Comment Re:Good. (Score 1) 292
My Android phone has a FM tuner and a dedicated camera button. As for integration with MS products I couldn't care less (but I see that for some people it could be an advantage).
Comment Re:i'm interested in an android app for ssh tunnel (Score 1) 359
ConnectBot + HTC Desire Z rocks. Works like a charm.
Comment well (Score 1) 247
it was probably all porn anyways
Comment Re:Welcome to Japan circa 2001 (Score 1) 384
Yeah, exactly! In fact the phones are so unusable they tried to replace the text with little images resembling features of the phone, but kinda failed at it, too.
Comment Re:Welcome to Japan circa 2001 (Score 1) 384
"Hello I'd like to buy that Nokia phone. Is the 10-hour video recording traning session included in the price? And what's the minimum required IQ for the maps feature?"
Comment Re:You Can't Pay: africa, latin america, east euro (Score 1) 133
I get it that advertising won't be enough, but I'd be more than glad to pay a few bucks a month to get sites like pandora or hulu working.
Actually I pay for US-based proxy, so I CAN access these services for a small fee, it just sucks that this money goes to hosting company not to the content providers.
Comment Re:Available outside U.S. ? (Score 5, Insightful) 133
Exactly! It really pisses me off that I'm locked out just because I don't live in the states anymore. No wonder torrent sites flourish.
Comment Re:Ming boggles... (Score 1) 166
Do these posters never learn?
Never.
Submission + - Users, Web developers vent over IE7
Spinlock_1977 writes: "ComputerWorld is running a story about developers frustration with IE 7, and Microsoft's upcoming plans (or lack thereof) for it. From the article:
But the most pointed comment came from someone labeled only as dk. "You all continue to underestimate the dramatic spillover effect this poor developer experience has had and will continue to have on your other products and services. Let me drive this point home. I am a front-end programmer and a co-founder of a start-up. I can tell you categorically that my team won't download and play with Silverlight ... won't build a Live widget ... won't consider any Microsoft search or ad products in the future."
But the most pointed comment came from someone labeled only as dk. "You all continue to underestimate the dramatic spillover effect this poor developer experience has had and will continue to have on your other products and services. Let me drive this point home. I am a front-end programmer and a co-founder of a start-up. I can tell you categorically that my team won't download and play with Silverlight
Journal Journal: today.
today is my best friend's birthday. she is 16. naturally, she got her license in the morning and drove the truck she got to school. sure, her two older sisters also drove that truck when they were in high school and sure its not that new. but she still got something. today was pretty cool. in the morning i decorated her locker and she checked in late and we had cookies and king cake and all kinda shit during break. at lunch, one of the few decent teachers we have went get a couple of us lunch fr
Submission + - Full Color Holograms Containing 8 second videos
Andy writes: "Check out http://www.xyzrgb.com/holos/soccer.html to see this really cool poster that has a hologram that is not only in full color but contains 8 seconds of video(think of the pictures in the newspapers on the Harry Potter movies). Look here http://www.posterwire.com/ for more information about it."
Feed Software to the People! (wired.com)
Journal Journal: Music execs criticise DRM systems
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6362069.stm
Almost two-thirds of music industry executives think removing digital locks from downloadable music would make more people buy the tracks, finds a survey.
Haha.
Journal SPAM: Linus fires latest shot in GNOME Wars 4
Linux.com is running a story about the continuing feud between Linus and some GNOME folks.Some bad blood between Linus Torvalds and GNOME developers is flaring up again. Previously, Torvalds has said that Linux users should switch to KDE instead of GNOME because of the GNOME team's "users are idiots" mentality. Now he has "put his money where his mouth is" by submitting patches to GNOME in orde
Submission + - Cuba Embraces Open-Source Software
An anonymous reader writes: From The Washington Post (by way of the Associated Press): "Cuba's communist government is trying to shake off the yoke of at least one capitalist empire — Microsoft Corp. — by joining with socialist Venezuela in converting its computers to open-source software." Cuba's Communications Minister, Ramiro Valdes, has "called the world's information systems a "battlefield" where Cuba is fighting against imperialism."
