Even youtube is a file download that masquerades as "streaming", always has been.
Proper streaming is real-time or on the spot, with dropped packets (UDP) that stay dropped and lost. I think Real Player did that in the 90s? This is more similar to VoIP, or video chat, or plain old broadcast TV and is usable for live video. Should work great with multicast, although I think multicast on the internet is something that about never works.
Of course "streaming" as done on youtube, Netflix or porn sites has entered mainstream language over a decade ago and there's nothing much wrong in calling it that. This works well anyway (with tools to dump video to a file, or porn and movie sites that let you load the video till the end if your internet is crappy)
But this is about a DRM friendly Netflix here : the downloading or caching feature requires a Windows 10 Metro app. It might require HDMI, or DVI with HDCP (this exists, but not on your PC or graphics card if it's old enough) I don't know if the Windows 10 Metro application has the autoplaying garbage described above. If so, then the experience will be as poor and wasteful as it is now.
The ATM analogy is especially good. On a typical Android device (not everyone has a Galaxy S5 or something where hacks or alternate OS are available) the OS is unchangeable, as good as locked behind steel plates and it encourages "do as you're told" kind of interfaces.
It's Linux, but less hackable than a handheld console like a Nintendo DS, and you have less freedom than on a Windows (7 Home/Pro, 8 Home/Pro, 10 Enterprise) PC.
Sounds like what people in communism or war time might do. People usually call that ingeniosity, inventiveness or clever free-spirited trade then. When Europeans hear about US food stamps, they say "what, like during the war?"
Might be all the crapware (on Android). Worse, it's Java crapware, and phones can't swap to disk. Maybe.NET and Metro are better than Google's Java, Chrome and whatever it is that "Play Services" does.
Alternatively it should not have included a desktop at all. It made it a cheapo thing that only runs Internet Explorer and Office, like your dad's Packard Bell with 128MB RAM and Windows XP. Making it tablet-only would have made it, well, a tablet. Like, if you're building a bicycle, try not to put a steering wheel, handbrake and windshield wiper to lure in people used to a car.
Had they made their tablet a tablet, they might even have appealed to people who had no intention of running Windows 8 (and now 10) on their PC. Even now Windows 7 is installed on like a billion computers, so many/most people can't run microsoft store/windows 8/10/RT/new age/modern/UWP crapps, even if they wanted to.
People, in theory, might have wanted to buy a tablet (back then, likely their first tablet) to complement their Windows XP or 7 (or Vista) computer. They didn't ask to be forced to get a tablet interface on their desktops, or to be forced to get a desktop interface on a tablet. This might have been a bigger market than that of people who actually bought a Surface.
I even want to use a linux desktop and a windows phone/tablet, not really of course but I would if it were an option.
You could be using a TV offline with the "old fashioned" broadcasts and USB media (drives and HDDs). This is pretty common, even on supposedly dumb TV - a dumb TV with H264 playback and recording etc. is a computer as well, see the original Raspberry Pi A for how their main chip might look like in terms of abilities. You might even use a 50-year-old TV if you wish, with a small receiver for the latest DVB-T or similar, that also has a USB port for file playback.
Any of these might be hosed by broadcasts and write viruses to USB media.
They asked, I guess. What if a household member or a random friend "accepts" the EULA, are you hosed forever? Can you take the consent back? (What if the TV was pre-owned?) Seen that happen with youtube sometimes asking you to "consent" to vague stuff, people will click through it even though they're not using their own computer, desktop session or internet. You can avoid or remove that consent window and still access videos, I don't know if anything different happens then.
Your TV might be at the danger of "attack by acquaintance clicking on an EULA to get rid of it". Could even happen in a business or other setting where any random person who gets to hold the remote might click on it, be it an employee, contractor, customer, passers by. A conference room might have a cheap 65" TV or smaller they're using to cast documents to.
