The BeBook seems to fit the bill. It'll handle most non-DRM formats, standard USB connection, you can use it as portable storage if you wish (ie it won't play an vob file, but it'll sit there on the file system quite happily) and best of all the firmware is open source and linux based. Battery life is somewhere in "weeks" if you don't play music with it.
The original version, last time I used it, is a bit glitchy, but perfectly useable. Not used the Neo version, so I can't comment on that.
So somebody sees an advert, "saves" it and clicks on it later from within the program....who gets the advertising revenue, the original hosting site or the bloke with $8m?
If anyone's interested in, you know, the science and all that, plus the extraordinary work they've done reverse-mining fragile and expensive glass spheres in extremely cold conditions, you could do worse than check out Anil Ananthaswamy's The Edge Of Physics. There's lots of other cool stuff too, my review here.
...and for those without the cultural references, the above is a good parody of the right-wing AND prejudicial wing of the UK press. Nowt wrong with being right wing, or with recognising racial/cultural differences (I do it by making sure I don't hand money to a Muslim and/or Arab with my left hand, it's no big deal and only polite), but the references the parent is making are real, stupid and sad. Somebody mod him/her up?
Funnily enough, that's almost an identical list to the off-duty doctor who relieved a pneumothorax on a plane a few years back. Basically, a passenger suffered a collapsed lung - pressure in the chest cavity was building up, stopping the lung expanding, it can happen when there's a change in pressure.
He used vodka to sterilise the chest and equipment, cut into the chest and used a urinary catheter, plus a wire coathanger to jam it into the cavity. A condom with the closed end cut off (ie a cylinder of latex) was attached to the end of the tube and dunked in a bottle of water to create a one-way valve, allowing the air to escape without reintroducing it or any bacteria (hopefully).
True story, great hack. Saved the guy's life. Citation.
Until one employee comes in with a "bit of a cold" because s/he is saving the sick days for some fun instead. The "cold" turns out to be flu. Then everyone is off work. If you're actually, properly ill then you shouldn't be at work for the sake of your colleagues as much as yourself. I've worked with some stinking hangovers on occasion, even with torn muscles in my back on one very painful occasion, I'm prepared to battle through, but if you're actually sick then you're actually sick.
Oh come off it, we all know it's just the Fermi-estimations of a man thinking out loud. It's not science, it is, as the summary says, punditry. Give over "exposing" it, we all know it's very, very far from rigorous or even (gasp) godlike. It exposes itself, we all know it's rubbish.
But the ideas are a good enough conversation starter, and it's a possibly important idea to be talking about. So who wants to accept that Kurzweil isn't science and discuss the idea of the technological singularity instead?
"highly classified...scheduled to land soon...very secretive on all aspects of the flight...set to touch down at Vandenberg...powerful engine that allows the craft to alter its orbit (much to the dismay of many observers on the ground)."
See what they did there? Oh man, this place is better than The Onion sometimes. And yes, an engine capable of orbital changes is easily capable of landing in northern Scotland instead of Vandenberg.
The state still has a right to stop a crime in progress where they have a reasonable right to believe it is. If they're wrong then they have to return any property they've seized and make financial amends, just as they have to if they smash your door in looking for drugs that aren't there. And yes, they need a court warrant or equivalent for either.
There's umpteen torrent sites struggling to break even by offering verified, legit traffic, so nothing of value has been lost if a site is taken down which clearly facilitates, if not hosts, dodgy stuff,
My girlfriend (yes, really!;) ) was asking me this morning if I knew where she could buy an as-new MacBook from circa 2007. She wants a Mac but can't afford the latest model, whereas I quite happily pootle along on a £200 netbook. Seriously, Apple could make a killing by producing a really budget level MacBook rather than ever more expensive ones with...er....well I'm not entirely sure what they've introduced, but it's not as useful as, you know, a cheap portable Mac that people can afford to get them out of the Windows cycle....
Or just use the boot options to drop into a password-less root shell and reset the password from there. Yes you can, if you've got physical access to the machine.
This is a web server we're talking about. You don't put all your raw material on a webserver. Even if you want to be the new youtube, your storage space is going to be independent to your webserver. You don't put your entire IP collection on the interwebs.
The point is that a decent webspace company (what-looks-like-a-shill-but-is-just-a-happy-customer: United Hosting) will give you a whole server of your own. You can install Ruby if it's not there, run whatever scripts you want with whatever priority, hell, you can fry an egg on the machine whilst rendering your badly thought out two hour Blender movie if you want, or lock it with a missing semicolon in a failed attempt to evolve a picture of Darwin using PHP. Trust me, I've done both, badly. Still doesn't cost all that much.
Yup, agreed. You could have your webserver in-house. You'll need a safe room to lock it away in, ideally with some aircon, maybe a halon fire suppression system. Plus an UPS, obviously. And you'll probably want to hire another cupboard, with the same systems, a few hundred miles away, for an off-site backup. Oh, and make sure your ISP provides you with a sufficiently fast uplink.
Alternatively, pay someone $50-$500 dollars a year for the same. It's a no-brainer unless you've got some really, really pressing reason.
