Posts by PhonicUK 31 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Jan 2010
>> If they're so good, why do they not benefit the good of the common people?
But they do, just not in the same context. Remember that these are primarily graphics accelerators, used by the likes of young techheads like me to render impressive looking games.
There's also a number of CUDA accelerated video encoding tools, PhysX provides GPU accelerated physics processing for games and simulations, so on and so forth.
I love my GTX 480 :)
680MHz CPU, 256MB RAM, 3D Accelerator
Screen aside, this thing slightly edges out the N900 for under-the-hood hardware specs. You can even get the same 'Bounce' game for it often used to demo the N900s graphics prowess.
I'll be keeping my Linux based N900 for some time however.
They could stop overselling their capacity and supply me what I pay for? Or at least be honest and up front about what I should be able to expect for my money.
I would also point out that online gaming (by your definition) falls under the same roof as VoIP, as it requires near-instant response speeds with similar bandwidth consumption.
It's just that the telcos won't touch it since enough people would notice to be upset. Even then if I host an 8 Player online game BT suddenly decides that I'm torrenting and throttles my (already very limited) connection.
This is almost certainly down to telcos putting pressure on skype for money (Pay us or we'll traffic shape).
This is why we need net neutrality!
I hope Ofcom see this for what it is. If I'm paying for a data connection, I should be able to put what I want over it!
VPN for me here ;)
* A really annoying new on-screen keyboard layout where the backspace is in the bottom right instead of the top right.
* OSK is now a pop-up dialog instead of full screen, meaning smaller and harder to hit keys. Still entirely obscures anything behind it.
* Random changed behaviour with no indication of what to do. E.g. the 'application manager' no longer has a search facility, instead you just start typing what you want. Great, but why didn't it tell me that?
* Most built-in apps can be put in portrait mode by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+U and rotating the phone, but some become unusable when you do so. The OSK is landscape-only so when using portait mode, it will switch to landscape whenever you want to input text.
* The "Back" and "Bookmarks" buttons in the browser are swapped around, so I keep going back when I want to use my bookmarks.
Be it said that despite these niggles, the update has been an improvement. Many of the built in apps are more responsive, and the OS uses less space on the root file system (A major fault of the N900, is only having 256MB in the root filesystem, separate from the massive 32GB mass storage) so I now have 85MB free instead of just 20MB.
Skype video chat is a welcome addition, but only really usable on WiFi, especially if (like myself) you're on T-Mobile who packet-shape VoIP over 3G to the point of being unusable.
" even after 1000 cycles of repeatedly rolling-up and stretching the display, there was no clear degradation in the display's ability to reproduce moving images."
But there certainly seems to be a degradation in producing a clear image. The one in the video looked like a badly ageing LCD with the odd entire row or column stuck.
Granted this is very new and I'm sure they'll get that sorted - if only because nobody will accept otherwise.
Very cool though, I'd love to cover an entire car with this stuff, or maybe a suit...
I leave 3G and WiFi on all day every day, fetching emails every 30 minutes and spending about an hour a day in its web browser. I get 1.5 days of useful battery life out of it. 2 days if I skimp on playing games or watching flash videos in the browser.
The Maemo Linux Kernel is actually pretty damn good at making sure the clock speed is kept at its lowest if the CPU time isn't needed for much. The WiFi power saving is very aggressive too. The WiFi is effectively turned off after about a minute of non use.
Everyone will look great, but require that you spend twice as much on gifts and dates as anyone else. They'd also not allow you to have any friends that aren't members of the site.
Also if your relationship ever had a problem, you'd never be able to fix it yourself - and instead would have to replace the whole relationship.
3D TVs are horribly overpriced. I have a Samsung 2233RZ 23" 3D monitor for use with nVidia 3D vision. Including the glasses and transmitter only cost £250.
If they stop being stupid and get it down to £700-500 for a decent size set, then people will get interested.
Of course it doesn't massively help that the age range that can currently afford such things all seem to suffer eye strain and headaches when using 3D glasses, for some reason younger people don't seem to be affected (as badly). I can quite happily play 3D games for hours on end with no ill-effects, my father however feels sick after just 30 minutes of it...
@Pirate Dave
So we can have a standardized mechanism for making 3D games and other content where 3D is genuinely appropriate, without relying on Flash/Silverlight.
This is a *good* thing, I don't think anyone is proposing that normal web content be somehow made 3D.
Everyone else is still dragging their heels...
I used to be on Virgins 20MBit unlimited service last year. There was genuinely no hard traffic limit over a month, but if you used more than xGB in y Period of time during peak hours, your speed was cut in 1/2 - which I could live with quite happily.
Sadly, I'm in an area of a major city that they don't service despite being surrounded by places they do serve in every direction... So I'm stuck with 2.5MBit-ish BT...
Here's a drink to hoping they keep that kind of policy for their upcoming 100/200MBit streams!
The problem is people keep thinking of Silverlight as a Flash competitor, and its not!
Yes Silverlight can be used just to play videos and animations like 80% ish* of Flash content on the web, but its a lot more than that. I've actually worked with Silverlight and it is a truly excellent framework for developing web applications.**
* Off the top of my head guess, nothing to back this up with.
** I develop full time in a FOSS environment. I dearly wish I could use VS and ASP.net instead though.
Is package management! Since (Under most distributions) all of your software comes from a fixed set of known sources and gets managed through a single system (The package manager).
Windows needs a unified package manager, where publishers can notify the package manager of latest updates and where to get them from (Security and trust issues aside that is).
I suspect the actual issue is that the Beeb have bent over in front of the various networks to ensure that iPlayer content can only be accessed over 3G (Instead of WiFi) by users of certain networks (3 and Voda) and this would allow users not on those networks to circumvent this.
Making this more a case of networks not wanting to have the load of iPlayer (Which is still bugger all due to the crappy bitrate) and everyone else paying because the BBC didn't want to piss off the oh so precious bit pipes...
Paris, because shes all about pipes.
We've had proper 3D for games for years now, just look at nVidias 3D Vision. I was using that back before LCDs where mainstream. Now I have the newer version that works with 3D capable LCD Monitors (Samsung 2233RZ in my case)
It work with just about any 3D game on my desktop :)
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