There is something at work in Facebook. I have several times seen Facebook "Recommended for you" that I should "Like" Mitt's page. This is completely weird because I have never posted anything political one way or another on my Facebook page. I am not really an Obama supporter, but I cannot stand Mitt and would never "Like" him or his page. So, why would Facebook "Recommend" him for me? My tinfoil-hat theory is not something as nefarious as "hacking", but more likely someone paid someone at Facebook to make these recommendation show up for more people than they should be.
I don't know about My Little Pony, but I do know that Pinkie Pie is the nickname that Skippyjon Jones mom calls him in the book "Skippyjon Jones: Lost in Spice" that I read my daughter weekly before going to bed, lol. I think that the name comes from his overly large pink inside pie shaped Siamese cat ears.
Sure, they buy things, lots of things, and then prices go way up and especially housing because of so many new temporary people in the area and then whole apartments full of retired people living on fixed incomes get evicted because their rent has gone up from $400 a month to $2000 a month (not necessarily Texas, but NW North Dakota).
I have also followed/. since it had the original college domain name but I never bothered to create an account until one day I finally wanted to submit a story. If I had any idea how big of a deal having a small UID would have become I certainly would have registered much earlier. Oh well, at least I like my big 6 digit UID because Seven ate Nine and I graduated in 94.
This new "artificial muscle" sounds a lot like the Myomer muscles from the BattleTech franchise except that I believed they worked on magnetics instead of heat and they weren't supposed to be invented until 2350.
Saturday Night Live did a skit like this many years ago called the All Drug Olympics. It was not a pretty site watching the weightlifters pull their own arms off and spurt blood around the stage. I believe that you can still find it on nbc.com ironically or Hulu or Youtube.
Same here. My college was sent one of those C & D letters back in 1997 for a a student running an open FTP server that became a rather popular trading place for a while. We had the only dorm room on campus that had a network connection after my roommates and I hacked a pair of ADSL modems into the campus phone system between our room and the computer lab. I was given the letter and asked to shut it down, but they didn't even take away our connection. Our server was built from spare parts including a 486 motherboard and pair of old hard drives literally housed in a pizza box and running Slackware Linux. I found the FTP server to be quite fascinating in what people would upload to share. I discovered new bands that I had never heard of and would have never bought from later if people hadn't uploaded songs from them to it.
I did not read if this was an Android or iOS game, but on Android you can make simple backups of any installed app/game with free apps such as AppMonster and then reinstall those backups should anything like this ever happen. This does not even require "rooting" or "jailbreaking". If you do choose to root your Android phone, then you can do even better complete app and data backups with Titanium Backup.
If you use SonicWALL firewalls then check out NetExtender which they call a "layer 3 VPN client". I use it all of the time to connect to my work desktop from home on my ASUS Transformer and it works perfectly. They also have a version specifically for their SonicWALL Aventail SRA E-Class SSL VPN Appliances.
It and my hardware are good enough, plus I cannot stand some of the UI changes such as in Explorer and the Control Panel.
I typically used to upgrade my main home systems every 3 years or so, but my old 3 Ghz single core desktop is still more than enough for the printing, scanning, and burning duties that it performs and my 2.2 Ghz Core2Duo laptop with nVidia graphics is also more than enough for my daily needs. As long as the hardware doesn't fail I have not had any need to upgrade. My upgrades used to be driven buy whatever the latest game I wanted to play was, but even my laptop can now play any game I am interested in. When some new must have piece of software comes out that I have to have and my current setup doesn't support it I may buy a new laptop, but until then I will continue to use XP.
I just seen the movie Arthur Christmas with my daughter last night. They actually made a very good attempt at explaining how Santa could work and still making it an entertaining kids movie. I would actually recommend anyone interested in the "Science of Santa" to watch it for a laugh.
But, for those who won't see it, here are some of the highlights. As population has increased, so has the technology involved and the elven work force. Santa himself pretty much only visits one house per town and a crack team of elite ninja elves do all of the rest of the deliveries in the town. Santa is a generational title that has been passed down from father to son with each Santa performing up to 70 missions (Christmases).
The old sleigh was pulled by 8 reindeer who used a continuous dose of magic elf dust mined from the Aurora Borealis to allow them to fly and had an approximate top speed of 50,000 MpH and had a variety of camouflage devices.
