Getting rid of the Fed will take longer than Libertarians seem to want to wait, but longer than their attention span I think.
I think personal freedoms and property rights are inextricably intertwined - one without the other is neither. But I understand the Socialist concern over property rights. I just see it as continuing class warfare, and economic disparity is inevitable. Reducing it is possible, but not eliminating it. Human nature fails us here, and those in power will just be compelled to take advantage of that, and we can;t help ourselves.
A smaller federal government is entirely within our grasp, I think, but we have to become involved and it will take several election cycles to make the will of 'the people' clear, if indeed 'the people' can demonstrate a singlular will on this point at all. I'm afraid deToqueville had it right, but we can change our nation's course if we just stop and think. A tall order.
In my ideal Conservative world, you may not be as imposed upon as much as you fear, but I'm actually a small-c conservative. Imposing religiously-inspired morality via legislation is dangerous. But, ALL legislation is someone's morality. Someone's.
I was just asking. I don't keep score here very well. Thanks!
"Every new iPhone's going to be top of the line and has as good as the company can make it. When the next generation comes out, the previous generation is still top tier in terms of design."
Um, ok. Is the oroginal iPhone still 'top-tier'? Is EDGE enough to qualify it as top-tier? Why didn't Apple make it with 3G? I was using 3G inb Phoenix in October 2008. The original iPhone was introduced a little more than a year earlier, but 3G service in the US was on AT&T in 2007. Apple missed this one?
"When HTC launches yet another Android device, all they have to do is make sure it runs SenseUI and some flavor of Android"
What?
"and possibly not even 2.x."
Huh?
"I understand that a low end phone isn't going to be as powerful, as expandable and as feature rich as a cheaper phone, but, I shouldn't be punished because I didn't want a giant screen, and a camera that rivals my point and shoot and a gob smacking powerful CPU."
You weren't, if you bought a iPhone, right?
"If Android is free, then why do G1 users need to buy another phone to get OEM supported FroYo and Gingerbread?"
Well, because G1s are coming up on two years old now. Why do you have to buy a 3G or 3GS to get 3G data service? Is it because of hardware? What's the highest version if iOS you can run on an original iPhone? 4.anything?
Seriously, the iPhone is a great device, but you don't need to be such a fanboi and make up faults with other phones. Android and IOS are different, have different development communities, different goals, and different markets. The iPhone market should be well-defined by now. Android is still, I think, working through some marketing issues, and fragmentation is one of them. But I have a lot more choice with my G1 than I would with an iPhone. And I can revert back to stock software if I want. That, in fact, is actually relatively trivial, and takes about 15 minutes, boots and all. Just load DREAMIMG.nbh and it's back to retail RC29. A half hour or so later, I will be offered an OTA update to Donut. Relatively trivial.
Really, Android is coming. iPhone users need not change. It's fine. Go back to your regularly scheduled programming.
And there is the Afghan problem. They have never had a strong central government unless it was imposed on them. A long time ago this worked fairly well, but today the Afghans will need to decide. Do they want their own identity, and control over their own nation? Or will they continue to live as valley tribes, and whatever outside force that chooses to comes in and sweep through their nation?
Before the Taliban, it was the Soviet Union. The Taliban exploited the vacuum left by the USSR. We should not make that same mistake, but it is not entirely up to us. The Afghan people, more realistically their tribal leaders, need to set aside enough of their differences to unite and defend their nation. Or they will be swept over again.
OR they could just continue as they were. But the world has changed too much.
Why can't you tether your iPhone without an extra fee out of the box? Can you install apps from a source other than the App Store by clicking a box? Why isn't IOS open-sourced,, as it's derived from BSD code?
How much RAM is enough? How would HTC plan for two generations of Android in designing the Dream?
Why did Apple wait so long to enable A2DP?
Are you claiming that Apple and AT&T are benevolent and generous in their alignment? Can you buy an iPhone that works where there is no usable GSM network?
The choice between iPhone and Android is not about good v evil.
Ignoring RC19 and RC28, I got an RC29 G1 (Bronze, a terrible mistake).
RC29 was the OS I got from retail, Android 1.0 as reported by the phone. RC30 just fixed the superuser 'bug', hehe. And got Android 1.2, minor fixes. Then came Android 1.5, Cupcake, big changes including A2DP. And Android 1.6, Donut.
Um, four updates I got. RC30 wasn't a major update, but it was an OTA.
