The problem with that is it's going to make many people nervous, particularly those manning a nation's "early warning system" or "strategic rocket forces". It is hard to tell whether that flight is a business trip or a nuclear attack. Long range hypersonic or sub-orbital weapons face about the same problem.
The internet also allows to research about dozens of flights and destinations long in advance, hostel or housing, aerial maps or even "streetview", reading about legislation in the far away country and hundreds of other little things.
Showing off is certainly done is certainly done, on asocial media. People go to Thailand for a long vacation on unemployment money, where $1 likely buys you more than needed in dubious strong alcohol to kill you. Communication may well obviate some of the "need", but it hugely increases the "want" and the "do".
2016 may be the year when Electrolysis is enabled by default, I'm not longer weary of it and I'll welcome it.
See, the masses aren't technical and can't be assed to run a task manager or a "top" window to watch resource use these days. They'll say the computer is slow instead, or put the blame on what they can think of. Electrolysis won't make Firefox use less resources (unless it helps claiming back some when tabs are discarded) but it should help with god awful slowness that semi-randomly happens depending on what is going on, including waiting five seconds for a GUI operation to proceed or major stutter in video (with software decoding at least).
If you're a technical user you know you can just wait a few seconds and ignore the problem, or know about workarounds if they get really needed like restarting the browser, using a separate instance, opening the video in external software etc. The masses of users are less technical than ever and don't want to know about esoteric stuff such as the GUI is waiting for some "lock" to get released.
And I'm ok with old extensions dying off. I will say : too bad. I have lost one of the most needed one already, Flashblock. Unless it's been maintained/updated again, I don't know. Biggest pain in the ass was losing Windows XP anyway. Mozilla is concerned enough with backwards compatibility that this is happening quite slowly. If you're a technical user I guess that for a while you'll be able to do things like disable e10s, get around add-on signing etc. to use some deprecated features or extensions.
That's an interesting question, compared to some other rants there. Here in France disability is shit pay so not much change, or just leave an additional pittance for disability. There is already an actual small income given to all parents that have children (depending on number, except if you have only one, older than three years..) : allocations familiales. Basic income proposals seem to give quite more, like half an adult's basic income, per children.
Now for the rest that's a real problem, although I don't understand much why currently someone who has not worked for 6 monthes gets to earn twice or more (or much more) from unemployment than a long term unemployed does. But it's somewhat fair I guess. But well, there are solutions : - savings (even someone on basic only may save a few % of income) - buying supplemental private insurance. It already exists. Similarly, there's already insurance in addition to universal healthcare that most everyone has to get anyway (for things like vision glasses, dental work deemed not "vital", some medicine or part of their cost..) - getting mortgage payments and such postponed in whole or part for three monthes, six monthes etc. (that's some kind of insurance and if I have to guess, it exists?) - employer benefits such as aforementioned insurance, maternity leave etc. [sick leave is paid by healthcare here and the employer may pay some more above that minimum]
Another post said that employers would have hard time retaining employees but with such "additional" benefits, they can! or what about such things as pay increases with seniority. By this point I'm not being very original. For dead end jobs without those things well the "underclass" working them can quit them, or can work them a bit if they didn't work at all before, and the security from basic income will be appreciated more than the current system.
Another aspect might be LCD has that "pixel grid" effect that makes a low ppi LCD look bad. What's more, it's made of sub-pixels that are physically separate and need to visually blend together so if the physical resolution is low enough it looks weird. In contrast lowish resolution on CRT makes things better in my opinion (higher refresh such as 100 Hertz, text easier to read because it's bigger and pictures easier to look at because they're bigger)
So on LCD : perhaps you're better off indeed with a high resolution and scaling things up if really needed. "Computer-size" 4K monitors ought to be great for that but I once read the built-in scalers did a rather bad job, which I think is an early adopter kind of issue.
To be more precise, you're talking of USB Type C rather than 3.1, and it is perfectly supported to have only USB 2.0 on USB Type C. I suppose you can get 3 amps on USB 2.0 Type C - as well as 1.5 amp, although it isn't entirely clear to me.
I have a get-rich-quick scheme as follows : open a bank, open another bank, make a highly leveraged loan from one to another. Sell that loan to another bank or sucker. Run away with cash as quick as I can. But I haven't yet looked at the paperwork to create a bank.
Governments also provide the most basic property rights, without which it is hard to have a buyer and a seller for something. So you can find people that want to get rid of both the government and private property, the libertarian communists.
Honestly, if I wanted the executive to stay the same as it generally has been for the last 20 years then I'd vote for Hillary. She's the logical conservative/business-as-usual choice. That's really not worth deriding her as "the cunt."
Even if she is deemeed to deserve being insulted, that isn't helpful. We might as well call everyone "Cunt", "Hitler" or "Stalin" and stop having any debate whatsoever.
