tomflack

Logarithmic scale for each item taken down incorrectly.

I'm in China and nobody gives a shit about home-grown Chinese brands. I mentioned to a friend I wanted to check out a Meizu MX and her boyfriend asked "what's that?" To which she replied "Oh, just a shanzai iPhone".

The first meizu store I went to, there was a guy selling rugs inside.

The second meizu store had two very bored looking sales assistants and in the half hour that I poked around and pestered these guys nobody else came in.

The technology malls are filled with Apple, HTC, Samsung and even Sony phones. Zero obvious brand presence for Chinese phones.

In the future this will change, I'm not saying that the Chinese phone industry won't be a powerhouse, but for now temper your excitement.

This is true, but organisational wise the Asian Yahoo! divisions are not wholly owned by Yahoo! as we know it. Yahoo! Japan for instance is a separately listed company part owned by Softbank. A friend of mine went for an interview at yahoo japan and was told "we don't have much to do with yahoo america so you'll never be sent to work there".

But you're right, it seems like an obvious strength to capitalize on.

I cannot think of a single good thing that would happen to gaming if every single game had creative commons assets from day one. You'd end up with endless identical looking games.

Now, releasing the assets under CC after 5 years or so I could get behind. Let the culture remix your work after it has had a chance to stand and be judged, appreciated on its own.

There really needs to be an immediate financial cost associated with incorrect DMCA takedowns.

For instance, the entity the requests are made of (in this case Google) should be able to claim money for every false take down request.

Well you saw how long it took to get OSX full-screen support. I wouldn't hold your breath about retina.

Bitcoin probably has less users in your area than people with NFC capable phones. I think for an art project this is a non-issue.

I also think if you consider my solution so "complicated tech" then this probably isn't the project for you.

There are NFC bitcoin wallet apps for android aren't there? And "POS" NFC apps? Just cram an android board and an NFC reader in it set to accept taps, look up the exchange rate and spit out cash.

Ah I didn't realize! This would also explain a lot of other things. Thanks!

I sent you an email and this is just me being impatient but.. unavailable in the android market for Chinese users?

For a company run by Sarah Lacey (who takes pride in having a Chinese presence) Pando Daily is a shockingly north American centric publication.

I also get the sense they want to be the first to say something is happening rather than could happen, at the expense of accuracy.

A side note, how do you go through a reference and lift all the information from it while avoiding simply paraphrasing it? Or are you using it as a starting point then finding more sources on these mayors?

How would it make it crummy?

The equivalent of the red LED on a camcorder indicating it is recording.

I don't think that Google Voice is any kind of competitor to Skype because of its incredibly limited global availability.

You're underestimating the worth of having literally all my friends using the same feature-rich messaging platform. I'm in China and using the opportunity to spend a little time away from western social platforms (not using a VPN) and the only thing I've missed is facebook messenger.

> And the reason I hate calling is that I imagine I'm one of a string of no-chance hopefuls just being a nuisance. And the staff are on the other end thinking "Doesn't this guy know who we are?! You're two months late, bozo."

Speaking from personal experience, once you get past barriers in yourself like that, life opens up to you. Using the internet as a crutch to avoid social interaction with a possibility of embarrassment is unhealthy.

> CPUs could be socket instead of soldered, adding what? 1mm at most? Never been done.

My Toshiba Satellite in 1999 had a socketed AMD K6-II 380Mhz cpu, which I upgraded 10 years later as a "I wonder if...?" exercise before junking the computer.

Once you max out you're the same as every other character of that class.

In D2 I'll admit the skill tree had some severe flaws, but it allowed unique customization to an extent.

I feel it has fundamentally changed with the removal of the skill tree. Instead of making choices and ending up with a semi-unique character, I can change my skills at any time.

My character isn't "mine" any more. The only real way to progress is to grind for loot now. Or pay someone for it. (something my friends and I never did in d2)

Mozilla take in millions a year from Google. If nobody is contributing to a major platform - pay someone to. I don't even own a mac, but simply can't understand how Mozilla are failing so badly at it.

I don't get Mozilla. The first OSX Lion developer preview came out in March of 2011. This kind of (very) slow adoption of platform improvements is the worst way to win users, and by extension power, to fulfil their mission of a free and open web.

I honestly can't think of an excuse for not supporting Lion specifics this late in the game.

Yes. http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=macbook+air+star...

Accusing someone of cultural bias always feels to me like a shorthand for "I want the last word no matter what". As such, after this post I won't be engaging with you any further.

Your two posts have different meanings, the first gave no cultural anchor when saying western schools were not as prestegious as the top Japanese schools, while your second one did. It's a semantic difference, but it matters. That said, in the scope of the article that is the problem being posed. Japanese firms not hiring based on talent and ignoring good internationally educated candidates.

As for your accusations of a western bias - you don't know Mr, you don't know how or where I was brought up so don't be so quick to fall on that crutch in argument.

While we're playing the speculation game...

The ability to arrange home screens in shapes other than grids

The Windows 8 Consumer Preview has shown me that the merits of arranging app icons in shapes are numerous. It's easier to find things.

Likelihood: Low

 

Sync galleries between devices via iCloud

I love the Photo Stream. Photos I take on my phone show up on my iPad and I can select the good ones to make galleries from... fantastic! Only downside is those galleries don't sync back to my phone, so when I want to show a friend on my phone the sweet gallery of photos from Friday night's party I can't.

Likelihood: Medium

Sync notifications between devices via iCloud

If I look at twitter on my phone, when I look at my tablet four hours later the same @mention notifications shouldn't be waiting for me. Ditto to every other app I use on both devices.

Likelihood: Medium-low

 

Gratis turn-by-turn navigation

Android does it, Nokia Windows Phones do it. iPhone should do it. Perhaps I'm just a cheapskate or perhaps navigation has been devalued so much by Google Maps' ubiquity but I don't want to pay for an app in the app store to do this. Apple bought a mapping company a while back - let's see something happen with it!

Likelihood: ????

This flies in the face of the extremely believable leaked photographs of the last week.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/29/3049874/new-iphone-backpla...

That wasn't what you said.

The quote I was referencing is of course talking about the new hardware, not the old hardware you are referring to.

It just strikes me that 'never' is a long time.

Being slow because it is underpowered is different to what I'm referring to - becoming slower over time because web technologies move past the capabilities of the hardware.

"...and don’t slow down over time." (https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/features-key.h...)

That is a huge claim and one that will be false as web technologies continue to need more power.