To be fair to Google, I don't think Android is their vision of what Linux should be but rather it's their vision of what a consumer phone OS should be (and just happens to be based on the Linux kernel).
Wouldn't that just equalise the pressure inside the main ROV cavities to those outside? You'd still crush all the components within that can't be pumped full of high pressure liquid like electrical components, etc. Instead of the epoxy being crushed from the outside, it will now just be crushed from both the outside and inside.
Even if you could pressurize every single component within the ROV like that, you'd have to be able to vary that pressure to retain equillabrium on it's way back to sea level.
I can't comment on Fedora, having not used it seriously for a few years now, but from my own personal experience of using various Linux distros over many years, it beats Windows hands down in terms of stability. But then, that's pretty anecdotal as I'm just going by personal experience. Maybe I've just been very lucky and you've been unlucky?
As for efficiency, maybe I should have worded that differently as I actually meant in terms of my work flow. This is going to be different for everyone but for what I do on a PC, GNU Linux allows me to get more done in less time. Having said that, on the same hardware (dual boot), general file and network operations amongst other things are definitely quicker than my Windows install.
I'm really not trying to do a 'my OS is better than your OS' although it probably does come across as that. The point I was originally trying to make is that different people have different requirements and preferences and we choose different tools for the job based on them. I really can't imagine myself being as productive using Windows than I am in Linux but I know many people who would have exactly the opposite experience.
To the general public? No, I doubt desktop Linux matters much at all. For those of us that prefer to use a free, open, secure, stable and efficient OS though, it matters quite a bit.
Couldn't you say the same of any PC with a proprietary BIOS or some locked down firmware?
I think the reason why many of us are excited about this little device is because it's dirt cheap, low power, small enough to cram into all sorts of projects, and open enough to allow you to run Linux or something else. More open hardware would be a bonus (for those wanting to get closer to the hardware) but for the vast majority of us it won't stop us coming up with all sorts of nifty little pet projects.
I don't understand why any slashdotter would *not* be excited about the Pi. Geek heaven, hopefully in time for the Christmas holiday!:)
If Apple are guilty of anything here, then so are the consumers of Apple products. And seeing as a large percentage of other products we buy from countless other manufacturers probably have parts manufactured in similar factories and in similar conditions, that makes pretty much all of us guilty.
It will actually cost the tax payer even more money once it's realised that a positive result could be caused by contamination (shook hands with a drug user, etc), leading to every test being followed up by a blood / urine test.
I've been using various Linux distros for around 15 years or so. My first proper job introduced me to UNIX (Solaris and HP-UX) and I remember even now the excitement of discovering and learning how the UNIX model worked, wishing I had something similar on my home PC. Within a few weeks, I'd scrubbed DOS and Windows 3.1 from my home PC's hard drive and was up and running with Slackware, installed from numerous 3.5" floppies. As time went by I experimented with other distros, namely Redhat and Suse (which I actually paid for boxed versions of!) and grew to love Linux even more. I can't quite remember why I first moved to using Ubuntu when it came out but have a feeling it was because I was impressed with how slick it was, installing on my laptop of that time without any fuss. I've had no reason to look elsewhere for many years now (on the desktop that is, I still use CentOS on my web server).
As others have said, Android sounds perfect for your requirements.
I'd love to see an Android distro geared towards this kind of use. Like how CyanogenMod (and others) is a great Android distro for phones, a more bare bones distro without the phone, messaging, general bloat, etc, would be perfect for more bespoke applications like yours. I don't have the skills to start that kind of project but maybe you guys do?
Maybe because you'd need physical (or network exploitable) access to the target laptop in order to install a keylogger? Reading accelerometer data from your own laptop that you could have pre-configured and casually put down on victim's desk requires no direct access to victim's PC.
It is a standalone app but using Android's APIs and other app hooks it can do quite a lot. Compose and send SMS, make calls, search the web, get directions, etc.
You are correct. I'm sure Siri will gain more functionality in the future but as it stands now, Siri should be compared to Voice Search and other third party voice command apps.
Google Translate does translate.
Siri (on iPhone) and Voice Search (on Android) handle voice commands and interaction.
Because denying religious people an education will make the world a safer, more peaceful and forward thinking place? I seriously doubt that.
I'm more inclined to think equal opportunities and education for all, regardless of their beliefs, is a very positive step forward.
