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How sweet it often isn't: Upgrading to Android something-point-something
I started my smartphone life on Android because there is a tiny part of me that will always be a tinkerer. I like to mess around with the insides of the mechanical, figure out how something works so that I can make it work for me. It could be that I chose Android because it was cheaper than what everyone else was getting. I still hold that I chose it because there was something else that pulled me towards that little green robot.
I could mess around with Android. Customize, tailor it to my needs instead of what was given. As I grew into a journalist with an enthusiasm for technology, I delved into a then-niche market of Android phones. But let me stop beating around the bush: I didn't want an iPhone because the people I saw using iPhones weren't like me.
They didn't tinker, they didn't yearn for something more within what they had. They were...content. It was uninspiring to me. I've come to learn about their side of things and see that they don't live a charmed life. Rather, it's my own want of tinkering that puts me through the paces.
And the pace was rapid. My first Android phone was bought in the summer of 2010. It was an HTC Desire running Android 2.1, codename Eclair. The delightful names of Android's operating systems had me walking around using desserts declaratively. "I want Froyo," I'd say, talking about the then-latest version of Android: 2.2. In Canada, I'd learn, we get everything later than our neighbours to the south.
But Canada wasn't why I had a phone with an older operating system. The fault was Google's and the rapid pace of their development. Their strategy was to keep making a "stock" version of the OS, let the manufacturers build the device, then let the cell phone carriers decide what to sell. Each moved at their own pace, with Google outpacing the bunch. On top of that, the software was a game of broken cell phone: Stock Android turned into skinned Android--manufacturer-added tweaks made to distinguish different Android phones under the guise of improving the basics. That turned turned into Android with bloatware on it--carrier-added tweaks that were half-baked services pre-loaded on the phone, again, under the guise of improving the customer experience.
The HTC Desire was a great looking device with a skin called Sense 2.1. In all honesty, it was incredibly usable and to this day, there are features that I want from Sense in stock Android. One of them was the awesome dialer and the other was a widget that would compose a message to a specific contact with one-touch. If you want to know partly why my fiancée and I are best friends, it's because that button made it oh-so-easy to email her about anything and everything. But Eclair was still lacking simply because it wasn't Froyo.
Ah, Froyo. The introduction of features like Wi-Fi hotspot and tethering. Features I didn't even use that often, but still coveted. Isn't that always the case? Sure, there were speed improvements, but Eclair was perfectly serviceable and Sense was harmless. It wasn't enough for the tinkerer.
I had to make the decision about whether I would take full control of my phone, sacrificing the warranty--"rooting," in the common tongue--to get what I wanted. But I'm of the belief that we nerds have to choose our specialties--we can't be everything. For as Indian as I am, I'm not actually the best at technical tasks. I understand machines, but I didn't know how to root a phone. I still don't, to a degree (more on that later).
So I hesitated, because rendering the phone useless was a real concern--the vernacular of which is known as "bricking" the device. I would constantly check forums to see when HTC and Telus (my service provider) would get their asses in gear to get me my Froyo. When it finally came, months after other devices had it, I was as happy as can be.
Until 2.3, Gingerbread, was announced.
My love of Android was starting to wane. You have to understand that I still loved Android's capabilities at that point. The ability to tweak the look of my device, the wonderful tools to enhance my growing use of Google services (predominantly Gmail) and the way third-party applications worked with the other parts of the operating system--I loved all of that unbridled functionality. In fact, some of those features still exist today and keep Android as a viable competitor to iOS.
But I was getting tired of being left behind. The pace of development was shrinking to a matter of months before the next new smartphone was on the market, offering something newer. I was hitting walls that other Android and iOS users weren't.
On top of that, Canada started being a problem because we have three-year contracts here. Give me a moment to say that this is a money grab, plain and simple. The big carriers (Bell, Rogers and Telus) charge us for 3 year contracts the same subsidized rate for phones being sold around the world on 2 year contracts. That's like saying you have to wear this ball and chain around your ankle for longer because balls and chains aren't easy to get for you and those other countries have more people wearing balls and chains and we want to make as much money in the ball and chain business.
