i went to the help in the google voice app and it says that if i want to send a txt i have to go to the inbox then press the menu key then press "Compose" but that option doesn't come up in the menu options. All i have is Refresh, Labels, Balance, Search, Settings and Help. Anyone got any pointers?
ok i downloaded google voice for my android. i have it linked up with my phone number after going through the wizard. However i do not need to use to make calls - i never go over my minutes. i just need to use it to send and receive text messages. i can go to "Labels" and then hit "Text" but i am not sure how to send people text messages or how to make sure i receive them via google voice and not through the VZ service.
then why are they charging for the use of text messages when the signals are already being sent out among the towers? I know the answer is greed but how come someone with enough power has not taken care of this problem?
If someone has a data plan for $30 that is used to get data from the internet, from your computer via wifi(or tethering)..etc etc....how in the hell is this different than a text message...or better yet i would assume that this is WAY more expensive than sending a measly text message. I want to know how they continually get away with this disregarding the fact that customers have not woken up to this. The FCC, congress someone needs to pry deep to find out why we are paying $30 a month for data then pay $20 a month for a different type of data. Data is data.
well last night i did have an Xcode4.1 update waiting for me in the app store - although i don't recall anything about this topic. Has this been pushed out already to XCode developers?
i was under the impression that iOS tablets do not support garbage collection and that you had to manually use retain counts. Are you saying I will not need to use retain counts and rely on ARC instead?
what about if you want to use C++ within XCode? Without looking it up, does boost has libraries built for the mac environment so that Obj-C can communicate effectively?
what exactly are they going to teach? That software development and programming is as easy as dragging widgets on a screen and that you really dont need to know how to write code or even understand how everything works?
a LOT. and i do mean a LOT of people were playing the game in the 19,29,39,49,59,69 levels(twinking) - because that was the only thing that was fun. I was one of those people. I had a lvl 69 rogue - yeah he was maxed out and hit like a truck(i beat lvl 73s and 74s) but then they decided that they would allow people to get XP by going into the battlegrounds. Whether that change was motivated or not by people(with no twink gear) complaining about being killed too easily or whether blizz didn't like people who stuck at a low level without leveling or both reasons is left up to debate.
But players, regardless of twinking ever being a factor or not should not have allowed people to gain XP. Then they allowed people to gain XP by merely gathering items relevant to their profession. Like myself, people with twinks usually were using that character on a different account(you have two computer and you run your twink with your lvl 80/85/whatever through all the higher level dungeons to get all the twink gear). So of course the merging of ALL battlegrounds to be merged cross realm solved that but that means everyone moved to lvl 70 and turned off XP. What they should have done what that they should have allowed people to turn off XP and still play with people who didn't - but then you think they made it to where you couldn't that they didn't like twinks.
This is one example of Blizzard trying to horde too much control over how people choose to play the game. Lots of people with lvl 80s and 85s dont want to make another toon and go all the way up to 85 again. Why should we have to level when we want to have fun at a certain level? In many cases I suspect because of what I have just explained, is that a LOT of those sub losses are a combination of multiple account removals or people that decided that they would just go all the way and cancel their subscriptions altogether. (The main purpose of having the main high level toon was to furnish money, pvp items/tools to the twink).
The Foundation has a license agreement with Nokia. This agreement ensures that the Qt will continue to be available under both the LGPL 2.1 and the GPL 3. Should Nokia discontinue the development of the Qt Free Edition under these licenses, then the Foundation has the right to release Qt under a BSD-style license or under other open source licenses. The agreement stays valid in case of a buy-out, a merger or bankruptcy.
i am not sure about this - maybe someone can confirm the agreement and terms of the Nokia TrollTech buyout. It would be utterly repulsive if QT were to be at the hands of any company willing to shred it out of existence.
yeah we all know that won't happen if MS gets a hold of Nokia. not only will QT will locked away in a redmond basement but it will be utterly removed from existence with no knowledge that is ever existed. I would hope the buy out clause would be to not include QT stuff - and let it continue to be free.
what about icons sliding across the screen? or a set/page of icons? if they had a patent on every little iconism then no one could write their own implementation. I hadn't planned on imitating an icon bouncing when opening an application. I was more referring to the fluidity of icons on pages, between pages, etc in response to mouse or touch interactions and as far as i know, no one has patents on touch interactions, with the exception to their respective implementations. I dont see any reason why i cannot implement my own graphics 'engine' that represents something 'unique' in the mobile space arena.
