AndyJPartridge

I could have written that.

I'm in a (some would say privileged but it isn't) situation where money just falls into my bank with little effort by myself. (Shareholdings.)

I am at a total loss as to which of the many "hobbies" I have surrounding me that I should educate myself with each day. I'm learning about 100's of things from Lego lighting projects to basic electronics right now; I don't know where to dabble next.

The way out, I feel, is to sell many things, leave my phone at home, don't connect to WiFi after 8pm at home - and try and just Be.

I've certainly been caught out in that regard before.

But a 'advanced options' ability with a stern warning would be useful to many.

Yes, as you say.

The beauty of the Pi is the fact you can have a variety of SD cards with different OS/Configurations and easily swap between them and play with them.

It is a very cheap educational tool. I have 4 of them, and they also make great network storage tools. Add a HDD, the transmission software and you can easily download TV shows and stream them to you 1080p TV for example. £27 in the UK, absolute bargain.

They take it all very seriously!

In January 2004 I took my mum to Disneyland Paris.

Someone had accidentally left their luggage next to the belts below the customs booths.

The airport was shut down and cleared on that level, whilst a brave man with a machete hacked carefully at the bag to discover sausages.

The thing is, it's not just the financial cost of a theft, it's the emotional and practical cost too.

Having had 5 laptops stolen in one hit - because I was updating staff that weekend and the guy got lucky - the cost of changing passwords, and the nagging feeling I may have missed something somewhere and I may get hit with another internet theft....

Then the feeling that the guy(s?) were in my house while my partner and I were sleeping. Na. People who do this need to be taken out of society.

For the speeding point, you can kill people at 30mph if something goes wrong with the car or you do something stupid.

Agreed with the review.

Also agree that any benchmarks are useless. We need to code for the lowest common platform, in order to get the best sales.

I said "...and click an advert or two."

People viewing your views and cause, I guess.

Due to the worlds media being very selective about what appears, and the tone or context in which it is written, sometimes this is the only way to get your word out.

"Your word" being highly subjective.

Having the www.nytimes.com traffic being sent to your blog is probably one of the best things you can do.

Back in the day, leaflets were dropped from planes that contained what you wanted people to read. This is the much easier, and much much cheaper, way of achieving that aim.

EDIT: Removed the joke.

I was going to post the same thing.

Hope Stripe get there first, as I'd like to support them over Mastercard.

I feel for what you mean here.

Personally I hate the PS3 controller as it's too small, I much prefer the xBox 360 controller and especially if it has the keyboard attached to it.

Also, on the iPhone I dislike 99% of the games that use a virtual joystick on the screen, I just can't get on with them.

But for touch interface games, what the parent post says is a joy I look forward to experiencing: A game with discreet information on the hand-held device.

A touch screen certainly isn't for 60fps twitch-gaming in my opinion.

The progression of UO over time is not unlike that of most computer games over a longer period:

We used to have 3 lives, and pixel perfect jumps. Not a "100 life" buffer with health packs or -worse- life regeneration if you hide behind a tree. Or a completely safe MMO world like UO ended up as. Few went to the Dark Side of the UO world.

Most games have become movies, with little chance of anything bad happening to the viewer except getting popcorn hitting the back of your head.

UO was exciting when you thought you might get jumped and killed. It made you think hard about what you took out hunting.

It's a good concept if your Internet connection is reliable.

You can't hide API's :-)

I took apart the Disney Parks App as I was frustrated at the fact the full information therein was only available if you're physically inside the park.

Firstly, I used an American friends App-Store account to download the app, as it was not on the UK App-Store and you need an US credit card to set up a US account (Please correct me if I am wrong here.)

Next I used Fake Location, a €3 app from the Cydia store on my jailbroken iPhone, so I could convince the app I was 4500 miles away in Florida in the sun.

Finally, I used "mitmproxy" on my Mac, to proxy the web access the Disney app was making to the server, and noted the URL's and over time worked out the structure of the API and it's JSON replies.

Hope this is of use :-)

That has many complications.

If he gave the amount in shares, they have the shares and could sit on them. This may have problems with shareholders voting rights and such like. (Which is why you should always try to have 50% of a companies shares in the ideal world.)

If they wanted to sell them they need to find a buyer, and if one person bought many of the shares they may end up in a controlling position of the company.