Error, should be: "Linux, even if you've got a great distribution and you can argue which one is better or not, still requires a lot more hands-on than somebody who is used to only using Windows."
That may well be what they meant.
Not everybody wants to spend time relearning all the computing conventions and learn new programs, try to figure out which program they need to use to do what they did with their old computer. You have a shot with new computer users, but when you have people that learned how do do things one way, unlearning it can be more irritating than it is worth. To them, they think they already have a lot of investment with the old system, they know how certain programs work, and given that they aren't necessarily technologically adept, they're not going to put in the effort to relearn everything. Products whose user interface is significantly differently than what the market is used to for the same thing aren't always met with success even if it's a major advancement in some other aspect of use.
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For me, the biggest hinderance is the cost of service. I don't travel a lot, but $15/day is exactly what I had to pay for my last hotel's internet service, and cellular internet is generally not as good as hotel WiFi, so I don't see the point in this device. Find some way that I can get device rental + service for $10/day or less, then maybe I'm interested.
Regarding the parabolic mic: What if there is a lot of noise pollution? Wouldn't be a big problem? Any noises bouncing off the house in question can easily mask what's going on inside.
Though bugging the house wouldn't have to mean having to be nearby if you have good receivers.
Just because you don't like it doesn't mean that Google thought of it as a success. Grand Central was rebranded and reworked, indicating that they thought it was a marketing failure. The fact that they only reluctantly accepted a small number of users really didn't help. If they couldn't scale it up in the way that they had expected, can it really be a success for them?
[quote]If they don't leave a voicemail, I don't bother calling back since I deem the call wasn't really urgent/necessary.[/quote]
The problem is that there really doesn't seem to be an agreed-upon social convention, and all these differences get to be irritating and reduce productivity or connectivity. Some people don't leave messages under any circumstances, so you're not going to get them from those people. Some people turn off refuse to check their voicemail or turn it off. I've had cases where voicemail was turned off and that was the only way to communicate to them in a reasonable time frame. These idiosyncrasies are annoying.
But those that do hate Hulu for that are directing their hate at the wrong organization. But given that they've only been in full operation for just over a year, expecting them to operate in every country is too much. They need to set up organizations to solicit advertising for each additional country and get deals with the sublicensees on a country basis. Their objective is to make money, but they can't do that so well with the rights deals that have been in place, and they can't do that by just giving away playback to everyone either, they need to pay their server and infrastructure expenses.
But doesn't it still at least have to be ratified?
The problem I see is that a treaty by any other name might not be treated as such, like what happened with the Status Of Forces Agreement with Iraq, which sounds like it should be considered a treaty and require ratification, but no one really made a fuss about it.
Still, it looks like a fork in the eye though, it seems to be worded to suggest that embedded systems aren't well designed architectures.
But I'm not involved in embedded systems, it might well be true, it seems to still be worded in a needlessly inflammatory way, even if it's not as inflammatory as the article snippet.
I read it as meaning that each culture of a different DNA is a different drug, which I can imagine some trying to push if they're trying to curtail stem sell research. The process does need to be tested. But is 20 years of testing necessary to properly test a treatment like this? Maybe that's all hyperbolic.
Conclusion: There is just no way to accurately measure with any kind of precision the number of active Linux machines and Linux users.
With a good sampling of sites, it is possible to get reasonably close. Obviously, you can't do your checks on one site or one kind of site. I see no reason why net applications and similar measurements should be cast into doubt because they aren't just checking a few sites, IIRC, it's a few thousand popular sites. Even if Linux dominates the less popular sites, the user base is enough smaller that you're not going to get a major shift in the proportion by adding 10x the number of sites.
True, but it's not as if there aren't efficiency gains to be had, the military budget is over $500 billion dollars. This is the country of a military that tries to justify $1000 hammers and pliers, and how expensive was that B2 bomber toilet seat again? Then there's the whole B2 business itself. And there's no-bid contracts, which the government seems to have quite the fetish for.
And I really don't think the US needs military bases in some 150 different countries, or 12 active carrier groups. Just about every district in the US has a military base, even many near Canada, a country that's not going to invade the US any time soon. A lot of military projects are basically pork.
HBO costs money, it's probably about $12 a month, it's high because it doesn't have many ads. The same with Showtime.
It's unfortunate that each of the other channels require payment though, it's not as if they don't stuff the channel with ads, they are bad ads and they are repeated to the max.
