Yes, I know I'm in the minority but as I've said in previous discussions, Continuum/Convergence would be that killer feature, provided they solve the "app gap".
A 64bit machine with a octo-core processor and 6GB of RAM, as found in flagship phones of today is plenty powerful enough for my needs as a consumer. (if not a monster workstation for professional purposes). Hook that up to a KVM switch and we're set, so at which point I ask myself why would I need a x86-powered desktop machine with worse specs at home as a depreciating asset?
A solution to the "app gap" problem, Anbox, was in an early development stage. It runs Android in a container, displaying Android apps in the Unity launcher.
Yes, it's hardly inspiring to plonk down 300euro (or whatever they were charging) for beta-level software on a Meizu or a BQ - I mean honestly who had heard of these manufacturers before? Using company money to purchase one as a developer device, perhaps, but for consumers to buy one for use as a daily driver, only the very keen.
Sailfish's collaboration with Xperia seems interesting if Sony would do the legwork to assist in porting the OS to each and every device. That way the curious can buy an off the shelf phone with the option of reverting to stock Android if they please.
Hijack the customer loyalty program. 2 or 3 cups of coffee during a working day - more for us nerds! Pay the bill while scanning your loyalty card or NFC enabled phone. Receive a notification with a link to any one of 500 web sites. Fill in a sock-puppet comment and a notification will be sent back to HQ to erase your bill.
Anyone with a conscience wouldn't sell their soul but for thousands of dollars a year worth of free coffee, plenty would.
you don't have to deal with charging anything, it just works, and it works better
Maybe once every 12 months I take the rechargeable AA battery out of the mouse and stick it in a battery charger overnight; hardly a major inconvenience.
I bought a corded USB mouse, by choice, only a few weeks ago.
It's much easier to unplug than fiddle with the wireless receiver - which had a nasty habit of waking up my laptop from sleep whenever a button on the mouse was accidentally clicked while in my backpack.
Most probably, the average Android phone has vendor supplied binary blobs galore.
The good news is that this week Freescale's iMX6 was freed - it can boot Android blob-free. It's not a widely popular SoC though, in terms of market share in phones and tablets.
I imagine they'd be more upset if MS partnered with Nvidia.
Nvidia's Denver architecture does some on-silicon code morphing (similar to Transmeta?) but specifically as an ARM licensee. If they used that technology to speed up x86 without paying the Intel Tax, I imagine it'd be lawyers getting busy.
Proposition: Apple are planning to release low end macOS products based on their ARM64 SoCs.
Imagine having a common ARM-based hardware spec for Watch, Mac Mini, iPhone, iPad, MacBook and iMac - only select 'Pro' models would require Intel Inside.
Such a transition would require checking an extra box in XCode for fat-binaries. Optionally they could develop a Rosetta-style translation layer for 'legacy' amd64 only binaries.
KHTML was forked by Webkit which was forked by Blink.
If Apple don't have the energy to maintain Webkit, then perhaps they should switch to Blink. Various products including Qt5 and Opera now have a Chromium backend.
disclaimer I'm a Firefox user so I support diversity of browsers but if we're pushing HTML5 as a platform then it makes no sense for iOS to lag.
With Linux you can take the hard drive out of one machine and run it on another. It need not be the same model even. Kernel modules will be dynamically loaded for the hardware detected at boot.
Obama signed Paris. The Australian Government under the Liberal Party refused to sign Kyoto - they are currently proposing to raid a renewable energy fund for 'clean coal'.
On climate change denial, or doing nothing while pretending to care, the Liberals are far to the right of the Democrats. Which you'd appreciate if you weren't name calling.
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Yes, I know I'm in the minority but as I've said in previous discussions, Continuum/Convergence would be that killer feature, provided they solve the "app gap".
A 64bit machine with a octo-core processor and 6GB of RAM, as found in flagship phones of today is plenty powerful enough for my needs as a consumer. (if not a monster workstation for professional purposes). Hook that up to a KVM switch and we're set, so at which point I ask myself why would I need a x86-powered desktop machine with worse specs at home as a depreciating asset?
A solution to the "app gap" problem, Anbox, was in an early development stage. It runs Android in a container, displaying Android apps in the Unity launcher.
Yes, it's hardly inspiring to plonk down 300euro (or whatever they were charging) for beta-level software on a Meizu or a BQ - I mean honestly who had heard of these manufacturers before? Using company money to purchase one as a developer device, perhaps, but for consumers to buy one for use as a daily driver, only the very keen.
