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Well, the MacBook Air did create the market for CULV (Consumer Ultra-Low Voltage) based laptops, which seem to be slowly killing off the netbook as they're more powerful but are still thin, light and have decent battery life.
I think the MacBook Air is pretty shit too, but I wouldn't mind one of those nice Toshiba CULV laptops to replace my ASUS Netbook next time around.
Is this a new form of ePeen waving? Anyway, I think I was only unique out of 83k hits because of the strange resolution of this laptop (1440x1050) and combination of addons/plugins I have installed
That only works if the IP you're planning on exporting isn't already public domain in the countries you plan on exporting to.
In this instance the IP is public domain in the UK (as I understand it) and you would think the UK would probably be one of the largest markets for Sherlock Holmes stories.
...and some high-end TVs have a 'game mode' that amongst other things switches the interpolation off to avoid the delay you speak of. Specifically, I think some Samsung models have this feature.
There is a related point though which is the fact that a number of TVs/LCD Displays claim to be 100Hz or even 120Hz but can't actually accept a 100/120Hz input. Supposedly the coming generation of '3D ready' displays will rectify this since for a comfortable 3D viewing experience 60 FPS to each eye is required.
Get an Underground Overground tube map. You can buy these from dispensers on the underground platforms. They show the actual physical route and actual physical distances the tube trains take; the traditional symbolic map doesn't demonstrate the real distances between stops. You can waste a lot of time trying to take a particular tube to a particular station, when you could have just taken a simpler journey and ended up only two blocks' walk away. Not as convenient as the popout map, but good for planning your day.
I would agree with this; better yet if you have an iPhone, get the London Tube app - it will tell you the nearest tube stop using GPS and plot the fastest route from one station to the other. Finally, changing at Bank for Monument and vice versa on the tube is to be avoided if at all possible, especially during rush hour!
There are dispensers where you can buy Oyster cards in a lot of the tube stations (think they're £3 or so). Some flights also sell them on the way in these days with pre-loaded credit.
The card will work on the tube, buses and a lot of the national rail services within London - national rail services going out of London are a bit of minefield pricing wise so you're better off asking at the station for the cheapest fair at the time you are travelling.
The cheapest way to get around London is to buy a 7 day travelcard and have it loaded onto the Oyster card at the machine/kiosk, you probably only need zone 1 depending on where you're staying.
(P.S. I would agree with visiting the British Museum and the Science Museum; the National History Museum is an amazing building and the dinosaurs are cool but the rest of the exhibits are a bit boring, however it's next door to the Science Museum and they're all free so you might as well stick your head round the door.)
If it's £50 in the UK it will probably be closer to $50 in the US. We always get screwed on the exchange rate (and quoted prices in the UK include tax).
An xbox game at launch is typically £35-40 over here (the RRP of Modern Warfare 2 was even higher, but I don't think that's a phenomenon unique to the UK).
Agreed, although the BBC has dabbled with 3D in the past (I seem to remember a 3D episode of Eastenders for either the Children in Need or Comic Relief charity event) this is a completely separate broadcaster.
AMD (formerly ATI) offer some kind of free tool to users of their graphics card that does the same thing.
I think it might be called Hydravision or something like that. I used it until I installed Windows 7 when I found that the new Aero snap and improved multi-monitor stuff was enough for my needs.
Whereas I only get a theoretical 356 miles out of my 2009 Fiat 500 - it only has a 35 litre / 7.7 UK Gallon fuel tank though.
However the model with the 1.2 litre engine has a theoretical range of 427 miles and next year's models are rumoured to get the same if not greater horsepower from a 0.9 litre turbo charged engine which should increase the range even more
I'm sure it's being worked on - I've seen a few home DIY type solutions on the net before
Embedding some kind of display technology in the windscreen is one option, but I imagine this would be very expensive and might not be very easy given the way windscreens are manufactured (laminated glass I think)
The cheap option would be to project up onto the windscreen, but shining light up out of the windscreen would probably be very distracting for other drivers at night!
I agree that Apple's approvals process for apps sucks balls.
I was very close to getting a HTC Magic (might be called something different in the US, basically the 2nd Android device), until I actually tried one - too slow (compared to iPhone 3GS), dodgy touchscreen and rubbish as a media player. Maybe the newer Android devices are better, but they weren't around when I was ready for a new phone. I'm open to the idea of getting an Android device in the future if one of those devices meets my needs better than the iPhone 3GS can.
