Free coffee/soda/food/t-shirts/sponsor swag. I did a hackathon a few weeks back and came away from it like I'd gone to re:Invent. All the food was free. I showed up at 9am and left around 5 both days, which is my usual schedule. Some people stayed late; it was their choice.
This. I use TT-RSS installed on an rPi2 at home that doubles as my proxy from work. You'd be surprised how much compelling content is still out there on RSS - Slashdot included. I have images turned off and it just appears as text.
I run a pair of Wordpress sites on a Raspberry Pi 2. 5W of power draw. I do need some of the dynamic features of Wordpress for one of the sites, but for both of them, it's mostly just a glorified CMS.
I'm pretty sure my carbon footprint for those sites is less than my total amount of flatulence in a year.
Saying KDE Plasma is the most popular app is like saying that Explorer is the most popular app on Windows. While technically true, it's also the default, and you can't really use the OS without it. Could you use other window managers? Sure, but I'm not sure a window manager counts as an app.
A bricked machine is completely useless. If you can roll back to an earlier kernel, you are not bricked. Read the article and don't just parrot a clickbait headline.
...they're growing 5% in listener hours year-to-year, and had 9.3+ BILLION (with a B) $USD in ad revenue, FY 2015. You can complain all you want about them, but they are a huge force in the advertising industry and for listeners alike.
Adding a pay service is going to be a revenue generator, but only a fraction of users will opt for it. Few people really care about a commercial every 15 minutes.
Yes, yes, it's very edgy and trendy to hate on the service, but facts are facts.
From TFA: "USB-C already supports analog audio transfer through sideband pins simplifying the engineering steps necessary to swap 3.5mm with USB-C in device designs. " Note that they are talking about *analog* audio over USB-C, not digital.
The motivation behind a move like this is likely reducing parts count, not draconian DRM, which Apple eschews anyway.
Synergy has latency I'm unwilling to accept....because I'm a gamer, too.:) Besides, I still need some way to switch 2x24" monitors between computers, along with a pro audio interface (UAD Apollo).
Full disclosure: I'm a middleware guy, and I greatly prefer to run linux as a server operating system. I have 25+ years of experience as an IT administrator and am more than a power user on linux. Off the clock, I make music and have used PC and Apple based DAWs for 20+ years, starting with a Pentium 75 with a Turtle Beach soundcard back in 1994. Today, my wife is a pro voice actor (if you listen to Pandora, you've likely heard her) and we maintain a professional level recording studio in our home. Said studio runs Windows 10 and Cubase 8.5 for a DAW.
That said: There are better platforms upon which to do digital audio. If you're doing this with any intention of making money, spend money on your operating system. Linux struggles to be a decent desktop OS as it is; there's no need to introduce driver issues and under-supported DAW software into the mix, while at the same time dealing with a dicey desktop OS.
Windows and OSX are by no means perfect - but they're supported solutions that DAW software and interface drivers are specifically coded for. Open source is fantastic in the enterprise, but I would never, ever risk my wife's career on community supported software. As it stands, running Windows is dicey enough - and we'll be moving (back) to OSX once I work out a monitor/keyboard/mouse sharing solution that doesn't cost an arm and a leg.
I'm pretty sure you have never, ever done any real systems administration of any sort. For you to make uneducated, broad statements such as this...if I had mod points, I would mod you trolling. Having worked in IT for 20 years, I can tell you that there's been plenty of scenarios in which a smartphone with an SSH client was or would have been invaluable. When I'm on call, and I'm at a restaurant, and a critical service gets broken by someone and I need to intervene, a netbook or laptop aren't practicable.
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I guess you have to have been around the net since around 1996, when Real burst on to the scene. They were among the first to offer video to the desktop, long before Flash, Macromedia Director, or any of the now-Adobe ilk came into vogue.
It used to be that in Windows, you had to install a 3rd party player to play video. Real was the industry leader and all the media companies released in Real format (.rm,.ram, etc.). Their player was nifty at first, but like all do-it-all players, eventually became a bogged-down bloatware monster.
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I think it was called "The Green Mile".
Trust me, as the parent of a young boy who's obsessed with Minecraft and Portal 2, I can testify to the hold games have on him.
It doesn't take a whole lot of AI to know that pretty much EVERY passenger is drunk when you're driving Uber at 2AM in a university area.
They still sell Windows Phones? I thought that was a done deal years ago. Or was that Zune? /smh
Free coffee/soda/food/t-shirts/sponsor swag. I did a hackathon a few weeks back and came away from it like I'd gone to re:Invent. All the food was free. I showed up at 9am and left around 5 both days, which is my usual schedule. Some people stayed late; it was their choice.
