The larger (15-21" in this case) ones at least worked fine most of the time, but certain ones could develop glitchy calibration issues, so I would expect a certain percentage of such machines to have issues that, no matter how many times a tech checked it out, would randomly drift again.
Yeah, I never understood the whole 'tools that require more training to use are better!'. If two tools do similar jobs in the same use case, but one can be administered by someone who isn't a dedicated professional, and the other one requires a specialist, then within that use case, the easier to use tool is better. Additional complexity without additional benefit is not superior.
Ah, I was wondering about the batshit posters.....
To be serious though, I would not be surprised at calibration issues what so ever. I spent years working in touchscreen gaming, and those calibration issues are well know with those old capacitance touchscreens. The calibration could drift randomly, snapping back and then getting out of sync again, and you would generally have to hit some kind of maintenance button in order to give it new reference points.
If these are older (or maybe even current, since capacitance is cheap and can be made large) I would be surprised if they were not encountering these problems. It was one of the reasons touch screen voting machines were such a crappy idea in the first place.
No difference no, but the doctor could tell you exactly how much to take (too little will not be enough, too much will trigger the body's instinct to evacuate itself).. and of course there is the issue of not everyone knows where to get street drugs so those might not be an option they can access. I know I wouldn't have the first clue how to go about getting such things.
That is one of the key points. Yeah, overdoses happen and people die from them, but much of the time an overdose doesn't kill the person (humans are a lot harder to poison then people think) and then leave you feeling even more miserable. I have known several people who tried to commit suicide via ingestion of various pills and survived.
And, of course, some people are just law abiding and, even if they will be dead, still do not want to break the law to do it.
Not really. Our voting system mathematically favors a two party system, which is why not only the US but other countries also using the same system end up with two parties. Countries that have more then two parties use a different type of voting.
Unfortunately, historically, if it turns out the person one shot (and would have been legally within their right to do otherwise) turns out to be a cop, all those laws go out the window. They have the right to gun you down, but you do not have the right to defend yourself nor deal with shadowy strangers lurking around your well signed property at night.
Eh, it also sends and even stronger message that short term thinking and planning is paramount to keeping their job... and the person who has not been doing the job can always make up numbers about how they would have done it so much better. I do not think that making the 'now now now' society even more so is all that good of an idea.
That is a significant difference. The problem tends to scale exponentially.. there are good reasons why were have not seen a huge rise in the number of processors over the last 2 decades, with most staying in the 1-8 range. They have made progress, but it isn't quite as simple as the low core count solutions make it sound.
That is part of the enthusiasm that is perplexing me.. have people forgotten about Disney's behavior when it comes to releases... they are no stranger to locking away movies for decades or releasing edited versions... Lucas, while somewhat misguided, at least believed he was making things better and wanted people watching his stuff. Disney is too politically entangled when it comes to content and is into the 'artificial scarcity' model of releasing older works.
I know a lot of people were unhappy with Lucas, but I am a bit concerned at how much faith people are putting in Disney here. This is Disney were are talking about.. the media company that practically pioneered the 'throw in a furry comic relief side kick' and 'when all else fails, sex it up' patterns.... and often exemplifies design by committee...
New life would be nice, but this particular acquisition gives me cause for alarm... esp given the pattern in sci-fi movies lately. Expect lots of explosions, shallow characters, and a return to the old 'women are either helpless victims' or 'over-sexed independent bad-ass who still need to be rescued by the real man' tropes.
But.. but.. shouldn't the free market take care of that? People can always go to other ISPs.. oh.. wait... well, they can get their media and cultural access through other sources, right? Oh.. wait.....
And flying cars should mean an end to traffic congestion...
This type of parallelism with cores switching on and off as been done before, and it worked well in the domain of supercomputers and other specialized devices, but the programming for them tended to be rather unusual and translated poorly into general purpose use.
Tablets and phones will likely continue to represent scaled down devices.
48 core chips would be silly to release for small devices first. Developing software for a large number of cores is non-trivial, and is often inefficient or unstable... it is one of those things like AI or fusion that has always be 'right around the corner' for general purpose computing, but has neve really arrived.... college classes still teach the techniques poorly and people who 'learn it on their own' also usually produce poor architectures.
So if such a chip is going to be introduced, desktops, with more resources to waste and higher user tolerance for system failures, would be the logical place.
