Is that result due to cooperation resulting from the yelling, or is that due to a powerful prima donna browbeating everyone to follow his singular lead?
Does it really matter if the result is that the team is better for it?
This is the nature of OSS because you cannot fire your employees. You see, as an employee if I don't like your work, I'll let you go. But as a OSS leader, if you constantly pester me with the way you think things should be, I will develop a lack of empathy and tell you to go eat it. Hopefully, you'll either behave as I need you, or you'll stop pestering me.
Take a look through the mailing list and see how many times someone tells Linus he's wrong because it should be in C++ or Python or some other language. See how many times someone wants to pollute the source with some hack or feature that belongs in user space. Linus cannot fire these people, and his attempts to reason with them only have them continually post to the mailing list. The only response is to ban them, or tell them harshly to go away unless they have something of substance to contribute.
You cannot decode 720p30 and 1080p30 on the CPU on these devices. The performance wasn't there. You need to take advantage of the bundled HW codecs like PowerVR and Nvidia Tegra, which were available but without a consistent API. Google said that fragmentation wasn't an issue, but you'd have to write the app for each handset you wanted to work with, while Apple had several applications capable of doing this.
You misunderstand, there needs to be HW support in order to decode 720p30 and 1080p30 on these embedded platforms. Your CPU cannot perform the task. Luckily, most of these devices ship with the associated hardware. Unfortunately, Android chooses (or chose in 2010) not to make this available to developers.
We developed during Android 2.2, when there wasn't all the support there currently is. Furthermore, the support we had access to involved playing URLs, well the transport stream we used does not have a URL. Furthermore, at times we may have to directly insert I-Frames into the stream, manually step the decoder, and insert discontinuities into the stream. The codecs did not support any of that.
Thats the extent of fragmentation technical issues.
No, that's not correct; the problem goes further. On some devices things display differently, even though they have the same version of Android. On some devices you have access to audio/video codecs that aren't available on others.
In the end, this lack of cohesion meant my company stopped developing their A/V application because there was too much variability, even when versions of the Android OS were the same. When this happens we lose out on a market, but the customers never get a chance to use and enjoy our applications.
Know all of those "Send error report to Microsoft" windows that pop up when an app crashes? I suspect that these dumps are making their way to these guys.
Basically, everyone who's ever clicked "send report" has been informing the NSA of exploit vectors and not letting the vendor know.
You're being rather sexist. You assume that the women you spoke to are hired booth workers, but my experience (having worked the booths, myself has been that the attractive, professionally dressed woman is actually the technically competent person is sales and marketing for the company. Times have changed, women can have real jobs, too!
BTW, IT folks don't work the booths. Booths and shows are for establishing contact with potential businesses. They're where the meeting and greeting, and the wheeling and dealing of business takes place. The people the booths want are the C-levels and the VPs who can bring in contracts; not Joe User who is wasting their time asking whether or not this widget is backwards compatible with their DB9 system from 1983.
You're mixing two different programs. There is the program to monitor Verizon and other carriers, but this involved a site-wide pen register system. Then there is PRISM, which gives direct access to the servers of Google, Facebook, and several other tech giants.
End-to-end encryption hides information that is not being collected in the former program as they are not wiretapping the phone's voice data. End-to-end encryption does nothing for the latter program as the endpoint (Google, Facebook, etc) are providing your data to regardless how hard you try to obfuscate it from prying eyes.
This makes little sense. The purpose of using encryption is to prevent someone tapping into the conversation and hearing what you are saying. The NSA is instead going to each of the people you talk to and asking "what did russotto say?" and getting an answer in real time. Encryption does NOTHING to change this.
Pretty much all cameras that operate during daylight have an IR filter. IR in sunlight tends to damage the quality of the image. The only cameras that are affected are the night time security cameras, as they do not have the IR filter and usually have a ring of IR LEDs to illuminate their scene. Those are the only cameras subject to IR overexposure.
Not necessarily. You've characterized the whole story in terms of the viewer and consumer of such content. What you haven't done is taken a look at the perspective employed by the one being recorded. They may not appreciate their exposure becoming public knowledge, this may lead to reduced possibilities as various people come across videos when looking someone up. Recall those awkward school-age years? What would be a faux pas that becomes gossip amongst a clique can expand to a video that is shared across an entire school.
