The end user just needs to Feel comfortable. Once a user gets into a web browser, they don't really care about the OS. Something like this would be great for hotel lobbies (with free internet), libraries, and other public access sites.
My wife (a linux hater) used it in a hotel lobby to print out some airline tickets. She had no idea it was Linux, but I noticed the differences. She had a great experience (managed to get her items printed out without an issue), and just assumed it was a windows machine.
Her view of the hotel improved because of a simple amenity that helped her out. The hotel had a PC without a costly OS, saving them money. I can easily see the value in something like this.
They just can't use the DMCA in their defense. They may find some other loophole to prosecute you, and they may still brick your phone with some kind of firmware update.
Con Edison blind-tested the team’s model by withholding information on a recent set of fires and explosions. The top 2 percent of manholes ranked as vulnerable by the algorithm included 11 percent of the manholes that had recently had a fire or explosion, Rudin notes.
According to the article, there are about 51,000 manholes in New York. A few hundred explosions occur every year. (Lets say 300). So the algorithm listed (51,000*.02)=1020 manholes that were high risk. Out of that 1020 manholes, they were correct on (300*.11)=33 manholes.
In my industry, we would call this a complete failure. Even the weather forecaster would call this a failure. It reminds me of Demolition Man
Chief George Earle: We can just wait for another code to go red. And when Phoenix performs another Murder Death Kill, we'll know exactly where to pounce. John Spartan: [sarcastic] Great plan. Chief George Earle: [not realising the sarcasm] Thank you. Erwin: He likes your plan, Chief!
Gotta give some props to Google and their "Don't be Evil".
They could have tried to sweep this under the rug, pay people off, and play politics as usual. Instead, they have fully released all of the information, encouraging multiple countries to investigate them.
They could have used multiple underhanded moves to prevent this kind of investigation, but they didn't.
The problem is that they are adults, but they don't act like it. All to often, a student will get a bad grade and complain that the professor just doesn't like them. The student begs the prof for extra credit, and if they don't get it, they cry to mommy. Then, the parents come along and scream at the dean until the grade is changed. This is becoming a MAJOR issue at most universities.
If they log the attendance, they have something to show the parents proving that the student is just being delinquent.
Everything has warning signs, so people are used to assuming things are safe unless posted otherwise. The city museum is slightly different. You have to assume (slightly) dangerous. If your kid can't handle a Steep slide, don't let them on it.
It took me a while to grasp the concept, let go and have fun. I have hit my head, I have almost gotten stuck, but that is why it is a Must See for any guest that visits St. Louis.
Thanks to everyone shutting down factories during the recession, there is a severe shortage of analog parts, electrolytic capacitors, and some FET's. It is typical to see a 4-8 week lead time on an order of 20k. A 16 week lead time makes you Very uncomfortable and you start looking for second sources or redesigns.
Some analog/digital companies are shipping at 16-24 week lead times. Some electrolytic capacitors are at a 40 week lead time. And at least one major company stopped accepting new orders. In the mean time, some distributors are starting bidding wars on parts that they do have.
Right now, demand is far greater than the supply. It is going to be at least another year before prices start to come down.
Their business model right now is to get a story/leak, present it to the top news agencies, and sell it for a large sum of money. That is one way they are staying funded.
Saying they have something might drum up interest from the media, allowing Wikileaks the chance to get more $$.
Circuit City did the same thing when it went bankrupt. It sold all of its user data to other companies. This is just another sign that MySpace is dying. (I went to Microcenter (AMAZING STORE! Better than Newegg!) and bought something. They already had my information and informed me that they bought it from Circuit City. I don't really mind, but it was still strange.)
1.) Tithe at church 2.) Trying to reimburse a friend/family member for more than $50 3.) Paying my gas bill. (That stupid company charges $3 for internet payments. Jerks) 4.) Setting up my direct deposit at work
I use a check fairly regularly. Credit card companies still charge a fee per transaction, so not all retailers accept them. (The dry cleaners near my home doesn't accept credit cards, and I'm in a major city).
I hate checks. I wish they would disappear, but I haven't seen a great alternative.
I tried. It has been 3 months without a desktop and counting.
Unless you want to get a high-end gaming rig, just don't do it. I tried to do a desktop for about $600 (re-using my monitors), and while my parts came under the cost, it still doesn't work.