The new S-1 is a state of the art flying airship capable of anti-gravity hovering and extreme speeds with an advanced cloaking system that can project a starry night sky on its bottom equipped with hundreds of drop holes to allow a veritable army of elves to repel down to houses and enter into them to make their deliveries to a whole town in a matter of minutes.
No, I think he means where the Ady Gil was drifting along with the crew laying about on the upper deck because they were out of fuel and the Japanese harpoon ship deliberately headed straight for them and sliced their lightweight carbon fiber hull in half.
Interesting. Perhaps they measure things differently, or perhaps they send different content to different browsers. I was running with Ad Block Plus on so that could account for some of the difference as well.
The front web page I maintain for a local charity organization is just 84KB according to the Firefox Web Developer plugin which seems fairly accurate. This includes 4 html files (all hand edited), 11 images (all optimized.pngs), 1 js file and 2 style sheets.
Slashdot's homepage weighs in at 628 KB and this article was (ironically) 1032 KB when I checked.
This is all about hardware acceleration. Early Android didn't have it. Android Gingerbread 2.3 has a little and Honeycomb 3.2 has a little, but the new Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 is supposed to allow full hardware acceleration in the OS GUI. Without it you are relying on the CPU to process and display those nice effects and if anything else higher priority is happening, you get stutter. With full hardware acceleration the GPU will get to do its job of handling the pretty animations and transition thus freeing the CPU to do the work that it was meant to. Just wait until we see ICS on the Transformer Prime. It will be stunning.
You are right. It doesn't matter. I am not a tinfoil hat wearer because I am a Computer Systems Engineer and Network Administrator and I know how much data they can gather from you if they want to and have pretty much just stopped caring. They don't need any special app hidden on your phone to spy on you. They could record every single URL that you visit from their server end. Unless you are taking some extraordinary measures on your phone like running through proxies (which can then log everything you do themselves) or Tor they can already track all of your online activity. Does this make something like CIQ right, hell no, and I have already verified that my Android phone doesn't contain it. But, it also doesn't mean that I have any allusions that every URL I visit isn't being recorded somewhere. I just don't care because I don't do anything on my phone that I wouldn't want the world to know about anyway. That is why burner phones were invented;-)
PS, if you want an interesting look into which Android apps are tracking you when you use them, check out the app: Addons Detector
And, if you are holding your clipboard at an approximate 45 degree angle while writing a ticket when someone suddenly pulls a gun on you and shoots, it will probably deflect the bullet down in a perfect angle to blow off your privates. Either way, a really bad day.
Can you list some of these "far wider range of quality applications" that are available on an iPhone and not on android? I have about 500 apps on my Droid2 with less than 200 of those being games. As far as I know I have every kind of app on my phone that I could possibly need and I can't even imagine something I am missing at the moment. So, could you list some iPhone apps that do not have equivalents on Android so that I could have some idea what I am missing?
Exactly, I don't want to talk to my phone either. I barely talk to people with my phone anymore unless I absolutely can't avoid it (pretty much just my wife). It is far more of a PDA that uses cellular communication for data transfer and also happens to make phone calls then it is a mere phone anymore. The only time I have ever used the voice to text on my Droid was while driving for some rare unexpected situation like, "Send text to Wife: Stuck in traffic, will be a little late."
I went to high school at a small Class B high school in North Dakota. But, many of the small Class B schools in our region got NeXT computer systems granted to them some how (didn't really know where the money came from and didn't really care at the time, lol). I was just reading about NeXT in a Popular Science magazine and then a couple weeks later I walked into our schools library and seen one sitting in a little alcove in the back. I almost had to pinch myself because I couldn't believe what I was seeing. And, this wasn't just one of the little Monochrome Slabs either. This was a full on NeXT Cube with a 21" color (tube) monitor and laser printer. I had never seen anything so big on a computer. Most other computers were 486's with 14" tubes running Windows 3.1 at the time. Thus began my path of becoming a UNIX and then Linux geek.
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There is something at work in Facebook. I have several times seen Facebook "Recommended for you" that I should "Like" Mitt's page. This is completely weird because I have never posted anything political one way or another on my Facebook page. I am not really an Obama supporter, but I cannot stand Mitt and would never "Like" him or his page. So, why would Facebook "Recommend" him for me? My tinfoil-hat theory is not something as nefarious as "hacking", but more likely someone paid someone at Facebook to make these recommendation show up for more people than they should be.
