I'm running mine as primarily an XBMC box for my TV, pulling streams. However over the months I've used it for more and more stuff via ssh and I'm now running transmission-daemon on it as my torrent server. It performs flawlessly apart from the odd time I'll be watching something in HD and simultaneously have a 500K download but I'm almost positive that's more to do with the slow flash memory I'm using with it.
They're a great device. A close friend who is an old-school programmer has had his running non-stop since November and now uses it as his permanent *n?x development environment. It's only hobby stuff but he gets to play with GCC and ssh all day.
I'm not so sure about that. I've seen cases where big-guns enterprise software has changed name and it's had a more positive impact. Users might have ignored a few point-version upgrades, even the occasional major upgrades. However when that new banner goes up it must be all new and good!.
Colours and words have a more tangible effect on the non-technical.
No, Audi and Volkswagen's entire new line has LED headlights on all of their models this year and the A4/A5 have had them for 4-5 years now.
But don't think I'm agreeing with Tastecicles, because they're almost wrong. They are only the dipped/low-beam headlights as LEDs are not yet legal in the USA or Europe for full or high-beam use. But as for this usage, even SEAT has them now on some of their models and that's one of VAG's "budget" brands.
Analogies are a bad debating tool. They sometimes work but they are not often logically sound.
If you really want to have a restaurant analogy in this case you should frame it like this. A restaurant that has 95% of business already, already has you as an existing customer for an unrelated product requires you to walk through their restaurant to a small door in the back that allows you access to the town's other restaurants. Their undue weight is approaching monopoly in that their inertia allows them to obscure competitors.
If you're not engaged in monopolistic practises then of course you will not be deemed anti-competitive. A monopoly does not serve the consumer.
I think you may be thinking of S40 devices. The S60 devices were typical smartphone battery-eaters, maybe slightly better than Android/iPhone in that maybe you got 36 hours instead of 24 but it's the S40 devices than ran for a week.
Come on, seriously. It's CDE. You know, the closed source desktop that preceded KDE. To look at it in these circumstances and say it looks "horrible" could be compared to Windows 95 being open sourced and you skipping to saying "it's out of date". There's a massive piece of the puzzle you just skipped over here.
In fact, I'm left wondering if you'd even heard of CDE before this article. I hate to say it, but you're reading Slashdot - we expect you not to RTFA most of the time but to be blind to something like CDE is fairly unforgivable.
I'm an RS customer, I order lots from them but only sporadically and often in trivial quantities. I've never had any problems with them at all.
One example would be me forgetting I needed a particular resistor for an amplifier I was building. It was a 1W carbon film 820Ohm. The minimum order was 10, coming to a total of about €0.60. Sure I had to pay maybe a fiver for delivery...but you can be damn sure a guy from RS drove 80km to my house in a van the next morning and put it through my letterbox.
So yeah sure they may not be setup for home orders but before this Raspberry Pi bottleneck they've had no problem dealing with regular chaps like myself making orders that are small enough to only be a distraction.
If you ordered from RS, check your spam folder. They send their emails from odd domains in their control...for example their website is rswww.$TLD. However your email might be from sales@$TLD.radionics.com and within the email say it's coming from rsonline.
Basically although they're a fantastic company to deal with they really do not have their head around managing their domains and are harming themselves by unintentionally sending a few spam triggers.
It's disheartening that a person cannot distinguish between exporting to a sanctioned country to selling to someone with cultural links to said country. At that rate you'd better stop selling to anyone speaking Spanish in case they violate sanctions against Cuba.
I am genuinely shaking my head that my choice is between believing the salesperson is an unashamed racist hiding behind ignorant interpretation of policy or that a person could be that stupid as to confuse the two.
I'd say it's more the case of explaining why redditors remember the earliest years containing coherent and knowledgable discussion. You had a focussed audience with a vested interest in getting quality discussion going. When the great unwashed outnumber these quality submissions you get a link aggregator that thinks it's a forum, where every second post is in the form of a badly phrased meme.
Hello fellow Irishperson. It is just too hard...I mean we all hate Fair City and to be fair it's not that bad as much as we just know all the actor's faces and it just feels corny as if your family were acting out the script in front of you.
Same walking around San Francisco or Hawai'i...I felt like Harry Callaghan or Steve McGarrett should be screaming past me in some old guzzler.
I have to agree with this article, I've always assumed it was just the American preconception of "old worlde". Different enough to be remote but still in the same language.
