One thing that is really holding Thunderbolt back (in my opinion) is the holding back of a Thunderbolt spec.
The claim at NAB was that the SDK would come out this year, but apparently they only meant it would come out to a select group of companies making high end equipment directed at graphics specialists.
I have lots of ideas for what I'd do with PCIe over displayport, but there's no way for me as an individual to get the SDK, and there's no contact person at Intel to email to even ASK how I'd get it.
If it's anyone's fault the technology doesn't get adopted, it's Intel's.
Some pluses and minuses from my Dreamhost experience:
+ They had an insane deal that I picked up a year ago for St. Patrick's Day where you could buy a year for $10.
- The year is almost up, and they want $10.95 per month, unless I get locked into a multi year plan. You have to buy 2 years to get down to the price of bluehost.
+ They do have a lot of the benefits mentioned by the parent, which I have certainly taken advantage of. I was even able to install a newer version of Python on my account. Access to ssh has made deploying with something like fabric awesome.
- It took them a long time to support Django. I took me a few weeks of messing of reading blogs and wikis and asking questions on email lists before I could get Django on fast CGI working.
+ Of course, a month after I got it set up they release passenger scripts to make Django deployment work easily, so they've improved in that area. It works for Ruby on Rails if you're into that too.
- They are often very slow. Sometimes I send email from my domain and it takes 4 times as long as it takes to send email from my Gmail. Also, my site is often slow to load, and it has been down a few times.
+ If I want to switch to VPS and stay with Dreamhost they are way, way over priced if their VPS is anywhere as slow as their regular hosting.
Overall, they're not terrible, but I find it questionable whether they're worth the price for the level of commitment they're asking.
It is a feature because it means an insecure plugin that security experts have said will cause more remote exploits than any other software this year is banned from the OS. Webkit already supports HTML 5. Those sites need to upgrade their technology if they don't want to endanger their customers.
"He does propose a solution to the difficulty of how to compensate artists, artisans, and programmers in a digital era: a content database that would be run by some kind of government organization: "We should effectively keep only one copy of each cultural expression—as with a book or song—and pay the author of that expression a small, affordable amount whenever it's accessed."
According to the article, Lanier wants a pay per use SOA, the very strategy Microsoft has been trying to implement as a strategy for years. It's the ultimate greed based mashup of DRM and cloud technology possible, all mandated by the government. I wouldn't be surprised if this happened in the near future.
Facebook is always telling me "Reconnect with X", where X is my friend who committed suicide. It kind of bothered me the first time it happened, although now I just see it as darkly humorous.
My company made a policy to use Pointsec for full disc encryption on all Windows computers. When this happened, operations that took seconds quickly increased to taking minutes.
My solution: I switched to a Mac.
I agree that pair programming sounds like a make work scheme, but it really isn't. Some of my best code has been written through pair programming. When you work with someone who is just as familiar with the system and the design as you are, they can catch lots of error before you even hit the compile/debug process, saving you a lot of time.
Apparently the closest relative to the Tassie is the Tasmanian Devil. They should try sticking the DNA into the Devil and see if that works out. I suppose that's not possible though, Tasmanian Devils are certainly not a standard model organism and getting the permission to use them would probably be difficult.
I feel like one way that Microsoft is really gaining ground in business is with integrated telepresence software like Communicator, and increased multiuser input into Powerpoint. If Google really wants to help the Unix platform make a comeback for the average business worker, they need to fund someone to create this software.
The YUI (Yahoo! User Interface) library, a javascript library with a ton of impressive web eyecandy, has convinced a lot of people around me to not give up on standards compliant websites and start using binary plugins like Flash and Silverlight. If Microsoft buys Yahoo! I suspect this awesome block of free code will be left to languish rather than evolve, as Microsoft will impose a mandatory Silverlight requirement on as much of Yahoo! as they possibly can.
Coming soon to a search engine near you: Search the Google database of life forms that have been successfully created in the lab to find the one that fits your biotech industrial needs. All open source, will full RNA patterns necessary to generate the cDNA from PCRs.
I'm curious what exactly paying restitution entails in this case, as there was no actual damage. The only thing I can imagine is paying the wages of the people who went into to remove him as a friend from all the people who were affected by the hack, and maybe the wages of the people who were analyzing what was going on.
