Having looked at them, I stand by my opinion. Even the highest end available, HD4000 loses to comparable AMD offering by around third to half. This not even counting the cheating in filtering tests (which apparently was reduced).
For example, in my book, SC2 is barely playable on AMD offering. Losing third to half FPS takes it quite far into unplayable territory.
Gamers who only play indie games are an extremely small minority, likely below single digit in terms of percentage. Most people who play indie games also play non-indie games.
Thing is, many people like games. And games are demanding. Llano and brazos allow playing mainstream 3D (as in not angry birds/solitaire) games at low settings. Sandy/Ivy bridge and atom on the other hand are utterly useless for that. They can run aero and give very low end support to video decoding in hardware, and that's pretty much it.
So if you're buying a machine where you intend to actually use that GPU for anything more graphically intensive then aero, intel is simply not an option unless you're also getting a discreet graphics card. So yes, it's a tradeoff, a very significant one for some and insignificant for others. It depends on needs of the user.
A great example is my mom, who loves her atom netbook. She doesn't even run aero in w7. On the other hand, I have a brazos laptop that can run starcraft 2 on low/medium for several hours off battery, which is simply unmatched by any intel laptop on the market.
Modern laptops weigh between 1.25 an 3 kilograms. Power adapter is another 500 grams or so and unlike netbook, it can stay at your hotel.
If you need ultraportable, get a brazos netbook. Else get a ~1k "desktop replacement" laptop within 3kg weight range. You'll be able to even play decently modern games at high quality levels. Personally I just got a cheap 2.5kg brazos laptop as I hate small screens of netbooks/tablets but also wanted a long battery life while being able to play starcraft 2 every once in a while. E-450 does everything I want, and 15 inch screen is big enough to browse with reasonable comfort. Weight is a bit of an issue though.
Conclusion: hauling a second laptop is worth the freedom it affords. And there are enough choices on laptop specifics to suit both "as light and little as possible" as well as "I want to play games on the move" crowds and everyone in between.
Most people aren't because mozilla has gone to significant effort to block public from ever getting it. This isn't my opinion - this is their officially announced strategy.
I mostly agree with this. The issue isn't stability or RAM. It's retarded upgrade schedule confounded by minimalist design trend. I'm on 3.6 until the minimalist trend dies and upgrade schedule recover their sanity.
P.S. Most exploits are rather irrelevant when you combine noscript, adblock, ghostery and a decent firewall. Or simply run browser sandboxed (sandboxie et al).
Thing is, with the whole EMU mess going on, protest parties are gaining ground across Europe. We're nowhere near the levels of countries like Greece though, where protest parties like ultra left and ultra right are poised to crush established political parties in the next vote. Here, they got 20% and it's receding as more and more people begin to see that they're just that - a protest party.
It's also worth noting that PS aren't anti-consensus. Their argument is centered around the "current approach is wrong, so other parties should join us in our opinion about this because...". I.e. they're trying to build consensus with other parties, not confront them. Confrontational anglo version of this would be to argue in parliament that "you are wrong, and you should resign now" without even trying to find consensus (as they often do in UK parliament for example). That's just not the way politics work around here, even with all the influences from americanized pop culture.
And that's fine. Another point is that Nordic societies generally base their politics on consensus. This is in direct opposition to anglo model, which bases politics on confrontation.
As a result, confrontational suggestions are unlikely to ever gain significant popular support. Sure, you can get that 1%, it will be put to a vote and shot down in flames. If you manage to make this suggestion non-confrontational, there will be a dialogue, and various options on how to find consensus between popular opinion and this suggestion will be explored and made into a legal package and put to a vote.
In general, this system is enacted to enable to bring grievances directly before the parliament, because in the last election, one of the major jokes was "these people of Arkadianmäki" (the address of parliament building) referring to MPs who were out of touch with reality of voters. Things like that are taken very seriously here, mainly because we're a relatively small country, and if you wanted you could probably meet even prime minister face to face in the mall and talk to him. So the suggestion that they might be out of touch with reality of voters really hit some sour notes with quite a few of top politicians across the spectrum, while social media downright scared some. Which is a good thing, and as this project shows, reminding politicians that while they are elected to represent people they are often out of touch with reality of the people brings very positive results for voters.
They've been having this dream for many years now, and it hasn't progressed from "dream" stage. As the other poster points out, it's actually pretty hard system to crack, even with social engineering due to nature of keys being either non-reusable or reusable but changing across a very big chart.
