I've long dreamed about living far off the grid, but lack of internet access has been the real problem. Satellite just isn't going to cut it for me, no matter how you look at it. I can get by with a cellular data plan, but as you say, cellular service is iffy at best. If there aren't any people, there's no incentive for them to build towers. Its a shame. I dream of a cabin in the middle of some beautiful mountains, but don't want to be cut off at the same time.
Android scales graphis just fine IMO. if you run something like an older game that was designed for a lower dpi device, it just scales it. Generally you have the option to allow it to run smaller in its native resolution as well. Many of the android games use vectors for sprites, so asides from backgrounds looking pixelated, the sprites generally look pretty decent. I dunno, I went from a phone with an 800x480 display to a tablet with a 1280x800 display. If you ask me, android, at least ICS and beyond, handles high resolutions very well. It will scale the UI to match the dpi of the phone. I don't think apple has any real advantage here.
I meant to add that you could just get a device and use that to test your code. That would be how most devs do it. I think google might still sell a dev phone to you if you ask nicely.
i have a transformer tablet running ics 4.04. It seems solid enough. It is easily as reliable as cyanogen 7 on my phone. the only issue I have had is with apex launcher, which the latest update seems to want to crash and force me to wade through to the applications from the settings menu and close it. Oh well. Really, I've had no complaints. I just wish everything worked. Lots of games for 2.x phones don't want to work. (Gameloft...looking at YOU) Tegra 3 should play everything on the market flawlessly, but many, many games won't work. Also the applications that are optimized or designed for tablets are pretty far and few between. Since these things are selling like hotcakes now, and ICS is on everything, hopefully the devs will pick up the slack. Android is the largest market, so good things are coming. FWIW, all of the x.0 releases have introduced massive changes from 1.5 ---> 2.0 ---> 3.0....its the point releases, much like 2.1, 2.2, 2.3....3.1...4.1...that fix a lot of the bugs. Android is best experienced after they fine tune new versions and optimize them. I imagine that 4.1 is much more optimized than 4.0 and I really look forward to getting it either via OTA or eventually a cyanogen port. The ASUS firmware is decent actually once you root and strip out the bloatware (and there isn't much). A free version of splashtop is really cool too.
Some people just think they have all the easy answers don't they? They don't realize that all this stuff has been experimented with before. FWIW a lawn mower engine is typically 3-6hp. 6hp is not enough power to generate electricity to sustain a 2000lb vehicle @ 60mph. Sometimes I wonder where all the smart people went to on slashdot anymore. People just post stuff without really thinking it through.
There's lots of practical problems with turbines. However a generator is the perfect application for a turbine since the turbine won't be directly driving the vehicle, negating many of the drawbacks with turbines. Something tells me that they stuck with reciprocating engines for a reason....
I wish a PC maker would just install windows 7, the latest drivers from the manufacturer's website and call it a day and save me the fucking hassle every time I buy a new machine. Spending an entire evening to another day trying to figure out why the awful sound card drivers were crackling at the slightest amount of system load. The manufacturer of the chipset doesn't have drivers (fuck you connexant for not supporting your own hardware with reference drivers!) and you are left with whatever the OEM cooks up, which in my case wasn't working. After MUCH googling, I finally found a downloadable zip of the drivers. I don't know if they are the same as the ones I started with, but uninstalling, letting windows reinstall their own drivers (which were rather generic and too quiet) and then reinstalling the drivers I found after 3 hours of googling seemed to work actually. Oh yeah, if you are on an optimus system, get the latest intel and nvidia verde drivers. They really play nice in the newer releases.
I don't even bother booting into the OEM install of windows when I get a new machine anymore. Since I already paid for windows and I have to reinstall anyways, I just get ultimate and use the OEM key and preactivate. I just immediately unbox and install windows. It seems faster than uninstalling hours of bloatware and then you still don't know what they tweaked in the registry, etc.
I use and prefer their gear all the time. Every ASUS motherboard I have used has been an real pleasure to work with. I bought their transformer tablet and quite honestly, the only thing that bests it right now is the prime marginally and the infinity. I can overclock to 1.5ghz on stock and really the gap just narrows. The nexus 7 is only marginally faster, but lacks the lovely keyboard dock with sd card reader and powered (super useful!) usb port. Want the tablet to keep the usb port powered in sleep? Play some music and turn the volume off and close the dock. Works great. You could easily charge a few cell phones with it and probably browse the web for several hours. USB host support is killer. Plug in a huge drive of videos and hook it up via hdmi....etc...etc..etc... I never thought I would be so impressed. As a photographer I find it easy to just plug in my usb-powered drive and dump sd cards rather quickly.
Asus makes great hardware and their laptops are killer. I ended up buying another damned acer laptop and quite honestly, its pretty nice and plays games really well and was on the cheap side. I would buy again. Their build quality has gone up a lot and I'm getting 3x the performance that my old amd turion acer laptop had. I'm pretty impressed with what you can get for like $700 right now.
