1. Download XBMC and install it on your desktop computer. Play around with the plugins and add the repository for the repository installer plugin.
2. Download via XBMC the plugins for Free Cable, Hulu, You Tube, and whatever other video plugins look good. From the previous step you shouldn't have to add any repositories on via their websites, you can do it via the repository installer plugin.
Sales taxes haven't been applied to catalog businesses for decades. What's the difference between a dead tree catalog and a catalog on the inter webs?
Scale. Catalog businesses never had 1% the volume of current online cross-state businesses.
Plus, purchasing via catalog didn't make you exempt from paying taxes. It just put the onus on the individual to calculate and collect taxes, rather than the business. This law just puts the onus back on the business.
I like the $1 million dollar floor, if it's on online gross. It allows small mom-and-pop businesses to have an online presence, and when they grow a bit they'll have to use tax software to help them out. $1 million gross seems like a reasonable number to me. You start collecting more than that you should be able to pay for some infrastructure to collect taxes. We increase that too much and big companies will be incentivized to break up their businesses to smaller units to slip under the radar.
While I applaud anything this complex being made open source, I'm wondering it it's a few years too late.
We are on the cusp of an era of high pixel density ("retina") displays. Will we still need to worry about more complex rendering of fonts (ie: hints for small sizes), or just render at whatever point size to screen and be happy that the resolution is high enough to make whatever we display readable?
Gotta say, SSD caching in the device mapper sounds pretty interesting.
Can't wait until the mainstream distributions pick this up. I'm using ext4 on my SSD (64GB) and my rotating disc HD (3 TB), and would like to seamlessly use the SSD to cache.
It's difficult to come up with an answer, but once the answer is available it's (relatively) easy to verify. Sort of like finding the factors of a number.
In this case they couldn't verify they had the right answer.
I'm not trying to downplay the seriousness of what he's done, if he's done it, but I rather suspect that is a common experience for immigrants to the USA now, especially muslim immigrants whose backgrounds are poorly understood. It's merely honest.
It's also pretty common among white teenagers. Just look up "Emo".
Apparently if verisign is delisted, the internet stops working as expected.
Which really means the internet is broken and needs to be fixed. Maybe delisting all the security signers and starting from scratch (web of trust, etc.) is a good thing...
These watches better hold a charge for a year or longer.
The advantage of a watch over a phone is that you don't have to worry about charging it up regularly.
P.S. I really don't think wireless charging is going to make the watch more endearing to the general public, but I have a feeling that's the way most of these companies are going to go.
XP was a "what for?" for long for me, but it does have its advantages over 2k. Better WiFi support was one thing. A lot of other goodies, not only the improved DirectX support, was certainly part of its appeal. Security became an issue eventually, and XP saw the beginning of an attempt to secure Windows.
The benefit of XP was that it was supposed to be the unification of the home OS line (windows 9x) and the business OS line (windows NT).
As such, a lot of people moved to it. Especially the advanced home users who were crashing Windows ME left and right but felt that Windows 2K was too complex for them because it was a business OS.
As a Linux user for nearly a decade, this is one arguement that at least is reasonable from the Windows side. WinXP isn't made to be secure. Windows Vista+ is. I probably should get a copy of Windows 7 to keep around......but Metro??? I truley hope that Microsoft can backpeddle on that UI. (Though my guess is that they can't because that would mean they no longer support their newest design interface.)
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Screw all that. Do what I did:
1. Download XBMC and install it on your desktop computer. Play around with the plugins and add the repository for the repository installer plugin.
2. Download via XBMC the plugins for Free Cable, Hulu, You Tube, and whatever other video plugins look good. From the previous step you shouldn't have to add any repositories on via their websites, you can do it via the repository installer plugin.
3. Once you get things working fine on the previous step, get a nettop PC to put by your TV and use a remote control to control (this one: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041ULKW2/ref=oh_details_o04_s00_i01?ie=UTF8&psc=1 is great as it comes with a remote and built in IR receiver and can turn itself on via the remote as well.)
4. Cut out the Video part of your cable bill and just get a reasonable download speed on your internet (the cheapest level is probably enough).
Hopefully at this point you'll be able to control XBMC via the remote control and never have to touch the nettop computer again.
They're hand made. You should expect some varience.
Sort of like how when you buy a wooden table they have a clause that there are natural knots in the wood that may effect the grain of the table.
In the same way, these missiles are obviously made of wood.
Just checked out the website.
The articles are quite similar to the ones here, but minimal discussion on articles from days ago.
Also I'm personally not a fan of the advertise placement on that site (which is also the reason I don't read techdirt much).
Sales taxes haven't been applied to catalog businesses for decades. What's the difference between a dead tree catalog and a catalog on the inter webs?
