I have one and I really don't like it, even when you don't count the "cloud" programming crap. First of all, their "our remote knows better than you what mode it's in" crap. I prefer the super macro button approach I was using with one of the better One For All remotes, but it didn't have the code set I needed for some things. And even though I can reprogram the I2C EEPROM inside, the actual programming of OFA remotes looks like a pain in the ass, and the community grew around people who thought Excel was a really good tool for creating the programming.
Then if the remote falls on the floor, it loses power long enough to reset and decide that nothing is turned on, so you have to cover the IR LEDs with your hand and press the appropriate group button. If you don't cover it, the devices which only have a toggle on/off command will be turned off.
But the worst is how it controls my Sharp LCD TV. It sends the ON command, then the INPUT button, then the number 3. Which would be great except that it sends the INPUT code about a second before the TV is ready, so if I haven't turned the remote away so that the TV can't see it, it tunes the TV to RF channel 3. Then you have to use the Help button for a game of Twenty Questions while it tries to guess what went wrong, always in the same sequence where it takes five of them to set the input back..
My next remote is going to be a microcontroller running my own fucking code, probably crammed into a salvaged remote control shell with buttons that have a good feel. It's been a long time since Woz and his Cloud 9 remote. Remote control codes aren't exactly rocket science, and microcontrollers are really powerful these days, if you don't mind a little QFP soldering.
The main problem is that most of the software to run programmers (beyond simple EEPROMs, etc.) is proprietary, running under Windows, or DOS for the really old stuff. The reason for it to be proprietary is because the chip makers want NDAs on the programming algorithms.
The only true success I had was an old BP-1 serial port programmer, which is limited to 64K chips, but supports programming via XMODEM (and I think YMODEM) downloads. I have a Needham's EMP-31 with a USB port, but Parallels just wasn't up to emulating the USB sufficiently for it to work a few years ago when I tried it. But now I have a cheap Dull unInspiron with a real parallel port that I can dedicate to this function.
A used BP or Needham's programmer (make sure the Needham's has the personality modules!) is a good bet. For the price of a crappy Willem, you can have a professional programmer. Just be patient and watch for a good deal.
Also (because most of these are parallel port programmers), make sure that your PC has a genuine ISA-bus LPT port. Most of these will simply not work with PCI printer ports.
Good ol' Slashdot non-editors. Indeed, there's basically no way this chip can run Linux, at least not the way most of us know Linux. It's an ARM Cortex M3 (Thumb-2 instruction set only) with 512K flash and 64K RAM (about the maximum on CM3 these days), and has no external memory bus.
The mbed board is kind of nice, in that it also has a Cortex A-something chip that loads the 1768's flash from the last file saved to its small USB stick filesystem, and does a few other things. The idea is that once your project is finished, you can use it on a naked 1768 on your own board. There's also a "cloud"-based compiler for it (IDE and compiler are both a web service). It's interesting but all I'm going to say is check mbed.org, and that the board comes with a one-time-use (I think) registration code for the cloud compiler.
Damn, you actually think $100 is okay to get current? With FFXI you can get it with all current expansions for $15, sometimes less. (the code you get also works to fullly upgrade existing accounts) And I think that also includes the first month free for new accounts.
Austin has had max zoom for years, and almost certainly from aerial photography. I do see that there is a new 45-degree view, but there is still nothing to indicate that they used an unmanned drone to take the pictures. There's no good reason they can't just tilt the camera on a normal aerial photography plane.
Others have mentioned that licenses for a commercial company to operate unmanned drones over cities are very hard to get. What if the drones are for UN-populated areas? There's been plenty of aerial photography done over highly populated areas, but not over the middle of nowhere. (This is depending on the area; I remember that some states seem to have had total coverage done.)
Do they do what American alarm companies do, and lock you into a "rollover contract" that only lets you ask to get out of it during a specific 30 days at the end, or it auto-renews for another 2 or 3 years?
but it could also be argued that people have died who otherwise would not have needed to, if we had continued research uninterrupted.
Well, all except for that little bothersome detail about no actual therapies being derived yet from embryonic stem cells in the dozens of other countries completely unaffected by the ban. Because there is no other place doing science outside of GOD BLESS MURRICA!
