This is part of the reason that "strong" passwords are actually as weak or weaker than "weak" ones. If you have to aggregate them into a "manager", something similar, or write it down on a post-it/piece of other paper it's NOT "strong" in the slightest.
We'd be better off having passphrases that would be difficult to brute-force, but easy to remember for humans.
If any of his neighbors use Monsanto or other "patented" seeds, they have the risk of cross-pollination from the neighboring farms and they're STILL screwed since Monsanto's sued and won on that subject in the past.
There's ways around it. Working on some of them right now. They still sell and have available Heirloom seeds for most crops. You can't cross-pollinate hydroponically grown stuff.
Actually, if the plants cross-pollinate (i.e. Their damned plants contaminate my Heirloom seed planted crops via pollen...) they have sued and won over that specific and particular circumstance.
It's a bigger picture than this- and I'm a bit shocked that the Supreme Court gave Monsanto this one.
That'd be my take. It's not free- it's just that the users didn't have to pay for it's use. If they're not going to make money off of it (If they were actually "monetizing" this as some have claimed...they'd not have pulled the plug, folks...) then it doesn't make sense to keep it going. They are, after all, a business.
Heh... The English isn't the best (It's proper and valid- but I wouldn't have put it in the somewhat confusing manner that they did...), but they're talking about being about half as fast as native, based on what I've been able to ascertain playing with the demos and a bit with emscripten. Considering what I know about Javascript...it's not half bad.
It's a clever hack- but it's still a hack. It'll let vendors make casual games and light MMOGs easily playable with more than just one platform- no Flash or Silverlight needed. Just a modern browser- the demos even work on the later versions of the Chrome browser on Android (It's slow on my tablet, but that may be implementation and/or SoC speed...). I certainly wouldn't make UT with it- but it's good enough to reach for something more like Q3:A Live without needing any special anything to pull it off with. I can see the appeal, so long as they don't screw it up.
Actually, it's not a technicality- not even close.
It's a criminal offense in most jurisdictions to do this and it pretty much taints ANY evidence submitted by the source(s) which now must be disregarded by the court. It's called altering evidence, which is intrinsically viewed the same as falsifying it for good reason. If the evidence was valid, why did it need to be "altered"? If it's to protect the parties in question, that's a dirty hands situation, which WOULD have altered the outcome (You can't come running to the courts when you just broke the law yourselves... Typically calls for a motion to dismiss when you have this come out...).
The Judge now can sanction the IFPI/MPAA and their counsel in varying ways including jail time for contempt of court.
Heh... It'll set you back 4-5k per subscriber to roll out 40/20 or similar service to them. Seriously.
Actual connectivity of any kind is not cheap. The telcos shell out that money for urban and suburban areas because they're expecting to see a return on that investment per subscriber in 4-6 years' time or less. They can't expect that in rural areas, so they don't roll this stuff out. The ONLY reason Verizon Wireless is contemplating LTE in the rural areas where they're expecting to blanket the state in LTE coverage is that it's going to be there for the moblie customers anyway.
That's because they don't have the treatment plant in hand and have to have a certain threshold for the Fed funds to kick in to be able to build one- to use your analogy a bit further...
If you've not tried either, you can't say they're solutions.
In the large, they're poor substitutes for LTE, WiMax, or similar solutions unless you're blindingly lucky. (Moreover, they're subsidizing that stuff with Government money (WildBlue's got a government program going that makes it CHEAP to "get online"- too bad it's satellite fraudband...) as well...) Satellite's got utilization issues- there's a reason the people that have it typically have a pet name of fraudband for it. WiFi has range issues and interference issues unless you make a leap to some psuedo-WiFi solution like a Canopy last mile solution, which, then again, isn't cheap to deploy and you're back expensive again. (I've got two Motorola PTP400 units Retail, even now, with the old devices is $12k. I didn't pay that much for them, but that's quite beside the point...)
As for the government paying for it... Yeah, I've a problem with them spending on such an expensive, per subscriber, solution. They probably could go a lot cheaper (about 1/3-1/2 the cost) and do something more akin to what AT&T, Century Link, and Verizon have done and accomplish the same thing. Still pricey, I suspect, for you. WiFi's cheap, yes. But it's in a really, really noisy band (kind of like the SCADA crowd's finding out with the 900MHz ISM band right now...) and you have all sorts of issues with link capacity, even getting link, etc.