People ran Photoshop and Autocad on netbook - the 1.5 or 1.1 generation of netbooks with Atom 1.6GHz, 1GB ram and hard drive. Back then such a netbook could be an upgrade over some low end Pentium 3 or Pentium 4 with 256MB though.
If the phone CAN actually run Photoshop or Autocad, the same kind of people who ran them on netbooks would run them on docked phone. In fact, to continue with the netbook analogy where the netbook owners had no other computer or an older, inadequate computer... A dockable phone would especially serve those who don't actually have or own another suitable computer and this is called the youth, or even the homeless, or those few who never actually got a computer. Or those whose computers from 2004 or 2006 died off. Those who cancelled wired internet and only subscribe to 3G/4G phone internet.
First reason for a "dock" (lol the microsoft "dock" is an ugly square hub/cabling thing) would be to watch crap on a TV or monitor.
Don't bother maybe. The more generic solution might be USB to HDMI (or VGA) chips / adapters i.e. real, digital and plain USB, not "random signal over USB connector". Displaylink is a company that makes (most?) such chips
With such statements you don't know if they benched some 1980s "drhystones" that fit entirely in L1 cache, and moreover we now have severe distortions because the phones are severely thermally constrained. If benchmark only runs for 2 or 5 minutes, phone might keep up with the PC. If benchmark runs for one hour, phone might be 3x slower than the PC (very rough order of magnitude statement there). It also depends on room temperature, air conditioning or other measures.
Server, laptop and desktop processors basically use the same technology. (AMD is retiring its Jaguar CPUs, too) Desktop CPU have to run somewhere between 3.0 and 4.5 GHz, so they run at quite a higher voltage than laptop parts and power use increases quadratically with voltage. Then, Intel and OEM want to maximise profits, so they aim for an arbitrary power limit like 65 watts (same way laptops mostly moved to 15 watts instead of 35 watts, because the cooling is cheaper)
Desktops are moving right now to 8 cores (16 threads) as that now can fit under 95 watts or 65 watts. Although, this sucks anyway as the single-thread performance still is the same as 4-odd years ago. There are a bit more expensive consumer desktops, high clock desktop version of Intel server CPUs up to 10 cores.
There is a way to go all out and extract a bit more performance. Just make a CPU like the IBM POWER8 or POWER9 or some IBM mainframes. 5.2GHz, a shit ton of L3 or L4 cache, sub-components built around that etc. But the power budget is like 250 watts, like a high end GPU really. Also has only eight cores I think. Has on-die eDRAM which the two main PC vendors have refrained from using yet. It's a better CPU, but not twice better that one that uses half the power. I'm sure gamers and workstation users might like an x86 built like that one, but putting a big chip out on the market costs like 1 or 2 billion dollars (I don't know) and this thing (Itanium alike) wouldn't work in beige servers, vanilla desktops and laptops.
When you have a slow PC, you have to disable hardware acceleration (in Firefox) so the acceleration doesn't slow your browser down, and if you don't see a difference between on and off.. then there's less reason to lose sleep about it.
Well, perhaps it's the whole idea of using a GTK3, 3D accelerated desktop be it Cinnamon or Gnome 3 or other that is stupid. You copy data into buffers and call some OpenGL functions, bloated rendering stack and buggy driver, instead of just displaying shit like is done in Mate, Xfce or Ice WM etc. You waste a ton of CPU, but call that 3D "accelerated". But if you have a fast CPU (e.g. dual core / quad thread Intel at 2.5 GHz) and run Firefox, Chrome, Libre Office then it's plenty ok.
