I fail to see much appeal to these devices as regular sources of electricity; you still need hydrocarbon delivery (natural gas), you still give off CO2. It would make much more sense to do all the nasty hydrocarbon-to-electricty bits at a central location and use the grid to get the power to people. The grid is an abstraction layer; you don't have to care how the power is generated, you just end up with the results. The power plants themselves gain on economies of scale and can swap out their infrastructure gradually for future better technologies without the end user having to care. If these fuel cells are so great, they could be crammed into plants and put on the grid.
I do, however, see one very attractive use case: emergency power generation. Assuming your natural gas lines aren't interrupted (or you store your own NG supply on site), if you have one of these things around, you have backup power when the grid "goes away." This only makes sense if the price point gets low enough, of course.
You're right, of course. Google will continue to support Flash in some fashion for quite a while; they can't really afford not to. If Youtube blocks flash, some other site that provides a flash option will pick up the slack, and youtube perishes in the flames of user outrage.
There's nothing particularly unique about Youtube, except that it was the first and currently largest site to "just work" with video clips. Let's not forget that Flash, for all its sins, is what even made this possible to begin with.
I personally suspect that the benefits of HTML5 will be very clear to many users, especially on mobile devices where Flash simply is not viable. It should be a case of superior technology ultimately winning out, just as long as the word is actually spread (and it's in google's interest to spread it).
Youtube currently gives you the option to "opt in" to HTML5, and that's excellent. In the future, they may give you an option to "opt in" to Flash, and they'll tell you that performance may suffer for it. They don't really need to kill Flash entirely, because Flash is good enough at killing itself.
This is a valid point. The "MS Phone" at this time isn't even a product - it's just a demo. By the time something actually gets to market (later this year, maybe?) Android, WebOS, iPhone OS, Maemo, etc will have had a good bit of time to "catch up" with any missing functionality.
MS is, essentially, the last to the table of those I mentioned, and that's a dangerous place to be, even with a superior product. All of the others (well, possibly excepting Maemo) already have mind share and already have, more importantly, applications. The Windows 7 phone will mystifyingly not support any legacy winmo apps, so it's starting off at a massive disadvantage.
Despite these disadvantages, I think it's too soon to say whether MS is going to be able to catch up eventually. The Zune keeps getting better and keeps carving out its own little niche market; maybe Windows Phone 7 will do the same.
The pay wall will slash their number of readers to a small fraction of what they have now, but I assume that readership numbers are not their sole criterion for success. The NYT has a reputation for quality irrespective of mass market consumption, and there will be many people who value this quality enough to pay a premium.
While "the news" in a general sense may already be hopelessly commoditized, the NYT offers a degree of quality that you simply will not find from AP reprints. This is a prestige brand, and it doesn't need the mass market to succeed.
There's dust on the sensor - you can see it in shots of the sky. It gives you an idea of how large each individual image is, as the sensor dust spots are visible at regular intervals.
Indeed, it buys them time. How much time, I'm not sure about.
Clearly, Yahoo! has decided that they simply can't compete on search. Why not let MS chase google, they figure, and take a cut for simply lending them the Yahoo! name. In the meantime, that removes a lot of search related R&D and infrastructure headcount, and they can free up those resources to chase the next big thing (well, or lay them off).
This is a desperate move, though. It only works out if people continue to use Yahoo! branded Bing search, and it's unclear to me why anybody would do so. Yahoo! needs to find some kind of value add that lures people to use their Bing frontend, otherwise this deal buys them months, not years. Indeed, this is why it's such a good move from MS - it gradually migrates people to Bing and kills off the Yahoo! brand, without them having to buy Yahoo! and shut them down directly. There's always the *chance* that Yahoo! will recover, but I'm sure MS is assuming that they won't.
The short length of our school year is another piece of bullshit that hurts both teachers and students. It's true that teachers only work part of the year, and that seems to be a consideration for their pay scale, but what sort of professional job is going to be available for only two months in the summer? They may work less, but they have no way to convert that extra time to (decent) revenue.
Good point. Not only is the actual banning free publicity, but they now have the opportunity to look like the 'good guys' by refusing to cave to the nanny state.
Most game companies simply release sanitized versions of their games for such territories, but I wonder if the free press (and general positive vibe for standing up to the 'man') will more than counteract any sales lost in countries like Australia.
