Really? Blaster energy weapons where the bolt of destruction travels at 50m/s? Same with Star Trek phaser fire, Jaffa fire from SG. The only accurate depiction was in Babylon 5. Why so slow?
Hmmm... I could probably use Keep myself. Doing research on which parts I need for a client custom build means a fair bit of bookmarking and pricematching. That gets messy and sometimes hard to find/retrieve, so yes, something like Keep may be useful. As a user, I don't want to log into the service though, just have the functionality, like a specific visual browser history. There's a point here somewhere. Scott Kernit's idea didn't fail but evolved with collateral damage (investor money and jobs lost) but he stuck with it. It may be too late though as browsers morph into visual bookmarks. There's still a market there somewhere. Reminds me of the Cisco Flip HD video recorder. They discontinued it a few years back, superseded when mobile ph video recording became the norm. Why carry around a dedicated, portable video recorder when you already have a digital camera/half decent smartphone? but it certainly sounds like a failure for some VCs As in they lost money? That's the risk VC's take. I'm not sure it's gullability as Kernit had a good idea. That's the reason for my previous tongue-in-cheek response. Most of us want to get rid of ads from the internet stream and not collect them. The value here is ads ON the shopping site and not general ads in the stream imho. To be truthful, I find startups risky. I've got some admiration for those that take the risk and give it a go.
Dunno. Most Intel CPU speeds have fallen. Sure they are more efficient instruction wise and TDP is lower but there must be a trade-off between high speed single core and low speed multi-core processors. Most certainly single core software will run faster on older CPUs. A lot of entry to midrange laptops can barely reach 2GHZ with most bouncing around 1.6GHZ, offering dual core which nowadays is a basic requirement. Trying to run modern apps on single core 4GHZ processors is frustrating.
That guy doesn't actually test the device, just tries to tell us why the claims are too optimistic. http://www.eevblog.com/2015/06... I'd rather see real, objective testing using all sorts of typical loads and battery types.
Time to be reminded how our method of holding national elections is completely broken and inefficient. I wish I could save up all my sleeping time and sleep every fourth year so I don't have to deal with the circus. Just wake me up on voting day and I'll do my duty.
I just don't understand why you guys don't make voting compulsory? That'll fix all problems.
Landru: "The good of the body is the prime directive. You will be absorbed. Your individuality will merge into the unity of good, and in your submergence into the common being of the body, you will find contentment, fulfillment. You will experience the absolute good. "
I'd like Siri to answer Cortana (and vice versa) one day. That'll be a blast!
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Yeah but I'm still wondering why some company hasn't yet made some software/hardware that can consolidate these licensed providers into a transparent UI.
So Cable/Sat/Streamer providers can be accessed through a single interface.
A big point for ios was that it didn't come with a user's manual because it was so simple and intuitive you didn't need one, but I feel like we're a stone's throw away from the dummy's guide for ios.
Oh how right you are! You have to dumb yourself down somewhat. I hadn't looked at a Mac for over a decade when I was employed to train the elderly on them. And here I thought it would be a snap. Ever try and close Safari? Operate the mouse? I pretty much had to do everything through the Finder as I at least understood how that operated. "It just works" - yeah sure. If I ever have to do that job again, I'll spend a few days researching some How Tos. Let me know when the dummy's guide comes out.
Ursula Le Guin's 'Lathe of Heaven' (I waited for the movie) was freaky and I liked it. Anything that takes you out of your headspace is good. I'm old school though. I'd rather re-read something I know I've forgotten than venture out there for stabs in the dark as often disappointment follows. These awards should be for those writers that can do this. There is no harm in not giving an award if it is undeserved.
This IS a browser issue on the surface. I can't see why a strengthened browser can't be available with full privacy default settings, spoofing 3rd party cookies to enable websites dependent on them to work.
+1 Lode Runner - Also Chopper Rescue (Apple II) was excellent. Some of the early SGI games were great not to mention those text adventures. Too many to list eg Meteors etc.
Interesting take on the issues. I think you are right in the short term. The same mercenaries have been employed by opposing governments a few times throughout history. It may not be money paid though but probably support for the factions at a later date. A lot of those borders were drawn up by the British, initially in the 1920s after the weakening of the Ottoman Empire and finalised by the partition of Palestine after WWII. I'm not sure if we a seeing the unification of the Middle East meaning the movement to too big to control by external intervention. If there comes a realisation of this by the West, then there should be some dialogue perhaps. There just not enough information available in my mind to predict any conclusion about this. If the ex-Bathist gain control of Iran then maybe things will settle down, but there is still Assad to deal with and Kurdistan. This isn't a race to capture the flag but a growing movement driven by frustration. Maybe 'secular' is the wrong word as it implies a state run by a Western democracy or at least elected officials. I can see that 'Bathistan' will be run by a government of administrators and not necessarily a religious hierarchy.
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So now I have to learn that a video K is different from a base 2 K?
1K = 1024
1 video K = 1080
1 HD K = 1000
Really? Blaster energy weapons where the bolt of destruction travels at 50m/s? Same with Star Trek phaser fire, Jaffa fire from SG. The only accurate depiction was in Babylon 5. Why so slow?
