Just like the mouse didn't replace the keyboard, touch input isn't going to replace the mouse, but rather augment it. There are things that a mouse is much better suited for, and therefore it won't go away. But in a couple years, all new computers will have touch capability. Smart people will use touch when it makes sense. Some people will forgo the mouse completely. Some people won't use the touch at all. But it will be there.
Nope, up here in Canada, gas is still sold in cents/litre. But when they get rid of the penny, they'll round the total. Watch as millions of Canadians pump just the right amount of gas into their tank so that the price is always rounded down.
1 Petabyte, while it sounds like a lot, is not an obscene amount of data. There's storage servers our there that will fit about 24 2.5 inch drives in 3u of space. In a 42U rack, that's 336 drives. So in about 3 racks full of hard drives (assuming 1GB drives), you could fit a petabyte. Now, that's no small installation, but it's not that much. Making it geographically diverse would probably present the biggest problem. I'm guessing that not all film house would do this. I wouldn't be suprised in the slightest if a flood/earthquake/fire destroyed all the footage of a movie. I don't imagine that the film was stored in geographically diverse locations 10 years ago, so I don't see why they would have changed anything going to digital.
Sorry, but this patent is stupid. This is basically sending an attachment in an email. And the patent is on where the attachment originated from (the scanner). How this is not obvious to anybody who has ever sent an email with an attachment is quite beyond me.
And then Starcraft took a step back and only let you select 12 units at a time. Moving frrom C&C where you could select as many units as you wanted to, and move them across the map, to Starcraft, where you could only select 12 units at a time, was quite painful.
Well, there's a way to do it without grinding. Grinding, at least as I define it, is walking back and forth in the same area, with no particular quest, looking for demons to slay, so as to build up your levels. This is common in a game like the original Final Fantasy, or the original Dragon Warrior (sorry, don't play RPGs much anymore). The other way to do it is to have quests of increasing difficulty such that at then end of one quest, you have everything you need to do the next quest. No walking back and for just for the sake of building up experience points, but always on a quest with some (seemingly) more worthwhile goal. The more quests you complete, the better your character gets. Games that accomplish this are Zelda (some would claim not an RPG) and Diablo, because once an enemy was dead, they were dead forever, there is no ability to "grind" because you couldn't just sit in the forest killing boars for 2 months straight.
If it's his job, then he should seriously consider getting his own web site to host his videos for exactly this reason. YouTube can drop your videos for whatever reason they want. This is exactly the reason why you shouldn't rely on a third party who you aren't paying to help you do business. Similar thing happened for Facebook. They used to send your message out to everybody for free. Now they want to charge you to reach 100% of your subscribers. If you had just built up your own following on your own website, you wouldn't have any of these kinds of problems. Sure it costs more money up front, but nobody can come and take away the service from you without any warning.
I would probably just ignore RAID for a home backup solution. Just have a job run nightly ( or ever couple of hours) to copy off the files to a backup drive. Once in a while purge files off the backup that no longer exist on the first drive. For home purposes, it's probably not terribly important that every file is mirrored instantly, and the added cost and complexity of RAID probably isn't worth it for most people.
Going to the moon was never impossible in any living person's childhood. The moon isn't really that far away. as soon as the first plane took off they started making plans to go to the moon. The nearest star is so far away that nobody has any idea how we would realistically travel there in the foreseeable future. we still haven't advanced much far beyond where we were in the 60s and 70s. Sure we've advanced the technologies a little, but we aren't getting.to the next solar system on any of the existing technologies no matter he much we refine them.
Which is fine, until a client sends you a document from MS Office and wants you to send back your changes with change tracking turned on, so that they can see what has changed in the document. If you only use it for internal documents, Google Docs can be fine. However, once you want to communicate with the outside world, you had better have MS office, or things will break down quite quickly.
