I don't mind having my own desktop actually.. In this day and age, I don't want to compute on some remote machine. IBMs wet dream is still a nightmare for the user.
Yeah, now you have to worry about per-browser breakage, and your customer has to wonder if his tools will be available to him the next morning...his crappy ones...that work within a stupid browser.
DPI is dpi.. why should the mouse handling be any different than it is at 96dpi? High dpi desktops require high dpi mice. Just add a checkbox that optionally auto-scales the GUI elements and fonts in vector space accordingly when the screen is not set at 96dpi.
Newb gaming is on consoles.. I guess they call them 'causals' instead of lamers, now, in this politically correct world, but, yeah.. PC gaming is pretty much as it always was..and the consoles need patching now too, btw, breaking stuff on occasion.
1. probably 1 little 800kB dll's worth of code.. if that. 2. How many people use VS 2013 graphics diagnostics? 3. Define 'native'. All usb controllers will need a driver of some sort. So what? It comes packaged with the install disc? Big deal. 4. I'll bet that can be set in the registry.. 5. Who the hell trusts bitlocker? If they're concerned enough about security to encrypt their files, they're not going to trust crypto from a company in bed with the NSA.
I've run into this before, and I've gotten modern (late 2.6) kernels running on systems with 8MB of ram. I have not tried with 3.x, and it's difficult to get the kernel size under 3 or 4MB these days. In processor type and features, try disabling the 'build a relocatable kernel' option, and setting CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START (shown in menuconfig as "physical address where the kernel is loaded") to a value less than the default 0x1000000 (16MB). This is a worked-for-me status solution.
It's still a shitbox. Windows 7 wasn't much different from vista, but it magically got rave reviews. It makes me wonder about the validity of a lot of these review sites. Were they paid off, or did they just hop on the bandwagon to get hits?
userland desktop UI development has little to nothing to do with the kernel. What do you expect the kernel devs to do to make up for gnome? Where is the kernel deficient on modern hardware? BTRFS is meant for large multi disk arrays, hardly something you see on typical user desktops.
The reason you were downmodded is because you don't know what you're talking about.
Fine.. Transition first, THEN tax the old way into oblivion, and when it's gone, I don't want to hear any officials saying, "omg we need to find a new source of income for to replace what was supposed to be temporary." When the fossil tax has ended its usefulness, end the tax and return the money to the people who paid into it. Bonus points if they do a little conservative investing to grow the size of the pool before giving it back.
In any case, the transition technology better work well BEFORE this is done. What usually happens here is the state gleefully leaps at the opportunity to tax something new and puts the buggy before the horse, making misery for everyone. Often in these cases, they bump the taxes again and the new tech never materializes, or when it does, it's hardly ready for consumption, or ends up being worse for the environment than the fossil fuel. Of course, this is if the greedy bastards don't decide to defund the new tech completely and then use the new 'revenue' for some other bullshit. Even if the tech should've been defunded, you'll never see these bureaucrats give a tax refund to the people who paid into it. Of course not.
America has a runaway deficit spending problem..like a 16yo entitlement princess blowing away her father's credit card on stupid shit while her mother has his balls in a vice. I already pay 40% of my income in tax in some or other. Enough. I will not pay more just for the 'privilege' of getting to work.
Um yeah, because jobs are important? I wonder if you'd be shooting your mouth off with 'dey tek er jerbs' if it was your job on the line. I'm sorry if the average american doesn't want to drive a little unsafe, underpowered plastic shitbox to work that's loaded down with tons of heavy 'safety' equipment to compensate (poorly) for it. You can't be serious if you expect to drive one of those smart-karts on a highway...
I find other countries' anti-american propaganda amusing because, while it dumps on american 'exceptionalism' and 'imperialism', the 'solutions' provided boil down to "be more like us." Such fucking hypocrites. People who live in tiny, socialist 'paradise' countries have no business telling america how to handle its transportation needs. It reeks of ignorance and arrogance.
Who makes up this 'rest of the world', and who are you to claim to speak for it? More arrogance...
ne way is to keep the first kWh cheap and have a rising block price per kWh against usage: if you're not running a McMansion with the windows wide open in winter you need never hit the punitive tariff bands. Just for example.
..and those bands will never change downward, right? RIGHT?! Riiight.
Or directly subsidise the energy bills of the poor. Take taxes from the top end (of energy usage or general taxation) to compensate.
Right, so then those top consumers turn right around and add that tax as part of the pricing for their products, which the poor then have to pay anyway.... Brilliant!
