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Comment: Re:Google will block it (Score 1) 381

by raju1kabir (#43705195) Attached to: Microsoft YouTube App Strips Ads; Adds Download

They never had "innovation" as the iphone has consistently been behind other leading devices (usually by a year or more) on features.

For some companies, "innovation" means throwing 100 different features at the wall to see if any of them stick. Along the way, most of the people who bought those devices are fucked, because most of them paid for "features" that weren't usable, or devices that included huge compromises in order to accommodate those "features".

For other companies, "innovation" means spending the time to figure out how do the things that are really worth doing, better than anyone else has.

As a customer, I far prefer the second, even if it means I have to wait 6 extra months for the life-altering experience of a new feature on my telephone.

Comment: Re:Wrong measure (Score 1) 381

by raju1kabir (#43705141) Attached to: Microsoft YouTube App Strips Ads; Adds Download

They know what an iphone is, and equate it with smart phone. never mind that the competing phones do more, do it better, and do it at a lower price.

Yeah, I'm no techno neophyte - I've written popular applications for both platforms, and I understand the technology inside and out.

The reason I prefer the iPhone is that I can count on it. Android is consistently buggy, inconsistently updated by carriers, and easily confounded by poorly-developed apps.

The iphone is consistently a year or more behind the major Android players in features

Don't give a shit. I am much more interested in a phone that always works when I need it, rather than one which offers the latest poorly conceived fad gimmicks.

If you are trying to save a few bucks, or you view playing with a phone as a fun little techno-hobby activity, then definitely Android can be appealing. If you just want to get on with your business/social life and have the phone enable that process when called upon... not so much.

Comment: Re:I honestly don't understand why.... (Score 1) 230

by raju1kabir (#43631875) Attached to: UK Benefits Claimants Must Use Windows XP, IE6

If your maintenance budget is $0, this is eventually going to happen regardless.

If the site had been programmed to published standards instead of vendor-specific kluges, it would still work fine today.

This is solely a consequence of poor vendor selection or project definition.

Comment: Re:Brilliant (Score 1) 194

by raju1kabir (#43614861) Attached to: New OpenWRT Drops Support For Linux 2.4, Low-Mem Devices
Okay. My point is that satellite ISPs have a huge footprint. I have brought dishes from the Midwestern USA to Central America, and from Europe to the Middle East, and they worked fine. You can shop around more than you think. Just because someone has a distributor agreement for your town doesn't mean it's really the only option.

Comment: Re:No more Gotcha! patent suits (Score 1) 116

by raju1kabir (#43603233) Attached to: British Telecom Claims Patents on VOIP Session Initiation Protocol
I do not have any concrete proof of the nonexistence of such an attempt. Like all attempts to prove a negative, I must rely in large part on the lack of evidence that an attempt has occurred. I've been involved with VoIP for over 10 years and never heard of such a thing. Nor does the article mention it. Nor do any of the other discussions of the topic.

Comment: Re:Brilliant (Score 1) 194

by raju1kabir (#43600843) Attached to: New OpenWRT Drops Support For Linux 2.4, Low-Mem Devices

My slowest option is 25mbps.

I know many people still have slower connections, but OpenWRT doesn't really have anywhere else to go in terms of supporting devices that are no longer being manufactured (or soon to be discontinued). It's much more interesting and productive for them to focus on adding new features that take advantage of new hardware and modern trends in connectivity.

Anyone who wants/needs to use older hardware is still free to do so with the existing versions of OpenWRT.

Comment: No more Gotcha! patent suits (Score 5, Insightful) 116

by raju1kabir (#43600489) Attached to: British Telecom Claims Patents on VOIP Session Initiation Protocol

There needs to be some sort of "horse has left the barn" exemption to patent enforceability. If a patent holder sits quietly and watches while an industry develops around something they believe to be infringing, it's not reasonable to allow them to wait until billions of dollars are at stake and then suddenly show up with a demand for payment.

That's not at all in the spirit of patent law. The purpose was to allow the patent holder the ability to exploit their own invention, not to allow them to sit on their asses doing nothing and then exploit everyone else's work.

Comment: Re:Missing in action. (Score 1) 142

by raju1kabir (#43525727) Attached to: BeagleBone Black Released With 1GHz Cortex-A8 For Only $45

Not a troll, seriously, but do you really push 100mbit through the firewall, at your house?

Depends on where you live, I guess. In these parts (northern Europe) it's pretty normal to have reasonably-priced >100mbps broadband connections that really do perform at >100mbps.

I get full speed when downloading things distributed via top-tier CDNs, like Apple/Microsoft/Firefox/Chrome updates and so on. Also the link is easily saturated by bittorrent.

Comment: Re:Sentence is too long (Score 1) 761

by raju1kabir (#43282169) Attached to: Man Who Pointed Laser At Aircraft Gets 30-Month Sentence

At no point should the justice system try to make an example out of anyone. Law should always be dealt evenly. The severity of punishment does nothing for deterrence, the only thing that helps serve as a warning is consistent enforcement of the law. To punish one person more than others so others take notice, has never worked, and is more of a sign of seeking vengeance than rehabilitation.

I am not saying that he should be punished more than other people. Everyone should be punished a lot for this sort of behavior, so that it is understood that doing this kind of thing gives you a little bit of stupid entertainment in exchange for the risk of a lot of misery.

Comment: Re:Sentence is too long (Score 3, Insightful) 761

by raju1kabir (#43281531) Attached to: Man Who Pointed Laser At Aircraft Gets 30-Month Sentence
He deliberately put people's lives at risk. If anything, the sentence is too short. He doesn't need to be in a maximum security facility, but he needs to be taken out of circulation for a while, both to teach him a lesson and to serve as a warning to others who might be tempted to do the same thing.

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