If by "damn easy" you mean "aiming your phone into negligibly small reservoirs of liquid" or "keeping phone in one of very few probable point contact areas in a fall", then sure...
Thing with encoding video is, no matter which CPU you use (talking about reasonable choices now, like between cheapest Celeron available currently (which is a 2.5 GHz C2D with 1 MiB L2 and 800 MHz FSB) and Core i7)...it's still too slow. Too slow to be interactive in regards to your workflow. In every case it's eesentially a long batch job around which you must plan your work...unless of course you're doing something very short.
At least SMP machines can last longer; accidentally, my first SMP one (still lying around somewhere) is also a dual P2. Last time I checked, still quite usable with proper software (in this case - win2k, Opera 9.27, fb2k, miranda, irfanview, mplayer)
Plus now typical new machine doesn't seem to be so ram-starved, which might really enable that longevity.
In that case, Wimax available on sprint is also not 4G. Heck, from the numbers given by some posters it's in the league of networks definatelly called 3G...
But (from your own link) the end product of that effort, AMR-WB, is being deployed rigtht now...without the need for LTE network. Even without the need for UMTS/3G; apparently it works also via GSM/2G connections.
AthlonXP (of the slower kind - 1700+ / 1.46 GHz) is fine too...as long as one chooses properly written software and keeps the machine clean; having few times more RAM and faster HDD than was common back then also helps greatly. I rarely see a typical, home machine which is more snappy, even though they have few times more processing power - but are almost universally held down by bloat, until quite recently by small RAM and, still, by slow HDDs in case of ever more popular laptops.
Too bad the test didn't include, say, P3 Tualatin 1.4 GHz. Even in times of P4 they were very competitive with much higher clocked Netburst processors. And now...Netburst is long forgotten, software is optimised for C2D-like architectures; which are descendants of Tualatin - I'm curious if it has become even more competitive.;)
Uhm, there's more than Belarus and Ukraine there...also Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia; which very much pay, with actual money. And yet - the flow of gas returns as a question without clear answer from time to time...especially after planns for Nord Stream surfaced.
Aesthetics - those with a brain possesing aesthetic sense similar to "proper" current human one were leaving, for many reasons (one of which would be: what's "aesthetic" is healthy, good for you), more offspring. Even if only slightly more.
Similar with humility; a survival-enhancing trait in primate social groups.
Well, not that I trust psychiatrists that much but I guess the only thing this is telling me is that marijuana really isn't the brain destroying demon they've made it out to be. Doesn't really convince me that email rots my brain.
But you're talking about two different things here. On one hand you have transitional factors (keeping track of few things at once, being tired, being high) and then you jump to something which is long term ("brain destroying demon", "brain rot").
Being active mentally (many tasks at once), while apparently harming momentary IQ score, is actually very good for your brain, long term. Rare lack of sleep or rare(!) marihuana usage don't really register, long term. But chronic lack of sleep or frequent usage of marihuana...yeah, I can see how that can make a brain rot. I mean, I really do see that around.
Russia just goes into some trouble of building that pipeline so that their former colonies will be reminded of few things, will drop some weird ideas they got in the last two decades.
If that's suddenly a bug, then submit it as a bug/feature request, instead of, yes, philosophically discussing it here. It's your problem, so you go ask for it to be fixed; we're just telling you how it's not a problem for many.
While doing that - get off your high horse and remember that Opera, among browsers, has one of the lesser problems with unfulfilled promises. How many years FF is plagued with resource hunger? (and why Seamonkey is..snappier?) Where's the link to Minimo release from few years back, running perfectly on my 200 MHz ARM11, 20 MiB user ram Symbian phone? Don't get me started on hard and painfull limits of Chrome scalability.
Also, you really managed to miss that some of us live in places where Opera is not a niche product at all? Wow...
I am very glad that using Opera is a little bit different. If only because other browser are unusable with my usage patterns.
