I still have my TI-85 purchased in 1992 same as you. While I agree it's very durable and nice and still works it is a bit clunky and it's bigger than it needs to be. Heck there is a lot of empty space inside there- I have had mine apart and modified a number of times (including massively overclocking the z80)
I do agree with you on the absurd race to produce overly stupidly thin phones. The iPad has a "camera bump" for fucks sake. good design does not automatically guarantee good ergonomics. A slightly beefier phone with a better and longer lasting battery would sell very well. As a business customer of the iPhone I would buy 20 of them immediately. How can they be missing this?
Im not going to argue with you against the ridiculousness of the thin phone craziness, but the heat has a lot less to do with it than the crazy charge cycles. The charging and discharging of a phone battery cell is pushed very much further than the cells in a Tesla battery. For one the phone battery is always pushed to 100% charge and it is kept there for extended periods of time. That is basically battery rule #1 in critical lithium systems; this is the reason that Tesla advises you not to do it and the reason the DJI drone batteries self discharge.
Granted the usage pattern of a phone or laptop is quite a bit different, and the cells have indeed gotten very good. As to how much "above" the 100% mark and below the 0% mark the battery's true capacity is, i'm not sure. But I think we can agree that putting in a 30% larger battery and not letting people use the top and bottom 15% of the capacity would be quite agreeable to many.
See my comment below; if you drove your Tesla down to 0% and cycled it to 100% every day (or even multiple times per day) it wouldnt last any longer than your phone. Also, your car undoubtadely has lost a little range over time, though depending on which car you have (and if you have a sw limited battery) you may not have any indication of this. Tesla is very good at managing battery health and encouraging drivers to do the same. But if your cellphone worked the same way you would hate it.
While I don't think it's necessarily right to "hide" it from people, good Li-Ion battery management does unfortunately require monitoring and limiting consumption rate in a lot of circumstances. Lithium batteries work best and can deliver the most current around 35-45C which is great since we tend to keep our phones close to our bodes and thus they stay at a good temperature. But a cold battery, a nearly empty battery, and an old battery all have severely diminished current capacity. Except for overcharging or overdraining a lithium cell, nothing will destroy it faster than pulling too much current than the current environment permits.
The problem with our phones is that we want them to be as small as reasonable, we want them to work full throttle for the longest amount of time possible, and we want them to be highly reliable. This is sort of a "pick two" scenario because you can't really have all three.
Tesla cars do a great job of giving the driver feedback about battery current limits BTW; there is a gague that shows you when you are being limited due to temperature or state of charge and as the battery ages the "full" capacity given in "rated miles" does diminish. As an example, an S100D will pull 500+ kW on a 100% full, new, warm battery, but on a very cold day with a low SOC it can be limited to as little as 150kW. Although this is sometimes not what people really want, they also in this case want a battery that will last for as many as 40 or 50 thousand charge cycles. Perhaps phones should figure out a way to give user feedback in the battery icon in a similar way. or allow the suers to set their own limits to optimize battery health.
Or perhaps phones should just put way bigger batteries in them and only let people cycle them between 20% and 80% true capacity. This would be fantasticlly good for battery health but can you imagine the uproar?
This is the dumbest possible thing that they could do. They need some cheap mass on their rocket; and this mass might be able to get into Martian orbit.
They should send a couple thousand pounds of water. The containers to store it are are already 'off the shelf' inasmuch as we already are capable of rapidly producing a flight-tested design for holding water in space for a long period of time. And by chance if the thing makes it, a large quantity of water floating around mars would be an incredibly valuable and useful commodity
It's not digital noise; it's ground loops. However in non-shit gear (AES/EBU for instance) there is galvanic isolation already so it's pretty easy to design around this, not that it will ever be done in consumer level gear unless its part of the standard (ethernet)
Toslink is pretty useful for safely connecting audio up to the modulator in your tesla coil though.
