I want a piece of code written to scrape Mixi user counts and post them into google docs.
Basically, it should take a list of group names and pull them on a schedule (monthly) and post it as a spreadsheet into google docs. Appending the current values to the previous. I want this in Python.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Smart phone media players
The smartphone media player space is quite sad.
First, most phones do not support external storage like SD/microSD
The most mature player is on Win Mobile, which has an outdated interface and not a modern UI
the only modern OS's are iPhone and Android. iPhone is totally locked down, so getting a player that supports other codec is impossible.
so the only hope is android, but all the players are based on the OS codec, which requires conversion.
This is sad, I was playing h264 video 5-6 years ago on 640x480 screen. Most smart phone screens are of lower resolution and cannot play files without conversion. Seems like a huge step back, shouldn't CPU be 16x more powerful than 6 yrs ago? Why can I do less on a device that weighs the same and offers similar battery life. Something is not adding up
First, most phones do not support external storage like SD/microSD
The most mature player is on Win Mobile, which has an outdated interface and not a modern UI
the only modern OS's are iPhone and Android. iPhone is totally locked down, so getting a player that supports other codec is impossible.
so the only hope is android, but all the players are based on the OS codec, which requires conversion.
This is sad, I was playing h264 video 5-6 years ago on 640x480 screen. Most smart phone screens are of lower resolution and cannot play files without conversion. Seems like a huge step back, shouldn't CPU be 16x more powerful than 6 yrs ago? Why can I do less on a device that weighs the same and offers similar battery life. Something is not adding up
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