There are loads of free apps but not many open source ones, which is a shame but many developers give away apps in order to entice you to a paid version.
For developers that hope to make money from apps you may find it forked and sold. A shame really as there is a lot to be learnt from working code.
However wouldn't applications like titanium backup allow you to create your own local repository of applications.
Just one further thing in the play store it used to be possible to sort out your application history so you could easily find the apps you already paid for so you could reinstall them this doesnt seem to be possible now and is annoying
it's Ireland but other country's do the same, it is no different from the free overdraft your bank offers with the £50 reviewing fee and many more. the law says they can't charge for unlocking it doesn't say they can't charge you for something else.
On the other hand the networks are not the only way to get a phone unlocked.
In Ireland the phone networks are legally obligated to unlock phones for free, although they are allowed to charge an administration fee (about 25 euro)
He had his first heart attack in 1978 at the age of 37 followed by others in 84, 88, 2000 and 2010 he will have his 72nd birthday in about 6 days time.
I personally had a heart attack a few years ago and at the time learned a few interesting statistics. such as 30% of people having a first heart attack die from it , for a 2nd heart attack it is 50% and the death rate is about 50% after 10 years in this source. (at the time i found 6 and 8 years for 50%) http://www.healthguidance.org/entry/6324/1/Cardiovascular-Disease-The-Facts.html
Another interesting bit was your first year was a 25% chance of death followed by a 3% chance for the following years (without a heart attack it's about 1.5% chance of death in general). Rapid treatment is essential your heart can survive 20-30 minutes without the blood flow to the heart muscle after that the muscle starts to die and if you live you will have scar tissue where the muscle died. I have a heart which is 55% efficient a healthy heart is 60% efficient so i am still relatively unharmed. Maybe the most bizarre question was being asked if i wanted to be injected with heprin, it should clear the blockage but there is a 5% chance of a bleed on the brain. Given the choice of 5% risk or the unspoken alternative (~100% chance of death) i took the risk.
Being diabetic I might have avoided heart attack with a simple dose of 75mg of asprin daily, I had been diagnosed diabetic 2 years previously. You are what you eat, most processed food is pretty poor for your body and most profitable for the supermarkets. It's probably better to buy raw ingredients meat and vegetables and fruit. Farm produce is better for you than factory produce. Exercise helps, a healthy body weight helps.
Dick Cheney is an interesting case he may well live into his eighties with his new heart, thou in 1978 Stents were a new technology (introduced in 1975 I believe) so he has been incredibly lucky in that the technology has developed at a rate fast enough to be in place to keep him from dying.
you can't hang any plasma screen so its screen is parallel with the top surface of a bed. In fact you may ruin a plasma screen if you tilt it too much. You don't really want to be sitting up in bed watching tv. I think the idea is so you can drop to sleep while watching a film, Streaming to the tablet might be reasonably easy to do too.
I'm not convinced about his solution though, maybe a microphone stand would be better, although you would probably want a larger counter weight on the boom and maybe some extra weight on the base. A weight disk might be ideal. The microphone holder is usually screwed on to the end of the arm.
I think you are making a bad comparison, if the installer is broken many people will not try fedora and if they don't use fedora they will not contribute to fedora.
presumably fedora 17 had a working installer so this is a regression, If the installer isn't fixed you will see less new users and some existing users will migrate to something else. This doesn't equate to someone whining about a gift more a developer who has decided to take a dump over the fedora community. Logically the other developers who worked on other parts of fedora won't even see their contribution used because of the poorly developed installer.
I guess either the developer who made the installer can fix it or someone else will write an alternative because if there are people willing to work on fedora , there will people willing to fix the problems.
Every byte? Certainly there are bytes that make up images and sounds and text, most of them are wanted but there is a lot more that comes along with the wanted bytes.
In some ways it is like a little game some of us play, you have something your friend wants but you have no particular use for say a cpu cooling fan. Only thing is you don't just give them the fan you give them a bunch of extra stuff along with the fan, eg the rest of the base unit containing the desired cooling fan.
Thus a winning deal you get rid of the 'potentially useful' junk you have been hoarding for sometime and they get the thing they need.
Of course at sometime in the future you will be at the receiving end too. Some people might just click that they have been playing this game for quite sometime without even realising it.
It is probably legal to stand near a business with signs explaining your issue with that business or giving out leaflets. Providing nothing was claimed that was bogus there really isn't much to be done about that.
Might even be fun to collect signatures for a petition in support for gay marriage, even better do it while wearing formal wedding gear. Done well you could achieve a disruption to the business since most people would see it as fun and maybe some would choose an alternative business to use for that day at least.
Even better would be to promote another local business instead maybe giving away coupons. A well thought out peaceful protest could well be far more effective than just being annoying.
Actually I once decided to go along to a skills conference, the car park anyway, which was all about getting people working again, with representatives of many local business's attending. I printed about 400 copies of my CV and a covering letter and gave a copy to every delegate who was willing to take one. I think i probably gave out around a 100. In the end I found myself working for one of the companies not long after.
I did get a few job offers from that little stunt, and I was working for one of the companies not long after.
it's a definite maybe. From a thread on XDA developers, it was a maybe on a nexus7 If the kernel was patched it could be done but without it it wouldn't work apparently for charging the nexus7 likes the 2 data line shorted which means no data while charging.
So it depends on the Android device, some can and some can't and some can with the right kernel.
on the other hand no reason any android device couldn't recieve and send data via wifi. thus avoiding the problem.
for $57 you get 6 DIGITAL INPUTS, 3 ANALOG INPUTS AND 1 THERMOMETER INPUT. and 8 Relay outputs. connects by usb.
