i know, but itsme posted like the palm-pre is worthless because its app-store isnt up to par, my point is that the app-store shouldnt be the only means to get apps
now i dont know jack about the palm-pre of web-os, but since when do you NEED an app store on a proper smartphone? The iphone might have triggered android in hopping onto the "app-store" bandwagon, and with all the ipad-hoopla, the media might make you think that without an app-store you cant do anything, but a proper smart-phone should be able to have software installed which isnt given the official X seal of approval.
My 3 year old nokia doesnt have an app-store (come to think of it, it has the n-gage thing for games), but i still managed to get opera installed... or just about any piece of java code i write.
I thought the entire point of smart-phones was that they grew closer and closer to a general purpose computer, not being a walled-garden
So, just to be clear, you are arguing that it's safer for them to talk to strangers online in that mental state than to not talk to strangers online?
He is arguing that it is better for the kid to get some support from her parents, since just cutting the internet doesnt deminish the need for someone to talk too, cut off the internet and dont step in, and he/she will just find someone else in real life (which might end up good, i.e. a teacher/coach, or might end up bad, a pervy teacher/coach)
perhaps the goal isnt to make the kids grow up into perfect worker drones, but try to get them to think for themselves, make their own decisions, and if need be, break a rule or two
alternatively, you could have opened the case and simple removed the cable from the lock from the mobo (and perhaps short it with a jumper, not sure if it was open-locked or close-locked)
And just what do you think the kids are playing on the 10 year old dell they have? XP era games are probably a huge step up.. a 10 year old dell box would be lucky to run any game newer then itself reasonably.
Also, in this case three new client systems will be built, do you honestly think they will be anywhere near serious gaming builds?
Anyway, with three kids 12/14/15, and one comp-ilieterate parent, keeping control of the clients is probably a lost battle, having a common gateway which restricts web-acces is probably the best, and even then you'll need to come to terms with the fact that proxies/vpn will pretty much defeat any content-level restrictions.
I know this is a single parent house-hold, and probably american, but how about actually doing some old school talking to your kids, and accepting that teenage boys look at porn?
Also, since when is jailbreaking an iPhone "breaking the law"? There are things you can do with a jailbroken iPhone that break the law, but there are things you can do with a stock one that break the law as well... for instance, hitting someone over the head with one.
i'm guessing the good old DCMA might have something to say about jailbreaking... (which means you can get shafted bigtime if anyone comes after you)
not an american though, so i dont know the details
i'm not sure how this figures into the whole situation for the GP, but apple has been getting progressively more restrictive lately, no more wifi apps, no more adult content..
He might have bought the phone with wifi-scraping and porn-apping high on the feature list (like some ps3 owners saw the otherOs as a very big reason to get it), and found himself getting shafted by apple again and again.
I'm not saying this is a common case, apple will be smart enough to not piss off the majority of their user base, but there are bound to be cases like the one i described
My three year old nokia brick already has full multitasking support... This just adds functionality to the iphone which less high end (and expensive) phones have had for years...
You can already, iTunes will happily play on while you're doing something else.
this has been debated time and time again, sure the ipod app runns in the background, but any internet stream wont currently. So if you are fine with being limited to the mp3s on your device for no technically sounds reason, sure the iphone already does that.
The point is so much that you cant do *specific feature X*, since there is a limited set of apple-provided features which work just fine, the point is that you are limited specificly to whatever apple choses to provide, which is a bit odd in this day and age for a mobile device of this caliber
the shitty bit about this is that i own a "3G" ipod touch 8gb, which is nothing more then a 2G ipod with an exterior update to look like the actual 3Gs
So apple sells this as a new ipod touch, but it wont run their newest software.. i wonder if OS 4.0 means the death of the 2.5G 8gb ipod.
I'll survive though, considering ive gotten along without multitasking so far. I would have really liked it, but eh.. if i really want it i'll just have to pony up the dough for a new iPad nano...
my GF had her 3GS on plane-mode while on vacation (because of the excessive data-roaming charges), and suddenly battery-life is almost a week.. it basically becomes and ipod touch with a larger battery, and it survives on zero power:P
I know all the tech savvy Ubuntu users either 1.) don't use forums, or 2.) mainly stay on the official Ubuntu forums.
