From the description it sounds pretty much like the handheld device I use that turns 'any surface into a touch screen'. Now it could just be my general germ phobia, but I go out of my way to avoid touching most surfaces in public.. so I am not convinced on that side either. That said, if it will make me more productive by replacing the mouse mentioned above and without interfering with typing, I will give it a try. Am I hopeful? Nope.
I often wonder why people still refer to the USA as 'the land of the free' or even to their president as the 'leader of the free world'. Don't get me wrong; As a non-American I have great respect for the tradition and history of freedom of the country
The issue I think Americans should be concerned about is the fact that countries Poland, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom all have something in common (well, the list is quite long and can be found here ) They are ALL ranked higher than 'The land of the Free' when it comes to freedom of press... and without press freedom, and journalists calling you on your shit - instead of just dishing out celeb gossip and reality TV updates - you are on a slippery slope.
Well, I sure as fuck won't play Hangman in Canada. They'll probably charge you with murder (or some weird sex fetish if the stick drawing looks underage...)
I agree that NO ONE should be able to force you to hand over your account details... I think they should have just had her Facebook account suspended for breaking the T&C's. I could of course be wrong, but don't have to agree that you are over 13 years of age (she was not) when you create a Facebook account?
One would assume that there would be some interesting flex connectors on things like water/ sewage/electrics etc. I did not notice anything in TFA (well, I only glanced OK). On the other hand, I suppose 3cm is not THAT much movement to deal with....
While we're all asking for stuff, how about not making the videos autoplay? It's far more an annoyance than a convenience. I had to track down this mysterious droning voice after I opened up half a dozen Slashdot tabs. I'm trying to avoid doing work covertly here, people!
Unrelated to topic but very good point. I also open tabs from the main/. page and then start reading through them afterwards. The voice-over that suddenly appeared in my earphones in the middle of Rammstein's Du Hast took a while to track down. I would even be happy to have the "don't load and play video unless asked" as a profile setting.
On the Pi, i have to confess that I was one of the people who effectively DDOS'ed the two vendors chosen by RPi. A 10k first run was not nearly enough. I think they would have sold out in the first 5 minutes if the sites did not give up the ghost due to everyone refreshing in the hope that *This* time the page will load.
It is a great project at a great price point and I really hope that schools in Africa etc see the opportunity to get kids interested in programming.
Randi obtains results on the various fields he's interested in debunking not by collecting a representative sample through the offer of independent testing but by dangling the offer of $1,000,000 under the assumption that any opponents he selects will be misguided or fraudsters. This creates an obviously biased self-selecting sample and provides that justice is not seen to be done. Do you deny this?
Well, you could just mention a couple of the examples of fields that you feel he did not get a representative sample from, and the 'real deal' experts in that field that you are aware of that he left out on purpose...
haha, indeed... "more like" is about as close as you can get with the sample size. For some reason it kinda reminds me of a quoteI spotted today on a cloud backup service site:
"ALL drives fail in their lifetime..." Fox.
TFA does not state you get suddenly croak when you hit 114.. That number is more when the odds change.. and the question is why.
quote:
“the odds of a person dying in any given year between the ages of 110 and 113 appear to be about one in two. But by age 114, the chances jump to more like two in three.”
I completely agree that it is moronic to fine / incarcerate someone to a greater degree for linking to files than aggravated assault, manslaughter, armed robbery etc, and that overly long copyright stifles innovation... BUT, I have a small problem with the analogy you made. And it is not a fault of the analogy.
It just made me realise that, at the moment, if I REALLY want or need a car, I have to buy it. If I can’t afford it, I will have to do without it. I can’t just bitch about the manufacturers overcharging for cars. So even if I *would* have purchased a car, if I can now get one for free, I would be stupid to do so. Why would anyone pay for something they can get for legally for free? A fair amount of pirated content can be counted as lost sales, since people would have purchased it if they really wanted it and had no other option.
What are you trying to achieve, how are your teams split up, what kind of collaboration is required. South Africa will have the downside of expensive broadband (due to Telkom monopoly), but it is better than it was a few years ago.
For video conferencing you can do small teams / groups with software like Oovoo, skype etc, or you can buy a decent dedicated system like Lifesize (now owned by Logitech). There are other more well known names in vid conf as well, but that you can just search to find them.
Google docs (or M$ road if you want) will give you mail/storage/collaboration on documents.
A WAN optimiser (Riverbed etc) or at least some form of caching on either side if you want to go the VPN route will also improve performance.
As mentioned by other posts, the most important thing is plenty of communication between different locations. Some form of decent intranet with regular updates, plans, comment posting etc would also not hurt...
