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You're thinking about the old Google cars. Google changed direction more than a year ago to self-driving cars with no traditional driver controls.

https://www.google.com/selfdri...

Maybe there's a panic button in there for you to hammer on if the car is heading for a cliff, but there's certainly no steering wheel. One stated reason why Google changed the project scope is that it is unreasonable to expect a human operator to remain attentive when they aren't really driving the car.

TED talk about the project:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Why should I see it one time at all? How many times do I have to tell Microsoft that I do not want Windows 10 on my PCs????

That number would be "infinity plus 37 kabillion".

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Did Microsoft management fail the "no means no" sex education classes?

The fact that a number of Microsoft's employees and executives have been accused of rape would seem to indicate that they did indeed fail the "no means no" class.

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Microsoft intentional deafness on this matter has completely and irretrievably soured my opinion on them.

Lol, what took you so long? :) I moved to Linux Mint months ago, and I'm never going back.

https://www.google.com/search?...

If you say so...last I checked she was hardly a child, and was very attractive, but I guess it is all a matter of perspective.

No need to be a luddite. Encrypt your notes client side, make sure you use two factor auth and a good password. The probability of someone getting through all that is about the same as your house getting robbed and your paper notebooks stolen.

I'm so fed up of this ridiculous claim I'm going to put my money where my mouth is. Here's an encrypted Bitcoin wallet with 1 BTC in it: https://drive.google.com/file/...

No need to even crack my Google account, you can just click the link and download it. Anyone who can crack the encryption on that file can have the money. Have at it.

As I understand it, OS X primarily checks for a particular string reported by the SMC in Apple hardware. If the string is missing or incorrect the boot process is halted. But I suspect their are probably additional checks in the current versions of OS X which is probably what caused the Netboot problems on some hardware configurations. Reply to This

Funny. That doesn't seem to have stopped the Hackintosh community from installing El Capitan on their Hacks.

It's my understanding that most of the cfc compounds that were banned were actually heavier than air. Just how the heck did they get up in the upper atmosphere?

You ever hear of diffusion? Or wind? Gravity is not the only force involved.
Anyway, those chemicals have been unequivocally detected in the upper atmosphere, so they definitely got there.
See here
And here

According to the diagram of the crash (In this WaPo article linked from another reply in this thread) it looks like the truck was making a left turn onto a side street, across the path of the Tesla coming from the other direction. The accident seems to have occurred here at US27A and NE 140 Ct.

So it was an un-signaled intersection, at a typical grade crossing of a rural 4-lane US highway divided with a grass median. This meant that the truck apparently crossed when it was not safe to do so. I don't see any report of the weather or time of day, but the road is quite straight and relatively flat, so the truck driver should have seen the Tesla coming. If the autopilot had been able to see the situation and react, that would have only been a bonus.

If there's one thing that makes autonomous driving hard, it's that other people are dumb and will do dumb things, some of which endanger YOUR life. No matter how much you try to idiot-proof things, the universe will always create a bigger idiot.

The letter says Apple turned down a new version of the app while citing “business model rules” and demanded that Spotify use Apple’s billing system if “Spotify wants to use the app to acquire new customers and sell subscriptions.”

Apple's "business model rules" include restrictions on subscriptions and sales models, the ad must have been removed or the denial would have been for "advertising of external purchase options" or something similar. Are you insinuating that Spotify's lawyers are dumb enough to tell Apple's lawyer's that Apple is making demands they are not making? Because, well, the information in the article is pulled straight from that letter.

I'm curious to see the actual letter, but it was sent to Apple's lawyers, as well as several news agencies, all of which seem to be reporting the same thing. I don't think there's a conspiracy between every news agency reporting on this to misrepresent the content of that letter, and I don't think Spotify's lawyers are morons.

If it's being reported that the app was denied for a reason other than the (removed) ad and that Apple is insisting that Spotify use Apple's in-app purchasing system, and that these claims are sourced from a letter sent to Apple's legal team, you can bet your ass those are the facts of the situation.

Another key difference between US and UK chocolate is that much US chocolate uses milk that has undergone lipolysis, a process that partially breaks down the fatty acids in milk. This is another historical anomaly in the evolution of chocolate production. In the early 20th century, the process of partially souring milk through lipolysis was used to stabilize milk chocolate, as the resulting milk chocolate could be stored for longer periods of time before its taste changed for the worse. [..] The advantage of the process is that further breakdown of fats in milk is slowed, and subsequent fermentation is reduced. The "milk" taste also lasts longer, before either fading or turning into bad-tasting compounds. The down-side is that the process releases butyric acid [my emphasis], one of the fatty acids present in milk. Butyric acid is the fat component responsible for the smell of parmesan cheese and baby vomit.

