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Comment Upgrade from SD for $12 and from HD for $15? (Score 1) 148

by tadeck on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @04:09PM (#51802577) Attached to: Sony's Ultra 4K Streaming Service Launching On April 4; Titles Priced At $30

> Consumers will be able to upgrade SD and HD quality movies from their UltraViolet cloud locker for $12 to $15, respectively.

Looks like pretty good deal, encouraging us to have higher density (HD) than lower (SD)...

Big Jump For Tablet Storage: Seagate Intros 5mm Hard Disk For Tablets 201

Posted by samzenpus on Monday September 09, 2013 @02:33PM from the give-me-more dept.

cold fjord writes "ZDNet reports, 'Seagate on Monday took the wraps off a hard drive designed for tablets that brings 7x the storage capacity of a 64GB device with the same performance as a Flash drive. The drive, the Seagate Ultra Mobile HDD, uses software to boost performance. The idea is that Android tablet manufacturers will use the Seagate drive, along with the company's mobile enablement kit and caching software, to up the storage. The 2.5-inch drive is 5 mm thin and weighs 3.3 ounces. As for capacity, the drive has 500GB---enough for 100,000 photos and 125,000 songs.' More at The Wall Street Journal."

Comment What language instead, if Python was not created? (Score 1) 242

by tadeck on Monday August 19, 2013 @01:03PM (#44608769) Attached to: Interviews: Q&A With Guido van Rossum

Lets imagine you have not created Python, but some other programming language. Relying on your judgment, what existing (but not necessarily popular) programming language would be the closest to your mindset / principles / preferences? Or maybe there is none - in such case, how would it differ from Python?

That question baffles me, as you are guru of significant part of developers and surely there is some language that either follows good parts of Python, or avoids Python mistakes. Could you share your thoughts on what would be your choice for Python replacement, if creation of Python would not be possible?

Ps. Many people seem to treat Ruby as being very close to Python. If you will pick Ruby, could you pick also another language, that you would pick after Python and Ruby?

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