It's just trendy right now in the US for some people to drink raw milk. I wouldn't say that it's especially popular, but there's definitely a community of people who seek it out, trade places to buy it, etc.
It's just a food trend - by people who thing "raw" is better. There's a good reason we pasteurize milk - there can be a lot of nasty bugs in them. Not because it was in the milk, but because of the bugs on the surfaces around the udders. (The udders are exposed to dirt and everything, and have to be cleaned before being hooked up to the milking machine where the milk and the udders may come in contact. The old style of milking was slightly cleaner since the milk just sprayed into a bucket far away.
And what's trendy among the "raw" crowd is "raw water" - water that hasn't gone through the water treatment plant. (You know, one of the few things in human history that greatly improved human health). About the only good thing is people will find out pretty rapidly why we have water treatment plants in the first place.
Of course, there is a good reason why humans cook food - yes, you lose nutrients, but cooking tends to make nutrients more bio-available and easier for the body to process and acquire.
It may suggest it, but it does absolutely nothing to back it up. The report lists many actual numbers to show increased job satisfaction and other similar metrics in order to back up their claims. They have left out any metrics which come close to measuring productivity or overall business costs.
Because there are no metrics for productivity. It's something everyone's been trying to measure since people began to work.
There are some proxies for it - for example if you work in a factory, you have metrics like units manufactured per hour against units defect rate, but many jobs simply don't have that option.
Like programming - lines of code is a popular metric here, but we all know how it's gamed and how it doesn't actually represent real productivity. Or number of bugs.
Here, they apparently do some sort of transition planning - wills and trusts and the like, and there's no metrics for that. I mean you can't simply say "X did 10 wills a day" because that makes absolutely no sense as a metric (some people's wills are simple, others are horrendously complex). The only metrics you can take are say, customer satisfaction - are customers just as happy with service this way now, or were they happier the old way. (This can vary - perhaps if they needed to see someone and it's their day off... the customer might not be as happy). Then again, if employees are happier, then perhaps they're more willing to acquiesce to their customer's demands and thus make customers even happier.
Business costs may be measurable - if the entire office is closed that one day, then it would save on the daily costs. Then again, the salaries were kept the same, so if the number of customers they had kept holding steady, then the costs may have stayed the same .
Then again, there are companies that don't view the dollar as almighty and something to squeeze the most out of every transaction - sometimes things may cost a little more, but provide much better benefits. Perhaps having the extra day off means employees are not having to bring all sorts of things to work so they can do errands during the day - after all, we know of plenty of people who hav e to take some time off for dental and doctor's appointments and they can schedule those on their day off now.
A carefully selected group of these working in parallel could theoretically parse the entire possible set of reactions, given sufficient time. (Yes, I know that with infinite molecular weight, there is an infinite number of possible compounds. However, only so many heavy molecules are interesting or useful, and of those, there will be certain classes that are more interesting than others. This approach would permit investigation of pathways without actually expending reagents, once its models are accurate enough. That means after a certain amount of training, a theoretical molecule of interest could be presented to the AI, and it could shit out the ideal synthesis pathway, and the next efficient arbitrary "n" pathways.)
This is the kind of thing that is the beginning of universal replicators.
And the end to drug patents.
You see, drugs aren't patented - you can patent the process to making the drug. Or more correctly, the process to make a something that will treat something. That's how drug companies often keep a drug patented - by finding a new use for it and keeping the basic process the same, so to treat the new condition you can't use a generic (even though they are identical).
It's why generic drugs are so widely available - once the patent expires, the recipe is effectively open
But with this robot, you know what the target is you want, and it can find an alternative way to make the same drug, bypassing the patent.
Fuchsia is a replacement for Linux. A different design with a different source code base and a different license.
As both Android and Chrome are only hosted on Linux both could replace Linux with Fuchsia when the later gains sufficient functionality. 3/4 of Android developers would neither notice nor care. Of the remaining 1/4 some percentage is only using Posix and not anything uniquely Linux based, so **if** Fuchsia provides Posix support they will not care are either.
Correct, Fuchsia is a kernel. Practically every modern phone has a copy of its predecessor - because it's already in the Android source tree. Android BSP developers know it as "LK" (little kernel) which is used to host the Fastboot bootloader application (the one that draws the screen that lets you select if you want to enter recovery mode, upgrade a package, or other thing. ClockWorkMod and others often install replacement bootloaders based on LK as well).
Fuchsia simply aims to add in the bits that LK is missing to become a proper full function kernel.
Itâ(TM)s about one guy retiring. Meanwhile, in iOS 12 Siri, which up to now has been a voice macro system for Apple stock apps, will be opened up for third-party use. This is when thing will start to get interesting.