Being weighed down also allowed the hardware to develop as fast as the software. Even if I did "root" my device to put a newer operating system (or a customized version, built by a passionate community), my phone would soon be unable to handle some of the fancier features. Phones were coming out with processors that were twice as fast, cameras that could take incredible pictures and screens that had higher resolutions. That is to say, you can put satellite navigation into a 1993 Toyota Corolla, but it still doesn't mean it's going to make it over the mountain in one piece. That might be an unfair analogy--I loved my '93 Corolla, that thing took us everywhere.
This drove in me a need for change. I knew I had to upgrade my phone and the decision wouldn't be made for the present, but for the future. By the time 2012 rolled around, I had watched Android grow from 2.1 to now 4.0 (skipping some numbers along the way). Meanwhile, I'll point out that the iPhone 3GS (the only viable non-Android option in my price range when I bought my Desire) was still holding strong and being supported by Apple.
That I had to think about the future of my phone made me realize how important these devices had become. It was like picking a kid's junior high school--would my next little Android get the care and attention it needed over the next three years? If my Android fell behind the other Androids, would it be left behind? Could I now afford something more expensive than the publicly-subsidized Android options, bypassing their limitations?
My Android education, thankfully, was a little clearer than in 2010. By now, Google had proven that its Nexus program was worth it. The Nexus program was a Google-built device to go along with their pace of software development--committment to at least one phone running an unskinned and unsullied version of Android.
I chose the Galaxy Nexus. Made by Samsung on the outside and Google on the inside, it was a lovely device that bested my Desire in a myriad ways. On top of that, Nexus devices would get updates as quick as Google would release them--no longer having to wait for a manufacturer or a carrier to get their act together. Until Android something-point-something.
By now, we were on Android 4.0: Ice Cream Sandwich. Compared to the previous iterations and even the competition, it really was a treat. Finally, I thought, a mature operating system that had a great design and functionality. A user interface that felt friendly, but still had a bit of depth for the tinkerer in everyone. Customizable, but clean.
Just like Android, I, too, had matured. I no longer wanted a device that was the fastest or the thinnest or the most feature-rich. I wanted a device for the situation I was in. It needed to last three years without failing me. It needed to upgrade for at least a couple of those years to not be unsupported. And it needed to constantly do what smartphones are supposed to do: make my life easier.
It's been ten months with the Galaxy Nexus and things aren't perfect, but they're far better than they would have been on any other Android phone. I took the plunge and rooted my device with the help of a friend more capable than myself. However, I learned what things I could do to become self-sufficient after that process.
We rooted my phone and, to use the appropriate term, "flashed" a newer version of Android onto the device. Google, for these Nexus devices, provides that stock Android version freely in the hopes that developers will find and create apps for it. In ten months, I've done this twice. The first version was Android 4.1, Jelly Bean.
The improvements between Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean were night and day as far as performance was concerned. It felt very much like the move to Froyo from Eclair and gave me the same amount of joy. Still, I need to point out the dejection I felt that my device still didn't get its updates right away from Google. I was under the impression that the the legitimate version of Jelly Bean would come to my phone through a system update, but it never did.
And soon, the tinkerer, yet again, grew anxious of what was within his grasp. So he took it.
The second version I flashed onto my phone upgraded it to Android 4.2 Jelly Bean (yes, the naming convention did not change between 4.1 and 4.2). I had to look up several times how to do this and failed until I got it right. That was part of the fun. Nothing broke, everything worked and that success after defeat feeling was ten times more powerful than buying a new, awesome phone.
With this upgrade came a few simple features that have existed in some form or another across a range of Android devices, but never in one place. It's still a wonderfully adult design, something I grow weary of looking for in iOS year after year.
As I had matured from the raving Android fanboy of 2010 to the balanced journalist of 2012 (occasionally in the field of technology), I began to use all devices to learn what made a good ecosystem and what didn't. I love my iPad for the inventive applications, the dedicated support and the feeling of never being left behind. People say Apple iterates their products, making the buyer feel like they have an old piece of crap in six months. But do you know how easy it is to upgrade an iOS device? Just say yes a couple of times and boom, you have iOS 4, 5, 6 and eventually 7. Android still faces the problem of the fractured relationship between Google, the manufacturers and the carriers.
