It's meant for Android developers, but could work for this with a new skin. It runs X86 Android in VirtualBox So, you build your project for X86. I build for dual X86/ARM and use the same executable on physical devices and GenyMotion.
I run it on OSX. It really is the only practical solution for Android simulation on desktop. The Google-supplied emulator is dog-slow to the point of total uselessness, and Intel Haxm isn't much better. GenyMotion is a joy.
Don't work for them, just a happy user!
It is pricy, but they have a $99/year option for Indie developers. (I think individual or company with 3 or fewer developers.)
I'm sure Microsoft could cut a deal.
(Sorry for dupe, posted first as a response to existing with irrelevant subject. Slashdot, do we still have to party like it's 1999? How about ability to edit posts?)
It's meant for Android developers, but could work for this with a new skin. It runs X86 Android in VirtualBox So, you build your project for X86. I build for dual X86/ARM and use the same executable on physical devices and GenyMotion.
I run it on OSX. It really is the only practical solution for Android simulation on desktop. The Google-supplied emulator is dog-slow to the point of total uselessness, and Intel Haxm isn't much better. GenyMotion is a joy.
Don't work for them, just a happy user!
It is pricy, but they have a $99/year option for Indie developers. (I think individual or company with 3 or fewer developers.)
Ye olde' "hide in plain sight" strategy, like classified ads in days of yore.
Game chat is monitored (I wrote some code for the monitors to kick/ban players) and of course anybody playing the game can see it.
It's rather amusing to think that somewhere at the CIA and other intelligence agencies, there is probably a room full of PS4s running all of the online games.
It's been reported that a few years ago, some government agency bought a large quantity of PS3s. Speculation was it was to take advantage of their DSP power. In retrospect, that seems rather silly. It was probably for this.
Middleman involved in the shipping are probably the cause.
Many years ago, I worked at a now-decommissioned nuclear power generating station in S. California. I did software development in the Health Physics dept.
One day I noticed that every few minutes, the PC of the developer behind me (we had "bull pen" cubes with 4 per bull-pen) would annoyingly beep.
I asked him what that was, and he said "I don't know, it just does that. I ignore it.
Turns out it was a virus. It was brought in by the local PC vendor, who one day went around from PC to PC, updating the Video BIOS of PCs equipped with a particular Matrox display card.
My PC didn't have that card. The other fellow's PC did...
It was eventually discovered, when somebody else didn't just ignore it...
This was outside of containment, and so it spread further than it would inside of containment. Due to the "what goes in, doesn't come out" policy, had the vendor updated PCs inside of containment, he would have had to have left the infected floppy disk inside. The infection would have been limited to containment.
We can all sleep better.... egad, what am I saying?!
So, a few years ago I wrote a "Taxi Meter" app for iPhone (though got bored and never released it...).Not meant to be a real taxi meter, but a novelty, say to get the kids your ride-share partner to get a grasp how much running around you are doing, and what it would cost to get a taxi instead...
I had to multiple by a fudge factor
The fudge factor was good enough - it got it well under the 2% required for a real taxi meter. I checked it by driving specific routes and then plotting the routes on Google Earth and checking the distances.
(Of course, this would also account for lane changes, and for a REAL taxi meter you would want to include them.)
segmentDistance = segmentDistanceRaw * 0.9875;// Make 1.25% short
Most people can't hear 16kHz. If you are an adult, you can't hear that.
When I was a kid, I could hear the 15.750 kHz from TV flyback transformers. Some kids could hear it. Some kids couldn't.
They are brief tones, I would, not easily noticed. And if you can hear that high, you are used to hearing all sorts of strange sounds and tend to ignore them. Like TV flyback transformers. OK, maybe not so much any more...
Douchebags who do this don't care if they annoy some kids and dogs with some brief sounds. It's not as if they are trying to hide anything. They are proud of what they have done, and open about it.
This is Zukerberg's Asperger's coming through, loud and clear. I do not mean this in a mean way.
He simply does not understand why most people would not embrace this. It seems perfectly logical to him. It is efficient. It is through. It saves time and energy. It puts a "team" on raising your kids.
And it is not what most parents would want. It is creepy as hell. It is corporate parenthood.
