"So by your logic Microsoft should have been left alone to do whatever it likes with Windows regardless of any practices that might affect competition?"
No, the same logic would have been that they wanted Microsoft to include a Ubuntu live-cd with every copy of Windows.
I'm happy that Google tries to remove the results of these alternative search engines out of the results, because that's not what I was looking for. You don't want to end up on another search page, that points to another search page,...
If you're going to list a number of devices, it would be great if the same set of features were mentioned, like screen res, cpu, memory, disk, viewing angle,... On some models you mention one, for others you mention another.
Because picasa for linux was just a windows app that was tweaked to behave under wine.... if you know that, you see that it is easy to try to upgrade to a more recent version ;)
Other than that, boooooo at google for not supporting linux...
Also in the same boat, hope it doesn't sink. Would have gone N950 if they sold it, and I know many who would, but no, they refuse to sell it, or even sell the N9 in more countries;
Well, if you refuse to sell phones that you have developed and that people want, don't be surprised that revenue goes down ;)
If the current of the adapter is twice that of a usb port, it matters a lot....
Of equal importance is wether the adapter follows the usb spec for chargers (data pins tied together) or the apple way (data pins at fixed offsets).
Anyway, the first poster has a point when it comes to charging multiple devices - I have an adapter with multiple sockets + several extending cables. And I get them from DX at 1/10th of the price
Yup. Just think about the amount concerned *per car*, which easily fitted on the smallest harddrive you get. And the data wasn't stored on big central databases, but was found on the actual disks when reviewing the data the cars brought in. And when that data was found Google informed the authorities of this f*ckup.
By incorrectly configuring a tool that was supposed to just store wifi SSID together with location. The tool also logged data it received. Some employee who most probably got fired or received a serious talk from his boss f*cked up.
The only thing you can blame Google is that there was no reviewing of this configuration.
The purpose of the whole setup was for the good of the people, however (my tablet without gps knows its location pretty well, for example, as good as in the days of the first gps receivers)
As normal consumer or as company? The two years is for consumers, companies only get 1 year. And depending on how you got to the product you want on the dell website, it may think you are a company....
It always reminds me of the woman who started to feel all these bad things after they installed a GSM antenna next to her home. Some journalists dug a bit in, went to the mobile company, where they found out the antenna wasn't in use yet... It's all in the head ;)
I thought we were talking high-resolution screens.... last time I remember small pixelperfect icons were needed (I called them even 'art') was 5+ years ago, even 10 maybe...
It is INCREDIBLE that people have managed to write software for computers with displays ranging from 640x480 to way past full HD. Yet when it comes to mobile, they fail.
Having written GUI code that scaled to various screen sizes, I REALLY fail to see why mobile developers can't? Hardcoding pixel positioning FAIL
for a big part, the fragmentation is in the heads of the developers. Most apps can be written against the older API and thus run on most Android phones. Tablets is another matter but not only for Android.
Only if you want to use newer features of the OS, you start seeing a limit of devices you can run on, but for a part, that is also the case with iOS - not all iPhones run the latest version, so if you happen to need the latest features, you're equally out of luck.
If it can only clean about 14m², the time it takes to fill and prepare it is about the time you need to get out the cleaning stuff and do it yourself.... The vacuum robots I can understand (and appreciate, owning a Navibot myself) since they can handle quite some floorspace before needing cleaning, but 14m²? Nah....
Re: I've said it before, and I'll say it again ...
Indeed, I know of several roads to 'islands' where you can actually drive when there is low tide. There's always a sign consisting of a load of text, which foreigners may have a hard time to read/understand.
Honestly, why not? I switched years ago and kept my productivity ;)
Even better, this linux install on this pc is now 4 years old and still as snappy as the day I installed it. Got a new pc at work at around the same time, using xp, and by now it has become slow as hell.
Saw the talk about it at Fosdem last weekend. Several nice graphs that quickly showed how vital this was for the project. They compared it to their own testserver results and the conclusion was (clearly) that the Telemetry data was much better.
When I became customer of my mobile provider, they were a small company with not too many customers, and support was great, got live person to chat/mail with, and issues got resolved in the blink of an eye.
Now they've grown quite a bit, they start to behave more and more like the other big providers: mails take long to get an answer, if any, and news/info gets out slowly.
I guess many growing companies don't see that when their customer base goes x10 or more, maybe their support staff should follow a similar curve....
You really think all users of Google services are idiots? That they aren't aware of the deal?
As for your replies to the stuff they brought: Just look at the state of things before they offered their services:
- Search: bloody slow and incomplete, hardly any filtering. I still remember the day I discovered Google Search, it was pretty amazing. Granted I find it working less now that they try to think for me
- Docs: no usable offering
- Maps: such a great improvement over other existing things
- ...
