OK, I read some reviews. Yes it has a stylus but the reviews say the screen sensors are slow. This is troubling. In my experience, no tablet screen can capture my handwriting like a pen because I write very fast. I keep hoping the technology would get better but multitouch is stealing the active digitizer thunder and the tech seems to not advance much. Sensor speed is another major issue holding tablets back because they don't feel right.
At half the price and half the weight this would be kick-ass. I get tired carrying anything above 2.5 lb with me all day. Anything above $500 is a serious investment. Plus I do not see anything about Wacom active digitizer, without which this thing is useless for drawing or taking notes. The word stylus is not even on the linked page.
I still give it another two-three years before the tablets become usable enough, cheap enough, and light enough. And Ipad is a joke for my uses but we'll se if it has a niche in general.
Yep. As soon that this new slate fad evolves to where they can run real office apps (Ipad can run stuff like Keynote but I am not sure if it could handle my presentations with heavy animations and multiple videos per slide) then this will be something I will look at seriously. Throw in dual-mode screen (NTrig or equivalent), so I can do multitouch and take notes on one device (while resting my hand on the screen) and I will surely buy it. Until then, no dice.
This will just mean that home shielding will become a profitable industry. Towns which care more for privacy will have zoning mandating extensive porticos on all buildings. Cars already can be retrofitted with license plate changing tech or stuff that makes it tough to record license plates on camera. UK may become the leader in car shape-shifting innovation too. In short, once the line gets crossed to the point where a significant (even if small) minority of people notice, the pushback will begin and it will be yet another cat-and-mouse game and terrible waste of money.
That is precisely it. The laws need to be changed (I would advocate a constitutional amendment in the USA followed by USA conquering the rest of the world to enforce spam laws our way).
The police need to be administering the final solution and it needs to be slow and painful (burning at the stake comes to mind although I would prefer seeing people skinned alive while being slowly submerged into salty water).
The reason I do not use Chrome is that I am not aware of UI modifying extensions for it. Is there equivalents of:
All-In-One Sidebar Compact Menu 2 IE View NoUn Buttons Nuke Anything Enhanced New Tab Homepage Reload Tab on Double-Click Remove New Tab Button Stop-or-Reload Button Tooltip Plus VertTabbar WebMail Notifier
This is a fair subset of extensions I run and rely on for FF to look and feel properly. I did not include AdBlock and Flashblock and a few others because they do not need to modify browser UI so much. And granted that a few extensions like NoUn Buttons is FF-specific and exist to fix stupid UI design choices of FF.
The niche that is not filled right now is not yet another tablet with a low price tag. Those are aplenty on ebay. What is lacking is a slate tablet with NTrig or equivalent screen so multitouch and pen input would both work. Now add NVidia ion or somesuch so HD videos could be played, add 1024x768 (not x600) display or better, make it 2 lb or lighter and make the battery last at least 10 hours. Now keep the price below $500 and you'll sell a bucket-load of these.
We should not travel naked. The main attack vector is always due to some activity (implements can always be found if some activity is permitted). Rather, people should be led into a waiting hall and put under with a sleeping gas, then loaded into explosion proof containers and loaded onto cargo planes for delivery.
What do you mean by "ability to tile tabs vertically"? Did they finally add vertical tabs on the side of the window rather than on top? I am too lazy to install alpha releases so it would be nice to know from someone who has gone to the trouble.
And I agree with other comments: the first thing I think of when presented with an image of honey on skin is "sticky" not smooth.
The LCD screen is supposed to be touchscreen in which case I should be able to write notes with it. A book with the ability to scribble on the side is actually the beginning of something useful. Now I just need color e-ink and then I might buy it.
