I'll admit to being a relatively old fart. Can someone please ELI5 the industri-wide obsession with emojis? To me, it rates a divison or two lower on "picks my interest"-scale than a new font. And I generally find fonts quite uninteresting. obl xkcd link
No, honestly: I would like to know. I see no innovation in adding more emojis, no basic need covered and it is not as if a world of new possibilities suddenly opens itself because 157 new emojis were added. I am not against the very idea of emojis. I just don't understand the general hype and attention to emojis.
I actually feel a slight bit of secondhand embarassment for this hangup. Is it just me?
... as understanding and practising what they teach....
How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie Seven Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen R. Covey Thinking, fast and slow -Daniel Kahnemann The Culture Map - Erin Meyer
I would like to be able to powercycle a USB-powered device in Farawayland, while sitting in my comfy office. By instructing my switch to cycle the PoE power on the relevant port.
A device which accepts regular PoE via an RJ45 in one end, and supplies USB power and RJ45 in the other end would facilitate that.
I agree. An RPI is a simple, cost effective way to do this. I would not bother with a case, though. I would likely put a stack of RPIs on a board together with an Ethernet switch and a fat USB thingy with multiple outputs for power. Check Amazon for '12port Satechi'. Attach board to a single monitor. VESA100?
Boot all of them from the same image loaded from tftp, minimal configfile on SDcard to tell the RPI what URL to display. "Static" IP-address assignment via DHCP/MAC-address. A bunch of HDMI cables from each RPI to individual monitors. Done.
One may consider trying adding an extra HDMI port per Pi via USB2HDMI. If the gfx bandwidth is sufficient or not depends on the content.
In the other corner, there are solutions like the Matrox C680. But I seriously believe PIs are the simpler, cheaper and better choice here. If one goes down, *one* panel goes down. Unless it is the Ethernet switch or USB charger dying, that is.
I am curious about everything related to the optional 802.11ac interface: - chipset - driver - license of driver - firmware - performance
Other than this: very much yes. I'll happily pay USD 100 for an open router platform. And pay extra for the wifi if. Someone make a pure AP image with support for 802.11r/k and a hardware option for PoE, and you may have another winner.
Can it do 100kph for 10 hours straight? In -10 degC?
And to stay with the 10e3 theme: Will it charge in 1000 seconds? Will it hold sufficient charge for driving 1000 km at 100kph, starting 1000 hours after charging? Will battery performance hold up after 1000 charge cycles? Can it be sold, built and delivered to 1000 individual customers?
- minimum a full week battery life. Even that is really too often for a watch-like device, but as long as available technology is what it is, say a week. - did I mention battery life yet? - I'LL RECHARGE SUNDAY NIGHTS ONLY, OK? - wireless charging or a dock, I don't care. No fiddly connectors, or port covers. - IP68 - always on display, readable in sunlight - guaranteed periodic software updates for a minimum of 5 years from launch. Make sure the device has enough RAM onboard. - functions:
- open API for third party apps
- timekeeping.
- periodic sync of paired smartphone calendar to local calendar, so one can get events and browse the calendar without the phone around
- periodic sync of paired smartphone contact list, so one can use the smartphone as a dialer. Also remote keypad.
- ability to display alerts and messages from a paired smartphone.
- heart rate monitor. Togglable. (Is that a word?). Also readable from smartphone via BLE. Will eat battery, ok. Accurate. Works when exercising. Talk to MIO.
- NFC, so the smartwatch can be used as a key.
- compass. (GPS is useful with a map, a smartwatch does not have enough screen realestate for a map. And it eats battery.)
- multimedia controls for a connected smartphone
- virtual leash, so either the phone or the watch notifies you if the other part appears out of range
- ability for smartphone apps to use smartwatch as a remote display of sorts. Will eat battery, ok. - design. Think Macbook Air. For the wrist. Soft shapes, solid appearance. Or something. I am not a designer. A shiny, overheated lego brick doesn't cut it, ok?
I do not see a smartwatch as a (primary) input device. Think remote display and sensors.
In my opinion, employing public cloud services equates to outsourcing. And outsourcing is great. For those who make a living by selling outsourcing services.
