" Calendering and scheduling is in transition as it is disappearing as a PC or notebook program and shifting to being a smartphone only program, for obvious reasons. "
Is this why smartphone calendar apps still can't set repeat patterns more complex than X weekdays every week? Take Google Calendar, for instance - the Android version only allows about a quarter of the repeat patterns available in the online version.
Yes, the smartphone is increasingly important for calendar use, but any time you're entering a whole bunch of data at once, you're not going to want to do it on your smartphone...
Do you use your phone before going to sleep? Connecting it to a loose charger cable on the nightstand in the semi-dark while I'm half asleep from the eBook I was just reading on the phone is pretty much a nightmare. I can't wait to get a phone that supports Qi charging...
Your Nexus 7 has runaway background processes. Otherwise there's no way it draws more than 500mA in standby - it would be empty after just a few hours. Check your battery stats to find the culprit...
My girlfriend's Nexus 7 charges just fine off of good old 500mA USB2.0 ports when it's in standby...
Not sure if they've ever managed to get nightlies running on the new Nexus two weeks after its release, but they've always pretty much dropped everything to flock to the newest device as soon as it was available.
I wouldn't be surprised if compositing on 4K@60FPS works just fine already, provided the machine has display outputs that support the resolution and refresh rate. 2560x1600 via DisplayPort, for instance, was already available on Core2Duo laptops with 4500MHD graphics (that's... 4 generations before Haswell)...
Corner drift is perfectly fine and normal - I was referring to the center of the display. Guess the display unit they gave me was off then... No matter though, damned thing's too heavy for me anyway - I'd kill to have that display in my Samsung 500T though (or at least that resolution). No need for active cooling or an i5, but higher screen resolution than 1366x768 without sacrificing the 10+ hour battery life would be a dream come true...
I was able to try out a Surface Pro 2 for a few hours yesterday, and I was unable to get the digitizer anywhere near as accurate as my X Series Thinkpad convertible tablet or my Samsung 500T (Atom based Win8.1 tablet with a WACOM digitizer) - even after multiple calibrations, the SP2 was always at least 0.5 cm off, compared to 0.1 mm on the other devices.
Was the unit broken or is this a widespread issue? The first Surface Pro was supposed to have much better digitizer accuracy than the X series tablets, so I'm a bit confused...
Then your battery life won't be any better with a newer phone either... and the cases with integrated batteries have laughably low battery capacities.
What you really need is a USB power bank... yes, it's annoying to carry around and charging with it requires a wired connection between the battery pack and the phone, but you'll have juice. Depending on the size of the battery pack you choose, you'll be able to fully recharge a Galaxy Nexus between 1 and 5+ times...
Are you having any other problems with your Galaxy Nexus? Other than Chrome being a memory hog and the fact that I won't be getting 4.4 on it, I'm having no issues whatsoever...
Are you sure about that? When I get an e-mail on my Gmail account, Thunderbird has it about half a second after my phone (Android with the official GMail app) beeps.
Just install the add-on compatibility reporter (it's an add-on itself)... that wlil allow you to use all the add-ons regardless of official compatibility. They pretty much all work even if they're "incompatible".
... instead of adding new features. FF22 (or 23?) brought with it WebRTC and a bunch of other crap that sent my installation's power usage skyrocketing. My laptop's battery life with Firefox running has dropped by about 30% (!!!!) - so much that I've stopped using GMail online and switched to Thunderbird so that I don't have to constantly have Firefox open.
You need to look at more than the specs - the cooling system is just as, if not much more important. That MacBook of yours is unlikely to be able to sustain maximum turbo boost clocks for more than a few minutes at a time... proper workstations (which is the only kind of laptop that should come with a quad-core i7) have sufficient cooling to do so for hours on end. So yeah, they're actually quite a bit faster:)
It's always funny when one of the MacBook users at my uni (lots of programming classes) starts mouthing off about how his brand new Retina MBP must be so much faster than my Thinkpad because it looks newer... I've given up comparing compute times (Matlab and so on) - something I used to humor them with initially - because they always end up disappointed.
I'm not saying an MBP isn't great for what it does - lots of power in a sleek package. But don't make the mistake of thinking it's the ultimate in processing power just because of the specs on the box.