I will, however, always remain an Android phone user. The level of efficiency I've reached with my Galaxy Nexus is perfect for all the enjoyment and productivity I need. But that comes with the caveat of being a tinkerer, a chaser of the dragon called tailored perfection. I'll need a new phone eventually, but until then, I'll keep chasing Android something-point-something. The paces I put myself through are worth it for who I am now. But as I keep analyzing and changing who I am, I can only hope that these electronic shadows can keep pace.


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SSIS Quick Tip: Required Parameters
SQL Server 2012 introduces the new Parameter model. Setting a parameter's Required property to True means that a value must be supplied at runtime by the caller of the package (dtexec, SSMS, SQL Agent, the Execute Package Task, etc). This means that although the parameter has a default value at design time, it will never … Continued
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Logging Levels Packages run through the SSIS Catalog can automatically have their logs captured in SQL Server 2012. The SSIS Catalog provides four different log levels – None, Basic, Performance, Verbose. The default log level is Basic. The table below shows which SSIS events are captured in the [catalog].[operation_messages] view in the four logging levels. … Continued
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Over the past few months I've been working on a book for SQL Server 2012 entitled – SSIS Design Patterns. I'm co-authoring the book with a fantastic bunch of SQL Server MVPs – Tim Mitchell, Jessica Moss, Michelle Ufford, and Andy Leonard. Details are now available on the Apress website and Amazon. SSIS Design Patterns … Continued

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Mayer Brown Holds First Annual Pro Bono Awards Program
On November 15, 2007, Mayer Brown held its first Annual Pro Bono Awards Program to recognize the efforts of our attorneys and staff, and to honor those lawyers, practices, and offices that made extraordinary contributions in 2006. The event was hosted by the firm's Chairman, Jim Holzhauer, with participation from all US offices via videoconference. This inaugural awards program was just one of many endeavors the firm is engaging in to raise awareness of the importance of pro bono work, and to promote the efforts of all our lawyers who have given their time and their skills to help others and to ensure equal access to justice.
Awards this year were handed out in six categories, with winners from nearly every US office. In addition, each award winner designated a legal services organization, public interest organization, or charity of choice, to which the firm will make a financial contribution in recognition of their award. Awards and recipients were as follows:
Office of the Year
was awarded to Houston, which averaged 97 pro bono hours per lawyer, had a 60 percent overall participation rate, and a 78 percent participation rate among associates. The office's most extensive work has been in the area of asylum and immigration, and work on behalf of death row prisoners. A six-year effort in one of those cases resulted in the court vacating our client's death sentence. The office's tremendous success was also aided by the sizeable contribution of its real estate group, which nearly doubled its pro bono hours from 2005 to 2006.
There were two winners for
Practice Group of the Year
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New York Real Estate Practice
, which averaged 83 pro bono hours per attorney and had an 83 percent increase in pro bono hours from 2005. The majority of those hours were spent working on loan transactions for the Corporation for Supportive Housing, an organization that provides funding to help communities create housing with services to prevent and end homelessness.
The second award went to the
Washington Litigation Practice
, which averaged 100 pro bono hours per lawyer, had an overall participation rate of 70 percent and a nearly 100 percent associate participation rate. The group's pro bono cases ranged from saving poor tenants from eviction to arguing an immigration case before the Supreme Court. Lawyers in the Washington litigation group also worked on asylum, public benefits, domestic violence, human trafficking, and death penalty cases.
Project of the Year
was awarded to the Los Angeles Adoption Project. Since 2001, the Los Angeles office has worked with the Alliance for Children's Rights to help finalize the adoptions of more than 200 children in foster care. The project has involved lawyers from almost every major practice group in the office, including litigation, corporate, bankruptcy, government relations, real estate, and finance.
Litigation Matter of the Year,
there were three winners:
State of Illinois v. Larry Lee
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team devoted more than 1100 hours to the successful defense of an innocent man accused of a serious felony. The team of Chicago lawyers on the
case included partner Jonathan Medow, associates Doressia Hutton, Shauna Fulbright, and Keona Carter, and Marc Kadish, the firm's Director of Pro Bono Activities and Litigation Training.
