I have an n810, and the screen resolution's the same. I think it works out to around 225 dpi, enough that even though I'm a pixel-pusher at work, I find it impossible to discern individual pixels on this screen when antialiasing is used. It's pretty amazing to look at.
The only problem I foresee with this device is Nokia's "hey it's open so we can abandon it any time we want, right?" attitude toward their internet tablets. But at least this one can act as a cell phone too...that may expand their audience a bit. PIM-apps are a joke on my n810 though; I wouldn't buy this device unless you can really see yourself doing things like I do: using the web browser, checking GMail and using all its features, listening to internet radio, watching youtube videos, or reading ebooks.
>I mean it is 200 years old document, some of it is hardly relevant today.
I'd be interested to know which parts in particular you think are "hardly relevant."
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What, you don't think they game 0 - 3-star ratings? That's delusional. They already caught on - you'll notice this a lot at Amazon, pay attention when you just sold yourself the book based on a low review. There are several tactics used, like "I bought it for (random-reason X) so IF you are in (really-small-niche X), DON'T BUY, it's meant for (as-written-on-label purpose Y)"
Exactly what I was going to say. I ordered a Dell Ubuntu laptop and get over 4 hours of battery life on the included 9-cell (as advertised). But only if I use Powertop. Remember to run it in super-user mode...
What does this lead to? Essentially, it will lead to you only having a chance to make a change (or rather, a change that will see the light of day) in respect to current events if you're already in the "in-crowd".
And then what price will advertisement agencies, PR firms, and marketing consultants charge for favorable attention from their paid sleeper-admins?
If you want to be a well-paid contractor in a few years, start working your way up the Wikipedia editor chain now.
complex interplay...is what creates consciousness
Isn't that like saying that a "complex interplay" between a male and a female "creates" life? In other words, "we are still in the stone-age folks, sorry...but hey, we got a complex interplay here! We know that for sure."
You should clarify whether you're talking about voice-controlled search or a search engine that can index voices. The latter is presumably the cooler of the two.
I just tell people to cut me a check (I'm in the US and so are my clients, though.). If they need to go fancy, then I head over to my favorite community website, do some fancy search-fu, and find out what the payment system du jour is.
Right now someone in Japan is writing an article about how he's going to try putting on 300 pounds and importing a La-Z-Boy, just to get the full Western experience. Then he's going to see about getting one of these "basements." The idea is appealing to him; it's like an underground lair of sorts, typically accompanied by a pronounced lack of responsibility for personal development and a corresponding absence of hygiene. Sugee!
I tried this once, in a comic book I wrote. It didn't really work so well and several commercial airliners crashed. Oh and a terrorist hacked into one of the drones. I wouldn't recommend following this route unless you are using it as a violent plot device.
Do you remember when search engines were also a dime a dozen? I remember about 9 or 10 years ago, people coming into the office and grabbing all their stuff, because they were moving to whatever the search engine flavor of the week was.
So the answer seems to be, "There's room for one or two." Just gotta give them time to whittle each other down.
...the guy who coined the phrase "Don't Be Evil" for Google, no longer works for Google? What, did he make some surprising discovery? Some conspiracy to do evil? Need the info here pal, I'm STILL USING GMAIL for heaven's sakes
Exactly. It is often true that the WORST thing you can do as a new job-hunter is to follow these mega-trends. I've seen people waste huge amounts of time by telling themselves "CHINA is where it's at!!!" or "computers are the next big thing!!!" or "aaah, everybody ELSE is getting a degree in the culinary arts!!!" (lol)
If I was, today, to look at myself in the mirror and decide that I was born to manufacture buggy whips, I would move in that direction in the smartest way I could. Maybe that means I would make props for movies, or maybe that means I would end up moving to a small town where they hold buggy-driving contests every year. But with what I know now, I would never say, "China is the next big place" and just park myself there. Some of my worst career moves have been the result of exactly that sort of thinking.
I used to use Opera for Windows a lot. It was really stable and generally just an awesome browser. Very fast. Then I found out it had an EMAIL client built in, of all things. Started to use it instead of Outlook, and it handled tons of mail via IMAP without a hitch. Wow! Then I found out it had IRC chat support. Another (though less polished) awesome feature.
