Posts by Simon Aspland 10 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Jun 2012
They are using an existing 'standard' for wireless charging, which means that other devices will be able to use the same charger when they also implement wireless charging (assuming it becomes popular).
Except for Apple devices, as they have already said they are going to use their own, incompatible system.
And a lot of game update engines use bittorrent under the hood to download their patches (World of Warcraft is one).
The bittorrent protocol itself is a very good way to distribute large popular files quickly, safely and without using too much of your own bandwidth.
It's not very good at hiding who is downloading a file, and this makes it no good for piracy.
But it's use for piracy has made the name 'torrent' synonymous with pirate, so the legitimate users have to hide the use of the protocol so they don't get associated with piracy.
I was hoping they would been dealing with exploits in this games as it's 'new'
It's not fun playing on a CS:S server with a player who keeps getting multiple headshots and tracks other players through walls (watching them as a spectator), then claim they are just better players when you call them on it.
It's not about converging platforms, it's about selling Windows Phone and Surface devices.
By getting users 'used' to Metro on their desktop PC, the Phone/Tablet with the Metro interface becomes the natural choice for them to choose when they buy one.
This all falls down of course when the users hate Metro on their desktop so much that they refuse to by a phone with it... that's my hope at least :)
Until the price of USB sticks come down to 'throw away' levels, there is still a place for CD-R/DVD-Rs.
In the example described, the girl with the CD full of files, yes she could have brought them on a USB stick, but if she needed to leave the files there with a post it note 'cause the bloke who wanted them wasn't in the office, would she rather leave a £5-£20 memory stick? or a 15p CD?
The difference is, Instead of come home, find end of USB cable, try plugging it into phone, turn the usb connector around and try again (why do USB connectors not have an easy to see orientation? just a slight variation in the shape), you just come home and put phone on the stand/mat. No fiddling around with the USB cable.
It's not a big difference, but it's enough to make it a desirable feature.
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