Umm, we're the ones free to copy our music as well as to rebroadcast any over the air signal. We're not the ones with laws like the DMCA, and we are the ones who told the big music companies to go away when they tried to get user data from major ISPs.
You enjoy your own chains, I'm proud to be part of a country that is attempting to have net neutrality at all. Maybe if you understood the issues (rather than the hype), you't want it too.
Unrelatedly, We're also the country who successfully sued big tobacco and won. I'm not upset to be Canadian at all.
Ironically I know a lot more people who have BB's for home use than iPhones or Android devices. Most of the people I know got hooked on them in business and wanted one for personal use as well.
Most of those people hate on-screen keyboards as a result of muscle memory training using their BBs and wouldn't give up that keyboard for the world, including the slide-out Android versions.
Your reply is very interesting only if you're in market research and have numbers to back you up. Otherwise, here's my version:
People just want devices that do things. They don't want Android devices, they just want devices.
When they pick a device, they want specific things, and sometimes, they think they want a specific brand.
That is to say, most people buy a car because it drives or has a stereo they like or (research says most commonly) comes in the colour they want, not because its a Honda or a Toyota or a Ford.
Being licensed out to the masses, Android is available on a plethora of devices with a variety of price points and feature sets. If those match up with a user's desires, they end up buying an Android device.
Does this mean in any way that they don't want Android? No. Android has made this choice possible for them. They don't necessarily know that, but it has. Average iPhone people don't rant about iOS and average Android users don't rant about Android, they just like their devices.
Android however needs the credit it deserves for having made this huge market segment of non-iPhone devices available. Some suck, some don't, but choice makes consumption better in general.
An awful lot of devices like Security Camera DVRs use custom Active-X controls unfortunately.
These things are developped over long periods of time and replacing them takes just as long (or longer). Its not legacy software, its just what was written and is maintained.
The iPod was designed to sell macs and failed to do so and eventually the Windows iTunes software was released.
The iPhone came out and could do the same things an iPod could do but also had apps and phone service.
Apple realized there were people who wanted to use apps on a non-phone device that was smaller and cheaper and made the iPod Touch.
The iPod Touch, as part of the overall scheme of things, does not need to exist to sell hardware. The iPod covered that already. The only benefit Apple has from the Touch version is to sell apps on it.
Next time you troll someone, check their user ID and note that I actually own two actual working MessagePads. I've followed Apple a long time, thanks.
Please justify that opinion. Unless Cisco prices itself out of the market, why would you not choose a well-designed Cisco handheld device over a Samsung or Motorola device?
The Blackberry was also designed to be a corporate device, and now look at its uniquity. I know many people that have two; one for work and one for personal use.
All my news apps look good and work well at all resolutions, including CNet, NYTimes, Engadget, etc.
All my games work well at all resolutions, including Uniwar, Robo Defense and Angry Birds.
My weather app of preference, WeatherBug, often has big gaps of emptyness when displaying things like the forecast, because it is formatted for a moderate screen, not a large one, but its only about a half an inch of wasted real-estate and could easily be fixed by detecting screen DPI for high res devices, not by making a tablet-specific app.
Basically I see very little purpose in tablet-specific applications, and honour those who know how to write applications that understand multiple resolutions instead.
As a fellow conservative, I must disagree. I see no problem with a state limiting what a minor may buy. Just a state may place limits on buying alcohol, pornography and cigarettes, I see no reason why a state may not place age restrictions on video games.
At no point was this lawsuit about what a minor should be able to buy, but whether the product should be available at all.
The product is already being marked to be unavailable to minors, as are cigarettes. Plenty of adults already hand cigarettes to minors, despite laws against it, probably substantially more than give M and AO rated games to minors.
As another Conservative Christian who actually spent time studying theology as a profession, I must say that I find it deplorable how some Christians (and many other groups) are so quick to try and stomp out others' rights, forgetting their own rights are at risk down the line.
I will defend the right of anyone to publish anything, because as soon as I don't, I don't have a leg to stand on when they try to ban the Bible.
Actually you missed an option -- eliminate more intersections.
One of the major traffic problems is too many intersections, causing too many stops and starts.
If you start eliminating every other road that crosses a main street (often by using dead-end concrete barriers), you increase traffic speed on the main road substantially while causing only minor inconvenience to the side streets. This also eliminates side-street shortcutting which causes accidents as drivers attempt to use a small low-speed zone as though it were a thoroughfare.
E-book readers really need to catch up in these regards.
Some of my pet peaves include writing in the margins, including doodles, quickly earmarking pages, and being able to grab text with proper reference for use in quoting.
That last one is really annoying -- if I'm reading a book to be used in a paper, and I want to quote a paragraph, I often have to completely retype the paragraph instead of copy and pasting it because they don't want people to copy the whole book.
