Yes as a matter of fact, it would reflect a significant portion back into space. Obviously some of the IR rays would go in all directions and hit buildings and trees and things.
Nothing magical about that. In fact you can use a solar reflector to freeze water at night.
I for one would far rather have an x86 equivalent of the Pi. Being able to interface with lots of GPIO pins but able to use a stock x86 kernel and stock distribution would be so much more convenient and useful to me than using one of the various Pi distros.
On the other hand, few seem to think as I do, as Intel has canceled their hobby SBCs.
I would like to replace GV entirely with my own solution, but I haven't found anything that works the same way for the same cost. GV offers completely free incoming calls as well as free forwarding to my phone numbers. No DID provider I know of offers this. I actually use GV as Grand Central originally was meant for: a modern call forwarding system to let me use one phone number and different cell phones and land lines.
Before Google bought it and began it's slow decline as a useful service, Grand Central offered this. I'm not sure it allowed a custom music file, but you could choose from a bunch of different ringing types including British, European, and Russian tones. Just for kicks I set mine to Russian.
I think if they allowed this feature and custom wav files now I'd be tempted to make my ringing tone start with the SIT tone to through off the telemarketers (though does that trick actually work anymore?) and spam callers.
There's no reason Apple couldn't make a VM that provided a specific set of hardware to the virtual machine, and this VM could run anywhere, on any hardware combination.
And you're perpetuating a common falsehood, that's been thoroughly debunked.
It's a nice story, but it's not true. The origin of the scale comes from Ole Romer who set freezing of water at 7.5, and human body temperature at 23.5, and boiling point at 60. Fahrenheit didn't like this scale because of the fractions so he just bumped everything up by 0.5. Freezing at 8, body temperature at 24. Later on he multiplied everything by 4. Freezing now becomes 32, body temperature 96, boiling at 212.
But there's probably more to the story, since 1oF increase in temperature increases the volume of Mercury by 1 part in 10,000. Did this play into it? No one knows.
Nothing like watching video through a crack in the door.
I've always wondered why cell phones don't force the aspect ratio to be normal (a bit of cropping perhaps) when the camera is vertical. Aren't the sensors much closer to square anyway (like 4:3)?
You didn't read the OP's post very well. He said, sell us a version that can run in a VM. That's a lot easier and more like the existing Mac ecosystem. Apple could even sell the OS with their own VM software that provides a certain set of custom virtual hardware. That would make the OS useable for a lot of people, and would provide a quite decent user experience.
I concede that's not in Apple's interest of course, since they make their money selling the hardware.
I agree Trump is the effect, not the cause, but the rest of your post... just wow. How is reporting on what is actually happening making up things out of whole cloth? It's definitely newsworthy that Muller may be investigating possible obstruction of justice, for example. That's not fake news. It's not being made up.
You've made an extraordinary, blanket claim without evidence. That's just not honest. Trying to sow this kind of distrust of the media (well distrust of everything) is disingenuous and pernicious. This movement to discredit the media is extremely dangerous to democracy. Encouraging skepticism is appropriate, encouraging wholesale distrust of just about everything (other than what you say apparently), is not. It's not thinking critically.
Don't know why you think that. Nearly all Windows applications are "legacy" applications right now. Meaning Win32 api. If devs could just select ARM from the Visual Studio target drop-down box and hit go, they'd be all over that I think. Maybe not things like Adobe products, unless they see a big enough market. But for things like office applications such as MS Office, Quicken, Chrome, Firefox, etc (the apps people actually use vs Windows Store), you can be that if VS supports the ARM target, they will be there. Really win32 is going to be with us for many years yet. And having an easy way to target ARM with that api scares Intel. They don't seem to be scare of universal Windows apps, which by definition are more portable between architectures.
Arm is really fast enough for many things that people use every day if VS made it easy to target without resorting to C# and universal apps. Heck even with emulation of x86 it's fast enough for some things like basic tasks in MS Office.
If the choice was porting a "legacy" app to a universal metro app, then yeah you'd be correct.
Is a display system that is resolution independent still a distant dream? Seems like this HiDPI stuff is just a hack, though I'll agree it's not the worst hack I've ever seen.
Years ago we thought eventually we'd have desktop where everything was displayed in actual units like centimetres or points, and since everything was to be scalable, you could zoom it anyway you want and it would remain nice and sharp. Although we have scalable fonts that HiDPI relies on, seems like we gave up on vector graphics for drawing with (too slow?), and now we just bitmap scale the whole GUI (except the fonts). Is there no better way?
