Exactly, comparing apples to oranges, how BRILLIANT!! If Ouya's manufacturers think they can compete with Micro$hit or Sony, they must be smoking crack. If I were them, I'd try to get some more audio/video-related apps onto the catalog so that I might be able to instead compete with Roku.
you can't watch live sporting events over the internet jackass
Ahem, Major League Baseball, NBA and NHL let you watch live events online these days, and on your TV if you have their streaming apps on your Roku or other boxen of that ilk. The NFL will probably NEVER pony up with this kinda' thing in our lifetime unfortunately.
This is what they were able to build. Rev 2. (probably when they get to mass producing it) will have better battery life
You say this and yet a lot of us are still having this problem with our smartphones which have come a long way since they were first introduced to the geek public. I think it's time we gave an X-Prize to the person who can create a better battery for mobile devices than the ones that are available now.
Not to mention that the Facebook app gets bigger and bigger in size every time it's updated with a new feature. Heck! It's too big for most entry-level phones now (one of which I have, an LG Optimus T). If I want to have Facebook AND Twitter access on my phone, I have to use a two-in-one app. None of those are all that good.
I'm sure they want me to use Google+ for all this, or something else (Chrome apps) that they will kill in another year, or just can't be bothered to support (like Reader, at this moment)
Google+ is yet something totally different. It's basically a Facebook substitute which, unlike Facebook, seems to act a bit like a news reader (depending on who you +1). If someone were to combine full Facebook functionality (Pulse and Taptu don't count) with an RSS receiver (audio-video enabled, thank you very much), that'd be a coup.
Pulse and Taptu are nice. They're compatible with just about everything. They have web interfaces (both of which are top notch), and they use up very little flash memory. Taptu's even compatible with Google ChromeBooks.
Well, you may be paying a little less because it sounds like these games won't be delivered on hard media of any kind and therefore there will be no packaging. Think XBox Live On Demand with more current games. Wanna back-up your game library? Buy a bushel of flash memory sticks. Just sayin'.
I dunno...if doing this professionally, I'd say concentrate more on RHEL. From my experience, that is the predominate (if not only) version of Linux out there in big business and govt. server rooms.
Let's not forget that Ubuntu is based on Debian which is just as good a server OS as RHEL is, no LTS policy like Ubuntu has unfortunately.
My own observation from where I work: 67 Ipads, 123 iphones, 35 android based phones, and 1 bluetooth keyboard. The bluetooth keyboard is used with an android phone.
If you're gonna' do that, you might as well hook your phone up to a monitor. Seems like there are plenty of apps out there that let you access or display your phone on your desktop PC or laptop, but vice-versa has been a no-show lately, at least on iOS.
in NYC so many people have wifi that i get better performance with cat5. i got tired of my xbox disconnecting from Live and started using Cat5 instead.
i have something like 20 hot spots around me. 5GHz will be nice for a few years until everyone gets on it as well.
I have that same problem down here in Louisville, KY. The downtown area is chock full of Wi-Fi hotspots. I thought having a dual-band router would help with this problem, but apparently not. The extent to which each device on my network has problems connecting is different (and from day-to-day for that matter), but my XBox hardly has any connection problems. Go figure.
Why Google didn't trump Samsung and pony up a Nexus tablet with this feature is beyond me. They're going to get their lunch eaten the same way Apple did because of this, and then where would Samsung and all the other Android phone and tablet makers be?
Well, those are certainly some reasons to use Linux from Scratch or Gentoo. However, you haven't given us any reasons not to use Linux Mint except the nebulous comment about "true traditional systems."
OK, here's another one for ya'. Not much of a user base, except in North America (according to DistroWatch). Not to mention all that the Cinnamon desktop offers is eye candy and bogs down my system in particular (fixed that by switching to XFCE).
This is a horrible release and should be skipped. If Fedora continues to go in this direction, I will have to abandon it, despite the fact that the only other decent alternative is Ubuntu, and I despise it. I've been an RH/Fedora user since 1999 or so.
That's all fine 'n dandy if you're into Ubuntu. But if you want to stick with a RedHat-based distro (as is Fedora), you should give OpenSUSE, CentOS or Mageia a look. Given all three a try in VB and they're all pretty nice. Mageia has the newest version of the Linux kernel (3.8.0).
With the department of homeland security recommendations perhaps we can finally move on and get rid of these dinosaurs that are a liability to our employers.
Maybe when Barack Obama isn't president anymore. Right now he's fucking up our economy and I don't see any business wanting to upgrade their computers, no mater what the DHS says, anytime soon.:(
The cult of anti-intellectualism has achieved new lows.
Backing up your photos is not a bother. There are a legion of tools that will make it easy and automated and will even ensure that your data is offsite. Doing it manually is also pretty trivial too.
You could simply have a directory called "Stuff I Want to Keep" and just copy that from place to place using the GUI of your choice.
Storage is big cheap and plentiful. Interfaces are shiny and happy. Most people could preserve their most prized data on the phones.
