You are comparing the policy of a few private companies to a government. If I don't like Blizzard or Apple's policy, I simply don't buy their products.
This move by China is purely to limit the speech of its citizens.
I like the way Amarok does library browsing better...I don't like having Artist/Album in such a small window pane. Also, I have no use for iTunes/Songbird/Rhythmbox list of songs, I aways play full albums.
Why would I want to pay $100 a month for cable, just to convert it to an SD analog signal? I would rather just pay the extra $5 per month for their DVR and get a nice HD picture...
Not all devices will be "blessed" by google, in fact many G1's in Asia do not have Google apps due to licensing issues.
Also - the carrier gets a cut of the Market revenue, so there may be device/carrier specific modifications to the Market app to enable this tracking.
This isn't the point of Android. The point of android is to have high end, and inexpensive low end handsets. Google wants more people using smartphones...which means they want to drive the price down with a large range of handsets.
If Apple is BMW, Android can be Porsche, Ferrari, Toyota, Kia, Honda, etc....
Google has provided an open source mobile operating system that any manufacturer can use for any purpose they choose. In this case HTC and T-mobile are using it, and they have chosen to lock it down for security purposes.
We need to port this thing to all kinds of devices, and would also be nice to port the framework to run natively so you could develop Android apps that would run natively on Linux.
There is no chance that there will be cars powered by "under the hood" nuclear reactors in the near future. Wind power will also do nothing for our dependence on oil for gasoline. Plugin hybrids, full electric, and hydrogen cars will all benifit from cheaper cleaner nuclear energy.
Google's Android encourages programs to exist in the background. And if a program is in the background and the system is low on resources it will gracefully kill the program for it's resources, and then when the user switches back to the killed program it is very easy to write the program so it resumes where your were when you were killed.
Unlike a PC, in Android there are no guarantees that your Activity (frontend) or Service (background process) will stay alive...the system can decide it needs your resources and harvest them.
I don't know, it sounds like Apple is going to be nazis about distribution of third party apps...sure there will be ways around it, but I'm looking forward to the freedom of Android. Also, there will be some touchscreen/accelerometer Android devices I'm sure...
With a porn site you could just have a page "Type in this code to view the pictures/video:" and then goes to the normal thumbnail page, so that more than 1% will fill it in...
The electronic gear they carry, encased in a small Styrofoam box, then drifts gently back to earth on tiny parachutes. [..] While the balloons are cheap and disposable at $50 a pop, the transceivers they carry are worth about $1,500. Once a transceiver is released from its balloon to parachute back to earth, there's no way to predict where it will land. So Space Data has hired 20 hobbyists with GPS devices to track them down.
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Yep --- I'm a long time KDE'er and just recently gave up with kubuntu and am really liking OpenSUSE.
You are comparing the policy of a few private companies to a government. If I don't like Blizzard or Apple's policy, I simply don't buy their products. This move by China is purely to limit the speech of its citizens.
I like the way Amarok does library browsing better...I don't like having Artist/Album in such a small window pane. Also, I have no use for iTunes/Songbird/Rhythmbox list of songs, I aways play full albums.
I'm sure the video file will be sitting on your device's SD card...not that hard to plug in your phone via usb and download it.
Why would you want to install apps to the SD card? This thing has 1 GB of ROM!!
Why would I want to pay $100 a month for cable, just to convert it to an SD analog signal? I would rather just pay the extra $5 per month for their DVR and get a nice HD picture...
Not all devices will be "blessed" by google, in fact many G1's in Asia do not have Google apps due to licensing issues. Also - the carrier gets a cut of the Market revenue, so there may be device/carrier specific modifications to the Market app to enable this tracking.
This isn't the point of Android. The point of android is to have high end, and inexpensive low end handsets. Google wants more people using smartphones...which means they want to drive the price down with a large range of handsets.
If Apple is BMW, Android can be Porsche, Ferrari, Toyota, Kia, Honda, etc....
How would putting them flat against the roof help when the entire roof gets blown off the house? This isn't unheard off...
I just checked http://www.britannica.com/ and get:
HTTP Status 404 - /
type Status report
message /
description The requested resource (/) is not available.
Apache Tomcat/6.0.14
Google has provided an open source mobile operating system that any manufacturer can use for any purpose they choose. In this case HTC and T-mobile are using it, and they have chosen to lock it down for security purposes.
They just ran out of time with Bluetooth. They also had to cut stereo bluetooth audio, why would t-mobile want to cut that?
We need to port this thing to all kinds of devices, and would also be nice to port the framework to run natively so you could develop Android apps that would run natively on Linux.
I recently interviewed with Google and there were numerous "how would you do x" questions directly related to the job I was applying for.
No logic puzzles, just questions like "if you were to design a piece of software to do X, what steps would you take?"
Or "You have a dataset containing X, describe an algorithm to process it to determine Y?"
Etc...
Google's Android encourages programs to exist in the background. And if a program is in the background and the system is low on resources it will gracefully kill the program for it's resources, and then when the user switches back to the killed program it is very easy to write the program so it resumes where your were when you were killed.
Unlike a PC, in Android there are no guarantees that your Activity (frontend) or Service (background process) will stay alive...the system can decide it needs your resources and harvest them.
More information on Android's Application Life Cycle:
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Good ole' squigglevision...
well, unfortunately the source for Android isn't out yet...so Hoorah for them when they release the source!!
This is already fixed in m5-rc15 which was released yesterday...
I don't know, it sounds like Apple is going to be nazis about distribution of third party apps...sure there will be ways around it, but I'm looking forward to the freedom of Android. Also, there will be some touchscreen/accelerometer Android devices I'm sure...
With a porn site you could just have a page "Type in this code to view the pictures/video:" and then goes to the normal thumbnail page, so that more than 1% will fill it in...
According to the WSJ they use hydrogen.
According to the article:
Google has nothing to do with that project, but yeah like that
You make some good points. Maybe they'll just permanently release it as Beta so they don't have to support it :)