Well, i dont necessarily mean a windows-tablet style device with OS X on it, but an in-between between that, and what we currently know as the ipad.
Walk around with it, and browse with it on the couch using a very touch-optimised UI (Much like the current ipad), put it in the docking station, and get a (nearly) full functional OS X user interface to take advantage of the keyboard and mouse you have at your disposal. Write code in X code, install some new software (not limited to the appstore), hell, install windows through bootcamp, or run a VM. Then pick it up again, lay back on the couch, and enjoy your favorite TV show, either purchased through itunes, or downloaded by torrent.
Basically, it would be a general personal computer, suited for everything except heavy professional stuff like pro-photoshopping and heavy number crunching.
Here in holland most Mac's (or should i say Mickey D's?) have free wifi, and i hardly ever see loitering metrosexuals with their macbooks taking up tables with their small milkshake..
I think it is mostly an atmosphere thing, if i stop by to get a burger for lunch, i find it nice to take my ipod touch and just surf the news a bit while eating (didnt have a propper smartphone then), but i sure as hell wont spend more time there then i need to down my meal. The thought alone of actually doing work in that screaming kiddy infested, headache inducingly colored hell hole make me cringe..
Solution for coffeeshop owners, set up a ball-pit in the store, drop a few kids in there..
people said that it was going to cost $1k before it launched, and that it should really cost $500.
Before it was launched, the specs also were unclear. The $1k predicted pricetag suggests to me people where expecting a tablet with a x86 cpu and a more capable OS (perhaps OSX with a launcher widget?). basically some sort of macbook (air?) based tablet
I know that is what i was hoping for, instead we got an ipod touch XL
i get a great sense of accomplishment from building/fixing thing. Last weekend i tinkered for a full day with the drum brakes on my old project-car, and in the end they still didnt quite work right (got to allign the new pads), but once i set them up right, ill have fixed my own brakes, which is awesome:)
Sure, i could have taken it to the shop, but doing it yourself is more fun (if you have the space/time/ability, this car isnt used for the daily trips, so it can be out of action for a week without any trouble)
every single time i got hyped up because a spec bump was rumoured for any apple hardware, apple actually did improve the specs, only to hike the price by another 100 bucks, making the value exactly the same as just before the anouncement, totally SUCKY
my 3,5 year old MSI laptop would disagree. It has had a grand total of 30 euros in upgrades/maintenance, and when i bought it, it cost 300 less then an equally specced (before upgrades, at that time the base MB came with a whopping 512mb ram, my msi came with 1gb, and another 20 euros made 2gb of that) macbook, which in fact, would not have been equal, since it would have had the dreadfull intel GMA 950, instead of my Ati X200 chip, which actually DOES play a couple of games acceptably. (and it actually is a 12 inch laptop, so similar size as a macbook, and full laptop specs, before netbooks came around and ruined ultraportables)
I will give you though, my MSI laptop isnt as shiney by far...
My MSI will be with me for at least a year longer before i replace it, probably for something slightly lighter/smaller (since my needs have changed). If at the same time, i would have bought a macbook, i'd probably replace it next year too
Volvo has just been bought by Geely, a chinese firm.
Sure the chinese have promised to keep volvo volvo, not to mess with the whole swedish safety stuff, but what car brand has ever been taken over and NOT changed significantly towards the new parent company? Hell, all current volvos sit on Ford chassis.
Good luck making a zero fatality car with the chinese at the helm...
1) take all images on your account, find people which only show up once. 2) find all images on other accounts tagged with your username, find all people who show up in exactly five of those pictures 3) reference answers from #1 with #2, see how many people roll out.
I realize that there might be multiple solutions, depending on the amount of pictures each search returns, but you can quite probably get quite close
oh, and off course:
4) eliminate all females and eliminate all people who can be reasonably linked as having a girlfriend, since you post on slashdot 5) ??? 6) Profit!!
Pretty much, my GFs iphone 3GS impressed me so much last year that i got an ipod touch as a sort of PDA, then 4.0 came along and killed the responsiveness to the point where i will kick it out as soon as i get a decent android phone
i figure apple is hoping to achieve a similar effect as in the windows-pc world, people keep installing updates and new stuff till their PC just slows down to the point of uselessness, they go out, and buy a new one.
I have to admit, if i were more of a mindless drone, i'd probably use my ipod's slothyness as an excuse to get an iphone 4 early (before my current contract is up), or to upgrade to a newer, more spacious ipod
As it is though, i'll not only kick my ipod to the curb when i can, but i'll get a high end android phone rather then an iphone, having a command line shell on my phone >> AWESOME
my eee-pc (the original 701) came with a recovery disc... that doesnt make sense either
My buest suggestion would be for asus to include a SD card (probably only need a 512mb one, or 1gb tops) with the reinstall stuff on there, given that the eee does have an SD slot, and is able to boot from it.
