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In Russian metro there are count-up timers. Not that this is a big deal, though, when intervals between trains are shorter (2-4 minutes in St.-Petersburg; less in Moscow).

Glad to see Mozilla announcing FxOS release versions, at last (previously they didn't).

Should I be able to upgrade any FxOS device to 2.5 now?

Why stop with ARM? Once we get rid of x86, the future could as well belong to various ISA's, including open-source, royalty-free ones like RISC-V [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V

FAR Manager on Windows has these in the form of Ctrl+1 ... Ctrl+0 shortcuts (set with Shift+Ctrl+1 ... Shift+Ctrl+0).

Does Midnight Commander? It's one of the features I have been missing on Linux.

Is there a non-paywalled version?

'This article is available for GBA PRIME members only'

What does "GNU" icon in the packages list [1] stand for?

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/

Which phones allow running the latest AOSP today?

Does it have any authority, then?

I've just been handed a flyer for escape room here in St.-Petersburg, Russia. Didn't know it's such a popular thing in the world right now.

PopMech makes it sound more arcane thane it might be: it's not that much out of the ordinary to know (or learn) assembly and Fortran or to have to work with computers that have 64K RAM (some modern microcontrollers have less[1]) I imagine it would be as hard as it sounds if they would require a specialist with years of experience in their particular dialect of Fortran and some particular assembler, expecting them to be productive right away. But it looks to me that they just have a peculiar setup and need someone who is able and willing to learn it - that's a situation plenty of companies have.

Now a Voyager computer itself looks like a peculiar piece of technology in itself - is it one of a kind? If so, who made an assembler and Fortran compiler for it? Unfortunately, the article (or any others I googled up) doesn't go into that. Is there a description of Voyager computer publicly available?

So far, I find it the most marvelous that a tape recorder is alive and well after 40 years of regular usage: the computer memory of the day was not nearly enough to hold scientific data, so it's being written on a 8-track tape recorder, sent to Earth and then overwritten again, in a loop. Still, even with minimial usage, I have trouble imagining how a single tape reel could last 40 years of regular use. In space.

[1] List of common microcontrollers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_microcontroller...

STM32 F0: http://www.st.com/stm32f0

Power draw is very high for some reason :/

That's obvious, I suppose; also it can be fixed :)

- has a touch screen

- has a stylus

- has a detachable keyboard

So, when do they start selling?

It better be a really good one. (Swim without the fear of drowning? Smoke all day and never die of lung-related problems?)

What's RDS? Seriously.

Interestingly, Nintendo did similar things for US launch: called theirs an "Entertainment System" and designed it to have a technically not necessary loading mechanism similar to a VCR, to dissociate it from the game consoles of the day.

I guess it only counts time right with the (US) 60 Hz power supply? Then, it's strange that they made it show time in 24-hour format.

I wouldn't question the usefulness of vertical integration of chip design for phones, but I do for cars.

Cell phones have power and size constraints that cars don't.

Why would custom chips be particularly useful for tomorrow's cars? Commodity chips seem to be good, so far.

Looks like the author stretches the usefullness of Apple' vertical integration too far.

Once you go outside of the US, it makes sense to go to the country with easiest immigration policy, so that you can work with all the smart people who can't get to the US.

I suspect Windows/Microsoft is capable of self-destruction, too. Remember Windows Mobile? It used to be the dominant OS on smartphones before the iPhone and Android came along.

I thought `xdg-open` is the Linux' variant of Windows' `start`.

You're right, I didn't notice that it's going to be available; just not right now.

1. No you can't, but I have always wondered why.

2. They might, but they say it's a tablet, and it looks like a tablet, and it has touch screen. Tablets (often) have cellular.

Microsoft's offerings still seem under-designed to me, on a second look. I still can't order Surface Pro (or Surface Book) with cellular modem; only Surface 3, an older and supposedly lower end device. I can't order Surface Book with 1TB drive, only a Surface Pro 4; despite the former being a more expensive and supposedly higher end device.

Why so? As far as I understand, Microsoft still goes with the templates their hardware OEMs already have: Surface is based on a tablet template, while Surface Pro and Surface Book are supposedly based on different laptop templates and the available options are thus defined by the OEMs. This also explains why the 'Pro' versions 1 and 2 had cameras inferior to the 'non-Pro' versions.

I wish Microsoft got their act together and gave more attention to design, while they are at it. If they are saying this is a tablet that can replace my computer, let it have what those tablets that can't have: cellular module. If it has a non-removable hard drive, let me have it in the greatest available capacity, sepecially while you already offer that on a lower-priced model.

My thought as well.

As far as I understand, these intrinsics map to SSE instructions (they are 128-bit). One could use the later AVX (256-bit, found in server chips since 2011). Probably they decided to start with the lowest common denomintor of SSE, because they don't have AVX in all of their servers? The term SIMD is generic.

It has, in the docking station; which makes sense to me.

I wonder what the exact CPU models will be? Microsoft seems to be taking clues from Apple's guidebook and doesn't bother with stating the exact CPU model even in 'Tech specs'. Likely the Y-series of the latest 6-gen (Skylake) mobile i5's [1] and i7's [2]. They are not released nor announced yet, but the Surface Book is not exactly shipping, either.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Core_i5_micropro...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Core_i7_micropro...

Wow Microsoft, do you even proofread? :P