This thing will never replace PDAs - its screen is tiny. That means that visiting conventional websites, watching movies (I never do this on a PDA because even the largest screen is too small, but Nokia seems to think that it's cool) isn't easy, reading books/PDFs is also harder. In fact I have replaced my hi-res (320x320) Zire 71 for a low-res (240x320) iPaq rx1950 exactly because iPaq's screen is bigger, (and yet the iPAQ seems to be smaller because Zire is much thicker and heavier). High resolution can't replace big screen size. Imagine watching Star Wars (or any other movie that looks good on a big screen) on a small yet ultra-high-res display.
You can combine two, three or even four chips; in fact when my USB flash drive broke and I opened the case, I found two identical Toshiba chips inside and placeholders for two more on the other side of the PCB (probably for twice-the-capacity drives).
I've ordered lots of free CDs, and none of them ever broke - even Sun's thin cardboard packages. You should have seen these - imagine a piece of thin cardboard (like in paperback books), twice the width of a CD and the same height as a CD, folded in two, the CD put inside it, and wrapped in wrapping film so that the CD doesn't fall out on the sides. And these CDs arrived in excellent condition; perhaps that's because the disc is fixed in the package and can't move and scratch itself.
Perhaps if they deliver only the flap, the mail counts as "delivered" while if they don't deliver anything to you the mail is considered "lost" and USPS has to return the shipping costs back to Netflix.
I hate feeding the troll, but I still will reply. Under Windows there are lots of special apps that don't run in OSX or Linux: Autocad 3ds max Multisim Dreamweaver/Flash (I think) Hundreds of games... And running them in Wine doesn't work at all or requires a lot of hacking. Even if you do make the software work, it will look pretty alien (widgets, filesystem-tied stuff, themes etc.) in a Linux or OSX environment. And if you use only one Windows-only app, what's the point of using an OS other than Windows? My dad uses 3ds max and Autocad and he won't suddenly forget all he knows and switch to QCad/Blender. He will have a steep learning curve, during which he won't be doing anything useful, and he won't benefit much in the end because Autocad has a lot of features no free (or linux/osx-supported) *CAD aplication has, and these features are actually *useful*.
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This proves that Google has better grid computing than Sun's - it computes the answer in less that a second:
When I used yum, it downloaded ALL repo data EACH TIME I installed something with it! Apt-get OTOH downloads stuff incrementally (based on my experience) and you can choose not to update repo data automatically.
Suse 10.0 already is. IMHO a dual-layer DVD would be a better choice. That's the difference between philosophies - Ubuntu and distros like it mantain only the best and most needed stuff on one CD (and all additional stuff has to be downloaded separately) while Fedora, Suse, Mandrake etc. have everything and the kitchen sink - great when you have dialup or expensive internet but need that not-so-popular package. And you can install everything including that maths app and Frozen Bubble game on your friend's PC (or notebook) without an internet connection. Short answer: For Ubuntu etc. many CDs is bad; For Fedora, Suse, the more CDs, the better.
"if you own the unit, you have no obligation to play only approved content" Yes, but if you try to trick (and it is the only way) the DRM that prevents non-original content from loading you're violating the DCMA.
Mod parent up! I have an ATI card in a Pentim III-1000, and am using the latest Catalyst drivers. Well, the system stops responding for about 10 seconds while Ati Control Center is loading its icon (and probably all the other stuff). I've also made a simple app (about 120 lines of code) that generates crosswords. It also has a really long start time of about 5-7 seconds. It's a really long time compared to native (and much more complex) stuff like Miranda. This 120-liner actually loads the same amount of time as MS word!
I usually Google for something when I can't find it in the menus, toolbars, and help. Many of the features I thought were must-have and obvious didn't exist in Gimp, and Googling simply proved that the stuff I was searching for didn't exist. And 10 minutes of Googling for *nearly each* new operation is kind of annoying for a user migrated from Photoshop. One of the other things that drove me mad was when I closed the additional window (the one with layers and other toolbars, not the one with the menu), I couldn't restore it because Gimp thought that I didn't like it and didn't want it! I had to erase my ~/.gimp-2.2 folder to restore that back.
