I'd love to see what they did to this car in the show... but the video linked in TFA has some stupid Russian(?) voice-over. Anyone happens to have a link on hand to the video in question?
Good luck! I have never gone that deep; just sticking to Java and the official API. Though C should be able to work, too.
One issue that I ran into, at least for the smartphone Android versions prior to 3.0, is no USB host support. I'd like to use just that in my app but without rooting the phone it just doesn't work. Tablets with Android 3.0 should have this support built in - for a tablet it makes more sense anyway than for a phone to have USB host. This assuming you use USB for communication with your device.
No idea about intrinsic Neon functions, or what they do. What I do know is that for an experienced programmer it should be no more than a few evenings of hacking to put together a prototype app on Android in Java. Something that will be able to talk to your device on a "hello world" level and have something resembling a working UI with buttons and all. So well why don't you just get yourself such a small tablet (at least it's a nice toy) and try it out.
Not punished as in having to pay a fine or ending up in jail.
Punished for politicians comes in the form of causing serious outrage both in and out of parliament, and (in extreme cases) the politician having to resign from his/her post.
In this case, the person in question seems to have initiated more "think of the children" types of serious privacy invasions, some resulting in legislation even. That's bad. FTA:
Tiziano Motti was a politician who just over a year ago managed to get a majority of European Members of Parliament to support the proposal to expand the data storage directive to Google searches. The purpose was to protect children from pedophiles - the same excuse he is using now.
He's in a way just an embodiment of the real problem, which is that the rest of the politicians accept such arguments. And as those very politicians are not only the current representatives of the people, but most of them will be re-elected in next elections, that means that the population at large happily accepts such serious privacy invasions "to protect children".
I don't think it's too late to switch. Cut your losses, dump what doesn't work (well), go with what has proper commercial support. Indeed off-the-shelf small tablets with a custom app may be just what you need, and probably will get you something working very fast.
I've done some Android app development myself, without having written a single line of Java before so it was a bit steep a learning curve, but with all the support out there it's really a pleasure to develop for. UI design is easy, DB support is built in, etc.
Apple is a very poor example as they always have just a few products in their current line-up. I just checked their home page - getting an enormous image of Jobs - and went to their store.
They have:
One phone. The iPhone. In one current model.
Two laptops: macbook pro and macbook air. Each with a few different models, but just a few.
The iPod - four different editions, a few models each.
The iPad2 (the original iPad is gone of course).
The Mac Pro, Mac Mini and iMac lines - each with just a few models in their line-up.
And the Apple TV.
That's pretty much their complete line-up. They keep their line-up small - so small it all fits on premium space. Besides that on the secondary shelves there are a bunch of accessories like earphones, microphones, protective covers, cables, and whatnot.
Now compare that to your average video shop where hundreds if not thousands of titles fight for attention, and where there are easily a dozen or two new releases every week that all want to be on the best shelf.
It would seem that, for whatever reason, when an industry moves online, it tends to lose retailer exclusivity. I won't speculate as to why, but it definitely seems to be the case, at least from that one data point.
I can give you some thought about that.
In a brick & mortar retailer shelf space is scarce. Premium shelf space (e.g. at eye level, next to the cash register) is even scarcer. Online there is no limit to shelf space, and premium shelf space (web site front page) can be rotated much easier so also in effect has a lot more of that. There is simply much less need for exclusive contracts between retailers and publishers. This will help a lot. The online market place being much newer and much more in development (and not fully grown yet) will help too.
The above of course doesn't only account for software or games, but for many more products.
What they're of course meaning is "commercial content made specifically for release on YouTube", like direct-to-video/DVD movies. But I don't think that needs explaining.
Yet my first reaction to that was "oh, isn't that there, yet?". Like free-to-air TV, it can be a platform to reach a large non-paying audience for content that comes with advertising, or is sponsored or whatever. There must be some kind of business model possible to make money off videos posted directly on YouTube. Without YouTube (Google) themselves investing in it directly.
10 trillion (10,000 billion) instructions in 143 seconds (just over two minutes).
