It's an awesome tool that makes interfacing with real equipment (lights, motors, sensors etc) easy for a software developer with minimum electrical engineering knowledge and some knowledge of C programming. After it's programmed, it can run on its own without a PC.
On Windows you'll need to install a driver in order for USBserial to work. There were no drivers on Windows Update ~6 months ago so you need to install the drivers manually (possibly it's already fixed now). Otherwise the board is useless since it cannot be programmed.
If you don't pay $100000+ for your degree, then not having a degree leaves you with some money which can be wisely spent, e.g. on starting your own small business.
Chrome updates automatically, this was a feature from the earliest 0.x beta versions. You can force an update check by opening the "About Chrome" window. However even though the update is downloaded and installed automatically, a restart of Chrome is required to actually use the newest version.
Chrome is an open source project, except that some of it is sponsored by Google. So hacking Gnome or the Linux kernel for free is OK (and by the way a lot of Linux kernel code was written by fulltime employees of Red Hat and other companies, just like Chrome) but fixing bugs for Chrome is not? Think of it as Google's Summer of Code, except on a smaller scale.
Russian authorities often (but luckily not always) decide that if you're using Linux, you have something to hide. After all, the interface is completely different so this must be an evasive move to prevent authorities from searching for incriminating stuff with Windows Explorer's Search function. Automated tools for extracting web history, chat logs and email cannot be launched on a Linux machine. Also, the OS can be modified to hide stuff or do some nasty hacking shit. And no, I'm not joking.
Cyanogen is a great ROM, especially for older phones like G1/Dream which is already abandoned and doesn't have an official 2.x ROM. It had some really neat features like the WiFi tethering or additional launcher screens. However I found it to be bleeding-edge and somewhat unstable. For example, the 1.5 ROM had a battery monitor that actually drained the battery because of a bug in the code:) Some features like AWB launcher are feature-rich but look incomplete and beta-quality. The 2.1 ROM for G1/Dream added so many features that the RAM is always full and applications frequently terminate to free memory for other apps.
Intel thought they'd develop an x86 chip with the power requirements of an ARM chip, that's why they sold their ARM division to Marvell. I guess that was a bad move considering the progress ARM made during the last few years.
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I've used 98lite back then. The full version can also remove other unwanted stuff.
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Intel Buys McAfee
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What's so bad with Intel's drivers? Even though some are outdated (especially for outdated HW) and don't have fancy GUIs doesn't mean it's broken. I've been using Intel's drivers (chipsets, grahics, storage) for 10+ years, didn't have a single problem. Unlike nVidia or ATI where uninstallation doesn't necessary mean the software is completely removed and the drivers keep crashing. And ATI drivers look even uglier than Intel's.
Mark was a CEO who made investors happy. He reduced expenses, however with the price of layin g off people and reducing salaries. IT is not what it used to be in the 1990s, when incredibly expensive equipment and huge salaries. Instead of printing emails and webpages, people save them and read from smartphones, e-readers and other portable devices, so the amount of printed pages (and ink) may start decreasing. Computers have become incredibly cheap and competing with Chinese and Taiwanese companies is incredibly difficult - their laptops have razor-thin margins and are perfectly usable for most tasks. Mark tried to expand HP into other directions - services, networking and the recent acquisition of Palm may result in some very interesting consumer devices. Just look at HP's stock price, it is 2-4 times higher than the price when Carly was CEO. I only wish HP bought Agilent back, they have great engineers who make interesting and expensive stuff for a much less crowded market than computers.
This looks like an Apple ad to me. Ipad is mentioned in every other sentence together with words like "magical" and "quantum leap" and oh my god how it is easy to use and look how Apple created the technology of the 24th century. And the original Macintosh ruled because it was so easy to use!
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Why Wave Failed
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Following your logic, smartphones are not much different from ordinary cheap cellphones. They call numbers, send text messages and can even take photos! Hell, even email is just a fancy way of sending text over the internet. You can always type you message in Word and upload a *.doc or *.pdf to another user's ftp archive.
Wave is great for discussing technical problems - usually possible solutions are short and some widgets can be useful. People (e.g. experts, customers) can be invited to participate or just for reference. At my current job the usual To: and Cc: lists can contain 20-30 people or even - managers, team leaders, senior developers. Usually only a few of them are actually participating in the discussion and the rest are just receiving the message for reference. Sometimes the mailing list breaks and people start wondering what's going on and where to get all the messages they've missed. Adding new people to the CC: list is not easy because someone will use the older CC: list.
However Wave still looks like an alpha-quality product, a lot of features (like security and external communication) are missing.
What about OpenCL/CUDA? These frameworks use the card's full potential, so far nobody reported any issues. If the card has cooling problems, it's clearly the faulty hardware. The only downside is a slightly more heat and noise from the videocard than there should be during these scenes. This is not a car where revving the engine on neutral indeed stresses the engine.
