I have a Galaxy S and it takes me less 15 seconds (most of the time less than 10 seconds) to have my GPS position after turning it on. Go to "Settings", "Location and security" and leave "Use wireless networks" to On (like it is with an iPhone). W
Except that 'GPS position' is not exact. (and sometimes it is way off, but my wireless carrier is to blame then)
Yes, it's fast, but it's not as precise as GPS. You can use it for 4sq, but forget it for navigation.
Well, I wanted to upgrade to an official release. But apparently I won't be able to.
Of course I can go down the path of Odin, Cyanogen, etc but this is a CONSUMER APPLIANCE. It's supposed to be easy!
"why would I want to use the default ROM" same as above. Why should I have to 'fix' the products I buy?! What if there's a regression.
I like tinkering, I tried several things to make Kies run on Virtualbox under linux (but apparently that's not the issue)
"Oh but Apple is more closed than Android" yes, but they manage the updates. I have guaranteed official upgrades for a couple of versions. And I can always JB if I want.
My current phone is a Samsung My next phone is going to be an iPhone
Do you know why? Because
1 - Your POS sw called Kies is only avaiable for Windows 2 - Your POS sw called Kies is worse than iTunes 3 - You manage to screw up updates of a FREE, READY TO USE sw 4 - Cyanogen people kick your ass FOR FREE 5 - You screwed up the baseband on the phone, it doesn't work correctly 6 - Google, fix the GPS sw, it takes ages to sync
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No, really, I'm expecting something like this. They got away with 65million already. It's a failure of settlement they were allowed to sue again and keep the settlement
Now really I'm rooting for Mark to wipe the floor with them.
I've heard FLAC loses the DC component of the audio wave, as well as is ambiguous with relation to phase (0deg/180deg) Also, they don't work well with higher precision than 24-bit floating point, it loses precision.
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No, but it stands for better slarvardation, higher image snognation and improved kaplast!
I have a Galaxy S and it takes me less 15 seconds (most of the time less than 10 seconds) to have my GPS position after turning it on. Go to "Settings", "Location and security" and leave "Use wireless networks" to On (like it is with an iPhone). W
Except that 'GPS position' is not exact. (and sometimes it is way off, but my wireless carrier is to blame then)
Yes, it's fast, but it's not as precise as GPS. You can use it for 4sq, but forget it for navigation.
I don't use Kies for that! USB storage works, CDC_ACM works (heh, that's a huge advantage over the iPhone)
I only wanted to use Kies for fw upgrade.
Well, I wanted to upgrade to an official release. But apparently I won't be able to.
Of course I can go down the path of Odin, Cyanogen, etc but this is a CONSUMER APPLIANCE. It's supposed to be easy!
"why would I want to use the default ROM" same as above. Why should I have to 'fix' the products I buy?! What if there's a regression.
I like tinkering, I tried several things to make Kies run on Virtualbox under linux (but apparently that's not the issue)
"Oh but Apple is more closed than Android" yes, but they manage the updates. I have guaranteed official upgrades for a couple of versions. And I can always JB if I want.
Not to mention the GPS on the iPhone is not slow
My current phone is a Samsung
My next phone is going to be an iPhone
Do you know why? Because
1 - Your POS sw called Kies is only avaiable for Windows
2 - Your POS sw called Kies is worse than iTunes
3 - You manage to screw up updates of a FREE, READY TO USE sw
4 - Cyanogen people kick your ass FOR FREE
5 - You screwed up the baseband on the phone, it doesn't work correctly
6 - Google, fix the GPS sw, it takes ages to sync
No, Google should have bid a complex number.
So they can split the value of patents between their real and imaginary values.
Also, no bid would be greater (or smaller) than that one.
Yeah, then Google will buy and change the bitcoin system to allow for just that.
Geez, I hadn't read the letter... until now
You're right, the letter is boring, reaching painful levels.
"Ray Ozzie was supposed to be The One, but for some reason that never really worked out "
Gee, I wonder why...
MS hired the most nerd, bland, responsible for the most boring piece of software person ever, AND IT DIDN'T WORK OUT
All that talk Steve Jobs gives, about passion, liberal arts, etc, may seem BS, but it is needed sometimes.
Bill Gates of course is a geek, but he can 'kick ass'.
Ray Ozzie seems the kind of idiot that at first chance would put everybody and all products in a strict 'waterfall process'/'design by committee'.
Yes. something in these lines probably would be a good idea.
More or less similar to what RHEL does.
This is the reason IE continues to stay strong in enterprise.
Yes, corporate users are small-minded, and you're incurring in the same error.
Fix, stabilize, make a 'corporate version'. You don't need many resources for that.
Basically, sell a way for them to use Mozilla.
You're making IT people that root for you look bad. And making the dolts that only know IE look good.
He stalled them and effectively strangled their project from the inside.
Its a fairly obvious scam when you think about it, a kind of 'denial of service'.
Well, he was hired as a consultant, so it kind of makes sense.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
If the WV had been capable of doing Facebook they would have done facebook!
Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational lawyer station
No Love
Emperor Zuckerberg
No, really, I'm expecting something like this. They got away with 65million already.
It's a failure of settlement they were allowed to sue again and keep the settlement
Now really I'm rooting for Mark to wipe the floor with them.
Unless you were joking, in which case apparently I'm not the first person to get it because you were moderated +5 Insightful :-)
The last line says it all =) I didn't expect so many people to miss it.
And of course, you're probably the first to read the wikipedia page on FLAC.
(but I guess the FP loss of precision thing still holds true, since FLAC uses fixed point)
I've heard FLAC loses the DC component of the audio wave, as well as is ambiguous with relation to phase (0deg/180deg)
Also, they don't work well with higher precision than 24-bit floating point, it loses precision.
(trolling the audiophiles - a sport)
Interesting, that's what I thought.
So the most secure thing to do would be having random bytes at the beginning of the AES file
Relevant: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2011-01-07/
0xDEADBEEF would be better
Very brave of you posting as Anonymous Coward
You've obviously never worked with a product from these companies as well.
The idiot is clearly you
'Yo're sentenced to 100 years!'
'Huh?!?'
'In binary'
'Hell yeah!'
I agree
Except he should be covered in tar and feathers.
It's lulzier that way
Yes
If your customer doesn't know how to do proper hardware, it's difficult to do proper software
Been there, done that (but not at a such low level of hw changes)
Still, for example, SPI wouldn't work on PowerQUICC processors (good thing it wasn't essential to the project)
Poulsbo was not done by Intel, IIRC, it's 3rd part (PowerVR) IP (yes, I got bitten by that) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Controller_Hub
Apart from that, they are one of the least worse vendors.
I wasn't talking about Android, but the point stands.
If wireless controllers on Android devices don't depend on proprietary drivers, great! That's a start
But try Hw accelerated video playback, 3D drivers, etc
And some products absolutely depend on those. Think set-top-boxes, multimedia players, etc.