Riggs v. Fairman
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case involved the application of the California three-strikes law, which resulted in our client being sentenced to 25-years-to-life for shoplifting a bottle of vitamins. Palo Alto partner Don Falk took the case in 1999, and joining him on the team during the seven years of litigation were New York partner Lauren Rosenbaum Goldman, and Palo Alto associate Shirish Gupta. Together they devoted almost 2000 hours to securing our client's freedom, which he finally won after spending 10 years in prison.
Guantanamo Detainee Litigation — the third litigation award was given in recognition of the efforts of all the firm's lawyers who have been involved in the Guantanamo detainee litigation. Since the fall of 2003, Mayer Brown lawyers have been actively involved in every phase and aspect of this high-profile litigation challenging the U.S. government's detention of alleged "enemy combatants" at Guantanamo and elsewhere. Gary Isaac accepted the award on behalf of all the involved attorneys, which includes Philip Lacovara, Partners Robert Helman, Andy Pincus, Jim Schroeder, Adrian Steel, and Jeff Strauss, associates Emilie Beavers, Jeff Berger, Catherine Bernard, Steve Kane, Lauren Frank Noll, Liz Oyer, Andrew Schaefer, Matthew Sostrin, and Andrew Tauber, and paralegal Steve Wells.
There were two winners in the category of
Transactional Matter of the Year
Nadar Por Vida — the first award went to the team of lawyers working for Nadar Por Vida, an outreach program where kids – most of whom are Latinos living below the poverty level – learn about the importance of education, overcoming prejudice, racism, language barriers, and more, all while learning to swim. With the help of Mayer Brown attorneys, Nadar has been able to incorporate as a not-for-profit organization, and to raise funds to increase the number of children it reaches and expand its programs. The team of lawyers on the Nadar project includes Washington DC partner John Hahn and counsel Linda Rhodes, and Chicago partner Rich Assmus. Together they have devoted over 150 hours to helping the organization.
SKS Microfinance — the second award was given to Chicago partner David Carpenter and associate Paul Breloff for their work on behalf of SKS Microfinance, an India-based microfinance organization that provides small loans to poor women for a range of income-generating activities. To date, the firm has devoted more than 400 hours to SKS. When Mayer Brown first became involved with SKS, the most pressing need was to raise capital in order to serve more people. David played the central role in organizing and coordinating SKS's first round of equity investment, which resulted in one of the most significant and heavily publicized transactions of its kind in the microfinance arena. Since then, David and Paul have worked with SKS on a second round of equity, which closed in March 2007, and together the SKS team has devoted more than 400 hours to our client.
The final award went to the Chicago Stockton School Reading Program as
Community Service Project of the Year
. For the past 13 years, the Chicago office has participated in an educational program with Stockton School, where 90 percent of the students live below the poverty line, and 20 percent come from homeless shelters. Together with our program partner, Merrill Lynch, lawyers and staff from the Chicago office conduct reading days once a month, and sponsor an end-of-year field trip. Until last year the reading program was managed by Michele Gossmeyer, the program center manager for the IS Department. The program is now being managed by Tiffanie Brncich and Kristy Cole, both with our Knowledge and Web Solutions Department.
In addition to these awards, the event also recognized and honored those lawyers who, in 2006, met the firm's Pro Bono Challenge goal of devoting 60 or more hours to pro bono work.
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I also gave proofs of love by doing more cheerfully the little things Jamie asked me to do. When he said, "Would you do me a favor?" I answered, "Of course!" instead of asking suspiciously, "What's the favor?" When he asked me to help him find his keys, again, I searched without giving him a lecture at the same time. I made more of an effort to keep the kitchen tidy, because I knew that a messy kitchen made him crazy.
An unexpected benefit: As I started giving more proofs of love to Jamie, he started giving more proofs of love to me. I told him that at a book club meeting, my friend Jane mentioned that her Quaker grandparents, married 72 years, always said that a married couple should have an outdoor game, like tennis or golf, and an indoor game, like Scrabble or gin, that they played together; the next day, Jamie surprised me by bringing home a backgammon set.
But I didn't want to limit my proofs of love to my husband; I also wanted to give more proofs of love to my children and one important way to show love was to pay attention to them. I asked myself, Am I cheerfully agreeing to pick something up, drop something off, look something up, or reschedule some playdate? Am I swallowing my impulse to nag, to criticize, to point out mistakes?