Sailfish's collaboration with Xperia seems interesting if Sony would do the legwork to assist in porting the OS to each and every device. That way the curious can buy an off the shelf phone with the option of reverting to stock Android if they please.
Starbucks?
Hijack the customer loyalty program. 2 or 3 cups of coffee during a working day - more for us nerds! Pay the bill while scanning your loyalty card or NFC enabled phone. Receive a notification with a link to any one of 500 web sites. Fill in a sock-puppet comment and a notification will be sent back to HQ to erase your bill.
Anyone with a conscience wouldn't sell their soul but for thousands of dollars a year worth of free coffee, plenty would.
Oh shit, I shouldn't give them ideas! :-)
it sounds like Babs and Bill Murray had a lovechild.
At least we know now who the mother was in Broken Flowers!
A collectivist utopia would involve a modern efficient public transport system where ride sharing is a quaint 21st C anachronism.
I've planted three trees in the back yard, irrigated by rainwater.
It might take a decade to bear fruit but they're very easy to propagate from pit.
Tin can phones have been around since 1667. The extent to which they were mobile depended on the length of the conduit.
Hence the rhetorical question "how long is a piece of string?" was coined.
Yep, I installed it to see what all the fuss was about, then switched back fairly quickly!
Maybe once every 12 months I take the rechargeable AA battery out of the mouse and stick it in a battery charger overnight; hardly a major inconvenience.
I bought a corded USB mouse, by choice, only a few weeks ago.
It's much easier to unplug than fiddle with the wireless receiver - which had a nasty habit of waking up my laptop from sleep whenever a button on the mouse was accidentally clicked while in my backpack.
The OS on the console basically just Windows 10 S rebranded with a different shell and running one or more subsystems in Hyper-V?
Imagine a Beowulf cluster!
Continuum and x86 emulation sound intriguing.
But they'll still have the "app gap". So unless UWP gains any traction, handsets will suffer from "only available on iTunes or Google Play".
The absolute minimum requirement for Windows XP was a plain old Pentium, with neither MMX or SSE.
But you asked 'modern', so one might assume that software written in the last 15 years would target something newer.
The good news is that this week Freescale's iMX6 was freed - it can boot Android blob-free. It's not a widely popular SoC though, in terms of market share in phones and tablets.
The wins for business are
(a) fanless computers (office noise)
(b) lower purchase price
(c) lower energy bills
Cuthberta Cubicle-Worker won't have a noisy Core i7 beige tower on her desk if a tiny ARM64 device does the job.
I imagine they'd be more upset if MS partnered with Nvidia.
Nvidia's Denver architecture does some on-silicon code morphing (similar to Transmeta?) but specifically as an ARM licensee. If they used that technology to speed up x86 without paying the Intel Tax, I imagine it'd be lawyers getting busy.
Proposition: Apple are planning to release low end macOS products based on their ARM64 SoCs.
Imagine having a common ARM-based hardware spec for Watch, Mac Mini, iPhone, iPad, MacBook and iMac - only select 'Pro' models would require Intel Inside.
Such a transition would require checking an extra box in XCode for fat-binaries. Optionally they could develop a Rosetta-style translation layer for 'legacy' amd64 only binaries.
KHTML was forked by Webkit which was forked by Blink.
If Apple don't have the energy to maintain Webkit, then perhaps they should switch to Blink. Various products including Qt5 and Opera now have a Chromium backend.
disclaimer I'm a Firefox user so I support diversity of browsers but if we're pushing HTML5 as a platform then it makes no sense for iOS to lag.
Ah, so now we know what El Presidente was babbling about.
Covfefe lake.
Swap the SSD.
With Linux you can take the hard drive out of one machine and run it on another. It need not be the same model even. Kernel modules will be dynamically loaded for the hardware detected at boot.
this won't impact the new People's Democratic Republic of California, will it?
Obama signed Paris. The Australian Government under the Liberal Party refused to sign Kyoto - they are currently proposing to raid a renewable energy fund for 'clean coal'.
On climate change denial, or doing nothing while pretending to care, the Liberals are far to the right of the Democrats. Which you'd appreciate if you weren't name calling.
Trump might get that trade war after all as Europe and other like-minded trading blocs impose import tariffs.
But wherever the Republicans go, Australia's Liberals follow so it's no comfort living here.
One is never too old; I'm a "mature-age student" doing a master's degree.