As a simple example, I bought two apps for my Android phone that I wanted the full versions of before paid apps were available on the market in Canada. I bought them by paying directly at the author's website and downloading an APK from a link I was provided. No market required whatsoever in those cases.
The Market is a convenience feature, but not necessary.
Having never felt a 5.5 before, and living in between Toronto and the epicentre, I found the rattling of the windows a little odd.
That said, nothing terribly scary or anything.
To be honest, I understand the people in downtown Toronto freaking out, the G20's on this weekend and some of them were legitimately concerned it was an explosion rather than a quake at first.
You're confusing unusual with inexplicable or unexplainable.
Unusual does in fact mean infrequent. And quakes in the region certainly are infrequent.
However, of all the regions of central to eastern Canada, this is the area most likely to experience quakes, and as such, this is not an entirely unexpected event.
Roads freezing in Atlanta make the news too. Icy weather is pretty weak too.
Nobody in central to eastern Canada expects earthquakes of any magnitude with any memorable frequency, but we get snow storms that would shut down most of California every year.
Remote bricking is very useful if you want to disable a phone if its lost or stolen.
You could also have a deadman's switch app that bricks the phone if its not activated with a password every so often (useful if the phone's thief knows enough to shield it from SMS messages).
If they wanted to be informative, they would've actually dumped the system logs on the phone and checked what the apps really are doing with the permissions they're given. This isn't at all hidden from the user if they know where to look, unlike say a good worm infecting a Windows PC.
This PDF was the most useless crap slashvertisement I've seen in a while. They're trying to sell us their anti-spyware package for Android, by citing stats that are meaningless.
I have Handcent SMS installed. Of course it wants permission to send and receive SMS messages. I have a remote bricking package installed so I can disable my phone remotely if lost or stolen, so it has those permissions legitimately too.
The key is verifying that the permissions a package requests seem reasonable upon installation.
For example, if your new kids fingerpaint program requires full internet access, contact list access and sms access, you might have spyware on your hands.
No actually, you left it out of your original comment I replied to. My retort is therefore entirely valid. If you wish to change the parameters of your argument now, then so be it.
I'd still rather have a dead tree version of almost any book that I can pass on to someone else easily than an electronic version they may not be able to read or access when and how they want.
The recent proroguing of parliament in Canada, twice, has been very controversial and is one of the decisions actually made by the GG.
There are a few other important ones, and while the job is ceremonial probably 90%+ of the time, those few occasions would lead one to want someone with at least a little concept of good governance.
I have a several bookshelves full of real books, and on many many occasions I've loaned people those books to read and they've brought them back after enjoying them. Sometimes, they've even loaned them to a friend in between.
Books have a versatility that DRM'd E-books can't have. And even without DRM, if all the books in the world were PDFs, plenty of people don't have convenient portable Ebook readers for me to share those PDFs with anyway.
In a world where my purchase rights to share a book I bought with a friend or random stranger (or sell it at a garage sale) is protected instead of the DRM garbage that prevents me from exercising those rights, I might value Ebooks.
For people in the Microsoft world, there's been Windows Connect Now for a while too. Compatible devices are configured by transferring settings from the computer to the router via USB stick.
That said, personally I much prefer knowing whats going on but nobody should complain that its difficult with a decent device anymore.
However, my main wireless complaint these days is that the vast majority of devices want to run in a speed boost mode utilizing channel 6 and neighbouring channels for better performance at their highest power rating, instead of taking an under-used channel and avoiding congestion.
Especially if you consider the Bible to be internally consistent, the same God wouldn't say to both kill and not kill, therefore they must be different acts.
Apps only have permission to the data on their own section of the main memory by default. Even if they have access to your SD card then that doesn't give them permission to access other apps' private storage (unless they're from the same developer).
Having played Wii games, and Powerglove games back in the day, and Eyetoy and PS Eye games (like towers of topoq), I have no real interest still in modern motion control gaming. Kinekt (not Kinetic) still looks like a complete flop for real games (games that sell millions of copies), and the Move will be reviewed as a Wii ripoff no matter how well it works.
Me, I'm sticking with controllers for the time being.
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As a simple example, I bought two apps for my Android phone that I wanted the full versions of before paid apps were available on the market in Canada. I bought them by paying directly at the author's website and downloading an APK from a link I was provided. No market required whatsoever in those cases.
The Market is a convenience feature, but not necessary.
No offense, but wise people read them to know what they're getting into.
I really should cheer for Detroit, but I don't.
Notably, I always argued in class that the more mathematical definition of normal than the politically correct one.
That is to say, its not normal to be 7' tall or to have size 3 feet when fully grown, its also not polite to point it out to people.
Having never felt a 5.5 before, and living in between Toronto and the epicentre, I found the rattling of the windows a little odd.
