Posts by alandail

Quote: Originally Posted by Booga This is a good point if worded a little inflammatorily... XP and Vista both have 64 bit editions, and the percentage of users buying the 64-bit editions has made huge jumps in the last few months. Some...

Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. H There's going to be 61.6 million iPhone users by this time next year? Yeah, right. This seems reasonable enough. However, so far we've got early-adopters, trailblazers buying the iPhone. Once the...

Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM So maybe using the mouse makes me so bored out of my skull that using the high level cognitive engagement is what prevents me from going postal. The problem is that high level cognitive engagement...

Quote: Originally Posted by jocknerd I don't think Google cares about iPod integration. Google is doing what they think is best for the next era of computing. We already saw what happened in the last era. Lock-in. Apple started it...

with GPS, a compass and an accelerometer, you can potentially have your camera know what you took a picture of and where. i.e. if you are in disneyworld in front of the castle, are you taking a photo of the castle or of main street usa.

Quote: Originally Posted by wessan I'm sorry. Maybe I haven't wrote it clearly. The complexity in CPU is necessary to run Linux C-based kernel, not Java code. Java byte-code has very limited instruction set, thus limiting amount of...

one more thing - you are contradicting yourself about Java. You hype the advantage that you can easily move code to another architecture but then turn around and talk about the extra complexity in the ARM architecture to make Java run...

Quote: Originally Posted by wessan Sorry, I respect the experience. But from my point of view it proves nothing of real knowledge. Development is so rapid last 5 years that older experience is often useless. I have met many developers...

Quote: Originally Posted by wessan I have taken technology more as "software technology", which is clearly on Googles side. I was also talking primarily about software technology, which is clearly on Apple's side. I've been...

Quote: Originally Posted by wessan I think technology is on Google's site. Java is clearly better choice thanks to huge developer community, although Android does not use SWING or Java ME GUI framework. So there is something a developer...