Siri already is open for third party use. Not sure when (iOS 10 or 11), but any developer can use SiriKit to add functionality to Siri.
The fun part is I believe because of Apple, the recognition is happening as much as possible on-device, though it needs a trip to the cloud in case the recognition fails and needs more processing power.
(Remember, Apple is on the privacy thing, so they're starting to do more things on-device rather than rely on the cloud. It's also why the China thing is not a huge deal - you can opt-out of iCloud and keep your data to yourself).
I get it time is hard to deal with but it should be hard for programmers, not hard for users.
No, it shouldn't be hard for programmers either. After all, it's why we have things like libraries. All the complexity of date and time handling should be contained inside a well-known library so everyone knows to use those functions instead of trying to "wing it" with their own date and time "library".
The date/time library is what should be handling all the tricky stuff.
Where do all those parts and software components come from?
Exactly.
And it's not their entire lineup, either. It's just the desktops that are being "made in America". The laptops are, and still will be, OEM designs that System76 buys from companies like Quanta and such and simply put their badge on it.
Why don't carriers check basic stuff like whether the SIM is still active on the network in the same mobile device it has always been before doing the swap?
Because it wouldn't make much difference? There can be plenty of legitimate reasons why you want to transfer the SIM despite the SIM actually being active on the network already.
Like say, you losing your phone and thus wanting to transfer your service to a new phone (and new SIM card).
Given the hacker already can transfer the SIM which quires knowing things about the subscriber anyways, it wouldn't be much more effort to simply have them say "I lost my phone. I have a replacement and could you please transfer over my service?". "Yes, I tried calling it, but no one answered". "Yes, I looked at that location (using GPS location to find it)". etc. etc. etc.
100K isn't going to get you enough flight time to fly charters and is only a drop in the bucket towards the 1500 minimum hours to be an ATP. Especially when a small twin engine is going to run you $150+/hour and a flight instructor another $80. It's going to take YEARS to accrue enough flight time and at least $300K in flying expenses.
By my rough calculations you will blow a quarter of a million dollars in flight time and at least 5 years of living time before you can manage to land a charter pilot gig at about 800 hours. Then, it will take you another 5 years of being a busy charter pilot to get you near 1,500 hours, but you will be destitute trying to service your debt on that salary. Once you get to 1,500, you have the option of taking a ATP job with a feeder airline, flying awful routes in shoddy old aircraft for another 5-10 years before you can land a job at one of the majors, with 15 years experience and about 3,000 hours of time.
There's a bit of work between graduation with around 250 hours and the 1500 (or less) hours to ATP. At this level you should have your commercial pilot's license, so you can fly for money.
And an ATP is only needed for more than 20 people, so you can fly air charters, air taxi instructor, ferry, banner, airshow, corporate, even cargo!
No one expects one to self-finance all the way to ATP. After you get commercial, you should be able to pick up work to get you to 1500 hours and be paid for it. None of those jobs needs more than a CPL You only need to finance your way to a CPL, which can take various routes. If you want to be cheap and quickest, you get CPL Single Engine Land (which is not much) but lets you do air taxi small charters, instruct and banner tow until you can finance your multi-engine and commercial-multi-engine license (which you need to get into the big leagues).
The only people who self-finance are those who don't actually need to work.
I mean how hard would it be for providers to run an audio compressor? Set a hard limit for loudness and then some make up gain for super quiet things. I run a similar set up at home.
It's the compressor that's the problem. To make commercials "loud" without "being loud", they do dynamic range compression. It's the same trick they use on CDs during the loudness wars. DRC lets you push the average volume up because you reduce the difference between the loudest and quietest part, and then you just push that volume all the way to just below clipping.
TV programming has more dynamic range, so it appears quieter - if you have 20dB of dynamic range, then if you put it so the peak is at 0dB, most of the audio will be blow -10dB or lower.
I suspect the Roku devices simply capture this - it's easy to get the average volume level during playback and reduce it, especially if it's something with no dynamic range at all. Then you just reduce the volume to the average level and you're done. I've had compilation CDs that were equalized, and some songs were full dynamic range, while others were affected by the loudness wars. You can easily tell because the ones with the loudness wars were one big block on the audio graph and to avoid being too loud, they were normalized and thus were only really using half the resolution avialable because it was halved by 50%.
While perhaps technically true, it's a slap to the face of the main content creators. In my opinion, such is poor for morale and could hurt profitability. They busted their butts trying to win a well-publicized market battle, finally won, and got NONE of the spoils of war; the General saying victory was "inevitable".
