To a great degree it is locking down Android, as you cannot upgrade to a new version of Android that requires a new kernel, not to mention that this could easily be extended to defeat pretty much any permanent root process.
So Motorola locking down the bootloader of the Milestone 2 affects a HTC Desire Z how.
Both run Android, so it is to no extent locking down Android and is instead locking down Motorola hardware. Very misleading to say that it is locking down Android in any fashion.
This is akin to saying because Apple wont allow bluethooth FTP that there is no bluetooth FTP mobile phones at all. Quite misleading.
Please tell me I don't have to explain this to you.
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Because other Android models are not affected. Very big difference there.
The big advantage of Android compared to iPhone, I'm always told, is that it's open and there are so many different models to choose from. But what remains of those advantages when you have to eliminate a lot of phones because they are just as locked down
Well this sends a message to the manufacturer that something is not right with their product.
It's called the positive benefits of compeition. It's not just Motorola and HTC, there's aslo Samsung, SonyErikson, Huawei, Meizu and so forth. Where one vendor fails, the others take over.
This is so completely unlike IOS where the manufacturer dictates what you cannot do on every IOS device it's not funny.
Besides, Motorola have already retracted their previous statement so it looks like the system(TM) is working. Motorola is responding to outside pressure and changing their policies, this is something Apple never has to do so if Apple screws you, you stay screwed.
This is not locking down Android, this is locking down a Motorola Handset.
Hardware lock down, not software. Pretty big distinction.
But Motorola has jumped the shark. HTC are offering better handsets and MotoBlur is a complete joke. I liked my Milestone too, but due to Motorola's insistence on locking it down I wont be buying the Milestone 2. HTC Desire Z looks a lot better.
You can have a dictatorship with a capitalistic economic system, but no democracy has ever survived very long without capitalism.
I think you're confusing capitalism with freedom, part of which is economic freedom (I.E. the ability to spend as you see fit). Capitalism is not necessarily required for this goal. Whilst we may be talking semantics, capitalism is definitely the wrong word. There are very successful socialist democracies or democracies that have socialist elements, socialism isn't opposed to economic freedom (that's communism), real world application of socialism just moves a cost from an individual to a community as a whole and for things like health care this reduces cost to the individual, for other things it's completely unsuitable.
Freedom is the essential part to a successful democracy, freedom of information is paramount. You'll notice that dictatorships and bad democracies, be they capitalist, communist or anywhere in between tend to restrict the flow of information long before economic freedoms.
Alanis Morissette, I didn't know you posted on slashdot.
Here's the definition of irony, there's nothing about hating Libertarians in my post, that is entirely a projection of your own making.
Secondly, I find libertarianism retarded because it doesn't work in reality. It's based on outdated economic models, ignores the fact that power corrupts and tends to centralise (I.E. a perfectly free market will result in the ideal breeding ground for monopolies) and fails to address how it will actually fix a given issue, yet "libertards" propose that removing restrictions that prevent this is the way to fix problems. It seems I'm supposed to put faith into the free market which has a long history of abuses, Libertarians rarely think about the consequences of their ideology.
Still trust your government to inform you about reasons you might not want to go to other countries?
Yes, a lot more than the paranoid nuts that shout "blearg, Gubbermint baaaaad".
DFAT (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) kind of know about what's happening in other countries better then the average person on the street, it's their job. If you bothered to actually read those pages instead of making a kneejerk anti-government reaction you'd know that their advice is based on actual, verifiable events.
The government is not saying "Thou Shalt not go to Columbia", the government is saying "we think you should reconsider going to Colombia" with Colombia being a better example then Iran and North Korea. The best thing about advice is, I don't have to take it if I don't want to.
There's the flat sydharb (sometimes referred to as the tall sybhard), which is area, and there's the tall sydharb (sometimes referred to as the short sybhard) which is volume.
To any other nationality this would seem confusing but I understood that perfectly.
But seeing as they took away my yard glass, I strongly doubt I'd be seeing a sydharb of beer any time soon.
I didn't get that vibe from the OP and I dislike Libertards as much as the next person with half a brain.
The OP pointed out the hypocrisy, trade restrictions can be argued but are generally bad, being forced to show your license is a bit extreme unless you are operating a motor vehicle but travel restrictions just because someone doesn't like your form of government are just plain stupid.
