They've enabled locations in HTML5. I was playing around with "Dive into HTML 5" and for fun clicked on the "Locate me". It was dead on. Even though I was going through a Proxy server (so I know they didn't find me through IP). Scroll to the bottom, it's "A complete live example"
Prey Project using it as the geo locator for theft recovery. I've had Orbicule's Undercover for a while, and they use Skyhook. Prey Project is 100% open source (all bash scripts more or less) and digging through they're using Google's location APIs to locate devices.
So basically Google now has a 'sky hook' type service that anyone can use for free. Not just that. Every single smart phone that doesn't have GPS built in, now has a 'near location' enabled. Meaning that google can provide location based results even without a GPS.
Who's to say that Apple couldn't step up to the plate with a Photoshop alternative? Prior to Final Cut Pro, another video editing suite was unthinkable. FCP now has around 50% of the market, over all (PC and Mac)
Zero conf is the solution. Nearly every networkable printer these days has it.
I remember when I first got OS X and walked into a random computer lab, I instantly had all the printers available. Truly zeroconf.
Now my entire home network is zeroconf configured (oxymoron?). I stopped giving devices static IPs. The sheeva plug is plug.local, the mac is mac.local, open solaris is server.local.
ZeroConf+Postscript should be able to print to anything for sale today.
Never Talk To Police. It's 27 minutes. There aren't many visuals so you can listen to it in the background.
Basically NEVER TALK to police. Just don't. If you do have to say something let it be along the lines of: "Am I under arrest or am I free to go", "Do you have a warrant".
I was once arrested. AFTER being read my rights one cop kept pressing the issue. "What were you doing, why were you there" over and over and over. After the 4th time I asked him to please read me my rights again. Which he did. But he continued to ask. At which point I told him I was invoking my right to remain silent. He still pressed the issue.
This was brought up in court and helped my case, since it was seen as 'badgering'.
The only way to deal with the Russians is with the Italians or the Irish.
So either:
"Say hello to my little friend"
or
"This guy takes a blunt object, fuckin', waah! Hits the guy with the bandages around his head, right? Why? 'Cause he's smart. He knows the guy with the bandages around his ass, he ain't goin' nowhere. He's goin' fuckin' nowhere. "
As cool as an 'app' is for this, what the hell happened to a bookmark? http://example.com/latest_cartoon.jpg. There now if people want to see the latest, they can click the book mark and tada. Your cartoon.
It's hard to predict. I have no kids and single. I should have '0'. However I started out work with 2. I've been increasing each year. Between mortgage deduction, student loans, etc etc. I'm up to 4 now and I'm still getting money back from the US.
In Illinois I claim 0 and am getting almost $100 back each year.
1 minute of 10,000,000 peoples time, once? Once per day? 10 times per day?
What happens when those spammers get the life savings of Grandma? What happens when they get the life savings of 10 people? What happens if those people get sick but can't get the meds?
My life isn't going great right now. I volunteer to take one for the team* if spam and scammers, from my death forward stopped completely once and for all.
Not the vertical integration, but the simple "Ok you're Applications are compatible now"
Apple has moved from 68k to PPC to OS X to Intel to ARM to (proposed) POWER) for both 32/64 bit and all it took in those last steps was flag in the compiler.
68k emulation in PPC was decent. Classic mode worked for most applications and Rosetta was as seamless as it gets. I understand that Microsoft has a ton of backwards compatibility they need to maintain, but if a company the fraction of your size can do it, why can't you?
Yes "FAT" Binaries are larger, but given how cheap HD space is, it's not too much of a concern of mine. (I gained more space deleting other languages). But to have a single, double clickable.app that runs on 4 platforms (PPC, Intel / 32, 64bit), naively.
Side note, and legitimate question, does Linux do fat binaries? Can I compile something that runs on my AMD64 and ARM machines and put it on a thumb drive?
Why does every game HAVE to fit into the this little box that every die hard gamer has outlined?
Every single time a game comes along that is on a console and not a PC, not a 'traditional' fps, doesn't have 1080p graphics, etc there's always quite a few people that come out decrying how this game will never work.
I'm not a 'traditional gamer'. I don't normally play FPS, but I did enjoy GoW when I went to visit an old college friend. GoW2 also gave me an excuse to go visit. We talked through them both, played them back to back straight through.
Right now I have a Wii. One of the games most often played is Mario Party, and not by myself, but with a group of people. In Real Life. Not only do we just play it to hang out, but sometimes we turning it into a drinking game before going out. (Mario Kart is for drunk driving when we get home). So Nintendo somehow tricked me into spending a few hundred dollars on a device that Microsoft and Sony hadn't managed, plus money for games.
I found GoW fun. It doesn't fit your little box of a Model, GoW2 was a wedding gift for my friend. Therefor what ever designer came up with GoW got me, a nontraditional gamer, to spend money on a game.
