Even then in Rome you had to go to the public toilets, if you shat at home I guess that went out of the window or in a cesspit till someone comes and collect your, er, crap.
In my country using a car is cheaper than taking the train, unless you're talking about short commute trips only. Even more so with websites where you can meet and share a car for one particular travel.
Microsoft explicitly requests that on a x86/x86-64 system, secure boot can be disabled. It would be a real issue with bad OEMs only (or company hardware with a BIOS password but hey, they locked it down so you can't casually boot another OS on the company's lan, right?)
Well, I ride without a helmet all the time. It's only a hazard if have an accident and a helmet can introduce it's own set of hazards too. That being said, I specifically choose to not wear a helmet and if I wreck, I am endangering only my life.
If you injure yourself you will not show up to work, and society at large will have to pay for your medical surgery and expenses if you're not dead, possibly for years or the rest of your life. Thus most developed countries ban the use of motorbikes without helmet.
Hell as a bicycle rider I once suffered not wearing a helmet. I must fave fell from a crack in the ground or stupid inattention, but I can't know as I suffered a very minor amesia from the shock. It was at about 30 kph (about 20 mph) or maybe a bit less and that is a violent shock already, imagine running as fast as you can into a wall.. So with more speed, colliding your head with the ground will probably make you a cripple for life or kill you either instantly or slowly.
It was in the night, and there were no cars thanksfully. Wearing a helmet on bicycle is a good idea, on home-to-work commutes. It's where you know everything by rote and pay the less attention (and maybe lack sleep etc.) so it's the most dangerous ride.
And maybe for similar reasons that eating human meat is dangerous, human shit is the most toxic to us. Even plants grown for human consumption and fertilized with human shit can be a bad idea.
Not long ago I think I learnt on slashdot comments that you can grow plants for animal feed with human shit, and then grow plants for human feed with the animal shit. I found that to be neat. If you have hens you will have eggs as well in the process.
I'm getting trouble to find computer parts and video games etc. marvelous and amazing these days, and biologocial/biochemical processes, earth etc. feel the more amazing to me.
The dentist told me not to use mouthwash recently, and here's a good scientific reason apparently. I told them I used it about once a month but they said please use it only when we prescribe it to you.
I also learned you can mess with them by drinking red wine before going to the appointment, they're like "wtf is that on your tongue?".
I don't see what's so wrong about secure boot. Linux distros have signed packages (not always, and it asks if you really want to install that unsigned package). Why don't nerds rant that the packages are signed?:D. That's DRM, and thus evil.
Did anyone think it looks like this? Going to work with an Osborne Personal Business Computer. Now too you can swing a bulky and extremely heavy "briefcase" around like it's 1981, pretending it's lightweight or you're so manly you can handle it like it's feathers inside.
I don't know how it feels like, might be awesome but I would risk breaking windows or tripping on the ground in bad ways.
What is so bad about the train? Walk into the train station, get into the train, do wtf you want during the trip, walk out of the train into a different train station and city. That's pretty awesome and the closest technology we have to traveling by teleporter.
Likewise, the other day I went to a postal office. Very little wait and I picked up an item from China that they had kept there for me. Yesterday I bought a magazine (an independant one, not cluttered with ads and tabloid crap), it feels like dual 4K displays with indirect lighting, but I wonder where I left it.
It's funny that such old tech and old ways (which I seem to remember from my childhood) feel awesome when you encounter them. Wow, I can send mail door to door anywhere if the world if I want, without using a keyboard or touchscreen, and without a login or account? Or get 32 pages of more of tightly packed data rather than requesting articles one at a time on the web. The modern ways are cheaper, mostly.
It makes it easier and cheaper for the Firefox team to only supply a browser and no other API. But that does nothing to make the platform more attractive fr users. And with no unique selling points, and starting from zero market share, it's a guaranteed failure.
Let me rephrase stuff.. many people don't have a smartphone esp. outside the US, and many that do only use it as a phone + taking pictures + a handful stuff anyway. So a simple and zero maintenance device similar to Chrome OS is nice. Why should I care about "apps".. the "glorified bookmarks" will do. I object to Chrome OS because of the (merely encouraged) vendor lock-in, but Mozilla doesn't run a search engine, mail service, "social network", maps service, ad network, video platform with comments and whatever.
Even as a computer geek or developer, the pseudo "apps" are just a matter of writing web sites that can display on a small screen, and you're allowed the latest web techs (use a subset of not-latest techs of your choice). Those fake apps possibly can run in an iOS or Android browser if your subset is restricted enough.