That said, nothing terribly scary or anything.
To be honest, I understand the people in downtown Toronto freaking out, the G20's on this weekend and some of them were legitimately concerned it was an explosion rather than a quake at first.
You're confusing unusual with inexplicable or unexplainable.
Unusual does in fact mean infrequent. And quakes in the region certainly are infrequent.
However, of all the regions of central to eastern Canada, this is the area most likely to experience quakes, and as such, this is not an entirely unexpected event.
It is still very unusual.
Roads freezing in Atlanta make the news too. Icy weather is pretty weak too.
Nobody in central to eastern Canada expects earthquakes of any magnitude with any memorable frequency, but we get snow storms that would shut down most of California every year.
Things really are relative sometimes.
Believe it or not, so many people can't do F C conversions that they don't realize -40 is equivalent in both systems.
You mean like Belkin's? Or my fav, this one (1394b with FW800 support)? Yes.
Remote bricking is very useful if you want to disable a phone if its lost or stolen.
You could also have a deadman's switch app that bricks the phone if its not activated with a password every so often (useful if the phone's thief knows enough to shield it from SMS messages).
If they wanted to be informative, they would've actually dumped the system logs on the phone and checked what the apps really are doing with the permissions they're given. This isn't at all hidden from the user if they know where to look, unlike say a good worm infecting a Windows PC.
Most of the apps I have on Android (and I have a LOT installed) have very few or no permissions they don't need.
The one permission that crops up randomly is coarse GPS positioning, for the ability to embed location targeted ads to support their free app.
This PDF was the most useless crap slashvertisement I've seen in a while. They're trying to sell us their anti-spyware package for Android, by citing stats that are meaningless.
I have Handcent SMS installed. Of course it wants permission to send and receive SMS messages.
I have a remote bricking package installed so I can disable my phone remotely if lost or stolen, so it has those permissions legitimately too.
The key is verifying that the permissions a package requests seem reasonable upon installation.
For example, if your new kids fingerpaint program requires full internet access, contact list access and sms access, you might have spyware on your hands.
No actually, you left it out of your original comment I replied to. My retort is therefore entirely valid. If you wish to change the parameters of your argument now, then so be it.
I'd still rather have a dead tree version of almost any book that I can pass on to someone else easily than an electronic version they may not be able to read or access when and how they want.
The recent proroguing of parliament in Canada, twice, has been very controversial and is one of the decisions actually made by the GG.
There are a few other important ones, and while the job is ceremonial probably 90%+ of the time, those few occasions would lead one to want someone with at least a little concept of good governance.
I'm a complete fool then.
I have a several bookshelves full of real books, and on many many occasions I've loaned people those books to read and they've brought them back after enjoying them. Sometimes, they've even loaned them to a friend in between.
Books have a versatility that DRM'd E-books can't have. And even without DRM, if all the books in the world were PDFs, plenty of people don't have convenient portable Ebook readers for me to share those PDFs with anyway.
In a world where my purchase rights to share a book I bought with a friend or random stranger (or sell it at a garage sale) is protected instead of the DRM garbage that prevents me from exercising those rights, I might value Ebooks.
Your front door lock is easily defeated by anyone wanting in your house. Just ask a cop.
Locks are to keep honest people out. At that level, recent WPA versions are much more secure than house locks.
For people in the Microsoft world, there's been Windows Connect Now for a while too. Compatible devices are configured by transferring settings from the computer to the router via USB stick.
That said, personally I much prefer knowing whats going on but nobody should complain that its difficult with a decent device anymore.
However, my main wireless complaint these days is that the vast majority of devices want to run in a speed boost mode utilizing channel 6 and neighbouring channels for better performance at their highest power rating, instead of taking an under-used channel and avoiding congestion.
No more so than being in jail indefinitely, and the latter's cheaper.
I saw that irony too.
Especially if you consider the Bible to be internally consistent, the same God wouldn't say to both kill and not kill, therefore they must be different acts.
Apps only have permission to the data on their own section of the main memory by default. Even if they have access to your SD card then that doesn't give them permission to access other apps' private storage (unless they're from the same developer).
Because they're the right-wing nutjobs from the GGP ...
If you live in Vancouver, you get to avoid the snow most of the year too :)
PS I love being Canadian, come on up.
Having played Wii games, and Powerglove games back in the day, and Eyetoy and PS Eye games (like towers of topoq), I have no real interest still in modern motion control gaming. Kinekt (not Kinetic) still looks like a complete flop for real games (games that sell millions of copies), and the Move will be reviewed as a Wii ripoff no matter how well it works.
Me, I'm sticking with controllers for the time being.
I was thinking the same thing. If only my business would have the horrible consequences that went with the PS2.
Huge market share, huge mind share, massive sales figures, dominance in a market world-wide ... that must've been horrible for Sony.