Actually, the chief problem seems to be that people are trying to do this with a deep fryer whose volume is not significantly more than that of the turkey they are trying to cook. Even if the oil level were initially at the lowest level possible such that once the turkey is in, the oil will fully cover the turkey, the top of the oil is still going to be too close to the top of the fryer to be safe. For the size of turkey they were trying to cook, they should have used a fryer with at least 50% taller, and ideally much wider than the one that they were using. An overall increase in volume of the fryer by about a factor of 2 or 3 would probably make it quite safe.
Problem is, most people don't usually fry turkeys too often, so their fryer is probably big enough for stuff like chicken and such. Which means it's barely bigger than the one here (which is quite large for most people to own by itself, but if it fits the bird (barely), it'll work).
After all, if you're only doing it once or twice a year, it's hard to justify a pot the size of a 55 gallon drum (especially in the denser populated areas). Especially since the one barely bigger than a turkey "can work".
The management staff were utterly convinced that this was the best way to go and that the entire world's problems were going to be solved by profiling in this way. I'm not talking about it being the marketing pitch, but actually some kind of crazy psychopathic paranoia about their own mortality in the hands of terrorists. I cannot fathom how these guys actually operate with this mindset at all. It was rather shocking actually and has permanently destroyed my acceptance of capitalism. It was literally like OCP or Weyland corporation were real for a few minutes.
You'll find this in all sorts of other beliefs as well. You'll find people who absolutely believe that they deserve everything they got, and that giving a penny to help someone less fortunate is not just a foreign concept, but an evil scheme to unjustly deprive them of their fortune.
There are people who truly and honestly believe that the government doesn't apply to their lives (but are not nutjobs - they are otherwise normal and have a regular job, don't have caches of weapons and survival equipment, etc. (yes, the irony is huge)).
Another one is religion - you'll find people so resolute in their beliefs that they shut you down if you even attempt to discuss the contrary. And who would otherwise appear perfectly normal and may even be a friend or coworker or neighbour who doesn't even put up huge religious displays.
Yes, you'll find people with psychopathic-like fervor in their beliefs, but are otherwise perfectly normal functioning human beings that no one would classify as a nutjob or conspiracy theorist, There's actually quite a lot of them, and really, it's hard to tell. It's not that they're being discreet about it, just that if it doesn't apply to the current situation, there's no need to preach.
I have discovered a truly marvelous exploit, which allows a remote attacker to compromise any computer regardless of OS, hardware, or software installed. Unfortunately, this post is too small to contain the details of it.
Yeah, too bad you have to either be admin, give admin permissions, use sudo or be root,...
(You won't believe how many local "exploits" get reported where the prerequisite is that the user is administrator or root to begin with. Or require scripts to be run with similar permissions. (Hint: you already have those permissions to begin with - just do what you're going to do rather than run around doing them via proxy).
In fact, with climate change, we'll have the average highs and lows diverging constantly.
Just because the earth is warmer doesn't mean that the weather will be warmer. We'll just have more bitterly cold winters, followed by brutally hot summers (remember, the 4C average is a global year round average temperature). So the brutal heat of summer will have its temperature offset by frigidly cold winters.
The weather will be stormier because oceans need to cool off, and they do that by hurricanes to dump the ocean warmth into the cooler atmosphere (standard heat engine - except the "work" being done is destructive).
That's why "global warming" is a really bad term - yes the earth is warming, but the global rise accounts for the highs and lows, and why extremely frigid winters are to be expected even as the earth warms up - because you'll compensate by brutally hot and long heatwaves.
Windows implements basically Daytime using NTP. What this means is instead of NTPd trying to adjust the clock to be in sync in small increments, Windows does what you do with Daytime instead - query the Daytime server, and set the clock. Except that since very few servers provide Daytime, Microsoft uses NTP to fetch the time and date.
Even the latest Windows still does it - though if it drifts too far, it stops syncing. Very annoying as it doesn't stay synced and quietly fails.
CDs do not specify a pause at all. The pause you're most likely referring to was that moronic burning software from the late 90s early 2000s that had those default options. A player that imposed such a moronic concept on its CDs would destroy the flow of an album like NIN's Pretty Hate Machine, from 1989, among others. Many CDs are mastered with a "quiet" period of approximately a second or so between songs, matching the pauses between songs on LPs, which were the visible areas (widely spaced grooves) so that a person could drop the needle near the beginning of a particular song of interest. There are also LPs where an entire side appears or sounds as one track - I believe side A of Tangerine Dream's Force Majeure and Rush's 2112 were 2 samples, but it's been a long time since I broke out any vinyl.
The track lead-in/leadout (1 second at the beginning, 1 second at the end) is really just a "landing zone" for the read head. A CD head is not particularly accurate - just because you give a HH:MM:SS.ff (frame) in the TOC doesn't mean if you select Track 3, you'll hit it exactly. In fact, you're likely to be quite a ways off. The quiet period simply lets the head be up to a second off either way without accidentally playing back the previous track or cutting into the next track.