Google first, rtfm later. This is what Linux's great popularity and google's great indexing has given us.
Most Linux distributions do indeed have poor or incomplete documentation. The interesting realization I had with respect to this is that it usually doesn't matter - with the massive power of a search engine like google and the large number of users asking questions, you seldom really *need* the docs to figure out how to do something. You can almost invariably ask your question (in English!) to google, and get an answer in seconds that would take you minutes or hours to cobble together from fully reading man pages and online manuals.
I came to this realization when I was recently evaluating FreeBSD as a replacement for Solaris. In truth, both of those systems have excellent documentation, but getting things done with either system can actually take longer because the volume of 'internet wisdom' surrounding them is less due to their smaller user bases. With Linux, almost every question has been asked by some clueless newbie, answered, and indexed. With less prevalent systems, the question may have never even been asked in public. People just read the docs and figure out the answer on their own. And google never indexes this.
Good documentation is good. It's also hard. And in projects run by volunteers, it can easily slip through the cracks. In a lot of cases, though, what people need is not proper documentation, but knowledge of how to do something - and in such cases, documentation may no longer be the easiest way to find out how to do it.
I agree completely. If what you want is a solution that simply works, this is clearly the best choice.
There are a few use cases for the media PC that TiVo can't fill or can't fill very well (transcoding files for use on portable devices, local network streaming, playing media from certain web sites, etc), but you have to ask yourself 1) how much those matter to you and 2) whether another appliance (like the WDTV deals) might do some of it instead.
I love MythTV, warts and all, but its UI is clunky and its care and feeding can be a hassle. I really can't recommend it to anybody who wants something that just works and just works well. Perhaps the Windows offerings are superior, but I'm personally not interested in running Windows, and I enjoy tinkering, so MythTV works for me.
I tend to agree that this shoots the product out of true impulse buy range, but I do think it's a reasonable price point compared to other game peripherals. Unlike (for example) plastic guitars or traditional controllers, you only need one of these things for up to 4 people, and it works out to be cheaper than buying up 4 controllers/wiimotes/whathaveyou.
Of course, unlike adding additional controllers, you don't have an incremental purchasing option with this thing, and there's a good chance that you don't have a game yet that will actually *work* with it.
I think the smart thing is to do what Nintendo did with the Wii motion plus: bundle it with a tech demo 'game.' If it's 80 USD for *just the hardware*, you're suddenly talking about 140 USD in order to actually *use* it, and that starts to look pretty sketchy. But 80 USD for the device *and* a game looks like a pretty decent value proposition.
Yeah... it's an odd name to English speakers, who will either associate it with the Latin "ovum" (and modern derivatives) or just be perplexed by it. Apparently "ovi" means "door" in Finnish, which makes a great deal of sense, as it's a portal service of sorts. But what percentage of Nokia's sales come from people who will actually recognize this?
Despite being the world's largest mobile phone manufacturer, from my perspective Nokia takes a very Euro-centric (and even Finn-centric) approach to their design and branding strategies. But as odd as Ovi is, I still think it's a good step up from "N-Gage," which I would assume has negative connotations in pretty much every market that saw the original device.
No, it's not N-Gage the device, it's N-Gage the platform.
A while back - 2 years, maybe - Nokia decided that they wanted to seriously push gaming on S60 phones. I think this was even before the iPhone opened the app development floodgates, but I'm not sure.
For some reason, they decided that the best name for this brand new gaming delivery platform would be... well, would be the same name as one of their most famous hardware failures of yesteryear. It would be akin to Apple calling the iPhone's browser "Cyberdog" or something equally ludicrous.
At any rate, Nokia "soft launched" the new N-Gage throughout various markets, finally making it to the US only late last year (Nokia's really ignored the US market in recent years). Of course, by the time this project was starting to ramp up, the iPhone had already proven itself a capable gaming platform and... well, you can guess how well it went over.
Don't worry, though, if you're a hardcore Nokia gamer. Everything that "N-Gage" the "platform" does will continue to exist, presumably, in "Ovi," which is their new unified branding for app delivery / social networking / whatever else. This is really more of a branding change than anything.
From my perspective, WoT is no better or worse than the average fluff fantasy fare, and while that genre hasn't evolved much in the last 15 years my own standards have. Had WoT stopped at 3 books, I would have been satisfied with it as a largely unremarkable but mostly competent series.
