I remember when I visited my family in Pakistan back in 1999. My uncle had a switch under the dashboard of his car which switched the fuel source from gasoline to CNG (compressed natural gas) while he was driving, with the CNG being stored in a tank in the trunk. He'd switch to gasoline when driving around the mountains of the capital for the extra power but otherwise keep it at CNG because natural gas was cheaper. This car hadn't come with CNG - the conversion had cost a few hundred dollars (US dollars, I don't remember the price in rupees) for his 1980's model sedan.
These companies don't care about talent. I bet the Palm division has a bunch of attractive patents related to touchscreen interfaces: the first Palm pilot was released in 1996. Honestly patents are worth so much these days that I doubt that HP would be willing to sell them.
Agreed, it's a perfectly fine language for plenty of things like business applications. If you want to build operating systems or first person shooters, you won't be using.Net or Java, that's just not what they're for.
With the right device you don't even need a SIP provider. I'm waiting for the OBi 100 to be released (April 2011 for only $45), this is the first device that can talk directly to Google Voice without an intermediary SIP provider. Their currently available OBi 110 apparently has the same feature, it's just more than I'm willing to pay.
Small change to this: We store this information an indefinite amount of time for reasons even we don’t fully understand.
I would say this instead, which is probably closer to the truth: "We store this information an indefinite amount of time because, well, disk space is cheap."
This is way beyond privacy - after all, how do they get your web browsing history? Not from your provider, they don't log every DNS request, but by breaking into your home and cloning your hard drive.
Yeah, you have a valid point but the framers of the constitution disagreed with you - and things were pretty rural back then, I'm sure it was PITA to deliver mail in the late 1700's.
Regarding (1), it's definitely possible to hide photos tagged of you from everyone except yourself. It took me a while to figure out how to do it, but that's my current setting.
It might serve as a wake-up call to people who share too much publicly.
So I'm a software developer, in my early 30's, pretty tech-savy. It took me about 45 minutes (a long time, I think) digging around Facebook's privacy settings to properly hide everything. Not only do you have to go under "Privacy", but also "Application Settings" - would the average user know to do that? Apparently "Group" privacy settings are under applications??? Those settings are complicated And even now I can't hide 1) my friends list from the public 2) my pages from the public. So my point is it's hard to NOT share too much publicly with Facebook.
I'm paying $68/month for my iPhone - unlimited minutes, 500 texts, unlimited 2G data (plenty fast for me), no contract, amazing customer service, generally OK coverage, I'm on the phone for hours at a time without dropping calls.
What plan am I on, you ask? Why T-Mobile's loyalty plan!
Exactly, they're trying to charge spammers for guaranteed delivery to your inbox. I prefer the Gmail model of spam management - build some incredibly good filters and eliminate 99% of all spam.
I get this same behavior with every desktop video player I've used. The flaw is with Windows, not Netflix, not Silverlight, not VLC or any other video player.
It's an experimental prototype, and $200k is DIRT CHEAP compared to what goes into development of this kind. Example:
Fuel-cell vehicles have been a big gamble for Honda, which has spent the last 16 years and millions of dollars - the company will not say exactly how much - developing them.
If you jailbreak, you can access the Cydia app store, which is awesome, and has stuff that Apple would never approve. You can install things like tethering apps directly from your iPhone, it's as functional as the official app store.
It is sort of like "Terminator Vision", except corporations can buy ad space in it: John Connor identified, targeti...SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM MCDONALD'S: COME IN NOW WITH YOUR PHONE FOR $1 OFF A COMBO MEAL!!!
I buy all my music on the Amazon MP3 store. I find whatever I'm looking for, 89 or 99 cents, in unencumbered MP3 format. It's automatically added to my iTunes library, and the cover art even shows up automatically on my iPhone.
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I remember when I visited my family in Pakistan back in 1999. My uncle had a switch under the dashboard of his car which switched the fuel source from gasoline to CNG (compressed natural gas) while he was driving, with the CNG being stored in a tank in the trunk. He'd switch to gasoline when driving around the mountains of the capital for the extra power but otherwise keep it at CNG because natural gas was cheaper. This car hadn't come with CNG - the conversion had cost a few hundred dollars (US dollars, I don't remember the price in rupees) for his 1980's model sedan.