Problem is...effective (key word here) Internet connectivity isn't going to be a simple/cheap answer. If it was, the Telcos or Cable companies would've rolled it out even to the rural customers. Now, I'll agree with the gigabit ethernet remarks to a point. Right NOW it approaches zero. If you factor in that once done new applications that WOULD be doing streaming, etc. will be available and they'll think differently about things (Why do you need a voice copper loop, a cable tv loop, etc. when you can ensure communications for hours on both ends more cheaply- and optimize the local loop?) Just as with the electric power story (which was the reason they funded electrification programs, at similar expenses to what we're talking about here with then dollars...with a similar argument to the one you ran with being ran with back then...) you're going to have to come up with some miracle answer to make it have better profit margins or bankroll the initial rollout some other way- otherwise it's just not happening with profit motive alone.
The only problem with the LTE stuff is that while it's fast and rocks for mobile applications, it's still not te same thing as wireline/fiber solutions in latency, etc. It has maybe up to 20-ish down and 7-ish up for max realistic service speeds. This doesn't compare to the 40/20 speeds I'm using right now. Worse, you'll pay nearly the same amount per month for the privilege of the LTE system, be capped at 10Gb or so of use, or be charged something like $10 per Gb of usage either direction.
Simply put, I strongly suspect the 600 actually have the use in mind for those speeds and are willing to shell out $150-250 that vTel's going to be charging for it. The rest? Would YOU pay $150/250 per month for either? I do, but then I'm trying to run a business.
Considering that one COULD peel the content off of the device and put it on via the Media Player filesystem interface or via something like adbfs on Linux, the only issue I've seen with not having a microSD slot is one of getting the data off the device when I change phones.
You might care about this (I was...somewhat...of your opinion with the Galaxy Nexus I'm using right now, but that changed...) but it's nothing of the big deal that you're making of it- especially since it's not all the way you're making it out to be.
That's because of the fact that the phone's a CDMA phone. If you *REALLY* wanted to, you could move from Verizon to Sprint and vice-versa- but they're loath to do those moves because they haven't validated the gear from the other network on their own..
After seeing how several of the big boys run things, there's only really a few that actually have any better handle on it than those that've only been around for 5 years or less.
How many businesses fail in the first year? Most of them. Honestly, some of that "sound" advice you're hinting at did well for Motorola, TI, and a few others- not.
If you look at some of the other companies still doing well in these times, they're doing similar things. First rule of thumb: Put your employees FIRST. They will put your customers there for you. If they're not happy, they'll screw you in so many differing ways it'll be like death by ten thousand paper cuts. All this guy's talking to is this very thing. The gritch about the free dinners thing depends on situations, company, and the like- if it's not a 5-7 days a week thing, and only off-and-on done, it's a positive thing (Otherwise, he's dead on...). I'd have to say the brogrammer gritch is closer to the truth than most would like to own.
Uh, this is differing from the Beagle in only number of cores, etc. Power consumption's a concern- the fact that this needs a heatsink means it's producing a bit of TDP over the BeagleBone. I couldn't, for example, realistically use this with several of my projects I'm working on because it consumes entirely too much power. For some of the others, it rocks and I'm going to be speccing out one of the higher-end boards for purchase a couple of months from now. This only covers the TDP, there's other aspects of this you're discounting, for what it's worth. Claiming it's shameful is only revealing you're misunderstanding the goals here. Not everything is about compute power like in the Gaming PC world and they fill differing slots in the space.
Considering that there's not really any Open Source GPUs in the ARM SoC space (yet...), it's a valid complaint, but it shouldn't be a show stopper.
To be sure, I'm a bit surprised Qualcomm or ARM hasn't stepped up to that plate- they're selling hardware and the mojo is in the cores themselves. And, in the case of Qualcomm, I'm fairly sure the original IP rights holder (AMD) wouldn't be to touchy about them opening the Adreno up.
Not at 5V. 20V. Moreover, the device in question will have to allow, via negotiation, the jump from the 10W mode to the 100W one. I suspect you'll have to provision the motherboard to go into that mode (if it supports it...) and you'll be on your own to have a supply that sources the voltage, I suspect...
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If that were so, they'd have already handled that support in Android-X86 and it'd be a desktop solution on Linux platforms.
It is nothing of the sort- so try again. (Hint: Your assessment of being able to emulate the highest-end ARM is quite WRONG...just to start with...)
This is part of the reason that "strong" passwords are actually as weak or weaker than "weak" ones. If you have to aggregate them into a "manager", something similar, or write it down on a post-it/piece of other paper it's NOT "strong" in the slightest.
We'd be better off having passphrases that would be difficult to brute-force, but easy to remember for humans.
