I think it's a sponsored episode of "The Computer Show", a deliberate sendup of "The Computer Chronicles". There were two previous episodes made of this: https://www.youtube.com/channe...
Anyone who's actually watched YouTube with captions will know almost immediately what I'm getting at in the subject. Saying the system "is prone to errors" as above is being very kind. Amongst its many errors are frequent phantom occurrences of the word "yeah". While the phantom "yeah" instances are more funny than anything else, many of the other errors are much worse. Amongst other problems they have been known to convert a family-friendly video into something that no longer fits that description.
Besides being the War Doctor in five TV episodes, he played the role in a number of audio plays for Big Finish: https://www.bigfinish.com/rang...
I don't know if the final volume (due out next month) was finished or not.
A big draw of the Pi is its price point. More expensive devices aren't necessarily competition. Less expensive devices like the C.H.I.P. are the ones I'd expect to take a bite out of Pi.
I agree that the glasses are the biggest barrier to entry. TV works because it requires no effort to watch, and can even be social. Glasses require effort and remove the social aspect.
Really something like Ultra-D (http://www.ultra-d.com/) is needed to make 3D TV work, but they've been so slow to get their sets out and still have such a high price point.
I wonder how well this system would work if one has additional agents of chaos (i.e. ferrets, toddlers, etc.) that like to locate small objects left on tables and hide them in unexpected places.
Neither Democrats nor Republicans thought that being even a little bit computer-savvy would be useful for the POTUS. This means that the decisions made by either will likely be either 100% trusted to aides, or made by "feel". Furthermore, both these candidates have expressed an interest in increased surveillance, weakened encryption, etc. Seriously, how do you think this'll play out?
ECD had solar shingles back in the '90s, and the work Stan Ovshinsky was doing improved both their average productivity and durability significantly while reducing production cost. After he retired though the company went downhill and eventually went out of business. How does the new Tesla offering compare to the Ovshinksky offerings from a decade or two ago?
Is this reminding anyone else of the old theory of an second sun in our system who's eccentric orbit through the Kuiper Belt could be blamed for sending out showers of debris that helped create mass extinctions?
It's amazing to me that people are clamoring for legislative solutions now when this sort of problem has pretty much always existed. Remember all those insecure home Win boxes that were pwned and used for DDoS attacks a decade or more ago? Sure, there is an order of magnitude more IoT devices now, but the network and resource limits are also an order of magnitude bigger. We're not going to magically legislate good security from either companies or home users. Even when well intentioned they'll make mistakes. We need to make the network more resilient.
I'm no Trump fan, but there are many reasons why him running insecure servers for his current business isn't even close to Clinton running insecure servers when she was Secretary of State.
When Secretary of State, Clinton was theoretically subject to Freedom of Information Act requests on all her communications. By using a private server, she deliberately sidestepped this pesky requirement to enable the commoners to learn what the elite ruling class were discussing.
She repeatedly sent classified e-mails over these servers. She shouldn't get arrested for this, that's just crazy talk, but this would get an ordinary bloke like me fired, and it'd get a military person court-martialed.
She repeatedly lied about the whole situation, again and again changing her story as the FBI uncovered more information. We have zero reason to believe the final version she settled on is accurate.
She didn't just deliberately delete e-mail messages to cover the whole thing up, she also had phones and tables physically destroyed to remove evidence.
She sloppily tried to blame Colin Powell for it all, even though the dates don't seem to line up.
Someone who's running for president should be adhering to higher standards than regular people, not lower ones. Trump can have crap security right now; he's a private citizen, and there's no law against it (whether or not there should be is another question). Clinton can even have crap security on her personal servers. She just needs to know when to use which one. Really it was the greatest stroke of brilliance of the entire Clinton campaign to get the media to label the whole server / classified document situation as the "e-mail scandal" because it trivializes it and hides away what actually makes it significant.
I kind of see the Hillary vs. Trump question a bit like "Do you prefer your police state Orwellian or traditional fascist?"
