Intel, for as long as I remember, needlessly changed sockets.
Goes back to the 90s when Pentium was first introduced: Pentium sockets were nothing like Pentium Pro or II or III or 4. AMD would try and leverage the existing infrastructure by designing CPUs that were drops-in to Pentium sockets, but Intel created everything from scratch.
Having said that, though, today's CPUs - if one wants to upgrade them, one has to closely match them w/ the chipset & everything else, or suffer a performance hit. Anyone who wants to upgrade won't notice a performance boost: that's more likely to come w/ more multi-processed and multi-threaded applications. And that's where having CPUs w/ more cores might come in handy, but typically, 4 is the sweet spot before one starts seeing diminishing returns
Doesn't have to be IT - anything regarding computers or AI would be fine. But once you start going into things like meteorology or biology or other things, that ends up being an issue. Also, AGW/climate change would have been fine if discussed on its own: however, it invariably becomes interwoven w/ Left wing policy solutions about shutting down energy sources w/o any consideration on the ramifications on the economy at large, or whether it's globally uniform
Precisely! While some older OSs like NEXTSTEP automatically had it at the right, later OSs made it more flexible. On most of the DEs that I've seen - KDE, LXDE, Lumina, I've seen them give users the option of where they want it. Why not just let a user select it during installation, or the first time one logs into an account, fix it then & there, and use that until the next time it needs to change? And change it by simply dragging & dropping, rather than editing.login or something like that
Part of the reason is dragging in stories about Trump, Russia, Climate Change and so on. When this site wasn't political, we could check out our political opinions at the door, and come in here and discuss things like Windows vs Linux vs Unix, Intel vs ARM, Apple vs Google and so on. Or sometimes delve into interesting although fringe stories about things like Haiju, Amiga, Minix, WebOS, Emacs, systemd or even HURD. But when political stories are given homes here on/. for clickbait, it's hard to expect either alt.rightists or ctrl.leftists to stay away
And the advise on Firehose - I've submitted things in the past, and it often got ignored in favor of the latest kooky theory on Climate Change. So don't tell us to use something that will get ignored in favor of the latest adventures in the White House or Kremlin.
Most computers I've seen Chrome installed by users, which is a significant departure from the 90s, where the existence of IE would apparently dissuade users from downloading Netscape. Whenever I've had Windows 7 computers, I by default downloaded Chrome. Only used IE for websites that clearly stated that something would work only under IE x.y or something. Likewise, I use Edge only for the Microsoft site.
For anything where Chrome doesn't exist, Chromium is an option. Not sure what exactly it'd break, but I've had it, along w/ FireFox on this TrueOS laptop
For those uncommon features, how often do they prop up that they require you to download yet another browser?
That's one of the things that came out of the Trump-Modi meeting. It would make perfect sense - to reduce India's dependence on OPEC oil, where India is one of the few remaining customers, and where a number of those countries support Pakistan. Also, India would be under pressure to reduce its trade surplus w/ the US, and that's one of the things that's valuable to them.
That was one - destroying compatibility b/w versions on Add-ons, wasting the effort one made on customizing. I guess one could go to Pale Moon or Fossamail instead, but the BSD platforms don't have it.
The other was FireFox copying the Chrome way of doing things, thereby destroying a key differentiator. Also, if in the 90s, Internet Explorer being preinstalled and un-removable from Windows then was a problem for Netscape, today, there is NO platform that needs to have FireFox. If one has Windows 10, there is Edge, if one has Windows 7, there is IE, if one has Android, there is Chrome, and if one has iOS, there is Safari. Yeah, a lot of people on the other platforms might install Chrome, but there is no reason on those to install FireFox. Hence their attempt to be an Ubuntu, which fizzled.
B'cos he's not a Leftist. Doesn't look at prison population as a function of a dictatorship, but rather, a function of the amount of crime. And who doesn't suddenly scream 'civil liberties' when people have sane reactions to Muslims being Muslims
He very much did. He mocked the idea of providing electricity to the remaining 25% by equating it w/ taking painkillers. Since one doesn't take painkillers for cancer.
Also, solving global warming is several orders of magnitude more difficult (if not impossible) than providing electricity to everyone. As it is, India has expanded heavily its electricity production w/ less than 25% coming from OPEC, and the bulk of it coming from biomass, hydroelectric, wind and solar. It recently signed an agreement w/ the US to buy more of its energy from US. They need to get it distributed to all the areas in Northern India (incidentally, how is the southern half of the country off the hook?) and provide air-conditioning to most of the people there. And look into automating the farming.
Precisely! Somehow, a 28 year old doesn't qualify as a millenial. A millenial would be anyone in their teens, up to 20. People who were born around 2000
There is no need for the 'responsive' or one-size-fits-all website. Have something like foobar.com for your main website that one views from a PC or tablet, where space is not at a premium. If the site detects that a phone, or a small form factor device is requesting it, send m.foobar.com to that, which will have a totally different appearance based on that needs.
