Previously I might have agreed with you, but isn't a PS4/Xbone just a bog-standard x64 with AMD graphics? (granted, the ESRAM on Xbox complicates things a bit, but still) Most of the customisations they make there should be pretty much portable to the PC realm as well. Not going to get into the "PC master race" pissing contest, sorry.
Apparently the game runs at 900p on PS4 (and 720P on Xbone). I can't say I really can tell the resolution difference from 1080p at least while playing, but graphically (especially facial animations) Infamous is much more pleasing.
Rewriting history there - the Facebook "integration" came later, when it was released here in the Nordic countries it was just a login/pass. I don't think it was ever mandatory though? At least, as an existing customer, I've never needed to link my Spotify account to Facebook.
I don't know what kind of personalized settings you have on your Google account, but I'm unable to find your link from the first four pages of my results (I never venture any further, usually never past page two even).
(written from a "socialist" European nation, where data caps on mobile data, let alone broadband with associated restrictions, would be totally unheard of)
I don't know how much of a profit they're making on their APUs, but they're the winners of the current console generation (somewhat surprisingly, the winner of the previous gen was IBM with PPC/Cell). I'm hoping they stay afloat - they may only be competitive (when it comes to general x86/x64) on very few tasks that require very many cores (and even then probably using more watts at that), but it's never healthy to have a monopoly.
Try a 2013 Nexus 7? WRT software, I find it very odd that even today iOS doesn't support multiple/restricted profiles. They're not that useful in a phone but make perfect sense on a tablet - I can "sandbox" the tablet for my daughter to be kid-friendly (and deny access to a browser, for now).
But they don't do the same thing to Europe (Game of Thrones as an example).
Huh. I guess that I get HBO Nordic (with full HBO backlog, excluding sadly Deadwood and Oz due to some ownership issues) and recent episodes the next day they're broadcast in the US with local subtitles on my smart-ish TV was just a dream. Oh wait, it wasn't, GoT day today.
Why would they need less power consumption. The lumens per watt of most HID lamps is the same or better than LEDs. This Wikipedia page has several examples of the efficiency of different kinds of lights. Most of the LED examples they give show around 50-100 lumens per watt. For metal halide, they show 65-115 l/w, for high pressure sodium it's 85-150 l/w and for low pressure sodium it's 100-200 l/w. It sounds to me like the HID lamps are MORE efficient than the LEDs, so why is it obvious that the LEDs would use "much less power consumption"?
I'm not pretending to be an expert on the issue, as stated this is second hand information - however, that Wikipedia page seems to describe the kind of lights one would use in general lighting. The lights she's shown me are nothing of the kind, mostly a mixture of red(ish) and blue(ish) LEDs. Apparently that's what plants crave (I suppose the light has electrolytes).
My sister-in-law works developing LED lamps. She's a biologist, was headhunted from the university after her PhD (that was about how different types of UV light affect plant growth) by some engineers. Basically what she does is she tests various configurations of LED lights and fixtures, checks how they affect plant growth, tells the engineers to build "that one". Rinse and repeat.
What she's told me, and I have no reason to doubt this as she's not trying to sell me anything (and the fact that she's very proud of her work ethics), they're getting very much better results than with HIDs. With much less power consumption, obviously. Now, they specifically haven't tested cannabis, but I have a hard time believing the light requirements would be so drastically different than from other very light-needy plants.
The thing is though, they're not yet selling to consumers, just to large commercial greenhouses. The company is still early stages. And she's been unwilling to loan me a unit for test purposes, dammit;) But I'm willing to bet in a few years HIDs will no longer be the choice, at least when it comes to power consumption and heat; I expect the lights will be quite pricey, at least initially.
Oh you're right:) I was thinking it was something along the lines of "Battleship". For some reason I never got around to playing the reboot to the end, started it a few times already. Perhaps it's time I take it all the way.
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
From Clarke, but that was quoted at the beginning of some really brain-cancer-inducing movie somewhat recently. Perhaps this is why I cannot recall which movie.
Even if I were to run Windows, which I don't, and would be inclined to run random programs from the net with admin privileges, which I certainly am not, and even if admittedly there are some situations where modifying the... file that shall not be named is beneficial, you have to admit the guy is desperately in need of medication. And many of those points are redundant.
I have to agree. I mean, seriously, abortion? Mostly a non-issue in Europe. Yes, there is Ireland and Spain, but even there one can't say the majority oppose abortion. As for the minority in those countries, fuck 'em (them being Catholic, chances are somebody already is).
I really have no experience with ChromeOS, but I'm guessing you can't (isn't that HTML5 only as well?). I suppose you could replace the webkit/blink libraries in Android with something else, with the risk of breaking some applications; the point was that your application can use another rendering engine in the first place. As for your last question, absolutely yes. My S3 came with the usual assortment of Google apps and Play Store, but sans Chrome.
From my very cursory understanding of Firefox OS I'm guessing that's a no - there are no native apps at all. But my point was, you can run Gecko on Android. You can't on iOS. Chrome on iOS is really just a wrapper around UIWebView, you don't get to use the V8 Javascript engine. Whether this is reasonable due to security issues or just plain anticompetitive is debatable.
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Previously I might have agreed with you, but isn't a PS4/Xbone just a bog-standard x64 with AMD graphics? (granted, the ESRAM on Xbox complicates things a bit, but still) Most of the customisations they make there should be pretty much portable to the PC realm as well. Not going to get into the "PC master race" pissing contest, sorry.
Which are all AMD when it comes to graphics?
Apparently the game runs at 900p on PS4 (and 720P on Xbone). I can't say I really can tell the resolution difference from 1080p at least while playing, but graphically (especially facial animations) Infamous is much more pleasing.