Okay I have a better picture now after reading that article. So the law forces schools to force students to have epipens and not anything else that's equivalent and cheaper? It that right? Maybe because they worry the person trying to save their life won't know how to operate it?
Sounds more like a lack of education to me. Why didn't they purchase one of the much cheaper autoinjectors on the market, like the ones sold by CVS that are apparently 1/16th the price and work just as well and seem to be as simple to use?
Outside of places where the law ignorantly forces schools to buy epipens there's very little reason to even consider the epipen, expired or new. At least that's what seems like.
You made a blanket statement about "gimping" Windows 10 performance in a VM. I simply said your blanket statement was wrong. Windows 10 runs just fine in a VM. Like I say I use Visual Studio in it frequently. For most common office tasks where MS software is required it will work fine for Linux users who need to run it in a VM.
a) no idea what you're getting at here. I'm not a gamer; I wouldn't know b) I don't care about how DX12 runs in a VM and suspect most people who run Windows 10 in a VM don't care about that either c) I don't have Windows 7, and you can't buy it either. Shrug. No idea what you're talking about with cloud features confined to VM. I don't use any cloud features anyway but they'd be no different than they function on a dedicated PC.
Ahh a down mod. Must have hit a nerve. If you disagree, just say so, and help the rest of us understand by what he or she means when they say you're not a democracy but a republic.
So you don't believe that freedom and the rule of law can be undermined as much by the far right as from the left? Believe me it will and is happening.
Freedom means so many different things to different people. Just because someone thinks differently than you do and is extremely concerned about what's going on in the white house does not mean they hate freedom and hate America. The opposite in fact. Who are you to define what love of country means to your fellow countrymen?
There are lots of kinds of freedom that mean a great deal to many people. To be free from racism and prejudice is top on the list for some. Others sincerely desire to have the freedom to receive basic medical care without having to go without food. Are these freedoms any less valid than your freedom to do whatever it is you want to do? Freedoms do clash and conflict. When they do, whose freedoms are more important, yours or theirs?
Hopefully I'm wrong, but you seem to imply that defending freedoms means the freedoms to think like you do, act like you do, and to be free from association with people who think differently than you do. Unless you folks in the US can overcome this partisan division by accepting and reconciling the vastly different points of view and even culture in America, the country will break apart and fall, just like so many other countries have and are failing now. The failures came not from some people people simply being wrong, or from "mob rule," but from division. And as long as you are pointing a finger at another American and claiming they hate America, you are as much a part of the problem as they are.
I keep hearing Americans say that (mostly right-wing Americans), but I'm not sure the word "republic" actually has any real and significant meaning. And you yet speak it as if the word has some single, universal meaning, drawing perhaps on the authority of history (the Roman empire perhaps) to give it gravitas. In reality I think you're using it to mean something specific to you and others who share your viewpoint.
What it feels like when I see this phrase is that a "Republic not a Democracy" means it's a democracy when people think and vote as you would have them think and vote, and it's a "republic" when people disagree with you but you desire your point of view to the dominant one through the mechanics of government. Not speaking about you specifically, but just in general that's the undercurrent that seems to run through comments about the US being a "Republic not a Democracy."
Even in third world countries cars have catalytic converters. However you seem to be confused as to what their purpose is. Hint: they prevent smog, but they certainly don't have anything whatsoever to do with reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Wrong. Windows 10 is quite usable in a VM for business and even programming tasks. Sure gaming probably isn't a go. But everything else works fine. I use Windows 10 in a virtual machine quite often, running Visual Studio.
I'm looking for a similar device as the submitter. In my case I'll have a separate screen but I'd like something x86 that runs on batteries with automotive power. So when the vehicle starts the computer just keeps on going. It will essentially run most of the time, sleeping when I don't need it, or powering it off, perhaps with a signal. I need it to be x86 for now because of some software I need to run, so the Pi is out. VGA or HDMI out for the external touch screen. And I need at least two USB ports, or even better, a couple of real RS232 headers I can tap into (for GPS data and talking to an Arduino).
Even if I didn't need x86, the Pi doesn't quite cut it because there's no power management built into the thing. So far as I know it won't suspend or hibernate, or allow me to wake it on a timer like I can with x86 with a BIOS or EFI setting.
Since I don't have mod points today, I'll just say, "well said" instead.
This is a problem with more than just Firefox. Gnome suffers from this also. They keep chasing the mythical new user, rather than working for their existing solid user base. They are not gaining new users and they have alienated a lot of their existing users. I'm not even sure why Gnome would care about new users honestly.. is it ego? Maybe it's the dream of world domination. I don't know. The reality is these "new users" don't really care what OS (and browser) is running and have little reason to switch to Linux period.
