Set up IceComm on a web site that only you and your kids can access, and give them the Chrome browser with a bookmark to go there at scheduled times.. https://icecomm.io/
Very easy to set up server less video conferencing. Add a bit of TogetherJS to the mix and you've got realtime chat as well - without needing to install anything on any local computers besides the Chrome browser.
I use IceComm on my main server as the 'front door' to my business - I have a browser sitting on my front door all day, and whenever clients visit I'm ready for them. Its just like having a virtual front door to the business.. very handy and very care-free for the customers.
I agree: Lua is absolutely one of the best things to be teaching high school students. You can either sit entirely in the Lua language itself, or you can learn to extend the capabilities of the VM and interface with outside libraries and frameworks.
I think the big elephant in the room is more to be found further upstream, in the area of manufacturing. Worrying about software hacks is one thing - not having the faintest absolute clue exactly *what* is inside the chip package is something else entirely. Think its an accumulator bank? Oh sorry, maybe we forgot to mention the harmonic bundles associated with wave guidance within the interstitial distances of the rapidly blinking transistors.. yeah, those can be read from space. With a satellite (or 12).
The game is over folks, or rather.. the game is on, depending on how you look at it. Until you are capable of investigating and participating, directly, in the sub-assemblies, you will always have a weak back door. Either we, ultimately, become able to assemble our own chips on the desktop, or there will always be a power class: those who can build such devices, and those who can only be ruled by them.
We need to evolve to adapt to this new threat to the species, and instead of seriously *resisting* its effects on our being, we - the true power - direct the feature to our favour. If, out of the NSA catastrophe, we gain a "New Internet" wherein *everything, everywhere* for 15 years, was available to everyone, then we'd have indeed a new era in the human species. A truly evolutionary step, made by mistake - perhaps.
The problem is OEMs have no incentive to put money into handsets they sold two years ago.
The OEMs should be profiting from their own app stores.. profits being driven from their customers. That they don't get this yet is hugely disappointing.. appstores - and naturally, software updates - are of huge interest to "next-gen" cell users.. but the carriers just don't want to get into it.
I suppose its because of the draconian US laws about content delivery over telephone networks, in the end, though..
I love Robotron, play it regularly, Defender too.. In fact this is a list of games on my WIZ console, which is running pretty much MAME exclusively these days:
I wouldn't be so quick to jump on the SmartQ7.. the OS pretty much blows, and there are power-management issues.. the device is rather prone to suddenly shutting down if you don't play with the right buttons for a while (15 minutes), and really.. the OS is pretty bad. It'll be much more ready for prime-time when a full Android or Mer port is completed.. in the meantime, if you get one, be prepared to put up with a very weird, Chinese, Ubuntu hack..
-- Hey, he can keep his blackberry, but only use it in the Oval office.
-- He keeps his blackberry, takes it with him, but it is open and public and well-maintained, and he shares it a lot with whoever he's with.. while also having his Sectera along for the ride, too.
Hey, come to think of it, he's the President now. Why doesn't he just get someone to **make** him the perfect wirehead rig, eh..
Something that people overlook is that there are liquids that can be used to bring down a plane which are *not* explosive, but in fact CORROSIVE. Just a few drops in the right place and wham! the wings are off their hinges, so to speak..
Battery life is said to be between 10 to 12 hours of normal usage..
I ordered one. Can't wait to get it, as its got a lot of power and will make a superlative machine for developing music/synthesis/effects application.. plus the odd game or two, of course, lol..
For those saying "It will Never Take Off", so? As long as Craig&Co. can make a tidy profit selling it as a niche item, it will be awesome anyway - the hardware itself is superlative, and the development scene for this console is like nothing else - even if they only sell a few thousand, thats at least going to give a few thousand people an awesome system to play with.
Don't forget: its totally open. So it won't "die" as long as there are people willing to get one and code for it, for their own purposes. Gizmondo and all that: dead coz Joe Blow Hacker can't code for it, easily. Pandora: Very, very easy to write code for it, so even if there are no commercial entities getting behind it as a mainstream console, it will still be highly useful to those who bought it..
It could just as easily run on Chorus? Cool, then this *is* an API war, and the only ones really winning are, of course, the hardware vendors.
Wake me up when Android can run on an iPhone, and when iPhoneOS runs on OpenPandora, and then we can get all excited. Right now, this is just a fluff piece.
Yes, thats right, I want a full compiler and development environment, first and foremost.. gcc, gdb, as, ld, cscope, vim, grep, python.. *minimum*..
2: FULL SOURCE ONBOARD.. and then I want the full source for the complete system onboard as well, so that I can run 'cscope -R -b' on/usr/src and have a fully working, 100% open source system, with its source on board, on a USB stick. Everything configured already so that 'make install' goes to my working image, etc.