I tried soo hard to make everything compatible. I even spent extra time reading all of the reviews, buying brand-name hardware, I even read every product manuals before purchasing. I work as an electrical design engineer, so I figured this should be relatively easy. I have built 4 other computers before, so how hard could it be.
3 MONTHS. $50 in shipping/RMA/Thermal Grease/ect. 50 hours of my life. Gone. If I would have bought a Dell, I would be up and running by now. Endless hours working with customer service representitives, nobody able to tell me how to resolve it.
XP/Vista: Can't install (BSOD when trying to boot into the install) XP on a pre-installed HDD: BSOD during the boot cycle (Possibly on the agp driver dll.) Windows 7: Can install, but won't boot 90% of the time (BSOD during boot. Usually talking about an instruction trying to access memory that is out of bounds, but the BSOD varies). (Legit version of windows 7) RMA mobo twice (once to newegg, once to Gigabyte). RMA'd the ram once. Bought different brand of RAM. Ubuntu: Works fine, but I can't install my $$ CAD/Schematic programs.
RAM: F3-12800CL9D-4GBNQ (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231193) MOBO: GIGABYTE GA-MA770T-UD3P (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128392) CPU: AMD Phenom X2 550 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819103680) Video: Radeon HD 4650 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102843) Power Supply: OCZ ModXStream Pro 600 watts (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817341017)
There is NO REASON that these parts shouldn't work together. I'm about to throw $650 down the drain and buy a dell because I can't solve this problem. I'm going out to buy a crappy video card and make sure it isn't somehow related to that, but again I will be throwing away $30.
There is no reason to build a PC unless you are going for a high end gaming machine. It is not worth the frustration. Sure, I may be a fringe case, but do YOU want to risk being a fringe case that customer service doesn't care about.
Call or email customer service "Well, we can't figure it out, go to www.RMA_THIS_CRAP.com to return the part" Spend $10 on shipping Wait 3 weeks Install the hardware, update the OS and drivers (takes about 5 hours to get everything up and running again) get the same problem. Cry rinse, repeat
Wind was okay until it became a meaningful competitor to the carbon dioxide-producing entities
Article:
And last week, four senators representing New York, Ohio, Montana and Pennsylvania proposed to deny federal clean energy grants to wind developers that buy blades, turbines and other components from abroad.
"It is a no-brainer that stimulus funds should only go to projects that create jobs in the United States rather than overseas," Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said, pointing at a proposed Texas wind farm whose backers include a Chinese power company.
They had one paragraph about the natural gas generators complaining about being used as a backup for the unreliable wind farms and wanting to charge more money to act as a backup service. The majority of the article is focused on international and stimulus politics: Should stimulus funds be spent on foreign technologies, or should they only be used on local (US) companies. How much of the company must be in the US before it is considered a local technology?
Another misleading summary intended to promote controversy.
I have gotten 2 separate messages from two different banks/credit card agencies saying they have had a security breach and my information may have been stolen. I simply don't believe that there is anything that I can do to protect myself from this kind of theft, so I just assume that I will get robbed at some point.
No matter what I do, I have a high risk of being screwed by some company that is storing my information, or some disgruntled employee grabbing my information from an apartment/car/internet/cell phone/cable/gym membership/insurance/credit card application. Javascript exploits are very low on my concern list.
Security features are nice, but they aren't a selling point. I won't change browsers to prevent tracking cookies. I don't know that much about javascript, and I don't mind most of the ads that I see. Ad block plus has been doing just fine with the pop-ups, and I don't care about those other things.
Translating foreign pages? That is interesting. I run into a fair amount of Chinese datasheets.
Just give me the web page as fast as possible, and keep my videos as smooth as possible. After that, I don't really care.
As a user of these software programs, I can tell you how they are Really used: PHD Uses matlab and simulink to create their motor control algorithms. They port program to the processor of choice and test their algorithm. Once their algorithm is proved, the firmware engineer uses that code as a template. They re-write all the code to play nicely with the other required code and to improve efficiency. (WTF? Another Memcopy? GARGH! Stop hogging all of my cycles!)
It is a great program for a rapid prototype and proof-of-concept, but it totally fails on actual implementation. I have been to a few microcontroller workshops where people have told the horror stories about the atrocious code created by these programs. In the end, it is just not production quality code.
