While USB sticks are handy, USB has a master/slave architecture that is inconvenient and inflexible.
There's USB "on the go" that addresses that flaw, but it does not seem to be popular. Popularity is the be all end all of ubiquitous devices, which is a problem this device is no better positioned to overcome than USB OTG or USB Wireless.
you pay Apple and they go away
Never bought an Apple product, doubt I ever will. Keep your luxury goods and brand name products, I stopped caring years ago.
I can certainly side with developers if they find DirectX easier to app with OpenGL
It's not ease, it's bugs. If you code OpenGL you have to deal with ATI/Nvidia driver bugs to a much larger degree. OpenGL is large and complex while to ATI/Nivida DirectX is small with Mirosoft handling the "complex".
In theory this should give OpenGL a performance advantage (one less layer to pass through). Of course things might have changed from the DirectX 7 days when I looked into this stuff.
Ok that's true for 3d. I was thinking more about video performance. It has acceleration for things like VC1, h264... Even in 3d though it is a modern GPU having unified shaders for example, but only a small amount of shader units (4 I think) and a relatively low frequency so yeah it won't be a beast in 3d.
Of course, video performance is another ball of yarn. I've never played back video on a GMA 950 so I have no idea how crappy it looks, or how much better the GMA 500 looks, so I'll take your word for it.
The GMA 500 is way better than the 950 performance-wise.
Typing "GMA 500 benchmark" into google produces a 3D Mark03 score of 427, while GMA 950 scores 2900. Sure sure, there can be bad drivers involved but that's still quite a climb for the GMA 500.
My web people here spend time designing pages that work and then waste countless hours tweaking them to work with MSIE afterward. Best to let some things look "weird" in MSIE and post a message stating why.
As long as the message is not obnoxious. While you web designers put a lot of importance in a pixel perfect look, me and I suspect most of the web inhabitants don't really give a damn.
What does this mean for open source phones? Does this mean that Android would be illegal in the US?
No. But if the police catch you and you're Android doesn't 'click' - even if you don't have anything illegal on the phone - they have something to charge you with.
First, you really have to know your stuff. The RAM I had wouldn't overclock very well, and RAM which would cost a bit more. I had the BIOS helping me out, and I still had to fiddle with timings and voltages.
My experience has been similar. I've managed to overclock CPUs but to get them runing stable I had to fiddle with voltages and even then the overclock had to be pretty mild (2.4 Ghz to 2.6 GHz for instance).
Ignoring stability performance did increase, yay, but so did the heat and the noise of the CPU fan. Not worth it.
Interesting. I've heard that you could use different Windows Managers with KDE, but was a bit confused about the issue. So you can use different window managers but some apps require specific window managers. Got it:)
Thanks for the very long and enlightening explanation. I'm honestly surprised you bothered.
Windows is indeed more of a mess than most OSes internally, with stuff in the Kernel calling into shell32 and ugly stuff like that, and as you say: one have to divide things up "Conceptually" to make sense about it.
This is easier in Linux where you have, X, Window Managers and other components neatly separated and able to work without each other. There a multiple X servers, for instance, and KDE can run on them barring bugs and unimplemented features.
However GDI is more equivalent with X than KDE even if GDI includes functions like font management, clipboard (I don't know how Windows implements the clipboard but it's not using Explorer) that you find in KDE. This is of course just an opinion.
Explorer is generally referred to as a shell because you can replace it and still have to operation system functioning. With KDE it's a bit more troublesome as many more apps are depended on it to function, but even so you can dump KDE and still have a functioning OS.
I know there's no clear definition of what a 'shell' is, or even what an 'operation system' is. Wikipedia and other sources have definitions on both but nothing that covers all bases. There are game engines, for instance, that can by all accounts be called operation systems - but obviously they aren't, they're game engines;)
My original question was why KDE messed with the bluetooth stack, but as another poster answered KDE does not actually do so. KDE configures the bluetooth stack but that's just KDE being nice to the user, the bluetooth stack can operate without KDE.