However, that would cost quite a lot more then just stuffing a CD in there and letting the customer figure it out
Yesterday on the BBC during top-gear there was a review of the new Ferrari 458
Apparently one of the LCD displays in the cockpit functions as EITHER the speedo, or the satnav. So you either know where you are, or how fast you are going.
Looks like the Ferrari engineer in charge of the 458 cockpit was a Heisenberg fan:P
which shouldnt matter one bit for a graphics card, as it does not have any moving parts like your engine.
a graphics card should be able to process at top capacity 24/7, if it is not able to do that, due to for example cooling failure, it should throttle itself back.
Well, in the proposal the km-price already depends on the type of vehicle(weight, CO2 emissions), but it would also depend on the time and place. IE, driving in rush-hour traffic would be more expensive, to try and persuade people to not drive then, solving traffic jams (Yes, our politicians apparently believe we dont mind sitting in traffic jams).
Also from what i understand from the proposal was that only highway, or at max country road traffic would be taxed, since citys dont get road-taxes right now anyway for maintenance, but i'm not quite sure.
Bottom line, the proposal was thankfully killed off because our government fell, when we finally get a new one, it'll probably take some time for the corrupt established order of clerks get it back on the roll, right in time for the next elections to shoot it down
i was thinking the same thing, many games arent FPS-capped anyway, and even in capped games, gamers will put the settings up so high that the game wont run at the capped framerate all the time
Graphic cards should be able to cope with it, although i do believe that it is possible to load a GPU in such a way that more transistors are active at the same time then the manufacturer thought would happen.
So unless there are reports of thousands of melted video cards, i call shens
well, just played a bit more, and it looks like ipod-launchtime is down to ~1 second, still noticably slower then before the ios4 update (and in my opinion completely unacceptable for a device sold as a music player), but this does help.
hmm, i havent noticed serious input lag, just that safari doing loading wont respond at all to inputs, and apps like ipod-app hang for ~5 secs when you open them
i hope they fix it, if they dont however, i wont care all that much, in a few months my ancient symbian powered nokia will be replaced by a HTC android device, which will also make my ipod redundant
just tried that on my ipod (which is basically iphone 3g hardware), and loading the ipod-app still takes noticable time, rather then being instantanious in 3.1.3
i really regret upgrading the ios 4, the only added function i can find is threaded email (of which apple's implementation SUCKS), and i got a serious performance drop
Here in holland the prius/civic hybrid and other econo-mobiles dont pay any road-tax, and petrol is also rather heavily taxed. So a person who can not afford one of those new hybrids ends up paying for the hybrid owners both by road-tax, and by paying more petrol-levy per KM. All the while it is more econo-friendly to drive an older regular car, then build a new hybrid, including massive chemical batteries.
Apparently there is some talk in the dutch government about decreasing benefits for these kind of cars, since they blow too big of a hole in the tax-income, i read that 20% of all new cars sold this year are classed to not have to pay road-taxes (and significantly lower added taxes for lease-cars)
I think a flat-rate road-tax isnt really representative of what it is supposed to be, a tax to fund road-maintenance, so on principal i agree with sonme kind of per-mile tax, the problem with this is implementation, a previous scheme proposed here in holland would fit every car with a small GPS-tracking unit to collect data on how much they drive, and even tax them higher for driving in traffic hotspots during rush hour. This however is a MASSIVE invasion of privacy, and as our german neighbours already demonstrated, technically very much non-trivial (they failed to implement a similar system for trucks only). The other option would be to put all car-related tax on petrol/diesel, but that would drive people over the borders to feul up there, and allow plug-in hybrid people to use the road without paying.
it is rather hard to improve the stuff purely by theory alone.
Sure, after chernobyl we could have shut down every reactor on the planet, theorize for 50 years, and then build the most updated design, but we would have no practical experience with most of the theory, everything more advanced then basic "throw some fuel on a pile and boil water with it" would be purely theoretical, and the old practical knowledge could be long-forgotten and dead.
I'm not saying current reactor designs are the ultimate pinacle of reactor science, but it is certain that they are very much improved, and we could learn and advance by building them. If we only ever put stuff into use once we were 100% sure it is 100% safe and perfect, mankind would still be struggling with fire...
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Well, i dont necessarily mean a windows-tablet style device with OS X on it, but an in-between between that, and what we currently know as the ipad.