Since you seem rather knowledgeable about OCR: Do you know of a way to completely re-render a PDF via OCR while preserving formatting? I've got a few PDFs that OCR just fine, but have horrible fonts/print for reading (i.e. extremely low res or low contrast).
It *is* pretty though. And that's what counts for many people... I'm currently sitting in front of three relatively cheap FullHD monitors hooked up to a monster PC with wired peripherals, a laptop, a pair of studio monitors, a small mixer, a mic preamp and a USB audio interface - lots of bang for my buck and it does a ton of shit that an iMac couldn't, but damn does it look cluttered. Some people just prefer a sleek all-in-one with brushed metal (no glossy fucking plastic like you'll find on many other all-in-ones) and wireless input devices...
An outdated apparatus for getting video off of these entirely impractical plastic media storage "discs" that are wrapped in 3 different kinds of DRM and annoying as fuck to use. Even the BluRays I actually do buy are sitting unopened in a closet somewhere - downloading an HDRip is faster than ripping and encoding myself, even with a 4x4.5Ghz i5...
Not an option on Win8.x tablets, unfortunately - IE is, surpringly enough, the only usable touch browser right now. Firefox and Chrome kinda suck balls in Metro mode...
"As an American, I'm going to have to agree with you... That "processed cheese spread" stuff is pretty vile stuff, but it keeps without refrigeration."
As a European who spent much of his childhood in the US, I have to disagree with you. It may not be labeled correctly ("Cheese" as such is completely wrong), but that stuff has its uses... hell, I still mix in a bit of it when I can - in grilled cheese or on nachos, for instance.
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"Then again, we have another law that lets women go topless on hot days."
You neglected to mention where you live, and whether the girls are hot to go with the days... :)
" Calendering and scheduling is in transition as it is disappearing as a PC or notebook program and shifting to being a smartphone only program, for obvious reasons. "
Is this why smartphone calendar apps still can't set repeat patterns more complex than X weekdays every week? Take Google Calendar, for instance - the Android version only allows about a quarter of the repeat patterns available in the online version.
Yes, the smartphone is increasingly important for calendar use, but any time you're entering a whole bunch of data at once, you're not going to want to do it on your smartphone...
Do you use your phone before going to sleep? Connecting it to a loose charger cable on the nightstand in the semi-dark while I'm half asleep from the eBook I was just reading on the phone is pretty much a nightmare. I can't wait to get a phone that supports Qi charging...
Your Nexus 7 has runaway background processes. Otherwise there's no way it draws more than 500mA in standby - it would be empty after just a few hours. Check your battery stats to find the culprit...
My girlfriend's Nexus 7 charges just fine off of good old 500mA USB2.0 ports when it's in standby...
Not sure if they've ever managed to get nightlies running on the new Nexus two weeks after its release, but they've always pretty much dropped everything to flock to the newest device as soon as it was available.
Who the fuck still prints? :D
I wouldn't be surprised if compositing on 4K@60FPS works just fine already, provided the machine has display outputs that support the resolution and refresh rate. 2560x1600 via DisplayPort, for instance, was already available on Core2Duo laptops with 4500MHD graphics (that's... 4 generations before Haswell)...
Looks like even Ivy Bridge's HD4000 supports 4K: http://ultrabooknews.com/2012/10/31/new-intel-hd-3000-and-hd-4000-drivers-support-for-windows-8-4k-ultra-hd-opengl-4-0-and-more/
Corner drift is perfectly fine and normal - I was referring to the center of the display. Guess the display unit they gave me was off then... No matter though, damned thing's too heavy for me anyway - I'd kill to have that display in my Samsung 500T though (or at least that resolution). No need for active cooling or an i5, but higher screen resolution than 1366x768 without sacrificing the 10+ hour battery life would be a dream come true...
I was able to try out a Surface Pro 2 for a few hours yesterday, and I was unable to get the digitizer anywhere near as accurate as my X Series Thinkpad convertible tablet or my Samsung 500T (Atom based Win8.1 tablet with a WACOM digitizer) - even after multiple calibrations, the SP2 was always at least 0.5 cm off, compared to 0.1 mm on the other devices.
Was the unit broken or is this a widespread issue? The first Surface Pro was supposed to have much better digitizer accuracy than the X series tablets, so I'm a bit confused...
Then your battery life won't be any better with a newer phone either... and the cases with integrated batteries have laughably low battery capacities.
