..I still think that Microsoft did not understand what the Internet is about: interoperability. You can create whatever nice framework you want - as long as it is not supported by many systems the adoption rate will be slim. If they would make the API a public standard (that is not restricted) then people might adapt, if it is any good.
Now I know, someone will surely insist that the Windows platform still has the majority of the market share and most users don't care, but you see, most users also don't write applications, and as long as you try to feed BS to the later group of people, you are going nowhere.
Another thing is I see is that the Silverlight frameworks seems to have some severe design issues as it is necessary to bring out a new version seemingly every half year. A well designed platform would try to get the basics right in the first few iterations and then add libraries to it that provide more functionality without having to do a 180 on the whole basic coding.
Guess this will even turn down Microsoft sympathising developers as they can't keep up with the change that's happening continuously. I mean many people are fed up that everything Microsoft does is obsolete in three years time and you can start anew with learning and development (see VB, classic ASP and so forth).
Another thing is, that though the feature list sounds impressive, there are a lot of undressed issues like security that is a very important one with this kind of networked technology.
Did not consider this question before, but you really made a point: nobody gave a satisfiable answer to 'I look for a 17" LCD with resolution beyond 1280x1024, and hopefully 4:3".
The technology is definitely out there, my handhald with 9" has 800x480 which could be easily scaled up to 1400 + in your desired form factor (4:3).
There were even monitors with this kind of attributes a few years back. About 4 years ago I bought my which has the minimal DPI resolution you mentioned. I'm a bit astonished that time stood still in this sector for this amount of time. Not "Moor-ish" at all.
Guess the answer is, that mainstream did not want it, and niche markets are not asked any-more. Also there is a specific OS that can't handle scaling of wigdets very well, that mostly catalysed this non-development.
Your answer is: no, there is probably no such thing you are looking for.. Sadly.
I really don't think they will replace X11. It's a stable and effective windowing system, and it also consumes low amount of resources (my N800 also runs one perfectly fine, and that's a 400MHz ARM with no GPU). It is also really powerful on appropriate hardware (with wine I can perfectly well play games of the newest generation without speed penalties). X11 is also quite uniform between Linux platforms. It also just provides the bare minimum to communicate with the hardware and display graphic primitives on the screen.
The problem with X11 is that it is a very old design and an extreme pain to develop with directly because of the API 'aesthetics'.. but it would be much much harder to replace it with something from scratch.
My guess is that Google will go on top of X11 and write a window manager (program that manages running windows, adds decorations, bars, icons etc..). Then tightly integrates this with their browser.
Well, let's see what happens.
I have the gut feeling that you are doing it wrong.
See I have a bunch of O'Reilly books in my bookshelf and I will probably increase that number. I really doubt I will ever get one of your books in my hand, or for that matter books written by folks of your mentality.
The simple truth is, that the O'Reilly people give me a good reason to by, because they produce good books and they have a moral philosophy that I feel comfortable with. I'm actually totally happy when I buy something from them.
Also DRM and proprietary standards are ineffective and very annoying which is why I neither consider buying a Kindle nor any books that are crippled by this abomination.
Come on people, most of Google's and Amazon's could are run by Linux / BSD with costume modifications to adapt to the task at hand.
If the article would state that these companies are not giving back much to the community in relation to what they take, then yes, that's probably true but they still rely heavily on OSS software.
For me the whole article completely misses the point, but maybe I'm missing something here.
Also: cloud computing is not going to take over everything. It is useful for certain situations like massive indexing, data backup storage and some forms of HPC (though the last group mostly build their own data centres or rely on distributed computing). The everyday business will not participate much.
I always thought this kind of condition would have something to do with people having shitty jobs, financial troubles, dysfunctional families, partners spying on them to see if they are faithful or similar circumstances.
It's all about genes, what a relief. We just have to takes some more of those funny looking pills, and everything will be alright.
Now excuse me, I'll go kill myself.. should I bring something on the way back?
