For me, the refresh cycle is much longer for TVs than it is for boxes underneath. I try to buy a decent screen with plenty of connectivity once every 5 years, the boxes underneath handle the media and tech and gets replaced or upgraded much more often.
The TV manufacturers want to sell more TVs, so they're trying to shorten the screen's refresh cycle by bundling all the tech in that box so you'll replace more often. Beyond the leap from CRT to LCD/Plasma and HD, I've never NEEDED to replace a working TV.
The e-Ink display gives insanely long battery life, is viewable in most light conditions and is easy on my ageing eyes. A tablet is heavy and chews through it's battery in a day.
However, web surfing on my e-reader is painful and apps/games are non-existant.
Just because they are similar looking doesn't mean they can (or should) do each other's job. Each has it's strengths and they are cheap enough that there's no need to worry about combining their roles.
Yep, that's one of my pet peeves. A "Back" button up on the top left and a title bar using up 5% of the screen is the usual giveaway. There's a dedicated back button on every Android handset FFS!
Shame, I enjoyed playing through the Baulder's Gate:Dark Alliance games with my wife and I'm currently playing through Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 with my son.
Not all 'grown-up' gamers are solitary types. Some are lucky enough to have other gamers in the house. The demise of same screen co-op means that each player needs their own system. Crackdown 2, I'm looking at you.
Plus, with OUYA just around the corner, there will be no need to fry your phone's GPU and wring out the battery in an hour. There's a cheap box designed for the purpose.
Even though a number of cars may ship Brembo calipers, they are still all different sizes.
Yes and no. Obviously, various sizes are available for different needs. However, the point I was trying to make was cars like the Renault 19, Volvo 440 and Fiat Punto all used exactly the same braking system components. (Possibly Bosch, it's been a while since I needed to crawl around under a car.)
Anyway, I think we're pretty off track now. Good night folks, normal service will resume shortly.
To answer your question, the Kindle Fire can run Android apps.
It gets a rough time and limited content from the Play Store because it doesn't have some 'normal' features that many app manifests ask for, but don't need. However, most.apks can be sideloaded and run quite happily.
I'm not so sure. Many minor assemblies such as Brembo brake callipers are common across many vehicles. Also, many manufacturers share common chassis designs with a cosmetically different body.
However, I do dislike the car analogy. Invariably the iProduct is compared to a high-end sports car and the droid to a common runaround, when in fact they are more like the people carriers above; same purpose, different badge.
I'm also slightly confused as to how it didn't get reported to the AV vendors at that point. Signatures could have been in circulation for some time, preventing the embarrassing situation that occurred when the thing turned up two years later and everyone had their trousers down.
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You can be sure that 9 times out of 10, the job will go to the guy/gal who does hand over the info.
Seconded. It always looked like it would happen, but there were many naysayers.
Well done Ouya team!
Taking flamethowers on a scientific jaunt just isn't cricket old boy.
For me, the refresh cycle is much longer for TVs than it is for boxes underneath. I try to buy a decent screen with plenty of connectivity once every 5 years, the boxes underneath handle the media and tech and gets replaced or upgraded much more often.
The TV manufacturers want to sell more TVs, so they're trying to shorten the screen's refresh cycle by bundling all the tech in that box so you'll replace more often. Beyond the leap from CRT to LCD/Plasma and HD, I've never NEEDED to replace a working TV.
This already happens in the UK. 'Adult' shops have plain frontage with nothing on display.
Anne Summers stores seem to get away with putting undercrackers in the windows though.
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/category/web-server-survey/
Dec 2012, 55% of web servers run Apache.
The e-Ink display gives insanely long battery life, is viewable in most light conditions and is easy on my ageing eyes. A tablet is heavy and chews through it's battery in a day.
However, web surfing on my e-reader is painful and apps/games are non-existant.
Just because they are similar looking doesn't mean they can (or should) do each other's job. Each has it's strengths and they are cheap enough that there's no need to worry about combining their roles.
