Ferry started the car company - Ferdinand was an engineer and worked for Mercedes, VW, etc.
Bull crap. Ferdinand Porsche (Sr.) (1875-1951) was the FOUNDER of Porsche car company as well as, yes, an engineer. He designed the VW Beetle and the Mercedes SS/SSK, as well as being heavily involved in Tiger Tanks, V1 rockets, and other war projects.
Ferdinand Anton Ernst "Ferry" Porsche (1909-1998) was the son of Ferdinand, and operated Porsche AG.
a slide-rule... is highly accurate to quite a few decimal places
Bunk. A customary 25 cm slide rule is accurate to 2-3 decimal places - and that is plenty for a great many engineering tasks, such as building bridges and locomotives; hell, even B-29s. There are actually markings for 2 places, and the figure for the 3rd place is interpolated by eye. In 18th century Germany, somebody made a slide rule 2 meters long with a microscope attached to it, which could give 6 places. About the only real physical problems at the time which could even make use of that kind of precision were certain subtle astronomical calculations.
Circular slide rules are a way to get about three (pi) times the precision for the same linear dimension by winding the scales in a circle. Mostly all they do for "normal" sizes is make the interpolation of the 3rd place a little more precise. A tradeoff is error due to the slop in the axial pivot.
It should be well known to any high school grad, but I better mention that 3 times the precision is only about half on one decimal place. It's like the way "orders of magnitude" are frequently misspoken. I was reading some bunk about "many" orders of magnitude, where the writer was only talking about a factor of a thousand. A thousand is a large factor, but it's only three orders of magnitude. Ten orders of magnitude encompasses the difference between a large nuclear weapon and a hand grenade.
Slide rules only give you the mantissa. Everything is normalized to 0-999. You still have to keep track of the 10s exponent in your head or on paper. It was damn good mental exercise. Yeah, I know a thing or two about slide rules since I enrolled in engineering college in 1965.
Snort. Yes, "the terrorists" have won, but no, they haven't "forced" us to do anything. They finessed us into doing it to ourselves. They have essentially turned our own governing apparatus into a fifth column. I wouldn't give them any exaggerated credit for cleverness. Our governing apparatus has been rotting and growing perverted for a long time. "The terrorists" didn't employ any great insight or clever methods. They just gave the pile of shit a slight push in the obvious direction.
Unless Congress gets flushed good and hard, that statement [that change can be effected by a President] is highly unlikely.
Are you joking? If we have learned ANYTHING from the last 8 years (and I have my doubts that "we" have, if "we" means the imbecile electorate), it is that Congress couldn't stop a wet paper bag if the President threw it at them. President Obama has changed plenty. The ACA is just one of the changes he brought, massive as it is. Anything he HASN'T changed, and there is plenty (closing Gitmo as a lock-up facility (so far, but stay tuned), reigning in DHS and TSA and NSA, etc, etc) are things he either doesn't really oppose, or is unwilling to make a big enough effort.
Congress could go home tomorrow and stay there forever for all the effect they have on anything. The USA has finally finished transforming itself from a Republic into a dictatorship of the executive - minus (so far) throwing away the show of the Presidential elections every 4 years.
This is 2015, not 1980. Who in the world in this day and age has a composite monitor, or even a TV with composite input any more? I have two old CRT TVs that I literally can't GIVE away and can't bring myself to throw away, but I couldn't supply a whole classroom, and anyway they would all laugh at this crap.
If they have a TV, then all they need is this: Rasberry PI. $30
OK. Actually, it's a little more than that for the version that has WiFi and enough USB ports. Otherwise you would have to add a powered USB hub, which again adds to the cost.
USB Keyboard $1
Grow up.
USB Mouse $1
Grow up.
SD Card $1
Grow up.
Micro USB Cell phone charger $5
OK.
You have a fully functional Linux desktop computer.
