Right now on my work PC, Excel.exe, which I'm using to reformat the giant big-ass Excel sheets I keep being given by another department into a form I can easily load into our DB, is taking up 14M. Firefox is coming in at 567M (and, to be honest, that's the smallest I've seen it in a while, but OTOH I did restart it recently and it only has a few tabs open.)
So... actually... it makes sense that a device that requires you use the Google office apps rather than native apps, would require you use considerably more memory and power.
Yes, it's ridiculous, but think of it like this: how optimal do you think a Google spreadsheet, implemented over JavaScript, the DOM, and XML, in turn implemented over various abstraction layers that eventually get down to C++ and some kinda linkage to the native widgets of the underlying OS, is, compared to a Microsoft/GNOME Spreadsheet implemented directly in C++, with a little abstraction but not a lot between that C++ and the underlying OS?
TL;DR: A device that forces you to run desktop apps inside a web browser will always need more power than a device that allows optimized apps to run.
Which is probably why we shouldn't be heading in this direction.
...which we all know we're going to anyway, because we're tech, and tech always heads in the stupid direction. Wanna buy a watch to go with your 9.7" voiceless iPhone?
VHS won over Beta by storing two hours of standard quality video on one cartridge, and four hours of lower quality video, as opposed to Beta which only had one hour of standard quality video initially. Beta caught up, only to find VHS tapes increasing in capacity at the same rate.
VHS won not by being cheap, but by being the right solution for the problem customers needed solving at the right time. Insofar as it relates to Apple vs the rest of the world, well, it doesn't. It might one day, if Apple produces the right solution for the problem customers need solving at the right time. They certainly have the skills to do that kind of thing. But for the most part, they produce gear that costs more than the competitors, but whose applications are equal, or lesser, than the commodity items.
Most of the arguments I've heard about suicide and "not being in a fit state of mind" have been largely circular FWIW. Depression has chemical hallmarks, but it's not clear that Depression itself a cause, rather than the Brain's defense mechanism, against a mind that wants out. Depression at least saps the will to take steps such as committing suicide, which is why there's usually a spike in suicides amongst those who have just started taking anti-depressants. The fact the body would generate chemicals sapping the will to kill one's self when one wants to would kinda seem like an evolutionary trait to me.
I'm far from convinced that (the majority of) people who want to take their own lives have actual mental issues - or rather, few have the mental issues usually ascribed to them. If they did, we wouldn't see people killing themselves over, for example, a lack of acceptance about being LGBT, one of the most common reasons for suicide. There's nothing whatsoever linking Transgenderism/Transexualism or Homosexuality with Depression, but disproportionate numbers of people identifying themselves within those categories commit suicide.
I think there's a degree of desperation within the medical community when it comes to dealing with certain issues, which is why the DSM has swung wildly over from position to position over the last few decades when it comes to determining what social construct is actually a disease or not. The mind is especially complex. People who want suicide to be preventable are more comfortable with theories that allow it to be a medical condition than cope with the suggestion anti-depressants might result in people living unwillingly in misery. Victims go along with the narrative in order to please friends and loved ones, despite knowing underneath they still feel the same way.
No. Google isn't making the product, they're supplying a component and not even doing that directly (that is, it's not as if Google is burning ROMs and sending them to Kyocera to be soldered into each device. Kyocera downloads a copy of the operating system, heavily customizes it, and then copies that to every device.)
And in fairness, most phone makers already license the technology from Microsoft. It's not clear why Kyocera feels that they don't need to. My guess would be the usual patent negotiations dance is going on, where Kyocera feels Microsoft is asking for too much, and is threatening to find ways to invalidate the patents in question.
Lest anyone's confused, this isn't the giant "OMG! Microsoft is going to close down Lunix with patents!" event everyone's scared of. The patents are known. Microsoft has been making money hand over fist for years now from Android licensees. Other phone makers don't see it as a problem. And, for what it's worth, in my view they're the "right" kind of patent enforcement - regardless of the validity of the patents, something I can't comment on, Microsoft is limiting itself to raising revenue from actual hardware makers. Not that I like patents, but there's "It sucks that the first person to invent something gets a monopoly" and there's "It sucks that the first person to think of something gets to prevent others from describing the same idea in a form a computer can understand."
The sum total of all harm is itemised in one paragraph: "The state of Florida is the region most susceptible to the effects of global warming in this country, according to scientists. Sea-level rise alone threatens 30 percent of the stateâ(TM)s beaches over the next 85 years."
How can the sea rise only on 30% of beaches?