More applications that replicate desktop functionality are a must. Even using my tablet still feels like using a giant phone. Especially when older/poorly designed apps flip orientation and my screen is docked. Awkward. Chrome is pretty nice but asides from some ok games (even the games aren't great yet imo) that look kind of pretty, I haven't found anything all that awesome to do with my tablet. Photo editing software that didn't suck would be nice. Photoshop touch is just too limited. I have a quad core cpu running @ 1.5ghz with 1gb of ram and the most ps can process is a 2048x2048 picture? Lame. The ecosystem is getting there. Final Fantasy III was a nice touch and some of the new games coming out look pretty amazing....its still nowhere near the ipad unfortuantely.
Apple has patented round corners. Apple has patented the double click. Apple has patented the scrollbar. Apple has patented speakers, but only for non-computers.
I'm so tired of this "I can piss while lumping at the same time. Even if you can do it I have patented it so you have to pay me." Fuck these idiots till they die. (Is fuck-till-death patented, by the way?)
I just filed an application! Fuck death copycats look out!
They aren't considered a real, recognized religion in many countries in the world. They truly are a criminal organization. Too many people have died. They also pretty much control the town they are based in with the police completely in their pocket. No, they truly fit the definition of organized crime. If I personally thought assassinating church leadership would bring an end to the suffering they inflict, I'd probably be the first person camped out in florida with a rifle and a scope. I don't think that would put the organization out of commission though.
This is true, but the art requirements for a game like arkham city are insane. Sure there are some really awesome indy games, but nothing quite like that. Fallout 3 also comes to mind. No way could a small team accomplish that. I'm not trying to diminish what people do with less, but more is always better.
Best comment I've read in a while. I played a demo of arkham city the other day. I almost whipped out the credit card on the spot. Just the graphics alone made want to play it. Games like that cost 1000000x to produce versus what you can get out of some engine and a bunch of modders. It would take a dedicated small team years of hours putting together something on the level of what I played. Even linux owes a lot to significant corporate investment.
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What?? There are x86 phones?
That's what I was thinking too. The IQ level of slashdot is rapidly diminishing.
I've long dreamed about living far off the grid, but lack of internet access has been the real problem. Satellite just isn't going to cut it for me, no matter how you look at it. I can get by with a cellular data plan, but as you say, cellular service is iffy at best. If there aren't any people, there's no incentive for them to build towers. Its a shame. I dream of a cabin in the middle of some beautiful mountains, but don't want to be cut off at the same time.
"(Disclaimer: I'm not a conspiracy theorist, nut.)"
But your writings say otherwise.... :P
yeah, but will all the arm optimized apps that run native code work? android on mips faces the same problem.
Android scales graphis just fine IMO. if you run something like an older game that was designed for a lower dpi device, it just scales it. Generally you have the option to allow it to run smaller in its native resolution as well. Many of the android games use vectors for sprites, so asides from backgrounds looking pixelated, the sprites generally look pretty decent. I dunno, I went from a phone with an 800x480 display to a tablet with a 1280x800 display. If you ask me, android, at least ICS and beyond, handles high resolutions very well. It will scale the UI to match the dpi of the phone. I don't think apple has any real advantage here.
I like boobs of all shapes and sizes. Except the extremely large saggy boobs. Nobody likes those.
I meant to add that you could just get a device and use that to test your code. That would be how most devs do it. I think google might still sell a dev phone to you if you ask nicely.
There's not much they can do, short of writing a better ARM VM. You want it to emulate ARM so you can test native code.
i have a transformer tablet running ics 4.04. It seems solid enough. It is easily as reliable as cyanogen 7 on my phone. the only issue I have had is with apex launcher, which the latest update seems to want to crash and force me to wade through to the applications from the settings menu and close it. Oh well. Really, I've had no complaints. I just wish everything worked. Lots of games for 2.x phones don't want to work. (Gameloft...looking at YOU) Tegra 3 should play everything on the market flawlessly, but many, many games won't work. Also the applications that are optimized or designed for tablets are pretty far and few between. Since these things are selling like hotcakes now, and ICS is on everything, hopefully the devs will pick up the slack. Android is the largest market, so good things are coming. FWIW, all of the x.0 releases have introduced massive changes from 1.5 ---> 2.0 ---> 3.0....its the point releases, much like 2.1, 2.2, 2.3....3.1...4.1...that fix a lot of the bugs. Android is best experienced after they fine tune new versions and optimize them. I imagine that 4.1 is much more optimized than 4.0 and I really look forward to getting it either via OTA or eventually a cyanogen port. The ASUS firmware is decent actually once you root and strip out the bloatware (and there isn't much). A free version of splashtop is really cool too.
Some people just think they have all the easy answers don't they? They don't realize that all this stuff has been experimented with before. FWIW a lawn mower engine is typically 3-6hp. 6hp is not enough power to generate electricity to sustain a 2000lb vehicle @ 60mph. Sometimes I wonder where all the smart people went to on slashdot anymore. People just post stuff without really thinking it through.
