Posts by Thomas Davie80 posts • joined Thursday 15th May 2008 10:14 GMT
you mean that it presumes the state owns your body once your brain isn't using it... Which is fair enough.
Why do it in cities – one of the great things about this kind of service is that it allows us to get on with useful work without needing to be in a city. Shouldn't we be pushing to make sure every town has it first so that we can stop with the overcrowding and crime problems that cities produce?
Not really true at all. Android has far far far more variation in hardware specs. This can impact on devs in trivial ways (e.g. having to support every screen resolution from 120x80 to 1280x800) to extremely difficult to work around ways (e.g. having to support everything from no graphics card at all to Tegra 3s). Either you cut your available market, or you have to target some pretty insanely low end hardware.
Compare this to the iOS world where you must support exactly 2 resolutions – 320x480 and 1024x768 points (note, points, all you do to support retina displays is provide images with 2 pixels to the point), and where you can rely on every single person with an iPhone in the last 3-4 years having at least a PowerVR SGX 535, and an iOS you're *way* better off.
Note – this is the most commonly used logic in industry for not supporting Android, along with the fact that users seem far less willing to pay for software on Android than on iOS.
I take it then that google should be pounded at relentlessly for making their company MOTO "don't be evil"?
You're buying a performance downgrade in fact, thanks to the GPU being twice as powerful but having 4 times the pixels to deal with.
Didn't we have an article less than a week ago about how new staff at apple typically work on bogus projects for a few years to see if they can be trusted with the sekrit speshul sauce?
It's not whether or not they were to blame that's in question – it's whether they were booted out, or simply had their project end a few weeks ago.
Saying "we have this mathematical model for what's going on, the results don't agree with that, therefore the results must be wrong" is exactly the opposite of what scientists should be doing. Instead, they should be going "hey, that's weird, we need a new theory (once we've verified the results)"
Got an example of a device prior to apples that used sliding your finger around on a touch screen to unlock it?
The only nonsense thrown into relief here would be you trying to ignore our legal system.
Had you ever thought that the fact that it's being so consistently banned over and over across the world might point to... you know... that apple might actually have a valid case?
Because as far as I can tell this is a copyright issue, not an IP issue.
^ And that right there – that tells us how much you understand about this issue.
Or... it could just be that there's a big hardware show going on and Intel and AMD are both there telling everyone about their products. Note – Ivy Bridge is due in early 2012, not 2013.
You forgot about all the wine and other drinks listed.
Wow... That's gonna be a lot of power it's sucking up after a few years in the server rack.
Given that we pay VAT at a higher rate than 14%, that's not a bad deal. Good on apple for making it cheaper in the UK than in the US.
I don't understand why anyone would buy a Nikon starting out at the moment. Canon allowing their low-end DSLRs to use EF lenses (admittedly at a crop) makes them infinitely superior to me. It allows you to buy a beginners body, then buy lenses that will work on a future better body.
If you asked most people what they do with their computer, they wouldn't be able to tell you. The reason – because they use it for a lot of random small tasks, not one major task.
Some examples of what I do with my iPad:
1) Read recipes off it in the kitchen.
2) Take notes in meetings on it – being able to draw diagrams and take photos as well as just type is bloody useful.
3) Play games.
4) Sit in bed and browse about the place.
This is the geek definition of "perfectly good" right? The one where it actually means "well, it works 60% of the time, if you spend 3 hours tinkering with it first". I've never met one single person who actually uses DLNA for anything, and that's not through lack of trying – they just can't get it to work reliably enough to not tear their hair out.
I've met a lot of programmers who have a weird "if it's beneficial to me, screw them" version of morality that really conflicts with the way our law works. I can imagine this is just the sort of thing they might think is legal.
But honestly, you're comparing an Atom to a Core i5?
Like the Apple Cinema Display which does exactly what you ask?
Time Machine has been greatly improved, and now plays nicely with encryption.
I'm actually somewhat surprised that you can't goatse a finder window to scale the icons.
The write lifetime "issue" is swept under the carpet because it's a non issue. For any reasonably large SSD (read around the 128GB mark) the point at which they'll hit the write cycle cap at *maximum write speed* continuously is around about 5-6 years down the line. Given that that's about the average lifetime of an HDD anyway, and a vast underestimate of life time, that's fine.
They're spending £4 per john lewis/curry's consumer who hears about this deal (a low number) in exchange for getting a load of free advertising in the tech industry to people who might actually buy from them ;)
When you consider the consumer space. Current consumer wired networking will get you 100Mb/s in theory, and about 80Mb/s in practice. Current consumer wireless networking will get you 300-600Mb/s in theory and about 150Mb/s in practice.