Data CDs kept this for the same reason - a multisession CD also has the same limitation (each new session "patches" the prevoius session so it has to seek around and needs a landing zone).
Bad CD burner apps only do "track at once" mode where it writes a track at a time. This means every track requires a mandatory leadin/leadout (and a write to the TOC), and for audio, that means a quiet period of about a second. If you master in "disc at once" mode, you can lay down tracks with no quiet periods which is how you do "live" CDs with no quiet between songs (the TOC is written at the beginning). TAO does allow you to add tracks at the end, as the disc isn't closed, while DAO tends to force closing of the disc when it's done.
Sometimes shortening the leadout of the disc can give you a few extra MB of storage
25 years from now, barring amazing new desalinization technologies, Canada's water rights will be one of the biggest international policy debates in the United States. I really really want to read this post and laugh at what an idiot I was in 2037, but I think water will be a big problem soon. Imagine 2012's Midwestern drought 5 years in a row to get where I'm coming from.
Water rights will be the next generation oil - the countries that have it will profit, whlie the smaller ones will destabilize and go to war over it. Yes, war. This is actually where the world is heading because oil is still a relative "luxury" compared to water. And food - too. The northern climes may make it more seasonable to grow plants, but the growing season is still shorter (just because the earth warms 4 degrees doesn't mean the tilt changes any, so you still get the same amount of sunlight a year).
Of all the water out there, only 3% is actually freshwater. North America holds one of the largest reserves of it in various bodies of water.
Nevermind how storms will ravage countries as well - a 4C rise means much more hurricanes and such (it's how the ocean cools itself - a big one can easily cool the waters by 2-3C, Sandy probably cooled the waters more), which means more population crowding to less disaster prone regions.
Turned out there was a bug in WINE that was found and fixed the next day, based on my report and others. However, the WINE developers were extremely arrogant, and accused me of slacking because I didn't have a full development environment and couldn't get the compiles to work correctly. Turned out to be an issue with multi-architecture setup under the current Ubuntu 64-bit release, trying to compile Wine for 32-bit use, which was required for LOTRO to work correctly. This was not a 10-minute fix. It took several days of work trying to get the Ubuntu system working under multi-arch, and I finally just gave up. How many days can you go telling a small child she can't play her game? So I installed Win8 and she's happy again. My office comp still runs Linux, but I refuse to recommend it for less-than-knowledgeable users.
Ongoing breakage is a real problem with Wine. Wine needs to define a packaging system that installs an independent copy of Wine for each game. Let those that want to test the general purpose Wine continue to run their software in a system wide install. Let those that want a specific game/application to run install the version that is tweaked to run the specific application 100%.
Users should be able to launch the installer, select the specific application that they want to install, and point to the Windows install files. What they should get is an application that just works. An application that has no connection to any other windows applications that are installed.
If this is a concern, I would suggest paying the $35 or so a year to buy Crossover Linux which is exactly that.
Codeweavers repackages WINE (they actually actively support WINE development - several WINE developers are actively employed at Codeweavers) to make it really simple to have specific environments for specific apps, and because you're paying for support, they're damn friendly as well.
Had you used it, they probably would've got LOTRO working pretty damn fast with packages available easily.
Yes, you can get WINE for free (and Codeweavers puts all their WINE changes back into the tree), but Codeweavers has made it really easy and simple to use.
Not an employee, just someone who uses it and while apt-get'ing wine is easy and cheap, sometimes it helps to pay. And you're helping fund open-source development as well, never a bad thing. Even the WINE guys recommend them if you want paid support.
If the rumors are true and the PS4 is a standard AMD APU with an ARM chip for DRM then I'd have to say Sony learned their lesson about exotic chips, lets just hope that it isn't like Sega and too little too late.
Technically, the PS2 was also pretty exotic, but people eventually figured it out, and it won out over the simpler Xbox design.
And funny enough, if the PS4 is based on an AMD CPU, it's really the Xbox2 in design, since it'll just be a modified PC. Heck, the original Xbox was supposed to use an AMD processor rather than an Intel.
Heck, maybe Sony can get Xbox games to work on the PS4. Halo and Halo 2 on PS4!
Hmm.. if I read the article correctly, Google Docs is used to get around firewalls and communicate with C&C servers. Which is a violation of Google's terms of service. But I'll assume for the moment valid user credentials are (ab)used to access Google Docs.
Also puts Google in a very wonderful spot because they can correct the problem by taking down said documents, and redirecting people to getting their PCs fixed.
My first thought looking at that thing is the controllers look too big (heavy) and expensive, that it was another Game Boy VR.
The tablet controller is expensive, apparently (but every Wii U comes with one, and most games seem to have adopted a tablet controller for player 1, wii+nunchuk for player 2 with player 2 getting the vast majority of the TV (a tiny corner is for player one, who can use the tablet's screen).
The biggest thing though - is the lack of latency on the tablet screen. You'd think there would be some latency, but there isn't. Just fast and snappy.
