Honestly, not such a fan of either Java or PHP... I'd probably suggest Python/Django, NodeJS/Express or ASP.Net MVC as more modern frameworks that are faster to get up and running with.
Many routers actually have IO headers internally, as well as sometimes exposed via extra contact points on one of the ethernet ports... If you look at the OpenWRT developer forums you'll see that what you said isn't quite true.
That said, having an actual video out is a pretty nice to have... Though when you need closer to a full system, there are other options at the $200 price range, mini/micro-itx etc. Though larger than a Pi or BeagleBoard, you'll get more power, flexibility and compatibility.
The problem is, my Grandmothers (both of them) are partial to being able to pick up a bargain-bin tile/card/casino/casual games cd at walmart or best-buy... and it's not the easiest thing to walk them through fixing their video drivers when the system update mangled their settings.
I'm running Linux, Windows, OSX and FreeBSD at home on various computers, let alone vmware, and mobile (android, webos and ios) devices. What's easiest for me, isn't what's most compatible for my parents/grandparents. I will say that "Mac" is a decent/popular/easy enough option... Linux, even Ubuntu or Mint... isn't.
In this case, it kind of is a shopping mall... I would think that as long as Amazon, and other major online e-tailers remain on the listings, I won't complain at all. I see tons of shady listings, with half, or less pricing in the shopping search than appear on their site... and often will hit out of stock results on the actual website. If the price is nominal... say $1 per item per month for 1,000,000 items would be reasonable as a price structure for listings.
It's really a shame... I will often use google to search for products, though typically favor Amazon, Newegg and a handful of other sellers for products.
I'm not sure what "wacky JQuery madness" you are referring to? jQuery tends to abstract browser capabilities and does a great job in handling the differences in a consistent manner. Now any given plugin/extension may or may not do a good job of that, especially visuals based plugins.
As for "nothing needs to be that fancy"... I would completely disagree, unless you don't ever use the likes of GMail, or any other web based administrative interface. Most web based applications *require* JavaScript to be functional and responsive. You can cut down on the amount of data transfer, as well as the impact of data refreshes. It isn't just about being fancy, it's about delivering a responsive experience to the end user.
I'd say 80% of the time what I develop works cross-browser just fine... the rest is about half on various IE versions and the other half on firefox or safari quirks... with tablets in the mix (roughly 18% of my employers viewers now) it gets worse. Old tablet browsers are worse in some regards than IE8, as they don't always fully implement those features from 2-3 years ago, such as broken css3 transitions, etc..
It will work with a TV set or monitor with HDMI.. most flat panels can support an HDMI input, and most school monitors purchased in the last 8 years will work fine.
This is why if the difference from the NTP source and the local clock are outside of a given range, you can have the device not update... if you have hourly checks, the change should be less than 1 second of drift.. even in 24hrs it shouldn't be more than 2 (typically)...
Your best bet is to go to an "urgent care" facility... the ER has two entrances, the one you walk through and the one ambulances go through... You also get triage based care... the more critical the injury, the faster you are seen. With Urgent Care sites, it's usually first-come first-served.
I don't think he's saying that Open-Source alternatives are a non-starter.. there's Zimbra and others available that are serviceable, I've been using a commercial mail app (SmarterMail) for windows for several years now. The fact is, I have yet to see a solution that integrates as well with a client app as Exchange + Outlook. Especially in terms of collaboration between users, managing other's calendars/tasks, etc. It isn't *my* first choice, but it's a really compelling one. The hosted Office 365 solution is pretty well priced compared to the alternatives out there.
This next part may seem like flamebait, but there's no reason to be butt-hurt over someone suggesting that the MS product is the best option available. There's nothing wrong with it actually being the best option. In terms of mail/collaboration software there are a lot of options, and that's great. I'm a bit of a google fan, but that doesn't mean I can't recognize where other options are a better fit. I find that google docs works great internally... it's an awesome option for schools, and small businesses. It really just depends on your needs, and who your company interacts with.
Finally got my new NAS box up this past weekend... 12x 3TB drives.. 10 of them in RAID-Z2 (FreeNAS) with the other 2 has hot spares. 22.5TB of raw storage, and hopefully should be enough space for the next 4-5 years.. I've been aquiring/using about 1-2TB/year for the past few years. Though 60TB drives would be cool.. the replication time would suck.
In this case, it's physical goods that appear to be in violation of a patent, and their import into the country. Legally, it's sound.. even if the suit is pending, and the patent is ridiculous, until the suit is done, you shouldn't be able to sell said items (which are likely in conflict).
