"We believe that consumers should be able to freely access their favorite content and applications, regardless of what computer they have, what browser they like, or what device suits their needs" -- except that Adobe support for Linux is abysmal and has always been abysmal (64-bit Flash 10.1??) -- and it has taken them forever to port to Android...
I ordered several phones (abiding by the per-account limit) and some relatives in my home country ordered some and had them shipped to my address too because Google wouldn't ship there. I started placing my first order literally 10 seconds after the web page went live on the 5th, because I didn't want to be behind a line of 250k people placing orders. The phones reached my local Fedex and sat there all day undelivered, then they were sent back to Google. Somebody at Google had frozen the shipment and then requested them back. Four days later the credit card charges have not been reversed. Nobody ever called me to explain why the order had been canceled, I can only assume because red lights went on with that number of phones being shipped to one address, however there was no problem with abiding by ToS per-account limits, and the credit cards had been charged successfully. I spent three days on the phone to Fedex, Britepoint (the distributor) and HTC, sent several messages through the checkout contact form, and eventually tried contacting some friends at Google until I actually got any sort of contact from Google about this. I received an email from a generic support address saying they made a mistake and were sending the phones back -- finally. Several hours later I got another email saying that the phones could in fact not be sent back because they tried too late to return the shipment and they were already headed back to the warehouse, and that I would have to order them again. Still my credit card charges hadn't been reversed, though I was told eventually they would be. I tried re-ordering from the same checkout account and was told I couldn't reorder because I had reached the limit of five phones on that account. At last tonight (four days after ordering) I got a call from a director on the Nexus One team apologizing and saying they would try to get the phones back to me. The fact that I had already tried to re-order was problematic, but she said they would try to sort it out. Anyway it's a huge mess, but I appreciated finally getting to talk to a human being. I suspect I am one of the few who has been able to talk to a human at Google about their problems so far however. Honestly the last person to call me sounded pretty worn out by it all (and was working late on a Saturday too...) I don't know why Google didn't install a large call-center when they decided they were going to try to pull this off. I imagine some process review meetings are going to happen as a result of all of this...
The only way to fix problems like this is the Reverse Streisand Effect: flood the Internet with positive, high-profile and truthful information about yourself.
Does anybody know why Amazon MP3 on Android will let you access song lists and even previews over the cell network, but forces you to download purchased songs over wifi? I suspect there are similar business shenanigans going on.
...then you won't have to worry about that result being the top one anymore. Just hack some cool app for Android with your name clearly on the post, and make sure Engadget picks it up. Or something. You'll get about 500 pingbacks, and the worrisome result will be about three pages down on Google's search results.
Larry has announced Perl6 will be released on Christmas day on some year in the near future. I obtained insider information that the release date is Christmas Day 2012, probably with a 3-day early release because so much progress has been made on the Parrot interpreter recently -- for a final release date of Dec 21, 2012. Here are the leaked media files and documents: [link 1][link 2]. It is finally clear why Larry calls his update posts "Apocalypses". For more info see this link.
This sounds like it was written by an admin who enforces the use of IE on "his" networks, because it's safer if everyone has to conform so that he only has to lock down one platform.
I have news for you: Chrome will only increase security for your network, regardless of what browser you force your users to use currently (even if that's Firefox). Go read the design docs...
If it just runs in a box inside the page, then this may die the same death as Java applets. That was the main thing that killed them (other than the startup speed, which is fixed in Java 1.6r10 and later).
I filed a feature request for Java to have full access to the DOM through Gears here: http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=368 This would allow a whole new generation of web apps...
Other companies haven't shipped a billion of anything? What about paperclips? Sheets of paper? Ballpoint pens? Resistors? I'm sure it happens all the time...
I wondered why I couldn't use my phone anymore. I thought Slashdot got pwned by some worm that infected my Android browser after the last time I logged in...
Your comments were correct until today, when the entire stack (not just the SDK) was released in source form as Google has always promised.
http://source.android.com/posts/opensource
Android is open. If you want other Bluetooth profiles, you can add them yourself, or wait until somebody else does (it's an itch so it won't take long to get scratched). It's just Linux at the core, and the support for other profiles has been built on many other Linux systems, so this shouldn't be too hard. Android is not doomed to be crippled as long as Google or T-Mobile "decides" it has to be crippled, because of its open nature.
