We use imx6 industrial parts that are rated -40 to +95 C - that should be enough? Is the problem that you want something off the shelf? (We design our own solutions)
"Except for 13,000 people paying taxes, I'm sure that doesn't bring any money in."
I've a much better bit of sarcasm for you. Do The Maths.
For your 13,000 tax payers (the *original* estimate foxconn gave was 5,200 workers BTW), the investment was $4 Billion. That's an investment of $307,000 ish per worker. The average tax paid for an American over their *entire* working career of 40 years is around $188,000 (Source: Forbes).
At the current expected number of 1,000 workers, that's about $4m per worker.
Still look like a sensible deal?
Interesting article from boing boing yesterday : https://boingboing.net/2019/01/30/sending-jobs-to-jina.html
Well, for years office for Mac was developed by an independent team and was widely considered to be a better product than office for pc. But donâ(TM)t let that get in the way of having a rant!
Whilst much of what Microsoft does may not be to everyoneâ(TM)s taste, itâ(TM)s a multi faceted company and to generalise would be wrong. Back when windows 95 was a piece of shit and I was starting to run Linux, I still used a Microsoft natural keyboard and intellimouse because they were great.
Yes, blame a peripheral manufacturer for thinking that an update (10.13.3 ->10.13.4) wouldn't do something like break the subsystem that their drivers depend on. Couldn't possibly expect Apple to put some more QA on macOS updates and stop treating the OS like it's a legacy product WRT support.
You know that the companies mentioned are all using un-supported internal APIs to implement their products right? They're called un-supprted for a reason! Feel free to criticise Apple for not realising that these APIs are handy and formalising / supporting them, but really the fault lies squarely with the third party companies.
Er, no. I suspect that you don't actually understand what DisplayLink adapters are or how they work... They're a (admittedly clever) way of creating what is an additional graphics adapter on the far side of a USB connection. Most normal docks are port replicators for interfaces within the machine.
Its not a standard protocol and certainly nowhere close to universal.
So... there are two scenarios : 1) Apple has crafted an update to specifically disable some 3rd party components 2) The third party component designer has failed to make a properly compatible part.
Despite the story sounding like theyâ(TM)re spinning it as (1) Iâ(TM)d be very surprised if it wasnâ(TM)t (2) as thatâ(TM)s the most likely if they can fix it with an update as reported. Whatâ(TM)s the news? Why should a manufacturer go to the effort of testing badly made replacement parts that they never claimed to support in the first place?
So, the data tells us then that most drivers ignore the red light and push it by 0.3 seconds or so to "scrape through". If the priority was safety, as well as issuing tickets, the time between one route going red and the subsequent route going green should also be increased by 0.3 seconds as well to compensate for behaviour. This would have more of an effect of reducing danger than a fine after the fact...
News item from Leicestershire Police :
https://www.leics.police.uk/news-appeals/news/2015/06/15/download-success-see-you-in-2016
Interestingly apparently a 0.2% false positive rate. On attendance size of 90,000 that's 180 people mis-identified. This is apparently using NEC's NeoFace Watch system which they started trialling in the middle of 2014.
http://www.necam.com/Docs/?id=c8a08fd5-e79c-4f00-9f37-9919318cc772
If you don't do what the police ask you to, you will not be able to run your event, it's as simple as that. This is often a financial issue for example. :
http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/crime/100-fewer-police-at-hogmanay-over-funding-row-1-3597735
I could name several smaller independent festivals in the UK that have been made financially infeasible by large imposed policing costs and had to be subsequently cancelled. Many would argue that often the policing costs are un-warranted and that the police may use this as leverage to prevent events that they don't approve of but no one has demonstrated this successfully to date. Certainly however it's true that there is wild variation in the level to which different events are burdened by the police but of course this can also be attributed to other factors such as the quality of their pre-event planning / paperwork and the differences in approaches that different regional forces take.
Personally however, as both and event professional and an engineer, I'd like to know whether this was imposed on Download as a condition of their license, and if so what their justification for requiring it was. Secondarily I'd like to know how it is that they have been allowed to do this on the quiet. Certainly I believe that storing images of peoples faces would be covered under the data protection act.
Really? You're implying that slashdot readers are properly technically savvy? Those days are long gone. If that were true, all these arguments would be presenting reproducible and well explained cases (like proper bug reports!) not vague anecdotal stories that can't be proven... Just sayin!
Can someone who understands PV cells properly answer me this - it's my understanding that most standard PV cells get say low 20-something percent efficiencies and that the highest at the mo is around 40% acheived with significant solar amounts of concentration. Is this a genuine like-for-like beating of the best of the current crop or some fudging of the maths?
