I wasn't aware that Stephen Moffat wrote blink - it's an absolutely fantastic episode and one of my favorites to date. I was a little concerned at Russell T. Davies' departure but this fact + watching the episode (which wasn't half bad) gives me some faith.
While Android is written in Java, the recommended way to program the GUI is using XML. That can be quite the stretch for someone that's never written a layout in XML (read: myself).
It has caught my interest after browsing to it on my phone. The "Local" feature is something quite interesting, bringing up a list of posts in my suburb, although i was a bit concerned after it posted my full address following a post i made. I'd prefer it to just say my suburb!
Will this be like Chrome beating our Safari's market share? It did only take a year or two to overtake the 7+ year old Safari, I wonder if that will happen with this too, solely due to the size and name of Google.
Umm the reason Bing has been gaining marketshare is that since it's release, absolutely any possible setting or search asset under Microsoft's control has been defaulted to Bing. Example: ninemsn.com.au (aus MSN site.. which just timed out), all the search bars in I.E., etc. Since i took that first look at bing i've basically given up and not specifically attempted to navigate to it since, and even so i've still stumbled across it 10 or so times.
Bing is not gaining market share because it's any "better" than Google, or because people like it more. It's gaining market share because of the same reason IE gained so much market share: because it's the default option.
Yep - more than aware of this. The community builds based on the AOSP are all terrible, slow and have at least one major thing broken, be it camera or wifi.
I think he was more looking to complement Android. It's obvious he's a supporter of the platform, voicing some things he dislikes, but threw that in to make it not-so-negative. I think it's a well written article and he raises some valid points, although i disagree with some (i.e. activities & intents can be very useful).
People will judge based on email address. I have a firstname.lastname@domain.com (hosted by Google Apps) which forwards to personaladdresswhichisntsoprofessional@gmail.com (it's nothing bad, just a bit kooky). Know which one I submit for anything that might be deemed semi-professional? Yep.
It's not even that hard, Even firstname.lastname@commonemailprovider.com or firstinitial.lastname@isp.com is okay. Just set up a forward. If your provider doesn't allow you to forward, make a new account with one that does and forward it to your personal address.
Each application can be reported on the market (malicious is one of the options), which will be sent straight to Google. On top of that, each application shows it's average rating (out of 5 stars) - apps that are below 3 stars are lucky to even get a view from me, and if they do it always merits an investigation as to why their rating is so low (by reading the comments, all of which are actually quite useful).
It's reference to the Nexus One being a convergence between "phone and web":
From dictionary.com:
Nexus - 6 dictionary results
nexus[nek-suhs] Show IPA
-noun, plural nexuses, nexus.
1. a means of connection; tie; link.
2. a connected series or group
That's only $22 a month on a 24-month contract. Often that's around the same price as the handset repayment, so what's the difference? (This is in Australia though). Generally the higher $ plans have the handset for "free" - but I assume this is the only level at which they can justify subsidizing the handset to be free from the extra $$$ they are making. I'm on a pre-paid plan and having done the math it worked out only a few dollars more a month to buy the phone outright, be on the flexibility of a pre-paid plan with similar $$$ and data and not a contract.
To Motorola, to get Android this type of attention. They advertised the Droid on their homepage, and I think that must have just about been the first time that any product had been advertised on their home page. Not only that, it seems like the next version of Android (2.0) has some sort of exclusivity to Motorola for now (at the moment AFAIK Droid is the only device that *officially has Android 2.x).
I would be waiting for the keynote before dismissing this claim. Until that point, this phone is basically a rebadged HTC Snapdragon based phone. I have a feeling Google Voice will be in the mix.
Buy your phone outright. Then you can do whatever the hell you want with it. I've done this with my last 2 phones (Nokia N93i and Android Dev Phone 1) and haven't had any problems. The only problem is that it is a large upfront cost ($830 and $650 respectively for me), but the costs work out to be almost the same if you divide it by the standard 2-year contract plus handset repayments. I managed to front up the money as the typical struggling university student in both occasions, i can't see why anybody else couldn't.