When I say Explorer I generally think "everything on top of GDI". And when I say KDE I generally think "everything on top of X". KDE also includes a Window Manager, a clipboard (?) and other services that GDI (and downwards) provides but - in my opinion - is the closets equivalent to Explorer on Windows (and Dock/Finder on OSX - I've never used OSX so I'm less sure. X is Quartz, Compiz is Quarts Extreme and Aqua is ?)
Thanks again for the explanation. It was long so I might have missed a few points.
It was a bad product -at- day one, but it's gotten far better since. It has some very impressive features which I haven't seen in any other MP3 player at that price range, and upgrading older versions to support all the features of the newer ones is something I wish more companies would allow. If they'd just open the fucker up and lose the DRM...
The way I think DRM should work is like this: If you try to play a file which you don't have the 'key' for the media player will still play it, only also informing the user that it's playing an unlicensed song somehow. Thus make DRM a tool to help the user stay legit, instead of a punishment for those who are legit but can't playback the file the way they want to.
That way it's the user, and not a potentially faulty algorithm, that have the final say whenever they can play back the music or not.
So you're saying that if one unbundle the K* apps you still have something above and beyond Explorer/Finder/Doc + a Window manager? What is KDE's equivalent on Windows/OSX then?
If you think this is even roughly equivalent to "Explorer + a Window Manager", then yes, you're blind. Or ignorant.
So you're saying that KDE is equivalent with Explorer + a Window Manager + "A host of useful KDE applications".
Sight.
You could have said that your problem with my earlier statment was that I didn't include the K* applications. I've used some of them but never considered them the 'core' of KDE, just bundled extras.
No, but I did suggest looking it up. I'm not going to do your homework. It shouldn't be that tough.
But I have looked it up and Wikipedia/other people agree with my view. You're the one sitting on the great 'secret' about how KDE is (by your own words) vastly different than Explorer + a Window Manager.
Yes, you can use many shells on top of KDE. You're quite confused about terminology, and seem to mean "file manager" when you say shell. KDE is not a file manager either. Wikipedia should help straighten out the definitions for you.
You actually thought I was confused by the difference between a file manager and a shell. This leads me to believe you think "Explorer" is a file manager, as I didn't mention a file manager in my earlier posts. Also other posters have noted that KDE includes a file manager, not that I ever thought KDE was a file manager.
Your big point seems to be that KDE is a Desktop Environment but you don't clarify why this makes it so much different from Explorer + a Window manager (the way I thought of KDE).
You're coming off as an elitist that likes to act like he's 'in the know', but don't actually provide anything useful to the discussion. You've been most unhelpful. Unthanks.
I'm sure I have coworkers that need this removed from their computers at work../quote
The hole the virus exploits was closed last year, before Conflicker started spreading, so if your company machines are up to date they should be safe. Microsoft also has a "malicious Software Removal tool" that can remove the virus.
Is there any consensus or are there usability-studies that support your claim that the ribbon is great?
The ribbon has it's strengths but it's not applicable to all type of apps. Unless you have an oddly configured browser you'll have about 8 interface elements (buttons, address bar, favorites) + the menu and status bar and perhaps a bookmarks toolbar (anyone use that?). Not enough elements to make ribbon an advantage.
One way of thinking of the ribbon is as a menu that sticks open when you press it, so that you won't need to open it repeatedly - assuming the ribbon has the functions you want on that "menu".
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I might be underappreciating smell, but on the whole, I'd probably take balance over smell.
Smell is very important for your recollection. People that has lost their sense of smell has trouble with recalling events. Can't imagine why though :/
While USB sticks are handy, USB has a master/slave architecture that is inconvenient and inflexible.
There's USB "on the go" that addresses that flaw, but it does not seem to be popular. Popularity is the be all end all of ubiquitous devices, which is a problem this device is no better positioned to overcome than USB OTG or USB Wireless.
you pay Apple and they go away
Never bought an Apple product, doubt I ever will. Keep your luxury goods and brand name products, I stopped caring years ago.
