pjlehtim - Slashdot User

Comment Germany (Score 1) 1004

by pjlehtim on Monday May 21, 2012 @04:40AM (#40062321) Attached to: Who's Pirating Game of Thrones, and Why?

I live in Germany... Firstly, every legal source for anything is blocked here by a fascist organization called GEMA. Secondly all TV programs have German voice overs which make them unbearable to watch. Thirdly, the Game of Thrones airs here more than 6 months after the original airing in the US. So yeah. I torrent it. Then again If I had an alternative that was as easy as torrenting TV shows I'd gladly pay a reasonable fee for it. Sadly there are no legal sources.

Comment Re:Android (Score 2) 447

by pjlehtim on Wednesday March 21, 2012 @12:55PM (#39429139) Attached to: Former Nokia Exec: Windows Phone Strategy Doomed

I know we all love stock Android especially ICS but I don't think that would have saved Nokia. What I would think would have though if them keep making great HW and put Android on it with a skin that would feel familiar to Symbian users. Keep Nokia branding strong and make sure to port everything from Ovi Symbian store to Android. That would have kept the massive numbers of Symbian users happy with the next gen phones and also brought all the Android benefits to Nokia phones. That would also keep the differentiation Elop keep talking about.. Now the differentiation is one or two Nokia branded squares on WP interface. Bah...

George Takei Helps Facebook Troubleshoot MySQL 86

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 07, 2012 @07:30PM from the good-work-sulu dept.

miller60 writes "Actor George Takei recently helped the Facebook infrastructure team troubleshoot issues with its MySQL databases. Takei, a veteran of the original Star Trek series, now has more than 1.2 million fans on Facebook. Takei recently noticed that some status updates were missing or appearing inconsistently. That led to a dialogue with the Facebook Engineering team, which gave Takei a shout-out on its latest blog post, which also included some technical discussion of Facebook's challenges in scaling MySQL (a topic of previous discussion here at Slashdot)."

Submission + - TV Industry Next in Line for Industrywide Shakeup (androiduipatterns.com)

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pjlehtim

on Tuesday February 14, 2012 @04:35PM

pjlehtim writes: "In a recent interview Samsung's AV product manager Chris Moseley said: "TVs are ultimately about picture quality. ... and there is no way that anyone, new or old, can come along this year or next year and beat us on picture quality." Sounds familiar? We must change the way we perceive TVs role in ecosystem before general public starts to care about the smart TVs they are trying to push. That changes is likely to come outside the traditional home entertainment industry. It's not about technology. It is about user experience, again."

Comment A jedi mind trick (Score 2) 800

by pjlehtim on Thursday November 03, 2011 @08:21AM (#37932546) Attached to: Siri Gives Apple Two Year Advantage Over Android

Siri is the best jedi mind trick Apple has pulled so far. It is amazing how much press this one feature is generating. My prediction is that in 6months nobody is using it anymore.. just like facetime (anyone still remember what that was?).

Comment Re:the phone reports it (Score 1) 228

by pjlehtim on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @10:27AM (#37455614) Attached to: Google Preps Devs For One-Size-Fits-All Android

I've written a blog post about various methods Android framework provides to devs to support multiple screens. http://www.androiduipatterns.com/2011/05/designing-scalable-android-apps.html These tools aren't new. Then again we do expect to see more utilities and components like automatically adapting Action Bar featured in one of the pictures.

IBM Watson To Replace Salespeople and Cold-Callers 316

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @06:08PM from the coming-to-a-drive-thu-near-you dept.

An anonymous reader writes "After conquering Jeopardy! and making inroads into the diagnosis of medical maladies, IBM's next application for Watson is improving sales and customer support. Companies will be able to simply fill Watson (or rather, DeepQA) with domain-specific information about products and services, and sit back as it uses its natural language processing skills to answer the queries of potential customers. The potential benefits are huge. Watson could either augment existing sales and support teams, or replace them entirely. Also, in a beautiful and self-fulfilling twist, the first application of this re-purposed Watson will be be internally, at IBM, to help sell more IBM Watsons to other companies."

Comment Different UI conventions (Score 3, Informative) 168

by pjlehtim on Monday June 27, 2011 @06:29PM (#36590292) Attached to: Native Apps Are Dead, Long Live Native Apps

Android and iOS have very different UI conventions. TFA mentions the problem but then ignores it. By using PhoneGap (or any of the other similar products) you still need to build two different apps if you want to get good results. Just look at PhoneGap's featured apps examples. Almost every single one of them is written for iOS. If you bring them to Android users wont accept them as native. They will feel wrong. I wrote a post about this very problem into my blog few weeks back: http://www.androiduipatterns.com/2011/06/differences-between-android-and-ios-ui.html Benefit of PhoneGap etc. is that you can use web technologies to write the apps. It is a false hope, though, if you expect to "write once, run everywhere". Juhani

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