Seriously, though.... I have not seen Crees used in household-type LED Bulbs. I would love to see these, if they can sell them for less than $10 and make them dimmable, too.
As for current bulbs, I've been pretty happy with LED Bulbs I bought at Microcenter for $7.99 ($8.99 for dimmables). They have nice heatsinks and have worked great, unlike my early experiments with LED Bulbs (when nobody carried them in brick and mortar stores). They put out as much light as a 40watt incandescent, and use half the electricity as a CFL - and best of all, I haven't had any burn out.
Heh.... I just released this for Android tablets.... now I get to flog it here on Slashdot, LOL.
Seriously, though, it was designed for cats, but the reviews for the webOS version have stated that small children loved it, too. This was more or less confirmed when my 2 year old niece played the new enhanced Android version at a family Christmas party and she was delighted.. there's even an Easter egg in the game to put up a "Scary dog" which jut made her giggle (not my cats, though). She was also much better at it than the adults that tried it.
How much do you pay for your mobile data plan and/or ISP?
So, it would have been better for me to look at the $25 level, say "too much" and walk away without donating anything? At least people wouldn't berate me.
I have to wonder how many people looked at that $25 level and said, "too much" - probably a lot of money walked away from that page. People willing to donate $25 will pay $25. They don't need a minimum suggested level.
As for your math, I've used the archives fewer times than I can count on my fingers.... I don't use it every day. It's faulty logic to calculate what this sort of service is worth to an individual... even individuals use the archives differently, some to dig up old content from a site they might have once gone to, others use it to recover content they once had on their own sites; the latter might be inclined to (and should) give more - I'm not in that group.
That's a bit too much. I gave them $5, which I think everybody who ever used the archives could afford without blinking. I've also given money to Wikipedia, even though they continue to hound users for money there, as well.
Sorry.... I would consider something $5 or less for this for a downloadable copy, or even as a donation, but anything above that is annoyingly too much.
Know your audience!!!
If they were asking $3, I'd give it to them in a heartbeat (my son is big into Minecraft, and would enjoy watching this). The pricing is probably a limitation of their distributor, "Redux", but if they were going to distribute this via Pirate Bay, why not just ask for a donation via PayPal? I'm sure they would make a lot more money doing that than with this scheme.
Wake me when they decide to give the rest of the nation fiber. I'm stuck locked into my local provider, which instituted caps last year without proper notice (Charter) on their top tier residential service.
When Charter came to our town, buying the local cable outfit, they delayed the internet rollout for 4 years, even though the town was already wired and ready to go.
I'd love to have Google Fiber. Cheaper, no caps.... it would certainly force Charter to change their tune and suddenly be more affordable.
At the rate Google is working, I guess the rest of the nation will see Google Fiber around 2032.
I've noticed lately my Windows 7 x64 machine has been having issues with a fraction of my normal "Tab load" on Chrome, crashing or freezing pages, unable to show YouTube pages properly, etc... I believe this might be related to the Sync problem, since I use that.
That's because of the sophistication of the people the RIAA and MPAA employ to battle copyright violations. They are gettign better, or perhaps, people who have been in the "scene" for a long time are more than willing to cash in (sell out) and collect bounties on takedown notices.
Torrents offer a revenue stream through legal intimidation of its users, but usenet is still a problem for the RIAA and MPAA, so as the legal revenue stream of suing (or threatening to sue) torrent users dries up, they are left with cleaning up the remaining sources of pirated media.
This can be solved, though. Safe havens are few and far between, and even so-called "private" invite-only sites are far from untouchable - what is needed is for a new binary news client that can handle encrypted binary packets. and an infrastructure that can track, using users' signatures, who accesses what files from a "secure indexer" - when a takedown notice appears, you can isolate the infiltration to that block of users. Such a pro-active approach could then even provide false results to ferret out the spy among legitimate users.
