swap in a somewhat bigger and uglier, but non-explosive, battery
You wouldn't even have to do that. Just power it with a 5V AC adapter. There are plenty of applications in that size that don't need to be portable. I'd buy one to use as a kitchen-mounted media player for the right price.
Use them to power in-store advertising displays (sans battery) or kiosks. Tablet devices being used for this purpose already and their screen is almost as large.
5.1 Audio is actually sort of worthless for most programming
Not true at all. And I'll tell you why. Having a center channel for dialogue not only makes it clearer, but it's also directionally correct if you already have a 5.1 system with properly spaced speakers. If you sit off-center with left and right channels only and you have speakers on both sides of the room, your sound will be reaching only one ear.
It's one of the core features in security DVRs. Certainly a lot more useful than a connected fridge. Security is as possible here as it is with a dedicated server. IoT is still just computers when you get to the root of it.
Basically we're back to the 90's. The Internet drove most of the recent upgrade cycles. But now we're back to the point where once you buy a computer, it's good until it fails for the task you bought it for.
Web page bloat can't get much bigger (OK, it could), but slower smartphones have driven somewhat leaner pages. Security patches added some slowness to some large software, but that's now the standard baseline as well.
If you're still on a Core2 Duo, you can easily find a PC that is 4x faster. You can't look at clock speed alone, either, because there are more instructions per clock on newer Core i-series CPUs.
Just using Passmark's web site as a guide, the Core2 Duo has a rating of 2400 at most (single core at ~1300). Assuming this rating number scales accurately, the faster i7 CPUs top a rating of 10,000 with a single core nearly matching the power of your two cores.
Really, though, a more powerful CPU is not nearly the purchase driver that an SSD is. And I found that my hard drive was my main bottleneck for basic computing.
Measure 97 currently on the fall ballot in Oregon will tax some businesses 2.5% on sales, not profit.
And until that passes, it's still not the case anywhere. And Oregon has no sales tax. This is a way of sneaking in a sales tax through the back door.
Four of those are "taxes" by name and are not calculated based on profits but on the expense of paying an employee. They are, indeed, employer-paid taxes on the money paid to employees.
But these are not income taxes, so don't equate them as such - it has nothing at all to do with the profit of the business, only the amount chosen to pay. That's already accounted for when you pick a hiring wage of $36,000.
They may have a defacto monopoly, but it was not granted to them, is is based on economic factors.
Cable? They tend to have exclusivity clauses in their franchise agreements with municipalities. They are more than a defacto monopoly.
If a $36,000/year worker is paid from revenue *and* you call revenue "income", taxing the business for it, then that $36,000/year worker actually costs $60,000/year (40% business income tax). Why? Because to pay his $36,000 wage *plus* the tax on that wage, you have to collect $60,000, pay 40% in taxes ($24,000), and then give the rest to the worker--who then also pays taxes on it.
The business does not pay taxes on revenue - they pay it on profits. The $36,000/year is an expense and it's not part of the profit and not taxed. The employee, however, will pay tax on their income and lose a certain amount of that money depending on their tax bracket.
Maybe you said that, maybe you didn't - it's not easy to tell. But in the case of cable companies, they're granted a virtual monopoly in most markets. Cutting deeply into profits means they're still ahead - even the CEO's wage is an expense before profits. Raising prices in response is only to "punish" the economy that fined them and keep their profits the same and reward shareholders (if applicable) for allowing the mismanagement.
Bad writing, but I'm sure the meaning is that it also legitimately installs the actual intended software. Might even be the exact same installer but with a modified payload.
If you say it on the Internet, it's there to be read, period. They're just going to run their own crawler instead. This is a non-story, really. It's more than just overheard, it's being broadcast.
It's OK for the police to track your movements via fake phone towers, because you're publically transmitting that data anyway.
Already requires a warrant. The fake phone towers are still illegal (yet to be proven) if other phones connect to it. This requires intercepting encrypted communications and performing a MITM attack.
No, with that argument you're saying that you can't patent something simply because it's held together with screws
And you're saying that things made with screws can't be patented. Novel algorithms deserve patents.
Using Google as an example, their PageRank algorithm was awarded a patent and it's pure software. Everything about it was novel at the time - nobody else was doing anything like it. I would argue that this deserves a patent.
On the other hand, the idea of a search engine based solely on keyword search would merely be searching "but on the Internet" and not deserve patent protection.
You can argue against bad software patents without preventing any financial reward to real innovation.
That doesn't negate anything I've said. In fact, what you linked to says that support is rare or even difficult to get working. And that's even on Linux, so that's likely some sort of non-standard extension.
But you can see on the download page that Noto color emoji is only 2.8MB.
This is a substitution/fallback font - and shouldn't be used for design or UI except where the chosen font is missing a character. If your native language is Chinese, you won't be using this font to view any glyphs that are already included in your Chinese font.
I don't think it's intended for use as a general-purpose font at all. Just for filling in gaps if the font you're reading in is missing a glyph for a particular codepoint. As an English reader/writer, it's unlikely you'll be seeing an 'm' substituted in.
Anywhere you would see a square box now for missing characters, this font would render in. Will be really useful for viewing Wikipedia (where I see this the most).
In the US, at least, they start auto-charging upon reaching a $50 balance, and then bump it up to progressively larger amounts if you spend more than that regularly.
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If you remove the battery and power by AC adapter.
swap in a somewhat bigger and uglier, but non-explosive, battery
You wouldn't even have to do that. Just power it with a 5V AC adapter. There are plenty of applications in that size that don't need to be portable. I'd buy one to use as a kitchen-mounted media player for the right price.
Use them to power in-store advertising displays (sans battery) or kiosks. Tablet devices being used for this purpose already and their screen is almost as large.
