Er yes, it's USB to HDMI. Of course if you have an MHL or Slimport compatible TV then you can plug the phone straight into it that way if you prefer. While it would be vastly preferable if DisplayPort and HDMI weren't in some perpetual standards battle, at the end of the day, they're both display protocols that work over USB and can be used on any TV in 1080p using a relatively inexpensive dongle.
By contrast Lightning which is allegedly the better connector but requires very expensive, proprietary dongles, and for some bizarro reason is actually downscaling and degrading the picture quality by re-encoding it on the fly.
I think see the issue here. You absolutely want vaccines to cause autism. Science says there is no link, but that obviously can't be right (in your mind) so you concoct some vast conspiracy to handwave it all away.
MicroUSB is just a bunch of pins in a particular layout. I expect MHL and slimport just tell the phone to flip the USB out to some mode where it's talking another protocol.
There are at least 2 data protocols which will output video from micro-USB. MHL and Slimport (aka MyDP, mobile DisplayPort). Both can do 1080p60 output (i.e. FullHD and 3D), and aside from how they draw power, they work in a similar way to the end user - plug dongle into phone, plug HDMI cable into dongle, plug power (if applicable) into dongle, and play. Dongles start from $20 up.
I say intractible because it's very easy to conjure urban situations which would seriously confuse a computer such that it would "give up" and would be compelled to return control to a human. And yes I'm aware some driver assist modes exist, and that's exactly what I anticipate to be where development to be for the forseeable future. Some of them may even offer full self-drive in controlled conditions (e.g. a motorway when there is no adverse weather or other problems).
But they still need a driver, one who'd have to take over with perhaps only a few seconds notice. I expect any self drive system will have to figure out how to keep the driver alert and awake even when the car is doing most of the work.
I really don't understand this reasoning. Driving at night with headlights doesn't offer a 100% guarantee of avoiding an accident but it certainly lowers the chances of having one. Wearing a seat belt doesn't offer a 100% guarantee you'll survive an accident but it certainly increases the chances of survivability . So I would hope most people would exercise common sense and do both things. Not everything has to be an all or nothing to have a benefit.
So just because a vaccine is not 100% effective doesn't mean that the alternative of having no protection at all is in any way sane or rational. Hundreds of thousands of people die from flu or complications from flu related illnesses every single year. Many more suffer a really shitty week and continue to infect others while they do so. I wonder how many of those deaths would be avoidable if the person had received a vaccine (providing they were capable of receiving it), or if the people in their vicinity had received theirs.
Exactly. Kids get shots through their infancy and they receive a bunch of screening tests for conditions including autism.
It just so happens that diagnosis follows vaccination, but why blame vaccination when it might so easily (in the absence of evidence to say otherwise) be - second or first hand smoking during development, or alcohol, or perfume / makeup of the mother, or audio frequencies coming from the TV into the womb, or vibrations during driving, or electro magnetic interference from powerlines, or too much / little sunshine, or vitamin / mineral deficiency, or radon gas, or lack of stimulus or over stimulus etc.
Anti vaxxers have latched onto vaccination because of Andrew Wakefield. Ironically Wakefield was fraudulently attempting to discredit MMR because he had his own measles vaccine which he hope to cash-in on in the aftermath. The one good thing to come from it is that the supposed link between Autism and vaccination was exhaustively studied and no link was found. It's safe to say there isn't one and never was. It's far more likely that improved diagnosis, earlier screening and a lack of critical thinking has created the link in some people's minds.
Show me a vaccine which is part of the regular child schedule where the risk of harm from the shot is even remotely comparable to the risk of harm from the disease it prevents. No doctor or "vaccine advocate" as you put it, would ever claim there is zero risk. In fact the documentation you get with a shot explains the potential side effects complete with their known rates of occurrence.
Chickenpox is an easily prevented communicable disease. While it is rarely fatal it can do great harm to unborn children and it does have complications and it can lead to shingles later in life. It also has an economic impact and routinely disrupts schools when outbreaks occur. Given that there is a safe and effective vaccine, why shouldn't a kid receive a shot for it?
