Software Development is hard work, so is construction. How often do you drive by a work site and see half the crew standing around and chatting? Fairly often I would bet. The rest of the time they are busting their ass. Software development is the same, except its the muscle between your ears you have to flex. It is part of the job, get used to it. There will be idle time, you will need to decompress.
I actually did stop buying a few years ago. Don't pirate either. I am just disgusted with the piss poor quality of the vast majority of the media out there. I get more entertainment value from sharing pictures of kittens saying "I can haz cheezburger?" with my girlfriend. It is not worth my time to watch most movies, much less buy or download them.
I wouldn't be complaining about the tropical environment, I am in florida right now, the palm trees are encrusted ice, and my Bermuda shorts just are not sufficient.
How about the entire US. Just for starters, every single day violence is perpetrated against homosexuals for expressing their beliefs and identities. There is the whole don't ask, don't tell issue with the US military as well.
I don't think so. Hover cars are by necessity going to be supported on a pillar of high pressure air. That will turn a dirt road into a dust storm, water into spray and gravel into high speed projectiles. Add to that, the difficulty in steering and braking when you don't have contact with the surface and you will see that hover cars are a no go.
again... This is an ARM Cortex A8, it is an integrated system on a chip, the ram is in the CPU. You can't just add a slot for expansion. Also, since you won't ever be loading windows on the thing, and will be using a lightweight linux distro, you don't need nearly as much ram.
I check out Best Buy once every couple months, I have found a total of 2 good deals in the last 10 years. One was some half price ram a near the beginning of that period and the other was a 1080p 42 inch LCD tv for less than $600 last christmas. Every other time, all their stuff was over priced and underpowered in the rare case where they had something like what I wanted. And most of the time, they didn't have what I was looking for anyway.
The restore disk most often has plenty of crap ware on it. Given the option its better to just reformat and install a clean OS and add any hardware specific drivers needed.
Right in the specs it has 256 megs of ram. This isn't a PC, the TI OMAP 3 chip is a fully integrated system on a chip. Its ram, eprom, graphics accelerators and cpu are all cut from a single chip.
I see some announcements for Cortex A9 chipsets, but I don't know of any that are in production much less have devices available that use them. However, Cortex A8 devices are fairly mature with numerous commercial devices and hobby kits available. If you have enough time and skill, you could roll your own Cortex A8 netbook with a BeagleBoard, Gumstix or other hobby board and an LCD and battery. Due to the economies of scale it could cost you up to $600 for all the relevant parts, but if you skimp on battery life and screen size you might be able to get the cost around $250.
OpenPandora and the Touch Book are two projects to get a small portable Cortex A8 "netbook" to market. Both have shipped a few units to customers, but they are probably at least a few months away from being able to fill regular orders.
They mentioned an ARM Cortex A8 Freescale processor, that is probably the i.MX515. Like most other Cortex A8 chips it includes on chip audio/video hardware acceleration for popular formats including at least H.264/MPEG4.
Similar processors have been proven to handle 720p for hardware supported formats, though I don't really know how this particular one will fair.
Right. If you actually look at history, you will see that America has a one party system with two faces. Both originated from the same party that was pro big business|government and supported authoritative control. Our freedom of choice is an illusion to keep the masses from unrest.
I occasionally see a -1 troll mod as synonymous with a frightening truth.
I've been looking into this as well as the Pandora http://www.open-pandora.org/. Do you know if the touch book has regular orders shipping yet? Or is it still: pay and wait for the next batch of parts to be ordered, assembled and shipped? If I can can order one and have it en route before the end of the week, I would buy one in a heartbeat.
If it gets to the point where they can demand your ID to get on the internet, its to late to revolt. Instigators will be caught early. If the British could stop every horse between continental towns in the 1750's-1770's and verify the content and identity of the author, I doubt the US revolution would have gotten off the ground.
Addendum: many threads here to keep track of, sorry if some of my responses to your posts seem repetitive.
Maybe, and I would hope so. But I would rather that it never came to pass.
There is also the possibility of a system that can not be gotten around so easily. For instance signing a network session with something like an RSA passkey token like many corporate VPNs currently require.
"If a website provides a really anonymous service, why even bother requiring this card?" Because the internet backbone won't pass on your packets if they are not trusted, signed, authenticated with your real identity and has a copy forwarded to the government to prevent terrorism and the RIAA to prevent copyright infringment. The article is about redefining the very structure of the internet, not just setting policy at a few endpoint servers.
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start a software company? Only problem is getting them out of their parents basement, half of us probably would not fit through the door.
Software Development is hard work, so is construction. How often do you drive by a work site and see half the crew standing around and chatting? Fairly often I would bet. The rest of the time they are busting their ass. Software development is the same, except its the muscle between your ears you have to flex. It is part of the job, get used to it. There will be idle time, you will need to decompress.
