Benefits? I have lived in Ontario and Miami both several times. Toronto gets hotter then Miami in the summer. The earth is on a tilt and the areas that get the coldest where winter is seasonal tend to get the hottest in the summer season.
I absorb your argument (on the placement of cables), and, in fact, agree with it completely. What I hadn't considered before replying initially is that you don't see this downtown which is right on the bay. Most of Miami's cables were put in place a long time ago. They didn't put them underground either because the technology wasn't available at the time or it was too expensive. Why do they still exist? Probably because replacing them with underground wiring would be too expensive.
I'm not from Miami and I honestly have never liked the city. I agree regarding how blighted the average street is. I live in a good neighborhood, one of the few where I don't have to worry about running into drug dealers, hookers and general thugs plus homeless people begging for money 2 blocks from a homeless shelter. This is not a city worth visiting. I'm only here for work. Miami is a cesspool.
Oh and also the city of Miami Beach as well as the beach in Fort Lauderdale and all similar areas in south Florida (and probably all eastern sea side cities in Florida) are on what is known as the barrier island. It's basically a small width of land running up the eastern coast that ranges in width of 3 city blocks to 20 city blocks with the ocean on one side and the intercoastal waterway canal on the other side.
Miami cannot place their electric cables or much of any cables underground because ground level is about 5 - 50 feet above sea level. I have a boat dock on the intercoastal canal in my back yard. I live in a city in Miami-Dade called Bay Harbor Islands (google it). I lived on the street Hendricks Isle. in Fort Lauderdale a few years ago which was literally a street and a island at the same time. We also don't have basements here for the same reason and puddle flooding is common during heavy rains and hurricanes. South Florida is flat, there are no hills and there are canals everywhere. This is probably a big reason why Ft. Lauderdale is the yachting capital of the world. Now tell me this is a safe place to put electrical cables underground. Hurricanes and tropical storms are common in south Florida. It's been a quiet hurricane season since 2005 and I've been surprised but I remember before 2005, we'd typically get hit with at least one hurricane a year. So yeah, underground wiring is a high hazard where I live. I remember where I grew up in Canada, just outside of Toronto and everything was underground but I understand why underground wiring cannot be easily run at sea level ground.
You have some good points about why they would prefer to identify the drivers but in a state without front facing license plates, identifying the front of the car without the back just means they have a picture of you without actually knowing who you are or what car you were driving? I think that makes it pretty hard to actually identify who the driver is. I have not seen these front facing cameras in the same neighborhoods (or under the same jurisdiction) as the neighborhoods that have red light enforcement cameras. For example I have seen these front facing cameras all over Fort Lauderdale (I have family there and used to live there for a few years). Fort Lauderdale is part of Broward country, one county north of Miami-Dade county. I have also spotted a couple (literally only a couple) in Brickel village which is part of Miami-Dade just south of downtown Miami (some consider it part of downtown) these cameras are always mounted on the traffic lights facing the front of a car that only has a license plate if it's from outside of Florida. Now the red light ticker cameras on the other hand, which are actually newer as I have watched them appear in many spots all over the city of "North Miami" as well as on the northern part of US1/Biscayne Blvd in the city of Miami. These are pole mounted and produce a bright flash for every picture taken. Additionally there are intermittent street signs advising of red light enforcement where the red light enforcement cameras are. Anyways, my point being, if I was to run a red light where I see these front facing cameras, they will have a picture of my face and that is all of the identifying information they will have on me. They will not have a picture of my plate as it's inaccessible and I find it hard to believe they are off running photo matching on drivers license pics based off of these cameras but I could be wrong.
Thanks for the info. Though I still have a few questions, I can google it when and if I want them answered. I don't plan to have a future in electrical engineering and plan to either stay with systems engineer or programming. Either way, while I don't completely understand your answer, it seems that you have demonstrated that you enough that I should accept it. Thanks.
I also know that when I have had to purchase industrial power wiring before that the wire gauge had to be proportional to the amount of amperage I would be passing through the wire as too many amps over an inadequate gauge could result in wire failure and present a fire hazard. Again, I'm just basing this off of items I've read and my experience purchasing industrial electrical wiring. I am not an electrician so please feel free to correct me.
