Since this article is about iiNet and people have been talking about SOPA, I thought it a good idea to post this article published on the official iiNet blog yesterday about SOPA: http://blog.iinet.net.au/sopa-internet-censorship-effort-beginning/
Australia is one of the least densely populated countries in the world, so the rollout of a network like this is nothing trivial. Europe is a different story..
Android's browser isn't "Chrome" per se, and is tracked by it's own user agent. So no figures in the wild should be counting it toward Chrome's market share.
What matters is the number of people affected by the blacklist, even if they are on dial-up only.
Yep. iiNet have been running a fairly extensive "The New No2" (ISP) after a series of recent acquisitions, although this reflects only DSL subscribers, so my comment was in relation to people that might dispute OP's post which stated that Optus was the #2 largest ISP.
Just before someone chimes in with this, iiNet is the 2nd largest ISP in terms of Broadband DSL subscribers - Optus would have more combined subscribers with DSL/Cable/other (which is what OP would be referring to).
Sony received a lot of flak for their Xperia X10 Android devices - with a poor Android release upgrade cycle (very slow updates and stopping updates after Android 2.1), unfriendly attitude to devs, etc. But they've done a complete 180 recently; they reversed the decision of the Xperia X10 phones only getting Android 2.1 and said they'd release Gingerbread on them, as well as unveil the bootloader/unlocking website.
Side Note: I'm currently testing the Xperia PLAY out as a sort-of competition for SE, and the UI is very smooth and responsive. I only used it a few times, but I heard the Xperia X10 (+Mini and Pro) had quite laggy UI, the PLAY and also presumably the Arc are a different story. These are phones that I would recommend to friends now (currently suggest they only purchase HTC handsets and will advise against Motorola / Lagblur). So I just wanted to put it out there that they're changing gears and learning from their mistakes, and they deserve a pat on the back for it.
He's also referred to Android as having "four or more app stores" when discussing the alleged "confusing consumer experience" (which as most probably know, while it is possible to install other "app stores", Android Market is nearly on every device and the most dominant by leaps and bounds.
I'm no star dev, but I have a few free applications on market. One of the things I noticed is for a while Google have had a message stating that copy protection is being deprecated, and replaced with "Licensing service". More information here: http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/licensing.html. Not sure if this would affect OP's situation; whether he was/is using the old licensing services and/or if it will improve the situation in general.
They aren't "discarding" the community, rather they intend to more strongly enforce their TOS so things like twitter terminology stays at parity across all twitter apps.
What do you mean official compatibility for the Nexus One was dropped? Last time I checked, it was the second device to get Gingerbread (officially), and there have been no comments made from anyone at Google stating that it will not receive the next update.
I get the feeling Microsoft is able to offer a lot more product support for Nokia with WP7. With Google it's more like "here's the source drop, GL compiling it". There's obviously a bit more behind the MS-Nokia deal than "you can use our OS". (Disclaimer: I'm a massive Android fanboy, own 4 handsets, I just think WP7 is a better fit for Nokia. And it needs a bolster to be more competitive and hence generate competition in the market).
Watch Season 2 onward. I too took the same precedent as you, but the story developers late season 1, is strengthened season 2; and by the end of season 2/start of season 3 it's enthralling. Without spoiling too much, the "bad" guys/race are the fringe team in a specific alternate dimension, and they have a rich interlinked past which is explored in the show. Might sound a little cheezy from how I put it, but it's executed brilliantly.
Not to throw anything away from your post, but I've got a Nexus One and don't have any of the issues mentioned. I generally don't reboot the phone (sometimes it'll be up for weeks as long as I keep to a proper charging schedule). Stock Android has everything i need, so much so that i consider the fact that it has stock Android to be a _feature_ (and anything else, i.e. Motoblur to detract from it). I'd be pointing to Motorola for your issues; there are phones out with rougly the same specs that run really smoothly (i.e. HTC Desire Z - 800Mhz processor as well but is snappy).
My friend does have a defy and i've noticed the lag. Whether it's just Motoblur (which is still garbage and just looks ugly, why do they keep including it!), or HTC are doing some optimizations that Motorola isn't, who knows - I still won't be buying a Motorola phone because of their poor upgrade support!
Is it too much of a stretch to say, what about an interface between the RFID and phone for entering a PIN? Or even the machine the RFID is "swiped" to requesting a pin? If it would be as easy as it is nowadays to disable a card, i'd be all down for that. Heck, I've had a friend who lost his debit card and didn't even realize until the bank called him, told him that suspicious stuff was going on and was able to get him all his lost money back and re-issue him with a new card.
