Der Spiegel said the European Union and the UNâ(TM)s Vienna-based nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), were among those targeted by US intelligence agents.
But using YouTube's open standard it was working on their devices. Its just that Google is insisting that Microsoft lives to a standard that other platforms (Android and iOS) don't. MS has a solid class action lawsuit on this one.
My father in-law has a large backyard. To keep the light where he wants it he by using rope lighting. For the flood prone areas he'll use clear plastic tubes on some custom made stakes to elevate the lights and keep rope straight. The stakes aren't 3d printed. They're just rob iron bent into the shapes wanted and painted black to stop the rust.
1. Locked down OS. Windows is fairly open. RT was a locked down mess. If you wanted Android then make Android. Not Windows Locked-out edition with all the stuff we liked from past Windows blocked. 2. The Windows 8 look. Again if you would have called it Window Mobile edition people would have been more willing to try it as a, well mobile platform. But instead you made a carbon copy of the Windows 8 interface that everyone hates and marketed it as such. 3. Requirements/Price - Because of the hardware requirements and the 'Microsoft Tax' it pushed the price of these devices into the iPad with produced a... 4. Lack of good software - Its new, you practically had to buy a new version Visual Studio to build for it and you had to go through a certification nightmare to get your app on the store. BTW: Where the heck is a good version of Office or the game I can play on other tablets? Why is the #1-5 most downloaded app a replace for the Start Button.
ARM architecture needs a slim, functional Windows. This wasn't it.
Right wing nut jobs have been screaming about this for decades. Municipalities keep putting these cameras and phone taps in place in the name of safety, both personal and the unnamed war (crime, terrorism, even poverty.) Unfortunately these measures don't stop crime. At best they help find the person(s) who did the deed a little faster.
If you say we need more cameras, need I remind you of the Boston bombing. It was a low tech pressure cooker bomb in backpack that easily got past heighten surveillance at a marathon. How many days did it take to find the people who did it? It was people that found them, not cameras.
Technology in the wrong hands leads to Orwell's nightmare and the direction of the Nazi nationalism before World War II. Good governments can handle this kind of power. But we've seen major abuses of this kind of power from Bush senior through to Obama's drones in our government. Governments, especial large ones, easily get corrupted or hung up on political correctness so they keep getting re-elected. Stop watching every move I make if I'm not doing anything wrong.
I'll end this rant with two quotes/cliches:
* With great power comes great responsibility * Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean you're wrong.
Node is great for small, narrowly focused web apps and quick development. But I find many of the supporting projects to be less then stellar. The lack of a solid IDE that has some sort of optimizer bother me. Also, JavaScript is an interpreted language which by it nature has speed issues.
What I'm saying for long term support you'll need to roll most of your own code. Pulling in external modules may be slow because of the lack compiled code. Don't expect much from third party libraries. I've only been able to get one to work as advertised. And most of the advanced third party libraries require Python. Which begs the question: why am I using Node.JS when I could be using Python instead?
If the government was truly about capitalism them we wouldn't be into Obamacare at all. If someone else can do the same job cheaper, use them instead. Deregulate so companies can make it cheaper over here then a third world country that doesn't even come close to the current health care we offer here.
Tablets are small, cheap, portable, silent, generally have a camera, speakers, and microphone which gives them built in telephony features, and an easy UI. I can buy a decent tablet for less than $100 on eBay or the local discount store.
What are the redeeming qualities of a PC? Tactile IO: there is something to be said about a typing with a keyboard as opposed to a flat screen. Better audio and video quality: its just has a bigger screen and a better presentation system then a system with micro speaker and 7" screen. Deeper interfaces. For all the issues that Window's has its can do more then a tablet OS. Modularity, Upgrade-ability, and repair-ability: If I want a bigger screen I buy one for my PC. If want bigger screen in tablet I have to buy a whole new machine.
For these issue PC's will always be around. But they will get pushed in the development and special needs category in the next decade or so. Tablets will keep coming down in prices. Operation system like Ubuntu that give tablets more of the PC's feature. One off devices like the Roku and game systems like the XBox One will take up the home media center and entertainment.