From your description I would call her another Bush, though.
Actually I would like a 16:10 CRT with DVI/HDMI input just fine. With freedom to run desktop at 1440x900 and games at 1280x800 if I feel like it. Still waiting on OLED, else. Time to go back to a display surface that emits light by itself.
I remember reading that the windows and windshields used to be made of ordinary glass, which caused horrible and fatal mutilations due to being turned into flying glass shards.
That and simultaneously packaging it for Arch, Fedora, RHEL 6, RHEL 7, Debian 7, Debian 8, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 16.04, Manjaroo, Elementary OS.
My pet wish is also to be able to install on a separate hard drive - Steam allows it - which only requires all the aforementioned distros to make an amendment or special case for that. Perhaps I can make a pseudo-hack like creating a file with dd if=/dev/zero, make it an ext4 file system, mount it loopback, move/usr/share/games in it (doesn't contain the gnome games for a reason), unmount it, modify the fstab, then see if that's going to work at all.
See, that's funny but I doubt your father or your 14-year-old boy will be able to do that. For comparison, attaining the same goal in MS-DOS 5.0 or Windows 95 could be done with "md d:\games" if you didn't want to use the graphical file manager.
I suspect the textures are PNG (so not really compressed) because of the old s3tc patent issue. That's a 17-year-old feature, so hoping it expires soon. What the hell, I've found a page that says it expires in two years. So maybe it will be supported by free drivers with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Mint 19 and debian 10.
S3TC just makes sense because almost all hardware supports it (if not you can uncompress them at loading), it saves on storage and bandwith (including RAM bandwith). PNGs can stay on the git repo.
Space on the / partition is at somewhat of a premium. I would have run out long ago if I didn't know about sudo apt-get clean and removing old kernels. That's one reason why apt-getting games sucks. It also sucks that by downloading the.tar.bz2 on the github page you get the source code (plus assets) and a text file with a list of a dozen dependencies in *-dev form, instead of some static build. I thought the source code was in files named "source code".
If you're looking for enough wireless bandwith for display and storage etc. then 5GHz wifi is what you should be after, or perhaps even 60GHz wifi in the near future. Bluetooth was and still is a replacement for serial cables and such, it is barely enough for real time compressed stereo sound.
USB type-C populated with Displayport (in the connector's high speed lines) is the "magical" solution for your dock (which can trivially convert it to HDMI), it covers the power needs too. Stuff like that might get cheap.. I don't like the conspicuous consumption aspect though (for about the whole industry) although it feels very reasonable if used instead of a laptop or if/when the phone gets damaged or undesireable but still works wonder as a desktop.
Similarly but sort of the other way around, what about a dumb phone (classic form factor) that can also act as a "slave" hand set for a smartphone?
With more integration still, use the dumb phone with SIM card in it ; contacts are sync'ed to the smartphone, and even call history, SMS. Select someone to call on the smartphone (or compose a SMS), then the dumb phone calls the number and handles the conversation. Optionally the smartphone is a "hand set" or bluetooth speaker/mic for the dumb phone. (smartphone is a "slave" of the dumb phone)
Basically I'd want to keep the dumb phone at all times or most times, since it is has many qualities, lasts for many years and can be used without regard for the battery life (more so since micro USB power on dumb phones). Tablet-like smartphone would be useful sometimes, but it would have to be a "secondary" phone, else not used as a phone.
When launching a Steam game, namely the old Counterstrike it launches on the left monitor instead of the right one. Wine + Warcraft 3 launches on the monitor I want to use - but with that one, don't dare trying alt-tab!
See, I don't really want to spend $500 on new hardware and risk ending up with the same bugs, while not being able to play fun games I know about (like say, Painkiller which is old but was fun except for the slow downs. Or games like Crysis 1 and Stalker which seemed good but were too slow)
For the record, I use dual monitor with the primary monitor on the right, not left. I won't change that unless I move all furniture around I guess (not even, then). The desktop environment just got a setting to choose a primary monitor! Mate 1.12, released late 2015 (also known as Gnome 2 before year 2012) Counterstrike is alt-tab friendly so not all is bad. It's merely bad enough I won't play it (lack of old school servers too). Not only secondary monitor is smaller and lower quality, it's not right in front of me like the primary is.
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At $1800 buying a LCD from an unknown brand is kind of silly. You can now get a 55" 1080p OLED instead. Gives silly high contrast on today's content.
CRT with DVI? Wow, I'd want it sort of, connected to a PC.
CRT HDTV may exist on my continent but if so they must be extremely rare.
The problem with that is it's going to make many people nervous, particularly those manning a nation's "early warning system" or "strategic rocket forces". It is hard to tell whether that flight is a business trip or a nuclear attack. Long range hypersonic or sub-orbital weapons face about the same problem.
