It may be another case I'm thinking of, but wasn't one of the reasons that it was dismissed because the same book was available at the time under a different title direct from the government?
It may come with more things, but if he isn't doing anything that would take advantage of those extras, he's still being left with a threefold increase to his costs for no real benefit. Given that the OP is running 30 VMs right now, that is a significant increase in his outlay.
Maybe as time goes on he'll be able to find a like for like replacement for the same amount, but right now its not an option.
Stuff written in COBOL fails fast and hard. Java is much better at silently corrupting data without complaining.
You put this on the downsides column, surely from a business point of view this would be a net positive? Or are you talking from a frustration of the coder perspective?
Tbh I'm surprised no one has mentioned Devonport as a likely site, especially given that that's where the Vanguards, along with all our other submarines are sent for refits. The gear is all there already to support them.
If Scotland boots them out, they have a ready to roll port to go to, along with all the facilities to maintain them.
If you're determined to stick within the 'buntu family, try kubuntu or lubuntu. Failing that, Mint gets very positive reviews from most people who have jumped from Ubuntu.
BT offer a nationwide wifi hotspot network here in the UK. Access to it is free if you're a BT customer and I believe Orange's land line net package offers free access as well.
£15 will get you unlimited internet on a pay as you go plan on Three. The same plan on a contract is £12.50. Frankly unless you have a very specific need that requires both mobility, data rates exceeding ~12mbps at peak and are living in a few select areas, this really is a crappy deal.
Internet connectivity is a necessity in the UK, even those on unemployment benefits will soon be required to have access to prove that they're looking for work. But this plan is an absolute joke no matter what way you cut it. Thankfully there are other options that would be more than adequate.
KDE seems to manage the jump between Desktop, Netbook and Tablet without much effort in the part of the apps. Adding a box with an X to close them is again hardly rocket science. I can take a current desktop linux app, even one not specifically developed with KDE in mind, fire it up in desktop mode, it have a border, fire it up again in netbook mode and the controls appear as part of the task bar at the top, in tablet mode the app borders and decorations are in a style that is more fitting with the form factor. Just a shame that KDE is basically windows with Downs.
This is available today.
On the Padfone again we see that the apps don't need special modifications to run in either mode - the underlying toolkit deals with that. Given that apps are designed to handle different resolutions anyway, it's hardly a massive jump. There is absolutely no need on the part of the app developer to worry about this as ICS does all the grunt work, just as in the KDE example. Any app written with ICS in mind should have no problems at all running in either tablet or phone format. At worst in the padfone example, you might have to restart some apps when you plug the phone into the tablet dock.
Go check out the reviews of the padfone on Youtube and see it in action, I saw one by a spanish reviewer about a month back and the apps, which were third party by and large, all seemed to cope well in either form factor. Unifying the codebase under ICS meant that there was no longer a need to write one version specifically for tablets and another for phones, just write for ICS and your bases are covered.
Is it for you? Based on what you've said probably not. Hell it's not even for me if I'm honest (frankly the cost is higher than a similarly specced smartphone and tablet). But the complaints you've put forth simply don't apply. But, all that said, as practical implementations of the concept go, the padfone does seem to offer a fairly stable and usable base from which to go on.
Now if only they could make Android pleasant to type on, they might actually be able to turn it into something that right now is strictly usable only for content consumption into something capable of content creation...
Well, a good phone interface is not a good desktop (or even netbook) interface. Untill the phone's OS deals adequately with the different requirements, I can't see a dock station flying.
Erm, it does already, when running as a phone it offers the ics phone interface, when you plug it into the tablet, it automatically switches to a tablet centric interface. Likewise when you plug it into the keyboard dock it enables Asus's optimisations for use in netbook mode, just like the transformer.
Adding a new launcher optimised for desktop use really doesn't seem like much of a stretch, from a technical standpoint.
As I'm looking into replacing my laptop with something smaller, the Transformer was on my to buy list for a while. After I tought about it for a while, I just decided Android is a showstoper.
Fair play, frankly the productivity software available for Android is pretty sucky.
The Asus Padphone works along these principles - phone, phone UI, plug it into it's companion tablet screen and it switches to tablet mode and takes advantage of the extra aerials and batteries in the tablet enclosure, plug the tablet into the keyboard dock and just like the Transformer/prime/infinity it does a little optimising to make it a little more friendly for use as a netbook.
It's not hard to see someone taking this idea to having it slot into a base station that in turn switches on a more dedicated desktop launch system.
