Or arrange your accounts with the idea that you will be compromised. So only keep enough cash that you are willing to lose/require for a particular purchase in whatever account you use for online purchasing. Heck I even do that for my offline purchases (with card skimmers floating around the place, IRL purchases aren't safe either).
Considering Motorola Mobility are owned by Google, maybe there is some hope for open source drivers rather than binary blobs. It's a wonderful dream at least.
I'm genuinly interested in the BB Black, how is the GPU offloading? That's the big surprise I've found with the Pi. It outputs Full HD quite nicely for me, but the CPU could do with a touch more grunt.
Also the community that has sprung up around the Pi is something that shouldn't disregarded. The fact you can hit google and get detailed answers from people doing the same thing as you is quite invaluable.
I'd suggest watching the talk from LCA 2013. Video here. I went along and found it quite interesting. Puts Orbital science experimentation into the hands of people that would have never been able to afford it previously.
But I'm seaminly responding to another trollish post with a +4 Insightful. Imagine a class room full of students excited about science because their teacher organised for a bunch of their projects to go up into space, and that drives them to further that knowledge and go on to become successful scientists. No, there is no useful purpose for this project at all
I use "open" software all the time and I certainly don't do any DIY hacking to get it running and keep it running. So why does this "open" hardware have such a different interpretation? I can only surmise that "open" is actually being used as a synonym of "incomplete".
The primary difference being, people have different expectations when it comes to something they laid done a decent some of money for. If you download a project that doesn't work and don't know how to diagnose it, you move on. Drop a $1000+ on some hardware and don't possess the skills to work it out , you may feel quite differently. No amount of initial expectation setting can change that when it involves someones hard earned money. We've seen that with Kickstarter, you are told upfront that you are investing in a product that isn't in production yet and people get upset when things don't pan out as planned.
However all of the above doesn't make this project less open, you are still free to take those designs, source the parts and build one yourself. Bunnie explained that he wants to hack hardware, not spend his time doing end user support for people that didn't understand what they were buying. I don't think that's unreasonable.
If you want to do everything exchange does, without the exchange bit, Zimbra is a good alternative. Inexpensive by comparrison and excellent support. There is also the Open Source edition if you don't want enterprise stuff like Activesync.
Cool, after some research it sounds like there is hope yet. I think a rift solution would be far easier for me to achieve as I really have a hard time with repetitive boring tasks. Repitive entertaining tasks (ie Tetris) seem to not pose the same issue.
Justification for a Rift purchase found, now to fund it and get on the development learning curve!
This. Over the years my depth perception has dropped off, if there was some way I could fix it then I would be a very happy individual. I think I found my justification for a rift dev kit (hopefully once they get past the kick starter they'll still sell the kits).
Surgery tends to only be really succesful when under 5 years of age. I had mine when I was 6/7 and cosmetically it's a lot better, however I struggle with depth perception constantly. Something which has gotten worse as I've gotten older. I guess it depends on the person and the severity.
It's garbage even when Talking to an exchange server. It's rather telling when a 3rd party plugin (Zimbra Connector for Outlook) makes Outlook behave better than using exchange directly.
They seem to be suffering from a massive influx of users. It seems to be getting better stability wise since I first started using it. It also has an original view, which is awesome for sites that annoyingly just put a link to the content, rather than the content on the feed.Three Months to Scale NewsBlur
It's also OSS if you wish to host it yourself, you can find it here.
Disparity in wealth is a 'Good Thing'. I always pondered if it was the case, but Paul Graham wrote a particularly insightful essay about it. Article here.
There are great alternatives for Groupware. However people don't actually want exchange, they want outlook. It's a tool they are familiar with and have built up years of workflow around it. It's horrible, unstable, ugly, but people cling to it. It's a safety blanket.
I reckon the current version of Zimbra is looking to be quite a suitable replacement and it's built using OSS products. There are paid for enterprise versions, which get you things like ActiveSync (presumably they have to pay MS for a license to use that), but it's pocket change compared to a full blown exchange implementation. The administration has a decent easy to use CLI and the web admin side of things is really comprehensive. No more pulling up emc to do one bit, then powerhell, then webmail and finally the last bit in Outlook.
Moving back on topic, Samba 4 should mean that things that absolutely have to talk LDAP in MS's broken way will mean absolutely no need for a windows box on your network
I had a 21" Sun CRT . During a clean a shed clean out that my friend was helping me with and I said "Be careful, that things fricken heavy, I'll move it if you want", he insisted he'd be right. He went to pick it up like a normal CRT, safe to say he put it down and then picked up with a lot more knee bending and exclaiming "F*** me that thing is heavy!".
