Posts by Alan Potter 1 21 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Dec 2011
This. Every mobe maker in the world is going to be reconsidering its dependence on Android. Why would they commit their business to a thing that us.gov can switch off on a whim?
I expect there to be a new, fully open-source O/S from some foundation backed by all the major mobe makers (except Apple and Google) before the year is out...
For me Android's greatest strength is that I can plug a device into a PC and simply drag & drop media files onto / off of the phone
So the best possible improvement? Get rid of the need to use that stinking, steaming, appalling pile of utter excrement that is iTunes.
Sorry, I don't like iTunes very much.
Having recently bought an iPhone to replace my trusty but fragile old Androids, I am being forced to use iTunes.
I can honestly say I cannot think of any major piece of software I have used in the past twenty or more years that was so bloody difficult to use. It's fine if everything is just right and you want to arrange things Apple's way - but dare try to import a file that it doesn't like or manage your music yourself and it is the most utterly unhelpful pile of steaming you-know-what in existence.
As VMS was desperately trying to fight the onslaught of cheap-n-cheerful offerings like SunOS, it gained a POSIX subsystem and became "OpenVMS"
Now Windows gains a Linux subsystem - will it become OpenWindows?
And is Windows destined for the same fate as its father?
This is such a bone-headed move on Samsung's part.
Sure, I've not yet been seconded to a country where I've stayed long enough to buy a local SIM. But like most of us in the tech business, that's something that might change tomorrow.
There's no way that I'm going to buy a phone that would prevent me from using a local SIM!
My S2 comes out of contract next month... I was planning to replace it with an S4. Ain't gonna happen now.
Maybe this looks good on an iPad - it certainly looks silly on a 27" monitor... Seems that they have caught the Windows 8 disease - everything must look the same on all devices. Actually, now, it's okay to make them look different from device to device, as long as it is appropriate for the device you are using...
Anyway, are there any other sides that
1) allow you to embed pictures in a separate web site (ie my own web site has the "im src" tag, but it points to an image being pulled from flickr), and
2) give stats on image views?
Thanks
Okay, I am just a hobbyist who "lashed out" to buy Photoshop CS5 a couple of years ago. I'm not a big account that Adobe is going to care about... but when CS5 is too out-of-date to continue using it I'm not going to be going into the software rental market.
It's only one future sale that Adobe has guaranteed they won't be getting, but I suspect it's not the only one
Clearly this should have been removed by facebook instantly - there is no excuse for leaving it available.
However, at the risk of asking something a bit bland when the subject matter is so horrific, why did you go to the Everyday Sexism Project for comment? It is clearly a sexist organisation and one that I would have expected any competent journalist to avoid.
The first sentence on its website shows that it is sexist: "The Everyday Sexism Project exists to catalogue instances of sexism experienced by women on a day to day basis". Not by people, but by women.
Sounds like a project to be avoided.
I know that lord-bashing creates a juicy headline, but I think the analysis here is well off the mark.
There are lots of poor people who live in rural areas. Improved access to the Net will provide more scope for enterprise - heck, even if they spend their time selling stuff on eBay - and with it increased prosperity for rural areas.
Our economy will surely work best if all of our land is utilised to its maximum potential. Leaving vast tracts of that land as areas that cannot properly participate in the 21st century is a recipe for disaster. If we want people to live in that land, we need to ensure that they have - amongst other things - good Net access.
I have not tested this phone, so can't comment on how ood the sound is, but one thing is worth emphasising - heavy bass does not equal good sound.
I did try some Dr Dre headphones... and was appalled at how crap they sounded. The bass was vastly - stupidly - over-emphasised. What I heard through the 'phones was nothing like what I would hear in a concert hall or opera house... it was hideously distorted, bass heavy and frankly garbage.
If you like heavy bass, then fine. But that's not the same as "good sound"
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