You wouldn't. The fact that you use the term "acts like a keyboard" shows that you don't really care about functionality, and that the keyboard is just an excuse. There is nothing "acting" like a keyboard. It "IS" a keyboard. Since your real requirement is for the device you buy to have a label that says "Blackberry", the best choice for you would be to buy a blackberry and not damage your self image.
While I don't know of any half screen half keyboard Androids, there are always a couple of android phones with physical keyboards, and there is a iPhone case that has a physical keyboard built into it. So, a keyboard isn't really something unique to BB.
That pretty well leaves you with Image. That isn't something that can really be argued one way or the other, although you seem to try.
There is nothing ironic at all. You made the claim that Android could not control a media player connected to a TV. Clearly it can. One that is far better suited to a TV interface than iTunes. Where their are certainly more installs of iTunes than XBMC, there may not be more hooked to a TV. Either way, it is no harder to have Android control a TV connected device than an iPod and few people buy their mp3 player/PDA for the purpose of hooking it to a TV anyway.
iTunes is the desktop computer interface app for working with iDevices. Not the other way around.
You are falling into the classic Apple fanboy trap. Someone says that an alternative is just as good. You declare that the alternatives can't do some feature that the iDevice does. When it is pointed out that the feature is available, you go into defensive mode. You pretend like the person insulted Apple and it is your duty to defend Apple's honor. I do happen to think that Android is better, but no where in my post do I state, or even imply superiority of the Android platform. I listed it as an alternative to an iPod, which it is.
My android devices work just fine controlling XBMC running on both my windows, raspberry pi, and Mac mini. It is great that the iPod works for your wife, but defining "works" as working with iTunes is simply not valid. Most people don't have Apple computers. Some people seem to forget OSX's market share is closer to that of desktop Linux than it is to Windows.
I have seen MacBook Air equivalents, although I didn't pay enough attention to remember who made them. The iPod touch substitute is easy. Buy any Android phone and don't put it on a cell plan. Android phones work just fine as wifi only devices.
I did that 2 years ago. Drove from N. California, south through LA, across the country to Oklahoma. North East to Wisconsin. West through Idaho, and then South West back home to N. California.
I had terrible service in Wyoming and the National Parks. Other than that, I spent the time working form the back of a minivan with my laptop tethered to my phone, while my wife drove. It was shocking just how good the service was. There were small dead spots here and there, but I was able to work just fine. I would love to work full time from an RV, and if I can ever get that worked out, I wouldn't think twice about using T-Mobile as my carrier.
Not being possible to drive out more than one copy of the receipt would be a disaster. Receipt printers are notoriously temperamental. If I want a receipt the store needs to be able to print it. Maybe require that the copy number be printed on the reciept, sure. But not to print a copy at all is just unworkable.
While the sex is worse than violence mentality is real, and generally ridiculous. It seems that most people who criticize it don't understand that there is a reasonable premise that it stems from. First, violence is something that is a natural urge pretty much from the point that a child is physically capable of exhibiting it. It is ingrained in our dna. Whereas sex is an urge that generally starts really kicking in at puberty. Thus, if exposed to other small children, violence is already a part of their lives, while sex is not.
Then there is the issue of repeatability. A 5 year old is not likely to be able to repeat the violence they see in a Terminator. They just don't have the tools. Whereas repeating the sex they see in 'Ass Blasters 12' is certainly repeatable. In fact the more extreme the violence, the less repeatable it is. The more extreme sex is, the repeatability stays about the same.
Then there is the fact that most of us consider a little violence to be better than a little sex. How many people will wrestle (play violence) with their kids. It is an activity that is generally considered a fun, happy and healthy activity. Now, how many people play sex with their kids? How many people would consider that to be a fun, happy and healthy activity?
Now, I do think that most people are way too concerned about sex in media, but I think that many peoples are way too concerned about violence in media as well. They usually are not the same people.
No, I mean that crime prevention frequently doesn't get reported by the victims and if it is reported, they report that someone was trying to get in their window. They leave out the part where they stuck a gun in the burglar's face to scare them off. The media issue is real, but it is completely separate from the fact that the 'statistics' that get trotted out about guns creating more danger to family members than safety is nothing more than anecdotes with a confirmation bias against guns.
I have personally seen almost a dozen crimes prevented with a gun and I have seen no family members shot. Not one of the crime preventions was reported to the police. If a family member gets shot, they will go to the hospital, and it will get reported, if not by the family, but by the hospital.
I'm saying that if someone is sneaking around a back yard, the homeowner steps onto their back porch cocking their gun, and the criminal runs for the nearest exit, there will be no report of it. There is also a lower likelihood that that individual will come back for a second try.
All of the "your more likely to shoot a family member" statistics come from police reports. If you look at police reports, sex is an incredibly bad thing too, since their reports will virtually always report it as rape. Not because all sex is rape, but because that is what gets reported.
I can tell you that if my local police department started up a serious investigation to weed out corrupt cops, I would be happy about it. If they found that he Chief of police was the ringleader and promptly filed charges against him, I would be shocked at our community's good fortune. If the above comments are correct, and it was Foxconn themselves that initiated the complaint, then they are cleaning up their own house and should be commended.
