The fuss is that many/most of these rentals are in formally-quiet residential neighborhoods.
I just moved from a place where the neighbor across the street frequently AirBNBs. One weekend, quiet Japanese tourists. Next weekend, college kids from Arizona whooping it up and getting into fights. And ALWAYS Uber drivers honking, alcohol-serving limo-busses making a bad problem worse, etc. etc. etc.
This is expected - to some degree, at least - in a beach area, hotel district, etc. (But the hotels, at least, have professional staff to keep things capped to whatever is acceptable for the area.)
Right on the heals of a SECOND embarrassing public failure of their idiotic haywire 'bot, now they've announced how it's going to save the world and obsolete sliced-bread.
You'd think there would be somebody in the right position and with the common sense to cancel those unfortunate announcements, and quickly book some entertainment (maybe clowns... yes, chair-throwinxxxxxx er, balloon-animal-making clowns) to fill the conference slots vacated.
Did I miss something? Did Donald Trump take a position at Microsoft?
The "problem" is that most iPads currently in user's hands work perfectly fine, and there is no need to replace them. Yes, iPad 1 and 2 are slow and obsolete. There's nothing wrong with the rest.
Phones are an entirely different matter. In the first world, at least, there is peer pressure to have "the latest" and actually there are some real benefits (camera improvements, radical speed improvements, larger screens, touch ID, ApplePay, etc. etc. etc.) to recent iPhone models.
I see no good reason to upgrade my iPad Air2. I'll wait for at least the next one. (I have a 1 and a 2 as well, I keep them just because I am a developer.)
If the guy cant receive sw radio i think GPS is not going to work either.
He didn't say that he can't receive shortwave radio.
And, in any case, that's irrelevant, since WWVB uses longwave radio.
While there are time signals transmitted over shortwave - in the U.S. by WWV and WWVH - wall clocks (at least generally) don't use shortwave signals.
Shortwave, longwave, and the microwave frequencies used by GPS all have different propagation characteristics.
Longwave follows the curvature of the earth, at least to a point.
Shortwave at lower frequencies can follow the curvature of the earth, but not as well as longwave. As well, it can bounce off of the ionosphere. But YMMV. Greatly. Depending on time of day, location, and solar cycle.
Microwaves only work (with few special exceptions) line-of-site. Fortunately, the GPS satellites (those currently in view, at least) are line-of-site...
While, yes, a copyright holder might without a work from the market for some political or other nefarious purpose, you've chosen a poor example. And, the sad fact is, most unavailable works are unavailable through neglect or disinterest on the part of the copyright holder, not willful withholding from the market.
You wrote code for position loops? Congrats you've just ruled out 90% of the market because you wrote code yourself.
To clarify: I wrote the code for a company. (Omicron Systems.) Allen-Bradly subsequently bought the company, to start their first line of microprocessor-based CNC controllers. (Before that they had used HP minis). That code is many of those 80's and 90's CNC controllers...
OK, let me actually read the article, and see WTF they are talking about vs. the almost certainly misleading post title... I suppose they mean, like "personal CNC"...
Oh, I see. We're talking about "desktop CNC printers" and "hobbyist CNC Mills".
Is it really that hard to come up with a title that expresses that, or at least include it in the body of the post? No? Too much to ask?
The reason I ask is that you've been able to buy CNC tools easily for the past 30-40 years or so, if my memory isn't failing yet. Because I remotely remember writing Z-80 code for the first microprocessor-based CNC controller a long, long time ago! (They were all minicomputer-based before that, and mainframe going even further back. BTW, Allen-Bradley bought the company that I wrote that code for...)
So, yea, the only people buying CNC machines back then were GM, Ford, Chrysler, Boeing, their suppliers, etc. etc. etc.
The truth is, this could have happened in the 80s, if only there had been Harbor Freight! Z-80's were certainly affordable to hobbyists. What didn't exist - I don't think - was decent, affordable, small mills. No reason it couldn't have happened were there a demand.
So, the excitement over 3D printing is past, and now people are realizing that there are CNC mills too?
Did we have to wait for affordable, powerful processors? Funny, that 4mHz Z-80 could run a 5-axis mill, with the position loop(s) running in the Z-80 (not in the specialized hardware used today.)
I wrote the code for those position loops. And counted every machine cycle by hand!
For one, how does one "automatically" rank in the highest tax category? That would depend on your income, not your freelancer status.
Make sure to incorporate (C or S). (Or form an LLC.) You then have many options not available to a sole proprietor:
Your medical insurance premiums are deductible. (You do not need a company-sponsored plan.)
You can receive your personal income as a combination of salary and distributions. Only salary is subject to social security taxes. This can be advantageous if you are young and don't expect to ever collect Social Security, or if you are older and have already maxed-out or nearly maxed-out benefits.
You can deduct expenses in excess of income. (Although then you must depreciate rather than expense capital equipment). Good if you might put the business "on hold" some years while working a salary job for somebody else.)
No-quibble home-office deduction. (Most sole-props and their accountants are scared-to-death of this one.)
