Who would have thought getting free music would have caused such an uproar?
Hasn't the RIAA been filing suits against people for downloading music without paying for it for a decade or so?
Seems like a lot of effort just to get back at a bunch of call center guys who may or may not call you.
I mean, if they kept calling on a daily or even weekly basis, it might would seem reasonable.
I'm really not that suprised. The sheer amount of decisions that we make while driving (which is a pretty complex and chaotic system) is pretty staggering. Not to mention you have local/state/national laws that vary - just to make it a bit more challenging. I really don't forsee driverless cars becoming a reality until local communication between all cars can resolve a lot of problems.
I feel like the age of the security question is slowly become more obsolete due to the sheer amount of facts of our lives that are made public (also any question that revolves around your favorite x is subject to change, making it incredibly difficult to answer these questions if the configuration was done a few years in the past). Either that or they have to become more obscure/tricky. Like in the way that pub quizzes have had to become more clever to prevent people cheating with their smart phones. Which would again, make it even more challenging for even the right person to answer the question.
Hate them or love them, apple has done an incredible job of making themselves the de facto device in several categories. Certainly most slashdotters know the broad categories of tech, but for most people they just know the most discussed one or two. Apple fanboys are still making themselves heard.
I'm not going to be an early adopter, just because I feel like they'll be more of a novelty than anything. But I really enjoy the discreteness that it could provide for meetings and just generally not looking like a douche with your face in your phone all the time. Also, I'd love to see them come out in more vintage styles (basical stainless case with a brown wrist strap).
Naturally, the health/fitness tracking is going to be awesome - I mean a fitbit is about $100 so condensing all the other features with similar into a single piece of wearable tech makes the price look a bit more reasonable. I definitely think this is the best way to enter wearable tech since it isn't so obtrusive as glass (and other head wearables).
In all, I think this can really be the way to start to assimilate wearable tech into society without it being rejected as due to being too extreme and different than the existing social norms.
There is always jobs out there. Really it's better to figure out what style of programming/development you want to do, then go out there and get damn good at those most relevant languages. It's certainly good to tinker in different ones that might fall outside just for excercise and just a new experience. However, focus on you want, build your core and there will always be positions to suit you skills in my opinion.
I really enjoyed the vex robotics kits. They are bit pricy, but are more substantial alternative to the lego mindstorms (which are also quite good). Just another option. They have a basic toolkit to do some autonomous routines but also have the ability to do remote controlled. And lots of sensors and goodies. I used them at a robotics camp at ORNL about 8 years ago. They aren't great for more industrial style robotics, but a neat project to do more advanced erector set style learning/expermenting I though it was most excellent.
Also, there are endless projects with arduino, but it's naturally a bit more technical. So I guess it depends a lot on skill level with electronics programming.
So I'd probably say Lego for the truly basic beginner, Vex for some prior knowledge but wanting a bit more robust system. And then for the well experienced arduino.
I really just feel like if you post it on the internet it's part of the public domain. While I don't particularly like web slide shows, many other people seem to like them. In cases like this, it makes far better sense to have a standard than a ton of variation in functionality.
I occasionally do some work in Fortran (and even rarer with matlab) and arrays that begin with an index of 1. It's so subtle and simple that I have to take a step back and try to reroute my thought process. WHY U NOT START AT 0?!?
While it's nice to know that some look is going to many of principles they present in background and make not-so clever allusions to, BBT is just the standard sitcom formula with a different wrapping. Nothing really new or exciting.
This really made it to the main page of/.
But that aside, thinking a ziplock bag would protect your phone is ridculous (even if you had double wrapped it). That's why they make very nice (and not that exensive) drylok bags that are meant for that sort of thing.
And what it comes down to is that it's absurd for them to keep that much inventory on-hand. And lets be honest, getting a replacement electronic device from warranty/insurance issue would take far longer. The phone industry is far ahead of the rest of the tech world.
I was thinking creative cloud as well. Naturally it's not the FOSS solution, but it's always nice to be able to utilize the tools that you are used to. Though of course it is more expensive in the long run, you get access to everything as well as all of the updates.
I feel like this is basically the same issue as the "Displaying Top Apps" discussion from a while back. There's no great way or perfect rule to solve the issue. You somehow need to make it flexible enough to be able to work for every possible kind of app, but also strict enough to keep out the riff raff. You have to make some kind of judgement to help the user and the developer both... which at some point will annoy both parties. In my experience, it works well enough. Sure it could be better (and also worse), but it seems to do the job well enough.I just feel like by making them stricter it'd have plenty of seen and unforseen consequences.
All the best scams make you feel as though they are helping you... Also, there are greater quantities of users who lack the standard knowledge to be able to see through these. That's the problem with making computing so main stream... it dilutes the depth of knowledge of the system.
Really what it comes down to is that national laws are starting to conflict with people who have never stepped foot in the country. We as a planet are in need of international law reform with regards to copyright and the variety of internet "crimes". But who'd be in charge and all the important bits will be definitely a cause for concern and probably won't happen anytime soon - yay for more politics. But just instances like this highlight the need.
Project work isn't just about coding. You shouldn't wait until you're entirely done with a big piece of the project to adjust all the documentation. Like anything, it should be done in increments. People can't effectively use an application with proper documentation nor can they use a well documented piece of junk software. When developing, you have to weigh the cost of each of these and try to do them at least reasonably well. But you can't just have one, nope nope nope.
