It's true he invested money into Real networks (anyone use RealPlayer lately? Thought not.) Mark is a good example of the write once-read-many kind of things.
Sadly, everything he's ever touched has ended up on the back end of a donkey. Real-networks. Sorry, glad you made your buck back, nobody uses it. The Mavericks? Yes, they won... nothing. HDnet? That's like the ONLY US HD TV network never to succeed in HD.
Mark Cuban is the Charlie Brown of kicking a good investment to the... whoops, Lucy just pulled it out from right under him./. mods - suck it.
Hi anonymous-E, you write: "I didn't see a question in the original post"
At the top of the page, see the squiggly thing on the right side: "Ask Slashdot: Hobbyist-Ready LCD Touch Panel For Embedded Projects?"
You add: "asking you to display your arrogance... troll much? need a hug?
It's not arrogance to point out the OP has a bias toward both embedded systems and touch-screens. It's not even trolling to suggest to him [and other posters] that there are other methods of SOLVING PROBLEMS but step one is to identify said PROBLEMS and step two is to work on SOLUTIONS. One doesn't start from "hey um er uh like yeah which touch-screen should I use with my embedded system answer to everything that my family and friends [please don't let me die of laughter] asked me to solve"
I accept your hug. Thank you:)
E (lest anyone wonder, I am me, Ehud Gavron, and the anonymous E is not me, and I'm neither conversing with myself nor offering myself a hug. It just appears someone else signs their posts the same way. I'm never anonymous.)
I know... you want help finding the touch screen. I'd love to help. Let me jump to the beginning.
> I've been asked (by family, friends) to consider several small embedded controller projects. A good starting point for all of them...
No, that's YOUR bias showing through. A good starting point would be to a. List the problem you're trying to solve or the process you're trying to improve b. Identify the right technology to do that. It MAY be that it's embedded controllers and it MAY be that they require a touch-screen, but seeing as we've been in the industrial age for hundreds of years and the electronic age for decades, and touch-screens for dozens, that MAY NOT be the magical answer to everything. c. Choose the right combination of b to solve a.
Good luck with that. I think your (family, friends) have asked the wrong guy. You're biased toward embedded controllers and touch screens. I don't know how you'll make sure my lawn waters regularly (hint: mechanical timer), my lights turn on at dusk and off at dawn (hint: opto-electric switch), and how my car turns its headlights on magically when the sun goes down (cluebyfour: it's not embedded nor touchscreen).
When all you have in your head is a hammer, the world looks like a nail.
> I hope it works out as well as the Facebook IPO.
WHAT??? ARE YOU HIGH???
Half of the shares trades made PROFIT!
I've have loved to be a seller on that IPO.
Don't blame the process. Don't even blame the idiots who bid $43 for a product worth $0.13. It's supply and demand. Some people thought "WooHoo I got it at $38 and it's worth $0.13 so I'll sell it for $38" Other people said "Wow I think I'll buy it for $43". They met in the middle. That is how gambling works.
Those two fast ethernet ports must have been "mighty" expensive;)
Configuration: 1 Big Honking Cisco Router - 1 Port to the carrier (TDM or FE) 1 Port to the LAN (FE) 1 Library or rural school grade 24 port switch for the 4 workstations ---------- $22K
"We wanted to include Media Player for everyone without everyone incurring the cost even if they don't even have an optical drive."
Yes, those people in Ethernopia upgrading to Windows 8 will certainly appreciate those "single-digit" dollar savings. Meanwhile, the rest of the [non-apple non-linux must-use-for-my-office] lemmings will be screaming their heads off in frustration.
New Coke. All over again.
Microsoft... you shoot yourself in the foot more times than the rest of us want to. Thank you.
E "So these two Dothraki and a Klingon walk into a bar..."
Yes leave it there. No two cameras. No self-maneuvering. No GPS. No valley winds. The problem with the specs is you can meet one or more of them... but to meet ALL OF THEM at a low cost? Never.
There's nothing on Earth that can do what you want. Your requirements are self-defeating.
I'm a helicopter pilot. I own 10 R/C helis. I've flown UAVs. I only own two R/C fixed-wing aircraft. One has one camera on it.
Weight is everything. You want a 20Km range and 2 high-def cameras. Those things fly at 160Km/H max. You're talking 15 minutes "there" and back. Not going to happen today.
The modern airliner cabin is pressurized to a pressure altitude of 8,000ft. That means that as you go from airport altitude to your cruising altitude the cabin only increases in pressure to feel like 8,000ft.
That's below the 10,000ft where the OP claims cotton-mouth, and below the 14,000 where you can't breath, and well below the 35,000 OP cites as cruising altitude.