You can download emulators and ROM's for little to no money. The only time a game is going to be worth anything more then scrap value is if the cart is physically rare like baseball cards. There will only ever be a handful that will meet that kind of rarity.
Isn't that just Visual Basic 6, VBScript, JScript, ActionScript, Real Basic, Jabaco, or JavaScript/ECMAScript? There are languages out there and even C# has the dreaded 'var' in it as well. I just don't see Dart's use outside of Google products.
A company that has $13 million in revenue in 2012 and hopes to only make $100 million in 2013 is purchased for 1.1 billion? This smells of a multi-level pump and dump scheme.
I will bet what will happen in the next 18 months is: Yahoo buy's out Tumblr. Tumblr's CEO sells all his stock Monday morning and get insanely rich. The new tYahoo company goes bankrupt by the end of the year. Microsoft or Bill Gates himself will swoop in and FINALLY by buy Yahoo making the current CEO insanely rich. If gates himself buys it sells Yahoo back to MS and adds to his insane fortune. Microsoft and integrates all of tYahoo's tech into MS and starts a second round of war against Google search and Google products.
Weird thought: If you're going to take the time put Linux on the machine why not just get a clean image of Windows and re-image each drive. Just make a boot CD and image old drives.
Look at the video game industry. The first 8 bit era (Atari 2600) brought out a bunch of clones that flooded and killed the market for year. Then NES and TurboGraphics came out and create a great 8 revival and slide into the 16 bit era. Then the 32bit era was full of crap until the PS-X.
The market will re-invent itself and become something new. The PC market will follow suit by making smaller faster machines. I think the next big step maybe Ubuntu next version or similar OS. Its practically a polymorphic interface that changes between desktop, phone and tablet depending on if its plugged into a keyboard or monitor. Metro was a great idea for tablets but horrible desktop.
Digg/Reddit/Twitter all have the same common problems as Kickstarter. When they started there was a small but dedicated community. Now that each has hit a critical mass point when everyone wants their message to be heard. In Kickerstarter's case the message is 'give me money to build XYZ product.' But there is so much static (junk postings or just bad ideas) that they're downing out the good stuff. And much like Digg/Reddit/Twitter there are scammers or people with good intentions but woefully underestimate the undertaking.
The only way around this to put a cap on the number of Kickstarters that can be posted a day. They have an approval system like/. but so many people are submitting so much now its easy for a bad project to slip through.
My suggestion is for Kickstarter to add a Firehouse system, like Slashdot, and require a business plan with all projects. If the money goes south then the investor know who to call.
This is a nifty suite of programs made for a lot of what you want that runs on a Raspberry Pi. If you don;t want to get a Pi you can look at the list of software and download then into your favorite Linux distro. Most (if not all) of these are open source.
IMHO: RPi's have a steep start up cost of a low-end machine if you include case, power supply, and cables.
If buying all that doesn't scare you maybe look at a Hackenberry instead. It run MANY more OS'es and much more software and has more CPU under the hood. Or if you want something with a basic case, built in OS that can changed, some extra flash crive space and a power supply try the APC Paper. Finally there the Android Stick/Android Media Center. They're like the APC but with less IO and plug directly into an HDTV as the monitor. eBay always has tons for $50-100 with free US shipping.
I can get something like this for a few dollars more and still run my Android apps. Also the link above has a touch screen. I just don't see why anyone is getting excited.
I would think something like this would be better then a USB stick. That way you can get a physical network connection and you don't have mouse, keyboard, headphone or any other USB cables hanging on one USB port.
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You mean something like this?
Der Spiegel said the European Union and the UNâ(TM)s Vienna-based nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), were among those targeted by US intelligence agents.
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/us-spy-agency-bugged-un-headquarters-der-spiegel-reports-1.1505184
The original der Spiegel article talked about how the IMF and other corporations were also bugged.
But using YouTube's open standard it was working on their devices. Its just that Google is insisting that Microsoft lives to a standard that other platforms (Android and iOS) don't. MS has a solid class action lawsuit on this one.
