The thing is, those pushes and shoves actually help the robot adapt and adjust to them in the future.
That's what I tell my son when I push him down the stairs. After that first broken collarbone he won't even get on the stairs if someone is within six feet of him.
I have a hard time seeing this being adopted in the US, so long as we don't use the pin.
I seem to remember eating at a restaurant where the servers used iPads for order taking and they had Square-style card readers to do the charges, but it was a pretty casual, small place so far all I know it WAS Square they were using.
Who does this? The reason I pay a $250 dinner tab with a credit card is so I don't have to carry much cash with me, a $50 tip is nearly as bad from a carrying cash perspective.
The whole social construct of tipping aside, I always wonder about tip fraud. It's just too easy to cheat on tips when they get manually entered into the credit processing system. You'd have to be supremely detail oriented to track the meal cost + tip as it shows up on your credit card. I think amex might detail it, but it's not hard to see how this could get gamed by a few percentage points without anyone ever detecting it.
Besides the power requirements, the problem with long range is that there's limited spectrum allocation so your extended range ends up being someone else's interference and you both end up with reduced throughput due to competition for the spectrum.
Then there's the security implication of excess range -- your network being reachable where you might not want it reachable. Sure, you're relying on security to prevent malicious access, but that works better when there's no access at all.
The question I would have is if they only have the data rate is only 11 Mbps, it seems to cover a lot of the use cases already covered by Bluetooth.
At that job, the mail room was part of the "facilities" department that managed the physical space of the building, and I worked pretty closely with them because there was always something network related when it came to office space moves and reconfiguration. They were good people and we both kind of shared "outsider" status in the company since we weren't on the revenue side of the business.
I'm sure if the HR people got wind of ammo being shipped to the office, they would have shit, but because I had a relationship with the people who handled all the mail it wasn't a big deal.
But then again, other than being just heavy there was nothing that screamed ammo. It was a box-in-a-box kind of shipment with no external markings to indicate content or company of origin, so they wouldn't have known what it was to begin with. My guess is that unless the box gives away your content, you could really order anything shipped to your office provided it didn't get delivered with a cop.
Other than a local delivery service, I don't think you can order booze through the mail due to the maze of federal and state rules on taxation and other regulation.
There's so many more practical reasons to ditch the penny or the paper dollar bill.
And while *some* criminal transactions would be made more inconvenient by abolishing $100 bills, do you really think that black markets and criminal transactions would just end without it? The people behind them are incredibly entrepreneurial and have demonstrated a remarkable adaptability to pressures on their business, whether its engineering tunnels or building submarines.
I'd be curious just how they would end it -- there's got to be billions (trillions?) of dollars worth of $100s out in the wild, any program to eliminate them would take years and years of convertibility, and as long as they remained convertible, people would still use them.
I also wonder if there might also be some kind of second order risk -- the US $100 is widely used in places outside the US, would those use cases then switch to another currency that still has a larger bill and how would that affect the global preference for dollars, even if the underlying economics of the dollar make more sense.
I haven't experienced that with Windows 10 Enterprise and two APs from two different vendors in the house. My laptop connects to both APs depending (I'm assuming) on which one has the best signal. They're at opposite corners of the house, and you get none/marginal signal if you were to try to connect to the distant AP (which I why I added the second AP).
It's kind of surprising how broken the 802.11 spec is around these issues. One, you could have wanted a transparent but default system for encrypting radio traffic even if it was an open system. An open system should just mean you don't need to enter a passphrase to connect, not that you want radio traffic in the clear.
And some kind of transparent certificate exchange that would let clients authenticate the AP even if it was an open system.
Every place I've ever worked has allowed shipments for any employee. I had two cases of handgun ammunition shipped to me at my last job at a downtown, 7 floors of the high rise kind of place -- the mail guy told me "Your ammo is here. It's too heavy, you have to get it in the mailroom yourself."
As for booze, every place I've ever worked has served booze on company time. The only place it didn't happen that often was when I worked at a university office. Our suite was in the administration building with the President and Regents' office so we had to jump through the bureaucratic hoops to serve alcohol and it was a pain, but I still think we drank as much or more as a department than any other department I've worked at.
I wouldn't work in an office that didn't have a relaxed attitude about drinking. And not because I would drink much in the office anyway, but because a place that's restrictive about it usually has stick up its ass about everything. Fuck that.