For others, it very much depends. Depending on external companies for something your company absolutely, unconditionally must have, every minute of the day? Managed by someone whose priorities are not necessarily 100% aligned with your company's priorities all the time? I'd limit that dependence...
Knowingly getting rid of knowledge and competence which possibly makes up a substantial piece of the company assets, is not great management. And if knowledge/competence/people is not considered a company asset, you're doing it wrong...
I agree it has been fairly resistant to breakage/bitrot. That may say something about the code quality. But do you actually compile from the original tarball? The last tarball is pushing 3 years by now. Building it gives an indication it needs an oilchange and a new filter.
The bugtracker has a fair number of patches which appear to make sense. As do various distributions.
So the short answer is: maintenance
The longer answer is really up to whoever takes ownership of the code.
I didn't mention WPS.:-) And I agree there isn't much like WPS. While I though it was a neat idea at the time, I never got accustomed to using the template system. It may have been my usage pattern.
I. Do. Not. Get. It. It is beyond me why people want to emulate the clutter they have on their physical desk, on their computer. One does not need a "Desktop Environment".
What I want is a window manager that allows me to set the only sane focus policy (focus follows mouse, click to raise), maintains the user experience and config-file compatibility from release to release and otherwise stays out of the way. Not having to choose between 42 different plugins/extensions/addons and whatnot is also a good thing.
A couple of years ago (*cough*) when IBM killed OS/2, I made the transition to Linux. I soon landed on icewm as my preferred window manager, as it had a "OS/2 Warp" theme. I believe I at one time played with a Presentation Manager-like desktop, but I soon realized it was more hassle than benefit. icewm has a fully configurable "context-menu" on the entire desktop background (right-click mouse for *your* selection of files, programs, folders, etc), ditto menu for windows (left click), configurable hotkeys (I hit F12 for a terminal), a toolbar with the regular stuff, workspaces and so on.
And for any newbie out there: not running gnome or kde or whatever does not prevent you from launching gnome or kde programs.
Now, please tell me again about the added benefits of having a zillion garish icons on your desktop background? Or, by the way... don't bother,...
OK. Facebook sucks. get over it. I believe most building blocks for a truly distributed, open facebook alternative already exists. It "just" needs a shitload of glue and polishing. And a fancy projectname. "buttpaper"?
OpenID for id purposes? Torrents for distributing data? Some kind of PKI system to regulate access to data in the "cloud". Also holding the tracker location? (Can this be designed to not rely on central infrastructure, yet be made simple enough to work for the average Jean?) Must allow for single users running their own site, as well as bigger sites holding larger number of users. Some way to import relevant stuff from FB.
Build this, eliminate the security flaws, then convince a few million FB users. And be ready to fight he FUD from Zuckerberg & co.
Exposing the name of the guy likely isn't going to change Apple's reaction to the loss of the device. But it sure harms the guy who lost it, and I think that was really, really rotten form.
seconded. I am about to buy a flash-based camcorder. Sony is neither on the long or short list of manufacturers/models I consider. And I made sure to let the people in the shop know why.
Ditto. I am very happy with this unit. Takes two SATA drives, has GbE and USB ports, runs Linux, speaks CIFS out of the box. Can be persuaded to do NFS as well. Decent performance. I like it, and the price was right.
There's even an active irc channel and a wiki for people who want to hack it.
I have mine running with 2x 500GB drives in RAID-1 mode to handle disk failures, and will periodically hook up yet another 500GB drive to the USB port for backup and PEBKAC-type failures.
Ads are by definition made to take your attention away from whatever "content" you are trying to access. I detest visual noise with a passion. Thus, I filter ads.
Google's solution is something I can live with. So far. I have even found it useful a couple of times.
Just my $0.02 contribution to the Google stock price.
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I'll admit to being a relatively old fart. Can someone please ELI5 the industri-wide obsession with emojis? To me, it rates a divison or two lower on "picks my interest"-scale than a new font. And I generally find fonts quite uninteresting. obl xkcd link
No, honestly: I would like to know. I see no innovation in adding more emojis, no basic need covered and it is not as if a world of new possibilities suddenly opens itself because 157 new emojis were added. I am not against the very idea of emojis. I just don't understand the general hype and attention to emojis.
