Posts by larokus

Re: price cutting? not for everyone

@DNTP

It is cheaper, the confusion you are having is arising from you reading the fine print :D

the old price SLASHING + fee JACKING rigamaroll

Re: Just wish @ jason 7

@rm -rf/

"Yeah right. I'll just get a chromebook and whack Linux on that thanks. Only Windows needs £900 worth of hardware to run it".

Despite me pointing out that obvious inaccuracy, Have you ever considered some people want more than just an 'environment'? How's World of tanks for Linux coming? Runs great on Arm too I suppose? Just because it's not what you want does not rid it of its significant use case.

sure

"Most people with rugged tablet needs will be better served with an iPad and one of the militarized covers."

Most of those control technicians in industry working largely on plc's and windows based infrastructure would make better use of an iPad?? Sysadmins?

Have you ever done compute heavy tasks on an iPad?

I hope for the sake of your IT or control department you aren't involved in procurement

Re: new products

A Tv set, with a screen, from Apple?? Would be doubtless supplied by Sharp, or Japandisplay, whichever display provider they have sourced, will be much better than a TV made by Sharp? Apple does not make any of the Apple displays on any Apple product. They don't 'make' anything, but instead source parts from different suppliers and source an assembler (foxconn) to put all those outsourced parts together, and load Apple software onboard.

But as always, the fanbois just assume the clouds part and down comes a shiny new product from the same apple tree where once under sat Adam&Eve

Re: It'll settle the debate

And yet again.

Since you are incapable of settling the debate without ACTUAL EXPERIENCE IN THE MATTER, I will settle it.

I am on my 9th, count it, 9th, flagship phone in 3 years, because I can, and buy what I WANT, and what has the best feature set, SoC, etc, not what anybody else tells me to buy. I'll tell you what the perfect screen size is, because I have had phones with screen sizes ranging from 3.5 inches all the way up to 5.7 inches. The perfect size for my average sized hands? (I'm 5'8") It's around 5.2 inches. Do I have the LG G2? No, I'm not a fan of the phone. I have two xperia z1 phones instead.

For what it's worth, when apple finally gets around to that size in around 2018, you'll call it perfect and forgot this debate was going on for years, in order to justify using that almost unusable paltry pathetic little screen for so long.

Re: Who can vouch for that?

Isn't it incredible just how fast the world forgot about Blackberry?

Re: Oooh ... they missed earnings by $0.01!

I'm quite sure in fact Intel continues to push the envelope for x86. Love it or hate it, (x86) Intel continues to drive the 'rate of shrinkage,' power efficiency and throughput, and is extremely competitive. If you are planning on building a PC in three years, you will almost certainly want the latest and greatest Intel cpu inside. I'd hardly call them complacent considering how they've manged to make x86 approaching ARM efficiency with the z2580 and it's predecessors which will certainly be more-so. Tri-gate or lightning anyone?

While praising a US firm in the land of EU competition in ARM may not prove popular, it is madness to call Intel a company lacking in innovation and focus.

Re: AMD done good

While it all looks great on paper and at firce glance more efficient, I will leave it to the benchmarks to decide just how effective this proves. I'm reminded of new Opteron cores sharing cache and memory in around 2008 which gave AMD a short-lived lead. Ultimately if Haswell+Discrete dusts Kaveri even at a marginal increase in power consumption, are you going to buy because in a whiny school kid on the playground voice you will shout 'but this is more efficient!!!' Tell it to my fps lead when I no-scope your dome. I miss AMD kicking ass, they just haven't since Athlon 1 in the consumer space. Here's to hoping.

Re: The problem with Opera

The latest Opera Beta.... errr sorry version 18 seems to have fixed that. Also, it is reasons like these that I have abonded the MUST UPDATE OS school of thought.

Re: Ok if QNX could do it why not linux?

Run an emulator to run an emulator!! Bluestacks for windows is android on your desktop. :D

Re: Contradictory reports

It is only in north america that Apple sells to massive isheep herds. In every other corner of the globe (where people truly do have independent intelligence) their sales are rightfully plummeting.

Re: If you're going into deep space you'll be using nuclear power

Nuclear is the answer, however not in the rtg form. The stirling engine is more efficient, and is said to be the answer (if perfected for radioisotope energy and years in deep space)

Re: No signs of competition yet

RAZR x? Sounds like the still only rumoured X phone. Unless of course you mean the already released RAZR i? In which case I haven't got on at all with it. I wouldn't even consider a paltry 4.3inch screen these days, and would even less consider a qHD screen. That phone belongs in 2010. I'm a fan of Intel but not enough to take leave of my senses. I'd be buying the ZTE Nubia Z7 next, assuming it will work on North American LTE networks and assuming reports of it having the snapdragon 800 are accurate there is a good chance of that. The size is a little much for most, but I tend to use my phablets as WiFi only, and my phones in tether mode.

Re: Where's the advantage over free space optics?

Walls? at 240Ghz will it pass through a sheet of paper?

---> @ iuniverse2.0

filled with uppity girls drinking flavoured water and walking staring at their chick iphones omg'ing all over twittbook and faceter to prove their worth and great knowledge of hollyworld while professing right from wrong and how killing animals is wrong while eating fish sushi. (urrgh my ex-gf comes exactly to mind, completely itarded oh and SO tech savvy, like.. come on, cause like, all these apps I have), and men's jeans only coming in 'skinny' where men are longer men but we should all just be 'metro' (isn't that ironic)

-- just fkn shoot me since the hipsters refuse to all die

Re: How old is the star?

One would hope not or surely the planets native ecosystem is quickly crumbling much as our own!! :))