I would wager that Android on the desktop would suffer from the same problems that other distributions suffer from.. drivers for one. All Android would be is a distro that updates infrequently and has an integrated app store.
While I agree it likely is not why we are there, the economic figuring misses the mark.
You forget that the people who would profit off such an arrangement and the people who are paying for it are two groups. There are quite a few historical precedents where private companies convince states to go to war, only to hand over the resource rights to the company.... thus the company's major expense is wining and dining a few key people while the tax payer picks up the tab for the actual military part of it.
Actually, unless you make partner, most people with law degrees end up in fairly low paid grunt positions handling a never ending stream of monotonous cases.
Actually the two are pretty similar. Companies also have mortgages to pay. Canceling or continuing a project is tied heavily into their ability to keep doing things like rending office space, paying employees, buying from suppliers, etc.
Depends on your region. I usually take the train.. it is quicker, cheaper, less stressful then driving, and much more likely to get me to my destination at a specific time.
It is a matter of scale. Microsoft has significant power and influence over most of the major manufacturers, so if those machines get locked down it has a significant impact on the market. Google produces few machines and does not have a say in ones outside its channel, thus the only people who are impacted are ones who decide to specifically buy one of Google's devices.
Depends on what their people are doing. For sales people who only need to interact with the corporate web servers to do their tasks, a low maintenance device that only does that task is perfect. IT goes back and forth on this.. dumb terminal => workstation => dumb terminal => workstation.... there are advantages and disadvantages to both and it comes down to what the users actually need to do vs what the market currently provides.
I find this 'geek toy' meme to be rather fascinating, since it seems to be the 'geek's who hold the most venom for it.
It is another shot at the 'web appliance' market, something geeks have always scored since it is single purpose, and right now multipurpose and general purpose are the geeky things to own. I agree it probably will not do well, but the actual idea is pretty good. I am actually pondering one since for my use-case I do not need the power of a laptop nor does a tablet really make sense. I do not really want a general purpose OS either since I have other computers for those jobs.
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The larger (15-21" in this case) ones at least worked fine most of the time, but certain ones could develop glitchy calibration issues, so I would expect a certain percentage of such machines to have issues that, no matter how many times a tech checked it out, would randomly drift again.
Yeah, I never understood the whole 'tools that require more training to use are better!'. If two tools do similar jobs in the same use case, but one can be administered by someone who isn't a dedicated professional, and the other one requires a specialist, then within that use case, the easier to use tool is better. Additional complexity without additional benefit is not superior.
Nope, capacitance. MicroTouch to be specific. No pressure required, and needed a human finger.
Ah, I was wondering about the batshit posters.....
To be serious though, I would not be surprised at calibration issues what so ever. I spent years working in touchscreen gaming, and those calibration issues are well know with those old capacitance touchscreens. The calibration could drift randomly, snapping back and then getting out of sync again, and you would generally have to hit some kind of maintenance button in order to give it new reference points.
If these are older (or maybe even current, since capacitance is cheap and can be made large) I would be surprised if they were not encountering these problems. It was one of the reasons touch screen voting machines were such a crappy idea in the first place.
No difference no, but the doctor could tell you exactly how much to take (too little will not be enough, too much will trigger the body's instinct to evacuate itself).. and of course there is the issue of not everyone knows where to get street drugs so those might not be an option they can access. I know I wouldn't have the first clue how to go about getting such things.
That is one of the key points. Yeah, overdoses happen and people die from them, but much of the time an overdose doesn't kill the person (humans are a lot harder to poison then people think) and then leave you feeling even more miserable. I have known several people who tried to commit suicide via ingestion of various pills and survived.
And, of course, some people are just law abiding and, even if they will be dead, still do not want to break the law to do it.
Not really. Our voting system mathematically favors a two party system, which is why not only the US but other countries also using the same system end up with two parties. Countries that have more then two parties use a different type of voting.
Unfortunately, historically, if it turns out the person one shot (and would have been legally within their right to do otherwise) turns out to be a cop, all those laws go out the window. They have the right to gun you down, but you do not have the right to defend yourself nor deal with shadowy strangers lurking around your well signed property at night.
Eh, it also sends and even stronger message that short term thinking and planning is paramount to keeping their job... and the person who has not been doing the job can always make up numbers about how they would have done it so much better. I do not think that making the 'now now now' society even more so is all that good of an idea.
