Yes, does it come with a magnifying glass? Will someone have the guts to make 1600x900 panels so the user can, you know, use the laptop?
Putting in panels that read "1080p" and "Full HD" pleases middle-aged men in suits (who will keep using their mac pro book or whatever) and idiot journalists. But on a laptop, you'll run Win32, GTK2, Qt4, Fltk etc. applications or newer stuff that might not scale properly anyway. 1080p 12.5" is suitable for a tablet, or a small TV / special media player, not a laptop.
We were arguing about a Nexus phone, which I believe is a brand for phones that can be "rooted" without hacking or cracking. It's also about "phones" that can easily be compromised by malware, ads or attackers thus this slashdot story about a manufacturer providing insufficient security updates. I don't do constant security updates on my dumb phone or other "limited computer-like" devices.
Things can be both commercially successful and useless, such as cars with a 500hp engine, or most powerful motorcycles. More glaringly, audio files sold at 96KHz and 192KHz, a scam so ingrained that most brands pay lip service to it.
It's a fucking COMPUTER. So, the same kind of things you would store on a desktop PC, or a NAS. There were consumer 120GB hard drives almost 15 years ago FFS.
I can deal with it : even VLC is slow to start these days, has been for a few years and I don't give a shit, I can wait five or seven seconds more than necessary. I could care less about Steam, if not for the fact it's basically Spyware and was the inspiration for spyware like Android, Windows 10 and Amazon e-books.
I use Linux's NTFS support to deal with real data merely, not Windows system files and so on, so what happens in my experience is when I boot into Windows - very rarely - I run chkdsk to check for and fix a few errors, which linux is incapable of dealing with on its own.
On Windows the old drivers keep running, that's quite the difference. These old Radeon 6000 parts (again, they still sell and go against nvidia's geforce GT710 or Intel's Celeron and Pentium) are DX11 ones and can technically run a lot of things too. So a 6950 2GB for example has a quite a lot of features, horsepower and memory still, but on Linux it will run the open source driver only, and not the same ones as Radeon HD 7000 and up.
This is what sucks : if you want to play games (even old ones), Linux requires you to upgrade hardware more often than Windows.
Movies may be shot at 8K, but they'll likely be cropped and edited and downsampled to 4K. 8K for the end user? Useless, unless it's a huge wall monitor that you walk up to in order to view more detail / zoom into something. May have military or spying applications, or for studying behavior in a flock of 1000 penguins.
I have stored games on a separate hard drive or partition since like, 1999. A separate directory hierarchy is much needed. See, I can't install large open source games on linux because they want to put themselves in/usr/shit. I'm not going to create a 100+GB system partition just in case I find games that are remotely worth playing.
AMD drivers are work in progress, e.g. GCN 1.0 cards get the new driver at a future unspecified date and they're still currently sold (Radeon R7 240 and 370).
Got a Radeon 5000/6000 or older gen APU? (all currently sold, e.g. Radeon 5450, R5 230 and A4-4020 and A6-6400K). Your drivers are "legacy". Want good AMD graphics but want it cheap? you need to get the right kind of APU (A8-7600 and up) but then, your CPU will be a bit slow. It's still harder than with Windows.
Smart cards offer access to cash on my bank account and cell phone identity and have been around doing these very same things since the 90s. I am sure it could go possibly very wrong, but so far some people must have done something good security-wise.
The US and Saudi colluded to crash oil prices, to weaken Russia and Iran as part of the war to destroy Syria. This leaves Venezuela in shambles, which the US is happy with. Perhaps Venezuela lacks a real economy but this takes more than a decade to build up and the current state of affairs won't help one bit anyway.
How do Chromecast, Miracast, "Ipad cast" work? I suppose the wifi hardware can multitask (think MIMO, 802.11n) and it may be why casting things tend to use a special ad hoc wifi link between the two things. It's doable, more so with 5GHz wifi but 60GHz wifi is better suited to displays. Given that 60GHz wifi isn't available yet, doing this wireless is a big waste of spectrum and power, I agree with that.
I supsect someone will make a wireless laptop shell after this one gets wildly successful, but it would be more expensive too, requiring a real ARM SoC inside and thus making the shell.. a laptop.
