my motorola xoom uses the same tegra 2 chip (tegras are dual-core ARM chips + GPU) and it gets 10 hours of video playback using _software_ codec. using optimized video files than play using hardware acceleration, i get 12 hours out of it. web browsing, i can get a comfy 12 hours too.
using sparingly, i got a whole weekend visiting my mother and still had some 10% of the charge when i got home.
tablets are great on the battery side. i don't know how much one can get from an ipad2, but being apple, the number might be even better.
it's no my country. my coutry is brasil, which ALSO suffered from american imperialism back in 1964 when your government armed and supported (including a carrier parked near rio de janeiro) the military coup that overthrew a democratically elected government, just because said govt. was socialist leaning. people from my family died fighting the coup in the araguaia guerilla, and their bodies were left to rot under the sun.
but back to afghanistan, your government used as bargaining chip that they'd help rebuild the country after the soviet were gone. well, they broke their word, and that part of the world, promisses are sacred. you break your word, you pay the price.
the religious tensions i'm sure have nothing to do with the fact that your government convinced the taliban to fight a proxy war against the USSR, then after the commies went back home, you just left them with the country in ruins, the economy colapsed and not even a "thank you" note.
oh, the inconditional support to israel's near genocidal policies have nothing to do with it either.
you know, there's only so much bullying and lying you can get away with before someone slams an airplane or three in your buildings.
music CDs have a high tolerance for errors. most old school CD players (think units from the 90's early 00's) use very simple error correction, mostly because with 128.000 bytes of data for every second of music, even a few hundred wrong bytes passing through the DAC won't make much of a difference in what we hear.
now, since optical drives are not all the same, different drives might pick up different errors while reading the disk, resulting in different bitstreams. when fed to the encoder, this will result in different finished MP3s.
also, if the encoder changes slightly how it encodes the file depending on the environment (kind of CPU, ammount of RAM, OS version, etc.) it can also generate different files, even if the source bitstream is identical.
IG farben was spited in several of it's components. the four largest ones were bayer, BASF, agfa and hoechst. they bought the smaller ones during the years, and agfa is now part of aventis.
the client i supported in my previous job still had a bunch of PPros running SCO unixware (yeah, i know, SCO is a surso word in/. , but keep in mind those servers were there running for some 12 years) and they run fine.
and it wasn't a flop in the server market. in my whole career (some 16 years of network, wnidows, unix and linux administration) i saw a lot o PPros running as servers. think on it as the the first incarnation of xeon.
most of the people i know who owns android devices bought them for 2 reasons:
- price - don't need itunes
thing is, itunes on windows doesn't HAVE bugs. IT IS a bug. my friends and coworkers that own iphones dislikes it and would ditch it at the first oportunity. up until now, since itunes was necessary so you could just use the damn phones as phones was a deal breaker for most people.
but even now that apple partially caught up with times and made it possible to activate the phones without using that POS application, you still need it to put music on it, the alternative being paying 25 bucks to use their "cloud" service.
meanwhile, with my milestone and my xoom, i can just plug the thing on any USB port and just copy whatever it is to them using standard tools available in any linux distro or windows box. and in the odd case i don't have a micro-USB cable at hand (the standard is new, so the cables still aren't as widespread as mini-USB), i can just copy stuff from a file share via wifi.
this kind of freedom and use of standards is what makes android the choice for me. if some day apple adopts a similar atitude, maybe i'll give them a chance.
samsung can, not only because they're HUGE, but also because they can make their own chips if they decide to ditch tegra2. remember that samsung is the current manufacturer of apple's Ax chips.
the parent may have espressed himself badly, but the fact is, people making money out of opensource don't deny people who want it for free the access to it.
so the idea is, if the NYT wants free labor, the result should be left free too, they can then make money in an indirect way (ads perhaps), not by putting it behind a paywall.
now, if they want to block it with a paywall, the least they can do is give one year free access to everyone who contributes.
i play solitare on my phone and angry birds on the xoom, but that's it.
touch screen sucks for almost everything else. ever tried an FPS on a touch screen ? it's painfull.
now, the xperia play is the right idea done by the wrong company. if it was from LG, motorola, samsung, i'd might consider it. from sony ? definetly no.
now, if only nintendo would put a baseband radio on the 3DS...
