Would have been to expose a 'car API' to the user and provide an iPhone app using that API. I reckon stability and user experience must be important to Mercedes, so they could keep development in house to meet their quality requirements.
And: Maybe it's just me, but, Mercedes ads make bubbles of quality and conservative values appear in my head. Adding twitter and facebook integration to that, makes that bubbles burst right away.
The heatsink + fan approach has one boundary layer on the heatsink, this approach creates two:
1. On the surface of the rotating heat sink 2. On the air cushion where the rotating heat sink "sits" on
What makes sense is to use energy efficient systems, not using any CPU-/GPU-fans and use a large and slowly rotating fan moving the air through all of the case and go for standard heatsinks on your chips. Voila: quiet, energy efficient and efficient at the same time.
Biggest problem in the linux world is the weak support from vendors for their video hardware and the not so up to date X11.
Windows in vmware on linux feels snappier then native linux. This is my number one showstopper for linux.
Google OS may be as slim as it wants to be, if the video drivers slows it down, no one will be happy.
They way of living in the suburbs and driving with an SUV downtown is coming to an end, at least in europe. More and more cities create car-free zones and those zones tend to extend over the years.
Getting a spot to park your car is impossible anyway, so this is not that much of a problem to me.
Really. I bought her a new (small) pc, dualcore athlon64, 1GB Ram, nothing fancy.
I put hardy as a late beta on it, she had the same tools as under windows. That is firefox, thunderbird and openoffice. Now she has instant messaging too anf some more stuff.
To be honest:
- Without any help she would be lost. You need to get the ppl started with the new system.
- She quite quickly understood the concept of the folders "documents, pictures" etc... and uses them on a daily basis.
- After not using a pc for about 3 weeks, she wasn't even able to type "@" in her email programm, and of course she always blamed the new system. This must be some "imune-system-reaction" against learning something new. That's how i saw it.
- I forced her to remember at least some basic passwords. email and such. So she would not forget them in the future and i always tell her that i do not keep her passwords. It's her stuff, she has to take care. -> this leads to responsibility and identification with the system: MY email, MY webbrowser etc...
After all i think she is not perfectly happy with the system, but that's more the problem of the bad mouse, or the rather old screen than the OS. She uses it, she gets used to it and she can do her work. -> fine:D
Oh yeah: AMD64-SMP Kernel, all the Xorg-AIGLX-Bling is enabled, excluding wobbly-windows.
Games require performant hardware and proper drivers. The same driver the CAD-Guys and all other professionals work with. And as we speak of graphicsdrivers with speak of the most important interface the day to day user is cronfronted with: the screen and the gui.
Drivers mean anything! And gamers trigger good driver-development.
it has been explained over and over, that space exploration or space colonization (or whatever) is *not* helping us with an overcrowded earth. You may colonize new planets, but you cannot move significant amounts of ppl from one planet to another. It is simply not possible. You would have to build about (raw estimate) one "seat" in 3-5 seconds (don't nail me on that, but it's about this number) just to stop the population growth. Even if regular deaths would "support" you in your task, you never can build this fast.
Rather build condoms or such for your task. Sorry pal.
- mp3 is bad - cd-da is bad too, because its standards (44Khz/16 bit sampling) can not compete with recent (and widely used) codecs (AAC, OGG, WMV) - vinyl is better than cd-da, which does not(!) mean "we all should go back to the analog world because digital is crap". - sa-cd is a hack and deserves to be not accepted
So where to go? Easy. Look at home cinema. They managed to get DD5.1 to a wide audience. And if you do not own a 5.1 Set, you just can ouput all channels to your regular stereo (2chn) system. The future will decouple the codec from the media. Even car systems will just read DVDs and interpret whats on them. _Hopefully_ this will be ogg which is efficient enough for the next 50 years in terms of compression, ability to compress lossless, raw data specs and channel count.