It can't. However it's perfectly possible for 30% of something to be threatened by something that touches 100% of something. It's not hard, and I'm not sure why you think that all beaches are equally vulnerable to identical changes in sea levels. Outside of a few carefully landscaped beaches built over decades to be popular for tourists, I've not seen two beaches that are alike in any way.
Yeah it's amazing how clueless Congressional boiler plate responses can be. I've sent emails to my Congressman in favor of a particular new project and EVERY TIME I get back emails thanking me for sharing my opposition to it, with a long list of things he intends to do to prevent the project from ever happening.
It's almost like they don't care about the little people's views...
Other than being able to sense head movements and thus providing another means to control the camera, this is just ordinary stereoscopic 3D, not "VR". I understand why everyone wants it to be, but this is the umpteenth time something is being touted as VR when it's not even trying to be close. Before that it was Second Life. Before that Doom.
At the very least, you should have a full range of sensory perceptions, and physical actions by your body should reflect in the simulated world.
As someone not familiar with most of these engines, but aware of (at least older) versions of Unreal, How effective are any of these engines at larger maps of the kind we see in GTA, Saints Row, or the various iterations of TES?
I have a feeling they're not talking literally, ie they're not presenting a UI for desktops that's touch based, or a UI for phones that's WIMP based. I'd assume it's more "If you have a feature available in one place, unless it's totally irrelevent, it'll appear in the other."
It frequently is but it doesn't have to be. Few would consider a proposal for eating Irish children "funny", but a document purportedly advocating such is considered the world over to be a lynchpin of satire.
The allegation against Clinton is that she used a third party email account, not that she didn't retain records.
I find it improbable to say the least that Clinton's email wasn't backed up by her own staff on a regular basis. It gets kinda important when the President of Hostilatia tells you that she's going to invade Allyastan because of a slight she perceived in an email you sent three years ago.
Not defending her, but both your excuse that the other lizards did it
Did you respond to the wrong post? Nothing I wrote can be read as "The other lizards did it" - not without cropping the entire post to remove all context.
The point I made (I'm not even "excusing" her) is that the law she's accused of breaking is an executive decree that was made TWO YEARS AFTER SHE LEFT OFFICE.
I believe the entire point of Kickstarter is to find funding for things that have never been done before. Banks are quite happy to loan money for tried and tested business ideas.
Back up a bit: what if she's right? What if the rules that applied during her tenure are not the current rules? What if Obama created the current rules two years after Clinton left the State Department?
And what if she was doing the exact same thing as (to name a largely reputable figure on "the other side" that few people suspect of corruption) Colin Powell had done?
I'm pretty sure that my analogous hypothetical contract with my cleaning service doesn't include a clause about being allowed to deliver an unsolicited U2 CD, but nonetheless if they did it I wouldn't be upset in the way the other people on this thread are being.
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No, I'm not confusing the two, they're not the subject of this discussion which is ARM vs ix86. It's certainly correct that you also need the hardware to be open, but that's another entirely unrelated issue, and has nothing to do with ix86's legacy software compatibility.
Apple didn't break into a house though, they had an arrangement with you where they had the keys. It'd be more like the cleaning service (OK, I know, you don't have one, I don't either, but bear with me, the point is it's a commercial entity with permission to enter your home) coming into your home one day and leaving a U2 album, with a sticky on it saying "Thanks for being our customer - the maid", prominently on your CD shelf.
In order to receive the music, you had to already have an arrangement that newly bought music would be automatically downloaded and installed on your iDevice. If you didn't have that enabled, no U2 album. You'd already given permission to them to "put (other) music on your iDevice", what you hadn't necessarily done was given them permission to put this specific album on it. They had a key. You gave them the key.
Did it matter that they used it? They used it to give you a free gift. Why is this a major problem?
Not being cruel but being open source and ARM a recompile away was supposed to be their big boon
Yeah, but you and I and the rest of the world knows that this isn't true in practice. Developers are familiar with x86, some ports don't simply recompile flawlessly (though 99% do), and there are benefits to having a single base of binaries that need maintaining - if there wasn't, we'd all be running Gentoo. There's also some binary-blob stuff out there, Flash plug-ins, "official" builds of Chrome et al, some video codecs, and, of course, Wine.
Pretty much the only person who can happily hope from CPU arch to CPU arch with merely a recompile is Richard Stallman, because he's really the only person in the world who actually doesn't run code unless he has the source code to it. But he's not going to be buying a 3G tablet anytime soon so...
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It's OK, I'm sure they'll fix it soon (although if they do, some bastard could reply to your comment with an unfixable example of the same thing...
