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  1. Welcome, I've moved your post to somewhere more suitable.
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    Hi VT

    Welcome, I've put your post somewhere related to the game you are interested in.
  3. It's working as expected for me. (chrome on Linux)
  4. Then you fail to understand its purpose. It may indeed end up a folly when viewed in isolation, but it will lead an improved transport infrastructure.
  5. I don't believe you'd say that if you used trains regularly.
  6. I think this was discussed briefly in the android thread, but I didn't realise Google were pushing this themselves. ARA DEVELOPERS' CONFERENCE We plan a series of three Ara Developers’ Conferences throughout 2014. The first of these, scheduled for April 15-16, will focus on the alpha release of the Ara Module Developers’ Kit (MDK). The MDK is a free and open platform specification and reference implementation that contains everything you need to develop an Ara module. We expect that the MDK will be released online in early April. The Developers’ Conference will consist of a detailed walk-through of existing and planned features of the Ara platform, a briefing and community feedback sessions on the alpha MDK, and an announcement of a series of prize challenges for module developers. The complete Developers’ Conference agenda will be out in the next few weeks. This first version of the MDK relies on a prototype implementation of the Ara on-device network using the MIPI UniPro protocol implemented on FPGA and running over an LVDS physical layer. Subsequent versions will soon be built around a much more efficient and higher performance ASIC implementation of UniPro, running over a capacitive M-PHY physical layer. The Developers’ Conference, as the name suggests, is a forum targeted at developers so priority for on-site attendance will reflect this. For others--non-developers and Ara enthusiasts--we welcome you to join us via the live webstream. That said, we invite developers of all shapes and sizes: from major OEMs to innovative component suppliers to startups and new entrants into the mobile space. Register now! WANT TO GET INVOLVED? Want to help shape the Ara design? Join the Ara Scout program. Interested in joining modular phone community of interest? Take a look at Phonebloks. Want to see some open smartphone hardware inspiration? Watch the MAKEwithMOTO videos from our make-a-thon tour last Summer.
  7. I used to dance on the wrong side of the bank counters.
  8. Evolution is mistakes. Good mistakes tend to get selected for. Bad ones don't.
  9. The rail network is creaking and numbers of journeys continue to rise. As a commuter on the wolves to brum line I can tell you that the line is at capacity. There is no realistic way to add more capacity to the existing lines. HS2 will add extra capacity to the network and improve my experience. It will also mean that the currently fully utilised lines will have a period when capacity expansion can be performed before they become saturated again. I hope that this opportunity isn't wasted. Spending on infrastructure is always good. Spending on infrastructure in a recession is a no-brainer.
  10. Now available through Steam on linux.
  11. I'm fairly sure that Einstein still considered gravity as an innate field and that's why he couldn't finish the Unified Field Theory, but I would need to go and read up on it too
  12. in light of Einstein being wrong about Black holes ( see Stephen Hawkings recently) ..could his theory on Gravity that you mention also be wrong ? I reckon in another 100 years Einstein will be exposed as a fraud Is Newton considered wrong now that we know that we know that the laws named after him don't work at quantum scale? Einstein was wrong about some things, Hawkings will be too, that's what science is all about. Think of an idea, think about how to prove it wrong, do the experiment, publish to your peers. It would have been as big a deal if we hadn't found the Higgs boson as that we did. I thought that my description of gravity post-dated Einstein considerably, but as I say, I'm not an historian. People don't matter as much as knowledge.
  13. I like your first two sentences, however there is no such thing as gravity, what we perceive as gravity is deformations in space time caused by accumulation of condensed energy. Gravity isn't a innate property of a system, it's a useful tool for explaining some macro-scale effects when you really don't need to be doing field equations to explain the attractive force that it appears to be.
  14. People who think that the page breaks in the same place for everyone.
  15. If you aren't sure, get a PAYG SIM from 3 and try it in the areas you need it to work.
  16. The speed of light is relative to the speed of light passing through a different medium. (If I've understood your use of the word "relative" correctly.) Think of "C" as an upper limit for the speed anything can move, Like zero is the slowest.
  17. There is a known fault where the battery gets below a point where it can start charging. It's sometimes recoverable, do some Googling. It is reasonable to expect high end electronics to last longer than 14 months. Read up on the sales of goods act and contact your credit card company if the retailer is not helpful (you did use a credit card, didn't you?).
  18. No, that was a comparison to my tariff, which as I said is not like for like. You'll have to do the legwork yourself.
  19. I didn't know the prices had gone up. I'm still on the old prices, I guess the increase was only for new customers. I've just checked my account and I have no idea how they are calculating it, but I'm paying £18 + some change each month. The tethering is useful to me (saves a second SIM in the tablet) and month by month means I can jump if someone else is cheaper.
  20. Prices from Google shopping for HTC One 32GB in black or silver: £331.95 three 12 month all you can eat data 12 x £15 = £180 12 months = £511.95 18 months = £601.95 24 months = £991.95 Your deal 12 months = £324 Your deal 18 months = £486 Your deal 24 months = £648 t-mobile don't allow tethering, three do, so it isn't really like for like. Both have no usage cap. Buying the phone yourself means it won't be locked or branded (and therefore have higher resale value), it also allows you to change contract after twelve months if a better tariff comes along. It seems like a good deal, but personally I'll never have another contract phone.
  21. How long is the contract?
  22. But I don't think Google care about hardware sales. They are developing markets for others to exploit and they make their money from services. If they have identified that there is a market to create with 8" tablets, then they will. Otherwise I don't see why they'd be interested. I think the recent reveal of Project Tango points to this, as does the disposal of Motorola Mobility. They don't want to make hardware. If I'm right, Google won't care if the ipad mini is selling more than the N7 (is it? I don't know how to verify this). Jobs told us that there will never be an ipad mini as "This size isn't sufficient to create great tablet apps in our opinion". Google created this market and there are a lot more users of Google's services as a result of it.
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