Here is what looks like a stereo viewer for printed 3D photos, to show you there are ways to look at the pictures. It dates back to.. 160-year-old. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/...
In high school they made us look at a molecule (complex protein or hormone) with a small metal apparatus on a stand, just like looking into a Nintendo Virtual Boy but unpowered and much smaller. It was cool : you sort of saw the site where some other protein would get, with more clarity and sense of what's going on. I'm not sure how that's useful for pictures of people and family though.
Thanks for caring, my intention was to rant and point out a few issues (PC stuck when removing a data hard drive is the silliest. Nouveau works but without 3D acceleration these days, though I shall try going back to the 3.13 kernel.
I'm finding support is going backwards for my old nvidia graphics with the newer kernels and Xorg. Also I disabled the desktop long ago and can't get it back (it can display a wallpaper though), not a real problem but the workaround would be to delete the DE's user files. I removed a dead hard drive and the system hanged on boot. The "graphical" boot prevented the message "Press S) to skip, M) for maintenance" from appearing. Fortunately I somehow knew that I had to press "S" (and to edit the fstab to comment out the dead hard drive) Running two sound cards (onboard and card) would perhaps be useful (the card's input doesn't work, haven't tried under Windows), but I refuse to try (given that pulseaudio doesn't run if I use the onboard). Perhaps I'll get an old SB 128 and try. I'm unable to boot my small DOS partition (not very much needed, but I had an easy way for an XP/DOS dual boot. If I could I'd reboot and play Duke Nukem 1 or something with the PC speaker, just so that I at least play something with nothing getting in the way. Perhaps with a SB 128 I would have enough DOS sound to play Dungeon Keeper even)
No really, some people just won't work, it's like the left handed or homosexuals. Getting rid of them is pointless. Suck it up. If you're from the US, welcome to the part of the developed world with permanent 10+% unemployment. You had a good run thanks to your huge land and oil resources. Now your productivity and GDP are too high for everyone to work.
This is exactly why I believe universal income is a good thing. No fear to lose welfare, or just uncertainty from changing lifestyle and go to a working place where everyone is frowning, tired and living in submission and/or fear and "competing" with colleagues for crumbs or a permanent position. If you can even get hired in the first place. Instead, the bums could go to work for a 20 hours a week unskilled job smiling, and the oppressed workers have a range of options from quitting the job, working a bit less, studying or considering a better job, having a better bargaining position etc.
Not caring for couples vs singles makes it easier, as you eliminate bureaucracy / moral burden for that and it may be considered implicit child support. (Yes, there's the $250 per month for a child too)
Easiest solution is likely to get some of them printed, in a photographer's shop for example. If you're taking hundreds of photos, perhaps delete half of them outright and print like a tenth or a twelfth of them. It's dead easy to have multiple prints of a photo too.
For digital storage, on the hardware side you might have three hard drives. Backup, backup's backup. If one is well off enough I guess it'd be easy to have a 2.5" HDD just for that purpose. Soon they'll be up to 1TB per platter (so, 2TB dual platter drive for instance or a somewhat durable 1TB single platter). 2.5" HDD might go in a tower, a laptop, a USB dock or a plastic case with label (not unlike audio cassette cases)
External batteries with USB output are becoming popular. That works with any phones (even some dumb ones), electrical cigarettes and other stuff. This also solves how you're going to charge the spare battery, and it is less likely to be wasted (don't use the spare and it will age and thus eventually go bad)
Now, not being able to replace a dead battery is unacceptable.. But it may be a technical possibility to replace the non-replaceable battery. That would compare to replacing some other component like the LCD. So I'm traditionally with you in hating the non replaceable battery, but it may become somewhat acceptable (it will be if spare "non-replaceable" batteries can be readily acquired and are shared between a variety of models ; getting a "new" battery that was made four or five years ago is not a good prospect).
About the "low" specs, that's so dumb. 218 ppi is high ppi (similar to a 4K desktop monitor or a 3200x1800 laptop) and 1GB is a pro because that's double the RAM of a 512MB phone.
