LG's got some sort of "screen splitter" software for their 21:9 monitors. Lets you break it up into 2, 3, or 4 virtual monitors of various sizes. Probably start seeing something similar built into new video drivers.
Yeah, because spending $500 on a monitor is just outrageous. That's an insane amount of money to spend on equipment for someone paid several times that amount every week.
Not if it Just Fucking Works. JFW is a very valuable feature.
Additionally, it looks like performance will be a priority. With gigabit connections to the home finally becoming reality, the next generation of home routers needs to kick it up a notch. This one seems like it might have a shot at handling serious bandwidth. Gigabit wired ports, gigabit-capable wireless, dual-core processor, etc. I'm looking forward to seeing the benchmarks on this thing when it's ready.
while paper books actually do have some advantages...most libraries do not carry multiple copies of that book. A major advantage here is that every one of their readers can have the exact same book on it at the exact same time so 12 people in 12 households can all enjoy it at the same time.
Except reality doesn't work that way. Those wacky rights-holders still expect to be paid for content. Whoda thunk it?
Electronic libraries have been around for years. Other than the paper, they work pretty much the same. The library licenses the content and is allowed to lend out X copies of the titles they license. If X+8 people want to borrow the same title, the 8 go on a wait list just like they would for a paper book. And the libraries often only have partial collections. They may have 1, 2, 3, 5, and 7 of a series but not books 4 and 6. Why? Heck if I know but they do. Or sometimes they'll have the entire series but only 1 copy for each book so it can take forever to get them all in the correct order because book 3 has a wait list of 40 people.
Your car analogy fails because we already pay by the mile. A significant chunk of the money you pay for every gallon of fuel is taxes that are supposed to pay for the construction and upkeep of roads. The more you drive, the more you pay. Insurance rates are also based on mileage. If you drive on a toll road, you also pay based on usage. (I'm in Texas right now and this place is lousy with toll roads.)
I'm so glad I have an old, unlimited account from Verizon. LTE would be pointless with a cap. It'd be like having a Porsche I could only drive a hundred miles a month.
Did you skip your meds? How do you think I can rip something without having the original media? Where did I say anything about distributing what I rip? Did your parents have any kids that lived?
I was staying at a resort in Utah a couple months back and they had a filter on the internet connection. My favorite web comic was considered profane. Another one had one panel blocked because it had "gay" in the image file name. (They were introducing a new, gay character.) Foobies was obviously blocked. But I could GIS page after page of triple X action. Of course, the filter blocked all kinds of non-pornographic material. Got around it by using a VPN to a system that didn't filter my requests.
Because most of it's pathetic and can be stripped from the content in seconds. But the suits think it's effective so they release content with their laughable controls. I buy their content, strip it clean, and access the content how I want to. I buy movies, rip the content off the disc, and store it on my media server in a platform-agnostic format that I can play on my media player, laptop, desktop, tablet, phone, etc. I buy ebooks, strip the drm, store it on my media server, and read it on my computer, tablet, or phone.
Without the false sense of security created by crappy DRM, there would be a lot less content available.
Nvidia's got their own driver shittiness. Their drivers take friggin' forever to install on my system. Hybrid hard drive, i7-3930k, 16 gigs of DDR3-2133 in quad channel, dual GTX680 video cards. I started the installation of the latest GeForce experience and R331 game ready driver just about 3 hours ago. About 2 hours of solid grind for no reason I can figure and then an hour or so where everything looks idle and the progress bar doesn't move. Based on experience, I assume it will finish eventually if I let it keep going.
It's ridiculous and it's been an Nvidia problem for quite a while. I can't even remember the last time I had an Nvidia display driver installation that took less than an hour.
Yep. Years and years ago, I ordered a cheap phone from Cingular and their proprietary headphone/FM radio add-on which had T-28 in the model number. Instead of the add-on, they sent me a T-28 world phone which was the shizzle back then. Today, I'd probably return the phone. But, back then, I wasn't such a moral person. Loved that phone. It was so tiny. And it did the flip-to-activate thing like a Star Trek communicator.
And that's a big bump in electrical use these days. Especially if they're getting GPUs involved. My gaming rig's power consumption roughly triples under load. Then it cranks out the heat so my AC kick in...
What are you talking about? He's discovered the holy grail. What do you do with a bad developer? Kill him and the company will hire a replacement. Brilliant.
I've got a crap-ton of mag-stripe cards. Debit card, credit card, backup credit card, and AAA card are always in my wallet. I have about 10 different "loyalty" cards and I rarely remember to grab the ones I need when I run errands. It'd be nice to have all of my mag-stripe cards available in a single card. Then I could carry more cash in my wallet. MrBurnsStuffingWallet.jpg
Because I travel a lot (full time vagrant) and sometimes my bank will put a hold on my primary card. I think I finally convinced them to call me before putting a hold if they start to get suspicious of my spending activity but it's good to have a backup to use immediately so I'm not standing there like a chump, trying to get the hold lifted, people in line behind me getting angry. Also, my backup card is my oldest revolving line of credit. I wouldn't want to carry a balance on it because of the absurd interest rate but it's good to have a long, positive history on my credit report.
about the trackpad complaints, at least. Looks like the same one as my HeaP windows laptop and it's always registering single taps as a right click or pointer movement as scrolling.
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LG's got some sort of "screen splitter" software for their 21:9 monitors. Lets you break it up into 2, 3, or 4 virtual monitors of various sizes. Probably start seeing something similar built into new video drivers.
