Posts by KjetilS
209 posts • joined Friday 18th December 2009 07:43 GMT
Posted in Google pools cloud storage
Re: Photo Backup
DropBox might be an alternative?
$200/year for 200GB, or $500 for 500GB
Re: Remember citizens
So far this year, more toddlers have killed people than terrorists have.
The Government should ban toddlers!
Re: Competition on Desktop
"Google on the other hand, (...), are not after your wallet they are after your soul.."
I don't believe I have a soul :)
Re: When will we able to define *which* WiFi connection to download apps over
Atleast on Jelly Bean you can tag WiFi connections as being a mobile hotspot, which will make Android treat it as a mobile connection, and not a regular WiFi connection.
Settings -> Data usage -> (options key) -> WiFi zones for mobile
(Translated from my native language, so sorry if the option names are wrong)
Posted in Galaxy S4 radiant, but has black holes
Re: Understanding what is Android and what is not
You're not talking rubbish. This is indeed how Android works
Re: Split
MS gift standards to the world (OOXML)
Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Oh wait, you're serious.
OOXML was a rushed job to stop OpenOffice getting a foothold in the public sector, and they even had to fill the standards committee with their own "partners" in order to force it through.
On the part of it being a "standard", not even Microsoft's own software follows the spec.
Re: EU competition chief & Google..... cosy as FINANCIAL REGULATORS & BIG BANKS...?
The uppercase was for emphasis to ease speed reading.
I'm not the AC you replied to, but if that was your intention, you failed.
@m a d r a
It's not Java based, as it's neither written in nor runs Java
Re: Not just sharks
To quote The Science of Discworld
"It may not be politically correct to say so, but most primitive humans did as much environmental damage as their puny technology would allow. When humans came to the Americas from Siberia, by way of Alaska, they slaughtered their way right down to the tip of South America in a few tens of thousands of years, wiping out dozens of species – giant tree sloths and mastodons (ancient elephants, like mammoths but different), for example. The Anasazi Indians in the southern part of today’s USA cut down forests to build their cliff dwellings, creating some of the most arid areas of the United States. The Maoris killed off the moas. Modern humans may be even more destructive, but there are more of us and technology can amplify our actions. Nevertheless, by the time humans were able to articulate the term ‘natural environment’, there wasn’t one. We had changed the face of continents, in ways big and small."
Re: Java applets
Atleast it wasn't ActiveX :P
Posted in Boffins shine new light on dark matter
Re: Confused
Pass straight through it? Just like neutrinos do with ordinary matter
You're asking users to stop and think; that right there will stymie most people. Have you never done technical support before?
I have, and you're right. I try to forget that fact :)
What's so difficult about pasting the public dropbox link for the file in an email and send it?
Re: @Rampant Spaniel: Rights
the law simply prohibits the jury in a criminal proceeding from making this obvious inference
Yes, but this isn't a criminal proceeding.
"Nothing to hide, nothing to fear"
I want to set up 24h surveillance in this guys living room. I don't see why he should protest, as long as he has nothing to hide.
Re: Finally a use for QR codes
My guess is that the program required to generate and display a QR code is quite a lot more complex than the ThinFilm circuits can handle
Re: And just how much is the Oracle RDBMS going to cost?
It seems like we have our very own Oracle employee on this forum
Re: Doesn't need to hand it over
Skype stopped being proper decentralized p2p after Microsoft bought them, so it's not improbable that a central supernode can alter the routing of your calls to go through a central server to facilitate wiretapping.
it's worth remembering that a replacement case was promised, and demonstrated, for the Galaxy S3 but never materialised - we asked Samsung if the S3 case will ever be available, but the company isn't saying.
Samsung did make one, but for Verizon only, iirc. There is also a bunch of third party ones available on ebay, Amazon and other places. The third party ones are usually Qi compatible.
Reliability might be a factor
Once upon a time, Acer actually made good, reliable laptops with good performance for a reasonable sum of money.
These days, they seemed to have changed that strategy to making the cheapest possible kit, no matter how many corners they had to cut to do it.
I might consider them again some time in the future, if they start making laptops that doesn't fail with the black screen of death as soon as you sneeze too close to them.
These days I'd go for Asus or a Thinkpad instead, depending on the price range.
The real question is...
Was the allegation against Apple true or not?
tt-rss
Based on someones mention further up, I installed TT-RSS on my server, and it's quite good actually. Almost as good as Reader.
