1. Let me know when I can _compile_ on a smart phone. Last time I checked there is NO native compiler running on iOS -- you need a "real" computer (aka desktop) for that.
Hmm, you may be right. Certainly a recording of something else that happens to include the inside of someone's house should be fine.
E.g. I use sodding big telephoto lenses to photograph birds in my neighbour's garden. If I used a less long lens to video them, it would be almost impossible not to film in her house.
Should that be reasonable, given I'm sat in my bedroom at the time? Could be an interesting discussion if they ever complain.
Hmm, no. If I use my camera to record what's going on inside the houses I overlook then that's a breach of privacy. It's reasonable to expect that someone wont film inside your house.
If I happen to glance across and spot my 60yo neighbour giving the gardener a blowjob and he sees me give a double-take before moving on, then that's not a breach of privacy. It's not reasonable to expect occupants of overlooking houses to never look out of their windows.
Then again, I'm a man. The law will fuck me over as a matter of systemic design.
Running and hosting a website is not free, but IT IS NOT EXPENSIVE. It is just electrons, no trees cut down to make paper, no postage, no fat lazy postmen delivering magazines, no delivery trucks burning gas and needing repairs, no distribution centers, etc.
I agree. I mean, it costs Google a mere $4bn a quarter to run and host their sites. If you only want reliable hosting with failover, uptime, bandwidth and performance SLAs and security patching then the costs are utterly trivial.
Hmm. Never actually tested real world performance.
Testing transferring from a NAS device I averaged 288mbps. That's with my laptop on my bed and my router in the computer room.
A few seconds later the rate started dropping and eventually finished on a sustained 170mbps. I may be constrained by local write speed, with the early good result due to filling buffers. Or it may just be fluke and I only get 170.
Given most of my traffic is via a 50mpbs 'net link that's probably sufficient:)
I value screen real estate. All that bling takes up far too much room. My Windows 7 laptop looks like a Windows 95 machine at first glance, because that's a functional and inoffensive colour scheme and use of space.
So Windows 8 fails unless it lets me optimise to the same extent.
1680x1050 on a 15" isn't good enough. Lack of SSD these days is an unnecessary performance constraint.
My laptop's older than yours and has higher specs (inc. the 300mbps wifi). It cost less.
Buying a modern PC I'd still avoid Apple. The retina screen is the only thing that's discernably better than non-Apple top end laptops, and it is rather nice. Just not nice enough to disable half my games collection.
As you suggested, it depends on the spinning disk. When most people upgrade from a 5400rpm single disk, an SSD is astonishingly better.
Upgrading to striped 15K RPM SCSI drives would've been significantly better alone, and you'd already realised that or you'd have stuck with a cheaper 5400. So take the speed advantage you wanted from those drives, the incremental improvement from SSD and consider SSD recommendations in the context of that amount of improvement.
Then probably halve it, as you're not a typical user:)
Damnit I LIKED the poll tax. Right now I'm paying more per adult for use of council services than any house containing two or more adults, and most of those have two or more incomes.
Meanwhile because I don't have kids, I'm not old, I'm not physically disabled, I don't need a subsidised bus service, I don't even use most of the council services.
A poll tax would at least put me on an equal financial footing with all of those households that cause the council funding needs to be so high.
So, for an in-dash display it would be possible to have the sat-nav show only the map to the driver whilst the car is in motion, yet allow the passenger to see the UI for interacting.
Cue drivers leaning across to the passenger seat to see the UI. While driving.
Then why the fuck is the summary bleating on about,
It might be a year or two before Adobe delivers Web-only versions of its products, but if it doesn't it will be surrendering larger portions of its mindshare to users of Pixlr, Pixel Mixer, PicMonkey and many other interesting and increasingly capable tools."
Either the Chromebook is a threat to that market, or it's not. Make up your fucking mind.
On the flipside some people do hard edged high volume media manipulation. Tell me how wonderful Pixlr (sp?) is all you like, I'm not uploading 1200 RAW files to process them then delete 900 of them, and I'm not going to be able to store them all on a sodding Chromebook.
1. We are now centralizing all the data to a single point, so hackers have one really good target to get such data.
Really? Where?
now there will be a spot that has the full picture of me
Again, where? Are you planning to contact every company and collate the data they all hold on you, in a single MySQL database attached to the web?
