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Friday, June 07
Irritatants
The next time someone asserts that the United States is a Christian nation, or was founded on Christian principles, I'm going to drop Mount Rushmore on their head.
The next time someone asserts that the United States is a Christian nation, or was founded on Christian principles, I'm going to drop Mount Rushmore on their head.
(Prompted by the twaddle spouted by Andrew Klavan over at PJTV, but it's a video and their video player sucks, so unless they post a transcript I can't be bothered tearing his nonsense to tiny shreds as it deserves.)
irritatant, n: Something that gives one the irrits.
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Thursday, June 06
Pretty As Another Picture
The first pictures I saw of the Asus PadNote Fone made it look like an ugly piece of do-not-want, whatever the specs.
The first pictures I saw of the Asus PadNote Fone made it look like an ugly piece of do-not-want, whatever the specs.
Found a better picture.
Want now.
6" 1080p IPS screen, stylus, Android 4.2, 3G, but with an Atom processor rather than Arm. Which does not seem like a sensible choice, at least not until the next-gen Baytrail / Merrifield Atoms come out. But it's the only device even announced so far that has a 1080p+ screen in the gap between 5 and 9 inches. Possibly only 16GB of built-in storage, which is barely adequate, but supports up to 64GB of microSD.
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Wednesday, June 05
Missed Opportunities
Where's the 11.6" Haswell Windows 8 notebook with the detachable 2560x1600 screen which turns into an Android tablet with a Wacom digitiser and a stylus and WiDi for using it as a detached touchscreen and a Thunderbolt dock for desktop use?
Where's the 11.6" Haswell Windows 8 notebook with the detachable 2560x1600 screen which turns into an Android tablet with a Wacom digitiser and a stylus and WiDi for using it as a detached touchscreen and a Thunderbolt dock for desktop use?
Given what has been shown at Computex this year, it's possible that there's a device with those exact specs and I just missed it.
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Computexed
More highlights:
More highlights:
- While everyone's waiting for someone to fix the limitations of the Nexus 7 (slow CPU, limited memory and storage, low-res screen - by this year's standards, anyway), Toshiba stepped in and launched their Excite Pure, which is basically the Nexus 7 internals with a 10" screen and costing $50 more; the Excite Pro, which is just the Excite Write without the cool stuff; and the Excite Write, which fixes the limitations of the Nexus 10, upgrading from a dual-core A15 CPU to quad, adding a microSD slot, and building in a Wacom digitiser and stylus while keeping the superb 2560x1600 display.
So the question is just which you need more: A keyboard (Asus Transformer Pad Infinity), or a stylus (Toshiba Excite Write); the specs are otherwise equivalent (or identical).
- Fujitsu announced the UH90, a 14" notebook with a 3200x1800 display. MSI announced their GT60 3K gaming laptop, with a 15.5" 2880x1620 screen - and a GeForce 780M with 4GB of RAM to move those pixels around. Dell's XPS 11 convertible has a more mundane 2560x1440 11" screen.
Ultra-high-resolution displays are definitely in vogue this year; we can only hope that this continues - and that prices keep going down as production ramps up.
- Intel announced Thunderbolt 2 (again), which provides one 20Gbps channel instead of Thunderbolt 1's two 10Gbps channels. So yes, throughput is exactly the same as before. No, that's not much of a highlight.
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Tuesday, June 04
Glurk
That 4K Asus monitor?
That 4K Asus monitor?
That's not just the resolution; it's also the price tag: $3799.
For which price I can get four 27" 2560x1440 monitors, a couple of Aten DisplayPort switchboxes to hook them up to all my computers, and some of PowerColor's quad-DisplayPort 7850 video cards to hook all my computers to all the switchboxes.
Or to put it another way, it costs as much as 20 perfectly serviceable 21.5" 1080p IPS monitors from Acer.
So... Maybe next year.
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Monday, June 03
Asusising
Asus presented their new product lineup at Computex today. This includes:
Asus presented their new product lineup at Computex today. This includes:
- The FonePad Note (as opposed to the NotePad Fone), a 6" 1080p stylusised Atom Android phablet.
- The Transformer Pad Infinity, the new model in the Transformer range, with the resolution bumped up from 1920x1200 to 2560x1600 and the CPU from a Tegra 3 to a much faster Tegra 4. So it's similar to the HP SlateBook10x2, but even higher resolution. Seems to only come with 32GB of storage, which is just adequate rather than good.
- The Transformer Book Trio, which is - get this - a Haswell-based (Intel's brand-new CPU) Windows 8 notebook with a detachable 1080p touchscreen which contains an Atom processor running Android. 1TB of disk on the Windows side and 64GB of flash on the Android side.
- The Zenbook Infinity, a nice if fairly conventional 13.3" ultrabook except for the 2560x1440 display, matching the Toshiba Kirabook. Acer announced one of these as well.
I'll take one of each. Unless I have to pay for them, in which case I'll take a box of cornflakes.
Meanwhile, Samsung announced some tablets which are indistinguishable from the rather meh tablets they already sell. Except the Nexus 10, which is really good, but they only make that; they don't sell it; and anyway I already have one.
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Sunday, June 02
Magical Cat Trolls Three Girls (And A Pervert)
Hentai Ouji to Warawanai Neko.
Hentai Ouji to Warawanai Neko.
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Saturday, June 01
Important Bulletins
KSP 0.20 (and now 0.20.1) is out!
Some day I'll have time to return to Mun and rescue my stranded kerbonaut (product of an almost successful Munar landing). In the meantime, let the updates roll!
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