Comment Sony has an Android watch ... (Score 1) 327
Sony does have an Android watch that is been out for a year or more.
But history will be rewritten so that Steve Jobs would be the pioneer of smart watches, and even doing so from his grave too
Sony does have an Android watch that is been out for a year or more.
But history will be rewritten so that Steve Jobs would be the pioneer of smart watches, and even doing so from his grave too
Sony already makes an Android watch, the SmartWatch
But this will be Apple's
I am a developer too, and English is my second language (I am from Egypt, and Arabic is my first language). When I learned programming, it was in English using English text books and magazines,
Once, after many years in development, I was supporting a place that got a software package developed in Morocco. French is the lingua technica there. So, the source code was totally unitelligible to all of us except one of the Moroccan developers who worked for the company developing it.
All the variable names and comments were in French, and did not mean anything to us, making the code very hard to follow.
With English being the language most used internationally for businesss and such, I imagine this is true outside of the Francophone countries (and perhaps Latin America too)?
Try the Sony Android phones.
I have the Xperia Arc, and its picture quality is amazing for a phone, or even a mid range point and shoot camera.
Despite the usual small lens and limited software from the camera application itself, the lens and the sensor are far superior to most phones.
About the only thing I miss is a proper optical zoom on it. If it had that, I would not be using my Canon SX20 IS camera.
If you don't like the user interface that the handset manufactuer cooked up and puked on your Android phone, just install ADW Launcher on it, and you get a functional as well as speedy.
I did that on my Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc to get rid of Sony's TimeScape.
I really wonder how you got modded up like that.
The military are not elected, and have destabilized the country several time by staging coupes, executing elected prime ministers and such.
Protecting the country against something unpopular is always a pretense to dictatorship and corruption.
The solution to elected radicals in power is preparing for an alternative via the political process, NOT by supporting miltiary dictatorship against elected officials.
Shame on an American advocating the miltiary toppling an elected government, no matter how repulsive it is.
If the terrorists figure this out they can just up the chatter until we spend ourselves into bankruptcy and fall like Rome. Then the terrorists win.
Why should the terrorists bother to bankrupt the USA, when the US politicians are doing that to themselves better than any terrorist have dreamt it to be
Pigeons are a delicacy in certain parts of the world.
If you ever visit Egypt's country side, you will find that it is dotted by tower like structures, which are actually nests for domestic pigeons. The chicks are "harvested" and eaten all over Egypt, before they fly and the muscles harden.
The same principle holds in Egypt: if you discover anything interesting while digging, you have to report it to the Department of Antiquities. They may take over the site and do a dig, or whatever they see fit.
This is why I know people, from Alexandria, who found Roman era amphorae while digging the foundation of their apartment building just take them home and never tell the authorities.
I myself have seen Roman earthenware come out on a government owned building when digging for a data center power cable. The managers just said keep quiet, otherwise it will delay our own project.
The stuff is not even sold or goes on the black market, it sits in storage at someone's balcony or dumped as rubbish.
The best product of Summer of Code is new contributors to open source projects.
An example from the Drupal community. The current maintainer for Drupal 8 Core, Angela Byron, was a student back in Summer of Code 2005, the very first year it was done.
Another example is the code for installing modules in Drupal 7 Core, which started as a Summer of Code project for Drupal 6.
There are other examples within this community of people who came and contributed and continued to contribute, or established their own consultancies, hence expanding the ecosystem.
Not every project goes to be a big thing, but the as a whole it is termendously useful.
Another benefit is that open source projects get some cash too from Google, in addition to cash going to the student.
Disclosure: I mentored for Summer of Code for several years. I got a T-shirt every year for the years I participated.
Maybe it was breezy in 2005 even
Mod the parent up.
Been using Kubuntu on the desktop, and in all servers I managed, be they in house or for clients, since 2006. Never had a dependency problem, nor a daemon problem.
Sent from a Kubuntu 12.04 laptop
Herbivore with tusks? That is unheard of!
They definitely do not exist.
This is just more and more balkanization of the North American mobile market.
Why don't we see this "different network, different frequencies" problem elsewhere in Europe and Asia?
We don't have most of these here in Upper Canada.
But being stalked by a cougar is cool. If you survived to tell about it that is. Did you blog it somewhere?
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