Satellite Radio. which uses a proprietary codec and therefore isn't available to others, is a 64~80 kbps codec. It doesn't sound terrible, and it's also quite old.
It's not proprietary. Initially it probably was, but it's migrated to AAC and now is AAC+ (AAC-HE, I believe).
Bandwidth though per channel has been dropping - it's 64-80kbps AAC+ right now which isn't great. It's basically a problem of satellite bandwidth - there isn't any more available so to squeeze more channels onto the same bandwidth requires compressing the audio even more. It's why online audio can sound a lot better.
The next releases of the Mac Pro and Mac mini better be damn good because the mini hasn't been really updated since 2012. Using weaker processors and soldering the RAM on the motherboard doesn't count as an "upgrade" (fuck you, 2014 Mac mini).
No they won't. I don't get why people keep wanting the two worst selling Macs for Apple to have significant effort put in them.
The Mac Pro and Mac MIni sell the least number of units of all (they sell terribly). Apple is not going to put in significant amounts of engineering effort on those two Macs because they will barely make money on them. It's why the processors are "weaker" - Apple picked, from Intel's lineup, a set of i5 and i7 processors that used the same footprint. Of that, Intel only offered the dual-core i7, and maybe a half-dozen different i5s. Why the same footprint? Because Apple wasn't going to redesign the motherboard - thus the processor must fit in the same spot.
The Mac Mini and Mac Pro have been on the endangered list since forever. The only reason they haven't completely disappeared is intense lobbying by customers to keep them alive, and Tim Cook's presence of mind to keep them around simply because they're still making some money and Apple can still get parts for them. (Apple only discontinued the iPods after the processor, well long in the tooth was end of life and Apple likely ran through existing stocks so there were no more available).
The point was to make a streaming device. As much as I like Kodi the lack of current support for Netflix, Amazon Prime, et al, makes it a really shitty Streaming Device.
Use Kodi for your personal videos. YouTube, Netflix and Amazon are available as apps for the Xbox. That was the intent.
Though the Xbox's native video player is pretty good as well.
Other than probably costing 50 cents per iMac more, what was wrong with the pre-2013 iMacs, where the screen glass was held on with small magnets and the actually LCD was bolted below it?
Other the mean-spirited customer-hostile design, why glue the LCD on to the case, requiring removal with a pizza roller or knife to fix anything on your own?
If Apple had spent a tiny bit more per machine, repairability would probably be more like 7 or 8 out of 10.
Probably because magnets are insecure? I mean, if they weaken, you can end up with the screen just falling out from the computer if you bump the table it's on. Or if you snag the corner with something and boom, one smashed screen.
Or perhaps a manufacturing defect means 1% of iMacs have weak magnets causing users who open the box and take out computer to see its screen pop out and shatter? That sounds like a class action waiting to happen.
Adhesives work great - they can keep it together far longer than the computer will last (adhesives do dry out and also let go, but modern ones can be made so by the time it happens, the computer will have long past its usefulness - think decades). They're also cheap - the take seconds to apply and assemble on a manufacturing line (a robot can apply the adhesive) with great repeatability (ask the car industry - they use tons of adhesive). It's also reasonably easy to cut into if you need to get inside, so it's cheap, and removable.
In an ideal world, you'd use screws, but the small screws are also extremely fiddly and slows down a production line getting someone to put in 10-15 tiny screws into the case.
Manufacturing is about units per time, Even cheap Chinese labour is expensive if you're inefficient with a worker's time. Even a small manufacturing outfit like what we do, cutting test procedures down to be more highly automated, to require less interaction, shaving a minute down off each unit, all work to reduce manufacturing cost. It's why everything is heavily barcoded - it's quicker to use a barcode scanner to scan in a long serial number than hand-type it every time - less errors, too
According to TFA, he sold every share, and exercised every option he could while still retaining exactly the amount of shares necessary to comply with his employment agreement.
Short version: He unloaded everything he could and still remain CEO.
Further questions: when exactly did Intel learn of the problem? When exactly did Mr. Krzanich learn of the problem? When exactly did Mr. Krzanich file the pre-arranged stock sale plan (10b5-1)?
If those all happen in a sequence, he needs to go to fucking jail. By the way, Intel employees are given restricted stock grants as part of their performance reviews - how many employees are getting the shaft on unvested shares while this guy cashes out ahead of bad news?
Uh, if you were paid partially in stock, you'd cash out too. And executives cannot sell stock acquired this way at any time they wish. They have to file plans to sell the stock anywhere from 6 to 12 months or more ahead of time. This is public information, and as an investor, you can read those filings and unload your stock a day before if you wish.
It's completely automated - the sale order was set and barring anything, all you can do is cancel it.
And yes, if you're paid in company stock, regardless if you're a CEO or janitor, it is sound investment strategy to sell all your stock compensation as soon as possible. Sell every share you own that you can, exercise every option you can. Don't be an idiot and hang onto company stock. If you want to invest in your company, sell your shares, then buy them on the open market as part of a diversified portfolio.
