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  1. Re:lasting awesomeness? on Welcome To the 'Sharing Economy' · · Score: 2

    bit coin is the same too. Te government has yet to shut it down. The banks are starting to try by disallowing exchanges of bit coin to real money n the exchanges. But in france a large bank has issues a visa cad that is linked to your bit coin account. So its hard to say which way it will all go.

  2. dart on Ask Slashdot: Node.js vs. JEE/C/C++/.NET In the Enterprise? · · Score: 1

    i used have used nodejs and c# and java extensively.

    Now i have moved across to DART.

    I get the IDE, tye aheadand OOP of c#, with the ability to deploy to Browsers as JavaScript.
    For deployment scnenarios where the environment is controlled we can deploy as Dart.
    The next version allows "edit and continue" in the IDE also.

    Dart can interoperate with plain JavaScript and with c++ if required also.

  3. design on Google Floats Balloons For Free Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    1. For energy they tak the water vapour and electrolysis it to hydrogen. Sthen store the hydrogen.
    Being above the cloud line = tons of solar energy.
    So the battery and hydrogen storgae does not need to be very big.

    2. For altitude control just release hydrogen

    3. for electricity to run the on board system just use a fuel cell ? Well its a bit cold. So i image they will use batteries.

    4. For Moving left or right they COULD use some thruster. The amount of energy they are going to get from the PV energy collection system is immense so i see now reason why vector control thrusters cant be make to work. Mayeb even compressed air based.

    5. The radio network with a mesh network is already solved. I imagine they could also use the "white spaces" technique.
    In africa Google have been pushing to use the white spaces for this exact reason i suspect.
    The downlink will then have enough bandwidth.

  4. 250 million just to design it. No prototype on British Skylon Engine Passes Its Tests · · Score: 1

    250 million just to design it according to the article. then a bucket load more. About 10 billion to build it.
    And whats the chance it works. Elon Musk poo poo ed in his last interview 1 day ago on video.

  5. what is their plan to handle fragmentation ? on Mozilla Makes Prototype of Firefox OS Available · · Score: 1

    this is great news.

    I hope the operators DONT fragment it too much and that Mozilla have a plan for handling this aspect within their architecture.
    Fragmentation is the one thing that could kill this effort

    i hope they get the web intents stuff right. That will be vital.

  6. No block IN thanks to html5 on Now That It's Here, Is There a Place For Windows RT? · · Score: 1

    YES. But now that the programming model is html5 based they loose their strangehold.

    And also because its all just html5 with local storage API, then an app can be on any device.

    So you can run it on a 100 dollar device too.

    People will buy a win RT surface and love them. MS is trying to innovate on the hardware front and copy Apple. Google.
    BUT; the programming model is no a block you in model. IOS and Android is a block you in model.
    MS have been surprisingly nice to allow the html5 api. Sure its a little bit customised but then JavaScript adapter software will be open soruces and you wont be tied to winrt.

    So this is all up bad news for MS and great news for consumers.

    i look forward to FireFox OS and Boot to gecko taking off. All those apps written for windows will be able to run on boot to gecko.

  7. Re:Mobile bandwidth on The UK's 5-Minute 4G Data Cap · · Score: 1

    Also there is this open hardware and software mesh.

    http://cozybit.com/

    open code that runs the mesh on git hub
    https://github.com/cozybit/open80211s

  8. Re:sell it with the hardware on Decentralized Social Networking — Why It Could Work · · Score: 1

    The Social API is very active over at Github
    https://github.com/mozilla/socialapi-dev

    This could be installed on your phone with Fire OS and sync with your home box

    If Mozilla included this as standard in Fire OS it would take off.
    Especially if Fire OS can also be installed on your no name box at home too.

    g

  9. sell it with the hardware on Decentralized Social Networking — Why It Could Work · · Score: 1

    if the organisation or some other hardware company sold a super cheap board with open source federated social networking software on it and supported it they would do very well perhaps.

    they are basically value adding.
    its easy for people.
    they buy the hardware, its delivered and they plug it in and then fill in a few details and thats it.

    i really think this is the way to get it of the ground.

    Raspberry Pi foundation of some other foundation can do this.

    --

    Other hardware makers will see it take off and can do the same.

