Read the article, the battery is 3 AA(A)s in plastic.
You don't need a anything close to that to have them on standby. They could activate them when they scan them crossing the border for a period of time with a known bit sequence of arbitrary length. The article writer/PI is pretty bad though at least one of the crystals is the clock for the microchip no (need for two carriers). To me is looks like the black one is providing a clock to a high power transistor for the carrier the blue is just too close to the chip to be anything else.
Short of all gnome devs using vertical spit screen Emacs or equivalent there is no way that the majority to devs have not encountered the problem you are speaking of and are are equally frustrated by it.
Getting a bug free new DE is a lot of work (understatement) and everyone wants to try it out so they have released this early. I can't see how they will not add the usability later. They don’t have the budget or time for proper usability testing so everyone gets to ague what it needs over the internet.
You don't prevent the government from doing things because those things are always good. You prevent it because people have an inalienable right to do them. From a more practical perspective, it's damned near impossible to understand the unseen consequences and the more laws you have the more you don't know what problems are caused by people exercising their rights and what problems are caused by laws themselves. From a more cynical perspective, if there's some asshole lobbyist / politician / special interest saying how it's going to promote civility and make everyone's children happier and no reasonable person can possibly disagree with this, he's probably lying out his ass.
Some of us actually believe that we still have a better democracy than that, if most think a law turned out bad the government can repeal it. Though NZ appears to slowly converging to American 'democracy', most countries do not have the lobbying problem that the US has.
State media is better than news designed to generate rating rather than present the best news. The main point most democracies are actually democratic and care about the people more than profit driven companies.
Fair call. But they are still designed for the purpose which is better than getting it from face book/twitter. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ This is better than an a list of 140 character news briefs.
Freedom of speech protects speech you like as well as speech you don't like.
That aside, this also bans a news channel from saying something like, "Follow us on Twitter at @newschannelname for the latest news updates direct to your phone." How does it benefit anyone to forbid that?
Dont think I have hope of getting the point across but here goes... RRS does the same thing but more flexible you dont need a bowser and are not limited by characters so twitter is redundant compared to RRS except for the brand and takes less 'why can I do that?' panicking from the technologically inept. Then there are people like me who don’t like the idea of twitter a global (among friends) SMS service controlled by a US company (cant fully trust a service you really don’t see any benefit to them in you using). Who would prefer if they just died so a small sector of society see a direct benefit.
Now for the real point, Some people like our news service just to report the news not promote themselves. Apart from fixed periods of ads, the news hour is just used to present news is something that we should be able to expect. Why is it good that channels/stations use this time on things that aren’t news. People watch the 6 oclock news for the 6 oclock news, that is how they have chosen to find out what happened they don't need to be provided alternative ways or give the channel a chance manipulate our behaviour.
Please tell me how you figure this isn't a limitation on freedom of speech?? It's not just a limitation on freedom of speech. It's a directive that requires news organisations to make the news vaguer. If an issue has been discussed on Facebook, and they are forced to say "social network sites" and not identify the social network, that's diluted the information. Idiotic!
I read the summary/article differently, your case is allowed. What it disallows is using broadcast time to advertise Facebook and twitter pages for the channel, which is hardly censorship of information or an attack on free speech. I would think it closer to age restriction censorship which is good or in very lest necessary.
Anti (some) Americans rant: Seriously how can you use the idea of freedom of speech to make it sound like a good idea to allow advertising or promotions of companies into news broadcasts.
No more follow/like us on twitter or facebook interrupting something generally more interesting.
Seriously the PR departments must be really under pressure to appeal to the new generation, without fully understanding it, to think that we would rather follow them using a facebook or twitter interface rather than there generally well done actual website.
Yes its not fool proof but a preventative only has to (significantly) reduce the chance. If people (clueless mac owners) can be encouraged to go to the app store instead of goggling for a program to meet their needs then this will help to reduce virus.
Of course i think only having one app store controlled to produce profit is bad but it should at least have less viruses than the internet.
Not in the developing countries themselves I would think. Getting it patented in developing world counties would be an order of magnitude more work than inventing it. Almost all of the patient stories we see on/. are just for the US.
Im thinking it could be a bit slow but if you got good at it you might come close to typing on a touch screen. I don't have the phone tablet to test it?
How can the shareholders think this is profitable? While is good for the short term without Symbian continuing they will potentially faid to being irrelevant killing the share price.
