Android is free and open source. The operating system isn't what makes the money.
Google makes money off the stuff that runs on top of the free operating system (which provides the APIs and runtimes, for free), not the operating system itself.
People are free to do what they like with that free operating system, just look at Amazon for example. They are not beholden to Google, they include and exclude what they require for themselves and that's fine. They don't pay Google a cent for that operating system that they base their devices' software off.
I'm in the same boat. I bought a second hand 3,1 octocore Mac Pro which is supported by El Capitan, bumped up the RAM to 32GB and added a SATAIII card + SSD's. It's a monster, does everything I want and more.
I went that route because I wanted something with some grunt for dev and graphics work (and a bit of gaming in Windows via bootcamp) and it still worked out about the same price or less than a Mac Mini once I'd added the extra bits. Difference is, it eats Mac Minis for breakfast!
It has 64-bit EFI like other modern Macs and has more grunt than some Macs do today, so I'm very disappointed that it's now going to be forced in to obsolescence within the next couple of years. I picked the 3,1 model because it still met the technical criteria for running modern versions of OS X / macOS.
I use it on my work laptop, which I also take home and sometimes use if I want to do something in Windows. Saves having to go hide away from the family on my bootcamped Mac Pro.
I think the main reason people go nuts over the data collection is because it's Microsoft....nevermind the fact that they probably have Facebook and Google accounts - for the record, I don't have an issue with either of these companies either and use services from both.
In this day and age, there is no privacy online. Don't kid yourself. What you can control is what you make available. And there's always a choice, if you don't like the terms, don't use the service.
For me....Windows 10 is fast, stable and has a few extra enhancements that I like over older versions of Windows. The store is also being cleaned up and expanding, and universal apps are interesting to me. It came bundled with the laptop....and I have one other PC that's eligible for a free upgrade before the end of July which I'll be taking advantage of too.
I ended up having to create another account with admin rights on the machine and delete my profile (after grabbing all my files and putting them somewhere safe)
The next time I logged on, a new profile was created. Copied my files back over, deleted the temporary admin account and everything was working again fine.
The clone market still appears to be thriving, so even if 3DR stop making the Pixhawk, you'll still be able to grab one direct from China easily enough. In fact, there are some revised, cut down (in size and some connectors) versions now in case the original is too big and bulky for your craft.
If it's more important to try and push an open source but restrictive license down everyone's throat (hey, the GPL is great for some things, but horrible for others), then perhaps Ubuntu could come up with a variant that uses Debian's kFreeBSD distribution as a base instead?
It's a shame though, I thought the general spirit was to make great things available to the masses and to drive innovation.
10 - 20 "rooftops" to one inverter? You do know that one panel being obscured can dramatically bring down the efficiency of all the others connected to the same circuit, right? Hence micro-inverters are gaining popularity....increased points of failure (one per panel) but increased efficiency...e.g. one panel is obscured, but it's isolated from the rest, so not bringing down the efficiency of the others.
And we wonder why businesses shy away from open source. Well, unless it's BSD licensed I guess.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti open source, I've worked for 2 ISP's and all we ran was Linux & BSD - OSS kept me fed and a roof over my head....plus I have a few machines at home that run it.
Apache software doesn't require the source to be released. Author thinks all open source software should be released to the masses. People asked for their source code, Jide said no, because they weren't partners and explained that Remix OS itself is not open source.
They even had the author of UNetBootin post in the comments section of the story saying he was fine with what Jide had done. Android-x86 project also seem to be on board from what I can gather.
So what's the problem, other than Jide not doing what the author thinks they should do?
Granted, Powershell 1.0 was pretty horrible, I don't get all the Powershell hate. Have you even tried to learn to use recent versions of it?
I absolutely despised it back when I was deploying Exchange 2007 RTM on Windows Server 2003, but that's going back almost a decade.
These days I use Powershell for a ton of stuff. I love the fact that everything is an object. For example, manager asks me for stats from AD, powershell script requesting user objects and filtering the appropriate fields, BAM, create a CSV, pretty it up in Excel and send it off to my manager.
Plus tying into.NET is kick ass too. I've got scripts that update and extract data from MSSQL, amongst other things. Hell, I even played with scripting text to speech alerting just to see if I could, and it was really easy!
Give it another try, it's actually a lot better
And no, before I'm labelled an MS evangelist: I've worked for 2 ISP's in 100% Linux and BSD environments and have thoroughly used at least 7 or 8 different distro's, I run Linux at home for NAS and Asterisk PBX and I own and operate 2 Macs - in addition to my Windows Desktop PC. My current role just happens to be maintaining a 90% Microsoft Environment
I think the idea of not going beyond line of sight is that you'll still be able to recover from FPV equipment failure, and also so you can be more aware of what's around the craft in the area you're flying (e.g. visually inspect what it's flying above).
