Hey, come on now - he's a visionary standing up for our rights!
I don't care about the personality of the CEO, as long as he's providing me with DRM-free games I can play on any computer any time, without fighting with SecuCrap, ShitForce, or requiring a DVD.
The only thing I care about (as a gamer) is whether the game plays (excluding obvious stuff like the game should be fun:P ), and lately a lot of games just don't run.:/ I can't tell you how aggravating it is to buy a game, install it, and find out it crashes instantly with some error code related to the DRM.
I remember reading that in Vancouver, BC (Canada), there's parts of the Shaw network that were 98% torrent traffic at various hours of the day.
This was before they implemented traffic throttling.
I can remember quite often I wouldn't be able to visit websites with servers in the US, presumably because the pipes through Seattle were choked. Any servers in Canada, the UK, etc. were fine.
But Verizon's solution was even better - connecting closer peers, so the whole damn network doesn't slow to a crawl.
A menu pops up with this stuff anyway: "Hey, want to open this folder?", so it's not like you're doing anything more than adding exactly one step.
By your example, the user would expect the computer to write their reports for them.
You are incorrect. You're comparing unlike things.
The user understanding what the computer is doing when it opens a folder is alike to understanding what the car is doing when it moves. My analogy is spot on. Those of us with cars should know how to drive, and those of us with computers should know how to open a folder. Otherwise, how are you going to use the tool properly?
Why should those people who are using computers as tools (in the same way they would use a car, lawnmower, or vibrator) have to know anything at all about how it works, where content is stored, etc?
The same reason I have to drive my car, rather than picking a destination, waiting, and magically ending up there.
Opening a folder is not that difficult. I do tutoring sometimes, and I've found more people are confused by the Autoplay menu than just opening the drive in Explorer. Those Autoplay menus can get very cluttered!
I bought an Asus 8800GS for $45 back in October. (I'm serious)
Problem was, it wasn't stable at stock speeds. Instant-reboots, and pink textures in games like Left4Dead.
I underclocked it 15% and the problems went away.:(
All the new nVidia drivers blow. One of my friends had stability problems too - I told him to go back to 180.xx, and that fixed his. Too bad it didn't fix mine at stock speeds.
Something I've always wondered - why don't cell providers have some kind of emergency mode that blocks calls but allows text messages?
I know you can't place phone calls when the cell service gets overloaded, but why overload it in the first place? Text messages are tiny, and thousands to tens of thousands per second are not going to crash the system. It'd let all the people contact their families without overloading the network.
It's got a powerful Arm Cortex-A8 with an efficient GPU, faster than the iPhone one. No SSD, but it has dual-SDHC, giving you up to 64GB of space.
Only a 4.3 "anemic" LCD, but it is high resolution(fine for webpages) and high quality(it was selected because there was no OLED equivalent as far as resolution, power consumption, lifespan, etc.) An OLED would still be superior in direct sunlight, but I think they made a good choice. It's also has a touchscreen, though admittedly not the same type as the iPhone. (works best with stylus)
The big negative for you would be no 3G. You need an external dongle to do that. I think these things were verified to work.
ARM Ubuntu does run on the Pandora prototypes, but they're putting lots of effort into modifying the Angstrom distro to suit the device. It seems to be pretty user friendly and run fast enough, so most of us early adopters will probably just use that.
The big thing where it nails your desires is power consumption. (300+ hours in standby) They've stated it should last months in standby, if their dev boards are anything to go on, while your battery is still relatively new.
Under load you can expect at least 10 hours battery life. (This would be watching vids or playing games/emus) No guarantees for 24 hours when web browsing, but for music at least 24 hours is expected. One of the creators said they already have aggressive power management built into the kernel, so it should downclock for light usage tasks to save watts.
Best yet, the cost is only $340 USD, and they'll toss in another 4000mAh Li-Po battery for a meagre $30.
It fits about 60-80% of what you want, if you're willing to get over the screen size. Look into it.
Late last year I bought Left 4 Dead and started playing online. In versus matches I wasn't very good as the infected side. I hardly ever land a pounce, or pull the last guy to jump down a hole, or even manage to boom anyone.
