The problem with current-generation CGM is that they require expensive consumables that a lot of insurance doesn't cover.
If they could get a sensor working without penetrating the skin, without requiring supplies that get used up, that would be a massive boon, even if the sensor cost a few grand.
Why the hell do you have to go through all that to check a voicemail?
Mine's smart enough to realize I'm calling from the number it's for. I dial the voice mail number - it's 123 - and get 'You have two messages. First message.' and it plays.
Yeah, it's still more effort than reading a text, but it's not some Sisyphean opus.
Which one? I'm on Comcast Business and while the modem's UI isn't particularly zippy, it's not terribly slow either. I don't use its wifi though; I have my own router and gateway.
Today's 1GB system is many times cheaper than that BBC Micro.
Adjust for inflation, and a BBC Micro B cost a thousand pounds in today's money. And you'd need at least a screen of some sort to connect it to, that wasn't included.
You can get a Chromebook with two gigs of RAM for under 200 quid now. So a fifth of the price of the BBC Micro, plus it includes a screen, and networking capability, AND it can multitask.
And note that has twice the RAM that the system being complained about has.
What does the lifespan of a PC have to do with the cost of Office?
None of my PCs have ever included a copy of Office. One had a demo of 'Home and Student', and one came with a three-month trial of 365, but that's it.
I don't bother with Office myself, but Office 365 costs less than keeping up with the 'offline' Office releases.
Besides, your math is off. Office 365 is $70/year if you buy it annually. The equivalent standalone product is Office Professional 2016, for $360. So that's FIVE years for the cost of 365 to catch up to standalone Office... and that doesn't include whatever it costs to upgrade to Office 2020 or whatever.
There are already laptops with two desktop GeForce GTX 1080s. If you're willing to put up with the weight of a cooling system, I don't think tri-SLI presents an insurmountable problem.
And if you're looking at a three-screen prototype, weight is certainly not a problem.
Of course, they might not have gaming-grade GPUs in them at all. Driving three 4k screens in 2D isn't that difficult and that's all you'd need for a demo unit.
Maybe Soldner sucks less now, with twelve years of fan patches, but when it came out it was utter ass.
If you could keep it from crashing, and then if you could manage to get it to see the internet, when you found a server and connected then the server would crash.
I wouldn't call it ENTIRELY unplayable, but close to it.
Recent versions of Office added a craptacular 'smooth' cursor animation that's very slow and makes me want to puke because it's really not smooth at all.
Going into the accessibility options and selecting 'disable unnecessary animations' makes typing in Office or other things using that stupid animation SO much nicer.
That I can't get replacement parts for a thing sometimes boggles me.
I don't expect to get parts for cheap toys, but for my $100 Kensington trackball? One of the little 'rubies' the ball sits on got lost when I was cleaning it. This is something that just snaps into place, and the plant must have krillions of.
Nope, Kensington can't send me one. They did, however, send me a whole new trackball under warranty. Needless to say, I kept the old one for future spare parts.
Everyone has a use for drives like this. Even grandmothers.
In fact, I installed an SSD for my elderly mom and she was shocked at how much faster and more pleasant her computer was to use. She couldn't believe all I'd done was copy her stuff to the new drive and install it.
An SSD matters more than a faster CPU or craploads of RAM to the average computer user.
Like hell it isn't. While I more or less live under a rock where game streamers and YouTubers are concerned, even I know that the top-earning ones make more than ten million bucks a year off ad revenue and whatnot.
That's certainly value for the Skatteverket, at the very least.
There is one thing GeForce Experience does that's useful, and it's the reason I have an nVidia card and use it.
Game streaming to nVidia Shield handheld devices. I can tether my Shield Portable to my phone's hotspot and play my PC games wherever I've got a good LTE signal.
I don't use it to raid in MMOs - not that it wouldn't work, it's just a bit too finicky for me to trust. I don't want the raid to wipe because I got a phone call and my hotspot dropped.