I feel like Google's had to shoot themselves in the foot a little to gain the attention they wanted for Android. The HTC Dream was the first "flagship" android phone and I think they deliberately chose a different carrier (Motorola) for the flagship 2.0 so that HTC was not just the only manufacturer throwing dollars at Android.
I wonder which company will have the flagship phone for the next version of Android?
Ridiculous.
Do they really expect to be able to review all 80,000 + iPhone apps, 10,000+ Android apps, and everything else in every other app store? What are they going to do, attempt to pull every app until each one is reviewed? This sounds like some 60 year old executive finally upgraded his aging Nokia to an iPhone and thought it a good idea.
These apps are digital downloads from (generally) overseas sources, I'm sure there are plenty of programs you can download from the vastness that is the internet that contains content that people would object to. Do they review them? No.
And I know not of Stephen Conroy's involvement in this, but he's already under enough fire from the proposed Internet Filtering Scheme. Give it a rest!
Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-s3XnE9TmA&feature=channel
May be part of the reason. I know this does not constitute the only reason for getting the prize, but i'd say it's a contributing factor. He's trying to mend the strained relations between the US and Middle East (Read: Iran) created by the last administration to stop things like war from happening.
I'm somewhat of an Android-handset nerd, so I have been following a few recently. This has the advantage of being perhaps the second QWERTY phone since HTC Dream/Dev Phone, but.. It doesn't look very good to me. Just seems to be missing the "slick" sort of interface RAZR has. I see what they are trying to do (MOTOBLUR being like HTC's Sense UI), but it just looks like a less nice version of Hero's Interface, and the handset sort of looks chunky/ugly and the T-Mobile and Motorola logo seems like one too many to me. The backup stuff (All contacts, log-in information, home screen customizations, e-mail and social network messages are backed up on the MOTOBLUR secure server) seems nice but, I seem to already have all of this apart from Home Screen customizations on my Dev Phone (Contacts, Emails all synced with Gmail).
Seems like it has both a D-Pad and trackball, which is good. The track ball being on the left is probably a bad idea, as anyone with a HTC Dream will know that its placed in a good position to quickly scroll and type (albeit; the track ball being hard to use and mostly useless anyway).
Anyway, the only reason i'd buy this over a HTC Hero (/Sense UI) is the QWERTY. I'll be keeping an eye out for the DEXT (and the Motorola Sholes which has rumors floating around about it being the flagship phone for the Android 2.0 release). Still waiting for a good looking QWERTY phone to replace my ugly Dev Phone (but if these images of Sholes are real, Motorola will have my attention: http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/motorola-sholes-android-phone-headed-for-verizon/)
Rare did a pretty good job with this. The fact that I looked at the title of the RSS feed and automatically associated the story with Conkers Bad Fur Day before reading the summary attests to that fact.
I actually showed my friend a few videos from it on youtube last week, and he said "why did I never play this game"?
Just a real shame Nintendo let MS buy Rare, they may have pumped out some pretty awesome titles if they were still developing for them.
The site looks like it was made using a combination of Paint/Frontpage. I'm not sure how i'm meant to take anything that looks like that seriously. And from my limited experience using Bing and WolframAlpha, WA has been more useful every time.
P.s. I found Google Squared quite interesting, even though it doesn't target the same thing as either of the above.
Don't you have to be able to show the working to prove how you arrived at an answer? So what if a student uses it to verify their answer, I did the same myself in high school with the "answer" section of the book. Was a very useful tool to show that I was in the wrong direction and that I should see where i'm going wrong.
First Season? Yeah pretty average.
But it really picked up in second season. Not just your standard "Terminator sent back in time" plot; there were several overarching plots which all came together brilliantly at the end of the season. I am very sad to see the show go.
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I wasn't aware that Stephen Moffat wrote blink - it's an absolutely fantastic episode and one of my favorites to date. I was a little concerned at Russell T. Davies' departure but this fact + watching the episode (which wasn't half bad) gives me some faith.
While Android is written in Java, the recommended way to program the GUI is using XML. That can be quite the stretch for someone that's never written a layout in XML (read: myself).
