Posts by gujiguju

Apple updates iOS, mum on Wi-Fi, battery fixes

Re: 3GS still on sale

...or "homeless iFans", since a 3GS is free (w/ the requisite 2-yr data contract).

Now India snaps on gloves, bends Google over for antitrust probe

AdWords, not Search

Nice sleight-of-hand in Google's non-sequitur.

India CCI is not investigating if general users are being strangled into NOT using Bing or DuckDuckGo, it's about their restraint-of-trade with Google's advertising customers regarding access & transparency to eponymous keywords.

Duh.

OCZ flexes its Flash guns, predicts further embulgement ahead

Amazon high-growth/no-profit ramp-up

Sounds like OCZ is doing interesting things in the SSD market and thinking long-term. My question is does Ryan Peterson look like Jeff Bezos...or just he just strategizes like him? ;)

Google to FCC: Protecting Street View coder didn't derail probe

Re: $25,000 fine?

Sorry to be tedious, but it's actually like being fined 22¢... ;)

<http://www.propublica.org/article/why-the-fcc-fined-google-just-68-seconds-in-profits>

Opera retires Unite, widgets in latest browser cut

Tail wagging dog

Nice to see Opera 12b going public. It's a great update.

Their Vega software backend is fast enough that they've decided to turn-off HWA until they can tweak it further with all the combinations of graphics cards, OpenGL, WebGL, DirectX. It is blindingly fast w/o HWA still -- as long as web devs don't browser-sniff and send the wrong code (Google, Flickr, *ahem*). Changing the user-agent string usually fixes any hanky-panky.

Opera has 250+ million users, and continues to innovate (in terms of speed per watt).

http://www.7tutorials.com/test-comparison-which-browser-will-make-your-laptop-battery-last-longer

Opera market share is #1 on mobiles, while their smaller desktop/tablet share is just a bludgeon used by the others to discredit.

http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_browser-ww-monthly-201104-201203

It's really worth trying for a week. (And don't forget to enable "On-Demand Plugins" for even faster browsing.)

Murdoch 'sorry' he didn't shut News of the World years ago

Circulation would go down 50% tomorrow if they ended Page 3 girls.

Apple finally deploys Mac Flashback Trojan terminator

Opera On-Demand Plugins setting

Nice to see Apple getting around to inoculating their customers with this update...few weeks late, but still. I like the timed-disable, good idea.

I must say, that Opera's On-Demand Plugins setting that I've been using for ~3 yrs (as an offshoot from Opera Turbo), was a beautiful browser innovation that makes these security issues much less worrisome (and helps browsing speed & less energy drain, as well).

Shame it's taking longer for the other browsers to add this, and make it the default. Chrome seems to be following Opera Next snapshots, and I noticed latest FF dev build seems to have it in the pipeline.

US sues Apple, publishers over ebook pricing strategy

Re: so-called "most favoured nation" clause

Yes, MFN is the real anti-trust issue here...and in Macmillan CEO John Sargent's statement, he dodges it. http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/04/a-message-from-john-sargent

Amount of ice in Bering Sea reaches all-time record

Educate yourself

Wow, funny reading, Lewis.. You sound like an oil executive, ranting, over drinks after the 18th hole.

Read this twice, please. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/mar/22/why-global-warming-skeptics-are-wrong/

Internet Explorer nibbles browser rivals, swells by 1%

Re: Nice.

Wow, a defensive Ford Focus owner. Who knew?

Apple drops 'thermonuclear' patent bombshell

Apple commented to...

You almost had me...until you mentioned that Apple commented to you and answered your queries.

That ain't gonna happen for a while longer, me thinks. ;)

Russia plans manned moon shot by 2030

Re: You are missing the point

The salient "missing point" is actually that the only reason why China is going it alone in space is because they were snubbed by NASA about joining ISS, many years ago.

So, now, we've given them a reason for everyone to waste a trillion dollars in all separate, but duplicate US, EU, Russian and Chinese space programs....

Smooth move, NASA. We showed them.

Hobbit movie locations using 6km of data cabling

Data cap?

Sending up 4K stereoscopic 48f/s footage via satellite for editing; sounds cheap. Over their data cap yet? ;)

Apple: Yes there are horrendous accidents, but we CARE

History, dear people

Great comment by @Ian, but I would add a couple things that's been mentioned elsewhere.

