Current Full HD would be considered 2K, so 4K is twice the horizontal resolution 1920 x 2 which is "about" 4000, 8K is four times Full HD so "about" 8000.
All you need to care about is 8k > 4k > Full HD > SD, don't fret about the resolution counts.
They do realize Microsoft is making a big push into phone and tablet markets?
Why do people consider Gartner a reliable source for stats? Its like: "Me sa say dat Windows no sella, me sa say Android sella more, me sa thinks no bombad changes for 4 years".
Yes, I think the people of Gartner are retarded Gungans.
Seems the global warming has increased during the history of the use CEEFAX thus obviously according to the hard hitting investigation done by BBC reporters, CEEFAX caused global warming. I am glad they finally stopped this carbon producing service.
First, you switched to linux at a time when Windows as immature, unreliable, and insecure. Times have changed.
The biggest issue with Windows today is yesterday's prejudices. People still assume windows is not secure and requires gobs of software to protect it.
Windows 7 is secure, I have been running it for years without anything more than Windows Security Essentials running in the background. I found most other forms of anti-virus software, both retail and free, to be worse than the trojans they are trying to protect me from, robbing performance and doing crap in the background against my will.
Also, stop trying to do things cheap. Today's computers are 5 - 10 times cheaper than they were 10 years ago. Rather than trying to retrofit some old laptop you had laying around with an "expensive" copy of Windows 7, just go out and buy your kid a $400 windows laptop with Windows 7 already installed. Chances are it will work better and your kid will appreciate newer hardware then some junk you pulled out a closet. Take all that money you have saved running Linux on old computers and drop a little on a cheap laptop.
So, rather than trying to promote the FUD that you assume is associated with Windows today, realize that millions of people are running Windows 7 without having to invest 100's of hours locking it down. You assume, because you have used Linux for 12 years, that it is necessary to have to invest time to set up something, this is just not the case anymore. Bottom line is this is a laptop for your kid, so unless your 12 year old is going to be doing online banking and doing taxes, even if the laptop gets infected or taken over with virus there is no information of any relevance to leak out. Wipe and repeat.
If you are worried about what your kid can access while online, than that comes down to parenting rather than software. No reason why your 12 year old should be locked away in his room accessing content online, promote the idea that in order to use a computer kids should be in a freely accessible area of the house by all family members, that is the rules, you are the parent, set them.
NASA will issue an apology letter "well metal scratches and plastic flakes off, just like our competitors".
But seriously, I know I can go to the beach with my niece and nephew and dig holes with $1 plastic dollar store shoves and not leave bits of it behind.
Combustion engines will emerge 50 - 100 years from now as one of the stupidest human inventions of all time.
For the past 100 years combustion engines have wasted 90% or more of the energy offered by gasoline. That means 90% of the gas produced over the last 100 years was vaporized and did nothing more then produce heat, noise and vibrations instead of moving cars forward.
Combustion engines are like incandescent light bulbs, they are both better heaters then they are for the purpose they were intended for. Both are 100+ year old technology that just became so cheap and easy to use that people just gave up trying to make them more efficient.
Even "modern" combustion engines are not much better than the ones create 100 years ago. The only reason why fuel efficiency has improved over 100 years is because we are building are cars with lighter materials with "marginal" improvements in the way combustion engines actually work. We have NOT found ways of extracting more energy out of gas to make the cars move forward, we have just done more with the 10% of energy we get out of exploding gas. Hybrids are nothing more than putting bandaids on a gaping wound.
History lessons in the 22nd century will look back and laugh at the follies of the 20th century for having done nothing to innovate and move past the combustion engine. The fact that after 100 years we have nearly depleted our fossil fuel reserves on something as wasteful as the combustion engine will be the biggest most retarded invention in human history.
So while I agree that hydrocarbons are a great store for energy, humans have wasted that store in epic proportions!
Obviously you live in a house of needy selfish assholes.
For the rest of the world, iPad screams for user profiles as any parent with kids knows there are screens and screens of apps for each member in a household, and they are not going to buy an $800 device for their 4 year old and another one for their 6 year old along with a monthly data plan.
Also since I might actually use a Windows tablet at work I would like to have a separate work account and home account even though I might be the only one using the device.