I'm pushing a few bucks towards the project this afternoon. It looks very promising.
My father in-law has a large backyard. To keep the light where he wants it he by using rope lighting. For the flood prone areas he'll use clear plastic tubes on some custom made stakes to elevate the lights and keep rope straight. The stakes aren't 3d printed. They're just rob iron bent into the shapes wanted and painted black to stop the rust.
I'n my opinion it was these things in this order:
1. Locked down OS. Windows is fairly open. RT was a locked down mess. If you wanted Android then make Android. Not Windows Locked-out edition with all the stuff we liked from past Windows blocked.
2. The Windows 8 look. Again if you would have called it Window Mobile edition people would have been more willing to try it as a, well mobile platform. But instead you made a carbon copy of the Windows 8 interface that everyone hates and marketed it as such.
3. Requirements/Price - Because of the hardware requirements and the 'Microsoft Tax' it pushed the price of these devices into the iPad with produced a...
4. Lack of good software - Its new, you practically had to buy a new version Visual Studio to build for it and you had to go through a certification nightmare to get your app on the store. BTW: Where the heck is a good version of Office or the game I can play on other tablets? Why is the #1-5 most downloaded app a replace for the Start Button.
ARM architecture needs a slim, functional Windows. This wasn't it.
Right wing nut jobs have been screaming about this for decades. Municipalities keep putting these cameras and phone taps in place in the name of safety, both personal and the unnamed war (crime, terrorism, even poverty.) Unfortunately these measures don't stop crime. At best they help find the person(s) who did the deed a little faster.
If you say we need more cameras, need I remind you of the Boston bombing. It was a low tech pressure cooker bomb in backpack that easily got past heighten surveillance at a marathon. How many days did it take to find the people who did it? It was people that found them, not cameras.
Technology in the wrong hands leads to Orwell's nightmare and the direction of the Nazi nationalism before World War II. Good governments can handle this kind of power. But we've seen major abuses of this kind of power from Bush senior through to Obama's drones in our government. Governments, especial large ones, easily get corrupted or hung up on political correctness so they keep getting re-elected. Stop watching every move I make if I'm not doing anything wrong.
I'll end this rant with two quotes/cliches:
* With great power comes great responsibility
* Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean you're wrong.
Node is great for small, narrowly focused web apps and quick development. But I find many of the supporting projects to be less then stellar. The lack of a solid IDE that has some sort of optimizer bother me. Also, JavaScript is an interpreted language which by it nature has speed issues.
What I'm saying for long term support you'll need to roll most of your own code. Pulling in external modules may be slow because of the lack compiled code. Don't expect much from third party libraries. I've only been able to get one to work as advertised. And most of the advanced third party libraries require Python. Which begs the question: why am I using Node.JS when I could be using Python instead?
If the government was truly about capitalism them we wouldn't be into Obamacare at all. If someone else can do the same job cheaper, use them instead. Deregulate so companies can make it cheaper over here then a third world country that doesn't even come close to the current health care we offer here.
You're way to late. Apple already has a device out called the Pippin.
PC's are big, expensive, power hungry and noisy.
Tablets are small, cheap, portable, silent, generally have a camera, speakers, and microphone which gives them built in telephony features, and an easy UI. I can buy a decent tablet for less than $100 on eBay or the local discount store.
What are the redeeming qualities of a PC? Tactile IO: there is something to be said about a typing with a keyboard as opposed to a flat screen. Better audio and video quality: its just has a bigger screen and a better presentation system then a system with micro speaker and 7" screen. Deeper interfaces. For all the issues that Window's has its can do more then a tablet OS. Modularity, Upgrade-ability, and repair-ability: If I want a bigger screen I buy one for my PC. If want bigger screen in tablet I have to buy a whole new machine.
For these issue PC's will always be around. But they will get pushed in the development and special needs category in the next decade or so. Tablets will keep coming down in prices. Operation system like Ubuntu that give tablets more of the PC's feature. One off devices like the Roku and game systems like the XBox One will take up the home media center and entertainment.
