I know that this must be the criminal who took my property
Or it could be someone who purchased the laptop from the perpetrator, either innocently or shadily.
On my laptop I've installed DynDNS and VNC and left a user account without a password (so they don't have to format the machine to use it). If it gets nicked I think that gives me the best chance of finding out what happened to it.
The difference is with Android you can still install apps from outside the market, which google has no power over. With the iPhone the only way to install apps from outside the app store is to hack the phone.
> The group think their protocol could be useful in rural areas of the developing world where text messaging is the only affordable, reliable link
It's a fun little project, but in what circumstance would this *ever* be the best use of a mobile network? If you've got the signal for SMS then you should be able to also at least use a voice call to transmit data (not sure what the max would be, 14.4kbps? 9.6kbps?) if not full GPRS (56-114 kbps). 160bps is not very impressive
Animals don't have carbon footprints because they don't use stored carbon (Oil, Gas and Coal). This is the kind of dumbed down article I'd expect to find on Digg, not Slashdot.
It would be impossible for carbon dioxide exhaled by animals to increase the atmospheric CO2 concentration because that carbon was taken out of the atmosphere by plants / algae first. It's a closed cycle. Fossil fuels are a problem because that carbon isn't part of that cycle anymore, so releasing it faster than it can be absorbed obviously leads to a net increase.
We've been here before, when 3G first came out in 2003 Video Calling was supposed to be the big selling point, but it never caught on (possibly because it was much more expensive than voice calling, possibly because people didn't actually want to see each other on the phone!)
Of course all the Apple hipsters will probably want to video call all their friends straight away to show off their new Iphone 4s, but will video calling actually last this time?
The headline makes it sound like you can get infected with a root kit from a phone call which is nothing like what's being said, what a load of sensationalist bollocks.
Why would you even want to activate a root kit via a phone call? The phone's got a permanent internet connection so it may as well just poll a server for commands.
Isn't this what wolframalpha does? I wonder what those guys make of google muscling in on their turf (tho I suspect google's implementation won't have all the specialist maths and visualisation functions etc.)
I can't see how this streaming service could be practical for any game with action in it.
Anyone remember playing the original Quake online (not Quake World)? It didn't have motion prediction so before your player reacted to controls it needed a complete server round trip. That means there would be lag between when you pressed a key and your player react.
All network games these days move your player in real time then compensate on the server, but if the server is handling the display this becomes impossible. Sure internet connections have got much faster since then but extra delay would be introduced with the video encoding / decoding.
We put up with network lag back in the day but I can't imagine anyone putting up with it these days. It's a nice idea but I wouldn't put much hope in it catching on.
It would be wise to remember that the same people who would stop you from viewing an adult film may be back next year to complain about a book, or even a TV program. If you can be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you can be told what to say or think. Defend your constitutionally protected rights. No one else will do it for you. Thank you.
I think you'll find the majority of large prop planes (like this one) are turboprops which drive the propeller using a small jet engine, so same problem.
Are there even any large enough piston engine airliners still in general use?
"Secret passages" to content that should be safely behind the paywall? What are they on about? You can't magically link to a full article that's behind a login / subscription unless their site security code is very broken.
If there we doing this right then for non-logged in users they would show a brief intro to the article and a link to the login / subscribe forms.
IE always supported PNGs enough to be direct replacements for static GIFs (indexed colour PNGs supported a single transparent colour just like GIFs, just not alpha effects).
The thing about Android is you can do a lot more with it without having to root it. You can download and install apps from anywhere, not just the android market, and replace the home screen, the on-screen keyboard etc. with alternative versions all without having to hack anything.
They've even got free tether apps in the android market.
What do you mean you're not impressed by the selection of USB sound cards? You've got everything from basic £15 5.1 with mic and line in which are on par with motherboard's onboard sound (I use one on my laptop) to 10 input 24-bit 96kHz professional audio interfaces like the Edirol UA-101.
