Re:your first sentence is technically flawed
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Ubuntu on a Dime
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Not really, no, but they could've rolled a Unix-esque DOS, keeping the command line paradigms in sync with a mind towards using "real Unix" down the road as consumer-grade hardware gained the capabilities to do so.
Conceptually, yes, it was a great phone. In the real world, the build quality was terrible and had a very high failure rate. This is why I'm in love with the idea of HTC + Palm. HTC made some of the best Palms of old, and I'd love to see the next iteration of Palm Pre built by HTC.
I wouldn't compare Foursquare to Zynga . . . there's a game aspect, but it isn't ad-scam laden like Zynga's properties. Foursquare is broadly very similar to services like Loopt and Google Latitude, but with a few enhancements. Each time you "check in" to a location, you earn points. Whoever has the highest score is declared "Mayor" of that particular venue. Venues are also tagged to classify what sort of place they are, and you earn badges based on your check-in habits. For instance, three times in one week at venues tagged as being gyms will earn you the "Gym Rat" badge; go to a certain number of places tagged as having karaoke nights in a certain amount of time and you get the "Don't stop believin" badge, etc.
There are more aspects too--you can set up "to dos" to suggest certain activities at certain venues, and people can add them to their to-do list, etc. It's basically just another "I am here / what are my friends doing / what's a popular place to go tonight" app with some game aspects.
NASA's budget has been but a shadow of what it was in the Apollo days. We're perfectly capable of building another moon-capable spacecraft within 10 years or so (maybe much sooner) it'll just cost more than congress and the president want to spend.
Well, the planck length may be the size of the universe's "pixels." Physics as we know it may simply not exist in spaces any smaller than that. We haven't been able to do experiments on that small a scale yet, and there are theories that much more quantum weirdness goes on in such small spaces. As it stands, current understanding of what lies beneath a planck length is little more than "there be dragons."
Well, I won't know until I receive mine and try it out, but it is possible to install software to the Wii. Many games install little "channels" that access leaderboard-style stats and whatnot, so perhaps this does the same thing, and makes a Netflix channel so you don't need the disc every time you want to watch something.
Are they doing house-wide meters, or individual outlet/appliance meters? Or both? Even having a whole-house meter logged like this would be terribly useful, my local power company does this to some degree, but they don't make the data easily exportable for more in-depth analysis--and if you want to do an hour-by-hour chart--forget about it.
Unfortunately, I doubt my power company will be rolling out Google-compatible household meters to everyone in the near term.
Even getting only one check in a year makes this feature worthwhile, imo. Why make a special trip to the bank to drop a check when you can just take a picture of it and be done with it? It's even handier for banks like USAA who don't have much (if any) physical branch presence.
I also agree that MSE is probably the best free antivirus out there. However, it's worth noting that the machine has to pass "genuine validation" (i.e a legit license).
^The netbook covers everything the zoo of set top boxes won't do. I haven't found a compelling reason to sink another several hundred dollars into a HTPC.
Re:GTV on PS3?
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Another one? I already have six. Roku player (Netflix, Amazon), Vudu player (Bought before I got Netflix and the box, waste of money), DVR/Cable Box, D-link media lounge (also a waste of money, but streams video from my computer to the living room reasonably well), Wii, Netbook . . . Every damn one of them duplicates the same essential functionality, most run Linux variants, and all could be easily combined into a single device that does it all (this is happening with newer TVs and BluRay players).
Screw it. I refuse to buy another damn box to plug in to my TV unless it actually consolidates functions.
I sincerely hope option 3 isn't even considered. No matter what happens, these people need their firearms possession rights taken away permanently. Leaving a loaded gun anywhere near a child is unforgivable, no matter how sad these people may be about the results. And if it turns out as many here suspect--safety was off & gun was cocked . . . No. No guns for this man and his wife. EVER AGAIN.
^It is if it's cocked. If the kid reached for the gun still on the table with clumsy 3-year old hands, she easily could've grasped the trigger area, lifted the gun enough for the barrel to point at her and the force of lifting the gun by its trigger would be more than enough.
I'm okay with letting a judge and jury decide most of the specifics, but at the very least, I want his guns taken away and to make sure he's never allowed to own a firearm for the rest of his life.