Well I've used GIMP for webmastering and I found that the following features don't exist in Gimp but exist in Photoshop: - layer styles, including shadows. In Photoshop, you can add a shadow and change it any way you like in something like 5 mouse clicks. The shadow will change if the object changes. Now, Gimp doesn't have any stuff for making shadows at all. So, to make a shadow, you have to duplicate the layer, fill the duplicate with black (or any other color), and blur it. And of course if you draw something on the original layer, you'll have to delete the shadow and draw a new one. - save for web - photoshop has more filters, and many can be actually useful - shadows/highlight (first appeared in Photoshop CS) If you are doing simple photo editing (brightness/contrast, color levels, resize), Gimp or Krita or Gwenview or even ACDSee will suit you well. If you have never used Photoshop, you'll also have no difficulties in using Gimp. However when you switch from Photoshop to Gimp you'll be lacking lots of these small-but-useful features that make a 30 second task in Photoshop something like 10 minutes Googling when using Gimp.
My Casio WL-S21H watch automatically lights its backlight when you rotate it from 90 degrees to 60 degrees (to vertical), making a stretch-your-arm-forward-and-look-at-the-watch movement. However it has so many false positives that the battery discharges in about 3 days of usage. Good thing that the watch recharges its battery from an integrated solar panel (a circle round the display). Anyway, I usually switch this feature off.
There was a famous video clip made by Tom's hardware in 2002 (or something like that), where they took off the heatsink off an Athlon XP and Pentium 4 while the CPU processing lots of data: http://www4.tomshardware.com/images/THG_CPU_Coolin g.zip The AMD melted in 10 seconds, the temperature rising to something like 350 degrees Celcius, while the Pentium 4 lowered its FSB and continued working without any cooling for some time. However I think the situation would be the opposite today.
My dad wanted to buy a Pentium 4 PC. I told him not to and recommended AMD. He still wanted to buy an Intel, and bought one. It used a heatsink with size like of a CD (third-party, not Intel), but the fan itself was reasonably quiet. The CPU's temperature rarely rose higher than 45C, which surprised me a lot - I thought it wouldn't get lower than 60C. And notice how AMD presents their benchmarks: http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInforma tion/0,,30_118_11599_11605~101503,00.html An AMD CPU that's 23% faster that Intel's appears to be at least 2.5 times faster. That's because they are showing only the last 85%-125% of the scale. However I'm still pro-AMD and anti-Intel.
I've watched 2001: A Space Odyssey about a month ago and I must say that I enjoyed it much more than most movies I've seen in the past 8 years (including Episodes 1-3 of Star Wars). 2001 is not just a movie you watch while eating popcorn - it's art, and a really fine one. Not just pretty faces trying to look as if they are acting. And special effects (which seem to become duller and more redundant) aren't the only point of the film.
I'm living in Europe and one of my friends flew to America and bought lots of stuff customers returned to Macy's stores and some others. He bought this stuff cheap (in fact, paying for the equipment something like $30/kg) and wanted to sell it in Europe. That was sometime in 1980-1990s. Anyway, there were a lot of AT&T-branded phones as well as Panasonic, GE, Sony phones. I thought that AT&T phones were branded just because they were offered with the telephone line - something like buying an mp3 player and batteries in one store for convenience. So my question is: what were those phones exactly? Were you allowed to connect a non-AT&T phone (at least they were sold and bought in the US) or were you charged a rent on the number of phones you bought directly from AT&T?
A company can buy the copyright for the source and re-release it under a different license. As long as the copyright is theirs, they can do whatever they want to do with it, except for suing anyone using a copy of the source BEFORE it was bought out (and its forks). So, a project may be forked and it will be perfectly legal. But what if for example Sun stops releasing OpenOffice under LGPL? Something like 70% of the OpenOffice team are Sun employees. And although OpenOffice is not such a mess as the MSDOC format, it's often regarded as being difficult to mantain. Because of that, it would be easier and more appealing for many developers to put more effort in projects such as KOffice and Abiword/Gnumeric rather than forking OpenOffice.