Both apply for me anyway, i use the ubuntu forums only passively, i dont bother asking for help there
As for windows users, i think you fail to understand the stupidity that signifies most windows drones when it comes to computers/internet. For a good example, check this link:
i'm not saying astronauts are worthless, i'm saying that if an astronaut would be willing to take a 1 in 25 chance of blowing up on the ride to space, i don't think we should stop him. I think it is hypocritical for some bureaucrats to decide how safe a rocket has to be before someone can strap themselves to it.
Not that i'm saying it would be ok to kill half our astronauts on failed launches, but i think the people putting their life on the line riding the things would be more just in deciding what risk is acceptable, then some paper-pusher in washington
i know energia could have done a single launch moon-shot, but they dont use that launcher anymore. In the same vein, if they picked up the N1 (original soviet moon rocket) design and finished that, they could do it too
even though the soviets dont have a heavy lifter, they can still do a moon-shot with less development then where the US is now
A 95 ton super-heavy would be very cool though, but i guess the russians dont really need one right now, for basic space-station/satelite launches, 20-25 is sufficient
if the russians want to go to the moon, they dont need the US to do so. I realize that the proton with only 20 tons to LEO isnt exactly a saturn V, but in multiple launches, combined with a R7 soyuz launch for the crew, they could easily put a moon-capable craft in LEO. The russians are also planning to replace the Proton with the Angara A5, which will do 25 tons to LEO. Also the Angara A7 is being developed, which will lift 40 tons
Wikipedia also claims that russian moonshot plans in the 60's involved putting ~70 tons in LEO (compared to ~130 for Apollo). Assume some weight savings (just two or three tons) optimization, and three proton launches and one soyuz launch would put russians on the moon.
This way the russians wouldn't need any new launchers (or could leverage the new angara launchers for fewer launches), just a modular LEO-to-moon craft which incorporates soyuz, and a lander. If they wanted they could even do a custom soyuz replacing the forward module with extra fuel, although the reduced space would make the journey a bit hasher on the cosmonauts, although that could be resolved by cutting the crew to two, the third probably isnt needed in these high-automation days.
bleh, i got lost a bit, i love dreaming up these kind of projects, i would love it if the russians would just macGyver up some whack job plan and get to the moon
Problem 2 - the engines have to run at sea level and in a vacuum.
If you plan on SSTO, then yes, you will either end up with a horribly un-optimized exhaust manifold design, or with variable geometry manifolds (or aerospikes or whatever). If however, you do multi-stage to orbit (like most conventional launchers), you simply optimize the first stage engine for sea level up to 20 miles (or whatever the hell the cut off point is for stage 1), and stage 2's engine can be optimized for 20 miles and up.
The shuttle is pretty much the only vehicle i can think off with liquid fuel engines running both at sea level and in actual space, and it cheats by using SRBs and dumping its fueltank
The problem still stands though, there is a reason we have actual rocket scientists, because it is frickin hard, especially if you want something where the risk of loss of life is acceptably low to todays society (which is rather hypocritical in that respect)
make piracy of the PS3 a trivial thing....... Is it news to Joe Public? Not in the slightest.
you contradict yourself, this is very much relevant for Joe public, since it means that within a year he can go to Jim public and buy some games for $5 a pop
That doesnt detract any value from the photos though
i remember reading that story a few years ago, and while the solitary bike-ride sounded cool and all, general facts (radiation being least while on concrete etc..) and the photos are real.
i agree lying about the bike thing was stupid, but the photos alone make it worth a look
anyway, i do think that the percentage of iphone users who do not hit wikipedia on their device is significantly higher then the percentage of linux desktop users who dont hit wikipedia. The default usage of both platforms is sufficiently different to not be able to directly compare use of a certain website
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opt-in ..... on by default
you sort of contradict yourself, on by default would be 'opt out'
i agree with your sentiment though, your general TLA isnt very trustworthy these days
implementing != inventing
I don't know who actually invented it, but your logic isnt really flawless
i know, but itsme posted like the palm-pre is worthless because its app-store isnt up to par, my point is that the app-store shouldnt be the only means to get apps
now i dont know jack about the palm-pre of web-os, but since when do you NEED an app store on a proper smartphone? The iphone might have triggered android in hopping onto the "app-store" bandwagon, and with all the ipad-hoopla, the media might make you think that without an app-store you cant do anything, but a proper smart-phone should be able to have software installed which isnt given the official X seal of approval.
