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I think they are more interested in how Opera uses the servers/push/compression technology especially for mobile. They could easily fork Chromium, or build something new with webkit. I imagine their move into mobile, will come with something akin to the Amazon Silk browser experience. They’ll improve their per user data observation significantly. It also will keep outside eyes from access to said content. This moves for the money first and foremost.

The keyboard dock of the Transformer here, is a big part of the attractiveness. The extra battery life as a result seems tailor suited to your use scenario.

When you use a tool, there is usually a goal or purpose in mind. Bing is a tool among several to help achieve an intended information oriented goal. The results of the effort, how they are presented, and what you do with them are all factors that weigh on how we evaluate our preferences.
This isn’t some value defined by preternatural instinct like chocolate or vanilla. If I was going hiking at 18,500 feet in the Andes, and I let my base instincts lead me to choose flip flops for my footwear, I’d lose my toes to frostbite pretty quickly and deservedly so.
Bing may be better for his purposes in many ways. It may come down to look and feel, but the claim it is base instinct seems unlikely.

Psychologically speaking the word/term "preference" is applied to mean evaluative judgment in the sense of liking or disliking an object.
If you form preferences without evaluation or thought, then I would love to write a book about you.

Question:
What does Bing search do for you better than Google search, or any other competing search engine for that matter?

Hmm.. Random thought here. Camtasia a screen video, push to VHS or DVD and its like micro fiche for the internet.

I think they’ve updated several reviews after original post.

Vlad is it really true what the say about Touchwiz?

I concur.

This is already solved. They get early access along with Motorola and they will be able to produce a Nexus Device (non skinned) vanilla phone. If they decide to use that time and make a skinned new phone, at least it is running the newer version of the OS.

Samsung can’t even push out updates to their own devices that they release with Android. If they could successfully fork, upgrade, maintain, develop and support their own OS and complete ecosystem (store/email/music/books/search/maps/navigation); and come in at a price that is cheaper than the free they have now with Android; and successfully gather customers from the Google ecosystem, I’d be surprised.

Without having an official confirmation that they exist, there is no need for oversite. This eliminates that pesky need for getting those difficult wiretapping warrants. The process is simple. If you have reasonable suspicion of a serious crime that warrants a wiretap, obtain the wiretap, and then move ahead with the decryption of the individual IP traffic of that individual.
The shroud of secrecy is serving only to forgo oversite, and hide the abuse of civil liberties the US was founded on. If the police need to be equipped to perform IP traffic wiretapping, let them sort it out on a per state/county basis.

Take for example Google and YouTube. Google owns more fiber and data pipes and servers and CDN’s than almost any ISP in the country. The only thing here is that the end point in the stream (the home users network) is not theirs. These government sanctioned monopolies are the ones who control that. Therefore only they can bring you TV. If we made broadband in the USA a dumb pipe, and enforced Net Neutrality then the rest of the rusty cage of rules sort of falls into place.

“statutory definition of an MVPD unambiguously requires something more than that an entity simply provide programming without any transmission path.”

A satellite signal is considered a transmission path but the pipe of data that the internet uses is not? That should have been resolved at least a decade ago.

Sadly the timing is so congruent with ISP data caps. My assumption is that they’ll just make it too expensive to watch shows from other services. So you keep theirs.

I think Android/Google knew full well which license/project they were choosing and why. The use scenario for Java on mobile phones/embedded devices is not covered under the LGPL. To use it one device required a license. This was a big source of contention in the lawsuit. Now days smart phones are easily powerful enough to run the full stack of Java, but the use is restricted.

Stallman is a very important forward looking freethinker in tech. He took action on something he believed in and created GNU and FSF while at MIT. The world needs more nuts like him, who believe in something and manage to change things for the better. You’ve directly benefited from his efforts.

And it really hasn’t changed in a meaningful way.