NewEgg probably has (or had) a whole pallet of them. (How many boxed processors are in a whole pallet, anyway?) I'm guessing once they were reported as fakes, NewEgg pulled the rest of the fake lot from their distribution center to stop any more fake chips from going out to customers. They've probably still got the remainder that didn't ship out.
^Well, to be fair, they're learning from a lot of successful examples. Ask Microsoft about fooling with companies that have decades more experience on the playing field. Besides, Apple does have a lot of experience on this playing field. Phones are computers now, and it's the next big consumer battleground. It's the late 80s and early 90s all over again, only I don't think there's a big dumb IBM this time around waiting for someone clever to come along and eat their lunch.
^Patent litigation seems to operate on principal of "The Devil Take the Hindmost." Go after the soft targets first to get them to cave, which gives you more ammunition when you take on the big guys. If Apple succeeds in bloodying HTC's nose, *then* they'll start going after the bigger boys like Google.
Apple didn't invent the smartphone, and I'm sure there are a slew of fundamental patents held by other companies that can take Apple to the cleaners if they keep pulling this crap. HTC's been making smartphones for over a decade, so I hope they're able to fire back. Not to mention Google designed most of Android, so won't it be interesting if they join the fray?
I'll be interested to hear more about what specific patents Apple is trying to bludgeon HTC with, but I'll hardly be surprised if it's a bunch of trivial crap like basic UI elements.
Apple looks like a bully right now, and if that's the case, I hope the other kids on the playground gang up on Apple and teach them a lesson.
I used to leave my Wi-Fi open and broadcasting for precisely that reason. Then my neighbors, who frequently have screaming fights in their front yard, called a noise complaint on ME for watching a movie with the "volume too loud" or something.
No more free internet for those jerks. I've secured mine with an easy-to-remember and easy-to-give-to-guests key that still incorporates upper and lower case letters as well as numbers.
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Not really, no, but they could've rolled a Unix-esque DOS, keeping the command line paradigms in sync with a mind towards using "real Unix" down the road as consumer-grade hardware gained the capabilities to do so.
Conceptually, yes, it was a great phone. In the real world, the build quality was terrible and had a very high failure rate. This is why I'm in love with the idea of HTC + Palm. HTC made some of the best Palms of old, and I'd love to see the next iteration of Palm Pre built by HTC.
I wouldn't compare Foursquare to Zynga . . . there's a game aspect, but it isn't ad-scam laden like Zynga's properties. Foursquare is broadly very similar to services like Loopt and Google Latitude, but with a few enhancements. Each time you "check in" to a location, you earn points. Whoever has the highest score is declared "Mayor" of that particular venue. Venues are also tagged to classify what sort of place they are, and you earn badges based on your check-in habits. For instance, three times in one week at venues tagged as being gyms will earn you the "Gym Rat" badge; go to a certain number of places tagged as having karaoke nights in a certain amount of time and you get the "Don't stop believin" badge, etc.
There are more aspects too--you can set up "to dos" to suggest certain activities at certain venues, and people can add them to their to-do list, etc. It's basically just another "I am here / what are my friends doing / what's a popular place to go tonight" app with some game aspects.
From TFA, the enzyme-producing genes aren't transferring from marine bacteria to host cells, but from the marine bacteria to "native" gut bacteria.
Really? Then what do you call it when people buy apps that serve no money-making purpose for the end user for their phones and other devices?
NASA's budget has been but a shadow of what it was in the Apollo days. We're perfectly capable of building another moon-capable spacecraft within 10 years or so (maybe much sooner) it'll just cost more than congress and the president want to spend.
Well, the planck length may be the size of the universe's "pixels." Physics as we know it may simply not exist in spaces any smaller than that. We haven't been able to do experiments on that small a scale yet, and there are theories that much more quantum weirdness goes on in such small spaces. As it stands, current understanding of what lies beneath a planck length is little more than "there be dragons."
Well, I won't know until I receive mine and try it out, but it is possible to install software to the Wii. Many games install little "channels" that access leaderboard-style stats and whatnot, so perhaps this does the same thing, and makes a Netflix channel so you don't need the disc every time you want to watch something.
Sorry to reply to my own comment, but I saw this in another comment on this article: http://www.theenergydetective.com/what/install.html
Much less involved than replacing the utility meter! The TED500 has been added to my shopping list & is compatible w/ Google Power.
Hogwash, next you'll tell me that global warming isn't really caused by the decline in pirates since the 1800s.
