mhamel - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Here is my dream phone (Score 1) 306

by mhamel on Saturday December 19, 2009 @06:47PM (#30500946) Attached to: Carriers, Manufacturers Are Strangling Android

* An android phone with SIPDroid shoud do the trick for number 1.
* Number 2 is ok also with android.
* No 3 is ok if you buy an used HTC G1 on ebay. They go for an average of 165$ right now.
* 4 is also ok woth android.

Buy an used Android phone.. best bang for the buck!

Comment great argument for free software (Score 2, Interesting) 1006

by mhamel on Friday November 13, 2009 @01:30PM (#30088684) Attached to: Software Piracy At the Workplace?

Offer a solution. If you go to your boss's office and tell him he is a thief he's not going to be happy. But if you get in there and offer a free alternative it should be a good way of bringing things up.

Openoffice can do the job if everybody switch together. 7-zip is a good replacement for winzip. I'm pretty sure lot's of software has free (like in open source) alternative. Try, you'll see where it lead you. :-)

Comment Re:Android already conver that market (Score 1) 108

by mhamel on Wednesday September 23, 2009 @09:42AM (#29514651) Attached to: Intel To Challenge Android With Moblin For Mobile Devices

It's closed because the handset builders have to buy it and enter in a contract with Microsoft to offer it. For a programmer a good API will never be like having access to the source code. I know because I lived throught both.

Comment Android already conver that market (Score 5, Informative) 108

by mhamel on Wednesday September 23, 2009 @09:31AM (#29514515) Attached to: Intel To Challenge Android With Moblin For Mobile Devices

It's like the 80s and the begining of windows all over again but for mobile devices. The question is what will be the OS that can use the most software. Right now there are: IPhone OS which is very closed. Windows mobile also very closed and not sexy. Android which is open and has lots of backing by lot's of different builders. Many other smaller options. Moblin look very open too but.. when it will show up, Android should already available from every cellular providers.

What is funny in that mobile war is the position of Apple. Pretty much like when the first Mac came by at the begining of the 80s. They have a great product. But they are too closed. So it's going to be everybody against them. They can't win. Dell, HTC, Lenovo, Motorola, Philips, Samsung, Sony Ericson (on the open side this time) , and many others already have android phones.

I predict that soon when you'll want to build a mobile application, it will have to run on Android first. That way it will be available to everybody. The rest will be second thought. Just like the market for computer right OS now with windows. But this time the winner will be the open platform because it's been early in the market and the manufacturer will simply find it easier then going for windows mobile.

Google Wave Reviewed 365

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 22, 2009 @08:46PM from the what's-the-skinny dept.

Michael_Curator writes "Developers are finally getting their hands on the developer preview of Google's Wave, which means we can finally get some first-hand accounts of what it's really like to use, unfiltered by Google's own programmers. Ben Rometsch, a developer with U.K. Web development firm Solid State, blogged that, it's 'probably the most advanced application in a browser that I've seen.' Wave is like giant Web page onto which users can drag and drop any kind of object, including instant messaging and IRC [Internet Relay Client] clients, e-mail, and wikis, as well as gadgets like maps and video. All conversations, work product and applications are stored on remote servers — presumably forever. 'It's like real time email. On crack,' he wrote. And unlike the typically minimalist Google UI, 'It feels a lot more like a desktop application that just so happens to live in your browser.'" User molex333 has already written a Slashdot app and shares his initial reactions here.

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