These are mainly targeted at people learning English, with a "more is better" approach to features. They have things like listening practice with video and audio, pronunciation help, etc. They have a whole suite of dictionaries for English, Japanese, and Chinese.
The one we bought even has handwriting recognition, although it's never worked very well.
Strangely enough I think the differentiating feature is the keyboard -- it's easy to type in words in Hangul, and there's no fumbling to get to the dictionary app. I use one because I'm always offline when I want to look something up.
The weakness I've found is poor Korean support -- they assume the user will not need much help with stemming, base forms, etc., since most of their users are Koreans.
I want an ATM that knows I speak English without me having to tell it each time. I understand these newfangled "computers" can be used to store customer information like this. Do any ATM's connect to "computers"?
LED's hit full brightness immediately but may dim slightly with heat buildup. They're also more efficient at lower power levels, so you might get better battery life at "dim it to save batteries" level.
Supposedly LED displays can be thinner; is that noticeable anywhere?
Also, does anyone know the mfr of the LED? I was guessing Cree, but there could be packaging issues that make other mfrs better. Cree is still the best lumens/watt, AFAIK.
I hear things too from electronics. My ibook is making a slight buzz when I plug in the charger. Somehow I doubt it's RF, more like bulk vibration due to 60-80 watts switching on and off. CRT noises aren't hard to explain either; any change in output entails changes in current shooting at the screen, and possibly thermal changes as phosphors heat up suddenly.
As far as the 2.4 GHz issue, somebody over on fark posted a graph of the EM spectrum in his house; the spike from a microwave oven is some 1000 times higher than the wifi one.
Niagara: we put the throughput in throughput computing.
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