Have you folks read TFA and seen the annuals fees due the MPAA by it's members? I am stunned. What value does the MPAA possibly offer that could come anywhere close to commanding such regal sums annually?
Hyperspace ain't like dustin' crops, boy. Without precise calculations you could blast yourself through a star or a supernova, and that'd end your journey real quick.
No way should any company of that size and market share have such buying clout with the supply chain to which they are distributing. And that says nothing even of the consumer perspective.
But isn't the OP actually looking for a CMS, with roles-management? That's how I assessed it, but like I wrote in my original message, as a Drupal developer,...everything looks like a hammer to me. My own lengthy experience with Drupal has been positive, and I don't share the complaints others here have written.
For one thing, Best Practices call for Continuous Integration and Unit Testing. When starting with solid Drupal code, building on top of that using a well-managed GIT workflow, well, that's how most businesses I know run Drupal. For a well-written explanation of Continuous Integration and how this relates to Drupal hosting, read this document (written by Acquia Corporation, who I have no ties to whatsoever. I don't use any of their stuff): http://www.linuxjournal.com/co....
CNN, Reuters, NYSE, ABC, CBS, NBC/Sports, FOX, WarnerBros also share my positive experience with Drupal as they obviously have invested heavily for their own Drupal-managed content infrastructures.
The Raspberry Pi series is an awesome hobbyist device
From my perspective, this announcement puts the Raspberry Pi squarely in the Big Leagues. I've played around with Asterisk and also NeoRouter VPN Server using my original Pi, and this is perfect hardware for these critical tasks. Another one is as an Intrusion Detection System (IDS). The Asterisk/FreePBX can appreciate the extra horsepower this new development affords and should run fine. Not much more than a month ago, this CuBox-i4PRO won a nice end-of-year Best Of recommendation,...while this new Raspberry Pi spec actually meets this PBX's minimum spec handily.
Full disclosure: I am a Drupal CMS web developer, and I know nothing about Python/Django.
I explored the demo and what I saw, to me, looked like in 2015 it would be most efficient to re-write the system using the Drupal CMS going forward, using the current system as a Functional Requirements specification to meet or better. The development bang-for-buck goes with Drupal for managing the content required, while gaining much from using Drupal, while lowering development costs. Since the system was closed-source to begin-with, in doing as I have suggested, I see many other Drupal developers being able to join and contribute towards on-going and future development. The barrier to entry for those developers to be able to contribute seems lower than at present, so far as I can tell from these cheap seats in the Slashdots.
Drupal offers what is known as Drupal Distributions, which are different installed flavors of Drupal that have been pre-configured. For example OpenAtrium is an intranet-in-a-box, doing calendaring and task management and tracking. You might release the next version as a Distribution of Drupal, while joining the Drupal development community?
But that's just me and I might be wrong. Everything looks like a hammer to me, because what I see looks like totally normal stuff do-able and more efficient with the Drupal CMS/API, but development is inefficient as it stands now, from what I can tell.
This is what the OpenWRT Table of Hardware is for. One nice feature of the list is de-facto announced end-of-life, so you'll know when to retire your old gear. DD-WRT doesn't do this with their hardware compatibility list so you're left thinking they'll push out an update for your unit, except they don't.
OpenWRT lists support for an interesting and cheap TP-Link router on their front page (the TP-Link TL-MR3420). What makes this 40 euro router so interesting is its support for both an ethernet WAN port, along with another GSM WAN port which affords the user internet provider redundancy. It's been on my to-do list for a while to pick one up.
European Pre-Pay GSM can be super-affordable too. Here's an Austrian ISP that will sell you 9Gb of 4G data for 9.90 euro. In The Netherlands Bliep will sell you 3G data for.50 cents a day, and 4G data for 1 euro a day.
Does anyone have any experience with such a router? I don't even try to discuss such configurations with the installation folks from the wired ISPs. The last guy was here simply amazed I had one with OpenWRT; and that I wasn't interested in the ISP's modem for anything except being a basic firewall and cable link to the OpenWRT unit.
Aeropress has no such DRM issues, and my friend who has one raves about it. I plan to buy one. It is simple, cheap, and comes from the folks who gave us the Aerobie!
You somehow overlooked the mistaken use of 'confining', when the appropriate choice would probably have been 'confiding'. Totally different meanings, with only a single letter difference. Then there's punctuation, like a few missing commas...
Switching to GunCash and away from Intuit Quicken was the best thing I could do for myself! GnuCash is fantastic is every way, whereas Quicken did everything they could do to make me their Bitch. Way back in the early nineties, I setup Quicken on the Mac to handle foreign currencies, which was a do-able hassle and I am amazed to find Quicken on the Mac *still* can't handle foreign currencies. But Quicken Windows could at least in the early 2000 when I made the move from Quicken Mac to Quicken Windows to gain such 'advanced features'.