Ah yes, but think of the film plots, the remote assassinations/arson/searching your house without warrant... Ok, the last one is not so bad because governments will only do it to protect your safety....
Indeed.
Not only do you have to let it out of your sight/control if you fly, it also comes with a built in way for someone to threaten you or cut off your finger (and use it quickly.. they are not nice to touch once they go cold)
Humans have been there. Humans carry organic matter with them (water, waste etc). So no surprise here in my opinion...
For those wondering about the toilets - From the book called A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts:
But one aspect of weightlessness was so unpleasant was so unpleasant that even the thrill of exploration didn't make up for it. If this marvel of engineering called Apollo had one major design flaw, it was the 'Waste Management System,' perhaps the most euphemistic use of English ever recorded. For urine collection there was a hose with a condom-like fitting at one end which led, by way of a valve, to a vent on the side of the spacecraft. On paper at least, it seemed like a reasonable, if low-tech, way to handle urinating in zero g, assuming you got over your anxiety about connecting yor private parts to the vacuum of space. You roll on the condom, open the valve, and it all goes into the void where it freezes into droplets of ice that are iridescent in the sunlight. One astronaut answered the question "What's the most beautiful sight you ever saw in space?" with "Urine dump at sunset."
In reality, using the urine collector didn't work so well. For one thing, it could be painful. If you opened the valve too soon, some part of the mechanism was liable to poke into the end of your penis, which prevented you from urinating. And at that point, as if to confirm your worst fears, the suction began to pull you in. Now you were being jabbed and pulled at the same time, so you shut the valve, and as the mechanism resealed itself it caught a little piece of you in it. It took only one episode like that to convince you to never let it happen again. Next time you had a strategy: start flowing a split-second before you turn on the valve. But once you began to urinate the condom popped off and out came a flurry of little golden droplets at play in the wonderland, floating around and making your misfortune everybody's misfortune! And in no time at all the whole device reeked; it was an affront to the senses just sitting there.
The astronauts got used to the urine collector, though, and they got used to mopping up afterwards. But there was no getting used to the other part of the Waste Management System. Tucked away in a strange locker was a supply of special plastic bags, each of which resembled a top hat with an adhesive coating on the brim. Each bag had a finger-shaped pocket built into the side of it. When the call came you had to flypaper this thing to your rear end, and then you were supposed to reach in there through the pocket with your finger---after all, nothing falls in zero gravity---and suddenly you were wishing you had never left home. And after you had it in the bag, so to speak, you had one last delightful task: break open a capsule of blue germicide, seal it up in the bag, and knead the contents to make sure they were fully mixed! At best, the operation was an ordeal. In the confined space of the Apollo command module, your crewmates suffered, too. One of the Apollo 7 astronauts said the smell was so bad it woke him out of a deep sleep. When the crew came back they wrote a memo about it: "Get naked, allow an hour, have plenty of tissues handy."
Most people here seem to miss one of the big reasons for this. Just imagine what a pain it would be for you if it was required that you type 2 or 3 Kanji characters at the end of every URL that you type out manually. These are not characters that are generally available on your keyboard and you have to switch they keyboard input to try and type them, or use a software keyboard etc. Even if you are fluent in both languages, it is a pain in the arse.
Add to this the "unfair advantage" which would be based in the genetic make-up of the athlete in question. Some top female athletes have a naturally higher testosterone level than "normal" females, and this gives them a slight advantage; if the difference is too much, then of course it could be artificial (read injected) and you could be disqualified / banned.
Physical characteristics like how tall you are, how quickly your body breaks down muscles that are not used etc. are also down to genetic makeup. Where do you draw the line in what is fair and what is not. I think if you are born (not engineered afterwards) with a defect that gives you an advantage, they should let you compete. So if you are a female but you were born with webbed hands and feet (ok, maybe some gills as well so you don't need to break surface to breathe) and this allows you to swim faster than everyone else... should you be banned to protect Michael Phelps' career? Or just be banned from competing against other woman?
Maybe it is just me, but I would not trust a laptop given to me by the US government.... "Here - please use this for everything you do in the future. We promise this is a standard machine with no additional hardware/software that will keep us informed of what you use it for."
from the nytimes blog linked in the article: "If the netbook is great for using the Internet and has a LONG memory..." 1) Not the best way to critize them for dumbing down a site 2) Appearantly length DOES matter...
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From the description it sounds pretty much like the handheld device I use that turns 'any surface into a touch screen'. Now it could just be my general germ phobia, but I go out of my way to avoid touching most surfaces in public.. so I am not convinced on that side either. That said, if it will make me more productive by replacing the mouse mentioned above and without interfering with typing, I will give it a try. Am I hopeful? Nope.