Oh! I also just remembered fuses too. A traditional fuse is a piece of wire in a vacuum sealed glass container where the wire is designed to melt and break if too many amps pass through it. Circuit breakers cut off the electricity if too many amps pass through but I'm under the belief that fuses and circuit breakers exist so that in the event that excessive amperage is pulled through either one, it shuts off the circuit to avoid the fire hazard that can result from sending more then X amps through a wire designed to carry no more then X amps. Now if higher amps are responsible for melting wire as they pass through it then lower amp alternatives would be, it seems to me that higher amps would more likely cook you more thoroughly then lower amps would but I'm just guessing.
I'm open to any and all information and clarifications on this. I'm curious about how the measure of amps relate to the safety of a circuit and how relative potential damage based on the amperage used would be.
It's called a removable battery and virtually all cellphones have one
When I referred to people who don't carry a cell phone, I didn't think I really had to get into details here. My post was informative about a lot of information that you're average reader doesn't know. I think we'd be pretty hard pressed to find someone old enough to read who wouldn't consider removing the battery from the cell phone to disable tracking but your post seems almost like you're trolling. It's not so much that you recommended another method but in a measly sentence you seem like you're stating a riveting alternative in a condescending manner.
Anyways... I already discussed the untraceable cell phone aspect of the situation but kudos for mentioning another method that cell phone triangulation can be averted.
My guess would be a three-letter-agency, in the "war on (terror|drugs|communism|whatever)"
My guess would agree with you because...
1) If this was a police or city camera, it likely wouldn't have been placed that high up since the lower the camera is, the easier it would be to view the license plate. The higher it is, the greater the viewing angle and the slimmer the image of the plate the harder it becomes for a program to correctly distinguish the important features. Well... this applies to police looking at license plates at least. Automated tickets for running red lights and speeders. I suppose there are possible reasons why the city could have placed them up there and in doing so wanted them as high as possible (I can't think of why they would want them at all but I guess it's possible) but see the reasons below for why I don't think the city would have done this either.
2) If this was a police or city camera, it wouldn't have needed to be placed "in the electric space" on the pole for electricity. The electric space doesn't mean it's the only spot for power on the pole. It means it's reserved for transporting massive amounts of electricity and it's reserved at higher place on the pole so that it doesn't become a hazard to less informed telco and cable company workers. It's dangerous and you don't want anyone near it who isn't fully trained in it. Now a camera doesn't even require a wired connection for communication. We have them all over where I live (Miami and Fort Lauderdale area), you see them all of the time on lights, on the highway, etc, and they all have antennae on them for wireless communications. These cameras can receive power and communicate equally at lower levels (when it's this small level of height difference). The police or city would have no reason or want to place them that high for technical purposes. If the cameras are not wireless equipped or they need a faster connection then what the wireless can provide (high def, high fps over long range wireless from many devices simultaneously) then they would still be in the proper zone for cable or telephone links in that zone. They have everything they need in that zone on the poll.
3) If this were a police or city camera, the power company would have already known, would not have dismounted it and would not have brought it to the police.
4) The police and city would both admit that it belongs to them if it did. It would not be a secret. They have so many bureaucratic policies that they are not allowed to go through some move like that and not inform the public when they did. I remember in a town a grew up in when the police started using cruisers marked as taxis to trick drunk drivers into not thinking it was police, making it easier to follow them without being noticed, etc, I don't remember the details but it was in the paper with a statement from the police about it. Government, at least at these basic levels, are not allowed to keep any secrets. They are required to inform the public (if your city has cameras, try it, ask the police and they will tell you it's theirs).
5) The police and city don't install cameras! They don't have a camera installation department. They don't want or need one. They contract this out. This is a one time roll out. They install the cameras and then they are installed. They wouldn't have a pre-existing camera installation department and if they know that they will have no practical use once the cameras are installed then they wouldn't create this department just to have to disband it soon thereafter. They contract this out to qualified individuals who are familiar with these polls and understand what zones it's allowed to be mounted in.
