Worst of all is how quickly it drains the battery. On standby it loses 50 mA+/hour. In actual use it loses 1000 mA+/hour. So it gets less than 100 hours on standby, and 5 hours in normal use patterns.
That should probably be mWh, as mA is just the momentary flow of current.
It is actually quite hard to follow where each part of the text takes its new place in the transition. You can focus on one point ok but seeing the whole text is tough. If I would be using that, I think I would spend a lot of time flicking back and forth between the two views.
That being said, the code behind that gizmo must be quite sophisticated. It's pretty cool accomplishment.
It could be cool though if integrated into something like Wikipedia, which I think might be the target demographic, but I got bored of the video after about a minute so I'm not sure.
And even for Wikipedia, a classic WYSIWYG word processor type of editor would be optimal.
Especially amongst the professional crowd, there's clearly a demand for displays with more vertical pixels. If someone just created laptops with 1920x1200 and 1280x1024, matte coating, hell, put a IPS panel there (they are cheap enough to make). It would sell like hot pretzels in Oktoberfest.
What is interesting is that 320x200 has actually the same aspect ratio than 1280x800. Well, to be honest, I think it was designed to be used in the 4:3 format with non-square pixels. However it's nice to run games in DosBOX with sharp quad-pixeled graphics.
Do you still remember the M4 Message Breaking Project? I think it was featured in/. back when it started. There it is still lurking and one of the messages apparently remains uncracked.
Yes, it's almost scary. More info in the Wikipedia article Paracetamol toxicity (paracetamol = acetaminophen):
Mainly causing liver injury, paracetamol toxicity is one of the most common causes of poisoning worldwide. In the United States and the United Kingdom it is the most common cause of acute liver failure.
And the number of people that are alive today on earth is higher than the number of people that have ever lived here, further proving your conclusions.
Back in the Windows98 days one could make some good arguments for Linux in terms of stability, security and such, but those days are long gone and Microsoft and Apples OS offerings are just as stable as your Linux box these days, if not even more so.
That is true — actually Linux has become more buggy than Windows.
My experience is that Windows is missing lots of features. No SSH support; no support for filesystems other than NTFS and FAT; no low level disk tools (dd); poor NFS support; doesn't come with a decent text editor.... I could carry on, but you get the idea.
It's interesting how Windows carries a lot from the same bag of clunky applications that were in Windows 95. Are they still very cautious of being too competetive by including "too good" tools?
You can't but love the concepts these guys come up with, all just for the sake of piracy. Didn't they a couple of years ago have a plan of buying their own island. It's a pity it didn't pan out (can't recall the reason), it would have been interesting to see where it would have led things.
I've tried to introduce people to OpenOffice (and LibreOffice after they forked from OO). I've had more than a few instances where a friend tries to open an old college assignment or something in OO/LO and the formatting is completely fucked.
Works other ways too: last autumn a schoolwork doc of mine including charts and line art was all Looney Tunes when afterwards viewed in MS Word. For this kind of quirks LibreOffice is too dangerous to be used in the real world.
The thing is, as a word processor, LO is excellent. But the compatibility with Word needs more work regarding the accuracy how documents are displayed and opened/saved. This is important thing to get right.
Why even consider lossy compression any more? In the current world we have the luxury of plenty of cheap storage, so why not use it and just keep everything in CD quality. A 500 GB HDD can store about 1000 albums uncompressed (even more if you FLAC them).
If you were the Project Leader for Windows 8 right now, and you started hearing all this "Metro sucks" stuff, even Ballmer starts to look a bit sweaty...
What steps would you take to correct the course of the ship and make it ultimately a good product release? If a complete revamp was not possible but just something doable and smart to save Win8.
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Worst of all is how quickly it drains the battery. On standby it loses 50 mA+/hour. In actual use it loses 1000 mA+/hour. So it gets less than 100 hours on standby, and 5 hours in normal use patterns.
That should probably be mWh, as mA is just the momentary flow of current.
It is actually quite hard to follow where each part of the text takes its new place in the transition. You can focus on one point ok but seeing the whole text is tough. If I would be using that, I think I would spend a lot of time flicking back and forth between the two views.
That being said, the code behind that gizmo must be quite sophisticated. It's pretty cool accomplishment.
