I have a 21" CRT at that res tucked away, so not using it. The increase in area of the 24" LCD monitor is much nicer in my opinion. I do agree though, moving from CRT monitors was hard, there were so many advantages from CRT's that it was really tough, stuff like no native resolution (optimal yes, but not native), no input lag, you may also view a softer image as a plus if you prefer them. What I liked about 1920x1200 was that I could still run 1600x1200 stuff in its native resolution as well as 1920x1080 with black bars.
It's not access to guns, crime rates are much more closely related to socio-economic and socio-cultural factors. It's a distorted notion that more guns equals more crime, when there are numerous examples where there was rampant crime with lots of guns, and no guns, and little crime with no guns or lots of guns.
In other words, it's no accident that the most disadvantaged and poorest groups of people tend to be the most prevalent to commit crime. If you want good examples, look at iceland, population of 300,000 people, there's 90,000 firearms there, and almost no crime.The guns have nothing to do with crime rates, again it's socio-economic and socio-cultural factors.
My SGS1 had a battery bug where it wouldn't switch off the SoC, so the phone would be idle with screen off in my pocket. The battery would drain from full in about 6 hours. There was no way to see it happening either, unless i checked the battery chart and saw it was depleting quickly, for no reason. A few times i was caught out when it was too late.
It's now telling me something about making a channel. Iunno, this crap i don't understand. But point still stands, it makes me do some crap to comment, which i couldn't be bothered to do. And if they charged to watch stuff, it'd be even quicker for me to be less bothered.
I think the idea was somewhat premature or underdone. I think that it wouldn't have needed much work to not appear to laugh at the user for not having a touch screen monitor, in my case, i still use a desktop. My biggest gripe was the scrolling. Why on earth did they think it would be a good idea to introduce horizontal scrolling in preference to vertical scrolling, which PC's have been doing for ages... It just seems ridiculous that desktops and pretty much all other existing PC's were discarded so quickly.
I also didn't like the duplicitous software. The metro versions of various apps such as windows media player, sucked, compared to previous ones (the vista WMP ironically, was my favourite) and messenger was also quite awful, but that doesn't matter since messenger is more or less gone. It really felt overall that windows 8 was two separate systems battling each other for dominance, rather than complimenting each other properly. I think a better angle would have been to keep the desktop focus, but morph the start button into the start screen, ie click start button in the desktop and you go to the screen.
I got frustrated enough to go back to windows 7, i think the main thing is that the compromised against the desktop environment, and i think that was a mistake which they're learning. It had some good ideas, but they hedged against the inertia of existing hardware and installations. Win8 really wants new hardware like touch screens, which i don't think would really improve the experience, just remove the newly added frustrations, because it had been designed for it. Meanwhile i'm loving my windows phone 8 lumia. That's great, also needs work from microsoft, but it gets the basics right.
I don't even post comments on youtube ever since they made the google plus thing a requirement. No way i'm ever going to pay for freaking cat videos. Youtube was different because it gave a medium for anyone to have videos put up. Paying for it is kind of going against the grain of what youtube really is. I suppose the subscription service is more along the lines of netflix and hulu (none of which are available in australia, as far as i know). I guess google sees that as potential advertising space.
But i think the critical thing is, the phone isn't necessarily what enables you to do your job, for most people, you also don't go about ringing up carpenters outside of their work hours to come in and do more work when it suits you (or rather, they sure as shit won't do it for nothing). I think at the heart of it, well for me, is this problem, that i don't want to be contactable outside of work hours. If they provide the phone, and make the agreement, then that's a bit different.
My old man worked for a telco and he said that when mobile phones were creeping around to his department, but still weren't all that common, a lot of people looked with envy on someone who had their lunch interrupted with a phone call. I even had discussions with my boss, as i was complaining about dealing with landline phones, and he said that the gloss for phones wore off for him (he was a sucker on the status symbol of a mobile phone) was when he was at a urinal and someone pissed on him as they were fumbling around trying to get their phone and answer it.
My telco explicitly states that my phone plan isn't to be used for commercial stuff. I'd hate to be in the company you described, sounds like they have an attitude of screw everyone, including employees.
A subsidy seems ok, but having experienced the joys of unpaid overtime, i really want to keep all this stuff as separate as possible. So if they want me to be contactable, they should be providing that stuff, and more to the point, I shouldn't be doing work outside work hours.