It's also very light - it's not a huge heavy thing (I think the batteries would be the heaviest part) but it otherwise feels very usable. Nicely balanced and well-designed to feel good. If your arms get tired holding it while playing, I think it's time to step away from the screen and get some exercise.
You know what? Design Patents shouldn't exist at all. If something is that synonymous with your brand then trademark it. Otherwise GTFO.
You realize that trademarks are far worse, right?
Because you're not saying "it has to have this list of items" (omitting any one of them means you don't violate the patent), but it just has to be "close enough".
Remember, a design patent enumerates a list of attributes that constitute the design. Omit one and you're not violating it. (Think "rounded corners" - the patent actually states rounded corners with a grid of icons and a few other things. Android does none of them, at least the standard build of it).
But with a trademark, just merely hinting at it means you cannot use it at all. Coke has a trademark on the curvacious bottle used to store their drinks. It's why no one but the Coca Cola Bottling Company can use that bottle shape, and every other drink must use a generic shaped bottle. In fact, during glass recycling, the bottle recycler must sort out the Coke bottles for that reason - if Pepsi accidentally got that bottle, they can be found for infringement, even innocently (it doesn't happen much because most recyclers pre-sort - ever wonder why restaurants often only sell Coke bottled drinks or others? Their returns end up naturally pre-sorted).
Now let's say Apple ends up with a trademark on an iPhone - it means any phone even *using* that shape is infringing.
The standard for trademarks is far looser - it's basically "if a common person can be confused". In fact, if that's the case, when Samsung's lawyer failed to differentiate the iPad from the Galaxy Tab, that would've been game over.
Design patents are also limited life (non-renewable) - 5 years. Which means you can actually build a phone that looks like the original iPhone now with the black face, plastic chromed trim around it, aluminum back and black plastic antenna housing.
Oh yeah - other things that are trademarked include putting a red tip on an antenna (owned by Sierra Wireless), the distinctive green cups on a David Clark headset (which means every other headset can't use that color - it's not only distinctive, it's also identifiable). These things are trademarked which have unlimited terms.
Probably this is a different issue with the reported issue, but I have noticed that iOS is bypassing the wifi network and flip to cellular data network every so often (and flips back again). This happens probably a handful of times in 1 hour. This is easy to check if you have a wifi AP with tcpdump or wireshark running on it. It's especially bad when you're running VoIP app that needs to register properly so that calls can be routed to the proper IP address.
There is a setting I believe (I've only seen the screenshots - I didn't install iOS6) that enables iOS to use 3G if it detects the WiFi is bad. Could this be the case - your device has a terrible/slow/laggy WiFi connection and it decides using 3G would at least lead to a more stable internet connection?
Not quite. If all the retail stores are going broke because everyone is buying stuff off the internet, then USPS should be doing a roaring trade in package deliveries.
Not sure why USPS don't seem to be able to leverage off all that traffic to make a profit.
They are making tons through parcel deliveries. The problem is, congress prevents them from adapting.
USPS is required to be revenue neutral and non-profit (i.e., they make as much money as they need). Congress controls how much a stamp costs (and other basic services - so their income is hobbled), and congress controls how much they're required to pay out (e.g., USPS is required to pre-pay retirement for 75 years over the next 10. Yes, that means they're paying NOW for a retirement package for employees who have not even been hired yet).
In fact, because of changes signed in by George Bush (notably, USPS was running a pretty damn tight ship until 2006 when the requirement mandate kicked in.).
Basically, the government has set up USPS to fail as an example of "government inefficiency" by making it have obligations that go above and beyond what any company has to provide, including USPS' competitors.
Then again, I suppose it's better paying $8 to have FedEx send a letter across the US than 50 cents.
Example: The newest motherboards don't *need* the ability to disable trusted boot. Heck, it'd have been easier to not include it! We're more or less at the mercy of a small number of companies and their design decisions.
Actually, Microsoft requires it for x86 - the option to disable trusted boot MUST be present in order to pass Windows 8 logo certification. So it's not some "feel good" company providing it, it's required. Plus well, if you want to boot Windows 7, you can't use trusted boot - you have to use legacy boot.
Yup, it is like having a car with a proprietary cigarette light adapter plug because the vendor is concerned that you'll short it out with a bad device.
Actually, if you look around, you'll find a lot of places are closing down sales of car audio stuff - because newer cars with radios built into the navigation systems often don't have a standard DIN slot for an aftermarket radio, or even an option to install an aftermarket radio without pulling a lot of lines and rewiring.
Plus the whole system is so integrated that for some, it's a nasty hack to be able to install an aftermarket unit. Hell, it's often times EASIER to just install a mount for say, an iPad and use that (using the built-in system's auxiliary in).
You'll see, Bitcoin is gonna be mainstream before ya know it. And a big finger up into the air to all the naysayers and cynics here.