Good points. Though on what I call a J2ME phone the native apps are hard coded into the virtually irreplaceable firmware and are named "Alarm", "Calendar", "Timer", "Chronometer", "Calculator" etc.
What costs for users? This stuff needs to be updated, especially nowadays that malware connects to "big data", to speak in buzzwords. Five years ago mobile malware was less of an issue, like desktop malware 10 or 15 years ago (just wipe Windows 98 again and go back to porn sites) Updates cost time and bandwidth (which might equal to money) and can possibly fill up the device's flash till you can't install them anymore (as well as other potential trouble from that situation)
Then the people who will buy their first smartphone ever will want to make it last long (they're certainly not on a $800 per year plan with "free" phones handed out, also there's a fast CPU and SD storage). So, that browser-only OS will stay fresh and protected by updates for long. To make a desktop analogy, you can install a recent linux distro on a PC from 1999 and you automatically get the latest Firefox, with regular updates. It runs fine (I did it, it's useful browsing). Take a Mac from 1999 and you can run Internet Explorer 5 for Mac and an outdated version of iCab.
Lastly, a 3rd party Tetris and The Sims 2 run fine on my J2ME phone (not that I run them often at all). Better stuff runs on Firefox OS today. What do I care that I can't run Crysis, it would be unplayable on a touch screen anyway. Javascript would be an impediment to intensive stuff like e.g. local voice recognition. For looking at calendars, pictures and video it doesn't matter. And the browser is native.
I thought J2ME was crazy and stupid over ten years ago, but it worked.
Replace J2ME with the browser and increase the specs by like 50x, and you have a Firefox OS 1.3 phone. Anyway, you needed a browser already, a browser is a multimedia and network-aware runtime maintained and optimized for running untrusted code. Avoiding additional runtimes and APIs is the entire point.
The less than $100 stuf is getting better. 800x480 Firefox OS phones have been presented, with dual Cortex A7 and 512MB RAM (and SD slot to give it more storage than a high end smartphone). If a Firefox phablet is $100, 1280x720 with the same specs that's getting pretty usable.
Why bother trying to make a CPU with it. It feels useful to make communication switches, for network cards or to connect a CPU with another CPU, the chipset, a memory pool and so on.
I have a cell phone which is neither dumb nor smart but inbetween, and I can't get the pictures out of it (it has a webcam) or music into it. The memory card is proprietary micro "memory stick" (ha!), I don't have a bluetooth module on my PC, the one thing I can plug it in is the mains charger : power only, not data transfer.
Such a pain in the ass! (sending or configuring MMS doesn't seem to work) I'm stuck with a useless webcam, sure I could order a bluetooth module or a special cable but it's an extra expense and hassle. Yes the phone is a bit old but looks about five year old.
If the EU mandates USB, and if the phone has a webcam, it would be nice that I can get these damn pictures out of a phone and onto my PC so I can look at them or send them by e-mail. i.e. mandate USB storage access (or SD card at least) if the cell phone has a webcam.
No problem. Also my above reply was pessimistic, better to check some reviews after finding a nice model. The new GTX 850M and GT840M feel nice (the latter being rather slow if you're into demanding games)
You plug your mouse on your Macintosh's power connector? wow. Mac has always had to be just weird in little ways. I remember I had a hard time figuring how out how to turn a G5 all-in-one one (and when I knew how to do it, spend at least ten tries booting a CD/DVD)
Why not dd the whole disk, that way you have a bit exact copy of the whole raw block device. Then you can use that 16GB SSD for whatever you want, including use in the laptop. If the laptop really ended bricked though you would need a computer able to read a M2 drive, or a M2 to SATA adapter.
At $300 though ($200 + $100 for a big SSD) I would choose another laptop, there's the Toshiba with the new-gen Atom (celeron N2810) that comes with a 500GB hard drive and page up/page down keys. And oh, VGA and wired ethernet (I had to check that the latter was missing from the Acer)
But/usr is a big directory. Well, that makes some sense, as it's mostly read-only stuff there, putting usr on a slow USB drive makes good sense. But now you need that stupid drive hanging off the USB port. It would be nice mounting/usr over the network, if that's still possible. Hell make it a diskless box, with maybe a/home on the SSD just so that the browser cache etc. is fast.
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Even then in Rome you had to go to the public toilets, if you shat at home I guess that went out of the window or in a cesspit till someone comes and collect your, er, crap.
In my country using a car is cheaper than taking the train, unless you're talking about short commute trips only.