This. I use TT-RSS installed on an rPi2 at home that doubles as my proxy from work. You'd be surprised how much compelling content is still out there on RSS - Slashdot included. I have images turned off and it just appears as text.
I run a pair of Wordpress sites on a Raspberry Pi 2. 5W of power draw. I do need some of the dynamic features of Wordpress for one of the sites, but for both of them, it's mostly just a glorified CMS.
I'm pretty sure my carbon footprint for those sites is less than my total amount of flatulence in a year.
Saying KDE Plasma is the most popular app is like saying that Explorer is the most popular app on Windows. While technically true, it's also the default, and you can't really use the OS without it. Could you use other window managers? Sure, but I'm not sure a window manager counts as an app.
A bricked machine is completely useless. If you can roll back to an earlier kernel, you are not bricked. Read the article and don't just parrot a clickbait headline.
Can you imagine the social chaos that would happen if Facebook were to go unavailable for more than an hour or two?
"..In case you're curious, the estimated sticker price for attending Harvard College during the 2017-2018 school year is $69,600-$73,600 ..."
Let's be clear, the sticker price ..really only applies to white and Asian hetero males.
Is it more expensive for Asian homo males? Asking for a friend.
Had only child at age 41 here. And let me tell you, a 7-year-old is a handful, especially at my age.
A search area was established and the plane was not found in that search area.
I don't know if I need an analysis to tell me that the plane potentially went down outside the search area.
"Seagate introduces external hard drive that automatically sends all your data to Amazon."
...they're growing 5% in listener hours year-to-year, and had 9.3+ BILLION (with a B) $USD in ad revenue, FY 2015. You can complain all you want about them, but they are a huge force in the advertising industry and for listeners alike.
Adding a pay service is going to be a revenue generator, but only a fraction of users will opt for it. Few people really care about a commercial every 15 minutes.
Yes, yes, it's very edgy and trendy to hate on the service, but facts are facts.
It's a serious question.
From TFA: "USB-C already supports analog audio transfer through sideband pins simplifying the engineering steps necessary to swap 3.5mm with USB-C in device designs. " Note that they are talking about *analog* audio over USB-C, not digital.
The motivation behind a move like this is likely reducing parts count, not draconian DRM, which Apple eschews anyway.
Synergy has latency I'm unwilling to accept....because I'm a gamer, too. :) Besides, I still need some way to switch 2x24" monitors between computers, along with a pro audio interface (UAD Apollo).
Full disclosure: I'm a middleware guy, and I greatly prefer to run linux as a server operating system. I have 25+ years of experience as an IT administrator and am more than a power user on linux. Off the clock, I make music and have used PC and Apple based DAWs for 20+ years, starting with a Pentium 75 with a Turtle Beach soundcard back in 1994. Today, my wife is a pro voice actor (if you listen to Pandora, you've likely heard her) and we maintain a professional level recording studio in our home. Said studio runs Windows 10 and Cubase 8.5 for a DAW.
That said: There are better platforms upon which to do digital audio. If you're doing this with any intention of making money, spend money on your operating system. Linux struggles to be a decent desktop OS as it is; there's no need to introduce driver issues and under-supported DAW software into the mix, while at the same time dealing with a dicey desktop OS.
Windows and OSX are by no means perfect - but they're supported solutions that DAW software and interface drivers are specifically coded for. Open source is fantastic in the enterprise, but I would never, ever risk my wife's career on community supported software. As it stands, running Windows is dicey enough - and we'll be moving (back) to OSX once I work out a monitor/keyboard/mouse sharing solution that doesn't cost an arm and a leg.
I'm pretty sure you have never, ever done any real systems administration of any sort. For you to make uneducated, broad statements such as this...if I had mod points, I would mod you trolling. Having worked in IT for 20 years, I can tell you that there's been plenty of scenarios in which a smartphone with an SSH client was or would have been invaluable. When I'm on call, and I'm at a restaurant, and a critical service gets broken by someone and I need to intervene, a netbook or laptop aren't practicable.
Firefox 4b7 no workie.
...is named Pistole. I'm not kidding.
,,,are yours except Europa. Attempt no landings there.
Agreed. When I saw this article my reaction was "Oh look, the blowhard is at it again."
He should stick to blogging and the occasional soapboxy young adult book.
I guess you have to have been around the net since around 1996, when Real burst on to the scene. They were among the first to offer video to the desktop, long before Flash, Macromedia Director, or any of the now-Adobe ilk came into vogue.
.ram, etc.). Their player was nifty at first, but like all do-it-all players, eventually became a bogged-down bloatware monster.
It used to be that in Windows, you had to install a 3rd party player to play video. Real was the industry leader and all the media companies released in Real format (.rm,