Ive a lot of time for the usbee - analog and logic analysis and basic decoding of serial protocols too. I also love the fact it can do long term signal capture / recording too. Yes you can buy chinese knock offs but really, have some decency and support small companies making Cool Shit.
For my own money i have an old cathode tek and an old lcd 60mhz tekscope that i bought on fleabay thats damn handy. Also keep an eye out for cheap old fluke scopemeters too...
I call bullshit. Assuming a large team of 100 people spending 5 minutes per document and working 8 hour days that would have taken 16 years if they took no holidays...
Its long been understood that exposing your capabilities isn't a Good Thing. This brings us to the interesting potential scenario that in fact maybe GCHQ *could* quite easily read his files but wouldn't acknowledge this capability. In essence people can legally be jailed for not revealing access to material they can already bypass the encryption on perhaps? A bit worrying...
Of course they forked, they wanted to spend their time and effort developing a product to ship instead of constantly justifying their own decisions to a project gatekeeper. Sounds fair to me, its their time... Democracy is great but dictatorships get things done MUCH faster...
I wish I had mod points today, I'd have given you a +1 funny... Do you know any old people well and spend time with them? A tablet would be much more suitable...
Just get an ipad - I got a cheap second hand ipad 1 for my mum (85) and she picked,up using it just fine. I never have to help her much unlike her normal computer.
To the poster who said about CPU / graphics power, potentially don't worry as most older folk are only really looking to use the web and read email, neither of which are intensive.
To the poster who said about full size vs compact : in my mums case she asked me to get her an ipad mini after playing with mine. In her case it wasn't about the screen size but because her arms aren't too strong it's easier for her to hold up and use! The air might be an option these days but it's a lot more money...
In general I think that like children, you shouldn't "dumb down" stuff for old folk unless you absolutely have to. It's not as necessary as many would have you believe. In children having to think more helps them learn and in older folk it helps stop them forget!
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We use imx6 industrial parts that are rated -40 to +95 C - that should be enough? Is the problem that you want something off the shelf? (We design our own solutions)
"Except for 13,000 people paying taxes, I'm sure that doesn't bring any money in."
I've a much better bit of sarcasm for you. Do The Maths.
For your 13,000 tax payers (the *original* estimate foxconn gave was 5,200 workers BTW), the investment was $4 Billion. That's an investment of $307,000 ish per worker. The average tax paid for an American over their *entire* working career of 40 years is around $188,000 (Source: Forbes).
At the current expected number of 1,000 workers, that's about $4m per worker.
Still look like a sensible deal?
Interesting article from boing boing yesterday :
https://boingboing.net/2019/01/30/sending-jobs-to-jina.html
Well, for years office for Mac was developed by an independent team and was widely considered to be a better product than office for pc. But donâ(TM)t let that get in the way of having a rant!
Whilst much of what Microsoft does may not be to everyoneâ(TM)s taste, itâ(TM)s a multi faceted company and to generalise would be wrong. Back when windows 95 was a piece of shit and I was starting to run Linux, I still used a Microsoft natural keyboard and intellimouse because they were great.
Yes, blame a peripheral manufacturer for thinking that an update (10.13.3 ->10.13.4) wouldn't do something like break the subsystem that their drivers depend on. Couldn't possibly expect Apple to put some more QA on macOS updates and stop treating the OS like it's a legacy product WRT support.
You know that the companies mentioned are all using un-supported internal APIs to implement their products right? They're called un-supprted for a reason! Feel free to criticise Apple for not realising that these APIs are handy and formalising / supporting them, but really the fault lies squarely with the third party companies.
Er, no. I suspect that you don't actually understand what DisplayLink adapters are or how they work... They're a (admittedly clever) way of creating what is an additional graphics adapter on the far side of a USB connection. Most normal docks are port replicators for interfaces within the machine.
Its not a standard protocol and certainly nowhere close to universal.
So... there are two scenarios :
1) Apple has crafted an update to specifically disable some 3rd party components
2) The third party component designer has failed to make a properly compatible part.
Despite the story sounding like theyâ(TM)re spinning it as (1) Iâ(TM)d be very surprised if it wasnâ(TM)t (2) as thatâ(TM)s the most likely if they can fix it with an update as reported. Whatâ(TM)s the news? Why should a manufacturer go to the effort of testing badly made replacement parts that they never claimed to support in the first place?
So, the data tells us then that most drivers ignore the red light and push it by 0.3 seconds or so to "scrape through". If the priority was safety, as well as issuing tickets, the time between one route going red and the subsequent route going green should also be increased by 0.3 seconds as well to compensate for behaviour. This would have more of an effect of reducing danger than a fine after the fact...