6) A properly done installation will leave details of the installation at the location. What I mean is these boxes that are mounted on the polls will say something like "Property of Comcast Cable, for problems call 1-800-555-7264" or something like that. It serves to notify people on the pole who
This is getting ridiculous. I remember back in the day where activists actually stood for legitimate principals and hackers were more concerned with security and knowledge then backing the latest BS hippy political agenda. Ok. I'm sure that still happens but this as well as a lot of things making the news recently isn't a great example. A bunch of pathetic wannabe activists protesting apple for the treatment of employees at Foxconn. WTF is this supposed to mean? Employees at Foxconn are employees at Foxconn. They don't get paid by Apple because they don't work for Apple. How in the hell should Apple be responsible for how a third party treats it's employees? Apple is a customer of Foxconn and that's it. I'm not saying the employee conditions at Foxconn shouldn't be questioned but why aren't other Foxconn customers like Cisco and Acer being held equally responsible by the activists. No Cisco and Acer shouldn't be held responsible either but neither should Apple. If anyone should be held responsible it should be Foxconn and if you feel that for some reason you want to hold some higher party responsible for a lower parties actions then next on the list would be the Taiwanese government for allowing these working conditions but even still how about holding the employees responsible among all else because they continue to work there despite the conditions. Foxconn isn't the only electronics manufacturer in Taiwan and don't quote me but rumor has it there may be a bunch there (this would be the point where I make really wide eyes, raise my eyebrows, have my lips parted without my mouth gaping open and shake my head at you like you're an idiot). OMG WTF RLY??? You're saying people can work for other electronics manufacturers in Taiwan besides Foxconn? Why yes, I most certainly am. Just about everything with an integrated circuit in North America and probably the rest of the world has very high probability of coming from one of the many many many electronics companies in Taiwan so if employees at Foxconn really did feel that abused because of where they worked then they would apply at one of the hundreds of other companies in Taiwan that do the exact same thing. Why don't you all grow up and find something more reasonable to protest and hack?
Well it (probably) means that they will have to search elsewhere for the CDMA firmware through with apps like cyanogenmod, which I use, I imagine they have the current one in archive but any tweaks and future releases of such might be difficult to find. On the other hand, they may just be able to pull a live one from a working phone and use that. On yet another hand, they may run into some licensing issues themselves if they make it publicly available. I'm doing a lot of guessing on this comment so don't take it too literally but I imagine that worst case scenario, something will work out that everyone will be happy with. I mean people can still jailbreak their iPhone no matter how hard Apple tries to stop them and I imagine that Cyanogenmod will have a process much much simple and easier then any Apple fan boy trying to jailbreak their iPhone.
Google is just handing over Verizon's & Sprint's customer bases over to Apple, Microsoft and others?
Good Thing you added a question mark because this doesn't mean Google is handing anything over to anyone. Google and Carriers are still more then welcome to use CDMA technology all they like and are free to do anything they want with the phones as long as all the licensing requirements of all the software they use are met. Google removing CDMA from the developer pages is not the same thing as Google saying that the android license and therefor anyone using the android software is now restricted from using CDMA and it can no longer be used because that is not what it means. It means Google is having issues complying with certain licenses by posting the CDMA specs online and therefor they have simply taken it out of the open space where anyone in the world is now able to access it but carriers like Verizon and Sprint and Manufacturers like Samsung, HTC, LG, etc, etc will have no problem obtaining the resources and permissions to develop and implement the CDMA functionality and I'm willing to bet that Google will not only make it easy to load this functionality in a modular way which will ease integration but I also bet that will be aiding with the design and development to these companies to make sure it's done. Don't misinterpret Google taking CDMA from the open developer pages as meaning anything even close to saying Google is not going to allow CDMA on Android phones anymore because one example I can think of already is Sprint, a CDMA provider, has the contract to deploy Galaxy Nexus phones as soon as the exclusivity rights for Verizon finish. People shouldn't jump to conclusions so quickly based on a gross over simplification of what is actually being said without taken a moment to read it thoroughly and make an effort to understand the real implications of the actions. Hope this answers your question.