The difference between Microsoft and Apple is that Microsoft knows their users are not clueless selfish assholes.
I don't know why they just don't show CSI episodes in forensics schools. Of course I am also surprised anybody is still caught for murder these days with all the crime investigation shows showing you what not to do.
Yeah, I don't care what the ratings are, a Semi-Truck vs Smart Car means the Semi is going to win each and every time and Smart car driver is not walking away from that one.
I've seen on Top Gear too where they slam the Smart car into a concrete wall, and while the car remains relatively intact, because there is largely no crumple zone the amount of G's imposed on the occupants means they are going to suffer massive internal organ damage and death.
The only uneducated are the rich smug hipsters driving around in a death trap compared to everyone else on US roads. If everyone had Smart cars, then I would feel safe in them, but when you are racing massive transports and battle ready SUV's on American highways, don't make me laugh calling me uneducated for not driving one.
There are lots of things built to last, for instance, most computers, phones, electronic devices will last a long time.
The problem is that society perceives electronics to become obsolete a year or two after purchase, and so they want to get rid of something that works perfectly well for something the works or looks slightly better.
So, having electronics that could eventually biodegrade is a good thing when the hipsters decide that the iPhone-nS released 6 months ago is not as good as iPhone-n+1 means there is less iPhone i[S] (n + 1) in the landfills.
These devices are built to last far longer then people will find them acceptable to use, and that is not going to change. However even saying that, nobody would ever want a 20 year old computer just because it is built out of cast iron.
By the way there is nothing wrong with waste and landfills either, they will become the greatest repository of fossil fuel and metal once we deplete the earth of its virgin resources.
We don't need to spend billions on space exploration on the off chance that it may offer some benefit to mankind.
If the same kind of money that went into this NASA project was directly aimed at helping paraplegics we could have found cures rather than glorified crutches.
I don't buy the whole "Let's validate spending trillions in space exploration because it might offer some side-effects that benefit of mankind",
If you want to save mankind, spend billions on the problems we face every day. If you want to spend billions finding water on some space rock then privatize and use the offshoots from the R&D to fund your superfluous programs. Don't waste trillions in taxes and then push out some feel good humanitarian story, especially when it comes time for the government to review and validate their budget. You know damn well that when a billion dollar space probe blows up on launch NASA is forced to try and find offshoot spinoffs from the money wasted on essentially a big bomb.
I am all for space travel, I love science-fiction. But that is where space exploration should remain until we, as a society, can solve problems with dismal economy, world strife, and pending global ecological disaster first. Those issues are not going to be solved just by chance because NASA invests trillions in vapid space research.
The idea of downloading and printing a car is absolutely retarded.
Consider what is involved in printing a car that will actually copy a car from a car company.
You will need several tonnes of raw material to feed the printer and thousands of dollars it will cost to buy and ship and store it.
You will need the printer large and robust enough to handle building parts that will weigh at least several hundred pounds and the smallest sized part, which is probably at minimum, enough to print an engine block, transmission, or length of frame of the car. Pretty sure this printer is not going to cost $69.99 at Staples. People thinking they are going to print a copy of a Ford using a bunch of parts that are no bigger than a shoebox are sorely out of touch with reality. You are NEVER going to have some system that print a car from the ground up into some completed and fully functional piece of machinery.
Also consider printing something like a shoe that would be worth wearing. Last I checked my shoes are not made from one material in some unibody design, it contains many components and different types of materials, least of which includes leather which is just not going to be printed out of a machine. I could print something that looks like a shoe, but I am not going to find it enjoyable to wear or as stylish as what Nike is going to sell me.
People seem to think these limitations are going to be improved or resolved in the immediate future, that home 3D printers are just going to get better with time and this will all be magically feasible. People need to apply some basic common sense and actually think of the logistics of what is involved in printing a car at home. The idea of ripping of a $30k car for a few hundred dollars of parts on a home 3D printing system is going to produce something nobody is going to drive in.
Sure, I agree that from an industrial point of view, the ability for one corporation to rip off and steal some other design and the print them in some large multi-million dollar printing system is feasible in the near future, but then why go through all the trouble of ripping off another design when its just as easy to create your own design and build it with this system. I don't think Car Company A is going to get away with making cars that look exactly like Car Company B, fundamentally I have no respect for a company that has to steal someone elses designs. I don't think DRM is required because current patent, trademark, and copyright laws will prevent companies from copying designs verbatim and passing them off as their own.
