I always thought that Wacom should add an SD slot to a Cintiq and just finally sell the digital sketchbook I've been trying to find (and being disappointed) for almost a decade. (The closest I came was an old Fujitsu Stylistic with Autodesk SketchBook).
Then I look and see what they charge for even the smallest of that line, and realize that it would be insanely expensive if they did...
"If only I could fire that poor son of a bitch" -- Frank Cross (Bill Murray), in response to exec Robert Mitchum's "suggestion" to create programs appealing to dogs and cats.
wha? His analogy was exactly correct, even the ratios are almost exact. 15/23 vs 4/6.3. By math alone, he basically made your analogy comment incorrect.
GP wasn't criticizing the poster's math, but the fact that his analogy completely ignores the different use cases between desktop monitors and cell phones/portable electronics. A 15" monitor is a large step backward from 23", yes, but a 6 and a half inch phone is a step backward in portability.
That's what I was thinking. "If they're secret meetings, how does MS know that they happened?"
It was fun thinking of Ballmer hunched over a keyboard in the dark, face pale in the light of an old CRT that spilled onto the painted-cinderblock wall behind him and gleaming on the tinfoil wrapped round his head as he punched furiously on the keyboard as he tried to convince an X-Files newsgroup "I'M TELLING YOU! It's happening!!!!1!"
No, they cannot. They would have you believe they can though.
I imagine it more likely to be the other way around. Targets with a "false sense of security" are very nice to have when one wants to exploit some insecurity.
With SpiderOak your computer generates your own unique encryption key, it is at no point ever transmitted to their servers, and there is no way they can gain access to it.
I'm not sure about that.
I can shutdown my home desktop machine when I leave for work, then install SpiderOak when I get there to grab some files I'd forgotten. If the key only existed on my home machine, how was that possible?
Gnome 3 is the third iteration of the Gnome Desktop Environment, there is no reason for it not to include the 3.
The statement was never that the "3" should not have been included. The "Gnome" is the misleading bit, since it's apparently intended for an entirely new "market."
I get what you mean now, but I'll counter-posit that most of the laptops that come with this firmware are likely to include Windows out of the box, and so it's $100 thrown away when installing linux in the first place.
Of course, a Windows license is around $100, plus any other software costs.
Call it a hunch, but I'd bet that someone who doesn't have any qualms about stealing a laptop is not going to shy away from grabbing a windows All-in-one ISO from Piratebay...
What utter bullshit. You can't be a "nation of laws" when the laws apply differently to different subsets of the nation, when you're not allowed to know how the law works, and when those enforcing the law are above it.
If you want to keep sucking off your jackbooted masters, you'll need a new sound bite to try to excuse it. That one stopped working decades ago.
GPU support won't fix the problem however as its not the math thats the issue, its the shitty logic code filled with stupid crap written by clueless devs that cause Calc to be so slow.
Indeed. You really shouldn't need to have to get a gaming GPU to run a spreadsheet. Hopefully
"and the supposedly awful object oriented code is being rewritten with a "modern performance oriented approach".
means they intend to address that part, too, and the crappy headline is just being whiz-bang. If they're dumb enough that they think throwing inappropriate hardware at the problem is a solution... well, they're too far from the vicinity of the US Pacific coast...
As HTC pointed out, they were *required* to install it by the US Networks on all phones the network sell, it was found on most other US phones too . I'll call them 'networks' rather than carriers so you don't mix them up.
What color is the sky in your world, that "the US Networks" are a government agency?
There's legitimate paranoia, and there's being a fucking nutter. See that speck in the distance behind you? That's the line.
CarrierIQ was scumbag marketing bullshit, and wasn't "required" to be on anything. Since that's your jumping-off point, it's pretty much safe to disregard anything else you've got to say.
Censorship of this subject isn't a winning strategy
No, but modding down idiotic falsehoods works pretty well. (And the poor schmucks who feed you. I suppose I deserve it.)
Learn from them? They seem intent on duplicating them, but with even sloppier implementation. That's where the whole "tablet UI on the desktop" trend of idiocy started, too.
Maybe I'm just coming of "get off my lawn" age, but it's getting rather depressing, just how hard it is to avoid this sort of fuckwittery these days...
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I always thought that Wacom should add an SD slot to a Cintiq and just finally sell the digital sketchbook I've been trying to find (and being disappointed) for almost a decade. (The closest I came was an old Fujitsu Stylistic with Autodesk SketchBook).
Then I look and see what they charge for even the smallest of that line, and realize that it would be insanely expensive if they did...
Talk about life imitating art.
"If only I could fire that poor son of a bitch" -- Frank Cross (Bill Murray), in response to exec Robert Mitchum's "suggestion" to create programs appealing to dogs and cats.
wha? His analogy was exactly correct, even the ratios are almost exact. 15/23 vs 4/6.3. By math alone, he basically made your analogy comment incorrect.
