The title is too long.

I'm wondering if it has GLONASS as well?

Nice to get quick satellite fixes by using the first available satellite network, instead of standing around scratching your arse while the tower location method tries to tell you you're somewhere in a mile-or-more-wide ginormous blue circle centred on a phone mast.

Stylus, gimmick?

If it's a proper pressure sensitive graphics-tablet type pen, it's far from a gimmick. Those things are damned useful for doing anything more complex than the Windows 8 finger-painting advert.

Now if Adobe's Android apps will recognise that stylus and act accordingly, that could be a winner for the arty crowd that would normally go for more fruity devices.

LM provided the system for the 2001 census as well, don't you know?

So it's been going on a while.

I also went on to do a Computer Graphics module which was extremely maths intensive.

I'll second that. The graphics module we were on was more about the math and less about the tools used to to it. Case in point, we were asked to sketch out the algorithms in Matlab.

And Matlab can go love a duck. I don't care if it can keep satellites oriented the right way. It's an obtuse piece of shit that makes the Obfuscated C Contest look easy, and probably only holds its niche market (and niche market prices) because nobody has bothered making anything better. My opinion, of course.

Re: holy war fire flinger

Absolutely.

Back when I was doing the "Access to Business IT" course, where we got to see if we were good enough to even start a compsci-related degree, the programming module was split up into two groups. Both groups studied VB and C (plain, vanilla C), but they did it in reverse to each other. I was in the group that did C first. The other group did VB first.

By the time it came to switch languages, my group jumped into VB like a duck jumps in water. The VB group moving onto C took one look at constructs like "int variablename" (what.. you have to tell it what you want to store!? WTF is an int anyway!?), and collectively shat themselves.

Re: What flannel about VM languages etc.

We don't need C++ for most sophisticated applications now; it's mainly better for lower level "direct metal" service and platform code e.g. OS kernel, device drivers, and some services.

And computer games, graphics engines, simulations, and anything else that needs the speed more than it needs to be developed in 5 minutes.

Re: @Tom 7 (Any programming language is a tool)

You think a scalpel is the only weapon in a surgeon's arsenal?

Do you think a CBP pump can be used by any plonker who can hit a red button?

Does your most complex program go something like std::cout << "Hello, World" << std::endl;?

If so, then yes, C++ is probably not the language for you.

£487.99 inc. VAT

That's a lot less than a grand.

Granted, a lot more than £60, too.

China: A tool of the US govt?

I'm sure the US govt would like to think so.

I guess if there was an event horizon around the planet, within which we basically don't care about what happens because no information is going to leak out of it, then that might make the maths a bit easier than working with a planet full of geological and biological features.

Of course if our planet had an event horizon around it, we'd probably not be in a condition to care about how black holes work.

Re: Life coach

You know I think Eadon is a lot more intelligent than people think.

He/She/It joked that the MACH software might help shy people who are using Windows 8. Nowhere in his post did he mention that WIndows 8 is associated with shy people or social awkwardness, and yet he just trolled two people into posting by reflex.

Re: Any programming language is a tool

Unfortunately when the tool in question can perform a bewilderingly huge array of different tasks, it can end up requiring an expert to wield it properly. C and C++ are systems languages, meant for doing all that low level nitty-gritty at tremendous speed while abstracting the need to use an even more bewildering set of Assembler routines behind a language that is at least understandable, even if it doesn't hold your hand for you.

CNC milling machines are tools, but you ain't going to be good at using one if your only experience is a Black & Decker hammer-action.

Where's my 1Tb SSD?

In the bin after a couple of years of write operations.

Now where's my replaceable SSD cache for the spinning rust?

Already done.

I'm pretty sure there's other models out there which work with every phone including Apple's, too.

Re: Buy the kid a phone!

"We still primarily use 1860's methods of teaching."

Uniforms with so much starch you can cut yourself on the creases, lessons taught through the use of the cane, and lefties getting their hands tied behind their back to teach them to "write properly"?

Re: Bad idea

"you will put a kill switch in this phone or we will make it impossible for you to live."

Just remember that every diktat from government comes with a "or we will make it impossible for you to live" attached to it, and you'll see that dictating this over a fucking phone is perhaps a little bit psychotic.

But then this is a government we're on about. They are good at using sledgehammers on nuts.

Re: Not Gorilla Glassed

"Gorilla" glass is just a brand name, like Triplex or any of the other manufacturers of toughened glass. Bit like turning down a borosilicate baking dish because it doesn't have a "Pyrex" brand.

So long as it's comparitively tough, I guess it doesn't matter too much.

Re: Butt hurt android?

Flash works on your iPhone?

News to me, and the rest of the world. No, streaming shit from someone else's servers doesn't count, unless you want me to bring OnLive out.

Re: NSA have no sense of humor

Here as well as numerous other news sites.

Re: AAAS FFS

Could launch an Acronyms As A Service... service?

