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Re: Now We Get To See if Android Is Actually Any Good

Jeffrey Stedfast — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 07:49:27 -0000

1. Android phones were free w/ 2 year contract
2. Android phones were available on every network

It's hard to compete with free especially if it is also available on dozens of other networks that you aren't allowed to play on, especially when Verizon had such a huge marketing campaign to go along with it. If Linux could get that kind of marketing budget, I'm sure Linux would be far more widespread too.

Does this mean Android isn't as good as iPhone? Well, that seems to be the question this article is asking.

I'll tell you this, I switched from iPhone 3G to Samsung Captivate a year ago and have had nothing but problems with my Android phone. Crashing Contacts app due to having incomplete birthday information in my Google Contacts, Music player only finding 10 mp3's of my 15GB collection (until I reset my phone back to factory defaults and then plugged in my sd card again - which I seem to have to do every time I add more mp3's to my sd card), SMS's going to the wrong person, not being able to swipe to answer an incoming call due to so much lag, etc.

Didn't have *ANY* of these problems with my old iPhone.

Then there's the fact that it took 9 months for them to release an update to Android 2.2, whereas my iPhone was still getting regular updates even though it was already > 2 years old. Samsung & AT&T *still* haven't released Android 2.3 for my phone - when, if ever, will that happen?

I'm a Linux software developer and have been for 15 years so I'm no "Apple fanboy" and believe me, having to reboot to Windows to use iTunes to sync my music to my iPhone was annoying, but well worth not having to deal with the nightmare that I've been experiencing with Android so far.

I'm seriously considering buying an iPhone 5 when they come out even though I'll have to pay $650+ for one (since I still have a year left on my current AT&T contract) because I'm so frustrated with my Android phone.

Re: Announcing Xamarin - Miguel de Icaza

Jeffrey Stedfast — Mon, 16 May 2011 16:25:30 -0000

Correct, Attachmate still owns all the Mono IP. We don't know if they will try to continue development of MonoTouch or Mono for Android or not.

Re: Moonlight 4 Preview 1 is out - Miguel de Icaza

Jeffrey Stedfast — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:16:05 -0000

While I think Netflix is the biggest visible use of Silverlight on the *internet*, it isn't the biggest actual use on the whole (which is company internal-facing websites).

There aren't any .NET libraries implementing DRM that we can just dump into Moonlight, so that that doesn't help unfortunately :-(

Re: The GNOME+Mono hackfest is here, officially

Jeffrey Stedfast — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:43:58 -0000

Mono isn't going away, so I'm not sure where you get the idea that its future isn't bright. In case you hadn't noticed, Mono is becoming more and more widespread.

Re: Which would you choose as default: Banshee or Rhythmbox? [Poll]

Jeffrey Stedfast — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:33:16 -0000

I'm guessing it is off by default? I've never had Banshee rename files (and I know because I rsync my music between my laptop, android phone, and desktop)

Re: Which would you choose as default: Banshee or Rhythmbox? [Poll]

Jeffrey Stedfast — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:27:54 -0000

Usability seems to be in the eyes of the beholder. To me, Banshee is far more usable.

Re: Which would you choose as default: Banshee or Rhythmbox? [Poll]

Jeffrey Stedfast — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:26:23 -0000

That's not anything end-users are concerned with, it's what distro developers are concerned with (and possibly what app developers are concerned with).

Re: Linux for Consumers: MeeGo Updates - Miguel de Icaza

Jeffrey Stedfast — Thu, 27 May 2010 13:27:41 -0000

MeeToo ;-)

Re: CLI on the Web - Miguel de Icaza

Jeffrey Stedfast — Tue, 04 May 2010 12:06:46 -0000

Exactly - we're at a much more advanced stage than we would have been without XMLHttpRequest :-)

Re: Criminal Harassment by "Freedom Lovers"

Jeffrey Stedfast — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:26:14 -0000

*sigh* Some people just don't know when to quit :-\

I thought it was over the line harassing you and your employers, never mind harassing your family members too. I hope you can get this resolved without too much headache/stress.

If I happen across any information that I think could help you, I'll let you know.

Re: Roy Pulls Nonsense Out of Thin Air! (Again.)

