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The iPad on wheels is brilliant.
We tried to make a small one with a smartphone and Google+ hangout, but making a little Segway from a Lego nxt controller proved to be tricky. It could stand up and correct himself a little if you gave it a little nudge, but eventually it falls down.
Then somebody pointed out that it would be easier to make one on 4 wheels and feeling stupid we abandoned the project.
Video conferencing is better than e-mail and phoning, especially during standup meetings. But, being an i-pad on wheels or a permanent face on the wall takes it too far imo.
The Segway may be a fun little gimmick at the start, but in an everyday work situation, where people have to plug you in every single day, configure the new wifi settings, getting you unstuck, etc... you're annoying them slightly, in addition to being the weird kid who got special privileges. It seems a little tragic to me.
When working remote, I think It all comes down to the goodwill of the team and the remote worker to make the best out of the situation.
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0bx wrote: where people have to plug you in every single day
The one I saw had a charging dock you just back into (there is a reverse camera, IIRC).
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These are many new improvements of Object Pascal programming language in Free Pascal compiler. I don’t know how much new are they, but at least they are new since Delphi 7 language. What's old is new again.
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At first glance the Firefox Marketplace for Firefox OS may look similar to the Apple Store or Google Play Store but there is a key difference: it does not lock you into Mozilla or lock you into your Firefox OS phone. It enables you to sell a web app that will run on any open web device by way of the receipt protocol. Non-Mozilla marketplaces can participate in selling apps on Firefox OS out of the box by implementing the receipt format and users won’t notice anything different when running a paid app from either store. Paid web apps? Why not...
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Your hands do a lot of work between the keyboard and the mouse, why the heck are you letting your feet be so lazy? Dossier van D. is putting an end to the podiatric sloth. He built this set of three foot pedals which have gone through two versions of functionality. Tap dancing developers.
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I recently learned a cool technique from Simurai about how to animate PNG sprites with the CSS3 animations' steps() property. The main idea in this technique is to "recreate" some kind of animated GIF but with the tiles of a PNG sprite. As with everyone I know, I played to Street Fighter in my childhood and when I saw this ... guess what popped in my head? Warped. Corrupted. My science twisted to serve gaming instead of the web.
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People want similar mobility on their PCs as they get on their smartphones. It is unlikely that your end goal is just to get connected to the Internet. Instead, connecting to the Internet is a step (or a hurdle) towards what you really want to do, like surf, socialize, or explore, and you would prefer that your PC is connected and ready for you to use whenever you want and wherever you are. We looked at the fundamentals of wireless connectivity and re-engineered Windows 8 for a mobile and wireless future, going beyond incremental improvements. This is a good example of work that requires new hardware to work in concert with new software in order to realize its full potential. People are talking about mobile connectivity in Macs. Windows 8 did this a year ago.
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Some malware cannot be removed from your computer easily, once they get past your anti-virus protection and integrate themselves deeply in your system – sometimes making it unbootable. In such a situation, it may be advisable to use Rescue CDs. A Rescue CD will help you recover your system by removing nasty threat that resist removal by regular antivirus software. These CDs perform a scan and removes computer virus without booting the computer system. You might want to download these *before* trouble strikes.
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In general the best way of knowing that nothing was left behind is to wipe and reinstall the OS.
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When you open the door and walk into the room, it even smells like the 1960s. It reminds you of the old garage where your grandfather kept his twin Chevrolet Corvairs. But those aren't cars you smell. Those are computers. This is the "1401 Room" on the first floor of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California — the room where Robert Garner and his motley crew of amateur technicians have spent the last decade reviving two of the massive IBM 1401 mainframe computers that littered the business world throughout the '60s and on into '70s. This looks like the best job in the world.
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I'm going to be in Mountain View early April - will have to visit the museum!
Marc
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I've been to the Computer Museum three times. Once when it was in Massachusetts before it moved to California and twice in California.
At the CHM, there are a bunch of old computers for which I developed software including the IBM 1401 that was mentioned in the Wired.com article. The first IBM 1401 I developed for had 4K of memory and no tape or disk. Later, we got a 16K IBM 1401 with four tape drives. Amazing what we could do with Autocoder assembly language, tape drives and 16K of memory. Admittedly, it was far less performance and productivity than today's programming tools or hardware but it was far better than wiring plugboards for the IBM 407.
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Mike Meinz wrote: but it was far better than wiring plugboards for the IBM 407.
Program in RPG, the language that replaced plugboard wiring!
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In Spielberg's future, you only have to twirl your fingers at a computer screen to make it do what you want. It looks cool enough, but it's time for us to let it go: we’ve built our graphics and our electronics around interface eye candy, rather than trying to come up with new and more effective ways to control our real and imaginary gadgets. The best thing you can say about touchscreens are they look good on camera and they’re better than T9 texting, which is kind of like being better than fax machines. A lot of hand waving. Very little point-and-click.
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I disagree. The thing that's impressive about movies like Minority Report is not the eye candy or the weird hand-waving, it's the instantaneous response and precision of the user interface. There is no "oh crap, I meant squigle not squagle", or "dum-dee-dee-dum, I'm waiting for 100Gbytes of jpegs to load". I think the author of that article completely misses that point.
Marc
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All those nice glowing panels on the bridge. bleugh!!!
A holodeck now that would be nice.
Q. Hey man! have you sorted out the finite soup machine?
A. Why yes, it's celery or tomato.
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Marc Clifton wrote: it's the instantaneous response and precision of the user interface
Our computers might be fast enough for that if they were hooked to some precogs.
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Personally, I think the Star Trek TNG interface is still the best.
Not so much the strange panels, but the voice command.
The computer doesn't have a personality like the AI's in most sci-fi movies; because that would be inefficient. But it is just there whenever they need it and it just does what is has to do.
Instead of waving your arms around like an idiot, you simply need this:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=tallest+mountains+in+the+vincinity+of+K2[^]
Except even better.
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I'd prefer the Andromeda AI, especially if it came with the avatar, Rommie.
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If you’ve ever been to a code-focused conference before, you can surely attest to the fact that the number of live-coding talks is incredibly low. The reason why is obvious: they’re super, super hard! Imagine coding on stage in front of hundreds of people, when, all of the sudden, something goes wrong, and your code breaks! In real life, a few minutes of debugging is a non-issue. On stage, even a single moment of silence is a speaker’s nightmare. So, should we never attempt such talks? Absolutely not! You simply have to prepare in the right ways.
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C++ + REST
REST + C++
No, sorry. I just can't get my head around it, but if you want to GET, PUT, and PATCH really fast, then head to Casablanca[^].
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TTFN - Kent
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Adobe Systems has released yet another emergency security update addressing three vulnerabilities in Flash, two of which have already been exploited by hackers.
What's new?
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For a reasoned debate, see this[^]
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I watched a few of his videos, and he seems to be a guy who just likes to talk moreso than intelligently research topics. I suspect he read a variety of sources (that he did not fully understand) and then compiled them into a single video; he makes some valid points, although I doubt he truly understands the valid points he made.
For a video of him embarassing himself, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vva61qqKh_4[^]
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