You mean something like a missile control radar? Something tells me the entire point of one of those would be to pickup an incoming RF signal! Who's to say there's not a ping-of-death that could be sent to one to turn it off? What are you going to do, debug embedded processors etc?
Unless, for example, he was asked to spout this as disinformation. It might make an intelligence agency quite happy to have eyes turned away from alternative methods to shutting these things down.
Well, yes. I first came across them in the early 90s whilst a student presented with unfettered access to the WWW whilst at the University of Leeds - where I attended a talk about what the web was going to do for us all, hosted by Tim Berners-Lee. A very nice guy from what I remember. I picked Communicator as an example of when it was hitting what passed for the mainstream...
Seriously, "collaborative whiteboards" and multi-user editing environments have been around since early Netscape Communicator days - but does anyone actually use or want them? Sure, a system for checking out documents so several people can make changes, but simultaneous editing of documents - what's the use case for them? Who's asking for this? Who's even using it?
The *only* films that get watched multiple times are the kids ones in our house. This is exactly why I don't want them on DVD - they'd get scratched and rendered unplayable in short order. Instead, they're ripped AVIs getting played through XBMC to my TV.
Sure, that's why any device over a kilowatt comes with a DEA warning sticker.
Off the top of my head - most power-hungry devices in my house:
1) electric induction hob
2) immersion heater in hot water tank
3) electric kettle
4) fan heater
6) washing machine/tumble drier
Seriously - it's not particularly green to run a 1k computer in your house 24/7 but this is a specialised workstation. Can't see the footprint of replacing it with a rack of render-farm machines being particularly lower.
You're basically describing a simple iphone/android app like RedLaser or similar. The database for barcodes already exists - which is kind of the point of it.
See, I hear what you're saying - but I'm not convinced, and I'm a prime candidate for wanting to spend money on overcomplicating my life with expensive gadgets.
In your example, you've only got so many hob rings, so many ovens. If you're going to pre-prep all your veg and leave it sitting there in cold pans of water, and you have enough appliances and pots/pans to accomodate these - then sure, have an automator turn them on and off so they all are done at the same time.
I don't think this suits most people though. First off, programming the logic for each meal isn't trivial. It doesn't fit people's kitchens. Also, it reduces cooking to the level of reheating microwave meals - no interaction to tweak the recipe, the seasoning, etc. Finally, if you're going to prep all your ingredients ahead of time (which I regularlyl do prior to Sunday dinner withthe family) then the actual scheduling of turning on/off hob rings etc really is the minor part of the job. Add to this the engineering required to make sure that you can't boil pans dry and ruin stuff, or grill things until they catch fire, and you've got a complicated and expensive proposition with uncertain value.
If you end up with a product that appeals to geeks who are willing to rework their entire kitchen, but don't like cooking, then maybe this is a goer. I don't think the market is all that big, though.
Whenever I've looked into HA, I've concluded "it's cool, but what would I *use* it for?". Heating? My condenser boiler with wireless controller does just fine - I programmed it once to reflect when we tend to be in the house, and it just works. Open blinds and curtains? Well, maybe. What I'd *really* like is central locking for the house - a button on a keyfob that closed and locked all windows and doors, and turned the alarm on. Awful lot of expenditure on actuators etc to get that working, though.
For most normal-sized houses I still think HA is a solution looking for a problem.
I'm running 10.5.5 on an Intel Atom-based Mini ITX headless server living in my loft. It's hooked up with a pair of 500GB drives in RAID 1 and does all media serving around the house. Works great. Now that Boot132's a bit more mature, it's even easier than it used to be..Seriously, if you can install Windows on a box you built, you can do the same with OS X if you pick the right hardware. Insanelymac.com were the most useful forums I found for help with this kind of thing.
They may have bought this app *deliberately* to stop deletion of data, and maintain an audit trail: say for example they wanted to ensure that no-one could run a tap, then delete the evidence that it'd been done - this might even have been a legal requirement.
If the law has changed since then, changing the requirements, then sure they need to go back to the vendor and ask what can be done about it. To be honest, if the alternative is that an operator can casually alter the audit trail and delete records, I'd prefer this option.