Far too many people have gotten burned because they took stock as compensation and never sold it, even when they changed jobs. Then companies go out of business or other thing and now their entire retirement portfolio holds junk. (Yes, some people got retirement savings paid into as stock)
If you're require to hold onto a certain amount of stock, that's all you hold - sell the excess.
It's like being paid in options - they're worthless so make trades to turn them into cash. This is especially true nowadays when the dot-com boom of people becoming instant billionaires is no longer true. Exercise your options (unless they're underwater), take the profit (and use it to pay your capital gains taxes), and if you still want to hold onto the stock, buy it on the open market at market value.
32-bit ARM may be safer, because speculative execution is much, much more difficult there.
The program counter is a visible register that can be manipulated by any opcode - an explicit JUMP or BRANCH is not necessary. This makes branch prediction mostly impossible.
Most opcodes are conditional. This dependency between adjacent instructions is also a huge obstacle for speculative execution.
32-bit ARM is mostly in-order for these reasons.
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This attack is a side effect of out-of-order execution. This did not happen to ARM until the Cortex A8 line of processors (Cortex A7 was still in-order). Not to be confused with ARMv7/ARMv8, since Cortex A7 and A8 implement ARMv7.
And yes, even in 64-bit ARM PC is a user-visible register - AArch32 and AArch64 are very similar to each other down to instruction coding, too. The only big thing AArch64 eliminates is conditional execution which ARM found with the Cortex A8 to interfere with superscalar execution. But just because it's harder to speculatively execute doesn't mean it's impossible. It just means you execute the instruction and then evaluate the condition later - if the condition turns out to be false, you retire the instruction without posting the effects to the architectural registers. If the instruction is true, you retire it normally. Either way, you consume the same time (an instruction not executed conditionally on ARM is considered a NOP and only wastes processor time. This fact alone makes it worthwhile to execute all conditional instructions and retire them when the end result of the condition is known - you're using up time anyhow).
Also, I'm sure the Cortex A8 notes which instructions potentially could adjust the PC (the register field of every instruction is well defined, so it's trivial to examine it and determine if it's the PC. In fact, a JMP is syntactic sugar for a MOV, as is RET. They are internally MOV instructions (you'll note that every function ends with "mov pc,lr", which moves the link register (old PC before call) to the PC, thus returning.
Modern thumb interworking though uses "blx" which is branch-to-link-and-exchange because you need to load both the LR and the old CPSR register (which controls the THUMB state), so you return back to the right mode and is the only way if you're mixing ARM and THUMB instructions together (aka interworking).
Note that miss-speculations are VERY frequent, since most of the execution of Out-of-Order processors is speculative to improve performance. This explains the VERY significant performance penalties caused by the patches.
No, they're caused because of the page table isolation. Resetting the page tables is a very expensive operation, which is why most OSes mapped kernel memory into the process space. This includes having to flush the page table caches (known as the Translation Lookaside Buffer, or TLB) far more often than you used to. Basically, everytime you run a system call, the kernel has to switch the page tables, jump into the kernel code (that is now mapped by the page tables), perform the work (the last two causing TLB misses because they involve the new page tables and are very slow to execute as the processor has to walk the tables), then jump back to the kernel stub that's permanently mapped, unmap the kernel, flush the TLBs (can't have the mapping be alive) and then finally return from the system call. This includes anything that traps into the kernel, including interrupts.
The real issue is everything thinks "this is a fundamental bug Intel had since the beginning". It's not a like a bug that's a vulnerability like a buffer overflow that's done by laziness or other thing. It's actually using a very low level microarchitecture thing against itself. It's like attacking OpenSSL by trying to be a process running on another core and seeing how the core reacts as the other one runs OpenSSL and using that to extract key bits.
A permission check requires walking the page tables, and Intel sought to increase performance by saying most accesses are legal (because permission failure is rare - even though the OS protects against it, in general few people are deliberately accessing invalid memory), so having those map into the caches was optimizing for the 99% case. AMD not commiting the resources on the cache probably incurs far more silicon resources (since the access already happened, so the cache update has to be held until the instruction is retired - so either you decide to not cache the result the first time,,or you remember to flush the cache the second time around, both of which require more work in tracking.
I wouldn't be surprised if a huge part of Apple's motivation behind supporting LLVM and Clang was to free itself of the onerous and limiting restraints that the GPL family of licenses imposes on users (modifiers and derivers are users, too).
That WAS the motivator for it - Apple pushed LLVM because it wasn't GPL. More specifically, it was GPLv3. Apple saw what was in the draft GPLv3 proposals, didn't like what they saw, and expended about 4-5 years of effort to bring LLVM to usability, including writing the bulk of CLang.
