If I were paranoid, I'd wonder if maybe the oil-baron President deliberately chose a technology that sounded good but would in fact go nowhere, thus ensuring an extra decade or so for oil company profits.
Paranoia isn't required. You are exactly right. These types of decisions happen all the time for exactly these reasons.
I'm pretty sure a distinction needs to be made here. While the majority of "the grid" may be 94% efficient, that only moves it to your local area - it still has to be delivered to your house and/or charging stating and that's where efficiency takes a big hit. Efficiency to your house is more like 80-something percent. Once you take into account the transformers to convert for your charging, you have 93% of 80% efficiency. That works out to be ~75% efficient. Even if distribution to your house is 85% efficient that works out to be 80% efficiency into the car. And lastly, even taking your numbers are face value, that really 87% efficiency.
While that's certainly better than ICE at the wheel, let's not make the numbers sound better than they are.
I imagine the real reason the i-phone is on ATT (GSM) and not Verizon (CDMA)
Then you would be wrong. The iPhone has created hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for AT&T. Verizon has been working hard to get some of the iPhone action. They've been completely unsuccessful. Many believe Verizon's big push behind Android is their "F-U" response to AT&T and Apple for not sharing. Expect Verizon to push Android very hard.
You can get a G1 for as little as $79 bucks. The data plan is $10/mo cheaper than AT&T's. Over two years that's a difference of $360. No one who understands basic math would call that "close enough" or "roughly the same."
Someone please mod up the parent. You can do native C/C++ (no exceptions) code on Android right now. Google does not support it but they don't prevent it either.
For the last time, native C absolutely is available. Period. Google is simply not going to support you. Many apps have been released which include libs compiled from C/C++. Android supports but JNI and an even higher performance interface which allows DVM to call into C/C++ libs. Furthermore, there is an interface which allows for C/C++ libs into the DVM environment.
Do not forget that Google's own applications run native, that means your applications is penalized by using inferior interface.
Total BS you idiot troll! Their own applications run byte code. The fucking code is available for all to see. Here's a hit, the source ends with '.java'.
What about people that have hundreds of thousands lines of C/C++ code written
I dunno....maybe compile it?! While C and C++ code is officially unsupported, its not like they prevent those applications from being published or installed. There are many applications available for Android which are bundled with C/C++ libs.
On Android, it seems, "unsupported" does not mean "disallowed"; it means no support is provided - you're on your own.
People have been saying this since before the G1 came out, but the market numbers just aren't meeting these predictions yet.
Stop drinking the Apple BS. Actually the Android platform has been on par or exceeding predictions. Most (all? I've not read any which say otherwise) industry predictions are placing the iPhone behind Android by 2012.
When are all these amazing phones going to arrive at my carrier (Verizon)?
I'd guess this Summer (IIRC), bsaed on their slated release dates. And then again come Winter.
And how open is this Android thing really going to be?
Perhaps as open as the definition means? You're only confused because you've been drinking Apples propaganda.
Google has already demonstrated that it is willing to pull certain apps that T-mobile doesn't like.
They pulled applications from T-Mobile's version of the market. Non-T-Mobile users are completely unaffected. And unlike the iPhone market, you can install third party applications all day long and never even visit the Android Market.
Unless your application in question requires root access, it doesn't matter one bit what the carrier dis-allows on their market as you can always download it elsewhere.
Android is completely open save only for the firmware and radio - but that's not part of the platform in the first place. And if you want to be nasty about it, then your PC isn't open either so long as your running AMI/Pheonix, etc BIOS. Android is the definition of open.
Android has exceeded or kept pace with the iPhone's sells during the same period of time and it has done so during a recession (borderline depression). Simply stated, by 2012 the iPhone platform is easily slated to become the minority platform.
and the ability to install over 10-20 apps on the device
Not sure where you get that delusion. Probably been drinking the iPhone propaganda too much. If you have an ADP1, you can easily have well over two hundred apps installed. the limit is technically limited only by the size of available micro-SDs. Obviously that's the exception. For a normal user, you can easily have fifty plus applications installed. If you play games much, that number will drop somewhere into the high thirties to mid forties.
