I was researching this weekend, I can't seem to find out if the project is still alive. It looked well designed in 2010, and I'm not sure if it's using the Tor network (bad), or just the Tor protocol for its own network( good).
When you reduce the functionality, the battery life goes up dramatically. With the small displays, there's little value in having a lot of features. Just the basics, and the ability to interface with other peripherals.
I don't understand this. Why would you take your inconvenient, expensive to upgrade, battery-sucking tablet and put your SIM card inside it? Then bring a smaller device in case it's too inconvenient to take out your smartphone?
Why not have a small phone with great battery life and core features, then just use it as a hotspot for a tablet? I was looking at wristwatch phones and none of them seem to do this. There's even the new Pebble http://getpebble.com/... which is a wristwatch UI for your fat phone.
This whole trend is backwards. Put the phone on our wrists and let us carry an optional tablet, handset or earpiece.
There were a lot of lemon thinkpads in IBM's history. The iSeries was spectacularly crappy. The 570 was flimsy, the 760 line would burn your legs if you used it as a laptop. The crap coming out of Lenovo these days isn't much worse than the worst of IBM's history, so I'm still reserving judgement.
Thinkpads were never a sure thing. You had to know that the line was good before you bought.
Before Lenovo though, the thinkpad X and T models were a rare run of excellence. After Lenovo, they were merely okay. Hopefully they fix it.
The films and TV series are interesting in their historical context.
The original three Star Wars films were heavily influenced by WW2. The rise of an Imperial power through force and the struggle against them set the tone for the film.
The setting of the original Star Trek series was heavily influenced by WW2 too... submarine warfare and military command structures. Star Trek used sci-fi as a vehicle to discuss social issues. This goes back to their production company, which was really led by Lucille Ball... a very smart woman who had a social conscience and recognized the value of the show.
ST TNG was created in a time of established superpowers and relative peace. It was as though they needed to change the setting to be closer to the newspaper headlines of the day. Maybe it made the writing more relevant.
The next three Star Wars films were the disorganized ramblings of an old man with a big head. It dropped the WW2 influence. Reintroduced some racist stereotypes in film and I think had some difficulty reconciling the fact that the Imperial power trying to organize the galaxy through force was mostly the U.S. today.
The re-launching of the ST franchise reflects the modern times too. A population mostly obsessed with violence and little experience of it, we're escaping modern issues and instead ramping up the violence in film and looking to the past for interesting plots.
The new Star Wars films can't be interesting because the Jedi are effectively terrorists against the empire. It's too hard to put that in mainstream theatres, so instead it will be a nonsense hyperviolent character drama with enormous plot holes. That's what people want. Just like ST.
But at least Lucas won't be butchering it any more.
He crossed the line when he leeched the full database. It was unprofessional, malicious and potentially was motivated by personal gain. He didn't need to do that to prove there was a problem.
Leeching then apologising, saying that you wanted to see the extent of the vulnerability, that's bad. Sending the output to reporters, that's just stupid.
If he was an "activist", he could have put it up on Wikileaks, skipped out on the credit, called himself "Anonymous" and be done. But it seems he wanted his name to be known.
Penny-ante hack too... they left the door open and he took copies of everything he found.
" I took a sample of the API output to a journalist at Gawker."
"I did this because I despised people I think are unjustly wealthy and wanted to embarass them."
"...We were able to establish the authenticity of Goatse Security's data through two people who were listed among the 114,000 names. "
I share his dislike for the telcos... but "Oh look, a leak", then "I'm pulling all the records and sending it to the media" is not responsible disclosure.
" it might be possible to spoof a device on the network or even intercept traffic using the ICC ID."
He was wrong, but despite thinking the breach were more serious than a privacy issue, he still published the information, then speculated on nefarious uses to reporters.
That said, it does not warrant the prosecution... his actions were only unethical.
I was warned while travelling on busses in some 3rd world countries, that thieves will sometimes put a child in a suitcase and place them in the hold under the bus. Then when the bus is in motion, he'll come out of the suitcase, and proceed to open, search and close bags exactly like this. At borders, they can stash drugs in your bag, using you as a mule.
The padlock on the zipper is a false sense of security. Worse, zipper locks are conspicuous and make it seem like you're carrying valuables.
