They're probably looking for people who can get a security clearance. It may be harder to do if you're a Chinese foreign national. They're not looking for hacks, but hackers.
The point is not to have another computer where i want to connect to it from, its to have a computer in my kitchen, or the bathroom, or anywhere that there isn't a lot of counter space that can be always on without killing my electric bill.
It probably doesn't, but oil is the predominant form of energy right now, and until oil is replaced, this process will take oil. Sure they can set up a plant to take energy from a wind farm, but unless they built the farm, that energy would have reduced oil energy use elsewhere.
I believe there is an integrated USB video card in the monitor, so everything over one USB cable. Depending on the model you get, video, web cam, touch.
Not to mention the energy costs. I wonder how much oil energy it takes to create a pound of plastic or biofuel. Would it cost less oil energy to just make the plastic or fuel from oil? That's the problem with ethanol, it takes a crazy amount of oil to grow corn (in worst case scenarios: 2 calories of oil energy for 1 of corn energy in fertilizer and pesticides and other stuff), then the wet milling takes another crazy amount (ignoring the energy costs to GROW corn, it takes like 6 gallons of oil energy to create 8 gallons of ethanol energy).
Simply coming up with a product that doesn't take oil in as a raw product doesn't mean that the process doesn't use any oil.
Granted d'link has had a solution waiting for you for the past few years with its wireless security camera line, using this would be cheaper by half (100+$20 webcam vs $350).
you can get USB touch screens for (not cheap), but If you could tie a 7" USB touch screen to this device, you'd be able to create something that you can plug into almost any room and use for browsing, chat (rudimentary due to touch screen), and other very basic tasks.
no cellular internet access, no gps, no microphone, and for a similar price, you get a very similar thing where the difference is the phone. Add the fact that Steve Jobs has called the iPod Touch "training wheels for the iPhone" and you have a device that apple has positioned as a second fiddle. Apple devices are rarely sold to the fashion conscious masses based on what they ARE, but instead based on what they're told the devices are. If apple says "this will kill the iphone," then it will kill the iphone. If apple says "You should buy this before you graduate you our big boy toy," people will skip the training wheels.
I'm amazed that people are my post as an opportunity ignore slashdot's favorite linux talking points: Security, reliability, speed, low system requirements, etc... Or has all of that changed?
I used andlinux at work when i needed those linux apps. It runs a fully functional install of ubuntu (running the colinux kernel) with full access to the ubuntu repositories. Granted it doesn't get rid of the non-unified file structure of windows, but the unified file system of linux is something that I find just as annoying and apparently enough people do that debian's file system icon takes you to a separated view with individual drives. NMAP and other network tools worked with some fiddling, and I could still use the windows only apps at full speed without emulation or wine.
if you look at what the "average" person does on a computer, listen to music/watch videos, type documents, do email, browse the internet, and deal with pictures, then replacing 1 app (microsoft office instead of open office) may be what keeps a power user from booting back into windows, or a novice user from complaining about this strange new os.
Nobody will argue with me when i say that there are tangible benefits to switching to linux and linux based apps for 80% of what a user does on a computer, but there are those applications, like microsoft office and photoshop that users have a lot invested into learning and using that they just don't want to be bothered to replace. Its often those apps that keep people anchored to windows and prevent people from switching. I have too many first hand accounts where I've installed open office on someone's system so they can open a document in the short run, but when they have the cash, they go out and buy microsoft office. That is enough to convince me that to get people to switch to linux, you have to tell them that they can bring a few of their favorite apps and show them how.
I was hoping that there would be more tutorials for getting wine to work with apps that users like. I'm sure that there are a hojillion wine tutorials, but it would be nice to have seen the author pay heed to the fact that people don't use computers for their operating systems, they use them for the apps. When I fire up my computer, I'm not fiddling around with the command prompt or using the calculator. He could have gone over what it would have taken to get adobe photoshop or microsoft office to install, or get gimp properly configured with gimpshop or photogimp or whatever. I've been using photoshop for so long that its second nature muscle memory and when gimp doesn't do something the same way, it's like flipping the blinker to signal and getting a windshield washer spray. I'm sure that's what the "average" user or even some power users feel when they do A and would get B in a windows app but the linux app does C.