Because its a standard so webkit and trident actually have to make implementations of it. APNG lacks full support and is unlikely to ever get it. Also since APNG shares the suffix with PNG it hurts the PNG standard. Plus PNG is terrible for raster images. As is in the link in GP you can use raster graphics when everyone gets around to implementing it so you sneak jpeg 2000 compression in there. Its been pointed out to me that its not ready to be used yet, and some devs are still trying to get full javascript and canvas compatible with the standard.
While photoshop can't it appears illustrator with Ikivo Animator can. Layering raster images in sequence would be not hard to code relative to making it look decent.
Must be close to 50 percent can view it now and there is google frame for the rest. But all Macs have the required support and the under 40s on their own laptop might run either an alternative or (and) better browser.
I think you are right, animated SVG is still 1 to 3 years off being feasible on the web.
Thought it may cause it to be DOA, some people want SVG to include the 'kitchen sink'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Vector_Graphics#Compression.svgz (.svg.gz) will help with file size. Scroll down or search for raster you can load the image and then draw instances of it. According to the link in GP these can used for animations. I think all raster graphics supported by the browsers would be able to use as well, resulting in terrible performance currently.
I noticed that too it is a major draw back. They may need a JIT complier SVG is written in XML or to use more efficient animation methods. Im sure it can be fixed or the standard will die.
There is support for raster graphics according to wikipedia. PNGs would be average for the kind of images they were using. Since you use the SVG suffix you can use jpeg 2000 or WebP and maybe kill another solid and useful but now obsolete standard. Plus APNG is only supported by Gecko and Presto. SVG will be supported by all modern browsers (though IE will lag as far behind as possible to troll the standard I expect).
So why did Beck and Burg choose the GIF format, rather than something more flexible like Flash? After all, it doesn't take more than a couple of these gorgeous pics to slow most browsers to a crawl. "The format has interesting capabilities as well as some severe limitations which are very influential in the visual style of our images," say the pair. "GIF is very basic, highly linkable through outlets such as Tumblr, and integrated into the web. Flash certainly has more capabilities but since our images are at their heart a traditional photograph, a format like.gif makes the most sense."
I know its not fully supported across all browsers yet but the format would be even more integrated into the current web. I don’t think GIFs deserve to be called the "Jazz of the Internet"[article]. I was hoping bad GIFs were something from last decade, that stayed there.
Probably should have admitted package management from the post. I was meaning Zypper and Yum would have better enterprise features. I have yet to find a reliable non biased overview on it, so from the opensuse website. http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:RPM_sucks Mainly allowing multiple versions, vendor locks and deltas. Apt may currently have these google is not good at current information on this stuff.
There are free and paid support enterprise distros over a popular but unstable (and as far as I know still a home user focused) distro?
The only thing i can think of is that Canonical is a stable company (unlike Novel) and can undercut RH or do they want to move into the cloud.
I would think that suse/RH would have better security, package management, hardware compatibility with opensuse(my impression have no proof on this) and everything else that you want for a large company.
Hopefully you copy and pasted some that, i really don’t care for a point by point argument.
I was mainly just pointing out that the post contradicted its self (somewhat being a troll in retrospect, appears i got lucky), i was not arguing that there were better tablets at all. I'm guessing you wanted find this argument somewhere in the submission and started it, i just decided to post a link.
But i still don’t think 5 mm difference in thickness would matter that much for the 1000 people yes coolness is inversely proportional to thickness to you and other people who i dont know but it does make it harder to hold.
Not that i care for this argument you have your own criteria that means i cant really win. Thickness should be well down there in criteria there are more important things. While weighing 10 percent more is significant.
Seriously you need the 13mm to fit useful ports in the side probably makes it nicer to hold as well. Once you get past a about 15mm about point smaller thickness indicates you spending extra money to strengthen the case. You really want to hold your your 1-4 mm thick tablet for extended periods.
I admit i could have clearer but you completely misunderstood i was trying to say.
Few would pay 1000 dollars for an ipad. And he says that even though "people"/a few tech reviewers getting it for free anyway though it could be worth 1000 yet it was priced lower so its an OK price. Then he goes on to consider it expensive but still worth it at the current price, therefore if some people considered it not worth it it's just expensive.
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Read the article, the battery is 3 AA(A)s in plastic.
You don't need a anything close to that to have them on standby. They could activate them when they scan them crossing the border for a period of time with a known bit sequence of arbitrary length.
The article writer/PI is pretty bad though at least one of the crystals is the clock for the microchip no (need for two carriers). To me is looks like the black one is providing a clock to a high power transistor for the carrier the blue is just too close to the chip to be anything else.
... that we have to opt out of.
