While the topic makes tempting discussions on distracted driving, the more interesting questions should turn to technical prerequisites:
VNC, allowing any smartphone to use the larger dashboard display for its apps
This solution seems to imply that all Androids and Blackberries can actually export their screen using VNC, even to displays of different resolution than their own.
Can they, out of the box?
Joe Avg. Upmarket BMW Buyer does not seem the most likely tinkerer to root his phone (or even delve into e.g. Google Play's lengthy ToS to download an app from there).
A price point around $100 would be reasonable, and would make the NUC an ideal HTPC
With fan noise, no chance of being admitted to the average living room ("Wife Acceptance Factor").
Even if you claim to have found the rare bird known as geek girl...;-)
I'll never forget your line: "Come on, Linus, infect the mothership."
I still believe that was the best recruiting pitch ever uttered.
We both took a lot of criticism from our partisans, but look what we've accomplished.
The world is using software that doesn't suck!
http://www.heise.de/download/h2testw.html - switchable to English of course.
While it is primarily advertised for flash media these days (and indispensable since there have been numerous forgeries or DOAs at least on the European market lately), it evolved as an HDD tester in the first place.
On Linux in particular, a combination of dd and smartctl (before&after writing the entire disk, as well as for self-tests) may come in handy too, of course.
Rumors aside, Lou Gerstner detailed OS/2's demise:
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In his book "Who says elephants can't dance?":
[...] the [IBM] board was not looking for a technologist, but rather a broad-based leader and change agent. [...] My consumer packaged goods background helps me understand the emotional attachment companies have for their products. [...]
Later on, he explains (t)his "insight" and what was made of it as follows:
What my colleagues seemed unwilling or unable to accept was that the war was already over and was a resounding defeat - 90 percent market share for Windows to OS/2's 5 percent or 6 percent. [...] The last gasp was the introduction of a product called OS/2 Warp in 1994, but in my mind the exit strategy was a foregone conclusion.
To be sure, Windows 95 was not on the shelves at this point, so IT as a whole could have been spared that much, and yet:
The OS/2 decision created immense emotional distress in the company. Thousands of IBMers of all stripes - technical, marketing, and strategy - had been engaged in this struggle. They believed in their product and the cause for which they were fighting. The doomsday scenario of IBM's losing its role in the industry because it didnâ(TM)t make PC operating systems proved to be little more than an emotional reaction, but I still get letters from a small number of OS/2 diehards.
A quarter-century later, with the Warp 3 & 4 machines still in use, and IBM having found quite a different "role in the industry" indeed, a couple of these claims may merit re-assessment.
Re:X10 makes cool stuff for automation
BTW, contrary to the Future House movie linked near the top of the page, this LCARS thing is real (looks like many Dutch and German developers are at this, probably because more likely to buy just one house, and for a lifetime).
What we really need is the marriage of both products - a laser canon that automatically tracks and vaporizes squirrels.
Peter Wiggin, you here? Proposing to use a Little Doctor device on sentient Sciuridae? (And BTW we thought your display name was Locke rather than RandCraw...);-) As if your brother hadn't been enough trouble lately... Now what's Val up to next?
And so don't the similar harsh penalties for what once used to be organized economic crime strike you as disproportionate at least in some copyright cases where it has been reduced to as little as an inadvertent mouse click?
Yes, read up on it so you can make sure you and your fellow jurors don't do it. It is anathema to the concept of Justice.
Fortunately this is not the juries' view since 1772, prescribing a medicine that may well have to find its next application against exaggerated convictions for the sole benefit of some MAFIAA.
http://dacal.com.tw/ with Windows disk database, stackable with USB through ports.
Robot arm optional by DIY;-) if you take a unit without internal drive (which reduces capacity by 50 disks).
programming Blender with Python is not as hard to pick up as your grandparent's programming languages — and kids today are learning them in a few months
Then again, who of these (grand)parents didn't (even have to) learn BASIC, Pascal, PHP, Perl or even assembler in a matter of days?
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This solution seems to imply that all Androids and Blackberries can actually export their screen using VNC, even to displays of different resolution than their own.
Can they, out of the box?
Joe Avg. Upmarket BMW Buyer does not seem the most likely tinkerer to root his phone (or even delve into e.g. Google Play's lengthy ToS to download an app from there).
