I'm not sure that e-Ink would be better in this case, depending on how you configure the watch-face. For an ebook reader, you read for approximately an hour, changing pages every 2-3 seconds. For a watch, it may be updating every second (assuming you have a "seconds" counter of some sort showing, or a chronometer etc). E-ink might not be fast enough to refresh, and with 1-update-per-sec it also might have have much advantage battery-wise.
While many of the Chinese business-people speak English, those in the internal labour market may not (at least not fluently). Eliminating the language barrier won't help too much though unless some of the walls against foreign ownership/participation in the Chinese market are dropped. Currently it's often still quite hard to interact without a middle-man.
Indonesian is apparently the biggest economy on SE-Asia, or at least according to wikipedia, so that may make sense as well. It's also fairly close to Australia.
Japanese. Well they're not the tech poster-child anymore but I wouldn't count them out yet.
Korean. Supplanting Japan in many of the tech areas, with companies such as LG, Samsung, etc.
Hindi seems to be the dominant language in India (again according to WP), so maybe it's a similar case to China where knowing the language may allow one to bypass the middle-man. I'd say in those cases that knowing the culture is probably just as important as the language, however.
Yeah, it's not like there are many that might prevent people from biking to work, like around here. Hell, sometimes you can barely drive to work, much less bike/walk.
I was thinking that it would be good for mapping out real "surround sound" similar to how complex reflection and/or ray-tracing is done.
Even if the initial sounds themselves are canned, the sound through a wooden hallway, a hallway with a carpet, or a large open room would be different. Combine that with digital surround and it could be quite useful.
Best tool for the job. Doesn't mean that people should plan to replace photoshop with mspaint, but it also doesn't mean that mspaint shouldn't be available.
Best tool for large spreadsheets, documents, etc: still a PC (or a laptop). Best tool when one is on the go: Might not be the above. Just like a camera on a cellphone isn't going to compare to a DSLR, it's still a useful thing to have for many people depending on the situation. Not many people cart a full-sized camera around all the time.
I don't plan on writing out a master's thesis or a 1000x1000 cell Excel spreadsheet on a tablet, but for many more casual uses it's still useful.
Nobody is telling people that they *have* to use tablets instead of PC's (well, MS did foist a crappy tablet-centric interface out with win8, but different topic). They're saying the option is available.
Well, technically they'll die on Earth as well. Really, it's a matter of timelines.
If they had a real plan to start a self-supporting Mars colony (or at least self-supporting within a timeline when aid of some sort could be sent), I wouldn't see a big issue with that. Not much different from the early exploration/colonial days.
One that always comes to mind for me is cellular companies and billing errors. Strange how they can make the same error, every month, for possible a tens or hundreds of thousands, and the solution always seems to be just "oh sorry sir, we'll correct that on your next bill."
I had a co-worker who had a pretty tight budget, and remember that every single month he was on the phone correcting his cellular company's "mistakes." Of course, he was locked into a 3yr contract, so even after half a year or more mistakes he couldn't switch.
Meanwhile, the people that didn't watch their bills like a hawk get screwed, and the telco makes millions of illegitimate profit. Strange how those errors are 99.99% of the time in favour of the telco, and how they seem to always come back.
I'd imagine there were all sorts of stories about what one could do with a laptop when the were still fairly fresh and PC's were much more common. I certainly remember people commenting about things like gaming on laptops, which initially was not very good/desirable but later picked up when the mobile graphics cards improved and TFT screens came out.
The GP is posting because trolls like yourself are saying it isn't done. Seems a fairly direct cause and effect to me.
But I would really like it if I could use documents from my PC on my tablet, especially spreadsheets, which are great for doing things such as * Tracking client appointments, pay, travel, expenses, etc * Keep a budget * Tracking mileage on my vehicle (granted there are separate apps for this) Thus far all the apps I've used for that tend to be fairly limited
I don't expect my tablet to be a PC. I wouldn't expect to play PC games on a tablet, and I probably wouldn't do a lot of coding unless the horsepower/storage scale up a lot more, but editing documents... yeah, I wouldn't mind that.
Nothing wrong with teaching programming with network libraries, and frankly for the dedicated hacker-types it's probably not something they couldn't have figured out on their own. Some of the things that get taught in chemistry could certainly go back (heck, some of the most fun experiments were things that went flash or boom), as could various things that get taught in shop.
