Some time ago my friend bought an xbox one and a few games. I helped her set it up. 1. You can't use it at all before activating online 2. You can't use it at all before downloading and installing a mandatory 5GB+ update. 3. When you put a game in for the first time, you can't play the game until you download a mandatory 5GB update for the game.
So it took over 5 hours from plugging in that MS P.O.S. before we could play a single game, and that was with a half decent ADSL2 internet connection...
I haven't used a PS4 but I guess it's the same. My PS3 and PS2 just work with no net...
So it's like 4 of my dell U2711 packed into one?
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I've got 2 x 2560x1440 screens and it's more than enough real estate for anything. I can't see the point of effectively having 4 of them on one screen of the same size. Even modern graphics cards struggle to do decent 3D on what I have, so what on earth is going to work on such a high res display? The only advantage I can see in 3D is less need for AA which might save some cycles...
Plus Windows scaling is so rubbish, and there is still so many non-dpi aware apps out there that many people still (need to) use, that this is a solution waiting for a problem.
Yes but the GoPano creates basically a ring of video, not a sphere like the Geonaut which captures virtually everything both around and above/below (except for the camera base).
Play with it on their home page:http://fr.playgeonaute.com/video-360-692-geonaute-360-don-t-miss-any-action
Seamonkey has adopted the same rapid release cycle as Firefox (because Seamonkey uses the same Gecko engine as Firefox does, and the old Gecko versions won't get security fixes so neither will Seamonkey), so you (and me) are just as screwed as if you were a Firefox user.
Same deal with Thunderbird, which I can no longer recommend as a mail application to anyone.
They really are throwing out the baby with the bathwater on this one.
Hopefully Asa will get the boot and they'll come back to reality.
(Disclaimer, I work for a broadcaster in Australia, so take this with a grain of salt)
OK for starters the bit about "consistent speed no matter how many users there were" is complete garbage, with ANY radio based system data system.
Secondly, if you start using the TV spectrum for data in both directions, you start putting a really strong signal OUT your TV antenna, which despite being on a different frequency to the actual TV channels, it is close enough to swamp the (really weak by several orders of magnitude) TV signal on the next band with the (extremely strong in comparison) outgoing signal.
So you can forget about watching TV while you're using the internet.
The decision to sell the TV bandwidth rather than just keep it for the public use (eg. super HD TV, or super multichanneling or whatever is in the future) is completely about $$$$ and greed by the Federal Govt so they can sell the bandwidth to the highest bidder.
And there is a lot of stuff worth taking a picture of that is right in front of you but you can't get it all in the frame because the camera won't go wide enough.
Going from a 3x to a 12x is great, as long as some of that increase is in the rearward direction so you can actually get all of your family in the shot while they are at the christmas dinner table.
Have to agree,
I picked up a couple of second hand DELL 21" CRT's (with flat screen trinitron tubes no less), and have never looked back. Cost about $80 each from memory. Better response, natural colour, blacks than anything you can buy, and worked out cheaper too.
They suck a lot of power though, and in summer you notice the heat they produce, but I don't care about that.
However given that LCD's are only about 10-15% efficient at getting the backlight out to your face, it's all relative.
And no, I don't care about the desk real estate (just get a deeper desk if it's a problem, and/or do what I did and make a stand for them so they sit above the keyboard etc.)
What is interesting is that the recipent of the invite gets to see YOUR real name in the invite email! So if you are silly enough to "investigate" the real name of someone using your normal gmail account, they get to see your real name.
There is nothing in TFA about relative or mean incomes.
From The Register article:
"One copy of the Windows operating system bundled with Microsoft Office software can cost up to 7,000 yuan ($1,015) in China, the source said, making it more expensive than a PC."
And just when they are getting their act together they'll decide to abandon KDE4 and start working on KDE5 and then the cycle continues... Sigh.. And the second I submitted this I realized that Microsoft does exactly the same thing...
I want things to work, KDE4 doesn't work. Maybe in a couple years when they get their act together I'll trust it on my system And just when they are getting their act together they'll decide to abandon KDE4 and start working on KDE5 and then the cycle continues... Sigh..
If you live live outside the US, Amazon continue to offer you "Free Super Saver Shipping" all over it's webpages, even though it knows where you live and that that offer only applies to the US.
There are many countries (like Australia here) where there is no "local" Amazon. So if you want to buy a book from amazon.com, you get all sorts of crap thrown in your face that is an outright lie, with Amazon's full knowledge.
Not only that, but the shipping costs are ridiculously high, and the shipping time estimates are ALWAYS optimistic, usually by weeks, even for items that are "in stock". In stock items that take 4 weeks by airmail? Get stuffed.
Just like solar panels, this technology will generate DC power, which you then have to invert (an inefficient process) to get mains AC.
So you need to take that into account when calculating efficiency. Those big solar plants that use super heated water (aka 'steam') to drive a turbine can generate mains AC power directly, just like your coal-fired power plant that we want to kill off.
But cool tech none the less.
Also (not mentioned in OP), it can work in reverse - so it could be an efficient heat pump for your AC system or hot water heater.
When the cartridges shipped with your printer only have 10% the capacity of a new one off the shelf, to force you to buy a new one (with it's far higher profit margin), THAT is what people should be jumping up & down about.
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Some time ago my friend bought an xbox one and a few games. I helped her set it up.
1. You can't use it at all before activating online
2. You can't use it at all before downloading and installing a mandatory 5GB+ update.
3. When you put a game in for the first time, you can't play the game until you download a mandatory 5GB update for the game.
So it took over 5 hours from plugging in that MS P.O.S. before we could play a single game, and that was with a half decent ADSL2 internet connection...
