I fully agree with your sentence but not necessarily your link.
Yes, all nerds should abandon Skype as soon as possible. However given its rather unfinished state I'm not sure Jitsi is the realistic alternative at this stage.
I bought a brand new 400MHz system in 2004 - a Sharp Zaurus SL-5600. Beautiful machine, pity the front light burned out recently or I'd still be using it.
Because we can. I'm going to re-post something I wrote recently, pertaining to computers ten years old:
I don't believe we have seen this before in computing history - an era where software written today can be reasonably expected to run on a personal computer manufactured a decade ago.
This was not the case in 2008, 2004, 2000, 1990, 1980...
In 2002 the state of the art computer was an Athlon XP 2000+ with 256MB RAM, 40GB HDD. Many of these are still running now, and so long as schools and grannies can use them to browse the web and watch YouTube (Flash-only of course) they will continue to run for years to come. Of course most will be 512 or 1GB now since extra RAM is most often a trivial upgrade these days.
In 1998 what did we have? The AMD K6 and Intel's Pentium 2, and 128MB if you were lucky. Not so many of those were running in 2008 I'm sure.
Until you happen to casually mention a dissenting political view, or a TV show you watched that the feds know has not been released in your country yet. Then comes the black helicopters.
Now that they've completely lost the plot (ref: Windows 8) why are people still taking these clowns seriously enough to let them hold the keys for the next generation of PC hardware?
I believe the governments of today cannot be easily pigeon-holed as liberal, conservative, left or right. They want power and money. However they market themselves is whatever serves their purpose at the time - that purpose often simply being to get voted back in.
True in general I'm sure, but in this case people have been well conditioned to associate crappy technology with high quality cinematic content. For decades we have had television with high frame rates of 50/60pps [1] and (in a very broad sense) low quality content and movies with low frame rates of 24pps and (again in a very broad sense) high quality content. Some of the more expensive TV shows appear to reduce their frame rates (just not bothering to interlace NTSC content gives you 30fps) to counter this effect. It doesn't take long before people start equating high frame rates with low quality budget TV shows.
My suspicion is that after two or perhaps three sittings, most folks will be able to break out of this unfortunate conditioning (the soap opera effect).
Having spent enough time in cinemas being thoroughly fed up with juddery low frame rates I call this move long overdue.
[1] I use pps or Pictures Per Second here, since with interlaced video content each "Picture" is not strictly a frame but a field, composed of either all the odd or even-numbered lines. Nevertheless the perceived motion is comparable to that of Frames Per Second.
Perhaps the food served in McDonalds US, France, Canada is different to that in New Zealand. Here it's pretty damned nice. The people who rag on McDonalds here are generally hipsters who don't like anything "mainstream", or vegans.
Was he that particular about the vegetables, cutlery, crockery and condiments? Did he check where they all came from? If not, he's just cherry-picking to make a point.
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And still they are often ignored. See Japanese tsunami warning stones.
I don't believe we have seen this before in computing history - an era where software written today can be reasonably expected to run on a personal computer manufactured a decade ago.
This was not the case in 2008, 2004, 2000, 1990, 1980...
In 2002 the state of the art computer was an Athlon XP 2000+ with 256MB RAM, 40GB HDD. Many of these are still running now, and so long as schools and grannies can use them to browse the web and watch YouTube (Flash-only of course) they will continue to run for years to come. Of course most will be 512 or 1GB now since extra RAM is most often a trivial upgrade these days.
In 1998 what did we have? The AMD K6 and Intel's Pentium 2, and 128MB if you were lucky. Not so many of those were running in 2008 I'm sure.
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Not with *that* attitude.
That guy, also known as Apathy Guy, is a much greater threat to our liberty than any crooked police officer, senator or president.
I fully agree with your sentence but not necessarily your link.
Yes, all nerds should abandon Skype as soon as possible. However given its rather unfinished state I'm not sure Jitsi is the realistic alternative at this stage.
I bought a brand new 400MHz system in 2004 - a Sharp Zaurus SL-5600. Beautiful machine, pity the front light burned out recently or I'd still be using it.
