It does work well IF your displays are on the same graphics card at least. But if you want the primary monitor on the right the computer will piss you off a bit. I.e. half the software will ignore your setting, and will open on the left side monitor instead of the right side monitor. If you turn the left monitor off (because you know, there's too many light or distraction!) and you open something that goes on the wrong monitor, then you have to take countermeasures because, ef, you can't see it!
Even for a veteran there's some crap going on with USB drives. First it's some distro like Debian no longer working with Unetbootin. Then the Windows 7 iso not including UEFI boot files, but the UEFI PC still boots it, but the Windows installer can't deal with the new style partitions. Then, Debian is no longer working with Unetbootin. It's possibly the same with some other distros, thanksfully Linux Mint Ubuntu still works. So you need to use fucking dd!, or a Windows equivalent. This will delete all your data and make the remainder of your USB drive useless. And there's that crappy old Dell or Compaq BIOS on that rather fast Core 2 Duo machine. It supports booting from USB floppy drive, USB CD and USB Zip but no USB hard drive / thumb drive!
Wait for a phone that takes UFS storage (memory cards, not the old useless file system for DVDs) That will allow memory cards that are basically as good as the internal flash, or even better. It's a single-chip SSD by this point. You would have the option for crappy internal + good external (i.e. performance, reliability and capacity), or good internal + crappy external, or both crappy, or both good.
Apple's legacy connectors were dickish (a VGA connector with the wrong layout), redundant (Apple-only keyboards? yawn), 1980s crap used only by themselves - whatever the printer/modem/localtalk ports were, and external SCSI was overpriced and dangerous.
We can only wish Apple took a similar initiative to get rid of "legacy" on their iPhones. This means to get rid of their Lightning connector and use USB-C in its place.
This is how I feel with "RAM is cheap" comments. No, even if a terabyte of DRAM costs $50 that means nothing if your computer only has a couple DIMM or SO-DIMM ddr2 slots. This makes it a $300 upgrade not a $50 upgrade (more for a laptop), and if it's just for running what you were already running before such as a web browser, what a waste.
The web will evolve or devolve further with Web Assembly, HTML 5.1 and even HTML 5.2 (what the hell is that for?)
I hope someone will have the idea to, you know, call it done? Even then, getting rid of all the old phones locked to Android 4.1 or 4.4 or iphone 4 etc. will take a decade! Then we'll merely have to work with stuff that assumes 2x or 15x the performance that your hardware and software can achieve. e.g. someone makes a 3D earth program in Web and laughs at you because you don't have a Shizzbang M9X 2.0 and you run out of RAM.
I decided to not worry much about the energy loss when opening the door : wouldn't refreshing the air a bit be healthy, anyway? Is there an amount of cycling the air recommended to fend off odors and unwanted life? Do high end fridges cycle the air on their own?
LG has shown a Windows 10 fridge, running on a low end x86 PC. Your Samsung fridge seems a lot of fun and niceties from the read while I'm sure most people will turn away from the Metro apps and Windows store, if only instinctively. But I really hate to be the guy that breaks the fun:), so as to point out the Android fridge's near term future is dubious, whereas the Windows fridge is promised security updates till 2025, subject to extension if an OS upgrade occurs or if MS has another moment of "shit, if we drop off support right now there will be 400 millions more Internet zombies so let's extend this OS version for three years".
Hopefully we may end up getting "long term Android". Perhaps using Android on straight x86 PC hardware? nvidia ARM hardware may end up with some long term support too. Will another SoC vendor follow suit? There is no hard technical reason to drop driver support etc. after a couple years. Looking forward for LESS innovation:)
In the 90s Epson disabled black and white printing even though the printer had four cartridges for CMYK. Mom rushed to buy an overpriced namebrand black cartridge and it refused to print. Later, the printer was ruined anyway since an inkjet that doesn't print for a month gets that way, ruined. A black and white laser printer is a better solution since - there is only one color, so you can't be ripped off that way - it still works even if you don't use it It used to be 10x more expensive than a color inkjet, but not anymore. Some people buy an inkjet a year for the "printing season" related to a home business.
They found that marijuana use was almost as common as cigarette smoking in the sample, which was designed to reflect the U.S. population. Among participants, the average marijuana user toked 2-3 times a month, while the average tobacco user smoked eight cigarettes a day. Those who smoked both tended to do so slightly more frequently than those who smoked only cigarettes or only marijuana.
Good that they found a sample of non smokers who smoke cannabis, but this is like saying wine is good because persons who drink a glass of wine 2-3 times a month and nothing else are very healthy, slightly more than average, whereas people who drink eight beers a day are wrecking themselves.
There's R7 240 with GDDR3 memory, R7 240 with GDDR5, R7 250 with GDDR3 and R7 250 with GDDR5. Both are only named "R7 240" and "R7 250". The perf difference is tremendous, it's a nastier and older trick. The 240 GDDR5 is much faster than the 240 GDDR3, and a lot faster than the 250 GDDR3 too.