I am the only one seeing this as the next big platform for file sharing ? one that doesn't require an external client like bittorrent does ?
other advantage, the possibility of using SSL long before starting a search/download would completly block bittorrent monitoring companies from reporting users media associations, if done right.
my system is not "so unstable that i don't dare to login in GUI". it's a just that i got bitten in the ass a couple of times in the past by new kernels breaking the proprietary drivers, which means rolling back the kernel by hand.
oh, you probably tought that my system is "unstable" because i used the word on my post right ? well, read it again, i said i use "debian unstable", which in debian lingo means "debian beta". but based on my own experience, debian unstable is of higher quality, more stable than the most recent "stable" ubuntus.
there's still some stuff in pana that clementine don't do yet, at least not as well. one is support for scripts (at least i couldn't find it), transcoding on the context menu, configuration of transcoding options (bitrate, sampling size, etc), a separate tab on the side bar for playlists, instead of several tabs on the top, and other small stuff...
bring a different, but no less valid point of view to the discussion ?
i'm still on windowmaker, another mid-90s WM. it's clean, fast, practical and allows me to do some tricks at work that makes me much more productive than the guys who use gnome/unity/kde.
before someone mods me '-1 flamebait', let say a few things:
1- NOT a gnome fanboy. i dislike gnome in all it's incarnations, always did. 2- i use windowmaker. always have, always will 3- i only had parts of KDE installed to use some of it's applications from inside wmaker (mostly K3B, koppete, ktorrent and dolphin)
now, in the last two weeks i apt-get purged all things KDE4 from my system (kept only pana, a fork of amarok 1.4). the reason is that newer versions of KDE were starting to interfere with my way of doing things. what tipped the scale was keyboard configuration.
you see, i don't use graphical login managers, i log from good old fashion console, then type "startx" by hand. i consider this a must, since i use debian unstable, so breakeage of x.org because of updated kernel, ati drivers, etc sometimes happens. this means i have keyboard with swapped ctrl and caps lock, as well as locale (pt_BR) configured on the console. with wmaker i don't even need a keyboard section on xorg.conf, it just goes with what's configured on the console. that is, until you fire up a KDE app and it loads all those libraries. other thing that i had configured manually was CPU frequency management, so i don't run the risk of overheating the notebook when doing something CPU intensive on the console. i use userspace governor with kpowernowd and it works just fine.
keyboard becomes all messed up, KDE insisted in changing the frequency governor to wathever it damn well pleased, not to mention taht the load time for all those libraries was atrocious, i had to wait some 20 to 30 seconds until kopete, bluetooth applet and power applet loaded.
after i ditched everything, now i'm using XFE as file manager, pidgin for IM, gnome's bluetooth applet, xfburn and qbittorrent (a qt app. it doesn't load all the KDE libs like ktorrent). the result is faster load times for the GUI, less anoyance and no loss of functionality.
if the KDE guys make their environment behave better when a KDE app is loaded from some other window manager, maybe i'll give it another shot. until there, it'll stay out of my computer. i have better things to do with my time than fight against misbehaved apps that try to wrestle control of my system out of me.
gtalk (as google's official client) is not, but the protocols are open. IM uses jabber protocol, video and audio uses SIP IIRC. i know pidgin and koppete in linux supports video on google talk.
he's not comparing raw technologies. he's comparing from a market point of view and lamenting the decision of not making the thunderbolt connector machanicaly and electricaly compatible with USB. if you read the article, intel's original idea was to do just that.
now, apple made intel change it to a brand new kind of connector, so it'll make adoption slower in a world that's saturated with USB 3.0 that is almost as fast.
and from the point of view of 99% of the costumers, "almost as fast" works because it's "good enough and cheaper". "good enough and cheaper" it's what made windows the dominant OS and VHS the champion of the format wars. and it's what will make USB 3.0 the winner of the "iterconenct wars II". "interconnect wars I" was USB vs FireWire, and USB won that too. for the same reasons.
you're completelly out of touch with reality, aren't you ?
since the break-up of the soviet union, the ruskies already fielded the mig-29M2, su-30, su-34, su-35 and they're already testing the PAK-FA, a stealth fighter they're developing in partnership with india.
and even if the chinese stealth proves to be "primitive", if it comes out at a much lower price, they can field them in larger numbers, which will give them an advantage by sheer numbers. it's like stalin said: "quantity have a quality of it's own".
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actually:
Dev: We should use MongoDB.