Somehow I have the feeling that the calculation of one more digit of pi involves a bit more than one processor instruction. The instructions to store the result to hard disk will require more than that already. If the calculation and storage of a single number, including all overhead, amounts to just 1,000 processor instructions, then it would be one month on your icore7 already. And I wouldn't be surprised if the number of instructions required is several orders of magnitude higher. I'm sure there are people in this forum that will have a reasonable idea on that.
Hey! Without reading Slashdot we wouldn't know about those useless endeavours, let alone be able to discuss them. That in itself proves already that reading Slashdot is not a useless endeavour.
If you had read even the summary you would have known that they do not violate that provision.
They're tracking phones, no more no less. Just tracking where a phone is, using the radio signals sent by the phone. They don't listen to what the communication is, just keep track of where the signal comes from, and as such where the phone is. It's not even necessary for people to talk on the phone, just having it on is all they need for this.
Prominent signs should notify and seek consent from customers, he said.
Taking this to the letter implies that there is a way to opt out from the service... "I don't want to be tracked, please do not track this phone". Yet somehow I think that is wishful thinking, and the only way to opt out would be to switch off that phone (not that bad an idea anyway, I do it quite often), or to stay out of the malls (I already only to malls if I really have to, not as "entertainment" what many people do - particularly here in Hong Kong malls are considered a good destination for going out).
From GP I make up that Facebook uses photos where a person is tagged to create some kind of data object that they can use to find the same person in other photos (as has been discussed here before). This data is a representation of a fact, and as such copyrightable, and I think it can be considered a trade secret. The trade secret part being how this facial recognition is done.
Too long teeth and they can not eat anymore. As they can not open their mouth far enough to create space in between their teeth... I used to keep guinea pigs, they would eat their cage (the wooden part). Failing that, they would gnaw on the metal bars.
Rats and other rodents will chew on anything soft enough to chew on.
Many such cables will come with protective layers because of that. Underseas cables (different scale, same idea) have a protective metal sheet in the insulation, and often bite marks of sharks or other big stuff have been found on cables.
The thing that surprised me at first is that there was apparently no redundancy. Though upon reading TFA it seems about 100 customers were affected, so the outage is not that big, and the area affected can be so small that it's simply not worth laying a second cable as backup. As in: you have only one cable going from your home to the neighbourhood switch. And that neighbourhood switch likely has only one upstream cable again. Only when it's getting big enough the second uplink comes in play.
Spamassassin in default configuration uses Spamhaus as one of several RBLs, but just being listed on Spamhaus is not enough to be blocked. It adds 2-3 points to the spam score, and 5 points are needed. Other RBLs are used as well, as is other scoring. It is just one of many bits. Relying on a single RBL to block mail without further thought is a bad idea of course.
Another poster mentioned that the exercise is around a group of uninhabited island. So that shouldn't be too much of an issue. Not too many inhabitants to be inconvenienced by temporarily shutting down those services.
There are not enough fishing grounds to go around as it is.
True, but the reason for that is that there are too many fishermen that are doing their utmost best to scrape the last edible bits out of the ocean, having already caused the collapse of most commercially interesting species. That is the real problem. That they have an issue with having a bit of sea closed off for a short while is just a symptom of the underlying problems.
A major military exercise... and they do not close those waters for the week or two these drills last?
Civilian ships should stay the hell out of there. Stay well away from those war ships, they're in exercise, and may perform unpredictable maneuvers. There may be small craft out there. Projectiles flying around.
If a ship comes within GPS jammed range then they're way too close to begin with I'd say. Yes this may cause some inconvenience to some fishermen or other seamen, but the ocean is big. Plenty of other places to sail to.
This toy could be like legos. My son started playing with legos when he was about 2 yo (before that it was the bigger version, Duplo), and over past few years his designs really start to look like more than just a bigger brick or so. As an adult likely he still enjoys it, I know I do. It's a toy for all ages.
This printer sounds very much the same. At 10yo they may start making simple designs, adults possibly using more sophisticated software can make virtually anything with it. If the material it's printed with is somewhat strong I can imagine using it to create custom parts for other projects, for example. Or even replacement parts for broken bits of other toys.
