On home LAN and such I often use sshfs. Somewhat stupid and lazy (most times I don't need the encryption and I haven't investigated how to disable it) but it works and doesn't require configuration on the server.
My first *NIX-like experience was on Solaris 7 (university rooms full of X11 terrminals connecting to a handful computers, among them an 8-CPU Sun box). Yes, linux does pretty much the same things, sometimes better ("man tar" was hilariously long on Sun, with boatloads of crap relating to old tapes drives). But Solaris could run old binary stuff, like ancient ports of Doom and Quake. GNU/Linux is incapable of doing it. Given that sorry state of things, I guess Solaris would be a better gaming OS than linux - if there were commercial games for it that is.
automatic transmission and transistor radio. Also X-ray, general relativity, computer and nuclear reactor. ACME, truck and road intersecting with rail tracks. Dynamite!, rocket engine and jet liner.
The Tegra K1 has a desktop-like GPU (similar in architecture to the GTX 780) and is supported by both nouveau and the nvidia proprietary driver, so it would be a more proper chip to run real desktop linux in addition to (or in place of) Android.
The article is wondering whether the USB is 2.0 or 3.0. Tegra 4 does not have PCI Express lines, so it's 2.0.
It's a hardware encoder called NVENC on nvidia GPUs, it is used on GRID but also as a consumer solution - "Shadowplay", to record gaming sessions instead of doing it the CPU intensive way with something like FRAPS, and streaming the game to a Tegra 4 or a Steam box.
AMD has the "VCE" but I don't know if it's partial or full hardware encoding. Microsoft sells RemoteFX which has dedicated encoder cards, proprietary and may only work with Direct3D apps.
There's still 1200p sold, the res made a little "come back" semi-recently. 1920x1080 has effectively become the successor of 1280x1024. So, the monitor situation sucks in some ways but it is not that bad (the worst is that the suckage of a lowest end 21.5" 1080p monitor makes your eyes bleed more than that of a 1280x1024 17", because there's so much more surface of light bleeding, terrible color and bad blacks/grays)
It's probably a good display to look at boring numbers and documents. Text fonts are vector graphics, afterall. So they'll scale and be a bit easier to read.
At $650 that means you can spend $1000 on the whole system (tower or mini-PC plus display). One option is to use an Intel NUC, it comes to mind because it's a cheap and tiny PC with a Displayport ; another is to use an AMD AM1 system in mini-ITX or micro-ATX (same reason, as long as you choose the right motherboard)
Don't care about the updaters. A low end PC like above has a dual or quad thread CPU and 4GB RAM, so you can waste resources on updaters and antivirus (Windows), bad drivers (Linux) and the web browser (both).
There's tons of trivial sources of content either dynamically generated, made by others or made by yourself. Of course, text and PDF, and unix-like terminals. Pictures and photographs ; there's nothing special to do, open a picture that comes out of the camera and look at it. For games, you can probably play old RTS and such even on low/mid end graphics card. Else this monitor should allow you playing at non native resolutions.
There's even new kinds of content that such a high res display would make possible. Scans of old books, 16th to 19th century with their funny letters, fonts and illustrations, or large format 20th century magazines. You can read them already but most often it looks like garbage and too low res, like fax quality. (OCR fails or require special packages btw when you have funny stuff like the way s and t are linked in "forest", or the s letter that looks like the integration symbol, and then old orthographies and stuff) High quality scan requires lots of storage, bandwith and display pixels. Now we can have all three on a desktop PC. Reading a 1680s edition of a book written by Newton would be fun, or whatever you can be interested in.
BTW.. gender equality means more workforce, so more GDP (and more workers competing for jobs) Much fewer housewives, much less domestic work - which improves life but generates no GDP - leads to higher GDP and consumption of wrapped up products and foods. Homosexual couples are consumers who virtually only have disposable income. Even "MJ" heads you can sell them rolling paper, lighters, grinders and bongs I guess - ah yes, there's the lamps, fertilizers, electricity and other crap.
Morals don't exist, only GDP does and it is the sole and only goal.
And George W. Bush had blacks and women in his government.
