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Comment Joplin (Score 1) 187

by LaRoach (#63161092) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Note-Taking App Do You Use?
Supports markdown if you want some formatting as well as some cloud syncing services like Dropbox, NextCloud and OneDrive. You can embed jpg images in the notes if you need such things. It has mobile and desktop app versions for all of the major platforms.

Comment Re:Google likes to hose hardware (Score 1) 268

by LaRoach (#51854239) Attached to: Nest Reminds Customers That Ownership Isn't What It Used To Be
I may be using "LTE" wrong (this was several years ago). I'm on T-Mobile and they started calling HSPA+ "LTE" to compete with other brands. The N4 did support HSPA+ out of the box and had great throughput. After they pushed out their updates mine lost the capability of using HSPA+ and was locked firmly into the old 3G speeds.

Comment Re:Still not interested (Score 5, Informative) 302

by LaRoach (#40398021) Attached to: RIM Drops Playbook Price By 66%
When RIM launched the playbook it didn't have native email apps for security reasons. In order to use email and calendaring you had to own a blackberry and tether it or something like that. This lead to a lot of confusion on what it's internet capabilities actually were. See here for some details: http://crackberry.com/why-rim-launching-blackberry-playbook-without-native-email-client-and-why-may-or-may-not-matter-you
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PopBox STB To Ship Soon But Without Netflix, Pandora 56

Posted by kdawson from the littler-and-later dept.
DeviceGuru writes "Syabas says it is nearly ready to ship the PopBox, which it announced in January (though they said at the time it would ship in March). The $129 Internet-based A/V streaming set-top box will offer a variety of user-selectable media-streaming apps, but is unlikely at launch to include Netflix instant downloads (promised at announcement), Pandora music, or Amazon pay-per-view video support. According to Syabas, the PopBox only works with HDTVs and not standard definition TVs, and has component outputs in addition to HDMI; plus, the company says the device supports RealD 3D. More details are on the PopBox website."
Caldera

SCO Asks Judge To Give Them the Unix Copyright 286

Posted by CmdrTaco from the we-promise-to-walk-it-every-day dept.
Raul654 writes "In March, the jury in the Novell/SCO case found that Novell owns the copyright to Unix. Now, SCO's lawyers have asked judge Ted Stewart to order Novell to turn over the Unix copyright to them. 'SCO contends the jury did not answer the specific issue before Stewart that involves a legal principle called "specific performance," under which a party can ask a court to order another party to fulfill an aspect of an agreement.'" Over at Groklaw, PJ is deep into a community project to annotate SCO's filing. It's for the benefit of future historians, but it makes amusing reading now.
Earth

Caltech Makes Flexible, 86% Efficient Solar Arrays 439

Posted by kdawson from the bend-me-shape-me dept.
strredwolf writes "Caltech has released a flexible solar array that converts 95% of single-wavelength incandescent light and 86% of all sunlight into electricity. Instead of being flat-panel, they stand thin silicon wires in a plastic substrate that scatters the light onto them. The total composition is 98% plastic, 2% wire — the amount of silicon used is 1/50th that of ordinary panels. So as soon as they can get these to market, solar could be very viable and cheap to produce." Update: 03/01 21:02 GMT by KD : Reader axelrosen points out evidence that the 80%+ efficiency figure is wrong. MIT's Tech Review, in covering the Caltech announcement, says that the new panel's efficiency is in the 15%-20% range — which is competitive with the current state of the art. And the Caltech panel should be far cheaper to manufacture.

Comment Re:Deparation... (Score 1) 525

by LaRoach (#30521152) Attached to: The Last GM Big-Block V-8 Rolls Off the Line
Ah, you remind me of the good old days when I used to race. The vette fanboys were just as insufferable then as well (always needing to prove something) and were guaranteed to rise to the bait! For some reason the guys in the blue corvettes always spun out. We never did figure that one out. The corner workers knew to look out for them though. By the way, you type like a sixteen year old. You're kinda hard to take seriously (but I am enjoying your posts).

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