For kids who have medical issues - and their parents - they can be unavoidably public, or intensely private. I think we have to be very careful about "integrating" medical care with education. It already is, to some necessary degree (immunizations, screening), although I think some of that has changed in my lifetime for the better. When I was a kid, we got some immunizations AT SCHOOL. We had TB screening AT SCHOOL. I had to suffer some bullying because I had a large TB test reaction. (All my family had to be tested, and I had to get regular X-rays until I was 18. Nothing ever showed up, thankfully.)
You can have strict privacy rules, but let's be honest - it's a school. Stuff gets spread around. And not just by the kids.
Mark probably would not understand this. At all. He probably has to remind himself to shake hands, and look people in the eyes when he talks to them. Here's one more thing for Mark to remind himself of. Other people are more sensitive about this stuff, and their feelings are hurt about it. Make logical sense? No. But it's the way most people's brains work.
It's creepy corporate paternalism. And Mark goes "sounds great to me!"
But Peace uses the Ghostery database, and Ghostery includes The Deck. It’s classified as “Advertising”, and even though it’s far nicer than most other entries in the category, it’s fair to call it advertising.
"Fair to call it advertising"?
That would be because it IS advertising.
I don't think Marco was paid-off. I think Ghostery was. And, or, he's received threats, because this certainly does tick-off plenty of people with minimal morals.
For most of us that use ad blockers, it is NOT about ads being "poorly behaved". We just don't want to see ads. Get it?
Will it suck like force touch on the Apple Watch, and the stupid microswitch on the Apple Magic Trackpads?
I have both. The problem with the watch is that it makes both force touch and normal touch suck. You have to be dainty with a normal touch or it is not recognized. And force touch seems to require the some gorilla approach as the trackpad. Ow! It hurts my thumb!
Fortunately, Apple long ago realized how awful that switch on the trackpads is (this started with the notebooks, and then they decided this dysfunctional design was so good that they spun it off as a separate piece for desktops...) that they fiddled the software to let you configure it to just ignore any errant click and just let you tap without activating the switch. Which is the way I use it. You know, except when you tap too hard, and then the switch does activate and you hurt your thumb.
I want unforce touch. That is, distinguish between hovering over the surface and finger actually on the surface. It might make browser "hover" not suck again. On the other hand, naw. It will bring back those awful Microsoft-y cascading menus that are designed as a test of your skill in precision mouse pathing...
Where wrinkly old generals sit around in a hot tub all day discussing their war plans.
At least that was my first thought when I moved to San Diego years ago and first spotted the sign on the huge complex.
Trivia: during WWI, the building they are housed in was an aircraft factory. The factory roof and nets covering adjacent Pacific Highway had painted scenery to fool an errant Japanese bombers.
Millions of mom-and-pop businesses thank SPAWAR for enabling their old inventory system sitting in the corner running on a PC-AT to continue to function!
In any case, the spin is opposite to reality. The remarkable thing here is that an iPad Air2 nearly matches the performance of an I5 notebook replacement...
In 1995, I worked for a company in San Diego (MediaShare) that did Tesco's first online store.
MediaShare had a publishing tool called ProductBase, that put product details in a database, and you could publish to print or CD-ROM (remember those?). I proposed to my boss that we could also easily publish to HTML, and he let me explore it.
This turned ProductBase into basically a static-site generator, and Mediashare built some sites for some of their existing clients ("the threes" - 3COM and 3M - we put the 3M Adhesives catalog and 3Com's catalog of network products online for the first time) and some new ones.
One of the new ones was Tesco, and I built a little shopping cart with a very-close-to-1.0 PHP script running under Netscape Server CGI.
I would have never thought that PHP would still be kicking around this many years later. That was the last time I ever used PHP.
The author had no pretensions about PHP. It was a simple little script to help him with his personal home page, and he admitted his lack of programming expertise. Others turned it into a Frankenstein's monster.
a fourth set of content exclusives and pricing windows to think about instead of just listening to music
Dude, that's what radio is for!
If you just want to "listen to music", get a one of the free or premium radio player apps, pick any genre' and you can listen to practically any real radio station in the world (including, for example, every singe one in Jamaica) as well as a huge number of "Internet-only" choices.
