Seconded. Nokia's mapping software (Maps) is pretty good. Although I have a full-size TomTom GPS for my car, sometimes I leave it at home or just forget to take it. On a few occasions I have substituted my Nokia E75 smartphone as my GPS, and it works really well. Ok, you won't get the lane guidance like TomTom or a really large display, but it gets you from point A to point B efficiently, which is the whole point of a GPS in the first place.
If you have a Nokia with the Maps application, make sure you update it to the latest 3.0.x release, it's FAR superior to the older bundled 2.0 Maps app that is pre-loaded on many of their GPS-enabled phones. As parent mentioned, being able to download maps and save them to an SD card really saves data transfer costs. I just pre-load maps for the countries I plan to visit before leaving for the trip. My only complaints are that the map downloading and transfer to the phone using Ovi is a bit slow, even using the USB cable, and that you cannot easily delete individual maps from the SD after you no longer need them on the device.
Wrong. You are not buying the right kind of CFL's or they are simply not available where you live. Here in Finland, we have CFL's that easily fit within most spaces designed for incandescents. Instead of a few straight tubes in a parallel configuration as the early CFL's were, we have... well I would have to describe them as big corkscrews. The glass tube even has an outer dimension and shape very close to an old incandescent. They are also available with a solid glass envelope shaped like an incandescent, which covers the tubes and makes it look exactly like an incandescent. These are available in many wattages too. Obviously the highest wattages are fairly large and are unlikely to fit in a cramped fixture, but the typical 60-75w replacement corkscrew CFL's are very close to the equivalent size incandescent. These are sold under various brands which I believe are widely available in Europe. These "modern" CFL's are a bit more expensive than the early straight-tube designs but they work well and have lasted a long time for me.
I have only one incandescent left in my house because it's inside a transparent glass globe hanging in my downstairs bathroom. It's a decorative bulb with a clear envelope over the filament. It's on only when using the bathroom and it's only a 20w bulb so energy consumption is pretty low averaged over time. One day when it finally burns out I will have to replace it with a CFL.
Yet another way to really fuck up your photos. If you know anything about professional photography, you immediately know this is a failed "solution". In many cases when you light a scene for photography, it's the DIRECTION that the light comes from that is important together with the amount of light. That's why you rarely see camera-mounted flash used in the studio, strobes (flashes) are positioned away from the camera so as to light the scene in a certain way from one or more directions. With the proposed "invention", the direction light comes from will always be the same, close to the lens. It doesn't matter that it's only lighting a part of the scene.
Now, if Jobs has found out how to use the reality distortion field to his advantage and actually BEND light passing through the air... that would be impressive.
One has to wonder... exactly what problem does this solve? In order for this to be successful commercially, it will have to cost less than the equivalent of paying someone to do the washing by hand. If you look at automatic hair driers which are fairly common in hair salons, it makes sense, because the cost of the machine is low compared to paying someone to do the job. This on the other hand I can't see ever being cost effective; the cost of the robotics, software and safety considerations are too high to make it commercially viable. Neat idea but hardly a successful, sellable product.
Not completely true, it depends on the application. In highly threaded tasks, AMD's 6-core will handily beat that i7 running at 2.4GHz (and even the higher clocked models without HT). Just check the latest benchmarks at Anandtech or Tom's hardware. In apps that are not heavily threaded, yes, Intel may win. But more and more apps are becoming multi-threaded and this will only increase in the future. AMD's current 6-cores are more future-proof than Intel's current platform. Not to mention that Intel loves to switch sockets every fucking generation, while AMD is able to keep sockets the same across many generations while staying competitive.
I use both AMD and Intel, so I am not terribly biased one way or the other, but AMD deserves a lot of credit for keeping the processor market competitive. Without AMD or another strong competitor, we would all be paying $1000 for our CPU's form Intel and we would still be stuck with Netburst.
Actually, no. ACTA was effectively rejected by the European Parliament, whose *elected* members represent the people of the EU. However, it has not so far been dropped by the European Commission, whose *un-elected* (appointed) officials generally do whatever they want regardless of what Parliament says.
There is still hope that the EU will finally reject ACTA, but the fight is not over yet.
For the vast majority of airline passengers, this is THE major factor in determining with whom and when they fly. And increasingly due to the budget airlines, this also determines from where and to where, they fly.
