I'm pretty sure I remember paying for London cabs by card as far back as 1999 or 2000. I also remember more recent occurrences of having to ask cab drivers to stop at an ATM on the way, so I guess what is actually happening now is that all cabs will be accepting cards.
This thing is so ridiculous. Any advertiser can accept or reject ads based on any criteria they choose, as long as the criteria are based on the content of the ads and not on who's paying for the ads.
So if they were to reject ads featuring black actors that would be OK, since the actors are part of the content of the ad?
Personally I am offended by advertising in general, but if they must have it, it seems a bit silly to refuse an ad because it intices people to harmlessly talk to an imaginary being in the sky, meanwhile they are perfectly happy to accept ads for companies like McDonalds and Coca Cola who are causing actual harm to the health of society.
Presumably the device can be reactivated through the smartphone app as well as deactivated. So the WiFi needs to stay active. And since they cannot control the customer routers to ensure that Wake-on-LAN functionality is present, the main processor needs to stay active to continually monitor the WiFi. About all they could have done better is to deactivate the camera CCD and maybe put the main processor into a lower power state. But such things have a tendancy to introduce hard to debug problems around the time that things go in and out of low power states, so it is easy to see why they might have done the minimum to stop the video stream, rather than gone all out for maximum power savings (which might not be all that much of a saving in the end given what needs to stay active anyway).
They already tried this in a number of areas - by introducing large numbers of Asian Tiger Mosquitoes. The males will mate with the Anopheles Mosquitoes that carry Malaria, but no offspring will be produced because the species are not compatible. Since female Mosquitoes only mate once, this renders them childless. It works quite well against Malaria, but the downside is that Asian Tiger Mosquitoes carry Dengue and other diseases that are only marginally less severe than Malaria.
Rick Aston is this minute being waterboarded by CIA agents trying to find out the hidden messages in Rick Astley's hit meme song. All because of a fly that landed on the typewriter ribbon at the wrong time.
So he's going to skip the whole pinning stars on peoples' chests and go straight to building the Berlin wall, and this somehow makes what he is saying OK?
The small speakers in phones would have no problems at high frequencies, its the low frequencies that require big speakers. I'd be surprised if any phone speakers were rated 20-20k at +/-3dB, more like 200-20k probably.
Most phones will be using a 48kHz sample rate, so the Nyquist limit will be slightly below 24kHz. Plenty of room for ultrasonic signals there.
If it worries you, get a dog. If its ears prick up when you're using certain apps, you know you're being tracked.
Marshmallow does this in the same granular, on demand way as Apple. Earlier versions of Android present all the permissions at install time, and make it an all or nothing choice.
They like to say there is no way to get off the list, but at least one person has managed. However, that was the "no-fly" list, it may be more difficult to convince a judge if you are still being allowed to fly, but are continually subject to additional intrusive searches, as the judge will likely see that as a mere inconvenience, rather than a denial of your rights.
There are "random" checks as well - where you get a line of asterisks on your boarding pass, and get pulled aside at every step for extra checking. But if you're on a watchlist, it will happen every time, not 1 in 30 or so.
I put "random" into quotes, because the only time it has happened to me was when I was standing in line behind a middle-eastern looking woman in October 2001, and they seemed to pick her out by racial profiling. Then I was asked if we were together and I must have said "no" in a suspicious tone of voice or something, as they decided I needed to go along with her to a separate checkin queue for extra checking. It was clearly decided by a human, not the computer who was going into this queue, but the system may have changed after that. Booking one way flights and having someone else pay for them on a company credit card reportedly increases your chances as well.
Present a single front to all companies needing developers for work weeks, salary and benefits.
I know they confused things by throwing the buzzword "App" in there, but they are talking about the "idiot behind the wheel" kind of driver, not the low level software for making hardware work kind.
Name calling might be normal in internal politics, but in international politics, things are usually more diplomatic. Comparing Israel to the Democratic or as other posters have done, the Republican party misses the fact that Israel is not supposed to be in opposition to the US Government of the day, at least not if they want continued support in the UN Security Council from a country with veto power that they have enjoyed for the past few decades.
If only I had a million dollars for every time I had to write my own time handling because the library was crap. The number of libraries that restrict timezones to +/-12 hours, or hardcode the assumption that daylight saving starts early in the year and ends late in the year, or even hardcode the US rule for changeover dates is astounding.
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Quite ironic, given that Facebook's wonderful generosity doesn't even meet the legal minimum in many European countries.
I'm pretty sure I remember paying for London cabs by card as far back as 1999 or 2000. I also remember more recent occurrences of having to ask cab drivers to stop at an ATM on the way, so I guess what is actually happening now is that all cabs will be accepting cards.