If you drop the cup with coffee, while in mid-air it's basically two objects: the cup and the coffee. When the cup starts landing (and decceleration because of the "bomb" breaking up), it's like if the cup was falling slowly, and the coffee was falling faster, which can be translated to a completely still cup and the falling coffee. Now, if you drop liquid into a cup from some height, it will spill. The slower decceleration only reduces the speed of the coffee relative to the cup. Also, what about the cup falling on one side because the bomb breaks up better at that side? It would be better if they used a car-suspension scheme: not-too-fast decceleration when landing and slowly returning to normal state with a spring.
My cellular provider (MTS Russia) has migrated from its old but reliable Cboss billing system to a really buggy thing named Foris about two years ago. People knew that Foris was buggy and certainly immature, but management still forced the move. The main reason probably was because Foris was designed by an MTS-owned company while CBoss was a third-party product and had to be paid for. A company like MTS can certainly adopt any OSS product as long as it helps them cut costs, no matter if the application is mature or not.
I can't believe this is modded troll! I know a lot of people that want an uncrashable PDA with support for simple games, books and low power consumption. For example, I've switched from a Toshiba e310 to a Palm Zire 71, then to a Sony Clie SJ22 and a separate cd-mp3 player for music.
Most "smartphones" I have seen were Symbian-based Nokias. I've seen a WinMobile-powered phone (all of them Motorolas) only three times in my life. And one of these phones was force-rebooted twice in 20 minutes. You may become quite angry when you were playing a really difficult level in some game and an importaint incoming call froze the phone completely.
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This thing will never replace PDAs - its screen is tiny. That means that visiting conventional websites, watching movies (I never do this on a PDA because even the largest screen is too small, but Nokia seems to think that it's cool) isn't easy, reading books/PDFs is also harder.
In fact I have replaced my hi-res (320x320) Zire 71 for a low-res (240x320) iPaq rx1950 exactly because iPaq's screen is bigger, (and yet the iPAQ seems to be smaller because Zire is much thicker and heavier). High resolution can't replace big screen size. Imagine watching Star Wars (or any other movie that looks good on a big screen) on a small yet ultra-high-res display.
You can combine two, three or even four chips; in fact when my USB flash drive broke and I opened the case, I found two identical Toshiba chips inside and placeholders for two more on the other side of the PCB (probably for twice-the-capacity drives).
I've ordered lots of free CDs, and none of them ever broke - even Sun's thin cardboard packages. You should have seen these - imagine a piece of thin cardboard (like in paperback books), twice the width of a CD and the same height as a CD, folded in two, the CD put inside it, and wrapped in wrapping film so that the CD doesn't fall out on the sides.
And these CDs arrived in excellent condition; perhaps that's because the disc is fixed in the package and can't move and scratch itself.
Perhaps if they deliver only the flap, the mail counts as "delivered" while if they don't deliver anything to you the mail is considered "lost" and USPS has to return the shipping costs back to Netflix.
I hate feeding the troll, but I still will reply.
Under Windows there are lots of special apps that don't run in OSX or Linux:
Autocad
3ds max
Multisim
Dreamweaver/Flash (I think)
Hundreds of games...
And running them in Wine doesn't work at all or requires a lot of hacking. Even if you do make the software work, it will look pretty alien (widgets, filesystem-tied stuff, themes etc.) in a Linux or OSX environment. And if you use only one Windows-only app, what's the point of using an OS other than Windows? My dad uses 3ds max and Autocad and he won't suddenly forget all he knows and switch to QCad/Blender. He will have a steep learning curve, during which he won't be doing anything useful, and he won't benefit much in the end because Autocad has a lot of features no free (or linux/osx-supported) *CAD aplication has, and these features are actually *useful*.