The consequences of every action being made public at the discretion of some Google Glass wearer is rather concerning.
Ugh. This trope again. I watched them as they aired from 1999 on. They were very much about topical jokes about current events, with plenty of references to the 2000 Election, what if Al Gore won, Ally McBeal (Single Female Lawyer), Lucy Liu, Beastie Boys, and so forth. Just watching it is like going back to a microcosm of pop culture in the early 2000s. Only your perspective has changed; you see things in current events much differently than you see the current events of yesteryear.
That doesn't appear to be what gtall implied. Furthermore, blame lies with the North Koreans for pursuing a nuclear weapon in violation to their agreements.
The areas in which the windmills are being installed are rural, I suspect the Flynn Effect is reduced in these areas (as is supported by the hypothesis behind the Flynn Effect).
You don't need to directly measure the variable (person's state: connection graph, behaviors, interests, etc); you may estimate the state of the variable by the observable information (how other's react, discuss, etc). This is the basis of sensor theory.
Facebook tracks information on persons with and without accounts based on information provided by other users. For those without accounts, Facebook creates "shadow profiles."
For Windows, iOS it seems to be decisions by committee and business need.
You say this as if somehow a committee eliminates the politics that are present in Linux, which cannot be further from the truth. I bet there are tons of things that the committee for each OS has turned down for various reasons, but you and I don't know about it because it isn't open.
Seems like the King does not want something added to "his" kernel,
Precisely right. RH is fully capable of adding it to their kernel, as are any other distros. Linus does not want it in his kernel and that's that!
I wouldn't think anyone would take the half hour remark literal.
I have had a manager who behaves, literally, as you claim you do. You think you're being flippant or glib, but you aren't. There are managers who want to be a part of the process and they think that means interrupting everyone who is actually working. And from your tirade, you sound like you're one of them. You think you're doing everyone good with your frequent communication sessions, but you're actually an impediment to actual progress.
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Is that result due to cooperation resulting from the yelling, or is that due to a powerful prima donna browbeating everyone to follow his singular lead?
Does it really matter if the result is that the team is better for it?
This is the nature of OSS because you cannot fire your employees. You see, as an employee if I don't like your work, I'll let you go. But as a OSS leader, if you constantly pester me with the way you think things should be, I will develop a lack of empathy and tell you to go eat it. Hopefully, you'll either behave as I need you, or you'll stop pestering me.
Take a look through the mailing list and see how many times someone tells Linus he's wrong because it should be in C++ or Python or some other language. See how many times someone wants to pollute the source with some hack or feature that belongs in user space. Linus cannot fire these people, and his attempts to reason with them only have them continually post to the mailing list. The only response is to ban them, or tell them harshly to go away unless they have something of substance to contribute.
You cannot decode 720p30 and 1080p30 on the CPU on these devices. The performance wasn't there. You need to take advantage of the bundled HW codecs like PowerVR and Nvidia Tegra, which were available but without a consistent API. Google said that fragmentation wasn't an issue, but you'd have to write the app for each handset you wanted to work with, while Apple had several applications capable of doing this.
You misunderstand, there needs to be HW support in order to decode 720p30 and 1080p30 on these embedded platforms. Your CPU cannot perform the task. Luckily, most of these devices ship with the associated hardware. Unfortunately, Android chooses (or chose in 2010) not to make this available to developers.
We developed during Android 2.2, when there wasn't all the support there currently is. Furthermore, the support we had access to involved playing URLs, well the transport stream we used does not have a URL. Furthermore, at times we may have to directly insert I-Frames into the stream, manually step the decoder, and insert discontinuities into the stream. The codecs did not support any of that.
Thats the extent of fragmentation technical issues.
No, that's not correct; the problem goes further. On some devices things display differently, even though they have the same version of Android. On some devices you have access to audio/video codecs that aren't available on others.
In the end, this lack of cohesion meant my company stopped developing their A/V application because there was too much variability, even when versions of the Android OS were the same. When this happens we lose out on a market, but the customers never get a chance to use and enjoy our applications.
Know all of those "Send error report to Microsoft" windows that pop up when an app crashes? I suspect that these dumps are making their way to these guys.
Basically, everyone who's ever clicked "send report" has been informing the NSA of exploit vectors and not letting the vendor know.