There's lots of practical problems with turbines. However a generator is the perfect application for a turbine since the turbine won't be directly driving the vehicle, negating many of the drawbacks with turbines. Something tells me that they stuck with reciprocating engines for a reason....
I loved my old delta 88. First car I had. They sure don't build them like that anymore.
I wish a PC maker would just install windows 7, the latest drivers from the manufacturer's website and call it a day and save me the fucking hassle every time I buy a new machine. Spending an entire evening to another day trying to figure out why the awful sound card drivers were crackling at the slightest amount of system load. The manufacturer of the chipset doesn't have drivers (fuck you connexant for not supporting your own hardware with reference drivers!) and you are left with whatever the OEM cooks up, which in my case wasn't working. After MUCH googling, I finally found a downloadable zip of the drivers. I don't know if they are the same as the ones I started with, but uninstalling, letting windows reinstall their own drivers (which were rather generic and too quiet) and then reinstalling the drivers I found after 3 hours of googling seemed to work actually. Oh yeah, if you are on an optimus system, get the latest intel and nvidia verde drivers. They really play nice in the newer releases.
I don't even bother booting into the OEM install of windows when I get a new machine anymore. Since I already paid for windows and I have to reinstall anyways, I just get ultimate and use the OEM key and preactivate. I just immediately unbox and install windows. It seems faster than uninstalling hours of bloatware and then you still don't know what they tweaked in the registry, etc.
sorry...didn't mean to ramble really. asus rocks though. i fried a motherboard somehow and they replaced it no questions asked.
I use and prefer their gear all the time. Every ASUS motherboard I have used has been an real pleasure to work with. I bought their transformer tablet and quite honestly, the only thing that bests it right now is the prime marginally and the infinity. I can overclock to 1.5ghz on stock and really the gap just narrows. The nexus 7 is only marginally faster, but lacks the lovely keyboard dock with sd card reader and powered (super useful!) usb port. Want the tablet to keep the usb port powered in sleep? Play some music and turn the volume off and close the dock. Works great. You could easily charge a few cell phones with it and probably browse the web for several hours. USB host support is killer. Plug in a huge drive of videos and hook it up via hdmi....etc...etc..etc... I never thought I would be so impressed. As a photographer I find it easy to just plug in my usb-powered drive and dump sd cards rather quickly.
Asus makes great hardware and their laptops are killer. I ended up buying another damned acer laptop and quite honestly, its pretty nice and plays games really well and was on the cheap side. I would buy again. Their build quality has gone up a lot and I'm getting 3x the performance that my old amd turion acer laptop had. I'm pretty impressed with what you can get for like $700 right now.
So much wasted potential at the moment. I'd kill for a gimp port.
More applications that replicate desktop functionality are a must. Even using my tablet still feels like using a giant phone. Especially when older/poorly designed apps flip orientation and my screen is docked. Awkward. Chrome is pretty nice but asides from some ok games (even the games aren't great yet imo) that look kind of pretty, I haven't found anything all that awesome to do with my tablet. Photo editing software that didn't suck would be nice. Photoshop touch is just too limited. I have a quad core cpu running @ 1.5ghz with 1gb of ram and the most ps can process is a 2048x2048 picture? Lame. The ecosystem is getting there. Final Fantasy III was a nice touch and some of the new games coming out look pretty amazing....its still nowhere near the ipad unfortuantely.
Apple has patented round corners. Apple has patented the double click. Apple has patented the scrollbar. Apple has patented speakers, but only for non-computers.
I'm so tired of this "I can piss while lumping at the same time. Even if you can do it I have patented it so you have to pay me." Fuck these idiots till they die. (Is fuck-till-death patented, by the way?)
I just filed an application! Fuck death copycats look out!
While some requests are backed by court orders, most are not.
While some requests are backed by court orders, many are not.
Both are correct. fixed that for you.
Yeah, but IE likely shares a lot of libraries that are already loaded at boot, so its overall memory footprint would be smaller as a result.
They aren't considered a real, recognized religion in many countries in the world. They truly are a criminal organization. Too many people have died. They also pretty much control the town they are based in with the police completely in their pocket. No, they truly fit the definition of organized crime. If I personally thought assassinating church leadership would bring an end to the suffering they inflict, I'd probably be the first person camped out in florida with a rifle and a scope. I don't think that would put the organization out of commission though.
This is true, but the art requirements for a game like arkham city are insane. Sure there are some really awesome indy games, but nothing quite like that. Fallout 3 also comes to mind. No way could a small team accomplish that. I'm not trying to diminish what people do with less, but more is always better.
Best comment I've read in a while. I played a demo of arkham city the other day. I almost whipped out the credit card on the spot. Just the graphics alone made want to play it. Games like that cost 1000000x to produce versus what you can get out of some engine and a bunch of modders. It would take a dedicated small team years of hours putting together something on the level of what I played. Even linux owes a lot to significant corporate investment.
Android Phone ----> Contacts -----> Menu -----> Import/Export ------> Export to SD Card -----> Peace of mind