I wonder if the delay is caused by the fact this will only work properly on a 3GS, since other iPhones don't include a compass. I'm not aware of any apps that require a specific model of iPhone (or even iPod Touch) at the moment despite the hardware differences.
I want to see a SatNav application for the iPhone that makes use of AR.
I imagine mounting my iPhone on my dashboard with the camera pointing forwards and having the driving directions, road names/numbers, driving statistics etc superimposed over the top of the live images.
This is probably unrealistic at the moment due to hardware limitations (sampling rate for the built in GPS, compass etc) but I'm sure we'll get there one day. It's probably more realistic that TomTom or similar will come out with a SatNav that includes a camera for this purpose.
On the other hand, the public-private partnerships to manage the nation's motorways (more analogous to broadband) have worked out quite well and saved the country money overall.
The Highways Agency, which is responsible for trunk (strategic) roads in England, has said that it expects to procure about 25% by value of current and new major schemes using private finance contracts. Under the Design, Build, Finance and Operate (DBFO) method of procuring road improvements and maintenance, value-for-money savings averaging 15% have been delivered. The National Audit Office report on the first four projects concluded that they were likely to deliver savings of about £100m with two of the projects delivering savings of around 20% compared with conventionally procured alternatives. The Highways Agency has invited and received tenders for its largest DBFO project yet, which provides for the improvement and maintenance of the M25 London orbital motorway.
Source: www.public-admin.co.uk (there's probably a better source on the National Audit Office site, but I can't find it right now)
Wouldn't most people sign up for 1 month, download everything they want, and then cancel?
I think the minimum contract with Virgin Media is one year for broadband service, so that wouldn't be possible. Or rather, it wouldn't be possible to cancel after a month unless you paid the remainder of the monthly fees.
In theory it might be worth doing that - you could download the entire Universal catalogue in month 1 then buy out the remainder of your contract and go somewhere else. However, there will probably be limits on the amount of music you can download each month, as well as the usual Virgin Media limits on the amount of bandwidth you can use at peak times each day before throttling kicks in.
It's probably part of the tenancy agreement, "you agree not to break the law within these premises" etc. He could probably go to court to claim his innocence, but since he's just delcared on slashdot that he did indeed download the film illegally using P2P I somehow doubt that's the route he'll be taking.
Not sure who has marked this as "Troll", Joe U is entitled to his opinion and I for one agree with him, for me Vista in its current incarnation is a much better OS than XP.
Sure there were some teething troubles with Vista, but those were related to hardware manufacturers and software developers not pulling their fingers out on the compatibility front as much as anything else.
I moved to Virgin (10Mb) after being a long-time BT subscriber and I can honestly say I have no regrets.
I lived fairly close to the exchange when I was on BT and could manage about 6.5Mb/s over ADSL, but only at non-peak times. The rest of the time I was lucky to get 1.5Mb/s due to contention.
On Virgin, my download speeds are extremely consistent at close to the theoretical maximum in many cases and I haven't lost my connection once in over 9 months, whereas I had to reset my connection several times a week with BT.
Sure, there are caps, but I've hardly noticed them to be honest. I just set up my bittorrent downloads to run overnight, which I tended to do anyway to avoid impacting on my online gaming and general web browsing.
It's true that the upload bandwidth could do with being a bit higher though; uploading a bunch of photos to Flickr at 1-2MB per file can be painful.
Oh and Virgin's IPTV service (movies on demand, iPlayer etc) is vastly superior to the crappy BT Vision service I used to have.
The European Commission has described the technology as an "interception" of user data and wants UK law to reflect more explicitly the need for consent from users in order for the service to be implemented.
Actually, I'm not sure that's quite true. The European Commission described the unauthorised trials that BT carried out with Phorm last year as unauthorised interception of user data; I'm not sure they have a problem with the proposed webwise service as such, although that may change.
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Well, the MacBook Air did create the market for CULV (Consumer Ultra-Low Voltage) based laptops, which seem to be slowly killing off the netbook as they're more powerful but are still thin, light and have decent battery life.