Walk around with it, and browse with it on the couch using a very touch-optimised UI (Much like the current ipad), put it in the docking station, and get a (nearly) full functional OS X user interface to take advantage of the keyboard and mouse you have at your disposal. Write code in X code, install some new software (not limited to the appstore), hell, install windows through bootcamp, or run a VM. Then pick it up again, lay back on the couch, and enjoy your favorite TV show, either purchased through itunes, or downloaded by torrent.
Basically, it would be a general personal computer, suited for everything except heavy professional stuff like pro-photoshopping and heavy number crunching.
Here in holland most Mac's (or should i say Mickey D's?) have free wifi, and i hardly ever see loitering metrosexuals with their macbooks taking up tables with their small milkshake..
I think it is mostly an atmosphere thing, if i stop by to get a burger for lunch, i find it nice to take my ipod touch and just surf the news a bit while eating (didnt have a propper smartphone then), but i sure as hell wont spend more time there then i need to down my meal. The thought alone of actually doing work in that screaming kiddy infested, headache inducingly colored hell hole make me cringe..
Solution for coffeeshop owners, set up a ball-pit in the store, drop a few kids in there..
people said that it was going to cost $1k before it launched, and that it should really cost $500.
Before it was launched, the specs also were unclear. The $1k predicted pricetag suggests to me people where expecting a tablet with a x86 cpu and a more capable OS (perhaps OSX with a launcher widget?). basically some sort of macbook (air?) based tablet
I know that is what i was hoping for, instead we got an ipod touch XL
i totally agree
i get a great sense of accomplishment from building/fixing thing. Last weekend i tinkered for a full day with the drum brakes on my old project-car, and in the end they still didnt quite work right (got to allign the new pads), but once i set them up right, ill have fixed my own brakes, which is awesome :)
Sure, i could have taken it to the shop, but doing it yourself is more fun (if you have the space/time/ability, this car isnt used for the daily trips, so it can be out of action for a week without any trouble)
IPS panels for the same price.
Prepare to be made a fool of by apple
every single time i got hyped up because a spec bump was rumoured for any apple hardware, apple actually did improve the specs, only to hike the price by another 100 bucks, making the value exactly the same as just before the anouncement, totally SUCKY
my 3,5 year old MSI laptop would disagree. It has had a grand total of 30 euros in upgrades/maintenance, and when i bought it, it cost 300 less then an equally specced (before upgrades, at that time the base MB came with a whopping 512mb ram, my msi came with 1gb, and another 20 euros made 2gb of that) macbook, which in fact, would not have been equal, since it would have had the dreadfull intel GMA 950, instead of my Ati X200 chip, which actually DOES play a couple of games acceptably. (and it actually is a 12 inch laptop, so similar size as a macbook, and full laptop specs, before netbooks came around and ruined ultraportables)
I will give you though, my MSI laptop isnt as shiney by far...
My MSI will be with me for at least a year longer before i replace it, probably for something slightly lighter/smaller (since my needs have changed). If at the same time, i would have bought a macbook, i'd probably replace it next year too
Volvo has just been bought by Geely, a chinese firm.
Sure the chinese have promised to keep volvo volvo, not to mess with the whole swedish safety stuff, but what car brand has ever been taken over and NOT changed significantly towards the new parent company? Hell, all current volvos sit on Ford chassis.
Good luck making a zero fatality car with the chinese at the helm...
well, based in your info:
1) take all images on your account, find people which only show up once.
2) find all images on other accounts tagged with your username, find all people who show up in exactly five of those pictures
3) reference answers from #1 with #2, see how many people roll out.
I realize that there might be multiple solutions, depending on the amount of pictures each search returns, but you can quite probably get quite close
oh, and off course:
4) eliminate all females and eliminate all people who can be reasonably linked as having a girlfriend, since you post on slashdot
5) ???
6) Profit!!
You have just given them the info that there are exactly 6 pictures of you on facebook, that should help them narrow it down ;)
Your idea reminds of those old turn-based strategy web MMO-TBS games i used to play 8 years ago, starsphere, planetarion, that sort of stuff :P
Could be fun actually
Because pretending to put a robot together in a virtual dust-free lab is more fun then pretending to weld a powercable into place on a virtual moon?
Pretty much, my GFs iphone 3GS impressed me so much last year that i got an ipod touch as a sort of PDA, then 4.0 came along and killed the responsiveness to the point where i will kick it out as soon as i get a decent android phone
i figure apple is hoping to achieve a similar effect as in the windows-pc world, people keep installing updates and new stuff till their PC just slows down to the point of uselessness, they go out, and buy a new one.
