Why can't Reiser continue? Just because he is in prison?
Yes, exactly because he's in prison, where they don't allow you your own personal computer hardware or general access to the internet.
Shocking, I know. They'll be locking him in at night next!
You don't need a PC to code. Seriously, you don't. If he's allowed visitors and they can leave him printed materials, that's all that's needed to code.
Hell, he can sit and think through a lot of the flaws of the filesystem by doing it all mentally or on paper the passing criticism or design updates to his visitors.
You don't have to start coding anything by having an idea, starting up an editor and beginning from int main(). You can start development by documenting the idea, the design, implementation and then work out if the design has flaws. And all of it can be done without a computer.
Though I think OP's idea of only killing female mosquitoes (because they're the ones that bite) is misguided. Male mosquitoes lead to more female mosquitoes. If there is one insect that I think could safely (and even beneficially) be eliminated from the planet, mosquitoes would be them.
Except I think mosquitos, as annoying as they are, are still part of the food chain and are still food to a number of other more useful insects and animals, including spiders and frogs. And the larvae are eaten by a few water animals as well.
I stepped through this video frame by frame. They rotate the cube 5 times to inspect each face first (I guess they only have one camera), paused about 0.2 seconds (presumably to calculate a solution) and then they made 21 moves plus 4 rotations to solve it. (The rotations were necessary because it only has 4 arms and can't spin the top and bottom layers.)
Yes, they only have one camera - it's on the smartphone they're using. When you start the machine, the smartphone platform rises, exposing the camera at which point the app snaps photos of the faces.
After snapping photos of all 6 sides, it slides the platform back while calculating the solution (it takes up to 50ms), then it just sends Bluetooth commands to the motors to spin each face.
The old DOS games is for starters. The DX stuff is simply using the Linux port of games that are coming out now for many games. Except instead of relying on the developer to test their Linux builds somehow, they test on Ubuntu and Mint to make sure it at least works there (heaven forbid some game developers merely recompile and ship, or use some oddball Linux config and "works for me!").
It's really an extension of what they did for OS X - DOSbox games are inherently supported, other games are on a case-by-case basis on whether or not a port exists.
Assuming organs could be copied of course, but that's the usual silly things you see when people try and compare code to real world objects.
Well, in this case, it's livers. And livers have a very stunning capacity of self-replication. It's quite fortunate that such a vital organ to life is so robust - it has extensive self-repair capabilities, it can regenerate missing parts, etc. That capability is often used to turn one liver into multiple (if the patients don't need full functionality immediately), or to remove cirrhosis in its early stages. (Heck, it takes a LOT to get liver cirrhosis)
Truly the liver is an organ we cannot live without, is extremely vital to all bodily functions in some way, but also includes so much in the way of self-repair that damaging it takes a lot of time and effort (e.g., alcoholic) or well pronounced liver disease.
It's hard to find a downloadable movie trailer nowdays (and you'd think this is something movie studios WANT me to have, because it is an advert for their product).
That I blame on the rise of YouTube, because the traditional trailers site is still around. (Who knew that Apple still maintains one of the big official trailers site?). Veronica Mars site. It's a touch tricky downloading from it these days (it always "requires Quicktime Pro" but there are ways around it The other way I've found is via iTunes - you can have it download the trailer there and get at the MP4 file that way.
Other than Apple, I have no clue where else to get trailers - it just seems Apple is the de-facto standard in that department, other than YouTube.
Agree. I've written bootloader code and kernel drivers. All the bootloader really has to do is get the kernel in memory somehow and jump to it. Why can't you boot directly into the kernel you ask ? One reason is size; on many (embedded) systems, there are only a few Kb available for an executable on boot. The other is that the bootloader doesn't not change easily (it needs reflashing or is in some kind of ROM), allowing you to easily change the kernel.
ACPI is not just used for booting, it's used for controlling the customizations between systems. While the PC architecture has changed little in the way of memory maps since the 1980s, there are still things that various computer manufacturers do that no OS could ever program for.
For example, PCI interrupt routing was completely up to the manufacturer in routing which IRQ when to which PCI IRQ. They were normally scrambled so you don't have all the cards using one IRQ line, but that information needs to be communicated between the BIOS and the kernel, otherwise the kernel has no way to handle PCI interrupts properly.
