@Bob looks like the usual piece of chinese garbage , that barely works, highly overrated specs with stolen operating system . . . where can i get one :-)
With prices like those, nobody ever knows they dont really work, because it is not worth going through the return process, so eventually it becomes one of those "projects" that sits on the desk, that "I'm going to get to" :-)
Who trust reviewers anymore ? They send them the good stuff , and then run a few ads.
Ya get it home and crack it open and find one of them China high clock zero execution processors inside, because they got a deal on 10K clones intel stickers :-)
@Psycogeek You trust known ones, because it's pretty damn obvious when they lie and then they are no longer trusted.
i.e. they have at most one opportunity to lie and then they lose the trust of their readers forever.
It's not a winning proposition.
@Psycogeek Again, payment dispute. Done. It's bloody obvious if it doesn't include the right OS, doesn't run x86 programs, etc.
I'm as cynical as the next person, but this isn't something that's so very easy to cheat on. Seriously.
Of course, you have manufacturers trying to pull a fast one (=> Kingston SSDs). That's still an issue.
But it would actually be difficult to do so with a device like this, where (a) you can see hardware specs easily and (b) there aren't any cheaper components than what they're already using.
With Intel and MS subsidies, Atom's about as cheap as you'll find any x86 chip, and Win8.1 is free.
That said, I'm not actually planning to try one - I have no use for these.
Just interesting that they'd slap a battery pack on one.
(And if they've lied anywhere, it's gonna be the battery capacity...)
@Psycogeek Also, a fundamental problem with audio is that it's rather subjective. Once you pass a certain line (below which everything is just crap regardless of who's listening), whether one device is better than another will depend on personal preference. The performance of a general-purpose computer like this is very much objective - either it works as well as it claims or it doesn't. You can measure performance objectively.
There are a lot out there, but just like ~100$ smart phones, 40 hours worth of reasearch later, you realise that you really want the ~250$+ one that would not be an exasperbating experience
Also helped when there were less, and a whole user base of people with the same device , and the same problem existed.
While one person might be able to solution one of the problems, it takes a whole team of users :-) to really get them all addressed :-)
That being because 4/5ths of the owners have it sitting on the desk still because "I'm going to get to it" :-)
@OliverSalzburg wonder if they make ribbon cable extentions, many of the pannels used use a ribbon cable to the pannels (all different numbers of connections) Peel apart a tablet seperate the pannel, and that just leaves some way to connect it.
Small pannels with touch too, in a standalone frame , with speakers, with touch input connection. do not see a lot of those even after the windows expects everyone to go touch.
question, which the responce was "Windows 8.1 with Bing is the generally the same as Windows 8.1, but only with additional Apps. All the software runs on your pc would run on this box"
looks like the same OS as any other Android , with googl, , , i mean win8
@Bob I found sellers on amazon.com, but none in Germany. Even when searching a price comparison website
And I don't know about those sticks. One of the most important features for us is being able to remotely boot the device, like with WoL. Tablets and similar devices usually lack that capability
So, optimally, we would have a very small form-factor, proper PC with a 10" display connected via HDMI
We've already invested a bit of money into crap that doesn't work. We also tried building from raw components, but it was multiple times more expensive than buying some tablet off-the-shelf
Surprisingly, you get really good prices if you order 100k unity from China, compared to the 20 we need :P
Have china make you one, like everyone else does. then you just have to deal with insuring you get first 2 to test, then about 2 years to debug and complete order.
@Psycogeek Yeah, maybe, but it's not worth it for us
Not by a long shot
We're not hardware retailers, we need a reliable product which we rent to our clients and this is not the way to obtain one unless you're willing to invest more money than you gain from the result
Research has shown that it is a common problem with cheap Chinese tablets, because they simply don't use proper battery management on the battery to save on costs
Long story short, the battery level indicated to the OS is simply very inaccurate, causing batterys to stop loading or the device simply shutting down because the battery is suddenly empty or the battery thinks it's empty
Consumers usually don't notice these issues though, because they don't have the device on for 12+ hours every single day
@Boris_yo could be if it was upside down :-) I donno i just imagine the sun bouncing where I need it least. The Fold out Sun hoods of that same style seem like a thing. although i never got around to trying one. (plastic, hangs off the back, hopes to stay on etc)
There is always knee pads :-) I will still crawl on the floor to get a shot.
Most of the time taking a picture in similarity to how the human sees something themselves , means you just put the camera where your eyes already are :-)
Stupid story (you were warned). Back in high-school one of the kids was always testing out new things attached to his camera. he would adapt and adopt all manners of lenses , and contraptions to take pictures. including (things like) Sugar cerial box toy binoculars. Every once in a while he would take a really great inovative picture. Myself I do not think it ever had anything to do with the crap he added to the camera, but the fact that he was entertained and continued to push a shutter.
Keeping your camera with you and continuing to take pictures, then viewing them for how they look (or posting them) learning how to use the features of the camera. Living with it, that is how you would be able to take good pics with the wave of your hand. Just like you now wave a mouse around and do amasing things without thinking about it.
You can have a small application which can be created using C language. This application has the ability to produce sound which humans cannot hear but dogs can. You can run this application to annoy any dog.
Requirements are :
1. PC with a sound card configured properly.
2. A speaker which can ...
@JourneymanGeek So now I'm slightly worried. News this morning says that the mall very near (less than 1 mile) from my work facility has closed its doors today; there were cops outside; and social media people are trying to incite a raid/looter riot on that mall today.
the riots are moving from the inner city -- which is under lockdown of the National Guard -- into the county, which is where I am :(
> That was the stark reality Tuesday after a day and night that saw nearly 200 arrests, 144 vehicle fires and 15 structure fires, according to city official Howard Libit. All of it transformed Baltimore from a place to live, work and play into what resembled a war zone.
that from CNN... the scope was wider than I realized
Who are fountain pens shipped internationally without refills? It seems like those always should be purchased locally. I wonder if it's true for ballpoint and gel pens...
"This isn't your dog - so you can't as others have suggested just take it for walks when you think it needs them. Much like if someone brought their loud child to work, you wouldn't just take the child to the park to tire them out" I disagree with that one for sure, you can walk a dog for the entire day, and other people walking a dog are unlikely to teach it bad things, or do terrible things to it. It might not help, but the dog could be team walked :-)