I worked for a San Diego Company called MediaShare (later changed to Elemental Software) that created a site with shopping cart for Tesco in 1994 or 1995. Not sure if it actually went live, but was not for Minitel, it was for the web.
I wrote the shopping-cart part. The server side was in C, either CGI or NSAPI for Netscape Server.
The company had software for creating catalogs on both print and CDROM. I convinced my boss that publishing to HTML as well might be a useful thing.
Seen enough YouTube videos from cameras packed in shipments for the obvious answer...
These boxes are costly enough to justify packaging it with some device that will record GPS, video, and sound. Make sure there is some good cryptographic signature on the device. Attach it to the router, and put a nasty anti-tamper dye spray to boot. (Although might have some regulatory issues with the explosive device for that, hmmm...).
Give the customer a rebate for returning the tracking device. (After unlocking, of course.)
Of course, the tracking device will need solid cryptographic signature/protection, but would have a lot fewer millions of lines of code than the router!
Then the guy you see stumbling out of the FedEx office covered in dye... he's not with FedEx.
The best the spys can do, then, is to "lose" the device in shipment, pay off the carrier's insurance company (otherwise, insurance rates will go sky-high), and then try to sell the router in the black market to spy on somebody other than the original target.
The good stuff uses native code. There is an NDK = "native development kit"
I write hybrid apps, using the Rhodes cross-device platform. So, UI is a webview. The platform uses some Java on Android, but mostly C and C++, because it can use the same code used on iOS and Windows CE/Mobile.
So, Rhodes uses Java on Android where it uses Objective-C on iOS - to interface to native APIs.
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The fuss is that many/most of these rentals are in formally-quiet residential neighborhoods.
I just moved from a place where the neighbor across the street frequently AirBNBs. One weekend, quiet Japanese tourists. Next weekend, college kids from Arizona whooping it up and getting into fights. And ALWAYS Uber drivers honking, alcohol-serving limo-busses making a bad problem worse, etc. etc. etc.
This is expected - to some degree, at least - in a beach area, hotel district, etc. (But the hotels, at least, have professional staff to keep things capped to whatever is acceptable for the area.)
Microsoft's tone-deafness today is astounding!
Right on the heals of a SECOND embarrassing public failure of their idiotic haywire 'bot, now they've announced how it's going to save the world and obsolete sliced-bread.
You'd think there would be somebody in the right position and with the common sense to cancel those unfortunate announcements, and quickly book some entertainment (maybe clowns... yes, chair-throwinxxxxxx er, balloon-animal-making clowns) to fill the conference slots vacated.
Did I miss something? Did Donald Trump take a position at Microsoft?
The "problem" is that most iPads currently in user's hands work perfectly fine, and there is no need to replace them. Yes, iPad 1 and 2 are slow and obsolete. There's nothing wrong with the rest.
Phones are an entirely different matter. In the first world, at least, there is peer pressure to have "the latest" and actually there are some real benefits (camera improvements, radical speed improvements, larger screens, touch ID, ApplePay, etc. etc. etc.) to recent iPhone models.
I see no good reason to upgrade my iPad Air2. I'll wait for at least the next one. (I have a 1 and a 2 as well, I keep them just because I am a developer.)
Yes
I doubt that most of us will miss being able to visit websites in Oman.
He didn't say that he can't receive shortwave radio.
And, in any case, that's irrelevant, since WWVB uses longwave radio.
While there are time signals transmitted over shortwave - in the U.S. by WWV and WWVH - wall clocks (at least generally) don't use shortwave signals.
Shortwave, longwave, and the microwave frequencies used by GPS all have different propagation characteristics.
Longwave follows the curvature of the earth, at least to a point.
Shortwave at lower frequencies can follow the curvature of the earth, but not as well as longwave. As well, it can bounce off of the ionosphere. But YMMV. Greatly. Depending on time of day, location, and solar cycle.
Microwaves only work (with few special exceptions) line-of-site. Fortunately, the GPS satellites (those currently in view, at least) are line-of-site...
No, that's utter rubbish.
The legal holder of the copyright would have exclusive control for 95 years.
That might be some assignee that you sold right to, your heirs, etc. etc.
Nobody is being denied reading The Diary of Ann Frank. You can buy it on Amazon. Or in probably any of the remaining walk-in bookstores.
http://www.amazon.com/Diary-An...
While, yes, a copyright holder might without a work from the market for some political or other nefarious purpose, you've chosen a poor example. And, the sad fact is, most unavailable works are unavailable through neglect or disinterest on the part of the copyright holder, not willful withholding from the market.
Did somebody wander in here thinking it was StackOverflow?
Or did they already try over there and have "discussion closed" for any of a number of picayune reasons?
Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah,
nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah!
That's why. They're basically flipping them the bird.
BAT-MAN!
...because then you would have a list of gullible people.
The most value from such an exploit...
