Fully VR immersed Doom or other FPS? Oh....Hell.....Yeah.
Honestly these guys have the ability to completely disrupt the home video game ecosystem overnight, they just increased their chances drastically with him on the bridge...
Honestly, I have never seen ONE Government IT or IS project that was not staffed by morons and run by bigger morons. Why the hell cant they hire people that have a clue? And on top of that hire people to manage it that have the balls and authority to tell any elected official to "DIAF" any time they suggest something stupid?
So this open source laptop has the specs of a very low end Chromebook. Making it useful to who? also it had better sell for $99.00 because the $199 chomebooks out there are already faster and far better built.
Honestly, what is their point? Making an open source very very low quality laptop is a waste of time.
So you compare a current Linux distro to a horribly out of date XP install? Try windows 7 on your craptop and tell us again how everything went perfect...
It's actually harder to install windows on a machine than linux. Because you have to go looking for and download drivers. Last Ubuntu installed everything automatically.
this was on a current Dell business class laptop. Windows is a day long painfest to get installed and 100% on a laptop, Linix is 2 hours and mostly watching TV or playing Xbox while it does it's thing.
At AT&T we always used point to point fiber or other lines for internal office networking. Even though routing via the net is cheaper, we knew then that you only have control over the links you could trace by hand. renting dark fiber was cheap os we also routed phone calls between phone systems (Gotta love early NEC hybrid systems) so that we never had to call long distance. if you picked up a phone in the office of the 232 area code and called a place near the 314 area code, it would route through the fiber to the office that was in the 314 area code and use the POTS lines there to dial out. Worked great and it even spoofed the callerID so that the originating office number was on the outgoing call.
This was in the days of carnivore, and we knew about the boxes and decided to not route any company data over public communication channels. Today we would add in encryption to the fiber links and T1's.
"'Nothing, but nothing, that is stored in their "cloud" services can be guaranteed to be safe from surveillance or from illicit downloading by employees of the consultancies employed by the NSA.'"
They are welcome to the encrypted files on my dropbox and google. Good luck cracking them. And I really hope they are trying hard on the "Secretplans..zip" files that I have in each that are nothing but a dump of/dev/random..
material failure. I am getting cracking and delamination on high stress pieces. Some of the "colors" are stronger than others, but you can not get injection molded strength in a laminated assembly like a reprap produces.
What I find these useful for is prototyping. the parts last long enough to test an idea, I then reprint in wax and then do a lost was casting in metal.
Just because you can print them does not make them usable. The durability of reprap items is very very low. Something that these guys completely ignored in their "study".....
Printed iphone cases fall apart, I know this, I have a 3d printer and the parts that come out are NOT durable. They are great prototype quality items butthey do not handle a year of abuse.... most fail within 30-60 days.
the MOST IMPORTANT PART is not what they are working on.
It needs to be a phone and phone calls need to be the absolute most reliable part of the phone. The last tow attempts at this Open Source phone crap has yielded phones that barely work as phones.
I dont want a pocket tablet/PDA running linux, I can get one of those, I want a PHONE that the phone part works perfectly.
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Fully VR immersed Doom or other FPS? Oh....Hell.....Yeah.
Honestly these guys have the ability to completely disrupt the home video game ecosystem overnight, they just increased their chances drastically with him on the bridge...
"Science Fiction is not prophecy, it is a story."
Wrong!
"Idiocracy" is not only prophecy, it's a documentary sent from the future. Hell we are already in the early stages of it. I have seen the SIGNS!
Same way they do now. you think the rich live in the factories where they underpay the poor?
"We will eventually end up with a single provider system, providing minimal, low-quality care."
So what pile of magic fairy dust does Great Britian and Canada have? because they have single provider HIGH QUALITY care...
OR are you simply lying and just another moron?
Honestly, I have never seen ONE Government IT or IS project that was not staffed by morons and run by bigger morons. Why the hell cant they hire people that have a clue? And on top of that hire people to manage it that have the balls and authority to tell any elected official to "DIAF" any time they suggest something stupid?
No...
SharkFlare! It's sharks It's solar flares! Oh the huge manatee!