While slashdot comments are great, your ability to predict what will be a hit, fails miserably.
"Less freedom of motion than an FPS. No Running and shooting. LAME"
"No they didn't, the big difference between iPhone and OpenMoko is that OpenMoko is completely open, so anyone can extend it, while iPhone is closed and only licensed parties can write extensions. This is what uniqe about OpenMoko. Apple added glitter to iPhone, but there are other smart phones (maybe not as good, but I can't judge, it's a long wait till iPhone will be available in Europe) so nothing revolutionary about it. OpenMoko has philosophical feature - openess. So as a geek I know which one is the winner here:)"
How's that OpenMoko doing today? How about those iPod killers?
I've been doing columns of keys on they keyboard, It's going to be a long time before I run out, and meets most requirements. (Sometimes I hit a caps lock for the second set), Plus logging in takes almost no time at all.
They drug their feet OS X and Intel. Way back in the day they told Apple users that Windows was their #1 platform and they were planning on releasing everything for it first.
This was back in the day when Apple looked like it wasn't going to be around much longer. Adobe took a gamble and no one could have predicted that Apple would be back like they are.
Adobe has gave PPC users (from 68k), OS X users (non-rosetta), Intel users, Premiere users, Flash users the finger.
Adobe made a wrong bet in 1996 and is suffering the consequences in 2010 and has no one to blame except themselves. It’s Adobe’s turn to show that it matters to Apple and the tech industry. I don’t remember Apple or Steve Jobs whining in 1996-2006 about Adobe not contributing to the Apple ecosystem.
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They've enabled locations in HTML5. I was playing around with "Dive into HTML 5" and for fun clicked on the "Locate me". It was dead on. Even though I was going through a Proxy server (so I know they didn't find me through IP). Scroll to the bottom, it's "A complete live example"
Prey Project using it as the geo locator for theft recovery. I've had Orbicule's Undercover for a while, and they use Skyhook. Prey Project is 100% open source (all bash scripts more or less) and digging through they're using Google's location APIs to locate devices.
So basically Google now has a 'sky hook' type service that anyone can use for free. Not just that. Every single smart phone that doesn't have GPS built in, now has a 'near location' enabled. Meaning that google can provide location based results even without a GPS.
Who's to say that Apple couldn't step up to the plate with a Photoshop alternative? Prior to Final Cut Pro, another video editing suite was unthinkable. FCP now has around 50% of the market, over all (PC and Mac)
And I'd wager most customer's don't even know their ISP provides e-mail. They use gmail, hotmail, etc.
Heck I own my own domain and I don't even use my ISP's e-mail (other than SMTP), but if they canceled e-mail service I'd sure as hell want a discount.
Which is why I use Password Composer
Lets say my 'password' (mor of a salt) is hunter2.
For google.com my password is: 9594ab73
For facebook.com my password is: e288ff0e
You don't even need to use that form, sha1 or md5 (or even doubled up) should work fine.
md5(sha1("slashdot.org"+"hunter2")) should provide an adequately uncrackable password.
Don't anthropomorphize them, they hate it when you do that.
For C. Matlab's IDE has a built in auto indenter/formater. For PHP I use php_beautify.
One cow can produce about two kilowatts of electricity, enough energy to power four milking machines.
They're talking about milk cows, the ones that normally are out to pasture wandering around anyway.
At first I thought those were March X and was going to congratulate NASA on conquering time travel.
Zero conf is the solution. Nearly every networkable printer these days has it.
I remember when I first got OS X and walked into a random computer lab, I instantly had all the printers available. Truly zeroconf.
Now my entire home network is zeroconf configured (oxymoron?). I stopped giving devices static IPs. The sheeva plug is plug.local, the mac is mac.local, open solaris is server.local.
ZeroConf+Postscript should be able to print to anything for sale today.
Never Talk To Police. It's 27 minutes. There aren't many visuals so you can listen to it in the background.
Basically NEVER TALK to police. Just don't. If you do have to say something let it be along the lines of: "Am I under arrest or am I free to go", "Do you have a warrant".
I was once arrested. AFTER being read my rights one cop kept pressing the issue. "What were you doing, why were you there" over and over and over. After the 4th time I asked him to please read me my rights again. Which he did. But he continued to ask. At which point I told him I was invoking my right to remain silent. He still pressed the issue.
This was brought up in court and helped my case, since it was seen as 'badgering'.
You mean Giggity*.
*Seniors over the age of 18 only.
The only way to deal with the Russians is with the Italians or the Irish.
So either:
"Say hello to my little friend"
or
"This guy takes a blunt object, fuckin', waah! Hits the guy with the bandages around his head, right? Why? 'Cause he's smart. He knows the guy with the bandages around his ass, he ain't goin' nowhere. He's goin' fuckin' nowhere. "
We haven't found one for the Government yet, so I think the complacent American public has a while to go before they find the one for a corporation.