But the worst part is the business model Intuit has! They want charge me for the software, with frequent annual upgrades, while also charging 'participating banks' another fee for Quicken Export format of transaction data. Since I have banks in The Netherlands who won't buy into Intuit's US-centric game, had I not migrated away from Quicken Windows finally in 2008, I'd still be forced to enter every little transaction by hand, from all banks, credit cards, PayPal, etc., until the books are balanced. Thank Goodness GnuCash allows me to download these Dutch transactions in MT940 format!! And like QuickBooks, GnuCash allows me to create and track the invoices sent out. I can't say enough good things about GnuCash and can't say how much I hate Intuit and am so glad to be free from them after so much time and effort wasted while being trapped by them.
Seriously? This is a device not unlike the Nokia 108 RM-945, both of which seem designed to suck payments at the teets of the GSM-provider/subsidizer. You can transfer your data using SD-cards or GSM; that's it. Neither of which offer wifi. If you're not including wifi on the device, who is paying for/subsidizing the 'internet', really? And how?
Does anyone remember WAP? This is like Facebook (etc.) subsidized WAP for developing nations, in modern times. Thank you %$#@! rich bastard Zuck & Co. This not exactly open-access internet for developing nations. Do not be fooled. Do not be their tool.
This is also a form of 'bundling', and is not to be confused with a voip-friendly phone, (except for those hackers choosing to abuse this subsidized cost structure using a call-back sytem using lower rates in the EU-type GSM cost structures [...US is subscriber+caller-based. Not a strictly caller-based costing structure])
This is classic Nokia evolution and engineering, now owned by Microsoft and being transitioned for the developing world using an advertising-based payment structure.
It isn't just the right-wing media pundits who are climate deniers. Look no further than the new House Majority Leader from the great coal state of Kentucky, re-elected with money from the Koch Brothers, (who are kinda big on coal). Or the Frackin' State of Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe, chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, who disagrees with 800 actual scientists on the matter, since forever. In fact James Inhofe wrote a anti-science book, titled "The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future", and among other things he oversees the Environmental Protection Agency.
That YouTube video points out each cellphone currently generates $40 - 60K annually in services. Also, it says the most valuable asset that these units offer is the pre-existing infrastructure of power and telecommunication cables. They're not going anywhere, although collecting coins to complete phone calls might not happen much longer.
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Have you folks read TFA and seen the annuals fees due the MPAA by it's members? I am stunned. What value does the MPAA possibly offer that could come anywhere close to commanding such regal sums annually?
Hyperspace ain't like dustin' crops, boy. Without precise calculations you could blast yourself through a star or a supernova, and that'd end your journey real quick.
How would the algorithms deal with that?
https://www.google.com/search?...
No way should any company of that size and market share have such buying clout with the supply chain to which they are distributing. And that says nothing even of the consumer perspective.
Plus, Microsoft forces you to give up all kinds of personal information when you register, as they probably require of you.
But isn't the OP actually looking for a CMS, with roles-management? That's how I assessed it, but like I wrote in my original message, as a Drupal developer, ...everything looks like a hammer to me. My own lengthy experience with Drupal has been positive, and I don't share the complaints others here have written.
For one thing, Best Practices call for Continuous Integration and Unit Testing. When starting with solid Drupal code, building on top of that using a well-managed GIT workflow, well, that's how most businesses I know run Drupal. For a well-written explanation of Continuous Integration and how this relates to Drupal hosting, read this document (written by Acquia Corporation, who I have no ties to whatsoever. I don't use any of their stuff): http://www.linuxjournal.com/co....
CNN, Reuters, NYSE, ABC, CBS, NBC/Sports, FOX, WarnerBros also share my positive experience with Drupal as they obviously have invested heavily for their own Drupal-managed content infrastructures.
From my perspective, this announcement puts the Raspberry Pi squarely in the Big Leagues. I've played around with Asterisk and also NeoRouter VPN Server using my original Pi, and this is perfect hardware for these critical tasks. Another one is as an Intrusion Detection System (IDS). The Asterisk/FreePBX can appreciate the extra horsepower this new development affords and should run fine. Not much more than a month ago, this CuBox-i4PRO won a nice end-of-year Best Of recommendation, ...while this new Raspberry Pi spec actually meets this PBX's minimum spec handily.
http://nerdvittles.com/?p=1037...
Full disclosure: I am a Drupal CMS web developer, and I know nothing about Python/Django.
I explored the demo and what I saw, to me, looked like in 2015 it would be most efficient to re-write the system using the Drupal CMS going forward, using the current system as a Functional Requirements specification to meet or better. The development bang-for-buck goes with Drupal for managing the content required, while gaining much from using Drupal, while lowering development costs. Since the system was closed-source to begin-with, in doing as I have suggested, I see many other Drupal developers being able to join and contribute towards on-going and future development. The barrier to entry for those developers to be able to contribute seems lower than at present, so far as I can tell from these cheap seats in the Slashdots.
Drupal offers what is known as Drupal Distributions, which are different installed flavors of Drupal that have been pre-configured. For example OpenAtrium is an intranet-in-a-box, doing calendaring and task management and tracking. You might release the next version as a Distribution of Drupal, while joining the Drupal development community?
But that's just me and I might be wrong. Everything looks like a hammer to me, because what I see looks like totally normal stuff do-able and more efficient with the Drupal CMS/API, but development is inefficient as it stands now, from what I can tell.
