You do know that all console manufacturers impose a certification process on all games released, right? You cannot ship a broken console game and "patch it later" like you can do on PC.
At least that's what I'm hoping, because on the few occasions I've tried Android without Sense it's been nearly unusable. HTC did an absolutely brilliant job with the Hero given how poor the stock experience is.
Funny, I found the Moto Droid a lot more usable than the utterly confusing Hero when I tried them in stores.
Twitter has an RSS feed capability, but it doesn't properly support the "already read this ID" feature; every poll gets you a dump of the relevant inbox
The "already read this ID" feature of what? That's not a feature of Atom or RSS feeds. They just supply a feed of items; it's up to the client to filter them if it wants to remove already-read entries.
Or are you saying that Twitter doesn't provide persistent IDs for entries?
Given Rupert Murdoch's recent comments about copyright thieves stealing content, I'm sure the owner of MySpace will act quickly to ensure that these musicians get the royalties they are owed.
Lesiuk, Teresa. "The Effect of music listening on work performance." Psychology of Music. Vol.33, No. 2, 173-191 (2005). .
This journal article found results that indicate that in a work environment, quality of work is lowest with no music and time-on-task was longest with no music as well. It also states the environments with music help mood and increase quality of work when music is present. We hope that our experiment shows these results as well.
And the complaint about Chinese-made computers is the environmental cost and that supporting the Chinese government is immoral. No one is complaining about using computers. So it's exactly like the "OMG your computer uses Chinese components" guy's argument.
Tech Crunch also did a ton of free advertising for this thing, which wouldn't make a lot of sense if they didn't have some sort of stake in it other than a possible name.
Arrington is a lawyer, so it also wouldn't make a lot of sense for TechCrunch to get involved in a joint venture like this without a bunch of carefully written contracts being signed.
My Kindle's screen has about the same contrast ratio and character resolution as a typical printed mass-market paperback, and that's what it's replacing.
Sure, there are probably hardbacks on glossy paper which have much better resolution and contrast ratio, but I don't tend to buy those.
Springer, the academic publisher, has dozens of paywalled journals that routinely return hits on Google that lead to pages that have none of the search terms and whose contents are inaccessible.
So report them as spam. What they are doing is against Google's terms of service, and if enough people report them, Google will act.
Since Apple rejected both Google Voice and Google Latitude from the iPhone before Google Maps got turn-by-turn navigation, I think Google are quite justified in scaling back iPhone app development and not putting in too much effort to port the turn-by-turn functionality to the iPhone. In fact, I think they'd be justified if they quit iPhone development entirely; that's what I'd have done if Apple had jerked me around that way.
Well, I'd like to think that Apple will start selling jailbroken iPhones. I'd probably buy one then. But my gut feeling is that they're too addicted to the control. Steve Jobs is an infamous control freak, it's well documented that the Mac ended up open in spite of him rather than because of him.
2) Apple doesn't receive 30% of revenue if it's not sold through the App Store. Why would a company voluntarily give up revenue?
Because 30% of revenue on 50% of applications for a platform with 40% of the market, is a lot more money than 30% of revenue on 100% of applications for a platform that has dwindled to 5% of the market.
Plenty of people would use Apple's app store voluntarily--for convenience, for the promotional clout, and so on. (Plenty of people use the BlackBerry and Android marketplaces.) However, by forcing everyone to use the app store, Apple run the risk of destroying their platform market share.
All those things are easily fixed. Read the NYT or news source of your choice on a portable e-ink device, and keep a book of crosswords around if you really miss them.
Have you read that EULA? Right at the top it says:
YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS EULA BY INSTALLING, COPYING, OR OTHERWISE USING THE SOFTWARE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, DO NOT INSTALL, COPY, OR USE THE SOFTWARE; YOU MAY RETURN IT TO YOUR PLACE OF PURCHASE FOR A FULL REFUND, IF APPLICABLE.
So the EULA itself says that I agree to it when I install or use the software; therefore, I do not agree to the EULA by buying the machine.
And the EULA itself says that if I don't agree to it, I can return the software (not the hardware, just the software) for a full refund.
Google considers it cheating for a site to show different content to regular users than they show to GoogleBot. If you encounter a site that does so, you should report it to Google via their web spam report form.
