Look at what Greece just did : they changed their government by voting. It's doubtful the same can happen in the US but I hope you can keep a glimpse hope.
I will guess : - certificate errors that people will have to click through ten times a day - people lock themselves out, accidentally lose their data (lost keys, lost cellphone needed to receive an SMS) - interoperabiliy problems of old versions and unpatched browsers, libraries, software - encrypted ads and encrypted malware will infect your encrypted browser and mess with your encrypted data. after non-root computing and port 80 computing, meet encrypted computing, same crap one more layer down - bad guys will still mess with it - in the end, you're still fucked because you used failbook, skype etc. or you posted public content in comment threads, forums, IRC etc.
Phones use little energy and possibly newer phones use more energy than older ones (bigger screen, more features, bigger battery, more games, more spyware apps)
To charge the true cost of energy, see carbon tax. Sometimes energy efficiency is very questionable (hybrid cars's complexity and batteries, or a TV more efficient but bigger), there even may be surprises such as the fabrication of a LCD monitor costs more energy than that of a CRT one.
lol that phone has a 720p screen, 1GB RAM, dual cortex A9, dual camera, 16GB flash. It might be "old" but still better than low end phones. That's getting ridiculous, it is a bit like arguing an Xbox One is old and tired so it's no big deal if people can attack it at will to steal your microsoft accounts and whatever.
Now I have to inform my friend who uses a Galaxy Note that his data and mail accounts may be at risk unless we fuck with the OS and bootloader, or maybe take countermeasures such as install firefox and uninstalling every app. What a pain in the butt. No, he spent big bucks on it when it was new and it isn't damaged. Getting a new one is unreasonable.
Title bar includes the full length web page's title, missing it is a usability issue for me. I'm disappointed that even Firefox doesn't include it when it's run on Windows (haven't investigated where is the option to turn it back on) though on linux it seems to always have it.
It is also consistent that a window gets to keep what I call the "Windows 3.1 menu" on the top left. That sort of consistency worked well for the past 25 years on Windows, Unix and linux. Even "cut/copy/paste" in the "Edit" menu can be useful sometimes, such as I'm using a file manager but there is no empty space available to right-click and paste.
Ending the iPod classic still is an issue. With no apps and no network connectivity, it was reasonable to keep it for a decade or more like consumer electronics used to (VCR, CD player, walkman) Nothing stops them from making a new version with a 256GB flash drive instead of the hard disk drive (as 1.8" hard drives have been deprecated)
You can install Windows 7 on a PC from 2002. Seen one such in the wild, it lacked 3D acceleration but that was fixed by installing an XP driver on Windows 7. So there would be no outrage if you could install Android 5.0 on that abandoned Android 4.3 device, and if that Android 5.0 could use the drivers baked in the Android 4.3 installation so that most critical functionality keeps working (such as GPU, wifi and phone calls)
It might be a good idea. Not sure what the support policy is for Windows Phone 8 and later Windows 10 on phone, but the desktop variant is known for 11-year support cycles. If you're refusing Apple and Android you have to find something else. Maybe Blackberry but it's expensive. So that leaves Windows and Firefox. Even with Firefox OS the upgrade situation is not clear with devices still on 1.3 and awaiting 2.x images, even though the OS is more free than Android and it doesn't have crapware. (but it is possible to install 2.x still)
You can't even do ctrl-alt-del on a Mac. Really, the interface is weird and dated. I would rather use the Windows 3.1 interface (it just needs a tweak so your minimized icons have a bar of their own in the bottom). Hell it's easier to get around in fluxbox, editing the menu by hand in a text editor. Macintosh is harder to use than "worse than Windows 3.1" linux/unix window managers.
It makes me think of Prue, Piper and Phoebe. I find it confusing there are not pictures of Alyssa Milano in the Charms bar and scenes of three sister witches arguing about trivialities.
Is that a non-networked box? How do you get data in and out? I'd be wary of even USB, so I'd use CD/DVD and plugging in trusted hard drives on SATA, IDE or Firewire with all USB controllers disabled in BIOS. Or a null-modem cable.
