Except that, for Glass, it makes all the sense having a Camera. Being able to capture what you see (be it for fun, security, or even mischievous purposes) makes a whole lot of difference.
It's about time they restrict (or at least make it more difficult) for people to have older cars instead of new. Like Japan. The older the car gets, the more expensive it it to keep it with the regulations.
For example, the same thing should be applied to Brazil (where I live). Here, licensing and taxes for older cars are cheaper than newer ones, because it's based percentage of market value. And if the car reaches 20 years-old, it's not even taxed anymore. It's stupid, making it easy for some ignorant douche to keep a dangerous, slow, polluting piece of 80's crap on the street. It should be the other way around.
'It would be considered as an [incentive] to terrorism and would give precise ideas to terrorists on the know-how (the methodology) and the details regarding the USA (but also how to find weaknesses in other countries).
Should we really believe that the so called terrorists don't already know what he's talking about? And why should we believe that, just because it hasn't been exploited on a large, TERRORIST, scale?
I mean, be them terrorists, but very likely, they're not stupid. If he in 4 months "discovered" this, I see nothing keeping some bright young hacker with a strong motive from finding this out too.
Well, for an Oppo N1 user, makes no difference what angle you hold it, you can point the camera anywhere.
And there's also the other point given in the summary: if you want to record people, it's much easier to buy a cheap and small camera from China and conceal it.
Fearing being recorded is just stupid to me, because it can be happening any time, all the time, with or without your knowledge. And that will make you fearful ALL THE TIME, when it doesn't really matter.
I imagine a distant future where we find a way to extract our memories into electronic files. What then? Will you be fighting people that look at you for too long because then your image can be imprinted on their memory?
We are talking about the dimension we seem to exist at this very moment. Unless you are posting from another one, everything our parent poster said holds true to the letter. Without his contributions, the world and industry we know RIGHT NOW would not hove existed.
PS: If in fact you are speaking from a parallel universe, then I welcome you into our dimension, and string theorists can rejoice.
You want choice, you can always go for one of these.
I find it weird that I don't see as much coverage for this nice little product from a small company as I see for speculative, unfinished and proprietary products like this.
What about creating a law that prohibits marketing companies from creating any type of campaign that doesn't inform the target that it is marketing?
In the same way that cigarettes are not allowed to be sold without the health disclaimer.
It would turn out to be much more effective to prohibit, punishable by law, this kind of behavior from marketing companies than ENCOURAGE the company to not do it again by fiscal penalty. That's because if that marketing actually generated, say, $50 million in revenue for the company, even if we make them pay the highest possible amount of $10 for this lawsuit, where's the guarantee that they wouldn't do it again?
I'm looking forward to languages that integrate completely with an IDE, and leave simple character representation (ASCII e.a.) behind.
I think the closest we might get to that would be Visual Programming Languages, but most of them seem to apply only to niches like 3D modeling, animations, teaching, analysis.
It seems pretty hard to be able to create an "all purpose", like C, Visual Programming Language. Sure, we can always dream.
I humbly appreciate your corrections to my incorrect acronym usages.
Which, while it might be reasonable to describe as "open source" (though misleading, which is why that phrase has rarely been used that way except by makers of non-FLOSS products trying to cash in on the appeal of Open Source without actually providing it), is not and never has been a definition of "Open Source".
It actually has. Before "Open Source" being trademarked with OSI, "open source" referred to FOSS and COSS, but due to the improper usage of the term by companies that only "partially" opened their source code, it was replaced by terms of FOSS and COSS and "Open Source" began to mean the original definitions by OSI. See FOSS.
Maybe the author should have used the term FOSS instead of "open source", but the one who misled the definition used by him was I, who used in the same way as "Open Source" in my first post. Still, I agree with the author that the way the referred software was developed resembled in some way the movement we see today.
Damn it, I lost the game thanks to your signature.
Anyway, people tend to confuse and correlate the words "Open Source" with specific licenses (GPL, FSF) and organizations (FOSS, GNU).
The article clearly states, Open Source, assuming we use the definition, "of or relating to or being computer software for which the source code is freely available", and, in the referred case, change it, if you RTFA. We shouldn't try to fit the referred software in one or more of today's definitions of Open Source, because it pretty muchs predates all of this. The article just mentions that the way the development of such software worked reminds and may have influenced the Licenses, Organizations, and movement we know today.
Wow, and I thought Brazil's broadband plans were bad enough. At least here we can count on the ISP's incompetence to keep the caps.
