neither I nor any of my many friends running iPhones are having the sorts of issues he's describing...
Or they have found out the things (for example specific apps, settings or usage patterns) that make iPhone unstable and have just learned to avoid them.
The experience can be quite different for a newcomer that curiously tries unexpected random things and a guy that knows a platform and its pitfalls.
and finding the weak spot where it can be grabbed, for instance by hooking up special hardware to the LCD panel.
That's extremely hard. Good luck getting something like that to actually work. The senior electronics engineer who might be able to create such grabbing system has probably a better-paying job somewhere else.
Agree here. If you pop open an Acer laptop, you can see that there's actually a lot of quite nice engineering solutions inside. It has had the reputation of a "trash brand" in the past, but they make good designs these days. Top notch quality/price.
In Vinnland there was experimental DAB broadcasting set up during years 1997-2005, but it was discontinued due to low interest. It's like how Blu-Ray had a bit stiff adoption over DVD -- people felt that FM was good enough.
Great. There are some days where I forget where I've put my smartphone. So now I can expect to lose my entire computer because it dropped and I might have vacuumed it up with the dust bunnies?
Today we have computers collecting dust. In the future we will have dust collecting computers.
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neither I nor any of my many friends running iPhones are having the sorts of issues he's describing...
Or they have found out the things (for example specific apps, settings or usage patterns) that make iPhone unstable and have just learned to avoid them.
The experience can be quite different for a newcomer that curiously tries unexpected random things and a guy that knows a platform and its pitfalls.
Not entirely rebuilt. Spartan's engine is EdgeHTML which is a fork of Trident that is used in IE.
And what is this "profilic driver"?
and finding the weak spot where it can be grabbed, for instance by hooking up special hardware to the LCD panel.
That's extremely hard. Good luck getting something like that to actually work. The senior electronics engineer who might be able to create such grabbing system has probably a better-paying job somewhere else.
A negative cannot be proven.
Generally Windows 7 is extremely stable, so let's see if you are not bullshitting. Can you tell how to reproduce those bugs?
I threw that intentionally there to give the summary some 1995 feeling. Hehheh.
Agree here. If you pop open an Acer laptop, you can see that there's actually a lot of quite nice engineering solutions inside. It has had the reputation of a "trash brand" in the past, but they make good designs these days. Top notch quality/price.
I remember the Acer netbook had a metal housing so the WiFi didn't work almost at all.
Did it really have metal housing around the antenna?
Asus doesn't "build" computers :) Foxconn does.
ASUS is another PCB partner for HP.
Do you also wear a respiratory mask and rubber gloves when you visit public places?
I wouldn't consider LLVM to be much experimental anymore. It has already gone through strong quality assurance.
GCC, LLVM and Microsoft C/C++ Optimizing Compiler are all very good choices and have a lot of professional people working on them.
If we are talking about the original Quake PAK format, it is never compressed.
PAK is not compressed.
It will be interesting if at some point games will begin listing a certain minimum disk transfer speed in the system requirements.
I am not seeing any advertisements on Google search as well.
Do not eat iPod Shuffle.
In Vinnland there was experimental DAB broadcasting set up during years 1997-2005, but it was discontinued due to low interest. It's like how Blu-Ray had a bit stiff adoption over DVD -- people felt that FM was good enough.
A huge blast of fire quickly scorches through the entire tunnel and destroys the whole business.
Cool idea, but it still makes me nauseous. We already live in a somewhat overengineered world.
Great. There are some days where I forget where I've put my smartphone. So now I can expect to lose my entire computer because it dropped and I might have vacuumed it up with the dust bunnies?
Today we have computers collecting dust. In the future we will have dust collecting computers.
My "deprecated" Geforce MX 440 card works simply great with Nouveau. I can watch accelerated videos (tested up to 720p) with vlc/mplayer.
Does this "acceleration" actually mean something more than just using an YUV overlay?
There is a lot of open source software that is considerably faster than the closed source equivalent.
Can you mention an example?
Without the sources we can't even begin to know what our computers are doing either.
We already have more open source than we can handle. The biggest bottleneck is funding, manpower and quality assurance.
Learn to write calm counterarguments and leave out the ad hominem attacks.