Oh and one more point: I cant stand the guys with the golden plugs and their 5000 $ home equipment listening to CD-DAs arguing that mp3 is shit... as we wouldn't know that. But your 5000 $ stuff doesn't make the CD any better.
- they use symbian OS for all their phones. a system which names the devices A,B,C etc... and runs itself on drive "C". I wonder where that idea came from?
- yes. the system is that bad as the one they take the naming scheme from. I once had a 7650 and i would be surprised if it has not gotten worser.
- it just weighs 130 gramms. Putting all the features aside, i call this a "forgotten in the car phone" and "not there when you need it phone".
I have a K750i since nearly 2 years now and use the device to sync it to my calendar. It is only capable of syncing up to 300 entries! Allthough the device has ~100MB of memory. My question to sony was answered that all their phones (except the business line) can handle only up to 300 calendar entries-> totaly useless for me now.
In many points you are absolutely right, but then you get it terribly wrong.
Because you cross the point where "something is easy to use" and "something is just bad". Using MySQL GUI interfaces (mysqlcc for example) is absolutely intuitive to somebody with theoretical knowledge of relational databases. It gets more and more complicated the less the user knows about databases! Same with VB(.NET). I'm sick ranting about this piece of shit language to ppl who just want it "easy and only know VB".
And this is the exact point for the success of Microsoft. PPl with no knowledge at all can set up SQL servers and LDAP directories (for the mcses : ADS) without any knowledge of this stuff. They learn they can insert data and create user accounts, delete tables and organize in "organizational units". They think of this as "MS features" and have no clue about the matter at all.
This discussion is coming up from time to tim when ppl defend Outlook/Exchange as being a groupware and rant about Notes/Domino. Linux ppl want it easy too, but we have to have a point, where we can distinct the 2% ppl with skill out of the 100% with a certificate. "Administrating" an SQL Server makes you nothing, you would not even get a DB2 Process up running!
And thank god for the difference he made and we can clearly see.
the equation made sense in cho's mind as well as the equation of the replied post "made sense" to the poster (to carry a gun even if not needed). I wanted to point out that whatever anybody thinks "making sense" should _NOT_ be connected to ppl carrying guns.
- You are wrong?!
- i am wrong?!
- Cho was wrong?!
I don't care, take away the guns! Thats what laws are for!
i was using mandriva for years and was quite happy with it. But the switch to ubuntu was a quick one. Why?:
- Mandrake has a funny way in holding back recent rpm's to paying customers. I don't want to hasstle about such things!
- Mandrake has urpmi (which is good), but uses rpm (same as suse/FC for example, which is bad!). Updates are more like
"rpm -i --forceall --pray *.rpm"
and you are happy when only 2 or 3 Icons are missing. Suse Users tend to go to forums then and write "no problem with suse so far".
- Ubuntu is targeted at home _AND_ business use! It is for developers _AS WELL_ as for end users. Suse-Users are lost without yast and FC ppl somehow have the feeling to be rebelish because not using ubuntu.
"I would rather have it and not need it, than need it and not have it."
The guy shooting on the campus "needed" the guns too. It could have been, that from his point of view, he was in the position of the "defender". 2 days earlier one or more guys/professors somebody did something wrong... you turn around in anger and "defend" yourself later.
The point in not allowing guns to the general public, is that "the general public" has no need to defend itself (against whom anayway?) but is rather stupid enough to shoot each other because of bad grades or called names or because one out of 2000 has XX-Chromosomes and he "knows best" why he needs the gun.
Europe is doing a good thing in not permiting guns.
You say:
"I would rather have it and not need it, than need it and not have it."
I say:
"I know that i could carry it with responsibility, but i know there are enough fucktards who cant! So ban em!"
- Yast is not good as anybody thinks, it just helps those who do not know how to get things running. Which leads to that Suse ppl can not use linux without yast. (Though there are allready good tools for linux to do all what yast does).
