I think it comes down to screen size and viewing distance. Personally I think 4K could provide a better movie experience than 3D. Sitting close to an enormous screen is pretty damn immersive. Then again, I don't particularly want my living room dominated by the TV.
I do like a large screen to work with, although I cannot use a 1080 screen on a 15" laptop (everything's too small for my eyes). Increasing the resolution and DPI better not make things smaller!
Exactly, an item's not taxable until you make a sale. Give away your free code and there's no tax on it, not matter how cool or valuable you might think it is. The government will tell you what exchange rate to use and then you pay your tax liability in the currency of their choice. The AC that started this thread is clearly pretty naÃve about how taxation works. I'd like to see them refuse to pay just because the government doesn't accept alternatives to the national currency:)
Knowing that and knowing that the police will ding you for a tiny infraction of the limit means people back off a little bit. It is a limit and not a recommended speed! It seems the stricter policy works.
The question is not about lines, it's if they are set to go off when you are going 56 in a 55 zone, and so forth. If they do not allow for imperfections in speedometer readings, they will overticket the population. There is also a question of how many are mounted and where; if you drive down a main thoroughfare going 60 in a 55 zone and get three tickets for it in one day, that's an issue.
Maybe they should be that sensitive. I lived in Melbourne for a while a few years ago. It seemed the police regularly ticketed people for going 4kph over the limit on the highway (that's less than 4% leeway). Guess what? Everybody drove the speed limit or slower. When the limit changed, everybody changed speed at that point. Car speedometers are accurate enough these days that there is no need for any tolerance. People need to drive better and pay more attention.
The story seemed to be saying that they'd developed something radically new, so yes, it did seem that they were talking about a car running on natural gas. The word "gas" as a replacement for "petrol" is so uncommon that that wasn't the first thought that crossed me mind.
Yeah no kidding. I'm planning to move home so I will probably keep the service that long. No way am I choosing to give money to Murdoch. I'd rather switch to BT! Anyway, there's choice of fibre and other services faster than ADSL now without having to sell out to Sky.
For those of us living at latitudes above 50 degrees, darkness both going to work and coming home irrespective of DST is just reality for several months of the year. I'd much rather have a few more weeks light in the evening when I can enjoy it than in the morning when I'm rushing to work. It's really really irritating when the clocks go back and take that evening light away. I'm so looking forward to it being restored in a few weeks.
Or don't have such a tiny laptop! I have a 17" MacBook Pro, which I realise isn't for everybody, but it makes for an awesome machine in a great form factor. I can work on it productively out of the office and it doesn't break my back cycling to and from work like most equivalent PCs do. In the office it's hooked up to a 24" screen too.
Not very accurate. Maybe too BT or BT reseller centric?
I put in my address: ADSL available at ~7.5Mbps Cable services not available FTTC services available BT 21CN services available Wireless services not available
I actually have ADSL syncing at 18.2Mbs down and 1.3Mbs up, via Be Unlimited (I think they use their own hardware in the Exchange).
It's ridiculously expensive to buy anything in Australia
There, fixed it for you.
I live in London and I find Australia expensive. My wife is from Melbourne and claims she can't afford to move home.
I bought a book from Amazon.co.uk when I was living in Melbourne a few years ago. $45 to buy locally, $33 of which half was the postage to have it flown literally halfway around the world.
Urrrrr what's your point? My 15" MBP from five years ago also does all that. Awesome little machine still going strong. That's not the attraction of an iPad though.
This is the year of HEVC/H.265, which is expected to give birate improvements for the same quality of up to 50% compared with AVC/H.264. Expect to see content in this format later in the year.
Ultimately though you're right: without 4K content there'll be little demand. Upscaling 1080p will only go so far.
And still a tired old monolithic app. I switched to Chrome eight months ago, and although it uses a lot of memory it does give me the ability to properly manage its memory and CPU usage: it's so much easier to identify pages to kill when they're running in their own process space. Not only does this allow me to selectively reduce the app's memory footprint, but I can conserve battery life on my laptop by easily culling busy pages.
"8 fluid ounces of coffee" really rolls off the tongue though. Oh wait: that doesn't happen either. Sounds like you're just making a fuss for the sake of it.
I've wasted way too much time faffing around with alternative map apps and so far they've all been shite. I just want something that works out of the box thanks. I don't get the fuss about Open Street Maps either.
You don't travel much, do you? Especially to places where there is poor signal, no service (could be leaving a footie match when 60,000 other people overwhelming the cell network), or data costs a bomb (I'm in Morocco as I write this and TMobile wants to charge me £40 for 10MB!)
It gives you a chance to re-iterate in the other person's language what you meant. Or you could just consider it useful for good will and generally smoothing your relationships. You can't go wrong improving your language skills.
Having lead off-shore Chinese developments teams since 2006, I wish I'd invested time in learning the language. The smattering of German I learnt at the Goethe Institut a few years ago really helps me with my German colleagues, even if it's an opportunity for them to laugh at me over a beer. It does give me a better sense of what is being discussed if they're talking to each other in German though.
Anyway, the story is about somebody in the US mid-West. That's a brutal time difference for working with Chinese colleagues. I did it for a number of years from Toronto (12-13 hours time difference). I'm much happier doing it from London now: I'd rather start work at 06:30 than have to come back to work at 21:30 after being out for dinner and not know when I'm going to escape so I can go to bed.
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I think it comes down to screen size and viewing distance. Personally I think 4K could provide a better movie experience than 3D. Sitting close to an enormous screen is pretty damn immersive. Then again, I don't particularly want my living room dominated by the TV.
I do like a large screen to work with, although I cannot use a 1080 screen on a 15" laptop (everything's too small for my eyes). Increasing the resolution and DPI better not make things smaller!
