umm, an x86 processor doesn't multitask well, period. Where do you make this shit up? That's why we put more than one on a chip. However, you don't see that on atom as it's a single chip. Any processor can support lots of threads, look at android etc where there are easily 50+ threads at once, after all, it's running linux. Where's the multi you ask? Well, I can be listening to music while reading an email and getting a phonecall. I've done that on my g1, and I'm sure it's easier on the droid/iphone.
Your comment is just 100% pure bullshit. Try trolling elsewhere on something you actually know something about.
have you ever looked at XDA or considered you know what you're talking about? Hero is on 2.0 and mytouch runs the same stuff as g1, 100%. There are 2.05 android (flan) mytouch builds with no feature loss.
When will people stop being idiotic and realize that any phone that can run android = any rom of android can be flashed onto it = everyone can run cyanogenmod and not be lacking features. Do you know how often I read this fear of rooting, and fear of the "mystery" of the rooting of the phone? Constantly. Your post is not the first or the last.
you'd not lose bluetooth, the camera, calling, or anything else - it's pure ignorance if people think you'd lose that stuff. There are lots of issues with the first flash of rooting, but after that nothing. The community which supports android is the entire howardforums and xda crew. That insures that the phones have a lot of seriously talented people rooting and adding features.
arm processors have gone through progression of speeds significantly faster than x86. Considering that we are looking at 800mhz arm processors (from 500 2 years ago) which are more efficient in ways than x86, you might want to think about how well these 800mhz processors can multitask a phonecall with instant messaging and other things considering the speed difference. RISC is very very efficient, a huge difference from x86.
AMD is teetering out of bankruptcy, and the settlement + extra intel damage = expect AMD to leapfrog intel the next couple generations of cpu's. ARM, if it gains traction, will kill intel's market.
You can report that to yelp and the users would be banned. Yelp has a system in place for that, and I've dealt with crap like that coming up myself (frequent yelper). You could flag the bad reviews as shills and watch them be taken down in a day, tops.
cost of the droid (build cost) for verizon to obtain them is probably not above $100-150 absolute maximum, and likely under $100. The magic 600$ is a number pulled out their asses to imply value and to rationalize the ETF as they are trying to do. It's a bunch of doublespeak and hopefully people will learn eventually.
I don't see this as a buyout. They already link yelp from the maps reviews, so what is the big deal here?
Even if they buy yelp, why does that mean they'd shut it down? yelp has a seriously huge base, and they do a lot more than reviews. If they were to shut down yelp a replacement would come quick, as it's used for an equivalent to meetup too.
Let's put it this way: it's not at all likely that you're taking a loss on coffee sales exclusively from not being able to sit down.
I do understand how people resent freeloaders, but if you refuse wifi for all then all you're doing is gutting your own customer friendly services. It's like having x feature in a store, and complaining when some people use the feature without being a paying customer. If you try to make it worse, then you're actually the bad guy in the mix.
starbucks isn't charging for the WIFI. Some companies, however, are charging for the access. Panera does this - but I don't think they label it free wifi either.
So yeah, you have wifi, free and open, but it's still requiring a purchase at panera to just use the damn internet (which is horribly slow at their locations anyway).
please. there is no reason other than licensing restrictions that are stopping netflix from releasing their movies online. To say that they weren't willing to make the leap without DRM is a false statement. DRm doesn't enable any form of business, it only limits what customers can do.
as someone said below, this might have been an option when IE mattered exclusively, but as it is currently, it matters less what IE does. it's just simply like choosing one less feature to support. Or a car that only supports gas only when every other car supports multiple types(car analogy).
This would be like a browser refusing to support HTML4. Or do you not remember the reasons for IE to make IE7/8?
nobody is interested. It isn't compatible with major apps that have been forced to use silverlight (as those use the latest version - not this moonlight 2.0), so from a user side there's 0 reason to use the stuff. Additionally, there's still a lack of other licensing and silverlight is a bunch of shit in general, and thankfully when HTML5 adoption comes around all of this garbage will be gone.
the article seems to be a bit of a strike on google. I am guessing a lot was taken out of context, akin to that whole google privacy debacle which was equally taken out of context.
I'm not saying google is perfect, they do a lot of good things and plenty of bad, but I also have skepticism here.
I think you're looking at this a bit backwards here, since no part of this involves people respecting MS's rights, but more MS not respecting other individual's rights (acknowledgment of prior knowledge is far from it being an accident, whether it was through a subcontractor as they state or not).
considering that I don't even see this washington post cite - I'm extremely skeptical that it went up even 10% in some way that would imply that this can be reliably tracked across all products that have extended warranties. I: would find such tracking to be a: impossible and b: grossly inaccurate. Some products have extended warranties included automatically and others have it as an option.
Really, a cite from within an industry says that it's own industry is running strong? Is this supposed to be a surprise?
This is like when MS says that sales are strong, or MPAA/RIAA says that the industry is dying, and fact is directly the opposite. There is no way to verify accurately.
People who buy extended warranties, etc are suckers and the companies are simply banking on that (and have an industry of making bank on said suckers). Of course this depends on the product as to whether it's more or less likely to fail.
when a company focuses on the incentive of profit before quality you end up with situations like the parent, where you have 10 million apps but not even 5% of that are actually original apps that have different features from eachother.
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umm, an x86 processor doesn't multitask well, period. Where do you make this shit up? That's why we put more than one on a chip. However, you don't see that on atom as it's a single chip. Any processor can support lots of threads, look at android etc where there are easily 50+ threads at once, after all, it's running linux. Where's the multi you ask? Well, I can be listening to music while reading an email and getting a phonecall. I've done that on my g1, and I'm sure it's easier on the droid/iphone.