Many of these have great, high-quality curated content. I'm not a "golden ears" so I'm OK with the audio quality of most.
If you're really into a specific artist, there's always certainly a free channel devoted to them, unless they are obscure. If they are obscure, buy their tracks in and support them ferchristsake! Then you can listen to them any time you want. You are doing them any favors streaming them, because they will get tiny payments if any when it comes out in the wash.
One of the days I might take the time to convert my vinyl. Naw, probably not... I just put on KCRW Eclectic 24 in the car, and it calms me between the nice lady saying "now, take the exit to the right" after I've passed the exit... And that's the sum total of my streaming experience.
Oh, yea, I guess I have a subscription service I don't use. I have Amazon Prime. I use it for the free shipping. If there's a movie they have that I really, really want to see, and I can't get it on Netflix or some free channel on Apple TV, I might go to the trouble of AirPlaying it from my Mac. But never used their music streaming.
I'd bet more people are in the opposite position of you. That is, they already have a streaming service that they don't even use.
I think the only way you can make that kind of money is networking is dodging bullets - either literal or figurative.
Either you are going to have a high-stress job where you will be on-call 24/7 and people will be yelling at you all day, or you need to go to Irag, Afghanistan, etc. etc. etc.
Just find a job outside of the Bay Area. You will take a pay cut, but you will come out ahead.
I hope you haven't been counting on those stock options that, in the vast majority of cases, will ultimately be worth --- nothing. (statistically, if you work for a venture-funded startup.)
You beat me to it.
FAT wires. Just sayin'.
It'll work just fine, so long as you live in a castle, and have one hell of a drill bit to install the wires in the wall.
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All they have to do is license GenyMotion.
It's meant for Android developers, but could work for this with a new skin. It runs X86 Android in VirtualBox So, you build your project for X86. I build for dual X86/ARM and use the same executable on physical devices and GenyMotion.
I run it on OSX. It really is the only practical solution for Android simulation on desktop. The Google-supplied emulator is dog-slow to the point of total uselessness, and Intel Haxm isn't much better. GenyMotion is a joy.
Don't work for them, just a happy user!
It is pricy, but they have a $99/year option for Indie developers. (I think individual or company with 3 or fewer developers.)
I'm sure Microsoft could cut a deal.
(Sorry for dupe, posted first as a response to existing with irrelevant subject. Slashdot, do we still have to party like it's 1999? How about ability to edit posts?)
All they have to do is license GenyMotion.
It's meant for Android developers, but could work for this with a new skin. It runs X86 Android in VirtualBox So, you build your project for X86. I build for dual X86/ARM and use the same executable on physical devices and GenyMotion.
I run it on OSX. It really is the only practical solution for Android simulation on desktop. The Google-supplied emulator is dog-slow to the point of total uselessness, and Intel Haxm isn't much better. GenyMotion is a joy.
Don't work for them, just a happy user!
It is pricy, but they have a $99/year option for Indie developers. (I think individual or company with 3 or fewer developers.)
I'm sure Microsoft could cut a deal.
Ye olde' "hide in plain sight" strategy, like classified ads in days of yore.
Game chat is monitored (I wrote some code for the monitors to kick/ban players) and of course anybody playing the game can see it.
It's rather amusing to think that somewhere at the CIA and other intelligence agencies, there is probably a room full of PS4s running all of the online games.
It's been reported that a few years ago, some government agency bought a large quantity of PS3s. Speculation was it was to take advantage of their DSP power. In retrospect, that seems rather silly. It was probably for this.
Many years ago, I worked at a now-decommissioned nuclear power generating station in S. California. I did software development in the Health Physics dept.
One day I noticed that every few minutes, the PC of the developer behind me (we had "bull pen" cubes with 4 per bull-pen) would annoyingly beep.
I asked him what that was, and he said "I don't know, it just does that. I ignore it.
Turns out it was a virus. It was brought in by the local PC vendor, who one day went around from PC to PC, updating the Video BIOS of PCs equipped with a particular Matrox display card.
My PC didn't have that card. The other fellow's PC did...
It was eventually discovered, when somebody else didn't just ignore it...