Exactly right. I'll pay attention to this when police forces and militaries use them. Beyond that, people don't realise how simple firearms are, so this is just trying to pacify public health departments who think this is an ingenious solution. It won't get adopted anywhere.
Yea, i've tried freecad, and it just feels completely different, i couldn't figure out how to rotate the part, whereas, i've used solid edge, and am using solidworks, and they're so similar to each other that it doesn't really matter. Fortunately I have network licenses of solidworks to use at home, but i wouldn't mind trying inventor since i've gotten quite annoyed with the certified GPU requirements of solidworks, whereas inventor has departed from opengl to go to directx.
3D modelling software i've used lets you import bitmap pictures.
I'm no cad expert, but i use it a fair bit as a mechanical engineer, and the basic idea behind it is, you can draw things, but CAD software is so much more than just drawing, most useful programs include or offer packages for finite element analysis with particles, stress, displacement and heat transfer, or motion studies. So for me, the software, while not always incredibly intuitive to use, it's brilliant because it does other things which i wouldn't be able to do without a computer.
The 3D printing crowd are probably less interested in this sort of stuff, they just want to draw something, make it, then using a process of trial and error, make a model 2 if need be. Whereas the current procedure is all that way because it just attached itself to the CNC environment style of workflow, where making is expensive, and you optimise as much as possible, before making it. FEA is something which, also is not straight forward to teach, without going through the underpinning theory, it's very easy to get wrong results.
That's funny, because according to gaben, when L4D2 was being released, the boycott group was actually one of the fastest purchasing groups of any. Gamers are probably the most fickle bunch around.
I've done the same thing, had a SGS1, which was software wise, an abortion of a phone, as it didn't work well (probably due to carrier related fw) so i moved up to a nokia L920. WP8 still has a lot of catching up to do, software wise, however the the lumia hardware is excellent.
But homogeneous laws haven't really done anything for Australia (except suicide via a firearm, which didn't reflect any change on overall suicide at all). Organised criminals have been importing firearms, and not even from the USA. If crims want guns, they'll get them. Crims have a nasty habit of not obeying laws.
It could be my carrier version. Ultimately, now, i don't care, but i do recognise, that it's incredibly easy to get badly burnt with android. Other people i'd spoken to, though, had much the same problems; they either went to CFW or bought a second battery and put up with it.
Thanks for that, it is interesting to see it, i knew eyes weren't as sensitive to blue (read stuff in target shooting books which deal with the science of sight), but, i had a pentile phone, and it failed drawing straight lines, photos, it was good, you couldn't see any problems, but text and any sort of browsers, it certainly didn't look right. It would be interesting if those tests were done to a picture of text, and then see the difference.
Every analogy has its problems, but the point i'm making is that, you had to change critical criteria to get good functionality, the phone i had, it wouldn't make calls reliably, it wouldn't get good internet connections at times, you could lock the screen and the SoC would keep on ticking away as before, sucking the guts out of the battery in 4 hours, the phone was very unresponsive. A reboot was required almost daily, just to get the phone to do something. Sometimes it would even crash when booting, and restart, other times, it would literally take 10 minutes to get out of the startup screen.
My car analogy works in the sense that, the touchscreen computer is a minor thing to a car, people don't look at the touchscreen and decide whether the car is the best thing made on the planet, it has to do its car functions well. Compared to the phone, data connection, battery life, and OS responsiveness are not minor things to a smartphone; to compare it with a car, it's the car equivalent of one which has very little power, poor fuel economy, uncomfortable seats, and poor handling. You can't patch those out with firmware in a vehicle, fortunately, you can with a phone, but that's irrelevant with what i'm saying, because it's criteria relative to what is being examined
Credit goes to where it's due, it's not samsung who made the phone a good one, credit belongs to the aftermarket community, who provide better firmware. I just couldn't be bothered dabbling with it, and thought better to just buy a phone from a competent maker. It was my first smartphone, and i more or less got the worst possible experience. Some people told me that google phones were better due to updates. I wasn't too fussed about updates, because if the phone worked, big deal, my previous phones never got updates, and they were fine. I was very wrong about that for two reasons, bugs, and the fact that the update platform is so woefully inadequate. Had the phone worked, i wouldn't have been as concerned that it was stuck on gingerbread, but being a buggy mess, coupled with no updates, really put me off samsung and to some extent android.
I just didn't want to have to bother with custom roms, i wanted a good phone out of the box. It's good that android is able to get the community support like it does, but for me, it's just not worth the trouble. With stock firmware, it had battery bugs killing the phone in 4-6 hours while it was sitting in my pocket, it would be unresponsive at times, needing the battery to be pulled out almost daily. It had uninstallable bloatware. The hardware was fine, i'm not criticising that, by problems were purely software.
