WebOS is a really good OS. I grabbed one of those HP Touchpads and was very impressed by the OS. But...there aren't any good Apps for it. And I don't see why anyone would want to start writing them. At this point it's basically a two horse race - iOS and Android. It would be nice to see a WebOS update for my Touchpad but I'm not holding my breath.
You are aware that there is a Cyanogenmod version of Android for the Touchpad. I loaded Android on the Touchpads that I bought for Christmas presents during the fire sale. It works well. The last problem that needed to be solved was getting the camera working. I believe that this may have been finally resolved for Cyanogenmod v9.
The original WII was exciting as it was the first game console with direct user input through body motion using controllers. It made certain games easy to play, no matter what age. The WII U did not have enough new features or functionality to want those with the original WII to upgrade. In addition, between the WII and the WII U, tablets with long battery life became popular. You can play simple games, access the internet, catch up on email, facebook, etc. Tablets have much more capabilities that the WII.
For casual gamers, smartphones and tablets are now the new platform. For gamers, the XBox, PS3, and PC are the platforms of choice. The WII U just doesn't have a clear niche. If Nintendo wants to survive, they either have to convert their platform into a tablet version (i.e. a WII tablet game system) or they have to come out with a real console.
The class ratings from reputable vendors tend to be reliable, but you don't always get this from lesser known manufacturers. Most Class 10 cards get at least Class 6 performance.
A Class 10 32 GB SDHC card costs $33 or less. The same card at Class 6 costs $25 or less, a whopping $8 in savings. Most people buy one card and leave it in their camera except to transfer photos to the PC to upload to Facbook, etc. Is it really advisable to recommend that people save $8 for a one-time purchase of a memory card? I think not!!
See, I don't necessarily agree. Every time I spend much money on something like a vacation trip, I wind up really frustrated and stressed for months after the fact,realizing that all that money is gone with nothing to show for it except some photos.
If that's all that you end up with after a vacation, then you're not doing it right...
Most of my vacations are adventures. My trips are to places that I have never been before. I don't mind checking out the tourist spots, but I usually like to explore off the beaten track, experience new cultures, and find out what or who is just around the corner. I learn and grow with each trip/adventure, which is worth more to me than the money spent.
I agree that you can have great adventures in your home country, city, etc. People often don't see what they have right under their noses.
I haven't found anything even close to a justification for my owning a tablet, I don't like e-books thus no need for an e-reader, and dataplans from wireless companies are a huge rip-off so far as I'm concerned, so I'd rather just have a plain-old phone, not a smartphone anyway. When tablet computers are down below $100 (or I can just instruct the matter replicator to spit one out for me) then maybe I'll get one, but still I tend to not buy things I don't have a use for, and I still don't see where it'd be anything more than a shiny toy to me.
I thought the same thing, at first. Then I was on a trip to Las Vegas (about 5 hour flight from Boston) and a guy had an iPad that he was using to watch movies, play games, etc. What impressed me was the battery life. I barely made it with 2 spare batteries for my laptop and his tablet was still going strong. Ive since bought an ASUS Transformer and use it watch movies, backup photos, etc. when I am on trips. Its under 2lbs and the battery lasts 6 to 8 hours. My travel backpack is at least 7lbs lighter. So, if you like to travel a tablet is the way to go.
The ASUS Transformer is WiFi only, no data plans. However, I have FreedomPop for travel in the US (very cheap WiFi Hotspot with a free data plan) and use my international plan and hotspot capabilities on my cell phone when outside of the US. Of course, WiFi keeps becoming more accessible.
I would second the suggestion that you look into Networking. Networking seems to be the one space in IT where you can find older and wiser workers, especially at the senior level. If you have the time, money, and desire you can work towards a CCIE. It's one of the few premium certifications that pretty much guarantees you a job.
More interestingly, how are they going to keep it cool without noise? People are used to PCs that whirr, they are less forgiving of consoles.
I just build a new i7 system using Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO CPU fan and COUGAR CF-V12HB Vortex Hydro-Dynamic-Bearing (Fluid) case fans and SSD drives. It is almost whisper quiet with 5 case fans and the CPU fan. The blu-ray drive makes more noise than the fans. The point is, they can make it quiet if they want to. The technology is available.
