Posts by petur 1046 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Dec 2009
"I try to discourage people working late, or on weekends"
You make it sound as if people have a choice... The times I have been at work on a Friday night beating a deadline were not my choice, and I think this counts for most. Yes, we all want to get home on a reasonable time and get some sleep, so there's no good solution here, but some respect please.
Except Bada was mostly the shell, and a very bad one, running on an OS. IIRC not all Bada phones even ran linux at all.
So comparing Tizen with Bada is not quite correct - its roots are actually Meego (Maemo + Moblin).
And suddenly I'm looking at this phone and hope it can go the same way as n900 as a linux phone so I can replace my aging n900 :)
AC, you're completely missing (the)(my) point(s). And by the way, I have a good DSLR + lens, so I know what the kit costs.
The problem is that the ones I know are making a nice bunch of money for this upfront investment + moderate skills (because, let's face it, not many of them are top photographers). Again and again I've seen them charge generously for the hours, and then charge way too much for each print, and refusing to even name a price for a digital copy.
Plus, they sit on top of that pile of pictures, allow you to pick from a selection they make - you never get the option to see all the pics, even if you would judge some of them nicer or want to have even if the framing wasn't perfect.
Hell, I even have a relative studying photography and they seem to drill it in at school: family event? She'll take hundreds of pics and pass along 5 (don't tell me the others were all bad). end result? The family shares my pics and not hers, and I try to put her to shame in the quality department :) Any reasonable discussion with her is already impossible - brain washed photographer.
Looking forward to your further downvotes, AC....
1. I hate the mentality of Photographers. They'll take the pictures, charge the time (generously), and then charge an arm and a leg for each print. May they burn in Hell. I can understand people hate paying *twice* through the nose for each pic.
2. Adobe is still stuck in the WordPerfect era: charge loads of money, see only Pro's buy it and common people pirate it. Post WP era is: charge a low, affordable price, and watch millions of users buy it, and actually earn more money in the end.
That's all.
I'm certainly advocating that everybody installs a NAS at home and creates his own private cloud. Great if you care about privacy and given the growing need in storage, you'll soon discover that stuffing everything in the cloud is a costly business, unless you accept archiving your pictures lowres (and you're stuck with your cloud provider, try moving all that data)
This kinda makes me think of big companies who move from 'expanding business' to 'back to core business' and back in a cycle of several years.
For each movement they have a lot of arguments and you are not allowed to point out the (previous) arguments for the move in the opposite direction.
I don't understand what this has to do with the Internet Of things... And if it doesn't have any real I/O, why should it be 'out there' if you can stick it next to the switch/router - you access it only over Ethernet anyway.
If it is meant to access USB devices over Ethernet, there are smaller/cheaper solutions.
This reminds me more of the slug and those plug computers, except they are smaller than this one.
I logged in, and I only found the email address in the source of some profiles, but not all - and those were ones on which the email address is visible when you click the 'Contact Info' button (my connections).
Indeed, you can opt to share your contact details to anyone, but that is NOT a vulnerability, it is the choice of the user.
I tried logged in and logged out.
Logged in, I checked a number of profiles that are not linked (because when linked, you have access to that info). No address to be seen.
Logged out + anonymous browser mode, I checked my own profile and a few I know to provide their address to me. Couldn't find any trace.
Would not mind standing corrected but do tell me exactly HOW I can see them. Log in or out? View connected profile or not? The devil might be in the details but I honestly can't find anything wrong so far.
The QNAP DDNS portal is just nice to have, you can use it as free DDNS only, I just wanted to point out that setting up DDNS can be quite painless. In the end it is still my home system and setting up any other DDNS is always possible, you're not locked in.
The main argument is that my data sits at home. No worries on monthly fees as my collection of pictures and other files I like to share grows...
Setting up backups is equally painless...
