I've bought a few of these. Many family members have them. Here's the basic pro/cons:
Pros:
Finding the show you want to watch is faster than my default Cable Guide. I hit the 'search' icon on my keyboard and start typing "Bobby Fla.." and up pops a google returned refined search-as-you-type. The top of the search shows 'NOW" results, which means its playing on a channel you can tune to. Picking that changes your Cable box to that channel. It'll also allow you to do a web search and return the results via chrome, or video search and start playing netflix, youtube, or some other integrated video provider
Buying the Logitech HD Web cam gives you 1080i video conferencing. This works really well with the logitech supplied software. It uses a fair amount of bandwidth so you have to make sure you have a good grade/quality wifi or a ethernet connection. This is the primary reason my friends and family have it. It's brain-dead easy for grandma to be watching something on TV, and have a little icon pop up that says grand-kid wants to video chat with you. Far easier than PC/Laptops/Skype/MSN/AOL...etc.
Integrated Pandora, again, if you already have a laptop hooked up to your stereo or some other internet radio device, than no big deal here. but if your a non-techie, this is huge and simple. My parents basically keep pandora running via Revue 95% of the time
Web browser for recipe/youtube lols/settling arguments.... So, again, for most of us techies that have had some for of computer (or XBMC) hooked up to your living rooms TVs for 15 years now, not a big deal. but for non techies, this is considered amazing. When they want to show someone pictures on picasa, or some stupid video they saw, they just pull it up in a window over live TV. If you have the Revue in your Kitchen TV, you can leave your recipes up in google docs, or cooksillutrated as your are cooking. Works better than Kindle, Paper, or laptop imo
Cons:
It's locked down. You can't throw Cyanogenmod on it, and you can't put an early build of HC on it. It doesn't have access to Google Market. And the apps on it are limited and old. Pandora is 1.1, i think my phone pandora is 1.16.7, scuttle butt is sometime this summer they are opening up Google Market to GTV users
While you pass-thru the cable HDMI stream, you can't record it. This is the agreement they came to with cable operators to allow the device. It functions as basically an in-line HDMI device that draws it's own UI over the live cable feed
The Media management app is limited. It's a proprietary Logitech app. It sucks. I have a few hudred gigs of media and this thing basically locks up when trying to read the index.
TL;DR: It's great for non-techies. Once the platform is cracked, or Google Market is added to it, it will be the _next_ XBMC platform ( or better ).The hardware is high powered, cool running, and soundless. Plus it has full HDMI security keys in it, so it can function as a HDMI repeater which very few open XBMC like devices can do.
Buy two for the grandparents when it comes down in price, and plug in either the HD webcam ( expensive) or any crappy USB web-cam ( cheap ). And you'll be a hero.
RDMS Scale poorly because of poorly trained dev/admins. I've walked into 10s of shops and _laughed_ at their production RDMS. They would throw hardware at a problem that was from the outset simply poorly engineered. in fairness, most of these VLDB systems were built by glorified 'power' users who just kept hacking away at a problem. Bravo to them for making something work, but at some point when your whole business depends on this intern-built multi-TB database, you need to bring in an expert.
You don't need lots of $$$ to handle VLDB these days. You just need to understand the individual throughput and bottlenecks of the complete solution.
Also, once you understand and properly implement horizontal partitioning, the number of records in your table really doesn't matter.
"Spammers are now using a combination of malware and phishing to compromise legitimate accounts and then using these accounts to send low-volume spam outbreaks"
So, they are making their own botnets, rather than leasing one from some Russian or Chinese hacking group.
And to that, one of the things I recall from the most recent Iraq war, was a comment by an Iraqi in the street (early in the war, when people had flowers in their hands) , who was amazed at the concept of the "Camel Pack" backpacks the GI's had. Apparently they became a big import/seller after they saw the American's use them. Unfortunately for CamelPack, Inc, they imported a bunch of Chinese knock offs....