Well, Wall Street hasn't found a way to monetize it properly yet, so, it's not mainstream. That and deflationary issues with it since it's fixed amount - the more people start using bitcoin, the less to go around, so either you'll need fractional coins, or you'll be paying $20 for a cup of coffee as that's the price of 1 coin today, and $40 tomorrow.
The real fun starts when Wall Street figures out how to do fractional bitcoin trades and "instant" trading (where the exchange happens before the network confirms the transaction - using virtual bitcoins, of course to represent the value in the meantime).
While you all wait, start reading up on how forex works, because you can bet bitcoin will become the next hottest forex market to trade in.
What people are tracking and reporting serials? and disabling and finding the device are pretty mutually exclusive. As others have pointed out, Apple will likely prefer making money from app sales on these devices, while some insurance company covers the monetary loss of the hardware.
Apple is. If you buy an Apple device (or anything electronic, really), take a look on checkout - you'll find for MOST stuff, the serial number gets scanned. This is not just for the store - the store's backend often reports the serial number to the manufacturer to activate the warranty as well (if you buy a hard drive, take a look during the warranty check - they often start from the moment you bought it these days).
In Apple's case, they're used for tracking the stuff - each pallet contains X iPads, with the serial numbers all recorded as being from that pallet and who's the carrier. When they're received by the store, their serial numbers are scanned in by the store to indicate they were received and in inventory. When they're finally sold, the seiral number is scanned to "activate" the devices.
It's also how Apple sim-locks the iPhone - if you buy it unlocked, the serial number gets flagged in the database as "unlocked". If you buy it from a carrier, the carrier's scan marks it as "SIM locked". Which is why when you get it replaced, do it at an Apple store and you can often walk out with a fully unlocked iPhone as they don't often scan it to relock them.
In this case, Apple knows exactly the serials of stolen devices. For the most part, Apple would get the money back through insurance, so disabling them doesn't really hurt them. However, should they ever need service, they're not covered under warranty as they're marked stolen - either the user will have to buy a new one, or walk out because once it's surrendered to Apple, they aren't going to give it back.
You punish companies by introducing loser-pays, or loser-pays-up-to-the-value-of-their-own-costs. Settling a class-action over 1,000,000 people swizzed out of $10 will be nothing compared to settling 10,000 cases with individuals, each with its own costs bill.
So out of those 1M people cheated of $10, you expect 1% of them to take the time, effort, and money to sue the company for that $10 back? You do realize that even small claims court requires paying a filing fee (around $20-40) just to file, right? So even if you win, you've gained... $-10 or so. And you lose a day's worth of PTO.
A smart company would realize that and make sure the amount they cheat people out of is always going to be less than the filing fee. Sure there'll be a few who do so out of principle, but you can bet the numbers would be way less than 1%. And hell, you don't even have to do anything - just wait for the default judgement, pay up and cheat a few more people to pay for it all. Or just bill those people again and let them fight it all out again in small claims. Lose another half day of work and dollars.
And yes, the company just does... nothing. No expensive person has to show up in court (default judgement is fine). Cost to you - time and money, cost to the company - nothing - it's pure profit that they'll probably extract from you next month when you'll be too tired to keep fighting it.
I thought pretty much all of them already were, since most are using frameworks like Unity that are cross platform.
Unless they didn't want the support costs and piracy problems...
Most are.
And I think 4.1 (Jelly Bean) solves the piracy problem as Google puts DRM in the APKs that key them to the device (so you can't move the APKs around so easily anymore, or even to another device on the same account - you must redownload it to re-lock it to your new device). So it should drop from its ~90% down to be like IOS - around 10% or so.
Of course, the number of phones running 4.1 is only around 5% or so. 20% run 4.0, and the rest are 2.3 or below (3.x is under 1%). And new devices are coming out with Gingerbread installed still, amazingly enough. It's as if developers are intentionally doing it as most new SoCs support the latest version of Android, and they have to backport all the drivers to the old kernel.
Of course, that's also likely why new Android releases don't hit old devices so frequently - each release tends to be tied to a kernel version (and yes, Android is normally kernel-version-agnostic...).
It's kind of a shame that things have changed so much that this phrase has lost all meaning. (Well, I mean, it's good that our fire codes have improved so a fire isn't so insanely dangerous, but I digress.) Yelling "fire" in a crowded theater is about annoying people, or even causing a panic. It's about killing people. Sometimes dozens of people. Several hundred people crammed into a dark, fabric filled room (not to mention all the flammable clothing) with a single exit? Lot's of people died in fires in those kinds of conditions and yelling fire was all but guaranteed to cause a stampede to the exit leaving people injured and dead. That is what the supreme court ruled was not protected, using speech in such a way that you know will cause harm and death to other people. And they had to argue that all the way to the supreme court to get a final decision: now think how easily our rights are eroded today and compare.
Or, perhaps the easier way to think about it are rights are not seperable from responsibilities.
This, along with slander/libel makes much more sense.
You have a right to say whatever you want, but you don't have a right to saw whatever you want without consequences. Yell fire in a theatre, and you should be charged for the ensuing deaths (which can be pretty damn close to murder) and injuries, and for inciting a panic.
