It was never science in the first place. He used known flaws in experimentation to prove that you can make the mainstream publish anything. Which was the point he was trying to make.
This isn't "if you can't beat them, join them", it's "BE A FLAMING ASSHOLE BECAUSE I'M COMCAST". All they need to do is price their offering at $50 or so for a year or two to kill off the municipal service, then they will be able to jack it up to $110 and watch it all burn.
Why do people believe that preventing drug resistance is still possible? You can only switch to a drug they aren't resistant to yet, or to whose resistance they have lost.
TL;DR: Classic keyboard layout optimization places commonly used keys close together to reduce finger motion, but swipe layout optimization spreads them out in order to improve recognition.
The real problem is that Sochutel failed to identify their acquisition as snake oil in the first place. It wasn't "security-focused", it was profit-focused from beginning to end.
If I have to push buttons to control the lights, systems, etc. myself then that's not "automation", that's being too lazy to walk the 10 feet to the switch. I want things such as for the house to know that if you have 3 people sitting on the couch and the DVD/DVR/whatever is set to play that it should dim the damn lights itself.
If it was always getting things right then it would be prophecy, not science. Science is the art of getting things wrong in order to figure out what's correct.
Work on porting to a cross-platform engine/library first. Without that your work will be much harder. And bullet points 6 and 7 in your system requirements are showstoppers.
Also, you may want to talk to organizations like Edubuntu, OLPC, and RPi since their primary focus is education.
X was great for its time. But its time was when graphics hardware was slow and software was relatively undemanding. Times have changed, "we" want better software and have faster hardware, and now the bottleneck is X itself.
"Other" people's time? As far as I can tell, the only other person's time I'm wasting is yours. Want to go ballooning this weekend? We don't even need to bring fuel.
For every good-to-excellent PHP programmer there is a small army of mediocre-to-bad PHP programmers. You get chefs that deep-fry rubber boots, photographers that can't tell the lens from the viewfinder, and drivers that can't put a car in gear without breaking something.
But it also doesn't help when the programming language tells them that someone somewhere likes to eat overcooked footwear, or hands them a camera which is a featureless cube with two identical holes on either side, or takes away the gear shift and replaces it with a button labelled "Crash".
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It was never science in the first place. He used known flaws in experimentation to prove that you can make the mainstream publish anything. Which was the point he was trying to make.
8kB? Many RAM such luxury.
It's amazing what you can squeeze into 512B of RAM.
This isn't "if you can't beat them, join them", it's "BE A FLAMING ASSHOLE BECAUSE I'M COMCAST". All they need to do is price their offering at $50 or so for a year or two to kill off the municipal service, then they will be able to jack it up to $110 and watch it all burn.
Sounds perfect for Language Arts and Psych classes then.
Surely each slot is worth $20-50k or more for these expert workers.
Per annum. After all, the "maintenance costs" don't just go away...
This is not a recession, it's the new status quo. Unless the greed stops. Which it won't.
Welcome to 2013.
Why do people believe that preventing drug resistance is still possible? You can only switch to a drug they aren't resistant to yet, or to whose resistance they have lost.
TL;DR: Classic keyboard layout optimization places commonly used keys close together to reduce finger motion, but swipe layout optimization spreads them out in order to improve recognition.
So what? There's nothing wrong with making money. There is something wrong with screwing up as badly as Sochutel did.
The real problem is that Sochutel failed to identify their acquisition as snake oil in the first place. It wasn't "security-focused", it was profit-focused from beginning to end.
If I have to push buttons to control the lights, systems, etc. myself then that's not "automation", that's being too lazy to walk the 10 feet to the switch. I want things such as for the house to know that if you have 3 people sitting on the couch and the DVD/DVR/whatever is set to play that it should dim the damn lights itself.
That they barely knew what they were doing. But what do Java and Python have to do with it?
If it was always getting things right then it would be prophecy, not science. Science is the art of getting things wrong in order to figure out what's correct.
Work on porting to a cross-platform engine/library first. Without that your work will be much harder. And bullet points 6 and 7 in your system requirements are showstoppers.
Also, you may want to talk to organizations like Edubuntu, OLPC, and RPi since their primary focus is education.
Wow, not even reading the title. Congratulations, you have reached the pinnacle of Slashdot laziness.
Okay, but then we'd never get to space at all.
There'll be 500,000 channels and still nothing on.
Does it come in brown?
X was great for its time. But its time was when graphics hardware was slow and software was relatively undemanding. Times have changed, "we" want better software and have faster hardware, and now the bottleneck is X itself.
I swear, they must do this because they have a moral imperative to remind everyone just how completely batshit insane they really are.
Do NOT Internet-enable the wheeled stabbing machine I am currently working on...
... but completely irrelevant when you can just hack the gun itself.
"Other" people's time? As far as I can tell, the only other person's time I'm wasting is yours. Want to go ballooning this weekend? We don't even need to bring fuel.
"... if the PHP programmer is better than you."
For every good-to-excellent PHP programmer there is a small army of mediocre-to-bad PHP programmers. You get chefs that deep-fry rubber boots, photographers that can't tell the lens from the viewfinder, and drivers that can't put a car in gear without breaking something.
But it also doesn't help when the programming language tells them that someone somewhere likes to eat overcooked footwear, or hands them a camera which is a featureless cube with two identical holes on either side, or takes away the gear shift and replaces it with a button labelled "Crash".