Again, the problem isn't preservation. The real problem is control. What you really have to worry about is Instagram changing it's terms of service or losing your phone on the train.
This makes me think of all the cloud services out there that we can use to do this kinda' thing. Dropbox and Skydrive especially come to mind because they now have smart TV apps. The Dropbox app is on Roku and the Skydrive app is on the XBox 360. Not sure if any such services have apps actually loaded into any smart TVs, but these both let you view your photos on your TV and present them nicely.
Exactly. Solution? Don't buy a Surface if you want to run Linux / Android on it.
It's so deliciously simple.
I don't like Win8 either.
Guess what? I haven't bought it.
Just more reason to double-down on ultrabooks running Windows 7. I'm sure these'll be going the way of the dinosaur sometime down the road. But these look to be just the ticket for anyone who wants a dual-bootable PC with a near tablet-like form factor
Everyone keeps saying how Windows RT and the Surface is terrible for businesses because you can't use Office RT for profit or you can't manage the devices with group policies, you can't run legacy software.... well yeah. That's what the Surface Pro is for... hence the "Pro" moniker. Surface Pro does absolutely everything a Windows 8 desktop does. Sure it's going to be heavier and cost a little more, but that's the price you pay for all that extra functionality.
Not to mention having to wait three months to get one. Microsoft's idea of not simultaneously releasing Surface with RT and Surface with 8 Pro is completely stupid!
Also considering the initial startup costs, just to break in would be very difficult.
Cell towers are not cheap, nor the network wot support them.
Not to mention much less real estate to put up towers in the UK as compared to the good ol' USA, unless you plan on installing them in the Scottish highlands. where they'd most surely become loch-ness monster food. Aye!!
as long as you have a good network link and you better hope it's cap free and don't even think of roaming as it can cost $10 or more pre MEG!!
Sure makes me long for the days of 'muni-wi-fi', wi-fi you could access from nearly anywhere in the city for free. A big thing from about 2006-2008, most cities scrapped the project after it bled cash.
We go through this every year about this time. If you're so freaking afraid that your tech product is going to flop, push it back to March or April and watch your company's stock price go down the tubes.
...and meanwhile Microsoft's Windows 8/RT team is probably sitting idly by somewhere watching all this 'bullshit' and laughing their asses off. Windows 8 and RT will give iOS and Android a run for their money. Maybe not at the outset, but eventually.
My guess is that if this does gain momentum, it will be for a limited set of distros such as Ubuntu, to ease the issues of installation problems, drivers, what have you.
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Exactly, comparing apples to oranges, how BRILLIANT!! If Ouya's manufacturers think they can compete with Micro$hit or Sony, they must be smoking crack. If I were them, I'd try to get some more audio/video-related apps onto the catalog so that I might be able to instead compete with Roku.
you can't watch live sporting events over the internet jackass
Ahem, Major League Baseball, NBA and NHL let you watch live events online these days, and on your TV if you have their streaming apps on your Roku or other boxen of that ilk. The NFL will probably NEVER pony up with this kinda' thing in our lifetime unfortunately.
This is what they were able to build. Rev 2. (probably when they get to mass producing it) will have better battery life
You say this and yet a lot of us are still having this problem with our smartphones which have come a long way since they were first introduced to the geek public. I think it's time we gave an X-Prize to the person who can create a better battery for mobile devices than the ones that are available now.
Not to mention that the Facebook app gets bigger and bigger in size every time it's updated with a new feature. Heck! It's too big for most entry-level phones now (one of which I have, an LG Optimus T). If I want to have Facebook AND Twitter access on my phone, I have to use a two-in-one app. None of those are all that good.
I'm sure they want me to use Google+ for all this, or something else (Chrome apps) that they will kill in another year, or just can't be bothered to support (like Reader, at this moment)
Google+ is yet something totally different. It's basically a Facebook substitute which, unlike Facebook, seems to act a bit like a news reader (depending on who you +1). If someone were to combine full Facebook functionality (Pulse and Taptu don't count) with an RSS receiver (audio-video enabled, thank you very much), that'd be a coup.
Pulse and Taptu are nice. They're compatible with just about everything. They have web interfaces (both of which are top notch), and they use up very little flash memory. Taptu's even compatible with Google ChromeBooks.
Well, you may be paying a little less because it sounds like these games won't be delivered on hard media of any kind and therefore there will be no packaging. Think XBox Live On Demand with more current games. Wanna back-up your game library? Buy a bushel of flash memory sticks. Just sayin'.
I dunno...if doing this professionally, I'd say concentrate more on RHEL. From my experience, that is the predominate (if not only) version of Linux out there in big business and govt. server rooms.
Let's not forget that Ubuntu is based on Debian which is just as good a server OS as RHEL is, no LTS policy like Ubuntu has unfortunately.
My own observation from where I work: 67 Ipads, 123 iphones, 35 android based phones, and 1 bluetooth keyboard. The bluetooth keyboard is used with an android phone.
