mcbridematt

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by mcbridematt 13y ago
The days of this being an issue are long gone, especially since there is now good competition in the submarine cable space. Last mile is starting to be the bottleneck.
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by mcbridematt 14y ago
Similarly the BeOS platform morphed into Palm OS 6 (Cobalt), which only ever appeared in sample quantities from a phone OEM. (This was well after Palm spun off their OS business, but before PalmSource was acquired by ACCESS)
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by mcbridematt 14y ago
8pen has been around for a while, I remember using it in 2010. I think if you get use to it it might have promise. Myself, I can type fast enough on a QWERTY layout (even on a touchscreen) that any of these fancier input methods just slow m
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by mcbridematt 14y ago
Chrome is reliant on the host OS certificate stack, unfortunately Chrome and client certificates don't seem to work well on OS X for this reason. Safari works, however.
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by mcbridematt 14y ago
The Anandtech article didn't test out 1800MHz, but I would guess that 1800MHz (band 3) would be the second most likely band to be supported on the Nexus 4. It is a band until now normally used for GSM. The other bands he has tested for aren
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by mcbridematt 14y ago
Perhaps they will sell a slightly more expensive model in a market where LTE support doesn't require the cooperation of the mobile operators, which is well ... most places outside Northern America.
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by mcbridematt 14y ago
The implementation of Access Point mode in some phones isn't great (especially in high noise environments), I've found that Bluetooth PAN mode tends to be more reliable, actually.
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by mcbridematt 14y ago
I would disagree. LTE is rolling out pretty rapidly, and there are quite a few places where 3G is useless, even on Telstra. Melbourne CBD has been a long running issue, so has parts of Perth and Sydney, apparently. DC-HSDPA is great but the
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by mcbridematt 14y ago
I believe it may of had to do with compliance with some US Government standard? Their own stack complies but they are unwilling and/or unable to do the same for OpenSSL. I recall there being a presentation from last years WWDC about this ch
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by mcbridematt 14y ago
> Calls generally aren't made over 3G to this day, they're made over 2G You must be talking about CDMA (EV-DO vs 1xRTT) only. Not true with GSM+UMTS networks. As far as network operators are concerned, the more data (incl. voice channel
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by mcbridematt 14y ago
This has long been an issue; particularly for Australian users where using a foreign DNS server will cause CDN requests to travel across the Pacific Ocean. This is one example (from 2010): http://apcmag.com/why-using-google-dns-opendns-is-
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by mcbridematt 14y ago
What about embedded devices/the 'internet of things'? Should I have to add a (costly) crypto chip to my microcontroller just to have a HTTP/web interface? Or a large SSL stack? (HTTP 1 would be sufficient for these use cases for a long time
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by mcbridematt 14y ago
Region free DVD players are sold in Australia, and the continued legality of them is thanks to the... US Free Trade Agreement. (This is not counting any action the DVD interests could take, i.e patent suits. Most region-free players I've se
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by mcbridematt 14y ago
Can I be absolutely certain that the sub-contractors Apple uses won't just chuck the nasty glued bits in landfill as well? Other countries may not benefit from Apple's own recycling programs.
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by mcbridematt 14y ago
I agree. They seem to have reinvented Maemo/MeeGo on every release. You can't really have an ecosystem around that. I don't believe being (yet another) Android OEM would have done them any good either. Microsoft was the way to go.
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by mcbridematt 14y ago
Now that smartphones and tablets have respectable GPUs in them, is there any reason why they shouldn't implement the full OpenGL spec?
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by mcbridematt 15y ago
Neither of the above is true anymore. There used to be a lack of competition in the submarine cable sector, this is no longer true. In some cases it would cost more to push it to the user (DSL wholesale etc), and this is solely due to monop