Some crap industry producing cheap plastic toys or products will be hit hard with home 3D printers, but people got to stop thinking that they are going to have home systems capable reproducing ing ANYTHING with the same quality and standards AND for prices that are significantly cheaper, like Cars or anything else worth owning.
How is the cloud any different from the Internet we have been using for 20 years? The "cloud" is a marketing buzzword, like Web 2.0, that embodies the easier ability for consumers to upload and retrieve information online, nothing more.
The internet has been caching and archiving information for over 20 years, if anything society has become collectively ignorant as a result. Misinformation is now spread at an alarming pace and people are readily willing to believe anything they read online or at least apply no additional logic or common sense to what they are reading and just pass it off as "fact".
I could only agree that the "Cloud" would expand my brain capacity if the content it contains is factual, valid, and true. However since the "cloud" is currently used to archive people's massive collection of cat breading and planking photos, i'll suggest we are far far off from the cloud offering any real expansion of intelligence.
The cloud is nothing more than a meme archiver.
This is a guy who snacks from a large bowl of vitamin and nutritional supplements all day long, every day, I limit my impression of his opinions in that context.
I can't wait for billions of my taxes to be spent finding water on the moon because we all know our economy is strong and infallible, humans have no disease or global strife, and the government is sitting flush with money just wasting away doing nothing because our education and healthcare are all top notch.
I hope one day soon scientists are going to find water on another moon or planet and be so happy they have never wasted one taxpayer dollar doing so.
I am also stoked for a new season of Sarcastaball to get started!
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Samsung should thank Apple for assuming Apple's customers are so retarded as to mistake an Android phone or tablet for an iPhone or iPad.
The problem would be if American military leaders are also Xbox 360 Gamers.
It just marketing linqo.
Current Full HD would be considered 2K, so 4K is twice the horizontal resolution 1920 x 2 which is "about" 4000, 8K is four times Full HD so "about" 8000.
All you need to care about is 8k > 4k > Full HD > SD, don't fret about the resolution counts.
They do realize Microsoft is making a big push into phone and tablet markets?
Why do people consider Gartner a reliable source for stats? Its like: "Me sa say dat Windows no sella, me sa say Android sella more, me sa thinks no bombad changes for 4 years".
Yes, I think the people of Gartner are retarded Gungans.
And so begins another era of nerds lamenting change!!!!!
Seems the global warming has increased during the history of the use CEEFAX thus obviously according to the hard hitting investigation done by BBC reporters, CEEFAX caused global warming. I am glad they finally stopped this carbon producing service.
First, you switched to linux at a time when Windows as immature, unreliable, and insecure. Times have changed.
The biggest issue with Windows today is yesterday's prejudices. People still assume windows is not secure and requires gobs of software to protect it.
Windows 7 is secure, I have been running it for years without anything more than Windows Security Essentials running in the background. I found most other forms of anti-virus software, both retail and free, to be worse than the trojans they are trying to protect me from, robbing performance and doing crap in the background against my will.
Also, stop trying to do things cheap. Today's computers are 5 - 10 times cheaper than they were 10 years ago. Rather than trying to retrofit some old laptop you had laying around with an "expensive" copy of Windows 7, just go out and buy your kid a $400 windows laptop with Windows 7 already installed. Chances are it will work better and your kid will appreciate newer hardware then some junk you pulled out a closet. Take all that money you have saved running Linux on old computers and drop a little on a cheap laptop.
So, rather than trying to promote the FUD that you assume is associated with Windows today, realize that millions of people are running Windows 7 without having to invest 100's of hours locking it down. You assume, because you have used Linux for 12 years, that it is necessary to have to invest time to set up something, this is just not the case anymore. Bottom line is this is a laptop for your kid, so unless your 12 year old is going to be doing online banking and doing taxes, even if the laptop gets infected or taken over with virus there is no information of any relevance to leak out. Wipe and repeat.
If you are worried about what your kid can access while online, than that comes down to parenting rather than software. No reason why your 12 year old should be locked away in his room accessing content online, promote the idea that in order to use a computer kids should be in a freely accessible area of the house by all family members, that is the rules, you are the parent, set them.