It has caught my interest after browsing to it on my phone. The "Local" feature is something quite interesting, bringing up a list of posts in my suburb, although i was a bit concerned after it posted my full address following a post i made. I'd prefer it to just say my suburb!
Will this be like Chrome beating our Safari's market share? It did only take a year or two to overtake the 7+ year old Safari, I wonder if that will happen with this too, solely due to the size and name of Google.
Umm the reason Bing has been gaining marketshare is that since it's release, absolutely any possible setting or search asset under Microsoft's control has been defaulted to Bing. Example: ninemsn.com.au (aus MSN site.. which just timed out), all the search bars in I.E., etc. Since i took that first look at bing i've basically given up and not specifically attempted to navigate to it since, and even so i've still stumbled across it 10 or so times.
Bing is not gaining market share because it's any "better" than Google, or because people like it more. It's gaining market share because of the same reason IE gained so much market share: because it's the default option.
Yep - more than aware of this. The community builds based on the AOSP are all terrible, slow and have at least one major thing broken, be it camera or wifi.
If it does, i'd imagine CES to be the _perfect_ testing ground for such a product. Elsewhere? Not so sure..
I think he was more looking to complement Android. It's obvious he's a supporter of the platform, voicing some things he dislikes, but threw that in to make it not-so-negative. I think it's a well written article and he raises some valid points, although i disagree with some (i.e. activities & intents can be very useful).
People will judge based on email address. I have a firstname.lastname@domain.com (hosted by Google Apps) which forwards to personaladdresswhichisntsoprofessional@gmail.com (it's nothing bad, just a bit kooky). Know which one I submit for anything that might be deemed semi-professional? Yep.
It's not even that hard, Even firstname.lastname@commonemailprovider.com or firstinitial.lastname@isp.com is okay. Just set up a forward. If your provider doesn't allow you to forward, make a new account with one that does and forward it to your personal address.
Each application can be reported on the market (malicious is one of the options), which will be sent straight to Google. On top of that, each application shows it's average rating (out of 5 stars) - apps that are below 3 stars are lucky to even get a view from me, and if they do it always merits an investigation as to why their rating is so low (by reading the comments, all of which are actually quite useful).
Actually, according to Google Trends, Verizon comes out on top: http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=i%20hate%20t-mobile%2Ci%20hate%20verizon%2Ci%20hate%20at%26t%2Ci%20hate%20vodafone%2Ci%20hate%20sprint&cmpt=q
T-Mobile is actually the lowest out of all of those.
It's reference to the Nexus One being a convergence between "phone and web":
From dictionary.com:
Nexus - 6 dictionary results
nexus[nek-suhs] Show IPA
-noun, plural nexuses, nexus.
1. a means of connection; tie; link.
2. a connected series or group
That's only $22 a month on a 24-month contract. Often that's around the same price as the handset repayment, so what's the difference? (This is in Australia though). Generally the higher $ plans have the handset for "free" - but I assume this is the only level at which they can justify subsidizing the handset to be free from the extra $$$ they are making. I'm on a pre-paid plan and having done the math it worked out only a few dollars more a month to buy the phone outright, be on the flexibility of a pre-paid plan with similar $$$ and data and not a contract.
To Motorola, to get Android this type of attention. They advertised the Droid on their homepage, and I think that must have just about been the first time that any product had been advertised on their home page. Not only that, it seems like the next version of Android (2.0) has some sort of exclusivity to Motorola for now (at the moment AFAIK Droid is the only device that *officially has Android 2.x).
I would be waiting for the keynote before dismissing this claim. Until that point, this phone is basically a rebadged HTC Snapdragon based phone. I have a feeling Google Voice will be in the mix.
Buy your phone outright. Then you can do whatever the hell you want with it. I've done this with my last 2 phones (Nokia N93i and Android Dev Phone 1) and haven't had any problems. The only problem is that it is a large upfront cost ($830 and $650 respectively for me), but the costs work out to be almost the same if you divide it by the standard 2-year contract plus handset repayments. I managed to front up the money as the typical struggling university student in both occasions, i can't see why anybody else couldn't.
