5 hours is fine for a portable gaming device, if you recharge it every day or two, depending on how much you use it. If you've got time to game for over 5 hours a day then you'll probably be in a place you can be on the console or recharge the handheld device whilst playing.
The larger screens and better spaced controls on this XL variant will fit into western hands far better than the previous iteration.
In the end however it comes down to cost. $199 is better than the launch price, but it is still a lot. Also the hardware isn't very powerful compared to smartphones and competitors.
IMO, the keyboard touchpad cover is an interesting (and required for Windows and Office) invention.
But the low-resolution display (1366x768) on the ARM version is going to compare badly against the iPad 3 and upcoming Android tablets, and the pricing will have to reflect that.
I don't think it has been claimed that ARM is performance competitive with top-end expensive processors. The comparison was put in just because it could be.
Cortex A8 and A9 are Atom-class in terms of overall performance. A15 will probably raise the game but still not by that much (probably Core Duo performance).
But what we have in this test is a bunch of hobby ARM dev boards against a high-end PC. A real ARM based server (Calxeda) will show better characteristics (http://www.calxeda.com/products/energycore/ecx1000). Oh, and look: SATA, PCIe, 10GigE...
Not when it comes to the CPUs Intel is putting into phones. Hint, it's not Ivy Bridge. But Intel has made massive strides in reducing power consumption with their Atom platform, and the SoC being used in this phone is probably comparable to ARM SoCs.
One major issue in ARM's favour is the choice of SoCs - there are many many ARM SoCs to choose from, so you can choose the one best suited for each of your products. There is one Intel SoC, you're stuck with what they give you.
That is just one measure of a process. Apparently TSMC's 40nm node had transistor density comparable to Intel's 32nm node, so it is quite possible that TSMC's 28nm has transistor density comparable with Intel's 22nm, even if other aspects aren't comparable. I wouldn't say it is a trick for marketing myself.
Microsoft Office 2013 is available for Windows RT (the ARM version). Indeed I believe it is included in the licensing cost, so it will come with every WinRT tablet, netbook and nettop. And that must make Intel sweat a little!
End result: ARM was far more efficient - performance per watt was far superior to Atom and Zacate. And that was with GCC 4.6 and Ubuntu 12.4, GCC 4.7 optimises for ARM significantly better...
Performance/Watt on IB was very good however, but overall power consumption was very high comparatively.
But this app does let the child communicate with anyone. Not just people that understand sign language, or the specific cues that the child has learned from the parents.
And if it only took two people to write something that somehow broke 100 patents, then I would suggest that maybe those 100 patents were rather fucking obvious and shouldn't have been granted.
Who cares about automated texts when driving. Volume:= Off in driving mode, you can check them later on. Indeed it doesn't need to be a phone feature, it can be the network that handles everything, with the phone communicating the driving state to the network.
I guess it's actually setting "go to voicemail immediately for all calls, use my driving message, turn volume and vibrate off", either by a quick shortcut (Driving Mode) or by connecting car bluetooth (or any other event I guess).
I do agree that it is about being reckless, and that charge should just cover it, but the reality is that by explicitly banning something you don't create a get-out clause in court. It doesn't matter if you think you weren't distracted by your usage of a mobile phone, it only matters that you were using it, and that it is illegal.
Unfortunately there can be pressures that make someone have to choose between being responsible and something else. Examples are the pushy boss, the nagging wife, and so on. Otherwise responsible drivers can be forced into answering their phone whilst driving, i.e., being available, because of the threat of losing their job or having a massive stressful argument later on.
Drink Driving is illegal. Studies have shown the distraction from mobile phone usage is at least as bad as being under the influence. It is an avoidable distraction (unlike toddlers, for example) and thus all efforts should be made totally illegal as well, and it should attract the same stigma. It looks like things are going this way, it is just that (like with drink driving at the time) a lot of people need to realise why, rather than bitch about it. The sad fact is that many people are irresponsible (don't know their limitations), having a bad day, stressed, feel compelled, etc, and you need to be able to punish them for their actions, and hopefully that punishment will adjust their behaviour. That means fines and bans for drink driving, for example, hopefully before the person actually creates a casualty.
I think that a drink driver is absolute scum, and whilst I don't think that about mobile phone users, maybe I will one day. Hopefully self-driving cars will soon obviate the need to worry about the whole matter.