I was lucky enough to receive an Acorn Electron as a young child and then a little later on, an Acorn BBC B followed by the BBC Master 512. I remember at times being envious of my friends with their Sinclair Z8s and scores of games, but looking back at it now I am so glad I grew up with the same machines they used at school. I remember my dad saving computer programs on to tape that were broadcasted over the radio and I soon became engrossed in learning how computers 'worked'. I taught myself to program in BASIC at around the age of 8 and was lucky enough to have some good teachers who, whilst knowing nothing about programming, allowed me to work on these skills during school hours. For a project on Egypt at age 9, instead of writing about it, I made a graphical story of Egypt with pyramids and sphinx's scrolling by on screen, with text describing the scene.
When I got to secondary school, we had supposedly proper Computer Science lessons. These were awful and rather depressing. The teachers obviously had no clue, they may have had backgrounds in engineering or electronics but anything about computers was dictated to us from very basic textbooks with no practical hands-on time. We had a few Acorn Archimedes that I was longing to play with but for some reason these were tucked away and intead we were plonked in front of RM Nimbus machines with virtually no software to play with. Eventually things improved a little when a new teacher started to take our lessons. Although he was not a coder, he somehow guided me into learning some machine code and from there I progressed into Pascal, C, etc. As far as I know, it wasn't part of the syllabus but he could see that's what I needed to learn and gave me the freedom to go learn it.
As far as I understand, things havn't much changed over the years. Computer Science (or whatever they call it nowadays in UK schools) is less about the science and more about using a computer to do general tasks. The only way this will change if schools have access to teachers who understand the science and the thought processes required to get down and dirty with a computer.
According to Wikipedia, most of the noise from a helicopter is generated by the rotors, so although I'm sure the electric engine will be quieter than turbine engines used in most helicopters today, it's not likely to make a huge difference to the overall noise.
It took MS years to get tabs into IE so I guess I should not be too surprised, but tabs in a file manager GUI are very, very useful and something I miss sorely when I'm forced to use Windows for the occasional task.
But you have to remember, the ISS is in LEO so weighs practically nothing. Your million pound bargain is now worth close to zero. Talk about depreciation!
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To be fair to Google, I don't think Android is their vision of what Linux should be but rather it's their vision of what a consumer phone OS should be (and just happens to be based on the Linux kernel).
Wouldn't that just equalise the pressure inside the main ROV cavities to those outside? You'd still crush all the components within that can't be pumped full of high pressure liquid like electrical components, etc. Instead of the epoxy being crushed from the outside, it will now just be crushed from both the outside and inside.
Even if you could pressurize every single component within the ROV like that, you'd have to be able to vary that pressure to retain equillabrium on it's way back to sea level.
I can't comment on Fedora, having not used it seriously for a few years now, but from my own personal experience of using various Linux distros over many years, it beats Windows hands down in terms of stability. But then, that's pretty anecdotal as I'm just going by personal experience. Maybe I've just been very lucky and you've been unlucky?
As for efficiency, maybe I should have worded that differently as I actually meant in terms of my work flow. This is going to be different for everyone but for what I do on a PC, GNU Linux allows me to get more done in less time. Having said that, on the same hardware (dual boot), general file and network operations amongst other things are definitely quicker than my Windows install.
I'm really not trying to do a 'my OS is better than your OS' although it probably does come across as that. The point I was originally trying to make is that different people have different requirements and preferences and we choose different tools for the job based on them. I really can't imagine myself being as productive using Windows than I am in Linux but I know many people who would have exactly the opposite experience.
Choice is good.
To the general public? No, I doubt desktop Linux matters much at all. For those of us that prefer to use a free, open, secure, stable and efficient OS though, it matters quite a bit.
Couldn't you say the same of any PC with a proprietary BIOS or some locked down firmware?
:)
I think the reason why many of us are excited about this little device is because it's dirt cheap, low power, small enough to cram into all sorts of projects, and open enough to allow you to run Linux or something else. More open hardware would be a bonus (for those wanting to get closer to the hardware) but for the vast majority of us it won't stop us coming up with all sorts of nifty little pet projects.
I don't understand why any slashdotter would *not* be excited about the Pi. Geek heaven, hopefully in time for the Christmas holiday!
If Apple are guilty of anything here, then so are the consumers of Apple products. And seeing as a large percentage of other products we buy from countless other manufacturers probably have parts manufactured in similar factories and in similar conditions, that makes pretty much all of us guilty.
SkEye is much better than Google Sky. Decent number of objects and a pretty cool feature for 'pushto' guiding a telescope.
It will actually cost the tax payer even more money once it's realised that a positive result could be caused by contamination (shook hands with a drug user, etc), leading to every test being followed up by a blood / urine test.
Until there's a new worst nuclear disaster since Chenobyl?