Exactly, an item's not taxable until you make a sale. Give away your free code and there's no tax on it, not matter how cool or valuable you might think it is. The government will tell you what exchange rate to use and then you pay your tax liability in the currency of their choice. The AC that started this thread is clearly pretty naÃve about how taxation works. I'd like to see them refuse to pay just because the government doesn't accept alternatives to the national currency :)
Careful; I think you tinfoil hat has slipped.
Knowing that and knowing that the police will ding you for a tiny infraction of the limit means people back off a little bit. It is a limit and not a recommended speed! It seems the stricter policy works.
The question is not about lines, it's if they are set to go off when you are going 56 in a 55 zone, and so forth. If they do not allow for imperfections in speedometer readings, they will overticket the population. There is also a question of how many are mounted and where; if you drive down a main thoroughfare going 60 in a 55 zone and get three tickets for it in one day, that's an issue.
Maybe they should be that sensitive. I lived in Melbourne for a while a few years ago. It seemed the police regularly ticketed people for going 4kph over the limit on the highway (that's less than 4% leeway). Guess what? Everybody drove the speed limit or slower. When the limit changed, everybody changed speed at that point. Car speedometers are accurate enough these days that there is no need for any tolerance. People need to drive better and pay more attention.
The story seemed to be saying that they'd developed something radically new, so yes, it did seem that they were talking about a car running on natural gas. The word "gas" as a replacement for "petrol" is so uncommon that that wasn't the first thought that crossed me mind.
Yeah no kidding. I'm planning to move home so I will probably keep the service that long. No way am I choosing to give money to Murdoch. I'd rather switch to BT! Anyway, there's choice of fibre and other services faster than ADSL now without having to sell out to Sky.
For those of us living at latitudes above 50 degrees, darkness both going to work and coming home irrespective of DST is just reality for several months of the year. I'd much rather have a few more weeks light in the evening when I can enjoy it than in the morning when I'm rushing to work. It's really really irritating when the clocks go back and take that evening light away. I'm so looking forward to it being restored in a few weeks.
Yep, that's how I say it. But then I'm not a Yank.
Or don't have such a tiny laptop! I have a 17" MacBook Pro, which I realise isn't for everybody, but it makes for an awesome machine in a great form factor. I can work on it productively out of the office and it doesn't break my back cycling to and from work like most equivalent PCs do. In the office it's hooked up to a 24" screen too.
Not very accurate. Maybe too BT or BT reseller centric?
I put in my address:
ADSL available at ~7.5Mbps
Cable services not available
FTTC services available
BT 21CN services available
Wireless services not available
I actually have ADSL syncing at 18.2Mbs down and 1.3Mbs up, via Be Unlimited (I think they use their own hardware in the Exchange).
I dont remember the last time we had a dept that was so pathetic, inefficient, useless, corrupt and annoying as the Dept. of Homeland Security.
The INS.
Oh wait!
Ironic considering Americans call everything a city.
It's ridiculously expensive to buy anything in Australia
There, fixed it for you.
I live in London and I find Australia expensive. My wife is from Melbourne and claims she can't afford to move home.
I bought a book from Amazon.co.uk when I was living in Melbourne a few years ago. $45 to buy locally, $33 of which half was the postage to have it flown literally halfway around the world.
You could replace "MEP" with "MP" in your diatribe and you'd have the same point but different context. So what?
As with any politician in Europe, you fire them by voting elsewhere, etc.
Visit both countries and try English in both of them. You'll soon learn that this is a cultural thing.
Urrrrr what's your point? My 15" MBP from five years ago also does all that. Awesome little machine still going strong. That's not the attraction of an iPad though.
Had it not been for guns, the world would be a much different place right now. We would still be honoring Queen Elizabeth as our monarch
Mahatma Gandhi did quite well without guns.
This is the year of HEVC/H.265, which is expected to give birate improvements for the same quality of up to 50% compared with AVC/H.264. Expect to see content in this format later in the year.
Ultimately though you're right: without 4K content there'll be little demand. Upscaling 1080p will only go so far.
And still a tired old monolithic app. I switched to Chrome eight months ago, and although it uses a lot of memory it does give me the ability to properly manage its memory and CPU usage: it's so much easier to identify pages to kill when they're running in their own process space. Not only does this allow me to selectively reduce the app's memory footprint, but I can conserve battery life on my laptop by easily culling busy pages.
I would guess that some people find closures confusing or hard. They're pretty cool, but you do have to be careful with scope.
"8 fluid ounces of coffee" really rolls off the tongue though. Oh wait: that doesn't happen either. Sounds like you're just making a fuss for the sake of it.
I've wasted way too much time faffing around with alternative map apps and so far they've all been shite. I just want something that works out of the box thanks. I don't get the fuss about Open Street Maps either.
You don't travel much, do you? Especially to places where there is poor signal, no service (could be leaving a footie match when 60,000 other people overwhelming the cell network), or data costs a bomb (I'm in Morocco as I write this and TMobile wants to charge me £40 for 10MB!)
It gives you a chance to re-iterate in the other person's language what you meant. Or you could just consider it useful for good will and generally smoothing your relationships. You can't go wrong improving your language skills.
Having lead off-shore Chinese developments teams since 2006, I wish I'd invested time in learning the language. The smattering of German I learnt at the Goethe Institut a few years ago really helps me with my German colleagues, even if it's an opportunity for them to laugh at me over a beer. It does give me a better sense of what is being discussed if they're talking to each other in German though.
Anyway, the story is about somebody in the US mid-West. That's a brutal time difference for working with Chinese colleagues. I did it for a number of years from Toronto (12-13 hours time difference). I'm much happier doing it from London now: I'd rather start work at 06:30 than have to come back to work at 21:30 after being out for dinner and not know when I'm going to escape so I can go to bed.