An old phone would be almost ideal for the USB Host but for a couple of issues. USB host mode is not universal with android phones. The USB driver will probably not be available for the android kernel (although since source is available it probably could be compiled). And the final issue I don't think you could charge a phone and use the host mode at the same time.
The positive side you have a full colour display wifi bluetooth and a connection to the cellphone network which you could call (maybe automating your central heating system for example). you could wall mount it couple of screws in the back of the case. The power requirements are very small.
Raspberry PI could do the job too but no display and no cell network, Although some USB stick modems might be able to send and receive text messages. I like the idea of re-purposing an old cheap android phone to do the job.
You could compromise and use the Raspberry PI as the controller and an Android Phone as the display on the Lan. No reason the devices couldn't talk to each other. Maybe the compromise would be better in some ways. Anyway i'm sure other people have much better idea's. .
While you might not, it can be useful for other people I'm out of the house all day so I have zero interest in heating it then but it would be handy to be able to call up the central heating and get it to turn on and off so the house is warm when i get home.
Your typical android phone has 2 i/o ports the usb otg port and the headphone jack. There is also wifi , bluetooth and telephony 3g ect. Thats a powerful collection of i/o
heres a little toy which works via the headphone jack
It's just a robot controlled by infrared using the phone screen to control it. USB has even greater potential with the phone having usb host mode.
I would be surprised if on here most people didn't have a 2nd smartphone which is mostly gathering dust. I have a galaxy mini on pay as you go and it has no credit on the sim but it is still on the 3g network and I can call it (needs 1 call every 6 months to keep the sim registered). If I can call it I can control it with the right software. Since it has wifi I can use it without the phone side anyway.
Isn't it really a useful small HMI interface, Ideal for re-purposing into any number of projects?
Kind of makes a raspberry PI seem a little over priced.
Why dumping into the braking system? you are just wasting energy obviously you brake if you have too, but good planning means you do not need to brake so often or as hard.
When i am driving I usually leave a reasonable gap in front of me. when the car in front of me brakes i just step off the gas and my car slows down the gap decreases till i match speeds again. I use less fuel since my fuel is concentrated into covering distance not moving as fast as I can at any given point. Steady driving is fuel efficient it is acceleration and deceleration which are big users of energy.
if you click on the third link you can read the report summary. One major point not really discussed here is that 2/3rds of that lower life span was due to deaths of people under 50.
Recent immigrants actually were found to be healthier than Americans born and raised in the USA, you can't blame the migrants for this one.
For a nation about 50 probably is a good age for people to die, you have been fairly productive up to this point you have produced the next generation. Is a longer life going to cost a country resources? This isn't just true of the USA it's universal.
For individuals this sucks, I doubt there are many of us who would prefer to die at 50 or younger. As an outsider I have noticed two things that the USA has really cheap "food" and an FDA which seems to exist to place barriers on "food" labelling. Food generally comes from either farms or factories and I honestly believe it is the factory food which is killing us early more than any other factor.
If we want to make it past 50 then we need to change our diets, we need to prepare our own food and that is not opening a box or a can or a packet but by using the basic ingredients ourselves. your main food sources should be the green grocer, the butcher and the fishmonger and maybe the baker.
You might argue you haven't time for this hokey fresh food approach but you can prepare vegetables and freeze them the same with meat. My main kitchen tool these days is the slow cooker, it used to be the microwave and the frying pan.
Prep time for a slow cooker is maybe 10 minutes, a bit more if you have to prep your veg first but it is easy to prep veg and freeze the excess then its pretty much just adding herbs spices ect into the pot and putting the slow cooker on low and letting it cook overnight. Your Dinner is ready when you walk in the door. You can use cheaper cuts of meat add lemon juice or wine which helps tenderise it as it cooks.
I use a trough style windowbox to grow herbs, usually I buy fresh pots of herbs and transplant them to the trough and then I get to harvest them as I need them. They seem to grow as fast as I use them.
I think it is fair to say my diet is far healthier than before, it is better tasting than it was and it is cheaper too. My ratio of meat to veg is much more veg than meat. One last tip get the veg out of the plastic bags as soon as possible. Plastic makes veg sweat and rot.
The most profitable lines a supermarket carries are processed foods they have a shelf life of months if not years. That is good for them not for you.
The Windows PC is the Scada controller I'm out of date so i could be wrong but most if not all Scada systems sit on top of windows and for a very very long time. Windows versions can be from 98 upwards.
It depends on the plumbing but yes if there is no device balancing the hot and cold supply pressures then with a sudden drop in cold water pressure then the proportion of hot to cold can suddenly change.
Although it is more common for opening a hot tap downstairs to drop the pressure of the hot water upstairs resulting in an icy blast of cold water. It is mostly a drawback of gravity based systems. Where a hotwater storage tank is used along with a header tank to provide the pressure. Mains water usually is at a much higher pressure.
If your using a basic shower where the feed is basically a y shaped piece of rubber pipe connected to the bath taps. You are likely to be vulnerable to this problem. With a power shower the pump will compensate for the pressure drop.
It's not right in a couple of ways. Militarily Linux is something built by individuals and companies from all over the world in collaboration. something that was created by humanity as a species not as a nation or even a political group. Maybe there is nothing in the licensing of Linux to say it can't be used for killing but it certainly seems against the spirit of the endeavour.