It doesn't really have anything to do with the physical transport. The main disadvantage in terms of being able to enhance the standard to carry additional codecs or run at a faster datarate is that optical is unidirectional so there is no ability for two devices to negotiate a compatible operating mode when faced with the increasing problem of digital codec proliferation.
If the low level datastream has some provision for being able for a transmitter to be able to advertise an enhanced protocol capability without breaking existing devices then the door opens for a lot of stuff including half-duplex or alternate wavelength sink-to-source communication. However such futureproofing is rarely built into these simple low level protocol negotiations, so I wouldn't get your hopes up.
I am not normally so harsh on a business, but I'm glad to see they are getting some comeuppance.
Anyone who still likes Newegg because they haven't gotten screwed yet should really take heed. This is a "where there's smoke; there's fire" type thing. Newegg are really the worst kind of company because they give zero shits about their customers. This is a lot different than companies like the big banks or the airlines where they just have lackluster or inadequate customer service. Even those behemoths are smart enough to know that they need satisfied customers to have success, even if they can't seem to satisfy them. Newegg by contrast actively shits on customers at every opportunity. I am convinced they would prefer a business model where customers did not exist and product went out the door so long as it was priced cheaper than anyone else and designed to fail immediately after they ceased to be responsible for it.
At one time I spent 6 figs/year through them on hardware. They lost my business with a single bad customer service incident. They shipped me the wrong server CPU, and I opened it before I noticed. I did not even ask them to return it; I just asked them to refund the difference between the expensive CPU that I ordered and the cheap one they sent -- about $600. Although they were clearly at fault, it was not economically worthwhile for me to pursue any action beyond making a claim with AmEx (to whom Newegg made false statements) and making an angry phone call to some VP over there.
You know I worked for a small regional computer manufacturer in the late 90's and we actually had to spar with the company who was infamously going around filing lawsuits alleging infringement because we sold computers that had blinking cursors. They had a legitimate patent for that.
The problem is that everyone wants to argue the extremes and turn this into a binary problem when it is not. There are good and legitimate patents; there are some real suck-ass crap patents, and there is everything in between. Companies like Apple generally do not infringe on patents purposefully; they both pay for and receive tons of license fees under contracts that are overwhelmingly not the result of court cases. They aren't seeking to undermine the patent system or play a bunch of high stakes poker with patents. Software patents are too easy to work around.
So DJI is selling a backdoor device to "authorized parties" which can intercept the private telemetry of any of their aircraft. That is some bullshit right there.
So right now it's limited to telemetry downlink packets. How long until they allow these parties to see the video downlink? How long until they let them take over the command and control uplink?
Requiring hobby aircraft to beacon their telemetry in the clear (similar to ADS-B in commercial aviation or APRS in amateur radio) would be a whole other matter.
Facebook makes suggestions based on correlated movements and positions. If you arrive and depart from the same location at the same time as another person a few times it may suggest them as a friend. There isn't really any mystery to this (unless you are someone like a journalist or Facebook user who never read any of the agreements you accepted).
We could have a debate as to whether or not this should be opt-in, or legal, or whatever, but there shouldn't really be any debate that it is an effective method of determining people who might know each other, and there shouldn't be any mystery that it's done when it has all been plainly discussed before. You can at least opt out of some of it, or adjust your privacy settings to prevent it.
Just imagine that Facebook is your mom and every time you load up the app it's like calling your mom and telling her where you are. And everyone else around you is also calling your mom and telling them they are there too, and you and everybody else are constantly calling back every 10 minutes to give her updates. Provided your mom has a lot of time on her hands and takes really good notes, pretty soon she's going to figure out who you are hanging out with.
Of course they are terrible... but unfortunately for all of us they are both flashy and modern looking and these days they are unintuitively cheaper than the alternative of using physical knobs and buttons -- each of which requires custom injection mold tooling, custom pcb design and fabrication, labor to assemble, etc. If a car model reuses these sorts of things heavily across models and produces them in the hundreds of thousands of quantities they can beat a screen, but a high brightness 17" LCD with a touch panel is probably like $60 in quantity and the whole dash is together with one assembly step, the trend towards screens is going to continue. It's alreay at the point where lower end US domestic cars have the same screens as the fully-optioned models, but the screens only give basic climate control and radio functions even though they probably have the same compute capabilities as the models that ship with navigation, apps, etc.