The only correct answer is "neither". I'm voting third-party. It's the only way to win in this game. If enough people vote third-party it'll communicate the message back to the Republicans and Democrats that this sort of situation won't be tolerated. If we go along with this and continue to "choose the lesser of evils" then the two evils we'll be dealing with next time will be even more so.
Glasses-free 3D has potential in a number of applications and it's surprising to me how little penetration it has in the market at large. Just as adding color to a display is a means of providing more information, adding depth to a display adds information. Just as we don't typically grade a movie or an application on how effectively its color has been used, once the novelty of 3D has worn off and it's become just another tool in the box we'll start to see what sort of impact it really has. Now we seem to be limited to the 3DS, expensive Ultra-D displays, and soon glasses-free cinemas. What about the 3D phones and tablets? (Yes, I know about add-ons like EyeFly3D, but they're still pretty niche at the moment.)
Liking her or hating her is fine, but people should at least know about her and the other "third-party" candidate on the ballot in all 50 states, Gary Johnson. In an election where there are a record majority number of people dissatisfied with the candidates being offered up by both the big parties, the media ought to be doing a better job of covering the alternatives.
In most districts I've seen the utility companies don't pay any kind of excise tax or ownership tax on "their" poles. Since they're already getting special treatment as these poles are seen as supporting a public utility, they shouldn't be too surprised to see some strings getting attached to this special treatment.
I don't particularly want a "Smart" TV. It's however unfortunately harder to get one without the so-called "smart" features now. If forced to get one the only flavor I'd trust would be Firefox OS.
Somewhat ironic since Nibbler the Ferret helped get it running to begin with: http://www.best-top10-list.com...
Ferrets have a pretty good history for helping out this way in scientific institutions, going back at least to 1971 in Fermilab: http://boingboing.net/2013/06/...
It's much better for health apps than a Fitbit. Its running / walking exercise app in particular is really well thought out. Its map app is great for walking, too. Little details like the four steady beats for turning right and the four beats in a heartbeat pattern for turning left really make it stand out. The calendar interface is also decent. Some of the other apps still need more work; I'd like more mail options, for one.
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So it's a lot like a slightly more expensive CHIP only without its built-in 4GB storage and mini HDMI instead of composite output?
I think it's a sponsored episode of "The Computer Show", a deliberate sendup of "The Computer Chronicles". There were two previous episodes made of this: https://www.youtube.com/channe...
Anyone who's actually watched YouTube with captions will know almost immediately what I'm getting at in the subject. Saying the system "is prone to errors" as above is being very kind. Amongst its many errors are frequent phantom occurrences of the word "yeah". While the phantom "yeah" instances are more funny than anything else, many of the other errors are much worse. Amongst other problems they have been known to convert a family-friendly video into something that no longer fits that description.
Besides being the War Doctor in five TV episodes, he played the role in a number of audio plays for Big Finish: https://www.bigfinish.com/rang... I don't know if the final volume (due out next month) was finished or not.
Maybe they'll finally fix "ferret": https://www.reddit.com/r/Esper...
A big draw of the Pi is its price point. More expensive devices aren't necessarily competition. Less expensive devices like the C.H.I.P. are the ones I'd expect to take a bite out of Pi.
I agree that the glasses are the biggest barrier to entry. TV works because it requires no effort to watch, and can even be social. Glasses require effort and remove the social aspect. Really something like Ultra-D (http://www.ultra-d.com/) is needed to make 3D TV work, but they've been so slow to get their sets out and still have such a high price point.
I wonder how well this system would work if one has additional agents of chaos (i.e. ferrets, toddlers, etc.) that like to locate small objects left on tables and hide them in unexpected places.
Neither Democrats nor Republicans thought that being even a little bit computer-savvy would be useful for the POTUS. This means that the decisions made by either will likely be either 100% trusted to aides, or made by "feel". Furthermore, both these candidates have expressed an interest in increased surveillance, weakened encryption, etc. Seriously, how do you think this'll play out?