Depends on if he's got enough case to attract an attorney on Contingency. Not all lawyers work on up-front fees and the like.
Hope your neighbors aren't planting Monsanto or other Patented company's stuff...then you'll be having fun due to cross-pollenization.
If any of his neighbors use Monsanto or other "patented" seeds, they have the risk of cross-pollination from the neighboring farms and they're STILL screwed since Monsanto's sued and won on that subject in the past.
It's more difficult than one would think.
There's ways around it. Working on some of them right now. They still sell and have available Heirloom seeds for most crops. You can't cross-pollinate hydroponically grown stuff.
Actually, if the plants cross-pollinate (i.e. Their damned plants contaminate my Heirloom seed planted crops via pollen...) they have sued and won over that specific and particular circumstance.
It's a bigger picture than this- and I'm a bit shocked that the Supreme Court gave Monsanto this one.
That'd be my take. It's not free- it's just that the users didn't have to pay for it's use. If they're not going to make money off of it (If they were actually "monetizing" this as some have claimed...they'd not have pulled the plug, folks...) then it doesn't make sense to keep it going. They are, after all, a business.
Not as many as there've been cars sold...
Heh... The English isn't the best (It's proper and valid- but I wouldn't have put it in the somewhat confusing manner that they did...), but they're talking about being about half as fast as native, based on what I've been able to ascertain playing with the demos and a bit with emscripten. Considering what I know about Javascript...it's not half bad.
It's a clever hack- but it's still a hack. It'll let vendors make casual games and light MMOGs easily playable with more than just one platform- no Flash or Silverlight needed. Just a modern browser- the demos even work on the later versions of the Chrome browser on Android (It's slow on my tablet, but that may be implementation and/or SoC speed...). I certainly wouldn't make UT with it- but it's good enough to reach for something more like Q3:A Live without needing any special anything to pull it off with. I can see the appeal, so long as they don't screw it up.
It was underruns- and I tended to rarely have them...but then, I wasn't using Windows back then for those sorts of tasks. :-D
Actually, it's not a technicality- not even close.
It's a criminal offense in most jurisdictions to do this and it pretty much taints ANY evidence submitted by the source(s) which now must be disregarded by the court. It's called altering evidence, which is intrinsically viewed the same as falsifying it for good reason. If the evidence was valid, why did it need to be "altered"? If it's to protect the parties in question, that's a dirty hands situation, which WOULD have altered the outcome (You can't come running to the courts when you just broke the law yourselves... Typically calls for a motion to dismiss when you have this come out...).
The Judge now can sanction the IFPI/MPAA and their counsel in varying ways including jail time for contempt of court.
Heh... It'll set you back 4-5k per subscriber to roll out 40/20 or similar service to them. Seriously.
Actual connectivity of any kind is not cheap. The telcos shell out that money for urban and suburban areas because they're expecting to see a return on that investment per subscriber in 4-6 years' time or less. They can't expect that in rural areas, so they don't roll this stuff out. The ONLY reason Verizon Wireless is contemplating LTE in the rural areas where they're expecting to blanket the state in LTE coverage is that it's going to be there for the moblie customers anyway.
That's because they don't have the treatment plant in hand and have to have a certain threshold for the Fed funds to kick in to be able to build one- to use your analogy a bit further...
Satellite? Have you ever tried it?
WiFi Internet? Have you ever tried it?
If you've not tried either, you can't say they're solutions.
In the large, they're poor substitutes for LTE, WiMax, or similar solutions unless you're blindingly lucky. (Moreover, they're subsidizing that stuff with Government money (WildBlue's got a government program going that makes it CHEAP to "get online"- too bad it's satellite fraudband...) as well...) Satellite's got utilization issues- there's a reason the people that have it typically have a pet name of fraudband for it. WiFi has range issues and interference issues unless you make a leap to some psuedo-WiFi solution like a Canopy last mile solution, which, then again, isn't cheap to deploy and you're back expensive again. (I've got two Motorola PTP400 units Retail, even now, with the old devices is $12k. I didn't pay that much for them, but that's quite beside the point...)
As for the government paying for it... Yeah, I've a problem with them spending on such an expensive, per subscriber, solution. They probably could go a lot cheaper (about 1/3-1/2 the cost) and do something more akin to what AT&T, Century Link, and Verizon have done and accomplish the same thing. Still pricey, I suspect, for you. WiFi's cheap, yes. But it's in a really, really noisy band (kind of like the SCADA crowd's finding out with the 900MHz ISM band right now...) and you have all sorts of issues with link capacity, even getting link, etc.
