Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 24th Apr 2012 17:39 UTC
Well, this has been a very, very long time in the making. Google has finally unveiled its big Dropbox competitor: Google Drive. You start with 5GB for free, and you can go all the way to 1TB for $50 per month. This is a big deal for many (if you were to use rumouring as a gauge), but all I can think of is this: why on earth would you entrust your files to a company - any company - whose sole interest is extracting money from you, and who, to boot, is subject to crazy American laws?
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RE[6]: "Crazy American laws"......
by Soulbender on Fri 27th Apr 2012 11:29
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RE[6]: "Crazy American laws"......
by roracle on Fri 27th Apr 2012 12:11
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Obviously? Seriously? Israeli Citizens are composed of Atheists, Christian, Muslim and Jewish Religious citizens. Israeli citizens are in no fashion Jews Only despite the far right ultra-extremist political party's in Apartheid Israel that attempts to paint the outside view that all Israeli citizens are 'Jewish'.
It's usually only Jews who know Hebrew, and I doubt an atheist would even take the time to learn it. And you have to know Hebrew to live in Israel if I'm not mistaken, it's the national language.
This is the rhetoric we hear thoughout history. It's antisemitic to the core, and VERY rude in the modern day. "Jews are funny let's make fun of them!" "Let's make fun of their money!" "They are so greedy" "They must be to blame for the money problem!" "Kill the Jews!" THAT IS HOW THIS PROGRESSES...from the PROGRESSIVES! They call themselves "progressive" because they do everything they can to turn things into their way of being. "Molding the world to the hearts desire". That's such BS, it's OUR world, yet I've heard people say "Israel is just one big concentration camp ready to run them all into the ocean to drown." THAT IS SUCH BS!
Sorry, but I'm a son of Abraham and Seth...a son of Adam. I am not Christian nor am I Jewish, but I've done my share of reading, and I'm convinced that the Bible is the truth. Not because it "tells me so" but because no other explanation makes sense as to the goodness in the world. Just look around at all these "party hard" people who think they're just going to dance through life. They aren't dancing through anything, they're going around in circles of their own despair!
Your comments are proof of the evil in the world. You may not be evil yourself, but you think you're smart when all you are doing is perpetuating something that's been going on for thousands of years. The yellow star of David has been used THREE TIMES IN HISTORY NOW! How hard is this to comprehend?! I'm sorry, but I just get so offended at antisemitism. Grow some bawlz and stand for something.
RE[6]: "Crazy American laws"......
by chripun on Fri 27th Apr 2012 14:33
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Reply to ASmith:
Wow, how many times did your mother drop you as a child?
I do have to give you credit for creativity - I've heard many racist slurs but this is the first time someone trying to argue I'm NOT a Jew.
Thank you for educating sill ol' me about my own culture and country which you wouldn't know to tell the difference from the north pole on a map.
Indeed Israel must be the worst apartheid ever - those poor Arabs are forced to live in a democratic state where they can vote and be represented in the Parliament, they have a freedom of speech, freedom of religion, gender equality and all those unnatural inhumane civic rights. They are oppressed by the ability to get proper education and god forbid let women drive unlike their much happier brothers in neighboring Arab states such as Syria where they get the honor of being buried alive when they express an opinion that contradicts the regime.
You are right - we must be stopped!
Edited 2012-04-27 14:39 UTC
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The Verge pointed me to a blog post by Leap Motion - which reveals how their Kinect-like motion control works with Windows 8. "From the second you plug in your Leap Motion Controller, you'll be able to browse the web and interact with your computer just by moving your hands and fingers in the air. With Leap Motion technology and Windows, you can do everything that's possible with multi-touch inputs - without actually touching anything. This also means that existing applications in Windows 7 and 8 will respond to your natural hand and finger movements. Soon, we'll show you how Leap Motion will work with Mac OS X." Quite cool.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/20/13 21:50 UTC
PocketNow interviews Marc Dillon, and there's an interesting note about why Jolla is keeping the display properties under wraps: "We're leaving some of those details out because we do understand that there are a lot of really big players in the market and they tend to take certain components in the market and dominate them. We created the ability to actually be able to run Sailfish on multiple hardware displays and be able to swap components, so this is part of the demand and supply planning phase. We are committed to this industrial design which is a 4.5-inch display, an 8 megapixel camera on the back and a front-facing camera at the front, and the exact specs of the display we'll provide when we're close to delivery." Something you rarely hear anything about.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/19/13 23:15 UTC
"This is my NeXTstation Turbo Color booting the Mac System 7.1 Operating System using a hardware add-on called 'Daydream'. The Daydream has a Mac ROM and a few custom ICs in it and hooked up to the NeXTs DSP port. Turns your NeXT into a full fledged 68k powered Mac." So cool.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/19/13 23:11 UTC, submitted by Drumhellar
"The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 6.1, the first feature update of the NetBSD 6 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, as well as new features and enhancements. Please note that all fixes in the prior security/bugfix updates (NetBSD 6.0.1 and 6.0.2) are also in 6.1."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/18/13 21:06 UTC
"At the end of a week in which Electronic Arts confirmed it wasn't developing a thing for the Wii U, one of the software engineers in EA Sports' Canada studio, in a series of since-deleted tweets, disparaged the console as 'crap' and suggested Nintendo should give up on hardware altogether. 'The Wii U is crap. Less powerful than an Xbox 360. Poor online/store. Weird tablet', tweeted Bob Summerwill, listed as a senior software engineer at EA Canada, in a reply to a tweet posting a link about EA's no-Wii U news. 'Nintendo are walking dead at this point'." The Wii U is turning into the 21st century's Virtual Boy.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/18/13 7:37 UTC
"In NixOS, the entire operating system - the kernel, applications, system packages, configuration files, and so on - is built by the Nix package manager from a description in a purely functional build language. The fact that it's purely functional essentially means that building a new configuration cannot overwrite previous configurations. Most of the other features follow from this." Interesting approach. A Linux distribution, sure, but with some very refreshing ideas about system configuration.