GP wasn't criticizing the poster's math, but the fact that his analogy completely ignores the different use cases between desktop monitors and cell phones/portable electronics. A 15" monitor is a large step backward from 23", yes, but a 6 and a half inch phone is a step backward in portability.
I don't know if it's so much to compensate as it is to give the US a very large, very high-visibility middle finger.
Which isn't to say that we couldn't use one...
Ah, that makes sense. I guess I've reached that point that I've gotten so tied up in worrying the complex that I'm missing the simple and obvious.
I need to facepalm and get off my own lawn now...
That's what I was thinking. "If they're secret meetings, how does MS know that they happened?"
It was fun thinking of Ballmer hunched over a keyboard in the dark, face pale in the light of an old CRT that spilled onto the painted-cinderblock wall behind him and gleaming on the tinfoil wrapped round his head as he punched furiously on the keyboard as he tried to convince an X-Files newsgroup "I'M TELLING YOU! It's happening!!!!1!"
For at least 15 of those 30 years, it read more like Computer Shopper, anyway. I mourned it a long time ago.
Empires are not kings. Empires do not (or did not) rule something.
While your syntax nitpick may be valid, that has got to be one of the most WTF examples of mislogic that I've seen in weeks.
Or, my favorite,
C) Pasting it into a MS word document
No, they cannot. They would have you believe they can though.
I imagine it more likely to be the other way around. Targets with a "false sense of security" are very nice to have when one wants to exploit some insecurity.
With SpiderOak your computer generates your own unique encryption key, it is at no point ever transmitted to their servers, and there is no way they can gain access to it.
I'm not sure about that.
I can shutdown my home desktop machine when I leave for work, then install SpiderOak when I get there to grab some files I'd forgotten. If the key only existed on my home machine, how was that possible?
Gnome 3 is the third iteration of the Gnome Desktop Environment, there is no reason for it not to include the 3.
The statement was never that the "3" should not have been included. The "Gnome" is the misleading bit, since it's apparently intended for an entirely new "market."
I get what you mean now, but I'll counter-posit that most of the laptops that come with this firmware are likely to include Windows out of the box, and so it's $100 thrown away when installing linux in the first place.
Unless they start it up and are greeted with a LinuxMint login screen.
Of course, a Windows license is around $100, plus any other software costs.
Call it a hunch, but I'd bet that someone who doesn't have any qualms about stealing a laptop is not going to shy away from grabbing a windows All-in-one ISO from Piratebay...
You have absolutely no idea what these people have put on the line for your security and freedom over the decades.
It looks like "our freedom and security" are exactly what they excel at putting on the line.
But yeah, whatever. Go wolverines!
nobody knows what name to call the little pricks in Ice Climber anyways.
Canonically (inasmuch as a non-story driven came has a canon), Popo (blue) and Nana (pink).
What utter bullshit. You can't be a "nation of laws" when the laws apply differently to different subsets of the nation, when you're not allowed to know how the law works, and when those enforcing the law are above it.
If you want to keep sucking off your jackbooted masters, you'll need a new sound bite to try to excuse it. That one stopped working decades ago.
Wouldn't it take a buttload more power to move the air down, and then back up, than it would generate?
GPU support won't fix the problem however as its not the math thats the issue, its the shitty logic code filled with stupid crap written by clueless devs that cause Calc to be so slow.
Indeed. You really shouldn't need to have to get a gaming GPU to run a spreadsheet. Hopefully
"and the supposedly awful object oriented code is being rewritten with a "modern performance oriented approach".
means they intend to address that part, too, and the crappy headline is just being whiz-bang. If they're dumb enough that they think throwing inappropriate hardware at the problem is a solution... well, they're too far from the vicinity of the US Pacific coast...
http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty-n-z.html#orwell
It's in there.
As HTC pointed out, they were *required* to install it by the US Networks on all phones the network sell, it was found on most other US phones too . I'll call them 'networks' rather than carriers so you don't mix them up.
What color is the sky in your world, that "the US Networks" are a government agency?
There's legitimate paranoia, and there's being a fucking nutter. See that speck in the distance behind you? That's the line.
CarrierIQ was scumbag marketing bullshit, and wasn't "required" to be on anything. Since that's your jumping-off point, it's pretty much safe to disregard anything else you've got to say.
Censorship of this subject isn't a winning strategy
No, but modding down idiotic falsehoods works pretty well. (And the poor schmucks who feed you. I suppose I deserve it.)
Learn from them? They seem intent on duplicating them, but with even sloppier implementation. That's where the whole "tablet UI on the desktop" trend of idiocy started, too.
Maybe I'm just coming of "get off my lawn" age, but it's getting rather depressing, just how hard it is to avoid this sort of fuckwittery these days...
Pretty sure it's the steaming pile that replaced the oft-maligned "start menu" when Windows 8 was squirted out.