5.1 Audio is actually sort of worthless for most programming
Not true at all. And I'll tell you why. Having a center channel for dialogue not only makes it clearer, but it's also directionally correct if you already have a 5.1 system with properly spaced speakers. If you sit off-center with left and right channels only and you have speakers on both sides of the room, your sound will be reaching only one ear.
The point is that Comcast is the one company that can't blame the "content provider" for their high prices.
It's one of the core features in security DVRs. Certainly a lot more useful than a connected fridge. Security is as possible here as it is with a dedicated server. IoT is still just computers when you get to the root of it.
Basically we're back to the 90's. The Internet drove most of the recent upgrade cycles. But now we're back to the point where once you buy a computer, it's good until it fails for the task you bought it for.
Web page bloat can't get much bigger (OK, it could), but slower smartphones have driven somewhat leaner pages. Security patches added some slowness to some large software, but that's now the standard baseline as well.
You do know they said their desktop was fried, right?
But if you're doing a render, a little farm of a few moderate PCs will do a lot better on a much smaller budget.
What happened with Windows 9
Windows 7 ate 9.
If you're still on a Core2 Duo, you can easily find a PC that is 4x faster. You can't look at clock speed alone, either, because there are more instructions per clock on newer Core i-series CPUs.
Just using Passmark's web site as a guide, the Core2 Duo has a rating of 2400 at most (single core at ~1300). Assuming this rating number scales accurately, the faster i7 CPUs top a rating of 10,000 with a single core nearly matching the power of your two cores.
Really, though, a more powerful CPU is not nearly the purchase driver that an SSD is. And I found that my hard drive was my main bottleneck for basic computing.
Measure 97 currently on the fall ballot in Oregon will tax some businesses 2.5% on sales, not profit.
And until that passes, it's still not the case anywhere. And Oregon has no sales tax. This is a way of sneaking in a sales tax through the back door.
Four of those are "taxes" by name and are not calculated based on profits but on the expense of paying an employee. They are, indeed, employer-paid taxes on the money paid to employees.
But these are not income taxes, so don't equate them as such - it has nothing at all to do with the profit of the business, only the amount chosen to pay. That's already accounted for when you pick a hiring wage of $36,000.
They may have a defacto monopoly, but it was not granted to them, is is based on economic factors.
Cable? They tend to have exclusivity clauses in their franchise agreements with municipalities. They are more than a defacto monopoly.
If a $36,000/year worker is paid from revenue *and* you call revenue "income", taxing the business for it, then that $36,000/year worker actually costs $60,000/year (40% business income tax). Why? Because to pay his $36,000 wage *plus* the tax on that wage, you have to collect $60,000, pay 40% in taxes ($24,000), and then give the rest to the worker--who then also pays taxes on it.
The business does not pay taxes on revenue - they pay it on profits. The $36,000/year is an expense and it's not part of the profit and not taxed. The employee, however, will pay tax on their income and lose a certain amount of that money depending on their tax bracket.
Maybe you said that, maybe you didn't - it's not easy to tell. But in the case of cable companies, they're granted a virtual monopoly in most markets. Cutting deeply into profits means they're still ahead - even the CEO's wage is an expense before profits. Raising prices in response is only to "punish" the economy that fined them and keep their profits the same and reward shareholders (if applicable) for allowing the mismanagement.
They're going as far as creating lookalike web sites to host it. I haven't seen this exact thing before personally.
Bad writing, but I'm sure the meaning is that it also legitimately installs the actual intended software. Might even be the exact same installer but with a modified payload.
If you say it on the Internet, it's there to be read, period. They're just going to run their own crawler instead. This is a non-story, really. It's more than just overheard, it's being broadcast.
It's OK for the police to track your movements via fake phone towers, because you're publically transmitting that data anyway.
Already requires a warrant. The fake phone towers are still illegal (yet to be proven) if other phones connect to it. This requires intercepting encrypted communications and performing a MITM attack.
You do that before you start trying to blow people up.
No, with that argument you're saying that you can't patent something simply because it's held together with screws
And you're saying that things made with screws can't be patented. Novel algorithms deserve patents.
Using Google as an example, their PageRank algorithm was awarded a patent and it's pure software. Everything about it was novel at the time - nobody else was doing anything like it. I would argue that this deserves a patent.
On the other hand, the idea of a search engine based solely on keyword search would merely be searching "but on the Internet" and not deserve patent protection.
You can argue against bad software patents without preventing any financial reward to real innovation.
That doesn't negate anything I've said. In fact, what you linked to says that support is rare or even difficult to get working. And that's even on Linux, so that's likely some sort of non-standard extension.
But you can see on the download page that Noto color emoji is only 2.8MB.
This is a substitution/fallback font - and shouldn't be used for design or UI except where the chosen font is missing a character. If your native language is Chinese, you won't be using this font to view any glyphs that are already included in your Chinese font.
I don't think it's intended for use as a general-purpose font at all. Just for filling in gaps if the font you're reading in is missing a glyph for a particular codepoint. As an English reader/writer, it's unlikely you'll be seeing an 'm' substituted in.
Anywhere you would see a square box now for missing characters, this font would render in. Will be really useful for viewing Wikipedia (where I see this the most).
Fonts generally don't have support for color. It's just lines, fills, and ligature instructions. There are just a LOT of languages out there.
In the US, at least, they start auto-charging upon reaching a $50 balance, and then bump it up to progressively larger amounts if you spend more than that regularly.
And now I guess you know where they got the clever name. By rhyming with another language. I honestly like it.
That's not where the money is. You're just going to see lots of bad clones stealing marketshare. Why would anything new come of it?