Yep. I'm deaf, in IT and on call. I have an alarm clock now, designed for deaf people of course, that has the giant vibrator that goes under the pillow. The alarm clock also has a port to plug in a lamp so it can flash the lamp (though this won't help your wife) and a phone port that activates the system whenever someone calls. Basically, if either the alarm goes off or someone calls my on call emergency number then the pillow shakes like it's having a seizure, the lamp on the bed side table goes on, off, on, off, etc and also it has a strobe that flashes. As a bonus it has a 24 hour clock option. I used to have a sonic boom alarm clock for deaf people that also had the phone jack but the clock couldn't keep time. Every week I had to re-adjust it to have the proper time again (every week it would be about 7 minutes off). The downside to all of this is it always woke my girlfriend up too (with the old one that didn't have the flashing lights) but the good news is that giant vibrator you stick under you're pillow can be used for all sorts of other things that your girlfriend or wife may enjoy;-)
I don't know if she looks good. I mean to me she does and sure she's cute but if you look closely at the photo you can see the lines near where the cheeks meet the mouth that says "I'm old". After careful analysis, I wouldn't need to look her up on IMDB to think she looks older then 33 but I can tell she's trying to hide it well.
I agree that any cyanogenmod supported phone is plenty. You can get a phone from the carrier if you want. As long as cyanogenmod says it's supported then you root the phone, install cyanogenmod and can use you phone as a WiFi to 3G/4G hub without requiring any support from your carrier or even for them to understand what it is you are doing. I have used my CM7 powered Evo 4G as a WiFi hotspot for my laptop from time to time without having any contract or support from my carrier to enable this feature.
HTML5 cannot replace webcams to the best of my knowledge. Any site that wants to use your web cam will need flash. I know google is working on doing this with HTML5 but, to the best of my knowledge, it hasn't been released yet and, even when it is, will it be done using pure HTML5? Will it be done with open source code? Maybe but unless it's done in a way that's free and open source (which it very well may be if google does it) and all sites that use web cams adopt this immediately then, unless that's done, then people will still need flash.
I went to Canada in March 2010 and I had an option with AT&T to pay for roaming data. I forget how much but AT&T had the option where I paid them ahead of time for X amount of data to be used from my US AT&T phone while I was in other countries and I would therefor not be billed roaming data rates while I was out of the AT&T network. I went to Canada and used data on my iPhone the whole time and when I got my cell phone bill, I was not charged a dime for roaming aside from the pre-paid cost I agreed to. See if Verizon offers the same thing. I will have to do this as well since I am now on Android with Spring and planning to go back to Canada soon but I have to admit that the AT&T roaming pre-pay was great. I will have to look into this again soon since I am now using Android on Sprint and planning to head up to Canada for a visit.
Oh, and of coarse, use an Android or iPhone as a WiFi hotspot (iPhone supports that. right? I think). If you have a custom rom on your android then you don't even need to pay the fee the cell provider charges you to setup a hotspot on your phone.
No you are doing something very wrong. All distros I know of check the disk via fsck every so often. Typically if it has been more then 45 days since the last fsck run then a check is done at boot time.
Well that could be the case @ stale wiki and if so, then that makes a lot more sense for why Red Hat would choose it. The wiki page should be updated though because that stale wiki would have completely turned me off btrfs for a long time. In this case, I retract what I said if there is in fact fsck capabilities for btrfs.
"a very small risk"? Have you never had a system crash that you have had to reboot? Have you never had to run fsck to scan and correct a disk? Everyone else I know who uses Linux has done both multiple times. This particular "shiny new toys", as you put it, is not production ready if it does not contain fsck capabilities and according to it's authors it does not. When I say "production ready", I am not referring to whether or not it's stable enough to run a production server farm but I mean whether or not it is capable to handle a Linux desktop system that is not designated for beta testing only. I would be happy to run btrfs when everything is complete but right now the authors of btrfs say that a nessecary component for generic system failure issues is not yet complete.
Turn your files into butter is right. Though I don't use Fedora, I was interested to look into btrfs again when I read this post on slashdot.
Much to my surprise, directly from the main btrfs wiki: "Note that Btrfs does not yet have a fsck tool that can fix errors. While Btrfs is stable on a stable machine, it is currently possible to corrupt a filesystem irrecoverably if your machine crashes or loses power on disks that don't handle flush requests correctly. This will be fixed when the fsck tool is ready."
Why would RedHat choose such a file system that does not have basic support for recovery of a file system after a system crashes? This has been an essential part of file systems since the as far back as I can remember.