    ---
    Will there be forks by other hardware companies ? Sure there will.
    But in order to be attractive to end users, people will buy a fork that is HTTP API compatible with the other forks.
    I think one of the web standards is the Social API or something ??
    https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/SocialAPI

    If they dont, then there offering will be much less attractive.

    Eventually things will just work,

    g

  10. nice on Mozilla OS Looking Grown Up On Its Own Developer Phone · · Score: 5, Interesting

    i have been running this on my laptop for curiousity value.

    it works very well, and writing new applications for it is very very easy because its just all web development with html, jsand css.
    makes it very quick and easy.

    also webgl works. Unlike Iphone and android.

    i actually think that this will be big, but take time for people to appreciate it.
    for companies and startups its hell getting android and iphone apps out, but with this is easy peasy.
    the main thing will be that cordova (phone gap) support it, so that people can write in web technologies and still deploy to android, iphone and firefox os easily

  11. pirate it ? on Art School's Expensive Art History Textbook Contains No Actual Art · · Score: 1

    i imagine someone will scan the physical book and combine it with the pictures online and put it on pirate bay, and then email all the students.

  12. payback on Researchers Create Silicon-Based Quantum Bit · · Score: 0

    i imagine someone will scan the physical book and combine it with the pictures online and put it on pirate bay, and then email all the students.

  13. LENR on Committee Offers Scenarios for Japan's Energy Future · · Score: 1

    Cold Fusion / Low Energy Nuclear Reactions.

    There are many companies moving towards commercialisation.
    Both large system and small decentralised systems for homes.

    Japan could lead the world and make a fast and rapid rollout of this technology, and bypass all the others and have close to free energy costs.

  14. Re:you sound like an industry outsider on ARM, Intel Battle Heats Up · · Score: 1

    price ?

  15. Re:Where are the products ARM? on ARM, Intel Battle Heats Up · · Score: 1

    those are very old ARM cpus inthose.
    You want to look out the newer ones coming up.

  16. ccleaner on MS Will Remove OEM 'Crapware' For $99 · · Score: 1

    use ccleaner.

    its free and works very well at removing anything.

  17. I like this guy on From MIT Inventor To Tea Party Leader · · Score: 1

    I like this guy . An Engineer applying the principle he learnt in his trade to his life.

  18. Re:Would not want a single supplier on NVIDIA GeForce GRID Cloud Gaming Acceleration · · Score: 1

    wait. There is an OPenCL implementation for video encoding and decoding.

    https://github.com/awatry/libvpx.opencl

  19. Would not want a single supplier on NVIDIA GeForce GRID Cloud Gaming Acceleration · · Score: 1

    webM has it on their roadmap only. AT the very bottom

    http://www.webmproject.org/code/roadmap/

  20. its and about spying and national security on Australian Gov't Bans Huawei From National Network Bids · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The reason that india, Oz and the US blocked using chinese core networking equipment is because that don't have access to the firmware or can check that what they are told is the firware really is what is burned into the hardware.

    Also they can have other dedicated stuff in the hardware that n one would know about.

    so they worry that their core networks can be hacked by the chinese government.

    this is why they are banned.

    this is NOT a solution though. We have to leanr to co-operate.
    The ONLY way that these types of crazy situation can be fixed is by social and democratic change world wide

    G

  21. yes keep it up and intesne on Anonymous Releases 90,000 Military E-Mail Accounts · · Score: 0

    Nice work guys !! Stick it to them and keep it up... wars suck and government just love to have them

  22. Re:"Made available?" on US Congress To Use Skype For Video Teleconference · · Score: 1

    exactly.

    skype was properly protected from prying government eyes. MS will open the flood gates, and in return get more uptake from the government sectors.
    Corporates with anything to hid will run back to blackberries

    g

  23. Re:Serious question: on A Glimpse Inside Google's South Carolina Data Center · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Linked Data anyone? on Hypertext Creator: Structure of the Web 'Completely Wrong' · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Linked Data anyone? on Hypertext Creator: Structure of the Web 'Completely Wrong' · · Score: 1

    i agree. Ted's project is similar.
    The link data project and the RDF and SparSql aspects are highly useful IF they can get it all open source and get people using it.
    because its part of the W3C it has a good chance of gong somewhere.

    There are some Gui toolits based on top of it too now. There is a nice demo here.
    http://www.aloha-editor.org/