Until I have no more need for a keyboard. I don't see that in the foreseeable future, so I'm sticking with my netbook for university. You lug a 15" computer 2km back and forth every day and tell me you don't want something lighter.
The battery life is where most of the value lies anyways. 9 hours of battery life means I can leave the damn thing on all day and never have to worry about running low.
Bah! You newfangled kiddies and your tablets sicken me!
I counter this with the notion that at least Google is (relatively and to my knowledge) transparent with the way they handle your data. See: https://www.google.com/intl/en/privacy/
Better to go with the devil you know than the devil you don't.
I can see this as being valuable for corporate and academic use, as often having direct metadata can really help, especially if small changes to a file can wipe the metadata completely.
For that matter, if you take a look at certain types of files, such as ESRI shapefiles, picking out and parsing metadata is a chore, since it's all in XML and the schema is hardly ever 100% consistent. Having some form of implementation for metadata to be tagged into the files would be useful for this sort of thing. It would make projects such as GIS in the cloud a much more feasible system to create, support and scale. I used to work on a project where we needed to upload a lot of Geographical/geospatial data to a server, and the hardest part was always collecting and re-working the metadata. I think a structure like this could work, provided the service itself doesn't imply that users should own what they are using.
While I agree that cloud style data shouldn't be implemented for regular users (not counting services like dropbox, where it's a minor component), I do think that this sort of file restructuring can be beneficial for businesses and academics, and likely save a lot of money.
I think the difference here being that AMD, Motorola, GM, Ford and others don't proactively find ways to patent shit that any child could have come up with given a touchscreen phone (or other assorted technology).
It's not about parroting what others say, it's about the fact that Apple is patenting trivial garbage, on top of proactively seeking lawsuits to stifle competitors and force themselves into a pseudo-monopoly.
Maybe if you stopped hastily generalizing everything you could avoid looking like "some idiot that like(s) to parrot what others say without actually thinking". There is more to the problem than a broken, trivial, meaningless patent.
Also, one more thing: Goddamnit America! Fix your damn patent system! Canadians don't get many new phones and this is only making things worse.
Except for the fact that there's no Web Enablement and as far as I can see his new sensor doesn't follow any OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) Standards, so the data itself isn't really that valuable outside his own application.
It might be something they'll add in the future, but I'd be interested to see how this data could be used, as opposed to how it can be collected. Quite frankly, LiDAR has been around for a long time, and attaching other sensors in conjunction with it isn't something entirely new. I will admit though that being able to get to an inaccessible place and map it is good, but the data is generally only as good as the application it is used in, and vice versa.
It's not like you really need to ever touch that sort of thing. I'd vote your post for FUD, because even with carrier locked apps, you can still use the phone for the purpose you bought it. You know.... the phone part? Even the browser and GPS will work out of the box, and it's not like you need to make carrier installed apps go away, if you don't touch them they often don't cause troubles.
Also keep in mind that rooting, partitioning and swapping between memory are pretty much things of the past. There are tools available that will root a phone in two minutes with just a click. Installing a new ROM on top of that is absurdly easy.
Of course it'd be the last toy. You'd never be able to afford more after HP gets into this 3D ink business.
For that matter, who wants their kid printing off shit without supervision. I never let anyone get near my 2D printer, much less a 3D one that could produce velociraptors.
I would argue the opposite. I don't think I've ever had an order on time, arguable that it's because of where I live, or what I order, but "we have to swim across a 3700 mile river underground" is somewhat better consolation than "the warehouse manufacturer apologizes for the delay, we are looking into figuring out what happened".
I personally prefer K&M for shooters, but controllers for action/arcade/rpgs/fighters. Maybe it's just me, but having the choice is nice.
And besides, it gives you the chance to play casually and play seriously. Play casually against friends, play seriously for ranking? Sounds about right.
Why'd you post as an AC? I think "looking beneath the surface" is what programming is all about, and what they're doing here with Java 7 is just silly.
Geez, catering to "young programmers" seems silly. If they don't learn it properly while they're young, it'll only get harder to learn once you get older.
Maybe the plan is to just set up computers behind the curtain, and only those computers can be used to vote. You'd still have to go to a voting station, you'd still have to prove your identity the same way, your vote would still be hidden, the only difference is that you'd be putting votes into a database, and not into a box.
Just because it's "online" doesn't mean it would have to be "at home". That may not have been what the article intended, but it's one possible way to do things.
The only problem then becomes how to encrypt the data and prevent your ISP from making changes. Then again, elections Canada staff can always "lose" ballots as well, skewing the results, so I don't know which is harder to trust.
256 Cores? I thought that was AMD territory my friend.....
I kid I kid. Seriously though, this is some bullshit. I don't care if they have the best in the business, I don't think I'm buying another intel chipset for my home for a while...
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Until I have no more need for a keyboard. I don't see that in the foreseeable future, so I'm sticking with my netbook for university. You lug a 15" computer 2km back and forth every day and tell me you don't want something lighter.
The battery life is where most of the value lies anyways. 9 hours of battery life means I can leave the damn thing on all day and never have to worry about running low.
Bah! You newfangled kiddies and your tablets sicken me!
This is an important part of the "Theory of my Wife's Acceptance to Technology," or as I like to call it, T.W.A.T.
If you master your wife's T.W.A.T., you'll make money and be happy. Or at least have shiny toys.
People still BUY music!?
Whatever happened to that confunded P2P thing that everyone was crazy about a couple years back?