I agree with the no letter boxing thing. I hate letter boxing but I also don't remember the last time I saw it. I watch all of my movies with mplayer and it's easy to remove letter boxing. First you play the movie for a few seconds somewhere in the middle with the cropdetect option and then you run it again with the crop option. For example, run the movie first with the following command:
This will display, for each frame (25 frames in this case), a line with an option in brackets thats says something like "-vf crop=560:256:86:10". Since my display is 16:10 / 8:5 resolution then I just play the movie like so:
No more letter boxing. Problem solved. If I want to put the whole thing into one command (which can then easily be put into a shell script), assuming you're using bash, here it is as one command:
Remember to replace dvd://1 (in both spots) with the movie you want to watch and "16/10" with the correct aspect ratio of the monitor you are watching it on and you are done. No more letter boxing in your movie.
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Benefits? I have lived in Ontario and Miami both several times. Toronto gets hotter then Miami in the summer. The earth is on a tilt and the areas that get the coldest where winter is seasonal tend to get the hottest in the summer season.
I absorb your argument (on the placement of cables), and, in fact, agree with it completely. What I hadn't considered before replying initially is that you don't see this downtown which is right on the bay. Most of Miami's cables were put in place a long time ago. They didn't put them underground either because the technology wasn't available at the time or it was too expensive. Why do they still exist? Probably because replacing them with underground wiring would be too expensive.
I'm not from Miami and I honestly have never liked the city. I agree regarding how blighted the average street is. I live in a good neighborhood, one of the few where I don't have to worry about running into drug dealers, hookers and general thugs plus homeless people begging for money 2 blocks from a homeless shelter. This is not a city worth visiting. I'm only here for work. Miami is a cesspool.
Oh and also the city of Miami Beach as well as the beach in Fort Lauderdale and all similar areas in south Florida (and probably all eastern sea side cities in Florida) are on what is known as the barrier island. It's basically a small width of land running up the eastern coast that ranges in width of 3 city blocks to 20 city blocks with the ocean on one side and the intercoastal waterway canal on the other side.
Miami cannot place their electric cables or much of any cables underground because ground level is about 5 - 50 feet above sea level. I have a boat dock on the intercoastal canal in my back yard. I live in a city in Miami-Dade called Bay Harbor Islands (google it). I lived on the street Hendricks Isle. in Fort Lauderdale a few years ago which was literally a street and a island at the same time. We also don't have basements here for the same reason and puddle flooding is common during heavy rains and hurricanes. South Florida is flat, there are no hills and there are canals everywhere. This is probably a big reason why Ft. Lauderdale is the yachting capital of the world. Now tell me this is a safe place to put electrical cables underground. Hurricanes and tropical storms are common in south Florida. It's been a quiet hurricane season since 2005 and I've been surprised but I remember before 2005, we'd typically get hit with at least one hurricane a year. So yeah, underground wiring is a high hazard where I live. I remember where I grew up in Canada, just outside of Toronto and everything was underground but I understand why underground wiring cannot be easily run at sea level ground.
You have some good points about why they would prefer to identify the drivers but in a state without front facing license plates, identifying the front of the car without the back just means they have a picture of you without actually knowing who you are or what car you were driving? I think that makes it pretty hard to actually identify who the driver is. I have not seen these front facing cameras in the same neighborhoods (or under the same jurisdiction) as the neighborhoods that have red light enforcement cameras. For example I have seen these front facing cameras all over Fort Lauderdale (I have family there and used to live there for a few years). Fort Lauderdale is part of Broward country, one county north of Miami-Dade county. I have also spotted a couple (literally only a couple) in Brickel village which is part of Miami-Dade just south of downtown Miami (some consider it part of downtown) these cameras are always mounted on the traffic lights facing the front of a car that only has a license plate if it's from outside of Florida. Now the red light ticker cameras on the other hand, which are actually newer as I have watched them appear in many spots all over the city of "North Miami" as well as on the northern part of US1/Biscayne Blvd in the city of Miami. These are pole mounted and produce a bright flash for every picture taken. Additionally there are intermittent street signs advising of red light enforcement where the red light enforcement cameras are. Anyways, my point being, if I was to run a red light where I see these front facing cameras, they will have a picture of my face and that is all of the identifying information they will have on me. They will not have a picture of my plate as it's inaccessible and I find it hard to believe they are off running photo matching on drivers license pics based off of these cameras but I could be wrong.