My PhD thesis was on studies of these materials. Some things the guy says make it sound like he has some bit of a clue (like the fact that such materials are indeed very sensitive to water). other things he says make him a crackpot (his webpage for instance says: "Since outer space is full of superconducting elements and compounds, I think they could help explain the increasing expansion rate of the universe (through strong diamagnetism)."). Making high purity materials like these takes big expensive furnaces and people who know how to use them (very few in the entire world). The method he describes is unsuitable for making decent single crystals and so his samples will not yield much meaningful bulk information. Working with stuff like Tl is tough because it is so toxic and so making these crystals is doubly difficult, especially in the US with so many safety regulations. Just on that basis alone, it is hard to believe he has the material he says he does. When he says "The volume fraction of this material is very low." it is a huge red flag that he knows not what his sample is. The research community has been all about getting purity up over the last couple of decades and many results with less pure samples did not hold up to these refinements. As far as physics goes, there is much research out there suggesting that some superconductivity survives in established cuprates above bulk T_c. Even besides that, the electronic states in these materials above T_c are screwed up. My research showed some very interesting electronic phases directly. Thus, a small jump in a poorly evaluated variable may be there but cannot necessarily be taken seriously as an indication of bulk superconducting order even if it is measured carefully. On top of which, his graphs are your typical crank type graphs. What am I supposed to conclude from voltage vs. temperature? How is that related to resistivity? What are the units? If the material is just synthesized, then how is crystal structure already known? Which beamline was used? In short, wake me up when one of three or four reputable sample growers (BSCCO crystals are mostly grown in Japan btw, and Tl stuff used to be grown in Russia a lot, from what I heard because of lack of safety oversight there) makes a good crystal and shows something interesting going on.
No, that's translit being garbled. The letter which I can try to write using English characters as "bI". The joke goes that noone starts a word with it but a giraffe "ends" with it (the Russian slang for orgasm being "to end").
Well, I think I am the only weirdo here. I like mostly single-player fps games (quake 2 being all-time favorite) and of those games I like ones where there are unusual bugs which can be exploited to advance in unusual ways. I am basically a beta-tester at heart and quirky bugs is what I mostly want in a game.
Yeah, at first I thought Oo.o is the sound a giraffe makes when it cums.//Not a troll.//Yes, this is a ripoff of an old Russian joke about the letter Ñ.
Not exactly. They are growing but mostly due to foreign (often Chinese) vendors who can sell direct rather than through e.g. Walmart. And they now try to attract big vendors in US (like GM) so they are growing. But the more they try to be like Amazon the more they open themselves up to competition. One of those days it will come back to haunt them but not yet. Craigslist is only good for local purchases. Anything long distance is still Ebay.
Agreed. And to add another point... To this day, human and animal motion is unrealistic in games. Skin, lothing, and hair rendering has gotten better by leaps and bounds but still sucks because of lack of detail. Wounds are not realistic. And this is all so bad that within a few seconds of playing any game you just know it is a game. Perfect immersion is impossible for that reason alone (at least for me). First person view helps with this because at least your own character is moving in ways that you do not see. When I see my avatar in out-of-body view, it is usually the biggest thing on screen and all its rendering and physics deficiencies are there all the time. In first person, I just see the enemies in the distance so it is easier to suspend disbelief.
I would love to. What I want is full Powerpoint (or even a greatly improved Powerpoint viewer) on a mobile phone, complete with the ability to play back movies (and install codecs of course) and multiple animations and transitions and to output it to 1024x768 projector via VGA connector. Right now I have to carry a laptop to conferences if I am giving a talk there. With NVidia's Ion platform, netbooks are getting to the point of being usable for my needs. But I would love to just bring a cell phone. A bit more software and a few more rounds of hardware upgrades and we may get there.
First, we will see purists who say they want to store movies uncompressed. That's about a terabyte per movie. So your typical movie collection (including your kids' movies and movies of your kids and movies of your friends' kids and a bunch of stuff listed on IMDB - that's easily a petabyte. Then you figure we'll need 16-bit color, and 10Kx10K resolution and you are easily in the exabyte range. Then you add third dimension and you add another four zeros. Etc.
I have said this before and I will say this again: even today, it is easy to envision a use for up to a mol (~10^24) of bytes provided they can be accessed fast enough to be useful.
"should a drive crash, I want the system up and running in no time"
That's a fair reason for RAID and indeed specifically for mirroring. But the most common TSHTF scenario is stuff like power supply or mobo failing so your goal should be to increase hardware redundancy at every level. Get yourself a good ESATA enclosure for each drive with independent power supplies and use software RAID.
"I want any drive and its data to be as safe and portable as possible (that's the reason for choosing FAT32)"
I assume FAT32 is for portability (everything reads it) and not for safety (uh, you'd be nuts). This is fair but a better choice is NTFS. It is also readable by everything (writing used to be a problem but not anymore) and much better for safety.
"even if the OS or the controller screw up big time"
If the OS or controller (or more likely the user) screw up big time, you'll need backups.
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If the machine in question was 4X cheaper in its "acceptably fast" config, then it would find acceptance.
