16GB would be fine in the scenario described, but as mentioned it can fill up quite easily if you install games or videos
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iPad Air 2: Vulture chews on new Apple tablet
FATTIES: Boffins say their miracle sunshine skin cream 'prevents obesity'
Re: FFS There is NO miracle cure
Oh dear. Someone has a metabolism which means they don't put weight on easily and has combined this with a GCSE in physics... what's that saying about a little knowledge being dangerous?
"If you want to lose weight you need to have less calories coming in than are going out" is at a similar level as "you are less likely to be in a car accident if you don't drive".
The human body is incredibly complicated. The basic calories in/used argument is obviously true but if you take two people they won't gain the same calories from eating exactly the same food and they won't use the same calories from doing the exact same activities.
For all those who think they can apply conservation of energy blindly, go work out the mass-energy equivalence of the calories contained in a big-mac.
And OF COURSE diets work. "Eating sensibly" IS a diet, you muppet.
Meet Mr Gamification: He's got a NUDGE or two for you
Lumia 830: Microsoft hopes to seduce with slim 'affordable' model
Fanboi-and-fanfare-free fondleslabs fail to fire imagination
Google Glassholes are undateable – HP exec
Pretty arrogant
If you're the type of person who would wear Glass on a date, the chances are the type of person who would date you would also be a big nerd. They might be interested or even turn up wearing Glass themselves! Maybe Glass is how you got talking to each other in the first place, I imagine if two wearers see each other they often say hello.
It rather suggests only men would wear Glass, and no women are nerds, or want to date nerds, which is hardly the case and is actually kind of sexist. Some of the biggest nerds I know are women.
Mars needs women, claims NASA pseudo 'naut: They eat less
Re: You seem to be confounding weight (or lack thereof) with mass.
Nope, you are confusing real life with GCSE level physics. When you carry something heavy from point A to B, the vast majority of the work done is not accelerating the mass, but fighting the gravitational force. In free-fall, moving a 20Kg sack of spuds involves a simple push at the start, let it float across and another push to stop it. About 2 seconds of physical activity, regardless of the distance. On earth, you have to trudge/drag/pull it the whole way. On Mars, the same but it's far easier.
The wrench example is correct but considering the whole point of the wrench is to overcome physical weakness in humans in the first place, just making the handle 1 inch longer would overcome the issue!
Boffins who stare at goats: I do believe they’re shrinking
Facebook pays INFINITELY MORE UK corp tax than in 2012
How does Ireland make any money by being a tax haven ?
You have to pay tax somewhere but if you funnel all your profit into a country with a much lower taxation rate, you pay far less tax - but that country gets all of it. So for example Ireland might get tax on all of Google's EU profits, in a simple example.
Taxing revenue is a stupid idea. My 1-man company's profits are something like 80% of revenue, for large corporations it could be only 2% if they rely on bulk sales at tiny margins.
And, personal tax sort of taxes profit rather than income by giving you a tax-free earnable allowance; you only pay tax on earnings after (approx) £10k. If you tot up your essential expenditure (averaged over adults in your home I suggest) where does it come relative to that? At a very rough guess in our household the allowance is about 2/3 of the per-person spending so not great but not a million miles off either.
Back to the ... drawing board: 'Hoverboard' will disappoint Marty McFly wannabes
Apple flings iOS 8.1 at world+dog: Our AMAZEBALLS 9-step installation guide
Doctor Who and the Dalek: 10-year-old tests BBC programming game
#Help. There's a STRANGER in my Twitter timeline
I'm always getting emails "do you follow X" or "do you know Y" from them. I'd much rather see this in Twitter itself because then I'd only be bothered by it when I was using Twitter, which is not very often at all.
I think they have a point, that these days Twitter is how many people would find out about people they'd want to follow on Twitter. Well, by "many people" I mean "many Twitter users".
Apple's new iPADS have begun the WAR that will OVERTURN the NETWORK WORLD
iPad AIR 2 and iPad MINI 3, 5K iMac: World feels different today – and it IS
The company also bumped up the hardware specs on the Mac Mini with faster processors
But now no option for quad-core at all, even on the top-spec model? That was the key difference between the two models previously, the more expensive one could support a quad-core i7.
I was waiting for the new models to consider getting an iMac; now I'm wondering if I should be trying to buy the previous generation (where do you get those from now)?
Watersports-friendly e-reader: Kobo's Aura H2O is literary when wet
Is living with Dolby Atmos worth the faff?
Securobods RAGE over $600k Kickstarter Tor box components
Hollywood's made an intelligent science vs religion film?!
Aboard the GOOD SHIP LOLLIPOP, there's a Mobe and a Slab and a TELLYBOX
Facebook, Apple: LADIES! Why not FREEZE your EGGS? It's on the company!
Women who are set on children know they need to leave a safety margin to have a strong chance, so that's basically early-mid 30s. Leaving it until early 40s, many women can have kids but the level of risk/doubt is much higher so you wouldn't do that. Knowing you can confidently get pregnant at that age might well mean many wait an extra 5-7 years, and those are quite possibly your most valuable years - you're an expert in your field, doing something quite senior. And yet you're still pretty young and healthy.
Influential scribe Charles Petzold: How I figured out the Windows API
Re: Face it, Windows is no longer the dominant OS on machines connected to the Internet
Of course it is.
Change "machines" for "devices" and you might be right although it would be interesting to see stats for total number of pages loaded across desktop & mobile OS, not number of unique devices, to measure where the bulk of usage is coming from.
Apple's new 'iPad Air 2' sliced open, revealing (possible) A8X core
Re: "But maybe it's been a bit too long since Apple did anything really exciting and innovative."
I don't really see how the fundamental design of the iPad CAN be improved. I'll probably look back on that comment with hindsight but it's basically just a screen. Adding stuff for change's sake would more likely be gimmicky than innovative.
Re: I suspect
"I guess it's not Haswell but the Mini is only incrementally behind state-of-the-art.
The current Mini is still a pretty good deal. It's hard/impossible to find or build a PC that size with comparable computing power and storage and an integrated power supply."
Neither the price nor the spec has changed for 2 years. You wouldn't pay today's prices for a 2-year-old PC normally.
It might be good value for the size (in fact I'm sure it is) but that's not an issue to me. It's just the cheapest way to get a decent spec Mac and PC, and by the time you put in a quad-core CPU it's rather expensive. The price creeps up on you... so a refresh would be nice even if only so I can buy a 2012 model more cheaply :)
Re: Minor bump
I don't know how I'd tell if I was running up against the RAM limit as a user running multiple apps but as a developer you have memory limits and increased RAM presumably increases those. For serious apps/games, you can easily use that much memory. Not just in terms of bigger resources, but some algorithms can trade CPU for RAM, etc.
I'm not saying we should need 2Gb, but doubling the RAM is not insignificant.
ONE MILLION people already running Windows 10
Re: Yeah But
I bet ANY beta of this type has a very large proportion of people who register but never install, or install but never use, or install and use for 5min and then get bored. That's nothing unusual at all.
Even if only 5% of people give it a proper test, 50,000 active beta testers is huge at this early stage.
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