Right now it's being made part of a hunting rifle and that is pretty sickening too. Hunting is a skill and this takes away from the skill part of hunting. Where is the challenge when all you need to do is waggle the gun barrel in the general direction of the target and the scope decides when to fire? It wouldn't be so bad if it was just taking a photo. Even though how much pride could you take from taking the perfect picture when the camera does the hard bit for you.
It is about as skilled as fishing with dynamite. What if these guns were used to extinct a species? I don't think people worked on Linux to help rich idiots ($7000 a rifle) pretend to be marksmen. Hopefully this is a venture which is going to fail.
I remember back when yugoslavia was falling apart I was on an Amiga channel and there were some young lads on there on both sides of the conflict desperately worried they would be drafted and be forced to fight on opposing sides. Still seems just as wrong now with the diversity of nationalities we share our common interests on line yet some of us be forced to take up arms by our psychopathic leaders of our great nations...
Ok put price aside for a moment, why do you think a Laptop is better than a tablet?
There honestly doesnt seem to be that much difference other than a hinge and a built in keyboard.
With the tablet you have an onscreen keyboard a small portable keyboard of varying sizes a full size keyboard a mouse, a trackball, a graphics tablet, a games controller or two wired wireless what ever you like. you can have the screen standing or lying flat, being used for pen input if you want. while using a full size monitor with hdmi.
The only situation where a laptop actually is better is when you have it perched on your lap and its not that great an experience. How often do you do that?
In a case a tablet is practically the same as a Laptop a tablet is simply more versatile and there are very few things that can be plugged into a laptop or even a desktop that will not have a version that can't be plugged into a tablet.
A laptop is not as flexible as a tablet in different use cases. It's almost a games console but a portable one that can be used anywhere. Possibly it's best and worse features is it runs windows but a dual boot and virtualbox mix would work for me.
Price is a bit high but over all not a bad concept at all.
I use a ps3 bluetooth keyboard with a built in nub for a mouse it's pretty decent. about the same size as a full size keyboard without the number pad and the other block. It works fine with Android, (I guess an Apple keyboard would be good too). It's slightly longer than my 10" tablet. Using it is like having the coolest looking netbook. With hdmi out i can plug into a 19" Monitor / TV / DVD player with no problems too.
If anything is going to trip up a tablet only setup it is printing. Although one solution might be a mini nas, I bought one that is hopeless as a file server but works really well as a print server its got an ethernet cable plugged into a router and a laser printer plugged into its usb socket its smaller than a packet of cigarettes. Trouble is Android is limited in direct printer support.
I do like my tablet but I wouldn't have it as my only device, I do a bit more than just go online.
You seem to be in favour of ignorance. The thing you are trying to ignore is People want to know! When it comes to food no lets be more general and apply this to products in general. place of origin - people like to support their local economy or enjoy a product from a particular region for example champagne from france or a watch from Switzerland. You might prefer Texas beef to Argentinian or Brazillian Beef.
The Organic label i am fine with that, I don't tend to buy organic food it usually costs more but there are definitely people who do and organic food also tends to be less wasteful of food as sizing is a lot looser than with your standard supermarket sizes,
Potato's can be from marble sized to a good pound or two in weight. I personally have no issue with having a single potato to peel (its quicker and there is less peel). There are vast numbers of vegetables which go to waste if they do not match the supermarkets size guidelines. If we are talking about yield and costs to produce shouldn't we also look at sizes and blemishes, such as cracked onion skins.
Eggs can be free-range, organic, barn raised or factory farmed. do you care? maybe not. With chicken diet makes a difference, corn fed chicken has a yellow tinge to the meat and there is more meat on the bone too.
GM is another choice people want to make the same as they can look at a pack of sausages and see the E numbers they are free to choose to buy or not to buy. My personally most disliked phrase on a pack of burgers "Mechanically reclaimed meat" I also look at fat content and sugar content oh and water content too and soya content too.
I would also like to know the company producing the products name, I will not buy Sony for example a bias fairly commonly shared on Slashdot. I also will not buy from Smithfield meat or Japanese Tuna. I'd rather buy Irish Beef instead of British and support my local farmers. Your biases may vary.
My dad is allergic to gluten, want to make him ill just give him food with flour in it. It's quite handy for him to have gluten free labels on food. People do want to know what they are buying and GM is one of the things people want to know about GM crops maybe cheaper to produce due to bigger yields and less reliance on chemical fertilizers so let the price reflect that. Same with irradiated food and uht milk.
If you want to encourage people to buy GM food then first you need to give people the choice, people need to be aware that there are people eating GM food with no ill effects and that GM foods are as tasty as the non GM version if not more so. You are not going to gain acceptance of GM foods by flat out refusing to say which products are GM and which are not. By hiding the GM status of a food product you invite suspicion, if your being too cagey people will be convinced there is something wrong with GM food.
GM food needs to be marketed as such or it will always have a stigma attached to it. But lets not ignore the real reason for not labelling GM as GM. Sales would tank and corporations would lose money and who pays for the Government, Corporate Industry. In another thread there were snarky comments about people who boycott Sony (do you think Sony cares) maybe they do, maybe not, but its clear that there is an industry terrified of the fall out over GM labelling.
I guess with warranty it depends on the manufacturer, as to what they claim voids it. Changing the radio is a bit extreme but acer tends to be fairly open if you ever added ram to an aspire one you would know there is no access panel and requires you to strip it down remove the mainboard and put it back together. They were ok with that. Apple maybe not so open.
The acer c7 retails for $199 you would probably be fairly unlucky not to get 200 days out of it. It isn't worth the warranty to not be able to do as you want with your computer. I used to tend to go for a 1 month burn in prior to hacking but these days i probably won't wait.
