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  1. Re:Math Skill - there appears to be no app for tha on iPhone Has 46% of Japanese Smartphone Market · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ok. Iphone has 46% of smart phone market. It cut the leader lead from 27% to 13.5%. So the Leader has 59.5% of the market and Iphone 46%. Guess all the other smart phones are in negative numbers.

    Maybe read the article? The 3G has 24.6% of the market. The 3GS has 21.5% of the market. That adds up to roughly 46%. The most popular phone in 2008 was the Sharp WillCOM W-Zero 3 Advance, and it held a 26.8% absolute market share. That is now 14.6%, meaning that the other smart phones share roughly 40% of the market.

    Of course the article doesn't clearly define what 'market' that is.

  2. $30 million on $300 Sci-Fi YouTube Video Lands $30m Movie Deal · · Score: 5, Informative

    Both articles mention $30 million, not $300 million.

  3. Re:Useful on Chrome OS, Present and Future · · Score: 1

    ore : cent :: krone : dollar

    He's throwing in his two cents.

  4. Re:Mikrotik on Home Router For High-Speed Connection? · · Score: 1

    A 750 is not going to handle 100Mbps (that's the interface limit, and it has a very weak processor). A 750G might - but not that much more money buys you much more RAM in a 450G, and a level 5 license compared to a level 4.

  5. Re:Mikrotik on Home Router For High-Speed Connection? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Or buy one of the lower end RouterBoards. A 450G would be a fairly good fit for this situation and comes in at under $150 with a case and a power supply.

  6. Re:Cisco on Home Router For High-Speed Connection? · · Score: 1

    The 150Mbps stands when multiple interfaces are used simultaneously. ASA5505s have 100Mbps interfaces.

  7. Re:Cisco on Home Router For High-Speed Connection? · · Score: 1

    While it would do for 100Mbps, that's the exact limit and there is no room for growth. A 5505 has Fast Ethernet interfaces.

  8. Re:4932% Growth - Imagine That on AT&T's City-By-City Plan To Up Wireless Coverage · · Score: 1

    The data plan for the iPhone is still showing up as $30/month for the normal version. Officially ActiveSync requires an Enterprise data plan, which is $40/month (though ActiveSync runs fine on either).

  9. Re:Chaum's system is very cool on Maryland Town Tests New Cryptographic Voting System · · Score: 4, Informative

    "But voters can't be sure just by looking at their ballot image that the system interpreted the codes accurately to apply the vote to the correct candidate. That's where independent auditors come in."

    TFA to the rescue.

  10. Re:Or, if we are about the open source, on Psystar's Rebel EFI Hackintosh Tool Reviewed, Found Wanting · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He's talking about Psystar being unethical in - potentially - taking an open and free tool that does the same thing and re-branding it and charging for it without giving credit.

  11. Re:So in other words... on Psystar's Rebel EFI Hackintosh Tool Reviewed, Found Wanting · · Score: 1

    I think it's fairly likely that they'll simply be happy to sell you hardware that is compatible.

  12. Re:Never even heard of it on Microsoft Opening Outlook's PST Format · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Data portability has become an increasing need for our customers and partners as more information is stored and shared in digital formats. One scenario that has come up recently is how to further improve platform-independent access to email, calendar, contacts, and other data generated by Microsoft Outlook.

    On desktops, this data is stored in Outlook Personal Folders, in a format called a .pst file"

    Straight from the link in the summary.

  13. Re:Crappy Summary on Some Users Say Win7 Wants To Remove iTunes, Google Toolbar · · Score: 1

    Yes, it asked them to remove iTunes, etc., but then it reinstalled them!

    It didn't. It re-installed the 5 drivers that were also removed. The user had to manually re-install iTunes.

    Not that that scenario is a catastrophe, either. Just saying.

  14. Re:Wait for the fine print on The Kindle Killer Arrives · · Score: 2, Informative

    unless the software to read it on a PC or other device is freely available.

    Which it is.

