Dropsync is an Android app which does true syncing of a directory on your phone to dropbox (in the same way as the desktop app does). To be, this is the one killer application for Android.
Unless you are fundamentally opposed to dropbox for some reason, this is in my opinion the best option.
However, other currencies don't have this problem where the currency just "breaks" suddenly, and basically stops working.
Imagine if bitcoin had been more popular, if everyone had bitcoin applications on their phone which take months to get updated, where half the world if running v7 and half v8. This would have (as I understand it, and I think I do) just fundamentally broken bitcoin, possibly beyond reasonable repair.
The EC is much better at standing up to badly behaved companies than America. What they can do is fine any company which does work in Europe.
Are you serious suggesting not selling to the EU? The EU is bigger than America, world-wide the EU could well make up at least a third of all sales that Oracle or Sun makes. Of course they aren't going to throw that away.
Because bandwidth isn't free, what gave you that idea?
The bandwidth problems don't come so much from inside Comcast's network, but from their connections to the rest of the internet. These are all charged by bandwidth because at the end of the day we at saturating the various cables that connect continents.
Looking through those book apps, there are many groups of people who are just taking every out-of-copyright book they can find and turning each into a separate app. In general, the games don't do the same things, hence the lower quantity.
By.CONF I'm sure they mean "configuration files which begin with a.". In my home directory there seem to be 80 of the things, and I have no idea what is in more than 2 of them.
..although this is an 1.1alpha release of Theora..
You say that as if it's against Theora. It's not -- otherwise they would have tested against a released version. There could well improvements in the various mpeg-4 codes if you dig around in developer repositories.
No, that won't work. Apache will drop connections which aren't making "useful progress".
However, it's definition of "useful progress" is flawed -- you can keep sending HTTP headers, and it will keep the connection open. You only have to send one every few seconds, so it's a very low bandwidth DOS attack.
This existed pre-internet. How many bought a diary and wrote one entry? Went out for a run, swim or to the gym once? Read a few pages of War and Peace? Only went to one foreign language lesson? Only bothered with a couple of piano/guitar/trumpet lessons?
While twitter has many problems, the fact that the majority of people tend to play with a new thing and then stop isn't new, or news.
Even 50MB of pure source is inconceivable to me (someone might provide a good counterexample), and that's a tiny amount of the memory of any modern system.
Office will take over from TeX when (at the least)
* It works on Linux (which lots of academics use. * It works well with version control, making it easy to merge edits made by different people * It is easy to generate tables from scripts and glue them into the document * It is easy to take a pre-written document and put it in a new style.
Now, it's possible Office already does a few of those, and it's also very possible TeX does an awful lot more than that.
The cost isn't really that much of an issue for academics, as every university tends to have a site-licence for Office and other apps. Despite this, I still never use it.
I don't believe we were designed for any particular reason. However, I wish to investigate how the universe works, both for my own interest, and because experience shows that learning more about how the universe works lets us make more cool things.
I have no reason to believe the laws of physics will stay the same. However, they seem to be staying the same, so I'll assume they will until I have a reason to think otherwise.
I'm nice to people and help them, because experience tells me that tends to lead to people being nice to me, and helping me, which is useful.
I don't see what part of my atheism I'm not consistent with?
No offense, but that only seems to show that bad shoes are really, really bad for you. How do you know barefoot might not be better than even good, new shoes?
Or maybe, they have got a license for playing MP3s and other audio types, and can't release the source for it? That's a standard part of lots of patent licensing.
How many people do you think would pay extra money to get an extra queen in chess?
How many people would pay to get some more "e"s in Scrabble, even when just playing with friends, if they wouldn't get caught?
People like to be the best, and lots of people want to do it without skill or work.
I'm concerned that after reading the article, and apt-p2p's FAQ page, that I can't find any guide to how much upload bandwidth this thing will use.
While I'm all for sharing, I find it important to cap my upload speed so my connection performs well on other stuff I'm doing, and also stop uploading once I'm at 1:1 sharing or so. Some of us pay if we use too much bandwidth!
The first rule of pirated movies isn't don't discuss them, it's don't go out and download them, watch them, then admit you did it.
You can easily write an article about a crime, without actually going out and committing it yourself.
While this sounds like a cool idea, I think the problem is being exaggerated slightly. The suggestion is that doing 1200 tests per commit doesn't scale is simply not true.
In general necessary to run the tests for every commit, if commit N passes, and commit N+5 passes, it really doesn't seem necessary to check the ones inbetween. We run a lot more than 1200 tests on 3 operating systems and one dual-core computer with VMs is more than enough to keep up.
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Dropsync is an Android app which does true syncing of a directory on your phone to dropbox (in the same way as the desktop app does). To be, this is the one killer application for Android.
Unless you are fundamentally opposed to dropbox for some reason, this is in my opinion the best option.
