Comment Re:Basic Requirement (Score 1) 134
Ah good to know, thanks.
Comment Re:Basic Requirement (Score 1) 134
WinDroid?
Comment Re:Wow, so yet another screen size (Score 5, Interesting) 134
It's the same resolution as the Droid and Nexus One. There are really only 2 main screen resolutions out there.
If your QA is backing up for android, maybe you did a bad job porting. Or maybe you should have designed for android to begin with.
If your QA is backing up for android, maybe you did a bad job porting. Or maybe you should have designed for android to begin with.
Comment Re:Slashdot's anti-Google schtick is out of contro (Score 1) 283
So past biased journalism excuses present stupid editorializing? Perhaps you and I really don't read the same slashdot if you think they have been kind to Google in the past year or two.
Ah well. Don't worry, I don't expect much more than a false equivalency from someone with a link to Politico in their sig.
Happy Holidays.
Ah well. Don't worry, I don't expect much more than a false equivalency from someone with a link to Politico in their sig.
Happy Holidays.
Comment Re:Slashdot's anti-Google schtick is out of contro (Score 1) 283
That's the whole point of el reg though. They hate everyone :)
Comment Slashdot's anti-Google schtick is out of control (Score 5, Insightful) 283
CmdrTaco, kdawson(troll), all of you, need to chill it with the rhetoric. If I wanted sensationalist news I could easily hit up Fox or MSNBC. Of course while it's important to hold Google accountable once in awhile. But they are one of the biggest supporters of open source, and all you guys do is beat them over the head with a stick as if they are Microsoft. Sometimes I wonder if the editors here ever really grew up. Open source is great. It's one of the great achievements in human cooperation. But to belittle anyone who doesn't take the plunge 110% is really small of you guys. It's a good thing there are parts of the OSS community that welcome partial contributions with more open arms than do Slashdot editors.
I'm not sure this will go over well, but I have karma to burn and sometimes we need to turn the mirror back on ourselves.
I'm not sure this will go over well, but I have karma to burn and sometimes we need to turn the mirror back on ourselves.
Comment Re:What a nightmare. (Score 1) 306
Weird -- I've had a somewhat opposite experience. I had a VZW store employee tell me a way to save money by buying from the website instead of in store from him.
Retail can often be hit or miss like that though, I can't think of any retail business that doesn't suffer at least some bad apples like that. Not saying your experience was isolated, but who knows.
Retail can often be hit or miss like that though, I can't think of any retail business that doesn't suffer at least some bad apples like that. Not saying your experience was isolated, but who knows.
Comment Re:Any good? (Score 2, Insightful) 141
I don't know a lot about Exchange, but couldn't you also say it would be really nice for Exchange to support more standards for other devices to connect? (IMAP maybe?). Seems an appropriate devil's advocate question. Cue Keanu Reeves.
Comment Re:How does it compare to the Droid? (Score 1) 141
figure a bell curve if you're having trouble ;)
Comment Re:How does it compare to the Droid? (Score 4, Informative) 141
I'd say it would be about equal to the Droid. Here's the rumors I've heard/read:
- Processor speed will probably beat the droid,
- HTC SenseUI will be nice,
- Battery will probably be worse due to the stronger processor.
- Screen should be nice an beautiful like the droid's, maybe ever more stunning.
- Haven't heard anything about an LED flash like the droid's
- No hardware keyboard
- Sounds like T-Mobile's (weird flavor of?) GSM.
- HTC Trackball v Moto'd directional pad
- No discount, so looking at $300-800 ish?
Full bias disclosure: I own a Droid and love it. Plan to marry it. Verizon has me by the balls in the prenup though.
WordPress.com Implements the Twitter API 39
This morning Matt Mullenweg announced on his blog that WordPress.com has enabled posting and reading blogs via the Twitter API. Now any Twitter app that supports a custom API URL (Tweetie is one such) can be used to either post updates to a WordPress.com blog, or to read updates from blogs to which one has subscribed. Dave Winer calls the move by Automattic, WordPress.com's parent company, "deeply insidious," and notes that 10 years ago he did a similar thing in his Manila blogging platform when the Blogger API came out. Winer opines that Automattic's move has made the Twitter API into an open standard, due to WordPress.com's large base. Winer notes (in a comment on the above-linked post), "The fun starts if they [WordPress] relax some of the limits of the Twitter API and fix some of the glaring problems."
Open Source Hardware Projects, 2009 77
ptorrone writes "MAKE's yearly open source hardware guide is now online with over 125 projects in 19 categories. The creators of all of these projects have decided to publish completely all the source, schematics, firmware, software, bill of materials, parts list, drawings, and 'board' files to recreate the hardware. They also allow any use, including commercial. In other words, you can make a business making and selling any of these objects. This is similar to open source software like Linux, but hardware-centric."
Microsoft Invents Price-Gouging the Least Influential 259
theodp writes "In the world envisioned by Microsoft's just-published patent application for Social Marketing, monopolists will maximize revenue by charging prices inversely related to the perceived influence an individual has on others. Microsoft gives an example of a pricing model that charges different people $0, $5, $10, $20, or $25 for the identical item based on the influence the purchaser wields. A presentation describing the revenue optimization scheme earned one of the three inventors applause (MS-Research video), and the so-called 'influence and exploit' strategies were also featured at WWW 2008 (PDF). The invention jibes nicely with Bill Gates's pending patents for identifying influencers. Welcome to the brave new world of analytics."
Copyright Industries Oppose Treaty For the Blind 135
langelgjm sends in a piece from Wired, which details the background of a proposed treaty to allow cross-border sharing of books for the blind — a treaty which is opposed by an almost unified front of business interests in the US, with the exception of Google. "A broad swath of American enterprise ranging from major software makers to motion picture and music companies are joining forces to oppose a new international treaty that would make books more accessible to the blind. With the exception of Google, almost every major industry player has expressed disapproval of the treaty, which would allow cross-border sharing of digitized books accessible to the blind and visually impaired. Google's chief copyright counsel believes the industry-wide opposition is mainly due to 'opposition to a larger agenda of limitations and exceptions... We believe this is an unproductive approach to solving what is a discrete, long-standing problem that affects a group that needs and deserves the protections of the international community.'"
Comment Re:Fab Capacity (Score 1) 169
I don't understand. Building new plants and ramping up production is insurmountable? Obviously it takes significant time and investment, but what does that have to do with anything?
AMD could have made a deal to supply all of Dell's chips in just a couple years, couldn't they? Seems you're talking about the pace of changing vendors and the pace of the business in general. While the issue here is the behavior of the competition in trying to prevent any change from ever taking place. Certainly the more a smaller competitor gets shut out of the market, the harder it is to get back in the game. But that seems more like a magnifying effect of the original anti-competitive actions.