Instead, the series now certainly is remarkable, albeit more for its astounding length than for its actual quality. I imagine that it rivals or exceeds the volume of everything Tolkien ever published about Middle Earth, making the Lord of the Rings trilogy look like a short story in comparison. What about the WoT universe demands such a thorough treatment?
Personally, I became bored with the entire fluff fantasy genre before the series was completed, so I suppose I'll never really know.
There's really no reason to have all of these different devices, when the functionality can be properly collapsed into one.
We're not there yet, and there will always be some standalone GPS devices for very specific purposes. But as the general purpose devices get smaller and better, the single-function units will gradually be relegated to the margins.
There are many ways to do the things you describe. I personally make extensive use of Puppet.
This is a great solution for your configuration files, but note (directly) your code. This is where your distribution's packaging system comes in.
Build packages of your code for your OS package manager (be it RPM, portage, apt, whatever... it's usually not that difficult). Give the packages version numbers based on svn revision, if you need that granularity. Create an automated mechanism to build your package and insert it into a local repository.
Tell puppet to ensure that your 'dev' environment is always using the latest package. Tell puppet to ensure that your production and test environments are running whichever specific version they're supposed to be running.
A downside of puppet is that it's a 'pull' based system, by default every 30 minutes. For most situations, this is adequate - but not all. You might also investigate Func as, at the very least, a convenient way to tell a group of notes to phone back home to puppet on demand.
This is a well executed movie by most counts. The CGI is excellent, and I happen to like the choice of "documentary" style filming (oh, people will bemoan the "shakycam," but I feel like it helps integrate the CGI with the live action components). The main character's role is well cast. and his flawed and human responses to his bizarre circumstances are quite refreshing. With the exception of the 3rd act (more in a bit), the pacing is very well done and the movie flows quite well.
Any claims of originality are a bit overstated, though. By setting the story in South Africa, parallels to human-on-human behavior are much less subtle than you'd normally find (and I don't think that this is to its credit). In truth, the story is a combination of many familiar sci-fi tropes: the grotesque but misunderstood aliens, the nearly omnipotent greedy multinational corporation, the *SPOILER* horribly cliched (but very well realized) transformation of the main character *END SPOILER*.
I think the movie is at its worst in the 3rd act, when it devolves into a full-on action flick for an unnecessarily long 30 minute stretch.
Again, very well executed. It may even be the best sci-fi flick of the year, though it seems a bit early to judge that. Just don't go into the film expecting it to cover any new ground.
I hear you. I'll often find products using google or deal sites, then go through bing just for the cash back - it would be really silly if that sort of usage counted as a bing success story.
TFA doesn't specify whether this sort of usage is included in the comparison.
Well, I don't think there's an ideal solution, but I can tell you what I do.
For software, I find Bacula to be a very effective solution. It's open source, cross platform, and very flexible. Bacula was designed with tape in mind, so it takes a bit of wrangling to make it work well on hard drives - but once you get it set up properly, it works quite well with disk.
Now, I back everything "critical" up using bacula onto my ZFS array of cheap drives on my Solaris box. I just let ZFS itself do the compression (I didn't benchmark this, Bacula's compression may be more effective) and retain the backups on disk for about 2 months. I do nightly incremental backups and monthly full backups, but Bacula gives you lots of different options in this respect.
I then take the Bacula backups and rsync them over to external media weekly. I also take and keep 4 zfs snapshots of these backups on my external media, so that I can go back 4 weeks prior if I need to. I also rsync over to a separate smaller external drive "every now and then." I keep that other drive in the opposite side of the house (better would be to leave it at a friend's house, but I'm lazy - I just have to hope that one end of the house survives a fire / theft unscathed).
I have another class of data - data that I deem important, but also capable of being re-acquired at minimal expense. This data gets no incremental backups, and is only rsync'd around. It gets put on the larger external hard drive, but not on the smaller secondary drive. Beyond that, I have a third class of data, which I deem completely expendable. This is mostly normal recordings from my MythTV machine, which I consider an acceptable loss, and these aren't backed up at all.
At the end of the day, there really is no magic bullet. I really like disks + bacula, but what works best for you will depend on what you're trying to back up (and how much value you place on making sure that this happens properly).