I have to admit, if i were more of a mindless drone, i'd probably use my ipod's slothyness as an excuse to get an iphone 4 early (before my current contract is up), or to upgrade to a newer, more spacious ipod
As it is though, i'll not only kick my ipod to the curb when i can, but i'll get a high end android phone rather then an iphone, having a command line shell on my phone >> AWESOME
my eee-pc (the original 701) came with a recovery disc... that doesnt make sense either
My buest suggestion would be for asus to include a SD card (probably only need a 512mb one, or 1gb tops) with the reinstall stuff on there, given that the eee does have an SD slot, and is able to boot from it.
However, that would cost quite a lot more then just stuffing a CD in there and letting the customer figure it out
well, thats what i get for actually working while reading/posting slashdot..
Yesterday on the BBC during top-gear there was a review of the new Ferrari 458
Apparently one of the LCD displays in the cockpit functions as EITHER the speedo, or the satnav. So you either know where you are, or how fast you are going.
Looks like the Ferrari engineer in charge of the 458 cockpit was a Heisenberg fan :P
which shouldnt matter one bit for a graphics card, as it does not have any moving parts like your engine.
a graphics card should be able to process at top capacity 24/7, if it is not able to do that, due to for example cooling failure, it should throttle itself back.
Well, in the proposal the km-price already depends on the type of vehicle(weight, CO2 emissions), but it would also depend on the time and place. IE, driving in rush-hour traffic would be more expensive, to try and persuade people to not drive then, solving traffic jams (Yes, our politicians apparently believe we dont mind sitting in traffic jams).
Also from what i understand from the proposal was that only highway, or at max country road traffic would be taxed, since citys dont get road-taxes right now anyway for maintenance, but i'm not quite sure.
Bottom line, the proposal was thankfully killed off because our government fell, when we finally get a new one, it'll probably take some time for the corrupt established order of clerks get it back on the roll, right in time for the next elections to shoot it down
i was thinking the same thing, many games arent FPS-capped anyway, and even in capped games, gamers will put the settings up so high that the game wont run at the capped framerate all the time
Graphic cards should be able to cope with it, although i do believe that it is possible to load a GPU in such a way that more transistors are active at the same time then the manufacturer thought would happen.
So unless there are reports of thousands of melted video cards, i call shens
well, just played a bit more, and it looks like ipod-launchtime is down to ~1 second, still noticably slower then before the ios4 update (and in my opinion completely unacceptable for a device sold as a music player), but this does help.
Perhaps i'll try rebooting the thing as well..
hmm, i havent noticed serious input lag, just that safari doing loading wont respond at all to inputs, and apps like ipod-app hang for ~5 secs when you open them
i hope they fix it, if they dont however, i wont care all that much, in a few months my ancient symbian powered nokia will be replaced by a HTC android device, which will also make my ipod redundant
just tried that on my ipod (which is basically iphone 3g hardware), and loading the ipod-app still takes noticable time, rather then being instantanious in 3.1.3
i really regret upgrading the ios 4, the only added function i can find is threaded email (of which apple's implementation SUCKS), and i got a serious performance drop
which is doubled-up.
Here in holland the prius/civic hybrid and other econo-mobiles dont pay any road-tax, and petrol is also rather heavily taxed. So a person who can not afford one of those new hybrids ends up paying for the hybrid owners both by road-tax, and by paying more petrol-levy per KM. All the while it is more econo-friendly to drive an older regular car, then build a new hybrid, including massive chemical batteries.
Apparently there is some talk in the dutch government about decreasing benefits for these kind of cars, since they blow too big of a hole in the tax-income, i read that 20% of all new cars sold this year are classed to not have to pay road-taxes (and significantly lower added taxes for lease-cars)
I think a flat-rate road-tax isnt really representative of what it is supposed to be, a tax to fund road-maintenance, so on principal i agree with sonme kind of per-mile tax, the problem with this is implementation, a previous scheme proposed here in holland would fit every car with a small GPS-tracking unit to collect data on how much they drive, and even tax them higher for driving in traffic hotspots during rush hour. This however is a MASSIVE invasion of privacy, and as our german neighbours already demonstrated, technically very much non-trivial (they failed to implement a similar system for trucks only). The other option would be to put all car-related tax on petrol/diesel, but that would drive people over the borders to feul up there, and allow plug-in hybrid people to use the road without paying.
it is rather hard to improve the stuff purely by theory alone.
Sure, after chernobyl we could have shut down every reactor on the planet, theorize for 50 years, and then build the most updated design, but we would have no practical experience with most of the theory, everything more advanced then basic "throw some fuel on a pile and boil water with it" would be purely theoretical, and the old practical knowledge could be long-forgotten and dead.
I'm not saying current reactor designs are the ultimate pinacle of reactor science, but it is certain that they are very much improved, and we could learn and advance by building them. If we only ever put stuff into use once we were 100% sure it is 100% safe and perfect, mankind would still be struggling with fire...
The photos are real, even if most of the story is bunk