NewEgg is the fucking worst. I stopped using them completely over one such incident, and I had been spending probably 50K+/yr with them previously. Our spend is easily 4x that today, and they get zero of it.
They sent the wrong CPU -- I had ordered an 8 core Xeon to go in a supermicro barebones, and they sent a slower 4 core. I did not actually notice until it was in the box. Although it was not ideal, it was barely adequate for our application, and we didn't have a lot of time to change out. So I did the reasonable thing in light of their asinine "no cpu returns" policy by requesting a refund of the amount of the difference between the product I ordered and the product I was sent.
They responded by closing my account. I filed a dispute with the credit card company which rejected it after NewEgg made false statements to them. NewEgg did reopen my account as a "courtesy" and I return that courtesy by doing everything possible to convince people never to shop with them. After relating my experience, the owner of a small regional chain ended their affiliate relationship with NewEgg -- they had in the prior year done approximately $2mm in referrals.
Honestly this is the business equivalent of getting a door ding in your car. But I can't be the only one -- poor customer service is shitty for business.
If Comcast wants to fast-lane a single application like manufacturer-to-car communications on a private network there is and should be absolutely nothing to stop it. Not all applications need the Internet. Most any large ISP will happily sell you a lightning fast MPLS network, a mobile version of such (MPN, DMNR, dedicated APN), or lease a lambda or dark fiber for dedicated point-to-point traffic. These arguments are completely irrelevant to the discussion of Internet neutrality issues.
I would not consider an account locked message to be an information leakage if a user entered the CORRECT credentials, and this was actually the original poster's concern.
Optional two factor systems can and do present this same username information leakage vector today, and this risk seems to be generally accepted. Although such a system could present 2 factor prompts occasionally and repeatably for nonexistent users as well I haven't encountered one that does so.
Anyone who has ever driven a trailer should have been told about fishtailing. (If you have driven a trailer and haven't been told you should google it immediately.)
It's the same thing.
The only thing preventing this scientific breakthrough was the apparent inability to intersect the community of truckers and physicists despite their relative interdependencies.
I'm sure you can technically "live" on $17k/yr but let's be real, this isn't won-the-lotto, now-you-can-relax money. After the pilot is over these people are gonna get kicked in the junk.
And, yeah everyone will love the program because it creates an artificial income disparity between people "in" and people "out" of the program. A true basic income test has to be truly universal, otherwise it'll just end up like the FEMA credit cards after Katrina or soldiers on leave -- a bunch of shady businesses will crop up with great ways for these people to blow all that extra money, and if there is one thing that people are generally good at doing across all income brackets it's spending someone else's money.
Can you provide any evidence for what you claim? GarageBand actually has a long history of having a very user-friendly approach to copyright. Some bad actors have made claims against certain GarageBand loops in the past, but they have all been trolls. With the exception of distributing single loops individually, content created with Garageband comes with a worldwide royalty free license and Apple doesn't claim to own or have any rights to user-produced content.
They just use some other means of referencing position such as IR LEDs + camera (like a wiimote or in reverse), image capture/analysis, gun position sensing, or some combination of these things. Most use IR LEDs. Some older technologies such as the NES Power Glove used ultrasonic positioning.
A lot of the 2000's era arcade gun games such as Time Crisis 4 used DLP projectors from the get-go and were using these types of gun controllers from the start; so they are relatively easy to convert to LCD.
Classic CRT based light gun games -- while I'm sure it's possible to build some sort of device that emulates the original gun in hardware, it is probably a much easier job to simply run them in an emulator.
One saving grace to this article is that while it's true that the CRT business might be winding down, the tubes themselves do usually last far longer than the electronics and will be around for a very long time still. I have had to replace some components on my Wells Gardner CRT that I used in my scratch-built cabinet because it had gotten very dim, but after a new neck board and some new capacitors it's back to looking like new.
