I don't know; magazines are certainly nice on the iPad (try the New Yorker, it's even better than the print version IMHO). The multimedia aspects of an e-textbook would be great on an ipad.
You should also check out the LV series by Rocio Romero - www.rocioromero.com. It seems to be the only affordable modern prefab house available in the US. You see lots of concepts out there, but these you can actually buy & build. They ship the main parts to you on a flatbed, all the other parts (drywall, windows etc) you source locally. You should be able to build one for $150-200k, plus the land; that's pretty good for a cool modern house.
That's kinda why I posted; I only discovered it myself a couple of days ago and I like it - I have a wifi only Android phone so I am happy to have something free which has the maps stored locally. If you have 3g data the Google maps are good, but Navfree works for me. The last map update seems to have been in December so I hope they'll grab the updated OSM data sometime soon & I can see my changes reflected there.
As others have pointed out, this seems to be a storm in a teacup. If it leads to more participation in OSM, however, it'll be a good thing. I recently installed the Navfree android app (free onboard maps GPS, there's an IOS version too), and noticed a number of small inaccuracies in my neighborhood. Correcting them was really pretty easy; the maps around me already seem pretty usable, and with a bit more tweaking will be as good as any of the commercial alternatives. When I had first looked at it a couple of years ago the maps around me were pretty dire, so they've come a long way. House numbering seems to be the big remaining issue for navigation system use.
Don't feel bad, even on Win 7 with Flash 11, having added ooyala.com to my URL Filter whitelist, I still can't see the video either... At least now I see the black box so I know there's something I'm missing!
Does that mean everyone flying Los Angeles -> Fresno should go through customs? The fact that you connect to an internal domestic flight means this is the only way to make this work.
This is how it does work in Europe, though. I used to fly DC -> London -> Glasgow regularly and when the EU rules kicked in, you had to start going through customs at your final destination. In practice, this meant that everyone in Glasgow walked past a usually unmanned customs post. For the first little while it also meant that you would get to Glasgow, your bag would come on the next flight, and they'd have to pay a taxi to bring it to you. They fixed the transfer problems though.
I've never had a problem either - out of the millions of people who fly each year, only a vanishingly small number have anything confiscated. If something is important you should have it encrypted, because you're more likely to have it stolen than confiscated. I have no love for customs officials, but seriously, the level of paranoia on here is too much. Yes, I'm new here.
If you look at that study, it appears that 3G modems are the real culprit - unsurprisingly, since they can be used as a broadband replacement in areas where landlines aren't available. It's not really the phone users who are the heaviest, probably the people using a 3G dongle with a router. I quote:
I'd say a small point & shoot is often better, since I'm more likely to have it with me. My DSLR takes great pictures, but I can't take it with me everywhere. The DMC-LX5 recommended above would be nice if the OP can afford it.
I have a problem with crappy 3d, but if it's well done it's ok for me. The only 2 I've seen that I'd qualify as "well done" are Avatar & Hugo. So now I won't go to a 3d version unless I read that it's properly done.
If they really are a "Microsoft shop", why would throwing in some random Linux box which is unlikely to ever be updated improve security? Sometimes it's better to standardize rather than go for the otherwise optimum solution. I run my intranet on Linux, but I enjoy doing that; if I were to be replaced there's no guarantee that the next guy will be able to deal with it.
I'm not in a large environment, but I'd bet that they have 8 people who deal with Windows servers because they have a lot of things like Exchange and Sharepoint running on Windows servers. Even in my small environment, I have Windows servers running Exchange and the voicemail etc; the few Linux boxes I have are doing what they do best, but the Windows boxes are needed and are doing the most important stuff from the point of view of the company..
From the article/video, they're using this generation as a rehab tool, letting the user "walk" for an hour or so with a therapist walking behind them controlling the steps. It's not a wheelchair replacement, at least not yet. If someone works out with this regularly, then when the next generation comes along they may be able to use it by themselves.