Not until someone capable has made a significant investment of time to install and set up the OS, you haven't. Yeah, for you or me it would be no problem to fix one up, but how about for an entire class of schoolkids? And you left out an HDMI cable to attach it to the TV, and we would both be ASSUMING the kid has access to an HDMI TV which he would not have to fight the parents and siblings for to get primetime evening use for homework.
Sure you can spend more and get a better computer, but this one will get it done on the cheap.
I'm tuned in to the sentiment, but the way I realistically check prices, the total cost for all items mentioned would be pretty close to $70 rock bottom, if not more, PLUS labor, which is pretty sad when you think about it. And when you were done you would have this fragile thing dangling from wires which could easily get knocked on the floor and stepped on.
I WANT this to be viable, oh how I want it, but realistically, um...
That comes the closest to being a real possibility at a workable price of anything I see on this whole page of mostly bullshit posts. Congratulations. The fundamental problem I see is, how would you attach a $7-8 keyboard? I don't see any sign that it has Bluetooth, and seems to only have micro USB, and it's not a given that it can do any more than accept a charger.
Fix the fucked up legal interpretation that allows that kind of a so-called "agreement" to be considered enforceable. It is blatantly unbalanced and as such should be null and void under contract law. It is also not reasonable to expect the unempowered party to laboriously read and digest all the terms.
Everyone who was ever given an employee agreement to sign which contained a provision that you give up your clear rights to work in competition, even when fired or laid off involuntarily: you did mark it with an initialed note taking exception to that particular part, right? And you informed the employer that you were doing so, and were hired anyway.
So what we get with TDE is a fall back for which I bet that there is no future. It can't because the only change necessary is the one that was done on Windows, and is currently done with Plasma 5: adopt a DE that can be unified for desktops and small screens. And exactly that is not done on TDE.
In a nutshell: TDE is the desktop (fork) that nobody needs.
Complete unadulterated bullshit. Nothing could possibly need doing LESS than "unifying" desktops and small screens. They are completely different animals, which need completely different look and feel. Sorry, but nothing I do on my phone is in any way parallel to the things I do on my desktop.
TDE, as a maintained and updated version of KDE3, a fine DE, is exactly an option we DO need.
For better or worse, "activities" is a confusing concept. It takes an abstract concept (the desktop) and another level of abstract concept ("workplaces") and adds YET ANOTHER level of abstract concept (an "activity") which fully requires the first two levels. The main session is itself an activity, which starts to become really mind-twisting unless you already know what an activity is.
KDE also has two different concepts for application: that of a traditional application and that of a "widget". This puts extra burden on users to get a global overview on how the system works.
They are other important "features" missing too. But I think simplicity is the main drawback, and for both activities and widgets, it's debatable if they pull their weight, so to speak.
So, in other words, you can't come up with a SINGLE EXAMPLE of a missing feature. I figured you would fail. No one has yet come up with a list of these mysterious missing features in KDE4/5 that were present in 3. I think I can recall some configuration settings that were in 3 and are missing in 4/5, but again those are not really "features".
Simplicity is not a feature. It is an attribute; one which in fact implies fewer features.
So... I worked on my old Linux box. Then Ubuntu switched to Unity, and I was like "this again? I went back to Linux to get AWAY from this."
For the love of god, not this shit. Linux is all about CHOICE. Who fucking CARES what the default desktop is? It's for people literally too lazy to bother trying to find their best match. Besides Unity and GNOME3 for the tasteless brainwashed, there is always KDE4/5. If KDE4/5 is too bloated to taste, there are Cinnamon, MATE (essentially GNOME2), Trinity (essentially KDE3) , Xfce, and LXDE. Enligtenment has its partisans too. If every one of those seem too heavy and in-the-way, you can use one of the large variety of old standby (and plenty of newer) window managers that are less than full-blown desktop environments. Some of the better-known and wiely-used ones are awesome, Blackbox, dwm, Fluxbox, FVWM, IceWM, ratpoison, twm, and Xmonad. That's far from an exhaustive list.
But feature comparison vs. price paid? Netbeans wins, hands down.
