The BBC has got mobile pages. My phone and tablet keep going to them. Like in the XKCD cartoon, they are flawed.
There are some nice apps for it anyway. My favourite one comes with a nice widget too.
Wikipedia has several apps available for my phone. I suspect that there may be something available for users of iThings too.
because of that, there is no need for mobile pages because of a better alternative.
I suppose I knew that the EU would have had a website but I don't see what benefit a mobile version would bring.
On the whole, most mobile sites are annoying and incomplete in comparison to the "proper" one.
Sometimes the only thing I need is to be able to zoom in.
Conclusion: Mobile versions are not always needed.
No. My impressions have been formed by a lot of things, including previous news articles, books, talking to human beings and so on. This item has just convinced me that there has been enough "benefit of the doubt" given already.
Any biases I might have about the US are largely about your government, big business and misplaced notions of personal freedom. They are different.
suggest you go read some crime statistics and maybe just open your eyes to the world. And if you just think its America I invite you to look at what the peaceful people of central africa are doing to each other.
Comparing your country, or here in the UK, against somewhere in Africa or the former Soviet empire is invalid.We both are supposed to have some sort of legal system. Both need work but we don't shoot our citizens so often. (I did not say never!).
Nobody said it is just the USA. It is just that the USA has less of an excuse than a country without the freedoms that we are supposed to have.
That video confirms my unvoiced preconceptions about your country. They may not remain unvoiced now.
It is good to see people recording events like this. Whether that is from bravery, curiosity or prurience does not matter. The watchers are now being watched.
Many years ago, my parents moved from Central Scotland to that area of Northern Nigeria now in the news for all the wrong reasons.
At the age of 6, I was the only person in my school who was not Nigerian. English was at that time the common language and that was what was used in the school I was at.
Every now and again, I would be sent along to one of the older classes to help with pronunciation - "Look at the size of this boy. If he can pronounce it, so can you!" type lessons from the teacher.
So, the next time you see the town of Sokoto, just consider that here will be people there with highly differentiated vowels, glottal stops and rhotic pronunciation (rolling R's).
Here in the UK it varies between unwise for commercial businesses to use US data storage through against internal rules for many government organisations to straight illegal for anything that has personal information like hospitals and police.
What I do as a private individual is my own business. It would not be rigt that people that had a legal care of duty over my details kept it somewhere that criminal(1) organisations like the NSA have free reign to do what they like.
(1)They may or may not be illegal but they are certainly criminally breaking laws and even your constitution,
I'm not sure that it is even possible but is needed is a very simple app that clears off all the bloatware and apps that nobody wanted anyway.
It can't leave the phone unlocked as most users are not even aware of what root is and could cause even more awkwardness to themselves.
That would also cause some supposedly secure apps to stop working as the phone would now be "insecure.
It would also block business use as MDMs would block the devices.
I remember there used to be the Decrapifier for new Windows PCs and people who did not feel able to uninstall things themselves.
Somehow, I imagine that Google would not been keen and manufacturers would be even less enthusiastic. PhoneCos would be even more anti!
A while back, I read an article about this. Someone suggested "database poisoning".
It sounds illegal but I am not so sure. All that everyone needs to do is to tag other people as you and vice versa. If enough people did that, it would mess up such a system.
Your message is partially right. iPhones market share is heading down true but unit sales were still rising and have just taken a boost from China.
In the long term, your provocative heading may well turn out to be correct but that is years away. Businesses want their development done now on machines that are "out there" at present, not years away.
I would like it If Windows phones actually caught on but that one may be even further away. Their market share is so low that it could be hugely changed by a rounding error.
Businesses are shedding BlackBerrys at speed. There are two alternatives. Android for companies interested in cost, functionality and versatility or iPhones for appearance, coolness and keeping non-technical executives happy. Windows phones are somewhere in between but it is hard to tell as they are so rare.
I have just had my work BB replaced with an iPhone. Our department has provided support for them for years but now we are on them too. As I was aware, in comparison to good android phones it is limited and fiddly. Sending email is infuriating. I suppose the fashion conscious don't use email any more. I've got better things to do than look like a manager. I would have preferred a Note4. I could then leave the tablet behind. As it is, I read the email on the iShiny but if I need to reply, it's Android 7" tablet to the rescue!
Maybe iThings would fo the way of the Dodo if there was more than one alternative. At present, there is only Android and that is not favoured by the uninformable suit wearers.