Apple had no problem with the GPLv2, but GPLv3 was going to be an issue, and they migrated. Apple's last patch to GCC was to add support for Grand Central Dispatch structures. (It took 4-5 years - at first LLVM was an option, but GCC was primary, then it slowly switched over to LLVM being primary and GCC an option, and finally only LLVM).
The other thing was there was a lot of stuff Apple couldn't do with GCC that they wanted to - because GCC wasn't modular. Things like using the GCC front end to do stuff like syntax highlighting, code flow evaluation and even syntax error analysis were impossible to do in GCC (on purpose). LLVM is more flexible and thus let Apple make XCode support partial recompilation and dynamic recompilation so your code recompiles automatically, and only the block that changed, not the entire file.
That said, I'd say LLVM made GCC better. Using modern GCC is so much nicer now - error messages are way more useful. At the very least, competition has improved both projects and we have much better tools as a result.
How does a 3rd world country as backward as NK have elite, top of the line, hacking capability? Last I checked, they had a whole 1024 IP addresses for the whole country.
Apple is it's own carefully constructed PR=B$ market, not that it is awful but they have their market niche that they have crafted and are keeping alive.
Here's a tip - people are smarter than you think.
If Apple products were all flash and no substance, they wouldn't sell. People would buy it once, sees it sucks, and refuse to buy another. This happens extremely often, and these days, many people don't even buy one if something sucks. (See movies - after the first showing, you get the general idea of how a movie ranks. Rotten Tomatoes and other sites do nothing but aggregate both reviewers and audiences, and sometimes there can be poorly reviewed movies that resonate with audiences, and movies with great reviews but poor audience reviews).
So if Apple really sold garbage, they wouldn't be where they are today - there's only so much RDF and fanboyism out there.
Theyâ(TM)re comparing the annual sales of 10 models of iPhone to 3 models of Galaxy? In 2017 Apple sold the iPhone 5C, 5S, 6 (Plus), 6S (Plus), SE, 7 (Plus), 8 (Plus), & X.
No, Apple did not sell the 5C or the 5S this year - the iPhone SE replaced both in 2016. Some carriers might have offered them for sale as free with plan, but that's a carrier getting rid of recycled units. Same with the 6 and 6S and associated Plus mdoels - they were replaced with the 7 introduced last year and Apple stopped selling them. Again, carriers might sell them as free with plan to clear existing stock. Though in general, sales of the current model (like the 7) drop off sharply after the new year as people get to the middle of the cycle and prefer to wait for the new unit. But even at a carrier store, sales of the "old models" generally fall flat - people want the latest and greatest, and carriers have to push the old models for free just to get any movement on them.
Yeah. Too many people are forgetting that endpoint-to-endpoint encryption doesn't protect the endpoints themselves. I think this push towards universal HTTPS is yet another security theater---it makes you feel securer than you ought to feel.
Indeed.
Think about it for a second - apparently a popular use of Let's Encrypt is to provide SSL certificates for Paypal phishing sites - something like 14,000 certificates have been issued.
If it wasn't for the fact that many top-notch organizations back Let's Encrypt like the EFF, one reasonable approach might be to mark all Let's Encrypt sites as untrusted.
Is Kodi just arriving on the Xbox One?!? It has been on the Playstation since the PS3.
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Link deleted because it's just installing Plex and showing how to use that. A bit of brilliant SEO though - it mentions installing Kodi and only when you get to the actual instructions it says "You're going to use Plex because Kodi is not available".
The only real way to get Kodi on PS3 is hacked firmware, while Xbox One has an official you can install it right from the Microsoft Store app.
Paying cash doesn't cut the fees out of the equation, it just lowers the fees. Most businesses that deal with cash have to pay their bank a cash processing fee, but from my understanding it's around 0.003% which is less than the fees for debit ($0.21 + 0.05%) and credit cards (1.4%-3.5%). Someone who deals with this professionally is welcome to correct my numbers if I got them wrong.
That's potential fees. But it doesn't include costs to handle cash.
For example, if a business does a lot of cash business, instead of sending someone to the bank with the wallet to deposit it, they may have to hire an armored truck to move the cash to the bank. It doesn't make sense for most small businesses who deposit under $1000 daily, but if your typical haul is $10,000, a sudden release or big shopping day can bring that to $50,000 or more. This can also be a big problem for businesses that typically rely on credit but get a cash payment like hotels - cash is typically only used on small amounts and credit used everywhere else, so having a customer settle a large tab in cash may mean a larger than normal amount of cash on hand requiring a deposit.
Another cost is register training. Small stores may not do rigorous checks, but chains often do. Basically the cashier walks out to the register with the cash box, which contains a pre-measured amount of money. That money is input into the till when the cashier logs into it. The cashier does all the business, while the till records the transactions. The till notes cash transactions and updates the cash box balance. At the end of the shift, the cashier logs out, and the till prints out a receipt which totals the sales during the period - including the expected amount in the cash box. The cashier then takes the cash box and the receipt to the back room and gets the box counted - the amounts likely will be off - due to errors made, potential currency rounding (e.g., elimination of pennies), etc, but usually only by a small amount. Even the rounding is often taken care of by the till in case the balance tips one way or the other (e.g., fast food place may notice everyone buys a popular combo, but the rounding means they keep an extra couple of cents every time).