With fan noise, no chance of being admitted to the average living room ("Wife Acceptance Factor"). ;-)
Even if you claim to have found the rare bird known as geek girl...
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.02/microsoft.html
http://www.heise.de/download/h2testw.html - switchable to English of course.
While it is primarily advertised for flash media these days (and indispensable since there have been numerous forgeries or DOAs at least on the European market lately), it evolved as an HDD tester in the first place.
On Linux in particular, a combination of dd and smartctl (before&after writing the entire disk, as well as for self-tests) may come in handy too, of course.
Later on, he explains (t)his "insight" and what was made of it as follows:
To be sure, Windows 95 was not on the shelves at this point, so IT as a whole could have been spared that much, and yet:
A quarter-century later, with the Warp 3 & 4 machines still in use, and IBM having found quite a different "role in the industry" indeed, a couple of these claims may merit re-assessment.
Follow the links, Luke: ;-)
Need for a LIRC-like 'transceiver of all trades'
And yes, (RF/IP-extended if need be) IR-controlled LED strip(e)s integrate nicely with this, especially since the most common controller has been supported by LIRC for a while: http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/i24/
There's also a thread with the building blocks (albeit documented in German) to link it up to a weather service for automated action based e.g. on their rain radar.
Re:X10 makes cool stuff for automation
BTW, contrary to the Future House movie linked near the top of the page, this LCARS thing is real (looks like many Dutch and German developers are at this, probably because more likely to buy just one house, and for a lifetime).
The projector+blinds approach, much underestimated
However, beware, "Neighborhood Watch" works both ways: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuiIobbZjHM (English subtitles, anyone?)
...i.e. his final orders, quoting Peter Pan.
http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download - some schools in South Carolina and elsewhere might be badly in need of that too...
At least unlike British politicians the authories of Brazil do not seem to have proposed that kids be implanted with radio IDs (just yet).
Peter Wiggin, you here? Proposing to use a Little Doctor device on sentient Sciuridae? (And BTW we thought your display name was Locke rather than RandCraw...) ;-) As if your brother hadn't been enough trouble lately... Now what's Val up to next?
Spokesman of the German Home Office (BMI, in charge of the "Federal Trojan Horse" exposed by the CCC) at the Federal Press Conference 2011-10-12.
As in the US (17 USC section 107), but you (will) still need heaps of money (from a stricly non-commercial blog) on either side of the pond to fend off claims for royalties, let alone criminal prosecution for alleged infringement (either of which may be raised as mere SLAPPs): http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/US-Blogger-setzen-sich-gerichtlich-gegen-Copyright-Abmahner-durch-1469554.html
Of course it's not just an unfair share of Google's money they want, but also extra leverage to hold bloggers at lawyerpoint.
For the U.S. at least, http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf places the blame with the education authorities themselves.
...aided in no small part by the fortunate fact that Stingers are still rare even among privacy-conscious orangutans. ;-)
"Tesla energy in a device that crumbles to dust when hacked" might ring a bell? (Don't miss the Paul Krugman quote ;-))
to name a few.
The Vulcans did on just one Warp signature (and Cochrane's smell of booze spanning the solar system, which does make a second data point). ;-)
...not that movie. ;-)
And so don't the similar harsh penalties for what once used to be organized economic crime strike you as disproportionate at least in some copyright cases where it has been reduced to as little as an inadvertent mouse click?
Cf. http://www.locusmag.com/Features/2008/11/cory-doctorow-why-i-copyfight.html - and that's by a published author who makes a living selling his works.
Fortunately this is not the juries' view since 1772, prescribing a medicine that may well have to find its next application against exaggerated convictions for the sole benefit of some MAFIAA.
http://dacal.com.tw/ with Windows disk database, stackable with USB through ports. ;-) if you take a unit without internal drive (which reduces capacity by 50 disks).
Robot arm optional by DIY
SCNR ;-)
Next episode: "Knee-deep in the dead"
Then again, who of these (grand)parents didn't (even have to) learn BASIC, Pascal, PHP, Perl or even assembler in a matter of days?
...were the actual words of the Alien High Commander when the government told them of the request. ;-)