This was outside of containment, and so it spread further than it would inside of containment. Due to the "what goes in, doesn't come out" policy, had the vendor updated PCs inside of containment, he would have had to have left the infected floppy disk inside. The infection would have been limited to containment.
We can all sleep better.... egad, what am I saying?!
So, a few years ago I wrote a "Taxi Meter" app for iPhone (though got bored and never released it...).Not meant to be a real taxi meter, but a novelty, say to get the kids your ride-share partner to get a grasp how much running around you are doing, and what it would cost to get a taxi instead...
I had to multiple by a fudge factor
The fudge factor was good enough - it got it well under the 2% required for a real taxi meter. I checked it by driving specific routes and then plotting the routes on Google Earth and checking the distances.
(Of course, this would also account for lane changes, and for a REAL taxi meter you would want to include them.)
I imagine what they are calling "ultrasonic" isn't really very high frequency. 16kHz is good enough.
Most people can't hear 16kHz. If you are an adult, you can't hear that.
When I was a kid, I could hear the 15.750 kHz from TV flyback transformers. Some kids could hear it. Some kids couldn't.
They are brief tones, I would, not easily noticed. And if you can hear that high, you are used to hearing all sorts of strange sounds and tend to ignore them. Like TV flyback transformers. OK, maybe not so much any more...
Douchebags who do this don't care if they annoy some kids and dogs with some brief sounds. It's not as if they are trying to hide anything. They are proud of what they have done, and open about it.
Pressure Cooker + Ina Garten = cool
Pressure Cooker + ISIS = no fly
Pressure Cooker + Anthony Bordain = check for drugs
Because X-10.
SRSLY X-10?
I have a home full of Insteon, and I am feeling the obsolescence. But... X-10? (I Z-Wave the future!)
This is Zukerberg's Asperger's coming through, loud and clear. I do not mean this in a mean way.
He simply does not understand why most people would not embrace this. It seems perfectly logical to him. It is efficient. It is through. It saves time and energy. It puts a "team" on raising your kids.
And it is not what most parents would want. It is creepy as hell. It is corporate parenthood.
For kids who have medical issues - and their parents - they can be unavoidably public, or intensely private. I think we have to be very careful about "integrating" medical care with education. It already is, to some necessary degree (immunizations, screening), although I think some of that has changed in my lifetime for the better. When I was a kid, we got some immunizations AT SCHOOL. We had TB screening AT SCHOOL. I had to suffer some bullying because I had a large TB test reaction. (All my family had to be tested, and I had to get regular X-rays until I was 18. Nothing ever showed up, thankfully.)
You can have strict privacy rules, but let's be honest - it's a school. Stuff gets spread around. And not just by the kids.
Mark probably would not understand this. At all. He probably has to remind himself to shake hands, and look people in the eyes when he talks to them. Here's one more thing for Mark to remind himself of. Other people are more sensitive about this stuff, and their feelings are hurt about it. Make logical sense? No. But it's the way most people's brains work.
It's creepy corporate paternalism. And Mark goes "sounds great to me!"
Arrrrggggghhhhh!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
But Peace uses the Ghostery database, and Ghostery includes The Deck. It’s classified as “Advertising”, and even though it’s far nicer than most other entries in the category, it’s fair to call it advertising.
"Fair to call it advertising"?
That would be because it IS advertising.
I don't think Marco was paid-off. I think Ghostery was. And, or, he's received threats, because this certainly does tick-off plenty of people with minimal morals.
For most of us that use ad blockers, it is NOT about ads being "poorly behaved". We just don't want to see ads. Get it?
I guess not. Smart people can be idiots, too...
Rather a moot point, don't you think, since you just fired yourself...
Will it suck like force touch on the Apple Watch, and the stupid microswitch on the Apple Magic Trackpads?
I have both. The problem with the watch is that it makes both force touch and normal touch suck. You have to be dainty with a normal touch or it is not recognized. And force touch seems to require the some gorilla approach as the trackpad. Ow! It hurts my thumb!
Fortunately, Apple long ago realized how awful that switch on the trackpads is (this started with the notebooks, and then they decided this dysfunctional design was so good that they spun it off as a separate piece for desktops...) that they fiddled the software to let you configure it to just ignore any errant click and just let you tap without activating the switch. Which is the way I use it. You know, except when you tap too hard, and then the switch does activate and you hurt your thumb.