The 'responsive' page is the same sort of thinking that gave us Windows 8 'Metro' - trying to redefine the desktop according to the needs of a phone. No need for it. Have the web team develop 2 websites, and have them fed from the same data sources, so that there will be no inconsistency b/w the 2
The worst part of this is that in a lot of devices, one cannot remove apps that one has no use for. Like on my Moto X, there was no way I could remove Gallery, Verizon's NFL mobile, Verizon Navigate, Google+ and so on. And unfortunately, Android 5 is not yet upgradable to 6 or 7, where I could have re-defined the 128GB SD card as main memory and let the internal memory of that device be the secondary memory
Speaking of clouds, Apple & Microsoft both have just 5GB, which fills up quickly after enough pictures & videos over iMessage or WhatsApp. On OneDrive, I happen to have 1TB due to my having Office 365. But all the apps that I have on my iPhone right now uses 12GB, and on my iPad, 14GB. Which would be a lot on a 16 or even 32GB device, but perfectly okay on a 64GB or 128GB device.
Funny, b'cos Microsoft recently discontinued the LinkedIn app for Windows Phone, and recommended that people use the browser instead. In which case, why don't they do it for iOS and Android as well?
Yeah, I absolutely hate this! I have an email account dedicated to LinkedIn, and other email accounts for other things, including one for friends & family. I sometimes get on the latter invitations to connect on LinkedIn. Obviously, they used the LinkedIn feature to look in one's address book and send invitations to either connect if they're already there, or join if they're not!
Search for me separately on LinkedIn, and then invite me to connect. I won't get spam that way from people I know.
Not at all suitable for 'Work from home' roles. Fine in offices, particularly in conference rooms, when you have 2 groups of people talking to each other. That's the only use case that I can think of where it has any value
Is FaceBook doing this for business or personal use? Business - I'd agree w/ you. Personal - I like walking around the house, phone in hand and showing my niece what's in the fridge
Why isn't WhatsApp, which is available for most phones, adequate? How does FaceBook plan to do the actual physical connection? Is it via Internet, sorta like Skype? Or is it via phones, like WhatsApp?
Not talking about videoconferencing interviews here - but when I facetime w/ family, I walk b/w rooms, phone in hand, whenever I want to show them things around the house. This device sounds like it'll be stuck to ONE room!
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Intel, for as long as I remember, needlessly changed sockets.
Goes back to the 90s when Pentium was first introduced: Pentium sockets were nothing like Pentium Pro or II or III or 4. AMD would try and leverage the existing infrastructure by designing CPUs that were drops-in to Pentium sockets, but Intel created everything from scratch.
Having said that, though, today's CPUs - if one wants to upgrade them, one has to closely match them w/ the chipset & everything else, or suffer a performance hit. Anyone who wants to upgrade won't notice a performance boost: that's more likely to come w/ more multi-processed and multi-threaded applications. And that's where having CPUs w/ more cores might come in handy, but typically, 4 is the sweet spot before one starts seeing diminishing returns
Doesn't have to be IT - anything regarding computers or AI would be fine. But once you start going into things like meteorology or biology or other things, that ends up being an issue. Also, AGW/climate change would have been fine if discussed on its own: however, it invariably becomes interwoven w/ Left wing policy solutions about shutting down energy sources w/o any consideration on the ramifications on the economy at large, or whether it's globally uniform
Obama has done a fine job of that himself over the last 8 years
Beau, Facebook - and Zuck - do have a record that one can look at to predict where this will go. Y'know, kinda like their own analytics...
Worseridge in this case
Precisely! While some older OSs like NEXTSTEP automatically had it at the right, later OSs made it more flexible. On most of the DEs that I've seen - KDE, LXDE, Lumina, I've seen them give users the option of where they want it. Why not just let a user select it during installation, or the first time one logs into an account, fix it then & there, and use that until the next time it needs to change? And change it by simply dragging & dropping, rather than editing .login or something like that
Part of the reason is dragging in stories about Trump, Russia, Climate Change and so on. When this site wasn't political, we could check out our political opinions at the door, and come in here and discuss things like Windows vs Linux vs Unix, Intel vs ARM, Apple vs Google and so on. Or sometimes delve into interesting although fringe stories about things like Haiju, Amiga, Minix, WebOS, Emacs, systemd or even HURD. But when political stories are given homes here on /. for clickbait, it's hard to expect either alt.rightists or ctrl.leftists to stay away
And the advise on Firehose - I've submitted things in the past, and it often got ignored in favor of the latest kooky theory on Climate Change. So don't tell us to use something that will get ignored in favor of the latest adventures in the White House or Kremlin.
Most computers I've seen Chrome installed by users, which is a significant departure from the 90s, where the existence of IE would apparently dissuade users from downloading Netscape. Whenever I've had Windows 7 computers, I by default downloaded Chrome. Only used IE for websites that clearly stated that something would work only under IE x.y or something. Likewise, I use Edge only for the Microsoft site.