Then I moved to Linux. I've used it on 5 separate Linux machines, and I still can't use Opera for the length of a single day's web browsing without a crash. It hates Flash. It also seems to hate GMail, so I'm surprised you like it. Slashdot and Opera don't seem to get along now, either. Overall, it's a great browser, but for whatever reason, the Linux version just sucks. My wife still loves it on her Windows laptop, though she despises its weird interactions with GMail.
...which is exactly why Linux users tend to have better-looking studios: They buy nice hardware and stay out of software-only land. Anyway, have fun in Reason; I'm off to buy a Roland synth...
-Former Reason user, with a bunch of useless commercial ReFills sitting around
Your post is exactly representative of the market that Linux audio software is handily alienating: Cheap-o non-pro to semi-pro musicians who just want things to work.
Sounds like you didn't read the article. The author has a problem with "vendor lock-in," so he migrated away from Macs. That's his higher vision - he walks a different path than you do, with a different priorities. For all we know, maybe your higher vision is being the best consumer you can be. This guy was uncomfortable, made a switch, and is getting the word out to benefit others like him.
I use Linux for audio production, and I think the "you get what you pay for" adage only really applies when you look at the broader toolchain. If somebody is using a bog-standard "Linux box" PC, sure. You get what you pay for: Zero hardware that's manufactured toward audio production.
However, since I moved my own production setup to Linux, I've found that I rely even less on software than I did under Win/Mac, and more on hardware and open standards. The hardware I buy is more expensive, but it's Linux compatible. The Linux audio software I do use is ready to work with my hardware because I have a well-defined set of basic needs. Beyond that, I am aware that I'll need to compile or tinker around sometimes, but it's under those circumstances that I end up learning a lot more about audio.
I used to teach Photoshop and other Adobe products, and I thought it was amazing how many people looked at software as their savior, and went way cheap on hardware. I say, if anything, the opposite is the way to go as long as you're working with open standards.
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I have an n810, and the screen resolution's the same. I think it works out to around 225 dpi, enough that even though I'm a pixel-pusher at work, I find it impossible to discern individual pixels on this screen when antialiasing is used. It's pretty amazing to look at.
The only problem I foresee with this device is Nokia's "hey it's open so we can abandon it any time we want, right?" attitude toward their internet tablets. But at least this one can act as a cell phone too...that may expand their audience a bit. PIM-apps are a joke on my n810 though; I wouldn't buy this device unless you can really see yourself doing things like I do: using the web browser, checking GMail and using all its features, listening to internet radio, watching youtube videos, or reading ebooks.
>I mean it is 200 years old document, some of it is hardly relevant today.
I'd be interested to know which parts in particular you think are "hardly relevant."
What, you don't think they game 0 - 3-star ratings? That's delusional. They already caught on - you'll notice this a lot at Amazon, pay attention when you just sold yourself the book based on a low review. There are several tactics used, like "I bought it for (random-reason X) so IF you are in (really-small-niche X), DON'T BUY, it's meant for (as-written-on-label purpose Y)"
Exactly what I was going to say. I ordered a Dell Ubuntu laptop and get over 4 hours of battery life on the included 9-cell (as advertised). But only if I use Powertop. Remember to run it in super-user mode...
And then what price will advertisement agencies, PR firms, and marketing consultants charge for favorable attention from their paid sleeper-admins?
If you want to be a well-paid contractor in a few years, start working your way up the Wikipedia editor chain now.
Would these reverts have anything to do with sentences that don't end properly
complex interplay...is what creates consciousness Isn't that like saying that a "complex interplay" between a male and a female "creates" life? In other words, "we are still in the stone-age folks, sorry...but hey, we got a complex interplay here! We know that for sure."
You should clarify whether you're talking about voice-controlled search or a search engine that can index voices. The latter is presumably the cooler of the two.
I just tell people to cut me a check (I'm in the US and so are my clients, though.). If they need to go fancy, then I head over to my favorite community website, do some fancy search-fu, and find out what the payment system du jour is.
Ooooh! That is SO cool!!! Which song is it? Does it play a different part of the song if you get over 100 MPG? Can you post the .MOD file please??
Right now someone in Japan is writing an article about how he's going to try putting on 300 pounds and importing a La-Z-Boy, just to get the full Western experience. Then he's going to see about getting one of these "basements." The idea is appealing to him; it's like an underground lair of sorts, typically accompanied by a pronounced lack of responsibility for personal development and a corresponding absence of hygiene. Sugee!