However, other currencies don't have this problem where the currency just "breaks" suddenly, and basically stops working.
Imagine if bitcoin had been more popular, if everyone had bitcoin applications on their phone which take months to get updated, where half the world if running v7 and half v8. This would have (as I understand it, and I think I do) just fundamentally broken bitcoin, possibly beyond reasonable repair.
The EC is much better at standing up to badly behaved companies than America. What they can do is fine any company which does work in Europe.
Are you serious suggesting not selling to the EU? The EU is bigger than America, world-wide the EU could well make up at least a third of all sales that Oracle or Sun makes. Of course they aren't going to throw that away.
Because bandwidth isn't free, what gave you that idea?
The bandwidth problems don't come so much from inside Comcast's network, but from their connections to the rest of the internet. These are all charged by bandwidth because at the end of the day we at saturating the various cables that connect continents.
Looking through those book apps, there are many groups of people who are just taking every out-of-copyright book they can find and turning each into a separate app. In general, the games don't do the same things, hence the lower quantity.
By .CONF I'm sure they mean "configuration files which begin with a .". In my home directory there seem to be 80 of the things, and I have no idea what is in more than 2 of them.
Basically you are suggesting someone would make and then sell a disk which could only be read, entirely, 10 times in it's entire life time?
Well that's easily solved. We won't buy those disks.
..although this is an 1.1alpha release of Theora..
You say that as if it's against Theora. It's not -- otherwise they would have tested against a released version. There could well improvements in the various mpeg-4 codes if you dig around in developer repositories.
No, that won't work. Apache will drop connections which aren't making "useful progress".
However, it's definition of "useful progress" is flawed -- you can keep sending HTTP headers, and it will keep the connection open. You only have to send one every few seconds, so it's a very low bandwidth DOS attack.
Surely Mootium?
This existed pre-internet. How many bought a diary and wrote one entry? Went out for a run, swim or to the gym once? Read a few pages of War and Peace? Only went to one foreign language lesson? Only bothered with a couple of piano/guitar/trumpet lessons?
While twitter has many problems, the fact that the majority of people tend to play with a new thing and then stop isn't new, or news.
All you would reveal would be how full the disk is. Is that a serious concern? If so, you will have to accept the cost of slowed encrypted discs.
Actually in Europe the average PhD duration is more like 3 years. I know a few people who have passed through CERN and gone while doing their PhDs.
Woops, missed the subtlety there. My bad.
Seriously? Swapping because of much larger files?
Even 50MB of pure source is inconceivable to me (someone might provide a good counterexample), and that's a tiny amount of the memory of any modern system.
Why it Died: cost > income
normal human beings
Academics aren't normal human beings. ;)
Office will take over from TeX when (at the least)
* It works on Linux (which lots of academics use.
* It works well with version control, making it easy to merge edits made by different people
* It is easy to generate tables from scripts and glue them into the document
* It is easy to take a pre-written document and put it in a new style.
Now, it's possible Office already does a few of those, and it's also very possible TeX does an awful lot more than that.
The cost isn't really that much of an issue for academics, as every university tends to have a site-licence for Office and other apps. Despite this, I still never use it.
I have no reason to believe the laws of physics will stay the same. However, they seem to be staying the same, so I'll assume they will until I have a reason to think otherwise.
I'm nice to people and help them, because experience tells me that tends to lead to people being nice to me, and helping me, which is useful.
I don't see what part of my atheism I'm not consistent with?
No offense, but that only seems to show that bad shoes are really, really bad for you. How do you know barefoot might not be better than even good, new shoes?
Or maybe, they have got a license for playing MP3s and other audio types, and can't release the source for it? That's a standard part of lots of patent licensing.
How many people do you think would pay extra money to get an extra queen in chess? How many people would pay to get some more "e"s in Scrabble, even when just playing with friends, if they wouldn't get caught? People like to be the best, and lots of people want to do it without skill or work.
I'm concerned that after reading the article, and apt-p2p's FAQ page, that I can't find any guide to how much upload bandwidth this thing will use. While I'm all for sharing, I find it important to cap my upload speed so my connection performs well on other stuff I'm doing, and also stop uploading once I'm at 1:1 sharing or so. Some of us pay if we use too much bandwidth!
The first rule of pirated movies isn't don't discuss them, it's don't go out and download them, watch them, then admit you did it. You can easily write an article about a crime, without actually going out and committing it yourself.
While this sounds like a cool idea, I think the problem is being exaggerated slightly. The suggestion is that doing 1200 tests per commit doesn't scale is simply not true. In general necessary to run the tests for every commit, if commit N passes, and commit N+5 passes, it really doesn't seem necessary to check the ones inbetween. We run a lot more than 1200 tests on 3 operating systems and one dual-core computer with VMs is more than enough to keep up.