I'll take a therapy that doesn't require immunosuppressants, tyvm.
Lived in San Antonio for 21 years, went to the Alamo once. Lived in Austin for 10 more years, went to the Alamo once more when some relatives came from California to visit my mom. The Riverwalk, and the mall two blocks away from the Alamo, are much more visited by the locals. I've even eaten in the restaurant at the top of Hemisfair Tower three times. On the other hand, I've driven past the Alamo plenty of times, since it's along a downtown street that you take to leave the mall, which you can't exactly do with the Statue of Liberty.
Most of these "piles" or badly aggregated random assortments of loans of questionable value should have been rated as rather risky - like a BBB bond. Instead, the rating companies were completely irresponsibly rating 80% of the bonds at AAA or "investment grade".
That sounds to me like something to which the word "fraud" would apply. And it should have been treated as such, not with some omnibus bill full of crap like "individuals purchasing gold must be reported to the government" that congress (aka "the opposite of progress") voted for recently.
The problem isn't collecting royalties on a song for years, it's the copyright law making it required for such an absurdly long time. (such time which just happens to keep getting extended long enough to ensure that Steamboat Willie's copyright never expires) And it's especially the tenuous bullshit lawsuits like this (as well as "He's So Fine" / "My Sweet Lord").
There's no reason that you couldn't pay an original author money after a copyright expires, other than under current laws they'd probably already be dead by then.
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I have one and I really don't like it, even when you don't count the "cloud" programming crap. First of all, their "our remote knows better than you what mode it's in" crap. I prefer the super macro button approach I was using with one of the better One For All remotes, but it didn't have the code set I needed for some things. And even though I can reprogram the I2C EEPROM inside, the actual programming of OFA remotes looks like a pain in the ass, and the community grew around people who thought Excel was a really good tool for creating the programming.
Then if the remote falls on the floor, it loses power long enough to reset and decide that nothing is turned on, so you have to cover the IR LEDs with your hand and press the appropriate group button. If you don't cover it, the devices which only have a toggle on/off command will be turned off.
But the worst is how it controls my Sharp LCD TV. It sends the ON command, then the INPUT button, then the number 3. Which would be great except that it sends the INPUT code about a second before the TV is ready, so if I haven't turned the remote away so that the TV can't see it, it tunes the TV to RF channel 3. Then you have to use the Help button for a game of Twenty Questions while it tries to guess what went wrong, always in the same sequence where it takes five of them to set the input back..
My next remote is going to be a microcontroller running my own fucking code, probably crammed into a salvaged remote control shell with buttons that have a good feel. It's been a long time since Woz and his Cloud 9 remote. Remote control codes aren't exactly rocket science, and microcontrollers are really powerful these days, if you don't mind a little QFP soldering.
http://slashdot.org/~Jeremiah+Cornelius
Nobody. Fucking. Cares.
Take your paranoid CONINTELPRO crap to infowars/prisonplanet where they will love it.
The main problem is that most of the software to run programmers (beyond simple EEPROMs, etc.) is proprietary, running under Windows, or DOS for the really old stuff. The reason for it to be proprietary is because the chip makers want NDAs on the programming algorithms.
The only true success I had was an old BP-1 serial port programmer, which is limited to 64K chips, but supports programming via XMODEM (and I think YMODEM) downloads. I have a Needham's EMP-31 with a USB port, but Parallels just wasn't up to emulating the USB sufficiently for it to work a few years ago when I tried it. But now I have a cheap Dull unInspiron with a real parallel port that I can dedicate to this function.
A used BP or Needham's programmer (make sure the Needham's has the personality modules!) is a good bet. For the price of a crappy Willem, you can have a professional programmer. Just be patient and watch for a good deal.
Also (because most of these are parallel port programmers), make sure that your PC has a genuine ISA-bus LPT port. Most of these will simply not work with PCI printer ports.
Good ol' Slashdot non-editors. Indeed, there's basically no way this chip can run Linux, at least not the way most of us know Linux. It's an ARM Cortex M3 (Thumb-2 instruction set only) with 512K flash and 64K RAM (about the maximum on CM3 these days), and has no external memory bus.