They did try their hand in the android market, half heartedly at least. I believe though that they only managed to convince ZTE to produce a phone with a single core atom based chip. The phone was a budget phone and by all accounts has severely limited access to the Android market due to many more complex apps being being dependent on ARM or specific graphics chips within the SOCs.
When The Register did a review of the phone they said it had plenty of performance, but that didn't change anything - the handset manufacturers were clearly in no mood to give up ARM, especially when you consider that some of the handset manufacturers also design and make their own SOCs.
Running back to Microsoft... Frankly the only surprise in that is that it took this long. EA, after a similarly disastrous outing in the Android Market are looking to do the same.
I imagine Nvidia aren't going to be best pleased at this apparent cosiness.
If you purchase something purely based on price you are one stupid user. Freedom matters and just because the majority don't understand the issue doesn't mean it doesn't mean the lack of freedom isn't harming them.
The lack of freedom causes so many problems. It prevents competition, it prevents compatibility, it prevents upgradability, it makes common applications obsensely and abusively exspensive.
Which is all fine and dandy up until you take into account the fact that many peoples budgets simply won't allow for much more than getting lower cost kit that offers the best bang for their buck.
Dismissing people as stupid for not paying over what the can reasonably afford on what is essentially a luxury item says more about you then it does them.
I wish I had mod points for this, in one picture and a couple of paragraphs, the author has explained superposition, decoherence and entanglement in a manner even I can understand.
Why does it need to be thousands of feet in the air? 12 nautical miles is the limit for territorial waters and to be visible on the horizon at that point you'd need a little over 100 metres of whatever rope/cable/cord you're using to get there.
One question I'd have though is how it'd connect to anything else... Laying cable is expensive, especially for marine environments and would probably qualify as being in whatever country the cable was laid off. Satellite? Trying by Wifi or wimax seems impractical due to the amount of power required to boost the signal enough to have it be picked up over 12 miles, even with line of sight. Whatever you use, the single biggest problem you're going to have is lifting the transceiver set regardless of whatever you're using as a tether.
The alternative might be to try to do a Radio Caroline... But that would be a lot harder to maintain and comes with the added issue of storms causing your vessel to run aground/sink.
Ultimately though, no matter what the solution, if someone is determined enough, they'll get you. Consider that the MAFIAA basically bullied the Swedes into breaking into a server farm and confiscating the pirate bay servers.
Here's hoping garlic routing takes off. After that, it's game over for all this rubbish.
Well I was thinking an anchor with a length of rope, but I imagine if you wanted to get fancy you could rig up some gps gear and a couple of propellers powered by solar electricity and batteries...
I imagine you could do it relatively cheaply if you used a helium balloon. Need to fix it, go out there on a boat, swap over the electronics package, let it go back up. If it's done right it could make for some very interesting developments.
It is an offence if a person "otherwise than under the authority of a designated person:
â¦. uses wireless telegraphy apparatus with intent to obtain information as to the contents, sender or addressee of any message whether sent by means of wireless telegraphy or not, of which neither the person using the apparatus nor a person on whose behalf he is acting is an intended recipient."
This means that it is illegal to listen to anything other than general reception transmissions unless you are either a licensed user of the frequencies in question or have been specifically authorised to do so by a designated person.
A designated person means: âa.âthe Secretary of State; âb.âthe Commissioners of Customs and Excise; or âc.âany other person designated for the purpose by regulations made by the Secretary of State.
Google works.
And I know it's encrypted, hence "assuming it isn't encrypted which is the default".
Apparently you don't understand how the airwaves system works. The tl;dr version is that its basically like a mobile phone network in that unless you have a registered airwaves terminal, you ain't listening to squat. The encryption just adds another layer of defence. These terminals can be disabled remotely too.
I can do no such thing as what? Please be specific.
Apart from the fact that, as the other poster states, its illegal. Its also technically impossible due to the fact that the police, ambulance and fire brigade all use an encrypted TETRA based system called Airwaves, and have done for the better part of a decade.
512mb is plenty even for modern browsers if you pick the right one. Opera 11 worked just fine on an Eeepc 701, for instance (the last version of Firefox that worked on it was 2.0). Likewise Opera mobile works superbly on this Archos g9 80 tablet, which also only has 512mb of ram.
Yes. Technology has moved on. Sitting in front of the TV with a bare board and a mess of wires isn't very appealing, compared to sitting with a laptop at a desk, running a fast and modern OS and applications.
Because Linux is in no way modern.
If you add up all the costs for the Pi
$20 for a DVI cable, $20 for a 16Gb flash card. Case by dollar store. Keyboards and mice I have, but even if you haven't, a half decent set will cost $20 tops.
the price difference isn't all that interesting either.