Thanks for the info. Though I still have a few questions, I can google it when and if I want them answered. I don't plan to have a future in electrical engineering and plan to either stay with systems engineer or programming. Either way, while I don't completely understand your answer, it seems that you have demonstrated that you enough that I should accept it. Thanks.
The "amps" have nothing to do with it
You may be right. I am not an electrician but from what I have read, I know that amperage is a measure of the amount of electric charge passing a point in an electric circuit per unit time. Again, I am not an electrician so you may be right but to me it seems like this means it's a measurement of how much of the 110 volts my body would receive in the time frame of a shock.
I also know that when I have had to purchase industrial power wiring before that the wire gauge had to be proportional to the amount of amperage I would be passing through the wire as too many amps over an inadequate gauge could result in wire failure and present a fire hazard. Again, I'm just basing this off of items I've read and my experience purchasing industrial electrical wiring. I am not an electrician so please feel free to correct me.
Oh! I also just remembered fuses too. A traditional fuse is a piece of wire in a vacuum sealed glass container where the wire is designed to melt and break if too many amps pass through it. Circuit breakers cut off the electricity if too many amps pass through but I'm under the belief that fuses and circuit breakers exist so that in the event that excessive amperage is pulled through either one, it shuts off the circuit to avoid the fire hazard that can result from sending more then X amps through a wire designed to carry no more then X amps. Now if higher amps are responsible for melting wire as they pass through it then lower amp alternatives would be, it seems to me that higher amps would more likely cook you more thoroughly then lower amps would but I'm just guessing.
I'm open to any and all information and clarifications on this. I'm curious about how the measure of amps relate to the safety of a circuit and how relative potential damage based on the amperage used would be.
It's called a removable battery and virtually all cellphones have one
When I referred to people who don't carry a cell phone, I didn't think I really had to get into details here. My post was informative about a lot of information that you're average reader doesn't know. I think we'd be pretty hard pressed to find someone old enough to read who wouldn't consider removing the battery from the cell phone to disable tracking but your post seems almost like you're trolling. It's not so much that you recommended another method but in a measly sentence you seem like you're stating a riveting alternative in a condescending manner.
Anyways... I already discussed the untraceable cell phone aspect of the situation but kudos for mentioning another method that cell phone triangulation can be averted.
My guess would be a three-letter-agency, in the "war on (terror|drugs|communism|whatever)"
My guess would agree with you because...
This is getting ridiculous. I remember back in the day where activists actually stood for legitimate principals and hackers were more concerned with security and knowledge then backing the latest BS hippy political agenda. Ok. I'm sure that still happens but this as well as a lot of things making the news recently isn't a great example. A bunch of pathetic wannabe activists protesting apple for the treatment of employees at Foxconn. WTF is this supposed to mean? Employees at Foxconn are employees at Foxconn. They don't get paid by Apple because they don't work for Apple. How in the hell should Apple be responsible for how a third party treats it's employees? Apple is a customer of Foxconn and that's it. I'm not saying the employee conditions at Foxconn shouldn't be questioned but why aren't other Foxconn customers like Cisco and Acer being held equally responsible by the activists. No Cisco and Acer shouldn't be held responsible either but neither should Apple. If anyone should be held responsible it should be Foxconn and if you feel that for some reason you want to hold some higher party responsible for a lower parties actions then next on the list would be the Taiwanese government for allowing these working conditions but even still how about holding the employees responsible among all else because they continue to work there despite the conditions. Foxconn isn't the only electronics manufacturer in Taiwan and don't quote me but rumor has it there may be a bunch there (this would be the point where I make really wide eyes, raise my eyebrows, have my lips parted without my mouth gaping open and shake my head at you like you're an idiot). OMG WTF RLY??? You're saying people can work for other electronics manufacturers in Taiwan besides Foxconn? Why yes, I most certainly am. Just about everything with an integrated circuit in North America and probably the rest of the world has very high probability of coming from one of the many many many electronics companies in Taiwan so if employees at Foxconn really did feel that abused because of where they worked then they would apply at one of the hundreds of other companies in Taiwan that do the exact same thing. Why don't you all grow up and find something more reasonable to protest and hack?