Do note: this is a system that HAS BEEN WORKING FOR YEARS. Not a hypothetical idea for the implementation.
In Finland, the most right wing party advertises itself as a "champion of welfare state". They're not really, but even they have to pay at least lip service.
We understand what we pay our taxes for. We have one of the most politically stable, safe, competitive and equal countries in the world. US-style unequal society is viewed with derision at best.
You'd still have to have the idea conform to legal framework so it can be presented before the parliament, and then it has to be voted for and approved.
A friendly reminder: This is not US. Finns, and people of Nordics in general base politics around consensus rather then confrontation. This is a very significant difference which makes many "crazy" and by design confrontational ideas nearly impossible to pass.
So I will sign with my banking credentials (pretty much everyone has them here nowadays, they're offered for pretty much any new bank account). You just get a series of links containing "confirm your identity with your bank", click your bank, it takes you to the page of your bank where you enter your banking credentials and confirm that you want to be recognised by that site.
Someone in technology world bragging that they are better then someone else because they OH LOVE THIS NEW INTERFACE, when someone else doesn't on the other hand is same old stuff. Bonus points for insulting everyone who doesn't like the new interface and prefers old ones by labeling them as "pathetic, unable and unwilling to adapt".
The best part was your attempt to call people like me "pathetic" and invoking irony. Indeed.
Indeed, some people in the world need a reminder of what happened when UN's predecessor was killed off, what followed it, and the reason why UN was founded. Not the populist bullshit being spouted by political pundits with an axe to grind, but actual recorded history.
Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it
We are glad that you love your [spiked anal dildo]. Could you please note that people have different tastes and not everyone has as [much love for pain] as you do, and that there should be a choice for [more vanilla approach to sex toys]?
Some minor things are in fact missing, like the start menu. You can however revert to old-style interface by installing a utility called classic shell.
I am speaking from experience, I can't stand the 7's interface but I want DX11, and there actually was no way to reverse changes done to start menu and some parts of explorer until classic shell folks got their stuff working properly.
"Cartoony UI" could be switched off with a handful of clicks of the mouse. I used XP with 95-style interface for almost a decade. Still would in fact if not for DX11 on home machine. I like games.
In fact, I still use 95-style interface with 7. I had to install classic shell to kill some of the biggest annoyances that for some reason could not be switched off (like the messed up start menu in 7), but mostly you can just right click on desktop >basic theme > windows classic and you get 95-style. Not hard.
Why? If people feel that they can get arbitrage which suits their beliefs better then government's system, and all parties agree to such arbitrage, and such arbitrage is fully compliant with the existing laws, why is it scary?
I'll assume this was just a bad case of sarcasm malfunction on my part.
It would simply die to lack of recognition. It doesn't work if no one recognises you as a country, and no one would.
Sure, you could set extra rules, laws and power structure. But these would only exist on top of what is already in existence in the location of your choice. These mechanisms already exist in many countries, ranging from religious enclaves in Israel and Amish settlements in USA to anarchists of Freetown of Christiania. There are also lesser cases of this, like agreeing to arbitrage by certain courts (for example sharia courts in UK).
1. My country doesn't watch it, at least nowhere near the scale that sweden does. I'm quite certain of this, because our armies simply have different priorities. We are located between Sweden and Russia by the way, and the only reasons swedes can sit back and enjoy their scaled back army with massive technological investments is because we're covering their asses from direction of Russia. Also we were significantly impacted by that retarded legislation as some storage and mail routing was shared between countries (TeliaSonera) and had to be pulled out of Sweden to remain in compliance with local laws.
2. No, they're not. Else I could claim that, for example "USA is a country of fanatical religious murderers" on same merits. Only it's not.
3. Bad news. No one is a "good person". We're all selfish assholes when it comes down to it. That said, his assholery is directed towards exposing corruption of established order, which has been creeping up. Therefore as far as I am concerned, he may be an asshole of Cheney proportions, he'd still be "on my side". And there aren't many people who actually stand on the side of average citizen of the West any more.
What "smaller pixels"? Read the OP before claiming falsehoods to back up your statements. This camera has a sensor surface bigger then most if not all pocket cameras (as in dedicated camera devices), and completely unprecedented in camera phones.
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Having looked at them, I stand by my opinion. Even the highest end available, HD4000 loses to comparable AMD offering by around third to half. This not even counting the cheating in filtering tests (which apparently was reduced).
