Well, of course it isn't open source, silly. If it was, the first thing the developers would do it pull out the code requiring you to host your production game servers on AWS.
Yep, and the kit probably costs $60. So much for the promise of the $5 computer.
Thankfully, the Raspberry Pi people are starting to get competition from other organizations like CHIP and PINE who are also releasing sub $20 barebones PC's. That should help to improve availability and keep prices low.
I wish I could be this optimistic. Odds are that the new owners will try to turn the site into Forbes clone with giant full screen video ads and interstitial ads in between stories.
Then we get to play ad blocker Whack A Mole with this site as well.
OK, then please tell me what other large/popular open source projects are using Blockchain technology that Aren't cryptocurrencies.
My hunch is that none of the replies that I'll get currently have 1/10th the number of users of Bitcoin at the moment. It's just too early to consider this technology to be super "important" at this point.
I'm getting pretty old now, so "My Age" has brought me technological advances like Linux, broadband and mobile Internet, and Smartphones.
Compared to those, electronic funny money like Bitcoin isn't even on the radar. Hell... Bitcoin has supposedly been "popular" for 5 years now and most brick and mortar stores still don't take it.
But, hey... I know that a few Slashdot editors got in early and made some money. Good for them, I guess, but they probably should have cashed out when the price was briefly above $1,000 a coin.
Yeah... for sites that require a login for no good reason (like it's a free site or game that wants your user info so they can try to sell you premium features later), I'll just use something like password as the password. If someone wants to use that account because they are too lazy to create their own, more power to them.
Yeah, I paid $750 for my 64 GB iPhone 6 without a contract. $1,000 isn't much of a stretch once you add the manufacturing cost increases, Apple's insanely high profit margin, and inflation.
They'll probably be mostly Android smartphones by 2010, because a new US manufactured iPhone would probably cost $1,000 each.
Maybe Trump would then start putting tariffs on the other smartphone manufacturers as well, assuming that he hasn't completely destroyed the US economy and/or got himself impeached by then.
I believe that there is a fairly powerful Zinc lobby that is keeping the penny alive, using the threat of inflation as their primary excuse. Using their logic, they say that all prices will be rounded up to the closest nickel which will cause you to pay roughly 2% more for small transactions.
I'm not sure if I buy it. People are going to raise prices anyway, it's just that the price will end in a.00 or.05 instead of a 1/100th increment.
I doubt that anyone from North Korea is going to be able to respond with the technical specs of their speaker system without getting shot for doing so.
South Korea might, though. I wouldn't be surprised if they had some bleeding edge tech from Samsung that has 20X the power of the North Korean system.
Not to mention that you do not want a gun that requires any type of battery to function. You can practically guarantee that it will die at a time when your life depends on it.
Worse yet, they are ripping out cool Firefox features like full themes support and tab groups the free up development and test time for these boondoggles.
It's a great way for companies to pilot test new ideas, though. Not sure if the market really wants... say... a fitness tracking watch with a built in MP3 player and Bluetooth earbuds? Put the prototype on a Kickstarter type of crowdfunding site and see if you get any buyers. If you get them, you already have a built in market for your product. If not, you can stop at the prototype stage and not worry about tooling up for mass production.
Facebook has this new feature called Memories where they show you pictures that you uploaded on this date X number of years ago. On days in the past (like when I was on vacation), they might show me a new picture every day for a week straight.
Wouldn't moving these pictures over to "cold" storage significantly slow down whatever batch process they are using to recover this data every day? You would think that they would want to keep this data on active disk if they are running through it daily with huge batch jobs.
I used to have this fancy holographic sight on my home self defense gun, and forgot to take the batteries out during winter storage. Not only did the batteries die, but they leaked and destroyed the sight. If I needed to actually use that gun to protect myself, I wouldn't been able to properly aim the damn thing.
Now, imagine that happening with a "Smart Gun" lock. Forget not being able to aim the gun, you won't even be able to shoot it at a time when the bad guy might be pointing a gun at you.
So, yeah... I learned a LONG time ago that you do NOT want a device with a battery in your self defense weapon. It WILL die at the most inopportune time, leaving you defenseless.
Moving from Texas to Connecticut might be a big deal if you had a collection of AR-15 "assault" rifles, as you would suddenly become a felon once you moved.
I think that the real issue is that 90% of those "2016" problems existed with most Linux desktop OS's ten years ago and they STILL haven't been fixed yet. It doesn't seem like the Linux community really cares enough to fix these problems in a unified way that will work in most major distributions.
It won't be just $5 for long. This will probably be like gas and cigarette taxes, where they will keep going up every time Congress needs additional revenue to meet another budget shortfall.
The H1-B guys can do a decent job when they have a good working relationship with the stakeholders of the project AND they are supervised properly by senior developers. That's a hell of a lot harder to do when they are on the other side of the planet with a completely different work schedule.
Status meetings can help, but they are a poor substitute for human interaction in the same room for someone who is new to a project. That's why companies want to bring them over here for training before shipping them back overseas.
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Well, of course it isn't open source, silly. If it was, the first thing the developers would do it pull out the code requiring you to host your production game servers on AWS.
What I learned from this post is that Oracle still does Java security patches for Java 6. I thought that it was End Of Life three years ago!
Yep, and the kit probably costs $60. So much for the promise of the $5 computer.
