Disqus - Latest Comments for ecspike

Re: Google Play Music users can only deauthorize 4 devices per year

James Williams — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 12:57:31 -0000

You get 10 authorized devices BEFORE you have to start deauthorizing them. So even parents with multiple kids aren't affected unless they are buying them multiple phones every year.

If you don't buy that often and proactively deauth devices, most won't hit that cap.

Re: What Would Happen If Google Really Did Kill Google+?

James Williams — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 23:06:12 -0000

I think that's only hurt the ability for people to dump dupe content there like I see so many do with Twitter -> Facebook. Many don't ever interact with comments on their Twitter spam pushed to FB.

Re: What Would Happen If Google Really Did Kill Google+?

James Williams — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 23:04:16 -0000

I'm constantly amused that so-called thought leaders whose public engagement have been absent from Google+ since Jan 2012 are sounding a death knell.

Re: Lenovo to buy Motorola from Google

James Williams — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 17:28:05 -0000

Google sold off the setup box division for 2.6 billion as well a while ago. So this isn't a total loss. $12bn keeping most of the patents and getting 6bn and a 5% stake in Lenovo isn't shabby.

Re: Google Code is dead.

James Williams — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 22:35:41 -0000

Google has quite a bit on code on Github too. Perhaps it's less not caring and more going where the developers are.

Re: Reports: PC sales decline by 10% but Chromebooks climb 112%

James Williams — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 22:31:44 -0000

I have coded locally on all my Chromebooks since the CR-48.

Re: Kids can't use computers... and this is why it should worry you - Coding 2 Learn

James Williams — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:00:40 -0000

You can root an Android device and tinker with different roms and such with a very much "maker" mindset. I know people who aren't programmers but taught themselves how to root and mod their phone.

Ubuntu Touch isn't so practical because it only runs on a few phones. But I agree on all the other points.

Re: ChromeBook as Developer Machine

James Williams — Mon, 13 May 2013 12:14:26 -0000

You have to realize that this was 2 years ago so the screen comparison was in favor of the Air. On the new ARM Chromebooks, I think it's comparable to the 2011 MBA.

Re: ReadingThree.js By Exampleby James Williams

James Williams — Sat, 04 May 2013 13:13:26 -0000

I haven't pitched it to them. This is mostly a "scratch your own itch" experiment.

Re: Which Chromebook Do You Own? [Reader Poll]

James Williams — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 01:23:10 -0000

Poll limits to 2 models, boo.

Re: Archos cancels Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update for G9 tablets

James Williams — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:22:14 -0000

Not me. I've seen it before when they released the Archos 7 Home Tablet, decided to release a second edition a year later with a newer Android version while leaving the buyers of the first out in the cold. Said never again.

Re: Google Chromebook Pixel review: Chrome OS gets a premium touch

James Williams — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:09:57 -0000

The On Inventing Chromebook article has been disputed by several members of the Chrome Team btw.

Re: ChromeBook as Developer Machine

James Williams — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:17:00 -0000

Search for crouton on Github.

Re: ChromeBook as Developer Machine

James Williams — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 23:54:28 -0000

Nope.

Re: ReadingThree.js By Exampleby James Williams

James Williams — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 07:44:24 -0000

I haven't planned out the whole book yet. A soft target is at least 50 - 100 pages. As I'm not yet sure how long it will be, I can't predict exactly when it'll be done. Some longer demos and games I'm considering will take a bit more time to complete.

Thanks for your interest.

Re: 2,000 schools are using Chromebooks

James Williams — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 00:51:05 -0000

Same here. I have had several of the models and they are all pretty solid albeit the earliest one, the CR-48 was a bit slow.

I am a dev and use the Chromebook when I'm doing writing on manager-like stuff. 6 hours battery life at a conference really can't be beat.

Re: Microsoft: Google Is (Still) Blocking Us From Building YouTube for Windows Phone

James Williams — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:14:36 -0000

Google doesn't announce products generally until they are done.

Re: Creating Pong with PlayN

James Williams — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:54:30 -0000

Not at the moment.

Re: Creating Java Executables From PlayN

James Williams — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 16:56:37 -0000

If you are running from the Maven targets, it should copy all the needed libraries. If you are running outside Maven, you might need to install lwjgl into your JAVA_HOME dir. http://www.lwjgl.org/wiki/i...

Re: Liliputing MK802 II Android 4.0 Mini PC giveaway

James Williams — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:28:02 -0000

Send it this way. ;)

Re: Google Stopping Development of ‘Scratchpad’ Note Taking App

James Williams — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 15:12:37 -0000

While it probably won't be uninstalled directly from users, if the underlying APIs that it uses change, the app will not run in future versions of Chrome.

Re: Xcom Global launches LTE data for travelers at $18 a day, starting in Japan

James Williams — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:32:43 -0000

Their unlimited service is a joke. 400MB is unlimited to them. After the fact they talked about fair use caps imposed by the carriers that were nowhere to be found on the site.

I live in Silicon Valley, unlimited is unlimited or at the very least 5-10G before a cap or throttle.

Re: Making a ball bounce with Simple Game Framework

James Williams — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 21:31:40 -0000

It's similar to this one: https://github.com/jwill/ht...

Re: Picking a Game Library

James Williams — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:28:07 -0000

NME looks interesting. The last time I had looked at HaXE was a while back when there was no Android support and the iOS was very beta.

Re: CoffeeScript Lately+ Add-on for Todo.txt

James Williams — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:40:03 -0000

Did you install momentjs using npm?