How would the throttle not be wide open if it was a sudden acceleration issue? You can't go faster (accelerate) without the throttle opening. Also, why does Toyota have an unusually large pool of drivers who suddenly don't know the difference between the gas and the brake?
I had a car with a sudden acceleration problem (NOT a Toyota) and when it happened the gas pedal would, no joke, depress itself to the floor. I'm certain that I was not pushing it because I would be fighting the acceleration with the brakes. I would be sitting at a stop light pushing the brakes as hard as I could trying to keep my car from launching into the car in front of me. If the car had had a computer, it would have shown that I was pressing the gas pedal while I clearly was not.
The car actually did have a computer, but it was the talking kind and it would often say things randomly while driving down the street like "ELECTRICAL MALFUNCTION!"
Of course they were misleading. That is precisely why you SHOULD release the name. I've learned from some other blog that they were apparently Twilite picture viewers or something (or at least they claimed to be).
If you don't tell people what apps they are, they'll never know if they were affected or not. Unless they happen to notice the app uninstalled itself.
I have a gizmo account so I just plug GV and sipdroid into that but I don't think you can get an account with them anymore so that guide has some other sip gateway that they recommend using.
If you go this route definitely check out Google Voice and Airplane Mode Wi-Fi Tool. Google voice will integrate 100% with the phone so you can use the regular dialer, send and receive sms, etc. all over WiFi. Combined with sipdroid you can't go wrong.
Airplane Mode Wi-Fi Tool is a simple app that will allow you to turn off your cellular radio, 3g services, bluetooth, everything EXCEPT Wi-Fi essentially. That way you won't waste your battery on unnecessary radios.
My favorite thing in the world is when someone makes a big fuss about these malicious applications and then nobody says what the applications are or what they were supposed to do.
"So while it helped provide an unprecedented level of exposure, it's naive to think that Twitter alone allowed anyone to form a credible picture of what was going on. "
Which is why I used the word "helped" and I was careful to say it that way. Whether it helped more inside Iran by providing a communications platform for Iranians or outside by providing increased attention to the world, I don't know.
"(I know, the evil, and totally lame professional news organizations)"
I don't know if you're assuming my attitude towards professional news organizations or assuming everyone else's. My point was only that twitter is the latest in a never ending evolution in communication and media. I couldn't very well applaud communications evolution while simultaneously hating previous developments like our current news networks.
Android does a good job of listing everything an application has access to when you install it. Sometimes there are some head-scratchers in there. It would be nice if developers were in the habit of explaining why they need access to certain things or maybe even if the Android market gave developers a specific spot to write out justification for their API usage (with a buyer-beware warning of course).
You could make the same arguments about the printing press, the internet, or speech in general. With any medium open to everyone you're going to have 10-20% quality stuff and 80-90% garbage. That doesn't change the fact that Twitter has given a face to faceless corporations, given us insight into the mind of geniuses, and even helped fuel a revolution in Iran.
Sifting through the cruft might be the next big challenge for twitter, but let's not throw it away because there is so much noise on there. That's like throwing away speech because it could be used to tell you about how I'm taking a dump.
Seems like it would be a better idea to take a screenshot when create the bookmark, not just take a screenshot of every page just in case I midget want to create a bookmark of it someday. Android should just start deleting files just in case I might want to delete them someday.
I love it when there are articles about pictures that don't include the pictures they are talking about. I'd rather read about an incredible picture than see it.
Everyone is up in arms about how these remain after a factory reset. Well the boring and unsensational truth is that the images are stored on the SD card. Your music, pictures, and videos are not deleted with a factory reset either.
These images are stored under the guise of being used as thumbnails for bookmarks but it seems unlikely as those could be taken as needed. This whole thing is pretty sketchy.
That said, if you don't want any more images delete the directory where they are stored and create an empty file of the same name (same name as the directory). No more screenshots!
It never makes sense until you get there. All of the world's great explorers didn't know exactly what they would find - that was the point. The transition from living in space not making sense to it being a necessity includes all the baby steps of doing it "just because."
