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by polshaw 15y ago
It's a tiny, low power, low cost computer. The uses are almost infinite.
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by polshaw 15y ago
Since all TVs/Monitors/Projectors have had HDMI for some years now, i think it was a wise choice. IIRC there is still composite out for those stuck with only analogue connections.
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by polshaw 15y ago
To be clear-- the reason energy is cheap at night is not JUST because it is used less-- it is also because there are certain continuous energy sources. Nuclear power, geothermal, tidal, wave and wind power are all producing energy round the
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by polshaw 15y ago
I disagree with the patent situation as much as anyone, but that was massively melodramatic (and almost completely lacking any substance).
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by polshaw 15y ago
Reading this thread, the masses of 'um's here really feel contagious.. i wouldn't want to be starting a speech right now. I have to say PGs 'UHM's were very noticeable (distracting, even), although that perhaps was a little influenced by th
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by polshaw 15y ago
I wish someone would use this to 'infect' IE users (particularly older versions) with chrome-frame.
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by polshaw 15y ago
I'm not complaining, it's surely no easy task, but how can you claim they are unduly in a hurry? They were 3 months behind their original plan. This was a mistake by their manufacturers, and could have happened no matter how long they took.
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by polshaw 15y ago
Consider also that when GPD of the richest 300m Chinese surpasses that of the GDP of the USA, that is the point at which the battle is essentially won in favour of China, because they will be a larger high-GDP market than the USA at that po
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by polshaw 15y ago
This brings to mind an interesting point- economic migration. An Alabaman(?) wanting to set up a start up is likely to move to california or new york- suppressing the GDP of Alabama and increasing it for CA/NY. The same migration applies to
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by polshaw 15y ago
Sure, but that's a rather contrived example-- most people have a fairly normal room, and the average joe would be best served by getting a good pair of speakers, and a reasonable amplifier and DAC, before worrying seriously about room aco
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by polshaw 15y ago
I'm not a huge NIN fan, but Trent is truly awesome when it comes to digital music. You can add excellent mastering and dedicated surround mixes too..(rec: Social network soundtrack). Also a former oink'er. The beatles multi-tracks are also
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by polshaw 15y ago
I have to say that was probably the most comprehensive dealings with the issue of sample-rates I've ever come across. I'm not going to make the mistake others have of claiming falsehoods (all of which i've read so far have been debunked to
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by polshaw 15y ago
Its fascinating. These 'pundits', lets remember (beside the question of whether it was even accurate or significant-- enough pundits and someone will have said anything), we didn't know what the iPad was going to be. The possibility that it
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by polshaw 15y ago
>buyer's remorse will set in Not necessarily. Take our case of the iPad. It came out at a time when netbooks had created a new low for computer pricing. The iPad lacked a keyboard, a proper/large HDD, had a processor that was even slowe
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by polshaw 15y ago
I can't say I can hold zero blame for the rPi gang on this clusterfuck.. offloading the task was never going to help, it should have been obvious RS/Farnell were not ready- Amazon were the only retailer that could have handled it. But I don
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by polshaw 15y ago
Thanks, that was a gripping read. Did your brother have any opinion on how that compared to a longer period of less intense exercise? /what were their findings
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by polshaw 15y ago
As a point of comparison, Tesco, one of the UK's largest companies, also has a 3% profit margin. They do take £1 in every 7 spent in the UK high street, so it obviously works quite nicely for them. So at volume, it is very sustainable.
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by polshaw 15y ago
You paint a rather rosy picture of UK carriers. Whilst you are right with regards to phone availability, while contracts and PAYG are still centred primarily around voice minutes and text messages, we are far from 'dumb pipe' territory.
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by polshaw 15y ago
I still don't really understand the difference between sockjs and socket.io.. or is it just aesthetic??
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by polshaw 15y ago
LibreOffice is also planning a cloud version, so it could well be them. Assuming they can provide a proper port (which i think was the plan?) then they are way ahead of google docs.
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by polshaw 15y ago
I really hope this survives, IMO we need a truly free mobile OS since meeGo died. Concerns about 'browser as an OS', web apps only, and carrier control are way premature-- wait until we have seen the thing. For me, the fact mozilla are behi
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by polshaw 15y ago
It would be suicidal for their aim of getting atom into tablets and smartphones, I meant. (Which would almost certainly hold more profit than making someone else's processor.)
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by polshaw 15y ago
This is potentially fantastic. But what i'd really like to know is how does this affect the battery life-- how much more power efficient (if at all) is it than an LCD when you are scrolling or such??
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by polshaw 15y ago
As the linked XDA developers thread explains, this is showing both 'normal' and fast-refresh mode. So the times when it is fast are the point of this video.
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by polshaw 15y ago
Thanks, that was very interesting. Android looks to work very well with a keyboard and mouse, especially considering it is almost unused in this way today. Everyone ranting that android is a mobile 'toy' platform should definitely watch thi
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by polshaw 15y ago
There is no one i trust with my data more than me, and large projects have a poor history with trust/privacy. When I talk about licencing i'm talking about the future: where you could use the cloud to access full fat programs like photoshop
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by polshaw 15y ago
It would be fantastic for apple, but not so sure about intel. Remember, intel are right now trying to bring atom-- itself not even on the 22nm process yet-- to exactly the space that the A5 occupies. It would seem suicidal to give away thei
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by polshaw 15y ago
> I haven’t actually described how you should answer the question What is your greatest weakness? I can know yours; misleading blog post titles, and not answering the question. If you wish to talk about 'what i think about stupid inter
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by polshaw 15y ago
Why? To have all your computing stuff with you all the time. That is not just your documents, but your programs and settings. And to only maintain one system. They way i see it, the only rival to this vision is the cloud, and there are a lo
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by polshaw 15y ago
That would depend on the phone.. either bluetooth, USB (many new phones support USB otg which allows connecting peripherals), or some kind of docking solution, like the atrix system. Theoretically I don't see why you couldn't use the phone'

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