Sounds like the issue was dealt with appropriately in the end, but it's really about teaching accountability and having appropriate responses when somebody crosses the line.
If revolution should happen, you cannot rely on the Army, the Navy, or the Air Force to remain intact as fighting units, to be used against the people of the United States.
You can't discount a large portion of them either. If played right, they could be used to suppress groups designated as terrorists or whatnot.
The Nazi's were made up of citizens too. It didn't stop them from doing horrific things to certain segments of German society (the Jewish were most visible, but atrocities were committed against many other groups).
Think of the increasing brutality from police in some places, or the attitudes of the TSA etc. A smart yet evil gov't will play elements against each other to accomplish their goals. It seems that right now, all they have to do is label somebody or group a terrorist and suddenly they're not people anymore...
Left 4 Dead 2 is still a favorite at many of the LAN events I attend. If that one gets ported, it will probably do well for moving some users over to 'nix.
For my part, it'll be installed in the PXE-boot gaming platform that I've got at my place.
It seems partly due to humanity developing a fear of smart computers, or AI.
While no doubt some level of computer automation is needed, it would stand somewhat to reason that they might not have anything too advanced because fear of higher-computing technology (basically a worry that it would end up something like Cylons again).
Indeed. What was the research? Where was the supervision.
Anyone can claim an experiment, but this sounds more like a prank gone wrong. It doesn't sound like reason for an arrest (at least not once sorted out), but it may be grounds for a suspension/expulsion depending on severity.
I hope this was a long time ago... having worked in various SD's that tried to support Novell, things got ugly fairly quick.
That said, I remember students having fun with poorly-secured NN environments back in the day, mainly involving things like backdoors using right.exe to grant themselves permissions to others' files (and sometimes taking away others' permissions to their own files).
"bitch at Torvalds... I can load up a 4 year old Windows driver and it'll run fine whereas a 1 year old Linux driver probably won't work"
Ah yes, but that's a double-edged sword too. Try using an old card or motherboard on a newer OS. I had quite a few decent dual-core etc machines that were stuck on XP because Vista/7 didn't support the integrated sound or other features.
Also, moving off of winXP wiped out vendor support for a ton of peripherals. Creative Labs cards were particularly bad in this case, as they had some very popular cards that didn't have drivers post-XP. You could get some functionality for the SBLive etc using the 3rd-party FOSS drivers, but it lacked features and sometimes performance (mine always made popping noises). Back in Linux-land, my SBLive still works just fine, as does much of my old hardware that isn't supported on modern windows.
I've heard a lot of complaints about people passing away, and their facebook account becoming inaccessible to friends or family. This would be useful in the event of a long-term disabling event or death, allowing a spouse or close friend to pass on information in the event of a tragedy (or just begin the process of closing out the account).
I haven't got many ATI cards, but my laptop has a decent mobile-series radeon and the *only* issue I've had was with Ogre3d terrain and the closed-source driver. Windows was solid. Linux works fine except it won't render textures on Ogre-terrain. I think that may be a non-issue as IIRC there were some fairly nvidia-specific extensions there.
Other than that, everything that works on my nVidia machines works just fine on the ATI card. For installation, the FGLRX driver is often easier to manage than the nvidia blob, with one annoyance in that it wants an X restart when adding an HDMI monitor (haven't seen how nVidia handles that). It's gotten MUCH better since AMD took over though.
On ATI, I've done multi-head, windows games, WINE games, and GL development without any major issues other than noted.
I haven't tried the FOSS driver recently, but I might just have to give it a shot as well.
Last complaint about ATI vs nVidia... AMD/ATI do seem to drive binary-support for cards faster (which is where having functional FOSS drivers is quite nice).
For people that code as well. I've got my code editor, my debugger, my running application, possible a browser if it's web-integrated. At the moment I've got two monitors with 1920x1200 each (total 3840x1200). I still have a different virtual desktop for email and a lot of other stuff due to lack of real-estate.
Having a single large monitor with 4000'ish pixels would be awesome, though I think that some additional for managing the windows might be in order as well.
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I'm not sure that e-Ink would be better in this case, depending on how you configure the watch-face. For an ebook reader, you read for approximately an hour, changing pages every 2-3 seconds. For a watch, it may be updating every second (assuming you have a "seconds" counter of some sort showing, or a chronometer etc). E-ink might not be fast enough to refresh, and with 1-update-per-sec it also might have have much advantage battery-wise.
The naming is a bit sneaky, though.
