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  1. Re:Only half true on Inside Symbian: the Platform Nokia Secretly Hates · · Score: 1

    what on earth is an N60?
    Nokia Series 60. Yes I was being lazy and not typing it all out.

    java.io.DataInputStream
    >
    Accept it does not work on all devices.

    The (old) Nokia JVM being one of them. Try it on an old Nokia, it always returns zero.

    This was my biggest problem with JME development, so many devices simply ignored the specs, or implemented them so badly it was not worth using.
  2. Re:Only half true on Inside Symbian: the Platform Nokia Secretly Hates · · Score: 1

    Unless I've missed something, we are talking about the Nokia Series 60, which is out.

    > older version of a JVM to a platform that is not even out yet?

    Regardless if we are talking about N60, or something not yet out, bennini has access to it "provides an awesome JVM". Is it valid to ask if a product has improved over time? Yes it is. I find the statement "[N60] provides an awesome JVM" odd as to the past edition of the JVM was utter crap (esp. with regrads to networking, which it could not read & write to the same socket in different threads, nor did it provide a none-blocking method of asking it if it had content, making writing an application like VNC very hard).

  3. Re:Only half true on Inside Symbian: the Platform Nokia Secretly Hates · · Score: 1

    provides an awesome JVM It has been a few years since I last did any JME development, but the Nokia JVM was one of the things that put me off, how such a buggy POS made it past test is simply amazing. I take it the JVM is now worth using? Maybe I should look into doing some JME dev again.
  4. Re:Oh, RoughlyDrafted.com on Inside Symbian: the Platform Nokia Secretly Hates · · Score: 1

    My HTC Wizard has a 200MHz CPU and runs fine. Even with some of the eye candy you can get.

  5. Re:Strange... on UK Greens Declare Vista Bad For Environment · · Score: 1

    Do you have an HDCP protected files?

  6. Re:Oh brother on Mass Storage For Phones · · Score: 2

    Good for you. Nokia 1100 maybe?

    I want a computer that fits in my pocket, and I don't want to be carrying a phone as well.

  7. Re:Itunes/fairplay plays on lots of devices. on Norway Outlaws iTunes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "convert my itunes music to something my non-apple player can play".
    What button is this? I've never seen it active for music bought on the iTunes store.

    Unless you mean "burn to CD, and rip the CD"?
    Or "Use a 3rd party application to strip the DRM"?
  8. Re:A bit silly? on Microwave Experiments Cause Sponge Disasters · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Taking just that one line
    Writing in the Journal of Environmental Health, Bitton and colleagues said they soaked sponges and scrubbing pads in raw wastewater containing fecal bacteria such as E. coli, viruses, protozoan parasites and bacterial spores. ".

    You could easily read that as if the soaking in wastewater was just to add some nasties to zap.
  9. Re:That old saying about SMPT on Firefox 3 Plans and IE8 Speculation · · Score: 1
    you totally didn't get the joke

    I guess not. (not that it was +5 funny when I answered it)
  10. Re:Horrible. on No Third-party Apps on iPhone Says Jobs · · Score: 1

    I don't know about the US market, but any Windows Mobile device, by editing a text file in the "hidden" part of its memory you can strip away all the custom crapware.

  11. Re:That old saying about SMPT on Firefox 3 Plans and IE8 Speculation · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Webbrowser != Email Client.

    Does IE included a email client? Or does an IE client use the IE rendering component?

  12. Re:Linden does not have 2.4 million users on Second Life Open Sources Client · · Score: 1

    Yeay! So many men with wings and massive cocks!

    Sorry, don't get.

  13. Re:Linden does not have 2.4 million users on Second Life Open Sources Client · · Score: 1



    And so counts all the people who log on go "my god this is dull" and promptly uninstall the client. I really do not see what people like in this thing.

  14. Re:Using a Wifi device in a car on WiFi in Your Rental Car · · Score: 1

    The expense is getting data, the data is still coming over the 3G network (i.e. still very expensive).

