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Post by OziRiS on Feb 27, 2015 10:33:02 GMT
You want me to read whats on the screen?.. then give me something I can read..... Whats the point?... Well, Whats the point in my Raspberry... Well, actually, I now have a small micro-micro computer that fits in my camera bag that can transfer images from my Camera to my Mobile hard drive, thus freeing up space on my camera memory, and as it connects to a TV, I can now just sit there and do some basic editing of my photographs as well, and then pass them to any Printer I want anything printed on, including putting them on an SD card or USB drive for use in other devices that dont have CF card connectivity. My newest upgrade is a small screen, so I can now do all of that without a TV.... Next I am working on s battery pack so I dont need a mains Plug either. Small mobile devices have their uses.... its just what do you want them to be used for?. Okay, so the tablet is great for people who want to read stuff from the web on the go, but can't read the small print on a phone. Fine. That still doesn't make it a replacement for a PC, which was the orignal idea. The technology hasn't been developed well enough for that, so it's still just an oversized smart phone. Or maybe the smart phone is a shrunken tablet...? I don't actually know which one was thought of first... The Raspberry Pi, on the other hand, is a little slice of genius (pun intended). You can do much more with that than with any tablet. The tablet is a stand alone. It does what it does. Nothing more, nothing less. The Raspberry Pi can be used for just about anything you can come up with. That's an example of "underdeveloped" technology that was designed specifically to be underdeveloped, so you can develop the rest. |
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Post by silverdragon on Feb 27, 2015 10:32:56 GMT
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Post by silverdragon on Feb 27, 2015 10:42:14 GMT
Yes I see what you are saying Oziris, and I agree...
To a point.
Just go back to what the first "Home computer" was, the ZX80, 1K memory....
And yes I have one of those as well. (I Think its in the loft still...)
We are in the early days of the Tablet, maybe we are expecting too much from the hand-held computer...
Its still in the same designs as the tablets used on Star Trek, a small mobile, electronic paper, but they still had the "Mainframe" ships computer always at hand.
If you do as I do, and make the small hand-held just a terminal to the mainframe, you have the ability to see what you need "Anywhere" in the house.
Will it completely evolve into a complete replacement for the desktop?....
Wait.
Mores Law, every 18 months the semi-conductors and memory capacity will shrink threefold.
We have to wait until the micro parts are small enough to be portable to get all that computing power in your hands...
Meanwhile, they are trying to tell us we need more....
As the Tablet gets smaller and lighter, the desktop also explodes, and one terabyte memory is now common.
In that way, the tablet will never completely replace the desktop, as the desktop will accelerate out of view.
But then again, my Tablet even now will do more than my desktop 20 years ago could ever dream of.Including photo editing.....
Perhaps we expect too much?...
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Post by silverdragon on Feb 27, 2015 10:49:29 GMT
Why is it I am starting to think of Manchester as a test bed for everything going on in England?... So you get booked for using a phone whilst driving.... Anyone ahead of me here with the irony of this?... www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31653760And if yes you are and you see that you can now even pay the fine, on that mobile, before you even turn the phone off, whilst still driving........ How soon before someone gets booked for improper use of a phone whilst driving for trying to pay their last fine whilst doing 70 in the outside lane...... However, I have questions. What happens if you are me?... I have an extremely DUMB phone, it only makes phone calls. It probably could do more, but I dont have the interest?... If the system changes where you can ONLY do this via smart phone, do I have the right to demand that they provide the phone for free?... I will deny my wish to see that one tested out, 'cos I actually dont have any intention of being stupid enough to need to find out?... |
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Post by silverdragon on Feb 27, 2015 10:53:53 GMT
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Post by silverdragon on Feb 27, 2015 10:56:19 GMT
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Post by rmc on Feb 27, 2015 10:58:45 GMT