And do tell me of another company that pays 1000 students a full income to code open source?
Don't bother waiting for more replies from me on this thread, I think I figured out you're a troll anyway.
First off, you really are a coward, an anonymous one even.
Second, look up the word 'case'. There is an antitrust probe/investigation/whatever you want, they have no case. They may have one if they find evidence of wrongdoing, or they may find that everything is within the law, or maybe something in between.
Third, you have *NO* idea how much innovation Google is driving. You are really utterly clueless. I'll give you some hints:
- yes, they buy companies with nice ideas, but the resulting product is at another level. Many companies do this, hell, look at many things Apple brings - all bought up and refined.
- Google staffers can work 20% of their time on personal stuff. Many/most work on open source projects
- Every year, Google pump large amounts of money into the open source community through projects like GSoC (summer of code), where students all over the world get money to work on open source projects in stead of flipping burgers
- Google is an active contributor to open source, pushing changes upstream and releasing code of new projects.
They could save themselves a shitload of money by doing away with most of this and just put the ad money in their pockets.
Indeed, with the clay you are free to do anything you like, no walled garden, restrictions. Hell, you could even model some porn action with it and not have any problem!
I quite like the software on this, but ARM 1.6GHz? Where have they been? QNAP has had such models for ages now, the current line featuring 1.8GHz and 2GHz... *sigh*
Colonel Alexei Zolotukhin told the press agency the deserted southern Pacific, where the uncontrolled Phobos-Grunt splashdown took place, is also “where Russia guides its discarded space cargo ships serving the International Space Station”.
I thought it was out of control? So why is he making it look like it came down in a spot where they want it to?
"If you're doing anything that's compute-intensive, you do it on the GPU, not the CPU"
Not just anything, only tasks suited for it, ie independent calculations and parallel logic. Normal user software has a hard time scaling on multiprocessor, for the exact reason that the task at hand is largely sequential. Graphics stuff, specific maths (like photo/video handling) are very parallel in nature (the reason SIMD was invented) and thus can move to the GPU
"by the close proximity of an 80 per cent water human hand"
I'd be very surprised if a human hand contained 80% water. Just because a whole body does so, doesn't mean this is true for each part of it.
And just to remind you, this has nothing to do with antennagate, which was caused bu the human hand bridging the antennae who were at the outside, unprotected. Hence the 'easy' fix by isolating them with a thin rubber/silicone/... bumper.
Me thinks this is starting to smell like censoring... Maybe the court should try to find out why the company is associated with that word? Google isn't making this up, the association is already somewhere on the internet, where Google got its data....
I was wary of the benefits of wireless charging, but since I have an HP touchpad with a touchstone stand, I've enjoyed the absence of cables. With data flowing wirelessly, doing the same for charging was only a logical step.
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Re: "can produce speeds of up to 50mph."
Here in Belgium the electric assist must lower itself (or stop) when you go faster than 20kmph....
Re: @Michael Hawkes
"So by your logic Microsoft should have been left alone to do whatever it likes with Windows regardless of any practices that might affect competition?"
No, the same logic would have been that they wanted Microsoft to include a Ubuntu live-cd with every copy of Windows.
I'm happy that Google tries to remove the results of these alternative search engines out of the results, because that's not what I was looking for. You don't want to end up on another search page, that points to another search page,...
Please mention a basic set of specs
If you're going to list a number of devices, it would be great if the same set of features were mentioned, like screen res, cpu, memory, disk, viewing angle,... On some models you mention one, for others you mention another.
just
Just give Apple their 30% and be happy
Mine is the one with the free 50GB box account in the left pocket
Indeed, and proper standard VOIP (sip) is so much cheaper due to all those offers. And you can (I did) port your landline number over to one of them.
Re: Why not go Open Source
Because picasa for linux was just a windows app that was tweaked to behave under wine.... if you know that, you see that it is easy to try to upgrade to a more recent version ;)
Other than that, boooooo at google for not supporting linux...
Re: N900 upgrade path
Also in the same boat, hope it doesn't sink. Would have gone N950 if they sold it, and I know many who would, but no, they refuse to sell it, or even sell the N9 in more countries;
Well, if you refuse to sell phones that you have developed and that people want, don't be surprised that revenue goes down ;)
Re: Item 5 is incorrect IMO
If the current of the adapter is twice that of a usb port, it matters a lot....
Of equal importance is wether the adapter follows the usb spec for chargers (data pins tied together) or the apple way (data pins at fixed offsets).