As a grown up, I rationally weigh up the pluses and minuses of a flu vaccination.
On the plus side, not getting flu means I don't feel like shit for a week, I don't take days off for illness, I don't pass on the disease to my family or colleagues and I don't leave myself at a higher risk of a worse repository infection or even die. On the minus side, I must spend 20 euros and 15 minutes of my lunch time for a tiny pinprick injection.
This is a really stupid argument. Walk into WHSmith, or HMV, or any other video retailer in the UK and you will see Doctor Who episodes for sale. Go onto Netflix in the UK or the US and you will see Doctor Who and other BBC series. Just because they were produced and broadcast on TV does not mean the BBC will not try to monetize them in other ways. Just because these particular episodes were rediscovered doesn't mean they were destined to be shown on TV any more than any other random show from the 60s.
Tell that to me when I'm cruising for 16 hours on I-10 and rather be asleep the whole way.
You're living in cloud cuckoo land if you think a driverless car will arrive any time in the forseeable future will let you do that. I expect even if a car came with a driver assist mode to maintain distance and speed on a motorway that the driver would be required to be ready to take over with a split second's notice. Such a vehicle might even have to monitor the driver's alertness somehow so they couldn't fall asleep or otherwise not be ready to take over.
Every single day I come across scenarios which would be intractible for a driverless car. Crossroads where the lights are out, blocked off lanes, trash or other debris in the road, narrow roads with parked cars, pedestrians striding out into the road, or looking as though they might but who are actually waiting for a bus, lack of road markings, accidents etc.
I don't consider a fully self driving is even remotely capable of coping with real life conditions. It's more likely that vehicles will gain advanced driver assist modes, which in some limited circumstances can do pretty much everything e.g. maybe a highway mode maintains a safe speed and distance, parking assistance, emergency halts / skid control - that sort of thing. But there will still have to be a sober, alert driver behind that wheel at all times. Completely autonomous self driving vehicles are still a pipe dream.
It should be relatively straightforward to secure comms between a smartphone and a car - during a bluetooth sync the car and phone exchange randomly generated public keys. These keys are used to encrypt a handshake in which a random session key is created. The session key combined with timestamped packets would allow the car / phone to talk and also prevent replay attacks.
I suppose someone in a van could throw broken packets or random interference and somehow DOS, disrupt or crash the session though.
That assumes there to be a common protocol for this kind of thing which is exceedingly unlikely to happen for a very long time, or for such vehicles to become common place given it is likely a very expensive optional extra that many people would choose to do without.
Same deal in the UK. Drive an automatic and you get a licence that only covers automatics. Most people however take the manual test which covers both manual and automatic. As an aside, car rental companies must laugh their asses off when Americans rent vehicles in Europe since they get to slap an enormous premium on the automatic models.
Well quite. I expect the US cops presented their counterparts in various countries with a large list of suspected customers / sellers and they went after the low hanging fruit. Maybe these people were known to police already and the logs gave them cause to arrest them. Although the charge would still have to be proven and even the most blatant dealer could beat the charge assuming they had practiced operational security (e.g. ensuring all the illegal activity and the bitcoin wallet all lived in a shadow volume). But then again they might not have been arrested in the first place if they had been that smart.
I doubt some guy who'd ordered a personal amount of weed is going to get arrested though perhaps the cops have enough information to give them a courtesy call.
Most countries run a new series in parallel with the old one and when the % of old series drops to some point they set a date when it ceases to be legal tender (i.e. shops are not obliged to accept it). After that time someone has to exchange the old notes for new notes in some central bank office where presumably they're very good at spotting fakes. It seems odd that the US wouldn't protect its money in the same way.
Perhaps that was true before the dawn of the likes of TripAdvisor. A hotel which pulls a bait and switch like this is going to attract a lot of negativity and bad reviews from people pissed that something advertised as "free" actually.