I want unforce touch. That is, distinguish between hovering over the surface and finger actually on the surface. It might make browser "hover" not suck again. On the other hand, naw. It will bring back those awful Microsoft-y cascading menus that are designed as a test of your skill in precision mouse pathing...
Yes, plenty of other stuff like this as well.
A friend who is a Materials Scientist rues the day that they updated his electron microscope from Win XP to Windows 7 (or 8, forget which).
Eek, typo. Of course, WWII, not WWI!
Ah, yes, SPAWAR...
Where wrinkly old generals sit around in a hot tub all day discussing their war plans.
At least that was my first thought when I moved to San Diego years ago and first spotted the sign on the huge complex.
Trivia: during WWI, the building they are housed in was an aircraft factory. The factory roof and nets covering adjacent Pacific Highway had painted scenery to fool an errant Japanese bombers.
Millions of mom-and-pop businesses thank SPAWAR for enabling their old inventory system sitting in the corner running on a PC-AT to continue to function!
Why not finish the job, and just move the database to a distributed one that runs in the browsers?
Novice NSA splicer.
Really, kiss and make-up with the Navy Seals!
IOW, who cares?
In any case, the spin is opposite to reality. The remarkable thing here is that an iPad Air2 nearly matches the performance of an I5 notebook replacement...
I used the original, or close to it.
In 1995, I worked for a company in San Diego (MediaShare) that did Tesco's first online store.
MediaShare had a publishing tool called ProductBase, that put product details in a database, and you could publish to print or CD-ROM (remember those?). I proposed to my boss that we could also easily publish to HTML, and he let me explore it.
This turned ProductBase into basically a static-site generator, and Mediashare built some sites for some of their existing clients ("the threes" - 3COM and 3M - we put the 3M Adhesives catalog and 3Com's catalog of network products online for the first time) and some new ones.
One of the new ones was Tesco, and I built a little shopping cart with a very-close-to-1.0 PHP script running under Netscape Server CGI.
I would have never thought that PHP would still be kicking around this many years later. That was the last time I ever used PHP.
The author had no pretensions about PHP. It was a simple little script to help him with his personal home page, and he admitted his lack of programming expertise. Others turned it into a Frankenstein's monster.
Dude, that's what radio is for!
If you just want to "listen to music", get a one of the free or premium radio player apps, pick any genre' and you can listen to practically any real radio station in the world (including, for example, every singe one in Jamaica) as well as a huge number of "Internet-only" choices.
Many of these have great, high-quality curated content. I'm not a "golden ears" so I'm OK with the audio quality of most.
If you're really into a specific artist, there's always certainly a free channel devoted to them, unless they are obscure. If they are obscure, buy their tracks in and support them ferchristsake! Then you can listen to them any time you want. You are doing them any favors streaming them, because they will get tiny payments if any when it comes out in the wash.
One of the days I might take the time to convert my vinyl. Naw, probably not... I just put on KCRW Eclectic 24 in the car, and it calms me between the nice lady saying "now, take the exit to the right" after I've passed the exit... And that's the sum total of my streaming experience.
Oh, yea, I guess I have a subscription service I don't use. I have Amazon Prime. I use it for the free shipping. If there's a movie they have that I really, really want to see, and I can't get it on Netflix or some free channel on Apple TV, I might go to the trouble of AirPlaying it from my Mac. But never used their music streaming.
I'd bet more people are in the opposite position of you. That is, they already have a streaming service that they don't even use.
Darn it! Beat me to it!
Or OP has a stutter...
I think the only way you can make that kind of money is networking is dodging bullets - either literal or figurative.
Either you are going to have a high-stress job where you will be on-call 24/7 and people will be yelling at you all day, or you need to go to Irag, Afghanistan, etc. etc. etc.
Just find a job outside of the Bay Area. You will take a pay cut, but you will come out ahead.
I hope you haven't been counting on those stock options that, in the vast majority of cases, will ultimately be worth --- nothing. (statistically, if you work for a venture-funded startup.)
You beat me to it. FAT wires. Just sayin'. It'll work just fine, so long as you live in a castle, and have one hell of a drill bit to install the wires in the wall.