Looks aren't too different from Google Reader, and you can import the xml that Google gives you, so no need to re-enter feeds.
There's also an Android app (there might be one for iOS as well, i haven't looked) that works. It isn't as good as the Googly one, but it's good enough, imho.
Maybe they would regain sales if they actually started making decent laptops again? 10 years ago, Acer was one of the few brands that sold solid, reliable and cheap computers. Nowadays, they're only cheap.
Re: 100 Mbps
FTTP/H (fibre directly to the premiss/house) very rare and costs a lot of money
I wouldn't say it needs to be.
Our local ISP has been doing this for a few years now, and their prices are very reasonable imho.
They charge £450-500 to connect you to the cabinet, and that includes pulling fibre from the cabinet to your house and wiring up the fibre-to-ethernet adapters.
People in the UK might think the monthly cost is steep (~£55/month for 25/25mbps, ~£65 for 60/60mbps and ~£115 for 100/100mbps), but they DO deliver that speed continously, both on and off peak hours, and it's not THAT much more expensive that a good DSL package.
Re: 50GB dropbox?
Buy a high end Samsung, and you get two years of 50GB free
This actually sounds like a very clever way of stealing. Thankfully, they weren't clever enough to get away with it
Re: Fantastic!
Sounds like you might want to try Cyanogenmod
Re: Nope
Good point. I didn't think of that
In my (admittedly simple) mind couldn't this be solved by not billing for 3G data when using a femtocell, while still billing for broadband data?
Techdirt goes deeper into detail on what exactly happened in this case here, and it does seem like the DOJ i trying to weasel themselves out of a bad position.
Posted in Boffins develop microwave weed-zapper
Re: Microwaves do wonders to DNA, yay!
Source please?
Re: AND ALSO
[citation needed]
Re: I think...
It looks like they *do* put just as much thought into their security as their DRM. Not very much, that is.
The court had already ruled that they would not accept the "evidence", therefore it is impossible for Samsung to leak it, since it per definition wasn't evidence.
Java?
I'm amazed no one has said this yet... Android does not use a Java VM!
The Dalvik VM used by Android is sort of almost language compatible with Java, but the compiled bytecode isn't.
Re: Just in case anyone hasn't heard it...
Downvoted since it has been said far too many times in each and every comment thread. Sorry. Here, have a beer instead
That is basically what they're doing.
Re: Sir
After he made his opinions perfectly clear, it is probably for the best if we just let him fade into obscurity.
Posted in Review: Apple Mac Mini 2012
Re: ARM
AFAIK they've got way to go until they can release a desktop product that is as fast as the current crop of Intel Core processors.
Do they really have to be? I would think the crucial part would be if they were fast enough
Re: US Anti-trust Laws (@Robert Grant)
Apple doesn't have anything close to a monopoly...
Re: LOL. They are protection that allow inventors to come up with a new idea and profit from it
... have Richard $tallman levels of mental illness.
Usually, the use of $ instead of 's' in a name, either company- or personal name, signals that the entity is more interested in profit and money than anything else, often with a complete disregard to others.
I would really like to know how you think Richard Stallman fits into that category.
Re: Less filler and more information
So it's okay for this computer to be a real pita to upgrade, since Apple will happily sell you a completely different and more expensive model where it's not?
Re: Browser agents
The other browsers use webkit (Safari) as their rendering engine on iOS, so in reality are only a skin for Safari.
Re: Good timing
As long as the car supports Bluetooth A2DP and preferably AVRCP, it should work on most, if not all Android phones, regardless of version.
Re: Nokia lost it
If the chinese can make a usable 7" tablet with capacitive screen, android 4.1/4.2 and all the other stuff you'd want for $70 shipped, I don't see the problem of making a small touch-screen phone for $50 subsidy free.
Re: onchip raid
I thought this was exactly what both Intel and AMD do on their consumer chipsets? Most "normal" motherboards include RAID functionality built in, but they all use the installed CPU instead of having a dedicated raid processor.
It's quite a bit cheaper than having a dedicated solution, and most people don't notice the difference.
Re: No fridges or freezers
i thought one of the problems with heat dissipation in space was the lack of oxygen. Iirc, heat needs to go from one medium to another, and that doesn't work very well in a vacuum, like space.
Re: Could be a result
Or to look at it the other way around... Some of the "journalists" are so piss poor that they have troubles even giving the "product" away.
People might be more inclined to pay for something of quality.
