Yes, my parents live in a thinly populated area of the Netherlands and they have fiber, also all the houses and farms outside the villages are getting fibered up, some several kilometers from any community (the whole area is mostly farmland).
We can't even stand up against election fraud.
What election fraud ? As if there is a need for it.
You forget it is also the home of the brave. Where 'brave' means so scared of the extremely remote chance you might be the victim of terrorism that they gladly give up their freedoms.
Land of the oppressed, home of the cowards.
No rational person on earth thinks airplane windows should roll down.
The guy wears magical underpants...
The biggest performance boost of an SSD compared to a traditional harddisk is random access times, this is what matters a lot more than sequential read performance.
That and a computer without any moving parts is just so nice and quiet.
True, but they do this with twice the cores and a highernclock frequency. That makes the A6 pretty impressive.
Imagine if they put a higher clocked, quad-core version of this in an iPad.
Unlike the 'good old days' when people used to write whole OSes on their phone ?
Yes, all improvements to the web are thanks to the ad companies, it has nothing to do with technological progress.
Was e-ink ever gone ? No LCD beats it for long reading sessions.
I'm actually looking forward to that illuminated display.
Their national average according to speedtest is just ~25 Mbit.
I think what is important is not the average speed users get, but the speed that is available to them if they choose to pay for it. Not everyone will have use for a fast connection so many users will opt for a cheaper plan, but I think everyone should at least have the option to get a fast connection.
I live in the Netherlands, average speed according to speedtest is 27Mbit. Relatively fast internet (100Mbit+) is available to most people in the country, but many choose slower and cheaper connections and that's fine. I don't believe the goal should be to have broadband in every home, it should be to have broadband available as an option for anyone who chooses to have it. Lots of places simply don't have an option to get fast internet, and I think that is a more important metric than average internet speeds across the country.
1MBit is not exactly broadband and I don't think 3Mbit should be called that either.
The problem is that what could be considered broadband is a moving target, so we need a more flexible definition: e.g. 10% of the most current standard speed for home networking equipment. (So that would be 10% of 1Gbit = 100Mbit right now, which seems reasonable).
But you need only 1 HDMI on your TV, it only needs to connect to your A/V receiver. What is the point of a nice TV if you're not getting an equally nice surround sound system ?
It's the cornerstone of Samsung's case that Apple didn't invent the idea of a rectangular phone with a touchscreen and that they had been developing the same design idea at the time.
If it's such an important piece of evidence, why did they wait until after the deadline to submit it ?
Either their lawyers are incompetent or they wanted Apple's lawyers to have less time to prepare their case based on this evidence and gambled that the judge would allow the evidence anyway. I expect Samsung to have hired a bunch of very expensive lawyers so I'm assuming they just gambled and lost.
Business users sure care about uptime.
They care about uptime of a service, not of individual servers.
great.. closed platforms.. that'll be fun to develop for
Programming for the closed platform iOS is actually a lot more fun than for the open platform Android.
The open or closedness of a platform doesn't say a thing about the quality of the SDK, API's and development tools.
Thus spake the master programmer: "After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