My government (Australia) maintains a list of countries and even provinces and cities within countries where they "strongly advise" me not to travel to. This is normally for good reasons (war, high crime, foreigners getting kidnapped frequently). The only time the government should get a say in where I should go is when A) that place has a credible threat such as an infectious disease. B) we are currently hostile to that nation and by hostile I mean they've closed their borders to us or C) I am a government employee or otherwise subcontracted, employed by, related to or closely associated with a government employee or organisation that could be cause myself to become compromised or unduly targeted.
Here's the travel advice on Cuba and Iran published by the Aussie government.
all these/. articles about gov't IT and Internet policy in OZ. It's hard to believe they're truly that clueless.
Do you think politicians anywhere aren't dumb?
US govt aso hands out no-bid contracts and sets some rather stupid standards. Same thing with the UK govt, Japanese govt, German govt ad nausium.
The thing about this standard is that I doubt it will be followed, the Australian Public Service is really a feudal nightmare on multiple levels. The king of IT will always be fighting the King of accounting. Then of course the king of Council A will fight with the King of Council B for funding, that the internal feuds have the fuel needed to continue. The same story continues up to the parliamentary level, with Abbott (opposition leader) and Gillard (Prime Minister) trading pointless jabs at each other in parliament question time.
The Dalai Lama is actively evil? Perhaps I am not up with recent news but I never heard that opinion before.
Historically the Lama's have had a few abuses. Most religious leaders have skeletons from previous leaders.
The current one is quite good, he has no real political power which is odd for a religious leader so he's kind of like the Queen of England, he just makes nice speeches, drinks tea with all sorts and generally makes people feel good.
So in purely Karmic terms, the Lama is better but in terms of actually changing things Bill is better to be admired. Personally I'd rather admire Tim Burners-lee or Steven Hawking but they weren't options. Like it or not, Bill did a lot in changing computers from massive, hyper expensive mainframe systems to a cheap, mass produced desktop system by uncoupling the OS from the hardware and delivering a one fingered salute to the Lords of Unix in their ivory towers a full decade before Linus finished the job. Bill was never dishonest about his monopolistic intentions, his dream was stated outright "a computer on every desk in the world, all running Microsoft Windows" or similar. I have many bad words to describe Mr Gates, but dishonest is not amongst them.
Not to lessen the damage he's done since then mind you but lets be honest, Most of us on/. would be mechanics or carpenters who could barely afford a $8000 entry level SGI box if it weren't for Bill taking IBM by the horns in the 80's
Is if you want to actually analyze game sales, the question isn't iPad shit, it is on computers.
Agree about the Ipad. Yes copies of flash games are passable but the proper games (or attempts at proper games) like FPS's are utter shite. Android will be the same. You will probably be able to get away with a fighter like Mortal Kombat or an easy driving sim/racing game like Mario kart but then you hit a hard limit of what you can not do with touch controls and no tactile feedback.
The reason is on PCs you now have a choice between retail/mail order and download for almost all games.
Yep, in OZ, local retailers are crying to the govt at every opportunity because I can order the same game from somewhere like Play-Asia.com for half the price delivered to my door. EB games wants A$90-100 per new PC release, Play Asia has it for US$40-50 + shipping. A boxed copy even beats Steams A$70 (but in Steam's defence, that price point is pushed by the publishers, not Steam).
There's little data on it publicly, but Stardock, who runs Impulse and has published Sins of a Solar Empire, Elemental and Galactic Civilizations, says it is about 4:1 physical to online sales.
I read the same thing, that was when Sins of a Solar Empire was released I wouldn't be surprised if it was 3:1 by now. Also remember that mail order copies still count as a boxed copy (the same as from a retail store). Where digital distribution is really making it's mark are in older games. If I've got $5 and time to kill, I'll check the latest specials on Steam, Impulse or GOG and I never keep that $5 these days.
Also "Last Years Gamers" are loving it, these are the people who wait a while before buying new games so they can stay behind the bleeding edge on computer hardware. They get six month old games for A$20-40
You didn't actually read my post before replying, did you?
