Posts by hungee

normally..

Normally I would roll eyes... (I don't Apple)

But this is actually awesome.

Wow. Someone make my phone have a mechanical eye.

For the record

I had this on my HTC Desire HD - circa 2010

And any Android security client has this capability.

But good on the Americans for inventing this...

bigger screen size and hdd space? wtf?

Seriously?

Yes the screen size is bigger. It is also worse. tft 1366X768 VS 1080P IPS IIRC. hmm... grainy and crap or clear and detailed. Bigger is not always better. GOH!

And yes. a 500gb hdd can have all the random sh!% on it you want. With ridiculously slow latency and horrible read speeds of a 5400rpm throw away hdd.

OR.... OR!!!!!

You could have 128GB of 10x faster SSD that will boot in 10 secs not 30 and a USB port to plug in an external hdd if you wanna be lame.

seriously.. speed == better than space on a lappy, I have replaced the hdd with ssd in my house for both my girlfriend and myself and the random swearing has decreased immensely.

also btw. the equivalency to an iPAD is plain wrong. This an ultrabook with tablet features. more of a Macbook Air competitor than anything else.

I don't have one.. but seriously... seriously you guys.

But I thought it "just works"???

Here I was thinking Apple had superior software and I was such a such a sucker for sticking with Windows.

Yet, my audio hardware doesn't need driver updates every new O.S. and I don't install O.S. updates at a gig because, you know, Duh.

Don't blame the tools, blame the workman. There is no computer that "just works" if you push it to the edge. No matter what the O.S.

The computer reflects the User. If you are mental, your computer will be mental too.

"Faster communications would be beneficial, but so, for example, would the same amount spent on better training for our teachers and better schools for our children."

Just to be a bit silly. Those faster communications, for example, could enable virtual classrooms which mean we could telepresence highly qualified teachers into multiple classrooms.

I worked for a charity who asked if we could do that and I adv that on current infrastructure, not well and with significant technical challenges.

When communications and transportation are developed every sector is enhanced.

XP is dead, it's pining for the fjords.

When will these same commentards realize that just because you don't need it that the rest of us shouldn't have to put up with bloody XP.

I work on a help desk and when someone says "I'm not very good with computers" you can be your bottom dollar they are on XP. That is the company you are keeping.

Windows 7 is more stable, it just is and all your wishing and hoping ain't gonna make it so. It boots faster. It is a better operating system and I for one are glad that Microsoft are not going to spend my money that I pay them in license fees supporting a dead operating system. Get over it.

FFS.

so over it.

Can we all just agree,

1. Update cycles have slowed in business

2. Consumers like phones and tablets more than desktops

3. Workstations (gamer boxes) still need to speed up, but that is a small market.

4. You think your, and your friends opinion about windows 8.x is important.

5. This is the year of Linux (mint rocks IMHO)

And thereafter have an interesting conversation devoid of these anecdotes and topics.

It might have been interesting 3 years ago, but seriously, talk about flogging a dead horse.

stuck in the mud.

My mate bought a note 3 and a Sammy ultrabook recently and I have to admit I was impressed. They are really bringing it to Apple when it comes to features. The way he can interact with the note 3 screen on his (touchscreen) ultrabook and send either display to his TV with a flick of the wrist is not to be sniffed at.

Sammy seems pretty focused on bringing new multitasking paradigms to touchscreen devices and I can't help but be impressed by there vision of interconnection between devices.

It is a shame Apple seems so stuck in the mud and aren't innovating user experience the way they used to. I get it I guess, once you have made up your mind that you did it perfectly the first time... It is hard to imagine new ways of doing it. Ah well at least they gave the rest of the tech industry the kick up the pants they deserved.

Btw. I neither Apple or Samsung

"Maybe there might be a few more tax payers out there than you imagined who have a better than average idea of the consequences of the public purse funding a facility less than 2.5% of the population (including those who don't pay tax) will ever agree to purchase without a further subsidy."

You are an idiot.

2.5% are you daft?

How about a 20 bn dollar IT industry?

how about a 1 trillion dollar economy that would gain from faster communications

The greatest benefit will be to business as this will be a massive productivity improvement.

How about the fact that this doesn't come from tax payers funds. It is borrowed money. It is borrowed, at a low rate, for which the company will be recompensed.

