Since Cody is a student of law in Texas. So, since it's Texas there's almost certainly no legal issue here and since he's a law student he'd stand a pretty good chance of knowing one way or another anyway.
I seriously hope you're kidding here. Sometimes Supreme Court justices have trouble determining what the law is. They have decades of experience. IIRC Cody has just started his second year of school. That means he understands things like the elementary foundations of the legal system.
I'd hope he's not giving the project any legal advice either. Unless he's been admitted to the State Bar, that could have serious consequences for his future legal career.
Even though we have much fewer cyclists in the US, it is the same with their disrespect for traffic laws.
It's astonishing, isn't it.
You would think cyclists in the US would take heed from the millions of motorists motorists who lead by example in their safe and law-abiding driving style.
Power is money. As long as there is a somewhat unhampered economy in the locus of data centers (and there is), then every entrepreneur will attempt to economize power usage.
You conveniently ignore that power is also pollution. Gas, coal and oil pose current threats while nuclear power has huge costs associated with future care of spent radioactive materials. Western countries have been very slow to price any of these costs into the electricity supply cost.
As a result, your hypothesis that the market will take care of it is flawed. The price that the data center owner is faced with is incomplete. Therefore their desire to save costs is less than it should be in a properly functioning market.
While you believe that government regulation would result in an inevitable doomsday, it is in fact necessary where an industry - in this case the electricity generating industry - has costs outside their identifiable production costs. It's not an infringement on 'Liberty.' to make sure an industry and its customers are absorbing all the costs associated with their enterprise.
And if you used Android, you can set it up so that you get Edge battery life at 3G speeds, by automating switching back and forth.
I was about to ask about this.
I was wondering why you'd want 3G running all the time. if it sucks so much battery life. It's not like it's needed to check for new email or incoming text messages. I don't need 3G for a voice call. Automatic switching seems to be a no-brainer. Simply hand over to 3G if it's available as soon as you start to use data (or open apps that flag themselves as needing a high speed data connection).
Personally, I've long since given up on the cell phone arms race. If folk need to get hold of me the generally find a way.
So it appears the guy is likely not a kid trolling and is presenting himself as an attorney. Whether or not he's licensed to practice as one is another question.
You can check attorney's registered to practice in PA on the state Supreme Court's website:
It's possible that he's admitted to the bar somewhere else though. Of course the guy who owns the site could email and ask for details of his bar admission(s).
Sounds like you don't know much about socialism. Common and co-operative ownership of the means of production hardly equates to the elite knowing what is best for you.
Suggest you go back and reread the question. VNC or VNC + ssh does not come close to the service offered by join.me or the Google Chrome desktop sharing plugin.
I presume the question in your post title was rhetorical. In case it was not, I was using VNC for remote desktop control at least 13 years ago. I think I have a pretty good understanding of both its benefits and its shortcomings.
If you'd like to suggest ways - as others below helpfully have - to use the underlying technology of VNC, but also make it accessible to an inexperienced end user then I'd be delighted to hear your contribution to the discussion.
The guy asking for help hasn't spent 4 hrs walking grandma through downloading and configuring VNC over the phone so that he can get through the firewall to actually help her.
The submitter has. Once more today, hence the ask slashdot post. VNC + SSH + Firewalls + dynamic dns all make for a pain. It works, but it's certainly not neat and tidy.
I'll take a look at teamviewer, so thanks for that. As was mentioned above, I'd really like something that can run locally, but in the end I may have to make do.
I'm the submitter. I presume your friends and relatives are stunningly more technically adept than mine.
I have personally been using VNC for over a decade. Judging by your/. uid, that's probably a good bit longer than you.
How about you take a moment to read the question. I'm looking for remote support software similar to join.me or the chrome plugin. That means the other end uses their browser, goes to the URL I give them and with as little other input as possible, I can share their desktop.
That does not describe VNC. I already have a vnc/ssh based solution. It's convoluted and yes, they find it difficult. Perhaps you've never assisted folk in their 70s with IT, but yes, for many, something that simple is difficult. It's difficult because it's unfamiliar. They use their web browser and they use email. That's what they know about their computer.
Now VNC may be part of the solution - indeed I would fully expect that. But not plain old vnc or a combination with SSH. The end user shouldn' t need to locate software, open firewall ports, execute shell scripts or type convoluted SSH commands.
