You are right, I should have been more specific. There are times, such as massive screens, when the number of pixels do matter. However, I think the vast majority of people won't really get any benefit from 4K, but I am happy to have the technology mainstreamed, improving the situation for computer monitors and for those who need or want a very large screen. It also means that while I wait for OLED prices to come down, I can pick up a really nice 1080p plasma TV, one suitable for my viewing situation, for cheap from someone who bought a 4K LCD TV.
The density race is pretty pointless as far as TVs on the wall go, but it has made for better monitors. I'm happy to have a 39" 4K monitor for a few hundred dollars, and I wouldn't have it if TV technology stagnated at 1080p.
I gather from the Hackaday review of Windows IoT Core on the RPi that is is very much for embedded systems. To quote from the review
This is not a device for makers, this is a device for point of sale terminals and ATMs. Windows XP – the operating system that is still deployed on a frighting number of ATMs – is going away soon, and this is Microsoft’s attempt to save their share of that market.
We do daily stand-ups between 2 locations. At one end which is a large office, we have a MXL AC404 USB conference microphone on a table that people stand or sit around. People around the table sound great, and it is omnidirectional, so it doesn't matter where people are. If someone goes off to scribble on the whiteboard and is 8 or 10 feet away from the mic, you can hear him or her, but it doesn't sound as good because it gets a little soft. If you keep an eye out on Amazon, or use camelcamelcamel, you can find this open box for less than $40.
At the other end, we use a Blue Snowball because the standup takes place in a large open room and we want the cardioid pickup pattern so we don't pick up extraneous noise. As with the other microphone, sound quality is a lot better when you are near the mic. I had someone who spoke softly, and I always had to get her to stand in front of the microphone, but a fellow with a booming voice was ok from 8 feet away.
I met the Bakers around 2002 at a neighborhood party and heard this story. At that time, Goldman's excuse was "L&H lied to us." However, given that a couple Wall Street Journal reporters exposed the fraud mostly by making some phone calls, it was clear that Goldman had done little work. I wish the Bakers the best of luck.
A paper on privacy and why "monitoring is no problem because only criminals have something to hide" is a poor justification. If you compare the benefits of monitoring for the good of society against the usually slight or non-existant damage to an individual from being monitored, society always wins out. However, privacy is not just monitoring. What affect does it have on society when everyone is aware that there are large databases of information about your life and people will use to make decisions about you, but you can't know what is in it, you have no means of making sure it is correct, and you don't know who is using it and for what purposes? There is much more to it than this, and the paper is worth reading for a deeper view on privacy issues.
I don't want to start a kickstarter debate, but the author of git-annex has a project on kickstarter to add functionality.
Quoting a little bit of the initial proposal:
The first step will be to make git-annex watch for changes to your files, check them into git, and automatically sync them to your other repositories. I have a prototype of this using Linux's inotify. It will be extended to also support Mac OS X.
Then I will build a web app that can be used to control and configure things. Watch files as they upload and download, set priorities, etc. No command line needed. I plan to use Haskell's amazing Yesod web framework.
Finally, I will add configuration assistants to help you get the most out of the system. Easily set up syncing to remote computers, store encrypted copies of your data in Amazon S3 or other cloud services, automate moving old files to archival drives. There are many possibilities like these, and I will prioritize the ones my backers need.
I'll spend around one month on each of these steps. Then I'll spend another month or two on an Android port, and additional time I'm funded for to add more features. I'll be blogging about my progress all along the way, and each new feature will immediately be available in git-annex's own git repository.
If he gets another $3500 in funding in the next 6 days, he even promises to spend a least 1 month trying to create a Windows port.
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You are right, I should have been more specific. There are times, such as massive screens, when the number of pixels do matter. However, I think the vast majority of people won't really get any benefit from 4K, but I am happy to have the technology mainstreamed, improving the situation for computer monitors and for those who need or want a very large screen. It also means that while I wait for OLED prices to come down, I can pick up a really nice 1080p plasma TV, one suitable for my viewing situation, for cheap from someone who bought a 4K LCD TV.
The density race is pretty pointless as far as TVs on the wall go, but it has made for better monitors. I'm happy to have a 39" 4K monitor for a few hundred dollars, and I wouldn't have it if TV technology stagnated at 1080p.
We do daily stand-ups between 2 locations. At one end which is a large office, we have a MXL AC404 USB conference microphone on a table that people stand or sit around. People around the table sound great, and it is omnidirectional, so it doesn't matter where people are. If someone goes off to scribble on the whiteboard and is 8 or 10 feet away from the mic, you can hear him or her, but it doesn't sound as good because it gets a little soft. If you keep an eye out on Amazon, or use camelcamelcamel, you can find this open box for less than $40.
At the other end, we use a Blue Snowball because the standup takes place in a large open room and we want the cardioid pickup pattern so we don't pick up extraneous noise. As with the other microphone, sound quality is a lot better when you are near the mic. I had someone who spoke softly, and I always had to get her to stand in front of the microphone, but a fellow with a booming voice was ok from 8 feet away.
An interesting read on the relationship between water and energy
IEEE Spectrum report on water versus energy
I met the Bakers around 2002 at a neighborhood party and heard this story. At that time, Goldman's excuse was "L&H lied to us." However, given that a couple Wall Street Journal reporters exposed the fraud mostly by making some phone calls, it was clear that Goldman had done little work. I wish the Bakers the best of luck.
A paper on privacy and why "monitoring is no problem because only criminals have something to hide" is a poor justification. If you compare the benefits of monitoring for the good of society against the usually slight or non-existant damage to an individual from being monitored, society always wins out. However, privacy is not just monitoring. What affect does it have on society when everyone is aware that there are large databases of information about your life and people will use to make decisions about you, but you can't know what is in it, you have no means of making sure it is correct, and you don't know who is using it and for what purposes? There is much more to it than this, and the paper is worth reading for a deeper view on privacy issues.
The first step will be to make git-annex watch for changes to your files, check them into git, and automatically sync them to your other repositories. I have a prototype of this using Linux's inotify. It will be extended to also support Mac OS X.
Then I will build a web app that can be used to control and configure things. Watch files as they upload and download, set priorities, etc. No command line needed. I plan to use Haskell's amazing Yesod web framework.
Finally, I will add configuration assistants to help you get the most out of the system. Easily set up syncing to remote computers, store encrypted copies of your data in Amazon S3 or other cloud services, automate moving old files to archival drives. There are many possibilities like these, and I will prioritize the ones my backers need.
I'll spend around one month on each of these steps. Then I'll spend another month or two on an Android port, and additional time I'm funded for to add more features. I'll be blogging about my progress all along the way, and each new feature will immediately be available in git-annex's own git repository.
If he gets another $3500 in funding in the next 6 days, he even promises to spend a least 1 month trying to create a Windows port.