Did they find water on Antarctica?
NASA will issue an apology letter "well metal scratches and plastic flakes off, just like our competitors".
But seriously, I know I can go to the beach with my niece and nephew and dig holes with $1 plastic dollar store shoves and not leave bits of it behind.
Combustion engines will emerge 50 - 100 years from now as one of the stupidest human inventions of all time.
For the past 100 years combustion engines have wasted 90% or more of the energy offered by gasoline. That means 90% of the gas produced over the last 100 years was vaporized and did nothing more then produce heat, noise and vibrations instead of moving cars forward.
Combustion engines are like incandescent light bulbs, they are both better heaters then they are for the purpose they were intended for. Both are 100+ year old technology that just became so cheap and easy to use that people just gave up trying to make them more efficient.
Even "modern" combustion engines are not much better than the ones create 100 years ago. The only reason why fuel efficiency has improved over 100 years is because we are building are cars with lighter materials with "marginal" improvements in the way combustion engines actually work. We have NOT found ways of extracting more energy out of gas to make the cars move forward, we have just done more with the 10% of energy we get out of exploding gas. Hybrids are nothing more than putting bandaids on a gaping wound.
History lessons in the 22nd century will look back and laugh at the follies of the 20th century for having done nothing to innovate and move past the combustion engine. The fact that after 100 years we have nearly depleted our fossil fuel reserves on something as wasteful as the combustion engine will be the biggest most retarded invention in human history.
So while I agree that hydrocarbons are a great store for energy, humans have wasted that store in epic proportions!
Obviously you live in a house of needy selfish assholes.
For the rest of the world, iPad screams for user profiles as any parent with kids knows there are screens and screens of apps for each member in a household, and they are not going to buy an $800 device for their 4 year old and another one for their 6 year old along with a monthly data plan.
Also since I might actually use a Windows tablet at work I would like to have a separate work account and home account even though I might be the only one using the device.
The difference between Microsoft and Apple is that Microsoft knows their users are not clueless selfish assholes.
I don't know why they just don't show CSI episodes in forensics schools. Of course I am also surprised anybody is still caught for murder these days with all the crime investigation shows showing you what not to do.
So in Little Alchemy, bacteria + bacteria = computer.
You would have gotten bonus points if you quoted 1984 which inspired the TNG scene.
Naw, the only fail was watching PBS in the first place.
Yeah, I don't care what the ratings are, a Semi-Truck vs Smart Car means the Semi is going to win each and every time and Smart car driver is not walking away from that one.
I've seen on Top Gear too where they slam the Smart car into a concrete wall, and while the car remains relatively intact, because there is largely no crumple zone the amount of G's imposed on the occupants means they are going to suffer massive internal organ damage and death.
The only uneducated are the rich smug hipsters driving around in a death trap compared to everyone else on US roads. If everyone had Smart cars, then I would feel safe in them, but when you are racing massive transports and battle ready SUV's on American highways, don't make me laugh calling me uneducated for not driving one.
These "Ask Slashdot" stuff are purposely trolling posts. Even bad parents are not going to give their 1 year old a linux box to run games on.
Your assumption is flawed.
There are lots of things built to last, for instance, most computers, phones, electronic devices will last a long time.
The problem is that society perceives electronics to become obsolete a year or two after purchase, and so they want to get rid of something that works perfectly well for something the works or looks slightly better.
So, having electronics that could eventually biodegrade is a good thing when the hipsters decide that the iPhone-nS released 6 months ago is not as good as iPhone-n+1 means there is less iPhone i[S] (n + 1) in the landfills.
These devices are built to last far longer then people will find them acceptable to use, and that is not going to change. However even saying that, nobody would ever want a 20 year old computer just because it is built out of cast iron.
By the way there is nothing wrong with waste and landfills either, they will become the greatest repository of fossil fuel and metal once we deplete the earth of its virgin resources.
Bullshit.
We don't need to spend billions on space exploration on the off chance that it may offer some benefit to mankind.
If the same kind of money that went into this NASA project was directly aimed at helping paraplegics we could have found cures rather than glorified crutches.
