Well obviously. The client is written in HTML5. If you knew anything at all about HTML5 you'd know it is impossible to write a "true" ssh client using HTML5. Instead this connects to a python server which then goes on to connect to the actual sshd. The point is that you don't need an ssh binary installed on the client.
You could actually remove ssh from the equation, but it looks like the gate server allows you to connect to *any* ssh server, so I guess that's why they didn't do that.
Well that's revisionist history. I seem to remember adding video to flash was a brilliant move that secured their dominance by providing a web video playing experience that actually worked. All the other solutions at the time were awful, unreliable, slow, and browser/OS-specific. Flash actually worked.
The fact that people talk today about replacing Flash with a video codec shows how completely unused flash would be if it didn't become entrenched as the de facto video player plugin.
The height is 5 mm. Weight is, (we'll be generous) 100 kg. So the energy is at most 5 joules per step. Generating 2.1 W therefore needs 1 step every couple of seconds, which sounds like a reasonable maximum. So even the pathetic 2.1W figure is hopelessly optimistic.
Haha, you realise that AACS key was revoked years ago and is now useless? AACS is actually very well designed, and still hasn't been cracked, in the normal sense of the word.
Haha, I love all the silly little nit picks that slashdotters try to come up with to show off their knowledge. Do you *really* think ozone production would be a problem?
Maybe in America. Anywhere decent in Europe where you can get planning permission to build a house is going to be at least £100k. We don't have any unused land.
I'm a programmer and I can't see the potential. The UI looks really really awful. Is Limbo some super-language that I've never heard of, despite its amazing awesomeness?
Yeah but have you actually read their manifesto? They have some great articles, and I do support the direction they desire but look at the craziness:
They want copyright to be 10 years. Yes, the current term is ridiculous, but so is 10 years! To put this in perspective, Windows XP, and the first Lord of the Rings film would now be out of copyright. That seems a little ridiculous. In fact it is even more ridiculous when you consider whether expensive software (CAD, video editing, etc) could compete with their free older versions. 30 years seems like a reasonable copyright length.
They want to essentially make all filesharing legal, as long as no money changes hands. I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say that I don't pirate, or I only pirate for moral reasons. I do all the time, and I do it because it is free, easy and restriction-free. I possibly would pay if there were a cheap, easy and restriction-free solution but there isn't yet. But making it totally legal? That's just retarded.
Don't get me wrong, there are good ideas, e.g. requiring a working model for patents, but they need to cut the copyright craziness. Also single-issue parties never stand a chance anyway.
Yeah this works if you already know what to type. Otherwise the steps become:
1. Search Google for "how to install apache on ubuntu" which leads to a site saying "Invoke Apt-Get in the following way: sudo apt-get install apache". 2. Google "How to invoke commands on linux". That doesn't actually lead to any results like "Click Applications->Accessories->Terminal". You may think it's obvious, but a newbie would *not* know this. 3. Type the command. 4. Get really confused when typing in the password prompt doesn't produce any *'s. Why the hell is it still even set up like this? I actually don't know the original reason, but I'm guessing it hasn't applied for many years, or is insanely paranoid. 5. There's no 'apache' package. 6. Somehow find out that you have to use 'apache2'. I don't even know how a newbie would do this.
Vs (ok you have to imagine that it works as *indended*. The Ubuntu Software Centre is still a bit crap.)
1. Applications->Ubuntu Software Centre. Fairly easy to find. 2. Search for apache. 3. Imagine search actually works sanely and it put apache2 at the top and doesn't call it a "Metapackage". 4. Click it. Click install. 5. Imagine the password prompt tells you *which* password to use (wtf guys?) 6. Click ok. 7. Done.
Way way easier. Oh, and predictable responses that miss the point: 1. Why would a newbie be installing apache. 2. This only works on ubuntu. 3. You can't install everything using the ubuntu software centre.
Oh, and I did a search, and as far as I could find the only reason for not showing *'s for passwords is that someone could count the number of characters! What. The. Fuck.
Heh, you make no sense. I mean, the attraction of having your phone be a full-on console is obvious. You can easily take it to other people's houses, on business trips, etc.
But there's no reason you'd want to use a phone as a PS3 controller - people who have PS3's tend to already have PS3 controllers, and they are much better!
> your average OS already has an application listening on those ports
I don't think it is that in this case. The app describes the lack of support as a "missing protocol". Probably Samsung/HTC's bluetooth stack doesn't support HID... or something.
I've actually been trying to write an android sixaxis app, but bluetooth is pretty damn complicated and there are no good tutorials or documentation - they're all way too 'enterprise' and convoluted.
Err no, this is so you can connect one or several PS3 controllers to your phone, which is running an emulator displayed over HDMI. Thus turning your phone into a mini-console.
I don't see why anyone would want to use a phone as a controller for a PS3. It would be far inferior to an actual PS3 controller.
Nope. They use (well they used to use) streetview cars (remember that mountain-out-of-molehills story about google hacking wifi?). Now I believe they just use the Android phones themselves to build the database.
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Wouldn't work. You can still only send HTTP or websockets, and websockets have hand-shaking and framing that you can't remove.
Well obviously. The client is written in HTML5. If you knew anything at all about HTML5 you'd know it is impossible to write a "true" ssh client using HTML5. Instead this connects to a python server which then goes on to connect to the actual sshd. The point is that you don't need an ssh binary installed on the client.
You could actually remove ssh from the equation, but it looks like the gate server allows you to connect to *any* ssh server, so I guess that's why they didn't do that.
It won't. Everyone is already very aware of how much the world needs better battery technology, and how valuable such technology would be.