I did have a EEE701 which had a backlight fail that wasn't running xandross they still fixed it. To be fair most companies are fairly relaxed as it doesn't cost that much to just do a replacement.
I'd like to think that i'd get warranty service and if i didn't they wouldn't get my money again or my friends and family members either.
It is your computer you shouldn't feel threatened over how you use your property.
Take a look for yourself, do you feel your not able to do the install?
There are those that can and those that can't. Most people can drive a car, just because most people can't do much else with it doesn't make for a bad car.
I'm surprised I'm mostly agreeing with you but you are wrong on one count, chromebooks are not locked down to the people who want to get out of the garden.
Chromebooks have a developer mode which allows you to dualboot linux and chrome os. For mum and dad a walled garden of a mostly self administrating system is very appealing log into your gmail account enter the password for the router (its written on a label on the back of the router) and thats it setup. compare that user experience with the one that you go through with windows all the trialware, hardsell and the rest its scary.
I bet you are asked everyday if you will setup a new windows machine for someone mostly because of that preinstalled junk.
What Google has wisely chosen to do is allow for an alternative Linux install for those people who want a bit more than the chromebook offers. For years people have been ripping out windows or moving to dualboot systems so they can scratch their itch.
Foolishly Microsoft has made an error in judgement which I think they may regret. I can't run Linux on an arm based windows system and its become a major pain to install on an x86 system with secureboot. However Google is giving me options the chromebook is open to me to install Linux and do the stuff I want to do.
Maybe you should be looking to sell Chromebooks, perhaps even offer an alternative install. Mum and Dad won't care about the alternative but some of the kids might. I wouldn't be too surprised if steam makes it onto chrome os in the next year too, wouldn't that be ideal.
Pirating software so I can do on Windows what I can do for free on Linux is not an acceptable option. I think if i'm going to buy a laptop in the next 12 months it will be a chromebook. Don't give a monkeys about chromeOS same as for windows but I will have a nice bit of hardware to do with as I please and no microsoft tax.
Not quite the same markets as the original netbooks, there is a difference and that is android and ios. non computer geeks had the mind set that they needed a windows pc like they had at work otherwise it wouldn't be compatible. The alternative was either a Mac or some obscure Linux machine.
The netbooks that were released with Linux either had the obscure xandros or the even more obscure linpus. Which were even disliked by people who liked to run linux.
The modern day computer buyer is not so naive as in 2007/2008 they have been using Android or IOS or both have been able to choose from 1000's of apps and games and there is a huge number that run in the browser.
Windows is an unpleasant experience from new, the trial ware, antivirus warnings and hard sell that come with a new windows system are confusing and frightening people. Nobody wants to deal with this junk. Even the create a back up disc is scary, you get one chance to make this disk if you mess up you are without a paddle, when was the last time you were asked to set up a windows device, pretty recently if you are the go to guy when it comes to computers.
Microsofts strategy is still obviously "you need windows" which is why they push the "windows experience" on every device and is also why they are failing, Chances are most people have a windows laptop in the house, (people do not want a work station at home,it is their home) In the vague circumstances that they need windows it is there and these days gathering dust.
There is next to zero configuration to do on an android or ios device usually its just a question of typing in the password written on the back of the router, and with android your google name and password. you do that and your pretty much set. Chromebook is pretty much more of the same.
Google has pretty much changed the landscape, about one of the few things people want to do that is slightly complicated is edit photo's and google gave us picassa. they gave us google docs and a place to keep the letters and spreadsheets and pdf files and its all there for us anywhere on our google accounts. I'm fairly sure apple does the same for ios and osx users.
Everything is simpler to do now. If i want to watch a movie that is on my tablet i can plug 1 hdmi cable from my TV / home cinema and hit play. it is that easy. With things like dlna i can have any media on my tablet or phone and playing on my tv. Did you never listen to the people who were saying how do i watch this on my tv not on my laptop.
So no it's not just a replacement for the netbook of a few years ago times have changed, people have changed and Microsoft are losing out. You know Google has been very clever in that they haven't locked down the chromebooks they have included developer mode, even look at the name doesn't it stroke your ego to be called a developer, not a neck beard or a computer geek. So there is Linux for those of us who want a little more and the best stuff that gets created will probably end up in android or chromebook or ios.
Repositories are a great idea, App stores are even better, play store is better than that, it's not work its play! To be fair look at the Repositories which are full of version numbers, no reviews a screenshot if your lucky no user feedback no developer feedback for the users. No alternatives and other programs you might like to try.
The playstore doesn't make a big deal about installing an App in fact they say carry on shopping while we download and install this and no stupid questions like do you want to install this here? or maybe not install this option? Shopping who doesn't like shopping and when most of the goods on sale are at the low price point of free, well maybe free with some ads (because nothings really free, is it). The ads probably don't sell a thing except the pro version of the software you are using.
Microsoft is as boring as it gets, don't you remember when everything was beige and to get hip everything became black and blue led strips
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There are loads of free apps but not many open source ones, which is a shame but many developers give away apps in order to entice you to a paid version.
For developers that hope to make money from apps you may find it forked and sold. A shame really as there is a lot to be learnt from working code.
However wouldn't applications like titanium backup allow you to create your own local repository of applications.
Just one further thing in the play store it used to be possible to sort out your application history so you could easily find the apps you already paid for so you could reinstall them this doesnt seem to be possible now and is annoying
it's Ireland but other country's do the same, it is no different from the free overdraft your bank offers with the £50 reviewing fee and many more. the law says they can't charge for unlocking it doesn't say they can't charge you for something else.