As I've said before, the tablet is a perfect example of a good idea that was rushed to market too quickly. They're not done. Besides having a bigger screen than a smart phone, it really can't do anything that a phone can't. It's exactly the same software. Same OS, same apps, but (for some) without the added functionality of actually being able to make phone calls. I know, many of them have the option to put in a sim card, but how many people actually do that? Who wants a "phone" the size of a small TV? The original idea behind the tablet was that it was supposed to be the replacement for the PC, but it can't do half of what a PC can. It can do what a phone can, but it doesn't fit in your pocket, so what's the point? I never pictured I'd ever be using a tablet. But, when my Mac mini went down (long story), I found that a onetime $150-purchase of an inexpensive tablet got me connected to my router again cheaper than paying an additional fee each month just to own and operate a smart phone. |
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Post by OziRiS on Feb 27, 2015 14:04:35 GMT
Yes I see what you are saying Oziris, and I agree... To a point. Just go back to what the first "Home computer" was, the ZX80, 1K memory.... And yes I have one of those as well. (I Think its in the loft still...) We are in the early days of the Tablet, maybe we are expecting too much from the hand-held computer... Its still in the same designs as the tablets used on Star Trek, a small mobile, electronic paper, but they still had the "Mainframe" ships computer always at hand. If you do as I do, and make the small hand-held just a terminal to the mainframe, you have the ability to see what you need "Anywhere" in the house. Will it completely evolve into a complete replacement for the desktop?.... Wait. Mores Law, every 18 months the semi-conductors and memory capacity will shrink threefold. We have to wait until the micro parts are small enough to be portable to get all that computing power in your hands... Meanwhile, they are trying to tell us we need more.... As the Tablet gets smaller and lighter, the desktop also explodes, and one terabyte memory is now common. In that way, the tablet will never completely replace the desktop, as the desktop will accelerate out of view. But then again, my Tablet even now will do more than my desktop 20 years ago could ever dream of.Including photo editing..... Perhaps we expect too much?... I don't think it's "expecting too much". If the tech companies want me to buy something that's supposed to be sort of a "bridge device" between my phone and my desktop, then no, I don't expect it to do as much as my desktop, but I DO at least expect it to do more than my phone. Present versions can't. That's why I say it's an incomplete technology that's been rushed to market too soon. Come to think about it, maybe it wasn't too soon, but rather too late. Maybe, as they were developing the tablet, the smart phone overtook it in the inside lane. Maybe they were too slow developing the technology and it was transfered to a smaller device while they were still finishing up. That meant they had to get the tablet out there as soon as possible, before people noticed that the smart phone was basically just a smaller version of the same thing. That could also be why there's been little to no development of the tablet concept for the past two years. Like with Sony's MiniDisc back in the 90's*, maybe they're just trying to sell enough of them to cover their development costs before people realize what's going on and the technology dies completely. Thinking even more in this direction, maybe the tablet and subsequently the smart phone (if we're assuming the tablet actually came first) is what came out of efforts to further develop the PDA. Makes sense that the "natural evolution" of the PDA would be the tablet, rather than the smart phone, but then micro technology made it possible to stuff all the tech you needed for a tablet into something smaller and combine it with a cell phone. *I know, MiniDisc lived for 20 years, but it never became the popular format Sony had hoped, in spite of it being a great concept. The recording industry never adopted it over CD's and when mp3 players hit the market in 1998, the format unofficially died in the minds of most consumers. Audio enthusiast kept with it for a while, though, but production stopped in 2011 and the format was officially pronounced dead in 2013. |
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Post by the light works on Feb 27, 2015 18:27:37 GMT
many years back, a salesman approached my parents with a very nice sweatshirt printed with beautiful garden scenes. based on the fact that my mother liked them, and felt herself a representative part of her market, they invested in a modest order of them. the investment proved wise, and the sweatshirts sold rapidly, so they ordered another batch of them which also sold well. however, halfway through the third order, the demand disappeared; because as Silver said - everybody who wanted one, now had one.
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Post by silverdragon on Feb 28, 2015 14:06:46 GMT
Technology now is you can have what you want, and its much more a case of finding the right product for you.
You want a better Pad?... well there are now ones that have a detachable or foldaway keyboard... minor sized laptops.
Better is a better laptop.
Then you have the laptops that can out perform my own old-thing-under-the-desk desktop...
Then you have desktops that can outperform my own rebuilt new thing-under-the-desk...
