Technology

Looked like a real video ... had pictures and all

 

https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-announces-support-for-seven-new-startups-spinning-off-from-c-lab-program It's real plus a few other new ideas here.

 

It's been out for like a year, where have you been? At this stage it would be better to wait for a gen 2 model.

Also nice $1k markup from US prices (after conversion rate is applied). If the goal is not to sell the product they priced it right.

 

don't forget that US prices usually don't include sales tax, which gets added at checkout

 

$900 markup

Also you can use a ship forwarder from Oregon and you don't have to pay sales tax.

 

I clicked on it, saw the price and closed the link.

Pretty amazing piece of technology I am sure.

 

THIS is amazing, but the price may scare some off

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(supercomputer)

I played around with an early Cray which was THE supercomputers of the day but they pale in comparison to the GFLOP smartphones today, people don't realise they are carrying around a supercomputer in their pockets

Cray were going to use the DEC Alpha chip at one stage which was the first chip to break the 100MHZ barrier without using a massive fan on top of the CPU chip

Intel later did it but got sued by DEC for stealing their algorithms and some other trickery.

Some of the Alpha engineers are here on fchat (Mr Unobtainium for one )

 

Nothing, you guys play with toys and you don't realise how powerful they really are , I was just giving you an idea of how the IT world has moved on so quickly but is that too hard for you to comprehend ?

 

I thought so

I grew up and worked on mainframes and minis that had impressive performance for the day but the specs look very poor by today's smartphone standards, the same story for networks from the past, the NSW police force had 9600bps HDLC links running x.25 over it connecting over 300 police stations, with mostly Micro$oft PCs at the end of the link, today that network would stop with that kind of bandwidth due to the poor coding of applications

 

Yeah Moretti.

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Was interested to hear today that the FBI or whoever have been unable to “break into” the mobile phone of the latest Texas gun massacre perpetrator - who is obviously dead.

That surprised me. I would have thought that the authorities could get into your phone without too much drama if they really needed to.

 

You forget who reads this crap ........ Steve355F1GTSshields

 

They obviously just googled the local pizza place in the end

 

interesting contrasts between China today and London 110 years ago...
http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2119175/why-shenzhen-set-have-first-all-electric-public

 

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It's a joke Joyce ..... but very true

 

Smartphones have been over $1000k in Australia for over 10 years now. Welcome to Old Nokia