Presumably if Flash on mobile devices is important and easy to implement, then some other phone company will release a Flash-supporting handset and the market will buy that instead.
It's not like the iPhone is the only smartphone out there.
I assume that's Flash Lite, which (as I understand it) is not the same as the general Flash you get on the internet. It's specifically designed and optimised for mobile applications.
"how do exactly the same model phones with exactly the same battery compare, when looking at their 3G and non-3G models?" (or exactly the same phone, if 3G can be fully disabled
In my experience, battery usage of 3G is about twice that of GPRS.
The main problem with GPRS is that you can't take a phone call while the data connection is active.
Exactly, what kind of crazy employer would make office employees work such long hours they can't get 7 hours sleep?
Say an hour commuting, 3 hours for dinner etc, 1 hour breakfast etc. that means they're working 12+ hours a day. If the workload requires that, you need to hire more people.
(As an aside, the law in the UK is no more than 48 hours a week on average, with some exceptions. Seems to work pretty well)
6 hours a night? 2 nights in a row of that I'm completely useless at work the next day and most likely have a bad headache all day. How do people cope?
Eps 1-3 are dull because they tell the backstory. We already know how it ends, we already know pretty much what happens. So there's no tension and no surprise. They stretch out what made an interesting few paragraphs in the original trilogy to 3 films.
the iPlayer's Kontiki P2P system is distributing programming on the BBC's behalf - via their bandwidth
I hope they're going to put very clear warnings that the iPlayer uses your bandwidth (and CPU time and memory) even when you're not watching video, or there are going to be a lot of complaints from people who exceed their bandwidth limits.
Also, as I understand it they emailed each doctor a URL to their details like "http://website.gov.uk/1234.html", so by changing the 1234 you could easily find other details.
Exactly - all they'd have to say is "it's encrypted using AES-256/whatever, everyone whose details are on the disk will be dead by the time it's decrypted".
Although, considering that the government is using the time taken to break decryption as an excuse to raise the time they can hold 'terrorists' without charge, they probably want to avoid mentioning that.
This is from the bureaucracy that thought putting confidential personal details in a public folder on a web server was secure as long as they didn't tell anyone they were there:
That's certainly not true in my experience (Norwich&London, England). Wii Kiosks are prominently placed in 2 local GAME shops, along with lots of space given over to Wii games.
It's been interesting watching the shelf space given to the Wii gradually increase. Earlier in the year you could have missed the Wii section entirely if you weren't looking carefully, now it's generally front-and-centre.
There's Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime 3 out at the moment,both fantastic games, plus Zak&Wiki (in the US, 2008 EU). Personally, I've also bought and enjoyed (in order of decreasing greatness):
Mario Strikers Excite Truck RE4:Wii Warioware Eledees Super Paper Mario
and I'm looking forward to Super Smash Bros Brawl, Battalion Wars 2, Mario Kart Wii and maybe Resident Evil:UC.
Perhaps things are different in the US, but I wouldn't call the ceremonies around Armistice day (Remembrance Sunday here in the UK) a celebration at all, they're purely about remembering those who died in a very solemn and sad ceremony. Surely it's worthwhile keeping the memory of that waste of life alive?
Exactly. I know watching all those old soldiers march past the Cenotaph in London laying wreaths for their friends who didn't make it back really fires up my blood and makes me want to start another war.
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Presumably if Flash on mobile devices is important and easy to implement, then some other phone company will release a Flash-supporting handset and the market will buy that instead.
It's not like the iPhone is the only smartphone out there.
I assume that's Flash Lite, which (as I understand it) is not the same as the general Flash you get on the internet. It's specifically designed and optimised for mobile applications.
IIRC, the iPhone plays Youtube videos converted to H264 using a native client, not Flash video.
A quick google ("Working time directive") shows it's averaged over 17 weeks, which is longer than I though it was.
"how do exactly the same model phones with exactly the same battery compare, when looking at their 3G and non-3G models?" (or exactly the same phone, if 3G can be fully disabled
In my experience, battery usage of 3G is about twice that of GPRS.
