You seem to imply that the finding of _some_ scientists is the universal truth while the scientific community is far from agreeing on one particular point (as usual) and keeps publishing findings in every possible direction (up, down, stable) with the argumentation that thousands of years is the scale to look things on.
UNfortunately the dinosaurs didnt keep track of the weather
Ok, let me repeat the 'experience' those scientists apply:
Let's pick the temperature of Iceland, a nation claimed to suffer climate change particularly strongly on an independend site:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=temperature+in+Iceland+for+last+hundred+years
It seems the temperature is going DOWN, (from slightly _above_ 10oC to slightly _below_ 10oC in yearly mean) so my conclusion is that the earth is cooling down and that thus, to preserve environment, humanity has to increase CO2 output to restabilize temperature on the old level. I recommend building as many coal-fired plants as possible and reducing taxes on all vehicles with more than 10 literes of fuel consumption per 100 kilometers.
The recommendation algorithm sometimes gives 'interesting' choices. (eg: it recommended Tokyo Hotel when listening to Rammstein) however it seems to either being improved by the engineers or auto-learn what you like to listen to. So far the Pandora "Music Genome" algorithm is the best in the field and goes unmatched.
As another one already pointed out, you can buy the songs for 1$/song DRM-free.
The mobile app indeed is strong and stable, I have yet to see issues with it in the weeks I've been heavily using it. You can change the syncing and streaming quality (default is 'high' for sync and 'low' for stream to save bandwith over 3G) however the PC app has an "artist radio" feature not yet implemented in the portable version.
Interestingly enough some (popular or recent) songs, especially by indie artists, are not licensed for streaming or offline caching and it recommends adding them to the library on you _computer_ if you already own them so it can sync it via Wifi to your mobile phone - cool feature to help get over any limitations in their contracts.
By the way if you want Spotify UK when not living in an eligible country:
- ukpostbox.com (free and legit invoice address)
- entropay.com (UK prepaid VISA card)
- Paypal.co.uk (since Spotify on it's own doesn't accept prepaid Visa cards and requires a UK itish credit card on your PayPal account)
- spotify.co.uk (obviously...)
- hidemynet.com (or any other VPN will do for registration, you can extend your account from anywhere in the world afterwards)
While there might be some fodder for a new round of the patent war, I guess most of these have already been licensed.
So while it will bring Apple some strategic advantage, it will not necessarely bring disadvantages to it's competitors.
For home users USB hard drives are much less expensive at roughly 50$ per TB while you are at roughly 100$ per TB for BD.
Not to mention the need for additional hardware (BD burner) and having to swap the disk 39 times per TB.
Additionally, hard drives have a longer life expectancy and can be (more or less) easily recovered by forensic labs if need be.
Hybrid sleep solves this issue without crippling my computer's speed back to the 90's, thank you.
It first keeps a copy in RAM which has a sufficiently low power usage in suspend state to be more or less neglectable during the first hours,
then it goes down to hibernate by first writing all of the contents to disk and killing the power. My laptops can remain multiple days in suspend state
without completely depleting their battery, so thank you but no thanks for SSD.
Drop me a note when you find a "local retailer" offering new games for 30 bucks, I seem to only hit the overpriced ones, as does everybody I know.
Oh and fyi: I live in Luxembourg
It's only blocked when the boss comes in to check whether they are working or not.
"We can't have been browsing on Slashdot, see it's blocked. The filter rule is right here"
As others already pointed out, if you don't want a comany to know th color of your underwear - don't post it online.
If you really care that much about privacy, then set up a forum on your own dedicated server and chat with your friends there.
But be careful; now YOU have the capability to control and extract informations, thus you are no better than any of these companies...
On the other hand, Google does a really good job of protecting your privacy against those that could -and will- use it against you;
your boss, your fiancee, your drinking buddies,....
Jailbreaking implies you have to "break" out. (Read: find a security issue and successfully exploit it to gain privileged access to the system)
'Rooting' on (most - not all) Android phones consists of putting the phone into download mode and replacing the kernel with a non-locked down one.