Your wife gets named at home. At some poin you have to trust she isn't banging random men. If you find out that she has been getting naked in the storeroom every time she goes to Starbucks, you have a problem.
You are projecting. I never said what people should vote for. Just that they should know what it is they are voting for. People doing the equivalent of flipping a coin is not helpful. It is harmful. Random voting allows those who introduce laws to game the system. Random voting combined with a steady at stream of "your wasting your vote" propaganda allows political parties to game the system.
Calling someone a bigot because the are against coin flip voting doesn't put you in a good light.
Are the HIPAA laws even something the police are tasked with enforcing? There are plenty of laws that the police are not tasked with enforcing. I would be surprised if HIPAA fell under their purview.
If the 'asshat' was not breaking the law and the cops really were just trying to keep him from behaving like an asshat to the 'victim', then the cop committed a felony. There are only two possibilities here. The cop was incompetent and really thought that the filming was a HIPPAA violation that they were responsible for preventing, or the cop was knowingly committing a felony by acting under color of law to suppress a legal activity that the cop didn't like. You are suggesting the later.
Of course, either way, the destruction of evidence was a felony that the police department has conspired to commit.
Or they would come by your home in the night, shoot you and never find the "real" killer. Remember, we are already talking about a case of the police destroying evidence, and no one else of the force even trying to find the perpetrator of the crime which took place INSIDE the police station.
It is a cop's job to make arrests when they see a crime being committed. If all cops were not bad, we would see a lot more cops being arrested. Since we don't see cops getting arrested for the crimes they commit, we know that all cops are bad. They are either bad because they are personally committing the crimes, or they are bad because they are accessories to the crime.
The recent story about the statistical anomaly of a cop that arrested another cop for doing 120mph when off duty shows what happens to good cops. They get run out of the force and have to live in fear for their life.
You are wrong. People not voting isn't the problem at all. In fact, our problems are getting worse because too many people vote. It isn't the numbers. It is that people are told to vote whether they understand the issues or not. When people vote without knowing what they are voting for, they are at best adding noise to the system. In things like a presidential race, the added noise specifically works to re-enforce the power of the two big parties.
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You wouldn't. The fact that you use the term "acts like a keyboard" shows that you don't really care about functionality, and that the keyboard is just an excuse. There is nothing "acting" like a keyboard. It "IS" a keyboard. Since your real requirement is for the device you buy to have a label that says "Blackberry", the best choice for you would be to buy a blackberry and not damage your self image.
No pics? What is that about?
While I don't know of any half screen half keyboard Androids, there are always a couple of android phones with physical keyboards, and there is a iPhone case that has a physical keyboard built into it. So, a keyboard isn't really something unique to BB.
That pretty well leaves you with Image. That isn't something that can really be argued one way or the other, although you seem to try.
There is nothing ironic at all. You made the claim that Android could not control a media player connected to a TV. Clearly it can. One that is far better suited to a TV interface than iTunes. Where their are certainly more installs of iTunes than XBMC, there may not be more hooked to a TV. Either way, it is no harder to have Android control a TV connected device than an iPod and few people buy their mp3 player/PDA for the purpose of hooking it to a TV anyway.
iTunes is the desktop computer interface app for working with iDevices. Not the other way around.
You are falling into the classic Apple fanboy trap. Someone says that an alternative is just as good. You declare that the alternatives can't do some feature that the iDevice does. When it is pointed out that the feature is available, you go into defensive mode. You pretend like the person insulted Apple and it is your duty to defend Apple's honor. I do happen to think that Android is better, but no where in my post do I state, or even imply superiority of the Android platform. I listed it as an alternative to an iPod, which it is.
My android devices work just fine controlling XBMC running on both my windows, raspberry pi, and Mac mini. It is great that the iPod works for your wife, but defining "works" as working with iTunes is simply not valid. Most people don't have Apple computers. Some people seem to forget OSX's market share is closer to that of desktop Linux than it is to Windows.
I have seen MacBook Air equivalents, although I didn't pay enough attention to remember who made them. The iPod touch substitute is easy. Buy any Android phone and don't put it on a cell plan. Android phones work just fine as wifi only devices.
I did that 2 years ago. Drove from N. California, south through LA, across the country to Oklahoma. North East to Wisconsin. West through Idaho, and then South West back home to N. California.
I had terrible service in Wyoming and the National Parks. Other than that, I spent the time working form the back of a minivan with my laptop tethered to my phone, while my wife drove. It was shocking just how good the service was. There were small dead spots here and there, but I was able to work just fine. I would love to work full time from an RV, and if I can ever get that worked out, I wouldn't think twice about using T-Mobile as my carrier.
Not being possible to drive out more than one copy of the receipt would be a disaster. Receipt printers are notoriously temperamental. If I want a receipt the store needs to be able to print it. Maybe require that the copy number be printed on the reciept, sure. But not to print a copy at all is just unworkable.
