Non-story? It somewhat endangers straight-up Linux users. Exploitation of software flaws in Ubuntu LTS will be more sought after by hackers and criminals, as that allows to reach a population of Windows "power users" who might or might not be careless (gamers who started with Windows 95 or XP and think they have computer skills because they buy expensive hardware and plug it together. But well, no reason more knowledgeable users can't get owned)
Yes but your triangular wave arguably describes all the data you needed from that 22 kHz sine. So, if your data is "only" 44 KHz and it's all staircase-like and square-looking when drawn and zoomed on, except the DAC does not work like that but makes it sound like the original, it's about perfect.
Now if you're talking about people who convert their 44.1KHz stuff into 96KHz or higher.. All they're doing is making their stuff sound slightly worse (if the difference can be heard at all)
Shorter story here : since analog over-the-air broadcasts have been turned off, I've never bothered with TV again. I grew up with SECAM TV, which if the reception is fine is basically DVD quality, so digital TV wasn't that exciting. You get to use a flimsy piece of shit external tuner next to the TV, two remotes instead of one and switching channels takes a lot longer. When there were six channels with instant switching, you could get an idea of what's going on in ten seconds. An LCD TV with built-in tuner gets you back to a single remote and you might simply ignore most channels.. but if you just want a very cheap and small TV, the excessive width of 16:9 makes the vertical height very small. So it's wasting width space while feeling like a 14" CRT, except that the picture and sound quality are inferior on tow end LCD.
Laptops mostly use 15-watt CPUs now, even the ones thick enough for wired Ethernet and serviceable parts. I guess laptop vendors like the cheap savings on cooling and electronics it might allow, although if possible I'd like cooling sized for 35 watts with use of a 15 watt CPU. But my point is, Skylake is likely more useful the lower the wattage is. i5-6200U looks crazy fast for what it is. The Windows driver concerns (for graphics?) are maybe a bit overblown, it might be not a big deal with Windows 8.1. After that, who knows. Maybe Windows Server 2016 will have purposefully weak copy protection and we'll use that when Windows is needed or wanted.
"Retina" is not just about the screen, you need all new software to support it. So, the latest Mac OS X with the Apple suite and the death march of deprecation for 3rd party software might be interesting. Linux has "HiDPI" support but the migration of software from GTK2 to GTK3 and Qt5 etc. is taking years.
Yes. Even branded desktop PCs lack the reset switch.
I remember killing a PC/AT by flipping the switch of and on after crashing some DOS game, and doing that all to often. I killed the PSU, and it might have worked still but the hard drive was dead too. It was an almost 20-year-old freebie, but killing the hardware by being impatient was silly.
Software ought to improve, likely. I did some googling (duckducking?) for the OOM condiiton in linux : I found something about linux 4.6 having a better OOM killer (so, Ubuntu 16.04.2 and Mint 18.1 might have better OOM behavior). There are also, hum, passionate slashdot users who insist a real OS like FreeBSD and Solaris properly survive very high loads unlike the toy OS trash we run. SysRq is some kind of lore to me, when I presume it was still popular I was priding myself on having Windows 98se blue screens that can be survived without rebooting the entire machine or OS.
It's not that the browser froze. I used to get to the same pains and think how slow it is when a machine is heavily swapping.. (though with dual core CPUs and hard drives that use DMA, swapping is less worse than it used to be). Now, even with lots of swapping and 100% CPU use you can still use the PC. It's when you run out of both RAM *and* swap that you're toasted, as good as dead unless you're lucky (sitting right over the fence) and can manage to kill a process. I blame Linux : at this point the "OOM killer" should probably kill a recent, hungry process.