My plan is a mere 4Mbps/600kbps with a limit of 40GB, in and outbound, all together (please don't repeat what I said). If if go over the limit, they normally cap it to a 200kbps/200kbps, no extra charge (at least). But the thing is, my peak last month was about 200GB downloaded (280 if counting the upload too). And that's from monitoring using my router's (DD-WRT firmware) statistics.
The ISP's error? To call before they cap. They always call me offering a higher broadband plan due to my excess. So, basically, I talk them over to allow me to think about it and get back to them due to the fact that I share my bills with a roommate, and I have to ask if he is ok with it. It doesn't work every time, but when it works, I enjoy 450KB/s downloads all month.
Why? Well, I find that I can choose what I want o watch through downloading rather than keeping track of time schedules and dealing with commercials on cable. Also, the quality I get from videos on the Net are much better than the quality of my cable signal. So most of the series that I like (House, Eli Stone, My Name is Earl, The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, etc.), I download. And now that I bought a PS3, I stream my media to it through an UPnP (mediatomb) server running on my openSuSE machine. PS3 also adds the downloads of DEMOS and updates.
It's much easier using the internet than dealing with cable companies and advertising.
I don't know, I once was an avid user of Google's extension, but then I found out that the feature I used most was synch'ng my bookmarks, and everything else was just overkill. Not only that, but Google's tool did not allow you to have 2 instances connected at the same time, whereas Foxmarks did. I never went back, and never cared too much about cookies or any of the rest not being synch'ed.
And that won't change until OEM companies start actually caring about the software they install as default on their computers.
Why don't we see SpyBot S&D installed by default? Why not Firefox (or any other browser other than IE for that matter)? Why don't we get Avast Home or AVG instead of a bloated Norton/McAffee Evaluation? CD Recorder Software? Office Utilities?
Capitalism: The best product is always the one from the highest bidder!
If he thought/. was enough, he wouldn't be asking, would he?
Well, one thing is for sure: If your company standardizes it's middleware based on JAVA, I'm pretty sure you will be locked to Oracle, whether you want it or not. They are eeeeeeverywhere! Resistance is futile!
It just looks like they are using the same parts of the EULA for all of their products, search/replace name of the product. Just look at the part of LIMITED WARRANTY. It makes no sense to an OpenSUSE user!
I love OpenSUSE as a distribution, I am a constant user and I cheer for them , but I don't see myself as being the "You" they refer on the EULA. Actually, I don't see any OpenSUSE user being it.
About the "Benchmark Testing", now I see why we never see OpenSUSE under benchmark testings on , say, Phoronix for example.
OpenJDK came to surface due to pressure of the OS community, to be to fulfill OS purists' ideals. For example, being able to embed the JDK into OS Linux systems.
OpenJDK is an effort backed up by Sun also, so that is no impasse here.
This is great news! I can see faster and greater improvements coming to the JDK having it open.
As a distro goes, there is nothing to gripe about; it has the usual plethora of productivity applications and utilities that one would expect to see in a mainstream Linux distro. However, there just aren't the stand out features that put OpenSUSE up above the likes of Fedora and Ubuntu.
The way I see it, YAST itself and OpenSUSE's packaging (Build Service + One-Click install + Zypper) are more than enough reasons for it to stand out. The way that review sounded to me was that just because the distribution has had the feature for as long as we know it, it's not worth praising, while the other distributions are still trying to just "get there", so we should praise them "for trying".
Not only that, but OpenSUSE is still tarnished by the patent covenant that Novell believe is essential for its survival, leaving a lot of existing Linux users very wary when they take a look at anything from Novell.
Christ! Novell != OpenSUSE. The only reason why OpenSUSE is being "tarnished" by the stupid decisions from its sponsor is because people like this guy from the review want to believe it's so!
At least Fedora has found a real niche for itself in the Linux world, whilst OpenSUSE is still struggling to find a definite identity away from its Novell roots.
Oh really? I have no words, that's just sad...
Try and look beyond the annoyances that we've mentioned and you'll find a very capable distribution, albeit one that is perhaps floundering in the wake of more aggressive distros such as Fedora and Ubuntu.
That was just a big biased review for me. He wasn't doing a review of OpenSUSE as much as he was comparing the distribution, which he already has his problems with, with other big distributions that best meet his personal views and directions.
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... which version of Android?
Except that, for Glass, it makes all the sense having a Camera. Being able to capture what you see (be it for fun, security, or even mischievous purposes) makes a whole lot of difference.