On the other hand as an Irishman I often find it hard to find escapism in Irish TV and to a lesser extent, film. The familiarity of it all doesn't work as well while on the other hand so much of our media is American that even when I visit the USA there is an element of otherworldliness about the whole experience.
I agreed with everything you said, even about the trolls...but you can't be serious about removing members or making the site invite only. The moderation system does a fine job of silencing dumb comments.
The biggest thing to take from this is the old comment system. I really don't know why everything feels so rubbery and unresponsive, I actually did like the graphical side of the site overhaul but the sluggishness kills me. I'd love the old site back for a month.
It's certainly not perfect, but I'd agree it's one of the best systems you'll find anywhere on the 'net. Look at the results of the vote systems on Digg and Reddit. Formerly sites that had intelligent contribution that have been brought to the lowest common denominator and worse. You do get a certain type of comment being approved frequently here but it's certainly a better trade-off than endless memes being rewarded while intelligent discussion is relegated to the darkest corners.
I bought a JooJoo. I believe I may have been the last person ever to do so, they announced that it was cancelled the day after they confirmed my order. I guess from a number I saw inside it that it's only number 293 ever produced.
The fact is that it was very disappointing but it wasn't vaporware. I have it beside me here now. There were two problems with it, the price and the operating system. The OS was pretty much what they said it was so that's on me, but it really was a barebones browser. The hardware was actually pretty sweet but the real downside was a lack of decent alternative operating systems, particularly as most Linux distros are aimed at desktops and there isn't exactly a wealth of decent touchscreen tools or applications. For this reason I've barely used it.
Anyway, FusionGarage have contacted everyone that bought a JooJoo and have claimed that they're sending us all a free Grid 10. I'll be waiting to see if it's the 3G model which would be nice. If it really does arrive as they promise I have to say, at least you can't fault them on marketing or on their ability to see past mistakes.
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You mean this Chocolate Pope?
I'm running mine as primarily an XBMC box for my TV, pulling streams. However over the months I've used it for more and more stuff via ssh and I'm now running transmission-daemon on it as my torrent server. It performs flawlessly apart from the odd time I'll be watching something in HD and simultaneously have a 500K download but I'm almost positive that's more to do with the slow flash memory I'm using with it.
They're a great device. A close friend who is an old-school programmer has had his running non-stop since November and now uses it as his permanent *n?x development environment. It's only hobby stuff but he gets to play with GCC and ssh all day.
Is this the same guy that tried to sell Kickoff launcher as being "One Click"?
Staying awake?
999 was originally chosen as a number that required some intent to dial, as it was the longest dial on a rotary phone.
I seem to remember Apple and Microsoft owning stock in each other and having a cross-licensing deal.
I'm not so sure about that. I've seen cases where big-guns enterprise software has changed name and it's had a more positive impact. Users might have ignored a few point-version upgrades, even the occasional major upgrades. However when that new banner goes up it must be all new and good!.
Colours and words have a more tangible effect on the non-technical.
No, Audi and Volkswagen's entire new line has LED headlights on all of their models this year and the A4/A5 have had them for 4-5 years now.
But don't think I'm agreeing with Tastecicles, because they're almost wrong. They are only the dipped/low-beam headlights as LEDs are not yet legal in the USA or Europe for full or high-beam use. But as for this usage, even SEAT has them now on some of their models and that's one of VAG's "budget" brands.
Okay, enjoy our World Wide Web.
Yours sincerely,
Europe.
Analogies are a bad debating tool. They sometimes work but they are not often logically sound.
If you really want to have a restaurant analogy in this case you should frame it like this. A restaurant that has 95% of business already, already has you as an existing customer for an unrelated product requires you to walk through their restaurant to a small door in the back that allows you access to the town's other restaurants. Their undue weight is approaching monopoly in that their inertia allows them to obscure competitors.
If you're not engaged in monopolistic practises then of course you will not be deemed anti-competitive. A monopoly does not serve the consumer.
Around these here parts they're less acquired taste and more like required reading.
I think you may be thinking of S40 devices. The S60 devices were typical smartphone battery-eaters, maybe slightly better than Android/iPhone in that maybe you got 36 hours instead of 24 but it's the S40 devices than ran for a week.
Come on, seriously. It's CDE. You know, the closed source desktop that preceded KDE. To look at it in these circumstances and say it looks "horrible" could be compared to Windows 95 being open sourced and you skipping to saying "it's out of date". There's a massive piece of the puzzle you just skipped over here.
