It's pretty sad that situations like this lead down the road to a nanny state.. but the people texting and driving don't seem to realize they're the driving it in that direction.
Also, to the comments about the popo getting a free pass, in some places LEO's and emergency response are specifically exempted under the law to use their data terminals and conversely their GPS apps.
Sorry Apple.. but as much as I would love the iPhone 6 Plus, the fact that it still doesn't have a stylus input is a deal breaker for me. I'm eligible for an upgrade in two months. So it's either a toss up between a regular iPhone 6 or a Note 4.
As someone in the business of selling law enforcement equipment, I'll tell you right now, most of the body cams available for law enforcement are compete and utter crap.
Not only that, they don't have an effective back office solution to manage all that video. Sure you can dump the video onto a hard drive, but it needs to be indexed somehow so it can be searched for later by officer name, date, etc.
A few companies are trying to make body worn cameras that don't look like blair witch recordings, but at this point, there's still at least a year away before anything usable arrives.
Tried Mint Linux 18 Cinnimon & KDE, Ubuntu 14.04, Debian 7.6
None of them would even boot on my computer, even after dicking around with bios settings for an hour.
Laptop: Asus Zenbook UX41LA
After pissing around for half an hour with bios settings, I finally managed to get it to get farther than the grub bootloader. Things seem to work, but KDE crashes randomly, Cinnamon and Unity don't remember window locations and have their own oddities. None of them let me control screen backlighting, even after trying all the 'hacks' posted around the net.
Then I find out that video performs even worse with the open source Intel video drivers.
I'm all for Linux on servers, I own and run several, but damn, it shouldn't take a bloody engineering degree to get a GUI OS to install and work properly.
Does it really matter the how or why? It's obvious it's gone far beyond simply scanning emails to target advertisements. Today CP, tomorrow thought police.
Worse yet are PAID apps that have in-app purchases. Companies double-dipping piss me off to no end. Either make your app free with in-app purchases, or sell it to me without extra charges later.
No, because I don't want to wear a watch type accessory.
When technology gets to the point where I can have it safely embedded under my skin, use it to make calls, and runs off body energy, that's when I'll consider getting one.
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Why does Slashdot even bother posting Apple news? The comments simply fill up with Apple bashing, and major amounts of vitriol.
" If it's not Android, Linux or Open Source, it's crap. "
Terrorists attacking Terrorists.. oh the irony.
Languages devolve. Deal with it.
FTFY
Really? Because PSN is free. The only thing I'm paying for is the games.
No Mr. Bond, I expect you to bleed! *psychotic laugh*
No, not usually. The law is typically written to specifically exempt law enforcement and emergency responders.
It's pretty sad that situations like this lead down the road to a nanny state.. but the people texting and driving don't seem to realize they're the driving it in that direction.
Also, to the comments about the popo getting a free pass, in some places LEO's and emergency response are specifically exempted under the law to use their data terminals and conversely their GPS apps.
Sorry Apple.. but as much as I would love the iPhone 6 Plus, the fact that it still doesn't have a stylus input is a deal breaker for me. I'm eligible for an upgrade in two months. So it's either a toss up between a regular iPhone 6 or a Note 4.
Personally, I'm waiting for a good decentralized solution.
Hopefully Bittorent Chat will fit that.
As someone in the business of selling law enforcement equipment, I'll tell you right now, most of the body cams available for law enforcement are compete and utter crap.
Not only that, they don't have an effective back office solution to manage all that video. Sure you can dump the video onto a hard drive, but it needs to be indexed somehow so it can be searched for later by officer name, date, etc.
A few companies are trying to make body worn cameras that don't look like blair witch recordings, but at this point, there's still at least a year away before anything usable arrives.
Stock Ubuntu.. the wifi worked well however.
Forgot to mention, I never tried installing OSX on it. I may however, once the bugs are worked out of the EFI bootloader.
You're missing a letter my friend, I said UX31LA..
http://www.asus.com/Notebooks_...
PC: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD5H, i7-4770K, 16GB RAM, GTX 780 Ti.
Tried Mint Linux 18 Cinnimon & KDE, Ubuntu 14.04, Debian 7.6
None of them would even boot on my computer, even after dicking around with bios settings for an hour.
Laptop: Asus Zenbook UX41LA
After pissing around for half an hour with bios settings, I finally managed to get it to get farther than the grub bootloader. Things seem to work, but KDE crashes randomly, Cinnamon and Unity don't remember window locations and have their own oddities. None of them let me control screen backlighting, even after trying all the 'hacks' posted around the net.
Then I find out that video performs even worse with the open source Intel video drivers.
I'm all for Linux on servers, I own and run several, but damn, it shouldn't take a bloody engineering degree to get a GUI OS to install and work properly.
> Well done Facebook. It's taken you a year to put a Samsung note display in a plastic box, and add extra cables.
FTFY.
Reality is overrated.
Does it really matter the how or why? It's obvious it's gone far beyond simply scanning emails to target advertisements. Today CP, tomorrow thought police.
The 21st. century version of the Special Olympics.
Worse yet are PAID apps that have in-app purchases. Companies double-dipping piss me off to no end. Either make your app free with in-app purchases, or sell it to me without extra charges later.
No, because I don't want to wear a watch type accessory.
When technology gets to the point where I can have it safely embedded under my skin, use it to make calls, and runs off body energy, that's when I'll consider getting one.
Does this mean I can finally download a car?
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Working with police officers regularly, there's a joke that goes around that goes like this.
Put a cop naked in a padded room with two steel ball bearings. Go back after an hour, one ball bearing will be broken and the other will be missing.
3.) Metro programs can't run in a window. This makes them inconvenient for multitasking, which is common for desktop users but not for tablet users.
Wait, what?
You should tell that to Stardock..
http://www.stardock.com/produc...
Why? Is the USA afraid they may lose they're stereotyped title as the world's bullies?
The best use of a Windows 8 license is to downgrade to Windows 7.