The answer is, it depends. Some apps tie themselves to the system ID. Most will just re-download and re-install if your system ID changes. I recently unlocked my Asus TF700T tablet and one of the things that the Asus unlock tool does is change the system ID. Fortunately, I had Titanium Backup Pro installed and it allowed me to revert back to the original system ID.
I use MSE in large part because it's really lightweight. Norton is a pig and AVG never failed to fuck itself up on my system. And so far I've had no malware issues, so I'm inclined to believe them here even those my experience is anecdotal.
I used McAfee for the last 10 years, which tends to be a hog as well, but did a good job at protecting my system.
When I recently built my new Windows 8 system I considered using MSE, but the problem is that I still don't fully trust it. I did some research and decided to go with Avast! So far, I find it to be very lightweight and was happy to find that they also have a mobile Android version.
In my opinion, there are two ways to attack the base energy usage. The first is to build centralized solar, wind, etc. generating stations, much like the current design of power plants. The second is to build a distributed infrastructure (i.e. every house has solar panels). A combination of the two is necessary but most of the focus has been on the centralized power plants. I'm no expert, but it seems to me that solar panels have become more efficient with lower production costs. This leads to a lower ROI timeline and makes solar more practical, even for low sunlight areas (i.e. North Eastern US/Canada).
I went on vacation to the Canary Islands (lots of sunlight) a few years ago and practically every house, hotel, and business had solar panels on the the roof. If every house in the US had a solar energy system, even just to supplement power for lights, the aggregate would have a huge impact on the base power usage.
This is just uninformed. Not all drives use TLC and most drives released in 2012 do not. Some drives did, like the Samsung 840, but the 840 Pro for example did not, nor did the OCZ Vector, etc.
I have to disagree - this is very well informed, because the OP is at least aware that triple-level cell SSD drives have been introduced last year, and he/she is aware that TLC is crap waiting to unleash it's crappiness.
Besides, just because "not all drives are TLC", the point still remains that manufacturers are only interested in high margins by selling MLC and now TLC drives, and fuck reliability and longevity.
Until this article, I didn't realize that there was a difference in SSD technology (SLC, MLC, TLC). I recently built a new system with two Samsung 840 250GB TLC SSD drives (paid about $170 each). I have one dedicated to the OS, one for programs, and I'm storing my data on standard SATA III hard-drives. As I understand it, this is the current recommended setup for SSD drives. My static usage on each SSD drive is about 80GB with 120GB free and 32GB unallocated. The only data being written to the drives are OS generated files and Temporary Internet Files, which I now plan to move off to one of my data drives.
I'm not worried about my setup. Based on the TLC numbers, it should last about 7 to 10 years in this configuration, much longer than the expected lifetime of most consumer grade mechanical drives.
Perhaps you are not in the target market. I was a skinny kid in a large family, and learned early to wolf my food down quickly before someone else grabbed it. When I hit age forty, I started to put on a few pounds. One of the things I did to lose those pounds was slow down and pace my eating, so that the hunger would fade before I was already stuffed. But it was difficult to break a lifetime habit of eating quickly, and something like HapiFork may have helped.
We have a major obesity problem in this country, and it is spreading worldwide. If HapiFork can help a few people, and be a small part of the solution, then we should not be so quick to ridicule it.
I ate fast as a kid too. Not because we were competing for food, but because there was always something more interesting that I wanted to do. I still do. I never went back for seconds, though, just ate the relatively normal portions on my plate. Today, I could stand to lose some weight as well. However, that has little to do with eating fast. It's due more to sitting behind a keyboard all day instead of running out to play baseball with my friends... Anyone want to throw a baseball around? (grin)
If you are using Firefox, Chrome, or Safari, you can install NoScript. I find that it works well. It takes some effort to figure out which scripts you need to run for each page to display properly and which are the advertisement scripts. But it does the job. So far, I have found only one site that doesn't work with NoScript, but it's not a common site.
If you are not using If you are using Firefox, Chrome, or Safari, then it may be time to switch. I, personally, have always preferred IE. However, I made the switch to Firefox a couple of years ago and haven't turned back since. The security plugins for FireFox are much better than for IE and most are free (open source).