I actually feel a slight bit of secondhand embarassment for this hangup. Is it just me?
I hope Secret Service is on the ball, because I can really only see one thing saving a republican presidency in the next election.
... as understanding and practising what they teach....
How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
Seven Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen R. Covey
Thinking, fast and slow -Daniel Kahnemann
The Culture Map - Erin Meyer
You pretty much nailed it.
Thank you.
I would like to be able to powercycle a USB-powered device in Farawayland, while sitting in my comfy office. By instructing my switch to cycle the PoE power on the relevant port.
A device which accepts regular PoE via an RJ45 in one end, and supplies USB power and RJ45 in the other end would facilitate that.
I agree. An RPI is a simple, cost effective way to do this. I would not bother with a case, though.
I would likely put a stack of RPIs on a board together with an Ethernet switch and a fat USB thingy with multiple outputs for power. Check Amazon for '12port Satechi'. Attach board to a single monitor. VESA100?
Boot all of them from the same image loaded from tftp, minimal configfile on SDcard to tell the RPI what URL to display. "Static" IP-address assignment via DHCP/MAC-address. A bunch of HDMI cables from each RPI to individual monitors. Done.
One may consider trying adding an extra HDMI port per Pi via USB2HDMI. If the gfx bandwidth is sufficient or not depends on the content.
In the other corner, there are solutions like the Matrox C680. But I seriously believe PIs are the simpler, cheaper and better choice here. If one goes down, *one* panel goes down. Unless it is the Ethernet switch or USB charger dying, that is.
I am curious about everything related to the optional 802.11ac interface:
- chipset
- driver
- license of driver
- firmware
- performance
Other than this: very much yes.
I'll happily pay USD 100 for an open router platform. And pay extra for the wifi if.
Someone make a pure AP image with support for 802.11r/k and a hardware option for PoE, and you may have another winner.
Can it do 100kph for 10 hours straight? In -10 degC?
And to stay with the 10e3 theme:
Will it charge in 1000 seconds?
Will it hold sufficient charge for driving 1000 km at 100kph, starting 1000 hours after charging?
Will battery performance hold up after 1000 charge cycles?
Can it be sold, built and delivered to 1000 individual customers?
#ev1k
...when it isn't part of the finished product?
In order:
- minimum a full week battery life. Even that is really too often for a watch-like device, but as long as available technology is what it is, say a week.
- did I mention battery life yet?
- I'LL RECHARGE SUNDAY NIGHTS ONLY, OK?
- wireless charging or a dock, I don't care. No fiddly connectors, or port covers.
- IP68
- always on display, readable in sunlight
- guaranteed periodic software updates for a minimum of 5 years from launch. Make sure the device has enough RAM onboard.
- functions:
- open API for third party apps
- timekeeping.
- periodic sync of paired smartphone calendar to local calendar, so one can get events and browse the calendar without the phone around
- periodic sync of paired smartphone contact list, so one can use the smartphone as a dialer. Also remote keypad.
- ability to display alerts and messages from a paired smartphone.
- heart rate monitor. Togglable. (Is that a word?). Also readable from smartphone via BLE. Will eat battery, ok. Accurate. Works when exercising. Talk to MIO.
- NFC, so the smartwatch can be used as a key.
- compass. (GPS is useful with a map, a smartwatch does not have enough screen realestate for a map. And it eats battery.)
- multimedia controls for a connected smartphone
- virtual leash, so either the phone or the watch notifies you if the other part appears out of range
- ability for smartphone apps to use smartwatch as a remote display of sorts. Will eat battery, ok.
- design. Think Macbook Air. For the wrist. Soft shapes, solid appearance. Or something. I am not a designer. A shiny, overheated lego brick doesn't cut it, ok?
I do not see a smartwatch as a (primary) input device. Think remote display and sensors.
In my opinion, employing public cloud services equates to outsourcing.
And outsourcing is great. For those who make a living by selling outsourcing services.