The complexity in moving a VLDB from one platform to another comes in the differences between the SQL compilers/tuning. What MySQL, Oracle, Postgre and SQL Server all have in common is SELECT * FROM FOO. After that, it gets complicated. Query's start timing our or taking 100x as long, because of some mystical magic you need to know in one of those DB's to help the query optimizer find the most efficient path.
Also, the physical and logical structure of the DB may need to be changed both for performance and refactoring reasons. For example, FB may have worked around limitations in MySQL by vertically partitions very large tables across multiple tables. In some DBMS's, this occurs behind the scenes with a partitioning index. I've seen people write code the 'understands' the vertical partitioning algorithm at the PHP level, because relying on a view or some other trick to combine them was too slow. So when you move to a new DB where you go back to just have a single "User" table, well, that's a refactor/rewrite ( albeit a more simple one )..
tl;dr: finely tuned VLDB do not port easily to new DBMS. Hell, sometimes they don't port to new hardware as you expect...
Perform a felony and you can shake his hand in prison.
This guy had a pet project which lost to a larger 'all encompassing' project. Typical corporate IT bullshit, but happens to be in the NSA. He tried to leak enough information to the Baltimore Sun to get the larger project killed, and his put on the fast track.
In the end, both projects were killed, and he just looks like an asshat for leaking classified information.
This guy ain't no hero.
And why go to the newspapers, there's always some opposition somewhere in congress, why don't these whiners go to the opposition? They won't be committing a crime, and likely the opposition will leak the incriminating evidence to the newspaper for them.
Did you not read the blurb? Let alone the article?
after maintenance records on some of the devices showed radiation levels 10 times higher than expected
These machines are on a maintenance plan. A few anomalies early on prompted the TSA to force retest all machines before their scheduled maintenance window.
They did exactly what you whined about them not doing.
saving $126 million, fully.01% of this year's deficit. Now all we need to do is find 10,000 other equally useful programs to cut.
From the article you cite:
The budget, which proposed about $60 billion in budget cuts, would slash funding for the National Weather Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). That would potentially cripple the effectiveness of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii, which issued a series of warnings over the past several days regarding the situation in Japan, where an 8.9 magnitude earthquake triggered a massive tsunami along the nation's east coast.
For PTWC to be killed because of a decrease in budget for NWS/NOAA is like saying a decrease in the NASA budget will guarantee all NASA related projects to be terminated.
You know your point is weak when you resort to sensational journalism to make it.
Insuring ( or not insuring) nuclear power plants has more to do with security than safety/feasibility. Most local insurance entities can't cover the policy, they would have to purchase reinsurance , which are generally foreign. SwissRe isn't going to help w/o full architectural/mechanical specifications on the whole plant. Because of the sensitive nature of nuclear power plants, most states elect not to seek insurance cover.
Having said that, insuring nuclear power plants in the US is a bit easier with the Price-Anderson Act. There's a limited liability ( a cap ) for what an insurer has to pay out.
I must be missing something obvious here. But from reading those source examples, the double backslash is just to escape the the single backslash. All documentation has it this way unless your use your programming language of choice to define the string as a literal, e.g (C#))
You are looking at this from the wrong point of view. It is not that SPAM kills good products. Instead SPAM kills products that were poorly designed and/or implemented.
Let's say SPAM didn't exist. Let us say that you create some new Killer App 4.0. You release it. Someone doesn't like you. They don't like your company, or they don't like someone using your product. They don't want to make a buck, they just want to grief. At this point, whatever flaws would have been exploited by a SPAM'er, is going to be exploited by this griefer.
SPAM IS GOOD. Our infrastructure and our original set of RFC's are BAD. They were built in too clean of a room. They worked initially in the original sterile environment, but they are failing to cope with the current non-sterile environment. All internet products need a much more healthy immune systems. And SPAM, if it's good for nothing, is good for building an Immune systems ( have you tasted it )?