The place is full of vertical groups - photographers, loads of technical (even iPhans), Political discussions from the US far right to the rest of the planets left, news about anything and everything from everywhere and no doubt stuff that I am not interested in and so have ignored...
So this is yet another posting from someone who has not really checked out the system.
I am not from the USA and have never considered most of your countryfolk to be aware of where the world is far less what is happening in it. I have seem the occasional clip of one of your talking heads and the BBC sometimes has them on for insights into what is happening in your country. Perhaps we just get the amateurs talking to the foreign press.
The area around Chernobyl and Pripyat is fast becoming the best collection of natural history in Europe if not the world. The videos and pictures from there vary from the sombre to the absolutely fantastic. No multinational (read US corporation) is going to try and build factories, take wood or anything else from there. Animals killed there and sold elsewhere are easy to identify. Radioactivity is higher than normal all over it but very little of it now is unsafe for the next 100,000 years.
There is plenty on the web about it - my early favourite was http://www.kiddofspeed.com/ although there are occasional questions as to whether they are real.
I need to be able to look up all information about someone. If I didn't, I wouldn't need the internet. I would just ask them to attach anything they felt I should know to their application.
So if they break Google, I will need another search engine. It may need to be run from somewhere outside the control of the EU, USA, NSA, FBI and so on..
Perhaps there is someone in Russia who knows about computers?
I'll stick to the EU over the USA though. Less militaristic and their silliest ideas are aimed for human beings and against corporates. At least they want us to think they are trying...
... people get protective about windfarms getting built on land
The problem sometimes is that the people from the location are all for it but NIMBYs are brought in specially.
I Come from further north than Aberdeen. In Orkney, we have had wind turbines for decades but various people would come from central or southern England and try to drum up opposition. I once had some on my (parents) doorstep. They told me about the harm that these things would do to me and how noisy they were. I declined and they moved on. I don't remember a single friend or relative who was interested in their stories.
I can think of various things that should be itemised as nasty. I am all for letting crazies speak but I would like them and everyone else to know how many people think they are dodgy,
"What type of things" you might ask "would I want to identify as hateful?"
You could start with our most hate filled politics. We have little as far right as you guys but there ae simple acronyms for some of the worst - ECDL, BNP, UKIP and the like. Their right to say things should not be restricted but everyone going to their sites should receive a reminder whenever they go to their web sites that these people are to be examined very carefully as some of them are completely nuts and even the mildest of them may well be the bunch of "fruitcases" that they were described as!
If there was a "Really Crazy" button that we could report groups from those to Home Secretaries who want to mess us up, that would be really useful...
The majority of us did not have money to spare for Macs. I have no doubt that they were the best personal computers around. I used them.
For less expensive computers, there was the BASIC interpreter. Not as WYSIWYG or simple and Beginners need to think when coding, even at that level. It also had the advantage of being close to a standard untill MS teurned it into QBasic then dumped it.
BASIC is what we need again but standardised and improved a lot.
This seems so much more interesting than a watch.
I have not worn a watch for years. I can't at work because I work in a hospital. Outside work, I don't bother because I can get the time off my phone or a clock etc.
Augmented reality could be useful in all sorts of jobs and leisure activities.
So far, the only wearable technology I use is a stereo in-ear bluetooth headset.
Nothing makes me sadder than idiots who think that people who own guns all want to kill kids at school
That is what is called a Straw Man argument. Nobody said that.
What has been said and merits repeating is that the result of lots of guns is lots of dead innocents. The less guns around, the less people get shot.
The USA has many more armed civilians than, say, Japan or the UK. It has a lot more gun accidents per 1,000 head of population too. It is no freer than them. It just has a better sounding constitution that the moneyed ignore.
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The BBC has got mobile pages. My phone and tablet keep going to them. Like in the XKCD cartoon, they are flawed.
There are some nice apps for it anyway. My favourite one comes with a nice widget too.
Wikipedia has several apps available for my phone. I suspect that there may be something available for users of iThings too.
because of that, there is no need for mobile pages because of a better alternative.
I suppose I knew that the EU would have had a website but I don't see what benefit a mobile version would bring.
On the whole, most mobile sites are annoying and incomplete in comparison to the "proper" one.
Sometimes the only thing I need is to be able to zoom in.
Conclusion: Mobile versions are not always needed.