Android is Linux. In fact it's probably the best Linux distribution for touchscreen interfaces, only MeeGo is comparable (and very promising) but has a lot of catching up to do. After rooting Android you'll get a terminal with all the standard Linux console utils. Running Gimp, OpenOffice, Firefox or any other desktop-oriented app on such a device is suicide.
That's a perfect example of doublethink. Remember how Apple said there would be no multitasking, no native apps because they're stupid and iPhone is perfect without them? The reality distortion field is weak in comparison because it says "Apple is right, if you disagree, you don't understand our awesomeness" while doublethink allows Apple to contradict themselves and get away with it.
Ubuntu follows a different philisophy than Mandrake. Mandrake added a control panel which wrote configuration files from scratch, was complex and sometimes borked the configuration, pretty much like Windows does. Early Ubuntu versions didn't have ANY custom configuration tools, except for dpkg-reconfigure, which meant changes were made from a single place and remained consistent, unlike Mandrake's DrakX which could potentially conflict with changes made from Gnome's or KDE's control panel. Also, Mandrake had the whole OS supplied on several CDs, which was nice when internet was slow and expensive. Ubuntu's "download everything from the net" philosophy and a large package collection, borrowed from Debian, had a lot more software than Mandrake. Mandrake seemed to focus more on aesthetics and ease-of-use instead of Ubuntu's improvements under the hood. This resulted in lower-quality software that often crashed or developed bizarre glitches, but the installer and control center allowed someone without Linux experience to use the produce, except for when something went horribly wrong and xfee or the boot process failed because of a broken config.
Alpha and Tru64 are still used by HP's corporate customers who bought hundreds of servers years ago. Then Compaq bought DEC to get into the server business and abandoned pretty much everything. Tru64 is still supported, just because you can't buy an Alpha laptop powered by Tru64 UNIX doesn't mean it's dead.
And the only way ChromeOS can run third-party apps is inside a web browser, just like iPhone OS 1.0
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Gnome 2.30 Released
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Conduit is a very promising sync framework. I've used it a year ago, sync over ssh failed, but the project is really nice, allowing to create complex sync rules with an easy to use GUI.
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It's an awesome tool that makes interfacing with real equipment (lights, motors, sensors etc) easy for a software developer with minimum electrical engineering knowledge and some knowledge of C programming. After it's programmed, it can run on its own without a PC.
On Windows you'll need to install a driver in order for USBserial to work. There were no drivers on Windows Update ~6 months ago so you need to install the drivers manually (possibly it's already fixed now). Otherwise the board is useless since it cannot be programmed.
If you don't pay $100000+ for your degree, then not having a degree leaves you with some money which can be wisely spent, e.g. on starting your own small business.
Don't forget Android, iOS, webOS and WebGL - all use OpenGL ES.
Chrome updates automatically, this was a feature from the earliest 0.x beta versions. You can force an update check by opening the "About Chrome" window. However even though the update is downloaded and installed automatically, a restart of Chrome is required to actually use the newest version.
Chrome is an open source project, except that some of it is sponsored by Google. So hacking Gnome or the Linux kernel for free is OK (and by the way a lot of Linux kernel code was written by fulltime employees of Red Hat and other companies, just like Chrome) but fixing bugs for Chrome is not? Think of it as Google's Summer of Code, except on a smaller scale.
Russian authorities often (but luckily not always) decide that if you're using Linux, you have something to hide. After all, the interface is completely different so this must be an evasive move to prevent authorities from searching for incriminating stuff with Windows Explorer's Search function. Automated tools for extracting web history, chat logs and email cannot be launched on a Linux machine. Also, the OS can be modified to hide stuff or do some nasty hacking shit. And no, I'm not joking.
Cyanogen is a great ROM, especially for older phones like G1/Dream which is already abandoned and doesn't have an official 2.x ROM. It had some really neat features like the WiFi tethering or additional launcher screens. However I found it to be bleeding-edge and somewhat unstable. For example, the 1.5 ROM had a battery monitor that actually drained the battery because of a bug in the code :)
Some features like AWB launcher are feature-rich but look incomplete and beta-quality. The 2.1 ROM for G1/Dream added so many features that the RAM is always full and applications frequently terminate to free memory for other apps.
Intel thought they'd develop an x86 chip with the power requirements of an ARM chip, that's why they sold their ARM division to Marvell. I guess that was a bad move considering the progress ARM made during the last few years.
I've used 98lite back then. The full version can also remove other unwanted stuff.
What's so bad with Intel's drivers? Even though some are outdated (especially for outdated HW) and don't have fancy GUIs doesn't mean it's broken. I've been using Intel's drivers (chipsets, grahics, storage) for 10+ years, didn't have a single problem. Unlike nVidia or ATI where uninstallation doesn't necessary mean the software is completely removed and the drivers keep crashing. And ATI drivers look even uglier than Intel's.