You can simply look up, or take off your goggles (if you're using them instead of an LCD). In addition, some countries require a second person as a "spotter" to keep an eye out, visually, for things the pilot can't see.
Go beyond line of sight and you don't know what's around the craft other than what you can see through the (usually low quality) camera. Also the majority of autopilot mechanisms available today have no object detection and avoidance, so they can fly into solid objects (including people).
Windows 10 has a few neat features for Enterprise like some of the new management capabilities and more cloud integration. Although my role at work is more behind the scenes, server infrastructure, I do look forward to taking a look at being able to authenticate with Azure Active Directory or Windows Active Directory. Things like that.
I'm sure I'm not the only one. It makes sense for those that already have an investment in Microsoft infrastructure.
Home users, maybe they won't appreciate it so much, and that's fine, they can run what they like. That's their choice. I run a couple of Linux boxes, a Mac and a Chromebook in addition to Windows in my home, they all have their strengths and their weaknesses.
For work though, we're a Microsoft shop (long before I arrived) and that's fine by me. With adequate change control in place, regular maintenance and good infrastructure decisions, we have very little downtime. I expect performance and reliability to remain that way, or even improve as we deploy Windows 10 and its server equivalent in our environment after sufficient testing.
I remember earlier in my career, looking for work with a tertiary qualification and 4 years experience in the IT workforce under my belt (I worked in IT before, during and after tertiary study) and being turned down by potential employers because I wasn't "Microsoft Certified"
Nevermind the fact that at least 2 of the papers I studied toward that tertiary qualification revolved around configuring and supporting Microsoft networks and I'd been working with Microsoft technologies full time for about 2-3 years prior.
I later just got the damn certification anyway, because I needed the job prospects that came with it. I learnt very little by doing it.
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Android is free and open source. The operating system isn't what makes the money.
Google makes money off the stuff that runs on top of the free operating system (which provides the APIs and runtimes, for free), not the operating system itself.
People are free to do what they like with that free operating system, just look at Amazon for example. They are not beholden to Google, they include and exclude what they require for themselves and that's fine. They don't pay Google a cent for that operating system that they base their devices' software off.
I'm in the same boat. I bought a second hand 3,1 octocore Mac Pro which is supported by El Capitan, bumped up the RAM to 32GB and added a SATAIII card + SSD's. It's a monster, does everything I want and more.
I went that route because I wanted something with some grunt for dev and graphics work (and a bit of gaming in Windows via bootcamp) and it still worked out about the same price or less than a Mac Mini once I'd added the extra bits. Difference is, it eats Mac Minis for breakfast!
It has 64-bit EFI like other modern Macs and has more grunt than some Macs do today, so I'm very disappointed that it's now going to be forced in to obsolescence within the next couple of years. I picked the 3,1 model because it still met the technical criteria for running modern versions of OS X / macOS.
I use it on my work laptop, which I also take home and sometimes use if I want to do something in Windows. Saves having to go hide away from the family on my bootcamped Mac Pro.
I think the main reason people go nuts over the data collection is because it's Microsoft....nevermind the fact that they probably have Facebook and Google accounts - for the record, I don't have an issue with either of these companies either and use services from both.
In this day and age, there is no privacy online. Don't kid yourself. What you can control is what you make available. And there's always a choice, if you don't like the terms, don't use the service.
For me....Windows 10 is fast, stable and has a few extra enhancements that I like over older versions of Windows. The store is also being cleaned up and expanding, and universal apps are interesting to me. It came bundled with the laptop....and I have one other PC that's eligible for a free upgrade before the end of July which I'll be taking advantage of too.
Windows is dead!
And then you can call it "Ubuntu Budgie Smuggler"
I suggested a similar thing when the GPL purists were getting ansy about Ubuntu planning to include ZFS support.
I for one, welcome our new cyborg overlords
I had a similar issue.
I ended up having to create another account with admin rights on the machine and delete my profile (after grabbing all my files and putting them somewhere safe)
The next time I logged on, a new profile was created. Copied my files back over, deleted the temporary admin account and everything was working again fine.
The clone market still appears to be thriving, so even if 3DR stop making the Pixhawk, you'll still be able to grab one direct from China easily enough. In fact, there are some revised, cut down (in size and some connectors) versions now in case the original is too big and bulky for your craft.
If it's more important to try and push an open source but restrictive license down everyone's throat (hey, the GPL is great for some things, but horrible for others), then perhaps Ubuntu could come up with a variant that uses Debian's kFreeBSD distribution as a base instead?