Seriously - did anyone actually watch the video of the diaspora guys asking for money? Their idea was very weakly outlined, their presentation unprofessional, and their plan almost non-existent. It was the equivalent of a couple guys in their mom's basement smoking weed; "we should like... umm build our own Facebook where everyone hosts their own pages. huh huh. We'll just make it super sweet."
Those guys got lucky and milked a highly publicized privacy issue with Facebook at just the right time. If there was a website for betting against startups, I would bet against Diaspora ever going anywhere.
Apple is committed to making the same mistakes it made in the 80's. It amazes me how they think they can break the natural laws of the market and make their business model work. In five years the iPhone's market share will pale in comparison to Android and it will be for the sole reason that Apple cares more about its vision than its customers. Android is the Windows of the mobile world.
I can't imagine someone misunderstanding the issues more than the guy who wrote this. I don't even know where to begin, but I'll point out a few problems with his "in depth analysis." But if you don't read my comment, I recommend familiarizing yourself with the concept of a straw man argument and a red herring before reading the article, because this guy LOVES them.
First, everyone loves to point out that while Jobs claims flash is proprietary, his own app store is the most proprietary thing ever! The flaw with this argument is that we're not talking about Flash vs. the app store. We're talking about Flash vs. HTML 5. There are not any tools, as the author claims, required from Apple to use HTML 5 video on your site. HTML 5 is an open standard (h.264 is not, flash is not, the app store is not.)
Second, the author's arguments about performance and how Flash performs better than HTML 5 are moot. He ignores the fact that Apple includes hardware decoders for h.264 and compares software decoding to software decoding. Ignoring any negative feelings you have towards Apple (I have plenty), it's not hard to argue against H.264 direct to the browser being a better experience that h.264, wrapped in flash, to the browser. Even with hardware acceleration Flash video uses massive amount of CPU on my computer - watching an HD video will almost always kick my fans into high gear. Watching the same video on an iPad or something is a much better experience - no fans, no heat, no lost battery performance (note: battery life is the iPad's killer feature).
The rest of the article accuses Jobs of misdirection while picking out really specific and uncommon examples where he might be wrong. Flash games aren't just bad on the iPad because of mouseovers, they're bad because they were designed from the ground up for keyboards and mice. There is usually some keyboard input required - how are you going to get around that? There are mouse hovers, but also mouse movements, etc. Think of the page itself - how would the browser know if you are trying to scroll down the page or trying to move something in the flash game? The whole experience doesn't make sense. Sure, 1/10 flash games might work well with touch, but it's not worth it. Games are not even a question here - video is the only thing seriously in question.
I have problems with Apple as much as the next guy, but not supporting Flash in their mobile devices is one of the best things they've done in a long time. As a web developer I have been looking forward to newer technologies taking over where Flash has continually failed. Change will not come gradually - it will only come if a big player in the market forces it, and that is what Apple is doing. They're not saying HTML 5 is going to take over tomorrow, but they're willing to make sacrifices to move the transition along.
I hate Apple, but I hate Adobe even more. At least Apple has a vision and gets their vision right. Adobe has been a mess for as long as I can remember.
The update actually bricked my PS3 so I can neither play games, use other OSes, or even turn the thing on. I called Sony and they made it clear that they don't care. It doesn't matter if you can install another OS. It doesn't matter if you can play games. It doesn't matter if you can watch movies. All that matters is that you bought the console, and that's good for Sony.
The problem is your false assumption that a radio station must be profitable. Like the web, not everyone is in it to make money. That's what the whole net neutrality debate is about.
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How would the throttle not be wide open if it was a sudden acceleration issue? You can't go faster (accelerate) without the throttle opening. Also, why does Toyota have an unusually large pool of drivers who suddenly don't know the difference between the gas and the brake?