Short of all gnome devs using vertical spit screen Emacs or equivalent there is no way that the majority to devs have not encountered the problem you are speaking of and are are equally frustrated by it.
Getting a bug free new DE is a lot of work (understatement) and everyone wants to try it out so they have released this early. I can't see how they will not add the usability later. They don’t have the budget or time for proper usability testing so everyone gets to ague what it needs over the internet.
You don't prevent the government from doing things because those things are always good. You prevent it because people have an inalienable right to do them. From a more practical perspective, it's damned near impossible to understand the unseen consequences and the more laws you have the more you don't know what problems are caused by people exercising their rights and what problems are caused by laws themselves. From a more cynical perspective, if there's some asshole lobbyist / politician / special interest saying how it's going to promote civility and make everyone's children happier and no reasonable person can possibly disagree with this, he's probably lying out his ass.
Some of us actually believe that we still have a better democracy than that, if most think a law turned out bad the government can repeal it. Though NZ appears to slowly converging to American 'democracy', most countries do not have the lobbying problem that the US has.
State media is better than news designed to generate rating rather than present the best news. The main point most democracies are actually democratic and care about the people more than profit driven companies.
Fair call. But they are still designed for the purpose which is better than getting it from face book/twitter.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/
This is better than an a list of 140 character news briefs.
Freedom of speech protects speech you like as well as speech you don't like.
That aside, this also bans a news channel from saying something like, "Follow us on Twitter at @newschannelname for the latest news updates direct to your phone." How does it benefit anyone to forbid that?
Dont think I have hope of getting the point across but here goes...
RRS does the same thing but more flexible you dont need a bowser and are not limited by characters so twitter is redundant compared to RRS except for the brand and takes less 'why can I do that?' panicking from the technologically inept.
Then there are people like me who don’t like the idea of twitter a global (among friends) SMS service controlled by a US company (cant fully trust a service you really don’t see any benefit to them in you using). Who would prefer if they just died so a small sector of society see a direct benefit.
Now for the real point, Some people like our news service just to report the news not promote themselves. Apart from fixed periods of ads, the news hour is just used to present news is something that we should be able to expect. Why is it good that channels/stations use this time on things that aren’t news. People watch the 6 oclock news for the 6 oclock news, that is how they have chosen to find out what happened they don't need to be provided alternative ways or give the channel a chance manipulate our behaviour.
Please tell me how you figure this isn't a limitation on freedom of speech?? It's not just a limitation on freedom of speech. It's a directive that requires news organisations to make the news vaguer. If an issue has been discussed on Facebook, and they are forced to say "social network sites" and not identify the social network, that's diluted the information. Idiotic!
I read the summary/article differently, your case is allowed. What it disallows is using broadcast time to advertise Facebook and twitter pages for the channel, which is hardly censorship of information or an attack on free speech. I would think it closer to age restriction censorship which is good or in very lest necessary.
Anti (some) Americans rant: Seriously how can you use the idea of freedom of speech to make it sound like a good idea to allow advertising or promotions of companies into news broadcasts.
No more follow/like us on twitter or facebook interrupting something generally more interesting.
Seriously the PR departments must be really under pressure to appeal to the new generation, without fully understanding it, to think that we would rather follow them using a facebook or twitter interface rather than there generally well done actual website.
The more likely result: ... Blackops is still far more popular than MW3
I don't think we are ready for Pay to play FPS though.
Though i did not read the article, i though every other full featured useful FOSS player have the same features except for android syncing.
Though every new iOS breaks it, libipod has worked in the past.
Yes its not fool proof but a preventative only has to (significantly) reduce the chance. If people (clueless mac owners) can be encouraged to go to the app store instead of goggling for a program to meet their needs then this will help to reduce virus.
Of course i think only having one app store controlled to produce profit is bad but it should at least have less viruses than the internet.
Not in the developing countries themselves I would think. Getting it patented in developing world counties would be an order of magnitude more work than inventing it. /. are just for the US.
Almost all of the patient stories we see on
Im thinking it could be a bit slow but if you got good at it you might come close to typing on a touch screen. I don't have the phone tablet to test it?
I thought they still dominated this sector?
How can the shareholders think this is profitable? While is good for the short term without Symbian continuing they will potentially faid to being irrelevant killing the share price.
Because its a standard so webkit and trident actually have to make implementations of it. APNG lacks full support and is unlikely to ever get it. Also since APNG shares the suffix with PNG it hurts the PNG standard. Plus PNG is terrible for raster images.
As is in the link in GP you can use raster graphics when everyone gets around to implementing it so you sneak jpeg 2000 compression in there.
