Thank you, Steve Jobs, The Flash Killer. Humanity will be forever in your debt.
BTW i had Ipod Classic 160GB - also on RoxBox. It was amazingly durable piece of hardware, especially considering it had an actual spinning hdd - it had outlived countless phones, laptops and another gadgets, survived numerous falls and overall very rough handling, and got snatched from me only recently. In my personal gadgetry top list it's rivaled only by nokia e71, but that is another sad story. RIP, my dear friend.
Totally off topic, but is there anything comparable to old ipod, supported by roxbox, 160+ GB capacity? Or my best bet is to buy used ipod from ebay and pray it will arrive with working hdd? I remember ipods having some strange hdd interface, not allowing an easy replacement of hdd to ssd.
Only desire to show off or excessive richness might be a motive to buy iphone in china. Less than $100 on taobao or aliexpress will get you 5.5 inch ips full hd, 4 or 8 core, etc - perfect screen and more power that anybody might ever need on the phone. And, from my experience, those chinese brands on MTK platform actually working as they should, unlike an early days of android when you could expect anything but stability from any android phone. Buy cheap chinese knock off phone without fear, it's the same whatever brand you like minus marketing crap. Just ensure 3G/4G frequencies supported by phone are compatible with your operator.
Unless most apps and games will be in Javascript - easily portable. That will allow different small platforms to flourish, or, you might say, make phone OS almost irrelevant. I believe we are going this way.
And why do you emphasize playing videos on webpages, like it's some rare achievement? Adobe Flash is the past, killed, burnt and ashes scattered on the wind (BTW thank you, $deity!)
China believes it can make up any rules it wants. Because China's leaders are batshit crazy, and China's citizens have been kept in the dark so long they don't know what happened at Tiananmen Square.
Nope, it's because they can. And what make you think anybody in China cares what happened in Tiananmen Square many years ago? As far as I can see Chinese government might be naturally supported by people. Yes they do annex whatever they can, islands in South China Sea, islands in some another sea, later, possibly, the Moon. Steadily increasing livings standards of country's huge population on the way. Building country's infrastructure at the crazy pace. Currently moving polluting production out of the country - yes, China is moving some fabrics offshore! So would you support this government if you would be Chinese? Do you honestly need to 'democratically elect' some tool, given that your communist, or whatever they call it now, leader works that good?
Or you seriously think that annexing islands is 'not fair'?
That is a classified program developed by UK Ministry of Education, aimed at increasing computer literacy and promote awareness privacy enhancing tools like VPN and tor. They copied idea from Iran, where similar strategy has lead to a great success - reportedly more than 60 percent of Iranian internet surfers regularly use VPN. There are rumors that next step in this initiative will be blocking of porn sites in UK - a very strong move that will ensure that a growing generation will be unstoppable by any attempts of internet filtering. Russia recently started it's own educational program based on the same principles, increasing it's blocked sites list with a very healthy vigor and generating tons of lulz in a process.
I applaud all politicians that have a part in this cunning and powerful effort to preserve internet freedom!
Microsoft powered phones don't exist in the real world. I have yet to see one. They are apocryphal.
I've seen Nokia Lumia once. Still experience this nightmare from time to time - getting lost in a plain of bright colored squares, can not find my way out. Thinking about poor souls who use this thing for desktop make me shudder.
Nope. FYI Afganistan had a land border with USSR, Russian empire tried to control it since 19 century - USSR considered Afganistan something like protectorate. Distraction of people at home was sertanly not among the reasons - Brezhnev would get 'reelected' anyhow.
I don't keep bundles of Cash, Checks, and Credit Card receipts in my Router.
I'm somewhat surprised that you do.
So you say changing resolvers in your router would do you no harm?
It was funny in Thailand - 2 major ADSL internet providers, with most adsl modems/routers configured with 3 default admin passwords - 3bb, tot, and, you guessed it, admin. By default they were all open from WAN - I checked once, just opened in browser a few IP's in a same subnet with mine - could login to about 5 out of about 10 IP's tested. About a year ago probably somebody exploited this, so what did providers do? Simple solution - just drop all incoming connections, anyway nobody noticed.
If Valve restricts the accounts unless they have SOME money in the game, the scammers can't simply operate at full rate - they'll have to pick and choose the scams and targets more carefully, because there's overhead.
Good news everyone - Steam is working on increasing scam quality!