Possibilities are endless of course. Non-toxic material not just makes it safe for kids, it makes it safe for normal homes to begin with. A price of US$800 may be cheap for a 3D printer, it's still a hefty chunk of money. Likely to get cheaper in time fast if they're successful in making it, and starting to mass produce it. The material is another matter: TFA talked about US$40-400/kg for the plastic, that's very expensive of course, and must become much cheaper for this to seriously become a toy. But then again when volume goes up, manufacturing cost goes down.
For me on a new installation the first extension to install in FF is Flashblock. Not because it stops ads, but because it stops flashing stuff. Most Flash based ads flash, move, or are otherwise very distracting. To the point that I literally can not read the article text as the ad is too distracting. And resizing the window doesn't always work, and to do so all the time is laborious at best.
Another big plus of Flashblock is that it stops irritating background music. So I don't have to keep my speakers switched off all the time and so.
AdBlockPlus suddenly becomes far less important. The rest of the ads are generally static, animated gifs are getting rare as they are replaced with Flash. Google's text ads are totally acceptable to me, as they simply don't distract.
Mmm... i was just looking at the upcoming Ubuntu 11.10 where Thunderbird replaces Evolution.
Then I read a review of a pre-release version written in August, saying TB is a great replacement of "the more limited Evolution". That was an interesting remark. If that is so, then TB really has come a long way over the year or two since I last tried it out. At the time I looked at TB as I don't really like Evolution, and it appeared the best alternative. Very soon I ditched TB for simply not working well and to this day am using Evolution for my e-mail needs.
Indeed. There has been at least one story here on/. a few years ago detailing how in some cases the missing words could be recovered. In that case a document where place names (cities or countries, I forgot) were removed.
They were recovered by precisely measuring the distance between the non-blacked-out words, the size of the letters of the font used, and then mixing and matching until you found a word (name) that had the correct length in that font. Usually a few matches were found but from the context the correct one was easily deduced.
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I'd love to see what they did to this car in the show... but the video linked in TFA has some stupid Russian(?) voice-over. Anyone happens to have a link on hand to the video in question?
Good luck! I have never gone that deep; just sticking to Java and the official API. Though C should be able to work, too.
One issue that I ran into, at least for the smartphone Android versions prior to 3.0, is no USB host support. I'd like to use just that in my app but without rooting the phone it just doesn't work. Tablets with Android 3.0 should have this support built in - for a tablet it makes more sense anyway than for a phone to have USB host. This assuming you use USB for communication with your device.
No idea about intrinsic Neon functions, or what they do. What I do know is that for an experienced programmer it should be no more than a few evenings of hacking to put together a prototype app on Android in Java. Something that will be able to talk to your device on a "hello world" level and have something resembling a working UI with buttons and all. So well why don't you just get yourself such a small tablet (at least it's a nice toy) and try it out.
Not punished as in having to pay a fine or ending up in jail.
Punished for politicians comes in the form of causing serious outrage both in and out of parliament, and (in extreme cases) the politician having to resign from his/her post.
In this case, the person in question seems to have initiated more "think of the children" types of serious privacy invasions, some resulting in legislation even. That's bad. FTA:
Tiziano Motti was a politician who just over a year ago managed to get a majority of European Members of Parliament to support the proposal to expand the data storage directive to Google searches. The purpose was to protect children from pedophiles - the same excuse he is using now.
He's in a way just an embodiment of the real problem, which is that the rest of the politicians accept such arguments. And as those very politicians are not only the current representatives of the people, but most of them will be re-elected in next elections, that means that the population at large happily accepts such serious privacy invasions "to protect children".
The fact that someone at that level can fly a kite like that, and get away with it, is worrisome enough to me.
I'm sure there will be someone out there selling rugged versions of those 7" tablets too. Just like there are rugged versions of laptops in all sizes.
I don't think it's too late to switch. Cut your losses, dump what doesn't work (well), go with what has proper commercial support. Indeed off-the-shelf small tablets with a custom app may be just what you need, and probably will get you something working very fast.
I've done some Android app development myself, without having written a single line of Java before so it was a bit steep a learning curve, but with all the support out there it's really a pleasure to develop for. UI design is easy, DB support is built in, etc.