LIkewise, libel/slander laws - which basically end up being you cannot say a falsehood that damages someone else. Again, responsibility - if you did it and someone has damages because of it, they should be able to go after you to reclaim them, especially if they were false.
At least, that's the way it makes sense.
And yes, it also means anonymous speech should be weighed very lightly as the speaker is not willing ot attach their name to said speech. (Heck, we'd still need whistleblower laws, but most whistleblowers get identified...).
Well, IT has to deploy it - and there are VERY strange interactions that can happen.
One common one was after being issued new laptops, about half of them started getting "Delayed write failure" errors on Windows and subsequently, corrupted files. No one ever figured it out - a combination of BIOS updates, Windows upgrades (from XP to 7), etc., seemed to have minimized the problems.
Other ones included very odd daily BSODs as well - they just started happening and was linked to the FDE conflicting with the antivirus software.
Of course, I suppose the issue is the company was paranoid enough to use FDE, computer management/deployment, and computer monitoring suite at the same time (monitors which files get transferred externally, etc. Basically legit spyware).
I suppose the problem is partly Windows - after installing all that stuff, the whole system gets rather fragile...
Alcohol is a state run for profit monopoly here. Buy it from the state or not at all. They even have special state run stores here. Shipping alcohol can get you jail time.
Funny enough, in BC the government WANTED to privatize alcohol distribution. They wanted to get out of the liquor distribution business and sell the warehouses and stores.
Problem? The other province that did (Alberta) experienced HIGHER prices from the privatized distribution and lower selection.
Naturally, everyone complained about that and it seems plans to privatize it were shelved. Everyone's afraid of their beer being more expensive and all that over being able to buy it anywhere.
(Interestingly, the same applies to public car insurance - everyone complains that they "can get it cheaper" privately, yet they complained when said private insurers jacked up rates 40% a year (the public ones only raised it 15% or so), then complain when the public ones raise it 2%. Government also put out a proposal asking for private insurers to take over the public system - not one wanted to, even though they're guaranteed 100% participating in basic insurance. Because to achieve that meant they had to follow the law which states the only way to determine the rate (everyone pays) is based on driving history (more accidents, more $$$), the car (obviously), and type of use (to/from work, leisure, storage, etc). Age can't be a factor to ensure fairness, and yes, there are numbers of people who learn to drive when they're older.)
Sometimes a central authority is a good thing. But no-fucking-body is telling me what software I can or can't download, or banning me from downloading certain titles over some stupid shit like this. And this is just a mild example of what they *could* do if they wanted.
Well, the developer (ANY developer, mind you) can get sued for trademark infringement, so even your "open access" rules can get curtailed. Yes, if you make a "memory" game, expect to receive some cease-and-desist soon, regardless if it's walled, garden, open-source, whatever.
And Apple has so far let users keep their "removed" apps. I think even iCloud keeps a copy if you happen to not have a backed up copy.
Nope, it's nothing to do with a walled garden (which actually doesn't affect users so much as developers since removed apps still can be used by existing uesrs). This affects *ALL* developers.
No, that's basically how FaceTime works, too. You call someone on the phone, and if the other end is an iOS device, there's a button you can push to switch the call over to FaceTime. It might require an iCloud account (I'm honestly not sure), but they're free, so that's not particularly important....
By default FaceTime uses (on iPhone) the phone number and Apple ID as keys to determining if a user can use it. So no iCloud/Apple ID/etc account is required (though I think you need one anyways when you set your phone up).
But phone-number alone works (and you can add additional phone or email keys if you wish).
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Problem is, most people don't usually fry turkeys too often, so their fryer is probably big enough for stuff like chicken and such. Which means it's barely bigger than the one here (which is quite large for most people to own by itself, but if it fits the bird (barely), it'll work).
After all, if you're only doing it once or twice a year, it's hard to justify a pot the size of a 55 gallon drum (especially in the denser populated areas). Especially since the one barely bigger than a turkey "can work".
You'll find this in all sorts of other beliefs as well. You'll find people who absolutely believe that they deserve everything they got, and that giving a penny to help someone less fortunate is not just a foreign concept, but an evil scheme to unjustly deprive them of their fortune.
There are people who truly and honestly believe that the government doesn't apply to their lives (but are not nutjobs - they are otherwise normal and have a regular job, don't have caches of weapons and survival equipment, etc. (yes, the irony is huge)).
Another one is religion - you'll find people so resolute in their beliefs that they shut you down if you even attempt to discuss the contrary. And who would otherwise appear perfectly normal and may even be a friend or coworker or neighbour who doesn't even put up huge religious displays.
Yes, you'll find people with psychopathic-like fervor in their beliefs, but are otherwise perfectly normal functioning human beings that no one would classify as a nutjob or conspiracy theorist, There's actually quite a lot of them, and really, it's hard to tell. It's not that they're being discreet about it, just that if it doesn't apply to the current situation, there's no need to preach.