Locks are only really good for lockers, and for making it conspicuous that somebody shouldn't be handling your bag e.g., locking your bag in a shared room where people go in and out, or when you're sleeping on a bench in an airport. Always hide the lock under a t-shirt, hat or something. Even in those cases, locks aren't to protect valuables, just the nuisance of replacing your stuff.
It seems that the only way to prove beyond any doubt that global warming is an issue, is to run a full scale simulation through the course. Which is good, because we have one.
Can you imagine an architect you can lay out blueprints on a large drafting table monitor? Where many people can stand around it?
Nowhere to put my notebook and coffee during the meeting.
But I agree with you. Touchscreens make an awesome secondary input device for a laptop. Less bulky than a Wacom too. The same value can be found on desktops, although it might wind up being a smaller, secondary tablet rather than touching your large, primary monitor.
Why limit ourselves to one pointing device, when each device has pros, cons and different levels of fidelity? Some people already have mice, touchpads and Wacom tablets on the same machine. Each serves its own purpose.
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In 9 years, you didn't expect somebody to come up with the same idea?
This sounds like anomos: http://anomos.info/
I was researching this weekend, I can't seem to find out if the project is still alive. It looked well designed in 2010, and I'm not sure if it's using the Tor network (bad), or just the Tor protocol for its own network( good).
Most people in Iran are "Muslim" even if they're not. It's an Islamic republic. If you're not Muslim, you miss out on stuff.
Conversion from Islam is punishable by death btw. Crazy government.
Blackberries aren't small, don't have a great battery life and without BES, barely let you sync your address book.
"a great battery doesn't fit into your phone."
My Nokia C40 lasts 7 days on a single charge.
When you reduce the functionality, the battery life goes up dramatically. With the small displays, there's little value in having a lot of features. Just the basics, and the ability to interface with other peripherals.
I don't understand this. Why would you take your inconvenient, expensive to upgrade, battery-sucking tablet and put your SIM card inside it? Then bring a smaller device in case it's too inconvenient to take out your smartphone?
Why not have a small phone with great battery life and core features, then just use it as a hotspot for a tablet? I was looking at wristwatch phones and none of them seem to do this. There's even the new Pebble http://getpebble.com/... which is a wristwatch UI for your fat phone.
This whole trend is backwards. Put the phone on our wrists and let us carry an optional tablet, handset or earpiece.
There will always be lost energy. It's impossible to get around that.
As long as it doesn't ice-up or overheat within the confines of the heating and cooling systems of the car, it's only an engineering problem.
And fire is gas cooling through convection and radiation while being released in a chemical chain reaction.
It's weird to talk that way.
There were a lot of lemon thinkpads in IBM's history. The iSeries was spectacularly crappy. The 570 was flimsy, the 760 line would burn your legs if you used it as a laptop. The crap coming out of Lenovo these days isn't much worse than the worst of IBM's history, so I'm still reserving judgement.
Thinkpads were never a sure thing. You had to know that the line was good before you bought.
Before Lenovo though, the thinkpad X and T models were a rare run of excellence. After Lenovo, they were merely okay. Hopefully they fix it.
The films and TV series are interesting in their historical context.
The original three Star Wars films were heavily influenced by WW2. The rise of an Imperial power through force and the struggle against them set the tone for the film.
The setting of the original Star Trek series was heavily influenced by WW2 too... submarine warfare and military command structures. Star Trek used sci-fi as a vehicle to discuss social issues. This goes back to their production company, which was really led by Lucille Ball... a very smart woman who had a social conscience and recognized the value of the show.
ST TNG was created in a time of established superpowers and relative peace. It was as though they needed to change the setting to be closer to the newspaper headlines of the day. Maybe it made the writing more relevant.
The next three Star Wars films were the disorganized ramblings of an old man with a big head. It dropped the WW2 influence. Reintroduced some racist stereotypes in film and I think had some difficulty reconciling the fact that the Imperial power trying to organize the galaxy through force was mostly the U.S. today.
The re-launching of the ST franchise reflects the modern times too. A population mostly obsessed with violence and little experience of it, we're escaping modern issues and instead ramping up the violence in film and looking to the past for interesting plots.
The new Star Wars films can't be interesting because the Jedi are effectively terrorists against the empire. It's too hard to put that in mainstream theatres, so instead it will be a nonsense hyperviolent character drama with enormous plot holes. That's what people want. Just like ST.