After that, Eclair was available as Cyanogen 5.x or other ROMs And now, Froyo is Cyanogen 6.x, or again other ROMS.
I will not see 3.x, Gingerbread, on the G1. Too much.
How'd your 3G like IOS4? My lunch partner said it was dog slow in places it shouldn't have been. Of course, I got four OS upgrades on my G1 in 21 months. And each one was actually a nice leap forward. And two or three minor patches. It's not like T-Mobile was slouching with the G1, it's just nearly impossible to upgrade it further OTA.
How long did it take you to get A2DP? I had that in 2009, and I had to wait a bit for it... Oh, wait, you got that in IOS3, right?
And the iPad is of course part of that ecology and has, wait, it's a whole rev back. Why?
But, is it just me, or do you not get the attraction of Android - relatively free Market, root by the community just like jailbreak, multiple handsets with different features and form factors?
How's your slide out keyboard working for ya? How fun is it to type in passwords that are useful and relatively strong, like eAc73$3?
I don't mean to denigrate the iPhone, it's great. But it's Apple's, not yours. The apps are Apple's not yours. Root your phone and install something Apple didn't want you, and you're getting to the Android experience. If you're happy, fine, I'm happy for ya. Just don't bother raining on my parade. I like the rain. It's real. Android is a choice. Buying an iPhone is pretty much the last choice you make. After that, you get to browse the App Store and choose what Apple gives you. Jailbreak it and feel better. Jailbreak an Android and get even more. I'm running the latest version of Android on my G1, the equivalent of running IOS 4.2 on an iPhone (original).
ps - I've been inside my phones since my T637 and fLoat. Sweet phone, that, and sweet software. I could go back.
No volume problems, but I'm using the DSP Manager to dick with my audio anyways, and my BT headset is older than dirt.
The Galaxy S will come with some bloatware, live wallpapers, and other battery-testing features. At least it won't have SenseUI, but it will have Touchwiz, which is more subtle. The G2 seems to be destined to have the new SenseUI, similar to the Desire Z. I expect both will have to be rooted for you to have your own plain-vanilla ROM.
Also, the G2 will get a 'slower' processor than the Galaxy S, but it's more efficient, and much discussion is going on about that at XDA-Developers and Cyanogen's forums. I'm inclined to get the G2 for the one insane feature it has, the keyboard, but that's just cause I use Terminal a lot and a physical keyboard is critical to that. I would be happy with either. Now for someone to make a BT keyboard that actually can be carried around and plopped in your lap or under the phone. Maybe, just maybe.
"Why should cheaper phones be stuck on 1.6 when they're fully capable of running 2.2?"
Um, it's not always 'cheaper phones'. Sometimes, it's 'earlier phones'.
My G1 runs Android 1.6 just fine, but 2.1 and 2.2 barely. Here's an overview of the process, and the problems:
- The original T-Mobile Dream (32B) had 192M RAM, of which 96MB was usable by the OS. Now we know that's inadequate, but back then it was a choice. So sue HTC or T-Mobile. Whatever. FWIW, the MyTough3G with a headphone jack is a different chassis, with 288MB RAM, 192MB available to the OS. Not the MT3G without a headphone jack. There is a list and details here.
- Android 2.x is literally too big for the stock G1. First step is to image new Radio code, which seems to tolerate the next step. You do not do this over-the-air. This bricks phones sometimes, but not my two. I'm running 2.22.23.02, but there is another version out there. Mine is better than yours, BTW. Yes, it is. I don't know how or why, but it is.
- Since Android 2.x is literally too big for a stock G1, you have to replace the SPL with another one (aptly named DangerSPL) that uses less RAM and allows for the bigger system space needed for Android 2.x. Go ahead and point out that the G1 didn't have enough RAM here, ok?
- Now that you've done this, you need a custom ROM, all the Android goodness you were looking for. I use Cyanogen, but there are others. You will first install the original 'official' ROM, RC29, register the phone again, and then proceed to gain and protect root privileges. Now you can update the bootloader, and gather the ROM iamge file and load it. At this point, you will have a G1 with Android 2.2 (if you chose the ROM for it) and nothing else. No GMail and no Google Apps. Oh, and Cyanogen and the cre have done a masterful job of shoehorning Froyo into the G1. Do not marvel at how well the bear dances. Marvel at the fact that the bear dances at all. Thanks, CM! I complain, but I still love it!