Luxury air travel is fine for the (likely) less than 1% that can afford it, but the reality is most of us will never get to enjoy it.
Exactly how are teens *without_cell_phones* sending and receiving texts? Maybe I should go and read TFA... because I'm having a difficult time understanding that without picturing cyborgs or something.
Isn't it about time to move on from the semi-proprietary CDMA networks in the US? I mean come on, the rest of the world is standardized on GSM and 3G... why do the US operators cling to obsolete non-standard technologies?
I have a small home recording studio. I don't have a 16-channel mixer, but what I do have works fine in Linux. I run Ubuntu Studio 10.04 with a real-time kernel that is designed for serious audio work. The audio interface is connected over firewire and I run everything into Ardour, together with a full suite of audio plugins, effects, drum machines, midi sequencers, etc. And guess what, all of the software is free as in beer. I can't imagine how much I would have to spend on licenses if I was working in Windows... it would end up costing many times the hardware that is for sure.
When using Linux for professional-level audio recording, you only need to really consider 3 things:
1. Your firewire interface/chip is supported under Linux. 2. Your firewire interface/chip is supported under Jack (Jack handles audio I/O between the interface and the audio apps on your system). 3. Your audio interface supported or known to work with all of the above.
Of course you need adequate hardware to back it up, but honestly, it's not hard, only takes a little research. All of this is running on a Dell Precision T3400 workstation with a Core 2 Duo E4600 (!) and 2 gigs of ECC RAM. It can easily handle 6 tracks simultaneously, which is all my current interface has and honestly it is not sweating. I bet this system will scale up to 12 tracks without issue, maybe even 16 as long as I'm not running a lot of host-based plugins. Any more than that and I'd probably need to look at a CPU upgrade and probably more RAM. Certainly the OS and software will handle it just fine.
Sorry, apples to oranges. You are printing to an ancient laserjet using one or other variant of the PCL or Postscript printer languages which have not changed much in the last decade or so. Not to mention that laserjet has it's own print processor inside. You don't even need a driver precisely written for that printer model, you only need a driver that can feed one of these languages to the printer over a supported interface (e.g. ethernet or parallel port). For example, you can install an older laserjet III driver and you will still get output from your laserjet 4. Of course, you will be missing hardware features not available in the III like higher resolution, more advanced dithering options, etc, but you will still get a usable printout.
The vast majority of consumer inkjets and even many cheap lasers use host-based print processing, e.g. the CPU in your desktop is processing the print job using the printer driver and then sending the ready-to-print page to the printer. The printer itself is not much more than a few stepper motors, a controller to drive them and the print head. That is why you need to have the correct driver, it has to "drive" the printer, literally.
Printer drivers for older host-based printers can be a real issue with the x64 Windows environment, and it's the manufacturer's who are not willing to write 64-bit drivers for older models they no longer make money on. Unfortunately, x64 Windows will not accept a 32-bit driver, only a 64-bit driver will work. Look at it this way, if you were in the hardware business (making your money off of actually selling hardware), would you go and write a 64-bit driver for 5-year old hardware you no longer support or make money from? Honestly I can't blame the printer manufacturers for this, but unfortunately that is the situation.
Unless you have documented evidence of the Obama administration sending a take-down order to Rackspace, you are full of shit. As many others have said and I will repeat, the church violated the Rackspace TOS. Period. End of story. They have every right to take it down. Just because it did not come down on day one of this controversy does not automatically mean the government is behind this.
As long as it's attached to GFWL, no thanks. GFWL is such a piece of shit I will not have anything to do with games that require it. If you want me to buy your game, do not tie it to GFWL. It is unstable and a huge pain in the ass to deal with. MS should fire the management that came up with it; it does not in any way help Windows as a game platform.
Not to mention that in Finland ISP's must provide an average of 80 or 85% (I don't recall which) of the stated speed during a 24 hour period or face fines. Contrast this to the overselling of bandwidth in the US where the ISP's are not able to deliver on promised speeds (or even come close) and the customer has little recourse.
As someone living in Finland... sorry, epic fail. Less than 2% of the landmass of Finland is developed and occupied by humans. We already have 100Mb connections widely available and broadband is a legal right for all citizens. Plus, we have mobile phone coverage of about 98% of the entire country.
