Watches/phones with circular screens displaying analog clockfaces were all the rage at the Barcelona show, e.g. the Runcible phone and the Huawei watch.
Steampunk hipsters are willing to fork over for tech that bears a passing resemblance to their great great grandfathers'.
Some people have a knack of cracking their screen. Pockets, people!
I'm a clumsy oaf but the only time I've dropped a phone on pavement was texting-while-dogwalking, itself a dangerous activity when fido yanked at the lead.
Very handy when travelling and using a phone for photos instead of a fancy $1000 standalone camera.
Oops, my phone's battery is at 2%, I guess I won't be taking a selfie of the Taj Mahal this evening.:)
That means you have to now charge 2 devices overnight but with the high capacity ones having 10000 mAh or more, you can camp for a weekend without power.
Who said anything about a mouse? People write with a whiteboard marker, or in its digital form, a stylus.
A number of years ago I worked for an organisation where people took notes in meetings using a Panasonic Toughbook. The software for the forthcoming Windows 10 is, hopefully, a lot more sophisticated than XP tablet edition as MS tune their software for touch/scribble.
Just on the DC thing, I've been wondering how long those hybrid solar/AC external batteries hold a charge. Not the 5v micro-USB ones for phones but the $150 ones that have 12-19v DC out and 30000mAh capacity.
If the battery half life was decent, one could conceivably use that bushwalking - strap it onto one's rucksack by day. One could conceivably power a NUC and an LED screen.
Though hey there are tablets for such things but it'd be an interesting thought experiment.
you raise a good point but the NUC isn't a *desktop*. It's a small x86-64 box, not much bigger than a vhs cassette, that screws into the back of a monitor.
This is designed for large corporates with lots of cubicle monkeys for whom performance of those Core 2 Duos from 7 years ago was sufficient but they want to save a heap of money on electricity bills. These will be popular when adopting Windows 10. XP --> 10, HDD --> SSD and with better integrated graphics. Did I mention the energy savings?
Relax, you can still buy a performance smashing i7 residing in an enormous watercooled tower if you wish.
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Watches/phones with circular screens displaying analog clockfaces were all the rage at the Barcelona show, e.g. the Runcible phone and the Huawei watch.
Steampunk hipsters are willing to fork over for tech that bears a passing resemblance to their great great grandfathers'.
Linux with Wine is more likely to run that 19 1/2 year old binary for Win95 - MS had to add an 'XP mode' to Windows 7.
Rusty Crowe is bloody scary, have you seen him as Maximus in Gladiator?
Though these days he tries to pass himself off as New South Welsh, having lost his kiwi accent.
Nice rant but the poster mentioned nothing about intel graphics.
motherboards with intel CPUs do take nVidia graphics cards?
Allwinner is suspected of being a GPL violator, meaning if you want to build a product you'll be stuck with binary blobs.
Strategically, it locks AMD out of the $100 Windows tablet market.
An admission Intel's graphics are too big/thirsty/costly for a phone SoC.
From this I speculate that PowerVR will soon be acquired by Apple, since their Ax chips powering iOS are the main licensee now.
I found DS9 to be unwatchable nonsense, Sisko as a predestined mystic saviour of the Bajorans. I mean come on.
1080 is the Full HD video format that these phones can now record.
Displaying the video you just shot makes sense - at the same pixel count without scaling.
I wonder what the power drain is on these things - GPU wise.
I'm mean if the inbuilt camera shoots video at 1080 and the screen is 1440, then the system is upscaling during playback.
Porting the android userland, if that's your thing, ought to be simple enough, given Firefox 2.1 is Kitkat underneath.
Some people have a knack of cracking their screen. Pockets, people!
I'm a clumsy oaf but the only time I've dropped a phone on pavement was texting-while-dogwalking, itself a dangerous activity when fido yanked at the lead.
Very handy when travelling and using a phone for photos instead of a fancy $1000 standalone camera.
Oops, my phone's battery is at 2%, I guess I won't be taking a selfie of the Taj Mahal this evening. :)
That means you have to now charge 2 devices overnight but with the high capacity ones having 10000 mAh or more, you can camp for a weekend without power.
Isn't that a goal of Google's Project Ara?
Who said anything about a mouse? People write with a whiteboard marker, or in its digital form, a stylus.
A number of years ago I worked for an organisation where people took notes in meetings using a Panasonic Toughbook. The software for the forthcoming Windows 10 is, hopefully, a lot more sophisticated than XP tablet edition as MS tune their software for touch/scribble.
soylent news readers (all 5000 of them!) were having a chuckle about that.
Slashcode is open source, from which the soylentils forked the code and have an active repository on github.
Meanwhile, the Slashdot website runs on an a bastardised version.
Not a fan of the mighty ducks trilogy? :)
How his brother Charlie ever became a star is a bigger mystery.
I think I prefer Steve Martin's The Man wth Two Brains.
Richard Nixon almost won an election with Bender's body.
I thought it was just a running gag for the MS Browser Engine story but it seems to have infected the rest of the site!
Yes, the current generation Silvermont Atoms are (I believe) all 64bit.
(You might still find prev-gen Saltwells in tablets and phones)
Intel won't kill off x86 entirely - they have their Quark project for Internet of Things.
The problem I was referring to is some Pentiums are Haswell based (core), while others are Silvermont based(atom).
Similarly, there exist both Core and Atom Celerons.
Please dump the Pentium and Celeron brands, which are relics from a bygone era.
Just call your brands either Core or Atom and be done with it.
Obfuscation doesn't help the consumer.
Just on the DC thing, I've been wondering how long those hybrid solar/AC external batteries hold a charge. Not the 5v micro-USB ones for phones but the $150 ones that have 12-19v DC out and 30000mAh capacity.
If the battery half life was decent, one could conceivably use that bushwalking - strap it onto one's rucksack by day. One could conceivably power a NUC and an LED screen.
Though hey there are tablets for such things but it'd be an interesting thought experiment.
you raise a good point but the NUC isn't a *desktop*. It's a small x86-64 box, not much bigger than a vhs cassette, that screws into the back of a monitor.
This is designed for large corporates with lots of cubicle monkeys for whom performance of those Core 2 Duos from 7 years ago was sufficient but they want to save a heap of money on electricity bills. These will be popular when adopting Windows 10. XP --> 10, HDD --> SSD and with better integrated graphics. Did I mention the energy savings?
Relax, you can still buy a performance smashing i7 residing in an enormous watercooled tower if you wish.