Actually I did,
You're attempt at sarcasm is terrible, I can only guess that your post was an attempt at being sarcastic because it's not indicated in any way that you were being less then earnest, in which case I was dead on with my post.
Dont get me wrong, I love sarcasm but it needs to work for it to be effective. It's hard to do over the internet, but keep trying anyway.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled trolling.
Proper nouns always begin with a capital, my grammar isn't perfect but I know that.
What do you mean about "Apple" owning my phone?
How Lord Steve can pretty much say what you can and can't run on there. I'll send you a PPT on the subject, just turn on your bluetooth and I'll FTP it right over. BZZZT, I forgot, Steve said you cant do that. Let's try over WiFi, to make it interesting I've hidden the network so get out your sniffing tools and BZZZZT, Steve took those away from you. Don't despair however, here's an APK for WiFi Finder on this web site, oh darn. Steve said no again.
Do you see where I'm going. You put up with someone saying what you can and can't do, that effectively makes the phone theirs and you their what?
I dont think you can compare an original Droid to an iPhone 4.
Quite true, my Milestone runs rings around an Iphone4.
Funny you mention the nearly 1K USD price, ha, my iPhone 4 cost me that here in New Zealand, Apple own it outright
There, Fixed that for you.
You forgot who really controls your phone. I paid A$600 for my Milestone incl delivery and I own that outright. Buying an Iphone is like buying a car that someone else has the keys for.
I like paying taxes. With them I buy civilisation.
My problem is that last year I paid for A$14,092 worth of civilisation and I'm not getting it. OK, The NBN is on it's way but Conroy and Abbott are still making trouble for it, Fibre me now.
I don't begrudge paying taxes, I keep about 80% of what I earn (well the bank keeps a lot of it) and get good healthcare for minimal cost out of pocket but I don't want to miss a good opportunity to put the boot into a few of the bell ends in Canberra.
Not sure why you're a troll, this is a very common view. People poorer than me are lazy and should work harder
Common where you may live, quite glad that's nowhere near where I live.
GP is marked troll because he is dead wrong. The majority of poor in Western society are minimum wage earners who work the same 38 hour week as me (sometimes more, just like me) that earn less than half of what I do.
You may call them lazy because they didn't get a trade or education like I did but then again they were working from job age until now earning the same crappy minimum wage. I don't know about you, but moving bags of concrete, tending bar or stacking shelves for 38 hours a week for a measly A$570 isn't what I'd call lazy (that might seem like a lot to you but Australia is a very expensive country to live in).
But why not stop there, The hard drive in your PC, chances are that was made in...
Thailand.
The average monthly wage for a factory worker in Thailand is 3000 Baht a month for an 8 hour job, six days a week (just shy of US$100 these days). Because the labour laws in Thailand are easily skirted, they can be offered an additional 3000 Baht a month to work an additional six hours a day. Thailand is also one of the richer SE Asian nations, a Philipino or Indo worker gets nothing like that.
Point in short, Thai's are poor.
Now do you think working in Western Digitals assembly plant is easy work for the lazy individual?
That is a terrible article and you should feel ashamed for using it.
Key here is, HTML5 was supposed to at least partially break Adobe's stranglehold on the web by moving some content away from Flash.
No it's not, HTML is designed to be an open standard that enables anyone to create content on the internet that can be read by any device or software that is designed to interpret the HTML tags. HTML version 5 is no different. Please leave your Adobe hate at the door when defining what is a standard.
Now I'll address why Gruber is full of it.
1. In addition to supporting H.264, Chrome currently bundles an embedded version of Adobe's closed source and proprietary Flash Player plugin. If H.264 support is being removed to "enable open innovation", will Flash Player support be dropped as well? If not, why?
Relevance?
Simple fact is, Google does not need to pay per-install for flash due to it's free to distribute licensing agreement. H.264 does not have a similar agreement. So this is a strawman at best, Flash and h.264 have little in common in terms of licensing.
If you think it's fair that Apple does not have to support VP8 by default in Safari, why is it unfair that Chrome does not support H.264 by default in Chrome?
2. Android currently supports H.264. Will this support be removed from Android? If not, why not?
Another Strawman because Gruber does not understand how licensing works. The manufacturer pays per device for a H.264 license. Google does not license H.264 in Android.