Well it (probably) means that they will have to search elsewhere for the CDMA firmware through with apps like cyanogenmod, which I use, I imagine they have the current one in archive but any tweaks and future releases of such might be difficult to find. On the other hand, they may just be able to pull a live one from a working phone and use that. On yet another hand, they may run into some licensing issues themselves if they make it publicly available. I'm doing a lot of guessing on this comment so don't take it too literally but I imagine that worst case scenario, something will work out that everyone will be happy with. I mean people can still jailbreak their iPhone no matter how hard Apple tries to stop them and I imagine that Cyanogenmod will have a process much much simple and easier then any Apple fan boy trying to jailbreak their iPhone.
I think I have them but mostly haven't used them so I have to ask, is that good or bad?
Google is just handing over Verizon's & Sprint's customer bases over to Apple, Microsoft and others?
Good Thing you added a question mark because this doesn't mean Google is handing anything over to anyone. Google and Carriers are still more then welcome to use CDMA technology all they like and are free to do anything they want with the phones as long as all the licensing requirements of all the software they use are met. Google removing CDMA from the developer pages is not the same thing as Google saying that the android license and therefor anyone using the android software is now restricted from using CDMA and it can no longer be used because that is not what it means. It means Google is having issues complying with certain licenses by posting the CDMA specs online and therefor they have simply taken it out of the open space where anyone in the world is now able to access it but carriers like Verizon and Sprint and Manufacturers like Samsung, HTC, LG, etc, etc will have no problem obtaining the resources and permissions to develop and implement the CDMA functionality and I'm willing to bet that Google will not only make it easy to load this functionality in a modular way which will ease integration but I also bet that will be aiding with the design and development to these companies to make sure it's done. Don't misinterpret Google taking CDMA from the open developer pages as meaning anything even close to saying Google is not going to allow CDMA on Android phones anymore because one example I can think of already is Sprint, a CDMA provider, has the contract to deploy Galaxy Nexus phones as soon as the exclusivity rights for Verizon finish. People shouldn't jump to conclusions so quickly based on a gross over simplification of what is actually being said without taken a moment to read it thoroughly and make an effort to understand the real implications of the actions. Hope this answers your question.
Yep. I'm deaf, in IT and on call. I have an alarm clock now, designed for deaf people of course, that has the giant vibrator that goes under the pillow. The alarm clock also has a port to plug in a lamp so it can flash the lamp (though this won't help your wife) and a phone port that activates the system whenever someone calls. Basically, if either the alarm goes off or someone calls my on call emergency number then the pillow shakes like it's having a seizure, the lamp on the bed side table goes on, off, on, off, etc and also it has a strobe that flashes. As a bonus it has a 24 hour clock option. I used to have a sonic boom alarm clock for deaf people that also had the phone jack but the clock couldn't keep time. Every week I had to re-adjust it to have the proper time again (every week it would be about 7 minutes off). The downside to all of this is it always woke my girlfriend up too (with the old one that didn't have the flashing lights) but the good news is that giant vibrator you stick under you're pillow can be used for all sorts of other things that your girlfriend or wife may enjoy ;-)
I don't know if she looks good. I mean to me she does and sure she's cute but if you look closely at the photo you can see the lines near where the cheeks meet the mouth that says "I'm old". After careful analysis, I wouldn't need to look her up on IMDB to think she looks older then 33 but I can tell she's trying to hide it well.
I agree that any cyanogenmod supported phone is plenty. You can get a phone from the carrier if you want. As long as cyanogenmod says it's supported then you root the phone, install cyanogenmod and can use you phone as a WiFi to 3G/4G hub without requiring any support from your carrier or even for them to understand what it is you are doing. I have used my CM7 powered Evo 4G as a WiFi hotspot for my laptop from time to time without having any contract or support from my carrier to enable this feature.
Dental floss? I got a spool of waxed linen sold just for lacing cables for $3 at the local hardware store.
