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I got the Lumia 1020 primarily to get a decent camera, and have been very pleased with it (I never knew it had HDR!)
It's unclear from this review if the 950 has an even better camera, or if the 808/1020 still take the "best phone camera" prize?
It seems a shame about WP10, I quite like my phone OS.
Wasn't it one of the early SpaceX tests that was far more fake looking a year or two back - it literally came down absolutely vertically. This one definitely had something of a wobble, you could see it correcting.
However I was very impressed just how fast it landed, no gentle descent, just drop it and pull on the hand-brake at the last moment!
>>I pay the government a lot more tax ( NI, Tax, Corporation Tax and VAT) as a contractor than I would as a permanent employee on a lower salary.
The proposal isn't that you'd become " a permanent employee on a lower salary." Just that a lot more of what you earn would be taken as tax, and that it would all be very much more complicated.
Yes they do. WP8.1 is pretty nice, thanks and so are many of the WP-8 generation Lumia phones. The free maps and free GPS are wonderful and lots of us don't really use apps that much.
Sadly WP10 seems to be screwing things up and I'm wondering if my support for WP will come to an end, and I should give up and get an iPhone.
>>I wonder how many customers they will have left in 6 or 12 months time?
Most of them. It's long enough most will have forgotten, or will believe it's just "another security breach" like you hear about in the news "these things happen" etc.
TT customers tend not to be IT professionals (though I know some who are)
Those virtual roller-coasters have been around for years (possibly decades) - the ones where the chairs judder and so on?
The thing there is how real it feels... maybe simply the slight movement of the chair is enough to trick the ear, because I'm not aware they normally induce sickness in the same way VR does?
I have to agree that DS9, TNG, Voyager and Enterprise are all firmly in the same universe (continuity errors aside).
I would've expected (and would like to see) a new series to take the same cast as the new films, not reboot all over again with another new cast.
We are due another new ST spin-off but unless they use the film cast, I want a spin-off not another re-boot please.
Apple seem not to have an issue with the tear-downs. Merely that iFixit gave out privileged information from a DEVELOPMENT unit.
If you break an NDA or whatever, this is what happens... try leaking details of a MS/Sony devkit and see if your license to develop for those platforms gets revoked.
Supermarkets choose if they'll stock your product, isn't this broadly similar though? Tesco can decide on a whim to stop selling your stuff (perhaps with some notice period based on your contract).
Don't enterprise developers get the ability to run their own private app-stores... not sure if these can also be pulled or not?
It's mostly so useless I end up coming out the other side and like it.
Although I would genuinely love an automated bath - so many times I go to check my emails while it's running, then come back and find the back is luke-warm because it's overflowed all the hot water down the drain.
Although a bath that simply stops the tap when it's full would solve this, temperature control and the ability to start it running while I'm still on the exercise bike would be sweet.
>>PCs will be replaced at the same rate as they wear out
Which is EXACTLY the same as "Nothing is going to revive the desktop market". Revive means sell more of them, claw back some market from laptops/tablets. I cannot see this happening, and I cannot really see the desktop managing to avoid losing more market share to laptops when you no longer have to spend a more to get a laptop that's adequately specced for normal home use.
“There are over 500 million computers in use today that are four to five years old or older. They are slow to wake, their batteries don’t last long, and they can’t take advantage of all the new experiences available today,”
My desktop PC is ~6 years old and only cost ~£400 new. After I put in an SSD, it boots in 10-20s and awakes from hibernation in ~5s with no sluggishness.
The CPU has not been the limiting factor for some time in desktops. However the power-saving is excellent news for laptops.