That assumes that this open graphics card is going to be anywhere near the commercial graphics chips any time soon. If you're already content with obsolete technology by going to VGA, then open source driver support isn't going to be a problem.
Well obviously it's of academic interest. American consumers have sunk billions into video card research and for the most part the implementations are shrouded in mystery locked up in labs.
The problem with this line is that the American consumers may have sunk billions into buying video cards, they were never promised any or all the knowledge required to build one. In other words, you bought a product, not the product design process process, and your line seems to suggest confusion on that part.
A lot of times, FPGAs are used for development. Once the design is proven, then you can go to etching into silicon. Almost nobody builds a fab for one chip, the good news is that chip fabs can make numerous different kinds of chips. There are many fabs that are willing to take any design that comes their way, as long as the money is there.
Personally, I'd prefer there be a setting to turn off the framing. Clicking the box to close it every time gets a little old. I'm not going to get angry about it, there's enough crap that takes screen space that I start thinking of alternatives.
The problem that I see is that these kinds of devices are pretty obvious about containing a camera. I'm sure a dedicated microcamera using the same kind of module and some compact electronics could be better concealed than an iPhone or a notebook computer. I think one can be easily made that's about the size of a dinner mint with inexpensive and mostly off the shelf parts, if you don't require a screen.
Five pages really isn't bad though, there's a lot of reading per page, whereas a typical site might have one page or more for the explanation as to why each chip was considered significant.
Also, just listing the "winners" doesn't do justice to the article.
You also need the backhaul capacity, setting up wireless-only repeaters really raises the congestion. I also find that if I want a wireless network device, often the best way to do it is to hook it up to a wired network that has a wireless access point.
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Error, should be: "Linux, even if you've got a great distribution and you can argue which one is better or not, still requires a lot more hands-on than somebody who is used to only using Windows."
That may well be what they meant.
Not everybody wants to spend time relearning all the computing conventions and learn new programs, try to figure out which program they need to use to do what they did with their old computer. You have a shot with new computer users, but when you have people that learned how do do things one way, unlearning it can be more irritating than it is worth. To them, they think they already have a lot of investment with the old system, they know how certain programs work, and given that they aren't necessarily technologically adept, they're not going to put in the effort to relearn everything. Products whose user interface is significantly differently than what the market is used to for the same thing aren't always met with success even if it's a major advancement in some other aspect of use.
For me, the biggest hinderance is the cost of service. I don't travel a lot, but $15/day is exactly what I had to pay for my last hotel's internet service, and cellular internet is generally not as good as hotel WiFi, so I don't see the point in this device. Find some way that I can get device rental + service for $10/day or less, then maybe I'm interested.
Regarding the parabolic mic: What if there is a lot of noise pollution? Wouldn't be a big problem? Any noises bouncing off the house in question can easily mask what's going on inside.
Though bugging the house wouldn't have to mean having to be nearby if you have good receivers.
Just because you don't like it doesn't mean that Google thought of it as a success. Grand Central was rebranded and reworked, indicating that they thought it was a marketing failure. The fact that they only reluctantly accepted a small number of users really didn't help. If they couldn't scale it up in the way that they had expected, can it really be a success for them?
[quote]If they don't leave a voicemail, I don't bother calling back since I deem the call wasn't really urgent/necessary.[/quote]
The problem is that there really doesn't seem to be an agreed-upon social convention, and all these differences get to be irritating and reduce productivity or connectivity. Some people don't leave messages under any circumstances, so you're not going to get them from those people. Some people turn off refuse to check their voicemail or turn it off. I've had cases where voicemail was turned off and that was the only way to communicate to them in a reasonable time frame. These idiosyncrasies are annoying.
But those that do hate Hulu for that are directing their hate at the wrong organization. But given that they've only been in full operation for just over a year, expecting them to operate in every country is too much. They need to set up organizations to solicit advertising for each additional country and get deals with the sublicensees on a country basis. Their objective is to make money, but they can't do that so well with the rights deals that have been in place, and they can't do that by just giving away playback to everyone either, they need to pay their server and infrastructure expenses.
But doesn't it still at least have to be ratified?
The problem I see is that a treaty by any other name might not be treated as such, like what happened with the Status Of Forces Agreement with Iraq, which sounds like it should be considered a treaty and require ratification, but no one really made a fuss about it.