Many indexers already use logins and API keys, so the idea of using a digital signature isn't farfetched. Tracking users because they, for example, are accessing a TV series file that has had takedown notices (Fringe, as an example), then determining how many of them actually accessed the specific search or pulled down the encrypted NZB should be trivial. With a few more references, you could cross-reference the culprit down to a small number, then. Once you identify the user who is working for the media companies, you simply return useless results or delay valid results by days or weeks - or block them out entirely. Eventually, such a "user" will be unable to get a valid invite into the secure index service (and those that invited the spy would also no longer be able to do invites, etc...)
You can go many levels and still have a practical, workable system.
They are actually using the drones to harass the hunters by scaring the birds they are hunting.
The drones are just a tactic to disrupt the hunters. These things should be shot down, and the idiots that keep sending them in should be arrested and thrown in jail.
Chinese tablets have been doing this for ages. I have a 7" tablet I bought a few years ago that...GASP... boots THREE Operating Systems!! Android, Windows CE, and Linux.
This is absolutely nothing new or unique. Quite frankly, I'm astonished this is being covered by Slashdot like this, unless they are getting advertising revenues from the HK vendor that sells it.
SAP blows. Their software sucks and makes life hell for those in the trenches who have to use it for time tracking. It's like mainframe software badly tacked into a web UI.
SAP also gave HP a bad case of Apotheker.
Based on my personal experience, many CS grads have never touched on compiler design or coded in C. They've spent most of their academic studies steeped in Java or worse, Javascript. This is fine for mobile development or designing web page UIs, but it's very poor for good software design.
It's sad that the most promising software engineers I see coming out of college today come from other engineering disciplines, like MEs, EEs, or PEs, self-taught in low level languages and actually capable of turning out quality, testable code that others can maintain.
This is the thing that has bothered me since the (1996?) law was changed, allowing "free" broadcast channels to charge cable and satellite operators to carry them. If they had to rely on OTA viewers, their ratings (and thusly, their advertising revenue) would go to shit. Cable and satellite providers boost these ratings, making their commercial revenue much greater... but they get to double dip?
The way I see it, when they charge for access to their programming, commercials are no longer a relevant part of the "ecosystem" - they are no different from HBO or Showtime, since they collect fees for every viewer on that system. In that respect, skipping commercials are fair game.
Unfortunately for the buyers, the parts will take 4 months to arrive, and do so in a crunched, twice-folded, resealed padded envelope (though because it wasn't an R4 cartridge, it went smoothly through HK customs).
At any rate, I thought the Obama administration made it clear the Syrian rebels were too secular (Turkish-backed) to be supported. Even if this "authorization code" scheme only needs a new battery to defeat it, they still won't get any material support from the US unless the Muslim Brotherhood or Al Qaida are backing the rebels.
...these drones are build so cheap, they have the same wired remotes that their civilian counterparts my cheap uncle would buy me ffor Christmas - the ones that only turn in reverse.
Yup, and the thing is, they have the "iCloud" app that does some syncing... just not everything. It handily zaps my photos taken to my PC - I like that, but why not my videos? Why can't I use it to consolidate my backups? Why does the iCloud client not do everything the iCloud web site does?
I also want a file browser in that iCloud client to pull files off of my iPhone.
Put all the sync activities in iTunes into the iCloud client, and I think everybody is happier. iTunes as the media player and store interface, and let it access the iCloud client to talk to your phone and perform any actions it needs to.
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Seriously, though.... I have not seen Crees used in household-type LED Bulbs. I would love to see these, if they can sell them for less than $10 and make them dimmable, too.
As for current bulbs, I've been pretty happy with LED Bulbs I bought at Microcenter for $7.99 ($8.99 for dimmables). They have nice heatsinks and have worked great, unlike my early experiments with LED Bulbs (when nobody carried them in brick and mortar stores). They put out as much light as a 40watt incandescent, and use half the electricity as a CFL - and best of all, I haven't had any burn out.
We mostly watch Netflix, YouTube, etc... and also use it to connect to our DLNA server for movies and TV shows.
Crappy Javascript games and apps, though? Why would I?
Still... as long as the "Smart" in the TV is geared towards watching content, we will always use it.
For our "dumb" other TVs we are forced to use "Smart" Blu-ray players to get our content.
Here's a video demo of the app in action, for anybody interested.
