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There are dozens of x86 Atom based Windows 8 tablets, with equal or better battery life than ARM. My Acer W510 is one of them.

The reason they aren’t selling is Windows 8. Coincidently, also the reason why I never use my Acer and replaced it with a much slower Nexus 10.

5 days ago on Intel could have been inside the original iPhone, says outgoing CEO 1 reply

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Neither do desktop processors lately, desktop sales are off 30%. The majority of Intel’s profit is from the Data Center Group division. Pushing through Atom’s at cost at least keeps the fabs busy instead of idle and bleeding cash.

5 days ago on Intel could have been inside the original iPhone, says outgoing CEO

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1. No poor quality rear facing camera. Adds $3.00 part cost, weight, volume, and thickness to the product. Looks ridiculous in use.

2. Remove the home button. If the button is necessary, add a button to the bottom or side of the tablet. Shrink bezel to the minimum size allowed by the LCD panel.

3. IGZO panel. This one is really a gimme, it’s the only low hanging fruit on power consumption.

4. This one’s a longshot, but FD-SOI. I know there’s no fabs doing it in the required volume and it’s more expensive, but the performance and power savings are enormous. You might halve your battery size.

8 days ago on iPad 5 Wish-list

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How is implementing new features in an open source browser “holding the web hostage”? You microsoft paid shills are getting stupider every day.

13 days ago on Microsoft reportedly trying to buy Nook ebook ecosystem for $1 billion 1 reply

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No cmasontaylor they aren’t. The “standardization” process at the IETF and the W3C is “rough consensus and running code”.

This means you have to implement a feature first before it can become a standard. This is opposed to the ITU teleco mindset of implementing arbitrary standards that no one wants and are set by committee.

13 days ago on Microsoft reportedly trying to buy Nook ebook ecosystem for $1 billion 2 replies 1 recommend

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Transparency would be less disorientating.

If Metro icons and a search bar appeared over your desktop when you pressed the windows button, like Mission Control on mac, and then disappeared, that wouldn’t be so bloody annoying that I would disable it.

And if Apple could add icon groups to Launchpad, instead of their completely broken folder system, that would also be great.

15 days ago on Windows Blue: Microsoft promises changes based on feedback and a holiday release

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This works only until the job of purging is automated. “Oooh look at the hypocrite not putting himself on the kill list.”

15 days ago on Software replaces lawyers in beer company merger

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Incorrect. UNICEF US is a fundraising and advocacy agent for UNICEF, it has no operations whatsoever. 91% efficiency in collecting credit card payments isn’t that great. But whatever.

UNICEF itself is not efficient. You know it’s not efficient because it does not publish how inefficient it’s spending is. Getting financial reports out of them for the entire organization is impossible. They claim that the “Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations” is why they can tell donors to go fuck themselves.

17 days ago on UNICEF says Facebook 'likes' won't save children's lives

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I’ll never need to watch CNN again.

21 days ago on Google Glass has a Twitter app, confirms LeWeb founder (update)

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Every post-Korea war.

23 days ago on US Navy experimenting with drones and blimps to fight Caribbean drug smugglers

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Women and gays have suffraged enough.

23 days ago on US Navy experimenting with drones and blimps to fight Caribbean drug smugglers

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Drive 50 miles from any west coast city. Notice the farmland.

23 days ago on US Navy experimenting with drones and blimps to fight Caribbean drug smugglers

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Twenty years ago. Like Manuel Noriega.

27 days ago on They're watching: why city-wide surveillance failed to stop the Boston bombing

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The future is now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d6KuiuteIA

27 days ago on They're watching: why city-wide surveillance failed to stop the Boston bombing

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The problem with InternetAuthorityOnEverything’s have-the-surveillance-state-backtrace-everything plan is that emergency services MUST WORK in an emergency. If you have to three factor authenticate with your SSN and bank records while your significant other is suffering a cardiac arrest you have defeated the purpose of having 911.

The solution to this is to not be a fucking police state that sends SWAT teams and APCs out on unverified accounts of minor domestic violence.

28 days ago on Meet 'swatting,' the dangerous prank that could get someone killed 1 reply 2 recommends