You have a oligopoly problem in the telecom/boradband industry and corrupt politicians that are keeping you in the dark ages. Change the system.
I call BS. Proper recycling is not that expensive and doesn't add significantly to the price of goods. Here in Finland, electronics retailers are required to take back old appliances and electronics goods for recycling. Not only that, we have something called, wait for it... "recycling centers". It doesn't cost me anything to drop off stuff at the smaller centers. There are also large outdoor recycling centers that take larger amounts of waste, here you have to pay a small fee based on what you drop off. It's a very small and reasonable cost and I have no problem paying the fees. I use these centers several times a year. The centers accept any kind of waste. Waste is separated by type and then properly recycled.
If you are expecting recycling to to totally free of cost for the consumer, get a clue. It will never work. Someone has to pay and here the cost is divided between the manufacturer and the consumer. It's a fair system and it works well.
Now, cue someone to comment that the size of the USA means this will never work there. That's ok, just keep on polluting the environment as usual or shipping your waste off to developing nations where someone else has to deal with it. As an American living abroad for more than 10 years it sickens me to see the waste and lack of proper recycling in the USA. It's a very poor example for the rest of the world, you should really fix it. The so-called free market will not fix this problem.
... and don't forget that Monsanto will come out with an exclusive patented super-weed killer to handle those pesky super-weeds. And since they are the inventor of both the super-weed and the killer to keep it under control, they win. It's a vicious circle that feeds itself.
There is probably no more evil company on the planet. It's got nothing to do with so-called GM foods, but rather their business model based on blackmail and coercion. They are destroying what's left of America's agriculture industry and trying to spread their influence into other countries as well. If they are not stopped they will have a complete and utter monopoly over our food supply from the fields to the table.
I refuse to buy any product known to have come into contact with anything related to Monsanto.
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Seconded. Nokia's mapping software (Maps) is pretty good. Although I have a full-size TomTom GPS for my car, sometimes I leave it at home or just forget to take it. On a few occasions I have substituted my Nokia E75 smartphone as my GPS, and it works really well. Ok, you won't get the lane guidance like TomTom or a really large display, but it gets you from point A to point B efficiently, which is the whole point of a GPS in the first place.
If you have a Nokia with the Maps application, make sure you update it to the latest 3.0.x release, it's FAR superior to the older bundled 2.0 Maps app that is pre-loaded on many of their GPS-enabled phones. As parent mentioned, being able to download maps and save them to an SD card really saves data transfer costs. I just pre-load maps for the countries I plan to visit before leaving for the trip. My only complaints are that the map downloading and transfer to the phone using Ovi is a bit slow, even using the USB cable, and that you cannot easily delete individual maps from the SD after you no longer need them on the device.
Wrong. You are not buying the right kind of CFL's or they are simply not available where you live. Here in Finland, we have CFL's that easily fit within most spaces designed for incandescents. Instead of a few straight tubes in a parallel configuration as the early CFL's were, we have... well I would have to describe them as big corkscrews. The glass tube even has an outer dimension and shape very close to an old incandescent. They are also available with a solid glass envelope shaped like an incandescent, which covers the tubes and makes it look exactly like an incandescent. These are available in many wattages too. Obviously the highest wattages are fairly large and are unlikely to fit in a cramped fixture, but the typical 60-75w replacement corkscrew CFL's are very close to the equivalent size incandescent. These are sold under various brands which I believe are widely available in Europe. These "modern" CFL's are a bit more expensive than the early straight-tube designs but they work well and have lasted a long time for me.
I have only one incandescent left in my house because it's inside a transparent glass globe hanging in my downstairs bathroom. It's a decorative bulb with a clear envelope over the filament. It's on only when using the bathroom and it's only a 20w bulb so energy consumption is pretty low averaged over time. One day when it finally burns out I will have to replace it with a CFL.
Yet another way to really fuck up your photos. If you know anything about professional photography, you immediately know this is a failed "solution". In many cases when you light a scene for photography, it's the DIRECTION that the light comes from that is important together with the amount of light. That's why you rarely see camera-mounted flash used in the studio, strobes (flashes) are positioned away from the camera so as to light the scene in a certain way from one or more directions. With the proposed "invention", the direction light comes from will always be the same, close to the lens. It doesn't matter that it's only lighting a part of the scene.
