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Comment Re:Too stupid to weed out marketing spam /.? (Score 1) 154

It is not per-cell (at that weight it would be a much more notable breakthrough if it was).
So assuming the screen, backlight, memory, and SSD use no power at all. Then you can use 15% of your CPU/GPU for 14 hours - yay marketing!
In fact the USB 3 charging port alone would drain the main and external batteries in 9 hours with the laptop in full sleep.

Comment Re:Too meticulous? (Score 1) 487

All times mentioned in BBC articles (unless clearly stated) are in British local time, therefore this is the most useful clock for them to display.
Few non-British people are going to want to set there clock by the BBC; however many people read a new story that 'XYZ happened this morning', and it would be very useful to see how long ago that was.

Comment Re:LMGTFY (Score 4, Insightful) 487

Given that the vast majority of computers already display their time on the screen; it is reasonable to assume the only the purpose of an additional clock on the BBC website is to validate its accuracy.
n.b. a large proportion of the population grew up setting their watches to the BBC's pips, it is also natural to consider them an authority on the subject.

Comment Re:Yes they can (Score 1) 497

If by workplace you mean 'Office' then they certainly will have a stronghold for many years. For the majority of the worlds population who don't work at a desk, desktops (even laptops require sitting down) seem unlikely to remain the best solution.
Gaming has a long history of toppling people with larger majority shares then Microsoft. The best way to think about the Xbox One that it currently has 0% market share, Microsoft have a lot of money and experience to change that, but so do other companies.

Comment QED (Score 1) 426

The first person to encourage independent confirmation of a published cold-fusion device becomes the person who has made the greatest contribution to the betterment of the human condition in all of history.
People who think they can make more money by preventing a section of humanity from using a cold-fusion device are too small minded and petty to stand any chance of having inventing one.

Comment Re:Are tablets going to go away? (Score 1) 564

ARM SoCs are developing incredibly fast. They are 12 months from obliterating current gen consoles (Tegra 5s will have Kepler GPUs). 2-3 years is much less certain, but current road-maps show them easily beating next-gen consoles.
I certainly agree that tablets generally aren't heavily used, and that this dose indicate they are probably in a bubble. I was just claiming that if they where being used, then the replacement cycle would sustain the market without needed an upgrade cycle.

Comment Re:Not putting in DRM isn't going to eliminate DRM (Score 3, Insightful) 351

That is precisely the problem. You could require that the doctor can only see your medical records in special bunker under the Pentagon, after he has submitted to a full cavity search and provided 20 forms of ID. It doesn't have any bearing on whether the next day he phones up his friendly drugs rep. to say he has an interesting new case. If you share information with someone it have to TRUST them to use it wisely, the is no technology that will help with that.
Sending records securely over the public Internet is a solved problem and most people manage to do this every day. Storing records securely is also solved, though this is less uniformly applied. Trying to give people information (digital or otherwise) and then controlling precisely what they do with that information is quite simply impossible.

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