Jeffrey Stedfast — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:50:28 -0000

Apparently some Canonical and Red Hat employees are also secret Microsoft moles:

irc-log-19112009
Ender2070_ its possible that closer to 10.04 they say "oh why not put this in to replace the functionality you lose by removing gimp" - http://code.google.com/p/pa... Nov 19 16:03
schestowitz Ender2070_: moles issue Nov 19 16:19
Ender2070_ moles issue? Nov 19 16:19
schestowitz The Microsoft crowd taking over development. Remember: the man who proposed this f-spot for gimp move is a former Microsoft employee, who now works for Canonical Nov 19 16:19
Ender2070_ can you link that? Nov 19 16:20
schestowitz http://boycottnovell.com/20...

And then we have:

http://boycottnovell.com/2009/11/19/fedora-12-gnome-winforms/

Roy Schestowitz Reply:
November 19th, 2009 at 5:50 pm

What I wonder is, why is there so much focus on comparing it to another operating system? This behaviour is worth treating as what it is, unless the one responsible was hired from Microsoft or something.

So here's Roy Schestowitz insinuating that Richard Hughes may have been a Microsoft employee, now a mole to destroy Fedora.

Stay classy.

Re: Roy Schestowitz Demands Expansion of "Godwin's Law"!

Jeffrey Stedfast — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:29:22 -0000

I would just like to point out the following snippet from yesterday's irc logs:

schestowitz Today I helped my brother with Windows
...
schestowitz He needed to get his laptop's screen extended to another monitor
schestowitz I did this with win98 when I was like 19
...
schestowitz You need to show them
schestowitz Saying, RTFM leads nowhere
schestowitz They don't want videos, either. They want a person showing them
_Hicham_ why not be that person ?
...
schestowitz But I don't want to be there teaching them how to use it

There's some other crap (the typical roy schestowitz conspiracy theory diatribe), but my point here is that my previous post is dead on.

He's incompetent as a "Linux Advocate". He can't even get his own family to run Linux because he doesn't want to do the heavy lifting required to help someone migrate to a new platform and apparently doesn't try because he doesn't want to teach them how to use it.

Like I said, he wants instant gratification and doesn't want to do the work to make it happen. No wonder he hasn't graduated from university.

Re: Roy Pulls Nonsense Out of Thin Air! (Again.)

Jeffrey Stedfast — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:58:12 -0000

Yea, that was hilarious. Even if all he read was the article's title, I don't see how he could have concluded Banshee had architectural problems... and then of course, the entire article was positive, basically saying "wow, this is cool!".

Re: Roy Pulls Nonsense Out of Thin Air! (Again.)

Jeffrey Stedfast — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:43:49 -0000

His allegations that Moonlight is a Microsoft product are also a lie, but what else is new?

Re: Roy Schestowitz Demands Expansion of "Godwin's Law"!

Jeffrey Stedfast — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:02:32 -0000

Who, exactly, is anti-Free Software? I don't think anyone here is anti-Free Software, just annoyed by Free Software zealotry which is doing far more harm to Free Software than good.

Let me ask you this: how many Windows users (being potential Linux converts) who have never heard of Linux are going to be hanging out in a Linux advocacy Usenet group? 0. How many of them are going to switch to an environment where the vocal members of the community are hostile toward anyone who isn't as zealous as they are or the same gender? 0.

So right there, we know that Roy and his cronies aren't winning any friends or influencing any people to try out Linux. So their "advocacy" is not working the way they pretend it is.

My guess is that they know full well that their "advocacy" was worthless, so they needed a new way to "become famous" - and along came the Microsoft-Novell deal (and as we all know, mindlessly attacking anything remotely related to Microsoft in the Slashdot crowd has always been instant success), so they decided to devote their pathetic lives to attacking the Novell Free Software developers and their projects with FUD and outright lies.

You see, Roy wants instant gratification, instant fame. He's not interested in hard work to improve the Linux Desktop for more people... because it's hard work. He just wants to be the center of attention and the easiest way to get that is to spread FUD about a group of people (while spamming it to every corner of the internet) and suggest that once that group is destroyed, all will be wonderful. Sound familiar? Why yes, yes it does. Hitler did the exact same thing. That's how he got into power. Schestowitz, being both a German and a Jew, must know this quite well and as far as I can tell, is trying to repeat history.