I don't buy the whole "Let's validate spending trillions in space exploration because it might offer some side-effects that benefit of mankind",
If you want to save mankind, spend billions on the problems we face every day. If you want to spend billions finding water on some space rock then privatize and use the offshoots from the R&D to fund your superfluous programs. Don't waste trillions in taxes and then push out some feel good humanitarian story, especially when it comes time for the government to review and validate their budget. You know damn well that when a billion dollar space probe blows up on launch NASA is forced to try and find offshoot spinoffs from the money wasted on essentially a big bomb.
I am all for space travel, I love science-fiction. But that is where space exploration should remain until we, as a society, can solve problems with dismal economy, world strife, and pending global ecological disaster first. Those issues are not going to be solved just by chance because NASA invests trillions in vapid space research.
The idea of downloading and printing a car is absolutely retarded.
Consider what is involved in printing a car that will actually copy a car from a car company.
You will need several tonnes of raw material to feed the printer and thousands of dollars it will cost to buy and ship and store it.
You will need the printer large and robust enough to handle building parts that will weigh at least several hundred pounds and the smallest sized part, which is probably at minimum, enough to print an engine block, transmission, or length of frame of the car. Pretty sure this printer is not going to cost $69.99 at Staples. People thinking they are going to print a copy of a Ford using a bunch of parts that are no bigger than a shoebox are sorely out of touch with reality. You are NEVER going to have some system that print a car from the ground up into some completed and fully functional piece of machinery.
Also consider printing something like a shoe that would be worth wearing. Last I checked my shoes are not made from one material in some unibody design, it contains many components and different types of materials, least of which includes leather which is just not going to be printed out of a machine. I could print something that looks like a shoe, but I am not going to find it enjoyable to wear or as stylish as what Nike is going to sell me.
People seem to think these limitations are going to be improved or resolved in the immediate future, that home 3D printers are just going to get better with time and this will all be magically feasible. People need to apply some basic common sense and actually think of the logistics of what is involved in printing a car at home. The idea of ripping of a $30k car for a few hundred dollars of parts on a home 3D printing system is going to produce something nobody is going to drive in.
Sure, I agree that from an industrial point of view, the ability for one corporation to rip off and steal some other design and the print them in some large multi-million dollar printing system is feasible in the near future, but then why go through all the trouble of ripping off another design when its just as easy to create your own design and build it with this system. I don't think Car Company A is going to get away with making cars that look exactly like Car Company B, fundamentally I have no respect for a company that has to steal someone elses designs. I don't think DRM is required because current patent, trademark, and copyright laws will prevent companies from copying designs verbatim and passing them off as their own.
Some crap industry producing cheap plastic toys or products will be hit hard with home 3D printers, but people got to stop thinking that they are going to have home systems capable reproducing ing ANYTHING with the same quality and standards AND for prices that are significantly cheaper, like Cars or anything else worth owning.
Because American "liberals" are closer to the conservatives in most other countries. There is no left-wing in the US anymore, only 50 shades of right.
How is the cloud any different from the Internet we have been using for 20 years? The "cloud" is a marketing buzzword, like Web 2.0, that embodies the easier ability for consumers to upload and retrieve information online, nothing more.
The internet has been caching and archiving information for over 20 years, if anything society has become collectively ignorant as a result. Misinformation is now spread at an alarming pace and people are readily willing to believe anything they read online or at least apply no additional logic or common sense to what they are reading and just pass it off as "fact".
I could only agree that the "Cloud" would expand my brain capacity if the content it contains is factual, valid, and true. However since the "cloud" is currently used to archive people's massive collection of cat breading and planking photos, i'll suggest we are far far off from the cloud offering any real expansion of intelligence.
The cloud is nothing more than a meme archiver.
This is a guy who snacks from a large bowl of vitamin and nutritional supplements all day long, every day, I limit my impression of his opinions in that context.
Apple is going to offer a new section on the App store called "Apps for Spys"...
Apple can only eat crow so many times in one month.
I can't wait for billions of my taxes to be spent finding water on the moon because we all know our economy is strong and infallible, humans have no disease or global strife, and the government is sitting flush with money just wasting away doing nothing because our education and healthcare are all top notch.
I hope one day soon scientists are going to find water on another moon or planet and be so happy they have never wasted one taxpayer dollar doing so.
I am also stoked for a new season of Sarcastaball to get started!