Heh.... I just released this for Android tablets.... now I get to flog it here on Slashdot, LOL.
Seriously, though, it was designed for cats, but the reviews for the webOS version have stated that small children loved it, too. This was more or less confirmed when my 2 year old niece played the new enhanced Android version at a family Christmas party and she was delighted.. there's even an Easter egg in the game to put up a "Scary dog" which jut made her giggle (not my cats, though). She was also much better at it than the adults that tried it.
At any rate, here is the link.
Might I suggest that you are a cheapskate.
$25/annum = 7 cents ($0.07) per day.
How much do you pay for your mobile data plan and/or ISP?
So, it would have been better for me to look at the $25 level, say "too much" and walk away without donating anything? At least people wouldn't berate me.
I have to wonder how many people looked at that $25 level and said, "too much" - probably a lot of money walked away from that page. People willing to donate $25 will pay $25. They don't need a minimum suggested level.
As for your math, I've used the archives fewer times than I can count on my fingers.... I don't use it every day. It's faulty logic to calculate what this sort of service is worth to an individual... even individuals use the archives differently, some to dig up old content from a site they might have once gone to, others use it to recover content they once had on their own sites; the latter might be inclined to (and should) give more - I'm not in that group.
That's a bit too much. I gave them $5, which I think everybody who ever used the archives could afford without blinking. I've also given money to Wikipedia, even though they continue to hound users for money there, as well.
Sorry.... I would consider something $5 or less for this for a downloadable copy, or even as a donation, but anything above that is annoyingly too much.
Know your audience!!!
If they were asking $3, I'd give it to them in a heartbeat (my son is big into Minecraft, and would enjoy watching this). The pricing is probably a limitation of their distributor, "Redux", but if they were going to distribute this via Pirate Bay, why not just ask for a donation via PayPal? I'm sure they would make a lot more money doing that than with this scheme.
..a big bunch of dummies for thinking IQ was a measure of intelligence.
It's a self-proving statement, I guess.
Wake me when they decide to give the rest of the nation fiber. I'm stuck locked into my local provider, which instituted caps last year without proper notice (Charter) on their top tier residential service.
When Charter came to our town, buying the local cable outfit, they delayed the internet rollout for 4 years, even though the town was already wired and ready to go.
I'd love to have Google Fiber. Cheaper, no caps.... it would certainly force Charter to change their tune and suddenly be more affordable.
At the rate Google is working, I guess the rest of the nation will see Google Fiber around 2032.
I've noticed lately my Windows 7 x64 machine has been having issues with a fraction of my normal "Tab load" on Chrome, crashing or freezing pages, unable to show YouTube pages properly, etc... I believe this might be related to the Sync problem, since I use that.
These problems started a few weeks ago.
That's because of the sophistication of the people the RIAA and MPAA employ to battle copyright violations. They are gettign better, or perhaps, people who have been in the "scene" for a long time are more than willing to cash in (sell out) and collect bounties on takedown notices.
Torrents offer a revenue stream through legal intimidation of its users, but usenet is still a problem for the RIAA and MPAA, so as the legal revenue stream of suing (or threatening to sue) torrent users dries up, they are left with cleaning up the remaining sources of pirated media.
This can be solved, though. Safe havens are few and far between, and even so-called "private" invite-only sites are far from untouchable - what is needed is for a new binary news client that can handle encrypted binary packets. and an infrastructure that can track, using users' signatures, who accesses what files from a "secure indexer" - when a takedown notice appears, you can isolate the infiltration to that block of users. Such a pro-active approach could then even provide false results to ferret out the spy among legitimate users.
Many indexers already use logins and API keys, so the idea of using a digital signature isn't farfetched. Tracking users because they, for example, are accessing a TV series file that has had takedown notices (Fringe, as an example), then determining how many of them actually accessed the specific search or pulled down the encrypted NZB should be trivial. With a few more references, you could cross-reference the culprit down to a small number, then. Once you identify the user who is working for the media companies, you simply return useless results or delay valid results by days or weeks - or block them out entirely. Eventually, such a "user" will be unable to get a valid invite into the secure index service (and those that invited the spy would also no longer be able to do invites, etc...)
