Yes, you may be right and, in many ways, I hope so. However, even in this case, it's yet another sotfware distribution mechanism (YASDM !), when we have (as you say) apt, rpm etc. and they work pretty well.
The 'app store' part, whilst terribly modern and trendy makes me feel cynical and suspicious though. Also, the (what I call) the pharmacology, how do all these things mix together, or not?
To declare interest, I'm a big Raspberry Pi fan and user.
However, I see this as another attempt to build a walled garden (small wall, admittedly) by creating 'snaps'. I'm not sure how these will differ from Debian packages, for example and Debian packaging is arguably more 'universal'. I currently use Ubuntu Mate on Pi3 and it's pretty good. But, unhappily, I'm now going to start watching Canonical for signs that it wishes to be the Microsoft of Linux.
For complex, autonomous applications (as opposed to apps, whatever they are, only joking before someone tells me) easier just to supply a complete image, anyway, like some of the media centre offerings.
And some ugly glue code that 'joins' the two readings and sticks them in a one-table database. Obviously this is correlation, it will record cars if you point it in the 'wrong' direction. I haven't published the glue code, because it's in a terrible state. Hope that helps.
1. A system to monitor local aircraft noise (Decibel meter + receiver for aircraft transponders + some integration software)
2. My community currency software https://sourceforge.net/projec... + mobile phone dongle to make a mini bank-in-a-box with SMS payments
3. OpenCV + the little camera module to make a (flakey) computer vision experiment
4. Used a Pi3 as a slow desktop when my main desktop was hosed (by me, unhappily)
OK, I accept that I am old & sad & totally friendless, but these little things are great fun. Some kind of energy analysis for the house is probably the 'next thing'. Hope that helps with some ideas.
That should be the universal law, like some crazed version of Kant's categorical imperative. It would stop people bumping into me as I go about my daily business too.
On the other hand, I did build a (sort-of) computer in about 1966, but the discrete transistors, solder, printed circuit blanks etc. etc. came from an electronics supply store. So I probably wouldn't be able to make this suggestion using a computer that I bought pre-built.
Why is this currently marked as 'troll'? I've been involved with search since the 1980s and old enough to see the web evolve into Facebook, Google and Amazon and I agree that Google is now sometimes near-rubbish. The top Google 'results' are usually stuff to buy, often from Amazon. DuckDuckGo is better and the ethics are better, but we could do with a few more too.
I give an introductory talk on building them at Raspberry Pi meetings, from time to time, it's here: https://www.slideshare.net/hug... so kids, get off my lawn (I'm 66) go and build some more.
Not joking. I live in London, we've tried a couple of experiments by just stopping, as one does, and morons on mobiles (may I suggest the hashtag #moronsonmobiles) just bump into you. A few apologise, most do not. So, let's get rid of the lot. Nothing that you need to do on your phone is that important, even looking at pictures of cats.
Until we don't. And actually, we know the position of most of the pieces of space junk too. We just have no idea how to clear it: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ji...
This is great, technically speaking. However, here's a little article from the BBC on the current space junk problem: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/scie... Just look at the statistics at the bottom of the article.
We've managed to fill near-earth with almost as much rubbish as the surface, the actual atmosphere and (more recently reported) the depths of the sea: https://www.theguardian.com/en...
I love tech, but we need urgently to work on its by-products.
Since 'doug' with his msn email address has chosen to spam the above assertion, I've also added my previous remark here, in the interest of balance. I'd add that I have half a dozen old people using Linux Mint, at time of writing.
linux is not for the general public, it is for the computer literate.
This is also why the millions of people (including small children) currently using Raspberry Pis cannot possibly use it, it's too difficult for them, when we see them using it, we are dreaming or deceived by Descarte's evil demon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Sarcasm apart, I've used it as a desktop for about 10 years, it's become steadily easier over that period. We started a project for a housing estate (that's a 'project' for Americans, but it may be nicer) with about 20 older machines that we repurposed. Older people (therefore without some of these prejudices) used Linux, without really realising that they were not using the market standard.