Some of my BB users are coming to the conclusion that the best setup is dumbphone + iPad 3g. Easy to read email/pdfs/etc, good call quality. The guys may still preder a smartphone, but if you're carrying a big purse anyway the iPad is pretty easy to add.
The New Yorker on the iPad really is a good idea - the reading experience is at least as good, and sometimes better than, the print edition. Subscribers also have access to special issues, mostly compilations of older articles around a theme. For books I like my Nook, but magazines on the iPad are pretty nice.
I just finished REAMDE by Neal Stevenson & liked it, but if you're here you probably have already done the same... Also recently read a bunch of Jo Nesbo's books, they're page turners, especially The Redbreast.
So how will you reduce the risk of someone next to you suddenly deciding to switch the lanes without checking that you're there? How do you reduce the risk of someone deciding he just has to pass the car in front of him even when there's incoming traffick? How do reduce the risk of someone deciding to test his engine and losing control?
It doesn't matter how good a driver you are; if someone else screws up bad enough, you're dead.
You can't eliminate the risk, but you certainly can reduce it. I have ridden motorcycles since I was 16 - I will often notice little clues that someone is about to do something stupid, and act on that before they have done it. If I'm passing someone, and their head twitches, I'm braking, and on numerous occasions they just pull right over to where I would have been had I not taken evasive actions. Most of my friends who are also long time motorcyclists have also honed this skill, and have also avoided potential situations because of it. One friend was stuck in a sudden slowdown and managed to duck to the side and avoid being rear ended because he was aware not only of the slowing traffic ahead of him but that the driver behind hadn't noticed it.
I get a little freaked out when I ride with "normal" car drivers, because their lack of awareness really seems amazing. It's like they aren't looking beyond the car right in front of them & are being continually surprised by what's happening around them.
Sure, there's always the chance that someone will still get you, but there's a lot of room to reduce risk out there.
My solution to this was a used Motorola Droid from ebay - $30 including a 16GB MicroSD card. I'm pretty happy with it. I was waiting & waiting for the Samsung Galaxy Player 5.0, but just gave up & got the used phone. Then of course they actually started selling it in the US. $240 is about the cost of an ipod touch, & I'd rather have the Samsung personally. The touch is great, my kids both have them, but I like to be able to tweak my stuff & the bigger screen is easier for my old eyes, plus GPS & radio is a bonus. It's on 2.3, I don't know if it'll get ICS.
No one knows whether this feedback loop will work, says Lathrop, because “there are neither theory nor experiments at these parameters”.
Enthusiasm for the effort is building beyond Lathrop's group. “Everyone in the community is waiting with bated breath,” says Andrew Jackson, a geophysicist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. “He's asking questions that we don't know the answer to.”
I never really understand this attitude of "if you're going outside the city, then unless you leave behind every modern device you're not really hiking/camping/whatever properly, and therefore should just stay home". What, exactly, is wrong about hiking and using a cool device to show you the name of constellations and stars? Last overnight hike I did with my kids, we all bundled into one tent & watched a movie on one of their ipods. They hiked with their gear on their backs, they helped set up camp, we sat around the campfire & made s'mores, it was a good time. I honestly don't think that using an ipod means that really, they would have been better off at home. I used white gas to cook prepared foods, do you also think that if I didn't trap & cook a rabbit over an open fire that I'd have been better off at home? Where does the line get drawn?
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Looks strangely familiar.
In seriousness, why isn't this all over the news? Why just SOPA?
Because this just happened today. For once, /. is pretty up to date!
I don't know; magazines are certainly nice on the iPad (try the New Yorker, it's even better than the print version IMHO). The multimedia aspects of an e-textbook would be great on an ipad.
You should also check out the LV series by Rocio Romero - www.rocioromero.com. It seems to be the only affordable modern prefab house available in the US. You see lots of concepts out there, but these you can actually buy & build. They ship the main parts to you on a flatbed, all the other parts (drywall, windows etc) you source locally. You should be able to build one for $150-200k, plus the land; that's pretty good for a cool modern house.