Still, it looks like a fork in the eye though, it seems to be worded to suggest that embedded systems aren't well designed architectures.
But I'm not involved in embedded systems, it might well be true, it seems to still be worded in a needlessly inflammatory way, even if it's not as inflammatory as the article snippet.
I read it as meaning that each culture of a different DNA is a different drug, which I can imagine some trying to push if they're trying to curtail stem sell research. The process does need to be tested. But is 20 years of testing necessary to properly test a treatment like this? Maybe that's all hyperbolic.
If a rubbish tabloid site like ValleyWag says it's bunk, then it's not even a shadow of a story.
Conclusion: There is just no way to accurately measure with any kind of precision the number of active Linux machines and Linux users.
With a good sampling of sites, it is possible to get reasonably close. Obviously, you can't do your checks on one site or one kind of site. I see no reason why net applications and similar measurements should be cast into doubt because they aren't just checking a few sites, IIRC, it's a few thousand popular sites. Even if Linux dominates the less popular sites, the user base is enough smaller that you're not going to get a major shift in the proportion by adding 10x the number of sites.
True, but it's not as if there aren't efficiency gains to be had, the military budget is over $500 billion dollars. This is the country of a military that tries to justify $1000 hammers and pliers, and how expensive was that B2 bomber toilet seat again? Then there's the whole B2 business itself. And there's no-bid contracts, which the government seems to have quite the fetish for.
And I really don't think the US needs military bases in some 150 different countries, or 12 active carrier groups. Just about every district in the US has a military base, even many near Canada, a country that's not going to invade the US any time soon. A lot of military projects are basically pork.
HBO costs money, it's probably about $12 a month, it's high because it doesn't have many ads. The same with Showtime.
It's unfortunate that each of the other channels require payment though, it's not as if they don't stuff the channel with ads, they are bad ads and they are repeated to the max.
You should be able to get PBS over the air.
That assumes that this open graphics card is going to be anywhere near the commercial graphics chips any time soon. If you're already content with obsolete technology by going to VGA, then open source driver support isn't going to be a problem.
Well obviously it's of academic interest. American consumers have sunk billions into video card research and for the most part the implementations are shrouded in mystery locked up in labs.
The problem with this line is that the American consumers may have sunk billions into buying video cards, they were never promised any or all the knowledge required to build one. In other words, you bought a product, not the product design process process, and your line seems to suggest confusion on that part.
A lot of times, FPGAs are used for development. Once the design is proven, then you can go to etching into silicon. Almost nobody builds a fab for one chip, the good news is that chip fabs can make numerous different kinds of chips. There are many fabs that are willing to take any design that comes their way, as long as the money is there.
If you're trying to say I missed the point of the GP post, fine.
But you had either twisted my words to mean what I clearly didn't say, missed the point of what I was trying to say or both.
There is a setting to disable it
That depends, for which sites? Several sites do it, and I haven't found any such setting on the site that I use.
Personally, I'd prefer there be a setting to turn off the framing. Clicking the box to close it every time gets a little old. I'm not going to get angry about it, there's enough crap that takes screen space that I start thinking of alternatives.
If these companies have trouble monetizing this new approach, that won't exactly break my heart, though.
Would it though, if they had to cancel your favorite show because there just isn't enough money to justify making it?
I mean, your attitude is basically demanding that the show producers take a 90% cut in revenue or else you're not happy.
The problem that I see is that these kinds of devices are pretty obvious about containing a camera. I'm sure a dedicated microcamera using the same kind of module and some compact electronics could be better concealed than an iPhone or a notebook computer. I think one can be easily made that's about the size of a dinner mint with inexpensive and mostly off the shelf parts, if you don't require a screen.
Five pages really isn't bad though, there's a lot of reading per page, whereas a typical site might have one page or more for the explanation as to why each chip was considered significant.
Also, just listing the "winners" doesn't do justice to the article.
WTF? Good one. I didn't realize that providing suggestions or commentary on their choice of name is denying them the right to self label.
You also need the backhaul capacity, setting up wireless-only repeaters really raises the congestion. I also find that if I want a wireless network device, often the best way to do it is to hook it up to a wired network that has a wireless access point.
Everybody complained that Spider-Man 3 tried to cram too many different characters and plots together.
I'd say they're probably right. It's just the part where the fans angsty about that is when they're taking it too seriously.