No shit. If you consider that Netbeans has even a single feature, its feature to cost ratio is infinite. Nothing could ever beat that. And even if something else costs only one dollar and it has a billion features, its feature to cost ratio is negligible in comparison.
You do understand that 1080i has precisely the same spatial resolution as 1080p, right? There is no field fade (whatsoever) on an LCD, as there is on CRT. And the temporal resolution depends on the respective frame rates. 1080i is 60 fps in the US and other NTSC-legacy areas, and 50 in Europe and other PAL-legacy areas.
1080p may be either 24, 30, or 60 fps in the US, and 25 or 50 in Europe. The lower figures are the norm for film-derived material, since film has 24 fps. The lower figures give you in fact a LOWER temporal resolution for 1080p than for 1080i. The higher figures give you the SAME temporal resolution for 1080p as for 1080i. The difference is that in 1080i, only 1/2 the 2,073,600 pixels change every 1/fps seconds, and in 1080p all of the 2,073,600 pixels change every 1/fps seconds.[*]
In scenes with no motion, there is no difference in image quality whatsoever. None. 1080p and 1080i give identical images. Only in scenes with significantly rapid motion does 1080i introduce noticeable artifacts that aren't there with 1080p.
[*] The actual situation is modified by various motion-smoothing video-processing algorithms employed in any good-quality interlaced display.
Actually, proper interpolative upscaling reduces spatial quantization "jaggies", which means you get a more accurate representation of the original real-world view. Yeah, bog-stupid upscaling by just duplicating every pixel 2 times horizontally and 2 times vertically does not do anything whatsoever for resolution.
Your false parallel is showing. You can always find something more compute-intensive, as much as necessary for any increase in compute-power to make a clear difference.
But indulgent masturbating with insane excess visual resolution stops making any perceptible difference to anyone at some point well below 4K on a 5.5" display. Hell, for my vision, anything much over 800x480 doesn't give me any gain whatsoever.
No it doesn't. It doesn't have a service rated for 10 MILLIbits per second. The service they provide me is 25 MEGAbits per second, and it costs $53.95 per month, not $90 per month.
I would be pretty confident that shared memory using atomic compare/exchange for notification and pickup would be the fastest on any hardware/software architecture. Definitely faster than Mach messages I would assume. Rather primitive, though. I would benchmark both named pipes and unix domain sockets as well, because they are architecturally nice.
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Bull crap. Ferdinand Porsche (Sr.) (1875-1951) was the FOUNDER of Porsche car company as well as, yes, an engineer. He designed the VW Beetle and the Mercedes SS/SSK, as well as being heavily involved in Tiger Tanks, V1 rockets, and other war projects.
Ferdinand Anton Ernst "Ferry" Porsche (1909-1998) was the son of Ferdinand, and operated Porsche AG.
Bunk. A customary 25 cm slide rule is accurate to 2-3 decimal places - and that is plenty for a great many engineering tasks, such as building bridges and locomotives; hell, even B-29s. There are actually markings for 2 places, and the figure for the 3rd place is interpolated by eye. In 18th century Germany, somebody made a slide rule 2 meters long with a microscope attached to it, which could give 6 places. About the only real physical problems at the time which could even make use of that kind of precision were certain subtle astronomical calculations.
Circular slide rules are a way to get about three (pi) times the precision for the same linear dimension by winding the scales in a circle. Mostly all they do for "normal" sizes is make the interpolation of the 3rd place a little more precise. A tradeoff is error due to the slop in the axial pivot.
It should be well known to any high school grad, but I better mention that 3 times the precision is only about half on one decimal place. It's like the way "orders of magnitude" are frequently misspoken. I was reading some bunk about "many" orders of magnitude, where the writer was only talking about a factor of a thousand. A thousand is a large factor, but it's only three orders of magnitude. Ten orders of magnitude encompasses the difference between a large nuclear weapon and a hand grenade.