Also, do the laptops not have a mic socket? you can usually turn mic gain on and off in the sound control panel which essentially turns it into a line-in socket anyway.
If the drive is actually compatible with a modern PC you could start by just taking a straight rip of the data using DD. That way you've at least got an archive of the data, and at only 10 megs you could probably analyse the data in a hex editor fairly easily.
They're solid squares of aluminium made to look like CPUs, completely non-functional but I guess they look just real enough to fool the box packers. (I know this is/. but you could have at least looked at the pictures in the article!)
Can you tell us what it's for, or is it secret? I assume whatever you're up to involves the destruction of the HD in question?
If you can find a working *very old* IDE drive (back from the era when they had bad blocks printed on the label that you had to map manually) I'd guess those use purely physical sector / block mapping.
Color Classic: It could be argued that this system forced Apple to rethink building screens into systems. Sure it looks very good but it increases the overall cost of the system and limits users to a particular view. Built-in screens made sense at the start of the computing age but they have thankfully gone the way of the dinosaurs.
Lithium Ion batteries do lose their maximum charge over time, that's a fact of physics. How much charge they lose depends on temperature and how much they're charged up.
Now, from the very frequent stories I see posted here related to the iPhone and Android, I have been gathering that the same does not hold true for those devices.
In fact it appears in many cases that owners of those devices are subject not only to the whims of carriers, but the device manufacturers themselves.
I've had no trouble with my T-Mobile G2 (aka HTC Hero). Initially T-Mobile blocked the app store until I went into my account settings online to confirm I was over 18 (weird parental controls) but after that I've had no problem installing 3rd party software, using free tethering etc.
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I know that this must be the criminal who took my property
Or it could be someone who purchased the laptop from the perpetrator, either innocently or shadily.
On my laptop I've installed DynDNS and VNC and left a user account without a password (so they don't have to format the machine to use it). If it gets nicked I think that gives me the best chance of finding out what happened to it.
The difference is with Android you can still install apps from outside the market, which google has no power over. With the iPhone the only way to install apps from outside the app store is to hack the phone.
> The group think their protocol could be useful in rural areas of the developing world where text messaging is the only affordable, reliable link
It's a fun little project, but in what circumstance would this *ever* be the best use of a mobile network? If you've got the signal for SMS then you should be able to also at least use a voice call to transmit data (not sure what the max would be, 14.4kbps? 9.6kbps?) if not full GPRS (56-114 kbps). 160bps is not very impressive
Animals don't have carbon footprints because they don't use stored carbon (Oil, Gas and Coal). This is the kind of dumbed down article I'd expect to find on Digg, not Slashdot.
It would be impossible for carbon dioxide exhaled by animals to increase the atmospheric CO2 concentration because that carbon was taken out of the atmosphere by plants / algae first. It's a closed cycle. Fossil fuels are a problem because that carbon isn't part of that cycle anymore, so releasing it faster than it can be absorbed obviously leads to a net increase.
We've been here before, when 3G first came out in 2003 Video Calling was supposed to be the big selling point, but it never caught on (possibly because it was much more expensive than voice calling, possibly because people didn't actually want to see each other on the phone!)
Of course all the Apple hipsters will probably want to video call all their friends straight away to show off their new Iphone 4s, but will video calling actually last this time?
Here's one of the original Three video calling adverts.
http://www.visit4info.com/advert/3-Mobile-Video-Calling-Hutchison-3G-Network/8771
The headline makes it sound like you can get infected with a root kit from a phone call which is nothing like what's being said, what a load of sensationalist bollocks.
Why would you even want to activate a root kit via a phone call? The phone's got a permanent internet connection so it may as well just poll a server for commands.
Isn't this what wolframalpha does? I wonder what those guys make of google muscling in on their turf (tho I suspect google's implementation won't have all the specialist maths and visualisation functions etc.)
I can't see how this streaming service could be practical for any game with action in it.