Most people don't have a need for more than a couple dozen applications over and above what already comes on the phone.
At least one hardware release is scheduled for Summer. At least one to come in fall. Yet more come Winter, in time for the holiday. Worldwide there should be at least six models available by the end of the year. At least three of them should be available in the US from US carriers.
Its called "event driven" programing. If you hate coding for Android then you hate coding for Windows too - or most any system which is event driven supports a fully asynchronous model.
On the one hand, you've got the theory that this is analogous to assigning an officer to watch and tail a suspect's car, which is perfectly legal without a warrant.
And that purview starts and stops at public property and what's publicly visible. Anything else the Police require a warrant. Not so with GPS. This judge is granting powers which are only legal under the permission of a warrant.
The one interesting point in the article was the statement that the guys driveway was public and therefore the police were at liberty to attach the device to his car there.
According to the judge, graffiti is now legal. After all, anything in public view, on public property is free game or attaching whatever you like. You're just attaching some paint particles to a vehicle on public property, in public view. Paint not okay? Okay, use as many, impossible to peel off stickers as you want.
no reasonable expectation of privacy" when they are in public.
Driving your vehicle does not mean you are in public. There are many places you can go where you would not be publicly visible and still drive your vehicle.
Seems like the judge just gave the green light to place tracking units on all police cars and make that information public. That way all the criminals know where to avoid the police. According to the Judge, that's perfectly legal.
Any notion if this has implications for cryptography? I know many algorithms make use of prime numbers. So if the resulting hash uses primes and they can some how be characterized by this discovery, does this theortically weaken some cryptographic algorithms?
That's what's usally called ineptitude, but those FAA guys like to spin it round so someone else, or circumstances beyond their control, are the problem.
Their not happy until your not happy! You can't blame them for living their moto.
In all seriousness, the FAA is in the middle of a huge political game right now, which is actually very complex to explain. They are working overtime trying to get out from under Congressional oversight. I wouldn't be surprised if they're looking the other way in an attempt to juice their lobbying. Obviously they can't secure things if their budget isn't drastically increased. And the only way they can do that is to be empowered to both raises taxes and collect them any means they see fit while endangering the skies for everyone. Basically everyone credible (both Rs and Ds) has stepped forward and stated the FAA's proposal is bad for everyone and they can't even make their current funding with their proposal. Only the FAA and *cough* the major carriers support the FAA's plan.
Do some searches. Its actually pretty scary. The FAA is working hard to become their own taxing authority, independent of Congressional oversight, while becoming buddy-buddy with the major carriers. Mmmmm....isn't that a good recipe for safety. And did I mention every year they are unable to account for millions even with oversight. Even worse, Obama is demanding legislation be put forward which supports this disastrous model. And worse yet, such legislation would be horrific to our economy; more accidents: fewer fliers; cost to fly, from drastically higher taxes, goes through the roof: less revenue at airports; less revenue at airports means fewer jobs; fewer jobs: loss of up to hundreds of millions to local economies (even loss of hundreds of thousands to millions at smaller airports) all over the country.
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If I were paranoid, I'd wonder if maybe the oil-baron President deliberately chose a technology that sounded good but would in fact go nowhere, thus ensuring an extra decade or so for oil company profits.
Paranoia isn't required. You are exactly right. These types of decisions happen all the time for exactly these reasons.
and the grid is 92.8% efficient.
I'm pretty sure a distinction needs to be made here. While the majority of "the grid" may be 94% efficient, that only moves it to your local area - it still has to be delivered to your house and/or charging stating and that's where efficiency takes a big hit. Efficiency to your house is more like 80-something percent. Once you take into account the transformers to convert for your charging, you have 93% of 80% efficiency. That works out to be ~75% efficient. Even if distribution to your house is 85% efficient that works out to be 80% efficiency into the car. And lastly, even taking your numbers are face value, that really 87% efficiency.