Well, they got to keep their jobs. If they were the #2 paper, they'd be walking the unemployment line. So they "win" in a way.
But yes, you don't get rich by spending your money, so being completely rich and treating people like crap makes perfect sense. It's why class wars are easy cannon fodder for voters.
The only question for them is, "Will the commissions add up to the effort needed to support all those other coin types"?
It always does. Because if it doesn't, you raise your commissions. I don't think there's that much competition out there, especially if you've made a name for yourself as a trustwothy exchange.
The hate is real (and has been discussed to death already), but the list of alternatives is depressingly small. Linux Distros are a necessary component of the Linux ecosystem with updates and fixes. If the options are between a distro with an init system you don't like, or some obscure/niche distro which doesn't have extended support options, the decision has been made for you. And unfortunately systemd has reached that level of penetration.
If as many people as you imply hate SystemD so much, then there should be an extensive amount of alternative distributions. It's that simple - if so many people hate it, then those "so many people" (who I might add are people who know Linux in and out extensively, and less so users with no technical mastery) should offer plenty of development resources to the alternative distributions.
There are only a few out there, so development resources can be relatively concentrated, and a call for help should be fulfilled within days .
And yes, that includes stuff like extended support and all that.
So it's either general griping by the Linux crowd who just wants to gripe for the sake of griping, a few vocal people who are angry at SystemD for whatever reason, or people really hate learning something new and would rather keep to their old ways of doing things but otherwise have no problem with SystemD.
If so many technically minded people really have issues with SystemD, then manpower for these alternative distributions shouldn't be a problem. And neither should money - since these technically minded people are often the ones that control the money spending as well, so they can also contribute to the development of alternative distributions.
I can't help but wonder why. Usually businesses make the government build infrastructure for them on the taxpayer's dime. Why would Apple spend their own money? Sorry, but you're not going to convince me it's out of the goodness of their heart. And that's not because I hate Apple (I do, but that's because I keep having to buy their overpriced products for my kid's birthdays and X-Mas'), it's because no corporation spends money they don't have to.
Easy, Goodwill.
China is Apple's next target - basically a rising nouveau riche suddenly being able to afford (and want to buy) Apple's products.
Apple has an image - an image of a progressive company that wants to get rid of things like discrimination, is environmentally conscious, and all in all touchy-feely "good".
China has a dirty image, to the point they're heavily investing in clean energy. Thus, the two goals align - Apple wants to project a clean eco-friendly image, so they invest $300M into clean energy in China, and China probably gives them some nice tax incentives for helping them clean up the mess they're in.
Win-win-win. Apple makes a good impression, China gets green energy, and Apple gets a marketing point to the Chinese people.
Remember one of the shareholders a few years ago wanted to get Apple to stop wasting shareholder money on clean energy investments and renewablews. Tim Cook basically told him to screw off - if you wanted nothing but return on the dollar, invest elsewhere, because Apple, its other shareholders, and the board believe in these initiatives.
The problem with that is that kickstarter is full of half-baked ideas and people trying to sell some random thing they dug up on Alibaba as their own creation.
That's less likely on Kickstarter, there's some very strong guidelines on Kickstarter that generally assure people that the idea isn't as farfetched as one would believe. Though some real doozies do make it through (google BattBump).
In fact, it's IndieGoGo where I don't contribute for many reasons, including very poor project review - it's not uncommon for completed kickstarters to show up on IndieGoGo that are basically scams - the scammer copies the Kickstarter page and puts it up on IndieGoGo and does a really convincing job that it's the real thing. Sometimes IndieGoGo gets around to cancelling it, often not. This is especially true with "flexible funding" that ensures scammers get the money.
Personally, what I would want to see instead of a list of very well curated kickstarter projects. A list somebody went through and determined that:
The project is actually physically possible.
Kickstarter requires demonstration of a prototype if it's hardware, a software demo otherwise. A few years ago it was the wild west, now you can review the video and make your own decision. And yes, some (like BattBump) fake it, but such is life.
The project is actually doable with the skills and tools the maker has.
Well, that says nothing, if they have a working prototype. Making 1 unit is a lot different from making 1000 or 1,000,000. Even with industry connections things can and do fall apart all the time.
The project is actually novel, and not simply reselling an existing one
This would exclude a lot of Kickstarters for "second editions" and "reprints" and "enhanced models". Novel products are rare, unless you're going to include the novelty of cost - if you can make something that usually costs $10,000 cost $800, it's not novel, but maybe the designer compromised in ways to make it "good enough".
