Really, this is the kind of remark best ignored rather than obsessing or getting upset over. Company execs talk nonsense all the time. I mean what do you expect him to day "Oh dear, this new OS will cut into our sales, as Linux has been doing and will continue doing for the foreseeable future"? Didn't think so.
Let him talk, just nod politely and continue compiling your kernel.
I agree with you about most of that, except I really have no problem using my N1 for input, even when it's cold.
Here's the thing though. I didn't get the N1 because it's a good phone. I got it because it's a cool little mobile computer. Honestly I don't really need to be able to use a web browser or email client without looking at the screen (:
One of the nice things about an N1 (as opposed to, say, an iPhone) is that I can go to the developers forum(s) and put in a feature request to, say, have the phone answer by holding the trackball. There's pretty good odds that someone will do that.
When I use my thin (i.e., down to 40 degrees) gloves, my Nexus One works just fine. I can also use it through plastic bags and clothing, which is a bit weird when you're trying to clean some smudges off the screen with your shirt (and yes, I have a screen protector).
However, it does get down to -40 around here and nobody makes gloves that'll work on a screen when it's THAT cold. That's more about the gloves being crazy thick/insulating, though. I suppose I could sew some conductive thread through my gloves on my own, but then that'll conduct the cold right into my gloves, too.
Which is why I wish my phone had SOME physical buttons, say, for ANSWERING and HANGING UP. It's a bit ridiculous to have to take my gloves off to answer a call by swiping across the screen.
I use, and like Ubuntu. But I've never used Gnome.
I might use a few Gnome applications, but I can't think of any off the top of my head. I use Window Maker as my window manager, I use aterm for terminals, I use alpine for email, I use emacs/xemacs for editing.
Due to a bug in xorg in Ubuntu 10.10 which caused many applications to crash when using xinerama, including Window Maker, I was forced to use Gnome for a few days. It was pretty horrible.
I don't really care what Ubuntu's standard desktop is, I can still use whichever one I want.
Yeah, but the article presented this as the end of traditional HDDs. In my opinion this is nothing of the sort.
As I mentioned, yes, it makes sense for laptops/portables if you want the extra speed, but for desktops/home/home-office servers where you need the space and do a LOT more reads/writes? Not so much.
I'm no math genius, but wouldn't that make 1TB be about $500? The absolute hugest spinning-platter harddrive, the just-announced Western Digital Green 3TB drive costs less than HALF that ($239 at newegg) for three times the storage, and a 1tb can be had for $60.
Until SSD prices get much, MUCH closer to that range, and until someone can reassure me that they'll last for several years of heavy use, the only way I'll use one in my desktop is an OS-only-quick-boot drive.
Yeah, it might be worth the extra money on laptops, but some of us still have desktops, and RAID arrays, and we'd rather not spend $10K on something we can get for $1K and might not even give us a performance boost or last.
Actually I did do a clean OS install, and it helped a bit, but like I keep pointing out in this thread, it's actually a fairly old machine, I don't really use it the same way I did 4 years ago (didn't have HD video back then, didn't have to edit 15P RAW files, etc). It's time to upgrade!
Well, I'll be going from a macbook to a MBP, that alone would add some power. Honestly this thing is well due for an upgrade. Takes it about four hours to export a five minute 720p fairly low quality video. which is a bit much for me.
The thing is, we need the diskspace and I am not willing to spend however much a 250GB SDD is on this machine. Maybe in the future. This is a 2006 Macbook (not even a Pro) so I reaaalllyy don't think that'd help it a whole lot.
"Faster HDD" has always been part of my upgrade path, though, so when I get a new 2011 MBP and THAT starts getting slow (around 2013) I'll probably get an SDD for it.
I've been upgrading the harddrive in my MB over the years - there's a 250GB drive in it now. I'm just going to move that over to the new laptop whenever that happens. SDDs seem cool but they push the price up an insane amount.
I hope they upgrade the MBP line (which they should, it's within their usual release cycle). My current Macbook (from before they had small MBPs) is getting old and slow and can't really handle having two people logged in and running Firefox at the same time anymore, and I didn't want to get a new one when they were this close to releasing new ones!
Eeexcept that about:config brings up a blank page ): Looks like that bug report is for a previous version. Might be something for the current one, though. I'll look around.
I installed it on my Nexus One and tried posting this from there, but it's still way too unstable to do that (it didn't crash, but it kept scrolling/resizing in weird ways).
It's much improved over the Alpha, but one thing still bugs me.
Sync won't let you use your own server.
Firefox Sync is/the/ killer-app for me. It's really the only reason I'd want to use a different browser (barring EXTREME speed improvements), and they've neutered it to the point where it's, well, pointless. I've seen people request this feature ever since the pre-alpha days, to no avail.
Michelle Bachmann is the representative for a very specific part of Minnesota. This part does not include the Twin Cities metro area. The VAST majority of us Minnesotans are routinely horrified by her words and actions.
I'd love to vote against her, but it's just not worth moving to St. Cloud.
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Really, this is the kind of remark best ignored rather than obsessing or getting upset over. Company execs talk nonsense all the time. I mean what do you expect him to day "Oh dear, this new OS will cut into our sales, as Linux has been doing and will continue doing for the foreseeable future"? Didn't think so.
Let him talk, just nod politely and continue compiling your kernel.
I'm surprised took so long, given the immense popularity of that car.
Dude, he's a WIZARD. If he wants to give a possum rabies I don't think YOU can stop him.
I agree with you about most of that, except I really have no problem using my N1 for input, even when it's cold.
