The only thing I'm interested in is: will the bootloader only accept signed images? If yes I'll pass.
For a device to ship with such heavy customization I doubt anyone will care (or even have to resources) to keep it updated. Even the big names don't do it - since they rather you buy a new device next year. I also doubt people will line up to make extra versions of their apps for just this (Android) tablet (sorry but you do not have the Apple RDF).
Apple collects such data from customers who have approved the use of location-based capabilities on the phone and who actually use an application that requires GPS.
When users attempt to download apps or media from the iTunes store, they are prompted to agree to the new terms and conditions. Until they agree, they cannot download anything through the store.
We'll for the time being I'll stick with my run-of-the-mill dumb-phone:)
it's just that they're more interested in performance and functionality
Neither of which seems to apply to Gnome et al.
One of my big complaints about Linux, the slow GUIs. I have several machines running linux and the most pleasant ones to work with are the ones I connect to by SSH only. The dual boot machines - I really dislike doing things in Xfce/Gnome/KDE. The same hardware runs circles in terms of UI responsiveness when I boot Windows (XP/SP2). I'm fine with the actual boot taking longer but then it should absolutely fly!
Sure, there are enzymes which break up DNA - they're used all the time for sequencing, as you can't sequence long strands. But to identify a malign region in the DNA =and= have the enzyme only break the DNA at that point =and= have this done in a way that won't cause the end result to do strange and undesirable things -- that's going to be tough.
saying "You call this a knife/meat cleaver..." - there is only one tool to properly deal hack this SIM.
http://www.wengerna.com/giant-knife-16999
In case you break the SIM - just etch a new one with the integrated workbench:P
Using AviSynth for 'editing' is very very suboptimal. I love AviSynth for what it does (create wonderful stuff from crappy clips / clean up and other processing). However it is completely ill-suited as a 'editor'. Especially since everything (I know there was a plugin/fork to get directstreamcopy but it is not standard functionality) is recompressed. Lets compare that to something simple like VirtualDub. Load DV AVI clip, select in/out, select DirectStreamCopy for audio and video and save the clip. No quality loss, no recompression - 'rendering' time only limited by speed of your disk. Want to quickly insert titles? Start measuring pixels instead of just putting the title in there with a gui and your mouse.
Yes people have cut whole projects including fadei/o and dissolves with AviSynth but then again I can build a car completely out of engines too.
Why do people always recommend it for editing? It is a EXTREMELY cool piece of software for PROCESSING but I'd never torture myself for using it to edit a project.
The only time I really actively used Twitter was during the recent LHC 3.5TeV event, because the webstream was completely overloaded. LoC preserving it? Future generations will look back and conclude that some people REALLY did have to TOO much time and trivial stuff to share.
http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16929680703
Do not login into your account after that for at least 14 days, otherwise it will be re-activated. I do not know if this actually works since I do not have a facebook account. I remember that before this was available facbook would only 'de-activate' your account and you could always come back with all your contacts/infos/photos etc. - but this is supposedly the real deal.
And that is exactly the angle this ad/video should be pushing IMHO.
"Linux is here..."
*pictures of android phones, wifi routers, server farms etc..."
Linux is there reliably doing what you need - no questions asked... whatever cue some catchy slogan.
"The Tablet takes cutting-edge PC technology and makes it available wherever you want it, which is why I'm already using a Tablet as my everyday computer. It's a PC that is virtually without limits -- and within five years I predict it will be the most popular form of PC sold in America."
The "Activate my phone" link brings me back to google.com/phone. Is this yet another lame phone that needs activation (whatever that means) or do they mean activation of the SIM? I certainly hope it's the latter, as there is no sane reason why one would have to "activate" a phone.
Too bad they did not mention the MacBook Air...
I don't have any problems with the MBA but saying you don't need a DVD drive to watch DVDs because you can just rent them from iTunes - wow that was good. Especially with those exorbitant prices.
If you subscribe to the RNA world hypothesis this isn't that much of hot news - at least to me. There was a paper in nature earlier this year where a group of scientists managed to produce uracil, but that wasn't the main point. They also managed to produce more molecules and gave some good arguments for a RNA world. This is not just a repetition of the Miller-Experiment, as some poster suggested. Saying that is basically saying that cars build on assembly lines today are just a repetition of the production of the T-Model...
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_world_hypothesis http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v459/n7244/full/nature08013.html (abstract only, FA requires a subscription)
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The only thing I'm interested in is: will the bootloader only accept signed images? If yes I'll pass.
For a device to ship with such heavy customization I doubt anyone will care (or even have to resources) to keep it updated. Even the big names don't do it - since they rather you buy a new device next year. I also doubt people will line up to make extra versions of their apps for just this (Android) tablet (sorry but you do not have the Apple RDF).
Oh noes...
Apple collects such data from customers who have approved the use of location-based capabilities on the phone and who actually use an application that requires GPS.
In other words anyone running an app from the app-store has already agreed to the use this data - see: http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/06/22/0318202/Apple-Wants-To-Share-Your-Location-With-Others
When users attempt to download apps or media from the iTunes store, they are prompted to agree to the new terms and conditions. Until they agree, they cannot download anything through the store.