Even more so with websites where you can meet and share a car for one particular travel.
Microsoft explicitly requests that on a x86/x86-64 system, secure boot can be disabled. It would be a real issue with bad OEMs only (or company hardware with a BIOS password but hey, they locked it down so you can't casually boot another OS on the company's lan, right?)
Well, I ride without a helmet all the time. It's only a hazard if have an accident and a helmet can introduce it's own set of hazards too. That being said, I specifically choose to not wear a helmet and if I wreck, I am endangering only my life.
If you injure yourself you will not show up to work, and society at large will have to pay for your medical surgery and expenses if you're not dead, possibly for years or the rest of your life. Thus most developed countries ban the use of motorbikes without helmet.
Hell as a bicycle rider I once suffered not wearing a helmet. I must fave fell from a crack in the ground or stupid inattention, but I can't know as I suffered a very minor amesia from the shock. It was at about 30 kph (about 20 mph) or maybe a bit less and that is a violent shock already, imagine running as fast as you can into a wall.. So with more speed, colliding your head with the ground will probably make you a cripple for life or kill you either instantly or slowly.
It was in the night, and there were no cars thanksfully. Wearing a helmet on bicycle is a good idea, on home-to-work commutes. It's where you know everything by rote and pay the less attention (and maybe lack sleep etc.) so it's the most dangerous ride.
And maybe for similar reasons that eating human meat is dangerous, human shit is the most toxic to us. Even plants grown for human consumption and fertilized with human shit can be a bad idea.
Not long ago I think I learnt on slashdot comments that you can grow plants for animal feed with human shit, and then grow plants for human feed with the animal shit. I found that to be neat. If you have hens you will have eggs as well in the process.
I'm getting trouble to find computer parts and video games etc. marvelous and amazing these days, and biologocial/biochemical processes, earth etc. feel the more amazing to me.
The dentist told me not to use mouthwash recently, and here's a good scientific reason apparently. I told them I used it about once a month but they said please use it only when we prescribe it to you.
I also learned you can mess with them by drinking red wine before going to the appointment, they're like "wtf is that on your tongue?".
I don't see what's so wrong about secure boot. Linux distros have signed packages (not always, and it asks if you really want to install that unsigned package). Why don't nerds rant that the packages are signed? :D. That's DRM, and thus evil.
Did anyone think it looks like this? Going to work with an Osborne Personal Business Computer.
Now too you can swing a bulky and extremely heavy "briefcase" around like it's 1981, pretending it's lightweight or you're so manly you can handle it like it's feathers inside.
I don't know how it feels like, might be awesome but I would risk breaking windows or tripping on the ground in bad ways.
What is so bad about the train? Walk into the train station, get into the train, do wtf you want during the trip, walk out of the train into a different train station and city. That's pretty awesome and the closest technology we have to traveling by teleporter.
Likewise, the other day I went to a postal office. Very little wait and I picked up an item from China that they had kept there for me.
Yesterday I bought a magazine (an independant one, not cluttered with ads and tabloid crap), it feels like dual 4K displays with indirect lighting, but I wonder where I left it.
It's funny that such old tech and old ways (which I seem to remember from my childhood) feel awesome when you encounter them. Wow, I can send mail door to door anywhere if the world if I want, without using a keyboard or touchscreen, and without a login or account? Or get 32 pages of more of tightly packed data rather than requesting articles one at a time on the web. The modern ways are cheaper, mostly.
It makes it easier and cheaper for the Firefox team to only supply a browser and no other API. But that does nothing to make the platform more attractive fr users. And with no unique selling points, and starting from zero market share, it's a guaranteed failure.
Let me rephrase stuff.. many people don't have a smartphone esp. outside the US, and many that do only use it as a phone + taking pictures + a handful stuff anyway. So a simple and zero maintenance device similar to Chrome OS is nice. Why should I care about "apps".. the "glorified bookmarks" will do. I object to Chrome OS because of the (merely encouraged) vendor lock-in, but Mozilla doesn't run a search engine, mail service, "social network", maps service, ad network, video platform with comments and whatever.
Even as a computer geek or developer, the pseudo "apps" are just a matter of writing web sites that can display on a small screen, and you're allowed the latest web techs (use a subset of not-latest techs of your choice). Those fake apps possibly can run in an iOS or Android browser if your subset is restricted enough.
Good points. Though on what I call a J2ME phone the native apps are hard coded into the virtually irreplaceable firmware and are named "Alarm", "Calendar", "Timer", "Chronometer", "Calculator" etc.