Which brings us to another syndrome.
"Not enough coffee in the morning syndrome"
I swear I read that as puppy. No wonder I couldn't find any references to it.
While many of the Chinese business-people speak English, those in the internal labour market may not (at least not fluently). Eliminating the language barrier won't help too much though unless some of the walls against foreign ownership/participation in the Chinese market are dropped. Currently it's often still quite hard to interact without a middle-man.
Indonesian is apparently the biggest economy on SE-Asia, or at least according to wikipedia, so that may make sense as well. It's also fairly close to Australia.
Japanese. Well they're not the tech poster-child anymore but I wouldn't count them out yet.
Korean. Supplanting Japan in many of the tech areas, with companies such as LG, Samsung, etc.
Hindi seems to be the dominant language in India (again according to WP), so maybe it's a similar case to China where knowing the language may allow one to bypass the middle-man. I'd say in those cases that knowing the culture is probably just as important as the language, however.
I believe I've heard a similar analogy around here:
The tallest blade of grass is first to be cut by the lawnmower
In other words, those that stand out the most may also get undesired attention first.
I'd imagine the puppy analogy is similar, though hopefully minus the lawnmower
Less people getting screened (or at least less often), because they don't want it showing up on their medical records.
It's not like they can just pack up and move to the next country over
And we (the Canadians) are all very thankful for that!
Yeah, it's not like there are many that might prevent people from biking to work, like around here. Hell, sometimes you can barely drive to work, much less bike/walk.
I was thinking that it would be good for mapping out real "surround sound" similar to how complex reflection and/or ray-tracing is done.
Even if the initial sounds themselves are canned, the sound through a wooden hallway, a hallway with a carpet, or a large open room would be different. Combine that with digital surround and it could be quite useful.
Amusingly, I read this as but I doubt he'd get past the primates, which actually seems to be a good descriptor for many other members of the party.
Best tool for the job. Doesn't mean that people should plan to replace photoshop with mspaint, but it also doesn't mean that mspaint shouldn't be available.
Best tool for large spreadsheets, documents, etc: still a PC (or a laptop).
Best tool when one is on the go: Might not be the above. Just like a camera on a cellphone isn't going to compare to a DSLR, it's still a useful thing to have for many people depending on the situation. Not many people cart a full-sized camera around all the time.
I don't plan on writing out a master's thesis or a 1000x1000 cell Excel spreadsheet on a tablet, but for many more casual uses it's still useful.
Nobody is telling people that they *have* to use tablets instead of PC's (well, MS did foist a crappy tablet-centric interface out with win8, but different topic). They're saying the option is available.
Well, technically they'll die on Earth as well.
Really, it's a matter of timelines.
If they had a real plan to start a self-supporting Mars colony (or at least self-supporting within a timeline when aid of some sort could be sent), I wouldn't see a big issue with that. Not much different from the early exploration/colonial days.
One that always comes to mind for me is cellular companies and billing errors. Strange how they can make the same error, every month, for possible a tens or hundreds of thousands, and the solution always seems to be just "oh sorry sir, we'll correct that on your next bill."
I had a co-worker who had a pretty tight budget, and remember that every single month he was on the phone correcting his cellular company's "mistakes." Of course, he was locked into a 3yr contract, so even after half a year or more mistakes he couldn't switch.
Meanwhile, the people that didn't watch their bills like a hawk get screwed, and the telco makes millions of illegitimate profit. Strange how those errors are 99.99% of the time in favour of the telco, and how they seem to always come back.
Who gets charged in court for that?
I'd imagine there were all sorts of stories about what one could do with a laptop when the were still fairly fresh and PC's were much more common.
I certainly remember people commenting about things like gaming on laptops, which initially was not very good/desirable but later picked up when the mobile graphics cards improved and TFT screens came out.
The GP is posting because trolls like yourself are saying it isn't done. Seems a fairly direct cause and effect to me.
But I would really like it if I could use documents from my PC on my tablet, especially spreadsheets, which are great for doing things such as
* Tracking client appointments, pay, travel, expenses, etc
* Keep a budget
* Tracking mileage on my vehicle (granted there are separate apps for this)
Thus far all the apps I've used for that tend to be fairly limited
I don't expect my tablet to be a PC. I wouldn't expect to play PC games on a tablet, and I probably wouldn't do a lot of coding unless the horsepower/storage scale up a lot more, but editing documents... yeah, I wouldn't mind that.