I ask only because nobody else is*
So overnight I become a law abiding citizen to a criminal, where the police will watch me break a law I didn't know I broke, because they see that I have a tendency to do something against the popular fad
How would the police see this? Why would you continue to do it if it was against the law? Are you actually complaining that you can't break the law?
4. How are we going to pay for this. California has a lot of big data companies, that means California will need bigger data just to handle this all.
In the UK it's a cost of doing business. I write to a company with a Subject Access Request, demand all data they hold on me - including HR records, customer records, marketing records, transactional records, paper records and surveillance footage - and they write back saying, "We can only do that if you pay a fee." So I hand over the maximum allowable fee of £10 and they send me.. well, could be a palette of printouts, could be a DVD, could be a polite letter saying, "I'm sorry, we've never heard of you. Why did you write to us?"
That said, Google Maps doesn't work so well on my phone if I don't have a data connection. So Google Glass features may or may not work without a connection, but that all remains to be seen.
That makes a lot more sense. It may even do regular snapshots or have a 'live' mode for augmented reality, but as with location tracking on Android, I'm guessing it'll be easily switched off.
The obvious answer is to not share/broadcast your Glass video to everybody, including Google.
I think even Google would struggle to cope with forty million concurrent video uploads in addition to current traffic (of.. around 5000). The bandwidth would be... substantial.
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I want an OS that's usable no matter whose PC I'm using.
If I have to install third party software to make it usable then it's not usable.
At that point, just get rid of the whole gui and run everything from a shell prompt...right? At least that has tab-complete.
There is a joyful irony going back decades on this one :)
1. Let me know when I can _compile_ on a smart phone. Last time I checked there is NO native compiler running on iOS -- you need a "real" computer (aka desktop) for that.
Oh, I agree. Something like an Android phone.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aide.ui&hl=en
Nah, I've seen it go both ways.
Although admittedly recently all my cars have had indicators on the left. My last two cars have had windscreen wiper controls on the right.
Hmm, you may be right. Certainly a recording of something else that happens to include the inside of someone's house should be fine.
E.g. I use sodding big telephoto lenses to photograph birds in my neighbour's garden. If I used a less long lens to video them, it would be almost impossible not to film in her house.
Should that be reasonable, given I'm sat in my bedroom at the time? Could be an interesting discussion if they ever complain.
Hmm, no. If I use my camera to record what's going on inside the houses I overlook then that's a breach of privacy. It's reasonable to expect that someone wont film inside your house.
If I happen to glance across and spot my 60yo neighbour giving the gardener a blowjob and he sees me give a double-take before moving on, then that's not a breach of privacy. It's not reasonable to expect occupants of overlooking houses to never look out of their windows.
Then again, I'm a man. The law will fuck me over as a matter of systemic design.
Running and hosting a website is not free, but IT IS NOT EXPENSIVE. It is just electrons, no trees cut down to make paper, no postage, no fat lazy postmen delivering magazines, no delivery trucks burning gas and needing repairs, no distribution centers, etc.
I agree. I mean, it costs Google a mere $4bn a quarter to run and host their sites. If you only want reliable hosting with failover, uptime, bandwidth and performance SLAs and security patching then the costs are utterly trivial.
Hmm. Never actually tested real world performance.
Testing transferring from a NAS device I averaged 288mbps. That's with my laptop on my bed and my router in the computer room.
A few seconds later the rate started dropping and eventually finished on a sustained 170mbps. I may be constrained by local write speed, with the early good result due to filling buffers. Or it may just be fluke and I only get 170.
Given most of my traffic is via a 50mpbs 'net link that's probably sufficient :)
Do you know why we think N. Korea has WMD? Because they are telling us they do to scare Seoul and for posturing in general.
..and there was me thinking it was something to do with their nuclear weapon tests.
I'm confused. You seem to think that a nuclear capable nation isn't able to manufacturer simple explosives and steel tubes from which to shoot them?
Yeah, I don't want screen scaling. Why get those extra pixels then use several of them to display one pixel's worth of data?
Maybe I'm weird.
I value screen real estate. All that bling takes up far too much room. My Windows 7 laptop looks like a Windows 95 machine at first glance, because that's a functional and inoffensive colour scheme and use of space.
So Windows 8 fails unless it lets me optimise to the same extent.
