Interesting Links for 16-05-2012
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andrewducker- The Raspberry Pi can emulate a mainframe
- Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived
- Greeks apologise with huge horse
- Norway abolishes state-sponsored Church of Norway
- A Watchmen Toaster? Is it fuelled by Alan Moore's rage?
- GM Says Facebook Ads Don't Work, Pulls $10 Million Account
- Android Diversity Visualized
- Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is
- Abolishing Holyrood should be option on the Scottish independence Referendum
- Aaron Sorkin to write screenplay for another Steve Jobs biopic
- Law banning insulting words and behaviour has to end. And thank fuck for that.
- The wrong Carlos: how Texas sent an innocent man to his death.
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Date: 2012-05-16 05:13 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-05-16 12:08 pm (UTC)my response was probably a bit too harsh. It got a lot of +1's, though.
that chart really is fascinating. having only used one Android handset [a heavily modified SII], I have no real concept of what it means in the practical sense
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Date: 2012-05-16 12:16 pm (UTC)Android's strength, on the other hand, is its openness, and that any manufacturer can put something together that's different to all the rest, and fits a specific niche. I'd never have expected the Galaxy Note to be successful, for instance, as it falls between phone and tablet. Samsung have sold five million of them though, so there are clearly people out there that want that. But those sales aren't big enough for Apple to go after - certainly not enough to make it worth putting in the effort that Apple need to in order to produce a product as smooth as they do.
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Date: 2012-05-16 02:18 pm (UTC)I signed up on the two UK distributors sites, but I've not heard a thing.
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Date: 2012-05-16 02:50 pm (UTC)http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1197
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Date: 2012-05-16 10:46 pm (UTC)7 May Raspberry Pi Raspberry Pi @Raspberry_Pi
Pete from Mythic Beasts is in my kitchen, threatening to steal Mooncake (who is on his knee, the traitor) if we don't give him a Raspi.
7 May Raspberry Pi Raspberry Pi @Raspberry_Pi
Pete *is* intending to use it as Raspberry Pi's backup web server, so we have decided not to sacrifice Mooncake.
For reference, Mooncake is one of Eben and Liz's cats.