Yeah, about that... first of all, it is also available on 360/PS3. And after a few hours of gameplay, looks much worse than Infamous.
But your assumption is wrong, Spotify is from Sweden.
Or rather, my Facebook account to Spotify. Anyway.
Rewriting history there - the Facebook "integration" came later, when it was released here in the Nordic countries it was just a login/pass. I don't think it was ever mandatory though? At least, as an existing customer, I've never needed to link my Spotify account to Facebook.
Or perhaps they should not run over four people while drunk. But oh wait, no harm done, guilty as rich!
I don't know what kind of personalized settings you have on your Google account, but I'm unable to find your link from the first four pages of my results (I never venture any further, usually never past page two even).
Now the PS4 is out and desperate for games (go ahead, name a PS4 exclusive)
Easy. Infamous: Second son. Which apparently sold better than Titanfall on Xbone.
How's that free market working out for you?
(written from a "socialist" European nation, where data caps on mobile data, let alone broadband with associated restrictions, would be totally unheard of)
I don't know how much of a profit they're making on their APUs, but they're the winners of the current console generation (somewhat surprisingly, the winner of the previous gen was IBM with PPC/Cell). I'm hoping they stay afloat - they may only be competitive (when it comes to general x86/x64) on very few tasks that require very many cores (and even then probably using more watts at that), but it's never healthy to have a monopoly.
Try a 2013 Nexus 7? WRT software, I find it very odd that even today iOS doesn't support multiple/restricted profiles. They're not that useful in a phone but make perfect sense on a tablet - I can "sandbox" the tablet for my daughter to be kid-friendly (and deny access to a browser, for now).
But they don't do the same thing to Europe (Game of Thrones as an example).
Huh. I guess that I get HBO Nordic (with full HBO backlog, excluding sadly Deadwood and Oz due to some ownership issues) and recent episodes the next day they're broadcast in the US with local subtitles on my smart-ish TV was just a dream. Oh wait, it wasn't, GoT day today.
Why would they need less power consumption. The lumens per watt of most HID lamps is the same or better than LEDs. This Wikipedia page has several examples of the efficiency of different kinds of lights. Most of the LED examples they give show around 50-100 lumens per watt. For metal halide, they show 65-115 l/w, for high pressure sodium it's 85-150 l/w and for low pressure sodium it's 100-200 l/w. It sounds to me like the HID lamps are MORE efficient than the LEDs, so why is it obvious that the LEDs would use "much less power consumption"?
I'm not pretending to be an expert on the issue, as stated this is second hand information - however, that Wikipedia page seems to describe the kind of lights one would use in general lighting. The lights she's shown me are nothing of the kind, mostly a mixture of red(ish) and blue(ish) LEDs. Apparently that's what plants crave (I suppose the light has electrolytes).
My sister-in-law works developing LED lamps. She's a biologist, was headhunted from the university after her PhD (that was about how different types of UV light affect plant growth) by some engineers. Basically what she does is she tests various configurations of LED lights and fixtures, checks how they affect plant growth, tells the engineers to build "that one". Rinse and repeat.
What she's told me, and I have no reason to doubt this as she's not trying to sell me anything (and the fact that she's very proud of her work ethics), they're getting very much better results than with HIDs. With much less power consumption, obviously. Now, they specifically haven't tested cannabis, but I have a hard time believing the light requirements would be so drastically different than from other very light-needy plants.
The thing is though, they're not yet selling to consumers, just to large commercial greenhouses. The company is still early stages. And she's been unwilling to loan me a unit for test purposes, dammit ;) But I'm willing to bet in a few years HIDs will no longer be the choice, at least when it comes to power consumption and heat; I expect the lights will be quite pricey, at least initially.
I managed to right a dissertation on MacWrite back in 93 without ever once thinking it needed more functionality.
I'm guessing it didn't include a spell checker?
Oh you're right :) I was thinking it was something along the lines of "Battleship". For some reason I never got around to playing the reboot to the end, started it a few times already. Perhaps it's time I take it all the way.
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
From Clarke, but that was quoted at the beginning of some really brain-cancer-inducing movie somewhat recently. Perhaps this is why I cannot recall which movie.
...or maybe, just maybe, I have better things to do than argue with schizophrenic ACs?
Even if I were to run Windows, which I don't, and would be inclined to run random programs from the net with admin privileges, which I certainly am not, and even if admittedly there are some situations where modifying the... file that shall not be named is beneficial, you have to admit the guy is desperately in need of medication. And many of those points are redundant.
I have to agree. I mean, seriously, abortion? Mostly a non-issue in Europe. Yes, there is Ireland and Spain, but even there one can't say the majority oppose abortion. As for the minority in those countries, fuck 'em (them being Catholic, chances are somebody already is).
Shhhh, quiet, you'll summon APK. I've heard if you say "HOSTS file" in front of a mirror three times he'll appear in person.
I really have no experience with ChromeOS, but I'm guessing you can't (isn't that HTML5 only as well?). I suppose you could replace the webkit/blink libraries in Android with something else, with the risk of breaking some applications; the point was that your application can use another rendering engine in the first place. As for your last question, absolutely yes. My S3 came with the usual assortment of Google apps and Play Store, but sans Chrome.
Can I run a WebKit based browser on FireFox OS?
From my very cursory understanding of Firefox OS I'm guessing that's a no - there are no native apps at all. But my point was, you can run Gecko on Android. You can't on iOS. Chrome on iOS is really just a wrapper around UIWebView, you don't get to use the V8 Javascript engine. Whether this is reasonable due to security issues or just plain anticompetitive is debatable.