Its all a matter of you pay for what you get, and if you want a pad that can emulate a desktop, at the moment its a big ask, but of you have a couple of grand spare, something so bloody close you wont know the difference is available...
Its just its a little heavy right now, because we havnt quite got the power pack small and light enough.
Come back to this post in about a year....
I know what is going on in the battery development market, and I am suspecting the fast charge ultra thin ultra light from Formula E electric racing developed batteries to trickle down pretty soon to the consumer market.
That is after all why the battery makers are investing so much in R&D for the Formula E.
Sooner or later they will get a fast charge half hour to 80% full electric car battery that can do more than 200 mile on that charge and is big enough to carry 5 up with luggage.
Near Field charging will be big very soon...
We have it already on some devices, expect them to get bigger.
Where am I right now?...
Investigating small user friendly set task micro machines that can do one job very well that have a slim operating system, the slimmer the better, that are not graphics rich, but can be set and left.
"One touch" to pull all the files from my Camera and set them in place on a new folder dated "today" on my portable hard drive, via my own home lan, so I can do that from the front room with the hard drive in the spare room via WIFI, secured, zero internet ability, just a home lan to do home stuff.
Do I need 600watt of super-computer to fire up to do that?...
Or can it be done on a USB charger say from the front of my X-Box without having to turn that thing on either?...
Or, being that I have a USB Hub set up for charging of various mobile devices, why cant I just pinch power from that.
The rest of the world may be trying to persuade you that bigger is better, I am keeping it simple, and enjoying learning Linux.
I may be ahead of the game right now....
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Post by silverdragon on Apr 28, 2015 8:59:59 GMT
Just a note, there is a Firefox update about.
It takes you to build 37.0.2.
(Toolbar, help then about Firefox tell you what you are on).
Because of the chaos with that stupid web-chat thing, this is supposed to fix "bugs"....
Recommended that you update, its stable here, and as you know, my system is "paranoid" about changes that dont work... they tend to get throw off if they fail?...
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Post by silverdragon on May 13, 2015 9:02:37 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-32704572The "app" is called Xora,, if you have it, my suggestion to to ask why, and have it deleted immediately. If it knows that, its dangerous, and is also against the fifth isnt it?.. self incriminating evidence your phone was doing 90 in a 30 zone... Well, your honour, here is the thing, ONLY 90?.. I am sure it was doing more... You will note it suddenly stopped working after that event?.. I fast-bowled (pitched?..) it into a wall as soon as I discovered that app was working on my phone, so only 90mph is a bit slow. To anyone who is asking do I object to workplace monitoring, of course not, many of the vehicles I drive or have driven are fitted with GPS trackers, if "Something happens", the owners know where to find it. But PRIVATE mileage?... NO ONE has the "right" to know which shops I walk into. What have I to hide?.. EVERYTHING. My private life is none of your damn business, as long as I am not breaking any laws.... and even then, if its not affecting you, the Police are the ones who deal with that. The fact I am supposed to be taking my time off at weekends in Manchester but my Phone is in Birmingham (Where I have used two random local cities for example only) is a private thing, its not for "Work" to know about.
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Post by silverdragon on May 13, 2015 9:05:01 GMT
Heh heh heh heh heh heh... I think someone has a sense of humour...... www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-32704566]] Erm... oops?... Sorry, but pranks are pranks, and if you open something to public editing, they WILL have a laugh. I find it funny... no one was hurt, no one was permanently scarred, they can fix the graffiti, so do that and STFU, "easter eggs" have been a thing on maps since "here be dragons" were written on undiscovered areas of the world.  Do that in contour lines.....
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Post by silverdragon on May 13, 2015 9:21:25 GMT
Aww Cr@p.
Do you know what you just bought?....
Thats two million people STILL using Dial-Up internet....
Ok, so maybe they aint got broadband yet, but "you got mail" being the announcement you just got your mailbox stuffed with half hours worth of deleting crud SPAM is going to be a favourite with those who have to spend an hour downloading that cr@p first.
AOL is more than a dead donkey.
Its a millstone.
I used to work for them, Beta testing, etc, I know, I have had experience of them pushing good ideas into the trash and ignoring good advice.
