Yes, and thats not a problem, as you can just add or remove padding as needed. The problem would be if its significantly bigger. Or if it was so small that it would fit inside the part that has a transparent plastic film, rather than being stopped by the hard plastic, because I'm not sure that the film would last that long with the pressure of the device directly on it.
I don't think the screen matters that much. Most people who drive with a GPS probably relies a lot more on the voice instructions than on what the screen displays.
You probably don't have to pay to use the hardware. Freeware GPS apps can probably access the GPS fine.
There are good free maps too. What you have to pay for is probably maps that has built in navigation metadata so it can calculate how you should drive. Those costs a bit more to produce, and those are what nokia are now giving away for free, which is what this story is all about. Which is no different than buying software for a computer, even if you already bought the computer.
Waterproof up to one meter, and it floats so no worries about loosing it in the water. Also shock resistant and crush resistant. I bought it many years ago for the palm I've used then, and I was happy to see that the N800 was also usable in it. I hope the N900 is as well since I plan on getting one at some point, but it should be, since its about the same size.
I use my N800 as a GPS outside sometimes, and use this so I don't have to worry about dropping it in a moist terrain or if it starts raining. I also use it for reading ebooks when taking a bath.
So a smartphone/pda doesn't have to be unusable in conditions like the ones you describe. Altough I'm not sure if you could make phonecalls while its inside the shield, it might block the sound waves too much. Touchscreen devices work great on it, since one side has a soft transparent plastic film over where the screen is. Buttons on the front work well trough it too. Buttons on the side or top are not reachable however.
I did some tests with mine, among other things leaving it at the bottom of my bathtub for 24 hours with something heavy on it to make it stay at the bottom. No moisture got in.
So pdas/smartphones aren't necceserily useless in the conditions you describe, you just have to have the right gear for it.
That makes sense to me. Denoising can be done much better when you have the data from the raw image than when you have already converted. Sharpening is the same either way, so you could just as well do it in gimp or something, so a raw program doesn't need to include it. Also sharpening should always be the last thing you do, because it doesn't turn out nearly as well if you do it earlier in your workflow (And I mean the last, after doing all modifications, and resizing. The only thing left to do when you've sharpened the image should be to hit the save button and close the program.) And since most people probably do some final touch-ups in an image editor after having the image converted from raw, it makes sense to do the sharpening in the image program, rather than doing it prematurely.
For myself I made a small shell script that uses ufraw-batch to convert raw files to images using settings that usually produce good results for my camera. Then it uses imagemagick to do some other things, including applying a small unsharp mask. Works pretty well. I only open ufraw and go trough the whole process manually for images that turned out exceptionally well.
If you read some of the other comments you'll see that linux has had multiple free software raw-processing programs for many years. There are at least two plugins for gimp, one for dcraw and one for ufraw. And there are professional photographers that use them.
Thats not entirely accurate. Ufraw has for a long time included a batch tool called ufraw-batch. Try running that command it if you have ufraw installed and see for yourself. The idea is that you process one image in the series in the normal ufraw gui and save the changes you made as a template to a config file (thats what that button in the ufraw gui is for). Then you have ufraw-batch load that config and process as many pictures as you like. I tried rawstudio, but it kept crashing for me. Been using ufraw for two years, and it works great here. I don't think the UI is confusing.
Its command-line only, thats probably why you missed.
Don't click link in parent post. The page has javascript or something that connects to the freenode irc network and does something malicious. Seems to be exploiting a security flaw in freenodes servers that allows you to connect to it using HTTP post.
The way to handle this in firefox is to create separate browser profiles, one locked down for online banking and other stuff where you need extra security, and one for causal browsing. This is more secure than the way IE handles it.
Why not just run one of the terminal-based clients in screen? rtorrent is a good option. And it can do things like watch a directory for.torrent files and you can set up rules to do things like stop the torrent after seeding to a certain ratio, so you don't even have to control it if you don't want to.
Of course it doesn't support the other protocols you mentioned.
Running a gnome app on kde would consume a little more memory. This is due to the fact that it also has to load the gnome libraries. However libraries are shared across all applications that use them, so if you have 10 gnome applications open the libraries doesn't take up more memory than if you had one open. Assuming that the gnome apps and the kde apps are equal otherwise, I would guess that you would be using only about 20-40mb more.
So small enough to be negligible. If you like the kde desktop and gnome apps then run the gnome apps on a kde desktop.
Is this really true anymore? With devices like the Nokia N900 being released, that has full-featured browsers that can handle everything a desktop browsers can, I doubt this will be an issue much longer.
Right, because android existed back in 2005 when nokia released the nokia 770, their first linux-based device, and the first in the series of what is now the N900. They would never have tried that if it wasn't for android.
1. fork() works just fine, is extremly stable, and is faster than using threads on most platforms. I agree that perls ithreads implementation is a bit shaky, but most of the time fork() is simpler and faster anyway, so why bother with it?
