ALL of the countries targeted by Vodafone are ALREADY supported by Google Market. That is (from TFA): The Netherlands, Germany, Greece, Italy, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and the UK.
Well, except for Greece, Ireland and Portugal.
The thing is, I as an end user don't care about what's keeping Google from opening up the market. It's not like they've gone out of their way to offer alternative methods of payment, say for example associating your credit card with your google account or something like that. For us end users, all we know is that we've missed out on paid apps for a year, and there's no light at the end of the tunnel as far as we know.
Maybe some day, in another year or two, paid apps will be available for us, but if alternatives has popped up to fill that gap I'm all for it.
What app developers need to do is just what the parent has done. Just stick with Google's app store, and don't try to peddle their apps on other markets. This way, customers always come to one place, rather than check one store and not others.
No. What Google need to do is to enable that part of the market for the so called European gaps. The first Android mobile phone marketed in Sweden was the HTC Magic, and that was back in February 2009. It's been more than a year and Google still has not made paid apps available on the Market.
Before that happens, I'm all for independent market places filling the need that Google for some reason doesn't.
Maybe this will speed things up. One can at least hope, even if Sweden wasn't on the list of countries supported by Vodafone's store.
"Let's Open-Source the cloud (Score:2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday March 03, @08:50PM (#31349408)
Then we can run our own cloud and connect to it from wherever we want. There's a snowball's chance in hell I'm going to run my desktop on hardware that is out of my control, but for local applications, that might be interesting."
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"Cost prohibitive? (Score:3, Insightful) by bsDaemon (87307) writes: on Wednesday March 03, @09:00PM (#31349544)
EC2 charges based on CPU time and bandwidth usage, so this sounds like it'd end up eating up a monthly fee of ~$netbook per month. Why would anybody want to spend their money on this?"
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"i never saw the point of cloud desktops (Score:3, Interesting) by alen (225700) writes: on Wednesday March 03, @09:55PM (#31350268)
hardware is dirt cheap and getting cheaper. you can buy a powerful server for cheap as well. but after you buy the Citrix or whatever licenses, a few more servers for redundancy, a ton of storage at enterprise prices, the enterprise hardware support, increase network bandwidth etc the savings vanish and it's cheaper to just buy regular desktop machines.
same thing with EC2. by the time you put in the network hardware and new circuits and pay Amazon for 24x7 instances it's cheaper to just buy desktops. i'm typing this on a 5 year old HP that runs windows 7 just fine.
i bet all this cloud nonsense is enterprise hardware companies trying to push higher margin products and no real trend that anyone is doing. the numbers just don't work out"
Swedish Internet bandwidth reseller Black Internet has been ordered today by the swedish court Tingsrätten to cut of access to The Pirate Bay, or face a fine of 500000 SEK (approx. $70870.5).
I actually can't remember. I know I tried it just after 11.1 was released, but that's about it. Maybe it's because it uses KDE 4.1 while I was used to a desktop environment that works.
I think I'll give the next release of openSUSE a try, just because so many recommend it and there must be something I'm missing about it.
Thanks, I'll give Mandriva a shot. Haven't tried that since it was called Mandrake, oh the memories.
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Agreed, ever since Kubuntu switched from KDE 3 to 4 it's been crap. After years with KDE, not wanting to give up the goodness that is Ubuntu (apt, mostly) I had to switch to GNOME. I've tried KDE 4.1 and 4.2 occasionally, but it's still unusable. Just something as stupid as the "search field" in the "K-menu" (or whatever it's called nowdays); sometimes it registers presing enter, and sometimes it doesn't. Maybe I'll want to start "konsole" and I'll just type "konsole" and press enter. Sometimes it starts, other times nothing happens. I'll wait, wondering if it's just a delay, "is the harddrive bogged down?," "did I miss enter?". Nope. It just didn't register. It completely kills the flow of working with the desktop. Utter crap.
At first I thought it was a bug in 4.0, but it's still there in KDE 4.3pre (whatever's in Kubuntu 9.10 Alpha 3).
Please name me a polished KDE 4-based distribution. Or two, because if you were going to say openSuSE I'll want to skip that one.
