Thinking more of obscure ways to connect, there was also parallel port with a "Laplink cable". Using parallel port always brought the machine to knees though. People talked about enabling EPP/ECP modes to reduce overhead but it seemed that no software actually used them.
Even though it lacks crucial features like JavaScript and plugins, one should try Dillo just to experience how extremely fast a graphical browser can be.
The problem is in the fragmentation of distributions and the fragmentation in the GUI.
True. We should only have one auto manufacturer making one model of car too, because having so many companies selling so many different types of car is terribly confusing.
People usually have many opinions on how you should use laptop or phone batteries to maintain maximum longevity. Keep it plugged in always when possible, discharge it to 50% every now and then, or always run it from full to empty, etc.
It would be cool if we had some "battery mythbusters" who would systematically test these things with different machines and usage patterns so we could get more solid data on the subject.:)
I sort of hate having to tell him 'no' when he wants to explore a computer.
It's probably not a computer he's excited about, just the bright light and the feel of the keyboard. Some have said "my son has always been interested in harvesters", while all the boy saw was just a nice big, colorful object.
That might be something to optimize, but the main reason for the slowness is still that Flash does YUV->RGB conversion in software. I was hoping for HTML5 players getting this right and using the normal YUV overlay...but no one seems to know how to even write a proper video player these days.
As for adventure games, the golden age of 1990s is gone. There were EGA or VGA games like Space Quest and Monkey Island that were so fun to play and have no modern successors.
It's not that sad. There's still gems here and there.
I noticed it too. Abovetopsecret had this station information link posted which has a Google Maps thingy embedded. Mostly black when you zoom in, some faint borders can be seen though.
I think the distinction between YouTube and a BitTorrent tracker is fairly substantial. YouTube actually hosts the infringing content on its website. With BT, it's the users that are doing the hosting.
But a torrent file is essentially a virtualization of the contents of a file. If you remove the torrent, the infringing data will for sure still exist among the users, but good luck sharing it any more.
There's the reliability issue but then I find the babysitting annoying. Firmware updates, performance refresh utilities, partition alignment... With HDDs you didn't have to worry about any of this. I hope with future SSDs neither.
Do you feel that flicker is a problem in LEDs? I suppose most of them are driven with PWM to reduce power consumption. Many times I can subconsciously feel the flicker and wonder whether it's healthy for human in long term. After all it's a light blinking on and off very rapidly. The 20kHz is fine for fluorescents but LEDs dim even faster and might require much higher frequency or even pure DC.
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Thinking more of obscure ways to connect, there was also parallel port with a "Laplink cable". Using parallel port always brought the machine to knees though. People talked about enabling EPP/ECP modes to reduce overhead but it seemed that no software actually used them.
Excellent point - especially these days when there's massive amounts of data floating around.
Even though it lacks crucial features like JavaScript and plugins, one should try Dillo just to experience how extremely fast a graphical browser can be.
The problem is in the fragmentation of distributions and the fragmentation in the GUI.
True. We should only have one auto manufacturer making one model of car too, because having so many companies selling so many different types of car is terribly confusing.
But they all have the same UI...
There is an actual bug tracker too, maybe try there also.
People usually have many opinions on how you should use laptop or phone batteries to maintain maximum longevity. Keep it plugged in always when possible, discharge it to 50% every now and then, or always run it from full to empty, etc.
It would be cool if we had some "battery mythbusters" who would systematically test these things with different machines and usage patterns so we could get more solid data on the subject. :)
How can that be possible? Wouldn't that conflict with the partition table or confuse the file system?
I've got balls of tin.
It's probably not a computer he's excited about, just the bright light and the feel of the keyboard. Some have said "my son has always been interested in harvesters", while all the boy saw was just a nice big, colorful object.
Those engraved labels look kind of fuzzy...
That might be something to optimize, but the main reason for the slowness is still that Flash does YUV->RGB conversion in software. I was hoping for HTML5 players getting this right and using the normal YUV overlay...but no one seems to know how to even write a proper video player these days.
And many schools and workplaces have fluorescent lights with older type magnetic ballasts which cause them to flicker.
At least Ubuntu gets mentioned and it's not only the classic "Dell recommends Microsoft Windows operating system".
It's not that sad. There's still gems here and there.
'I think users use headlamps periodically,' said Mercedes-Benz executive, '(but) there's other things they use more frequently.'
I noticed it too. Abovetopsecret had this station information link posted which has a Google Maps thingy embedded. Mostly black when you zoom in, some faint borders can be seen though.
I dunno about the patent, but it brought these in to my mind, which are kind of neat.
But a torrent file is essentially a virtualization of the contents of a file. If you remove the torrent, the infringing data will for sure still exist among the users, but good luck sharing it any more.
Hey, I believe Itella has a form which you can fill at the post office to ban this kind of junk too.
There's the reliability issue but then I find the babysitting annoying. Firmware updates, performance refresh utilities, partition alignment... With HDDs you didn't have to worry about any of this. I hope with future SSDs neither.
Do you feel that flicker is a problem in LEDs? I suppose most of them are driven with PWM to reduce power consumption. Many times I can subconsciously feel the flicker and wonder whether it's healthy for human in long term. After all it's a light blinking on and off very rapidly. The 20kHz is fine for fluorescents but LEDs dim even faster and might require much higher frequency or even pure DC.
He has an unprofessional touch, just crudely jamming everything in place. Hurts to watch that.
Not all hardware has to be thrown into garbage just because it's old.
Would moving to Chrome then be "sidegrading"? ;)
Yes because zapping the driver into unconsciousness while he is driving at 65mph on the highway will reduce accidents.
And that, kids, was the sound of a joke dying.
Nah, it was a meta-joke.