This article and summary are coming to conclusions that are completely false. This stupid little port is just a USB variant, and the only reason Apple has even acknowledged it is that only certain connectors can be used on the ends of "MFI" certified products such as cables and accessories. They in no way intend to put this connector on the iphone, but it is in wide enough use that they dont want to exclude someone already making a product that uses one from paying them that sweet MFI license fee.
The MFI program itself is and has always been the reason to hold back from a USB-C phone; it makes huge revenue for them. With lightning they have leverage to force the MFI licensing. If it becomes valuable as a brand/mark on its own and consumers look for it when choosing accessories then maybe they can safely switch to USB-C.
The problem is that the grey market is so accessible that genuine licensed products have trouble competing even if they make a superior product and follow all the rules. The whole thing is locked into a catch-22 where consumers appear to want the change but are also the obstruction to making it, at least from a business perspective.
I can tell you though that based on the quality spread I've seen with USB3, HDMI, DisplayPort junk that's out there now I would be very delighted to see some kind of consumer-oriented quality standards program emerge. I won't buy 10GbE cables that arent properly tested and certified and these new consumer standards are all equally demanding.
Your information is highly dated and perhaps your sources are also a bit biased. At any rate, 100x performance hit is stupid wrong.
Static translation was achieving 50-70% native performance rates (measured against clock cycles) with FX!32 on Windows NT for Alpha in the mid 90's. The problem of course has been very well studied since then particularly with the advent of virtualization and the x64 instruction set and the need to enhance the performance of x86 code running on even Intel's own platforms. Furthermore for any particularly glaring issues that are the fault of the hardware -- well it is much more easily tuned today than it once was. A bespoke opcode or extra register to assist in a specific task is no longer a monumental engineering undertaking today -- it is a matter mostly of dev/test/validate.
The approach taken with x64 to support x86 native execution is quite different than attacking the problem with emulation. Is there a performance hit? Certainly, but a hit of 10-20% simply doesnt make up for the fact that you might be able to have an 8 core ARM for the same price and power budget as a 2 core x86 mobile cpu. The applications that lose in this scenario are the ones the rely on raw single thread performance. Certainly some games are in this camp, but many games which make efficient use of threads are not.
In-car systems such as this are a hopeless battle. There is absurd vendor lock-in because there are a whole of 2-3 companies who have built a technology base big enough to be able to offer a system that can be custom assembled for a particular year and model of car. This will then be deployed in about 100,000 cars at best and will never ever be updated or serviced after about 6 months unless there is a vehicle safety issue.
I'm not sure what the exact solution is, but in one way or another there needs to be a mandatory open standard to allow a 3rd party device to show information on vehicle displays, receive input from vehicle control interfaces (steering wheel buttons, touchscreens, etc) and interact with other auxillary systems. We have things like CarPlay and Android Auto, but despite manufactures pledging broad support, very few cars are actually being sold with such capability.
Liquor is sold in "pints" and "half pints" typically 375ml and 200ml in every place I've been to -- in fact it's very difficult to actually purchase the little single shot bottles in many states without purchasing a bunch of them together in a larger package.
I read the letter. Here's a Cliff's Notes for all you guys who don't read because why evenbother:
Some anonymous devs who are so addicted to github that they probably maintain their grocery list there wrote a letter with a bunch of feature requests. These users re mainly bitching about the fact that users of their own projects don't seem to be able to read or follow instructions. Naturally these people are smart enough and forward thinking enough that they have proposed a perfect solution which requires GitHub to do a shitload of work for free despite the fact that the problems will remain because the users still won't read. A surprising number of other developers clearly can't read or think either and as such signed off on this silliness. Naturally, these well meaning individuals posted all of this to yet another github repo despite the fact that there are many better places and formats to use.
Journalists have picked up the story and have jumped so some pretty wild conclusions, proving beyond the shadow of a doubt that they really can't read either.