My 3 year old nokia doesnt have an app-store (come to think of it, it has the n-gage thing for games), but i still managed to get opera installed... or just about any piece of java code i write.
I thought the entire point of smart-phones was that they grew closer and closer to a general purpose computer, not being a walled-garden
So, just to be clear, you are arguing that it's safer for them to talk to strangers online in that mental state than to not talk to strangers online?
He is arguing that it is better for the kid to get some support from her parents, since just cutting the internet doesnt deminish the need for someone to talk too, cut off the internet and dont step in, and he/she will just find someone else in real life (which might end up good, i.e. a teacher/coach, or might end up bad, a pervy teacher/coach)
Technology is no substitute for actual parenting
perhaps the goal isnt to make the kids grow up into perfect worker drones, but try to get them to think for themselves, make their own decisions, and if need be, break a rule or two
alternatively, you could have opened the case and simple removed the cable from the lock from the mobo (and perhaps short it with a jumper, not sure if it was open-locked or close-locked)
Only XP era games "need" administrator access.
Learn to configure/administer virtualization.
And just what do you think the kids are playing on the 10 year old dell they have? XP era games are probably a huge step up.. a 10 year old dell box would be lucky to run any game newer then itself reasonably.
Also, in this case three new client systems will be built, do you honestly think they will be anywhere near serious gaming builds?
Anyway, with three kids 12/14/15, and one comp-ilieterate parent, keeping control of the clients is probably a lost battle, having a common gateway which restricts web-acces is probably the best, and even then you'll need to come to terms with the fact that proxies/vpn will pretty much defeat any content-level restrictions.
I know this is a single parent house-hold, and probably american, but how about actually doing some old school talking to your kids, and accepting that teenage boys look at porn?
Also, since when is jailbreaking an iPhone "breaking the law"? There are things you can do with a jailbroken iPhone that break the law, but there are things you can do with a stock one that break the law as well... for instance, hitting someone over the head with one.
i'm guessing the good old DCMA might have something to say about jailbreaking... (which means you can get shafted bigtime if anyone comes after you)
not an american though, so i dont know the details
i'm not sure how this figures into the whole situation for the GP, but apple has been getting progressively more restrictive lately, no more wifi apps, no more adult content..
He might have bought the phone with wifi-scraping and porn-apping high on the feature list (like some ps3 owners saw the otherOs as a very big reason to get it), and found himself getting shafted by apple again and again.
I'm not saying this is a common case, apple will be smart enough to not piss off the majority of their user base, but there are bound to be cases like the one i described
My three year old nokia brick already has full multitasking support... This just adds functionality to the iphone which less high end (and expensive) phones have had for years...
You can already, iTunes will happily play on while you're doing something else.
this has been debated time and time again, sure the ipod app runns in the background, but any internet stream wont currently. So if you are fine with being limited to the mp3s on your device for no technically sounds reason, sure the iphone already does that.
The point is so much that you cant do *specific feature X*, since there is a limited set of apple-provided features which work just fine, the point is that you are limited specificly to whatever apple choses to provide, which is a bit odd in this day and age for a mobile device of this caliber
the shitty bit about this is that i own a "3G" ipod touch 8gb, which is nothing more then a 2G ipod with an exterior update to look like the actual 3Gs
So apple sells this as a new ipod touch, but it wont run their newest software.. i wonder if OS 4.0 means the death of the 2.5G 8gb ipod.
I'll survive though, considering ive gotten along without multitasking so far. I would have really liked it, but eh.. if i really want it i'll just have to pony up the dough for a new iPad nano...
not using it as a phone is my guess
my GF had her 3GS on plane-mode while on vacation (because of the excessive data-roaming charges), and suddenly battery-life is almost a week.. it basically becomes and ipod touch with a larger battery, and it survives on zero power :P
I know all the tech savvy Ubuntu users either 1.) don't use forums, or 2.) mainly stay on the official Ubuntu forums.
