It is handy but for a lot of sites I just don't see the need. Of course that is just me and how I use the sites like Facebook. What it all comes down to is that I feel that it is foolish to expect any serious security from Facebook, Twitter, or frankly slashdot. They are public sites where you pick what you put up and you decided to join. Hey if you don't want people to know that you hate the government or have a furry fetish don't publish it on Facebook under you name and do not expect Facebook to make any more effort to protect your privacy than you expend.
As I said it is all based on carbon based life. We have yet to see any none carbon based life so that is all complete conjecture. I am not including AI since electronic based life as far as all our theories go can not arise without being created by chemical based life. Yes birds have a high intelligence for their size but again that would still put a lower limit on the physical size. An avian that had they physical strength and brain size to build large structures and a technological society would still have a mass greater than one tenth a human's. To evolve in to a technological society one they would have to harness combustion and smelt metal at some point. As to insects I would say that you are very far off into wild congecture on to their intellegnece.
Of course I am ruling out the really extreme possibles but I think it is fair work form reasonable assumptions based on physics and chemistry for now. Of course they could have very small probes that are harder to detect but I doubt they would have their head lights on as well.
Dangerous how? I mean really? You can side load software on most android phones with little to no effort. "Don't by any android phone that is locked down to prevent side loading by the carrier... AT&T I am looking at you". You can also download alternative app stores for Android phones. So no this is really a none issue. This company didn't follow the rules and was removed from the android app store. The vast majority of users can still download it if they really want to. So what? A company is allowed to pick what it stocks in their store and Google does not prevent you from side loading so what is the danger?
How small will be limited by brain size. So no they can not be an order of magnitude smaller. Also their will be an upper limit because oxygen use and the practical maximum amount in a planetary atmosphere. Of course this is all based on a carbon oxygen life-form.
It would be at most annoying but not harmful. The people that know me would think that someone else did it. AKA that I was hacked. The risk to benifit ratio of me being on facebook is worth it time. I get to see when friends are expecting babies, get married, and or get new jobs. I guess if someone really wanted to make the effort they could hack my account but as I said it would be mildly annoying and not much else.
Big deal. But you deleted your profile so I guess you realize that facebook isn't secure or has no real value for you. Sorry but is it unreasonable to think that everybody should put as much though in how they use sites like facebook as you and I do? Folks use TOR and create a fake account. Frankly if you are using Facebook to make political statements in some totalitarian country I hope you are making some effort to hide. I mean having "your name here" likes let's overthrow the government on facebook can not be all that healthy to start with. Add in pictures of yourself, info on where you work.... I mean really folks treat Facebook like a business card.
Wow $20 a year? You and five other people. They rake in more than that in ad revenue from each "prime" user. Also most people just don't care enough to pay for this service.
What I find amazing is not that Facebook isn't secure but people expect it to be. This is a place where you "publish" information on the internet. It is not now and never should have been considered a secure communication channel. Why doesn't facebook default to https:? My guess is cost. It takes resources to encrypt data and for face book moving everything to https probably would cost a few million dollars in resources. And nothing stops you from using https://facebook.com/ does it?
Well I do have enough understanding of the technology that if they didn't want to be seen we wouldn't see them. I just don't they they would keep the head lights on.
Don't get me started on speed enforcement. But that has nothing to do with the subject at hand. Frankly I don't see your point? What this got to do with using or not using drones? As to police sitting in high crime areas that isn't very effective compared to a patrol. On officer sitting may protect one block but one on patrol can cover a much larger area. So what does this have to do with drones?
True enough. I think you have gotten it down pat. Until it has been replicated it is all just fantasy.
And yes the "skeptics" do tend to be the worst kind of true believers. I had this discussion at work about UFOs. I said that I didn't believe that they where from other planet's and or star systems because. 1. They would be so big and put out so much energy that every one would know they where their. or 2. They would be so good at hiding that we would have no clue the where their.
It just struck me as dumb that a race that could travel across light years and not require massive ships that had exhausts as bright as stars would be dumb enough to fly around with with their headlights on if they wanted to hide. I was declared a happy villager...
You left out that the Verizon iPhone.. All the Tech Unicorns are now showing up. That being side Vol. 4 of The Art of Computer Programing is the most interesting for me.
