That's because the Nintendo Switch is practically the current incarnation of the NVidia Shield hardware. Nintendo is doing a better job selling NVidia's Shield hardware than Nvidia ever could an Android device, so it would be counter-productive to compete with yourself with something that would have less appeal. Again, it's about the apps!
BTW. There are rumours about a second-generation Switch coming up, supposedly sometime in the second half of this year.
How about a wired telephone on a land-line: a telephone model that actually has a volume control and variable microphone amp, and placed in a fixed location that you know does not have too much background noise in the first place.
This is a tried and true method. Many older non-mobile telephone models with volume/mic controls exist that have been designed with people with hearing problems and/or speech impediments in mind. It also used to be the norm that when you needed to telephone, you did it in a quieter place: that is why phone booths were booths -- not speakers on sticks in the middle of throngs of people.
Modern mobile phones are not designed to be hardy tools as much as to appear desirable. The race towards thinness has resulted in tiny microphones and speakers that are already pushed to their limits out of the box, with background noise filtering always on. If you absolutely must have a mobile phone, then by all means get a proper headset with a boom-mic close to the mouth.
This isn't a light-field camera but a depth-sensing camera combined with a regular camera. Some useful uses of this type of camera include: * Unlocking the phone with the shape of your face * Filtering out the background in video-calls.
For these a lightfield camera would be overkill. But yes, you could say that most other uses are gimmicky at the moment.
The words "big tobacco" came from the newspaper article, not from the scientists quoted in the article. The use of those words do not make thier words less valid.
Modern meat-processing is clean and cold enough that there is no longer any case for using sodium-nitrite to prevent botulism.
The real reason for using nitrite is that it makes the meat products red -- making meat look like how consumers are used to. Meat without nitrite is more grey, which looks less appetising.
The point of my post seems to have gone over your head. I'm sorry I was a bit tired when I posted that and I may not have made the point distinct enough.
What you replied to was in reference to Google's user interface design in several products and how they have changed over many years, not specifically to details within the latest version of Google Chrome.
You're likening smartphone users to heroin addicts. I see that likeness too, and it is one reason why I don't have one. The drug/the phone, comes first before anything else.
The singular event for me why I don't have a smartphone was maybe a decade ago, before iPhone and Android -- but when texting had already commonplace. I saw a woman immersed in her phone walking slowly out onto railroad tracks on a railroad crossing right as there was an oncoming train. I saved her from danger but not once did she look up from her fucking phone! It was not the danger that scared me as much as her behaviour. After that, I swore to myself that I was not going to become like that. In recent years, I get reinforced in my belief several times each day in encounters with smartphone zombies in streets, shops and public transport. What would have been considered rude, antisocial behaviour twenty years ago has been the norm for many years now.
This is only the latest in a general trend of Google of making their UI -- desktop, mobile and web -- progressively worse. This being a distinct change, top, front and centre, and not something snuck in sideways in a seldom-used dialogue box, it is something that people notice immediately.
People have been upset about several more minor changes for a longer time, but for some, this was the last straw. Reduced contrast, hover-indicators that take long to appear, hamburger menus and close-buttons that you don't see until you hover over them, wasted whitespace... Those are all crimes against good design, and part of Google's "Material Design" or "Polymer" or whatever they decide to call it these days.
Do you remember when "web browser chrome" used to refer to different visual themes for user interface the that you could write yourself and choose between in the Mozilla web browser? There were quite a few of them to choose between on a section on Mozillazine called The ChromeZone. The barrier to entry was quite low, all themes as images and as text files written in the XML-based language XUL. I had contributed a web browser UI theme to The Chrome Zone myself.
But the full-fledged Mozilla browser was known to be stupidly slow and got abandoned for the slimmed-down Firefox. Firefox used native widgets, that were consistent with other programs on the platform that it ran on. On Linux (or other OS with X) the native widgets were GTK+ widgets, which had its own theming system -- also user-made in text format, with low barrier to entry and with many to choose from.
... and later Google snatched both the names "Chrome" and Chrome Zone for themselves.
Sure, but Brave replaces ads with its own form of valuable tokens that you could distribute to web sites depending on how much you visit them.... and those tokens are based on the Etherium blockchain.
I don't want to support cryptocurrency, thank you very much.