What the shell is using is not Chromecast protocol though, everyone gets that wrong. It's Displaylink. What does that mean is it's a USB 3.0 to display adapter, same as you can buy for your PC. It's not the greatest thing but reportedly, it got much better compared to early USB 2.0 adapters : usable video playback is achievable ; early ones were mostly for documents and powerpoints etc. (e.g. interface to the corporate projector if you lack other means) I'm sure that made the design much easier : you merely have to bundle a Displaylink chip, a USB hub and glue them together with the display panel and keyboard etc. and you don't rely on the phone supporting display output (various). The Displaylink and panel (LED lit) became very low power compared to a decade ago. If the phone does only USB 2.0 it might be slow (I know nothing of USB 3.0 software and hardware support on phones) but will do command line terminals and word processors fine.
So it's exactly the perfect resolution on an 11.6" laptop. Seriously, go get one and put some Linux Mint Mate or something on it, it's all crisp and if you make it higher res you'll just run the risk of making things unreadable.
You don't NEED 400 or 500 dpi everywhere, especially if you're going to use this as a desktop replacement (just run real desktop software such as LibreOffice, a web browser, a real file manager etc.)
Pi + power supply + memory card + HDMI cable + HDMI monitor + USB keyb and mouse.. It's not that expensive, but you can get a 2016 or 2015 phone instead (SIM card optional)
The problem is to get one that is well supported, respects user freedom and doesn't get orphaned, the latter is the hardest part.
You could do something like tape the adapter to the headphones, or just leave it on the headphones (like 6.5mm to 3.5mm adapters)
Most earbuds are terrible crap that's physically broken anyway.
For some other pressing need you might have a 3m or 5m long cable with a jack on one end and a USB C on one end (or a 40m long one and if it's broken on one end, cut it)
3-way jack (stereo + microphone) are even sillier, I don't want to know about them.
Other way around : leave a female USB C to male jack adapter on a female jack input somewhere (or a USB C to RCA), use a USB C to USB C cable (we'll see) Feel free to see it as a dick move and it is, but you had multiple format to worry about already (like dual mono big jack vs small stereo jack vs RCA) and USB C has analog audio still.
Purely 2D Sonic with that newfangled 16:9 aspect ratio thing might work decently. BTW, fuck that guy that came up with 16:9 : it's TOO wide. TVs would have been a bit better in 5:3 I think.
Because HBM1 is a dead end? It's the same as HBM2, except it's outdated. As for GDDR5X even that one has rather low availability, else it would be used on more cards not only top end ones.
The first Titan had high speed double precision (FP64), so did the regular GTX 480 / 580 before it. The Maxwell Titan didn't, but it offered a very large 12GB RAM instead, a size which was available previously but only on highest end Quadro. And today we get a new one with fast support for 8bit integers as a differentiating feature, which comes as a surprise. 1080 Ti ought to have 12GB RAM (because of a 384bit bus, and because 1080 has 8GB already)
That's to say the idea of what a Titan is for is evolving a bit. One main niche is for 3D artists and off-line rendering, because a Quadro is more for actual CAD and otherwise a geforce is like 5x faster at a given price.
Most studies conducted so far that have found benefits to raw milk have not controlled for the fact that the individuals studied lived on a farm (hard to get raw milk elsewhere) and there are many variables relating to that so it is hard to draw any strong conclusions.
Reminds me of an egregious case of missing data : people pretend smoking mariajuana doesn't give cancer. Actually there is simply a lack of a 20-year or 30-year study with enough hundreds/thousands of identified people. Smoking pure MJ and never smoking tobacco must be pretty rare too (what about the affordability)
Become root on Ubuntu (sudo su, etc.) then type "passwd". It's all that's needed to be able to log in as root again. You can disable sudo by messing in/etc/sudoers, or configure it but that's only needed for real multi-user machines.
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About accidental semi-colons, I was wondering about this one
if (1 == YouShouldHaveDoneThisTheOtherWay);
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Yes, does it come with a magnifying glass? Will someone have the guts to make 1600x900 panels so the user can, you know, use the laptop?