Indeed there's that but you'll need a Windows Server license and CAL and a specific remote user license, like a grand on software. In that situation though, the need for outdated Windows prevents doing it directly unless there's XP mode in 2008 R2.
In particular Intel GPUs support older version i.e. Sandy Bridge supports OpenGL 3.1, Ivy Bridge supports OpenGL 3.3 and I don't know what Haswell supports. These days you can make a DX11-only game (with or without a path for DX10.x feature level but still on DX11) but if you make an OpenGL 4.3 game you will support less hardware! Use OpenGL 4.4 or 4.5 and that shrinks again until vendors eventually catch up to these. So it is portable, except when it's not.
If some developers want to make games on the Quake 2 engine I'll like it though, I like the look, stability and the crazy performance on old hardware.
The DS doesn't have to care about compatibility, has a weird GPU with some limitations and shortcuts and the CPU does fixed point math but not floats. I suppose it uses a subset, and would thus be like 3dfx Glide rather than full desktop OpenGL. It's easy to get fixed function rendering fast too, there's no shader compiler or advanced features. Quake 1/2/3 and Half-Life gave us some nice 60fps gaming or faster in the late 90s and early 00s.
Thanks. In particular I believe there should be some sort of wizard with test patterns, helpful and concise language (user tested), easily accessible from the TV's UI and remote, saved profiles maybe, all in good taste. Maybe such stuff already exist in recent TVs but I'm very far from a TV enthusiast. I wouldn't even want a 55" or 65" TV. But I like something with even remote fidelity. A high end 32" that looks perfect, with the new improvements, and line out separate from headphone out to plug high quality stereo speakers, that I would find interesting (even if it needs to take 4K input and downsample it to show on a 1080p panel). But I'm fairly atypical.
Okay. I guess I wouldn't be bothered, I like my mouse to go fast but with no or low acceleration (with cursor or in game) and I just move to the destination, if fine adjustements are needed well I'll suffer it for the one second or less it takes. I don't have high expectations and only care about the shape and buttons. That leaves the Contour as a high priced luxury, or in your case a disappointment compared to a high end mouse.
But it's easy to use and reliable. I'd like to have a webmail service that comes with it though ideally with switch-and-forth with roundcube.
I once looked for webmail other than the big ones (microsoft, yahoo etc.) but most require a yearly fee or the free ones have been closed to newcomers for a decade, or are for specific users. I would like some no-bullshit webmail that works, even if it has squirrelmail, and pay one fee for lifetime use. A web 1.0 javascript-less interface to keep a few text notes and files around would be useful, even.
Nice. I got myself a Xonar DX to have overkill sound quality. I was peeved at hell to get two gamepad buttons recognised in Dosbox rather than four! But I don't lose sleep over it. For some uses interfacing a controller (SNES, megadrive/atari) to the parallel port might be done, my motherboard still has a parallel port (immediately usable under DOS) because why not.
I had that problem, can easily happen when the mouse is semi-faulty. In some games I would open the console and type "unbind mouse3" or "unbind mwheelup" and "unbind mwheeldn" I agree with the other comment too, it is fairly less comfortable. That's all there is to it. I had an easier time transitioning as I was young and the middle button was used in a few 3D games like Jedi Knight and Unreal Tournament, not anywhere else under Windows for me.
Also, in a GUI app it's convenient to use ctrl-ins, shift-ins and shift-del. You have the arrow keys and the other cursor-controlling keys in there so you can do e.g. shift-end to select text till end of line, of shift-control-home to select all text from current position to the beginning of document or text area.
Why not read the web page about the Contour mouse? They did turn it into a high DPI mouse.
Even if technology is moving fast, our hands don't change. That's why we hold on to the successful form factor for Contour Mouse, because it still helps to stop and prevent repetitive strain injuries such as Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Tendonitis. In its fourth generation, Contour Mouse has now been updated with a new, grey metal colour. On the inside, the electronics have been updated, and the precision has been increased to 1200 dpi.
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Look at what Greece just did : they changed their government by voting.
It's doubtful the same can happen in the US but I hope you can keep a glimpse hope.
