I like this trend. Ok, it's not a trend yet but I hope it will be. Yeah, I'll probably never make it into space and even if I do it'll probably only be "technically" space, rather than OH MY GOD I'M IN SPACE. But this is something I've always wanted to do, but I'd rather not spend $5K on it.
So come on, more competition, preferably while I'm still young!
Works perfectly for me... granted, I tend to only use it for one Simpsons episode at a time, but I have streamed full 2+ hour 1080p movies with DTS sound on the thing, and have used it for a few days when my regular media center was down. It's never been more sluggish than any other XBMC implementation I've tried...
Or a Raspberry PI with one of the XBMC distros for well under $50 including all the accessories you'll need. I have one of those set up as an entertainment center for my treadmill.
The living room has a mini PC with Ubuntu and an old version of MythTV. I'd love to switch to XBMC (or a current version of Myth) but customising the remote buttons with XBMC is an insane pain, and the music player in the new MythTV (and XBMC) are horrific.
Tesla sell real cars that happen to be all-electric. And by "real" I mean "practical". The leaf has a range of maybe 80 miles. And (according to a NIssan dealer) that drops to "maybe 40" in the Minnesota winter. Even if Tesla cars lose half their advertised range here, it's still more than the Leaf's optimal conditions range.
I looked into the Leaf last time I was car shopping. I went to a Nissan dealer. They told me they don't actually HAVE a Leaf, but they'd be happy to show me a picture of one. They said they'd have three of them in stock in three months, because people had pre-ordered them, and maybe I could look at one then. Not test-drive one though. Just look.
But it's really the range that's the problem. There's no competition for Tesla on practicality. There's definitely competition on affordability.
Leaf is definitely a niche vehicle for people who never commute very far. Ever. I'd love to have an all-electric car, but a Leaf doesn't have the range, and a Tesla is way the hell too expensive. I kinda liked the Volt (over-engineered UI notwithstanding) but I just couldn't bring myself to pay that much for a car. Plus that guy's half-gas so it's a totally different ballpark than a Leaf is anyway.
> I suppose you could play this, but you couldn't exactly play like Mark Knopfler.
Of that there is no doubt.
I don't think Mark Knopfler was selling the thing. It might've just been a "Hey look at this interesting new invention, and here's Mark Knopfler" kinda thing.
I remember seeing ads in Guitar Magazine and the like decades ago for guitars with LEDs in the fretboard that teach you how to play. I remember seeing an infomercial-type thing where they had Mark Knopfler play with one.
I find it fairly interesting how a lot of things labelled as the "first" to do something are really not.
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I give them the tools. I will even give them notes. But I won't treat them like idiots without good cause!
It's a heck of a lot clunkier, so yeah, I'd prefer to be prompted every time. Especially since that's how I set it up for less technologically inclined people, and I can't really put them in charge of whitelisting stuff...
PLEASE let me have the options of deciding how long I want cookies saved for. Firefox has an "Ask me everytime" options for cookies - I want and need it. Chrome for some reason still doesn't have that (to the best of my knowledge - I check from time to time after updates).
Haven't been able to find any plugins that add that functionality, either.
I really want to switch to Chrome. It's so much zippier that Firefox. But not without my per-session cookie settings...
Heh. Well, I got my MBP in 2011 and did more or less the same upgrade you did. Actually Think I did a 500GB spinny disk first, then went to an SSD later. I expect a few more years out of this guy...
I don't really like VMs. I actually tried setting up a VM on my Linux desktop to do video editing and photoshop. This is when my desktop was new, and I like to future-proof my desktops by building them to be fairly overpowered so that they'll still work well 3-4 years down the road. VMs were still really, really horrible for all that. And we're talking a VM with two dedicated CPU cores and 8 gigs of RAM. It was still not a pretty sight. I don't even think I could call it functional.
VMs are great for testing or running servers, but any intense hardware stuff, especially GPU-related hardware, I've just not ever got it to work really well.
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I like this trend. Ok, it's not a trend yet but I hope it will be. Yeah, I'll probably never make it into space and even if I do it'll probably only be "technically" space, rather than OH MY GOD I'M IN SPACE. But this is something I've always wanted to do, but I'd rather not spend $5K on it.
So come on, more competition, preferably while I'm still young!
Works perfectly for me... granted, I tend to only use it for one Simpsons episode at a time, but I have streamed full 2+ hour 1080p movies with DTS sound on the thing, and have used it for a few days when my regular media center was down. It's never been more sluggish than any other XBMC implementation I've tried...
