A TV is supposed to do ONE thing: take a signal and display it. Stretching things a bit, it could play media files from an USB stick. There, done. Nothing beyond that. It's not supposed to go online, it's not supposed to run applications, it's not a computer, it's a goddamn TV. If I wanted to make it "smart" I'd just buy some $30 media box.
After I got a Logitech Trackman Marble, I pretty much stopped using mice. You lose some precision, but the comfort is priceless. Wrist pains almost completely gone.
These days they're really pushing AMOLED screens. Which is a GODDAMN FUCKING RETARDED IDEA because those damn things are too susceptible to burn-in. And this is especially noticeable in the areas where there is a static image most of the time -- such as the on-screen buttons. So, by getting rid of those, they mitigate this problem a little. Of course, the correct solution would be to not use AMOLED screens.
This is obvious: you interact with different devices in different ways. As a standard, phones have small screens, touch, and gyroscope, whereas desktops have large screens, keyboard, and mouse. So each ecosystem -- not only the OS, but every application for it -- is designed around that.
Sure, you can put a system where it was not intended. Buy a Win10 tablet, or run Android-x86 on your PC, and get ready for all the programs that will have clumsy interfaces, or don't work quite right, or don't work at all, because they were designed for a different way to interact.
A "voluntary signal" is worth almost nothing. Cross-site tracking should be blocked by the browser. I know Firefox and Safari have those as options, at least.
I recall one company attempted that and Apple crushed it with lawyers.
Just forget it. Using a hackintosh professionally is suicidal. You're using a system whose developers try their damnedest to make it NOT run on your unauthorized machine. Even if you get it to work now, the next version could break completely. (Trust me, happened to me.)
Man, I remember that, talk about a wasted opportunity. They had Windows Messenger, MSN Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, Lync, Skype, Skype for Business, Teams... and you just wonder, what talks to what? What's the difference? Just make one goddamn chat program, make it good and polished and available in every platform. But instead they lost focus and people stopped using it.
I take it you don't remember all of the abandonware distros put out on the netbooks, nettops and cheap desktops a decade ago that where all dead within a year only to be replaced with XP Starter edition.
Here in Huezil, around that time, I recall that OEMs got a tax relief for PCs sold with free software -- but it had to have local support. So we had those short-lived distros like Satux and Fenix. Not that it mattered, almost everyone just ran pirated XP on them.
The market was not so solidified back then. MeeGo had a shot at taking a nice chunk of the market. But WP did not, for a number of reasons:
> Carriers who wasted time and money preparing for MeeGo were pissed. > There was no upgrade path for app developers from anything to WP. > Microsoft's acquisition of Skype made carriers see them as a major enemy. > Even before the first Lumias came out, it was known they would not be upgradable. > Early versions of WP were very buggy and lacking in features. > Nokia's crap management ruined their once-great relationship with retailers.
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"No one is buying our console. What can we do?"
"Let's produce a model that lacks some functions."
"Genius!"
Yes, 112mph is arbitrary. If 80mph is the legal limit, it should be locked to that.
A TV is supposed to do ONE thing: take a signal and display it. Stretching things a bit, it could play media files from an USB stick. There, done. Nothing beyond that. It's not supposed to go online, it's not supposed to run applications, it's not a computer, it's a goddamn TV. If I wanted to make it "smart" I'd just buy some $30 media box.
Why buy new hardware, just install Linux.
That's Ms. Marvel, right. Captain Marvel is Mar-Vell of the Kree. That's the only one that matters.
Also got a Nexus 6... another dud?
Got an S5 here that says otherwise.
After I got a Logitech Trackman Marble, I pretty much stopped using mice. You lose some precision, but the comfort is priceless. Wrist pains almost completely gone.
My experience: three fairly old phones here - Note II, S5, Nexus 6 - all with noticeable burn-in and yellowing.
These days they're really pushing AMOLED screens. Which is a GODDAMN FUCKING RETARDED IDEA because those damn things are too susceptible to burn-in. And this is especially noticeable in the areas where there is a static image most of the time -- such as the on-screen buttons. So, by getting rid of those, they mitigate this problem a little. Of course, the correct solution would be to not use AMOLED screens.
As much as I like Linux, Windows is still where all the games are.
This is obvious: you interact with different devices in different ways. As a standard, phones have small screens, touch, and gyroscope, whereas desktops have large screens, keyboard, and mouse. So each ecosystem -- not only the OS, but every application for it -- is designed around that.
Sure, you can put a system where it was not intended. Buy a Win10 tablet, or run Android-x86 on your PC, and get ready for all the programs that will have clumsy interfaces, or don't work quite right, or don't work at all, because they were designed for a different way to interact.
That sounds fine, until you think of the possibility of this progression:
>add shit feature as optional
>make shit feature standard
>remove non-shit option
A "voluntary signal" is worth almost nothing. Cross-site tracking should be blocked by the browser. I know Firefox and Safari have those as options, at least.
I recall one company attempted that and Apple crushed it with lawyers.
Just forget it. Using a hackintosh professionally is suicidal. You're using a system whose developers try their damnedest to make it NOT run on your unauthorized machine. Even if you get it to work now, the next version could break completely. (Trust me, happened to me.)
how is MSN doing M$
Man, I remember that, talk about a wasted opportunity. They had Windows Messenger, MSN Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, Lync, Skype, Skype for Business, Teams... and you just wonder, what talks to what? What's the difference? Just make one goddamn chat program, make it good and polished and available in every platform. But instead they lost focus and people stopped using it.
Yes, that: 10 is a headache, stay on 7 while you can.
I take it you don't remember all of the abandonware distros put out on the netbooks, nettops and cheap desktops a decade ago that where all dead within a year only to be replaced with XP Starter edition.
Here in Huezil, around that time, I recall that OEMs got a tax relief for PCs sold with free software -- but it had to have local support. So we had those short-lived distros like Satux and Fenix. Not that it mattered, almost everyone just ran pirated XP on them.
and the OS could not be upgraded to Windows 10
And nothing of value was lost.
MacRumors said the new Pro will come out this year and will be again modular and easily upgradable.
The market was not so solidified back then. MeeGo had a shot at taking a nice chunk of the market. But WP did not, for a number of reasons:
> Carriers who wasted time and money preparing for MeeGo were pissed.
> There was no upgrade path for app developers from anything to WP.
> Microsoft's acquisition of Skype made carriers see them as a major enemy.
> Even before the first Lumias came out, it was known they would not be upgradable.
> Early versions of WP were very buggy and lacking in features.
> Nokia's crap management ruined their once-great relationship with retailers.
To hell with Windows Phone, it is the reason why we lost MeeGo.
No, Deadpool is actually a ripoff of Deathstroke. Or he started as one, before they made him a parody.
The only laptops with a truly good keyboard are MSI's Titan series, most of which use Cherry switches.
Pity that Namor will be seen as a ripoff, even though its comics came out first.