I had a car with a sudden acceleration problem (NOT a Toyota) and when it happened the gas pedal would, no joke, depress itself to the floor. I'm certain that I was not pushing it because I would be fighting the acceleration with the brakes. I would be sitting at a stop light pushing the brakes as hard as I could trying to keep my car from launching into the car in front of me. If the car had had a computer, it would have shown that I was pressing the gas pedal while I clearly was not.
The car actually did have a computer, but it was the talking kind and it would often say things randomly while driving down the street like "ELECTRICAL MALFUNCTION!"
Nice catch, that would have lead to a shuttle disaster for sure.
He is correct if you replace every time he said "internet" with the word "prince."
Has Dell ever sold anything but faulty machines?
Of course they were misleading. That is precisely why you SHOULD release the name. I've learned from some other blog that they were apparently Twilite picture viewers or something (or at least they claimed to be).
If you don't tell people what apps they are, they'll never know if they were affected or not. Unless they happen to notice the app uninstalled itself.
No it does not have its own SIP client. You will need to use it in conjunction with sipdroid.
Here are instructions: http://gurnted.wordpress.com/guides/updated-guide-from-xda/
I have a gizmo account so I just plug GV and sipdroid into that but I don't think you can get an account with them anymore so that guide has some other sip gateway that they recommend using.
If you go this route definitely check out Google Voice and Airplane Mode Wi-Fi Tool. Google voice will integrate 100% with the phone so you can use the regular dialer, send and receive sms, etc. all over WiFi. Combined with sipdroid you can't go wrong.
Airplane Mode Wi-Fi Tool is a simple app that will allow you to turn off your cellular radio, 3g services, bluetooth, everything EXCEPT Wi-Fi essentially. That way you won't waste your battery on unnecessary radios.
My favorite thing in the world is when someone makes a big fuss about these malicious applications and then nobody says what the applications are or what they were supposed to do.
Routinely as in once on the one Android phone that they haven't even launched yet.
"So while it helped provide an unprecedented level of exposure, it's naive to think that Twitter alone allowed anyone to form a credible picture of what was going on. "
Which is why I used the word "helped" and I was careful to say it that way. Whether it helped more inside Iran by providing a communications platform for Iranians or outside by providing increased attention to the world, I don't know.
"(I know, the evil, and totally lame professional news organizations)"
I don't know if you're assuming my attitude towards professional news organizations or assuming everyone else's. My point was only that twitter is the latest in a never ending evolution in communication and media. I couldn't very well applaud communications evolution while simultaneously hating previous developments like our current news networks.
Android does a good job of listing everything an application has access to when you install it. Sometimes there are some head-scratchers in there. It would be nice if developers were in the habit of explaining why they need access to certain things or maybe even if the Android market gave developers a specific spot to write out justification for their API usage (with a buyer-beware warning of course).
Security through inoperability.
You could make the same arguments about the printing press, the internet, or speech in general. With any medium open to everyone you're going to have 10-20% quality stuff and 80-90% garbage. That doesn't change the fact that Twitter has given a face to faceless corporations, given us insight into the mind of geniuses, and even helped fuel a revolution in Iran.
Sifting through the cruft might be the next big challenge for twitter, but let's not throw it away because there is so much noise on there. That's like throwing away speech because it could be used to tell you about how I'm taking a dump.
Seems like it would be a better idea to take a screenshot when create the bookmark, not just take a screenshot of every page just in case I midget want to create a bookmark of it someday. Android should just start deleting files just in case I might want to delete them someday.
No, it's not just bookmarks. I confirmed this on my evo and on my coworkers droid. We found his wife had been browsing for diamond rings.
The images are in fact on the sd card and if they were in internal memory they would be deleted with a factory wipe.
I love it when there are articles about pictures that don't include the pictures they are talking about. I'd rather read about an incredible picture than see it.
Everyone is up in arms about how these remain after a factory reset. Well the boring and unsensational truth is that the images are stored on the SD card. Your music, pictures, and videos are not deleted with a factory reset either.
These images are stored under the guise of being used as thumbnails for bookmarks but it seems unlikely as those could be taken as needed. This whole thing is pretty sketchy.