For anything where Chrome doesn't exist, Chromium is an option. Not sure what exactly it'd break, but I've had it, along w/ FireFox on this TrueOS laptop
For those uncommon features, how often do they prop up that they require you to download yet another browser?
That's one of the things that came out of the Trump-Modi meeting. It would make perfect sense - to reduce India's dependence on OPEC oil, where India is one of the few remaining customers, and where a number of those countries support Pakistan. Also, India would be under pressure to reduce its trade surplus w/ the US, and that's one of the things that's valuable to them.
That was one - destroying compatibility b/w versions on Add-ons, wasting the effort one made on customizing. I guess one could go to Pale Moon or Fossamail instead, but the BSD platforms don't have it.
The other was FireFox copying the Chrome way of doing things, thereby destroying a key differentiator. Also, if in the 90s, Internet Explorer being preinstalled and un-removable from Windows then was a problem for Netscape, today, there is NO platform that needs to have FireFox. If one has Windows 10, there is Edge, if one has Windows 7, there is IE, if one has Android, there is Chrome, and if one has iOS, there is Safari. Yeah, a lot of people on the other platforms might install Chrome, but there is no reason on those to install FireFox. Hence their attempt to be an Ubuntu, which fizzled.
B'cos he's not a Leftist. Doesn't look at prison population as a function of a dictatorship, but rather, a function of the amount of crime. And who doesn't suddenly scream 'civil liberties' when people have sane reactions to Muslims being Muslims
He very much did. He mocked the idea of providing electricity to the remaining 25% by equating it w/ taking painkillers. Since one doesn't take painkillers for cancer.
Also, solving global warming is several orders of magnitude more difficult (if not impossible) than providing electricity to everyone. As it is, India has expanded heavily its electricity production w/ less than 25% coming from OPEC, and the bulk of it coming from biomass, hydroelectric, wind and solar. It recently signed an agreement w/ the US to buy more of its energy from US. They need to get it distributed to all the areas in Northern India (incidentally, how is the southern half of the country off the hook?) and provide air-conditioning to most of the people there. And look into automating the farming.
Precisely! Somehow, a 28 year old doesn't qualify as a millenial. A millenial would be anyone in their teens, up to 20. People who were born around 2000
There is no need for the 'responsive' or one-size-fits-all website. Have something like foobar.com for your main website that one views from a PC or tablet, where space is not at a premium. If the site detects that a phone, or a small form factor device is requesting it, send m.foobar.com to that, which will have a totally different appearance based on that needs.
The 'responsive' page is the same sort of thinking that gave us Windows 8 'Metro' - trying to redefine the desktop according to the needs of a phone. No need for it. Have the web team develop 2 websites, and have them fed from the same data sources, so that there will be no inconsistency b/w the 2
The worst part of this is that in a lot of devices, one cannot remove apps that one has no use for. Like on my Moto X, there was no way I could remove Gallery, Verizon's NFL mobile, Verizon Navigate, Google+ and so on. And unfortunately, Android 5 is not yet upgradable to 6 or 7, where I could have re-defined the 128GB SD card as main memory and let the internal memory of that device be the secondary memory
Speaking of clouds, Apple & Microsoft both have just 5GB, which fills up quickly after enough pictures & videos over iMessage or WhatsApp. On OneDrive, I happen to have 1TB due to my having Office 365. But all the apps that I have on my iPhone right now uses 12GB, and on my iPad, 14GB. Which would be a lot on a 16 or even 32GB device, but perfectly okay on a 64GB or 128GB device.
Funny, b'cos Microsoft recently discontinued the LinkedIn app for Windows Phone, and recommended that people use the browser instead. In which case, why don't they do it for iOS and Android as well?
Yeah, I absolutely hate this! I have an email account dedicated to LinkedIn, and other email accounts for other things, including one for friends & family. I sometimes get on the latter invitations to connect on LinkedIn. Obviously, they used the LinkedIn feature to look in one's address book and send invitations to either connect if they're already there, or join if they're not!
Search for me separately on LinkedIn, and then invite me to connect. I won't get spam that way from people I know.
I like it w/ family - that's the only reason I got an iPhone - FaceTime. Don't particularly care about it for work purposes
He already owns WhatsApp, which includes FaceTime capabilities
Not at all suitable for 'Work from home' roles. Fine in offices, particularly in conference rooms, when you have 2 groups of people talking to each other. That's the only use case that I can think of where it has any value
How would your dogs know how to accept the call?
Is FaceBook doing this for business or personal use? Business - I'd agree w/ you. Personal - I like walking around the house, phone in hand and showing my niece what's in the fridge
Why isn't WhatsApp, which is available for most phones, adequate? How does FaceBook plan to do the actual physical connection? Is it via Internet, sorta like Skype? Or is it via phones, like WhatsApp?
Not talking about videoconferencing interviews here - but when I facetime w/ family, I walk b/w rooms, phone in hand, whenever I want to show them things around the house. This device sounds like it'll be stuck to ONE room!