If anything, the fact that the only people who praised the were ones who rooted and ran cfw, says something. It's like buying a new car (yes obligatory car analogy), replacing the engine, the gearbox, the seats, the suspension and wheels, and only then saying it's the best car you've ever bought. It annoys me that, to get a good android phone, you have to do all the tinkering, researching; I just couldn't be bothered, so i bought a nokia lumia 920 instead, and while WP8 has its problems, i'm very happy with the phone.
I just look at it from a PC gaming perspective. Doing things at 1080p reduces frame rates somewhat more than 720p. There are 2.25 as many pixels, all requiring, data, so that's 2.25 times the data that needs to be sent, you need more bandwidth, and your processing, to be at the same level, clearly needs to be better. Yes screen brightness plays a major role, but that will only relate to screen size. Upscaling or downscaling is trivial computationally, maybe they just upscale things, but it would look awful.
I suppose you could see a difference, i like amoled screens because the blacks are incredibly good, and colours are quite vibrant, but i googled about it being pentile and there doesn't appear to be solid confirmation, but some sites are saying it's a pentile screen, which in effect means 2 sub pixels per pixel.
If you compare subpixel density, the SGS4 is 882 subpixels per inch, my lumia 920 is 1280x768 with a pixel density of 332, comprising three sub pixels and 4.5 inches, therefore the subpixel density is 996 per inch, therefore if it was pentile it would be 498 ppi. Both of them are really small, and not really a big difference, but i think it's a bit misleading to directly compare pentile screens with proper sub pixel layouts.
My old SGS1, that was obviously inferior with its pentile arrangement. It couldn't draw straight lines, and on a solid colour screen, one edge was green. Pictures were very nice to look at though, but web browsers and text, were not very good at all.
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I have a 21" CRT at that res tucked away, so not using it. The increase in area of the 24" LCD monitor is much nicer in my opinion. I do agree though, moving from CRT monitors was hard, there were so many advantages from CRT's that it was really tough, stuff like no native resolution (optimal yes, but not native), no input lag, you may also view a softer image as a plus if you prefer them. What I liked about 1920x1200 was that I could still run 1600x1200 stuff in its native resolution as well as 1920x1080 with black bars.
Yep, although my monitor is 1920x1200, it's going to take a while for me to move along from that, unless there is a 3840x2400.
It's not access to guns, crime rates are much more closely related to socio-economic and socio-cultural factors. It's a distorted notion that more guns equals more crime, when there are numerous examples where there was rampant crime with lots of guns, and no guns, and little crime with no guns or lots of guns.
In other words, it's no accident that the most disadvantaged and poorest groups of people tend to be the most prevalent to commit crime. If you want good examples, look at iceland, population of 300,000 people, there's 90,000 firearms there, and almost no crime.The guns have nothing to do with crime rates, again it's socio-economic and socio-cultural factors.
My SGS1 had a battery bug where it wouldn't switch off the SoC, so the phone would be idle with screen off in my pocket. The battery would drain from full in about 6 hours. There was no way to see it happening either, unless i checked the battery chart and saw it was depleting quickly, for no reason. A few times i was caught out when it was too late.
It's now telling me something about making a channel. Iunno, this crap i don't understand. But point still stands, it makes me do some crap to comment, which i couldn't be bothered to do. And if they charged to watch stuff, it'd be even quicker for me to be less bothered.
I think the idea was somewhat premature or underdone. I think that it wouldn't have needed much work to not appear to laugh at the user for not having a touch screen monitor, in my case, i still use a desktop. My biggest gripe was the scrolling. Why on earth did they think it would be a good idea to introduce horizontal scrolling in preference to vertical scrolling, which PC's have been doing for ages... It just seems ridiculous that desktops and pretty much all other existing PC's were discarded so quickly.
I also didn't like the duplicitous software. The metro versions of various apps such as windows media player, sucked, compared to previous ones (the vista WMP ironically, was my favourite) and messenger was also quite awful, but that doesn't matter since messenger is more or less gone. It really felt overall that windows 8 was two separate systems battling each other for dominance, rather than complimenting each other properly. I think a better angle would have been to keep the desktop focus, but morph the start button into the start screen, ie click start button in the desktop and you go to the screen.
