spiffworks

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by spiffworks 16y ago
Hey, I know this must be there in the sdk docs somewhere, but can the knob on the side of the watch be used as an input device? Also, I wish I had more upvotes to give you. EDIT: Oh, never mind, just saw that its a button, not a knob.
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by spiffworks 16y ago
This happens every now and then in most state-run colleges in India. The pattern is like this - some kid who has never been exposed to the internet comes to college and is exposed to high-speed, unlimited internet and gets immediately hooke
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by spiffworks 16y ago
The contention isn't that search quality sucks - it is that search quality has declined visibly over the past few months. Personally, I find most of the articles maligning Google to be little more than linkbait trying to capitalise on a mem
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by spiffworks 16y ago
It was my understanding that with phones, the bulk of the time is spent in testing the radio hardware to bring it up to compliance. That's why there is such a large delay between reference implementations and actual hardware. Software-wise,
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by spiffworks 16y ago
You should've seen Ryan Paul's twitter feed today. It was brutal watching his love for Meego break down into cynical snark for Nokia.
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by spiffworks 16y ago
I speak English, Hindi, Tamil and a South-Indian dialect of Marathi. One of the advantages of growing up in a multi-lingual house.
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by spiffworks 16y ago
They can trigger remote uninstallations as well. I can't find a link, but when the apps which were sending private data to some server in China were discovered about 6 months back, Google remotely uninstalled the app from users' phones. It'
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by spiffworks 16y ago
No, problems like returning meaningful results for "torsoraphy". See the first example that is provided in Danny Sullivan's post.
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by spiffworks 16y ago
Your point and the responses so far bring up what I consider to be Android's biggest problem - unpredictability. Since background software can run haphazardly, a single piece of misbehaving software can bring even the most powerful Android
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by spiffworks 16y ago
About the files with the Oracle copyright header, it seems to be on some remote tree that I can't even browse. Can you opine on whether it was ever actually shipped?
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by spiffworks 16y ago
I can't help but think that this is almost an exact parallel of the iPhone antenna problem. Both companies had minor to medium problems in their flagship products, both problems were vastly overblown by the media, both problems spurred an u
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by spiffworks 16y ago
Unless I am mistaken, willful infringement applies to patents, whereas this only proves willful copyright infringement. Are the willful infringement clauses for copyright as well?
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by spiffworks 16y ago
Whoops. Read right over it. Thanks for clarifying.
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by spiffworks 16y ago
How does this extension behave with Gmail shortcuts? I love keyboard navigation in Gmail and would hate to lose it.
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by spiffworks 16y ago
Indeed, using a smartphone to emulate a keyboard is definitely overkill, but it is also a really effective mechanism. Nobody thinks twice before plugging someone else's phone into their computers.
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by spiffworks 16y ago
Well, we're talking about two things, really- the webm reference implementation and the license under which the patents covering the spec are licensed. I guess the reference implementation is free as in freedom, and the spec is free as in b
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by spiffworks 16y ago
The whole point of moving things to the browser was to remove any lockin advantages a specific platform might have. That is the reason Flash gets so much hate from anybody who doesn't use Windows. Going back to OS-specific codecs would limi
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by spiffworks 16y ago
If all browsers did that, web codec development would move at the same glacial pace as Windows version updates, not to mention losing any semblance of uniformity and all possible hope of changing the status quo in any meaningful way away fr
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by spiffworks 16y ago
You're quite right, but I think its ridiculous to ask Google to give you a free license to their patents even as you are suing them for infringing yours.
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by spiffworks 16y ago
No, clearly it's not Free as in FSF, but 'free as in beer' is the only thing that separates it from H.264, it's definitely the most accurate description I've seen yet.
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by spiffworks 16y ago
The webm spec is frozen, and all patents are irrevocably licensed. Webm is not 'controlled' by Google.
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by spiffworks 16y ago
> Apple could still choose to WebM support. In fact, Imagination Technologies, the people who make the GPUs for the iPhone(and the iPad as well, I think), have already announced full vp8 support in their next-gen hardware decoders, so i
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by spiffworks 16y ago
Ok, here is how I define minimal software freedom - I give you a piece of software, along with source code, you are free to use it in anyway you please, or make your modifications and distribute it to as many people as you like. With H.264
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by spiffworks 16y ago
I did that in 2007.
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by spiffworks 16y ago
H.264 is probably superior to webm. I don't understand video codecs, but it's the consensus opinion among people who know this stuff. However, I fail to see how its relevant in any way. The tegra2 can already decode 1080p vp8 in hardware, a
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by spiffworks 16y ago
You missed the most critical point, which is "This license is fundamentally incompatible with software freedom. It requires developers to restrict how their software can be used, and to collect royalties in many situations." And that is wha
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by spiffworks 16y ago
"free standards" I'm glad somebody finally figured out how to accurately describe webm. All this hand-waving talk of 'openness' and 'open standards' was debate poison.
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by spiffworks 16y ago
If you're on Linux, try cmus. Its the greatest there is. Vi shortcuts, simplicity embodied, and as fast as you can type.
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Google, H.264 and Sticking it to Apple(expletiveinserted.com)
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by spiffworks 16y ago
Well, the tegra2, which is the reference platform for Honeycomb, has vp8 support in hardware. Texas Instruments announced full support for vp8 in all their future DSPs and media processors and Imagination Technologies, the people who make t

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