If I don't use dropbox I can buy new harddisks every year
But hey, do keep on downvoting and keep your dropbox-branded blindfold on
@AC (lame AC)
Oh yes, because EVERYONE is a fully qualified network engineer and sysadmin with the chops to not only load-balance (where needed) but fully secure their servers before making them Internet facing. AND they have a business-grade connection that allows them to run a server. AND they have a static IP OR they have correctly configured DynamicDNS.
Maybe you should catch up with NAS vendor offerings before ranting....
Just going to describe the QNAP offering because I know that best, similar offers from others too.
- QNAP offers its own cloud portal (DDNS), directly set up and configured from your NAS.
- The NAS software provides the functionality, QNAP firmware updates keep it secure. User only ticks the box to enable functionality.
- Load balancing on a private system? Come on.
- Maybe not in every place, but here the uplink speeds have increased in recent years to usable levels. I have about 5mbps uplink these days....
One point you could make but forgot, is that some ISPs still block ports to prevent you from running a server, so I have to run mine on alternate ports.
How about moving away from the overpriced cloud? After all, you're just sharing a few files, you can do this from your home computer. Or a small NAS.
QNAP even has been adding specific functionality for sharing files with unique links (and time limits), and some dropbox-like syncing functionality.
These days I only fire up dropbox if somebody insists on using it to send me stuff.
We are not running out of oil, it is just becoming harder and harder to get it out of the soil, so the cost will increase and with that the problem will probably fix itself.
Years ago I read a prediction of 50 years, so we still have some time to go and probably get inventive to stretch this a bit longer, but you can bet that when oil becomes too expensive some clever people will be making money off the replacements ;)
It all depends on how the modem is connected to the rest of the system, really. If it is connected via a serial link, it needs a program on the main CPU to communicate with the modem and execute its (evil) commands. AFAIK most modem chips work this way.
What they claim (as a warning) is that they can only close the hole at the processor by not implementing those (evil) commands. However, nothing stops the modem from intercepting and forwarding any traffic that passes through it, since it is a closed system with its own firmware.
So yes, the close the security hole regarding access to your data/files, but other mishaps are still possible.
I'll counter that and say I absolutely love them...
I first had the old 903 which were already great, but when moving about a lot with the phone in the trouser pocket there was an occasional short breakup, happened more when on my bike. Phone call quality was superb both for me and the calling party.
Sadly they (physically) broke (should have not tossed them in my laptop bag every time), and I now have the 903+.
The 903+ material is a bit more stiff and I'm not too fond of the new volume button placement. But BT connection is way more stable now (no breakups). And I now use the small bag they come with to avoid physical damage again. I also like how it tells me battery life when turning on.
Once you get used to the concept, wearing them is great, you soon don't even feel them.
I also like the fact they are not proper in-ears, so outside noise comes in which is good both in traffic and in the office. Even with that design the sound is great and I never use the bass boost function. Then again, I'm also not a bass head....
"I will say if you take it snowboarding you might want to avoid getting the white one, as water resistance might not be your biggest worry if you lose it at speed :)"
white, black, whatever... doesn't matter really, if it falls in (deep) snow it's gone. I have seen a complete ski get lost and not be found again until summer.
One problem I see with 'The Other Half' is you can't have it all. There are already a slide-out keyboard, thermal imager and e-ink being made, as well as extra battery / solar chargers.
But you can only stick one back at a time, and I don't see people taking a collection of halves with them...
Having helped out many users set up their (QNAP) NAS for personal cloud use, I can say this device doesn't solve the most important problem novice users face: getting the NAS reachable from the net.
Getting the NAS set up for local use is a problem that has been dealt with for quite some time now, but unless the user has a UPnP router that plays nice, getting them do have proper DDNS and port forwarding can be a pain if the user has zero IT knowledge.
When I saw the title I thought they had found a clever way to fix this, but nah.... just another NAS. And as others wrote above, might as well pay a bit more and get a proper one ;)
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