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by 51Cards 14y ago
Brilliant... excellent buy for Google. I have used QuickOffice across several mobile devices and it always impresses. Tie this to Google Docs, scrap that Android "Docs" thing Google launched last year, and we have a winner. Not to mentio
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by 51Cards 14y ago
I'm a Windows user and I use LibreOffice. The new version really is excellent. I've debated for a bit which version I should be on (Open vs. Libre) but as of this release I am very content to stay put.
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by 51Cards 14y ago
Don't forget Google Docs, Maps, StreetView, Gmail...
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by 51Cards 14y ago
Very true, but when they started working on a driver-less car in 2006, they were still thought of as a search company. They hadn't yet bought Youtube or DoubleClick.
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by 51Cards 14y ago
Agreed as it sits now... but maybe the current form factor is the limit of today's technology. And maybe the insights they get from even attempting to develop that kind of interface puts them 5 years ahead when someone invents a holographic
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by 51Cards 14y ago
The one little thought I would add to that is that when Google first started working on a self driving car everyone went "WTF is a search company doing..". Now, X years later... it's a different story. People have started to really think
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by 51Cards 14y ago
"Google is getting good, really good, at building things that see the world around them and actually understand what they’re seeing." That statement spells it for me. With Google I see research, I see pushing tech boundaries and hardware e
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by 51Cards 14y ago
re: #3... you can also remove items at will. If you look at the counters and find option C is consistently the lowest performer, then you can remove it from the code and remove the counter. It doesn't mean cruft needs to pile up.
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by 51Cards 14y ago
The thing that gets me about a lot of these products being built around the iPhone, iPod, etc... is what happens if the next generation changes the physical form factor? It may mean getting a new iPhone also means having to replace 10 othe
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by 51Cards 15y ago
This is slightly off topic but simply stated I just love IBM these days. There aren't many corporations that dedicate as much focus on research and yet, for a large corp. they also keep their nose surprisingly clean (these days). While we
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by 51Cards 15y ago
Previous discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3649873
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by 51Cards 15y ago
While I like the concept of the open maps idea and I'm sure it has a bright future, what about aerial views, street view, etc? Is this not a functionality step backwards for FourSquare hopping on such a new service at this point? The bigge
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by 51Cards 15y ago
I disagree that we will ever see a FULL fusion of desktop and touch OS's. Sure the OS may present two interfaces and they will be married closely but honestly I don't ever want to see "one interface to rule them all". Fact is we're used to
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by 51Cards 15y ago
Bring it to Canada and I'll add one more to the user count gladly. (yes, I know I can jump through hoops to do it now in a limited fashion)
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by 51Cards 15y ago
Visually it looks nice but practically I don't think it works for a lot of users. I would guess that with all the white-space and over-sized elements you're only getting maybe 50% of the same content on a screen layout. What this would be
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by 51Cards 15y ago
Re: IBM's 1993 Simon: "The e-mail app even included the ability to click on a phone number to dial it." Would that not constitute prior art in one of the patents Apple asserted against Android recently? I am only vaguely aware of the finer
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by 51Cards 15y ago
I have mentioned it before but this thread seems a good place to mention it again. I have an ASUS Slider which I thoroughly enjoy. Different form factor but identical software and keyboard / USB mouse use. Absolutely love it if anyone is
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by 51Cards 15y ago
I wonder if this proposal (which was inevitable eventually) is a direct result of a couple things. - Apple decides (wrong or right) to not support Flash on a wildly popular mobile platform - Flash begins its demise in general (again inevita
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by 51Cards 15y ago
True, good point. I sometimes forget that as I only use it for Gmail.
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by 51Cards 15y ago
I still feel that WebOS's GMail application is one of the best yet on a mobile device. I have a TouchPad, an Android Tablet and an Android Phone. When I hear the email 'chime' go off, I always grab the TouchPad first. The sliding panes U
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by 51Cards 15y ago
Disregarding the engineering of the bee itself (which is equally amazing) the fabrication process is brilliant. 2 things come to mind when I watch this. A. I live in the future. B. There are people out there far more intelligent than I
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by 51Cards 15y ago
It takes me back. I need to go and dig out some of those ANSI animations I made for my BBS back in 1989/90.
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by 51Cards 15y ago
It's really simple, I believe they serve up their videos with Flash which your tablet doesn't support. Flash for video isn't going away yet in many cases because HTML 5 video is still lacking all of the security features sites like this on
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by 51Cards 15y ago
What's interesting is to "View Image" on each in two separate tabs and flip between them. Notably there was one closure in the west that left an even bigger black hole.
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by 51Cards 15y ago
That's a little over 800,000 requests a second on average. That's some serious traffic.
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by 51Cards 15y ago
Oh yes! Strong second for keyboard support in Firefox Mobile. I have an ASUS Slider, also with a hardware keyboard, and I keep wanting to go back to the keyboard when browsing. I know it's not common on tablets but when you do have a key
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by 51Cards 15y ago
Off topic (somewhat)... I have also been using the latest Firefox Mobile nightlies on my tablet... wow. It's responsive, it's slick, it's fast... it's buggy... (it's a nightly). It's also a sign of brilliant things to come from Mozilla th
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by 51Cards 15y ago
Firefox Hotfix: There are small issues that can occasionally affect Firefox users after a release. Correcting those small issues should not require a full Firefox update. With a new hotfix system, Mozilla can patch minor issues in Firefox
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by 51Cards 15y ago
The battery argument is just silly. Playing HD movies on a phone will suck battery faster but we don't remove the user's ability to do that. As for the others, I use Flash frequently on my phone and none of them have occurred for me in the
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by 51Cards 15y ago
Agreed as well. I often make use of Flash on both my tablet and my Nexus One. The times I notice it most is when I'm using the new Firefox Mobile and I have to copy the URL and paste it into the stock browser to get to flash content. Tha

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