See also this article or Google American chocolate butyric.

In short, US production techniques improve the long life stability at the expense of producing compounds that- to those not used to them- smell like baby sick et al, but to those brought up on baby-sick-flavoured-"chocolate" since childhood probably seems normal.

I guess I was lucky when I tried some imported Reese's peanut butter "Christmas tree" confectionery, and the "chocolate" coating- can't even remember for sure if it was "chocolate" (by the US definition of the word!) or "chocolate flavor"- merely tasted like sweetened wax.

kids jailed over facebook comments

https://www.google.com/webhp?s...

You're not googling hard enough.

The quick, right-to-the-point URL to delete everything:

http://myactivity.google.com/delete-activity/

(Sign in if needed.)

Select "All Time" from the top pull-down, then hit "DELETE".

I recall back in 2007 they proposed an easily installable FO link... https://archive.google.com/tis...

No. You clearly don't do this stuff, so you really shouldn't be commenting on it if you don't know what you're talking about.

Minification makes the payload smaller. Compression is limited to gzip or deflate. If you compare original source compressed to minified source compressed the minified compressed will be smaller. Anywhere from 5-20% smaller in my own testing.

Some minification techniques will replace local variable names with smaller variable names, decreasing payload size in a way that compression cannot.

See Google's guide for more information: https://developers.google.com/...

The link to the ad controls in the summary is broken. The correct target is https://www.google.com/setting...

The Google links in the summary are bad. Just go to https://myactivity.google.com/

Went to the new ad preferences link in the article, was told:

Your browser is not supported any more. Please update to a more recent one.

This is latest chromium w/ubuntu. That's unfortunate.

It's certainly safe to assume that instant apps will always be at least as safe as the Play store in general... and that's quite safe.

ORLY?

wow.
First off, Do yourself a favor and look at Unemployement Rate and GDP for America. This shows that the great recession started in 2007. It was declared official once the GDP by ALL economists, not just most, when GPD was negative and not just in freefall. However, the fact that unemployment started rising in 2007, says it all.

Secondly, causes of it is many. You like to list just a few minor ones while ignoring what REAL ECONOMISTS have to say. I am guessing that you have a political science or even just tech background and have not really had any economics and refuse to even accept what the professionals have to say, unless it agrees with you.

Regardless, I am a registered Libertarian and am on the sidelines of the fucking mess that you and the dems make. However, it is easy for me to look at your mess and honestly point out the fuck-ups that your 2 political parties have been.

wow.
First off, Do yourself a favor and look at Unemployement Rate and GDP for America. This shows that the great recession started in 2007. It was declared official once the GDP by ALL economists, not just most, when GPD was negative and not just in freefall. However, the fact that unemployment started rising in 2007, says it all.

Secondly, causes of it is many. You like to list just a few minor ones while ignoring what REAL ECONOMISTS have to say. I am guessing that you have a political science or even just tech background and have not really had any economics and refuse to even accept what the professionals have to say, unless it agrees with you.

Regardless, I am a registered Libertarian and am on the sidelines of the fucking mess that you and the dems make. However, it is easy for me to look at your mess and honestly point out the fuck-ups that your 2 political parties have been.

Unless perhaps you live in a country with very low cost of living,

United States, baltimore city. The house was $50k and is 1.7 miles from the light rail system. Public transit is slow, so I drive; I may amend that again some time soon.

are single,

SPD, so aromantic and asexual (these are complex topics; sex isn't a non-thing for me, but doesn't provide a disproportionate rewards mechanism or impulsive excitement, so fairly less-interesting than pizza which necessarily has fewer complications and strings). If I were otherwise, the additional cost of living for a mate would be, optimized, around $350. Note that cooking for two is more efficient than cooking for one, and I'd have to convert to more eating at home in that scenario (which would save an additional couple hundred on my end, but let's ignore that). All further expenses are discretionary, although women tend to demand some kind of allowance because they're not house pets (this is reasonable, although it makes a hilarious parallel to whores-on-retainer who attach to one client and make him pay a few hundred a month).