But I play all sorts of single player games with it, and solo/level/quest in MMOs. (Just be sure you're using it on an unmetered connection. Constant 720p video streaming adds up.)
Steam has always been buggy as hell on anything I've used it on. Random UI glitches, random download failures (Delete Local Content and try again!) and randomly not letting me play my games because it can't connect to the Steam servers and refuses to go into Offline Mode (had that one happen yesterday.)
Windows XP, 7, 10, MacOS X, even the Android app has flaked on me. Granted, I've never tried it on Linux. Maybe it's stable there.
There are actually several new and new-ish 32 bit embedded x86 processors. Or systems where it makes more sense to use 32 bit Windows instead of 64 bit. Low-cost tablets, for instance, often use Atom chips that don't even support more than one or two gigs of RAM. They run Win10 okay, and browsing and casual games are fine on 'em, but a 64 bit OS would be a waste.
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The problem with current-generation CGM is that they require expensive consumables that a lot of insurance doesn't cover.
If they could get a sensor working without penetrating the skin, without requiring supplies that get used up, that would be a massive boon, even if the sensor cost a few grand.
Why the hell do you have to go through all that to check a voicemail?
Mine's smart enough to realize I'm calling from the number it's for. I dial the voice mail number - it's 123 - and get 'You have two messages. First message.' and it plays.
Yeah, it's still more effort than reading a text, but it's not some Sisyphean opus.
Telegram requires a phone number. Discord has by far the worst UI I've ever seen in a software product.
And I've used dBASE II, so that's saying something.
A lot of that is simply because Gran Turismo is two full console generations older than Forza.
If you take the PS1 and PS2 games out of the totals, GT still outsells Forza, but not by a whole lot.
And Forza 6 Apex is free to download on Windows (with paid DLC), so who the heck knows what that's doing to the total player base.
Which one? I'm on Comcast Business and while the modem's UI isn't particularly zippy, it's not terribly slow either. I don't use its wifi though; I have my own router and gateway.
Today's 1GB system is many times cheaper than that BBC Micro.
Adjust for inflation, and a BBC Micro B cost a thousand pounds in today's money. And you'd need at least a screen of some sort to connect it to, that wasn't included.
You can get a Chromebook with two gigs of RAM for under 200 quid now. So a fifth of the price of the BBC Micro, plus it includes a screen, and networking capability, AND it can multitask.
And note that has twice the RAM that the system being complained about has.
What does the lifespan of a PC have to do with the cost of Office?
None of my PCs have ever included a copy of Office. One had a demo of 'Home and Student', and one came with a three-month trial of 365, but that's it.
I don't bother with Office myself, but Office 365 costs less than keeping up with the 'offline' Office releases.
Besides, your math is off. Office 365 is $70/year if you buy it annually. The equivalent standalone product is Office Professional 2016, for $360. So that's FIVE years for the cost of 365 to catch up to standalone Office... and that doesn't include whatever it costs to upgrade to Office 2020 or whatever.
There are already laptops with two desktop GeForce GTX 1080s. If you're willing to put up with the weight of a cooling system, I don't think tri-SLI presents an insurmountable problem.
And if you're looking at a three-screen prototype, weight is certainly not a problem.
Of course, they might not have gaming-grade GPUs in them at all. Driving three 4k screens in 2D isn't that difficult and that's all you'd need for a demo unit.
Edge has extensions now, one of which is adblocking. Well, maybe more than one. But I didn't see a need to install more than one.
I use Vivaldi on my desktop, but I use Edge on my Windows tablet, because it comes closest to having a good touch UI of all the browsers.
Chrome and Firefox removed their touch UIs. Irksome.
Maybe Soldner sucks less now, with twelve years of fan patches, but when it came out it was utter ass.
If you could keep it from crashing, and then if you could manage to get it to see the internet, when you found a server and connected then the server would crash.