I counter this with the notion that at least Google is (relatively and to my knowledge) transparent with the way they handle your data. See: https://www.google.com/intl/en/privacy/
Better to go with the devil you know than the devil you don't.
Just how far CAN Ballmer throw a chair?
I can see this as being valuable for corporate and academic use, as often having direct metadata can really help, especially if small changes to a file can wipe the metadata completely.
For that matter, if you take a look at certain types of files, such as ESRI shapefiles, picking out and parsing metadata is a chore, since it's all in XML and the schema is hardly ever 100% consistent. Having some form of implementation for metadata to be tagged into the files would be useful for this sort of thing. It would make projects such as GIS in the cloud a much more feasible system to create, support and scale. I used to work on a project where we needed to upload a lot of Geographical/geospatial data to a server, and the hardest part was always collecting and re-working the metadata. I think a structure like this could work, provided the service itself doesn't imply that users should own what they are using.
While I agree that cloud style data shouldn't be implemented for regular users (not counting services like dropbox, where it's a minor component), I do think that this sort of file restructuring can be beneficial for businesses and academics, and likely save a lot of money.
I think the difference here being that AMD, Motorola, GM, Ford and others don't proactively find ways to patent shit that any child could have come up with given a touchscreen phone (or other assorted technology).
It's not about parroting what others say, it's about the fact that Apple is patenting trivial garbage, on top of proactively seeking lawsuits to stifle competitors and force themselves into a pseudo-monopoly.
Maybe if you stopped hastily generalizing everything you could avoid looking like "some idiot that like(s) to parrot what others say without actually thinking". There is more to the problem than a broken, trivial, meaningless patent.
Also, one more thing: Goddamnit America! Fix your damn patent system! Canadians don't get many new phones and this is only making things worse.
Except for the fact that there's no Web Enablement and as far as I can see his new sensor doesn't follow any OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) Standards, so the data itself isn't really that valuable outside his own application.
It might be something they'll add in the future, but I'd be interested to see how this data could be used, as opposed to how it can be collected. Quite frankly, LiDAR has been around for a long time, and attaching other sensors in conjunction with it isn't something entirely new. I will admit though that being able to get to an inaccessible place and map it is good, but the data is generally only as good as the application it is used in, and vice versa.
Just my 2 cents.
I was excited to think they were talking about Geomatics Engineering, which is my major, but apparently we still get no love.
Except the job market. Jobs seem to love Geomatics Engineers, at least from what I've seen.
I propose that we oust Hollywood and then change the copyright system so you have two choices.
Apache.
Creative Commons.
BAM. Piracy doesn't exist anymore. Problem, Hollywood?
It's not like you really need to ever touch that sort of thing. I'd vote your post for FUD, because even with carrier locked apps, you can still use the phone for the purpose you bought it. You know.... the phone part? Even the browser and GPS will work out of the box, and it's not like you need to make carrier installed apps go away, if you don't touch them they often don't cause troubles.
Also keep in mind that rooting, partitioning and swapping between memory are pretty much things of the past. There are tools available that will root a phone in two minutes with just a click. Installing a new ROM on top of that is absurdly easy.
Try Ghostery. I believe this is exactly what it is intended to do.
Of course it'd be the last toy. You'd never be able to afford more after HP gets into this 3D ink business.
For that matter, who wants their kid printing off shit without supervision. I never let anyone get near my 2D printer, much less a 3D one that could produce velociraptors.
They're forgetting you can't use any DRM protected materials in an igloo anyways.
Just so you all know, I am Canadian, and I mean every word I said.
You think this is sudo?
This is su, and that means they can do what they want for as long as they want, until we nuke the system.
I prefer my bludgeons to not be soft, but thanks anyways ;)
Let me go get my bludgeon. It's not part of the operating system, and I'm sorry, but you mustn't go un-punished.
This implementation will be changed over when we get to version 26, in approximately six months.
Oh, and feel free to submit a bug report about submitting bug reports. We are glad to oblige.
I would argue the opposite. I don't think I've ever had an order on time, arguable that it's because of where I live, or what I order, but "we have to swim across a 3700 mile river underground" is somewhat better consolation than "the warehouse manufacturer apologizes for the delay, we are looking into figuring out what happened".
I personally prefer K&M for shooters, but controllers for action/arcade/rpgs/fighters. Maybe it's just me, but having the choice is nice.
And besides, it gives you the chance to play casually and play seriously. Play casually against friends, play seriously for ranking? Sounds about right.
This is what the industry needs.
speaking of what the industry needs... Where's my episode 3 Gabe!?
No we can all act like Thor with our lightning drop kicks!
Why'd you post as an AC? I think "looking beneath the surface" is what programming is all about, and what they're doing here with Java 7 is just silly.
Geez, catering to "young programmers" seems silly. If they don't learn it properly while they're young, it'll only get harder to learn once you get older.
Maybe the plan is to just set up computers behind the curtain, and only those computers can be used to vote. You'd still have to go to a voting station, you'd still have to prove your identity the same way, your vote would still be hidden, the only difference is that you'd be putting votes into a database, and not into a box.
Just because it's "online" doesn't mean it would have to be "at home". That may not have been what the article intended, but it's one possible way to do things.
The only problem then becomes how to encrypt the data and prevent your ISP from making changes. Then again, elections Canada staff can always "lose" ballots as well, skewing the results, so I don't know which is harder to trust.
256 Cores? I thought that was AMD territory my friend.....
I kid I kid. Seriously though, this is some bullshit. I don't care if they have the best in the business, I don't think I'm buying another intel chipset for my home for a while...