I'm not sure what the solution to this widespread problem of change for the sake of change.
As Sir Humphries most capably put it, "the Ship of State is the only ship that leaks from the top." Be it the White house or the appointed heads of the intelligent organizations. Leaks happen when they are beneficial politically to the leaker usually.
Yes farming is an industry. But it's an industry that feeds you. you can't talk about it as some kind of "them" entity while blissfully enjoying the fruits of the lowest food prices in human history. Does this come at a price? Yes it does, and yes farming has to adapt and change to realities. This gap between what farms and farmers actually do and the people who consume food is increasingly worrying me. We need education in the worst way. Most people don't have any real sense of what farms actually do, and they certainly don't understand things like how herbicides work, how they are used, and what happens to them. Heck most people don't even know what raw food looks like, such as carrots, peas, and beans. They've literally never seen them growing before.
As for education on both sides, farmers are not ignorant people and they do want to learn and improve. Right now the study of soil health is becoming a major thing in agriculture in north America. We recognize that healthy soil is key to growing crops with less inputs, less disease, and more natural processes. We're recognizing that although chemical farming has saved billions from starvation over the decades (at one time the world's top minds were ready to write off the entire population of India and Pakistan), we've reached the limits as to what it can do. Fungicides in particular are leading us into a vicious cycle of plant disease, much like antibiotics can open up people to subsequent infections because all the good bacteria dies as well as the bad.
But I digress. I'm not sure you understand what Roundup is, let alone what it's used for. I don't think roundup has increased cultivated acres magically. Not sure where you got that from. Roundup has reduced herbicide use dramatically (cut it in half for resistant crops), which is overall a good thing, though there are problems with using it. How it connects to destroying habitat I have no idea. Cultivated cropland was already destroyed habitat for monarch butterflies before roundup. I'm not sure how you connect monarch butterflies in there either. Are you talking about GMO corn that kills the butterflies perhaps? Not sure what you're getting at. I'd say one of the biggest threats to all wild habitat these days is urban development. Agricultural cultivation is pretty stagnant, and has been for decades.
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Yes as a matter of fact, it would reflect a significant portion back into space. Obviously some of the IR rays would go in all directions and hit buildings and trees and things.
Nothing magical about that. In fact you can use a solar reflector to freeze water at night.
I'm not so sure they are.
I for one would far rather have an x86 equivalent of the Pi. Being able to interface with lots of GPIO pins but able to use a stock x86 kernel and stock distribution would be so much more convenient and useful to me than using one of the various Pi distros.
On the other hand, few seem to think as I do, as Intel has canceled their hobby SBCs.
I would like to replace GV entirely with my own solution, but I haven't found anything that works the same way for the same cost. GV offers completely free incoming calls as well as free forwarding to my phone numbers. No DID provider I know of offers this. I actually use GV as Grand Central originally was meant for: a modern call forwarding system to let me use one phone number and different cell phones and land lines.
Before Google bought it and began it's slow decline as a useful service, Grand Central offered this. I'm not sure it allowed a custom music file, but you could choose from a bunch of different ringing types including British, European, and Russian tones. Just for kicks I set mine to Russian.
I think if they allowed this feature and custom wav files now I'd be tempted to make my ringing tone start with the SIT tone to through off the telemarketers (though does that trick actually work anymore?) and spam callers.
There's no reason Apple couldn't make a VM that provided a specific set of hardware to the virtual machine, and this VM could run anywhere, on any hardware combination.
And you're perpetuating a common falsehood, that's been thoroughly debunked.
It's a nice story, but it's not true. The origin of the scale comes from Ole Romer who set freezing of water at 7.5, and human body temperature at 23.5, and boiling point at 60. Fahrenheit didn't like this scale because of the fractions so he just bumped everything up by 0.5. Freezing at 8, body temperature at 24. Later on he multiplied everything by 4. Freezing now becomes 32, body temperature 96, boiling at 212.
But there's probably more to the story, since 1oF increase in temperature increases the volume of Mercury by 1 part in 10,000. Did this play into it? No one knows.
Interesting story. I highly recommend Veritasium's video on the subject:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Nothing like watching video through a crack in the door.
I've always wondered why cell phones don't force the aspect ratio to be normal (a bit of cropping perhaps) when the camera is vertical. Aren't the sensors much closer to square anyway (like 4:3)?
You didn't read the OP's post very well. He said, sell us a version that can run in a VM. That's a lot easier and more like the existing Mac ecosystem. Apple could even sell the OS with their own VM software that provides a certain set of custom virtual hardware. That would make the OS useable for a lot of people, and would provide a quite decent user experience.