I know that linux isn't windows, but for a lot of people, a computer is the tools you use for it, and people are probably less likely to give up microsoft office than windows. I wonder how much less successful OSX would be without office.
Please, I am aware of open office and gimp and all of that stuff. I'm posting from my debian partition right now.
Sell it to verizon to be subsidized some what like their HP netbook, give it unlimited wifi, and apple may have killed its iphone. Granted you can't stick an itablet, inote, isheet? into your pocket, but it takes what a lot of people view to be the compelling reasons to buy an iphone (always on internet, nifty apps, nifty user interface). I'm sure someone would hack skype or some other voip solution to work for it, then you could make free calls from anywhere, and it wouldn't quite be as redundant as making voip calls from your iphone.
I doubt that they're gonna do much more than come up with a new gold copy. Its not like they're gonna drop a big boss battle into the game as part of an install fix.
You can get the odb-II codes on a PT cruiser by switching the key from off to soft on (electrical system is active but the engine hasn't started) like 3 times or so. It'll then spit out the codes. I used those codes to replace my camshaft location sensor by the side of the road... A $35 dollar part, I sent my wife to buy a new one (she wasn't in the car at the time).
Yup, airport security is part of a trend known as "Security Theater". Get the proles to feel secure by making a show of it and then act surprised when the 1 in 10,000,000 event happens with or without the show.
PS, its sad that I was modded funny, but my post wasn't written to be funny. I guess that's just the state of things with the RIAA where a semi-lay person's translation of an asinine situation gets modded funny...
Not precisely. Preponderance of evidence is forced upon the recieving party. I've been involved with cases where preponderance of evidence against the plaintiff got cost shifting, though most of the time its the plaintiff saying "Yeah Huh!" and the defendant replies with the ever so eloquent "Nuh Uh!".
Yes, that's how court cases go, there's a bunch of briefs, responses, and arguments that ammount to "Yeah huh!" "Nuh uh!" "But he started it!", and so on. They get more wordy than that, but that's all it boils down to.
Oldest trick in the book. Change.jpg files to.doc or.xyz and the FBI won't think to look for your CP in those extensions? Not exactly. Modern forensics software looks at the first 4 bytes of a file and can tell you what kind of file a piece of data declares itself as. If you change one or all of those bytes but some forensic software can do a data-carving and pull out multi-media data from a hard drive, revealing all of your miley cyrus mp3s.
Digital forensics is a touchy mistress. The best they can come up with is uTorrent or other filesharing client data, i.e. you can read in the registry or configuration files where the shared folder is. If files are in the shared folder, you can say they were being shared. Some really nice (for forensics analysts) software keeps a log of when the software was started and shut down, if the creation time of a file falls within the log, you can add up the time and say that the client distributed that file for the duration that the logs said the software was active. Its up to the plaintiff to disprove that allegation, but he said she saids very rarely end up in court the way you'd think.
You can also find all the.torrent files and say that those files were downloaded, and uploaded as a side effect of how p2p software works. I think that the playlists and other info has nothing to do with the case at hand. If someone says they rip all of their CDs to their computer and has the hard copies (or receipts) to prove it, there is nothing the RIAA can do. However, if the remnants of file sharing data (share ratios, shared folders, seed status, etc) says that they ripped songs and then shared them, the plaintiffs may be in trouble.
Remember, the RIAA may be saying that downloading is illegal, but they're prosecuting based on unauthorized distribution laws (uploading).
Any lawyer that can't come up with a production order that sticks to court ordered criteria should be sanctioned on the spot. I.E. you have a list of things that your order MUST satisfy, yet you think that there quite a bit of flex in it. Its like getting a shopping list with milk, eggs, butter, bread and coming home with cheese, quiche, marjoram (not margarine) and chips. How daft must the RIAA lawyers be to do this? In my experience as a COMPUTER FORENSICS EXPERT I have never seen attorneys flaunt a court order and attempt to come up with new criteria. I guess I'm in the wrong circuits.
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They're probably looking for people who can get a security clearance. It may be harder to do if you're a Chinese foreign national. They're not looking for hacks, but hackers.
Haha, so the proper title is "overzealous developers get miffed at palm and lose interest in creating community".