This issue is in Acrobat's own javascript implementation. Acrobat itself runs javascript code that's embedded in PDFs, so the browser doesn't have anything to do with it.
Noscript will do nothing to help you here, and your post brings to mind the old adage - a false sense of security can be worse than no security at all.
We will introduce a 100 GB Road Runner Turbo package for $75 per month (offering speeds of 10 MB/1 MB). Overage charges will be $1 per GB per month.
OK, 10 mbit / 1 mbit is a pretty decent upgrade for most people. And I'm assuming that even moderate torrenters aren't doing a whole lot more than 100 GB / month - this is 3 GB per day!
Overage charges will be capped at $75 per month. That means that for $150 per month customers could have virtually unlimited usage at Turbo speeds.
Ah, so here's how it works. You keep paying per GB, up to a max of (plan rate) + $75. If you're using less than 100 GB / month, you're getting a nice bandwidth boost (admittedly with a cost increase you didn't ask for). If you exceed that, you'll be paying up to $150 / month.
The key thing here to me is the upload rate - you'd be paying a real premium for 1 mbit up under current plans. If you don't care about upload, of course, you're basically getting screwed, but I don't think it's as bad as a lot of people are imagining at first glance.
Is this guy actually trying to get kiddie porn laws overturned, by using them in the most ludicrous manner imaginable?
It seems to me that this guy's actions just highlight how insane some of our current laws against victimless crimes really are, by showing the ways in which they can be abused.
I have to second the iPod Touch. The browser is substantially more responsive and functional than that of the Nokia Internet Tablets, and the device is much smaller as well. For this application the only real downside is the lack of a physical keyboard.
I used maemo devices for a long time, and I like them well enough, but honestly the iPod is going to provide a much better user experience if all you want to do is use a web browser. The maemo devices can certainly do *more* things, but none of those things are going to be useful in this case.
I can't agree more. I switched over to python for all non-trivial scripting a couple of years ago, and I find it much more pleasant. I even sometimes use iPython instead of bash when I know I'll need to do something complex interactively.
By the way - if you like using python to control systems, you might also enjoy the func project.
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I fail to see much appeal to these devices as regular sources of electricity; you still need hydrocarbon delivery (natural gas), you still give off CO2. It would make much more sense to do all the nasty hydrocarbon-to-electricty bits at a central location and use the grid to get the power to people. The grid is an abstraction layer; you don't have to care how the power is generated, you just end up with the results. The power plants themselves gain on economies of scale and can swap out their infrastructure gradually for future better technologies without the end user having to care. If these fuel cells are so great, they could be crammed into plants and put on the grid.
I do, however, see one very attractive use case: emergency power generation. Assuming your natural gas lines aren't interrupted (or you store your own NG supply on site), if you have one of these things around, you have backup power when the grid "goes away." This only makes sense if the price point gets low enough, of course.
You're right, of course. Google will continue to support Flash in some fashion for quite a while; they can't really afford not to. If Youtube blocks flash, some other site that provides a flash option will pick up the slack, and youtube perishes in the flames of user outrage.
There's nothing particularly unique about Youtube, except that it was the first and currently largest site to "just work" with video clips. Let's not forget that Flash, for all its sins, is what even made this possible to begin with.
I personally suspect that the benefits of HTML5 will be very clear to many users, especially on mobile devices where Flash simply is not viable. It should be a case of superior technology ultimately winning out, just as long as the word is actually spread (and it's in google's interest to spread it).
Youtube currently gives you the option to "opt in" to HTML5, and that's excellent. In the future, they may give you an option to "opt in" to Flash, and they'll tell you that performance may suffer for it. They don't really need to kill Flash entirely, because Flash is good enough at killing itself.
This is a valid point. The "MS Phone" at this time isn't even a product - it's just a demo. By the time something actually gets to market (later this year, maybe?) Android, WebOS, iPhone OS, Maemo, etc will have had a good bit of time to "catch up" with any missing functionality.
MS is, essentially, the last to the table of those I mentioned, and that's a dangerous place to be, even with a superior product. All of the others (well, possibly excepting Maemo) already have mind share and already have, more importantly, applications. The Windows 7 phone will mystifyingly not support any legacy winmo apps, so it's starting off at a massive disadvantage.
