If the power usage is correct on my UPS, my whole setup draws about 70W for:
- USG Pro 4
- Cloud Key gen 2
- Two basic POE Switches
- 4 access point
- 5 cameras
- 1 raspberry pi
- 1 VSDL Modem
That's basically what http://www.cargosense.com/services.html does. I remember Rich Kilmer presenting a beacon a couple years ago that does GPS/accelerometer/temperature/whatnot to monitor packages.
The first time I used a car with hill assist I wondered why the car wouldn't start. Seems the assist was slower than me at the brake-clutch-accelerator game.
Apple invested in MacRuby? What a joke! This project was almost singlehandedly held by one person. I know for a fact that Apple doesn't give a fuck about MacRuby, don't fool yourself about that.
If you spent a few minutes to read RM's doc you'd have seen that RubyMotion runs on top of the Objective-C runtime. The only thing it "replaces" is the language, the syntax if you will. API, calls, parameters, ... all is native. This is not Adobe Air, it's Ruby on top of the Objective-C runtime. There's no translation involved, no interpretation.
Of course it's a shame that Laurent needs to eat and of course this has everything to do about RM being able to build for Mac or not. Knowing him, I know he would prefer RM to be open source but it would be much harder for him to monetize his efforts.
I'm perfectly ok with paying a fee to get RM but I know that wouldn't pay for support (especially if the community handles it which is already the case).
Corporate sponsorship doesn't always works and often lacks security and stability for both the developer and the project as they are at the mercy of one entity.
Since Laurent Sansonetti is the author of MacRuby AND RubyMotion, he already said feature from RM will be backported (and hence open-sourced) to MacRuby
I may have missed something but API calls looks like a regular Ruby call with a hash and since all [] are dropped it's systematically shorter (not even counting the fact that you don't have .h/.m, declaration/implementation, it's not just a matter of API calls).
i.e. [obj method: param second: param2]; vs obj.method(param, second: param2) which is exactly two characters shorter in ruby.
And what would be the point of having something that looks like Objective-C?
Having been part of the private beta I can tell you that it's a huge time saver. Objective-C is nice be ruby is much more expressive, you can use the same API with much less code, you can skip XCode altogether and use your favorite editor, ...
I can't express properly how awesome it is, really.
Here in EU, a lot of sharing or aggregating sites are beginning to censor themselves or are closing doors completely (videobb, mixture video, allotvshow, ...).
Most of the US series I used to watch online (no legal alternative except waiting 1+ year for an overpriced DVD set) are disappearing since MU shutdown.
QWERTY. I should be using an AZERTY French Belgian layout since that's what you get here but I switched a few years back because all shortcuts are first thought for QWERTY (curly and square brackets are specially annoying on an AZERTY layout)
Forget the centralized/decentralized stuff. At some point almost all git users have a somewhat centralized model.
You say you don't get it yet and I think it's the issue. Coming from years of SVN I was in more or less the same situation (but I choosed to switch so it was obviously less painful). Then I started playing with local branches and funny stuff like that. I can assure you that once you get yet you'll never wan't to go back :)