It also excludes products that are based on technology we have today, but are so niche, few people can actually play with them. Like parametric speakers - they're wonderful things, can be built cheaply (few hundred dollars worth of stuff), and the theory is old. But a Kickstarter that makes one easily available to those who don't want to take the time and effort to independently research it seems useful.
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The project as described makes sense to experts in the associated discipline and seems workable
That usually is done by the working prototype requirement. But sometimes, even the experts do have it wrong - perhaps along the lines of "using a cheap $10 sensor instead of the industry standard $1000 sensor will never work - you'll have too much error". But for a lot of things, the error may be acceptable and "good enough", especially when you're looking at something that would cost $200 and you can play around with it, versus $20,000 and stuck in a lab.
The maker actually understands what they're getting themselves into and have the knowledge and resources to produce it.
This one is hard. Even well known manufacturers and big names get caught up in it (Star Citizen, anyone?). There's always scope creep, and even if you've done it before, crap happens. Granted, those who've been through it before generally succeed, but that's not a guarantee, and who knows. A game studio developing a game could realize they have a big pile of crap at the end.
And just because they've done it, doesn't mean things don't. People may suddenly depart - your key liason between your company and the factory in China might be run over by a bus. Or perhaps you thought you could manufacture it, but then the supplier EOL's the part requir
Aren't their products made in Brazil's Foxconn factory, not China?
No, the Latin American factories are actually to counter the import taxes in Latin American countries. These levies can amount to over 100%, making imported technology very expensive inside countries like Brazil. By making products inside Brazil, Apple bypasses those import duties thus making Apple products slightly cheaper.
Blackmagic makes hardware for video editing. I guess Apple is trying to keep FCP X relevant even while they hobble their actual hardware. This seems to be proof that the Mac Pro really is going to get killed off in favor of a laptop/all-in-one with an eGPU.
The Mac Pro (along with the Mac Mini) are the worst selling Macs in the entire lineup. And not because they are completely outdated, either - even when they were released they have historically been bad sellers. People just didn't want them. Even when they moved to Intel they weren't big sellers either.
I don't think sales of either are even a sizable fraction of a million units.
The only reason they're still around is Tim Cook hates discontinuing stuff that still can make a sale "for free" (i.e., requires no R&D work and they can still make 'em), and there's a tiny vocal population who keeps shouting they buy them.
For everyone else, well, if you have a MacBook, an eGPU can make a lot of sense - you take your laptop around to the shoots, and then dock it at home to the eGPU and do your editing there. You're not hauling around a heavy laptop made heavier with a external GPU you hardly use with a battery enlarged to support it, but at home it doesn't matter so you can have an external GPU to provide the acceleration you need.
In Canada you get basically the same ripoff from all the major providers. There are cheaper choices (your Fidos etc) but for some reason a lot of people choose not to use them. It's even worse with internet providers, there is no choice for most people in the west.
For starters, there's no "unlimited" plans in Canada. And this includes those BS ones that slow you down after a gig - none of it exists in Canada. You pay for X gigs, that's all you get. Granted, they don't throttle video either, but that I think is a side effect of the net neutrality laws.
And for ISPs, out west it isn't that bad. It's Eastern Canada that's pretty bad where you have the awful Bell network (we're too big to care) or Rogers. At least out in Western Canada, the DSL and Cable incumbents are generally good (Telus and Shaw, respectively). And by good, I mean little blocking, decent speeds (150Mbps or more, and Telus is rolling down symmetrical 150Mbps over FTTH), with little to no data caps (or data caps too large to generally matter).
But out East, bleech. Bell sucks - they are consistently the worst company by sheer number of complaints (you know you're bad when your #1 by double or triple the number of complaints by #2, which is Rogers which is only a little more than #3, Telus).
Next, let's work on getting more men into nursing and teaching. Diversity is always good, right?
Right?
Hello?
You laugh, but there are programs doing just that actually. You're just not in the profession and thus don't really know about it. Most professions generally have programs to increase diversity.
There are definitely programs to get more male elementary teachers in (male teachers are generally teaching later years to college). And I believe there are programs to get more male nurses in as well.
It's not just diversity, or feel good, or SJW, it's for situations where a patient may not be comfortable with someone of the opposite sex examining them. This applies to females and males
by OneHundredAndTen ( 1523865 ) Alter Relationship on Thursday July 12, 2018 @06:24AM (#56933872) I never knew exactly what this company was all about. I always wondered though who came up with such an uninspiring name for a company. They might just as well have called themselves Everything-that-Is-Boring-and-Tedious-and-Mindless-and-Uncreative-about-Computing-Is-Us.
