Posts by Jerome 0

Better or faster?

"in pairing cell tower and WiFi data in tandem with GPS, it can better pinpoint your location – and possibly pinpoint it faster"

I've never heard it claimed that cell tower & WiFi data can pinpoint your location any better than GPS. On the other hand, it certainly seems able to do it considerably faster.

Shhhhhh!

Have you forgotten the first rule of 5GHz club?

Google Scribe

Why bother hiring a ghost-writer, when his very own company has created Google Scribe, with its glorious auto-suggest feature? This is what it suggested for the opening paragraph of the book: -

Empire of the Mind: the Dawn of the Techno-Political Age. There are no comments for this question. And then there is another way to get them to work in the background of the Hulu team of experts to form the new Joomla Security Strike Team. The following content has been identified by the YouTube community as being potentially offensive or inappropriate messages to two male students. I have a question about this product's reviews of local restaurants and bars. It is a very good job. But the most important thing is to be used in the present study.

I'll be very surprised if Jared Cohen can put together a more gripping opening to Mr. Schmidt's forthcoming tome.

Getting it right

"However, without the distraction of ringtones and txt msgs, they have space to focus on getting the rest right and your phone doesn't suffer from a low battery life."

If manufacturers put a decent sized battery in their phones (say, about the size of a standalone MP3 player) then my newly chunkier phone would still be far easier to carry around than two separate devices. Then I'd be able to ring people *and* listen to music without fear of my battery running out.

They could even use the extra thickness in the case to fit in a decent compact camera lens. Genius or what? Honestly, convergence of these devices is the way forward. They share so many components in common (processor, screen, storage...) that I'd feel stupid carrying around more than one device.

If only these companies would do their job and create one device that did everything *well*. It's almost like they *want* us to carry on buying lots of expensive gadgets...

Do something exciting?

They don't need to do something exciting. They just need to make the machines small and cheap, like they're supposed to be, instead of costing as much as a laptop.

The fact that these companies never integrate a 3G modem (at least as an option) is also completely unfathomable to me. These are machines that are made to be used on the move - living without internet access, or having a huge great dongle poking out of the side are not great options.

How very overt of them

"overtly fictitious"?

A lie, then.

Likely to succeed

I can see Facebook succeeding in this. While Google is undeniably a more useful tool than Facebook, I can do everything I need to do at Google by typing a search term into my browser's toolbar and hitting enter. By contrast, I need to actually visit Facebook to use the service.

Personally my home page is going to stay "about:blank" for the foreseeable future, but I wouldn't be surprised if swathes of people accept Facebook's "kind" invitation to switch home page.

Terror?

Now the terrorists have us so frightened that we're persecuting our citizens? Fining someone over £3000, criminalising them and firing them (twice) is considered a proportionate response for making a joke to one's friends?

Personally, I'm far more scared of the likes of Ms. Davies than I am of any terrorist.

Terror?

"'The Beast of Redmond' still inspires terror"

No terror these days - just revulsion.

Poor operators

"Operators are frustrated by the delays, knowing that consumers eager to get their hands on a new toy can be easily distracted by equally shiny competitors"

Which would be a problem for the operators why, exactly? I would have thought that anyone walking out of the shop with a new handset was a win. Only those consumers who are waiting specifically for a Windows Phone 7 handset would be causing any hand-wringing, and I imagine they are few and far between.

"Microsoft has promised that operator billing for applications is a possibility"

Promising that something is a possibility is like insinuating that there's a chance something might definitely happen.

Back up to the cloud? Why?

Okay, so the problems with moving my files to the cloud are: -

1) Transfer speed - bandwidth is the limiting factor.

2) Privacy - I have to give a third party access to my data.

3) Cost - it's a recurring expense instead of a one-off purchase.

But that's okay - it's worth putting up with those disadvantages, because I get to stream files from the cloud to my phone, my tablet device, my work PC, my friend's T.V... I get access to my stuff everywhere I go. Great!

So why would I put up with all the aforementioned problems just to back up my data to the cloud? Aren't I getting none of the advantages but all of the problems?

Best of both worlds

Ah, finally I can have the best of both worlds, giving Google and Microsoft the chance to violate my privacy simultaneously.

Duplication

Assuming some duplication? Does that mean we're assuming 5,000 Times readers are dumb enough to pay twice for the same thing? Er, actually that seems fair enough.

Swype

I can highly recommend Swype for text input on a Desire, if you can get yourself on the beta. It speeded things up no end for me.

I'm sure the iPad is great for these type of tasks, but (for me at least) once you're up to nearly the size, weight and price of a netbook, it doesn't offer any real advantages. If I have a device that won't fit in my pocket anyway, I'd much rather it had a keyboard on it.

pushed out to Samsung's PC software?

What does "pushed out to Samsung's PC software" mean? Does the Galaxy S not update over the air? Does it have to be connected to a PC to install the upgrade?