Now, if Jobs has found out how to use the reality distortion field to his advantage and actually BEND light passing through the air... that would be impressive.
One has to wonder... exactly what problem does this solve? In order for this to be successful commercially, it will have to cost less than the equivalent of paying someone to do the washing by hand. If you look at automatic hair driers which are fairly common in hair salons, it makes sense, because the cost of the machine is low compared to paying someone to do the job. This on the other hand I can't see ever being cost effective; the cost of the robotics, software and safety considerations are too high to make it commercially viable. Neat idea but hardly a successful, sellable product.
Not completely true, it depends on the application. In highly threaded tasks, AMD's 6-core will handily beat that i7 running at 2.4GHz (and even the higher clocked models without HT). Just check the latest benchmarks at Anandtech or Tom's hardware. In apps that are not heavily threaded, yes, Intel may win. But more and more apps are becoming multi-threaded and this will only increase in the future. AMD's current 6-cores are more future-proof than Intel's current platform. Not to mention that Intel loves to switch sockets every fucking generation, while AMD is able to keep sockets the same across many generations while staying competitive.
I use both AMD and Intel, so I am not terribly biased one way or the other, but AMD deserves a lot of credit for keeping the processor market competitive. Without AMD or another strong competitor, we would all be paying $1000 for our CPU's form Intel and we would still be stuck with Netburst.
Actually, no. ACTA was effectively rejected by the European Parliament, whose *elected* members represent the people of the EU. However, it has not so far been dropped by the European Commission, whose *un-elected* (appointed) officials generally do whatever they want regardless of what Parliament says.
There is still hope that the EU will finally reject ACTA, but the fight is not over yet.
How important is price in your choice of airline?
For the vast majority of airline passengers, this is THE major factor in determining with whom and when they fly. And increasingly due to the budget airlines, this also determines from where and to where, they fly.
Luxury air travel is fine for the (likely) less than 1% that can afford it, but the reality is most of us will never get to enjoy it.
Exactly how are teens *without_cell_phones* sending and receiving texts? Maybe I should go and read TFA... because I'm having a difficult time understanding that without picturing cyborgs or something.
CDMA is still alive?
Isn't it about time to move on from the semi-proprietary CDMA networks in the US? I mean come on, the rest of the world is standardized on GSM and 3G... why do the US operators cling to obsolete non-standard technologies?
I have a small home recording studio. I don't have a 16-channel mixer, but what I do have works fine in Linux. I run Ubuntu Studio 10.04 with a real-time kernel that is designed for serious audio work. The audio interface is connected over firewire and I run everything into Ardour, together with a full suite of audio plugins, effects, drum machines, midi sequencers, etc. And guess what, all of the software is free as in beer. I can't imagine how much I would have to spend on licenses if I was working in Windows... it would end up costing many times the hardware that is for sure.
When using Linux for professional-level audio recording, you only need to really consider 3 things:
1. Your firewire interface/chip is supported under Linux.
2. Your firewire interface/chip is supported under Jack (Jack handles audio I/O between the interface and the audio apps on your system).
3. Your audio interface supported or known to work with all of the above.
Of course you need adequate hardware to back it up, but honestly, it's not hard, only takes a little research. All of this is running on a Dell Precision T3400 workstation with a Core 2 Duo E4600 (!) and 2 gigs of ECC RAM. It can easily handle 6 tracks simultaneously, which is all my current interface has and honestly it is not sweating. I bet this system will scale up to 12 tracks without issue, maybe even 16 as long as I'm not running a lot of host-based plugins. Any more than that and I'd probably need to look at a CPU upgrade and probably more RAM. Certainly the OS and software will handle it just fine.
Sorry, apples to oranges. You are printing to an ancient laserjet using one or other variant of the PCL or Postscript printer languages which have not changed much in the last decade or so. Not to mention that laserjet has it's own print processor inside. You don't even need a driver precisely written for that printer model, you only need a driver that can feed one of these languages to the printer over a supported interface (e.g. ethernet or parallel port). For example, you can install an older laserjet III driver and you will still get output from your laserjet 4. Of course, you will be missing hardware features not available in the III like higher resolution, more advanced dithering options, etc, but you will still get a usable printout.