I'm a fairly right-wing (at least by EU standards) investment banker "greenie" and I have no desire to mess up anybody else's life, including those further down the line when we've burnt way more fossil fuels than was in any way necessary and (a) certainly squandered the cheap stuff and (b) possibly ruined the climate.
How we start telling women they can't just pump out as many kids as they can to maximize entitlement payouts? The problem is that the world is heading towards overpopulation, and no amount of taxation is going to fuel that demand.
I wouldn't mind one if the platform allowed alternative firmware..A stripped down uclibc/uclibc++ linux desktop distro might work nicely with them. It's true I don't like metro, but I also don't like its workalike competitors, iOS and android, either. This isn't the fault of touchscreen nor is the the fault of complex software, it's the attempt at combining the two that is broken. The result ends up being a dumbed down interface that is only marginally useful at best. Touchscreens are great for simplistic, single use devices, but cellphones and tablets push that too far these days, trying to become the desktop replacement. It's a mistake.
Anyway, having a tablet with a keyboard is interesting niche area that would serve me well when I don't need the full bore desktop configuration. I just don't like being tied down to insipid 'app stores' and pointless must-be-online dependencies.
Typical of what happens when an organization is too used to spending other people's money. It's ike a 16yo girl's runaway spending habits with daddy's credit card...and she's got him by the balls, too, along with her mother.
when you ask a simple question in a simple way, you test a child's ability to understand concepts. When you ask a simple question in an overly convoluted and distorted way, you test a child'a ability to follow directions. The school district makes clear which kind of test this is supposed to be.
It does? Which kind is it? As a student, I wouldn't have a clue..
This is becoming so prevalent now that I'm wondering if it isn't being done deliberately to condition students into mindless obedience over critical thinking. Maybe that's paranoid, but other than gross negligence over at the dept of education, I don't know what else to think.
The questions should be obvious, clear, and unambiguous in written and verbal form, period, with no conflicts between the two. There's no reason the teacher should have to prop it up. If there's anything political in this, it has to do with the test writers spending too much time huffing ideological ivory tower vacuum over the fear-of-math 'problem.' The sad part is, they've abstracted so far, it actually makes many of these math problems more ambiguous to people having trouble with it than the traditional word problem would.
Thinking out of the box is fine. However, as a student who often thought out-of-box, looking at question 6, I see immediately, based on the language, that there are at least two answers: 2 and 6. The test writer only meant for one answer to be correct, so the question is badly worded. "Part I know" also sits wrong with me. It sounds like retard-speak. As a student, knowing you're being graded on this, which would you pick? I would guess 2 and hope for the best. Learning math should not be this way.
Based on the language, another valid answer is 6 since there are still 6 guitar picks. Now if it had asked "How many picks does she have left?", then the answer would be 2, but it asks "How many are left?" Awful question. I ran into this a lot in 1980s elementary school. I would get frustrated and go up to teachers during the test and ask which way it was meant to be interpreted. Many would get frustrated with me, instead, thinking I was just causing trouble, but a few teachers were actually honorable enough to announce the proper interpretation to the class, or throw out the test and have us retake it, modified.
I don't know about that weird language, but I'd guess it's the result of too much ideological abstraction. When it comes to ideology, a lot of state organizations operate under some-is-good-therefore-more-is-better. This particular doctrine was probably started as a way to reduce fear of math in the student, and now it's been taken to ridiculous extremes. I don't even know what 'number sentence" (equation?) or "subtraction story" (?) mean.
Seriously, the question is so badly framed I don't even know what to make of it. There are probably a half dozen interpretations. "Part I know"? WTF does that even mean? What do $0.05 in pennies have to do with a teacup? What happened to "Joe has $5 and the baseball costs $7.00. How much more money does he need to buy the baseball?"
I can't imagine what a 5yo would make of such crazy wording and nonsensical props.
Well jitsi does voice in a variety of protocols, video (up to 720p) via h263 or h264, conference audio/video/im, and can work p2p/SIP, infrastructure SIP, or piggyback onto a variety of IM services. I don't know about android et al, but I imagine SIP clients for those platforms would work. It has no artificial limits on numbers of participants in conference calls.. It also crypts all communications with ZRTP. My only gripe with it is that the client GUI is written in java.
Honestly, audio quality is my primary pet peeve of skype. Whatever codec they use clobbers consonant sounds, even in 'hd' calls.. In contrast, I've gotten some nice high quality voice calls with jitsi.
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I don't mind having my own desktop actually.. In this day and age, I don't want to compute on some remote machine. IBMs wet dream is still a nightmare for the user.
It 'handles' it alright.. It just looks like shit, even with a short high quality cable.