On the other hand the networks are not the only way to get a phone unlocked.
In Ireland the phone networks are legally obligated to unlock phones for free, although they are allowed to charge an administration fee (about 25 euro)
Interesting, this comment lead me to this article
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/health/20docs.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
and dick cheney who had a HeartMate II device fitted in 2010 and lived without a pulse for 15 months , he now has had a heart transplant and might get another 10 years out of that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney#Health_problems
He had his first heart attack in 1978 at the age of 37 followed by others in 84, 88, 2000 and 2010 he will have his 72nd birthday in about 6 days time.
I personally had a heart attack a few years ago and at the time learned a few interesting statistics.
such as 30% of people having a first heart attack die from it , for a 2nd heart attack it is 50% and the death rate is about 50% after 10 years in this source. (at the time i found 6 and 8 years for 50%)
http://www.healthguidance.org/entry/6324/1/Cardiovascular-Disease-The-Facts.html
Another interesting bit was your first year was a 25% chance of death followed by a 3% chance for the following years (without a heart attack it's about 1.5% chance of death in general). Rapid treatment is essential your heart can survive 20-30 minutes without the blood flow to the heart muscle after that the muscle starts to die and if you live you will have scar tissue where the muscle died. I have a heart which is 55% efficient a healthy heart is 60% efficient so i am still relatively unharmed. Maybe the most bizarre question was being asked if i wanted to be injected with heprin, it should clear the blockage but there is a 5% chance of a bleed on the brain. Given the choice of 5% risk or the unspoken alternative (~100% chance of death) i took the risk.
Being diabetic I might have avoided heart attack with a simple dose of 75mg of asprin daily, I had been diagnosed diabetic 2 years previously. You are what you eat, most processed food is pretty poor for your body and most profitable for the supermarkets. It's probably better to buy raw ingredients meat and vegetables and fruit. Farm produce is better for you than factory produce. Exercise helps, a healthy body weight helps.
Dick Cheney is an interesting case he may well live into his eighties with his new heart, thou in 1978 Stents were a new technology (introduced in 1975 I believe) so he has been incredibly lucky in that the technology has developed at a rate fast enough to be in place to keep him from dying.
you can't hang any plasma screen so its screen is parallel with the top surface of a bed. In fact you may ruin a plasma screen if you tilt it too much. You don't really want to be sitting up in bed watching tv. I think the idea is so you can drop to sleep while watching a film, Streaming to the tablet might be reasonably easy to do too.
I'm not convinced about his solution though, maybe a microphone stand would be better, although you would probably want a larger counter weight on the boom and maybe some extra weight on the base. A weight disk might be ideal. The microphone holder is usually screwed on to the end of the arm.
I think you are making a bad comparison, if the installer is broken many people will not try fedora and if they don't use fedora they will not contribute to fedora.
presumably fedora 17 had a working installer so this is a regression, If the installer isn't fixed you will see less new users and some existing users will migrate to something else. This doesn't equate to someone whining about a gift more a developer who has decided to take a dump over the fedora community. Logically the other developers who worked on other parts of fedora won't even see their contribution used because of the poorly developed installer.
I guess either the developer who made the installer can fix it or someone else will write an alternative because if there are people willing to work on fedora , there will people willing to fix the problems.
Every byte? Certainly there are bytes that make up images and sounds and text, most of them are wanted but there is a lot more that comes along with the wanted bytes.
In some ways it is like a little game some of us play, you have something your friend wants but you have no particular use for say a cpu cooling fan. Only thing is you don't just give them the fan you give them a bunch of extra stuff along with the fan, eg the rest of the base unit containing the desired cooling fan.
Thus a winning deal you get rid of the 'potentially useful' junk you have been hoarding for sometime and they get the thing they need.
Of course at sometime in the future you will be at the receiving end too. Some people might just click that they have been playing this game for quite sometime without even realising it.
It is probably legal to stand near a business with signs explaining your issue with that business or giving out leaflets. Providing nothing was claimed that was bogus there really isn't much to be done about that.
Might even be fun to collect signatures for a petition in support for gay marriage, even better do it while wearing formal wedding gear. Done well you could achieve a disruption to the business since most people would see it as fun and maybe some would choose an alternative business to use for that day at least.
Even better would be to promote another local business instead maybe giving away coupons. A well thought out peaceful protest could well be far more effective than just being annoying.
Actually I once decided to go along to a skills conference, the car park anyway, which was all about getting people working again, with representatives of many local business's attending. I printed about 400 copies of my CV and a covering letter and gave a copy to every delegate who was willing to take one. I think i probably gave out around a 100. In the end I found myself working for one of the companies not long after.
I did get a few job offers from that little stunt, and I was working for one of the companies not long after.
it's a definite maybe.
From a thread on XDA developers, it was a maybe on a nexus7 If the kernel was patched it could be done but without it it wouldn't work apparently for charging the nexus7 likes the 2 data line shorted which means no data while charging.
So it depends on the Android device, some can and some can't and some can with the right kernel.
on the other hand no reason any android device couldn't recieve and send data via wifi. thus avoiding the problem.
I found this on ebay http://www.ebay.ie/itm/USB-8-RELAY-CARD-BOARD-MODULE-DIGITAL-INPUTS-ANALOG-INPUTS-DS1820-INPUT-/260881091798?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cbdb98cd6
for $57 you get 6 DIGITAL INPUTS, 3 ANALOG INPUTS AND 1 THERMOMETER INPUT. and 8 Relay outputs.
connects by usb.