    I think I've misread your post, and you are talking about lots-of-WiFi kit talking to a single bit of 3G kit, rather than having lots of 3G kit. But I don't see when that would be the case, you normally have one bit of 3G kit, talking bluetooth to the other net-enabled kit.

  15. Re:Using a Wifi device in a car on WiFi in Your Rental Car · · Score: 1
    which is cheaper than 3G connected devices.

    To quote the summary:
    Avis is bundling a 3G-to-802.11 bridge with their rental cars


  16. Re:Mmm but would you do it? on HD-DVD and Blu-Ray AACS DRM Cracked · · Score: 1

    You can pick up 4 blank DVDs in Pound Land for a pound, give it a year after HD-DVD/BluRay going main stream and you will be able to pick up a single blank HD-DVD/BluRay disk for a pound.

    Second question is how much space will the movie (not the Value-Added junk) take on its own?

  17. Re:Not really cracked, more like circumvented on HD-DVD and Blu-Ray AACS DRM Cracked · · Score: 1

    So if X cracks common-player Y, and I (and 1000s others) own player Y who replaces it when it gets "disabled"?

    That is really worrying, I don't think I'll be buying into that just yet.

  18. Re:Why Perl? on Roomba + Wii remote + Perl = Awesome · · Score: 1

    Java has change focus a number of times. It is now a general purpose language, with a strong "Enterprise" set of libraries. It also has a stripped down version for "every appliance in the house".

    Now, if the Roomba was JavaME based, and you had a Java based library for the Wii remote, then Java would be no better or worse choice than Perl or any other language you care to mention which supports both the wii-mote and the Roomba.
    If the Roomba also supported BlueTooth(1) then using Java directly on the Roomba would be a darn fine idea.

    1) I think that is what TFV said the Wii-mote communicated using.

    And I'm a Java fanboy.

  19. Re:The real problem with cell phones... on Inside Apple's iPhone · · Score: 1
    T-mobile are still limiting what your alllowed to do with the data connection no p2p file sharing voip or instant mesaging, but vnc to my network should sort some of that out ;)

    Oh, drat. On the onld web 'n' walk plan (100MB a month) using a none-3G phone skype is not blocked. (but then it is not useful either).

    But I guess you could get a proxy for it, then go jump though your home BB connection.
  20. Re:what use? on 10 Web Operating Systems Reviewed · · Score: 1
    operating system whose user interface is only the web browser

    The Sun Ray (I think) thin clients already come with this, but also a X client, and a Windows Remote client. Both options are better than "WebOS"es for "remote desktops".

    You could probably load it up all to ROM and have no hard drive, making the boot up take all of about a second.

    Then add the download time + flash start up time etc.

    While "WebOSes" are a intresting toy, I don't think they will ever be any more than that
  21. Re:Come ON already on New Stargate Series In the Works · · Score: 1

    Nah, Trekkie just think how pissed off both "real" Trekkies and "SG1" Trekkies will get.

  22. Re:Damn them for cancelling SG-1 on New Stargate Series In the Works · · Score: 1

    Torchwood has two types of shows:
    Adult Dr Who - Normally quite good.
    CSI: Wales With Sci-Fi bits - Normally shit. Nothing all that CSI about it, very bad SciFi bits.

    The real WTF is that on paper all of the plots should work. They just don't.

    Luckly the "CSI: Wales" ones are getting less frequent. Hopefully they will soon banish the guns and SUV.

  23. Re:And of course Linus is right... on Linus Puts Kibosh On Banning Binary Kernel Modules · · Score: 2, Informative
  24. Re:Too bad on Firefox 3 In Alpha · · Score: 1

    Apple want you to pay $99.

  25. Wake me up on Drugs Eradicate the Need For Sleep · · Score: 1

    when they make a pill that does my work for me, so I can have a lie-in