I can see that a lot of commentary here will be Microsoft astro-turfing, so I won't both to reply to each one, but the above statement is nearly nonsense. Incidentally, I'm not a fanatic either, I keep a Windows laptop for music, because I still use Pro Tools. I must say, in terms of random problems (and I'm very careful about virus protection etc.) it is much more of a pain than my vintage 2006 tower running Linux Mint, usually due to driver problems and resultant BSOD episodes.
This is the new astro-turfing mantra from Microsoft now that people are switching away. Actually the last large Windows deployments where I worked, we waited 20 minutes for roaming profiles, each morning, multiple crashes each month. Every other recent place where we (developers) have been given the choice, it's always been some kind of Linux desktop, faster boot, free of Windows viruses, lower powered systems etc. etc.
I'd love to see the 'measurements' for this assertion, since Win 10 has only been around for a moment too.
Anyone else notice this? Most of statistical machine intelligence is either optimisation or training neural nets. Symbolic, in the form of expert systems and Cyc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... seems to have submarined (although I saw someone from Lucid AI in Cambridge about a year ago). I'm not sure where we are with hybrids, since I'm not a specialist.
Things can play Go, Poker and Jeopardy and (this is more sinister) approve people for loans and credit cards. But they lack the huge compositional flexibility of the human mind. They lack explanatory power and (this is bad for the so-called 'financial industry' ) they often don't deal with outliers well. So we're a while from AGI yet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... but the hype and distorted language is outpacing the capabilities. There may be marketing reasons for this. After all, 'our AI said no' is a lot more authoritative than 'our little program said no'.
Thanks. I'm not and never have been a gamer, so I never really look at that side of it. But I think you're right, Linux needs to be more recreation-friendly to pick up some important, new generation, younger users.
In the last year Perl has become more popular than Java, PHP, and ASP as a weekend programming language
To declare interest, I've done a great deal of contract programming in Perl, for 'big' shops, BBC and a bit of Amazon for example. I've been in the industry since 1976 and done a lot of COBOL, RPG2, Filetab, some PL/1 etc. and more recently some Java and Python. So I'm not a one language programmer, I've been messing with Erland recently too.
Perl takes a lot of shit, and, I agree @ [ % $ (for example) makes things very mysterious, starting out. However, it's a very productive language with a huge set of library assets on CPAN (yes, too many perhaps and some are flaky as hell) and a lot of mature tools like Catalyst and mod_perl. You have to be defensive because of weak typing, but that becomes a habit, good to be defensive, anyway.
Lastly, the community is good, funny and pretty welcoming. As I'm a Londoner, I got to: http://act.yapc.eu/lpw2016/ every year, learn some stuff, meet some friends too. Lastly, lastly (I lied about the previous 'lastly') it's not in anyone's hands, like Java and Go, for example.
linux is not for the general public, it is for the computer literate.
This is why the millions of people using Raspberry Pis cannot possibly use it, it's too difficult for them, when we see them using it, we are dreaming or deceived by Descarte's evil demon.
Sarcasm apart, I've used it as a desktop for about 10 years, it's become steadily easier over that period. We started a project for a housing estate (that's a 'project' for Americans, but it may be nicer) with about 20 older machines that we repurposed. Older people (therefore without some of these prejudices) used Linux, without really realising that they were not using the market standard.
I can see that a lot of commentary here will be Microsoft astro-turfing, so I won't both to reply to each one, but the above statement is nearly nonsense. Incidentally, I'm not a fanatic either, I keep a Windows laptop for music, because I still use Pro Tools. I must say, in terms of random problems (and I'm very careful about virus protection etc.) it is much more of a pain than my vintage 2006 tower running Linux Mint, usually due to driver problems and resultant BSOD episodes.
Yes, me too, I add it into the rice in my rice cooker. I'm not aware of any real bitterness and I hate the idea messing with the genetics of stuff to improve 'taste'. Sturdier plants, I can see the purpose of that.