I got frustrated enough to go back to windows 7, i think the main thing is that the compromised against the desktop environment, and i think that was a mistake which they're learning. It had some good ideas, but they hedged against the inertia of existing hardware and installations. Win8 really wants new hardware like touch screens, which i don't think would really improve the experience, just remove the newly added frustrations, because it had been designed for it. Meanwhile i'm loving my windows phone 8 lumia. That's great, also needs work from microsoft, but it gets the basics right.
I don't even post comments on youtube ever since they made the google plus thing a requirement. No way i'm ever going to pay for freaking cat videos. Youtube was different because it gave a medium for anyone to have videos put up. Paying for it is kind of going against the grain of what youtube really is. I suppose the subscription service is more along the lines of netflix and hulu (none of which are available in australia, as far as i know). I guess google sees that as potential advertising space.
But i think the critical thing is, the phone isn't necessarily what enables you to do your job, for most people, you also don't go about ringing up carpenters outside of their work hours to come in and do more work when it suits you (or rather, they sure as shit won't do it for nothing). I think at the heart of it, well for me, is this problem, that i don't want to be contactable outside of work hours. If they provide the phone, and make the agreement, then that's a bit different.
My old man worked for a telco and he said that when mobile phones were creeping around to his department, but still weren't all that common, a lot of people looked with envy on someone who had their lunch interrupted with a phone call. I even had discussions with my boss, as i was complaining about dealing with landline phones, and he said that the gloss for phones wore off for him (he was a sucker on the status symbol of a mobile phone) was when he was at a urinal and someone pissed on him as they were fumbling around trying to get their phone and answer it.
My telco explicitly states that my phone plan isn't to be used for commercial stuff. I'd hate to be in the company you described, sounds like they have an attitude of screw everyone, including employees.
A subsidy seems ok, but having experienced the joys of unpaid overtime, i really want to keep all this stuff as separate as possible. So if they want me to be contactable, they should be providing that stuff, and more to the point, I shouldn't be doing work outside work hours.
It's a bread and circus er ship, whatever you call that. We have some world leading corrupt parliamentarians.
Exactly right. I'll pay attention to this when police forces and militaries use them. Beyond that, people don't realise how simple firearms are, so this is just trying to pacify public health departments who think this is an ingenious solution. It won't get adopted anywhere.
No really, http://au.gamespot.com/left-4-dead-2/videos/gabe-newell-behind-left-4-dead-2-and-beyond-interview-6238431/ Watch it at around 3:30.
There's also this picture http://www.ardemk.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Boycott-Modern-Warfare-2.jpg
Yea, i've tried freecad, and it just feels completely different, i couldn't figure out how to rotate the part, whereas, i've used solid edge, and am using solidworks, and they're so similar to each other that it doesn't really matter. Fortunately I have network licenses of solidworks to use at home, but i wouldn't mind trying inventor since i've gotten quite annoyed with the certified GPU requirements of solidworks, whereas inventor has departed from opengl to go to directx.
3D modelling software i've used lets you import bitmap pictures.
I'm no cad expert, but i use it a fair bit as a mechanical engineer, and the basic idea behind it is, you can draw things, but CAD software is so much more than just drawing, most useful programs include or offer packages for finite element analysis with particles, stress, displacement and heat transfer, or motion studies. So for me, the software, while not always incredibly intuitive to use, it's brilliant because it does other things which i wouldn't be able to do without a computer.
The 3D printing crowd are probably less interested in this sort of stuff, they just want to draw something, make it, then using a process of trial and error, make a model 2 if need be. Whereas the current procedure is all that way because it just attached itself to the CNC environment style of workflow, where making is expensive, and you optimise as much as possible, before making it. FEA is something which, also is not straight forward to teach, without going through the underpinning theory, it's very easy to get wrong results.
That's funny, because according to gaben, when L4D2 was being released, the boycott group was actually one of the fastest purchasing groups of any. Gamers are probably the most fickle bunch around.
I've done the same thing, had a SGS1, which was software wise, an abortion of a phone, as it didn't work well (probably due to carrier related fw) so i moved up to a nokia L920. WP8 still has a lot of catching up to do, software wise, however the the lumia hardware is excellent.
But homogeneous laws haven't really done anything for Australia (except suicide via a firearm, which didn't reflect any change on overall suicide at all). Organised criminals have been importing firearms, and not even from the USA. If crims want guns, they'll get them. Crims have a nasty habit of not obeying laws.