Couldn't they just have said it was a glorified USB mem stick? Why the hoopla? Oh, yeah, no one would have cared otherwise. Smart.
I can certainly side with developers if they find DirectX easier to app with OpenGL
It's not ease, it's bugs. If you code OpenGL you have to deal with ATI/Nvidia driver bugs to a much larger degree. OpenGL is large and complex while to ATI/Nivida DirectX is small with Mirosoft handling the "complex".
In theory this should give OpenGL a performance advantage (one less layer to pass through). Of course things might have changed from the DirectX 7 days when I looked into this stuff.
Ok that's true for 3d. I was thinking more about video performance. It has acceleration for things like VC1, h264... Even in 3d though it is a modern GPU having unified shaders for example, but only a small amount of shader units (4 I think) and a relatively low frequency so yeah it won't be a beast in 3d.
Of course, video performance is another ball of yarn. I've never played back video on a GMA 950 so I have no idea how crappy it looks, or how much better the GMA 500 looks, so I'll take your word for it.
The GMA 500 is way better than the 950 performance-wise.
Typing "GMA 500 benchmark" into google produces a 3D Mark03 score of 427, while GMA 950 scores 2900. Sure sure, there can be bad drivers involved but that's still quite a climb for the GMA 500.
Wasn't the GMA 950 crappy enough? We're talking sub Geforce SDR performance! Gah!
My web people here spend time designing pages that work and then waste countless hours tweaking them to work with MSIE afterward. Best to let some things look "weird" in MSIE and post a message stating why.
As long as the message is not obnoxious. While you web designers put a lot of importance in a pixel perfect look, me and I suspect most of the web inhabitants don't really give a damn.
Just phone in a threat to an elected official, and the NSA will unlock the drive remotely for you. A handy service, and so responsive...
Great tip. This will solve all my current problems.
(not that it never happened before, but they at least TRY to avoid it)
I'm detecting a subtle jab at Mario is Missing!
What does this mean for open source phones? Does this mean that Android would be illegal in the US?
No. But if the police catch you and you're Android doesn't 'click' - even if you don't have anything illegal on the phone - they have something to charge you with.
Overclocing an Apple II from 1 MHz to 10 MHz is a bigger overclock than 3.4 Ghz to 6.4 GHz. So there!
I don't really care about tech errors. The Hollywood 'nerd' character annoys me much more.
IE8... more compliant than FF3?
I'm using IE8 right now and it crash a lot and is quite buggy. By the time they have fixed that FF3.5 will probably already be out.
First, you really have to know your stuff. The RAM I had wouldn't overclock very well, and RAM which would cost a bit more. I had the BIOS helping me out, and I still had to fiddle with timings and voltages.
My experience has been similar. I've managed to overclock CPUs but to get them runing stable I had to fiddle with voltages and even then the overclock had to be pretty mild (2.4 Ghz to 2.6 GHz for instance).
Ignoring stability performance did increase, yay, but so did the heat and the noise of the CPU fan. Not worth it.
Interesting. I've heard that you could use different Windows Managers with KDE, but was a bit confused about the issue. So you can use different window managers but some apps require specific window managers. Got it :)
Thanks for the very long and enlightening explanation. I'm honestly surprised you bothered.
;)
Windows is indeed more of a mess than most OSes internally, with stuff in the Kernel calling into shell32 and ugly stuff like that, and as you say: one have to divide things up "Conceptually" to make sense about it.
This is easier in Linux where you have, X, Window Managers and other components neatly separated and able to work without each other. There a multiple X servers, for instance, and KDE can run on them barring bugs and unimplemented features.
However GDI is more equivalent with X than KDE even if GDI includes functions like font management, clipboard (I don't know how Windows implements the clipboard but it's not using Explorer) that you find in KDE. This is of course just an opinion.
Explorer is generally referred to as a shell because you can replace it and still have to operation system functioning. With KDE it's a bit more troublesome as many more apps are depended on it to function, but even so you can dump KDE and still have a functioning OS.