Putting in panels that read "1080p" and "Full HD" pleases middle-aged men in suits (who will keep using their mac pro book or whatever) and idiot journalists.
But on a laptop, you'll run Win32, GTK2, Qt4, Fltk etc. applications or newer stuff that might not scale properly anyway.
1080p 12.5" is suitable for a tablet, or a small TV / special media player, not a laptop.
We were arguing about a Nexus phone, which I believe is a brand for phones that can be "rooted" without hacking or cracking.
It's also about "phones" that can easily be compromised by malware, ads or attackers thus this slashdot story about a manufacturer providing insufficient security updates.
I don't do constant security updates on my dumb phone or other "limited computer-like" devices.
Things can be both commercially successful and useless, such as cars with a 500hp engine, or most powerful motorcycles.
More glaringly, audio files sold at 96KHz and 192KHz, a scam so ingrained that most brands pay lip service to it.
It's a fucking COMPUTER. So, the same kind of things you would store on a desktop PC, or a NAS.
There were consumer 120GB hard drives almost 15 years ago FFS.
7C is cold enough. It's even a bit too cold for good beer.
I can deal with it : even VLC is slow to start these days, has been for a few years and I don't give a shit, I can wait five or seven seconds more than necessary.
I could care less about Steam, if not for the fact it's basically Spyware and was the inspiration for spyware like Android, Windows 10 and Amazon e-books.
I use Linux's NTFS support to deal with real data merely, not Windows system files and so on, so what happens in my experience is when I boot into Windows - very rarely - I run chkdsk to check for and fix a few errors, which linux is incapable of dealing with on its own.
On Windows the old drivers keep running, that's quite the difference.
These old Radeon 6000 parts (again, they still sell and go against nvidia's geforce GT710 or Intel's Celeron and Pentium) are DX11 ones and can technically run a lot of things too. So a 6950 2GB for example has a quite a lot of features, horsepower and memory still, but on Linux it will run the open source driver only, and not the same ones as Radeon HD 7000 and up.
This is what sucks : if you want to play games (even old ones), Linux requires you to upgrade hardware more often than Windows.
Movies may be shot at 8K, but they'll likely be cropped and edited and downsampled to 4K.
8K for the end user? Useless, unless it's a huge wall monitor that you walk up to in order to view more detail / zoom into something. May have military or spying applications, or for studying behavior in a flock of 1000 penguins.
I have stored games on a separate hard drive or partition since like, 1999. /usr/shit. I'm not going to create a 100+GB system partition just in case I find games that are remotely worth playing.
A separate directory hierarchy is much needed. See, I can't install large open source games on linux because they want to put themselves in
So what about control panels and stuff to change date/time, hard disk partitions, install or update software : all the desktop OS have those.
AMD drivers are work in progress, e.g. GCN 1.0 cards get the new driver at a future unspecified date and they're still currently sold (Radeon R7 240 and 370).
Got a Radeon 5000/6000 or older gen APU? (all currently sold, e.g. Radeon 5450, R5 230 and A4-4020 and A6-6400K). Your drivers are "legacy".
Want good AMD graphics but want it cheap? you need to get the right kind of APU (A8-7600 and up) but then, your CPU will be a bit slow.
It's still harder than with Windows.
Worse, I thought a hustler is a male prostitute (or just a prostitute)
Smart cards offer access to cash on my bank account and cell phone identity and have been around doing these very same things since the 90s.
I am sure it could go possibly very wrong, but so far some people must have done something good security-wise.
The US and Saudi colluded to crash oil prices, to weaken Russia and Iran as part of the war to destroy Syria.
This leaves Venezuela in shambles, which the US is happy with.
Perhaps Venezuela lacks a real economy but this takes more than a decade to build up and the current state of affairs won't help one bit anyway.
How do Chromecast, Miracast, "Ipad cast" work? I suppose the wifi hardware can multitask (think MIMO, 802.11n) and it may be why casting things tend to use a special ad hoc wifi link between the two things.