How about the fact that you are arguing for cheap and nasty instead of solid and long lived.

how about you are a dumbass,

People want this. They just know that turnbull aint gonna budge.

the truth.

The reality of the phase we are going through right now is that it is an intermediate phase.

Now is the time for an outrageous statement!

MOBILE COMPUTING HAS STILL NOT DELIVERED ON ITS CORE OBJECTIVE!

how outrageous you say?

Not really. Just the reality. Sure, I have a nexus 5, a nexus 7, laptops, and my girlfriend has an iPhone and iPad and you know what. None of it delivers anything more than a compromise. Every piece is limited or locked in, spying on me, or patented in such a way as to limit choice.

I for one will welcome the day when my computer fits in my pocket. when I can plug my phone into a desktop station and have it perform complex creative tasks the likes of a full workstation.

It just hasn't happened. It may never do, but I am sick of pretending that these compromises are anything but compromises. "design decisions" - bullshit. You just can't make it yet.

It looks like we are several Ticks away. maybe at the 7nm spec we will get there but untill then...

As to microsoft.. They just need to go there. And (i think) there are people there that know it.

ddr3 vs gddr5

With the commonality of gddr5 in GPU's these days i am curious about the performance effect on the graphics from using ddr3 for the gpu.

anyone have info?

It blows my mind

that Apple can afford to give away a free O.S. while at the same time upping the price on new macbooks. It is such an interesting fact that Apple owners are so convinced that they are getting an O.S. for free when their products cost significantly more than other brands with similar products.

It is almost like the cost of O.S. development is an included cost in the product... but no... that can't be it.

I am pretty sure that that can't be it because everyone knows that Apple is the most valuable tech company in the world and also is sitting on 30+% profit margins BECAUSE they give away free products.

Oh, and btw, Windows 8.1 == free == more features & bug fixes... which is sort of like an O.S. upgrade.

I guess really... if you think about it... Microsoft innovated that. So please, say thankyou Apple-ites.

:P

I'm waiting for an atom, the next one or the one after... maybe

There will be no good Windows tablets until Intel or AMD bring out a proper low power x86 SoC that can give good performance at the right price.

the way it is looking though, is it will either be next year or two thousand and never.

Then the surface can be competitive and we will start to see the Windows slabs that people want.

Sigh - everyone misses the point.. again.

I have mk809 IIs and all sorts of other hpc goodies/ streaming solutions.

The problem with these streaming solutions is not the hardware. It is the streaming protocols.

Airplay has its good points... but it also is a massive bandwidth hog (like Bonjour it has massive overheads). It also is incapable of multiple stream audio. (for whole home audio/video solutions) and is really temperamental because it is supposed to "just work" so when it doesn't work there are no methods to configure settings. Also if you want to stream to multiple players you have to use a MAC PC or WIN/LINUX PC for broadcasting and it is not intelligent in how it broadcasts leading to variable latencies and also band width issues. Also it is a closed system so the only players that can broadcast airplay are apple softwares/ embedded solutions in apple products.

DLNA is pretty cool too. Much more open, and it uses less bandwidth but forget ever trying to multi-cast and it also tends to be less reliable. The most unforgivable thing it does though is broadcast in mp3 format audio.

Miracast is cool but requires specific hardware which is frustrating and never going to be ubiquitous.

The Problem?

(network) Wifi induced latency.

The solution?

Someone smarter than me working on it.

get to it.

At least this solution from google sort of fixes one thing. casting from a tablet. Problem is... it still kind of doesn't. I don't understand why they can't just set up a proper screen mirroring service... I guess it must be wifi... Wifi tends to be the issue.

;)

i hate when you guys quote base pricing.

For a proper content creation 12 core it will end up costing 8k +

The base price doesn't include much of anything and is quite underwhelming...

iOS upgraded?

My dad has an iPad 1 and my mum has a 3gs and these cannot upgrade past iOS 4.6 or something similar. I call bullshit on the 6% stat for non iOS 6 phones. That or most iTHINGYS crap themselves after 2-3 years...

Either way... I call bullshit.

Also. Android 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2 are virtually the same kernel afaik. Should count them as one.

This was a weak WWDC from Apple.