Posts by keep-it-calm-or-more 13 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Apr 2013
I get very annoyed by lights blinking at 50-60hz, i can see it and it irritates my eyes. Most people around me don't see nor feel it. But the tech here is talking about gigahertz scale. Definitely there's nobody around who could feel that. Besides, the leds that you have around already blink at high frequency (the dc adapters and dc-dc converters are good but far from perfect).
it's year of the synergy. i don't believe any of this makes any kind of technical sense at all. bosses just want to golf together and the employees are left with "wat?"...
anyone recalls cisco's plan to take over skype customerbase with callingstations that were priced at several hundred dollars each ? :D
As far as i have understood chromebooks are occupying less than 25% of the sub $300 device market inside of the united states, even less in other countries (including mine). No idea where you people live but over the pc is still the standard for any kind of "pc work", i even see more laptops running ubuntu that chromebooks.
From where i see this might more be a hit against the ipad and less against the chromebook, as the latter hasn't really reached anything.
Are my numbers really off and there some chromebooks armies out there ?
I still wear a watch for conditions that don't allow the usage of a touch screen smartphone. Any kind of nature activity that can get your hands dirty-sandy-bloody (e.g. fishing). Flipping the wrist is also quite handy while reeling out a big mofo fish ... and that watch is 100% mechanical, self winding, no batteries needed, ever. Maybe some lubrication in the distant future.
I think the smart watches are dead on arrival, the generation that is around 20-30 and one of the most eager spenders don't really see a use for it. As said by multiple other comments, smartphones and computers take away the need for a separate clock in a city/office environment.
Why would nokia go for android ?
To be in the android losers rank like htc, motorola and lg ? Yeah, that's exactly what nokia needs now, to be the number 4 or number 5 android phone maker and still get bashed by samsung ?
People that adore android are mostly it's hardcode users, not the businesses that have to make money from somewhere. If you take out the top few handful apps from the market there is almost no revenue left for the others.
And i don't blame the hardcore fans, it's an awesome device for hacking and customizing. But unless you are rovio or samsung, you'll have one hell to go through to get any profit that's even decent for SME.
As ironic as it may be, IPhone is winning behind the scenes, as Samsung with it's low margins is driving to the ground the same ecosystem that gave it it's massive boost.
Well that's the trickery there. the "80 quid" virgin locked phone doesn't cost 80 quid, it costs far more that you make up with monthly payments.
If the firefox phone is kept up to date with software updates it will certainly kick the ass of similarly priced android phones which all run some 2.x version of android (and have security flaws that have existed and been abused for years already).
> 0) You could learn about Malaria and how to avoid catching it from the internet.
> 1) You could use the internet to ask for medical assistance.
> 2) You could use the internet to help you find the nearest clinic.
> 3) You could use the internet to discover how to treat malaria and acquire appropriate treatments.
For the love of lolcats and internets, please do a little bit research before baffling out nonsense like that. Malaria is not a cold or common fever, it kills and it's not home treatable. No internet page will give you a vaccination or treatment ideas against that.
Let me cite you something, as looking it up yourself seemed to be difficult : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria
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The WHO estimates that in 2010 there were 219 million cases of malaria resulting in 660,000 deaths,[79] equivalent to roughly 2000 deaths every day.[3] Using a different set of predictive models the number of documented and undocumented deaths in 2010 was estimated at 1.24 million.[80] This is up from an estimated 1.0 million deaths in 1990.
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If those 2000 deaths per day would be avoided by common knowledge and a page of information, believe me, they wouldn't happen.
If you look at the i/o capabilities of this board then it actually throws a glove to the rpi experimenting wise.
But for many hobbyists they already have the cheaper rpi and they will not upgrade just for the sake of an already outdated cortex a8 core. Raspberry is still cheaper than this thing here and does deliver the basics that most hobby things (robots etc.) need (robust i/o smashed with the power of common linux utilities out of the box).
Since the mpeg-2 licensing has been worked out for the raspberry-pi it also has become a quite vivid multimedia board, just enough to deliver the hd video that people might want to use it for.
The only real use case for this thing is where you already have something that almost works on a rpi but lacks 10-20% of cpu power or requires more i/o ports. That's a weird niche market to go after.
If you really want to beat Raspberry PI - beat it's price.
(and compared to a desktop from 2013 none of the two devices is anywhere remotely near a desktop experience - what you accept as 'ok' lag on your 3 year old htc phone (similar cpu's back then) is not ok behind a desktop).
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