ergo98

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by ergo98 16y ago
>Look at what happened with the PC market. Compaq? Gateway? Even Dell and HP, the biggest two are earning very little from their computer division (well, relatively little). The two winners in the PC market have been Windows and Intel.
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by ergo98 16y ago
>RIM owns QNX which has been working in embedded communication devices for years. RIM just bought QNX. Blackberry OS has nothing to do with QNX, though purportedly their Black Pad (once you go black...) will. Note that QNX is known to b
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by ergo98 16y ago
"Nice try, iPhone-lover!" Seriously, though, what's the deal with iPhone fans giving a shout-out to Windows Mobile 7 constantly? It's a little transparent.
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by ergo98 16y ago
All of the examples I tried worked wonderfully in 3.6.8.
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by ergo98 16y ago
Google has TERRIBLE PR when it comes to stuff like that. They just seem to manage releases so horrendously that it is simply shocking. The whole net neutrality thing being the most recent example. Not only did the Nexus One "die" without dy
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by ergo98 16y ago
It does, but at the page level. If a page has seven flash elements, once you activate any of them it activates all of them (as the activation is of the plug-in rather than the instance). I suspect this was by design, as the thought would be
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by ergo98 16y ago
The one annoyance of it is to enable a single flash element on a page, it enables all flash elements on the page. Wish it was more granular.
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by ergo98 16y ago
"We don't have to be married and having kids by the time we're twenty, before the plague or dysentery gets us." There are many choices for life, and choosing never to get married and never to have kids is exactly the right choice for many p
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by ergo98 16y ago
Times change far less than most people think they do. Everything old is new again. Columnists invent trends and crazy new behaviors that are neither trends or new.
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by ergo98 16y ago
>The game doesn't seem to involve so much coding. There are layers of complexity that you simply can't avoid. Add that even the simplest physics algorithms are non-trivial. Many of us were programming before we hit the grand double digi
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by ergo98 16y ago
I wish I wasn't the one to play the skeptic, but I'm naturally skeptical about stories like this. Kids are often used as fronts for adults looking for a promotion vehicle.
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by ergo98 16y ago
>We wouldn't need to change our legal names if we didn't have to use them in the first place. Alternately, if everyone used real names we will come to accept that few are the model of perfection, and finding that someone posted someth
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by ergo98 16y ago
I hold the same questions, both as an Android developer and as a Android app consumer -- Sense plays zero part in my development, and as a user while it changes the home screen and offers some widgets, it does nothing to change individual a
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by ergo98 16y ago
That is the poster child of different behaviors -- bring up Android fragmentation, and it's invariably what gets brought up. Sure, it's a problem. It should behave consistently. It's one very, very, very small element of the platform.
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by ergo98 16y ago
>From my reading of the article he mentions the fact that J2ME fared poorly on code portability across devices and that android fares even worse. Well clearly having worse fragmentation would be less developer friendly, would it not? On
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by ergo98 16y ago
What? Dealing with a physical or a software keyboard is well defined in Android. Dealing with rotation is a foundational element of the system. Dealing with different resolutions is a foundational element of the system. >e.g. this app r
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by ergo98 16y ago
>We probably shouldn't have abolished slavery either Extraordinary. Slavery no less. You should have gone with Hitler. >In other words: immediate negative consequences are not a good argument, because most change causes some immedia
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by ergo98 16y ago
>Android "is" java, you cant drop java from android The Android OS is Linux. The Dalvik runtime runs a unique bytecode. My x86 processor runs x86 (which in current processors is essentially an intermediate language). In the 80s someone
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by ergo98 16y ago
It isn't ridicule. It's a simple statement of fact that you're so far down the justify-my-life hyperbole well (you sound like any early-20 year old living in a tiny dump downtown) that you won't be convinced to the contrary. And I don't wan
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by ergo98 16y ago
You've pretty much covered the gamut of ridiculous urbanism hyperbole, so there's that. >But only one of us has had their desires subsidized by various levels of government for decades. This is almost comically wrong, but given the ridi
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by ergo98 16y ago
I hear this a lot -- this notion that suburbs are some sort of artificially propped up and sustained artifact of automobile life -- and I wonder how people can ignore the overwhelming historical evidence to the contrary. Virtually every lar
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by ergo98 16y ago
>local governments already engage in social engineering, in the form of requiring public businesses to provide parking spaces. That's reflective rather than manipulative. Most municipalities have long knowledge of transportation pattern
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by ergo98 16y ago
Many of the patents that Oracle is suing over could as easily be targeted to .NET. Of course Oracle isn't dumb enough to target Microsoft (having a much deeper portfolio of superficial but deadly patents). In fact they could as easily targe
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by ergo98 16y ago
>Oracle is a for-profit entity, they will take any legal or tactical advantage they can get (e.g., lawsuit over Java in Android), and they make no bones about it. This has become a bit of a meme lately, and it's pretty tenuous. Google m
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by ergo98 16y ago
Interesting discussion tactic. Your argument is almost entirely an attack on me (first that I have a "reputation", which is a laugh, and then that I bizarrely mistook your very clear statement), and then after making your point you leave of
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by ergo98 16y ago
I had exactly that impression, but having tried it -- it really is that accurate. They did speed up some of the segments (cutting out the "processing" bit and the confirmation delay sequence), but it was very honest about the accuracy.
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I can say that I absolutely will be using it. Frequently. Typing on a touchscreen keyboard is not enjoyable, and this makes the device far more usable for casually looking up restaurants, getting directions, etc. Android already had a wide
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by ergo98 16y ago
>The only way they'd be forced to increase prices for everyone is if they were breaking even You mean as a whole company? Ha, that's a riot. If selective customers cost a business disproportionately, they target those customers or fire
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by ergo98 16y ago
>Given that they claimed "Unlimited" bandwidth I haven't signed up for a plan that claimed unlimited since the 90s. Maybe organizations around here are just more rational? However I do have a 5GB plan on my smartphone. In an average mon
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by ergo98 16y ago
>Wireless internet is already a total joke, where carriers charge you extra for tethering just to use the bandwidth you already paid for Bullshit. Don't dumb down the argument just because it serves your personal desires. Tethering comp

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