Also, by this point managing the mouse cursor is a cheap routine but the X11 server gets useless. Ctrl-Alt-F1 might work (after 30 seconds or several minutes) but log in is too heavy an operation, i.e. launching bash and before that whatever is needed for a log in. An already logged in console or ssh session might work, and I'm not even sure (you'd have to be able to run the kill or killall command, too) "Magic" Alt + SysRq might be the best option left, if you have a "Print Screen" key on the keyboard (the dual PrintScreen / SysRq key). It's disabled by default, the kernel itself needs the option enabled (or compiled in)
There's a huge ass 1:1 monitor : Eizo EV2730Q, with a 1920x1920 resolution. It costs a ton, but it exists. It's even affordable if you don't need a very powerful computer otherwise.
I wish TV execs had chosen something less wide than 16:9 twenty-something years ago. 5:3 is something I would have compromised on, that is 15:9 or 1.66:1. 16:9 TV and video is even worse than 16:9 computer monitors, since the only way to get rid of them is to destroy the universe and start over.
I agree about monitors often having too high a resolution (for instance, 1920x1080 on 15.6" is terrible) I disagree about the title bar being that useless, since other ways to get the full title are too cumbersome. Now, I tried enabling the title bar in Windows 7 : instead of being centered the title is aligned on the left, and I hate the font rendering too. So it sucks ass, but only in that particular window manager / desktop environment.
Believe it or not, the title bar displays a title.
I do rely on it to know what a tab's web page is about. Tabs have titles too, but truncated. For instance a tab is name "Microsof...", fair enough it's about Microsoft something. If I select this tab the title now says Micro... and the page's content would let me know what it's about, except for all the off-topic material. Task bar currently says "Micr...". What does say the title bar? 'Microsoft Brings ChakraCore to Linux and OSX - Slashdot - Mozilla Firefox' Bingo! I know what the page is about, and that still works even if all my tabs are about Microsoft, Micromachines or Micropenis.
For such things as pseudo-satellites, agricultural survey, or people flying for the sake of it? I have no good idea if the plane can be made cheap enough, or if it's otherwise too impractical but I find it interesting. Again, with little to no payload.
I'm not old, but I was taught in school that CO2 makes up 0.03% of the atmosphere. Now, go away with your religious tones. Evil? What the fuck does that mean is, is that a job for Gawd, Jeebus, Batman or Superman?
In Western Europe this is known as the cars that ran during WW2 and under the German occupation. Might be something you can still find sometimes on roads of not-Pyongyang DPRK.
32 pixel height is a lot, there are a great many with strictly less than 1024 pixels of monitor height. Hundreds of millions people. And I've not found something better than Mate with bottom panel and top panel. I have a title bar (with a centered title) which you can pry from my hot sweaty hands. Have disabled the menu bar for once and I'm finding my GUI / OS set up neater than usual. With a single-panel-on-bottom desktop I like to keep the menu bar enabled. It's pretty bad that there isn't a button on the top left to show the menu bar. Hitting Alt or F10 sucks.
For the horrible ribbons (didn't know they called that a navbar) either you're hopeless, and you need that vertical space. Or the site doesn't have it and you need the vertical space. Reader mode may be a mitigation else I can't recommend Nuke Anything Ehnanced enough. It's been working the same for over a decade, right-click on useless stuff (including "privacy notices" from google).
Maybe GIMP is not compiled for AVX or AVX2 instructions, if it supports them at all. Or it's just slow, and being twice as slow as Photoshop is not entirely terrible.
For moving your stuff? Must be because Photoshop uses OpenGL. (which on a Linux distro would add dependencies, and suffer incompatible or crashing drivers...). So, you're "spoiled". Not that I'm trying to find excuses. At least these technical details allow it to run on your Pentium III and/or with remote X11 graphics.
Solar Impulse 2 has no payload beside itself and one guy. I will agree that commercial flight will be a sound possibility, but not of the kind that does transportation of passengers and air mail. We do have 1000 mpg cars. They barely fit the definition of a car, and would likely be a death trap on the roads. In fact, you may as well build a bicycle/tricycle in the same shape and reach legal road speeds. But to fit four people and minimal luggage you'll have a lot of trouble reaching even 100 mpg (while not topping out a hybrid's battery on the way)
Can be one of the million Doom ports. This is the game that has been on on any and all ridiculous things such as a digital camera, portable music players, obscure or uncommon or toy OSes, even an unofficial Atari Jaguar port that runs better than the original one. You might even be in the clear if running the WAD file from the shareware version.
