XBMC uses many tuners, but depends on their drivers being installed in the OS. I don't see that happening any time soon for the R Pi. I hope I'm wrong about that, but until then this will not really serve as a media center.
It's not supposed to be a full media centre - it's a potential front end. I like the idea because I'm already running MythTv, and if this works it's $50 plus an extra screen I have lying around to put another TV in my kitchen.
And from the 1890s to the 1980s Kodak did the same thing, repeatedly, in the fields of consumer and professional imaging. Think Kodak folding cameras, Brownie cameras, 120 film, 35mm film, Kodachrome. Then they stopped.
In later years their killer device was film, but before that it was film + cameras. Their Brownie camera, for example, kick-starting the consumer photo revolution.
In fact, Kodak's transition from film + camera to film only (with innovations such as Kodak Disc, APS-C demonstrating their ability to develop new markets) is a good example of successful disruptive innovation. Where they failed was the jump from film to digital.
Kodak's demise is a cautionary tale for anyone who owns Apple stock. The two companies have a lot in common - at one point Kodak's products were in every house in the developed world. Kodak owned entire categories of consumer devices and were heavily used by the creative classes. Kodak had the additional advantage of being entrenched in a number of huge industries, including news, media, Hollywood and hospitals. In short, they were seen as indispensable and their earnings reflected this reality.
Fast forward 30 years and they completely failed to re-invent themselves, which is mandatory for consumer products companies. Sony has its own issues, but at least they aren't trying to make a go of Walkmans any more. Apple is approaching a similar inflection point, and their need to innovate goes well beyond a slightly larger, slightly faster iPhone.
What's the shortest distance between any two continents, anywhere in the world?
If you exclude continents that are actually touching, then the Europe and Africa across the Straits of Gibralter. The gap is only 14.3km at it's narrowest, so transcontinental artillery is easily achievable (105mm howitzers have a range well in excess of 15km, and larger artillery can go much, much further). Of course, a traditional cannonball maxes out at a few hundred yards so setting up the Mythbusters experiment in Morocco would have merely been a hazard to shipping, not buildings.
RIM also announced that Mobile Fusion is in early beta testing and will be released in "late March". Not trying to flame here, but does anyone seriously believe RIM's ship date projections any more? Have any of their devices or software packages shipped on schedule in the last two years? Here's hoping that they've learned how to calculate an appropriate Scotty Factor.
Assuming you can ensure the safety of the construction workers, that actually makes a lot of sense.
Personally I've always preferred the SimCity method of urban planning, which is where you always put the nuclear plants in the corner. That way you only need to worry about a 90 degree arc of destruction, rather than a full 360 degrees. The problem with Japan is that it's an island, so you can't get to the corner of the board. They really should have thought of that before they started the game.
Might be useful in niche markets such as film & television. Polaroids were often used to ensure continuity between takes and after breaks - take a picture of the actor before stopping and use it as a comparison point when it's time to get going again. Could use digital but this would just be easier.
Sure, but idealism only goes so far. If you're camping in the summer you can try to destroy the source of all the mosquitos, or you can apply bug spray. Only one will give you the desired result.
Just block their domain and get on with your life. If you value your time at, say, $20/hr, how much are you willing to spend in order to get nothing in return?
2. There is one known planet with life (earth), so the odds for life orbiting any particular star at any point in time over the last 13.75 billion years is going to be better than one in a septillion, or 1:1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000. I like those odds.
3. Stars are very far apart, and 13.75 billion years is a long time. The odds that another planet close enough to earth has intelligent life which developed inter-stellar travel and visited earth in the same 500-1,000-year period when might we actually be able to notice them is vanishingly small. I don't like those odds at all.
1. Aliens are almost certainly real. Those who refuse to believe in the likely existence of extraterrestrial life either refuse to acknowledge or cannot comprehend the vastness of space and (especially) the vastness of time.
2. UFOs are absolutely real. There are lots of instances where people legitimately see objects in the sky that they cannot identify/classify.
3. UFOs are absolutely not aliens. Those who believe that aliens have visited earth either refuse to acknowledge or cannot comprehend the vastness of space and (especially) the vastness of time.
Don't forget the Kobo Vox - 7" colour eReader w/ web browser and Android apps for $199. The big advantage of Kobo is that you can run their software on the Kobo, iPad/iPhone, Android, BB, Palm or computer. Each title is fully transportable so you don't need to worry about device lock-in.
Seems like a very complicated way to collect taxes.
A useful application would be to target those vehicles which are going more than 10% (or 10km/h or whatever) faster than everyone else. That would actually improve safety and make the highway system more efficient (homogenous traffic reduces braking/lane changes and increases throughput). However, that's not the primary goal of highway speed enforcement so it will never happen
Interesting thought, but I don't think it's a good idea. Volunteering everything might work as long as there are very few people doing it -- but if everyone starts doing it, it then (i) the feds will focus on improving software that automatically filters out suspicious traits from the online data, and (ii) not sharing everything will be deemed suspicious.
Interesting that it pales in comparison to the largest nuclear bomb ever detonated, the 50 megaton Tsar Bomba. However, the Soviets only made one of those while the Americans has 50 B53s, so what they lacked in tonnage they made up for in volume.