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I still have my TI-85 purchased in 1992 same as you. While I agree it's very durable and nice and still works it is a bit clunky and it's bigger than it needs to be. Heck there is a lot of empty space inside there- I have had mine apart and modified a number of times (including massively overclocking the z80)
I do agree with you on the absurd race to produce overly stupidly thin phones. The iPad has a "camera bump" for fucks sake. good design does not automatically guarantee good ergonomics. A slightly beefier phone with a better and longer lasting battery would sell very well. As a business customer of the iPhone I would buy 20 of them immediately. How can they be missing this?
Im not going to argue with you against the ridiculousness of the thin phone craziness, but the heat has a lot less to do with it than the crazy charge cycles. The charging and discharging of a phone battery cell is pushed very much further than the cells in a Tesla battery. For one the phone battery is always pushed to 100% charge and it is kept there for extended periods of time. That is basically battery rule #1 in critical lithium systems; this is the reason that Tesla advises you not to do it and the reason the DJI drone batteries self discharge.
Granted the usage pattern of a phone or laptop is quite a bit different, and the cells have indeed gotten very good. As to how much "above" the 100% mark and below the 0% mark the battery's true capacity is, i'm not sure. But I think we can agree that putting in a 30% larger battery and not letting people use the top and bottom 15% of the capacity would be quite agreeable to many.
See my comment below; if you drove your Tesla down to 0% and cycled it to 100% every day (or even multiple times per day) it wouldnt last any longer than your phone. Also, your car undoubtadely has lost a little range over time, though depending on which car you have (and if you have a sw limited battery) you may not have any indication of this. Tesla is very good at managing battery health and encouraging drivers to do the same. But if your cellphone worked the same way you would hate it.
While I don't think it's necessarily right to "hide" it from people, good Li-Ion battery management does unfortunately require monitoring and limiting consumption rate in a lot of circumstances. Lithium batteries work best and can deliver the most current around 35-45C which is great since we tend to keep our phones close to our bodes and thus they stay at a good temperature. But a cold battery, a nearly empty battery, and an old battery all have severely diminished current capacity. Except for overcharging or overdraining a lithium cell, nothing will destroy it faster than pulling too much current than the current environment permits.
The problem with our phones is that we want them to be as small as reasonable, we want them to work full throttle for the longest amount of time possible, and we want them to be highly reliable. This is sort of a "pick two" scenario because you can't really have all three.
Tesla cars do a great job of giving the driver feedback about battery current limits BTW; there is a gague that shows you when you are being limited due to temperature or state of charge and as the battery ages the "full" capacity given in "rated miles" does diminish. As an example, an S100D will pull 500+ kW on a 100% full, new, warm battery, but on a very cold day with a low SOC it can be limited to as little as 150kW. Although this is sometimes not what people really want, they also in this case want a battery that will last for as many as 40 or 50 thousand charge cycles. Perhaps phones should figure out a way to give user feedback in the battery icon in a similar way. or allow the suers to set their own limits to optimize battery health.
Or perhaps phones should just put way bigger batteries in them and only let people cycle them between 20% and 80% true capacity. This would be fantasticlly good for battery health but can you imagine the uproar?
This is the dumbest possible thing that they could do. They need some cheap mass on their rocket; and this mass might be able to get into Martian orbit.
They should send a couple thousand pounds of water. The containers to store it are are already 'off the shelf' inasmuch as we already are capable of rapidly producing a flight-tested design for holding water in space for a long period of time. And by chance if the thing makes it, a large quantity of water floating around mars would be an incredibly valuable and useful commodity
It's not digital noise; it's ground loops. However in non-shit gear (AES/EBU for instance) there is galvanic isolation already so it's pretty easy to design around this, not that it will ever be done in consumer level gear unless its part of the standard (ethernet)
Toslink is pretty useful for safely connecting audio up to the modulator in your tesla coil though.
It doesn't really have anything to do with the physical transport. The main disadvantage in terms of being able to enhance the standard to carry additional codecs or run at a faster datarate is that optical is unidirectional so there is no ability for two devices to negotiate a compatible operating mode when faced with the increasing problem of digital codec proliferation.