He's also 11, so he doesn't even use the phone part, just the iPod part, and only when we go on vacation or long car trips so by then the small loss of battery capacity and performance issues really aren't a problem.
The good part is that we've gotten four years out of a single handset.
But I suspected this would troll somebody into jealousy of some kind, given the usual round of Slashdot postings that come out when smartphones are discussed and people trot out how they use the cheapest handset they can find on the cheapest pay as you go plan they can find. If that works for them, great, but it wouldn't work for me, and it doesn't have to.
Bulleit is pretty pedestrian. If she was getting fucking Pappy Van Winkle delivered to her at work, her claims of poverty would be harder to take.
And did she actually drink it at work, or just have it delivered there? After all, it's bourbon, a legal product. It's not like she was getting an eightball of coke or a bunch of smack stamps form Silk Road delivered to the office.
I honestly didn't know. I have a hazy memory of a fight over air bags requirements in cars in the late 1970s, with car makers opposed and now they are standard. I don't remember specific timelines or when proposed mandates became actual mandates.
Were they offered because the manufacturers were looking to upsell luxury buyers with in-demand safety features, or because they knew these features were going to be mandated on all cars in the near future, and getting people to pay for them as options was just a way to recoup something off the investment ahead of time?
USB 3 is event driven and 2 and older were polled. USB 3 uses almost no CPU, you can pin a SSD drive at 90 MB/s on USB 3 and barely notice the CPU change. USB 2 would burn a third of the CPU at 30 MB/sec.
For whatever its faults, 3 isn't really that bad for the performance it delivers. I've used gig NICs and SSDs off USB 3 without performance not noticeably different than PCIe NICs or SATA SSD. The latter are really only better at the outer limits of performance, not ordinary desktop workloads.
3.1 will be even more interesting once it's more widely adopted. Whatever the successor to Sky Lake is will probably meet or exceed the 10 USB 3 port support it offers, but with 3.1 ports at 10 Gb/sec. You'd likely use an NVMe disk, but with 3.1 at 10 Gb/sec, it would almost make sense to put a native USB 3 interface on SSDs versus limiting them to SATA 6 Gb/sec speeds.
I buy a top of the line iPhone every year and it gets used hard, for four years, by every member of my family. By the time four years are up and everyone has used it, it's largely obsolete in terms of performance due to operating system changes. At that point, I keep it around for another year mostly as a test platform for email connectivity on whatever the newest OS release it will run.
So far, the hardware has held up. Only the 3GS had a problem with the up/down volume rocker button cover falling off, every other one has been fine other than the decline in battery capacity.
As for value, that's highly dependent on your income and perception. I feel like I've gotten 4+ years of value out of it personally, but it's a minor expense relative to our income and about half of the cost is compensated by our employers, too. I work as a consultant, so it's my primary voice phone, supplies a good chunk of my internet access on the road, provides mapping and entertainment in the car, so I feel like I get a lot of overall value out of it.
No, no, the red peril is the best part of this! It was perfect.
Nothing undermines the government better than associating their behavior with that of totalitarian communism. It's so perfect because the irony is like kryptonite -- the security state always uses protecting freedom and the American way as their justification and mission, they can't possibly doing something in contradiction to their mission, can they?
It's like the Star Trek episode with Nomad, where their give it an illogical problem to solve and it self destructs.
This woman is either a idiot savant, or she's a political genius who should have run for office, because it's a transcendent response that manages to be both right (America's freedom IS what is/was made it great) and manages to smear the government in a way that appears to be a factual assessment, not a smear.
I think this is probably the best line of questioning, to challenge the efficacy of the FBI's collection methods as producing valid information. Their secret spy software isn't something of generally accepted reliability, like DNA or fingerprints.
The trouble is, the FBI could give you all their source code but it would be a nightmare to sort it out. They probably wouldn't be required to describe it line by line, it would be up to the defendant's experts to figure out what it did and if it worked and whether it was complete. The FBI would just have to be careful to claim only that their supplied source code was just that, all their source code. It would be up to the defense to determine if there were libraries called not present or otherwise identifiable.
I don't see where the court has the authority to order the third party to reveal their code. The FBI and the US attorney are the ones accusing the defendant of committing a crime, the third party contractor is merely providing a component to the FBI.
