zsouthboy

Signing up to be notified of "my city" doesn't seem to work in Opera 11 or Chrome latest on Windows.

I call bullshit. If you have flash disabled or set on-demand in your browser preferences, there is no change in the overall speed or responsiveness of your device, in comparison to flash not being installed.

Check again - this isn't independent OLED key screens like the Optimus was/is. It's a single, plain LCD underneath some hard plastic keys with a window in the right place.

Market costs $25 to submit to, as well.

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Browser error

Your browser is not compatible with the application (supported browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome)

(Running Opera on OSX.)

EDIT: it's worse than that, read the bottom of the sys requirements: "Note: The user must have administrator rights to the computer he is using."

So they're installing some shitty Windows-only plugin?

I don't know about others, but we put all our iSCSI stuff on a physically disparate network, separate NICs, separate switches.

Doesn't help if someone has physical access to the datacenter, but that's a given.

It's a SAN device with a ton of drive bays. We've got a few and they seem pretty speedy, haven't had an issue with them. I'm already investigating what generation we have - but I'm almost certain our initial setup on at least one was using the admin !admin credentials, which means that it's documented _somewhere_.

I use tasker to emulate a feature that Apple devices have: separate volume levels for speaker and headphones (not sure why Android doesn't already have that).

Set a task that runs when headphones are plugged to set the media volume to x, and an exit task to set it back to y when they're unplugged. Simple.

More interestingly, he(Martin Kool) wrote an interpreter for the old Sierra adventure games engines. Notably the engines use GOTO statements which javascript doesn't have an analog of, so they compile the entire thing into a giant switch-case statement. Nifty!

This is much more impressive than it looks, I feel. Saving/loading games by using a browser bookmark? Multiplayer?

I sadly feel we'll never have cars that drive themselves.

The first time, ever, one crashes, regardless of the circumstances: "COMPUTER DRIVEN CAR DEATH! DO COMPUTER CARS MAKE YOU UNSAFE?" is shouted from the media rooftops, citizens get outraged, laws are passed, and we're all doomed to sit in traffic and continue to lose many lives to manual driving forever.

It certainly doesn't help the cause to come off as a crazy timecube looking website.

Will someone please release an API so I can write a printer driver and we can print directly to our ebook readers already?

The APIs that have been available so far (AFAIK - someone please correct me) for any of the readers have been lackluster.

>Google will be able to exert more influence on carriers and manufacturers by withholding the Google apps and Market when certain conditions are not met.

Google already does this. Android is free for anyone to use, but if you want the Market and the Google branded Apps, you have to go through a round of certification. The process is testing for compatibility, among other things.

(This is the reason we keep seeing cheap Android tablets pop up without the Market application installed - they haven't gone through the process.)

Most carrier/OEM customization of Android is at the UI level. As a developer, it's understandable to not have all the different devices with different capabilities, but if you code as recommended and don't make assumptions about what the user has / doesn't have available, your application will work pretty much anywhere that the Market is installed.

Null Pointer Exceptions don't happen because the phone's OEM or carrier changed something - they happen because the code went ahead and assumed something worked correctly that did not.

(NPEs are the most common reason I've personally seen applications crash on my own devices, I have no data to support an assertion that that is the main cause of Force Closes, however)