Cold Start
Well Christmas long this year… For nearly two months I’ve not done much with this project. In part that’s down to a recent computer upgrade allowing me to play games on “ultra” graphics settings, but this new RTX 2070 MaxQ 8GB GPU doesn’t really want to render Civ 6 and…
Opinion: Five Percent Accuracy
Police forces in the UK have recently been criticised for using facial recognition systems some claim to be “dangerously inaccurate”. The House of Commons Science and Technology committee recently called for trials to be suspended until relevant regulations are put in place. Some of these systems have demonstrated just 5%…
time to take Java seriously again?
Like many Computer Science graduates Java was the first language I’d say I really learnt. Sure I’d dabbled in C and VB but Java is where I first wrote meaningful code beyond examples from the text book. Again like many Computer Science graduates, I turned my back on Java pretty…
16GB ought to be enough for anybody
The original un-verified quote attributed to Bill Gates in the 80s was regarding 640KB of RAM in PCs so it’s with some hesitation I say 16GB of storage ought to be enough for any tablet computer. A lot of us use multiple devices and keeping copies of our files on…