Children are also cheap and less-demanding. People overestimate the cost of childcare; I saw a billboard claiming $750/month once, and did the math and figured on a lot less. Canned baby food is expensive; a food mill costs $50, and running bananas, peas, carrots, and green beans through that costs a lot less than buying tiny glass jars of same. There's a modern figure of over $1M to raise a child to age 18, which is patently ridiculous.

and have your home paid off.

Next year.

This month: $421 - Mortgage; $560 - Food (too many $20 meals; need to lay off the Peking Duck and seafood platters); $128 - Electricity/Gas (need to insulate my house...); $83 - Internet (170Mbit/s); $62 - Phone; $44 - Gasoline; about $80/month for car insurance (6mo $480) and $12/mo for AAA; $10/mo for Spotify; $6/mo for Web hosting; $250/mo for a loan. Total: $1,656.

Fix the food budget by cooking meals at home and I can eat well around $96/month; I can eat like a friggin' regent at $130/mo. Takes the till down to $1,226.

Insulating my house and replacing window AC with central air/heat pump (operating as a dehumidifier, while I run an evaporative cooler as major cooling) would drop around 40% off my electricity bill, rendering it to under $80/month year-round. $1,178.

Paying off the loan and mortgage would cut $671 out, taking the till to $507/month. I am 10 months away from that.

Right now, I don't have a dishwasher or a stove; I'm looking at a double-oven stove, a high-end dishwasher, and a massive refrigerator. It's about $6,000 of kitchen appliances, which is why I don't cook yet. Yes, I know 10 months of $480 excess spending is close to that; it's bad financial hygiene.

I really have done extreme budget estimates down to $25/month on food, part of an attempt to validate the $100/month budget ($106/month now, and now represented as a $180/month combined Food/Clothing/Personal Care budget) used as a baseline in my Citizen's Dividend plan (which had an original goal of ending all homelessness and hunger in the U.S., but turned out to be much better than that). Thing is I like to eat a lot more meat than all that.

If you're on the U.S. West Coast, there is still housing at the normalized values I computed. Bread flour costs exactly the same; 10lb of pinto beans in Seattle, WA costs 54 cents more. Seattle prices are ass-tier; if I lived in the area, I'd have to make around $145-$180k to have an equivalent income, in general. For example: $23 gets me two large 2-topping pizzas here; in Seattle, $30 will get you ONE PIZZA. Buying cheap import goods (e.g. GROCERIES, clothes) from wholesale clubs and big discount stores leaves an immense amount of additional spending money in your hands

One of the many posts on the subject of RTBL, which did almost as you suggested.

If you really cared so much about vulnerable people, you would be doing social work or something along those lines.

I'd like to be a house representative. On the subject of vulnerable people, we can discuss new taxation plans which only marginally raise taxes on the rich (0.69% less income to the top 0.1%; 2% less income to someone with $10M annual salary) and the effects on the poor in a failing welfare system, as well as the stabilizing effect on all low-income families. In the long run, I want to target a maximum tax bracket of 1/3 above marginal (a United States flat income tax would be 29.97%; the top tax bracket I specify is 41%, and I want that to be no higher than 40%), rather than attempting to use the rich as some idealized Robin Hood funding source.

Is that along those lines?

My wife likes her iPod and iPad mini; but in both cases we're hitting issues not generally hardware issues but software issues - they can't get upgraded beyond certain versions, and apps, etc are starting to not be available on them so they're coming to be SOL despite being perfectly usable.

Name ANY tech device for which that ISN'T the case. "Support" and "Upgrades" have a lifespan. Apple is almost always near, or at, the top as far as that goes. Time does move on. but it doesn't mean the device, the OS, or the Apps on it magically stop working, does it?, next!

Apple refuses to replace the glass

You mean "under warranty"? Or do you mean "They want to replace the entire Digitizer, when YOU think its just the "glass" that is broken"? Or do you mean "They refuse to even repair it at all at any price"?

And of course, your statement "it's difficult to find a third-party vendor to do it" exposes you for being either a bald-faced liar (more likely) or a complete idiot. Heck, if you're not a complete klutz, you can even do it yourself (which I think was the whole point of TFA) iFixit even has some nice step-by-step guides, what more could you want?

The rest of your "comment" doesn't even bear scrutiny.

... and wait for the idiotic DRM take-downs / lawsuits for a selling an IR lens since it "facilities copyright infringement".

You know it will happen.