Here's a clue: you can limit copy and paste features to small (legal) subsets of the text. Anyone who bothers copying the whole book could have done so with a photocopier as well.
Storage access is going to be required to store data on the SD card, and since the SD card is FAT formatted and doesn't have a permissions structure like the internal memory does, there's no way to restrict which files the app accesses once it has SD access.
Personally I wish Android SD cards had always just been formatted EXT4 or something but that would make mounting the drive on Windows for mass file moving trickier.
Apple's GUI toolkit is completely different from Android's though, so their approach to multiple resolutions is different too.
I'd like to remind everyone that the existance of multiple resolutions of Android devices since the beginning meant the UI was designed to handle them all. As a result, many well-written apps work very well and look good regardless of resolution.
I could sit here all day posting screenshot examples from the four Android devices in my house (sorry, only three in that shot) but its not really worth it.
Wait and buy the new Cisco one that got lambasted on Slashdot last week. Its probably going to be a solid piece of hardware, and it runs Android. Win win.
Most publishers only publish apps to the Google Market.
There are ssecondary markets available, several of them. The HP PhotoSmart printer that comes with an Android tablet has access to one of them for installing apps on it, because it can't access the Google Market.
PS why on earth would you want an Android based music player? Apple made the iPod Touch because they have their own music store and also want to sell apps. What benefit would Samsung or Motorola have in making a music device? As for third parties, regular MP3 players are so cheap to manufacture, why compete at the iPod Touch price with a touch screen and Android interface when they compete on price instead?
Go into the network settings GUI in Gnome and tab to the toolbar, now move left and right and try to get the middle buttons. It doesn't work; the cursors jump over to the next section without highlighting all options in between.
These are UI issues that Windows sorted out a long time ago for one reason or another that annoy me in Linux.
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Umm, we're the ones free to copy our music as well as to rebroadcast any over the air signal. We're not the ones with laws like the DMCA, and we are the ones who told the big music companies to go away when they tried to get user data from major ISPs.
You enjoy your own chains, I'm proud to be part of a country that is attempting to have net neutrality at all. Maybe if you understood the issues (rather than the hype), you't want it too.
Unrelatedly, We're also the country who successfully sued big tobacco and won. I'm not upset to be Canadian at all.
Ironically I know a lot more people who have BB's for home use than iPhones or Android devices. Most of the people I know got hooked on them in business and wanted one for personal use as well.
Most of those people hate on-screen keyboards as a result of muscle memory training using their BBs and wouldn't give up that keyboard for the world, including the slide-out Android versions.
Your reply is very interesting only if you're in market research and have numbers to back you up. Otherwise, here's my version:
People just want devices that do things. They don't want Android devices, they just want devices.
When they pick a device, they want specific things, and sometimes, they think they want a specific brand.
That is to say, most people buy a car because it drives or has a stereo they like or (research says most commonly) comes in the colour they want, not because its a Honda or a Toyota or a Ford.
Being licensed out to the masses, Android is available on a plethora of devices with a variety of price points and feature sets. If those match up with a user's desires, they end up buying an Android device.
Does this mean in any way that they don't want Android? No. Android has made this choice possible for them. They don't necessarily know that, but it has. Average iPhone people don't rant about iOS and average Android users don't rant about Android, they just like their devices.
Android however needs the credit it deserves for having made this huge market segment of non-iPhone devices available. Some suck, some don't, but choice makes consumption better in general.
Last time I checked, if someone's using a tool that doesn't work for them, and I give them a tool that works better, they're usually happy about it.
Yes, "switch tools" is often the right answer.
Excellent Chrome feature: right click the blank space at the top near the title and choose task manager.
It will show you all the memory usage per tab, as well as things like flash, and let you end process on them individually.
An awful lot of devices like Security Camera DVRs use custom Active-X controls unfortunately.
These things are developped over long periods of time and replacing them takes just as long (or longer). Its not legacy software, its just what was written and is maintained.
Someone missed the news break.
The iPod was designed to sell macs and failed to do so and eventually the Windows iTunes software was released.
The iPhone came out and could do the same things an iPod could do but also had apps and phone service.
Apple realized there were people who wanted to use apps on a non-phone device that was smaller and cheaper and made the iPod Touch.
The iPod Touch, as part of the overall scheme of things, does not need to exist to sell hardware. The iPod covered that already. The only benefit Apple has from the Touch version is to sell apps on it.
Next time you troll someone, check their user ID and note that I actually own two actual working MessagePads. I've followed Apple a long time, thanks.
Please justify that opinion. Unless Cisco prices itself out of the market, why would you not choose a well-designed Cisco handheld device over a Samsung or Motorola device?
The Blackberry was also designed to be a corporate device, and now look at its uniquity. I know many people that have two; one for work and one for personal use.