There's a couple big things missing with the Pi. Firstly, as you mention, no mounting holes. But also no case. I guess this is fine for some people but I want a case that doesn't cost $15-$20. There are finally some cases that are coming out in the under $10 range, but it took a long time for them to come around. It doesn't come with an SD card, or a power supply. Which is fine, many people have them already, and you probably don't need one. But the Android computer on a stick comes with a power supply, and some onboard memory, and a case. Which if you decided to buy them for the Raspberry Pi, would come out to $20 or more. Which makes the Raspberry Pi seem like it's overpriced.
Thank you. I'm glad I wasn't the only one. I'm guessing it's the left side, as one would view it on a map where North America is on the left, and Asia is on the right. The right side would be the east side I guess.
I did this with my kids. We had a small box of lego out, and my one daughter had all (2) of the doors. My other daughter started complaining that she wanted a door, so I showed her now to make one. We didnt' have a lot of pieces out, so it was quite crude, with a large gap on the side where the hinge was, but she still thought it was the best door ever. Way better than the pre-fab doors.
Those are not AA batteries, as the other guy said, they are lithium ion rechargable batteries and are actually quite a bit bigger than AA batteries. Also, I'm not sure who the target market is who wants to charge 4 ipads at the same time. Sure if you get together with friends and you all have iPads, it would work, but then when to go your separate ways 3 are stuck without a backup battery. Better for every user to just own their own backup battery.
Here's one that costs $9.70. The Batteries cost $7.31. For a total price of $17.01. If you want more power (personally, I think the first one has more than enough, it can recharge my phone at least twice over) you can get this one for $10.40 which uses 4 of the same batteries I linked to. Total price with batteries for that unit would be $25.02
This is probably half the reason he's still alive/sane. I find that a lot of people die/deteriorate shortly after they stop working, or doing whatever it is they love. Sure a lot of the stories are anecdotal but I wonder if any serious studies have been done. I just read a story the other day about a 103 year old that rides his bike (now an adult tricycle) every day. He's still in great shape, at least for his age. If you look at most of the people to live past 90, most of them have some activity they are still actively engaged in. It's my theory that very soon after one loses the lust for life, their life goes downhill, and fast. My step-dad died at 55, shortly after his mother died. She had a stroke, and for about 10 years visited almost every day and spent a lot of time taking care of her. He had health problems for a while, but he stayed alive until shortly after she died. It almost seemed that he was holding out until she was gone.
I find the best gifts, tech-wise, are ones that are form non-tech people who spent the time to research what's out there and manage to get something good. My step-mother buys wood working (and other) tools for my dad all the time, and it amazes me how well she selects them, even though she knows very little about the subject. She takes a lot of time to research and find out what's good, without just going out and buying the most expensive thing. This shows a lot of thoughtfulness, and he usually appreciates them a lot.
I imagine that it would be quite easy to identify what traffic is going over VPN links. The network equipment in between knows the port you are connecting to, and the IP Address. Also, encrypted data looks a lot different than unencrypted data. VPN was never designed to be hard to detect, just hard to decrypt. It's a direct end-to-end connection.
Things have changed so much since the second amendment has passed. Personal firearms aren't going to save you in the event of a government or foreign invasion. They'll just fly over with a drone and drop a bomb on your house. Private citizens have pretty much no chance of standing up to any well equipped military. If it's a foreign invader, you'd better leave it up to the US military. If it's the US government coming to get you, you probably don't stand much of a chance.
Things like this are much better suited to comments in the source control. If you link the source control commit to a ticket number in your bug/feature tracking system, you get a much better idea of why things are the way they are. With comments, you're never really sure if a comment was put in by the developer, with actual thought, or copied from another piece of code blindly. The "Blame" feature of SVN is invaluable in finding out the who, why, when, and what of the code. Sometimes things get changed in a completely non-sensical way but you can track it down a a feature request from a customer. If you enforce good comments in your source control, you can get a lot more information than could ever be done with code commenting.