I used it as a TV on one of my early Mythbox setups for a while, but it bent the desk it was sitting on, so I ended up buying an LCD.
It's just the horrible way it was built, they are just tiffs and you can get them manually. However there are a couple of plugins that solve the problem. Firefox Addon and Chrome Addon
With have a subsidised/protected automotive industry. All it does is artificially inflate prices. GM/Ford still come crying to the government for handouts every few years.
Some of the more flexible Deployment platforms can deploy just about anything, but a well designed MSI is far easier. That said I've come across many, many poorly designed MSIs, which are just as much hassle as anything else.
A good driver may occasionally be confronted with a car that cuts them off or a pedestrian that forces them to break sharply. However a bad driver would statistically face a similar number of such obstacles while having more hard brakes due to driving too fast and too close. The good driver will still appear statistically safer to the insurance company.
Obviously you don't work where I work. I allow plenty of stopping distance, have blind spot mirrors and sharp acceleration is a near impossibility with diesel Ute (Pickup Truck) and yet I face at least 1 or 2 morons every day I drive to work. My wifes fears for my safety when driving to work and that's living in Capital city in Australia.
So in summary, what you are telling me is that with all the sharp breaking/swerving I have to do as a matter of course on my daily commute, is that I'm a bad driver? I for one, wont be accepting a company that requires such an invasion of my privacy.
But the question is, would Carrier IQ have been found if it wasn't for Android being open and how long before Apple decided that they wanted to collect more data? Open Source doesn't give you automatic protection, however eventually someone will stumble upon something and go "hrm, this is weird, I wonder what it is".
I'm pretty sure there are already some _good_ laws to prevent these kind of privacy invasions, how are those working out in this case? These big companies only respect the laws that they think can't get away with. When they get busted and a class action is started, they go through the motions and hand out a few vouchers stating "Sorry, we messed up", then continuing doing what they can get away with.
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Or arrange your accounts with the idea that you will be compromised. So only keep enough cash that you are willing to lose/require for a particular purchase in whatever account you use for online purchasing. Heck I even do that for my offline purchases (with card skimmers floating around the place, IRL purchases aren't safe either).
Considering Motorola Mobility are owned by Google, maybe there is some hope for open source drivers rather than binary blobs. It's a wonderful dream at least.
I'd suggest that's a technical limitation that will be resolved eventually. It's not even in open beta yet!
I'm genuinly interested in the BB Black, how is the GPU offloading? That's the big surprise I've found with the Pi. It outputs Full HD quite nicely for me, but the CPU could do with a touch more grunt.
Also the community that has sprung up around the Pi is something that shouldn't disregarded. The fact you can hit google and get detailed answers from people doing the same thing as you is quite invaluable.
I'd suggest watching the talk from LCA 2013. Video here. I went along and found it quite interesting. Puts Orbital science experimentation into the hands of people that would have never been able to afford it previously.
But I'm seaminly responding to another trollish post with a +4 Insightful. Imagine a class room full of students excited about science because their teacher organised for a bunch of their projects to go up into space, and that drives them to further that knowledge and go on to become successful scientists. No, there is no useful purpose for this project at all
I use "open" software all the time and I certainly don't do any DIY hacking to get it running and keep it running. So why does this "open" hardware have such a different interpretation? I can only surmise that "open" is actually being used as a synonym of "incomplete".
The primary difference being, people have different expectations when it comes to something they laid done a decent some of money for. If you download a project that doesn't work and don't know how to diagnose it, you move on. Drop a $1000+ on some hardware and don't possess the skills to work it out , you may feel quite differently. No amount of initial expectation setting can change that when it involves someones hard earned money. We've seen that with Kickstarter, you are told upfront that you are investing in a product that isn't in production yet and people get upset when things don't pan out as planned.
However all of the above doesn't make this project less open, you are still free to take those designs, source the parts and build one yourself. Bunnie explained that he wants to hack hardware, not spend his time doing end user support for people that didn't understand what they were buying. I don't think that's unreasonable.
If you want to do everything exchange does, without the exchange bit, Zimbra is a good alternative. Inexpensive by comparrison and excellent support. There is also the Open Source edition if you don't want enterprise stuff like Activesync.
Cool, after some research it sounds like there is hope yet. I think a rift solution would be far easier for me to achieve as I really have a hard time with repetitive boring tasks. Repitive entertaining tasks (ie Tetris) seem to not pose the same issue.
Justification for a Rift purchase found, now to fund it and get on the development learning curve!
This. Over the years my depth perception has dropped off, if there was some way I could fix it then I would be a very happy individual. I think I found my justification for a rift dev kit (hopefully once they get past the kick starter they'll still sell the kits).