When you are doing a manoeuvre that requires some attention, you can:
1) Not choose to pick up your drink at this time 2) Zone out of the radio - this is why talk radio is popular, it's mostly a drone that you can zone into when you need something to keep your brain awake, and zone out of when driving is requiring some braining. 3) Tell other people to shut up, or they will also see that you need to concentrate and will shut up. 4) You will be looking at the road and mirrors.
However it appears that people on the phone when driving don't say "I'm driving". I don't know why. The person on the other end doesn't know you are about to do something that requires your full attention. You are compelled to pay attention to their words because you think the call is important (for whatever reason, be it your boss, or your other half nagging). And accidents happen because of this.
In addition to turning off the ring tone, once you set the phone to "I am driving" mode, the phone auto-answers phone calls with a message you have pre-recorded, and answers texts with a preset text message.
Communication achieved, no driver interaction.
This should be a standard feature on phones, I can't see the difficulty in implementing it. Car bluetooth can activate driving mode, or you can do it in the same way that you set Airplane Mode.
Technically with sub-skin scattering, skin colour has an aspect of transparency to it, so you should probably express your skin colour hatred in RGBA rather than RGB.
From reading his comments, yeah, the guy is a total fuckwad, and a total troll. Sometimes you have to not rise when somebody trolls. However the guy is clearly a racist (or merely obsessed with 'black cock' looking at the tweets) and needs to spend some time reflecting on his behaviour and the causes of his racist views which he published for all to see. We also have to remember that it has to be seen in the context of football which has had a massive amount of effort put into combating racism in the past twenty years.
But jail is disproportionate, and won't achieve anything. I would suggest community service in Bolton (where the football team Muamba plays for is) would be far more reparative and a real learning opportunity for the guy to see in person what people think about his views.
I also agree with the Telegraph (shudder, agreeing with that paper's opinions) about the use of the word 'banter' which just means 'abusive speech meant to hurt but it's funny, innit'.
Private insurance firms requiring them for young drivers in return for a reduced rate of insurance? Sure, but that's the case in the US, Europe, etc as well.
It's an interchange onto the North-South London Overground network (that at Whitechapel runs underneath the East/West District Line and Hammersmith & City Line Underground lines) that also stops at Whitechapel.
Without the computer science degree, you will have to have solid proof of your abilities, probably best done via having a showcase of your work available (your contributions to open source projects will help if they are substantial, otherwise maybe you can set yourself a project, code it, and open source it). You may find it useful to undertake a course in programming, just to get the certificate. You need some OO languages on your CV - Java, C++, C#. With Java you get the jobs by knowing the common APIs used as well as the language itself - Spring (or Struts), Hibernate (+JDBC), JUnit/JMock/EasyMock, Wicket, and so on.
However many companies will not look beyond the fact your resume/cv does not include anything CS, Maths, Engineering or hard science (particularly physics) related on it. You may be able to get a role in testing, and then prove your skills within that company to move up.
Exactly. The death of nearly 300 people in a single disaster with nearly another 300 dying within 6 months as a result of injuries sustained during the disaster is far more relevant and important than a business' online presence.
The Heysel disaster wasn't the fault of the stadium, but that's what it is best known for. The same with Hillsborough. Both of these are remembered and commemorated. It seems this business wants to wipe its hands of the memory, or to put itself above it, and I find that very distasteful and disrespectful.
If it happened today, I wonder if the site would have been open again for business a mere six months after the incident?
Imagine business starting again on at 9/11 in March 2002 with all evidence of the tragedy there being erased. I wonder if there is anything at the site remembering the tragedy and the victims?
Passwords often evolve into a form of muscle memory.
Give her a piece of paper and ask her to write down the password could easily result in failure to remember it, especially when someone doesn't have much inclination to try to remember it.
Give her a keyboard and ask her to type the password and she might just remember it.
Regardless, she should be able to remember at least a portion of it, which would drastically reduce the search keyspace for a brute force crack.
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5 hours is fine for a portable gaming device, if you recharge it every day or two, depending on how much you use it. If you've got time to game for over 5 hours a day then you'll probably be in a place you can be on the console or recharge the handheld device whilst playing.
The larger screens and better spaced controls on this XL variant will fit into western hands far better than the previous iteration.
In the end however it comes down to cost. $199 is better than the launch price, but it is still a lot. Also the hardware isn't very powerful compared to smartphones and competitors.
