That's why I was suggesting RH et al should off to enable other repos and a choice of packages from those repos as the last step of installation. They don't have to come out and say they're offering for the purpose of enabling codecs but it would make life easier.
Taken over in terms of quantity of content and in terms of quality. AAC delivers subjectively better audio at the same bitrate. If your entire collection is MP3 it makes no damned odds but I suspect most people have collections in a mixture of formats and bitrates.
AAC has taken over from MP3 and of course there is no video but it's still welcome. I wish that dists would offer users the choice to browse additional repositories as a final installation step. Stuff like additional codecs, drivers, certain software could all be installed at this stage.
The UAE isn't landlocked and has plenty of sunshine. It shouldn't be difficult to build some desalination plants and run them off solar power. I'm sure there is also some potential for capturing water from the air (Dubai is incredibly humid), lots of potential for recycling water for crops & sanitation, plus agricultural & building code regulations, etc to minimize waste.
Or they could bet the farm on dragging an iceberg to their country and watch as that plan fails for any number of reasons.
Theoretically a mesh of leo satellites could also route packets far faster in a lot of cases than if the packet went up and came back down and through a bunch of backbones. Could even cache stuff similar to some CDN services.
In practice it could also suck badly. Have to wait and see. Price is important too.
Windows 10 S is designed to "normalize" the idea of running Windows without the ability to choose where you install your applications from or what applications are available to you.
It's Windows RT all over again and I hope it flops as badly. A device capable of running 10 S is capable of running Windows 10. There is no excuse.
I don't see that at all. I think it's designed to make UWP / Windows store popular by preventing people from not using it, and to promote Microsoft's cloud based services, by removing any competition. It's a wedge in other words.
Full blown Windows 10 already runs in the spec of Windows 10 S devices. There are literally $150 laptops out there running Windows 10 32-bit from devices with 2GB RAM and 32GB storage.
Windows 10 Cloud is basically a rebranded Windows RT. It is stripped of the capacity of running normal Windows applications, being only able to run UWP ones and is therefore worse than fucking useless.
I wonder if there is an argument to port Wine to UWP so it can revert some of the brain damage for people stuck with one of these devices.
Things like robots and self driving cars are represent new opportunities for griefing. Of course they're going to be attacked, keyed, have boxes tossed in front of them, gum stuck on their cameras etc. If devices had better be designed to prevent/mitigate these attacks or they're not going to last long.
The robot managed to build a giant letter C in expanding foam. It is FAR from being a habitable building built in a day. It has no poured concrete (or steel reinforcers), no floor, no roof, no internal / external rendering, no windows, no plumbing, wiring, no damp seal, no partitions etc.
All of that implies a team of builders turning up to finish what the robot started. And that kind of begs the question how much benefit was derived from hauling out a giant robot arm and tanker of foam in the first place. Building techniques such as insulated concrete formwork is already a thing and does more or less the same thing except to any shape and to a better finish.
More likely they'll just put a wireless charger into the existing wifi device. They could even go further - it's not hard to imagine some kind of Google Assistant kind of device that acts as a speaker, wifi repeater and charger all in one thing.
I should think so. Apple would probably just release a wireless charger that's also a wifi hotspot / repeater. Not sure how it would be a novel idea but hey.
There is absolutely no merit in claiming COBOL is "easier to learn" and I supplied valid examples. What COBOL may or may not have done 30 or 40 years ago is an irrelevance now. That masochists might be able to make it do is an irrelevance too. I could probably write a web application in Brainfuck, not that I want to.
Arguments for teaching COBOL remind me of arguments for teaching Latin. Yeah there are niches where both might be used (respectively IBM and the Vatican) but if you're going to teach someone a language you're better off teaching them something practical and in common use.
COBOL is an arcane, baroque and verbose language which serves a very singular purpose in business - processing records. I fail to see how it's "easier to learn" unless all you ever wish to learn in computing is how to process records on mainframe computers.