Or that they are calm and serene knowing their fate and eager to get their hands on 72 virgins?
Nothing is more hilarious than the truth.
considering that most suicide bombers are children/disaffected teens anyway? It seems pretty likely.
Damn. I wish you were not so cowardly anon, that was a good joke and could have gotten you some karma.
I actually did stop buying a few years ago. Don't pirate either. I am just disgusted with the piss poor quality of the vast majority of the media out there. I get more entertainment value from sharing pictures of kittens saying "I can haz cheezburger?" with my girlfriend. It is not worth my time to watch most movies, much less buy or download them.
I wouldn't be complaining about the tropical environment, I am in florida right now, the palm trees are encrusted ice, and my Bermuda shorts just are not sufficient.
Its been good to me this year, only real issue is that the menu and channel changing is a bit slow.
So says the unicorn.
How about the entire US. Just for starters, every single day violence is perpetrated against homosexuals for expressing their beliefs and identities. There is the whole don't ask, don't tell issue with the US military as well.
I don't think so. Hover cars are by necessity going to be supported on a pillar of high pressure air. That will turn a dirt road into a dust storm, water into spray and gravel into high speed projectiles. Add to that, the difficulty in steering and braking when you don't have contact with the surface and you will see that hover cars are a no go.
again... This is an ARM Cortex A8, it is an integrated system on a chip, the ram is in the CPU. You can't just add a slot for expansion. Also, since you won't ever be loading windows on the thing, and will be using a lightweight linux distro, you don't need nearly as much ram.
I check out Best Buy once every couple months, I have found a total of 2 good deals in the last 10 years. One was some half price ram a near the beginning of that period and the other was a 1080p 42 inch LCD tv for less than $600 last christmas. Every other time, all their stuff was over priced and underpowered in the rare case where they had something like what I wanted. And most of the time, they didn't have what I was looking for anyway.
The restore disk most often has plenty of crap ware on it. Given the option its better to just reformat and install a clean OS and add any hardware specific drivers needed.
your definition of not impossible intrigues me.
Right in the specs it has 256 megs of ram. This isn't a PC, the TI OMAP 3 chip is a fully integrated system on a chip. Its ram, eprom, graphics accelerators and cpu are all cut from a single chip.
I see some announcements for Cortex A9 chipsets, but I don't know of any that are in production much less have devices available that use them. However, Cortex A8 devices are fairly mature with numerous commercial devices and hobby kits available. If you have enough time and skill, you could roll your own Cortex A8 netbook with a BeagleBoard, Gumstix or other hobby board and an LCD and battery. Due to the economies of scale it could cost you up to $600 for all the relevant parts, but if you skimp on battery life and screen size you might be able to get the cost around $250.
OpenPandora and the Touch Book are two projects to get a small portable Cortex A8 "netbook" to market. Both have shipped a few units to customers, but they are probably at least a few months away from being able to fill regular orders.
They mentioned an ARM Cortex A8 Freescale processor, that is probably the i.MX515. Like most other Cortex A8 chips it includes on chip audio/video hardware acceleration for popular formats including at least H.264/MPEG4.
Similar processors have been proven to handle 720p for hardware supported formats, though I don't really know how this particular one will fair.
Right. If you actually look at history, you will see that America has a one party system with two faces. Both originated from the same party that was pro big business|government and supported authoritative control. Our freedom of choice is an illusion to keep the masses from unrest.
I occasionally see a -1 troll mod as synonymous with a frightening truth.
I've been looking into this as well as the Pandora http://www.open-pandora.org/. Do you know if the touch book has regular orders shipping yet? Or is it still: pay and wait for the next batch of parts to be ordered, assembled and shipped? If I can can order one and have it en route before the end of the week, I would buy one in a heartbeat.
[humor]You honestly think "Linda Lovelace" was her real name? [/humor]
If it gets to the point where they can demand your ID to get on the internet, its to late to revolt. Instigators will be caught early. If the British could stop every horse between continental towns in the 1750's-1770's and verify the content and identity of the author, I doubt the US revolution would have gotten off the ground.
Addendum: many threads here to keep track of, sorry if some of my responses to your posts seem repetitive.
Maybe, and I would hope so. But I would rather that it never came to pass.
There is also the possibility of a system that can not be gotten around so easily. For instance signing a network session with something like an RSA passkey token like many corporate VPNs currently require.
"If a website provides a really anonymous service, why even bother requiring this card?" Because the internet backbone won't pass on your packets if they are not trusted, signed, authenticated with your real identity and has a copy forwarded to the government to prevent terrorism and the RIAA to prevent copyright infringment. The article is about redefining the very structure of the internet, not just setting policy at a few endpoint servers.