Almost as bad as the Keurig Freedom ring

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I'll be extremely glad when these 2 people are dead ...
* [x] Gary Kildall for his retarded 8.3 filenames in CP/M, which MS-DOS blinding copied without thinking, and
* [ ] Brendan Eich for inflicting his fucked up Javashit language on the rest of the (HTML) world
1 down, 1 more to go!

Never had the dealer change the oil on my car (2002 BMW 325i) but 7 quarts of quality full synthetic plus a good filter that isn't made by the company that makes the orange cans of death is pretty spendy just for supplies (I spend about $50 on oil and filter). I think the last time I looked BMW was charging like $150 for an oil change and while the dealer probably can get the supplies cheaper they also have labor that I don't pay. Then add in that I check all the belts, check all the fluid levels, change out the fluid in the power steering fluid reservoir, rotate the tires, check break pad wear, grease the wheel bearings, check for looseness in the suspension, etc. it is easy to see how a full service oil change can get expensive quickly. Granted I check and do more with my oil change than the dealer but then the full service oil change at the dealer still does a lot. I do enjoy working on cars as it is a nice change of pace from my day job.

I think what you're missing is that the actual lyrics will now appear in the search results, instead of just links to pages with lyrics. This happens now with certain other searches, like "what day is labor day 2016". It gives you the answer directly in the search results.

Remember, Google is your friend.

I must be missing something in this story. I don't remember ever NOT getting lyrics in a Google search. Right now, I'm going to do a search on, I don't know..."Biz Markie Just a Friend lyrics".

https://www.google.com/webhp?s...

So what exactly is the change that Google's announced?

I would also point out, the lack of need of SD slots isn't shown out by the huge number of lightning port external flash devices on the market.

People want expandable storage, but not enough to buy a different phone. My guess is it is more about learning a new interface, and fear of the unknown.

https://www.google.com/search?...

If expandable storage was no big deal, there would be no market for these flash drives, or the USB-C/microUSB equivalents.

Your dictionary link is certainly the definition of Anyway, but TFS has used anyway incorrectly.

You're ignoring the Merriam Webster definition's link to "anywise" in the full definition.

More explicitly:

anyway
adv.
1. In any way or manner whatever: Get the job done anyway you can.
2. In any case; at least: I don't know if it was lost or stolen; anyway, it's gone.
3. Nevertheless; regardless: It was raining but they played the game anyway.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

Popular media examples.

You can also substitute the adverb "however" for the adverb "anyway" to verify that, yes, the adverb "anyway" is grammatically appropriate.

The BEST (or worst) "fear mongering" I saw was some made-for TV movie that had a nuclear reactor that was overheating...and the sub-plot ended with several people INSIDE the control rod room when the water flooded it (which cooled it down and saved the day). I also remember Gary North's website (which is now hawking wealth management) which constantly had a mix of fear-mongering, prepper stuff, and potential economic fallouts.

I'm guessing your talking about the Year 2038 issue "coming up". As an interesting side note, you should check out the John Titor time-travel stuff surrounding it. Someone I know actually patented the time travel device! Well, filed an application for a patent, I don't know if it was granted. IMHO, the guy that did it is a psychopath and is currently in prison. .

Don't mind me, just butting in!

> Then why does my day job of writing WebGL apps for Smart TV's run at 60 fps then if "I don't understand the language" -- I guess these shaders just magically
> wrote themself ! And all those rendering optimizations just "magically" appeared in our code base !! Holy Shit !!! Ghosts are real -- shhh, don't tell the retarded
> Chinese Cult Politics [globalpost.com] party! (Yes, I know CCP doesn't official stand for that.)
> Don't assume. You look like an tool when you do.

Can do this in JS too, but shh, don't tell anyone.

> Never mind the fact that converting from a string to a var will OVERFLOW and NOT be EXACT.

Then don't do it? It's like saying "hey, that gun will kill someone if u pull the trigger while pointing at them!" - duh.

Google any big int lib.

> Javascript broken == operator [github.io] is so fucked up it is laughable. WTF is the point of even having '==' when every smart programmer will use '==='
> instead???
> if( 0 == "0" ) console.log( "equal" ); // equal // WTF!?

You answered your own complaint... use strict equals. Type conversion is a feature, not the languages problem someone doesn't understand it.

> How about the inability to actually _include_ .js files like, you know, a concept that (almost) EVERY-other-programming language has???

Didn't they just introduce modules? I can't remember... but in case I partied hard, blacked out and forgot about ES2016, there's a nifty lib called requirejs that
handles this.

