So everyone should start carrying external spare batteries.
I've seen a 22400 mAh portable Li-ion battery for less than $50. Imagine a whole plane full of those. And no, consumer grade Li-ion batteries never explode.
Up to two spare Li-ion batteries up to 300 Wh ("large batteries") are allowed in the carry-on baggage. So external USB chargers/accumulators up to 60 mAh should be OK.
Works fine with NoScript if you allow both www.scribd.com and scribdassets.com. Without scripts only the first three pages are loaded and default fonts are used.
To read other documents in HTML5 one needs to enable it in his Scribd settings (http://www.scribd.com/account/edit).
Add to this that when the same title officially arrives to the local market may lose some subtitles, or even an original audio track. If it's an audio, it may be digitally remastered (once again).
As far as I know no other monitor is even close now. Being able to see 57% more pixels matters. Especially if you are into editing photos. BTW, 2560×1440 is just enough to see 12 MP photos at crispy 50% zoom (assuming 3:2 format). 2048×1152 is not enough even for a nasty 2MP shot (assuming 4:3 format). For games and vi it does not really matter.
But $1600 is too much, IMO. As I don't make money on photos, I am not byuing that screen yet.
hg-git is OK (to use hg as a client for remote git repositories). hg-subversion interoperation is told to be less reliable (people say bazaar-subversion integration is better).
bzr clients seem to be more or less interoperable with all major VCSes via plugins (bzr-svn, bzr-hg, bzr-git).
darcs and git are not interoperable with anything.
Please check out such books as Mercurial: The Definitive Guide and Real World Haskell. They were freely available when being written and remain such, but in the same time both books were published as usual (on paper) by O'Reilly:
It's not different for Python on Google App Engine. Only a subset of its standard library is available (anything that requires disk access does not work).
So, also with Python one has to code specifically for GAE. The same applies for Java.
But GAE offers free-as-in-beer and ad-free application hosting. It's OK that it is somewhat limited and is not 100% compatible with everything else.
There were some Russian programming languages from the USSR's aerospace community.
Please take a look at some valid literate Haskell code which tells the common Russian fairy tale. It has nothing to do with aerospace, and it is standard modern Haskell. Copy-paste, compile and run.
Another modern example is Chinese Python. Though it is a fork from the standard python.
Maybe it's just me, but the tech level required to read a book online is pretty high.
It's a matter of distribution of e-books being mostly illegal in the western world. When the means of distribution is not effectively suppressed, it is used by almost everybody. See, for example, http://lib.rus.ec/ (Russian e-books' site).
Add to that the power consumption.
You need some light to read a paper book too.
But given the typical price of a paper book $15, you can consume as much as 150 kWh if you don't buy it. That's a lot of energy. It's enough to keep the laptop on for 100 days. I believe much longer with an e-Ink device. And all these money now is wasted on ineffective legacy distribution network. Eventually, these $15 will be consumed as energy or resources, emitted as CO2 and contribute to toxic land-dump in third-world countries, with an effect probably multiple of what you, personally, can do with 150 kWh (see Multiplier effect)
And the paranoia of knowing the ebook I read today can be changed tomorrow to reflect a different view.
That's why you should download it and keep forever. Forget online readers and DRM schemes, that let you see a page, but don't let you have a _copy_. Hard drives are cheap.
You forgot about moka pots. They are affordable ($20) and easy to use. And given a good pot, good beans, and some attention to take it off the fire timely, the drink is rich and strong. Not as strong and oily as a true espresso, but it has its own goodness.
You also forgot about turkish coffee. A good cezve ($20) is not as overpriced as complicated espresso machines. And it can serve for ages (unlike moka pots).The good turkish coffee is really good, tasty and, IMHO, it has the best and the most natural aroma. But it requires more attention and devotion to cook it right.
Happily running Debian eeePC flavour on 901 for three months. Satisfied.
What's not working out of the box:
* Intel HDA Audio plays audio well, but mic is not working right (requires newer ALSA or 2.6.28 kernel, not yet in repository) * Bluetooth can be enabled only in the BIOS (requires reboot) * ACPI scripts switch WiFi off correctly, but fail to switch it on correctly if the laptop was put into sleep with WiFi turned off (a workaround: always enable WiFi before putting it into sleep mode, or reboot to restore it) * mouse driver is used instead of Elantech touchpad driver (requires kernel 2.6.28), so syndaemon cannot be used, multitouch is not working.
Most of this can be solved with a newer kernel, and everything has workarounds.
games older than half a year (PC) / about 4 years (console) are usually considered obsolete and don't make any money for the publisher / developer.