3. YouTube uses H.264 to encode video. Presumably, YouTube will be re-encoding its entire library using WebM. When this happens, will YouTube's support for H.264 be dropped, to "enable open innovation"? If not, why not?
YouTube also uses VP8. It is Google's goal to drop H.264 completely. I know Gruber lives in Fantasy World but in the real world chang-overs like this do not happen overnight. You cant simply cut over from System A to System B withuot some time to acclimatise users to System B (this is why Facebook hasn't foisted the new interface on everyone just yet).
Why does YouTube use H.264, well if you haven't figured that one out you're retarded, because there was no other decent alternative, this is not the case anymore.
4. Do you expect companies like Netflix, Amazon, Vimeo, Major League Baseball, and anyone else who currently streams H.264 to dual-encode all of their video using WebM? If not, how will Chrome users watch this content other than by resorting to Flash Player's support for H.264 playback?
He's asking two questions, not entirely intelligently either.
1. What Netflix, Amazon, Vimeo or anyone else does is not Googles responsibility.
2. Google didn't ban H.264, they just removed it from the default configuration. Chrome can still use H.264, it's just not installed by default. Gruber should have been smart enough to realise this is a non issue thanks to Chrome Extensions. Google just wants to stop paying for H.264. This is question disingenuous and hypocritical of Gruber, first he derides Google's decision to include Flash by default and not as a separate plugin then he derides Google for not including H.264 by default when it can and will be available via a plugin.
5. Who is happy about this?
Who calls this a legitimate grievance, gripe or complaint?
This is nothing but a filler comment to make it look like Gruber has a point, which he does not. You really need to read what Gruber writes rather then assume he is correct. But I'll answer, I'm happy because it's a giant step towards being able to host videos from
Better than typing the real answer, but weak because you are reusing the same password
To be fair, yes that is true for most users. Password reuse for me is not an issue, you're making an assumption that I do reuse the same password.
But a script that randomly generates a password is no better. Good security with passwords is a balance between password strength and password usability. Obviously your solution is on the extreme end of usable, most people would find that far too onerous. I've got several machines, not all of them are going to have that script available and chances are, when I need that secret answer I wont be anywhere near my main Linux box.
Basically we could keep adding security, but then a product or procedure becomes unusable and people start looking for a less secure alternative, so really what is the point. Efforts would better be spent in educating people about good security habits like password reuse and how to avoid it. Most sites these days use email as a form of password recovery, so even if they have a "secret question" they still send an email to your account to get your password reset. Really we should be discouraging the use of secret questions as a method of password recovery. Gmail has my mobile phone no. and my bank requires me to call them to get my password reset.
but have you actually tried an actual comparison between say, Android and the iOS?
Looks at desk and see Iphone 3GS and Motorola Milestone (droid for you yanks). Fairly similar in hardware, the Milestone runs a custom ROM (Cyanogen).
The usability of Android for day to day tasks, and general "Smart Phone" abilities,
Email = Android wins on account of third party mail programs such as Touchdown which provides Exchange functionality unrivalled by any other mobile client and Gmail, which is head and shoulders above the IOS client in functionality and usability. As for POP/IMAP its dead even IMHO.
Web Browsing = Android 2.2 is much faster than IOS 4.2. In addition to this Android has the option of having flash installed if you want it, IOS does not effectively cutting itself off from a large portion of the web. Android wins here.
Calendaring, = IOS by a nose hair. Simply because connectivity to multiple calendars is easier. With Android you end up using separate programs if you don't use one connected to Gmail. Apart from that, Android has slightly more functionality in it's calendaring thanks to third party programs.
IM = Even seeing as both IOS and Android connect to the most popular IM networks.
Multi-tasking = I almost didn't add this one because it's so lopsided. Android by a lap and a half. Android has proper multitasking and a damn good scheduler. Apple's multitasking is limited to first party products, for third party applications you have "I wish it were multitasking" where the application is permitted access to a limited number of persistent API's and not permitted to make its own services, the application itself is suspended when navigated away from.
I had it crash a few times, it refuses to connect to wireless networks sometimes,
Actually, my Milestone connects to and can find networks the Iphone simply cannot. The only disadvantage Android has is a lack of authenticating proxy options in the stock ROM, on Cyanogen it's not an issue.