I feel like Google's had to shoot themselves in the foot a little to gain the attention they wanted for Android. The HTC Dream was the first "flagship" android phone and I think they deliberately chose a different carrier (Motorola) for the flagship 2.0 so that HTC was not just the only manufacturer throwing dollars at Android.
I wonder which company will have the flagship phone for the next version of Android?
Ridiculous.
Do they really expect to be able to review all 80,000 + iPhone apps, 10,000+ Android apps, and everything else in every other app store? What are they going to do, attempt to pull every app until each one is reviewed? This sounds like some 60 year old executive finally upgraded his aging Nokia to an iPhone and thought it a good idea.
These apps are digital downloads from (generally) overseas sources, I'm sure there are plenty of programs you can download from the vastness that is the internet that contains content that people would object to. Do they review them? No.
And I know not of Stephen Conroy's involvement in this, but he's already under enough fire from the proposed Internet Filtering Scheme. Give it a rest!
Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-s3XnE9TmA&feature=channel
May be part of the reason. I know this does not constitute the only reason for getting the prize, but i'd say it's a contributing factor. He's trying to mend the strained relations between the US and Middle East (Read: Iran) created by the last administration to stop things like war from happening.
You can get Maps and maybe Youtube from the market, but not much else. The market itself isn't Open Source and part of the license violation, anyway.
I'm somewhat of an Android-handset nerd, so I have been following a few recently.
This has the advantage of being perhaps the second QWERTY phone since HTC Dream/Dev Phone, but..
It doesn't look very good to me. Just seems to be missing the "slick" sort of interface RAZR has.
I see what they are trying to do (MOTOBLUR being like HTC's Sense UI), but it just looks like a less nice version of Hero's Interface, and the handset sort of looks chunky/ugly and the T-Mobile and Motorola logo seems like one too many to me.
The backup stuff (All contacts, log-in information, home screen customizations, e-mail and social network messages are backed up on the MOTOBLUR secure server) seems nice but, I seem to already have all of this apart from Home Screen customizations on my Dev Phone (Contacts, Emails all synced with Gmail).
Seems like it has both a D-Pad and trackball, which is good. The track ball being on the left is probably a bad idea, as anyone with a HTC Dream will know that its placed in a good position to quickly scroll and type (albeit; the track ball being hard to use and mostly useless anyway).
Anyway, the only reason i'd buy this over a HTC Hero (/Sense UI) is the QWERTY. I'll be keeping an eye out for the DEXT (and the Motorola Sholes which has rumors floating around about it being the flagship phone for the Android 2.0 release). Still waiting for a good looking QWERTY phone to replace my ugly Dev Phone (but if these images of Sholes are real, Motorola will have my attention: http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/motorola-sholes-android-phone-headed-for-verizon/)
I'll finally consider purchasing some that's not based on a draft standard.
Rare did a pretty good job with this. The fact that I looked at the title of the RSS feed and automatically associated the story with Conkers Bad Fur Day before reading the summary attests to that fact.
I actually showed my friend a few videos from it on youtube last week, and he said "why did I never play this game"?
Just a real shame Nintendo let MS buy Rare, they may have pumped out some pretty awesome titles if they were still developing for them.
The site looks like it was made using a combination of Paint/Frontpage. I'm not sure how i'm meant to take anything that looks like that seriously. And from my limited experience using Bing and WolframAlpha, WA has been more useful every time.
P.s. I found Google Squared quite interesting, even though it doesn't target the same thing as either of the above.
Don't you have to be able to show the working to prove how you arrived at an answer? So what if a student uses it to verify their answer, I did the same myself in high school with the "answer" section of the book. Was a very useful tool to show that I was in the wrong direction and that I should see where i'm going wrong.
First Season? Yeah pretty average.
But it really picked up in second season. Not just your standard "Terminator sent back in time" plot; there were several overarching plots which all came together brilliantly at the end of the season. I am very sad to see the show go.