Both apply for me anyway, i use the ubuntu forums only passively, i dont bother asking for help there
As for windows users, i think you fail to understand the stupidity that signifies most windows drones when it comes to computers/internet. For a good example, check this link:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_wants_to_be_your_one_true_login.php
check out those comments
i'm not saying astronauts are worthless, i'm saying that if an astronaut would be willing to take a 1 in 25 chance of blowing up on the ride to space, i don't think we should stop him. I think it is hypocritical for some bureaucrats to decide how safe a rocket has to be before someone can strap themselves to it.
Not that i'm saying it would be ok to kill half our astronauts on failed launches, but i think the people putting their life on the line riding the things would be more just in deciding what risk is acceptable, then some paper-pusher in washington
i know energia could have done a single launch moon-shot, but they dont use that launcher anymore. In the same vein, if they picked up the N1 (original soviet moon rocket) design and finished that, they could do it too
even though the soviets dont have a heavy lifter, they can still do a moon-shot with less development then where the US is now
A 95 ton super-heavy would be very cool though, but i guess the russians dont really need one right now, for basic space-station/satelite launches, 20-25 is sufficient
if the russians want to go to the moon, they dont need the US to do so. I realize that the proton with only 20 tons to LEO isnt exactly a saturn V, but in multiple launches, combined with a R7 soyuz launch for the crew, they could easily put a moon-capable craft in LEO. The russians are also planning to replace the Proton with the Angara A5, which will do 25 tons to LEO. Also the Angara A7 is being developed, which will lift 40 tons
Wikipedia also claims that russian moonshot plans in the 60's involved putting ~70 tons in LEO (compared to ~130 for Apollo). Assume some weight savings (just two or three tons) optimization, and three proton launches and one soyuz launch would put russians on the moon.
This way the russians wouldn't need any new launchers (or could leverage the new angara launchers for fewer launches), just a modular LEO-to-moon craft which incorporates soyuz, and a lander. If they wanted they could even do a custom soyuz replacing the forward module with extra fuel, although the reduced space would make the journey a bit hasher on the cosmonauts, although that could be resolved by cutting the crew to two, the third probably isnt needed in these high-automation days.
bleh, i got lost a bit, i love dreaming up these kind of projects, i would love it if the russians would just macGyver up some whack job plan and get to the moon
Problem 2 - the engines have to run at sea level and in a vacuum.
If you plan on SSTO, then yes, you will either end up with a horribly un-optimized exhaust manifold design, or with variable geometry manifolds (or aerospikes or whatever). If however, you do multi-stage to orbit (like most conventional launchers), you simply optimize the first stage engine for sea level up to 20 miles (or whatever the hell the cut off point is for stage 1), and stage 2's engine can be optimized for 20 miles and up.
The shuttle is pretty much the only vehicle i can think off with liquid fuel engines running both at sea level and in actual space, and it cheats by using SRBs and dumping its fueltank
The problem still stands though, there is a reason we have actual rocket scientists, because it is frickin hard, especially if you want something where the risk of loss of life is acceptably low to todays society (which is rather hypocritical in that respect)
make piracy of the PS3 a trivial thing... .... Is it news to Joe Public? Not in the slightest.
you contradict yourself, this is very much relevant for Joe public, since it means that within a year he can go to Jim public and buy some games for $5 a pop
That doesnt detract any value from the photos though
i remember reading that story a few years ago, and while the solitary bike-ride sounded cool and all, general facts (radiation being least while on concrete etc..) and the photos are real.
i agree lying about the bike thing was stupid, but the photos alone make it worth a look
TFA actually states that in pripyat birds were heard, although not spotted
not to say birds are thriving, but they arent extinct in the exclusion zone (and keep in mind pripyat is very close to the reactor)
You should see those numbers five years ago!
anyway, i do think that the percentage of iphone users who do not hit wikipedia on their device is significantly higher then the percentage of linux desktop users who dont hit wikipedia. The default usage of both platforms is sufficiently different to not be able to directly compare use of a certain website
dont worry, i just deleted one of my many ubuntu VMs, so i balanced it back to 12 milion exactly!
Me too, so there must be at least two traitors! ready the tar and feathers!
Or off course they moved to the mac, in which case i propose a good old fashioned burning at the stake