- And since Cyanogen was so damned excellent at his work, Google gave him a C&D to stop him from inclujding the Google Apps in the ROM he baked without their permission. And you now have to get the Google Apps package seperately. This is the stuff like Maps, Gmail, Market, and Voice Search which randomly pocket dials my Contacts list cause my Bluetooth headset button gets pressed in my front pants pocket. So if I call you and don't say anything, please scream at my shorts. Thanks! I'll be modifying my Google Apps package to remove Voice Search, since it's not very good with my headset anyways, and I'm always looking for something hard to enunciate. Always.
- After all this, on my G1, I now reload all my apps, etc, restore notes and stuff, and find out that I need to enable swap because Froyo (Android 2.2 by another stupid name) force closes the Browser when I open articles in News & Weather. So I finally figure out to stop using Firerat's Swappy scripts and use Swapper2, and move it to the phone so it runs at startup and actually enables swap. Now I have enough space to run stuff, though with a Class 4 SDHC it is not to be confused with fast. Just functional, mostly.
- And now I am at the point where I find out that the one thing that makes Froyo so sweet, Flash or Flash Light, won't run on my G1 because it requires a graphic acclerator that is not in the ARM7 in my G1. No, Adobe could not make it work without graphic hardware, and the G1 I think was designed before this graphics hardware was even available, so once again cry out in anguish that My G1, groundbreaker that it was, is and always will be essentially inadequate.
After all this, my G1 now runs a little slow, has pinch zoom, a Map app with more crap covering up the mapping screen, a POP Email app that still doesn't work worth a damn after more than 2 years of Google not fixing it, Voice Search that is triggered by headset buttons
Define 'abusing'. A lot of people think it's abuse when Google correlates everything they do in their browser with their email and sells the information to marketers.
Some people think marketing itself is an abuse, and I'm having a harder and harder time disagreeeing with them. Once your TV has a browser in it, you are owned there also. Of course, if you have a cable box, you are probably owned there already. Looks like broadcast radio is the last entertainment source that doesn't track you, and OnStar/Sync are no doubt working on 'fixing' that.
"I wonder if they store our passwords plain text as well"
You think they can't decrypt these of they want to?
Wow. And you probably think when you click on the 'don't send me information...' button that they don't keep you on the list to be emailed about some Really Important News, some day in the future.
And you probably wonder why you go to some site and the damned Flash Player is set back to autorun after you turned it off months ago.
Just to be clear here, you (and I) are NOT in control of the Internet services we use. Especially the ones we don't pay for directly, and undoubtedly even the ones we do. We are their prey.
"Okay, so then the alternative is for the government to step in and control the ways in which media outlets report on science, politics, religion, economy, technology, current affairs, sports, and history... because somebody could get their facts wrong while pursuing entertainment value in any of those spheres."
Hardly. Oh, wait. I'm in the U.S. In Canada, that isn't necessarily unconstitutional.
"Or should the government control reporting only in the areas of science, politics, and the economy, while leaving media outlets with uncensored control over technology, sports, and some of the rest?"
Again, Canadians may need to counsel their governmet on how they would like it done.
"Or is it just science that needs a government minister's approval to make sure there are no damaging 10 second soundbites?"
Well, from my experience with the Frozen White North, hoof-in-mouth disease is not limited to scientists, but is known to infect much of the Crown, or whatever they have taken to calling Government up there.
From a U.S. citizen's perspective, the government has no business censoring publicly-funded science, nor even privately-funded science. But that's a U.S. perspective, and Canadians may have different ideas. I suspect not much different, but that's for them to work out. Me, I just watch with mixed glee and sadness. Canada can be different in a good way. But it costs something, and many up there seem comvinced that they will suffer if global warming is real.
And 'the media outlet' has what interest in getting it 'right'?
Most of our media is in the entertainment business. The majority of the rest has a political agenda, and uses their power to advance their agenda at the expense of their adversaries.
So expecting the media to get it right is truly futile.
At least the professing news outlets should make an effort to get the 'facts' right, but even that fails regularly. Anything they do is tainted by entertainment value or politics.
1. How was the registration paid for? If it looks like you, get the payment details, probably a credit card etc. Shouldn't be too hard, since it was 'your' registation. If the registrar refuses, as they might, well is this because the payment wasn't by you? Time to find out who.
2. After a discussion with your employer, you might want to shut down any site - move DNS to some other server. If this weren't so sticky, I would offer to hold your A record, and point it to a nonexistant host for you. Though I doubt you will win any points there.