- if something is not working out of the box you may have to build it. Ubuntu makes it easy with apt-get to collect all dev packets...suse is (and has allways been) the hell according to that fact. - recent kde packages are installed in suse with "rpm --forceeverything etc...." this is the rpm (and suse) way of doing things, and this is done by suse users all day. Plus they are happy if it is still working somehow afterwards... typical suse style. you really dont want this as a stable basis, do you? - in the meantime ubuntu even provides kde4 packages to install parallel to your existing kde3 install. Without "funny effects" to the stable base. - ubuntu has a way larger community and is has way more recent packages (if you want them)
All this leads to:
-> you want actual easy to install binaries -> use ubuntu -> you want even more recent cvs versions and build them -> use ubuntu -> you want a system with a reasonable default config (no suse config, but a linux config) -> use ubuntu. -> you dont want to hastle with internals -> now you can chose (suse/ubuntu/mandriva)
aha P4 with 2,66 Ghz.
Must be as fast as Pentium M with 1,3, huh? Or am i wrong? I overrate that piece of crap too often (the P4).
Not to forget the cooling that has to be brought up for a P4 System.
I had lots of P4 Systems in the past few years. Sitting on a PM System i only can laugh at the past right now.
Oh, and at home i have AM2 with an X2 processor running amd64 Linux SMP-Kernel. The Pentium 4 is a little bit of nothing even when compared to the cpus of the same vendor (Pentium M, Core Duo/Solo).
Same for all of its breed : Pentium D, Pentium E, Xeon etc.....
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Would have been to expose a 'car API' to the user and provide an iPhone app using that API. I reckon stability and user experience must be important to Mercedes, so they could keep development in house to meet their quality requirements.
And: Maybe it's just me, but, Mercedes ads make bubbles of quality and conservative values appear in my head. Adding twitter and facebook integration to that, makes that bubbles burst right away.
The heatsink + fan approach has one boundary layer on the heatsink, this approach creates two:
1. On the surface of the rotating heat sink
2. On the air cushion where the rotating heat sink "sits" on
What makes sense is to use energy efficient systems, not using any CPU-/GPU-fans and use a large and slowly rotating fan moving the air through all of the case and go for standard heatsinks on your chips. Voila: quiet, energy efficient and efficient at the same time.
TES4 Oblivion?
absolutely. My mom uses it too. She is 64 years old and is working with it since nearly a year now.
Biggest problem in the linux world is the weak support from vendors for their video hardware and the not so up to date X11. Windows in vmware on linux feels snappier then native linux. This is my number one showstopper for linux. Google OS may be as slim as it wants to be, if the video drivers slows it down, no one will be happy.
The point is, that it's actually not solar cells what the poster has seen in germany so often.
Most of the "solar stuff" you see at the roof is not solar-power, it's "solar-thermie". To produce warm water while the sun is shining. cheers
They way of living in the suburbs and driving with an SUV downtown is coming to an end, at least in europe. More and more cities create car-free zones and those zones tend to extend over the years.
Getting a spot to park your car is impossible anyway, so this is not that much of a problem to me.
You forgot:
[X] "I'm a privatier".
That is my favourite. No Questions about DSL-providers either.
Really. I bought her a new (small) pc, dualcore athlon64, 1GB Ram, nothing fancy.
:D
I put hardy as a late beta on it, she had the same tools as under windows. That is firefox, thunderbird and openoffice. Now she has instant messaging too anf some more stuff.
To be honest:
- Without any help she would be lost. You need to get the ppl started with the new system.
- She quite quickly understood the concept of the folders "documents, pictures" etc... and uses them on a daily basis.
- After not using a pc for about 3 weeks, she wasn't even able to type "@" in her email programm, and of course she always blamed the new system. This must be some "imune-system-reaction" against learning something new. That's how i saw it.
- I forced her to remember at least some basic passwords. email and such. So she would not forget them in the future and i always tell her that i do not keep her passwords. It's her stuff, she has to take care. -> this leads to responsibility and identification with the system: MY email, MY webbrowser etc...
