I was at a talk from one of these guys once and from what I remember he said that the amount of things you get with a phone make it attractive. They have a camera, temperature sensor and compass straight off as well as probably more stuff. A Raspberry Pi probably would be better with some more work though.
If I am correct then this is HP CDS. The story really doesn't surprise me as CDS management really is incredibly incompetent. They know nothing about employee loyalty.
I do IT support and use my phone every day. Contacting customers, conference calls, calls from reception. Probably one the most useful pieces of kit I have. I don't want to use my mobile phone for work, the company doesn't pay for it and it's a personal number.
The Queen doesn't have constitutional functions. The British political system is slightly retarded.
Officially the Queen is the executive, she signs into law bills passed by parliament but she doesn't actually have any say. Parliament has all the power.
If a president was to be elected then they would surely have a large amount of legitmacy and so should have some power? This would require a major change in parliament; the house of lords would probably have to go as it would be hard for them to claim legitimacy.
How do you go about removing the monarchy at this point? Most of our governance system would need changing. A lot of people dislike the monarchy but there has never been a choice to not have it. There is also the fact (and I hate this arguement) that the monarchy charactorises Britain, I have even heard arguements that they bring in revenue through tourism but I have not seen much evidence for this.
The monarchy has at least been stripped of almost all power. The Queen isn't really even a figurehead, just a tradition.
>$20 billion per year business, with average recipients charged $750,000 for a transplant
No? It's free, at least while the NHS still exists. I'm happy to give my organs whether I'm brain dead or really dead. I'm not that important and saving a life is one of the most amazing things I can think of to do in my life.
My dad was saying that Tokyo is depressing, apparently there are power shortages so most of the signs and escalators are turned off and the city is dark. How are they supposed to make up their energy requirements if they stop using nuclear?
I though the original plan was to run Debian and it probably still will be one of the man distros on the Pi. Debian releases should be supported for a lot longer.
I think I read somewhere that it is fairly near a ledge so I imagine it would be unsafe for divers to be regularly going inside it. I guess they could secure it to the rocks it's on though.
I think that is hyperbolic at best. How will this generation be lost? I used to spend all my time on my gameboy but I am not 'lost', most of my applicable skills come from messing about on computers in my spare time.
An interesting distro I have come across recently is Mint Debian. They do the same thing normal Mint does but skip Ubuntu. I think they use Debian unstable as a base. I think it is fairly new now but it looks promising.
I have been thinking for a while that you could build your own tablet with one of these boards. Strap a touchscreen to one side and a battery to the other and install some tablet edition of Windows or Linux and it should work pretty well. Certainly more powerful than most tablets available today.
The only issue might be power consumption but it's quite a good trade off for performance and modularity. You could just use a bigger battery anyway.
I have been thinking for a while that you could build your own tablet with one of these boards. Strap a touchscreen to one side and a battery to the other and install some tablet edition of Windows or Linux and it should work pretty well. Certainly more powerful than most tablets available today.
The only issue might be power consumption but it's quite a good trade off for performance and modularity. You could just use a bigger battery anyway.
I get loads of information about upgrading to fiber (which I would love to do) but it seems that my area doesn't have fiber.
There is a lot of confusion about fiber availability as ISPs blanket customers with information about upgrading even if there is no chance of attaining those speeds.
I installed Ubuntu on my mums machine. One of my greatest decisions ever. It makes it so much easier for me to look after. I expect the next time I will have to do anything to it will be when 12.04 comes out.
Ubuntu really is quite easy for non technical people to use. Especially if all they do is web browsing and some word processing.
The first bit sounds like the beginning of the Dark Side Of The Moon. The only difference being that the Dark Side Of The Moon is far nicer and more relaxing.
My Computing class is all male and i don't know any females who know about computing or would care to. I'm not saying they don't exist, I just haven't seen any.
I think he must mean reflashing it over USB. I'm not brilliant with terminology but I mean the first time you do it to enable recovery. I do not know of a way to do it with Linux. Of course you can transfer an update.zip to your SD card then run it in recovery but you can do that with any OS that supports file transfers and USB.
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HTTPS Everywhere can't magically make a site use HTTPS. It just requests HTTPS pages from sites that have it enabled.
I was at a talk from one of these guys once and from what I remember he said that the amount of things you get with a phone make it attractive. They have a camera, temperature sensor and compass straight off as well as probably more stuff. A Raspberry Pi probably would be better with some more work though.