You do need a lawyer, sadly. But I would love, as you might also, to know how the registration was paid for...
I know, I know, stem cells are expected to cure cancer, autism, diabetes, whatever. Common stuff, not so much. That's the appeal. But the research is dragging on.
However, science can have my teeth when I die. No problem. And everything else.
"you're making assumptions that the apps don't need a telco-access back-end. the point is you might be surprised at the apps that don't look like they need 3G access but do something internally that it turns out they do."
I'm making the assumption that the apps that don't declare permissions for network or phone or messaging, that don't need to access networks (like AK Notepad), and apps that work fine with only WiFi, are not dependent on phone and so would work fine on a phone-less tablet etc.
Most of these apps I ran on my spare phone without a SIM (a very difficult process to enable that) or with a dead SIM (much easier to do). A dead SIM doesn't let you do much on the network, but with WiFi running, most everything works. Even the Dialer works on a dead SIM, it just dials 911 only.
"and don't forget - this is the new, Eric Schmidt Google. They're gonna want to run analytics on everything you do on your device."
I'm not sure what this has to do with Android being a phone-centric OS, but Analytics would run over WiFI for an Android tablet fine. It sure works on my Windows notebook which doesn't have a phone anything.
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Getting rid of the Fed will take longer than Libertarians seem to want to wait, but longer than their attention span I think.
I think personal freedoms and property rights are inextricably intertwined - one without the other is neither. But I understand the Socialist concern over property rights. I just see it as continuing class warfare, and economic disparity is inevitable. Reducing it is possible, but not eliminating it. Human nature fails us here, and those in power will just be compelled to take advantage of that, and we can;t help ourselves.
A smaller federal government is entirely within our grasp, I think, but we have to become involved and it will take several election cycles to make the will of 'the people' clear, if indeed 'the people' can demonstrate a singlular will on this point at all. I'm afraid deToqueville had it right, but we can change our nation's course if we just stop and think. A tall order.
In my ideal Conservative world, you may not be as imposed upon as much as you fear, but I'm actually a small-c conservative. Imposing religiously-inspired morality via legislation is dangerous. But, ALL legislation is someone's morality. Someone's.
I was just asking. I don't keep score here very well. Thanks!
"Every new iPhone's going to be top of the line and has as good as the company can make it. When the next generation comes out, the previous generation is still top tier in terms of design."
Um, ok. Is the oroginal iPhone still 'top-tier'? Is EDGE enough to qualify it as top-tier? Why didn't Apple make it with 3G? I was using 3G inb Phoenix in October 2008. The original iPhone was introduced a little more than a year earlier, but 3G service in the US was on AT&T in 2007. Apple missed this one?
"When HTC launches yet another Android device, all they have to do is make sure it runs SenseUI and some flavor of Android"
What?
"and possibly not even 2.x."
Huh?
"I understand that a low end phone isn't going to be as powerful, as expandable and as feature rich as a cheaper phone, but, I shouldn't be punished because I didn't want a giant screen, and a camera that rivals my point and shoot and a gob smacking powerful CPU."
You weren't, if you bought a iPhone, right?
"If Android is free, then why do G1 users need to buy another phone to get OEM supported FroYo and Gingerbread?"
Well, because G1s are coming up on two years old now. Why do you have to buy a 3G or 3GS to get 3G data service? Is it because of hardware? What's the highest version if iOS you can run on an original iPhone? 4.anything?
Seriously, the iPhone is a great device, but you don't need to be such a fanboi and make up faults with other phones. Android and IOS are different, have different development communities, different goals, and different markets. The iPhone market should be well-defined by now. Android is still, I think, working through some marketing issues, and fragmentation is one of them. But I have a lot more choice with my G1 than I would with an iPhone. And I can revert back to stock software if I want. That, in fact, is actually relatively trivial, and takes about 15 minutes, boots and all. Just load DREAMIMG.nbh and it's back to retail RC29. A half hour or so later, I will be offered an OTA update to Donut. Relatively trivial.
Really, Android is coming. iPhone users need not change. It's fine. Go back to your regularly scheduled programming.
Sounds a little like Constitutional government in the U.S. An Article 10 environment.
Are you a Conservative? Sure seem like one...
And there is the Afghan problem. They have never had a strong central government unless it was imposed on them. A long time ago this worked fairly well, but today the Afghans will need to decide. Do they want their own identity, and control over their own nation? Or will they continue to live as valley tribes, and whatever outside force that chooses to comes in and sweep through their nation?
