Im amazed as well. Im wondering if someone at the top has some mental issues that have gone unnoticed a and a lot of influence to get others to agree to this insanity.
Last I looked it was 24 bits of binary data and that's it. Even simple number collisions are likely to occur if a facility does not watch out with card orders. With 1992 in the market date, I doubt its much more than that. It has no place securing anything important.
Well, I can see it might actually work as sort of self charging emergency battery. You leave it in your backpack for months and when you need it you can have a little backup power and you can toss it back in the pack wen empty for another few months of recharge. On the other hand, I know someone who carries a regular pack of AA batteries bundled and equipped with a charger end with same purpose and I'm willing to bet its cheaper.
So, as a regular charger - no way. Snakeoil.
As an emergency battery - maybe but who would buy such a thing?
I was raised on a farm in Eastern Europe and abuse of cattle was never OK. Occasionally some became meat, but even that was handled with minimal suffering. To produce milk you need healthy cows and to manage them you cannot mistreat them. 500kg of angry cow is near impossible to stop. Getting crushed or gored is not funny. Getting accidentally stepped on during milking is bad enough. And even with the most domesticated beasts you need to watch out before doing something they are not used to.
I once had to bring home a young cow, who didn't know anything about being lead on a leash and I put it on one, hoping to manage to keep her in control and out of neighbors vegetable garden better. I got yanked to the ground, dragged a few meters and stepped on a few times before I got to my senses and let go.
Lucky I got away with only bruises, could have gone a lot worse. People who don't respect large animals dont stay in the trade very long.
A function of a plant: use suns energy to convert CO2 to O2 aka photosynthesis. That yellow thing does not do that. It uses chemicals to provide a supply of oxygen by releasing it from a chemical compound.
There are other functions as well like providing nutriens when consumed and decomposing organic residue.
I think mankind in general is a teen currently, sometimes self destructive, sometimes moody, sometimes passed out cold on someones couch or throwing up in wake of a hangover. Like teens, future is an unknown. Sometimes teens fail to live long enough to grow up, but mostly they do and then look back to their wild years in wonder.
We are stuck with ad-blockers because there's always an guy that assumes that being as annoying as possible is good to business. However, there are rare examples of ads and networks that I have left unblocked because their ads are not distracting, annoying or plain stupid. There have even been ads that I liked and never wanted to block. Such ads usually come from well controlled smaller syndicates and that includes Google text ads unless there are more ads than content on the page.
Ethereal(wireshark was renamed ages ago you know) UI is somewhat limited for such use but perhaps its back end combined with some video detection code and some say python UI could provide the tools quite quickly.
Reading the information in the article and deducting from the software used, all you need is satellite internet card, satellite dish and the SkyGrabber, a bit of software that records anything video like it finds in satellite data stream. Pretty much off the shelf hardware for a place with limited infrastructure.
My parents use web based e-mail clients happily. I'm yet to see a free e-mail provider with MAPI. Gmail does POP and IMAP. Outlook does not do IMAP. POP3 just confuses them because it deletes all their mail from server and they can read it at other computers. That leaves Thunderbird, but honestly the Gmail web interface is better, if you have broadband and connection is always available.
My dad certainly started to use the red ring thing for internet after I had to clean off porn spam off his PC. He is in his sixties and was somewhat embarrassed about it. The rest of the family does it because I named it The Internet and put it on the desktop. Since then time needed to spend cleaning both family computers during my home visits has gone down to about an hour per year. So the user might not care, but the tech savvy family member that gets the free cleanup work does.
Go Apple. Now people have to pay to put that crap on their device and thus are less likely to do it.
I do not wish to see such "enforceable" adds so I can simply avoid Apple and go with vendors who don't commit brain rape on their users.
In my part of the world, namely Estonia, most parking can be done with a cellphone. Fire off an SMS with your car plates and the zone you are parking(usually clearly visible somewhere near by) in to start the parking, and you are free to walk off. When you return, you make a 2 second call to another number and your parking is complete. SMS will be sent to you detailing the cost of parking. You pay it with your phone bill. This system is in addition to the meter system similar to OP-s.
The answer to this is to provide a simple CSV format schedule for apps like this from their own site, perhaps with a limit on number of queries per IP per hour and a disclaimer that its use is responsibility of the user. Simple ain't it. Trying to claim copyright on information is stupid.
How do you think would be possible to read a disk that has a scratch with surface missing? Keys are binary data. if they cannot be restored, there is no way of knowing if they are correct ones.
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there is a vnc client for this? how will it work without keyboard? I don't think it will work, sorry.
To a regular netbook person the magic is price... They are barking up a wrong tree, if the intend to compete with netbooks without competitive price.
Im amazed as well. Im wondering if someone at the top has some mental issues that have gone unnoticed a and a lot of influence to get others to agree to this insanity.