I've also not had a force close in months and this is using a custom ROM so I again call BS.
And the App Store
The IOS appstore has more applications, the Android Market has more variety. Only on Android can I get Bluetooth FTP, Samba file sharing programs and third party email clients.
stagnated piece of shit Google offers.
That's really balanced, which seems to be the central theme of your post.
Now for the much touted UI, they are practically the same. You have to be a retarded monkey not to be able to figure out either one. As for polish, this is entirely based on perception and bias. Android is polished enough, perfect is the enemy of done and if they spent all their time polishing the chrome on Android I'd miss out on great features like widgets.
What I dont like about Apple are two things.
1. The way Apple does business. The litigation, patent threats, vendor lock-in. Everything we deride Microsoft for doing.
2. Apple fanboys. Yes you are really that annoying.
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So Motorola locking down the bootloader of the Milestone 2 affects a HTC Desire Z how.
Both run Android, so it is to no extent locking down Android and is instead locking down Motorola hardware. Very misleading to say that it is locking down Android in any fashion.
This is akin to saying because Apple wont allow bluethooth FTP that there is no bluetooth FTP mobile phones at all. Quite misleading.
Please tell me I don't have to explain this to you.
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Because other Android models are not affected. Very big difference there.
Well this sends a message to the manufacturer that something is not right with their product.
It's called the positive benefits of compeition. It's not just Motorola and HTC, there's aslo Samsung, SonyErikson, Huawei, Meizu and so forth. Where one vendor fails, the others take over.
This is so completely unlike IOS where the manufacturer dictates what you cannot do on every IOS device it's not funny.
Besides, Motorola have already retracted their previous statement so it looks like the system(TM) is working. Motorola is responding to outside pressure and changing their policies, this is something Apple never has to do so if Apple screws you, you stay screwed.
This is not locking down Android, this is locking down a Motorola Handset.
Hardware lock down, not software. Pretty big distinction.
But Motorola has jumped the shark. HTC are offering better handsets and MotoBlur is a complete joke. I liked my Milestone too, but due to Motorola's insistence on locking it down I wont be buying the Milestone 2. HTC Desire Z looks a lot better.
I think you're confusing capitalism with freedom, part of which is economic freedom (I.E. the ability to spend as you see fit). Capitalism is not necessarily required for this goal. Whilst we may be talking semantics, capitalism is definitely the wrong word. There are very successful socialist democracies or democracies that have socialist elements, socialism isn't opposed to economic freedom (that's communism), real world application of socialism just moves a cost from an individual to a community as a whole and for things like health care this reduces cost to the individual, for other things it's completely unsuitable.
Freedom is the essential part to a successful democracy, freedom of information is paramount. You'll notice that dictatorships and bad democracies, be they capitalist, communist or anywhere in between tend to restrict the flow of information long before economic freedoms.
Alanis Morissette, I didn't know you posted on slashdot.
Here's the definition of irony, there's nothing about hating Libertarians in my post, that is entirely a projection of your own making.
Secondly, I find libertarianism retarded because it doesn't work in reality. It's based on outdated economic models, ignores the fact that power corrupts and tends to centralise (I.E. a perfectly free market will result in the ideal breeding ground for monopolies) and fails to address how it will actually fix a given issue, yet "libertards" propose that removing restrictions that prevent this is the way to fix problems. It seems I'm supposed to put faith into the free market which has a long history of abuses, Libertarians rarely think about the consequences of their ideology.
Yes, a lot more than the paranoid nuts that shout "blearg, Gubbermint baaaaad".
DFAT (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) kind of know about what's happening in other countries better then the average person on the street, it's their job. If you bothered to actually read those pages instead of making a kneejerk anti-government reaction you'd know that their advice is based on actual, verifiable events.
The government is not saying "Thou Shalt not go to Columbia", the government is saying "we think you should reconsider going to Colombia" with Colombia being a better example then Iran and North Korea. The best thing about advice is, I don't have to take it if I don't want to.
To any other nationality this would seem confusing but I understood that perfectly.
But seeing as they took away my yard glass, I strongly doubt I'd be seeing a sydharb of beer any time soon.
I didn't get that vibe from the OP and I dislike Libertards as much as the next person with half a brain.
