skinklizard - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Replaced with Osko (Score 1) 227

by skinklizard on Thursday June 08, 2023 @02:39AM (#63585116) Attached to: Checks Will Be Phased Out in Australia By 2030

Yeah, but at this point anyone using 'weird' banks like the ones that don't support OSKO are in the minority. All the main banks use it and its great. The first time you transact with another account it is not always instant, but it is after that. I couldn't care less about cheques being extinct!

Comment Re:Been there, done that (Score 1) 36

by skinklizard on Monday July 20, 2020 @02:25AM (#60309575) Attached to: Is It Time To Kill the Penny?

Mind you at some point it'll become a moot point due to the use of cashless transactions. I can't remember the last time I made a cash transaction, and that's not just going back to last week, it's going back to the start of the year.

Me too... thanks to Covid-19 most of the businesses in the land of Oz don't take cash anymore.... but spare a thought for your local drug dealer! he's really going to struggle in a cashless society...

Comment Obligatory (Score 1) 61

by skinklizard on Sunday April 28, 2019 @04:49AM (#58504154) Attached to: High School Production of 'Alien' Suprised By Visit From Sigourney Weaver

Great Story.... needs more aliens!

Comment Re:By this argument... (Score 3, Insightful) 197

by skinklizard on Saturday April 23, 2016 @03:19PM (#51973543) Attached to: Slashdot Asks: Does It Matter That We've Reached Peak Smartphone?

For most people, we reached 'peak desktop' when SSD's became widespread and cheap enough to be the primary drive in a reasonable system. They're using their PC for web browsing and not much else. In the PC side of the equation, we still have to make the jump to high resolution displays. Apple might me there already but the majority of Windows users are still at the same 1920x1080 resolution they were 5 years ago.

Comment Re:Oh shit! (Score 1) 360

by skinklizard on Monday August 27, 2012 @04:48AM (#41134935) Attached to: Doctorow on the War on General Purpose Computing

Linux is atheism of course!!! after the the dust settles what do you think the intelligent people will use?

Nanoresonators Create Ultra-High-Res Displays 231

Posted by Soulskill on Friday August 27, 2010 @12:26PM from the don't-tell-crytek dept.

TuurlijkNiet writes with this excerpt from Linux for Devices: "Eat your heart out, 'Retina display.' A new technology unveiled yesterday will allow creating pixels eight times smaller than the ones on Apple's iPhone 4, eliminate the need for polarizer layers, and allow screens to make much more efficient use of available light, say University of Michigan researchers. ... The pixels in the nanoresonator displays are about ten times smaller than those on a typical computer screen, and about eight times smaller than the pixels on the iPhone 4, which are about 78 microns, according to Guo. Such pixel densities could make the technology useful in projection displays, as well as wearable, bendable or extremely compact displays, according to the researchers."

Comment Re:Unlimited Plan (Score 1) 131

by skinklizard on Saturday April 04, 2009 @06:43AM (#27456369) Attached to: Group Pushes FCC To Investigate Skype for iPhone

That's what all the carriers are really shit scared about, right?... just like the ISP's. They want to be content carriers not just dumb pipes. It doesn't matter to the carriers if they're charging a premium for voice, video or facebook, the carriers want to charge you MORE for highly desired content. It'll all wash out in the next 20 years. By 2030 all data will be equal. The battle now is about the fat profits the carriers make between now and then.

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