i think nasa's radio stuff still leaves any other space agency's shit far behind. china and esa simply don't have the tech to send signals that far away.
i never said i wanted an ir port. the 'lol!' was there becuase i thought having an ir port in this day and age is lol-worthy. also, i forgot about nfc, did not deliberately leave it out. nfc, btw is the result of nokia research. nokia initiated development of nfc, later joined by samsung. almost all new nokia phones have nfc, even the mid-level ones. you're right about the screen, resistivecapacitive. the point i was trying to make is that newer phones are better, but not 'OMG-that's AMAZING' sort of better. they're all clones now, with only minor differences in capability/features across manufacturers and price ranges.
my mistake that i forgot about nfc, but keep in mind that nfc is primarily the result of nokia's and samsung's research, apple will just steal the tech one day. nexus is thin and slim only because it doesn't have a keyboard. remove the keyboard from n900 and you'd have something very thin indeed. my point is that cellphones today are competing on 'shiny', not features. and that is the result of apple's shit, and it is harming actual tech research (because nokia and samsung can either pump up the shiny or build new tech, and apple doesn't have to).
But they managed to ruin the phone industry for all of us.
this. there was healthy competition an actual product differentiation before apple's ishit. nokia, sony ericsson, samsung made stellar hardware, competed on the basis of features and had strong software and hardware research divisions. now google designs a reference phone, and everyone else just removes features from it and sells it at appropriate prices. nokia is going down, had to go from a strong hardware innovator to microsoft's bitch. and apple continues to add random insignificant features to newer iterations and makes all the money. while doing no research whatsoever. the end result? stagnation of actual features (which samsung is trying hard to avoid, and succeeding at least in display tech). have a look: n900 vs galaxy nexus 3g vs 4g 267ppi vs 316ppi querty keyboard vs fuckall 32gb+16gb microsd vs 32gb 10mbps vs 21mbps max dl rate bt 2.1 vs bt3.0 ir port vs lol! 5mp carl zeiss optics vs shitty 5mp 480p video vs 1080p 600mhz cortex a8 vs 1.2ghz cortex a9 fm receiver+transmitter vs no radio both have all sorts of sensors that few people actually use. so, most features have undergone slow evolution, and many have actually regressed.
also, it moves diagonally thru a significant part of the maze, and it moves really fast. also, while solving the maze, it goes real fast once it thinks that its in a familiar part of the maze. very clever programming!
get this:http://www.amazon.com/Nokia-Bluetooth-Headset-Detachable-Headphones/dp/B002NEMH6G/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1322137747&sr=8-1 connect it to any pair of speakers you want. get audio from any bluetooth device. and the sound quality is almost indistinguishable from direct connection. also, similar stuff from jabra, etc sounds tinny.
isn't it weird that there's such a huge difference between #1 and #2? #1 K computer --> 705k cores, 1,410,048 Gb memory, 11,280,384 Rpeak(GFs) #2 Tianhe-1A --> 186k cores, 229,376 Gb memory, 4,701,000 Rpeak(GFs)
K has ~6x the memory, ~6x the cores, and ~3x the Rpeak of Tianhe!
cs in indian universities is a huge joke. hell, even other engineering degrees are usually shit. they don't tell you anything about the person than the fact that this guy can work real hard and follow orders. that's the way it is here, i'm afraid. for eg, i'm studying electronics in an indian university (its one of the better ones), and i know more and have more experience in programming than most of the cs faculty here. i dunno what kind of an issue this is. people here (in my uni) are very smart, they do exceedingly well when they do something on their own (for eg, our uni was in teh top 13 list of colleges in the world that added most number of students to gsoc 2011), but anything course related is just neglected until the last moment. also, there is a severe lack of good teachers. anybody who is any good is out there actually doing stuff.
i didn't know about the 'show time in menu' thing, so i removed the notification applet (removing the bluetooth and volume icons as well), and added another applet for power, one which does show tooltips.
the titlebar buttons were very annoying. i got more and more annoyed as i thought how unnecessary it was to make the change, and how blatantly canonical had begun copying apple's os. but yes i just changed the theme and it went away. other problems like no tooltip on the battery icon were more trouble to fix and i had to give up the bluetooth icon:(
this is another problem. they made sweeping unnecessary changes in lts releases (for eg, titlebar buttons on the left). and it doesn't even work properly for all programs. and they changed it for the first time in an lts.
fedora sucks. simple as that. basic things like audio, proper screen resolution, compositing, etc are broken. they do not work ootb, you have to fuck around a bit. ubuntu and mint get this stuff right. i can give an ubuntu installation iso to a complete newb and not worry him about any damn config changes to make sure his pc works properly. unlike fedora. also, wubi.