The OP pointed out the hypocrisy, trade restrictions can be argued but are generally bad, being forced to show your license is a bit extreme unless you are operating a motor vehicle but travel restrictions just because someone doesn't like your form of government are just plain stupid.
My government (Australia) maintains a list of countries and even provinces and cities within countries where they "strongly advise" me not to travel to. This is normally for good reasons (war, high crime, foreigners getting kidnapped frequently). The only time the government should get a say in where I should go is when A) that place has a credible threat such as an infectious disease. B) we are currently hostile to that nation and by hostile I mean they've closed their borders to us or C) I am a government employee or otherwise subcontracted, employed by, related to or closely associated with a government employee or organisation that could be cause myself to become compromised or unduly targeted.
Here's the travel advice on Cuba and Iran published by the Aussie government.
No, a sydharb is a unit of volume.
We had to when we included petrol electric engines. The new name is:
Safe Hybrid Autonomous Road Trains for the Environment or SHARTE.
The final phase is phase D and this will result in the deployment of the SHARTED vehicles and European commuters can SHARTE themselves to the office.
Do you think politicians anywhere aren't dumb?
US govt aso hands out no-bid contracts and sets some rather stupid standards. Same thing with the UK govt, Japanese govt, German govt ad nausium.
The thing about this standard is that I doubt it will be followed, the Australian Public Service is really a feudal nightmare on multiple levels. The king of IT will always be fighting the King of accounting. Then of course the king of Council A will fight with the King of Council B for funding, that the internal feuds have the fuel needed to continue. The same story continues up to the parliamentary level, with Abbott (opposition leader) and Gillard (Prime Minister) trading pointless jabs at each other in parliament question time.
Historically the Lama's have had a few abuses. Most religious leaders have skeletons from previous leaders.
The current one is quite good, he has no real political power which is odd for a religious leader so he's kind of like the Queen of England, he just makes nice speeches, drinks tea with all sorts and generally makes people feel good.
So in purely Karmic terms, the Lama is better but in terms of actually changing things Bill is better to be admired. Personally I'd rather admire Tim Burners-lee or Steven Hawking but they weren't options. Like it or not, Bill did a lot in changing computers from massive, hyper expensive mainframe systems to a cheap, mass produced desktop system by uncoupling the OS from the hardware and delivering a one fingered salute to the Lords of Unix in their ivory towers a full decade before Linus finished the job. Bill was never dishonest about his monopolistic intentions, his dream was stated outright "a computer on every desk in the world, all running Microsoft Windows" or similar. I have many bad words to describe Mr Gates, but dishonest is not amongst them.
Not to lessen the damage he's done since then mind you but lets be honest, Most of us on /. would be mechanics or carpenters who could barely afford a $8000 entry level SGI box if it weren't for Bill taking IBM by the horns in the 80's
Agree about the Ipad. Yes copies of flash games are passable but the proper games (or attempts at proper games) like FPS's are utter shite. Android will be the same. You will probably be able to get away with a fighter like Mortal Kombat or an easy driving sim/racing game like Mario kart but then you hit a hard limit of what you can not do with touch controls and no tactile feedback.
Yep, in OZ, local retailers are crying to the govt at every opportunity because I can order the same game from somewhere like Play-Asia.com for half the price delivered to my door. EB games wants A$90-100 per new PC release, Play Asia has it for US$40-50 + shipping. A boxed copy even beats Steams A$70 (but in Steam's defence, that price point is pushed by the publishers, not Steam).
I read the same thing, that was when Sins of a Solar Empire was released I wouldn't be surprised if it was 3:1 by now. Also remember that mail order copies still count as a boxed copy (the same as from a retail store). Where digital distribution is really making it's mark are in older games. If I've got $5 and time to kill, I'll check the latest specials on Steam, Impulse or GOG and I never keep that $5 these days.
Also "Last Years Gamers" are loving it, these are the people who wait a while before buying new games so they can stay behind the bleeding edge on computer hardware. They get six month old games for A$20-40
Actually I did,
You're attempt at sarcasm is terrible, I can only guess that your post was an attempt at being sarcastic because it's not indicated in any way that you were being less then earnest, in which case I was dead on with my post.