XMir is rootless X running on Mir. I don't see that it makes much difference to any desktop X11 app if it was that or XWayland instead. I expect most apps will run happily over either providing the extensions they use are present and functioning. Over time it is likely that desktop apps will bypass X entirely because GTK/QT will favour the Wayland (or Mir?) backend if one is available and suitable for the invocation.
I think the issues for Ubuntu is they seem more interested in the mobile device space than the desktop and for whatever reason have decided that Wayland is not how they want to get there. It's very hard to see what their fundamental objection actually is. The Ubuntu site vaguely mentions related to input and root but these really don't seem insurmountable to me. At the very least Mir should be a fork that addresses those issues while closely tracking the mainline of Wayland. Perhaps in time it would win support. But they didn't do that.
The licencing is even more divisive. They've GPLv3'd Mir which in principle sounds fine but Ubuntu own the copyright and only accept contributions from people who sign the CLA and turn over copyright to Ubuntu. So Ubuntu can can relicence it any way they like but competitors are emasculated by the GPLv3. This isn't a problem in desktops but it most certainly is in the world of phones and tablets. That might explain why Intel dropped Mir like they did.
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By contrast Lightning which is allegedly the better connector but requires very expensive, proprietary dongles, and for some bizarro reason is actually downscaling and degrading the picture quality by re-encoding it on the fly.
I think see the issue here. You absolutely want vaccines to cause autism. Science says there is no link, but that obviously can't be right (in your mind) so you concoct some vast conspiracy to handwave it all away.
MicroUSB is just a bunch of pins in a particular layout. I expect MHL and slimport just tell the phone to flip the USB out to some mode where it's talking another protocol.
Fixed that for you.
You didn't fix it very well.
There are at least 2 data protocols which will output video from micro-USB. MHL and Slimport (aka MyDP, mobile DisplayPort). Both can do 1080p60 output (i.e. FullHD and 3D), and aside from how they draw power, they work in a similar way to the end user - plug dongle into phone, plug HDMI cable into dongle, plug power (if applicable) into dongle, and play. Dongles start from $20 up.
But they still need a driver, one who'd have to take over with perhaps only a few seconds notice. I expect any self drive system will have to figure out how to keep the driver alert and awake even when the car is doing most of the work.
So just because a vaccine is not 100% effective doesn't mean that the alternative of having no protection at all is in any way sane or rational. Hundreds of thousands of people die from flu or complications from flu related illnesses every single year. Many more suffer a really shitty week and continue to infect others while they do so. I wonder how many of those deaths would be avoidable if the person had received a vaccine (providing they were capable of receiving it), or if the people in their vicinity had received theirs.
If you believe any of what you wrote then you are a certifiable idiot.
It just so happens that diagnosis follows vaccination, but why blame vaccination when it might so easily (in the absence of evidence to say otherwise) be - second or first hand smoking during development, or alcohol, or perfume / makeup of the mother, or audio frequencies coming from the TV into the womb, or vibrations during driving, or electro magnetic interference from powerlines, or too much / little sunshine, or vitamin / mineral deficiency, or radon gas, or lack of stimulus or over stimulus etc.
Anti vaxxers have latched onto vaccination because of Andrew Wakefield. Ironically Wakefield was fraudulently attempting to discredit MMR because he had his own measles vaccine which he hope to cash-in on in the aftermath. The one good thing to come from it is that the supposed link between Autism and vaccination was exhaustively studied and no link was found. It's safe to say there isn't one and never was. It's far more likely that improved diagnosis, earlier screening and a lack of critical thinking has created the link in some people's minds.
The supposed link between autism and vaccination has been exhaustively studied and dismissed. There isn't one.
Show me a vaccine which is part of the regular child schedule where the risk of harm from the shot is even remotely comparable to the risk of harm from the disease it prevents. No doctor or "vaccine advocate" as you put it, would ever claim there is zero risk. In fact the documentation you get with a shot explains the potential side effects complete with their known rates of occurrence.
New Hampshire sounds like a haven for antivaccination nutcases. I wonder if it shows up in their epidemiology studies.