I haven't used a PS4 but I guess it's the same. My PS3 and PS2 just work with no net...
I've got 2 x 2560x1440 screens and it's more than enough real estate for anything. I can't see the point of effectively having 4 of them on one screen of the same size. Even modern graphics cards struggle to do decent 3D on what I have, so what on earth is going to work on such a high res display? The only advantage I can see in 3D is less need for AA which might save some cycles...
Plus Windows scaling is so rubbish, and there is still so many non-dpi aware apps out there that many people still (need to) use, that this is a solution waiting for a problem.
Politics.
(I live in Australia)
Yes but the GoPano creates basically a ring of video, not a sphere like the Geonaut which captures virtually everything both around and above/below (except for the camera base).
Play with it on their home page:http://fr.playgeonaute.com/video-360-692-geonaute-360-don-t-miss-any-action
Seamonkey has adopted the same rapid release cycle as Firefox (because Seamonkey uses the same Gecko engine as Firefox does, and the old Gecko versions won't get security fixes so neither will Seamonkey), so you (and me) are just as screwed as if you were a Firefox user.
Same deal with Thunderbird, which I can no longer recommend as a mail application to anyone.
They really are throwing out the baby with the bathwater on this one.
Hopefully Asa will get the boot and they'll come back to reality.
(Disclaimer, I work for a broadcaster in Australia, so take this with a grain of salt)
OK for starters the bit about "consistent speed no matter how many users there were" is complete garbage, with ANY radio based system data system.
Secondly, if you start using the TV spectrum for data in both directions, you start putting a really strong signal OUT your TV antenna, which despite being on a different frequency to the actual TV channels, it is close enough to swamp the (really weak by several orders of magnitude) TV signal on the next band with the (extremely strong in comparison) outgoing signal.
So you can forget about watching TV while you're using the internet.
The decision to sell the TV bandwidth rather than just keep it for the public use (eg. super HD TV, or super multichanneling or whatever is in the future) is completely about $$$$ and greed by the Federal Govt so they can sell the bandwidth to the highest bidder.
Grrr.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/nations-experts-give-up,682/
http://www.clrn.org/fdti/
You can also download the complete report from there.
I've pulled down a couple, they were about 44 & 80 meg respectively. eg. CK12 Calculus is 43.8 meg and 457 pages.
It's nice to see they haven't made them hard to find for the rest of us who might want to review our rusty math (or whatever).
Can someone please point me to a _current_ offline installer that won't force me to have google update hogging my machine?
And there is a lot of stuff worth taking a picture of that is right in front of you but you can't get it all in the frame because the camera won't go wide enough.
Going from a 3x to a 12x is great, as long as some of that increase is in the rearward direction so you can actually get all of your family in the shot while they are at the christmas dinner table.
Have to agree,
I picked up a couple of second hand DELL 21" CRT's (with flat screen trinitron tubes no less), and have never looked back. Cost about $80 each from memory. Better response, natural colour, blacks than anything you can buy, and worked out cheaper too.
They suck a lot of power though, and in summer you notice the heat they produce, but I don't care about that.
However given that LCD's are only about 10-15% efficient at getting the backlight out to your face, it's all relative.
And no, I don't care about the desk real estate (just get a deeper desk if it's a problem, and/or do what I did and make a stand for them so they sit above the keyboard etc.)
Well what have I been using all this time then?
Just tried it and it still works.
What is interesting is that the recipent of the invite gets to see YOUR real name in the invite email! So if you are silly enough to "investigate" the real name of someone using your normal gmail account, they get to see your real name.
Karma? :-)
There is nothing in TFA about relative or mean incomes.
From The Register article:
"One copy of the Windows operating system bundled with Microsoft Office software can cost up to 7,000 yuan ($1,015) in China, the source said, making it more expensive than a PC."
Seems pretty non-relative to me.
I did a similar thing with a commercial FTP program I had, where I'd saved the passwords but couldn't get them back in plain text.
So I ran wireshark, connected to each of the FTP sites I wanted and recorded the passwords.
It was a much safer option than running some dodgy cracking tool that would probably malware my machine just to get back the passwords already on it.
Now that really would cause a labour shortage, because IT people would move to other countries where they can still /. on the job!
http://origin.theonion.com/content/node/29351
Nobody in office gives a crap about what the people who actually know think.
If you live live outside the US, Amazon continue to offer you "Free Super Saver Shipping" all over it's webpages, even though it knows where you live and that that offer only applies to the US.
There are many countries (like Australia here) where there is no "local" Amazon. So if you want to buy a book from amazon.com, you get all sorts of crap thrown in your face that is an outright lie, with Amazon's full knowledge.
Not only that, but the shipping costs are ridiculously high, and the shipping time estimates are ALWAYS optimistic, usually by weeks, even for items that are "in stock". In stock items that take 4 weeks by airmail? Get stuffed.
Screw them.
We are now one step closer to a realistic robotic woman!
Just like solar panels, this technology will generate DC power, which you then have to invert (an inefficient process) to get mains AC.
So you need to take that into account when calculating efficiency. Those big solar plants that use super heated water (aka 'steam') to drive a turbine can generate mains AC power directly, just like your coal-fired power plant that we want to kill off.
But cool tech none the less.
Also (not mentioned in OP), it can work in reverse - so it could be an efficient heat pump for your AC system or hot water heater.
.. beer tap!
Gives new meaning to a head of beer.
I think you should lose your loose definition of "lose" and come up with something less loose, or we'll all lose!
When the cartridges shipped with your printer only have 10% the capacity of a new one off the shelf, to force you to buy a new one (with it's far higher profit margin), THAT is what people should be jumping up & down about.