Anyway, the first poster has a point when it comes to charging multiple devices - I have an adapter with multiple sockets + several extending cables. And I get them from DX at 1/10th of the price
Re: Google is laughing
Yup. Just think about the amount concerned *per car*, which easily fitted on the smallest harddrive you get. And the data wasn't stored on big central databases, but was found on the actual disks when reviewing the data the cars brought in. And when that data was found Google informed the authorities of this f*ckup.
Congrats on downvoting and twisting the truth.
Re: Google is laughing
By incorrectly configuring a tool that was supposed to just store wifi SSID together with location. The tool also logged data it received. Some employee who most probably got fired or received a serious talk from his boss f*cked up.
The only thing you can blame Google is that there was no reviewing of this configuration.
The purpose of the whole setup was for the good of the people, however (my tablet without gps knows its location pretty well, for example, as good as in the days of the first gps receivers)
Not E-ink, but...
TI also has a watch that is actually a development platform. You get to program the whole firmware of the watch... lousy battery life, though.
Re: Only Apple doing this?
As normal consumer or as company? The two years is for consumers, companies only get 1 year. And depending on how you got to the product you want on the dell website, it may think you are a company....
Re: $300 savings for the company perhaps,
It always reminds me of the woman who started to feel all these bad things after they installed a GSM antenna next to her home. Some journalists dug a bit in, went to the mobile company, where they found out the antenna wasn't in use yet... It's all in the head ;)
Re: Why do they still bother with bitmaps
I thought we were talking high-resolution screens.... last time I remember small pixelperfect icons were needed (I called them even 'art') was 5+ years ago, even 10 maybe...
Why do they still bother with bitmaps
The icons on my linux desktop are vector graphics, I can have them any size I want and they always look perfect. Why are they still using bitmaps?
Re: and
It is INCREDIBLE that people have managed to write software for computers with displays ranging from 640x480 to way past full HD. Yet when it comes to mobile, they fail.
Having written GUI code that scaled to various screen sizes, I REALLY fail to see why mobile developers can't? Hardcoding pixel positioning FAIL
Re: Has anyone ever met any nice employee of Google UK?
Yups... brilliant too...
and
for a big part, the fragmentation is in the heads of the developers. Most apps can be written against the older API and thus run on most Android phones. Tablets is another matter but not only for Android.
Only if you want to use newer features of the OS, you start seeing a limit of devices you can run on, but for a part, that is also the case with iOS - not all iPhones run the latest version, so if you happen to need the latest features, you're equally out of luck.
What's the point?
If it can only clean about 14m², the time it takes to fill and prepare it is about the time you need to get out the cleaning stuff and do it yourself.... The vacuum robots I can understand (and appreciate, owning a Navibot myself) since they can handle quite some floorspace before needing cleaning, but 14m²? Nah....
Re: I've said it before, and I'll say it again ...
Indeed, I know of several roads to 'islands' where you can actually drive when there is low tide. There's always a sign consisting of a load of text, which foreigners may have a hard time to read/understand.
Re: Password protect it and you don't get it back.
I stuck the label on the inside of the battery compartment of my iphone. Oh wait....
Re: There are alternatives...
Honestly, why not? I switched years ago and kept my productivity ;)
Even better, this linux install on this pc is now 4 years old and still as snappy as the day I installed it. Got a new pc at work at around the same time, using xp, and by now it has become slow as hell.
Re: Retina display??
My parents (properly) tought me to keep reading material at 30+cm, keeping my touchpad at this proper distance, I don't see individual pixels.
The higher resolution may be handy to vnc into my desktop, but then a tablet is really not nice to seriously do remote work anyway
Re: You need more Research
Plus, infiltrating is a bit over it, just whois the member you're interested in...
My ubuntu laptop and lubuntu netbook connect fine to previously unknown wireless networks, which is what Linus bothered. Not installing the drivers.
Re: Another inventive item...
Nah... Tim Cook
Re: Re: DfID
new keyboard please
Telemetry is funstuff
Saw the talk about it at Fosdem last weekend. Several nice graphs that quickly showed how vital this was for the project. They compared it to their own testserver results and the conclusion was (clearly) that the Telemetry data was much better.
For those on a budget
You can get a supported mp3 player and put rockbox on it. See http://www.rockbox.org
In your *missing* experience, you mean....
In most teleconference systems, the 'owner' of the channel needs to connect first, if you try to connect earlier, you are put on a waiting queue...
I like to be on time, as a matter of principle, so I often end up on that queue
ETITLEDOESNOTMATCHBODY
please correct title
smaller companies seem to handle customers better
or still have the intention to do so.
When I became customer of my mobile provider, they were a small company with not too many customers, and support was great, got live person to chat/mail with, and issues got resolved in the blink of an eye.