You could define a data structure (which is what ACPI does), or you could program into the kernel every variation around for every motherboard, and hope that every mobo manufacturer out there updates the list and submits the patch.
The other thing is, well, ACPI handles rebooting, shutdowns and suspend/resume. It tells you how to poke the hardware in various ways to accomplish the goal. It isolates the difference between hardware to the people who know it best - the hardware guys.
Some of these things may be GPIO pins that change for routing convenience (to enable/disable wireless, for example, or for various status LEDs), power switches that control how the regulators operate, other settings and controls for various voltage rails and such.
Every PC is not the same, each manufacturer might choose a different power regulator IC that requires different programming to turn it on and off, and ACPI is best to handle it. otherwise the kernel will have to have each and every variation in it programmed in.
The big thing is, in a vehicle, a battery can be expected to deliver many kW all of a sudden, and absorb many kW suddenly as well. This is because moving a vehicle takes a lot of energy.
However, using it in more domestic circumstances places a far lower load on it - think about it - the battery may be called on to provide 20kW to start the car moving at a light. But powering a house, the load's rarely much above a kW, maybe 2kW tops.
Older batteries lose their ability to provide and absorb large amounts of energy quickly, but household or even datacenter use loads tend to be far more stable and far lower, so some extra life can be had out of the battery before it needs to be recycled.
As the battery ages, its capacity goes down and its internal resistance goes up, both of which are detrimental to EV use. But even a higher internal resistance is not much of an issue if you don't draw huge currents from it thus wasting most of the energy as heat.
Anti-copyright does work for the consumer. It works against content creators that want a stranglehold on their so-called IP. Sounds like hes scared his gravy train might derail and have to start working again and create new content for people..
And yet, it seems wrong when the consumer that steals content turns out to be a middle man?
Lets reframe copyright protections from movies and music to software, as we clearly understand open-source and commercial software much better.
Let's take Linux. It's under copyright, and under terms that let you violate its copyright if you abide by them, i.e., the GPLv2.
Now, I am a company. Anti-copyright works for me, the consumer of Linux. It work against the content creators (programmers) that want a stranglehold on their so-called IP. (what, I have to distribute my hard earned modifications?!). Sounds like he's (Linus) scared his gravy train (Linux) might derail and have to start working again and create new content (code) for people.
Now that's just silly. And yet, no copyrights benefit companies and middlemen just that much more - for they can take Linux and package it up without having to release the source (the copyright arms the GPL - if you don't agree to the GPL, you're still free to use it under the terms of All Rights Reserved copyright).
Heck, a 2-year copyright that some people propose is just adequate - 2 year old kernel with Android (we're only talking about Android 4.2 here!) and I don't have to release source code? Sweet deal! Hell, most phones are still running 4.2 or older, and new ones are released all the time with it. So it's a great deal.
Even on servers or embedded appliance side, 2 year old code is still fairly useful. Ubuntu 12.04 with its hated Unity interface was released almost 2 years ago. Soon it woiuld be almost free and clear to distribute without source.
Oops, I should have said my inspiration for this comes from the annoying stores selling electric scooters that are legal to ride on a bike path because they have pedals. Non-functional, turned inwards, and connected by the flimsiest drive train, but legally, it makes the scooter an assisted bicycle. Much to my chagrin.
Actually, those things also have a max top speed - they can't go over something like 30mph or they're classified as a motorcycle which requires insurance, registration, helmet, license etc.
And apparently, removing the pedals is illegal too in some areas - that would change the classification to motorcycle, but because their top speed is too slow, they can't be put on the roads and cannot be registered. And because they're not bicycles anymore, they're not allowed as bicycle traffic, either, so they've got to be off the road.
Most devices will draw the max the charger will allow if they see the data channels shorted. I assume the charger will go into current limit (voltage will start to drop) once the maximum output of the charger is reached. Different charges from different phones may be rated different, but most still should provide a charge (even if slower). If plugged into a USB host (computer) it may be limited to 500mA or less.
Good chargers will current limit. Bad chargers blow up. We found that out the hard way trying to draw 1A out of a phone charger. What do you have? Good question - want to risk burning your house down?