> When Javascript does stupid shit like Automatic Semicolon Insertion (ASI)

Since my very first day programming JS, almost 7 years ago now (holy shit), this has NEVER been a problem.

> Where is the automatic multi-line string concatenation?? Even C has this. In Javashit you're forced to do this manually. Hell, even the retarded Python has """
> for crying out loud!

Introduced that with `

> WHY did it take until ECMAScript 5 to fix the retarded string-to-octal parsing?? In what fucked up world did:

Meh, got me there.

> When {} + [] returns ZERO, and {} + {} returns NaN you know the designer was an fucking idiot. This is _basic_ Comp. Sci. 101 stuff, not rocket science.

I don't think I've ever actually tried to add an object and/or array to each other... Unless someone forgot how their code works...

> for( var x in [5,6,7,8]) console.log( x + 1 );

For in is the worst... But again, learn the language and again, this hasn't ever been a problem for me.

> Popularity doesn't prove jack shit,

Clearly it does.

> I love when some retard tries to claim that "I don't understand the language."

Not saying you dont understand the language, you clearly do. Just saying that any JS developer worth their salary knows these pitfalls and knows how to get
around them or not have them be in the way in the first place.

Now with Typescript making some headway, half these issues you outlined just magically disappear. (I don't use Typescript... yet, my feeling is that if you can't
program JS correctly, then having some tool do it for you, hinders you rather than helps you.)

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All languages have their issues, yes JS may have some basic ones that make other language developers go "wtf", as you clearly are, but clearly these fallacies
are not blocking anyone from using the language for really cool programs.

But I digress to what I previously stated.

Any JS developer worth their salary doesn't run into these issues and/or knows how to combat them.

we already want to make the game as reasonably portable as possible so we can put in on PC, consoles, and possibly mobile--ie, often Android.

I don't see how one game can work well on both consoles and mobile, especially if isn't inherently a point-and-click game. Consoles have a thumbstick and buttons as their primary input device. The vast majority of Android devices* have a touch screen. If you try to adapt a game designed for a thumbstick and buttons to a touch screen the trivial way, by putting a D-pad and buttons on a flat sheet of glass the way emulators do, you get something like Pixeline and the Jungle Treasure . It's a platformer in the vein of Super Mario Bros. or Giana Sisters. When I tried it on my Nexus 7 (2012) tablet, it was a pain in the ass to play because I kept accidentally pressing outside the active area of the on-screen controls due to lack of any sort of tactile feedback as to where my thumbs were. (Pairing a Bluetooth keyboard solves it but also somewhat defeats the point of mobile.) The workaround to make a platformer work with a touch screen often involves simplifying it to an endless runner.

* Most Android devices are not OUYA, SHIELD, JXD, or GameStick.

Subject-change detected — the usual tactics of Kremlin bots.

You mean projection

So, you are denying having changed the subject? Fine, let's recount: I started this thread pointing out Russia being a dangerous aggressor and it is therefor dangerous to be buying gas from her. You and boredwithpolitics "counter" that by saying, US is more of an aggressor... Sorry, but USA was not even in the picture — buying gas from the US is not an option for Germany.

The only reason to bring US into the conversation at all was for you two Kremlin-bots to shift attention from the topic you'll immediately lose to the one, where you can usually fight to stalemate.

But I recognized your subject-change — before moving on — and called it out.

You're comparing an anthill to Mt. Everest.

I'm comparing American efforts to propagandize freedom and Capitalism to Russia's armed invasions: into Moldova, Georgia, and Ukraine to name just the most recent ones. Yes, one of them is an ant hill and the other — a mountain. Only it is not the side you are backing, hater.

Radio America, heard of it?

What of it?

How many governments around the world has Russia - and even the USSR - overthrown

Let's see — and, unlike you, I'm going to stick to known facts of military invasions not unsupported accusations of "foreign influence":

1. Ukraine in 1917
2. Lithuania in 1918 — unsuccessful
3. Poland in 1919 — unsuccessful
4. Poland together with Hitler — successful
5. Finland — partially unsuccessful
6. Estonia
7. Lithuania
8. Latvia
9. Moldova
10. Hungary
11. Czechoslovakia
12. Afghanistan

    That was USSR. Now comes modern Russia: Moldova, Geogrgia, Ukraine. Again, the above are only the military invasions by Russia. Subtler things — like poisoning of Ukraine's presidential contender — aren't included for brevity.