Right now on my work PC, Excel.exe, which I'm using to reformat the giant big-ass Excel sheets I keep being given by another department into a form I can easily load into our DB, is taking up 14M. Firefox is coming in at 567M (and, to be honest, that's the smallest I've seen it in a while, but OTOH I did restart it recently and it only has a few tabs open.)
So... actually... it makes sense that a device that requires you use the Google office apps rather than native apps, would require you use considerably more memory and power.
Yes, it's ridiculous, but think of it like this: how optimal do you think a Google spreadsheet, implemented over JavaScript, the DOM, and XML, in turn implemented over various abstraction layers that eventually get down to C++ and some kinda linkage to the native widgets of the underlying OS, is, compared to a Microsoft/GNOME Spreadsheet implemented directly in C++, with a little abstraction but not a lot between that C++ and the underlying OS?
TL;DR: A device that forces you to run desktop apps inside a web browser will always need more power than a device that allows optimized apps to run.
Which is probably why we shouldn't be heading in this direction.
VHS won over Beta by storing two hours of standard quality video on one cartridge, and four hours of lower quality video, as opposed to Beta which only had one hour of standard quality video initially. Beta caught up, only to find VHS tapes increasing in capacity at the same rate.
VHS won not by being cheap, but by being the right solution for the problem customers needed solving at the right time. Insofar as it relates to Apple vs the rest of the world, well, it doesn't. It might one day, if Apple produces the right solution for the problem customers need solving at the right time. They certainly have the skills to do that kind of thing. But for the most part, they produce gear that costs more than the competitors, but whose applications are equal, or lesser, than the commodity items.
That could be it more than you realize. You see, for me, the B is white on gold... I'm guessing those who see an F see it black on blue?
Most of the arguments I've heard about suicide and "not being in a fit state of mind" have been largely circular FWIW. Depression has chemical hallmarks, but it's not clear that Depression itself a cause, rather than the Brain's defense mechanism, against a mind that wants out. Depression at least saps the will to take steps such as committing suicide, which is why there's usually a spike in suicides amongst those who have just started taking anti-depressants. The fact the body would generate chemicals sapping the will to kill one's self when one wants to would kinda seem like an evolutionary trait to me.
I'm far from convinced that (the majority of) people who want to take their own lives have actual mental issues - or rather, few have the mental issues usually ascribed to them. If they did, we wouldn't see people killing themselves over, for example, a lack of acceptance about being LGBT, one of the most common reasons for suicide. There's nothing whatsoever linking Transgenderism/Transexualism or Homosexuality with Depression, but disproportionate numbers of people identifying themselves within those categories commit suicide.
I think there's a degree of desperation within the medical community when it comes to dealing with certain issues, which is why the DSM has swung wildly over from position to position over the last few decades when it comes to determining what social construct is actually a disease or not. The mind is especially complex. People who want suicide to be preventable are more comfortable with theories that allow it to be a medical condition than cope with the suggestion anti-depressants might result in people living unwillingly in misery. Victims go along with the narrative in order to please friends and loved ones, despite knowing underneath they still feel the same way.
No. Google isn't making the product, they're supplying a component and not even doing that directly (that is, it's not as if Google is burning ROMs and sending them to Kyocera to be soldered into each device. Kyocera downloads a copy of the operating system, heavily customizes it, and then copies that to every device.)
And in fairness, most phone makers already license the technology from Microsoft. It's not clear why Kyocera feels that they don't need to. My guess would be the usual patent negotiations dance is going on, where Kyocera feels Microsoft is asking for too much, and is threatening to find ways to invalidate the patents in question.
Lest anyone's confused, this isn't the giant "OMG! Microsoft is going to close down Lunix with patents!" event everyone's scared of. The patents are known. Microsoft has been making money hand over fist for years now from Android licensees. Other phone makers don't see it as a problem. And, for what it's worth, in my view they're the "right" kind of patent enforcement - regardless of the validity of the patents, something I can't comment on, Microsoft is limiting itself to raising revenue from actual hardware makers. Not that I like patents, but there's "It sucks that the first person to invent something gets a monopoly" and there's "It sucks that the first person to think of something gets to prevent others from describing the same idea in a form a computer can understand."
Wait, so Clovis was that Anonymous Coward guy all along?
It can't. However it's perfectly possible for 30% of something to be threatened by something that touches 100% of something. It's not hard, and I'm not sure why you think that all beaches are equally vulnerable to identical changes in sea levels. Outside of a few carefully landscaped beaches built over decades to be popular for tourists, I've not seen two beaches that are alike in any way.