Well worth watching :
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q124C7W0WYA
Sure - but do any of the FTDI interfaces properly support serial break yet? Annoying as ****
I think people have been saying that every year since i can remember on slashdot. Not entirely convinced that this one is any different!
Its an electrical device. Unplugnit before working on it. Its the first thing you get taught. End of.
News item from Leicestershire Police :
https://www.leics.police.uk/news-appeals/news/2015/06/15/download-success-see-you-in-2016
Interestingly apparently a 0.2% false positive rate. On attendance size of 90,000 that's 180 people mis-identified. This is apparently using NEC's NeoFace Watch system which they started trialling in the middle of 2014.
http://www.necam.com/Docs/?id=c8a08fd5-e79c-4f00-9f37-9919318cc772
If you don't do what the police ask you to, you will not be able to run your event, it's as simple as that. This is often a financial issue for example. :
http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/crime/100-fewer-police-at-hogmanay-over-funding-row-1-3597735
I could name several smaller independent festivals in the UK that have been made financially infeasible by large imposed policing costs and had to be subsequently cancelled. Many would argue that often the policing costs are un-warranted and that the police may use this as leverage to prevent events that they don't approve of but no one has demonstrated this successfully to date. Certainly however it's true that there is wild variation in the level to which different events are burdened by the police but of course this can also be attributed to other factors such as the quality of their pre-event planning / paperwork and the differences in approaches that different regional forces take.
Personally however, as both and event professional and an engineer, I'd like to know whether this was imposed on Download as a condition of their license, and if so what their justification for requiring it was. Secondarily I'd like to know how it is that they have been allowed to do this on the quiet. Certainly I believe that storing images of peoples faces would be covered under the data protection act.
Really? You're implying that slashdot readers are properly technically savvy? Those days are long gone. If that were true, all these arguments would be presenting reproducible and well explained cases (like proper bug reports!) not vague anecdotal stories that can't be proven... Just sayin!
Maybe we have a history of not much over here, but we've got hundreds and hundreds of years more of not much than our american cousins... :-D
...in other news, kim jong un now reportedly threatening verizon customer services with ground attack after being on hold for 90 minutes...
Can someone who understands PV cells properly answer me this - it's my understanding that most standard PV cells get say low 20-something percent efficiencies and that the highest at the mo is around 40% acheived with significant solar amounts of concentration. Is this a genuine like-for-like beating of the best of the current crop or some fudging of the maths?
Ive a lot of time for the usbee - analog and logic analysis and basic decoding of serial protocols too. I also love the fact it can do long term signal capture / recording too. Yes you can buy chinese knock offs but really, have some decency and support small companies making Cool Shit.
For my own money i have an old cathode tek and an old lcd 60mhz tekscope that i bought on fleabay thats damn handy. Also keep an eye out for cheap old fluke scopemeters too...
I call bullshit. Assuming a large team of 100 people spending 5 minutes per document and working 8 hour days that would have taken 16 years if they took no holidays...
Its long been understood that exposing your capabilities isn't a Good Thing. This brings us to the interesting potential scenario that in fact maybe GCHQ *could* quite easily read his files but wouldn't acknowledge this capability. In essence people can legally be jailed for not revealing access to material they can already bypass the encryption on perhaps? A bit worrying...
Of course they forked, they wanted to spend their time and effort developing a product to ship instead of constantly justifying their own decisions to a project gatekeeper. Sounds fair to me, its their time... Democracy is great but dictatorships get things done MUCH faster...
You realise that safaris icon has been a compass ever since it was originally launched right? That's not to do with iOS 7...
I wish I had mod points today, I'd have given you a +1 funny... Do you know any old people well and spend time with them? A tablet would be much more suitable...
Just get an ipad - I got a cheap second hand ipad 1 for my mum (85) and she picked,up using it just fine. I never have to help her much unlike her normal computer.
To the poster who said about CPU / graphics power, potentially don't worry as most older folk are only really looking to use the web and read email, neither of which are intensive.
To the poster who said about full size vs compact : in my mums case she asked me to get her an ipad mini after playing with mine. In her case it wasn't about the screen size but because her arms aren't too strong it's easier for her to hold up and use! The air might be an option these days but it's a lot more money...
In general I think that like children, you shouldn't "dumb down" stuff for old folk unless you absolutely have to. It's not as necessary as many would have you believe. In children having to think more helps them learn and in older folk it helps stop them forget!
How long have I been in the business? Long enough to recognise see how most peoples attitudes towards sexism have improved...
PS - a cursory glance at my Slashdot UID would have given you a good estimate if you'd thought about it.