By the mid to late 19th century sizable infrastructure was built to produce a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen in huge complicated plants, and distribute it in major cities through pipes, for lighting - especially street lights - and maybe cooking and heating.
Coal gasification processes to create syngas were used for many years to manufacture illuminating gas (coal gas) for gas lighting, cooking and to some extent, heating, before electric lighting and the natural gas infrastructure became widely available.[citation needed] Although the syngas chemical composition can vary based on the raw materials and the processes, the syngas from coal gasification generally is a mixture of 30 to 60% carbon monoxide, 25 to 30% hydrogen, 5 to 15% carbon dioxide, and 0 to 5% methane. It also contains lesser amount of other gases.[19]
The syngas produced in waste-to-energy gasification facilities can be used to generate electricity.
Of course, a leak or poor piping might make you pass out and die from carbon monoxide poisoning or perhaps you might poison yourself with a gas stove. But indoor (or outdoor) open fires of wood or coal had their share of problems too.
Those are idiots who played the Pokemons when they were 7-year-old instead of real games like Street Fighter II, Doom etc. Pokemons turned them into the most sheepish, wimpy generation ever so other ones who would otherwise not play follow the bandwagon.
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But, can it be run in a sandwiched virtual machine with mayonnaise?
Non-story?
It somewhat endangers straight-up Linux users. Exploitation of software flaws in Ubuntu LTS will be more sought after by hackers and criminals, as that allows to reach a population of Windows "power users" who might or might not be careless (gamers who started with Windows 95 or XP and think they have computer skills because they buy expensive hardware and plug it together. But well, no reason more knowledgeable users can't get owned)
A good thing that ICBMs actually use multiple stages, then.
Yes but your triangular wave arguably describes all the data you needed from that 22 kHz sine. So, if your data is "only" 44 KHz and it's all staircase-like and square-looking when drawn and zoomed on, except the DAC does not work like that but makes it sound like the original, it's about perfect.
Now if you're talking about people who convert their 44.1KHz stuff into 96KHz or higher.. All they're doing is making their stuff sound slightly worse (if the difference can be heard at all)
Shorter story here : since analog over-the-air broadcasts have been turned off, I've never bothered with TV again. I grew up with SECAM TV, which if the reception is fine is basically DVD quality, so digital TV wasn't that exciting. You get to use a flimsy piece of shit external tuner next to the TV, two remotes instead of one and switching channels takes a lot longer.
When there were six channels with instant switching, you could get an idea of what's going on in ten seconds.
An LCD TV with built-in tuner gets you back to a single remote and you might simply ignore most channels.. but if you just want a very cheap and small TV, the excessive width of 16:9 makes the vertical height very small. So it's wasting width space while feeling like a 14" CRT, except that the picture and sound quality are inferior on tow end LCD.
Laptops mostly use 15-watt CPUs now, even the ones thick enough for wired Ethernet and serviceable parts. I guess laptop vendors like the cheap savings on cooling and electronics it might allow, although if possible I'd like cooling sized for 35 watts with use of a 15 watt CPU.
But my point is, Skylake is likely more useful the lower the wattage is. i5-6200U looks crazy fast for what it is.
The Windows driver concerns (for graphics?) are maybe a bit overblown, it might be not a big deal with Windows 8.1. After that, who knows. Maybe Windows Server 2016 will have purposefully weak copy protection and we'll use that when Windows is needed or wanted.
"Retina" is not just about the screen, you need all new software to support it. So, the latest Mac OS X with the Apple suite and the death march of deprecation for 3rd party software might be interesting. Linux has "HiDPI" support but the migration of software from GTK2 to GTK3 and Qt5 etc. is taking years.
