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  1. Re:Ericcson? on Sony In Talks To Buy Ericsson Out of Phone Venture · · Score: 1

    "Main competition is Huawei .."

    Funny thing with that is that I read how they did some project together / whatever (in the end the point is leaked information / helped) with Huawei back than they was just 1:18 as big as Ericsson. Probably felt safe back then, now they are almost as big.

    Stupid.

    Another funny thing is that the first international prestige order Huawei got came from Swedish Banverket (the railway network)... Which was most likely used as a merit and reference in the future by Huawei I suppose.

    Here in Sweden we use a bid process for those things. But I doubt the Chinese government would had picked Ericsson as the company to build their communication gear if they had a company such as Huawei doing the same thing within the country.

  2. Re:heh on Amazon Disables 3G Web Browsing For New 3G Kindle Touch · · Score: 1

    Isn't the 3G connection free? Oh how weird that they want to keep that books / paid content only.

    Also the keyboard issue was obvious as you say but you can buy the books on your computer so you don't need to use the Kindle for purchasing.

    What I personally would like to know is if sending say pdfs to their service and fetch them over wifi is free, I think so.
    Converting by program and sending by cable can be done to?
    No external storage space such as microSD? So very limited space for things you've converted yourself or do they take up very little space?
    Can one store them in Amazons cloud for a fee? Suck regardless.

    Does the Sony readers have microSD?

  3. Re:What's New? on Foxconn's Brazil Plan Stalled · · Score: 1

    Well, if you want a skilled workforce, working infrastructure, no corruption, people who can read and so on you're free to move to the civilized world.

    I've for instance read how people complain on taxes and try to suggest how bad and hard it is to be a company here in Sweden. But then on the other hand you can expect all those things. Lots of things which may not work that well in other countries will work here.

  4. Re:Missed One Advantage on Amazon To Offer Kindle ebooks Via Public Libraries · · Score: 1

    I can but I don't.

    Also since I never read I always end up late and they want to get paid.

    No such issue with electronic books. Either they expire and there's no problem or I could get rid of the DRM and keep them and there wouldn't be any problem and I could read whenever I wanted. Try to do that with the library books! Though just make both available always (much easier with electronic books and you've got an unlimited supply) and there wouldn't be any problem with expiration or DRM in the first place.

  5. Re:Opera? on Amazon's New Silk Redefines Browser Tech · · Score: 0

    Already in 2001 Ian Van Dahl did Oh tell me why? Do we render in the sky? (DJ Sammy remix?)

  6. Re:Wait! on Mozilla Foundation Releases Firefox 7 · · Score: 1

    Or like, you could check out Opera instead if you're so impressed with Firefox 6. Sure it's better than Firefox 3 but it still suck imho.

    (You can disable plugins and java-scripts and have them launch when you want to run them / add that specific site and there's a built in adblocker. That's totally sufficient to me since the only Firefox plugins I use and install in every single profile for all the times Firefox fuck up and I want to start new is Flashblock, adblock plus and no-script in that order.)

    http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/personalize/content/#plugins

  7. Re:A real problem? on Swedish Daycare Tracks Kids With GPS Devices · · Score: 1

    I agree with the other answer:
    "Has it?"

    Afaik things like murder supposedly haven't increased. I don't know about all crimes.

    I don't really see how those kids being immigrants or Malmoe having a high crime rate matters much either. Kidnapped in the later case but how often do kids get kidnapped? Sure there's more immigrants there but do they walk away more than ancestral Swedish kids?

  8. Re:Missed One Advantage on Amazon To Offer Kindle ebooks Via Public Libraries · · Score: 1

    Even if you're poor like a stick $114 is much cheaper than 2000 books made out of dead trees.

  9. Re:The Stock Market is a Joke on Apple Too Big For the Dow Jones Industrial Average · · Score: 1

    No.

    Trading is a losing game for most.

    You shouldn't be competing with whatever you complain on.

    Buy low and hold for multiple years and you will get dividends. Eventually reinvest the dividends in the stocks to gain yields on yields / compound interest/yields.

    If you're in it to try to gain 20% in two months, then yes, you need to be lucky or have inside information. (Being smart probably doesn't help much since what's already known may already be in the price, have a fast internet connection I doubt helps at all (with one exception), keeping cool and trade according to your plan may help if you actually do trade instead of going into panic and doing the totally wrong moves, but that doesn't have much to do with being smart or knowing more than the market.)

  10. Re:they should just create GLang on More Info On Google's Alternative To JavaScript · · Score: 1

    Because they are so likely to have Dart a closed down project?

  11. Re:Apple on German Court Upholds Ban On Samsung Galaxy Tab · · Score: 1

    Sounds better than in the US there the part who got the most money win by walk over-

    Anyhow, every time you buy an iPhone Apple kills an innovation.

  12. Re:clever humans can introduce "black swans" on Algorithmic Trading Rapidly Replacing Need For Humans · · Score: 1

    Wasn't it some Norwegians who found a "bug" or rather feature / how the bot handled the trades and then profited from tricking it to doing bad trades. ... and got jailed? Atleast punished for it.

    If the bot wins there's obviously no issues, and if it fucks up in some cases there's even a way to undo the trades (?)

    If it trades on bad decisions from humans it's ok but if the humans profits from bad decisions made by the algorithms / creator then it's ... "hackers", data breach and oh all the horror?