Less than $100 verses what... $500 for a laptop that won't die within 6months? Ok, if you say so.
The laptop will cost a bit more
Even if you have to purchase all of the above, it's still 5 times the price. Hardly "a bit".
and it will run (Open)Office
So will this. It's even in the FAQs.
IM software teenagers want to use.
Hmm, linux doesn't run IM software? I must be imagining the Pidgin icon in my tray then.
For any kind of hardware tinkering, the Pi is very closed, and doesn't offer much interesting I/O.
As I pointed out to you, there are datasheets out there for the CPU... Whilst that might not be enough for some people, it's a start.
Not everyone is looking at this from the perspective of "from scratch" tinkering and just because it's not the Arduino doesn't mean that others might not find it interesting.
Also, if you make something useful, you can't make your own hardware based on it.
The designs are there, and quite frankly this is a complete nonsense of an argument. Good luck trying to find anyone willing to build you hugely complex multi layer circuit boards in single units at anything like a price mortal man can afford.
Taking your argument PC's are also useless, because you can't get all the parts in single unit prices to roll your own either.
Unless you're talking about games, there isn't a whole lot this thing won't be able to handle that you'd usually do on an entry level Win7 laptop
An entry level Win7 laptop will run Windows, for starters. Plus it will run a lot faster.
And cost at a bare minimum 15 times as much.
As far as the internet goes, the bottleneck is the pipe, not the computer for the most part. Lightweight applications on this thing will do just fine. And I guess you could have some fun on that front too if you were so inclined: Just how much could you get this thing to do and it still be usable.
And of course, teenagers want to play games, too.
Most teens I know have consoles of some description alongside their PCs. Obviously YMMV on that of course. But then again, whilst this could be put to general purpose use and probably be ok in that role, it's not what it was designed for.
the cpu it's bolted to has plenty of documentation to go with it.
Really? I tried the Broadcom site, and I couldn't find anything. Do you have a link ?
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At that point, why not just use Radar then? That tech is pretty well matured at this point.
Technically sure, but does that follow that it means the same legally?
It may be another case I'm thinking of, but wasn't one of the reasons that it was dismissed because the same book was available at the time under a different title direct from the government?
It may come with more things, but if he isn't doing anything that would take advantage of those extras, he's still being left with a threefold increase to his costs for no real benefit. Given that the OP is running 30 VMs right now, that is a significant increase in his outlay.
Maybe as time goes on he'll be able to find a like for like replacement for the same amount, but right now its not an option.
Stuff written in COBOL fails fast and hard. Java is much better at silently corrupting data without complaining.
You put this on the downsides column, surely from a business point of view this would be a net positive? Or are you talking from a frustration of the coder perspective?
Tbh I'm surprised no one has mentioned Devonport as a likely site, especially given that that's where the Vanguards, along with all our other submarines are sent for refits. The gear is all there already to support them.
If Scotland boots them out, they have a ready to roll port to go to, along with all the facilities to maintain them.
If you're determined to stick within the 'buntu family, try kubuntu or lubuntu. Failing that, Mint gets very positive reviews from most people who have jumped from Ubuntu.
BT offer a nationwide wifi hotspot network here in the UK. Access to it is free if you're a BT customer and I believe Orange's land line net package offers free access as well.
Google: Openzone
£15 will get you unlimited internet on a pay as you go plan on Three. The same plan on a contract is £12.50. Frankly unless you have a very specific need that requires both mobility, data rates exceeding ~12mbps at peak and are living in a few select areas, this really is a crappy deal.
Internet connectivity is a necessity in the UK, even those on unemployment benefits will soon be required to have access to prove that they're looking for work. But this plan is an absolute joke no matter what way you cut it. Thankfully there are other options that would be more than adequate.
KDE seems to manage the jump between Desktop, Netbook and Tablet without much effort in the part of the apps. Adding a box with an X to close them is again hardly rocket science. I can take a current desktop linux app, even one not specifically developed with KDE in mind, fire it up in desktop mode, it have a border, fire it up again in netbook mode and the controls appear as part of the task bar at the top, in tablet mode the app borders and decorations are in a style that is more fitting with the form factor. Just a shame that KDE is basically windows with Downs.
This is available today.
On the Padfone again we see that the apps don't need special modifications to run in either mode - the underlying toolkit deals with that. Given that apps are designed to handle different resolutions anyway, it's hardly a massive jump. There is absolutely no need on the part of the app developer to worry about this as ICS does all the grunt work, just as in the KDE example. Any app written with ICS in mind should have no problems at all running in either tablet or phone format. At worst in the padfone example, you might have to restart some apps when you plug the phone into the tablet dock.