You can only take photos without shadows at one point on the earth at any given time: specifically, the area immediately around where your satellite's shadow is projected onto the earth. Sun-synchronous orbit just reduces the number of shadows you're likely to see, unless you're always imaging directly downwards. This picture is taken north west of the satellite's shadow, so the buildings have shadows too.
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They haven't crossed the beams yet. They will do so at some point "in the next few days".
If you have seen Ghost Busters, you will know that is a Very Bad Idea.
I'm in Beijing right now. I'm not sure that anyone on the supposed "footstep path" actually saw any footstep fireworks.
Additionally, if you watch many of the shots of fireworks above the stadium, you can tell that there are fake fireworks mixed in with the real ones: the fake explosions have a much faster expansion speed than real fireworks. So even the non-footstep shots weren't as crazy in real life... I also doubt they launched fireworks from as many places across the main Olympic sites as they showed in the footage.
Good catch. I forgot to mention that you should set up a link on the bookmarks toolbar to e.g. https://mail.google.com/ , and never use http://mail.google.com/...
Are you saying though that if someone stole a cookie (through a compromised machine) while you were connected via SSL, that they couldn't take that cookie and use it on another machine in either a non-SSL session or another SSL session? I don't see anything in the cookies file that prevents this, unless (for the Gmail example) Google generates different cookie magic numbers depending on what your IP address and connection type is or something. Enforcing browser security on the machine, or on your no-install browser, doesn't mean the attacker will be bound to that enforced policy, IIUC.
I keep a no-install copy of Firefox for Windows on a USB key, already logged into my Gmail account (cookies are kept on the USB key), and also with the password saved in case the cookie expires.
However more sophisticated attacks are emerging such as cookie-stealing, so this is not as good an approach as it used to be.
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"We believe that consumers should be able to freely access their favorite content and applications, regardless of what computer they have, what browser they like, or what device suits their needs" -- except that Adobe support for Linux is abysmal and has always been abysmal (64-bit Flash 10.1??) -- and it has taken them forever to port to Android...
I blogged about this with a slightly different way of analyzing price, and came to the same conclusion -- see the following page: http://lukehutch.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/the-cheap-way-to-pay-for-a-nexus-one-think-tco/
I ordered several phones (abiding by the per-account limit) and some relatives in my home country ordered some and had them shipped to my address too because Google wouldn't ship there. I started placing my first order literally 10 seconds after the web page went live on the 5th, because I didn't want to be behind a line of 250k people placing orders. The phones reached my local Fedex and sat there all day undelivered, then they were sent back to Google. Somebody at Google had frozen the shipment and then requested them back. Four days later the credit card charges have not been reversed. Nobody ever called me to explain why the order had been canceled, I can only assume because red lights went on with that number of phones being shipped to one address, however there was no problem with abiding by ToS per-account limits, and the credit cards had been charged successfully. I spent three days on the phone to Fedex, Britepoint (the distributor) and HTC, sent several messages through the checkout contact form, and eventually tried contacting some friends at Google until I actually got any sort of contact from Google about this. I received an email from a generic support address saying they made a mistake and were sending the phones back -- finally. Several hours later I got another email saying that the phones could in fact not be sent back because they tried too late to return the shipment and they were already headed back to the warehouse, and that I would have to order them again. Still my credit card charges hadn't been reversed, though I was told eventually they would be. I tried re-ordering from the same checkout account and was told I couldn't reorder because I had reached the limit of five phones on that account. At last tonight (four days after ordering) I got a call from a director on the Nexus One team apologizing and saying they would try to get the phones back to me. The fact that I had already tried to re-order was problematic, but she said they would try to sort it out. Anyway it's a huge mess, but I appreciated finally getting to talk to a human being. I suspect I am one of the few who has been able to talk to a human at Google about their problems so far however. Honestly the last person to call me sounded pretty worn out by it all (and was working late on a Saturday too...) I don't know why Google didn't install a large call-center when they decided they were going to try to pull this off. I imagine some process review meetings are going to happen as a result of all of this...
The only way to fix problems like this is the Reverse Streisand Effect: flood the Internet with positive, high-profile and truthful information about yourself.
