Posts by Gerhard den Hollander 238 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Feb 2007
The only novelty I see is where they claim a patent to where the data is actually written to a DVD/PMP/CD/media, everything else in their patent could be priorarted by (say) a webbrowser playing a youtube clip.
And even for that, one could probably argue that using k3b to burn Mp3s to an audio disk, where the mp3s reside on an NFS share would consist of prior art.
(whether the argument is valid I dont know, IANAL)
lots of people care. Despite signifcant drops in sale, it's still a widely used phone.
Looking at the general populace around where I live, I would say about 1 in 4 smartphones is a BBrry.
BBerry may be years behind the other platforms on many things, their exchange / lotus notes/email services is still far ahead of the competition (and for me personally, physical keyboards are a prime motivator when it comes to choosing a mobile phone).
If you want a phone that can do phone stuff (calling, texting, whatsapp) and can do email better then anyone else, you have little choice.
I thought there was a recent study that showed that home sapiens and the neanderthal had interbred ?
then again, there were equally recent studies that shows they didnt. Thought the most recent one suggests that they did. (see the below 3 links, aug 24, aug 25 and oct 5).
If neanderthal was al;ready gone when men came out of africa, the did they interbreed or not studies would not have been necesary.
http://news.discovery.com/human/neanderthals-interbreeding-humans-110825.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/aug/14/study-doubt-human-neanderthal-interbreeding
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2213219/Neanderthals-bred-modern-humans-Europe-recently-37-000-years-ago.html
Am I the only one who thinks this is the aftermath of last summers IT failure at RBS ?
Santander has spendthe last few months trying to be convinced
(or RBS has spent the last few months trying to convince)
that this would never happen again, and those people responsible for firing the people responsible had also been fired.
And they just failed ...
The real problem now is that chances of anyone willing to buy the RBS bits have dropped significantly, as noone would want to touch an IT system that's so complex that it caused the previous deal to backfire.
Depends on what kind of office or business you're in.
The dutch government, prime-minister and all top members are using blackberrys.
Company I work for, all higher management has a blackberry.
And all of those having a blackberry are over 21.
I've said it before, blackberry might have low market numbers in actual number of phones sold, but looking around the streets, concerts etc about 1 in 4 has a bberry.
... and therefore it is impossible to cross the boundary.
Who knows maybe all the dark matter, and weakly interacting massive particles are just those strange beasts zapping by at speeds greater then light, having discussions on their version of the register discussing the possibility of STL travel (slower then light ), and laughing at the ridiculous idea of anything moving slower then light, which would mean you could actually see where you were going before you got there, violating all kinds of conversion rules.
Just as we found that non-euclidean geometry would make mathematical sense, someone with better math skills then me could try and come up with a physics for the FTL world.
Who knows, maybe all the spooky action at a distance and the 2-slots, multiple world interpretation can be solved by just assuming a duality where we have an STL universe (ours) and an FTl universe (theirs) and all the quantum machanic weirdness is just the folks from the other side trying to get a message across
(or maybe it's just interference caused by their version of the X-factor TV shows)
Man I need more coffee ...
Ok, so it's not james, but mario,
but it's a nice piece of cinematic, and everyone who wants to make a bike commercial should watch this.
It's got bond, babes, a villain with an accent to match the french taunter, product placement galore, millionaires, gadgets and a bike
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lKRxk7uq8U
> Preventing the Google OS from grabbing a share from Apple is Windows 7, though it'll only have a share of 17 per > cent or so by 2016, the researcher believes.
Steve B will be livid ... windows 8 was supposed to be the big breakthrough on tablets ... and now those pesky resellers and tablet makers go out and put windows 7 on their tablets.
Some people have just no shame
Windows has themselves added an extra risk to the WP8 gamble. The fact that their WP7 phones cannot be upgraded to WP8, and are effectiveley end-of-lived.
Never mind the fact that most punters dont ever upgrade the OS on their phone.
