I work at a telco/ISP, so I've handled plenty of phones of all configurations, with every possible OS.
Windows phones have great build quality (thanks to Nokia), and the OS itself is quite good, it's a well-designed touch interface. But as I said, there are absolutely no apps worth a damn.
I can tell your from personal experience that if I have Redshift running late in the evening and I switch it off, it makes my eyes hurt. So it's definitely doing something. Whether that affects my sleep patterns and sleep quality, I don't know. But it's a hell of a lot more comfortable to look at.
That depends on what you consider to be Scandinavia, as there is no actual official definition. To me, Scandinavia is Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland, and I'm warming up to the idea of including Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania at some point in the future, too.
Absolutely not, but coming from the point of view of a fellow Scandinavian, I don't think he's an asshole at all. He can be controversial and sometimes rude, but he's not an asshole.
No, he's not an asshole. He's just Finnish, they tend to be very direct and don't really believe in smoothing over disagreements with empty platitudes and mealy-mouthed rhetoric.
I think Linus said it quite well at Debcon '14 (IIRC), when an audience member said that he was extremely disappointed with Linus and others, because of the childish name-calling and bickering.
Basically, Linus' stance is that he doesn't care if he offends people, he speaks his mind on issues, the way he sees them. It's much better to be direct and maybe a bit abrasive.
From what I've read, Theo has pretty much the same philosophy. If he thinks something is bullshit, he'll damn well tell you, and not always in a nice way, if it's really shit.
The really fun stuff happens when these two very similar personalities clash over disagreements.
My Nvidia Tegra K1-based Chromebook certainly isn't a speedy machine by any definition, but it plays 1080p Youtube videos just fine and gets over 10 hours battery life. For a mobile device, the tradeoff is definitely worth it, compared to those lowly Intel-based Chromebooks that only get ~6 hours of battery life.
I have almost 300 Linux-compatible games in my Steam library, out of a total of 600 or so. Admittedly, Linux compatibility does factor into whether I decide to buy a game, but it's still a significant number of games available now, compared to just a couple of years ago.
We absolutely don't want companies to be able to sue governments for enacting laws that could mean *lost possible future revenue*, which is part of what TTIP contains.
The concept is so utterly ridiculous, only a bunch of corporate lawyers could have dreamed it up.
Both Firefox and Chrome pop up the link destination when you hover over a link. It's just like having the status bar, but it doesn't take up space when you don't need it.
I've been using a Chromebook 13 for a while, the one with the Nvidia Tegra K1 SoC in it. Also 4GB RAM, full HD and 10+ hours of battery life with normal usage.
This new Chromebook R13 definitely seems like the updated version. I hope they've gone to a better panel, the TN panel in mine is kinda crap. But I can live with it for a device that cost me ~$315 on sale and has the same charge/use cycle as a smartphone. Charge at night, use all day.
I got one of those puppies for free around 12 years ago, along with seven 36GB drives and three 18GB drives. It was noisy as all hell, and the only way to manage the RAID controller was by using a boot floppy with the configuration program on it.
The SCSI RAID controller could only handle partitions up to 32GiB, so the five-disk RAID5 got split into several partitions, and I had a RAID1 using 18GB drives for the system files.
It ran NetBSD quite will for a while, functioning as a file server, IRC machine, just all-round for messing around. I sold it about 6 months later, and I probably got a lot less for it than I should have. But I was young and dumb, and I had gotten it for free. I hope it's still chugging along, wherever it ended up.
The problem is that because the manufacturers and carriers are slow to push out updates (if they bother at all), it reflects badly on Android as a whole. Google obviously doesn't want that.
Well, you haven't had memory issues, but a significant percentage of user have had memory issues for years and years, and nothing seems to have helped those users. That speaks of a codebase that's extremely crufty and hard to maintain.
I'm glad to hear Firefox is finally get some sort of multithreading. But it just feels like too little, too late.
My point is that the "A4 2.0T" is a boring-ass name, but "Giulia" is evocative and exciting. Who cares whether it tells anyone anything about engine size or number of wheels driven. If you need that information advertised on the back of your car for everyone to see, isn't that a little pathetic?
Why should the name tell me anything about where a car sits in a given lineup? The only people who care about that are the ones who always desperately need to one-up their neighbors.
A proper name gives a car an identity of its own, a connection. That's why Alfa dropped the alphanumerics (LOL), because they sell cars for enthusiasts, not driving appliances made to fit into a strict hierarchy.
Don't get me wrong, I drive a Peugeot 406 TS4, which is another boring name meant to signal car size, model generation, trim level and engine variant. The boring-ass name does not stop me from enjoying my car, but I would have preferred a proper name for it. Personally, I just call it "Pierre";-)
It seems the most important part is the history of your branding.
For instance, Peugeot has been doing the digit-zero-digit naming scheme since forever ago. So you know a Peugeot 107 is a small car, and that it's newer than a Peugeot 106. It wasn't 100% bulletproof, for instance the 306 replaced the 309. But on the whole, it mostly made sense.
However, I think they started to notice a problem a couple of years ago when they launched the *08 models, so now they all just end in 08, and they've become ordinary numeric model names, with no direct connection to which model generation.
And their stable-mates at Citroën pulled an Audi some years ago and just went C-Zero (electric car), C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, C6 and C8. Booooring:-(
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I work at a telco/ISP, so I've handled plenty of phones of all configurations, with every possible OS.
Windows phones have great build quality (thanks to Nokia), and the OS itself is quite good, it's a well-designed touch interface. But as I said, there are absolutely no apps worth a damn.
Oh yeah, I remember my HTC Hero. What a heap of junk that phone was.
