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by brigade 14y ago
I know a number of old people that never learned how to use or were never confident in using a desktop OS that now only use tablets. My father as well, but for other reasons. Also think of how long the shift from desktops to laptops took; f
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by brigade 14y ago
Unless you're a regular eBay seller, selling one phone on eBay is going to eat up a lot more than 5 minutes of your time. And that's the whole point - eBay is terrible for selling newish electronics unless you're a frequent eBay seller li
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by brigade 14y ago
It's less than 2% in the aggregate across eBay, but it's probably significantly higher for small high-value electronics like recent smartphones, especially if you're a small seller relying on eBay to detect scammers.
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by brigade 14y ago
These boards' power requirements are exceeding that of common USB ports - these ODROID boards in particular can pull about 6-7 watts alone. Practically all boards have HDMI, nothing has open GPU drivers and admittedly few have X11 drivers (
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by brigade 14y ago
Freescale SoCs support gigabit ethernet and SATA, not many others do. So i.MX6 based boards like the Sabre Lite and Nitrogen6X have both paired with quad core A9, at $200.
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by brigade 14y ago
No, it's a program that encodes video. H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 Part 10 is the standard that describes the video format encoded by x264.
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by brigade 14y ago
Please don't assert logical fallacies as the truth. "x86-64 is slower because pointers are larger" does not follow from "Firefox's JavaScript engine is slower and uses more memory on x86-64"
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by brigade 14y ago
The Calexia Highbank Nodes are quad core. Relative to the OMAP4 tested, Exynos 5 has a 1.4x higher clock but 1.9x better 7-zip performance and 2.3x better x264 performance. For reference, A15 has double the vector execution resources as A9
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by brigade 14y ago
Snapdragon S4 Plus/Pro SoCs are 28nm and have been in phones for a while now.
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by brigade 14y ago
7-zip and x264 make almost perfect use of additional cores, so it makes sense that a quadcore beats a dualcore. (aside: I rather wish that Phoronix actually mentioned how much a given test benefits from multiple threads, single-threaded tes
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by brigade 14y ago
But most of suburbia isn't quiet. Especially the suburbia that is Silicon Valley. You have go full-on rural before you're somewhat guaranteed to not be disturbed by man-made noises.
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by brigade 14y ago
Samsung. Exynos 5 is powering the Chromebook and Nexus 10 after all. Allwinner is popular among the low end Chinese stuff, so there's always the chance that they'll expand into higher end SoCs. AFAIK Freescale is taking the same path as TI,
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by brigade 14y ago
The Christian right, which although maybe isn't a majority of Americans is a significant fraction, unconditionally supports Israel for a number of reasons, from Israel being necessary for the Rapture to it being better than its neighbors, t
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by brigade 14y ago
In DSLRs, maybe. In mirrorless, they're one of the most innovative companies and second only to the Olympus/Panasonic MFT alliance.
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by brigade 14y ago
ARM has a lot of instructions too. Exactly how many depends on how you count them - are pld and pldw different instructions? mov and movw? uadd16 and sadd16? vadd.i16 and vadd.i8? vadd.f32 <Dd>, <Dn>, <Dm> and vadd.f
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by brigade 14y ago
There is documentation of the OS X assembler [1] that generally applies on iOS as well. In particular, you can have macros with up to 10 arguments, numbered $0 to $9. (actually this shown in the article...) I'm pretty sure ldrneb was never
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by brigade 14y ago
If you're running a non-vendor version of Linux on your router, why would you buy this product in the first place? It isn't that hard to enable adblocking on e.g. DD-WRT.
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by brigade 14y ago
it feels like you're besieged from all sides. Ehhh... in my experience tumblr really is the easiest social site to avoid trolls and opinions contrary to yours, just as the article says. The only default means of communication, reb
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by brigade 14y ago
It's kind of funny that the other day he was complaining about low-res screens in laptops... when the degradation/stagnation in laptop screens is in a large part due to the race to the bottom he's arguing is unequivocally a good thing today
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by brigade 14y ago
Not in laptops. Which is what everyone is talking about, if you missed it.
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by brigade 14y ago
Of course you can. But for now, scammers seem to be relatively rare compared to eBay. And maybe, just maybe Amazon has better dispute resolution and anti-scammer policies than eBay/Paypal.
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by brigade 14y ago
20 years ago notebooks had 640x400 or 640x480 screens... If you include the 15" retina MBP then that's 17x more pixels in 20 years. And that includes greyscale to 8bit color to 16 bit color to 24/32 bit color, passive-matrix to active-matri
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by brigade 14y ago
I really wonder about the people complaining about running 2560x1600 on a HD4000. Four years ago I was happily driving both an external 2560x1600 monitor and the built in 1440x900 panel with a 8600M, which was a good bit slower. People re
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by brigade 14y ago
Memory interface and core interconnects are another differentiator, just look at how much they vary on Cortex-A9 SoCs for instance (1x32 bit to 4x32bit, to say nothing of the frequency or memory type)
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by brigade 14y ago
One good thing about 64-bit ARM is that there are no optional extensions (yet...) Floating-point and SIMD support are both required. As for your library, ignore CPU models to start with. Instead, look at the ARM architecture reference manua
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by brigade 14y ago
I truly do not see it helping, especially as a first step. The vast majority of those bad and mediocre teachers that everyone wants fired? They're still around primarily because the school administration is comfortable with them. They don't
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by brigade 14y ago
The only risk you take in that scenario is that your device may not charge as fast as you expect (or at all, if in use.) Same with the 3 different wattages of MagSafe adapters.
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by brigade 14y ago
You can waffle all you want about user intent, but it's quite obvious that they will only support an opt-out scheme. Advertising almost never implement opt-in unless legally forced to.
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by brigade 14y ago
Nitrogen6X and SABRE Light do ( http://boundarydevices.com/products/ ), and should be $200 in a week. Wandaboard ( http://www.wandboard.org/ ) should have a SATA connector on future configurations, but nothing concrete has been announced.
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by brigade 14y ago
PayPal generally has horrible exchange rates, often to the point that a 3% fee with your bank's rates is cheaper.

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