I don't agree with this instance of a patent, but someone who is violating a worthy patent shouldn't be allowed to keep violating it while the suit takes place.
Or... put the exchange client on the Play Store, and make it like a simple install, when you try to add an exchange email account... then they aren't selling the device in a way that violates said patent. MS would then be entitled to a share of what that app generated $0 (because it was free).. or MS can come up with "Outlook for Android" which may be an idea... I'd be willing to use/buy it if it were similar to webOS' mail app, which is similar to Outlook's layout.
As for the patent suit, it's a ridiculous patent, and f*ck them... it's obvious.
I will usually do something that is a short phrase, separated by hyphens or spaces, with the first letter capitalized, and one of the words l33tified. Tends to work very will with 12+ character passwords. Though I've been considering doing something new using a generator.
I really wish that more places would simply let you use a long password, and use confidence testing with something like this, or like the Wolfram Alpha algorithm for password strength. I get sick when I'm limited in length, or need certain characters, or others are disallowed. anything in the ascii 32-126 range should be allowed.. with the input trimmed so leading/trailing spaces aren't included. (For that matter, if you can use UTF-8, do it, again trimming, and eliminating control characters (<ascii 30)
Well, their laser printers are decent (not the all-in-one inkjets), the Touchpad is/was awesome and webOS is hands down the best tablet OS around today. Unfortunately their management totally sucks and they don't know how to control quality, perception of value, or market their goods.
Same reason I don't use iOS devices... the lockdown is a bit much for my tastes... Though WinPhone is really nice (have done some dev work with/for it).
Yeah... I can't even count the number of times an update for a Linux distro has broken things... I think I've had issues with almost every major linux update I've ever had. Usually wind up doing a clean install for a new major update. Though, I'm now using Debian for most of my linux instances.
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I'd say CSS is equally as important... would look at Twitter Bootstrap as a base UI set..
Honestly, not such a fan of either Java or PHP... I'd probably suggest Python/Django, NodeJS/Express or ASP.Net MVC as more modern frameworks that are faster to get up and running with.
Many routers actually have IO headers internally, as well as sometimes exposed via extra contact points on one of the ethernet ports... If you look at the OpenWRT developer forums you'll see that what you said isn't quite true.
That said, having an actual video out is a pretty nice to have... Though when you need closer to a full system, there are other options at the $200 price range, mini/micro-itx etc. Though larger than a Pi or BeagleBoard, you'll get more power, flexibility and compatibility.
No kidding.. Debian has installers with minimal ui that work well enough directly.
The problem is, my Grandmothers (both of them) are partial to being able to pick up a bargain-bin tile/card/casino/casual games cd at walmart or best-buy... and it's not the easiest thing to walk them through fixing their video drivers when the system update mangled their settings.
I'm running Linux, Windows, OSX and FreeBSD at home on various computers, let alone vmware, and mobile (android, webos and ios) devices. What's easiest for me, isn't what's most compatible for my parents/grandparents. I will say that "Mac" is a decent/popular/easy enough option... Linux, even Ubuntu or Mint... isn't.
I don't have a problem myself with general Spiritualism (not hippy crap), or Deism... I do take issue with fundamentalist dogma of any type though.
I don't know that half the country really feels that way, it wouldn't surprise me that much though.
They're going to have to put their stuff over there...
In this case, it kind of is a shopping mall... I would think that as long as Amazon, and other major online e-tailers remain on the listings, I won't complain at all. I see tons of shady listings, with half, or less pricing in the shopping search than appear on their site... and often will hit out of stock results on the actual website. If the price is nominal... say $1 per item per month for 1,000,000 items would be reasonable as a price structure for listings.
It's really a shame... I will often use google to search for products, though typically favor Amazon, Newegg and a handful of other sellers for products.
I'm not sure what "wacky JQuery madness" you are referring to? jQuery tends to abstract browser capabilities and does a great job in handling the differences in a consistent manner. Now any given plugin/extension may or may not do a good job of that, especially visuals based plugins.
... I would completely disagree, unless you don't ever use the likes of GMail, or any other web based administrative interface. Most web based applications *require* JavaScript to be functional and responsive. You can cut down on the amount of data transfer, as well as the impact of data refreshes. It isn't just about being fancy, it's about delivering a responsive experience to the end user.