  13. Re:Filed in July 2005 on Nintendo Faces Patent Suit Over the Wii · · Score: 1

    Why did they wait so long instead of filing the day the Wii was introduced?

    Maybe they were busy playing Zelda?

  14. Re:The price/performance ratio. on AMD Starts Shipping First Bulldozer CPU · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia:
    "Nehalem (pronounced /nÉ(TM)ËheÉlÉ(TM)m/[1]) is the codename for an Intel processor microarchitecture, successor to the Core microarchitecture.[2] Nehalem processors use the 45 nm process. A preview system with two Nehalem processors was shown at Intel Developer Forum in 2007. The first processor released with the Nehalem architecture was the desktop Core i7,[3] which was released in November 2008."

  15. Re:The price/performance ratio. on AMD Starts Shipping First Bulldozer CPU · · Score: 1

    I wasn't an Intel fanboy back when I thought the P4 was worse.

    And I'm not now.

    I just buy what's best for my purpose.

    AFAIK Bulldozer will show up in the desktop to.

    I honestly don't even know what's the major difference of AMD and Intels server vs desktop chips. As long as we speak Opteron and Xeon atleast.

  16. Re:I see two things happening on Tech Company To Build Science Ghost Town In New Mexico · · Score: 1

    35.000 Slashdotters move out of the cellar to get free electricity and faster network connections.

    I would do it. The city is rather empty? Even better!

  17. Re:The price/performance ratio. on AMD Starts Shipping First Bulldozer CPU · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't post this but whatever:

    AMD has usually been ahead of Intel

    Also "usually" = During P4?

    I mean the K6 or whatever it was called vs the MMX both had their merits. P4 was probably worse than Athlon XP/Athlon 64 (64 bit + integrated memory controller = short lead for AMD). Pentium-M was a step in the right direction and since Core 2?

    I would buy AMD if they where competitive because everyone benefit from more players and Intel is huge as is.

    But to claim AMD is usually ahead of Intel? Some people would probably say the same about ATI but Nvidia had the lead with TNT, TNT2, Geforce-Geforce4 and still have it if nothing else for alternative OS support (Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris) and PhysX. Was it really ATIs superiority which took the lead over the FX-series or was it because the FX-series was a bad product which gave them the chance for a short while?

    The future is open for both of them and both can become the leaders. But as of right now I would still pick Intel + Nvidia.

  18. Re:The price/performance ratio. on AMD Starts Shipping First Bulldozer CPU · · Score: 1

    AMD has usually been ahead of Intel, and it still is on most mid-range and low-end chips, but it has started to fall behind at the high end.

    What? AMD got mid-range chips now?

    Now that is trolling. It's funny trolling though :D

  19. Re:Sandy Bridge-E on AMD Starts Shipping First Bulldozer CPU · · Score: 1

    It's a free world, or well, market, or well, neither, but you are free to pick the AMD.

    Just don't claim it's superior because you'll be wrong and make a fool out of yourself. Or well, feel free to claim it's superior and make a fool out of yourself to :)

  20. Re:Sandy Bridge-E on AMD Starts Shipping First Bulldozer CPU · · Score: 2

    If AMD doesn't move quickly, Intel's Sandy Bridge-E will beat Zambezi to market and AMD will lose any edge that it might have.

    Ok, so nothing will be lost?

    (No, I'm not trolling or flaming, personally I would get a new machine to play Starcraft II, AFAIK SCII only seem to use two cores. AMD themselves has claimed their chip (best consumer chip?) would be similar to 2600k in performance. 2600k is quad core vs octo core for the AMD chip. Considering the work load the 2600k will still outperform the AMD by a lot. Also with socket 2011 we talk quad channel memory instead of dual channel and even back in 1156 vs 1366 days and with SCII only using two cores the 1366 chip beat the 1156 chip. So obviously memory bandwidth was an issue even at two cores. So I'm just stating the obvious. Intel is the leader and will remain the leader for the time being.)

  21. Re:Compromised on Lenovo To Offer $200 Budget Tablet · · Score: 1

    Galaxy Note will be 5.3" 1280x800.

    Regarding a phone.

    Also it will be much more powerful (dual core 1.4 GHz, 1 GB ram.)

    http://androidcommunity.com/samsung-galaxy-note-unveiled-5-3-high-res-hd-display-1-4-ghz-dual-core-and-more-20110901/

  22. Re:Do not want on Hands-On Account of Amazon's Upcoming Color Kindle · · Score: 1

    they're just adding an LCD-based device to their portfolio... no harm in that. :)

    You say that now. Just watch ..

  23. Re:Do not want on Hands-On Account of Amazon's Upcoming Color Kindle · · Score: 1

    It's probably a tablet. Not an e-reader. If you want an e-reader only get the regular Kindle.

    No-one gives a shit about what you want or not. If you don't want the device don't buy it.

  24. Re:The Black Death isn't coming back on Scientists Sequence Black Death Bacteria · · Score: 1

    Ok then. So grow peas. I've never heard of peas on antibiotics?

    Though maybe there's an opening for Monsanto! ;D

  25. Re:Sometimes it pays to invest on One Final Manufacturing Run of Touchpads · · Score: 1

    I don't believe HP or any of these other tablet makes make enough from their App stores to keep them afloat.

    Amazon?