While that's certainly better than ICE at the wheel, let's not make the numbers sound better than they are.
I imagine the real reason the i-phone is on ATT (GSM) and not Verizon (CDMA)
Then you would be wrong. The iPhone has created hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for AT&T. Verizon has been working hard to get some of the iPhone action. They've been completely unsuccessful. Many believe Verizon's big push behind Android is their "F-U" response to AT&T and Apple for not sharing. Expect Verizon to push Android very hard.
You can get a G1 for as little as $79 bucks. The data plan is $10/mo cheaper than AT&T's. Over two years that's a difference of $360. No one who understands basic math would call that "close enough" or "roughly the same."
And if you shop hard, you can find deals as cheap as $79 for a G1 and TM contract.
Someone please mod up the parent. You can do native C/C++ (no exceptions) code on Android right now. Google does not support it but they don't prevent it either.
Yes! Current market rankings are:
1. BlackBerry
2. iPhone
3. WinMo
4. Android
Android is rapidly closing on WinMo. By the end of 2010 or before, Android should be in the number three slot.
For the last time, native C absolutely is available. Period. Google is simply not going to support you. Many apps have been released which include libs compiled from C/C++. Android supports but JNI and an even higher performance interface which allows DVM to call into C/C++ libs. Furthermore, there is an interface which allows for C/C++ libs into the DVM environment.
I'm sure it compiles for ARM and x86. Last I heard an MIPs port was possible. Android is slated for phones and netbooks.
Besides, saying platforms can mean, non-HTC dream hardware.
Do not forget that Google's own applications run native, that means your applications is penalized by using inferior interface.
Total BS you idiot troll! Their own applications run byte code. The fucking code is available for all to see. Here's a hit, the source ends with '.java'.
Any other lies you want to make up?
1. Last I heard, yes. This was a desired feature for K9 some months ago. Its likely in now.
2. Yes. See K9.
3. If by identities you mean accounts, then yes. See K9.
4. Not sure.
5. Indirectly yes via iCal format. You can do that with Google's calendar service and in turn your phone can use Google's service.
A good tethering app, preferably via USB, Bluetooth, and WiFi?
All three are already available - and have been for a while.
A good VOIP app?
Already available. Now that 1.5 is out expect the category of application to build a lot more inertia.
What about people that have hundreds of thousands lines of C/C++ code written
I dunno....maybe compile it?! While C and C++ code is officially unsupported, its not like they prevent those applications from being published or installed. There are many applications available for Android which are bundled with C/C++ libs.
On Android, it seems, "unsupported" does not mean "disallowed"; it means no support is provided - you're on your own.
People have been saying this since before the G1 came out, but the market numbers just aren't meeting these predictions yet.
Stop drinking the Apple BS. Actually the Android platform has been on par or exceeding predictions. Most (all? I've not read any which say otherwise) industry predictions are placing the iPhone behind Android by 2012.
When are all these amazing phones going to arrive at my carrier (Verizon)?
I'd guess this Summer (IIRC), bsaed on their slated release dates. And then again come Winter.
And how open is this Android thing really going to be?
Perhaps as open as the definition means? You're only confused because you've been drinking Apples propaganda.
Google has already demonstrated that it is willing to pull certain apps that T-mobile doesn't like.
They pulled applications from T-Mobile's version of the market. Non-T-Mobile users are completely unaffected. And unlike the iPhone market, you can install third party applications all day long and never even visit the Android Market.
Unless your application in question requires root access, it doesn't matter one bit what the carrier dis-allows on their market as you can always download it elsewhere.
Android is completely open save only for the firmware and radio - but that's not part of the platform in the first place. And if you want to be nasty about it, then your PC isn't open either so long as your running AMI/Pheonix, etc BIOS. Android is the definition of open.