either on android or any apple platform, performed visual techniques that mimic things on the apple products..things like the dock, where icons would zoom in or out(or grow larger or smaller) when scrolling horizontally or vertically, page layouts etc etc. Basically I am working on a graphics engine for my mobile apps that are being written in OpenGL for these special efftects. I wouldn't think and don't think that it would be an issue - obviously my implementation of any visual technique is going to be different.
how many other devices besides the tablet has rectangles with rounded corners? what about my calculator? my windows in the back of the house? what about my LCD screen at home made by samsung? i don't recall apple ever trying to sue over those types of things.
thats none of their business. If we have 2 GB of data allowed then how we get that data shouldn't matter. As someone else said, if we watch netflix the faster we get to the limit and the chance of paying overage fees are feasible. Don't understand why they wouldnt want to go that route.
What difference does it make whether you natively use the phone to get on the net or use another device to connect to the phone to get on the net? the same source of data is still the phone regardless.
but no one has complained about vertical, circular or scribbly swipe? The patents should lie into how swipes are implemented...although i can't imagine algorithms being too different standing on their own as far as code goes but the code is going to be different because the callback mechanisms are different in relation to the OS backend.
They still have this attitude that since the stock market says that they are elite then they still are. Maybe in fact, they still represent a techies dream and that has been overflowed into society to think this way but I think their ego has gotten to them. They STILL decline offers to people with sub par GPAs or people that didnt go to harvard, stanford, cal berkley. If you graduated from the university of mississippi, have a 3.0 GPA, have 3 apps on the apple app store, 3 in the marketplace(imagine that), have 15 years experience in software development ranging from c++ to objective-C to lisp you won't get hired. For the record that isn't me but if you go read the google reviews on a site like glassdoor you will see the ways they really try to "weed" out people that aren't "qualified". If all you have is a GPA and you are a fresh grad then the GPA is all you have to go by + maybe a few "just for fun" stuff. other than that your GPA shouldn't mean squat. IMO.
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maybe people are willing to pay for it because they are not or they think there isn't another option(which there is if you have a smartphone).
i went to the help in the google voice app and it says that if i want to send a txt i have to go to the inbox then press the menu key then press "Compose" but that option doesn't come up in the menu options. All i have is Refresh, Labels, Balance, Search, Settings and Help. Anyone got any pointers?
ok i downloaded google voice for my android. i have it linked up with my phone number after going through the wizard. However i do not need to use to make calls - i never go over my minutes. i just need to use it to send and receive text messages. i can go to "Labels" and then hit "Text" but i am not sure how to send people text messages or how to make sure i receive them via google voice and not through the VZ service.
well I have verizon and they are CDMA - so are text messages sent differently than data? I have an android incredible 2.
then why are they charging for the use of text messages when the signals are already being sent out among the towers? I know the answer is greed but how come someone with enough power has not taken care of this problem?
If someone has a data plan for $30 that is used to get data from the internet, from your computer via wifi(or tethering)..etc etc....how in the hell is this different than a text message...or better yet i would assume that this is WAY more expensive than sending a measly text message. I want to know how they continually get away with this disregarding the fact that customers have not woken up to this. The FCC, congress someone needs to pry deep to find out why we are paying $30 a month for data then pay $20 a month for a different type of data. Data is data.
well last night i did have an Xcode4.1 update waiting for me in the app store - although i don't recall anything about this topic. Has this been pushed out already to XCode developers?
i was under the impression that iOS tablets do not support garbage collection and that you had to manually use retain counts. Are you saying I will not need to use retain counts and rely on ARC instead?
what about if you want to use C++ within XCode? Without looking it up, does boost has libraries built for the mac environment so that Obj-C can communicate effectively?
what exactly are they going to teach? That software development and programming is as easy as dragging widgets on a screen and that you really dont need to know how to write code or even understand how everything works?
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a LOT. and i do mean a LOT of people were playing the game in the 19,29,39,49,59,69 levels(twinking) - because that was the only thing that was fun. I was one of those people. I had a lvl 69 rogue - yeah he was maxed out and hit like a truck(i beat lvl 73s and 74s) but then they decided that they would allow people to get XP by going into the battlegrounds. Whether that change was motivated or not by people(with no twink gear) complaining about being killed too easily or whether blizz didn't like people who stuck at a low level without leveling or both reasons is left up to debate.