Before the Taliban, it was the Soviet Union. The Taliban exploited the vacuum left by the USSR. We should not make that same mistake, but it is not entirely up to us. The Afghan people, more realistically their tribal leaders, need to set aside enough of their differences to unite and defend their nation. Or they will be swept over again.
OR they could just continue as they were. But the world has changed too much.
No, it's not. Are you proposing that more rain is always preferable? Of course not.
My comment was about government, not weather. Try harder.
Why can't you tether your iPhone without an extra fee out of the box? Can you install apps from a source other than the App Store by clicking a box? Why isn't IOS open-sourced,, as it's derived from BSD code?
How much RAM is enough? How would HTC plan for two generations of Android in designing the Dream?
Why did Apple wait so long to enable A2DP?
Are you claiming that Apple and AT&T are benevolent and generous in their alignment? Can you buy an iPhone that works where there is no usable GSM network?
The choice between iPhone and Android is not about good v evil.
Yeah, ask them how the bigger government experiment the Taliban tried worked out for them...
So, at this point, we can agree that government is a good and enticing principle that has not worked out well in practice?
So far, less seems the better way to go...???
Ignoring RC19 and RC28, I got an RC29 G1 (Bronze, a terrible mistake).
RC29 was the OS I got from retail, Android 1.0 as reported by the phone.
RC30 just fixed the superuser 'bug', hehe. And got Android 1.2, minor fixes.
Then came Android 1.5, Cupcake, big changes including A2DP.
And Android 1.6, Donut.
Um, four updates I got. RC30 wasn't a major update, but it was an OTA.
After that, Eclair was available as Cyanogen 5.x or other ROMs
And now, Froyo is Cyanogen 6.x, or again other ROMS.
I will not see 3.x, Gingerbread, on the G1. Too much.
"They are far more socialist than we ever were (A good thing, IMHO, but still, bad example.)"
That's the problem with socialism. Good idea, bad in practice.
Like every other form of modern government. Good reason to establish the least government practical.
"a complete communist murder on the other"
There, fixed that for ya.
There aren't just two points on the spectrum, unless you posit that all Communists are killers. Oh, wait...
How'd your 3G like IOS4? My lunch partner said it was dog slow in places it shouldn't have been.
Of course, I got four OS upgrades on my G1 in 21 months. And each one was actually a nice leap forward. And two or three minor patches. It's not like T-Mobile was slouching with the G1, it's just nearly impossible to upgrade it further OTA.
How long did it take you to get A2DP? I had that in 2009, and I had to wait a bit for it... Oh, wait, you got that in IOS3, right?
And the iPad is of course part of that ecology and has, wait, it's a whole rev back. Why?
But, is it just me, or do you not get the attraction of Android - relatively free Market, root by the community just like jailbreak, multiple handsets with different features and form factors?
How's your slide out keyboard working for ya? How fun is it to type in passwords that are useful and relatively strong, like eAc73$3?
I don't mean to denigrate the iPhone, it's great. But it's Apple's, not yours. The apps are Apple's not yours. Root your phone and install something Apple didn't want you, and you're getting to the Android experience. If you're happy, fine, I'm happy for ya. Just don't bother raining on my parade. I like the rain. It's real. Android is a choice. Buying an iPhone is pretty much the last choice you make. After that, you get to browse the App Store and choose what Apple gives you. Jailbreak it and feel better. Jailbreak an Android and get even more. I'm running the latest version of Android on my G1, the equivalent of running IOS 4.2 on an iPhone (original).
ps - I've been inside my phones since my T637 and fLoat. Sweet phone, that, and sweet software. I could go back.
Assuming you get to choose ypur browser. At work, I do less and less cause it's IE7 here. I know.
I use FF a lot more at home now, but my wife hates it...
No volume problems, but I'm using the DSP Manager to dick with my audio anyways, and my BT headset is older than dirt.
The Galaxy S will come with some bloatware, live wallpapers, and other battery-testing features. At least it won't have SenseUI, but it will have Touchwiz, which is more subtle. The G2 seems to be destined to have the new SenseUI, similar to the Desire Z. I expect both will have to be rooted for you to have your own plain-vanilla ROM.