The internet also allows to research about dozens of flights and destinations long in advance, hostel or housing, aerial maps or even "streetview", reading about legislation in the far away country and hundreds of other little things.
Showing off is certainly done is certainly done, on asocial media.
People go to Thailand for a long vacation on unemployment money, where $1 likely buys you more than needed in dubious strong alcohol to kill you.
Communication may well obviate some of the "need", but it hugely increases the "want" and the "do".
Wrong : the documents above contain an agreement in many language versions. I went through a 14-page one.
2016 may be the year when Electrolysis is enabled by default, I'm not longer weary of it and I'll welcome it.
See, the masses aren't technical and can't be assed to run a task manager or a "top" window to watch resource use these days. They'll say the computer is slow instead, or put the blame on what they can think of. Electrolysis won't make Firefox use less resources (unless it helps claiming back some when tabs are discarded) but it should help with god awful slowness that semi-randomly happens depending on what is going on, including waiting five seconds for a GUI operation to proceed or major stutter in video (with software decoding at least).
If you're a technical user you know you can just wait a few seconds and ignore the problem, or know about workarounds if they get really needed like restarting the browser, using a separate instance, opening the video in external software etc.
The masses of users are less technical than ever and don't want to know about esoteric stuff such as the GUI is waiting for some "lock" to get released.
And I'm ok with old extensions dying off. I will say : too bad. I have lost one of the most needed one already, Flashblock. Unless it's been maintained/updated again, I don't know. Biggest pain in the ass was losing Windows XP anyway.
Mozilla is concerned enough with backwards compatibility that this is happening quite slowly. If you're a technical user I guess that for a while you'll be able to do things like disable e10s, get around add-on signing etc. to use some deprecated features or extensions.
That's an interesting question, compared to some other rants there. Here in France disability is shit pay so not much change, or just leave an additional pittance for disability.
There is already an actual small income given to all parents that have children (depending on number, except if you have only one, older than three years..) : allocations familiales. Basic income proposals seem to give quite more, like half an adult's basic income, per children.
Now for the rest that's a real problem, although I don't understand much why currently someone who has not worked for 6 monthes gets to earn twice or more (or much more) from unemployment than a long term unemployed does. But it's somewhat fair I guess.
But well, there are solutions :
- savings (even someone on basic only may save a few % of income)
- buying supplemental private insurance. It already exists. Similarly, there's already insurance in addition to universal healthcare that most everyone has to get anyway (for things like vision glasses, dental work deemed not "vital", some medicine or part of their cost..)
- getting mortgage payments and such postponed in whole or part for three monthes, six monthes etc. (that's some kind of insurance and if I have to guess, it exists?)
- employer benefits such as aforementioned insurance, maternity leave etc. [sick leave is paid by healthcare here and the employer may pay some more above that minimum]
Another post said that employers would have hard time retaining employees but with such "additional" benefits, they can! or what about such things as pay increases with seniority. By this point I'm not being very original.
For dead end jobs without those things well the "underclass" working them can quit them, or can work them a bit if they didn't work at all before, and the security from basic income will be appreciated more than the current system.
Someone upgraded from that old version of Excel that only supported 65536 rows.
Another aspect might be LCD has that "pixel grid" effect that makes a low ppi LCD look bad. What's more, it's made of sub-pixels that are physically separate and need to visually blend together so if the physical resolution is low enough it looks weird.
In contrast lowish resolution on CRT makes things better in my opinion (higher refresh such as 100 Hertz, text easier to read because it's bigger and pictures easier to look at because they're bigger)
So on LCD : perhaps you're better off indeed with a high resolution and scaling things up if really needed. "Computer-size" 4K monitors ought to be great for that but I once read the built-in scalers did a rather bad job, which I think is an early adopter kind of issue.
Machine learning is meant to learn itself on its own, right?
To be more precise, you're talking of USB Type C rather than 3.1, and it is perfectly supported to have only USB 2.0 on USB Type C. I suppose you can get 3 amps on USB 2.0 Type C - as well as 1.5 amp, although it isn't entirely clear to me.
I have a get-rich-quick scheme as follows : open a bank, open another bank, make a highly leveraged loan from one to another. Sell that loan to another bank or sucker. Run away with cash as quick as I can. But I haven't yet looked at the paperwork to create a bank.
Governments also provide the most basic property rights, without which it is hard to have a buyer and a seller for something. So you can find people that want to get rid of both the government and private property, the libertarian communists.
Honestly, if I wanted the executive to stay the same as it generally has been for the last 20 years then I'd vote for Hillary. She's the logical conservative/business-as-usual choice. That's really not worth deriding her as "the cunt."
