A tiny computer that runs software designed for a much larger screen will be useful to a limited number of people. For most Android, IOS, WebOS, and maybe WP7 would all be a better OS in that environment.
Vero doesn't have causeways over the Indian River Lagoon. It has two bridges the 17th street bridge http://goo.gl/maps/wT4J and the Barber Bridge http://goo.gl/maps/gPIv by Riverside park.
The problem becomes one of usability vs security for things like dropbox. If any service like Drobbox has a "recover password function" then they have access to the keys. Unless someone knows a way to do it that I am over looking there is no way to have that cake and eat it too. So if they say "Yes you data can be read by our system" people will not trust it. If the loss of their password means the data is loss people will hate it and sue them for loosing their data. They don't have to win to make the case expensive and painful. So they put in rules that their staff are forbidden to read the data and say that they can not read the data. Sort of like how you are not allowed to come to work naked. It may be physically possible but their are rules to punish it. Dropbox is good enough for my uses so I have no problems with it. It matches my expectations. If I want more security I well just encrypt the data on dropbox.
Well there is value in if it isn't broke don't fix it but then you my addition to the rule which is it is best to pick the time to upgrade. AKA don't wait until you have too. I am not and a BSD user myself so I am not sure what the differences are. I would say that they did seem to really blow it by not upgrading the BSD servers in a reasonable time and not picking an OS to make life simpler. I can understand for instance using BSD for say database servers and Linux for web servers if there is an advantage in that. I guess what I find odd is that Yahoo would use RHEL. You would think they would have enough in house IT talent that they wouldn't need a commercially supported Linux like RHEL.
Yea I was thinking the same thing when I heard a kid going to the Intel science fair saying, "I have been doing research in applied Physics for the last five years." Freak at 12 I had to get the principle's permission to launch a model rocket at school! Man things seem to be getting better but it makes me feel old.
Not really all that fair. When Yahoo started Linux was not as mature as BSD. Today FreeBSD and OpenBSD are both good OSs and have features that Linux lacks because of issues with the GPL like ZFS. Dismissing BSD is just a bit biased. Linux does have more hardware support but for server class hardware I bet both have pretty good support. Now logically it makes a lot of sense to go with Linux today if for no other reason than the large number of people that have exprence with it but when Yahoo started that was not the case and frankly changing OSs is not trivial thing to od.
Actually if you are going to use a JIT VM then why not GCC? Just have it target the VM ISA. CLR supports differnt languages as does the JVM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JVM_languages So if you wrote a CLR or JVM backend for GCC you could then compile GCC to run under CLR or JVM and generate CLR or JVM executables. At that point you could then compile VIM and Emacs to run under the JVM. And this post has just maxed out my acronym allotment for this week.
Well Tor has been shown to be vulnerable from time to time http://www.google.com/search?aq=1&oq=Tor+vu&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=tor+vulnerabilities and the US has a lot of resources to throw at the problem I wouldn't bet on that being as good of a solution. Frankly The lack of wifi, cell, internet, and phone in a big expensive home in a well to do town in Pakistan was probably a bit red flag. I mean really it is like going to a Rave in a three piece suit, sunglasses and sporting a buzz cut.
If they where smart they would have had a few cell phones that they used to call women on and chat about going out, and an internet connection where they went and played Farmville.
But Flash doesn't work at all on IOS and it is really not great on Android. Yes I am an Android users and it fails a lot and is slow even on my phone which is an Evo 4G. Flash has no future. Adobe now has an HTML 5 authoring tool and more will come. Flash will linger for a while but HTML 5 works on IE9, Safari, Chrome, Opera, and Firefox. It works on the PC and in the Mobile space. With Google pushing more and more into the enterprise space I suspect Chrome and Chrome Frame to get a big foothold in the enterprise space. Frankly with the security issues with Flash I would bet that nobody wants a Flash free world more than most enterprise IT people.
Pretty much you can say that this disaster destroyed that nuclear power plant. It also took out a Dam, Thousands of homes, thousands of cars Probably some other power plants as well. So this is a worst case situation and still no one died and it is not the end of the world. But mindless fear will rage. The "But it could have" or but we don't know how many will die from cancer! Guess what 20,000+ people died already. Even if 500 more die in the future are their deaths anymore tragic than those that died when a seawall failed or a build collapsed? And I doubt that they will be any deaths that you can point a finger at and say see! I love your comment about fertilizer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_Disaster over 500 people killed by fertilizer.
If you feel that way fine. But checking the weather or using it as an Alarm clock that streams NPR I would say is. Facebook I don't check that often. Twitter more so.
Other things like you may do is check the news. See if anyone called and so on. A smartphone is at this time bordering on science fiction. I mean really I can check multiple news sources, get the weather radar, send a message to my friend in the UK, and any other number of what would have been mind blowing tasks in the 1980.