Anyone remember playing the original Quake online (not Quake World)? It didn't have motion prediction so before your player reacted to controls it needed a complete server round trip. That means there would be lag between when you pressed a key and your player react.
All network games these days move your player in real time then compensate on the server, but if the server is handling the display this becomes impossible. Sure internet connections have got much faster since then but extra delay would be introduced with the video encoding / decoding.
We put up with network lag back in the day but I can't imagine anyone putting up with it these days. It's a nice idea but I wouldn't put much hope in it catching on.
It would be wise to remember that the same people who would stop you from viewing an adult film may be back next year to complain about a book, or even a TV program. If you can be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you can be told what to say or think. Defend your constitutionally protected rights. No one else will do it for you. Thank you.
I think you'll find the majority of large prop planes (like this one) are turboprops which drive the propeller using a small jet engine, so same problem.
Are there even any large enough piston engine airliners still in general use?
"Secret passages" to content that should be safely behind the paywall? What are they on about? You can't magically link to a full article that's behind a login / subscription unless their site security code is very broken.
If there we doing this right then for non-logged in users they would show a brief intro to the article and a link to the login / subscribe forms.
IE always supported PNGs enough to be direct replacements for static GIFs (indexed colour PNGs supported a single transparent colour just like GIFs, just not alpha effects).
... to host their website?
The thing about Android is you can do a lot more with it without having to root it. You can download and install apps from anywhere, not just the android market, and replace the home screen, the on-screen keyboard etc. with alternative versions all without having to hack anything.
They've even got free tether apps in the android market.
What do you mean you're not impressed by the selection of USB sound cards? You've got everything from basic £15 5.1 with mic and line in which are on par with motherboard's onboard sound (I use one on my laptop) to 10 input 24-bit 96kHz professional audio interfaces like the Edirol UA-101.
Also, do the laptops not have a mic socket? you can usually turn mic gain on and off in the sound control panel which essentially turns it into a line-in socket anyway.
I, on behalf of all humanity, would like to ask our esteemed extra terrestrial visitors...
Tits or GTFO!
If the drive is actually compatible with a modern PC you could start by just taking a straight rip of the data using DD. That way you've at least got an archive of the data, and at only 10 megs you could probably analyse the data in a hex editor fairly easily.
many specifics of game design could also be directly applied to the workforce
Achievement unlocked! Slept with intern.
Micro-SD? I can fit a whole usb flash drive in my spy-rectum!
They're solid squares of aluminium made to look like CPUs, completely non-functional but I guess they look just real enough to fool the box packers. (I know this is /. but you could have at least looked at the pictures in the article!)
Can you tell us what it's for, or is it secret? I assume whatever you're up to involves the destruction of the HD in question?
If you can find a working *very old* IDE drive (back from the era when they had bad blocks printed on the label that you had to map manually) I'd guess those use purely physical sector / block mapping.
And Uranus is cooling. Apparently "only 6 planets or moons out of the more than 100 bodies in the solar system have been observed to be warming".
Color Classic: It could be argued that this system forced Apple to rethink building screens into systems. Sure it looks very good but it increases the overall cost of the system and limits users to a particular view. Built-in screens made sense at the start of the computing age but they have thankfully gone the way of the dinosaurs.
Did the author forget about the iMac?
Lithium Ion batteries do lose their maximum charge over time, that's a fact of physics. How much charge they lose depends on temperature and how much they're charged up.
http://www.batteryuniversity.com/parttwo-34.htm
Now, from the very frequent stories I see posted here related to the iPhone and Android, I have been gathering that the same does not hold true for those devices.
In fact it appears in many cases that owners of those devices are subject not only to the whims of carriers, but the device manufacturers themselves.
I've had no trouble with my T-Mobile G2 (aka HTC Hero). Initially T-Mobile blocked the app store until I went into my account settings online to confirm I was over 18 (weird parental controls) but after that I've had no problem installing 3rd party software, using free tethering etc.