In fact, I'm left wondering if you'd even heard of CDE before this article. I hate to say it, but you're reading Slashdot - we expect you not to RTFA most of the time but to be blind to something like CDE is fairly unforgivable.
I'm an RS customer, I order lots from them but only sporadically and often in trivial quantities. I've never had any problems with them at all.
One example would be me forgetting I needed a particular resistor for an amplifier I was building. It was a 1W carbon film 820Ohm. The minimum order was 10, coming to a total of about €0.60. Sure I had to pay maybe a fiver for delivery...but you can be damn sure a guy from RS drove 80km to my house in a van the next morning and put it through my letterbox.
So yeah sure they may not be setup for home orders but before this Raspberry Pi bottleneck they've had no problem dealing with regular chaps like myself making orders that are small enough to only be a distraction.
If you ordered from RS, check your spam folder. They send their emails from odd domains in their control...for example their website is rswww.$TLD. However your email might be from sales@$TLD.radionics.com and within the email say it's coming from rsonline.
Basically although they're a fantastic company to deal with they really do not have their head around managing their domains and are harming themselves by unintentionally sending a few spam triggers.
It's disheartening that a person cannot distinguish between exporting to a sanctioned country to selling to someone with cultural links to said country. At that rate you'd better stop selling to anyone speaking Spanish in case they violate sanctions against Cuba.
I am genuinely shaking my head that my choice is between believing the salesperson is an unashamed racist hiding behind ignorant interpretation of policy or that a person could be that stupid as to confuse the two.
I'd say it's more the case of explaining why redditors remember the earliest years containing coherent and knowledgable discussion. You had a focussed audience with a vested interest in getting quality discussion going. When the great unwashed outnumber these quality submissions you get a link aggregator that thinks it's a forum, where every second post is in the form of a badly phrased meme.
Hello fellow Irishperson. It is just too hard...I mean we all hate Fair City and to be fair it's not that bad as much as we just know all the actor's faces and it just feels corny as if your family were acting out the script in front of you.
Same walking around San Francisco or Hawai'i...I felt like Harry Callaghan or Steve McGarrett should be screaming past me in some old guzzler.
Scotch adj; a largely obsolescent adjective meaning having to do with Scotland and usually now considered pejorative (unless related to food or drink).
Is it Received Pronunciation that you're referring to?
Would sell? It has already!
I have to agree with this article, I've always assumed it was just the American preconception of "old worlde". Different enough to be remote but still in the same language.
On the other hand as an Irishman I often find it hard to find escapism in Irish TV and to a lesser extent, film. The familiarity of it all doesn't work as well while on the other hand so much of our media is American that even when I visit the USA there is an element of otherworldliness about the whole experience.
I agreed with everything you said, even about the trolls...but you can't be serious about removing members or making the site invite only. The moderation system does a fine job of silencing dumb comments.
The biggest thing to take from this is the old comment system. I really don't know why everything feels so rubbery and unresponsive, I actually did like the graphical side of the site overhaul but the sluggishness kills me. I'd love the old site back for a month.
It's certainly not perfect, but I'd agree it's one of the best systems you'll find anywhere on the 'net. Look at the results of the vote systems on Digg and Reddit. Formerly sites that had intelligent contribution that have been brought to the lowest common denominator and worse. You do get a certain type of comment being approved frequently here but it's certainly a better trade-off than endless memes being rewarded while intelligent discussion is relegated to the darkest corners.
I bought a JooJoo. I believe I may have been the last person ever to do so, they announced that it was cancelled the day after they confirmed my order. I guess from a number I saw inside it that it's only number 293 ever produced.
The fact is that it was very disappointing but it wasn't vaporware. I have it beside me here now. There were two problems with it, the price and the operating system. The OS was pretty much what they said it was so that's on me, but it really was a barebones browser. The hardware was actually pretty sweet but the real downside was a lack of decent alternative operating systems, particularly as most Linux distros are aimed at desktops and there isn't exactly a wealth of decent touchscreen tools or applications. For this reason I've barely used it.
Anyway, FusionGarage have contacted everyone that bought a JooJoo and have claimed that they're sending us all a free Grid 10. I'll be waiting to see if it's the 3G model which would be nice. If it really does arrive as they promise I have to say, at least you can't fault them on marketing or on their ability to see past mistakes.