1) keeping the computer screen up and hands-free talking and annoying everyone in your office,
2) Picking the phone up out of the dock for a more private conversation, but losing your computer screen which could be a problem if someone has a question that requires your computer, or
3) Wearing one of those stupid headsets every time someone makes a call.
I like the idea, and the hardware looks sexy, but none of those options appeal to me. Anyone have a better way?
OK, ebay was just an example, as I assume an international audience on/. I'm not sure where you live, but you can also get these monitors at retail stores in the US at microcenter for just under $400 - still less than half of what TFA quoted.
And yes - microcenter has 20 odd locations US-wide, so you can pop in and out to your heart's content.
TFA actually addresses that explicitly. In fact, it's the thrust of the entire article. "As I type this, I’m sitting ~32 inches away from a 27-inch monitor with a resolution of 1920×1080, or 81.59 PPI. At that distance, my monitor would need to pack at least 107 PPI (pixels per inch) in order to qualify as a Retina display."
TFA is whining about nothing. It claims
we need to first acknowledge that higher PPI displays do exist. Newegg stocks multiple 27-inch displays with a 2560×1440 resolution in the $850-$1600 range. At 108 PPI, that’s high enough to qualify as a Retina display at a nominal 32-inch (80cm) viewing distance.
And then he has has a little sad about them being too expensive, but the fact is that you can buy brand new 27-inch 2560x1440 ips displays for around $300 if you are just willing to look around a little.
These give a retina display at the nominal distance he quotes. The dude needs to google around a little more.
Except for the last point ( thus my statement about external usb ) you can get all the above....
Now space might be an issue for your 'media' since you are limited to flash cards, but you can always stream from a file server over wifi..
Actually, people have hacked together usb host mode drivers for the USB chips in the samsung galaxy s and galaxy s ii phones (and probably others), so there now exists the potential to plug in usb hubs, usb drives etc. into the smartphone, solving the space for media issue, and also the gpio port issue, if you buy a usb to gpio interface adapter.
It's sillier than you think: as yet there are still no charges he has to face in Sweden. My understanding is that he is wanted for questioning only. The first prosecutor in Sweden tossed the case because there was no evidence. Somehow, a second prosecutor has gotten involved, and has put in this unprecedented request for extradition for "questioning" while there still have been no civil or criminal charges laid against him by the Swedish police.
Neither of the articles you posted contradict what I said. In fact, they confirm it. The first article explains that the lawyer for the accusers didn't like the fact that the first senior prosecutor didn't think that Assange had a case to answer, and so the lawyer went crying to a second prosecutor to get a second opinion. This isn't even allowed in most countries. While the second prosecutor wants to speak to Assange, there is nothing in that article about charges having been laid.
The second article you posted also has nothing about charges being made. In fact, the second paragraph of that article specifically says:
"The basis for further considerations is not sufficient at the moment. More investigations are necessary before a final decision can be made (concerning possible charges)," she added.
The part I bolded explicitly makes clear that no charges have been made.
And let's also not forget that while Assange was in Sweden, he tried to comply with police requests as much as possible, to the point of saying to the Swedish police, "OK, I'm leaving the country now, is there anything else I have to do to help sort this out?" He left Sweden thinking that this was all over and done with.
Strange, hmmm? Applies for residency and then flees the country?
He did go to the police station to be interviewed before he left. While he probably intended to return to Sweden and stay and work, his trip to London was already planned. I don't blame him for not wanting to return to Sweden now. He is Australian, and so knows very well the importance of steering clear of countries with kangaroo courts.
With a nickname of "cold fjord", I'll assume that you are nordic, so I want you to understand that I am not impugning Sweden. There are lots of things I like about that country (free tertiary education for everyone as an example), but there are several things from when Sweden was a pure monarchy left over in Sweden's judicial system which are not democratic. It is important in a functioning democracy to separate the judicial authority from the police and prosecutorial authority. Sweden doesn't do that yet, and it leads to the abuses of authority we see here. It should be a judge that signs off on an interpol warrant, when sufficient evidence is provided to him, not a prosecutor without any evidence trying to make a big high-profile arrest.
Assange has been publicly accused of being a sex criminal with only the word of two spurned women as evidence. Nothing else. And both those women were perfectly happy until they happened to meet each other and realized that they had both slept with the same man. This situation would never have gotten this far if the justice system in Sweden was separated on correct lines.
It really has gotten to the point of rather silly. He's going to have to go and face the charges in Sweden.
It's sillier than you think: as yet there are still no charges he has to face in Sweden. My understanding is that he is wanted for questioning only. The first prosecutor in Sweden tossed the case because there was no evidence. Somehow, a second prosecutor has gotten involved, and has put in this unprecedented request for extradition for "questioning" while there still have been no civil or criminal charges laid against him by the Swedish police.