Chrome does or did support H.264. Safari will be an issue for a while but to work around it you can include two videos and then use browser detection to serve the one that you need. Chrome Frame and or just updating to Chrome or Firefox will do for XP users
Not really. My alarm clock is TuneIn Radio sent to NPR. So I actually use a mobile app before I wake up in the morning. Plus I have my phone running deskclock so it my clock as well. If you wake up and grab your phone to see what time it is or what the weather is you are using a mobile app.
Maybe something the takes an extra second to do something is worth it when you never need to worry about your data, backups? And you can get the info from any machine? and it's all built in? For an office Client server with the client located on the network. Data is stored on a database server and you can access the entire thing at gigabit speed. The client app runs local on the PC. When you log in to a new machine it is their. Yes you can find bad code anywhere. And yes web apps have there advantages but I am not a fan of one solution for every problem. I see no real advantage to a ChromeBook vs running Chrome on Linux, Windows, or OS/X. Hey I have never had my Windows machine infected but then I only use windows to run FSX. But when running Chrome on Linux, Windows, OS/X I still have the option to use native apps. And for an Admin a fully locked down machine running Windows, OS/X, or Linux will not be that big of a pain to manage.
A bit harsh but between chrome.angrybirds.com and HTML5 Video Flash is going to be at best a legacy technology. Anyone know any good tutorals on javascript/HTML5/WebGL?
"Brin hopes that by next year nearly all Googlers will be using Chromebooks." SSH, gcc, vim, Emacs in javascript? No thanks. Honestly yes Chromebooks would work for so many people it isn't funny. Even a small business could use Quickbooks online, and sales force. You average user can use GoogleDocs, Picasso, and so on. But local apps will always be faster than web apps. Yes you will reach good enough for a lot of things but at what cost. What benefit is there to a web based calculator vs a local app? I will say that AngryBirds in HTML5 is impressive.
umm I said "Not to mention potential problems with things like seals, pumps, and valves."
I have wondered if using NH4 for hydrogen transport might not be a good solution. I believe that you can use that fuel cells and most nations have a huge amount of experience transporting it for use as fertilizer.
That is a test system. Commercial hydrogen production is from reformulated hydrocarbons. I suggest you take a look at the cost and then work out the payback time on Honda's system. Probably about the time the Sun becomes a Red Giant.
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A tiny computer that runs software designed for a much larger screen will be useful to a limited number of people. For most Android, IOS, WebOS, and maybe WP7 would all be a better OS in that environment.
Vero doesn't have causeways over the Indian River Lagoon. It has two bridges the 17th street bridge http://goo.gl/maps/wT4J and the Barber Bridge http://goo.gl/maps/gPIv by Riverside park.
Not to an engineer it doesn't, you never round to all zeros.
The problem becomes one of usability vs security for things like dropbox.
If any service like Drobbox has a "recover password function" then they have access to the keys.
Unless someone knows a way to do it that I am over looking there is no way to have that cake and eat it too.
So if they say "Yes you data can be read by our system" people will not trust it.
If the loss of their password means the data is loss people will hate it and sue them for loosing their data. They don't have to win to make the case expensive and painful.
So they put in rules that their staff are forbidden to read the data and say that they can not read the data.
Sort of like how you are not allowed to come to work naked. It may be physically possible but their are rules to punish it.
Dropbox is good enough for my uses so I have no problems with it. It matches my expectations. If I want more security I well just encrypt the data on dropbox.
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Well there is value in if it isn't broke don't fix it but then you my addition to the rule which is it is best to pick the time to upgrade. AKA don't wait until you have too. I am not and a BSD user myself so I am not sure what the differences are. I would say that they did seem to really blow it by not upgrading the BSD servers in a reasonable time and not picking an OS to make life simpler. I can understand for instance using BSD for say database servers and Linux for web servers if there is an advantage in that. I guess what I find odd is that Yahoo would use RHEL. You would think they would have enough in house IT talent that they wouldn't need a commercially supported Linux like RHEL.
Yea I was thinking the same thing when I heard a kid going to the Intel science fair saying, "I have been doing research in applied Physics for the last five years." Freak at 12 I had to get the principle's permission to launch a model rocket at school! Man things seem to be getting better but it makes me feel old.
A. you need to develop a sense of whimsy.
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2. That is what they want you to think. I am telling you Farmville would have saved him.
Not really all that fair. When Yahoo started Linux was not as mature as BSD. Today FreeBSD and OpenBSD are both good OSs and have features that Linux lacks because of issues with the GPL like ZFS. Dismissing BSD is just a bit biased. Linux does have more hardware support but for server class hardware I bet both have pretty good support.
Now logically it makes a lot of sense to go with Linux today if for no other reason than the large number of people that have exprence with it but when Yahoo started that was not the case and frankly changing OSs is not trivial thing to od.