Apple is a very poor example as they always have just a few products in their current line-up. I just checked their home page - getting an enormous image of Jobs - and went to their store.
They have:
One phone. The iPhone. In one current model.
Two laptops: macbook pro and macbook air. Each with a few different models, but just a few.
The iPod - four different editions, a few models each.
The iPad2 (the original iPad is gone of course).
The Mac Pro, Mac Mini and iMac lines - each with just a few models in their line-up.
And the Apple TV.
That's pretty much their complete line-up. They keep their line-up small - so small it all fits on premium space. Besides that on the secondary shelves there are a bunch of accessories like earphones, microphones, protective covers, cables, and whatnot.
Now compare that to your average video shop where hundreds if not thousands of titles fight for attention, and where there are easily a dozen or two new releases every week that all want to be on the best shelf.
It would seem that, for whatever reason, when an industry moves online, it tends to lose retailer exclusivity. I won't speculate as to why, but it definitely seems to be the case, at least from that one data point.
I can give you some thought about that.
In a brick & mortar retailer shelf space is scarce. Premium shelf space (e.g. at eye level, next to the cash register) is even scarcer. Online there is no limit to shelf space, and premium shelf space (web site front page) can be rotated much easier so also in effect has a lot more of that. There is simply much less need for exclusive contracts between retailers and publishers. This will help a lot. The online market place being much newer and much more in development (and not fully grown yet) will help too.
The above of course doesn't only account for software or games, but for many more products.
What they're of course meaning is "commercial content made specifically for release on YouTube", like direct-to-video/DVD movies. But I don't think that needs explaining.
Yet my first reaction to that was "oh, isn't that there, yet?". Like free-to-air TV, it can be a platform to reach a large non-paying audience for content that comes with advertising, or is sponsored or whatever. There must be some kind of business model possible to make money off videos posted directly on YouTube. Without YouTube (Google) themselves investing in it directly.
70 billion instructions per second.
10 trillion (10,000 billion) instructions in 143 seconds (just over two minutes).
Somehow I have the feeling that the calculation of one more digit of pi involves a bit more than one processor instruction. The instructions to store the result to hard disk will require more than that already. If the calculation and storage of a single number, including all overhead, amounts to just 1,000 processor instructions, then it would be one month on your icore7 already. And I wouldn't be surprised if the number of instructions required is several orders of magnitude higher. I'm sure there are people in this forum that will have a reasonable idea on that.
Hey! Without reading Slashdot we wouldn't know about those useless endeavours, let alone be able to discuss them. That in itself proves already that reading Slashdot is not a useless endeavour.
If you had read even the summary you would have known that they do not violate that provision.
They're tracking phones, no more no less. Just tracking where a phone is, using the radio signals sent by the phone. They don't listen to what the communication is, just keep track of where the signal comes from, and as such where the phone is. It's not even necessary for people to talk on the phone, just having it on is all they need for this.
Prominent signs should notify and seek consent from customers, he said.
Taking this to the letter implies that there is a way to opt out from the service... "I don't want to be tracked, please do not track this phone". Yet somehow I think that is wishful thinking, and the only way to opt out would be to switch off that phone (not that bad an idea anyway, I do it quite often), or to stay out of the malls (I already only to malls if I really have to, not as "entertainment" what many people do - particularly here in Hong Kong malls are considered a good destination for going out).
So what're you going to do about it?
Walk across the border to New Zealand?
Stop buying stuff and starve to death?
From GP I make up that Facebook uses photos where a person is tagged to create some kind of data object that they can use to find the same person in other photos (as has been discussed here before). This data is a representation of a fact, and as such copyrightable, and I think it can be considered a trade secret. The trade secret part being how this facial recognition is done.
Too long teeth and they can not eat anymore. As they can not open their mouth far enough to create space in between their teeth... I used to keep guinea pigs, they would eat their cage (the wooden part). Failing that, they would gnaw on the metal bars.
Rats and other rodents will chew on anything soft enough to chew on.
Many such cables will come with protective layers because of that. Underseas cables (different scale, same idea) have a protective metal sheet in the insulation, and often bite marks of sharks or other big stuff have been found on cables.
