"CycleStreets has been made possible by the brilliant OpenStreetMap project, dubbed the 'Wikipedia of Maps'. Cyclists and others all around the UK collect and update street data that enables us then to create routing that thinks like a cyclist. Unlike traditional SatNav data, OpenStreetMap data is controlled by its user community. Anyone can get involved in OpenStreetMap, and over 300,000 people around the world are already doing so."
So if you want to help improve the application, and contribute to plenty of other worthy projects, you could think about checking out The Map in your area and seeing if there's anything you could contribute.
I have been writing professionally about consumer electronics — high end hi-fi in particular — since the early 1980s, although I had a ten-year break when mainstream magazine publishers decided that the profits on their titles were far more of a concern than the enjoyment and satisfaction of their readers.
Or - "I was unemployed in the field for 10 years because nobody wanted to buy my stuff". Nice work expert.
Speaking of slashdot; I can "claim" my twitter account and also tell them about what I do on LinkedIn and Facebook, but not Slashdot? Clearly they're missing out on the good stuff there...
The problem isn't network connectivity, the problem would be large flat corporate networks. Why have one network with all your office machines, manufacturing equipment, games consoles and telephones on it? Just create a games console VLAN that has access to the Internet and no routes to any internal networks.
This story is only a story if your Network Admin knows nothing about network admin.
Presumably this is going to phone home and report usage stats from my usual mix of sexting and work emails? Android has already warned me of this on installation. I'll give it a go, but not for anything I wouldn't want made public.
Boots that don't keep my feet warm because they depend on heat flowing across a thermocouple as quickly as possible to produce electricity? That sounds great! I'll take two.
There are many inventions like this that suggest you can pull energy from nowhere. Of course you can't, it has to come from somewhere. In this case, it's your body heat powering the phone. You'll have cold feet and you'll have to put more energy into yourself everyday to power the phone in the form of calories. No such thing as free energy, just different ways to transfer it about.
Is it just me, or does the usual replacement of "and" in headlines with a comma get really boring? I seem to see it only on en-US language sites and have stopped reading more than one because it was really wrong, stupid.
It hasn't been filled with all the useful information within the above mentioned companies databases.
If only there was some why they could add it to the database...
I think the main reason that many businesses may not get behind the idea of adding their data to OpenStreetMap (although that is what they should be doing) is that if they do they will lose the ability to control the commercial monopoly on the data. If you really want an open database with all this stuff in (as the summary suggests), OSM is the best way forward.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe the next Slashdot summary will be built it in English.
There's also www.opencyclemap.org. Yes, open mapping is cool, no, this is not news.
OpenCycleMap tiles are used as part of this app; the news isn't maps for cyclists, it's a satnav app for cyclists that's interesting.
So if you want to help improve the application, and contribute to plenty of other worthy projects, you could think about checking out The Map in your area and seeing if there's anything you could contribute.
Or - "I was unemployed in the field for 10 years because nobody wanted to buy my stuff". Nice work expert.
Speaking of slashdot; I can "claim" my twitter account and also tell them about what I do on LinkedIn and Facebook, but not Slashdot? Clearly they're missing out on the good stuff there...
And on the plus side, if you do have Alzheimer's you will at least be able to forget about the late life spinal tap.
But ACs can't bank karma. I guess someone had mod points to burn.
According to TFA, it does indeed run on rails.
The problem isn't network connectivity, the problem would be large flat corporate networks. Why have one network with all your office machines, manufacturing equipment, games consoles and telephones on it? Just create a games console VLAN that has access to the Internet and no routes to any internal networks.
This story is only a story if your Network Admin knows nothing about network admin.
The court of public opinion has decided that oil = bad.
More like BP = bad. I think oil is still thought of as pretty cool. How many of these BP NIMBYs drive to their local spill protest?
Or use NoMachine to connect to your remote box.
Presumably this is going to phone home and report usage stats from my usual mix of sexting and work emails? Android has already warned me of this on installation. I'll give it a go, but not for anything I wouldn't want made public.
with predictable consequences.
The largest selling console figures ever?
Oh, I wish this article had a "read more" link to get to the comments...
Boots that don't keep my feet warm because they depend on heat flowing across a thermocouple as quickly as possible to produce electricity? That sounds great! I'll take two.
There are many inventions like this that suggest you can pull energy from nowhere. Of course you can't, it has to come from somewhere. In this case, it's your body heat powering the phone. You'll have cold feet and you'll have to put more energy into yourself everyday to power the phone in the form of calories. No such thing as free energy, just different ways to transfer it about.
See also government transparency: http://programmeforgovernment.hmg.gov.uk/government-transparency/
Including Open Source Software and Open Document Standards.
Is it just me, or does the usual replacement of "and" in headlines with a comma get really boring? I seem to see it only on en-US language sites and have stopped reading more than one because it was really wrong, stupid.
--- Eat my sig.
You're one of them!!1eleven
the agency stopped short of saying whether they came from a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
I guess that's the important thing, in your own quoted text, that you forgot to take into account.
What happens when you hit underwater sea life with a nuke?
The same thing that happens to anything else.
Ill-tempered mutated sea bass?
Indeed.
I've not RTFA, but I often visit http://some-pc:5800/ - what's so special about this? HTML5?
The white USB plug in the demonstration laptop looks rather Apple-ish. Any rumours here?
is a project led by the French Gendarmerie (a kind of police) .
And British BT. One in the eye for the negative summary.
It hasn't been filled with all the useful information within the above mentioned companies databases.
If only there was some why they could add it to the database...
I think the main reason that many businesses may not get behind the idea of adding their data to OpenStreetMap (although that is what they should be doing) is that if they do they will lose the ability to control the commercial monopoly on the data. If you really want an open database with all this stuff in (as the summary suggests), OSM is the best way forward.
The summary was sumbitted yesterday...the browser is available now.
OK, thanks, that explains it. I should have remembered where I was reading this "news" ;-)