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by edderly 16y ago
> As Microsoft sells these things highly subsidized to claim profit with on the games I see lot's of conflict potential. http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4210649/Kinect-s-BOM... Of the roughly $56 BOM, about $17 is attributed t
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by edderly 16y ago
Bingo. The lack of "common platform security mechanism and DRM" leads to imposing a fragmented approach rather than Android is fragmented.
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by edderly 16y ago
You wouldn't because it's not a brand. Nokia prefer to promote to consumers their 'series' of devices. Symbian is the OS on the Nokia N, E, C (and iirc X) series of phones, though the traditional N series of devices from Nokia is typically
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by edderly 16y ago
Also, wrapping the Symbian Foundation into a 'licensing operation': http://www.symbian.org/news-and-media/2010/11/08/symbian-fou...
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by edderly 16y ago
That's a different argument, you imply that Symbian will be around because of that finance. I've pointed out this is not the case. To put this in perspective a commonly known metric is that when Nokia paid 264M Euros for Symbian that, that
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by edderly 16y ago
That's peanuts compared to amount of money Nokia put into the platform.
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by edderly 16y ago
Whilst fixing that I might also point out that the processor on Beagleboard isn't a microcontroller either. The memory is external, it typically runs HLOSs etc. etc.
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by edderly 16y ago
It will be interesting to see whether subsequent versions of Android will be able to drive similar adoption rates. I work, lets say on the handset production side of things, and my impression is that the major driver for Froyo take up from
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by edderly 16y ago
Google gives a good take on restrained C++: http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.x...
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by edderly 16y ago
The Google experience devices are developed hand in hand with Google, whereas most other devices are developed after the respective OS sources have been released.
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by edderly 16y ago
A lot of horseshit is talked about how quickly you can type. Fundamentally, I assert it's really pretty unlikely that your throughput at the keyboard is a limiting factor to your productivity when writing code. It certainly is limiting if y
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by edderly 16y ago
https://opensource.motorola.com/sf/frs/do/viewRelease/projec... The Android repo will not contain all the platforms, I think usually Google are only interested in putting the source for their GEDs there. But the above is probably a good s
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by edderly 16y ago
If you treat this as a statement of fact, the economic consequence of this is clearly a matter of interpretation. The fact that Mr Mankiw might not be providing labor may mean that others will simply do the task and pay money on their earni
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by edderly 16y ago
The actual question should be why isn't the UI faster and more responsive? Stating a solution as a requirement is rarely a good idea. We know that the iPhone and Droid (and successor Droid X) has pretty similar hardware, both license the GP
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by edderly 16y ago
I suppose a ardent communist might agree with you, however, I think your logic is flawed to assume that where a person lives determines their character or renders them powerless to attempt to empathize with someone of a different race and e
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by edderly 16y ago
That's as irrational as saying "if you like poor black people so much, why don't you become one?".
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by edderly 16y ago
I can't claim to have read Fosdick, but I see an immediate problem in that demographics have changed through out Europe. Take for example London has a foreign population now of greater than 30%. At the same time there are areas in the north
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by edderly 16y ago
Ask economists how much debt is bad and you will get vastly different answers. There is genuine reason for confusion. See the arguments surrounding for example the bailout of Swedish (previously) and British banks (currently) - some conside
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by edderly 16y ago
I wondered that too. There's widely varying opinions on how much debt is bad. Unfortunately the argument gets reduced to "debt is bad" which is frankly stupid.
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by edderly 16y ago
That's a common impression but when it comes down to it HR's main capacity is to understand and deal with employment laws and regulations. HR will have zero to do with day-to-day interpersonal relationships and will typically only get invol
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by edderly 16y ago
If I understand correctly it depends on how well or badly behaving the applications are. I believe the judgment Android makes to close down an application is primarily free memory (not battery life). This gives a basic overview of how appli
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by edderly 16y ago
Yes. If Apple are in the right, a refusal to re-investigate the issue by Consumer Reports would make them look silly and the review contrived.
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by edderly 16y ago
"It makes Consumer Report's not-recommended status look increasingly irrational..." If this is the root of Apple's concern then they can work with Consumer Report to establish whether their appraisal was unjustified against other devices. T
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by edderly 16y ago
I'm no advertising expert, but I can't think of too many situations where you advertise your competitors products even in a negative light without saying something very positive about your product. Scott Adams article was also a bit of a Ro
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by edderly 16y ago
But that doesn't directly address compatibility. Most people will expect some level of compatibility if the library was revised and having the guts of your interface hanging out isn't going to help.
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by edderly 16y ago
I have a problem with worrying whether this is 'real commerce' or whether subjectively a lot of money is being made. If someone makes money, largely it's none of my business whether this a significant amount or not. If your concern is zonin
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by edderly 16y ago
I agree but I think the criticisms which are being made here are about the inherent mediocrity of FaceTime and whether it's either original or essential. The advert is clever in that the only good uses bookend the less good ones. You can't
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by edderly 16y ago
"critical" moments? Not really. I think most people would argue as social animals that being physically present at an event underlines the importance and respect for others. No one sane dials into someone's wedding or funeral right? For me
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by edderly 16y ago
People tend to forget that when the business you work doesn't make money itself (directly) out of software that outsourcing is now standard practice. From a upper management perspective I get the impression that whether a software project i