1680x1050 on a 15" isn't good enough. Lack of SSD these days is an unnecessary performance constraint.
My laptop's older than yours and has higher specs (inc. the 300mbps wifi). It cost less.
Buying a modern PC I'd still avoid Apple. The retina screen is the only thing that's discernably better than non-Apple top end laptops, and it is rather nice. Just not nice enough to disable half my games collection.
As you suggested, it depends on the spinning disk. When most people upgrade from a 5400rpm single disk, an SSD is astonishingly better.
Upgrading to striped 15K RPM SCSI drives would've been significantly better alone, and you'd already realised that or you'd have stuck with a cheaper 5400. So take the speed advantage you wanted from those drives, the incremental improvement from SSD and consider SSD recommendations in the context of that amount of improvement.
Then probably halve it, as you're not a typical user :)
set up us. c'mon, know your memes.
Damnit I LIKED the poll tax. Right now I'm paying more per adult for use of council services than any house containing two or more adults, and most of those have two or more incomes.
Meanwhile because I don't have kids, I'm not old, I'm not physically disabled, I don't need a subsidised bus service, I don't even use most of the council services.
A poll tax would at least put me on an equal financial footing with all of those households that cause the council funding needs to be so high.
So, for an in-dash display it would be possible to have the sat-nav show only the map to the driver whilst the car is in motion, yet allow the passenger to see the UI for interacting.
Cue drivers leaning across to the passenger seat to see the UI. While driving.
You know it would happen.
The wealthy have freedom to keep their money and generally do with it as they wish.
No. You have the freedom to do what you want with your money too.
Investigate the tax code, determine a legal way of avoiding all tax burdens, implement it and enjoy. Or pay someone else to do that for you.
That's all that's happening. Just because you're too lazy or don't want to pay the fees doesn't mean you're being oppressed.
do the words "Not Target Market" ring a bell?
Then why the fuck is the summary bleating on about,
It might be a year or two before Adobe delivers Web-only versions of its products, but if it doesn't it will be surrendering larger portions of its mindshare to users of Pixlr, Pixel Mixer, PicMonkey and many other interesting and increasingly capable tools."
Either the Chromebook is a threat to that market, or it's not. Make up your fucking mind.
On the flipside some people do hard edged high volume media manipulation. Tell me how wonderful Pixlr (sp?) is all you like, I'm not uploading 1200 RAW files to process them then delete 900 of them, and I'm not going to be able to store them all on a sodding Chromebook.
It's a silly idea and I don't even shoot video.
1. We are now centralizing all the data to a single point, so hackers have one really good target to get such data.
Really? Where?
now there will be a spot that has the full picture of me
Again, where? Are you planning to contact every company and collate the data they all hold on you, in a single MySQL database attached to the web?
I ask only because nobody else is*
So overnight I become a law abiding citizen to a criminal, where the police will watch me break a law I didn't know I broke, because they see that I have a tendency to do something against the popular fad
How would the police see this? Why would you continue to do it if it was against the law? Are you actually complaining that you can't break the law?
4. How are we going to pay for this. California has a lot of big data companies, that means California will need bigger data just to handle this all.
In the UK it's a cost of doing business. I write to a company with a Subject Access Request, demand all data they hold on me - including HR records, customer records, marketing records, transactional records, paper records and surveillance footage - and they write back saying, "We can only do that if you pay a fee." So I hand over the maximum allowable fee of £10 and they send me.. well, could be a palette of printouts, could be a DVD, could be a polite letter saying, "I'm sorry, we've never heard of you. Why did you write to us?"
* other than Facebook and Google of course
That said, Google Maps doesn't work so well on my phone if I don't have a data connection. So Google Glass features may or may not work without a connection, but that all remains to be seen.
That makes a lot more sense. It may even do regular snapshots or have a 'live' mode for augmented reality, but as with location tracking on Android, I'm guessing it'll be easily switched off.
As I said, Youtube is currently in the low 'thousands' of concurrent uploads. Not quite the multiple millions they'd get from Google Glass.
Read vs Write, let alone the data overload trying to sift, catalogue, keyword and filter the uploads.
The obvious answer is to not share/broadcast your Glass video to everybody, including Google.
I think even Google would struggle to cope with forty million concurrent video uploads in addition to current traffic (of.. around 5000). The bandwidth would be... substantial.