It's why when you see cashiers asking one another if they can make change, they always equalize the change - e.g., if they need $20 in quarters, they always bring $20 to trade with someone with a roll of quarters. And also why commerce stops during a power outage - the till is recording everything, and the cashier cannot perform transactions because it won't update the back end inventory and will screw up the register balance.
It's an important question, because you need to follow the money and why Amazon is doing this.
And unless Amazon is sticking ads on everyone's unit everytime you use a popular skill, it means Amazon is doing this temporarily and just because you have a popular skill making you money every month, well, Amazon could simply pull the program after deciding they have enough of the things to satisfy users and developers of less popular skills are rounding out the missing pieces.
This is important because just because the guy made $30K in a few months, doesn't mean a year later Amazon will still pay him. Anyone's who used Amazon Underground knows they can pull those things that are no longer needed to meet their goals (Amazon Underground made free apps and DLC and paid developers based on the time the app was used, letting Amazon have apps that cost money be completely free, even the smurfberries). No matter, because Amazon killed that program this year after a couple of years of running it because they have their app stronghold now.
Conversely, on a highway, at 120kph, if I put a real stop sign on the side of the road, will google treat it as a stop sign? No human driver is going to slam on the brakes.
That is not true at all, there are always traffic accidents or highway construction where you can unexpectedly encounter a hand-held stop sign. Humans at least have a sense of context of the current situation. Your solutions don't address that, and AI can always get a little bit more information to react(like congestion slowdowns from other sources).
There are rules for this, because people get killed and injured because of things like this.
First, signs have a background color. If it's white on green, it's generally a navigation sign - next exit is a road, stay in this lane for destination, etc. White on blue is generally informational - next stop has these services, etc. Black on white is regulatory - speed limits,information (merge) etc. Even the slant on the black-and-white striped signs are important (the slant down to point to valid traveling lanes - if you see a chevron pointing up, it means both sides of the sign are for traveling, but if it's like a "\", that means the right of the sign is valid, and rarely in North America, a "/" would mean keep to the left of the sign)
Then there's the one-offs, like Yield and Stop signs that are distinctive because they are conveying very important information, so there is no other sign that will be the same color.
The ONE exception is black on orange. This means the sign is a temporary construction sign. And on the sign is anything - it could be any of the above (it's temporary), or it can indicate there's a flagger ahead (many places require indication to prepare people to look for them and understand their direction), or a speed limit change, etc.In general, you will never encounter a flagger in a high-speed zone - the speed limit will be temporarily reduced through the construction site for everyone's safety - and usually if there's a flagger, there will be further reductions in speed limit so you're not going to suddenly encounter a stop sign at 80kph (50mph). To help indicate work zones, those red and orange plastic markers are used to delineate lanes.
These rules are codified in the traffic code and through North America, are standard (it's what allows a Canadian to drive in the US and vice versa without many problems, and what allows everyone to travel through different states and provinces without issue).
Of course, that's not to say you don't have problems - on smaller highways between towns truckers have been known to excessively speed through construction zones and create very unsafe conditions (and that's with ample warning that they need to slow down) - if this happens too much they close off an entire side of the road and resort to everyone's favorite "single lane alternating" traffic, and in danger zones, single lane with a lead car setting the pace so even if everyone in front wishes to race, there's a car that will drive at a slow pace and regulate the speed through the work site.
If any signage is going to cause any vision system problems, it's construction signage.
I still wear and use a Casio Data Bank 150 watch! I would like a smartwartch that is small, light, and last a long time!
Funny thing, I have the same watch with the Waveceptor thing (sets itself). Oddly, the battery suddenly died out on it one day (I wear it daily). I then realized the battery on it dated way beyond what it was supposed to be - I got it way back in 1996, and I know I've done 2 battery changes on it - about every 5 years or so. Turns out the battery was changed around 2008 or so, so the battery was well beyond the battery life. It was a bit odd since I usually get a low battery alarm. Instead, it was working in the morning, and I noticed when I got home it was dead.
Yes, changing the battery fixed it - it was measuring around 0.2V or so. Danged watch pretty used up the entire battery.
The only reason 'happy holidays' exists is because of people who are triggered by hearing 'merry christmas'. Unless the poll records how many people HATE 'merry christmas', then it won't reveal why 'happy holidays' exists.
True.
However, I would contend that "Christmas" is less of a Christian thing and now more of a secular thing. After all, how many times have you heard "Christmas is so commerciallized these days".
Basically it's an orgy of gift-giving and overspending and visiting family and friends, and Christmas Day is more about gift giving.
Oh sure, perhaps a few people attend Mass on the 24th, but I'm sure the vast majority of the population does not. (And for a lot of people, Mass was the only time they'd go to church).