There's actually a lot of parallels to Roy Schestowitz and his Boycott Boys to the Nazi party. Their den of hatred. The anger toward a treaty and their use of it to sway the general public *emotionally* (not logically) in their favor. Their attacks on minorities (in this case Mono developers and women in Free Software). I'm sure there are others.

Re: Aleviating Memory Fragmentation in Mono - Miguel de Icaza

Jeffrey Stedfast — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:07:40 -0000

There will be a bit of extra overhead, but it should be very slight as you could use simple division to calculate which chunk to use (using the result as an index into an array of chunks), and then you would use the modulus as the offset into the chunk itself. Then there's another bit of slight overhead in doing some bounds checking to properly handle when a Read() crosses over into the next chunk(s). Doubtful anything that would be all that noticeable though, unless you were doing very small reads as Alan noted.

So, for example, if you wanted byte X in the stream, you would do:

byte[] chunk = chunks[X / CHUNK_SIZE];
return chunk[X % CHUNK_SIZE];

Re: Aleviating Memory Fragmentation in Mono - Miguel de Icaza

Jeffrey Stedfast — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:37:19 -0000

I'm really liking the idea of a chunked stream like this. Even once sgen is complete and deployed, a chunked stream will still be more efficient - not just in avoiding fragmentation, but also because reallocating a new, larger buffer, has overhead associated with copying the content.

Re: Matthew Garrett, on Leadership

Jeffrey Stedfast — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:52:19 -0000

Like people have been saying for ages, Roy lives in his own little fantasy land.

Re: Matthew Garrett, on Leadership

Jeffrey Stedfast — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:58:45 -0000

I think Matthew makes an excellent point here. We all do make mistakes, and what makes a great leader is someone who can acknowledge his (or her) own faults and correct them.

Re: A Quick Update: Next Stop, Amsterdam!

Jeffrey Stedfast — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:50:43 -0000

No one ever accused Roy Schestowitz of being honest.

Re: More IRC Fun! Microsoft Murders Mono Opposition! And More!

Jeffrey Stedfast — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:39:42 -0000

schestowitz [09:00] <twitter> "this guy from slashdot with 16 accounts" Oct 19 10:15
schestowitz [09:01] <ender2070> could've been lefty Oct 19 10:15
schestowitz [09:00] <twitter> "this guy from slashdot with 16 accounts" Oct 19 10:15
schestowitz [09:01] <ender2070> could've been lefty Oct 19 10:15
schestowitz Exactly. Oct 19 10:16
schestowitz Not only that, but I would rather not speak about people. Oct 19 10:16

uh... el-oh-el? There goes Roy chipping in with the insinuation against you. But he'd rather not talk about "people". Sure, after he makes an accusation he quickly pretends he's taking the moral high ground. What a douchebag.

I'm a bit surprised Jono doesn't see through their lies and bullshit.

Let's also not forget http://boycottnovell.com/20... where twitter ADMITS he has multiple accounts that he uses to spam and game the ranking system! And if that single confession isn't enough, http://slashdot.org/~SockDi... seems to list others as well.

Hello, McFly! Anybody home!?

Re: Terminology Wars II: "Free" as in "Open Source"

Jeffrey Stedfast — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:13:26 -0000

Yea, that's not hard to imagine :-)

Re: Terminology Wars II: "Free" as in "Open Source"

Jeffrey Stedfast — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:22:58 -0000

I guess I was seeing it as Roy being the Wormtongue to the Free Software community more than to RMS himself, although both may apply.

Re: Terminology Wars II: "Free" as in "Open Source"

Jeffrey Stedfast — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:00:32 -0000

That's an easy question. Roy Schestowitz is the Free Software's Wormtongue.

Re: Nobody is "Censoring Werewolves"

Jeffrey Stedfast — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:08:15 -0000

I think it's worth noting Bruce Peren's comment http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1...

It's good to see that he's come around.

Also, the first half of ESR's blog post where he complained about how it was censorship was just completely on crack. It's not right to allow that kind of hate speech to continue, dare I say, even on public spaces. I believe that one should be allowed free speech only so long as it doesn't infringe on anyone else's rights and hate speech very clearly does, imho.