yea if you want the overhead of compression / decompression on top of virtual memory.
It's a pay-off. Yes, it does cost you RAM. But compressed RAM is still much faster than rotating disk, and probably SSD too (for now). So sacrifice some RAM (and CPU) and save swapping quite as much.
Check the forums - people still haven't received this hardware and are cancelling their orders. The main website hasn't been updated in a year. AI showed some neat ideas but have utterly failed to deliver them. In the mean time the big manufacturers have picked up those ideas and are selling slick consumer devices you can actually buy. Sorry AI, you're dead.
Another neat idea they had was having the main system (SoC + Wifi + BT) in a phone-sized module with its own screen that can be removed from the tablet part and used as a (VOIP-only) smartphone. But that's also been tried by one or two big manufacturers since they showed this idea.
My Grandpa got duped by this group a little while ago. He was never very tech savvy and is now going senile. And his vision is going too. The description in the summary is just about spot-on. He found some local PC tech to check out his machine and found it clean. Amazingly it looked like the scammers were simply after the money. He managed to cancel the payment and eventually got new credit cards. IIRC, it took Mum and her siblings a while to convince him to do that though. He thought he was safe because the local tech hadn't found anything on his PC, but they could have taken any of his banking and other details.
If you don't mind going a little DIY, there is the Ubiquiti RouterStation Pro. It's a board with four GigE ports and three mini-PCI slots for wireless cards, and comes loaded with Open WRT. Look around online and you should be able to find a few places selling it with a simple case, power pack, and a wireless card for ~$150 or less. Note, I haven't used it, so I can't speak from experience. It's on my wishlist though:)
I love my Milestone (essentially a "Droid"), but I have mixed feelings about the keyboard. Apart from only having four rows and thus requiring combinations a little too often, the main problem is Android itself. From what I understand, Android treats a screen rotation as another screen size, so the app redraws the screen in the new size. But if you have a "dialog box" up, that is lost. And it doesn't take a genius to realise that a dialog box is something you'll often be entering text into.
So what happens is this:
Using app...
A dialog box pops up asking for text to be entered e.g search, or enter a POI on the map
Slide open keyboard and turn phone on side (the first action forces the device into landscape mode anyway)
Dialog box gone! You're back to wherever you were before the dialog box opened.
Even Google (App) Market does this. Yes, even the latest 3.0 version. If Google can't get this right, with one of their most important apps, what chance do we have with other software?
Rushed? Vista was extremely late because they tried to do too much (WinFS anyone?)
Yes, it was rushed. You're thinking of "Long Horn", which dragged on way too long and was eventually put on the back-burner when the higher-ups realised it wasn't going anywhere, or at least wasn't going anywhere fast enough. So Vista was then hurriedly put together in a few years.
The Australian Department of Health and Ageing provides eligible Australian citizens and residents with a basic hearing aid free-of-charge, though recipients can pay a "top up" charge if they wish to upgrade to a hearing aid with more or better features. Maintenance of these hearing aids and a regular supply of batteries is also provided, on payment of a small annual maintenance fee.
The end result has been an absolute monstrosity (much like the GEGL logo) that has taken 12 years to build.
It's not that GEGL (and BABL) is large, simply that not many people are working on it. And like you said, porting/rewriting the internal tools to use GEGL, not to mention all of the plugins and scripting languages, is/will be a lot of work.
how would caring about single window mode require one to be a Windows drone?
Because Windows is the only desktop that makes managing windows so primitive. Unix/X11 has had multiple virtual desktops for decades. Even Mac OS/X has had Spaces since 2006. MS Windows just piles windows onto the single desktop. So to keep things cleaner, apps have to use the horrible MDI system, which nests document windows inside the main app window (essentially mimicking the original Mac layout inside a window). The downside is that the main window covers up your desktop and any other windows, which may need to be accessed.
You know the funny thing about this supposed Photoshop emulation? PS on Mac uses multiple windows and I haven't seen anyone complaining about that. So this single window BS is just emulating PS on Windows. I wish they'd put their effort into integrating GEGL instead and allowing use of 16-bit component images so I can finally do away with buggy CinePaint.
So, basically, for anyone to have an argument worthy of debate, they cannot be: Christian, Republican, paid by "Big Oil", or politically incorrect. That makes things so much simpler.
Yes. Let me explain: we have this thing called "reputation". When someone goes around lying and misrepresenting facts, they earn a reputation for doing so. Other people come to expect that anything said by these low-reputation people will probably be the same old bullshit. That's exactly what's happening here.
Unfortunately, if you plan to run the Oracle JVM, yes it does matter. Only a few {operating system, architecture} tuples are supported. For example, no {openbsd, sparc}.
True. One of the big disappointments of Java is how few platforms this supposedly cross-platform software actually runs on. Sun really dropped the ball on that aspect. Meanwhile, scripting languages like Perl run on many more platforms, even though cross-platform compatibility was never really their main goal.
