Im a middle aged senior management IT guy and last year I realised I had not heard a new song on the radio in two (2) years even though I listen to 9 hours of radio a week. You see I listen to podacasts as my free time is split up all over the place so normal radio programming does not meet my needs as I would miss half the program when I get called away. But at the same time I have heard lots of adverts in the last year. If I was a musician I would be worrying because there is a medium to high income group of professionals now who thanks to the stupidity of the record labels "never ever can hear their music". So my money stays in my pocket and mu CD collection of years gone past gets taken out and played every now and again, pretty dumb in my view and a really stupid way to promote a product that needs to be heard before it can be sold.
If you can't play mkv,xvid, flac, ogg on a tablet (my android handset does) then in my books you have a media device thats incomplete. So I will be looking for a tegra 2 tablet (maybe a tegra 3 quad core later this year) running android just because 99% of the video files on my media server are "not" mp4. Although Im starting to take a shine to the Samsung series 9 laptops that are about to be released so I may forgo the tablet.
HTC may not support old phones but that doesn't mean you can't update the phone (unlike iOS based handsets). I have a 2-3 old HTC G1 that I use as a hacking phone and I recently updated it to Android 2.3 thanks to XDA developers. If you have an old Android handset and want the latest firmware just search the XDA developers forums.
To be honest I cant see the issue, it's a simple case of copyright infringement and the rights holder doing what they legally have to do (don't forget if you don't protect your rights under US law you lose it). Suing when Tolkien is used in a historical context is pushing the limits though.
I think he means for Nokia the dumb phone market is shrinking. If you look around there are more and more Chinese handsets on the market on sale for under $50 so for Nokia that market segment is dead. Android now occupies much of the middle space with Blackberry, Apple and Motorola owning the high ground. On the other side the dumb phone market is actually growing as more people from countries like India and China purchase mobiles (in fact the dumb phone growth in those markets is bigger PA than the whole USA market as exists). but they wont be buying USD$120 Nokia dumb phones they will be getting the $50 Chinese handsets (often free on a $10/month plan).
Let me tell you a story, once upon a time there used to be this innovative IT company (not who you think it is), they were going places, they had vision,they were almost a cult. Then over the years they lost direction and tried to diversify to recover but it didn't work. Then one day the CEO had this bright idea, lets do a joint venture with Microsoft, many sat there stunned. some called it sleeping with the devil. Anyway sales increased for a while but the main problem of "vision" was still missing. So to get around the lack of vision problem they decided to produce cheaper and more generic products. Well this didn't work as anyone can make a cheap generic product and sales stagnated, their long time customers left and towards the end they were looking for someone to buy them out. So who is this company you may ask, well its Apple in the 1990's. Now if you stand back and look at Nokia you cant help but feel Nokia are missing the point by hooking their rudderless ship to the good ship Microsoft especially considering Microsoft supplies software (immature as is) to any mobile phone maker. So Nokia's CEO now thinks he has the vision thing fixed , the share holders will see some sales but as a term solution the joint venture between Nokia and Microsoft are no better than Apples and Microsofts. At the end of the day if you hand over your hardware to Microsoft you become no better than the grey PC box makers that Apple was trying and failing to compete with.
Although I do find the term "cowardice" wrong at the same time the bussdriver was partly correct. One of the benefits of people dying in wars is it re-enforces the basic rule that "war is stupid and you never win even when you think you have". Losses in a war makes the elites stand back and think, hmm can we talk first because if we start losing soldiers their families are not going to like it. With an automated war there is nothing stopping the political elites from going on a slaughter fest of imperialism backed by a distorted political mantra helping blind the populace from the truth (cough Iraq WMD's cough).
Wonder if they have bluetooth audio fixed, I find KDE 3.5.* allows me to pair a BT headset (I have three models all work fine with Android) but KDE keeps trying to treat the headset as a data transfer device instead as an audio out device.
with the articles hypothesis, Google doesn't make handsets nor does it commercially distribute the code thats all done by the Open Handset Alliance and its members. When you look at the members of OHA including the likes of Sony, Motorola, Samsung, LG you start to realise between them they have far more patents on mobile technologies than apple and microsoft combined.
Only a fool works for no returns, keeping your job is not a solid excuse as it is one step from being an indentured slave. If the company offers some form of long term compensation be it shares or profit sharing once the company becomes viable then yes maybe but even then "get a lawyer to look at the agreement". Me personally , if a company can not pay it's wages then it should either change tact or shut down. I am a firm believer in "there is no free ride" especially for corporations who at the end of the day would sell your kidney to make a profit.