Big text file, modified chargen server, shouldn't be too difficult no?

Re: Does anybody call it 'Big AaaS Query?

Dammit, you beat me. Have an upvote instead.

Suggest Google use that as a service name. It's awesome.

I can see inefficiencies creeping in, but is there any reason distant components can't take the latency into account? I'm pretty sure supercomputer manufacturers have to deal with latency between nodes. This is a very similar thing but on a smaller scale, no?

Re: @Cliff In the meantime

Oh god, that site.

You have to wonder what the cops are doing all day, or howcomes Plumpy hasn't found out about his increasingly infamous online art gallery yet.

Really though, all of these anti theft measures are doing nothing about the phone chop shops that'll just rip the device apart and sell the screen, case, sensor glass, battery and any other saleable spare parts on Fleabay.

Re: Chipzilla....

Still, Intel all the way for me... From the mmx166 to my current i7

I didn't think CPU fanbois existed. Seriously, if it's cheaper, better, faster than an Intel chip.. why get the Intel option unless the motherboard is so expensive it makes up the difference?

They do this every now and then. The AMD K6/III and AMD64 kinda caught Intel with their pants down. AMD then decided to do an Intel and hike the prices, Intel released the Core series and stomped AMD back into second place again.

If this is another AMD blinder being pulled, I'd suggest grab it now before they hike the prices and give Intel some wiggle room to stomp on them again.

Re: "Max Turbo" modes

Oh, I have an old Asus motherboard+AMD quad core combo here, which has "unleashed" mode.. which you can trigger by pressing the power button.

Okay so it only adds about 1% or so to the speed, but I still have a Turbo button, and this time around it actually does something (as in, makes the computer sound like it's about to go VTOL).

Yeah because W8 isn't more resource-efficient than W7, which was better than Vista. Oh wait, it is.

Yes because half the guts of IE aren't part of the OS and already running in the background, and Microsoft don't have a bunch of hidden API calls that other browser manufacturers can't reliably use.

Oh wait, they do.

And yet they can still only manage such slim margins over the browser with the renowned weight problem, Firefox? This... is not impressive.

Oh, and.

(iv) The availability of free applications software is a threat to commercial

respond to this threat.^(p21)

Har.

Re: I'm assuming it's related to previous statements like this

*(e) Some people claim that playing video games is beneficial.

Make a reasoned argument to support this point of view.^(p19)

Bit of a wierd question.

Re: Might offset some of the Energy wasted trying to get things to work in IE

To be honest, there's a lot of sites now that are made to give up and gracefully degrade as best they can while warning you that you're using a POS* browser.

Granted, IE still has its, erm, ways.

*Particularly Obsolete Software

Re: it's probably MUCH worse than this

You'd rather the MBR get trashed silently I suppose?

Because if this is anything like the deal BT have been running for years, you choose whether to join that club or not.

Don't want access to a huge network of BT-FON points? Don't enable your point. I can't see how ComCast's setup is going to be much different.

tl;dr: Untwist those knickers until you know what's actually happening eh?

Re: Comparing like with like

Next lets see what Sony have to say about PS4.

I dunno. Maybe the boss might just walk on, say "$299", and walk off again? Not like it hasn't happened before. And then the year after.

/Use of Weapons/ is perhaps the best of his SF. To decry it as too hard is to miss the point of reading IMB. It is not easy reading.

Not saying I didn't enjoy it, but I was replying to someone who might want something a little lighter? You can burn through a State Of The Art short story in an hour if you're taking your time over it, stick a bookmark in there and come back tomorrow.

Taking a lead from the movie adaptations of Dicke's short stories, something like A gift from the Culture^(spoilers) is probably ripe for the Hollywood treatment, too.

Re: Are you kidding me?!

If it's set up like BT-FON/OpenZone, what's the problem? You can dish out your bandwidth in exchange for being able to use anybody else's bandwidth who's also in on the plan. You don't have to join if you don't want to.

Re: To be fair...

It's probably the only thing LG have won around mobile phones for a while

The contract for the Nexus 4 not count?

Re: Good looking on Radio

Now list me a few female presenters who aren't at least passably good looking.

Jo Brand?

Okay, so she has a certain "cuddly" look about her, but she's hardly size 0. From her material, I gather quite proudly so.

Re: I don't see why

The original model one was out for years. The model 2 worked fine, and I'm not even aware there was a model 3 of the 16 bit consoles. After some wikichecking, seems that was limited to North America and Brazil. On this side of the Atlantic, I was playing Master System games on a Megadrive up until way past the Saturn launch.

Considering the 3rd model didn't even support the DSP used in Virtua Racing, nor the Game Genie that was quite popular over here (or even the 32X and the CD add-on, whatever you want to call it), maybe people on this side of the Atlantic just tolerated less bullshit at the time?

But still, the original point stands. PS2 was nothing like the first console to support backward compatibility.