Finally folk do, frequently ask me for advice. They do so for the simple reason that I try and give them a solution that meets their needs. That solution is not VNC or I wouldn't have posted the question. I think if you'd read the question rather than trying to get the first moral superiority post you might have realized that.
I'm certainly guilty of searching for products directly on Amazon, but usually if I want something quickly. I'll typically trust that the price is reasonable and Prime means it's on my doorstep in one or two days.
That said, if I want something I know will be expensive, or something even faster I prefer to check first with Google's shopping tool to get price comparisons or to find out if an item is available locally the same day. That's something with plenty of potential for monetizing and is much harder for Amazon to compete with.
I think with music it's worth pointing out that every musician on the planet started out by playing other people's songs and not typically not paying for the right to do so.
At slower speeds, the energy used for motion will be lower, but then the journey will be take longer so the lower level of power will be in use for a longer period of time. And there is background energy use which is not related to motion, such as lights etc... This power use will be there regardless of speed, and thus a longer journey will increase it.
Typically when considering car efficiency, we do so using miles/kilometers not hours. So, for example, my car is more efficient at 55mph getting 34 mpg (US gallons) than at 75mph getting 30 mpg. It doesn't matter that my journey takes longer, it's still more efficient.
The ancillary power is all being generated by gas consumption, so it's extended use is already factored in.
On moving to the States (East Coast) from Europe I was pretty surprised by the sheer volume of electricity cables strung in the air. For cost reasons it makes sense for the main backbone cables to be on pylons, but new build homes in cities seem to have all manner of cables strung from the nearest pole.
Not only is this unsightly, but it's a nightmare in a situation like this. Residential areas are full of trees. The lines themselves are exposed to ice accumulation in the winter and winds and lightning at other times. Power lines go down taking out small numbers of homes, but require substantial manpower to repair.
These lines should have been buried when the homes were built. Doing it retrospectively will, as the OP suggests, cost a fortune.
Therein lies the problem. A green card holder can demonstrate their status easily enough. The 17 year old US born child of Mexican immigrants who doesn't have a driver's license cannot.
The US Citizen might protest his status, but the officer may well detain him while they conduct an investigation. In other words US citizens could end up arrested and detained while their status is clarified.
Did you even read the summary? This is not a case of censorship which Apple has done in the past. This is a case of a legal dispute of patents and ownership. If it was on the Android or WP7 or BB store it would have been the same. Apple will put it back on sale once the developer and claimant resolve their dispute.
Do you think if a patent troll files a claim against garageband or pages apple would pull that too? How about the Facebook app? Angry Birds?
If every app gets pulled whenever a patent claim is made, apple would be pulling them each and every day.
Audi's A1 - built on the same base as the Polo has a 1.6 TDI option that will do 69 miles to the US gallon. Similarly it's not available in the US. It can do 0-60 in 10.2 seconds.
Sacrifice some fuel economy and take the 2.0 TDI and you'll only get 65 miles per US gallon but can do 0-60 in 7.9 seconds. Again, not available in the US.
In the United States it's the norm to pay to receive both calls and text messages on your cell phone.
It primarily stems from cell phones adopting standard local numbers, and therefore calls to cell phones have never been charged at a premium like in Europe. So the cell phone owner has to pay rather than the caller pays model you might be more familar with.
Of course this makes things like spam SMS much much more annoying.
That's the nice thing about iMessage: it'll fall back to SMS if the recipient doesn't have an Apple device. If you trade your iPhone in for an Android phone, my iMessages to you become regular SMS messages with no intervention on my part.
It still just works.
Except you could be paying 20 cents per message if your iPhone were running on a prepaid tariff. And your friend might now be paying 20 cents per message to receive them. Yet that charge would be needless if Apple had simply made it a free and open standard.
The majority of people with a prepaid plan are paying 20 cents per message in the US - to send and receive.
Everyone else is paying too, the cost is just bundled into a big monthly so you can't identify what any one part of it costs. That makes it much harder to shop around for other deals that might leave you better off, since you're likely to seek the safety of unlimited everything rather than buying what you need.
I hate to yet again give Apple credit but building the imessage system into the iphone is brilliant and I sincerely hope Google copy the concept with far far better Google talk integration into the Android OS (frankly, I'm surprised it hasn't been patched in NOW)
The reason SMS remains popular is because it just works. I can text someone in Kansas or Kenya and the message gets there, whatever brand of phone the end user is holding.
