They should really deprecate the stock browser and retrofit a lightweight Chrome instance (Chromium in the AOSP) to implement the API.
That way, carriers and vendors can bundle Chrome but since it's in the Play Store, it gets automagically updated.
But, in having a plain-Jane webkit browser, I guess they didn't want the iexplorer grief from euronazis demanding that they remove Chrome as a dependency. Savvy users like me will install firefox from f-droid anyway...
e.g. My HTC phone is 2.5 years old but volunteer(s) produce an unofficial port of CM 11. (Which you wouldn't know by looking at the Cyanogenmod home page)
Can one buy a handset with said OS on a contract with a US telco? Unlikely
But one can order a phone online.
The foundations of both are open source, so in theory it's possible to port each to an existing Android handset. A worthy Kickstarter project for someone wanting to emulate the Cyanogenmod business model?
Without binding targets, there's nothing to prosecute, in any case.
Take Copenhagen. The political elite got together in 2009, gave lots of lovely speeches but ultimately sat on their hands and achieved nothing.
My own government, for example, committed to 25% reductions of 1990 levels only if the rest of the world did something - so that was whittled down to a 5% target. A measly 5% ??? - get serious...
For those of you not familiar with Aus politics...
A mainstream conspiracy theory is that News Corp promoted regime change at last year's federal election due to the previous policy on a National Broadband Network. Conservatives successfully argued that the only people needing the bandwidth of a fibre-optic network would be downloaders of illegally-sourced movies. So with ageing copper ADSL, the only hope of accessing 2160i content in the next two decades would be through Murdoch's cable service.
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goto considered harmful.
You left out Tizen, of which there might be announcements in the next week at the phone conference.
Scala's @tailrec annotation, for example, emits a compiler error if it can't perform TCO.
They should really deprecate the stock browser and retrofit a lightweight Chrome instance (Chromium in the AOSP) to implement the API.
That way, carriers and vendors can bundle Chrome but since it's in the Play Store, it gets automagically updated.
But, in having a plain-Jane webkit browser, I guess they didn't want the iexplorer grief from euronazis demanding that they remove Chrome as a dependency. Savvy users like me will install firefox from f-droid anyway...
Did you check xda forums?
e.g. My HTC phone is 2.5 years old but volunteer(s) produce an unofficial port of CM 11. (Which you wouldn't know by looking at the Cyanogenmod home page)
Well the firefox phone will ship for $100 or less with a 2 year warranty; for that price, how much support do you need?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/281165...
As for apps, there are 3000+ on https://marketplace.firefox.co...
NB: I have an android phone but I'm just curious to see FF OS evolve but the hardware is very 2010...
Can one buy a handset with said OS on a contract with a US telco? Unlikely
But one can order a phone online.
The foundations of both are open source, so in theory it's possible to port each to an existing Android handset. A worthy Kickstarter project for someone wanting to emulate the Cyanogenmod business model?
Well it's Ubuntu. Meaning despite the bad karma Canonical have attained on here, it's basically debian under the covers.
If lifetime upgrades are a simple 'apt-get dist-upgrade' away, that would attract a legion of fans fed up with rom-flashing.
Whether Canonical are capable, with Mer and Unity, of producing a user interface that doesn't suck is another story.
ZTE and Geeksphone will be unveiling handsets at next week's MWC in Barcelona.
You're still diverting a hand away from the steering wheel and your gaze off the road in order to perform a sequence of gestures.
Do these designers take into account user interfaces from the point of least likely to cause an accident by a distracted driver?
Yeah, this is the 2nd or 3rd 'Slashvertisement' publicizing someone's obscure product without adequately explaining what RP actually is.
One would think from reading the tutorials of Val Kilmer (sic) that reactive is just some DSL built on top of PL/SQL...
From a functional perspective the basic idea is to handle asynch callbacks with a Future monad.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...
America:0
British:0
never start a war you can't win.
Oh and, don't fuck with Canada.
I thought you were talking about the content for a minute.
I mean, seriously, who venerates the genocide of one's native peoples 144 years after the fact? Shame, Slashdot...
To escape your 'shitty' weather?
My ancestors emigrated from your Dickensian squalor 150 years ago and never looked back.
Without binding targets, there's nothing to prosecute, in any case.
Take Copenhagen. The political elite got together in 2009, gave lots of lovely speeches but ultimately sat on their hands and achieved nothing.
My own government, for example, committed to 25% reductions of 1990 levels only if the rest of the world did something - so that was whittled down to a 5% target. A measly 5% ??? - get serious...
Can't Stand Ya!
Java has primitives, which aren't Objects. (though there's a compiler hack known as auto-boxing, which when misused can lead to NullPointerExceptions)
Perhaps you're thinking of Ruby.
Palm -> HP -> LG.
you might find webOS on your next-gen telly.
Blackberry, Firefox OS, Jolla
Why would a prison camp need its own top-level domain? :)
Gibson the yank, born in NY State?
For those of you not familiar with Aus politics...
A mainstream conspiracy theory is that News Corp promoted regime change at last year's federal election due to the previous policy on a National Broadband Network. Conservatives successfully argued that the only people needing the bandwidth of a fibre-optic network would be downloaders of illegally-sourced movies. So with ageing copper ADSL, the only hope of accessing 2160i content in the next two decades would be through Murdoch's cable service.
I thought TypeScript was only available on a Microsoft platform. :-)
More likely a party official gifted the lunar lander to his 10yo son for his birthday and has now been disciplined.
Less than a day after the original story was submitted to slashdot, the craft is returned to the fake landing site in the desert.