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chaz

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« Reply #420 on: February 05, 2010, 12:29:59 pm »
I only ask that apple adopt bluray already so I can go along with my pirating.
Yeah what's up with that?

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« Reply #421 on: February 05, 2010, 01:15:12 pm »
I only ask that apple adopt bluray already so I can go along with my pirating.
Yeah what's up with that?

From my earlier post....

Jason O'Grady woke up on the wrong side of the Book of Jobs this week...

Apple's Blu-ray fiasco: the iTunes conflict
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« Reply #422 on: February 05, 2010, 01:23:10 pm »
Thanks vansmack. How's your media center working out?

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« Reply #423 on: February 15, 2010, 01:31:40 pm »
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« Reply #424 on: February 17, 2010, 12:42:53 pm »
Not that I haven't been telling you this for some time, but Opera is good.  Really good.

Opera Mini on iPhone is fast, but why?
By Thomas Ricker  posted Feb 17th 2010 at 8:01AM

We came, we saw, and we're still scratching our heads over what Opera is up to with its Mobile World Congress demonstration of its Opera Mini browser running on the iPhone 3GS. But before we get into that, let's talk performance: it's fast. Opera Mini is very, very fast on the iPhone. Loading the New York Times, for example, was about 5x faster than loading the same page in the iPhone 3GS' stock browser.

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So why is Opera making such a fuss about this before it has even submitted to Apple for approval?

The answer is simple.  To build fan support ahead of the approval process so Apple has no choice but to approve it.  So long Safari....
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chaz

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Re: iphone
« Reply #425 on: February 17, 2010, 03:45:06 pm »
It will be VERY interesting to see how this plays out....

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Re: iphone
« Reply #426 on: February 17, 2010, 04:20:05 pm »
Co-signed on opera,  although I did notice there is WAP browser out there, although it may just be a modified ver of safari
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« Reply #427 on: February 17, 2010, 04:36:18 pm »
So Ive been using Opera 10 Beta (now version 3) for some time and it's very interesting how it works. 

First, here's how engadget described it:

"It's not doing any rendering of the pages or code processing locally. Web pages are processed by Opera's servers before sending just the results to the iPhone. Not only does this speed up the local processing but it also limits the amount of data sent -- a potential big money saver for people browsing while data roaming (like us in Barcelona) or for those without unlimited data plans."

But more important to me is the push technology it uses for my saved tabs.  I chose to tab 3 websites (or pages) that I visit most often and during downtime the phone checks and updates those pages so when I open it (like nextbus) it's already populated with the data I need.  It's incredibly fast.

http://www.opera.com/mobile/
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« Reply #428 on: February 17, 2010, 09:07:05 pm »
I'd really like to stop using safari on my phone. Hope opera moves along quickly.

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« Reply #429 on: February 23, 2010, 03:35:44 pm »
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« Reply #430 on: February 23, 2010, 04:22:29 pm »
the real reason why smackie hates iphones

One of the many, but stuff like that ranks high.  You can replace "boobies" with just about anything that I like that Apple doesn't want me to like and I'd react the same way.  Just build a device for me and let me decide how to use it...
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« Reply #431 on: February 24, 2010, 11:52:43 pm »
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« Reply #432 on: February 25, 2010, 03:07:55 am »
That's solely a data comparison, and yes at&t has made strides in the largest markets (there's a map for that).  As for nationwide coverage, there's no comparison - they get killed.  The real killer here of course is that they're phone calls are handled of their earlier generation network, which clearly can't handle the rise in subscribers as is evident by the high number of dropped calls.

That being said, I always tell people to go with which ever provider has the best coverage at your home and your place of work.  For me that's Sprint as evidenced by the reliability numbers - I've never lost a call on Sprint in San Francsico in the 7 years I've been here.  I dare any at&t customer to claim the same.  I'll sacrifice 150kbps for that kind of reliability, especially with WiMax around the corner.  Right?  It's still coming soon, right?  Eee ghads.
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« Reply #433 on: February 25, 2010, 12:24:17 pm »
I've never lost a call on Sprint in San Francsico in the 7 years I've been here.  I dare any at&t customer to claim the same. 
Way to go out on a limb by throwing it down such a dare on a DC nightclub board.  ::)

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« Reply #434 on: February 26, 2010, 06:21:11 pm »
cool app, but heaven help me if someone sits beside me on a plane and break this out:

http://www.wavemachinelabs.com/voiceband/
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