http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champions:_Return_to_Arms

I love Champions of Norrath as well. I was playing it just two days ago..

yeah sorry. I re-read my comment and it doesn't sound like I meant lol.

Thanks :-)

The Nexus One will not run apps from external storage (flash card) unless you root it. By default, it will not allow it since they are trying to prevent pirating of paid apps. They are working on a solution such as encrypting paid apps so they can be downloaded to a flash card and run from there. Currently, however you have to root the device, which is easy, but necessary and may violate your operator's terms of service.

By default, Nexus One only has about 256MB (internal memory storage) of space for apps and can't be upgraded.
If you root the Nexus One then you have as much space as you can afford in the form of storage cards.

If you download a lot of apps and choose not to root your phone, you will run out of space very quick and will have to pick which apps you really want.

That's what I was saying. If you root the device the storage restriction is not there. How you root the devices (android) doesn't matter - I didn't say it would be difficult. The fact is you have to root it. Technically, it may violate the TOS depending on how you purchase it. Obviously the unlocked version does not have that caveat since there are no real terms of service.

Most people will probably not be rooting their phone, just like most people probably don't jailbreak their iPhone.

Keep in mind, something I found out as I was about to pick one up myself, the iPhone by default stores its apps and app data on the 4/8/16gb flash memory it has and runs them from there. Android devices, even with SD/SDHC slots capable of 32gb of memory will not allow, by default apps to be downloaded and run from the SD/SDHC. All apps have to be run (by default) from within that 512MB of internal memory.

The only alternative is to root your device and make modifications to allows apps to be run from the SD/SDHC. This was put in place to protect (a drm of sort) purchased apps from the Android marketplace.

oogle admits they are trying to find a solution to the problem, such as encrypting purchased apps so they can be run from removable media. Until that is done, the Nexus One has approximately 256MB of space for downloaded apps and the iPhone has 4+gb of space for said apps. Again, unless you root your device.

iPhone app space = 4/8/16gb
Nexus One (default/non-rooted) app space = ~256MB
Nexu One (rooted) app space = size of SD/SDHC card (~32gb)

The movie had nothing to do with Heinlein's book in the beginning. It was originally intended to be a generic space bug hunt movie until the director became aware of the Starship Troopers IP, read a little bit of it (his own words) and adapted the movie to fit the book a bit. It wasn't a critique. In fact he never read the whole book. It was just a title and minor adaptation.

Plato's Republic was similar but not quite the same. It did have a class of citizens that had a sole duty to look after the rest (for the public), but it also involved lying to them for their own good (baby lotteries) and community families. Both books and ideas are very similar, but still have their unique qualities.

Heinlein most certainly didn't come up with the idea of responsibility in governance, he just put it into book form and made it more palatable :-)

Here's a quote from wiki, but you can check out the commentary if you have it or look up the references:

"There is a vast divergence between the original book and film. A report in an American Cinematographer article around the same time as the film's release states the Heinlein novel was optioned well into the pre-production period of the film, which had a working title of Bug Hunt at Outpost Nine; most of the writing team reportedly were unaware of the novel at the time. According to the DVD commentary, Paul Verhoeven never finished reading the novel, claiming he read through the first few chapters and became both "bored and depressed."[4]"

The second and third movie installments were most certainly social commentary and critique. The animated series has more to do with the book than any of the movies.

Also, if you read any of Heinlein's interviews, you will find that his intention was not that only military service earned citizenship, but ANY federal service, military or not earned citizenship. He did admit that he didn't convey that too well in the book like he had in his mind. Of course the movie, being a bug hunt movie that was converted to Starship Troopers near the end conveys none of that.

bad wording.. that is the stuff of Tyrannies is what I should have said.

in fact I'd go further and say that being smart and informed without showing responsibility and selflessness is even worse than being dumb and uninformed. Dictators are built of that kind of stuff.

Of course in any group you have your 10% shit birds. History has shown that true in all groups (including those that have served).

Being smart and informed doesn't != caring about the issues, selfless enough to deal with them appropriately, or responsible enough to deal with them at all.