I extended this resolution to all the important people in my life. I e-introduced two people who ended up becoming roommates. I helped a messy friend clean her closets. Of course, I still overlooked far too many opportunities to give proofs of love, but by constantly reminding myself of my resolution, I did a better job.
To my surprise, I found that not only did my proofs of love make others feel more loved by me, but they also made me feel more loving toward others. One important lesson I've learned from my happiness project is that although we think that we act because of the way we feel, often we feel because of the way we act. A very effective way to change my emotions is to act the way I wish I felt; "fake it till you feel it" really does work.
For example, one of my proofs of love was to plan an elaborate party for my mother-in-law's milestone birthday. The party was fun, but it was a lot of work, and I'm not the kind of person who enjoys throwing parties. While I might have predicted that organizing the party would make me feel resentful, in fact acting in this loving way amplified my loving feelings toward everyone in the family.
Feeling more loving toward the people in my life, and having them feel more loving toward me, was a change that absolutely boosted my happiness. Ancient philosophers and contemporary scientists agree and this comes as no surprise to anyone that having strong, affectionate bonds with other people is a key to happiness. In fact, it may be the key to happiness.
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Posted By Enrique Manalang On March 14, 2013 @ 3:10 PM In General Tech | 6 Comments
37-year-old Jarad S. Carr decided it would be cool to start printing some fake money with an inkjet printer. But Carr finds out that said inkjet printer is inadequate for printing fake money that would fool people over the age of 3. He decides to pay his local Walmart in Wisconsin a visit and return the printer.
Unfortunately for our brilliant counterfeiter, the employees at Walmart refused to take the printer back. Carr then goes on to argue with the employees, in hopes that he'll be able to return it and at least get some of the money back.
But you see, there was a slight oversight in Carr's plans. When he brought back the printer in his attempt to return it, he didn't remove the sheets of paper that he used to print out the fake money. So upon close inspection of the Walmart employees, they saw that one of the sheets had fake $100 dollars printed on it. They then proceeded to stall Carr while discreetly calling the police.
Eventually, the police arrived and while Carr initially attempted to resist arrest, he was eventually brought into custody. Turns out, the guy was already wanted for armed robbery and burglary in a nearby county.
It also turns out that you can't print fake money with an inkjet printer.
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Johnny Cash once said "You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut; and you've got to make them think that you're one of them sitting out there with them too. They've got to be able to relate to what you're doing." Well that's exactly how the Texas music artist Casey Daniels writes and performs his songs straight from his heart and from his gut.
The Denison native, has been writing and singing songs about his life and personal experiences all over Texas since 2009; and has carved out a great path in the Texas music scene so far, and is only growing more and more every day. Gaining a lot of loyal fans with his first single "Country Wild" off of his debut album "Wild Saturday" gave him and his band some success on the Texas charts. The album talks about Casey's life growing up in a small town in Texas, and it brings new meaning to what a Texas Country artist is all about. He was named the Texas Select artist of the month for October 2013, and has shared the stage with fellow artists such as Stoney Larue, John David Kent, and Ray Wylie Hubbard.
Casey picked up a guitar and started writing his own songs when he was 18 years old. "I didn't know much, but I knew that I loved the country greats like Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, and Hank Williams, and I just wanted to write and sing songs just like them." He said "I just want to tell my story through my songs, that's where I let my guard down, and get personal." He started out just playing songs for his friends down by the lake and has since turned into playing concerts all across Texas for large crowds he would of never dreamed of playing in front of.
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USDA chief: Rural America becoming less relevant
WASHINGTON (AP) — Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has some harsh words for rural America: It's "becoming less and less relevant," he says.
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The Livestock Marketing Information Center (LMIC) is a unique cooperative effort among state university extension specialists, USDA economists, industry cooperators, and center staff. Cooperative efforts and programs greatly reduce duplication of effort and enhance the overall quality and quantity of livestock market information for producers and other decisionmakers.
Currently, 28 state extension services participate in the LMIC— Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. Each of these extension services is part of its state's land-grant university and appoints a member to the center.
USDA members of the LMIC represent one of six federal partner agencies. Those participating agencies are Agricultural Marketing Service, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Economic Research Service, Grain Inspection, Packers, and Stockyards Administration, National Agricultural Statistics Service, and the World Agricultural Outlook Board.
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