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I fail to see what's funny about Caster Semenya (you spelt it wrong, btw). She was born with a strange medical condition. Hardly her fault, the poor girl.
Sorry, I laughed at your reply for at least a day before I could reply. *wipes tears from eyes*
Just a couple things me old banana-skin:
If you wish to correct my spelling, its best that your own post is shorn of similar errors. May I inform you that when describing a verb "spelt", the word to be used would an adverb. Therefore "wrong" should actually have been "wrongly".
And thank you for the personal attacks.
Personal attacks? I am suspicious that you would fail to recognise a personal attack from a Victoria Sponge.
Also, so that I stay "in character"...........here's another gross inaccuracy. Caster's mother had her prick chopped off when "she" was born, having recognised that she was a hermaphrodite, and thinking that no-one would notice. Obviously Caster was/is mostly male, with testes, but the vagina fooled her mother, and the bush doctor(?). We can say "she" as that what she was made to grow up as, but "she" is actually a "he".....as far as chromosomes have shown, and of course, she has nuts.
If Caster were to choose a singing career, she could be a South African Lady Gaga. Or isn't she that already?
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For me, its going to be a toss up between the Motorola Milestone and the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10.
The Nexus One does look amazing, but I just can't help feeling that this is Google beginning to dominate a market, in the same way that Microsoft had. I'm just feeling slightly suspicious, that Google is creating a hardware, reliant on their software services, and without them, the phones will just be bricks.
True, the X10 is not being released with Eclair, or even 2.01, but it will be updated relatively quickly after launch.
The Qwerty keyboard on the MILESTONE, seems to have unanimously underwhelmed all its reviewers. So much so, that they have also nearly all agreed, that it is no advantage over the virtual screen keyboard.
Even though I'm clearly a fan of breaking away from Microsoft products - is Google just another Microsoft in the making? Its making the Nokia N900 seem much more attractive to me, since it is truly the closest to a Linux phone (in my opinion). Maemo is a close derivative of Debian.
Still, I'm closer to buying the Milestone, maybe in a week or so....but am hankering after the X10.
*EDIT*:
The Nexus One specs, make me think that HTC/Google have finally found the iPhone-killer they've been desperate for. We shall see.
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The Nexus One does look amazing, but I just can't help feeling that this is Google beginning to dominate a market, in the same way that Microsoft had. I'm just feeling slightly suspicious, that Google is creating a hardware, reliant on their software services, and without them, the phones will just be bricks.
Even though I'm clearly a fan of breaking away from Microsoft products - is Google just another Microsoft in the making? Its making the Nokia N900 seem much more attractive to me, since it is truly the closest to a Linux phone (in my opinion). Maemo is a close derivative of Debian.
It's taken you this wrong to realise that Google might be actually doing this for their own benefit? No shit, Sherlock. They have a virtual monopoly in online advertising and what to protect that. The way the internet is accessed is changing with the majority of users now using mobile phones rather than PCs as their main method of access, especially in Asia. Google recognise this and realise they need to do something about it. Don't ever think they, or any other American corporation, is some kind of benevolent force for good, their motives are profit and shareholder value.
As to the comment that they could dominate the market in the way Microsoft have, that is highly unlikely, especially given their current market share (Android based products have less than 1% of the global mobile phone market). It's a very simplistic view to think that one player can dominate the mobile phone market, or any other market for that matter. Many have tried and almost without exception have failed.
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Adobe Flash 10 on Motorola Droid (Milestone)
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/mobile_demos_fp10.1/popup11.htmlAdobe Flash 10 on Nexus One
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/mobile_demos_fp10.1/popup10.htmlMotorola Backflip will rollout with Android 2.1 and Flash 10.1
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Have you tried PDAnet? Works for Android on t-mobile:
Just spotted this on the iPhone thread... Installed it on my MacBook Pro/Hero and the speed is amazing... Streams BBC iPlayer with no problems at all, probably even faster than my broadband connection... Nice one, David... And it's totally free...
