Printed books don't break when shoved into luggage.
Nor does my Kindle. It's travelled all over the world.
Printed books have infinite "battery life".
My 3 year old Kindle 3 still holds a month or more of charge.
Printed books don't get stolen like electronic devices.
Fair enough, but I doubt a Kindle has great resell value.
I break a book, I just lost that particular book - well, no. I can still read it. I lose it, all I lost is one book - not an electronic device and all the other books on it.
Just download it again from Amazon etc.
The London Oyster Cards took quite a while to settle down. In particular there was a big mess with the above ground trains (partly this was because of reluctance/stubbornness from the train operators). There were days when the whole system failed.
London is a complex mix of trains/tubes/busses/trams etc so often there is more than 1 route between 2 stations. Sometimes the system would charge you the wrong price.
I still have my Kindle 2 also. Still works great. I use it on my morning/evening commute and normally for a while before bed. The free 3G still works. Some of the keys are getting worn but I don't intend replacing it soon.
Common usage is overstating it. Nothing you can buy is marked in ozs and lbs. Some things still come in suspicious kg weights - e.g. a jar of curry paste is 283g (10 ozs). Schools haven't taught imperial since the 70s.
About the only common non-metric units are pints and miles. Peoples weight is often (though not exclusively) expressed in stones and pounds.
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You could say the same about MSDOS too (a CP/M clone). Probably BASIC also.
Printed books don't break when shoved into luggage.
Nor does my Kindle. It's travelled all over the world.
Printed books have infinite "battery life".
My 3 year old Kindle 3 still holds a month or more of charge.
Printed books don't get stolen like electronic devices.
Fair enough, but I doubt a Kindle has great resell value.
I break a book, I just lost that particular book - well, no. I can still read it. I lose it, all I lost is one book - not an electronic device and all the other books on it.
Just download it again from Amazon etc.
The London Oyster Cards took quite a while to settle down. In particular there was a big mess with the above ground trains (partly this was because of reluctance/stubbornness from the train operators). There were days when the whole system failed.
London is a complex mix of trains/tubes/busses/trams etc so often there is more than 1 route between 2 stations. Sometimes the system would charge you the wrong price.
You need a card balance in order to use it on a bus.
Taken from the Apple/Google sites:
16GB iPhone 5C: $549
16GB Nexus 5: $349
Clone someone elses MAC then.
Anonymous Coward is not talking about the Commonwealth: http://what-if.xkcd.com/48/
My 7Mhz Amiga 500 would boot up pretty fast from a floppy, and the OS was written in a mixture of C, Assembler and BCPL.
So the US/UK bank bailouts never happened right?
I still have my Kindle 2 also. Still works great. I use it on my morning/evening commute and normally for a while before bed. The free 3G still works. Some of the keys are getting worn but I don't intend replacing it soon.
Common usage is overstating it. Nothing you can buy is marked in ozs and lbs. Some things still come in suspicious kg weights - e.g. a jar of curry paste is 283g (10 ozs). Schools haven't taught imperial since the 70s.
About the only common non-metric units are pints and miles. Peoples weight is often (though not exclusively) expressed in stones and pounds.
It's already installed (in 4.3 at least). Open a pdf or a word doc and QuickOffice will view it.
You wouldn't even need a bullet train. Regular Diesel-electric trains have been doing 120+ mph since the 60s.
Also have a Vertex 4 256GB. Works great (touch wood)
I'm running it on a 4 year old Celeron laptop. Works great.
Probably runs over the internet...
Boris? Is that you?
Sure they do. There are plenty of older phones running newer Cyanogenmod versions.
N4 here too. I picked up my friends iPhone 5 the other day to look at iOS6 and it felt like a toy!
Nexus 4 $199/£159 (8Gb version). Off contract.
You can do the development on the Pi itself quite easily.
Unless you come from Motorolla 6809, then 68k and try to learn x86. Then you're like WTF? Who designed this crap?
You could always pop the finger in a microwave for a few seconds
FreeBSD/amd64
FreeBSD/ARM
FreeBSD/i386
FreeBSD/ia64
FreeBSD/MIPS
FreeBSD/pc98
FreeBSD/ppc
FreeBSD/sparc64
FreeBSD/xbox
I guess they dropped 68k...
The theoretical limit is much higher. Modems use compression.