So really, I'm guessing since it's really more a secular thing (I've seen Muslims, Hindus and others participate) that "Merry Christmas" is in reference to secular Christmas. Perhaps if we rewound the clock 30-40 years when there was a religious tinge to it still that Happy Holidays was more appropriate to be inclusive. Today? It's a nice gift-giving and sharing and generally universal peace-on-earth type day.
I've noticed many more businesses and all that saying Merry Christmas these days, and many immigrants participate because it's one of the few things people can be inclusive about. Just because your religion doesn't celebrate doesn't exclude me from inviting you in and giving gifts. And I'm sure your religion doesn't mind you doing same. Heck, many Syrian refugees get surprised at the tradition (being Muslim, of course) but are always appreciative and eager to learn about the culture of the people that "adopted" them.
This is not the first project like this, there is 1km stretch of solar road in Tourouvre-au-Perche that powers the village's entire grid of street lights.
The Colas Wattway generates electricity at about 9 times the cost for half the power of a nearby solar farm - https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The problem is that is the biggest installation available, and it still sucks - when you can have a solar farm installed for way less money ($1.57/watt for the solar farm - the solar roadway costs $6/watt for the panels themselves, the manufacturer expect its to cost $3/watt. So you're already losing because the solar roadway panels cost nearly twice as much as a solar farm installed).
But fine, maybe you're willing to pay 3 times as much per watt (in the future). Except the power generation is about half as much for the roadway over the solar farm. And this is part of the trial run.
And we're not even going into maintenance - of which the solar far has little, while the roadway needs to be cleaned regularly to get rid of the crap traffic lays down on it
It's a solution looking for a problem - even in car-friendly US, there just aren't enough roads to justify it. In fact, it's probably cheaper to build a frame and put solar panels on that covering the roads and have the panels on top generating full power than under the roads at half or less power.
The only reason it really exists is because too many people got duped into investing into a product that is pretty much all hype and no results. Between commercial solar farms, rooftop solar and even sticking solar panels over roadways, solar panels underneath roadways are just a load of bunk. And the Colas Wattway is probably the best refinement of the technology offering the cheapest installation and lowest cost per unit, and it still costs a ton of money. (It's why they have a 1km test site versus about 50m for the others, or just a sidewalk).
Sorry, but AnyDVD is dead to me. I paid for a lifetime license and now they don't honor it. I honestly don't buy into the whole "oh, that OTHER company shut down, and we're an entirely different company, but oh we have their code and their forums and everything, so pay us again" BS.
SlySoft is DEAD. The company founder was jailed and the company was forced to shut down. (Slysoft was either a company based in Antigua). The company wiped all the front-end servers during the shut down, including customer databases. That company is dead. USTR and AACS LA forced them to close and they folded.
Now, RedFox is composed of the developers of the company - they discovered when SlySoft shut down, and the servers wiped, the source code servers and build machines were very much alive. So they basically stole it all - source code and everything, shut down the old Slysoft servers because the company is legally dead.
For a time, they hosted Slysoft data - at their expense. Remember, the financial assets of Slysoft were seized during the shutdown.
So RedFox guys got together and incorporated in Belize, again, with their own money (they didn't even do a Kickstarter, which is the trendy thing these days). As a goodwill measure, they offered recent licensees a whopping 50% discount off new licenses (including lifetime). This was on top of the 20% discount they were offering to get seed money started, and you can get another 10% if you pay in bitcoin.
They didn't have to do any of it - because legally speaking, Slysoft's assets are no more. They are two completely independent companies. In fact, AnyDVD's source code is technically stolen from Slysoft, but I'm sure SlySoft will not be suing them for the theft.
I'm sure the US Government might try to seize the source code back, but I'm sure that would lead to thornier issues since the wrong move might make it available to all as part of a FOIA.Or who knows what else - treat it wrongly and it might end up through some legislative loopholes to be a US government supported piece of software.
It is drained. Trump replaced the stuff that was hidden behind secret deals and simply made it public. I mean, look at all the leaders of the departments - they're run by industry nowadays.
The FCC is run by basically a Verizon shill. The EPA is run by what, an oil exec? Etc.
Trump said he'd drain the swamp. He didn't promise to clean it up. Everything everyone does can be traced to corruption, but it's out in the open now. Tax cuts for the rich? Well, that's plainly obvious. No need for analysts to figure out this tax cut which looks good for the poor actually funnels money to the 1% - now we just make it all about cutting taxes on the rich.
Easy. Trump's drained the swamp alright. You can see the corruption happening now, when before it all took place behind closed doors.
Note a couple of substantial caveats: 1) Like everything else, Apple charges super-premium prices for their replacement batteries, and 2) I happen to live 10 minutes away from an Apple store here in Austin, but there are lots of folks just in other parts of the state, who are *several hours* away from one. Lubbock or Midland/Odessa, for instance, get to choose between Fort Worth or El Paso: about 4-1/2 to 5-1/2 hours!