As far as I know, Starcraft was always about click counts and fast action. It's a real time strategy game after all, where every moment counts.
Now even with a very good connection (and that already poses problems) the latency with b.net servers will be at 50+ ms (more like 200+ ms in most cases, remember, data has to go out and come in on the other side + processing overhead).
This will basically make the game unplayable for the more experienced gamers (the fans and core target audience).
To me this simply looks like a marketing suicide, but maybe I'm missing something here.
Reading the article helps - there is only one server: my-web-way.com , which is supposedly controlled by the attackers. The whois entry reveals, that it is registered in Moskow, Russia.. probably with a fake name.
Now to what gets infected: Windows machines. It plays with DLL's and the Registry (described in the article).
Interesting is: this peace of mallware does not directly (perceivably) damage the user of the infected machine, but it generates revenue through (semi fake) Google ad clicks. I wonder how they (Google) will react.. would guess that big corporations get quite pissed by this kind of stuff. Let's wait and see..
"First Electronic Quantum Processor Created".. Sorry to spoil the fun, but does anyone do facts checking with these articles before posting? Guess not, because these guys presented a 28 qbit prototype and working quantum processor back in 07.
And there is much more, like the middle button select pasting (you laugh once you realise how ineffective copy/pase is).
I also love the (non default) functions of compiz, like workspace and window overview zoom and application switcher (basically Alt-Tab) mapped to a click on one of the corners of the screen.
Workplace switcher mapped to a click on the edges of the screen.
And so on. Seriously, every time I have to sit in front of a Windows machine, my basic productivity drops 95% as everything is so cumbersome, slow and ineffective. Not to mention that it lacks a basic tool-set.
How is that? As I understand satellite orbits, this one would have to be geosynchronous (above the antenna all the time). In this position the satellite would have pass night phases equally as the ground station.
Avoiding the night phases would only be possible by multiple satellites beaming between each other before the final beam to earth or putting the satellites in a very hight orbit, which would dramatically impact the energy transmitting efficiency.
1. They are too greedy and don't realise that only very few people would use the service at this rates, which effectively ruins the economy of scale calculations.
2. You can't limit the debt you get, which increases the loss in cases of fraud. This should work like pre paid cards where loss is limited.
This might sound a bit draconian, but why not simply execute any CEO & CTO of companies / organisations that encounter major data breaches which could have been avoided (determined by an investigation)? That sure would improve the situation. (OK, large scale personal fines would also do).
I donate my idle processing power to the aqua@home project ( http://aqua.dwavesys.com/ ). They (d-wave) are building quantum computers and that's a field I'm more familiar with than medicine. Guess both are more sensible than looking for E.T. though. (Just my personal opinion.)
The tor network is not suited for broadband data transfer (it's slow as hell).
An option would be to get one of the middle east proxy service accounts that also have exit points in the US and UK. You can pretty much forget about the free proxies though.
The article states that "14-year-old hit by 30,000 mph space meteorite", which sounds like he would have been hit by it with this velocity. Now if he would have been, then he and his near surrounding would be dust. It's true, that meteorites get this speeds when they enter atmosphere, but in the final phase before impact they are slowed down to only a few mph because of the air resistance.
Only really huge fucking cataclysmic asteroids reach ground with devastating speeds (the much bigger ones that create lake size craters).
Also the chance to get hit by an asteroid are astronomically small for an individual, true, but what do you expect when 8 billion people are jumping around all day? Of course it hits someone sometimes.
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Come on boys (and girl?), this is about remote controlled ucav's mostly, we are nowhere near to build even a dumb robot / computer system, let alone an abstracting intelligent one.
Not back to topic: robotics aided <strike>murder</strike> homeland defence is an interesting technology, but form a law standpoint the question is still: who pressed the button(s).