1. Instead of selling/producing the large lamp. they should develop a module with embedded WiFi that goes between any lamp and the power circuit. That way you could use any lamp with the system. 2. Instead of selling separate little home lamps and, presumably, having multiple lamps, what they should do is develop a "Christmas Village" type product with multiple houses, street, etc. Each miniature house would then light up based on the status of the paired module. 3. Create virtual "Christmas Village" software/web page
For the "Christmas Village" piece, it could have different scenes: Winter, Suburbs, Big City, Summer cottages, etc. In fact, if they did it right, they could develop the village layout that allows for skins for each of the houses, landscape, etc. which could be changed based on the season, etc... For example, this would allow the user to set up a village with an office building, cottage, house, etc. You could add grass, asphalt, water, snow landscape skins, etc.
Personally, I think that it would be cool to see a miniature village light up when my sisters, parents, nephews, etc. are home. At least I would then know when to call them to wish them a happy birthday, etc.
I have one use for Hotmail, to test sending and receiving email. Test messages sent from my Hotmail account are delivered really quickly. I used to use it all the time when I was an Email Admin. Now, as a Network engineer, I don't use it as much.l
Microsoft is famously last to leave the party. Remember Comdex? After years of scatch-your-eyes-out boring keynotes by Bill Gates, it finally bit the biscuit. Microsoft kept going right to the bitter end. Replay at CES: Microsoft to announce the walking wounded XBox 720 without the remotest chance of keeping up with even mid specced PCs, and with idie revival the new game in town. Clue train on the way, last stop is Microsoft.
The Xbox 720 isn't supposed to be announced until later this year at the Electronic Entertainment Expo. Rumors are that the Oban chips just went into production. There are rumors that the PS4 will be announced at the end of February, but more like is an E3 announcement as well.
In my opinion, CES is a show where vendors can showcase their offerings to the media, industry, etc. It's not about showcasing popular gadgets. If so, based on the Apple love lately, it would simply be held in an Apple showroom. My thought is that It benefits smaller companies the most, since moves by larger companies are already followed by the media.
We have a similar thing in Norway, and it's not a problem with the snowplows. We just make them a lot taller, about 5 feet I think. They actually serve a dual purpose, as they also show the snowplows where the road is. They are the best solution to this problem, bar none. (Yes, it has actually happened after a major snowfall that snowplows have misjudged where the road is going and gone of straight into the middle of a field.)
Your confusing side-of-road reflectors (i.e. reflectors on each side of the road to mark where the pavement ends) with embedded reflectors in the pavement where the center lines are located. See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raised_pavement_marker
My thought is that the glow-in-the-dark paint will be more expensive than the standard line marking paint. It's hard enough for most communities here in the Northeast US to find the budget for the normal paint, which wears off each winter due to winter salting and sanding. I don't hold out any hope for this coming to a road near me any time soon.
My old computer has a Renasas controller. I had the same problem where USB 2.0 devices would work fine with large file transfers, but USB 3.0 drives on the same USB 3,0 port would have transfer problems. I upgraded the firmware on the Renasas chip and verified that I had the latest driver with no change.
The study covered from kindergarten to 5th grade (i.e. girls and boys) and is not applicable to older ages other than outlining an advantage that girls are given early on. In my opinion, It does seem that girls in this age range tend to follow the rules more than boys. This could be due to culture, socialization, etc. However, this cannot be extrapolated to men and women as the maturing process and experience more fully develops our personalities.
What happens when you lose the case or the chip is broken? Are you forced to buy another copy?
It seems to me that this would be hacked very quickly. After all, the DRM hackers out there seem to be a determined bunch when it comes to movies and games. There are a lot more of them, and they have more time, than programmers at Sony. You would have thought that Sony would have learned by now. Silly rabbit, tricks are for kids...
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WebOS is a really good OS. I grabbed one of those HP Touchpads and was very impressed by the OS. But...there aren't any good Apps for it. And I don't see why anyone would want to start writing them. At this point it's basically a two horse race - iOS and Android. It would be nice to see a WebOS update for my Touchpad but I'm not holding my breath.