Say I was accused of drunk driving. I challenged his probable cause to pull me over. He said I was weaving, I said I wasn't, his car was weaving creating the illusion on a dark night that i was weaving. He was driving a Ford Crown Victoria and I want him to demonstrate his car doesn't weave, creating the false impression that my car was weaving. So I can subpoena the proprietary engineering designs of Ford Motor Company merely because the officer was using a Ford to patrol the highway?
The contract was never to break the law, it was to produce software. There's no evidence of fraudulent intent, the FBI just didn't have the resources to produce the software. The specialized knowledge of the developers was necessary to produce the software and it gives them leverage to decide how they will sell their product to the FBI. The FBI may even encourage the group to license a binary only version, believing that it serves some lawful purpose, like protecting its secrecy or for national security.
Even if it was a conspiracy, it would be hard to prove because the elements of intent are so hard to demonstrate.
Let's say the FBI wanted to do some task with software, but didn't have the expertise in house. So they discuss what they want done with a third party, who decides they can do it but will only license the software to the FBI, not sell it to them outright. As part of their agreement, they supply a binary module (like a graphics driver blob file) to the FBI they can interface with.
Now, the FBI ends up being required to reveal its code to a defendant. The third party module ends up being key to the defendant's discovery. The FBI doesn't have the source code to the module, so they can't supply it -- in fact, they have a binding contract saying they can only have the binary module.
Does the third party have to reveal their source code? Can the FBI effectively hide behind their contract with the third party?
If yes, it seems kind of scary -- the FBI can basically outsource their techniques and then hide behind their contracts. Scary because I would imagine the defendants might be making a case that the evidence convicting them is false, but because the FBI could hide behind a third party contract, the defendant can't verify the claims. The FBI, could, in theory at least, use sham agreements to ensure their dirty work remains beyond discovery.
The similar kinds of things I can think of are the DWI cases that were challenged over the source code to breathalyzers and the contract language of at least one of the Stingray makers who forbid the details of their device being revealed.
It's not why do the third-world shitholes bid on the Olympics, it's how do they win the bids?
In theory, the ability to host the games -- availability of venues and the ability to build facilities and the ability to keep the whole thing going -- would be a huge deciding factor.
Which you would think would mostly rule out third world countries, either because of their obvious inability to make their own economies work with minimal corruption, or even a benevolent paternalism that *just maybe* they shouldn't be spending a few billion dollars on facilities they have no use for when the general population is hurting.
But, it's kind of like the UN, because everybody gets to vote, the kleptocrats get to stack the deck, and there's big money to be made for the right people in the right places. Billions in construction contracts, lots of short-term money to be made on food and beverage, etc.
Sure, when it's all over you've got a bunch of unpaid bills and you end up with "ownership" of what amounts to an abandoned amusement park, but people who realize this don't get to vote.
Some of the Disney stuff was unreleased in the US, but was released overseas. I know that "Song of the South", which will never be available officially, was released on videodisc in Japan, and is a huge collector's item and you can buy bootlegs made from the Japanese laserdisc or the UK VHS release.
I'm sure art houses have done plenty of after-hours telecines, but I would imagine that decent copies out of it would have been kind of involved unless they had put some effort into a basement telecine setup.
Before HD video equipment became widespread, you would have ended up with either a cropped 4:3 image or a pretty low-res letterbox if they preserved the full screen. I don't know if theater projector sound systems would supply a line out that could be used to create the audio or if they would have lived miked the sound in the theater.
It's hard to find prices, but from what I've seen even the used 2k-only machines are 50k+ and something 4k and top of the line looks like it might hit $200k.
Maybe Star Wars would be a case where it was so popular that so many prints were struck that it was hard to keep track of them and enterprising fans were able to snag prints at the tail end of the extended run.
Then I guess there is (or was?) the old "revival house" that showed older movies, so obviously there was a warehouse someplace filled with 35mm prints and I would imagine these walked off or "got lost in shipping" from time to time.
But what kind of equipment would you need to actually work with and digitize something like this? I'm imagining a rube goldberg contraption that hacks a 35mm slide scanner to some kind of feed and takeup system along with a lot of work to turn 35mm scans into a video.
Ha! Mine, too. But I guarantee the picture was better than the sound at the drive-in we went to, because it had that outdoor speaker box you hung on your car window.
I'd say dynamically recognizing emissions testing and changing the operating parameters to pass testing and then changing back to more power for driving IS pretty sophisticated engineering.
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The thing is, those pushes and shoves actually help the robot adapt and adjust to them in the future.