That's part of the deal, you now get authorization to stick your penis where you want, or you're free to not have a penis, but you won't escape laissez-faire capitalism, "free trade", the rule of oligarchy, the anti-science propaganda, the wars and so on.
Whether this is "left-wing" is up to interpretation.
Or the editors messed with the timing so that the audience would underestand quicker that there is com badge action. I think movies in general will time an explosion bang ever so slightly before the visual so to "scare" the viewer, have them use their audio perception channel or at least have it "put them on alert" even though in reality the explosion's sound comes after the visual, sometimes easily about a second later.
Will there really be lag? You can try the same tech they sell as a consumer product, game streaming to SteamOS. And the WiiU is similar. With a low input lag LCD monitor and a gigabit network I'm sure the latency would be rather low. Then you have actual performance advantages running on the server (except a typical Xeon will run about 1GHz slower, save for the really expensive ones). You can do something stupid like 384GB memory on the server, and then data is loaded from terabyte SSDs or fast SAN instead of going through a slower network to your workstation.
With multiple 1440p or 4K displays though the results would have to be seen.. At least, GPU requirements are often overrated ; and you get the Quadro drivers (if you actually need them in some way. hmm, no idea if they have additional pricing for that)
but runs otherwise good, and for older cards is better to the point that AMD drops support for old cards in Linux Catalyst and officially points to the opensource driver for supporting older hardware.
Old cards were dropped under Windows too (Radeon 2000, 3000, 4000) except maybe for some very minimal maintenance.
That's why I don't own touch screen devices : the pen is missing, except for some very rare models (Surface Pro, and a Tegra Note maybe). They had pens in the 90s and the DS had one. It's more precise than using the finger, so it seems useful. Drawing and handwriting is fun and useful too. Let me handwrite on the things! I'd have basically unlimited "sheets", always accessible, backed up and transmitted where I want to. In particular, you could do maths on it (which requires the ability to draw any arbitrary symbol or letter, and more)
Subpixel font rendering can be "rotated" in the Operating System's GUI for fonts system, or if Windows doesn't do it you can disable it. Then you "only" have the problem of TN display and their dreaded vertical angles.
Letterboxing is not that annoying, if the display is good at rendering the black bars. So I am somewhat fine with letterboxing on a CRT (small, but high quality). With movies and videos you can also crop rather than letterbox, easily if the content is played under VLC at least. So on a traditional > 20" 16:10 or 16:9 monitor for example you can crop a ~2.35 movie to 1.85, have small enough black bars and you can actually watch the movie more like if it was a TV. Much bigger picture for $0 spent.
The ultrawide monitor will play ultrawide movies with almost no black bars (I think there are small variations around ~2.39, 2.40 etc.), as for 16:9 content, well too bad! At least modern video stuff is bigger than old stuff, and movie stuff bigger than modern video stuff. Really old games can be played at 1920x1440. At least it's better than most monitors.
That monitor seems really great to me, even if I consider the aspect ratio problems.. For the asked price, being stuck at 60Hz is a shame though, I would like to run it at 100 or 96Hz at least (even DP 1.2 has enough bandwith for that)
I fear that would train users to mass click through certificate warnings, or even to install shady "helpful" software that will "manage" the problem for them.
Be warned that the oven just reached 220C or whatever is nice, it means you can save energy or fuel. About standards.. lol, in the 80s they said you would be able to do all that crap with an Apple II, etc. So stock on 5.25" floppies.
I'm getting sick of people "calling out" agendas every time they see a piece of news they don't like, even when it's a factual report, written in neutral terms, is newsworthy. No, forget about that, there's no shortage of bad-mouthed people ready to jump at something no matter what the article contained.
Keep such insipid rants for youtube comments and comment sections on newspaper sites, please.
I think a large radiotelescope or constellation of radiotelescopes on the far side of the moon would be very useful but of course you will have trouble building that.
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On home LAN and such I often use sshfs. Somewhat stupid and lazy (most times I don't need the encryption and I haven't investigated how to disable it) but it works and doesn't require configuration on the server.