I specifically look for old games sometimes, as I can be sure if they are good or bad (lots of reviews, bugs fixed, patches available, hardware requirements I can tolerate). It's a pity old titles are rarely republished and are not easily available.
I guess the publshers make too much profit with the new titles, that they can afford to forget about retro.
They are cracking down on visa's and have reduced the amount of American's allowed into the country.
1) The same is true about Russians visiting the US; it is an expensive, long and tiresome procedure to obtain a US visa in Russia, with a high denial rate (no guarantee, no refund). Actually, USA and U.K. are the worst when it comes to requesting visas.
At least Russian government does not require fingerprints during the application process, i.e. before the decision about the visa and for all the applicants. Both USA and U.K. do this dirty things.
Russian government does not ask stupid questions like "Are you a terrorist?", "Are you a communist?". We enjoy freedom of faith here.
Russian government does not require to list all your property to visit Russia. US government does.
Russian government does not force all the applicants to use services of a particular courier service (unreliable and expensive, known for delays). US government does.
Sure enough they will be back to their old communist ways.
2) In the communists' days, the citizen of the USSR could not go outside freely. Now they can, and go even though there are many obstacles imposed by a "free" world (not by the Russian government).
Nowdays, every time a westerner visiting Russia may just enjoy once the simplified version of the procedures they require from all Russianseverytime they visit his own country.
It's fair. I think these things would go away once western countries relax their visa policies with respect to Russians. As long as they are very strict, it is fair to apply similar policies to westerners visiting Russia. Anyway, most of them come on business and can afford the inconvinience.
Programmers and users are the same people. And both benefit from GPL. Corporations are not people at all, and dislike copylefts and share-alikes (for the reason of not being able to obtain a crucial advantage for money).
BSD is not better for programmers. It is easier to gain benefit from (without obligations), but it makes the whole project and the community of its users vulnerable to E3 attacks (embrace-extend-extinguish).
This topic is about ethical and monetary price of such an attack. We can see that it is not much. So the risks of the BSD license are substantial.
GPL is better for everyone but big corporations. And LGPL is better than BSD whenever non-viral properties are desired.
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So everyone should start carrying external spare batteries.
I've seen a 22400 mAh portable Li-ion battery for less than $50. Imagine a whole plane full of those. And no, consumer grade Li-ion batteries never explode.
Up to two spare Li-ion batteries up to 300 Wh ("large batteries") are allowed in the carry-on baggage. So external USB chargers/accumulators up to 60 mAh should be OK.
Works fine with NoScript if you allow both www.scribd.com and scribdassets.com. Without scripts only the first three pages are loaded and default fonts are used.
To read other documents in HTML5 one needs to enable it in his Scribd settings (http://www.scribd.com/account/edit).
Add to this that when the same title officially arrives to the local market may lose some subtitles, or even an original audio track. If it's an audio, it may be digitally remastered (once again).
Or just move some code offshore. Software patents is an awesome opportunity for software as a service.
I can imagine whole third world countries to make living from opening files in patent-encumbered formats.
As far as I know no other monitor is even close now. Being able to see 57% more pixels matters. Especially if you are into editing photos. BTW, 2560×1440 is just enough to see 12 MP photos at crispy 50% zoom (assuming 3:2 format). 2048×1152 is not enough even for a nasty 2MP shot (assuming 4:3 format). For games and vi it does not really matter.
But $1600 is too much, IMO. As I don't make money on photos, I am not byuing that screen yet.
> will be a somewhat open protocol, a federated social network.
You mean like identi.ca and openmicroblogging?
hg-git is OK (to use hg as a client for remote git repositories).
hg-subversion interoperation is told to be less reliable (people say bazaar-subversion integration is better).
bzr clients seem to be more or less interoperable with all major VCSes via plugins (bzr-svn, bzr-hg, bzr-git).
darcs and git are not interoperable with anything.
Clearly, you don't have an ATI video card, do you?
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9142148/Review_3_top_Linux_distros_go_for_different_users
I wish there were a way to exclude pay-walled pages from the search results. What do you think about it, Google?
Please check out such books as Mercurial: The Definitive Guide and Real World Haskell. They were freely available when being written and remain such, but in the same time both books were published as usual (on paper) by O'Reilly:
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596800673/
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514983/
The source code used to create the books is also available. So you may use the same work flow.
> There have already been dual GPS/GLONASS systems for many years, so a triple GPS/GLONAS/Galileo system should be no problem.
Actually, such systems already exist. For example, see Topcon GR-3. There are also GPS/GLONASS/Galileo single-chip receivers.
It's not different for Python on Google App Engine. Only a subset of its standard library is available (anything that requires disk access does not work).
So, also with Python one has to code specifically for GAE. The same applies for Java.
