The codec directory was an idea that I think they got from AmigaOS' "Datatypes" mechanism.
I remember that Amiga was the first platform where all* web browsers would support PNG, because someone had written a PNG datatype and released it as free software.
*: Yeah, yeah, Lynx did not technically view images, but it could download an image and launch an external image viewer
I think that what a smartwatch needs to be is as a "companion device" to a phone, and nothing more.
It needs a screen, two buttons (or areas to tap) for "Yes" and "No" and low-bandwidth communication with the phone. The phone tells the watch what to display and what the buttons mean. The watch then needs only to reply with "Message understood, displaying screen", "Yes" and "No". That's it.
All the "killer apps" that a smartwatch could be used for require those things and nothing more.
The Samsung watch and many stand-alone smartwatches are too powerful, too feature-rich and already too bloated. The Samsung watch is already too large to wear comfortably on the wrist. Has anyone mentioned battery life yet? My Casio has a battery life measured in years.
... and in Bob Kane's original Batman comics, first printed in Detective Comics #31 in 1939, Batman did not use a "batplate" or a "batcopter". He used a "batgyro". The first "batarang" was introduced in the same panel.
Precisely. Isn't this the real issue here that the trademark "Ministry of Sound" is being used for playlists on Spotify.
According to the Spanish general traffic department (DGT), excessive speed was a factor in 37% of all fatalities in traffic accidents between 1999 and 2003. Roughly 20.000 deaths every year only in Spain.
We have a tenth of that here, so according to your numbers in Spain 440 deaths per million, in Sweden on a bad year it's 44 deaths per million.. It can't be that much of a difference can it?
I can assure you if you ask the power company for a 100KW line they are going to give you a different rate.
Over here there is a difference between "network charge" and power usage. So if you pay for a 20 Amps line you the network charge is fixed rate + something per kWh, and pay for your power usage in kWh. I think this is because we buy our power from power companies and out electric connection from delivery companies.
If you ask for a bigger connection you might not get it without paying for the network upgrade, that's why you build datacenters in old industrial towns which has a good electrical grid.
That shortcut opens a new Incognito window in Chrome, also called "Private browsing" in Firefox.
Also very useful. Incognito windows lets me can log into my gmail account without having to log out of Youtube
... but the router I got from them does.
It is a standard Ethernet router. No malice here. It is just crappy, and I am too cheap and lazy to buy a new one. I don't do anything where I would need over 40 Mb/s anyway.
I agree with most of your points, but it is a bit late now...
If I had been Microsoft, I would have leveraged the "Metro" name instead: Windows Phone -> Metro Phone, Windows RT -> Metro Tablet, but let full-featured (x86) tablets remain Windows tablets.
Then, instead of letting the desktop be an "app", expand on the tiling windows of Windows 7 and place Metro apps in tiled windows on the desktop. Also, add multiple workspaces to Windows desktop -- it is about effing time.
Sorry, but multicore does not scale that well.
As soon as one core needs data that is not in the cache, it stalls. A stalled core is a core that does not run.
The best utilization of multicore is if you are using all cores on the same problem, and the same data. Making your code scale to multiple cores can be quite tricky. I found that [url=http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2013/4-329]this talk at Microsoft Build 2013[/url] explains quite well what you need to do.
Yes, but MediaTek is who is claiming that its CPU with eight equal cores is better than 4+4 big.LITTLE.
Qualcomm is saying "No, it's not".
The X41 had only a swiveling screen, pen and a couple of physical buttons on top. It did not come apart into two parts.
The two laptops serve different users. You could say that the X41 is primarily a laptop and a tablet secondarily, while the Helix is primarily a tablet and a laptop secondarily.
The tablet is easier to carry, and might therefore be preferable if you are going away/travelling and you don't think that you will be typing much. The X41 is when you do mostly traditional computing and you need tablet functionality only sparingly.
The X41 had a dock also, for desktop use. I would like to see a (vertical) desktop dock for the Helix tablet so that I can use it with a desktop screen and keyboard, and without having to connect the keyboard part first.
They could rebrand them, reinstall the OS on them and sell them as Android tablets.
People want those apparently
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." -- Albert Einstein