And most of the time you can't just walk in - you have to have an appointment, which no one expects the first time.
Well, you can buy the stuff you need online to replace the battery yourself. It only takes a few minutes - Apple has made battery changes super easy to do it yourself. Buy a kit for around $25.
If you don't want to do yourself, you can take it to your local cellphone repair shop - not one of those run by the big guys, but you know the place - a little hole in the wall in some oddball shopping center or strip mall and pay them. Hell, it probably will be $25 as well. Unlike screen repairs, battery replacements require no Apple touchy-feely calibration or anything.
Oh yeah, those are the places that advertise phone screen repairs, too.
Apple offers it at a higher price, and there are very market solutions to it as well. In fact, one could argue Apple is stuck - if they wanted to offer it at $35, they couldn't because they'd put all the little guys out of business, which is generally a very bad thing to do.
So there you have your options, and there are literally thousands of them. You shouldn't have to exit your city because almost all of them have at least a dozen. Pay Apple $80. Do it yourself for $25-35 (I'm sure Amazon sells you a kit with free Prime). Or visit (almost always Asian run) shop doing cellphone repairs for the same price. Best part is those store almost always congregate together so if one person is rude to you, you walk out and go next door. You'll often get better-than-Apple-store treatment.
Oh, they advertise too - usually in local newspapers or Craigslist. Go for the ones that give you the address right there in the ad - there's no reason you must call them to "make an appointment" or "get the address". It will be there right in the ad, if not, move on to the next guy.
I'm surprised nobody in China (or even the US, since we're STILL pretty competitive for low-volume manufacturing) has started cranking out laser printers with copies of the 1990s-era LaserJet print engine. The patents have all expired, printing technology has gone basically nowhere in 20 years, and old LaserJet consumables are basically commodities by now.
The problem is a print engine consists of two pieces - there's the mechanical bits that handle the paper and the drum and the other little things involved with printing, and more importantly, there's all the software behind it. And that's the tricky part - the software behind the print engine controls when the motors turn on and off, the sequencing of the motors, the laser itself, and all sorts of other real-time tasks. And each engine is slightly different enough that it always needs to be tweaked for each engine design. Now, they used to run on microcontrollers, but modern ones run some sort of real-time OS, and the timing is generally done by busy waiting.
And all that stuff is either copyrighted, for for a processor no on e makes anymore and then has to be reverse-engineered.
Good journalists have always understood the difference between investigative reporting and gratuitous shitstirring. Clickbait farmers like Gawker generally don't.
The test is generally "in the public interest".
A journalist who reports on how $SOME_RICH_GUY paid $30M in order to get his building approved, is in the public interest - it exposes corruption in government. A story about $SOME_RICH_GUY's sex life, or who they're seeing as a girlfriend? Not generally in the public interest unless the choice affects government or people in some way.
And no, "in public interest" does not mean "the public is interested" - reporting on Apple rumors doesn't fall under public interest even if most people are interested in them.
Reporting of news not in public interest generally means you're not a journalist, but an entertainment product creator. You're create a product that titillates, fascinates and interests people,but is generally not news.
How much does Lyft know about the drivers' actual vehicle as opposed to what the driver tells Lyft?
Well, that information is what Lyft tells fares - since Lyfts and Ubers are not uniformly painted and distinctive (like taxis), you need to know what car the driver drives so you can catch your ride. Maybe even a photo, if it's a lesser known vehicle.
For a while, you had a pink thing on the front of your vehicle to help identify it, but I guess it's not used anymore.
Precisely that. If you can't explain the convenience or purpose provided for the end-user of your software in layman's terms, maybe you shouldn't be writing the software. My relatives are happy to hear something like "I reduced the amount of copying and re-typing that nurses have to do when producing a discharge summary to be sent to the patient's doctor". Nobody needs to know the complexities of database retrievals and layout crap that goes on in the code. Why would they want to know the details? They only ask what you have been doing to be polite, be polite in response.
Exactly. If you don't know the 30,000 foot view of what you're doing, that's a huge problem. You should know what your software does overall.
"I program videogames" is such a statement. Or "I write medical software". What is your software doing? I work on the Android BSP, so I often say "I work on the Android OS". If they have an Android smartphone, I can add, "like the Android running on your smartphone". That's the high level gist of what I do, and it answers everyone's question succinctly. They don't care I type on the computer, or I work in C/C++/Java or I was working on the Camera HAL code (or the LInux kernel). As far as anyone sees, that is "Android OS".
If you work on a device driver for Windows, it's just as easy to say "I write Windows drivers for our hardware".
I don't understand why it's so hard to explain what you do. No one cares about the individual details - people want to know what you do in a general sense. If they want more details, they'll ask. My auto mechanic will say he's an auto mechanic, even if what he does is balances tires and does car alignments to pay the bills.