It could be cool though if integrated into something like Wikipedia, which I think might be the target demographic, but I got bored of the video after about a minute so I'm not sure.
And even for Wikipedia, a classic WYSIWYG word processor type of editor would be optimal.
In Soviet Russia, space conquers you!
Hahaha, that was awesome. I'm an European, though.
Especially amongst the professional crowd, there's clearly a demand for displays with more vertical pixels. If someone just created laptops with 1920x1200 and 1280x1024, matte coating, hell, put a IPS panel there (they are cheap enough to make). It would sell like hot pretzels in Oktoberfest.
What is interesting is that 320x200 has actually the same aspect ratio than 1280x800. Well, to be honest, I think it was designed to be used in the 4:3 format with non-square pixels. However it's nice to run games in DosBOX with sharp quad-pixeled graphics.
Do you still remember the M4 Message Breaking Project? I think it was featured in /. back when it started. There it is still lurking and one of the messages apparently remains uncracked.
This also means that any music produced using the Raspberry Pi will be public domain.
Yes, it's almost scary. More info in the Wikipedia article Paracetamol toxicity (paracetamol = acetaminophen):
Mainly causing liver injury, paracetamol toxicity is one of the most common causes of poisoning worldwide. In the United States and the United Kingdom it is the most common cause of acute liver failure.
Exactly!
And the number of people that are alive today on earth is higher than the number of people that have ever lived here, further proving your conclusions.
It seems to be pretty much a standard mini-ITX build. Even the case is a Streacom F1C, with the Amiga logo etched on it.
Back in the Windows98 days one could make some good arguments for Linux in terms of stability, security and such, but those days are long gone and Microsoft and Apples OS offerings are just as stable as your Linux box these days, if not even more so.
That is true — actually Linux has become more buggy than Windows.
If LibreOffice at some point reaches good MS Office document compatibility then at least that conversation could be different.
My experience is that Windows is missing lots of features. No SSH support; no support for filesystems other than NTFS and FAT; no low level disk tools (dd); poor NFS support; doesn't come with a decent text editor.... I could carry on, but you get the idea.
It's interesting how Windows carries a lot from the same bag of clunky applications that were in Windows 95. Are they still very cautious of being too competetive by including "too good" tools?
The Nokia 770 and N810 tablets that I had were also made in Finland.
How is Samsung/LG stuff, do they have factories in Korea?
As the density increases, the size of a short-stroked partition will be physically smaller too, making the seek times shorter. :)
You can't but love the concepts these guys come up with, all just for the sake of piracy. Didn't they a couple of years ago have a plan of buying their own island. It's a pity it didn't pan out (can't recall the reason), it would have been interesting to see where it would have led things.
I've tried to introduce people to OpenOffice (and LibreOffice after they forked from OO). I've had more than a few instances where a friend tries to open an old college assignment or something in OO/LO and the formatting is completely fucked.
Works other ways too: last autumn a schoolwork doc of mine including charts and line art was all Looney Tunes when afterwards viewed in MS Word. For this kind of quirks LibreOffice is too dangerous to be used in the real world.
The thing is, as a word processor, LO is excellent. But the compatibility with Word needs more work regarding the accuracy how documents are displayed and opened/saved. This is important thing to get right.
Ahh, that was a cleansing sneeze.
By the way, on Slashdot you can use the bold and italic HTML tags for the sake of emphasis, not need to write in caps which looks like SHOUTING.
Maybe he wrote the subtitles for Beneath the Steel Sky.
Why even consider lossy compression any more? In the current world we have the luxury of plenty of cheap storage, so why not use it and just keep everything in CD quality. A 500 GB HDD can store about 1000 albums uncompressed (even more if you FLAC them).
If any kind of unprinting can be detected, I suppose we could make a deal that unprinted documents are void as contracts.
Or, maybe we can develop a discrete paper type which cannot be unprinted, which can be used for contracts.
Just out of curiosity...
If you were the Project Leader for Windows 8 right now, and you started hearing all this "Metro sucks" stuff, even Ballmer starts to look a bit sweaty...
What steps would you take to correct the course of the ship and make it ultimately a good product release? If a complete revamp was not possible but just something doable and smart to save Win8.