You are aware that there is a Cyanogenmod version of Android for the Touchpad. I loaded Android on the Touchpads that I bought for Christmas presents during the fire sale. It works well. The last problem that needed to be solved was getting the camera working. I believe that this may have been finally resolved for Cyanogenmod v9.
The original WII was exciting as it was the first game console with direct user input through body motion using controllers. It made certain games easy to play, no matter what age. The WII U did not have enough new features or functionality to want those with the original WII to upgrade. In addition, between the WII and the WII U, tablets with long battery life became popular. You can play simple games, access the internet, catch up on email, facebook, etc. Tablets have much more capabilities that the WII.
For casual gamers, smartphones and tablets are now the new platform. For gamers, the XBox, PS3, and PC are the platforms of choice. The WII U just doesn't have a clear niche. If Nintendo wants to survive, they either have to convert their platform into a tablet version (i.e. a WII tablet game system) or they have to come out with a real console.
The class ratings from reputable vendors tend to be reliable, but you don't always get this from lesser known manufacturers. Most Class 10 cards get at least Class 6 performance.
A Class 10 32 GB SDHC card costs $33 or less. The same card at Class 6 costs $25 or less, a whopping $8 in savings. Most people buy one card and leave it in their camera except to transfer photos to the PC to upload to Facbook, etc. Is it really advisable to recommend that people save $8 for a one-time purchase of a memory card? I think not!!
See, I don't necessarily agree. Every time I spend much money on something like a vacation trip, I wind up really frustrated and stressed for months after the fact,realizing that all that money is gone with nothing to show for it except some photos.
If that's all that you end up with after a vacation, then you're not doing it right...
Most of my vacations are adventures. My trips are to places that I have never been before. I don't mind checking out the tourist spots, but I usually like to explore off the beaten track, experience new cultures, and find out what or who is just around the corner. I learn and grow with each trip/adventure, which is worth more to me than the money spent.
I agree that you can have great adventures in your home country, city, etc. People often don't see what they have right under their noses.
It's not much fun anymore because we already exterminated all the indians. It's just cowboys vs cowboys now...
and here I thought that it is cowboys vs aliens......
I haven't found anything even close to a justification for my owning a tablet, I don't like e-books thus no need for an e-reader, and dataplans from wireless companies are a huge rip-off so far as I'm concerned, so I'd rather just have a plain-old phone, not a smartphone anyway. When tablet computers are down below $100 (or I can just instruct the matter replicator to spit one out for me) then maybe I'll get one, but still I tend to not buy things I don't have a use for, and I still don't see where it'd be anything more than a shiny toy to me.
I thought the same thing, at first. Then I was on a trip to Las Vegas (about 5 hour flight from Boston) and a guy had an iPad that he was using to watch movies, play games, etc. What impressed me was the battery life. I barely made it with 2 spare batteries for my laptop and his tablet was still going strong. Ive since bought an ASUS Transformer and use it watch movies, backup photos, etc. when I am on trips. Its under 2lbs and the battery lasts 6 to 8 hours. My travel backpack is at least 7lbs lighter. So, if you like to travel a tablet is the way to go.
The ASUS Transformer is WiFi only, no data plans. However, I have FreedomPop for travel in the US (very cheap WiFi Hotspot with a free data plan) and use my international plan and hotspot capabilities on my cell phone when outside of the US. Of course, WiFi keeps becoming more accessible.
My Linux boxes aint got no screens or rodents either.
If that's the case, then they are servers, not PCs...
I would second the suggestion that you look into Networking. Networking seems to be the one space in IT where you can find older and wiser workers, especially at the senior level. If you have the time, money, and desire you can work towards a CCIE. It's one of the few premium certifications that pretty much guarantees you a job.
More interestingly, how are they going to keep it cool without noise? People are used to PCs that whirr, they are less forgiving of consoles.
I just build a new i7 system using Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO CPU fan and COUGAR CF-V12HB Vortex Hydro-Dynamic-Bearing (Fluid) case fans and SSD drives. It is almost whisper quiet with 5 case fans and the CPU fan. The blu-ray drive makes more noise than the fans. The point is, they can make it quiet if they want to. The technology is available.