I think the MacBook Air is pretty shit too, but I wouldn't mind one of those nice Toshiba CULV laptops to replace my ASUS Netbook next time around.
I imagine they will go for uksa.gov.uk
I got 16+
Is this a new form of ePeen waving? Anyway, I think I was only unique out of 83k hits because of the strange resolution of this laptop (1440x1050) and combination of addons/plugins I have installed
2100 points for 28EUR minus 19% VAT (28/1.19) is 23.53EUR or ~33.11USD: 33.11 / 2100 = 1.58ct per point
Still quite a lot higher (~32%) than 1.2ct per point.
Oops, replied to the wrong post... see "Think Like a Politician" posted by Kriss below.
That only works if the IP you're planning on exporting isn't already public domain in the countries you plan on exporting to.
In this instance the IP is public domain in the UK (as I understand it) and you would think the UK would probably be one of the largest markets for Sherlock Holmes stories.
...and some high-end TVs have a 'game mode' that amongst other things switches the interpolation off to avoid the delay you speak of. Specifically, I think some Samsung models have this feature.
There is a related point though which is the fact that a number of TVs/LCD Displays claim to be 100Hz or even 120Hz but can't actually accept a 100/120Hz input. Supposedly the coming generation of '3D ready' displays will rectify this since for a comfortable 3D viewing experience 60 FPS to each eye is required.
Get an Underground Overground tube map. You can buy these from dispensers on the underground platforms. They show the actual physical route and actual physical distances the tube trains take; the traditional symbolic map doesn't demonstrate the real distances between stops. You can waste a lot of time trying to take a particular tube to a particular station, when you could have just taken a simpler journey and ended up only two blocks' walk away. Not as convenient as the popout map, but good for planning your day.
I would agree with this; better yet if you have an iPhone, get the London Tube app - it will tell you the nearest tube stop using GPS and plot the fastest route from one station to the other. Finally, changing at Bank for Monument and vice versa on the tube is to be avoided if at all possible, especially during rush hour!
There are dispensers where you can buy Oyster cards in a lot of the tube stations (think they're £3 or so). Some flights also sell them on the way in these days with pre-loaded credit.
The card will work on the tube, buses and a lot of the national rail services within London - national rail services going out of London are a bit of minefield pricing wise so you're better off asking at the station for the cheapest fair at the time you are travelling.
The cheapest way to get around London is to buy a 7 day travelcard and have it loaded onto the Oyster card at the machine/kiosk, you probably only need zone 1 depending on where you're staying.
(P.S. I would agree with visiting the British Museum and the Science Museum; the National History Museum is an amazing building and the dinosaurs are cool but the rest of the exhibits are a bit boring, however it's next door to the Science Museum and they're all free so you might as well stick your head round the door.)
If it's £50 in the UK it will probably be closer to $50 in the US. We always get screwed on the exchange rate (and quoted prices in the UK include tax).
An xbox game at launch is typically £35-40 over here (the RRP of Modern Warfare 2 was even higher, but I don't think that's a phenomenon unique to the UK).
Yes! That's exactly what I was thinking of - I was only 11 at the time so my memory of it is a little hazy :-)
Agreed, although the BBC has dabbled with 3D in the past (I seem to remember a 3D episode of Eastenders for either the Children in Need or Comic Relief charity event) this is a completely separate broadcaster.
AMD (formerly ATI) offer some kind of free tool to users of their graphics card that does the same thing.
I think it might be called Hydravision or something like that. I used it until I installed Windows 7 when I found that the new Aero snap and improved multi-monitor stuff was enough for my needs.
Whereas I only get a theoretical 356 miles out of my 2009 Fiat 500 - it only has a 35 litre / 7.7 UK Gallon fuel tank though.
However the model with the 1.2 litre engine has a theoretical range of 427 miles and next year's models are rumoured to get the same if not greater horsepower from a 0.9 litre turbo charged engine which should increase the range even more
I'm sure it's being worked on - I've seen a few home DIY type solutions on the net before
Embedding some kind of display technology in the windscreen is one option, but I imagine this would be very expensive and might not be very easy given the way windscreens are manufactured (laminated glass I think)
The cheap option would be to project up onto the windscreen, but shining light up out of the windscreen would probably be very distracting for other drivers at night!
