MHL through a micro USB connector only requires an adapter if the other end is standard HDMI. But a growing number of TVs support MHL natively through their HDMI ports, so a simple cable should suffice for those.
This only happens when you participate in a similar activity, such as using +1, writing a review, or following a product.
When I read the changes to the terms and conditions, I thought that it seemed like it was probably limited to +1s, reviews etc that I had explicitly posted, so was quite reasonable. On the other hand, it does not explicitly say it is limited to those, so I decided in the end that it was best to opt out.
Basically, this is an algorithm that, given a fuzzy image with some people looking shapes in it, produces an image with stick figures in their place. "Hey it produced a perfect match" you say, but actually you don't have a non-fuzzy image for comparison, so you don't realise that the one at the back chasing the others is actually Sasquatch, and as any child knows the stick figure match for Sasquatch needs more jagged lines..
According to sources familiar with the company's operations, as many as 80,000 employees, and possibly more, were working from home in part because the company didn't have desks for them all within its own buildings."
What is their patent on a "headphone jack sensor"? Is this anything like the sensor that portable radios have had for decades that let them switch off the speaker when the headphones are plugged in?
No. Apple's invention uses a detection circuit on the signal pins to detect whether the plug that is plugged in is a stereo or mono plug, and whether it has an extra fourth segment for a microphone. Portable radios used to use a physical switch which was pushed open by the plug, separate from the signal pins.
You can argue that it is obvious to eliminate the switch and detect short circuits between pins instead once your radio becomes a complicated electronic device driven by a microcontroller or SoC instead of purely an audio amplifier with physical switches directly controlling the output, and that once you do that, it is it obvious to extend it to identifying between different physical connectors with different numbers of segments, but old radios are not prior art.
Or, you know, the ability to contract your local police force into patrolling your neighborhood.
Don't you Americans think your police forces are corrupt enough already?
Hey, I've got an idea. Why don't we hire a private force of door knockers to go around collecting money from residents for some private security. For those that pay up, Tony and Vinnie will be patrolling the neighborhood to make sure no thugs come near your property. For those that don't, well don't say we didn't warn you.
If a suspect is compelled to answer some questions, where do you draw the line for when they can legally keep their mouth shut?
Have you stopped beating your wife yet, samzenpus?... it's a simple yes/no question, why are you refusing give me the answer? Do you have something to hide?
I don't care if its fancy, I just want an up to date android version and the basic hardware features.
Sadly, it looks like mostly we are moving to larger phones with more bloated software that requires fancy CPUs and lots of batteries
No sadly, it looks like mostly we are moving to a world full of people who want things while simultaneously not wanting them. The price you pay for an up to date Android version rather than the crawling JavaME engine in your dumb phone of 6 years ago, is a fancy CPU and the battery to power it. Put these phones side by side and tell me again that the difference in battery drain is caused by software efficiency not improving. Oh, and try to actually use your JavaME engine while you're at it, and see how it is on the battery. A major part of the reason why the batteries on your 6 year old dumb phone lasted so long is that it spent the majority of its life sitting in your pocket on cell-standby, because lets face it, it wasn't much use for anything else was it?
MSR is hugely different from other companies' R&D. They operate more like a university. Researchers are free to work on anything they want, without consideration to whether it will directly effect a Microsoft product or not. It is one of the few places left outside academia where researchers can do basic research in computer science.
I think that describes the environment at Xerox PARC, Bell Labs, HP Labs, IBM Research and other predecessors perfectly. Microsoft Research was not unusual when it was founded. It is an increasingly rare environment today though, as the former giants of technology have shrunk and been taken over by beancounters more concerned with the direct short term value that each employee brings into the company than the long term value of cultivating ideas that might turn into the next big thing.
Slashdot 2.0 (what we have now) is pretty good, even though it had a crapton of backlash when it was implemented.
Basically every iteration of Slashdot's design has made the experience worse. When they changed from user settings to sliders for controlling the number of comments displayed, the users lost a bit of control. Now in the current version, its basically a choice between 5 comments or everything. And in the new beta, it seems they're making a move to the flat comments seen on most other sites these days. The Reply button is still there, but its like they haven't decided what it should do yet, and the comments on the page are not showing much of a heirarchy.
But if you go back and look at the old ones now that you're used to the current one, the looks have improved with each iteration. And I guess that is what matters to advertisers.
99% of Unicode characters are not control codes or stacking diacritics that could mess up the layout, but Slashdot's answer is to have a whitelist of about a dozen non-ASCII characters that are allowed.