That's what I tell my son when I push him down the stairs. After that first broken collarbone he won't even get on the stairs if someone is within six feet of him.
I have a hard time seeing this being adopted in the US, so long as we don't use the pin.
I seem to remember eating at a restaurant where the servers used iPads for order taking and they had Square-style card readers to do the charges, but it was a pretty casual, small place so far all I know it WAS Square they were using.
Who does this? The reason I pay a $250 dinner tab with a credit card is so I don't have to carry much cash with me, a $50 tip is nearly as bad from a carrying cash perspective.
The whole social construct of tipping aside, I always wonder about tip fraud. It's just too easy to cheat on tips when they get manually entered into the credit processing system. You'd have to be supremely detail oriented to track the meal cost + tip as it shows up on your credit card. I think amex might detail it, but it's not hard to see how this could get gamed by a few percentage points without anyone ever detecting it.
Besides the power requirements, the problem with long range is that there's limited spectrum allocation so your extended range ends up being someone else's interference and you both end up with reduced throughput due to competition for the spectrum.
Then there's the security implication of excess range -- your network being reachable where you might not want it reachable. Sure, you're relying on security to prevent malicious access, but that works better when there's no access at all.
The question I would have is if they only have the data rate is only 11 Mbps, it seems to cover a lot of the use cases already covered by Bluetooth.
At that job, the mail room was part of the "facilities" department that managed the physical space of the building, and I worked pretty closely with them because there was always something network related when it came to office space moves and reconfiguration. They were good people and we both kind of shared "outsider" status in the company since we weren't on the revenue side of the business.
I'm sure if the HR people got wind of ammo being shipped to the office, they would have shit, but because I had a relationship with the people who handled all the mail it wasn't a big deal.
But then again, other than being just heavy there was nothing that screamed ammo. It was a box-in-a-box kind of shipment with no external markings to indicate content or company of origin, so they wouldn't have known what it was to begin with. My guess is that unless the box gives away your content, you could really order anything shipped to your office provided it didn't get delivered with a cop.
Other than a local delivery service, I don't think you can order booze through the mail due to the maze of federal and state rules on taxation and other regulation.
There's so many more practical reasons to ditch the penny or the paper dollar bill.
And while *some* criminal transactions would be made more inconvenient by abolishing $100 bills, do you really think that black markets and criminal transactions would just end without it? The people behind them are incredibly entrepreneurial and have demonstrated a remarkable adaptability to pressures on their business, whether its engineering tunnels or building submarines.
I'd be curious just how they would end it -- there's got to be billions (trillions?) of dollars worth of $100s out in the wild, any program to eliminate them would take years and years of convertibility, and as long as they remained convertible, people would still use them.
I also wonder if there might also be some kind of second order risk -- the US $100 is widely used in places outside the US, would those use cases then switch to another currency that still has a larger bill and how would that affect the global preference for dollars, even if the underlying economics of the dollar make more sense.
I haven't experienced that with Windows 10 Enterprise and two APs from two different vendors in the house. My laptop connects to both APs depending (I'm assuming) on which one has the best signal. They're at opposite corners of the house, and you get none/marginal signal if you were to try to connect to the distant AP (which I why I added the second AP).
It's kind of surprising how broken the 802.11 spec is around these issues. One, you could have wanted a transparent but default system for encrypting radio traffic even if it was an open system. An open system should just mean you don't need to enter a passphrase to connect, not that you want radio traffic in the clear.
And some kind of transparent certificate exchange that would let clients authenticate the AP even if it was an open system.
Every place I've ever worked has allowed shipments for any employee. I had two cases of handgun ammunition shipped to me at my last job at a downtown, 7 floors of the high rise kind of place -- the mail guy told me "Your ammo is here. It's too heavy, you have to get it in the mailroom yourself."
As for booze, every place I've ever worked has served booze on company time. The only place it didn't happen that often was when I worked at a university office. Our suite was in the administration building with the President and Regents' office so we had to jump through the bureaucratic hoops to serve alcohol and it was a pain, but I still think we drank as much or more as a department than any other department I've worked at.
I wouldn't work in an office that didn't have a relaxed attitude about drinking. And not because I would drink much in the office anyway, but because a place that's restrictive about it usually has stick up its ass about everything. Fuck that.
He's also 11, so he doesn't even use the phone part, just the iPod part, and only when we go on vacation or long car trips so by then the small loss of battery capacity and performance issues really aren't a problem.