They're not a monopoly?
As cool as an 'app' is for this, what the hell happened to a bookmark? http://example.com/latest_cartoon.jpg. There now if people want to see the latest, they can click the book mark and tada. Your cartoon.
It's hard to predict. I have no kids and single. I should have '0'. However I started out work with 2. I've been increasing each year. Between mortgage deduction, student loans, etc etc. I'm up to 4 now and I'm still getting money back from the US.
In Illinois I claim 0 and am getting almost $100 back each year.
1 minute of 10,000,000 peoples time, once? Once per day? 10 times per day?
What happens when those spammers get the life savings of Grandma? What happens when they get the life savings of 10 people? What happens if those people get sick but can't get the meds?
My life isn't going great right now. I volunteer to take one for the team* if spam and scammers, from my death forward stopped completely once and for all.
*As long as it's something awesome and painless.
Not the vertical integration, but the simple "Ok you're Applications are compatible now"
Apple has moved from 68k to PPC to OS X to Intel to ARM to (proposed) POWER) for both 32/64 bit and all it took in those last steps was flag in the compiler.
68k emulation in PPC was decent. Classic mode worked for most applications and Rosetta was as seamless as it gets. I understand that Microsoft has a ton of backwards compatibility they need to maintain, but if a company the fraction of your size can do it, why can't you?
Yes "FAT" Binaries are larger, but given how cheap HD space is, it's not too much of a concern of mine. (I gained more space deleting other languages). But to have a single, double clickable .app that runs on 4 platforms (PPC, Intel / 32, 64bit), naively.
Side note, and legitimate question, does Linux do fat binaries? Can I compile something that runs on my AMD64 and ARM machines and put it on a thumb drive?
That's uncompressed. Toss in bzip, gzip-9 or 7za. It's just plain text it should compress >80% rather well.
That's what they want you to think.
Why does every game HAVE to fit into the this little box that every die hard gamer has outlined?
Every single time a game comes along that is on a console and not a PC, not a 'traditional' fps, doesn't have 1080p graphics, etc there's always quite a few people that come out decrying how this game will never work.
I'm not a 'traditional gamer'. I don't normally play FPS, but I did enjoy GoW when I went to visit an old college friend. GoW2 also gave me an excuse to go visit. We talked through them both, played them back to back straight through.
Right now I have a Wii. One of the games most often played is Mario Party, and not by myself, but with a group of people. In Real Life. Not only do we just play it to hang out, but sometimes we turning it into a drinking game before going out. (Mario Kart is for drunk driving when we get home). So Nintendo somehow tricked me into spending a few hundred dollars on a device that Microsoft and Sony hadn't managed, plus money for games.
I found GoW fun. It doesn't fit your little box of a Model, GoW2 was a wedding gift for my friend. Therefor what ever designer came up with GoW got me, a nontraditional gamer, to spend money on a game.
While slashdot comments are great, your ability to predict what will be a hit, fails miserably.
"Less freedom of motion than an FPS. No Running and shooting. LAME"
"Less Space than a Nomad. No wireless. Lame."
"No they didn't, the big difference between iPhone and OpenMoko is that OpenMoko is completely open, so anyone can extend it, while iPhone is closed and only licensed parties can write extensions. This is what uniqe about OpenMoko. Apple added glitter to iPhone, but there are other smart phones (maybe not as good, but I can't judge, it's a long wait till iPhone will be available in Europe) so nothing revolutionary about it. OpenMoko has philosophical feature - openess. So as a geek I know which one is the winner here :)"
How's that OpenMoko doing today?
How about those iPod killers?
I've been doing columns of keys on they keyboard, It's going to be a long time before I run out, and meets most requirements. (Sometimes I hit a caps lock for the second set), Plus logging in takes almost no time at all.
1qaz2wsx
1qaz3edc
2wsx3edc
1qaz4rfv
2wsx4rfv
3edc4rfv
1qaz5tgb
There's also an RSS tracker that I've used to get my last Macbook and a Mini for my parents. Sometimes the good deals don't last long.
Sorry Adobe, you screwed yourself. Adobe's threw the first punch.
They drug their feet OS X and Intel. Way back in the day they told Apple users that Windows was their #1 platform and they were planning on releasing everything for it first.
This was back in the day when Apple looked like it wasn't going to be around much longer. Adobe took a gamble and no one could have predicted that Apple would be back like they are.
Adobe has gave PPC users (from 68k), OS X users (non-rosetta), Intel users, Premiere users, Flash users the finger.
Adobe made a wrong bet in 1996 and is suffering the consequences in 2010 and has no one to blame except themselves. It’s Adobe’s turn to show that it matters to Apple and the tech industry. I don’t remember Apple or Steve Jobs whining in 1996-2006 about Adobe not contributing to the Apple ecosystem.
TechShop is a franchise with a gym membership model, so with it comes the same pains.
Sweaty fat people?