Comment Re:Two Ways (Score 1) 304
Yeah, I love opening a web browser to make a phone call from my chosen phone number.
Comment Re:What's the point? (Score 1) 289
oh, that and it works with the ipod touch if you buy the kit.
Comment Re:What's the point? (Score 2, Informative) 289
Thanks for your useful input. I'm glad that, knowing nothing about the question asked, you decided to answer anyway.
This app behaves much more like a standalone GPS device that you can mount on your dashboard; it has preloaded maps, 3d perspective, voice prompts, offline use, etc.
I've been using garmin's GMobileXT on my S60 phone for a while, which is pretty much an exact port of a low-end Garmin device, except it has data access and can use AGPS for faster locks. It's kind of nice for trips but 99% of the time I just need a quick answer, and the google maps application is more than acceptable (plus, it's been getting better and better lately: now it's got street view, latitude, layers, transit directions -- it already owns offline apps in all respects except voice prompts and the fact that you have to constantly press zero to recenter on your location.)
This app behaves much more like a standalone GPS device that you can mount on your dashboard; it has preloaded maps, 3d perspective, voice prompts, offline use, etc.
I've been using garmin's GMobileXT on my S60 phone for a while, which is pretty much an exact port of a low-end Garmin device, except it has data access and can use AGPS for faster locks. It's kind of nice for trips but 99% of the time I just need a quick answer, and the google maps application is more than acceptable (plus, it's been getting better and better lately: now it's got street view, latitude, layers, transit directions -- it already owns offline apps in all respects except voice prompts and the fact that you have to constantly press zero to recenter on your location.)
Comment Re:29 and cannot write the full ABC's in cursive (Score 1) 921
They're hardly standardized. Looking at the wikipedia article on cursive, I was taught different forms of several of the capital letters. I find that a lot of cursive is contextual, words just turn into spaced humps with ocassional curls and vertical lines. It's no wonder that it's so hard to read.
Comment Re:26 years (Score 1) 921
to add a datapoint, I'm 24 in the US and our school had mandatory cursive instruction from first through fifth grade. As in it was a class given euqal time as History and Math. In retrospect, that's just stupid. Except when i have to decipher notes from my grandmother.
Comment Re:Remote X servers? (Score 1) 205
I just generate output graphics as files and open them on my machine over sftp. A whole X session seems like monstrous overhead for a transaction that is 99% text and an occasional image file.
Comcast DNS Redirection Launched In Trial Markets 362
An anonymous reader writes "Comcast has finally launched its DNS Redirector service in trial markets (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, and Washington state), and has submitted a working draft of the technology to the IETF for review. Comcast customers can opt-out from the service by providing their account username and cable modem MAC address. Customers in trial areas using 'old' Comcast DNS servers, or non-Comcast DNS servers, should not be affected by this. This deployment comes after many previous ISPs, like DSLExtreme, were forced to pull the plug on such efforts as a result of customer disapproval/retaliation. Some may remember when VeriSign tried this back in 2003, where it also failed."
Comment It's been available for quite some time (Score 1) 228
Comment Re:MPC Homecinema (Score 1) 488
By far the best feature of the Homecinema fork is its ability to completely remove tearing when you enable Direct3D Fulscreen in the Output settings. Every computer I've ever owned exhibits some tearing when playing 720p/1080p content, and it's especially bad on integrated graphics. Without exception, mpc-hc eliminates this.
Safari Beta Takeup Tops Firefox, IE and Chrome 342
nk497 writes "The release of the beta for the next version of Apple's Safari browser last week helped drive Apple's market share above ten per cent. The Safari beta has gained users at a rate of about 0.5 per cent a day since its release, topping one per cent by day four. For comparison, Microsoft's beta of IE took six months to hit one percent, Chrome needed almost a month, and Firefox 3 took a week."
Comment Re:The opposite of news (Score 1) 52
FYI, Nokia has a N810 successor planned with OMAP3 and HSPA, probably out by Q4.
Comment Re:Just keep one channel broadcasting for awhile. (Score 1) 664
Comment Re:Who cares? (Score 4, Informative) 664
The money is derived from the sale of the bandwidth, not your tax dollars.
Comment No JFFS2? (Score 3, Insightful) 198
Since interoperability is key in this context, anything besides FAT32 is hopelessly esoteric. So why not test the OSS solution as well?
Windows 7 Gaming Performance Tested 179
Timmus writes "Gamers holding onto Windows XP may not have to fear sluggish performance when Windows 7 debuts. While Windows Vista's gaming performance was pretty spotty at launch, the Windows 7 beta build seems to handle most games well. Firingsquad has tested the Windows 7 beta against Windows XP SP3 and Vista SP1 on midrange and high-end gaming PCs across 7 different games. While the beta stumbles in a couple of cases, overall it performs within a few percentage points of Windows XP, actually outrunning XP in multiple benchmarks."
