I'm still forced to have BB for work, but my wife has android. She has had a few voice apps and not sure which one she is currently using, but I think it may be called something like vlingo (or at least one of them was). She now does just about everything by voice. When she is in the car she turns on a setting and whenever she receives a text the phone announces who sent the text and reads it to her, etc, etc, etc.

Haven't seen Siri, but seems Android has "had some apps for that" for some time.

I'm wondering if the bigger mistake is the message to handset makers that if you use Andriod you get sued and products get blocked. Not just apple of course as there seems to be new suit against an Android maker every other day, but really have to wonder if at some point this becomes counter productive. Yes, Apple wants to beat Android, but what happens if you scare all the handset makers away from Android? Obviously they aren't going to stop making phones. Don't own one myself, but with good review the reviews of the latest windows phones, knowing MS will protect from any lawsuits, etc. Have to wonder how long until some of the phone makers doing well with Android find it too risky and just switch over to Windows phones? These suits from Apple could possible end up helping an even more powerful enemy gain traction.

 

I live in the Cayman Islands so this could be useful here. When a huricane hits, there are no options to drive somewhere that has electricity.

I think you can take off the tinfoil hat on the sabotage thoughts. For one LSE's own quote providing solution is experiencing the same issue. So unless they have some diabolical plan to sabotage themselves, I think that fact should rule that out. Also, this is effecting large players. These are billion dollar companies whose sole propose is to provide accurate data and provide it fast. Without that they simply don't exist. You'd have to live in a very conspiracy theory driven existence to think they'd all really all throw their own companies and livelihoods away in some dark plan to get the LSE or Linux.

Now would all these large players all have made the exact same errors in their interfaces so they are seeing these same issues while the smaller players seem to have got it right? Sure. But the simplest explanation, of course is they are all experiencing the same issue because of some upstream problem with scaling to their large volumes. Those actually involved seem to point to some caching issue. Is that true? No clue, but they are certainly in a better position to offer analysis of the issue than you or I. That doesn't mean Linux is bad for christ's sake (so you don't have to go on some crazy conspiracy hunt to explain it away). If it is true (and we certainly don't know that it is, though the information currently available may point that way), you know what? There is software which just happens to be running on Linux, which may have an issue. No big deal. Happens every day on every platform. Not some big black eye on Linux if some software that happens to run on Linux has issues and no need to start jumping to conspiracies to explain it away.

I'm curious what Google will do if MPEG-LA is successful in creating a patent pool for WebM? Will they actually pull support for their own codec and abandon it if patent issues arise? Will be interesting to see what happens if MPEG-LA succeeds.

Microsoft won't provide a warranty on your new Linux install either. Now your PC provider may support Linux and your hardware warrant may still be valid, but that isn't what is being discussed. This is about Microsft's warranty on their software.

The article is about MS voiding the warranty on their software. Presumably a separate warranty would exist with the hardware provider. Now smartphone hardware providers currently tend to only support one OS (though hopefully this will change), so I'm guessing it may end up voiding their warranty as well, but that is a separate issue. The hardware issue would likely be like installing Linux on a Dell PC 10 years ago. Sure you can do it, but it wasn't officially supported by Dell so good luck calling Dell for support.

One would assume that is correct. The article is just about Microsoft's warranty on its software. Any warranty on the hardware would presumably be a separate issue entirely to take up with the hardware supplier.

Honestly I don't as I'm not much of a gamer :-) When I think of "Mod" in the context of game consoles, I think of three things: - ability to create your own software to run on the console which is available on the Xbox (though there are restrictions) - Mod chips, etc which allow running pirated games, etc which obviously aren't permitted - Creating custom content, maps, etc within a game which is really an issue for the game itself and not the console Honestly, that is all I could think of so I must be missing something. What do you mean by mod in the context of games?

After you jailbreak a phone there are a lot of things you could do to break it. For example, if you mess around and overwrite critical system files MS won't be responsible for fixing it for you.

Once you jailbreak a phone though there is a lot more you can do than simply install unapproved apps.

Here you go. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/aa937791 Now if you are talking about the mods to allow the system to run pirated games, that is obviously a different matter.

Maybe, but imagine how cool it will be playing a DBZ based game and doing the Kamehame wave attack! Maybe if I get some really strong hair gell and spike my hair I'll automatically become a super saiyan! :-)

Nobody is going to use it? YOU were the one who used it! I faked nothing. Not my fault you provided what you now claim is an invalid search "dude".

How is my post a troll? Parent was very specific in searchs to perform on specific websites to see the "real world" situation. I followed his exact instructions (using defaults for my area when any specific instructions were missing) and reported the results. I've reported the objective results based on the exact specification and that is trolling?