I still have to give him props for actually showing up to the meeting. He could have easily sent the summer intern or any number of other people involved with the project. Instead the CEO of a Forture 50 company shows up to a town hall meeting to discuss the new building they're building.
And regardless of what company is building this (and peoples opinions of that company) this actually looks like a pretty cool 'green' endeavor. Less wasted space on parking, more trees, less energy consumption. I wish more companies thought like this.
I *almost* threw down for the basic model until I realized it took non standard batteries. Would it have been that difficult to design one around AA batteries?
Except this isn't anything 'new'. One of the newer apartment buildings built on campus (finished in ~2005) lets you buzz in anyone from anywhere using your phone. I believe the place also had washer/driers that would text you when they finished their cycle.
It may be cool, but definitely not a new 'invention'.
If you have issues with your house going 600C without AC you may have other issues. Not to mention high heats have just as detrimental effects on magnets.
Once they get the ARM port finalized this would be one awesome little XBMC device. Full 1080p support. 1.2 gHz should be plenty fast for the non HD encoded stuff (old.avi DIVX movies).
When you're doing a slow time lapse photos taken a few minutes apart really won't have much effect on the end result. Shoot bracketed photos. Stitch them together with a program that supports batch, use ffmpeg to make a time lapse.
It's just a disk image (DMG). The closest thing in the Linux/Windows world is the.ISO. However, unlike Windows, disk image mounting is built into the system as shipped by Apple. If you double click a DMG it just mounts. You can even create your own disk images that are encrypted (like True Crypt).
A ton of software for the Mac comes on DMGs. It makes copying install CDs rather easy on the Mac. It gets a real/dev/ device, to software it doesn't know if it's on a disk image or a real DVD.
All it sounds like is Amazon is a payment processor and providing bandwidth.
We need more of the former (apprenticeships, starting hands on companies that add value to the economy) not the latter (Computer Science dropouts that make software).
When I first saw this on Fark I got excited that he was going to give people money to do an apprenticeship or maybe start their own hands on company. No, he's paying people that he hopes will be the next Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg. We need a whole lot more of the former and a whole lot less of the latter.
How much would it have cost to Digitize everything for the Kindle? Contract Google and reCAPTCHA and get everything digitized. It'd probably fit into a single 3.5" hard drive. Books really don't making sense in this situation. Especially spending 81M on a big storage unit. What happens when the water barrier fails and takes out the entire library?
Which is why you always read a majority of the ratings.
I've bought stuff with a 2.5 rating because all of the 1 stars were "Amazon was slow" "Reseller double charged me". One person wrote a scathing review of a Canon camera because it didn't come with batteries (AA) or an SD card. All the 5 star reviews were reviews of the product.
As soon as I saw the headline I thought "What is the EFF on Apple's case for this time?". If I had an annoying neighbor that harassed me about the length of my grass, the hours I mowed the lawn, how many cars I had parked in the drive way, etc. I'd sure as hell ignore him when he came over asking for help.
I love my TI-89. I couldn't imagine doing too much without it. Yes I can do it all by hand, but it's much faster with the 89. Dec to Binary or Hex. Unit conversion (And you can give it weird inputs like how long to move x ft using m/s^2, etc). rref with large arrays to solve linear problems. (And I don't always have Matlab with me). But some stuff takes forever to do. We have portable devices that are cracking 1gHz now and the TI-89 is 16 MHz. I'm sure there are chips out there that run faster with less power, especially since the TI-89 came out in 2004. The Nspire series is more on par with a 83/84 replacement than an 89.
Other than the fact that apt is probably hands down the best package manager out there. I've never run into dependency hell with Debian. Never ended up with a 1/2 broken system.
So this is kind of like how Apple moved from 68k -> PPC, and maintained backwards compatibility. OS 9 -> OS X, and maintained mostly backwards compatibility. PPC -> PPC64, and had no problems with backwards compatibility. PPC -> Intel, and maintained backwards compatibly (but finally did drop Classic).
At one time 10.5 came for PPC, PPC64, Intel, Intel64 all on the same install DVD. Microsoft still makes you have different install media.
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I still have to give him props for actually showing up to the meeting. He could have easily sent the summer intern or any number of other people involved with the project. Instead the CEO of a Forture 50 company shows up to a town hall meeting to discuss the new building they're building.
And regardless of what company is building this (and peoples opinions of that company) this actually looks like a pretty cool 'green' endeavor. Less wasted space on parking, more trees, less energy consumption. I wish more companies thought like this.
If you can't easily find them at Walmart or any big box store, then it's really not 'standard'.
AA Batteries
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Rechargeable NIMH CR123 Search on Ebay
Rechargeable NIMH AA Search on Ebay
I *almost* threw down for the basic model until I realized it took non standard batteries. Would it have been that difficult to design one around AA batteries?