Slide rules only give you the mantissa. Everything is normalized to 0-999. You still have to keep track of the 10s exponent in your head or on paper. It was damn good mental exercise. Yeah, I know a thing or two about slide rules since I enrolled in engineering college in 1965.
The ones I am aware of (and owned) are all either bamboo or aluminum. Bamboo is actually a grass, not a wood.
"Anonaminity". LOL.
Snort. Yes, "the terrorists" have won, but no, they haven't "forced" us to do anything. They finessed us into doing it to ourselves. They have essentially turned our own governing apparatus into a fifth column. I wouldn't give them any exaggerated credit for cleverness. Our governing apparatus has been rotting and growing perverted for a long time. "The terrorists" didn't employ any great insight or clever methods. They just gave the pile of shit a slight push in the obvious direction.
Are you joking? If we have learned ANYTHING from the last 8 years (and I have my doubts that "we" have, if "we" means the imbecile electorate), it is that Congress couldn't stop a wet paper bag if the President threw it at them. President Obama has changed plenty. The ACA is just one of the changes he brought, massive as it is. Anything he HASN'T changed, and there is plenty (closing Gitmo as a lock-up facility (so far, but stay tuned), reigning in DHS and TSA and NSA, etc, etc) are things he either doesn't really oppose, or is unwilling to make a big enough effort.
Congress could go home tomorrow and stay there forever for all the effect they have on anything. The USA has finally finished transforming itself from a Republic into a dictatorship of the executive - minus (so far) throwing away the show of the Presidential elections every 4 years.
Yeah, duh, it is too expensive. Did you even bother to read TFS?
This is 2015, not 1980. Who in the world in this day and age has a composite monitor, or even a TV with composite input any more? I have two old CRT TVs that I literally can't GIVE away and can't bring myself to throw away, but I couldn't supply a whole classroom, and anyway they would all laugh at this crap.
OK. Actually, it's a little more than that for the version that has WiFi and enough USB ports. Otherwise you would have to add a powered USB hub, which again adds to the cost.
Grow up.
Grow up.
Grow up.
OK.
Not until someone capable has made a significant investment of time to install and set up the OS, you haven't. Yeah, for you or me it would be no problem to fix one up, but how about for an entire class of schoolkids? And you left out an HDMI cable to attach it to the TV, and we would both be ASSUMING the kid has access to an HDMI TV which he would not have to fight the parents and siblings for to get primetime evening use for homework.
I'm tuned in to the sentiment, but the way I realistically check prices, the total cost for all items mentioned would be pretty close to $70 rock bottom, if not more, PLUS labor, which is pretty sad when you think about it. And when you were done you would have this fragile thing dangling from wires which could easily get knocked on the floor and stepped on.
I WANT this to be viable, oh how I want it, but realistically, um ...
That comes the closest to being a real possibility at a workable price of anything I see on this whole page of mostly bullshit posts. Congratulations. The fundamental problem I see is, how would you attach a $7-8 keyboard? I don't see any sign that it has Bluetooth, and seems to only have micro USB, and it's not a given that it can do any more than accept a charger.
Pay attention for god sake. From TFS, he knows how to do it for $170, but that is too much. So you know it has to be significantly below that figure.
Oh shut up. What do you suggest? Windows? OS X? Do you think he can afford to "teach" those?
Somebody fucking answer this question goddammit.
I tried to yell to wake somebody up, but the shitty filter won't let me.
Somebody answer this. I want to know what the fuck is the point of this shitty "app". Are we talking about android crap, or a proper computer?
Fix the fucked up legal interpretation that allows that kind of a so-called "agreement" to be considered enforceable. It is blatantly unbalanced and as such should be null and void under contract law. It is also not reasonable to expect the unempowered party to laboriously read and digest all the terms.
Everyone who was ever given an employee agreement to sign which contained a provision that you give up your clear rights to work in competition, even when fired or laid off involuntarily: you did mark it with an initialed note taking exception to that particular part, right? And you informed the employer that you were doing so, and were hired anyway.
