I feel like Mate (or Gnome 2 in things like RHEL 6 and Open Solaris variants) is very susceptible to a theme or icons being slightly off. It can look crappy, or slightly like crap. Mint exists as a whole distro to provide a theme for Mate and its GTK siblings:), even there there's a tiny little bit of variation available by default and that's all. You may slightly tweak the font rendering or hide a few desktop icons etc. rather than messing too much with the themes. If you thought Ubuntu 8.04 or Debian lenny and squeeze were decent, it still is. I liken it to Windows XP's classic mode (a decade ago) : been running for a long time and there's no pulling the rug under you.
And there's pcmanfm-qt 0.10, which I found out is in the Ubuntu 16.04 repos. wow! This thing is fast. Just a file manager. Worth a try even if you're running a GTK 2 / GTK 3 desktop, actually it's a bit better since you will not mistake it for your main file manager.
Well, have you seen how linux/unix programs like to report output? This is the epitome of correct execution and behavior that adheres to the underlying philosophy:)
user@host/path $/usr/this/that/program -a -X a_list_of_important_arguments | foo -Z user@host/path $
user@host/path $ hello? is anyone there? hello? : command not found user@host/path $ help GNU bash, version 4.3.42(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) copyright 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986..... 2001, 2002, 2003... Don't try to find help about commands here, you should have typed "info bash". We're trying to be friendly ; if you aren't able to use "info" because it's too hard, try "info info" These shell commands are defined internally. Now, here is how War and Peace ended : .... Filter error: Please use fewer 'junk' characters. Filter error: Please use few Filter error: Please use fewer 'junk' characters.er 'junk' characters. .... Your comment violated the "postercomment" compression filter. Try less whitespace and/or less repetition.
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Filter error: Please use fewer 'junk' characters. Filter error: Please use few Filter error: Please use fewer 'junk' characters.er 'junk' characters. Your terminal has now been filled. gl/hf
HBM2 will be on the high end server (maybe workstation) socket. Specs will be 16 cores (likely 12 cores possible) with a mid-sized GPU on a multi-chip-module, with eight channels of DDR 4 (unbuffered, ECC, ECC registered) Most home users will likely not be interested, they'll prefer to go with a faster GPU for less expense on a traditional home desktop. This thing allows you 512GB RAM and a lower latency between CPU and GPU.
I speculate this may go in a Mac Pro, because there is a lot of hardware under a single heatsink.
Given the effects of scale, a leak should be a ton less dramatic than most people would imagine. Even on a car or bicycle a leak can be very slow, it'd be more like that than what happens humorously in cartoons.
The United States Army airship Roma (built by Umberto Nobile) ignited when it hit high-tension electrical wires near Langley Field at Hampton Roads, Virginia, killing 34 of the ship’s 45 crew members. After the Roma disaster the United States government decided never again to inflate an airship with hydrogen.
Dixmude (December 21, 1923)
The French-operated Dixmude was destroyed over the Mediterranean Sea near the coast of Sicily by a hydrogen explosion visible from miles away. Dixmude’s gas cells had apparently been contaminated with air, creating an explosive mixture, and the ship may have been lifted by updrafts in a thunderstorm, causing hydrogen to be vented and then ignited by the electrically charged atmosphere.
R101 (October 5, 1930)
The poorly-designed British R101 lost altitude and sank into a hillside near Beauvais, France. The impact was slight and caused few if any injuries, but the ship’s hydrogen ignited and the ensuing inferno killed 48 of the 55 passengers and crew.
But in the pictures and video we can see the front rotors can swivel and point up or half way up. They might be used to move up and down in some fashion.
Not exactly. You can't require a stable and disposable income with the assorted stable debit or credit card or bank account for every person on the planet, so they've done a two-tier model where you need the rental to sort-of turn off the datamining and advertising. If you can't afford the rental, you still get to pay the Microsoft OEM tax, and you have to run the Microsoft-provided spyware (and auto-update your drivers). They'll cross-reference the data with LinkedIn, not only Skype and Hotmail and Bing. And.. how do you pay a rental anonymously, anyway?
Well, try to run the latest PC game if your CPU is too slow. Nope, that 2.13 GHz Core 2 Duo or that 3.0 GHz Athlon II X2 will run games like crap, even if / even though you maxed out the RAM and put a modern graphics card in. Worse, a $50 or $60 new CPU still runs games like crap, although that depends wildly on the particular game.
So, you're looking at a $400 to $700 desktop upgrade which despite a vastly improved CPU will be mostly useful for the games only. Thus, although a decade ago a PC might have been cheaper than a console, the pendulum has switched back and a console is cheaper than a PC.