So this open source laptop has the specs of a very low end Chromebook. Making it useful to who? also it had better sell for $99.00 because the $199 chomebooks out there are already faster and far better built.
Honestly, what is their point? Making an open source very very low quality laptop is a waste of time.
So you compare a current Linux distro to a horribly out of date XP install? Try windows 7 on your craptop and tell us again how everything went perfect...
It's actually harder to install windows on a machine than linux. Because you have to go looking for and download drivers. Last Ubuntu installed everything automatically.
this was on a current Dell business class laptop. Windows is a day long painfest to get installed and 100% on a laptop, Linix is 2 hours and mostly watching TV or playing Xbox while it does it's thing.
At AT&T we always used point to point fiber or other lines for internal office networking. Even though routing via the net is cheaper, we knew then that you only have control over the links you could trace by hand. renting dark fiber was cheap os we also routed phone calls between phone systems (Gotta love early NEC hybrid systems) so that we never had to call long distance. if you picked up a phone in the office of the 232 area code and called a place near the 314 area code, it would route through the fiber to the office that was in the 314 area code and use the POTS lines there to dial out. Worked great and it even spoofed the callerID so that the originating office number was on the outgoing call.
This was in the days of carnivore, and we knew about the boxes and decided to not route any company data over public communication channels. Today we would add in encryption to the fiber links and T1's.
"'Nothing, but nothing, that is stored in their "cloud" services can be guaranteed to be safe from surveillance or from illicit downloading by employees of the consultancies employed by the NSA.'"
They are welcome to the encrypted files on my dropbox and google. Good luck cracking them. And I really hope they are trying hard on the "Secretplans..zip" files that I have in each that are nothing but a dump of /dev/random..
What is the difference between a financial Corporation and the MOB?
The Mob is honest and straight with you. You know what you are getting into with the Mob.
financial companies lie to your face and do everything they can to screw you.
So I am talking about IT, and you quote Programmer salary.
By your logic, Taxi cab drivers are the highest paid, Because F1 race car drivers get on average $150,000 a year.
Do you know the difference between IT and Programming? Do you really think that MS office was written by Microsoft's IT department?
IT highly paid? What drugs are you taking?
DO NOT work as a programmer for the Financial world. Screw those crooks, let them rot and die in technology hell.
Oh sorry, I thought this was about a PHONE.. Someone needs to contact the article writer and tell them to stop calling it a phone.
material failure. I am getting cracking and delamination on high stress pieces. Some of the "colors" are stronger than others, but you can not get injection molded strength in a laminated assembly like a reprap produces.
What I find these useful for is prototyping. the parts last long enough to test an idea, I then reprint in wax and then do a lost was casting in metal.
Get rid of the wife, you for some reason picked the broken one that demands shiny expensive things. Don't feel bad, a lot of guys make that mistake.
Just because you can print them does not make them usable. The durability of reprap items is very very low. Something that these guys completely ignored in their "study".....
Printed iphone cases fall apart, I know this, I have a 3d printer and the parts that come out are NOT durable. They are great prototype quality items butthey do not handle a year of abuse.... most fail within 30-60 days.
They have been out for a decade.
Look for a used sharp Zaurus. there are tons of very killer models to choose from that are 100% open and run linux.
Because unlike the unemployed street bum I make money with my phone. so every missed or failed call is lost money.
the MOST IMPORTANT PART is not what they are working on.
It needs to be a phone and phone calls need to be the absolute most reliable part of the phone. The last tow attempts at this Open Source phone crap has yielded phones that barely work as phones.
I dont want a pocket tablet/PDA running linux, I can get one of those, I want a PHONE that the phone part works perfectly.
It starts with the morons in the executive wing, is perpetuated in the management wing, and further whored at the marketing wing.
Taking the time to write GOOD CODE is not allowed anymore. No software project is given the proper money and resources to do it right.
Now top that with CS grads that barely know what the hell they are doing and barely have any real CS or EE education.
Because we are so much safer paying a taxi $55 for the ride to the hotel and then the expected $20 tip.
It's used as a warning to others, so far Canada hasn't tried to invade us. That means it's working!