I would take that bet. Not on smart watches in general. On Apple's smart watch. Over the last decade or so, they've gotten pretty good about waiting for others to make the obvious mistakes and then come out with something that "just works".
Just look at their music player, laptop, tablet, phone, etc...
For Linux systems, NVIDIA was the worse graphics card manufacturer. Except, of course, for all their competition.
Now, with nouveau drivers starting to mature, things are getting better. I just install Linux Mint 16, and for the first time in installing linux systems with nvidia graphics drivers (probably in 2004?), I didn't install the nvidia graphics driver and things work at an acceptable speed.
Thanks, nouveau developers, for your excellent work so far. I hope Nvidia gives you more support in the future.
What I'm saying is that for the extra $79 a year, I don't see much value added over standard amazon. Especially since if your amazon cart is $50 or more you typically get free shipping anyway.
So maybe it makes sense for you. I generally don't need that special part the next day. And for the rare times I do need something the next day, I go to a local store.
I never saw the fascination of Amazon Prime. I figured that, like most people on/., I'm not in the target demographic. I'm quite happy to wait 3-5 days for a package to arive. In addition, when I buy a movie, I like to hold the disc in my hand.
Prime is for the people that must have what they bought now. Whatever happened to delaying gratification?
I opted out once when I flew with my wife and kids. The guy that patted me down informed me that they always waved through families with young kids. I haven't been patted down since.
I guess terrorists don't fly with young kids. And young kids can't be trained to carry bomb materials.
It has native binaries for OS X and most Linux flavors. It's also in the repositories for several Debian derivatives.
In fact, I went to Filezilla because it was the only reliable FTP/SFTP app on OS X that I didn't have to pay an arm and a leg for. I still use it to transfer files on Linux and Mac systems.
Someone had to buy those personal computers in the 1980s for $3000 a pop (or more) in order to drive the efficiencies that lead to the current wave of sub-$500 PCs that are all over the place.
If someone wants to spend more to be at the forefront, why not congratulate them and allow the march of progress continue?
Why worry about ranges over a couple hundered miles when you can fill your car up every night? If you drive more than a couple hundred miles a day, you're probably more of an outlier and electric cars are probably not for you.
And why worry about long range when you can do a full battery swap in ~90 seconds?
What's needed is the electric infrastructure to grow and a standard develop for electric battery swaps so that we don't feel endandered by swapping out our new battery for a battery that's five years old.
We may not be as homogenous a community as we were 10 years ago, but we're still nerds. And the comment system here is the best that anyone's come up with yet. Reading at +5 threshold is always insightful. Reading at -1 is often inciteful.
Something a bit higher power, that can push 1080p and have enough horsepower to run a few first person shooters would be all it would take.
I look at the Wii U gamepad controller and I balked. There's no way I'm getting a controller with a video screen on it. If they just didn't make that controller and used modernized versions of the Wii controller that would have shazed a few bucks off the price and been more relateable.
I share my most important personal information (my financial information) with my banks. And I wish I didn't have to.
I get more junk mail from them then everything else combined. Wish there was a way to tell them all I'm not interested in any more credit cards, or refinancing my home, or car loans, or balance transfers, etc.
I was an iPad early adopter. It won't upgrade beyond iOS 5.x. I'm not upset about that. I understand that newer versions of an OS have more advanced hardware requirements.
My problem is the issues it causes with the walled garden of apps:
All apps are now going to require iOS7 to be installed. If I have iOS5.x I can't upgrade. This isn't the problem.
The problem is, if my iPad needs to get wiped for whatever reason, I cannot reinstall older versions of the apps from the Apple Store, since they will not allow download of old versions of apps, even if the newer version is not compatible with my hardware.
Built a 4500 sq foot house about 2.5 years ago and populated the fixtures with CFLs (except for the two chandeliers which have incandescents). So far only 1 CFL bulb has died, but I replaced it and the set of three similar fixtures in the same room with LEDs.
Can't wait until more of the CFLs die. I hate that (even though they were all new with the house) some of them are showing signs of needing to warm up to their maximum intensity, and figure more of them will follow over the next couple years.
Love the 4 LEDs so far, and really want to replace more of the CFLs with them.
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As an aside, my first guess is that they use color e-paper (regardless of cost) for power efficiency reasons.
I would take that bet. Not on smart watches in general. On Apple's smart watch. Over the last decade or so, they've gotten pretty good about waiting for others to make the obvious mistakes and then come out with something that "just works".
Just look at their music player, laptop, tablet, phone, etc...
I'm sorry that people died during the 9/11 attacks. Doesn't mean that I had any role to play in causing the attacks.
Don't hate Krugman for making predictions when they come true. He's just following the Keynesian model and letting us know where that puts us.
He's also one that will admit to being wrong, which is better than a lot of other economic bloggers out there.
Absolutely. Slashdot is the worst social news site (where people actually discuss the stories).
Except, of course, all the others.
For Linux systems, NVIDIA was the worse graphics card manufacturer. Except, of course, for all their competition.
Now, with nouveau drivers starting to mature, things are getting better. I just install Linux Mint 16, and for the first time in installing linux systems with nvidia graphics drivers (probably in 2004?), I didn't install the nvidia graphics driver and things work at an acceptable speed.