> "Today, Microsoft announced in what it called its 'most complex effort to disrupt botnets to date,'
Microsoft Windows = Botnets. If it weren't for Windows being one vulnerability after another there would be no viruses, worms, Trojan horses, bots, botnets, C&C, DDoS, or other compromised systems.
Microsoft's INSISTENCE that W95 should allow W3.1 software to run... that W98 should allow W3.1 software to run... that even with the NT kernel in place W3.1 software should still run (W2K, WXP), and even with the UAC W3.1 software should still run (WVista, W7) is what makes these "horrors" come to life.
If there's one finger to point, it is pointed at Microsoft. That is the company that is hell-bent on making sure they collect as much money as they can offering meager upgrades in function but NEVER adding security. That way old DOS 3.1 programs still work fine on today's PC, and Viruses and worms and botnets have no problems taking an unprivileged process into full kernel control.
Microsoft CAUSES botnets. Their pitiful efforts to tweak one or two C&C servers are beneath contempt.
The FCC has no juris[my]diction on anything to do with the Internet other than the inter-lata circuits it may use. As to content, oversight, best practices, etc. they are not relevant.
Botnets aren't necessarily bad (think SETI at home). Cloud computing isn't bad. Encryption isn't bad.
You know what's bad? "Throttling", "N strikes", "watching your users' content". Those are all wrong.
Finally someone posts a succinct and informative financially correct explanation assets, equity, liabilities and debt. What does he get modded: 2.
moderators: Instead of following each other like lemming looking for the Heh Heh (Nelson Muntz) posts, and modding everything that bores you down... if you can't be bothered to understand the topic, just leave it alone and go mod something you do understand. Toilet humor and all that are that way --->
The parent is correct, informative, and on-topic.
You see, dear mods who modded it down, you're affecting future slashdot readers' ability to read this very informative post. You make slashdot worse.
Remeber what Larry Niven said -- Think of it as Evoution in action. Take the right step, and step off.
Russell Brand wouldn't have to worry about it if he hadn't STOLEN a pap's phone. (What he did with it later is irrelevant).
DON'T TOUCH OTHER PEOPLE'S STUFF. Don't like their camera? Sorry. Don't like their phone? Sorry. Don't like their iPad? (stupid, I know, but the OP mentioned iPads so I am bringing it up for completeness.)
I don't care if you're a Hollywood Celebrity, a faux Paris Hilton celeb, or just someone who's self important.
DON'T TOUCH OTHER PEOPLE'S STUFF. Then you won't have to wonder if you committed a felony or misdemeanor by your UNLAWFUL ACT.
Wait... let me summarize. ACT LAWFULLY AND KEEP YOUR HANDS TO YOURSELF. Don't try to claim your act of vandalism is "only a misdemeanor." It's really "only" poor manners and UNLAWFUL on your part.
Please explain why encryption ensures their[sic] performing their job without interference? Then when you're done, explain why Congress shouldn't encrypt and never publish their work, so as to prevent those pesky media people, those "liberal bloggers", and those "Occupy" people from protesting.
After all, a lack of transparency and accountability seems to be what you think is necessary for their[sic] performing their job.
I would respond further but it will be encrypted. That makes it easier for me to get my point across and you not to be able to respond. Trust me, it's for your own good.
Yeah, actually I did. I said "I'll beg _that_ question" (emphasis added) as to "The police _need_ to have encrypted communication." I didn't ask for why that is, did not address whether it's true or not, and proceeded further. That's begging the question. > WTF? Yourself.
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It's true he invested money into Real networks (anyone use RealPlayer lately? Thought not.)
Mark is a good example of the write once-read-many kind of things.
Sadly, everything he's ever touched has ended up on the back end of a donkey.
Real-networks. Sorry, glad you made your buck back, nobody uses it.
The Mavericks? Yes, they won... nothing.
HDnet? That's like the ONLY US HD TV network never to succeed in HD.
Mark Cuban is the Charlie Brown of kicking a good investment to the... whoops, /. mods - suck it.
Lucy just pulled it out from right under him.
E
You make a good point, Keith.
I'll try and keep _my_ bias out of it going forward.
Lesson learned.
Thanks, brother.
E
I have a ReplayTV (3 of them). They were sued. The company went out of business.
The devices still skip right past commercials. That's why I use them.
E
Hi anonymous-E, you write:
"I didn't see a question in the original post"
At the top of the page, see the squiggly thing on the right side:
"Ask Slashdot: Hobbyist-Ready LCD Touch Panel For Embedded Projects?"
You add:
"asking you to display your arrogance... troll much? need a hug?