Scale. Catalog businesses never had 1% the volume of current online cross-state businesses.
Plus, purchasing via catalog didn't make you exempt from paying taxes. It just put the onus on the individual to calculate and collect taxes, rather than the business. This law just puts the onus back on the business.
I like the $1 million dollar floor, if it's on online gross. It allows small mom-and-pop businesses to have an online presence, and when they grow a bit they'll have to use tax software to help them out. $1 million gross seems like a reasonable number to me. You start collecting more than that you should be able to pay for some infrastructure to collect taxes. We increase that too much and big companies will be incentivized to break up their businesses to smaller units to slip under the radar.
While I applaud anything this complex being made open source, I'm wondering it it's a few years too late.
We are on the cusp of an era of high pixel density ("retina") displays. Will we still need to worry about more complex rendering of fonts (ie: hints for small sizes), or just render at whatever point size to screen and be happy that the resolution is high enough to make whatever we display readable?
You don't need three friends.
You just need three Facebook Friends.
Good to know.
I'm not exactly interested in Nook OS, but wouldn't mind buying the hardware. Can it run stock Android, or are there plans to allow it going forward?
You're probably right.
Better to make it a phone app.
What experiment is this?
Sorry, I thought I had a reasonable science background in high school, but that was apparently too long ago for me to remember this experiment.
Can someone provide details? I'm a little cautious in having it show up in my Google history at the moment.
Gotta say, SSD caching in the device mapper sounds pretty interesting.
Can't wait until the mainstream distributions pick this up. I'm using ext4 on my SSD (64GB) and my rotating disc HD (3 TB), and would like to seamlessly use the SSD to cache.
I thought we generally point to Kernel Newbies: http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.9
Never heard of H Online. Is this another site we're using now?
The other issue with crowd sourcing:
It's difficult to come up with an answer, but once the answer is available it's (relatively) easy to verify. Sort of like finding the factors of a number.
In this case they couldn't verify they had the right answer.
What's a nerd?
I thought it was someone that's particularly interested in a field.
How about a fitness nerd?
Or a munitions nerd?
Or a terrorism nerd?
I'm not trying to downplay the seriousness of what he's done, if he's done it, but I rather suspect that is a common experience for immigrants to the USA now, especially muslim immigrants whose backgrounds are poorly understood. It's merely honest.
It's also pretty common among white teenagers. Just look up "Emo".
I wonder if their laws dictate how good the response is?
Imagine Google created a simple AI that answered all questions in email. Would they be happy with that?
Or what if they assigned 2 people to handle all email responses in the country?
4 words:
Too big to fail.
Apparently if verisign is delisted, the internet stops working as expected.
Which really means the internet is broken and needs to be fixed. Maybe delisting all the security signers and starting from scratch (web of trust, etc.) is a good thing...
"It looks like you want to create a database in a spreadsheet application."
I wouldn't be so sure about that. My daughter, son, wife, and I have somewhat different tastes but with a lot of overlap.
Then there are the movies. Hundreds of movies and quite a few TV series as well.
Everything in unencrypted container formats with a password to the SMB share that my wife and dad know.
These watches better hold a charge for a year or longer.
The advantage of a watch over a phone is that you don't have to worry about charging it up regularly.
P.S. I really don't think wireless charging is going to make the watch more endearing to the general public, but I have a feeling that's the way most of these companies are going to go.
I made my own Linux boxes a couple times. Fun to do when I have the time.
Bought my last one pre-built from System76.
Don't think I'll ever build one again. It came quite solid and I get the extra satisfaction of supporting a Linux vendor.
Or...
Google may have more than 1 business model.
or a BMW, or a Lexus.
Pretty much all the high end cars offer them now.
XP was a "what for?" for long for me, but it does have its advantages over 2k. Better WiFi support was one thing. A lot of other goodies, not only the improved DirectX support, was certainly part of its appeal. Security became an issue eventually, and XP saw the beginning of an attempt to secure Windows.
The benefit of XP was that it was supposed to be the unification of the home OS line (windows 9x) and the business OS line (windows NT).
As such, a lot of people moved to it. Especially the advanced home users who were crashing Windows ME left and right but felt that Windows 2K was too complex for them because it was a business OS.
How about making the default password something that is physical on the device but unique to each device?
You know, something like a serial number.
As a Linux user for nearly a decade, this is one arguement that at least is reasonable from the Windows side. WinXP isn't made to be secure. Windows Vista+ is. I probably should get a copy of Windows 7 to keep around... ...but Metro??? I truley hope that Microsoft can backpeddle on that UI. (Though my guess is that they can't because that would mean they no longer support their newest design interface.)