Now go watch the documentary, and observe that followers of other brands at least behave similarly... Unfortunately, they didn't subject them to the same testing. Bias at all?
If you're in a meeting or a lecture fondleslaps are great. The touch keyboard works almost as well as a normal keyboard, you don't have a big screen in front of you, and you can easily draw diagrams/take photos. Way better than a laptop.
Is that Apple at least, is not collecting your data – they're sending you data. They're sending you the location of towers near to other towers you just connected to so that the phone can look them up fast.
... That would be because Opera fails to implement the parental controls system in the OS... All applications with internet access that don't implement this get the 17+ rating.
It's very useful for a tablet. My primary use case for such a device is sitting on the sofa chatting to people on skype... If I want to switch to showing them the baby instead, the back facing camera is absolutely a boon. I don't get why it needs to be so high res (especially when it certainly won't have the optics to match), but it's certainly useful.
They're just trying to come up with a semi-viable excuse to search people's bags for food not bought in the cinema building.
The iPhone 4 users dumping an iPhone 3 would be counted in the upgrades... that's what upgrades means.... They're getting 230,000 *new* activations a day.
Other people have pointed out that your cost estimation is probably low; but even if it isn't... The number sounds ballpark right. I can imagine that each of these councilors is printing out at least one new report or draft of the same report from yesterday, every single day. It would only take a 100 page report a day to roughly hit your estimate.
Could it be that when you hold it in your left hand, your middle finger rests on top of the metal sim tray? Could it then be that the issue is not bridging GSM to WiFi, but instead bridging the GSM arial onto the SIM itself...
I've not seen the clock speed officially posted anywhere, and early benchmarks seem to suggest it's about 20% slower than an iPad, so it looks like being 800Mhz, not 1Ghz
It's reported because no other tablet has ever sold in this volume. I might suggest that your console's shipping numbers are unimpressive because McVitties have sold a crap load of digestive biscuits, way more than the Wii has sold in fact... Doesn't make it relevant.
1) You claim the iPad doesn't work as an eBook reader because it doesn't last for weeks on battery. I ask instead, why I'd want that in my house. I don't read for weeks on end, I might push 10 hours on a *really* long day with a *really* good book, but that's about the limit of reading realistically. After that, I dump it in a dock, and am done, simple. The only time I can think that you might want ultra long life is while going away on say, a camping holiday, and well, that's never been a problem for all our mp3 players for example that we'd want to last all week either.
2) You claim that the VGA output doesn't work with keynote, which is just plain wrong.
3) Your article actually really neatly sums up what the iPad is for, as you mention so many things you might want to do with it – it's for *everything*, it's good at all sorts of little things that you don't want to have a full size laptop about for.
2 x 8 x 1000 x 1000 = 2MB
2 x 1000 x 1000 = 2Mb
2 x 8 x 1024 x 1024 = 2 MiB
2 x 1024 x 1024 = 2Mib
One of the major points of paying a license fee was that the BBC would provide everyone with easy to access, free (other than the license), unbiassed (theoretically) news. Why are they being told that they're not allowed to carry out their basic remit?
The point here is that Apple controls the HTML 5 implementation on the iPhone. The test shouldn't be comparing against *all* HTML5 implementations and concluding that lots of them suck so flash is no worse. Instead, it should be comparing against the HTML 5 implementation written by apple, on an apple designed platform and concluding that HTML5 is 2 to 3 times more efficient than Flash. It's no good claiming "flash is at least as good" because Mozilla's implementation is the same speed, when Mozilla's implementation won't be used – apple's will.
I have a Garmin GPS from 1983, it still knows what the date is just fine!
The amusing thing being that an iPad or an iPhone *can* run your email and calendar at the same time.
It's only 3rd party apps that can't multitask. iCal and Mail both being written by apple are allowed to (and do) background.
At that rate, the answer is never. Every day, 2000 people are born in the UK, so they'll never manage to keep up.
Paris, because she must have been doing your sums today.
Apple's dock connector does a lot more than just charge and transfer data. It also transfers audio, control signals from remotes (e.g. on car steering wheels), video, and a few other things if I'm not mistaken. Apple's best bet for complying with that particular law is probably to put a mini USB port on the bottom *as well* as the dock connector.
A use of words expressing something other than their literal intention? I don't get it. Which word is it?
You only need to look at how much flack Microsoft catches for their customers not updating to see why an ultra-hard line approach is so appealing.
I have a Floating point Coprocessor in my machine, it's just most people would call it a Graphics card.
Seriously though, that's exactly what we're staring at – OpenCL and CUDA make these things into big massively parallel FPUs