This proves that Google has better grid computing than Sun's - it computes the answer in less that a second:
o +life%2C+the+universe+and+everything&btnG=Google+S earch
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=the+answer+t
When I used yum, it downloaded ALL repo data EACH TIME I installed something with it!
Apt-get OTOH downloads stuff incrementally (based on my experience) and you can choose not to update repo data automatically.
No, that was Microsoft Bob!
Se what the bastard has done with Windows 3.11, the only place I see it is in my university's ancient lab.
Suse 10.0 already is.
IMHO a dual-layer DVD would be a better choice.
That's the difference between philosophies - Ubuntu and distros like it mantain only the best and most needed stuff on one CD (and all additional stuff has to be downloaded separately) while Fedora, Suse, Mandrake etc. have everything and the kitchen sink - great when you have dialup or expensive internet but need that not-so-popular package. And you can install everything including that maths app and Frozen Bubble game on your friend's PC (or notebook) without an internet connection.
Short answer:
For Ubuntu etc. many CDs is bad;
For Fedora, Suse, the more CDs, the better.
"if you own the unit, you have no obligation to play only approved content"
Yes, but if you try to trick (and it is the only way) the DRM that prevents non-original content from loading you're violating the DCMA.
Mod parent up!
I have an ATI card in a Pentim III-1000, and am using the latest Catalyst drivers. Well, the system stops responding for about 10 seconds while Ati Control Center is loading its icon (and probably all the other stuff).
I've also made a simple app (about 120 lines of code) that generates crosswords. It also has a really long start time of about 5-7 seconds. It's a really long time compared to native (and much more complex) stuff like Miranda. This 120-liner actually loads the same amount of time as MS word!
I usually Google for something when I can't find it in the menus, toolbars, and help. Many of the features I thought were must-have and obvious didn't exist in Gimp, and Googling simply proved that the stuff I was searching for didn't exist.
And 10 minutes of Googling for *nearly each* new operation is kind of annoying for a user migrated from Photoshop. One of the other things that drove me mad was when I closed the additional window (the one with layers and other toolbars, not the one with the menu), I couldn't restore it because Gimp thought that I didn't like it and didn't want it! I had to erase my ~/.gimp-2.2 folder to restore that back.
Well I've used GIMP for webmastering and I found that the following features don't exist in Gimp but exist in Photoshop:
- layer styles, including shadows. In Photoshop, you can add a shadow and change it any way you like in something like 5 mouse clicks. The shadow will change if the object changes. Now, Gimp doesn't have any stuff for making shadows at all. So, to make a shadow, you have to duplicate the layer, fill the duplicate with black (or any other color), and blur it. And of course if you draw something on the original layer, you'll have to delete the shadow and draw a new one.
- save for web
- photoshop has more filters, and many can be actually useful
- shadows/highlight (first appeared in Photoshop CS)
If you are doing simple photo editing (brightness/contrast, color levels, resize), Gimp or Krita or Gwenview or even ACDSee will suit you well. If you have never used Photoshop, you'll also have no difficulties in using Gimp.
However when you switch from Photoshop to Gimp you'll be lacking lots of these small-but-useful features that make a 30 second task in Photoshop something like 10 minutes Googling when using Gimp.
My Casio WL-S21H watch automatically lights its backlight when you rotate it from 90 degrees to 60 degrees (to vertical), making a stretch-your-arm-forward-and-look-at-the-watch movement. However it has so many false positives that the battery discharges in about 3 days of usage. Good thing that the watch recharges its battery from an integrated solar panel (a circle round the display). Anyway, I usually switch this feature off.
There was a famous video clip made by Tom's hardware in 2002 (or something like that), where they took off the heatsink off an Athlon XP and Pentium 4 while the CPU processing lots of data:n g.zip
http://www4.tomshardware.com/images/THG_CPU_Cooli
The AMD melted in 10 seconds, the temperature rising to something like 350 degrees Celcius, while the Pentium 4 lowered its FSB and continued working without any cooling for some time.
However I think the situation would be the opposite today.