And let's also not forget that while Assange was in Sweden, he tried to comply with police requests as much as possible, to the point of saying to the Swedish police, "OK, I'm leaving the country now, is there anything else I have to do to help sort this out?" He left Sweden thinking that this was all over and done with.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but can Disk be considered a part of the "broadcast television ecosystem"? Don't they have subscribers who pay for the service? Making it more like cable, and therefore not broadcast (at least by my definition of the term)?
Fuck superannuation. Any Aussies have a better solution? How hard is it to set up so-called "self-managed super"?
Setting up a self-managed super fund (SMSF) is pretty easy. Any accountant can set up a trust for you for a couple of k. Once you have it, you can invest in whatever you choose within reason, without paying the extra layers of fees you pay now.
The real problem will be getting your funds out of your existing super account into your fund. Most Australian superannuation fund managers have what they call a "retention strategy" where they will "lose" the first set of documentation you send them requesting the transfer into your SMSF.
They figure that since you are leaving anyway, you are unlikely to be back, and by the time you resend your documentation, they might be able to scrape another couple of months fees out of your account.
It is disgusting behaviour, in a disgusting industry, and you will be well rid of them. I run my own SMSF, and I'll never go back.
Since you are an ubuntu user, and it looks like you just need a nice rsync front-end to handle backup of the same data to two different drives, I'll suggest unison-gtk.
Very nice, simple front-end, and will do what I think you need.
The array will produce far more energy during its lifetime than was used to produce and install it.
I wouldn't say far more.
It takes about 10 years for a typical silicon solar cell to generate the amount of energy that was used in the cell's production. The typical lifetime of the cell is about 25 years. So these types of cells only produce about 2.5 times as much energy as was needed for its production.
There are other solar cells such as organics that take less energy to produce, but because they have a much shorter lifespan, they aren't that much better from this point of view, and they don't get used in large arrays like this one.
The upshot is that the situation with solar cells is not yet as good as we would like it to be, and I don't think that we should be recommending large uptake of solar cells as a truly environmental solution until there is an large improvement in energy required to energy produced ratio.
Wow. You just reminded me of another time when I was consulting to a financial institution where someone had written a sql query to identify all the girls under 30 who had net worths of over $ 1 million.
Not just private information. I used to consult to a roads authority that I'll keep nameless for now.
They had remote controllable ccd cameras all over the place to keep track of traffic flow etc.
Whenever I went in, one of the cameras would almost always be pointing at the girl who used to sunbathe in her back yard in a property very close to a major intersection.
Commander X is dreaming, I'm the most powerful organism on earth, who has the most powerful orgasms on earth, due to the fact that I have the most powerful organs on earth, and every so often I pop over to Utah to play the most powerful pipe organ on earth, and why the HELL am I reading an interview with a megalomaniacal fugitive, and also, how can a fugitive still have delusions of megalomania?
Well point us to an example where the private industry has built a system of roads even remotely matching the public highway system and you might have a case. Until then you have nothing but hypothetical claims.
I'm not going to weigh into the argument in one direction or another, but I will point out that there are absolute bucket-loads of privately owned, non-government toll roads in various countries around the world.
Congratulations, Heartland Institute, your argument is now so depraved that you've reduced yourselves to holding up pictures of Hitler in a public forum while pantomiming your opponents. Is that reductio ad ridiculum or is this so childish that people didn't even bother coming up with a Latin phrase for it?
Oh this form of logic is fun!
Since the thread is already Godwined: Hitler ate bread and drank water. YOU eat bread and drink water. Therefore, you are like Hitler!
You mean pretty much everyone? Because girls go out shopping together, either with friends or their boyfriends so that they can get their opinions on how something look. Likewise, many times men have their girlfriend or wife buy them clothes.
I highlighted the important bit of what you said. I'm OK with people getting opinions from friends about stuff.
But tfa is about people getting recommendations from complete strangers. And imho, this is a whole new level of needy.
Will they lower their UK prices in that case? Or will they just raise euro prices to compensate?
Well the Oz dollar has gone from $US0.80 to $US1.04 in the last few years, and MS haven't lowered their prices at all there, so I guess you have your answer.
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Both KDE and Gnome3 have various annoyances and missing features which are so bad that I've stopped trying to convert people to linux.
But Gnome3 is slightly less ugly, and I find the default fonts far more readable, so that is what I use for my computers.
You have the choice of:
1) keeping the computer screen up and hands-free talking and annoying everyone in your office,
2) Picking the phone up out of the dock for a more private conversation, but losing your computer screen which could be a problem if someone has a question that requires your computer, or
3) Wearing one of those stupid headsets every time someone makes a call.
I like the idea, and the hardware looks sexy, but none of those options appeal to me. Anyone have a better way?