It didn't:
http://inaudit.com/audit/it-audit/online-theft-that-sucked-13m-from-financial-firm-in-florida-unmasked-9888/
This was in Florida last year.
That's kinda why I posted; I only discovered it myself a couple of days ago and I like it - I have a wifi only Android phone so I am happy to have something free which has the maps stored locally. If you have 3g data the Google maps are good, but Navfree works for me. The last map update seems to have been in December so I hope they'll grab the updated OSM data sometime soon & I can see my changes reflected there.
As others have pointed out, this seems to be a storm in a teacup. If it leads to more participation in OSM, however, it'll be a good thing. I recently installed the Navfree android app (free onboard maps GPS, there's an IOS version too), and noticed a number of small inaccuracies in my neighborhood. Correcting them was really pretty easy; the maps around me already seem pretty usable, and with a bit more tweaking will be as good as any of the commercial alternatives. When I had first looked at it a couple of years ago the maps around me were pretty dire, so they've come a long way. House numbering seems to be the big remaining issue for navigation system use.
Don't feel bad, even on Win 7 with Flash 11, having added ooyala.com to my URL Filter whitelist, I still can't see the video either... At least now I see the black box so I know there's something I'm missing!
Does that mean everyone flying Los Angeles -> Fresno should go through customs? The fact that you connect to an internal domestic flight means this is the only way to make this work.
This is how it does work in Europe, though. I used to fly DC -> London -> Glasgow regularly and when the EU rules kicked in, you had to start going through customs at your final destination. In practice, this meant that everyone in Glasgow walked past a usually unmanned customs post. For the first little while it also meant that you would get to Glasgow, your bag would come on the next flight, and they'd have to pay a taxi to bring it to you. They fixed the transfer problems though.
I've never had a problem either - out of the millions of people who fly each year, only a vanishingly small number have anything confiscated. If something is important you should have it encrypted, because you're more likely to have it stolen than confiscated. I have no love for customs officials, but seriously, the level of paranoia on here is too much. Yes, I'm new here.
If you look at that study, it appears that 3G modems are the real culprit - unsurprisingly, since they can be used as a broadband replacement in areas where landlines aren't available. It's not really the phone users who are the heaviest, probably the people using a 3G dongle with a router. I quote:
Uplink data volumes:
3G Modems (various): 2654%
HTC Desire S: 323%
iPhone 4S: 320%
Downlink data volumes:
3G Modems (various): 2432%
iPhone 4S: 276%
Samsung Galaxy S: 199%
I'd say a small point & shoot is often better, since I'm more likely to have it with me. My DSLR takes great pictures, but I can't take it with me everywhere. The DMC-LX5 recommended above would be nice if the OP can afford it.
Please try a Lumix in low light before suggesting those. I got a Lumix to give as a gift - very slow camera and blurry for dim or fast-moving shots.
I doubt that it was the DMC-LX5, since the lens is f2.0. A friend has one, and it's a very nice little camera.
I have a problem with crappy 3d, but if it's well done it's ok for me. The only 2 I've seen that I'd qualify as "well done" are Avatar & Hugo. So now I won't go to a 3d version unless I read that it's properly done.
If they really are a "Microsoft shop", why would throwing in some random Linux box which is unlikely to ever be updated improve security? Sometimes it's better to standardize rather than go for the otherwise optimum solution. I run my intranet on Linux, but I enjoy doing that; if I were to be replaced there's no guarantee that the next guy will be able to deal with it.
I'm not in a large environment, but I'd bet that they have 8 people who deal with Windows servers because they have a lot of things like Exchange and Sharepoint running on Windows servers. Even in my small environment, I have Windows servers running Exchange and the voicemail etc; the few Linux boxes I have are doing what they do best, but the Windows boxes are needed and are doing the most important stuff from the point of view of the company..
