Posts by Robert Forsyth

Nokia 1.2M units per day in 1Q10

from http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1372013

smart-phones per day

267k Symbian

117k RIM

93k iPhone OS

I agree

and I said as much six months ago or so.

I was trying to point out to our Windows and Mac OS using cousins that what with Linux you get a range of choices from fast-simple to rich-slow(er). The fact the window decoration doesn't match, doesn't stop you logging in with the matching desktop - all your files are still there, not like dual boot extra hoop to jump through situation.

I run KDE 4.5 on a netbook and it is only about 20 seconds slower to login than a lighter desktop - I like the potential of the Plasma widget 'app store' , although I'm only running a weather and a calendar widget in addition to the standard ones.

USA survey non-World view

If it is not made in North America it doesn't count as a smart-phone.

I'm with you

Re: Good luck with that

I cannot find my crystal ball, but...

One idea is you write your application in a sort of high level (3D iconic) script, and the parallel processing works out the best way to make it parallel.

An event driven web-page (RIA) is almost parallel: some animated objects are running by themselves (providing a human followable transition between states), while the user manipulates the space, while an calendar event fires, while your mobile device finds a better connection to the internet, while your location is used to find helpers or friends and alert you of their presence, ...

I'm sure many web browser users read one tab while another is loading.

The trick is simple processes, complex data space.

Re: Absolutely NOT token ring.

Yes, not Token Ring, but more like packet switching like used in Cambridge Ring and cell phones

Re: 3D Camera

It has '3D' microphones, but only one image sensor. It determines depth by the size of the ball on the Move controller.

In reply to earlier post...

I have a wireless mouse and keyboard connected to my PS3, but I don't think many games support it.

Re: First Class Java Alternatives

I think the First Class refers to function objects like JavaScript (and PostScript) have. Functions that can passed about like other variables and created at run-time.

May be the idea is to compile JavaScript into Java, or to keep up with C#.

Re: Surpise

A long long time ago, it was rumoured that if you created an ordinary user account named "root" on a MSDOS/Windows machine, when you connected to an Unix machine, that machine would assume you were that Unix machine's system-admin. Obviously, that is MS Windows fault.

Samba is the effort of reverse engineering MS's file-server and RPC protocols to serve Linux files to Windows machine, because Microsoft wanted the ability to lock users into Windows and did not want to use the several standard systems available.

Which popular distros make it easy to login as root?

Most Linux distributions make it easy to login as a non administrator.

Although they have stupidly copied Windows pop-up, OK, infect, if you tick the remember password checkbox.

History is written by the winners

Extracted from Wikipedia

1973 UNIX

1983 Gnu

1983 Coherent (UNIX clone)

1989 NeXTSTEP (Mac OS X ancestor)

1990 EPOC16

1991 MINIX (Linux ancestor)

1992 Linux

1993 Win NT (Win 7 ancestor)

1996 Win CE (Win Phone ancestor)

1996 Java

1997 EPOC32 (Symbian ancestor)

1999 Mac OS X

2001 Symbian6

2001 Series 60

2005 Android

2005 Symbian8

2007 iOS

2008 S60 5th Ed

2009 Android 1.5

Re: I don't quite understand

it is web based - the programmers / developers use their browser to (group) edit the program source files.

Re: Meaning

If X (or 0X) signify the hexadecimal, then E would be 14.

As VS pointed out 14 was 13, so perhaps XE is 14. Leaving the problem of JT.

I suspect XE was cross-compiler/platform edition, but the name superseded events. An Android version would require Java, perhaps JT is Java Time.

Re: Why make the search page busier than it is now?

KDE has been doing this for a while on its application, email, and desktop search.

Re: 220 Apps and counting?

Any application that loads documents and components / plug-ins / filters / etc.

Make shopping quicker

by not going shopping.

It's what is in the water that is new

Not what is on top

Phased lights

Along roads like Marylebone Road did, supposedly, have phased lights that should allow you catch each green light if you travel at the right speed. On my bicycle, I could keep up with enough greens, for my use of the road, but that is probably only 15 - 25 MPH.

Would 3G divide them

Wife and child have Nokia phones with S40 that do maps, web browsing, email, etc., but only connect via 2.5G (whatever that is). You can also download Java apps from the Ovi app store, not that I've tested the feature. The little ones (emergency) phone was around £50, a year ago.

What smart phones have, may be, GPS, 3G, Wi-Fi, bigger screen, touch screen...

I can do both

on my Nokia: download to PC update over USB or download to phone over WiFi, 3G, or GPRS, then it updates itself.

My guess

$1M converted to £ then back again on different days

Xenix ran on IBM AT 80286

I'm sure Xenix ran on the IBM AT with Intel' 80286/80287 running at 6 MHz

I agree, a few Taxis are like this

but I've not cycled much recently and I'm a 6 foot bloke, so my perspective might be distorted.

The buses don't try to hit you, they just don't see you, especially bendy buses.

In the past, cars and mini-cabs were the worst, they cannot believe a cycle is faster than a car (in London)