Your comment is just 100% pure bullshit. Try trolling elsewhere on something you actually know something about.
you missed one group: users can fight it (bitching from every group in the company).
It's all about the compelling argument. whoever makes it, wins. that's standard business practice anyway.
have you ever looked at XDA or considered you know what you're talking about? Hero is on 2.0 and mytouch runs the same stuff as g1, 100%. There are 2.05 android (flan) mytouch builds with no feature loss.
When will people stop being idiotic and realize that any phone that can run android = any rom of android can be flashed onto it = everyone can run cyanogenmod and not be lacking features. Do you know how often I read this fear of rooting, and fear of the "mystery" of the rooting of the phone? Constantly. Your post is not the first or the last.
you'd not lose bluetooth, the camera, calling, or anything else - it's pure ignorance if people think you'd lose that stuff. There are lots of issues with the first flash of rooting, but after that nothing. The community which supports android is the entire howardforums and xda crew. That insures that the phones have a lot of seriously talented people rooting and adding features.
arm processors have gone through progression of speeds significantly faster than x86. Considering that we are looking at 800mhz arm processors (from 500 2 years ago) which are more efficient in ways than x86, you might want to think about how well these 800mhz processors can multitask a phonecall with instant messaging and other things considering the speed difference. RISC is very very efficient, a huge difference from x86.
AMD is teetering out of bankruptcy, and the settlement + extra intel damage = expect AMD to leapfrog intel the next couple generations of cpu's. ARM, if it gains traction, will kill intel's market.
wha? neither intel nor AMD has stagnated
nobody is stuck on 1.5, after rooting the g1 that enabled every phone to be on 2.0 if they desire, merely some root exploration is required.
basically: handset support from carriers/phone makers is nonexistant, but devs have absolutely taken over.
You can report that to yelp and the users would be banned. Yelp has a system in place for that, and I've dealt with crap like that coming up myself (frequent yelper). You could flag the bad reviews as shills and watch them be taken down in a day, tops.
cost of the droid (build cost) for verizon to obtain them is probably not above $100-150 absolute maximum, and likely under $100. The magic 600$ is a number pulled out their asses to imply value and to rationalize the ETF as they are trying to do. It's a bunch of doublespeak and hopefully people will learn eventually.
also, I understand you apparently have a love/hate with yelp per your last many comments, but what's the issue you have with them? I don't get it.
I don't see this as a buyout. They already link yelp from the maps reviews, so what is the big deal here?
Even if they buy yelp, why does that mean they'd shut it down? yelp has a seriously huge base, and they do a lot more than reviews. If they were to shut down yelp a replacement would come quick, as it's used for an equivalent to meetup too.
no, there is an yelp UK as well. I still don't get why the EU would care, though.
yelp is probably the best site I've found for reviews - no reviewed location has flawless reviews and they spot shills/remove them quite fast.
You are correct that everyone's tastes differ, but that isn't anything for or against the site.
obviously a smart one, or one that wants to be standards compliant.
Let's put it this way: it's not at all likely that you're taking a loss on coffee sales exclusively from not being able to sit down.
I do understand how people resent freeloaders, but if you refuse wifi for all then all you're doing is gutting your own customer friendly services. It's like having x feature in a store, and complaining when some people use the feature without being a paying customer. If you try to make it worse, then you're actually the bad guy in the mix.
starbucks isn't charging for the WIFI. Some companies, however, are charging for the access. Panera does this - but I don't think they label it free wifi either.
So yeah, you have wifi, free and open, but it's still requiring a purchase at panera to just use the damn internet (which is horribly slow at their locations anyway).
some engineering firms even pay to help you take and pass the PE exam if you have your bachelors, too.
please. there is no reason other than licensing restrictions that are stopping netflix from releasing their movies online. To say that they weren't willing to make the leap without DRM is a false statement. DRm doesn't enable any form of business, it only limits what customers can do.
as someone said below, this might have been an option when IE mattered exclusively, but as it is currently, it matters less what IE does. it's just simply like choosing one less feature to support. Or a car that only supports gas only when every other car supports multiple types(car analogy).
This would be like a browser refusing to support HTML4. Or do you not remember the reasons for IE to make IE7/8?
nobody is interested. It isn't compatible with major apps that have been forced to use silverlight (as those use the latest version - not this moonlight 2.0), so from a user side there's 0 reason to use the stuff. Additionally, there's still a lack of other licensing and silverlight is a bunch of shit in general, and thankfully when HTML5 adoption comes around all of this garbage will be gone.
the article seems to be a bit of a strike on google. I am guessing a lot was taken out of context, akin to that whole google privacy debacle which was equally taken out of context.
I'm not saying google is perfect, they do a lot of good things and plenty of bad, but I also have skepticism here.
I think you're looking at this a bit backwards here, since no part of this involves people respecting MS's rights, but more MS not respecting other individual's rights (acknowledgment of prior knowledge is far from it being an accident, whether it was through a subcontractor as they state or not).
considering that I don't even see this washington post cite - I'm extremely skeptical that it went up even 10% in some way that would imply that this can be reliably tracked across all products that have extended warranties. I: would find such tracking to be a: impossible and b: grossly inaccurate. Some products have extended warranties included automatically and others have it as an option.
Really, a cite from within an industry says that it's own industry is running strong? Is this supposed to be a surprise?
This is like when MS says that sales are strong, or MPAA/RIAA says that the industry is dying, and fact is directly the opposite. There is no way to verify accurately.
People who buy extended warranties, etc are suckers and the companies are simply banking on that (and have an industry of making bank on said suckers). Of course this depends on the product as to whether it's more or less likely to fail.
asking, not implying: is this supposed to be under GPLv3?
when a company focuses on the incentive of profit before quality you end up with situations like the parent, where you have 10 million apps but not even 5% of that are actually original apps that have different features from eachother.