But at least Lucas won't be butchering it any more.
He crossed the line when he leeched the full database. It was unprofessional, malicious and potentially was motivated by personal gain. He didn't need to do that to prove there was a problem.
Leeching then apologising, saying that you wanted to see the extent of the vulnerability, that's bad. Sending the output to reporters, that's just stupid.
If he was an "activist", he could have put it up on Wikileaks, skipped out on the credit, called himself "Anonymous" and be done. But it seems he wanted his name to be known.
Penny-ante hack too... they left the door open and he took copies of everything he found.
It looks like he was already nuking.
" I took a sample of the API output to a journalist at Gawker."
"I did this because I despised people I think are unjustly wealthy and wanted to embarass them."
"...We were able to establish the authenticity of Goatse Security's data through two people who were listed among the 114,000 names. "
I share his dislike for the telcos... but "Oh look, a leak", then "I'm pulling all the records and sending it to the media" is not responsible disclosure.
" it might be possible to spoof a device on the network or even intercept traffic using the ICC ID."
He was wrong, but despite thinking the breach were more serious than a privacy issue, he still published the information, then speculated on nefarious uses to reporters.
That said, it does not warrant the prosecution... his actions were only unethical.
Apple is a computer hardware company which moved into consumer electronics and services.
If they really sold software, they'd market MacOS as a Windows replacement. Their strong proprietary model and walled garden has always impaired MacOS's market penetration. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems.
Their proprietary OS keeps them from being screwed by a third party.
There are lots of religious people out there who would tar "athiests" with the same brush.
I was warned while travelling on busses in some 3rd world countries, that thieves will sometimes put a child in a suitcase and place them in the hold under the bus. Then when the bus is in motion, he'll come out of the suitcase, and proceed to open, search and close bags exactly like this. At borders, they can stash drugs in your bag, using you as a mule.
The padlock on the zipper is a false sense of security. Worse, zipper locks are conspicuous and make it seem like you're carrying valuables.
Locks are only really good for lockers, and for making it conspicuous that somebody shouldn't be handling your bag e.g., locking your bag in a shared room where people go in and out, or when you're sleeping on a bench in an airport. Always hide the lock under a t-shirt, hat or something. Even in those cases, locks aren't to protect valuables, just the nuisance of replacing your stuff.
Or... cut pin 1 and 3 on your VGA connector: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VGA_connector
Alt-tab works in last-used order. Ctrl-Tab is normally sequential (but IMHO, should be last-used too).
For some people, telling people who joke to take a long, hard look at themselves is their coping mechanism. It shouldn't be taken away from them.
I cope by telling people who tell people who tell them to take a long hard look at themselves to lighten up, to take things a little less unseriously.
There are people trying to mourn here. We can all do it in our own screwed up way. Screwed up mourning is a fitting tribute to a cofounder of Reddit.
Poor guy.
The trick is to write better code from the original requirements, smeared over years of requirement changes, and not from the existing source code.
Source code is an excellent requirements doc for the next reimplementation. But actually reimplementing it is just stupid. Especially if it works.
The guy is inexperienced and being an ass.
It seems that the only way to prove beyond any doubt that global warming is an issue, is to run a full scale simulation through the course. Which is good, because we have one.
It's bad because we're part of that simulation.
Unless it's the other way around...
Maybe adults say "Jimmy likes Harry Potter", and then buy him the set?
It wasn't working because the Legos were too expensive. Few people care about the models. It's a building toy. You get a shoebox of them and build.
The models and cross-licensing lets them sell fewer legos for more money, but they have to pay royalties, so I don't know what the point is.
That's extra weird when drywall, studs, flooring, doors and windows are imperial.
Proximity and trade with the U.S. kind of messes with Canada's metric system.
Unless you're dealing with glass. Then its thickness is in mm and its width and height is in inches.
Nowhere to put my notebook and coffee during the meeting.
But I agree with you. Touchscreens make an awesome secondary input device for a laptop. Less bulky than a Wacom too. The same value can be found on desktops, although it might wind up being a smaller, secondary tablet rather than touching your large, primary monitor.
Why limit ourselves to one pointing device, when each device has pros, cons and different levels of fidelity? Some people already have mice, touchpads and Wacom tablets on the same machine. Each serves its own purpose.