Autism might explain a lack of understanding of the girls' rights to privacy. He might not understand the harm of secretly hacking the computers and viewing the webcams because of his autism. But when it comes to using his saved images for extortion, autism is definitely not an excuse.
However, if they don't understand physics, isn't executing the trade after the announcement, potentially, a good faith attempt at complying with the insider trading regulation? Getting insider information itself may or may not be illegal depending on how it happens. Using it before it becomes public is.... but... there is at least reason to suspect that the person who did it may have simply acted around a naive concept of physics.
If they set up a trade to execute within milliseconds of 2pm, then they clearly used the insider knowledge prior to it becoming public.
To get sensible routes from Waze, you need to turn off the option to earn more points by helping them map infrequently traveled roads. I can't find the option now, but I think it was called "prefer munching" or something silly like that.
All that mailing list post tells me is that Gnome developers follow a workflow of commit first, design and document later until a change disrupts users to the point they are forced to revert the commit until they come up with the design and documentation to justify their unpopular change.
Japan doesn't care about local loop length for its high speed connections, because they have abandoned trying to layer high speed internet on top of early 20th century infrastructure, and started laying fibre to residential premises to replace it at least 10 years ago. Rather than sitting there complaining about long local loops making DSL performance poor, you'd think the US would be up there replacing the copper local loop with something more suited to meeting 21st century needs too.
According to NTT, you can get 200Mbps residential fibre in Nemuro, Japan. They already made enough profit from providing fibre to the premises in Tokyo, Osaka etc over the last 10 years that they can afford to build out the infrastructure even to remote areas now. Meanwhile, you're still sitting there making excuses for why these sorts of speeds are not even available to residential customers in Manhattan.
Because some people configure their access points to not broadcast the SSID in the misguided belief that they can add a layer of security by doing that, devices will actively try to connect to networks that they cannot see. So anyone anywhere can see your device periodically trying to connect to every network that it is configured to connect to automatically. This doesn't save battery life, if anything it uses more than sitting passively listening for known networks would, but the idiocy of hidden SSIDs is widespread enough that it is necessary for WiFi to just work for mobile devices.
Sorry, I made a mistake. Japan is 330p/sqkm, which places it at the same level as Massachusetts, not Florida. But still, there are definitely areas of the US that have the population density to support globally competitive infrastructure, and politicians and apologists need to stop using the vast empty space in the Midwest to build a population density excuse.
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MHL through a micro USB connector only requires an adapter if the other end is standard HDMI. But a growing number of TVs support MHL natively through their HDMI ports, so a simple cable should suffice for those.
When I read the changes to the terms and conditions, I thought that it seemed like it was probably limited to +1s, reviews etc that I had explicitly posted, so was quite reasonable. On the other hand, it does not explicitly say it is limited to those, so I decided in the end that it was best to opt out.
Basically, this is an algorithm that, given a fuzzy image with some people looking shapes in it, produces an image with stick figures in their place. "Hey it produced a perfect match" you say, but actually you don't have a non-fuzzy image for comparison, so you don't realise that the one at the back chasing the others is actually Sasquatch, and as any child knows the stick figure match for Sasquatch needs more jagged lines..
Apparently they already found a partial solution to that problem last month.
No. Apple's invention uses a detection circuit on the signal pins to detect whether the plug that is plugged in is a stereo or mono plug, and whether it has an extra fourth segment for a microphone. Portable radios used to use a physical switch which was pushed open by the plug, separate from the signal pins.
You can argue that it is obvious to eliminate the switch and detect short circuits between pins instead once your radio becomes a complicated electronic device driven by a microcontroller or SoC instead of purely an audio amplifier with physical switches directly controlling the output, and that once you do that, it is it obvious to extend it to identifying between different physical connectors with different numbers of segments, but old radios are not prior art.
Don't you Americans think your police forces are corrupt enough already?
Hey, I've got an idea. Why don't we hire a private force of door knockers to go around collecting money from residents for some private security. For those that pay up, Tony and Vinnie will be patrolling the neighborhood to make sure no thugs come near your property. For those that don't, well don't say we didn't warn you.
If a suspect is compelled to answer some questions, where do you draw the line for when they can legally keep their mouth shut?
Have you stopped beating your wife yet, samzenpus? ... it's a simple yes/no question, why are you refusing give me the answer? Do you have something to hide?
