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I saw one on the government petition site, but it was closed because the government claimed it was purely a court/police matter. Which seemed to miss the point -- the petition may not have been exact, but it was right, and we really need two things: (i) the police, prosecutors, and prison authorities should use their discretion to recognise that he's harmless and not to detain him (ii) the law should be changed so it says something sensible.
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I liked that he later said that it was meaningful for him, but he wished he'd done more to be deliberately inclusive. And I also felt the atheist protester was basically right: lets not stop cultural expressions in space, but it sends the wrong message if you only have a Christian one.
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If you consider that it's fair to compare what's on one modern processor compared to one old processor and that a 1 single Hz is a single instruction (not entirely true, obviously, but a reasonable generalisation), then Intel are actually beating their prediction. Even better if you consider that each core has two hardware threads with pretty smart multi-tasking at the instruction level then I wonder what a decently multi-threaded application could achieve in terms of sheer computation compared between now and then.
And 4 cores is a bit low tech these days. I've had 6 for quite a while (though I've never seen the term hexa core before google searching just now).
Of course I'm not suggesting that's what Intel meant by 10GHz, but it's what what one processor can do overall.
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Which isn't to say that modern processors aren't amazing beasts (particularly as I believe that they can do _more_ work per clock cycle than older processors).
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I think C++11 has something for doing this sort of thing.
Most modern apps should be thought of in this way even on smart devices. I'll certainly be doing any side projects in a multi-core proof way :)
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh191443.aspx
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There is a cost involved in money transfers - they have to set things up in the first place, and the cost of that and maintenance needs to be paid for somehow. But they definitely charge a surplus, because most of the customers are corporations who will pay for it without blinking.
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Also, in the matter of outrageous charges for water, a chilled 500ml bottle of water, for which the going rate (in both Tesco and my local Turkish supermarket) is 59p, was £2.75 at the Odeon the other week. I thought that impressively ludicrous, far more than most airports or festivals.
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Though the back button has UX problems of its own: if I go into an app, and hit back, does that mean 'back to main screen', or 'back one screen in the internal history of my usage of the app', or 'back up one level in the internal UI hiearchy of the app'? On my android at least, all three seem to happen depending on the app.
> Widgets: Don't open an app, view its status directly on your homescreen, such as your itinerary for this week from your calendar. Simple, yet very useful.
Ugh. That's on reason I hate android tablets -- clutter and mess.
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The only ones I use are the ones for turning WiFi/mobile data on and off, and the one for using the phone as a torch, all other widgets are happily unused.
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