What costs for users? This stuff needs to be updated, especially nowadays that malware connects to "big data", to speak in buzzwords. Five years ago mobile malware was less of an issue, like desktop malware 10 or 15 years ago (just wipe Windows 98 again and go back to porn sites)
Updates cost time and bandwidth (which might equal to money) and can possibly fill up the device's flash till you can't install them anymore (as well as other potential trouble from that situation)
Then the people who will buy their first smartphone ever will want to make it last long (they're certainly not on a $800 per year plan with "free" phones handed out, also there's a fast CPU and SD storage). So, that browser-only OS will stay fresh and protected by updates for long.
To make a desktop analogy, you can install a recent linux distro on a PC from 1999 and you automatically get the latest Firefox, with regular updates. It runs fine (I did it, it's useful browsing). Take a Mac from 1999 and you can run Internet Explorer 5 for Mac and an outdated version of iCab.
Lastly, a 3rd party Tetris and The Sims 2 run fine on my J2ME phone (not that I run them often at all). Better stuff runs on Firefox OS today. What do I care that I can't run Crysis, it would be unplayable on a touch screen anyway.
Javascript would be an impediment to intensive stuff like e.g. local voice recognition. For looking at calendars, pictures and video it doesn't matter. And the browser is native.
What does TEI mean?, that's the most obscure initialism ever.
I thought J2ME was crazy and stupid over ten years ago, but it worked.
Replace J2ME with the browser and increase the specs by like 50x, and you have a Firefox OS 1.3 phone.
Anyway, you needed a browser already, a browser is a multimedia and network-aware runtime maintained and optimized for running untrusted code. Avoiding additional runtimes and APIs is the entire point.
The less than $100 stuf is getting better. 800x480 Firefox OS phones have been presented, with dual Cortex A7 and 512MB RAM (and SD slot to give it more storage than a high end smartphone). If a Firefox phablet is $100, 1280x720 with the same specs that's getting pretty usable.
Why bother trying to make a CPU with it.
It feels useful to make communication switches, for network cards or to connect a CPU with another CPU, the chipset, a memory pool and so on.
Quantum mechanics is weird, I guess a photon crosstalks with itself if it feels like it.
I have a cell phone which is neither dumb nor smart but inbetween, and I can't get the pictures out of it (it has a webcam) or music into it. The memory card is proprietary micro "memory stick" (ha!), I don't have a bluetooth module on my PC, the one thing I can plug it in is the mains charger : power only, not data transfer.
Such a pain in the ass! (sending or configuring MMS doesn't seem to work)
I'm stuck with a useless webcam, sure I could order a bluetooth module or a special cable but it's an extra expense and hassle. Yes the phone is a bit old but looks about five year old.
If the EU mandates USB, and if the phone has a webcam, it would be nice that I can get these damn pictures out of a phone and onto my PC so I can look at them or send them by e-mail. i.e. mandate USB storage access (or SD card at least) if the cell phone has a webcam.
Now that would be a reliable connector, more power than piddly USB, and it would lead to widespread adoption of power-over-ethernet. win-win-win.
I can't wait for Mammoth wool for next winter, or the spring's fresh and cool nights.
ChromeOS is A WEB BROWSER, so it makes fucking absolutely no difference what the instruction set of the CPU is.
No problem. Also my above reply was pessimistic, better to check some reviews after finding a nice model.
The new GTX 850M and GT840M feel nice (the latter being rather slow if you're into demanding games)
You plug your mouse on your Macintosh's power connector? wow.
Mac has always had to be just weird in little ways. I remember I had a hard time figuring how out how to turn a G5 all-in-one one (and when I knew how to do it, spend at least ten tries booting a CD/DVD)
Why not dd the whole disk, that way you have a bit exact copy of the whole raw block device. Then you can use that 16GB SSD for whatever you want, including use in the laptop. If the laptop really ended bricked though you would need a computer able to read a M2 drive, or a M2 to SATA adapter.
At $300 though ($200 + $100 for a big SSD) I would choose another laptop, there's the Toshiba with the new-gen Atom (celeron N2810) that comes with a 500GB hard drive and page up/page down keys. And oh, VGA and wired ethernet (I had to check that the latter was missing from the Acer)
But /usr is a big directory. /usr over the network, if that's still possible. Hell make it a diskless box, with maybe a /home on the SSD just so that the browser cache etc. is fast.
Well, that makes some sense, as it's mostly read-only stuff there, putting usr on a slow USB drive makes good sense.
But now you need that stupid drive hanging off the USB port. It would be nice mounting