It's about time they restrict (or at least make it more difficult) for people to have older cars instead of new. Like Japan. The older the car gets, the more expensive it it to keep it with the regulations.
For example, the same thing should be applied to Brazil (where I live). Here, licensing and taxes for older cars are cheaper than newer ones, because it's based percentage of market value. And if the car reaches 20 years-old, it's not even taxed anymore. It's stupid, making it easy for some ignorant douche to keep a dangerous, slow, polluting piece of 80's crap on the street. It should be the other way around.
Should we really believe that the so called terrorists don't already know what he's talking about? And why should we believe that, just because it hasn't been exploited on a large, TERRORIST, scale?
I mean, be them terrorists, but very likely, they're not stupid. If he in 4 months "discovered" this, I see nothing keeping some bright young hacker with a strong motive from finding this out too.
Well, for an Oppo N1 user, makes no difference what angle you hold it, you can point the camera anywhere.
And there's also the other point given in the summary: if you want to record people, it's much easier to buy a cheap and small camera from China and conceal it.
Fearing being recorded is just stupid to me, because it can be happening any time, all the time, with or without your knowledge. And that will make you fearful ALL THE TIME, when it doesn't really matter.
I imagine a distant future where we find a way to extract our memories into electronic files. What then? Will you be fighting people that look at you for too long because then your image can be imprinted on their memory?
I find PocketCloud works great too. Supports RDP and VNC.
Russians reactors: 140% lifespan!
We are talking about the dimension we seem to exist at this very moment. Unless you are posting from another one, everything our parent poster said holds true to the letter. Without his contributions, the world and industry we know RIGHT NOW would not hove existed. PS: If in fact you are speaking from a parallel universe, then I welcome you into our dimension, and string theorists can rejoice.
... but definitely frivolous. Great quality, but just an expensive frivolous toy... Just like all things Apple...
You want choice, you can always go for one of these. I find it weird that I don't see as much coverage for this nice little product from a small company as I see for speculative, unfinished and proprietary products like this.
What about creating a law that prohibits marketing companies from creating any type of campaign that doesn't inform the target that it is marketing?
In the same way that cigarettes are not allowed to be sold without the health disclaimer.
It would turn out to be much more effective to prohibit, punishable by law, this kind of behavior from marketing companies than ENCOURAGE the company to not do it again by fiscal penalty. That's because if that marketing actually generated, say, $50 million in revenue for the company, even if we make them pay the highest possible amount of $10 for this lawsuit, where's the guarantee that they wouldn't do it again?
I'm looking forward to languages that integrate completely with an IDE, and leave simple character representation (ASCII e.a.) behind.
I think the closest we might get to that would be Visual Programming Languages, but most of them seem to apply only to niches like 3D modeling, animations, teaching, analysis.
It seems pretty hard to be able to create an "all purpose", like C, Visual Programming Language. Sure, we can always dream.
Which, while it might be reasonable to describe as "open source" (though misleading, which is why that phrase has rarely been used that way except by makers of non-FLOSS products trying to cash in on the appeal of Open Source without actually providing it), is not and never has been a definition of "Open Source".
It actually has. Before "Open Source" being trademarked with OSI, "open source" referred to FOSS and COSS, but due to the improper usage of the term by companies that only "partially" opened their source code, it was replaced by terms of FOSS and COSS and "Open Source" began to mean the original definitions by OSI. See FOSS.
Maybe the author should have used the term FOSS instead of "open source", but the one who misled the definition used by him was I, who used in the same way as "Open Source" in my first post. Still, I agree with the author that the way the referred software was developed resembled in some way the movement we see today.
Damn it, I lost the game thanks to your signature.
Anyway, people tend to confuse and correlate the words "Open Source" with specific licenses (GPL, FSF) and organizations (FOSS, GNU).
The article clearly states, Open Source, assuming we use the definition, "of or relating to or being computer software for which the source code is freely available", and, in the referred case, change it, if you RTFA. We shouldn't try to fit the referred software in one or more of today's definitions of Open Source, because it pretty muchs predates all of this. The article just mentions that the way the development of such software worked reminds and may have influenced the Licenses, Organizations, and movement we know today.
you first need to "sudo chmod -R 777 /"
Wow, and I thought Brazil's broadband plans were bad enough. At least here we can count on the ISP's incompetence to keep the caps.