Its been pointed out to me that its not ready to be used yet, and some devs are still trying to get full javascript and canvas compatible with the standard.
While photoshop can't it appears illustrator with Ikivo Animator can. Layering raster images in sequence would be not hard to code relative to making it look decent.
Must be close to 50 percent can view it now and there is google frame for the rest. But all Macs have the required support and the under 40s on their own laptop might run either an alternative or (and) better browser.
I think you are right, animated SVG is still 1 to 3 years off being feasible on the web.
Thought it may cause it to be DOA, some people want SVG to include the 'kitchen sink'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Vector_Graphics#Compression .svgz (.svg.gz) will help with file size.
Scroll down or search for raster you can load the image and then draw instances of it. According to the link in GP these can used for animations. I think all raster graphics supported by the browsers would be able to use as well, resulting in terrible performance currently.
I noticed that too it is a major draw back. They may need a JIT complier SVG is written in XML or to use more efficient animation methods. Im sure it can be fixed or the standard will die.
There is support for raster graphics according to wikipedia. PNGs would be average for the kind of images they were using.
Since you use the SVG suffix you can use jpeg 2000 or WebP and maybe kill another solid and useful but now obsolete standard.
Plus APNG is only supported by Gecko and Presto. SVG will be supported by all modern browsers (though IE will lag as far behind as possible to troll the standard I expect).
I know is not quite the same as making GIF completely redundant but animated SVGs using raster graphics (PNG, JPEG (2000) and WebP) can now supposedly be done. Just not in IE.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVG_animation
Though in the case of PNG they will have to resist purely vectorising it.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Soccer_ball_animated.svg
From the Article
So why did Beck and Burg choose the GIF format, rather than something more flexible like Flash? After all, it doesn't take more than a couple of these gorgeous pics to slow most browsers to a crawl. "The format has interesting capabilities as well as some severe limitations which are very influential in the visual style of our images," say the pair. "GIF is very basic, highly linkable through outlets such as Tumblr, and integrated into the web. Flash certainly has more capabilities but since our images are at their heart a traditional photograph, a format like .gif makes the most sense."
I know its not fully supported across all browsers yet but the format would be even more integrated into the current web. I don’t think GIFs deserve to be called the "Jazz of the Internet"[article]. I was hoping bad GIFs were something from last decade, that stayed there.
Most work well in Firefox 4
http://svg-wow.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVG_animation
PS the pics are quite good but they promote GIF when it should die
RPM-based distros... better package management
LOL
Probably should have admitted package management from the post.
I was meaning Zypper and Yum would have better enterprise features. I have yet to find a reliable non biased overview on it, so from the opensuse website.
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:RPM_sucks
Mainly allowing multiple versions, vendor locks and deltas.
Apt may currently have these google is not good at current information on this stuff.
There are free and paid support enterprise distros over a popular but unstable (and as far as I know still a home user focused) distro?
The only thing i can think of is that Canonical is a stable company (unlike Novel) and can undercut RH or do they want to move into the cloud.
I would think that suse/RH would have better security, package management, hardware compatibility with opensuse(my impression have no proof on this) and everything else that you want for a large company.
Hopefully you copy and pasted some that, i really don’t care for a point by point argument.
I was mainly just pointing out that the post contradicted its self (somewhat being a troll in retrospect, appears i got lucky), i was not arguing that there were better tablets at all. I'm guessing you wanted find this argument somewhere in the submission and started it, i just decided to post a link.
But i still don’t think 5 mm difference in thickness would matter that much for the 1000 people yes coolness is inversely proportional to thickness to you and other people who i dont know but it does make it harder to hold.
Not that i care for this argument you have your own criteria that means i cant really win.
Thickness should be well down there in criteria there are more important things. While weighing 10 percent more is significant.
Seriously you need the 13mm to fit useful ports in the side probably makes it nicer to hold as well. Once you get past a about 15mm about point smaller thickness indicates you spending extra money to strengthen the case. You really want to hold your your 1-4 mm thick tablet for extended periods.
I admit i could have clearer but you completely misunderstood i was trying to say.
Few would pay 1000 dollars for an ipad. And he says that even though "people"/a few tech reviewers getting it for free anyway though it could be worth 1000 yet it was priced lower so its an OK price. Then he goes on to consider it expensive but still worth it at the current price, therefore if some people considered it not worth it it's just expensive.
http://www.asus.com/Eee/Eee_Pad/Eee_Pad_Transformer_TF101/#overview
This is better at a better price and ultimately more useful if you add the keybord.