They are a lot cheaper then helicopters. And I think a lot of it will depend on how they are used just like everything else. How is a drone all that different than a police helicopter or a patrol car? And let's think of the positive use cases. Yes I am all for not being under 24 7 surveillance but having a small drone that a police officer can use to see where a sniper is or to find an armed robber that took off into a field isn't such a bad thing. And just to defuse the rhetoric. Yes snipers are rare but armed robberies are not. Having a small hand launched drone that provides video for a police officer I am okay with. Having a larger drone to suplment a police helicopter I am okay with. A sky filled with long endurance drones over every city and town I am not okay with at all.
But it is so much more fun to complain. But one does have to wonder why the change except to make it slightly harder for people to open up their iphones.
Well sort of. That 75k may pay for one programmer but that will not give you 24/7 support. That guy has to sleep and eat and have a break now and then. I am pro open source and I do use it at my office but it isn't as clear cut as you imagine. BTW that $75k isn't a lot once you figure in benefits and desk space for that "programmer". It can work but again it isn't that simple.
I would call greater than ten percent a large segment. More than one franc out of every ten made in the Swiss economy is from banking and more than on person out of every twenty people work for the banks. That is a much higher percentage than say the US auto industry or the the US civil aviation industry.
With the iPad you can get a dock/keyboard. So imagine this. You put the iPad in the dock and you use your iPhone tied to your iPad as a touch pad? You ust set your phone on the desk and you have a pointing device. You then pick up your Ipad and iPhone and take it with you. What we have here is just a lack of imagination.
"I agree with this, I don't do software development, word processing or gaming on a tablet." Yet. Lots of people do gaming on tablets not high end but then a lot of gaming has moved off the PC onto consoles. As to software development? Well you do have the new Motorola cell phone that docs into a device that makes it into a netbook. My Evo right now has HDMI out, a one Ghz ARM cpu, and 8 gigbytes of Flash. Hook it to a monitor and a blue tooth keyboard and mouse and I could see myself using it to write code. So think of this situation in say 4 years. Your new cell phone has two 4 ghz cores and a two gigs of ram, and 32 gb of flash. You then hook it up to a monitor and keyboard at work and you have an instant PC. I would suggest a USB interface so that you do not have to pair the device and to power the phone but it is so doable that it is frankly scary. Before anybody snickers just think about this. 20 years ago the idea that you could run an SQL database with millions of records on a PC seemed really silly and 30 years ago the idea that you could do real CAD/CAM work on a computer that cost less than $50,000 was just silly.
Right now my cellphone is a very powerful device that just really needs more ram and drivers to make into a very effective PC that could do 90% of what I use a PC for.
Who could afford what wild be up to the authors. Odds are that like most FOSS a lot of the really cool apps would be free just like on Linux and in the none FOSS world on Android and iPhone.
Well except for one detail to start with. They where planning on sell the hardware at just about cost anyway as a not for profit and use the sale of hardware in some nations to subsides the same of hardware in others. This way the profits from the app store could just add to the subsides. Plus you don't have to have a monopoly. Most android devices now will allow you to use other app stores on the device and or even just side load without jail breaking. DRM is a different problem. I think that DRM is usless for the most part. It only hurts the honest consumer. A good example is me with Microsoft Flight Simulator. I always buy FS but the older versions made me put in the disk to run it. So I downloaded a crack for it to break the DRM. Now IMHO I have done nothing wrong since I own a copy of the program. The music industry has found that DRM is pretty much useless. Now we need to get the Movie and book industries to get a clue and we will be in good shape. So I would like to see it DRM free and move forward. It may actually give none mainstream movie, TV, and book creators a better shot at the market that way. So yes I do think it is a brilliant plan since the OLPC was never supposed to make a profit to start with as far as I know.
Yes why not? 1. The screens are the same resolution so they require the same processing power. 2. A phone may actually need a little bit more because it needs to support voice commands like voice dialing. In this case the difference in requirements isn't enough to worry about. 3. Processing power really isn't a limiting factor in most devices today including PCs. Lots of people are happy using i3s and Atoms instead of i7s. 4. The most popular tablet on the market has the exact same processing power as one of the most advanced phones on the market.
So from an engineering point of view and from the actual market the answer is yes tablets and smartphones have about the same CPU requirements so I would expect them to use the same cpus.
At this point you are just fighting reality. The iPad does use the same CPU as the iPhone and it is very popular and most of it's users aver very happy.
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It is handy but for a lot of sites I just don't see the need. Of course that is just me and how I use the sites like Facebook. What it all comes down to is that I feel that it is foolish to expect any serious security from Facebook, Twitter, or frankly slashdot. They are public sites where you pick what you put up and you decided to join.
Hey if you don't want people to know that you hate the government or have a furry fetish don't publish it on Facebook under you name and do not expect Facebook to make any more effort to protect your privacy than you expend.