If you're gonna' do that, you might as well hook your phone up to a monitor. Seems like there are plenty of apps out there that let you access or display your phone on your desktop PC or laptop, but vice-versa has been a no-show lately, at least on iOS.
in NYC so many people have wifi that i get better performance with cat5. i got tired of my xbox disconnecting from Live and started using Cat5 instead.
i have something like 20 hot spots around me. 5GHz will be nice for a few years until everyone gets on it as well.
I have that same problem down here in Louisville, KY. The downtown area is chock full of Wi-Fi hotspots. I thought having a dual-band router would help with this problem, but apparently not. The extent to which each device on my network has problems connecting is different (and from day-to-day for that matter), but my XBox hardly has any connection problems. Go figure.
Why Google didn't trump Samsung and pony up a Nexus tablet with this feature is beyond me. They're going to get their lunch eaten the same way Apple did because of this, and then where would Samsung and all the other Android phone and tablet makers be?
Well, those are certainly some reasons to use Linux from Scratch or Gentoo. However, you haven't given us any reasons not to use Linux Mint except the nebulous comment about "true traditional systems."
OK, here's another one for ya'. Not much of a user base, except in North America (according to DistroWatch). Not to mention all that the Cinnamon desktop offers is eye candy and bogs down my system in particular (fixed that by switching to XFCE).
This is a horrible release and should be skipped. If Fedora continues to go in this direction, I will have to abandon it, despite the fact that the only other decent alternative is Ubuntu, and I despise it. I've been an RH/Fedora user since 1999 or so.
That's all fine 'n dandy if you're into Ubuntu. But if you want to stick with a RedHat-based distro (as is Fedora), you should give OpenSUSE, CentOS or Mageia a look. Given all three a try in VB and they're all pretty nice. Mageia has the newest version of the Linux kernel (3.8.0).
With the department of homeland security recommendations perhaps we can finally move on and get rid of these dinosaurs that are a liability to our employers.
Maybe when Barack Obama isn't president anymore. Right now he's fucking up our economy and I don't see any business wanting to upgrade their computers, no mater what the DHS says, anytime soon. :(
The originals are what should be modded funny.
The cult of anti-intellectualism has achieved new lows.
Backing up your photos is not a bother. There are a legion of tools that will make it easy and automated and will even ensure that your data is offsite. Doing it manually is also pretty trivial too.
You could simply have a directory called "Stuff I Want to Keep" and just copy that from place to place using the GUI of your choice.
Storage is big cheap and plentiful. Interfaces are shiny and happy. Most people could preserve their most prized data on the phones.
Again, the problem isn't preservation. The real problem is control. What you really have to worry about is Instagram changing it's terms of service or losing your phone on the train.
This makes me think of all the cloud services out there that we can use to do this kinda' thing. Dropbox and Skydrive especially come to mind because they now have smart TV apps. The Dropbox app is on Roku and the Skydrive app is on the XBox 360. Not sure if any such services have apps actually loaded into any smart TVs, but these both let you view your photos on your TV and present them nicely.
As if you needed another reason.
Exactly. Solution? Don't buy a Surface if you want to run Linux / Android on it.
It's so deliciously simple.
I don't like Win8 either.
Guess what? I haven't bought it.
Just more reason to double-down on ultrabooks running Windows 7. I'm sure these'll be going the way of the dinosaur sometime down the road. But these look to be just the ticket for anyone who wants a dual-bootable PC with a near tablet-like form factor
Everyone keeps saying how Windows RT and the Surface is terrible for businesses because you can't use Office RT for profit or you can't manage the devices with group policies, you can't run legacy software.... well yeah. That's what the Surface Pro is for... hence the "Pro" moniker. Surface Pro does absolutely everything a Windows 8 desktop does. Sure it's going to be heavier and cost a little more, but that's the price you pay for all that extra functionality.
Not to mention having to wait three months to get one. Microsoft's idea of not simultaneously releasing Surface with RT and Surface with 8 Pro is completely stupid!
Also considering the initial startup costs, just to break in would be very difficult. Cell towers are not cheap, nor the network wot support them.
Not to mention much less real estate to put up towers in the UK as compared to the good ol' USA, unless you plan on installing them in the Scottish highlands. where they'd most surely become loch-ness monster food. Aye!!
as long as you have a good network link and you better hope it's cap free and don't even think of roaming as it can cost $10 or more pre MEG!!
Sure makes me long for the days of 'muni-wi-fi', wi-fi you could access from nearly anywhere in the city for free. A big thing from about 2006-2008, most cities scrapped the project after it bled cash.
Android? You are weird. A nice Linux with KDE is what this hardware needs.
Linux on all computers, that's what the planet needs!
They'll have to wait a few months to do that. The Windows 8 version of Surface isn't supposed to be available until January.
We go through this every year about this time. If you're so freaking afraid that your tech product is going to flop, push it back to March or April and watch your company's stock price go down the tubes.
Both are equally guilty of bullshit.
My guess is that if this does gain momentum, it will be for a limited set of distros such as Ubuntu, to ease the issues of installation problems, drivers, what have you.
That's for sure. Fedora is the other possibility.
C'mon guys! This is a family site. That wad a teensy bit gross.