If the low level datastream has some provision for being able for a transmitter to be able to advertise an enhanced protocol capability without breaking existing devices then the door opens for a lot of stuff including half-duplex or alternate wavelength sink-to-source communication. However such futureproofing is rarely built into these simple low level protocol negotiations, so I wouldn't get your hopes up.
I am not normally so harsh on a business, but I'm glad to see they are getting some comeuppance.
Anyone who still likes Newegg because they haven't gotten screwed yet should really take heed. This is a "where there's smoke; there's fire" type thing. Newegg are really the worst kind of company because they give zero shits about their customers. This is a lot different than companies like the big banks or the airlines where they just have lackluster or inadequate customer service. Even those behemoths are smart enough to know that they need satisfied customers to have success, even if they can't seem to satisfy them. Newegg by contrast actively shits on customers at every opportunity. I am convinced they would prefer a business model where customers did not exist and product went out the door so long as it was priced cheaper than anyone else and designed to fail immediately after they ceased to be responsible for it.
At one time I spent 6 figs/year through them on hardware. They lost my business with a single bad customer service incident. They shipped me the wrong server CPU, and I opened it before I noticed. I did not even ask them to return it; I just asked them to refund the difference between the expensive CPU that I ordered and the cheap one they sent -- about $600. Although they were clearly at fault, it was not economically worthwhile for me to pursue any action beyond making a claim with AmEx (to whom Newegg made false statements) and making an angry phone call to some VP over there.
You know I worked for a small regional computer manufacturer in the late 90's and we actually had to spar with the company who was infamously going around filing lawsuits alleging infringement because we sold computers that had blinking cursors. They had a legitimate patent for that.
The problem is that everyone wants to argue the extremes and turn this into a binary problem when it is not. There are good and legitimate patents; there are some real suck-ass crap patents, and there is everything in between. Companies like Apple generally do not infringe on patents purposefully; they both pay for and receive tons of license fees under contracts that are overwhelmingly not the result of court cases. They aren't seeking to undermine the patent system or play a bunch of high stakes poker with patents. Software patents are too easy to work around.
So DJI is selling a backdoor device to "authorized parties" which can intercept the private telemetry of any of their aircraft. That is some bullshit right there.
So right now it's limited to telemetry downlink packets. How long until they allow these parties to see the video downlink? How long until they let them take over the command and control uplink?
Requiring hobby aircraft to beacon their telemetry in the clear (similar to ADS-B in commercial aviation or APRS in amateur radio) would be a whole other matter.
Facebook makes suggestions based on correlated movements and positions. If you arrive and depart from the same location at the same time as another person a few times it may suggest them as a friend. There isn't really any mystery to this (unless you are someone like a journalist or Facebook user who never read any of the agreements you accepted).
We could have a debate as to whether or not this should be opt-in, or legal, or whatever, but there shouldn't really be any debate that it is an effective method of determining people who might know each other, and there shouldn't be any mystery that it's done when it has all been plainly discussed before. You can at least opt out of some of it, or adjust your privacy settings to prevent it.
Just imagine that Facebook is your mom and every time you load up the app it's like calling your mom and telling her where you are. And everyone else around you is also calling your mom and telling them they are there too, and you and everybody else are constantly calling back every 10 minutes to give her updates. Provided your mom has a lot of time on her hands and takes really good notes, pretty soon she's going to figure out who you are hanging out with.
Of course they are terrible... but unfortunately for all of us they are both flashy and modern looking and these days they are unintuitively cheaper than the alternative of using physical knobs and buttons -- each of which requires custom injection mold tooling, custom pcb design and fabrication, labor to assemble, etc. If a car model reuses these sorts of things heavily across models and produces them in the hundreds of thousands of quantities they can beat a screen, but a high brightness 17" LCD with a touch panel is probably like $60 in quantity and the whole dash is together with one assembly step, the trend towards screens is going to continue. It's alreay at the point where lower end US domestic cars have the same screens as the fully-optioned models, but the screens only give basic climate control and radio functions even though they probably have the same compute capabilities as the models that ship with navigation, apps, etc.
