https://www.cnet.com/news/axon-m-phone-opens-into-tablet-hands-on/
I predict that this could become the future of phones.
Wednesday, December 6, 2017
Saturday, November 25, 2017
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Star Trek
Around 1989 I was having lunch with coworkers when one person asked what seemed at the time to be a reasonable question, "How does the computer on Star Trek know everything?", like maybe that would be impossible.
Best wishes,
John Coffey
Saturday, November 4, 2017
How Bill Gate Made Microsoft
Not sure if you would like this or not. The documentary is about 18 years old. So it is a little out of date. Much of the information is available in other places. Nevertheless, I found it pretty interesting, but these kinds of things always interest me.
Friday, November 3, 2017
Yavin 4
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: utahtrout <utahtrout
Maybe what we thought was a sentry in star wars on Yavin 4 was just a cell tower repairman...
Globally, no country has yet to hit the important milestone of 50Mbps average speeds. Analysts have been predicting that a country (South Korea or Singapore) would hit the magic number this year, but both are still stuck at about 45Mbps.
Mind you, that number doesn't look so bad when you scroll all the way down to the United States, languishing at 14Mbps. The list of nations with faster mobile internet includes powerhouses like Lebanon (23Mbps), Romania (25Mbps) and Serbia (33Mbps).
There is one tiny beacon of hope: the US is doing well in terms of 4G availability, measured as the "proportion of time users have access to a particular network." The US is fifth of all countries, which is a huge achievement considering how widely spread parts of the US's population is.
http://bgr.com/2017/11/01/
Saturday, October 28, 2017
The Rise and Fall of Peter Molyneux
This 4 and 1/2 part video is over 3 hours long. Still, I found it very fascinating. I just kept watching one part after another.
It just shows how difficult the game business is.
I think that Peter Molyneux's problem is that he tried to design games while he wrote them. He seemed to start games without a clear idea where he was going.
Friday, October 20, 2017
Saturday, October 14, 2017
Friday, October 13, 2017
I was a big fan of the Atari ST and wrote a videogame for it.
In the mid1980's we saw a ton of small computer makers that would quickly fall by the wayside. Atari and Commodore were fairly large, but ultimately lost to more mainstream computers.
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Apple Special Event. September 12, 2017.
A couple of days ago, Apple introduced their products at the brand new Steve Jobs theater, at their new Apple Park campus. I thought that the first ten minutes of the video were pretty interesting, including at 4:24 a quote from Steve Jobs I hadn't heard before.
re: Big announcements from our September event.
iPhone 8 can be preordered in 2 days. iPhone X can be preordered on October 27th.
Since my iPhone 6+ works just fine and I am happy with it, I can't really justify spending hundreds of dollars on a new phone. I could be happy with either the iPhone 8 or the iPhone 10, but I would rather wait until something major goes wrong with my phone before I spend the big bucks.
When I was working, I used to get a new phone with a new contract every 2 years. The upfront cost was relatively low, usually either $200 or $300, because the carrier would subsidize the cost of the phone. Many carriers won't do this anymore,but some companies like Sprint might. But right now I am saving $30 per month on Total Wireless, so I would have to pay an extra $720 over two years to get a subsidized phone.
One reason I bought a new phone every two years is that there would be some major changes every two years. However, now the phones have gotten so good that the changes are more incremental. The new phones always have a faster processor and a better camera, but this is hardly a reason to abandon your old phone.
Apple's 6 core processor is kind of exciting. Two high power cores with 4 low power cores, and unlike the previous phone, it can use all the cores at the same time. This rivals some desktop computers in terms of power. (Some competing brands of phones will allow you to hook up a monitor, keyboard and mouse and use it like an internet based computer. Microsoft Windows Phone does this, and I think so does the Google phone.)
Since my iPhone 6+ works just fine and I am happy with it, I can't really justify spending hundreds of dollars on a new phone. I could be happy with either the iPhone 8 or the iPhone 10, but I would rather wait until something major goes wrong with my phone before I spend the big bucks.
When I was working, I used to get a new phone with a new contract every 2 years. The upfront cost was relatively low, usually either $200 or $300, because the carrier would subsidize the cost of the phone. Many carriers won't do this anymore,but some companies like Sprint might. But right now I am saving $30 per month on Total Wireless, so I would have to pay an extra $720 over two years to get a subsidized phone.
One reason I bought a new phone every two years is that there would be some major changes every two years. However, now the phones have gotten so good that the changes are more incremental. The new phones always have a faster processor and a better camera, but this is hardly a reason to abandon your old phone.
Apple's 6 core processor is kind of exciting. Two high power cores with 4 low power cores, and unlike the previous phone, it can use all the cores at the same time. This rivals some desktop computers in terms of power. (Some competing brands of phones will allow you to hook up a monitor, keyboard and mouse and use it like an internet based computer. Microsoft Windows Phone does this, and I think so does the Google phone.)
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
Thursday, June 8, 2017
Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
We are entering a new era where a phone can be a real computer.
We are entering a new era where a phone can be a real computer.
I think that this was inevitable.
In this department, Apple has refused to merge their mobile and desktop operating systems, which Microsoft has done and Google has started to do. Apple would prefer that you spend big bucks to buy separate overpriced devices, but with newer phones becoming as powerful as some laptops, if not more powerful, why bother?
Best wishes,
John Coffey
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