Posts by Black Plague
12 posts • joined Friday 30th September 2011 18:01 GMT
Re: But
I'm reminded of the Family Guy Star Wars spoof:
"Practice on a hot dog first..."
In all seriousness, this looks awesome and is great news for amputees. If I ever get my arm blown off, you better believe I'll plop down the cash for a frickin' robot hand!
It's much more useful...
...when you root it and install the Google Marketplace.
I did such with my original Kindle Fire and I enjoy it a lot more. You can even go as far as putting custom ROMs on, but the Kindle fork of Android is pretty useful still for just e-reader use and my experience has been that it has the best sleep mode power management of any Android device I've yet seen, on par with Apple devices. If I lay it down and don't use it for a month, it's still got exactly the same battery level when I do pick it up again.
First thing that sprung to my mind was "metrosexual"
But I trust gay men to have a much better eye for design than Steve Sinofsky.
Huh?
I thought El Reg had settled on NOTro for the new name!?
IA64
"Windows RT won't run software built for Intel's IA32 and IA64 family of processors"
IA64? Who's clamoring for Itanium compatibility on Windows RT?
Posted in Tablet and laptop sales neck and neck
Re: @Black Plague
lol, about what I expected.
It's a shame really that Android sales haven't picked up. Though I'm part of the problem. Even after eyeballing a Tranformer Prime at the local electronics giant, I still balked at ponying up several hundred for a glorified toy that's just a bigger version of my Android phone. Though I balk at paying even more for an iPad, as well.
Posted in Tablet and laptop sales neck and neck
When they say "tablet".....
Do they mean iPads?
I'd be really curious to see how that tablet number breaks down between iPads, Android-based tablets, and the odd Windows tablet PC.
Seriously?
A British website, and no one here thought immediately about Mr. Reynholm Sr. from "The IT Crowd"?
Hello. Hello computer. Hello. Hello! Hello computer!!!
And what about Bing?
Is Microsoft going to rush to fill the gap with disgruntled homophobes in need of a search engine?
Bing: Official Search Engine of the Defense of Marriage Act
Can't wait
I've been drooling over the idea of a sleek ultrabook with an ssd/hdd combo drive in it. First I heard of this idea was last year, right before the last Macbook Pro refresf, when the rumor sites were reporting (falsely) the new Macs would have a small flash drive for the OS files and swap along with the larger hard drive.
Seriously, you get the benefits of lots of cheap storage (hdd) with the benefits of super quick boot and virtual memory. All you'd have to do is partition so all the system files and the page/swap file rests on a little 10GB piece of flash, while all your user files, photos, movies, music, etc. can rest on the hard drive.
Don't know why more manufacturers haven't done this already by sticking hdd's and small ssd's in full-size laptops.
Remember the rumors that Stuxnet was written by the US military, CIA, etc.?
Knowing what I know about the history of US Dept of Defense computing, my bet is that it's written in Ada!
Anti-virus programs should classify IE as malware, lol