DBA: BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! NO !!! Oracle. get used to it or GTFO!
my motorola xoom uses the same tegra 2 chip (tegras are dual-core ARM chips + GPU) and it gets 10 hours of video playback using _software_ codec. using optimized video files than play using hardware acceleration, i get 12 hours out of it. web browsing, i can get a comfy 12 hours too.
using sparingly, i got a whole weekend visiting my mother and still had some 10% of the charge when i got home.
tablets are great on the battery side. i don't know how much one can get from an ipad2, but being apple, the number might be even better.
go on settings, click on lab and turn on "back to beta". voila.
get out of our lawn!!!
it's no my country. my coutry is brasil, which ALSO suffered from american imperialism back in 1964 when your government armed and supported (including a carrier parked near rio de janeiro) the military coup that overthrew a democratically elected government, just because said govt. was socialist leaning. people from my family died fighting the coup in the araguaia guerilla, and their bodies were left to rot under the sun.
but back to afghanistan, your government used as bargaining chip that they'd help rebuild the country after the soviet were gone. well, they broke their word, and that part of the world, promisses are sacred. you break your word, you pay the price.
the religious tensions i'm sure have nothing to do with the fact that your government convinced the taliban to fight a proxy war against the USSR, then after the commies went back home, you just left them with the country in ruins, the economy colapsed and not even a "thank you" note.
oh, the inconditional support to israel's near genocidal policies have nothing to do with it either.
you know, there's only so much bullying and lying you can get away with before someone slams an airplane or three in your buildings.
5 VDC on the hook
40 VDC while talking
90 VDC while ringing
the last 2 can kill you.
a brief explanation of WHY they didn't match.
music CDs have a high tolerance for errors. most old school CD players (think units from the 90's early 00's) use very simple error correction, mostly because with 128.000 bytes of data for every second of music, even a few hundred wrong bytes passing through the DAC won't make much of a difference in what we hear.
now, since optical drives are not all the same, different drives might pick up different errors while reading the disk, resulting in different bitstreams. when fed to the encoder, this will result in different finished MP3s.
also, if the encoder changes slightly how it encodes the file depending on the environment (kind of CPU, ammount of RAM, OS version, etc.) it can also generate different files, even if the source bitstream is identical.
IG farben was spited in several of it's components. the four largest ones were bayer, BASF, agfa and hoechst. they bought the smaller ones during the years, and agfa is now part of aventis.
the client i supported in my previous job still had a bunch of PPros running SCO unixware (yeah, i know, SCO is a surso word in /. , but keep in mind those servers were there running for some 12 years) and they run fine.
and it wasn't a flop in the server market. in my whole career (some 16 years of network, wnidows, unix and linux administration) i saw a lot o PPros running as servers. think on it as the the first incarnation of xeon.
because itanium reaps 4 billion a year for intel. itanium alone brings more revenue than all AMD products put togheter.
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most of the people i know who owns android devices bought them for 2 reasons:
- price
- don't need itunes
thing is, itunes on windows doesn't HAVE bugs. IT IS a bug. my friends and coworkers that own iphones dislikes it and would ditch it at the first oportunity. up until now, since itunes was necessary so you could just use the damn phones as phones was a deal breaker for most people.
but even now that apple partially caught up with times and made it possible to activate the phones without using that POS application, you still need it to put music on it, the alternative being paying 25 bucks to use their "cloud" service.
meanwhile, with my milestone and my xoom, i can just plug the thing on any USB port and just copy whatever it is to them using standard tools available in any linux distro or windows box. and in the odd case i don't have a micro-USB cable at hand (the standard is new, so the cables still aren't as widespread as mini-USB), i can just copy stuff from a file share via wifi.
this kind of freedom and use of standards is what makes android the choice for me. if some day apple adopts a similar atitude, maybe i'll give them a chance.
samsung can, not only because they're HUGE, but also because they can make their own chips if they decide to ditch tegra2. remember that samsung is the current manufacturer of apple's Ax chips.
don't be dense.
the parent may have espressed himself badly, but the fact is, people making money out of opensource don't deny people who want it for free the access to it.
so the idea is, if the NYT wants free labor, the result should be left free too, they can then make money in an indirect way (ads perhaps), not by putting it behind a paywall.
now, if they want to block it with a paywall, the least they can do is give one year free access to everyone who contributes.
i play solitare on my phone and angry birds on the xoom, but that's it.
touch screen sucks for almost everything else. ever tried an FPS on a touch screen ? it's painfull.
now, the xperia play is the right idea done by the wrong company. if it was from LG, motorola, samsung, i'd might consider it. from sony ? definetly no.
now, if only nintendo would put a baseband radio on the 3DS...
P2P built in the browser...