And AirPlay is basically UPNP Media. My GF's droid auto-detected my World Book Storage and Xbox Media Center and made available all our videos/pictures/music on her droidx. This stuff is becoming child's play. I can play HD movies on her phone through my old xbox to the TV. And control it from her phone.
I wish Apple hadn't made a whole new standard, but I guess that's their deal.
I have to say, it's an interesting read. Even if you don't understand the math, three's some Alice/Bob like narrative that lets you 'kinda' figure out what they are talking about.
For the past 20 or so years, I've felt that software reverse engineers "crackers" could really aid many different disciplines in understanding 'natural' black boxes. The black boxes are the natrual demarcation points where for lack of better technology or limits of physics, we can't look past that point. We can only monitor a set of input/outputs and watch how it interacts with others.
Originally I focused on the brain. I though if people like +ORC/Fravia and those in the community who followed could work with neurobiologist or neuropsychologist (think Ramachandran, Antonio Damasio, Cytowic) we'd have some very interesting breakthroughs. I never through of applying it to physics as a whole, and the area/boundaries where we can only treat some phenomenon as a large black box.
I'm encouraged by this collaboration, and I hope others in the future have the opportunity for cross-discipline analysis of some of these fundamental problems,
Fear is good. Fear is healthy. Fear keeps you alive.
Which fear is that?
This one?
"Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared,” Obama said Saturday evening in remarks at a small Democratic fundraiser Saturday evening. “And the country's scared.” -President Barack Obama
If fear is the reason the house has switched from democratic to republican control, I for one welcome our new fear based society.....
I live in N. America as well. While my lamb may not come from America ( I prefer the taste of kiwi lamb ) I still eat it regularly in the US. I almost always have a pack of frozen baby-lamb chops in the freezer waiting for mild summer day to grill them on my rooftop in NYC and serve them with a little dill, garlic, oil and grilled lemons....
No one ever says to me "Wow, is this beef of some kind?"....
WTF, have you HAD lamb? Lamb taste nothing like beef ( I won't even argue on grain vs grass fed, but blind fold me and I'll tell you the difference ).
If your saying you can grind up lamb, pork, beef and hide them inside stews with enormous amounts of spices, after perhaps you boiled the crap out of it, then yeah.. you win.. you can't tell the difference. But guess what, I can do the same thing with vegetables, fish, chicken, old leather shoes.... I can over cook and improperly pair bell peppers in a dish and you won't be able to tell what's a piece of pepper and what's a chunk of celery. All that'll remain is some sort of celouse like material.
moreover, meat always has the protein taste undertone, and dominates any food it is put into
Let's talk about what doesn't dominate a food it's put into. Fish? Dominate. Root vegetables? Dominate. Gourds? My god, try and sneak a little pumpkin into something.
Moot point really being taste are such an individual trait. Also I think environment plays a huge role in this. What you were fed as a child, what you choose to eat later in life, what meal your mom made you after your dad left home. My only suggestion to this whole argument is don't take such polarizing stand on something so non-determinable...
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You do it for the bonus, not the salary. But either way, you don't do it for a 1 year contract.
I've bought a few of these. Many family members have them. Here's the basic pro/cons:
Pros:
Cons:
TL;DR:
It's great for non-techies. Once the platform is cracked, or Google Market is added to it, it will be the _next_ XBMC platform ( or better ).The hardware is high powered, cool running, and soundless. Plus it has full HDMI security keys in it, so it can function as a HDMI repeater which very few open XBMC like devices can do.
Buy two for the grandparents when it comes down in price, and plug in either the HD webcam ( expensive) or any crappy USB web-cam ( cheap ). And you'll be a hero.
...THIS...
RDMS Scale poorly because of poorly trained dev/admins. I've walked into 10s of shops and _laughed_ at their production RDMS. They would throw hardware at a problem that was from the outset simply poorly engineered. in fairness, most of these VLDB systems were built by glorified 'power' users who just kept hacking away at a problem. Bravo to them for making something work, but at some point when your whole business depends on this intern-built multi-TB database, you need to bring in an expert.