Motorola is an exception as they willfully lock the system by only allowing signed code, all other phones at least had an option to toggle signature check.
The difference to iOS? The time to patch the kernel and recompile it vs weeks of searching and experimenting in a locked-down environment.
Android is ARM-only and as such requires a full-fledged emulation and not some cheap virtualisation to run.
And since Android-phones have more horse-power than, say, the PS2 it really is not trivial to run at an acceptable pace.
This is further complicated by the emulator having not only to emulate the CPU but also the wohle peripherial components in sync.
Android-x86 is not Google-powered but a community patched fork of the most current Android branch. http://www.android-x86.org/
Google has to stick with the original, but nothing keeps you from running it in Virtualbox http://www.android-x86.org/documents/virtualboxhowto
(However this virtualized environment is not anything like your phone, so it's not really useful for development purposes)
Our best shot is to hope for someone to design an emulator for phones running on a tabled (would have to be OC'd) like Xoom or Galaxy Tab 10.1 or on an upcoming ARM-based Android netbook.
Flashing another firmware _is_ easy, altough it wipes your device so I recommend an investment of 4$ in "MyBackup Pro" - having daily backups is worth every penny on ANY device. I can recommend DarkyRom.com, it just works(TM).
If you want over-the-air (OTA) Updates, I can recommend HTC or Google Nexus series, altough I'll stick with Samsung if they keep the pace.
Seriously, Android Phones should never have to be plugged into computers (except maybe for charging and usb-tethering) and work fairly well without any of that computer-based software voodoo.
They already tried setups with a wing behind the turbine/propellor... kind of.
The C-17 military transporter features so-called "blown flaps" which allows for better lift at low speeds (liftoff/landing) and thus smaller runway sizes.
However from what I've heard, due to the heavy stress on the flaps, those are very expensive, over-engineered and still extremely fragile...
Why would a company even want their "cyber-tracker" to get physical?
Those kiddies LIVE for the internet, let the internet virtually kill them.
It shouldn't be too hard for skilled black-hats to get keyloggers to that person's computer,
steal his (or his mom's) credit card, and post it all over the net.
Then hack into a police station (if even nukes are hackable, then certainly _SOME_ police station will be), get a bogus warrant out which will take a few days to clear up, get the power company to mark his bills as unpaid,...
Alternatively just DDoS his IP so he can't get online for a few days and risk his ISP disconnecting his line to protect the network...
We live in a cyber society with cyber-warfare. Cyber-bullying is just the next step, hard to prove and impossible to track.
Thats why Windows introduced "Hybrid sleep" which saves all of your RAM's content to disk as if it was going to hibernate,
but then keeps the RAM alive as in suspend. If you disconnect the power it will just 'resume from hibernation' on the next start
otherwise it uses the much quicker 'resume from suspend'.
Granted, it takes somewhat longer for the computer to actually go to sleep, but for computers without an UPS or Laptops it's a killer feature.
Oh and people who do not want to keep their computer in suspend state, there is a hibernation mode too in most operating systems.
Noone I know actually shuts down his computer every evening... Except those on Windows XP =)
I think the most important part in your all-too-true statement is that you can kiss goodbye to innovation in the _US_.
Even tough some US citizans and politicans want to believe they are the center of the world, non-us companies might at one point decide that the whole US marked is not worth the struggle with patents and simply stop marketing there.
A certain number will still be imported non-officially by geeks, but the products will disappear from the shelves.
You might say that you can "import" software fairely easily by using digital distirbution methods, but this is not the point.
Realization might come, but it's bound to happen and then it will simply be too late.
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You seem to imply that the finding of _some_ scientists is the universal truth while the scientific community is far from agreeing on one particular point (as usual) and keeps publishing findings in every possible direction (up, down, stable) with the argumentation that thousands of years is the scale to look things on. UNfortunately the dinosaurs didnt keep track of the weather Ok, let me repeat the 'experience' those scientists apply: Let's pick the temperature of Iceland, a nation claimed to suffer climate change particularly strongly on an independend site: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=temperature+in+Iceland+for+last+hundred+years It seems the temperature is going DOWN, (from slightly _above_ 10oC to slightly _below_ 10oC in yearly mean) so my conclusion is that the earth is cooling down and that thus, to preserve environment, humanity has to increase CO2 output to restabilize temperature on the old level. I recommend building as many coal-fired plants as possible and reducing taxes on all vehicles with more than 10 literes of fuel consumption per 100 kilometers.