Having both a micro-USB and a USB-C would be a start. Don't tell me there's not enough room for both. For a start it helps with the stupid power cables incompatibility, if both USB ports can accept power input. Then you could use power + keyboard or power + thumbdrive or keyboard + thumbdrive or anything else. BTW PCs have been using the same power cable for 35 years and likely will 15 years from now (ATX ones)
All I want is an Ubuntu phone - let's say an Ubuntu since it was briefly available and not on $800 or $2000 phones - with an Android runtime (firewalled and restricted to hell) because, there will always be that one "app". I'd like around $100, $120 because $300 and up is elitism, just keep everything low end except RAM size at 2GB minimum (and flash one notch above low end, if thats available). Ubuntu phones had 1GB by the way, which is too low (on the other hand, 5" phones with 1GB were what people were waiting for to get an Firefox OS phone)
Yes, it will be an OS/2 in that compatibility with the dominant platform will harm its app store (big time) but fuck it, freedom and security for the base OS and the grandma kind of uses will be worth it.
rofl, even for simple home networking between 98 and XP I seemed to need the command line. Or at least I did before finding out that you can hit start / run.. and enter something like \\192.168.0.2\games. (not \\big-PC\games)
Four things were unavoidable : death, taxes, "Windows failed to browse the network" and "Windows Media Player failed to download the codec"
That said I do share your concerns about storage and perhaps as importantly distribution. The hydrogen economy is a bunch of crap and mostly prestige projects for car and oil companies. I do not discount it entirely though because hydrogen production is useful in its own right, as a chemical feedstock (replacing hydrogen made from methane), possibly for very limited fuel uses like mining trucks, industrial heat ; basically everything except cars, general transportation, homes, laptops or what have you.
You lived in a house with your parents and grandparents. This is a nice thing, many should envy you. Really, lol. And I don't want to dispute your poverty credential or something like that. Maybe Western society is going to the crapper due to the nuclear family - even the supposedly great two-parent family isn't all that great when the parents are apathetic, then there are the household with one parent, and the young adults on their own who can't dream of a min wage job for life. Now the SMS girls and Pokemon kids are having kids I guess. Shit will hit the fan.
Now because someone is too dumb to realize Lyft is exploiting them (even though they aren't) then I have to suffer whether it's paying more in taxes or not having a service like Lyft available
What if Lyft is running an illegal employment scheme and you have to suffer whether it's paying more taxes or having less customers for your business.
I want to (preemptively) add that in a putative society where you have small government that only do a few things like Police and I don't remember what.. Why not, just add universal healthcare to the very small list. Abolish everything else if you wish, but this is the last thing that should be removed. Actually, it's a product of 2nd Industrial Revolution capitalism and there were also hospitals in feudal times, so if that's good for capitalists and feudal countries why wouldn't it be good for minarchists/libertarian etc. You like money and lethal force I think, but nothing else. Money, lethal force and healthcare : having all three suits human nature better.
In case of healthcare what the United States does is an immense failure. Trillions wasted on middle men, advertisement, their private death panels, cost of poor health and premature deaths, and the best is when people show up on the emergency room costing $100,000 or $200,000 (if not more) whereas in a more sensible system a poor person will make a doctor visit, costing perhaps $50 or $100 for the doctor and the medication. (with an "immoral" $0 bill for the user) You're free to be right-wing, libertarian, whatever but this is where I draw a figurative line, your "go home and die" attitude is vile and pointless. I guess you're pissed by the fire department as well. Even more pointless since private healthcare plans amount to private taxation anyway. Might as well wish for medieval warlords to assault and ransom you every time you try to go the next town over. Universal healthcare is similar but with a bigger pool and cheaper.
Can't we mine the hydrogen from the sun? It's such a waste to fuse that hydrogen, transport the resulting energy to the Earth - an extremely minute proportion of which reaches Earth as visible or infrared light, the rest is wasted by being radiated isotropically to space - then use the light to break up water and make hydrogen again.
This is like saying a wind tunnel is useless because a stationary fan attached to the ground and blowing on a plane is a poor way to achieve air travel. But, people still use wind tunnels aplenty, to look at what happens when you blow on a airplane mock up or a wing and assess whether that design will work well in flight.
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I can't wait for Rust to run on big iron.
Even youtube is a file download that masquerades as "streaming", always has been.