Mark was a CEO who made investors happy. He reduced expenses, however with the price of layin g off people and reducing salaries. IT is not what it used to be in the 1990s, when incredibly expensive equipment and huge salaries. Instead of printing emails and webpages, people save them and read from smartphones, e-readers and other portable devices, so the amount of printed pages (and ink) may start decreasing. Computers have become incredibly cheap and competing with Chinese and Taiwanese companies is incredibly difficult - their laptops have razor-thin margins and are perfectly usable for most tasks. Mark tried to expand HP into other directions - services, networking and the recent acquisition of Palm may result in some very interesting consumer devices. Just look at HP's stock price, it is 2-4 times higher than the price when Carly was CEO.
I only wish HP bought Agilent back, they have great engineers who make interesting and expensive stuff for a much less crowded market than computers.
This looks like an Apple ad to me. Ipad is mentioned in every other sentence together with words like "magical" and "quantum leap" and oh my god how it is easy to use and look how Apple created the technology of the 24th century. And the original Macintosh ruled because it was so easy to use!
Following your logic, smartphones are not much different from ordinary cheap cellphones. They call numbers, send text messages and can even take photos!
Hell, even email is just a fancy way of sending text over the internet. You can always type you message in Word and upload a *.doc or *.pdf to another user's ftp archive.
Wave is great for discussing technical problems - usually possible solutions are short and some widgets can be useful. People (e.g. experts, customers) can be invited to participate or just for reference. At my current job the usual To: and Cc: lists can contain 20-30 people or even - managers, team leaders, senior developers. Usually only a few of them are actually participating in the discussion and the rest are just receiving the message for reference. Sometimes the mailing list breaks and people start wondering what's going on and where to get all the messages they've missed. Adding new people to the CC: list is not easy because someone will use the older CC: list.
However Wave still looks like an alpha-quality product, a lot of features (like security and external communication) are missing.
What about OpenCL/CUDA? These frameworks use the card's full potential, so far nobody reported any issues. If the card has cooling problems, it's clearly the faulty hardware. The only downside is a slightly more heat and noise from the videocard than there should be during these scenes. This is not a car where revving the engine on neutral indeed stresses the engine.
Android is Linux. In fact it's probably the best Linux distribution for touchscreen interfaces, only MeeGo is comparable (and very promising) but has a lot of catching up to do. After rooting Android you'll get a terminal with all the standard Linux console utils.
Running Gimp, OpenOffice, Firefox or any other desktop-oriented app on such a device is suicide.
Old HTCs are Windows Mobile-only, they only started making Android phones last year. And Windows Mobile is the wost mobile phone OS out there.
That's a perfect example of doublethink. Remember how Apple said there would be no multitasking, no native apps because they're stupid and iPhone is perfect without them?
The reality distortion field is weak in comparison because it says "Apple is right, if you disagree, you don't understand our awesomeness" while doublethink allows Apple to contradict themselves and get away with it.
AMI Winbios was GUI-based. And it existed in 1995!
Ubuntu follows a different philisophy than Mandrake. Mandrake added a control panel which wrote configuration files from scratch, was complex and sometimes borked the configuration, pretty much like Windows does. Early Ubuntu versions didn't have ANY custom configuration tools, except for dpkg-reconfigure, which meant changes were made from a single place and remained consistent, unlike Mandrake's DrakX which could potentially conflict with changes made from Gnome's or KDE's control panel.
Also, Mandrake had the whole OS supplied on several CDs, which was nice when internet was slow and expensive. Ubuntu's "download everything from the net" philosophy and a large package collection, borrowed from Debian, had a lot more software than Mandrake.
Mandrake seemed to focus more on aesthetics and ease-of-use instead of Ubuntu's improvements under the hood. This resulted in lower-quality software that often crashed or developed bizarre glitches, but the installer and control center allowed someone without Linux experience to use the produce, except for when something went horribly wrong and xfee or the boot process failed because of a broken config.
Alpha and Tru64 are still used by HP's corporate customers who bought hundreds of servers years ago. Then Compaq bought DEC to get into the server business and abandoned pretty much everything. Tru64 is still supported, just because you can't buy an Alpha laptop powered by Tru64 UNIX doesn't mean it's dead.
And the only way ChromeOS can run third-party apps is inside a web browser, just like iPhone OS 1.0
Conduit is a very promising sync framework. I've used it a year ago, sync over ssh failed, but the project is really nice, allowing to create complex sync rules with an easy to use GUI.
Yeah, but Intel sold its ARM division to Marvell because they thought Atom was a perfect CPU for phones, TVs and other appliances.
The next step would be blocking Tor :-)