A manufacturer might have different policies for high end and low end/midrange? Changes over time? e.g. I think something at least half-way good was said about LG phones, but I know of an about 3-year-old LG, cheap midrange, that has absolutely nothing to update it with.
Carrier-branded, or semi-branded phones can be all over the place, depending on carriers and country I guess. No Cyanogen support whatsoever. unless there are exceptions. The one bad thing is when you only have unsupported phones to play with, you can't try the unlocking/flashing/gobblededocking tools and try Cyanogen to see how it works, if it works with google apps and if it works with no google apps at all, and so on. So no experience with these things, which is uneasy. Perhaps checking out Cyanogen and Android 6 et al. in an emulator would be what's needed.
There's ammonia that's carbon free, too. Although its current production uses a lot of natural gas as source of hydrogen and heat. I thought it'd be a very interesting fuel, you can both store and transport it and that's being done at some scale already. If we can use high efficiency electrolysis to make the dihydrogen and an affordable reverse fuel cell to make it react with N2, I think it would be workable but it might be a pipe dream anyway due to the conversion inefficiencies and hence, cost.
In a few seconds of my time, if I have an old PC around I can plug two 1TB hard disks on the same USB1 bus and replicate all data from the first to the second one. I only need to come back the next month to see if it succeeded:).
The only DRM'ed video I remember downloading, a.wmv, was a porn video. It was unreadable, and was part of the peer-to-peer noise. Back then, you mostly downloaded video when you wanted to play them. Real Player was the running joke ; streamed.wmv was great but I only got it working near the end of its popularity, else the user experience was a message that said "failed to automatically download the codec".
A proper plug-in based video streaming like streamed.wmv would use a 2D graphics card's abilities to scale video and do YUV to RGB conversion in hardware so that a low end 500MHz CPU would play full screen smooth, with no SSE, no hardware decoding or no OpenGL. Fast-forward a decade and a faster netbook with 16x the RAM is struggling playing 240p youtube even in small size windowed mode. Well done.
But what can I fucking run on desktops? This phone-only crap is tiring. I want to use IM when I don't want to or cannot use the phone. It's nuts that we're worse off than in 2003 regarding the state of desktop IM.
There were x86 set top boxes five years ago (Atom), and there were x86 phones too, until Intel exited the market altogether (after nvidia did the same). So in fact, you can get an Android x86 tablet, same hardware as lowest end x86 Windows tablets ; you could get an Android x86 phone, but won't be able to anymore, and there never were x86 Windows phone.
Nexus must be a special brand, perhaps one that caters to the US mostly. When I got to my go-to web retailer, there's ton of brands in the list, even Xiaomi, Meizu, Acer, Asus etc. but no Nexus.
So.. you can buy whatever, unlocked, with no carrier bloat. It's better, but you have smartphone-vendor bloat to worry about then, or the possible lack of updates, alternate ROM, rooting method. And Google bloatware, for example if you don't have a gmail account, why have a gmail app at all?
But x86 hardware is cheap, and Apple will preserve a token presence in the market of "real computers". What you're proposing is slightly better than Windows RT, but many people will pass. Negative buzz about a Mac that doesn't run your programs and has half the performance is not useful for anything, whereas selling a $3000 Mac that's 20% slower than a $2000 PC (except for the GPU where that's worse) is not a very big deal for those who buy it.
Even the Mac Pro may get updated with exponentially better hardware : it'd be a Skylake i7/Xeon on the new high end single socket with AVX512 (contrary to the current Skylake chips), paired with one or two AMD Vega GPUs. Or AMD's new server/workstation socket.
For what it's worth, I read a clickbait article that says iOS 10.0 will let you delete built-in apps you don't care about. Minimum hardware specs are the iPhone 5 and iPad 4 though.
I still thinks it's a bit "evil" (lack of freedom and all) but I grew a bit sympathetic to the iPhone users, which include many students and proletarian.
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Thousands of DSL customers are starving for bandwith. That means that they are soon all going to starve to death! Quick, do something.
I feel like Mate (or Gnome 2 in things like RHEL 6 and Open Solaris variants) is very susceptible to a theme or icons being slightly off. It can look crappy, or slightly like crap. :), even there there's a tiny little bit of variation available by default and that's all. You may slightly tweak the font rendering or hide a few desktop icons etc. rather than messing too much with the themes. If you thought Ubuntu 8.04 or Debian lenny and squeeze were decent, it still is. I liken it to Windows XP's classic mode (a decade ago) : been running for a long time and there's no pulling the rug under you.