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science-technology/microsoft-unveils-new-tablet-for-uncool-people-2012061931075
IMO, the keyboard touchpad cover is an interesting (and required for Windows and Office) invention.
But the low-resolution display (1366x768) on the ARM version is going to compare badly against the iPad 3 and upcoming Android tablets, and the pricing will have to reflect that.
I don't think it has been claimed that ARM is performance competitive with top-end expensive processors. The comparison was put in just because it could be.
Cortex A8 and A9 are Atom-class in terms of overall performance. A15 will probably raise the game but still not by that much (probably Core Duo performance).
But what we have in this test is a bunch of hobby ARM dev boards against a high-end PC. A real ARM based server (Calxeda) will show better characteristics (http://www.calxeda.com/products/energycore/ecx1000). Oh, and look: SATA, PCIe, 10GigE...
Not when it comes to the CPUs Intel is putting into phones. Hint, it's not Ivy Bridge.
But Intel has made massive strides in reducing power consumption with their Atom platform, and the SoC being used in this phone is probably comparable to ARM SoCs.
One major issue in ARM's favour is the choice of SoCs - there are many many ARM SoCs to choose from, so you can choose the one best suited for each of your products. There is one Intel SoC, you're stuck with what they give you.
That is just one measure of a process. Apparently TSMC's 40nm node had transistor density comparable to Intel's 32nm node, so it is quite possible that TSMC's 28nm has transistor density comparable with Intel's 22nm, even if other aspects aren't comparable. I wouldn't say it is a trick for marketing myself.
The issue is that with low power devices, the efficiency comes from dedicated hardware blocks, so the CPU doesn't need to be as powerful.
(And Intel have licensed those blocks for their Atom SoCs, they're not stupid).
Microsoft Office 2013 is available for Windows RT (the ARM version). Indeed I believe it is included in the licensing cost, so it will come with every WinRT tablet, netbook and nettop. And that must make Intel sweat a little!
Phoronix just today compared ARM power efficiency (on a cluster of PandaBoards) to Atom, Ivy Bridge and AMD Zacate. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=phoronix_effimass_cluster&num=1
End result: ARM was far more efficient - performance per watt was far superior to Atom and Zacate. And that was with GCC 4.6 and Ubuntu 12.4, GCC 4.7 optimises for ARM significantly better...
Performance/Watt on IB was very good however, but overall power consumption was very high comparatively.
Can't have two characters. It would have to be .texas
I'm sad there's no .WINNING though.
But this app does let the child communicate with anyone. Not just people that understand sign language, or the specific cues that the child has learned from the parents.
And if it only took two people to write something that somehow broke 100 patents, then I would suggest that maybe those 100 patents were rather fucking obvious and shouldn't have been granted.
Nice - is there a browser extension that can automate this based upon the current website/url/form?
Who cares about automated texts when driving. Volume := Off in driving mode, you can check them later on.
Indeed it doesn't need to be a phone feature, it can be the network that handles everything, with the phone communicating the driving state to the network.
I guess it's actually setting "go to voicemail immediately for all calls, use my driving message, turn volume and vibrate off", either by a quick shortcut (Driving Mode) or by connecting car bluetooth (or any other event I guess).
I do agree that it is about being reckless, and that charge should just cover it, but the reality is that by explicitly banning something you don't create a get-out clause in court. It doesn't matter if you think you weren't distracted by your usage of a mobile phone, it only matters that you were using it, and that it is illegal.
Unfortunately there can be pressures that make someone have to choose between being responsible and something else. Examples are the pushy boss, the nagging wife, and so on. Otherwise responsible drivers can be forced into answering their phone whilst driving, i.e., being available, because of the threat of losing their job or having a massive stressful argument later on.
Drink Driving is illegal. Studies have shown the distraction from mobile phone usage is at least as bad as being under the influence. It is an avoidable distraction (unlike toddlers, for example) and thus all efforts should be made totally illegal as well, and it should attract the same stigma. It looks like things are going this way, it is just that (like with drink driving at the time) a lot of people need to realise why, rather than bitch about it. The sad fact is that many people are irresponsible (don't know their limitations), having a bad day, stressed, feel compelled, etc, and you need to be able to punish them for their actions, and hopefully that punishment will adjust their behaviour. That means fines and bans for drink driving, for example, hopefully before the person actually creates a casualty.