Proper streaming is real-time or on the spot, with dropped packets (UDP) that stay dropped and lost. I think Real Player did that in the 90s? This is more similar to VoIP, or video chat, or plain old broadcast TV and is usable for live video. Should work great with multicast, although I think multicast on the internet is something that about never works.
Of course "streaming" as done on youtube, Netflix or porn sites has entered mainstream language over a decade ago and there's nothing much wrong in calling it that. This works well anyway (with tools to dump video to a file, or porn and movie sites that let you load the video till the end if your internet is crappy)
But this is about a DRM friendly Netflix here : the downloading or caching feature requires a Windows 10 Metro app. It might require HDMI, or DVI with HDCP (this exists, but not on your PC or graphics card if it's old enough)
I don't know if the Windows 10 Metro application has the autoplaying garbage described above. If so, then the experience will be as poor and wasteful as it is now.
The ATM analogy is especially good. On a typical Android device (not everyone has a Galaxy S5 or something where hacks or alternate OS are available) the OS is unchangeable, as good as locked behind steel plates and it encourages "do as you're told" kind of interfaces.
It's Linux, but less hackable than a handheld console like a Nintendo DS, and you have less freedom than on a Windows (7 Home/Pro, 8 Home/Pro, 10 Enterprise) PC.
Sounds like what people in communism or war time might do. People usually call that ingeniosity, inventiveness or clever free-spirited trade then.
When Europeans hear about US food stamps, they say "what, like during the war?"
Might be all the crapware (on Android). Worse, it's Java crapware, and phones can't swap to disk. .NET and Metro are better than Google's Java, Chrome and whatever it is that "Play Services" does.
Maybe
Alternatively it should not have included a desktop at all.
It made it a cheapo thing that only runs Internet Explorer and Office, like your dad's Packard Bell with 128MB RAM and Windows XP.
Making it tablet-only would have made it, well, a tablet. Like, if you're building a bicycle, try not to put a steering wheel, handbrake and windshield wiper to lure in people used to a car.
Had they made their tablet a tablet, they might even have appealed to people who had no intention of running Windows 8 (and now 10) on their PC. Even now Windows 7 is installed on like a billion computers, so many/most people can't run microsoft store/windows 8/10/RT/new age/modern/UWP crapps, even if they wanted to.
People, in theory, might have wanted to buy a tablet (back then, likely their first tablet) to complement their Windows XP or 7 (or Vista) computer. They didn't ask to be forced to get a tablet interface on their desktops, or to be forced to get a desktop interface on a tablet.
This might have been a bigger market than that of people who actually bought a Surface.
I even want to use a linux desktop and a windows phone/tablet, not really of course but I would if it were an option.
You could be using a TV offline with the "old fashioned" broadcasts and USB media (drives and HDDs). This is pretty common, even on supposedly dumb TV - a dumb TV with H264 playback and recording etc. is a computer as well, see the original Raspberry Pi A for how their main chip might look like in terms of abilities.
You might even use a 50-year-old TV if you wish, with a small receiver for the latest DVB-T or similar, that also has a USB port for file playback.
Any of these might be hosed by broadcasts and write viruses to USB media.
They asked, I guess.
What if a household member or a random friend "accepts" the EULA, are you hosed forever? Can you take the consent back? (What if the TV was pre-owned?)
Seen that happen with youtube sometimes asking you to "consent" to vague stuff, people will click through it even though they're not using their own computer, desktop session or internet.
You can avoid or remove that consent window and still access videos, I don't know if anything different happens then.
Your TV might be at the danger of "attack by acquaintance clicking on an EULA to get rid of it". Could even happen in a business or other setting where any random person who gets to hold the remote might click on it, be it an employee, contractor, customer, passers by.
A conference room might have a cheap 65" TV or smaller they're using to cast documents to.
I could suck the tip of my penis at age 14 or 15.