Next stop is probably tef: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... unhappily, when Westerners latch on to things, the price rises, with predictable results for the poorer producers.
Since when did major corporations decide what was good for school? Don't answer it was a rhet-or-ical question.
I'm bilingual in French, know 'some' Japanese and have been a programmer most of my career. The one is not a substitute for the other and, also, learning foreign languages is to do with what Aristotle called flourishing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... enhanced human condition, ability to communicate with and enjoy other cultures. School and university is not just preparation for work, although Disney et al. would prefer that that be so.
I'm a 40-year industry 'veteran' and have been to a great many conferences. In the main, my employers paid for (usually) expensive tickets.
However, I often find nowadays that the informal ones, self-organised unconferences, open-source meetups are a great deal better. We talk about things that concern and are useful to us as equals rather than being sold products and being lectured to by 'thought leaders', 'evangelists' and 'horizon scanners' (whatever they are, I'm joking, before anyone tells me). Immediately I see the choppy two-hand motion and the inevitable outpouring of buzzwords, I know I'm in the wrong place. As for the networking, that's often fairly cynical.
Better, because I'm a Brit, I've been going to and (in one case) organising some Raspberry Pi Jams: https://www.raspberrypi.org/ja... for kids, parents and teachers etc. The levels of enthusiasm and expertise in these put some of the 'professional' ones to shame, ok, agree, that's slightly off-topic. There's a few Saturday the 11th too, look at the calendar further down the page.
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Yes, you may be right and, in many ways, I hope so. However, even in this case, it's yet another sotfware distribution mechanism (YASDM !), when we have (as you say) apt, rpm etc. and they work pretty well.
The 'app store' part, whilst terribly modern and trendy makes me feel cynical and suspicious though. Also, the (what I call) the pharmacology, how do all these things mix together, or not?
To declare interest, I'm a big Raspberry Pi fan and user.
However, I see this as another attempt to build a walled garden (small wall, admittedly) by creating 'snaps'. I'm not sure how these will differ from Debian packages, for example and Debian packaging is arguably more 'universal'. I currently use Ubuntu Mate on Pi3 and it's pretty good. But, unhappily, I'm now going to start watching Canonical for signs that it wishes to be the Microsoft of Linux.
For complex, autonomous applications (as opposed to apps, whatever they are, only joking before someone tells me) easier just to supply a complete image, anyway, like some of the media centre offerings.
I'm not going to say purple fur coats, broad brim hats with feathers and white shoes with really high heels.
Thanks, just briefly (sorry busy):
1. Pi3 + 16Gb MicroSD + Ubuntu Mate 2. Noise meter: http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/sis.... (this isn't super accurate, not expensive either)
3. ADS-B USB Dongle (R820T) incl. Small Indoor Antenna from jetvision.de
4. https://github.com/antirez/dum... to read the transponder
5. https://github.com/fiddyspence... to read the noise meter
And some ugly glue code that 'joins' the two readings and sticks them in a one-table database. Obviously this is correlation, it will record cars if you point it in the 'wrong' direction. I haven't published the glue code, because it's in a terrible state. Hope that helps.
Here's what I've made:
1. A system to monitor local aircraft noise (Decibel meter + receiver for aircraft transponders + some integration software)
2. My community currency software https://sourceforge.net/projec... + mobile phone dongle to make a mini bank-in-a-box with SMS payments
3. OpenCV + the little camera module to make a (flakey) computer vision experiment
4. Used a Pi3 as a slow desktop when my main desktop was hosed (by me, unhappily)
OK, I accept that I am old & sad & totally friendless, but these little things are great fun. Some kind of energy analysis for the house is probably the 'next thing'. Hope that helps with some ideas.
640K should be enough for anyone: http://www.computerworld.com/a... Now (please) get off my lawn.
Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling nearly managed this several years ago. Here is the proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
http://www.urbandictionary.com... I had to look it up.