Even with that diatribe you're not going to gain any coolness points with the GNU zealots, seeing as how you mentioned Ubuntu. Their plans to put binary blob video drivers into the standard install is stirring the zealots up into a frenzy.
At my local university, part of the Bioinformatics curriculum involves learning Perl. Combine this with the fact that people working in biotech are considered to have the highest rated jobs in the country, even above actuarys, systems analysts, software engineers and mathematicians, and the temptation of Perl starts to look more appealing.
Of course, to get in on any of that biotech research, you'll also need a good background in both chemistry and biology, but if you do then I would definitely say go with the Perl. If you're a strict CS guy whose only interested in the typical programming job, you might be better off with.NET or J2EE.
Right, I wasn't saying it was something fit for the general consumer at all. I'm not even planning on buying one since it doesn't fit my needs.
However, I see the ability to modify the device as you see fit as a benefit. If I had to pick between the 770 and something like say, the Origami, I'd pick this any day, because you have more options when it comes to modifying it.
This guy seems to like his a lot. It's a blog dedicated to his experiences with the Nokia 770. He's used at as part of a robot, as a GPS in his car, and even managed to connect to the internet through his cellphone with bluetooth, despite the fact that some people think you can't. It's all a matter of it you have the time to spend messing with it to get it to do what you want.
Unfortunately, I really don't think it suits my needs out of the box, since what I really need is a pda that has a calendar, wifi, and works on Linux. The Zaurus seems like it would fit that role, but I have no way of trying one out since Sharp stopped making them in the US, so I really don't know if it would fit my needs.
Don't forget about nanotechnology, one of the fastest growing technology fields. Physics seems to not work once you get down to this size, and a lot of research is still necessary. Once someone comes up with an explanation for this phenomenon you'll start seeing nanotechnology used in everything, from plastics to computers.
Then there's quantum computers, which could change the face of encryption and how we think about solving problems.
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One thing that is really holding Thunderbolt back (in my opinion) is the holding back of a Thunderbolt spec. The claim at NAB was that the SDK would come out this year, but apparently they only meant it would come out to a select group of companies making high end equipment directed at graphics specialists. I have lots of ideas for what I'd do with PCIe over displayport, but there's no way for me as an individual to get the SDK, and there's no contact person at Intel to email to even ASK how I'd get it. If it's anyone's fault the technology doesn't get adopted, it's Intel's.
Quality not quantity. Portal only takes 3 hours to beat but it is arguably one of the most innovative and well produced games in years.
+ They had an insane deal that I picked up a year ago for St. Patrick's Day where you could buy a year for $10.
- The year is almost up, and they want $10.95 per month, unless I get locked into a multi year plan. You have to buy 2 years to get down to the price of bluehost.
+ They do have a lot of the benefits mentioned by the parent, which I have certainly taken advantage of. I was even able to install a newer version of Python on my account. Access to ssh has made deploying with something like fabric awesome.
- It took them a long time to support Django. I took me a few weeks of messing of reading blogs and wikis and asking questions on email lists before I could get Django on fast CGI working.
+ Of course, a month after I got it set up they release passenger scripts to make Django deployment work easily, so they've improved in that area. It works for Ruby on Rails if you're into that too.
- They are often very slow. Sometimes I send email from my domain and it takes 4 times as long as it takes to send email from my Gmail. Also, my site is often slow to load, and it has been down a few times.
+ If I want to switch to VPS and stay with Dreamhost they are way, way over priced if their VPS is anywhere as slow as their regular hosting.
Overall, they're not terrible, but I find it questionable whether they're worth the price for the level of commitment they're asking.
I think from what I've heard, Israel does the most ardous security check ever and they do it without being dicks about it.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1135243.html
Yes, Israeli security never invades anyone's personal space.
It is a feature because it means an insecure plugin that security experts have said will cause more remote exploits than any other software this year is banned from the OS. Webkit already supports HTML 5. Those sites need to upgrade their technology if they don't want to endanger their customers.
How disappointing. I hoping this would be more like a Wacom tablet computer hybrid and less like a giant iphone.
"He does propose a solution to the difficulty of how to compensate artists, artisans, and programmers in a digital era: a content database that would be run by some kind of government organization: "We should effectively keep only one copy of each cultural expression—as with a book or song—and pay the author of that expression a small, affordable amount whenever it's accessed." According to the article, Lanier wants a pay per use SOA, the very strategy Microsoft has been trying to implement as a strategy for years. It's the ultimate greed based mashup of DRM and cloud technology possible, all mandated by the government. I wouldn't be surprised if this happened in the near future.