OK, I read some reviews. Yes it has a stylus but the reviews say the screen sensors are slow. This is troubling. In my experience, no tablet screen can capture my handwriting like a pen because I write very fast. I keep hoping the technology would get better but multitouch is stealing the active digitizer thunder and the tech seems to not advance much. Sensor speed is another major issue holding tablets back because they don't feel right.
At half the price and half the weight this would be kick-ass. I get tired carrying anything above 2.5 lb with me all day. Anything above $500 is a serious investment.
Plus I do not see anything about Wacom active digitizer, without which this thing is useless for drawing or taking notes. The word stylus is not even on the linked
page.
I still give it another two-three years before the tablets become usable enough, cheap enough, and light enough. And Ipad is a joke for my uses but we'll se if it
has a niche in general.
I like Ike(y).
Yep. As soon that this new slate fad evolves to where they can run real office apps (Ipad can run stuff like Keynote but I am not sure if it could handle my presentations with heavy animations and multiple videos per slide) then this will be something I will look at seriously. Throw in dual-mode screen (NTrig or equivalent), so I can do multitouch and take notes on one device (while resting my hand on the screen) and I will surely buy it. Until then, no dice.
This will just mean that home shielding will become a profitable industry. Towns which care more for privacy will have zoning mandating extensive porticos on all buildings. Cars already can be retrofitted with license plate changing tech or stuff that makes it tough to record license plates on camera. UK may become the leader in car shape-shifting innovation too. In short, once the line gets crossed to the point where a significant (even if small) minority of people notice, the pushback will begin and it will be yet another cat-and-mouse game and terrible waste of money.
That is precisely it. The laws need to be changed (I would advocate a constitutional amendment in the USA followed by USA conquering the rest of the world to enforce spam laws our way).
The police need to be administering the final solution and it needs to be slow and painful (burning at the stake comes to mind although I would prefer seeing people skinned alive while being slowly submerged into salty water).
The reason I do not use Chrome is that I am not aware of UI modifying extensions for it. Is there equivalents of:
All-In-One Sidebar
Compact Menu 2
IE View
NoUn Buttons
Nuke Anything Enhanced
New Tab Homepage
Reload Tab on Double-Click
Remove New Tab Button
Stop-or-Reload Button
Tooltip Plus
VertTabbar
WebMail Notifier
This is a fair subset of extensions I run and rely on for FF to look and feel properly. I did not include AdBlock and Flashblock and a few others because they do not need to modify browser UI so much. And granted that a few extensions like NoUn Buttons is FF-specific and exist to fix stupid UI design choices of FF.
The niche that is not filled right now is not yet another tablet with a low price tag. Those are aplenty on ebay.
What is lacking is a slate tablet with NTrig or equivalent screen so multitouch and pen input would both work.
Now add NVidia ion or somesuch so HD videos could be played, add 1024x768 (not x600) display or better,
make it 2 lb or lighter and make the battery last at least 10 hours. Now keep the price below $500 and you'll
sell a bucket-load of these.
We should not travel naked. The main attack vector is always due to some activity (implements can always be found if some activity is permitted). Rather, people should be led into a waiting hall and put under with a sleeping gas, then loaded into explosion proof containers and loaded onto cargo planes for delivery.
What do you mean by "ability to tile tabs vertically"? Did they finally add vertical tabs on the side of the window rather than on top? I am too lazy to install alpha releases so it would be nice to know from someone who has gone to the trouble.
And I agree with other comments: the first thing I think of when presented with an image of honey on skin is "sticky" not smooth.
The LCD screen is supposed to be touchscreen in which case I should be able to write notes with it. A book with the ability to scribble on the side is actually the beginning of something useful. Now I just need color e-ink and then I might buy it.
Once you have these smarter mice identified, give them two guns and see if they learn to choose the right one for the situation.
My PhD thesis was on studies of these materials. Some things the guy says make it sound like he has some bit of a clue (like the fact that such materials are indeed very sensitive to water). other things he says make him a crackpot (his webpage for instance says: "Since outer space is full of superconducting elements and compounds, I think they could help explain the increasing expansion rate of the universe (through strong diamagnetism).").
Making high purity materials like these takes big expensive furnaces and people who know how to use them (very few in the entire world). The method he describes is unsuitable for making decent single crystals and so his samples will not yield much meaningful bulk information. Working with stuff like Tl is tough because it is so toxic and so making these crystals is doubly difficult, especially in the US with so many safety regulations. Just on that basis alone, it is hard to believe he has the material he says he does. When he says "The volume fraction of this material is very low." it is a huge red flag that he knows not what his sample is. The research community has been all about getting purity up over the last couple of decades and many results with less pure samples did not hold up to these refinements.