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Post by silverdragon on May 13, 2015 9:27:37 GMT
Slow down, I have investigated, and this article is accurate, the one who got rear ended whilst stationary is a truer claim, it did not just stop suddenly, and was under manual control at the time. In fact, ALL of the accidents were, as far as I can find out, in Manual control mode, and no fault of the drivers or software, it was OTHER drivers that caused the accidents.... www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-32691887I report this due to my interest in auto pilot driver technology, of which I remain a sceptic, as always, but I am doing this to be fair and level. I still dont think other drivers are a fan of you NOT driving at the wheel.... |
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Post by the light works on May 13, 2015 11:57:30 GMT
Slow down, I have investigated, and this article is accurate, the one who got rear ended whilst stationary is a truer claim, it did not just stop suddenly, and was under manual control at the time. In fact, ALL of the accidents were, as far as I can find out, in Manual control mode, and no fault of the drivers or software, it was OTHER drivers that caused the accidents.... www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-32691887I report this due to my interest in auto pilot driver technology, of which I remain a sceptic, as always, but I am doing this to be fair and level. I still dont think other drivers are a fan of you NOT driving at the wheel.... Oregon has had driverless cars for years. it is quite common to come to a car crash and find that nobody in the car was driving. |
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Post by silverdragon on May 14, 2015 4:40:48 GMT
That sounds like parts of Salford over here....
It also reminds me of a case where a car was abandoned at the scene of an accident.
The police traced the owner, who was adamant it was on his drive.
The police officer at his door explained, "Sir, unless you own a police car, your drive is now empty?.."
Luckily he had a perfect alibi for being in bed asleep at the time of the accident, he was not aware his car had been stolen.
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Post by the light works on May 14, 2015 14:18:47 GMT
That sounds like parts of Salford over here.... It also reminds me of a case where a car was abandoned at the scene of an accident. The police traced the owner, who was adamant it was on his drive. The police officer at his door explained, "Sir, unless you own a police car, your drive is now empty?.." Luckily he had a perfect alibi for being in bed asleep at the time of the accident, he was not aware his car had been stolen. we had an incident. we got called for a car fire. - which reduced the car to bare metal; though fortunately since it was an embossed license plate instead of the newer non-embossed plates, we could still get the letters/numbers off of it. (all other identifying marks were destroyed in the fire) we called in what we knew: (compact station wagon, and plate letters/numbers) so the dispatch center could try to look up the owner. at the same time, the owner was calling the dispatch center to report the car stolen. "umm... we've got good news and bad news... we already found your car..." |
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Post by silverdragon on May 15, 2015 7:30:59 GMT
That sounds like parts of Salford over here.... It also reminds me of a case where a car was abandoned at the scene of an accident. The police traced the owner, who was adamant it was on his drive. The police officer at his door explained, "Sir, unless you own a police car, your drive is now empty?.." Luckily he had a perfect alibi for being in bed asleep at the time of the accident, he was not aware his car had been stolen. we had an incident. we got called for a car fire. - which reduced the car to bare metal; though fortunately since it was an embossed license plate instead of the newer non-embossed plates, we could still get the letters/numbers off of it. (all other identifying marks were destroyed in the fire) we called in what we knew: (compact station wagon, and plate letters/numbers) so the dispatch center could try to look up the owner. at the same time, the owner was calling the dispatch center to report the car stolen. "umm... we've got good news and bad news... we already found your car..." That would be good news, its an immediate write-off in insurance, full payout, no quibbling. At full market value as well. |
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Post by the light works on May 15, 2015 14:52:53 GMT
we had an incident. we got called for a car fire. - which reduced the car to bare metal; though fortunately since it was an embossed license plate instead of the newer non-embossed plates, we could still get the letters/numbers off of it. (all other identifying marks were destroyed in the fire) we called in what we knew: (compact station wagon, and plate letters/numbers) so the dispatch center could try to look up the owner. at the same time, the owner was calling the dispatch center to report the car stolen. "umm... we've got good news and bad news... we already found your car..." That would be good news, its an immediate write-off in insurance, full payout, no quibbling. At full market value as well. they still don't have a car until it gets straightened out, though. |
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