You're being rather sexist. You assume that the women you spoke to are hired booth workers, but my experience (having worked the booths, myself has been that the attractive, professionally dressed woman is actually the technically competent person is sales and marketing for the company. Times have changed, women can have real jobs, too!
BTW, IT folks don't work the booths. Booths and shows are for establishing contact with potential businesses. They're where the meeting and greeting, and the wheeling and dealing of business takes place. The people the booths want are the C-levels and the VPs who can bring in contracts; not Joe User who is wasting their time asking whether or not this widget is backwards compatible with their DB9 system from 1983.
You're mixing two different programs. There is the program to monitor Verizon and other carriers, but this involved a site-wide pen register system. Then there is PRISM, which gives direct access to the servers of Google, Facebook, and several other tech giants.
End-to-end encryption hides information that is not being collected in the former program as they are not wiretapping the phone's voice data. End-to-end encryption does nothing for the latter program as the endpoint (Google, Facebook, etc) are providing your data to regardless how hard you try to obfuscate it from prying eyes.
This makes little sense. The purpose of using encryption is to prevent someone tapping into the conversation and hearing what you are saying. The NSA is instead going to each of the people you talk to and asking "what did russotto say?" and getting an answer in real time. Encryption does NOTHING to change this.
Sounds like covering up their prior negligence to me.
Can't do that. What if you forget to plug it back in every 24 hours so it can phone home?
Pretty much all cameras that operate during daylight have an IR filter. IR in sunlight tends to damage the quality of the image. The only cameras that are affected are the night time security cameras, as they do not have the IR filter and usually have a ring of IR LEDs to illuminate their scene. Those are the only cameras subject to IR overexposure.
Not necessarily. You've characterized the whole story in terms of the viewer and consumer of such content. What you haven't done is taken a look at the perspective employed by the one being recorded. They may not appreciate their exposure becoming public knowledge, this may lead to reduced possibilities as various people come across videos when looking someone up. Recall those awkward school-age years? What would be a faux pas that becomes gossip amongst a clique can expand to a video that is shared across an entire school.
The consequences of every action being made public at the discretion of some Google Glass wearer is rather concerning.
Ugh. This trope again. I watched them as they aired from 1999 on. They were very much about topical jokes about current events, with plenty of references to the 2000 Election, what if Al Gore won, Ally McBeal (Single Female Lawyer), Lucy Liu, Beastie Boys, and so forth. Just watching it is like going back to a microcosm of pop culture in the early 2000s. Only your perspective has changed; you see things in current events much differently than you see the current events of yesteryear.
If you use an electric RC, then there would be no noise.
Brushless motors are very loud. Moving propellers through air creates "rotor wash", which is also loud.
That doesn't appear to be what gtall implied. Furthermore, blame lies with the North Koreans for pursuing a nuclear weapon in violation to their agreements.
The areas in which the windmills are being installed are rural, I suspect the Flynn Effect is reduced in these areas (as is supported by the hypothesis behind the Flynn Effect).
Actually, it was San Diego. And they solved it the way they solve all armed (and many unarmed) confrontations, by shooting the guy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn_Nelson
You're pretty naive to think that "tried and true" tool will go away and be replaced by this one.
As a currently drunken person, I claim prior art!
You don't need to directly measure the variable (person's state: connection graph, behaviors, interests, etc); you may estimate the state of the variable by the observable information (how other's react, discuss, etc). This is the basis of sensor theory.
Facebook tracks information on persons with and without accounts based on information provided by other users. For those without accounts, Facebook creates "shadow profiles."
For Windows, iOS it seems to be decisions by committee and business need.
You say this as if somehow a committee eliminates the politics that are present in Linux, which cannot be further from the truth. I bet there are tons of things that the committee for each OS has turned down for various reasons, but you and I don't know about it because it isn't open.
Seems like the King does not want something added to "his" kernel,
Precisely right. RH is fully capable of adding it to their kernel, as are any other distros. Linus does not want it in his kernel and that's that!
I wouldn't think anyone would take the half hour remark literal.
I have had a manager who behaves, literally, as you claim you do. You think you're being flippant or glib, but you aren't. There are managers who want to be a part of the process and they think that means interrupting everyone who is actually working. And from your tirade, you sound like you're one of them. You think you're doing everyone good with your frequent communication sessions, but you're actually an impediment to actual progress.
most people dont rite good
Don't worry, that's being added to the science curriculum in Texas and Louisiana.