybe the carrier and manufacturer wouldn't offer operational support for a so-called "rooted" phone, but that has nothing to do with the hardware warranty.
WebOS phones can be restored to factory-defaults easily by just downloading WebOS doctor from the carrier's site. No phone should ever be designed to be "brickable". There is absolutely no excuse for that.
Google should be listening to this.... if WebOS Linux can do it successfully, certainly Android Linux can do it too.
Probably just another knee-jerk reaction to VP8/WebM. And you can bet this "royalty free standard" will still be protected by tons of patents. It just keeps getting more interesting all the time. Just what we need, though, yet another video standard.
I don't think that is accurate either. SOME of the developers left for the horribly-named LibreOffice project. It is unfortunate that this is probably what it will take for OO to move forward again. The pace at which problems have been solved over the last several years has been glacial.
"Mac OS X is the newest of Apple Inc.'s Mac OS line of operating systems. Although it is officially designated as simply "version 10"...
" The operating system is the successor to Mac OS 9 "
"(pronounced/Ëmæk ËOEoÊS ËOEÉs ËtÉn/ mak oh es ten)"
"Mac OS X, whose X is the Roman numeral for 10"
"Mac OS X is the tenth major version of Apple's operating system"
"The letter X in Mac OS X's name refers to the number 10, a Roman numeral. It is therefore correctly pronounced "ten" (/ËtÉn/)"
Strange, sounds almost exactly like what I was saying. It is, indeed, most certainly, version 10 (X) of MacOS. Saying it is "MacOS ten version ten dot four dot two", is redundant, because it is not version ten of ten, it is just version ten. But, whatever.
X? OMG, how original, exciting, and mysterious calling it "X" instead of 10. I guess it wasn't enough for MacOS 10. So I wonder if they will be able to let go of "X" when it is time for "XI"? Will version 10.1 be "X.1" or "10.1"? Or perhaps they will go redundant like Apple and call it X 10.1?
Even funnier that they call the latest Apple operating system "Mac OS Intel 10.5.6 - 10.6.4" in their pulldown menu.
>"Chrome users will be able to play H.264 video â" thanks to Microsoft."
WRONG! Here it is corrected:
MS-Windows Chrome users will be able to play H.264 video -- thanks to Microsoft.
Unless, of course, Microsoft has suddenly decided to port their software to the other operating systems (Linux, MacOS) on which Chrome runs (like zero chance there). Picky- yes. But there is a difference between the two; especially when you are not an MS-Windows user.
Your reasoning is probably not all that different from everyone else. Many people (probably you and certainly I) *WANT* more choices, and the ability to cast an approval vote for a "third party" without throwing our vote away.
Voters are so apathetic, many don't even bother to vote- knowing that voting for a Republicrat or a Republicrat doesn't result in any meaningful change.
I don't know which "approval voting" system is best- there are many, and they can be complicated. But with the current system, it is nearly impossible for any candidate not in the "big two" to win for anything other than small/local type elections. So in this regard, just about ANY other system of voting is better than what we have now.
I have to point out that politics, like everything else, is not "left" or "right". Trying to describe anything political in one measure is doing nobody any service. It is like trying to describe music, personality, biology as being left or right; or existing as only a single point on a line - it is crazy.
Case in point- Libertarians MIGHT be described as "left" for civil liberties and mixing religion with state, and yet "right" for foreign policy or spending, center on environment, and off in some other direction regarding defense. Where does one place THEM on a single line?
This is a WONDERFUL start. I have been saying, for so many years, that until the electoral college is removed and things are switched to approval voting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_voting like Instant Runoff or similar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRV we will NEVER see any real change. The "two party system" ("Republicrats") we have is one of several factors that is slowly ruining the country.
Citizens deserve more choice, more power, and more say in who is elected. People should not be forced to throw away their vote by voting their true position OR vote defensively for someone they see as the "lesser of two evils"... which is often their only choice right now.
Correct you are. Unfortunately that will never happen. The two-party system won't allow it. It would require ending the electoral college and changing to some form of preferential voting, such as instant runoff voting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferential_voting
Well, nobody will ever read this post but I will complain anyway.