Wrong thread? We forgive you.
Except this isn't anything 'new'. One of the newer apartment buildings built on campus (finished in ~2005) lets you buzz in anyone from anywhere using your phone. I believe the place also had washer/driers that would text you when they finished their cycle.
It may be cool, but definitely not a new 'invention'.
If you have issues with your house going 600C without AC you may have other issues. Not to mention high heats have just as detrimental effects on magnets.
I tell my girlfriend that I want twins, that way I can name one "Control". With Triplets you'd even be able to do 2 different studies.
Once they get the ARM port finalized this would be one awesome little XBMC device. Full 1080p support. 1.2 gHz should be plenty fast for the non HD encoded stuff (old .avi DIVX movies).
When you're doing a slow time lapse photos taken a few minutes apart really won't have much effect on the end result. Shoot bracketed photos. Stitch them together with a program that supports batch, use ffmpeg to make a time lapse.
Now I can FLY!!!
Yeah, but did he solve the icing problems?
Yes, I've done dd if=/dev/null of=disk1 bs=1M count=1024. mkfs.ext3 disk1.
But can you make them sparseimages, dynamically expanding.
Can ISOs be sparely populated? Can they be created RW? Can they have built in encryption with the OS?
It's just a disk image (DMG). The closest thing in the Linux/Windows world is the .ISO. However, unlike Windows, disk image mounting is built into the system as shipped by Apple. If you double click a DMG it just mounts. You can even create your own disk images that are encrypted (like True Crypt).
A ton of software for the Mac comes on DMGs. It makes copying install CDs rather easy on the Mac. It gets a real /dev/ device, to software it doesn't know if it's on a disk image or a real DVD.
All it sounds like is Amazon is a payment processor and providing bandwidth.
We need more of the former (apprenticeships, starting hands on companies that add value to the economy) not the latter (Computer Science dropouts that make software).
When I first saw this on Fark I got excited that he was going to give people money to do an apprenticeship or maybe start their own hands on company. No, he's paying people that he hopes will be the next Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg. We need a whole lot more of the former and a whole lot less of the latter.
Don't tell me people have never heard of linking.
Not just the PDF, here's his website:
http://johanneskopf.de.nyud.net/publications/pixelart
How much would it have cost to Digitize everything for the Kindle? Contract Google and reCAPTCHA and get everything digitized. It'd probably fit into a single 3.5" hard drive. Books really don't making sense in this situation. Especially spending 81M on a big storage unit. What happens when the water barrier fails and takes out the entire library?
Which is why you always read a majority of the ratings.
I've bought stuff with a 2.5 rating because all of the 1 stars were "Amazon was slow" "Reseller double charged me". One person wrote a scathing review of a Canon camera because it didn't come with batteries (AA) or an SD card. All the 5 star reviews were reviews of the product.
....so what you're saying is, with the exception of Apple's glossy screens, all other monitors are Matte?
Sleep Cycle for the iOS does something similar. The alarm clock function to wake you up 'on cycle' is definitely worth the $0.99
As soon as I saw the headline I thought "What is the EFF on Apple's case for this time?". If I had an annoying neighbor that harassed me about the length of my grass, the hours I mowed the lawn, how many cars I had parked in the drive way, etc. I'd sure as hell ignore him when he came over asking for help.
How long does certification take? Because that may explain this: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/1996.png
I love my TI-89. I couldn't imagine doing too much without it. Yes I can do it all by hand, but it's much faster with the 89. Dec to Binary or Hex. Unit conversion (And you can give it weird inputs like how long to move x ft using m/s^2, etc). rref with large arrays to solve linear problems. (And I don't always have Matlab with me).
But some stuff takes forever to do. We have portable devices that are cracking 1gHz now and the TI-89 is 16 MHz. I'm sure there are chips out there that run faster with less power, especially since the TI-89 came out in 2004. The Nspire series is more on par with a 83/84 replacement than an 89.
Denyhosts also. I just set this up after finding over 40,000 failed ssh attempts in the last 3 days.
Other than the fact that apt is probably hands down the best package manager out there. I've never run into dependency hell with Debian. Never ended up with a 1/2 broken system.
iOS is not Macintosh/MacOS/MacOS X.
So this is kind of like how Apple moved from
68k -> PPC, and maintained backwards compatibility.
OS 9 -> OS X, and maintained mostly backwards compatibility.
PPC -> PPC64, and had no problems with backwards compatibility.
PPC -> Intel, and maintained backwards compatibly (but finally did drop Classic).
At one time 10.5 came for PPC, PPC64, Intel, Intel64 all on the same install DVD. Microsoft still makes you have different install media.