Are they doing house-wide meters, or individual outlet/appliance meters? Or both? Even having a whole-house meter logged like this would be terribly useful, my local power company does this to some degree, but they don't make the data easily exportable for more in-depth analysis--and if you want to do an hour-by-hour chart--forget about it.
Unfortunately, I doubt my power company will be rolling out Google-compatible household meters to everyone in the near term.
With actual links so you can download the patch to enable XP mode on previously unsupported processors, for instance:
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/03/microsoft-removes-vm-hardware-requirements-from-xp-mode.ars
Why the hell is this Exo-Blog post being cited? The author of TFA doesn't cite a goddamn thing.
Even getting only one check in a year makes this feature worthwhile, imo. Why make a special trip to the bank to drop a check when you can just take a picture of it and be done with it? It's even handier for banks like USAA who don't have much (if any) physical branch presence.
I also agree that MSE is probably the best free antivirus out there. However, it's worth noting that the machine has to pass "genuine validation" (i.e a legit license).
^The netbook covers everything the zoo of set top boxes won't do. I haven't found a compelling reason to sink another several hundred dollars into a HTPC.
Another one? I already have six. Roku player (Netflix, Amazon), Vudu player (Bought before I got Netflix and the box, waste of money), DVR/Cable Box, D-link media lounge (also a waste of money, but streams video from my computer to the living room reasonably well), Wii, Netbook . . . Every damn one of them duplicates the same essential functionality, most run Linux variants, and all could be easily combined into a single device that does it all (this is happening with newer TVs and BluRay players).
Screw it. I refuse to buy another damn box to plug in to my TV unless it actually consolidates functions.
I sincerely hope option 3 isn't even considered. No matter what happens, these people need their firearms possession rights taken away permanently. Leaving a loaded gun anywhere near a child is unforgivable, no matter how sad these people may be about the results. And if it turns out as many here suspect--safety was off & gun was cocked . . . No. No guns for this man and his wife. EVER AGAIN.
^It is if it's cocked. If the kid reached for the gun still on the table with clumsy 3-year old hands, she easily could've grasped the trigger area, lifted the gun enough for the barrel to point at her and the force of lifting the gun by its trigger would be more than enough.
I'm okay with letting a judge and jury decide most of the specifics, but at the very least, I want his guns taken away and to make sure he's never allowed to own a firearm for the rest of his life.
NewEgg probably has (or had) a whole pallet of them. (How many boxed processors are in a whole pallet, anyway?) I'm guessing once they were reported as fakes, NewEgg pulled the rest of the fake lot from their distribution center to stop any more fake chips from going out to customers. They've probably still got the remainder that didn't ship out.
^Well, to be fair, they're learning from a lot of successful examples. Ask Microsoft about fooling with companies that have decades more experience on the playing field. Besides, Apple does have a lot of experience on this playing field. Phones are computers now, and it's the next big consumer battleground. It's the late 80s and early 90s all over again, only I don't think there's a big dumb IBM this time around waiting for someone clever to come along and eat their lunch.
^Patent litigation seems to operate on principal of "The Devil Take the Hindmost." Go after the soft targets first to get them to cave, which gives you more ammunition when you take on the big guys. If Apple succeeds in bloodying HTC's nose, *then* they'll start going after the bigger boys like Google.
Apple didn't invent the smartphone, and I'm sure there are a slew of fundamental patents held by other companies that can take Apple to the cleaners if they keep pulling this crap. HTC's been making smartphones for over a decade, so I hope they're able to fire back. Not to mention Google designed most of Android, so won't it be interesting if they join the fray?
I'll be interested to hear more about what specific patents Apple is trying to bludgeon HTC with, but I'll hardly be surprised if it's a bunch of trivial crap like basic UI elements.
Apple looks like a bully right now, and if that's the case, I hope the other kids on the playground gang up on Apple and teach them a lesson.
I used to leave my Wi-Fi open and broadcasting for precisely that reason. Then my neighbors, who frequently have screaming fights in their front yard, called a noise complaint on ME for watching a movie with the "volume too loud" or something.
No more free internet for those jerks. I've secured mine with an easy-to-remember and easy-to-give-to-guests key that still incorporates upper and lower case letters as well as numbers.
Pippin, AppleTV, Macbook Air . . .