Is it illegal to distribute pornography in California? I'm not familiar with California state law and I'm genuinly curious. I'm assuming it's not illegal nationwide, considering all the porn I've watc.. ehh.. heard of that's produced in the USA.
If it's not illegla, why were they sentenced? I read the article and it didn't help make me understand.
Uhmm.. I don't know. I just read that DRM'd software wouldn't work on the ADP1. If it does, well that's fine. If it doesn't, it doesn't really bother me.
I got one last week. The Android Dev Phone 1 (ADP1) has the same hardware as HTC Dream, with the only difference in that it won't run DRM-damaged applications.
It'll cost you about 4600 SEK all in all, not bad at all. Also, you get the cool dev phone pattern on the back;)
Really? Video acceleration turned off by default, for who would want that in a desktop OS?
Or a webbrowser where every page is untrusted by default, forcing you to add an exception for every page if you don't tune it to be less paranoid, because that's to be expected from the default web browser in a desktop OS.
I wonder why Microsoft has never marketed Windows Server 2003 as a desktop OS. Could it be that it's because it's a server OS?
If The Pirate Bay wins, the swedish laws will be changed to make sure what they've been doing would be an offence had they done it under the new law. If TPB loses, the current laws will be shown to be enough for prosecuting and convicting tracker admins.
So, thish seems as good a place as any to ask; what's the fastest AMD CPU available? I have a Socket AM2 6400+ and I'm looking for an upgrade without changing the motherboard. I'm talking single core operation, that is, I don't care if a good threaded app runs faster on a quad core Phenom than on my dual core 6400+, I just need it to run one application that doesn't thread, on one core, really fast.
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And as everybody knows, MS Office is not available for Mac.
ALL of the countries targeted by Vodafone are ALREADY supported by Google Market. That is (from TFA): The Netherlands, Germany, Greece, Italy, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and the UK.
Well, except for Greece, Ireland and Portugal.
The thing is, I as an end user don't care about what's keeping Google from opening up the market. It's not like they've gone out of their way to offer alternative methods of payment, say for example associating your credit card with your google account or something like that. For us end users, all we know is that we've missed out on paid apps for a year, and there's no light at the end of the tunnel as far as we know.
Maybe some day, in another year or two, paid apps will be available for us, but if alternatives has popped up to fill that gap I'm all for it.
What app developers need to do is just what the parent has done. Just stick with Google's app store, and don't try to peddle their apps on other markets. This way, customers always come to one place, rather than check one store and not others.
No. What Google need to do is to enable that part of the market for the so called European gaps. The first Android mobile phone marketed in Sweden was the HTC Magic, and that was back in February 2009. It's been more than a year and Google still has not made paid apps available on the Market.
Before that happens, I'm all for independent market places filling the need that Google for some reason doesn't.
Maybe this will speed things up. One can at least hope, even if Sweden wasn't on the list of countries supported by Vodafone's store.
Did you actually read the comments?
"Let's Open-Source the cloud (Score:2, Interesting)
by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday March 03, @08:50PM (#31349408)
Then we can run our own cloud and connect to it from wherever we want. There's a snowball's chance in hell I'm going to run my desktop on hardware that is out of my control, but for local applications, that might be interesting."
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"Cost prohibitive? (Score:3, Insightful)
by bsDaemon (87307) writes: on Wednesday March 03, @09:00PM (#31349544)
EC2 charges based on CPU time and bandwidth usage, so this sounds like it'd end up eating up a monthly fee of ~$netbook per month. Why would anybody want to spend their money on this?"
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"i never saw the point of cloud desktops (Score:3, Interesting)
by alen (225700) writes: on Wednesday March 03, @09:55PM (#31350268)
hardware is dirt cheap and getting cheaper. you can buy a powerful server for cheap as well. but after you buy the Citrix or whatever licenses, a few more servers for redundancy, a ton of storage at enterprise prices, the enterprise hardware support, increase network bandwidth etc the savings vanish and it's cheaper to just buy regular desktop machines.
same thing with EC2. by the time you put in the network hardware and new circuits and pay Amazon for 24x7 instances it's cheaper to just buy desktops. i'm typing this on a 5 year old HP that runs windows 7 just fine.
i bet all this cloud nonsense is enterprise hardware companies trying to push higher margin products and no real trend that anyone is doing. the numbers just don't work out"
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No? Check.