I'd prefer the miniusb - nobody had issues w/ that - have no idea why they had to change
MiniUSB B is still around, mini A and mini AB are deprecated because the USB guys were on an OTG fetish and saw how manufacturers were just implementing USB Host using mini A and mini AB connectors. (OTG is not just USB Host, it' includes a few other things include HNP, role-switching, etc).
Since no one was implementing OTG (and no one still does), the USB guys deprecated the A and AB connectors in a huff because it was supposed to be for OTG, not Host.
To this day people still ask for USB OTG, but no one actually uses it to mean proper OTG. They just want "if I plug in an A cable, I want host, and if I plug in a B cable, I want client".
It's so bad that USB 3.0 got rid of OTG and call it a DRD - Dual Role Device because it can be both a Host and a Client.
I really don't care about dual booting - in my experience the machine spends most of its time in one environment, and the one time you do switch its got a months worth of patches to install.
Not a problem here. If you spend all your time in Windows that is, because you can bet the Android side won't get a lick of patches!
And in the meantime, Apple had Boot Camp since early versions of OS X and are also providing the Windows drivers for their own computers.
Welcome to 2014. Apple are the good guys.
And having installed Macs using Boot Camp, it's one of the slickest ways to install Windows. The tool basically creates a boot (DVD/USB/etc) with the drivers slipstreamed in and everything, so you install Windows and everything just works.
Previous versions of Boot Camp did require you to install the drivers after Windows, but modern versions slipstream them in, so after installing, everything is loaded. No need to hunt through Windows Update and websites downloading and installing drivers.
And no crapware, either. Only Apple can make installing Windows easy.
If you need more than about 32 digits for your calculations, you grossly misunderstand something.
Actually, there is a practical limiting factor to the number of digits of Pi you actually need for calculations. 39 digits will get you the circumference of the observable universe within 1 hydrogen atom difference. That is, the approximation of the circumference of the observable universe when compared versus using more digits of pi, the difference is smaller than the size of a hydrogen atom. (The approximation is slightly larger because of the rounding up).
That also sets the fundamental limit as once you get the error below the Planck limit, more digits are meaningless.
For most practical calculations, a handful of digits is more than sufficient.
Their business is to get people to click some links more often than they click others, there is nothing strange about this. Not to mention you have to be braindead not to notice the big yellow "Ad" button, there is nothing evil about getting free clicks out of people to dumb or lazy to read the entire link before they click it.
Just like how GMail swapped the "Delete all email from this folder" link and the ad line on the Spam inbox. Anyone with muscle memory will try to click where the link was, and end cup clicking the ad instead. The link is still there, but the swapped positions means you're now more likely to click the ad by accident because of muscle memory. Took me a few days to figure out why I kept accidentally clicking the ad.
And while it may get Google a few extra clicks from users, advertisers may catch on because they're paying for clicks that aren't useful . They want users who specifically click on their ads, not ones that happen across them by accident.
But the first two were the natural state before the invention of those legal fictions. There is certainly material to work from.
True, but it wasn't generally a very pretty state. For #1,well, look at all the Da Vinci drawings. They all had mistakes in them because he knew people would steal it and try to build it.
For #2, what happened was the US was the biggest pirate around because copyrights were enforced on a country level. Prior to that, well, books were only for the wealthy and scholars - most people didn't read or were illiterate so it didn't really matter to begin with.
Of course, your real point is software, for which we have absolutely no historical data to deal with. Software is a very different form of IP that we've contorted into existing IP frameworks, and it fits badly.
Copyrights are meant to protect creative works which generally until computers were around, generally enjoyed by other living things. You didn't write a poem for your toaster, for example, at least not for the enjoyment of your toaster.
Likewise, patents were to protect things. Your toaster might have some interesting feature that's patented, That thing isn't for enjoyment, it's for utility.
There is another category of patents called design patents which are used to highlight certain aesthetic features something might have. Do not confuse these with regular utility patents for the only similarities they have is the work "patent".
Of course, software comes around and messes it up - for now we're creating works meant to be "enjoyed" by a machine. Or those creative works are for utility. So now we've got this new category of IP that we believe should fit on both domains, but that just means it's a new form of IP since neither copyrights nor patents adequately cover it. (For starters, no one work should be coverable by both patents and copyright since the intent of both are different. The fact software can means the system is broken at handling that kind of IP.