It's a shame though, I thought the general spirit was to make great things available to the masses and to drive innovation.
10 - 20 "rooftops" to one inverter? You do know that one panel being obscured can dramatically bring down the efficiency of all the others connected to the same circuit, right? Hence micro-inverters are gaining popularity....increased points of failure (one per panel) but increased efficiency...e.g. one panel is obscured, but it's isolated from the rest, so not bringing down the efficiency of the others.
And we wonder why businesses shy away from open source. Well, unless it's BSD licensed I guess.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti open source, I've worked for 2 ISP's and all we ran was Linux & BSD - OSS kept me fed and a roof over my head....plus I have a few machines at home that run it.
Apache software doesn't require the source to be released. Author thinks all open source software should be released to the masses. People asked for their source code, Jide said no, because they weren't partners and explained that Remix OS itself is not open source.
They even had the author of UNetBootin post in the comments section of the story saying he was fine with what Jide had done. Android-x86 project also seem to be on board from what I can gather.
So what's the problem, other than Jide not doing what the author thinks they should do?
The solution is obvious, require registration of all lasers. It's going to work for "drones," right?
This was what OpenCV was originally created for, wasn't it? To crawl the net so geeks don't have to.
Granted, Powershell 1.0 was pretty horrible, I don't get all the Powershell hate. Have you even tried to learn to use recent versions of it?
I absolutely despised it back when I was deploying Exchange 2007 RTM on Windows Server 2003, but that's going back almost a decade.
These days I use Powershell for a ton of stuff. I love the fact that everything is an object. For example, manager asks me for stats from AD, powershell script requesting user objects and filtering the appropriate fields, BAM, create a CSV, pretty it up in Excel and send it off to my manager.
Plus tying into .NET is kick ass too. I've got scripts that update and extract data from MSSQL, amongst other things. Hell, I even played with scripting text to speech alerting just to see if I could, and it was really easy!
Give it another try, it's actually a lot better
And no, before I'm labelled an MS evangelist: I've worked for 2 ISP's in 100% Linux and BSD environments and have thoroughly used at least 7 or 8 different distro's, I run Linux at home for NAS and Asterisk PBX and I own and operate 2 Macs - in addition to my Windows Desktop PC. My current role just happens to be maintaining a 90% Microsoft Environment
I think the idea of not going beyond line of sight is that you'll still be able to recover from FPV equipment failure, and also so you can be more aware of what's around the craft in the area you're flying (e.g. visually inspect what it's flying above).
You can simply look up, or take off your goggles (if you're using them instead of an LCD). In addition, some countries require a second person as a "spotter" to keep an eye out, visually, for things the pilot can't see.
Go beyond line of sight and you don't know what's around the craft other than what you can see through the (usually low quality) camera. Also the majority of autopilot mechanisms available today have no object detection and avoidance, so they can fly into solid objects (including people).
Windows 10 has a few neat features for Enterprise like some of the new management capabilities and more cloud integration. Although my role at work is more behind the scenes, server infrastructure, I do look forward to taking a look at being able to authenticate with Azure Active Directory or Windows Active Directory. Things like that.
I'm sure I'm not the only one. It makes sense for those that already have an investment in Microsoft infrastructure.
Home users, maybe they won't appreciate it so much, and that's fine, they can run what they like. That's their choice. I run a couple of Linux boxes, a Mac and a Chromebook in addition to Windows in my home, they all have their strengths and their weaknesses.
For work though, we're a Microsoft shop (long before I arrived) and that's fine by me. With adequate change control in place, regular maintenance and good infrastructure decisions, we have very little downtime. I expect performance and reliability to remain that way, or even improve as we deploy Windows 10 and its server equivalent in our environment after sufficient testing.
How about a compromise....LASER TEETH!! :D
1. Create laser system for Navy
2. Create robotic shark army
3. Combine 1 & 2
4. ?????????????
5. Profit!!
I think we have a volunteer :)
Until the woman uses colour names like "Peach", etc. to describe it
PEACH IS A FRUIT!!
I remember earlier in my career, looking for work with a tertiary qualification and 4 years experience in the IT workforce under my belt (I worked in IT before, during and after tertiary study) and being turned down by potential employers because I wasn't "Microsoft Certified"
Nevermind the fact that at least 2 of the papers I studied toward that tertiary qualification revolved around configuring and supporting Microsoft networks and I'd been working with Microsoft technologies full time for about 2-3 years prior.
I later just got the damn certification anyway, because I needed the job prospects that came with it. I learnt very little by doing it.
5....4....3....2.....1.....
Not a wiki, but it gives you that "internal YouTube" kinda thing: www.vimp.com
Even has a freebie community edition.