This vaccine must be stopped.... immunity to flu will just lead to more people socializing without fear of getting sick, and socializing leads to sex!
Won't someone think of the children? If flu was not keeping those diseased little creatures in check they would be fornicating like bunnies!
That is a significant difference. The problem tends to scale exponentially.. there are good reasons why were have not seen a huge rise in the number of processors over the last 2 decades, with most staying in the 1-8 range. They have made progress, but it isn't quite as simple as the low core count solutions make it sound.
That is part of the enthusiasm that is perplexing me.. have people forgotten about Disney's behavior when it comes to releases... they are no stranger to locking away movies for decades or releasing edited versions... Lucas, while somewhat misguided, at least believed he was making things better and wanted people watching his stuff. Disney is too politically entangled when it comes to content and is into the 'artificial scarcity' model of releasing older works.
I know a lot of people were unhappy with Lucas, but I am a bit concerned at how much faith people are putting in Disney here. This is Disney were are talking about.. the media company that practically pioneered the 'throw in a furry comic relief side kick' and 'when all else fails, sex it up' patterns.... and often exemplifies design by committee...
New life would be nice, but this particular acquisition gives me cause for alarm... esp given the pattern in sci-fi movies lately. Expect lots of explosions, shallow characters, and a return to the old 'women are either helpless victims' or 'over-sexed independent bad-ass who still need to be rescued by the real man' tropes.
But.. but.. shouldn't the free market take care of that? People can always go to other ISPs.. oh.. wait... well, they can get their media and cultural access through other sources, right? Oh.. wait.....
And flying cars should mean an end to traffic congestion...
This type of parallelism with cores switching on and off as been done before, and it worked well in the domain of supercomputers and other specialized devices, but the programming for them tended to be rather unusual and translated poorly into general purpose use.
Tablets and phones will likely continue to represent scaled down devices.
48 core chips would be silly to release for small devices first. Developing software for a large number of cores is non-trivial, and is often inefficient or unstable... it is one of those things like AI or fusion that has always be 'right around the corner' for general purpose computing, but has neve really arrived.... college classes still teach the techniques poorly and people who 'learn it on their own' also usually produce poor architectures.
So if such a chip is going to be introduced, desktops, with more resources to waste and higher user tolerance for system failures, would be the logical place.
I would wager that Android on the desktop would suffer from the same problems that other distributions suffer from.. drivers for one. All Android would be is a distro that updates infrequently and has an integrated app store.
While I agree it likely is not why we are there, the economic figuring misses the mark.
You forget that the people who would profit off such an arrangement and the people who are paying for it are two groups. There are quite a few historical precedents where private companies convince states to go to war, only to hand over the resource rights to the company.... thus the company's major expense is wining and dining a few key people while the tax payer picks up the tab for the actual military part of it.
Actually, unless you make partner, most people with law degrees end up in fairly low paid grunt positions handling a never ending stream of monotonous cases.
That was my thought. I could see those hard wired 'can only call X numbers plus 911' kids phones filling this kind of role.
Actually the two are pretty similar. Companies also have mortgages to pay. Canceling or continuing a project is tied heavily into their ability to keep doing things like rending office space, paying employees, buying from suppliers, etc.
Depends on your region. I usually take the train.. it is quicker, cheaper, less stressful then driving, and much more likely to get me to my destination at a specific time.
It is a matter of scale. Microsoft has significant power and influence over most of the major manufacturers, so if those machines get locked down it has a significant impact on the market. Google produces few machines and does not have a say in ones outside its channel, thus the only people who are impacted are ones who decide to specifically buy one of Google's devices.
Depends on what their people are doing. For sales people who only need to interact with the corporate web servers to do their tasks, a low maintenance device that only does that task is perfect. IT goes back and forth on this.. dumb terminal => workstation => dumb terminal => workstation.... there are advantages and disadvantages to both and it comes down to what the users actually need to do vs what the market currently provides.
I find this 'geek toy' meme to be rather fascinating, since it seems to be the 'geek's who hold the most venom for it.
It is another shot at the 'web appliance' market, something geeks have always scored since it is single purpose, and right now multipurpose and general purpose are the geeky things to own. I agree it probably will not do well, but the actual idea is pretty good. I am actually pondering one since for my use-case I do not need the power of a laptop nor does a tablet really make sense. I do not really want a general purpose OS either since I have other computers for those jobs.