Try voting for something worthwhile on OGD: http://opengov.ideascale.com/akira/dtd/5814-4049
Does anybody know why Amazon MP3 on Android will let you access song lists and even previews over the cell network, but forces you to download purchased songs over wifi? I suspect there are similar business shenanigans going on.
...then you won't have to worry about that result being the top one anymore. Just hack some cool app for Android with your name clearly on the post, and make sure Engadget picks it up. Or something. You'll get about 500 pingbacks, and the worrisome result will be about three pages down on Google's search results.
Wine runs Chrome a lot slower than Windows.
...because it competes with Linux.
Larry has announced Perl6 will be released on Christmas day on some year in the near future. I obtained insider information that the release date is Christmas Day 2012, probably with a 3-day early release because so much progress has been made on the Parrot interpreter recently -- for a final release date of Dec 21, 2012. Here are the leaked media files and documents: [link 1] [link 2]. It is finally clear why Larry calls his update posts "Apocalypses". For more info see this link.
This sounds like it was written by an admin who enforces the use of IE on "his" networks, because it's safer if everyone has to conform so that he only has to lock down one platform. I have news for you: Chrome will only increase security for your network, regardless of what browser you force your users to use currently (even if that's Firefox). Go read the design docs...
And people thought electric blankets (and living near power lines) was bad...
(OK, so maybe the link with cancer is due to the sharpshooter fallacy, but still...)
If it just runs in a box inside the page, then this may die the same death as Java applets. That was the main thing that killed them (other than the startup speed, which is fixed in Java 1.6r10 and later). I filed a feature request for Java to have full access to the DOM through Gears here: http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=368 This would allow a whole new generation of web apps...
Try Java 1.6 release 10+ -- Java applet load time has reduced by an order of magnitude. (NB this is not yet in Java 1.7)...
Other companies haven't shipped a billion of anything? What about paperclips? Sheets of paper? Ballpoint pens? Resistors? I'm sure it happens all the time...
I wondered why I couldn't use my phone anymore. I thought Slashdot got pwned by some worm that infected my Android browser after the last time I logged in...
The library can just operate several terminals behind a NAT router.
Your comments were correct until today, when the entire stack (not just the SDK) was released in source form as Google has always promised. http://source.android.com/posts/opensource
Android is open. If you want other Bluetooth profiles, you can add them yourself, or wait until somebody else does (it's an itch so it won't take long to get scratched). It's just Linux at the core, and the support for other profiles has been built on many other Linux systems, so this shouldn't be too hard. Android is not doomed to be crippled as long as Google or T-Mobile "decides" it has to be crippled, because of its open nature.
Google have already discussed this. The bluetooth stack simply wasn't ready in time, so they removed it. There will be full bluetooth support soon.
You can only take photos without shadows at one point on the earth at any given time: specifically, the area immediately around where your satellite's shadow is projected onto the earth. Sun-synchronous orbit just reduces the number of shadows you're likely to see, unless you're always imaging directly downwards. This picture is taken north west of the satellite's shadow, so the buildings have shadows too.
If you have seen Ghost Busters, you will know that is a Very Bad Idea.
I'm in Beijing right now. I'm not sure that anyone on the supposed "footstep path" actually saw any footstep fireworks. Additionally, if you watch many of the shots of fireworks above the stadium, you can tell that there are fake fireworks mixed in with the real ones: the fake explosions have a much faster expansion speed than real fireworks. So even the non-footstep shots weren't as crazy in real life... I also doubt they launched fireworks from as many places across the main Olympic sites as they showed in the footage.
Good catch. I forgot to mention that you should set up a link on the bookmarks toolbar to e.g. https://mail.google.com/ , and never use http://mail.google.com/ ...
Are you saying though that if someone stole a cookie (through a compromised machine) while you were connected via SSL, that they couldn't take that cookie and use it on another machine in either a non-SSL session or another SSL session? I don't see anything in the cookies file that prevents this, unless (for the Gmail example) Google generates different cookie magic numbers depending on what your IP address and connection type is or something. Enforcing browser security on the machine, or on your no-install browser, doesn't mean the attacker will be bound to that enforced policy, IIUC.
I keep a no-install copy of Firefox for Windows on a USB key, already logged into my Gmail account (cookies are kept on the USB key), and also with the password saved in case the cookie expires. However more sophisticated attacks are emerging such as cookie-stealing, so this is not as good an approach as it used to be.