Surgery tends to only be really succesful when under 5 years of age. I had mine when I was 6/7 and cosmetically it's a lot better, however I struggle with depth perception constantly. Something which has gotten worse as I've gotten older. I guess it depends on the person and the severity.
It's garbage even when Talking to an exchange server. It's rather telling when a 3rd party plugin (Zimbra Connector for Outlook) makes Outlook behave better than using exchange directly.
They seem to be suffering from a massive influx of users. It seems to be getting better stability wise since I first started using it. It also has an original view, which is awesome for sites that annoyingly just put a link to the content, rather than the content on the feed.Three Months to Scale NewsBlur
It's also OSS if you wish to host it yourself, you can find it here.
Disparity in wealth is a 'Good Thing'. I always pondered if it was the case, but Paul Graham wrote a particularly insightful essay about it. Article here.
Interestingly enough - and not mentioned in the summary - this doesn't impact BES 10. It's only BES for legacy devices that are affected.
Considering BES 10 doesn't support Legacy devices and this is corporates we're speaking about, 'only' probably is the wrong word to be using here.
There are great alternatives for Groupware. However people don't actually want exchange, they want outlook. It's a tool they are familiar with and have built up years of workflow around it. It's horrible, unstable, ugly, but people cling to it. It's a safety blanket.
I reckon the current version of Zimbra is looking to be quite a suitable replacement and it's built using OSS products. There are paid for enterprise versions, which get you things like ActiveSync (presumably they have to pay MS for a license to use that), but it's pocket change compared to a full blown exchange implementation. The administration has a decent easy to use CLI and the web admin side of things is really comprehensive. No more pulling up emc to do one bit, then powerhell, then webmail and finally the last bit in Outlook.
Moving back on topic, Samba 4 should mean that things that absolutely have to talk LDAP in MS's broken way will mean absolutely no need for a windows box on your network
I had a 21" Sun CRT . During a clean a shed clean out that my friend was helping me with and I said "Be careful, that things fricken heavy, I'll move it if you want", he insisted he'd be right. He went to pick it up like a normal CRT, safe to say he put it down and then picked up with a lot more knee bending and exclaiming "F*** me that thing is heavy!".
I used it as a TV on one of my early Mythbox setups for a while, but it bent the desk it was sitting on, so I ended up buying an LCD.
I know some female friends that get migraines and are prescribed viagra to control them. So it would seem this has been thought of.
It's just the horrible way it was built, they are just tiffs and you can get them manually. However there are a couple of plugins that solve the problem. Firefox Addon and Chrome Addon
Yep, my wifes VW New Beetle ate my 10mm socket last time I changed the battery. It disappeared into the engine bay, never to be seen again!
Well they already have loops of cables behind servers to ensure that no one could have a possible advantage. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-04-11/kohler-high-frequency-trade-parasites-at-heart-of-asx/3943052
Anyone with a mind set in reality will understand how didiculous that is!
With have a subsidised/protected automotive industry. All it does is artificially inflate prices. GM/Ford still come crying to the government for handouts every few years.
Even better when read with a New Zealand accent!
Some of the more flexible Deployment platforms can deploy just about anything, but a well designed MSI is far easier. That said I've come across many, many poorly designed MSIs, which are just as much hassle as anything else.
A good driver may occasionally be confronted with a car that cuts them off or a pedestrian that forces them to break sharply. However a bad driver would statistically face a similar number of such obstacles while having more hard brakes due to driving too fast and too close. The good driver will still appear statistically safer to the insurance company.
Obviously you don't work where I work. I allow plenty of stopping distance, have blind spot mirrors and sharp acceleration is a near impossibility with diesel Ute (Pickup Truck) and yet I face at least 1 or 2 morons every day I drive to work. My wifes fears for my safety when driving to work and that's living in Capital city in Australia.
So in summary, what you are telling me is that with all the sharp breaking/swerving I have to do as a matter of course on my daily commute, is that I'm a bad driver? I for one, wont be accepting a company that requires such an invasion of my privacy.
But the question is, would Carrier IQ have been found if it wasn't for Android being open and how long before Apple decided that they wanted to collect more data? Open Source doesn't give you automatic protection, however eventually someone will stumble upon something and go "hrm, this is weird, I wonder what it is".
I'm pretty sure there are already some _good_ laws to prevent these kind of privacy invasions, how are those working out in this case? These big companies only respect the laws that they think can't get away with. When they get busted and a class action is started, they go through the motions and hand out a few vouchers stating "Sorry, we messed up", then continuing doing what they can get away with.