It depends, if it's just random people passing by, the chances that you can correlate the conversations back to a particular individual are pretty slim. Not so much when you're recording someone's conversation at multiple points in time and multiple locations (IRC channels in this case) and linking each of those conversations to their identity.
Well, you just hit upon the other benefit of QR codes. "Every mobile phone has a scanner". That's because to recognize a QR code, you can simply process an image taken with any camera. By that virtue, pretty much every camera-equipped is capable of reading QR codes already, they would just need the appropriate software. This should be possible with barcodes too, but of course QR codes contain far more information as well as a handy alignment block to make image registration easier.
You're right. Someone should just be allowed to follow you in public and record all your conversations in a public space on a tape recorder, transcribe them, and then post them online in a searchable database for the world to see. After all, you have no expectation of privacy in a public space, right?
Alive and well, in my opinion. At work I am connected to FreeNode all the time and use it to ask questions in all sorts of open-source software channels. There's also a few general interest channels I hang out in, to catch the occasional interesting conversation. Many channels on FreeNode are very active.
Well, except for slashdot, but that's because I signed up when I was still in high school and didn't really give it much thought. Elsewhere, I use my real name or "kisielk". Why? I figure that in today's world, communication online carries much the same weight as communication offline. I treat it and much the same way, and act with the same degree of responsibility.
_GIGABYTES_ of memory? I find that a little hard to believe. While I agree that Firefox is a memory hog, having gone up to 600 or 800 MB on a few occasions, I've yet to ever see it consume gigabytes of memory in one go.
At my company, we don't have a single Windows machine in sight. Do we miss it? Not at all. Our desktops are all macs, our workstations Linux, our servers are Linux and FreeBSD. After having worked at several companies that used Windows extensively, I can say I have no desire to ever go back to an environment like that. OS X and Linux are just so much more flexible, and have far less management overhead than any Windows environment.
If you are a business (and if you are running a database server, chances are that you are..) and are not paying a professional to configure these things for you, you are just being plain negligent. If I were an investor, I'd be seriously calling these things in to question.
There have been resource fork patches for some time, but somewhat unreliable. Version 3.0 is going to support resource forks (and other types of extended attributes) out of the box. The setup we have been using extracts resource forks to a separate file on the mac and then backs them up alongside the original files. The restore process just performs the reverse. It will be nice once we can switch to rsync 3.0 and get rid of that step.
Funny this should come up. One of my co-workers at the Japanese company where I interned just happened to be from Arkansas, and he's one of the best programmers I know.
That's where the Google Gears technology is supposed to step in and let you bring your content offline. While not yet ready for prime time, I wouldn't be surprised to see it integrated with all the Google Docs applications in the next 6 months.
Google Gears is being added to a number of their applications. It's already in their online newsreader, and rumor has it that it's coming to GMail soon. Google Talk is mine and many people's most used messenger service, and the new flash client released a couple of months back lets you use it in places where you wouldn't be able to use it otherwise. The official client is fairly good apart from some memory leaks, and I can't really think of many other things I'd like to see added to it.
I haven't used most of the others except Blogger. And I don't know how you can say there's no updates to that, since they are constantly adding new modules and stuff to it. For example the recent Feedburner integration.
Presumably many of the things not getting improved and pushed more are those which had some major issues that prevented them from coming out of beta, or were simply not popular. And the labs stuff is just that, experimental things.
I don't buy the whole "employees were diverted from Leopard to iPhone" thing one bit. Surely the development of the iPhone is continuing now in preparation for the next revision, and no doubt development on OS X is also an ongoing effort. It doesn't really make sense to keep switching large numbers of employees between the two projects, or having them work on both simultaneously. Apple has the resources to bring on enough people so that each project has its own team.
I second what someone else said, why not just donate the $10 or $15 to the EFF, do you really need a shirt in return? The whole box is already up to $305 with 9 days left to go. I'm sure it will fetch a pretty good sum by the end.
You apparently haven't used any machines with a good number of devices being initialized by the BIOS. Particularly machines with multiple network interfaces that support PXE booting, RAID and SATA controllers, and some other random devices can take over a minute just to get past the initial BIOS initialization. I manage several servers which take just long to get to the bootloader as they do to actually boot the OS. This gets tedious quickly if you're doing some work on the OS (think kernel updates and testing) which require multiple reboots. Not fun. I'm definitely all for trimming some of the fat off the BIOS.
Not to nit-pick, but the Japanese military is actually called the JSDF (Japan Self Defense Force), and the air division is the JASDF (Japan Air Self Defense Force).
Well, how about this, set up a co-operative publishing group for small Symbian software developers. The individual developer can then license his/her software to the group for distribution and the group will pay the "tax" to Symbian. The group can then be funded by the developers, and you can see that even if you only got a few the fee would quickly be reduced.
I think if you can't even earn or spare $200 a year to cover the cost of your small app development then you need to rethink your business model, personal finances, or _something_. It's really not a massive sum of money.
Well, if you think about it, the whole reason these companies are being held back by the 3rd party components is because the 3rd parties didn't open up their code in the first place. A bit of a catch-22.
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It depends, if it's just random people passing by, the chances that you can correlate the conversations back to a particular individual are pretty slim. Not so much when you're recording someone's conversation at multiple points in time and multiple locations (IRC channels in this case) and linking each of those conversations to their identity.