An old phone would be almost ideal for the USB Host but for a couple of issues. USB host mode is not universal with android phones. The USB driver will probably not be available for the android kernel (although since source is available it probably could be compiled). And the final issue I don't think you could charge a phone and use the host mode at the same time.
The positive side you have a full colour display wifi bluetooth and a connection to the cellphone network which you could call (maybe automating your central heating system for example). you could wall mount it couple of screws in the back of the case. The power requirements are very small.
Raspberry PI could do the job too but no display and no cell network, Although some USB stick modems might be able to send and receive text messages. I like the idea of re-purposing an old cheap android phone to do the job.
You could compromise and use the Raspberry PI as the controller and an Android Phone as the display on the Lan. No reason the devices couldn't talk to each other. Maybe the compromise would be better in some ways. Anyway i'm sure other people have much better idea's. .
While you might not, it can be useful for other people I'm out of the house all day so I have zero interest in heating it then but it would be handy to be able to call up the central heating and get it to turn on and off so the house is warm when i get home.
Your typical android phone has 2 i/o ports the usb otg port and the headphone jack. There is also wifi , bluetooth and telephony 3g ect. Thats a powerful collection of i/o
heres a little toy which works via the headphone jack
http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/eb6e/
It's just a robot controlled by infrared using the phone screen to control it.
USB has even greater potential with the phone having usb host mode.
I would be surprised if on here most people didn't have a 2nd smartphone which is mostly gathering dust. I have a galaxy mini on pay as you go and it has no credit on the sim but it is still on the 3g network and I can call it (needs 1 call every 6 months to keep the sim registered). If I can call it I can control it with the right software. Since it has wifi I can use it without the phone side anyway.
Isn't it really a useful small HMI interface, Ideal for re-purposing into any number of projects?
Kind of makes a raspberry PI seem a little over priced.
Why dumping into the braking system? you are just wasting energy obviously you brake if you have too, but good planning means you do not need to brake so often or as hard.
When i am driving I usually leave a reasonable gap in front of me. when the car in front of me brakes i just step off the gas and my car slows down the gap decreases till i match speeds again. I use less fuel since my fuel is concentrated into covering distance not moving as fast as I can at any given point. Steady driving is fuel efficient it is acceleration and deceleration which are big users of energy.
if you click on the third link you can read the report summary. One major point not really discussed here is that 2/3rds of that lower life span was due to deaths of people under 50.
Recent immigrants actually were found to be healthier than Americans born and raised in the USA, you can't blame the migrants for this one.
For a nation about 50 probably is a good age for people to die, you have been fairly productive up to this point you have produced the next generation. Is a longer life going to cost a country resources?
This isn't just true of the USA it's universal.
For individuals this sucks, I doubt there are many of us who would prefer to die at 50 or younger. As an outsider I have noticed two things that the USA has really cheap "food" and an FDA which seems to exist to place barriers on "food" labelling. Food generally comes from either farms or factories and I honestly believe it is the factory food which is killing us early more than any other factor.
If we want to make it past 50 then we need to change our diets, we need to prepare our own food and that is not opening a box or a can or a packet but by using the basic ingredients ourselves. your main food sources should be the green grocer, the butcher and the fishmonger and maybe the baker.
You might argue you haven't time for this hokey fresh food approach but you can prepare vegetables and freeze them the same with meat. My main kitchen tool these days is the slow cooker, it used to be the microwave and the frying pan.
Prep time for a slow cooker is maybe 10 minutes, a bit more if you have to prep your veg first but it is easy to prep veg and freeze the excess then its pretty much just adding herbs spices ect into the pot and putting the slow cooker on low and letting it cook overnight. Your Dinner is ready when you walk in the door. You can use cheaper cuts of meat add lemon juice or wine which helps tenderise it as it cooks.
I use a trough style windowbox to grow herbs, usually I buy fresh pots of herbs and transplant them to the trough and then I get to harvest them as I need them. They seem to grow as fast as I use them.
I think it is fair to say my diet is far healthier than before, it is better tasting than it was and it is cheaper too. My ratio of meat to veg is much more veg than meat. One last tip get the veg out of the plastic bags as soon as possible. Plastic makes veg sweat and rot.
The most profitable lines a supermarket carries are processed foods they have a shelf life of months if not years. That is good for them not for you.
The Windows PC is the Scada controller I'm out of date so i could be wrong but most if not all Scada systems sit on top of windows and for a very very long time. Windows versions can be from 98 upwards.
It depends on the plumbing but yes if there is no device balancing the hot and cold supply pressures then with a sudden drop in cold water pressure then the proportion of hot to cold can suddenly change.
Although it is more common for opening a hot tap downstairs to drop the pressure of the hot water upstairs resulting in an icy blast of cold water. It is mostly a drawback of gravity based systems. Where a hotwater storage tank is used along with a header tank to provide the pressure. Mains water usually is at a much higher pressure.
If your using a basic shower where the feed is basically a y shaped piece of rubber pipe connected to the bath taps. You are likely to be vulnerable to this problem. With a power shower the pump will compensate for the pressure drop.
We are a disappointing species, we manage to do great things and terrible things and worst of all a whole heap of things of no note at all.
In the end the only person who judges you is you. How often we disappoint ourselves.
It's not right in a couple of ways.
Militarily Linux is something built by individuals and companies from all over the world in collaboration. something that was created by humanity as a species not as a nation or even a political group. Maybe there is nothing in the licensing of Linux to say it can't be used for killing but it certainly seems against the spirit of the endeavour.