Is it still a walled garden if 90%+ of what you encounter in an app store search is the result of search-optimising? So much irrelevant garbage in the android store.
I really have no idea if apple is any worse or better, but I would be more likely to spend if I could actually find useful stuff.
Until recently it seems, Google Play had a horrible search (from a search company, no less). Search for something like "angry birds" or other common app by its name and you'd find the actual app somewhere down the list - #2 or #3 if you're lucky.
These days it seem to have improved and searching for apps by name generally gets you the app as the #1 hit.
Apple's search generally was good as well - if you search for an app by name, it returns it at the first app on the list.
For a long time though, Android's Market and Google Play search was just awful that the app was simply buried behind other apps. Today it seems to have improved significantly.
I'd be more worried about a bio-bomb as that would be the perfect carrier, hell you could infect the passengers and use them as the "payload" and then fly it over a large heavily populated city and blow it up at 10,000 feet, voila! the diseased body parts would be spread over a large area and cause maximum damage. To hamper cleanup you could always mix enough uranium to make the whole thing "dirty" enough to cause a panic and slow the responders to a crawl.
To be honest, all you really need is to put a sick person on a plane. Have them walk up and down to the bathroom coughing and hacking and you'll spread it to other passengers. When the plane lanes, those sick passengers then spread out - infecting local populations, and other flights as connections.
No need to crash a plane, just put a sick person on the plane. "Plane flu" is actually a real thing and is the result of putting a bunch of people together in a confined space.
Would you depend on this vehicle if your life was at stake. Tesla can certainly bring it, but the internal combustion engine has over a century of demonstrated reliability.
As do electric motors. I mean, the first cars were electric (or steam!) - the ICE didn't come about until much later.
The big problem with Tesla is the dealers. The reason Tesla sells directly is because no dealer wants to sell a Tesla. It's just like Nissan and the Leaf. Dealerships don't make much money on car sales - sometimes as little as a couple of hundred bucks profit. The real profit's in the dealer service because despite the number of independent garages, there's still a large number of people who bring their cars back for servicing to the dealer. (It doesn't help that the dealer often incentivizes it by offering loaners, pickup/dropoff services, free car washes and other value-adds).
An EV like a Tesla or a Leaf requires practically no servicing. They recommend a yearly look-over and inspection just to make sure things are on the up-and-up, but you can skip those.
That's why dealers are fighting against Tesla - not because of direct sales, but because EVs are bad for their business. They just cost less to maintain, have less to go wrong and are just simpler on the inside.
It's like computing going from vacuum tubes to transistors.
I had that attitude, but so many of the local sellers are just gouging. I needed a 12 foot HDMI cable a while back. It was going to cost me $10 on Amazon, but I wanted it right now. I went to Best Buy, half a mile down the road. They wanted $40 for the same cable.
Instant gratification is not worth a $30 surcharge.
Being a lousy shopper apparently is, for you could get the HDMI cable far cheaper if you simply checked to see what Wal-Mart, Target and many other stores are selling it.
My personal favorite are the little stores you only see in the flyers that come on your doorstep with the free newspapers. Because they often have them cheap cheap cheap ($6 for 12').
Of course, it actually requires doing some real physical work and looking at ads.
You know what, that's too much sarcasm for me to fart out at once. This sounds essentially like the subprime mortgage crisis. And a lot of other banking crises. It doesn't seem totally insane to me to trust your friend Joe in a trailer over the banking industry: when he runs off with my money, at least he might go to jail rather than getting millions in rewards.
You know, in 2008, Washington Mutual (aka WaMu) failed. Dead, A lot of people used them, too.
And yet, they're all happily going about their lives - having lost none of their money that was stored at WaMu.
Another bank took over the remains and all of WaMu's customers were automatically integrated in.
For all intents and purposes, the only thing that changed was the name on the envelope and on the card - the money that was deposited was still there, all the other assets were still there, etc.
So for all the banking crises, regulation does help, because instead of bank failures hurting regular joes by losing all their hard earned savings, life pretty much continued on as no one lost their deposits. You put your money in, you can be reasonably assured you will get it out.
However, it's annoying as the bootloader pauses for 30 seconds to warn you that it's in developer mode and you have to hit a key to proceed or it goes into recovery mode.
In short, it's not something you really want to mess with - it works in a pinch,but damn it's annoying.
