It seems to me the UK needs a middle ground between Labour and Tories.
Labour build up huge bureaucratic systems, lots of money gets spending building quangos, big databases, requirements for statistics and all the management teams needed to produce the numbers. They over complicate things.
Tories scrap it all and cut everything back to the bone.
Labour hire, Tories fire.
Can't we have a more rational government with an approach that is somewhere in the middle?
Just like Windows Mobile was an OS that OEMs could shove on their phone, Android is designed that way.
Everyone else limits their software to their phones. I'm not sure what the score is with Symbian? but the fact that OEMs aren't using it suggests it's not licence free.
If Microsoft had released a modern replacement for WinMo about three years ago then Android wouldn't have been as successful. Exchange and office support on a decent Windows touch screen based OS would be very popular.
Well there's no such things as magic, just sleight of hand or prestidigitation which means quick fingers. I guess it's an apt parallel with a multitouch system?
Getting full control gives the user the option to break the hardware. I'm pretty sure there are ways to overclock the CPU. The ARM chips have software controlled clock generators.
So if you overclock the CPU and fry the board why should Apple replace it under warranty?
Are they legalising circumvention of DRM and hardware protection?
Is it possible to legally fit a mod chip into a games console now?
Lets face it, many people jailbreak the device to run pirate software.
Re:IBM PCs compared extremely poorly with Amigas
on
The Amiga Turns 25
·
· Score: 1
Are you sure? Maybe if you had a big box Amiga with 68060 and a Zorro graphics card.
The Amiga was built for sprites and scrolling, it just wasn't up to the job of 3D.
Re:IBM PCs compared extremely poorly with Amigas
on
The Amiga Turns 25
·
· Score: 1
Not to mention jumpers for configuring expansion cards?!? Amiga was plug and play all the way. The zorro bus even went from 16-bit to 32-bits without needing a new slot format, they just multiplexed it by having an addressing cycle and a data cycle.
The bus was also asynchronous, it wasn't clocked, although the custom chips on the motherboard were clocked at about 25Mhz.
PC architecture has always been a case of "that is just about good enough" and it still continues today with USB3 (requires CPU intervention) and the X86 CPU with its 64-Bit mods.
The AGA chipset in the A1200 and A4000 was a stop gap chipset, a quick mod of the ECS chipset. It was supposed to plug the gap between the ECS and AAA chipsets.
So both the A1200 and A4000 were just stop gap machines, but sadly nothing ever was released after then.
People may go on about the A1200 not being much faster than the A500, but have a look at your history books. PCs were faster in specs but they were using Windows 3.1 still back then. Slow, 16-bit code and cooperative multitasking. DOS was still used for games!
It's your phone and you can do what you like with it, so the Android owners keep telling you. It's also the networks phone it seems and if their money making plans conflict with your phone's capabilities then the OEM will comply and bugger it up for you.
It's been a problem for years, only Apple seem to say 'no' to such things.
Bricked means the software in programmable ROM is no longer operational. The only way to recover is having access to factory hardware rigs or other special tools that are used to program the devices at the factory.
If you can't plug in a standard USB cable and run the official upgrade process then the device is bricked.
Well most phones put the antenna at the bottom of the phone, this is so your head isn't blocking the signal.
Like Jobs said, you can't change the laws of physics. The antenna has to go at the bottom of the phone, if you put your hand over the antenna then your hand blocks the signal. It does it on my iPhone 3G, although you do have to hold it insanely tight.
The US lagged massively behind the rest of the world in terms of cell phones, so you might want to read up about smartphones in Europe and Asia, they've been around longer than you think.
The 9110i was an AMD 486 running DOS with a GEOS front end, quite a cool thing.
Rather than one tablet design which people liked, the courier project, there will be shed loads of really amateur, plastic, butt ugly tablets from OEMs running an OS that is two years behind Apple and has a fraction of the software.
Microsoft could have nailed the tablet market with the dual screen tablet design. But nope, they killed it and they lost their most productive consumer electronics whizz kid J Allard.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh and Windows skills are in shortage?
I'd sooner be proficient in a Unix based OS and know some really sought after skills than simply know only Windows.
Owning a Mac or using a Linux machine means you get exposure to Windows and OSX/Linux since Windows boxes are unavoidable.
It seems to me the UK needs a middle ground between Labour and Tories.
Labour build up huge bureaucratic systems, lots of money gets spending building quangos, big databases, requirements for statistics and all the management teams needed to produce the numbers. They over complicate things.
Tories scrap it all and cut everything back to the bone.
Labour hire, Tories fire.
Can't we have a more rational government with an approach that is somewhere in the middle?
Android has been in development for years. Google bought it in 2005!
Just like Windows Mobile was an OS that OEMs could shove on their phone, Android is designed that way.