That should be the universal law, like some crazed version of Kant's categorical imperative. It would stop people bumping into me as I go about my daily business too.
On the other hand, I did build a (sort-of) computer in about 1966, but the discrete transistors, solder, printed circuit blanks etc. etc. came from an electronics supply store. So I probably wouldn't be able to make this suggestion using a computer that I bought pre-built.
Why is this currently marked as 'troll'? I've been involved with search since the 1980s and old enough to see the web evolve into Facebook, Google and Amazon and I agree that Google is now sometimes near-rubbish. The top Google 'results' are usually stuff to buy, often from Amazon. DuckDuckGo is better and the ethics are better, but we could do with a few more too.
I give an introductory talk on building them at Raspberry Pi meetings, from time to time, it's here: https://www.slideshare.net/hug... so kids, get off my lawn (I'm 66) go and build some more.
Not joking. I live in London, we've tried a couple of experiments by just stopping, as one does, and morons on mobiles (may I suggest the hashtag #moronsonmobiles) just bump into you. A few apologise, most do not. So, let's get rid of the lot. Nothing that you need to do on your phone is that important, even looking at pictures of cats.
Until we don't. And actually, we know the position of most of the pieces of space junk too. We just have no idea how to clear it: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ji...
Only Microsoft will be allowed to attack and spy on you, without being perturbed or sidelined by these annoying competitors.
Sorry, that's juvenile and I should know better, but these little outbursts of virtue signalling from them get my goat. And I haven't even got a goat.
This is great, technically speaking. However, here's a little article from the BBC on the current space junk problem: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/scie... Just look at the statistics at the bottom of the article.
We've managed to fill near-earth with almost as much rubbish as the surface, the actual atmosphere and (more recently reported) the depths of the sea: https://www.theguardian.com/en...
I love tech, but we need urgently to work on its by-products.
This is also why the millions of people (including small children) currently using Raspberry Pis cannot possibly use it, it's too difficult for them, when we see them using it, we are dreaming or deceived by Descarte's evil demon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Sarcasm apart, I've used it as a desktop for about 10 years, it's become steadily easier over that period. We started a project for a housing estate (that's a 'project' for Americans, but it may be nicer) with about 20 older machines that we repurposed. Older people (therefore without some of these prejudices) used Linux, without really realising that they were not using the market standard.
I can see that a lot of commentary here will be Microsoft astro-turfing, so I won't both to reply to each one, but the above statement is nearly nonsense. Incidentally, I'm not a fanatic either, I keep a Windows laptop for music, because I still use Pro Tools. I must say, in terms of random problems (and I'm very careful about virus protection etc.) it is much more of a pain than my vintage 2006 tower running Linux Mint, usually due to driver problems and resultant BSOD episodes.
This is the new astro-turfing mantra from Microsoft now that people are switching away. Actually the last large Windows deployments where I worked, we waited 20 minutes for roaming profiles, each morning, multiple crashes each month. Every other recent place where we (developers) have been given the choice, it's always been some kind of Linux desktop, faster boot, free of Windows viruses, lower powered systems etc. etc.
I'd love to see the 'measurements' for this assertion, since Win 10 has only been around for a moment too.
Great. Same for my ex, some minor problems in the first couple of weeks (mainly education rather than software) and now 'it just works'.
Anyone else notice this? Most of statistical machine intelligence is either optimisation or training neural nets. Symbolic, in the form of expert systems and Cyc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... seems to have submarined (although I saw someone from Lucid AI in Cambridge about a year ago). I'm not sure where we are with hybrids, since I'm not a specialist.
Things can play Go, Poker and Jeopardy and (this is more sinister) approve people for loans and credit cards. But they lack the huge compositional flexibility of the human mind. They lack explanatory power and (this is bad for the so-called 'financial industry' ) they often don't deal with outliers well. So we're a while from AGI yet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... but the hype and distorted language is outpacing the capabilities. There may be marketing reasons for this. After all, 'our AI said no' is a lot more authoritative than 'our little program said no'.
