Yes you paid to be a Beta Tester it kinda sucks at least if they fix the problems you will have a nice phone.
On the other hand, when was the last time Samsung, Siemens, Sony-Ericsson, Nokia, etc, released a phone that actually reached non-beta stage before becoming "obsolete" and unsupported? Every phone I've owned the last 10-15 years have had bugs that was never fixed, not even in the last firmware released...
I wish the stupid feature-race would stop so that they actually could finish the damn phones before releasing them.
You could configure it to only sync contacts and calendar over BT. On the other hand, if it syncs continuously once it gets in range, it wouldn't be a problem if it takes 30 - 60 minutes to sync...
Either way, it should be a user choice. For a company that is embraced by "individualists" and such, they have a rather strange aversion to letting it's customers choose for themselves.
Umm... I recently bough a new computer, and a 8800GT would be more than half my entire budget for that build. Dual core at 3.2GHz and 4GB RAM... And a second hand ATI X1600 bough for ~$23 that runs anything I throw at it. (Couldn't use my old AGP-card in the new mainboard and my PCI-cards don't support dual head)
Well, since many corporations and people with high income actually manage to get away with paying virtually zero taxes even though they make tons of money, by exploiting tax-regulation loopholes, some of them might end up paying more taxes than they do now.
I see a problem with making indebted people work in public offices. If you must do community service, you can't be at your job, so you'll loose your job and your income. This would make everyone with low income into homeless people with no income, who has no chance to ever pay of their debt to the community.
Well. You can, in a small way, at lest try to influence how your country should be run and what they should use your tax on by voting for another party.
Exactly. Since these kind of tariffs usually gives most to the artist who sell the most, and the ones that sell the most usually are the worst artists, it is not a system that I believe in.
However, that has nothing to do with Vista, because it was stupid design.
The good parts about Vista, but also one of the thing that get most criticism, is that MS threw out a lot of old "legacy" APIs and implemented a whole new kernel and driver architecture.
The worst parts is all the dumb interface-design decisions, all the useless junk thrown in there and all the useless services that are running per default. And personally, I'd like to be able to use the compositing window manager without the themes-service running. But they've, for some incomprehensible reason, made it so that you must have themes active to run DWM. =P
Unless you have a specific subset of graphics-hardware, it isn't. Have you tried getting a compositing windowmanager to work with an Ati X1600 card and dual monitors for instance?
Vista and Linux is very similar in that regard. If you have hardware that "just works", it just works. If you have hardware that has wonky or non-existent drivers, it's a nightmare.
The only way to make things "fair" then, would be to have an absolute amount of tax to pay every year. Simply take your national budget, divide by the number of citizens and corporations and you have your tax.
For example, if we say $50000 per year: If you only earn $40000 per year, you become indebted $10000 per year and loose the right to use public services until you pay your debt. If you earn $500000000 per year, you don't have to pay a bigger slice of the national economy than those who earn $60000 per year.
Would a, on the sub-atomic scale, identical clone of you with the exact same input at the exact same time, make other decisions than you? If it does, there is free will. If not, your decision is simply a reaction to said input based on the current state of your brain and body.
I'd say that there is no truly free will, since that would have to be physical reactions that does not depend on neither state nor input, but the amount of possible states and the amount of possible combination of inputs make it seem like we actually choose our actions.
Both sides of the argument is hard to prove though.
And "graphical quality becomes a matter of raw horsepower"? This unlike in rasterization then?
In both cases, visual quality is limited by the quality of the 3D models, textures and "special effects".
In a traditional 3D engine, though, you also have a maximum level of visual quality achievable by that particular engine. Once you have a card that let you run everything at maximum quality settings, more performance will only give you higher frame rates, until the monitor becomes the limiting factor. If you're raytracing, you can add more ray-casts if you got more performance, making the scene more and more realistic, and you can keep increasing the amount of rays indefinitely. There will of course be a decreasing return once we're getting closer and closer to a "perfect" raytrace of a particular scene, but ten years after launch, a raytrace game will still be slowly increasing in visual quality.
All connectors have to be oriented so that the signals and power goes to the right place.
With a truly symmetric connector, where the signals are symmetric too, the connectors will have the correct signals either way. You do not seem to grasp what I mean.
USB is connected like this. - D+ D- + ---------
If you made the contact symmetrical, you'd be able to connect it the wrong way and short +5 to ground.
If they instead had a connector looking like this - D+ D- + --------- + D- D+ -
you could plug it in either way. When you rotate the connector 180 degrees, the pinout look the same.
The downside is that the connector will a little more expensive. The upside it that even a blind 6 year old with a learning disorder can use it.