Startup, which will enable you to identify and disable unwanted/slow auto-starting apps.
Just Windows 8 being awesome again… :)

This has been standard in Windows I believe since Win 98. They added access to it via the task manager but this is a legacy feature from the previous century.

This could be a significant hit to the Intellectual Ventures model of business. That alone is enough to raise my hopes for a brighter future.

True, but small developers who are putting their reputation on the line deserve a chance to stand behind their product.

This is something Google should be spearheading. If they work out a system which more closely monitors what gets placed into the Play Store, a lot of these issues could be resolved pro-actively. Perhaps adding a verified developer meta tag which was the native experience would help. Those developers/apps pushing malware would be removed from the list. Perhaps browsing by default in the store would only show developers who stand behind their identity.

ORACLE is milking Corporate. The time will come when there is a comparable open database for small / mid business.

Oracle has zero concern for small business. They buy much of the software that is industry standard, and squeeze with a heavy hand to juice every last bit out of profit. Forcing out the lower tiers of the software.

I am still waiting to see what happens to MySQL after the Goracle lawsuit is resolved.

Thank you for sharing.

Thanks for the links. It is definitely appealing. I’ll have a look around at the interface and configuration options on the web when I get home.. I lost about 30 GB of video of Costa Rican and Panamanian excursion with the theft of the GoPro. The woot deal appeared almost immediately after my return and seemed like fortuitous timing. Sadly the quality was marginal at best. I’ve been looking for a quality replacement since.

Is there any chance the WiFi could be used to allow for an external mic?

I assume the broadband ISP’s have a valid business argument for tiered bandwidth caps. I do not see how this is good in anyway for the end user and internet landscape as a whole. Data caps make it very easy to create artificial scarcity, which in turn gives preferential treatment to the providers services.
This is a big step backwards. This unlevels the playing field for startups, and disrupts what I feel has been the primary driver of growth. It would be different if the broadband in the US weren’t essentially sanctioned monopolies and there were easy alternatives. It is crap like this which let telephony stagnate for 60 years. I guess it should be no surprise when these current operators learned directly from Bell/AT&T.

Too bad there are no Video samples to show the quality. I had a goPro HD Hero stolen in Panama. Woot had a daily deal with a swan HD that had some interesting features for $135. The video quality was so awful it is essentially useless.

What is the value in trying to remind ourselves of or trying to extract some life learning out of what it was like before this technology existed when we a great many of us can still remember it for ourselves? There is no value.

Every technology comes with a set of benefits and a set of consequences. The technologies themselves are inherently neutral but how we use them and how society is shaped by them, is real. Look at the consequences of the printing press, or Television for an example. These changes and these technologies resonate deeply. We live in very exciting times, and we tend to get caught up in them without introspection.

There is nothing to learn except that life without the internet sucked, and that’s a fore-gone conclusion that will win you no kudos other than a few blank expressions and a chorus of "no shit".

Life before the internet was no better or worse than now. Your assessments are meaningless self imposed valuations as are mine.

Paul. You took a job at blogging about connected devices. Blog about connected devices.

The Verge is a site about tech culture not a myopic blog about connected devices. There is some fascinating philosophical writing out there about technology. Try reading some Marshall McLuhan, Neil Postman (watered down McLuhan), perhaps Baudrillard, or even later day Timothy Leary (although he too parroted McLuhan). If you want I will lend you a copy of the Gutenberg Galaxy. Although you can probably find a used copy for next to nothing.

The medium is the message.
To say what the internet is “for” is not for you, or me, Paul or Negroponte to say. The geometry of the internet is rapidly expanding and endlessly shifting. How we use it is shifting, and how we are shifted as a result of its use is still forming. To try and label the internet into some convenient organizational snippet is missing the point.

My Barbarian just hit level 25, and I am having difficulty killing Belial since the green circles kill me in about a hit ( I should get some gear that has more vitality I suppose). That is the end of Act 2. There are 5 total, so I have to ask do Acts 3,4 and 5 get shorter?