Up the price and sell it as a security and monitoring device...
If the Kickstarter page is anything to go by, it will already cost you over $100 for the box and there's open wording on if they will have a service to keep it up to date. I don't know about you, but that's pretty expensive for what amounts to a selectively forwarding router. Most routers can be bought for much less than that and are fully programmable.
I'll bet Ad Proxies will become common before they host the files locally... it will look like it's coming from the server you are getting the content from, but the server is just relaying the ad from their ad host.
Nah, that's still a very tall and short wheelbase car. The car in the upper banner looks quite nice (even though I'm sure it's a two seater... it looks like an Audi R8 with that stripe down the side but I'm sure it's a concept...)
I'm not sure I understand removing the "cool" factor from things. Things have cool factors. Laptops, TVs, houses... appliances even. People want things to look good and perform well. We don't want to all be driving around in the same boring car everyone else has. (Well, some of us don't...)
I kind of get the idea, but until cars are fully driver-less and the interior comforts outweigh the outward appearance and or cars are no longer owned by people but rented by the mile traveled... the look of the car will be a major factor.
All these "commuter" cars are ugly as sin. Why can't we get "commuter" cars that aren't straight chairs with wheels? Get something sleek and futuristic looking and I'll consider buying it. (Like that Lamborghini in the icons above... a single seat, well performing low slung vehicle.)
Why would you worry about which version has your graphics drivers? Ubuntu, which will be the only distro for the near future with Steam support, will have the major drivers available. If you choose to use another, it's up to you to get it to work until they decide to branch out to another distribution.
Why Ubuntu? There are a couple of reasons for that. First, we’re just starting development and working with a single distribution is critical when you are experimenting, as we are. It reduces the variability of the testing space and makes early iteration easier and faster. Secondly, Ubuntu is a popular distribution and has recognition with the general gaming and developer communities. This doesn’t mean that Ubuntu will be the only distribution we support. Based on the success of our efforts around Ubuntu, we will look at supporting other distributions in the future.
Speaking of snapshots in ZFS... snapshots in VirtualBox are also very nice. I have a Windows VM for testing and I have a snapshot that's bare install with updates. I just revert to that snapshot and do any new updates (if there are any, then re-snapshot) and work on a base install of Windows. There's no cleanup of installs or other software. It makes Windows much nicer to work with.
If the system had some way to tie the cost (and subsequent tax figure) to the benefit and stuck to the actual figure bound to the legislation it's tied to this wouldn't be a problem. Of course, it would mean that someone would have to do work up front to figure out the cost and who gets the bill. Then comes the fun of making sure those that are paying the bill don't leave the country.
An alternative is to never run in debt and only allow legislation that's already paid for... meaning the country/states need to run in excess.
That's all fine and good, but why not just provide a tower with a bunch of powered USB ports for people to stand around and plug into. It can be solar powered with a battery for backup. No power ties would be needed and no hardline. If you really wanted to wire it up, put a few low power cell phone antennas/radios on the top that could easily be replaced when new technology permits. This way you solve the existing infrastructure problem of having tens of thousands of people jamming regular cell towers and give people a place to charge up in emergencies.
The thing is... people have their own displays they carry around with them now. If you wanted to provide a local service to them you'd best serve them by allowing wifi connections and directing them to a web page with that info.
The average person isn't going to remember this in 6 months... they are going to blame for something they have no control over and assume that voting in someone else will change America.
What if my house is a large patch of land with a fence? What if I build a long hallway, with a roof over it that surrounds my entire property, but I build a courtyard that is over 40 acres? Is that courtyard part of my house?
Um, who do you think created the hurricanes? Katrina was created by Bush in a secret government experiment and Sandy is Romney just testing the wheel. I mean, duh.
One of the guys I worked with was from Pakistan. When I talked to him, he had 2 physics Masters degrees and could blow me out of the water with my High School level physics knowledge. He was going to apply to some research facilities for a job because at the time, he thought $25k was an awesome wage in the Chicago area. He didn't find out it was pretty crappy until he actually got to the point of looking for an apartment and having to actually live on that. He found out later that the company was offering up the lower wage because nobody here would take the wage and they could bring in someone on a Visa who thought that wage was livable.
He ended up working IT support because it paid better...
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Up the price and sell it as a security and monitoring device...
If the Kickstarter page is anything to go by, it will already cost you over $100 for the box and there's open wording on if they will have a service to keep it up to date. I don't know about you, but that's pretty expensive for what amounts to a selectively forwarding router. Most routers can be bought for much less than that and are fully programmable.
According to the Kickstarter page, it currently starts at $115 (which I find WAAAAY too expensive for a single purpose firewall.)
Or... find someone who's willing to give it away cheaper/free.
I'll bet Ad Proxies will become common before they host the files locally... it will look like it's coming from the server you are getting the content from, but the server is just relaying the ad from their ad host.