The main problem with GPRS is that you can't take a phone call while the data connection is active.
Exactly, what kind of crazy employer would make office employees work such long hours they can't get 7 hours sleep?
Say an hour commuting, 3 hours for dinner etc, 1 hour breakfast etc. that means they're working 12+ hours a day. If the workload requires that, you need to hire more people.
(As an aside, the law in the UK is no more than 48 hours a week on average, with some exceptions. Seems to work pretty well)
6 hours a night? 2 nights in a row of that I'm completely useless at work the next day and most likely have a bad headache all day. How do people cope?
Because your Pentium II 200Mhz can issue (IIRC) 3 instructions per cycle, whereas the ARM can only issue 1. Mhz is not a performance measure.
I wasn't aware of the memory issue - I just remember how slow web pages rendered on my Nokia 9500 with its puny CPU even using a WiFi connection.
Rendering web pages takes a decent amount of CPU to do quickly, for one.
Also, it's an ARM core, so (presumably) no FPU and a single integer pipeline. Something like the performance of an mid-range Pentium 1.
Eps 1-3 are dull because they tell the backstory. We already know how it ends, we already know pretty much what happens. So there's no tension and no surprise. They stretch out what made an interesting few paragraphs in the original trilogy to 3 films.
Exactly - I thought that was the reason Leia has some Jedi aptitude in ROTJ?
the iPlayer's Kontiki P2P system is distributing programming on the BBC's behalf - via their bandwidth
I hope they're going to put very clear warnings that the iPlayer uses your bandwidth (and CPU time and memory) even when you're not watching video, or there are going to be a lot of complaints from people who exceed their bandwidth limits.
Also, as I understand it they emailed each doctor a URL to their details like "http://website.gov.uk/1234.html", so by changing the 1234 you could easily find other details.
Exactly - all they'd have to say is "it's encrypted using AES-256/whatever, everyone whose details are on the disk will be dead by the time it's decrypted".
Although, considering that the government is using the time taken to break decryption as an excuse to raise the time they can hold 'terrorists' without charge, they probably want to avoid mentioning that.
This is from the bureaucracy that thought putting confidential personal details in a public folder on a web server was secure as long as they didn't tell anyone they were there:
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/society/health/exclusive+junior+doctors+details+exposed+online/469137
and that's currently £6.2bn over budget on implementing a medical record database:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/16/nhsit_budget_overrun/
Why are UK government IT projects always doomed to failure?
That's certainly not true in my experience (Norwich&London, England). Wii Kiosks are prominently placed in 2 local GAME shops, along with lots of space given over to Wii games.
Agreed, it was a pretty crappy game. The Hoth level was good, after that it all went downhill and I gave up in boredom.
It's been interesting watching the shelf space given to the Wii gradually increase. Earlier in the year you could have missed the Wii section entirely if you weren't looking carefully, now it's generally front-and-centre.
There's Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime 3 out at the moment,both fantastic games, plus Zak&Wiki (in the US, 2008 EU). Personally, I've also bought and enjoyed (in order of decreasing greatness):
Mario Strikers
Excite Truck
RE4:Wii
Warioware
Eledees
Super Paper Mario
and I'm looking forward to Super Smash Bros Brawl, Battalion Wars 2, Mario Kart Wii and maybe Resident Evil:UC.
IIRC, the experience of the Falklands led to major changes in ship anti-missile defence (CIWS etc.)
Perhaps things are different in the US, but I wouldn't call the ceremonies around Armistice day (Remembrance Sunday here in the UK) a celebration at all, they're purely about remembering those who died in a very solemn and sad ceremony. Surely it's worthwhile keeping the memory of that waste of life alive?
It's Armistice Day, as in the day the guns stopped firing, not Versailles day.
Exactly. I know watching all those old soldiers march past the Cenotaph in London laying wreaths for their friends who didn't make it back really fires up my blood and makes me want to start another war.
Veterans day makes some sense - November 11th is Armistice/Remembrance day in several countries as it was the day WW1 ended.