Probably not. Modern MIPS is not the same ISA as what SGI's machines used.
If there would be a modern MIPS chip that could run the older ISA in user-mode (like 386 code on a x86-64 system), I think it would be better to create a subsystem for IRIX on FreeBSD -- which is a more up-to-date foundation than IRIX' old kernel. The FreeBSD kernel has a framework for foreign syscall interfaces, through which it already supports running e.g. Linux binaries natively.
Agreed. The Amiga was not ahead of its time as much as Intel and Microsoft were holding things back. The Motorola 68000 was a joy to program assembly language for. I remember I borrowed a book on x86 assembly-language (16-bit) and was appalled at how primitive it was in comparison.
The hardware in the Amiga was basically a continuation of hardware in earlier 8-bit computers, the chief engineer Jay Miner having used many of the same concepts in designing chips for Atari's 8-bit computers and games consoles. Once the the 68000 was succeeded by the 68020, 030 and 040, the CPU overtook the Blitter on many things, and at other things the bitplane-oriented pixel format was holding it back.
I don't have a cell phone. Well, I have one (a gift) in a drawer, but no subscription. At jobs I have been issued smartphones, which I have kept laying unused in a corner after the necessary updates.
I use a wrist watch, a couple of tablets (WiFi), DSLR and proper computers with large screens and good keyboards. Those serve my use cases better, and I won't get run over by a train or trip into the water... I have a good sense of direction (which gets practiced by not relying on GPS).
That's not what x32 is. 32-bit x86 will still be supported.
"x32" is an ABI for x86-64 that uses 32-bit pointers with the x86-64 instruction set for better performance when a large address space is not needed. It's in the second paragraph in the TFA;)
BTW, it is not only military installations that get blurred out. Critical infrastructure installations often also gets blurred out on maps. For example power grid stations, nuclear power plants and radar installations used by commercial air traffic.
"Why do vegans want things that look and taste like meat?" * Not every vegan/vegetarian does. Many shun products that are too much like meat. * It is for ex-meat eaters who want to recreate a dish in veggie form -- but often not specifically the meat in that dish. Maybe the dish is traditional or a memory from childhood. * It is for socialising together with meat-eaters without having to feel left out. * Vegetarians are lazy too, and something pre-packaged is just easy to cook. * Or... the product is actually for climate-conscious meat-eaters. Call them "hipsters" if you will -- maybe they are. Or maybe it is prepping for an eventual day when livestock has been outlawed because drastic measures are needed to save the climate.
"I eat meat. Meat is yummy" What an insightful comment! Here is a ball. Why don't you bounce it?
George H.W. Bush was instrumental in undermining the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro... and then bullshitting about it, calling the US a "global leader" for the climate in a speech. After having got a letter from his buddy Ken Lay at Enron before the event, he made sure sure that the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change's mandatory emission cuts were replaced with voluntary measures. He also got it changed that developing nations would be exempt. For many nations, including the US -- the world's biggest polluter -- this meant no change at all. Also, that China -- then (and for some inexplicable reason, still ) classified as a "developing nation" could increase its emissions.
Greenpeace called him a "environmental degenerate" and a "highway robber". It has been said by many researchers that have looked back, that if it hadn't been for Bush in '92, the world's climate would have been in a much better state than now.
Never mind how much they had contributed to society during their life time.
You know who else thought that the elderly and "unfit" were a drain on society and should be put to death? The Nazis. I'm not trying to Godwin's law you, just stating facts. Goebbles ordered propaganda movies in an attempt to change public opinion in favour of "euthanasia". Check out one example: Ich Klage An. After the war, the cast and crew were put on trial at Nurnberg charged with crimes against humanity
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Would I be able to pay with Unit-e to purchase Unity-engine based games on my Unity desktop?
That's because the Nintendo Switch is practically the current incarnation of the NVidia Shield hardware.
Nintendo is doing a better job selling NVidia's Shield hardware than Nvidia ever could an Android device, so it would be counter-productive to compete with yourself with something that would have less appeal.
Again, it's about the apps!
BTW. There are rumours about a second-generation Switch coming up, supposedly sometime in the second half of this year.
How about a wired telephone on a land-line: a telephone model that actually has a volume control and variable microphone amp, and placed in a fixed location that you know does not have too much background noise in the first place.