What you really need is a USB power bank... yes, it's annoying to carry around and charging with it requires a wired connection between the battery pack and the phone, but you'll have juice. Depending on the size of the battery pack you choose, you'll be able to fully recharge a Galaxy Nexus between 1 and 5+ times...
Are you having any other problems with your Galaxy Nexus? Other than Chrome being a memory hog and the fact that I won't be getting 4.4 on it, I'm having no issues whatsoever...
You must not work... or at least not in a place where you use computers at all.
Are you sure about that? When I get an e-mail on my Gmail account, Thunderbird has it about half a second after my phone (Android with the official GMail app) beeps.
Weird... I have like 20 add-ons and they all work in FF25 :S
I'm not nuts enough to run an AV add-on in a browser though, so maybe it's just you xD ;)
Just install the add-on compatibility reporter (it's an add-on itself)... that wlil allow you to use all the add-ons regardless of official compatibility. They pretty much all work even if they're "incompatible".
What's the alternative? With the power consumption (laptop) getting worse and worse lately, I'm looking to switch to something... sleeker.
... instead of adding new features. FF22 (or 23?) brought with it WebRTC and a bunch of other crap that sent my installation's power usage skyrocketing. My laptop's battery life with Firefox running has dropped by about 30% (!!!!) - so much that I've stopped using GMail online and switched to Thunderbird so that I don't have to constantly have Firefox open.
And nobody seems to give a fuck.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=887129
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=925629
Chrome is not much better, unfortunately, so switching isn't really an option (not to mention I'd miss a lot of my add-ons).
You need to look at more than the specs - the cooling system is just as, if not much more important. That MacBook of yours is unlikely to be able to sustain maximum turbo boost clocks for more than a few minutes at a time... proper workstations (which is the only kind of laptop that should come with a quad-core i7) have sufficient cooling to do so for hours on end. So yeah, they're actually quite a bit faster :)
It's always funny when one of the MacBook users at my uni (lots of programming classes) starts mouthing off about how his brand new Retina MBP must be so much faster than my Thinkpad because it looks newer... I've given up comparing compute times (Matlab and so on) - something I used to humor them with initially - because they always end up disappointed.
I'm not saying an MBP isn't great for what it does - lots of power in a sleek package. But don't make the mistake of thinking it's the ultimate in processing power just because of the specs on the box.
Since you seem rather knowledgeable about OCR: Do you know of a way to completely re-render a PDF via OCR while preserving formatting? I've got a few PDFs that OCR just fine, but have horrible fonts/print for reading (i.e. extremely low res or low contrast).
It *is* pretty though. And that's what counts for many people... I'm currently sitting in front of three relatively cheap FullHD monitors hooked up to a monster PC with wired peripherals, a laptop, a pair of studio monitors, a small mixer, a mic preamp and a USB audio interface - lots of bang for my buck and it does a ton of shit that an iMac couldn't, but damn does it look cluttered. Some people just prefer a sleek all-in-one with brushed metal (no glossy fucking plastic like you'll find on many other all-in-ones) and wireless input devices...
An outdated apparatus for getting video off of these entirely impractical plastic media storage "discs" that are wrapped in 3 different kinds of DRM and annoying as fuck to use. Even the BluRays I actually do buy are sitting unopened in a closet somewhere - downloading an HDRip is faster than ripping and encoding myself, even with a 4x4.5Ghz i5...
Long live MKV.
Gaming + PC usage (with either Retina-Style scaling or just much much more space to work with). Other than that, it's pretty much a waste...
I practically live in most of the Thinkpad forums... Windows 7 and 8 consistently get better battery life than *buntu etc. with TLP.
It doesn't make sense to me either...
Not an option on Win8.x tablets, unfortunately - IE is, surpringly enough, the only usable touch browser right now. Firefox and Chrome kinda suck balls in Metro mode...
With Windows 8's fast boot pseudo hibernate on or off?
I was very interested in a Surface Pro myself until I saw the abysmal battery life and the tiny 4 gigs of RAM...
"As an American, I'm going to have to agree with you... That "processed cheese spread" stuff is pretty vile stuff, but it keeps without refrigeration."
As a European who spent much of his childhood in the US, I have to disagree with you. It may not be labeled correctly ("Cheese" as such is completely wrong), but that stuff has its uses... hell, I still mix in a bit of it when I can - in grilled cheese or on nachos, for instance.