    Notably, your bombastic accusation includes neither a link to the video, nor transcript of the actual words.

    Like asking for a citation that water is wet. [youtube.com]

    There is still no transcript and the video is nearly 9 minutes long. If you can not find the transcript — as would've been customary for text-based debates — perhaps, you can link directly to the section of the v

With nearly 40 percent of all pregnancies in the United States unintended, birth control is a critical public health issue.

Wow, that statement really makes you want to click and read the text. It's emotional and powerful.

While an unintended pregnancy is a serious issue, note that the US fertility rate is now 1.88 births per woman. The replacement rate for population is about 2.1 (births per woman, depends on the geographical area: percentage of births that live to adulthood).

If we can eliminate the 40% of all births that are unintended, the US population would drop off a cliff. This is already a problem for many areas such as Japan and Germany.

The term critical means "pertaining to or of the nature of a crisis", with "crisis" being " time when a difficult or important decision must be made" (with reference to: emergency, catastrophe, calamity, and doomsday).

This is an improvement and one I heartily support.

Nevertheless, calling the situation a "crisis" is a bit melodramatic... don't you think?

With nearly 40 percent of all pregnancies in the United States unintended, birth control is a critical public health issue.

Wow, that statement really makes you want to click and read the text. It's emotional and powerful.

While an unintended pregnancy is a serious issue, note that the US fertility rate is now 1.88 births per woman. The replacement rate for population is about 2.1 (births per woman, depends on the geographical area: percentage of births that live to adulthood).

If we can eliminate the 40% of all births that are unintended, the US population would drop off a cliff. This is already a problem for many areas such as Japan and Germany.

The term critical means "pertaining to or of the nature of a crisis", with "crisis" being " time when a difficult or important decision must be made" (with reference to: emergency, catastrophe, calamity, and doomsday).

This is an improvement and one I heartily support.

Nevertheless, calling the situation a "crisis" is a bit melodramatic... don't you think?

With nearly 40 percent of all pregnancies in the United States unintended, birth control is a critical public health issue.

Wow, that statement really makes you want to click and read the text. It's emotional and powerful.

While an unintended pregnancy is a serious issue, note that the US fertility rate is now 1.88 births per woman. The replacement rate for population is about 2.1 (births per woman, depends on the geographical area: percentage of births that live to adulthood).

If we can eliminate the 40% of all births that are unintended, the US population would drop off a cliff. This is already a problem for many areas such as Japan and Germany.

The term critical means "pertaining to or of the nature of a crisis", with "crisis" being " time when a difficult or important decision must be made" (with reference to: emergency, catastrophe, calamity, and doomsday).

This is an improvement and one I heartily support.

Nevertheless, calling the situation a "crisis" is a bit melodramatic... don't you think?

And a Search of the iOS App Store came up with an impressive list of Programming utilities and IDEs for a wide variety of languages.

Before I spend hundreds on an iPad, keyboard, and app licenses with which to review the functionality of said "impressive list", how can the user import a project into one of these IDEs? Some reviews in the slideshow you linked mention exporting but not importing. Must all projects originate on the device? Or does the editor run locally and the testing run remotely, such as through SSH, X11, VNC, or RDP? If so, my use thereof would require an expensive mobile broadband subscription because city buses don't have Wi-Fi. The description of Kodiak PHP on page 3 of 12 of the slideshow bears this out:

Note that if you want to use a database (typically MySQL), it will be on an external server, not your iPad; you will need connectivity.

Likewise, the description of Textastic on page 5 of 12 allows offline testing only for a small fraction of the supported languages:

Textastic is a Textmate-compatible text, code, and markup language editor for the iPad with syntax highlighting for more than 80 programming and markup languages. [...] It can do local and remote Web preview for HTML and Markdown files, but it can't run any other kind of code internally.

Nearly half of the apps in the slideshow were ancillary tools useful to some developers, such as SSH (again, useless on the bus), UI design, and GitHub issue communication. But that's like saying Stack Exchange for iOS is a "programming app". That leaves Kodiak PHP, Codea, and Pythonista. Why do these get a free pass with respect to the rule whose current text is "nor may they download, install, or execute code, including other iOS, watchOS, Mac OS X, or tvOS apps"?

Launcher replacements

I guess Cromulent Labs' "Launcher" must be misnamed, then.