But players, regardless of twinking ever being a factor or not should not have allowed people to gain XP. Then they allowed people to gain XP by merely gathering items relevant to their profession. Like myself, people with twinks usually were using that character on a different account(you have two computer and you run your twink with your lvl 80/85/whatever through all the higher level dungeons to get all the twink gear). So of course the merging of ALL battlegrounds to be merged cross realm solved that but that means everyone moved to lvl 70 and turned off XP. What they should have done what that they should have allowed people to turn off XP and still play with people who didn't - but then you think they made it to where you couldn't that they didn't like twinks. This is one example of Blizzard trying to horde too much control over how people choose to play the game. Lots of people with lvl 80s and 85s dont want to make another toon and go all the way up to 85 again. Why should we have to level when we want to have fun at a certain level? In many cases I suspect because of what I have just explained, is that a LOT of those sub losses are a combination of multiple account removals or people that decided that they would just go all the way and cancel their subscriptions altogether. (The main purpose of having the main high level toon was to furnish money, pvp items/tools to the twink).
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thanks for the link. I'll post the quote.
The Foundation has a license agreement with Nokia. This agreement ensures that the Qt will continue to be available under both the LGPL 2.1 and the GPL 3. Should Nokia discontinue the development of the Qt Free Edition under these licenses, then the Foundation has the right to release Qt under a BSD-style license or under other open source licenses. The agreement stays valid in case of a buy-out, a merger or bankruptcy.
i am not sure about this - maybe someone can confirm the agreement and terms of the Nokia TrollTech buyout. It would be utterly repulsive if QT were to be at the hands of any company willing to shred it out of existence.
yeah we all know that won't happen if MS gets a hold of Nokia. not only will QT will locked away in a redmond basement but it will be utterly removed from existence with no knowledge that is ever existed. I would hope the buy out clause would be to not include QT stuff - and let it continue to be free.
on the back burner of all this... what is going to happen to QT?
what about icons sliding across the screen? or a set/page of icons? if they had a patent on every little iconism then no one could write their own implementation. I hadn't planned on imitating an icon bouncing when opening an application. I was more referring to the fluidity of icons on pages, between pages, etc in response to mouse or touch interactions and as far as i know, no one has patents on touch interactions, with the exception to their respective implementations. I dont see any reason why i cannot implement my own graphics 'engine' that represents something 'unique' in the mobile space arena.
either on android or any apple platform, performed visual techniques that mimic things on the apple products..things like the dock, where icons would zoom in or out(or grow larger or smaller) when scrolling horizontally or vertically, page layouts etc etc. Basically I am working on a graphics engine for my mobile apps that are being written in OpenGL for these special efftects. I wouldn't think and don't think that it would be an issue - obviously my implementation of any visual technique is going to be different.
i dont understand why they are picking on different countries and not the US
"You can use App Inventor to build just about any android app you can imagine"
A famous quote deserves recognition: "I'll Believe It When I See It"
how many other devices besides the tablet has rectangles with rounded corners? what about my calculator? my windows in the back of the house? what about my LCD screen at home made by samsung? i don't recall apple ever trying to sue over those types of things.
They want to dissuade people from doing that.
thats none of their business. If we have 2 GB of data allowed then how we get that data shouldn't matter. As someone else said, if we watch netflix the faster we get to the limit and the chance of paying overage fees are feasible. Don't understand why they wouldnt want to go that route.
What difference does it make whether you natively use the phone to get on the net or use another device to connect to the phone to get on the net? the same source of data is still the phone regardless.
but no one has complained about vertical, circular or scribbly swipe? The patents should lie into how swipes are implemented...although i can't imagine algorithms being too different standing on their own as far as code goes but the code is going to be different because the callback mechanisms are different in relation to the OS backend.
They still have this attitude that since the stock market says that they are elite then they still are. Maybe in fact, they still represent a techies dream and that has been overflowed into society to think this way but I think their ego has gotten to them. They STILL decline offers to people with sub par GPAs or people that didnt go to harvard, stanford, cal berkley. If you graduated from the university of mississippi, have a 3.0 GPA, have 3 apps on the apple app store, 3 in the marketplace(imagine that), have 15 years experience in software development ranging from c++ to objective-C to lisp you won't get hired. For the record that isn't me but if you go read the google reviews on a site like glassdoor you will see the ways they really try to "weed" out people that aren't "qualified". If all you have is a GPA and you are a fresh grad then the GPA is all you have to go by + maybe a few "just for fun" stuff. other than that your GPA shouldn't mean squat. IMO.