The video states at the end that the tethers are mostly for experimental safety purposes, and the unit can do without. You are right about the power density though, to operate something like this on the field you would need to change the PSU every few minutes with the current human technology level. Who knows, maybe the are experimenting with plutonium batteries over there. j/k
If people could actually acquire porn and jack of at home, they would fuck much less. This way they can't satisfy them self with jerking of the net porn and have to fuck everything with 2 legs. I derive, that they plan on taking over the world by sheer number.
No problem. The institute will simply license the technology to Apple, who will probably screw up doing anything meaningful with it. Then after the patent is expired (as things are developing, probably in 170 years from now) everyone can use this technology. Everything is fine, no?
Oh, sorry, I hate to reply to myself, but I forgot another thing. Pricewert is nor English, nor British nor proper German. If you want to make a British Nazi reference, the please use the proper German grammar and say "Preiswert".
(I just see my Karma dropping, but what the hell, it's irony, can't help it. You could also argue that criminals suck at grammar)
No, really, if they did something illegal (proven by court) and got shut down: fine!; but come on, most of you read (blah) ISP (blah) shut down by FTC (blah) child porn (blah) incest . WTF?
Please, anything you say, "child porn" and "terrorism" == "censorship" in current times. Any article that has it as topic is either BS or Troll (or both).
Now I'm open for argumentation, but please use contemporary English and proper establishment / critic slang if you do so.
Dude, I meant cool. I know it is easy to write some web app to do this, but it is not as cool. First I do not get the fidelity (can't access internal display controls, play with them, do some magic, etc.). Second: writing a UI in (X)HTML + (python|perl|whatever) is not cool either (for this kind of device, on a PC yes, but not here).
Hmm, then again, I was in my dreaming session it seems again, as I was mesmerising about cool + practical as opposed to practical only. Think I did not emphase that enough.
Disclaimer: obviously cool means the thing I think nice, which is what I pulled out of my ass on an emotional basis and does not reflect a universal cool (thank the spaghetti thing up there).
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..I still think that Microsoft did not understand what the Internet is about: interoperability. You can create whatever nice framework you want - as long as it is not supported by many systems the adoption rate will be slim. If they would make the API a public standard (that is not restricted) then people might adapt, if it is any good.
Now I know, someone will surely insist that the Windows platform still has the majority of the market share and most users don't care, but you see, most users also don't write applications, and as long as you try to feed BS to the later group of people, you are going nowhere.
Another thing is I see is that the Silverlight frameworks seems to have some severe design issues as it is necessary to bring out a new version seemingly every half year. A well designed platform would try to get the basics right in the first few iterations and then add libraries to it that provide more functionality without having to do a 180 on the whole basic coding.
Guess this will even turn down Microsoft sympathising developers as they can't keep up with the change that's happening continuously. I mean many people are fed up that everything Microsoft does is obsolete in three years time and you can start anew with learning and development (see VB, classic ASP and so forth).
Another thing is, that though the feature list sounds impressive, there are a lot of undressed issues like security that is a very important one with this kind of networked technology.
Did not consider this question before, but you really made a point: nobody gave a satisfiable answer to 'I look for a 17" LCD with resolution beyond 1280x1024, and hopefully 4:3".
The technology is definitely out there, my handhald with 9" has 800x480 which could be easily scaled up to 1400 + in your desired form factor (4:3).
There were even monitors with this kind of attributes a few years back. About 4 years ago I bought my which has the minimal DPI resolution you mentioned. I'm a bit astonished that time stood still in this sector for this amount of time. Not "Moor-ish" at all.
Guess the answer is, that mainstream did not want it, and niche markets are not asked any-more. Also there is a specific OS that can't handle scaling of wigdets very well, that mostly catalysed this non-development.
Your answer is: no, there is probably no such thing you are looking for.. Sadly.
