Comment Re:Certainly won't displace it in... (Score 1) 315
Yeah, just like he was a speed demon on the iPhone when he announced that in 2007 right? How is this modded insightful?
Comment Re:Someone put a gun to my head and made me sign i (Score 3, Interesting) 127
Except carriers have used "paying off your subsidy" as the reason for the very very high early termination fees. If, when you cancel your Nexus One contract, you need to pay Google for the rest of the phone, what are you paying for at T-Mobile?
Comment Re:Imagine. (Score 1) 232
Snow Leopard (10.6) costs $29.
Comment Re:Cancel Texting (Score 1) 186
Well it's a little different because a lot of people, even if they have email on their phones, don't have push email either. SMS is nice in the sense that, because it's part of every phone, it's pretty much guaranteed to be an immediate notification unless said person has their phone off. That's something that email can't replace any time soon.
I agree that the prices for SMS and MMS messaging are outrageous for what they are though. I pay $30/month for 6GB of data, and you're trying to tell me that I should be paying 15c to send 140 bytes of data? It's crazy.
I agree that the prices for SMS and MMS messaging are outrageous for what they are though. I pay $30/month for 6GB of data, and you're trying to tell me that I should be paying 15c to send 140 bytes of data? It's crazy.
Comment Re:Amazon MP3 on Android: same problem (Score 1) 131
It's probably a carrier limitation in that case. Apple restricted iTunes Music downloads to Wifi only until an update sometime last year.
AT&T was probably concerned about load on their network from people downloading MP3s over 3G so they told Apple to hold off on the feature until the craze over the iPhone 3G settled down and they had a gauge of how much bandwidth was being used by their clients.
Comment Re:Yes, it's too old. (Score 1) 395
The issue here isn't the protection of the game scrabble, it's the protection of their trademark. You can't copyright a game. I don't see why Hasbro shouldn't be entitled to protecting their trademark though.
Submission + - DAAMIT R600 Monster
ijakings writes: "The Inquirer A EU based Tech website has some interesting news on the R600. I am going to attempt to run down their most recent news on this coveted card.
Firstly we have news that ATI have a plan to have 4 versions of the first, R600, Series of its DX10 generation. These four flavors are the Dragonshead, Dragonshead 2, the catseye, and the UFO (All codenames).
Some spy within the workings of ATI also managed to grab some pictures of this monster of a card. And I dont use the term monster lightly. Few people are going to have a case big enough to support the Dragonshead without breaking out the Dremel. But have no fear, DAAMIT's Dragonshead 2 at a lean 9.5 inches will save you.
I for one cant wait until this thing is released. Its looking to be the most powerful DX9 card ever and establish a firm foothold for DAAMIT in DX10."
Firstly we have news that ATI have a plan to have 4 versions of the first, R600, Series of its DX10 generation. These four flavors are the Dragonshead, Dragonshead 2, the catseye, and the UFO (All codenames).
Some spy within the workings of ATI also managed to grab some pictures of this monster of a card. And I dont use the term monster lightly. Few people are going to have a case big enough to support the Dragonshead without breaking out the Dremel. But have no fear, DAAMIT's Dragonshead 2 at a lean 9.5 inches will save you.
I for one cant wait until this thing is released. Its looking to be the most powerful DX9 card ever and establish a firm foothold for DAAMIT in DX10."
Submission + - DRM breaks DRM?
CompMD writes: I've been noticing that there are a lot of people using newer Dell machines that are running into trouble with FlexLM, a common license manager. What worries me is there are no FlexLM configuration problems. The issues experienced run the gamut, from not being able to check out a license to the service spawning thousands of server processes until the machine crashes. In the end, people can't use their legally licensed software. It took a while to find something in common with everyone, but eventually I discovered that a program implementing Trusted Computing that Dell preinstalls along with and what appeared to be a Broadcom TPM driver were causing this. This seems to be specific to Dell Precision laptops and perhaps a few other models. Can anyone else corroborate this problem of Trusted Computing breaking an industry standard license manager? What does this mean for the thousands of users of FlexLM licensed products? Is this problem specific to a faulty TC implementation, or is it systemic across all new computers with TC?