Considering their flagship product way back when was AccPac, they were literally the company that made boring software. (No one gets excited over accounting software, and AccPac was one of the biggest around).
I'm just curious why Broadcom, a chip maker, would purchase them. There's not exactly a lot of synergy between pure application software and communications chips
Would the same level of abuse be possible with Apple iOS, or is this intrinsic flaw in open-sourced Android where it is possible to modify OS functionality without it becoming obvious?
The examples in the summary are apps.
It's just that a voice input app will kick in whenever a keyboard is needed - oops.
Except iOS keyboard apps are restricted by default into only doing a few things, and must be functional in restricted mode. If a user wants, they may remove the restriction, allowing they keyboard access to things like network.
However, secure input boxes like passwords pop up the default iOS keyboard to prevent exfiltration of passwords by keyboard apps.
Living in the Netherlands I've been at the Van Gogh museum a couple times. Just like any museum visit, enjoyable little outings with family, looking at the art and ddiscussing, well, often the art and stuff around it, sometimes entirely different topics.
Some painters produce positively 3d work, like some of Rietveld's works have definite height differences in them, done in wood. Others do the same thing in blobs of paint. Van Gogh, not so much, but the work isn't quite entirely flat either. Meaning that just putting a digitiser in front and measuring hue for every pixel isn't enough. And that's just the straight cold physical measurement part of it. A good artist produces work with a certain je ne sais quoi that can be very noticeable in its absence when dealing with a reproduction.
So, good work digitising this stuff, actually, but it is no substitute for the real thing, because it cannot be.
Yes, and that's a good thing. Because it means you can put cultural items online without jeopardizing museum revenues. Far too many items are locked behind doors because museums don't want to digitize them for online viewing out of fear they will lose visitors to online viewers and thus revenue.
A lot of art is locked up in this way when in reality, it shouldn't be. Putting the work online doesn't diminish its value, but provides a lot of cultural value to those who cannot visit your museum and yet doesn't detract from the fact that the work is still better seen in person than just an image on a scree.
I don't use 1Password, but I do use Apple's iCloud key chain. I view this as potentially positive for me, since Apple's solution barely works and is not cross platform. A fun example, if you run out of space, macOS deletes your keychain. Even with iCloud enabled, it will never bring it back. Apple just can't do cloud services, so maybe buying something that works is a good idea.
This is good from a security perspective - better to delete the keychain than risk corruption of it and potentially data leakage of its contents by libraries that access it who may encounter the corruption and do something unpredictable.
I don't see why they didn't make the time-out zero. On Android it's zero, every time you plug a USB cable in you have to unlock and enable the data connection if you need it.
What were Apple thinking?
To perhaps allow convenience for car owners who connect their phones to their cars via USB? Most of the time that's the most common use case so they'd connect their phones and drive away listening to tunes either directly over USB, via CarPlay or other option.
It's one of those "balance" things - you have to allow for pretty much what 90% of the population really cares about (listening to tunes in the car) versus security.
And since there's the SOS mode that's stupidly easy to trigger (press power button 5 times quickly - you can do it well under a second) that disables USB and biometrics instantly, this seems like a reasonable compromise.
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It's just a food trend - by people who thing "raw" is better. There's a good reason we pasteurize milk - there can be a lot of nasty bugs in them. Not because it was in the milk, but because of the bugs on the surfaces around the udders. (The udders are exposed to dirt and everything, and have to be cleaned before being hooked up to the milking machine where the milk and the udders may come in contact. The old style of milking was slightly cleaner since the milk just sprayed into a bucket far away.
And what's trendy among the "raw" crowd is "raw water" - water that hasn't gone through the water treatment plant. (You know, one of the few things in human history that greatly improved human health). About the only good thing is people will find out pretty rapidly why we have water treatment plants in the first place.
Of course, there is a good reason why humans cook food - yes, you lose nutrients, but cooking tends to make nutrients more bio-available and easier for the body to process and acquire.
Because there are no metrics for productivity. It's something everyone's been trying to measure since people began to work.
There are some proxies for it - for example if you work in a factory, you have metrics like units manufactured per hour against units defect rate, but many jobs simply don't have that option.
Like programming - lines of code is a popular metric here, but we all know how it's gamed and how it doesn't actually represent real productivity. Or number of bugs.
Here, they apparently do some sort of transition planning - wills and trusts and the like, and there's no metrics for that. I mean you can't simply say "X did 10 wills a day" because that makes absolutely no sense as a metric (some people's wills are simple, others are horrendously complex). The only metrics you can take are say, customer satisfaction - are customers just as happy with service this way now, or were they happier the old way. (This can vary - perhaps if they needed to see someone and it's their day off... the customer might not be as happy). Then again, if employees are happier, then perhaps they're more willing to acquiesce to their customer's demands and thus make customers even happier.