If you've ever played Starcraft 2 single player, you'll know that you generally authenticate with your Battle.Net account first and are able to chat to your online contacts etc etc. Single player's "achievements" are also integrated and a part of your multiplayer profile, so by using hacks/whatever it's possible to get hard/difficult achievements without actually putting in the hard yards. Play the game before you jump to conclusions!
It doesn't seem that bad. I haven't had any of the "slow to load" issues mentioned, perhaps "Ryan Lawler"'s connection was having some latency issues. The main problem is in most cases, the UI elements are embedded in the actual flash video itself, which is outside of control of the Android flash plugin. If adobe came up with some "smart" way to make these larger or more small-screen friendly, it could work.
There's also a fullscreen option that appears in the top left-hand corner when you long press the video, which is very useful.
I like how Chrome updates silently - if anything the additional thing I'd like is to see a changelog of what has been updated; not because I want to scan it for government spy code, but out of curiosity/new minor features. As for the updates in terms of less computer literate users, I'd rather it update silently for them. Having worked at an ISP, I know the frustrations of having to deal with someone using a horridly outdated browser. If not for the features and to make their browsers more usable, then for the security updates of which they wouldn't even really realize the implications of.
How about they spend some $$$ on coming to an understanding on why terrorist are making these attacks? You can say they are "evil", but in their minds their attacks are justified.
I used to work for an Australian ISP, and I was aware of a practice where we [the ISP] would periodically receive reports of "infected" computers, and would need to proactively contact customers and advise them / encourage them to resolve the issue, with the disclaimer that if they do nothing, we may eventually need to kick them off the connection. If something wasn't done about the problem for a while, Port 25 was blocked on their account until that had advised us that, and that we felt confident that they had resolved the problem. The block would be re-instated if any further reports arose. Further down the track, if nothing was down and they were totally negligent, we would cancel their account (although AFAIK this rarely happened).
(FYI: I never did this job, although I was aware of it and did fill in once).
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Since this article is about iiNet and people have been talking about SOPA, I thought it a good idea to post this article published on the official iiNet blog yesterday about SOPA: http://blog.iinet.net.au/sopa-internet-censorship-effort-beginning/
I agree with your notion for Wave - put out too early, cancelled way too early.
Australia is one of the least densely populated countries in the world, so the rollout of a network like this is nothing trivial. Europe is a different story..
Android's browser isn't "Chrome" per se, and is tracked by it's own user agent. So no figures in the wild should be counting it toward Chrome's market share.
What matters is the number of people affected by the blacklist, even if they are on dial-up only.
Yep. iiNet have been running a fairly extensive "The New No2" (ISP) after a series of recent acquisitions, although this reflects only DSL subscribers, so my comment was in relation to people that might dispute OP's post which stated that Optus was the #2 largest ISP.
Just before someone chimes in with this, iiNet is the 2nd largest ISP in terms of Broadband DSL subscribers - Optus would have more combined subscribers with DSL/Cable/other (which is what OP would be referring to).
Sony received a lot of flak for their Xperia X10 Android devices - with a poor Android release upgrade cycle (very slow updates and stopping updates after Android 2.1), unfriendly attitude to devs, etc. But they've done a complete 180 recently; they reversed the decision of the Xperia X10 phones only getting Android 2.1 and said they'd release Gingerbread on them, as well as unveil the bootloader/unlocking website.
Side Note: I'm currently testing the Xperia PLAY out as a sort-of competition for SE, and the UI is very smooth and responsive. I only used it a few times, but I heard the Xperia X10 (+Mini and Pro) had quite laggy UI, the PLAY and also presumably the Arc are a different story. These are phones that I would recommend to friends now (currently suggest they only purchase HTC handsets and will advise against Motorola / Lagblur). So I just wanted to put it out there that they're changing gears and learning from their mistakes, and they deserve a pat on the back for it.
They *forgot* to read the terms and conditions..
Mod parent up; the most he replies to leaves all of these points out.
He's also referred to Android as having "four or more app stores" when discussing the alleged "confusing consumer experience" (which as most probably know, while it is possible to install other "app stores", Android Market is nearly on every device and the most dominant by leaps and bounds.
I'm no star dev, but I have a few free applications on market. One of the things I noticed is for a while Google have had a message stating that copy protection is being deprecated, and replaced with "Licensing service". More information here: http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/licensing.html. Not sure if this would affect OP's situation; whether he was/is using the old licensing services and/or if it will improve the situation in general.