It's doable, more so with 5GHz wifi but 60GHz wifi is better suited to displays. Given that 60GHz wifi isn't available yet, doing this wireless is a big waste of spectrum and power, I agree with that.
I supsect someone will make a wireless laptop shell after this one gets wildly successful, but it would be more expensive too, requiring a real ARM SoC inside and thus making the shell.. a laptop.
What the shell is using is not Chromecast protocol though, everyone gets that wrong. It's Displaylink. What does that mean is it's a USB 3.0 to display adapter, same as you can buy for your PC.
It's not the greatest thing but reportedly, it got much better compared to early USB 2.0 adapters : usable video playback is achievable ; early ones were mostly for documents and powerpoints etc. (e.g. interface to the corporate projector if you lack other means)
I'm sure that made the design much easier : you merely have to bundle a Displaylink chip, a USB hub and glue them together with the display panel and keyboard etc. and you don't rely on the phone supporting display output (various). The Displaylink and panel (LED lit) became very low power compared to a decade ago.
If the phone does only USB 2.0 it might be slow (I know nothing of USB 3.0 software and hardware support on phones) but will do command line terminals and word processors fine.
So it's exactly the perfect resolution on an 11.6" laptop.
Seriously, go get one and put some Linux Mint Mate or something on it, it's all crisp and if you make it higher res you'll just run the risk of making things unreadable.
You don't NEED 400 or 500 dpi everywhere, especially if you're going to use this as a desktop replacement (just run real desktop software such as LibreOffice, a web browser, a real file manager etc.)
Pi + power supply + memory card + HDMI cable + HDMI monitor + USB keyb and mouse.. It's not that expensive, but you can get a 2016 or 2015 phone instead (SIM card optional)
The problem is to get one that is well supported, respects user freedom and doesn't get orphaned, the latter is the hardest part.
You could do something like tape the adapter to the headphones, or just leave it on the headphones (like 6.5mm to 3.5mm adapters)
Most earbuds are terrible crap that's physically broken anyway.
For some other pressing need you might have a 3m or 5m long cable with a jack on one end and a USB C on one end (or a 40m long one and if it's broken on one end, cut it)
3-way jack (stereo + microphone) are even sillier, I don't want to know about them.
Other way around : leave a female USB C to male jack adapter on a female jack input somewhere (or a USB C to RCA), use a USB C to USB C cable (we'll see)
Feel free to see it as a dick move and it is, but you had multiple format to worry about already (like dual mono big jack vs small stereo jack vs RCA) and USB C has analog audio still.
Purely 2D Sonic with that newfangled 16:9 aspect ratio thing might work decently.
BTW, fuck that guy that came up with 16:9 : it's TOO wide. TVs would have been a bit better in 5:3 I think.
Because HBM1 is a dead end? It's the same as HBM2, except it's outdated.
As for GDDR5X even that one has rather low availability, else it would be used on more cards not only top end ones.
The first Titan had high speed double precision (FP64), so did the regular GTX 480 / 580 before it. The Maxwell Titan didn't, but it offered a very large 12GB RAM instead, a size which was available previously but only on highest end Quadro. And today we get a new one with fast support for 8bit integers as a differentiating feature, which comes as a surprise. 1080 Ti ought to have 12GB RAM (because of a 384bit bus, and because 1080 has 8GB already)
That's to say the idea of what a Titan is for is evolving a bit. One main niche is for 3D artists and off-line rendering, because a Quadro is more for actual CAD and otherwise a geforce is like 5x faster at a given price.
Most studies conducted so far that have found benefits to raw milk have not controlled for the fact that the individuals studied lived on a farm (hard to get raw milk elsewhere) and there are many variables relating to that so it is hard to draw any strong conclusions.
Reminds me of an egregious case of missing data : people pretend smoking mariajuana doesn't give cancer. Actually there is simply a lack of a 20-year or 30-year study with enough hundreds/thousands of identified people. Smoking pure MJ and never smoking tobacco must be pretty rare too (what about the affordability)
Become root on Ubuntu (sudo su, etc.) then type "passwd". It's all that's needed to be able to log in as root again. /etc/sudoers, or configure it but that's only needed for real multi-user machines.
You can disable sudo by messing in