Even if she is deemeed to deserve being insulted, that isn't helpful. We might as well call everyone "Cunt", "Hitler" or "Stalin" and stop having any debate whatsoever.
From your description I would call her another Bush, though.
Actually I would like a 16:10 CRT with DVI/HDMI input just fine. With freedom to run desktop at 1440x900 and games at 1280x800 if I feel like it. Still waiting on OLED, else. Time to go back to a display surface that emits light by itself.
There was a specific version of the Cell that used DDR2 and was more competent at double precision floating point.
An Alcatel ADSL modem from circa 2001 that becomes a router/modem when flashed to the "pro" version.
I remember reading that the windows and windshields used to be made of ordinary glass, which caused horrible and fatal mutilations due to being turned into flying glass shards.
That and simultaneously packaging it for Arch, Fedora, RHEL 6, RHEL 7, Debian 7, Debian 8, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 16.04, Manjaroo, Elementary OS.
My pet wish is also to be able to install on a separate hard drive - Steam allows it - which only requires all the aforementioned distros to make an amendment or special case for that. Perhaps I can make a pseudo-hack like creating a file with dd if=/dev/zero, make it an ext4 file system, mount it loopback, move /usr/share/games in it (doesn't contain the gnome games for a reason), unmount it, modify the fstab, then see if that's going to work at all.
See, that's funny but I doubt your father or your 14-year-old boy will be able to do that. For comparison, attaining the same goal in MS-DOS 5.0 or Windows 95 could be done with "md d:\games" if you didn't want to use the graphical file manager.
I suspect the textures are PNG (so not really compressed) because of the old s3tc patent issue. That's a 17-year-old feature, so hoping it expires soon. What the hell, I've found a page that says it expires in two years. So maybe it will be supported by free drivers with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Mint 19 and debian 10.
S3TC just makes sense because almost all hardware supports it (if not you can uncompress them at loading), it saves on storage and bandwith (including RAM bandwith). PNGs can stay on the git repo.
Space on the / partition is at somewhat of a premium. I would have run out long ago if I didn't know about sudo apt-get clean and removing old kernels. .tar.bz2 on the github page you get the source code (plus assets) and a text file with a list of a dozen dependencies in *-dev form, instead of some static build. I thought the source code was in files named "source code".
That's one reason why apt-getting games sucks. It also sucks that by downloading the
If you're looking for enough wireless bandwith for display and storage etc. then 5GHz wifi is what you should be after, or perhaps even 60GHz wifi in the near future.
Bluetooth was and still is a replacement for serial cables and such, it is barely enough for real time compressed stereo sound.
USB type-C populated with Displayport (in the connector's high speed lines) is the "magical" solution for your dock (which can trivially convert it to HDMI), it covers the power needs too.
Stuff like that might get cheap.. I don't like the conspicuous consumption aspect though (for about the whole industry) although it feels very reasonable if used instead of a laptop or if/when the phone gets damaged or undesireable but still works wonder as a desktop.
Mantle was a good thing AMD made but we don't even care if it is defunct or not. Everything will either use Vulkan or DX12.
Similarly but sort of the other way around, what about a dumb phone (classic form factor) that can also act as a "slave" hand set for a smartphone?
With more integration still, use the dumb phone with SIM card in it ; contacts are sync'ed to the smartphone, and even call history, SMS. Select someone to call on the smartphone (or compose a SMS), then the dumb phone calls the number and handles the conversation. Optionally the smartphone is a "hand set" or bluetooth speaker/mic for the dumb phone. (smartphone is a "slave" of the dumb phone)
Basically I'd want to keep the dumb phone at all times or most times, since it is has many qualities, lasts for many years and can be used without regard for the battery life (more so since micro USB power on dumb phones).
Tablet-like smartphone would be useful sometimes, but it would have to be a "secondary" phone, else not used as a phone.
When launching a Steam game, namely the old Counterstrike it launches on the left monitor instead of the right one. Wine + Warcraft 3 launches on the monitor I want to use - but with that one, don't dare trying alt-tab!
See, I don't really want to spend $500 on new hardware and risk ending up with the same bugs, while not being able to play fun games I know about (like say, Painkiller which is old but was fun except for the slow downs. Or games like Crysis 1 and Stalker which seemed good but were too slow)
For the record, I use dual monitor with the primary monitor on the right, not left. I won't change that unless I move all furniture around I guess (not even, then).
The desktop environment just got a setting to choose a primary monitor! Mate 1.12, released late 2015 (also known as Gnome 2 before year 2012)
Counterstrike is alt-tab friendly so not all is bad. It's merely bad enough I won't play it (lack of old school servers too). Not only secondary monitor is smaller and lower quality, it's not right in front of me like the primary is.