Permit me to respectfully disagree. I use a few of the Chrome apps, mostly like offline GMail and Google Calendar because I have extended periods away from an internet connection when I still need to be able to access these things. Chrome Remote Desktop is quite useful as well. Sure, pay-per-view stuff may arrive, but I doubt it will even become a major thing.
His standard box is already full though. Unless he gets another one next to it. I've never done anything with more than 3 HDDs personally, so I'm afraid I'd be very little help here. Good luck though, it sounds like a fabulous project!
Perhaps I'm weird in that way, bot nothing excites me more than a shiny new interface. Perhaps that's why I'm loving Gnome 3 / KDE 4 / Unity at the moment in spite of everyone else hating them. I change between them every few months. Windows is just boring:P it's always the same.
FWIW, I really like TouchWiz. I have a Galaxy something or other, I've lost track of the models now, but I really love the interface!
To be fair, I haven't really used a vanilla Android device, Samsungs and HTCs are the only ones I've seen. I don't really like HTC Sense that much, but I love TouchWiz!
I can concede that there are more iPhone apps. The argument has been made though that choice isn't a good thing, and a vast majority of those apps are crap, frankly.
My thinking is thus:
I'm not really a power user, I want a smartphone to be able to do several things. One, I want it to sync easily with my Gmail and Google Calendar. Android? Check. iPhone? Can do it, I guess, but not nearly as easily.
Two. I want a widget or two on my homescreen to do things like monitor my 3G usage and let me turn 3G or WiFi or whatever on and off. A clock would be nice, something to show me a quick email inbox preview, etc. AFAIK, none of these things are available on an iPad. That, for me, is pretty much useless. From what I've seen, the only freedom you get on your homescreen with an iPad is to rearrange your app shortcuts.
I'm not an Apple basher. If you want an iPad, that's great. I personally want what Android offers.
As for selection, I only really consider a small number of options, Samsung, Asus and HTC when it comes to tablets. The other brands I don't particularly trust, and I wouldn't really bother with a sub-$200 tablet, with the possible exception of the Kindle.
Isn't that a good thing though? With iPad you get very little choice as to what you want, everyone's iPad is the same excepting how much space it's got and whether it has 3G.
With Android tablets though, because they come in such varieties and with such a selection of features you can have a much more personalised experience. Not to mention the fact that individual manufacturers can customise the interface, like HTC Sense and Samsung TouchWiz, to give you more opportunity to pick one that you like. iPad only offers one choice as far as that goes.
I think it would work out quite well to do it that way, especially since the LOTR movies were done first. A good number of people have seen the films but never read the books, so this would do well to put it in context for them.
I stand under correction here. It's the greatly improved fuel efficiency I was referring to. Motorcycle engines are getting much cleaner lately though, they're just a bit behind cars in the development.
The problem here is that a largeish portion of people who buy motorcycles don't buy them for transport but for something fast to play with, and emissions isn't really a factor in the decision. They'll catch up though, as the manufacturers are starting to work on improving it.
The other way that they do contribute is that they deal with traffic a lot better. They don't contribute to it nearly as much, and they get through it a lot easier, which by itself is bound to improve emissions IMO.
Ass. Motorcyclists have just as much right to be on the road as everyone else.
In fact, they contribute far less per individual to things like traffic, carbon emissions, and other undesirable situations than idiots like you who hate them so much.
I'll concede, some motorcyclists can be idiots. Have you noticed how many idiots drive cars though?
While I tend to agree with you, I'm also a motorcyclist and I can't stand asshats who use their cellphones while driving, I'm going to say the law of unintended consequences is going to come into play here.
That being, if cellphones etc. get banned, people aren't going to stop using them, they're just going to go to greater lengths to hide the fact that they are using them which I think will cause more accidents. One idiot acquaintance of mine does it... instead of holding his phone in front of him while he texts and drives, he hides it under the wheel and takes his eyes very far from the road. Frankly, it's a wonder he isn't dead.
I've personally never bothered to check how long I have the same IP, but the router / modem which my ISP gave me as part of the bundle is quite crappy, so I need to reset it at least every couple of days. I checked on the list and nothing there matched what I'd actually been downloading.
FWIW, for all those people saying "I don't download," torrents don't ONLY have "illegal" stuff. There's a lot of Creative Commons music available on torrent, (Jamendo for example) and most Linux distros distribute their isos with torrents as well as regular downloads. As I mentioned though, this website had a long list of stuff downloaded by this IP, but none of it was mine.
Dude. That's not capitalism, that's just the US government acting in corporate interest. A truly capitalistic system would have privatised the losses as well.
That's easier said than done though. Especially depending on what format the data is in. One needs to be able to look at it to spot patterns, and if it's too much to even look at...
I am not a geneticist, I'm an electronic engineer, and as such I know a bit about information theory. I understand that the human genome contains quite a lot of information...
The problem with that (as pointed out) is the cost of the hardware upgrades as well. Linux is typically better at running on older / more entry-level hardware.
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Permit me to respectfully disagree. I use a few of the Chrome apps, mostly like offline GMail and Google Calendar because I have extended periods away from an internet connection when I still need to be able to access these things. Chrome Remote Desktop is quite useful as well. Sure, pay-per-view stuff may arrive, but I doubt it will even become a major thing.
Samsung and Apple aren't exactly on good terms at the moment, and if Apple had bought Sony out they would have to play nicely with Samsung.
FWIW, I like Samsung TVs, I have one.
His standard box is already full though. Unless he gets another one next to it. I've never done anything with more than 3 HDDs personally, so I'm afraid I'd be very little help here. Good luck though, it sounds like a fabulous project!