... would be being able to accumulate a list of the users stupid enough to still have Flash installed! (Or allowing it to be run indiscriminately))
(If you do have it, please use a flash blocker, so that you then only click on the button to run the flash on trusted sites.)
Harumph! If that's the way you feel, so be it. But please turn in your type-ball to the TA.
You wrote code for position loops? Congrats you've just ruled out 90% of the market because you wrote code yourself.
To clarify: I wrote the code for a company. (Omicron Systems.) Allen-Bradly subsequently bought the company, to start their first line of microprocessor-based CNC controllers. (Before that they had used HP minis). That code is many of those 80's and 90's CNC controllers...
Where have you been for the past 40 years or so?
OK, let me actually read the article, and see WTF they are talking about vs. the almost certainly misleading post title... I suppose they mean, like "personal CNC"...
Oh, I see. We're talking about "desktop CNC printers" and "hobbyist CNC Mills".
Is it really that hard to come up with a title that expresses that, or at least include it in the body of the post? No? Too much to ask?
The reason I ask is that you've been able to buy CNC tools easily for the past 30-40 years or so, if my memory isn't failing yet. Because I remotely remember writing Z-80 code for the first microprocessor-based CNC controller a long, long time ago! (They were all minicomputer-based before that, and mainframe going even further back. BTW, Allen-Bradley bought the company that I wrote that code for...)
So, yea, the only people buying CNC machines back then were GM, Ford, Chrysler, Boeing, their suppliers, etc. etc. etc.
The truth is, this could have happened in the 80s, if only there had been Harbor Freight! Z-80's were certainly affordable to hobbyists. What didn't exist - I don't think - was decent, affordable, small mills. No reason it couldn't have happened were there a demand.
So, the excitement over 3D printing is past, and now people are realizing that there are CNC mills too?
Did we have to wait for affordable, powerful processors? Funny, that 4mHz Z-80 could run a 5-axis mill, with the position loop(s) running in the Z-80 (not in the specialized hardware used today.)
I wrote the code for those position loops. And counted every machine cycle by hand!
So, yawn. Big breakthrough.
Just imagine, if they'd had this for The Manhattan Project.
Oh, wait...
Now, like Rip Van Winkle, going to sleep for 25 years, let me know how it worked-out when I wake up!
For the n00bs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
Hails originally from 1964-1966.
It was fun for a moment for me when in college in 1972 to re-code it in Snobol...
Reasonably convincing. No AI. Just some clever, crude parsing and a small bit of contextual memory.
The conversations from this advanced 50-years-later technology looks about the same...
Is that "Eliza" in Chinese?
By what mechanism do they expect stresses in rocks to produce electric fields?
Quartz. Squeeze it, it creates a charge. The last 100 or so years of radio technology has depended on this. Earthly rocks got lots of it.
But.... yawn... pretty sure I read this like 40 years ago in Popular Science or Popular Electronics or some such.
Build an earthquake detector!
Nonsense. At least in the U.S.
For one, how does one "automatically" rank in the highest tax category? That would depend on your income, not your freelancer status.
Make sure to incorporate (C or S). (Or form an LLC.) You then have many options not available to a sole proprietor:
I worked for a San Diego Company called MediaShare (later changed to Elemental Software) that created a site with shopping cart for Tesco in 1994 or 1995. Not sure if it actually went live, but was not for Minitel, it was for the web.
I wrote the shopping-cart part. The server side was in C, either CGI or NSAPI for Netscape Server.
The company had software for creating catalogs on both print and CDROM. I convinced my boss that publishing to HTML as well might be a useful thing.
Seen enough YouTube videos from cameras packed in shipments for the obvious answer...
These boxes are costly enough to justify packaging it with some device that will record GPS, video, and sound. Make sure there is some good cryptographic signature on the device. Attach it to the router, and put a nasty anti-tamper dye spray to boot. (Although might have some regulatory issues with the explosive device for that, hmmm...).
Give the customer a rebate for returning the tracking device. (After unlocking, of course.)
Of course, the tracking device will need solid cryptographic signature/protection, but would have a lot fewer millions of lines of code than the router!
Then the guy you see stumbling out of the FedEx office covered in dye... he's not with FedEx.
The best the spys can do, then, is to "lose" the device in shipment, pay off the carrier's insurance company (otherwise, insurance rates will go sky-high), and then try to sell the router in the black market to spy on somebody other than the original target.
Phonegap would be great for apps written with PhoneGap! If they can get the authors to publish for Windows.
PhoneGap apps use a combination of Javascript and native plugins.
PhoneGap won't "convert" some arbitrary app that is written with Java and/or the NDK.
The good stuff uses native code. There is an NDK = "native development kit"
I write hybrid apps, using the Rhodes cross-device platform. So, UI is a webview. The platform uses some Java on Android, but mostly C and C++, because it can use the same code used on iOS and Windows CE/Mobile.
So, Rhodes uses Java on Android where it uses Objective-C on iOS - to interface to native APIs.
OK, /. is totally wacky now. I guess it was /. that made the subject "Score:?" That's what happens when the "professionals" take over!