My dad wanted to buy a Pentium 4 PC. I told him not to and recommended AMD. He still wanted to buy an Intel, and bought one. It used a heatsink with size like of a CD (third-party, not Intel), but the fan itself was reasonably quiet. The CPU's temperature rarely rose higher than 45C, which surprised me a lot - I thought it wouldn't get lower than 60C.a tion/0,,30_118_11599_11605~101503,00.html
And notice how AMD presents their benchmarks:
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInform
An AMD CPU that's 23% faster that Intel's appears to be at least 2.5 times faster. That's because they are showing only the last 85%-125% of the scale.
However I'm still pro-AMD and anti-Intel.
I find myself buying older films, classics.
I've watched 2001: A Space Odyssey about a month ago and I must say that I enjoyed it much more than most movies I've seen in the past 8 years (including Episodes 1-3 of Star Wars). 2001 is not just a movie you watch while eating popcorn - it's art, and a really fine one. Not just pretty faces trying to look as if they are acting. And special effects (which seem to become duller and more redundant) aren't the only point of the film.
It already has a lightbulb in its own window (ala Clippy'97) sometimes popping out and making statements (at least in OOo 1.1.4).
I'm living in Europe and one of my friends flew to America and bought lots of stuff customers returned to Macy's stores and some others. He bought this stuff cheap (in fact, paying for the equipment something like $30/kg) and wanted to sell it in Europe. That was sometime in 1980-1990s.
Anyway, there were a lot of AT&T-branded phones as well as Panasonic, GE, Sony phones. I thought that AT&T phones were branded just because they were offered with the telephone line - something like buying an mp3 player and batteries in one store for convenience. So my question is: what were those phones exactly? Were you allowed to connect a non-AT&T phone (at least they were sold and bought in the US) or were you charged a rent on the number of phones you bought directly from AT&T?
A company can buy the copyright for the source and re-release it under a different license. As long as the copyright is theirs, they can do whatever they want to do with it, except for suing anyone using a copy of the source BEFORE it was bought out (and its forks). So, a project may be forked and it will be perfectly legal.
But what if for example Sun stops releasing OpenOffice under LGPL? Something like 70% of the OpenOffice team are Sun employees. And although OpenOffice is not such a mess as the MSDOC format, it's often regarded as being difficult to mantain. Because of that, it would be easier and more appealing for many developers to put more effort in projects such as KOffice and Abiword/Gnumeric rather than forking OpenOffice.
If you drop the cup with coffee, while in mid-air it's basically two objects: the cup and the coffee. When the cup starts landing (and decceleration because of the "bomb" breaking up), it's like if the cup was falling slowly, and the coffee was falling faster, which can be translated to a completely still cup and the falling coffee. Now, if you drop liquid into a cup from some height, it will spill. The slower decceleration only reduces the speed of the coffee relative to the cup.
Also, what about the cup falling on one side because the bomb breaks up better at that side?
It would be better if they used a car-suspension scheme: not-too-fast decceleration when landing and slowly returning to normal state with a spring.
My cellular provider (MTS Russia) has migrated from its old but reliable Cboss billing system to a really buggy thing named Foris about two years ago. People knew that Foris was buggy and certainly immature, but management still forced the move. The main reason probably was because Foris was designed by an MTS-owned company while CBoss was a third-party product and had to be paid for. A company like MTS can certainly adopt any OSS product as long as it helps them cut costs, no matter if the application is mature or not.
Yuck! The thought itself makes me sick!
I can't believe this is modded troll!
I know a lot of people that want an uncrashable PDA with support for simple games, books and low power consumption.
For example, I've switched from a Toshiba e310 to a Palm Zire 71, then to a Sony Clie SJ22 and a separate cd-mp3 player for music.
Most "smartphones" I have seen were Symbian-based Nokias. I've seen a WinMobile-powered phone (all of them Motorolas) only three times in my life. And one of these phones was force-rebooted twice in 20 minutes. You may become quite angry when you were playing a really difficult level in some game and an importaint incoming call froze the phone completely.