Even doctors say they are doctors, regardless of their specialty. Same as surgeons
Even if you write software, you can often describe the type of software - "I work on medical software" or "I work on office software" Or, if you write firmware, "I write the software that runs on your router".etc.
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It's not proprietary. Initially it probably was, but it's migrated to AAC and now is AAC+ (AAC-HE, I believe).
Bandwidth though per channel has been dropping - it's 64-80kbps AAC+ right now which isn't great. It's basically a problem of satellite bandwidth - there isn't any more available so to squeeze more channels onto the same bandwidth requires compressing the audio even more. It's why online audio can sound a lot better.
No they won't. I don't get why people keep wanting the two worst selling Macs for Apple to have significant effort put in them.
The Mac Pro and Mac MIni sell the least number of units of all (they sell terribly). Apple is not going to put in significant amounts of engineering effort on those two Macs because they will barely make money on them. It's why the processors are "weaker" - Apple picked, from Intel's lineup, a set of i5 and i7 processors that used the same footprint. Of that, Intel only offered the dual-core i7, and maybe a half-dozen different i5s. Why the same footprint? Because Apple wasn't going to redesign the motherboard - thus the processor must fit in the same spot.
The Mac Mini and Mac Pro have been on the endangered list since forever. The only reason they haven't completely disappeared is intense lobbying by customers to keep them alive, and Tim Cook's presence of mind to keep them around simply because they're still making some money and Apple can still get parts for them. (Apple only discontinued the iPods after the processor, well long in the tooth was end of life and Apple likely ran through existing stocks so there were no more available).
Use Kodi for your personal videos. YouTube, Netflix and Amazon are available as apps for the Xbox. That was the intent.
Though the Xbox's native video player is pretty good as well.
Probably because magnets are insecure? I mean, if they weaken, you can end up with the screen just falling out from the computer if you bump the table it's on. Or if you snag the corner with something and boom, one smashed screen.
Or perhaps a manufacturing defect means 1% of iMacs have weak magnets causing users who open the box and take out computer to see its screen pop out and shatter? That sounds like a class action waiting to happen.
Adhesives work great - they can keep it together far longer than the computer will last (adhesives do dry out and also let go, but modern ones can be made so by the time it happens, the computer will have long past its usefulness - think decades). They're also cheap - the take seconds to apply and assemble on a manufacturing line (a robot can apply the adhesive) with great repeatability (ask the car industry - they use tons of adhesive). It's also reasonably easy to cut into if you need to get inside, so it's cheap, and removable.
In an ideal world, you'd use screws, but the small screws are also extremely fiddly and slows down a production line getting someone to put in 10-15 tiny screws into the case.
Manufacturing is about units per time, Even cheap Chinese labour is expensive if you're inefficient with a worker's time. Even a small manufacturing outfit like what we do, cutting test procedures down to be more highly automated, to require less interaction, shaving a minute down off each unit, all work to reduce manufacturing cost. It's why everything is heavily barcoded - it's quicker to use a barcode scanner to scan in a long serial number than hand-type it every time - less errors, too
Uh, if you were paid partially in stock, you'd cash out too. And executives cannot sell stock acquired this way at any time they wish. They have to file plans to sell the stock anywhere from 6 to 12 months or more ahead of time. This is public information, and as an investor, you can read those filings and unload your stock a day before if you wish.
It's completely automated - the sale order was set and barring anything, all you can do is cancel it.
And yes, if you're paid in company stock, regardless if you're a CEO or janitor, it is sound investment strategy to sell all your stock compensation as soon as possible. Sell every share you own that you can, exercise every option you can. Don't be an idiot and hang onto company stock. If you want to invest in your company, sell your shares, then buy them on the open market as part of a diversified portfolio.
Far too many people have gotten burned because they took stock as compensation and never sold it, even when they changed jobs. Then companies go out of business or other thing and now their entire retirement portfolio holds junk. (Yes, some people got retirement savings paid into as stock)
If you're require to hold onto a certain amount of stock, that's all you hold - sell the excess.
It's like being paid in options - they're worthless so make trades to turn them into cash. This is especially true nowadays when the dot-com boom of people becoming instant billionaires is no longer true. Exercise your options (unless they're underwater), take the profit (and use it to pay your capital gains taxes), and if you still want to hold onto the stock, buy it on the open market at market value.
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This attack is a side effect of out-of-order execution. This did not happen to ARM until the Cortex A8 line of processors (Cortex A7 was still in-order). Not to be confused with ARMv7/ARMv8, since Cortex A7 and A8 implement ARMv7.
And yes, even in 64-bit ARM PC is a user-visible register - AArch32 and AArch64 are very similar to each other down to instruction coding, too. The only big thing AArch64 eliminates is conditional execution which ARM found with the Cortex A8 to interfere with superscalar execution. But just because it's harder to speculatively execute doesn't mean it's impossible. It just means you execute the instruction and then evaluate the condition later - if the condition turns out to be false, you retire the instruction without posting the effects to the architectural registers. If the instruction is true, you retire it normally. Either way, you consume the same time (an instruction not executed conditionally on ARM is considered a NOP and only wastes processor time. This fact alone makes it worthwhile to execute all conditional instructions and retire them when the end result of the condition is known - you're using up time anyhow).