Dont get me wrong, I love sarcasm but it needs to work for it to be effective. It's hard to do over the internet, but keep trying anyway.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled trolling.
Ironically enough, this I've already told you.
Give ye olde Wikipedia article on the subject of dividends a read.
Fixed that for you, Again.
Proper nouns always begin with a capital, my grammar isn't perfect but I know that.
How Lord Steve can pretty much say what you can and can't run on there. I'll send you a PPT on the subject, just turn on your bluetooth and I'll FTP it right over. BZZZT, I forgot, Steve said you cant do that. Let's try over WiFi, to make it interesting I've hidden the network so get out your sniffing tools and BZZZZT, Steve took those away from you. Don't despair however, here's an APK for WiFi Finder on this web site, oh darn. Steve said no again.
Do you see where I'm going. You put up with someone saying what you can and can't do, that effectively makes the phone theirs and you their what?
Quite true, my Milestone runs rings around an Iphone4.
Much like the dividends from Microsoft stock, you just don't get.
In case you missed the subtle point I was making, Balmer is still delivering value (meaning money) to stockholders, this means happy stockholders.
There, Fixed that for you.
You forgot who really controls your phone. I paid A$600 for my Milestone incl delivery and I own that outright. Buying an Iphone is like buying a car that someone else has the keys for.
My problem is that last year I paid for A$14,092 worth of civilisation and I'm not getting it. OK, The NBN is on it's way but Conroy and Abbott are still making trouble for it, Fibre me now.
I don't begrudge paying taxes, I keep about 80% of what I earn (well the bank keeps a lot of it) and get good healthcare for minimal cost out of pocket but I don't want to miss a good opportunity to put the boot into a few of the bell ends in Canberra.
Common where you may live, quite glad that's nowhere near where I live.
GP is marked troll because he is dead wrong. The majority of poor in Western society are minimum wage earners who work the same 38 hour week as me (sometimes more, just like me) that earn less than half of what I do.
You may call them lazy because they didn't get a trade or education like I did but then again they were working from job age until now earning the same crappy minimum wage. I don't know about you, but moving bags of concrete, tending bar or stacking shelves for 38 hours a week for a measly A$570 isn't what I'd call lazy (that might seem like a lot to you but Australia is a very expensive country to live in).
But why not stop there, The hard drive in your PC, chances are that was made in...
Thailand.
The average monthly wage for a factory worker in Thailand is 3000 Baht a month for an 8 hour job, six days a week (just shy of US$100 these days). Because the labour laws in Thailand are easily skirted, they can be offered an additional 3000 Baht a month to work an additional six hours a day. Thailand is also one of the richer SE Asian nations, a Philipino or Indo worker gets nothing like that.
Point in short, Thai's are poor.
Now do you think working in Western Digitals assembly plant is easy work for the lazy individual?
So the parent is correctly marked as Troll.
That is a terrible article and you should feel ashamed for using it.
No it's not, HTML is designed to be an open standard that enables anyone to create content on the internet that can be read by any device or software that is designed to interpret the HTML tags. HTML version 5 is no different. Please leave your Adobe hate at the door when defining what is a standard.
Now I'll address why Gruber is full of it.
Relevance?
Simple fact is, Google does not need to pay per-install for flash due to it's free to distribute licensing agreement. H.264 does not have a similar agreement. So this is a strawman at best, Flash and h.264 have little in common in terms of licensing.
If you think it's fair that Apple does not have to support VP8 by default in Safari, why is it unfair that Chrome does not support H.264 by default in Chrome?
Another Strawman because Gruber does not understand how licensing works. The manufacturer pays per device for a H.264 license. Google does not license H.264 in Android.
YouTube also uses VP8. It is Google's goal to drop H.264 completely. I know Gruber lives in Fantasy World but in the real world chang-overs like this do not happen overnight. You cant simply cut over from System A to System B withuot some time to acclimatise users to System B (this is why Facebook hasn't foisted the new interface on everyone just yet).
Why does YouTube use H.264, well if you haven't figured that one out you're retarded, because there was no other decent alternative, this is not the case anymore.
He's asking two questions, not entirely intelligently either.
