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Comment Re:Not a great implementation (Score 1) 214

It's probably easier for us to all learn Morse, and just have a deet da dee deet festival.

I fail to see your logic. You had to memorize a QWERTY keyboard layout and you would have to memorize Morse. You have to learn/memorize something for these inputs. Take Swype [swypeinc.com], you have to have the keyboard layout memorized, on top of memorizing what gestures do what. Or even Voice inputs...you have to have a language memorized/learned to be able to speak it.

Comment Re:I'm gonna go Orwellian on yo ass (Score 1) 49

Its normal for a mobile phone to last a week?? Were you using the thing to call anyone? I had about 6 different models of cell phones (all Samsung) before my current smart phone...I had to charge them at least 3-4 times a week and I barely used those phones for anything more than an alarm clock. I actually miss those days, seeing as my Nexus One only lasts 9 hours.

Comment Re:Isn't Dalvik the base of that as well? (Score 2, Insightful) 377

"MonoDroid applications run with the Mono execution environment. This execution environment runs side-by-side the Dalvik Virtual Machine. Both runtime environments run on top of the Linux kernel and expose various APIs to the user code that allows developers to access the underlying system. Both Mono and Dalvik are runtimes written in the C language."

http://monodroid.net/Documentation/Architecture

Comment Are outlets really an issue? (Score 1) 5

I graduated from a University in CS last year and I don't understand your need for such long battery life.

Many of the rooms had outlets handy, some at every chair, others just a few at choice spots where all the nerds camped out. Do you really anticipate that you will be in class 8 hours straight? No breaks between classes to charge your laptop and refuel yourself? Is this also needed for your commute to and from school (perhaps while on a train or bus)? If you are constantly in large rooms (lecture halls?), they typically had outlets underneath every seat.

I went through senior year on an Asus Eee PC 900 that lasted 2 hours at the most, but I typically plugged in seeing as there were outlets everywhere. Usually the rooms without the outlets were the ones that didn't require a computer and the only thing people did on computers was play FarmVille/read Slashdot/troll Digg/whatever instead of paying active attention. This was also my primary laptop and I used it to program my Senior Design project in (not something I would recommend on an Eee PC 900).

I am not putting your want/need for this amount of battery down, but I'm not following why its so important in a laptop making decision.

Comment Re:To appease the most visitors with ease (Score 5, Interesting) 379

When I was developing a Silverlight 2.0 application almost two years ago, we had something similiar to this issue when (I believe) your plugin version did not match the version of Silverlight coded for. More specifically, when Silverlight 3 was available/installed it would complain to us to install Silverlight, when in reality we should have been downgrading to continue supporting our Silverlight 2.0 app.

Comment Re:Handbrake (Score 1) 177

I am not sure what the limitations of the Youtube app are, but this is my experience. Not all videos on the Youtube.com search will display on the Youtube app search. I have a Nexus One with Android 2.2 running Flash and I can see many more youtube.com videos than Youtube app videos. Also, when my phone asks me if I want to load a Youtube.com video into Browser or Youtube App, the Youtube app will tell me 'This video is not available for mobile devices.' I have seen this happen quite frequently with videos I want to watch.

Comment Re:But what about performance? (Score 5, Informative) 273

I have Flash on my Nexus One running FroYo...honestly, its not that bad. Youtube videos run very smoothly for me (much more so than the actual Youtube app, that thing is garbage IMHO). It's only when you see pages with lots of crap (ads) on them that performance becomes an issue. You can set the plug-in to On Demand, but when you select one flash object to load, I've noticed every flash objects loads and then performance suffers.

Comment Re:Something baffles me slightly (Score 1) 702

I don't really understand why you are asking this. I thought we all knew Apple likes to hold out on putting things into their first couple of models... They released the iPad with hardware comparable to currently released iPhone. Then they release the new iPhone with new hardware so people will want to buy that too. If you had gotten an iPad with that Retinal display whatever, would you really want to dig into your pocket a second time?

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