The point is not to have another computer where i want to connect to it from, its to have a computer in my kitchen, or the bathroom, or anywhere that there isn't a lot of counter space that can be always on without killing my electric bill.
It probably doesn't, but oil is the predominant form of energy right now, and until oil is replaced, this process will take oil. Sure they can set up a plant to take energy from a wind farm, but unless they built the farm, that energy would have reduced oil energy use elsewhere.
I believe there is an integrated USB video card in the monitor, so everything over one USB cable. Depending on the model you get, video, web cam, touch.
Not to mention the energy costs. I wonder how much oil energy it takes to create a pound of plastic or biofuel. Would it cost less oil energy to just make the plastic or fuel from oil? That's the problem with ethanol, it takes a crazy amount of oil to grow corn (in worst case scenarios: 2 calories of oil energy for 1 of corn energy in fertilizer and pesticides and other stuff), then the wet milling takes another crazy amount (ignoring the energy costs to GROW corn, it takes like 6 gallons of oil energy to create 8 gallons of ethanol energy).
Simply coming up with a product that doesn't take oil in as a raw product doesn't mean that the process doesn't use any oil.
Granted d'link has had a solution waiting for you for the past few years with its wireless security camera line, using this would be cheaper by half (100+$20 webcam vs $350).
you can get USB touch screens for (not cheap), but If you could tie a 7" USB touch screen to this device, you'd be able to create something that you can plug into almost any room and use for browsing, chat (rudimentary due to touch screen), and other very basic tasks.
double click the "computer" icon on your desktop. Do you see a unified file system or drives separated based on physical or filesytem type?
no cellular internet access, no gps, no microphone, and for a similar price, you get a very similar thing where the difference is the phone. Add the fact that Steve Jobs has called the iPod Touch "training wheels for the iPhone" and you have a device that apple has positioned as a second fiddle. Apple devices are rarely sold to the fashion conscious masses based on what they ARE, but instead based on what they're told the devices are. If apple says "this will kill the iphone," then it will kill the iphone. If apple says "You should buy this before you graduate you our big boy toy," people will skip the training wheels.
I'm amazed that people are my post as an opportunity ignore slashdot's favorite linux talking points: Security, reliability, speed, low system requirements, etc... Or has all of that changed?
I used andlinux at work when i needed those linux apps. It runs a fully functional install of ubuntu (running the colinux kernel) with full access to the ubuntu repositories. Granted it doesn't get rid of the non-unified file structure of windows, but the unified file system of linux is something that I find just as annoying and apparently enough people do that debian's file system icon takes you to a separated view with individual drives. NMAP and other network tools worked with some fiddling, and I could still use the windows only apps at full speed without emulation or wine.
if you look at what the "average" person does on a computer, listen to music/watch videos, type documents, do email, browse the internet, and deal with pictures, then replacing 1 app (microsoft office instead of open office) may be what keeps a power user from booting back into windows, or a novice user from complaining about this strange new os.
Nobody will argue with me when i say that there are tangible benefits to switching to linux and linux based apps for 80% of what a user does on a computer, but there are those applications, like microsoft office and photoshop that users have a lot invested into learning and using that they just don't want to be bothered to replace. Its often those apps that keep people anchored to windows and prevent people from switching. I have too many first hand accounts where I've installed open office on someone's system so they can open a document in the short run, but when they have the cash, they go out and buy microsoft office. That is enough to convince me that to get people to switch to linux, you have to tell them that they can bring a few of their favorite apps and show them how.
I was hoping that there would be more tutorials for getting wine to work with apps that users like. I'm sure that there are a hojillion wine tutorials, but it would be nice to have seen the author pay heed to the fact that people don't use computers for their operating systems, they use them for the apps. When I fire up my computer, I'm not fiddling around with the command prompt or using the calculator. He could have gone over what it would have taken to get adobe photoshop or microsoft office to install, or get gimp properly configured with gimpshop or photogimp or whatever. I've been using photoshop for so long that its second nature muscle memory and when gimp doesn't do something the same way, it's like flipping the blinker to signal and getting a windshield washer spray. I'm sure that's what the "average" user or even some power users feel when they do A and would get B in a windows app but the linux app does C.