After all i think she is not perfectly happy with the system, but that's more the problem of the bad mouse, or the rather old screen than the OS. She uses it, she gets used to it and she can do her work. -> fine
Oh yeah: AMD64-SMP Kernel, all the Xorg-AIGLX-Bling is enabled, excluding wobbly-windows.
cheers
marco
Games require performant hardware and proper drivers. The same driver the CAD-Guys and all other professionals work with. And as we speak of graphicsdrivers with speak of the most important interface the day to day user is cronfronted with: the screen and the gui.
Drivers mean anything! And gamers trigger good driver-development.
it has been explained over and over, that space exploration or space colonization (or whatever) is *not* helping us with an overcrowded earth. You may colonize new planets, but you cannot move significant amounts of ppl from one planet to another. It is simply not possible. You would have to build about (raw estimate) one "seat" in 3-5 seconds (don't nail me on that, but it's about this number) just to stop the population growth. Even if regular deaths would "support" you in your task, you never can build this fast.
Rather build condoms or such for your task. Sorry pal.
- mp3 is bad
- cd-da is bad too, because its standards (44Khz/16 bit sampling) can not compete with recent (and widely used) codecs (AAC, OGG, WMV)
- vinyl is better than cd-da, which does not(!) mean "we all should go back to the analog world because digital is crap".
- sa-cd is a hack and deserves to be not accepted
So where to go? Easy. Look at home cinema. They managed to get DD5.1 to a wide audience. And if you do not own a 5.1 Set, you just can ouput all channels to your regular stereo (2chn) system. The future will decouple the codec from the media. Even car systems will just read DVDs and interpret whats on them. _Hopefully_ this will be ogg which is efficient enough for the next 50 years in terms of compression, ability to compress lossless, raw data specs and channel count.
Oh and one more point: I cant stand the guys with the golden plugs and their 5000 $ home equipment listening to CD-DAs arguing that mp3 is shit... as we wouldn't know that. But your 5000 $ stuff doesn't make the CD any better.
- they use symbian OS for all their phones. a system which names the devices A,B,C etc... and runs itself on drive "C". I wonder where that idea came from?
- yes. the system is that bad as the one they take the naming scheme from. I once had a 7650 and i would be surprised if it has not gotten worser.
- it just weighs 130 gramms. Putting all the features aside, i call this a "forgotten in the car phone" and "not there when you need it phone".
scnr *g*
I have a K750i since nearly 2 years now and use the device to sync it to my calendar. It is only capable of syncing up to 300 entries! Allthough the device has ~100MB of memory. My question to sony was answered that all their phones (except the business line) can handle only up to 300 calendar entries-> totaly useless for me now.
In many points you are absolutely right, but then you get it terribly wrong.
Because you cross the point where "something is easy to use" and "something is just bad". Using MySQL GUI interfaces (mysqlcc for example) is absolutely intuitive to somebody with theoretical knowledge of relational databases. It gets more and more complicated the less the user knows about databases! Same with VB(.NET). I'm sick ranting about this piece of shit language to ppl who just want it "easy and only know VB".
And this is the exact point for the success of Microsoft. PPl with no knowledge at all can set up SQL servers and LDAP directories (for the mcses : ADS) without any knowledge of this stuff. They learn they can insert data and create user accounts, delete tables and organize in "organizational units". They think of this as "MS features" and have no clue about the matter at all.
This discussion is coming up from time to tim when ppl defend Outlook/Exchange as being a groupware and rant about Notes/Domino. Linux ppl want it easy too, but we have to have a point, where we can distinct the 2% ppl with skill out of the 100% with a certificate. "Administrating" an SQL Server makes you nothing, you would not even get a DB2 Process up running!