I don't know about My Little Pony, but I do know that Pinkie Pie is the nickname that Skippyjon Jones mom calls him in the book "Skippyjon Jones: Lost in Spice" that I read my daughter weekly before going to bed, lol. I think that the name comes from his overly large pink inside pie shaped Siamese cat ears.
Sure, they buy things, lots of things, and then prices go way up and especially housing because of so many new temporary people in the area and then whole apartments full of retired people living on fixed incomes get evicted because their rent has gone up from $400 a month to $2000 a month (not necessarily Texas, but NW North Dakota).
I have also followed /. since it had the original college domain name but I never bothered to create an account until one day I finally wanted to submit a story. If I had any idea how big of a deal having a small UID would have become I certainly would have registered much earlier. Oh well, at least I like my big 6 digit UID because Seven ate Nine and I graduated in 94.
I hope that you mean that your phone is too big for your pocket because Google Play Magazines is a great app for that.
Yeah, it looks like you can already buy the so-called "AmbioLight" from Elco Lighting.
It does look like an interesting product though:
http://www.elcolighting.com/categories/led-tape-light
This new "artificial muscle" sounds a lot like the Myomer muscles from the BattleTech franchise except that I believed they worked on magnetics instead of heat and they weren't supposed to be invented until 2350.
Verify me.
Did we not learn anything from Sneakers?
Saturday Night Live did a skit like this many years ago called the All Drug Olympics. It was not a pretty site watching the weightlifters pull their own arms off and spurt blood around the stage. I believe that you can still find it on nbc.com ironically or Hulu or Youtube.
Same here. My college was sent one of those C & D letters back in 1997 for a a student running an open FTP server that became a rather popular trading place for a while. We had the only dorm room on campus that had a network connection after my roommates and I hacked a pair of ADSL modems into the campus phone system between our room and the computer lab. I was given the letter and asked to shut it down, but they didn't even take away our connection. Our server was built from spare parts including a 486 motherboard and pair of old hard drives literally housed in a pizza box and running Slackware Linux. I found the FTP server to be quite fascinating in what people would upload to share. I discovered new bands that I had never heard of and would have never bought from later if people hadn't uploaded songs from them to it.
I did not read if this was an Android or iOS game, but on Android you can make simple backups of any installed app/game with free apps such as AppMonster and then reinstall those backups should anything like this ever happen. This does not even require "rooting" or "jailbreaking". If you do choose to root your Android phone, then you can do even better complete app and data backups with Titanium Backup.
"I am now authorized to... be loyal as a puppy."
If you use SonicWALL firewalls then check out NetExtender which they call a "layer 3 VPN client". I use it all of the time to connect to my work desktop from home on my ASUS Transformer and it works perfectly. They also have a version specifically for their SonicWALL Aventail SRA E-Class SSL VPN Appliances.
It and my hardware are good enough, plus I cannot stand some of the UI changes such as in Explorer and the Control Panel.
I typically used to upgrade my main home systems every 3 years or so, but my old 3 Ghz single core desktop is still more than enough for the printing, scanning, and burning duties that it performs and my 2.2 Ghz Core2Duo laptop with nVidia graphics is also more than enough for my daily needs. As long as the hardware doesn't fail I have not had any need to upgrade. My upgrades used to be driven buy whatever the latest game I wanted to play was, but even my laptop can now play any game I am interested in. When some new must have piece of software comes out that I have to have and my current setup doesn't support it I may buy a new laptop, but until then I will continue to use XP.
Yes, user interface matters, that is why I would never waste my time or money with a tablet that didn't support desktop widgets.
I just seen the movie Arthur Christmas with my daughter last night. They actually made a very good attempt at explaining how Santa could work and still making it an entertaining kids movie. I would actually recommend anyone interested in the "Science of Santa" to watch it for a laugh.
But, for those who won't see it, here are some of the highlights. As population has increased, so has the technology involved and the elven work force. Santa himself pretty much only visits one house per town and a crack team of elite ninja elves do all of the rest of the deliveries in the town. Santa is a generational title that has been passed down from father to son with each Santa performing up to 70 missions (Christmases).