After six months of rejections under the rule whose current text is "Apps that create alternate desktop/home screen environments or simulate multi-app widget experiences will be rejected." Though it has since returned to the App Store, Apple's inconsistency in interpreting its own guidelines is likely to have a chilling effect on would-be developers of other launcher apps:

If developers don’t have explicit guidelines to go on [...], our only choice is to potentially waste huge amounts of time working on apps that ultimately get rejected in an attempt to find something that will get accepted. [...] When pressed on the issue of their policies leading to wasted developer time, I was told, "If you are afraid something you are working on will be rejected, then don’t work on it."

And it still can launch only those apps that expose a URL scheme.

WLAN utilities, such as utilities for troubleshooting your wireless network or for contributing to a collaborative map of wireless networks (Apple deems AP enumeration in iOS to be private)

My favorite is "Fing"

The screenshots on Fing's website make it look like a tool for scanning a WLAN to which you have already connected, not enumerating the SSIDs of WLANs whose beacons reach your device. The API for the former is public; the API for the latt

I admittedly deploy mine as IP cameras since they already have WiFi and camera on board https://play.google.com/store/...

https://www.google.com/nexus/6...

Nope, not crap.

I guess you're not familiar with Content ID. YouTube does police their content for them.

Can't login, sorry. For last Christmas I got 2 friends a "HooToo TripMate Nano" router/media sharing device. It has a USB interface, so I also picked up 2 64GB fingernail-sized FOBs. (You know the ones I mean -- the silver USB interface plug is 90% of the actual device.)

Hook the Nano up to a standalone phone battery or the car and let the kids stream their own media from the FOB to their phones during a trip. It'll handle 5 concurrent users, all solid state (just don't step on it), fits in your pocket, all that goodness. Forces a slightly dinky file browsing interface on their phone but not that bad. Setup's not quite intuitive, RTFM instead.

Oh, did I mention the Nano's $15, the 64GB is $10. I don't have stock in WD or HooToo -- but I've bought so many WD drives I ought to have.

This DOESN'T do sync, backups transcoding, etc, but if you've got setup time (and kids) the size and price is right.

To be more specific: Most = SOHO do.

https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-...
https://docs.google.com/a/plex...

My QNAP can transcode just fine, but very few of my viewing devices require it.

Years ago, Linux was forced to rename "X Windows" to "X Window" because Microsoft didn't like it.

What rot. Why would Linux be forced to rename another team's project? And Mac OS X also has an X in the name. If Microsoft are going to claim both the word Windows and X, why wasn't Linux also forced to rename OS X?

But seriously, X Windows has never been the correct name. From a newsgroup post in 1993:

The X Consortium requests that the following names be used when referring to this software:

X
X Window System
X Version 11
X Window System, Version 11
X11

There is no such thing as "X Windows" or "X Window", despite the repeated misuse of the forms by the trade rags. This probably tells you something about how much to trust the trade rags -- if they can't even get the NAME of the window system right, why should one trust anything else they have to say?

So it was never X Windows, Microsoft never asked them to change, and there is no space in the name DirectX. Did you post get anything right?

But on the non licensed channels where people upload the songs themselves the Artist no longer receives compensation.

Except for when Youtube's algorithms detect copyright music that you don't own the rights to, and force ads to be displayed and revenue goes back to the rightsholder. Rightsholders have the ability to show ads, mute the video, or prevent the video from playing at all.

A great read, and applicable to today. Basically, the North didn't have it's heart in the fight with the South until Southern supporters became increasingly hard-line in their dealings with the Feds.

I think people like you will be really surprised if they start something that wakes the silent majority of Americans. The ones who aren't happy, but are willing to work with the system.

> You know what friend? It's not 1994, you can stop hating MS now.

Then why do I have to put up with Microshit's undocumented telemetry crap in Microsoft Visual C 2015 ? This bullshit shenanigans are _exactly_ why I hate M$. It should be opt in, NOT opt out.

* https://www.google.com/webhp?#...

Only a complete fucking idiot would trust Microshaft with anything other then what is in their best interest.

Well if buying hundreds of rounds of ammo gets the FBI called then they have been called on me a number of times. When my family goes out shooting we will easily go through a couple of spam cans of ammo. Then again we aren't looking purchase heavy duty body armor and acting strange when at the store.

And how exactly does it work if I do not have a cellphone?

Google recommends these security tokens in the US as an alternative.

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6103523?hl=en
https://www.amazon.com/s/?field-keywords=%22FIDO%20U2F%20Security%20Key%22

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