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If google is successful in this campaign it stands to loose a lot of money. 80% IE usage and 1 billion internet users mean that it will loose $800 million.
"an indication that the company was returning to the kind of actions it exhibited before the Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit in the mid- and late 1990's"
You realise of coarse the last lawsuit was only holding for 5 years, which means Microsoft has free reign to do whatever it wants since the start of this year
Actually, signed apps can't access restriced APIs either without users permission. The difference is that the user can choose "don't ask this question again" if the app is signed. You are stop on about the story being bollocks though.
One thing people forget about these sort of gagets, is the quality of the firmware is as nearly important as the hardware itself. The potential usefulness of those features (camera, MP3 player, camcorder, etc.) can be really made really bad by poorly implemented firmware. Most phone manufactures have badly designed and buggy GUIs in these applications, simply because it's a huge amount of software to write and they don't have enough resources. That's where Nokia's strategy is better than other phone manufactures. Becuase of their Symbian OS, they can allow 3rd party companies to develop specialist applications, i.e. Opera could write a browser for the phone, which would be far supieror to anything the Nokia could come up with themselves.
You could do that, or you could force the big carriers to rent their networks to 3rd party companies (virtual networks). The problem in most countries there is very little real competition because the market is controlled by a handful of big operators. In Denmark, where they forced operators to open their networks, the price of calls and SMSs dropped drastically. Also makes it difficult for the operators to engage in non-consumer friendly practices.
You're right, it's only a minor upgrade in terms of processing power. Looks like AMD has run out of ideas how to make the current archeticture more powerful - we won't see much performance increase with 65nm either - and now can only wait while Intel plays catch up.
There already is an attempt to get PlayForSure protocol on Linux. It's called libMTP. This stems from Creative's decision to make all their new players only work with PlayForSure and hence preventing any OS without WMP 9 from working with their players.
Anyone see the connection between this artical and the one after?
I don't know about embedded systems, but java has been a huge success on mobile phones, mainly due to the fact that it's so prevalent. Most mid and high end phones have some sort of hardware acceleration. ARM have jazelle and Texus Instruments have most of the mobile phone functionality implemented on one chip and the KVM is built-in with 2d graphics acceleration. I know that J2ME could have been designed better (mainly due to the fact that it's a committee), but it's not so bad that you can work around the problems.
Solaris was a great film, but I wouldn't classify it as science fiction, it was a romance/mystical movie that happened to be in a science fiction setting.
I mean it currently doesn't resume downloads across sessions. In other words when there is only 10 bytes left of your 1GB download and you accendently shutdown... tough titty, you have to start over. In opera the download manager work perfectly.
Well, if the gate layer is the smallest thing in the transistor and it is 11 atoms wide and 1 atom is the smallest measure, then smallest transistor theortically possible is 65nm/11 = 6nm
Slightly offtopic, but you might find it interesting nevertheless. The Motorola RAZR V3X sports a nVidia Goforce 3D 4800 WMP, but for some strange reason it's not used by the KVM. In other words games using the Java 3D API will have the same sucky performance as phones with no hardware acceleration. Some guy even started a petition to get Motorola to change it (http://www.petitiononline.com/v3xpet/petition.htm l)
I agree that there is good reason to switch to AMD, but why in mid 2006? Just when the new Dempsey and Yonah are becoming available (Intel are also bringing out a server version of Yonah for blades). The best time to do the switch would have been 1 year ago.
Nevermind the FX60, there is a far more interesting story: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28889 Anyone like to partake in some pointless speculation weither the new Dell rumour has any substance or not?
Also, Creative are starting to put PlayForSure firmware on their devices. This means that any software that accesses the player has to use the WMP 10 drivers. Of coarse, you can still play MP3s, but you won't be able to access the device from Mac, Linux, nor Windows 2000. Previously Creative used their own drives an any OS could access the devices.
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If google is successful in this campaign it stands to loose a lot of money. 80% IE usage and 1 billion internet users mean that it will loose $800 million.
If you look at the home page the free software foundation europe you will see nearly all doners of are German.
Ironically I managed to crash Firefox by downloading all those links in seperate tabs and then playing one while the others are still loading.