Actually if you are going to use a JIT VM then why not GCC? Just have it target the VM ISA. CLR supports differnt languages as does the JVM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JVM_languages
So if you wrote a CLR or JVM backend for GCC you could then compile GCC to run under CLR or JVM and generate CLR or JVM executables. At that point you could then compile VIM and Emacs to run under the JVM.
And this post has just maxed out my acronym allotment for this week.
Really I thought that Yahoo was a big fan of BSD back in the day. So does Yahoo and or Google use a DIstro or do they both roll their own?
Well Tor has been shown to be vulnerable from time to time http://www.google.com/search?aq=1&oq=Tor+vu&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=tor+vulnerabilities and the US has a lot of resources to throw at the problem I wouldn't bet on that being as good of a solution.
Frankly The lack of wifi, cell, internet, and phone in a big expensive home in a well to do town in Pakistan was probably a bit red flag. I mean really it is like going to a Rave in a three piece suit, sunglasses and sporting a buzz cut.
If they where smart they would have had a few cell phones that they used to call women on and chat about going out, and an internet connection where they went and played Farmville.
But Flash doesn't work at all on IOS and it is really not great on Android. Yes I am an Android users and it fails a lot and is slow even on my phone which is an Evo 4G.
Flash has no future. Adobe now has an HTML 5 authoring tool and more will come. Flash will linger for a while but HTML 5 works on IE9, Safari, Chrome, Opera, and Firefox. It works on the PC and in the Mobile space. With Google pushing more and more into the enterprise space I suspect Chrome and Chrome Frame to get a big foothold in the enterprise space. Frankly with the security issues with Flash I would bet that nobody wants a Flash free world more than most enterprise IT people.
Pretty much you can say that this disaster destroyed that nuclear power plant. It also took out a Dam, Thousands of homes, thousands of cars Probably some other power plants as well. So this is a worst case situation and still no one died and it is not the end of the world. But mindless fear will rage. The "But it could have" or but we don't know how many will die from cancer!
Guess what 20,000+ people died already. Even if 500 more die in the future are their deaths anymore tragic than those that died when a seawall failed or a build collapsed?
And I doubt that they will be any deaths that you can point a finger at and say see!
I love your comment about fertilizer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_Disaster over 500 people killed by fertilizer.
If you feel that way fine. But checking the weather or using it as an Alarm clock that streams NPR I would say is.
Facebook I don't check that often. Twitter more so.
Other things like you may do is check the news. See if anyone called and so on. A smartphone is at this time bordering on science fiction. I mean really I can check multiple news sources, get the weather radar, send a message to my friend in the UK, and any other number of what would have been mind blowing tasks in the 1980.
Chrome does or did support H.264. Safari will be an issue for a while but to work around it you can include two videos and then use browser detection to serve the one that you need.
Chrome Frame and or just updating to Chrome or Firefox will do for XP users
Not really. My alarm clock is TuneIn Radio sent to NPR.
So I actually use a mobile app before I wake up in the morning. Plus I have my phone running deskclock so it my clock as well.
If you wake up and grab your phone to see what time it is or what the weather is you are using a mobile app.
Maybe something the takes an extra second to do something is worth it when you never need to worry about your data, backups? And you can get the info from any machine? and it's all built in?
For an office Client server with the client located on the network.
Data is stored on a database server and you can access the entire thing at gigabit speed. The client app runs local on the PC. When you log in to a new machine it is their.
Yes you can find bad code anywhere. And yes web apps have there advantages but I am not a fan of one solution for every problem.
I see no real advantage to a ChromeBook vs running Chrome on Linux, Windows, or OS/X. Hey I have never had my Windows machine infected but then I only use windows to run FSX.
But when running Chrome on Linux, Windows, OS/X I still have the option to use native apps. And for an Admin a fully locked down machine running Windows, OS/X, or Linux will not be that big of a pain to manage.
A bit harsh but between chrome.angrybirds.com and HTML5 Video Flash is going to be at best a legacy technology.
Anyone know any good tutorals on javascript/HTML5/WebGL?
"Brin hopes that by next year nearly all Googlers will be using Chromebooks."
SSH, gcc, vim, Emacs in javascript?
No thanks.
Honestly yes Chromebooks would work for so many people it isn't funny. Even a small business could use Quickbooks online, and sales force. You average user can use GoogleDocs, Picasso, and so on. But local apps will always be faster than web apps. Yes you will reach good enough for a lot of things but at what cost. What benefit is there to a web based calculator vs a local app?
I will say that AngryBirds in HTML5 is impressive.
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No actually it is Nobody. Anonymous is the username given to an open FTP site.
umm I said "Not to mention potential problems with things like seals, pumps, and valves."
I have wondered if using NH4 for hydrogen transport might not be a good solution. I believe that you can use that fuel cells and most nations have a huge amount of experience transporting it for use as fertilizer.
That is a test system. Commercial hydrogen production is from reformulated hydrocarbons. I suggest you take a look at the cost and then work out the payback time on Honda's system. Probably about the time the Sun becomes a Red Giant.