It's not arrogance to point out the OP has a bias toward both embedded systems and touch-screens.
It's not even trolling to suggest to him [and other posters] that there are other methods of SOLVING PROBLEMS
but step one is to identify said PROBLEMS and step two is to work on SOLUTIONS. One doesn't start from
"hey um er uh like yeah which touch-screen should I use with my embedded system answer to everything that
my family and friends [please don't let me die of laughter] asked me to solve"
I accept your hug. Thank you :)
E
(lest anyone wonder, I am me, Ehud Gavron, and the anonymous E is not me, and I'm neither conversing with
myself nor offering myself a hug. It just appears someone else signs their posts the same way. I'm never anonymous.)
I know... you want help finding the touch screen. I'd love to help. Let me jump to the beginning.
> I've been asked (by family, friends) to consider several small embedded controller projects. A good starting point for all of them...
No, that's YOUR bias showing through. A good starting point would be to
a. List the problem you're trying to solve or the process you're trying to improve
b. Identify the right technology to do that. It MAY be that it's embedded controllers and it MAY be that they require a touch-screen, but seeing as we've been in the industrial age for hundreds of years and the electronic age for decades, and touch-screens for dozens, that MAY NOT be the magical answer to everything.
c. Choose the right combination of b to solve a.
Good luck with that. I think your (family, friends) have asked the wrong guy. You're biased toward embedded controllers and touch screens.
I don't know how you'll make sure my lawn waters regularly (hint: mechanical timer), my lights turn on at dusk and off at dawn (hint: opto-electric switch),
and how my car turns its headlights on magically when the sun goes down (cluebyfour: it's not embedded nor touchscreen).
When all you have in your head is a hammer, the world looks like a nail.
You're the wrong tool.
E
> I hope it works out as well as the Facebook IPO.
WHAT??? ARE YOU HIGH???
Half of the shares trades made PROFIT!
I've have loved to be a seller on that IPO.
Don't blame the process. Don't even blame the idiots who bid $43 for a product worth $0.13. It's supply and demand.
Some people thought "WooHoo I got it at $38 and it's worth $0.13 so I'll sell it for $38" Other people said "Wow I
think I'll buy it for $43". They met in the middle. That is how gambling works.
E
Those two fast ethernet ports must have been "mighty" expensive ;)
Configuration:
1 Big Honking Cisco Router -
1 Port to the carrier (TDM or FE)
1 Port to the LAN (FE)
1 Library or rural school grade 24 port switch for the 4 workstations
----------
$22K
LOL right?
E
It's still overkill, but these are not $22K routers. They're $6K routers.
http://tinyurl.com/7ovtywa
Ehud
"We wanted to include Media Player for everyone without everyone incurring the cost even if they don't even have an optical drive."
Yes, those people in Ethernopia upgrading to Windows 8 will certainly appreciate those "single-digit" dollar savings.
Meanwhile, the rest of the [non-apple non-linux must-use-for-my-office] lemmings will be screaming their heads off in frustration.
New Coke. All over again.
Microsoft... you shoot yourself in the foot more times than the rest of us want to. Thank you.
E
"So these two Dothraki and a Klingon walk into a bar..."
He couldn't run GPG on his paper abacus.
E
Yes leave it there. No two cameras. No self-maneuvering. No GPS. No valley winds. The problem with the specs is you can meet one or more of them... but to meet ALL OF THEM at a low cost? Never.
E
This post belonged on 2012-04-01.
There's nothing on Earth that can do what you want.
Your requirements are self-defeating.
I'm a helicopter pilot.
I own 10 R/C helis.
I've flown UAVs.
I only own two R/C fixed-wing aircraft.
One has one camera on it.
Weight is everything. You want a 20Km range and
2 high-def cameras. Those things fly at 160Km/H max.
You're talking 15 minutes "there" and back. Not going to happen today.
*puff the magic dragon*
E
The modern airliner cabin is pressurized to a pressure altitude of 8,000ft.
That means that as you go from airport altitude to your cruising altitude the cabin only increases
in pressure to feel like 8,000ft.
That's below the 10,000ft where the OP claims cotton-mouth, and below the 14,000 where you
can't breath, and well below the 35,000 OP cites as cruising altitude.
See: http://tinyurl.com/brmpv3j
The original article is just pure hogwash.
E
No, no.
Fuck you.
You can't even administer a secure operating system correctly.
That makes you not only stupid, but incompetently so.
Go kill yourself.
E
> "Today, Microsoft announced in what it called its 'most complex effort to disrupt botnets to date,'
Microsoft Windows = Botnets. If it weren't for Windows being one vulnerability after another there would be no viruses, worms, Trojan horses, bots, botnets, C&C, DDoS, or other compromised systems.