Yeah, too bad you have to either be admin, give admin permissions, use sudo or be root, ...
(You won't believe how many local "exploits" get reported where the prerequisite is that the user is administrator or root to begin with. Or require scripts to be run with similar permissions. (Hint: you already have those permissions to begin with - just do what you're going to do rather than run around doing them via proxy).
Climate != Weather.
In fact, with climate change, we'll have the average highs and lows diverging constantly.
Just because the earth is warmer doesn't mean that the weather will be warmer. We'll just have more bitterly cold winters, followed by brutally hot summers (remember, the 4C average is a global year round average temperature). So the brutal heat of summer will have its temperature offset by frigidly cold winters.
The weather will be stormier because oceans need to cool off, and they do that by hurricanes to dump the ocean warmth into the cooler atmosphere (standard heat engine - except the "work" being done is destructive).
That's why "global warming" is a really bad term - yes the earth is warming, but the global rise accounts for the highs and lows, and why extremely frigid winters are to be expected even as the earth warms up - because you'll compensate by brutally hot and long heatwaves.
Windows implements basically Daytime using NTP. What this means is instead of NTPd trying to adjust the clock to be in sync in small increments, Windows does what you do with Daytime instead - query the Daytime server, and set the clock. Except that since very few servers provide Daytime, Microsoft uses NTP to fetch the time and date.
Even the latest Windows still does it - though if it drifts too far, it stops syncing. Very annoying as it doesn't stay synced and quietly fails.
The track lead-in/leadout (1 second at the beginning, 1 second at the end) is really just a "landing zone" for the read head. A CD head is not particularly accurate - just because you give a HH:MM:SS.ff (frame) in the TOC doesn't mean if you select Track 3, you'll hit it exactly. In fact, you're likely to be quite a ways off. The quiet period simply lets the head be up to a second off either way without accidentally playing back the previous track or cutting into the next track.
Data CDs kept this for the same reason - a multisession CD also has the same limitation (each new session "patches" the prevoius session so it has to seek around and needs a landing zone).
Bad CD burner apps only do "track at once" mode where it writes a track at a time. This means every track requires a mandatory leadin/leadout (and a write to the TOC), and for audio, that means a quiet period of about a second. If you master in "disc at once" mode, you can lay down tracks with no quiet periods which is how you do "live" CDs with no quiet between songs (the TOC is written at the beginning). TAO does allow you to add tracks at the end, as the disc isn't closed, while DAO tends to force closing of the disc when it's done.
Sometimes shortening the leadout of the disc can give you a few extra MB of storage
Water rights will be the next generation oil - the countries that have it will profit, whlie the smaller ones will destabilize and go to war over it. Yes, war. This is actually where the world is heading because oil is still a relative "luxury" compared to water. And food - too. The northern climes may make it more seasonable to grow plants, but the growing season is still shorter (just because the earth warms 4 degrees doesn't mean the tilt changes any, so you still get the same amount of sunlight a year).
Of all the water out there, only 3% is actually freshwater. North America holds one of the largest reserves of it in various bodies of water.
Nevermind how storms will ravage countries as well - a 4C rise means much more hurricanes and such (it's how the ocean cools itself - a big one can easily cool the waters by 2-3C, Sandy probably cooled the waters more), which means more population crowding to less disaster prone regions.
If this is a concern, I would suggest paying the $35 or so a year to buy Crossover Linux which is exactly that.
Codeweavers repackages WINE (they actually actively support WINE development - several WINE developers are actively employed at Codeweavers) to make it really simple to have specific environments for specific apps, and because you're paying for support, they're damn friendly as well.
Had you used it, they probably would've got LOTRO working pretty damn fast with packages available easily.
Yes, you can get WINE for free (and Codeweavers puts all their WINE changes back into the tree), but Codeweavers has made it really easy and simple to use.
Not an employee, just someone who uses it and while apt-get'ing wine is easy and cheap, sometimes it helps to pay. And you're helping fund open-source development as well, never a bad thing. Even the WINE guys recommend them if you want paid support.
Technically, the PS2 was also pretty exotic, but people eventually figured it out, and it won out over the simpler Xbox design.
And funny enough, if the PS4 is based on an AMD CPU, it's really the Xbox2 in design, since it'll just be a modified PC. Heck, the original Xbox was supposed to use an AMD processor rather than an Intel.
Heck, maybe Sony can get Xbox games to work on the PS4. Halo and Halo 2 on PS4!
Also puts Google in a very wonderful spot because they can correct the problem by taking down said documents, and redirecting people to getting their PCs fixed.
The tablet controller is expensive, apparently (but every Wii U comes with one, and most games seem to have adopted a tablet controller for player 1, wii+nunchuk for player 2 with player 2 getting the vast majority of the TV (a tiny corner is for player one, who can use the tablet's screen).
The biggest thing though - is the lack of latency on the tablet screen. You'd think there would be some latency, but there isn't. Just fast and snappy.