2. What language is there than can't be decompiled? I can't think of one.
There are many great games for gameboy color, I had a gbc and about 10 games, but I haven't been able to play them for a while becuase I lost my GBC. I want to re-play them again some day.
Sure, this rom isn't needed for re-playing them, but its also a bit of preserved history. Thats one of the main reasons for dumping roms, its not all about piracy, its preserving a bit of history for future generations.
I have spent quite a bit reading on the subject, and I'm one of the people who belive that the "water ape" hypothesis is correct. I also think that the article linked to in this slashdot story is correct. Is this a contradiction?
Not really, the hypothesies (whats the plural of hyphotesis?) are not mutually exclusive. The water ape hypothesis gives a timeframe of us living mainly near shores and spending a lot of our time in the water between six and two million years ago, depending on who you ask, and personally I believe that its closer to the 6 million mark than the 2 million mark. And since this article is talking about what we did 1.9 million years ago, there is no reason they can't both be correct. We could have spent a few million years on the shores/in the water, then moved on to land, become meat eaters and learned how too cook. There is plenty of time for us to have done both.
I also agree with the hyphotesis that says that we started using fire around 2-3 million years ago, which seems to fit into this timeline nicely.
Maybe it is slow, but currently that is the price for anonymity. If you don't think waiting a few seconds here and there is worth it for being anonymous then don't use services like this. There are plenty of people who think anonymity is worth a lot more than that. If you only want to be anonymous if its convenient and without negative side effects then you are probably not one of the ones who need to be anonymous.
He seems to be assuming that you only want to run a website on this service. I don't think hosting websites on this kind of service is a good idea at all. There are many other types of application you run on clould computing infrastructure, which makes much more sense, and negates almost all of his claims.
Consider for example a rendering farm. One day you may have two items to render. Another day 10 items. The next day 5 items. Should you really scale up and down manually each day, when you could just as easily just start the amount of servers you need based on how many jobs have been submitted for that day, and how large the jobs are?
There are many other examples. Websites are not the only thing you run on these services.
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Yes, and thats not a problem, as you can just add or remove padding as needed. The problem would be if its significantly bigger. Or if it was so small that it would fit inside the part that has a transparent plastic film, rather than being stopped by the hard plastic, because I'm not sure that the film would last that long with the pressure of the device directly on it.
I don't think the screen matters that much. Most people who drive with a GPS probably relies a lot more on the voice instructions than on what the screen displays.
Maemo has Ovi Maps already. At least the N800 does, I assume they didn't remove it in the maemo 5 version of the OS.
You probably don't have to pay to use the hardware. Freeware GPS apps can probably access the GPS fine.
There are good free maps too. What you have to pay for is probably maps that has built in navigation metadata so it can calculate how you should drive. Those costs a bit more to produce, and those are what nokia are now giving away for free, which is what this story is all about. Which is no different than buying software for a computer, even if you already bought the computer.
I have this waterproof casing for my N800: http://www.otterbox.com/handheld-pda-cases/2600-series/2600-series-pda-case/
Waterproof up to one meter, and it floats so no worries about loosing it in the water. Also shock resistant and crush resistant. I bought it many years ago for the palm I've used then, and I was happy to see that the N800 was also usable in it. I hope the N900 is as well since I plan on getting one at some point, but it should be, since its about the same size.
I use my N800 as a GPS outside sometimes, and use this so I don't have to worry about dropping it in a moist terrain or if it starts raining. I also use it for reading ebooks when taking a bath.
So a smartphone/pda doesn't have to be unusable in conditions like the ones you describe. Altough I'm not sure if you could make phonecalls while its inside the shield, it might block the sound waves too much. Touchscreen devices work great on it, since one side has a soft transparent plastic film over where the screen is. Buttons on the front work well trough it too. Buttons on the side or top are not reachable however.
I did some tests with mine, among other things leaving it at the bottom of my bathtub for 24 hours with something heavy on it to make it stay at the bottom. No moisture got in.
So pdas/smartphones aren't necceserily useless in the conditions you describe, you just have to have the right gear for it.
That makes sense to me. Denoising can be done much better when you have the data from the raw image than when you have already converted. Sharpening is the same either way, so you could just as well do it in gimp or something, so a raw program doesn't need to include it. Also sharpening should always be the last thing you do, because it doesn't turn out nearly as well if you do it earlier in your workflow (And I mean the last, after doing all modifications, and resizing. The only thing left to do when you've sharpened the image should be to hit the save button and close the program.) And since most people probably do some final touch-ups in an image editor after having the image converted from raw, it makes sense to do the sharpening in the image program, rather than doing it prematurely. For myself I made a small shell script that uses ufraw-batch to convert raw files to images using settings that usually produce good results for my camera. Then it uses imagemagick to do some other things, including applying a small unsharp mask. Works pretty well. I only open ufraw and go trough the whole process manually for images that turned out exceptionally well.