Why credit Apple for another move at vendor lock-in. Apple have enough sway with their iPhone that they could have made their messaging system an open and interoperable standard.
I think the primay advantages are supposed to be color temperature (2700K so very similar to the light from an incandescent) and lifespan. It's also dimmable which is still quite a big issue with CFL bulbs.
All in all, it's fairly expensive but does address what are probably the three biggest complaints about CFLs for use in the home.
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I seriously hope you're kidding here. Sometimes Supreme Court justices have trouble determining what the law is. They have decades of experience. IIRC Cody has just started his second year of school. That means he understands things like the elementary foundations of the legal system.
I'd hope he's not giving the project any legal advice either. Unless he's been admitted to the State Bar, that could have serious consequences for his future legal career.
It's astonishing, isn't it.
You would think cyclists in the US would take heed from the millions of motorists motorists who lead by example in their safe and law-abiding driving style.
Other than Bing, MapQuest, TomTom, Garmin, iGo?
You conveniently ignore that power is also pollution. Gas, coal and oil pose current threats while nuclear power has huge costs associated with future care of spent radioactive materials. Western countries have been very slow to price any of these costs into the electricity supply cost.
As a result, your hypothesis that the market will take care of it is flawed. The price that the data center owner is faced with is incomplete. Therefore their desire to save costs is less than it should be in a properly functioning market.
While you believe that government regulation would result in an inevitable doomsday, it is in fact necessary where an industry - in this case the electricity generating industry - has costs outside their identifiable production costs. It's not an infringement on 'Liberty.' to make sure an industry and its customers are absorbing all the costs associated with their enterprise.
I'm not sure if this is helpful, but the BBC ran an article on hearing aid hackers earlier this year:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18690973
The software engineer mentioned in the article runs a blog here
I was about to ask about this.
I was wondering why you'd want 3G running all the time. if it sucks so much battery life. It's not like it's needed to check for new email or incoming text messages. I don't need 3G for a voice call. Automatic switching seems to be a no-brainer. Simply hand over to 3G if it's available as soon as you start to use data (or open apps that flag themselves as needing a high speed data connection).
Personally, I've long since given up on the cell phone arms race. If folk need to get hold of me the generally find a way.
On the facebook page there's a link to this:
http://ereads.com/2010/03/book-ripped-off-who-you-gonna-call-pirate-sinker.html
So it appears the guy is likely not a kid trolling and is presenting himself as an attorney. Whether or not he's licensed to practice as one is another question.
You can check attorney's registered to practice in PA on the state Supreme Court's website:
http://www.padisciplinaryboard.org/pa_attorney_search.php
It's possible that he's admitted to the bar somewhere else though. Of course the guy who owns the site could email and ask for details of his bar admission(s).
Sounds like you don't know much about socialism. Common and co-operative ownership of the means of production hardly equates to the elite knowing what is best for you.
Suggest you go back and reread the question. VNC or VNC + ssh does not come close to the service offered by join.me or the Google Chrome desktop sharing plugin.
I presume the question in your post title was rhetorical. In case it was not, I was using VNC for remote desktop control at least 13 years ago. I think I have a pretty good understanding of both its benefits and its shortcomings.
If you'd like to suggest ways - as others below helpfully have - to use the underlying technology of VNC, but also make it accessible to an inexperienced end user then I'd be delighted to hear your contribution to the discussion.
The submitter has. Once more today, hence the ask slashdot post. VNC + SSH + Firewalls + dynamic dns all make for a pain. It works, but it's certainly not neat and tidy.
I'll take a look at teamviewer, so thanks for that. As was mentioned above, I'd really like something that can run locally, but in the end I may have to make do.
I'm the submitter. I presume your friends and relatives are stunningly more technically adept than mine.
I have personally been using VNC for over a decade. Judging by your /. uid, that's probably a good bit longer than you.
How about you take a moment to read the question. I'm looking for remote support software similar to join.me or the chrome plugin. That means the other end uses their browser, goes to the URL I give them and with as little other input as possible, I can share their desktop.
That does not describe VNC. I already have a vnc/ssh based solution. It's convoluted and yes, they find it difficult. Perhaps you've never assisted folk in their 70s with IT, but yes, for many, something that simple is difficult. It's difficult because it's unfamiliar. They use their web browser and they use email. That's what they know about their computer.