From what I understand, the slashdot submission process could be modified to include an automatic filter for blacklisted sites. Couldn't news aggregator (such as Slashdot) ban Infoworld? While you are at it, block that website that posts biased game reviews.
No, I wouldn't use one in my phone - but I would ABSOLUTELY use one in my PDA.
1.) I'm going to the lab and a co-worker stops me to ask about a hardware issue. There is no Way I can read a schematic on a PDA. But, if I could project it onto a surface, I wouldn't have to go upstairs to my main PC to open the schematic 2.) I'm sitting on an airplane wanting to watch a movie. Pulling out a laptop is pretty freaking annoying, but this could project it onto the seat in front of me. 3.) Games. Finally I can play a video game on my phone. 4.) You have a plumbing issue. You take a picture of the part, take it to the store, project it so the person behind the counter can see it, and they give you the right item. 5.) You are meeting some new friends. "Oh! I have a dog! Here is their picture"... and you look at it on a tiny screen and go "What kind of dog Is that?" Or, take out a projector and actually show a decent picture of your dog/family/car/house/injury/vacation/logo/design
There are MANY reasons that I would want this on my PDA. Oh, and it would be great if my PDA acted like a cell phone.
Brand owners - often in the high-end or luxury segment - say the provision is necessary to stop so-called free riders, competitors who benefit from promotions carried out by brand name companies, shifting stock online on the back of advertising of a brand's products and services.
Because "free riders" do not have to pay for the costs of a shop and related overheads, they can frequently offer brand-name products over the Internet at discounted prices.
"The purpose of a brick-and-mortar shop provision is to help retailers invest in luxury shops," said Antoine Winkler, a partner at law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton who represents several brand name companies.
I'm slightly confused. Are they doing this to help the brick-and-mortar stores? Are they doing this to help the brands? I'm confused. It sounds like they are trying to take down low-overhead companies because they are too efficient. Does anyone know why this would be a good idea?
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The Fart App is the new Hello World!
You have to get experience writing for a platform somehow. Your first few programs may be throw-away, just to get used to the platform.
The end user just needs to Feel comfortable. Once a user gets into a web browser, they don't really care about the OS. Something like this would be great for hotel lobbies (with free internet), libraries, and other public access sites.
My wife (a linux hater) used it in a hotel lobby to print out some airline tickets. She had no idea it was Linux, but I noticed the differences. She had a great experience (managed to get her items printed out without an issue), and just assumed it was a windows machine.
Her view of the hotel improved because of a simple amenity that helped her out. The hotel had a PC without a costly OS, saving them money. I can easily see the value in something like this.
They just can't use the DMCA in their defense. They may find some other loophole to prosecute you, and they may still brick your phone with some kind of firmware update.
Was Sony involved?
Con Edison blind-tested the team’s model by withholding information on a recent set of fires and explosions. The top 2 percent of manholes ranked as vulnerable by the algorithm included 11 percent of the manholes that had recently had a fire or explosion, Rudin notes.
According to the article, there are about 51,000 manholes in New York. A few hundred explosions occur every year. (Lets say 300). So the algorithm listed (51,000*.02)=1020 manholes that were high risk. Out of that 1020 manholes, they were correct on (300*.11)=33 manholes.
In my industry, we would call this a complete failure. Even the weather forecaster would call this a failure. It reminds me of Demolition Man
Chief George Earle: We can just wait for another code to go red. And when Phoenix performs another Murder Death Kill, we'll know exactly where to pounce.
John Spartan: [sarcastic] Great plan.
Chief George Earle: [not realising the sarcasm] Thank you.
Erwin: He likes your plan, Chief!
Gotta give some props to Google and their "Don't be Evil".
They could have tried to sweep this under the rug, pay people off, and play politics as usual. Instead, they have fully released all of the information, encouraging multiple countries to investigate them.
They could have used multiple underhanded moves to prevent this kind of investigation, but they didn't.
Good Job, Google.
The problem is that they are adults, but they don't act like it. All to often, a student will get a bad grade and complain that the professor just doesn't like them. The student begs the prof for extra credit, and if they don't get it, they cry to mommy. Then, the parents come along and scream at the dean until the grade is changed. This is becoming a MAJOR issue at most universities.
If they log the attendance, they have something to show the parents proving that the student is just being delinquent.
Everything has warning signs, so people are used to assuming things are safe unless posted otherwise. The city museum is slightly different. You have to assume (slightly) dangerous. If your kid can't handle a Steep slide, don't let them on it.
