Comment: Google indexes some public content (Score 4, Insightful) 167
Google starts to index an additional source of publicly available content.
or in other words,
nothing at all has happened.
This should be tagged !story.
Comment: Re:Jailbreak == Piracy (Score 1) 148
Only because Apple are forcing us to break the law, just to enable something they could have quite easily added themselves.
Let me get this straight. Apple have released something shiny and not given it to you for free, and in your head that means they are forcing you to pirate it. Forcing you? Really, is that the best you can do?
Jailbreaking itself doesn't force you to pirate apps or break the law. If you Jailbreak to do that, that's your own problem, but you shouldn't tar everyone with the same brush.
I don't have to; when the announcement of the jailbreak and the incitement to run pirated software appear in the same slashdot headline, you're doing a perfectly good job of tarring yourselves.
Comment: Jailbreak == Piracy (Score 2) 148
Great, you can run Siri on an iPod touch. Well done.
Now try convincing the world at large that jailbreaking is not primarily motivated by the running of pirated apps.
Comment: Re:oblig. (Score 1) 238
Buy thirty-three and suddenly you have more RAM than an iMac.
FTFY.
Comment: I like small speakers, I like tall speakers (Score 1) 135
but most of all I like LOUD speakers
Comment: Re:Prototype... (Score 1) 112
The other feature of successful game engines is that they, generally speaking, don't pin a core i7 at 100% usage drawing half a dozen objects at 15fps with a lighting model which would have looked dated in 2001.
Comment: Re:So disappointed by the name (Score 2) 233
I thought it was about camouflaging unpicturesque donkeys.
Comment: Re:I can only see two ways for this to pan out (Score 1) 578
I thought it was fair clear in context that I was talking about dissatisfaction on the part of other manufacturers, who had bought into Android on the understanding that they would all be on a level playing field.
Comment: Re:I can only see two ways for this to pan out (Score 1) 578
There was broad dissatisfaction with the Nexus One, and that was just one handset.
Really?!? The only dissatisfaction with the Nexus One was distribution. Google tried to sell it outside the influence of the carriers and the carriers played hardball.
I have a Nexus One and I love it... [...]
That does not sound like broad dissatisfaction to me...
I thought it was fair clear in context that I was talking about dissatisfaction on the part of other manufacturers, who had bought into Android on the understanding that they would all be on a level playing field.
Comment: I can only see two ways for this to pan out (Score 2) 578
I reckon by 2013 Google will either be making all Android hardware, or none of it.
What will the other manufacturers making Android handsets think about this? Who would license an OS from a company which also manufactures directly competing hardware and sells it on a large scale? There was broad dissatisfaction with the Nexus One, and that was just one handset. Clearly Google are most interested in the patents (to fight against Apple, Nokia, Microsoft et al) but is that worth destroying the partnership with other companies? Maybe they think they can go it alone.