From TFA - it's an energy company with existing customers, they are planning to use those for distributed computing projects - security uptime and connection bandwidth is not an issues. Servicing clogged fans might be a hassle. Obviously they are going to charge customers for those "e-Radiators" - so basically energy company pays for hardware in electricity.
I guess more CPU intensive, less bandwidth hungry - you gonna freeze on media download and a like, very little CPU power needed to saturate fat pipe - those belongs to data-centers.
Quick googling on a topic shows different numbers , like "most of the world’s data centers, 63 percent of the power is associated with cooling the IT equipment" , new DC designs lowers ratio of power used for cooling to about 30%, etc. Less than 9% for cooling is in Iceland DCs, right?
I'm writing this from a wooden hut in rural Thailand. Place between 2 small towns, river view, 20 km to nearest 7-11, local children still amazed when they see foreigner - it's as far from civilization as it gets in Thailand. ADSL, Bandwidth Down/Up(kbps) 7168 / 506 - could be better, it's cheapest tariff, something less than $15/mo. My point is - there is no excuses for 64kbps torture anywhere in a country that invented the thing!
In Russia somebody made an android app for blocking debt collector agencies calls. Users add offending numbers to global list. Can something like this work to filter out telemarketers or they can freely change caller id?
You mean you wasted valuable time of their calling program? They probably pay very close to zero calling rates per minute, why bother? Or there is live person that will speak to you if you do not hang up after listening to the message?
If they'll add ~32 gigs of ssd cache for delayed writes (and faster reads as a bonus, and reliability in case of power failures) - it'll be overall winner.
Because what we perceive as the color of some surface is really a reflection of ambient light from that surface. So color of the surface would change depending on color of the light that it is reflecting. But our brain has auto white balance image preprocessing filter that fixes surface color for us based on light color , which is computed partially using our knowledge on what color things should normally have. In this picture dress could be white if it is not in a lighten by yellow colored light behind it, but lighten by blueish light source, and camera white balance is set somewhere in a middle. Otherwise it's blue.
Slashdot Mirror
Thank you, Steve Jobs, The Flash Killer. Humanity will be forever in your debt.
BTW i had Ipod Classic 160GB - also on RoxBox. It was amazingly durable piece of hardware, especially considering it had an actual spinning hdd - it had outlived countless phones, laptops and another gadgets, survived numerous falls and overall very rough handling, and got snatched from me only recently. In my personal gadgetry top list it's rivaled only by nokia e71, but that is another sad story. RIP, my dear friend.
Totally off topic, but is there anything comparable to old ipod, supported by roxbox, 160+ GB capacity? Or my best bet is to buy used ipod from ebay and pray it will arrive with working hdd? I remember ipods having some strange hdd interface, not allowing an easy replacement of hdd to ssd.
Only desire to show off or excessive richness might be a motive to buy iphone in china. Less than $100 on taobao or aliexpress will get you 5.5 inch ips full hd, 4 or 8 core, etc - perfect screen and more power that anybody might ever need on the phone. And, from my experience, those chinese brands on MTK platform actually working as they should, unlike an early days of android when you could expect anything but stability from any android phone. Buy cheap chinese knock off phone without fear, it's the same whatever brand you like minus marketing crap. Just ensure 3G/4G frequencies supported by phone are compatible with your operator.
Unless most apps and games will be in Javascript - easily portable. That will allow different small platforms to flourish, or, you might say, make phone OS almost irrelevant. I believe we are going this way.
And why do you emphasize playing videos on webpages, like it's some rare achievement? Adobe Flash is the past, killed, burnt and ashes scattered on the wind (BTW thank you, $deity!)
Microsoft Office, on the phone? Does it have Autocad or SolidWorks preinstalled? As I'm sure I need it, just as an office suite, on my phone, yes.
China believes it can make up any rules it wants. Because China's leaders are batshit crazy, and China's citizens have been kept in the dark so long they don't know what happened at Tiananmen Square.
Nope, it's because they can. And what make you think anybody in China cares what happened in Tiananmen Square many years ago? As far as I can see Chinese government might be naturally supported by people. Yes they do annex whatever they can, islands in South China Sea, islands in some another sea, later, possibly, the Moon. Steadily increasing livings standards of country's huge population on the way. Building country's infrastructure at the crazy pace. Currently moving polluting production out of the country - yes, China is moving some fabrics offshore! So would you support this government if you would be Chinese? Do you honestly need to 'democratically elect' some tool, given that your communist, or whatever they call it now, leader works that good? Or you seriously think that annexing islands is 'not fair'?