No, don't bother arguing with me.. I'm already working on it..
Its good for musicians, dude. Think about it - you want to create a nice software synth. Do you only allow the player to modulate one parameter at a time (as is the case now with mouse-based soft synths) or should there be more performance? The performance is the key..
I've still got my PJB-100, its in use at home as a - wait for it - personal jukebox in the shelf.. very nice machine, and frankly I like the servicability of this device more than my ipod Video.. the PJB is far easier to open, upgrade the hard disk, replace the battery.. seems like things have taken a step backwards, actually, in terms of design. Apart from the screen, the PJB still does just as well as my iPods do..
Both. Its easier and easier to generate content, and its easier and easier to distribute it. Why should there be false scarcities on art, when in fact anyone can make music, and anyone can listen to it?
Once, there were horses, and they were the only way to get around town. All the horse-maintainers, the shodders and such, were in business and there was a grand economy.
Then, some new technology came to the scene: the automobile. "Oh noes", the shodders cried, "our economy is going to be ruined.."
The moral of this story is: technology. It will force change. Either keep up with it, or remove yourself from the market. Music doesn't have to be paid for - not any more, and no longer will we have to worship the few and provide them economic sustenance, so that they are only able to do it, when the many can do it, themselves.
In short, grow up music-industry people. Your world is changing. All worlds change. Let the people decide what life will be, and quite crying just because you didn't see the writing on the wall.
Yes, this applies to all media/content related markets. The writing is on the wall. The only way to protect your media is to put it in hardware - books are a good example - that makes it pleasant for people to buy it from you. The world needs us all to go digital and stop raping the earth, just so the few can profit from the ignorance of the many. Let the horses back to the fields..
The only way there's going to be the attention it deserves, is if the allegations are addressed in a legal court of law. The court of public opinion *obviously* won't get to the root of the matter, and the secret dealings of the government will definitely not get to it.
Demand Justice, Americans! Deny those who seek to cover their crimes the right to do so, whether they are government or otherwise!
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Set up IceComm on a web site that only you and your kids can access, and give them the Chrome browser with a bookmark to go there at scheduled times .. https://icecomm.io/
Very easy to set up server less video conferencing. Add a bit of TogetherJS to the mix and you've got realtime chat as well - without needing to install anything on any local computers besides the Chrome browser.
I use IceComm on my main server as the 'front door' to my business - I have a browser sitting on my front door all day, and whenever clients visit I'm ready for them. Its just like having a virtual front door to the business .. very handy and very care-free for the customers.
I agree: Lua is absolutely one of the best things to be teaching high school students. You can either sit entirely in the Lua language itself, or you can learn to extend the capabilities of the VM and interface with outside libraries and frameworks.
I think the big elephant in the room is more to be found further upstream, in the area of manufacturing. Worrying about software hacks is one thing - not having the faintest absolute clue exactly *what* is inside the chip package is something else entirely. Think its an accumulator bank? Oh sorry, maybe we forgot to mention the harmonic bundles associated with wave guidance within the interstitial distances of the rapidly blinking transistors .. yeah, those can be read from space. With a satellite (or 12).
The game is over folks, or rather .. the game is on, depending on how you look at it. Until you are capable of investigating and participating, directly, in the sub-assemblies, you will always have a weak back door. Either we, ultimately, become able to assemble our own chips on the desktop, or there will always be a power class: those who can build such devices, and those who can only be ruled by them.
We need to evolve to adapt to this new threat to the species, and instead of seriously *resisting* its effects on our being, we - the true power - direct the feature to our favour. If, out of the NSA catastrophe, we gain a "New Internet" wherein *everything, everywhere* for 15 years, was available to everyone, then we'd have indeed a new era in the human species. A truly evolutionary step, made by mistake - perhaps.
The problem is OEMs have no incentive to put money into handsets they sold two years ago.
The OEMs should be profiting from their own app stores .. profits being driven from their customers. That they don't get this yet is hugely disappointing .. appstores - and naturally, software updates - are of huge interest to "next-gen" cell users .. but the carriers just don't want to get into it.
I suppose its because of the draconian US laws about content delivery over telephone networks, in the end, though ..
I love Robotron, play it regularly, Defender too .. In fact this is a list of games on my WIZ console, which is running pretty much MAME exclusively these days:
Robotron
Defender
Scramble
Moon Buggy
Crazy Climber
Crazy Climber 2
Juno First
Pleiades
Pisces
Exerion
Currently, I just can't stop playing Juno First .. love it so much, I'm considering doing a 'tribute/remake' for iPhone ..