Business costs may be measurable - if the entire office is closed that one day, then it would save on the daily costs. Then again, the salaries were kept the same, so if the number of customers they had kept holding steady, then the costs may have stayed the same .
Then again, there are companies that don't view the dollar as almighty and something to squeeze the most out of every transaction - sometimes things may cost a little more, but provide much better benefits. Perhaps having the extra day off means employees are not having to bring all sorts of things to work so they can do errands during the day - after all, we know of plenty of people who hav e to take some time off for dental and doctor's appointments and they can schedule those on their day off now.
The thing is, it's really a ton of intangibles.
And the end to drug patents.
You see, drugs aren't patented - you can patent the process to making the drug. Or more correctly, the process to make a something that will treat something. That's how drug companies often keep a drug patented - by finding a new use for it and keeping the basic process the same, so to treat the new condition you can't use a generic (even though they are identical).
It's why generic drugs are so widely available - once the patent expires, the recipe is effectively open
But with this robot, you know what the target is you want, and it can find an alternative way to make the same drug, bypassing the patent.
Correct, Fuchsia is a kernel. Practically every modern phone has a copy of its predecessor - because it's already in the Android source tree. Android BSP developers know it as "LK" (little kernel) which is used to host the Fastboot bootloader application (the one that draws the screen that lets you select if you want to enter recovery mode, upgrade a package, or other thing. ClockWorkMod and others often install replacement bootloaders based on LK as well).
Fuchsia simply aims to add in the bits that LK is missing to become a proper full function kernel.
Siri already is open for third party use. Not sure when (iOS 10 or 11), but any developer can use SiriKit to add functionality to Siri.
The fun part is I believe because of Apple, the recognition is happening as much as possible on-device, though it needs a trip to the cloud in case the recognition fails and needs more processing power.
(Remember, Apple is on the privacy thing, so they're starting to do more things on-device rather than rely on the cloud. It's also why the China thing is not a huge deal - you can opt-out of iCloud and keep your data to yourself).
No, it shouldn't be hard for programmers either. After all, it's why we have things like libraries. All the complexity of date and time handling should be contained inside a well-known library so everyone knows to use those functions instead of trying to "wing it" with their own date and time "library".
The date/time library is what should be handling all the tricky stuff.
Exactly.
And it's not their entire lineup, either. It's just the desktops that are being "made in America". The laptops are, and still will be, OEM designs that System76 buys from companies like Quanta and such and simply put their badge on it.
Because it wouldn't make much difference? There can be plenty of legitimate reasons why you want to transfer the SIM despite the SIM actually being active on the network already.
Like say, you losing your phone and thus wanting to transfer your service to a new phone (and new SIM card).
Given the hacker already can transfer the SIM which quires knowing things about the subscriber anyways, it wouldn't be much more effort to simply have them say "I lost my phone. I have a replacement and could you please transfer over my service?". "Yes, I tried calling it, but no one answered". "Yes, I looked at that location (using GPS location to find it)". etc. etc. etc.
There's a bit of work between graduation with around 250 hours and the 1500 (or less) hours to ATP. At this level you should have your commercial pilot's license, so you can fly for money.
And an ATP is only needed for more than 20 people, so you can fly air charters, air taxi instructor, ferry, banner, airshow, corporate, even cargo!
No one expects one to self-finance all the way to ATP. After you get commercial, you should be able to pick up work to get you to 1500 hours and be paid for it. None of those jobs needs more than a CPL You only need to finance your way to a CPL, which can take various routes. If you want to be cheap and quickest, you get CPL Single Engine Land (which is not much) but lets you do air taxi small charters, instruct and banner tow until you can finance your multi-engine and commercial-multi-engine license (which you need to get into the big leagues).
The only people who self-finance are those who don't actually need to work.
It's the compressor that's the problem. To make commercials "loud" without "being loud", they do dynamic range compression. It's the same trick they use on CDs during the loudness wars. DRC lets you push the average volume up because you reduce the difference between the loudest and quietest part, and then you just push that volume all the way to just below clipping.
TV programming has more dynamic range, so it appears quieter - if you have 20dB of dynamic range, then if you put it so the peak is at 0dB, most of the audio will be blow -10dB or lower.
I suspect the Roku devices simply capture this - it's easy to get the average volume level during playback and reduce it, especially if it's something with no dynamic range at all. Then you just reduce the volume to the average level and you're done. I've had compilation CDs that were equalized, and some songs were full dynamic range, while others were affected by the loudness wars. You can easily tell because the ones with the loudness wars were one big block on the audio graph and to avoid being too loud, they were normalized and thus were only really using half the resolution avialable because it was halved by 50%.