Despite these disadvantages, I think it's too soon to say whether MS is going to be able to catch up eventually. The Zune keeps getting better and keeps carving out its own little niche market; maybe Windows Phone 7 will do the same.
The pay wall will slash their number of readers to a small fraction of what they have now, but I assume that readership numbers are not their sole criterion for success. The NYT has a reputation for quality irrespective of mass market consumption, and there will be many people who value this quality enough to pay a premium.
While "the news" in a general sense may already be hopelessly commoditized, the NYT offers a degree of quality that you simply will not find from AP reprints. This is a prestige brand, and it doesn't need the mass market to succeed.
There's dust on the sensor - you can see it in shots of the sky. It gives you an idea of how large each individual image is, as the sensor dust spots are visible at regular intervals.
Indeed, it buys them time. How much time, I'm not sure about.
Clearly, Yahoo! has decided that they simply can't compete on search. Why not let MS chase google, they figure, and take a cut for simply lending them the Yahoo! name. In the meantime, that removes a lot of search related R&D and infrastructure headcount, and they can free up those resources to chase the next big thing (well, or lay them off).
This is a desperate move, though. It only works out if people continue to use Yahoo! branded Bing search, and it's unclear to me why anybody would do so. Yahoo! needs to find some kind of value add that lures people to use their Bing frontend, otherwise this deal buys them months, not years. Indeed, this is why it's such a good move from MS - it gradually migrates people to Bing and kills off the Yahoo! brand, without them having to buy Yahoo! and shut them down directly. There's always the *chance* that Yahoo! will recover, but I'm sure MS is assuming that they won't.
The short length of our school year is another piece of bullshit that hurts both teachers and students. It's true that teachers only work part of the year, and that seems to be a consideration for their pay scale, but what sort of professional job is going to be available for only two months in the summer? They may work less, but they have no way to convert that extra time to (decent) revenue.
Good point. Not only is the actual banning free publicity, but they now have the opportunity to look like the 'good guys' by refusing to cave to the nanny state.
Most game companies simply release sanitized versions of their games for such territories, but I wonder if the free press (and general positive vibe for standing up to the 'man') will more than counteract any sales lost in countries like Australia.
Google first, rtfm later. This is what Linux's great popularity and google's great indexing has given us.
Most Linux distributions do indeed have poor or incomplete documentation. The interesting realization I had with respect to this is that it usually doesn't matter - with the massive power of a search engine like google and the large number of users asking questions, you seldom really *need* the docs to figure out how to do something. You can almost invariably ask your question (in English!) to google, and get an answer in seconds that would take you minutes or hours to cobble together from fully reading man pages and online manuals.
I came to this realization when I was recently evaluating FreeBSD as a replacement for Solaris. In truth, both of those systems have excellent documentation, but getting things done with either system can actually take longer because the volume of 'internet wisdom' surrounding them is less due to their smaller user bases. With Linux, almost every question has been asked by some clueless newbie, answered, and indexed. With less prevalent systems, the question may have never even been asked in public. People just read the docs and figure out the answer on their own. And google never indexes this.
Good documentation is good. It's also hard. And in projects run by volunteers, it can easily slip through the cracks. In a lot of cases, though, what people need is not proper documentation, but knowledge of how to do something - and in such cases, documentation may no longer be the easiest way to find out how to do it.
I agree completely. If what you want is a solution that simply works, this is clearly the best choice.
There are a few use cases for the media PC that TiVo can't fill or can't fill very well (transcoding files for use on portable devices, local network streaming, playing media from certain web sites, etc), but you have to ask yourself 1) how much those matter to you and 2) whether another appliance (like the WDTV deals) might do some of it instead.
I love MythTV, warts and all, but its UI is clunky and its care and feeding can be a hassle. I really can't recommend it to anybody who wants something that just works and just works well. Perhaps the Windows offerings are superior, but I'm personally not interested in running Windows, and I enjoy tinkering, so MythTV works for me.
I tend to agree that this shoots the product out of true impulse buy range, but I do think it's a reasonable price point compared to other game peripherals. Unlike (for example) plastic guitars or traditional controllers, you only need one of these things for up to 4 people, and it works out to be cheaper than buying up 4 controllers/wiimotes/whathaveyou.
Of course, unlike adding additional controllers, you don't have an incremental purchasing option with this thing, and there's a good chance that you don't have a game yet that will actually *work* with it.
