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Comment Re:oh god (Score 1) 262

People who bitch about how stupid twitter is Do Not Get Twitter. Twitter is not for broadcasting the fact that you're on the toilet. It's for disseminating news (and yes, this includes advertising and PR) more quickly than any other medium, ever. Twitter is quickly obsoleting one particular hook of 24-hour cable news networks: the ability to be the first to report a major event.

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Growing Power Gap Could Force Smartphone Tradeoffs 246

alphadogg writes "Mobile users face a fast-growing gap between their smartphones' increasing power needs and battery capacity. That gap could force users to make tradeoffs in how, and for what, they use their phones, even as vendors at all levels work even harder to reduce power demand in mobile devices, according to Chris Schreck, a research analyst with IMS Research. Schreck estimates that a 1500 mAh battery, the industry's current 'high water mark,' yields for many smartphone users a battery life of about 6 hours — highly dependent on what applications and on-device technologies, including Wi-Fi, users are running. The latest and greatest tech advances, including faster CPUs, higher data throughput, and improved displays all crank up the demand for power. The combination of user behavior and technology is boosting power demand faster than battery capacity can keep up. Schreck estimates power requirements can grow 15% a year."

Comment Sometimes I wish they would... (Score 1) 275

Sometimes I wish the MPAA would go the whole hog and just block everyone from viewing any of their content outside of a cinema. I don't think we'd all die of grief. TV stations would have nothing to just broadcast but news and youtube clips. Then the whole recorded-images industry would collapse and die. But I suspect we might come up with something really great to replace its cultural role.

Comment Re:Fuck you Linus and the horse you rode in on (Score 2, Insightful) 590

No I agree with you, the current law is very unjust. Part of the problem nobody wants to deal with is that children become sexualized quite gradually starting at a very young age.

Having said that, wanting to have sex is not the same as being able to give valid consent to have sex. These are two separate issues. To give valid consent (so the theory goes) you have to be able to assess the likely consequences of an action in light of an understanding of your true desires and intentions. The orthodox view is that 13-year-olds don't know what's good for them.

Comment Re:see sig... (Score 2, Insightful) 375

> what I already own (as it's better than what's been recently released)

Everyone starts to think that when they reach middle age. It's not actually true though - plenty of good stuff has come out recently, it's just that your mind has gotten narrow and you dislike change.

Not that this gives you a reason to change your buying habits! If your mind is narrow, you should by all means buy records like a narrow-minded person would.

Comment Re:Uh, no. (Score 1) 239

> If anything, in the early days gopher was more convenient for multimedia than the web.

This is only true for a very small subset of 'convenient'.

This is the same sense in which 'apt-get' is a convenient way to get software. It's the same sense in which LaTeX is a convenient way to write an article for social sciences. It's the same sense in which it is convenient to type :wq or ^x^w^x^c to save and quit your document. It's the same sense in which it is convenient to use svn to collaborate with others on a text document. It's the same sense in which it is convenient to type "./configure" and then "make home" and then "make install" in order to install a binary executable. It's the same sense in which it's convenient to distribute source code without the required dependencies so that anyone who downloads it has to locate, build and install nine different packages just to find out that there's a fatal bug in the source code which prevents compilation. It's the same sense in which it's convenient to leave out documentation because there's comments in the source code. It's the same sense in which it's convenient to use the 'move' command for renaming files.

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