Posts by Gordon 10 4013 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Jun 2009
Interestingly most if not all of Samsungs TV's have all or most of their firmware open sourced. I think it's because some of it was third party GPL licensed stuff but it dies suggest that Samsung is no stranger to it.
What advantages they would get from open source bada is another thing entirely.
So speaks someone whose never used os x. It's much more efficient on memory usage than windows - more on a par with linux.
It runs very nicely on my netbook with and atom and 2gb.
Have you ever looked at your memory usage the average user doesnt need all 4gb even on windows.
You only need 4gig plus if you are doing big photo editing or similar and afaik 4gb is an option.
I totally agree with the OP. You have a strange definitionof efficient.
Firstly in the real world 3G has been around for years and in the Uk at least will still be around for another 5-10.
Secondly a mifi is another piece of kit and charger to carry. Additionally the lid of a laptop gives much better space for bigger cellular aerial. Both are more efficient than your suggestion.
Thirdly with 3G active you are not likely using wifi so it can be powered down so battery life is not an issue.
Lack of 3G is the only reason I haven't bought an 11" Air myself. It's ridiculous that something that is meant to be ultraportable lacks this as at least an option. It's the whole reason I spent Air money on a vaio TT.
Your rendition to an allied power with more flexible 'justice' has been scheduled. Please remain calm and go about your business until dragged into the van from the street.
Anyone reading this should consider themselves likely for the same fate.
Regards
The security services - protecting democracy from itself.
I was the first year to take computer studies GCSE in 1988. I can confirm at that time it had flowcharting (remember the hexil? stencils) and BBC Basic programming - I wrote some school library software.
I also remember the porno version of the Frak! caveman yo-yo game being on all the networked Beebs in the computer lab. The monsters were naled women and instead of a yo-yo he used something more pokey.
And whats the point of using chrome as a web dev when most of your clients wont be using it?
This reminds me of the old flaw of developer machines being so higher spec'd than end user machines that any code developed on them ran like a dog on the end users.
Good to see nothing has changed - its still all about the willy waving. Plus dont the number of firefox web dev plugins outweigh chromes 5 times over?
I think you have completely failed to understand how corporate governance is meant to work.
The CEO is there to manage the company and appointed by the board.
The board is there to look after the shareholders interests and should rein in and fire the ceo if he acts against shareholder interests.
In the case of HP the incompetent way the TouchPad and PC div sale was handled is more than enough cause in my opinion to call the board to account. No doubt they would argue that the long term effects will be positive, no doubt both them and the CEO will be long gone.
Unfortunately since most shares are owned by pension and investment funds who are very passive such calling of boards to account is very rare indeed, and then he only avenue for smaller shareholders to follow is legal.
Because competition is good.
But if this continues any IT professional worth their salt will be recommending to their non-IT literate friends and Rellies that they avoid android or will be at least loading an AV app for them.
If only to avoid the inevitable support calls!
Alternatively this is another great opportunity for Amazon to differentiate themselves. Imagine them advertising that their App store is malware free and locking the "kindle pad" to it.
Between CPU transistor count and CPU horsepower.
Think about it is a new and shiny core i twice as powerful as a core2? I think not.
Ironically much of the increase in transistor counts us not going directly to horse power. Think gpu & multi-cores. 2 cores are not twice as powerful as one or at least practically they are not.
Since when have handset makers not been proficient at software?
They have had to be since the first mobile was built.
I dont believe you can even say that they don't have experience in touch screen ui's. Both Samsung and LG do for certain.
In fact I would go as far to say that they probably have some of the most hardcore programmers left in the world. Compared to your typical GUI program I'm betting that radio and baseband coding required much more technical knowledge and much lower level coding.
Most decent motorbike helmets are made from a carbon fibre Kevlar mix. Last time I checked only the cheap shit ones use fibreglass. fibreglass is weaker, perishes in sunlight and gets a lesser ACU rating.
If you value your brains and face I wouldnt touch one with a bargepole.
The majority of helmet sales might be for fibre glass but that's coz they are cheap.
Do you want an ultrabook that screams cheap?
Looking at all the available desktop UI's out there the only conclusion that makes sense is that no-one now exists who has the right to call themselves a UI designer.
Not MS
Not Apple
Not *nix
All of them seem to have forgotten that ease of use and a minimal learning curve are the be all and end all.
Minimise buttons that are hidden?
FFS what's wrong with these people.
I truly think that the lunatics have taken over the asylum on all the OSes.
People want PC's and OSes that just work. They are tools not an end in themselves.
The boom times for house prices are over, and as with any investment past performance is no indicator of future performance.
Buying property is no more risk free than other forms of investments such as the stock market. Indeed such is the range of asset classes available within "the stock market" that you can choose a far less riskier proposition than dumping all your savings into one property.
Ideally you should be aiming to get to the stage where you have a mix of asset classes to make up a retirement income.
This should include one or more pensions with a range of risky and less risky assets and non-pensionable assets such as savings, ISA's and property.
It also surprising how well a drip feed of small sums every month can grow over 10-20 years.
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