WOW you guys in the USA really need to define the legal term for "unlimited' in court, here in Australia "unlimited" means just that, if you throttle the service you are not allowed to use the term "unlimited" any more.
GST is only 10% and some books are not hit with it. The reason books are so expensive is there is a local publishing cartel that is anything but competitive. The laugh is even if the 10% GST is added it wont hide the fact that local retailers have a 400% markup on some goods and on-line resellers usually have a 15-80% markup.
To be able to use the market you just need an android device with a cellphone data connection, doesn't means google approve of the galaxy tab as being a suitable tablet device (in fact Google have stated that they do not consider the Galaxy Tab as being a tablet but a big phone).
they won't release something that's too slow for the majority of hardware already shipped
As far as I know Google hasnt given any tablets a thumbs up so from Googles standpoint there is no hardware and what is available is a just a big phone.
GAH!, never reply to a slashdot article first thing post xmas morning with a hang over. The C/C++ NDK is two years old now, nothing stopping the VLC guys adding to it instead of complaining it doesnt have the lib they need. I think VLC are late to the party anyway, I already use rockplayer to play mkv,mpg video files (thanks to ffmpeg) without any issues.
I have yet to see anyone counterfeit an Australian polymer banknote especially with it's built in holographic security. A few countries now use similar technology for their currencies, why the USA still uses antiquated paper notes that can be easily damaged and also don't last long in circulation beats me.
Nexus S had me interested until I found out the phone has no SD card slot. This may not be important to some but not being able to change rom's on the fly via the SD card is a bit of a downer for me.
[My english is better than most other people's german, so please point out mistakes politely. Thank you.]
Seems fine to me, you don't have to put capitals on every proper noun, very old hat in this day and age. Usually I only put capitals on proper nouns in relation to people or persons names or places, for a general language (not a place as in this case) I don't think capitals are needed.
I thought flash was annoying until I installed moonlight on Ubuntu, talk about your first class piece of crap masquerader as decent software. The first web page I opened made my machine made it come to a complete standstill, I had to open a terminal to kill the offending application. Next step was a complete uninstall of moonlight.
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Im a middle aged senior management IT guy and last year I realised I had not heard a new song on the radio in two (2) years even though I listen to 9 hours of radio a week. You see I listen to podacasts as my free time is split up all over the place so normal radio programming does not meet my needs as I would miss half the program when I get called away. But at the same time I have heard lots of adverts in the last year. If I was a musician I would be worrying because there is a medium to high income group of professionals now who thanks to the stupidity of the record labels "never ever can hear their music". So my money stays in my pocket and mu CD collection of years gone past gets taken out and played every now and again, pretty dumb in my view and a really stupid way to promote a product that needs to be heard before it can be sold.
actually it would, the service quality indicator indicates signal strength for the "nearest available tower" not necessarily the nearest tower.
If you can't play mkv,xvid, flac, ogg on a tablet (my android handset does) then in my books you have a media device thats incomplete. So I will be looking for a tegra 2 tablet (maybe a tegra 3 quad core later this year) running android just because 99% of the video files on my media server are "not" mp4. Although Im starting to take a shine to the Samsung series 9 laptops that are about to be released so I may forgo the tablet.
HTC may not support old phones but that doesn't mean you can't update the phone (unlike iOS based handsets). I have a 2-3 old HTC G1 that I use as a hacking phone and I recently updated it to Android 2.3 thanks to XDA developers. If you have an old Android handset and want the latest firmware just search the XDA developers forums.
To be honest I cant see the issue, it's a simple case of copyright infringement and the rights holder doing what they legally have to do (don't forget if you don't protect your rights under US law you lose it). Suing when Tolkien is used in a historical context is pushing the limits though.
No other mobile OS runs as far as I know on X86.
Yeah, not like Android or Symbian runs on X86.
A man with more than 80 belongings becomes a slave to what he owns
I think he means for Nokia the dumb phone market is shrinking. If you look around there are more and more Chinese handsets on the market on sale for under $50 so for Nokia that market segment is dead. Android now occupies much of the middle space with Blackberry, Apple and Motorola owning the high ground. On the other side the dumb phone market is actually growing as more people from countries like India and China purchase mobiles (in fact the dumb phone growth in those markets is bigger PA than the whole USA market as exists). but they wont be buying USD$120 Nokia dumb phones they will be getting the $50 Chinese handsets (often free on a $10/month plan).