The problem is that the host-connector has no markings, and sometimes "up" might be either left, right, up or down relative the up of the device itself.
What they should have done, from the beginning of USB, was to have the connector truly symmetric, so that you could plug it in either way.
The biggest difference is that a human can choose to ignore the directions of the traffic control system. It can even choose to ignore the traffic protocol as a whole!
In a network, equipment that don't follow the rules, either by design or because of a hardware or software failure, can cause major disruptions. The same things goes for the traffic system and drivers that don't follow the rules. Sometimes, all it takes is one driver that doesn't follow the rules to bring the whole traffic flow to a halt.
Digitizer tablets is also popular among mechanical engineers, architects and 3D designers who work a lot in tools like Autodesk or ProEngineer, along with hardware like Quadro graphics with huge amounts of Video RAM. Someone working in Photoshop have no use whatsoever for Quadro graphics or 1GB Video Ram, for instance.
So this laptop seems more targeted as an engineers portable workstation, rather than a graphic designers portable workstation.
You wouldn't want a touch sensitive screen for tablet use any more than you'd want a tablet board to be touch sensitive. You'd want a screen with the same technology as a tablet board, which isn't touch sensitive. Fingerprints wouldn't have been a problem in this case, except that many people who use a tablet rest their hand on it, and this would leave stains...
If they'd use something like synthetic sapphire glass, it would stay scratch free for quite a while. A teflon tipped tablet tool wouldn't stand a chance at scratching that. =)
Why not a built in cup-warmer. Wouldn't even need a separate heater, just route a heatpipe with a valve from the cpu-cooler to the plate and you're good to go. =)
If all cars where computer controlled, and the system actually worked as it should, you wouldn't need traffic lights at all. Simply have the traffic-control software adjust the speed and timing of the cars so that they pass between the gaps in the crossing traffic.
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Yes you paid to be a Beta Tester it kinda sucks at least if they fix the problems you will have a nice phone.
On the other hand, when was the last time Samsung, Siemens, Sony-Ericsson, Nokia, etc, released a phone that actually reached non-beta stage before becoming "obsolete" and unsupported?
Every phone I've owned the last 10-15 years have had bugs that was never fixed, not even in the last firmware released...
I wish the stupid feature-race would stop so that they actually could finish the damn phones before releasing them.
You could configure it to only sync contacts and calendar over BT.
On the other hand, if it syncs continuously once it gets in range, it wouldn't be a problem if it takes 30 - 60 minutes to sync...
Either way, it should be a user choice.
For a company that is embraced by "individualists" and such, they have a rather strange aversion to letting it's customers choose for themselves.
After USB superspeed:
USB warp 1
USB warp 1.1
USB warp 1.2
etc. ^_^
I a corporate environment where the users are free to choose either IE or FF, this would be a way to make IE more FF compatible...
There shouldn't be "Do not call" lists with those who do not wish to be called.
There should be "Call me" lists with those who want to receive calls.
Receiving telemarketing calls and religious or political propaganda should be Opt-In, not Opt-Out.
Umm... I recently bough a new computer, and a 8800GT would be more than half my entire budget for that build.
Dual core at 3.2GHz and 4GB RAM... And a second hand ATI X1600 bough for ~$23 that runs anything I throw at it.
(Couldn't use my old AGP-card in the new mainboard and my PCI-cards don't support dual head)
Well, since many corporations and people with high income actually manage to get away with paying virtually zero taxes even though they make tons of money, by exploiting tax-regulation loopholes, some of them might end up paying more taxes than they do now.
I see a problem with making indebted people work in public offices.
If you must do community service, you can't be at your job, so you'll loose your job and your income.
This would make everyone with low income into homeless people with no income, who has no chance to ever pay of their debt to the community.
But how do I know if what I download is from the corporations that join this scheme or not?
Well. You can, in a small way, at lest try to influence how your country should be run and what they should use your tax on by voting for another party.
Exactly. Since these kind of tariffs usually gives most to the artist who sell the most, and the ones that sell the most usually are the worst artists, it is not a system that I believe in.
The biggest reason to run Vista, at least if you're working as an IT-tech or with any kind of IT-support, is to learn Vista.
However, that has nothing to do with Vista, because it was stupid design.
The good parts about Vista, but also one of the thing that get most criticism, is that MS threw out a lot of old "legacy" APIs and implemented a whole new kernel and driver architecture.
The worst parts is all the dumb interface-design decisions, all the useless junk thrown in there and all the useless services that are running per default.
And personally, I'd like to be able to use the compositing window manager without the themes-service running.
But they've, for some incomprehensible reason, made it so that you must have themes active to run DWM. =P
Unless you have a specific subset of graphics-hardware, it isn't.