In other words: you just described how sites like RapidShare, MegaUpload, and the like have been doing it for years now ;)
That only works as long as the payment is not complete.
Any support request documentation it's "oh sorry we couldn't open the document"
I guess they don't have change for your simple coin...
The recommendation algorithm sometimes gives 'interesting' choices. (eg: it recommended Tokyo Hotel when listening to Rammstein) however it seems to either being improved by the engineers or auto-learn what you like to listen to. So far the Pandora "Music Genome" algorithm is the best in the field and goes unmatched.
As another one already pointed out, you can buy the songs for 1$/song DRM-free.
The mobile app indeed is strong and stable, I have yet to see issues with it in the weeks I've been heavily using it. You can change the syncing and streaming quality (default is 'high' for sync and 'low' for stream to save bandwith over 3G) however the PC app has an "artist radio" feature not yet implemented in the portable version.
Interestingly enough some (popular or recent) songs, especially by indie artists, are not licensed for streaming or offline caching and it recommends adding them to the library on you _computer_ if you already own them so it can sync it via Wifi to your mobile phone - cool feature to help get over any limitations in their contracts.
By the way if you want Spotify UK when not living in an eligible country:
- ukpostbox.com (free and legit invoice address)
- entropay.com (UK prepaid VISA card)
- Paypal.co.uk (since Spotify on it's own doesn't accept prepaid Visa cards and requires a UK itish credit card on your PayPal account) - spotify.co.uk (obviously...)
- hidemynet.com (or any other VPN will do for registration, you can extend your account from anywhere in the world afterwards)
No but you'll be able to "chat roulette" with avatars jacking off.
Isn't that something?
It will be a few more years until Microsoft manages to make dating and marriage between avatars legal.
While there might be some fodder for a new round of the patent war, I guess most of these have already been licensed.
So while it will bring Apple some strategic advantage, it will not necessarely bring disadvantages to it's competitors.
Or a patent troll buying their IP and we would be having more of these "sueing" news on ./
For home users USB hard drives are much less expensive at roughly 50$ per TB while you are at roughly 100$ per TB for BD.
Not to mention the need for additional hardware (BD burner) and having to swap the disk 39 times per TB.
Additionally, hard drives have a longer life expectancy and can be (more or less) easily recovered by forensic labs if need be.
Hybrid sleep solves this issue without crippling my computer's speed back to the 90's, thank you.
It first keeps a copy in RAM which has a sufficiently low power usage in suspend state to be more or less neglectable during the first hours,
then it goes down to hibernate by first writing all of the contents to disk and killing the power. My laptops can remain multiple days in suspend state
without completely depleting their battery, so thank you but no thanks for SSD.
Well, obviously Obama wasn't lying when he stated "Yes, we can"
Yes, we (the government) can (screw you over and over)
Drop me a note when you find a "local retailer" offering new games for 30 bucks, I seem to only hit the overpriced ones, as does everybody I know.
Oh and fyi: I live in Luxembourg
It's only blocked when the boss comes in to check whether they are working or not.
"We can't have been browsing on Slashdot, see it's blocked. The filter rule is right here"
I know, I know it's hard to RTFA.
But this time the article features a big image containing all important details:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/07/11/article-2013318-0CF5AE3B00000578-835_468x332.jpg
He really flew 10M miles and currently has left 50M "frequent flyer" reward miles.
As others already pointed out, if you don't want a comany to know th color of your underwear - don't post it online.
....
If you really care that much about privacy, then set up a forum on your own dedicated server and chat with your friends there.
But be careful; now YOU have the capability to control and extract informations, thus you are no better than any of these companies...