The mbed board is kind of nice, in that it also has a Cortex A-something chip that loads the 1768's flash from the last file saved to its small USB stick filesystem, and does a few other things. The idea is that once your project is finished, you can use it on a naked 1768 on your own board. There's also a "cloud"-based compiler for it (IDE and compiler are both a web service). It's interesting but all I'm going to say is check mbed.org, and that the board comes with a one-time-use (I think) registration code for the cloud compiler.
Damn, you actually think $100 is okay to get current? With FFXI you can get it with all current expansions for $15, sometimes less. (the code you get also works to fullly upgrade existing accounts) And I think that also includes the first month free for new accounts.
LOL WTF BBQ
Well at least I know that Abe Vigoda is still alive.
and he wouldn't have lived as long as he did had he the more common, deadly form
Unlike Satoshi Kon, who did.
Well then it's a good thing that patents don't matter when bulding crazy shit like this for fun or for a class grade, ain't it?
It's called an "Author Fillibuster".
Guess what they called the stuff they were delivering?
Homebrew.
Austin has had max zoom for years, and almost certainly from aerial photography. I do see that there is a new 45-degree view, but there is still nothing to indicate that they used an unmanned drone to take the pictures. There's no good reason they can't just tilt the camera on a normal aerial photography plane.
Others have mentioned that licenses for a commercial company to operate unmanned drones over cities are very hard to get. What if the drones are for UN-populated areas? There's been plenty of aerial photography done over highly populated areas, but not over the middle of nowhere. (This is depending on the area; I remember that some states seem to have had total coverage done.)
What's wrong, are you SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSScared of the dark? BOOM
(If you don't get the reference, google for minecraft creeper.)
The word you are looking for is "autist".
(Yes, I read /v/ from time to time, and yes, I have paid my $13.77. But I play survival mode.)
Oops, hit submit by accident. Here's the link.
Please, for the love of all that's sane, listen to Bob the Angry Flower...
But does it make them want to constantly watch Judge Wapner?
Do they do what American alarm companies do, and lock you into a "rollover contract" that only lets you ask to get out of it during a specific 30 days at the end, or it auto-renews for another 2 or 3 years?
but it could also be argued that people have died who otherwise would not have needed to, if we had continued research uninterrupted.
Well, all except for that little bothersome detail about no actual therapies being derived yet from embryonic stem cells in the dozens of other countries completely unaffected by the ban. Because there is no other place doing science outside of GOD BLESS MURRICA!
I'll take a therapy that doesn't require immunosuppressants, tyvm.
What exactly is the anti-vaccinationists' expertise in this field?
Lived in San Antonio for 21 years, went to the Alamo once. Lived in Austin for 10 more years, went to the Alamo once more when some relatives came from California to visit my mom. The Riverwalk, and the mall two blocks away from the Alamo, are much more visited by the locals. I've even eaten in the restaurant at the top of Hemisfair Tower three times. On the other hand, I've driven past the Alamo plenty of times, since it's along a downtown street that you take to leave the mall, which you can't exactly do with the Statue of Liberty.
Most of these "piles" or badly aggregated random assortments of loans of questionable value should have been rated as rather risky - like a BBB bond. Instead, the rating companies were completely irresponsibly rating 80% of the bonds at AAA or "investment grade".
That sounds to me like something to which the word "fraud" would apply. And it should have been treated as such, not with some omnibus bill full of crap like "individuals purchasing gold must be reported to the government" that congress (aka "the opposite of progress") voted for recently.
You may be missing a point here, too.
The problem isn't collecting royalties on a song for years, it's the copyright law making it required for such an absurdly long time. (such time which just happens to keep getting extended long enough to ensure that Steamboat Willie's copyright never expires) And it's especially the tenuous bullshit lawsuits like this (as well as "He's So Fine" / "My Sweet Lord").
There's no reason that you couldn't pay an original author money after a copyright expires, other than under current laws they'd probably already be dead by then.
I think John Fogerty is a much better example of stupidity. They sued him for making a song that they claimed sounded like another song by him.