Mint exists as a whole distro to provide a theme for Mate and its GTK siblings
And there's pcmanfm-qt 0.10, which I found out is in the Ubuntu 16.04 repos.
wow! This thing is fast. Just a file manager. Worth a try even if you're running a GTK 2 / GTK 3 desktop, actually it's a bit better since you will not mistake it for your main file manager.
There is MS SQL for linux. You might drop to bash, ssh to the server and use powershell on linux there.
Well, have you seen how linux/unix programs like to report output? :)
This is the epitome of correct execution and behavior that adheres to the underlying philosophy
user@host /path $ /usr/this/that/program -a -X a_list_of_important_arguments | foo -Z /path $
user@host
user@host /path $ hello? is anyone there? /path $ help ... 2001, 2002, 2003 ...
....
....
....
hello? : command not found
user@host
GNU bash, version 4.3.42(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
copyright 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986..
Don't try to find help about commands here, you should have typed "info bash".
We're trying to be friendly ; if you aren't able to use "info" because it's too hard, try "info info"
These shell commands are defined internally.
Now, here is how War and Peace ended :
Filter error: Please use fewer 'junk' characters. Filter error: Please use few Filter error: Please use fewer 'junk' characters.er 'junk' characters.
Your comment violated the "postercomment" compression filter. Try less whitespace and/or less repetition.
Filter error: Please use fewer 'junk' characters. Filter error: Please use few Filter error: Please use fewer 'junk' characters.er 'junk' characters.
Filter error: Please use fewer 'junk' characters. Filter error: Please use few Filter error: Please use fewer 'junk' characters.er 'junk' characters.
Filter error: Please use fewer 'junk' characters. Filter error: Please use few Filter error: Please use fewer 'junk' characters.er 'junk' characters.
Filter error: Please use fewer 'junk' characters. Filter error: Please use few Filter error: Please use fewer 'junk' characters.er 'junk' characters.
Your terminal has now been filled. gl/hf
user@host /path $
HBM2 will be on the high end server (maybe workstation) socket. Specs will be 16 cores (likely 12 cores possible) with a mid-sized GPU on a multi-chip-module, with eight channels of DDR 4 (unbuffered, ECC, ECC registered)
Most home users will likely not be interested, they'll prefer to go with a faster GPU for less expense on a traditional home desktop. This thing allows you 512GB RAM and a lower latency between CPU and GPU.
I speculate this may go in a Mac Pro, because there is a lot of hardware under a single heatsink.
Given the effects of scale, a leak should be a ton less dramatic than most people would imagine. Even on a car or bicycle a leak can be very slow, it'd be more like that than what happens humorously in cartoons.
A quick check gives a list of disasters, the last ones before Hindenburg I copy-pasted. They feel pretty horrible. Dumb shit happens.
http://www.airships.net/hydrog...
Roma (February 21, 1922)
The United States Army airship Roma (built by Umberto Nobile) ignited when it hit high-tension electrical wires near Langley Field at Hampton Roads, Virginia, killing 34 of the ship’s 45 crew members. After the Roma disaster the United States government decided never again to inflate an airship with hydrogen.
Dixmude (December 21, 1923)
The French-operated Dixmude was destroyed over the Mediterranean Sea near the coast of Sicily by a hydrogen explosion visible from miles away. Dixmude’s gas cells had apparently been contaminated with air, creating an explosive mixture, and the ship may have been lifted by updrafts in a thunderstorm, causing hydrogen to be vented and then ignited by the electrically charged atmosphere.
R101 (October 5, 1930)
The poorly-designed British R101 lost altitude and sank into a hillside near Beauvais, France. The impact was slight and caused few if any injuries, but the ship’s hydrogen ignited and the ensuing inferno killed 48 of the 55 passengers and crew.
But in the pictures and video we can see the front rotors can swivel and point up or half way up. They might be used to move up and down in some fashion.
Not exactly. You can't require a stable and disposable income with the assorted stable debit or credit card or bank account for every person on the planet, so they've done a two-tier model where you need the rental to sort-of turn off the datamining and advertising. If you can't afford the rental, you still get to pay the Microsoft OEM tax, and you have to run the Microsoft-provided spyware (and auto-update your drivers). They'll cross-reference the data with LinkedIn, not only Skype and Hotmail and Bing.
And.. how do you pay a rental anonymously, anyway?
Well, try to run the latest PC game if your CPU is too slow.
Nope, that 2.13 GHz Core 2 Duo or that 3.0 GHz Athlon II X2 will run games like crap, even if / even though you maxed out the RAM and put a modern graphics card in. Worse, a $50 or $60 new CPU still runs games like crap, although that depends wildly on the particular game.