Neither are Tilera's processors. Being x86-compatible is often unnecessary in the non-PC, non-Windows world. If you're running a web server farm with Linux boxes and server software written in Java, Perl/Python/PHP, or even C/C++, the processor architecture matters very little. And that's the way it should be.
My concern is the quote "It is possible to register through other means, but most of the discussion takes place via Facebook". It sounds like non-FB-using citizens can still watch the weekly meetings and ask questions via email, or even snail-mail. But if most of the discussions are taking place on FB, how much attention will the non-FBer's get? That sounds to me very much like they'll be effectively second-class citizens as far as this discussion is concerned.
"Reliance" is an extreme way to view this situation. Iceland is communicating with its citizens where they are.
What about the one third of citizens who aren't there (on Facebook)? Are they now essentially second-class citizens as far as this council is concerned? They're encouraging people to sign up to a foreign, third-party, commercial service in order to participate in their own government. That just isn't right to me.
A bit of history, Quake, is the grand-daddy that started it all: first true-3D Game.
What, no Wolfenstein or Doom? They weren't entirely 3D, but they were what started iD Software on the road to success. Oh, and IIRC, the first truely 3D game was Descent.
He actually machined out the center of hex bar stock. Boring a large-diameter hole lengthwise through bar stock is a slow job, and 80% of the metal ends up as chips. You don't do that in a production product.
If you'd watched the video (WTFV? looks too much like 'WTF'...) you would know that he acknowledges this problem and says that he'd like to replace that machining step by extruding a hollow hex bar. But to do that he needs to make a mould and do a production run large enough to keep the per-unit price down. That requires money and pre-orders, which is partly why he set up the Kickstarter project.
WebM support is in Firefox 4. We're talking about WebP here, Google's image format based on the intra-frame coding of VP8 (the video codec used in WebM). Try to keep up.
Even on a 1920x1080 monitor/TV you'll still get bars when watching movies because they have even wider images e.g 2.35:1. It's only digital television that has adopted the 16:9 (1.778:1) aspect ratio - as a compromise between wide motion picture material and 4:3 analogue television. The aversion to black bars is kinda understandable but often goes way overboard.
One of the reasons I got a 1920x1200 monitor was that I was coming from a 1600x1200 CRT and didn't want to lose height. I do more web surfing and coding than watching video material but don't lose anything when I do.
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yea if you want the overhead of compression / decompression on top of virtual memory.
It's a pay-off. Yes, it does cost you RAM. But compressed RAM is still much faster than rotating disk, and probably SSD too (for now). So sacrifice some RAM (and CPU) and save swapping quite as much.
The Firewire plug/socket design is very close to that of the Game Link Cable. See this photo on Wikipedia. As for USB - not as much.
Check the forums - people still haven't received this hardware and are cancelling their orders. The main website hasn't been updated in a year. AI showed some neat ideas but have utterly failed to deliver them. In the mean time the big manufacturers have picked up those ideas and are selling slick consumer devices you can actually buy. Sorry AI, you're dead.
Another neat idea they had was having the main system (SoC + Wifi + BT) in a phone-sized module with its own screen that can be removed from the tablet part and used as a (VOIP-only) smartphone. But that's also been tried by one or two big manufacturers since they showed this idea.
My Grandpa got duped by this group a little while ago. He was never very tech savvy and is now going senile. And his vision is going too. The description in the summary is just about spot-on. He found some local PC tech to check out his machine and found it clean. Amazingly it looked like the scammers were simply after the money. He managed to cancel the payment and eventually got new credit cards. IIRC, it took Mum and her siblings a while to convince him to do that though. He thought he was safe because the local tech hadn't found anything on his PC, but they could have taken any of his banking and other details.
If you don't mind going a little DIY, there is the Ubiquiti RouterStation Pro. It's a board with four GigE ports and three mini-PCI slots for wireless cards, and comes loaded with Open WRT. Look around online and you should be able to find a few places selling it with a simple case, power pack, and a wireless card for ~$150 or less. Note, I haven't used it, so I can't speak from experience. It's on my wishlist though :)
I love my Milestone (essentially a "Droid"), but I have mixed feelings about the keyboard. Apart from only having four rows and thus requiring combinations a little too often, the main problem is Android itself. From what I understand, Android treats a screen rotation as another screen size, so the app redraws the screen in the new size. But if you have a "dialog box" up, that is lost. And it doesn't take a genius to realise that a dialog box is something you'll often be entering text into.
So what happens is this:
Even Google (App) Market does this. Yes, even the latest 3.0 version. If Google can't get this right, with one of their most important apps, what chance do we have with other software?
Rushed? Vista was extremely late because they tried to do too much (WinFS anyone?)
Yes, it was rushed. You're thinking of "Long Horn", which dragged on way too long and was eventually put on the back-burner when the higher-ups realised it wasn't going anywhere, or at least wasn't going anywhere fast enough. So Vista was then hurriedly put together in a few years.
And try to get one of these digital hearing aids through the gummint. Ain't gonna happen.
