I think most people have a pretty good idea what it means, thank you very much. Facebook has two main methods of communication between users. If I post on a friend's wall, I do it knowing that our mutual friends will see it - that's exactly the point. If I want a "private" conversation, I'll use the messaging feature. Those messages can only be seen by the recipients, as well as facebook's data-mining algorithms.
Can we have a bit of sanity here? The laws are pretty clear that your online activity can only be recorded if the police specifically ask your ISP. Since most Australians are not under investigation by the police, a VPN is hardly a "a necessity".
Your language makes it sound like it's the end of the internet as we know it, when the reality is far more mundane.
a) They shouldn't have offered a lifetime account if they didn't intend to honour it (though they're not legally obliged to), but b) You shouldn't have paid 'a few hundred bucks' for a service of indeterminant length and value.
Also, doesn't dropbox offer like 2.5gb for free? Why pay for a lifetime service if it's going to be superceded? Would you have taken a "lifetime" dial-up account from AOL if it was offered?
Get the basic kindle and invest in a decent case. I have the official amazon case with the built-in light which is very handy for travelling. The light uses the Kindle's battery, which still manages to last for several weeks.
I think it's rugged enough. There's no glass in the screen, and no vents for dust to get in. No, it's not waterproof, but it's only $100. Anything more rugged (if it exists) will be more expensive and just as prone to theft.
Not only is this a dupe of another article on the front page, the summary quotes the same BBC article. Doesn't Slashdot have a system for at least checking the URLs of submitted stories?
At first I thought, who wants a hot Core i7 tablet running Windows when they can get a sleek iPad or Android device with 10 hours of battery? But it makes a lot more sense as a business laptop that can transform into a tablet (rather than the other way around). Many business users have a laptop dock on their desk and at the end of the day they disconnect and carry their laptop home to continue work, perhaps with another dock at home. This is an extension of that idea. When it's set up on the desk it's exactly like a laptop, running full Windows & whatever business software, but then the user can carry it to a meeting and use it like a tablet. I'd dare say it's then more useful than an iPad. The battery life will be the biggest killer though.
Not many phones, and the top-tier models don't support multiple SIMs. If you have a nice Galaxy Nexus (for example) and you live in Europe, changing sim cards is extremely common. I own at least 3 sim cards.
But in all other first-world countries more than half the population believes in evolution, so by that logic, most first-world people are smarter than the average American. That's a disturbing statistic, but concerningly feasible.
I don't think you know how insulin pumps work. The pump is implanted, but it's controlled by the patient using a separate device. That's what the wireless link is for. Your suggestions of IR, vibration or induction wouldn't work because you'd have at least 20cm between the pump and the control unit and up to several meters (for instance when the patient is asleep or showering, leaving the control unit on a table). Wireless is the only option. It should be encrypted as tight as possible.
Comments on blogs and news articles (and youtube videos of course) are almost entirely worthless. Almost no one puts thought into their comments, even when it's attached to a well-thought out article. They don't "capture the intelligence of readers", rather they capture the unintelligence. Another example is twitter. Choose a trending topic, read some of the tweets, and weep for humanity.
On the other hand, forums can be extremely valuable. I'd class Slashdot into that category, even though technically these are still comments on news articles. Forums can be excellent at capturing the intelligence, wisdom or experience of its members. Some examples that come to mind are Whirlpool or XDA-Dev. Of course you still get ill-thought out nonsense, but the format encourages continued participation in the discussion, rather than blogs where people write some bullshit and then move on to the next story.
How can a man learn to program with all the distracting colors and tree-view point-and-click windows?
How is that a relevant comparison? Visual Studio doesn't let you create an entire application without typing any code, and it certainly doesn't prevent you from reading or editing code.
Programming is about knowing which combination of primitives to place in what order to solve a problem
That also describes building something out of Lego.
I think there's some educational value in App Inventor, just as there is in Lego, but it would be far more educational if it actually exposed the user to a programming language.
Is App Inventor really programming? It's a drag-and-drop system which produces bytecode directly. The user can't see or edit the Java code. Once you hit the limit of what App Inventor can do (it's limited to one view, for example), you can't extend your app by working on the Java code. This means that even if you become an expert with App Inventor, you're not really any closer to becoming an Android programmer.
That makes more sense too. I like the idea of a HUD for reading emails while doing other things, or even better, a map overlay of my current location - but for interacting with the device I'd like a touchscreen. Seems better to have a HUD that connects to a smartphone via bluetooth.
Simple question: where are they going to get the billions of dollars required to put a man on the moon? The physical world isn't like the software world, where things are often shared freely. Perhaps it'll be a little different in 2034, but I doubt anyone's going to build a lunar module with a 3D printer and some free plans from the internet.
Perhaps it's already been found: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-change_memory PCM still has hurdles to overcome, but it's generally considered that performance increases as size decreases, the opposite of NAND.
People don't buy an iPad expecting to be able to run Mac OS software (okay, some might), so it's just a matter for Microsoft's marketing division to come up with a brand that identifies WOA as being related to Windows but not quite the same thing. That's their problem though.
There'll always be an x86 Windows that can run x86 software. The introduction of a separate branch of Windows doesn't change that.
Yes, it was that good - BTJunkie had a much larger index than any other site because it indexed private trackers (they appeared with a lock icon, and a portal page let you log in and get the torrent from those sites). Even excluding the private torrents it had a bigger selection than other sites such as Mininova or TPB.
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I think most people have a pretty good idea what it means, thank you very much.
Facebook has two main methods of communication between users. If I post on a friend's wall, I do it knowing that our mutual friends will see it - that's exactly the point. If I want a "private" conversation, I'll use the messaging feature. Those messages can only be seen by the recipients, as well as facebook's data-mining algorithms.
