Posts by Ilgaz 1245 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Jan 2009
Install both opera mobile and new Firefox, both can sit in sd card. Firefox guys also promise an arm6 release once things settle.
They are both way better than google chrome. They can't even release it for Android 2.x. Funny thing, people don't think about possible Android 5 only updates. They happily ignored 80% of their own market you know.
I will happily ignore chrome for a long time (forever) while I somehow paid for it.
Ignore the pre installed browsers as long as you can since they are coded without competition in mind, without ambitious developers. Why bother if they will have your application installed anyway? That is how opera, Firefox guys do crazy things to support both Android 2.x and 4.x because they want to be chosen by end user/ enterprise.
When I first switched from Amiga to PC, evil PC shop sold me a Pentium 75 overclocked to 120 mhz. It took a week to figure the amazing amount of restarted msdos sessions, games dropping to command etc.
These guys really know the PC jungle, tricks stupid shops do etc.
They don't talk about real overclockers. They warn against thieves. They know who will customer blame when they see bsod: them.
On Mac, if you see the more stylish kernel crash, you immediately suspect memory. On Linux, you -again- suspect memory or your freak hacks while building kernel.
On win, you suspect nothing, you directly blame Microsoft since their image is horrible, majority of users are not advanced etc.
Honesty from Microsoft risking flames of overclockers.
Why not tell the side effects of using horrible, untested RAM just because it is cheapest?
ECC isn't that luxury anymore too and doesn't need "server/ workstation" class mainboards.
OK, enjoy your bsod andb saved (?) money, just don't call people stupid when they opt in for better reliability instead of 500 fps.
Gnu guys have been shy about it for ideological reasons but every single Android means a Debian stable installation/ use.
Based on google numbers, there are 300M (million) Debianb Gnu/ Linux installations which are in active, end user and enterprise/ government "desktop" use.
Now do you understand the panic of ms?
Oh, while on it, every iphone& iPad in use means freebsd/bsdlite install.
Linux/bsd users should state these facts in every opportunity.
If I was google, I would try really hard not to remind their domination to public.
Just like Internet explorer, Mac safari google chrome isn't really purely choice of users.
It doesn't come with os of course, it comes on world'sn dominant page.
There is no "get Firefox", "get ie" (as it is compliant now) or "get opera" there.
What is next? Brag about toolbar?
Send/ file or participate (if existing) in a bug report voting/ testing of the issues you mention. No arm assembly knowledge needed.
Their gigantic size may fool you but Mozilla Firefox is a pure open source project. A lot of stuff you see in application are results from end user, noob, enterprise, mit professor alike feedback.
People using Android, a lot of them use it because there isn't any other choice. People don't trust to google too (yes, average) and thanks to the anarchy in market, several assholes exist on Android market. Nobody (except very technical) knows what the hell is going on with their private data.
Companies, including google are very unresponsive to feedback too.
Now there is this thing which is completely open source, has developers which you can even irc coming to market and this time it performs too. Also it runs on 95% of devices.
So, this is big news, really big for mobile.
Ps: not a fan really, just stating facts via opera mobile on Android.
We just need another Tesla. Electrical engineers hate us telling this but just imagine Tesla had access to computers with today's knowledge.
It is 2012 and all we talk is whether a magnet need for a copper or its plug standard. Typing this on a dual core htc which I will have to plug soon. Nobody sees how pathetic it is? :)
If you went to a venture capitalist saying you will setup a business oriented social network, he would open internet explorer and show you linkedin.com homepage and various Intranet stuff from IBM etc.
Of course, if you go to ballmer, he pays you billions from shareholder money.
The os itself is designed to be customizable by vendors and user in insane levels. There are Nokia launchers made by hobbyists which are so perfect that you can't figure device running Android. Even a windows phone launcher exist.
Actually, lets say google lost all "look and feel" cases. There is nothing they can do as os design allows third party screen lockers, launchers and keyboards.
By the way guess where all symbian techie users and advanced developers are? Android.
In 21St century, one doesn't expect a government to save a company but look to other things like social peace, defense and regulation.
Another things governments do is espionage and counter espionage. Just get rid of "bond" image. These days, everything is finance. By the way, you don't prison or assassinate your evil guys. You just do planned, small leaks.
Nokia symbian share was high, it was at absurd, undeserved levels so it was leveling down. Meego? Did anyone except google fans and media who is fed by google see future in Android? People were asking what was wrong with Java micro. It was looking that pathetic and see what has it become.
Nokia could have kept qt plan, don't be such ignorant, nobody cares what kernel it run as long as there its an unified API covers everything. Apple can switch to windows nt tomorrow and nobody using iphone would notice. That is how large API works.
Publicly giving up symbian and meego. That made everyone suspicious as there was no need.
Don't be surprised if it needs windows 9 and obviously, win 8 handsets won't be upgraded.
This isn't the Microsoft we all know and hate/ respect for backwards compatibility. This is a small gang who puts a gigantic company to the bet and leader is ballmer. Microsoft we know would shave off features and make sure last major version owners get the upgrade.
Stay away until ballmer gets the boot.