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As to the comment that they could dominate the market in the way Microsoft have, that is highly unlikely, especially given their current market share (Android based products have less than 1% of the global mobile phone market). It's a very simplistic view to think that one player can dominate the mobile phone market, or any other market for that matter. Many have tried and almost without exception have failed.
I agree with this, but I would also add that Google doesn't actually need Android to dominate mobile platform market share in order to succeed. Google's revenues are (mostly) driven by online advertising (which it does dominate) and Google wins if more people use mobile online services that Google can place advertising in.
Android is a way of pushing the industry in a direction that suits Google with regard to key technologies that enable its web services and ad placement; and it's also a way of accelerating the use of mobile internet services by the mass market (growing Google's audience for advertising).Google can still "win" (by this I really just mean "make a fuckton of money") without Android taking huge market share, as long as it can hang onto its dominance of advertising as the web goes mobile.
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In reference to Teenslain's above post, the Motorola Milestone doesn't tether without the PDAnet solution.
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Just spotted this on the iPhone thread... Installed it on my MacBook Pro/Hero and the speed is amazing... Streams BBC iPlayer with no problems at all, probably even faster than my broadband connection... Nice one, David... And it's totally free...
Dale, get a Hero... You know you want to...Yeah - it's a cool app isn't it! Only downside for me is they've not yet sorted it for use with Linux. If anyone knows how to tether a G1 with a netbook running Ubuntu please let me know. Er btw wtf were we both doing on the iPhone thread?
In reference to Teenslain's above post, the Motorola Milestone doesn't tether without the PDAnet solution.
A real bugbear for those (like me sometimes) who connect their laptops to 3G speeds via their mobiles.GA2G - I don't get your post. Did you mean the Milestone doesn't tether with PDAnet?
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In reference to Teenslain's above post, the Motorola Milestone doesn't tether without the PDAnet solution.
A real bugbear for those (like me sometimes) who connect their laptops to 3G speeds via their mobiles.There's some other work being done for Droid tethering without needing PDAnet. No idea how it compares as I don't use either.
http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/issues/detail?id=205#makechanges
alldroid.org/viewtopic.php?f=210&t=778
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goodhead: Checl android-wifi-tether:
http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/wiki/FAQ
A lot of it mentions how shit Ubuntu is for adhoc wifi but there are some versions that appear to work. Have a look, since you might be able to upgrade your laptop and get it rolling.
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In reference to Teenslain's above post, the Motorola Milestone doesn't tether without the PDAnet solution.
A real bugbear for those (like me sometimes) who connect their laptops to 3G speeds via their mobiles.Yeah - it's a cool app isn't it! ....GA2G - I don't get your post. Did you mean the Milestone doesn't tether with PDAnet?
Sorry goodhead if you did not get my meaning.
So when I wrote, "*the Motorola Milestone doesn't tether without the PDAnet solution*", it meant the same as
"*the Motorola Milestone will only tether with the PDAnet solution*".I would obviously prefer not to use a third-party app, and wish the Milestone had the built-in ability to tether natively.
Maybe I should have rephrased what I had written, since I had believed that everyone knew that grammatically, a double-negative is a positive.
Next time I will try to be clearer.
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Sorry goodhead if you did not get my meaning.
So when I wrote, "*the Motorola Milestone doesn't tether without the PDAnet solution*", it meant the same as
"*the Motorola Milestone will only tether with the PDAnet solution*".I would obviously prefer not to use a third-party app, and wish the Milestone had the built-in ability to tether natively.
Maybe I should have rephrased what I had written, since I had believed that everyone knew that grammatically, a double-negative is a positive.
Next time I will try to be clearer.
Aah - gotcha. No, you just had me wondering whether any android phones are able to do that - i.e. tether without use of an app.
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Some ass stole my G1... I will never get an android again because of it.