A couple of observations from the perspective of high-mileage eyeballs: While the idea of using the same toolkit for phone and desktop UI development is good for efficiency, trying to unify the interfaces is spectacularly misguided. I use an enormous main monitor and often another on the side, specifically so it can show a lot of info at once doing mechanical and electrical CAD and software development. The idea of having to mouse around over a huge area trying to make utility details appear just wastes my time. At this moment I am about one more annoyance away from returning to X+command line and abandoning my long wait for a Linux desktop I could recommend to friends and family.
Second point: whoever started the "design language" idea of light-fog text on a white background really needs to be identified and punished. At least let me blanket-forbid all applications from overriding my color settings.
Not to speak for Rei but you may have missed his main point. Samsung's market is people who do want a smartphone but not an Apple product. The straw business model Rei presented was for a company that would try to displace Apple in the population of Apple fanbois.
Right at this moment, Tesla's market is everyone who wants a luxury electric vehicle since they are the sole producer.
Much more specifically: in the USA businesses become evil when they "go public". They become completely ensnared by Wall Street analysts rather than being responsive to customers or even to the actual stockholders. Nothing "public" about it.
On first glance my presumption was that the threats to sue for copyright infringement were barely disguised shakedowns to avoid public embarrassment. Actually going to court for a questionable infringement claim would be expensive and time-consuming for the bandits.
They would be exposed as well but they don't seem to have any shame.
Every time stories like this come up, with a named perpetrator, it seems righteously karmic that they be subjected to relentless IP problems of mysterious origin. Unfortunately, it seems that Karma lacks admin access to switches and routers around the perps.
If you pay attention to Washington DC and Pentagon politics at all, you know that some high-ranking AF officers have put their nuts on the table to counter the lobbyists and REMFs touting the F35. The best thing we can do right now is to make a big noise to our "elected representatives" in defense of those AF officers and their bold position. Something along the lines of "Funding the F35 at the expense of the A-10 means letting our ground troops and local civilians die to further enrich wealthy assholes." is a place to start.
Making aforementioned representatives, lobbyists, and REMFs spend a month embedded with our ground forces is an appealing idea but probably a harder sell. Sigh.
But we absolutely can make the point to our congresscritters and we should.
From reading the comments here it is obvious that most people are missing some facts. My involvement with smart cards dates back to the 1980's and I have been trying to avoid them ever since! The EMV process was developed specifically for Europe, not the US. The target problem was the lack of communication lines to get online purchase authorizations at the checkout counter. US-style credit cards were nearly unknown in EU, everyone used debit cards. Adding smart cards and the chip-and-PIN EMV transaction provided enough security to make the purchase authorization without communicating back to the card issuer's processor. The 'real' charge transaction was then done in batch at the end of the day. Now switch to the US where there are plenty of communications lines for 'online' access for authorizations, and people generally use credit cards which have entirely different risk allocation rules. Benefits from the EMV transaction simply evaporate. For the relatively limited fraction of debit card users in the US, the EMV-type chip-and-PIN off-line authorizations would work, they just don't provide a great benefit since nearly all the POS terminals are online. They could potentially provide some hypothetical advantage for credit card transactions if a new protocol would be developed to suit the situation. Otherwise they are security theater. If you really want to understand the messy technical situation for smart payment cards in the US, look deeply into risk allocation differences between credit and debit cards. The mess will be no less annoying but you will understand why it has taken this particular shape.
I've held both military and contractor TS clearances. Handling rules are consistent between the two, with more dire warnings on the contractor side.
Also, there is really close care taken with marking a classification, at least for a working-level stiff like me. Increased handling costs, delays and confusion make over-classifying anything unlikely. At higher levels, on the other hand, it is used to hide information internally.
This, exactly. For year I thought the news media must all have been lobotomized or chemically rendered dull. Eventually I realized it was just another case of the general rule: when actions seem incredibly stupid, check your assumed goals.
The winner is... Pigs!!! Nothing but enormous pissed-off hungry tuskers for miles. The likelihood of not just touching pork but being eaten and *becoming* pork would be a powerful disincentive.
For anyone who gets past the boar zone, just have a few sows as backup, one per kilometer should be plenty.
This was never presented to "the voters". This was taught as dogma to generations of Business Administration majors with no supporting theory or measurement at all. They are all out there now, convinced that the magical "market" will automatically guaranty maximal efficiency. They were never taught to think or to question whether old models were still valid. Any change is frightening for them since they have absolutely no ability to evaluate or even think about it. Change does not match their case studies, all carefully selected and massaged to support the dogma. This, arguably more than any other factor, is what keeps the USA on the rails to havoc.
Likely the only way we will 'predict' earthquakes is when we learn enough to cause them. Why would we do that -- to make several small ones instead of one big one.
