Comment Re:I've gone back to XBMC. (Score 1) 163
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If they use the same technology as they use for the Google Voice transcriptions then it won't be so useful.
This is largely due to the poor sound quality of voices over phone networks. My experience with my Droid is that if it gets good voice input, I get good text output. The dual-mic hardware on this thing should be very helpful with input filtering.
Apple products carry a price premium that nobody can reasonably explain... you just pay more because it's an Apple.
It can be easily explained. Whenever you buy an iPod/iPhone/MacBook you are paying a premium to fund the massive Apple ad campaign.
As part of the Beta we also changed the underlying graphic library on Windows from OpenGL to DirectX
Turns out that the amount of bugs in a given amount of lines of code is fairly constant, regardless of language.
I'm not sure if this applies to Perl. It's probably one of the few languages, where you can have about 10 different bugs in one single line of code.
I hope the design can be retrofitted into existing turbines, since there are so many deployed now.
According to the article, it should be possible:
The next step will be to install larger, megawatt-scale generators in existing wind turbines.
Old programmers never die, they just hit account block limit.