Posts by hahnchen 86 posts • joined 24 Jul 2008
I don't have the 5X in a case because I don't want it any bigger. I've had it since the beginning of the year, and the rubberised back is starting to come off at the edges. Dust has also gotten into the front facing camera, and there's nothing I can do about it.
I preferred the Nexus 4 that the 5X replaced.
Imagine if the design of a website was solely decided upon consensus of the writers. Imagine a newspaper or magazine where the writers get the final say, how would that look? It'd consist of massive blocks of text.
Editors rebelled against the use of infoboxes, these summarised key facts about the subject in a box out. Their argument was that if you wanted to know the place of Bach's place of birth, you could drill down and read their wonderful prose. But no one cares about your wonderful prose when they just want a fact. Google has all the data to know exactly what a reader wants, so search for Bach, and Google's Knowledge Graph gives you the key information on the right.
The new image-viewer is made for readers, not editors. If editors don't like it? So what? Wikimedia shouldn't be asking editors, it should just be looking at data, it should be doing A/B testing. What are the engagement figures? Are people looking at more images? Just release that data and shut everyone else up.
Took ages to convince first line support there was a problem, which involved switching my router on and off again ad infinitum.
Could tell something was broken by looking at traceroutes and comparing that with my not-broken 3G connection.
Finally got through to second line support, took my details, and told me they'd take a look at it after the bank holiday. Nice work guys.
Windows Mobile fell a generation behind, and has never been able to catch up even given Microsoft's vast resources. The same thing happened with Blackberry, and now they're in a death spiral.
Regardless of how good it was when it was released, the world has moved on. So how are Meego going to catch up?
Put some money on Immersion a few years back, was convinced (still am) that haptics are going to be massive, and that every single phone, tablet, thing is going to have them in.
But boy has the uptake been laggardly. The share price has gone nowhere. I've got a Nexus S, and the haptics are rudimentary at best - companies only seem to license the lowest of the low in terms of haptics, Immersion have much better tech in their labs, but it never makes it into a product.
Hiwave are so cheap though, the company is only worth £6.5M. That is absolutely nothing to any mobile phone manufacturer, so if the tech really is good, then it's probably worth a punt as a takeover target. I'm not putting any more into haptics though.
Andrew is arguing over lawyery semantics. When people buy a CD, they're paying for music, not a shiny piece of plastic. That the law states that they are merely buy an obsolete piece of plastic, means that the law is anachronistic, and never really grounded in reality in the first place.
If record companies believe that format shifting of CDs is valuable, and this report suggests that it is, then why don't record companies raise the price of those CDs, introduce some stupid DRM, and see how much we *really* value it.
Then we'll see who's producing the lobbynomics.
What the hell is a social gaming invention think tank?
It's a patent troll. That's what it is.
Here is a patent filed in 2010 (and *granted*) for an in-game MMO marriage.
http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=bmjnAQAAEBAJ
The USPTO is fucking ridiculous.
Solyndra failed because it tried to build a manufacturing company in the US as opposed to China. It costs less for a panel to be shipped from China than it does for it to be trucked across the States.
Subsidies should not go to low margin doomed to fail factories - but ploughed into research.
We need solar cells that can do better than 15%, we need high energy density batteries that charge in minutes - not hours.
We're not going to get that if we're ploughing all our non-existent money to promote people propping up windmills everywhere.
I don't actually use Linux, and previously, I would have dicked over this notion too.
But we're at a point now, where the browser has superceded native applications. My most used applications all live on the web.
System builders used to make money selling crapware for Windows, there was no way to do that on Linux platforms - but now there is - Google are willing to pay for installations.
When the world's biggest PC manufacturer want to exit the space due to the tiny margins on offer, something drastic needs to change. At this year's LinuxCon, the phrase "year of the linux desktop" became a bit of an in-joke - http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/08/no-year-of-the-linux-desktop-after-2-decades-linuxcon-keynote-so-what.ars - but this is theirs for the taking.
Stop paying for Windows licenses in your consumer devices. Right now, you try and make that back up by installing trial crapware that no one wants onto the machines.
Stick Ubuntu on there, stick libreOffice on there, and get some Google cash for installing Chrome as the default browser.
Not just a one off payment as Orlowski suggests.
http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/06/apple-and-nokia-settle-patent-dispute.html
I think Google overpaid for Motorola, but I don't think it's a dud. Get the patents, get a skunkworks, sell the manufacturing to an Asian firm who actually knows how to do it.
But they fear it to be good. What a fucking disgrace.
Can you imagine any other company doing that? They fear it'll cannibalise the WP7 market which they don't own, and doesn't exist. This is a company that has given up on their own future. This is a company that deserves to fail.
That tweet was "menacing in its content and obviously so. It could not be more clear. Any ordinary person reading this would see it in that way and be alarmed."
Clearly, the People's Republic of China agreed, in their infinite infallible wisdom. Thank you, Jacqueline Davies, for leading us towards a harmonious society. Justice, with Chinese characteristics!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/19/china_twitter_prison/
So if you search for a stock ticker symbol, Google algorithms recognise what it is, and gives you finance links at the top.
If you append a comma, Google algorithms do not spot that it is a ticker symbol, and doesn't give you the finance links.
How is that "hard-coding"?
People understand the difference between an auto-generated Google results widget and "natural" algorithmic results. Prominent placement of Google widgets may be an issue, but its not new, and it isn't "hard-coded".
The only way they can get you to use their substandard apps is to force them upon you with a hope of uninstalling them.
Its disgusting. The only way they make money is the same way that spambots make money, pissing off millions to serve a few.
A public outcry managed to stop Vodafone once, on the HTC Desire - http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsId=3235017
But it has not stopped them from bloating up every other device - http://phandroid.com/2010/09/21/galaxy-s-on-vodafone-riddled-with-bloatware-might-not-receive-treatment-similar-to-desire/
Our carriers suck.
"Big whoop. It was only down for a few hours. I have far more concern over the fact of my train turning up 10 minutes late or having to queue for a coffee than them wasting my time with this sort of rubbish." - Andrew Crossley, ACS: Law
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/22/acs_4chan/
I wonder how concerned he is over his coffee queue now.
People mention the Apple tax, and in some cases, there is an Apple tax.
But every rumour behind GalaxyTab pricing suggests an absolutely ridiculous price. It's exacerbated by the fact that Samsung manufacture the (smaller) screens themselves, which should reduce costs.
It doesn't matter if this tablet can do more than the iPad, because the average consumer won't care. They'll just see it's more expensive than its bigger competitor and not as shiny. And then it won't sell - total fail.
3 was the worst. Not only did they advertised "unlimited" data, they actually halved their data limit to 500Mb a few months ago, but continued to mislead with their unlimited branding.
Your article mentions that they are doubling their data limits. But it is merely returning them to the level they were originally. It's a farce.
How is this legal?
How could Microsoft have released such a fatally flawed product to market? This was dead from the get go, and every commentator could see it.
It released a featurephone in the era of the smartphone. It's just a sign of the massive culture of extravagance and complacency that Microsoft live in.
This should have been killed way early. They should have killed this before announcing WinPho7. How could they possibly allow an internal mobile team to detract from WinPho7? This is one of the reasons why the man smiling in the picture in your article no longer works at Microsoft.
People are stupid.
The vast majority of people buying phones don't care about the OS. Some guy at the Carphone Warehouse will show them the cool looking tiles, the shiny screen, and they'll buy it.
And this will end up being a success, and we'll see other OS's get more obnoxious ads too.
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