As far as physics goes, there is much research out there suggesting that some superconductivity survives in established cuprates above bulk T_c. Even besides that, the electronic states in these materials above T_c are screwed up. My research showed some very interesting electronic phases directly. Thus, a small jump in a poorly evaluated variable may be there but cannot necessarily be taken seriously as an indication of bulk superconducting order even if it is measured carefully.
On top of which, his graphs are your typical crank type graphs. What am I supposed to conclude from voltage vs. temperature? How is that related to resistivity? What are the units? If the material is just synthesized, then how is crystal structure already known? Which beamline was used?
In short, wake me up when one of three or four reputable sample growers (BSCCO crystals are mostly grown in Japan btw, and Tl stuff used to be grown in Russia a lot, from what I heard because of lack of safety oversight there) makes a good crystal and shows something interesting going on.
No, that's translit being garbled. The letter which I can try to write using English characters as "bI". The joke goes that noone starts a word with it but a giraffe "ends" with it (the Russian slang for orgasm being "to end").
Well, I think I am the only weirdo here. I like mostly single-player fps games (quake 2 being all-time favorite) and of those games I like ones where there are unusual bugs which can be exploited to advance in unusual ways. I am basically a beta-tester at heart and quirky bugs is what I mostly want in a game.
Yeah, at first I thought Oo.o is the sound a giraffe makes when it cums. //Not a troll. //Yes, this is a ripoff of an old Russian joke about the letter Ñ.
Not exactly. They are growing but mostly due to foreign (often Chinese) vendors who can sell direct rather than through e.g. Walmart. And they now try to attract big vendors in US (like GM) so they are growing. But the more they try to be like Amazon the more they open themselves up to competition. One of those days it will come back to haunt them but not yet.
Craigslist is only good for local purchases. Anything long distance is still Ebay.
Agreed. And to add another point...
To this day, human and animal motion is unrealistic in games. Skin, lothing, and hair rendering has gotten better by leaps and bounds but still sucks because of lack of detail. Wounds are not realistic. And this is all so bad that within a few seconds of playing any game you just know it is a game. Perfect immersion is impossible for that reason alone (at least for me). First person view helps with this because at least your own character is moving in ways that you do not see. When I see my avatar in out-of-body view, it is usually the biggest thing on screen and all its rendering and physics deficiencies are there all the time. In first person, I just see the enemies in the distance so it is easier to suspend disbelief.
I am missing something here. Why can't you use newer drives as time goes on? Is there no software RAID solution that allows upgrades on the fly?
I would love to. What I want is full Powerpoint (or even a greatly improved Powerpoint viewer) on a mobile phone, complete with the ability to play back movies (and install codecs of course) and multiple animations and transitions and to output it to 1024x768 projector via VGA connector. Right now I have to carry a laptop to conferences if I am giving a talk there. With NVidia's Ion platform, netbooks are getting to the point of being usable for my needs. But I would love to just bring a cell phone. A bit more software and a few more rounds of hardware upgrades and we may get there.
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First, we will see purists who say they want to store movies uncompressed. That's about a terabyte per movie. So your typical movie collection (including your kids' movies and movies of your kids and movies of your friends' kids and a bunch of stuff listed on IMDB - that's easily a petabyte. Then you figure we'll need 16-bit color, and 10Kx10K resolution and you are easily in the exabyte range. Then you add third dimension and you add another four zeros. Etc.
I have said this before and I will say this again: even today, it is easy to envision a use for up to a mol (~10^24) of bytes provided they can be accessed fast enough to be useful.
"should a drive crash, I want the system up and running in no time"
That's a fair reason for RAID and indeed specifically for mirroring. But the most common TSHTF scenario is stuff like power supply or mobo
failing so your goal should be to increase hardware redundancy at every level. Get yourself a good ESATA enclosure for each drive with
independent power supplies and use software RAID.
"I want any drive and its data to be as safe and portable as possible (that's the reason for choosing FAT32)"
I assume FAT32 is for portability (everything reads it) and not for safety (uh, you'd be nuts). This is fair but a better choice is NTFS. It is also
readable by everything (writing used to be a problem but not anymore) and much better for safety.
"even if the OS or the controller screw up big time"
If the OS or controller (or more likely the user) screw up big time, you'll need backups.
I hope this integrates nicely with Tamarin and makes its way into FF4.