Supporting special hardware like the tiny thing that tells the battery to charge or not based on a preference supplied by the user is something that likely needs some manpower, and physical access to all supported laptops for testing. When I complained - on slahsdot, mind you - about linux not even supporting most temperature and all voltage sensors on desktops, I was told I was an idiot for not buying server hardware to run as a desktop.
It just looks like behavior from squashfs and friends. If you wanted to delete system files on your router or live CD permanently, you would have to flash a new firmware image or burn a new live CD, even if you're running as the root account. What I'm saying thus is, this crap is to be expected.
Can you run a script as root on startup that "deletes" the so-called apps? I would settle with that.
One spin per desktop works with slow internet and allows to not waste gigabytes either. I don't want to download a 4GB iso with all major desktops in it - multiply by distro versions and 32bit vs 64bit, and I now need to buy a hard drive to fill it with junk. I don't want to wait half a hour for 4GB of mostly crap to write to the USB 2 stick. I don't want to bring a very small iso, but download 1GB at 100KB/s with wifi brown outs. I don't want to install KDE or Gnome 3 or Unity and not use them : daemons, registries etc. Some desktops when mixed give you two entries for "Preferences / Screensaver" for instance.
I would use KDE if I were somehow stuck with it, like with XP or 7 where you're stuck with the desktop and make do with it. KDE 5.6 looks weirder than it does in screenshots. It's still an animation and fade out fest that makes me throw up, and now it's configured for high res screens out of the box so that it makes your lowish res screen looks like 640x480. With the weird start menu that is... too big and animated, it feels like a lot of work, that would have to be repeated each time I set it up somewhere.
English-speaking people are "literally" using the wrong word, too. It should be "litterally" with two 't' as in "letter". (and litterature if we go the same way). When you're "litterally" doing something, you're following the meaning to the letter. English language most likely changed the spelling due to conflict with "litter" as lightweight garbage or other meanings.
I'd do it, but then I'd advise people who want to assist in such a way to unplug all their computers, including turning off wifi on smartphones etc., and disconnecting NAS storage in the forum of a USB drive attached to a router. Although there's a concern for the security of the router itself.
Yes, your smartphone has a ton of varied, dedicated hardware. Even your grandma's 1990s dumbphone does that, or a $20 DVD video player. Your smartphone has more complicated versions of both, and an image processor that makes an actual usable picture from the camera sensor, and a video encoder, and a jpeg encoder/decoder I guess, and a whole GPU on top of that.
So Microsoft is using yet another processor for another new, separate task. I liken the whole thing to some kind of mobile Kinect. I think this one had a built-in DSP too. Not that I should particularly care. but execution, latency, robustness may make or break such things.
They might want to run PS4 games eventually, but it's too early for several reasons including competition with themselves or overall crappiness compared to local hardware, for reasons. I'm sure they use straight PS3 hardware?, with the shrink to 45nm CPU + 40nm GPU. Fairly wasteful in performance per watt but emulation could be worse. You don't even need the case and optical drive, and the hardware is available in extremely high numbers for basically free. 4TB 2.5" HDD are a thing (or 2TB if addressing limitation applies) with a rather nice disk bandwith. PS3 hype talked of cloud computing back in 2005 : it was silly hype but Sony is a huge corp that had experience with the GScube (a rendering cluster of PS2-like hardware) and then had IBM that attempted some datacenter Cell crap.
Impressive, if not very pretty gamepad. But it may be adding a small amount of latency? You're not using a high latency TV, at least. But what if you were using a high latency TV. What if you were using DSL (personal rule of thumb, at least twice the latency of cable) Using Wifi? You're doing that (you should be using wired ethernet, at worst it's possible on USB-to-go Android stuff) What if you were using Wifi, then streaming through Wifi again to a wireless TV or TV stick? It's dumb but people will do that if given the chance.
The Bush administration had black people and women in top positions, so "has openly gay friends" isn't that remarkable. Anti-racist, pro LGBTQt (in a limited fashion at least), pro women etc. is a default position, even for right-wing. Hatred is towards the poor and terrorists and "rogue states". You can kill as much as you want and claim moral high grounds because you're doing it for "human rights", or wage wars to save lives (oh, the sick irony). Well, it was that way with Bush and Obama, and will be with Clinton bis.
"Open button"? I never heard of that one and it is wholly unrecognisable to me. I don't know what specific software or hardware it's from. Sometimes media player use the "Eject" button as a metaphor to open files.
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It does work well IF your displays are on the same graphics card at least.
But if you want the primary monitor on the right the computer will piss you off a bit.