Nah, that's still a very tall and short wheelbase car. The car in the upper banner looks quite nice (even though I'm sure it's a two seater... it looks like an Audi R8 with that stripe down the side but I'm sure it's a concept...)
I'm not sure I understand removing the "cool" factor from things. Things have cool factors. Laptops, TVs, houses... appliances even. People want things to look good and perform well. We don't want to all be driving around in the same boring car everyone else has. (Well, some of us don't...)
I kind of get the idea, but until cars are fully driver-less and the interior comforts outweigh the outward appearance and or cars are no longer owned by people but rented by the mile traveled... the look of the car will be a major factor.
No, I didn't mean to imply it either. ;)
Err, I didn't mean to infer that the Lambo had one seat, but make something like it with a single seat...
All these "commuter" cars are ugly as sin. Why can't we get "commuter" cars that aren't straight chairs with wheels? Get something sleek and futuristic looking and I'll consider buying it. (Like that Lamborghini in the icons above... a single seat, well performing low slung vehicle.)
Why would you worry about which version has your graphics drivers? Ubuntu, which will be the only distro for the near future with Steam support, will have the major drivers available. If you choose to use another, it's up to you to get it to work until they decide to branch out to another distribution.
http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/steamd-penguins/
Why Ubuntu? There are a couple of reasons for that. First, we’re just starting development and working with a single distribution is critical when you are experimenting, as we are. It reduces the variability of the testing space and makes early iteration easier and faster. Secondly, Ubuntu is a popular distribution and has recognition with the general gaming and developer communities. This doesn’t mean that Ubuntu will be the only distribution we support. Based on the success of our efforts around Ubuntu, we will look at supporting other distributions in the future.
Ah, the War on Cybercrime ... yeah, we need another faceless War. /sarcasm
Speaking of snapshots in ZFS... snapshots in VirtualBox are also very nice. I have a Windows VM for testing and I have a snapshot that's bare install with updates. I just revert to that snapshot and do any new updates (if there are any, then re-snapshot) and work on a base install of Windows. There's no cleanup of installs or other software. It makes Windows much nicer to work with.
If the system had some way to tie the cost (and subsequent tax figure) to the benefit and stuck to the actual figure bound to the legislation it's tied to this wouldn't be a problem. Of course, it would mean that someone would have to do work up front to figure out the cost and who gets the bill. Then comes the fun of making sure those that are paying the bill don't leave the country.
An alternative is to never run in debt and only allow legislation that's already paid for... meaning the country/states need to run in excess.
With the magic of the Internet! ;)
And will they remind the "driver" where he is going and why?
You are going to your in-laws because you hate yourself.
You are going to the store because you need food to live.
That's all fine and good, but why not just provide a tower with a bunch of powered USB ports for people to stand around and plug into. It can be solar powered with a battery for backup. No power ties would be needed and no hardline. If you really wanted to wire it up, put a few low power cell phone antennas/radios on the top that could easily be replaced when new technology permits. This way you solve the existing infrastructure problem of having tens of thousands of people jamming regular cell towers and give people a place to charge up in emergencies.
The thing is... people have their own displays they carry around with them now. If you wanted to provide a local service to them you'd best serve them by allowing wifi connections and directing them to a web page with that info.
The average person isn't going to remember this in 6 months... they are going to blame for something they have no control over and assume that voting in someone else will change America.
What if my house is a large patch of land with a fence? What if I build a long hallway, with a roof over it that surrounds my entire property, but I build a courtyard that is over 40 acres? Is that courtyard part of my house?
how do those who vigorously defend civil liberties propose the community should protect themselves?
We have a constitutional amendment for that...
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Because girls were raised to empathize? I'm not sure I buy that male/female is "better" at either. Just more experienced.
But the Surfcast Patent shows a screenshot of Slashdot in one of it's tiles... at least I think that's Slashdot.
Not so fast! http://www.google.com/patents/EP1921575A1?cl=en
Actually, didn't MS try Hexagons for WM6.5?
Um, who do you think created the hurricanes? Katrina was created by Bush in a secret government experiment and Sandy is Romney just testing the wheel. I mean, duh.
One of the guys I worked with was from Pakistan. When I talked to him, he had 2 physics Masters degrees and could blow me out of the water with my High School level physics knowledge. He was going to apply to some research facilities for a job because at the time, he thought $25k was an awesome wage in the Chicago area. He didn't find out it was pretty crappy until he actually got to the point of looking for an apartment and having to actually live on that. He found out later that the company was offering up the lower wage because nobody here would take the wage and they could bring in someone on a Visa who thought that wage was livable.
He ended up working IT support because it paid better...
Hmm, US Population (311,591,917) * Number of Teeth(32) = $9,970,941,344
That's only 9 Billion. We need a bit more than that to solve the debt crisis.