While the sex is worse than violence mentality is real, and generally ridiculous. It seems that most people who criticize it don't understand that there is a reasonable premise that it stems from. First, violence is something that is a natural urge pretty much from the point that a child is physically capable of exhibiting it. It is ingrained in our dna. Whereas sex is an urge that generally starts really kicking in at puberty. Thus, if exposed to other small children, violence is already a part of their lives, while sex is not.
Then there is the issue of repeatability. A 5 year old is not likely to be able to repeat the violence they see in a Terminator. They just don't have the tools. Whereas repeating the sex they see in 'Ass Blasters 12' is certainly repeatable. In fact the more extreme the violence, the less repeatable it is. The more extreme sex is, the repeatability stays about the same.
Then there is the fact that most of us consider a little violence to be better than a little sex. How many people will wrestle (play violence) with their kids. It is an activity that is generally considered a fun, happy and healthy activity. Now, how many people play sex with their kids? How many people would consider that to be a fun, happy and healthy activity?
Now, I do think that most people are way too concerned about sex in media, but I think that many peoples are way too concerned about violence in media as well. They usually are not the same people.
No, I mean that crime prevention frequently doesn't get reported by the victims and if it is reported, they report that someone was trying to get in their window. They leave out the part where they stuck a gun in the burglar's face to scare them off. The media issue is real, but it is completely separate from the fact that the 'statistics' that get trotted out about guns creating more danger to family members than safety is nothing more than anecdotes with a confirmation bias against guns.
I have personally seen almost a dozen crimes prevented with a gun and I have seen no family members shot. Not one of the crime preventions was reported to the police. If a family member gets shot, they will go to the hospital, and it will get reported, if not by the family, but by the hospital.
I'm saying that if someone is sneaking around a back yard, the homeowner steps onto their back porch cocking their gun, and the criminal runs for the nearest exit, there will be no report of it. There is also a lower likelihood that that individual will come back for a second try.
All of the "your more likely to shoot a family member" statistics come from police reports. If you look at police reports, sex is an incredibly bad thing too, since their reports will virtually always report it as rape. Not because all sex is rape, but because that is what gets reported.
I can tell you that if my local police department started up a serious investigation to weed out corrupt cops, I would be happy about it. If they found that he Chief of police was the ringleader and promptly filed charges against him, I would be shocked at our community's good fortune. If the above comments are correct, and it was Foxconn themselves that initiated the complaint, then they are cleaning up their own house and should be commended.
That is perfect example of confirmation bias. Crimes get reported prevention of crime does not.
Your wife gets named at home. At some poin you have to trust she isn't banging random men. If you find out that she has been getting naked in the storeroom every time she goes to Starbucks, you have a problem.
You are projecting. I never said what people should vote for. Just that they should know what it is they are voting for. People doing the equivalent of flipping a coin is not helpful. It is harmful. Random voting allows those who introduce laws to game the system. Random voting combined with a steady at stream of "your wasting your vote" propaganda allows political parties to game the system.
Calling someone a bigot because the are against coin flip voting doesn't put you in a good light.
That isn't entrapment. Entrapment would require that you asked the cop to do something illegal.
Are the HIPAA laws even something the police are tasked with enforcing? There are plenty of laws that the police are not tasked with enforcing. I would be surprised if HIPAA fell under their purview.
Are you really blaming gstoddart for cops being corrupt? That is just crazy.
If the 'asshat' was not breaking the law and the cops really were just trying to keep him from behaving like an asshat to the 'victim', then the cop committed a felony. There are only two possibilities here. The cop was incompetent and really thought that the filming was a HIPPAA violation that they were responsible for preventing, or the cop was knowingly committing a felony by acting under color of law to suppress a legal activity that the cop didn't like. You are suggesting the later.
Of course, either way, the destruction of evidence was a felony that the police department has conspired to commit.
Or they would come by your home in the night, shoot you and never find the "real" killer. Remember, we are already talking about a case of the police destroying evidence, and no one else of the force even trying to find the perpetrator of the crime which took place INSIDE the police station.
Since bad cops are not being arrested, we are not judging everyone by the actions of a few. We are judging everyone by the actions of everyone.
It is a cop's job to make arrests when they see a crime being committed. If all cops were not bad, we would see a lot more cops being arrested. Since we don't see cops getting arrested for the crimes they commit, we know that all cops are bad. They are either bad because they are personally committing the crimes, or they are bad because they are accessories to the crime.
The recent story about the statistical anomaly of a cop that arrested another cop for doing 120mph when off duty shows what happens to good cops. They get run out of the force and have to live in fear for their life.
You are wrong. People not voting isn't the problem at all. In fact, our problems are getting worse because too many people vote. It isn't the numbers. It is that people are told to vote whether they understand the issues or not. When people vote without knowing what they are voting for, they are at best adding noise to the system. In things like a presidential race, the added noise specifically works to re-enforce the power of the two big parties.
He thinks being a cop makes him correct.
Because you live in civilization. We do not live in an anarchy.
Not having a number assigned to you don't have civilization and are living in an anarchy? That is way more crazy than "it's the mark of the beast."