On the other hand, Google does a really good job of protecting your privacy against those that could -and will- use it against you;
your boss, your fiancee, your drinking buddies,
Jailbreaking implies you have to "break" out. (Read: find a security issue and successfully exploit it to gain privileged access to the system) 'Rooting' on (most - not all) Android phones consists of putting the phone into download mode and replacing the kernel with a non-locked down one. Motorola is an exception as they willfully lock the system by only allowing signed code, all other phones at least had an option to toggle signature check. The difference to iOS? The time to patch the kernel and recompile it vs weeks of searching and experimenting in a locked-down environment.
You would need very thick layers and cables of copper at 5v, but it's feasible. I guess you mean 5VA, that would be a real achievement ;)
Android is ARM-only and as such requires a full-fledged emulation and not some cheap virtualisation to run.
And since Android-phones have more horse-power than, say, the PS2 it really is not trivial to run at an acceptable pace.
This is further complicated by the emulator having not only to emulate the CPU but also the wohle peripherial components in sync.
Android-x86 is not Google-powered but a community patched fork of the most current Android branch.
http://www.android-x86.org/
Google has to stick with the original, but nothing keeps you from running it in Virtualbox
http://www.android-x86.org/documents/virtualboxhowto
(However this virtualized environment is not anything like your phone, so it's not really useful for development purposes)
Our best shot is to hope for someone to design an emulator for phones running on a tabled (would have to be OC'd) like Xoom or Galaxy Tab 10.1 or on an upcoming ARM-based Android netbook.
Flashing another firmware _is_ easy, altough it wipes your device so I recommend an investment of 4$ in "MyBackup Pro" - having daily backups is worth every penny on ANY device. I can recommend DarkyRom.com, it just works(TM). If you want over-the-air (OTA) Updates, I can recommend HTC or Google Nexus series, altough I'll stick with Samsung if they keep the pace. Seriously, Android Phones should never have to be plugged into computers (except maybe for charging and usb-tethering) and work fairly well without any of that computer-based software voodoo.
They are talking about Light Peak connection, not a phone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)
Or are you just trying to be funny?
They already tried setups with a wing behind the turbine/propellor... kind of. The C-17 military transporter features so-called "blown flaps" which allows for better lift at low speeds (liftoff /landing) and thus smaller runway sizes.
However from what I've heard, due to the heavy stress on the flaps, those are very expensive, over-engineered and still extremely fragile...
Why would a company even want their "cyber-tracker" to get physical? Those kiddies LIVE for the internet, let the internet virtually kill them. It shouldn't be too hard for skilled black-hats to get keyloggers to that person's computer, steal his (or his mom's) credit card, and post it all over the net. Then hack into a police station (if even nukes are hackable, then certainly _SOME_ police station will be), get a bogus warrant out which will take a few days to clear up, get the power company to mark his bills as unpaid, ...
Alternatively just DDoS his IP so he can't get online for a few days and risk his ISP disconnecting his line to protect the network...
We live in a cyber society with cyber-warfare. Cyber-bullying is just the next step, hard to prove and impossible to track.
So that's the reason why some indie game eat more CPU than better-looking multimillion$ budget titles.
Thats why Windows introduced "Hybrid sleep" which saves all of your RAM's content to disk as if it was going to hibernate, but then keeps the RAM alive as in suspend. If you disconnect the power it will just 'resume from hibernation' on the next start otherwise it uses the much quicker 'resume from suspend'. Granted, it takes somewhat longer for the computer to actually go to sleep, but for computers without an UPS or Laptops it's a killer feature. Oh and people who do not want to keep their computer in suspend state, there is a hibernation mode too in most operating systems. Noone I know actually shuts down his computer every evening... Except those on Windows XP =)
I think the most important part in your all-too-true statement is that you can kiss goodbye to innovation in the _US_. Even tough some US citizans and politicans want to believe they are the center of the world, non-us companies might at one point decide that the whole US marked is not worth the struggle with patents and simply stop marketing there. A certain number will still be imported non-officially by geeks, but the products will disappear from the shelves. You might say that you can "import" software fairely easily by using digital distirbution methods, but this is not the point. Realization might come, but it's bound to happen and then it will simply be too late.