But I am good at Survivor. So good that usually I have people screaming "hax", "hacker", "fag", "asshole", etc. at me. See, when a hunter jumps at me, I melee him back. Or I shoot him out of the air. When a smoker grabs me, I spin around and pump shotgun shells into him - and thanks to incredible 3D positional audio, I can figure out where a boomer is and shoot him through walls.
Apparently having some playskill (though clearly not on the infected side) makes me an aim hacker.
Anyway, after one such match, my email alerter popped up. Then it popped up again. The following morning it popped up to inform me I had about 3000 new messages. Someone signed up what they correctly guessed to be my address with about 50,000 newsletters, so I now get thousands of spam emails every single day.
Lucky for me, Gmail is pretty smart at deleting them.
I haven't bothered to opt-out. Somehow I doubt it'd help at all.
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I'd rather find out about interesting and unique chips, rather than ones that "shook the world".
Like the Propellar, with its interesting interrupt handling, and non-stamped design.
http://www.designinganalogchips.com/
There's the link!
Every OS has holes. 99.9% (aka, almost all) of software has unknown bugs/exploits.
Just about everything is insecure - but some operating systems are so secure that no normal hacker will get in.
BSD varients are probably about as good as it gets.
Hey, come on now - he's a visionary standing up for our rights!
I don't care about the personality of the CEO, as long as he's providing me with DRM-free games I can play on any computer any time, without fighting with SecuCrap, ShitForce, or requiring a DVD.
The only thing I care about (as a gamer) is whether the game plays (excluding obvious stuff like the game should be fun :P ), and lately a lot of games just don't run. :/ I can't tell you how aggravating it is to buy a game, install it, and find out it crashes instantly with some error code related to the DRM.
Damn you EA. You suck.
I remember reading that in Vancouver, BC (Canada), there's parts of the Shaw network that were 98% torrent traffic at various hours of the day.
This was before they implemented traffic throttling.
I can remember quite often I wouldn't be able to visit websites with servers in the US, presumably because the pipes through Seattle were choked. Any servers in Canada, the UK, etc. were fine.
But Verizon's solution was even better - connecting closer peers, so the whole damn network doesn't slow to a crawl.
It would have provided everyone with a better experience and saved MS some bandwidth.
It's worth noting that it doesn't provide everyone with a better experience - just the people downloading.
Anyone playing online games or visiting websites might notice the internet is running slower - not a better experience.
Though I would rather see torrents being used for stuff like this, rather than *cough* other purposes. :P
But if it can be distributed via CDN, then that's even better.
How is that pronounced?
t-lap yoln?
It seems that the quickest way to a +5 is either a page of text or a line of text.
We're talking about autorun, and not autoplay
Nope. Look at the posts we replied to:
A menu pops up with this stuff anyway: "Hey, want to open this folder?", so it's not like you're doing anything more than adding exactly one step.
By your example, the user would expect the computer to write their reports for them.
You are incorrect. You're comparing unlike things.
The user understanding what the computer is doing when it opens a folder is alike to understanding what the car is doing when it moves. My analogy is spot on. Those of us with cars should know how to drive, and those of us with computers should know how to open a folder. Otherwise, how are you going to use the tool properly?
You're absolutely right. I've seen some methods that really would benefit from a goto statement.
Goto lets you create loops with multiple entry points, which avoids other clutter code. It can enhance legibility when used inside a single method.
One that I'd like to see die is:
do {} while();
One that I'd like to see live (but doesn't yet?) is a language like java, but with optional manual garbage collection on a per-class basis.
Oh come on now - sometimes the response is funnier than the joke!
And how could I possibly be modded overrated, before I was rated at all? Indeed, did any of you think of that!?
It's slang, similar to:
Cya = Bye (or) See you later
It popped up years ago in online games, before we all had enough bandwidth for voice chat. Less text to type is important!
Ex:
"prolly firebolt then e use lit"
Longform:
"You should probably cast Firebolt on that monster, then EgorTheOgre can cast lightning on it."
Why should those people who are using computers as tools (in the same way they would use a car, lawnmower, or vibrator) have to know anything at all about how it works, where content is stored, etc?
The same reason I have to drive my car, rather than picking a destination, waiting, and magically ending up there.
