Posts by toadwarrior

Ballmer's opinion is like a chair to the head. No one wants it.

iOS 6 maps don't seem to be that bad. Everyone I frequent has nice detailed maps with good images all the way to the largest scale. That includes an area in the US with like houses in the middle of fields and an area that Google only covered decently in the last year or so. The biggest issue I see some smaller areas don't have their closes labeled. So I guess that could be comfusing and yeah there are some poor data in the Philippines, for example, but I'm not going to the Philippines any time soon or enough to really care.

It's certainly not perfect but it's definitely better than what Google maps was even 2 years into its life. So it's good enough and I don't think Nokia offering something better is going to convince someone to switch which I assume they think this will lure people into buying their windows phones.

If Samsung knows all this about him then why did their side accept him? Sounds like they intended to use the juror as a get out jail free card so I'd turn down their request.

Ruby is one of the slowest dynamic languages iirc. It's a good thing though for a startup to start off with less enterprise solutions. It will be more costly and take longer and you don't know if your product will even be liked by anyone. Rewriting once you've solved how you want to do something is piss easy. The only people that would hate that idea are people stuck in the past thinking everything should be done in some butt ugly c++.

The display unit I saw looked nice and I'm sure it is a great phone but my problem with it, the S3 and even the iphone 5 is they're getting too big.

Do these companies not factor in that people put these things in their pocket or often use their phone with one hand, whether they're standing on the train or on the loo.

If I want something big, I'll get a tablet so make a phone that is optimised for single hand usage.

Linus moved to america, got fat, and became a stereotype of himself as became a ultra niche celebrity.

He is sort of like gnome and he's at version 3. We'll see if he can sort it out for version 4.

3 million ipads is 3 million ipads. Quite frankly, I wouldn't care if it were minis, 3 or 2, if I were them.

It appears he has no real problem with the configuration options. It's that the defaults are stupid in his opinion. But I guess that's news for a a geek gossip rag.

One thing that would help, I think, is if software was held to reasonable standards. Of course your only concern is driving down costs if you can sell broken and insecure software with no real worry and customers either can't get refunds or find it so hard they don't bother. Why should a manager worry about making anything other than the cheapest product.

But also by doing that, quite frankly I would say it's hard for anyone to feel loyal and why should we even if the constant changing of people probably makes development harder. I could be let go now but that means my employer is giving up on certain products. I could leave but that means making their life hard and maybe seeing thew death of those products. I like the place but I've learned it's best to pay attention to how things are going and if you think someone might end up on getting the axe start looking because it may be you. It's actually good I think to always be looking. Hell you may end up making more money sooner than you think and loyalty is dead.

I'm using gnome classic on ubuntu. I prefer gnome. I'm not sure how apple caused the problem. It's gnome's fault for wanting new and shiny when they shouldn't have went for it. Kde had complaints too but because distros wanted the new and shiny version.

The problem is I think a lot of people in tech bore easily and will insist on living on the bleeding edge even if it makes no sense at all. Yes, that can be more fun if it goes well but if it doesn't, it will be no fun cleaning up after yourself.

Considering it's mainly sites like the register and slashdot making a big deal of this, I'd guess most people don't realise there was a ruling or that they should look for an apple statement. In fact I doubt they care as that is something only "nerds" would care about. But if it helps people thing android wasn't a cheap blackberry wanna-be that became a cheap iphone wanna-be then this is a big deal.

Motorola has consistently been on the losing side of these battles so it's not hard to see they are being unreasonable. A $1 tbh is more than enough considering how many units are sold.

I'm just glad the FCC and others are starting to look after google. They're becoming exactly what ISPs wanted to be and that's the service and content provider. Tbh, their fiber network and motorola should be split off from the content side with android going along to motorola.