Thanks. I'm not and never have been a gamer, so I never really look at that side of it. But I think you're right, Linux needs to be more recreation-friendly to pick up some important, new generation, younger users.
To declare interest, I've done a great deal of contract programming in Perl, for 'big' shops, BBC and a bit of Amazon for example. I've been in the industry since 1976 and done a lot of COBOL, RPG2, Filetab, some PL/1 etc. and more recently some Java and Python. So I'm not a one language programmer, I've been messing with Erland recently too.
Perl takes a lot of shit, and, I agree @ [ % $ (for example) makes things very mysterious, starting out. However, it's a very productive language with a huge set of library assets on CPAN (yes, too many perhaps and some are flaky as hell) and a lot of mature tools like Catalyst and mod_perl. You have to be defensive because of weak typing, but that becomes a habit, good to be defensive, anyway.
Lastly, the community is good, funny and pretty welcoming. As I'm a Londoner, I got to: http://act.yapc.eu/lpw2016/ every year, learn some stuff, meet some friends too. Lastly, lastly (I lied about the previous 'lastly') it's not in anyone's hands, like Java and Go, for example.
Try it and see. You may be surprised.
This is why the millions of people using Raspberry Pis cannot possibly use it, it's too difficult for them, when we see them using it, we are dreaming or deceived by Descarte's evil demon.
Sarcasm apart, I've used it as a desktop for about 10 years, it's become steadily easier over that period. We started a project for a housing estate (that's a 'project' for Americans, but it may be nicer) with about 20 older machines that we repurposed. Older people (therefore without some of these prejudices) used Linux, without really realising that they were not using the market standard.
I can see that a lot of commentary here will be Microsoft astro-turfing, so I won't both to reply to each one, but the above statement is nearly nonsense. Incidentally, I'm not a fanatic either, I keep a Windows laptop for music, because I still use Pro Tools. I must say, in terms of random problems (and I'm very careful about virus protection etc.) it is much more of a pain than my vintage 2006 tower running Linux Mint, usually due to driver problems and resultant BSOD episodes.
Yes, me too, I add it into the rice in my rice cooker. I'm not aware of any real bitterness and I hate the idea messing with the genetics of stuff to improve 'taste'. Sturdier plants, I can see the purpose of that.
Next stop is probably tef: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... unhappily, when Westerners latch on to things, the price rises, with predictable results for the poorer producers.
Since when did major corporations decide what was good for school? Don't answer it was a rhet-or-ical question.
I'm bilingual in French, know 'some' Japanese and have been a programmer most of my career. The one is not a substitute for the other and, also, learning foreign languages is to do with what Aristotle called flourishing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... enhanced human condition, ability to communicate with and enjoy other cultures. School and university is not just preparation for work, although Disney et al. would prefer that that be so.
I'm a 40-year industry 'veteran' and have been to a great many conferences. In the main, my employers paid for (usually) expensive tickets.
However, I often find nowadays that the informal ones, self-organised unconferences, open-source meetups are a great deal better. We talk about things that concern and are useful to us as equals rather than being sold products and being lectured to by 'thought leaders', 'evangelists' and 'horizon scanners' (whatever they are, I'm joking, before anyone tells me). Immediately I see the choppy two-hand motion and the inevitable outpouring of buzzwords, I know I'm in the wrong place. As for the networking, that's often fairly cynical.
Better, because I'm a Brit, I've been going to and (in one case) organising some Raspberry Pi Jams: https://www.raspberrypi.org/ja... for kids, parents and teachers etc. The levels of enthusiasm and expertise in these put some of the 'professional' ones to shame, ok, agree, that's slightly off-topic. There's a few Saturday the 11th too, look at the calendar further down the page.
Me too. I did have Facebook for a couple of months and then deleted it. I have also deleted my LinkedIn since the Microsoft bid.