Posts by THT

It's only kind of stopped. AMD and Intel have effectively decided to slow down MHz ramps and go with multi-core and microarchitecture improvements as they have recognized that 150+ Watt CPUs aren't tenable in consumer desktop systems....

Quote: Originally Posted by vinea I'm saying (for the 3rd time) that the basis of the MR-UI was based on UI research and served as inspiration for some UI developers working on real products since that may have been thier first exposure...

Quote: Originally Posted by vinea Right. Saying that they aren't real artists is exactly like not saying that aren't artists. That's not a "fine line in semantics"...that's a direct quote. ... Yes, there is a vast gulf but...

Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM It's a good motivating tool, but a bunch of people believing a platitude doesn't make it true, and I doubt it would hold legal water, the legal definition of prior art still stands regardless of...

If it has the same content that Flash provides, it doesn't need Flash. Veoh apparently has an iPhone webapp that serves up Veoh videos. If Hulu does the same. If websites start provide H.264 mp4 videos as well, Flash really isn't needed...

Quote: Originally Posted by vinea It appeared to be a way of denigrating the foundational work of researchers without which we wouldn't have GUI or multitouch. Technology takes a solid decade at a minimum to move from initial prototype...

If it is solid, I'm getting it. Why? My house has metallic foil insulation (radiant barrier) in the roof and that effectively knocks cell signal strength/quality by half. A cell phone call isn't reliable in our house at all. A...

Quote: Originally Posted by NMR Guy Er... why? I don't understand why "microcell" suggests this. Well, it's more like 1 million times as they forgot that pico is between micro and femto.

Quote: Originally Posted by vinea I do give apple plenty of kudos for shipping. just like with the mouse and the GUI. The point however, it's that Apple wasn't the first to make something practical, but that it did not spring forth...

What I'd like to see: 1. Larger screen, 3.7 or 3.8 inches diagonal, without growing the width of the device. This is the must important aspect of the iPhone due to onscreen controls and should be made as large as possible within the...