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And the extra 1 GB of RAM, USB On-The-Go, etc. My point was that most of the world can't use the Evo 4G LTE because it's a CDMA-only phone and most of the world no longer uses CDMA. Also, apart from the screen, it's not really the same as a One X, losing 2 CPU cores and the Nvidia GPU. But at...

Impressive use of space.

I agree it's a compelling package, but CDMA has been obsolete here for some years now. So we're limited to the One X, which just doesn't stack up as well. :( Great for you guys though ...

What color temperature? I can only find 2700K or 3000K in LED here. :cry:

Good summaries, Chewy. Be warned that some AWD LCD panels, presumably due to their requirements for very fast response times, have more limited viewing angles than you might expect. This doesn't affect LG because they use a passive AWD system instead. Oops, I mean 3D.

This is why I don't set M$ updates to automatically install - I haven't forgotten NT 4.0.

I believe it's waiting to see if you're going to double-click, which launches S Voice. Looks like they should tweak it.

Would you be offended if I linked to this? Obviously most people don't have a problem, but it's the sort of business practise that I think needs some regulation.

Firstly, 50" is an obsolete size. :p You're looking at pseudo-metric sizes now, eg 55" ~ 140cm, 47" ~120cm. Five to consider would be Samsung, LG, Sony, Panasonic and Vizio. I have no idea how good Vizio units are, but it was enough to persuade Snowhiker, and Santilli until his acted up. If...

Whatever you do, don't ask Stereodude or Handruin, or you'll end up with an Estoril Blue screen and a carbon fiber bezel.

You sly dog! Busy cultivating romance while the rest of us are fixated on buying Audi S4s. Congratulations, it couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Best wishes to you both for a happy life together.

Why are you worried about the animation? It's hardly Windows-style annoying and it doesn't cause any lags that I can see. I don't know why Mercutio gets his knickers in a knot about Touch Wiz. To me it's just a launcher, and if I get tired of it I'll replace it with something else - this is...

Referred to be the indigenous population as "Invasion Day".

WTF?

Top Gear says the Element is cool.

You're not making sense. I'm saying: it costs HTC and Samsung considerably more than Apple to make a phone (generally because they use more expensive hardware) and their profit margins are consequentially a small fraction of Apple's. On top of this, Apple makes huge margins on accessories. If...

Spot on.

As someone who financially supports Apple's business model, don't you feel just a teensy bit hypocritical?

Yeah, going into my garage is more like caving with bats.

If you think they can make a profit out of shipping a $10 part, you're living in cloud cuckoo land. Apple gave out cases to fend off potentially massive lawsuits regarding their product's fitness for purpose. Where's the commonality? One option would have been to ship either the tip or the...

Meh. AFAIK, the demo I linked to only required root access for one minor aspect (a controller mapping I think). The rest of it is now off the shelf. Interestingly, I see that the manufacturer with by far the most models supporting USB OTG is Nokia, followed by Samsung and Sony. Just a glimpse...

You shouldn't have put put the camcorder in the oben. It's not compatible with 2.45GHz.

No doubt, but the printer will come with half-size (or worse) cartridges.

Obviously you haven't been following his work for very long then. Until Intel suddenly fronted up and told him the Sandforce firmware was rubbish and only they could fix it, Sandforce could do no wrong. Now everyone else is crap but - against the evidence of history - anything Intel is...

AFAIK, SSDs are not magnetic media. If Secure Erase is good enough for NIST, it's good enough for me.

<cough> OCZ <cough> <cough> Sandforce <cough>

I found this fantastic demo of what you can actually do with the 'USB' port on the Galaxy S3, including USB On-The-Go and MHL (with Bluetooth thrown in for good measure). A PC keyboard(!), external speakers, 3 different game controllers, flash drives, a 2.5" external HDD, a USB hub, an HD TV...

MHL on the S3 uses 11 pins instead of 5. There's speculation is that changes might have been to achieve compatibility with Sony's Mirrorlink, or even the new MHL 2.0. Although it's mainly Samsung's and Sony's platform, MHL is not a proprietary interface. In any case, Samsung is offering a $10...

You lost me right there.

A drill would probably distort the platters as well as contaminating the interior with magnetic debris. I very much doubt that anyone has equipment that can scan a platter lying still on a table - the tracks are only 75 nanometers wide (including any guard space) and I'd guess there are between...

Unit tests are mostly useless, and especially so when you're looking at interaction with 3rd party products. And it's doubtful that whatever use cases they have include a legally-suspect plugin. Once Adobe became involved, they would have felt pressured to can the plugin anyway.

Good point. Also a good point.

You can get bulk erasers for tapes, but hard drives need a professional degausser. Note that modern media will be unusable after magnetic erasure because of the loss of servo tracks. So you might as well physically destroy the media, which is considerably cheaper. I disagree slightly with...

AFAIK, they're add-ins and not part of Thunderbird. I use gContactSync for the former and Provider for Google Calendar for the latter. Now I understand the rationale behind all of these apparently pointless version updates. If at first you don't succeed ...

You hit 187 bpm cycling with your wife? Was she riding pillion or sitting on the handlebars?

You need a spotlight in your toilet? :eek:

Oatmeal has the right idea about imperial measurements

What color temperature? I can't seem to get anything between 2700K and 6500K. :(

That works out to 21,000-26,000 hours! Which brand and models are you using? That's fantastic!

Mercutio's analogy is accurate, he's talking about the Protestant Reformation. You seized on the words "schism" and "Orthodox" and ran down the wrong alley and up the garden path. He's also correct in that it never ends: Australian Methodists and Presbyterians combined in 1977 to form the...

What is it?

I certainly looked at a One X and, when I realized the price advantage, considered it very seriously. I thought the screen was good, but still suffering from color shift much the same as a low-end 23" IPS monitor. That's not an issue, but it shows that contrary to some of the drooling going on...

Stereodude, did you weigh the Forgestars you received?

When I first charged the S3, it dropped from 100% to 90% very quickly - I think this means the battery needs calibration. I set up push email on it and (along with other people) used the screen for around 5 hours over 2 days (configuring, surfing, camera stills + video, playing, etc). After 48...

25dB! Wow. Why the hell can't they use this technology in range hoods?

I agree, 1°C is too coarse, but I also think that the decades in °F map out better to human comfort, eg >100 intolerably hot, 90-99 hot, 80-89 warm, 70-79 comfortable, 60-69 cool, 50-59 cold, 40-49 colder, 30-39 freezing, 20-29 below freezing, 10-19 bloody freezing, 0-9 CougTek comfort zone.

Firstly, $2000 is barely going to top a ¼ % of their payroll. That's $11 per month for each user. Secondly, dropbox is overpriced yet offers minimal functionality. It's okay when it's free. I would very strongly recommend Soonr if you want to edit documents from mobile devices. You can...

You do realize that inches, feet and miles haven't had their own standard measure for more than 50 years? They are actually defined in terms of metric units. :) SI has advantages in everyday life, not just in science and engineering: * How heavy is a 9 liter bucket of water? 9 kg * How many...

PenTile attracted some adverse attention on the original Galaxy S, which dropped the pixel density to 233 ppi from the Nexus One's 252. The S2 was only 217 ppi so Samsung elected to add extra subpixels with Super AMOLED Plus. It's worth pointing out that Samsung has improved their PenTile...

I made up my mind to get a Note. Coincidentally, my brother emailed me to tell me he'd just bought one. But before heading out to buy one yesterday afternoon, I looked online and discovered the S3 has been released (lunchtime yesterday in Oz). A direct import (no Samsung warranty) 16GB model is...