I often wonder why people still refer to the USA as 'the land of the free' or even to their president as the 'leader of the free world'. Don't get me wrong; As a non-American I have great respect for the tradition and history of freedom of the country
The issue I think Americans should be concerned about is the fact that countries Poland, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom all have something in common (well, the list is quite long and can be found here )
They are ALL ranked higher than 'The land of the Free' when it comes to freedom of press... and without press freedom, and journalists calling you on your shit - instead of just dishing out celeb gossip and reality TV updates - you are on a slippery slope.
But it does not always come cheap. Take a look at the Cabestan Winch Tourbillion watch...
You can also maybe take a look at the APC netshelter cx range...
Well, I sure as fuck won't play Hangman in Canada. They'll probably charge you with murder (or some weird sex fetish if the stick drawing looks underage...)
I agree that NO ONE should be able to force you to hand over your account details... I think they should have just had her Facebook account suspended for breaking the T&C's. I could of course be wrong, but don't have to agree that you are over 13 years of age (she was not) when you create a Facebook account?
One would assume that there would be some interesting flex connectors on things like water/ sewage/electrics etc. I did not notice anything in TFA (well, I only glanced OK). On the other hand, I suppose 3cm is not THAT much movement to deal with....
While we're all asking for stuff, how about not making the videos autoplay? It's far more an annoyance than a convenience. I had to track down this mysterious droning voice after I opened up half a dozen Slashdot tabs. I'm trying to avoid doing work covertly here, people!
Unrelated to topic but very good point. I also open tabs from the main /. page and then start reading through them afterwards. The voice-over that suddenly appeared in my earphones in the middle of Rammstein's Du Hast took a while to track down. I would even be happy to have the "don't load and play video unless asked" as a profile setting.
On the Pi, i have to confess that I was one of the people who effectively DDOS'ed the two vendors chosen by RPi. A 10k first run was not nearly enough. I think they would have sold out in the first 5 minutes if the sites did not give up the ghost due to everyone refreshing in the hope that *This* time the page will load.
It is a great project at a great price point and I really hope that schools in Africa etc see the opportunity to get kids interested in programming.
Randi obtains results on the various fields he's interested in debunking not by collecting a representative sample through the offer of independent testing but by dangling the offer of $1,000,000 under the assumption that any opponents he selects will be misguided or fraudsters. This creates an obviously biased self-selecting sample and provides that justice is not seen to be done. Do you deny this?
Well, you could just mention a couple of the examples of fields that you feel he did not get a representative sample from, and the 'real deal' experts in that field that you are aware of that he left out on purpose...
haha, indeed... "more like" is about as close as you can get with the sample size. For some reason it kinda reminds me of a quoteI spotted today on a cloud backup service site:
"ALL drives fail in their lifetime..." Fox.
TFA does not state you get suddenly croak when you hit 114.. That number is more when the odds change.. and the question is why.
quote:
“the odds of a person dying in any given year between the ages of 110 and 113 appear to be about one in two. But by age 114, the chances jump to more like two in three.”
I completely agree that it is moronic to fine / incarcerate someone to a greater degree for linking to files than aggravated assault, manslaughter, armed robbery etc, and that overly long copyright stifles innovation... BUT, I have a small problem with the analogy you made. And it is not a fault of the analogy.
It just made me realise that, at the moment, if I REALLY want or need a car, I have to buy it. If I can’t afford it, I will have to do without it. I can’t just bitch about the manufacturers overcharging for cars. So even if I *would* have purchased a car, if I can now get one for free, I would be stupid to do so. Why would anyone pay for something they can get for legally for free? A fair amount of pirated content can be counted as lost sales, since people would have purchased it if they really wanted it and had no other option.
Apparently quite well – I’ve checked a few reviews on the product and all three people gave it 5 stars and called it AWESOME!!
What are you trying to achieve, how are your teams split up, what kind of collaboration is required. South Africa will have the downside of expensive broadband (due to Telkom monopoly), but it is better than it was a few years ago.
For video conferencing you can do small teams / groups with software like Oovoo, skype etc, or you can buy a decent dedicated system like Lifesize (now owned by Logitech). There are other more well known names in vid conf as well, but that you can just search to find them. Google docs (or M$ road if you want) will give you mail/storage/collaboration on documents.
A WAN optimiser (Riverbed etc) or at least some form of caching on either side if you want to go the VPN route will also improve performance. As mentioned by other posts, the most important thing is plenty of communication between different locations. Some form of decent intranet with regular updates, plans, comment posting etc would also not hurt...