Seriously? The appearance on Top Gear was infamous for being unfairly staged! Top Gear hates electric cars!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/mar/30/tesla-sue-top-gear
Well that's revisionist history. I seem to remember adding video to flash was a brilliant move that secured their dominance by providing a web video playing experience that actually worked. All the other solutions at the time were awful, unreliable, slow, and browser/OS-specific. Flash actually worked.
The fact that people talk today about replacing Flash with a video codec shows how completely unused flash would be if it didn't become entrenched as the de facto video player plugin.
You can work out the energy like this:
The height is 5 mm. Weight is, (we'll be generous) 100 kg. So the energy is at most 5 joules per step. Generating 2.1 W therefore needs 1 step every couple of seconds, which sounds like a reasonable maximum. So even the pathetic 2.1W figure is hopelessly optimistic.
2.1 watts! We could power... a few LEDs! Or... a calculator!
Seriously, what idiot bought this?
Haha, you realise that AACS key was revoked years ago and is now useless? AACS is actually very well designed, and still hasn't been cracked, in the normal sense of the word.
Haha, I love all the silly little nit picks that slashdotters try to come up with to show off their knowledge. Do you *really* think ozone production would be a problem?
Maybe in America. Anywhere decent in Europe where you can get planning permission to build a house is going to be at least £100k. We don't have any unused land.
I'm a programmer and I can't see the potential. The UI looks really really awful. Is Limbo some super-language that I've never heard of, despite its amazing awesomeness?
Or were you being sarcastic?
No, native apps still use the Android APIs (mostly). This is a separate OS that is built using the core of Android.
You can't press home and go back from Inferno into Android. And MacGyver2210 is right.
Are you seriously calling out *Microsoft* for their lack of commitment to backwards compatibility?!
No, and obviously not since you can only use the machines as a proxy.
Yeah but have you actually read their manifesto? They have some great articles, and I do support the direction they desire but look at the craziness:
They want copyright to be 10 years. Yes, the current term is ridiculous, but so is 10 years! To put this in perspective, Windows XP, and the first Lord of the Rings film would now be out of copyright. That seems a little ridiculous. In fact it is even more ridiculous when you consider whether expensive software (CAD, video editing, etc) could compete with their free older versions. 30 years seems like a reasonable copyright length.
They want to essentially make all filesharing legal, as long as no money changes hands. I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say that I don't pirate, or I only pirate for moral reasons. I do all the time, and I do it because it is free, easy and restriction-free. I possibly would pay if there were a cheap, easy and restriction-free solution but there isn't yet. But making it totally legal? That's just retarded.
Don't get me wrong, there are good ideas, e.g. requiring a working model for patents, but they need to cut the copyright craziness. Also single-issue parties never stand a chance anyway.
Well actually there apparently is a port already:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/jqyp3/one_of_the_guys_at_work_went_to_best_buy_saturday/
I think this is probably the most stupid thing the Tories have done so far.
Yeah this works if you already know what to type. Otherwise the steps become:
1. Search Google for "how to install apache on ubuntu" which leads to a site saying "Invoke Apt-Get in the following way: sudo apt-get install apache".
2. Google "How to invoke commands on linux". That doesn't actually lead to any results like "Click Applications->Accessories->Terminal". You may think it's obvious, but a newbie would *not* know this.
3. Type the command.
4. Get really confused when typing in the password prompt doesn't produce any *'s. Why the hell is it still even set up like this? I actually don't know the original reason, but I'm guessing it hasn't applied for many years, or is insanely paranoid.
5. There's no 'apache' package.
6. Somehow find out that you have to use 'apache2'. I don't even know how a newbie would do this.
Vs (ok you have to imagine that it works as *indended*. The Ubuntu Software Centre is still a bit crap.)
1. Applications->Ubuntu Software Centre. Fairly easy to find.
2. Search for apache.
3. Imagine search actually works sanely and it put apache2 at the top and doesn't call it a "Metapackage".
4. Click it. Click install.
5. Imagine the password prompt tells you *which* password to use (wtf guys?)
6. Click ok.
7. Done.
Way way easier. Oh, and predictable responses that miss the point: 1. Why would a newbie be installing apache. 2. This only works on ubuntu. 3. You can't install everything using the ubuntu software centre.
Oh, and I did a search, and as far as I could find the only reason for not showing *'s for passwords is that someone could count the number of characters! What. The. Fuck.
Yeah but in practice, chargers don't limit their current to 500 mA. See: http://www.ladyada.net/make/mintyboost/icharge.html
Well now you're just changing what I said, which is as good as admitting you lost the debate!
Heh, you make no sense. I mean, the attraction of having your phone be a full-on console is obvious. You can easily take it to other people's houses, on business trips, etc.
But there's no reason you'd want to use a phone as a PS3 controller - people who have PS3's tend to already have PS3 controllers, and they are much better!
Aha! I found the real reason.
There is a bluetooth input code here: http://code.google.com/p/android-bluez-ime/
And they state "Wiimote support is ready, but many devices lack the L2CAP ability and thus cannot communicate with the Wiimote."
I imagine it is the same reason for the PS3.
> your average OS already has an application listening on those ports
I don't think it is that in this case. The app describes the lack of support as a "missing protocol". Probably Samsung/HTC's bluetooth stack doesn't support HID... or something.
I've actually been trying to write an android sixaxis app, but bluetooth is pretty damn complicated and there are no good tutorials or documentation - they're all way too 'enterprise' and convoluted.
Err no, this is so you can connect one or several PS3 controllers to your phone, which is running an emulator displayed over HDMI. Thus turning your phone into a mini-console.
I don't see why anyone would want to use a phone as a controller for a PS3. It would be far inferior to an actual PS3 controller.
Nope. They use (well they used to use) streetview cars (remember that mountain-out-of-molehills story about google hacking wifi?). Now I believe they just use the Android phones themselves to build the database.