Now they've grown quite a bit, they start to behave more and more like the other big providers: mails take long to get an answer, if any, and news/info gets out slowly.
I guess many growing companies don't see that when their customer base goes x10 or more, maybe their support staff should follow a similar curve....
Does OLED brightness still drop much with age?
Because I'm not buying a new set every 3 years....
use case
I'm currently just using this to follow a bunch of things, like I do with rss. It's not because I don't share anything that I'm not an active user...
@ AC idiot
You really think all users of Google services are idiots? That they aren't aware of the deal?
As for your replies to the stuff they brought: Just look at the state of things before they offered their services:
- Search: bloody slow and incomplete, hardly any filtering. I still remember the day I discovered Google Search, it was pretty amazing. Granted I find it working less now that they try to think for me
- Docs: no usable offering
- Maps: such a great improvement over other existing things
- ...
And do tell me of another company that pays 1000 students a full income to code open source?
Don't bother waiting for more replies from me on this thread, I think I figured out you're a troll anyway.
First off, you really are a coward, an anonymous one even.
Second, look up the word 'case'. There is an antitrust probe/investigation/whatever you want, they have no case. They may have one if they find evidence of wrongdoing, or they may find that everything is within the law, or maybe something in between.
Third, you have *NO* idea how much innovation Google is driving. You are really utterly clueless. I'll give you some hints:
- yes, they buy companies with nice ideas, but the resulting product is at another level. Many companies do this, hell, look at many things Apple brings - all bought up and refined.
- Google staffers can work 20% of their time on personal stuff. Many/most work on open source projects
- Every year, Google pump large amounts of money into the open source community through projects like GSoC (summer of code), where students all over the world get money to work on open source projects in stead of flipping burgers
- Google is an active contributor to open source, pushing changes upstream and releasing code of new projects.
They could save themselves a shitload of money by doing away with most of this and just put the ad money in their pockets.
Fallen?
W2K and it's kernel were actually quite nice, certainly compared to what they produced before (and to a certain degree, after too)
Empty article?
I'm wondering if there was anything newsworthy to report, it certainly looked hard to fill a page with nothingness....
*looks at author name*
oh right, more Google bashing...
Indeed, with the clay you are free to do anything you like, no walled garden, restrictions. Hell, you could even model some porn action with it and not have any problem!
And Android was in fact created by a company that Google bought, so initially Google (or Smith) had little to do with it *at all*
And anyway, this all happened before the iphone came out, so meh....
Nice software, pity about the hardware
I quite like the software on this, but ARM 1.6GHz? Where have they been? QNAP has had such models for ages now, the current line featuring 1.8GHz and 2GHz... *sigh*
Yeah Right...
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Colonel Alexei Zolotukhin told the press agency the deserted southern Pacific, where the uncontrolled Phobos-Grunt splashdown took place, is also “where Russia guides its discarded space cargo ships serving the International Space Station”.
I thought it was out of control? So why is he making it look like it came down in a spot where they want it to?
"If you're doing anything that's compute-intensive, you do it on the GPU, not the CPU"
Not just anything, only tasks suited for it, ie independent calculations and parallel logic. Normal user software has a hard time scaling on multiprocessor, for the exact reason that the task at hand is largely sequential. Graphics stuff, specific maths (like photo/video handling) are very parallel in nature (the reason SIMD was invented) and thus can move to the GPU
"by the close proximity of an 80 per cent water human hand"
I'd be very surprised if a human hand contained 80% water. Just because a whole body does so, doesn't mean this is true for each part of it.
And just to remind you, this has nothing to do with antennagate, which was caused bu the human hand bridging the antennae who were at the outside, unprotected. Hence the 'easy' fix by isolating them with a thin rubber/silicone/... bumper.
Dangerous precendent!
Me thinks this is starting to smell like censoring... Maybe the court should try to find out why the company is associated with that word? Google isn't making this up, the association is already somewhere on the internet, where Google got its data....
HP Touchstone
I was wary of the benefits of wireless charging, but since I have an HP touchpad with a touchstone stand, I've enjoyed the absence of cables. With data flowing wirelessly, doing the same for charging was only a logical step.
@AC 20120105 12:32
There was a fire here in the justice building in Brussels, looks like many paper files were lost for good.
So much for your robust paper, eh? Electronic records can be backed up easily...
"Canonical claims Ubuntu is now the world’s third largest desktop operating system"
And falling fast as users are migrating to linux mint
iTunes
Didn't iTunes at some point in time force Safari down the users' throat?
RE: Regulation is needed urgently
In Belgium you have to show ID when bringing in scrap metal (for money), didn't help the battle against these thieves AT ALL.
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