Yeah, because spending $500 on a monitor is just outrageous. That's an insane amount of money to spend on equipment for someone paid several times that amount every week.
How much is that in Rhode Islands?
Now I can drop my entire computer down the heater vent.
Not if it Just Fucking Works. JFW is a very valuable feature.
Additionally, it looks like performance will be a priority. With gigabit connections to the home finally becoming reality, the next generation of home routers needs to kick it up a notch. This one seems like it might have a shot at handling serious bandwidth. Gigabit wired ports, gigabit-capable wireless, dual-core processor, etc. I'm looking forward to seeing the benchmarks on this thing when it's ready.
Dude, you really should take your meds.
while paper books actually do have some advantages...most libraries do not carry multiple copies of that book. A major advantage here is that every one of their readers can have the exact same book on it at the exact same time so 12 people in 12 households can all enjoy it at the same time.
Except reality doesn't work that way. Those wacky rights-holders still expect to be paid for content. Whoda thunk it?
Electronic libraries have been around for years. Other than the paper, they work pretty much the same. The library licenses the content and is allowed to lend out X copies of the titles they license. If X+8 people want to borrow the same title, the 8 go on a wait list just like they would for a paper book. And the libraries often only have partial collections. They may have 1, 2, 3, 5, and 7 of a series but not books 4 and 6. Why? Heck if I know but they do. Or sometimes they'll have the entire series but only 1 copy for each book so it can take forever to get them all in the correct order because book 3 has a wait list of 40 people.
Clearly you're ignorant. They buy a seat for their valuable instrument. It's the policy of every airline that wants to exist 5 years from now.
And which number are they on the scratch-n-sniff card?
I use talk.
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Your car analogy fails because we already pay by the mile. A significant chunk of the money you pay for every gallon of fuel is taxes that are supposed to pay for the construction and upkeep of roads. The more you drive, the more you pay. Insurance rates are also based on mileage. If you drive on a toll road, you also pay based on usage. (I'm in Texas right now and this place is lousy with toll roads.)
I'm so glad I have an old, unlimited account from Verizon. LTE would be pointless with a cap. It'd be like having a Porsche I could only drive a hundred miles a month.
Did you skip your meds? How do you think I can rip something without having the original media? Where did I say anything about distributing what I rip? Did your parents have any kids that lived?
So im sure they made them absolutely as thin & lightweight as they thought they could get away with.
Missed it by that much.
I was staying at a resort in Utah a couple months back and they had a filter on the internet connection. My favorite web comic was considered profane. Another one had one panel blocked because it had "gay" in the image file name. (They were introducing a new, gay character.) Foobies was obviously blocked. But I could GIS page after page of triple X action. Of course, the filter blocked all kinds of non-pornographic material. Got around it by using a VPN to a system that didn't filter my requests.
Because most of it's pathetic and can be stripped from the content in seconds. But the suits think it's effective so they release content with their laughable controls. I buy their content, strip it clean, and access the content how I want to. I buy movies, rip the content off the disc, and store it on my media server in a platform-agnostic format that I can play on my media player, laptop, desktop, tablet, phone, etc. I buy ebooks, strip the drm, store it on my media server, and read it on my computer, tablet, or phone.
Without the false sense of security created by crappy DRM, there would be a lot less content available.
Nvidia's got their own driver shittiness. Their drivers take friggin' forever to install on my system. Hybrid hard drive, i7-3930k, 16 gigs of DDR3-2133 in quad channel, dual GTX680 video cards. I started the installation of the latest GeForce experience and R331 game ready driver just about 3 hours ago. About 2 hours of solid grind for no reason I can figure and then an hour or so where everything looks idle and the progress bar doesn't move. Based on experience, I assume it will finish eventually if I let it keep going.
It's ridiculous and it's been an Nvidia problem for quite a while. I can't even remember the last time I had an Nvidia display driver installation that took less than an hour.
Yeah, but they'd expect you to be sober, clean, reliable, and show up by 9am five days in a row at a regular job.
Yep. Years and years ago, I ordered a cheap phone from Cingular and their proprietary headphone/FM radio add-on which had T-28 in the model number. Instead of the add-on, they sent me a T-28 world phone which was the shizzle back then. Today, I'd probably return the phone. But, back then, I wasn't such a moral person. Loved that phone. It was so tiny. And it did the flip-to-activate thing like a Star Trek communicator.
And that's a big bump in electrical use these days. Especially if they're getting GPUs involved. My gaming rig's power consumption roughly triples under load. Then it cranks out the heat so my AC kick in...
What are you talking about? He's discovered the holy grail. What do you do with a bad developer? Kill him and the company will hire a replacement. Brilliant.
I've got a crap-ton of mag-stripe cards. Debit card, credit card, backup credit card, and AAA card are always in my wallet. I have about 10 different "loyalty" cards and I rarely remember to grab the ones I need when I run errands. It'd be nice to have all of my mag-stripe cards available in a single card. Then I could carry more cash in my wallet. MrBurnsStuffingWallet.jpg
Because I travel a lot (full time vagrant) and sometimes my bank will put a hold on my primary card. I think I finally convinced them to call me before putting a hold if they start to get suspicious of my spending activity but it's good to have a backup to use immediately so I'm not standing there like a chump, trying to get the hold lifted, people in line behind me getting angry. Also, my backup card is my oldest revolving line of credit. I wouldn't want to carry a balance on it because of the absurd interest rate but it's good to have a long, positive history on my credit report.
about the trackpad complaints, at least. Looks like the same one as my HeaP windows laptop and it's always registering single taps as a right click or pointer movement as scrolling.