The pureview / low light / image stabilisation sounds wonderful. (and the sample shots look stunning)
As someone who finds himself taking pictures in low light conditions quite often (and who doesnt like flash much)
I wonder if Nokia could be pursuaded to make a camera with these features (something smaller then an SLR, and with a smaller price tag ...)
Dell provides a backpack option for some of their laptops. They are small enough to fit on a plane as carry on, but big enough to hold an M6400 and it's power adapter . Neal Stephensons Quicksilver (the hardback edition) a similar assortment of IT goods and goodies (spare BBerry battery, spare (ancient) phone, various chargers, USB cables, USB powered light, paper hankies, 2 sets of headphones (the airplane kind and the earbuds for the cellphone) external USB speakers, a bike waterbottle, a variation on the theme of packed lunch and 2 external USB disks.
Oh, and a couple of pens, the weekend newspaper and a paperbased notebook, and a lefthanded logitech mouse.
And since it's a backpack you can lug this around for hours with less damage to your system then one of those over the shoulder things.
The article stateth :
> .... with 86 per cent reporting a screen diagonal between 3 and 5 inches.
> In contrast, devices with screen diagonals between 4 and 7 inches represented just 6.5 per cent ....
that's either overlapping or a typo
(5 - 7 inches ? 3-4 and 4-7 ?)
Not just the UK .. if you look in Europe (and also in Texas) every 4th or 5th phone you see people using is a blackberry. The difference is that those who have a blackberry stay with their current one, and dont feel the need to buy a new one when the next model comes out..
Mine is a 2 year old running OS6, and I have no urge or craving to get the most recent model with OS7 (in fact if it wasnt for the fact that the old one had a hardware failure and was more expensive to repair then to get a new one, Id still be using that one.
So BB is popular, but it just isnt driving near the number of new sales that the iPhone and android crowds draw
Well, apparently the 8MP camera is giving much better results then anything else in the phonemarket.
My ``real'' camera is an 8MP panasonic lumix , and quite honestly 8MP is more then enough for me.
99% of the pictures I take with it, I watch on my screen (2048x1152 or 1200x1600 or 1920x1200, all of which are well below the 8MP threshold). 8MP can be printed at 50x30 cm without noticable pixilating.
And quite frankly, Im glad some of my friends dont have 25MP on their phones, as some of them have never gotten the hang of downsizing before emailing.
Im still using a blackberry bol from I guess 2 years ago. Single core, even so, app switching on this never seems to take much time (less then a second as far as I can guesstimate.
(i.e. start typing email, need to lookup something so switch to webbrowser, continue typing, switch to endomondo to see how long the ride home took, switch back to email all without lags that are big enough to become annoying.
It's not really clear from the review if the background apps are still being tombstoned in WP8, but I would seriously hope not. (or at least not noticable)
> our phone seems to have a hardware fault - rebooting when attempting to use the camera sounds
> like an old samsung I had that did the same.
Maybe Samsung should start suing Apple over this then ... clearly it's a samsung design and original idea, shamelessly stolen by Apple ...
> had to laugh at this. Do you truly believe anyone has any illusions about what Samsung does?
> That they've been copying products since forever?
That is beside the point of Apple fearing bad publicity.
A lot of Apple buyers buy Apple because they believe buying apple products make them a better human being, someone who does god and is good.
Having Apple appear as the bad guy (we patented the rounded corners) is bad for Apple's public image, and therefore for their sales.
but what you could do was at the end of the game get a magic string (forgot if it was just a string or a username/passwd combo), and if you typed that magic string at startup of a new game, you did not start with $10K, but with the amount of money you ended the previous game with.
And then you could buy the hearse and all the other goodies, and earn more money and .....
if you read the article, it seems the manager software said the maximum size would be 2T.
Maybe the storage manager should have shown the collective disk to be 320G in size ?
I seem to recall there is at least one company that sells NAS enclosures, where you can mix and match different sized disks, and get RAID5-like redundancy, wihtout being limited to the smalles disksize.
I dont know, but does gingerbread come with the ability to run powerpoints, or show an excel or word document ?