I really don't think they will replace X11. It's a stable and effective windowing system, and it also consumes low amount of resources (my N800 also runs one perfectly fine, and that's a 400MHz ARM with no GPU). It is also really powerful on appropriate hardware (with wine I can perfectly well play games of the newest generation without speed penalties). X11 is also quite uniform between Linux platforms. It also just provides the bare minimum to communicate with the hardware and display graphic primitives on the screen. The problem with X11 is that it is a very old design and an extreme pain to develop with directly because of the API 'aesthetics'.. but it would be much much harder to replace it with something from scratch. My guess is that Google will go on top of X11 and write a window manager (program that manages running windows, adds decorations, bars, icons etc..). Then tightly integrates this with their browser. Well, let's see what happens.
I have the gut feeling that you are doing it wrong. See I have a bunch of O'Reilly books in my bookshelf and I will probably increase that number. I really doubt I will ever get one of your books in my hand, or for that matter books written by folks of your mentality. The simple truth is, that the O'Reilly people give me a good reason to by, because they produce good books and they have a moral philosophy that I feel comfortable with. I'm actually totally happy when I buy something from them. Also DRM and proprietary standards are ineffective and very annoying which is why I neither consider buying a Kindle nor any books that are crippled by this abomination.
Come on people, most of Google's and Amazon's could are run by Linux / BSD with costume modifications to adapt to the task at hand.
If the article would state that these companies are not giving back much to the community in relation to what they take, then yes, that's probably true but they still rely heavily on OSS software.
For me the whole article completely misses the point, but maybe I'm missing something here.
Also: cloud computing is not going to take over everything. It is useful for certain situations like massive indexing, data backup storage and some forms of HPC (though the last group mostly build their own data centres or rely on distributed computing). The everyday business will not participate much.
I always thought this kind of condition would have something to do with people having shitty jobs, financial troubles, dysfunctional families, partners spying on them to see if they are faithful or similar circumstances.
It's all about genes, what a relief. We just have to takes some more of those funny looking pills, and everything will be alright.
Now excuse me, I'll go kill myself.. should I bring something on the way back?
As far as I know, Starcraft was always about click counts and fast action. It's a real time strategy game after all, where every moment counts. Now even with a very good connection (and that already poses problems) the latency with b.net servers will be at 50+ ms (more like 200+ ms in most cases, remember, data has to go out and come in on the other side + processing overhead). This will basically make the game unplayable for the more experienced gamers (the fans and core target audience). To me this simply looks like a marketing suicide, but maybe I'm missing something here.
Reading the article helps - there is only one server: my-web-way.com , which is supposedly controlled by the attackers. The whois entry reveals, that it is registered in Moskow, Russia.. probably with a fake name.
Now to what gets infected: Windows machines. It plays with DLL's and the Registry (described in the article).
Interesting is: this peace of mallware does not directly (perceivably) damage the user of the infected machine, but it generates revenue through (semi fake) Google ad clicks. I wonder how they (Google) will react.. would guess that big corporations get quite pissed by this kind of stuff. Let's wait and see..
Guess the only thing missing now is COMEFROM?
"First Electronic Quantum Processor Created".. Sorry to spoil the fun, but does anyone do facts checking with these articles before posting? Guess not, because these guys presented a 28 qbit prototype and working quantum processor back in 07.
Fully agree, and add to it:
And there is much more, like the middle button select pasting (you laugh once you realise how ineffective copy/pase is).
I also love the (non default) functions of compiz, like workspace and window overview zoom and application switcher (basically Alt-Tab) mapped to a click on one of the corners of the screen.
Workplace switcher mapped to a click on the edges of the screen.
And so on. Seriously, every time I have to sit in front of a Windows machine, my basic productivity drops 95% as everything is so cumbersome, slow and ineffective. Not to mention that it lacks a basic tool-set.
How is that? As I understand satellite orbits, this one would have to be geosynchronous (above the antenna all the time). In this position the satellite would have pass night phases equally as the ground station.
Avoiding the night phases would only be possible by multiple satellites beaming between each other before the final beam to earth or putting the satellites in a very hight orbit, which would dramatically impact the energy transmitting efficiency.