1. What Netflix, Amazon, Vimeo or anyone else does is not Googles responsibility.
2. Google didn't ban H.264, they just removed it from the default configuration. Chrome can still use H.264, it's just not installed by default. Gruber should have been smart enough to realise this is a non issue thanks to Chrome Extensions. Google just wants to stop paying for H.264. This is question disingenuous and hypocritical of Gruber, first he derides Google's decision to include Flash by default and not as a separate plugin then he derides Google for not including H.264 by default when it can and will be available via a plugin.
Who calls this a legitimate grievance, gripe or complaint?
This is nothing but a filler comment to make it look like Gruber has a point, which he does not. You really need to read what Gruber writes rather then assume he is correct. But I'll answer, I'm happy because it's a giant step towards being able to host videos from
To be fair, yes that is true for most users. Password reuse for me is not an issue, you're making an assumption that I do reuse the same password.
But a script that randomly generates a password is no better. Good security with passwords is a balance between password strength and password usability. Obviously your solution is on the extreme end of usable, most people would find that far too onerous. I've got several machines, not all of them are going to have that script available and chances are, when I need that secret answer I wont be anywhere near my main Linux box.
Basically we could keep adding security, but then a product or procedure becomes unusable and people start looking for a less secure alternative, so really what is the point. Efforts would better be spent in educating people about good security habits like password reuse and how to avoid it. Most sites these days use email as a form of password recovery, so even if they have a "secret question" they still send an email to your account to get your password reset. Really we should be discouraging the use of secret questions as a method of password recovery. Gmail has my mobile phone no. and my bank requires me to call them to get my password reset.
As do I, call BS on your post.
Looks at desk and see Iphone 3GS and Motorola Milestone (droid for you yanks). Fairly similar in hardware, the Milestone runs a custom ROM (Cyanogen).
Email = Android wins on account of third party mail programs such as Touchdown which provides Exchange functionality unrivalled by any other mobile client and Gmail, which is head and shoulders above the IOS client in functionality and usability. As for POP/IMAP its dead even IMHO.
Web Browsing = Android 2.2 is much faster than IOS 4.2. In addition to this Android has the option of having flash installed if you want it, IOS does not effectively cutting itself off from a large portion of the web. Android wins here.
Calendaring, = IOS by a nose hair. Simply because connectivity to multiple calendars is easier. With Android you end up using separate programs if you don't use one connected to Gmail. Apart from that, Android has slightly more functionality in it's calendaring thanks to third party programs.
IM = Even seeing as both IOS and Android connect to the most popular IM networks.
Multi-tasking = I almost didn't add this one because it's so lopsided. Android by a lap and a half. Android has proper multitasking and a damn good scheduler. Apple's multitasking is limited to first party products, for third party applications you have "I wish it were multitasking" where the application is permitted access to a limited number of persistent API's and not permitted to make its own services, the application itself is suspended when navigated away from.
Actually, my Milestone connects to and can find networks the Iphone simply cannot. The only disadvantage Android has is a lack of authenticating proxy options in the stock ROM, on Cyanogen it's not an issue.
I've also not had a force close in months and this is using a custom ROM so I again call BS.
The IOS appstore has more applications, the Android Market has more variety. Only on Android can I get Bluetooth FTP, Samba file sharing programs and third party email clients.
That's really balanced, which seems to be the central theme of your post.
Now for the much touted UI, they are practically the same. You have to be a retarded monkey not to be able to figure out either one. As for polish, this is entirely based on perception and bias. Android is polished enough, perfect is the enemy of done and if they spent all their time polishing the chrome on Android I'd miss out on great features like widgets.
What I dont like about Apple are two things.
1. The way Apple does business. The litigation, patent threats, vendor lock-in. Everything we deride Microsoft for doing.
2. Apple fanboys. Yes you are really that annoying.
I've come to accept that the two are interchangeable and just call them consultitutes.
Also the average Thai prostitute costs less and is easier to understand then the average IT consultant.
Well played good sir,
I never claimed my grammar is perfect, only that the other guy's was atrocious.
But
You forgot a full stop. Here's an extra one..
Pattern has an r in it,
"De" should be capitalised.
Nazism is a word also, for future reference you don't need to hyphenate it.
P.S. I'm not normally a grammar Nazi, my grammar is not that crash hot but I couldn't resist this one for comedic value.