kanguru007 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:FAIL ! (Score 1) 521

by kanguru007 on Wednesday October 17, 2012 @10:16PM (#41688911) Attached to: Microsoft Surface Pricing Goes Toe-to-Toe With Apple iPad

Microsoft doesn't like price wars.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk

Comment Re:Microsoft doesn't like price wars (Score 1) 521

by kanguru007 on Wednesday October 17, 2012 @10:10PM (#41688873) Attached to: Microsoft Surface Pricing Goes Toe-to-Toe With Apple iPad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk

Comment have no teen hackers rooted the WP7 Lumias yet? (Score 1) 409

by kanguru007 on Saturday October 13, 2012 @10:38PM (#41646367) Attached to: The Three Pillars of Nokia Strategy Have All Failed

Has no teen hacker rooted the WP7 Lumias so that Android or Linux can be installed? That would make them start selling like hot cookies.

Comment Re:deja-news (Score 1) 409

by kanguru007 on Saturday October 13, 2012 @10:33PM (#41646353) Attached to: The Three Pillars of Nokia Strategy Have All Failed

...(naive European mobile phone) companies

Comment deja-news (Score 1) 409

by kanguru007 on Saturday October 13, 2012 @10:32PM (#41646345) Attached to: The Three Pillars of Nokia Strategy Have All Failed

Microsoft has a history of scamming (naive mobile phone) companies

http://slashdot.org/story/02/12/26/1423247/sendo-accuses-ms-of-stealing-smartphone-ip

Comment ROFL (Score 1) 409

by kanguru007 on Saturday October 13, 2012 @10:15PM (#41646277) Attached to: The Three Pillars of Nokia Strategy Have All Failed

"Microsoft must be getting rather frustrated with the Nokia partnership and its inability to break through in smartphones."

http://www.unwiredview.com/2012/10/01/microsoft-is-working-on-its-own-branded-wp8-device-windows-phone-surface-to-launch-in-h1-next-year/

Comment What about ourselves? (Score 1) 299

by kanguru007 on Friday August 31, 2012 @10:27AM (#41189839) Attached to: If Extinct Species Can Be Brought Back... Should We?

Should we make plans so that our species can be reintroduced if it ever gets extinct?

Comment ...it doesn't look beautiful to 3D app developers (Score 1) 362

by kanguru007 on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @03:13PM (#39860489) Attached to: Wozniak Praises 'Beautiful' Windows Phone

C++ and OpenGL ES are respectively the most used language and graphics API for development of 3D applications on mobile devices. These are not available on WP7 phones. Is this locking developers in or out of WP7 app development?

Comment I must complain about the lack of options (Score 1) 317

by kanguru007 on Thursday February 09, 2012 @04:27PM (#38987197) Attached to: How long until the (first-world) classroom education model is obsolete?

It is obsolete now! Not the model but the way it is done.

Comment This is not about everchanging proprietary APIs (Score 1) 397

by kanguru007 on Wednesday December 28, 2011 @01:20AM (#38511850) Attached to: Charlie Kindel On Why Windows Phone Still Hasn't Taken Off

...and Direct3D is still the universally supported 3D API that every wise programmer wants to use.

It looks like Microsoft has achieved something that dogs have unsuccessfully been trying to do for centuries: it bit its own tail!

Comment Programming is not "technology" (Score 2) 292

by kanguru007 on Tuesday November 29, 2011 @01:49AM (#38199274) Attached to: Reading, Writing, Ruby?

My guess is that corporation fights, messy and confusing APIs, software patents and changing standards should drive most intelligent and creative people away from programming. Calling it "technology" doesn't help either.

Comment I don't believe this to be a true account (Score 1) 273

by kanguru007 on Monday March 30, 2009 @06:46PM (#27395069) Attached to: TomTom Settles With Microsoft

> It appears TomTom bowed to the pressure and settled with Microsoft

I don't believe this to be a true account of what happened.

http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/about_members.php

Have a look at the OIN website and feel their strength. IBM is one of the members, they're standing up 100% for Linux and Microsoft simply does not have a chance.

Comment Re:Research (Score 1) 196

by kanguru007 on Wednesday March 11, 2009 @06:11PM (#27158143) Attached to: The First Phone Call Was 133 Years Ago

Now this is the cue for anti-patent people to start listing a litany of cases where patents didn't protect some little guy. But that doesn't change the millions of cases where it does, that doesn't get the publicity.

Then please just tell us about one of those cases where patents did protect some little guy.

k007

Comment Re:Patent sucks (Score 1) 196

by kanguru007 on Wednesday March 11, 2009 @05:54PM (#27157907) Attached to: The First Phone Call Was 133 Years Ago

Er.. no. Patents are good. The fact that Bell was able to patent his invention means that (1) he was able to profit from it, and (2) his invention was fully disclosed and available to the rest of humanity.

Yes, patents are good for 'inventors' like Bell but bad for real inventors like Meuci who couldn't afford them.

k007

Comment It could go Pyramid, Matrix or 8 ball (Score 1) 603

by kanguru007 on Tuesday March 25, 2008 @11:24AM (#22857818) Attached to: Windows 7 Likely Going Modular, Subscription-based

It could go Pyramid, Matrix or 8 ball, I don't really care. K.

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