I think the smart thing is to do what Nintendo did with the Wii motion plus: bundle it with a tech demo 'game.' If it's 80 USD for *just the hardware*, you're suddenly talking about 140 USD in order to actually *use* it, and that starts to look pretty sketchy. But 80 USD for the device *and* a game looks like a pretty decent value proposition.
Yeah... it's an odd name to English speakers, who will either associate it with the Latin "ovum" (and modern derivatives) or just be perplexed by it. Apparently "ovi" means "door" in Finnish, which makes a great deal of sense, as it's a portal service of sorts. But what percentage of Nokia's sales come from people who will actually recognize this?
Despite being the world's largest mobile phone manufacturer, from my perspective Nokia takes a very Euro-centric (and even Finn-centric) approach to their design and branding strategies. But as odd as Ovi is, I still think it's a good step up from "N-Gage," which I would assume has negative connotations in pretty much every market that saw the original device.
No, it's not N-Gage the device, it's N-Gage the platform.
A while back - 2 years, maybe - Nokia decided that they wanted to seriously push gaming on S60 phones. I think this was even before the iPhone opened the app development floodgates, but I'm not sure.
For some reason, they decided that the best name for this brand new gaming delivery platform would be... well, would be the same name as one of their most famous hardware failures of yesteryear. It would be akin to Apple calling the iPhone's browser "Cyberdog" or something equally ludicrous.
At any rate, Nokia "soft launched" the new N-Gage throughout various markets, finally making it to the US only late last year (Nokia's really ignored the US market in recent years). Of course, by the time this project was starting to ramp up, the iPhone had already proven itself a capable gaming platform and... well, you can guess how well it went over.
Don't worry, though, if you're a hardcore Nokia gamer. Everything that "N-Gage" the "platform" does will continue to exist, presumably, in "Ovi," which is their new unified branding for app delivery / social networking / whatever else. This is really more of a branding change than anything.
From my perspective, WoT is no better or worse than the average fluff fantasy fare, and while that genre hasn't evolved much in the last 15 years my own standards have. Had WoT stopped at 3 books, I would have been satisfied with it as a largely unremarkable but mostly competent series.
Instead, the series now certainly is remarkable, albeit more for its astounding length than for its actual quality. I imagine that it rivals or exceeds the volume of everything Tolkien ever published about Middle Earth, making the Lord of the Rings trilogy look like a short story in comparison. What about the WoT universe demands such a thorough treatment?
Personally, I became bored with the entire fluff fantasy genre before the series was completed, so I suppose I'll never really know.
There's really no reason to have all of these different devices, when the functionality can be properly collapsed into one.
We're not there yet, and there will always be some standalone GPS devices for very specific purposes. But as the general purpose devices get smaller and better, the single-function units will gradually be relegated to the margins.
There are many ways to do the things you describe. I personally make extensive use of Puppet.
This is a great solution for your configuration files, but note (directly) your code. This is where your distribution's packaging system comes in.
Build packages of your code for your OS package manager (be it RPM, portage, apt, whatever... it's usually not that difficult). Give the packages version numbers based on svn revision, if you need that granularity. Create an automated mechanism to build your package and insert it into a local repository.
Tell puppet to ensure that your 'dev' environment is always using the latest package. Tell puppet to ensure that your production and test environments are running whichever specific version they're supposed to be running.
A downside of puppet is that it's a 'pull' based system, by default every 30 minutes. For most situations, this is adequate - but not all. You might also investigate Func as, at the very least, a convenient way to tell a group of notes to phone back home to puppet on demand.
This is a well executed movie by most counts. The CGI is excellent, and I happen to like the choice of "documentary" style filming (oh, people will bemoan the "shakycam," but I feel like it helps integrate the CGI with the live action components). The main character's role is well cast. and his flawed and human responses to his bizarre circumstances are quite refreshing. With the exception of the 3rd act (more in a bit), the pacing is very well done and the movie flows quite well.
Any claims of originality are a bit overstated, though. By setting the story in South Africa, parallels to human-on-human behavior are much less subtle than you'd normally find (and I don't think that this is to its credit). In truth, the story is a combination of many familiar sci-fi tropes: the grotesque but misunderstood aliens, the nearly omnipotent greedy multinational corporation, the *SPOILER* horribly cliched (but very well realized) transformation of the main character *END SPOILER*.