(not anymore)
People ran Photoshop and Autocad on netbook - the 1.5 or 1.1 generation of netbooks with Atom 1.6GHz, 1GB ram and hard drive.
Back then such a netbook could be an upgrade over some low end Pentium 3 or Pentium 4 with 256MB though.
If the phone CAN actually run Photoshop or Autocad, the same kind of people who ran them on netbooks would run them on docked phone.
In fact, to continue with the netbook analogy where the netbook owners had no other computer or an older, inadequate computer... A dockable phone would especially serve those who don't actually have or own another suitable computer and this is called the youth, or even the homeless, or those few who never actually got a computer. Or those whose computers from 2004 or 2006 died off. Those who cancelled wired internet and only subscribe to 3G/4G phone internet.
First reason for a "dock" (lol the microsoft "dock" is an ugly square hub/cabling thing) would be to watch crap on a TV or monitor.
Don't bother maybe. The more generic solution might be USB to HDMI (or VGA) chips / adapters i.e. real, digital and plain USB, not "random signal over USB connector". Displaylink is a company that makes (most?) such chips
Use a "dockable" phone and run an RDP client or X11 server to your PC
With such statements you don't know if they benched some 1980s "drhystones" that fit entirely in L1 cache, and moreover we now have severe distortions because the phones are severely thermally constrained.
If benchmark only runs for 2 or 5 minutes, phone might keep up with the PC. If benchmark runs for one hour, phone might be 3x slower than the PC (very rough order of magnitude statement there). It also depends on room temperature, air conditioning or other measures.
Server, laptop and desktop processors basically use the same technology. (AMD is retiring its Jaguar CPUs, too)
Desktop CPU have to run somewhere between 3.0 and 4.5 GHz, so they run at quite a higher voltage than laptop parts and power use increases quadratically with voltage. Then, Intel and OEM want to maximise profits, so they aim for an arbitrary power limit like 65 watts (same way laptops mostly moved to 15 watts instead of 35 watts, because the cooling is cheaper)
Desktops are moving right now to 8 cores (16 threads) as that now can fit under 95 watts or 65 watts. Although, this sucks anyway as the single-thread performance still is the same as 4-odd years ago.
There are a bit more expensive consumer desktops, high clock desktop version of Intel server CPUs up to 10 cores.
There is a way to go all out and extract a bit more performance. Just make a CPU like the IBM POWER8 or POWER9 or some IBM mainframes. 5.2GHz, a shit ton of L3 or L4 cache, sub-components built around that etc.
But the power budget is like 250 watts, like a high end GPU really. Also has only eight cores I think. Has on-die eDRAM which the two main PC vendors have refrained from using yet.
It's a better CPU, but not twice better that one that uses half the power. I'm sure gamers and workstation users might like an x86 built like that one, but putting a big chip out on the market costs like 1 or 2 billion dollars (I don't know) and this thing (Itanium alike) wouldn't work in beige servers, vanilla desktops and laptops.
When you have a slow PC, you have to disable hardware acceleration (in Firefox) so the acceleration doesn't slow your browser down, and if you don't see a difference between on and off.. then there's less reason to lose sleep about it.
Well, perhaps it's the whole idea of using a GTK3, 3D accelerated desktop be it Cinnamon or Gnome 3 or other that is stupid. You copy data into buffers and call some OpenGL functions, bloated rendering stack and buggy driver, instead of just displaying shit like is done in Mate, Xfce or Ice WM etc.
You waste a ton of CPU, but call that 3D "accelerated". But if you have a fast CPU (e.g. dual core / quad thread Intel at 2.5 GHz) and run Firefox, Chrome, Libre Office then it's plenty ok.
Having both a micro-USB and a USB-C would be a start. Don't tell me there's not enough room for both. For a start it helps with the stupid power cables incompatibility, if both USB ports can accept power input. Then you could use power + keyboard or power + thumbdrive or keyboard + thumbdrive or anything else.