As for "nothing needs to be that fancy"
I'd say 80% of the time what I develop works cross-browser just fine... the rest is about half on various IE versions and the other half on firefox or safari quirks... with tablets in the mix (roughly 18% of my employers viewers now) it gets worse. Old tablet browsers are worse in some regards than IE8, as they don't always fully implement those features from 2-3 years ago, such as broken css3 transitions, etc..
Windows CE should work. The ARM version of Windows 8 may work with some tweaking...
I'd love to see a cheep arm board with a single DDR2/3 slot on it... similar to the PI... dual-core ARM w/ HDMI, USB, MicroSD and DDR2/3 ...
It will work with a TV set or monitor with HDMI.. most flat panels can support an HDMI input, and most school monitors purchased in the last 8 years will work fine.
This is why if the difference from the NTP source and the local clock are outside of a given range, you can have the device not update... if you have hourly checks, the change should be less than 1 second of drift.. even in 24hrs it shouldn't be more than 2 (typically)...
Your best bet is to go to an "urgent care" facility... the ER has two entrances, the one you walk through and the one ambulances go through... You also get triage based care... the more critical the injury, the faster you are seen. With Urgent Care sites, it's usually first-come first-served.
I don't think he's saying that Open-Source alternatives are a non-starter.. there's Zimbra and others available that are serviceable, I've been using a commercial mail app (SmarterMail) for windows for several years now. The fact is, I have yet to see a solution that integrates as well with a client app as Exchange + Outlook. Especially in terms of collaboration between users, managing other's calendars/tasks, etc. It isn't *my* first choice, but it's a really compelling one. The hosted Office 365 solution is pretty well priced compared to the alternatives out there.
This next part may seem like flamebait, but there's no reason to be butt-hurt over someone suggesting that the MS product is the best option available. There's nothing wrong with it actually being the best option. In terms of mail/collaboration software there are a lot of options, and that's great. I'm a bit of a google fan, but that doesn't mean I can't recognize where other options are a better fit. I find that google docs works great internally... it's an awesome option for schools, and small businesses. It really just depends on your needs, and who your company interacts with.
Finally got my new NAS box up this past weekend... 12x 3TB drives.. 10 of them in RAID-Z2 (FreeNAS) with the other 2 has hot spares. 22.5TB of raw storage, and hopefully should be enough space for the next 4-5 years.. I've been aquiring/using about 1-2TB/year for the past few years. Though 60TB drives would be cool.. the replication time would suck.
In this case, it's physical goods that appear to be in violation of a patent, and their import into the country. Legally, it's sound.. even if the suit is pending, and the patent is ridiculous, until the suit is done, you shouldn't be able to sell said items (which are likely in conflict).
I don't agree with this instance of a patent, but someone who is violating a worthy patent shouldn't be allowed to keep violating it while the suit takes place.
Or... put the exchange client on the Play Store, and make it like a simple install, when you try to add an exchange email account... then they aren't selling the device in a way that violates said patent. MS would then be entitled to a share of what that app generated $0 (because it was free).. or MS can come up with "Outlook for Android" which may be an idea... I'd be willing to use/buy it if it were similar to webOS' mail app, which is similar to Outlook's layout.
As for the patent suit, it's a ridiculous patent, and f*ck them... it's obvious.
I will usually do something that is a short phrase, separated by hyphens or spaces, with the first letter capitalized, and one of the words l33tified. Tends to work very will with 12+ character passwords. Though I've been considering doing something new using a generator.
I really wish that more places would simply let you use a long password, and use confidence testing with something like this, or like the Wolfram Alpha algorithm for password strength. I get sick when I'm limited in length, or need certain characters, or others are disallowed. anything in the ascii 32-126 range should be allowed.. with the input trimmed so leading/trailing spaces aren't included. (For that matter, if you can use UTF-8, do it, again trimming, and eliminating control characters (<ascii 30)
Well, their laser printers are decent (not the all-in-one inkjets), the Touchpad is/was awesome and webOS is hands down the best tablet OS around today. Unfortunately their management totally sucks and they don't know how to control quality, perception of value, or market their goods.
But, what we wind up with is lawyers running the system, which nobody wants.
Same reason I don't use iOS devices... the lockdown is a bit much for my tastes... Though WinPhone is really nice (have done some dev work with/for it).
Yeah... I can't even count the number of times an update for a Linux distro has broken things... I think I've had issues with almost every major linux update I've ever had. Usually wind up doing a clean install for a new major update. Though, I'm now using Debian for most of my linux instances.