I know there's no clear definition of what a 'shell' is, or even what an 'operation system' is. Wikipedia and other sources have definitions on both but nothing that covers all bases. There are game engines, for instance, that can by all accounts be called operation systems - but obviously they aren't, they're game engines
My original question was why KDE messed with the bluetooth stack, but as another poster answered KDE does not actually do so. KDE configures the bluetooth stack but that's just KDE being nice to the user, the bluetooth stack can operate without KDE.
When I say Explorer I generally think "everything on top of GDI". And when I say KDE I generally think "everything on top of X". KDE also includes a Window Manager, a clipboard (?) and other services that GDI (and downwards) provides but - in my opinion - is the closets equivalent to Explorer on Windows (and Dock/Finder on OSX - I've never used OSX so I'm less sure. X is Quartz, Compiz is Quarts Extreme and Aqua is ?)
Thanks again for the explanation. It was long so I might have missed a few points.
It was a bad product -at- day one, but it's gotten far better since. It has some very impressive features which I haven't seen in any other MP3 player at that price range, and upgrading older versions to support all the features of the newer ones is something I wish more companies would allow. If they'd just open the fucker up and lose the DRM...
The way I think DRM should work is like this: If you try to play a file which you don't have the 'key' for the media player will still play it, only also informing the user that it's playing an unlicensed song somehow. Thus make DRM a tool to help the user stay legit, instead of a punishment for those who are legit but can't playback the file the way they want to.
That way it's the user, and not a potentially faulty algorithm, that have the final say whenever they can play back the music or not.
Now you're just being deliberately stubborn.
So you're saying that if one unbundle the K* apps you still have something above and beyond Explorer/Finder/Doc + a Window manager? What is KDE's equivalent on Windows/OSX then?
Assuming Windows/OSX has something equivalent.
If you think this is even roughly equivalent to "Explorer + a Window Manager", then yes, you're blind. Or ignorant.
So you're saying that KDE is equivalent with Explorer + a Window Manager + "A host of useful KDE applications".
Sight.
You could have said that your problem with my earlier statment was that I didn't include the K* applications. I've used some of them but never considered them the 'core' of KDE, just bundled extras.
It's fairly easy to see why the Zune failed.
I can't even see the Zune succeeding if all iPods suddenly combusted. It was a bad product from day 1.
No, but I did suggest looking it up. I'm not going to do your homework. It shouldn't be that tough.
But I have looked it up and Wikipedia/other people agree with my view. You're the one sitting on the great 'secret' about how KDE is (by your own words) vastly different than Explorer + a Window Manager.
I can only conclude that you don't know yourself.
Yes, you can use many shells on top of KDE. You're quite confused about terminology, and seem to mean "file manager" when you say shell. KDE is not a file manager either. Wikipedia should help straighten out the definitions for you.
You actually thought I was confused by the difference between a file manager and a shell. This leads me to believe you think "Explorer" is a file manager, as I didn't mention a file manager in my earlier posts. Also other posters have noted that KDE includes a file manager, not that I ever thought KDE was a file manager.
Your big point seems to be that KDE is a Desktop Environment but you don't clarify why this makes it so much different from Explorer + a Window manager (the way I thought of KDE).
You're coming off as an elitist that likes to act like he's 'in the know', but don't actually provide anything useful to the discussion. You've been most unhelpful. Unthanks.
I'm sure I have coworkers that need this removed from their computers at work../quote The hole the virus exploits was closed last year, before Conflicker started spreading, so if your company machines are up to date they should be safe. Microsoft also has a "malicious Software Removal tool" that can remove the virus.
Is there any consensus or are there usability-studies that support your claim that the ribbon is great?
The ribbon has it's strengths but it's not applicable to all type of apps. Unless you have an oddly configured browser you'll have about 8 interface elements (buttons, address bar, favorites) + the menu and status bar and perhaps a bookmarks toolbar (anyone use that?). Not enough elements to make ribbon an advantage.
One way of thinking of the ribbon is as a menu that sticks open when you press it, so that you won't need to open it repeatedly - assuming the ribbon has the functions you want on that "menu".
A study on the matter would be cool though.