From the article/video, they're using this generation as a rehab tool, letting the user "walk" for an hour or so with a therapist walking behind them controlling the steps. It's not a wheelchair replacement, at least not yet. If someone works out with this regularly, then when the next generation comes along they may be able to use it by themselves.
Some of my BB users are coming to the conclusion that the best setup is dumbphone + iPad 3g. Easy to read email/pdfs/etc, good call quality. The guys may still preder a smartphone, but if you're carrying a big purse anyway the iPad is pretty easy to add.
The New Yorker on the iPad really is a good idea - the reading experience is at least as good, and sometimes better than, the print edition. Subscribers also have access to special issues, mostly compilations of older articles around a theme. For books I like my Nook, but magazines on the iPad are pretty nice.
I just finished REAMDE by Neal Stevenson & liked it, but if you're here you probably have already done the same... Also recently read a bunch of Jo Nesbo's books, they're page turners, especially The Redbreast.
So how will you reduce the risk of someone next to you suddenly deciding to switch the lanes without checking that you're there? How do you reduce the risk of someone deciding he just has to pass the car in front of him even when there's incoming traffick? How do reduce the risk of someone deciding to test his engine and losing control?
It doesn't matter how good a driver you are; if someone else screws up bad enough, you're dead.
You can't eliminate the risk, but you certainly can reduce it. I have ridden motorcycles since I was 16 - I will often notice little clues that someone is about to do something stupid, and act on that before they have done it. If I'm passing someone, and their head twitches, I'm braking, and on numerous occasions they just pull right over to where I would have been had I not taken evasive actions. Most of my friends who are also long time motorcyclists have also honed this skill, and have also avoided potential situations because of it. One friend was stuck in a sudden slowdown and managed to duck to the side and avoid being rear ended because he was aware not only of the slowing traffic ahead of him but that the driver behind hadn't noticed it.
I get a little freaked out when I ride with "normal" car drivers, because their lack of awareness really seems amazing. It's like they aren't looking beyond the car right in front of them & are being continually surprised by what's happening around them.
Sure, there's always the chance that someone will still get you, but there's a lot of room to reduce risk out there.
My solution to this was a used Motorola Droid from ebay - $30 including a 16GB MicroSD card. I'm pretty happy with it. I was waiting & waiting for the Samsung Galaxy Player 5.0, but just gave up & got the used phone. Then of course they actually started selling it in the US. $240 is about the cost of an ipod touch, & I'd rather have the Samsung personally. The touch is great, my kids both have them, but I like to be able to tweak my stuff & the bigger screen is easier for my old eyes, plus GPS & radio is a bonus. It's on 2.3, I don't know if it'll get ICS.
But the problem is, how do you negotiate that wage? Your "or I won't do it" is much less convincing than his "or I'll kill you and your family".
From TFA:
No one knows whether this feedback loop will work, says Lathrop, because “there are neither theory nor experiments at these parameters”.
Enthusiasm for the effort is building beyond Lathrop's group. “Everyone in the community is waiting with bated breath,” says Andrew Jackson, a geophysicist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. “He's asking questions that we don't know the answer to.”
I never really understand this attitude of "if you're going outside the city, then unless you leave behind every modern device you're not really hiking/camping/whatever properly, and therefore should just stay home". What, exactly, is wrong about hiking and using a cool device to show you the name of constellations and stars? Last overnight hike I did with my kids, we all bundled into one tent & watched a movie on one of their ipods. They hiked with their gear on their backs, they helped set up camp, we sat around the campfire & made s'mores, it was a good time. I honestly don't think that using an ipod means that really, they would have been better off at home. I used white gas to cook prepared foods, do you also think that if I didn't trap & cook a rabbit over an open fire that I'd have been better off at home? Where does the line get drawn?
Three words - pinch to zoom.
Plus most people spend most of their time without gloves on, and you can get a capacitive stylus for a couple of bucks.
That would work; I haven't done it since I was a kid though.