My first *NIX-like experience was on Solaris 7 (university rooms full of X11 terrminals connecting to a handful computers, among them an 8-CPU Sun box).
Yes, linux does pretty much the same things, sometimes better ("man tar" was hilariously long on Sun, with boatloads of crap relating to old tapes drives). But Solaris could run old binary stuff, like ancient ports of Doom and Quake. GNU/Linux is incapable of doing it. Given that sorry state of things, I guess Solaris would be a better gaming OS than linux - if there were commercial games for it that is.
automatic transmission and transistor radio. Also X-ray, general relativity, computer and nuclear reactor. ACME, truck and road intersecting with rail tracks. Dynamite!, rocket engine and jet liner.
oh sorry about that, the Tegra 4 includes USB 3.0 right on the chip.
The Tegra K1 has a desktop-like GPU (similar in architecture to the GTX 780) and is supported by both nouveau and the nvidia proprietary driver, so it would be a more proper chip to run real desktop linux in addition to (or in place of) Android.
The article is wondering whether the USB is 2.0 or 3.0. Tegra 4 does not have PCI Express lines, so it's 2.0.
It's a hardware encoder called NVENC on nvidia GPUs, it is used on GRID but also as a consumer solution - "Shadowplay", to record gaming sessions instead of doing it the CPU intensive way with something like FRAPS, and streaming the game to a Tegra 4 or a Steam box.
AMD has the "VCE" but I don't know if it's partial or full hardware encoding.
Microsoft sells RemoteFX which has dedicated encoder cards, proprietary and may only work with Direct3D apps.
There's SMPlayer Youtube (smtube?) that doesn't require to use a browser and is easy to use.
There's still 1200p sold, the res made a little "come back" semi-recently.
1920x1080 has effectively become the successor of 1280x1024. So, the monitor situation sucks in some ways but it is not that bad (the worst is that the suckage of a lowest end 21.5" 1080p monitor makes your eyes bleed more than that of a 1280x1024 17", because there's so much more surface of light bleeding, terrible color and bad blacks/grays)
It's probably a good display to look at boring numbers and documents.
Text fonts are vector graphics, afterall. So they'll scale and be a bit easier to read.
At $650 that means you can spend $1000 on the whole system (tower or mini-PC plus display). One option is to use an Intel NUC, it comes to mind because it's a cheap and tiny PC with a Displayport ; another is to use an AMD AM1 system in mini-ITX or micro-ATX (same reason, as long as you choose the right motherboard)
Don't care about the updaters. A low end PC like above has a dual or quad thread CPU and 4GB RAM, so you can waste resources on updaters and antivirus (Windows), bad drivers (Linux) and the web browser (both).
There's tons of trivial sources of content either dynamically generated, made by others or made by yourself.
Of course, text and PDF, and unix-like terminals. Pictures and photographs ; there's nothing special to do, open a picture that comes out of the camera and look at it.
For games, you can probably play old RTS and such even on low/mid end graphics card. Else this monitor should allow you playing at non native resolutions.
There's even new kinds of content that such a high res display would make possible. Scans of old books, 16th to 19th century with their funny letters, fonts and illustrations, or large format 20th century magazines. You can read them already but most often it looks like garbage and too low res, like fax quality. (OCR fails or require special packages btw when you have funny stuff like the way s and t are linked in "forest", or the s letter that looks like the integration symbol, and then old orthographies and stuff)
High quality scan requires lots of storage, bandwith and display pixels. Now we can have all three on a desktop PC. Reading a 1680s edition of a book written by Newton would be fun, or whatever you can be interested in.
BTW.. gender equality means more workforce, so more GDP (and more workers competing for jobs)
Much fewer housewives, much less domestic work - which improves life but generates no GDP - leads to higher GDP and consumption of wrapped up products and foods.
Homosexual couples are consumers who virtually only have disposable income.
Even "MJ" heads you can sell them rolling paper, lighters, grinders and bongs I guess - ah yes, there's the lamps, fertilizers, electricity and other crap.
Morals don't exist, only GDP does and it is the sole and only goal.
And George W. Bush had blacks and women in his government.