Now VNC may be part of the solution - indeed I would fully expect that. But not plain old vnc or a combination with SSH. The end user shouldn' t need to locate software, open firewall ports, execute shell scripts or type convoluted SSH commands.
Finally folk do, frequently ask me for advice. They do so for the simple reason that I try and give them a solution that meets their needs. That solution is not VNC or I wouldn't have posted the question. I think if you'd read the question rather than trying to get the first moral superiority post you might have realized that.
I'm certainly guilty of searching for products directly on Amazon, but usually if I want something quickly. I'll typically trust that the price is reasonable and Prime means it's on my doorstep in one or two days.
That said, if I want something I know will be expensive, or something even faster I prefer to check first with Google's shopping tool to get price comparisons or to find out if an item is available locally the same day. That's something with plenty of potential for monetizing and is much harder for Amazon to compete with.
I think with music it's worth pointing out that every musician on the planet started out by playing other people's songs and not typically not paying for the right to do so.
Typically when considering car efficiency, we do so using miles/kilometers not hours. So, for example, my car is more efficient at 55mph getting 34 mpg (US gallons) than at 75mph getting 30 mpg. It doesn't matter that my journey takes longer, it's still more efficient.
The ancillary power is all being generated by gas consumption, so it's extended use is already factored in.
and have more vacation, live longer and are happier.
On moving to the States (East Coast) from Europe I was pretty surprised by the sheer volume of electricity cables strung in the air. For cost reasons it makes sense for the main backbone cables to be on pylons, but new build homes in cities seem to have all manner of cables strung from the nearest pole.
Not only is this unsightly, but it's a nightmare in a situation like this. Residential areas are full of trees. The lines themselves are exposed to ice accumulation in the winter and winds and lightning at other times. Power lines go down taking out small numbers of homes, but require substantial manpower to repair.
These lines should have been buried when the homes were built. Doing it retrospectively will, as the OP suggests, cost a fortune.
Therein lies the problem. A green card holder can demonstrate their status easily enough. The 17 year old US born child of Mexican immigrants who doesn't have a driver's license cannot.
The US Citizen might protest his status, but the officer may well detain him while they conduct an investigation. In other words US citizens could end up arrested and detained while their status is clarified.
Do you think if a patent troll files a claim against garageband or pages apple would pull that too? How about the Facebook app? Angry Birds?
If every app gets pulled whenever a patent claim is made, apple would be pulling them each and every day.
Audi's A1 - built on the same base as the Polo has a 1.6 TDI option that will do 69 miles to the US gallon. Similarly it's not available in the US. It can do 0-60 in 10.2 seconds.
Sacrifice some fuel economy and take the 2.0 TDI and you'll only get 65 miles per US gallon but can do 0-60 in 7.9 seconds. Again, not available in the US.
In the United States it's the norm to pay to receive both calls and text messages on your cell phone.
It primarily stems from cell phones adopting standard local numbers, and therefore calls to cell phones have never been charged at a premium like in Europe. So the cell phone owner has to pay rather than the caller pays model you might be more familar with.
Of course this makes things like spam SMS much much more annoying.
Except you could be paying 20 cents per message if your iPhone were running on a prepaid tariff. And your friend might now be paying 20 cents per message to receive them. Yet that charge would be needless if Apple had simply made it a free and open standard.
The majority of people with a prepaid plan are paying 20 cents per message in the US - to send and receive.
Everyone else is paying too, the cost is just bundled into a big monthly so you can't identify what any one part of it costs. That makes it much harder to shop around for other deals that might leave you better off, since you're likely to seek the safety of unlimited everything rather than buying what you need.
The reason SMS remains popular is because it just works. I can text someone in Kansas or Kenya and the message gets there, whatever brand of phone the end user is holding.
Why credit Apple for another move at vendor lock-in. Apple have enough sway with their iPhone that they could have made their messaging system an open and interoperable standard.
Thanks - I forgot to mention the instant on factor.
Try using a CFL as a porch light in winter. It's okay, it'll reach full brightness by March.
I think the primay advantages are supposed to be color temperature (2700K so very similar to the light from an incandescent) and lifespan. It's also dimmable which is still quite a big issue with CFL bulbs.
All in all, it's fairly expensive but does address what are probably the three biggest complaints about CFLs for use in the home.