Not sure where you read that, but Apple went through this exact problem several years ago . Kids spending literally hundreds of dollars because once mom entered the store password, they didn't need it again for 30 minutes....
After that , they NICELY refunded all those silly transactions and then made it require a password FOR EVERY PURCHASE.
If 7.1 gives a 15 minute window, that's brand new and backwards from their previous direction.
I'm on 7.0.6 now, requires a password for ALL purchases, even 10 seconds apart
Yes, I'm not sure why Google is seeing it now, considering Apple went through it around iOS 4.x or so, 3 years ago.
The change in 7.1 comes about new legislation that says the default for in-app purchases no longer can be 15 minutes, but it must be zero, with an option to toggle it on and off. So 7.1 implemented that new default setting (always ask), and prompts if you want to enable a 15 minute (not 30 minute in Google's case) no-authentication-needed timer. Prior to 7.1, it was backwards - it defaulted to 15 minutes, but you could turn it so it expires immediately.
Part of this is the FTC requires Apple to obtain express consent for this timer.
They were very precise in what they have: the universal, sony and warner music catalogs.
But is it their entire catalog? Sony has various subdivisions, e.g., Sony Classical, which handle specific type of music (Sony Classical handles orchestral, classical, and soundtrack scores, for example).
And how much of that catalog is available in higher quality audio? At best, I see they may be able to get 48kHz masters in FLAC vs. having them as AAC or MP3. Very little of that catalog would be in 192/24, especially the older ones.
The old back catalog with original masters tapes may be available in 192/24, but more modern stuff is typically only mastered in 48kHz, 24 bit if you're lucky, 16 otherwise. Very little is available in 96kHz.
I thought I would always want discrete graphics. But nowadays the majority of laptops really have no need of it, The AMD and Intel integrated offerings while not amazing are more than adequate for the vast majority of purposes. my latest 2 laptops both use integrated Intel 4th gen and handle laptop needs completely for both my work and the limited gaming I do on a laptop. I would imagine Nvidia are very uncomfortable with the way their market has been contracting over the last couple of years.
Heck, we just got a bunch of new PCs in and we think the external discrete graphics was merely a checkbox item.
The computers had Intel Haswell 4770 processors, and also came with NVidia GeForce 620 cards (really low end cards). It's so far been a tossup - Windows finds the Haswell GPU far faster than the 620, benchmarks online seem to put the 620 only a tiny bit faster, etc.
Enough that we don't know whether to leave them in or take them out
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You don't need a PC to code. Seriously, you don't. If he's allowed visitors and they can leave him printed materials, that's all that's needed to code.
Hell, he can sit and think through a lot of the flaws of the filesystem by doing it all mentally or on paper the passing criticism or design updates to his visitors.
You don't have to start coding anything by having an idea, starting up an editor and beginning from int main(). You can start development by documenting the idea, the design, implementation and then work out if the design has flaws. And all of it can be done without a computer.
Except I think mosquitos, as annoying as they are, are still part of the food chain and are still food to a number of other more useful insects and animals, including spiders and frogs. And the larvae are eaten by a few water animals as well.
Yes, they only have one camera - it's on the smartphone they're using. When you start the machine, the smartphone platform rises, exposing the camera at which point the app snaps photos of the faces.
After snapping photos of all 6 sides, it slides the platform back while calculating the solution (it takes up to 50ms), then it just sends Bluetooth commands to the motors to spin each face.
The old DOS games is for starters. The DX stuff is simply using the Linux port of games that are coming out now for many games. Except instead of relying on the developer to test their Linux builds somehow, they test on Ubuntu and Mint to make sure it at least works there (heaven forbid some game developers merely recompile and ship, or use some oddball Linux config and "works for me!").
It's really an extension of what they did for OS X - DOSbox games are inherently supported, other games are on a case-by-case basis on whether or not a port exists.
Well, in this case, it's livers. And livers have a very stunning capacity of self-replication. It's quite fortunate that such a vital organ to life is so robust - it has extensive self-repair capabilities, it can regenerate missing parts, etc. That capability is often used to turn one liver into multiple (if the patients don't need full functionality immediately), or to remove cirrhosis in its early stages. (Heck, it takes a LOT to get liver cirrhosis)
Truly the liver is an organ we cannot live without, is extremely vital to all bodily functions in some way, but also includes so much in the way of self-repair that damaging it takes a lot of time and effort (e.g., alcoholic) or well pronounced liver disease.