I concede that's not in Apple's interest of course, since they make their money selling the hardware.
I agree Trump is the effect, not the cause, but the rest of your post... just wow. How is reporting on what is actually happening making up things out of whole cloth? It's definitely newsworthy that Muller may be investigating possible obstruction of justice, for example. That's not fake news. It's not being made up.
You've made an extraordinary, blanket claim without evidence. That's just not honest. Trying to sow this kind of distrust of the media (well distrust of everything) is disingenuous and pernicious. This movement to discredit the media is extremely dangerous to democracy. Encouraging skepticism is appropriate, encouraging wholesale distrust of just about everything (other than what you say apparently), is not. It's not thinking critically.
Don't know why you think that. Nearly all Windows applications are "legacy" applications right now. Meaning Win32 api. If devs could just select ARM from the Visual Studio target drop-down box and hit go, they'd be all over that I think. Maybe not things like Adobe products, unless they see a big enough market. But for things like office applications such as MS Office, Quicken, Chrome, Firefox, etc (the apps people actually use vs Windows Store), you can be that if VS supports the ARM target, they will be there. Really win32 is going to be with us for many years yet. And having an easy way to target ARM with that api scares Intel. They don't seem to be scare of universal Windows apps, which by definition are more portable between architectures.
Arm is really fast enough for many things that people use every day if VS made it easy to target without resorting to C# and universal apps. Heck even with emulation of x86 it's fast enough for some things like basic tasks in MS Office.
If the choice was porting a "legacy" app to a universal metro app, then yeah you'd be correct.
Is a display system that is resolution independent still a distant dream? Seems like this HiDPI stuff is just a hack, though I'll agree it's not the worst hack I've ever seen.
Years ago we thought eventually we'd have desktop where everything was displayed in actual units like centimetres or points, and since everything was to be scalable, you could zoom it anyway you want and it would remain nice and sharp. Although we have scalable fonts that HiDPI relies on, seems like we gave up on vector graphics for drawing with (too slow?), and now we just bitmap scale the whole GUI (except the fonts). Is there no better way?
Okay I have a better picture now after reading that article. So the law forces schools to force students to have epipens and not anything else that's equivalent and cheaper? It that right? Maybe because they worry the person trying to save their life won't know how to operate it?
Sounds more like a lack of education to me. Why didn't they purchase one of the much cheaper autoinjectors on the market, like the ones sold by CVS that are apparently 1/16th the price and work just as well and seem to be as simple to use?
Outside of places where the law ignorantly forces schools to buy epipens there's very little reason to even consider the epipen, expired or new. At least that's what seems like.
You made a blanket statement about "gimping" Windows 10 performance in a VM. I simply said your blanket statement was wrong. Windows 10 runs just fine in a VM. Like I say I use Visual Studio in it frequently. For most common office tasks where MS software is required it will work fine for Linux users who need to run it in a VM.
a) no idea what you're getting at here. I'm not a gamer; I wouldn't know
b) I don't care about how DX12 runs in a VM and suspect most people who run Windows 10 in a VM don't care about that either
c) I don't have Windows 7, and you can't buy it either. Shrug. No idea what you're talking about with cloud features confined to VM. I don't use any cloud features anyway but they'd be no different than they function on a dedicated PC.
Ahh a down mod. Must have hit a nerve. If you disagree, just say so, and help the rest of us understand by what he or she means when they say you're not a democracy but a republic.
So you don't believe that freedom and the rule of law can be undermined as much by the far right as from the left? Believe me it will and is happening.
Freedom means so many different things to different people. Just because someone thinks differently than you do and is extremely concerned about what's going on in the white house does not mean they hate freedom and hate America. The opposite in fact. Who are you to define what love of country means to your fellow countrymen?
There are lots of kinds of freedom that mean a great deal to many people. To be free from racism and prejudice is top on the list for some. Others sincerely desire to have the freedom to receive basic medical care without having to go without food. Are these freedoms any less valid than your freedom to do whatever it is you want to do? Freedoms do clash and conflict. When they do, whose freedoms are more important, yours or theirs?
Hopefully I'm wrong, but you seem to imply that defending freedoms means the freedoms to think like you do, act like you do, and to be free from association with people who think differently than you do. Unless you folks in the US can overcome this partisan division by accepting and reconciling the vastly different points of view and even culture in America, the country will break apart and fall, just like so many other countries have and are failing now. The failures came not from some people people simply being wrong, or from "mob rule," but from division. And as long as you are pointing a finger at another American and claiming they hate America, you are as much a part of the problem as they are.