If I am correct then this is HP CDS. The story really doesn't surprise me as CDS management really is incredibly incompetent. They know nothing about employee loyalty.
I do IT support and use my phone every day. Contacting customers, conference calls, calls from reception. Probably one the most useful pieces of kit I have. I don't want to use my mobile phone for work, the company doesn't pay for it and it's a personal number.
Wow, did they not have backups?
Well, looks like I'm about to encrypt my phone, I don't even have any data that I care if they see.
The Queen doesn't have constitutional functions. The British political system is slightly retarded.
Officially the Queen is the executive, she signs into law bills passed by parliament but she doesn't actually have any say. Parliament has all the power.
If a president was to be elected then they would surely have a large amount of legitmacy and so should have some power? This would require a major change in parliament; the house of lords would probably have to go as it would be hard for them to claim legitimacy.
How do you go about removing the monarchy at this point? Most of our governance system would need changing. A lot of people dislike the monarchy but there has never been a choice to not have it. There is also the fact (and I hate this arguement) that the monarchy charactorises Britain, I have even heard arguements that they bring in revenue through tourism but I have not seen much evidence for this.
The monarchy has at least been stripped of almost all power. The Queen isn't really even a figurehead, just a tradition.
>$20 billion per year business, with average recipients charged $750,000 for a transplant
No? It's free, at least while the NHS still exists. I'm happy to give my organs whether I'm brain dead or really dead. I'm not that important and saving a life is one of the most amazing things I can think of to do in my life.
My dad was saying that Tokyo is depressing, apparently there are power shortages so most of the signs and escalators are turned off and the city is dark. How are they supposed to make up their energy requirements if they stop using nuclear?
I though the original plan was to run Debian and it probably still will be one of the man distros on the Pi. Debian releases should be supported for a lot longer.
I think I read somewhere that it is fairly near a ledge so I imagine it would be unsafe for divers to be regularly going inside it.
I guess they could secure it to the rocks it's on though.
I think that is hyperbolic at best. How will this generation be lost? I used to spend all my time on my gameboy but I am not 'lost', most of my applicable skills come from messing about on computers in my spare time.
That said flying kites is awesome.
>a tracking station in Perth, Australia, picked up a signal from the ailing spacecraft.
I guess it gets put there automatically if a story gets tagged with 'austrailia'
An interesting distro I have come across recently is Mint Debian. They do the same thing normal Mint does but skip Ubuntu. I think they use Debian unstable as a base. I think it is fairly new now but it looks promising.
I have been thinking for a while that you could build your own tablet with one of these boards. Strap a touchscreen to one side and a battery to the other and install some tablet edition of Windows or Linux and it should work pretty well. Certainly more powerful than most tablets available today.
The only issue might be power consumption but it's quite a good trade off for performance and modularity. You could just use a bigger battery anyway.
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I have been thinking for a while that you could build your own tablet with one of these boards. Strap a touchscreen to one side and a battery to the other and install some tablet edition of Windows or Linux and it should work pretty well. Certainly more powerful than most tablets available today.
The only issue might be power consumption but it's quite a good trade off for performance and modularity. You could just use a bigger battery anyway.
I get loads of information about upgrading to fiber (which I would love to do) but it seems that my area doesn't have fiber.
There is a lot of confusion about fiber availability as ISPs blanket customers with information about upgrading even if there is no chance of attaining those speeds.
Surely port forwarding can forward to a specific IP address?
I installed Ubuntu on my mums machine. One of my greatest decisions ever. It makes it so much easier for me to look after. I expect the next time I will have to do anything to it will be when 12.04 comes out.
Ubuntu really is quite easy for non technical people to use. Especially if all they do is web browsing and some word processing.
The first bit sounds like the beginning of the Dark Side Of The Moon. The only difference being that the Dark Side Of The Moon is far nicer and more relaxing.
My Computing class is all male and i don't know any females who know about computing or would care to. I'm not saying they don't exist, I just haven't seen any.
Couldn't they attach a bunch of parachutes to it and try to drop it softly somewhere? Seems like a lot of money and work that will be destroyed.
I think he must mean reflashing it over USB. I'm not brilliant with terminology but I mean the first time you do it to enable recovery. I do not know of a way to do it with Linux. Of course you can transfer an update.zip to your SD card then run it in recovery but you can do that with any OS that supports file transfers and USB.