Just felt like bitching? Check.
Ok. This is a serious question: Has anyone, ever, been able to browse the "coral cached" version of a site that's been slashdoteed?
And are those plugins proprietary closed source binary blobs?
Swedish Internet bandwidth reseller Black Internet has been ordered today by the swedish court Tingsrätten to cut of access to The Pirate Bay, or face a fine of 500000 SEK (approx. $70870.5).
http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.242518/pirate-bay-borta-fran-nate (link in swedish).
The same as above machine translated by Google
I actually can't remember. I know I tried it just after 11.1 was released, but that's about it. Maybe it's because it uses KDE 4.1 while I was used to a desktop environment that works.
I think I'll give the next release of openSUSE a try, just because so many recommend it and there must be something I'm missing about it.
Thanks. Both Pardus and especially Chakra looks interesting.
Thanks, I'll give Mandriva a shot. Haven't tried that since it was called Mandrake, oh the memories.
Agreed, ever since Kubuntu switched from KDE 3 to 4 it's been crap. After years with KDE, not wanting to give up the goodness that is Ubuntu (apt, mostly) I had to switch to GNOME. I've tried KDE 4.1 and 4.2 occasionally, but it's still unusable. Just something as stupid as the "search field" in the "K-menu" (or whatever it's called nowdays); sometimes it registers presing enter, and sometimes it doesn't. Maybe I'll want to start "konsole" and I'll just type "konsole" and press enter. Sometimes it starts, other times nothing happens. I'll wait, wondering if it's just a delay, "is the harddrive bogged down?," "did I miss enter?". Nope. It just didn't register. It completely kills the flow of working with the desktop. Utter crap.
At first I thought it was a bug in 4.0, but it's still there in KDE 4.3pre (whatever's in Kubuntu 9.10 Alpha 3).
Please name me a polished KDE 4-based distribution. Or two, because if you were going to say openSuSE I'll want to skip that one.
When will people learn that putting something on the web is not the same as writing it down in your own personal diary?
Really, it's not that hard.
Seriously. Dude. We believe you.
Is it illegal to distribute pornography in California? I'm not familiar with California state law and I'm genuinly curious. I'm assuming it's not illegal nationwide, considering all the porn I've watc.. ehh.. heard of that's produced in the USA.
If it's not illegla, why were they sentenced? I read the article and it didn't help make me understand.
Sound like he was referring to this: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/07/1740205
Uhmm.. I don't know. I just read that DRM'd software wouldn't work on the ADP1. If it does, well that's fine. If it doesn't, it doesn't really bother me.
I got one last week. The Android Dev Phone 1 (ADP1) has the same hardware as HTC Dream, with the only difference in that it won't run DRM-damaged applications.
It'll cost you about 4600 SEK all in all, not bad at all. Also, you get the cool dev phone pattern on the back ;)
http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/device.html
Keep in mind that ATI's driver doesn't support vsync on Xvideo, which means you'll experience lots of tearing when watching videos.
Really? Video acceleration turned off by default, for who would want that in a desktop OS?
Or a webbrowser where every page is untrusted by default, forcing you to add an exception for every page if you don't tune it to be less paranoid, because that's to be expected from the default web browser in a desktop OS.
I wonder why Microsoft has never marketed Windows Server 2003 as a desktop OS. Could it be that it's because it's a server OS?
What's apk?
There is no Microsoft desktop OS that will that supports more than 2.
Whoever wins, the swedish lose.
If The Pirate Bay wins, the swedish laws will be changed to make sure what they've been doing would be an offence had they done it under the new law. If TPB loses, the current laws will be shown to be enough for prosecuting and convicting tracker admins.
And there's nothing we can do about it.
So, thish seems as good a place as any to ask; what's the fastest AMD CPU available? I have a Socket AM2 6400+ and I'm looking for an upgrade without changing the motherboard. I'm talking single core operation, that is, I don't care if a good threaded app runs faster on a quad core Phenom than on my dual core 6400+, I just need it to run one application that doesn't thread, on one core, really fast.
Nothing. It is using Samba.
And the Atom has EM64T.
What?
I know. Should be +5 Informative.