It could be my carrier version. Ultimately, now, i don't care, but i do recognise, that it's incredibly easy to get badly burnt with android. Other people i'd spoken to, though, had much the same problems; they either went to CFW or bought a second battery and put up with it.
Thanks for that, it is interesting to see it, i knew eyes weren't as sensitive to blue (read stuff in target shooting books which deal with the science of sight), but, i had a pentile phone, and it failed drawing straight lines, photos, it was good, you couldn't see any problems, but text and any sort of browsers, it certainly didn't look right. It would be interesting if those tests were done to a picture of text, and then see the difference.
I went to a nokia lumia 920. Windows phone has its problems, but overall, i'm very happy with the phone.
Every analogy has its problems, but the point i'm making is that, you had to change critical criteria to get good functionality, the phone i had, it wouldn't make calls reliably, it wouldn't get good internet connections at times, you could lock the screen and the SoC would keep on ticking away as before, sucking the guts out of the battery in 4 hours, the phone was very unresponsive. A reboot was required almost daily, just to get the phone to do something. Sometimes it would even crash when booting, and restart, other times, it would literally take 10 minutes to get out of the startup screen.
My car analogy works in the sense that, the touchscreen computer is a minor thing to a car, people don't look at the touchscreen and decide whether the car is the best thing made on the planet, it has to do its car functions well. Compared to the phone, data connection, battery life, and OS responsiveness are not minor things to a smartphone; to compare it with a car, it's the car equivalent of one which has very little power, poor fuel economy, uncomfortable seats, and poor handling. You can't patch those out with firmware in a vehicle, fortunately, you can with a phone, but that's irrelevant with what i'm saying, because it's criteria relative to what is being examined
Credit goes to where it's due, it's not samsung who made the phone a good one, credit belongs to the aftermarket community, who provide better firmware. I just couldn't be bothered dabbling with it, and thought better to just buy a phone from a competent maker. It was my first smartphone, and i more or less got the worst possible experience. Some people told me that google phones were better due to updates. I wasn't too fussed about updates, because if the phone worked, big deal, my previous phones never got updates, and they were fine. I was very wrong about that for two reasons, bugs, and the fact that the update platform is so woefully inadequate. Had the phone worked, i wouldn't have been as concerned that it was stuck on gingerbread, but being a buggy mess, coupled with no updates, really put me off samsung and to some extent android.
I just didn't want to have to bother with custom roms, i wanted a good phone out of the box. It's good that android is able to get the community support like it does, but for me, it's just not worth the trouble. With stock firmware, it had battery bugs killing the phone in 4-6 hours while it was sitting in my pocket, it would be unresponsive at times, needing the battery to be pulled out almost daily. It had uninstallable bloatware. The hardware was fine, i'm not criticising that, by problems were purely software.
If anything, the fact that the only people who praised the were ones who rooted and ran cfw, says something. It's like buying a new car (yes obligatory car analogy), replacing the engine, the gearbox, the seats, the suspension and wheels, and only then saying it's the best car you've ever bought. It annoys me that, to get a good android phone, you have to do all the tinkering, researching; I just couldn't be bothered, so i bought a nokia lumia 920 instead, and while WP8 has its problems, i'm very happy with the phone.
I just look at it from a PC gaming perspective. Doing things at 1080p reduces frame rates somewhat more than 720p. There are 2.25 as many pixels, all requiring, data, so that's 2.25 times the data that needs to be sent, you need more bandwidth, and your processing, to be at the same level, clearly needs to be better. Yes screen brightness plays a major role, but that will only relate to screen size. Upscaling or downscaling is trivial computationally, maybe they just upscale things, but it would look awful.
I suppose you could see a difference, i like amoled screens because the blacks are incredibly good, and colours are quite vibrant, but i googled about it being pentile and there doesn't appear to be solid confirmation, but some sites are saying it's a pentile screen, which in effect means 2 sub pixels per pixel.
If you compare subpixel density, the SGS4 is 882 subpixels per inch, my lumia 920 is 1280x768 with a pixel density of 332, comprising three sub pixels and 4.5 inches, therefore the subpixel density is 996 per inch, therefore if it was pentile it would be 498 ppi. Both of them are really small, and not really a big difference, but i think it's a bit misleading to directly compare pentile screens with proper sub pixel layouts.
My old SGS1, that was obviously inferior with its pentile arrangement. It couldn't draw straight lines, and on a solid colour screen, one edge was green. Pictures were very nice to look at though, but web browsers and text, were not very good at all.