Leo Laporte and This Week In Google covered this with an interview with Google.
Basically it boils down to: Twitter results can be valuable for real-time, breaking news. Less so after the fact. If you googled for "Trafigura" a week or so ago, you wouldn't have seen much of interest. If you searched Twitter whilst it was breaking news of the injunction, it was full of info. Google are savvy with search and I'm sure they've got this all factored into PageRank already.
They're getting a business benefit from heat, light and gravity, too. Shouldn't they be taxed on them? Oh, wait, they are. They're a business that's acting as a tax-collector for HMG as they charge their customers VAT.
...buy you also had people in late 80s/early 90s putting together budget *hifi* systems: say a no-frills NAD 3020 amp, some Mission bookshelf speakers, an early CD player or a decent LP player etc.
Everyone wants a surround sound system, and a thumping sub: they just don't care what it sounds like.
Mass market "Hifi" is sold on features and price, not audio quality. This is why we have systems with !1000W PMPO! that somehow run off a 500mA wallwart. It's why we have satellite speakers and subs that are all lows and highs, and no mids. It's why we're happy to have iPod docks instead of hifis in our living rooms.
I'm not saying it's right, but I think in general people don't perceive the need for genuine high fidelity audio. That's not to say they won't appreciate it when they hear it, obviously.
Myself, I blew my ears with a decade of electric bass, standing too close to the highhat and going to raves back in the 90s...!
How would you suggest turning off a laptop mic? No hardware switch to do so (unless you've a BIOS option to do it, which I doubt). You could disable the sound card in device manager, but then you've no audio. Seems a valid security issue - nothing stopping an app turning it up in the mixer and recording...
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it's the thing that provides your ADSL broadband service. I don't use mine for anything else.
I see you and your space wars, and raise you a couple of thousand coke-can satellites full of ballbearings and a detonator, in low orbit
It's working pretty damn well for the Taliban, with their US-made Stingers...
You mean something like a missile control radar? Something tells me the entire point of one of those would be to pickup an incoming RF signal! Who's to say there's not a ping-of-death that could be sent to one to turn it off? What are you going to do, debug embedded processors etc?
Unless, for example, he was asked to spout this as disinformation. It might make an intelligence agency quite happy to have eyes turned away from alternative methods to shutting these things down.
Well, yes. I first came across them in the early 90s whilst a student presented with unfettered access to the WWW whilst at the University of Leeds - where I attended a talk about what the web was going to do for us all, hosted by Tim Berners-Lee. A very nice guy from what I remember. I picked Communicator as an example of when it was hitting what passed for the mainstream...
As opposed to something more useful, like WebEx or Live Meeting?
Seriously, "collaborative whiteboards" and multi-user editing environments have been around since early Netscape Communicator days - but does anyone actually use or want them? Sure, a system for checking out documents so several people can make changes, but simultaneous editing of documents - what's the use case for them? Who's asking for this? Who's even using it?
The *only* films that get watched multiple times are the kids ones in our house. This is exactly why I don't want them on DVD - they'd get scratched and rendered unplayable in short order. Instead, they're ripped AVIs getting played through XBMC to my TV.
You don't run a supercomputer in your house 24x7 either
Sure, that's why any device over a kilowatt comes with a DEA warning sticker.
Off the top of my head - most power-hungry devices in my house: 1) electric induction hob
2) immersion heater in hot water tank
3) electric kettle
4) fan heater
6) washing machine/tumble drier
Seriously - it's not particularly green to run a 1k computer in your house 24/7 but this is a specialised workstation. Can't see the footprint of replacing it with a rack of render-farm machines being particularly lower.
You're basically describing a simple iphone/android app like RedLaser or similar. The database for barcodes already exists - which is kind of the point of it.
See, I hear what you're saying - but I'm not convinced, and I'm a prime candidate for wanting to spend money on overcomplicating my life with expensive gadgets.
In your example, you've only got so many hob rings, so many ovens. If you're going to pre-prep all your veg and leave it sitting there in cold pans of water, and you have enough appliances and pots/pans to accomodate these - then sure, have an automator turn them on and off so they all are done at the same time.
