you're joking right? how do you think all the interior cameras get in side the house?

they contact the family, sign a contract to get permission to break in and pay for damages etc., and then set up cameras.

no kidding. i have a droid 1 and can pretty much root it and do whatever i want to, and it runs the standard android OS. i played around with my warranty and got a droid 2 as a replacement, which was a piece of garbage. the custom motorola skinned OS was terrible, the custom gallery was laggy and crashed, and the custom SMS app was buggy and really, really ugly.

i kept my droid 1 with the crackling headphone jack and returned the brand new droid 2. i hope someone comes out with a new android phone that is not locked down and with a physical keyboard. in a year or two i am going to be trying to find an upgrade, and it is looking dismal right now.

wasn't trying to be snappy, but my comment reads like that now that you have a flamebait mod.

the name was so strange that it stuck in my head. not to mention there is something distasteful about selling a 2 core processor with one bad core as if it was made to be single core. intel's offal shouldn't be sold in a shiny box. that kind of shit is what the bargain bin is for.

and before someone jumps down my throat, i know that some of them just have one core disabled. that almost makes it worse.

seriously, you would have to put it onto your neighbor's car because it returns to a location close to your home every day. if you put it on a cab they will start wondering why you are sleeping in a cab company's parking lot.

on the rare occasion that i watch trash tv, i have started to count the number of times you see black duct tape over logos on hats and sweatshirts in different 'reality' shows. it is interesting that they don't have to completely cover the disgusting ed hardy-esque tshirts that these idiots wear, since the whole thing is one big logo. maybe they have cleared the use of those designs, but not sports team logos or something.

probably from knowing something about intel processors? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core#Core_Solo

i am sure that there is no chance that they were scraping around for an excuse to collect cell phone numbers from their users. adding that very unique information to their already massive database on every user will make it much more valuable. as i tell my friends, it's just a pyramid scheme. you get a free website with communication tools bolted on and they get to know everything about you and will sell it to whoever they want.

when a police officer in my town testifies against another police officer for crimes committed while on duty in open court, not as part of a plea bargain, i will change my opinion on that.

in other words, as a citizen confronted with the continued silence by 'good' cops on the crimes of the 'bad' cops one must assume all cops to be 'bad'. because if one cop decides to cave in your skull you cannot count on another cop to ever act as an agent of the law on your behalf, quite the opposite, in fact.

there is an easy way for you to ethically not be involved in paying the wages of a server. eat at home. otherwise you are screwing over someone who is working for wages that are below the poverty line and depending on your tips to pay rent and buy groceries.

you can go on with paragraphs of excuses, but it boils down to you knowing that servers make less per hour than any other worker in the country and deciding that it doesn't benefit you to tip them and then screwing them over.

so what you are saying is that you know that your servers live off the tips they make, and in fact your wife can attest to that first hand. but yet you still think that you shouldn't have to tip. if you know that someone who is serving you is depending on you to eat/pay rent/live maybe you should stop complaining about how things should be and just cough on some cash. either that or JUST EAT AT HOME.

i know that i am late to the party, but would you mind sharing the model of scanner you use? i need to start saving up for something and a good tool to scan my film seems like a good investment.

what is really crazy to me is that in every way the droid 2 seems like a regression from the droid 1. it has flash and wifi AP, but other than that motorola has seemingly tried to "make it theirs" as far as software and they know less about usability than the android team. there are some appalling UI choices that were made on the phone, and i just don't have the patience to replace a shitty implementation bit-by-bit.

luckily i haven't mailed back my droid 1 yet so i have a bargaining chip with them. i might just end up sending back the new droid 2 and living with the short in the headphone jack

i have been listening to the stories about the droid 2 and X re: being locked down too tight to load a custom ROM. it made me glad that i had a droid 1 that was more open. i wasn't sure if i would find a suitable phone to upgrade to when the time came.

i just did a warranty return on my droid 1 (headphone jack had a short) and was given a new in the box droid 2. i hate it. the custom camera, gallery, alarm clock, virtual keyboard, etc. all suck hard compared to vanilla android. and now i am screwed because i can't put my own ROM on it when they release a new version of android, i will be forced to wait for moto to update it.

short version: i didn't choose to 'upgrade' to a new phone that was just what they sent me. after one full day of using the droid 2 i am trying to figure out how i can get another droid 1 out of verizon.

he wasn't talking about a pre-computer definition of reboot.

on the first computer i ever used there was no hard drive and it booted off of floppies. when you rebooted it with the same disk in the drive it would reload the program or OS back to scratch and all of your changes were lost. for example, if i was using symphony spreadsheet and i reboot the computer it would reload symphony with a blank spreadsheet and all previous changes would be lost.

reboot is really an industry term in entertainment that has leaked into common use. it means to start a series over again from scratch and abandoning all the changes that writers have made along the way. to use an example from comics, it means placing batman in a totally different conception of what gotham city is and redesigning the batmobile, his outfit, enemies, etc.

in this case it means that they are going to revisit all the design and gameplay decisions and use the core idea of the game without all of the baggage of the previous versions.

this being slashdot, i will forgive you for making assumptions about who i am and if i am a software engineer or not. but i am not.

to be precise: the permission that gives the phone access to make calls is designed to sound scary. it is "Services that cost you money, directly call phone numbers". and my point stands that it sounds a hell of a lot different than "read phone state".

most businesses shoot for a 3rd grade reading level, and i think that in this case android did just fine in making the permission simple to understand. you can throw stones at some aspects of the android OS, but i don't think that this is one of those places. these people installed a wallpaper app that had as many permissions as a new launcher (desktop) and that was their decision.

if a layperson had a question about that app or permissions in general they could have googled it right from their phone. if you choose to drive with your eyes closed, you will crash the car in your analogy.