Microsoft's INSISTENCE that W95 should allow W3.1 software to run... that W98 should allow W3.1 software to run... that even with the NT kernel in place W3.1 software should still run (W2K, WXP), and even with the UAC W3.1 software should still run (WVista, W7) is what makes these "horrors" come to life.
If there's one finger to point, it is pointed at Microsoft. That is the company that is hell-bent on making sure they collect as much money as they can offering meager upgrades in function but NEVER adding security. That way old DOS 3.1 programs still work fine on today's PC, and Viruses and worms and botnets have no problems taking an unprivileged process into full kernel control.
Microsoft CAUSES botnets. Their pitiful efforts to tweak one or two C&C servers are beneath contempt.
E
The FCC has no juris[my]diction on anything to do with the Internet other than the inter-lata circuits it may use.
As to content, oversight, best practices, etc. they are not relevant.
Botnets aren't necessarily bad (think SETI at home). Cloud computing isn't bad. Encryption isn't bad.
You know what's bad? "Throttling", "N strikes", "watching your users' content". Those are all wrong.
E
Finally someone posts a succinct and informative financially correct explanation assets, equity, liabilities and debt.
What does he get modded: 2.
moderators: Instead of following each other like lemming looking for the Heh Heh (Nelson Muntz) posts,
and modding everything that bores you down... if you can't be bothered to understand the topic, just leave it alone
and go mod something you do understand. Toilet humor and all that are that way --->
The parent is correct, informative, and on-topic.
You see, dear mods who modded it down, you're affecting future slashdot readers' ability to read this very
informative post. You make slashdot worse.
Remeber what Larry Niven said -- Think of it as Evoution in action. Take the right step, and step off.
E
If that pap is violating Russell's free space, Russell doesn't get to shoot him, kick him, or steal his iphone.
He can do what we're all supposed to do. Call the police.
If he does anything else (much as most of us might do) he has acted unlawfully.
The key is not "was he provoked" because that's not part of the standard of the law for felonious theft. It's "were his actions legal?"
They were not.
Feel free to hit your brother as you see fit. It's still battery.
E
Russell Brand wouldn't have to worry about it if he hadn't STOLEN a pap's phone. (What he did with it later is irrelevant).
DON'T TOUCH OTHER PEOPLE'S STUFF. Don't like their camera? Sorry. Don't like their phone? Sorry. Don't like their iPad? (stupid, I know, but the OP mentioned iPads so I am bringing it up for completeness.)
I don't care if you're a Hollywood Celebrity, a faux Paris Hilton celeb, or just someone who's self important.
DON'T TOUCH OTHER PEOPLE'S STUFF.
Then you won't have to wonder if you committed a felony or misdemeanor by your UNLAWFUL ACT.
Wait... let me summarize. ACT LAWFULLY AND KEEP YOUR HANDS TO YOURSELF. Don't try to claim your act of vandalism is "only a misdemeanor." It's really "only" poor manners and UNLAWFUL on your part.
Cheers and all that.
E
We need more friends who censor our internet, support our enemies (Syria) and attack our friends (Israel).
Long live Turkey. It's not just a bird eaten on Thanksgiving... it's also a country of terrorists supporting other terrorists.
Quick let's give them money. Maybe they won't stab us in the back, kill israelis, support Syrian oppression, and do something useful.
*puff*
E
Cduffy, please stop repeating yourself when it's already been addressed.
Read the discussion. Contribute where you can.
I've shown where I begged the question of whether police need encrypted communication.
If you can't follow the thread, just move on.
E
Giant Douche.
Please explain why encryption ensures their[sic] performing their job without interference?
Then when you're done, explain why Congress shouldn't encrypt and never publish their work, so as to prevent those pesky media people, those "liberal bloggers", and those "Occupy" people from protesting.
After all, a lack of transparency and accountability seems to be what you think is necessary for their[sic] performing their job.
I would respond further but it will be encrypted. That makes it easier for me to get my point across and you not to be able to respond. Trust me, it's for your own good.
E
Yeah, actually I did. I said "I'll beg _that_ question" (emphasis added) as to "The police _need_ to have encrypted communication." I didn't ask for why that is, did not address whether it's true or not, and proceeded further. That's begging the question.
> WTF?
Yourself.
E
It's important for the police to have secure encrypted communication?
Ok, I'll beg that question.
In that case then if I encrypt my hard drive the police shouldn't come asking me to decrypt it.
Oh. Wait, now there are double standards. You like that Law Enforcement can force me to give away the encryption key but they get to keep it.
Nuh uh, Opey. Keep dreaming.
E