So if they were to reject ads featuring black actors that would be OK, since the actors are part of the content of the ad?
Personally I am offended by advertising in general, but if they must have it, it seems a bit silly to refuse an ad because it intices people to harmlessly talk to an imaginary being in the sky, meanwhile they are perfectly happy to accept ads for companies like McDonalds and Coca Cola who are causing actual harm to the health of society.
Presumably the device can be reactivated through the smartphone app as well as deactivated. So the WiFi needs to stay active. And since they cannot control the customer routers to ensure that Wake-on-LAN functionality is present, the main processor needs to stay active to continually monitor the WiFi. About all they could have done better is to deactivate the camera CCD and maybe put the main processor into a lower power state. But such things have a tendancy to introduce hard to debug problems around the time that things go in and out of low power states, so it is easy to see why they might have done the minimum to stop the video stream, rather than gone all out for maximum power savings (which might not be all that much of a saving in the end given what needs to stay active anyway).
They already tried this in a number of areas - by introducing large numbers of Asian Tiger Mosquitoes. The males will mate with the Anopheles Mosquitoes that carry Malaria, but no offspring will be produced because the species are not compatible. Since female Mosquitoes only mate once, this renders them childless. It works quite well against Malaria, but the downside is that Asian Tiger Mosquitoes carry Dengue and other diseases that are only marginally less severe than Malaria.
Rick Aston is this minute being waterboarded by CIA agents trying to find out the hidden messages in Rick Astley's hit meme song. All because of a fly that landed on the typewriter ribbon at the wrong time.
So he's going to skip the whole pinning stars on peoples' chests and go straight to building the Berlin wall, and this somehow makes what he is saying OK?
It never took that long, otherwise how would the camera do it when it takes the picture?
I always thought that option existed because the developer kept losing his node fault library.
The small speakers in phones would have no problems at high frequencies, its the low frequencies that require big speakers. I'd be surprised if any phone speakers were rated 20-20k at +/-3dB, more like 200-20k probably.
Most phones will be using a 48kHz sample rate, so the Nyquist limit will be slightly below 24kHz. Plenty of room for ultrasonic signals there. If it worries you, get a dog. If its ears prick up when you're using certain apps, you know you're being tracked.
Marshmallow does this in the same granular, on demand way as Apple. Earlier versions of Android present all the permissions at install time, and make it an all or nothing choice.
Actually, it was SSSS, not asterisks. I was reminded of the details by another post.
They like to say there is no way to get off the list, but at least one person has managed. However, that was the "no-fly" list, it may be more difficult to convince a judge if you are still being allowed to fly, but are continually subject to additional intrusive searches, as the judge will likely see that as a mere inconvenience, rather than a denial of your rights.
There are "random" checks as well - where you get a line of asterisks on your boarding pass, and get pulled aside at every step for extra checking. But if you're on a watchlist, it will happen every time, not 1 in 30 or so. I put "random" into quotes, because the only time it has happened to me was when I was standing in line behind a middle-eastern looking woman in October 2001, and they seemed to pick her out by racial profiling. Then I was asked if we were together and I must have said "no" in a suspicious tone of voice or something, as they decided I needed to go along with her to a separate checkin queue for extra checking. It was clearly decided by a human, not the computer who was going into this queue, but the system may have changed after that. Booking one way flights and having someone else pay for them on a company credit card reportedly increases your chances as well.
Also the stagefright buffer overflow, which the GP mentioned after that was in C code, not Java.
I know they confused things by throwing the buzzword "App" in there, but they are talking about the "idiot behind the wheel" kind of driver, not the low level software for making hardware work kind.
With Intel inside, its more likely to be the other way around.
Name calling might be normal in internal politics, but in international politics, things are usually more diplomatic. Comparing Israel to the Democratic or as other posters have done, the Republican party misses the fact that Israel is not supposed to be in opposition to the US Government of the day, at least not if they want continued support in the UN Security Council from a country with veto power that they have enjoyed for the past few decades.
This is why the default setting for almost all GPS Navigation devices is quickest, not shortest route.
If only I had a million dollars for every time I had to write my own time handling because the library was crap. The number of libraries that restrict timezones to +/-12 hours, or hardcode the assumption that daylight saving starts early in the year and ends late in the year, or even hardcode the US rule for changeover dates is astounding.
So what is a "built in function", if not one that is evaluated by the compiler rather than being defined in a library or by a macro in a header file?
Yes, if you programmed your device with the characteristics of every possible USB power supply and cable combination that will ever be made.
On a more practical level though, no.
There's sizeof(), but that may have been a later addition.
Or perhaps another passing star?