Thankfully, the Raspberry Pi people are starting to get competition from other organizations like CHIP and PINE who are also releasing sub $20 barebones PC's. That should help to improve availability and keep prices low.
Be careful... he might buy Slashdot just to have your account suspended.
I wish I could be this optimistic. Odds are that the new owners will try to turn the site into Forbes clone with giant full screen video ads and interstitial ads in between stories.
Then we get to play ad blocker Whack A Mole with this site as well.
OK, then please tell me what other large/popular open source projects are using Blockchain technology that Aren't cryptocurrencies.
My hunch is that none of the replies that I'll get currently have 1/10th the number of users of Bitcoin at the moment. It's just too early to consider this technology to be super "important" at this point.
Yeah, I always thought that one of the weirdest parts of The Internship was the part where they had them man the Google phone support help desk.
As far as I know, there is no such thing as the Google phone support help desk for Google's free products like Chrome and GMail.
I'm getting pretty old now, so "My Age" has brought me technological advances like Linux, broadband and mobile Internet, and Smartphones.
Compared to those, electronic funny money like Bitcoin isn't even on the radar. Hell... Bitcoin has supposedly been "popular" for 5 years now and most brick and mortar stores still don't take it.
But, hey... I know that a few Slashdot editors got in early and made some money. Good for them, I guess, but they probably should have cashed out when the price was briefly above $1,000 a coin.
Yeah... for sites that require a login for no good reason (like it's a free site or game that wants your user info so they can try to sell you premium features later), I'll just use something like password as the password. If someone wants to use that account because they are too lazy to create their own, more power to them.
Yeah, I paid $750 for my 64 GB iPhone 6 without a contract. $1,000 isn't much of a stretch once you add the manufacturing cost increases, Apple's insanely high profit margin, and inflation.
They'll probably be mostly Android smartphones by 2010, because a new US manufactured iPhone would probably cost $1,000 each.
Maybe Trump would then start putting tariffs on the other smartphone manufacturers as well, assuming that he hasn't completely destroyed the US economy and/or got himself impeached by then.
I believe that there is a fairly powerful Zinc lobby that is keeping the penny alive, using the threat of inflation as their primary excuse. Using their logic, they say that all prices will be rounded up to the closest nickel which will cause you to pay roughly 2% more for small transactions.
I'm not sure if I buy it. People are going to raise prices anyway, it's just that the price will end in a .00 or .05 instead of a 1/100th increment.
I doubt that anyone from North Korea is going to be able to respond with the technical specs of their speaker system without getting shot for doing so.
South Korea might, though. I wouldn't be surprised if they had some bleeding edge tech from Samsung that has 20X the power of the North Korean system.
Not to mention that you do not want a gun that requires any type of battery to function. You can practically guarantee that it will die at a time when your life depends on it.
Worse yet, they are ripping out cool Firefox features like full themes support and tab groups the free up development and test time for these boondoggles.
It's a great way for companies to pilot test new ideas, though. Not sure if the market really wants... say... a fitness tracking watch with a built in MP3 player and Bluetooth earbuds? Put the prototype on a Kickstarter type of crowdfunding site and see if you get any buyers. If you get them, you already have a built in market for your product. If not, you can stop at the prototype stage and not worry about tooling up for mass production.
Facebook has this new feature called Memories where they show you pictures that you uploaded on this date X number of years ago. On days in the past (like when I was on vacation), they might show me a new picture every day for a week straight.
Wouldn't moving these pictures over to "cold" storage significantly slow down whatever batch process they are using to recover this data every day? You would think that they would want to keep this data on active disk if they are running through it daily with huge batch jobs.
I used to have this fancy holographic sight on my home self defense gun, and forgot to take the batteries out during winter storage. Not only did the batteries die, but they leaked and destroyed the sight. If I needed to actually use that gun to protect myself, I wouldn't been able to properly aim the damn thing.
Now, imagine that happening with a "Smart Gun" lock. Forget not being able to aim the gun, you won't even be able to shoot it at a time when the bad guy might be pointing a gun at you.
So, yeah... I learned a LONG time ago that you do NOT want a device with a battery in your self defense weapon. It WILL die at the most inopportune time, leaving you defenseless.
I was kind of disappointed in Oracle. JDK is usually good for at least 100 on their own.
Oh, that's right... they basically gave up trying to run Java applets in a browser without half a dozen security dialogs two years ago.
Unless you have an older Nexus device, then you're just as screwed as everyone else who is stuck on Android 2.x or 4.x.
Moving from Texas to Connecticut might be a big deal if you had a collection of AR-15 "assault" rifles, as you would suddenly become a felon once you moved.
I think that the real issue is that 90% of those "2016" problems existed with most Linux desktop OS's ten years ago and they STILL haven't been fixed yet. It doesn't seem like the Linux community really cares enough to fix these problems in a unified way that will work in most major distributions.
How do you do a scan of your network to find unsecured NoSQL databases like this? I bet that I'd find a few of them on my work's intranet.
It won't be just $5 for long. This will probably be like gas and cigarette taxes, where they will keep going up every time Congress needs additional revenue to meet another budget shortfall.
The H1-B guys can do a decent job when they have a good working relationship with the stakeholders of the project AND they are supervised properly by senior developers. That's a hell of a lot harder to do when they are on the other side of the planet with a completely different work schedule.
Status meetings can help, but they are a poor substitute for human interaction in the same room for someone who is new to a project. That's why companies want to bring them over here for training before shipping them back overseas.