I keep hearing Americans say that (mostly right-wing Americans), but I'm not sure the word "republic" actually has any real and significant meaning. And you yet speak it as if the word has some single, universal meaning, drawing perhaps on the authority of history (the Roman empire perhaps) to give it gravitas. In reality I think you're using it to mean something specific to you and others who share your viewpoint.
What it feels like when I see this phrase is that a "Republic not a Democracy" means it's a democracy when people think and vote as you would have them think and vote, and it's a "republic" when people disagree with you but you desire your point of view to the dominant one through the mechanics of government. Not speaking about you specifically, but just in general that's the undercurrent that seems to run through comments about the US being a "Republic not a Democracy."
Even in third world countries cars have catalytic converters. However you seem to be confused as to what their purpose is. Hint: they prevent smog, but they certainly don't have anything whatsoever to do with reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Wrong. Windows 10 is quite usable in a VM for business and even programming tasks. Sure gaming probably isn't a go. But everything else works fine. I use Windows 10 in a virtual machine quite often, running Visual Studio.
I'm looking for a similar device as the submitter. In my case I'll have a separate screen but I'd like something x86 that runs on batteries with automotive power. So when the vehicle starts the computer just keeps on going. It will essentially run most of the time, sleeping when I don't need it, or powering it off, perhaps with a signal. I need it to be x86 for now because of some software I need to run, so the Pi is out. VGA or HDMI out for the external touch screen. And I need at least two USB ports, or even better, a couple of real RS232 headers I can tap into (for GPS data and talking to an Arduino).
Even if I didn't need x86, the Pi doesn't quite cut it because there's no power management built into the thing. So far as I know it won't suspend or hibernate, or allow me to wake it on a timer like I can with x86 with a BIOS or EFI setting.
Since I don't have mod points today, I'll just say, "well said" instead.
This is a problem with more than just Firefox. Gnome suffers from this also. They keep chasing the mythical new user, rather than working for their existing solid user base. They are not gaining new users and they have alienated a lot of their existing users. I'm not even sure why Gnome would care about new users honestly.. is it ego? Maybe it's the dream of world domination. I don't know. The reality is these "new users" don't really care what OS (and browser) is running and have little reason to switch to Linux period.
I'm not sure what the solution to this widespread problem of change for the sake of change.
As Sir Humphries most capably put it, "the Ship of State is the only ship that leaks from the top." Be it the White house or the appointed heads of the intelligent organizations. Leaks happen when they are beneficial politically to the leaker usually.
Yes, dotnet can indeed do all those things.
MS bought the Xamarin stack to enable mobile development (Android and iOS) in C#. And of course dotNet core runs on Linux, OS X, and Windows.
Yes farming is an industry. But it's an industry that feeds you. you can't talk about it as some kind of "them" entity while blissfully enjoying the fruits of the lowest food prices in human history. Does this come at a price? Yes it does, and yes farming has to adapt and change to realities. This gap between what farms and farmers actually do and the people who consume food is increasingly worrying me. We need education in the worst way. Most people don't have any real sense of what farms actually do, and they certainly don't understand things like how herbicides work, how they are used, and what happens to them. Heck most people don't even know what raw food looks like, such as carrots, peas, and beans. They've literally never seen them growing before.
As for education on both sides, farmers are not ignorant people and they do want to learn and improve. Right now the study of soil health is becoming a major thing in agriculture in north America. We recognize that healthy soil is key to growing crops with less inputs, less disease, and more natural processes. We're recognizing that although chemical farming has saved billions from starvation over the decades (at one time the world's top minds were ready to write off the entire population of India and Pakistan), we've reached the limits as to what it can do. Fungicides in particular are leading us into a vicious cycle of plant disease, much like antibiotics can open up people to subsequent infections because all the good bacteria dies as well as the bad.
But I digress. I'm not sure you understand what Roundup is, let alone what it's used for. I don't think roundup has increased cultivated acres magically. Not sure where you got that from. Roundup has reduced herbicide use dramatically (cut it in half for resistant crops), which is overall a good thing, though there are problems with using it. How it connects to destroying habitat I have no idea. Cultivated cropland was already destroyed habitat for monarch butterflies before roundup. I'm not sure how you connect monarch butterflies in there either. Are you talking about GMO corn that kills the butterflies perhaps? Not sure what you're getting at. I'd say one of the biggest threats to all wild habitat these days is urban development. Agricultural cultivation is pretty stagnant, and has been for decades.
You mean I can google for food?! Amazing times we live in. But seriously, there's plenty of food in my grocery store, so we're good.