It took me a while to grasp the concept, let go and have fun. I have hit my head, I have almost gotten stuck, but that is why it is a Must See for any guest that visits St. Louis.
Thanks to everyone shutting down factories during the recession, there is a severe shortage of analog parts, electrolytic capacitors, and some FET's. It is typical to see a 4-8 week lead time on an order of 20k. A 16 week lead time makes you Very uncomfortable and you start looking for second sources or redesigns.
Some analog/digital companies are shipping at 16-24 week lead times.
Some electrolytic capacitors are at a 40 week lead time.
And at least one major company stopped accepting new orders.
In the mean time, some distributors are starting bidding wars on parts that they do have.
Right now, demand is far greater than the supply. It is going to be at least another year before prices start to come down.
RTFA.
A guy found it, played around with it, and the phone was remotely deactivated. He probably contacted Gizmoto and sold it to them.
Doesn't matter if they are dairy cows. Exercised cows = happy cows = better milk.
A caveAdmin could do it!
So... It was stolen data?
Their business model right now is to get a story/leak, present it to the top news agencies, and sell it for a large sum of money. That is one way they are staying funded.
Saying they have something might drum up interest from the media, allowing Wikileaks the chance to get more $$.
Circuit City did the same thing when it went bankrupt. It sold all of its user data to other companies. This is just another sign that MySpace is dying.
(I went to Microcenter (AMAZING STORE! Better than Newegg!) and bought something. They already had my information and informed me that they bought it from Circuit City. I don't really mind, but it was still strange.)
1.) Tithe at church
2.) Trying to reimburse a friend/family member for more than $50
3.) Paying my gas bill. (That stupid company charges $3 for internet payments. Jerks)
4.) Setting up my direct deposit at work
I use a check fairly regularly. Credit card companies still charge a fee per transaction, so not all retailers accept them. (The dry cleaners near my home doesn't accept credit cards, and I'm in a major city).
I hate checks. I wish they would disappear, but I haven't seen a great alternative.
Yet.
I tried. It has been 3 months without a desktop and counting.
Unless you want to get a high-end gaming rig, just don't do it. I tried to do a desktop for about $600 (re-using my monitors), and while my parts came under the cost, it still doesn't work.
I tried soo hard to make everything compatible. I even spent extra time reading all of the reviews, buying brand-name hardware, I even read every product manuals before purchasing. I work as an electrical design engineer, so I figured this should be relatively easy. I have built 4 other computers before, so how hard could it be.
3 MONTHS. $50 in shipping/RMA/Thermal Grease/ect. 50 hours of my life. Gone. If I would have bought a Dell, I would be up and running by now. Endless hours working with customer service representitives, nobody able to tell me how to resolve it.
XP/Vista: Can't install (BSOD when trying to boot into the install)
XP on a pre-installed HDD: BSOD during the boot cycle (Possibly on the agp driver dll.)
Windows 7: Can install, but won't boot 90% of the time (BSOD during boot. Usually talking about an instruction trying to access memory that is out of bounds, but the BSOD varies). (Legit version of windows 7)
RMA mobo twice (once to newegg, once to Gigabyte). RMA'd the ram once. Bought different brand of RAM.
Ubuntu: Works fine, but I can't install my $$ CAD/Schematic programs.
RAM: F3-12800CL9D-4GBNQ (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231193)
MOBO: GIGABYTE GA-MA770T-UD3P (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128392)
CPU: AMD Phenom X2 550 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819103680)
Video: Radeon HD 4650 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102843)
Power Supply: OCZ ModXStream Pro 600 watts (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817341017)
There is NO REASON that these parts shouldn't work together. I'm about to throw $650 down the drain and buy a dell because I can't solve this problem. I'm going out to buy a crappy video card and make sure it isn't somehow related to that, but again I will be throwing away $30.
There is no reason to build a PC unless you are going for a high end gaming machine. It is not worth the frustration. Sure, I may be a fringe case, but do YOU want to risk being a fringe case that customer service doesn't care about.
Call or email customer service
"Well, we can't figure it out, go to www.RMA_THIS_CRAP.com to return the part"
Spend $10 on shipping
Wait 3 weeks
Install the hardware, update the OS and drivers (takes about 5 hours to get everything up and running again)
get the same problem.
