Recent content by 830hobbes

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    More Of Amazon's Month-Long Black Friday Deals

    Tom's really just wants people to click on the links and buy to make themselves money. Proof is the tag in the amazon link: &tag=bom-tomshardware-20
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    Wikipad CEO Defends Tablet's Steep Price

    Wikipad? The name sounds like it should have free 3G for life and be optimized as an encyclopedia. An intentional version of what the kindle can be used for. The price would be a little steep but at least it would have a function that other things aren't better at.
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    Anti-Downloading Law Goes Live in Japan: 2 Years in Prison

    With those punishments, it seems better to just steal physical CDs from a record store if you can find one... Seems insane to get 10 years in prison for uploading a song. Not saying stealing is ok. I just think 20 years for rape and 10 for uploading a song is a little out of whack.
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    Apple UK Has to Publicy Apologise to Samsung for Lawsuit

    This is awesome. Fines only go so far. Publicly apologizing for misbehaving should always be part of a frivolous lawsuit punishment.
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    Analyst: Surface 'Truck' Can't Compete With iPad 'Sports Car'

    I'd like to point out how horrible this metaphor is. They're saying a Ford F-150 would never outsell the Tesla Roadster? Hmm: F-150 - sold about 580,000 trucks last year Roadster - sold about 2500 cars total Don't get me wrong, there's no car I want more than a Tesla Roadster, but to compare...
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    VIDEO: Qualcomm Tests S4's Thermal Efficiency with Butter

    Cool marketing but this doesn't control for the thickness of the phone backing, the material the backing is made of or the distance between the chip and the backing. All of these things can make a huge difference in heat transfer.
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    Gorilla Glass Maker Corning Debuts Flexible Willow Glass

    Also, for certain types of displays, they can't use plastic as a substrate because it can't handle the processing temperatures. Glass can.
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    New Nanostructure Technology Can Mean Longer Battery Life

    I'm in grad school developing a new kind of battery and I have a few things to say about this: 1) I assume this is Yi Cui. He is amazing. 2) There's nothing special about nanotech making batteries better. The key is making them cheap. I mean, this is good research but don't get so excited just...
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    Samsung Tapes Out 1 Gigahertz+ ARM Cortex-A15 SoC

    ohimWonder when phones will start again to have 3-4 days between rechargers .. (not talking about 1 week +) for now most of the smart phones are totally useless if you plan to be away from a power outlet more than 24 hours. That's not a technological challenge but an engineering design decision...
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    Financial Analysts Say Intel Killed the Discrete Graphics Card

    Also, it's not like developers wouldn't use more powerful graphics power if they could. If anything is killing discrete graphics, it's that they have to develop for outdated console hardware that integrated graphics has caught up to.
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    Financial Analysts Say Intel Killed the Discrete Graphics Card

    How has Intel killed discrete graphics when AMD's Fusion processors still have significantly better graphics than HD4000? Shouldn't it be "AMD killed discrete graphics"? I'm not even on the AMD bandwagon. Intel makes better processors right now. I just don't understand how it's HD4000 that...
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    Deals April 28: 120GB Corsair Force Series 3 SSD $115

    amuffinForce Series 3 120gb SSD is only $109 After Rebate at your local frys! http://www.frys.com/ads/page7 Why was this down-voted? He's not a bot, he's right about the price. I'd rather pay $109 than $115, but I guess that's just me...
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    Netgear Intros ''World's First'' 802.11ac Wi-Fi Router

    At what point can we start dropping the advertised "a/b/g/n/ac" compatible tag? 2 or 3 standards from now, it'll get a little ridiculous...
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    Graphene Enhances Efficiency of Heat Spreaders by 25 Percent

    shin0bi272True but if youre willing to risk your hardware on it first be my guest. And note your comment about 80C gpu... at 77C its barely any better than plain copper. So if you extrapolate that to temps above 77C it will be worse than copper. And Neon: When did they start making graphene...
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    Canon Announces 4K DSLR EOS-1D C That Will Cost $15K

    joytech22Wow.. 15K?If Obama was here he'd say.. "Not bad". (Terrible TERRIBLE meme reference aside..)I wish I had 15k.. I would swoop up one of these babies.It BETTER autofocus while recording without any motor noise for that much money. If you had 15K, you'd spend it on this? To each his own, I...