It's also very light - it's not a huge heavy thing (I think the batteries would be the heaviest part) but it otherwise feels very usable. Nicely balanced and well-designed to feel good. If your arms get tired holding it while playing, I think it's time to step away from the screen and get some exercise.
You realize that trademarks are far worse, right?
Because you're not saying "it has to have this list of items" (omitting any one of them means you don't violate the patent), but it just has to be "close enough".
Remember, a design patent enumerates a list of attributes that constitute the design. Omit one and you're not violating it. (Think "rounded corners" - the patent actually states rounded corners with a grid of icons and a few other things. Android does none of them, at least the standard build of it).
But with a trademark, just merely hinting at it means you cannot use it at all. Coke has a trademark on the curvacious bottle used to store their drinks. It's why no one but the Coca Cola Bottling Company can use that bottle shape, and every other drink must use a generic shaped bottle. In fact, during glass recycling, the bottle recycler must sort out the Coke bottles for that reason - if Pepsi accidentally got that bottle, they can be found for infringement, even innocently (it doesn't happen much because most recyclers pre-sort - ever wonder why restaurants often only sell Coke bottled drinks or others? Their returns end up naturally pre-sorted).
Now let's say Apple ends up with a trademark on an iPhone - it means any phone even *using* that shape is infringing.
The standard for trademarks is far looser - it's basically "if a common person can be confused". In fact, if that's the case, when Samsung's lawyer failed to differentiate the iPad from the Galaxy Tab, that would've been game over.
Design patents are also limited life (non-renewable) - 5 years. Which means you can actually build a phone that looks like the original iPhone now with the black face, plastic chromed trim around it, aluminum back and black plastic antenna housing.
Oh yeah - other things that are trademarked include putting a red tip on an antenna (owned by Sierra Wireless), the distinctive green cups on a David Clark headset (which means every other headset can't use that color - it's not only distinctive, it's also identifiable). These things are trademarked which have unlimited terms.
There is a setting I believe (I've only seen the screenshots - I didn't install iOS6) that enables iOS to use 3G if it detects the WiFi is bad. Could this be the case - your device has a terrible/slow/laggy WiFi connection and it decides using 3G would at least lead to a more stable internet connection?
They are making tons through parcel deliveries. The problem is, congress prevents them from adapting.
USPS is required to be revenue neutral and non-profit (i.e., they make as much money as they need). Congress controls how much a stamp costs (and other basic services - so their income is hobbled), and congress controls how much they're required to pay out (e.g., USPS is required to pre-pay retirement for 75 years over the next 10. Yes, that means they're paying NOW for a retirement package for employees who have not even been hired yet).
In fact, because of changes signed in by George Bush (notably, USPS was running a pretty damn tight ship until 2006 when the requirement mandate kicked in.).
http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/internet/email-isnt-killing-the-post-office
Basically, the government has set up USPS to fail as an example of "government inefficiency" by making it have obligations that go above and beyond what any company has to provide, including USPS' competitors.
Then again, I suppose it's better paying $8 to have FedEx send a letter across the US than 50 cents.
Actually, Microsoft requires it for x86 - the option to disable trusted boot MUST be present in order to pass Windows 8 logo certification. So it's not some "feel good" company providing it, it's required. Plus well, if you want to boot Windows 7, you can't use trusted boot - you have to use legacy boot.
Actually, if you look around, you'll find a lot of places are closing down sales of car audio stuff - because newer cars with radios built into the navigation systems often don't have a standard DIN slot for an aftermarket radio, or even an option to install an aftermarket radio without pulling a lot of lines and rewiring.
Plus the whole system is so integrated that for some, it's a nasty hack to be able to install an aftermarket unit. Hell, it's often times EASIER to just install a mount for say, an iPad and use that (using the built-in system's auxiliary in).
Well, Wall Street hasn't found a way to monetize it properly yet, so, it's not mainstream. That and deflationary issues with it since it's fixed amount - the more people start using bitcoin, the less to go around, so either you'll need fractional coins, or you'll be paying $20 for a cup of coffee as that's the price of 1 coin today, and $40 tomorrow.
The real fun starts when Wall Street figures out how to do fractional bitcoin trades and "instant" trading (where the exchange happens before the network confirms the transaction - using virtual bitcoins, of course to represent the value in the meantime).
While you all wait, start reading up on how forex works, because you can bet bitcoin will become the next hottest forex market to trade in.
Apple is. If you buy an Apple device (or anything electronic, really), take a look on checkout - you'll find for MOST stuff, the serial number gets scanned. This is not just for the store - the store's backend often reports the serial number to the manufacturer to activate the warranty as well (if you buy a hard drive, take a look during the warranty check - they often start from the moment you bought it these days).
In Apple's case, they're used for tracking the stuff - each pallet contains X iPads, with the serial numbers all recorded as being from that pallet and who's the carrier. When they're received by the store, their serial numbers are scanned in by the store to indicate they were received and in inventory. When they're finally sold, the seiral number is scanned to "activate" the devices.