That I blame on the rise of YouTube, because the traditional trailers site is still around. (Who knew that Apple still maintains one of the big official trailers site?). Veronica Mars site. It's a touch tricky downloading from it these days (it always "requires Quicktime Pro" but there are ways around it The other way I've found is via iTunes - you can have it download the trailer there and get at the MP4 file that way.
Other than Apple, I have no clue where else to get trailers - it just seems Apple is the de-facto standard in that department, other than YouTube.
ACPI is not just used for booting, it's used for controlling the customizations between systems. While the PC architecture has changed little in the way of memory maps since the 1980s, there are still things that various computer manufacturers do that no OS could ever program for.
For example, PCI interrupt routing was completely up to the manufacturer in routing which IRQ when to which PCI IRQ. They were normally scrambled so you don't have all the cards using one IRQ line, but that information needs to be communicated between the BIOS and the kernel, otherwise the kernel has no way to handle PCI interrupts properly.
You could define a data structure (which is what ACPI does), or you could program into the kernel every variation around for every motherboard, and hope that every mobo manufacturer out there updates the list and submits the patch.
The other thing is, well, ACPI handles rebooting, shutdowns and suspend/resume. It tells you how to poke the hardware in various ways to accomplish the goal. It isolates the difference between hardware to the people who know it best - the hardware guys.
Some of these things may be GPIO pins that change for routing convenience (to enable/disable wireless, for example, or for various status LEDs), power switches that control how the regulators operate, other settings and controls for various voltage rails and such.
Every PC is not the same, each manufacturer might choose a different power regulator IC that requires different programming to turn it on and off, and ACPI is best to handle it. otherwise the kernel will have to have each and every variation in it programmed in.
The big thing is, in a vehicle, a battery can be expected to deliver many kW all of a sudden, and absorb many kW suddenly as well. This is because moving a vehicle takes a lot of energy.
However, using it in more domestic circumstances places a far lower load on it - think about it - the battery may be called on to provide 20kW to start the car moving at a light. But powering a house, the load's rarely much above a kW, maybe 2kW tops.
Older batteries lose their ability to provide and absorb large amounts of energy quickly, but household or even datacenter use loads tend to be far more stable and far lower, so some extra life can be had out of the battery before it needs to be recycled.
As the battery ages, its capacity goes down and its internal resistance goes up, both of which are detrimental to EV use. But even a higher internal resistance is not much of an issue if you don't draw huge currents from it thus wasting most of the energy as heat.
And yet, it seems wrong when the consumer that steals content turns out to be a middle man?
Lets reframe copyright protections from movies and music to software, as we clearly understand open-source and commercial software much better.
Let's take Linux. It's under copyright, and under terms that let you violate its copyright if you abide by them, i.e., the GPLv2.
Now, I am a company. Anti-copyright works for me, the consumer of Linux. It work against the content creators (programmers) that want a stranglehold on their so-called IP. (what, I have to distribute my hard earned modifications?!). Sounds like he's (Linus) scared his gravy train (Linux) might derail and have to start working again and create new content (code) for people.
Now that's just silly. And yet, no copyrights benefit companies and middlemen just that much more - for they can take Linux and package it up without having to release the source (the copyright arms the GPL - if you don't agree to the GPL, you're still free to use it under the terms of All Rights Reserved copyright).
Heck, a 2-year copyright that some people propose is just adequate - 2 year old kernel with Android (we're only talking about Android 4.2 here!) and I don't have to release source code? Sweet deal! Hell, most phones are still running 4.2 or older, and new ones are released all the time with it. So it's a great deal.
Even on servers or embedded appliance side, 2 year old code is still fairly useful. Ubuntu 12.04 with its hated Unity interface was released almost 2 years ago. Soon it woiuld be almost free and clear to distribute without source.
Actually, those things also have a max top speed - they can't go over something like 30mph or they're classified as a motorcycle which requires insurance, registration, helmet, license etc.
And apparently, removing the pedals is illegal too in some areas - that would change the classification to motorcycle, but because their top speed is too slow, they can't be put on the roads and cannot be registered. And because they're not bicycles anymore, they're not allowed as bicycle traffic, either, so they've got to be off the road.