Right now it's being made part of a hunting rifle and that is pretty sickening too. Hunting is a skill and this takes away from the skill part of hunting. Where is the challenge when all you need to do is waggle the gun barrel in the general direction of the target and the scope decides when to fire? It wouldn't be so bad if it was just taking a photo. Even though how much pride could you take from taking the perfect picture when the camera does the hard bit for you.
It is about as skilled as fishing with dynamite. What if these guns were used to extinct a species? I don't think people worked on Linux to help rich idiots ($7000 a rifle) pretend to be marksmen. Hopefully this is a venture which is going to fail.
I remember back when yugoslavia was falling apart I was on an Amiga channel and there were some young lads on there on both sides of the conflict desperately worried they would be drafted and be forced to fight on opposing sides. Still seems just as wrong now with the diversity of nationalities we share our common interests on line yet some of us be forced to take up arms by our psychopathic leaders of our great nations...
Ok put price aside for a moment, why do you think a Laptop is better than a tablet?
There honestly doesnt seem to be that much difference other than a hinge and a built in keyboard.
With the tablet you have an onscreen keyboard a small portable keyboard of varying sizes a full size keyboard a mouse, a trackball, a graphics tablet, a games controller or two wired wireless what ever you like.
you can have the screen standing or lying flat, being used for pen input if you want. while using a full size monitor with hdmi.
The only situation where a laptop actually is better is when you have it perched on your lap and its not that great an experience. How often do you do that?
In a case a tablet is practically the same as a Laptop a tablet is simply more versatile and there are very few things that can be plugged into a laptop or even a desktop that will not have a version that can't be plugged into a tablet.
A laptop is not as flexible as a tablet in different use cases. It's almost a games console but a portable one that can be used anywhere. Possibly it's best and worse features is it runs windows but a dual boot and virtualbox mix would work for me.
Price is a bit high but over all not a bad concept at all.
I think one of the issues is maintenance, submitter is 2,500 miles away. So it's going to be hard to support a windows laptop.
If you want to test drive chrome-os you might try one of these builds
http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/
I just did with a usb stick install on my netbook.
If you have a Linux install you can kind of fake it with this
http://www.necopost.com/2012/06/how-to-use-google-chrome-like-chrome-os.html
The latter might be good for my ubuntu install on my Android tablet.
You can even try chrome os in virtualbox
I use a ps3 bluetooth keyboard with a built in nub for a mouse it's pretty decent. about the same size as a full size keyboard without the number pad and the other block. It works fine with Android, (I guess an Apple keyboard would be good too). It's slightly longer than my 10" tablet. Using it is like having the coolest looking netbook. With hdmi out i can plug into a 19" Monitor / TV / DVD player with no problems too.
If anything is going to trip up a tablet only setup it is printing. Although one solution might be a mini nas, I bought one that is hopeless as a file server but works really well as a print server its got an ethernet cable plugged into a router and a laser printer plugged into its usb socket its smaller than a packet of cigarettes. Trouble is Android is limited in direct printer support.
I do like my tablet but I wouldn't have it as my only device, I do a bit more than just go online.
You seem to be in favour of ignorance. The thing you are trying to ignore is People want to know!
When it comes to food no lets be more general and apply this to products in general.
place of origin - people like to support their local economy or enjoy a product from a particular region for example champagne from france or a watch from Switzerland. You might prefer Texas beef to Argentinian or Brazillian Beef.
The Organic label i am fine with that, I don't tend to buy organic food it usually costs more but there are definitely people who do and organic food also tends to be less wasteful of food as sizing is a lot looser than with your standard supermarket sizes,
Potato's can be from marble sized to a good pound or two in weight. I personally have no issue with having a single potato to peel (its quicker and there is less peel).
There are vast numbers of vegetables which go to waste if they do not match the supermarkets size guidelines. If we are talking about yield and costs to produce shouldn't we also look at sizes and blemishes, such as cracked onion skins.
Eggs can be free-range, organic, barn raised or factory farmed. do you care? maybe not. With chicken diet makes a difference, corn fed chicken has a yellow tinge to the meat and there is more meat on the bone too.
GM is another choice people want to make the same as they can look at a pack of sausages and see the E numbers they are free to choose to buy or not to buy. My personally most disliked phrase on a pack of burgers "Mechanically reclaimed meat" I also look at fat content and sugar content oh and water content too and soya content too.
I would also like to know the company producing the products name, I will not buy Sony for example a bias fairly commonly shared on Slashdot. I also will not buy from Smithfield meat or Japanese Tuna. I'd rather buy Irish Beef instead of British and support my local farmers. Your biases may vary.
My dad is allergic to gluten, want to make him ill just give him food with flour in it. It's quite handy for him to have gluten free labels on food. People do want to know what they are buying and GM is one of the things people want to know about GM crops maybe cheaper to produce due to bigger yields and less reliance on chemical fertilizers so let the price reflect that. Same with irradiated food and uht milk.
If you want to encourage people to buy GM food then first you need to give people the choice, people need to be aware that there are people eating GM food with no ill effects and that GM foods are as tasty as the non GM version if not more so. You are not going to gain acceptance of GM foods by flat out refusing to say which products are GM and which are not. By hiding the GM status of a food product you invite suspicion, if your being too cagey people will be convinced there is something wrong with GM food.
GM food needs to be marketed as such or it will always have a stigma attached to it. But lets not ignore the real reason for not labelling GM as GM. Sales would tank and corporations would lose money and who pays for the Government, Corporate Industry. In another thread there were snarky comments about people who boycott Sony (do you think Sony cares) maybe they do, maybe not, but its clear that there is an industry terrified of the fall out over GM labelling.
