Posts by Grozbat

Swedes say nej to Sofia 'Dark Knight' Englundh

Quite right too

The Dark Knight is a crap film.

If she called herself Sofia "Iron Man" Englundh she would at leaste demonstrate a bit of taste in her choice of films.

Brit, French nuke subs collide - fail to 'see' each other

Good point, Ash

I guess we can blame the accuracy of GPS for them both being at exactly the same spot.

Though I'm more inclined to believe Simon Ball's explanation that at least one of the subs detected the other and accidentally rammed it while trying to get closer.

Google gives world net test lab

Doesn't adress all problems

I have a problem that this tool probably won't address.

My girlfriend and I have the same ISP, and although speed measurements against external servers show correct speed figures, the speed between my flat and hers is consistently 85% lower than it should be.

It seems that as long as we stay with in our ISP's network, the speed is deliberately strangled.

I have complained to my ISP about this, but they just brush me off with a "we don't address this kind of problem".

Anyone have similar experiences?

Google hints at the End of Net Neutrality

Fair's fair

Hey, if Google want to go even further and "build their own lane on the motorway", what's wrong with that? It's a level playing field, in so far as Google's competitors, like Microsoft, can do the same thing. Nobody loses. Except other businesses. But that's the nature of business.

Surely the point of Net Neutrality is that the internet should enshrine fair business practices. The internet should be a fair, regulated market, as we strive for in the "real" world. When Net Neutrality hobbles reasonable competition, isn't that going too far?

Sun sneaks JavaFX Mobile into desktop FX

Crappy analysis of the role of Linux

As a mobile application platform, Linux is subject to the same balkanization problem that JavaFX is intended to address. And Linux is far more vulnerable than Java, because it runs native apps.

Android addresses balkanization in the same way as JavaFX - by having a single implementation of a Java platform ((albeit non-standard). The apps never see Linux.

Too bad, Sun. Google stole your ideas, and now you've probably missed the train.

But hardly surprising, as Sun have been consistently cack-handed and incompetent in their attempts to adapt Java to the consumer market.

Linux weaktops poised for death by smartphone

Both winners

I don't it happening. In fact I see small, light laptops running Windows becoming ubiquitous over the next 2 or 3 years. Smartphones just can't compete with the screen size and keyboard size.

Smartphones will continue to gain market share in the phone market too.

The real battle of the future will be where personal data will be stored - on the laptop or smartphone. But enough, I feel the urge to start a blog :)

Ballmer: 'Google not a major mobile competitor'

Android's unique advantage?

Andoid could be uniquely placed to succeed. It offers a standard platform for third party apps, unlike J2ME Java or Linux Mobile which are balkanized by implementation differences.

Also, all Android third party apps run in a memory-protected Java sandbox, unlike other platforms such as Windows, Symbian, iPhone and Blackberry, which all allow native apps. This could be crucial, because users are likely to be less tolerant of their mobile phone crashing than they are of their PC crashing.