If you learn computing because you want to write a game, or a website, or an application, or manage a database. i.e. if you learn for the reasons that 99.99% of people learn for then COBOL is unsuitable. Any general purpose language would be more suitable than COBOL for learning. If Java doesn't float your boat then there are the likes of C#, Python, Go, Dart, C++, Ruby etc.
It's hard to see how you think OO has "failed" given that virtually every piece of modern software uses it implicitly or explicitly.
And the money saved on this contract wouldn't necessarily go to other projects either. NASA would have one less line item in their budget and the sum they receive would be less by that amount.
Yes because UEFA controls the police operation doesn't it? And UEFA is really going to put its foot down on tech that is there to weed out people convicted of violent crimes, fans with match bans, suspected terrorists etc. from attending the game. Because it's not like Europe has a general problem with football match violence or terrorism to be concerned about is it?
Back in the real world, the police plan the operation and they are going to bring all the tools to bear that the law allows for.
The directive is unambiguously clear - type 2 and combo 2 are the baseline from that date onwards. Charge stations may also support chademo or Tesla's Mennekes extension if they so wish but in addition to CCS. It's hard to see how any charging network could exempt themselves from the requirements without pretending they're some kind of private members club, but in the process lose themselves business.
And CCS isn't "crappy". It's still a very straightforward system that supports AC and DC with a protocol that negotiates the rate between charger and car. It's a shame that the Euro version didn't adopt Tesla's DC extension over Mennekes to reduce footprint a bit but it's still fine for its purpose. Certainly much better than chademo which has been rightly called a frankencharger and doesn't even do AC charging. Leaf cars have their charge ports in the nose of the car to house separate DC and AC (type 1 or 2) charge systems. The chademo system has reached its high water mark in Europe, it won't be going anywhere from now on.
It's almost as if I said that... "Obviously there is over 3 years to go on this and charge stations can be grandfathered in."
It doesn't mean new stations are going to be built blindly without regard to legislation coming into force within a short period of time. And even now there are more than enough CCS combo 2 vehicles to justify supporting what will soon be mandatory.
Not at all. There's noting in Europe that requires Tesla to provide any charging to anyone else (and they don't now either).
Yes there is. Here is the directive that comes into force on 31 Dec 2020. The directive covers a bunch of stuff about alternative fuel but in this case, the salient point is that charging stations MUST offer combo 2 chargers and MUST charge on a non-discriminatory basis. There is also a bunch of other good stuff about non-discriminatory charging across borders and so forth.
Obviously there is over 3 years to go on this and charge stations can be grandfathered in. But nobody is going to turn soil on a new charger station without paying attention to what it says. Tesla included. All charge stations built after that will be required to offer "at least" a combo 2 charger. What they do beyond that is up to them.
Tesla has already made positive sounds about supporting other vehicles so I don't see it being an issue as such in Europe. I would be more concerned with the US where it seems lawmakers are happy to see vertical markets build up and for consumers to be the victims in a format war.
Yes the car could use some proprietary port and force owners to use adapter cables every time to charge their car. But then their car will suck and people will take note of the fact.
The situation for a phone is different because most people would get a charger for their phone and predominantly charge through that. .
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That's why I was suggesting RH et al should off to enable other repos and a choice of packages from those repos as the last step of installation. They don't have to come out and say they're offering for the purpose of enabling codecs but it would make life easier.
Taken over in terms of quantity of content and in terms of quality. AAC delivers subjectively better audio at the same bitrate. If your entire collection is MP3 it makes no damned odds but I suspect most people have collections in a mixture of formats and bitrates.
AAC has taken over from MP3 and of course there is no video but it's still welcome. I wish that dists would offer users the choice to browse additional repositories as a final installation step. Stuff like additional codecs, drivers, certain software could all be installed at this stage.
Internet routing in space is already a thing. A mesh is just an extension of that concept. Any mesh system has way more problems than just routing.
Or they could bet the farm on dragging an iceberg to their country and watch as that plan fails for any number of reasons.
In practice it could also suck badly. Have to wait and see. Price is important too.
It's Windows RT all over again and I hope it flops as badly. A device capable of running 10 S is capable of running Windows 10. There is no excuse.