My plan is a mere 4Mbps/600kbps with a limit of 40GB, in and outbound, all together (please don't repeat what I said). If if go over the limit, they normally cap it to a 200kbps/200kbps, no extra charge (at least). But the thing is, my peak last month was about 200GB downloaded (280 if counting the upload too). And that's from monitoring using my router's (DD-WRT firmware) statistics.
The ISP's error? To call before they cap. They always call me offering a higher broadband plan due to my excess. So, basically, I talk them over to allow me to think about it and get back to them due to the fact that I share my bills with a roommate, and I have to ask if he is ok with it. It doesn't work every time, but when it works, I enjoy 450KB/s downloads all month.
Why? Well, I find that I can choose what I want o watch through downloading rather than keeping track of time schedules and dealing with commercials on cable. Also, the quality I get from videos on the Net are much better than the quality of my cable signal. So most of the series that I like (House, Eli Stone, My Name is Earl, The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, etc.), I download. And now that I bought a PS3, I stream my media to it through an UPnP (mediatomb) server running on my openSuSE machine. PS3 also adds the downloads of DEMOS and updates.
It's much easier using the internet than dealing with cable companies and advertising.
I don't know, I once was an avid user of Google's extension, but then I found out that the feature I used most was synch'ng my bookmarks, and everything else was just overkill. Not only that, but Google's tool did not allow you to have 2 instances connected at the same time, whereas Foxmarks did. I never went back, and never cared too much about cookies or any of the rest not being synch'ed.
And that won't change until OEM companies start actually caring about the software they install as default on their computers.
Why don't we see SpyBot S&D installed by default? Why not Firefox (or any other browser other than IE for that matter)? Why don't we get Avast Home or AVG instead of a bloated Norton/McAffee Evaluation? CD Recorder Software? Office Utilities?
Capitalism: The best product is always the one from the highest bidder!
If he thought /. was enough, he wouldn't be asking, would he?
Well, one thing is for sure: If your company standardizes it's middleware based on JAVA, I'm pretty sure you will be locked to Oracle, whether you want it or not. They are eeeeeeverywhere! Resistance is futile!
Wow ... just.... wow!
... when placed into moist locations. Give me five!
Ok, no good comes from watching Scrubs.
It just looks like they are using the same parts of the EULA for all of their products, search/replace name of the product. Just look at the part of LIMITED WARRANTY. It makes no sense to an OpenSUSE user!
I love OpenSUSE as a distribution, I am a constant user and I cheer for them , but I don't see myself as being the "You" they refer on the EULA. Actually, I don't see any OpenSUSE user being it.
About the "Benchmark Testing", now I see why we never see OpenSUSE under benchmark testings on , say, Phoronix for example.
Of course, we can search for enlightenment ourselves!
OpenJDK FAQ
Cheers!
OpenJDK came to surface due to pressure of the OS community, to be to fulfill OS purists' ideals. For example, being able to embed the JDK into OS Linux systems.
OpenJDK is an effort backed up by Sun also, so that is no impasse here.
This is great news! I can see faster and greater improvements coming to the JDK having it open.
Amen to that!
As a distro goes, there is nothing to gripe about; it has the usual plethora of productivity applications and utilities that one would expect to see in a mainstream Linux distro. However, there just aren't the stand out features that put OpenSUSE up above the likes of Fedora and Ubuntu.The way I see it, YAST itself and OpenSUSE's packaging (Build Service + One-Click install + Zypper) are more than enough reasons for it to stand out. The way that review sounded to me was that just because the distribution has had the feature for as long as we know it, it's not worth praising, while the other distributions are still trying to just "get there", so we should praise them "for trying".
Not only that, but OpenSUSE is still tarnished by the patent covenant that Novell believe is essential for its survival, leaving a lot of existing Linux users very wary when they take a look at anything from Novell.Christ! Novell != OpenSUSE. The only reason why OpenSUSE is being "tarnished" by the stupid decisions from its sponsor is because people like this guy from the review want to believe it's so!
At least Fedora has found a real niche for itself in the Linux world, whilst OpenSUSE is still struggling to find a definite identity away from its Novell roots.Oh really? I have no words, that's just sad...
Try and look beyond the annoyances that we've mentioned and you'll find a very capable distribution, albeit one that is perhaps floundering in the wake of more aggressive distros such as Fedora and Ubuntu.That was just a big biased review for me. He wasn't doing a review of OpenSUSE as much as he was comparing the distribution, which he already has his problems with, with other big distributions that best meet his personal views and directions.