Facebook is always telling me "Reconnect with X", where X is my friend who committed suicide. It kind of bothered me the first time it happened, although now I just see it as darkly humorous.
My company made a policy to use Pointsec for full disc encryption on all Windows computers. When this happened, operations that took seconds quickly increased to taking minutes. My solution: I switched to a Mac.
So we have billions of dollars of debt, inadequate health care for most of the country, and we're concerned about whether astronauts are depressed?
I agree that pair programming sounds like a make work scheme, but it really isn't. Some of my best code has been written through pair programming. When you work with someone who is just as familiar with the system and the design as you are, they can catch lots of error before you even hit the compile/debug process, saving you a lot of time.
Apparently the closest relative to the Tassie is the Tasmanian Devil. They should try sticking the DNA into the Devil and see if that works out. I suppose that's not possible though, Tasmanian Devils are certainly not a standard model organism and getting the permission to use them would probably be difficult.
I feel like one way that Microsoft is really gaining ground in business is with integrated telepresence software like Communicator, and increased multiuser input into Powerpoint. If Google really wants to help the Unix platform make a comeback for the average business worker, they need to fund someone to create this software.
The YUI (Yahoo! User Interface) library, a javascript library with a ton of impressive web eyecandy, has convinced a lot of people around me to not give up on standards compliant websites and start using binary plugins like Flash and Silverlight. If Microsoft buys Yahoo! I suspect this awesome block of free code will be left to languish rather than evolve, as Microsoft will impose a mandatory Silverlight requirement on as much of Yahoo! as they possibly can.
I can't help but wonder if this has something to do with the death of the greenphone.
Coming soon to a search engine near you: Search the Google database of life forms that have been successfully created in the lab to find the one that fits your biotech industrial needs. All open source, will full RNA patterns necessary to generate the cDNA from PCRs.
I'm curious what exactly paying restitution entails in this case, as there was no actual damage. The only thing I can imagine is paying the wages of the people who went into to remove him as a friend from all the people who were affected by the hack, and maybe the wages of the people who were analyzing what was going on.
Even with that diatribe you're not going to gain any coolness points with the GNU zealots, seeing as how you mentioned Ubuntu. Their plans to put binary blob video drivers into the standard install is stirring the zealots up into a frenzy.
At my local university, part of the Bioinformatics curriculum involves learning Perl. Combine this with the fact that people working in biotech are considered to have the highest rated jobs in the country, even above actuarys, systems analysts, software engineers and mathematicians, and the temptation of Perl starts to look more appealing. Of course, to get in on any of that biotech research, you'll also need a good background in both chemistry and biology, but if you do then I would definitely say go with the Perl. If you're a strict CS guy whose only interested in the typical programming job, you might be better off with .NET or J2EE.
Apparently the first requirement is to not use Firefox. The page doesn't load in Firefox on my Linux box (seems to work on my Windows box though).
Right, I wasn't saying it was something fit for the general consumer at all. I'm not even planning on buying one since it doesn't fit my needs.
However, I see the ability to modify the device as you see fit as a benefit. If I had to pick between the 770 and something like say, the Origami, I'd pick this any day, because you have more options when it comes to modifying it.
This guy seems to like his a lot. It's a blog dedicated to his experiences with the Nokia 770. He's used at as part of a robot, as a GPS in his car, and even managed to connect to the internet through his cellphone with bluetooth, despite the fact that some people think you can't. It's all a matter of it you have the time to spend messing with it to get it to do what you want. Unfortunately, I really don't think it suits my needs out of the box, since what I really need is a pda that has a calendar, wifi, and works on Linux. The Zaurus seems like it would fit that role, but I have no way of trying one out since Sharp stopped making them in the US, so I really don't know if it would fit my needs.
Don't forget about nanotechnology, one of the fastest growing technology fields. Physics seems to not work once you get down to this size, and a lot of research is still necessary. Once someone comes up with an explanation for this phenomenon you'll start seeing nanotechnology used in everything, from plastics to computers. Then there's quantum computers, which could change the face of encryption and how we think about solving problems.