It'd also be useless if the USSR reformed and launched a sneak attack in league with the martians, which is an equally relevant scenario in the current geopolitical climate and the scenarios for which this system is intended.
In fact the "eFUSE" feature is present in a staggeringly common component in many different Android (and other...) devices, so the presence of an eFUSE is not in any way demonstrative of the functionality claimed.
A locked-down bootloader is not uncommon on Android devices these days. That the Droid X bootloader is locked by no means demonstrates the ridiculous measures that the article claims Motorola have implimented.
I would like to think that the engineers investigating the issue would have that same obvious insight. The guy on the left here certainly looks sick enough of dealing with this crap to look into that sort of detail.
The actual phrasing is more like "we didn't block them, they're being douchebags, but we categorically didn't block them". Seems pretty definitive to me.
I'm inclined to side with Skype given that Fring were already withdrawing Skype support from arbitrarily-chosen users as a way of balancing their load. They took away - without warning or explaination - my ability to use Skype over the weekend. It simply isn't a service my account is permitted to use in the Fring application. This was before they started claiming they'd been blocked.
On the basis of a quick Google, it's something like 25% of the US smartphone market (which is still dominated by Blackberry). Maybe 15% of global smartphone OS share (which is mostly Symbian). Maybe 2% of the global cellphone market (which is mostly Nokia and Samsung).
I would argue that a developer is more likely to "get" your App needs from a bodged prototype created on this platform, than the usual arm-waving and vague specifications.
Furthermore, while it's wonderful to imagine the millions of hobby programmers jumping at the chance to develop my concept for a program that automatically locates waffle houses by GPS and texts my friends if I enter them, I think it's a fantasy. The mismatch between my enthusiasm for the project and the sheer tedium that would lie in coding it could only be realigned with hard cash I don't have. Much as I learned Perl to automate some particularly tedious job submission and monitoring, I'll be giving this a shot for Wafflefinder.
Right, so it'll make it easier for people to pick up on the fact that they're in a weak area and that holding their phone might make the signal worse. So they can "manage" it by trying to find a better area.
However just to emphasise, it's clear that this "holding attentuation" is stronger than with the 3GS, and even stronger than the Nexus One. That's a hardware issue that won't go away.
This isn't a fix for the attenuation caused by touching part of the antenna, it's a fix for a longstanding software issue that makes it harder to manage. The issue's still there, and if you're seeing lower signal or slower speeds on your iPhone 4 than your previous iPhone, the patch won't fix that.
The game was developed by DMA Design (now Rockstar North), but the copyright went to Psygnosis as the publisher, and Psygnosis became SCE Liverpool. So ultimately Sony does hold the copyright, yes.
Tax cuts are used to encourage investment in a given field, to encourage a small-but-profitable industry to become larger. Industry growth create jobs which creates spending etc. etc., and when the taxes are switched back on, you now have more games companies paying taxes to the government. That "pays back" the money they lost by cutting taxes. It's only something you'd use in a nascent area, you wouldn't use it on an industry (North Sea oil exploration, say) that's as big as it's going to get for obvious reasons.
The face camera isn't high-res. I think it's something like 640x480, standard sort of webcam view. So, uh, I guess I'm saying you shouldn't blame the phone here, you'd look like that on regular old video.
(I tried to come up with a more polite way of putting that. Sorry!)
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It'd also be useless if the USSR reformed and launched a sneak attack in league with the martians, which is an equally relevant scenario in the current geopolitical climate and the scenarios for which this system is intended.
You can't make untinted polarized glasses: blocking most of the polarised light from passing through necessarily makes them dark.
Gotcha, I was parsing more structure than you'd actually included.
"The Xbox 360 has their achievement system too"? I think they were the first out of all the examples you list.
In fact the "eFUSE" feature is present in a staggeringly common component in many different Android (and other...) devices, so the presence of an eFUSE is not in any way demonstrative of the functionality claimed.
Android users can buy a different, more open Android device. You've not even got that option on iOS.
A locked-down bootloader is not uncommon on Android devices these days. That the Droid X bootloader is locked by no means demonstrates the ridiculous measures that the article claims Motorola have implimented.
I'm all for terseness, but this is ridiculous.
I would like to think that the engineers investigating the issue would have that same obvious insight. The guy on the left here certainly looks sick enough of dealing with this crap to look into that sort of detail.
Spoken like a true Canadian.
The actual phrasing is more like "we didn't block them, they're being douchebags, but we categorically didn't block them". Seems pretty definitive to me.
I'm inclined to side with Skype given that Fring were already withdrawing Skype support from arbitrarily-chosen users as a way of balancing their load. They took away - without warning or explaination - my ability to use Skype over the weekend. It simply isn't a service my account is permitted to use in the Fring application. This was before they started claiming they'd been blocked.
640 kills should be enough for anybody.
I am going to hell now.
Uh, it's South Korea that's deploying the robots. You think North Korea has the engineering capability to pull something like that off?
On the basis of a quick Google, it's something like 25% of the US smartphone market (which is still dominated by Blackberry). Maybe 15% of global smartphone OS share (which is mostly Symbian). Maybe 2% of the global cellphone market (which is mostly Nokia and Samsung).
I would argue that a developer is more likely to "get" your App needs from a bodged prototype created on this platform, than the usual arm-waving and vague specifications.
Furthermore, while it's wonderful to imagine the millions of hobby programmers jumping at the chance to develop my concept for a program that automatically locates waffle houses by GPS and texts my friends if I enter them, I think it's a fantasy. The mismatch between my enthusiasm for the project and the sheer tedium that would lie in coding it could only be realigned with hard cash I don't have. Much as I learned Perl to automate some particularly tedious job submission and monitoring, I'll be giving this a shot for Wafflefinder.
Right, so it'll make it easier for people to pick up on the fact that they're in a weak area and that holding their phone might make the signal worse. So they can "manage" it by trying to find a better area.
However just to emphasise, it's clear that this "holding attentuation" is stronger than with the 3GS, and even stronger than the Nexus One. That's a hardware issue that won't go away.
This isn't a fix for the attenuation caused by touching part of the antenna, it's a fix for a longstanding software issue that makes it harder to manage. The issue's still there, and if you're seeing lower signal or slower speeds on your iPhone 4 than your previous iPhone, the patch won't fix that.
I assume they're referring to docks and other accessories, and not the basic USB cable.
They're only shielded from further lawsuits by the members of the class, aren't they?
Someone submitting a slashdot story with a link to their own duplicate of the original, so as to boost their hits? Never!
Yeah, the deep pockets of the American taxpayer. You have any idea what a state-sanctioned monopoly is worth to a company like that?
The game was developed by DMA Design (now Rockstar North), but the copyright went to Psygnosis as the publisher, and Psygnosis became SCE Liverpool. So ultimately Sony does hold the copyright, yes.
Tax cuts are used to encourage investment in a given field, to encourage a small-but-profitable industry to become larger. Industry growth create jobs which creates spending etc. etc., and when the taxes are switched back on, you now have more games companies paying taxes to the government. That "pays back" the money they lost by cutting taxes. It's only something you'd use in a nascent area, you wouldn't use it on an industry (North Sea oil exploration, say) that's as big as it's going to get for obvious reasons.
The face camera isn't high-res. I think it's something like 640x480, standard sort of webcam view. So, uh, I guess I'm saying you shouldn't blame the phone here, you'd look like that on regular old video.
(I tried to come up with a more polite way of putting that. Sorry!)