It's more that the 24 hour news media has made the requirement for a national broadcast system obsolete. 9/11 was as good a reason as any to use the EBS, but because the attacks were already all over the dial/internet there was no real need.
That said, the days of TV are numbered. A more useful extension would be to integrate national/regional/cell tower-specific emergency messaging so that they can be used for everything from natural disasters to controlling riots.
At least RTFS - 94% of all connections used 2.4GHz, while 47% of iPads used 5GHz. Most devices are either G only or 2.4GHz N. People generally avoid 802.11a and dual-band 802.11n often isn't turned on. So those numbers are not surprising.
When you were a child there were undoubtedly some science fictions that you believed to be facts (e.g., sound in space, dinosaurs and men, cats and dogs living together). Are there any examples of how realizing the truth was a particularly cathartic act? How did these revelations shape your decision to become a scientist?
Outside of the Star Trek series, you've had a large number of regular, one-off and recurring roles. Are there any shows currently in production where you'd really like to do a cameo? How about a canceled show, where you really wish you'd had the chance to appear?
Not if they're running a vnc session on their home computer through an ssh tunnel. At that point you'd need a keylogger, but even that wouldn't capture everything. Maybe screen grabs? How about a video camera mounted over the employee's shoulder? The whole idea of staff monitoring gets messy pretty fast.
Depends on what you think the "shit" is. Some people are saying it's hw/sw integration, and others are all about patent trolling. In reality, this is part of Google's effort to strengthen its position in eCommerce, specifically mobile and POS payments.
Put an RFID chip in every phone and you instantly get an EMV-compliant card replacement and an EMV-compliant card acceptance point. Forget all that Square magstripe bs - this would be the real thing. Combine it with Google Wallet and you have an end-to-end solution where anyone can make or accept payments via their phone. With Google controlling the hw and the sw they can set the standards. To make it even more interesting, think of what would happen if/when Google buys MasterCard.
Go ahead with this and you'll have every taxi driver, flea market, convention booth and convenience store in the country with cheap access to payments issuance and acceptance. Now move that model to Africa and the Middle East. The future of mobile isn't handsets - it's payments.
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XBMC uses many tuners, but depends on their drivers being installed in the OS. I don't see that happening any time soon for the R Pi. I hope I'm wrong about that, but until then this will not really serve as a media center.
It's not supposed to be a full media centre - it's a potential front end. I like the idea because I'm already running MythTv, and if this works it's $50 plus an extra screen I have lying around to put another TV in my kitchen.
And from the 1890s to the 1980s Kodak did the same thing, repeatedly, in the fields of consumer and professional imaging. Think Kodak folding cameras, Brownie cameras, 120 film, 35mm film, Kodachrome. Then they stopped.
In later years their killer device was film, but before that it was film + cameras. Their Brownie camera, for example, kick-starting the consumer photo revolution.
In fact, Kodak's transition from film + camera to film only (with innovations such as Kodak Disc, APS-C demonstrating their ability to develop new markets) is a good example of successful disruptive innovation. Where they failed was the jump from film to digital.
Kodak's demise is a cautionary tale for anyone who owns Apple stock. The two companies have a lot in common - at one point Kodak's products were in every house in the developed world. Kodak owned entire categories of consumer devices and were heavily used by the creative classes. Kodak had the additional advantage of being entrenched in a number of huge industries, including news, media, Hollywood and hospitals. In short, they were seen as indispensable and their earnings reflected this reality.
Fast forward 30 years and they completely failed to re-invent themselves, which is mandatory for consumer products companies. Sony has its own issues, but at least they aren't trying to make a go of Walkmans any more. Apple is approaching a similar inflection point, and their need to innovate goes well beyond a slightly larger, slightly faster iPhone.
What's the shortest distance between any two continents, anywhere in the world?
If you exclude continents that are actually touching, then the Europe and Africa across the Straits of Gibralter. The gap is only 14.3km at it's narrowest, so transcontinental artillery is easily achievable (105mm howitzers have a range well in excess of 15km, and larger artillery can go much, much further). Of course, a traditional cannonball maxes out at a few hundred yards so setting up the Mythbusters experiment in Morocco would have merely been a hazard to shipping, not buildings.
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RIM also announced that Mobile Fusion is in early beta testing and will be released in "late March". Not trying to flame here, but does anyone seriously believe RIM's ship date projections any more? Have any of their devices or software packages shipped on schedule in the last two years? Here's hoping that they've learned how to calculate an appropriate Scotty Factor.
Assuming you can ensure the safety of the construction workers, that actually makes a lot of sense.
Personally I've always preferred the SimCity method of urban planning, which is where you always put the nuclear plants in the corner. That way you only need to worry about a 90 degree arc of destruction, rather than a full 360 degrees. The problem with Japan is that it's an island, so you can't get to the corner of the board. They really should have thought of that before they started the game.
Because makeup artists working out of a tackle box-sized makeup kit in a random alleyway on a location shoot have room for a 42" TV?