All my news apps look good and work well at all resolutions, including CNet, NYTimes, Engadget, etc.
All my games work well at all resolutions, including Uniwar, Robo Defense and Angry Birds.
My weather app of preference, WeatherBug, often has big gaps of emptyness when displaying things like the forecast, because it is formatted for a moderate screen, not a large one, but its only about a half an inch of wasted real-estate and could easily be fixed by detecting screen DPI for high res devices, not by making a tablet-specific app.
Basically I see very little purpose in tablet-specific applications, and honour those who know how to write applications that understand multiple resolutions instead.
At no point was this lawsuit about what a minor should be able to buy, but whether the product should be available at all.
The product is already being marked to be unavailable to minors, as are cigarettes. Plenty of adults already hand cigarettes to minors, despite laws against it, probably substantially more than give M and AO rated games to minors.
As another Conservative Christian who actually spent time studying theology as a profession, I must say that I find it deplorable how some Christians (and many other groups) are so quick to try and stomp out others' rights, forgetting their own rights are at risk down the line.
I will defend the right of anyone to publish anything, because as soon as I don't, I don't have a leg to stand on when they try to ban the Bible.
The truth will set you free.
Luckily you were not included in the preparation of the international declaration on human rights.
Actually you missed an option -- eliminate more intersections.
One of the major traffic problems is too many intersections, causing too many stops and starts.
If you start eliminating every other road that crosses a main street (often by using dead-end concrete barriers), you increase traffic speed on the main road substantially while causing only minor inconvenience to the side streets. This also eliminates side-street shortcutting which causes accidents as drivers attempt to use a small low-speed zone as though it were a thoroughfare.
That's what the "contest this ticket" part of the ticket option is for.
E-book readers really need to catch up in these regards.
Some of my pet peaves include writing in the margins, including doodles, quickly earmarking pages, and being able to grab text with proper reference for use in quoting.
That last one is really annoying -- if I'm reading a book to be used in a paper, and I want to quote a paragraph, I often have to completely retype the paragraph instead of copy and pasting it because they don't want people to copy the whole book.
Here's a clue: you can limit copy and paste features to small (legal) subsets of the text. Anyone who bothers copying the whole book could have done so with a photocopier as well.
Please name the Android tablets that cost more than a comparable iPad.
Its okay, I'll wait.
For bonus marks, please do a quick check to see what percentage of Android tablets your list comprises.
Storage access is going to be required to store data on the SD card, and since the SD card is FAT formatted and doesn't have a permissions structure like the internal memory does, there's no way to restrict which files the app accesses once it has SD access.
Personally I wish Android SD cards had always just been formatted EXT4 or something but that would make mounting the drive on Windows for mass file moving trickier.
Apple's GUI toolkit is completely different from Android's though, so their approach to multiple resolutions is different too.
I'd like to remind everyone that the existance of multiple resolutions of Android devices since the beginning meant the UI was designed to handle them all. As a result, many well-written apps work very well and look good regardless of resolution.
I could sit here all day posting screenshot examples from the four Android devices in my house (sorry, only three in that shot) but its not really worth it.
Wait and buy the new Cisco one that got lambasted on Slashdot last week. Its probably going to be a solid piece of hardware, and it runs Android. Win win.
Most publishers only publish apps to the Google Market.
There are ssecondary markets available, several of them. The HP PhotoSmart printer that comes with an Android tablet has access to one of them for installing apps on it, because it can't access the Google Market.
PS why on earth would you want an Android based music player? Apple made the iPod Touch because they have their own music store and also want to sell apps. What benefit would Samsung or Motorola have in making a music device? As for third parties, regular MP3 players are so cheap to manufacture, why compete at the iPod Touch price with a touch screen and Android interface when they compete on price instead?
Your market assumptions seem pre-biased.
Last time I checked the emulator for Android was just qemu. If you don't know what you're talking about, look it up.
I prefer Android 2.3.x myself. I just wish Dell would catch up and release it officially for the Streaks.
Here's one off the top of my head:
Go into the network settings GUI in Gnome and tab to the toolbar, now move left and right and try to get the middle buttons. It doesn't work; the cursors jump over to the next section without highlighting all options in between.
These are UI issues that Windows sorted out a long time ago for one reason or another that annoy me in Linux.
Of course, ALT+F2->"gnome-terminal" works fine ;-)
Pretty good RPG -- I played through the entire quest three times to try out multiple ending options and such.
A couple notable bugs in the mid-game ... so save periodically if you try it out.
Notably, this thing runs Android. Its another Android tablet, but by someone who cares about solid communications and security infrastructure.
I'm sure it will be a solid contender.
Both Ogre Battle 64 and Ayden Chronicles were excellent RPGs on the N64. Just FYI.