I've been using various Linux distros for around 15 years or so. My first proper job introduced me to UNIX (Solaris and HP-UX) and I remember even now the excitement of discovering and learning how the UNIX model worked, wishing I had something similar on my home PC. Within a few weeks, I'd scrubbed DOS and Windows 3.1 from my home PC's hard drive and was up and running with Slackware, installed from numerous 3.5" floppies. As time went by I experimented with other distros, namely Redhat and Suse (which I actually paid for boxed versions of!) and grew to love Linux even more. I can't quite remember why I first moved to using Ubuntu when it came out but have a feeling it was because I was impressed with how slick it was, installing on my laptop of that time without any fuss. I've had no reason to look elsewhere for many years now (on the desktop that is, I still use CentOS on my web server).
As others have said, Android sounds perfect for your requirements.
I'd love to see an Android distro geared towards this kind of use. Like how CyanogenMod (and others) is a great Android distro for phones, a more bare bones distro without the phone, messaging, general bloat, etc, would be perfect for more bespoke applications like yours. I don't have the skills to start that kind of project but maybe you guys do?
Maybe because you'd need physical (or network exploitable) access to the target laptop in order to install a keylogger? Reading accelerometer data from your own laptop that you could have pre-configured and casually put down on victim's desk requires no direct access to victim's PC.
To be slightly pedantic, all meteorites impact the earth. If it burns up in the atmosphere without impacting earth it's just called a meteor.
It is a standalone app but using Android's APIs and other app hooks it can do quite a lot. Compose and send SMS, make calls, search the web, get directions, etc.
You are correct. I'm sure Siri will gain more functionality in the future but as it stands now, Siri should be compared to Voice Search and other third party voice command apps.
Google Translate does translate.
Siri (on iPhone) and Voice Search (on Android) handle voice commands and interaction.
The app itself is free to download from the android market and will run on any Android device running Andorid 1.5+. That's pretty much everything.
Conversation mode does appear to require Android 2.2 though, which means it should work on fine on ~85% of Android devices out in the wild.
He has a stutter, you insensitive clod!
Well it didn't cost him an arm and a leg for a brand new one.
Because denying religious people an education will make the world a safer, more peaceful and forward thinking place? I seriously doubt that.
I'm more inclined to think equal opportunities and education for all, regardless of their beliefs, is a very positive step forward.
Yesterday's was the final T4 post, but it's out of order.
I was lucky enough to receive an Acorn Electron as a young child and then a little later on, an Acorn BBC B followed by the BBC Master 512. I remember at times being envious of my friends with their Sinclair Z8s and scores of games, but looking back at it now I am so glad I grew up with the same machines they used at school. I remember my dad saving computer programs on to tape that were broadcasted over the radio and I soon became engrossed in learning how computers 'worked'. I taught myself to program in BASIC at around the age of 8 and was lucky enough to have some good teachers who, whilst knowing nothing about programming, allowed me to work on these skills during school hours. For a project on Egypt at age 9, instead of writing about it, I made a graphical story of Egypt with pyramids and sphinx's scrolling by on screen, with text describing the scene.
When I got to secondary school, we had supposedly proper Computer Science lessons. These were awful and rather depressing. The teachers obviously had no clue, they may have had backgrounds in engineering or electronics but anything about computers was dictated to us from very basic textbooks with no practical hands-on time. We had a few Acorn Archimedes that I was longing to play with but for some reason these were tucked away and intead we were plonked in front of RM Nimbus machines with virtually no software to play with. Eventually things improved a little when a new teacher started to take our lessons. Although he was not a coder, he somehow guided me into learning some machine code and from there I progressed into Pascal, C, etc. As far as I know, it wasn't part of the syllabus but he could see that's what I needed to learn and gave me the freedom to go learn it.
As far as I understand, things havn't much changed over the years. Computer Science (or whatever they call it nowadays in UK schools) is less about the science and more about using a computer to do general tasks. The only way this will change if schools have access to teachers who understand the science and the thought processes required to get down and dirty with a computer.
According to Wikipedia, most of the noise from a helicopter is generated by the rotors, so although I'm sure the electric engine will be quieter than turbine engines used in most helicopters today, it's not likely to make a huge difference to the overall noise.
It took MS years to get tabs into IE so I guess I should not be too surprised, but tabs in a file manager GUI are very, very useful and something I miss sorely when I'm forced to use Windows for the occasional task.
But you have to remember, the ISS is in LEO so weighs practically nothing. Your million pound bargain is now worth close to zero. Talk about depreciation!
Hehe, I know... was just my poor attempt at a joke ;)