You don't need lots of $$$ to handle VLDB these days. You just need to understand the individual throughput and bottlenecks of the complete solution.
Also, once you understand and properly implement horizontal partitioning, the number of records in your table really doesn't matter.
So, they are making their own botnets, rather than leasing one from some Russian or Chinese hacking group.
6 of one, 0.5 dozen of another....
And to that, one of the things I recall from the most recent Iraq war, was a comment by an Iraqi in the street (early in the war, when people had flowers in their hands) , who was amazed at the concept of the "Camel Pack" backpacks the GI's had. Apparently they became a big import/seller after they saw the American's use them. Unfortunately for CamelPack, Inc, they imported a bunch of Chinese knock offs....
This.
The complexity in moving a VLDB from one platform to another comes in the differences between the SQL compilers/tuning. What MySQL, Oracle, Postgre and SQL Server all have in common is SELECT * FROM FOO. After that, it gets complicated. Query's start timing our or taking 100x as long, because of some mystical magic you need to know in one of those DB's to help the query optimizer find the most efficient path.
Also, the physical and logical structure of the DB may need to be changed both for performance and refactoring reasons. For example, FB may have worked around limitations in MySQL by vertically partitions very large tables across multiple tables. In some DBMS's, this occurs behind the scenes with a partitioning index. I've seen people write code the 'understands' the vertical partitioning algorithm at the PHP level, because relying on a view or some other trick to combine them was too slow. So when you move to a new DB where you go back to just have a single "User" table, well, that's a refactor/rewrite ( albeit a more simple one )..
tl;dr: finely tuned VLDB do not port easily to new DBMS. Hell, sometimes they don't port to new hardware as you expect...
Don't forget to always first assume it's paraneoplastic syndrome, and then do the long drug addled stare when it turns out not to be.
So do we really care what ZDNet thinks? It's like reading Popular Science because of the "Science".
Really? Really?
Perform a felony and you can shake his hand in prison.
This guy had a pet project which lost to a larger 'all encompassing' project. Typical corporate IT bullshit, but happens to be in the NSA. He tried to leak enough information to the Baltimore Sun to get the larger project killed, and his put on the fast track.
In the end, both projects were killed, and he just looks like an asshat for leaking classified information.
This guy ain't no hero.
And why go to the newspapers, there's always some opposition somewhere in congress, why don't these whiners go to the opposition? They won't be committing a crime, and likely the opposition will leak the incriminating evidence to the newspaper for them.
It's Apple, do it their way or don't do it. Complaining to Slashdot about it just makes the majority of us roll our eyes.
Jobs calls this winning.
duh
Take the radiation on the flight out, then the ball grope on the return flight to make sure you don't have testicular cancer.
win-win
Did you not read the blurb? Let alone the article?
These machines are on a maintenance plan. A few anomalies early on prompted the TSA to force retest all machines before their scheduled maintenance window.
They did exactly what you whined about them not doing.
Think you are on the wrong site, The Daily KOS is over here.
From the article you cite:
For PTWC to be killed because of a decrease in budget for NWS/NOAA is like saying a decrease in the NASA budget will guarantee all NASA related projects to be terminated.
You know your point is weak when you resort to sensational journalism to make it.
Insuring ( or not insuring) nuclear power plants has more to do with security than safety/feasibility. Most local insurance entities can't cover the policy, they would have to purchase reinsurance , which are generally foreign. SwissRe isn't going to help w/o full architectural/mechanical specifications on the whole plant. Because of the sensitive nature of nuclear power plants, most states elect not to seek insurance cover.
Having said that, insuring nuclear power plants in the US is a bit easier with the Price-Anderson Act. There's a limited liability ( a cap ) for what an insurer has to pay out.