Yeah, now you have to worry about per-browser breakage, and your customer has to wonder if his tools will be available to him the next morning...his crappy ones...that work within a stupid browser.
No thanks.
DPI is dpi.. why should the mouse handling be any different than it is at 96dpi? High dpi desktops require high dpi mice. Just add a checkbox that optionally auto-scales the GUI elements and fonts in vector space accordingly when the screen is not set at 96dpi.
Newb gaming is on consoles.. I guess they call them 'causals' instead of lamers, now, in this politically correct world, but, yeah.. PC gaming is pretty much as it always was..and the consoles need patching now too, btw, breaking stuff on occasion.
You call those features? I guess, if you're on a tablet.. No one does serious work on those.
1. probably 1 little 800kB dll's worth of code.. if that.
2. How many people use VS 2013 graphics diagnostics?
3. Define 'native'. All usb controllers will need a driver of some sort. So what? It comes packaged with the install disc? Big deal.
4. I'll bet that can be set in the registry..
5. Who the hell trusts bitlocker? If they're concerned enough about security to encrypt their files, they're not going to trust crypto from a company in bed with the NSA.
I've run into this before, and I've gotten modern (late 2.6) kernels running on systems with 8MB of ram. I have not tried with 3.x, and it's difficult to get the kernel size under 3 or 4MB these days. In processor type and features, try disabling the 'build a relocatable kernel' option, and setting CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START (shown in menuconfig as "physical address where the kernel is loaded") to a value less than the default 0x1000000 (16MB). This is a worked-for-me status solution.
It's still a shitbox. Windows 7 wasn't much different from vista, but it magically got rave reviews. It makes me wonder about the validity of a lot of these review sites. Were they paid off, or did they just hop on the bandwagon to get hits?
userland desktop UI development has little to nothing to do with the kernel. What do you expect the kernel devs to do to make up for gnome? Where is the kernel deficient on modern hardware? BTRFS is meant for large multi disk arrays, hardly something you see on typical user desktops.
The reason you were downmodded is because you don't know what you're talking about.
If anything it might increase power consumption because every memory access has to run through a cpu bound compressor/decompressor..
Fine.. Transition first, THEN tax the old way into oblivion, and when it's gone, I don't want to hear any officials saying, "omg we need to find a new source of income for to replace what was supposed to be temporary." When the fossil tax has ended its usefulness, end the tax and return the money to the people who paid into it. Bonus points if they do a little conservative investing to grow the size of the pool before giving it back.
In any case, the transition technology better work well BEFORE this is done. What usually happens here is the state gleefully leaps at the opportunity to tax something new and puts the buggy before the horse, making misery for everyone. Often in these cases, they bump the taxes again and the new tech never materializes, or when it does, it's hardly ready for consumption, or ends up being worse for the environment than the fossil fuel. Of course, this is if the greedy bastards don't decide to defund the new tech completely and then use the new 'revenue' for some other bullshit. Even if the tech should've been defunded, you'll never see these bureaucrats give a tax refund to the people who paid into it. Of course not.
America has a runaway deficit spending problem..like a 16yo entitlement princess blowing away her father's credit card on stupid shit while her mother has his balls in a vice. I already pay 40% of my income in tax in some or other. Enough. I will not pay more just for the 'privilege' of getting to work.
Um yeah, because jobs are important? I wonder if you'd be shooting your mouth off with 'dey tek er jerbs' if it was your job on the line. I'm sorry if the average american doesn't want to drive a little unsafe, underpowered plastic shitbox to work that's loaded down with tons of heavy 'safety' equipment to compensate (poorly) for it. You can't be serious if you expect to drive one of those smart-karts on a highway...
I find other countries' anti-american propaganda amusing because, while it dumps on american 'exceptionalism' and 'imperialism', the 'solutions' provided boil down to "be more like us." Such fucking hypocrites. People who live in tiny, socialist 'paradise' countries have no business telling america how to handle its transportation needs. It reeks of ignorance and arrogance.
Who makes up this 'rest of the world', and who are you to claim to speak for it? More arrogance...
ne way is to keep the first kWh cheap and have a rising block price per kWh against usage: if you're not running a McMansion with the windows wide open in winter you need never hit the punitive tariff bands. Just for example.
..and those bands will never change downward, right? RIGHT?! Riiight.
Or directly subsidise the energy bills of the poor. Take taxes from the top end (of energy usage or general taxation) to compensate.
Right, so then those top consumers turn right around and add that tax as part of the pricing for their products, which the poor then have to pay anyway.... Brilliant!
I'm a fairly right-wing (at least by EU standards) investment banker "greenie" and I have no desire to mess up anybody else's life, including those further down the line when we've burnt way more fossil fuels than was in any way necessary and (a) certainly squandered the cheap stuff and (b) possibly ruined the climate.