Windows Phone doesn't have any apps, and will be dead in a year or two.
I can tell your from personal experience that if I have Redshift running late in the evening and I switch it off, it makes my eyes hurt. So it's definitely doing something. Whether that affects my sleep patterns and sleep quality, I don't know. But it's a hell of a lot more comfortable to look at.
That depends on what you consider to be Scandinavia, as there is no actual official definition. To me, Scandinavia is Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland, and I'm warming up to the idea of including Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania at some point in the future, too.
You know, you could actually be right about that. There is a resemblance.
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Absolutely not, but coming from the point of view of a fellow Scandinavian, I don't think he's an asshole at all. He can be controversial and sometimes rude, but he's not an asshole.
No, he's not an asshole. He's just Finnish, they tend to be very direct and don't really believe in smoothing over disagreements with empty platitudes and mealy-mouthed rhetoric.
Linus calls 'em as he sees 'em.
I think Linus said it quite well at Debcon '14 (IIRC), when an audience member said that he was extremely disappointed with Linus and others, because of the childish name-calling and bickering.
Basically, Linus' stance is that he doesn't care if he offends people, he speaks his mind on issues, the way he sees them. It's much better to be direct and maybe a bit abrasive.
From what I've read, Theo has pretty much the same philosophy. If he thinks something is bullshit, he'll damn well tell you, and not always in a nice way, if it's really shit.
The really fun stuff happens when these two very similar personalities clash over disagreements.
Watch out for the open sores ;-)
My Nvidia Tegra K1-based Chromebook certainly isn't a speedy machine by any definition, but it plays 1080p Youtube videos just fine and gets over 10 hours battery life. For a mobile device, the tradeoff is definitely worth it, compared to those lowly Intel-based Chromebooks that only get ~6 hours of battery life.
I have almost 300 Linux-compatible games in my Steam library, out of a total of 600 or so. Admittedly, Linux compatibility does factor into whether I decide to buy a game, but it's still a significant number of games available now, compared to just a couple of years ago.
I usually reach for my bottle of 85+ abv absinthe.
We absolutely don't want companies to be able to sue governments for enacting laws that could mean *lost possible future revenue*, which is part of what TTIP contains.
The concept is so utterly ridiculous, only a bunch of corporate lawyers could have dreamed it up.
Both Firefox and Chrome pop up the link destination when you hover over a link. It's just like having the status bar, but it doesn't take up space when you don't need it.
I've been using a Chromebook 13 for a while, the one with the Nvidia Tegra K1 SoC in it. Also 4GB RAM, full HD and 10+ hours of battery life with normal usage.
This new Chromebook R13 definitely seems like the updated version. I hope they've gone to a better panel, the TN panel in mine is kinda crap. But I can live with it for a device that cost me ~$315 on sale and has the same charge/use cycle as a smartphone. Charge at night, use all day.
It's really hard to pull people out of a good hate-circlejerk.
I got one of those puppies for free around 12 years ago, along with seven 36GB drives and three 18GB drives. It was noisy as all hell, and the only way to manage the RAID controller was by using a boot floppy with the configuration program on it.
The SCSI RAID controller could only handle partitions up to 32GiB, so the five-disk RAID5 got split into several partitions, and I had a RAID1 using 18GB drives for the system files.
It ran NetBSD quite will for a while, functioning as a file server, IRC machine, just all-round for messing around. I sold it about 6 months later, and I probably got a lot less for it than I should have. But I was young and dumb, and I had gotten it for free. I hope it's still chugging along, wherever it ended up.
The problem is that because the manufacturers and carriers are slow to push out updates (if they bother at all), it reflects badly on Android as a whole. Google obviously doesn't want that.
Well, you haven't had memory issues, but a significant percentage of user have had memory issues for years and years, and nothing seems to have helped those users. That speaks of a codebase that's extremely crufty and hard to maintain.
I'm glad to hear Firefox is finally get some sort of multithreading. But it just feels like too little, too late.
Come back when Firefox is properly multithreaded and not plagued by memory leaks.
My point is that the "A4 2.0T" is a boring-ass name, but "Giulia" is evocative and exciting. Who cares whether it tells anyone anything about engine size or number of wheels driven. If you need that information advertised on the back of your car for everyone to see, isn't that a little pathetic?
Why should the name tell me anything about where a car sits in a given lineup? The only people who care about that are the ones who always desperately need to one-up their neighbors.
A proper name gives a car an identity of its own, a connection. That's why Alfa dropped the alphanumerics (LOL), because they sell cars for enthusiasts, not driving appliances made to fit into a strict hierarchy.
Don't get me wrong, I drive a Peugeot 406 TS4, which is another boring name meant to signal car size, model generation, trim level and engine variant. The boring-ass name does not stop me from enjoying my car, but I would have preferred a proper name for it. Personally, I just call it "Pierre" ;-)
It seems the most important part is the history of your branding.
For instance, Peugeot has been doing the digit-zero-digit naming scheme since forever ago. So you know a Peugeot 107 is a small car, and that it's newer than a Peugeot 106. It wasn't 100% bulletproof, for instance the 306 replaced the 309. But on the whole, it mostly made sense.
However, I think they started to notice a problem a couple of years ago when they launched the *08 models, so now they all just end in 08, and they've become ordinary numeric model names, with no direct connection to which model generation.
And their stable-mates at Citroën pulled an Audi some years ago and just went C-Zero (electric car), C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, C6 and C8. Booooring :-(
You mean boring?
Why would I drive an A4, when I could drive a Giulia instead?
Oh, I know. That's why I bought an apartment in a building that's significantly above sea level.
Well, relatively speaking. This is Denmark, afterall, one of the flattest countries in the world.