Also, the G2 will get a 'slower' processor than the Galaxy S, but it's more efficient, and much discussion is going on about that at XDA-Developers and Cyanogen's forums. I'm inclined to get the G2 for the one insane feature it has, the keyboard, but that's just cause I use Terminal a lot and a physical keyboard is critical to that. I would be happy with either. Now for someone to make a BT keyboard that actually can be carried around and plopped in your lap or under the phone. Maybe, just maybe.
"But not being tracked via browser is easy, if you care to prevent it."
Harder than you think?, perhaps.
They OWN the system. Can we be sure they can't in fact decrypt user data?
This is not about SHOULD, it's about CAN.
"Why should cheaper phones be stuck on 1.6 when they're fully capable of running 2.2?"
Um, it's not always 'cheaper phones'. Sometimes, it's 'earlier phones'.
My G1 runs Android 1.6 just fine, but 2.1 and 2.2 barely. Here's an overview of the process, and the problems:
- The original T-Mobile Dream (32B) had 192M RAM, of which 96MB was usable by the OS. Now we know that's inadequate, but back then it was a choice. So sue HTC or T-Mobile. Whatever. FWIW, the MyTough3G with a headphone jack is a different chassis, with 288MB RAM, 192MB available to the OS. Not the MT3G without a headphone jack. There is a list and details here.
- Android 2.x is literally too big for the stock G1. First step is to image new Radio code, which seems to tolerate the next step. You do not do this over-the-air. This bricks phones sometimes, but not my two. I'm running 2.22.23.02, but there is another version out there. Mine is better than yours, BTW. Yes, it is. I don't know how or why, but it is.
- Since Android 2.x is literally too big for a stock G1, you have to replace the SPL with another one (aptly named DangerSPL) that uses less RAM and allows for the bigger system space needed for Android 2.x. Go ahead and point out that the G1 didn't have enough RAM here, ok?
- Now that you've done this, you need a custom ROM, all the Android goodness you were looking for. I use Cyanogen, but there are others. You will first install the original 'official' ROM, RC29, register the phone again, and then proceed to gain and protect root privileges. Now you can update the bootloader, and gather the ROM iamge file and load it. At this point, you will have a G1 with Android 2.2 (if you chose the ROM for it) and nothing else. No GMail and no Google Apps. Oh, and Cyanogen and the cre have done a masterful job of shoehorning Froyo into the G1. Do not marvel at how well the bear dances. Marvel at the fact that the bear dances at all. Thanks, CM! I complain, but I still love it!
- And since Cyanogen was so damned excellent at his work, Google gave him a C&D to stop him from inclujding the Google Apps in the ROM he baked without their permission. And you now have to get the Google Apps package seperately. This is the stuff like Maps, Gmail, Market, and Voice Search which randomly pocket dials my Contacts list cause my Bluetooth headset button gets pressed in my front pants pocket. So if I call you and don't say anything, please scream at my shorts. Thanks! I'll be modifying my Google Apps package to remove Voice Search, since it's not very good with my headset anyways, and I'm always looking for something hard to enunciate. Always.
- After all this, on my G1, I now reload all my apps, etc, restore notes and stuff, and find out that I need to enable swap because Froyo (Android 2.2 by another stupid name) force closes the Browser when I open articles in News & Weather. So I finally figure out to stop using Firerat's Swappy scripts and use Swapper2, and move it to the phone so it runs at startup and actually enables swap. Now I have enough space to run stuff, though with a Class 4 SDHC it is not to be confused with fast. Just functional, mostly.
- And now I am at the point where I find out that the one thing that makes Froyo so sweet, Flash or Flash Light, won't run on my G1 because it requires a graphic acclerator that is not in the ARM7 in my G1. No, Adobe could not make it work without graphic hardware, and the G1 I think was designed before this graphics hardware was even available, so once again cry out in anguish that My G1, groundbreaker that it was, is and always will be essentially inadequate.
After all this, my G1 now runs a little slow, has pinch zoom, a Map app with more crap covering up the mapping screen, a POP Email app that still doesn't work worth a damn after more than 2 years of Google not fixing it, Voice Search that is triggered by headset buttons
Define 'abusing'. A lot of people think it's abuse when Google correlates everything they do in their browser with their email and sells the information to marketers.
Some people think marketing itself is an abuse, and I'm having a harder and harder time disagreeeing with them. Once your TV has a browser in it, you are owned there also. Of course, if you have a cable box, you are probably owned there already. Looks like broadcast radio is the last entertainment source that doesn't track you, and OnStar/Sync are no doubt working on 'fixing' that.