Chickenpox is an easily prevented communicable disease. While it is rarely fatal it can do great harm to unborn children and it does have complications and it can lead to shingles later in life. It also has an economic impact and routinely disrupts schools when outbreaks occur. Given that there is a safe and effective vaccine, why shouldn't a kid receive a shot for it?
On the plus side, not getting flu means I don't feel like shit for a week, I don't take days off for illness, I don't pass on the disease to my family or colleagues and I don't leave myself at a higher risk of a worse repository infection or even die. On the minus side, I must spend 20 euros and 15 minutes of my lunch time for a tiny pinprick injection.
I tell you, it's a huge dilemma .
This is a really stupid argument. Walk into WHSmith, or HMV, or any other video retailer in the UK and you will see Doctor Who episodes for sale. Go onto Netflix in the UK or the US and you will see Doctor Who and other BBC series. Just because they were produced and broadcast on TV does not mean the BBC will not try to monetize them in other ways. Just because these particular episodes were rediscovered doesn't mean they were destined to be shown on TV any more than any other random show from the 60s.
Tell that to me when I'm cruising for 16 hours on I-10 and rather be asleep the whole way.
You're living in cloud cuckoo land if you think a driverless car will arrive any time in the forseeable future will let you do that. I expect even if a car came with a driver assist mode to maintain distance and speed on a motorway that the driver would be required to be ready to take over with a split second's notice. Such a vehicle might even have to monitor the driver's alertness somehow so they couldn't fall asleep or otherwise not be ready to take over.
I don't consider a fully self driving is even remotely capable of coping with real life conditions. It's more likely that vehicles will gain advanced driver assist modes, which in some limited circumstances can do pretty much everything e.g. maybe a highway mode maintains a safe speed and distance, parking assistance, emergency halts / skid control - that sort of thing. But there will still have to be a sober, alert driver behind that wheel at all times. Completely autonomous self driving vehicles are still a pipe dream.
The reason for DRM's existence is to limit web content to those users who have the money (resources) to pay for it.
No, it is to limit access to those who are entitled to see it. Big difference.
I suppose someone in a van could throw broken packets or random interference and somehow DOS, disrupt or crash the session though.
That assumes there to be a common protocol for this kind of thing which is exceedingly unlikely to happen for a very long time, or for such vehicles to become common place given it is likely a very expensive optional extra that many people would choose to do without.
Same deal in the UK. Drive an automatic and you get a licence that only covers automatics. Most people however take the manual test which covers both manual and automatic. As an aside, car rental companies must laugh their asses off when Americans rent vehicles in Europe since they get to slap an enormous premium on the automatic models.
I doubt some guy who'd ordered a personal amount of weed is going to get arrested though perhaps the cops have enough information to give them a courtesy call.
Most countries run a new series in parallel with the old one and when the % of old series drops to some point they set a date when it ceases to be legal tender (i.e. shops are not obliged to accept it). After that time someone has to exchange the old notes for new notes in some central bank office where presumably they're very good at spotting fakes. It seems odd that the US wouldn't protect its money in the same way.
typo - "actually isn't".
Perhaps that was true before the dawn of the likes of TripAdvisor. A hotel which pulls a bait and switch like this is going to attract a lot of negativity and bad reviews from people pissed that something advertised as "free" actually.
I think the issues for Ubuntu is they seem more interested in the mobile device space than the desktop and for whatever reason have decided that Wayland is not how they want to get there. It's very hard to see what their fundamental objection actually is. The Ubuntu site vaguely mentions related to input and root but these really don't seem insurmountable to me. At the very least Mir should be a fork that addresses those issues while closely tracking the mainline of Wayland. Perhaps in time it would win support. But they didn't do that.
The licencing is even more divisive. They've GPLv3'd Mir which in principle sounds fine but Ubuntu own the copyright and only accept contributions from people who sign the CLA and turn over copyright to Ubuntu. So Ubuntu can can relicence it any way they like but competitors are emasculated by the GPLv3. This isn't a problem in desktops but it most certainly is in the world of phones and tablets. That might explain why Intel dropped Mir like they did.