For example, in my book, SC2 is barely playable on AMD offering. Losing third to half FPS takes it quite far into unplayable territory.
Gamers who only play indie games are an extremely small minority, likely below single digit in terms of percentage. Most people who play indie games also play non-indie games.
Thing is, many people like games. And games are demanding. Llano and brazos allow playing mainstream 3D (as in not angry birds/solitaire) games at low settings.
Sandy/Ivy bridge and atom on the other hand are utterly useless for that. They can run aero and give very low end support to video decoding in hardware, and that's pretty much it.
So if you're buying a machine where you intend to actually use that GPU for anything more graphically intensive then aero, intel is simply not an option unless you're also getting a discreet graphics card. So yes, it's a tradeoff, a very significant one for some and insignificant for others. It depends on needs of the user.
A great example is my mom, who loves her atom netbook. She doesn't even run aero in w7. On the other hand, I have a brazos laptop that can run starcraft 2 on low/medium for several hours off battery, which is simply unmatched by any intel laptop on the market.
Modern laptops weigh between 1.25 an 3 kilograms. Power adapter is another 500 grams or so and unlike netbook, it can stay at your hotel.
If you need ultraportable, get a brazos netbook. Else get a ~1k "desktop replacement" laptop within 3kg weight range. You'll be able to even play decently modern games at high quality levels. Personally I just got a cheap 2.5kg brazos laptop as I hate small screens of netbooks/tablets but also wanted a long battery life while being able to play starcraft 2 every once in a while. E-450 does everything I want, and 15 inch screen is big enough to browse with reasonable comfort. Weight is a bit of an issue though.
Conclusion: hauling a second laptop is worth the freedom it affords. And there are enough choices on laptop specifics to suit both "as light and little as possible" as well as "I want to play games on the move" crowds and everyone in between.
"Why you shouldn't type stuff on a phone or tablet - the slashdot version".
You are speaking about normal releases. This particular thread was about LTS version.
Most people aren't because mozilla has gone to significant effort to block public from ever getting it. This isn't my opinion - this is their officially announced strategy.
I mostly agree with this. The issue isn't stability or RAM. It's retarded upgrade schedule confounded by minimalist design trend. I'm on 3.6 until the minimalist trend dies and upgrade schedule recover their sanity.
P.S. Most exploits are rather irrelevant when you combine noscript, adblock, ghostery and a decent firewall. Or simply run browser sandboxed (sandboxie et al).
There are a couple of sites that whine about "your browser is old". They work just fine though.
I suspect having to deliver content via flash instead of html5 causes the message.
The goal isn't to save money. It's to transfer taxpayer money into "donor" hands.
It's politicians paying back the masters that let them get elected.
Thing is, with the whole EMU mess going on, protest parties are gaining ground across Europe. We're nowhere near the levels of countries like Greece though, where protest parties like ultra left and ultra right are poised to crush established political parties in the next vote. Here, they got 20% and it's receding as more and more people begin to see that they're just that - a protest party.
It's also worth noting that PS aren't anti-consensus. Their argument is centered around the "current approach is wrong, so other parties should join us in our opinion about this because...". I.e. they're trying to build consensus with other parties, not confront them. Confrontational anglo version of this would be to argue in parliament that "you are wrong, and you should resign now" without even trying to find consensus (as they often do in UK parliament for example). That's just not the way politics work around here, even with all the influences from americanized pop culture.
And that's fine. Another point is that Nordic societies generally base their politics on consensus. This is in direct opposition to anglo model, which bases politics on confrontation.
As a result, confrontational suggestions are unlikely to ever gain significant popular support. Sure, you can get that 1%, it will be put to a vote and shot down in flames. If you manage to make this suggestion non-confrontational, there will be a dialogue, and various options on how to find consensus between popular opinion and this suggestion will be explored and made into a legal package and put to a vote.
In general, this system is enacted to enable to bring grievances directly before the parliament, because in the last election, one of the major jokes was "these people of Arkadianmäki" (the address of parliament building) referring to MPs who were out of touch with reality of voters. Things like that are taken very seriously here, mainly because we're a relatively small country, and if you wanted you could probably meet even prime minister face to face in the mall and talk to him. So the suggestion that they might be out of touch with reality of voters really hit some sour notes with quite a few of top politicians across the spectrum, while social media downright scared some. Which is a good thing, and as this project shows, reminding politicians that while they are elected to represent people they are often out of touch with reality of the people brings very positive results for voters.