A single video confirmed all your biases?
No. My impressions have been formed by a lot of things, including previous news articles, books, talking to human beings and so on. This item has just convinced me that there has been enough "benefit of the doubt" given already.
Any biases I might have about the US are largely about your government, big business and misplaced notions of personal freedom. They are different.
I
suggest you go read some crime statistics and maybe just open your eyes to the world. And if you just think its America I invite you to look at what the peaceful people of central africa are doing to each other.
Comparing your country, or here in the UK, against somewhere in Africa or the former Soviet empire is invalid.We both are supposed to have some sort of legal system. Both need work but we don't shoot our citizens so often. (I did not say never!).
Nobody said it is just the USA. It is just that the USA has less of an excuse than a country without the freedoms that we are supposed to have.
That video confirms my unvoiced preconceptions about your country. They may not remain unvoiced now.
It is good to see people recording events like this. Whether that is from bravery, curiosity or prurience does not matter. The watchers are now being watched.
More important is people differentiating between...
Than & Then
Father & Feather
Aunt & Ant
Whales & Wales
and so on
Possibly another good thing would be to make sure to pronounce the letter T as that and not as a D.
Bidder & Bitter
Shutter and Shudder
and so on
Many years ago, my parents moved from Central Scotland to that area of Northern Nigeria now in the news for all the wrong reasons.
At the age of 6, I was the only person in my school who was not Nigerian. English was at that time the common language and that was what was used in the school I was at.
Every now and again, I would be sent along to one of the older classes to help with pronunciation - "Look at the size of this boy. If he can pronounce it, so can you!" type lessons from the teacher.
So, the next time you see the town of Sokoto, just consider that here will be people there with highly differentiated vowels, glottal stops and rhotic pronunciation (rolling R's).
If things like the Pi are so much more complex, just how simple is this new device?
I am thinking an abacus with a battery light...
It's not just the Chinese you know.
Here in the UK it varies between unwise for commercial businesses to use US data storage through against internal rules for many government organisations to straight illegal for anything that has personal information like hospitals and police.
What I do as a private individual is my own business. It would not be rigt that people that had a legal care of duty over my details kept it somewhere that criminal(1) organisations like the NSA have free reign to do what they like.
(1)They may or may not be illegal but they are certainly criminally breaking laws and even your constitution,
Change just for the sake of it is stupid...
Change just for the sake of it is marketing...
So you agree then...
You mean not stupid?
I'm not sure that it is even possible but is needed is a very simple app that clears off all the bloatware and apps that nobody wanted anyway.
It can't leave the phone unlocked as most users are not even aware of what root is and could cause even more awkwardness to themselves.
That would also cause some supposedly secure apps to stop working as the phone would now be "insecure.
It would also block business use as MDMs would block the devices.
I remember there used to be the Decrapifier for new Windows PCs and people who did not feel able to uninstall things themselves.
Somehow, I imagine that Google would not been keen and manufacturers would be even less enthusiastic. PhoneCos would be even more anti!
A while back, I read an article about this. Someone suggested "database poisoning".
It sounds illegal but I am not so sure. All that everyone needs to do is to tag other people as you and vice versa. If enough people did that, it would mess up such a system.
Your message is partially right. iPhones market share is heading down true but unit sales were still rising and have just taken a boost from China.
In the long term, your provocative heading may well turn out to be correct but that is years away. Businesses want their development done now on machines that are "out there" at present, not years away.
I would like it If Windows phones actually caught on but that one may be even further away. Their market share is so low that it could be hugely changed by a rounding error.
Businesses are shedding BlackBerrys at speed. There are two alternatives. Android for companies interested in cost, functionality and versatility or iPhones for appearance, coolness and keeping non-technical executives happy. Windows phones are somewhere in between but it is hard to tell as they are so rare.
I have just had my work BB replaced with an iPhone. Our department has provided support for them for years but now we are on them too. As I was aware, in comparison to good android phones it is limited and fiddly. Sending email is infuriating. I suppose the fashion conscious don't use email any more. I've got better things to do than look like a manager. I would have preferred a Note4. I could then leave the tablet behind. As it is, I read the email on the iShiny but if I need to reply, it's Android 7" tablet to the rescue!