The thing that surprised me at first is that there was apparently no redundancy. Though upon reading TFA it seems about 100 customers were affected, so the outage is not that big, and the area affected can be so small that it's simply not worth laying a second cable as backup. As in: you have only one cable going from your home to the neighbourhood switch. And that neighbourhood switch likely has only one upstream cable again. Only when it's getting big enough the second uplink comes in play.
Spamassassin in default configuration uses Spamhaus as one of several RBLs, but just being listed on Spamhaus is not enough to be blocked. It adds 2-3 points to the spam score, and 5 points are needed. Other RBLs are used as well, as is other scoring. It is just one of many bits. Relying on a single RBL to block mail without further thought is a bad idea of course.
Another poster mentioned that the exercise is around a group of uninhabited island. So that shouldn't be too much of an issue. Not too many inhabitants to be inconvenienced by temporarily shutting down those services.
There are not enough fishing grounds to go around as it is.
True, but the reason for that is that there are too many fishermen that are doing their utmost best to scrape the last edible bits out of the ocean, having already caused the collapse of most commercially interesting species. That is the real problem. That they have an issue with having a bit of sea closed off for a short while is just a symptom of the underlying problems.
A major military exercise... and they do not close those waters for the week or two these drills last?
Civilian ships should stay the hell out of there. Stay well away from those war ships, they're in exercise, and may perform unpredictable maneuvers. There may be small craft out there. Projectiles flying around.
If a ship comes within GPS jammed range then they're way too close to begin with I'd say. Yes this may cause some inconvenience to some fishermen or other seamen, but the ocean is big. Plenty of other places to sail to.
Agreed, me too.
This toy could be like legos. My son started playing with legos when he was about 2 yo (before that it was the bigger version, Duplo), and over past few years his designs really start to look like more than just a bigger brick or so. As an adult likely he still enjoys it, I know I do. It's a toy for all ages.
This printer sounds very much the same. At 10yo they may start making simple designs, adults possibly using more sophisticated software can make virtually anything with it. If the material it's printed with is somewhat strong I can imagine using it to create custom parts for other projects, for example. Or even replacement parts for broken bits of other toys.
Possibilities are endless of course. Non-toxic material not just makes it safe for kids, it makes it safe for normal homes to begin with. A price of US$800 may be cheap for a 3D printer, it's still a hefty chunk of money. Likely to get cheaper in time fast if they're successful in making it, and starting to mass produce it. The material is another matter: TFA talked about US$40-400/kg for the plastic, that's very expensive of course, and must become much cheaper for this to seriously become a toy. But then again when volume goes up, manufacturing cost goes down.
For me on a new installation the first extension to install in FF is Flashblock. Not because it stops ads, but because it stops flashing stuff. Most Flash based ads flash, move, or are otherwise very distracting. To the point that I literally can not read the article text as the ad is too distracting. And resizing the window doesn't always work, and to do so all the time is laborious at best.
Another big plus of Flashblock is that it stops irritating background music. So I don't have to keep my speakers switched off all the time and so.
AdBlockPlus suddenly becomes far less important. The rest of the ads are generally static, animated gifs are getting rare as they are replaced with Flash. Google's text ads are totally acceptable to me, as they simply don't distract.
Mmm... i was just looking at the upcoming Ubuntu 11.10 where Thunderbird replaces Evolution.
Then I read a review of a pre-release version written in August, saying TB is a great replacement of "the more limited Evolution". That was an interesting remark. If that is so, then TB really has come a long way over the year or two since I last tried it out. At the time I looked at TB as I don't really like Evolution, and it appeared the best alternative. Very soon I ditched TB for simply not working well and to this day am using Evolution for my e-mail needs.
Indeed. There has been at least one story here on /. a few years ago detailing how in some cases the missing words could be recovered. In that case a document where place names (cities or countries, I forgot) were removed.
They were recovered by precisely measuring the distance between the non-blacked-out words, the size of the letters of the font used, and then mixing and matching until you found a word (name) that had the correct length in that font. Usually a few matches were found but from the context the correct one was easily deduced.