This is a tried and true method. Many older non-mobile telephone models with volume/mic controls exist that have been designed with people with hearing problems and/or speech impediments in mind. It also used to be the norm that when you needed to telephone, you did it in a quieter place: that is why phone booths were booths -- not speakers on sticks in the middle of throngs of people.
Modern mobile phones are not designed to be hardy tools as much as to appear desirable. The race towards thinness has resulted in tiny microphones and speakers that are already pushed to their limits out of the box, with background noise filtering always on. If you absolutely must have a mobile phone, then by all means get a proper headset with a boom-mic close to the mouth.
This isn't a light-field camera but a depth-sensing camera combined with a regular camera.
Some useful uses of this type of camera include:
* Unlocking the phone with the shape of your face
* Filtering out the background in video-calls.
For these a lightfield camera would be overkill. But yes, you could say that most other uses are gimmicky at the moment.
The words "big tobacco" came from the newspaper article, not from the scientists quoted in the article.
The use of those words do not make thier words less valid.
Modern meat-processing is clean and cold enough that there is no longer any case for using sodium-nitrite to prevent botulism.
The real reason for using nitrite is that it makes the meat products red -- making meat look like how consumers are used to.
Meat without nitrite is more grey, which looks less appetising.
What kind of harassment are you referring to? That was missing from your post. You also did not post anything that could be considered necessary .
[i]Sitting down[/i] and looking up things on a device with Internet access is not something that people tend to have an issue with.
Issues are with people who have in effect become tethered to their phones, who have developed disruptive manners.
The point of my post seems to have gone over your head. I'm sorry I was a bit tired when I posted that and I may not have made the point distinct enough.
What you replied to was in reference to Google's user interface design in several products and how they have changed over many years, not specifically to details within the latest version of Google Chrome.
You're likening smartphone users to heroin addicts.
I see that likeness too, and it is one reason why I don't have one.
The drug/the phone, comes first before anything else.
The singular event for me why I don't have a smartphone was maybe a decade ago, before iPhone and Android -- but when texting had already commonplace. I saw a woman immersed in her phone walking slowly out onto railroad tracks on a railroad crossing right as there was an oncoming train. I saved her from danger but not once did she look up from her fucking phone! It was not the danger that scared me as much as her behaviour. After that, I swore to myself that I was not going to become like that.
In recent years, I get reinforced in my belief several times each day in encounters with smartphone zombies in streets, shops and public transport. What would have been considered rude, antisocial behaviour twenty years ago has been the norm for many years now.
The colour does not matter much on LCDs, but on OLED screens, brighter colours not only consume more battery, they also wear out the screens faster.
This is only the latest in a general trend of Google of making their UI -- desktop, mobile and web -- progressively worse.
This being a distinct change, top, front and centre, and not something snuck in sideways in a seldom-used dialogue box, it is something that people notice immediately.
People have been upset about several more minor changes for a longer time, but for some, this was the last straw. ...
Reduced contrast, hover-indicators that take long to appear, hamburger menus and close-buttons that you don't see until you hover over them, wasted whitespace
Those are all crimes against good design, and part of Google's "Material Design" or "Polymer" or whatever they decide to call it these days.
Do you remember when "web browser chrome" used to refer to different visual themes for user interface the that you could write yourself and choose between in the Mozilla web browser?
There were quite a few of them to choose between on a section on Mozillazine called The ChromeZone. The barrier to entry was quite low, all themes as images and as text files written in the XML-based language XUL. I had contributed a web browser UI theme to The Chrome Zone myself.
But the full-fledged Mozilla browser was known to be stupidly slow and got abandoned for the slimmed-down Firefox.
Firefox used native widgets, that were consistent with other programs on the platform that it ran on. On Linux (or other OS with X) the native widgets were GTK+ widgets, which had its own theming system -- also user-made in text format, with low barrier to entry and with many to choose from.
I decline to be scanned, using a can of spray paint - at the camera.
You promised not to view me as suspicious. So back off!
BTW, I recommend Molotow Premium. Good coverage, dries in cold weather.
LOL. "The movies became more distant" is an interesting ambiguous choice of words ...
A longer time ago, true.
More distant from the Star Wars that we used to know, also true.