I wouldn't be so quick to jump on the SmartQ7 .. the OS pretty much blows, and there are power-management issues .. the device is rather prone to suddenly shutting down if you don't play with the right buttons for a while (15 minutes), and really .. the OS is pretty bad. It'll be much more ready for prime-time when a full Android or Mer port is completed .. in the meantime, if you get one, be prepared to put up with a very weird, Chinese, Ubuntu hack ..
-- Hey, he can keep his blackberry, but only use it in the Oval office.
-- He keeps his blackberry, takes it with him, but it is open and public and well-maintained, and he shares it a lot with whoever he's with .. while also having his Sectera along for the ride, too.
Hey, come to think of it, he's the President now. Why doesn't he just get someone to **make** him the perfect wirehead rig, eh ..
.. this will be my *last* MacBook.
I wish someone else from the 90's would make laptops as cool as Apple though ..
Something that people overlook is that there are liquids that can be used to bring down a plane which are *not* explosive, but in fact CORROSIVE. Just a few drops in the right place and wham! the wings are off their hinges, so to speak ..
Wouldn't it be more "Pics or [it, not it] didn't happen"?
Heh heh .. yeah.. Thats what I meant. Its the machinest.
Battery life is said to be between 10 to 12 hours of normal usage ..
I ordered one. Can't wait to get it, as its got a lot of power and will make a superlative machine for developing music/synthesis/effects application .. plus the odd game or two, of course, lol ..
For those saying "It will Never Take Off", so? As long as Craig&Co. can make a tidy profit selling it as a niche item, it will be awesome anyway - the hardware itself is superlative, and the development scene for this console is like nothing else - even if they only sell a few thousand, thats at least going to give a few thousand people an awesome system to play with.
Don't forget: its totally open. So it won't "die" as long as there are people willing to get one and code for it, for their own purposes. Gizmondo and all that: dead coz Joe Blow Hacker can't code for it, easily. Pandora: Very, very easy to write code for it, so even if there are no commercial entities getting behind it as a mainstream console, it will still be highly useful to those who bought it ..
It could just as easily run on Chorus? Cool, then this *is* an API war, and the only ones really winning are, of course, the hardware vendors.
Wake me up when Android can run on an iPhone, and when iPhoneOS runs on OpenPandora, and then we can get all excited. Right now, this is just a fluff piece.
Hey buddy, the Desktop war is *over*, Linux is running Trains and Mining equipment now, yo .. not Windows.
1: Complete Development Toolkit
Yes, thats right, I want a full compiler and development environment, first and foremost
2: FULL SOURCE ONBOARD
No, don't bother arguing with me
Its good for musicians, dude. Think about it - you want to create a nice software synth. Do you only allow the player to modulate one parameter at a time (as is the case now with mouse-based soft synths) or should there be more performance? The performance is the key ..
I've still got my PJB-100, its in use at home as a - wait for it - personal jukebox in the shelf .. very nice machine, and frankly I like the servicability of this device more than my ipod Video .. the PJB is far easier to open, upgrade the hard disk, replace the battery .. seems like things have taken a step backwards, actually, in terms of design. Apart from the screen, the PJB still does just as well as my iPods do ..
Wanna give me a quick howto on doing this on the EEEPC? I'd love to do this with mine .. any particular gotchas?
I can imagine seeing this in use with soft synths and plugins in a studio environment .. finally!
Both. Its easier and easier to generate content, and its easier and easier to distribute it. Why should there be false scarcities on art, when in fact anyone can make music, and anyone can listen to it?
Once, there were horses, and they were the only way to get around town. All the horse-maintainers, the shodders and such, were in business and there was a grand economy.
..
Then, some new technology came to the scene: the automobile. "Oh noes", the shodders cried, "our economy is going to be ruined.."
The moral of this story is: technology. It will force change. Either keep up with it, or remove yourself from the market. Music doesn't have to be paid for - not any more, and no longer will we have to worship the few and provide them economic sustenance, so that they are only able to do it, when the many can do it, themselves.
In short, grow up music-industry people. Your world is changing. All worlds change. Let the people decide what life will be, and quite crying just because you didn't see the writing on the wall.
Yes, this applies to all media/content related markets. The writing is on the wall. The only way to protect your media is to put it in hardware - books are a good example - that makes it pleasant for people to buy it from you. The world needs us all to go digital and stop raping the earth, just so the few can profit from the ignorance of the many. Let the horses back to the fields
The only way there's going to be the attention it deserves, is if the allegations are addressed in a legal court of law. The court of public opinion *obviously* won't get to the root of the matter, and the secret dealings of the government will definitely not get to it.
Demand Justice, Americans! Deny those who seek to cover their crimes the right to do so, whether they are government or otherwise!
Or the TV show which has its own charm too .. such as the best Marvin you're likely to ever see ..