It does here in Australia:
The Australian Department of Health and Ageing provides eligible Australian citizens and residents with a basic hearing aid free-of-charge, though recipients can pay a "top up" charge if they wish to upgrade to a hearing aid with more or better features. Maintenance of these hearing aids and a regular supply of batteries is also provided, on payment of a small annual maintenance fee.
Do most (sane) administrators run anti-virus on each of their servers?
I guess you do if you're running Window servers, which apparently Diginotar were.
Name one single must-have feature that HTML+CSS can't provide, and the browsing public can't live without.
AJAX. Almost any large website will include dynamic content to some extent. Haven't you noticed?
The end result has been an absolute monstrosity (much like the GEGL logo) that has taken 12 years to build.
It's not that GEGL (and BABL) is large, simply that not many people are working on it. And like you said, porting/rewriting the internal tools to use GEGL, not to mention all of the plugins and scripting languages, is/will be a lot of work.
how would caring about single window mode require one to be a Windows drone?
Because Windows is the only desktop that makes managing windows so primitive. Unix/X11 has had multiple virtual desktops for decades. Even Mac OS/X has had Spaces since 2006. MS Windows just piles windows onto the single desktop. So to keep things cleaner, apps have to use the horrible MDI system, which nests document windows inside the main app window (essentially mimicking the original Mac layout inside a window). The downside is that the main window covers up your desktop and any other windows, which may need to be accessed.
You know the funny thing about this supposed Photoshop emulation? PS on Mac uses multiple windows and I haven't seen anyone complaining about that. So this single window BS is just emulating PS on Windows. I wish they'd put their effort into integrating GEGL instead and allowing use of 16-bit component images so I can finally do away with buggy CinePaint.
So, basically, for anyone to have an argument worthy of debate, they cannot be: Christian, Republican, paid by "Big Oil", or politically incorrect. That makes things so much simpler.
Yes. Let me explain: we have this thing called "reputation". When someone goes around lying and misrepresenting facts, they earn a reputation for doing so. Other people come to expect that anything said by these low-reputation people will probably be the same old bullshit. That's exactly what's happening here.
Unfortunately, if you plan to run the Oracle JVM, yes it does matter. Only a few {operating system, architecture} tuples are supported. For example, no {openbsd, sparc}.
True. One of the big disappointments of Java is how few platforms this supposedly cross-platform software actually runs on. Sun really dropped the ball on that aspect. Meanwhile, scripting languages like Perl run on many more platforms, even though cross-platform compatibility was never really their main goal.
ARM is not i686 compatible.
Neither are Tilera's processors. Being x86-compatible is often unnecessary in the non-PC, non-Windows world. If you're running a web server farm with Linux boxes and server software written in Java, Perl/Python/PHP, or even C/C++, the processor architecture matters very little. And that's the way it should be.
Apparently a scary number of people can't even log in to social media websites without using Google.
My concern is the quote "It is possible to register through other means, but most of the discussion takes place via Facebook". It sounds like non-FB-using citizens can still watch the weekly meetings and ask questions via email, or even snail-mail. But if most of the discussions are taking place on FB, how much attention will the non-FBer's get? That sounds to me very much like they'll be effectively second-class citizens as far as this discussion is concerned.
Didn't Slashdot start off on a Pentium Pro running on Maldas bedroom?
I thought it was a low-end DEC Alpha, at least at one stage.
"Reliance" is an extreme way to view this situation. Iceland is communicating with its citizens where they are.
What about the one third of citizens who aren't there (on Facebook)? Are they now essentially second-class citizens as far as this council is concerned? They're encouraging people to sign up to a foreign, third-party, commercial service in order to participate in their own government. That just isn't right to me.
A bit of history, Quake, is the grand-daddy that started it all: first true-3D Game.
What, no Wolfenstein or Doom? They weren't entirely 3D, but they were what started iD Software on the road to success. Oh, and IIRC, the first truely 3D game was Descent.
He actually machined out the center of hex bar stock. Boring a large-diameter hole lengthwise through bar stock is a slow job, and 80% of the metal ends up as chips. You don't do that in a production product.
If you'd watched the video (WTFV? looks too much like 'WTF'...) you would know that he acknowledges this problem and says that he'd like to replace that machining step by extruding a hollow hex bar. But to do that he needs to make a mould and do a production run large enough to keep the per-unit price down. That requires money and pre-orders, which is partly why he set up the Kickstarter project.
WebM support is in Firefox 4. We're talking about WebP here, Google's image format based on the intra-frame coding of VP8 (the video codec used in WebM). Try to keep up.
Even on a 1920x1080 monitor/TV you'll still get bars when watching movies because they have even wider images e.g 2.35:1. It's only digital television that has adopted the 16:9 (1.778:1) aspect ratio - as a compromise between wide motion picture material and 4:3 analogue television. The aversion to black bars is kinda understandable but often goes way overboard.
One of the reasons I got a 1920x1200 monitor was that I was coming from a 1600x1200 CRT and didn't want to lose height. I do more web surfing and coding than watching video material but don't lose anything when I do.
Yeah, but even worse is the Android version - it doesn't even receive/play video in a video call!
Sign out, then you can 'back' out of the app without it running in the background.