Let me tell you a story, once upon a time there used to be this innovative IT company (not who you think it is), they were going places, they had vision,they were almost a cult. Then over the years they lost direction and tried to diversify to recover but it didn't work. Then one day the CEO had this bright idea, lets do a joint venture with Microsoft, many sat there stunned. some called it sleeping with the devil. Anyway sales increased for a while but the main problem of "vision" was still missing. So to get around the lack of vision problem they decided to produce cheaper and more generic products. Well this didn't work as anyone can make a cheap generic product and sales stagnated, their long time customers left and towards the end they were looking for someone to buy them out. So who is this company you may ask, well its Apple in the 1990's. Now if you stand back and look at Nokia you cant help but feel Nokia are missing the point by hooking their rudderless ship to the good ship Microsoft especially considering Microsoft supplies software (immature as is) to any mobile phone maker. So Nokia's CEO now thinks he has the vision thing fixed , the share holders will see some sales but as a term solution the joint venture between Nokia and Microsoft are no better than Apples and Microsofts. At the end of the day if you hand over your hardware to Microsoft you become no better than the grey PC box makers that Apple was trying and failing to compete with.
Although I do find the term "cowardice" wrong at the same time the bussdriver was partly correct. One of the benefits of people dying in wars is it re-enforces the basic rule that "war is stupid and you never win even when you think you have". Losses in a war makes the elites stand back and think, hmm can we talk first because if we start losing soldiers their families are not going to like it. With an automated war there is nothing stopping the political elites from going on a slaughter fest of imperialism backed by a distorted political mantra helping blind the populace from the truth (cough Iraq WMD's cough).
Sorry I meant KDE 4.5.* (although KDE 3.5.* has the same issue).
Wonder if they have bluetooth audio fixed, I find KDE 3.5.* allows me to pair a BT headset (I have three models all work fine with Android) but KDE keeps trying to treat the headset as a data transfer device instead as an audio out device.
with the articles hypothesis, Google doesn't make handsets nor does it commercially distribute the code thats all done by the Open Handset Alliance and its members. When you look at the members of OHA including the likes of Sony, Motorola, Samsung, LG you start to realise between them they have far more patents on mobile technologies than apple and microsoft combined.
Only a fool works for no returns, keeping your job is not a solid excuse as it is one step from being an indentured slave. If the company offers some form of long term compensation be it shares or profit sharing once the company becomes viable then yes maybe but even then "get a lawyer to look at the agreement". Me personally , if a company can not pay it's wages then it should either change tact or shut down. I am a firm believer in "there is no free ride" especially for corporations who at the end of the day would sell your kidney to make a profit.
WOW you guys in the USA really need to define the legal term for "unlimited' in court, here in Australia "unlimited" means just that, if you throttle the service you are not allowed to use the term "unlimited" any more.
GST is only 10% and some books are not hit with it. The reason books are so expensive is there is a local publishing cartel that is anything but competitive. The laugh is even if the 10% GST is added it wont hide the fact that local retailers have a 400% markup on some goods and on-line resellers usually have a 15-80% markup.
I just replaced my model M after 16 years of use with a Razer Blackwidow Backlit Mechanical Keyboard
To be able to use the market you just need an android device with a cellphone data connection, doesn't means google approve of the galaxy tab as being a suitable tablet device (in fact Google have stated that they do not consider the Galaxy Tab as being a tablet but a big phone).
they won't release something that's too slow for the majority of hardware already shipped
As far as I know Google hasnt given any tablets a thumbs up so from Googles standpoint there is no hardware and what is available is a just a big phone.
GAH!, never reply to a slashdot article first thing post xmas morning with a hang over. The C/C++ NDK is two years old now, nothing stopping the VLC guys adding to it instead of complaining it doesnt have the lib they need. I think VLC are late to the party anyway, I already use rockplayer to play mkv,mpg video files (thanks to ffmpeg) without any issues.
support so I dont have a clue what the VLC guys are going on about... more info here
I have yet to see anyone counterfeit an Australian polymer banknote especially with it's built in holographic security. A few countries now use similar technology for their currencies, why the USA still uses antiquated paper notes that can be easily damaged and also don't last long in circulation beats me.
So you are saying said civilians didn't get killed by gun happy American soldiers firing live ammo in a residential area ?
Nexus S had me interested until I found out the phone has no SD card slot. This may not be important to some but not being able to change rom's on the fly via the SD card is a bit of a downer for me.
I was referring to this:
[My english is better than most other people's german, so please point out mistakes politely. Thank you.]
Seems fine to me, you don't have to put capitals on every proper noun, very old hat in this day and age. Usually I only put capitals on proper nouns in relation to people or persons names or places, for a general language (not a place as in this case) I don't think capitals are needed.
I thought flash was annoying until I installed moonlight on Ubuntu, talk about your first class piece of crap masquerader as decent software. The first web page I opened made my machine made it come to a complete standstill, I had to open a terminal to kill the offending application. Next step was a complete uninstall of moonlight.