Go check out the reviews of the padfone on Youtube and see it in action, I saw one by a spanish reviewer about a month back and the apps, which were third party by and large, all seemed to cope well in either form factor. Unifying the codebase under ICS meant that there was no longer a need to write one version specifically for tablets and another for phones, just write for ICS and your bases are covered.
Is it for you? Based on what you've said probably not. Hell it's not even for me if I'm honest (frankly the cost is higher than a similarly specced smartphone and tablet). But the complaints you've put forth simply don't apply.
But, all that said, as practical implementations of the concept go, the padfone does seem to offer a fairly stable and usable base from which to go on.
Now if only they could make Android pleasant to type on, they might actually be able to turn it into something that right now is strictly usable only for content consumption into something capable of content creation...
Well, a good phone interface is not a good desktop (or even netbook) interface. Untill the phone's OS deals adequately with the different requirements, I can't see a dock station flying.
Erm, it does already, when running as a phone it offers the ics phone interface, when you plug it into the tablet, it automatically switches to a tablet centric interface. Likewise when you plug it into the keyboard dock it enables Asus's optimisations for use in netbook mode, just like the transformer.
Adding a new launcher optimised for desktop use really doesn't seem like much of a stretch, from a technical standpoint.
As I'm looking into replacing my laptop with something smaller, the Transformer was on my to buy list for a while. After I tought about it for a while, I just decided Android is a showstoper.
Fair play, frankly the productivity software available for Android is pretty sucky.
The Asus Padphone works along these principles - phone, phone UI, plug it into it's companion tablet screen and it switches to tablet mode and takes advantage of the extra aerials and batteries in the tablet enclosure, plug the tablet into the keyboard dock and just like the Transformer/prime/infinity it does a little optimising to make it a little more friendly for use as a netbook.
It's not hard to see someone taking this idea to having it slot into a base station that in turn switches on a more dedicated desktop launch system.
They did try their hand in the android market, half heartedly at least. I believe though that they only managed to convince ZTE to produce a phone with a single core atom based chip. The phone was a budget phone and by all accounts has severely limited access to the Android market due to many more complex apps being being dependent on ARM or specific graphics chips within the SOCs.
When The Register did a review of the phone they said it had plenty of performance, but that didn't change anything - the handset manufacturers were clearly in no mood to give up ARM, especially when you consider that some of the handset manufacturers also design and make their own SOCs.
Running back to Microsoft... Frankly the only surprise in that is that it took this long. EA, after a similarly disastrous outing in the Android Market are looking to do the same.
I imagine Nvidia aren't going to be best pleased at this apparent cosiness.
If you purchase something purely based on price you are one stupid user. Freedom matters and just because the majority don't understand the issue doesn't mean it doesn't mean the lack of freedom isn't harming them.
The lack of freedom causes so many problems. It prevents competition, it prevents compatibility, it prevents upgradability, it makes common applications obsensely and abusively exspensive.
Which is all fine and dandy up until you take into account the fact that many peoples budgets simply won't allow for much more than getting lower cost kit that offers the best bang for their buck.
Dismissing people as stupid for not paying over what the can reasonably afford on what is essentially a luxury item says more about you then it does them.
I wish I had mod points for this, in one picture and a couple of paragraphs, the author has explained superposition, decoherence and entanglement in a manner even I can understand.
Thanks for posting this!
100 metres should be 100ft... or 30m...
Why does it need to be thousands of feet in the air? 12 nautical miles is the limit for territorial waters and to be visible on the horizon at that point you'd need a little over 100 metres of whatever rope/cable/cord you're using to get there.
One question I'd have though is how it'd connect to anything else... Laying cable is expensive, especially for marine environments and would probably qualify as being in whatever country the cable was laid off. Satellite? Trying by Wifi or wimax seems impractical due to the amount of power required to boost the signal enough to have it be picked up over 12 miles, even with line of sight. Whatever you use, the single biggest problem you're going to have is lifting the transceiver set regardless of whatever you're using as a tether.
The alternative might be to try to do a Radio Caroline... But that would be a lot harder to maintain and comes with the added issue of storms causing your vessel to run aground/sink.
Ultimately though, no matter what the solution, if someone is determined enough, they'll get you. Consider that the MAFIAA basically bullied the Swedes into breaking into a server farm and confiscating the pirate bay servers.