Yes. Even branded desktop PCs lack the reset switch.
I remember killing a PC/AT by flipping the switch of and on after crashing some DOS game, and doing that all to often. I killed the PSU, and it might have worked still but the hard drive was dead too. It was an almost 20-year-old freebie, but killing the hardware by being impatient was silly.
Software ought to improve, likely.
I did some googling (duckducking?) for the OOM condiiton in linux : I found something about linux 4.6 having a better OOM killer (so, Ubuntu 16.04.2 and Mint 18.1 might have better OOM behavior).
There are also, hum, passionate slashdot users who insist a real OS like FreeBSD and Solaris properly survive very high loads unlike the toy OS trash we run.
SysRq is some kind of lore to me, when I presume it was still popular I was priding myself on having Windows 98se blue screens that can be survived without rebooting the entire machine or OS.
It's not that the browser froze. I used to get to the same pains and think how slow it is when a machine is heavily swapping.. (though with dual core CPUs and hard drives that use DMA, swapping is less worse than it used to be).
Now, even with lots of swapping and 100% CPU use you can still use the PC. It's when you run out of both RAM *and* swap that you're toasted, as good as dead unless you're lucky (sitting right over the fence) and can manage to kill a process.
I blame Linux : at this point the "OOM killer" should probably kill a recent, hungry process.
Also, by this point managing the mouse cursor is a cheap routine but the X11 server gets useless. Ctrl-Alt-F1 might work (after 30 seconds or several minutes) but log in is too heavy an operation, i.e. launching bash and before that whatever is needed for a log in.
An already logged in console or ssh session might work, and I'm not even sure (you'd have to be able to run the kill or killall command, too)
"Magic" Alt + SysRq might be the best option left, if you have a "Print Screen" key on the keyboard (the dual PrintScreen / SysRq key). It's disabled by default, the kernel itself needs the option enabled (or compiled in)
Firefox Developer at least by default does not crap out like that. The default is only one 'Web Content' process and even RAM use is not bad.
It is, in about:config
There's a huge ass 1:1 monitor : Eizo EV2730Q, with a 1920x1920 resolution.
It costs a ton, but it exists. It's even affordable if you don't need a very powerful computer otherwise.
I wish TV execs had chosen something less wide than 16:9 twenty-something years ago. 5:3 is something I would have compromised on, that is 15:9 or 1.66:1.
16:9 TV and video is even worse than 16:9 computer monitors, since the only way to get rid of them is to destroy the universe and start over.
I agree about monitors often having too high a resolution (for instance, 1920x1080 on 15.6" is terrible)
I disagree about the title bar being that useless, since other ways to get the full title are too cumbersome.
Now, I tried enabling the title bar in Windows 7 : instead of being centered the title is aligned on the left, and I hate the font rendering too. So it sucks ass, but only in that particular window manager / desktop environment.
Believe it or not, the title bar displays a title.
I do rely on it to know what a tab's web page is about.
Tabs have titles too, but truncated. For instance a tab is name "Microsof...", fair enough it's about Microsoft something. If I select this tab the title now says Micro... and the page's content would let me know what it's about, except for all the off-topic material. Task bar currently says "Micr...". What does say the title bar? 'Microsoft Brings ChakraCore to Linux and OSX - Slashdot - Mozilla Firefox'
Bingo! I know what the page is about, and that still works even if all my tabs are about Microsoft, Micromachines or Micropenis.
For such things as pseudo-satellites, agricultural survey, or people flying for the sake of it?
I have no good idea if the plane can be made cheap enough, or if it's otherwise too impractical but I find it interesting. Again, with little to no payload.
I'm not old, but I was taught in school that CO2 makes up 0.03% of the atmosphere.
Now, go away with your religious tones. Evil? What the fuck does that mean is, is that a job for Gawd, Jeebus, Batman or Superman?