Here's the thing though. I didn't get the N1 because it's a good phone. I got it because it's a cool little mobile computer. Honestly I don't really need to be able to use a web browser or email client without looking at the screen (:
One of the nice things about an N1 (as opposed to, say, an iPhone) is that I can go to the developers forum(s) and put in a feature request to, say, have the phone answer by holding the trackball. There's pretty good odds that someone will do that.
Like I mentioned above, at -40 you really, REALLY need to cover your nose, too.
At -40 degrees, you better believe my nose is covered, too.
When I use my thin (i.e., down to 40 degrees) gloves, my Nexus One works just fine. I can also use it through plastic bags and clothing, which is a bit weird when you're trying to clean some smudges off the screen with your shirt (and yes, I have a screen protector).
However, it does get down to -40 around here and nobody makes gloves that'll work on a screen when it's THAT cold. That's more about the gloves being crazy thick/insulating, though. I suppose I could sew some conductive thread through my gloves on my own, but then that'll conduct the cold right into my gloves, too.
Which is why I wish my phone had SOME physical buttons, say, for ANSWERING and HANGING UP. It's a bit ridiculous to have to take my gloves off to answer a call by swiping across the screen.
I use, and like Ubuntu. But I've never used Gnome.
I might use a few Gnome applications, but I can't think of any off the top of my head. I use Window Maker as my window manager, I use aterm for terminals, I use alpine for email, I use emacs/xemacs for editing.
Due to a bug in xorg in Ubuntu 10.10 which caused many applications to crash when using xinerama, including Window Maker, I was forced to use Gnome for a few days. It was pretty horrible.
I don't really care what Ubuntu's standard desktop is, I can still use whichever one I want.
Yeah, but the article presented this as the end of traditional HDDs. In my opinion this is nothing of the sort.
As I mentioned, yes, it makes sense for laptops/portables if you want the extra speed, but for desktops/home/home-office servers where you need the space and do a LOT more reads/writes? Not so much.
50 cents per gb is cheap?
I'm no math genius, but wouldn't that make 1TB be about $500? The absolute hugest spinning-platter harddrive, the just-announced Western Digital Green 3TB drive costs less than HALF that ($239 at newegg) for three times the storage, and a 1tb can be had for $60.
Until SSD prices get much, MUCH closer to that range, and until someone can reassure me that they'll last for several years of heavy use, the only way I'll use one in my desktop is an OS-only-quick-boot drive.
Yeah, it might be worth the extra money on laptops, but some of us still have desktops, and RAID arrays, and we'd rather not spend $10K on something we can get for $1K and might not even give us a performance boost or last.
Actually I did do a clean OS install, and it helped a bit, but like I keep pointing out in this thread, it's actually a fairly old machine, I don't really use it the same way I did 4 years ago (didn't have HD video back then, didn't have to edit 15P RAW files, etc). It's time to upgrade!
Well, I'll be going from a macbook to a MBP, that alone would add some power. Honestly this thing is well due for an upgrade. Takes it about four hours to export a five minute 720p fairly low quality video. which is a bit much for me.
Um.
Yes.
1. When I originally got this computer it was only being used by one person. Now it's being used by two people.
2. Newer software (especially Firefox) need more resources.
3. My camera now takes much larger photos, and it takes more power to process them.
4. My video camera now shoots hidef video, which, again, requires a lot more power to process.
5. Heck, a lot of video content online is HD. Takes a lot more power to VIEW that without skipping.
Basically if I was still using this computer in 2006, it'd still be fine.
The thing is, we need the diskspace and I am not willing to spend however much a 250GB SDD is on this machine. Maybe in the future. This is a 2006 Macbook (not even a Pro) so I reaaalllyy don't think that'd help it a whole lot.
"Faster HDD" has always been part of my upgrade path, though, so when I get a new 2011 MBP and THAT starts getting slow (around 2013) I'll probably get an SDD for it.
Eh. I don't think that will make Firefox any faster on this machine (; and on a new one the 7200RPM drive will be fine.
I've been upgrading the harddrive in my MB over the years - there's a 250GB drive in it now. I'm just going to move that over to the new laptop whenever that happens. SDDs seem cool but they push the price up an insane amount.
Not the 13.3" version.
I hope they upgrade the MBP line (which they should, it's within their usual release cycle). My current Macbook (from before they had small MBPs) is getting old and slow and can't really handle having two people logged in and running Firefox at the same time anymore, and I didn't want to get a new one when they were this close to releasing new ones!
Is there someone I get to punch when this ends up not happening for the 5th year in a row?
Cool. I've had weird problems with Fennec on my N1 with cyanogen for a while. Maybe rebooting a bunch of times will help!
Eeexcept that about:config brings up a blank page ): Looks like that bug report is for a previous version. Might be something for the current one, though. I'll look around.
Heh, that is a bit overcomplicated, but I'll give it a shot later.
I installed it on my Nexus One and tried posting this from there, but it's still way too unstable to do that (it didn't crash, but it kept scrolling/resizing in weird ways).
It's much improved over the Alpha, but one thing still bugs me.
Sync won't let you use your own server.
Firefox Sync is /the/ killer-app for me. It's really the only reason I'd want to use a different browser (barring EXTREME speed improvements), and they've neutered it to the point where it's, well, pointless. I've seen people request this feature ever since the pre-alpha days, to no avail.
Michelle Bachmann is the representative for a very specific part of Minnesota. This part does not include the Twin Cities metro area. The VAST majority of us Minnesotans are routinely horrified by her words and actions.
I'd love to vote against her, but it's just not worth moving to St. Cloud.
I mean it was still called Weave not very long ago.