That said, if you don't want any more images delete the directory where they are stored and create an empty file of the same name (same name as the directory). No more screenshots!
It never makes sense until you get there. All of the world's great explorers didn't know exactly what they would find - that was the point. The transition from living in space not making sense to it being a necessity includes all the baby steps of doing it "just because."
Seriously - did anyone actually watch the video of the diaspora guys asking for money? Their idea was very weakly outlined, their presentation unprofessional, and their plan almost non-existent. It was the equivalent of a couple guys in their mom's basement smoking weed; "we should like ... umm build our own Facebook where everyone hosts their own pages. huh huh. We'll just make it super sweet."
Those guys got lucky and milked a highly publicized privacy issue with Facebook at just the right time. If there was a website for betting against startups, I would bet against Diaspora ever going anywhere.
Apple is committed to making the same mistakes it made in the 80's. It amazes me how they think they can break the natural laws of the market and make their business model work. In five years the iPhone's market share will pale in comparison to Android and it will be for the sole reason that Apple cares more about its vision than its customers. Android is the Windows of the mobile world.
I can't imagine someone misunderstanding the issues more than the guy who wrote this. I don't even know where to begin, but I'll point out a few problems with his "in depth analysis." But if you don't read my comment, I recommend familiarizing yourself with the concept of a straw man argument and a red herring before reading the article, because this guy LOVES them.
First, everyone loves to point out that while Jobs claims flash is proprietary, his own app store is the most proprietary thing ever! The flaw with this argument is that we're not talking about Flash vs. the app store. We're talking about Flash vs. HTML 5. There are not any tools, as the author claims, required from Apple to use HTML 5 video on your site. HTML 5 is an open standard (h.264 is not, flash is not, the app store is not.)
Second, the author's arguments about performance and how Flash performs better than HTML 5 are moot. He ignores the fact that Apple includes hardware decoders for h.264 and compares software decoding to software decoding. Ignoring any negative feelings you have towards Apple (I have plenty), it's not hard to argue against H.264 direct to the browser being a better experience that h.264, wrapped in flash, to the browser. Even with hardware acceleration Flash video uses massive amount of CPU on my computer - watching an HD video will almost always kick my fans into high gear. Watching the same video on an iPad or something is a much better experience - no fans, no heat, no lost battery performance (note: battery life is the iPad's killer feature).
The rest of the article accuses Jobs of misdirection while picking out really specific and uncommon examples where he might be wrong. Flash games aren't just bad on the iPad because of mouseovers, they're bad because they were designed from the ground up for keyboards and mice. There is usually some keyboard input required - how are you going to get around that? There are mouse hovers, but also mouse movements, etc. Think of the page itself - how would the browser know if you are trying to scroll down the page or trying to move something in the flash game? The whole experience doesn't make sense. Sure, 1/10 flash games might work well with touch, but it's not worth it. Games are not even a question here - video is the only thing seriously in question.
I have problems with Apple as much as the next guy, but not supporting Flash in their mobile devices is one of the best things they've done in a long time. As a web developer I have been looking forward to newer technologies taking over where Flash has continually failed. Change will not come gradually - it will only come if a big player in the market forces it, and that is what Apple is doing. They're not saying HTML 5 is going to take over tomorrow, but they're willing to make sacrifices to move the transition along.
I hate Apple, but I hate Adobe even more. At least Apple has a vision and gets their vision right. Adobe has been a mess for as long as I can remember.
The update actually bricked my PS3 so I can neither play games, use other OSes, or even turn the thing on. I called Sony and they made it clear that they don't care. It doesn't matter if you can install another OS. It doesn't matter if you can play games. It doesn't matter if you can watch movies. All that matters is that you bought the console, and that's good for Sony.
The problem is your false assumption that a radio station must be profitable. Like the web, not everyone is in it to make money. That's what the whole net neutrality debate is about.
whooooosh!
It's not as if handing over the reigns to corporate interests ruined radio - so why would it ruin the Internet?
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