I wouldn't call it ENTIRELY unplayable, but close to it.
And that umlaut didn't help either.
Recent versions of Office added a craptacular 'smooth' cursor animation that's very slow and makes me want to puke because it's really not smooth at all.
Going into the accessibility options and selecting 'disable unnecessary animations' makes typing in Office or other things using that stupid animation SO much nicer.
Full-size Apple keyboards still have Home/End/PgUp/PgDown/ForwardDel keys. (Fn is also in that block, but it's a key I never use.)
Pebbles are also sold in stores, as well as via Kickstarter. I got mine from Amazon.
That I can't get replacement parts for a thing sometimes boggles me.
I don't expect to get parts for cheap toys, but for my $100 Kensington trackball? One of the little 'rubies' the ball sits on got lost when I was cleaning it. This is something that just snaps into place, and the plant must have krillions of.
Nope, Kensington can't send me one. They did, however, send me a whole new trackball under warranty. Needless to say, I kept the old one for future spare parts.
Everyone has a use for drives like this. Even grandmothers.
In fact, I installed an SSD for my elderly mom and she was shocked at how much faster and more pleasant her computer was to use. She couldn't believe all I'd done was copy her stuff to the new drive and install it.
An SSD matters more than a faster CPU or craploads of RAM to the average computer user.
Like hell it isn't. While I more or less live under a rock where game streamers and YouTubers are concerned, even I know that the top-earning ones make more than ten million bucks a year off ad revenue and whatnot.
That's certainly value for the Skatteverket, at the very least.
Well, you could always get the existing Blackberry hardware-QWERTY phone that runs Android.
I mean, if you actually want a hardware keyboard, it's out there to buy. I have one and rather like it
It also lets you swype on the physical keys, which is a really bizarre experience. Slide-to-type but you can feel the keys you're sliding over.
I dunno about that guy, but for me it's been this:
The ways that Macs suck annoy me less than the ways Linux or Window suck.
All computers suck. The trick is to find the one whose suckiness annoys you the least. This varies from person to person, a lot.
There is one thing GeForce Experience does that's useful, and it's the reason I have an nVidia card and use it.
Game streaming to nVidia Shield handheld devices. I can tether my Shield Portable to my phone's hotspot and play my PC games wherever I've got a good LTE signal.
I don't use it to raid in MMOs - not that it wouldn't work, it's just a bit too finicky for me to trust. I don't want the raid to wipe because I got a phone call and my hotspot dropped.
But I play all sorts of single player games with it, and solo/level/quest in MMOs. (Just be sure you're using it on an unmetered connection. Constant 720p video streaming adds up.)
NXP (formerly Freescale) and AMCC are still making PowerPC-based chips, mostly for embedded applications.
Steam has always been buggy as hell on anything I've used it on. Random UI glitches, random download failures (Delete Local Content and try again!) and randomly not letting me play my games because it can't connect to the Steam servers and refuses to go into Offline Mode (had that one happen yesterday.)
Windows XP, 7, 10, MacOS X, even the Android app has flaked on me. Granted, I've never tried it on Linux. Maybe it's stable there.
Because you shot 100 hours of video and want to copy it off the card quickly.
There are actually several new and new-ish 32 bit embedded x86 processors. Or systems where it makes more sense to use 32 bit Windows instead of 64 bit. Low-cost tablets, for instance, often use Atom chips that don't even support more than one or two gigs of RAM. They run Win10 okay, and browsing and casual games are fine on 'em, but a 64 bit OS would be a waste.
You cannot purchase a midrange gaming PC for the price of a console.
You can buy a non-gaming/office PC for the price of a console, but those rather suck for playing games on.
The Xbox One is $279 retail with two games at the moment (GameStop). The PS4 is $349 with a game.
I don't think you're going to be able to match the hardware in those for that price.
Old server processor that, even used, costs twice as much as a combination processor/video card intended for consumer systems, is faster.
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