NewEgg is the fucking worst. I stopped using them completely over one such incident, and I had been spending probably 50K+/yr with them previously. Our spend is easily 4x that today, and they get zero of it.
They sent the wrong CPU -- I had ordered an 8 core Xeon to go in a supermicro barebones, and they sent a slower 4 core. I did not actually notice until it was in the box. Although it was not ideal, it was barely adequate for our application, and we didn't have a lot of time to change out. So I did the reasonable thing in light of their asinine "no cpu returns" policy by requesting a refund of the amount of the difference between the product I ordered and the product I was sent.
They responded by closing my account. I filed a dispute with the credit card company which rejected it after NewEgg made false statements to them. NewEgg did reopen my account as a "courtesy" and I return that courtesy by doing everything possible to convince people never to shop with them. After relating my experience, the owner of a small regional chain ended their affiliate relationship with NewEgg -- they had in the prior year done approximately $2mm in referrals.
Honestly this is the business equivalent of getting a door ding in your car. But I can't be the only one -- poor customer service is shitty for business.
If Comcast wants to fast-lane a single application like manufacturer-to-car communications on a private network there is and should be absolutely nothing to stop it. Not all applications need the Internet. Most any large ISP will happily sell you a lightning fast MPLS network, a mobile version of such (MPN, DMNR, dedicated APN), or lease a lambda or dark fiber for dedicated point-to-point traffic. These arguments are completely irrelevant to the discussion of Internet neutrality issues.
I would not consider an account locked message to be an information leakage if a user entered the CORRECT credentials, and this was actually the original poster's concern.
Optional two factor systems can and do present this same username information leakage vector today, and this risk seems to be generally accepted. Although such a system could present 2 factor prompts occasionally and repeatably for nonexistent users as well I haven't encountered one that does so.
Anyone who has ever driven a trailer should have been told about fishtailing. (If you have driven a trailer and haven't been told you should google it immediately.)
It's the same thing.
The only thing preventing this scientific breakthrough was the apparent inability to intersect the community of truckers and physicists despite their relative interdependencies.
I'm sure you can technically "live" on $17k/yr but let's be real, this isn't won-the-lotto, now-you-can-relax money. After the pilot is over these people are gonna get kicked in the junk.
And, yeah everyone will love the program because it creates an artificial income disparity between people "in" and people "out" of the program. A true basic income test has to be truly universal, otherwise it'll just end up like the FEMA credit cards after Katrina or soldiers on leave -- a bunch of shady businesses will crop up with great ways for these people to blow all that extra money, and if there is one thing that people are generally good at doing across all income brackets it's spending someone else's money.
Can you provide any evidence for what you claim? GarageBand actually has a long history of having a very user-friendly approach to copyright. Some bad actors have made claims against certain GarageBand loops in the past, but they have all been trolls. With the exception of distributing single loops individually, content created with Garageband comes with a worldwide royalty free license and Apple doesn't claim to own or have any rights to user-produced content.
They just use some other means of referencing position such as IR LEDs + camera (like a wiimote or in reverse), image capture/analysis, gun position sensing, or some combination of these things. Most use IR LEDs. Some older technologies such as the NES Power Glove used ultrasonic positioning.
A lot of the 2000's era arcade gun games such as Time Crisis 4 used DLP projectors from the get-go and were using these types of gun controllers from the start; so they are relatively easy to convert to LCD.
Classic CRT based light gun games -- while I'm sure it's possible to build some sort of device that emulates the original gun in hardware, it is probably a much easier job to simply run them in an emulator.
One saving grace to this article is that while it's true that the CRT business might be winding down, the tubes themselves do usually last far longer than the electronics and will be around for a very long time still. I have had to replace some components on my Wells Gardner CRT that I used in my scratch-built cabinet because it had gotten very dim, but after a new neck board and some new capacitors it's back to looking like new.
