Re: Nexus S4 for How MUCH!

put my balls on coal and strike a match!

the only thing missing from making this the perfect phone is that S-pen is not supported. i think the "fail" is a tad unfair in this case.

Re: zanto

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6536/arm-vs-x86-the-real-showdown

a general discussion on krait v/s a15 v/s atom in terms of power performance. there are a number of tests with varying results, but generally the qualcomm chip comes out on top.

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/144778-atom-vs-cortex-a15-vs-krait-vs-tegra-3-which-mobile-cpu-is-the-most-power-efficient

this is a rehash of the Anandtech article which tells the same thing.

last but not least, the very article to which we're commenting on, talks about the phone not heating up even under heavy cpu load.

Re: No Exynos in the US

the qualcomm chip is actually better. a15 blowing the krait out of the water is just a myth. look at the comparison over at gsmarena.com where they have benchmarks between the 2 SGS4 models.

http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s4_vs_htc_one-review-913p6.php

you get virtually identical performance at a fraction of the power consumption.

"I have seen the future.... and it breathes fire"

Re: Linux - the engineer's server operating system

"real work" can also be done with libreoffice

Re: Israel needs to grow up

hmm let's see.

IRA bombings would be preceded with a phone call to minimize the loss of life.

Islamic terrorism? here is the conversation between the terrorists and their handlers. watch the part whey they so gleefully kill two Jewish hostages.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QehgTIOmkmQ

why should Israel or anyone for that matter engage politically with pure evil?

@Matt

you made some good points, but let yourself down with the use of "Fakestinian"

the way i see it, everyone in this mess is a twat, Steve for being clueless about the middle east, and the bit of an idjeet who asked him to stop using an intel processor.

Re: More adverts, everywhere.

Screw google, I'm going to install this anyway now.

Re: Take them to the cleaners, Benny!

funny i don't recall Mother Thresa doing this when caring for the sick and dying in India, most of whom were non catholics. I myself have worked with the nuns at a home dedicated to looking after children with defects abandoned by their parents. i've also visited and helped out in old age homes many of the residents of which are non catholics.

from my experience of actually being there as oppesed to reading stuff on the internet, i can tell you, no gold changed hands.

another practising Catholic on the reg forums? i thought i was the only one.

I guess i understand what it must feel like for someone who's gay to come out of the closet a few years back.

Re: Smashing Pope

Actually that always struck me as odd. I do agree that the teachings of Christ were love and acceptance of all regardless of sexual orientation, race, colour and creed. And yet the Catholic Church is branded as being intolerant.

As a catholic, i've never seen or experienced this at church. i do read about it in the media though. but us catholcs are too dumb to believe everything we read. i mean it even appears on the internet so it must be true shouldn't it?

Re: Take them to the cleaners, Benny!

the sort of organization that's lasted through centuries, wars and other pseudo intellects who believed they knew better perhaps?

or perhaps the sort of organization that's built schools, and hospitals in places where few would go and asking nothing in return. a damning statistic if ever on the Church's business acumen.

see son, for the pope to admit that he's no longer able to do justice to his job and retire takes a lot of brass. much more perhaps than it takes for a nitwit sitting in front of his keyboard taking cheap pot shots.

Re: Maybe he read Richard Dawkin's "The God Delusion"

It was Delhi.

Re: Bullshit

"Autocad is a resource hog (justifiably... maybe!) you _can_ run it on a single core chip with a gig of ram, but if your 'designs' are more than a line with 2 squirkles then forget it."

when i was in college, we had autocad running on a "tower" server, which was a 486-DX, 270MB hdd and i do not remember how much ram.

Re: it ends in 2015

13thApril1919 unarmed civilians including women and children treated like target practice and butchered till the British ammo almost ran out..

1984 terrorists armed with machine guns and fortified, were flushed out from the Golden Temple.

there's no reference to plumbing, but since you brought up history all smug like, i figured why not?

Re: it ends in 2015

120 years ago we set the standards for the Nazi's to emulate. Just check up on the Jalianwala Bagh massacare.

Re: @Crisp: SHOCKED!

Turtle called it right.

Slapping a "NSFW" tag on the article is a tacit agreement that it could be offensive.

Re: Beautiful Polish women?

it's subjective.

yep

"actual" people. not to be confused with apple loving sheep.

btw, check out the icon next to this post. since you appear a bit slow, that is the icon to use for a post like yours. now off to the meadows with you.

Re: You do know that Google stuff has been sync'ing for years upon years, right?

in mobile computing terms 4 years is a lot. just 5 years back, the iphone just about made it's debut and the word ipad would probably conjure up images of a sanitary product for the ladies.

Re: A phone with garish colours and 2011 specs

those dual cores are Kraits. which for the less informed, stack up rather favourably against the nvidia and samsung quad core a9's.

on the hardware front, there is nothing to complain about.

Re: the problem with porn

Ok, i actually googled the topic of violent video games and it's effects on behaviour. The jury is still out on this, however:

"In fact, I firmly believe that if you have an unbalanced individual with such fantasies and let him vent off his steam in front of a simulation, you will prevent, or at least defer him from doing it for real."

you do make a very good point which i have overlooked and surprisingly, my google research actually seems to back you up on this. so good point.

Having said that, I still do not agree that unfettered access to porn/violence is healthy for children. yes teenage sex was around for ages. To take your example, what if that pimple faced teenager was watching porn alone with a girl he would otherwise never have had a chance with?

Re: Playground stuff again

couldn't agree more. Apple want to have their cake and eat it as well.

Re: the problem with porn

Firstly, what i meant was that if all some kids do is shoot / slash people in video games, they'd be less averse to do it in real life.

Secondly, you're confused between religious fanaticism and moral development. Were you aware that Osama Bin Laden had a stash of porn in the compound he was killed in? So much for that line of reasoning.

Thirdly, no i went through puberty like most other people. And it was tough at the time, but i did get to view porn, so no, i'm not a prude. Today though, kids are exposed to sex even before they hit puberty. i read of school kids indulging in oral sex and filming it on their cell phones, teenagers still in school getting pregnant and abortions. And i think that something is not right. From where do they get these ideas? Why is this so normal for them? is it because they see so much of it so easily? Porn isn't the only cause, but it is a major factor.

but then some know-it-all schmuck tells me that this is not true. kids do not get any ideas from porn. I'll believe you just as soon as you introduce me to the tooth fairy.

Re: Were They All...

No. Just regular Mac users.

Re: "met his six identified victims through friends and *his church*"

Could be Scientology. Just sayin..

Re: People weren't expecting this?

You're right. A friend of mine who was a developer for s60, left over a year back. Almost everyone in his team was worried and on the lookout. The sad thing is that not everyone can get another job, for a myriad of reasons. Then there are those who although qualified cling to their jobs because of a comfort level and a sense of inertia.

Re: 100%?

that's reserved for the version that runs on the dual-krait processors.

wait for the Sony Xperia GX SO-04D, or try and source a SIII from across the pond where it comes with the qualcomm S4 processor.

Re: Is Android so bloated that it needs a quad core CPU?

nope, it works just fine on my milestone which, last time i checked was a single core. and i should know because i worked on the 3430.

of course you can but dream about swapping sd cards, copying and playing movies of just about any available format etc. you could also argue that you see no need for this and so convince yourself that all is hunky-dory, and you would be correct in this. whatever rocks your boat son, be happy with it.

having said that, i am surprised to see that microsoft has not managed to make major inroads into the corporate environment. assuming they can have better integration with office viewers and better support for displaying and modifying office documents, i would expect them to own this segment.