Ok, now that I've read TFA, there's no booze in the pudding. This is what it says:
"It's probably a good measure to prevent unmonitored children from taking more than their fair share of pudding cups"
FWIW, I know quite a few adults, probably myself included, who can be worse than children when it comes to taking more than their fair share...
Perhaps it's a pudding with some sort of heinous liquor in it?
I mean, we must think of the children...
Perhaps I'm weird in that way, bot nothing excites me more than a shiny new interface. Perhaps that's why I'm loving Gnome 3 / KDE 4 / Unity at the moment in spite of everyone else hating them. I change between them every few months. Windows is just boring :P it's always the same.
FWIW, I really like TouchWiz. I have a Galaxy something or other, I've lost track of the models now, but I really love the interface!
To be fair, I haven't really used a vanilla Android device, Samsungs and HTCs are the only ones I've seen. I don't really like HTC Sense that much, but I love TouchWiz!
I can concede that there are more iPhone apps. The argument has been made though that choice isn't a good thing, and a vast majority of those apps are crap, frankly.
My thinking is thus:
I'm not really a power user, I want a smartphone to be able to do several things. One, I want it to sync easily with my Gmail and Google Calendar. Android? Check. iPhone? Can do it, I guess, but not nearly as easily.
Two. I want a widget or two on my homescreen to do things like monitor my 3G usage and let me turn 3G or WiFi or whatever on and off. A clock would be nice, something to show me a quick email inbox preview, etc. AFAIK, none of these things are available on an iPad. That, for me, is pretty much useless. From what I've seen, the only freedom you get on your homescreen with an iPad is to rearrange your app shortcuts.
I'm not an Apple basher. If you want an iPad, that's great. I personally want what Android offers.
As for selection, I only really consider a small number of options, Samsung, Asus and HTC when it comes to tablets. The other brands I don't particularly trust, and I wouldn't really bother with a sub-$200 tablet, with the possible exception of the Kindle.
Anyway, that's just my 2c.
Isn't that a good thing though? With iPad you get very little choice as to what you want, everyone's iPad is the same excepting how much space it's got and whether it has 3G.
With Android tablets though, because they come in such varieties and with such a selection of features you can have a much more personalised experience. Not to mention the fact that individual manufacturers can customise the interface, like HTC Sense and Samsung TouchWiz, to give you more opportunity to pick one that you like. iPad only offers one choice as far as that goes.
I think it would work out quite well to do it that way, especially since the LOTR movies were done first. A good number of people have seen the films but never read the books, so this would do well to put it in context for them.
AFAIK, Samsung have been making the low-level electronics for Apple's products for quite some time now.
I stand under correction here. It's the greatly improved fuel efficiency I was referring to. Motorcycle engines are getting much cleaner lately though, they're just a bit behind cars in the development.
The problem here is that a largeish portion of people who buy motorcycles don't buy them for transport but for something fast to play with, and emissions isn't really a factor in the decision. They'll catch up though, as the manufacturers are starting to work on improving it.
The other way that they do contribute is that they deal with traffic a lot better. They don't contribute to it nearly as much, and they get through it a lot easier, which by itself is bound to improve emissions IMO.
Ass. Motorcyclists have just as much right to be on the road as everyone else.
In fact, they contribute far less per individual to things like traffic, carbon emissions, and other undesirable situations than idiots like you who hate them so much.
I'll concede, some motorcyclists can be idiots. Have you noticed how many idiots drive cars though?
While I tend to agree with you, I'm also a motorcyclist and I can't stand asshats who use their cellphones while driving, I'm going to say the law of unintended consequences is going to come into play here.
That being, if cellphones etc. get banned, people aren't going to stop using them, they're just going to go to greater lengths to hide the fact that they are using them which I think will cause more accidents. One idiot acquaintance of mine does it... instead of holding his phone in front of him while he texts and drives, he hides it under the wheel and takes his eyes very far from the road. Frankly, it's a wonder he isn't dead.
I've personally never bothered to check how long I have the same IP, but the router / modem which my ISP gave me as part of the bundle is quite crappy, so I need to reset it at least every couple of days. I checked on the list and nothing there matched what I'd actually been downloading.
FWIW, for all those people saying "I don't download," torrents don't ONLY have "illegal" stuff. There's a lot of Creative Commons music available on torrent, (Jamendo for example) and most Linux distros distribute their isos with torrents as well as regular downloads. As I mentioned though, this website had a long list of stuff downloaded by this IP, but none of it was mine.
If Renault was to live up to its historical reputation, the electronics would stop working pretty soon anyway, so you'd have not much to worry about.
They've been doing pretty well lately though, I've been impressed with their newer cars.
I wish I had mod points. I wholeheartedly support what you say here.
I got that impression from TFS also.
Dude. That's not capitalism, that's just the US government acting in corporate interest. A truly capitalistic system would have privatised the losses as well.
That's easier said than done though. Especially depending on what format the data is in. One needs to be able to look at it to spot patterns, and if it's too much to even look at...
I am not a geneticist, I'm an electronic engineer, and as such I know a bit about information theory. I understand that the human genome contains quite a lot of information...
24 years old is very young to be in any parliament... That's how old I am!
I wish her luck. Hopefully the concept can spread around the world, the current copyright situation is quite crazy as it stands.
You see now, that's exactly the sort of ridiculous thing I'd think the good ol' Pirate Party is trying to put a stop to...
I kind of agree... It sounds a bit like a kids' theme birthday party.
"You've been invited to Johnny's Pirate Party! RSVP by Saturday..."
AFAIK the danger with the lasers was the sharks that they were attached to.
The problem with that (as pointed out) is the cost of the hardware upgrades as well. Linux is typically better at running on older / more entry-level hardware.