This article and summary are coming to conclusions that are completely false. This stupid little port is just a USB variant, and the only reason Apple has even acknowledged it is that only certain connectors can be used on the ends of "MFI" certified products such as cables and accessories. They in no way intend to put this connector on the iphone, but it is in wide enough use that they dont want to exclude someone already making a product that uses one from paying them that sweet MFI license fee.
The MFI program itself is and has always been the reason to hold back from a USB-C phone; it makes huge revenue for them. With lightning they have leverage to force the MFI licensing. If it becomes valuable as a brand/mark on its own and consumers look for it when choosing accessories then maybe they can safely switch to USB-C.
The problem is that the grey market is so accessible that genuine licensed products have trouble competing even if they make a superior product and follow all the rules. The whole thing is locked into a catch-22 where consumers appear to want the change but are also the obstruction to making it, at least from a business perspective.
I can tell you though that based on the quality spread I've seen with USB3, HDMI, DisplayPort junk that's out there now I would be very delighted to see some kind of consumer-oriented quality standards program emerge. I won't buy 10GbE cables that arent properly tested and certified and these new consumer standards are all equally demanding.
Your information is highly dated and perhaps your sources are also a bit biased. At any rate, 100x performance hit is stupid wrong.
Static translation was achieving 50-70% native performance rates (measured against clock cycles) with FX!32 on Windows NT for Alpha in the mid 90's. The problem of course has been very well studied since then particularly with the advent of virtualization and the x64 instruction set and the need to enhance the performance of x86 code running on even Intel's own platforms. Furthermore for any particularly glaring issues that are the fault of the hardware -- well it is much more easily tuned today than it once was. A bespoke opcode or extra register to assist in a specific task is no longer a monumental engineering undertaking today -- it is a matter mostly of dev/test/validate.
The approach taken with x64 to support x86 native execution is quite different than attacking the problem with emulation. Is there a performance hit? Certainly, but a hit of 10-20% simply doesnt make up for the fact that you might be able to have an 8 core ARM for the same price and power budget as a 2 core x86 mobile cpu. The applications that lose in this scenario are the ones the rely on raw single thread performance. Certainly some games are in this camp, but many games which make efficient use of threads are not.
In-car systems such as this are a hopeless battle. There is absurd vendor lock-in because there are a whole of 2-3 companies who have built a technology base big enough to be able to offer a system that can be custom assembled for a particular year and model of car. This will then be deployed in about 100,000 cars at best and will never ever be updated or serviced after about 6 months unless there is a vehicle safety issue.
I'm not sure what the exact solution is, but in one way or another there needs to be a mandatory open standard to allow a 3rd party device to show information on vehicle displays, receive input from vehicle control interfaces (steering wheel buttons, touchscreens, etc) and interact with other auxillary systems. We have things like CarPlay and Android Auto, but despite manufactures pledging broad support, very few cars are actually being sold with such capability.
Liquor is sold in "pints" and "half pints" typically 375ml and 200ml in every place I've been to -- in fact it's very difficult to actually purchase the little single shot bottles in many states without purchasing a bunch of them together in a larger package.
I read the letter. Here's a Cliff's Notes for all you guys who don't read because why evenbother:
Some anonymous devs who are so addicted to github that they probably maintain their grocery list there wrote a letter with a bunch of feature requests. These users re mainly bitching about the fact that users of their own projects don't seem to be able to read or follow instructions. Naturally these people are smart enough and forward thinking enough that they have proposed a perfect solution which requires GitHub to do a shitload of work for free despite the fact that the problems will remain because the users still won't read. A surprising number of other developers clearly can't read or think either and as such signed off on this silliness. Naturally, these well meaning individuals posted all of this to yet another github repo despite the fact that there are many better places and formats to use.
Journalists have picked up the story and have jumped so some pretty wild conclusions, proving beyond the shadow of a doubt that they really can't read either.
The Linux Kernel, Android, and Webkit are my top picks.
LLVM is also hugely important.