Posts by anatak 73 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Jul 2013
If you are already proficient in the subject. AI will give you some code / translation and it’s an excellent exercise to find the mistakes in that AI generated mess. (I am more into languages than IT now)
Sadly enough beginners will think that the AI generated code/ translation is correct.
Did you test if you could transfer a file /picture from iPhone to linux without using iTunes?
That’s the biggest drawback for me using an iPhone but it outweighs the long use life of getting updates long after most android phones that i looked at stopped being supported.
And also the fact that iPhone is ridiculously popular here (Japan).
Here in Japan the cellphone providers are so nice to block all email from non japanese domains, making my email address from my own domain a bit useless. I receive email from potential customers but when replying i get the errot message that the email address doesn’t exist. Yahoo.co.jp addresses are of course accepted.
Here in Japan all the cellphone companies had this great idea to provide free wifi ... for their customers... who are subscribed to and pay for the free wifi service. I guess translating free into Yen didn't work well.
So I leave my house and my phone tries to connect to a network. On the phone the wifi signal looks ok. But then of course it is impossible to get a connection. I have to turn of wifi on the phone and then it will connect to the 4G network. Of course coming home I forget to turn on wifi again and I blow my 4G (unlimited plan) allowed traffic watching some youtube video or similar. And then I will be on the throttled download rate. This is about as fast as a caveman inputting photons from his campfire into a fiber connection by means of blocking and unblocking the light of said fire.
My Vaio is getting a bit slow lately and I am looking for a (secondhand) replacement laptop. Opening A3 gimp files seems to make my laptop hang.
I am currently on a Celeron M 1,4 GH processor with .2GB RAM running Mint 17.
Does anyone has experience with a 15 inch laptop with an i5 / i7 or similar processor that has VGA and HDMI output, that will run Linux without too much problems ? (maybe switch back to Debian)
The T420 looked good except for the lack of HDMI output
I drove it around for a bit. roadster S version.
There was an extra option for extra noise (exhaust bypass or something like that) and it was just embarrassing to drive this thing because of the noise.
My first impression was, wow this thing is big, fat and heavy. It is without a doubt a wonderful engine with a massive amount of power but I felt like sitting in an American muscle car. Not the refined elegance I had hoped for.
I have also driven around a bit in an E type a few years back and that might have been the reason I was disappointed. My expectations were that this car was going to be a E type successor. After I reconsidered this car it was very nice to drive but there is nothing inside the driver / passenger compartment to put a file, laptop, cellphone, ... The trunk is also tiny so it might be good as a second car but it is not something I could live with on a daily basis, unlike the cayman / boxter.
I have been using a sharp IS14SH for the last few years.
I also have an iphone 5S through another job. The Iphone user interface just annoys me.
I use the Iphone mostly for consuming. Reading, checking facebook.
The android with the keyboard is used for everything that needs data input. I still win in typing speed against all my friends with my antique phone. a 12 key physical keyboard still wins against touchscreen keyboard in my case.
I can not use text prediction and autocorrect since I have to write in English, French, Dutch and Japanese sometimes using 3 languages in the same mail message.
The main problem with for example agriculture on a global scale has nothing to do with economics but with the power those global companies acquire over the food supply and how they will abuse that power. A monopoly might be economically speaking the most efficient model but economics never takes into account about the human psychology. Giving someone power will be a real test of character and it is obvious that our big businesses don't have a nice character.
They can not have a nice character because if they would be nice they would be out competed by some other company without any morals / scruples.
I am not against globalization but I am against giving big business too much power.
'real wealth' is land and the ability to defend it from being taken from you.
At the end of the day land will be what feeds you and it will always have its value. Especially since our demented rulers keep believing that a growing population is a good thing.
The more people there will be the more land will be worth.
Or real wealth is experience and a set of skills, the ability and will to learn new skills, to analyze and draw your own conclusions.
(that I know of) and I would like to keep it that way, thank you very much.
Why does something privacy violating have to happen before I would consider moving all my data out of the US ?
I don't have any real hopes that Europe is better but it has now been proven that the US hosting is utterly untrustworthy. Why would I keep trusting them ?
I don't mind paying for a good application and there is the problem a 'good' application.
since everybody who can string a few characters together became a web or app developer and there is almost no quality control except for user reviews all the app stores are infested with scores of applications that are just not good. A trial version with 1 week to see if you like it and then pay for it would be perfect for me but maybe I am an exception.
But say that you use a cloud service to store the recordings and you pay for the cloud service. Would that be legal ?
Then of course you have to setup a business where 'everybody' uploads the program, everybody has 1 copy of that program on a cloud server, and everybody streams that program individually.
I can see the storage and bandwidth flogging industry being very happy about this.
any chance to get half of the resolution as a standard for laptops ?
I keep hearing about HD or higher resolution tablets but would be really happy to find a decent resolution 15 inch laptop that does not require the sale of a first born son. The only place I have seen 1080 laptops consistently is at system76. Too bad their shipping cost to Japan makes it too expensive.
I am going to patent 'displaying something in one or more colors on something in one or more other colors'
and after that I am going to patent portions of the electro magnetic frequencies. So stop using your eyes unless you pay me. And if you look at something you have to pay me double.
I remember somewhere in the previous decenia or maybe millenia that there was this email service that replaced all your words with sound bites from songs. I guess the IP crowd killed that idea as I can not find it anymore.
for example
I will see you tonight. (I will: sung by Mariah Carrey, I will always love you) (see: sung by the Bee Gee's, lady's man) (tonight sung by Outasight lyrcs, tonight is the night)
If politicians spent money without wasting it and for the best uses, I would agree with that.
Let me know when that happens and I ll consider buying local again. Also if local businesses would be willing to sell me what I want instead of what they want to sell to me I ll set foot again in their shops.
I drive classic motorcycles for a hobby and that makes you hear every new sound because new sound normally equals expensive rebuild. I am always amazed when I drive in someone else's car and I tell them that there is something wrong with drive train and they didn't notice the sound until you point it out.
I can also hear most electric signals (fluorescent lights, old lightbulbs about to go bust) but I have very little taste.
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