It's exactly as private as using Gmail.
The second law of thermodynamics states that you can't convert thermal energy into any other form. Sorry.
What's the average IQ of prison inmates, or slashdot readers or CS students? All fixed at 100?
The article is about Taobao, which is the consumer subsidiary of Alibaba.
Can we have a bit of sanity here? The laws are pretty clear that your online activity can only be recorded if the police specifically ask your ISP. Since most Australians are not under investigation by the police, a VPN is hardly a "a necessity".
Your language makes it sound like it's the end of the internet as we know it, when the reality is far more mundane.
a) They shouldn't have offered a lifetime account if they didn't intend to honour it (though they're not legally obliged to), but
b) You shouldn't have paid 'a few hundred bucks' for a service of indeterminant length and value.
Also, doesn't dropbox offer like 2.5gb for free? Why pay for a lifetime service if it's going to be superceded?
Would you have taken a "lifetime" dial-up account from AOL if it was offered?
I have type I diabetes and I can assure you that 100mg of sugar will have absolutely no effect.
Get the basic kindle and invest in a decent case. I have the official amazon case with the built-in light which is very handy for travelling. The light uses the Kindle's battery, which still manages to last for several weeks.
I think it's rugged enough. There's no glass in the screen, and no vents for dust to get in. No, it's not waterproof, but it's only $100. Anything more rugged (if it exists) will be more expensive and just as prone to theft.
That is the generally-accepted definition of the word "faster".
Not only is this a dupe of another article on the front page, the summary quotes the same BBC article. Doesn't Slashdot have a system for at least checking the URLs of submitted stories?
At first I thought, who wants a hot Core i7 tablet running Windows when they can get a sleek iPad or Android device with 10 hours of battery? But it makes a lot more sense as a business laptop that can transform into a tablet (rather than the other way around). Many business users have a laptop dock on their desk and at the end of the day they disconnect and carry their laptop home to continue work, perhaps with another dock at home. This is an extension of that idea. When it's set up on the desk it's exactly like a laptop, running full Windows & whatever business software, but then the user can carry it to a meeting and use it like a tablet. I'd dare say it's then more useful than an iPad. The battery life will be the biggest killer though.
Not many phones, and the top-tier models don't support multiple SIMs. If you have a nice Galaxy Nexus (for example) and you live in Europe, changing sim cards is extremely common. I own at least 3 sim cards.
But in all other first-world countries more than half the population believes in evolution, so by that logic, most first-world people are smarter than the average American. That's a disturbing statistic, but concerningly feasible.
Isn't this exactly what Boxee is for?
I don't think you know how insulin pumps work. The pump is implanted, but it's controlled by the patient using a separate device. That's what the wireless link is for. Your suggestions of IR, vibration or induction wouldn't work because you'd have at least 20cm between the pump and the control unit and up to several meters (for instance when the patient is asleep or showering, leaving the control unit on a table). Wireless is the only option. It should be encrypted as tight as possible.
I would think Google are trying their hardest to improve Android to compete with iOS. Another smartphone maker doesn't really change that does it?
"Seagate has strapped a laser to the hard drive head"
Well, there goes my hopes for an intelligent discussion.
Comments on blogs and news articles (and youtube videos of course) are almost entirely worthless. Almost no one puts thought into their comments, even when it's attached to a well-thought out article. They don't "capture the intelligence of readers", rather they capture the unintelligence. Another example is twitter. Choose a trending topic, read some of the tweets, and weep for humanity.
On the other hand, forums can be extremely valuable. I'd class Slashdot into that category, even though technically these are still comments on news articles. Forums can be excellent at capturing the intelligence, wisdom or experience of its members. Some examples that come to mind are Whirlpool or XDA-Dev. Of course you still get ill-thought out nonsense, but the format encourages continued participation in the discussion, rather than blogs where people write some bullshit and then move on to the next story.
How is that a relevant comparison? Visual Studio doesn't let you create an entire application without typing any code, and it certainly doesn't prevent you from reading or editing code.
That also describes building something out of Lego.
I think there's some educational value in App Inventor, just as there is in Lego, but it would be far more educational if it actually exposed the user to a programming language.
Is App Inventor really programming? It's a drag-and-drop system which produces bytecode directly. The user can't see or edit the Java code. Once you hit the limit of what App Inventor can do (it's limited to one view, for example), you can't extend your app by working on the Java code. This means that even if you become an expert with App Inventor, you're not really any closer to becoming an Android programmer.
That makes more sense too. I like the idea of a HUD for reading emails while doing other things, or even better, a map overlay of my current location - but for interacting with the device I'd like a touchscreen. Seems better to have a HUD that connects to a smartphone via bluetooth.
Simple question: where are they going to get the billions of dollars required to put a man on the moon? The physical world isn't like the software world, where things are often shared freely. Perhaps it'll be a little different in 2034, but I doubt anyone's going to build a lunar module with a 3D printer and some free plans from the internet.
Perhaps it's already been found:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-change_memory
PCM still has hurdles to overcome, but it's generally considered that performance increases as size decreases, the opposite of NAND.
People don't buy an iPad expecting to be able to run Mac OS software (okay, some might), so it's just a matter for Microsoft's marketing division to come up with a brand that identifies WOA as being related to Windows but not quite the same thing. That's their problem though.
There'll always be an x86 Windows that can run x86 software. The introduction of a separate branch of Windows doesn't change that.
Yes, it was that good - BTJunkie had a much larger index than any other site because it indexed private trackers (they appeared with a lock icon, and a portal page let you log in and get the torrent from those sites). Even excluding the private torrents it had a bigger selection than other sites such as Mininova or TPB.