Full blown Windows 10 already runs in the spec of Windows 10 S devices. There are literally $150 laptops out there running Windows 10 32-bit from devices with 2GB RAM and 32GB storage.
I wonder if there is an argument to port Wine to UWP so it can revert some of the brain damage for people stuck with one of these devices.
Things like robots and self driving cars are represent new opportunities for griefing. Of course they're going to be attacked, keyed, have boxes tossed in front of them, gum stuck on their cameras etc. If devices had better be designed to prevent/mitigate these attacks or they're not going to last long.
All of that implies a team of builders turning up to finish what the robot started. And that kind of begs the question how much benefit was derived from hauling out a giant robot arm and tanker of foam in the first place. Building techniques such as insulated concrete formwork is already a thing and does more or less the same thing except to any shape and to a better finish.
More likely they'll just put a wireless charger into the existing wifi device. They could even go further - it's not hard to imagine some kind of Google Assistant kind of device that acts as a speaker, wifi repeater and charger all in one thing.
I should think so. Apple would probably just release a wireless charger that's also a wifi hotspot / repeater. Not sure how it would be a novel idea but hey.
There is absolutely no merit in claiming COBOL is "easier to learn" and I supplied valid examples. What COBOL may or may not have done 30 or 40 years ago is an irrelevance now. That masochists might be able to make it do is an irrelevance too. I could probably write a web application in Brainfuck, not that I want to.
Arguments for teaching COBOL remind me of arguments for teaching Latin. Yeah there are niches where both might be used (respectively IBM and the Vatican) but if you're going to teach someone a language you're better off teaching them something practical and in common use.
If you learn computing because you want to write a game, or a website, or an application, or manage a database. i.e. if you learn for the reasons that 99.99% of people learn for then COBOL is unsuitable. Any general purpose language would be more suitable than COBOL for learning. If Java doesn't float your boat then there are the likes of C#, Python, Go, Dart, C++, Ruby etc.
It's hard to see how you think OO has "failed" given that virtually every piece of modern software uses it implicitly or explicitly.
But this money wouldn't go to NASA anyway.
And the money saved on this contract wouldn't necessarily go to other projects either. NASA would have one less line item in their budget and the sum they receive would be less by that amount.
Yeah it'll work great in the sense that it will single you out for even more attention.
Back in the real world, the police plan the operation and they are going to bring all the tools to bear that the law allows for.
And CCS isn't "crappy". It's still a very straightforward system that supports AC and DC with a protocol that negotiates the rate between charger and car. It's a shame that the Euro version didn't adopt Tesla's DC extension over Mennekes to reduce footprint a bit but it's still fine for its purpose. Certainly much better than chademo which has been rightly called a frankencharger and doesn't even do AC charging. Leaf cars have their charge ports in the nose of the car to house separate DC and AC (type 1 or 2) charge systems. The chademo system has reached its high water mark in Europe, it won't be going anywhere from now on.
It doesn't mean new stations are going to be built blindly without regard to legislation coming into force within a short period of time. And even now there are more than enough CCS combo 2 vehicles to justify supporting what will soon be mandatory.
Not at all. There's noting in Europe that requires Tesla to provide any charging to anyone else (and they don't now either).
Yes there is. Here is the directive that comes into force on 31 Dec 2020. The directive covers a bunch of stuff about alternative fuel but in this case, the salient point is that charging stations MUST offer combo 2 chargers and MUST charge on a non-discriminatory basis. There is also a bunch of other good stuff about non-discriminatory charging across borders and so forth.
Obviously there is over 3 years to go on this and charge stations can be grandfathered in. But nobody is going to turn soil on a new charger station without paying attention to what it says. Tesla included. All charge stations built after that will be required to offer "at least" a combo 2 charger. What they do beyond that is up to them.
Tesla has already made positive sounds about supporting other vehicles so I don't see it being an issue as such in Europe. I would be more concerned with the US where it seems lawmakers are happy to see vertical markets build up and for consumers to be the victims in a format war.
The situation for a phone is different because most people would get a charger for their phone and predominantly charge through that. .
Correction: "I'm not sure it is an advantage"