Linked by fran on 05/18/13 1:38 UTC
Appfour added, among other features, C/C++ support to its new version of AIDE. From Android-IDE, "Now you can write parts of your app or your whole app in C/C++ on your device. AIDE supports the Standard Android NDK toolchain (GCC 4.6 + Bionic, STL, ...). No changes are necessary if you want to build an app developed on a PC with Eclipse. C/C++ development is fully integrated: Build errors appear in the error list and files can easily be navigated to with Go to file. The editor supports C/C++ syntax highlighting."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/17/13 23:35 UTC, submitted by kragil
Ars nails it: "The answer is that Google did announce what amounts to a fairly substantial Android update yesterday. They simply did it without adding to the update fragmentation problems that continue to plague the platform. By focusing on these changes and not the apparently-waiting-in-the-wings update to the core software, Google is showing us one of the ways in which it's trying to fix the update problem."
Linked by MOS6510 on 05/17/13 22:22 UTC
"It is good for programmers to understand what goes on inside a processor. The CPU is at the heart of our career. What goes on inside the CPU? How long does it take for one instruction to run? What does it mean when a new CPU has a 12-stage pipeline, or 18-stage pipeline, or even a 'deep' 31-stage pipeline? Programs generally treat the CPU as a black box. Instructions go into the box in order, instructions come out of the box in order, and some processing magic happens inside. As a programmer, it is useful to learn what happens inside the box. This is especially true if you will be working on tasks like program optimization. If you don't know what is going on inside the CPU, how can you optimize for it? This article is about what goes on inside the x86 processor's deep pipeline."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/17/13 22:15 UTC, submitted by Tom
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Obviously? Seriously? Israeli Citizens are composed of Atheists, Christian, Muslim and Jewish Religious citizens. Israeli citizens are in no fashion Jews Only despite the far right ultra-extremist political party's in Apartheid Israel that attempts to paint the outside view that all Israeli citizens are 'Jewish'.
Jews only Roads, Schools, Laws, Parks and Community's fully exist in Apartheid Israel and they certainly go FAR into exposing the rather callous view of actually trampling on the non-Jewish Israeli Citizens, their rights as citizens as well as minority's such as the Bedouins.
What I find appalling is the Black African Jews attempting to migrate into Apartheid Israel are forced into the remote Ketziot Israeli Desert Prison, the largest immigration prison on Earth, nearly 100% filled with Black African's.
White Euro-New Age Jews are openly encouraged to migrate but Black African Jews are locked up in the remote Ketziot Desert Prison where God only knows what abuse and torture is heaped upon them. No wonder the ultra-extreme racist and bigoted Apartheid South Africa was Apartheid Israel's closest ally and friend.
But you state you are against 'this trend of trumping civic rights'. Really? Seriously? Anti-Zionists residing inside Apartheid Israel stand the direct possibility of being labelled and charged as a 'enemy of the State of Apartheid Israel'.
Simply attempting to stop a goose stepping IDF soldier pistol whipping some elderly Bedouin women could land you in a crowded Apartheid Israeli prison. I simply don't get the impression that you would raise up your arms and oppose or stop such an assault or abuse.
If you have the strength of character to stop a goose stepping IDF soldier or demand they cease in their routine beatings of the elderly Bedouin's, minority's and non-Jewish Israeli citizens, that's wonderful however 99.99% would leave Apartheid Israel rather than be labelled a enemy of the State for merely being ethical, moral and compassionate.