11360002
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sammyF70 writes:
Businessinsider has a list of 10 things that Google needs to change to make the Android Market more competitive for developers. This range from the weirdly inaccurate ( 'providing links to the android market'? That's already possible using "market://") to the insightful (device fragmentation, consistent currency and killing off the 24 hour return policy)
As an ex-Android developer who has been fighting with Google for a year now, I can only agree that the Android Market Store is pretty much a turn-off for developers (except for Google apparently)
11157654
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sammyF70 writes:
In all the iPad second-Coming craze, it's easy to forget that there are other tablet around the corner. That's particularly the case if they get to reviewer sites on April, 1st, as was the case with the JooJoo Board. Endgadget has a short preview video of their newly arrived JooJoo board, and should post a complete review ~soon~.
From the look of it, it seems actually quite nice, and it does actually support flash (which is, until flash is dead, a good Good Thing)
I know this is the scond time I submit this story, and seriously, we had 5 iPad stories since my first submission. I'm not affiliated with JooJoo or endgadget in any way, and I actually think the JooJoo board is underwhelming, but so is the iPad ... so what gives? Why not talk about OTHER boards too?
11143124
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sammyF70 writes:
BusinessWeek has an article about real life use of the iPad as an eBook reader and it's not good. the glare screen, the weight and the controls makes, according to the article, the iPad "the amazing, magical device that proves the value of E-Ink.". read TFA for a run down.
On another note, the Joojoo Board, which got a small preview on Endgadget on April, 1st will probably have the same problems.
11067266
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sammyF70 writes:
In all the iPad second-Coming craze, it's easy to forget that there are other tablet around the corner. That's particularly the case if they get to reviewer sites on April, 1st, as was the case with the JooJoo Board. Endgadget has a short preview video of their newly arrived JooJoo board, and should post a complete review ~soon~.
From the look of it, it seems actually quite nice, and it does actually support flash (which is, until flash is dead, a good Good Thing)
10197946
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sammyF70 writes:
As a not-particularly Google Android developer, watching my sales raise very slowly hasn't been fun. But even less fun has been the complete failure to actually receive any money from the sales (no ads, and one single page;).
So I ask you, fellow /.'ers, what can I do to get Google to send me my money, but still keep on selling my existing apps (which isn't realistic if I have to retrieve the money through a third person) ?
9406018
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sammyF70 writes:
According to a recent poll, the amount of people who were interested in the iPad BEFORE it was presented decreased dramatically afterward.
4411453
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sammyF70 writes:
The update to version 1.5 of Google Android (nicknamed Cupcake) is available for non-rooted T-Mobile G1s from the XDA site for all those who can not receive the update over the air!
Just rename the file as upate.zip, and reboot the phone while holding HOME, click alt+s, and wait. No need to wipe, so all your settings and applications will still be installed.
3689819
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HowAboutARealityCheck writes:
PC World announces that Quanta Computers may be building a new netbook for Apple, described as a ~large screen~ iPod Touch. The author then goes on about current netbooks being underpowered (for what kind of applications exactly?) and suggest a "sweet spot" for the price being 600USD which would make it, in PC World's author's view, "competitive with the Asus/Acer/Dell crowd too." (which are all in the 300-400 USD range). I don't know what he smoked, but I'd like some of it please.
702525
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sammyF70 writes:
Hello there,
I have a 8mb/1mb connection at home, and use many online services requiring SSL encryption. Lately, I've seen a dramatic drop in my transfer rates while using those services. While I get 800-900KB/s over an un-encrypted connection, I only get 10-80KB/s with a SSL connection to the same server, no matter which port I use.
I noticed it first while using a usenet server, so contacted their (very friendly and helpfull) customer service and asked a few people I know who use the same UN provider, but it seemed like the problem was coming from my side. So I fired up wireshark and checked what was happening with the packets.
It looks as if 40-50% of the SSL packets get dropped in both directions. the SSL servers doesn't get my ACKs, and not all packets sent gets through to my computer. While I was using wireshark, thunderbird kicked in and tried to get my mail, again using a SSL connection ... and again lost packets.
So I checked the traffic when connecting to other SSL servers, and everytime : dropped packets.
To be sure it isn't some problem with my installation, I tried leeching from a xubuntu liveCD, with the same results. Non-encrypted is fine, SSL is like a reenactment of cargo-cult. Lost packets all the time and rate down to a tenth or even less.
I called my ISP's customer service which said (without much conviction, as they apparently assumed it was a problem on my side) "We'll look into it"
Now, what I'd like to know from all you knowledgeable slashdotters, could this be some weird traffic throttling attempt by my ISP? It would sound contra-productive somehow, as packets get sent and resent multiple time. I also noticed that STEAM in Windows is *very* slow (similar rates as my SSL connections), so I'm wondering whether they are not trying to stop people from using bittorrent and P2P software by slowing them down. This ISP is new on the market, and so far, apart from being the only one to offer such bandwidth, their tech-support didn't strike me as particularly competent on the whole :
"my bandwidth dropped to 1mb/s. could you look into it?" "your network settings are wrong, sir" "aehm ... I didn't change anything ?!" "[silence] you MUST have changed something, sir. WE don't have problems" [5 hours later, without changing my settings but with one of their cars passing through my street, the bandwidth was back]