Complete unadulterated bullshit. Nothing could possibly need doing LESS than "unifying" desktops and small screens. They are completely different animals, which need completely different look and feel. Sorry, but nothing I do on my phone is in any way parallel to the things I do on my desktop.
TDE, as a maintained and updated version of KDE3, a fine DE, is exactly an option we DO need.
So, in other words, you can't come up with a SINGLE EXAMPLE of a missing feature. I figured you would fail. No one has yet come up with a list of these mysterious missing features in KDE4/5 that were present in 3. I think I can recall some configuration settings that were in 3 and are missing in 4/5, but again those are not really "features".
Simplicity is not a feature. It is an attribute; one which in fact implies fewer features.
For the love of god, not this shit. Linux is all about CHOICE. Who fucking CARES what the default desktop is? It's for people literally too lazy to bother trying to find their best match. Besides Unity and GNOME3 for the tasteless brainwashed, there is always KDE4/5. If KDE4/5 is too bloated to taste, there are Cinnamon, MATE (essentially GNOME2), Trinity (essentially KDE3) , Xfce, and LXDE. Enligtenment has its partisans too. If every one of those seem too heavy and in-the-way, you can use one of the large variety of old standby (and plenty of newer) window managers that are less than full-blown desktop environments. Some of the better-known and wiely-used ones are awesome, Blackbox, dwm, Fluxbox, FVWM, IceWM, ratpoison, twm, and Xmonad. That's far from an exhaustive list.
No shit. If you consider that Netbeans has even a single feature, its feature to cost ratio is infinite. Nothing could ever beat that. And even if something else costs only one dollar and it has a billion features, its feature to cost ratio is negligible in comparison.
And what if you DON'T think Eclipse is bad? What if you consider it to be pretty wonderful? Hmmm?
You do understand that 1080i has precisely the same spatial resolution as 1080p, right? There is no field fade (whatsoever) on an LCD, as there is on CRT. And the temporal resolution depends on the respective frame rates. 1080i is 60 fps in the US and other NTSC-legacy areas, and 50 in Europe and other PAL-legacy areas.
1080p may be either 24, 30, or 60 fps in the US, and 25 or 50 in Europe. The lower figures are the norm for film-derived material, since film has 24 fps. The lower figures give you in fact a LOWER temporal resolution for 1080p than for 1080i. The higher figures give you the SAME temporal resolution for 1080p as for 1080i. The difference is that in 1080i, only 1/2 the 2,073,600 pixels change every 1/fps seconds, and in 1080p all of the 2,073,600 pixels change every 1/fps seconds.[*]
In scenes with no motion, there is no difference in image quality whatsoever. None. 1080p and 1080i give identical images. Only in scenes with significantly rapid motion does 1080i introduce noticeable artifacts that aren't there with 1080p.
[*] The actual situation is modified by various motion-smoothing video-processing algorithms employed in any good-quality interlaced display.
Hyperbole warning! 720p video at normal viewing distance is anything but crap. It's very slightly less perfect than 1080p.
Actually, proper interpolative upscaling reduces spatial quantization "jaggies", which means you get a more accurate representation of the original real-world view. Yeah, bog-stupid upscaling by just duplicating every pixel 2 times horizontally and 2 times vertically does not do anything whatsoever for resolution.
Your false parallel is showing. You can always find something more compute-intensive, as much as necessary for any increase in compute-power to make a clear difference.
But indulgent masturbating with insane excess visual resolution stops making any perceptible difference to anyone at some point well below 4K on a 5.5" display. Hell, for my vision, anything much over 800x480 doesn't give me any gain whatsoever.
No it doesn't. It doesn't have a service rated for 10 MILLIbits per second. The service they provide me is 25 MEGAbits per second, and it costs $53.95 per month, not $90 per month.
I would be pretty confident that shared memory using atomic compare/exchange for notification and pickup would be the fastest on any hardware/software architecture. Definitely faster than Mach messages I would assume. Rather primitive, though. I would benchmark both named pipes and unix domain sockets as well, because they are architecturally nice.