Quote your source. I think you just made that up. Anecdotally, all my phones have been very unreliable as alarms (an iPhone's battery only lasts about 2 days for starters, so frequently goes flat). In fact on many mobile phones, the alarm doesn't even sound if you've accidentally turned the phone off or if it's battery is too low (ancient Nokia's excepted). My mains alarm has never failed - even during a 3 day power cut (it's lithium battery back up lasts around a 4 years or so and can sound the alarm even when the display is off). Many are also not daylight-savings aware resulting in the same glitch featured in this article. Many get their time off the cell network, which frequently seems to balls-up and sets your phones time to be something random while they're playing with the phone network during the night.
> Ok, but I live in an apartment in an old (historic, something like 117 years old so far)
Historic?! You must be American! My building was built in 1810 and has 18" thick solid walls (try getting WiFi to go through that - or a drill bit long enough to run the Cat 5 though).
But yes, we have the same problem - no dishes or even aerials are allowed on our building, so hopefully this technology will allow those of us in listed/protected buildings to get satellite-based services.
Because you can't easily use a parabolic dish which needs to be aimed accurately on a car, caravan/RV/mobile home etc. This technology could potentially make it easier to resolve the weak satellite signals which would normally require a dish, resolvable by a static antenna array which could be omnidirectional. As the article implies, it might mean that digital radio actually *works*:)
> Doesn't conduct electricity and it will cool those servers down.
Pure distilled water certainly does conduct electricity! Throw a hair dryer or toaster in it and it will go bang. The hope you'd have of keeping equipment up and running in water is to keep the high voltage power supplies out of the way. 12 and 5V lines probably won't be affected much but 110V and 240V PSUs will simply go bang the second they hit the water.
> for traveling between two earth-based locations space is mostly a big detour.
Not if you do the maths - the altitude becomes insignificant compared to the distance travelled. What's 30 miles of altitude if you're travelling 5000 or 10,000 miles? You also need to take into account how much faster you could feasibly get there if inconveniences such as air aren't getting in your way. If they could make a self-launching vehicle which could get out of the atmosphere we could do London to New York in an hour or so, instead of 6-7 because travelling at Mach 10 wouldn't be a problem. Obviously intercontinental travel is not the purpose or aim of SpaceShipTwo, but it could lead to that through engineering breakthroughs. I see the day when the Concorde will seem like a WW2 biplane to us:)
Given that it doesn't show the tablet booting, has it actually been verified that it runs ChromiumOS? After all, you could make this video in about 5 minutes by using a remote desktop app to a computer which really is running ChromiumOS. This trick has been done many times in the past.
> Cue the stupid people in the UK who will say the tired out line "If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear."
It's still said, because nobody ever seems to have a counter-argument for it, so it still stands. At the end of the day, if you don't commit a crime, the presence of a camera will not affect you.
I tried using a TomTom but found it useless. TomTom snaps to roads wherever possible and doesn't really handle off-road navigation at all well. It has no idea about cycle paths and footpaths, or any terrain features which are important to cyclists. Even many streams and lakes are missing!
I wish they'd add a "pedestrian" or "cycling" mode which turns off all the snapping and just gives you an arrow to your destination (or lets you draw it on the map dot-to-dot style).
Person 1: I just got a new HDTV. It's amazing - especially with surround sound. What else is good which can I watch which is in HD? Person 2: Real life. Go outside...
I presume the moderator of the parent who modded it "Troll" was an Apple Fanboy and not an Apple App Developer. No idea why that post is modded Troll.. It's perfectly true. You wouldn't catch Google banning perfectly sensible apps and constantly moving the qualification goalposts.
> Actually, come to think of it, a well-trained dog is probably one of your better security options.
RTFA. This thread is about *home* security for which dogs are almost useless. A dog is always with you, so whenever you're not there your dog won't be either. You can't leave your dog at home while you go on vacation. That's not much help if someone tries to break in when you're out (which is kinda the norm for burglars in most cases).
> Who the heck even clicked on ads in the first place?
What a stupid comment! Millions of people click on ads every day. It's the whole reason Google exists (and many other websites) and why it's one of the richest companies in the world. The founders of Google (Larry Page and Sergey Brin) who are each worth $17.5 BILLION dollars I think would tell you that people do actually click on their ads!
> Except that Microsoft's grip on the PC Desktop market is slowly but surely slipping away.
They said that 10 years ago, but it hasn't made any noticable impact yet.
> Except that Linux is being requested more and more, with no sign of stopping.
Less and less you mean? Dell have actually just stopped shipping machines with Ubuntu as nobody is ordering them anymore. According to my own stats, the percentage of people visiting my websites who are running linux is falling - not rising. Perhaps you live in a country where it's more popular - but it seems to be dying here in the UK.