I know that linux isn't windows, but for a lot of people, a computer is the tools you use for it, and people are probably less likely to give up microsoft office than windows. I wonder how much less successful OSX would be without office.
Please, I am aware of open office and gimp and all of that stuff. I'm posting from my debian partition right now.
Sell it to verizon to be subsidized some what like their HP netbook, give it unlimited wifi, and apple may have killed its iphone. Granted you can't stick an itablet, inote, isheet? into your pocket, but it takes what a lot of people view to be the compelling reasons to buy an iphone (always on internet, nifty apps, nifty user interface). I'm sure someone would hack skype or some other voip solution to work for it, then you could make free calls from anywhere, and it wouldn't quite be as redundant as making voip calls from your iphone.
I doubt that they're gonna do much more than come up with a new gold copy. Its not like they're gonna drop a big boss battle into the game as part of an install fix.
You can get the odb-II codes on a PT cruiser by switching the key from off to soft on (electrical system is active but the engine hasn't started) like 3 times or so. It'll then spit out the codes. I used those codes to replace my camshaft location sensor by the side of the road... A $35 dollar part, I sent my wife to buy a new one (she wasn't in the car at the time).
1) Copy and paste the url http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124283370260739663.html
2) Copy and paste into google, resulting in a link like this
Click link and read page.
Not pasting full text of article though, so you're gonna have to do it yourself.
No, they don't know which markets would currently buy it, but they're hoping a market will emerge and take to it.
Yup, airport security is part of a trend known as "Security Theater". Get the proles to feel secure by making a show of it and then act surprised when the 1 in 10,000,000 event happens with or without the show.
At least now its a security porn theather...
PS, its sad that I was modded funny, but my post wasn't written to be funny. I guess that's just the state of things with the RIAA where a semi-lay person's translation of an asinine situation gets modded funny...
Not precisely. Preponderance of evidence is forced upon the recieving party. I've been involved with cases where preponderance of evidence against the plaintiff got cost shifting, though most of the time its the plaintiff saying "Yeah Huh!" and the defendant replies with the ever so eloquent "Nuh Uh!".
Yes, that's how court cases go, there's a bunch of briefs, responses, and arguments that ammount to "Yeah huh!" "Nuh uh!" "But he started it!", and so on. They get more wordy than that, but that's all it boils down to.
Oldest trick in the book. Change .jpg files to .doc or .xyz and the FBI won't think to look for your CP in those extensions? Not exactly. Modern forensics software looks at the first 4 bytes of a file and can tell you what kind of file a piece of data declares itself as. If you change one or all of those bytes but some forensic software can do a data-carving and pull out multi-media data from a hard drive, revealing all of your miley cyrus mp3s.
Digital forensics is a touchy mistress. The best they can come up with is uTorrent or other filesharing client data, i.e. you can read in the registry or configuration files where the shared folder is. If files are in the shared folder, you can say they were being shared. Some really nice (for forensics analysts) software keeps a log of when the software was started and shut down, if the creation time of a file falls within the log, you can add up the time and say that the client distributed that file for the duration that the logs said the software was active. Its up to the plaintiff to disprove that allegation, but he said she saids very rarely end up in court the way you'd think.
.torrent files and say that those files were downloaded, and uploaded as a side effect of how p2p software works. I think that the playlists and other info has nothing to do with the case at hand. If someone says they rip all of their CDs to their computer and has the hard copies (or receipts) to prove it, there is nothing the RIAA can do. However, if the remnants of file sharing data (share ratios, shared folders, seed status, etc) says that they ripped songs and then shared them, the plaintiffs may be in trouble.
You can also find all the
Remember, the RIAA may be saying that downloading is illegal, but they're prosecuting based on unauthorized distribution laws (uploading).
Any lawyer that can't come up with a production order that sticks to court ordered criteria should be sanctioned on the spot. I.E. you have a list of things that your order MUST satisfy, yet you think that there quite a bit of flex in it. Its like getting a shopping list with milk, eggs, butter, bread and coming home with cheese, quiche, marjoram (not margarine) and chips. How daft must the RIAA lawyers be to do this? In my experience as a COMPUTER FORENSICS EXPERT I have never seen attorneys flaunt a court order and attempt to come up with new criteria. I guess I'm in the wrong circuits.