Yeah, Nokia does (did?) make quality hardware. I only wish they would create an android Handset. I owned a small Nokia phone and that thing had awesome GPS reception. I've had a few other phones and the GPS on all others but the Nokia was completely worthless. Plus the Nokia had their own maps built in with freely downloadable maps. I mean, Google maps is nice and all, but I don't want to be constantly downloading stuff just to view the maps. Nokia could have been a relevant player if they had abandoned their old OS and just went with Android. But they held out too long with Symbian, and then made the terrible decision of latching onto MS.
Assuming you already speak English, it really depends where you live. I live in Canada and speaking French is a big asset. In the US Spanish or French would probably be good. A lot depends on the industry you program for as well.
The reason they do this is so that they can show your pictures to other users of Instagram without getting sued. Dropbox does the same, because otherwise, they wouldn't be able to implement the shared Dropbox feature. Since you (presumably) own the copyright on whichever photo you upload, technically, if you didn't grant them any rights, they wouldn't be able to create copies, or transmit the image to other users of the system. So, in order to cover their ass against users who would upload a photo and then claim copyright infringement when they shared said photo with other users on the system, it's just easier to create an all encompassing clause which grants them the ability to actually do the stuff they need to be able to do. If in a month they introduce a new feature, that lets you do something else with your photos, or they want to make them into a new thumbnail size, they don't want to have to ask your permission to generate a bunch of new thumbnails. People have tried to sue Google for spidering their site, and I don't know if anybody was successful, but I'm sure it created a bit of a headache for Google to have to deal with it. If they really don't want their stuff indexed, they can set their robots.txt file appropriately. But instead they'd rather bring up a lawsuit. Instagram doesn't want to deal with stupid little lawsuits like this, so this is why they create these clauses.
The problem is that if you want a "beginner" developer to do the job right, you probably have to spend just as much of your own time explaining what needs to be changed, and verifying that the resulting changed worked correctly (often sending the change back, re-explaining what needed to be changed, and checking it over again), as it would take you to just do the change yourself in the first place. You can view working with beginners as an investment. But you have to be very careful that you are not pouring time into somebody who just doesn't get it, and won't ever yield a return on your investment.
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Just like the mouse didn't replace the keyboard, touch input isn't going to replace the mouse, but rather augment it. There are things that a mouse is much better suited for, and therefore it won't go away. But in a couple years, all new computers will have touch capability. Smart people will use touch when it makes sense. Some people will forgo the mouse completely. Some people won't use the touch at all. But it will be there.
Nope, up here in Canada, gas is still sold in cents/litre. But when they get rid of the penny, they'll round the total. Watch as millions of Canadians pump just the right amount of gas into their tank so that the price is always rounded down.
1 Petabyte, while it sounds like a lot, is not an obscene amount of data. There's storage servers our there that will fit about 24 2.5 inch drives in 3u of space. In a 42U rack, that's 336 drives. So in about 3 racks full of hard drives (assuming 1GB drives), you could fit a petabyte. Now, that's no small installation, but it's not that much. Making it geographically diverse would probably present the biggest problem. I'm guessing that not all film house would do this. I wouldn't be suprised in the slightest if a flood/earthquake/fire destroyed all the footage of a movie. I don't imagine that the film was stored in geographically diverse locations 10 years ago, so I don't see why they would have changed anything going to digital.
Sorry, but this patent is stupid. This is basically sending an attachment in an email. And the patent is on where the attachment originated from (the scanner). How this is not obvious to anybody who has ever sent an email with an attachment is quite beyond me.
And then Starcraft took a step back and only let you select 12 units at a time. Moving frrom C&C where you could select as many units as you wanted to, and move them across the map, to Starcraft, where you could only select 12 units at a time, was quite painful.
Well, there's a way to do it without grinding. Grinding, at least as I define it, is walking back and forth in the same area, with no particular quest, looking for demons to slay, so as to build up your levels. This is common in a game like the original Final Fantasy, or the original Dragon Warrior (sorry, don't play RPGs much anymore). The other way to do it is to have quests of increasing difficulty such that at then end of one quest, you have everything you need to do the next quest. No walking back and for just for the sake of building up experience points, but always on a quest with some (seemingly) more worthwhile goal. The more quests you complete, the better your character gets. Games that accomplish this are Zelda (some would claim not an RPG) and Diablo, because once an enemy was dead, they were dead forever, there is no ability to "grind" because you couldn't just sit in the forest killing boars for 2 months straight.