> Except that, outside the PC Desktop and XBox, Microsoft has at most 20-25% of the market.
Not sure where you get that from! They have a 65% share of the server market for a start. src. Your figures might be correct for *web servers* perhaps, but certainly not for the server market as a whole.
> Except that C# is a ticking time bomb that will either go free
Huh?! Unlike Java, C# is a totally open and free language - it's a public standard just like C and C++.
> A commercial software developer would have to be nuts to put their company entirely into Microsoft's basket
Yes because it's just commercial insanity to back the fastest rising programming language produced by the market leader who has by far the biggest market share... Seems to have worked out OK for the vast majority of companies that have done it though. I'll stick with C# thank you (despite being trained in C++ and Java) - because that's where all the jobs are at the moment, which is kind of relevant when considering a career.
> C++, or Java would be better choices for a Windows application because it remains portable, it's easier to go from version to version of Windows.
Totally disagree about Java. Java is *notoriously* bad for developing windows apps (slow performance and high RAM usage) which is the whole reason it's never really taken off outside the academic and science communities. Personally, I've got 80 applications installed on this machine and not a single one of them is written in Java. In fact I can't even think of any popular apps that run under the JVM. C++ however is obviously very widely used and multi-platform.
Personally I'd go with a.NET language (C#) as it's very easy to learn and therefore will be quick for the OP to get back in the game.
1. Online behavioural tracking and 3rd party cookies outlawed 2. Adverts shown to us are now even less relevant / interesting than they were before. 3. We all click on far fewer adverts as a result. 4. Websites make far less money from their advertising 5. Vast majority of free websites go bankrupt or become subscription only so we stop using them. 6. The concept of the 'free' (as in beer) Internet is lost in history.
It's a LOSE - LOSE situation. When will people realise that well targetted and appropriate adverts are good for everyone?
Mod++; You're exactly right and I haven't seen a more insightful post on Slashdot in months! Blue-collar workers deserve more respect - after all, most of us wouldn't want to do their jobs anyway:)
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"Commoner"?! - You mean "more common". I guess you'll tell me that 'commoner' sounds betterer....
> Most alarm clocks are way less reliable,
Quote your source. I think you just made that up. Anecdotally, all my phones have been very unreliable as alarms (an iPhone's battery only lasts about 2 days for starters, so frequently goes flat). In fact on many mobile phones, the alarm doesn't even sound if you've accidentally turned the phone off or if it's battery is too low (ancient Nokia's excepted). My mains alarm has never failed - even during a 3 day power cut (it's lithium battery back up lasts around a 4 years or so and can sound the alarm even when the display is off). Many are also not daylight-savings aware resulting in the same glitch featured in this article. Many get their time off the cell network, which frequently seems to balls-up and sets your phones time to be something random while they're playing with the phone network during the night.
Only in America...
> Don't accept cookies.
RTFA
> Ok, but I live in an apartment in an old (historic, something like 117 years old so far)
Historic?! You must be American! My building was built in 1810 and has 18" thick solid walls (try getting WiFi to go through that - or a drill bit long enough to run the Cat 5 though).
But yes, we have the same problem - no dishes or even aerials are allowed on our building, so hopefully this technology will allow those of us in listed/protected buildings to get satellite-based services.
Because you can't easily use a parabolic dish which needs to be aimed accurately on a car, caravan/RV/mobile home etc. This technology could potentially make it easier to resolve the weak satellite signals which would normally require a dish, resolvable by a static antenna array which could be omnidirectional. As the article implies, it might mean that digital radio actually *works* :)
> Doesn't conduct electricity and it will cool those servers down.
Pure distilled water certainly does conduct electricity! Throw a hair dryer or toaster in it and it will go bang. The hope you'd have of keeping equipment up and running in water is to keep the high voltage power supplies out of the way. 12 and 5V lines probably won't be affected much but 110V and 240V PSUs will simply go bang the second they hit the water.
> for traveling between two earth-based locations space is mostly a big detour.
Not if you do the maths - the altitude becomes insignificant compared to the distance travelled. What's 30 miles of altitude if you're travelling 5000 or 10,000 miles? You also need to take into account how much faster you could feasibly get there if inconveniences such as air aren't getting in your way. If they could make a self-launching vehicle which could get out of the atmosphere we could do London to New York in an hour or so, instead of 6-7 because travelling at Mach 10 wouldn't be a problem. Obviously intercontinental travel is not the purpose or aim of SpaceShipTwo, but it could lead to that through engineering breakthroughs. I see the day when the Concorde will seem like a WW2 biplane to us :)
Huh? Those places are all public places where people can see you anyway. Again, another non-argument...
> would behave differently if the footage of a camera at such places entrance
> was publicly available
RTFA - this is about CCTV not public broadcast television! The C in CCTV means "Closed" and not even YOU (the one on camera) can see it.