OK, ebay was just an example, as I assume an international audience on /. I'm not sure where you live, but you can also get these monitors at retail stores in the US at microcenter for just under $400 - still less than half of what TFA quoted.
And yes - microcenter has 20 odd locations US-wide, so you can pop in and out to your heart's content.
+1 I have two of these - they are really nice ips monitors, and I don't have any dead pixels on mine.
My only complaint was that I had to frig around in xorg.conf to get them working. But they are sweet monitors.
TFA actually addresses that explicitly. In fact, it's the thrust of the entire article. "As I type this, I’m sitting ~32 inches away from a 27-inch monitor with a resolution of 1920×1080, or 81.59 PPI. At that distance, my monitor would need to pack at least 107 PPI (pixels per inch) in order to qualify as a Retina display."
TFA is whining about nothing. It claims
we need to first acknowledge that higher PPI displays do exist. Newegg stocks multiple 27-inch displays with a 2560×1440 resolution in the $850-$1600 range. At 108 PPI, that’s high enough to qualify as a Retina display at a nominal 32-inch (80cm) viewing distance.
And then he has has a little sad about them being too expensive, but the fact is that you can buy brand new 27-inch 2560x1440 ips displays for around $300 if you are just willing to look around a little.
These give a retina display at the nominal distance he quotes. The dude needs to google around a little more.
For some reason, many governments around the world have always had a specific and disproportionate dislike of the use of Piracy On Thursdays (or Pot).
Don't ask me why though.
Except for the last point ( thus my statement about external usb ) you can get all the above. ...
Now space might be an issue for your 'media' since you are limited to flash cards, but you can always stream from a file server over wifi..
Actually, people have hacked together usb host mode drivers for the USB chips in the samsung galaxy s and galaxy s ii phones (and probably others), so there now exists the potential to plug in usb hubs, usb drives etc. into the smartphone, solving the space for media issue, and also the gpio port issue, if you buy a usb to gpio interface adapter.
It's sillier than you think: as yet there are still no charges he has to face in Sweden. My understanding is that he is wanted for questioning only. The first prosecutor in Sweden tossed the case because there was no evidence. Somehow, a second prosecutor has gotten involved, and has put in this unprecedented request for extradition for "questioning" while there still have been no civil or criminal charges laid against him by the Swedish police.
You don't quite have that right.
Lawyer appeals decision on Assange case Renewed rape suspicions for WikiLeaks' Assange
Neither of the articles you posted contradict what I said. In fact, they confirm it. The first article explains that the lawyer for the accusers didn't like the fact that the first senior prosecutor didn't think that Assange had a case to answer, and so the lawyer went crying to a second prosecutor to get a second opinion. This isn't even allowed in most countries. While the second prosecutor wants to speak to Assange, there is nothing in that article about charges having been laid.
The second article you posted also has nothing about charges being made. In fact, the second paragraph of that article specifically says:
"The basis for further considerations is not sufficient at the moment. More investigations are necessary before a final decision can be made (concerning possible charges)," she added.
The part I bolded explicitly makes clear that no charges have been made.
And let's also not forget that while Assange was in Sweden, he tried to comply with police requests as much as possible, to the point of saying to the Swedish police, "OK, I'm leaving the country now, is there anything else I have to do to help sort this out?" He left Sweden thinking that this was all over and done with.
I doubt that given this: Julian Assange applies for Swedish residency
Strange, hmmm? Applies for residency and then flees the country?
He did go to the police station to be interviewed before he left. While he probably intended to return to Sweden and stay and work, his trip to London was already planned. I don't blame him for not wanting to return to Sweden now. He is Australian, and so knows very well the importance of steering clear of countries with kangaroo courts.
With a nickname of "cold fjord", I'll assume that you are nordic, so I want you to understand that I am not impugning Sweden. There are lots of things I like about that country (free tertiary education for everyone as an example), but there are several things from when Sweden was a pure monarchy left over in Sweden's judicial system which are not democratic. It is important in a functioning democracy to separate the judicial authority from the police and prosecutorial authority. Sweden doesn't do that yet, and it leads to the abuses of authority we see here. It should be a judge that signs off on an interpol warrant, when sufficient evidence is provided to him, not a prosecutor without any evidence trying to make a big high-profile arrest.
Assange has been publicly accused of being a sex criminal with only the word of two spurned women as evidence. Nothing else. And both those women were perfectly happy until they happened to meet each other and realized that they had both slept with the same man. This situation would never have gotten this far if the justice system in Sweden was separated on correct lines.
It really has gotten to the point of rather silly. He's going to have to go and face the charges in Sweden.
It's sillier than you think: as yet there are still no charges he has to face in Sweden. My understanding is that he is wanted for questioning only. The first prosecutor in Sweden tossed the case because there was no evidence. Somehow, a second prosecutor has gotten involved, and has put in this unprecedented request for extradition for "questioning" while there still have been no civil or criminal charges laid against him by the Swedish police.