They aren't "discarding" the community, rather they intend to more strongly enforce their TOS so things like twitter terminology stays at parity across all twitter apps.
What do you mean official compatibility for the Nexus One was dropped? Last time I checked, it was the second device to get Gingerbread (officially), and there have been no comments made from anyone at Google stating that it will not receive the next update.
I get the feeling Microsoft is able to offer a lot more product support for Nokia with WP7. With Google it's more like "here's the source drop, GL compiling it". There's obviously a bit more behind the MS-Nokia deal than "you can use our OS". (Disclaimer: I'm a massive Android fanboy, own 4 handsets, I just think WP7 is a better fit for Nokia. And it needs a bolster to be more competitive and hence generate competition in the market).
Have you turned sync adapters on? (Power control widget's 2nd last icon). If you have sync disabled it won't work.
Nokia has too much invested in their own technologies to adopt Android.
Watch Season 2 onward. I too took the same precedent as you, but the story developers late season 1, is strengthened season 2; and by the end of season 2/start of season 3 it's enthralling. Without spoiling too much, the "bad" guys/race are the fringe team in a specific alternate dimension, and they have a rich interlinked past which is explored in the show. Might sound a little cheezy from how I put it, but it's executed brilliantly.
Not to throw anything away from your post, but I've got a Nexus One and don't have any of the issues mentioned. I generally don't reboot the phone (sometimes it'll be up for weeks as long as I keep to a proper charging schedule). Stock Android has everything i need, so much so that i consider the fact that it has stock Android to be a _feature_ (and anything else, i.e. Motoblur to detract from it). I'd be pointing to Motorola for your issues; there are phones out with rougly the same specs that run really smoothly (i.e. HTC Desire Z - 800Mhz processor as well but is snappy).
My friend does have a defy and i've noticed the lag. Whether it's just Motoblur (which is still garbage and just looks ugly, why do they keep including it!), or HTC are doing some optimizations that Motorola isn't, who knows - I still won't be buying a Motorola phone because of their poor upgrade support!
Is it too much of a stretch to say, what about an interface between the RFID and phone for entering a PIN? Or even the machine the RFID is "swiped" to requesting a pin? If it would be as easy as it is nowadays to disable a card, i'd be all down for that. Heck, I've had a friend who lost his debit card and didn't even realize until the bank called him, told him that suspicious stuff was going on and was able to get him all his lost money back and re-issue him with a new card.
I love tech, but this is batshit crazy in my opinion. Fix the underlying issues w/health. iPads won't.
If you've ever played Starcraft 2 single player, you'll know that you generally authenticate with your Battle.Net account first and are able to chat to your online contacts etc etc. Single player's "achievements" are also integrated and a part of your multiplayer profile, so by using hacks/whatever it's possible to get hard/difficult achievements without actually putting in the hard yards. Play the game before you jump to conclusions!
It doesn't seem that bad. I haven't had any of the "slow to load" issues mentioned, perhaps "Ryan Lawler"'s connection was having some latency issues. The main problem is in most cases, the UI elements are embedded in the actual flash video itself, which is outside of control of the Android flash plugin. If adobe came up with some "smart" way to make these larger or more small-screen friendly, it could work.
There's also a fullscreen option that appears in the top left-hand corner when you long press the video, which is very useful.
I like how Chrome updates silently - if anything the additional thing I'd like is to see a changelog of what has been updated; not because I want to scan it for government spy code, but out of curiosity/new minor features. As for the updates in terms of less computer literate users, I'd rather it update silently for them. Having worked at an ISP, I know the frustrations of having to deal with someone using a horridly outdated browser. If not for the features and to make their browsers more usable, then for the security updates of which they wouldn't even really realize the implications of.
How about they spend some $$$ on coming to an understanding on why terrorist are making these attacks? You can say they are "evil", but in their minds their attacks are justified.
I used to work for an Australian ISP, and I was aware of a practice where we [the ISP] would periodically receive reports of "infected" computers, and would need to proactively contact customers and advise them / encourage them to resolve the issue, with the disclaimer that if they do nothing, we may eventually need to kick them off the connection. If something wasn't done about the problem for a while, Port 25 was blocked on their account until that had advised us that, and that we felt confident that they had resolved the problem. The block would be re-instated if any further reports arose. Further down the track, if nothing was down and they were totally negligent, we would cancel their account (although AFAIK this rarely happened). (FYI: I never did this job, although I was aware of it and did fill in once).