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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Perian doesn’t work in Mavericks, nor will it ever. VLC plays FLV. Damn it… I'm still nostalgic of ResEdit, make me a dinosaur some time.
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Quote: Originally Posted by mstone Millions of FLV videos Perian is your friend, makes FLV playable with Quicktime.
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Great, I hope now it will play nice with the new Maverick App Nap feature and stop sucking the battery so much.
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I wonder how many iPhones 5 are still on the market today, last week when I've got my 5s, many resellers was offering better deals on the remaining iPhones 5 than the new 5c.
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Quote: Originally Posted by ElricE Wow, drink the koolade much guys? Considering many apps (browsers for one) are not allowed access to core threads I'd hardly call that a completely native app. Besides, Android can go places your iToys can't i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by GoodGrief You young whippersnappers have it easy. My first computer had 16KB of RAM, and no hard drive - hell, it didn't even have a floppy drive. I used repurposed audio tape for storage. I was in heaven when the next …
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I really hope no one is surprise by QuarkLab FUD claim, Apple iMessages service is nor better or worst than any other messaging system. Anyone one who is in control of a service can do pretty much anythings with the data they collect, check at Lava…
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Quote: Sales of Apple's Power Mac G4 Cube (above), an expensive machine released with unfortunate timing just as the 2000 dotcom bubble was bursting, were very disappointing to the company, but the model wasn't rapidly discounted. I don't think t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by brlawyer Read about the PowerBook debacle and check back here (a great machine demanded by many but with insufficient supply at least until much later); I am not even talking about the ridiculous Performa/LC/Quadra…
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Quote: Originally Posted by brlawyer In fact, this reminds of Apple's dark years when it completely miscalculated demand for the PowerBook, not being able to fulfil orders as it should have...and Cook, the world's former "best COO", does it aga…
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Quote: Originally Posted by fh-ace I would have bought one except for the fugly colors, black would have been my choice, and lack of finger print scanner. Seems like a like functional iPhone 5 replacement. But personally I think they could have …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gatorguy Why not just use the 5 as it was then? I think machining the 5-5s aluminium casing one at the time with CNC machine is what constraining the 5s production. Plastic molded casing can be produce at muc…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gatorguy "The new data also suggests that the iPhone 5c is not carving out a larger share of overall iPhone sales than the iPhone 4S managed last year, when it was the company's $100-on-contract handset." There ha…
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I tend to believe on hardware aspect they all (iPhone, Android or WP8) have more or less the same touch screen controller specs. I think softwares is what separated devices in this benchmark, even on desktop computer Java apps has always got sluggi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Frood I don't see them bypassing it, just adding to it. Samsung adds a proprietary variant to its phones as an 'add-on' to the 5g standard. Phones work with 'standard' 5g carriers. Phone is 4x faster if you ch…
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Quote: Originally Posted by patpatpat I've seen reports of native being 20x faster (and higher) than Java on android. Speed is a very subjective matter and can be fixed with many subterfuge like Samsung has demonstrate with their overdri…
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Quote: Originally Posted by d4NjvRzf Agreed. But the point of virtualization is that, in most cases, the VM invokes architecture-specific features for you. Here is an example of virtualized apps getting performance increases for free when th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by patpatpat I'm still not convinced that reworking DalvikVM for 64-bits is a monumental task. Perhaps even, the benefit might only be minimal... (But I'll be the first to admit I don't know a lot about Dalvik :-) ) …
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Quote: Originally Posted by d4NjvRzf It's true that as long as Dalvik only exposes 32-bit registers to programs, virtualized apps would still run in a 32-bit environment. But they should still experience performance benefits as the VM handle…
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Quote: Originally Posted by patpatpat Why a major revision? There are plenty of 64bit jvms out there, I imagine that the dalvik switch to 64bit would be a fairly straightforward engineering task. It would have to be done in any case. As far …