Sunday, January 27
Daily News Stuff 27 January 2019
Tech News
- Google's Pixel Slate is a premium Chromebook convertible for the three people who want that. (Tom's Hardware)
It has the same 12.3" 3000x2000 screen as my HP Spectres, and that screen is amazing. Not quite as bright, and not quite the colour gamut of something like the iPad Pro, but still very good.
But the Slate model reviewed here has half the memory of my Spectres, one eighth the storage, a slower CPU, and a less capable operating system (unless you unlock the Slate and dive into Linux) - and costs more.
On the third hand, HP ran out of Spectres at that price in last November, so you're too late anyway.
The Pixel Slate isn't a bad device by any means; I just don't think there's a market for it.
- Tencent's share price rose 4% after the Chinese government approved a new batch of mobile games. (WCCFtech)
Thirty years ago China took a look at the 1984 hellscape they had built, and did a hard turn towards an eclectic mashup of Brave New World and Neuromancer. Which is an improvement - really it is - but ugh.
- Intel may have a 35W 8 core CPU up their sleeves. (Tom's Hardware)
An engineering sample of a Core i9 9900T has been spotted, and that's a 35W designation, or has been so far. What makes it believable is that the base clock was listed as 1.7GHz, which is pretty damn slow.
- 15 US senators are demanding an FCC and FTC investigation into mobile carriers selling user location data. (CNet)
The list seems to be mostly Democrats for whom I have very little regard, but on this one, they are correct.
- What Fyre Fest docs reveal about the Bay Area Mafia being perpetually hopped up on goofballs. (Rolling Stone)
Slightly paraphrased the headline there. Their subhed is good though. Other than that, assume everything in the story is wrong.
- An Atari 2600 emulator in Minecraft.
The latest version of Minecraft has new features that let developers of these things cheat a little - not everything has to be built out of blocks. This allows the emulator to play Donkey Kong at 1 fps.
- 7zip's encryption isn't.
Basically.
Social Media News
- We need a word for that feeling you get when you're reading an article that is really getting stuck in to Facebook for their shady activities and and are just about to post a link to it when you realise the author is a hard left conspiracy nut.
- New York's Governor Andrew Cuomo was apparently sick the day they covered the Bill of Rights in Clown College. (TechDirt)
Let’s make assaulting the press a felony in New York State. Last year saw heinous and deadly attacks against members of the press, journalists must be protected from the threat of physical harm for just for doing their jobs.
— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) January 16, 2019
Anime Op/Ed of the Day
Let's dig up a few OVA classics today, shall we?
Picture of the Day
[Goes to upload a picture. Where is my Images folder? WHERE IS MY IMAGES FOLDER? Oh, it's right there. WHY CAN'T I UPLOAD TO IT? Don't look at me, you wrote this thing. Oh, huh. If you reduce your site's main page from 10 posts to 5 because of the number of YouTube videos you've added, it has the side-effect of reducing the number of folders shown per page as well. Which is fine except when it comes to that dropdown list.
I can fix that in the template with a hard-coded limit of 1000 or something.]
I can fix that in the template with a hard-coded limit of 1000 or something.]
Disclaimer: Doggone it Roy Gene, how many times do I have to 'splain it to you? When I tell you to put a rock under the wheel, I mean a rock. Now look at that what you have there is no bigger'n a grapefruit.
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