If it's his job, then he should seriously consider getting his own web site to host his videos for exactly this reason. YouTube can drop your videos for whatever reason they want. This is exactly the reason why you shouldn't rely on a third party who you aren't paying to help you do business. Similar thing happened for Facebook. They used to send your message out to everybody for free. Now they want to charge you to reach 100% of your subscribers. If you had just built up your own following on your own website, you wouldn't have any of these kinds of problems. Sure it costs more money up front, but nobody can come and take away the service from you without any warning.
I just set up a scheduled task with Robocopy. Works well enough for me. I'll check out MS Sync to see if it has a few more options.
I would probably just ignore RAID for a home backup solution. Just have a job run nightly ( or ever couple of hours) to copy off the files to a backup drive. Once in a while purge files off the backup that no longer exist on the first drive. For home purposes, it's probably not terribly important that every file is mirrored instantly, and the added cost and complexity of RAID probably isn't worth it for most people.
Going to the moon was never impossible in any living person's childhood. The moon isn't really that far away. as soon as the first plane took off they started making plans to go to the moon. The nearest star is so far away that nobody has any idea how we would realistically travel there in the foreseeable future. we still haven't advanced much far beyond where we were in the 60s and 70s. Sure we've advanced the technologies a little, but we aren't getting.to the next solar system on any of the existing technologies no matter he much we refine them.
Which is fine, until a client sends you a document from MS Office and wants you to send back your changes with change tracking turned on, so that they can see what has changed in the document. If you only use it for internal documents, Google Docs can be fine. However, once you want to communicate with the outside world, you had better have MS office, or things will break down quite quickly.
There's a couple big things missing with the Pi. Firstly, as you mention, no mounting holes. But also no case. I guess this is fine for some people but I want a case that doesn't cost $15-$20. There are finally some cases that are coming out in the under $10 range, but it took a long time for them to come around. It doesn't come with an SD card, or a power supply. Which is fine, many people have them already, and you probably don't need one. But the Android computer on a stick comes with a power supply, and some onboard memory, and a case. Which if you decided to buy them for the Raspberry Pi, would come out to $20 or more. Which makes the Raspberry Pi seem like it's overpriced.
Thank you. I'm glad I wasn't the only one. I'm guessing it's the left side, as one would view it on a map where North America is on the left, and Asia is on the right. The right side would be the east side I guess.
I did this with my kids. We had a small box of lego out, and my one daughter had all (2) of the doors. My other daughter started complaining that she wanted a door, so I showed her now to make one. We didnt' have a lot of pieces out, so it was quite crude, with a large gap on the side where the hinge was, but she still thought it was the best door ever. Way better than the pre-fab doors.
Those are not AA batteries, as the other guy said, they are lithium ion rechargable batteries and are actually quite a bit bigger than AA batteries. Also, I'm not sure who the target market is who wants to charge 4 ipads at the same time. Sure if you get together with friends and you all have iPads, it would work, but then when to go your separate ways 3 are stuck without a backup battery. Better for every user to just own their own backup battery.
Here's one that costs $9.70. The Batteries cost $7.31. For a total price of $17.01. If you want more power (personally, I think the first one has more than enough, it can recharge my phone at least twice over) you can get this one for $10.40 which uses 4 of the same batteries I linked to. Total price with batteries for that unit would be $25.02
This is probably half the reason he's still alive/sane. I find that a lot of people die/deteriorate shortly after they stop working, or doing whatever it is they love. Sure a lot of the stories are anecdotal but I wonder if any serious studies have been done. I just read a story the other day about a 103 year old that rides his bike (now an adult tricycle) every day. He's still in great shape, at least for his age. If you look at most of the people to live past 90, most of them have some activity they are still actively engaged in. It's my theory that very soon after one loses the lust for life, their life goes downhill, and fast. My step-dad died at 55, shortly after his mother died. She had a stroke, and for about 10 years visited almost every day and spent a lot of time taking care of her. He had health problems for a while, but he stayed alive until shortly after she died. It almost seemed that he was holding out until she was gone.