I will guess :
- certificate errors that people will have to click through ten times a day
- people lock themselves out, accidentally lose their data (lost keys, lost cellphone needed to receive an SMS)
- interoperabiliy problems of old versions and unpatched browsers, libraries, software
- encrypted ads and encrypted malware will infect your encrypted browser and mess with your encrypted data.
after non-root computing and port 80 computing, meet encrypted computing, same crap one more layer down
- bad guys will still mess with it
- in the end, you're still fucked because you used failbook, skype etc. or you posted public content in comment threads, forums, IRC etc.
Phones use little energy and possibly newer phones use more energy than older ones (bigger screen, more features, bigger battery, more games, more spyware apps)
To charge the true cost of energy, see carbon tax.
Sometimes energy efficiency is very questionable (hybrid cars's complexity and batteries, or a TV more efficient but bigger), there even may be surprises such as the fabrication of a LCD monitor costs more energy than that of a CRT one.
lol that phone has a 720p screen, 1GB RAM, dual cortex A9, dual camera, 16GB flash. It might be "old" but still better than low end phones. That's getting ridiculous, it is a bit like arguing an Xbox One is old and tired so it's no big deal if people can attack it at will to steal your microsoft accounts and whatever.
Now I have to inform my friend who uses a Galaxy Note that his data and mail accounts may be at risk unless we fuck with the OS and bootloader, or maybe take countermeasures such as install firefox and uninstalling every app. What a pain in the butt. No, he spent big bucks on it when it was new and it isn't damaged. Getting a new one is unreasonable.
Debian squeeze has been put into a new LTS scheme meaning its support has been increased to five years.
Title bar includes the full length web page's title, missing it is a usability issue for me. I'm disappointed that even Firefox doesn't include it when it's run on Windows (haven't investigated where is the option to turn it back on) though on linux it seems to always have it.
It is also consistent that a window gets to keep what I call the "Windows 3.1 menu" on the top left. That sort of consistency worked well for the past 25 years on Windows, Unix and linux.
Even "cut/copy/paste" in the "Edit" menu can be useful sometimes, such as I'm using a file manager but there is no empty space available to right-click and paste.
Ending the iPod classic still is an issue. With no apps and no network connectivity, it was reasonable to keep it for a decade or more like consumer electronics used to (VCR, CD player, walkman)
Nothing stops them from making a new version with a 256GB flash drive instead of the hard disk drive (as 1.8" hard drives have been deprecated)
You can install Windows 7 on a PC from 2002. Seen one such in the wild, it lacked 3D acceleration but that was fixed by installing an XP driver on Windows 7.
So there would be no outrage if you could install Android 5.0 on that abandoned Android 4.3 device, and if that Android 5.0 could use the drivers baked in the Android 4.3 installation so that most critical functionality keeps working (such as GPU, wifi and phone calls)
It might be a good idea. Not sure what the support policy is for Windows Phone 8 and later Windows 10 on phone, but the desktop variant is known for 11-year support cycles.
If you're refusing Apple and Android you have to find something else. Maybe Blackberry but it's expensive. So that leaves Windows and Firefox. Even with Firefox OS the upgrade situation is not clear with devices still on 1.3 and awaiting 2.x images, even though the OS is more free than Android and it doesn't have crapware. (but it is possible to install 2.x still)
You can't even do ctrl-alt-del on a Mac. Really, the interface is weird and dated. I would rather use the Windows 3.1 interface (it just needs a tweak so your minimized icons have a bar of their own in the bottom). Hell it's easier to get around in fluxbox, editing the menu by hand in a text editor. Macintosh is harder to use than "worse than Windows 3.1" linux/unix window managers.
The web applications I use have a "save" button, "save preferences", "send", "submit"
It makes me think of Prue, Piper and Phoebe. I find it confusing there are not pictures of Alyssa Milano in the Charms bar and scenes of three sister witches arguing about trivialities.
Is that a non-networked box?
How do you get data in and out? I'd be wary of even USB, so I'd use CD/DVD and plugging in trusted hard drives on SATA, IDE or Firewire with all USB controllers disabled in BIOS. Or a null-modem cable.
Indeed there's that but you'll need a Windows Server license and CAL and a specific remote user license, like a grand on software.