You can go many levels and still have a practical, workable system.
Are you really sure about that?
You could always rely on a decent number of comments for popular releases to filter a good download form a bad one.
Sad to see this one go, as I had relied on it more and more well before Newzbin closed its doors.
Escape goat? I like that, I'll have to start using that. It's a scapegoat, by the way.
The 'escape goat' is like a drug mule, only you have to use it to get out of the country.
Wow... I get modded "flamebait" for stating the PengPod is nothing special or new, and questioning it's Slashdot-worthiness?
So this is what has become of Slashdot... where legitimate criticism is smothered (censored) by moderation?
Again with the PengPod. My SmartQ V7 had Ubuntu, Android and Windows CE several years ago.
This is nothing new, and I'm even more shocked this whole thing has had a followup.
I wish could mod the summary
They are actually using the drones to harass the hunters by scaring the birds they are hunting.
The drones are just a tactic to disrupt the hunters. These things should be shot down, and the idiots that keep sending them in should be arrested and thrown in jail.
Why not post the name of your table?
It was the SmartQ V7, as some others have mentioned above.
Is that really important, though? The Peng Pod tablet is just another HK knockoff tablet - certainly not worthy of special attention from Slashdot.
Chinese tablets have been doing this for ages. I have a 7" tablet I bought a few years ago that ...GASP... boots THREE Operating Systems!! Android, Windows CE, and Linux.
This is absolutely nothing new or unique. Quite frankly, I'm astonished this is being covered by Slashdot like this, unless they are getting advertising revenues from the HK vendor that sells it.
SAP blows. Their software sucks and makes life hell for those in the trenches who have to use it for time tracking. It's like mainframe software badly tacked into a web UI.
SAP also gave HP a bad case of Apotheker.
Based on my personal experience, many CS grads have never touched on compiler design or coded in C. They've spent most of their academic studies steeped in Java or worse, Javascript. This is fine for mobile development or designing web page UIs, but it's very poor for good software design.
It's sad that the most promising software engineers I see coming out of college today come from other engineering disciplines, like MEs, EEs, or PEs, self-taught in low level languages and actually capable of turning out quality, testable code that others can maintain.
Game controller that also plays games? Yeah, they already did that with the Dreamcast.
Look how well it worked out for them, too.
This is the thing that has bothered me since the (1996?) law was changed, allowing "free" broadcast channels to charge cable and satellite operators to carry them. If they had to rely on OTA viewers, their ratings (and thusly, their advertising revenue) would go to shit. Cable and satellite providers boost these ratings, making their commercial revenue much greater... but they get to double dip?
The way I see it, when they charge for access to their programming, commercials are no longer a relevant part of the "ecosystem" - they are no different from HBO or Showtime, since they collect fees for every viewer on that system. In that respect, skipping commercials are fair game.
yes, like a replacement battery.
Unfortunately for the buyers, the parts will take 4 months to arrive, and do so in a crunched, twice-folded, resealed padded envelope (though because it wasn't an R4 cartridge, it went smoothly through HK customs).
At any rate, I thought the Obama administration made it clear the Syrian rebels were too secular (Turkish-backed) to be supported. Even if this "authorization code" scheme only needs a new battery to defeat it, they still won't get any material support from the US unless the Muslim Brotherhood or Al Qaida are backing the rebels.
...these drones are build so cheap, they have the same wired remotes that their civilian counterparts my cheap uncle would buy me ffor Christmas - the ones that only turn in reverse.
Why yes, I'm till bitter about that.
Yup, and the thing is, they have the "iCloud" app that does some syncing... just not everything. It handily zaps my photos taken to my PC - I like that, but why not my videos? Why can't I use it to consolidate my backups? Why does the iCloud client not do everything the iCloud web site does?
I also want a file browser in that iCloud client to pull files off of my iPhone.
Put all the sync activities in iTunes into the iCloud client, and I think everybody is happier. iTunes as the media player and store interface, and let it access the iCloud client to talk to your phone and perform any actions it needs to.