This is why rural phone lines need to be replaced with rural 10 Gbps fiber lines. The subsistence farming deal will be that much better with HD porn, videoconferencing, online gaming, loud high quality music, weather forecasts and frequent satellite or high altitude pictures/measurements etc. all served from a $100 desktop PC.
It's rare to see a 21st century car that's not ugly. They all look bloated, uglily shiny and look angry or pissed off for no good reason. Perhaps the car passive-aggressivity is done on purpose : people are meant to be aggressive and afraid of each other, so that they feel insecure and remedy that insecurity by buying consumer products, and they make distressed competitive workers too.
That may be because a server doesn't need a shit ton of CPU, and hardware AES helps. The other aspect is your server Atom CPU has quite unrestricted power use, comparatively. See, this quad core Atom (named Celeron) has a GPU, is constrained to about a third the power use and thus has to underclock itself. http://ark.intel.com/fr/produc...
Constraining any CPU to well below 10 watts will make it suck (unless you're satisfied with the CPU power. Netbooks are quite good if they do what you want of them)
First, nuclear reactors reduce the amount of radioactive material. The energy that comes from a nuclear reaction is from taking something radioactive and making it not radioactive. The only reason that nuclear "waste" is considered "waste" right now is because the old boiler reactors are terribly inefficient.
Sorry but that is really inane. The fuel has very low radioactivity (700 million years half-life for U235) and you create Strontium, Cesium and all sorts of crap with it. I'm also not convinced that there exists really better tech than the gen2 1970s designs, but that may be fine. We'd know better if some non-breeder reactor designs were built for commercial exploitation rather than merely existing on paper. I wonder if you are out of your mind, wishing fission products away is stupid.
I believe gas turbines are very efficient, but the ramping up and down kill them (figuratively for the efficient figure, and effectively as they break down and require maintenance). Not sure how it compares with coal power, but in a country with about 80% electricity from nuclear power I agree that developing wind energy increases carbon emissions.
You know, I would like to have a dynamic IP that changes every 24 hours or 48 hours. I guess my country is IPv4 rich, but anyway you get a residential connexion with a nominally dynamic IP, that doesn't change for years on.
I understand what you're getting at with the tray, it was misused by "me too!" programs and all sorts of things like Real Player (damn, I'll run you when I want it!). But it was very useful to interact with e.g. virtual CD-ROM drive software. That's better than having "background" programs sitting in the task bar proper.
To this day most linux desktop environments copied the feature and I've got wireless networks, sound volume, music player there, OS updater. I can play/pause music etc., change music volume by hovering on the icon and wheeling the scroll wheel. I know how to run fluxbox and hit the terminal to run alsamixer but I'll keep running the gtk2 Windows 95 clone thanks.
Undervolting would be worth it and even downgrading GPU or CPU. If you could trade your Phenom for an Athlon II X2 and the 9800GT for a 5450 or other that would be better.
I did run 98SE on a fast CPU and 7200rpm HDD. By that point I was a hold out, but I did boot to the desktop in 10 seconds. In the last year/monthes, I still could run everything I wanted but programs would not care about the 64K GDI resource limit anymore, leading to graphical UI corruption. You could have Steam, DirectX 9,.NET, Cygwin installed. and every DOS game at full speed and features, which was most of the point.
All kinds of triple-deck etc. cheese burgers I've never tried or even imagined, giant sandwiches, 2^12 combinations of pizza toppings, 4000 bottles of red wine (not even really fancy ones, just roughly $10 and up)
I would eat and drink myself to death, but trying to keep it as long and varied as possible.
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Here is what looks like a stereo viewer for printed 3D photos, to show you there are ways to look at the pictures. It dates back to.. 160-year-old.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/...
In high school they made us look at a molecule (complex protein or hormone) with a small metal apparatus on a stand, just like looking into a Nintendo Virtual Boy but unpowered and much smaller. It was cool : you sort of saw the site where some other protein would get, with more clarity and sense of what's going on.