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While this is pretty acurate, Continuum was pretty good.
Otherwise, I just see it as a government body trying to throw its weight around... however that just seems quite un-canadian though.
Meh, most people will put a big, thick case on it and it won't even matter.
Who would have thought getting free music would have caused such an uproar? Hasn't the RIAA been filing suits against people for downloading music without paying for it for a decade or so?
Seems like a lot of effort just to get back at a bunch of call center guys who may or may not call you. I mean, if they kept calling on a daily or even weekly basis, it might would seem reasonable.
I'm really not that suprised. The sheer amount of decisions that we make while driving (which is a pretty complex and chaotic system) is pretty staggering. Not to mention you have local/state/national laws that vary - just to make it a bit more challenging. I really don't forsee driverless cars becoming a reality until local communication between all cars can resolve a lot of problems.
I feel like the age of the security question is slowly become more obsolete due to the sheer amount of facts of our lives that are made public (also any question that revolves around your favorite x is subject to change, making it incredibly difficult to answer these questions if the configuration was done a few years in the past). Either that or they have to become more obscure/tricky. Like in the way that pub quizzes have had to become more clever to prevent people cheating with their smart phones. Which would again, make it even more challenging for even the right person to answer the question.
Hate them or love them, apple has done an incredible job of making themselves the de facto device in several categories. Certainly most slashdotters know the broad categories of tech, but for most people they just know the most discussed one or two. Apple fanboys are still making themselves heard.
Really just people trying to ride the coat tails of the fappening. Ermagurd, mad hax!
Naturally, the health/fitness tracking is going to be awesome - I mean a fitbit is about $100 so condensing all the other features with similar into a single piece of wearable tech makes the price look a bit more reasonable. I definitely think this is the best way to enter wearable tech since it isn't so obtrusive as glass (and other head wearables).
In all, I think this can really be the way to start to assimilate wearable tech into society without it being rejected as due to being too extreme and different than the existing social norms.
It's amazing how cheap and effecient microcontrollers have become... who needs a beefy computer when you can have an army of controllers for less!
There is always jobs out there. Really it's better to figure out what style of programming/development you want to do, then go out there and get damn good at those most relevant languages. It's certainly good to tinker in different ones that might fall outside just for excercise and just a new experience. However, focus on you want, build your core and there will always be positions to suit you skills in my opinion.
http://goo.gl/JlX692 Link to the standard vex kit.
Also, there are endless projects with arduino, but it's naturally a bit more technical. So I guess it depends a lot on skill level with electronics programming.
So I'd probably say Lego for the truly basic beginner, Vex for some prior knowledge but wanting a bit more robust system. And then for the well experienced arduino.
I really just feel like if you post it on the internet it's part of the public domain. While I don't particularly like web slide shows, many other people seem to like them. In cases like this, it makes far better sense to have a standard than a ton of variation in functionality.
It's amazing! IT issues getting fixed... I thought programmers just liked to make things worse. Who da thunk it?
I occasionally do some work in Fortran (and even rarer with matlab) and arrays that begin with an index of 1. It's so subtle and simple that I have to take a step back and try to reroute my thought process. WHY U NOT START AT 0?!?
While it's nice to know that some look is going to many of principles they present in background and make not-so clever allusions to, BBT is just the standard sitcom formula with a different wrapping. Nothing really new or exciting.
This really made it to the main page of /.
But that aside, thinking a ziplock bag would protect your phone is ridculous (even if you had double wrapped it). That's why they make very nice (and not that exensive) drylok bags that are meant for that sort of thing.
And what it comes down to is that it's absurd for them to keep that much inventory on-hand. And lets be honest, getting a replacement electronic device from warranty/insurance issue would take far longer. The phone industry is far ahead of the rest of the tech world.
I was thinking creative cloud as well. Naturally it's not the FOSS solution, but it's always nice to be able to utilize the tools that you are used to. Though of course it is more expensive in the long run, you get access to everything as well as all of the updates.
I feel like this is basically the same issue as the "Displaying Top Apps" discussion from a while back. There's no great way or perfect rule to solve the issue. You somehow need to make it flexible enough to be able to work for every possible kind of app, but also strict enough to keep out the riff raff. You have to make some kind of judgement to help the user and the developer both... which at some point will annoy both parties. In my experience, it works well enough. Sure it could be better (and also worse), but it seems to do the job well enough.I just feel like by making them stricter it'd have plenty of seen and unforseen consequences.
All the best scams make you feel as though they are helping you... Also, there are greater quantities of users who lack the standard knowledge to be able to see through these. That's the problem with making computing so main stream... it dilutes the depth of knowledge of the system.
So the document on government censorship of the internet appears to be censored :o I smell a government conspiracy!
Really what it comes down to is that national laws are starting to conflict with people who have never stepped foot in the country. We as a planet are in need of international law reform with regards to copyright and the variety of internet "crimes". But who'd be in charge and all the important bits will be definitely a cause for concern and probably won't happen anytime soon - yay for more politics. But just instances like this highlight the need.
Project work isn't just about coding. You shouldn't wait until you're entirely done with a big piece of the project to adjust all the documentation. Like anything, it should be done in increments. People can't effectively use an application with proper documentation nor can they use a well documented piece of junk software. When developing, you have to weigh the cost of each of these and try to do them at least reasonably well. But you can't just have one, nope nope nope.
So, free hotel rooms for all at the next blackhat conference >:D