I must be missing something obvious here. But from reading those source examples, the double backslash is just to escape the the single backslash. All documentation has it this way unless your use your programming language of choice to define the string as a literal, e.g (C#))
You are looking at this from the wrong point of view. It is not that SPAM kills good products. Instead SPAM kills products that were poorly designed and/or implemented.
Let's say SPAM didn't exist. Let us say that you create some new Killer App 4.0. You release it. Someone doesn't like you. They don't like your company, or they don't like someone using your product. They don't want to make a buck, they just want to grief. At this point, whatever flaws would have been exploited by a SPAM'er, is going to be exploited by this griefer.
SPAM IS GOOD. Our infrastructure and our original set of RFC's are BAD. They were built in too clean of a room. They worked initially in the original sterile environment, but they are failing to cope with the current non-sterile environment. All internet products need a much more healthy immune systems. And SPAM, if it's good for nothing, is good for building an Immune systems ( have you tasted it )?
And AirPlay is basically UPNP Media. My GF's droid auto-detected my World Book Storage and Xbox Media Center and made available all our videos/pictures/music on her droidx. This stuff is becoming child's play. I can play HD movies on her phone through my old xbox to the TV. And control it from her phone.
I wish Apple hadn't made a whole new standard, but I guess that's their deal.
I have to say, it's an interesting read. Even if you don't understand the math, three's some Alice/Bob like narrative that lets you 'kinda' figure out what they are talking about.
For the past 20 or so years, I've felt that software reverse engineers "crackers" could really aid many different disciplines in understanding 'natural' black boxes. The black boxes are the natrual demarcation points where for lack of better technology or limits of physics, we can't look past that point. We can only monitor a set of input/outputs and watch how it interacts with others.
Originally I focused on the brain. I though if people like +ORC/Fravia and those in the community who followed could work with neurobiologist or neuropsychologist (think Ramachandran, Antonio Damasio, Cytowic) we'd have some very interesting breakthroughs. I never through of applying it to physics as a whole, and the area/boundaries where we can only treat some phenomenon as a large black box.
I'm encouraged by this collaboration, and I hope others in the future have the opportunity for cross-discipline analysis of some of these fundamental problems,
This one?
If fear is the reason the house has switched from democratic to republican control, I for one welcome our new fear based society.....
I live in N. America as well. While my lamb may not come from America ( I prefer the taste of kiwi lamb ) I still eat it regularly in the US. I almost always have a pack of frozen baby-lamb chops in the freezer waiting for mild summer day to grill them on my rooftop in NYC and serve them with a little dill, garlic, oil and grilled lemons....
No one ever says to me "Wow, is this beef of some kind?"....
For anyone still reading this, or for archving purposes....
It was US Airways flight 808
AWE808
WTF, have you HAD lamb? Lamb taste nothing like beef ( I won't even argue on grain vs grass fed, but blind fold me and I'll tell you the difference ).
If your saying you can grind up lamb, pork, beef and hide them inside stews with enormous amounts of spices, after perhaps you boiled the crap out of it, then yeah.. you win.. you can't tell the difference. But guess what, I can do the same thing with vegetables, fish, chicken, old leather shoes.... I can over cook and improperly pair bell peppers in a dish and you won't be able to tell what's a piece of pepper and what's a chunk of celery. All that'll remain is some sort of celouse like material.
Let's talk about what doesn't dominate a food it's put into. Fish? Dominate. Root vegetables? Dominate. Gourds? My god, try and sneak a little pumpkin into something.
Moot point really being taste are such an individual trait. Also I think environment plays a huge role in this. What you were fed as a child, what you choose to eat later in life, what meal your mom made you after your dad left home. My only suggestion to this whole argument is don't take such polarizing stand on something so non-determinable...
Let's all agree that pretty much any MMO, once released, is still 2-3 years away from completion.
If these guys were going bankrupt before even selling pre-orders, they were already FUBAR'd.