This philosophy has been applied to a car that exists and sells now, the Renault Twizy. Nissan belongs to Renault, incidentally (Renault also has a "full size" car, the ZOE, a fair bit shorter than the Leaf) .
It's not far from your parameters, although about 50% heavier and about twice the price, plus a monthly charge for battery leasing.
When your town's residents are complaining about housing costs, just build an airport or similar next to high rise, high value buildings. That does wonders. I'm still playing the original btw (reimplemented as "micropolis") because I can't run much gaming in linux.
I never knew it simply was a directory with shortcuts in it:-) : %appdata%/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/Quick Launch/User Pinned/Taskbar
As for Cleartype they would have to update their font rendering code so it can be switched off/on extremely quickly. Or you can choose to leave it permanently off - I would like to experiment with sub-pixel rendering on/off to get for myself an idea of how it looks like at high PPI.
Yes, typing even though no search field is shown, then dealing with the dynamic crap that shows up is harder, because I don't like animations and Gnome 3 / Unity clones.
Oil will probably "run out" in the limited sense that it's so much unaffordable, but I fear that everyone turns to coal after repeatedly raping earth with fracking. You can make liquid fuels from coal, which is something Germans did a lot during WW2. Eventually we'll be able to do that "efficiently", producing high quality fuel to burn in delicate "efficient" motors, every one will fap at the efficiency just like they do nowadays when a new car uses 5% less fuel per kilometer. Only the CO2 is gonna end up at 1000 ppm or something.
Wow, this looks like simulating a bad VGA cable, or even a CRT monitor with bad convergence. Microsoft at least ought to disable Cleartype when rendering fonts in low PPI scaled up apps. On the other hand your task bar looks awesome - when the icons are vector graphics or very high res.
If I find myself using a Windows 8 computer and looking for a particular installed program (say Virtualbox) I cop out and browse Program Files. Win+r, %programfiles%, return : the task is done and I didn't have to learn and remember the new shortcuts.
Also, since the moon change's position you are going to need a large number of sites on Earth that can receive the beam, and if you can't switch off smoothly between them always (which would itself require massive planet-wide infrastructure), you would still need power sources on Earth (possibly just massive storage facilities?) to deal with those times.
That is funny. If you have massive storage facilities, preferably extremely cheap and relatively innocuous to the environment, then you've solved the whole electrical power problem already. Current wind and solar generation are atrocious because of the lack of such storage.
We're on a site traditionally slanted towards linux and FLOSS. Even when we have decoding hardware, it's not supported most time. There's even recent news about Ubuntu 14.04 specifically not supporting some of it!, depending on your hardware and drivers.
I'm sure you can run bleeding edge linux with LXDE and gnumeric on that Celeron 333, and edit spreadsheets just fine. That Celeron is better than a Raspberry Pi : it has about the same CPU performance, and better disk and networking I/O (done over a PCI bus whereas Pi does all on a single USB port). If we could buy a cheap ass H264 etc. PCI decoding card, the Celeron would be suprisingly current.
Fuck you. Windows 7 32bit is needed for all those Athlon XP and Pentium 4 machines still around. Enough of them will be turned into botnets in a couple of monthes already. Businesses would have got all pissy anyway without the 32bit version, which allows to run Windows 3.1 software or 32bit software with random silly issues (and Windows 2000/XP drivers too)
I have given up on TV when analog OTA was switched off (in the country that used SECAM). Switching to digital should have made great sense because of the spectrum savings, but the 10 or 15 or so new channels are mostly garbage, the equivalent of shovelware. So the spectrum was polluted back anyway. You have to buy a flimsy digital tuner piece of shit to get TV on an old TV instead of using nothing, and live with two remotes instead of one (and taking up a scarce SCART input). The quality went down, because you get compression artifacts where there wen't any (unless you buy a HD TV and/or tuner to get HD OTA, maybe, but not all channels are HD). Digital tuners don't have a RF modulator so you can't use the TV's antenna input to get signal, thus really old TVs can't get used.
Also you can't track the schedules of so many channels anyway. Gone is the social aspect of talking about yesterday's movie or program, when something significant was aired : this is probably the biggest issue, there was a cultural aspect common to nearly everyone in the nation with the six channels but now everyone is doing their own watching (or don't watch anything). There was already the downloading of movies and TV shows before : first eMule, then megaupload and shady streaming sites, then torrents and "illegal" copyrighted movies and shows straight from youtube itself. The end of analog OTA put the nail in the coffin.
You mean search keywords?, that was in Mozilla Suite already and presumably Firefox 0.x. Right-click an arbitrary form and select "add a keyword for this search".
Slowest hardware that can run Windows 8.1 will be 22nm Atom or AMD 1.0GHz dual core, with 2GB memory (4GB can be likely), and either 64GB flash or a modern hard drive. Decoding of youtube videos done in hardware when the vids are in H264 (dunno about VP9) There just doesn't exist crappier hardware on the market. Well, 32nm Atom sucks but Microsoft can exclude it from the agreement. So Windows 8 is guaranteed to work fine!