I think that a drink driver is absolute scum, and whilst I don't think that about mobile phone users, maybe I will one day. Hopefully self-driving cars will soon obviate the need to worry about the whole matter.
When you are doing a manoeuvre that requires some attention, you can:
1) Not choose to pick up your drink at this time
2) Zone out of the radio - this is why talk radio is popular, it's mostly a drone that you can zone into when you need something to keep your brain awake, and zone out of when driving is requiring some braining.
3) Tell other people to shut up, or they will also see that you need to concentrate and will shut up.
4) You will be looking at the road and mirrors.
However it appears that people on the phone when driving don't say "I'm driving". I don't know why. The person on the other end doesn't know you are about to do something that requires your full attention. You are compelled to pay attention to their words because you think the call is important (for whatever reason, be it your boss, or your other half nagging). And accidents happen because of this.
In addition to turning off the ring tone, once you set the phone to "I am driving" mode, the phone auto-answers phone calls with a message you have pre-recorded, and answers texts with a preset text message.
Communication achieved, no driver interaction.
This should be a standard feature on phones, I can't see the difficulty in implementing it. Car bluetooth can activate driving mode, or you can do it in the same way that you set Airplane Mode.
Thanks for clarifying my post.
Technically with sub-skin scattering, skin colour has an aspect of transparency to it, so you should probably express your skin colour hatred in RGBA rather than RGB.
From reading his comments, yeah, the guy is a total fuckwad, and a total troll. Sometimes you have to not rise when somebody trolls. However the guy is clearly a racist (or merely obsessed with 'black cock' looking at the tweets) and needs to spend some time reflecting on his behaviour and the causes of his racist views which he published for all to see. We also have to remember that it has to be seen in the context of football which has had a massive amount of effort put into combating racism in the past twenty years.
But jail is disproportionate, and won't achieve anything. I would suggest community service in Bolton (where the football team Muamba plays for is) would be far more reparative and a real learning opportunity for the guy to see in person what people think about his views.
I also agree with the Telegraph (shudder, agreeing with that paper's opinions) about the use of the word 'banter' which just means 'abusive speech meant to hurt but it's funny, innit'.
What government mandated black boxes in cars?
Private insurance firms requiring them for young drivers in return for a reduced rate of insurance? Sure, but that's the case in the US, Europe, etc as well.
It's an interchange onto the North-South London Overground network (that at Whitechapel runs underneath the East/West District Line and Hammersmith & City Line Underground lines) that also stops at Whitechapel.
Without the computer science degree, you will have to have solid proof of your abilities, probably best done via having a showcase of your work available (your contributions to open source projects will help if they are substantial, otherwise maybe you can set yourself a project, code it, and open source it). You may find it useful to undertake a course in programming, just to get the certificate. You need some OO languages on your CV - Java, C++, C#. With Java you get the jobs by knowing the common APIs used as well as the language itself - Spring (or Struts), Hibernate (+JDBC), JUnit/JMock/EasyMock, Wicket, and so on.
However many companies will not look beyond the fact your resume/cv does not include anything CS, Maths, Engineering or hard science (particularly physics) related on it. You may be able to get a role in testing, and then prove your skills within that company to move up.
You don't need to be drunk for your decision making and reaction times to be impaired.
Exactly. The death of nearly 300 people in a single disaster with nearly another 300 dying within 6 months as a result of injuries sustained during the disaster is far more relevant and important than a business' online presence.
The Heysel disaster wasn't the fault of the stadium, but that's what it is best known for. The same with Hillsborough. Both of these are remembered and commemorated. It seems this business wants to wipe its hands of the memory, or to put itself above it, and I find that very distasteful and disrespectful.
If it happened today, I wonder if the site would have been open again for business a mere six months after the incident?
Imagine business starting again on at 9/11 in March 2002 with all evidence of the tragedy there being erased. I wonder if there is anything at the site remembering the tragedy and the victims?
Passwords often evolve into a form of muscle memory.
Give her a piece of paper and ask her to write down the password could easily result in failure to remember it, especially when someone doesn't have much inclination to try to remember it.
Give her a keyboard and ask her to type the password and she might just remember it.
Regardless, she should be able to remember at least a portion of it, which would drastically reduce the search keyspace for a brute force crack.