Everyone else limits their software to their phones. I'm not sure what the score is with Symbian? but the fact that OEMs aren't using it suggests it's not licence free.
If Microsoft had released a modern replacement for WinMo about three years ago then Android wouldn't have been as successful. Exchange and office support on a decent Windows touch screen based OS would be very popular.
Well there's no such things as magic, just sleight of hand or prestidigitation which means quick fingers. I guess it's an apt parallel with a multitouch system?
Getting full control gives the user the option to break the hardware. I'm pretty sure there are ways to overclock the CPU. The ARM chips have software controlled clock generators.
So if you overclock the CPU and fry the board why should Apple replace it under warranty?
Are they legalising circumvention of DRM and hardware protection?
Is it possible to legally fit a mod chip into a games console now?
Lets face it, many people jailbreak the device to run pirate software.
Are you sure? Maybe if you had a big box Amiga with 68060 and a Zorro graphics card.
The Amiga was built for sprites and scrolling, it just wasn't up to the job of 3D.
Not to mention jumpers for configuring expansion cards?!? Amiga was plug and play all the way. The zorro bus even went from 16-bit to 32-bits without needing a new slot format, they just multiplexed it by having an addressing cycle and a data cycle.
The bus was also asynchronous, it wasn't clocked, although the custom chips on the motherboard were clocked at about 25Mhz.
PC architecture has always been a case of "that is just about good enough" and it still continues today with USB3 (requires CPU intervention) and the X86 CPU with its 64-Bit mods.
The AGA chipset in the A1200 and A4000 was a stop gap chipset, a quick mod of the ECS chipset. It was supposed to plug the gap between the ECS and AAA chipsets.
So both the A1200 and A4000 were just stop gap machines, but sadly nothing ever was released after then.
People may go on about the A1200 not being much faster than the A500, but have a look at your history books. PCs were faster in specs but they were using Windows 3.1 still back then. Slow, 16-bit code and cooperative multitasking. DOS was still used for games!
Also, a PC would cost you about 4 times as much.
It's convenient to choose 1994-2008 figures, given hybrids have only been around in the past few years.
It's your phone and you can do what you like with it, so the Android owners keep telling you. It's also the networks phone it seems and if their money making plans conflict with your phone's capabilities then the OEM will comply and bugger it up for you.
It's been a problem for years, only Apple seem to say 'no' to such things.
People will go to a store if:
1. They don't know what phone they want.
2. They aren't really sure about a device.
3. They can't find any reviews.
He said 1, less than one. Watch it again.
Wrong. You can jailbreak an iPhone. If you did the same on the Droid X it would refuse to boot. That is the difference!
Bricked means the software in programmable ROM is no longer operational. The only way to recover is having access to factory hardware rigs or other special tools that are used to program the devices at the factory.
If you can't plug in a standard USB cable and run the official upgrade process then the device is bricked.
Well most phones put the antenna at the bottom of the phone, this is so your head isn't blocking the signal.
Like Jobs said, you can't change the laws of physics. The antenna has to go at the bottom of the phone, if you put your hand over the antenna then your hand blocks the signal. It does it on my iPhone 3G, although you do have to hold it insanely tight.
Just build a sewer elsewhere and order in some pizza, the turtles will soon move.
If you buy the phone SIM free. If you buy it on a contract it is subsidised and it's not your phone until you complete the contract.
The Somali pirates. These are the ones extorting millions out of companies and threatening to kill people.
Solaris could very easily fall behind in terms of support for modern hardware and principles.
Solaris is a small advantage over Linux and competitors, but they seem more interested in Linux.
Have you never used a clipboard before then?
Or a notepad? (paper variety)
Having used clamshell phones and the Nintendo DS, I find having to open something pretty annoying.
Indeed, who wants to use a WIMP desktop on a tablet?
Who wants to switch on a tablet and wait 1-2 minutes for it to boot up? (plus the obligatory BIOS screen, yum).
Internal politics completely ruined Microsoft's chances of doing well in the tablet market.
LOL. They started the Smartphone market?
I had a smartphone in 2001, *9* years ago.
Look up the Nokia 9110i communicator.
The US lagged massively behind the rest of the world in terms of cell phones, so you might want to read up about smartphones in Europe and Asia, they've been around longer than you think.
The 9110i was an AMD 486 running DOS with a GEOS front end, quite a cool thing.
Rather than one tablet design which people liked, the courier project, there will be shed loads of really amateur, plastic, butt ugly tablets from OEMs running an OS that is two years behind Apple and has a fraction of the software.
Microsoft could have nailed the tablet market with the dual screen tablet design. But nope, they killed it and they lost their most productive consumer electronics whizz kid J Allard.