Posts by James Hughes 1 2645 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Jun 2009
Is a comparison of these actual cameras vs the best of the phone cameras (I believe the Nokia N8 is the current top of the tree?).
Now that would give credence to the 'camera phones not good enough' statement. Judging by some of the example shots in the review. the N8 would beat them....(I don't have an N8 btw, but have seen some very good images from one)
Have to wait till they sober up though.
In other news, once knew a doctor who planned to take up smoking when he retired, as he knew it wouldn't have time to kill him before he died of old age. He wasn't expecting the stroke that killed him 18 months after he retired though.
So, are you saying that Google look/scan the contents of the private documents you store on their servers via apps? And use that data for advertising purposes? Or sell it on to others?
Is that specifically what you are saying? Do you have any evidence to support that statement?
Has this to do with trusting Google? Or are you just using it as a chance to have a go at them?
As for me, I haven't blocked Google space, so I still find stuff (both on the net and in the real world with maps), and I still have a working email account. Never had any actual problem with Google. As I doubt anyone else on here has.
And require QA testing way more complicated/comprehensive than anything anywhere commenting here has ever done.
You argument for failure could apply to almost anything that's landed on Mars or the moon. for example, SPirit and Opportunity required aeroshells and massive airbags to land. Not quite as complicated I suppose, but you don;t wnat a puncture. Th manned lunar landings required rocket descent then ascent (not required here) and they went OK.
What you want then is not reviews, but well written marketing material.
They are two different things. reviews are written by people who have experienced what is being reviewed, marketing is written by marketing people paid to write nice things about the experience, who may not have experienced it.
Whilst many reviews may be poorly written, at least they are (or should be - see article) honest. Honesty is not necessary a word often associated with marketing materials.
is that even the 'professional' writers have never done or been to the place being reviewed. So are therefor not in a position to write a review in the first place.
For example, would you think it a good idea if I wrote a review about your handle, NomNomNom? From that I can deduce you are an overweight virgin, with BO and small genitals. And look, I've never met you or know who you are. But I wrote it professionally, so that's OK then.
If you had read the article, Google have put the concept to the W3 to make it a standard. i.e, not proprietary if it gets accepted.
And as for the lower priority thing, it's only an obvious optimisation if each tab is on a separate thread or process (as is done in Chromium), otherwise you would need some pretty good single threaded code to work things out. Not sure which other browsers do it that way.
Also, just dropping the priority wouldn't be as good as the page itself dropping its requirements - even at a lower priority the page would still be doing everything it did before, albeit more slowly, which leaves a lot of scope for better optimisation if the page knows it's not visible.
Since I am not a gamer who goes for the shooters etc, I'd be interested to see what Nintendo can do with games like Mario Bros, Mario Kart, DK Country Returns, Zelda's etc, when given a lot more horsepower. I'm thinking some really good cartoon graphics on the way.
HD goes without saying, unsure about the controller but being able to play entirely using it without the TV means you can vacate the room when needed. Seems like a good idea. As long as the price for a second controller isn't prohibitive of course, you can have people paying against each other in different rooms. Nice idea.
That Nokia are finding themselves in the poo. Their hardware really is much better than the others, just let down by less than stellar software. To be honest, the software is pretty good, but just not as good as the competition. Feature wise the phones are right up there - the N8 has the best camera, and a very solid feature set. Just not the GUI bells and whistles that everyone wants.
Next phone I get will be a cheap Nokia - the cheap SS I have really is diabolical. Don't want a smartphone (even though I work on smartphones for a living), just something that can actually makes calls from home (which the SS fails at abysmally). That means a Nokia. Shame that there is so little money to be made at the low end.
But you seem to be blaming the BBC for your buying of a non-Freesat standard card. From what I have read, S2 is part of the freesat spec, your card doesn't do it, so why should you expect the BBC to be alpha, beta whatever testing of cards that don't meet the spec?
I may have misread you post of course....
Hard drive speed 100MBytes/s. Probably.
Most ADSL connections, 8Mbits/second download, 1MBit/s upload. Sometimes.
Anyone fancy syncing their photo collection at those sorts of speeds?
Nah, didnt think so.
Until conections to the net catch up there will always be a need for local storage, and HD are the cheapest way of doing it.
Every mobile phone (not talking apps - talking the code that make the phone work), uses multiple cores and multiple processors to get the required performance at low power (and hence GHz) rates. There are quite a few very good coders out there working in that area (Usually C rather than C++, dropping down in to assembler where necessary). It's not just mobiles of course, many embedded devices are just the same. Being competent in concurrency is more common than a lot of people think.....
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