As I said it is all based on carbon based life. We have yet to see any none carbon based life so that is all complete conjecture. I am not including AI since electronic based life as far as all our theories go can not arise without being created by chemical based life.
Yes birds have a high intelligence for their size but again that would still put a lower limit on the physical size. An avian that had they physical strength and brain size to build large structures and a technological society would still have a mass greater than one tenth a human's.
To evolve in to a technological society one they would have to harness combustion and smelt metal at some point.
As to insects I would say that you are very far off into wild congecture on to their intellegnece.
Of course I am ruling out the really extreme possibles but I think it is fair work form reasonable assumptions based on physics and chemistry for now. Of course they could have very small probes that are harder to detect but I doubt they would have their head lights on as well.
Dangerous how?
I mean really? You can side load software on most android phones with little to no effort. "Don't by any android phone that is locked down to prevent side loading by the carrier... AT&T I am looking at you".
You can also download alternative app stores for Android phones.
So no this is really a none issue. This company didn't follow the rules and was removed from the android app store. The vast majority of users can still download it if they really want to. So what? A company is allowed to pick what it stocks in their store and Google does not prevent you from side loading so what is the danger?
How small will be limited by brain size. So no they can not be an order of magnitude smaller. Also their will be an upper limit because oxygen use and the practical maximum amount in a planetary atmosphere.
Of course this is all based on a carbon oxygen life-form.
Like the 100 MPG car engine that GM is keeping secret or zero point energy. It is all so odd that it boggles the mind.
Notice that they don't have a picture of it...
It still has not shipped anywhere as far as I can tell so it is still a unicorn.
Why anyone cares I have no idea but for some reason they do.
It would be at most annoying but not harmful. The people that know me would think that someone else did it. AKA that I was hacked. The risk to benifit ratio of me being on facebook is worth it time. I get to see when friends are expecting babies, get married, and or get new jobs. I guess if someone really wanted to make the effort they could hack my account but as I said it would be mildly annoying and not much else.
Big deal. But you deleted your profile so I guess you realize that facebook isn't secure or has no real value for you.
Sorry but is it unreasonable to think that everybody should put as much though in how they use sites like facebook as you and I do?
Folks use TOR and create a fake account. Frankly if you are using Facebook to make political statements in some totalitarian country I hope you are making some effort to hide. I mean having "your name here" likes let's overthrow the government on facebook can not be all that healthy to start with. Add in pictures of yourself, info on where you work....
I mean really folks treat Facebook like a business card.
Wow $20 a year? You and five other people. They rake in more than that in ad revenue from each "prime" user. Also most people just don't care enough to pay for this service.
What I find amazing is not that Facebook isn't secure but people expect it to be. This is a place where you "publish" information on the internet. It is not now and never should have been considered a secure communication channel.
Why doesn't facebook default to https:? My guess is cost. It takes resources to encrypt data and for face book moving everything to https probably would cost a few million dollars in resources.
And nothing stops you from using https://facebook.com/ does it?
I had forgotten about the white iPhone. It may be the last unicorn of this generation of tech. That and a good cheap Android Tablet.
Well I do have enough understanding of the technology that if they didn't want to be seen we wouldn't see them. I just don't they they would keep the head lights on.
Don't get me started on speed enforcement. But that has nothing to do with the subject at hand.
Frankly I don't see your point? What this got to do with using or not using drones?
As to police sitting in high crime areas that isn't very effective compared to a patrol. On officer sitting may protect one block but one on patrol can cover a much larger area. So what does this have to do with drones?
True enough. I think you have gotten it down pat. Until it has been replicated it is all just fantasy.
And yes the "skeptics" do tend to be the worst kind of true believers.
I had this discussion at work about UFOs. I said that I didn't believe that they where from other planet's and or star systems because.
1. They would be so big and put out so much energy that every one would know they where their.
or
2. They would be so good at hiding that we would have no clue the where their.
It just struck me as dumb that a race that could travel across light years and not require massive ships that had exhausts as bright as stars would be dumb enough to fly around with with their headlights on if they wanted to hide.
I was declared a happy villager...
You left out that the Verizon iPhone.. All the Tech Unicorns are now showing up.
That being side Vol. 4 of The Art of Computer Programing is the most interesting for me.
They are a lot cheaper then helicopters. And I think a lot of it will depend on how they are used just like everything else.
How is a drone all that different than a police helicopter or a patrol car?