But GAE offers free-as-in-beer and ad-free application hosting. It's OK that it is somewhat limited and is not 100% compatible with everything else.
This had to happen sooner or later. We only didn't know when and where. Now, in France.
Looking forward to the rise of anonymous (pseudonymous) P2P networks. They are almost there already, but only lack sufficient user base.
I bet on GNUnet.
Please take a look at some valid literate Haskell code which tells the common Russian fairy tale. It has nothing to do with aerospace, and it is standard modern Haskell. Copy-paste, compile and run.
Another modern example is Chinese Python. Though it is a fork from the standard python.
It's a matter of distribution of e-books being mostly illegal in the western world. When the means of distribution is not effectively suppressed, it is used by almost everybody. See, for example, http://lib.rus.ec/ (Russian e-books' site).
You need some light to read a paper book too.
But given the typical price of a paper book $15, you can consume as much as 150 kWh if you don't buy it. That's a lot of energy. It's enough to keep the laptop on for 100 days. I believe much longer with an e-Ink device. And all these money now is wasted on ineffective legacy distribution network. Eventually, these $15 will be consumed as energy or resources, emitted as CO2 and contribute to toxic land-dump in third-world countries, with an effect probably multiple of what you, personally, can do with 150 kWh (see Multiplier effect)
That's why you should download it and keep forever. Forget online readers and DRM schemes, that let you see a page, but don't let you have a _copy_. Hard drives are cheap.
Respectful publishers will sign their e-books.
Isn't Relakks offering just the same thing for P2P users?
It is in Sweden, btw.
Does anyone use it?
Right! This needs to be upvoted.
You forgot about moka pots. They are affordable ($20) and easy to use. And given a good pot, good beans, and some attention to take it off the fire timely, the drink is rich and strong. Not as strong and oily as a true espresso, but it has its own goodness.
You also forgot about turkish coffee. A good cezve ($20) is not as overpriced as complicated espresso machines. And it can serve for ages (unlike moka pots).The good turkish coffee is really good, tasty and, IMHO, it has the best and the most natural aroma. But it requires more attention and devotion to cook it right.
Happily running Debian eeePC flavour on 901 for three months. Satisfied.
What's not working out of the box:
* Intel HDA Audio plays audio well, but mic is not working right (requires newer ALSA or 2.6.28 kernel, not yet in repository)
* Bluetooth can be enabled only in the BIOS (requires reboot)
* ACPI scripts switch WiFi off correctly, but fail to switch it on correctly if the laptop was put into sleep with WiFi turned off (a workaround: always enable WiFi before putting it into sleep mode, or reboot to restore it)
* mouse driver is used instead of Elantech touchpad driver (requires kernel 2.6.28), so syndaemon cannot be used, multitouch is not working.
Most of this can be solved with a newer kernel, and everything has workarounds.
A linux without apt-get? No way! Not once again!
1) The same is true about Russians visiting the US; it is an expensive, long and tiresome procedure to obtain a US visa in Russia, with a high denial rate (no guarantee, no refund). Actually, USA and U.K. are the worst when it comes to requesting visas.
At least Russian government does not require fingerprints during the application process, i.e. before the decision about the visa and for all the applicants. Both USA and U.K. do this dirty things.
Russian government does not ask stupid questions like "Are you a terrorist?", "Are you a communist?". We enjoy freedom of faith here.
Russian government does not require to list all your property to visit Russia. US government does.
Russian government does not force all the applicants to use services of a particular courier service (unreliable and expensive, known for delays). US government does.
2) In the communists' days, the citizen of the USSR could not go outside freely. Now they can, and go even though there are many obstacles imposed by a "free" world (not by the Russian government).
Nowdays, every time a westerner visiting Russia may just enjoy once the simplified version of the procedures they require from all Russians everytime they visit his own country.
It's fair. I think these things would go away once western countries relax their visa policies with respect to Russians. As long as they are very strict, it is fair to apply similar policies to westerners visiting Russia. Anyway, most of them come on business and can afford the inconvinience.
Programmers and users are the same people. And both benefit from GPL. Corporations are not people at all, and dislike copylefts and share-alikes (for the reason of not being able to obtain a crucial advantage for money).
BSD is not better for programmers. It is easier to gain benefit from (without obligations), but it makes the whole project and the community of its users vulnerable to E3 attacks (embrace-extend-extinguish).
This topic is about ethical and monetary price of such an attack. We can see that it is not much. So the risks of the BSD license are substantial.
GPL is better for everyone but big corporations. And LGPL is better than BSD whenever non-viral properties are desired.
GPL = freedom for people
BSD = freedom for corporations