I find the best gifts, tech-wise, are ones that are form non-tech people who spent the time to research what's out there and manage to get something good. My step-mother buys wood working (and other) tools for my dad all the time, and it amazes me how well she selects them, even though she knows very little about the subject. She takes a lot of time to research and find out what's good, without just going out and buying the most expensive thing. This shows a lot of thoughtfulness, and he usually appreciates them a lot.
I imagine that it would be quite easy to identify what traffic is going over VPN links. The network equipment in between knows the port you are connecting to, and the IP Address. Also, encrypted data looks a lot different than unencrypted data. VPN was never designed to be hard to detect, just hard to decrypt. It's a direct end-to-end connection.
Things have changed so much since the second amendment has passed. Personal firearms aren't going to save you in the event of a government or foreign invasion. They'll just fly over with a drone and drop a bomb on your house. Private citizens have pretty much no chance of standing up to any well equipped military. If it's a foreign invader, you'd better leave it up to the US military. If it's the US government coming to get you, you probably don't stand much of a chance.
Things like this are much better suited to comments in the source control. If you link the source control commit to a ticket number in your bug/feature tracking system, you get a much better idea of why things are the way they are. With comments, you're never really sure if a comment was put in by the developer, with actual thought, or copied from another piece of code blindly. The "Blame" feature of SVN is invaluable in finding out the who, why, when, and what of the code. Sometimes things get changed in a completely non-sensical way but you can track it down a a feature request from a customer. If you enforce good comments in your source control, you can get a lot more information than could ever be done with code commenting.
Yeah, Nokia does (did?) make quality hardware. I only wish they would create an android Handset. I owned a small Nokia phone and that thing had awesome GPS reception. I've had a few other phones and the GPS on all others but the Nokia was completely worthless. Plus the Nokia had their own maps built in with freely downloadable maps. I mean, Google maps is nice and all, but I don't want to be constantly downloading stuff just to view the maps. Nokia could have been a relevant player if they had abandoned their old OS and just went with Android. But they held out too long with Symbian, and then made the terrible decision of latching onto MS.
Assuming you already speak English, it really depends where you live. I live in Canada and speaking French is a big asset. In the US Spanish or French would probably be good. A lot depends on the industry you program for as well.
The reason they do this is so that they can show your pictures to other users of Instagram without getting sued. Dropbox does the same, because otherwise, they wouldn't be able to implement the shared Dropbox feature. Since you (presumably) own the copyright on whichever photo you upload, technically, if you didn't grant them any rights, they wouldn't be able to create copies, or transmit the image to other users of the system. So, in order to cover their ass against users who would upload a photo and then claim copyright infringement when they shared said photo with other users on the system, it's just easier to create an all encompassing clause which grants them the ability to actually do the stuff they need to be able to do. If in a month they introduce a new feature, that lets you do something else with your photos, or they want to make them into a new thumbnail size, they don't want to have to ask your permission to generate a bunch of new thumbnails. People have tried to sue Google for spidering their site, and I don't know if anybody was successful, but I'm sure it created a bit of a headache for Google to have to deal with it. If they really don't want their stuff indexed, they can set their robots.txt file appropriately. But instead they'd rather bring up a lawsuit. Instagram doesn't want to deal with stupid little lawsuits like this, so this is why they create these clauses.
The problem is that if you want a "beginner" developer to do the job right, you probably have to spend just as much of your own time explaining what needs to be changed, and verifying that the resulting changed worked correctly (often sending the change back, re-explaining what needed to be changed, and checking it over again), as it would take you to just do the change yourself in the first place. You can view working with beginners as an investment. But you have to be very careful that you are not pouring time into somebody who just doesn't get it, and won't ever yield a return on your investment.