Oooh ooh, it's called a DoppelgÃnger! And there are people there just like us.
I tried this once, in a comic book I wrote. It didn't really work so well and several commercial airliners crashed. Oh and a terrorist hacked into one of the drones. I wouldn't recommend following this route unless you are using it as a violent plot device.
Money? I heard that his terms for the sale were "I get to add anybody I want as a Friend and they cannot refuse the request."
"Just what are you inferring?" *annoyed look*
Do you remember when search engines were also a dime a dozen? I remember about 9 or 10 years ago, people coming into the office and grabbing all their stuff, because they were moving to whatever the search engine flavor of the week was.
So the answer seems to be, "There's room for one or two." Just gotta give them time to whittle each other down.
...the guy who coined the phrase "Don't Be Evil" for Google, no longer works for Google? What, did he make some surprising discovery? Some conspiracy to do evil? Need the info here pal, I'm STILL USING GMAIL for heaven's sakes
And it's...still experimental. BRB, gotta restart all my gecko-based browsers so I can watch another Youtube video.
Exactly. It is often true that the WORST thing you can do as a new job-hunter is to follow these mega-trends. I've seen people waste huge amounts of time by telling themselves "CHINA is where it's at!!!" or "computers are the next big thing!!!" or "aaah, everybody ELSE is getting a degree in the culinary arts!!!" (lol)
If I was, today, to look at myself in the mirror and decide that I was born to manufacture buggy whips, I would move in that direction in the smartest way I could. Maybe that means I would make props for movies, or maybe that means I would end up moving to a small town where they hold buggy-driving contests every year. But with what I know now, I would never say, "China is the next big place" and just park myself there. Some of my worst career moves have been the result of exactly that sort of thinking.
I used to use Opera for Windows a lot. It was really stable and generally just an awesome browser. Very fast. Then I found out it had an EMAIL client built in, of all things. Started to use it instead of Outlook, and it handled tons of mail via IMAP without a hitch. Wow! Then I found out it had IRC chat support. Another (though less polished) awesome feature.
Then I moved to Linux. I've used it on 5 separate Linux machines, and I still can't use Opera for the length of a single day's web browsing without a crash. It hates Flash. It also seems to hate GMail, so I'm surprised you like it. Slashdot and Opera don't seem to get along now, either. Overall, it's a great browser, but for whatever reason, the Linux version just sucks. My wife still loves it on her Windows laptop, though she despises its weird interactions with GMail.
...which is exactly why Linux users tend to have better-looking studios: They buy nice hardware and stay out of software-only land. Anyway, have fun in Reason; I'm off to buy a Roland synth...
-Former Reason user, with a bunch of useless commercial ReFills sitting around
Hm, somehow that still doesn't avoid the problem he mentioned in TFA: Vendor lock-in.
Some people just can't feel productive and feel locked-in at the same time.
Your post is exactly representative of the market that Linux audio software is handily alienating: Cheap-o non-pro to semi-pro musicians who just want things to work.
Sounds like you'd be better off with a Mac or PC.
Sounds like you didn't read the article. The author has a problem with "vendor lock-in," so he migrated away from Macs. That's his higher vision - he walks a different path than you do, with a different priorities. For all we know, maybe your higher vision is being the best consumer you can be. This guy was uncomfortable, made a switch, and is getting the word out to benefit others like him.
I use Linux for audio production, and I think the "you get what you pay for" adage only really applies when you look at the broader toolchain. If somebody is using a bog-standard "Linux box" PC, sure. You get what you pay for: Zero hardware that's manufactured toward audio production.
However, since I moved my own production setup to Linux, I've found that I rely even less on software than I did under Win/Mac, and more on hardware and open standards. The hardware I buy is more expensive, but it's Linux compatible. The Linux audio software I do use is ready to work with my hardware because I have a well-defined set of basic needs. Beyond that, I am aware that I'll need to compile or tinker around sometimes, but it's under those circumstances that I end up learning a lot more about audio.
I used to teach Photoshop and other Adobe products, and I thought it was amazing how many people looked at software as their savior, and went way cheap on hardware. I say, if anything, the opposite is the way to go as long as you're working with open standards.