Good chargers will current limit. Bad chargers blow up. We found that out the hard way trying to draw 1A out of a phone charger. What do you have? Good question - want to risk burning your house down?
MiniUSB B is still around, mini A and mini AB are deprecated because the USB guys were on an OTG fetish and saw how manufacturers were just implementing USB Host using mini A and mini AB connectors. (OTG is not just USB Host, it' includes a few other things include HNP, role-switching, etc).
Since no one was implementing OTG (and no one still does), the USB guys deprecated the A and AB connectors in a huff because it was supposed to be for OTG, not Host.
To this day people still ask for USB OTG, but no one actually uses it to mean proper OTG. They just want "if I plug in an A cable, I want host, and if I plug in a B cable, I want client".
It's so bad that USB 3.0 got rid of OTG and call it a DRD - Dual Role Device because it can be both a Host and a Client.
Not a problem here. If you spend all your time in Windows that is, because you can bet the Android side won't get a lick of patches!
And having installed Macs using Boot Camp, it's one of the slickest ways to install Windows. The tool basically creates a boot (DVD/USB/etc) with the drivers slipstreamed in and everything, so you install Windows and everything just works.
Previous versions of Boot Camp did require you to install the drivers after Windows, but modern versions slipstream them in, so after installing, everything is loaded. No need to hunt through Windows Update and websites downloading and installing drivers.
And no crapware, either. Only Apple can make installing Windows easy.
Actually, there is a practical limiting factor to the number of digits of Pi you actually need for calculations. 39 digits will get you the circumference of the observable universe within 1 hydrogen atom difference. That is, the approximation of the circumference of the observable universe when compared versus using more digits of pi, the difference is smaller than the size of a hydrogen atom. (The approximation is slightly larger because of the rounding up).
That also sets the fundamental limit as once you get the error below the Planck limit, more digits are meaningless.
For most practical calculations, a handful of digits is more than sufficient.
Just like how GMail swapped the "Delete all email from this folder" link and the ad line on the Spam inbox. Anyone with muscle memory will try to click where the link was, and end cup clicking the ad instead. The link is still there, but the swapped positions means you're now more likely to click the ad by accident because of muscle memory. Took me a few days to figure out why I kept accidentally clicking the ad.
And while it may get Google a few extra clicks from users, advertisers may catch on because they're paying for clicks that aren't useful . They want users who specifically click on their ads, not ones that happen across them by accident.
True, but it wasn't generally a very pretty state. For #1,well, look at all the Da Vinci drawings. They all had mistakes in them because he knew people would steal it and try to build it.
For #2, what happened was the US was the biggest pirate around because copyrights were enforced on a country level. Prior to that, well, books were only for the wealthy and scholars - most people didn't read or were illiterate so it didn't really matter to begin with.
Of course, your real point is software, for which we have absolutely no historical data to deal with. Software is a very different form of IP that we've contorted into existing IP frameworks, and it fits badly.
Copyrights are meant to protect creative works which generally until computers were around, generally enjoyed by other living things. You didn't write a poem for your toaster, for example, at least not for the enjoyment of your toaster.
Likewise, patents were to protect things. Your toaster might have some interesting feature that's patented, That thing isn't for enjoyment, it's for utility.
There is another category of patents called design patents which are used to highlight certain aesthetic features something might have. Do not confuse these with regular utility patents for the only similarities they have is the work "patent".
Of course, software comes around and messes it up - for now we're creating works meant to be "enjoyed" by a machine. Or those creative works are for utility. So now we've got this new category of IP that we believe should fit on both domains, but that just means it's a new form of IP since neither copyrights nor patents adequately cover it. (For starters, no one work should be coverable by both patents and copyright since the intent of both are different. The fact software can means the system is broken at handling that kind of IP.
Until recently it seems, Google Play had a horrible search (from a search company, no less). Search for something like "angry birds" or other common app by its name and you'd find the actual app somewhere down the list - #2 or #3 if you're lucky.
These days it seem to have improved and searching for apps by name generally gets you the app as the #1 hit.
Apple's search generally was good as well - if you search for an app by name, it returns it at the first app on the list.
