Comment Re:About time (Score 1) 129
LTE rollouts likely in the next year. I know it's no substitute for a proper wired connection, but it's a damn sight better than what's available in most places here at the moment.
Comment It's not a smartphone OS (Score 2, Interesting) 179
It's an embedded devices OS, like WindowsCE. Still annoyed at Microsoft for dropping support for .NET Compact Framework from the new Visual Studio 2008. I hope this one will support CF or I'm going to have a whole lot of soon-to-be unsupported handhelds on my hands
Submission + - Wireless Gigabit spec published, Cisco backs it (idg.com.au) 1
angry tapir writes: "The Wireless Gigabit Alliance has published its initial specification for 'WiGig' and named Cisco as the latest backer. The WiGig Alliance already includes some big names in the wireless and networking industries such as Intel, Broadcom and Atheros Communications. WiGig will use unlicensed spectrum around 60GHz and should be able to attain transmission speeds of around 6Gbps when in use."
Submission + - Does Apple have a monopoly? (arstechnica.com)
virgilp writes: According to some people, Apple can do whatever they want with their SDK license agreement because they are "a small player" at only 5% of the market.
But data from Gartner shows that Apple has 99.4% of the mobile application distribution market. And since the SDK is all about making mobile applications, not phones....
But data from Gartner shows that Apple has 99.4% of the mobile application distribution market. And since the SDK is all about making mobile applications, not phones....
Comment Re:Why? Just standardization? (Score 1) 479
During the early 00s nobody cared about anything else than IE because there was no decent alternative (Netscape was hell at the time), so, anything written/acquired back then only really supported IE. Rather than spend money on making it work with newer browsers, the companies decided that they'd just set IE6 as a requirement and force companies to either pay for costly migrations to more modern software, or keep IE6 installed.
Comment Re:SMB1 may have been the first (Score 1) 235
Fair enough, maybe a better comparison would've been Mario vs Sonic. Sonic reused the premise of Mario's platforming, but by introducing the factor of speed made it play fundamentally different.
Comment Iteration leads to innovation (Score 4, Insightful) 235
Why did someone write Linux when Unix was already out there? Why was Mario created when there were already other platform games out there? It's going to get harder and harder to come out with original ideas, e.g. look at any game released in the last 10 years, you can count truly innovative ones on both hands. But yet there's still games that come out, using a tried and tested formula, that are better than the rest. If there was no cloning, we'd have very few new games coming out ever.
Comment Re:Escalation (Score 3, Interesting) 206
That's an interesting question, but doesn't it apply to kevlar too? We've had kevlar vests for years, but no ammunition made of kevlar that I've heard of. Maybe the material isn't suitable to be shot out at high speeds/pressures?
Comment Makes business sense too (Score 4, Insightful) 67
As they're used to the engine they'll be more likely to use it commercial if they have the choice. It's the same thing Microsoft, Adobe and a multitude of other companies do when providing educational licenses
Submission + - SPAM: Man Strips for George Clooney at Press Conference
albertanthony writes: "George Clooney has fans from every character and age. George and co-star Ewan McGregor were holding a press conference in Venice, Italy to uphold their latest film at the Venice Film Festival. A guy stood up and declared he was gay and proclaimed his adore for George. If that wasnâ(TM)t sufficient he proceeded to strip down to his underwear and tie and asked the artist for a kiss. George was amazed to speak the least but he took the incident in superior humor."
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Comment Re:How is this different from / better than Twiste (Score 1) 113
Twisted is a networking library, this seems to be a webserver (which Twisted can do) as well as a framework
Submission + - Motorola Launches Android Phone (recombu.com) 1
andylim writes: "Yesterday Motorola launched its first Android phone, the Dext, which focusses on consolidating information via widgets. Recombu.com spoke to Motorola's director of international marketing, Tom Satchwell, who stated that the Dext is the "best and most efficient way of communicating out there... this phone rocks". When asked about Motorola's recent difficulties and lack of presence in the market Satchwell added that "Motorola's period of consolidation is done.. it's no longer about creating one hero phone and it's critical for the Dext and subsequent Motorola handsets to do well.""
Comment Re:spotify poor security (Score 1) 130
Not just crossover, it works great with Wine too. They also released a lib specifically for linux which means people can write their own client for it. One such client is Testify which runs natively
Comment Re:Spotify (Score 1) 130
There's already an Android client for it, check the "mobile" section on the Spotify site
Submission + - Apple Open Sources Grand Central Dispatch (macosforge.org)
bonch writes: "Apple has open sourced libdispatch, also known as Grand Central Dispatch. Kernel support is not required, but performance optimizations Apple made for supporting GCD are visible in xnu. Block support in C is required and is currently available in LLVM (note that Apple has submitted their implementation of C blocks for standardization)"
