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There are reasons for both systems, lots of imperial is meant to be simple, so an inch is about the length from your thumb joint to the end of your thumb, a foot being around the length of a human foot. Having 12 inches in a foot is useful for the same reason as having 60 minutes in an hour: it...

Or go down the UK route of having a mismatch of old and new... most people would refer to their own weight in stones/pounds, but would refer to the weight of a bag of sugar in grams/kilos... for long distances we typically use miles (and have miles per hour speed limit) but most people (at least...

When I accessed the 'basic internet' of text and maybe a couple of images, I was using a dial-up modem, and pages would typically take longer to load than just about any website now, back then, in the UK, there was no faster way to access the internet from home, so it was the same for everyone...

It also has some example improvements including highlighting dropped items which is cool.

On Windows, the most popular these days in Chrome, does this run on Linux? If so, does it somehow use up loads less RAM than on Windows? I currently have 10 tabs open and that alone is using up around 2 GB of memory. Here are the top few entries, from task manager: I'm just used to Windows...

Although the more accurate thing would be more like "[...] in the Pyra community, the moment you grab a screwdriver, 11 forum threads are started along with 6 polls to discuss the merits of Phillips vs Torx with at least one community member suggesting they will not buy, and possibly the entire...

I know how to make people stop worrying about this issue.... ..should we look at a different keyboard layout? ....and maybe the button order could change? ......finally perhaps we should put Greek symbols on the buttons? That should distract everyone from the issues at hand.

Very dependent on use case. GPD-WIN Very small GPU/CPU that have been chosen with games in mind (this isn't to say you can't get reasonable Notebooks, but at the same time a lot of cheap Notebooks are designed for office/internet browsing instead of games) Proper gaming controls (dual stick...

Thanks for the recommendation @thatgui I do intend to move onto Rayman Legends, wasn't sure how well it'd run on the GPD-WIN (as the visuals have gone 2D -> 3D) but was hopeful it might run okay (I'm by no means a frame rate nazi, basically if I don't notice the frame rate, then I'm fine with...

I had some of them driver crash windows pop ups right at the start, since then Windows has done big updates, I installed all the latest drivers, updated the firmware, etc. Since then I have been playing through Rayman Origins on the device, played for several hours without any issues (no...

Nice update; I certainly feel the CPU clocking issues needs resolving, marketing wise, 1.2GHz = 1.0GHz and 1.5GHz = 2.0GHz (*), so the device is suddenly half powered and way behind other tech. I appreciate that the idea behind the project isn't to "trick" people during marketing, but...

Despite having it a few days, I haven't used mine in vengence (just been to busy during the day and evenings). However over all it is a really nice piece of kit. Personally I would have been happier if they removed the extra keys from the right (or positioned them elsewhere), and made the...

I now have my dispatch email from DragonBox - that was fast! :)

So, I received an email from DragboxBox in the early hours of this morning (3:21 AM, UK time) asking me to complete my pre-order, which I just did. So that should seal the deal for a GPD-WIN making its way to me in the next 5 or so days (assuming the units pass ED's inspection). Exciting time.

Don't they say: Speed Cost Quality Pick any 2 of the above, i.e.: Want it fast and cheap? Sure, it'll be pretty crap though. Want it fast and good quality? Sure, it is going to have a serious cost though. Want it cheap and good quality? Sure, it is going to take a long time though. Sums it...

Woah, 78 pages, there is no chance I am going to read all of that to find out the answer to this: I ordered a GPD WIN from DragonBox, is there a ETA of when the units will be available for final purchase and shipment (when I ordered I was given a voucher that means when they are in stock I can...

I use auto-brightness on my phone, it is a Samsung Note 4, and on top of the auto-brightness there is a birghtness bar which basically means if the bar is set to the middle/default, the auto-brightness will just do its thing, using values it thinks makes most sense. But if you put the bar to...

The way to optimize any software for any hardware typically involves analysing what the bottlenecks are (both in terms of software architecture which hasn't be made the right way, and also in terms of running a profiler) and then tackling the results in the most sensible order. For any given...

Writing your own 3D engine from the ground up in GL/GLES 2+ is certainly a rewarding experience, but it includes a huge number of dependencies, doing it all yourself again is rewarding, but will take a long time (not so much the coding time per se, but learning all the concepts required). If you...

A lot of the successful Kick Starter campaigns are a very involved process. The best campaigns have regular pieces of information being released, time spent answering questions, etc. It can take a full month to prepare, and then pretty much a full month to keep on top of. Sure there are...