Or a Raspberry PI with one of the XBMC distros for well under $50 including all the accessories you'll need. I have one of those set up as an entertainment center for my treadmill.
The living room has a mini PC with Ubuntu and an old version of MythTV. I'd love to switch to XBMC (or a current version of Myth) but customising the remote buttons with XBMC is an insane pain, and the music player in the new MythTV (and XBMC) are horrific.
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Tesla sell real cars that happen to be all-electric. And by "real" I mean "practical". The leaf has a range of maybe 80 miles. And (according to a NIssan dealer) that drops to "maybe 40" in the Minnesota winter. Even if Tesla cars lose half their advertised range here, it's still more than the Leaf's optimal conditions range.
I looked into the Leaf last time I was car shopping. I went to a Nissan dealer. They told me they don't actually HAVE a Leaf, but they'd be happy to show me a picture of one. They said they'd have three of them in stock in three months, because people had pre-ordered them, and maybe I could look at one then. Not test-drive one though. Just look.
But it's really the range that's the problem. There's no competition for Tesla on practicality. There's definitely competition on affordability.
Leaf is definitely a niche vehicle for people who never commute very far. Ever. I'd love to have an all-electric car, but a Leaf doesn't have the range, and a Tesla is way the hell too expensive. I kinda liked the Volt (over-engineered UI notwithstanding) but I just couldn't bring myself to pay that much for a car. Plus that guy's half-gas so it's a totally different ballpark than a Leaf is anyway.
Yeah, but I want to make the actual neck, too (:
That is pretty cool. I always wanted to make a guitar from scratch, but that requires, you know, accuracy.
What the... was that a cutting board at some point? (;
Yes, sadly I'm probably better at photography than at playing the guitar (;
Nice.
I have a couple of my guitars... kinda...
You've got me beat!
I always thought they'd be kind of fun, just because you know, LIGHTS.
Oh yeah! That's the one. I forgot what they were called!
Seriously? That's hilarious.
> I suppose you could play this, but you couldn't exactly play like Mark Knopfler.
Of that there is no doubt.
I don't think Mark Knopfler was selling the thing. It might've just been a "Hey look at this interesting new invention, and here's Mark Knopfler" kinda thing.
I remember seeing ads in Guitar Magazine and the like decades ago for guitars with LEDs in the fretboard that teach you how to play. I remember seeing an infomercial-type thing where they had Mark Knopfler play with one.
I find it fairly interesting how a lot of things labelled as the "first" to do something are really not.
Yes. Disable all 3rd party cookies, ask about the rest. "If you see this question and it's a website you KNOW, USE REGULARLY and need to be logged in to use, say YES. If it's a website you DON'T KNOW or TRUST, say NO. If you're NOT SURE, click "Allow for session".
I give them the tools. I will even give them notes. But I won't treat them like idiots without good cause!
It's a heck of a lot clunkier, so yeah, I'd prefer to be prompted every time. Especially since that's how I set it up for less technologically inclined people, and I can't really put them in charge of whitelisting stuff...
PLEASE let me have the options of deciding how long I want cookies saved for. Firefox has an "Ask me everytime" options for cookies - I want and need it. Chrome for some reason still doesn't have that (to the best of my knowledge - I check from time to time after updates).
Haven't been able to find any plugins that add that functionality, either.
I really want to switch to Chrome. It's so much zippier that Firefox. But not without my per-session cookie settings...
That's Catch-22. Catch-21 was a gameshow where people played blackjack.
You're on a plane. There's a decent chance you'll be in a country where they don't have juries.
Honestly I'm waiting to see what's out there in a year or two when I actually have to upgrade (:
Could've just as easily been any other OS that has applications I need. I need Linux on my desktop, for example.
Though in my case that should've been "strongly prefer" rather than "need".
Heh. Well, I got my MBP in 2011 and did more or less the same upgrade you did. Actually Think I did a 500GB spinny disk first, then went to an SSD later. I expect a few more years out of this guy...
I don't really like VMs. I actually tried setting up a VM on my Linux desktop to do video editing and photoshop. This is when my desktop was new, and I like to future-proof my desktops by building them to be fairly overpowered so that they'll still work well 3-4 years down the road. VMs were still really, really horrible for all that. And we're talking a VM with two dedicated CPU cores and 8 gigs of RAM. It was still not a pretty sight. I don't even think I could call it functional.
VMs are great for testing or running servers, but any intense hardware stuff, especially GPU-related hardware, I've just not ever got it to work really well.