I used to report Expert Sexchange, it's probably because of people like me that Google forced them to put the actual content on the page.
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Try The Orange Box on PS3.
I believe Droid is the stock Android 2.x UI. It certainly looks like what I see in the emulator.
Never compiled a C program, eh?
Funny, I found the Moto Droid a lot more usable than the utterly confusing Hero when I tried them in stores.
This new phone will be GSM, so it won't work on Verizon anyway.
Etag is nothing to do with RSS. It's an HTTP feature.
And since Twitter supports if-modified-since, you can use that instead.
The "already read this ID" feature of what? That's not a feature of Atom or RSS feeds. They just supply a feed of items; it's up to the client to filter them if it wants to remove already-read entries.
Or are you saying that Twitter doesn't provide persistent IDs for entries?
Given Rupert Murdoch's recent comments about copyright thieves stealing content, I'm sure the owner of MySpace will act quickly to ensure that these musicians get the royalties they are owed.
First came QUEL. The followup developed at IBM was jokingly called SEQUEL. It was changed to SEQL and then SQL for trademark reasons. See Wikipedia.
So it was originally called "sequel". Pronouncing it as S-Q-L came later.
And the complaint about Chinese-made computers is the environmental cost and that supporting the Chinese government is immoral. No one is complaining about using computers. So it's exactly like the "OMG your computer uses Chinese components" guy's argument.
Anyone check if it supports address cards yet?
Laptops cheaper than comparable desktops? Please tell us where you buy your laptops!
Arrington is a lawyer, so it also wouldn't make a lot of sense for TechCrunch to get involved in a joint venture like this without a bunch of carefully written contracts being signed.
And yet, here we are.
My Kindle's screen has about the same contrast ratio and character resolution as a typical printed mass-market paperback, and that's what it's replacing.
Sure, there are probably hardbacks on glossy paper which have much better resolution and contrast ratio, but I don't tend to buy those.
Every single person who thinks bottled water should be banned uses water. Bunch of hypocrites.
My ISP offers a slow DNS server with occasional timeouts that screws around with NXDOMAIN responses and replaces them with false information.
So Google's offering is instantly and verifiably more trustworthy than my ISPs.
Previously I had to use OpenDNS and turn off redirections to get the same result. Google DNS is even faster.
Competition is good. If you don't like Google DNS, set up something that competes with it. Crappy ISP DNS service, in my experience, does not compete.
Any publisher who wants to can sell Kindle-compatible ebooks on their own web site, not go via Amazon, and not pay Amazon's cut.
They just can't do so while screwing the customer with DRM.
That's a choice I rather like them having to make.
So report them as spam. What they are doing is against Google's terms of service, and if enough people report them, Google will act.
Since Apple rejected both Google Voice and Google Latitude from the iPhone before Google Maps got turn-by-turn navigation, I think Google are quite justified in scaling back iPhone app development and not putting in too much effort to port the turn-by-turn functionality to the iPhone. In fact, I think they'd be justified if they quit iPhone development entirely; that's what I'd have done if Apple had jerked me around that way.
Well, I'd like to think that Apple will start selling jailbroken iPhones. I'd probably buy one then. But my gut feeling is that they're too addicted to the control. Steve Jobs is an infamous control freak, it's well documented that the Mac ended up open in spite of him rather than because of him.
Because 30% of revenue on 50% of applications for a platform with 40% of the market, is a lot more money than 30% of revenue on 100% of applications for a platform that has dwindled to 5% of the market.
Plenty of people would use Apple's app store voluntarily--for convenience, for the promotional clout, and so on. (Plenty of people use the BlackBerry and Android marketplaces.) However, by forcing everyone to use the app store, Apple run the risk of destroying their platform market share.
All those things are easily fixed. Read the NYT or news source of your choice on a portable e-ink device, and keep a book of crosswords around if you really miss them.
Have you read that EULA? Right at the top it says:
So the EULA itself says that I agree to it when I install or use the software; therefore, I do not agree to the EULA by buying the machine.
And the EULA itself says that if I don't agree to it, I can return the software (not the hardware, just the software) for a full refund.
Google considers it cheating for a site to show different content to regular users than they show to GoogleBot. If you encounter a site that does so, you should report it to Google via their web spam report form.
I used to report Expert Sexchange, it's probably because of people like me that Google forced them to put the actual content on the page.