Android has exceeded or kept pace with the iPhone's sells during the same period of time and it has done so during a recession (borderline depression). Simply stated, by 2012 the iPhone platform is easily slated to become the minority platform.
and the ability to install over 10-20 apps on the device
Not sure where you get that delusion. Probably been drinking the iPhone propaganda too much. If you have an ADP1, you can easily have well over two hundred apps installed. the limit is technically limited only by the size of available micro-SDs. Obviously that's the exception. For a normal user, you can easily have fifty plus applications installed. If you play games much, that number will drop somewhere into the high thirties to mid forties.
Most people don't have a need for more than a couple dozen applications over and above what already comes on the phone.
At least one hardware release is scheduled for Summer. At least one to come in fall. Yet more come Winter, in time for the holiday. Worldwide there should be at least six models available by the end of the year. At least three of them should be available in the US from US carriers.
Its called "event driven" programing. If you hate coding for Android then you hate coding for Windows too - or most any system which is event driven supports a fully asynchronous model.
On the one hand, you've got the theory that this is analogous to assigning an officer to watch and tail a suspect's car, which is perfectly legal without a warrant.
And that purview starts and stops at public property and what's publicly visible. Anything else the Police require a warrant. Not so with GPS. This judge is granting powers which are only legal under the permission of a warrant.
The one interesting point in the article was the statement that the guys driveway was public and therefore the police were at liberty to attach the device to his car there.
According to the judge, graffiti is now legal. After all, anything in public view, on public property is free game or attaching whatever you like. You're just attaching some paint particles to a vehicle on public property, in public view. Paint not okay? Okay, use as many, impossible to peel off stickers as you want.
no reasonable expectation of privacy" when they are in public.
Driving your vehicle does not mean you are in public. There are many places you can go where you would not be publicly visible and still drive your vehicle.
Super insightful!
Seems like the judge just gave the green light to place tracking units on all police cars and make that information public. That way all the criminals know where to avoid the police. According to the Judge, that's perfectly legal.
*Bing* *Bing* *Bing* *Bing* *Bing*
We have a winner!
Any notion if this has implications for cryptography? I know many algorithms make use of prime numbers. So if the resulting hash uses primes and they can some how be characterized by this discovery, does this theortically weaken some cryptographic algorithms?
That's what's usally called ineptitude, but those FAA guys like to spin it round so someone else, or circumstances beyond their control, are the problem.
Their not happy until your not happy! You can't blame them for living their moto.
In all seriousness, the FAA is in the middle of a huge political game right now, which is actually very complex to explain. They are working overtime trying to get out from under Congressional oversight. I wouldn't be surprised if they're looking the other way in an attempt to juice their lobbying. Obviously they can't secure things if their budget isn't drastically increased. And the only way they can do that is to be empowered to both raises taxes and collect them any means they see fit while endangering the skies for everyone. Basically everyone credible (both Rs and Ds) has stepped forward and stated the FAA's proposal is bad for everyone and they can't even make their current funding with their proposal. Only the FAA and *cough* the major carriers support the FAA's plan.
http://www.aopa.org/advocacy/articles/2008/081002faa.html
http://www.aopa.org/advocacy/articles/2009/090507trustfund.html
Do some searches. Its actually pretty scary. The FAA is working hard to become their own taxing authority, independent of Congressional oversight, while becoming buddy-buddy with the major carriers. Mmmmm....isn't that a good recipe for safety. And did I mention every year they are unable to account for millions even with oversight. Even worse, Obama is demanding legislation be put forward which supports this disastrous model. And worse yet, such legislation would be horrific to our economy; more accidents: fewer fliers; cost to fly, from drastically higher taxes, goes through the roof: less revenue at airports; less revenue at airports means fewer jobs; fewer jobs: loss of up to hundreds of millions to local economies (even loss of hundreds of thousands to millions at smaller airports) all over the country.