I.e. half the software will ignore your setting, and will open on the left side monitor instead of the right side monitor. If you turn the left monitor off (because you know, there's too many light or distraction!) and you open something that goes on the wrong monitor, then you have to take countermeasures because, ef, you can't see it!
Even for a veteran there's some crap going on with USB drives. First it's some distro like Debian no longer working with Unetbootin. Then the Windows 7 iso not including UEFI boot files, but the UEFI PC still boots it, but the Windows installer can't deal with the new style partitions. Then, Debian is no longer working with Unetbootin. It's possibly the same with some other distros, thanksfully Linux Mint Ubuntu still works. So you need to use fucking dd!, or a Windows equivalent. This will delete all your data and make the remainder of your USB drive useless. And there's that crappy old Dell or Compaq BIOS on that rather fast Core 2 Duo machine. It supports booting from USB floppy drive, USB CD and USB Zip but no USB hard drive / thumb drive!
Wait for a phone that takes UFS storage (memory cards, not the old useless file system for DVDs)
That will allow memory cards that are basically as good as the internal flash, or even better. It's a single-chip SSD by this point. You would have the option for crappy internal + good external (i.e. performance, reliability and capacity), or good internal + crappy external, or both crappy, or both good.
Apple's legacy connectors were dickish (a VGA connector with the wrong layout), redundant (Apple-only keyboards? yawn), 1980s crap used only by themselves - whatever the printer/modem/localtalk ports were, and external SCSI was overpriced and dangerous.
We can only wish Apple took a similar initiative to get rid of "legacy" on their iPhones. This means to get rid of their Lightning connector and use USB-C in its place.
This is how I feel with "RAM is cheap" comments. No, even if a terabyte of DRAM costs $50 that means nothing if your computer only has a couple DIMM or SO-DIMM ddr2 slots. This makes it a $300 upgrade not a $50 upgrade (more for a laptop), and if it's just for running what you were already running before such as a web browser, what a waste.
The web will evolve or devolve further with Web Assembly, HTML 5.1 and even HTML 5.2 (what the hell is that for?)
I hope someone will have the idea to, you know, call it done?
Even then, getting rid of all the old phones locked to Android 4.1 or 4.4 or iphone 4 etc. will take a decade!
Then we'll merely have to work with stuff that assumes 2x or 15x the performance that your hardware and software can achieve. e.g. someone makes a 3D earth program in Web and laughs at you because you don't have a Shizzbang M9X 2.0 and you run out of RAM.
I decided to not worry much about the energy loss when opening the door : wouldn't refreshing the air a bit be healthy, anyway?
Is there an amount of cycling the air recommended to fend off odors and unwanted life? Do high end fridges cycle the air on their own?
LG has shown a Windows 10 fridge, running on a low end x86 PC. Your Samsung fridge seems a lot of fun and niceties from the read while I'm sure most people will turn away from the Metro apps and Windows store, if only instinctively. But I really hate to be the guy that breaks the fun :), so as to point out the Android fridge's near term future is dubious, whereas the Windows fridge is promised security updates till 2025, subject to extension if an OS upgrade occurs or if MS has another moment of "shit, if we drop off support right now there will be 400 millions more Internet zombies so let's extend this OS version for three years".
Hopefully we may end up getting "long term Android". Perhaps using Android on straight x86 PC hardware? nvidia ARM hardware may end up with some long term support too. Will another SoC vendor follow suit? There is no hard technical reason to drop driver support etc. after a couple years. Looking forward for LESS innovation :)
In the 90s Epson disabled black and white printing even though the printer had four cartridges for CMYK.
Mom rushed to buy an overpriced namebrand black cartridge and it refused to print.
Later, the printer was ruined anyway since an inkjet that doesn't print for a month gets that way, ruined.
A black and white laser printer is a better solution since
- there is only one color, so you can't be ripped off that way
- it still works even if you don't use it
It used to be 10x more expensive than a color inkjet, but not anymore.
Some people buy an inkjet a year for the "printing season" related to a home business.
They found that marijuana use was almost as common as cigarette smoking in the sample, which was designed to reflect the U.S. population. Among participants, the average marijuana user toked 2-3 times a month, while the average tobacco user smoked eight cigarettes a day. Those who smoked both tended to do so slightly more frequently than those who smoked only cigarettes or only marijuana.
Good that they found a sample of non smokers who smoke cannabis, but this is like saying wine is good because persons who drink a glass of wine 2-3 times a month and nothing else are very healthy, slightly more than average, whereas people who drink eight beers a day are wrecking themselves.
There's R7 240 with GDDR3 memory, R7 240 with GDDR5, R7 250 with GDDR3 and R7 250 with GDDR5.
Both are only named "R7 240" and "R7 250". The perf difference is tremendous, it's a nastier and older trick. The 240 GDDR5 is much faster than the 240 GDDR3, and a lot faster than the 250 GDDR3 too.
