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Posts by Chris Lowe
11 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Jan 2010
Huge fat pipe squirts mighty streams
Popular gamers 'should play for free' – Valve boss
Microsoft sends in the tanks against Motorola, Android
ARM flexes muscles with fivefold performance boost
Cops taser Somerset chap's nether regions
Sam Mendes to helm new Jesus Phone ads
L'Orange and T'Mobile: Together at last
Carrier apathy depresses Google Phone outlook
Monday 15th March 2010 02:10 GMT
TCO? Surely N1 is way cheaper
"TCO for a Nexus One over 18 months with *similar* services available to O2 iPhone users (*unlimited* Wifi, Data etc.) approx £1100, same period with O2 for 3Gs? 16GB £879 32GB £979. It's even less for the iPhone over 24 months. Just saying like..."
Bought an N1 from the US for £390 (*including* VAT); Can get SIM only contract from Virgin with 300 anytime/anynetwork mins, unlimited texts and unlimited internet for £18/mo. Add £80 or so for a 32gb microsd. That makes the N1 about £800 over 18 months. I'm sure there are other options. And IIRC Virgin Mobile use O2 for the HSDPA/3G and T-Mobile for voice, so I guess that's similar enough to the iPhone offering?
This approach has minimal lock-in, so Google could release another phone in a year or so (A "super-duper" phone?) where I'm sure I can get a good price on eBay for my N1, upgrade to the new phone for significantly less and not have to sit out the remainder of a 24 month contract...
The N1 is an absolute belter - I've never used a phone so much, highly recommended.
Oracle should cannibalize JavaFX Frankenstein
Friday 19th February 2010 12:53 GMT
@joeuro
What version of Java do you have installed? Try updating to 1.6.0_18 from java.com. There has been quite a lot done to improve start up speed of applets etc. JavaFX requires at least 1.6.0_10 to run, so your JavaFX installation process may have failed because of that?
There is still more to be done with the start up performance and the installation process, IMHO, still leaves much to be desired. I find the Flash installation process very user friendly and actually quite slick.
Also - I have also seen AV software such as Kaspersky *absolutely murder* JavaFX startup time. Unfortunately that is out of JavaFX's domain.
As for ugly applets, that's just FUD - it's not the fault of the technology, that's just sloppy programming. Anyone can pump out ugly ass apps in Java, Flash or whatever.
And if your wish comes true for the burial of AWT, Swing and JavaFX, what exactly are you proposing takes their place?
Google yanks IE6 love from web apps
Monday 1st February 2010 23:53 GMT 
@AC 22:16 - no this is big cahunas
Given the hold IE6 has in the enterprise, I think that making this announcement at such short notice is actually quite brave on Google's part.
Hopefully now with Google leading the way it will encourage many other companies to follow suit and we can finally prise IE6 from the clutches of the enterprise and get on with writing better web apps.
Good riddance to IE6 you will not be missed.
Firefox 3.6 goes live and final
Friday 22nd January 2010 01:04 GMT
Chrome dev channel 100/100 in acid test
@Jacko - interesting, I'm using Chrome 4.0.295.0 from the dev channel and it passes the Acid test perfectly.
Good luck to this FF release, I still use FF quite a bit and there is still much to like - this release definitely feels more responsive, esp. at start up. I was also getting about a 25% boost in the Sun Spider test.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