Cry
rinse, repeat
Summary:
Wind was okay until it became a meaningful competitor to the carbon dioxide-producing entities
Article:
And last week, four senators representing New York, Ohio, Montana and Pennsylvania proposed to deny federal clean energy grants to wind developers that buy blades, turbines and other components from abroad.
"It is a no-brainer that stimulus funds should only go to projects that create jobs in the United States rather than overseas," Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said, pointing at a proposed Texas wind farm whose backers include a Chinese power company.
They had one paragraph about the natural gas generators complaining about being used as a backup for the unreliable wind farms and wanting to charge more money to act as a backup service.
The majority of the article is focused on international and stimulus politics: Should stimulus funds be spent on foreign technologies, or should they only be used on local (US) companies. How much of the company must be in the US before it is considered a local technology?
Another misleading summary intended to promote controversy.
I have gotten 2 separate messages from two different banks/credit card agencies saying they have had a security breach and my information may have been stolen. I simply don't believe that there is anything that I can do to protect myself from this kind of theft, so I just assume that I will get robbed at some point.
No matter what I do, I have a high risk of being screwed by some company that is storing my information, or some disgruntled employee grabbing my information from an apartment/car/internet/cell phone/cable/gym membership/insurance/credit card application. Javascript exploits are very low on my concern list.
Security features are nice, but they aren't a selling point. I won't change browsers to prevent tracking cookies. I don't know that much about javascript, and I don't mind most of the ads that I see. Ad block plus has been doing just fine with the pop-ups, and I don't care about those other things.
Translating foreign pages? That is interesting. I run into a fair amount of Chinese datasheets.
Just give me the web page as fast as possible, and keep my videos as smooth as possible. After that, I don't really care.
As a user of these software programs, I can tell you how they are Really used:
PHD Uses matlab and simulink to create their motor control algorithms. They port program to the processor of choice and test their algorithm.
Once their algorithm is proved, the firmware engineer uses that code as a template. They re-write all the code to play nicely with the other required code and to improve efficiency. (WTF? Another Memcopy? GARGH! Stop hogging all of my cycles!)
It is a great program for a rapid prototype and proof-of-concept, but it totally fails on actual implementation. I have been to a few microcontroller workshops where people have told the horror stories about the atrocious code created by these programs. In the end, it is just not production quality code.
From what I understand, the slashdot submission process could be modified to include an automatic filter for blacklisted sites. Couldn't news aggregator (such as Slashdot) ban Infoworld? While you are at it, block that website that posts biased game reviews.
The original clip that specified Mike and Ikes.:
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/tech/WebcamGate_Family_s_Attorney___Who_Has_Access__Philadelphia.html
No, I wouldn't use one in my phone - but I would ABSOLUTELY use one in my PDA.
1.) I'm going to the lab and a co-worker stops me to ask about a hardware issue. There is no Way I can read a schematic on a PDA. But, if I could project it onto a surface, I wouldn't have to go upstairs to my main PC to open the schematic
2.) I'm sitting on an airplane wanting to watch a movie. Pulling out a laptop is pretty freaking annoying, but this could project it onto the seat in front of me.
3.) Games. Finally I can play a video game on my phone.
4.) You have a plumbing issue. You take a picture of the part, take it to the store, project it so the person behind the counter can see it, and they give you the right item.
5.) You are meeting some new friends. "Oh! I have a dog! Here is their picture"... and you look at it on a tiny screen and go "What kind of dog Is that?" Or, take out a projector and actually show a decent picture of your dog/family/car/house/injury/vacation/logo/design
There are MANY reasons that I would want this on my PDA. Oh, and it would be great if my PDA acted like a cell phone.
From the article
Brand owners - often in the high-end or luxury segment - say the provision is necessary to stop so-called free riders, competitors who benefit from promotions carried out by brand name companies, shifting stock online on the back of advertising of a brand's products and services.
Because "free riders" do not have to pay for the costs of a shop and related overheads, they can frequently offer brand-name products over the Internet at discounted prices.
"The purpose of a brick-and-mortar shop provision is to help retailers invest in luxury shops," said Antoine Winkler, a partner at law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton who represents several brand name companies.
I'm slightly confused. Are they doing this to help the brick-and-mortar stores? Are they doing this to help the brands? I'm confused. It sounds like they are trying to take down low-overhead companies because they are too efficient. Does anyone know why this would be a good idea?