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by polshaw 14y ago
There is bad mainstream news as well as online. But i would agree that near it's peak professional journalism (eg the economist, democracy now, new scientist) is generally better. But are these, or increasingly any serious newspapers 'mai
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by polshaw 14y ago
Because it is referred to as Rate X Time, whereas most things, like Km/KPH, are referred to as Quantity per Time. (which is more explicit) I'm sure no one would be confused by the difference between joules and joules per second.
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by polshaw 14y ago
I have absolutely no doubt there is some PR behind the decision, but it should also be cost-effective in the long term.
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by polshaw 14y ago
I'm not surprised, it was too early for an A15, and Samsung would not give it to Apple before they used it themselves. Similarly, they were unlikely to be high clocked A9s because of battery life- apple has a history of using low clocked co
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by polshaw 14y ago
Apple have touted it. Twice as fast as 4S, longer battery life. That is all that matters to the consumer and those are the benefits brought by the CPU.
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by polshaw 14y ago
The exynos is the SOC which integrates ARM cores (A8, A9, A15). The actual ARM cores within are straight from ARM.
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by polshaw 14y ago
Samsung is making them, but they don't design their own.. well, they design the chips but not the arm cores themselves-- AFAIK only qualcomm (and now apple) have done this in the smartphone space.
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by polshaw 14y ago
>DC over 1500 V isn't really possible/efficient High-voltage DC uses voltages in the hundreds of kV. It is also the most efficient way of sending serious amounts of power over long distances (even before superconductors). Just as requir
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by polshaw 14y ago
Is there a law about people always quoting a law from wikipedia?.. Betteridge, Poe, Godwin, Dunning-Kruger.. it is getting just as old as the terrible blog post titles that provoke them them. This is not really even such a ridiculous propos
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by polshaw 14y ago
I think the key is making it easy for users to 'reset' the device to stock FxOS. I would hope the firefox brand was strong enough to keep carriers from releasing their own variants to avoid mozilla's requirements.
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by polshaw 14y ago
>There are a few intense games, like Biolab Disaster , that perform stunningly on even the £50 low-end device that I'm testing on — we're talking between 40 and 60FPS. . You have to be kidding me, my amiga 500 (released 1987, 7mhz) off
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by polshaw 14y ago
2KW sounds a hell of a lot, when a 250W motor on a bike can get up to 20mph? Do you actually use the full 2KW of power? it seems like it would throw the rider to me. I'm willing to bet from ebike knowledge that the regenerative braking is m
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by polshaw 14y ago
this will only be true under load. the cooling shown is not enough to manage the cpu under sustained load, and the fan is present, so either it turns on when the cpu temperature rises, or it is very infrequently under load.
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by polshaw 14y ago
whilst it is an impressive job, the title is misleading; it's 6W idle .. 75W load.
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by polshaw 14y ago
cnx say it is expected to be open hardware.[1] if true this would make it a pretty big deal. sata also. also this is no 'scam' project.. >the cubieboard (intended as BeagleBone competitor) and that aliexpress shop are both from Tom Cubi
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by polshaw 14y ago
I use netbeans (6.9) for python and javascript (/editing html/css). I'm not ready to make an investment in something hardcore like vim. Is there anything free that's better for this? intelliJ doesn't seem to support these with the free vers
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by polshaw 14y ago
There is another factor that people are ignoring for all the talk of technical possibilities... Those who are minded to go out of their way to install something that blocks ads probably aren't very likely to click ads anyway. They are also
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by polshaw 14y ago
Ironically (or not) jitbit.com is a similar percentage of content above the fold, with almost identical content width. I say 'or not', because there are well established readability reasons for having a narrow content width. Would many peop
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by polshaw 14y ago
The idea is that you don't generally remove it. In reality if you lost the tool you would use a paperclip. Also I disagree that it is a design fail. What (i think) you are describing is poor industrial design; it would be more prone to brea
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by polshaw 14y ago
I completely agree, but people lapped it up when it was on kickstarter. Know your market, I guess.
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by polshaw 14y ago
Build web app, package as smartphone app with phoneGap. Makes users happy.. right?
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by polshaw 14y ago
They might have been on launch (although i strongly doubt it personally- see cost of Chinese tablets- which also get no benefit from market sales), but they certainly aren't now.
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by polshaw 14y ago
I wonder how much they will target increased performance vs cost/power reduction. After all, the original fire was fast enough for the basic content consumption which seems to be the core idea of it.
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by polshaw 14y ago
Me too. I'm not a member of a startup community (outside of this forum), so unless they are given out/open up soon, i guess i will be excluded.
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by polshaw 14y ago
thanks! very helpful.
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by polshaw 14y ago
There has been some talk about ubuntu here-- what is the best way to keep up to date with browsers on ubuntu (/linux).. there is no 'check for updates' within firefox, and the repositories are often out of date [1] 1. to be fair, i don't kn
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by polshaw 14y ago
just use chromium, it is too (but without 'controversy' the sibling post mentions)
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by polshaw 14y ago
I have no (major) problem reading it online, but it just wont let me. If i go to your link, i am sent back to the kindle store. Then if i try to 'buy', i am required to have a kindle serial number, there is no other way to proceed. (I assum
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by polshaw 14y ago
Conversely when you have a bunch of tabs open Chrome will be gobbling up memory whilst firefox is quite svelte these days- much better than Chrome here. I can't say I have an issue with load times for either, although i rarely wouldn't have
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by polshaw 14y ago
I'm not exactly sure what the exact definition of 'linked to' would be? My understanding was that you could- for example, (if necessary) modify a GPL executable so that it could be interfaced via unix sockets, and then use this to communica

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