The answer is, it depends. Some apps tie themselves to the system ID. Most will just re-download and re-install if your system ID changes. I recently unlocked my Asus TF700T tablet and one of the things that the Asus unlock tool does is change the system ID. Fortunately, I had Titanium Backup Pro installed and it allowed me to revert back to the original system ID.
You must be reading this on a Chromebook to mistake Lisa for LIE:
(Go on, do tell us another one...)
It was the IIE part in "30 Years of the Apple Lisa and the Apple IIE" that looked like the word LIE to me...
(you might want to work on that reading comprehension...)
Is it just me or did anyone quickly read the story title as: 30 Years of the Apple Lisa and the Apple LIE:
I guess my subconscious view of Apple is showing...
I use MSE in large part because it's really lightweight. Norton is a pig and AVG never failed to fuck itself up on my system. And so far I've had no malware issues, so I'm inclined to believe them here even those my experience is anecdotal.
I used McAfee for the last 10 years, which tends to be a hog as well, but did a good job at protecting my system.
When I recently built my new Windows 8 system I considered using MSE, but the problem is that I still don't fully trust it. I did some research and decided to go with Avast! So far, I find it to be very lightweight and was happy to find that they also have a mobile Android version.
In my opinion, there are two ways to attack the base energy usage. The first is to build centralized solar, wind, etc. generating stations, much like the current design of power plants. The second is to build a distributed infrastructure (i.e. every house has solar panels). A combination of the two is necessary but most of the focus has been on the centralized power plants. I'm no expert, but it seems to me that solar panels have become more efficient with lower production costs. This leads to a lower ROI timeline and makes solar more practical, even for low sunlight areas (i.e. North Eastern US/Canada).
I went on vacation to the Canary Islands (lots of sunlight) a few years ago and practically every house, hotel, and business had solar panels on the the roof. If every house in the US had a solar energy system, even just to supplement power for lights, the aggregate would have a huge impact on the base power usage.
This is just uninformed. Not all drives use TLC and most drives released in 2012 do not. Some drives did, like the Samsung 840, but the 840 Pro for example did not, nor did the OCZ Vector, etc.
I have to disagree - this is very well informed, because the OP is at least aware that triple-level cell SSD drives have been introduced last year, and he/she is aware that TLC is crap waiting to unleash it's crappiness.
Besides, just because "not all drives are TLC", the point still remains that manufacturers are only interested in high margins by selling MLC and now TLC drives, and fuck reliability and longevity.
Until this article, I didn't realize that there was a difference in SSD technology (SLC, MLC, TLC). I recently built a new system with two Samsung 840 250GB TLC SSD drives (paid about $170 each). I have one dedicated to the OS, one for programs, and I'm storing my data on standard SATA III hard-drives. As I understand it, this is the current recommended setup for SSD drives. My static usage on each SSD drive is about 80GB with 120GB free and 32GB unallocated. The only data being written to the drives are OS generated files and Temporary Internet Files, which I now plan to move off to one of my data drives.
I'm not worried about my setup. Based on the TLC numbers, it should last about 7 to 10 years in this configuration, much longer than the expected lifetime of most consumer grade mechanical drives.
I'm coming up blank with the HapiFork.
Perhaps you are not in the target market. I was a skinny kid in a large family, and learned early to wolf my food down quickly before someone else grabbed it. When I hit age forty, I started to put on a few pounds. One of the things I did to lose those pounds was slow down and pace my eating, so that the hunger would fade before I was already stuffed. But it was difficult to break a lifetime habit of eating quickly, and something like HapiFork may have helped.
We have a major obesity problem in this country, and it is spreading worldwide. If HapiFork can help a few people, and be a small part of the solution, then we should not be so quick to ridicule it.
I ate fast as a kid too. Not because we were competing for food, but because there was always something more interesting that I wanted to do. I still do. I never went back for seconds, though, just ate the relatively normal portions on my plate. Today, I could stand to lose some weight as well. However, that has little to do with eating fast. It's due more to sitting behind a keyboard all day instead of running out to play baseball with my friends... Anyone want to throw a baseball around? (grin)
If you are using Firefox, Chrome, or Safari, you can install NoScript. I find that it works well. It takes some effort to figure out which scripts you need to run for each page to display properly and which are the advertisement scripts. But it does the job. So far, I have found only one site that doesn't work with NoScript, but it's not a common site.
