Comment: Re:they're still neighbors (Score 1) 213
is, not was
Still nearest neighbor? Of course. Still most important regional neighbor? Hmmm... maybe?
Comment: Re:Why do you find it interesting? (Score 1) 166
Probably true, just a bit worried since it ships with 12.04 which is almost two years old. 13.10 would be a better choice to get a more useful version of Unity.
12.04 is the current LTS, and will be supprted and patched until 2017. Alternatively, almost any hardware that is supported on 12.04 will run just fine on 13.x, with maybe certain AMD cards as an exception, but that has nothing to do with ubuntu
Comment: Mobogenie (Score 1) 303
I got offered to download mobogenie .apk a couple times I open slashdot on my phone. Do any of you experience this too?
Comment: Re:Are PC gamers benefiting ? (Score 1) 183
Matrox dabbled, but never got close to a cost efficient gaming card, really IMO... the closest they came was the G400 IIRC. That was the era when you could possibly claim there were 4 competing vendors. Soon after, Matrox left the market to concentrate on 2D, and 3dfx dissapeared up their own arse. I'm not sure who the other 2 you are alluding to are.... SiS, VIA?
3DLabs? PowerVR? Rendition? Granted, most of them only released 2-3 generations worth of graphic chips, but they did gave us options back then. I remembered the how PowerVR delivered competition when they released the Kyro after the success of PowerVR2 on DreamCast
Comment: Re: NOT posted as AC. (Score 1) 603
An entire country locked in a mexican standoff, that sounds nice.
Or could this actually be a new type of standoff entirely? The American standoff?
You guys did it at worldwide scale back then. Remember the cold war?
Comment: Re:Do the kids still chase the newest video card? (Score 1) 75
Once in a while I check Tom's Hardware for the video card roundups and they all seem priced accordingly. There is no longer a "best bang for you buck" card. A $70 Nvidia cards performs as well as a $70 AMD card.
The last bang for buck video card that I had was the GeForce 4 TI 4200 64MB. It lasted roughly 3 years before I migrated to the a 6600
Comment: Re:This is simple numbers pumping (Score 1) 182
The fact that it runs on low end luminas with 512 megs of ram and single core cpus and runs decently where gingerbread wont even boot is why I wrote that. I have a galaxy s1 with similiar hardware with the exception of a dual core arm and its barely functional with Android 2.3 which is obsolete.
Windows 8 kernel uses less than 20 megs of ram. Try having linux run with that
Windows is not vista or xp anymore. They have gotten their act together with the exception of Metro. 8.1 runs on 10 year old systems fine with the exception of a real video driver.
My problem is, it doesn't really matter to me, the end user, that a certain OS runs on less resource than other OS if both handsets is priced the same. If both handset performs similarly on benches or general use cases, but one is much, much cheaper than the other since it uses last year SoC and less RAM than the other, I might be swayed to buy the cheaper one. As of now, My S4 is a power sucking, plasticky toy, but it will do (almost) everything a Lumia 920/1020 or the 5s can, and perhaps a little bit more, while being priced the same, or cheaper than the 5s
Comment: Re: Wrong way round. (Score 1) 182
Microsoft loved that excuse back in the day! There are no third party drivers on android noob. Their programmers just suck.
So the drivers for each SoCs is written by google android developers? Or are you saying S3 did not write the driver for my S3 Trio64 back in the day? Back in the day? My obsolete ATI card uses 3rd party (OSS) driver today on top of Ubuntu, and it runs fine most of the time
Comment: Re:a change is gonna come (Score 1) 188
are you by chance opened radeon.com? Go to amd.com instead
Comment: Re:At the risk of being labeled troll (Score 1) 188
The most recent AMD card that I have is the Radeon 5650, embedded on my Vaio E-Series. It certainly won't win any speed contest, but it can comfortably runs MOH, BF3, Skyrim, Deus Ex Human Revolution, Dragon Age 2 on windows, TF2, Dota 2, and Strike Suit Zero from Steam's Linux library, and finally Street Fighter x Tekken on wine on Ubuntu. No crash whatsoever, at least nothing GPU related.
I started with ATI Rage Pro, and went Nvidia for several generations (Riva TNT2, Ti 4200, and 6xxx). I returned to ATI with the X300, just in time when ATI released their first linux binary driver. I'm not really an avid gamer and any graphic chip will suit my daily usage scenario, so I decided to support them, and my next two cards are AMD's 3470 (on Toshiba M300), and the aforementioned 5650. I have ran GTA III, Need For Speed (Most wanteds, carbons), Fallout 3, Super Street Fighter IV, and many other things, and the AMD cards are the least of my problem
Comment: Re: Very interesting... (Score 2) 82
And probably none of those has business portfolio as extensive as IBM
Comment: Re:Still using 3.6 (Score 1) 152
3.6 has a status bar, and a real status bar at that. As opposed to the always-present extension bar add-on, I see status messages in the status bar and not above it intruding into page space.
I also have a real back and forward button, as well as an arrow I can click if I want to see my backwards or forwards history. I don't need to hold anything down if all I want is to go back three pages, or go forward to the most recent one from five pages back.
I regularly using 17 and 23 in different environments. The only thing I like about the newer versons is that the URL is under the tabs and not above it (but for some reason, search is also under the tabs even though it is not tab-specific).
Right click on the back/forward button shows history. It looks like a timeline, and It will tell you how many pages are in front of you, and how many are behind. I like it. As for status bar, I used to be like you, bothered that the pop up is blocking the page content. But then I realized when I see the pop-up, I don't really want to see the content, and when I move away the mouse, the pop up is gone
Comment: Re: 64-bit BS (Score 1) 512
They still need to maintain 32 bit arm for the 5c, which will have the same lifespan of the 5s. If there were any real world reason to move at all, this release cycle was a wasted opportunity to move all of their stuff to 64bit
Comment: Re:1080p on a 5 inch display.. (Score 1, Funny) 52
I'm 20/13 vision in both eyes and can already spot pixellation in the iPhone 4S display, at arms length.
The Iphone 4s has retina display. For a retina display to work its' magic, you need to hold it at a typical viewing angle. In short, you're holding it wrong
Comment: Re:confuciousnism leads to social responsibility (Score 1) 169
And is this CEO a Confucianist?
maybe not... Perhaps he's... confused