And you post as AC! The irony! What an idiot.
Given that it doesn't show the tablet booting, has it actually been verified that it runs ChromiumOS? After all, you could make this video in about 5 minutes by using a remote desktop app to a computer which really is running ChromiumOS. This trick has been done many times in the past.
> Cue the stupid people in the UK who will say the tired out line "If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear."
It's still said, because nobody ever seems to have a counter-argument for it, so it still stands. At the end of the day, if you don't commit a crime, the presence of a camera will not affect you.
Because Mars has gravity. Duh!
the submit button.
I tried using a TomTom but found it useless. TomTom snaps to roads wherever possible and doesn't really handle off-road navigation at all well. It has no idea about cycle paths and footpaths, or any terrain features which are important to cyclists. Even many streams and lakes are missing!
I wish they'd add a "pedestrian" or "cycling" mode which turns off all the snapping and just gives you an arrow to your destination (or lets you draw it on the map dot-to-dot style).
Person 1: I just got a new HDTV. It's amazing - especially with surround sound. What else is good which can I watch which is in HD?
Person 2: Real life. Go outside...
I presume the moderator of the parent who modded it "Troll" was an Apple Fanboy and not an Apple App Developer.
No idea why that post is modded Troll.. It's perfectly true. You wouldn't catch Google banning perfectly sensible apps and constantly moving the qualification goalposts.
Not really because jailbreaking means we can also install AdBlock! So although we can run Flash, we can immediately block of it again - TEH WIN! :)
> Actually, come to think of it, a well-trained dog is probably one of your better security options.
RTFA. This thread is about *home* security for which dogs are almost useless. A dog is always with you, so whenever you're not there your dog won't be either. You can't leave your dog at home while you go on vacation. That's not much help if someone tries to break in when you're out (which is kinda the norm for burglars in most cases).
> Who the heck even clicked on ads in the first place?
What a stupid comment! Millions of people click on ads every day. It's the whole reason Google exists (and many other websites) and why it's one of the richest companies in the world. The founders of Google (Larry Page and Sergey Brin) who are each worth $17.5 BILLION dollars I think would tell you that people do actually click on their ads!
> Except that Microsoft's grip on the PC Desktop market is slowly but surely slipping away.
They said that 10 years ago, but it hasn't made any noticable impact yet.
> Except that Linux is being requested more and more, with no sign of stopping.
Less and less you mean? Dell have actually just stopped shipping machines with Ubuntu as nobody is ordering them anymore. According to my own stats, the percentage of people visiting my websites who are running linux is falling - not rising. Perhaps you live in a country where it's more popular - but it seems to be dying here in the UK.
> Except that, outside the PC Desktop and XBox, Microsoft has at most 20-25% of the market.
Not sure where you get that from! They have a 65% share of the server market for a start. src. Your figures might be correct for *web servers* perhaps, but certainly not for the server market as a whole.
> Except that C# is a ticking time bomb that will either go free
Huh?! Unlike Java, C# is a totally open and free language - it's a public standard just like C and C++.
> A commercial software developer would have to be nuts to put their company entirely into Microsoft's basket
Yes because it's just commercial insanity to back the fastest rising programming language produced by the market leader who has by far the biggest market share... Seems to have worked out OK for the vast majority of companies that have done it though. I'll stick with C# thank you (despite being trained in C++ and Java) - because that's where all the jobs are at the moment, which is kind of relevant when considering a career.
> C++, or Java would be better choices for a Windows application because it remains portable, it's easier to go from version to version of Windows.
Totally disagree about Java. Java is *notoriously* bad for developing windows apps (slow performance and high RAM usage) which is the whole reason it's never really taken off outside the academic and science communities. Personally, I've got 80 applications installed on this machine and not a single one of them is written in Java. In fact I can't even think of any popular apps that run under the JVM. C++ however is obviously very widely used and multi-platform.
Personally I'd go with a .NET language (C#) as it's very easy to learn and therefore will be quick for the OP to get back in the game.
Here's how this will go...
1. Online behavioural tracking and 3rd party cookies outlawed
2. Adverts shown to us are now even less relevant / interesting than they were before.
3. We all click on far fewer adverts as a result.
4. Websites make far less money from their advertising
5. Vast majority of free websites go bankrupt or become subscription only so we stop using them.
6. The concept of the 'free' (as in beer) Internet is lost in history.
It's a LOSE - LOSE situation. When will people realise that well targetted and appropriate adverts are good for everyone?
Because if you disable cookies - you cannot log in to any website. Hardly practical.
Mod++; You're exactly right and I haven't seen a more insightful post on Slashdot in months! Blue-collar workers deserve more respect - after all, most of us wouldn't want to do their jobs anyway :)