I'm not sure how that's useful for pictures of people and family though.
Thanks for caring, my intention was to rant and point out a few issues (PC stuck when removing a data hard drive is the silliest.
Nouveau works but without 3D acceleration these days, though I shall try going back to the 3.13 kernel.
I'm finding support is going backwards for my old nvidia graphics with the newer kernels and Xorg. Also I disabled the desktop long ago and can't get it back (it can display a wallpaper though), not a real problem but the workaround would be to delete the DE's user files.
I removed a dead hard drive and the system hanged on boot. The "graphical" boot prevented the message "Press S) to skip, M) for maintenance" from appearing. Fortunately I somehow knew that I had to press "S" (and to edit the fstab to comment out the dead hard drive)
Running two sound cards (onboard and card) would perhaps be useful (the card's input doesn't work, haven't tried under Windows), but I refuse to try (given that pulseaudio doesn't run if I use the onboard). Perhaps I'll get an old SB 128 and try.
I'm unable to boot my small DOS partition (not very much needed, but I had an easy way for an XP/DOS dual boot. If I could I'd reboot and play Duke Nukem 1 or something with the PC speaker, just so that I at least play something with nothing getting in the way. Perhaps with a SB 128 I would have enough DOS sound to play Dungeon Keeper even)
That was Nip/Tuck season 5.
That's good for the environment :).
No really, some people just won't work, it's like the left handed or homosexuals. Getting rid of them is pointless. Suck it up. If you're from the US, welcome to the part of the developed world with permanent 10+% unemployment. You had a good run thanks to your huge land and oil resources. Now your productivity and GDP are too high for everyone to work.
This is exactly why I believe universal income is a good thing. No fear to lose welfare, or just uncertainty from changing lifestyle and go to a working place where everyone is frowning, tired and living in submission and/or fear and "competing" with colleagues for crumbs or a permanent position. If you can even get hired in the first place.
Instead, the bums could go to work for a 20 hours a week unskilled job smiling, and the oppressed workers have a range of options from quitting the job, working a bit less, studying or considering a better job, having a better bargaining position etc.
Not caring for couples vs singles makes it easier, as you eliminate bureaucracy / moral burden for that and it may be considered implicit child support. (Yes, there's the $250 per month for a child too)
An unmarried couple still is a couple. Welfare systems may look at the household and not care if the people there are married or not.
Easiest solution is likely to get some of them printed, in a photographer's shop for example.
If you're taking hundreds of photos, perhaps delete half of them outright and print like a tenth or a twelfth of them. It's dead easy to have multiple prints of a photo too.
For digital storage, on the hardware side you might have three hard drives. Backup, backup's backup. If one is well off enough I guess it'd be easy to have a 2.5" HDD just for that purpose. Soon they'll be up to 1TB per platter (so, 2TB dual platter drive for instance or a somewhat durable 1TB single platter). 2.5" HDD might go in a tower, a laptop, a USB dock or a plastic case with label (not unlike audio cassette cases)
In communism you have money, but nothing to buy with it on the shelves. In capitalism the shelves are always choke full but you don't have money.
Let's say I don't value not seeing the pixels much. I have a phone with 160x128 at half the ppi, now that's visible pixels.
External batteries with USB output are becoming popular. That works with any phones (even some dumb ones), electrical cigarettes and other stuff. This also solves how you're going to charge the spare battery, and it is less likely to be wasted (don't use the spare and it will age and thus eventually go bad)
Now, not being able to replace a dead battery is unacceptable.. But it may be a technical possibility to replace the non-replaceable battery. That would compare to replacing some other component like the LCD. So I'm traditionally with you in hating the non replaceable battery, but it may become somewhat acceptable (it will be if spare "non-replaceable" batteries can be readily acquired and are shared between a variety of models ; getting a "new" battery that was made four or five years ago is not a good prospect).
About the "low" specs, that's so dumb. 218 ppi is high ppi (similar to a 4K desktop monitor or a 3200x1800 laptop) and 1GB is a pro because that's double the RAM of a 512MB phone.
