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Comment HD retina with optical zoom (Score 1) 544

IF I could print enhancements, I would print enhanced retina with optical zoom eyes. I would Also print HD hears with mute ability
I would also print enhanced smell detectors for my nose (with mute ability as well)

As for my health, I would print a new spine to fix my triple herniated disc issue.
Finaly I would replace my liver to fix my cholesterol and feritinemy problems.

Comment Re:What is the problem the Q is trying to solve? (Score 1) 128

- Apple TV can mirror iOS screens or act as a second external screen (AirPlay). Nexus Q can't
- Apple TV can be used without any other iOS device (it has a remote). Nexus Q cant. You need an NFC enabled Androïd device to control it.
- Apple TV have more services than simple youtube. Apple TV has Vimeo, Netflix, flickr and more.
- Apple TV can play media from local network while Nexus Q can't (need to transfer your media to Google cloud and then read it from the cloud. 2 internet transfers for watching a local media; what a bandwidth waste!)

Need more?

Comment Re:Why such a low maximum resolution? (Score 1) 414

+1000.

I'll keep my 3GS until upport is dropped by Apple. I was prepared to buy next iPhone, but it looks like iOS6 will run on my 3GS, so I'll wait a bit more before upgrading....
Compared to my Brother in law who bought a Samsung Galxy (left with Android 1.6), then a Galaxy S (left with Android 2.?), then a Galaxy SII (waiting ICS from he's operator) and soon a SIII as it's operator has still havent provided ICS for his SII). All those purchase in order to be able to buy new regular apps....What a shame!

Comment Re:Why such a low maximum resolution? (Score 1) 414

+1000

My iPhone 3GS 32GB from June 2009 will receive iOS6. Of course with less features, BUT with latest API, thus with the ability to install latest Apps.

Since I bought my iPhone in June 2009, I got the following enhancements:
- video/photo and text copy/past (with ability to copy past sub sections of a video)
- iMessages so I can target WifI only idevices
- Multitasking
- directorys/groups of applications
- iCloud (realy great)
- EAP-SIM for WiFi authentication
- AirPlay (audio and video, but no mirror)
- New apps (Kiosk, Game Center, ...)

I was left out with the following enhancements:
- Video editor (only 256MB RAM is insufficient. even when jailbreaking and installing the app, it crash with out of memory): hardware limitation
- FaceTime (no front camera (hardware limitation))
- Siri (marketing limitation?): not extremely usefull for now (can't command my GPS software to enter destination, so pointyless).
- tabbed browsing: app exists for that
- Wifi internet connection sharing (only bluettooth sharing and cable sharing): still works fine with my ipad using blutooth.
- AirPlay mirror (hardware limitation)
- iOS6: no GPS turn by turn navigation: (already have CoPilot Live)
- iOS6: no 3D maps (hardware limitation; it's already slow on the new iPad).

=> Now lets compare to Windows Phones:
You buy a WP7 phone last year (or today) and you can't have proper multitasking: it prevents receiving skype calls when skype is not running in the foreground.
WP8 is out: (I don't know if it solves the problem), but one thing is sure: your phone is obsolete and won't get update AT ALL. I mean, no apps designed for WP7 will run on your less than a year old device! What a shame.

=> Now lets compare to Androïd phones as well: updates varies depending on the manufacturer, but one thing is sure: updates never occur on a more than one year old phone (or very rare). Even worse, you still have phones that get released todays (more than 9 months since ICS is out) with 2.3 installed and no planed updates: example: Motorola Defy variants. This means that you're stuck with API level 10 while other are already running API level 16 (with Open GL 2D which appeared in API level 14). Thus games using this API won't run on the device you've just bought. The problem is that many customers won't know that when buying a device (not everybody is a geek or developer) and this will make people angry...

IMHO, the big issue here is that if manufacturer want to really compete with Apple, the only thing to concentrate about NOW is maintenance! They need to maintain a device more than a year for the following reasons:
- 1/ If you purchased an app like CopilotLive, the latest version requires a recent OS: you can't get it even if your phone is less than 2 years old!
- 2/ There are security issues that don't get fixed. having a device that is not fixed just one year after purchase is a shame.
- 3/ It's a nightmare for developers: they need to stuck to old API to target more audience: => more work, less functionality, less efficient (manual 2D scrolling instead of OpenGL 2D scrolling as an example).