If you read some of the other comments you'll see that linux has had multiple free software raw-processing programs for many years. There are at least two plugins for gimp, one for dcraw and one for ufraw. And there are professional photographers that use them.
Thats not entirely accurate. Ufraw has for a long time included a batch tool called ufraw-batch. Try running that command it if you have ufraw installed and see for yourself. The idea is that you process one image in the series in the normal ufraw gui and save the changes you made as a template to a config file (thats what that button in the ufraw gui is for). Then you have ufraw-batch load that config and process as many pictures as you like. I tried rawstudio, but it kept crashing for me. Been using ufraw for two years, and it works great here. I don't think the UI is confusing.
Its command-line only, thats probably why you missed.
So just because we haven't been able to recreate Jurassic Park in reality it means we don't have proof that dinosaurs existed?
Don't click link in parent post. The page has javascript or something that connects to the freenode irc network and does something malicious. Seems to be exploiting a security flaw in freenodes servers that allows you to connect to it using HTTP post.
Troll? It was meant as a joke :(
You can also try this tool which works even better.
The way to handle this in firefox is to create separate browser profiles, one locked down for online banking and other stuff where you need extra security, and one for causal browsing. This is more secure than the way IE handles it.
Why not just run one of the terminal-based clients in screen? rtorrent is a good option. And it can do things like watch a directory for .torrent files and you can set up rules to do things like stop the torrent after seeding to a certain ratio, so you don't even have to control it if you don't want to.
Of course it doesn't support the other protocols you mentioned.
Running a gnome app on kde would consume a little more memory. This is due to the fact that it also has to load the gnome libraries. However libraries are shared across all applications that use them, so if you have 10 gnome applications open the libraries doesn't take up more memory than if you had one open. Assuming that the gnome apps and the kde apps are equal otherwise, I would guess that you would be using only about 20-40mb more. So small enough to be negligible. If you like the kde desktop and gnome apps then run the gnome apps on a kde desktop.
Is this really true anymore? With devices like the Nokia N900 being released, that has full-featured browsers that can handle everything a desktop browsers can, I doubt this will be an issue much longer.
Right, because android existed back in 2005 when nokia released the nokia 770, their first linux-based device, and the first in the series of what is now the N900. They would never have tried that if it wasn't for android.
1. fork() works just fine, is extremly stable, and is faster than using threads on most platforms. I agree that perls ithreads implementation is a bit shaky, but most of the time fork() is simpler and faster anyway, so why bother with it? 2. What language is there than can't be decompiled? I can't think of one.
I care.
There are many great games for gameboy color, I had a gbc and about 10 games, but I haven't been able to play them for a while becuase I lost my GBC. I want to re-play them again some day.
Sure, this rom isn't needed for re-playing them, but its also a bit of preserved history. Thats one of the main reasons for dumping roms, its not all about piracy, its preserving a bit of history for future generations.
I have spent quite a bit reading on the subject, and I'm one of the people who belive that the "water ape" hypothesis is correct. I also think that the article linked to in this slashdot story is correct. Is this a contradiction?
Not really, the hypothesies (whats the plural of hyphotesis?) are not mutually exclusive. The water ape hypothesis gives a timeframe of us living mainly near shores and spending a lot of our time in the water between six and two million years ago, depending on who you ask, and personally I believe that its closer to the 6 million mark than the 2 million mark. And since this article is talking about what we did 1.9 million years ago, there is no reason they can't both be correct. We could have spent a few million years on the shores/in the water, then moved on to land, become meat eaters and learned how too cook. There is plenty of time for us to have done both.
I also agree with the hyphotesis that says that we started using fire around 2-3 million years ago, which seems to fit into this timeline nicely.
Do we still have the right to read?
That's a relatively well-known term among computer geeks who also likes reading fiction. It's used in multiple books/novels in the genre 'cyberpunk'.
Maybe it is slow, but currently that is the price for anonymity. If you don't think waiting a few seconds here and there is worth it for being anonymous then don't use services like this. There are plenty of people who think anonymity is worth a lot more than that. If you only want to be anonymous if its convenient and without negative side effects then you are probably not one of the ones who need to be anonymous.
He seems to be assuming that you only want to run a website on this service. I don't think hosting websites on this kind of service is a good idea at all. There are many other types of application you run on clould computing infrastructure, which makes much more sense, and negates almost all of his claims.
Consider for example a rendering farm. One day you may have two items to render. Another day 10 items. The next day 5 items. Should you really scale up and down manually each day, when you could just as easily just start the amount of servers you need based on how many jobs have been submitted for that day, and how large the jobs are?
There are many other examples. Websites are not the only thing you run on these services.
this is somewhere along the lines of not having a secure os and recommending everyone to use an antivirus, a firewall, antimalware and antiphishing.
as far as i understand IETF = Internet Explorer does anyone know what TF stands for?
It stands for Internet Engineering Task Force, it has nothing to do with Internet Explorer.
You can read about them on wikipedia.