Ah yes, but think of the film plots, the remote assassinations/arson/searching your house without warrant... Ok, the last one is not so bad because governments will only do it to protect your safety....
Indeed.
Not only do you have to let it out of your sight/control if you fly, it also comes with a built in way for someone to threaten you or cut off your finger (and use it quickly.. they are not nice to touch once they go cold)
maybe next time they will have a team of professional cannibals have a go...
I mutter "Oh god..." all the time when it spins its wheels while trying to make things shiny instead of making things happen...
Humans have been there. Humans carry organic matter with them (water, waste etc). So no surprise here in my opinion...
For those wondering about the toilets - From the book called A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts:
But one aspect of weightlessness was so unpleasant was so unpleasant that even the thrill of exploration didn't make up for it. If this marvel of engineering called Apollo had one major design flaw, it was the 'Waste Management System,' perhaps the most euphemistic use of English ever recorded. For urine collection there was a hose with a condom-like fitting at one end which led, by way of a valve, to a vent on the side of the spacecraft. On paper at least, it seemed like a reasonable, if low-tech, way to handle urinating in zero g, assuming you got over your anxiety about connecting yor private parts to the vacuum of space. You roll on the condom, open the valve, and it all goes into the void where it freezes into droplets of ice that are iridescent in the sunlight. One astronaut answered the question "What's the most beautiful sight you ever saw in space?" with "Urine dump at sunset."
In reality, using the urine collector didn't work so well. For one thing, it could be painful. If you opened the valve too soon, some part of the mechanism was liable to poke into the end of your penis, which prevented you from urinating. And at that point, as if to confirm your worst fears, the suction began to pull you in. Now you were being jabbed and pulled at the same time, so you shut the valve, and as the mechanism resealed itself it caught a little piece of you in it. It took only one episode like that to convince you to never let it happen again. Next time you had a strategy: start flowing a split-second before you turn on the valve. But once you began to urinate the condom popped off and out came a flurry of little golden droplets at play in the wonderland, floating around and making your misfortune everybody's misfortune! And in no time at all the whole device reeked; it was an affront to the senses just sitting there.
The astronauts got used to the urine collector, though, and they got used to mopping up afterwards. But there was no getting used to the other part of the Waste Management System. Tucked away in a strange locker was a supply of special plastic bags, each of which resembled a top hat with an adhesive coating on the brim. Each bag had a finger-shaped pocket built into the side of it. When the call came you had to flypaper this thing to your rear end, and then you were supposed to reach in there through the pocket with your finger---after all, nothing falls in zero gravity---and suddenly you were wishing you had never left home. And after you had it in the bag, so to speak, you had one last delightful task: break open a capsule of blue germicide, seal it up in the bag, and knead the contents to make sure they were fully mixed! At best, the operation was an ordeal. In the confined space of the Apollo command module, your crewmates suffered, too. One of the Apollo 7 astronauts said the smell was so bad it woke him out of a deep sleep. When the crew came back they wrote a memo about it: "Get naked, allow an hour, have plenty of tissues handy."
Most people here seem to miss one of the big reasons for this. Just imagine what a pain it would be for you if it was required that you type 2 or 3 Kanji characters at the end of every URL that you type out manually. These are not characters that are generally available on your keyboard and you have to switch they keyboard input to try and type them, or use a software keyboard etc. Even if you are fluent in both languages, it is a pain in the arse.
Add to this the "unfair advantage" which would be based in the genetic make-up of the athlete in question. Some top female athletes have a naturally higher testosterone level than "normal" females, and this gives them a slight advantage; if the difference is too much, then of course it could be artificial (read injected) and you could be disqualified / banned.
Physical characteristics like how tall you are, how quickly your body breaks down muscles that are not used etc. are also down to genetic makeup. Where do you draw the line in what is fair and what is not. I think if you are born (not engineered afterwards) with a defect that gives you an advantage, they should let you compete. So if you are a female but you were born with webbed hands and feet (ok, maybe some gills as well so you don't need to break surface to breathe) and this allows you to swim faster than everyone else... should you be banned to protect Michael Phelps' career? Or just be banned from competing against other woman?
Maybe it is just me, but I would not trust a laptop given to me by the US government.... "Here - please use this for everything you do in the future. We promise this is a standard machine with no additional hardware/software that will keep us informed of what you use it for."
Damn.. was trying to say "criticize"... Don't post and talk on the phone at the same time.
Multi-tasking is for females (or so i am told).
from the nytimes blog linked in the article:
"If the netbook is great for using the Internet and has a LONG memory..."
1) Not the best way to critize them for dumbing down a site
2) Appearantly length DOES matter...
As long as there is a scapegoat no one will suspect the hero...