Here's hoping garlic routing takes off. After that, it's game over for all this rubbish.
At least until they outlaw that...
Well I was thinking an anchor with a length of rope, but I imagine if you wanted to get fancy you could rig up some gps gear and a couple of propellers powered by solar electricity and batteries...
I imagine you could do it relatively cheaply if you used a helium balloon. Need to fix it, go out there on a boat, swap over the electronics package, let it go back up. If it's done right it could make for some very interesting developments.
If its illegal in the UK show me the law.
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/enforcement/spectrum-enforcement/guidance
The relevant part:
It is an offence if a person "otherwise than under the authority of a designated person:
â¦. uses wireless telegraphy apparatus with intent to obtain information as to the contents, sender or addressee of any message whether sent by means of wireless telegraphy or not, of which neither the person using the apparatus nor a person on whose behalf he is acting is an intended recipient."
This means that it is illegal to listen to anything other than general reception transmissions unless you are either a licensed user of the frequencies in question or have been specifically authorised to do so by a designated person.
A designated person means:
âa.âthe Secretary of State;
âb.âthe Commissioners of Customs and Excise; or
âc.âany other person designated for the purpose by regulations made by the Secretary of State.
Google works.
And I know it's encrypted, hence "assuming it isn't encrypted which is the default".
Apparently you don't understand how the airwaves system works. The tl;dr version is that its basically like a mobile phone network in that unless you have a registered airwaves terminal, you ain't listening to squat. The encryption just adds another layer of defence. These terminals can be disabled remotely too.
I can do no such thing as what? Please be specific.
Apart from the fact that, as the other poster states, its illegal. Its also technically impossible due to the fact that the police, ambulance and fire brigade all use an encrypted TETRA based system called Airwaves, and have done for the better part of a decade.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airwave_(communications_network)
512mb is plenty even for modern browsers if you pick the right one. Opera 11 worked just fine on an Eeepc 701, for instance (the last version of Firefox that worked on it was 2.0). Likewise Opera mobile works superbly on this Archos g9 80 tablet, which also only has 512mb of ram.
Yes. Technology has moved on. Sitting in front of the TV with a bare board and a mess of wires isn't very appealing, compared to sitting with a laptop at a desk, running a fast and modern OS and applications.
Because Linux is in no way modern.
If you add up all the costs for the Pi
$20 for a DVI cable, $20 for a 16Gb flash card. Case by dollar store. Keyboards and mice I have, but even if you haven't, a half decent set will cost $20 tops.
the price difference isn't all that interesting either.
Less than $100 verses what... $500 for a laptop that won't die within 6months? Ok, if you say so.
The laptop will cost a bit more
Even if you have to purchase all of the above, it's still 5 times the price. Hardly "a bit".
and it will run (Open)Office
So will this. It's even in the FAQs.
IM software teenagers want to use.
Hmm, linux doesn't run IM software? I must be imagining the Pidgin icon in my tray then.
For any kind of hardware tinkering, the Pi is very closed, and doesn't offer much interesting I/O.
As I pointed out to you, there are datasheets out there for the CPU... Whilst that might not be enough for some people, it's a start.
Not everyone is looking at this from the perspective of "from scratch" tinkering and just because it's not the Arduino doesn't mean that others might not find it interesting.
Also, if you make something useful, you can't make your own hardware based on it.
The designs are there, and quite frankly this is a complete nonsense of an argument. Good luck trying to find anyone willing to build you hugely complex multi layer circuit boards in single units at anything like a price mortal man can afford.
Taking your argument PC's are also useless, because you can't get all the parts in single unit prices to roll your own either.
An entry level Win7 laptop will run Windows, for starters. Plus it will run a lot faster.
And cost at a bare minimum 15 times as much.
As far as the internet goes, the bottleneck is the pipe, not the computer for the most part. Lightweight applications on this thing will do just fine. And I guess you could have some fun on that front too if you were so inclined: Just how much could you get this thing to do and it still be usable.
And of course, teenagers want to play games, too.
Most teens I know have consoles of some description alongside their PCs. Obviously YMMV on that of course. But then again, whilst this could be put to general purpose use and probably be ok in that role, it's not what it was designed for.
Really? I tried the Broadcom site, and I couldn't find anything. Do you have a link ?
Sure!
http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ddi0301h/DDI0301H_arm1176jzfs_r0p7_trm.pdf
Was cited in the Rasberry Pi wiki: http://elinux.org/RaspberryPiBoard
Not surprised you didn't find anything on the Broadcom site though... It's a bit of a pig to navigate around.