I used to know all the trig relations by heart (sin(A+B) = sinAcosB + cosAsinB? or was it a minus?) but know I rely on having it to hand. This is barely defensible, because the next step is to not understand things and have critical thinking done in the same way as looking up a constant in a book.
its correct, i know it by heart because i have to use it on a near-daily basis (in college). but you don't remember it not because the trig part of your brain has become retarded or anything, but just because that info is not frequently needed, so it has been swapped-out to long term memory. in the case you need that info, you'll think for a few minutes (or seconds) or look up on the web (or in a book) and voila! this does not indicate any problem, this is your brain making space for other more relevant stuff. in a world without the web, you would have to waste a lot of time when you want to recall a specific piece of information out of the domain of your current work. and that would be bad.
because win7>ubuntu/mint/fedora/any other popular distro and because win7 laptops are much, much cheaper than macbooks. i got mine last year for $500 (25k INR). its an acer core i3, 4gb DDR3 ram, intel graphics (crysis low settings @ 35fps @ 1366x768). its enough for my (very modest and occasional) gaming needs, runs visual studio 2010, runs office 2010 pro plus, etc. also, i got it thru my uni so the office license was free! the h/w is also fine. i had a fan problem last month but they fixed it under the 3yr warranty. battery life is ok (2hrs), down from the original 5hrs. doesn't matter because it is almost always plugged in. in comparison, the cheapest macbook pro is available at 65k INR. i'm just not ready to pay that much for a laptop, since i'll buy a new one after 4-5 years anyway. also, i've heard that the os is shit compared to win7:P
I understand that this annoys some people. But both Chrome and Firefox do it now, and benefits and detriments are well known. It's not a perfect approach, but it does have its advantages. I don't think both Google and Mozilla are 'insane';)
lol! person accused of being insane says he's not!
Mozilla also has the reason that it is following Google's lead. Google started with this version numbering scheme, and not inventing a new one is better for everyone - less confusion.
you know what would have been less confusing?? yeah, not changing the versioning scheme in the first place. but who'd think of that, right?
That is a long discussion, for sure! But this is nothing to do with Firefox. All browsers are including 3D acceleration (well, except for IE) and other OS-like features. Google is even pushing native code in the browser (which I think is taking things too far).
you are a fucking DEVELOPER at mozilla???! ie was the first browser to have fully accelerated browsing. no surprise that you guys ruined a great browser. i guess there's no hope left now, with people like you working their asses off.
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i think nasa's radio stuff still leaves any other space agency's shit far behind. china and esa simply don't have the tech to send signals that far away.
i never said i wanted an ir port. the 'lol!' was there becuase i thought having an ir port in this day and age is lol-worthy. also, i forgot about nfc, did not deliberately leave it out.
nfc, btw is the result of nokia research. nokia initiated development of nfc, later joined by samsung. almost all new nokia phones have nfc, even the mid-level ones.
you're right about the screen, resistivecapacitive.
the point i was trying to make is that newer phones are better, but not 'OMG-that's AMAZING' sort of better. they're all clones now, with only minor differences in capability/features across manufacturers and price ranges.
my mistake that i forgot about nfc, but keep in mind that nfc is primarily the result of nokia's and samsung's research, apple will just steal the tech one day. nexus is thin and slim only because it doesn't have a keyboard. remove the keyboard from n900 and you'd have something very thin indeed. my point is that cellphones today are competing on 'shiny', not features. and that is the result of apple's shit, and it is harming actual tech research (because nokia and samsung can either pump up the shiny or build new tech, and apple doesn't have to).
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what would htc do with your information?
ftfy
naah, that's just java.
where does blackberry come in?
But they managed to ruin the phone industry for all of us.
this. there was healthy competition an actual product differentiation before apple's ishit. nokia, sony ericsson, samsung made stellar hardware, competed on the basis of features and had strong software and hardware research divisions. now google designs a reference phone, and everyone else just removes features from it and sells it at appropriate prices. nokia is going down, had to go from a strong hardware innovator to microsoft's bitch. and apple continues to add random insignificant features to newer iterations and makes all the money. while doing no research whatsoever. the end result? stagnation of actual features (which samsung is trying hard to avoid, and succeeding at least in display tech).
have a look:
n900 vs galaxy nexus
3g vs 4g
267ppi vs 316ppi
querty keyboard vs fuckall
32gb+16gb microsd vs 32gb
10mbps vs 21mbps max dl rate
bt 2.1 vs bt3.0
ir port vs lol!
5mp carl zeiss optics vs shitty 5mp
480p video vs 1080p
600mhz cortex a8 vs 1.2ghz cortex a9
fm receiver+transmitter vs no radio
both have all sorts of sensors that few people actually use.
so, most features have undergone slow evolution, and many have actually regressed.
also, it moves diagonally thru a significant part of the maze, and it moves really fast. also, while solving the maze, it goes real fast once it thinks that its in a familiar part of the maze. very clever programming!
how does old wiring hamper the ability of the meter to measure power usage? seems like something else is going on.
get this:http://www.amazon.com/Nokia-Bluetooth-Headset-Detachable-Headphones/dp/B002NEMH6G/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1322137747&sr=8-1
connect it to any pair of speakers you want. get audio from any bluetooth device. and the sound quality is almost indistinguishable from direct connection. also, similar stuff from jabra, etc sounds tinny.
what is 'texa-pan'?
yeah, i too expected graphs and graphics comparing performance, memory, etc. not small un-zoomable pictures.
isn't it weird that there's such a huge difference between #1 and #2?