I guess with warranty it depends on the manufacturer, as to what they claim voids it. Changing the radio is a bit extreme but acer tends to be fairly open if you ever added ram to an aspire one you would know there is no access panel and requires you to strip it down remove the mainboard and put it back together. They were ok with that. Apple maybe not so open.
The acer c7 retails for $199 you would probably be fairly unlucky not to get 200 days out of it. It isn't worth the warranty to not be able to do as you want with your computer. I used to tend to go for a 1 month burn in prior to hacking but these days i probably won't wait.
I did have a EEE701 which had a backlight fail that wasn't running xandross they still fixed it. To be fair most companies are fairly relaxed as it doesn't cost that much to just do a replacement.
I'd like to think that i'd get warranty service and if i didn't they wouldn't get my money again or my friends and family members either.
It is your computer you shouldn't feel threatened over how you use your property.
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/12/how-to-install-ubuntu-on-acers-199-c7-chromebook/
Take a look for yourself, do you feel your not able to do the install?
There are those that can and those that can't. Most people can drive a car, just because most people can't do much else with it doesn't make for a bad car.
I'm surprised I'm mostly agreeing with you but you are wrong on one count, chromebooks are not locked down to the people who want to get out of the garden.
Chromebooks have a developer mode which allows you to dualboot linux and chrome os.
For mum and dad a walled garden of a mostly self administrating system is very appealing log into your gmail account enter the password for the router (its written on a label on the back of the router) and thats it setup.
compare that user experience with the one that you go through with windows all the trialware, hardsell and the rest its scary.
I bet you are asked everyday if you will setup a new windows machine for someone mostly because of that preinstalled junk.
What Google has wisely chosen to do is allow for an alternative Linux install for those people who want a bit more than the chromebook offers. For years people have been ripping out windows or moving to dualboot systems so they can scratch their itch.
Foolishly Microsoft has made an error in judgement which I think they may regret. I can't run Linux on an arm based windows system and its become a major pain to install on an x86 system with secureboot.
However Google is giving me options the chromebook is open to me to install Linux and do the stuff I want to do.
Maybe you should be looking to sell Chromebooks, perhaps even offer an alternative install. Mum and Dad won't care about the alternative but some of the kids might. I wouldn't be too surprised if steam makes it onto chrome os in the next year too, wouldn't that be ideal.
Pirating software so I can do on Windows what I can do for free on Linux is not an acceptable option. I think if i'm going to buy a laptop in the next 12 months it will be a chromebook. Don't give a monkeys about chromeOS same as for windows but I will have a nice bit of hardware to do with as I please and no microsoft tax.
Not quite the same markets as the original netbooks, there is a difference and that is android and ios.
non computer geeks had the mind set that they needed a windows pc like they had at work otherwise it wouldn't be compatible. The alternative was either a Mac or some obscure Linux machine.
The netbooks that were released with Linux either had the obscure xandros or the even more obscure linpus. Which were even disliked by people who liked to run linux.
The modern day computer buyer is not so naive as in 2007/2008 they have been using Android or IOS or both have been able to choose from 1000's of apps and games and there is a huge number that run in the browser.
Windows is an unpleasant experience from new, the trial ware, antivirus warnings and hard sell that come with a new windows system are confusing and frightening people. Nobody wants to deal with this junk. Even the create a back up disc is scary, you get one chance to make this disk if you mess up you are without a paddle, when was the last time you were asked to set up a windows device, pretty recently if you are the go to guy when it comes to computers.
Microsofts strategy is still obviously "you need windows" which is why they push the "windows experience" on every device and is also why they are failing, Chances are most people have a windows laptop in the house, (people do not want a work station at home ,it is their home) In the vague circumstances that they need windows it is there and these days gathering dust.
There is next to zero configuration to do on an android or ios device usually its just a question of typing in the password written on the back of the router, and with android your google name and password. you do that and your pretty much set. Chromebook is pretty much more of the same.
Google has pretty much changed the landscape, about one of the few things people want to do that is slightly complicated is edit photo's and google gave us picassa. they gave us google docs and a place to keep the letters and spreadsheets and pdf files and its all there for us anywhere on our google accounts. I'm fairly sure apple does the same for ios and osx users.
Everything is simpler to do now. If i want to watch a movie that is on my tablet i can plug 1 hdmi cable from my TV / home cinema and hit play. it is that easy. With things like dlna i can have any media on my tablet or phone and playing on my tv. Did you never listen to the people who were saying how do i watch this on my tv not on my laptop.
So no it's not just a replacement for the netbook of a few years ago times have changed, people have changed and Microsoft are losing out. You know Google has been very clever in that they haven't locked down the chromebooks they have included developer mode, even look at the name doesn't it stroke your ego to be called a developer, not a neck beard or a computer geek. So there is Linux for those of us who want a little more and the best stuff that gets created will probably end up in android or chromebook or ios.
Repositories are a great idea, App stores are even better, play store is better than that, it's not work its play!
To be fair look at the Repositories which are full of version numbers, no reviews a screenshot if your lucky no user feedback no developer feedback for the users. No alternatives and other programs you might like to try.
The playstore doesn't make a big deal about installing an App in fact they say carry on shopping while we download and install this and no stupid questions like do you want to install this here? or maybe not install this option? Shopping who doesn't like shopping and when most of the goods on sale are at the low price point of free, well maybe free with some ads (because nothings really free, is it). The ads probably don't sell a thing except the pro version of the software you are using.
Microsoft is as boring as it gets, don't you remember when everything was beige and to get hip everything became black and blue led strips