For others, it very much depends. Depending on external companies for something your company absolutely, unconditionally must have, every minute of the day? Managed by someone whose priorities are not necessarily 100% aligned with your company's priorities all the time? I'd limit that dependence...
Knowingly getting rid of knowledge and competence which possibly makes up a substantial piece of the company assets, is not great management. And if knowledge/competence/people is not considered a company asset, you're doing it wrong...
Speaking of which, please check out the Neo900 project.
I agree it has been fairly resistant to breakage/bitrot. That may say something about the code quality.
But do you actually compile from the original tarball? The last tarball is pushing 3 years by now.
Building it gives an indication it needs an oilchange and a new filter.
The bugtracker has a fair number of patches which appear to make sense. As do various distributions.
So the short answer is: maintenance
The longer answer is really up to whoever takes ownership of the code.
I didn't mention WPS. :-)
And I agree there isn't much like WPS. While I though it was a neat idea at the time, I never got accustomed to using the template system. It may have been my usage pattern.
'nuff said.
I. Do. Not. Get. It.
It is beyond me why people want to emulate the clutter they have on their physical desk, on their computer.
One does not need a "Desktop Environment".
What I want is a window manager that allows me to set the only sane focus policy (focus follows mouse, click to raise), maintains the user experience and config-file compatibility from release to release and otherwise stays out of the way. Not having to choose between 42 different plugins/extensions/addons and whatnot is also a good thing.
A couple of years ago (*cough*) when IBM killed OS/2, I made the transition to Linux. I soon landed on icewm as my preferred window manager, as it had a "OS/2 Warp" theme. I believe I at one time played with a Presentation Manager-like desktop, but I soon realized it was more hassle than benefit.
icewm has a fully configurable "context-menu" on the entire desktop background (right-click mouse for *your* selection of files, programs, folders, etc), ditto menu for windows (left click), configurable hotkeys (I hit F12 for a terminal), a toolbar with the regular stuff, workspaces and so on.
And for any newbie out there: not running gnome or kde or whatever does not prevent you from launching gnome or kde programs.
Now, please tell me again about the added benefits of having a zillion garish icons on your desktop background?
Or, by the way... don't bother,...
OK. Facebook sucks. get over it.
I believe most building blocks for a truly distributed, open facebook alternative already exists.
It "just" needs a shitload of glue and polishing. And a fancy projectname. "buttpaper"?
OpenID for id purposes?
Torrents for distributing data?
Some kind of PKI system to regulate access to data in the "cloud". Also holding the tracker location?
(Can this be designed to not rely on central infrastructure, yet be made simple enough to work for the average Jean?)
Must allow for single users running their own site, as well as bigger sites holding larger number of users.
Some way to import relevant stuff from FB.
Build this, eliminate the security flaws, then convince a few million FB users. And be ready to fight he FUD from Zuckerberg & co.
Exposing the name of the guy likely isn't going to change Apple's reaction to the loss of the device.
But it sure harms the guy who lost it, and I think that was really, really rotten form.
Cheques? and cellphones? In the same sentence? In the same century? You've got it wrong.
All IM protocols are, at one level, reimplementations of IRC. So why not use IRC?
Open Source saves buyers $60 Billions?
seconded. I am about to buy a flash-based camcorder. Sony is neither on the long or short list of manufacturers/models I consider. And I made sure to let the people in the shop know why.
Ditto. I am very happy with this unit. Takes two SATA drives, has GbE and USB ports, runs Linux, speaks CIFS out of the box. Can be persuaded to do NFS as well. Decent performance. I like it, and the price was right.
There's even an active irc channel and a wiki for people who want to hack it.
I have mine running with 2x 500GB drives in RAID-1 mode to handle disk failures, and will periodically hook up yet another 500GB drive to the USB port for backup and PEBKAC-type failures.
"It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed."
Ads are by definition made to take your attention away from whatever "content" you are trying to access. I detest visual noise with a passion. Thus, I filter ads.
Google's solution is something I can live with. So far. I have even found it useful a couple of times.
Just my $0.02 contribution to the Google stock price.