#1 K computer --> 705k cores, 1,410,048 Gb memory, 11,280,384 Rpeak(GFs)
#2 Tianhe-1A --> 186k cores, 229,376 Gb memory, 4,701,000 Rpeak(GFs)
K has ~6x the memory, ~6x the cores, and ~3x the Rpeak of Tianhe!
cs in indian universities is a huge joke. hell, even other engineering degrees are usually shit. they don't tell you anything about the person than the fact that this guy can work real hard and follow orders. that's the way it is here, i'm afraid. for eg, i'm studying electronics in an indian university (its one of the better ones), and i know more and have more experience in programming than most of the cs faculty here.
i dunno what kind of an issue this is. people here (in my uni) are very smart, they do exceedingly well when they do something on their own (for eg, our uni was in teh top 13 list of colleges in the world that added most number of students to gsoc 2011), but anything course related is just neglected until the last moment. also, there is a severe lack of good teachers. anybody who is any good is out there actually doing stuff.
i didn't know about the 'show time in menu' thing, so i removed the notification applet (removing the bluetooth and volume icons as well), and added another applet for power, one which does show tooltips.
the titlebar buttons were very annoying. i got more and more annoyed as i thought how unnecessary it was to make the change, and how blatantly canonical had begun copying apple's os. but yes i just changed the theme and it went away. other problems like no tooltip on the battery icon were more trouble to fix and i had to give up the bluetooth icon :(
this is another problem. they made sweeping unnecessary changes in lts releases (for eg, titlebar buttons on the left). and it doesn't even work properly for all programs. and they changed it for the first time in an lts.
fedora sucks. simple as that. basic things like audio, proper screen resolution, compositing, etc are broken. they do not work ootb, you have to fuck around a bit. ubuntu and mint get this stuff right. i can give an ubuntu installation iso to a complete newb and not worry him about any damn config changes to make sure his pc works properly. unlike fedora. also, wubi.
yeah, battery life goes from 8hrs to 5hrs on the same system and "Linux is simply playing it safe".
I used to know all the trig relations by heart (sin(A+B) = sinAcosB + cosAsinB? or was it a minus?) but know I rely on having it to hand. This is barely defensible, because the next step is to not understand things and have critical thinking done in the same way as looking up a constant in a book.
its correct, i know it by heart because i have to use it on a near-daily basis (in college). but you don't remember it not because the trig part of your brain has become retarded or anything, but just because that info is not frequently needed, so it has been swapped-out to long term memory. in the case you need that info, you'll think for a few minutes (or seconds) or look up on the web (or in a book) and voila! this does not indicate any problem, this is your brain making space for other more relevant stuff. in a world without the web, you would have to waste a lot of time when you want to recall a specific piece of information out of the domain of your current work. and that would be bad.
because win7>ubuntu/mint/fedora/any other popular distro :P
and because win7 laptops are much, much cheaper than macbooks. i got mine last year for $500 (25k INR). its an acer core i3, 4gb DDR3 ram, intel graphics (crysis low settings @ 35fps @ 1366x768). its enough for my (very modest and occasional) gaming needs, runs visual studio 2010, runs office 2010 pro plus, etc. also, i got it thru my uni so the office license was free! the h/w is also fine. i had a fan problem last month but they fixed it under the 3yr warranty. battery life is ok (2hrs), down from the original 5hrs. doesn't matter because it is almost always plugged in.
in comparison, the cheapest macbook pro is available at 65k INR. i'm just not ready to pay that much for a laptop, since i'll buy a new one after 4-5 years anyway. also, i've heard that the os is shit compared to win7
ie9 is actually compatible with more or less the same amount of html5 standards as ff.
what is a simultaneous translation? do these guys have realtime voice to voice translation software?? that really works?
I understand that this annoys some people. But both Chrome and Firefox do it now, and benefits and detriments are well known. It's not a perfect approach, but it does have its advantages. I don't think both Google and Mozilla are 'insane' ;)
lol! person accused of being insane says he's not!
Mozilla also has the reason that it is following Google's lead. Google started with this version numbering scheme, and not inventing a new one is better for everyone - less confusion.
you know what would have been less confusing?? yeah, not changing the versioning scheme in the first place. but who'd think of that, right?
That is a long discussion, for sure! But this is nothing to do with Firefox. All browsers are including 3D acceleration (well, except for IE) and other OS-like features. Google is even pushing native code in the browser (which I think is taking things too far).
you are a fucking DEVELOPER at mozilla???! ie was the first browser to have fully accelerated browsing. no surprise that you guys ruined a great browser. i guess there's no hope left now, with people like you working their asses off.
is there actually any difference in cpu usage?? no?? then its the whole project that is bogus, not the gp's last point.