Problem is...effective (key word here) Internet connectivity isn't going to be a simple/cheap answer. If it was, the Telcos or Cable companies would've rolled it out even to the rural customers. Now, I'll agree with the gigabit ethernet remarks to a point. Right NOW it approaches zero. If you factor in that once done new applications that WOULD be doing streaming, etc. will be available and they'll think differently about things (Why do you need a voice copper loop, a cable tv loop, etc. when you can ensure communications for hours on both ends more cheaply- and optimize the local loop?) Just as with the electric power story (which was the reason they funded electrification programs, at similar expenses to what we're talking about here with then dollars...with a similar argument to the one you ran with being ran with back then...) you're going to have to come up with some miracle answer to make it have better profit margins or bankroll the initial rollout some other way- otherwise it's just not happening with profit motive alone.
The only problem with the LTE stuff is that while it's fast and rocks for mobile applications, it's still not te same thing as wireline/fiber solutions in latency, etc. It has maybe up to 20-ish down and 7-ish up for max realistic service speeds. This doesn't compare to the 40/20 speeds I'm using right now. Worse, you'll pay nearly the same amount per month for the privilege of the LTE system, be capped at 10Gb or so of use, or be charged something like $10 per Gb of usage either direction.
Simply put, I strongly suspect the 600 actually have the use in mind for those speeds and are willing to shell out $150-250 that vTel's going to be charging for it. The rest? Would YOU pay $150/250 per month for either? I do, but then I'm trying to run a business.
Considering that one COULD peel the content off of the device and put it on via the Media Player filesystem interface or via something like adbfs on Linux, the only issue I've seen with not having a microSD slot is one of getting the data off the device when I change phones.
You might care about this (I was...somewhat...of your opinion with the Galaxy Nexus I'm using right now, but that changed...) but it's nothing of the big deal that you're making of it- especially since it's not all the way you're making it out to be.
That's because of the fact that the phone's a CDMA phone. If you *REALLY* wanted to, you could move from Verizon to Sprint and vice-versa- but they're loath to do those moves because they haven't validated the gear from the other network on their own..
After seeing how several of the big boys run things, there's only really a few that actually have any better handle on it than those that've only been around for 5 years or less.
How many businesses fail in the first year? Most of them. Honestly, some of that "sound" advice you're hinting at did well for Motorola, TI, and a few others- not.
If you look at some of the other companies still doing well in these times, they're doing similar things. First rule of thumb: Put your employees FIRST. They will put your customers there for you. If they're not happy, they'll screw you in so many differing ways it'll be like death by ten thousand paper cuts. All this guy's talking to is this very thing. The gritch about the free dinners thing depends on situations, company, and the like- if it's not a 5-7 days a week thing, and only off-and-on done, it's a positive thing (Otherwise, he's dead on...). I'd have to say the brogrammer gritch is closer to the truth than most would like to own.
Meltdown. That's what happens...
Uh, this is differing from the Beagle in only number of cores, etc. Power consumption's a concern- the fact that this needs a heatsink means it's producing a bit of TDP over the BeagleBone. I couldn't, for example, realistically use this with several of my projects I'm working on because it consumes entirely too much power. For some of the others, it rocks and I'm going to be speccing out one of the higher-end boards for purchase a couple of months from now. This only covers the TDP, there's other aspects of this you're discounting, for what it's worth. Claiming it's shameful is only revealing you're misunderstanding the goals here. Not everything is about compute power like in the Gaming PC world and they fill differing slots in the space.
Considering that there's not really any Open Source GPUs in the ARM SoC space (yet...), it's a valid complaint, but it shouldn't be a show stopper.
To be sure, I'm a bit surprised Qualcomm or ARM hasn't stepped up to that plate- they're selling hardware and the mojo is in the cores themselves. And, in the case of Qualcomm, I'm fairly sure the original IP rights holder (AMD) wouldn't be to touchy about them opening the Adreno up.
Corporate Driven doesn't mean what you think it means (it used to be plan driven too...while being Corporate Driven at the same time...).
You've got unscrupulous people trying to maximize shareseller (not shareholder) value. To do that, you'd have to worry only about next quarter.
Only if you measure CO2. If you measure the REAL pollutants, the ones that'll kill you outright along with other things...they're vastly ahead of us.
Not at 5V. 20V. Moreover, the device in question will have to allow, via negotiation, the jump from the 10W mode to the 100W one. I suspect you'll have to provision the motherboard to go into that mode (if it supports it...) and you'll be on your own to have a supply that sources the voltage, I suspect...