Might be useful in niche markets such as film & television. Polaroids were often used to ensure continuity between takes and after breaks - take a picture of the actor before stopping and use it as a comparison point when it's time to get going again. Could use digital but this would just be easier.
Sure, but idealism only goes so far. If you're camping in the summer you can try to destroy the source of all the mosquitos, or you can apply bug spray. Only one will give you the desired result.
Just block their domain and get on with your life. If you value your time at, say, $20/hr, how much are you willing to spend in order to get nothing in return?
1. Lots of credible estimates out there. Wikipedia (which is never wrong, of course) provides an estimate for the observable universe of about 3 to 100 × 10^22 stars (30 sextillion to a septillion stars) organized in more than 80 billion galaxies. If you make an assumption on the average number of habitable planets per star (our solar system has one, for example), you have a rough guess.
2. There is one known planet with life (earth), so the odds for life orbiting any particular star at any point in time over the last 13.75 billion years is going to be better than one in a septillion, or 1:1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000. I like those odds.
3. Stars are very far apart, and 13.75 billion years is a long time. The odds that another planet close enough to earth has intelligent life which developed inter-stellar travel and visited earth in the same 500-1,000-year period when might we actually be able to notice them is vanishingly small. I don't like those odds at all.
To sum up TFA:
1. Aliens are almost certainly real. Those who refuse to believe in the likely existence of extraterrestrial life either refuse to acknowledge or cannot comprehend the vastness of space and (especially) the vastness of time.
2. UFOs are absolutely real. There are lots of instances where people legitimately see objects in the sky that they cannot identify/classify.
3. UFOs are absolutely not aliens. Those who believe that aliens have visited earth either refuse to acknowledge or cannot comprehend the vastness of space and (especially) the vastness of time.
Don't forget the Kobo Vox - 7" colour eReader w/ web browser and Android apps for $199. The big advantage of Kobo is that you can run their software on the Kobo, iPad/iPhone, Android, BB, Palm or computer. Each title is fully transportable so you don't need to worry about device lock-in.
Seems like a very complicated way to collect taxes.
A useful application would be to target those vehicles which are going more than 10% (or 10km/h or whatever) faster than everyone else. That would actually improve safety and make the highway system more efficient (homogenous traffic reduces braking/lane changes and increases throughput). However, that's not the primary goal of highway speed enforcement so it will never happen
Interesting thought, but I don't think it's a good idea. Volunteering everything might work as long as there are very few people doing it -- but if everyone starts doing it, it then (i) the feds will focus on improving software that automatically filters out suspicious traits from the online data, and (ii) not sharing everything will be deemed suspicious.
We already have this - it's called Facebook.
Interesting that it pales in comparison to the largest nuclear bomb ever detonated, the 50 megaton Tsar Bomba. However, the Soviets only made one of those while the Americans has 50 B53s, so what they lacked in tonnage they made up for in volume.
It's more that the 24 hour news media has made the requirement for a national broadcast system obsolete. 9/11 was as good a reason as any to use the EBS, but because the attacks were already all over the dial/internet there was no real need.
That said, the days of TV are numbered. A more useful extension would be to integrate national/regional/cell tower-specific emergency messaging so that they can be used for everything from natural disasters to controlling riots.
At least RTFS - 94% of all connections used 2.4GHz, while 47% of iPads used 5GHz. Most devices are either G only or 2.4GHz N. People generally avoid 802.11a and dual-band 802.11n often isn't turned on. So those numbers are not surprising.
When you were a child there were undoubtedly some science fictions that you believed to be facts (e.g., sound in space, dinosaurs and men, cats and dogs living together). Are there any examples of how realizing the truth was a particularly cathartic act? How did these revelations shape your decision to become a scientist?
Related question:
Outside of the Star Trek series, you've had a large number of regular, one-off and recurring roles. Are there any shows currently in production where you'd really like to do a cameo? How about a canceled show, where you really wish you'd had the chance to appear?
Sure it's been 25 years, but you'd think that Apple would still be pissed about the Unitron Mac 512 debacle.
http://lowendmac.com/clones/unitron.html
Not if they're running a vnc session on their home computer through an ssh tunnel. At that point you'd need a keylogger, but even that wouldn't capture everything. Maybe screen grabs? How about a video camera mounted over the employee's shoulder? The whole idea of staff monitoring gets messy pretty fast.
Depends on what you think the "shit" is. Some people are saying it's hw/sw integration, and others are all about patent trolling. In reality, this is part of Google's effort to strengthen its position in eCommerce, specifically mobile and POS payments.
Put an RFID chip in every phone and you instantly get an EMV-compliant card replacement and an EMV-compliant card acceptance point. Forget all that Square magstripe bs - this would be the real thing. Combine it with Google Wallet and you have an end-to-end solution where anyone can make or accept payments via their phone. With Google controlling the hw and the sw they can set the standards. To make it even more interesting, think of what would happen if/when Google buys MasterCard.
Go ahead with this and you'll have every taxi driver, flea market, convention booth and convenience store in the country with cheap access to payments issuance and acceptance. Now move that model to Africa and the Middle East. The future of mobile isn't handsets - it's payments.