Re: Or the dual 2mm-pin/microUSB-charging.
or the real miniUSB or microUSB charging on your beloved C7 or N8 fsking OLD Nokia hardware, you coward?
808 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Aug 2008
I did. I've read Dean Takahashi's book about Xbox and it said that BillG agreed to trimmed down OS on Xbox (while initially he was all for full blown Windows there). I think BillG/SteveB need to spend more time thinking / less time drinking
You know, iPad L (Large, i.e. regular version) is way too heavy at its 600 or 700 grams (my notebook which I use for writing this reply weights approx 500 grams), especially when you have something to compare to, like e.g. Kindle. Reading books on iPad is not that great experience, neither is it that unobtrusive when stuffed with its SmartCover into messenger bag etc. I'd like to have something lighter and smaller, but not that small as iPhone, so iPad S (Small, i.e. Mini version) would fit the bill (but only with GPS, and priced below $270).
Whenever you see a cop beating a guy, wherever a hungry newborn baby cries, whenever you feel FRAND ITU-T or ISO idiocy, look for me ma' -- you'll see me (c) song of young smart Alec. MS and Apple are both known to exploit deficiencies in the law and license agreements, and honestly terms of FRAND are bullshit IMNSHO, and companies who signed FRAND are idiots.
Brits get this ad instead: http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/02/27
Wrong, you can enable WiFi Access Point on some 3G/4G phones, and there are portable WiFi/3G/EV-DO routers powered by pair of 18650 batteries for example.
I for one am certainly tired having to maintain and regularly pay for several SIM, microSIM and R-UIM cards in every goddamn device, and I think I only need one in my phone, which I ought to exchange for WiFi AP capable model long time ago
My MacBook Air didn't receive Apple service because August, 28 deadline has passed.:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2948
and this is theirs production defect, not any accident caused by my handling of the MacBook (I have service center conclusion confirming my words). I bought it several years ago for $2100 BTW. So please think twice before trusting Apple again.
I have LUKS/AES encrypted 2TB external USB3 harddrive attached to my home WiFi router (Asus rtn-16). This involved setting up TomatoUSB firmware on it and building custom kernel with support for md, crypt, dm etc modules and cryptsetup binaries and libraries with all goddamn deps. I know OpenVPN well but I decided instead on oldskool pppd-over-ssh VPN (also a lot of custom configuration). I managed to pull it all off. With Surface this all is impossible, especially the part where I'm able to access all my files and home computers and torrent and jabber and ftp and whois and more via VPN, from anywhere, including from behind corporate firewall which only allows outbound connections to ports 80 and 443 and even them only via proxy with authentication (I use transparent proxying BTW).
And I can access another corporate network simultaneously with the first one mentined before, with DNS working fscking great for both nets and the Internet in forward (A) and reverse (PTR), with krb5/AD entries resolving just fine etc and so on. Try to do that on any MS product you sheeple (http://xkcd.com/1013/).
Please don't mention the USB port on Surface - you can plug everything in it, it's true, but the device will only support what Microsoft deems necessary, so it's closed exactly the same way as iPad's port (there is official camera adapter by Apple to load photos from attached camera or SD card and that's about all you can do).
How about kernel "extensions" ;) then? And maybe with user installed kernel modules we would be able to connect LUKS encrypted external USB3 harddrives, modems, Ethernet adapters etc? The thing comes with USB port, did everybody hear that as MS said that several times? Of course USB port will be very useful to us ordinary customers. They've seen things (done with the USB port) we people wouldn't believe (c) Blade Runner etc & so on
One would presume that Apple product would be of much better quality than all Alienwares of he world combined but this is not the case -- I had left hinge broken on very gently used MacBook Air due to production defect, and Apple refused to replace the part or refund the MacBook (it cost me more than $2100 back in the day).
Reading Amazon customers' reviews of Kindle Paperwhite, I think that Amazon is way too quick to discontinue Kindle Touch now. They should have waited at least until quality issues with Paperwhite screens are sorted out. At least Amazon could offer [specced up] Touch as a replacement for Paperwhite to those customers who simply cannot bring themselves to like unevenly lighted screen (after exchanging several Paperwhites and not seing an improvement).
You know, if you drop Chinese from this statement it may look good enough to actually legally ban such companies from bidding (when they are government sponsored beyond point of competition being fair to other players).