I want that stupid left and top frame to scroll with the page. I *hate* it when a site wastes space like that. Why can't it be the default, or at least an option? In fact, I *never* use anything in the left "frame" at all... can't we optionally get rid of it completely?
The developers of the site should be FORCED to use the site for a week on each of:
1) Thin client- remote X over 100 Mbs to a host 2) 800 Mhz or less single CPU system 3) 800x600 monitor
Looks like the site is up now. Although it is not streaming video yet... so no knowing if it will work under 9pm EST. I did notice an iphone app with no Android app, though. Hmm
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And yet, you can build innovative products that still incorporate open standards and even open code.
And you can build innovative closed products that run on open systems.
And you can build profitable support and customization businesses on completely open products.
And you can incorporate open concepts and interoperability into closed products.
There are lots of options in today's world that can bring openness and standards into play. But one wouldn't know that listening to only what big corporations and lobbyist say and push.
>"...16GB of internal memory."
No, it has 16GB of internal flash storage, not "memory". I believe it has 512MB of memory, like most high-end Android phones (Evo, DroidX, etc).
Leave it to lobbyists to come up with their own unique and twisted logic....
Proprietary = choice
Openness = restricted
Freedom = anti-competitive
Free cost = expensive
Closed = innovation
I am sure the governments will do the "right" thing, and do whatever the lobbyist push on them, as has been seen time and time again.
No. But I can tell you that in the Winter, that going to work in the dark AND COMING HOME in the dark is REALLY a drag.
We should all move to DST year-round and just LEAVE IT THERE and stop changing time twice a year, which really screws with my sleep schedule.
>"It's a persistent myth: reboot your Unix box when something goes wrong or to clean it out."
I have been using and admin'ing Unix (and Linux) systems for over 22 years. I have *never* heard of such a rumor. I hear it all the time for MS-Windows boxes and MS-Windows servers. And many appliance-like boxes based on MS-Windows (like our horrible security camera system) have rebooting itself BUILT-IN. But for Unix/Linux???? I think not.
It sounds you are using your phone to provide IP to other devices. You can just use ssh on those "other devices" to port forward anything you like. There is no need for any special phone nor software running on the phone when the IP traffic itself is already encrypted.
You misinterpreted my statement. 95% of Android phones are not "Google" phones, and do not encourage rooting and replacement of the firmware as a "development" phone.
I was not meaning implying it was excessively difficult or impossible to root or re-image 95% of Android phones.
Reflashing the firmware *is* a form of jailbreaking. Why should one have to go through that just because they want to remove a forced "Bing" as their search engine, remove crapware from the phone, or change the user interface?
Yes, it is nice that the few Google-designed phones allow easier firmware replacement, but WebOS allows you to do most anything you want by giving you root without having to replace the OS. It doesn't require hacking and looking for loopholes and breaking every time there is an update like 95+% of all Android phones do. That is a much friendlier approach.
I agree that overclocking and such could damage hardware. But instead of companies being obsessed about locking up the OS, they should simply lock the clock so the hardware can't be overclocked.
>"It would be great if Sony, Apple, Microsoft, and several Android phone makers would implement a simple development switch in their phones "
Inotherwords, it would be great if they did what Palm/WebOS already did years ago. With WebOS Linux phones, you just enter a code (that everyone knows) and wham, you have root. Zero hacking required. Plus, I don't think it "voids the warranty". Why would it? It is just software. I can see where maybe the carrier and manufacturer wouldn't offer operational support for a so-called "rooted" phone, but that has nothing to do with the hardware warranty.
WebOS phones can be restored to factory-defaults easily by just downloading WebOS doctor from the carrier's site. No phone should ever be designed to be "brickable". There is absolutely no excuse for that.
Google should be listening to this.... if WebOS Linux can do it successfully, certainly Android Linux can do it too.
Probably just another knee-jerk reaction to VP8/WebM. And you can bet this "royalty free standard" will still be protected by tons of patents. It just keeps getting more interesting all the time. Just what we need, though, yet another video standard.
I don't think that is accurate either. SOME of the developers left for the horribly-named LibreOffice project. It is unfortunate that this is probably what it will take for OO to move forward again. The pace at which problems have been solved over the last several years has been glacial.
OpenOffice is not dead. It might not be moving very quickly, but it is certainly not dead.
WIkipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macos
"Mac OS X is the newest of Apple Inc.'s Mac OS line of operating systems. Although it is officially designated as simply "version 10"...
" The operating system is the successor to Mac OS 9 "
"(pronounced /Ëmæk ËOEoÊS ËOEÉs ËtÉn/ mak oh es ten)"
"Mac OS X, whose X is the Roman numeral for 10"
"Mac OS X is the tenth major version of Apple's operating system"
"The letter X in Mac OS X's name refers to the number 10, a Roman numeral. It is therefore correctly pronounced "ten" (/ËtÉn/)"
Strange, sounds almost exactly like what I was saying. It is, indeed, most certainly, version 10 (X) of MacOS. Saying it is "MacOS ten version ten dot four dot two", is redundant, because it is not version ten of ten, it is just version ten. But, whatever.
Before MacOS 10 there was MacOS 9. MacOS X = MacOS 10. Saying "MacOS X 10.4.2" is redundant. Really, "MacOS 10.4.2" OR "MacOS X 4.2" will do fine.
How is being a "nonsmoker" taking, and passing a "physical test"?
X? OMG, how original, exciting, and mysterious calling it "X" instead of 10. I guess it wasn't enough for MacOS 10. So I wonder if they will be able to let go of "X" when it is time for "XI"? Will version 10.1 be "X.1" or "10.1"? Or perhaps they will go redundant like Apple and call it X 10.1?
Even funnier that they call the latest Apple operating system "Mac OS Intel 10.5.6 - 10.6.4" in their pulldown menu.
>"Chrome users will be able to play H.264 video â" thanks to Microsoft."
WRONG! Here it is corrected:
MS-Windows Chrome users will be able to play H.264 video -- thanks to Microsoft.
Unless, of course, Microsoft has suddenly decided to port their software to the other operating systems (Linux, MacOS) on which Chrome runs (like zero chance there). Picky- yes. But there is a difference between the two; especially when you are not an MS-Windows user.
No.
Unfortunately having a common first AND last name is a drag.
Your reasoning is probably not all that different from everyone else. Many people (probably you and certainly I) *WANT* more choices, and the ability to cast an approval vote for a "third party" without throwing our vote away.
Voters are so apathetic, many don't even bother to vote- knowing that voting for a Republicrat or a Republicrat doesn't result in any meaningful change.
I don't know which "approval voting" system is best- there are many, and they can be complicated. But with the current system, it is nearly impossible for any candidate not in the "big two" to win for anything other than small/local type elections. So in this regard, just about ANY other system of voting is better than what we have now.
I have to point out that politics, like everything else, is not "left" or "right". Trying to describe anything political in one measure is doing nobody any service. It is like trying to describe music, personality, biology as being left or right; or existing as only a single point on a line - it is crazy.
Case in point- Libertarians MIGHT be described as "left" for civil liberties and mixing religion with state, and yet "right" for foreign policy or spending, center on environment, and off in some other direction regarding defense. Where does one place THEM on a single line?
This is a WONDERFUL start. I have been saying, for so many years, that until the electoral college is removed and things are switched to approval voting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_voting like Instant Runoff or similar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRV we will NEVER see any real change. The "two party system" ("Republicrats") we have is one of several factors that is slowly ruining the country.
Citizens deserve more choice, more power, and more say in who is elected. People should not be forced to throw away their vote by voting their true position OR vote defensively for someone they see as the "lesser of two evils"... which is often their only choice right now.
Correct you are. Unfortunately that will never happen. The two-party system won't allow it. It would require ending the electoral college and changing to some form of preferential voting, such as instant runoff voting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferential_voting
Well, nobody will ever read this post but I will complain anyway.
I want that stupid left and top frame to scroll with the page. I *hate* it when a site wastes space like that. Why can't it be the default, or at least an option? In fact, I *never* use anything in the left "frame" at all... can't we optionally get rid of it completely?
The developers of the site should be FORCED to use the site for a week on each of:
1) Thin client- remote X over 100 Mbs to a host
2) 800 Mhz or less single CPU system
3) 800x600 monitor
Looks like the site is up now. Although it is not streaming video yet... so no knowing if it will work under 9pm EST. I did notice an iphone app with no Android app, though. Hmm