Look at the complexity of your solution, then the complexity of the GP's (assuming it's QR encoded, not printed text). A simple standard direct encoding of the information, potentially pubkey signed for verification, makes way more sense than dealing with all that other fluff.
Not to mention deploying OS updates, new versions of client-side software for their cloud-hosted services, and fielding all the troubleshooting that comes from that.
The presence of batteries confuses me a bit as well. The data cable seems to be just a twisted-pair phone line. I don't know how bad the losses & electrical issues are of 5VDC over such wire at 100m lengths, but I wouldn't expect them to be too horrible.
While I'm old and I like my email, the one good thing about IM-like systems is that group chats easily contain their context in the scrollback, and when dealing with professionals, can be kept concise and on-topic with a fairly large number of participants. Email lists tend toward late responses and thread fragmentation given the same usage scenario.
Huh, I guess they did. I know they were holding out on that, for some reason, back when people actually were interested in Wave and Google was still promoting it.
Is anybody doing anything with it? As heavyweight as it is, with Google effectively dropping it I'm not sure how many people would actually embrace it lone-wolf style.
All these other schemes tend to cluster around particular servers or owned infrastructure. Facebook, Skype, Twitter, Google's stuff, etc live and die on the company supporting it. If Google had made good on their promises and released their federated Wave servers, that might have been one launching point where something new could have come around. (Wave in and of itself didn't seem that great, but offered an reasonable point of more complex integration.)
But until some actual, open system that supports delayed delivery and large messages with attachments across personally-managed independent servers, I don't think any of them will encroach on the more formal uses of email.
By offloading the rote and basic informational dispersal to the students, that would hopefully free up the teacher to focus on walking through real demonstrations and examples, interacting with students, and helping out with some of the difficult-to-understand areas, instead of spending most of their time doing the same lecture-style material over and over.
Not to mention drawing almost 15 watts, and seemingly having lower resolution output. At least it's got more USB ports and VGA, but the latter is pretty minor nowadays.
Then you're in agreement with the people at the rally. It seems they're talking about how *they* respond to access to everything, and about controlling *themselves*. It has nothing to do with you or me, or forcing anything on the internet itself.
If you outsource the *entire* project to a competent, established development team, you'll have a much better chance of getting what you pay for in a positive sense, than trying to sprinkle in disconnected external devs extremely cheaply and expecting to have a coherent production.
#1 and #3, fine. But #2? Education is so boondoggled in this nation, and the bureaucracies involved are such ineffective money pits, that it needs to be cut out. According to wiki, it was only formed in 1980; it is an experiment of the last few decades that does not seem to have any effect on the downward direction of US education and I see no reason not to end it, especially in fiscally difficult times.
2) "I'm sorry, I will not provide you with that information, because it's none of your concern what I do in my personal time on my personal accounts."
This should be:
2) "So you're seeking employees who are willing to violate contracts they made with business entities, inasmuch as TOSes count as contracts?"
Of course, the conversation should end with the type of statement you made, but it warrants more discussion with your interviewer than beginning with a refusal.
Loans aren't the difference between going to a "better school" and non-"better school", for most people they're a requirement to go to a university at all. A "better school" for most simply means picking the one that has at least some focus on whatever major they want, not going for Ivy League prestige or whatever. Going to the local state school without a specific degree in mind and coasting through to get a degree "just because" requires the same level of overbearing debt burden as somebody on an educational mission who's making a conscious decision about which non-prestige university to attend.
In simple monetary terms, the studies mapping the tradeoff between getting a degree and simply entering the workforce after grade school is showing that it's taking longer and longer for the investment to eventually break even, and for some majors it never does. So, no, many people are not gaining income because they decided to get up to their eyeballs in debt to go to school, and the number who do are falling.
The problem is not "waah, I'm entitled, it's too expensive!", it's a very lucid matter of "I want better education, I paid/owe a ton, and what qualifies for 'education' here simply does not cut it."
What appears to be happening is that costs are inflating in accordance to the availability of and expectation of student loans, because hey, the kids'll have it so might as well take it. The quality of education is not increasing with all this additional tuition money being leached into the schools.
The system needs an overhaul and costs need to be reined in. Arguing about loan interest rates on this burgeoning, inflated debt is just shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic.