BTW PCs have been using the same power cable for 35 years and likely will 15 years from now (ATX ones)
All I want is an Ubuntu phone - let's say an Ubuntu since it was briefly available and not on $800 or $2000 phones - with an Android runtime (firewalled and restricted to hell) because, there will always be that one "app". I'd like around $100, $120 because $300 and up is elitism, just keep everything low end except RAM size at 2GB minimum (and flash one notch above low end, if thats available). Ubuntu phones had 1GB by the way, which is too low (on the other hand, 5" phones with 1GB were what people were waiting for to get an Firefox OS phone)
Yes, it will be an OS/2 in that compatibility with the dominant platform will harm its app store (big time) but fuck it, freedom and security for the base OS and the grandma kind of uses will be worth it.
rofl, even for simple home networking between 98 and XP I seemed to need the command line. Or at least I did before finding out that you can hit start / run.. and enter something like \\192.168.0.2\games. (not \\big-PC\games)
Four things were unavoidable : death, taxes, "Windows failed to browse the network" and "Windows Media Player failed to download the codec"
That said I do share your concerns about storage and perhaps as importantly distribution. The hydrogen economy is a bunch of crap and mostly prestige projects for car and oil companies. I do not discount it entirely though because hydrogen production is useful in its own right, as a chemical feedstock (replacing hydrogen made from methane), possibly for very limited fuel uses like mining trucks, industrial heat ; basically everything except cars, general transportation, homes, laptops or what have you.
You lived in a house with your parents and grandparents. This is a nice thing, many should envy you. Really, lol.
And I don't want to dispute your poverty credential or something like that. Maybe Western society is going to the crapper due to the nuclear family - even the supposedly great two-parent family isn't all that great when the parents are apathetic, then there are the household with one parent, and the young adults on their own who can't dream of a min wage job for life.
Now the SMS girls and Pokemon kids are having kids I guess. Shit will hit the fan.
Now because someone is too dumb to realize Lyft is exploiting them (even though they aren't) then I have to suffer whether it's paying more in taxes or not having a service like Lyft available
What if Lyft is running an illegal employment scheme and you have to suffer whether it's paying more taxes or having less customers for your business.
I want to (preemptively) add that in a putative society where you have small government that only do a few things like Police and I don't remember what.. Why not, just add universal healthcare to the very small list. Abolish everything else if you wish, but this is the last thing that should be removed. Actually, it's a product of 2nd Industrial Revolution capitalism and there were also hospitals in feudal times, so if that's good for capitalists and feudal countries why wouldn't it be good for minarchists/libertarian etc.
You like money and lethal force I think, but nothing else. Money, lethal force and healthcare : having all three suits human nature better.
In case of healthcare what the United States does is an immense failure. Trillions wasted on middle men, advertisement, their private death panels, cost of poor health and premature deaths, and the best is when people show up on the emergency room costing $100,000 or $200,000 (if not more) whereas in a more sensible system a poor person will make a doctor visit, costing perhaps $50 or $100 for the doctor and the medication. (with an "immoral" $0 bill for the user)
You're free to be right-wing, libertarian, whatever but this is where I draw a figurative line, your "go home and die" attitude is vile and pointless. I guess you're pissed by the fire department as well.
Even more pointless since private healthcare plans amount to private taxation anyway. Might as well wish for medieval warlords to assault and ransom you every time you try to go the next town over. Universal healthcare is similar but with a bigger pool and cheaper.
Can't we mine the hydrogen from the sun? It's such a waste to fuse that hydrogen, transport the resulting energy to the Earth - an extremely minute proportion of which reaches Earth as visible or infrared light, the rest is wasted by being radiated isotropically to space - then use the light to break up water and make hydrogen again.
This is like saying a wind tunnel is useless because a stationary fan attached to the ground and blowing on a plane is a poor way to achieve air travel. But, people still use wind tunnels aplenty, to look at what happens when you blow on a airplane mock up or a wing and assess whether that design will work well in flight.