Fair enough. It's so hard to know exactly who it is that's being a dick.

Errr... how do you figure that? All other things being the same then it would, but obviously weddings aren't all the same. That's the entire point, it depends on what you choose to do. A big wedding that ends in a houseparty with food by potluck is going to be less expensive than a small wedding in a fancy venue with a provided meal.

Also, parties are nice.

So what you're saying is that everyone considers you married already, so effectively you are. In your country it would be about publicly making a promise about the other person, and since that is assumed then probably no reason at all.

Other countries and social structures are different though, sometimes there's a legal benefit (ie some hospitals in the states have been preventing gay partners from visiting their other because they're not family, because they have no legal status and presumably the hospital staff have some bigoted beliefs, and without that 'bit of paper' they can enforce them), and sometimes there's a social or personal reason for making a public statement.

Great, the standard defence that gets us nowhere. PROVE EVERYTHING! Because if there is no PROOF then something cannot be SAID!

How the fuck you are supposed to prove that anyway I have no idea. But fine, hide behind your belief nothing happens unless it is proven. I'm sure it's a much nicer world to believe that.

I don't know how the hell anyone is supposed to come up with stats, but from the examples that are reported it seems pretty clear to me. Just go look up the fate of any woman who has dared to say anything about the games industry.

Both do, but it *is* sexist. It is far more widespread and vicious towards women. Ignoring that is not helping.

Er.... Yes it does. Absolutely it does, it's right there in the docs.

http://source.android.com/devi...

Each app gets a separate Linux user, so it's data is separate and inaccessible to other apps.

That's true actually, because we all know it's completely impossible to subdivide a millimetre. It's already been divided out of the metre! Split it any more and it'll shatter!

Well, I should have said 'unmetered'. Wired will always have the potential to be faster than wireless, and in any civilised country with a functioning telecoms market it will be.

You are aware of physics aren't you? You can't just keep adding cell towers, there's a limit to how closely you can put them together. The wireless bandwidth will always be restricted nomatter how much money you throw at it.

Fucking luddites on a tech site.

Yes, we have wifi, and bluetooth, and whatever, but LTE could be a technology to rule them all. Imagine having one protocol that could scale from pico home sites to nationwide networks. Having your phone connected to a home LTE hotspot that sits on your free fast wired internet connection, that then seemlessly hands over when you leave the house to standard mobile comms, or does P2P when you're physically near someone and need a photo or video from their device. We could do away with a whole bunch of different technologies potentially and replace them with one overarching wireless protocol that is better than them all.

When we decide that they are in a monopoly position. We might be getting there, but probably not yet.

Agreed. It's especially weird because as much as (non developer) 'analysts' go on about 'fragmentation', every other platform in computing history has had the same problem to deal with, and the world managed with them alright. iPhone, for its initial period, was the only client platform ever where you could assume hardware, software and screensize were all the same.

Hearing the wails from the iOS side of the desk about their new challenges this last week I would say that's at an end now though.

Frankly, as an Android developer since the 1.6 days, I find your numbers highly suspect. I have worked in several small teams with equal Android and iOS resources, and on every one the Android team has a much lower crash rate, no significant difference in bug rates, and has the same development times as iOS. There is absolutely no way it's as expensive as you're quoting to add devices.

Maybe I'm just an amazing developer, but I doubt it. Stick to the documentation and understand the system you're programming for, and you don't have to tweak for every device that exists. It's a pretty consistent platform in my experience.

*Sortof*. However, there is another effect that I've noticed as a dev, that when the majority of users do upgrade then app developers very quickly abandon support for the older OS, whereas Android devs know they have to keep stuff backward compatible so don't drop those old OS's as quickly. This means that your apps tend to stop getting upgrades if you don't upgrade your OS, and then stop working (most apps being network dependent and therefore killable by the software devs when you version won't talk to their server). So there is a strong pressure to upgrade.