Posts by Carl Fletcher
22 posts • joined Thursday 21st June 2007 11:31 GMT
What's the rule... "never mention the competition"? The fact no mention was made of Apple at Google IO kindof speaks for itself doesn't it? Apple worried...
Re: FAIL - no Credit Agreement with Apple
Not if they implement Verified By Visa or Mastercard SecureCode, which moves the onus on the bank in verifying a genuine user.
Re: Plastic back maybe?
Yeah. It's highly annoying. I wish people wouldn't make phones out of glass, it just seems to be the flat-out wrong material.
Re: Why 4G?
Well the main reason is really capacity. We are at the limit of what data can be squeezed in the bandwidth available in densely populated areas, as anyone who uses a 3G phone in central London will know. We need more bandwidth, but importantly we need to use it efficiently, and LTE is much more efficient than 3G.
Still, that's a hard sell for higher prices: "a data connection that actually works!"
It's embarrassing!
It's damn embarrassing that a company like Google can continuously fail to anticipate demand and launch products to immediate sellout. We've had 3 other Nexus phones already, they know how many are going to be needed.
The website didn't work either, slow and errored, and several people i know ordered several accidentally because they didn't get any confirmation that the order succeeded. This is *Google*! They can't build a website that scales??
I did bag one though.
Re: And just what is all this rush for?
We need LTE because of bandwidth efficiency as much as speed, we have a finite amount of spectrum that is useful for mobiles and an ever-increasing demand. LTE is more efficient than 3G, therefore we need to use that instead.
The problem is in the radio spectrum space, not the backhaul.
Posted in Linus Torvalds drops F-bomb on NVIDIA
Re: Great now we have a child
What does NVidia sell... at the moment more and more Tegra CPUs that go in Linux-based Android devices. Linux is doing well for them even if it's not on the desktop.
Re: 4 out of 5 developers "Very Interested" to develop for Android
"It's one thing to be "very interested" in developing for a platform; it's another to actually go out and actually develop for it."
Which is why this survey is worth even *less*...
Bidding with MS wouldn't have helped
The problem for Google and Android is that it's the 3rd party manufacturers need protecting, not Google themselves. So Google jointly owning patents with MS wouldn't stop what's currently happening, which is the hardware manufacturers are being sued for patent infringement.
Love how there was a "you're holding it wrong" reference at the end...
Isn't this the exact point though, Apple have chosen to make their phone out of an unsuitable material - glass, on a surface that doesn't need to be transparent. I'd say that's a design fault.
Re: Yes, because i really want a whole lot of third party apps
What? Did you even follow the link? They've made an repository that you add and it updates within the standard Ubuntu package management.
Why do people assume they know about something when they don't?
It does commonly amuse me when people compare different technical things when they blatantly don't know what they're talking about.
Android and iPhone's *default* app behaviour is quite similar, which means that this assumption that every app is multitasking and can cause memory leaks is highly overstated. Normally, when you switch away from an Android app, it is paused (pending removal), it's state is saved and it does no more work. The *difference* is that Android also has the ability to start a long-running fully-fledged service which can do everything a frontend app can do. Most apps don't do this, so would never be able to affect the battery. You have to specifically write your app to be multitasking to have that functionality.
And no, iPhone (<4.0) *doesn't* do multitasking, no matter how you try and redefine it. It's just marginally clever with it's state-restore ability. Try playing music in Spotify and then writing a text message. The music stops.
No No No.
They *don't* keep running. They stay memory-resident, but that does not change the power consumption. The only things that keep running are any services that might have been started by the app, and most won't do this unless they have a reason and it's part of the functionality.
Posted in Yes, the Googlephone works in Blighty
Three aswell apparently
Three too, according to this:
http://www.gsmworld.com/roaming/gsminfo/cou_gb.shtml
Well that's not right
“offer an age-appropriate environment for everyone”
Or not everyone, really...
Posted in Facebook loses a few bitches
Re: About time
Got to love the number of people that say that:
"Never used the site, just seemed like a complete waste of time for me"
Um... then you have no right to hold an opinion? It's not a perfect site, but it's bloody useful for some things. It's going to transition from something that's overhyped into just another tool that most people use. No big deal.
Bleh
Which is, of course, exactly why we need a healthy AMD to keep Intel trying... Without AMD we'll be back in the overpriced marginal upgrade cycle that Intel dictates like the Pentium I era...
Posted in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard - Finder
"Rating: -1%"
It might not be perfect but, bit harsh that isn't it?
Re: So what about
It's simply because Microsoft are a monopoly. The rules that a monopoly company have to comply with are different from normal. Bundling is abusing the monopoly that MS has as it forces everyone to use their bundled software. Apple has no monopoly to abuse.
Posted in Revo Pico+ DAB radio
Oh dear
"Recordings made onto the SD card from live radio are in MP2, but the sound does not appear to suffer overly."
I'd be willing to bet they don't suffer *at all* since MP2 is the format that DAB is streamed in...
...Carl
Hmmm
I hope the program is a hellofalot more clever than it's reported to be... I can imagine a lot of very annoyed people when it first switches off and loses the document they were working on the previous night. And what's so bad about Hibernate mode exactly? Doesn't it write to disk and switch the computer off completely anyway?
Posted in Ofcom responds to threatened luvvies
Re: Impoverished West End theatre owners and producers???
*Sigh*
The theatre business goes way beyond the big name hit shows you know. There is a massive number of smaller productions that can barely make ends meet to feed their cast and crew. I'm not necessarily saying that they require sympathy, people choose their profession and life, but also it's not necessarily a status quo you want to upset. Theatre feeds into the (much bigger and more significant) TV and film industries. For example, The League of Gentlemen started out in fringe theatre, and now they've got multiple exportable tv series and a film to their names.
Just because theatre is not necessarily hugely popular or profitable by itself doesn't mean it's not massively important. Hurt theatre and you cut off the talent supply from television...