Well, they got to keep their jobs. If they were the #2 paper, they'd be walking the unemployment line. So they "win" in a way.
But yes, you don't get rich by spending your money, so being completely rich and treating people like crap makes perfect sense. It's why class wars are easy cannon fodder for voters.
It always does. Because if it doesn't, you raise your commissions. I don't think there's that much competition out there, especially if you've made a name for yourself as a trustwothy exchange.
If as many people as you imply hate SystemD so much, then there should be an extensive amount of alternative distributions. It's that simple - if so many people hate it, then those "so many people" (who I might add are people who know Linux in and out extensively, and less so users with no technical mastery) should offer plenty of development resources to the alternative distributions.
There are only a few out there, so development resources can be relatively concentrated, and a call for help should be fulfilled within days .
And yes, that includes stuff like extended support and all that.
So it's either general griping by the Linux crowd who just wants to gripe for the sake of griping, a few vocal people who are angry at SystemD for whatever reason, or people really hate learning something new and would rather keep to their old ways of doing things but otherwise have no problem with SystemD.
If so many technically minded people really have issues with SystemD, then manpower for these alternative distributions shouldn't be a problem. And neither should money - since these technically minded people are often the ones that control the money spending as well, so they can also contribute to the development of alternative distributions.
Easy, Goodwill.
China is Apple's next target - basically a rising nouveau riche suddenly being able to afford (and want to buy) Apple's products.
Apple has an image - an image of a progressive company that wants to get rid of things like discrimination, is environmentally conscious, and all in all touchy-feely "good".
China has a dirty image, to the point they're heavily investing in clean energy. Thus, the two goals align - Apple wants to project a clean eco-friendly image, so they invest $300M into clean energy in China, and China probably gives them some nice tax incentives for helping them clean up the mess they're in.
Win-win-win. Apple makes a good impression, China gets green energy, and Apple gets a marketing point to the Chinese people.
Remember one of the shareholders a few years ago wanted to get Apple to stop wasting shareholder money on clean energy investments and renewablews. Tim Cook basically told him to screw off - if you wanted nothing but return on the dollar, invest elsewhere, because Apple, its other shareholders, and the board believe in these initiatives.
That's less likely on Kickstarter, there's some very strong guidelines on Kickstarter that generally assure people that the idea isn't as farfetched as one would believe. Though some real doozies do make it through (google BattBump).
In fact, it's IndieGoGo where I don't contribute for many reasons, including very poor project review - it's not uncommon for completed kickstarters to show up on IndieGoGo that are basically scams - the scammer copies the Kickstarter page and puts it up on IndieGoGo and does a really convincing job that it's the real thing. Sometimes IndieGoGo gets around to cancelling it, often not. This is especially true with "flexible funding" that ensures scammers get the money.
Kickstarter requires demonstration of a prototype if it's hardware, a software demo otherwise. A few years ago it was the wild west, now you can review the video and make your own decision. And yes, some (like BattBump) fake it, but such is life.
Well, that says nothing, if they have a working prototype. Making 1 unit is a lot different from making 1000 or 1,000,000. Even with industry connections things can and do fall apart all the time.
This would exclude a lot of Kickstarters for "second editions" and "reprints" and "enhanced models". Novel products are rare, unless you're going to include the novelty of cost - if you can make something that usually costs $10,000 cost $800, it's not novel, but maybe the designer compromised in ways to make it "good enough".
It also excludes products that are based on technology we have today, but are so niche, few people can actually play with them. Like parametric speakers - they're wonderful things, can be built cheaply (few hundred dollars worth of stuff), and the theory is old. But a Kickstarter that makes one easily available to those who don't want to take the time and effort to independently research it seems useful.
That usually is done by the working prototype requirement. But sometimes, even the experts do have it wrong - perhaps along the lines of "using a cheap $10 sensor instead of the industry standard $1000 sensor will never work - you'll have too much error". But for a lot of things, the error may be acceptable and "good enough", especially when you're looking at something that would cost $200 and you can play around with it, versus $20,000 and stuck in a lab.
This one is hard. Even well known manufacturers and big names get caught up in it (Star Citizen, anyone?). There's always scope creep, and even if you've done it before, crap happens. Granted, those who've been through it before generally succeed, but that's not a guarantee, and who knows. A game studio developing a game could realize they have a big pile of crap at the end.