Fracking-related (actually wastewater reinjection) quakes demonstrate it is feasible with current technology.
Looking at wireless is certainly understandable if you want coverage beyond urban areas. Deploying fiber-to-the-door is daunting in suburbs and really unfathomable in rural areas. Anyone trying to plan such an expansion will eventually reach a level of frustration that makes WISP seem really attractive.
Having watched this almost-market, (was thinking of starting one) my observation was that most wanna-be players didn't have a way to start with sufficient scale and presence. Technology is no problem, all the pieces are available. Financials are grim at small scale, not enough revenue to fund support staff so service suffers. Local politics are much more of an issue than they should be. With Verizon and Time-Warner/Comcast exerting $influence on local governments, a WISP startup is either an outlaw or treated like one.
This is yet another example of a Federal agency going off half-cocked in an effort to extend itself rather than to make any improvement for We the People.
"Drones" are a hot topic so the smell of budget allocations is in the cesspool. If drones are not 'aircraft' then the FAA has no excuse to meddle with them. So, drones must be aircraft. FCC is already in the hunt because radio. Wonder which agency will be next to stake a claim: BATF, maybe?
This issue is analogous to the morons shining laser pointers at pilots. Legislation doesn't stop them any more than laws stop criminals from committing crimes. None of this is about making improvements, it is just about agencies growing and getting more money.
Dissolve the H2 into a metal hydride and control its release by applying a little heat or not. Storage density is better than liquid H2 and no temperature extremes are involved.
One of the big limiting issues in this field (BTDT) is energy consumption by the actuators and associated circuit components. Valve are heavy relative to the accelerations needed by the motion profiles. This results in ferocious energy use and dissipation.
If this power consumption is more than the engine power/efficiency gains from tinkering with profiles, the answer is an easy No.
My only relevant direct experience was for an R&D engine to test different cam profiles without having to grind sets of camshafts. It used plant electrical power, can't remember exactly how much but the equivalent horsepower was in the teens.
I seem to recall that it has, by a legislator in a Southern state. I can't find it now without remembering more specifics. "stupid things politicians have said" is a pretty big slice.
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Nope, it was simply a scam. QR code first and industry standard developed by NTT in Japan.
A couple of observations from the perspective of high-mileage eyeballs:
While the idea of using the same toolkit for phone and desktop UI development is good for efficiency, trying to unify the interfaces is spectacularly misguided. I use an enormous main monitor and often another on the side, specifically so it can show a lot of info at once doing mechanical and electrical CAD and software development. The idea of having to mouse around over a huge area trying to make utility details appear just wastes my time. At this moment I am about one more annoyance away from returning to X+command line and abandoning my long wait for a Linux desktop I could recommend to friends and family.
Second point: whoever started the "design language" idea of light-fog text on a white background really needs to be identified and punished. At least let me blanket-forbid all applications from overriding my color settings.
Wine thru nose event! The most cogent observation yet.
Not to speak for Rei but you may have missed his main point. Samsung's market is people who do want a smartphone but not an Apple product. The straw business model Rei presented was for a company that would try to displace Apple in the population of Apple fanbois.
Right at this moment, Tesla's market is everyone who wants a luxury electric vehicle since they are the sole producer.
Much more specifically: in the USA businesses become evil when they "go public". They become completely ensnared by Wall Street analysts rather than being responsive to customers or even to the actual stockholders. Nothing "public" about it.
On first glance my presumption was that the threats to sue for copyright infringement were barely disguised shakedowns to avoid public embarrassment. Actually going to court for a questionable infringement claim would be expensive and time-consuming for the bandits.
They would be exposed as well but they don't seem to have any shame.
Every time stories like this come up, with a named perpetrator, it seems righteously karmic that they be subjected to relentless IP problems of mysterious origin. Unfortunately, it seems that Karma lacks admin access to switches and routers around the perps.
Wonder if anyone here could help with that?
If you pay attention to Washington DC and Pentagon politics at all, you know that some high-ranking AF officers have put their nuts on the table to counter the lobbyists and REMFs touting the F35. The best thing we can do right now is to make a big noise to our "elected representatives" in defense of those AF officers and their bold position. Something along the lines of "Funding the F35 at the expense of the A-10 means letting our ground troops and local civilians die to further enrich wealthy assholes." is a place to start.
Making aforementioned representatives, lobbyists, and REMFs spend a month embedded with our ground forces is an appealing idea but probably a harder sell. Sigh.
But we absolutely can make the point to our congresscritters and we should.
From reading the comments here it is obvious that most people are missing some facts. My involvement with smart cards dates back to the 1980's and I have been trying to avoid them ever since!