"an indication that the company was returning to the kind of actions it exhibited before the Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit in the mid- and late 1990's"
You realise of coarse the last lawsuit was only holding for 5 years, which means Microsoft has free reign to do whatever it wants since the start of this year
Actually, signed apps can't access restriced APIs either without users permission. The difference is that the user can choose "don't ask this question again" if the app is signed.
You are stop on about the story being bollocks though.
You would win the prize for best sarcastic comment, if such prize existed
What about us Windows 2000 users, how do we get the nag software, or are we being discriminated against again?
One thing people forget about these sort of gagets, is the quality of the firmware is as nearly important as the hardware itself.
The potential usefulness of those features (camera, MP3 player, camcorder, etc.) can be really made really bad by poorly implemented firmware.
Most phone manufactures have badly designed and buggy GUIs in these applications, simply because it's a huge amount of software to write and they don't have enough resources.
That's where Nokia's strategy is better than other phone manufactures. Becuase of their Symbian OS, they can allow 3rd party companies to develop specialist applications, i.e. Opera could write a browser for the phone, which would be far supieror to anything the Nokia could come up with themselves.
You could do that, or you could force the big carriers to rent their networks to 3rd party companies (virtual networks).
The problem in most countries there is very little real competition because the market is controlled by a handful of big operators.
In Denmark, where they forced operators to open their networks, the price of calls and SMSs dropped drastically. Also makes it difficult for the operators to engage in non-consumer friendly practices.
You're right, it's only a minor upgrade in terms of processing power.
Looks like AMD has run out of ideas how to make the current archeticture more powerful - we won't see much performance increase with 65nm either - and now can only wait while Intel plays catch up.
There already is an attempt to get PlayForSure protocol on Linux. It's called libMTP. This stems from Creative's decision to make all their new players only work with PlayForSure and hence preventing any OS without WMP 9 from working with their players.
Anyone see the connection between this artical and the one after?
That's the only reason that the operators allow the phone manufactures to make these phones, because they know the technology doesn't work.
I don't know about embedded systems, but java has been a huge success on mobile phones, mainly due to the fact that it's so prevalent. Most mid and high end phones have some sort of hardware acceleration. ARM have jazelle and Texus Instruments have most of the mobile phone functionality implemented on one chip and the KVM is built-in with 2d graphics acceleration.
I know that J2ME could have been designed better (mainly due to the fact that it's a committee), but it's not so bad that you can work around the problems.
Solaris was a great film, but I wouldn't classify it as science fiction, it was a romance/mystical movie that happened to be in a science fiction setting.
Great news. If they could just delay it for umm 50 more years I can avoid having to use it.
I mean it currently doesn't resume downloads across sessions. In other words when there is only 10 bytes left of your 1GB download and you accendently shutdown ... tough titty, you have to start over. In opera the download manager work perfectly.
Well, if the gate layer is the smallest thing in the transistor and it is 11 atoms wide and 1 atom is the smallest measure, then smallest transistor theortically possible is 65nm/11 = 6nm
You know you have a choice. If you just want a phone to talk then buy a low end model (that's what they're for) and you save yourself a lot of money.
Slightly offtopic, but you might find it interesting nevertheless.m l)
The Motorola RAZR V3X sports a nVidia Goforce 3D 4800 WMP, but for some strange reason it's not used by the KVM. In other words games using the Java 3D API will have the same sucky performance as phones with no hardware acceleration. Some guy even started a petition to get Motorola to change it (http://www.petitiononline.com/v3xpet/petition.ht
In the artical he says 65nm only helps in cost and capacity.
Funny how there is a correlation between the wealtier countries and firefox use
They have been analysing the genesis wafers for more than a year now and there is still no scientific results.
I agree that there is good reason to switch to AMD, but why in mid 2006? Just when the new Dempsey and Yonah are becoming available (Intel are also bringing out a server version of Yonah for blades).
The best time to do the switch would have been 1 year ago.
Nevermind the FX60, there is a far more interesting story:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28889
Anyone like to partake in some pointless speculation weither the new Dell rumour has any substance or not?
Also, Creative are starting to put PlayForSure firmware on their devices. This means that any software that accesses the player has to use the WMP 10 drivers. Of coarse, you can still play MP3s, but you won't be able to access the device from Mac, Linux, nor Windows 2000.
Previously Creative used their own drives an any OS could access the devices.