Because we can. I'm going to re-post something I wrote recently, pertaining to computers ten years old:
I don't believe we have seen this before in computing history - an era where software written today can be reasonably expected to run on a personal computer manufactured a decade ago.
This was not the case in 2008, 2004, 2000, 1990, 1980...
In 2002 the state of the art computer was an Athlon XP 2000+ with 256MB RAM, 40GB HDD. Many of these are still running now, and so long as schools and grannies can use them to browse the web and watch YouTube (Flash-only of course) they will continue to run for years to come. Of course most will be 512 or 1GB now since extra RAM is most often a trivial upgrade these days.
In 1998 what did we have? The AMD K6 and Intel's Pentium 2, and 128MB if you were lucky. Not so many of those were running in 2008 I'm sure.
Until you happen to casually mention a dissenting political view, or a TV show you watched that the feds know has not been released in your country yet. Then comes the black helicopters.
Microsoft was never the good guy.
Sorry Billy.
I think you mean virii.
*runs away*
Now that they've completely lost the plot (ref: Windows 8) why are people still taking these clowns seriously enough to let them hold the keys for the next generation of PC hardware?
Damn, that's a good song - now I can't get it out of my head. I believe you just pink-rolled me.
Can anybody make DRM work properly? Does DRM have any right to life whatsoever?
No to the first question.
A thousand times No to the second.
Bingo!
I believe the governments of today cannot be easily pigeon-holed as liberal, conservative, left or right. They want power and money. However they market themselves is whatever serves their purpose at the time - that purpose often simply being to get voted back in.
Lightsaber or lightsabre?
Go!
Not likely, since any footage captured by your "recording device" cannot be reliably played back.
"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."
- Paul Erdos
True in general I'm sure, but in this case people have been well conditioned to associate crappy technology with high quality cinematic content. For decades we have had television with high frame rates of 50/60pps [1] and (in a very broad sense) low quality content and movies with low frame rates of 24pps and (again in a very broad sense) high quality content. Some of the more expensive TV shows appear to reduce their frame rates (just not bothering to interlace NTSC content gives you 30fps) to counter this effect. It doesn't take long before people start equating high frame rates with low quality budget TV shows.
My suspicion is that after two or perhaps three sittings, most folks will be able to break out of this unfortunate conditioning (the soap opera effect).
Having spent enough time in cinemas being thoroughly fed up with juddery low frame rates I call this move long overdue.
[1] I use pps or Pictures Per Second here, since with interlaced video content each "Picture" is not strictly a frame but a field, composed of either all the odd or even-numbered lines. Nevertheless the perceived motion is comparable to that of Frames Per Second.
Not that odd - that someone's intended use for this device is different from yours.
Yeah but who's gonna fly it kid, you?
Perhaps the food served in McDonalds US, France, Canada is different to that in New Zealand. Here it's pretty damned nice. The people who rag on McDonalds here are generally hipsters who don't like anything "mainstream", or vegans.
I've always been uneasy about Microsoft, I mean Microsoft, being in control of a news network.
Was he that particular about the vegetables, cutlery, crockery and condiments? Did he check where they all came from? If not, he's just cherry-picking to make a point.
And still they are often ignored. See Japanese tsunami warning stones.
More that computers simply *are* lasting longer
This.
I don't believe we have seen this before in computing history - an era where software written today can be reasonably expected to run on a personal computer manufactured a decade ago.
This was not the case in 2008, 2004, 2000, 1990, 1980...
In 2002 the state of the art computer was an Athlon XP 2000+ with 256MB RAM, 40GB HDD. Many of these are still running now, and so long as schools and grannies can use them to browse the web and watch YouTube (Flash-only of course) they will continue to run for years to come. Of course most will be 512 or 1GB now since extra RAM is most often a trivial upgrade these days.
In 1998 what did we have? The AMD K6 and Intel's Pentium 2, and 128MB if you were lucky. Not so many of those were running in 2008 I'm sure.
My wit feels halved today. I honestly thought there was a disc shape involved.
Especially when Microsoft keep having these frequent "accidents", such as pushing Skype and Silverlight (twice) as security updates over WSUS.