Hmmm... I could probably use Keep myself. Doing research on which parts I need for a client custom build means a fair bit of bookmarking and pricematching. That gets messy and sometimes hard to find/retrieve, so yes, something like Keep may be useful. As a user, I don't want to log into the service though, just have the functionality, like a specific visual browser history.
There's a point here somewhere. Scott Kernit's idea didn't fail but evolved with collateral damage (investor money and jobs lost) but he stuck with it. It may be too late though as browsers morph into visual bookmarks. There's still a market there somewhere.
Reminds me of the Cisco Flip HD video recorder. They discontinued it a few years back, superseded when mobile ph video recording became the norm. Why carry around a dedicated, portable video recorder when you already have a digital camera/half decent smartphone?
but it certainly sounds like a failure for some VCs
As in they lost money? That's the risk VC's take. I'm not sure it's gullability as Kernit had a good idea. That's the reason for my previous tongue-in-cheek response. Most of us want to get rid of ads from the internet stream and not collect them. The value here is ads ON the shopping site and not general ads in the stream imho.
To be truthful, I find startups risky. I've got some admiration for those that take the risk and give it a go.
Totally off topic, but is it true that the Slovaks make ice-cream out of margarine?
Dunno. Most Intel CPU speeds have fallen. Sure they are more efficient instruction wise and TDP is lower but there must be a trade-off between high speed single core and low speed multi-core processors. Most certainly single core software will run faster on older CPUs.
A lot of entry to midrange laptops can barely reach 2GHZ with most bouncing around 1.6GHZ, offering dual core which nowadays is a basic requirement. Trying to run modern apps on single core 4GHZ processors is frustrating.
Really? Is hacking the US gov. still a thing?
That guy doesn't actually test the device, just tries to tell us why the claims are too optimistic.
http://www.eevblog.com/2015/06...
I'd rather see real, objective testing using all sorts of typical loads and battery types.
+1 if I could.
Stallman, who won a record-breaking 100% of the vote
Shouldn't that be 105% of the vote?
Time to be reminded how our method of holding national elections is completely broken and inefficient. I wish I could save up all my sleeping time and sleep every fourth year so I don't have to deal with the circus. Just wake me up on voting day and I'll do my duty.
I just don't understand why you guys don't make voting compulsory?
That'll fix all problems.
Landru: "The good of the body is the prime directive. You will be absorbed. Your individuality will merge into the unity of good, and in your submergence into the common being of the body, you will find contentment, fulfillment. You will experience the absolute good. "
Impressive. How about personalising your own media rips with DRM so others can't steal from you?
There's gold in dem hills.
Maybe I should have read TFA first ..... :(
Drone sucked into the jet's intake?
I'd like Siri to answer Cortana (and vice versa) one day. That'll be a blast!
Yeah but I'm still wondering why some company hasn't yet made some software/hardware that can consolidate these licensed providers into a transparent UI.
So Cable/Sat/Streamer providers can be accessed through a single interface.
A big point for ios was that it didn't come with a user's manual because it was so simple and intuitive you didn't need one, but I feel like we're a stone's throw away from the dummy's guide for ios.
Oh how right you are! You have to dumb yourself down somewhat.
I hadn't looked at a Mac for over a decade when I was employed to train the elderly on them. And here I thought it would be a snap.
Ever try and close Safari? Operate the mouse? I pretty much had to do everything through the Finder as I at least understood how that operated.
"It just works" - yeah sure. If I ever have to do that job again, I'll spend a few days researching some How Tos. Let me know when the dummy's guide comes out.
Ursula Le Guin's 'Lathe of Heaven' (I waited for the movie) was freaky and I liked it. Anything that takes you out of your headspace is good.
I'm old school though. I'd rather re-read something I know I've forgotten than venture out there for stabs in the dark as often disappointment follows.
These awards should be for those writers that can do this. There is no harm in not giving an award if it is undeserved.
Ah, that is sad. I spent many months on that. Also created levels that I swapped with a friend.
This IS a browser issue on the surface. I can't see why a strengthened browser can't be available with full privacy default settings, spoofing 3rd party cookies to enable websites dependent on them to work.
+1 Lode Runner - Also Chopper Rescue (Apple II) was excellent. Some of the early SGI games were great not to mention those text adventures.
Too many to list eg Meteors etc.
Yes it has: http://www.planetary.org/blogs...
Interesting take on the issues. I think you are right in the short term. The same mercenaries have been employed by opposing governments a few times throughout history. It may not be money paid though but probably support for the factions at a later date. A lot of those borders were drawn up by the British, initially in the 1920s after the weakening of the Ottoman Empire and finalised by the partition of Palestine after WWII.
I'm not sure if we a seeing the unification of the Middle East meaning the movement to too big to control by external intervention. If there comes a realisation of this by the West, then there should be some dialogue perhaps. There just not enough information available in my mind to predict any conclusion about this.
If the ex-Bathist gain control of Iran then maybe things will settle down, but there is still Assad to deal with and Kurdistan. This isn't a race to capture the flag but a growing movement driven by frustration.
Maybe 'secular' is the wrong word as it implies a state run by a Western democracy or at least elected officials. I can see that 'Bathistan' will be run by a government of administrators and not necessarily a religious hierarchy.
Or even better http://www.goodasyou.org/good_...
A lander with a sore arse?