If you're living in the fourties and have billions dollars for your staff and expenses I'm sure you can have secretaries dealing with mail, paper stuff, appointments and meeting schedules ; sending telegraphic "e-mail" through teletypes ; shuffling blueprints and stuff around by car.
Today you can't afford a secretary so you need software and an internet connection instead =)
There is yet another divide, which is of using wireless to use a hotspot or a neighbor's connection. That may work fine, or work most of the time, or be highly erratic with severe slowdowns and day long disruption. Weather can affect it or congestion make it nearly unusable when everything is coming back from work or school and using up the spectrum.
Another situation is to use 3G/4G for your residential internet access, you may suffer some of the above but there's the harsh data caps and throttling. It is probably what a lot of the third world will have to live with, and there dial up is not even an option (either the phone line doesn't physically exist, or dial up service is too expensive)
Maybe it's not really "universal" in the meaning that everyone and his dog will use it, maybe if you clone it all you're creating an "island" that doesn't interoperate directly with the original app and its users (I don't know). But it's the kind of stuff I wish for. Similarly there could be open API or protocol for a sharing pictures/sending pictures kind of app that is not e-mail or MMS and that doesn't rely on using f...book/whatsapp/google/whatever, or for some kind of app I'm not thinking of.
I agree about setting up your own web hosting for your phone apps, e.g. you could have a notes taking app that saves data on your own server. I'm waiting for Firefox OS hardware, which I might get to do that kind of stuff. Heard that you can set up your own "Firefox Sync" server too.
True, but in doom 3 I had lots of backtracking and running in circles. I'd have explored 90% of the "Delta Labs 3", "Alpha Labs 2", "Kappa Labs 7" whatever (remembering the map names is impossible) but then, what to do? Finding that one door/switch/PDA was a bitch, and everyone was dead. I would save game, retry days later and run around randomly again. Sometimes I got fed up and remembered I can open the console and use NOCLIP. As others said, there's a lack of action.
With that name one can think it's an actual telegram service, e.g. you can send an electronic message that's delivered by mail or courier on the last mile.
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This philosophy has been applied to a car that exists and sells now, the Renault Twizy. Nissan belongs to Renault, incidentally (Renault also has a "full size" car, the ZOE, a fair bit shorter than the Leaf) .
It's not far from your parameters, although about 50% heavier and about twice the price, plus a monthly charge for battery leasing.
When your town's residents are complaining about housing costs, just build an airport or similar next to high rise, high value buildings. That does wonders. I'm still playing the original btw (reimplemented as "micropolis") because I can't run much gaming in linux.
This story made me look up how to change pinned icons in the task bar.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto...
I never knew it simply was a directory with shortcuts in it :-) : %appdata%/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/Quick Launch/User Pinned/Taskbar
As for Cleartype they would have to update their font rendering code so it can be switched off/on extremely quickly. Or you can choose to leave it permanently off - I would like to experiment with sub-pixel rendering on/off to get for myself an idea of how it looks like at high PPI.
Yes, typing even though no search field is shown, then dealing with the dynamic crap that shows up is harder, because I don't like animations and Gnome 3 / Unity clones.
Oil will probably "run out" in the limited sense that it's so much unaffordable, but I fear that everyone turns to coal after repeatedly raping earth with fracking. You can make liquid fuels from coal, which is something Germans did a lot during WW2. Eventually we'll be able to do that "efficiently", producing high quality fuel to burn in delicate "efficient" motors, every one will fap at the efficiency just like they do nowadays when a new car uses 5% less fuel per kilometer. Only the CO2 is gonna end up at 1000 ppm or something.
I meant the graphics stack, duh. I must be suffering from doorway amnesia because of all those crappy AC comments.
There are performance improvement, mostly the graphics task is highly advanced. Plus miscellaneous kernel improvements and stuff.
It's useful in Windows 7 even. The default Win 7 start menu actually is a bit bad for browsing hierarchical menus.
Wow, this looks like simulating a bad VGA cable, or even a CRT monitor with bad convergence. Microsoft at least ought to disable Cleartype when rendering fonts in low PPI scaled up apps.
On the other hand your task bar looks awesome - when the icons are vector graphics or very high res.
If I find myself using a Windows 8 computer and looking for a particular installed program (say Virtualbox) I cop out and browse Program Files. Win+r, %programfiles%, return : the task is done and I didn't have to learn and remember the new shortcuts.
Also, since the moon change's position you are going to need a large number of sites on Earth that can receive the beam, and if you can't switch off smoothly between them always (which would itself require massive planet-wide infrastructure), you would still need power sources on Earth (possibly just massive storage facilities?) to deal with those times.
That is funny. If you have massive storage facilities, preferably extremely cheap and relatively innocuous to the environment, then you've solved the whole electrical power problem already. Current wind and solar generation are atrocious because of the lack of such storage.
Do you know about moon phases?
We're on a site traditionally slanted towards linux and FLOSS. Even when we have decoding hardware, it's not supported most time. There's even recent news about Ubuntu 14.04 specifically not supporting some of it!, depending on your hardware and drivers.