And just because they've done it, doesn't mean things don't. People may suddenly depart - your key liason between your company and the factory in China might be run over by a bus. Or perhaps you thought you could manufacture it, but then the supplier EOL's the part requir
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4.5) China contributes half a billion dollars to Trump World and allows Ivanka Trump to get a trademark
Yes, that happened... if you want to get on Trump's good side, you just need to make sure he's well taken care of.
And it's very hard for a foreigner to get a trademark in China, so Ivanka being granted one is a Very Big Deal(tm).
No, the Latin American factories are actually to counter the import taxes in Latin American countries. These levies can amount to over 100%, making imported technology very expensive inside countries like Brazil. By making products inside Brazil, Apple bypasses those import duties thus making Apple products slightly cheaper.
The Mac Pro (along with the Mac Mini) are the worst selling Macs in the entire lineup. And not because they are completely outdated, either - even when they were released they have historically been bad sellers. People just didn't want them. Even when they moved to Intel they weren't big sellers either.
I don't think sales of either are even a sizable fraction of a million units.
The only reason they're still around is Tim Cook hates discontinuing stuff that still can make a sale "for free" (i.e., requires no R&D work and they can still make 'em), and there's a tiny vocal population who keeps shouting they buy them.
For everyone else, well, if you have a MacBook, an eGPU can make a lot of sense - you take your laptop around to the shoots, and then dock it at home to the eGPU and do your editing there. You're not hauling around a heavy laptop made heavier with a external GPU you hardly use with a battery enlarged to support it, but at home it doesn't matter so you can have an external GPU to provide the acceleration you need.
For starters, there's no "unlimited" plans in Canada. And this includes those BS ones that slow you down after a gig - none of it exists in Canada. You pay for X gigs, that's all you get. Granted, they don't throttle video either, but that I think is a side effect of the net neutrality laws.
And for ISPs, out west it isn't that bad. It's Eastern Canada that's pretty bad where you have the awful Bell network (we're too big to care) or Rogers. At least out in Western Canada, the DSL and Cable incumbents are generally good (Telus and Shaw, respectively). And by good, I mean little blocking, decent speeds (150Mbps or more, and Telus is rolling down symmetrical 150Mbps over FTTH), with little to no data caps (or data caps too large to generally matter).
But out East, bleech. Bell sucks - they are consistently the worst company by sheer number of complaints (you know you're bad when your #1 by double or triple the number of complaints by #2, which is Rogers which is only a little more than #3, Telus).
You laugh, but there are programs doing just that actually. You're just not in the profession and thus don't really know about it. Most professions generally have programs to increase diversity.
There are definitely programs to get more male elementary teachers in (male teachers are generally teaching later years to college). And I believe there are programs to get more male nurses in as well.
It's not just diversity, or feel good, or SJW, it's for situations where a patient may not be comfortable with someone of the opposite sex examining them. This applies to females and males
Considering their flagship product way back when was AccPac, they were literally the company that made boring software. (No one gets excited over accounting software, and AccPac was one of the biggest around).
I'm just curious why Broadcom, a chip maker, would purchase them. There's not exactly a lot of synergy between pure application software and communications chips
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The examples in the summary are apps.
It's just that a voice input app will kick in whenever a keyboard is needed - oops.
Except iOS keyboard apps are restricted by default into only doing a few things, and must be functional in restricted mode. If a user wants, they may remove the restriction, allowing they keyboard access to things like network.
However, secure input boxes like passwords pop up the default iOS keyboard to prevent exfiltration of passwords by keyboard apps.
Yes, and that's a good thing. Because it means you can put cultural items online without jeopardizing museum revenues. Far too many items are locked behind doors because museums don't want to digitize them for online viewing out of fear they will lose visitors to online viewers and thus revenue.
A lot of art is locked up in this way when in reality, it shouldn't be. Putting the work online doesn't diminish its value, but provides a lot of cultural value to those who cannot visit your museum and yet doesn't detract from the fact that the work is still better seen in person than just an image on a scree.
This is good from a security perspective - better to delete the keychain than risk corruption of it and potentially data leakage of its contents by libraries that access it who may encounter the corruption and do something unpredictable.
To perhaps allow convenience for car owners who connect their phones to their cars via USB? Most of the time that's the most common use case so they'd connect their phones and drive away listening to tunes either directly over USB, via CarPlay or other option.
It's one of those "balance" things - you have to allow for pretty much what 90% of the population really cares about (listening to tunes in the car) versus security.
And since there's the SOS mode that's stupidly easy to trigger (press power button 5 times quickly - you can do it well under a second) that disables USB and biometrics instantly, this seems like a reasonable compromise.