Last I looked it was 24 bits of binary data and that's it. Even simple number collisions are likely to occur if a facility does not watch out with card orders. With 1992 in the market date, I doubt its much more than that. It has no place securing anything important.
Well, I can see it might actually work as sort of self charging emergency battery. You leave it in your backpack for months and when you need it you can have a little backup power and you can toss it back in the pack wen empty for another few months of recharge. On the other hand, I know someone who carries a regular pack of AA batteries bundled and equipped with a charger end with same purpose and I'm willing to bet its cheaper.
So, as a regular charger - no way. Snakeoil.
As an emergency battery - maybe but who would buy such a thing?
I was raised on a farm in Eastern Europe and abuse of cattle was never OK. Occasionally some became meat, but even that was handled with minimal suffering. To produce milk you need healthy cows and to manage them you cannot mistreat them. 500kg of angry cow is near impossible to stop. Getting crushed or gored is not funny. Getting accidentally stepped on during milking is bad enough. And even with the most domesticated beasts you need to watch out before doing something they are not used to. I once had to bring home a young cow, who didn't know anything about being lead on a leash and I put it on one, hoping to manage to keep her in control and out of neighbors vegetable garden better. I got yanked to the ground, dragged a few meters and stepped on a few times before I got to my senses and let go. Lucky I got away with only bruises, could have gone a lot worse. People who don't respect large animals dont stay in the trade very long.
A function of a plant: use suns energy to convert CO2 to O2 aka photosynthesis. That yellow thing does not do that. It uses chemicals to provide a supply of oxygen by releasing it from a chemical compound. There are other functions as well like providing nutriens when consumed and decomposing organic residue.
"Guns don't kill people, people kill people."
Same argument isn't it.
I think mankind in general is a teen currently, sometimes self destructive, sometimes moody, sometimes passed out cold on someones couch or throwing up in wake of a hangover. Like teens, future is an unknown. Sometimes teens fail to live long enough to grow up, but mostly they do and then look back to their wild years in wonder.
Machines that replace functions plants would be plants. May be a bit different but still plants.
We are stuck with ad-blockers because there's always an guy that assumes that being as annoying as possible is good to business. However, there are rare examples of ads and networks that I have left unblocked because their ads are not distracting, annoying or plain stupid. There have even been ads that I liked and never wanted to block. Such ads usually come from well controlled smaller syndicates and that includes Google text ads unless there are more ads than content on the page.
Sorry, seems I had the names confused. Kudos for reminding me the right order.
Ethereal(wireshark was renamed ages ago you know) UI is somewhat limited for such use but perhaps its back end combined with some video detection code and some say python UI could provide the tools quite quickly.
Reading the information in the article and deducting from the software used, all you need is satellite internet card, satellite dish and the SkyGrabber, a bit of software that records anything video like it finds in satellite data stream. Pretty much off the shelf hardware for a place with limited infrastructure.
If I had modpoints, that would get an insightful right away.
My parents use web based e-mail clients happily. I'm yet to see a free e-mail provider with MAPI. Gmail does POP and IMAP. Outlook does not do IMAP. POP3 just confuses them because it deletes all their mail from server and they can read it at other computers. That leaves Thunderbird, but honestly the Gmail web interface is better, if you have broadband and connection is always available.
My dad certainly started to use the red ring thing for internet after I had to clean off porn spam off his PC. He is in his sixties and was somewhat embarrassed about it. The rest of the family does it because I named it The Internet and put it on the desktop. Since then time needed to spend cleaning both family computers during my home visits has gone down to about an hour per year. So the user might not care, but the tech savvy family member that gets the free cleanup work does.
No more IE being forced down our throats... Except when we need to access our corporate intranet.
Go Apple. Now people have to pay to put that crap on their device and thus are less likely to do it. I do not wish to see such "enforceable" adds so I can simply avoid Apple and go with vendors who don't commit brain rape on their users.
Any sane sysadmin has an autoinstall image that loads the machines with all the approved stuff. Nobody cares about the default crap.
In my part of the world, namely Estonia, most parking can be done with a cellphone. Fire off an SMS with your car plates and the zone you are parking(usually clearly visible somewhere near by) in to start the parking, and you are free to walk off. When you return, you make a 2 second call to another number and your parking is complete. SMS will be sent to you detailing the cost of parking. You pay it with your phone bill. This system is in addition to the meter system similar to OP-s.
The answer to this is to provide a simple CSV format schedule for apps like this from their own site, perhaps with a limit on number of queries per IP per hour and a disclaimer that its use is responsibility of the user. Simple ain't it. Trying to claim copyright on information is stupid.
Funny, but no. Emergency numbers work in most civilized countries even from a phone without a SIM card.
That's because Batman runs Linux. DUH.
Smart ones wont cry for they have ksplice and their uptime is safe.
How do you think would be possible to read a disk that has a scratch with surface missing? Keys are binary data. if they cannot be restored, there is no way of knowing if they are correct ones.