These companies don't care about talent. I bet the Palm division has a bunch of attractive patents related to touchscreen interfaces: the first Palm pilot was released in 1996. Honestly patents are worth so much these days that I doubt that HP would be willing to sell them.
Agreed, it's a perfectly fine language for plenty of things like business applications. If you want to build operating systems or first person shooters, you won't be using .Net or Java, that's just not what they're for.
Thanks for the tip, I'll keep an eye on the twitter feed. $50 for the Obi110 with two ports, I'd totally go for that.
With the right device you don't even need a SIP provider. I'm waiting for the OBi 100 to be released (April 2011 for only $45), this is the first device that can talk directly to Google Voice without an intermediary SIP provider. Their currently available OBi 110 apparently has the same feature, it's just more than I'm willing to pay.
Is that you, Garrison Keillor?
I would say this instead, which is probably closer to the truth: "We store this information an indefinite amount of time because, well, disk space is cheap."
Or if you have Linux web hosting, just use SSH tunneling . You're already paying for web hosting, might as well get more out of it.
Whoops, mod me down to oblivion please. I didn't bother reading the article.
This is way beyond privacy - after all, how do they get your web browsing history? Not from your provider, they don't log every DNS request, but by breaking into your home and cloning your hard drive.
Yeah, you have a valid point but the framers of the constitution disagreed with you - and things were pretty rural back then, I'm sure it was PITA to deliver mail in the late 1700's.
I'm pretty sure that canned food companies haven't stopped using it .
You can watch the video on akihabaranews
Regarding (1), it's definitely possible to hide photos tagged of you from everyone except yourself. It took me a while to figure out how to do it, but that's my current setting.
So I'm a software developer, in my early 30's, pretty tech-savy. It took me about 45 minutes (a long time, I think) digging around Facebook's privacy settings to properly hide everything. Not only do you have to go under "Privacy", but also "Application Settings" - would the average user know to do that? Apparently "Group" privacy settings are under applications??? Those settings are complicated And even now I can't hide 1) my friends list from the public 2) my pages from the public. So my point is it's hard to NOT share too much publicly with Facebook.
did you just post your phone number to Slashdot????
I'm paying $68/month for my iPhone - unlimited minutes, 500 texts, unlimited 2G data (plenty fast for me), no contract, amazing customer service, generally OK coverage, I'm on the phone for hours at a time without dropping calls.
What plan am I on, you ask? Why T-Mobile's loyalty plan!
What about private space exploration? If SpaceX gets to Mars first, can it claim the whole planet?
Exactly, they're trying to charge spammers for guaranteed delivery to your inbox. I prefer the Gmail model of spam management - build some incredibly good filters and eliminate 99% of all spam.
I get this same behavior with every desktop video player I've used. The flaw is with Windows, not Netflix, not Silverlight, not VLC or any other video player.
It's an experimental prototype, and $200k is DIRT CHEAP compared to what goes into development of this kind. Example:
Fuel-cell vehicles have been a big gamble for Honda, which has spent the last 16 years and millions of dollars - the company will not say exactly how much - developing them.
If you jailbreak, you can access the Cydia app store, which is awesome, and has stuff that Apple would never approve. You can install things like tethering apps directly from your iPhone, it's as functional as the official app store.
You forgot the last option: do nothing and accept that you're greatly increasing your chances of dying before 50.
People think they're going to live forever while treating their bodies like crap. It just doesn't work that way.
John Connor identified, targeti... SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM MCDONALD'S: COME IN NOW WITH YOUR PHONE FOR $1 OFF A COMBO MEAL!!!
Wake me up when anyone can put their stuff on it.
I buy all my music on the Amazon MP3 store. I find whatever I'm looking for, 89 or 99 cents, in unencumbered MP3 format. It's automatically added to my iTunes library, and the cover art even shows up automatically on my iPhone.