It's also how Apple sim-locks the iPhone - if you buy it unlocked, the serial number gets flagged in the database as "unlocked". If you buy it from a carrier, the carrier's scan marks it as "SIM locked". Which is why when you get it replaced, do it at an Apple store and you can often walk out with a fully unlocked iPhone as they don't often scan it to relock them.
In this case, Apple knows exactly the serials of stolen devices. For the most part, Apple would get the money back through insurance, so disabling them doesn't really hurt them. However, should they ever need service, they're not covered under warranty as they're marked stolen - either the user will have to buy a new one, or walk out because once it's surrendered to Apple, they aren't going to give it back.
So out of those 1M people cheated of $10, you expect 1% of them to take the time, effort, and money to sue the company for that $10 back? You do realize that even small claims court requires paying a filing fee (around $20-40) just to file, right? So even if you win, you've gained... $-10 or so. And you lose a day's worth of PTO.
A smart company would realize that and make sure the amount they cheat people out of is always going to be less than the filing fee. Sure there'll be a few who do so out of principle, but you can bet the numbers would be way less than 1%. And hell, you don't even have to do anything - just wait for the default judgement, pay up and cheat a few more people to pay for it all. Or just bill those people again and let them fight it all out again in small claims. Lose another half day of work and dollars.
And yes, the company just does... nothing. No expensive person has to show up in court (default judgement is fine). Cost to you - time and money, cost to the company - nothing - it's pure profit that they'll probably extract from you next month when you'll be too tired to keep fighting it.
Most are.
And I think 4.1 (Jelly Bean) solves the piracy problem as Google puts DRM in the APKs that key them to the device (so you can't move the APKs around so easily anymore, or even to another device on the same account - you must redownload it to re-lock it to your new device). So it should drop from its ~90% down to be like IOS - around 10% or so.
Of course, the number of phones running 4.1 is only around 5% or so. 20% run 4.0, and the rest are 2.3 or below (3.x is under 1%). And new devices are coming out with Gingerbread installed still, amazingly enough. It's as if developers are intentionally doing it as most new SoCs support the latest version of Android, and they have to backport all the drivers to the old kernel.
Of course, that's also likely why new Android releases don't hit old devices so frequently - each release tends to be tied to a kernel version (and yes, Android is normally kernel-version-agnostic...).
Or, perhaps the easier way to think about it are rights are not seperable from responsibilities.
This, along with slander/libel makes much more sense.
You have a right to say whatever you want, but you don't have a right to saw whatever you want without consequences. Yell fire in a theatre, and you should be charged for the ensuing deaths (which can be pretty damn close to murder) and injuries, and for inciting a panic.
LIkewise, libel/slander laws - which basically end up being you cannot say a falsehood that damages someone else. Again, responsibility - if you did it and someone has damages because of it, they should be able to go after you to reclaim them, especially if they were false.
At least, that's the way it makes sense.
And yes, it also means anonymous speech should be weighed very lightly as the speaker is not willing ot attach their name to said speech. (Heck, we'd still need whistleblower laws, but most whistleblowers get identified...).
Funny enough, in BC the government WANTED to privatize alcohol distribution. They wanted to get out of the liquor distribution business and sell the warehouses and stores.
Problem? The other province that did (Alberta) experienced HIGHER prices from the privatized distribution and lower selection.
Naturally, everyone complained about that and it seems plans to privatize it were shelved. Everyone's afraid of their beer being more expensive and all that over being able to buy it anywhere.
(Interestingly, the same applies to public car insurance - everyone complains that they "can get it cheaper" privately, yet they complained when said private insurers jacked up rates 40% a year (the public ones only raised it 15% or so), then complain when the public ones raise it 2%. Government also put out a proposal asking for private insurers to take over the public system - not one wanted to, even though they're guaranteed 100% participating in basic insurance. Because to achieve that meant they had to follow the law which states the only way to determine the rate (everyone pays) is based on driving history (more accidents, more $$$), the car (obviously), and type of use (to/from work, leisure, storage, etc). Age can't be a factor to ensure fairness, and yes, there are numbers of people who learn to drive when they're older.)
Well, the developer (ANY developer, mind you) can get sued for trademark infringement, so even your "open access" rules can get curtailed. Yes, if you make a "memory" game, expect to receive some cease-and-desist soon, regardless if it's walled, garden, open-source, whatever.
And Apple has so far let users keep their "removed" apps. I think even iCloud keeps a copy if you happen to not have a backed up copy.
Nope, it's nothing to do with a walled garden (which actually doesn't affect users so much as developers since removed apps still can be used by existing uesrs). This affects *ALL* developers.
Doesn't Nokia also own NavTeq, one of the premier mapping companies that provides map data to everyone as well?
By default FaceTime uses (on iPhone) the phone number and Apple ID as keys to determining if a user can use it. So no iCloud/Apple ID/etc account is required (though I think you need one anyways when you set your phone up).
But phone-number alone works (and you can add additional phone or email keys if you wish).