Comments for waves in the aether

Comment on Too many options by CuongLe

CuongLe — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:20:57 +0000

I think you had a great opportunity and had to take it. Congrats and good luck to my brother :)

Comment on Fail Whale by zion

zion — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:02:44 +0000

Ralph, sounds like I use apps that are as out of the loop as I am. Oh well. there is more interesting activity on identica anyway.

Comment on Fail Whale by Ralph Meijer

Ralph Meijer — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 13:40:59 +0000

This has been announced back in December 2009. See for example this article: http://techcrunch.com/2009/12/09/twitter-le-web-2009/. The cut-off date has been postponed twice, too.

Comment on aleksey speaks by Erlang in Russia – Guest Post from Dmitrii Dimandt – Erlang Inside

Erlang in Russia – Guest Post from Dmitrii Dimandt – Erlang Inside — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:00:34 +0000

[...] that it’s almost boring to write about it. You can read an interview with Alexey over at http://blogs.openaether.org/?p=59 for more insight into the history of this [...]

Comment on Think before writing by Felipe Contreras

Felipe Contreras — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:04:41 +0000

I think “fool” is a bit strong word. It’s usually a good idea to re-check facts before posting, but we can never have all the information :) Although I agree, comments are good :D

Comment on Random Observation by Think before writing « waves in the aether

Think before writing « waves in the aether — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:09:17 +0000

[...] a previous post I jumped too far ahead of myself and was promptly thwapped by [...]

Comment on why the n900 by Felipe Contreras

Felipe Contreras — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:25:48 +0000

Binary drivers and inaccessible hardware? That’s not true at all. All the drivers are open source, even the phone link, at least at kernel level. The only closed driver is in user-space: SGX (not much option there), and of course the DSP and cellular firmware is closed.

Comment on There are reasons markets are under served by Elijah Miller

Elijah Miller — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:46:26 +0000

You might enjoy the latest article from my friend David Christiansen describing his work on TroopTrack.com. These articles are eerily similar, right down to the comparison against the cost of Coffee!

http://www.techdarkside.com/coffee_startup

Comment on why the n900 by Brenton

Brenton — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:10:16 +0000

You’re touting default root access on your phone like it’s some big, glorious thing that the others never thought, or wouldn’t do before. Your phone is the simply the first iteration, the one they want people to develop on.

The first Android device, the HTC Dream, was the exact same way. The developer phone that you could (and still can) order from Google was rooted. They now have the HTC Magic available as a rooted developer addition as well.

If a carrier wanted the N900, I think you’d find that they would want some level of non-rooted-ness to (yes, dare I say it) your Maemo device as well. Carriers like to limit functionality of phones to bottleneck users into one of their pay-per-use schemes (like SMS).

Also, despite what you think, you just paid $400+ to be marketed too. Turn your phone over and you will see a fat Nokia logo staring at you. So effective was their marketing you, like an unwitting pawn, have blogged about their product with a favorable review.

If Maemo takes the world by any kind of storm, you (just like all Android and iphone fans) will find free, ad based software available for your phone. It’s inevitable, you can’t run from it. The only difference will be, Droid owners saved $400 by getting a subsidized phone instead of paying full cost.

Comment on Random Observation by zion

zion — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:56:00 +0000

you are correct! I didn’t get that far in the book when I posted this. I have now finished it and deserve a big healthy thwap upside the head.