Posts by Bub
21 posts • joined Thursday 22nd July 2010 11:38 GMT
Napster - other platforms
Why "N/A" for other platforms for Napster? It certainly works on Sonos for example.
She was speaking at the BPI. Of *course* she was going to slam Google.
The personal view is the point of the article. The author is not saying, "Everyone must aspire to raising a family". He is saying, "ambition is a personal thing". Your ambition (chilled life), the author's ambition (a family), Sandberg's ambition (COO of major tech company) are different. He's saying it's unfair for Sandberg to criticise others for having different ambitions to herself. Of course, it's quite right to criticise organisations that have "glass ceilings" preventing the realisation of ambitions of those who do.
Seems fair enough to me.
Whilst no-one believe Google is saintly in all respects, it certainly can't be accused of *started* any patent war. When search was on the rise, they didn't build up an arsenal of patents on search then aggressively go after Microsoft and Yahoo. (Perhaps they are regretting that now!)
Posted in Sony Tablet S
Not adding IR to PS3?
PS3's remotes work via Bluetooth - so IR is redundant - sure the question is, why doesn't the Tablet S have a Bluetooth remote app (integrated with the IR one)?, not, why doesn't the PS3 have IR?
Posted in Put down the Java manual
C++ on a cheap netbook
I would imagine the system requirements for learning C++ are similar or lower than Java. All you need is a cheap netbook, gcc and emacs. As opposed to a cheap netbook, javac and emacs.
But Microsoft does consider just "Windows" a trademark
See http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/en/us/IntellectualProperty/Trademarks/Usage/Windows.aspx
Posted in iPlayer Global iPad app price announced
"Ripoff Britain"
God that phrase makes my blood boil, as every time I read it a mental copy of the Daily Mail pops unwanted into my head. Enough to completely spoil my afternoon.
Posted in Ten... fantasy swords you wish you owned
Surely Nothung should have a mention?
As it was broken, and reforged by a hero seeking a ring of great power - and corruption - at least fifty years before Narsil.
Posted in iPad 2 spawns updated iOS and apps
"the ability to send your edited vids to ...
...YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, CNN iReport, and your iTunes library"
Surely MobileMe too?! I hope!
Not magical and revolutionary
Just practical and evolutionary. Which is fine.
Posted in Killzone 3
AI
It's interesting to hear the reviewer's opinion that the AI is dumb - many other reviews have presented the polar opposite - one in particular mentioned setting up bot vs bot matches and watching it play out. I'll be interested to see - mine arrived today! (my copy of Killzone 3, that is, not my artificial intelligence.)
"Contactless"
I didn't think that contactless cards (ie Paywave etc) make a connection to the bank at all?
Many Nokia shareholders aren't idiots..
.. given the share price has dropped 20% since the Microsoft deal was announced
http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&chvs=maximized&chdeh=0&chfdeh=0&chdet=1297761299645&chddm=1955&chls=IntervalBasedLine&q=NYSE:NOK&ntsp=0
Posted in BBC iPlayer iPad app out this week
Not BBC's fault though is it?
That's not the BBC's fault though - Microsoft won't let them offer a free app to all Xbox users - only to Gold subscribers - and that's apparently against BBC's terms of service.
Posted in PSP 2 'as powerful as PS3'
@Calaerial1
I don't think it's a matter of the market shifting. The market is growing wider and there are whole swarths of people playing Angry Birds on their iPhone who probably wouldn't have played video games at all before.
My point is that Sony is not pitching the PSP at the iPhone market. It's pitching at a different market. Whether that market exists of course is a matter of debate, but it's certainly a market for which no device currently exists.
I'm a "professional" in my 30's, used to commuting and business travel. I get far more time to play games when on the move than at when at home with my family. I've love to be able to play "proper" PS3-style games on the tube, on the plane and plugged into the hotel TV in the evenings on business trips. Lots of my colleagues play video games. So I'd imagine "we" would be a reasonable part of a target market.
Posted in HTC DG H100 Media Link DLNA adapter
Sonos
All Sonos components are DLNA aware. I can push music from my Desire HD staight to my Sonos with no special configuration required.
Posted in PSP 2 'as powerful as PS3'
The right market
"In a hand-held, i dont want to play cut down versions of full console games,"
... so use your iPhone or your DS.
There are lots of people, myself included, who *do* want to play proper console games on a handheld. The original PSP wasn't quite good enough for this - the lack of dual analogues being a massive factor.
The new PSP is aimed at a market that neither Apple nor Nintendo nor Microsoft is competing in. Makes sense to me.
If Sony had aimed squarely at competing with the iPhone and DS markets they would indeed have been making a bad mistake.
Posted in LG Optimus 7 smartphone
DLNA
Not sure DLNA is a particular selling point, as Android does DNLA - at least my HTC Desire does (Menu > Select Player in Music, and I can push straight to a Sonos device for example)
Re: Absolutely
@Annihilator
17,000 trips a day and you're still waiting for that news report of a demise - sounds like something that's not going to happen very often.
Isn't it more a brand thing?
I think Google could draw a distinction between brand and the actual product though. As they own the Android trademark they could just prevent anyone who ships prerelease code from calling it "Android". This would prevent negative impacts on Android's reputation whilst still allowing development to be open (in much the same was that anyone can distribute a buggy broken version of the Firefox code base, but not necessarily call it "Firefox")