This is what the OpenWRT Table of Hardware is for. One nice feature of the list is de-facto announced end-of-life, so you'll know when to retire your old gear. DD-WRT doesn't do this with their hardware compatibility list so you're left thinking they'll push out an update for your unit, except they don't.
OpenWRT lists support for an interesting and cheap TP-Link router on their front page (the TP-Link TL-MR3420). What makes this 40 euro router so interesting is its support for both an ethernet WAN port, along with another GSM WAN port which affords the user internet provider redundancy. It's been on my to-do list for a while to pick one up.
European Pre-Pay GSM can be super-affordable too. Here's an Austrian ISP that will sell you 9Gb of 4G data for 9.90 euro. In The Netherlands Bliep will sell you 3G data for .50 cents a day, and 4G data for 1 euro a day.
Does anyone have any experience with such a router? I don't even try to discuss such configurations with the installation folks from the wired ISPs. The last guy was here simply amazed I had one with OpenWRT; and that I wasn't interested in the ISP's modem for anything except being a basic firewall and cable link to the OpenWRT unit.
Only a matter of time.
How is it possible I am the first, and only person to think of this obvious solution? What is DARPA for after all anyway?
Perhaps you were referring to the brain now present in your head?
Sorry, here's the link to the actual manufacturer: http://aerobie.com/products/ae...
Aeropress has no such DRM issues, and my friend who has one raves about it. I plan to buy one. It is simple, cheap, and comes from the folks who gave us the Aerobie!
http://www.aeropress.com/
You somehow overlooked the mistaken use of 'confining', when the appropriate choice would probably have been 'confiding'. Totally different meanings, with only a single letter difference. Then there's punctuation, like a few missing commas...
Everyone could use a good editor.
Why did you call that person Shirley?
I am staying away from your lawn, that's for sure. If my frisbee lands over there, you can keep it; you've earned it.
Switching to GunCash and away from Intuit Quicken was the best thing I could do for myself! GnuCash is fantastic is every way, whereas Quicken did everything they could do to make me their Bitch. Way back in the early nineties, I setup Quicken on the Mac to handle foreign currencies, which was a do-able hassle and I am amazed to find Quicken on the Mac *still* can't handle foreign currencies. But Quicken Windows could at least in the early 2000 when I made the move from Quicken Mac to Quicken Windows to gain such 'advanced features'.
But the worst part is the business model Intuit has! They want charge me for the software, with frequent annual upgrades, while also charging 'participating banks' another fee for Quicken Export format of transaction data. Since I have banks in The Netherlands who won't buy into Intuit's US-centric game, had I not migrated away from Quicken Windows finally in 2008, I'd still be forced to enter every little transaction by hand, from all banks, credit cards, PayPal, etc., until the books are balanced. Thank Goodness GnuCash allows me to download these Dutch transactions in MT940 format!! And like QuickBooks, GnuCash allows me to create and track the invoices sent out. I can't say enough good things about GnuCash and can't say how much I hate Intuit and am so glad to be free from them after so much time and effort wasted while being trapped by them.
Wait, I know. How about a movie starring Ben "the insurance duck" Aflack called something like The Social Network? I'm thinking Oscars for sure!
That is the reason to hate Android that I was looking for. Thanks! +1 informative
Either that or we should ease off the H1-B limits, obviously. We're just shooting ourselves in the foot in the meantime.
Seriously? This is a device not unlike the Nokia 108 RM-945, both of which seem designed to suck payments at the teets of the GSM-provider/subsidizer. You can transfer your data using SD-cards or GSM; that's it. Neither of which offer wifi. If you're not including wifi on the device, who is paying for/subsidizing the 'internet', really? And how?
Does anyone remember WAP? This is like Facebook (etc.) subsidized WAP for developing nations, in modern times. Thank you %$#@! rich bastard Zuck & Co. This not exactly open-access internet for developing nations. Do not be fooled. Do not be their tool.
This is also a form of 'bundling', and is not to be confused with a voip-friendly phone, (except for those hackers choosing to abuse this subsidized cost structure using a call-back sytem using lower rates in the EU-type GSM cost structures [...US is subscriber+caller-based. Not a strictly caller-based costing structure])
This is classic Nokia evolution and engineering, now owned by Microsoft and being transitioned for the developing world using an advertising-based payment structure.
Happy 2015+.
It isn't just the right-wing media pundits who are climate deniers. Look no further than the new House Majority Leader from the great coal state of Kentucky, re-elected with money from the Koch Brothers, (who are kinda big on coal). Or the Frackin' State of Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe, chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, who disagrees with 800 actual scientists on the matter, since forever. In fact James Inhofe wrote a anti-science book, titled "The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future", and among other things he oversees the Environmental Protection Agency.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Grea...
http://stateimpact.npr.org/okl...
That YouTube video points out each cellphone currently generates $40 - 60K annually in services. Also, it says the most valuable asset that these units offer is the pre-existing infrastructure of power and telecommunication cables. They're not going anywhere, although collecting coins to complete phone calls might not happen much longer.
That's a feature, not a bug. Oh wait.