Opening a folder is not that difficult. I do tutoring sometimes, and I've found more people are confused by the Autoplay menu than just opening the drive in Explorer. Those Autoplay menus can get very cluttered!
Pun?....PUN!?....PUUUUNNNN!!!!
NooooOOOOO!!!
(The rest of this post is a string of lowercase letters to get rid of the shout filter.)
I bought an Asus 8800GS for $45 back in October. (I'm serious)
Problem was, it wasn't stable at stock speeds. Instant-reboots, and pink textures in games like Left4Dead.
I underclocked it 15% and the problems went away. :(
All the new nVidia drivers blow. One of my friends had stability problems too - I told him to go back to 180.xx, and that fixed his. Too bad it didn't fix mine at stock speeds.
Something I've always wondered - why don't cell providers have some kind of emergency mode that blocks calls but allows text messages?
I know you can't place phone calls when the cell service gets overloaded, but why overload it in the first place? Text messages are tiny, and thousands to tens of thousands per second are not going to crash the system. It'd let all the people contact their families without overloading the network.
Isn't it a good thing the fighters were there?
Shouldn't people be more worried about low flying planes without them?
The Pandora has some of what you desire.
It's got a powerful Arm Cortex-A8 with an efficient GPU, faster than the iPhone one. No SSD, but it has dual-SDHC, giving you up to 64GB of space.
Only a 4.3 "anemic" LCD, but it is high resolution(fine for webpages) and high quality(it was selected because there was no OLED equivalent as far as resolution, power consumption, lifespan, etc.) An OLED would still be superior in direct sunlight, but I think they made a good choice. It's also has a touchscreen, though admittedly not the same type as the iPhone. (works best with stylus)
The big negative for you would be no 3G. You need an external dongle to do that. I think these things were verified to work.
ARM Ubuntu does run on the Pandora prototypes, but they're putting lots of effort into modifying the Angstrom distro to suit the device. It seems to be pretty user friendly and run fast enough, so most of us early adopters will probably just use that.
The big thing where it nails your desires is power consumption. (300+ hours in standby) They've stated it should last months in standby, if their dev boards are anything to go on, while your battery is still relatively new.
Under load you can expect at least 10 hours battery life. (This would be watching vids or playing games/emus) No guarantees for 24 hours when web browsing, but for music at least 24 hours is expected. One of the creators said they already have aggressive power management built into the kernel, so it should downclock for light usage tasks to save watts.
Best yet, the cost is only $340 USD, and they'll toss in another 4000mAh Li-Po battery for a meagre $30.
It fits about 60-80% of what you want, if you're willing to get over the screen size. Look into it.
I went DSL. 3mbit, baby! Only 512kbit upstream, but my cap is 200GB/mo for $30!
Good advice - thanks for the tip!
Or for Canadians, pay a bit less at NCIX, and get actual customer service.
(for those of you that didn't know, TigerDirect is in both the US and Canada)
A couple days ago these things were on Amazon for $89.
Looks like they decided to jack the price up because of all the publicity.
I never got any spam until a few months ago.
Late last year I bought Left 4 Dead and started playing online. In versus matches I wasn't very good as the infected side. I hardly ever land a pounce, or pull the last guy to jump down a hole, or even manage to boom anyone.
But I am good at Survivor. So good that usually I have people screaming "hax", "hacker", "fag", "asshole", etc. at me. See, when a hunter jumps at me, I melee him back. Or I shoot him out of the air. When a smoker grabs me, I spin around and pump shotgun shells into him - and thanks to incredible 3D positional audio, I can figure out where a boomer is and shoot him through walls.
Apparently having some playskill (though clearly not on the infected side) makes me an aim hacker.
Anyway, after one such match, my email alerter popped up. Then it popped up again. The following morning it popped up to inform me I had about 3000 new messages. Someone signed up what they correctly guessed to be my address with about 50,000 newsletters, so I now get thousands of spam emails every single day.
Lucky for me, Gmail is pretty smart at deleting them.
I haven't bothered to opt-out. Somehow I doubt it'd help at all.
I was one of the people that bought it on DVD. Good movie. :)
Firefly was a great TV series, although far too short obviously!
Heh... It's funny you should mention Left 4 Dead. It's playable on an Athlon XP from 2003!