So, you're looking at a $400 to $700 desktop upgrade which despite a vastly improved CPU will be mostly useful for the games only. Thus, although a decade ago a PC might have been cheaper than a console, the pendulum has switched back and a console is cheaper than a PC.
Where is the QWERTZ? Where is the AZERTY? Where is the Russian keyboard? Where is the Danish keyboard? Where is the Czech keyboard? and so on.
A manufacturer might have different policies for high end and low end/midrange? Changes over time?
e.g. I think something at least half-way good was said about LG phones, but I know of an about 3-year-old LG, cheap midrange, that has absolutely nothing to update it with.
Carrier-branded, or semi-branded phones can be all over the place, depending on carriers and country I guess. No Cyanogen support whatsoever. unless there are exceptions.
The one bad thing is when you only have unsupported phones to play with, you can't try the unlocking/flashing/gobblededocking tools and try Cyanogen to see how it works, if it works with google apps and if it works with no google apps at all, and so on. So no experience with these things, which is uneasy. Perhaps checking out Cyanogen and Android 6 et al. in an emulator would be what's needed.
There's ammonia that's carbon free, too. Although its current production uses a lot of natural gas as source of hydrogen and heat.
I thought it'd be a very interesting fuel, you can both store and transport it and that's being done at some scale already. If we can use high efficiency electrolysis to make the dihydrogen and an affordable reverse fuel cell to make it react with N2, I think it would be workable but it might be a pipe dream anyway due to the conversion inefficiencies and hence, cost.
In a few seconds of my time, if I have an old PC around I can plug two 1TB hard disks on the same USB1 bus and replicate all data from the first to the second one. I only need to come back the next month to see if it succeeded :).
100 years is still correct as there's some in beta radiation. Nuclear reactors are known to make antineutrinos too.
Find a way to turn matter into antimatter at negligible energy cost then annihilate the matter with antimatter.
The only DRM'ed video I remember downloading, a .wmv, was a porn video. It was unreadable, and was part of the peer-to-peer noise. .wmv was great but I only got it working near the end of its popularity, else the user experience was a message that said "failed to automatically download the codec".
Back then, you mostly downloaded video when you wanted to play them. Real Player was the running joke ; streamed
A proper plug-in based video streaming like streamed .wmv would use a 2D graphics card's abilities to scale video and do YUV to RGB conversion in hardware so that a low end 500MHz CPU would play full screen smooth, with no SSE, no hardware decoding or no OpenGL.
Fast-forward a decade and a faster netbook with 16x the RAM is struggling playing 240p youtube even in small size windowed mode. Well done.
But what can I fucking run on desktops?
This phone-only crap is tiring. I want to use IM when I don't want to or cannot use the phone.
It's nuts that we're worse off than in 2003 regarding the state of desktop IM.
As far as I can understand, cloud-based is client-server except there's no way to run your own server - nor even can you use an alternate client.
There were x86 set top boxes five years ago (Atom), and there were x86 phones too, until Intel exited the market altogether (after nvidia did the same).
So in fact, you can get an Android x86 tablet, same hardware as lowest end x86 Windows tablets ; you could get an Android x86 phone, but won't be able to anymore, and there never were x86 Windows phone.
With using some memory tech at 50 picojoule per written bit, how much is that in Libraries of Congress?
Nexus must be a special brand, perhaps one that caters to the US mostly. When I got to my go-to web retailer, there's ton of brands in the list, even Xiaomi, Meizu, Acer, Asus etc. but no Nexus.
So.. you can buy whatever, unlocked, with no carrier bloat. It's better, but you have smartphone-vendor bloat to worry about then, or the possible lack of updates, alternate ROM, rooting method. And Google bloatware, for example if you don't have a gmail account, why have a gmail app at all?
But x86 hardware is cheap, and Apple will preserve a token presence in the market of "real computers".
What you're proposing is slightly better than Windows RT, but many people will pass. Negative buzz about a Mac that doesn't run your programs and has half the performance is not useful for anything, whereas selling a $3000 Mac that's 20% slower than a $2000 PC (except for the GPU where that's worse) is not a very big deal for those who buy it.
Even the Mac Pro may get updated with exponentially better hardware : it'd be a Skylake i7/Xeon on the new high end single socket with AVX512 (contrary to the current Skylake chips), paired with one or two AMD Vega GPUs. Or AMD's new server/workstation socket.
For what it's worth, I read a clickbait article that says iOS 10.0 will let you delete built-in apps you don't care about.
Minimum hardware specs are the iPhone 5 and iPad 4 though.
I still thinks it's a bit "evil" (lack of freedom and all) but I grew a bit sympathetic to the iPhone users, which include many students and proletarian.