The good part is that we've gotten four years out of a single handset.
But I suspected this would troll somebody into jealousy of some kind, given the usual round of Slashdot postings that come out when smartphones are discussed and people trot out how they use the cheapest handset they can find on the cheapest pay as you go plan they can find. If that works for them, great, but it wouldn't work for me, and it doesn't have to.
Bulleit is pretty pedestrian. If she was getting fucking Pappy Van Winkle delivered to her at work, her claims of poverty would be harder to take.
And did she actually drink it at work, or just have it delivered there? After all, it's bourbon, a legal product. It's not like she was getting an eightball of coke or a bunch of smack stamps form Silk Road delivered to the office.
I honestly didn't know. I have a hazy memory of a fight over air bags requirements in cars in the late 1970s, with car makers opposed and now they are standard. I don't remember specific timelines or when proposed mandates became actual mandates.
Were they offered because the manufacturers were looking to upsell luxury buyers with in-demand safety features, or because they knew these features were going to be mandated on all cars in the near future, and getting people to pay for them as options was just a way to recoup something off the investment ahead of time?
USB 3 is event driven and 2 and older were polled. USB 3 uses almost no CPU, you can pin a SSD drive at 90 MB/s on USB 3 and barely notice the CPU change. USB 2 would burn a third of the CPU at 30 MB/sec.
For whatever its faults, 3 isn't really that bad for the performance it delivers. I've used gig NICs and SSDs off USB 3 without performance not noticeably different than PCIe NICs or SATA SSD. The latter are really only better at the outer limits of performance, not ordinary desktop workloads.
3.1 will be even more interesting once it's more widely adopted. Whatever the successor to Sky Lake is will probably meet or exceed the 10 USB 3 port support it offers, but with 3.1 ports at 10 Gb/sec. You'd likely use an NVMe disk, but with 3.1 at 10 Gb/sec, it would almost make sense to put a native USB 3 interface on SSDs versus limiting them to SATA 6 Gb/sec speeds.
I buy a top of the line iPhone every year and it gets used hard, for four years, by every member of my family. By the time four years are up and everyone has used it, it's largely obsolete in terms of performance due to operating system changes. At that point, I keep it around for another year mostly as a test platform for email connectivity on whatever the newest OS release it will run.
So far, the hardware has held up. Only the 3GS had a problem with the up/down volume rocker button cover falling off, every other one has been fine other than the decline in battery capacity.
As for value, that's highly dependent on your income and perception. I feel like I've gotten 4+ years of value out of it personally, but it's a minor expense relative to our income and about half of the cost is compensated by our employers, too. I work as a consultant, so it's my primary voice phone, supplies a good chunk of my internet access on the road, provides mapping and entertainment in the car, so I feel like I get a lot of overall value out of it.
No, no, the red peril is the best part of this! It was perfect.
Nothing undermines the government better than associating their behavior with that of totalitarian communism. It's so perfect because the irony is like kryptonite -- the security state always uses protecting freedom and the American way as their justification and mission, they can't possibly doing something in contradiction to their mission, can they?
It's like the Star Trek episode with Nomad, where their give it an illogical problem to solve and it self destructs.
This woman is either a idiot savant, or she's a political genius who should have run for office, because it's a transcendent response that manages to be both right (America's freedom IS what is/was made it great) and manages to smear the government in a way that appears to be a factual assessment, not a smear.
I think this is probably the best line of questioning, to challenge the efficacy of the FBI's collection methods as producing valid information. Their secret spy software isn't something of generally accepted reliability, like DNA or fingerprints.
The trouble is, the FBI could give you all their source code but it would be a nightmare to sort it out. They probably wouldn't be required to describe it line by line, it would be up to the defendant's experts to figure out what it did and if it worked and whether it was complete. The FBI would just have to be careful to claim only that their supplied source code was just that, all their source code. It would be up to the defense to determine if there were libraries called not present or otherwise identifiable.
I don't see where the court has the authority to order the third party to reveal their code. The FBI and the US attorney are the ones accusing the defendant of committing a crime, the third party contractor is merely providing a component to the FBI.
Say I was accused of drunk driving. I challenged his probable cause to pull me over. He said I was weaving, I said I wasn't, his car was weaving creating the illusion on a dark night that i was weaving. He was driving a Ford Crown Victoria and I want him to demonstrate his car doesn't weave, creating the false impression that my car was weaving. So I can subpoena the proprietary engineering designs of Ford Motor Company merely because the officer was using a Ford to patrol the highway?
