Posts by petur

who can blaim them?

Somebody most have told them about the >40% margin Apple has on the products...

Basic misunderstanding of G+

If people are *following* you, they are not in your circles, you are in one of theirs. They aren' t friends either.

Spent too much time on facebook? :P

"Meanwhile, Google is very secretive about its user metrics - a fact that allows critics to assume the worst about the service."

Does Facebook share its usage statistics?

only 17%?

When I was made redundant (years ago), the outplacement agency told us to focus on our social network (real one, facebook didn't exist yet) for job opportunities. And that's how I found mine...

Schiphol

Does anybody know what kind of scanners they have installed at Schiphol? I had to go through one of them some time ago (as in, walk in, stand still with legs spread and arms up, wait for some mechanism to do a sweep around me), and the operator was right next to it, looking at the screen.

I'm currently using a Flukso (https://www.flukso.net/) to monitor 3 AC circuits and solar (pulse), looking at capturing the gas meter via an additional pulse input. Limited graphs but enough to be useful in monitoring your consumption

Or they could have given linux more attention

Seeing how well the N9 was received, image where Nokia could have been if they had not treated Maemo like a research project, but put some real development force on it years ago.

Maemo had lots of features years before others, like the way the address book is integrated in all the services for example.

Bias alert

"The problems have been many. Honeycomb 3.0 was frankly a bit half-baked at the time of release. Example? No support for Micro SD expansion or USB peripherals"

And how exactly is that a problem compared to your ipad is an ipad is a walled garden with no expansion possibe and propietary connector?

Apple fanboi is hurt?

"So as unfortunate as the iOS vulnerability is, it's worth remembering that what Miller is able to achieve with InstaStock is essentially what has been possible on Android handsets for more than a year"

Thanks for exposing yourself as fanboi ;)

(I care about the facts, not the added emotions)

Not an operator problem

It is only an operator problem because the operators want it locked down and under their control. This means also doing the support, so I'd say it's their own damn fault. Let it cost them millions!

Ewww...

So they can spend tons of effort on a project, and when it is almost done, have a meeting to see what they want and if this project fits? Sounds like the right management technique. Not.

Freetards

Who do you think pays for the bandwidth, storage and development of gmail & co? So you're happy with the free and excellent e-mail (before gmail arrived, NOT ONE provider offered such a usable and extensive webmail package), but not so with them using the data to serve you targeted ads? You're always free to set up your own server...

And I don't care if some algorithm analyses my data so that Google can show better targeted ads, thus allowing it to get more money from these ads. As long as it is only an algorithm, and the analysis and data stay at Google. Which is what the audits are about.

fanboi alert

"In amongst all the necessary stuff the current International Space Station crew needs will be the first fondleslabs in space."

Makes it sound like the ipad is essential for the crew. Not.

/me hits the fanboi alert button

worse....

it should never accept commands that are lethal. I've done work for a well known medical company in the past, and I was amazed by the amount of securitychecks in the firmware, no way you could give it a command that would be fatal. Injuries, yes, but it would catch any typo of a nurse...

Duh'

Since the market for disks and processors does the same thing (ie bigger model for same money), this is a nobrainer... And afaik all computer brands do this (keep price, up specs).

Expect it to boom bigtime

Once Android 4.x sourcecode is out, expect a whole bunch of tablets with it swamping the market. Will do to the ipad what the android phones did to the iphone.

Meanwhile, I'm still left wondering what a tablet is good for, now that I have one....

I don't want this in a research paper

I want this in my devices. Now.

Source?

Everybody seems to repeat everybody else on this news... but where is the source?

Got a problem with mobile linux?

Mobile linux not breaking through has nothing to do with technical arguments... I love the way maemo works, I would have loved MeeGo too (bar the DRM crap), and I'm certainly going to love that Touchpad when it arrives tomorrow.

Coded in C/C++, it will always give you the best performance and easiest way to port software on it.

I don't get it why El Reg finds its (commercial) failing so amusing. You also enjoyed VHS so much (knowing the technically much better systems)?

You+

You mean +You of course

Author read fail

missing link

Scan the barcode, you get an identifier of the product. Database of shop holds the relation between this code and the price.

So the shop owner must pass that on to paypal? All sounds more complicated than the article suggests....

HP Touchstone

Now that I got my hands on a touchpad, I'll be getting a touchstone as well: a wireless dock (stand) for the touchpad. But it does way more than the powermat: The touchpad talks to the stand, this includes a unique ID, so you can let the touchpad start an app or show different content based on the stand it is in (home/work for example)

I do hope they (HP) patented this just to annoy Apple :)

Not only Google does this

Microsoft and many others are doing exactly the same (location database), and none of them offered an opt-in either, so this article is another sad excuse at Google-bashing. Shame on you, El Reg.

As far as I'm concerned, anything you can see from the streets or pickup from the airwaves is public domain.

Are you complaining that the road map mentions your street name? That nearly all GPS devices know exactly where your house number is (physically)? That your name appears in the telephone directory (unless you pay every month to keep it out)?

The wifi MAC list is a nice example of making good use of technology to assist navigation/location services, nobody is invading your privacy.

I see platforms with MeeGo drift by from time to time at work, it certainly is being deployed, just not as visible and as such most commentards and the author of the article are totally unaware of it.

Namely, the place where the origin of MeeGo was (Moblin), in-car entertainment and navigation systems.

Some big name car brands are using it but you'll never know

@Lusty

And I can show you several websites that have models that look very much like the ipad. Except that I won't, because I don't feed trolls.

1) being without a government (executive power) doesn't stop the working parliament (law-makers) from making laws...

2) It is probably proposed in Dutch because Dutch is one of the 3 languages spoken here....

Forget forking

Forking means (in the end) incompatibility. Will a handset/tablet manufacturer risk being known as 'that Android platform where not all apps work on' ? Guess...

At first thought, forking is so obvious, until you start thinking of all the consequences. Suddenly it is *you* that has to do the maintenance and development, *you* have to make sure you stay compatible, *you* have to merge in those shiny new features that the official platform got. And for what gains?

Many embedded platforms I know are bloody expensive and you are *still* at the mercy of the vendor to get bugs fixed and features in. This one's free, and fairly open. Smile and be happy, you clearly haven't seen much of the embedded world.

Competition

Why would I get this expensive Roomba if I can get a Samsung Navibot that is not only cheaper but also much faster thanks to its mapping software.

I have to admit I must let the Samsung do the room twice before I'm totally happy, but that still is way faster than the Roomba.

@Wam

Office 363, actually (and counting)