The NYT know how to report on important news, but also how to propagandize like Pravda did, let's be honest. (We all know how reliable anonymous sources have been these last 10 years, though they do have a place when used responsibly per Glenn Greenwald).

If you read the NYT article closely, Apple's 40% margin is not really the deciding factor to be in China, it's the flexibility and massive engineering manpower that's available 24 hours/day on 6 hours notice when a component needs to be changed after a product mgmt decision...that is absolutely NOT possible in the US now.

Also, I love that while we've been saving billions on Chinese products since Nixon set the table for us with Mao in China in 1973-ish, all of a sudden, there's indignation? Come on. (Anyone hear about the China supply-chain mafia kingpin, known as Walmart? Duh.)

Every country is going to go through their Industrial Age exploitation phase like the US did 110 years ago with the Triangle Fire and the UK with the London "black fog" earlier. We can speed it up a bit now, but everybody: Please, get off your high horses...

And China, India, Brasil may have a tougher time, because of the fine mess that Wall Street/City created for us...along with their humungo populations that need to get off an agricultural, non-modern economy and raise their standards-of-living.

Tough decisions, all around.

(Though, let's all keep wasting time taking potshots at an innovative gadget company with a 5% global PC share, 8% phone share & 58% tablet share, while all the other Fortune 500 firms get a pass in China. Makes sense.)

Microsoft copies Google with silent browser updates

Chrome = IE6

While Chrome has made some browser advances -- just as IE6 did back when it was current, Google's shameless illegal-tying to their own sites and dragging their feet with the other majors, including Opera, is ugly... (Ever tried doing a weather search in the pathetic Android, unChrome browser? Notice no slider in Opera Mobile or iOS Safari?)

With 90% monopoly search share, when will dozing regulators wake up...? (I guess all that Google lobby money in Washington is paying off...)

Meet the New Boss, same as the Old Boss.

www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2397158,00.asp

Adobe axes 750 jobs to focus on HTML5, cloud

Thoughts on Flash

You mean after years of screaming and hand-waving and belly-achin', I don't have to read another pathetic paragraph about Steve Jobs' Stalinist tendencies at crushing and humiliating patriotic, freedom-loving Flash users everywhere and their beloved blinking ads & Windows-only GPU-accelerated, 99%-dual-CPU, gale-force-fan, 45-min-battery-life-sucking whining and cheesing...?

Being in the software industry, I've never seen a more pathetic public display of "It Really Works!" tech reporting, cringe-inducing, "woe-is-me" antics with "Look Here!" vaporware, Flash-on-mobile YouTube videos.

How much farther along wouldwe be with HTML5, SVG, CSS3, & ECMAscript relating to non-desktop web design be if Adobe had been less juvenile in 2007 about Flash on mobile...?

There. I got it out, hyphens and all. ;)

(And El Reg, knowing better, buries the lede in this article. Nicely played.)

Samsung PS64D8000 64in plasma 3D TV

Portable Nuclear Reactor needed for power

As @David mentioned, plugging in this Samsung model could cause blackouts in your neighborhood. ;)

Avg of 300 watts, with a full-screen IRE window. (Why not add a sentence about comparative energy consumption, moving fwd?)

The Great Smartphone OS Shoot-out

Save to SIM

Good review, though quite difficult...

@Alex C:

Take a deep breath & say "Om" three times.

Now go to your iPhone's settings, save contacts to SIM. Done.

Sometimes the walled garden is in one's head... ;)

Martian simnauts emerge from spaceship outside Moscow

How much Tang...

...would a 6-person crew need for a voyage to Mars? Because everyone knows: you can't go into space without Tang to drink, right?

Fixing Android mobes costs telcos millions

32-month lifecycle & free

It will be interesting to see if/when everyday, untech-y users start noticing that iOS devices have 32-month iOS update lifespans w/o carrier blocking.

Also, given 3GS is free on-contract, and iPhone 4 half at $99, now...how many price-conscious buyers switch away from Android or Nokia.

Whatever you feel about SJ & Apple, they singlehandedly disintermediated the carriers from foisting their atrocious h/w & s/w design on us...

Nokia to flood emerging markets with budget blowers

Waterloo-ish

Is it just me or do these Ashas look like raspberries (as opposed to Blackberries)...?

I'm sure Elop's fellow Canadians are WOW'd by Nokia's burst of creativity... ;)