And let's also not forget that while Assange was in Sweden, he tried to comply with police requests as much as possible, to the point of saying to the Swedish police, "OK, I'm leaving the country now, is there anything else I have to do to help sort this out?" He left Sweden thinking that this was all over and done with.
The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but can Disk be considered a part of the "broadcast television ecosystem"? Don't they have subscribers who pay for the service? Making it more like cable, and therefore not broadcast (at least by my definition of the term)?
Fuck superannuation. Any Aussies have a better solution? How hard is it to set up so-called "self-managed super"?
Setting up a self-managed super fund (SMSF) is pretty easy. Any accountant can set up a trust for you for a couple of k. Once you have it, you can invest in whatever you choose within reason, without paying the extra layers of fees you pay now.
The real problem will be getting your funds out of your existing super account into your fund. Most Australian superannuation fund managers have what they call a "retention strategy" where they will "lose" the first set of documentation you send them requesting the transfer into your SMSF.
They figure that since you are leaving anyway, you are unlikely to be back, and by the time you resend your documentation, they might be able to scrape another couple of months fees out of your account.
It is disgusting behaviour, in a disgusting industry, and you will be well rid of them. I run my own SMSF, and I'll never go back.
Since you are an ubuntu user, and it looks like you just need a nice rsync front-end to handle backup of the same data to two different drives, I'll suggest unison-gtk.
Very nice, simple front-end, and will do what I think you need.
The array will produce far more energy during its lifetime than was used to produce and install it.
I wouldn't say far more.
It takes about 10 years for a typical silicon solar cell to generate the amount of energy that was used in the cell's production. The typical lifetime of the cell is about 25 years. So these types of cells only produce about 2.5 times as much energy as was needed for its production.
There are other solar cells such as organics that take less energy to produce, but because they have a much shorter lifespan, they aren't that much better from this point of view, and they don't get used in large arrays like this one.
The upshot is that the situation with solar cells is not yet as good as we would like it to be, and I don't think that we should be recommending large uptake of solar cells as a truly environmental solution until there is an large improvement in energy required to energy produced ratio.
Wow. You just reminded me of another time when I was consulting to a financial institution where someone had written a sql query to identify all the girls under 30 who had net worths of over $ 1 million.
I had totally forgotten about that.
Not just private information. I used to consult to a roads authority that I'll keep nameless for now.
They had remote controllable ccd cameras all over the place to keep track of traffic flow etc.
Whenever I went in, one of the cameras would almost always be pointing at the girl who used to sunbathe in her back yard in a property very close to a major intersection.
Incredibly creepy.
No it is not, Yes we will.
Commander X is dreaming, I'm the most powerful organism on earth, who has the most powerful orgasms on earth, due to the fact that I have the most powerful organs on earth, and every so often I pop over to Utah to play the most powerful pipe organ on earth, and why the HELL am I reading an interview with a megalomaniacal fugitive, and also, how can a fugitive still have delusions of megalomania?
Well point us to an example where the private industry has built a system of roads even remotely matching the public highway system and you might have a case. Until then you have nothing but hypothetical claims.
I'm not going to weigh into the argument in one direction or another, but I will point out that there are absolute bucket-loads of privately owned, non-government toll roads in various countries around the world.
Congratulations, Heartland Institute, your argument is now so depraved that you've reduced yourselves to holding up pictures of Hitler in a public forum while pantomiming your opponents. Is that reductio ad ridiculum or is this so childish that people didn't even bother coming up with a Latin phrase for it?
Oh this form of logic is fun!
Since the thread is already Godwined: Hitler ate bread and drank water. YOU eat bread and drink water. Therefore, you are like Hitler!
What our Anonymous Coward means is that huge amounts of people would vote for Cowboy Neal, if he'd ever come out with a fashion line.
That kind of abuse.
But the store probably welcomes that kind of abuse: they get to sell fashion disasters they accidentally stocked to people relying on facebook likes.
You mean pretty much everyone? Because girls go out shopping together, either with friends or their boyfriends so that they can get their opinions on how something look. Likewise, many times men have their girlfriend or wife buy them clothes.
I highlighted the important bit of what you said. I'm OK with people getting opinions from friends about stuff.
But tfa is about people getting recommendations from complete strangers. And imho, this is a whole new level of needy.
WoW, I wonder who thought that up.
It was thought up by someone who lacks the basic self-esteem required to choose their own clothing.
Will they lower their UK prices in that case? Or will they just raise euro prices to compensate?
Well the Oz dollar has gone from $US0.80 to $US1.04 in the last few years, and MS haven't lowered their prices at all there, so I guess you have your answer.
Either that, or a Streisand effect: A whole bunch of brits wondering what this pirate bay thingy in the papers is about, and going to take a look.