The old sleigh was pulled by 8 reindeer who used a continuous dose of magic elf dust mined from the Aurora Borealis to allow them to fly and had an approximate top speed of 50,000 MpH and had a variety of camouflage devices.
The new S-1 is a state of the art flying airship capable of anti-gravity hovering and extreme speeds with an advanced cloaking system that can project a starry night sky on its bottom equipped with hundreds of drop holes to allow a veritable army of elves to repel down to houses and enter into them to make their deliveries to a whole town in a matter of minutes.
No, I think he means where the Ady Gil was drifting along with the crew laying about on the upper deck because they were out of fuel and the Japanese harpoon ship deliberately headed straight for them and sliced their lightweight carbon fiber hull in half.
Interesting. Perhaps they measure things differently, or perhaps they send different content to different browsers. I was running with Ad Block Plus on so that could account for some of the difference as well.
The front web page I maintain for a local charity organization is just 84KB according to the Firefox Web Developer plugin which seems fairly accurate. This includes 4 html files (all hand edited), 11 images (all optimized .pngs), 1 js file and 2 style sheets.
Slashdot's homepage weighs in at 628 KB and this article was (ironically) 1032 KB when I checked.
This is all about hardware acceleration. Early Android didn't have it. Android Gingerbread 2.3 has a little and Honeycomb 3.2 has a little, but the new Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 is supposed to allow full hardware acceleration in the OS GUI. Without it you are relying on the CPU to process and display those nice effects and if anything else higher priority is happening, you get stutter. With full hardware acceleration the GPU will get to do its job of handling the pretty animations and transition thus freeing the CPU to do the work that it was meant to. Just wait until we see ICS on the Transformer Prime. It will be stunning.
You are right. It doesn't matter. I am not a tinfoil hat wearer because I am a Computer Systems Engineer and Network Administrator and I know how much data they can gather from you if they want to and have pretty much just stopped caring. They don't need any special app hidden on your phone to spy on you. They could record every single URL that you visit from their server end. Unless you are taking some extraordinary measures on your phone like running through proxies (which can then log everything you do themselves) or Tor they can already track all of your online activity. Does this make something like CIQ right, hell no, and I have already verified that my Android phone doesn't contain it. But, it also doesn't mean that I have any allusions that every URL I visit isn't being recorded somewhere. I just don't care because I don't do anything on my phone that I wouldn't want the world to know about anyway. That is why burner phones were invented ;-)
PS, if you want an interesting look into which Android apps are tracking you when you use them, check out the app:
Addons Detector
And, if you are holding your clipboard at an approximate 45 degree angle while writing a ticket when someone suddenly pulls a gun on you and shoots, it will probably deflect the bullet down in a perfect angle to blow off your privates. Either way, a really bad day.
Can you list some of these "far wider range of quality applications" that are available on an iPhone and not on android? I have about 500 apps on my Droid2 with less than 200 of those being games. As far as I know I have every kind of app on my phone that I could possibly need and I can't even imagine something I am missing at the moment. So, could you list some iPhone apps that do not have equivalents on Android so that I could have some idea what I am missing?
Exactly, I don't want to talk to my phone either. I barely talk to people with my phone anymore unless I absolutely can't avoid it (pretty much just my wife). It is far more of a PDA that uses cellular communication for data transfer and also happens to make phone calls then it is a mere phone anymore. The only time I have ever used the voice to text on my Droid was while driving for some rare unexpected situation like, "Send text to Wife: Stuck in traffic, will be a little late."
I went to high school at a small Class B high school in North Dakota. But, many of the small Class B schools in our region got NeXT computer systems granted to them some how (didn't really know where the money came from and didn't really care at the time, lol). I was just reading about NeXT in a Popular Science magazine and then a couple weeks later I walked into our schools library and seen one sitting in a little alcove in the back. I almost had to pinch myself because I couldn't believe what I was seeing. And, this wasn't just one of the little Monochrome Slabs either. This was a full on NeXT Cube with a 21" color (tube) monitor and laser printer. I had never seen anything so big on a computer. Most other computers were 486's with 14" tubes running Windows 3.1 at the time. Thus began my path of becoming a UNIX and then Linux geek.