Interesting. Theoretically, energy (actually, an increase in entropy) is only required to discard information, ie clearing memory. Whilst this does limit the actual "computation" possible, a single-state machine can still contain a lot of information. Fair enough, nothing will change without a power source, but that's just an interface problem....
I can only presume this is a manifestation of Moore's Law, the curve is now so steep the computers are accelerating as they're running. Or maybe a typo;)
I'm willing to bet that the top end is going to become less and less relevant and we're going to be judging processors more and more by the "flops-per-watt" and "flops-per-dollar" rating. We're already in a position where clusters of commercial games machines make more sense than a traditional supercomputer for many applications, and I dread to think how much energy could be harvested from these using some efficient heat exchangers.
This has nothing to do with the constitution. A good few people died in a little town called Lockerbie, a hundred miles away from where I'm typing. It was a US aircraft flying from England (different legal system to Scotland), over Scotland, brought down by what appears to have been a Libyan originating bomb. That's outside the influence of the US constitution on almost every count. Bringing an aircraft down does not just affect the country that the flight originated in. If the US removes security scans and planes start coming down then they may find themselves unable to fly through foreign airspace...again, the system evolves around the problem.
Can you believe the various authorities actually *force* engineers to build safety margins into aircraft? And *force* aircraft to take off with enough fuel to make alternate landing sites? Can you imagine the humiliation?
When did sitting in a thin metal tube surrounded by barely controlled raging fires and flammable liquid whilst travelling thousands of miles at 30k feet become some kind of basic human right?
We're all allowed to fly without a pat-down, you just need to buy your own aircraft and get trained. One of the first things you'll be taught however, is that passengers are one of the most dangerous things on an aircraft. Even if they're not trying to take a plane down intentionally.
Personally, I would rather fly on an aircraft where I know that everybody, myself included, had been scanned. What about my rights?
Actually, I just "don't get" how they could do it so badly. It's a great commercial idea, it should have sold to Facebook addicts in the hundreds of millions at least.
Good comparison. So all you get down the cable is a stream of contoured mapped, heat mapped full colour video? I can see that being useful.
I wonder what would happen to a legal argument like "Hello. I've taken this device and stripped it down to the bare essentials. I have added a firewall to prevent it from connecting to any Microsoft owned server in any way. I no longer consider it to be a reasonable description of a Kinect. Now look at the cool stuff I've done with it..."
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The BeBook seems to fit the bill. It'll handle most non-DRM formats, standard USB connection, you can use it as portable storage if you wish (ie it won't play an vob file, but it'll sit there on the file system quite happily) and best of all the firmware is open source and linux based. Battery life is somewhere in "weeks" if you don't play music with it.
The original version, last time I used it, is a bit glitchy, but perfectly useable. Not used the Neo version, so I can't comment on that.
451 volts will do the job nicely...
I think you meant to say Putinux. Less +4 Insightful, but more +1 Snappy ;)
So somebody sees an advert, "saves" it and clicks on it later from within the program....who gets the advertising revenue, the original hosting site or the bloke with $8m?
If anyone's interested in, you know, the science and all that, plus the extraordinary work they've done reverse-mining fragile and expensive glass spheres in extremely cold conditions, you could do worse than check out Anil Ananthaswamy's The Edge Of Physics. There's lots of other cool stuff too, my review here.
I'm Scottish you insensitive clod...
...and for those without the cultural references, the above is a good parody of the right-wing AND prejudicial wing of the UK press. Nowt wrong with being right wing, or with recognising racial/cultural differences (I do it by making sure I don't hand money to a Muslim and/or Arab with my left hand, it's no big deal and only polite), but the references the parent is making are real, stupid and sad. Somebody mod him/her up?
Funnily enough, that's almost an identical list to the off-duty doctor who relieved a pneumothorax on a plane a few years back. Basically, a passenger suffered a collapsed lung - pressure in the chest cavity was building up, stopping the lung expanding, it can happen when there's a change in pressure.
He used vodka to sterilise the chest and equipment, cut into the chest and used a urinary catheter, plus a wire coathanger to jam it into the cavity. A condom with the closed end cut off (ie a cylinder of latex) was attached to the end of the tube and dunked in a bottle of water to create a one-way valve, allowing the air to escape without reintroducing it or any bacteria (hopefully).
True story, great hack. Saved the guy's life. Citation.
Python plugin for Blender. If the demand is there it'll happen, to whatever degree of brilliance is required.
Until one employee comes in with a "bit of a cold" because s/he is saving the sick days for some fun instead. The "cold" turns out to be flu. Then everyone is off work. If you're actually, properly ill then you shouldn't be at work for the sake of your colleagues as much as yourself. I've worked with some stinking hangovers on occasion, even with torn muscles in my back on one very painful occasion, I'm prepared to battle through, but if you're actually sick then you're actually sick.
Oh come off it, we all know it's just the Fermi-estimations of a man thinking out loud. It's not science, it is, as the summary says, punditry. Give over "exposing" it, we all know it's very, very far from rigorous or even (gasp) godlike. It exposes itself, we all know it's rubbish.