The EMV process was developed specifically for Europe, not the US. The target problem was the lack of communication lines to get online purchase authorizations at the checkout counter. US-style credit cards were nearly unknown in EU, everyone used debit cards. Adding smart cards and the chip-and-PIN EMV transaction provided enough security to make the purchase authorization without communicating back to the card issuer's processor. The 'real' charge transaction was then done in batch at the end of the day.
Now switch to the US where there are plenty of communications lines for 'online' access for authorizations, and people generally use credit cards which have entirely different risk allocation rules. Benefits from the EMV transaction simply evaporate.
For the relatively limited fraction of debit card users in the US, the EMV-type chip-and-PIN off-line authorizations would work, they just don't provide a great benefit since nearly all the POS terminals are online. They could potentially provide some hypothetical advantage for credit card transactions if a new protocol would be developed to suit the situation. Otherwise they are security theater.
If you really want to understand the messy technical situation for smart payment cards in the US, look deeply into risk allocation differences between credit and debit cards. The mess will be no less annoying but you will understand why it has taken this particular shape.
I've held both military and contractor TS clearances. Handling rules are consistent between the two, with more dire warnings on the contractor side.
Also, there is really close care taken with marking a classification, at least for a working-level stiff like me. Increased handling costs, delays and confusion make over-classifying anything unlikely. At higher levels, on the other hand, it is used to hide information internally.
This, exactly. For year I thought the news media must all have been lobotomized or chemically rendered dull. Eventually I realized it was just another case of the general rule: when actions seem incredibly stupid, check your assumed goals.
Through nose, wine is. Yeeeee...eessss.
The winner is ... Pigs!!! Nothing but enormous pissed-off hungry tuskers for miles. The likelihood of not just touching pork but being eaten and *becoming* pork would be a powerful disincentive.
For anyone who gets past the boar zone, just have a few sows as backup, one per kilometer should be plenty.
This was never presented to "the voters". This was taught as dogma to generations of Business Administration majors with no supporting theory or measurement at all. They are all out there now, convinced that the magical "market" will automatically guaranty maximal efficiency. They were never taught to think or to question whether old models were still valid. Any change is frightening for them since they have absolutely no ability to evaluate or even think about it. Change does not match their case studies, all carefully selected and massaged to support the dogma. This, arguably more than any other factor, is what keeps the USA on the rails to havoc.
Really none too impressive. Off-the-shelf devices include this
https://tinycircuits.com/colle...
Likely the only way we will 'predict' earthquakes is when we learn enough to cause them. Why would we do that -- to make several small ones instead of one big one.
Fracking-related (actually wastewater reinjection) quakes demonstrate it is feasible with current technology.
All of those plus more TBD.
Looking at wireless is certainly understandable if you want coverage beyond urban areas. Deploying fiber-to-the-door is daunting in suburbs and really unfathomable in rural areas. Anyone trying to plan such an expansion will eventually reach a level of frustration that makes WISP seem really attractive.
Having watched this almost-market, (was thinking of starting one) my observation was that most wanna-be players didn't have a way to start with sufficient scale and presence. Technology is no problem, all the pieces are available. Financials are grim at small scale, not enough revenue to fund support staff so service suffers. Local politics are much more of an issue than they should be. With Verizon and Time-Warner/Comcast exerting $influence on local governments, a WISP startup is either an outlaw or treated like one.
Google could overwhelm all of that. Interesting.
This is yet another example of a Federal agency going off half-cocked in an effort to extend itself rather than to make any improvement for We the People.
"Drones" are a hot topic so the smell of budget allocations is in the cesspool. If drones are not 'aircraft' then the FAA has no excuse to meddle with them. So, drones must be aircraft. FCC is already in the hunt because radio. Wonder which agency will be next to stake a claim: BATF, maybe?
This issue is analogous to the morons shining laser pointers at pilots. Legislation doesn't stop them any more than laws stop criminals from committing crimes. None of this is about making improvements, it is just about agencies growing and getting more money.
Dissolve the H2 into a metal hydride and control its release by applying a little heat or not. Storage density is better than liquid H2 and no temperature extremes are involved.
System I worked on did use hydraulics, electrical actuator operated a pilot valve. Hydraulic pumps don't turn for free either.
One of the big limiting issues in this field (BTDT) is energy consumption by the actuators and associated circuit components. Valve are heavy relative to the accelerations needed by the motion profiles. This results in ferocious energy use and dissipation.
If this power consumption is more than the engine power/efficiency gains from tinkering with profiles, the answer is an easy No.
My only relevant direct experience was for an R&D engine to test different cam profiles without having to grind sets of camshafts. It used plant electrical power, can't remember exactly how much but the equivalent horsepower was in the teens.
Monochromatic.
I only wish, but do not believe, their knowledge was any deeper than that.
I seem to recall that it has, by a legislator in a Southern state. I can't find it now without remembering more specifics. "stupid things politicians have said" is a pretty big slice.