First of all, nfc isn't some Sci-fi tech everyone is dying for. My $200 Huawei has it, my HTC high end doesn't.
Difference between them OS (and app) wise is zero. I just don't see apps strictly needing nfc on my HTC . That is all.
There isn't an os in IT history that needs multiple cpu/ core to function. Obviously, high end games or apps would be a disaster speed wise but just like Android, you can hide them from low end devices.
You asked for it ;) http://www.answers.com/topic/blinkenlights
ACHTUNG! ALLES LOOKENSPEEPERS!
Alles touristen und non-technischen looken peepers!
Das computermachine ist nicht fuer gefingerpoken und mittengrabben.
Ist easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und poppencorken
mit spitzensparken. Ist nicht fuer gewerken bei das dumpkopfen.
Das rubbernecken sichtseeren keepen das cotten-pickenen hans in das
pockets muss; relaxen und watchen das blinkenlichten
Anything comes with GPL carries a very serious ideological background with it. No, it is not "communism" or USSR, red scare.
Apache, bsd licenses also carry an ideology, they just have a different take but very similar.
If you want serious suits, aix/ win or z/os are your options.
You know, opengl ES exists because of a need. It is there because the "real" opengl doesn't fit to small devices. Just like Java Me, one day, Android happened.
One day, soon, this limitation will cease to exist and that time, ATI and Intel, even VIA will enjoy their community developed, tested and mature, cpu agnostic drivers.
I was seriously bugged by ATI/ amd not shipping official win7 driver for the graphics chip they put inside their own chipset (trivial for win) so I bought a low end gpu from nvidia since they keep supporting their own stuff.
I don't even like nvidia but their policy forced me. there is a similar/ supported gpu from ATI but what happens in 2 years?
You don't gave slightest clue about why open source enterprise has been success. It has "benevolent dictators" which doesn't give a F about corporate double speak, games behind others back or underserved politeness.
Lets say IBM plans to port openbsd to mainframes and they keep bugging Theo with stupid questions. The manners won't change because of @IBM.com mail, he will get exact same response as some @aol guy.
Open source is beyond those .tar.bz2 files, it is a way of acting/ behavior and direct relations.
If Nokia didn't bug the project, a huge amount of Android software was using qt right now.
Can you believe port of qt to the most important mobile operating system (as ios not possible) is done by a single person who doesn't even work for Nokia? It was, for a period. Don't know the current situation.
As trolltech was a very successful and seriously managed company, we forget their size. Nobody in today's environment would leave them to Nokia's hands and they are easy to buy.
I just wish some really big and mature company like IBM buys it so commercial software guys feel safe.
Qt became this far without Nokia at first place. All Nokia did was hurting its well deserved prestige by trying to fit it into incapable devices, trying to convince developers "it is Nokia future" and slowing down its progress into things really matter (tablets).
Nokia have really hurt the project enough but as it already have established base& trust in both commercial and free software, nothing serious happened. It could be worse.
I know you are joking but the task they try to accomplish is really insane.
They will disassemble that gigantic piece of evil genius team's code, hex by hex and will try to figure what the hell it really does/ did and capable of.
They have clearly noticed a pattern in a module, that is all. Nobody, except some guys in an secret underground silo/ data center has access to real source code. Or, based on their style, it could be in an internet Cafe middle of nowhere. The genius trick is, it didn't really try to hide at first place so heuristics failed miserably.
What if the virus politely knocked door to see if there are any clever guards in PC? I use commercial antivirus and there is no way you can add your stuff to startup out of nowhere (e.g. System idling).
I bet they also do some kind of early "check" to see if system is capable of heuristics.
I get to choose my own hardware and I don't want to use any Ms os because I don't like the way they are managed. Yes, simple as that. I believe, with their current way of doing things, even if they hire Knuth, Linus, all Android team and Apple developers, their product will still be lame, under performing.
If they live their own long deserved nightmare IBM lived in 90s and decide to act like a mature company, things will change.
Bing maps? Never used since I own an Android which they don't release software for.
So, is Bing a service of Ms or some kind of punishing other os users thing?
You know what? I own a high end Android and I still miss google maps & youtube of my Nokia symbian e71. Knowing what kind of mess it should be to support symbian, they have my respect.
Ms can't even separate a "service" from "operating system". They think people will give up Android for that windows maps thing. Believe or not, that is how their mind work.
Knowing Japanese, I admire their "use technology when it really enhances a process" and "don't re-invent wheel" attitude.
Is there a more practical/ fast way to send less than 5 pages to another location? If there was and they ignored it, that would sound weird. The real issue is ever rising need for paper.
Perhaps they don't see the point of modern way. The point is, sending couple of pages to another location right?
On fax: put them to feeder, enter number, press start button. You will also know they are there, physically or digitally.
On "internet": boot win, find the awkward scanning application generally outsourced to some Indian company or coded by Chinese, find "document" setting (they are always set to photo), downgrade resolution (or you will get 1200 fake dpi), select tiff or pdf as file type (not jpeg!), scan, find file. Should I continue to "mail" part and tell the funny part where recipient's mailbox is full because of funny cat photos so it bounces?
Really, which way is practical?
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