Works out pretty well for the tobacco industry.
Tobacco takes 30 years to kill people. Apple's product takes mere hours.
Therefore it must be an improved product. This changes everything.
How are they supposed to make obscene profits if people 'illegally export' things?
Yep. On by default, but able to be deactivated by a PIN seems a more sane method for those users who don't have kids and don't need nannying.
Yep, that's one of my pet peeves. A "Back" button up on the top left and a title bar using up 5% of the screen is the usual giveaway. There's a dedicated back button on every Android handset FFS!
Shame, I enjoyed playing through the Baulder's Gate:Dark Alliance games with my wife and I'm currently playing through Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 with my son.
Not all 'grown-up' gamers are solitary types. Some are lucky enough to have other gamers in the house. The demise of same screen co-op means that each player needs their own system. Crackdown 2, I'm looking at you.
Plus, with OUYA just around the corner, there will be no need to fry your phone's GPU and wring out the battery in an hour. There's a cheap box designed for the purpose.
Even though a number of cars may ship Brembo calipers, they are still all different sizes.
Yes and no. Obviously, various sizes are available for different needs. However, the point I was trying to make was cars like the Renault 19, Volvo 440 and Fiat Punto all used exactly the same braking system components. (Possibly Bosch, it's been a while since I needed to crawl around under a car.)
Anyway, I think we're pretty off track now. Good night folks, normal service will resume shortly.
To answer your question, the Kindle Fire can run Android apps.
It gets a rough time and limited content from the Play Store because it doesn't have some 'normal' features that many app manifests ask for, but don't need. However, most .apks can be sideloaded and run quite happily.
I'm not so sure. Many minor assemblies such as Brembo brake callipers are common across many vehicles. Also, many manufacturers share common chassis designs with a cosmetically different body.
Take a look at these three:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/VW_Sharan.jpg
http://www.albacars.com/image/seat_alhambra.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Ford_Galaxy_-_first_generation.jpg
Same chassis, three different makers.
However, I do dislike the car analogy. Invariably the iProduct is compared to a high-end sports car and the droid to a common runaround, when in fact they are more like the people carriers above; same purpose, different badge.
Nothing odd about it. The USPTO would grant a patent on the look and feel of dog eggs as trade dress if it were submitted.
A chimp flinging turds with 'Approved' printed on them would be a better and more selective system.
I'm just glad there isn't an Apple Maps version.
Barnard's Star would probably be sitting between Jupiter and Saturn.
I use GeoIP to snag a country code and ban new accounts from CN and BD. That stopped 90% of spam.
I tweaked a few things in the board myself to add some extra hurdles for the spammers, but that means that updates are also a bit of a pain.
Some junk still gets through, but that's what moderators and pro-active administration is for. You can't run a board with no admin overhead.
I'm also slightly confused as to how it didn't get reported to the AV vendors at that point. Signatures could have been in circulation for some time, preventing the embarrassing situation that occurred when the thing turned up two years later and everyone had their trousers down.
In the UK (can't speak for anywhere else), things and people are named 'after' other things and people.
I.e. I was named after my uncle who died in the war.
To be 'named for' something sounds as odd on this side of the pond as 'named after' sounds to you guys over there.
Back on topic. FWIW, I think Jobs was a huge douchebag generally, but saving Pixar was one of the best things he did and I thank him for it.
Don't forget:
Q: "We're under attack! Strip the headers and find the source!"
Bad Guy: "Good luck, I'm behind seven proxies!".
OK, I went back and checked date on the scripts I wrote to manage the changeover. It was Nov 2003. Jebus, where does the time go?
I don't remember when we switched. It was a few years back, but an update disc still finds its way to my desk every once in a while.
Yep. I used to look after Sophos in what should have been a very secure network.
Sophos set the virus signature updates out monthly on CD-ROM.
We replaced it with McAfee. Not much better, but at lest the updates hit every days or two.