Sure, but Brave replaces ads with its own form of valuable tokens that you could distribute to web sites depending on how much you visit them. ... and those tokens are based on the Etherium blockchain.
I don't want to support cryptocurrency, thank you very much.
Probably not. Modern MIPS is not the same ISA as what SGI's machines used.
If there would be a modern MIPS chip that could run the older ISA in user-mode (like 386 code on a x86-64 system), I think it would be better to create a subsystem for IRIX on FreeBSD -- which is a more up-to-date foundation than IRIX' old kernel.
The FreeBSD kernel has a framework for foreign syscall interfaces, through which it already supports running e.g. Linux binaries natively.
Agreed. The Amiga was not ahead of its time as much as Intel and Microsoft were holding things back.
The Motorola 68000 was a joy to program assembly language for.
I remember I borrowed a book on x86 assembly-language (16-bit) and was appalled at how primitive it was in comparison.
The hardware in the Amiga was basically a continuation of hardware in earlier 8-bit computers, the chief engineer Jay Miner having used many of the same concepts in designing chips for Atari's 8-bit computers and games consoles.
Once the the 68000 was succeeded by the 68020, 030 and 040, the CPU overtook the Blitter on many things, and at other things the bitplane-oriented pixel format was holding it back.
I don't have a cell phone. Well, I have one (a gift) in a drawer, but no subscription.
At jobs I have been issued smartphones, which I have kept laying unused in a corner after the necessary updates.
I use a wrist watch, a couple of tablets (WiFi), DSLR and proper computers with large screens and good keyboards. ...
Those serve my use cases better, and I won't get run over by a train or trip into the water
I have a good sense of direction (which gets practiced by not relying on GPS).
That's not what x32 is. 32-bit x86 will still be supported.
"x32" is an ABI for x86-64 that uses 32-bit pointers with the x86-64 instruction set for better performance when a large address space is not needed. ;)
It's in the second paragraph in the TFA
BTW, it is not only military installations that get blurred out. Critical infrastructure installations often also gets blurred out on maps. For example power grid stations, nuclear power plants and radar installations used by commercial air traffic.
No. Window RT laptops were 32-bit ARM v7. Windows 10 requires 64-bit ARM v8, and runs only 64-bit programs.
And even if the chip was capable of 64-bit ARM, you would have to jump through quite a few hoops to get it to run.
Oh, God... Here we go again.
"Why do vegans want things that look and taste like meat?" ... the product is actually for climate-conscious meat-eaters. Call them "hipsters" if you will -- maybe they are. Or maybe it is prepping for an eventual day when livestock has been outlawed because drastic measures are needed to save the climate.
* Not every vegan/vegetarian does. Many shun products that are too much like meat.
* It is for ex-meat eaters who want to recreate a dish in veggie form -- but often not specifically the meat in that dish. Maybe the dish is traditional or a memory from childhood.
* It is for socialising together with meat-eaters without having to feel left out.
* Vegetarians are lazy too, and something pre-packaged is just easy to cook.
* Or
"I eat meat. Meat is yummy"
What an insightful comment! Here is a ball. Why don't you bounce it?
George H.W. Bush was instrumental in undermining the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro ... and then bullshitting about it, calling the US a "global leader" for the climate in a speech.
After having got a letter from his buddy Ken Lay at Enron before the event, he made sure sure that the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change's mandatory emission cuts were replaced with voluntary measures. He also got it changed that developing nations would be exempt. For many nations, including the US -- the world's biggest polluter -- this meant no change at all. Also, that China -- then (and for some inexplicable reason, still ) classified as a "developing nation" could increase its emissions.
Greenpeace called him a "environmental degenerate" and a "highway robber".
It has been said by many researchers that have looked back, that if it hadn't been for Bush in '92, the world's climate would have been in a much better state than now.
Never mind how much they had contributed to society during their life time.
You know who else thought that the elderly and "unfit" were a drain on society and should be put to death? The Nazis. I'm not trying to Godwin's law you, just stating facts.
Goebbles ordered propaganda movies in an attempt to change public opinion in favour of "euthanasia".
Check out one example: Ich Klage An. After the war, the cast and crew were put on trial at Nurnberg charged with crimes against humanity
In the West, it is the banks that keeps tabs on you.
They don't like cash because they can't make a profit on it.
If they don't like you, you get your bank account frozen.