This is why rural phone lines need to be replaced with rural 10 Gbps fiber lines. The subsistence farming deal will be that much better with HD porn, videoconferencing, online gaming, loud high quality music, weather forecasts and frequent satellite or high altitude pictures/measurements etc. all served from a $100 desktop PC.
It's rare to see a 21st century car that's not ugly. They all look bloated, uglily shiny and look angry or pissed off for no good reason.
Perhaps the car passive-aggressivity is done on purpose : people are meant to be aggressive and afraid of each other, so that they feel insecure and remedy that insecurity by buying consumer products, and they make distressed competitive workers too.
That may be because a server doesn't need a shit ton of CPU, and hardware AES helps.
The other aspect is your server Atom CPU has quite unrestricted power use, comparatively.
See, this quad core Atom (named Celeron) has a GPU, is constrained to about a third the power use and thus has to underclock itself.
http://ark.intel.com/fr/produc...
Constraining any CPU to well below 10 watts will make it suck (unless you're satisfied with the CPU power. Netbooks are quite good if they do what you want of them)
First, nuclear reactors reduce the amount of radioactive material. The energy that comes from a nuclear reaction is from taking something radioactive and making it not radioactive. The only reason that nuclear "waste" is considered "waste" right now is because the old boiler reactors are terribly inefficient.
Sorry but that is really inane. The fuel has very low radioactivity (700 million years half-life for U235) and you create Strontium, Cesium and all sorts of crap with it.
I'm also not convinced that there exists really better tech than the gen2 1970s designs, but that may be fine. We'd know better if some non-breeder reactor designs were built for commercial exploitation rather than merely existing on paper.
I wonder if you are out of your mind, wishing fission products away is stupid.
I believe gas turbines are very efficient, but the ramping up and down kill them (figuratively for the efficient figure, and effectively as they break down and require maintenance).
Not sure how it compares with coal power, but in a country with about 80% electricity from nuclear power I agree that developing wind energy increases carbon emissions.
You know, I would like to have a dynamic IP that changes every 24 hours or 48 hours. I guess my country is IPv4 rich, but anyway you get a residential connexion with a nominally dynamic IP, that doesn't change for years on.
I understand what you're getting at with the tray, it was misused by "me too!" programs and all sorts of things like Real Player (damn, I'll run you when I want it!).
But it was very useful to interact with e.g. virtual CD-ROM drive software. That's better than having "background" programs sitting in the task bar proper.
To this day most linux desktop environments copied the feature and I've got wireless networks, sound volume, music player there, OS updater. I can play/pause music etc., change music volume by hovering on the icon and wheeling the scroll wheel. I know how to run fluxbox and hit the terminal to run alsamixer but I'll keep running the gtk2 Windows 95 clone thanks.
Undervolting would be worth it and even downgrading GPU or CPU. If you could trade your Phenom for an Athlon II X2 and the 9800GT for a 5450 or other that would be better.
I would say the peak is at about 60% - or amusingly, close to one divided by the golden number.
I did run 98SE on a fast CPU and 7200rpm HDD. By that point I was a hold out, but I did boot to the desktop in 10 seconds. In the last year/monthes, I still could run everything I wanted but programs would not care about the 64K GDI resource limit anymore, leading to graphical UI corruption. You could have Steam, DirectX 9, .NET, Cygwin installed. and every DOS game at full speed and features, which was most of the point.
2003 was the same, with an updated kernel that seemed to have a bit better swapping performance.
Nice little hack but if you wanted to go back to DOS, there is the option to do just that in the shutdown menu. Duh.
They'll come back and level your compound with mortars, artillery shells, unguided rockets and so on.
All kinds of triple-deck etc. cheese burgers I've never tried or even imagined, giant sandwiches, 2^12 combinations of pizza toppings, 4000 bottles of red wine (not even really fancy ones, just roughly $10 and up)
I would eat and drink myself to death, but trying to keep it as long and varied as possible.