I think the movie is at its worst in the 3rd act, when it devolves into a full-on action flick for an unnecessarily long 30 minute stretch.
Again, very well executed. It may even be the best sci-fi flick of the year, though it seems a bit early to judge that. Just don't go into the film expecting it to cover any new ground.
I hear you. I'll often find products using google or deal sites, then go through bing just for the cash back - it would be really silly if that sort of usage counted as a bing success story.
TFA doesn't specify whether this sort of usage is included in the comparison.
Well, I don't think there's an ideal solution, but I can tell you what I do.
For software, I find Bacula to be a very effective solution. It's open source, cross platform, and very flexible. Bacula was designed with tape in mind, so it takes a bit of wrangling to make it work well on hard drives - but once you get it set up properly, it works quite well with disk.
Now, I back everything "critical" up using bacula onto my ZFS array of cheap drives on my Solaris box. I just let ZFS itself do the compression (I didn't benchmark this, Bacula's compression may be more effective) and retain the backups on disk for about 2 months. I do nightly incremental backups and monthly full backups, but Bacula gives you lots of different options in this respect.
I then take the Bacula backups and rsync them over to external media weekly. I also take and keep 4 zfs snapshots of these backups on my external media, so that I can go back 4 weeks prior if I need to. I also rsync over to a separate smaller external drive "every now and then." I keep that other drive in the opposite side of the house (better would be to leave it at a friend's house, but I'm lazy - I just have to hope that one end of the house survives a fire / theft unscathed).
I have another class of data - data that I deem important, but also capable of being re-acquired at minimal expense. This data gets no incremental backups, and is only rsync'd around. It gets put on the larger external hard drive, but not on the smaller secondary drive. Beyond that, I have a third class of data, which I deem completely expendable. This is mostly normal recordings from my MythTV machine, which I consider an acceptable loss, and these aren't backed up at all.
At the end of the day, there really is no magic bullet. I really like disks + bacula, but what works best for you will depend on what you're trying to back up (and how much value you place on making sure that this happens properly).
This issue is in Acrobat's own javascript implementation. Acrobat itself runs javascript code that's embedded in PDFs, so the browser doesn't have anything to do with it.
Noscript will do nothing to help you here, and your post brings to mind the old adage - a false sense of security can be worse than no security at all.
I tried to wrap my brain around that wording for a while, and just decided to give up.
From http://a.longreply.com/109511:
We will introduce a 100 GB Road Runner Turbo package for $75 per month (offering speeds of 10 MB/1 MB). Overage charges will be $1 per GB per month.
OK, 10 mbit / 1 mbit is a pretty decent upgrade for most people. And I'm assuming that even moderate torrenters aren't doing a whole lot more than 100 GB / month - this is 3 GB per day!
Overage charges will be capped at $75 per month. That means that for $150 per month customers could have virtually unlimited usage at Turbo speeds.
Ah, so here's how it works. You keep paying per GB, up to a max of (plan rate) + $75. If you're using less than 100 GB / month, you're getting a nice bandwidth boost (admittedly with a cost increase you didn't ask for). If you exceed that, you'll be paying up to $150 / month.
The key thing here to me is the upload rate - you'd be paying a real premium for 1 mbit up under current plans. If you don't care about upload, of course, you're basically getting screwed, but I don't think it's as bad as a lot of people are imagining at first glance.
Is this guy actually trying to get kiddie porn laws overturned, by using them in the most ludicrous manner imaginable?
It seems to me that this guy's actions just highlight how insane some of our current laws against victimless crimes really are, by showing the ways in which they can be abused.
I have to second the iPod Touch. The browser is substantially more responsive and functional than that of the Nokia Internet Tablets, and the device is much smaller as well. For this application the only real downside is the lack of a physical keyboard.
I used maemo devices for a long time, and I like them well enough, but honestly the iPod is going to provide a much better user experience if all you want to do is use a web browser. The maemo devices can certainly do *more* things, but none of those things are going to be useful in this case.
I can't agree more. I switched over to python for all non-trivial scripting a couple of years ago, and I find it much more pleasant. I even sometimes use iPython instead of bash when I know I'll need to do something complex interactively.
By the way - if you like using python to control systems, you might also enjoy the func project.