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YouTube was an acquisition.

Aye. The cast of TSS has remained pretty close. I don't listen to TWiT anymore, but I remember Patrick Norton used to be (may still be) a regular guest.

This is Hacker News. The only app environment that makes any money is iOS. Android is just a money pit. Get it straight!

Freenet is basically what you describe, and it's free.

Can't seize a .onion pseudo-domain.

I, too, would like to see Mozilla become more agile and cutting-edge. I still hold respect for them, though, as the organization that taught the masses "IE != The Internet".

Yes. TechCrunch is not exactly known for tact.

> my next phone is more likely to be an iPhone, where I know I'll get timely updates.

One significant update per year, on which Apple has disabled half of the features because you don't have the latest model?

How about these much-needed additional data sets?

How many apps are being purchased per user? Are Android users spending an average of $.50 on one app, while iPhone users are spending an overage of $.50 per app on 10 apps?

What percentage of iPhone apps are free? Versus Android?

Without these additional data points, the average expenditure per user is meaningless.

That may be the case in the US, but in most other major markets, the iPhone is no longer exclusive to one carrier. The entire US population makes up at most 10% of the global market. Subtract AT&T itself, and you are left with about 6%. Hardly significant.

>If/when the iPhone is available on Verizon,T-Mobile and Sprint (besides AT&T), Android's momentum is going to drastically slow down.

Good luck with that.

There are also a lot of high-end Android phones that have come out in the last two months, and coming out soon. In the end, this discussion doesn't really matter. Obviously, nobody knows the future.

I also realize that these numbers only represent one quarter, but if you look at the previous quarters, you'll see that Android is experiencing steady growth. I have no doubt that the iPhone 4 will be a boon to Apple's numbers. We only have to wait another three months to find out! :)

>His four main points are: openness...

Actually, openness is not one of his points. He mentions it in passing only.

>Android definitely has momentum but at their current rate it will still take years to match the iPhone's share of the market.

From February to May of this year, Android went from 9% to 13% of the market. In that same time, the iPhone went from 25.4% to 24.4%. At that rate, it will take about six months for Android to match the iPhone. Google is seeing almost 5 million activations a month, and growing exponentially.

A product that has been actively developed for over 14 years had sure as hell better be able to say something more than "our performance is on par with" an emerging technology that is still being developed and isn't even standardized yet.

Many mail daemons will "accept" mail no matter who the recipient is. Internally, unmatched mail may be discarded or forwarded to a "catch-all" account, but all the sender sees is "Recipient ok"

I think this started as a response to SPAM bots that used to "RCPT TO:" random strings and save a list of valid address.

"this is Techcrunch"

There's your answer!

I was actually considering an Android phone, the Instinct Q to be precise. I got a Palm Pre two weeks ago, which is also Linux-based, and now I feel that I made the right decision.

With Windows Mobile, I was always running custom ROMs and tweaking. The Pre doesn't have any custom ROMs per se, but that's because the whole thing is so simple that you can easily apply patches (about 90% the user-visible system is created with plain text files--HTML, Javascript, JSON, et cetera).

I work at a T-Mo call center, and there are a lot of reps here who say the myTouch is complete crap without custom ROMs. If Google really wants to build a loyal following--particularly in the tech community--this decision needs to be reversed and /never/ repeated.

Honestly I thought the question was rather pointless to begin with.

Sprint didn't make the Pre. Sprint doesn't compete with the iPhone. The iPhone is a device, Sprint is a carrier. The iPhone may very well end up on Sprint in the not-too-distant future.

Also, if you look at the subtext, you might see that Hesse is delivering a veiled attack on the iPhone--that it's all about branding and hive mind. Michael Jordan was a great basketball player, but he was far from the greatest, even during his career. His style and flash are what got him his place in the spotlight, just like the iPhone.

If I'm reading the charts correctly, the negative-rated comments have at least as many (and often more) replies than positive-rated comments.

I'll remember this next time someone asks how Glenn Beck is still on the air.

Yes. In fact, CPU's are still increasing in performance exponentially faster than RAM or disk (hard or solid-state) storage.

Fetching something from RAM still takes hundreds of CPU cycles. Even SSD's, which are much faster than hard disks in most metrics, are orders of magnitude slower than RAM.

So yeah, this isn't happening anytime soon.

so hard to find, for example, a file with "accounts" in its name and "automobiles" in the contents ... Consider the UNIX find command which searches based on file metadata and the grep command which searches file contents. Combining the two is not easy.

		grep -i automobiles `find / -type f -name *accounts*`

Interestingly, Amazon are currently being sued because they threw away someone’s metadata in the process of removing a copy of Orwell’s 1984 from a Kindle. You can bet the metadata was removed automatically when the content was removed.

Actually, they are restoring the file to anyone who wants it, including all notes.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/amazon-offers-to-give-bac...

Just as an FYI, auto-playing slideshows bug the heck out of me. I'm probably not the only one who feels that way.

Thanks for the follow-up. After re-reading the post, I see that this is not /just/ an x264 problem.

Thank you also for informing me that hardware encoders aren't very good. I had actually considered purchasing one of the ~$100 ones, but now I'll steer clear.

I must be doing something wrong, though, because I can't seem to get much better than 2x real-time on my Q6600 w/ 4GB memory when using x264.

While I found this an interesting read, I believe someone who works with *264 encoding with any regularity can easily justify using the relatively cheap hardware encoders available to consumers. I'm not sure if x264 is fully compatible with such a device, though. This is a lot more feasible than waiting for Intel and AMD to significantly change their architecture for what sounds like an edge case.

Also known as the "printer-ink" model.

To say that Hulu has more viewers than TWC is misleading. The graph is comparing apples to oranges. The "reach" for the cable companies is the number of subscribed households multiplied by the average number of people per house. Hulu's reach is the number of unique visitors.

Even assuming that (subscribers * average people per house) is a good estimate, unique visitors is certainly not.

If a household has five residents (two parents and three children, for example), and each of them are watching Hulu at home, the parents are watching at work during their lunch hour, and the children are watching it at school, then they will collectively count as 6 reaches for Hulu, but only 2.59 reaches for TWC.