Have you tried getting a compositing windowmanager to work with an Ati X1600 card and dual monitors for instance?
Vista and Linux is very similar in that regard.
If you have hardware that "just works", it just works.
If you have hardware that has wonky or non-existent drivers, it's a nightmare.
The only way to make things "fair" then, would be to have an absolute amount of tax to pay every year.
Simply take your national budget, divide by the number of citizens and corporations and you have your tax.
For example, if we say $50000 per year:
If you only earn $40000 per year, you become indebted $10000 per year and loose the right to use public services until you pay your debt.
If you earn $500000000 per year, you don't have to pay a bigger slice of the national economy than those who earn $60000 per year.
All is fair.
Would a, on the sub-atomic scale, identical clone of you with the exact same input at the exact same time, make other decisions than you?
If it does, there is free will.
If not, your decision is simply a reaction to said input based on the current state of your brain and body.
I'd say that there is no truly free will, since that would have to be physical reactions that does not depend on neither state nor input, but the amount of possible states and the amount of possible combination of inputs make it seem like we actually choose our actions.
Both sides of the argument is hard to prove though.
And "graphical quality becomes a matter of raw horsepower"? This unlike in rasterization then?
In both cases, visual quality is limited by the quality of the 3D models, textures and "special effects".
In a traditional 3D engine, though, you also have a maximum level of visual quality achievable by that particular engine. Once you have a card that let you run everything at maximum quality settings, more performance will only give you higher frame rates, until the monitor becomes the limiting factor.
If you're raytracing, you can add more ray-casts if you got more performance, making the scene more and more realistic, and you can keep increasing the amount of rays indefinitely.
There will of course be a decreasing return once we're getting closer and closer to a "perfect" raytrace of a particular scene, but ten years after launch, a raytrace game will still be slowly increasing in visual quality.
I've had NTFS-G3 totally destroy two NTFS partitions with the Vista version of NTFS 3.1
This seem to differ a bit from the XP version of NTFS 3.1
All connectors have to be oriented so that the signals and power goes to the right place.
With a truly symmetric connector, where the signals are symmetric too, the connectors will have the correct signals either way.
You do not seem to grasp what I mean.
USB is connected like this.
- D+ D- +
---------
If you made the contact symmetrical, you'd be able to connect it the wrong way and short +5 to ground.
If they instead had a connector looking like this
- D+ D- +
---------
+ D- D+ -
you could plug it in either way.
When you rotate the connector 180 degrees, the pinout look the same.
The downside is that the connector will a little more expensive.
The upside it that even a blind 6 year old with a learning disorder can use it.
The problem is that the host-connector has no markings, and sometimes "up" might be either left, right, up or down relative the up of the device itself.
What they should have done, from the beginning of USB, was to have the connector truly symmetric, so that you could plug it in either way.
The biggest difference is that a human can choose to ignore the directions of the traffic control system. It can even choose to ignore the traffic protocol as a whole!
In a network, equipment that don't follow the rules, either by design or because of a hardware or software failure, can cause major disruptions.
The same things goes for the traffic system and drivers that don't follow the rules.
Sometimes, all it takes is one driver that doesn't follow the rules to bring the whole traffic flow to a halt.
But who cares about civilians, right?
They're "collateral damage". =P
Honestly, any army that can't stick to only killing military targets should be disbanded for ineptitude and it's leaders thrown into jail for murder.
Digitizer tablets is also popular among mechanical engineers, architects and 3D designers who work a lot in tools like Autodesk or ProEngineer, along with hardware like Quadro graphics with huge amounts of Video RAM.
Someone working in Photoshop have no use whatsoever for Quadro graphics or 1GB Video Ram, for instance.
So this laptop seems more targeted as an engineers portable workstation, rather than a graphic designers portable workstation.
You wouldn't want a touch sensitive screen for tablet use any more than you'd want a tablet board to be touch sensitive.
You'd want a screen with the same technology as a tablet board, which isn't touch sensitive.
Fingerprints wouldn't have been a problem in this case, except that many people who use a tablet rest their hand on it, and this would leave stains...
If they'd use something like synthetic sapphire glass, it would stay scratch free for quite a while. A teflon tipped tablet tool wouldn't stand a chance at scratching that. =)
Why not a built in cup-warmer.
Wouldn't even need a separate heater, just route a heatpipe with a valve from the cpu-cooler to the plate and you're good to go. =)
If all cars where computer controlled, and the system actually worked as it should, you wouldn't need traffic lights at all.
Simply have the traffic-control software adjust the speed and timing of the cars so that they pass between the gaps in the crossing traffic.