Please correct me if I'm wrong on this one.
1. They are too greedy and don't realise that only very few people would use the service at this rates, which effectively ruins the economy of scale calculations.
2. You can't limit the debt you get, which increases the loss in cases of fraud. This should work like pre paid cards where loss is limited.
This might sound a bit draconian, but why not simply execute any CEO & CTO of companies / organisations that encounter major data breaches which could have been avoided (determined by an investigation)? That sure would improve the situation. (OK, large scale personal fines would also do).
I donate my idle processing power to the aqua@home project ( http://aqua.dwavesys.com/ ). They (d-wave) are building quantum computers and that's a field I'm more familiar with than medicine. Guess both are more sensible than looking for E.T. though. (Just my personal opinion.)
The tor network is not suited for broadband data transfer (it's slow as hell).
An option would be to get one of the middle east proxy service accounts that also have exit points in the US and UK. You can pretty much forget about the free proxies though.
The article states that "14-year-old hit by 30,000 mph space meteorite", which sounds like he would have been hit by it with this velocity. Now if he would have been, then he and his near surrounding would be dust. It's true, that meteorites get this speeds when they enter atmosphere, but in the final phase before impact they are slowed down to only a few mph because of the air resistance.
Only really huge fucking cataclysmic asteroids reach ground with devastating speeds (the much bigger ones that create lake size craters).
Also the chance to get hit by an asteroid are astronomically small for an individual, true, but what do you expect when 8 billion people are jumping around all day? Of course it hits someone sometimes.
Come on boys (and girl?), this is about remote controlled ucav's mostly, we are nowhere near to build even a dumb robot / computer system, let alone an abstracting intelligent one.
Not back to topic: robotics aided <strike>murder</strike> homeland defence is an interesting technology, but form a law standpoint the question is still: who pressed the button(s).
Could you please not insult cows!? -- they are really useful animals.
Nice video there.
The video states at the end that the tethers are mostly for experimental safety purposes, and the unit can do without. You are right about the power density though, to operate something like this on the field you would need to change the PSU every few minutes with the current human technology level. Who knows, maybe the are experimenting with plutonium batteries over there. j/k
If people could actually acquire porn and jack of at home, they would fuck much less. This way they can't satisfy them self with jerking of the net porn and have to fuck everything with 2 legs. I derive, that they plan on taking over the world by sheer number.
No problem. The institute will simply license the technology to Apple, who will probably screw up doing anything meaningful with it. Then after the patent is expired (as things are developing, probably in 170 years from now) everyone can use this technology. Everything is fine, no?
Oh, sorry, I hate to reply to myself, but I forgot another thing. Pricewert is nor English, nor British nor proper German. If you want to make a British Nazi reference, the please use the proper German grammar and say "Preiswert".
(I just see my Karma dropping, but what the hell, it's irony, can't help it. You could also argue that criminals suck at grammar)
No, really, if they did something illegal (proven by court) and got shut down: fine!; but come on, most of you read (blah) ISP (blah) shut down by FTC (blah) child porn (blah) incest . WTF?
Please, anything you say, "child porn" and "terrorism" == "censorship" in current times. Any article that has it as topic is either BS or Troll (or both).
Now I'm open for argumentation, but please use contemporary English and proper establishment / critic slang if you do so.
Dude, I meant cool. I know it is easy to write some web app to do this, but it is not as cool. First I do not get the fidelity (can't access internal display controls, play with them, do some magic, etc.). Second: writing a UI in (X)HTML + (python|perl|whatever) is not cool either (for this kind of device, on a PC yes, but not here).
Hmm, then again, I was in my dreaming session it seems again, as I was mesmerising about cool + practical as opposed to practical only. Think I did not emphase that enough.
Disclaimer: obviously cool means the thing I think nice, which is what I pulled out of my ass on an emotional basis and does not reflect a universal cool (thank the spaghetti thing up there).