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Comment: An interesting point all comments have overlooked. (Score 2) 67

Brightness.

I found it very interesting that he found the display to dim to see anything when looking out of the windshield.

No preview has mentioned this up to now, and I think thats an interesting issue. If you cannot even see the turn by turn display of google maps in daylight, how will the other usability be?

Comment: Clarifications (due to rampant bullshit here) (Score 5, Informative) 347

This happened in 2010.
Those were old computers.
They already had the money to buy replacements budgeted in their 2010/2011 budget.

So they had to decide to pull the effort the reimage everything for a couple of months, or just buy the new ones early. Buying the new ones early did cost a bit more (30k for all of them), but less then a cleaning would have cost.

The servers, who where not sheduled for replacement, were reimaged just fine.

Comment: Re:What problem are you trying to solves? (Score 1) 148

by imsabbel (#43258795) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Simplifying Encryption and Backup?

> I cringe at the mere thought of encrypting my whole main drive, OS and all. Bleaaggghhh! But if you don't, you have to clear your logs once in a while.

Why exactly?

With Truecrypt, I have >>1GB/s possible throughput, so even saturated SATA-6 from an SSD will not be limited by CPU power - hell, 1 or 2 cores are not in use anyway, nearly all of the time.

And defect sectors or other snafus? Well, if a 4k block is dead, it does not matter if it was encrypted or not. Its not like the whole thing breaks down...

Comment: Re:AAA Batteries (Score 2) 79

by imsabbel (#43128575) Attached to: $13 Txtr Beagle Ebook Reader To Sell For $69

You are old fashioned.

A good e-reader only needs to be charged every month or two (thanks to Lithium batteries), and is using micro usb, so you do not need a charger, cause if you are gone from home for more than a couple of weeks, you might have your cell phone charger or a laptop or something with you, anyways.

Comment: Re:The Pentium Pro did it (Score 1) 605

by imsabbel (#43085633) Attached to: Why Can't Intel Kill x86?

Don't forget the AMD Athlon.

Pentium Pro was good (at least as long as you stayed away from 16 bit code), but the Athlon showed that you can do stuff that only PA-RISC and Alpha had before with x86 ( in particular, superscalar FPU with parallel mul/add/memory op).

At that point, it was clear that you can shove EVERYTHING into x86. And who cares about 8 (now 16) registers, if you never touch them anyway and there are 200+ rename register under the hood?

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