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Comment Re:All TVs = android, all DSLR cams = android (Score 1) 601

by timmans on Thursday November 15, 2012 @05:08PM (#41995737) Attached to: Android Hits 73% of Global Smartphone Market

You can already get android on projectors:

http://dx.com/p/hd-android-4-0-multimedia-player-projector-w-wi-fi-165371

Comment Short Flights (Score 2) 78

by timmans on Monday April 02, 2012 @12:26PM (#39549885) Attached to: Annual Airline Achievement Report Released

Airlines that predominately do short flights (like Hawaiian does) would find it much easier to be on time than an airline that runs longer duration filghts.

Comment Hacking (Score 1) 416

by timmans on Saturday October 29, 2011 @10:26AM (#37878560) Attached to: Weaponizable Police UAV Now Operational In Texas

I bet the hackers are going to love to play around with this. Just imagine if the C&C frequency can be hacked...

Comment Much improved Memory management (Score 2) 441

by timmans on Monday July 11, 2011 @10:17AM (#36720022) Attached to: Firefox 8 20% Faster Than Firefox 5

I have always had problems with Firefox streaming my 20 cameras through Zoneminder from my server. Invariably the whole machine would lock up within 2-3 minutes because Firefox was using up 90%+ of my 4gb RAM. I have just installed Firefox 7.0a2 and I have been streaming the cameras now for about 20 mins and Firefox is only using up 240mb. If this is any indication of where they are heading, then I think they have cured one of Firefox's largest issues - memory hogging.

Comment Re:Any good? (Score 1) 473

by timmans on Sunday October 10, 2010 @10:08AM (#33851708) Attached to: Ubuntu 10.10, Maverick Meerkat, Now Available

I haven't used it yet but just looking at the Known Issues in the release notes doesn't give me much confidence. I don't recall seeing this many issues with the previous final releases - is this amount of bugs normal?

Comment Re:4.0b5 on Snow Leopard (Score 1) 279

by timmans on Friday September 10, 2010 @12:42PM (#33535264) Attached to: Mozilla Unleashes JaegerMonkey Enabled Firefox 4

On Ubuntu 10.04.1 x86-64, Nvidia GeForce 8500GT, 4gb RAM, Core2Due E7400 I get:

Firefox 4.0b6pre: 52fps
Firefox 3.6.10pre: 47fps

Certainly has no problems on Linux.

Comment Re:How much disk space do they need...? (Score 1) 300

by timmans on Sunday July 25, 2010 @12:50PM (#33021746) Attached to: Building a $200 Linux PC

10 years' worth of digital photos for two people (the other doesn't have a camera) = about 10GB.

I currently have 12.5GB of photos of my 13 month old son...

Comment Re:Come to Australia (Score 1) 160

by timmans on Saturday July 24, 2010 @11:40AM (#33013752) Attached to: Australian Enterprises Block Sex Party's Political Site

As an Australian living overseas, I couldn't agree with you more. I was living in another "first world" country for 3 years and am now living in a "3rd world" country for about 3 years. Compared to either of these two, Australia is by far and away the best place to live with minimal crime, racism, corruption and social disharmony. I agree, Australia is not perfect, but it would be quite hard to find a better place to live.

Comment Re:They need to do something more radically differ (Score 1) 267

by timmans on Sunday March 28, 2010 @02:34PM (#31649102) Attached to: Microsoft Lost Search War By Ignoring the Long Tail

But windows is a heck of a lot more open than the iPad

You're comparing oranges to apples, so to speak.

Shouldn't that be lemons to apples?

Comment Re:As usual.. (Score 1) 100

by timmans on Saturday July 18, 2009 @05:04PM (#28743397) Attached to: Publishers Pressuring MS To Push Indies From Xbox Live?

Microsoft will publish whichever games are going to net them most profit, just like any other company would.

You could also say the same about computer OSes... But similarly Microsoft used their muscle to force Dell, HP etc to only ship PCs with Windows. Maybe Microsoft is getting some of their own medicine back.

Swedish Pirate Party Gains 3000 Members In 7 Hours 410

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday April 17, 2009 @05:33PM from the unintended-consequences dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Due to outrage over the verdict in The Pirate Bay trial, the Swedish Pirate Party has gained 3000 members in less than 7 hours. It is now bigger than 3 of the 7 parties represented in the Swedish parliament. 'Ruling means that our political work must now be stepped up. We want to ensure that the Pirate Bay activities — to link people and information — is clearly lawful. And we want to do it for all people in Sweden, Europe and the world, continues Rick Falk Vinge. We want it to be open for ordinary people to disseminate and receive information without fear of imprisonment or astronomical damages.'"

Comment Re:You miss the point... shwooosh! (Score 1) 414

by timmans on Monday December 15, 2008 @06:35PM (#26125807) Attached to: The Age of Touch Computing

The problem is that for humans, a comfortable viewing position is not a comfortable position for using the hands, and vice-versa. This is why keyboards and mice are in the ideal position for the hands, while the monitor is in the ideal position for the eyes. Unless someone can overcome this ergonomic issue I don't think touch computing will ever get near mainstream.

Magnetic Levitating Trains Get Go-Ahead In Japan 425

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday October 22, 2008 @11:29AM from the futureworld-is-now dept.

An anonymous reader writes "They've been on the drawing board for 40 years but the politicos have finally approved routes for the 500kph maglev trains to replace bullet trains." I wonder if they'll let me test out maglev rollerblades on the track.

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