We'll for the time being I'll stick with my run-of-the-mill dumb-phone :)
Probably amplification of the larger DNA fragments.
it's just that they're more interested in performance and functionality
Neither of which seems to apply to Gnome et al.
One of my big complaints about Linux, the slow GUIs. I have several machines running linux and the most pleasant ones to work with are the ones I connect to by SSH only. The dual boot machines - I really dislike doing things in Xfce/Gnome/KDE. The same hardware runs circles in terms of UI responsiveness when I boot Windows (XP/SP2). I'm fine with the actual boot taking longer but then it should absolutely fly!
Sure, there are enzymes which break up DNA - they're used all the time for sequencing, as you can't sequence long strands. But to identify a malign region in the DNA =and= have the enzyme only break the DNA at that point =and= have this done in a way that won't cause the end result to do strange and undesirable things -- that's going to be tough.
There are some approaches with modified/fine-tuned Zinc-fingers cleaving (your own) DNA - one example see this article: http://www.health.am/aids/more/proteins-put-personalized-hiv-therapy-within-reach/
saying "You call this a knife/meat cleaver..." - there is only one tool to properly deal hack this SIM. :P
http://www.wengerna.com/giant-knife-16999
In case you break the SIM - just etch a new one with the integrated workbench
You quoted it yourself yet somehow managed to miss the almost part?
I guess all measurements were done at the Large Harddisk Collider?
Using AviSynth for 'editing' is very very suboptimal. I love AviSynth for what it does (create wonderful stuff from crappy clips / clean up and other processing). However it is completely ill-suited as a 'editor'. Especially since everything (I know there was a plugin/fork to get directstreamcopy but it is not standard functionality) is recompressed. Lets compare that to something simple like VirtualDub. Load DV AVI clip, select in/out, select DirectStreamCopy for audio and video and save the clip. No quality loss, no recompression - 'rendering' time only limited by speed of your disk. Want to quickly insert titles? Start measuring pixels instead of just putting the title in there with a gui and your mouse.
Yes people have cut whole projects including fadei/o and dissolves with AviSynth but then again I can build a car completely out of engines too.
Why do people always recommend it for editing? It is a EXTREMELY cool piece of software for PROCESSING but I'd never torture myself for using it to edit a project.
The only time I really actively used Twitter was during the recent LHC 3.5TeV event, because the webstream was completely overloaded. LoC preserving it? Future generations will look back and conclude that some people REALLY did have to TOO much time and trivial stuff to share.
See http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060515/full/news060515-17.html
The time units displayed when searching for something on Google. Planck times, nanocenturies, warp 9.62 etc. :)
The most boring of the clusters, the area around Seattle is disappointingly average.
I'm running Debian stable so it'll be another 10 years until it hits the repos.
Er... and hope your employee thinks that at 9am you were at home posting to Facebook and not sitting at your desk?!?
http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16929680703
Do not login into your account after that for at least 14 days, otherwise it will be re-activated. I do not know if this actually works since I do not have a facebook account. I remember that before this was available facbook would only 'de-activate' your account and you could always come back with all your contacts/infos/photos etc. - but this is supposedly the real deal.
And that is exactly the angle this ad/video should be pushing IMHO.
"Linux is here..."
*pictures of android phones, wifi routers, server farms etc..."
Linux is there reliably doing what you need - no questions asked... whatever cue some catchy slogan.
One example I know - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7edm5fkD1E - looks very uncanny.
"The Tablet takes cutting-edge PC technology and makes it available wherever you want it, which is why I'm already using a Tablet as my everyday computer. It's a PC that is virtually without limits -- and within five years I predict it will be the most popular form of PC sold in America."
Bill Gates, 2001
The "Activate my phone" link brings me back to google.com/phone. Is this yet another lame phone that needs activation (whatever that means) or do they mean activation of the SIM? I certainly hope it's the latter, as there is no sane reason why one would have to "activate" a phone.
Too bad they did not mention the MacBook Air...
I don't have any problems with the MBA but saying you don't need a DVD drive to watch DVDs because you can just rent them from iTunes - wow that was good. Especially with those exorbitant prices.
How true!
For some journals it is even cheaper to order the whole issue than to 'buy' one single paper electronically...
Hardly anyone really cared about the .NET micro framework and it *failed* to create/capture any big market. So they axed most of the team and and are now releasing the source. Of course they are going to slaughter it for PR-purposes... in the hope someone will get into the Windows ecosystem and develop with it.
See:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/16/dot_net_micro_framework_open_sourced/
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/05/07/microsoft_products_scaled_back/
If you subscribe to the RNA world hypothesis this isn't that much of hot news - at least to me. There was a paper in nature earlier this year where a group of scientists managed to produce uracil, but that wasn't the main point. They also managed to produce more molecules and gave some good arguments for a RNA world. This is not just a repetition of the Miller-Experiment, as some poster suggested. Saying that is basically saying that cars build on assembly lines today are just a repetition of the production of the T-Model...
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_world_hypothesis
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v459/n7244/full/nature08013.html (abstract only, FA requires a subscription)