Probably by causing an emergency, such as a fire, of a nature that pilots would have had time to react to, but alas, not enough time to recover from.
Or a long distance bus. "The monitor says the suspect is right in front of us, they must be in front of this bus!" (for 500 miles.)
Yeah it's amazing how clueless Congressional boiler plate responses can be. I've sent emails to my Congressman in favor of a particular new project and EVERY TIME I get back emails thanking me for sharing my opposition to it, with a long list of things he intends to do to prevent the project from ever happening.
It's almost like they don't care about the little people's views...
Other than being able to sense head movements and thus providing another means to control the camera, this is just ordinary stereoscopic 3D, not "VR". I understand why everyone wants it to be, but this is the umpteenth time something is being touted as VR when it's not even trying to be close. Before that it was Second Life. Before that Doom.
At the very least, you should have a full range of sensory perceptions, and physical actions by your body should reflect in the simulated world.
As someone not familiar with most of these engines, but aware of (at least older) versions of Unreal, How effective are any of these engines at larger maps of the kind we see in GTA, Saints Row, or the various iterations of TES?
I have a feeling they're not talking literally, ie they're not presenting a UI for desktops that's touch based, or a UI for phones that's WIMP based. I'd assume it's more "If you have a feature available in one place, unless it's totally irrelevent, it'll appear in the other."
It frequently is but it doesn't have to be. Few would consider a proposal for eating Irish children "funny", but a document purportedly advocating such is considered the world over to be a lynchpin of satire.
It's so they can come out with a version that has 110Mb more memory, and call it the "Windows for Workgroups Edition".
The allegation against Clinton is that she used a third party email account, not that she didn't retain records.
I find it improbable to say the least that Clinton's email wasn't backed up by her own staff on a regular basis. It gets kinda important when the President of Hostilatia tells you that she's going to invade Allyastan because of a slight she perceived in an email you sent three years ago.
Did you respond to the wrong post? Nothing I wrote can be read as "The other lizards did it" - not without cropping the entire post to remove all context.
The point I made (I'm not even "excusing" her) is that the law she's accused of breaking is an executive decree that was made TWO YEARS AFTER SHE LEFT OFFICE.
I believe the entire point of Kickstarter is to find funding for things that have never been done before. Banks are quite happy to loan money for tried and tested business ideas.
Back up a bit: what if she's right? What if the rules that applied during her tenure are not the current rules? What if Obama created the current rules two years after Clinton left the State Department?
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And what if she was doing the exact same thing as (to name a largely reputable figure on "the other side" that few people suspect of corruption) Colin Powell had done?
I'm pretty sure that my analogous hypothetical contract with my cleaning service doesn't include a clause about being allowed to deliver an unsolicited U2 CD, but nonetheless if they did it I wouldn't be upset in the way the other people on this thread are being.
No, I'm not confusing the two, they're not the subject of this discussion which is ARM vs ix86. It's certainly correct that you also need the hardware to be open, but that's another entirely unrelated issue, and has nothing to do with ix86's legacy software compatibility.
Apple didn't break into a house though, they had an arrangement with you where they had the keys. It'd be more like the cleaning service (OK, I know, you don't have one, I don't either, but bear with me, the point is it's a commercial entity with permission to enter your home) coming into your home one day and leaving a U2 album, with a sticky on it saying "Thanks for being our customer - the maid", prominently on your CD shelf.
In order to receive the music, you had to already have an arrangement that newly bought music would be automatically downloaded and installed on your iDevice. If you didn't have that enabled, no U2 album. You'd already given permission to them to "put (other) music on your iDevice", what you hadn't necessarily done was given them permission to put this specific album on it. They had a key. You gave them the key.
Did it matter that they used it? They used it to give you a free gift. Why is this a major problem?
It's OK, due to Steam's DRM you will only be able to use one screen (left eye or right eye) at a time anyway...
Yeah, but you and I and the rest of the world knows that this isn't true in practice. Developers are familiar with x86, some ports don't simply recompile flawlessly (though 99% do), and there are benefits to having a single base of binaries that need maintaining - if there wasn't, we'd all be running Gentoo. There's also some binary-blob stuff out there, Flash plug-ins, "official" builds of Chrome et al, some video codecs, and, of course, Wine.
Pretty much the only person who can happily hope from CPU arch to CPU arch with merely a recompile is Richard Stallman, because he's really the only person in the world who actually doesn't run code unless he has the source code to it. But he's not going to be buying a 3G tablet anytime soon so...