Maybe iThings would fo the way of the Dodo if there was more than one alternative. At present, there is only Android and that is not favoured by the uninformable suit wearers.
but I comment a lot
The place is full of vertical groups - photographers, loads of technical (even iPhans), Political discussions from the US far right to the rest of the planets left, news about anything and everything from everywhere and no doubt stuff that I am not interested in and so have ignored...
So this is yet another posting from someone who has not really checked out the system.
I am not from the USA and have never considered most of your countryfolk to be aware of where the world is far less what is happening in it. I have seem the occasional clip of one of your talking heads and the BBC sometimes has them on for insights into what is happening in your country. Perhaps we just get the amateurs talking to the foreign press.
The area around Chernobyl and Pripyat is fast becoming the best collection of natural history in Europe if not the world. The videos and pictures from there vary from the sombre to the absolutely fantastic. No multinational (read US corporation) is going to try and build factories, take wood or anything else from there. Animals killed there and sold elsewhere are easy to identify. Radioactivity is higher than normal all over it but very little of it now is unsafe for the next 100,000 years.
There is plenty on the web about it - my early favourite was http://www.kiddofspeed.com/ although there are occasional questions as to whether they are real.
.
I need to be able to look up all information about someone. If I didn't, I wouldn't need the internet. I would just ask them to attach anything they felt I should know to their application.
So if they break Google, I will need another search engine. It may need to be run from somewhere outside the control of the EU, USA, NSA, FBI and so on..
Perhaps there is someone in Russia who knows about computers?
I'll stick to the EU over the USA though. Less militaristic and their silliest ideas are aimed for human beings and against corporates. At least they want us to think they are trying...
... people get protective about windfarms getting built on land
The problem sometimes is that the people from the location are all for it but NIMBYs are brought in specially.
I Come from further north than Aberdeen. In Orkney, we have had wind turbines for decades but various people would come from central or southern England and try to drum up opposition. I once had some on my (parents) doorstep. They told me about the harm that these things would do to me and how noisy they were. I declined and they moved on. I don't remember a single friend or relative who was interested in their stories.
I know. Van Braun had so many of his V1 rockets crash into England before we finally managed to get a rocket into space!
That's a new one! I only knew about the pulse jet propelled V1s. The only WWII Von Braun rockets most of us had heard of were the V2s.
As far as is known, no rocket propelled V1s ever crashed into England, or anywhere else for that matter.
Perhaps they all went into space....
3) be respectful
Why? Be polite certainly but save your respect for when they are actually Protecting and Serving.
... Who knew?
Just about everyone else on the planet?
I can think of various things that should be itemised as nasty. I am all for letting crazies speak but I would like them and everyone else to know how many people think they are dodgy,
"What type of things" you might ask "would I want to identify as hateful?"
You could start with our most hate filled politics. We have little as far right as you guys but there ae simple acronyms for some of the worst - ECDL, BNP, UKIP and the like. Their right to say things should not be restricted but everyone going to their sites should receive a reminder whenever they go to their web sites that these people are to be examined very carefully as some of them are completely nuts and even the mildest of them may well be the bunch of "fruitcases" that they were described as!
If there was a "Really Crazy" button that we could report groups from those to Home Secretaries who want to mess us up, that would be really useful...
The majority of us did not have money to spare for Macs. I have no doubt that they were the best personal computers around. I used them.
For less expensive computers, there was the BASIC interpreter. Not as WYSIWYG or simple and Beginners need to think when coding, even at that level. It also had the advantage of being close to a standard untill MS teurned it into QBasic then dumped it.
BASIC is what we need again but standardised and improved a lot.
This seems so much more interesting than a watch.
I have not worn a watch for years. I can't at work because I work in a hospital. Outside work, I don't bother because I can get the time off my phone or a clock etc.
Augmented reality could be useful in all sorts of jobs and leisure activities.
So far, the only wearable technology I use is a stereo in-ear bluetooth headset.
Then why is it in places where guns are banned or severely restricted, like London, that the violent crime and murder rate is obscenely high?
In comparison to the USA, it is not.
Nothing makes me sadder than idiots who think that people who own guns all want to kill kids at school
That is what is called a Straw Man argument. Nobody said that.
What has been said and merits repeating is that the result of lots of guns is lots of dead innocents. The less guns around, the less people get shot.
The USA has many more armed civilians than, say, Japan or the UK. It has a lot more gun accidents per 1,000 head of population too. It is no freer than them. It just has a better sounding constitution that the moneyed ignore.