HTML5 cannot replace webcams to the best of my knowledge. Any site that wants to use your web cam will need flash. I know google is working on doing this with HTML5 but, to the best of my knowledge, it hasn't been released yet and, even when it is, will it be done using pure HTML5? Will it be done with open source code? Maybe but unless it's done in a way that's free and open source (which it very well may be if google does it) and all sites that use web cams adopt this immediately then, unless that's done, then people will still need flash.
I went to Canada in March 2010 and I had an option with AT&T to pay for roaming data. I forget how much but AT&T had the option where I paid them ahead of time for X amount of data to be used from my US AT&T phone while I was in other countries and I would therefor not be billed roaming data rates while I was out of the AT&T network. I went to Canada and used data on my iPhone the whole time and when I got my cell phone bill, I was not charged a dime for roaming aside from the pre-paid cost I agreed to. See if Verizon offers the same thing. I will have to do this as well since I am now on Android with Spring and planning to go back to Canada soon but I have to admit that the AT&T roaming pre-pay was great. I will have to look into this again soon since I am now using Android on Sprint and planning to head up to Canada for a visit. Oh, and of coarse, use an Android or iPhone as a WiFi hotspot (iPhone supports that. right? I think). If you have a custom rom on your android then you don't even need to pay the fee the cell provider charges you to setup a hotspot on your phone.
No you are doing something very wrong. All distros I know of check the disk via fsck every so often. Typically if it has been more then 45 days since the last fsck run then a check is done at boot time.
Well that could be the case @ stale wiki and if so, then that makes a lot more sense for why Red Hat would choose it. The wiki page should be updated though because that stale wiki would have completely turned me off btrfs for a long time. In this case, I retract what I said if there is in fact fsck capabilities for btrfs.
"a very small risk"? Have you never had a system crash that you have had to reboot? Have you never had to run fsck to scan and correct a disk? Everyone else I know who uses Linux has done both multiple times. This particular "shiny new toys", as you put it, is not production ready if it does not contain fsck capabilities and according to it's authors it does not. When I say "production ready", I am not referring to whether or not it's stable enough to run a production server farm but I mean whether or not it is capable to handle a Linux desktop system that is not designated for beta testing only. I would be happy to run btrfs when everything is complete but right now the authors of btrfs say that a nessecary component for generic system failure issues is not yet complete.
Turn your files into butter is right. Though I don't use Fedora, I was interested to look into btrfs again when I read this post on slashdot.
Much to my surprise, directly from the main btrfs wiki: "Note that Btrfs does not yet have a fsck tool that can fix errors. While Btrfs is stable on a stable machine, it is currently possible to corrupt a filesystem irrecoverably if your machine crashes or loses power on disks that don't handle flush requests correctly. This will be fixed when the fsck tool is ready."
Why would RedHat choose such a file system that does not have basic support for recovery of a file system after a system crashes? This has been an essential part of file systems since the as far back as I can remember.
I agree with the no letter boxing thing. I hate letter boxing but I also don't remember the last time I saw it. I watch all of my movies with mplayer and it's easy to remove letter boxing. First you play the movie for a few seconds somewhere in the middle with the cropdetect option and then you run it again with the crop option. For example, run the movie first with the following command:
mplayer dvd://1 -vf cropdetect -ss 600 -frames 25 -vf cropdetect -vo null
This will display, for each frame (25 frames in this case), a line with an option in brackets thats says something like "-vf crop=560:256:86:10". Since my display is 16:10 / 8:5 resolution then I just play the movie like so:
mplayer gamelbx.avi -vf crop=560:256:86:10,dsize=16/10
No more letter boxing. Problem solved. If I want to put the whole thing into one command (which can then easily be put into a shell script), assuming you're using bash, here it is as one command:
mplayer dvd://1 -vf $(mplayer dvd://1 -vf cropdetect -ss 600 -frames 25 -vf cropdetect -vo null 2>&1 | sed -e '/^\[CROP\]/!d;s/.* (-vf \([^)]\+\).*/\1/' | tail -1),dsize=16/10
Remember to replace dvd://1 (in both spots) with the movie you want to watch and "16/10" with the correct aspect ratio of the monitor you are watching it on and you are done. No more letter boxing in your movie.
Because the 1080p monitor was cheaper and on sale then the 1920x1200 even though I wanted the 1920x1200.