Thanks, nouveau developers, for your excellent work so far. I hope Nvidia gives you more support in the future.
What I'm saying is that for the extra $79 a year, I don't see much value added over standard amazon. Especially since if your amazon cart is $50 or more you typically get free shipping anyway.
So maybe it makes sense for you. I generally don't need that special part the next day. And for the rare times I do need something the next day, I go to a local store.
I never saw the fascination of Amazon Prime. I figured that, like most people on /., I'm not in the target demographic. I'm quite happy to wait 3-5 days for a package to arive. In addition, when I buy a movie, I like to hold the disc in my hand.
Prime is for the people that must have what they bought now. Whatever happened to delaying gratification?
I opt out of the body scanners when I fly alone.
I opted out once when I flew with my wife and kids. The guy that patted me down informed me that they always waved through families with young kids. I haven't been patted down since.
I guess terrorists don't fly with young kids. And young kids can't be trained to carry bomb materials.
They're not locked in. They can leave at any time. They choose to stay.
There are certain drugs that should be made legal and have supervised usage. Like marijuana, tobacco, and alcohol.
Then there's bad stuff which has little to no use in society, where drug rehab programs should step in. Like PCP and heroin.
Then there's crazy shit, where society in general would benefit if it was uninvented. Like krokodil.
Errr....
It has native binaries for OS X and most Linux flavors. It's also in the repositories for several Debian derivatives.
In fact, I went to Filezilla because it was the only reliable FTP/SFTP app on OS X that I didn't have to pay an arm and a leg for. I still use it to transfer files on Linux and Mac systems.
[...] I think like a lot of people I'll be skipping this generation and seeing what comes around in the next 5-10 years.
I would expect that 5-10 years from now we'll have mirroring of our phones onto the TV screen and optional bluetooth gamepads.
Yes.
But you don't have to jump. Whoever creates your distribution will jump in your stead.
Exactly.
Someone had to buy those personal computers in the 1980s for $3000 a pop (or more) in order to drive the efficiencies that lead to the current wave of sub-$500 PCs that are all over the place.
If someone wants to spend more to be at the forefront, why not congratulate them and allow the march of progress continue?
Exactly.
Why worry about ranges over a couple hundered miles when you can fill your car up every night? If you drive more than a couple hundred miles a day, you're probably more of an outlier and electric cars are probably not for you.
And why worry about long range when you can do a full battery swap in ~90 seconds?
What's needed is the electric infrastructure to grow and a standard develop for electric battery swaps so that we don't feel endandered by swapping out our new battery for a battery that's five years old.
Or place solar collectors/converters in space. Once you do that (and can manage scaling issues) no more concerns about energy for quite some time.
Who the fuck reads /. for the articles?
We read for the comments and the community.
We may not be as homogenous a community as we were 10 years ago, but we're still nerds. And the comment system here is the best that anyone's come up with yet. Reading at +5 threshold is always insightful. Reading at -1 is often inciteful.
Bingo.
Something a bit higher power, that can push 1080p and have enough horsepower to run a few first person shooters would be all it would take.
I look at the Wii U gamepad controller and I balked. There's no way I'm getting a controller with a video screen on it. If they just didn't make that controller and used modernized versions of the Wii controller that would have shazed a few bucks off the price and been more relateable.
In other words, the lesser of two evils is still evil.
I share my most important personal information (my financial information) with my banks. And I wish I didn't have to.
I get more junk mail from them then everything else combined. Wish there was a way to tell them all I'm not interested in any more credit cards, or refinancing my home, or car loans, or balance transfers, etc.
Depends on the surface area. No one said the monument has to be the shape of an obelisk.
What if it looked like this? http://soler7.com/Fractals/3D22/Mandelbulb2657.JPG
I was an iPad early adopter. It won't upgrade beyond iOS 5.x. I'm not upset about that. I understand that newer versions of an OS have more advanced hardware requirements.
My problem is the issues it causes with the walled garden of apps:
All apps are now going to require iOS7 to be installed. If I have iOS5.x I can't upgrade. This isn't the problem.
The problem is, if my iPad needs to get wiped for whatever reason, I cannot reinstall older versions of the apps from the Apple Store, since they will not allow download of old versions of apps, even if the newer version is not compatible with my hardware.
Also, I seriously doubt the perpetrator of this crime was materially involved in those attacks in 2001.
Fear is for people who refuse to understand statistics. In other words, for the general public.
Another data point:
Built a 4500 sq foot house about 2.5 years ago and populated the fixtures with CFLs (except for the two chandeliers which have incandescents). So far only 1 CFL bulb has died, but I replaced it and the set of three similar fixtures in the same room with LEDs.
Can't wait until more of the CFLs die. I hate that (even though they were all new with the house) some of them are showing signs of needing to warm up to their maximum intensity, and figure more of them will follow over the next couple years.
Love the 4 LEDs so far, and really want to replace more of the CFLs with them.
Looking at their website ( http://www.thesatanictemple.org/ ) and reading their tenents and beliefs, they actually seem like reasonable people.
In fact, their agnostic viewpoint and quest for knowledge and justice seem like quite reasonable things.
Always thought of myself as an agnostic. Perhaps I really was a Satanist all this time?