That's part of the deal, you now get authorization to stick your penis where you want, or you're free to not have a penis, but you won't escape laissez-faire capitalism, "free trade", the rule of oligarchy, the anti-science propaganda, the wars and so on.
Whether this is "left-wing" is up to interpretation.
I forgot to add that it allows to buy time and use it for that urgent communication.
Or the editors messed with the timing so that the audience would underestand quicker that there is com badge action.
I think movies in general will time an explosion bang ever so slightly before the visual so to "scare" the viewer, have them use their audio perception channel or at least have it "put them on alert" even though in reality the explosion's sound comes after the visual, sometimes easily about a second later.
Will there really be lag? You can try the same tech they sell as a consumer product, game streaming to SteamOS. And the WiiU is similar. With a low input lag LCD monitor and a gigabit network I'm sure the latency would be rather low.
Then you have actual performance advantages running on the server (except a typical Xeon will run about 1GHz slower, save for the really expensive ones). You can do something stupid like 384GB memory on the server, and then data is loaded from terabyte SSDs or fast SAN instead of going through a slower network to your workstation.
With multiple 1440p or 4K displays though the results would have to be seen..
At least, GPU requirements are often overrated ; and you get the Quadro drivers (if you actually need them in some way. hmm, no idea if they have additional pricing for that)
but runs otherwise good, and for older cards is better to the point that AMD drops support for old cards in Linux Catalyst and officially points to the opensource driver for supporting older hardware.
Old cards were dropped under Windows too (Radeon 2000, 3000, 4000) except maybe for some very minimal maintenance.
That's why I don't own touch screen devices : the pen is missing, except for some very rare models (Surface Pro, and a Tegra Note maybe). They had pens in the 90s and the DS had one. It's more precise than using the finger, so it seems useful. Drawing and handwriting is fun and useful too. Let me handwrite on the things! I'd have basically unlimited "sheets", always accessible, backed up and transmitted where I want to.
In particular, you could do maths on it (which requires the ability to draw any arbitrary symbol or letter, and more)
What about using a pen?
Subpixel font rendering can be "rotated" in the Operating System's GUI for fonts system, or if Windows doesn't do it you can disable it. Then you "only" have the problem of TN display and their dreaded vertical angles.
Letterboxing is not that annoying, if the display is good at rendering the black bars. So I am somewhat fine with letterboxing on a CRT (small, but high quality). With movies and videos you can also crop rather than letterbox, easily if the content is played under VLC at least. So on a traditional > 20" 16:10 or 16:9 monitor for example you can crop a ~2.35 movie to 1.85, have small enough black bars and you can actually watch the movie more like if it was a TV. Much bigger picture for $0 spent.
The ultrawide monitor will play ultrawide movies with almost no black bars (I think there are small variations around ~2.39, 2.40 etc.), as for 16:9 content, well too bad! At least modern video stuff is bigger than old stuff, and movie stuff bigger than modern video stuff.
Really old games can be played at 1920x1440. At least it's better than most monitors.
That monitor seems really great to me, even if I consider the aspect ratio problems.. For the asked price, being stuck at 60Hz is a shame though, I would like to run it at 100 or 96Hz at least (even DP 1.2 has enough bandwith for that)
I fear that would train users to mass click through certificate warnings, or even to install shady "helpful" software that will "manage" the problem for them.
Be warned that the oven just reached 220C or whatever is nice, it means you can save energy or fuel.
About standards.. lol, in the 80s they said you would be able to do all that crap with an Apple II, etc. So stock on 5.25" floppies.
I'm getting sick of people "calling out" agendas every time they see a piece of news they don't like, even when it's a factual report, written in neutral terms, is newsworthy. No, forget about that, there's no shortage of bad-mouthed people ready to jump at something no matter what the article contained.
Keep such insipid rants for youtube comments and comment sections on newspaper sites, please.
Even the retina does a great deal of filtering and motion highlighting, so you're more accurately refering to the "brain-retina" complex.
I think a large radiotelescope or constellation of radiotelescopes on the far side of the moon would be very useful but of course you will have trouble building that.