ECD had solar shingles back in the '90s, and the work Stan Ovshinsky was doing improved both their average productivity and durability significantly while reducing production cost. After he retired though the company went downhill and eventually went out of business. How does the new Tesla offering compare to the Ovshinksky offerings from a decade or two ago?
How many passengers did it lose during that period?
Is this reminding anyone else of the old theory of an second sun in our system who's eccentric orbit through the Kuiper Belt could be blamed for sending out showers of debris that helped create mass extinctions?
It's amazing to me that people are clamoring for legislative solutions now when this sort of problem has pretty much always existed. Remember all those insecure home Win boxes that were pwned and used for DDoS attacks a decade or more ago? Sure, there is an order of magnitude more IoT devices now, but the network and resource limits are also an order of magnitude bigger. We're not going to magically legislate good security from either companies or home users. Even when well intentioned they'll make mistakes. We need to make the network more resilient.
It's hard to tweet that Twitter is down when Twitter is down.
I'm no Trump fan, but there are many reasons why him running insecure servers for his current business isn't even close to Clinton running insecure servers when she was Secretary of State.
Someone who's running for president should be adhering to higher standards than regular people, not lower ones. Trump can have crap security right now; he's a private citizen, and there's no law against it (whether or not there should be is another question). Clinton can even have crap security on her personal servers. She just needs to know when to use which one. Really it was the greatest stroke of brilliance of the entire Clinton campaign to get the media to label the whole server / classified document situation as the "e-mail scandal" because it trivializes it and hides away what actually makes it significant.
For the record I'm not voting for either one.
I kind of see the Hillary vs. Trump question a bit like "Do you prefer your police state Orwellian or traditional fascist?" The only correct answer is "neither". I'm voting third-party. It's the only way to win in this game. If enough people vote third-party it'll communicate the message back to the Republicans and Democrats that this sort of situation won't be tolerated. If we go along with this and continue to "choose the lesser of evils" then the two evils we'll be dealing with next time will be even more so.
How would they prevent people from using sanitized "fake" accounts? Seems a pretty obvious work-around.
Uh oh, if marijuana provides more pain relief for men than woman, it could seriously impact the job market for women looking to provide pain relief.
Glasses-free 3D has potential in a number of applications and it's surprising to me how little penetration it has in the market at large. Just as adding color to a display is a means of providing more information, adding depth to a display adds information. Just as we don't typically grade a movie or an application on how effectively its color has been used, once the novelty of 3D has worn off and it's become just another tool in the box we'll start to see what sort of impact it really has. Now we seem to be limited to the 3DS, expensive Ultra-D displays, and soon glasses-free cinemas. What about the 3D phones and tablets? (Yes, I know about add-ons like EyeFly3D, but they're still pretty niche at the moment.)
Liking her or hating her is fine, but people should at least know about her and the other "third-party" candidate on the ballot in all 50 states, Gary Johnson. In an election where there are a record majority number of people dissatisfied with the candidates being offered up by both the big parties, the media ought to be doing a better job of covering the alternatives.
We can hope it works...
In most districts I've seen the utility companies don't pay any kind of excise tax or ownership tax on "their" poles. Since they're already getting special treatment as these poles are seen as supporting a public utility, they shouldn't be too surprised to see some strings getting attached to this special treatment.
I don't particularly want a "Smart" TV. It's however unfortunately harder to get one without the so-called "smart" features now. If forced to get one the only flavor I'd trust would be Firefox OS.
Somewhat ironic since Nibbler the Ferret helped get it running to begin with: http://www.best-top10-list.com... Ferrets have a pretty good history for helping out this way in scientific institutions, going back at least to 1971 in Fermilab: http://boingboing.net/2013/06/...
It's much better for health apps than a Fitbit. Its running / walking exercise app in particular is really well thought out. Its map app is great for walking, too. Little details like the four steady beats for turning right and the four beats in a heartbeat pattern for turning left really make it stand out. The calendar interface is also decent. Some of the other apps still need more work; I'd like more mail options, for one.