Re: Fools!

There is a similar looking synchrotron near the Rutherford Labs near Didcot, Ox.

Perhaps instant travel will be available between Cupertino, Cheltenham and Didcot.

If some fraudster goes to a pensioners door and tells her he can fix her roof for £200, then spends an hour sitting on her roof eating his lunch. After his lunch, he takes the cash and leaves.

It is still wrong to take money off a fool!

Re: Yes, DRAM

DRAM usually came as 8 chips (4k x 1, 16k x 1, 64k x 1) had row / column address time multiplexing, needed its tiny capacitors refreshing and 3 different power rails (+5, +12, -5). That is a lot of extra cost: four times as many holes drilled in the PCB for address lines (over one chip SRAM), extra chips for address multiplexing/refresh, complicated power-supply.

SRAM often came in one chip (1k x 8, 2k x 8), one power supply, static.

Re: Ability to turn Start Screen OFF?

Don't the pre-releases run fast, but slow down when some of the missing features and bugs are fixed?

Re: RE: Hasn't the telephone system been a push notification system since... 1876?

For your push to work you would need a constant data connection like the bit of wire coming out of the POTS. Do people with ordinary telephones have to keep contacting the exchange to see if someone is ringing them? I think not.

The old fashioned phone sits there, and a +/- 50V signal from the exchange makes the phones bell ring, the user picks up the phone activating the current loop.

Wot?

With reference to the linked article.

Although I agree the iPhone is a bit boring now and has too restrictive walled garden, how is the Windows Phone different? Don't you need Zune installed on your Windows PC instead of iTunes?

These SmartPhones are similar performance to a Netbook: ~1GHz, 1GB RAM, 16GB SSD/flash, 800x480 screen, 3.9" touch pad... Why would you ever need to connect to a PC?

There does not currently seem to be any SmartPhones suitable for the discerning technical user, readily available. The European phone OS (Symbian, etc.) has been out marketed by the Yanks, unless you consider Linux a Finnish OS.

Re: Technology allowance...?

Surely the cloud based client is going to be Java or JavaScript based with web-browser fall back. The help-desk ticket system is going to be a bowser-client database like email or a forum, with chat to talk to the customer, that could be used from an internet cafe.

The company loses all that compliance testing and the IT department's hardware department shrinks, as hardware becomes the employee's responsibility. The employer might point the employees at a company to spend their allowance with to rent kit. Company accountants love leasing: small fixed cost, no (non cash) capital/assets to manage, make the employee into a leasing company.

There will be special needs people: program developers, graphic designers, etc.; but often they have better knowledge than the IT department who want one size fits all.

@amanfromearth

Since many compilers convert the source code, say for a for-loop, into machine code in only a few ways, one can often recognize the source idiom from the disassembly. Possibly at a higher level, one could write a program to recognize strings of machine code that correspond to the source code keywords/control structures.

Any optimization, that say removes code out of a loop*, would still leave the loop to be recognized.

* an empty for-loop can be replaced with code to set the loop variable to its final value

The iPhone is only easy to use if you have been shown how to use it.

I find my brother's iPhone frustrating to use: I don't know the commands/gestures, the touch screen does not respond to my finger nail or Biro cap, how would you know about voice command without seeing the advert.

What?

Not able to use ready available technology developed outside North America?

The badly named developing world seems to manage.

Probably yes

but you become responsible if it messes with your phone or data

Flattened doesn't mean stopped or slowed

from

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/apr/21/apple-financial-results-analysis

the graph shows sales flattened, they may be still going up, but the rate of increase has slowed, as is typical - a population curve, the iPhone market is saturating - it becomes increasingly difficult to find new buyers. Almost everyone who wants and can afford an iPhone, probably has one.

What conclusions you draw from this unreliable, short-term data is debatable.

Flight case

tough outer shell, soft sponge inside.

Listen to cricket

or other midweek event, perhaps.

Nokia 1.2M units per day in 1Q10

from http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1372013

smart-phones per day

267k Symbian

117k RIM

93k iPhone OS

267,000 Symbian/smart-phones per day

267,000 Symbian/smart-phones per day

1,200,000 Nokia phones per day

S40 is not on Symbian, being J2ME based app platform (so like Android? without the coffee cup logo)

I agree

and I said as much six months ago or so.

I was trying to point out to our Windows and Mac OS using cousins that what with Linux you get a range of choices from fast-simple to rich-slow(er). The fact the window decoration doesn't match, doesn't stop you logging in with the matching desktop - all your files are still there, not like dual boot extra hoop to jump through situation.

I run KDE 4.5 on a netbook and it is only about 20 seconds slower to login than a lighter desktop - I like the potential of the Plasma widget 'app store' , although I'm only running a weather and a calendar widget in addition to the standard ones.

USA survey non-World view

If it is not made in North America it doesn't count as a smart-phone.

I'm with you

Re: Good luck with that

I cannot find my crystal ball, but...

One idea is you write your application in a sort of high level (3D iconic) script, and the parallel processing works out the best way to make it parallel.

An event driven web-page (RIA) is almost parallel: some animated objects are running by themselves (providing a human followable transition between states), while the user manipulates the space, while an calendar event fires, while your mobile device finds a better connection to the internet, while your location is used to find helpers or friends and alert you of their presence, ...

I'm sure many web browser users read one tab while another is loading.

The trick is simple processes, complex data space.

Re: Absolutely NOT token ring.

Yes, not Token Ring, but more like packet switching like used in Cambridge Ring and cell phones

Re: 3D Camera

It has '3D' microphones, but only one image sensor. It determines depth by the size of the ball on the Move controller.

In reply to earlier post...

I have a wireless mouse and keyboard connected to my PS3, but I don't think many games support it.

Re: First Class Java Alternatives

I think the First Class refers to function objects like JavaScript (and PostScript) have. Functions that can passed about like other variables and created at run-time.

May be the idea is to compile JavaScript into Java, or to keep up with C#.