If you are not using If you are using Firefox, Chrome, or Safari, then it may be time to switch. I, personally, have always preferred IE. However, I made the switch to Firefox a couple of years ago and haven't turned back since. The security plugins for FireFox are much better than for IE and most are free (open source).
1. Instead of selling/producing the large lamp. they should develop a module with embedded WiFi that goes between any lamp and the power circuit. That way you could use any lamp with the system.
2. Instead of selling separate little home lamps and, presumably, having multiple lamps, what they should do is develop a "Christmas Village" type product with multiple houses, street, etc. Each miniature house would then light up based on the status of the paired module.
3. Create virtual "Christmas Village" software/web page
For the "Christmas Village" piece, it could have different scenes: Winter, Suburbs, Big City, Summer cottages, etc. In fact, if they did it right, they could develop the village layout that allows for skins for each of the houses, landscape, etc. which could be changed based on the season, etc... For example, this would allow the user to set up a village with an office building, cottage, house, etc. You could add grass, asphalt, water, snow landscape skins, etc.
Personally, I think that it would be cool to see a miniature village light up when my sisters, parents, nephews, etc. are home. At least I would then know when to call them to wish them a happy birthday, etc.
I will have no use for hotmail at all.
I have one use for Hotmail, to test sending and receiving email. Test messages sent from my Hotmail account are delivered really quickly. I used to use it all the time when I was an Email Admin. Now, as a Network engineer, I don't use it as much.l
Microsoft is famously last to leave the party. Remember Comdex? After years of scatch-your-eyes-out boring keynotes by Bill Gates, it finally bit the biscuit. Microsoft kept going right to the bitter end. Replay at CES: Microsoft to announce the walking wounded XBox 720 without the remotest chance of keeping up with even mid specced PCs, and with idie revival the new game in town. Clue train on the way, last stop is Microsoft.
The Xbox 720 isn't supposed to be announced until later this year at the Electronic Entertainment Expo. Rumors are that the Oban chips just went into production. There are rumors that the PS4 will be announced at the end of February, but more like is an E3 announcement as well.
In my opinion, CES is a show where vendors can showcase their offerings to the media, industry, etc. It's not about showcasing popular gadgets. If so, based on the Apple love lately, it would simply be held in an Apple showroom. My thought is that It benefits smaller companies the most, since moves by larger companies are already followed by the media.
We have a similar thing in Norway, and it's not a problem with the snowplows. We just make them a lot taller, about 5 feet I think. They actually serve a dual purpose, as they also show the snowplows where the road is. They are the best solution to this problem, bar none. (Yes, it has actually happened after a major snowfall that snowplows have misjudged where the road is going and gone of straight into the middle of a field.)
Your confusing side-of-road reflectors (i.e. reflectors on each side of the road to mark where the pavement ends) with embedded reflectors in the pavement where the center lines are located. See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raised_pavement_marker
My thought is that the glow-in-the-dark paint will be more expensive than the standard line marking paint. It's hard enough for most communities here in the Northeast US to find the budget for the normal paint, which wears off each winter due to winter salting and sanding. I don't hold out any hope for this coming to a road near me any time soon.
My old computer has a Renasas controller. I had the same problem where USB 2.0 devices would work fine with large file transfers, but USB 3.0 drives on the same USB 3,0 port would have transfer problems. I upgraded the firmware on the Renasas chip and verified that I had the latest driver with no change.
The study covered from kindergarten to 5th grade (i.e. girls and boys) and is not applicable to older ages other than outlining an advantage that girls are given early on. In my opinion, It does seem that girls in this age range tend to follow the rules more than boys. This could be due to culture, socialization, etc. However, this cannot be extrapolated to men and women as the maturing process and experience more fully develops our personalities.
What happens when you lose the case or the chip is broken? Are you forced to buy another copy?
It seems to me that this would be hacked very quickly. After all, the DRM hackers out there seem to be a determined bunch when it comes to movies and games. There are a lot more of them, and they have more time, than programmers at Sony. You would have thought that Sony would have learned by now. Silly rabbit, tricks are for kids...