Supporting special hardware like the tiny thing that tells the battery to charge or not based on a preference supplied by the user is something that likely needs some manpower, and physical access to all supported laptops for testing.
When I complained - on slahsdot, mind you - about linux not even supporting most temperature and all voltage sensors on desktops, I was told I was an idiot for not buying server hardware to run as a desktop.
It just looks like behavior from squashfs and friends. If you wanted to delete system files on your router or live CD permanently, you would have to flash a new firmware image or burn a new live CD, even if you're running as the root account.
What I'm saying thus is, this crap is to be expected.
Can you run a script as root on startup that "deletes" the so-called apps? I would settle with that.
One spin per desktop works with slow internet and allows to not waste gigabytes either.
I don't want to download a 4GB iso with all major desktops in it - multiply by distro versions and 32bit vs 64bit, and I now need to buy a hard drive to fill it with junk.
I don't want to wait half a hour for 4GB of mostly crap to write to the USB 2 stick.
I don't want to bring a very small iso, but download 1GB at 100KB/s with wifi brown outs.
I don't want to install KDE or Gnome 3 or Unity and not use them : daemons, registries etc. Some desktops when mixed give you two entries for "Preferences / Screensaver" for instance.
I can't wait for Ubuntu %C3%86kety %C3%86rfugl.
I would use KDE if I were somehow stuck with it, like with XP or 7 where you're stuck with the desktop and make do with it.
KDE 5.6 looks weirder than it does in screenshots. It's still an animation and fade out fest that makes me throw up, and now it's configured for high res screens out of the box so that it makes your lowish res screen looks like 640x480.
With the weird start menu that is... too big and animated, it feels like a lot of work, that would have to be repeated each time I set it up somewhere.
English-speaking people are "literally" using the wrong word, too. It should be "litterally" with two 't' as in "letter". (and litterature if we go the same way). When you're "litterally" doing something, you're following the meaning to the letter. English language most likely changed the spelling due to conflict with "litter" as lightweight garbage or other meanings.
I'd do it, but then I'd advise people who want to assist in such a way to unplug all their computers, including turning off wifi on smartphones etc., and disconnecting NAS storage in the forum of a USB drive attached to a router.
Although there's a concern for the security of the router itself.
Yes, your smartphone has a ton of varied, dedicated hardware.
Even your grandma's 1990s dumbphone does that, or a $20 DVD video player. Your smartphone has more complicated versions of both, and an image processor that makes an actual usable picture from the camera sensor, and a video encoder, and a jpeg encoder/decoder I guess, and a whole GPU on top of that.
So Microsoft is using yet another processor for another new, separate task.
I liken the whole thing to some kind of mobile Kinect. I think this one had a built-in DSP too.
Not that I should particularly care. but execution, latency, robustness may make or break such things.
They might want to run PS4 games eventually, but it's too early for several reasons including competition with themselves or overall crappiness compared to local hardware, for reasons.
I'm sure they use straight PS3 hardware?, with the shrink to 45nm CPU + 40nm GPU. Fairly wasteful in performance per watt but emulation could be worse. You don't even need the case and optical drive, and the hardware is available in extremely high numbers for basically free. 4TB 2.5" HDD are a thing (or 2TB if addressing limitation applies) with a rather nice disk bandwith. PS3 hype talked of cloud computing back in 2005 : it was silly hype but Sony is a huge corp that had experience with the GScube (a rendering cluster of PS2-like hardware) and then had IBM that attempted some datacenter Cell crap.
You're promoting one-liner incomplete answers. Would have it been too hard to write two sentences to know what you're talking about?
Impressive, if not very pretty gamepad. But it may be adding a small amount of latency?
You're not using a high latency TV, at least.
But what if you were using a high latency TV. What if you were using DSL (personal rule of thumb, at least twice the latency of cable)
Using Wifi? You're doing that (you should be using wired ethernet, at worst it's possible on USB-to-go Android stuff)
What if you were using Wifi, then streaming through Wifi again to a wireless TV or TV stick? It's dumb but people will do that if given the chance.
The Bush administration had black people and women in top positions, so "has openly gay friends" isn't that remarkable. Anti-racist, pro LGBTQt (in a limited fashion at least), pro women etc. is a default position, even for right-wing. Hatred is towards the poor and terrorists and "rogue states".
You can kill as much as you want and claim moral high grounds because you're doing it for "human rights", or wage wars to save lives (oh, the sick irony). Well, it was that way with Bush and Obama, and will be with Clinton bis.
You need some imagination to see Napster. I'm thinking it's Intel Centrino : blue shapes on a laptop sticker and nobody knows what it's about.
"Open button"? I never heard of that one and it is wholly unrecognisable to me. I don't know what specific software or hardware it's from. Sometimes media player use the "Eject" button as a metaphor to open files.