And I definitely think trying to execute the idea is worth a lifetime of talk about ideas. All the time you spend posting "way too often" could be spent coding, or at least guiding others on an open source project if you really have all the architectural issues worked out.
Well, I have one, and it's my phone. So whatever. It could be made smaller by getting rid of the hard-buttons, Android 3.x style. I like having a large screen - it makes typing on a touch-screen bearable, and is good for browsing. Since there likely won't be anything similar when I get my next phone, I think I'll go for a 4 inch device rather than the iPhone-style 3.5 inchers.
I'm aware of synthetic flavours (and I don't eat that stuff anyway, I don't eat stuff with added sugar or sweeteners where I am aware of them), it's a bit different to synthesising a whole fruit though.
How about doing the disease monitoring yourself in the first incarnation? A high quality webcam mounted on one of the bots would do the trick wouldn't it? You could just take a look once a week to ensure that nothing has gone disastrously wrong. I've never tried doing robotic vision processing before, but looking for certain colours of disease spots or green flies or whatever shouldn't be that hard either. Also you could have the bots notify you when things look drastically different to the previous day/6 hours/whatever.
I think my Streak is meant to do something similar, but I've never tried it as it requires purchasing a dock.
I'm thinking that perhaps if you installed CyanogenMod or some other custom ROMs they will allow proper screen mirroring, though I haven't looked into it. Certainly it's not a hardware limitation anyway.
Barely fast enough for one decent 720p video stream? So if you have a couple of people in your household wanting to watch YouTube at the same time, you're buffering or have to use lower bit rates. Or if you are downloading files or updates on Steam or whatever, you have the same probelem. It isn't hard to legally max out a 10Mb line in a normal household.
If there a very similar distro that has a sane default GUI, why not go with it? That's what I did.
Desktop interfaces should not be tablet interfaces any more than beer should be 100% pure water. Both are good in the right context. I don't want to waste time making my own beer, I'd rather spend the time drinking it.
Install Windows or Linux in a VM, on either machine. You can just save the VM state when you're not needing it.
I've just got a new laptop, and I'm going to keep Windows as the base OS, and set up my web development environment in a new VM (probably with Mint or Crunchbang).
Ditto. I switched to console gaming a few years ago because I really couldn't be bothered with Windows at home any more.
Recently though I've decided that there are a few games worth playing on PC. WINE still isn't really perfect, but I can use Windows as a base OS and run Linux VMs inside of it, so I get the best of both worlds without having to dual boot.
At work, I've been running Linux as a base OS with occasional use of a Windows VM when necessary.
Couple of things off the top of my head which Windows still would do better in an ideal world:
Consolidated update centre as in Linux and OSX - ie system updates and application updates can be applied/controlled from one place.
Stop being so messy, fragmented and disorganised when it comes to the Control Panel and various system setting GUIs. There's things to click to the left and right and all over the place. All the options seem to be just the Windows 95 designs, but in more confusing locations.
I bought a second hand iPod a year or two ago, figuring I'd be using it plugged in most of the time anyway. Not sure which generation it is, maybe fourth. The battery still lasted easily over 10 hours when I took a trip to London at the start of this year. Laptop batteries seem to die pretty fast, but that's perhaps due to the temperature they run at..
I don't really think GPU hardware is limited by legacy architecture design to the extent that CPUs are. Which means that I think current generation desktop GPUs will already be quite efficient (despite there being graphics cards out that require secondary power connectors). Even x86 is being made more efficient all the time, it seems..
That depends on whether you've bothered to spend the time learning how to do Rubik's cubes, or you just have an intuitive grasp of how they work. I have neither. I'm not saying that's particularly a skill that I'd find useful, but it is still impressive to me that people can keep track of such a complex object in their head, especially when you get up to 5x5 size for example.
Because we're not talking about graphics cards, we're talking about single chips for using in phones, etc, where compactness and power usage are very important?
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Yet again, idiots jumping to "reducto ad absurdum" conclusions.. sometimes, the news can be entertaining as well as informative you know.
Perhaps stories like this will cause someone to think up a method for tech support that even drunk people can understand.
Answer is obviously 1), because 2) gives us all a good laugh. Do you not like to laugh?
Tom, is that you?
And I definitely think trying to execute the idea is worth a lifetime of talk about ideas. All the time you spend posting "way too often" could be spent coding, or at least guiding others on an open source project if you really have all the architectural issues worked out.
