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by av500 15y ago
Megaupload terms of service: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:sn3wCcf... Whoever stored files there and had the idea they were "safe" should read point (8) of the above...
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by av500 15y ago
I stand corrected
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by av500 15y ago
Part of being so cheap might be that the main SoC is subsidized by Broadcom. I have no problem with that, TI is doing the same for the Pandaboard ( http://www.pandaboard.org )
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by av500 15y ago
In other words, software is successfully running on a CPU, this is news?
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by av500 15y ago
Vendors have to make sure they build phones that they can sell, the phone being simply $15 cheaper won't do that. Apple sells more 4S than 4 and more 4 than 3GS, so it cannot be that the price is the only decision point
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by av500 15y ago
There is no official source on that which I could quote. But it is what I have been told by people involved. There is another aspect, a lump sum of 5-15$ per unit might look like a lot of money for M$, but over a 2y period thats not much. A
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by av500 15y ago
Most of them pay nothing at all. Samsung, HTC and LG made a deal where they agreed to make a few Win7 phones in exchange for patent freedom from M$. Part of the deal is to still claim that they are paying royalties in order to uphold this F
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by av500 15y ago
reading that makes me wonder how open source projects existed at all before GitHub... GitHub exposes the once private forks that people had lying around on their HDDs, so I count that as a plus. As for developing open source in a collabor
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by av500 15y ago
Just that e.g. HTC and Samsung and Acer don't pay anything at all, they just promised to a) also make Win7 phones and b) tell the world they pay royalties. Since LG was a Window Mobile shop in the past, I guess they did the same...
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by av500 15y ago
Ah yes, I can imagine moving a pot to the side and the thing asking with a popup: "I detected you moved a pot, would you like me to set up a new cooking area? Confirm|Cancel|File Not Found"
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by av500 15y ago
both went with Android, and I think they did the right move..
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by av500 15y ago
Why would they do that and why would they run a more recent version of WebOS? The Chinese will put the (free) OS with the most apps available, WebOS has a long way to go to get there... Not even mentioning that all the major silicon vendo
103.
by av500 15y ago
Yes, that was true for Meego as well and see where it got them...
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by av500 15y ago
Am I the only one that fails to see what is so special about a donut shaped 4 storey building in a park like setting?
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by av500 15y ago
when I read the headline, I thought they meant content, not money. I was ready to mail them a few harddrives with worthy "stuff"...
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by av500 15y ago
"Be sure to watch a video without ads" - well I'd love to but I did not find the "watch without ads" button in the Youtube UI. As long as all the videos I come across still ask me to install Flash although I have activated the html5 thing,
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Apple is being sued over "Memory" game trademark in Germany(translate.google.com)
2 points by av500 15y ago|0 comments
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by av500 15y ago
And I always thought "Allem" was a special turkish spice that they sprinkle on top at the end
109.
by av500 15y ago
Oh no, not again
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Simultaneous cat and external keyboard input causing kernel panic(lkml.org)
11 points by av500 15y ago|1 comments
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by av500 15y ago
"...Norisuna had a comparison table that showed the Pandaboard cloud (OMAP4 @ 1GHz – 12 Cores) uses 4x times space and 5x less power (50W vs. 257 W) than a Xeon 1.8GHz Quad Core server with about the same amount of processing power and memo
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by av500 15y ago
So Richard Stallman would be OK to use a PC with a closed source BIOS as long as there is no way to update it?
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by av500 15y ago
nice thing, but instead of (re-)heating your home all the time "to the point", it makes much more sense to keep it at (almost) constant temperature by not letting the heat escape, which means good insulation.
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by av500 15y ago
it's a design patent. I don't think the patent examiners are supposed to watch all of Youtube to maybe find a similar device dated 16 years back. But since it's known now, Apple can just stop, pay everybody's legal bills and be done with it
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by av500 15y ago
Honeycomb emulator is also much slower because more parts of the UI use 3d acceleration which the emulator has to, well, emulate in SW
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Microsoft/Nokia even fail to staff a WinPhone7 dev event with competent speakers(blog.alsutton.com)
4 points by av500 15y ago|0 comments
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Grid10 is a fail(engadget.com)
2 points by av500 15y ago|0 comments
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by av500 15y ago
CPU is an OMAP4, dual core A9 at 2x1GHz. The CPU is pretty good and can e.g. encode/decode full HD easily. RAM should be 1GB which the new iPhone is rumoured to come out with, so it should be good for 2-3 years... In total the HW platform i
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by av500 15y ago
From a source that was at Nokia/Meego: "Summary: Intel has joined LiMo project. Samsung has renamed it to save Intel's face. Qt is abandoned and KDE too is hurt unless . . . unless HTC takes MeeGo!"
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by av500 15y ago
it's not FFmpeg that would need to pay the fees, it would be FFmpeg users. A lot of codec royalties are tied to devices sold or hours of content streamed

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