As long as you carry a million dollar insurance bond? Somehow I don't think that will cut it
That bond, and this licensing for the car, is only for *testing* autonomous vehicles on public roads. AFAIK, there is no licensing for non-testing common purposes yet.
Depending on your definition of "functional", I believe some of the Arduinos, BASIC Stamps, and the similar are in that range. Of course, these will require custom programming and don't just drop into a self-hosting Linux environment, and don't have video out, but they are fully self-contained computing & IO devices.
While the RPi is pretty weak compared to the current ARM offerings, it does trounce the microcontroller range in computational capability, but its IO would require extra hardware (it's not buffered, etc) to do some real interfacing.
If this is true, then why is libdvdcss still not able to be incorporated in Linux distributions originating from the US?
It is a tool for circumventing access controls to copyrighted materials, thus prohibited. The reverse engineering is allowed, and access controls can be bypassed to perform that step, but you still can't distribute tools that perform the bypass.
And despite what the authoritarians said in their usual spiel of 'the innocent have nothing to fear'...
I agree with you there. While the DMCA definitely brings a chilling effect and I'd support its repeal, it is too often misrepresented in conversation. The actual text of the bill is quite readable, and some "geeky" things are actually exempted or protected.
The file format not being copyrightable has nothing to do with the data/content itself being copyrightable. You could make tools that work with that unknown weird format to your heart's content, but still cannot freely copy the data that happened to be *extractable* in that container.
If all you made was some "artistic hash" of the movie file that was no longer usable as the movie itself, that might be a factual observation about it or something, or could be a derivative work.
but the DMCA in the US forbids "reverse engineering"
No, it does not. The DMCA prohibits "Circumvention of Technological Protection Measures", specifically circumvention of measures to access copyrighted materials, and circumvention of measures to copy copyrighted materials. It prohibits the act of circumvention as well as distribution of circumvention tools.
Reverse engineering is specifically *protected* in the DMCA, exempted from its prohibition, allowing you to circumvent access restrictions, if you need to achieve interoperability and the software is "lawfully obtained".
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Look at the complexity of your solution, then the complexity of the GP's (assuming it's QR encoded, not printed text). A simple standard direct encoding of the information, potentially pubkey signed for verification, makes way more sense than dealing with all that other fluff.
Not to mention deploying OS updates, new versions of client-side software for their cloud-hosted services, and fielding all the troubleshooting that comes from that.
The presence of batteries confuses me a bit as well. The data cable seems to be just a twisted-pair phone line. I don't know how bad the losses & electrical issues are of 5VDC over such wire at 100m lengths, but I wouldn't expect them to be too horrible.
While I'm old and I like my email, the one good thing about IM-like systems is that group chats easily contain their context in the scrollback, and when dealing with professionals, can be kept concise and on-topic with a fairly large number of participants. Email lists tend toward late responses and thread fragmentation given the same usage scenario.
Huh, I guess they did. I know they were holding out on that, for some reason, back when people actually were interested in Wave and Google was still promoting it.
Is anybody doing anything with it? As heavyweight as it is, with Google effectively dropping it I'm not sure how many people would actually embrace it lone-wolf style.
I'm intolerant of inhumane behavior, sure.
And that is the exact stance "they" take, just for a different definition of "inhumane".
All these other schemes tend to cluster around particular servers or owned infrastructure. Facebook, Skype, Twitter, Google's stuff, etc live and die on the company supporting it. If Google had made good on their promises and released their federated Wave servers, that might have been one launching point where something new could have come around. (Wave in and of itself didn't seem that great, but offered an reasonable point of more complex integration.)
But until some actual, open system that supports delayed delivery and large messages with attachments across personally-managed independent servers, I don't think any of them will encroach on the more formal uses of email.
The cross-BBS networks would count as email under your definition. Probably not leaving notes between users on a single board, though.
By offloading the rote and basic informational dispersal to the students, that would hopefully free up the teacher to focus on walking through real demonstrations and examples, interacting with students, and helping out with some of the difficult-to-understand areas, instead of spending most of their time doing the same lecture-style material over and over.
The RPi is intended for people who have at least a television in the house. Composite + HDMI should work with the vast majority of such households.
Not to mention drawing almost 15 watts, and seemingly having lower resolution output. At least it's got more USB ports and VGA, but the latter is pretty minor nowadays.
Then you're in agreement with the people at the rally. It seems they're talking about how *they* respond to access to everything, and about controlling *themselves*. It has nothing to do with you or me, or forcing anything on the internet itself.