For a long time though, Android's Market and Google Play search was just awful that the app was simply buried behind other apps. Today it seems to have improved significantly.
To be honest, all you really need is to put a sick person on a plane. Have them walk up and down to the bathroom coughing and hacking and you'll spread it to other passengers. When the plane lanes, those sick passengers then spread out - infecting local populations, and other flights as connections.
No need to crash a plane, just put a sick person on the plane. "Plane flu" is actually a real thing and is the result of putting a bunch of people together in a confined space.
As do electric motors. I mean, the first cars were electric (or steam!) - the ICE didn't come about until much later.
The big problem with Tesla is the dealers. The reason Tesla sells directly is because no dealer wants to sell a Tesla. It's just like Nissan and the Leaf. Dealerships don't make much money on car sales - sometimes as little as a couple of hundred bucks profit. The real profit's in the dealer service because despite the number of independent garages, there's still a large number of people who bring their cars back for servicing to the dealer. (It doesn't help that the dealer often incentivizes it by offering loaners, pickup/dropoff services, free car washes and other value-adds).
An EV like a Tesla or a Leaf requires practically no servicing. They recommend a yearly look-over and inspection just to make sure things are on the up-and-up, but you can skip those.
That's why dealers are fighting against Tesla - not because of direct sales, but because EVs are bad for their business. They just cost less to maintain, have less to go wrong and are just simpler on the inside.
It's like computing going from vacuum tubes to transistors.
Being a lousy shopper apparently is, for you could get the HDMI cable far cheaper if you simply checked to see what Wal-Mart, Target and many other stores are selling it.
My personal favorite are the little stores you only see in the flyers that come on your doorstep with the free newspapers. Because they often have them cheap cheap cheap ($6 for 12').
Of course, it actually requires doing some real physical work and looking at ads.
You know, in 2008, Washington Mutual (aka WaMu) failed. Dead, A lot of people used them, too.
And yet, they're all happily going about their lives - having lost none of their money that was stored at WaMu.
Another bank took over the remains and all of WaMu's customers were automatically integrated in.
For all intents and purposes, the only thing that changed was the name on the envelope and on the card - the money that was deposited was still there, all the other assets were still there, etc.
So for all the banking crises, regulation does help, because instead of bank failures hurting regular joes by losing all their hard earned savings, life pretty much continued on as no one lost their deposits. You put your money in, you can be reasonably assured you will get it out.
Easy enough - Developer Mode is all you need.
However, it's annoying as the bootloader pauses for 30 seconds to warn you that it's in developer mode and you have to hit a key to proceed or it goes into recovery mode.
In short, it's not something you really want to mess with - it works in a pinch ,but damn it's annoying.
And unless it has SeaBIOS, it won't run Windows.
Yes, I'm not sure why Google is seeing it now, considering Apple went through it around iOS 4.x or so, 3 years ago.
The change in 7.1 comes about new legislation that says the default for in-app purchases no longer can be 15 minutes, but it must be zero, with an option to toggle it on and off. So 7.1 implemented that new default setting (always ask), and prompts if you want to enable a 15 minute (not 30 minute in Google's case) no-authentication-needed timer. Prior to 7.1, it was backwards - it defaulted to 15 minutes, but you could turn it so it expires immediately.
Part of this is the FTC requires Apple to obtain express consent for this timer.
But is it their entire catalog? Sony has various subdivisions, e.g., Sony Classical, which handle specific type of music (Sony Classical handles orchestral, classical, and soundtrack scores, for example).
And how much of that catalog is available in higher quality audio? At best, I see they may be able to get 48kHz masters in FLAC vs. having them as AAC or MP3. Very little of that catalog would be in 192/24, especially the older ones.
The old back catalog with original masters tapes may be available in 192/24, but more modern stuff is typically only mastered in 48kHz, 24 bit if you're lucky, 16 otherwise. Very little is available in 96kHz.
Heck, we just got a bunch of new PCs in and we think the external discrete graphics was merely a checkbox item.
The computers had Intel Haswell 4770 processors, and also came with NVidia GeForce 620 cards (really low end cards). It's so far been a tossup - Windows finds the Haswell GPU far faster than the 620, benchmarks online seem to put the 620 only a tiny bit faster, etc.
Enough that we don't know whether to leave them in or take them out