And thank god for the difference he made and we can clearly see.
the equation made sense in cho's mind as well as the equation of the replied post "made sense" to the poster (to carry a gun even if not needed). I wanted to point out that whatever anybody thinks "making sense" should _NOT_ be connected to ppl carrying guns.
_ of_society
- You are wrong?!
- i am wrong?!
- Cho was wrong?!
I don't care, take away the guns! Thats what laws are for!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society#Organization
i was using mandriva for years and was quite happy with it. But the switch to ubuntu was a quick one. Why?:
- Mandrake has a funny way in holding back recent rpm's to paying customers. I don't want to hasstle about such things!
- Mandrake has urpmi (which is good), but uses rpm (same as suse/FC for example, which is bad!). Updates are more like
"rpm -i --forceall --pray *.rpm"
and you are happy when only 2 or 3 Icons are missing. Suse Users tend to go to forums then and write "no problem with suse so far".
- Ubuntu is targeted at home _AND_ business use! It is for developers _AS WELL_ as for end users. Suse-Users are lost without yast and FC ppl somehow have the feeling to be rebelish because not using ubuntu.
And the last point is the most important one.
"I would rather have it and not need it, than need it and not have it." The guy shooting on the campus "needed" the guns too. It could have been, that from his point of view, he was in the position of the "defender". 2 days earlier one or more guys/professors somebody did something wrong... you turn around in anger and "defend" yourself later. The point in not allowing guns to the general public, is that "the general public" has no need to defend itself (against whom anayway?) but is rather stupid enough to shoot each other because of bad grades or called names or because one out of 2000 has XX-Chromosomes and he "knows best" why he needs the gun. Europe is doing a good thing in not permiting guns. You say: "I would rather have it and not need it, than need it and not have it." I say: "I know that i could carry it with responsibility, but i know there are enough fucktards who cant! So ban em!"
suse still has a large drawback.
- Yast is not good as anybody thinks, it just helps
those who do not know how to get things running. Which leads to that
Suse ppl can not use linux without yast. (Though there are allready good tools for linux to do all what yast does).
- if something is not working out of the box you may have to build it.
Ubuntu makes it easy with apt-get to collect all dev packets...suse is (and has allways been) the hell according to that fact.
- recent kde packages are installed in suse with "rpm --forceeverything etc...." this is the rpm (and suse) way of doing things, and this is done by suse users all day. Plus they are happy if it is still working somehow afterwards... typical suse style. you really dont want this as a stable basis, do you?
- in the meantime ubuntu even provides kde4 packages to install parallel to your existing kde3 install. Without "funny effects" to the stable base.
- ubuntu has a way larger community and is has way more recent packages (if you want them)
All this leads to:
-> you want actual easy to install binaries -> use ubuntu
-> you want even more recent cvs versions and build them -> use ubuntu
-> you want a system with a reasonable default config (no suse config, but a linux config) -> use ubuntu.
-> you dont want to hastle with internals -> now you can chose (suse/ubuntu/mandriva)
p4 with 8Ghz.... must be as fast as core solo with 1.8 GHz.
At least!!!!
aha P4 with 2,66 Ghz. Must be as fast as Pentium M with 1,3, huh? Or am i wrong? I overrate that piece of crap too often (the P4). Not to forget the cooling that has to be brought up for a P4 System. I had lots of P4 Systems in the past few years. Sitting on a PM System i only can laugh at the past right now. Oh, and at home i have AM2 with an X2 processor running amd64 Linux SMP-Kernel. The Pentium 4 is a little bit of nothing even when compared to the cpus of the same vendor (Pentium M, Core Duo/Solo). Same for all of its breed : Pentium D, Pentium E, Xeon etc.....
and you can land on planets (or at least crash on the surface).
I wont accept anything less! Even elite2 could do this. They all can dump their "Space Sims" when they are "space only". I want Planets!!! Damned.
OMFG!!!! You discovered the need of a realtime operating system!! That's worth a nobel price! That would be the least!
sorry, didn't mean you. I meant the former poster "java for switching".