I agree that Apple's approvals process for apps sucks balls.
I was very close to getting a HTC Magic (might be called something different in the US, basically the 2nd Android device), until I actually tried one - too slow (compared to iPhone 3GS), dodgy touchscreen and rubbish as a media player. Maybe the newer Android devices are better, but they weren't around when I was ready for a new phone. I'm open to the idea of getting an Android device in the future if one of those devices meets my needs better than the iPhone 3GS can.
I wonder if the delay is caused by the fact this will only work properly on a 3GS, since other iPhones don't include a compass. I'm not aware of any apps that require a specific model of iPhone (or even iPod Touch) at the moment despite the hardware differences.
I want to see a SatNav application for the iPhone that makes use of AR.
I imagine mounting my iPhone on my dashboard with the camera pointing forwards and having the driving directions, road names/numbers, driving statistics etc superimposed over the top of the live images.
This is probably unrealistic at the moment due to hardware limitations (sampling rate for the built in GPS, compass etc) but I'm sure we'll get there one day. It's probably more realistic that TomTom or similar will come out with a SatNav that includes a camera for this purpose.
They do on Vista and Windows 7. In fact, every application has its own volume control.
See this link on MSDN
On the other hand, the public-private partnerships to manage the nation's motorways (more analogous to broadband) have worked out quite well and saved the country money overall.
The Highways Agency, which is responsible for trunk (strategic) roads in England, has said that it expects to procure about 25% by value of current and new major schemes using private finance contracts. Under the Design, Build, Finance and Operate (DBFO) method of procuring road improvements and maintenance, value-for-money savings averaging 15% have been delivered. The National Audit Office report on the first four projects concluded that they were likely to deliver savings of about £100m with two of the projects delivering savings of around 20% compared with conventionally procured alternatives. The Highways Agency has invited and received tenders for its largest DBFO project yet, which provides for the improvement and maintenance of the M25 London orbital motorway.
Source: www.public-admin.co.uk (there's probably a better source on the National Audit Office site, but I can't find it right now)
Wouldn't most people sign up for 1 month, download everything they want, and then cancel?
I think the minimum contract with Virgin Media is one year for broadband service, so that wouldn't be possible. Or rather, it wouldn't be possible to cancel after a month unless you paid the remainder of the monthly fees.
In theory it might be worth doing that - you could download the entire Universal catalogue in month 1 then buy out the remainder of your contract and go somewhere else. However, there will probably be limits on the amount of music you can download each month, as well as the usual Virgin Media limits on the amount of bandwidth you can use at peak times each day before throttling kicks in.
It's probably part of the tenancy agreement, "you agree not to break the law within these premises" etc. He could probably go to court to claim his innocence, but since he's just delcared on slashdot that he did indeed download the film illegally using P2P I somehow doubt that's the route he'll be taking.
Not sure who has marked this as "Troll", Joe U is entitled to his opinion and I for one agree with him, for me Vista in its current incarnation is a much better OS than XP.
Sure there were some teething troubles with Vista, but those were related to hardware manufacturers and software developers not pulling their fingers out on the compatibility front as much as anything else.
I lived fairly close to the exchange when I was on BT and could manage about 6.5Mb/s over ADSL, but only at non-peak times. The rest of the time I was lucky to get 1.5Mb/s due to contention.
On Virgin, my download speeds are extremely consistent at close to the theoretical maximum in many cases and I haven't lost my connection once in over 9 months, whereas I had to reset my connection several times a week with BT.
Sure, there are caps, but I've hardly noticed them to be honest. I just set up my bittorrent downloads to run overnight, which I tended to do anyway to avoid impacting on my online gaming and general web browsing.
It's true that the upload bandwidth could do with being a bit higher though; uploading a bunch of photos to Flickr at 1-2MB per file can be painful.
Oh and Virgin's IPTV service (movies on demand, iPlayer etc) is vastly superior to the crappy BT Vision service I used to have.
The European Commission has described the technology as an "interception" of user data and wants UK law to reflect more explicitly the need for consent from users in order for the service to be implemented.
Actually, I'm not sure that's quite true. The European Commission described the unauthorised trials that BT carried out with Phorm last year as unauthorised interception of user data; I'm not sure they have a problem with the proposed webwise service as such, although that may change.