"I wonder if they store our passwords plain text as well"
You think they can't decrypt these of they want to?
Wow. And you probably think when you click on the 'don't send me information...' button that they don't keep you on the list to be emailed about some Really Important News, some day in the future.
And you probably wonder why you go to some site and the damned Flash Player is set back to autorun after you turned it off months ago.
Just to be clear here, you (and I) are NOT in control of the Internet services we use. Especially the ones we don't pay for directly, and undoubtedly even the ones we do. We are their prey.
Actually, just a ThinkPad X41 Tablet, but you swivel the screen, and presto, tablet. I bought it used, cheap, so it's fun.
It needs a Wacom style pen, but it's a tablet, just not touchisensitive.
And even accounting for the pen, it's not all that.
And this kludge by Dell looks equal parts flimsy and flaky. I give it a C- on sight.
Now the Lenovo S10-3t was interesting. And the U1 was very cool looking. Can I find one?
"Okay, so then the alternative is for the government to step in and control the ways in which media outlets report on science, politics, religion, economy, technology, current affairs, sports, and history ... because somebody could get their facts wrong while pursuing entertainment value in any of those spheres."
Hardly. Oh, wait. I'm in the U.S. In Canada, that isn't necessarily unconstitutional.
"Or should the government control reporting only in the areas of science, politics, and the economy, while leaving media outlets with uncensored control over technology, sports, and some of the rest?"
Again, Canadians may need to counsel their governmet on how they would like it done.
"Or is it just science that needs a government minister's approval to make sure there are no damaging 10 second soundbites?"
Well, from my experience with the Frozen White North, hoof-in-mouth disease is not limited to scientists, but is known to infect much of the Crown, or whatever they have taken to calling Government up there.
From a U.S. citizen's perspective, the government has no business censoring publicly-funded science, nor even privately-funded science. But that's a U.S. perspective, and Canadians may have different ideas. I suspect not much different, but that's for them to work out. Me, I just watch with mixed glee and sadness. Canada can be different in a good way. But it costs something, and many up there seem comvinced that they will suffer if global warming is real.
Of course, they suffer anyways.
Really.
And 'the media outlet' has what interest in getting it 'right'?
Most of our media is in the entertainment business. The majority of the rest has a political agenda, and uses their power to advance their agenda at the expense of their adversaries.
So expecting the media to get it right is truly futile.
At least the professing news outlets should make an effort to get the 'facts' right, but even that fails regularly. Anything they do is tainted by entertainment value or politics.
1. How was the registration paid for? If it looks like you, get the payment details, probably a credit card etc. Shouldn't be too hard, since it was 'your' registation. If the registrar refuses, as they might, well is this because the payment wasn't by you? Time to find out who.
2. After a discussion with your employer, you might want to shut down any site - move DNS to some other server. If this weren't so sticky, I would offer to hold your A record, and point it to a nonexistant host for you. Though I doubt you will win any points there.
You do need a lawyer, sadly. But I would love, as you might also, to know how the registration was paid for...
So what do I do with them? Stem cells do what again? Something I need?
Will they reset my vent fibula, and regrow cartilage, so my ankle doesn't click and hurt?
Will they regrow hair on my head, so I can have it cut again instead of shaved?
Will they help me lose weight?
Will they heal my shoulder tendonitis?
Will they cure my vision problems?
I know, I know, stem cells are expected to cure cancer, autism, diabetes, whatever. Common stuff, not so much. That's the appeal. But the research is dragging on.
However, science can have my teeth when I die. No problem. And everything else.
"you're making assumptions that the apps don't need a telco-access back-end. the point is you might be surprised at the apps that don't look like they need 3G access but do something internally that it turns out they do."
I'm making the assumption that the apps that don't declare permissions for network or phone or messaging, that don't need to access networks (like AK Notepad), and apps that work fine with only WiFi, are not dependent on phone and so would work fine on a phone-less tablet etc.
Most of these apps I ran on my spare phone without a SIM (a very difficult process to enable that) or with a dead SIM (much easier to do). A dead SIM doesn't let you do much on the network, but with WiFi running, most everything works. Even the Dialer works on a dead SIM, it just dials 911 only.
"and don't forget - this is the new, Eric Schmidt Google. They're gonna want to run analytics on everything you do on your device."
I'm not sure what this has to do with Android being a phone-centric OS, but Analytics would run over WiFI for an Android tablet fine. It sure works on my Windows notebook which doesn't have a phone anything.