That is a classified program developed by UK Ministry of Education, aimed at increasing computer literacy and promote awareness privacy enhancing tools like VPN and tor. They copied idea from Iran, where similar strategy has lead to a great success - reportedly more than 60 percent of Iranian internet surfers regularly use VPN. There are rumors that next step in this initiative will be blocking of porn sites in UK - a very strong move that will ensure that a growing generation will be unstoppable by any attempts of internet filtering. Russia recently started it's own educational program based on the same principles, increasing it's blocked sites list with a very healthy vigor and generating tons of lulz in a process.
I applaud all politicians that have a part in this cunning and powerful effort to preserve internet freedom!
That makes me wonder how much revenue they are actually losing.
Clearly not enough.
Microsoft powered phones don't exist in the real world. I have yet to see one. They are apocryphal.
I've seen Nokia Lumia once. Still experience this nightmare from time to time - getting lost in a plain of bright colored squares, can not find my way out. Thinking about poor souls who use this thing for desktop make me shudder.
TPP - The Pirate Party? Are they going to urge US Supreme Court, too? I'm confused.
Nope. FYI Afganistan had a land border with USSR, Russian empire tried to control it since 19 century - USSR considered Afganistan something like protectorate. Distraction of people at home was sertanly not among the reasons - Brezhnev would get 'reelected' anyhow.
Another time, another country - Monica's War.
I don't keep bundles of Cash, Checks, and Credit Card receipts in my Router. I'm somewhat surprised that you do.
So you say changing resolvers in your router would do you no harm?
It was funny in Thailand - 2 major ADSL internet providers, with most adsl modems/routers configured with 3 default admin passwords - 3bb, tot, and, you guessed it, admin. By default they were all open from WAN - I checked once, just opened in browser a few IP's in a same subnet with mine - could login to about 5 out of about 10 IP's tested. About a year ago probably somebody exploited this, so what did providers do? Simple solution - just drop all incoming connections, anyway nobody noticed.
Any half-decent system will disallow passwords like this.
Enforce strong passwords? Prepare for a sticky notes.
If Valve restricts the accounts unless they have SOME money in the game, the scammers can't simply operate at full rate - they'll have to pick and choose the scams and targets more carefully, because there's overhead.
Good news everyone - Steam is working on increasing scam quality!
I'm not sure how far a train can go without needing to refuel
Very far, if it's a nuclear train
Informative, thanks for clarifying.
From TFA - it's an energy company with existing customers, they are planning to use those for distributed computing projects - security uptime and connection bandwidth is not an issues. Servicing clogged fans might be a hassle. Obviously they are going to charge customers for those "e-Radiators" - so basically energy company pays for hardware in electricity.
I guess more CPU intensive, less bandwidth hungry - you gonna freeze on media download and a like, very little CPU power needed to saturate fat pipe - those belongs to data-centers.
Quick googling on a topic shows different numbers , like "most of the world’s data centers, 63 percent of the power is associated with cooling the IT equipment" , new DC designs lowers ratio of power used for cooling to about 30%, etc. Less than 9% for cooling is in Iceland DCs, right?
I'm writing this from a wooden hut in rural Thailand. Place between 2 small towns, river view, 20 km to nearest 7-11, local children still amazed when they see foreigner - it's as far from civilization as it gets in Thailand. ADSL, Bandwidth Down/Up(kbps) 7168 / 506 - could be better, it's cheapest tariff, something less than $15/mo. My point is - there is no excuses for 64kbps torture anywhere in a country that invented the thing!
In Russia somebody made an android app for blocking debt collector agencies calls. Users add offending numbers to global list. Can something like this work to filter out telemarketers or they can freely change caller id?
You mean you wasted valuable time of their calling program? They probably pay very close to zero calling rates per minute, why bother? Or there is live person that will speak to you if you do not hang up after listening to the message?
Yeah, just wait a bit until Doomsday vault is full of seed samples, just in case.
If they'll add ~32 gigs of ssd cache for delayed writes (and faster reads as a bonus, and reliability in case of power failures) - it'll be overall winner.
Wanna bet?
Because what we perceive as the color of some surface is really a reflection of ambient light from that surface. So color of the surface would change depending on color of the light that it is reflecting. But our brain has auto white balance image preprocessing filter that fixes surface color for us based on light color , which is computed partially using our knowledge on what color things should normally have. In this picture dress could be white if it is not in a lighten by yellow colored light behind it, but lighten by blueish light source, and camera white balance is set somewhere in a middle. Otherwise it's blue.