But there is every reason to expect that I will no longer be able to choose from all laptops on the market and then just install linux on it like I have been doing for the last 15 years (much easier these days...everything just works TM); next year or the year after when I want to upgrade my laptop I will have to spend significantly longer looking to see which vendors supply an unlocked boot loader. If there is one available at all.
I am currently running an Asus Zenbook which is a great machine; I wonder if this will be possible in the near future, will I be able to buy a machine based on what I want or will I be restricted to 3 vendors and 4 models from each?
I have been running Ubuntu mostly; but from time to time have experimented with: Mint; Debian; Fedora; BSD; Tails and Qubes. And maybe a few others I can't remember. Are the days of trying a new OS for the weekend gone? (get spare HDD, load OS and test drive for the weekend, back to main OS HDD on Sunday night).
Agree; I have a pebble (original kickstarter edition) coming up on three years, still has 7 - 8 days battery life.
I have kickstarted the pebble time. With the smart band options that will likely be developed I see me getting an even longer life (battery and total lifetime) out of my new watch. Looking forward to receiving my new watch soonish.
I don't really see having such a small touch screen as an advantage.
Yes it did achieve the rating but apple does not "encourage" users to test this....I guess it would be fine in the shower but not the bath or swimming pool.
I have been getting this reciently also; really annoying, "click" wait...wait...wait hmmmm maybe I missed my click "click" them boom two windows popup.
Yep he is correct; I have seen this on 6 or so Win 7 machines I use on a regular basis; it is intermittent and sometimes weeks will go by between occurrences. Usually hitting F5 will refresh the dir cache.
From Wikipedia "From standstill, a single 450-tonne generator can synchronise and achieve full load in approximately 75 seconds"; as an engineer who has worked around power stations for a while; 12 seconds to 1320MW would be awesome but unlikely.
Agreed; I love my Kobo Aura HD; I very rarely use the light function preferring to use regular lights until I want to go to sleep, just like the tree meat books, and it lasts weeks between charges.
I can't read for pleasure on a glowing screen it is always distracting.
The reason is we are a threat; not now but in about 1000 years at current rates of technological advancement; so they take us out now to maintain their dominance of space etc...they take us out now because it is easy. So no we wouldn't see them coming and we wouldn't stand a chance.
This isn't as far fetched as some theories; and it gives the aliens a real motive to invade rather then the food / resources / bodies bollocks which makes no sense to me.
His name is "Brain" not "the Brain"....as in "what are we going to do tonight Brain?". "The same thing we do every night Pinky; try to take over the world!"
True; it isn't even close to 40000. I mean if you count regular power points that allow for a slow charge; well I have 4 in my garage and 30 or so in my house. I could only charge 3-4 cars at once since I only have an 80A capacity at home but that is nearly 20kW of capacity.
So if we count each house then the numbers are much much larger.
I have a smart TV + HTPC.....the TV has never had a net connection and it never will......out of the box it displayed things on the screen; what else does it need to do?
Well since I read TFA the volumes in question were 0.66 l and 0.22 l; clearly 0.22 is 1/3 as much as 0.66. Obviously the authors of the original article equate "times smaller" to "divided by". Hence my issue with the whole way "times smaller" is used; instead of "is a third of the size".
So are you looking for something like "The final..final solution: can the Nazi party get it right this time?" seems in bad taste, but hey if that is what you are looking for.
Wow just read this and the one thing that jumps off the page
"Google has been considering satellite-based Internet service for more than a year. In late 2013, it hired satellite-industry veteran Greg Wyler, who at one point last year had more than 10 African-Americans working for him. Mr. Wyler left Google last summer and is now developing his own satellite-Internet venture."
What kind of fucked up country are you living in where that is a salient point in an article about space based internet!!!! How is that relevant to the story?
In New Zealand (where I live) the cost of the call is paid by the caller not the receiver.....how can it possibly work out that the person who has no control of who is calling them is liable for the cost of calls? It makes no sense at all.
Thus in NZ you control how much you spend by controlling how much time you spend calling others; receiving calls is free.
That sucks; I have a 2009 Subaru Outback.....replacing the headlamps requires opening the bonnet (hood), on the drivers side removing a plastic air guide (passenger side is open), opening the back of the assembly (no tools required) and swapping out the bulb.
Takes about 10 minutes passenger side and 15 minutes drivers side. I usually have a set sitting in my spares kit so that speeds things up by not having to make a special trip to get new ones.
Not true; auto-transmission cannot yet know that there is a hill coming up and "pre-load" the gear ratio. I have driven some really good autos and mostly really bad autos. I currently have a Toyota 86, the auto box in that is amazing...the only time it has been it the "wrong" gear was either on the track going round a long sweeping corner where I wanted to stay in 3rd but it changed down to 2nd and when changing from being on the flat then up a steep hill.
Where as when I drive my manual Subaru Outback; I am always in the "correct" gear.
Yes the computer can calculate faster then I can; but it cannot (yet) perceive the upcoming road.
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But there is every reason to expect that I will no longer be able to choose from all laptops on the market and then just install linux on it like I have been doing for the last 15 years (much easier these days...everything just works TM); next year or the year after when I want to upgrade my laptop I will have to spend significantly longer looking to see which vendors supply an unlocked boot loader. If there is one available at all.
