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Comment Re:how pathetic is it... (Score 1) 140

Out of interest, what legacy apps are you so desperate to run on your phone? Up until a few years ago it wouldn't have even been feasible to run an x86 emulator fast enough to emulate anything newer than Win95, and even now I can't imagine what you'd want to run on a slow CPU emulator that there aren't already plenty of good native alternatives for. Well, maybe on an Intel based Android phone it might work ok.

On the other hand I can already access my full PC remotely on my phone via Vnc...

Comment Re:how pathetic is it... (Score 4, Insightful) 140

We've been asking for this from MS for EVER

They just can't win can they?

Everyone: We want the same apps on our phone and tablet as on our desktop!

MS: Ok, with Windows 8 we'll created a unified UI and Dev experience so the same app can be released on all 3 platforms! Neat huh?

Everyone: We don't want our PC to be like a phone, we hate Windows 8!

Comment Re:unnecessary bloat cruft (Score 1) 279

Nonsense. If you're browsing the web and following a bunch of links, you would have to long press the link to copy it, long press to paste it in the url bar, edit the url to add the S (this is mobile, so moving the cursor directly between the "p" and the ":" is non-trivial), and hit enter... for every link you follow.

And don't forget the waiting for it to fail and changing it back to HTTP:// when you get a server that doesn't have https.

Comment Is there more info? This makes no sense to me (Score 1) 133

Does anyone have any more info on what they're actually doing with these? Because it makes absolutely no sense to me. The Kinect's depth sensor has a maximum range of 6 meters, after that it's no better than a VGA webcam, and I'm pretty sure the things they'll want to identify are more than 6m away...

Comment Re:Cry me a fucking river... (Score 1) 374

But what the original AC stated is also technically correct:

Syed Hussain had already been jailed for his part in a cell that had discussed an attack on a Territorial Army base in Luton using a bomb attached to a remote control car.

So Syed Hussain was convicted of terrorism as well as being involved in said fraud.

Comment Re:death of the pc? (Score 3, Informative) 511

Sunspider score? That's more to do with improving Javascript engines than a better CPU! The Note 3's CPU is apparently capable of 930 MFLOPS, while even the lowest end E6300 Core 2 Duo can get 8.8 GFLOPS.

If you count GPU performance then the iPhone 5s has 76.8GFlops, but then consumer graphics cards were up to 1TFlop by 2009.

Comment Re:What would be sweet... (Score 1) 222

Will a Raspberry Pi running a minimal Debian (or other Linux) installation on an air-gapped network (it can even be just the Pi plugged directly into the host via a crossover cable) using an encrypted tunnel like SSH really be any less secure than a running a custom decryption service over some kind of custom USB bridge? (I assume you were thinking this, otherwise it's back to being networked anyway)

If your host PC is compromised than nothing is going to stop it requesting decrypted data from the Pi anyway.

Comment So instead of diving for hours with an air tank... (Score 3, Interesting) 375

... you get to dive for the 10 minutes that the "micro-battery" can provide power?

Seriously we go through this every time one of these artificial gills is announced, you need too high a flow rate for a battery to realistically be able to provide power for, so you end up with a system that lasts for far less time than a simple air tank could provide.

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