I'm sure you can run bleeding edge linux with LXDE and gnumeric on that Celeron 333, and edit spreadsheets just fine. That Celeron is better than a Raspberry Pi : it has about the same CPU performance, and better disk and networking I/O (done over a PCI bus whereas Pi does all on a single USB port). If we could buy a cheap ass H264 etc. PCI decoding card, the Celeron would be suprisingly current.
Fuck you. Windows 7 32bit is needed for all those Athlon XP and Pentium 4 machines still around. Enough of them will be turned into botnets in a couple of monthes already.
Businesses would have got all pissy anyway without the 32bit version, which allows to run Windows 3.1 software or 32bit software with random silly issues (and Windows 2000/XP drivers too)
I have given up on TV when analog OTA was switched off (in the country that used SECAM). Switching to digital should have made great sense because of the spectrum savings, but the 10 or 15 or so new channels are mostly garbage, the equivalent of shovelware. So the spectrum was polluted back anyway.
You have to buy a flimsy digital tuner piece of shit to get TV on an old TV instead of using nothing, and live with two remotes instead of one (and taking up a scarce SCART input). The quality went down, because you get compression artifacts where there wen't any (unless you buy a HD TV and/or tuner to get HD OTA, maybe, but not all channels are HD). Digital tuners don't have a RF modulator so you can't use the TV's antenna input to get signal, thus really old TVs can't get used.
Also you can't track the schedules of so many channels anyway. Gone is the social aspect of talking about yesterday's movie or program, when something significant was aired : this is probably the biggest issue, there was a cultural aspect common to nearly everyone in the nation with the six channels but now everyone is doing their own watching (or don't watch anything). There was already the downloading of movies and TV shows before : first eMule, then megaupload and shady streaming sites, then torrents and "illegal" copyrighted movies and shows straight from youtube itself. The end of analog OTA put the nail in the coffin.
You mean search keywords?, that was in Mozilla Suite already and presumably Firefox 0.x. Right-click an arbitrary form and select "add a keyword for this search".
Slowest hardware that can run Windows 8.1 will be 22nm Atom or AMD 1.0GHz dual core, with 2GB memory (4GB can be likely), and either 64GB flash or a modern hard drive. Decoding of youtube videos done in hardware when the vids are in H264 (dunno about VP9)
There just doesn't exist crappier hardware on the market. Well, 32nm Atom sucks but Microsoft can exclude it from the agreement. So Windows 8 is guaranteed to work fine!
If you're living in the fourties and have billions dollars for your staff and expenses I'm sure you can have secretaries dealing with mail, paper stuff, appointments and meeting schedules ; sending telegraphic "e-mail" through teletypes ; shuffling blueprints and stuff around by car.
Today you can't afford a secretary so you need software and an internet connection instead =)
There is yet another divide, which is of using wireless to use a hotspot or a neighbor's connection. That may work fine, or work most of the time, or be highly erratic with severe slowdowns and day long disruption. Weather can affect it or congestion make it nearly unusable when everything is coming back from work or school and using up the spectrum.
Another situation is to use 3G/4G for your residential internet access, you may suffer some of the above but there's the harsh data caps and throttling. It is probably what a lot of the third world will have to live with, and there dial up is not even an option (either the phone line doesn't physically exist, or dial up service is too expensive)
There already is a light that blinks when my HDD is used. Of course it is trivial to unplug it so it doesn't blink anymore.
I wanted to mean protocols like e-mail etc. are protocols, not e-mail etc. per se.
From the Whatsapp story I've learnt about this as an example :
https://core.telegram.org/api
https://core.telegram.org/mtpr...
Maybe it's not really "universal" in the meaning that everyone and his dog will use it, maybe if you clone it all you're creating an "island" that doesn't interoperate directly with the original app and its users (I don't know). But it's the kind of stuff I wish for. Similarly there could be open API or protocol for a sharing pictures/sending pictures kind of app that is not e-mail or MMS and that doesn't rely on using f...book/whatsapp/google/whatever, or for some kind of app I'm not thinking of.
I agree about setting up your own web hosting for your phone apps, e.g. you could have a notes taking app that saves data on your own server. I'm waiting for Firefox OS hardware, which I might get to do that kind of stuff. Heard that you can set up your own "Firefox Sync" server too.
True, but in doom 3 I had lots of backtracking and running in circles. I'd have explored 90% of the "Delta Labs 3", "Alpha Labs 2", "Kappa Labs 7" whatever (remembering the map names is impossible) but then, what to do?
Finding that one door/switch/PDA was a bitch, and everyone was dead. I would save game, retry days later and run around randomly again.
Sometimes I got fed up and remembered I can open the console and use NOCLIP. As others said, there's a lack of action.
With that name one can think it's an actual telegram service, e.g. you can send an electronic message that's delivered by mail or courier on the last mile.
They're not only stealing a few hundreds million phone numbers, they steal the phone directories or at least subsets of them.