Common excuse is that there are too much hardware to maintain all the flavors. Bullshit: cyanogen mod is able to do that for all brands versus one brand can't do it for its devices??? It's marketting to for people to renew their device.
Why so much device gets out each year. Right now, Motorola is selling (in France) 10 different Androïd smartphones! Samsung (also in France) is Selling no more than 19 Galaxy variants (not counting the 2 SGII variants i9100 and i9100g) and not counting the 2 variants of the SG-SIII (4cores 3G in EU and 2cores 4G in US).... That's insane! What the hell do they want to achieve? Flooding the market with many models to artificially boost the market?

Really, they need to look at the whole picture and understand why Apple is doing fine with only 3 phones and 2 tablets. that would increase competitivity and help price to drop (especially Apple prices which are insane). Instead of that Samsung is going on the "high end" market by raising it's prices....Not sure it's the way to go IMHO...

Comment Re:Uhm, no... (Score 1) 332

+1

We just bought our new iPad, and we're using it since a month (using my iphone itune login) without having connected it once to our PC.
Same for our Apple TV3. (Does this thing connects to itunes?)

Comment Re:It's a joke, but it's pretty much spot on. (Score 1) 255

+10000
PS: you forgot buying on eBay without fearing key-loggers and such, take geotagged photos, browse photo on TV via Apple TV (easier for your friend to watch them), stream you music to your AirPlay device like freebox (xDSL operator box with AirPlay capabilities) while staying on the sofa speaking with your friends....

PPS: I guess you mobile operator is freemobile ;-) . The same as the one used in my 3GS and my wife's Xperia ARC S (which will provide data to her "New iPad". Awesome :-)

Comment Poor gag...... (Score 1) 163

LOL. Imagine all cars become invisible.... And you want to reduce the accident rate? BAD GAG.

Why not an advertising campaign based on alcohol? after all it's not worse in terms of safety.....
With alchool based fuel car, you can drive and drink at the same time... BAD GAG.

Can't they be more imaginative?

Comment my iPhone 3GS is freeed with my new freemobile ISP (Score 1) 396

Since January in France, a new ISP has appeared. It's called freemobile (mobile.free.fr)
For 15€99 per month ($21.15 at the time I'm writing) you have:
- unlimited voice call toward fixed phones in 40 countries (including local calls)
- unlimited calls toward cell phones in 4 countries (including USA)
- unlimited SMS and MMS
- unlimited internet access (full internet access) (web+mail+voip+peer2peer+newsgrops+ssh+*.*) (all protocols all tcp ports)
    (faire use is 3GB.average speed varies from 3 to 6Mb/s below faire-use. after it's 256Kb/s)
- no commitment with operator, you're free to leave at anytime without any fee.
- network is 3G/3G+ only with a free roaming using Orange ISP provider for uncovered areas and 2G
- network is 4G ready.

A BIG TSUNAMI in France mobile ISPs!

my iPhone and my wife xperia arc S have been Free-ed. It's awesome.

Comment 4.6 Great, but... (Score 1) 202

It still lack a few but major components.

- akonadi_mapi_resource (exchange real native mapi connector not using https or webdave or imap or any other MS options that are always turned off in a big company. openXchange is NOT that one, openchange one is ok but seems dead)
- akonadi_iphone_calendar_resource
- akonadi_iphone_contact_resource
- akonadi_iphone_notes_resource
- akonadi_iphone_bookmark_reource
- ...

The mapi connection is a MUST have and is a big missing... Instread of that KDE choose to create an existing wheel: dolphin. WTF....
Before kde4 I was able to split my konqueror view in 4 panels: one html, one ftp, one local file, one phpmyadmin...
Now, this functionality is still present in konqueror, but no bug fix... all development goes to Dolphin.... can't understand why tyhey choose to split the data browser in 2 browser: one for network content and one for local content... Why diferenciate? What is the value added? why ignoring browsing profiles?

Anyway, KDE is progressing... but it's SLOOOOWWWWW .waiting for MAPI since ages. Most of my collegues moved to Windows7 jsut and only because of this lack.
If only I had time and C++ knowledge.
I had a look at the akonady dev tutorial it's great. really, unfortunately, my C++ is far far to weak to be able to produce something :-(

Comment 1st evidence that forces unification is there. (Score 1) 405

This is the First evidence that mass equations have to be written using complex numbers just like the 3 other elementary forces.

Maybe ou total mass is equal to something like: gravitational mass + i * inertial mass (or something similar)

If we're speaking of such a thing, the impact would be awesome:

1) elementary forces unification becomes possible. (all 4 elementary forces are managed by equations, all using complex numbers) no more need for null imaginary part for inertia/gravitation
2) having an imaginary part means that i=-1, thus speed faster than light is possible.(maybe a mater state change and properties change), but it becomes possible.

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