The vast majority of consumer inkjets and even many cheap lasers use host-based print processing, e.g. the CPU in your desktop is processing the print job using the printer driver and then sending the ready-to-print page to the printer. The printer itself is not much more than a few stepper motors, a controller to drive them and the print head. That is why you need to have the correct driver, it has to "drive" the printer, literally.
Printer drivers for older host-based printers can be a real issue with the x64 Windows environment, and it's the manufacturer's who are not willing to write 64-bit drivers for older models they no longer make money on. Unfortunately, x64 Windows will not accept a 32-bit driver, only a 64-bit driver will work. Look at it this way, if you were in the hardware business (making your money off of actually selling hardware), would you go and write a 64-bit driver for 5-year old hardware you no longer support or make money from? Honestly I can't blame the printer manufacturers for this, but unfortunately that is the situation.
Unless you have documented evidence of the Obama administration sending a take-down order to Rackspace, you are full of shit. As many others have said and I will repeat, the church violated the Rackspace TOS. Period. End of story. They have every right to take it down. Just because it did not come down on day one of this controversy does not automatically mean the government is behind this.
A big THANK YOU to all the MEP's who signed this. Way to grow a spine. Let's all hope ACTA dies the brutal death it was always destined for.
It can do 1080p, but only if you don't hold it "the wrong way"...
It's not news until it's got frickin' lasers.
As long as it's attached to GFWL, no thanks. GFWL is such a piece of shit I will not have anything to do with games that require it. If you want me to buy your game, do not tie it to GFWL. It is unstable and a huge pain in the ass to deal with. MS should fire the management that came up with it; it does not in any way help Windows as a game platform.
Please, someone tell me this is a sick ill-timed April Fool's joke. You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me.
... and let's hope the producers come back to check on them in about 30 years or so. Greedy fucking bastards.
The need for some company to file another stupid patent?
Can't see the benefit either. Maybe they will apply some marketing spin to it and it will sound all cool to the kids...
Not to mention that in Finland ISP's must provide an average of 80 or 85% (I don't recall which) of the stated speed during a 24 hour period or face fines. Contrast this to the overselling of bandwidth in the US where the ISP's are not able to deliver on promised speeds (or even come close) and the customer has little recourse.
As someone living in Finland... sorry, epic fail. Less than 2% of the landmass of Finland is developed and occupied by humans. We already have 100Mb connections widely available and broadband is a legal right for all citizens. Plus, we have mobile phone coverage of about 98% of the entire country.
You have a oligopoly problem in the telecom/boradband industry and corrupt politicians that are keeping you in the dark ages. Change the system.
I call BS. Proper recycling is not that expensive and doesn't add significantly to the price of goods. Here in Finland, electronics retailers are required to take back old appliances and electronics goods for recycling. Not only that, we have something called, wait for it... "recycling centers". It doesn't cost me anything to drop off stuff at the smaller centers. There are also large outdoor recycling centers that take larger amounts of waste, here you have to pay a small fee based on what you drop off. It's a very small and reasonable cost and I have no problem paying the fees. I use these centers several times a year. The centers accept any kind of waste. Waste is separated by type and then properly recycled.
If you are expecting recycling to to totally free of cost for the consumer, get a clue. It will never work. Someone has to pay and here the cost is divided between the manufacturer and the consumer. It's a fair system and it works well.
Now, cue someone to comment that the size of the USA means this will never work there. That's ok, just keep on polluting the environment as usual or shipping your waste off to developing nations where someone else has to deal with it. As an American living abroad for more than 10 years it sickens me to see the waste and lack of proper recycling in the USA. It's a very poor example for the rest of the world, you should really fix it. The so-called free market will not fix this problem.
Please get a clue, genetically modified crops are NOT the same as selectively bred crops.
... and don't forget that Monsanto will come out with an exclusive patented super-weed killer to handle those pesky super-weeds. And since they are the inventor of both the super-weed and the killer to keep it under control, they win. It's a vicious circle that feeds itself.
Fuck. You.
There is probably no more evil company on the planet. It's got nothing to do with so-called GM foods, but rather their business model based on blackmail and coercion. They are destroying what's left of America's agriculture industry and trying to spread their influence into other countries as well. If they are not stopped they will have a complete and utter monopoly over our food supply from the fields to the table.
I refuse to buy any product known to have come into contact with anything related to Monsanto.