If you outsource the *entire* project to a competent, established development team, you'll have a much better chance of getting what you pay for in a positive sense, than trying to sprinkle in disconnected external devs extremely cheaply and expecting to have a coherent production.
Why don't they just put both labels on it?
#1 and #3, fine. But #2? Education is so boondoggled in this nation, and the bureaucracies involved are such ineffective money pits, that it needs to be cut out. According to wiki, it was only formed in 1980; it is an experiment of the last few decades that does not seem to have any effect on the downward direction of US education and I see no reason not to end it, especially in fiscally difficult times.
2) "I'm sorry, I will not provide you with that information, because it's none of your concern what I do in my personal time on my personal accounts."
This should be:
2) "So you're seeking employees who are willing to violate contracts they made with business entities, inasmuch as TOSes count as contracts?"
Of course, the conversation should end with the type of statement you made, but it warrants more discussion with your interviewer than beginning with a refusal.
Loans aren't the difference between going to a "better school" and non-"better school", for most people they're a requirement to go to a university at all. A "better school" for most simply means picking the one that has at least some focus on whatever major they want, not going for Ivy League prestige or whatever. Going to the local state school without a specific degree in mind and coasting through to get a degree "just because" requires the same level of overbearing debt burden as somebody on an educational mission who's making a conscious decision about which non-prestige university to attend.
In simple monetary terms, the studies mapping the tradeoff between getting a degree and simply entering the workforce after grade school is showing that it's taking longer and longer for the investment to eventually break even, and for some majors it never does. So, no, many people are not gaining income because they decided to get up to their eyeballs in debt to go to school, and the number who do are falling.
The problem is not "waah, I'm entitled, it's too expensive!", it's a very lucid matter of "I want better education, I paid/owe a ton, and what qualifies for 'education' here simply does not cut it."
What appears to be happening is that costs are inflating in accordance to the availability of and expectation of student loans, because hey, the kids'll have it so might as well take it. The quality of education is not increasing with all this additional tuition money being leached into the schools.
The system needs an overhaul and costs need to be reined in. Arguing about loan interest rates on this burgeoning, inflated debt is just shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic.
As long as you carry a million dollar insurance bond? Somehow I don't think that will cut it
That bond, and this licensing for the car, is only for *testing* autonomous vehicles on public roads. AFAIK, there is no licensing for non-testing common purposes yet.
12.7 billion years ago it might have been 12.7 billion light years away, but where is it now?
Depending on your definition of "functional", I believe some of the Arduinos, BASIC Stamps, and the similar are in that range. Of course, these will require custom programming and don't just drop into a self-hosting Linux environment, and don't have video out, but they are fully self-contained computing & IO devices.
While the RPi is pretty weak compared to the current ARM offerings, it does trounce the microcontroller range in computational capability, but its IO would require extra hardware (it's not buffered, etc) to do some real interfacing.
If this is true, then why is libdvdcss still not able to be incorporated in Linux distributions originating from the US?
It is a tool for circumventing access controls to copyrighted materials, thus prohibited. The reverse engineering is allowed, and access controls can be bypassed to perform that step, but you still can't distribute tools that perform the bypass.
And despite what the authoritarians said in their usual spiel of 'the innocent have nothing to fear'...
I agree with you there. While the DMCA definitely brings a chilling effect and I'd support its repeal, it is too often misrepresented in conversation. The actual text of the bill is quite readable, and some "geeky" things are actually exempted or protected.
The file format not being copyrightable has nothing to do with the data/content itself being copyrightable. You could make tools that work with that unknown weird format to your heart's content, but still cannot freely copy the data that happened to be *extractable* in that container.
If all you made was some "artistic hash" of the movie file that was no longer usable as the movie itself, that might be a factual observation about it or something, or could be a derivative work.
but the DMCA in the US forbids "reverse engineering"
No, it does not. The DMCA prohibits "Circumvention of Technological Protection Measures", specifically circumvention of measures to access copyrighted materials, and circumvention of measures to copy copyrighted materials. It prohibits the act of circumvention as well as distribution of circumvention tools.
Reverse engineering is specifically *protected* in the DMCA, exempted from its prohibition, allowing you to circumvent access restrictions, if you need to achieve interoperability and the software is "lawfully obtained".
640fps should be enough for anybody.