*IF* I were to go a movie theater, I'd do the same thing I do with the smartphone at Church.. put it on vibrate. Yeah.. I know, why take your phone to Church?
That wasn't what I was thinking. I'm just surprised slashdoters still go to Church anymore.
Churches are just like movie theaters, they're an anachronism in this day and age, where you can watch sermons on youtube and paypal your way out of hell.
I've never seen it either, in 50+ years of life in three states.
Watching an artsy movie by yourself during a senior Tuesday early matinee doesn't count.
If you want to experience what some of us are talking about. Drive to a bad neighborhood on a late Friday night, and go see the most idiotic blockbuster action movie you can find. It also helps if the manager of the movie theater makes minimum wage and there is extremely high employee turnover.
Two words...Faraday Cage
...and an artificial bolt of lightning that fries the offender by entering through his cell phone, going through his ear canal, and exiting his body through the rectum.
Do these jerks seriously expect people to sign on after a start like that?
Those guys are idiots. This kind of PR is not cheap. They're spending all their newfound investment money on slashadvertisments and huffingtonadvertisements before they even made a properly functioning web site.
Any scientist you hire will want to publish their results. Plus, this kind of research is not cheap, this business plan of yours is far too capital-intensive.
You should just stick to the tried-and-true giving free blow jobs to celebrities in parked cars.
Yes, two years. My mistake.
You're right. I also overestimated the battery life. It says 6.5 hours from its wikipedia page.
I don't think I can come up with any credible excuse for explaining away almost a two-fold error in my original estimate of "12 hours (probably more)"
Is Google using the same boilerplate contract?
No, it isn't. It very specifically states that the advertising is turned off for Google Education accounts (thought, it isn't turned off for Google Non-profit accounts).
The only potential problem I see with a Google Education account is that the school owns all the content of the kid, and that the kid has absolutely no privacy from the school if he/she uses the gmail address provided by the school (Google Postini for instance allows a school administrator to archive indefinitely all the incoming/outgoing emails from a gmail account under the control of its own domain).
Correction:
My three year old Samsung Chromebook still gets something like 12 hours of battery life (probably more). The Chromebook Pixel, with its higher than retina-resolution and its touchscreen, only gets 5 hours battery life. Just for the price alone, anyone would be crazy to buy a Chromebook Pixel for kids anyway,
The Samsung Chromebook is actually perfect for kids. It doesn't have any games (worth playing). It's not a fun consumption device like the iPad or the Pixel. And nowadays, if you develop a new application for the Chromebook, the framework forces you to write an application that will work off-line by default. You could already use gmail and google docs/drive offline, but offline functionality really used to be an afterthought until very recently.
I don't understand. What does this do that Google Docs/Drive doesn't already do?
Will this get us pixel-perfect wysiwyg editing of Microsoft Documents?
Somehow, I doubt it. Google Docs/Drive doesn't even get that right for PDF documents. I doubt it will get that right for Microsoft Word Documents, which by design are much much worst than PDF documents.
Both grandfathers had workshops, as does my dad, most of my uncles, many of my aunts, my father-in-law, and I have one as well.
Home workshops are just like home gyms and personal swimming pools. They're good to have for you, your family, and the people you invite to, but there is still a need for public swimming pools and gyms that people can use in exchange for a reasonable fee.
There were shops in junior high and high school to do woodworking, welding, automotive, jewelry, and even stained glass.
May be that's the problem. In my high school, the wood workshop was a joke and we didn't have any other workshop available to us. My high school emphasized University admission and Advanced Placement classes over anything that could tangentially apply to learning a trade. We had a computer lab, but our teacher was not qualified to teach us on that subject.
Not that I wanted to learn a trade, but it would have been nice if they had taught us to fix a broken toilet, change the oil of a car, or some practical skill for daily life (let alone real woodworking, welding, automotive, jewelry, or stained glass).
Nowadays, if you want your kid to learn some of these skills, you'll have to teach them yourself and buy all the necessary tools yourself, or take them to one of these specialized Hackerspace/Techshop/Crucible spaces instead. Those community spaces are just filling some of the gaps left by our current school system, and it's good that parents learn about them.
You can't very well have a console loading apps that expect a touch screen, accelerometer, etc.
Android phones technically do not require touchscreens. This was a decision made from the very beginning of Android for accessibility reasons. In China, there are even some super cheap gingerbread Android phones with no touchscreen, but only an hardware keyboard and a D-pad. This decision also made it easier for testing on PC emulators (where most developers still don't have touchscreens on there yet, unless they actually hook up an actual device).
Even if Google let their console use the Play Store, they would have to wall it off into it's own area.
Google Play doesn't wall off, it filters. The Android OS is built with graceful degradation in mind. The filtering is done per granular feature, it doesn't filter for an entire class of device (nor does it filter per model name). And Google Play will only filter when absolutely necessary, as specified by the application developer in the manifest file.
And even then, once you upload your apk, it tells you how many devices you're currently missing out on because of your strict manifest file, and it gives you recommendations on what to do to relax your requirements and make your application compatible on more devices, so the act of publishing on Google Play for the developer has become more like an online game where you try to get as close as possible to 100% coverage iteratively.
Do you have a citation for that?
Australia, the UK, the US, and Canada are all senior partners in the NSA ECHELON program, so the fact that any of those countries are allowed to compile the code (but other countries are not) wouldn't inspire much confidence in me in either case.
So what? Those governments don't have the right to compile the code.
However, government users will not be allowed to make modifications to the code or compile the source code into Windows programs themselves, Simon Conant, a Microsoft security specialist based in Munich, said.
"Governments under the GSP are allowed to view the code in a debugger, but not compile, redistribute, or actually modify the code," Conant, said. A debugger is a tool used to evaluate software code.
If you can't compile the code, there is no guarantee that you'll be auditing the right code base. If you dig down deep enough, the debugger will start taking you to the wrong lines (as it happens with most software projects, even open source ones), but Microsoft will just explain away those discrepancies by saying that they had to remove some of their testing code and some of their logging statements (an explanation which is sensible enough, but that you can't workaround, because you're not allowed to compile the code yourself, nor have you been provided the exact compiling recipe/code snapshot they've used for their official release).
So whatever you do audit of the code base, Microsoft or the NSA can then modify before it gets compiled for your own citizens, and the chain of custody will have been broken thereby completely circumventing your audit in the first place.
It is not difficult to imagine various Alexandria Library scenarios in which Humanity looses crucial information.
Ok, let's imagine wikipedia going down like the Alexandria Library did.
So what? People will have kept snapshots of Wikipedia (at the very least). Wikipedia's content is not constrained by its physical medium, nor is it constrained by a copyright license that prevents republishing. Barring the end of the world, wikipedia content will live on just fine.
The private investors are just the public face of this venture.
Their accounts receivables are insured against loss by the French government. This is a way for the French government to partially subsidize its own aerospace industry (in this case, the satellites are made by a French and an Italian joint effort), and at the same it's a way to control which war lords/governments in Congo, Ivory Coast, Mali, or Syria get free satellite internet access, and which war lords/governments in those parts of the world do not.
In other words, this infrastructure is a way to buy yourself some influence in those parts of the world (where French influence has been slowly shrinking otherwise).
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