I really like the BSDs as well. I'm with you on almost everything you said, except you lost me on the last part. I think it may have just been the fact that it was a quick snippet, and I may have interpreted it wrong.

"Relying on GUI config tools, DHCP, and other magic to keep "newbies" from needing to actually learn anything is counter-productive and isn't going to help create new professionals."

I would like to add that an operating system's purpose shouldn't be to create new professionals any more than a car's purpose should be to create new mechanics. It's just a tool. People want to and need to use them that work in fields completely unrelated to understanding the inner workings of computers. Most people shouldn't even have to know what an IP address is. It should just work (preferably with some sense of security, though that doesn't usually chide well with ease of use or obscurity of underlying mechanisms).

You shouldn't need or even care to know anything about radio wave propagation theory in order to watch television, other than the basics of how to set up your antenna (assuming you even watch over the air broadcasts). The same should apply to any consumer operating system. I'd include Ubuntu as a linux distro that is trying to fit into that category as opposed to something like Gentoo or OpenBSD which have different reasons to live.

also, restricting developers from porting and redistributing GPL software through the app store restricts the freedoms of other people to play that free software on the iphone where those particular people do not have the skills to port to the iphone themselves. More and more the GPL seems to be about restricting the freedoms of some people in order to grant freedoms to other people. This is not freedom, even though Rome may have called it freedom at one time.

OS X by itself is cheaper than Windows. Windows is not cheap. Most of us consider Windows expensive and the EULA pretty rough. Your argument has the problem that expensive is relative. I'm sure you're going to say something about adding the cost of the hardware to increase the cost of OS X over Windows, but that does not mean that all of a sudden Windows is cheap. Windows is still expensive even if a generic x86 machine with Windows is cheaper than Mac hardware + OS X. So, any GPL software ported to Windows (assuming it won't run under Wine) is inherently restricting you to an expensive platform (since Linux and BSD are free). If you're talking about pirating Windows then you're just rambling because at that point we're disregarding copyright altogether, which is what the GPL is based on. You also must agree to the Microsoft EULA if the port is using any of their special APIs such as DirectX unless you are going to port it back over to OpenGL. If it is a device driver and you want it signed then you are in the exact same position as on the iPhone

The problem here isn't the platform. The problem is many developers want to be seen as giving away something for free - in most cases nothing will ever come from it - but in actuality they all have their own little vision of free that is not quite like anyone else's. This is why we have licenses, laws, etc etc. Since everyone interprets things differently, you can only go by the letter of the license. If that is not good enough for some people, then they should refrain from giving away software only to complain about how someone uses it later on. Otherwise they can give it into the public domain and make it really free.

btw, iPhone app source code under the GPL does not restrict you to x86 Mac OS X or to the apple store. You can 1) jailbreak your iphone and build the app on a hackintosh, or 2) you can actually do a little bit of work (gasp) and port it to the platform of your choice. If the platform of your choice is the iPhone, then your issue is with Apple, not the distributor. If your platform of choice is a DEC Alpha, then its your responsibility to procure the appropriate hardware and software to build on a DEC Alpha.

that's incorrect. GPLv3 exists because some people thought it was not in the spirit of GPLv2. it may be against the spirit of GPLv3, but that is not GPLv2. They are two separate licenses. No GPL license mandates that anyone has to migrate to a newer one. Hence, software remaining with the GPLv2 do not agree. If this software is released as GPLv2 then GPLv3 isn't even relevant. If they did not believe that the software should be used in the manner it was used in then the authors should have either used another license or created another license that prevented this sort of thing from happening.

The post you originally replied to makes absolutely no claim about H.264.

The poster said use Ogg Theora or any other open codec. That could mean using H.264 if it is an open codec. He merely used Ogg Theora as an example.

Using the example of codec="H.264" for supporting other codecs does not imply that h.264 is a proprietary codec. It is just an example. It is an example of how to support any OTHER codec that is not the one chosen for the specification, including other OPEN codecs..

The poster could have easily said support H.264 and given the example codec="oggtheora" for supporting other codecs. That doesn't imply all of a sudden Ogg Theora is proprietary. It implies that in the example, H264 is chosen and Ogg Theora is supported in this manner..