I would donate so cash if someone could could port this to ARM, specifically Raspberry Pi or BeagleBoard Black.
You can download emulators and ROM's for little to no money. The only time a game is going to be worth anything more then scrap value is if the cart is physically rare like baseball cards. There will only ever be a handful that will meet that kind of rarity.
It was fun to write code that let me print on the thermal printer. The rubber keyboard was such a pain to use.
Isn't that just Visual Basic 6, VBScript, JScript, ActionScript, Real Basic, Jabaco, or JavaScript/ECMAScript? There are languages out there and even C# has the dreaded 'var' in it as well. I just don't see Dart's use outside of Google products.
A company that has $13 million in revenue in 2012 and hopes to only make $100 million in 2013 is purchased for 1.1 billion? This smells of a multi-level pump and dump scheme.
I will bet what will happen in the next 18 months is: Yahoo buy's out Tumblr. Tumblr's CEO sells all his stock Monday morning and get insanely rich. The new tYahoo company goes bankrupt by the end of the year. Microsoft or Bill Gates himself will swoop in and FINALLY by buy Yahoo making the current CEO insanely rich. If gates himself buys it sells Yahoo back to MS and adds to his insane fortune. Microsoft and integrates all of tYahoo's tech into MS and starts a second round of war against Google search and Google products.
How long before they're offered as TracFone's for $19.95 with 20 minutes free?
Weird thought: If you're going to take the time put Linux on the machine why not just get a clean image of Windows and re-image each drive. Just make a boot CD and image old drives.
Relevant Link: http://www.instructables.com/id/Raspberry-Pi-Tor-relay/
So said the buggy whip manufactures around the turn of the century.
Look at the video game industry. The first 8 bit era (Atari 2600) brought out a bunch of clones that flooded and killed the market for year. Then NES and TurboGraphics came out and create a great 8 revival and slide into the 16 bit era. Then the 32bit era was full of crap until the PS-X.
The market will re-invent itself and become something new. The PC market will follow suit by making smaller faster machines. I think the next big step maybe Ubuntu next version or similar OS. Its practically a polymorphic interface that changes between desktop, phone and tablet depending on if its plugged into a keyboard or monitor. Metro was a great idea for tablets but horrible desktop.
Digg/Reddit/Twitter all have the same common problems as Kickstarter. When they started there was a small but dedicated community. Now that each has hit a critical mass point when everyone wants their message to be heard. In Kickerstarter's case the message is 'give me money to build XYZ product.' But there is so much static (junk postings or just bad ideas) that they're downing out the good stuff. And much like Digg/Reddit/Twitter there are scammers or people with good intentions but woefully underestimate the undertaking.
The only way around this to put a cap on the number of Kickstarters that can be posted a day. They have an approval system like /. but so many people are submitting so much now its easy for a bad project to slip through.
My suggestion is for Kickstarter to add a Firehouse system, like Slashdot, and require a business plan with all projects. If the money goes south then the investor know who to call.
This is a nifty suite of programs made for a lot of what you want that runs on a Raspberry Pi. If you don;t want to get a Pi you can look at the list of software and download then into your favorite Linux distro. Most (if not all) of these are open source.
http://pwnpi.sourceforge.net/
IMHO: RPi's have a steep start up cost of a low-end machine if you include case, power supply, and cables.
If buying all that doesn't scare you maybe look at a Hackenberry instead. It run MANY more OS'es and much more software and has more CPU under the hood. Or if you want something with a basic case, built in OS that can changed, some extra flash crive space and a power supply try the APC Paper. Finally there the Android Stick/Android Media Center. They're like the APC but with less IO and plug directly into an HDTV as the monitor. eBay always has tons for $50-100 with free US shipping.
I can get something like this for a few dollars more and still run my Android apps. Also the link above has a touch screen. I just don't see why anyone is getting excited.
I would think something like this would be better then a USB stick. That way you can get a physical network connection and you don't have mouse, keyboard, headphone or any other USB cables hanging on one USB port.