Automation News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip - Gizmodo SExpand @macrumpton: Click the image for the full size to see what I'm talking about. Here's a side-by-side shot of Miro and MPC, both playing the same frame of "Pioneer One" S01E01 720p (h264) mkv file. Even if you don't want to go the media center route, and are content with Miro for downloading, I highly suggest you get a good graphics card (if you need one) and a separate program to decode and play back the files. Miro is not comparable to a true Media Center by any stretch of the imagination. Things Miro is lacking: • Good support for remotes and internet/eventserver based control for phones. • Proper databasing (sort by name, aired date, release date, actor, genre, MPAA/TV rating, duration...) • Auto-discovery of missing supplemental media (Fanart, screen caps, cover art, subtitles and lyrics etc.) • Boot as an OS for HTPCs • User login with parental controls • Scripting and skinning extensability • Media flagging
Spotify - Large Scale, Low Latency, P2P Music-on-Demand Streaming by Gunnar Kreitz, Fredrik Niemelä Published in Proceedings of IEEE P2P'10 Abstract Spotify is a music streaming service offering low-latency access to a library of over 8 million music tracks. The service currently has a user base of over 7 million and has been available in six European countries since October 2008. Download Email Marketing and Email List Manager Startups, This Is How Design Works – by Wells Riley
Automation News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip - Gizmodo @Domo: That's what he gets for being too slow! @Navin R Johnson: Couple of flaws with that. 1. They can take off their mask and get more 2. @BigCanada: 1. 2. I envision a system that recognizes that a group has arrived, estimates the number of people (erring on the high side) and dispenses candy. Voice prompting from the system will help the trick-or-treators to know what to do. Multiple trips to the door will result in multiple candies, yes.
Facebook shares some secrets on making MySQL scale — Cloud Computing News When you’re storing every transaction for 800 million users and handling more than 60 million queries per second, your database environment had better be something special. Many readers might see these numbers and think NoSQL, but Facebook held a Tech Talk on Monday night explaining how it built a MySQL (s orcl) environment capable of handling everything the company needs in terms of scale, performance and availability. Over the summer, I reported on Michael Stonebraker’s stance that Facebook is trapped in a MySQL “fate worse than death” because of its reliance on an outdated database paired with a complex sharding and caching strategy (read the comments and this follow-up post for a bevy of opinions on the validity of Stonebraker’s stance on SQL). Keeping up with performance Kicking off the event, Facebook’s Domas Mituzas shared some stats that illustrate the importance of its MySQL user database: Keeping up with scale With all this growth, why MySQL?
K.lab Berlin - Wir verwirklichen sinnvolle Ideen für bessere Bildung Neuigkeiten Unsere neue Android-App gibt es ab sofort im GooglePlay Store. Mit der App können Lehrerinnen und Lehrer die Noten Ihrer Schüler bequem auf dem Smartphone verwalten. Wir werden die App in den kommenden Monaten weiterentwickeln und freuen unsauf Euer Feedback. Die meinUnterricht.de-App für Windows8/8.1 hat einfrisches Update bekommen. Ab jetzt kann direkt vomTablet auf noch mehr Unterrichtsmaterial von Fachver-lagen zugegriffen werden. letzter Tweet klabberlin: We came in second at Microsoft's Innovate 4 Society Award at the CeBIT!
Automation News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip - Gizmodo @hahn: I don't know about all that. With the right safeguards in place, I think this would be secure enough for my tastes: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Believe it or not, I'd feel a bit more secure with this system (with some tweaks) than a traditional lock-and-key system for the same reason I feel better about having extraneous cards in my wallet: If my phone (or overstuffed wallet) is missing, I'm going to know it.