I am the only one seeing this as the next big platform for file sharing ? one that doesn't require an external client like bittorrent does ?
other advantage, the possibility of using SSL long before starting a search/download would completly block bittorrent monitoring companies from reporting users media associations, if done right.
who want's to start codding ?
how much revenue does those "live" stuff bring to MS ? and IE ? and a whole lot of other stuff that are not the windows/office combo ?
it's all irrelevant, as long as those loss leaders bring costumers to revenue/profit generating products.
my system is not "so unstable that i don't dare to login in GUI". it's a just that i got bitten in the ass a couple of times in the past by new kernels breaking the proprietary drivers, which means rolling back the kernel by hand.
oh, you probably tought that my system is "unstable" because i used the word on my post right ? well, read it again, i said i use "debian unstable", which in debian lingo means "debian beta". but based on my own experience, debian unstable is of higher quality, more stable than the most recent "stable" ubuntus.
there's still some stuff in pana that clementine don't do yet, at least not as well. one is support for scripts (at least i couldn't find it), transcoding on the context menu, configuration of transcoding options (bitrate, sampling size, etc), a separate tab on the side bar for playlists, instead of several tabs on the top, and other small stuff...
hmmm, maybe a bug report ?
bring a different, but no less valid point of view to the discussion ?
i'm still on windowmaker, another mid-90s WM. it's clean, fast, practical and allows me to do some tricks at work that makes me much more productive than the guys who use gnome/unity/kde.
before someone mods me '-1 flamebait', let say a few things:
1- NOT a gnome fanboy. i dislike gnome in all it's incarnations, always did.
2- i use windowmaker. always have, always will
3- i only had parts of KDE installed to use some of it's applications from inside wmaker (mostly K3B, koppete, ktorrent and dolphin)
now, in the last two weeks i apt-get purged all things KDE4 from my system (kept only pana, a fork of amarok 1.4). the reason is that newer versions of KDE were starting to interfere with my way of doing things. what tipped the scale was keyboard configuration.
you see, i don't use graphical login managers, i log from good old fashion console, then type "startx" by hand. i consider this a must, since i use debian unstable, so breakeage of x.org because of updated kernel, ati drivers, etc sometimes happens. this means i have keyboard with swapped ctrl and caps lock, as well as locale (pt_BR) configured on the console. with wmaker i don't even need a keyboard section on xorg.conf, it just goes with what's configured on the console. that is, until you fire up a KDE app and it loads all those libraries. other thing that i had configured manually was CPU frequency management, so i don't run the risk of overheating the notebook when doing something CPU intensive on the console. i use userspace governor with kpowernowd and it works just fine.
keyboard becomes all messed up, KDE insisted in changing the frequency governor to wathever it damn well pleased, not to mention taht the load time for all those libraries was atrocious, i had to wait some 20 to 30 seconds until kopete, bluetooth applet and power applet loaded.
after i ditched everything, now i'm using XFE as file manager, pidgin for IM, gnome's bluetooth applet, xfburn and qbittorrent (a qt app. it doesn't load all the KDE libs like ktorrent). the result is faster load times for the GUI, less anoyance and no loss of functionality.
if the KDE guys make their environment behave better when a KDE app is loaded from some other window manager, maybe i'll give it another shot. until there, it'll stay out of my computer. i have better things to do with my time than fight against misbehaved apps that try to wrestle control of my system out of me.
razer makes clicky keyboards too. i bought one a few months ago. costed me R$250 (that's brasilian money), best money i spent in a while
gtalk (as google's official client) is not, but the protocols are open. IM uses jabber protocol, video and audio uses SIP IIRC. i know pidgin and koppete in linux supports video on google talk.
he's not comparing raw technologies. he's comparing from a market point of view and lamenting the decision of not making the thunderbolt connector machanicaly and electricaly compatible with USB. if you read the article, intel's original idea was to do just that.
now, apple made intel change it to a brand new kind of connector, so it'll make adoption slower in a world that's saturated with USB 3.0 that is almost as fast.
and from the point of view of 99% of the costumers, "almost as fast" works because it's "good enough and cheaper". "good enough and cheaper" it's what made windows the dominant OS and VHS the champion of the format wars. and it's what will make USB 3.0 the winner of the "iterconenct wars II". "interconnect wars I" was USB vs FireWire, and USB won that too. for the same reasons.
you're completelly out of touch with reality, aren't you ?
since the break-up of the soviet union, the ruskies already fielded the mig-29M2, su-30, su-34, su-35 and they're already testing the PAK-FA, a stealth fighter they're developing in partnership with india.
and even if the chinese stealth proves to be "primitive", if it comes out at a much lower price, they can field them in larger numbers, which will give them an advantage by sheer numbers. it's like stalin said: "quantity have a quality of it's own".