Nothing wrong with teaching programming with network libraries, and frankly for the dedicated hacker-types it's probably not something they couldn't have figured out on their own. Some of the things that get taught in chemistry could certainly go back (heck, some of the most fun experiments were things that went flash or boom), as could various things that get taught in shop.
Sounds like the issue was dealt with appropriately in the end, but it's really about teaching accountability and having appropriate responses when somebody crosses the line.
If revolution should happen, you cannot rely on the Army, the Navy, or the Air Force to remain intact as fighting units, to be used against the people of the United States.
You can't discount a large portion of them either. If played right, they could be used to suppress groups designated as terrorists or whatnot.
The Nazi's were made up of citizens too. It didn't stop them from doing horrific things to certain segments of German society (the Jewish were most visible, but atrocities were committed against many other groups).
Think of the increasing brutality from police in some places, or the attitudes of the TSA etc. A smart yet evil gov't will play elements against each other to accomplish their goals. It seems that right now, all they have to do is label somebody or group a terrorist and suddenly they're not people anymore...
Left 4 Dead 2 is still a favorite at many of the LAN events I attend.
If that one gets ported, it will probably do well for moving some users over to 'nix.
For my part, it'll be installed in the PXE-boot gaming platform that I've got at my place.
It seems partly due to humanity developing a fear of smart computers, or AI.
While no doubt some level of computer automation is needed, it would stand somewhat to reason that they might not have anything too advanced because fear of higher-computing technology (basically a worry that it would end up something like Cylons again).
Indeed.
What was the research? Where was the supervision.
Anyone can claim an experiment, but this sounds more like a prank gone wrong. It doesn't sound like reason for an arrest (at least not once sorted out), but it may be grounds for a suspension/expulsion depending on severity.
I hope this was a long time ago... having worked in various SD's that tried to support Novell, things got ugly fairly quick.
That said, I remember students having fun with poorly-secured NN environments back in the day, mainly involving things like backdoors using right.exe to grant themselves permissions to others' files (and sometimes taking away others' permissions to their own files).
Ditto for various security systems, etc, which still use good ol' co-axial for video.
"bitch at Torvalds ... I can load up a 4 year old Windows driver and it'll run fine whereas a 1 year old Linux driver probably won't work"
Ah yes, but that's a double-edged sword too. Try using an old card or motherboard on a newer OS. I had quite a few decent dual-core etc machines that were stuck on XP because Vista/7 didn't support the integrated sound or other features.
Also, moving off of winXP wiped out vendor support for a ton of peripherals. Creative Labs cards were particularly bad in this case, as they had some very popular cards that didn't have drivers post-XP. You could get some functionality for the SBLive etc using the 3rd-party FOSS drivers, but it lacked features and sometimes performance (mine always made popping noises). Back in Linux-land, my SBLive still works just fine, as does much of my old hardware that isn't supported on modern windows.
I've heard a lot of complaints about people passing away, and their facebook account becoming inaccessible to friends or family. This would be useful in the event of a long-term disabling event or death, allowing a spouse or close friend to pass on information in the event of a tragedy (or just begin the process of closing out the account).
I haven't got many ATI cards, but my laptop has a decent mobile-series radeon and the *only* issue I've had was with Ogre3d terrain and the closed-source driver. Windows was solid. Linux works fine except it won't render textures on Ogre-terrain. I think that may be a non-issue as IIRC there were some fairly nvidia-specific extensions there.
Other than that, everything that works on my nVidia machines works just fine on the ATI card. For installation, the FGLRX driver is often easier to manage than the nvidia blob, with one annoyance in that it wants an X restart when adding an HDMI monitor (haven't seen how nVidia handles that). It's gotten MUCH better since AMD took over though.
On ATI, I've done multi-head, windows games, WINE games, and GL development without any major issues other than noted.
I haven't tried the FOSS driver recently, but I might just have to give it a shot as well.
Last complaint about ATI vs nVidia... AMD/ATI do seem to drive binary-support for cards faster (which is where having functional FOSS drivers is quite nice).
For people that code as well. I've got my code editor, my debugger, my running application, possible a browser if it's web-integrated.
At the moment I've got two monitors with 1920x1200 each (total 3840x1200). I still have a different virtual desktop for email and a lot of other stuff due to lack of real-estate.
Having a single large monitor with 4000'ish pixels would be awesome, though I think that some additional for managing the windows might be in order as well.