They've been having this dream for many years now, and it hasn't progressed from "dream" stage. As the other poster points out, it's actually pretty hard system to crack, even with social engineering due to nature of keys being either non-reusable or reusable but changing across a very big chart.
Do note: this is a system that HAS BEEN WORKING FOR YEARS. Not a hypothetical idea for the implementation.
In Finland, the most right wing party advertises itself as a "champion of welfare state". They're not really, but even they have to pay at least lip service.
We understand what we pay our taxes for. We have one of the most politically stable, safe, competitive and equal countries in the world. US-style unequal society is viewed with derision at best.
You'd still have to have the idea conform to legal framework so it can be presented before the parliament, and then it has to be voted for and approved.
A friendly reminder: This is not US. Finns, and people of Nordics in general base politics around consensus rather then confrontation. This is a very significant difference which makes many "crazy" and by design confrontational ideas nearly impossible to pass.
So I will sign with my banking credentials (pretty much everyone has them here nowadays, they're offered for pretty much any new bank account). You just get a series of links containing "confirm your identity with your bank", click your bank, it takes you to the page of your bank where you enter your banking credentials and confirm that you want to be recognised by that site.
Whole process takes about 30 seconds.
Someone in technology world bragging that they are better then someone else because they OH LOVE THIS NEW INTERFACE, when someone else doesn't on the other hand is same old stuff. Bonus points for insulting everyone who doesn't like the new interface and prefers old ones by labeling them as "pathetic, unable and unwilling to adapt".
The best part was your attempt to call people like me "pathetic" and invoking irony. Indeed.
Indeed, some people in the world need a reminder of what happened when UN's predecessor was killed off, what followed it, and the reason why UN was founded. Not the populist bullshit being spouted by political pundits with an axe to grind, but actual recorded history.
Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it
We are glad that you love your [spiked anal dildo]. Could you please note that people have different tastes and not everyone has as [much love for pain] as you do, and that there should be a choice for [more vanilla approach to sex toys]?
Some minor things are in fact missing, like the start menu. You can however revert to old-style interface by installing a utility called classic shell.
I am speaking from experience, I can't stand the 7's interface but I want DX11, and there actually was no way to reverse changes done to start menu and some parts of explorer until classic shell folks got their stuff working properly.
"Cartoony UI" could be switched off with a handful of clicks of the mouse. I used XP with 95-style interface for almost a decade. Still would in fact if not for DX11 on home machine. I like games.
In fact, I still use 95-style interface with 7. I had to install classic shell to kill some of the biggest annoyances that for some reason could not be switched off (like the messed up start menu in 7), but mostly you can just right click on desktop >basic theme > windows classic and you get 95-style. Not hard.
Why? If people feel that they can get arbitrage which suits their beliefs better then government's system, and all parties agree to such arbitrage, and such arbitrage is fully compliant with the existing laws, why is it scary?
I'll assume this was just a bad case of sarcasm malfunction on my part.
It would simply die to lack of recognition. It doesn't work if no one recognises you as a country, and no one would.
Sure, you could set extra rules, laws and power structure. But these would only exist on top of what is already in existence in the location of your choice. These mechanisms already exist in many countries, ranging from religious enclaves in Israel and Amish settlements in USA to anarchists of Freetown of Christiania. There are also lesser cases of this, like agreeing to arbitrage by certain courts (for example sharia courts in UK).
1. My country doesn't watch it, at least nowhere near the scale that sweden does. I'm quite certain of this, because our armies simply have different priorities. We are located between Sweden and Russia by the way, and the only reasons swedes can sit back and enjoy their scaled back army with massive technological investments is because we're covering their asses from direction of Russia. Also we were significantly impacted by that retarded legislation as some storage and mail routing was shared between countries (TeliaSonera) and had to be pulled out of Sweden to remain in compliance with local laws.
2. No, they're not. Else I could claim that, for example "USA is a country of fanatical religious murderers" on same merits. Only it's not.
3. Bad news. No one is a "good person". We're all selfish assholes when it comes down to it.
That said, his assholery is directed towards exposing corruption of established order, which has been creeping up. Therefore as far as I am concerned, he may be an asshole of Cheney proportions, he'd still be "on my side". And there aren't many people who actually stand on the side of average citizen of the West any more.
What "smaller pixels"? Read the OP before claiming falsehoods to back up your statements. This camera has a sensor surface bigger then most if not all pocket cameras (as in dedicated camera devices), and completely unprecedented in camera phones.