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Comment Good (Score 2, Insightful) 1020

He's a menace..... He thinks he's opening up communications and transparency. He's wrong, he'll just drive it deeper and encourage tighter controls and less information sharing across all industries and in government. He's also encouraged a number of people to co-opt their values for his child-like vision of a utopian society of no private information.

TimeOut

Comment Mambi pambi land..... (Score 1) 347

"... Maybe we should chug on over to Mambi Pambi land where may be can find some self confidence for you, ya jackwagon .... tissue?"

If it's that bad then become a greeter at Walmart and then you don't need to concern yourself with the IT Infrastructure. But, if you like the paycheck and the fact that you might doing something really cool then go outside, workout, read, get a hobby, drink heavily, whatever to let those feelings turn toward something constructive. But to complain about a high-stress job in a highly technical field to other high-tech inclined people is just plain silly.

Comment Re:Review (Score 1) 67

They've got demo code up for Android on AR Drone's Developer Website; has some issues, but I suspect we'll see full featured Android controllers/games for the AR Drone if it sells.

Downside is that it's a really expensive toy that requires a really expensive controller. So, they may not sell too many of them.

Mine shipped on Saturday; will be giving the Android demo code a try as soon as I get it.

Comment Great Phone (Score 1) 366

The online sales may have failed, but HTC and Google came out with a great piece of hardware. I've had mine for three months now, on AT&T, and wouldn't trade it for any other phones on the market; at least not yet.

It will be interesting to see if it will be the first phone to get Gingerbread (Android 3.0) like it did for Froyo (Android 2.2). The bump up to Froyo is fantastic.

The sad part is that we will see the end of open Android phones; the carriers really don't like people to root their phones and side load apps. Not sure how that effects development on those phones. Normal phone users could care less about that though, and frankly that is who they need to sell phones to.

Looking forward to what Google recommends for the next reference platform going forward past Gingerbread. I'm hoping that they have a dev version of one of the commercial phones that they will sell through dev channels; I'd pay the extra for an open version of the carriers phones.

Sean

Comment FUD Masters (Score 1) 286

All Android apps installed from the App store tell you exactly what they are requesting access to. So, if you download a game and it says it can make phone calls you may want to think twice about installing it.

Flipping the option to download unsigned apps from outside the marketplace is also a user's choice on most Android handsets. Although, some carriers have disabled this feature (HTC Aria from AT&T for example).

Basically, they have put the responsibility in the user's hands; not in the hands of a large corp that makes the decisions for you. If you want to play in a sandbox and have somebody watch over you and hold your hand; buy an IPhone. If you want to have more control over handset, get an Android.

S

Comment And you found Slashdot..... (Score 1) 950

30 second google search could have spared you the ridicule you are getting here. They asked you to purchase a 'Strap' not a heart rate monitor first of all. That's for hygiene; the straps get stinky.... Second, they are not EKG machines for goodness sake.

Crawl back into your cave and protect your plot of land; they are coming to take it away from you.

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