No sadly, it looks like mostly we are moving to a world full of people who want things while simultaneously not wanting them. The price you pay for an up to date Android version rather than the crawling JavaME engine in your dumb phone of 6 years ago, is a fancy CPU and the battery to power it. Put these phones side by side and tell me again that the difference in battery drain is caused by software efficiency not improving. Oh, and try to actually use your JavaME engine while you're at it, and see how it is on the battery. A major part of the reason why the batteries on your 6 year old dumb phone lasted so long is that it spent the majority of its life sitting in your pocket on cell-standby, because lets face it, it wasn't much use for anything else was it?
With the average age being so counter-intuitively high, it could well be the truth.
I think that describes the environment at Xerox PARC, Bell Labs, HP Labs, IBM Research and other predecessors perfectly. Microsoft Research was not unusual when it was founded. It is an increasingly rare environment today though, as the former giants of technology have shrunk and been taken over by beancounters more concerned with the direct short term value that each employee brings into the company than the long term value of cultivating ideas that might turn into the next big thing.
Basically every iteration of Slashdot's design has made the experience worse. When they changed from user settings to sliders for controlling the number of comments displayed, the users lost a bit of control. Now in the current version, its basically a choice between 5 comments or everything. And in the new beta, it seems they're making a move to the flat comments seen on most other sites these days. The Reply button is still there, but its like they haven't decided what it should do yet, and the comments on the page are not showing much of a heirarchy.
But if you go back and look at the old ones now that you're used to the current one, the looks have improved with each iteration. And I guess that is what matters to advertisers.
99% of Unicode characters are not control codes or stacking diacritics that could mess up the layout, but Slashdot's answer is to have a whitelist of about a dozen non-ASCII characters that are allowed.
I'd mod the parent up, but I'm using the beta.
Autism might explain a lack of understanding of the girls' rights to privacy. He might not understand the harm of secretly hacking the computers and viewing the webcams because of his autism. But when it comes to using his saved images for extortion, autism is definitely not an excuse.
If they set up a trade to execute within milliseconds of 2pm, then they clearly used the insider knowledge prior to it becoming public.
To get sensible routes from Waze, you need to turn off the option to earn more points by helping them map infrequently traveled roads. I can't find the option now, but I think it was called "prefer munching" or something silly like that.
Apparently the claim the dealers are making is that Tesla are misleading consumers about the actual cost of the vehicles they are selling.
If only the US didn't recognize business method patents, like the rest of the world, the dealers wouldn't have a case.
All that mailing list post tells me is that Gnome developers follow a workflow of commit first, design and document later until a change disrupts users to the point they are forced to revert the commit until they come up with the design and documentation to justify their unpopular change.
The list time I injured someone while I was stopped at a red light, it was him that was texting while riding his bike.
Japan doesn't care about local loop length for its high speed connections, because they have abandoned trying to layer high speed internet on top of early 20th century infrastructure, and started laying fibre to residential premises to replace it at least 10 years ago. Rather than sitting there complaining about long local loops making DSL performance poor, you'd think the US would be up there replacing the copper local loop with something more suited to meeting 21st century needs too.
Rural USA gets DSL? I thought you had to be within a few miles of the exchange.
According to NTT, you can get 200Mbps residential fibre in Nemuro, Japan. They already made enough profit from providing fibre to the premises in Tokyo, Osaka etc over the last 10 years that they can afford to build out the infrastructure even to remote areas now. Meanwhile, you're still sitting there making excuses for why these sorts of speeds are not even available to residential customers in Manhattan.
Because some people configure their access points to not broadcast the SSID in the misguided belief that they can add a layer of security by doing that, devices will actively try to connect to networks that they cannot see. So anyone anywhere can see your device periodically trying to connect to every network that it is configured to connect to automatically. This doesn't save battery life, if anything it uses more than sitting passively listening for known networks would, but the idiocy of hidden SSIDs is widespread enough that it is necessary for WiFi to just work for mobile devices.
Sorry, I made a mistake. Japan is 330p/sqkm, which places it at the same level as Massachusetts, not Florida. But still, there are definitely areas of the US that have the population density to support globally competitive infrastructure, and politicians and apologists need to stop using the vast empty space in the Midwest to build a population density excuse.
Japan population density: 330p/sqmi.
New Jersey: 1196p/sqmi. Rhode Island: 1018p/sqmi. Massachusetts: 839p/sqmi. Connecticut: 738p/sqmi. Maryland: 595p/sqmi. Delaware: 461p/sqmi. New York: 411p/sqmi. Florida: 351p/sqmi. US coastal counties population density: 440 p/sqmi.
But apparently those areas can't have high speed broadband because the population density of Wyoming and Alaska makes the cost prohibitive.