How we start telling women they can't just pump out as many kids as they can to maximize entitlement payouts? The problem is that the world is heading towards overpopulation, and no amount of taxation is going to fuel that demand.
Of course, the power elite don't like it when the rules meant for everyone else are applied to them by their peer-competitors.
I thought these 'surface' machines were locked..
I wouldn't mind one if the platform allowed alternative firmware..A stripped down uclibc/uclibc++ linux desktop distro might work nicely with them. It's true I don't like metro, but I also don't like its workalike competitors, iOS and android, either. This isn't the fault of touchscreen nor is the the fault of complex software, it's the attempt at combining the two that is broken. The result ends up being a dumbed down interface that is only marginally useful at best. Touchscreens are great for simplistic, single use devices, but cellphones and tablets push that too far these days, trying to become the desktop replacement. It's a mistake.
Anyway, having a tablet with a keyboard is interesting niche area that would serve me well when I don't need the full bore desktop configuration. I just don't like being tied down to insipid 'app stores' and pointless must-be-online dependencies.
Yes, to hell with hipster douchebags.
Typical of what happens when an organization is too used to spending other people's money. It's ike a 16yo girl's runaway spending habits with daddy's credit card...and she's got him by the balls, too, along with her mother.
when you ask a simple question in a simple way, you test a child's ability to understand concepts. When you ask a simple question in an overly convoluted and distorted way, you test a child'a ability to follow directions. The school district makes clear which kind of test this is supposed to be.
It does? Which kind is it? As a student, I wouldn't have a clue..
This is becoming so prevalent now that I'm wondering if it isn't being done deliberately to condition students into mindless obedience over critical thinking. Maybe that's paranoid, but other than gross negligence over at the dept of education, I don't know what else to think.
The questions should be obvious, clear, and unambiguous in written and verbal form, period, with no conflicts between the two. There's no reason the teacher should have to prop it up. If there's anything political in this, it has to do with the test writers spending too much time huffing ideological ivory tower vacuum over the fear-of-math 'problem.' The sad part is, they've abstracted so far, it actually makes many of these math problems more ambiguous to people having trouble with it than the traditional word problem would.
Thinking out of the box is fine. However, as a student who often thought out-of-box, looking at question 6, I see immediately, based on the language, that there are at least two answers: 2 and 6. The test writer only meant for one answer to be correct, so the question is badly worded. "Part I know" also sits wrong with me. It sounds like retard-speak. As a student, knowing you're being graded on this, which would you pick? I would guess 2 and hope for the best. Learning math should not be this way.
Based on the language, another valid answer is 6 since there are still 6 guitar picks. Now if it had asked "How many picks does she have left?", then the answer would be 2, but it asks "How many are left?" Awful question. I ran into this a lot in 1980s elementary school. I would get frustrated and go up to teachers during the test and ask which way it was meant to be interpreted. Many would get frustrated with me, instead, thinking I was just causing trouble, but a few teachers were actually honorable enough to announce the proper interpretation to the class, or throw out the test and have us retake it, modified.
I don't know about that weird language, but I'd guess it's the result of too much ideological abstraction. When it comes to ideology, a lot of state organizations operate under some-is-good-therefore-more-is-better. This particular doctrine was probably started as a way to reduce fear of math in the student, and now it's been taken to ridiculous extremes. I don't even know what 'number sentence" (equation?) or "subtraction story" (?) mean.
Seriously, the question is so badly framed I don't even know what to make of it. There are probably a half dozen interpretations. "Part I know"? WTF does that even mean? What do $0.05 in pennies have to do with a teacup? What happened to "Joe has $5 and the baseball costs $7.00. How much more money does he need to buy the baseball?"
I can't imagine what a 5yo would make of such crazy wording and nonsensical props.
Security? ios? You're kidding, right? It's no more robust than anything else, and apple needs to compile their software before release too.
Well jitsi does voice in a variety of protocols, video (up to 720p) via h263 or h264, conference audio/video/im, and can work p2p/SIP, infrastructure SIP, or piggyback onto a variety of IM services. I don't know about android et al, but I imagine SIP clients for those platforms would work. It has no artificial limits on numbers of participants in conference calls.. It also crypts all communications with ZRTP. My only gripe with it is that the client GUI is written in java.
Honestly, audio quality is my primary pet peeve of skype. Whatever codec they use clobbers consonant sounds, even in 'hd' calls.. In contrast, I've gotten some nice high quality voice calls with jitsi.
Explains much about society, doesn't it?