And let's think of the positive use cases. Yes I am all for not being under 24 7 surveillance but having a small drone that a police officer can use to see where a sniper is or to find an armed robber that took off into a field isn't such a bad thing.
And just to defuse the rhetoric. Yes snipers are rare but armed robberies are not. Having a small hand launched drone that provides video for a police officer I am okay with. Having a larger drone to suplment a police helicopter I am okay with. A sky filled with long endurance drones over every city and town I am not okay with at all.
But it is so much more fun to complain.
But one does have to wonder why the change except to make it slightly harder for people to open up their iphones.
You knows it would be a real shame if that stream of yours got slowed down..
Well sort of. That 75k may pay for one programmer but that will not give you 24/7 support. That guy has to sleep and eat and have a break now and then.
I am pro open source and I do use it at my office but it isn't as clear cut as you imagine.
BTW that $75k isn't a lot once you figure in benefits and desk space for that "programmer".
It can work but again it isn't that simple.
I would call greater than ten percent a large segment. More than one franc out of every ten made in the Swiss economy is from banking and more than on person out of every twenty people work for the banks.
That is a much higher percentage than say the US auto industry or the the US civil aviation industry.
Thank you for the correction. I was wrong to say the basis for most. A large segment yes but not most.
With the iPad you can get a dock/keyboard. So imagine this.
You put the iPad in the dock and you use your iPhone tied to your iPad as a touch pad?
You ust set your phone on the desk and you have a pointing device.
You then pick up your Ipad and iPhone and take it with you.
What we have here is just a lack of imagination.
"I agree with this, I don't do software development, word processing or gaming on a tablet."
Yet.
Lots of people do gaming on tablets not high end but then a lot of gaming has moved off the PC onto consoles.
As to software development?
Well you do have the new Motorola cell phone that docs into a device that makes it into a netbook.
My Evo right now has HDMI out, a one Ghz ARM cpu, and 8 gigbytes of Flash.
Hook it to a monitor and a blue tooth keyboard and mouse and I could see myself using it to write code.
So think of this situation in say 4 years. Your new cell phone has two 4 ghz cores and a two gigs of ram, and 32 gb of flash.
You then hook it up to a monitor and keyboard at work and you have an instant PC.
I would suggest a USB interface so that you do not have to pair the device and to power the phone but it is so doable that it is frankly scary.
Before anybody snickers just think about this. 20 years ago the idea that you could run an SQL database with millions of records on a PC seemed really silly and 30 years ago the idea that you could do real CAD/CAM work on a computer that cost less than $50,000 was just silly.
Right now my cellphone is a very powerful device that just really needs more ram and drivers to make into a very effective PC that could do 90% of what I use a PC for.
Who could afford what wild be up to the authors. Odds are that like most FOSS a lot of the really cool apps would be free just like on Linux and in the none FOSS world on Android and iPhone.
Well except for one detail to start with.
They where planning on sell the hardware at just about cost anyway as a not for profit and use the sale of hardware in some nations to subsides the same of hardware in others.
This way the profits from the app store could just add to the subsides. Plus you don't have to have a monopoly. Most android devices now will allow you to use other app stores on the device and or even just side load without jail breaking.
DRM is a different problem. I think that DRM is usless for the most part. It only hurts the honest consumer. A good example is me with Microsoft Flight Simulator. I always buy FS but the older versions made me put in the disk to run it. So I downloaded a crack for it to break the DRM. Now IMHO I have done nothing wrong since I own a copy of the program.
The music industry has found that DRM is pretty much useless. Now we need to get the Movie and book industries to get a clue and we will be in good shape.
So I would like to see it DRM free and move forward. It may actually give none mainstream movie, TV, and book creators a better shot at the market that way.
So yes I do think it is a brilliant plan since the OLPC was never supposed to make a profit to start with as far as I know.
Yes why not?
1. The screens are the same resolution so they require the same processing power.
2. A phone may actually need a little bit more because it needs to support voice commands like voice dialing. In this case the difference in requirements isn't enough to worry about.
3. Processing power really isn't a limiting factor in most devices today including PCs. Lots of people are happy using i3s and Atoms instead of i7s.
4. The most popular tablet on the market has the exact same processing power as one of the most advanced phones on the market.
So from an engineering point of view and from the actual market the answer is yes tablets and smartphones have about the same CPU requirements so I would expect them to use the same cpus.
At this point you are just fighting reality. The iPad does use the same CPU as the iPhone and it is very popular and most of it's users aver very happy.
I never said they couldn't sell GPL apps. The question is should those be hosted for free and just a percentage taken