My very first scrolwheel mouse (A4tech AFAI remember) had three fullsize buttons. While such form might not be available anymore, I'm sure you won't have much problems with finding IBM/Lenovo Scrollpoint Mouse (ok, not a scrollwheel per se; but similar to how Model M or Thinkpads are made "properly") or...large portion of A4tech line - the have quite prominent button just next to scrollwheel.
Hm, switching off "always reload https pages" is not the same as instructing it to not reload them under any circumstances. Could it be possible that those htpps pages you frequent trigger reloading somehow?
It's not a niche everywhere. It is the number one browser (yes, ahead of IE) in Ukraine, is becoming number one right now in Russia. It has generally quite respectable usage share in large part of Europe, often between 5 and 10% (in cotrast to Safari, which typically almost doesn't exist and is in places behind Opera Mini, the j2me one; Chrome is doing better, but still typically noticeably behind Opera, even with all the Google promotion on every Google website)
I don't think warnings are the way to go. In many cases of typical user warnings look scary; the website is scary. Better to use one without scary things...
As I said I understand the value of better js. But that alone hardly justifies treating it as the hallmark; worse, not under realistic scenarios but...synthetic benchmarks. Yes, "representative ones" - but doing only js nonetheless and also having strong relation to some of the engines they test...
PS. Especially on highly portable machines, with small amounts of RAM, and on slow wireless connections I wouldn't call the experience (not only "speed"!) "just fine".
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Defying Gravity was just a horribly performed rip-off of one great docufiction - BBC Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets.
If you want to watch it, do not get the wimpy (and with a very ironic , in the proper sense of the word, name change) US release.
If by "damn easy" you mean "aiming your phone into negligibly small reservoirs of liquid" or "keeping phone in one of very few probable point contact areas in a fall", then sure...
Thing with encoding video is, no matter which CPU you use (talking about reasonable choices now, like between cheapest Celeron available currently (which is a 2.5 GHz C2D with 1 MiB L2 and 800 MHz FSB) and Core i7)...it's still too slow. Too slow to be interactive in regards to your workflow. In every case it's eesentially a long batch job around which you must plan your work...unless of course you're doing something very short.
(and GPU solutions are lacking in quality)
At least SMP machines can last longer; accidentally, my first SMP one (still lying around somewhere) is also a dual P2. Last time I checked, still quite usable with proper software (in this case - win2k, Opera 9.27, fb2k, miranda, irfanview, mplayer)
Plus now typical new machine doesn't seem to be so ram-starved, which might really enable that longevity.
How is that 4G? That's worse than currently deployed HSDPA/HSUPA (a variant of UMTS...3G) networks, and much slower than upcoming versions.
In that case, Wimax available on sprint is also not 4G. Heck, from the numbers given by some posters it's in the league of networks definatelly called 3G...
But (from your own link) the end product of that effort, AMR-WB, is being deployed rigtht now...without the need for LTE network. Even without the need for UMTS/3G; apparently it works also via GSM/2G connections.
AthlonXP (of the slower kind - 1700+ / 1.46 GHz) is fine too...as long as one chooses properly written software and keeps the machine clean; having few times more RAM and faster HDD than was common back then also helps greatly. I rarely see a typical, home machine which is more snappy, even though they have few times more processing power - but are almost universally held down by bloat, until quite recently by small RAM and, still, by slow HDDs in case of ever more popular laptops.
Too bad the test didn't include, say, P3 Tualatin 1.4 GHz. Even in times of P4 they were very competitive with much higher clocked Netburst processors. And now...Netburst is long forgotten, software is optimised for C2D-like architectures; which are descendants of Tualatin - I'm curious if it has become even more competitive. ;)
Uhm, there's more than Belarus and Ukraine there...also Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia; which very much pay, with actual money. And yet - the flow of gas returns as a question without clear answer from time to time...especially after planns for Nord Stream surfaced.
Aesthetics - those with a brain possesing aesthetic sense similar to "proper" current human one were leaving, for many reasons (one of which would be: what's "aesthetic" is healthy, good for you), more offspring. Even if only slightly more.
Similar with humility; a survival-enhancing trait in primate social groups.