I don't think this suits most people though. First off, programming the logic for each meal isn't trivial. It doesn't fit people's kitchens. Also, it reduces cooking to the level of reheating microwave meals - no interaction to tweak the recipe, the seasoning, etc. Finally, if you're going to prep all your ingredients ahead of time (which I regularlyl do prior to Sunday dinner withthe family) then the actual scheduling of turning on/off hob rings etc really is the minor part of the job. Add to this the engineering required to make sure that you can't boil pans dry and ruin stuff, or grill things until they catch fire, and you've got a complicated and expensive proposition with uncertain value.
If you end up with a product that appeals to geeks who are willing to rework their entire kitchen, but don't like cooking, then maybe this is a goer. I don't think the market is all that big, though.
Whenever I've looked into HA, I've concluded "it's cool, but what would I *use* it for?". Heating? My condenser boiler with wireless controller does just fine - I programmed it once to reflect when we tend to be in the house, and it just works. Open blinds and curtains? Well, maybe. What I'd *really* like is central locking for the house - a button on a keyfob that closed and locked all windows and doors, and turned the alarm on. Awful lot of expenditure on actuators etc to get that working, though.
For most normal-sized houses I still think HA is a solution looking for a problem.
I'm running 10.5.5 on an Intel Atom-based Mini ITX headless server living in my loft. It's hooked up with a pair of 500GB drives in RAID 1 and does all media serving around the house. Works great. Now that Boot132's a bit more mature, it's even easier than it used to be..Seriously, if you can install Windows on a box you built, you can do the same with OS X if you pick the right hardware. Insanelymac.com were the most useful forums I found for help with this kind of thing.
They may have bought this app *deliberately* to stop deletion of data, and maintain an audit trail: say for example they wanted to ensure that no-one could run a tap, then delete the evidence that it'd been done - this might even have been a legal requirement.
If the law has changed since then, changing the requirements, then sure they need to go back to the vendor and ask what can be done about it. To be honest, if the alternative is that an operator can casually alter the audit trail and delete records, I'd prefer this option.
This approach works great when you have a hardware problem that means you need to failover preproduction into production.
Leo Laporte and This Week In Google covered this with an interview with Google.
Basically it boils down to: Twitter results can be valuable for real-time, breaking news. Less so after the fact. If you googled for "Trafigura" a week or so ago, you wouldn't have seen much of interest. If you searched Twitter whilst it was breaking news of the injunction, it was full of info. Google are savvy with search and I'm sure they've got this all factored into PageRank already.
Parent is correct. Google "upperfilters" for more info. OP is FUD.
They're getting a business benefit from heat, light and gravity, too. Shouldn't they be taxed on them? Oh, wait, they are. They're a business that's acting as a tax-collector for HMG as they charge their customers VAT.
Of course the brain always impresses you! You're thinking about it with your brain, it's just bigging itself up! Sheesh!
...buy you also had people in late 80s/early 90s putting together budget *hifi* systems: say a no-frills NAD 3020 amp, some Mission bookshelf speakers, an early CD player or a decent LP player etc.
Next up: "Bricklayers wonder about space"
Everyone wants a surround sound system, and a thumping sub: they just don't care what it sounds like.
Mass market "Hifi" is sold on features and price, not audio quality. This is why we have systems with !1000W PMPO! that somehow run off a 500mA wallwart. It's why we have satellite speakers and subs that are all lows and highs, and no mids. It's why we're happy to have iPod docks instead of hifis in our living rooms.
I'm not saying it's right, but I think in general people don't perceive the need for genuine high fidelity audio. That's not to say they won't appreciate it when they hear it, obviously.
Myself, I blew my ears with a decade of electric bass, standing too close to the highhat and going to raves back in the 90s...!
How would you suggest turning off a laptop mic? No hardware switch to do so (unless you've a BIOS option to do it, which I doubt). You could disable the sound card in device manager, but then you've no audio. Seems a valid security issue - nothing stopping an app turning it up in the mixer and recording...
Danger has nothign to do with GoogleApps. If anything, it'd make me *less* likely to trust a hosted MS Exchange account.