If so, it would make a good solution .
Another good use would be to show holliday snaps (or any kind of snaps) .
Streaming video and the olympics/ vuelta woul;d be another good candidate (provided those streaming websites run on the webbrowser on there).
i think that right now, when it comes to (company) email integrated in the smartphoe, blackberry still has everyone beaten.
For people whose main concerns with buying a new phone are:
- does it do email well [read, does it integrate with exchange]?
- can I text with it ?
- can I make phonecalls ?
and everything else is of secondary importance, the blackberry is still the most logical choice
(the physical keyboard is also a big help)
If WP8 will offer equal quality integration with private exchange servers MS might be onto something, although the lack of a physical keyboard might harm them .
Ann Elk also had a pretty good theory on brontosauruses, which made as much sense as the species not being in the tank getting extinct
> In the tanks that only held one kind of wasp, the second went extinct within a few generations
Is this some kind of weird quantum entanglement ?
Where we get some kind of schroedinger wasp ?
you wont know if the second species is exting until you look in the box to see if the first species still lives ?
... puzzled ...
Havent used it much, but mobile phones and youtube are a pretty good match when it comes to displaying throw away content. YouTube has it's uses, and youtube on a mobile has them as well.
And as another poster mentioned, YouTube + unlimited internet + public transportation makes for a good combo if you ran out of things to read, and cannot be arsed to make conversation with the people around you (who all are either reading or watching youtube on their cellphone as well).
Dunno .. apparently, with sufficiently sensitive antennas, and enough power you can extend the range of wifi into 100s of meters, maybe even kilometers.
As long as your receiver is sensitve enough to pick up the signal from the ambient noise, and your sender is powerful enough.
it's a bit like people saying they dont need to put a password or encryption on their home wifi setup, because it has too limited a reach. It might have too limited a reach for their laptops, but a bit of custom sending and receiving gear will prove them wrong.
So all it needs is a hacker with a bit of a mcgyver skill
Aw .. for fscks sake ..
I'm typing this on a 6400 that I got (long story) as a hand me down, but it has seen a lot of wear before Ii even got it.
1 USB port is dead, the 2 USB ports on the left work only if i wiggle them a bit, and the chassis is slightly bend out of shape . It has been used before by a traveling salesman, and has obviously had more then a few ``oops it fell of the table'' accidents.
Other then that (and the reason I stick to it) is that it's an extremely good workhorse/luggable workstation with a very nice scraan with a 1980x1200 resolution.
Now if not even dell will be shipping 1980x1200 transportable workstations, I wonder where we should go and start looking for a replacement brand :(
Can anyone point me to a laptop that has (at least) a 1200 vertical resolution ?
If one administers a bank of holding companies (or hold a bank of adminsitration companies or ... ) one would suggest that one would be prudent enough to either have ones own wsus server which pushes, or to at least have a way to bless wsus updates before rolling them out.
If an update is fatally broken, the reg (and a gazillion other techie websites) are more then happy to splatter the fact that the wupdate is broken all over your face ...
Birth control ?
Make contraceptives available, easily and cheap to developing countries ?
Convince the religious leaders that contraception is good , and urge their local representatives to spread that message to their congregations ?
Have governments all over the world use incentives to keep the number of kids per family low ?
You can try to control the number of people on this planet without immediately having to go to the extremes of mass-extermination.
import and export contacts to and from a SIM card ?
1991 called ... they want their new features back
Seriously ...
I used to have an old winpho phone (cannot remember the make or the model, but it had one of those stylus things which were (for me at least) really convenient ) that could do this.
I think if nokia looks in their basement they might find one of their old radiolinja phones that could already do this.
3k x 2k on a 15inch screen ?
I'll need to see it in person to make a judgement on that, but can you even see that reolution at 50cms ?
Of course, you can enlarge your font sizes, and get back to the equiv amount of vertical letters you would get on a 1200pixel hgh screen ?
Anyway, Im withholding my judgement until I've seen the actual thing, but that resolution on such a small screen sounds a bit riodiculous.
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