Well, you just hit upon the other benefit of QR codes. "Every mobile phone has a scanner". That's because to recognize a QR code, you can simply process an image taken with any camera. By that virtue, pretty much every camera-equipped is capable of reading QR codes already, they would just need the appropriate software. This should be possible with barcodes too, but of course QR codes contain far more information as well as a handy alignment block to make image registration easier.
You're right. Someone should just be allowed to follow you in public and record all your conversations in a public space on a tape recorder, transcribe them, and then post them online in a searchable database for the world to see. After all, you have no expectation of privacy in a public space, right?
Alive and well, in my opinion. At work I am connected to FreeNode all the time and use it to ask questions in all sorts of open-source software channels. There's also a few general interest channels I hang out in, to catch the occasional interesting conversation. Many channels on FreeNode are very active.
Well, except for slashdot, but that's because I signed up when I was still in high school and didn't really give it much thought. Elsewhere, I use my real name or "kisielk". Why? I figure that in today's world, communication online carries much the same weight as communication offline. I treat it and much the same way, and act with the same degree of responsibility.
_GIGABYTES_ of memory? I find that a little hard to believe. While I agree that Firefox is a memory hog, having gone up to 600 or 800 MB on a few occasions, I've yet to ever see it consume gigabytes of memory in one go.
At my company, we don't have a single Windows machine in sight. Do we miss it? Not at all. Our desktops are all macs, our workstations Linux, our servers are Linux and FreeBSD. After having worked at several companies that used Windows extensively, I can say I have no desire to ever go back to an environment like that. OS X and Linux are just so much more flexible, and have far less management overhead than any Windows environment.
If you are a business (and if you are running a database server, chances are that you are..) and are not paying a professional to configure these things for you, you are just being plain negligent. If I were an investor, I'd be seriously calling these things in to question.
That's "Oasis 21". Man I miss Nagoya..
I love how comments with the phrase "half-wit toadhead" can get modded insightful here. Reminds me why I keep reading :)
There have been resource fork patches for some time, but somewhat unreliable. Version 3.0 is going to support resource forks (and other types of extended attributes) out of the box. The setup we have been using extracts resource forks to a separate file on the mac and then backs them up alongside the original files. The restore process just performs the reverse. It will be nice once we can switch to rsync 3.0 and get rid of that step.
Funny this should come up. One of my co-workers at the Japanese company where I interned just happened to be from Arkansas, and he's one of the best programmers I know.
That's where the Google Gears technology is supposed to step in and let you bring your content offline. While not yet ready for prime time, I wouldn't be surprised to see it integrated with all the Google Docs applications in the next 6 months.
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Google Gears is being added to a number of their applications. It's already in their online newsreader, and rumor has it that it's coming to GMail soon. Google Talk is mine and many people's most used messenger service, and the new flash client released a couple of months back lets you use it in places where you wouldn't be able to use it otherwise. The official client is fairly good apart from some memory leaks, and I can't really think of many other things I'd like to see added to it.
I haven't used most of the others except Blogger. And I don't know how you can say there's no updates to that, since they are constantly adding new modules and stuff to it. For example the recent Feedburner integration.
Presumably many of the things not getting improved and pushed more are those which had some major issues that prevented them from coming out of beta, or were simply not popular. And the labs stuff is just that, experimental things.
I don't buy the whole "employees were diverted from Leopard to iPhone" thing one bit. Surely the development of the iPhone is continuing now in preparation for the next revision, and no doubt development on OS X is also an ongoing effort. It doesn't really make sense to keep switching large numbers of employees between the two projects, or having them work on both simultaneously. Apple has the resources to bring on enough people so that each project has its own team.
Definitely. This is going to be one of the killer features for our office, which runs entirely Mac desktops.
I second what someone else said, why not just donate the $10 or $15 to the EFF, do you really need a shirt in return? The whole box is already up to $305 with 9 days left to go. I'm sure it will fetch a pretty good sum by the end.
You apparently haven't used any machines with a good number of devices being initialized by the BIOS. Particularly machines with multiple network interfaces that support PXE booting, RAID and SATA controllers, and some other random devices can take over a minute just to get past the initial BIOS initialization. I manage several servers which take just long to get to the bootloader as they do to actually boot the OS. This gets tedious quickly if you're doing some work on the OS (think kernel updates and testing) which require multiple reboots. Not fun. I'm definitely all for trimming some of the fat off the BIOS.
Not to nit-pick, but the Japanese military is actually called the JSDF (Japan Self Defense Force), and the air division is the JASDF (Japan Air Self Defense Force).
You can always take the shortcut and just use "J??" ;)
Well, how about this, set up a co-operative publishing group for small Symbian software developers. The individual developer can then license his/her software to the group for distribution and the group will pay the "tax" to Symbian. The group can then be funded by the developers, and you can see that even if you only got a few the fee would quickly be reduced.
I think if you can't even earn or spare $200 a year to cover the cost of your small app development then you need to rethink your business model, personal finances, or _something_. It's really not a massive sum of money.
Well, if you think about it, the whole reason these companies are being held back by the 3rd party components is because the 3rd parties didn't open up their code in the first place. A bit of a catch-22.
I think there's someone in Redmond who's already called dibs on those.