I am currently running an Asus Zenbook which is a great machine; I wonder if this will be possible in the near future, will I be able to buy a machine based on what I want or will I be restricted to 3 vendors and 4 models from each?
I have been running Ubuntu mostly; but from time to time have experimented with: Mint; Debian; Fedora; BSD; Tails and Qubes. And maybe a few others I can't remember. Are the days of trying a new OS for the weekend gone? (get spare HDD, load OS and test drive for the weekend, back to main OS HDD on Sunday night).
This is not true there are documented negative effects from placebos;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocebo
http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2011/08/21/the-other-side-of-the-placebo-effect/
Agree; I have a pebble (original kickstarter edition) coming up on three years, still has 7 - 8 days battery life.
I have kickstarted the pebble time. With the smart band options that will likely be developed I see me getting an even longer life (battery and total lifetime) out of my new watch. Looking forward to receiving my new watch soonish.
I don't really see having such a small touch screen as an advantage.
Yes it did achieve the rating but apple does not "encourage" users to test this....I guess it would be fine in the shower but not the bath or swimming pool.
I could really have used some mod points here.....well played.
I have been getting this reciently also; really annoying, "click" wait...wait...wait hmmmm maybe I missed my click "click" them boom two windows popup.
Yep he is correct; I have seen this on 6 or so Win 7 machines I use on a regular basis; it is intermittent and sometimes weeks will go by between occurrences. Usually hitting F5 will refresh the dir cache.
Where is a 3 digit grey beard when you need him. Note: not sexist; just assuming female grey beards are few and far between.
From Wikipedia "From standstill, a single 450-tonne generator can synchronise and achieve full load in approximately 75 seconds"; as an engineer who has worked around power stations for a while; 12 seconds to 1320MW would be awesome but unlikely.
Agreed; I love my Kobo Aura HD; I very rarely use the light function preferring to use regular lights until I want to go to sleep, just like the tree meat books, and it lasts weeks between charges.
I can't read for pleasure on a glowing screen it is always distracting.
Terrorist: "a person who uses terrorism in the pursuit of political aims."
The reason is we are a threat; not now but in about 1000 years at current rates of technological advancement; so they take us out now to maintain their dominance of space etc...they take us out now because it is easy. So no we wouldn't see them coming and we wouldn't stand a chance.
This isn't as far fetched as some theories; and it gives the aliens a real motive to invade rather then the food / resources / bodies bollocks which makes no sense to me.
His name is "Brain" not "the Brain"....as in "what are we going to do tonight Brain?". "The same thing we do every night Pinky; try to take over the world!"
True; it isn't even close to 40000. I mean if you count regular power points that allow for a slow charge; well I have 4 in my garage and 30 or so in my house. I could only charge 3-4 cars at once since I only have an 80A capacity at home but that is nearly 20kW of capacity.
So if we count each house then the numbers are much much larger.
I have a smart TV + HTPC.....the TV has never had a net connection and it never will......out of the box it displayed things on the screen; what else does it need to do?
Well since I read TFA the volumes in question were 0.66 l and 0.22 l; clearly 0.22 is 1/3 as much as 0.66. Obviously the authors of the original article equate "times smaller" to "divided by". Hence my issue with the whole way "times smaller" is used; instead of "is a third of the size".
Gah, I'm over it now.
So are you looking for something like "The final..final solution: can the Nazi party get it right this time?" seems in bad taste, but hey if that is what you are looking for.
Wow just read this and the one thing that jumps off the page
"Google has been considering satellite-based Internet service for more than a year. In late 2013, it hired satellite-industry veteran Greg Wyler, who at one point last year had more than 10 African-Americans working for him. Mr. Wyler left Google last summer and is now developing his own satellite-Internet venture."
What kind of fucked up country are you living in where that is a salient point in an article about space based internet!!!! How is that relevant to the story?
Why is your phone system backwards?
In New Zealand (where I live) the cost of the call is paid by the caller not the receiver.....how can it possibly work out that the person who has no control of who is calling them is liable for the cost of calls? It makes no sense at all.
Thus in NZ you control how much you spend by controlling how much time you spend calling others; receiving calls is free.
What a crap way of saying a third of the the volume.
3) long distance grandparents looking at newly arrived offspring.
Except that the players are chosen by lottery not by competence.
That sucks; I have a 2009 Subaru Outback.....replacing the headlamps requires opening the bonnet (hood), on the drivers side removing a plastic air guide (passenger side is open), opening the back of the assembly (no tools required) and swapping out the bulb.
Takes about 10 minutes passenger side and 15 minutes drivers side. I usually have a set sitting in my spares kit so that speeds things up by not having to make a special trip to get new ones.
...to liberate the oppressed locals
Not true; auto-transmission cannot yet know that there is a hill coming up and "pre-load" the gear ratio. I have driven some really good autos and mostly really bad autos. I currently have a Toyota 86, the auto box in that is amazing...the only time it has been it the "wrong" gear was either on the track going round a long sweeping corner where I wanted to stay in 3rd but it changed down to 2nd and when changing from being on the flat then up a steep hill.
Where as when I drive my manual Subaru Outback; I am always in the "correct" gear.
Yes the computer can calculate faster then I can; but it cannot (yet) perceive the upcoming road.