The contract was never to break the law, it was to produce software. There's no evidence of fraudulent intent, the FBI just didn't have the resources to produce the software. The specialized knowledge of the developers was necessary to produce the software and it gives them leverage to decide how they will sell their product to the FBI. The FBI may even encourage the group to license a binary only version, believing that it serves some lawful purpose, like protecting its secrecy or for national security.
Even if it was a conspiracy, it would be hard to prove because the elements of intent are so hard to demonstrate.
Let's say the FBI wanted to do some task with software, but didn't have the expertise in house. So they discuss what they want done with a third party, who decides they can do it but will only license the software to the FBI, not sell it to them outright. As part of their agreement, they supply a binary module (like a graphics driver blob file) to the FBI they can interface with.
Now, the FBI ends up being required to reveal its code to a defendant. The third party module ends up being key to the defendant's discovery. The FBI doesn't have the source code to the module, so they can't supply it -- in fact, they have a binding contract saying they can only have the binary module.
Does the third party have to reveal their source code? Can the FBI effectively hide behind their contract with the third party?
If yes, it seems kind of scary -- the FBI can basically outsource their techniques and then hide behind their contracts. Scary because I would imagine the defendants might be making a case that the evidence convicting them is false, but because the FBI could hide behind a third party contract, the defendant can't verify the claims. The FBI, could, in theory at least, use sham agreements to ensure their dirty work remains beyond discovery.
The similar kinds of things I can think of are the DWI cases that were challenged over the source code to breathalyzers and the contract language of at least one of the Stingray makers who forbid the details of their device being revealed.
It's not why do the third-world shitholes bid on the Olympics, it's how do they win the bids?
In theory, the ability to host the games -- availability of venues and the ability to build facilities and the ability to keep the whole thing going -- would be a huge deciding factor.
Which you would think would mostly rule out third world countries, either because of their obvious inability to make their own economies work with minimal corruption, or even a benevolent paternalism that *just maybe* they shouldn't be spending a few billion dollars on facilities they have no use for when the general population is hurting.
But, it's kind of like the UN, because everybody gets to vote, the kleptocrats get to stack the deck, and there's big money to be made for the right people in the right places. Billions in construction contracts, lots of short-term money to be made on food and beverage, etc.
Sure, when it's all over you've got a bunch of unpaid bills and you end up with "ownership" of what amounts to an abandoned amusement park, but people who realize this don't get to vote.
Some of the Disney stuff was unreleased in the US, but was released overseas. I know that "Song of the South", which will never be available officially, was released on videodisc in Japan, and is a huge collector's item and you can buy bootlegs made from the Japanese laserdisc or the UK VHS release.
I'm sure art houses have done plenty of after-hours telecines, but I would imagine that decent copies out of it would have been kind of involved unless they had put some effort into a basement telecine setup.
Before HD video equipment became widespread, you would have ended up with either a cropped 4:3 image or a pretty low-res letterbox if they preserved the full screen. I don't know if theater projector sound systems would supply a line out that could be used to create the audio or if they would have lived miked the sound in the theater.
It's hard to find prices, but from what I've seen even the used 2k-only machines are 50k+ and something 4k and top of the line looks like it might hit $200k.
I don't think our drive in had the radio option and I know it didn't have the a/c option.
The bigger problem in Minnesota was the damn mosquitoes. Something is wrong if bug spray is something you have to use to see a movie.
Maybe Star Wars would be a case where it was so popular that so many prints were struck that it was hard to keep track of them and enterprising fans were able to snag prints at the tail end of the extended run.
Then I guess there is (or was?) the old "revival house" that showed older movies, so obviously there was a warehouse someplace filled with 35mm prints and I would imagine these walked off or "got lost in shipping" from time to time.
But what kind of equipment would you need to actually work with and digitize something like this? I'm imagining a rube goldberg contraption that hacks a 35mm slide scanner to some kind of feed and takeup system along with a lot of work to turn 35mm scans into a video.
Ha! Mine, too. But I guarantee the picture was better than the sound at the drive-in we went to, because it had that outdoor speaker box you hung on your car window.
I'd say dynamically recognizing emissions testing and changing the operating parameters to pass testing and then changing back to more power for driving IS pretty sophisticated engineering.