Well, I have one, and it's my phone. So whatever. It could be made smaller by getting rid of the hard-buttons, Android 3.x style. I like having a large screen - it makes typing on a touch-screen bearable, and is good for browsing. Since there likely won't be anything similar when I get my next phone, I think I'll go for a 4 inch device rather than the iPhone-style 3.5 inchers.
A customised version of Android on the Dell Streak has been certified by the DoD.
Yeah it's not really worth it. When they start putting in wireless HDMI or some such then it will be pretty cool though, Iron Man style.
I'm aware of synthetic flavours (and I don't eat that stuff anyway, I don't eat stuff with added sugar or sweeteners where I am aware of them), it's a bit different to synthesising a whole fruit though.
Synthetic fruit?!??? Example please? I've heard of genetically modified foods, but not actually synthetic..
How about doing the disease monitoring yourself in the first incarnation? A high quality webcam mounted on one of the bots would do the trick wouldn't it? You could just take a look once a week to ensure that nothing has gone disastrously wrong. I've never tried doing robotic vision processing before, but looking for certain colours of disease spots or green flies or whatever shouldn't be that hard either. Also you could have the bots notify you when things look drastically different to the previous day/6 hours/whatever.
Not that I've ever seen. It looks much more like an E anyway.
I think my Streak is meant to do something similar, but I've never tried it as it requires purchasing a dock.
I'm thinking that perhaps if you installed CyanogenMod or some other custom ROMs they will allow proper screen mirroring, though I haven't looked into it. Certainly it's not a hardware limitation anyway.
GGP obviously doesn't do CAD. Though if he did, using Windows as the base OS and doing his Linux stuff in a VM would work well.
I assumed it would be for watching streamed video, or fully downloaded movies that you transferred from your PC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg ;)
do you realize quite how fast that is?
Barely fast enough for one decent 720p video stream? So if you have a couple of people in your household wanting to watch YouTube at the same time, you're buffering or have to use lower bit rates. Or if you are downloading files or updates on Steam or whatever, you have the same probelem. It isn't hard to legally max out a 10Mb line in a normal household.
If there a very similar distro that has a sane default GUI, why not go with it? That's what I did.
Desktop interfaces should not be tablet interfaces any more than beer should be 100% pure water. Both are good in the right context. I don't want to waste time making my own beer, I'd rather spend the time drinking it.
Install Windows or Linux in a VM, on either machine. You can just save the VM state when you're not needing it.
I've just got a new laptop, and I'm going to keep Windows as the base OS, and set up my web development environment in a new VM (probably with Mint or Crunchbang).
Ditto. I switched to console gaming a few years ago because I really couldn't be bothered with Windows at home any more.
Recently though I've decided that there are a few games worth playing on PC. WINE still isn't really perfect, but I can use Windows as a base OS and run Linux VMs inside of it, so I get the best of both worlds without having to dual boot.
At work, I've been running Linux as a base OS with occasional use of a Windows VM when necessary.
Couple of things off the top of my head which Windows still would do better in an ideal world:
I bought a second hand iPod a year or two ago, figuring I'd be using it plugged in most of the time anyway. Not sure which generation it is, maybe fourth. The battery still lasted easily over 10 hours when I took a trip to London at the start of this year. Laptop batteries seem to die pretty fast, but that's perhaps due to the temperature they run at..
Well, the PSN network requires you register a credit card to make any real use of it (like playing games online, for example)
No, it doesn't.*
*source: played many PS3 games online, never had to pay to play any of them in 4 years.
Well, LEGO doesn't have any eyes, whereas Universe has one. You see where I'm going with this. Pun misintended.
No-one told you you had to store credit card details in steam
Did somebody tell you to store your credit card details on PSN?
I don't really think GPU hardware is limited by legacy architecture design to the extent that CPUs are. Which means that I think current generation desktop GPUs will already be quite efficient (despite there being graphics cards out that require secondary power connectors). Even x86 is being made more efficient all the time, it seems..
That depends on whether you've bothered to spend the time learning how to do Rubik's cubes, or you just have an intuitive grasp of how they work. I have neither. I'm not saying that's particularly a skill that I'd find useful, but it is still impressive to me that people can keep track of such a complex object in their head, especially when you get up to 5x5 size for example.
Because we're not talking about graphics cards, we're talking about single chips for using in phones, etc, where compactness and power usage are very important?