In Western Europe this is known as the cars that ran during WW2 and under the German occupation.
Might be something you can still find sometimes on roads of not-Pyongyang DPRK.
32 pixel height is a lot, there are a great many with strictly less than 1024 pixels of monitor height. Hundreds of millions people.
And I've not found something better than Mate with bottom panel and top panel.
I have a title bar (with a centered title) which you can pry from my hot sweaty hands. Have disabled the menu bar for once and I'm finding my GUI / OS set up neater than usual. With a single-panel-on-bottom desktop I like to keep the menu bar enabled.
It's pretty bad that there isn't a button on the top left to show the menu bar. Hitting Alt or F10 sucks.
For the horrible ribbons (didn't know they called that a navbar) either you're hopeless, and you need that vertical space. Or the site doesn't have it and you need the vertical space. Reader mode may be a mitigation else I can't recommend Nuke Anything Ehnanced enough. It's been working the same for over a decade, right-click on useless stuff (including "privacy notices" from google).
I wonder if it varies per machine, but it *always* copy the protocol for me, be it an X11 mouse copy or a copy/paste. Maybe it works on X11.
Maybe GIMP is not compiled for AVX or AVX2 instructions, if it supports them at all. Or it's just slow, and being twice as slow as Photoshop is not entirely terrible.
For moving your stuff? Must be because Photoshop uses OpenGL. (which on a Linux distro would add dependencies, and suffer incompatible or crashing drivers...). So, you're "spoiled". Not that I'm trying to find excuses. At least these technical details allow it to run on your Pentium III and/or with remote X11 graphics.
Solar Impulse 2 has no payload beside itself and one guy. I will agree that commercial flight will be a sound possibility, but not of the kind that does transportation of passengers and air mail.
We do have 1000 mpg cars. They barely fit the definition of a car, and would likely be a death trap on the roads. In fact, you may as well build a bicycle/tricycle in the same shape and reach legal road speeds. But to fit four people and minimal luggage you'll have a lot of trouble reaching even 100 mpg (while not topping out a hybrid's battery on the way)
Can be one of the million Doom ports. This is the game that has been on on any and all ridiculous things such as a digital camera, portable music players, obscure or uncommon or toy OSes, even an unofficial Atari Jaguar port that runs better than the original one.
You might even be in the clear if running the WAD file from the shareware version.
Dude this is older than photography ! :
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/A_Peep_at_the_Gas_Lights_in_Pall_Mall_Rowlandson_1809.jpg
By the mid to late 19th century sizable infrastructure was built to produce a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen in huge complicated plants, and distribute it in major cities through pipes, for lighting - especially street lights - and maybe cooking and heating.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Coal gasification processes to create syngas were used for many years to manufacture illuminating gas (coal gas) for gas lighting, cooking and to some extent, heating, before electric lighting and the natural gas infrastructure became widely available.[citation needed] Although the syngas chemical composition can vary based on the raw materials and the processes, the syngas from coal gasification generally is a mixture of 30 to 60% carbon monoxide, 25 to 30% hydrogen, 5 to 15% carbon dioxide, and 0 to 5% methane. It also contains lesser amount of other gases.[19]
The syngas produced in waste-to-energy gasification facilities can be used to generate electricity.
Of course, a leak or poor piping might make you pass out and die from carbon monoxide poisoning or perhaps you might poison yourself with a gas stove. But indoor (or outdoor) open fires of wood or coal had their share of problems too.
Those are idiots who played the Pokemons when they were 7-year-old instead of real games like Street Fighter II, Doom etc.
Pokemons turned them into the most sheepish, wimpy generation ever so other ones who would otherwise not play follow the bandwagon.
It's some kind of "do nothing" operation?, like a function which immediately returns void.
I think that if you write
if (condition);
do_something();
you're actually doing
if (condition) do_nothing();
do_something();
so your test is ruined.