Well, ok then: a synopsis: Google has by now pissed off enough people by their lethargic, lackluster attention to serious bugs that were introduced into Android by them (they own Android, of course the introduced the bugs, duh) back in November last year.
What's the bid deal? wifi either doesn't work in many Android devices running 4.2, or it works very poorly: packet loss, inability to connect to different routers. Bluetooth doesn't work. Why is it important? Because lots of Android devices turned into bricks when they upgraded to 4.2, that's why. Want to to know more? Do your quaint, archaic copy/paste url browser thing. On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Douglas Roberts <[email protected]>wrote: > Wow. I had forgotten that I was on a mailing list populated by dinosaurs. > Thanks for reminding me. What do you use, Russ. Mutt? Or Pine? Or mail. > Or do you just do "more" on /var/spool/mail? > > :) > > > On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Russell Standish > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Think of the people who do not read their email in a web browser. I'm >> one of those, and I have my reasons (over and above just being a >> curmudgeon, of course). The procedure here is: >> >> 1. copy the link, >> 2. start a text editor >> 3. paste it into a text editor, >> 4. remove spurious line feeds and continuation characters from the URL >> 5. copy the URL again >> 6. open a web browser >> 7. select "open web location" >> 8. paste the URL >> 9. press return >> >> As Glen says, unless there is a brief summary of what the link is >> about *in the email text*, one just won't follow the link. >> >> Even worse are those emails that say "click here". Supposedly, the >> "here" is rendered as a hyperlink, but one doesn't even have a URL to >> begin with. >> >> :). >> >> On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 03:03:42PM -0700, Douglas Roberts wrote: >> > </smartass-mode> >> > >> > >> > On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Douglas Roberts <[email protected] >> >wrote: >> > >> > > Well yes, but I'm afraid one, or at most two clicks are required. >> Here's >> > > the procedure: >> > > >> > > 1) Click on the link (I know, you wanted to avoid that, but...) >> > > 2) Squint at just the first sentence or two. If >> > > 2) a. the article looks like something you might be interested in >> reading, >> > > open your eyes more fully and scan to the bottom. Alternatively, if >> > > 2) b. the article looks completely unappealing, click the little "x" >> > > symbol in the browser tab containing the offending verbiage. >> > > 3) Proceed on as you were. >> > > 4) #endif >> > > >> > > >> > > On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 2:38 PM, glen e. p. ropella < >> [email protected]>wrote: >> > > >> > >> >> > >> Is there any chance you could post a little blurb to go with these >> links >> > >> so that we don't have to click the link in order to find out whether >> or >> > >> not we want[ed] to click the link? >> > >> >> > >> I've been rick-rolled enough to avoid clicking links with no blurbs. >> 8^) >> > >> >> > >> Douglas Roberts wrote at 02/01/2013 01:35 PM: >> > >> > Two of them, actually. >> > >> > >> > >> > http://things-linux.blogspot.com/2013/02/epic-fail.html >> > >> > >> > >> >> http://things-linux.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-natives-are-getting-restless.html >> > >> >> > >> -- >> > >> glen e. p. ropella, 971-255-2847, http://tempusdictum.com >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> ============================================================ >> > >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> > >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> > >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> > >> >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > -- >> > > *Doug Roberts >> > > [email protected]* >> > > *http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins*< >> http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> >> > > * <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> >> > > 505-455-7333 - Office >> > > 505-672-8213 - Mobile* >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > *Doug Roberts >> > [email protected]* >> > *http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins*< >> http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> >> > * <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> >> > 505-455-7333 - Office >> > 505-672-8213 - Mobile* >> >> > ============================================================ >> > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> >> >> -- >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) >> Principal, High Performance Coders >> Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] >> University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> > > > > -- > *Doug Roberts > [email protected]* > *http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins*<http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> > * <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> > 505-455-7333 - Office > 505-672-8213 - Mobile* > -- *Doug Roberts [email protected]* *http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins*<http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> * <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> 505-455-7333 - Office 505-672-8213 - Mobile*
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