But the ideas are a good enough conversation starter, and it's a possibly important idea to be talking about. So who wants to accept that Kurzweil isn't science and discuss the idea of the technological singularity instead?
You missed the bit where they said:
...powerful engine that allows the craft to alter its orbit (much to the dismay of many observers on the ground)."
"highly classified...scheduled to land soon...very secretive on all aspects of the flight...set to touch down at Vandenberg
See what they did there? Oh man, this place is better than The Onion sometimes. And yes, an engine capable of orbital changes is easily capable of landing in northern Scotland instead of Vandenberg.
The state still has a right to stop a crime in progress where they have a reasonable right to believe it is. If they're wrong then they have to return any property they've seized and make financial amends, just as they have to if they smash your door in looking for drugs that aren't there. And yes, they need a court warrant or equivalent for either.
There's umpteen torrent sites struggling to break even by offering verified, legit traffic, so nothing of value has been lost if a site is taken down which clearly facilitates, if not hosts, dodgy stuff,
My girlfriend (yes, really! ;) ) was asking me this morning if I knew where she could buy an as-new MacBook from circa 2007. She wants a Mac but can't afford the latest model, whereas I quite happily pootle along on a £200 netbook. Seriously, Apple could make a killing by producing a really budget level MacBook rather than ever more expensive ones with...er....well I'm not entirely sure what they've introduced, but it's not as useful as, you know, a cheap portable Mac that people can afford to get them out of the Windows cycle....
Or just use the boot options to drop into a password-less root shell and reset the password from there. Yes you can, if you've got physical access to the machine.
This is a web server we're talking about. You don't put all your raw material on a webserver. Even if you want to be the new youtube, your storage space is going to be independent to your webserver. You don't put your entire IP collection on the interwebs.
Presuming this isn't more sarcasm...
The point is that a decent webspace company (what-looks-like-a-shill-but-is-just-a-happy-customer: United Hosting) will give you a whole server of your own. You can install Ruby if it's not there, run whatever scripts you want with whatever priority, hell, you can fry an egg on the machine whilst rendering your badly thought out two hour Blender movie if you want, or lock it with a missing semicolon in a failed attempt to evolve a picture of Darwin using PHP. Trust me, I've done both, badly. Still doesn't cost all that much.
Yup, agreed. You could have your webserver in-house. You'll need a safe room to lock it away in, ideally with some aircon, maybe a halon fire suppression system. Plus an UPS, obviously. And you'll probably want to hire another cupboard, with the same systems, a few hundred miles away, for an off-site backup. Oh, and make sure your ISP provides you with a sufficiently fast uplink.
Alternatively, pay someone $50-$500 dollars a year for the same. It's a no-brainer unless you've got some really, really pressing reason.
Interesting. Theoretically, energy (actually, an increase in entropy) is only required to discard information, ie clearing memory. Whilst this does limit the actual "computation" possible, a single-state machine can still contain a lot of information. Fair enough, nothing will change without a power source, but that's just an interface problem....
I can only presume this is a manifestation of Moore's Law, the curve is now so steep the computers are accelerating as they're running. Or maybe a typo ;)
I'm willing to bet that the top end is going to become less and less relevant and we're going to be judging processors more and more by the "flops-per-watt" and "flops-per-dollar" rating. We're already in a position where clusters of commercial games machines make more sense than a traditional supercomputer for many applications, and I dread to think how much energy could be harvested from these using some efficient heat exchangers.
This has nothing to do with the constitution. A good few people died in a little town called Lockerbie, a hundred miles away from where I'm typing. It was a US aircraft flying from England (different legal system to Scotland), over Scotland, brought down by what appears to have been a Libyan originating bomb. That's outside the influence of the US constitution on almost every count. Bringing an aircraft down does not just affect the country that the flight originated in. If the US removes security scans and planes start coming down then they may find themselves unable to fly through foreign airspace...again, the system evolves around the problem.
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Can you believe the various authorities actually *force* engineers to build safety margins into aircraft? And *force* aircraft to take off with enough fuel to make alternate landing sites? Can you imagine the humiliation?
When did sitting in a thin metal tube surrounded by barely controlled raging fires and flammable liquid whilst travelling thousands of miles at 30k feet become some kind of basic human right?
We're all allowed to fly without a pat-down, you just need to buy your own aircraft and get trained. One of the first things you'll be taught however, is that passengers are one of the most dangerous things on an aircraft. Even if they're not trying to take a plane down intentionally.
Personally, I would rather fly on an aircraft where I know that everybody, myself included, had been scanned. What about my rights?
Actually, I just "don't get" how they could do it so badly. It's a great commercial idea, it should have sold to Facebook addicts in the hundreds of millions at least.
Good comparison. So all you get down the cable is a stream of contoured mapped, heat mapped full colour video? I can see that being useful.
I wonder what would happen to a legal argument like "Hello. I've taken this device and stripped it down to the bare essentials. I have added a firewall to prevent it from connecting to any Microsoft owned server in any way. I no longer consider it to be a reasonable description of a Kinect. Now look at the cool stuff I've done with it..."