In that situation though, the need for outdated Windows prevents doing it directly unless there's XP mode in 2008 R2.
In particular Intel GPUs support older version i.e. Sandy Bridge supports OpenGL 3.1, Ivy Bridge supports OpenGL 3.3 and I don't know what Haswell supports.
These days you can make a DX11-only game (with or without a path for DX10.x feature level but still on DX11) but if you make an OpenGL 4.3 game you will support less hardware! Use OpenGL 4.4 or 4.5 and that shrinks again until vendors eventually catch up to these. So it is portable, except when it's not.
If some developers want to make games on the Quake 2 engine I'll like it though, I like the look, stability and the crazy performance on old hardware.
The DS doesn't have to care about compatibility, has a weird GPU with some limitations and shortcuts and the CPU does fixed point math but not floats.
I suppose it uses a subset, and would thus be like 3dfx Glide rather than full desktop OpenGL. It's easy to get fixed function rendering fast too, there's no shader compiler or advanced features. Quake 1/2/3 and Half-Life gave us some nice 60fps gaming or faster in the late 90s and early 00s.
Thanks.
In particular I believe there should be some sort of wizard with test patterns, helpful and concise language (user tested), easily accessible from the TV's UI and remote, saved profiles maybe, all in good taste.
Maybe such stuff already exist in recent TVs but I'm very far from a TV enthusiast. I wouldn't even want a 55" or 65" TV. But I like something with even remote fidelity.
A high end 32" that looks perfect, with the new improvements, and line out separate from headphone out to plug high quality stereo speakers, that I would find interesting (even if it needs to take 4K input and downsample it to show on a 1080p panel). But I'm fairly atypical.
Okay.
I guess I wouldn't be bothered, I like my mouse to go fast but with no or low acceleration (with cursor or in game) and I just move to the destination, if fine adjustements are needed well I'll suffer it for the one second or less it takes. I don't have high expectations and only care about the shape and buttons. That leaves the Contour as a high priced luxury, or in your case a disappointment compared to a high end mouse.
But it's easy to use and reliable. I'd like to have a webmail service that comes with it though ideally with switch-and-forth with roundcube.
I once looked for webmail other than the big ones (microsoft, yahoo etc.) but most require a yearly fee or the free ones have been closed to newcomers for a decade, or are for specific users.
I would like some no-bullshit webmail that works, even if it has squirrelmail, and pay one fee for lifetime use.
A web 1.0 javascript-less interface to keep a few text notes and files around would be useful, even.
Nice. I got myself a Xonar DX to have overkill sound quality.
I was peeved at hell to get two gamepad buttons recognised in Dosbox rather than four! But I don't lose sleep over it.
For some uses interfacing a controller (SNES, megadrive/atari) to the parallel port might be done, my motherboard still has a parallel port (immediately usable under DOS) because why not.
I'm reasonably happy since the day I found a PS/2 extension cord.
I had that problem, can easily happen when the mouse is semi-faulty. In some games I would open the console and type "unbind mouse3" or "unbind mwheelup" and "unbind mwheeldn"
I agree with the other comment too, it is fairly less comfortable. That's all there is to it. I had an easier time transitioning as I was young and the middle button was used in a few 3D games like Jedi Knight and Unreal Tournament, not anywhere else under Windows for me.
Left/middle/right buttons for primary fire/secondary fire/jumping, that works really well.
Weapon change can be remapped to Q and E around WASD.
Also, in a GUI app it's convenient to use ctrl-ins, shift-ins and shift-del.
You have the arrow keys and the other cursor-controlling keys in there so you can do e.g. shift-end to select text till end of line, of shift-control-home to select all text from current position to the beginning of document or text area.
Why not read the web page about the Contour mouse? They did turn it into a high DPI mouse.
Even if technology is moving fast, our hands don't change. That's why we hold on to the successful form factor for Contour Mouse, because it still helps to stop and prevent repetitive strain injuries such as Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Tendonitis. In its fourth generation, Contour Mouse has now been updated with a new, grey metal colour. On the inside, the electronics have been updated, and the precision has been increased to 1200 dpi.