  15. Re:Multicore Enhancements!! :) on Apple's Grand Central Dispatch Ported To FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    It takes into account every other libdispatch enabled app. As per the spec.

  16. Re:Multicore Enhancements!! :) on Apple's Grand Central Dispatch Ported To FreeBSD · · Score: 4, Informative

    While you certainly don't deserve a "Troll" rating, the real improvement GDC brings over current implementations of concurrency is that one central authority is aware of all GDC enabled applications, and can therefore make decisions with knowledge of the entire system load and its capabilities when spinning of threads. When you spin of threads independently in each app you have to guess what the rest of the system looks like. You also have to either guess, investigate or have the user configure the general capabilities of the system.

  17. Re:So what? The GPL is a copyright license on HTC Dragging Feet On GPL Source Release For "Hero" Phone · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Slashdot, despite persistent rumors to the contrary, has more than one person commenting on articles. While not scientifically established as fact, it seems likely that those separate entities could have diverging opinion on copyright.

  18. Re:Yep on Toyota Claims Woman "Opted In" To Faux Email Stalking · · Score: 1

    stop trying to change our country into some European colony (I know, the irony...)

    I wonder where in the hell you get the idea that this is acceptable behavior in Europe.

  19. Re:opinion on Game Development On Android · · Score: 1

    The Blackberry Pearl is completely different from the Storm, and a Nokia 3310 is worlds away from the N95. You'd have to stick to one _model_ of phone, or a very tightly related family of models.

    I have no idea how numbers pan out there, but I suspect as a single model the iPhone does fairly good in regards to market share.

  20. Re:How will they inject this thing? on Comcast's War On Infected PCs (Or All Customers) · · Score: 1

    One possibility: hijack a random HTTP connection from the customer, redirect it to a proxy server of your own that pretends to be the destination and sends an HTTP 302 directing the client to load up the notification page.

    Same as any captive portal works.

  21. Re:Yes, but watch for... on Verizon Refuses To Provide Complete IPv6 · · Score: 1

    How do you suggest a remote site determine your MAC address?

  22. Re:Competely untrue.... on "Windows 7 Compatible" PCs Must Be 64-bit · · Score: 1

    http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2009/09/29/the-windows-7-logo-program.aspx

    You should tell their Senior Director with the Windows Product Strategy Group that he was lying when he said that.

  23. Re:It will never happen on California Requests Stimulus Funding For Bullet Train · · Score: 1

    For what it's worth, the German ICE (which is a reasonably modern high speed train) is usually quoted with getting somewhere between 70 and 80mpg with normal loads, that calculation essentially covers emissions from power plants as the train runs on electricity. Obviously those numbers get better the more passengers the train carries.

  24. Similary functionality on other devices on Retrievable iPhone Numbers Raise Privacy Issue · · Score: 2, Informative

    I was curious if this was possible on other devices. Seems like all the big ones have some API functionality to retrieve similar information:

    - http://docs.blackberry.com/en/developers/deliverables/8540/Retrieve_phone_number_BB_device_565546_11.jsp Blackberry

    - http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2004/11/28/271110.aspx Windows Mobile

    - http://www.forum.nokia.com/infocenter/index.jsp?topic=/S60_5th_Edition_Cpp_Developers_Library/GUID-3EB7E846-A29F-4546-B04D-A90B009903EF.html Symbian (while on casual inspection there appears to be no function to retrieve the phone number, you can retrieve the IMEI, and be notified on events such as phone calls, at which point you can retrieve the caller ID as well as the dialed number)

    - http://developer.android.com/reference/android/telephony/TelephonyManager.html Android (requires permissions be granted to the app)

  25. Re:Any verification on the Apache web server? on Apple Pushes Unwanted Software To PCs, Again · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Should have checked more carefully before posting - the first link from the summary in turn links to http://www.itexpertmag.com/telecoms/supporting-mobile-email-on-multiple-handsets, which mentions a Ruby web service on port 3000 for iPhone configuration. Again, there's nothing listening on port 3000. I have no idea why the first summary link uses to support the idea that Apache gets installed.