Well, not that I trust psychiatrists that much but I guess the only thing this is telling me is that marijuana really isn't the brain destroying demon they've made it out to be. Doesn't really convince me that email rots my brain.
But you're talking about two different things here. On one hand you have transitional factors (keeping track of few things at once, being tired, being high) and then you jump to something which is long term ("brain destroying demon", "brain rot").
Being active mentally (many tasks at once), while apparently harming momentary IQ score, is actually very good for your brain, long term. Rare lack of sleep or rare(!) marihuana usage don't really register, long term. But chronic lack of sleep or frequent usage of marihuana...yeah, I can see how that can make a brain rot. I mean, I really do see that around.
Nah, it's just the usual The Man keeping down...The Man.
Look at the map of current and planned gas pipelines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Major_russian_gas_pipelines_to_europe.png
Russia just goes into some trouble of building that pipeline so that their former colonies will be reminded of few things, will drop some weird ideas they got in the last two decades.
Actually, following that precedent, it would turn only people who are in love into brain-sucking zombies.
In other words, it won't do hardly anything.
If that's suddenly a bug, then submit it as a bug/feature request, instead of, yes, philosophically discussing it here. It's your problem, so you go ask for it to be fixed; we're just telling you how it's not a problem for many.
While doing that - get off your high horse and remember that Opera, among browsers, has one of the lesser problems with unfulfilled promises. How many years FF is plagued with resource hunger? (and why Seamonkey is..snappier?) Where's the link to Minimo release from few years back, running perfectly on my 200 MHz ARM11, 20 MiB user ram Symbian phone? Don't get me started on hard and painfull limits of Chrome scalability.
Also, you really managed to miss that some of us live in places where Opera is not a niche product at all? Wow...
I am very glad that using Opera is a little bit different. If only because other browser are unusable with my usage patterns.
My very first scrolwheel mouse (A4tech AFAI remember) had three fullsize buttons. While such form might not be available anymore, I'm sure you won't have much problems with finding IBM/Lenovo Scrollpoint Mouse (ok, not a scrollwheel per se; but similar to how Model M or Thinkpads are made "properly") or...large portion of A4tech line - the have quite prominent button just next to scrollwheel.
Hm, switching off "always reload https pages" is not the same as instructing it to not reload them under any circumstances. Could it be possible that those htpps pages you frequent trigger reloading somehow?
Isn't #2 generally a good thing, considering potential security implications? (and Opera does rather well here, I prefer to keep it that way)
So just buy a mouse where it is a button, just above the scrollwheel?
It's not a niche everywhere. It is the number one browser (yes, ahead of IE) in Ukraine, is becoming number one right now in Russia. It has generally quite respectable usage share in large part of Europe, often between 5 and 10% (in cotrast to Safari, which typically almost doesn't exist and is in places behind Opera Mini, the j2me one; Chrome is doing better, but still typically noticeably behind Opera, even with all the Google promotion on every Google website)
Check for yourself a slice of regional data: http://ranking.pl/
Now, why all those people suddenly have to adapt to the way of browsers totally dominating different region of the world?
Nokia is almost nonexistant in the US also because many years ago they refused the demand of US carriers to totally castrate their phones.
Besides, Nokia Sports Tracker...isn't a part of Nokia for some time now.
I don't think warnings are the way to go. In many cases of typical user warnings look scary; the website is scary. Better to use one without scary things...
The real question is - when will Intel announce that their Atom will be soon similarly capable of running at low power levels.
What next, only people with social skills can be called geeks?
This problem doesn't seem to exist in XMPP network. Also on gtalk, which is certainly a large part of that network and a valid target for spammers.
As I said I understand the value of better js. But that alone hardly justifies treating it as the hallmark; worse, not under realistic scenarios but...synthetic benchmarks. Yes, "representative ones" - but doing only js nonetheless and also having strong relation to some of the engines they test...
PS. Especially on highly portable machines, with small amounts of RAM, and on slow wireless connections I wouldn't call the experience (not only "speed"!) "just fine".