Also, I'm sure the Cortex A8 notes which instructions potentially could adjust the PC (the register field of every instruction is well defined, so it's trivial to examine it and determine if it's the PC. In fact, a JMP is syntactic sugar for a MOV, as is RET. They are internally MOV instructions (you'll note that every function ends with "mov pc,lr", which moves the link register (old PC before call) to the PC, thus returning.
Modern thumb interworking though uses "blx" which is branch-to-link-and-exchange because you need to load both the LR and the old CPSR register (which controls the THUMB state), so you return back to the right mode and is the only way if you're mixing ARM and THUMB instructions together (aka interworking).
No, they're caused because of the page table isolation. Resetting the page tables is a very expensive operation, which is why most OSes mapped kernel memory into the process space. This includes having to flush the page table caches (known as the Translation Lookaside Buffer, or TLB) far more often than you used to. Basically, everytime you run a system call, the kernel has to switch the page tables, jump into the kernel code (that is now mapped by the page tables), perform the work (the last two causing TLB misses because they involve the new page tables and are very slow to execute as the processor has to walk the tables), then jump back to the kernel stub that's permanently mapped, unmap the kernel, flush the TLBs (can't have the mapping be alive) and then finally return from the system call. This includes anything that traps into the kernel, including interrupts.
The real issue is everything thinks "this is a fundamental bug Intel had since the beginning". It's not a like a bug that's a vulnerability like a buffer overflow that's done by laziness or other thing. It's actually using a very low level microarchitecture thing against itself. It's like attacking OpenSSL by trying to be a process running on another core and seeing how the core reacts as the other one runs OpenSSL and using that to extract key bits.
A permission check requires walking the page tables, and Intel sought to increase performance by saying most accesses are legal (because permission failure is rare - even though the OS protects against it, in general few people are deliberately accessing invalid memory), so having those map into the caches was optimizing for the 99% case. AMD not commiting the resources on the cache probably incurs far more silicon resources (since the access already happened, so the cache update has to be held until the instruction is retired - so either you decide to not cache the result the first time, ,or you remember to flush the cache the second time around, both of which require more work in tracking.
That WAS the motivator for it - Apple pushed LLVM because it wasn't GPL. More specifically, it was GPLv3. Apple saw what was in the draft GPLv3 proposals, didn't like what they saw, and expended about 4-5 years of effort to bring LLVM to usability, including writing the bulk of CLang.
Apple had no problem with the GPLv2, but GPLv3 was going to be an issue, and they migrated. Apple's last patch to GCC was to add support for Grand Central Dispatch structures. (It took 4-5 years - at first LLVM was an option, but GCC was primary, then it slowly switched over to LLVM being primary and GCC an option, and finally only LLVM).
The other thing was there was a lot of stuff Apple couldn't do with GCC that they wanted to - because GCC wasn't modular. Things like using the GCC front end to do stuff like syntax highlighting, code flow evaluation and even syntax error analysis were impossible to do in GCC (on purpose). LLVM is more flexible and thus let Apple make XCode support partial recompilation and dynamic recompilation so your code recompiles automatically, and only the block that changed, not the entire file.
That said, I'd say LLVM made GCC better. Using modern GCC is so much nicer now - error messages are way more useful. At the very least, competition has improved both projects and we have much better tools as a result.
They aren't hacking from NK. In fact, they are based in a NK-owned Chilbosan hotel in Shenyang, China.
As long as you're good, you're staying in 5 star accommodations.
I think it's less about raising home-grown hackers, and more about attracting top-tier talent from China and Russia.
Here's a tip - people are smarter than you think.
If Apple products were all flash and no substance, they wouldn't sell. People would buy it once, sees it sucks, and refuse to buy another. This happens extremely often, and these days, many people don't even buy one if something sucks. (See movies - after the first showing, you get the general idea of how a movie ranks. Rotten Tomatoes and other sites do nothing but aggregate both reviewers and audiences, and sometimes there can be poorly reviewed movies that resonate with audiences, and movies with great reviews but poor audience reviews).
So if Apple really sold garbage, they wouldn't be where they are today - there's only so much RDF and fanboyism out there.
No, Apple did not sell the 5C or the 5S this year - the iPhone SE replaced both in 2016. Some carriers might have offered them for sale as free with plan, but that's a carrier getting rid of recycled units. Same with the 6 and 6S and associated Plus mdoels - they were replaced with the 7 introduced last year and Apple stopped selling them. Again, carriers might sell them as free with plan to clear existing stock. Though in general, sales of the current model (like the 7) drop off sharply after the new year as people get to the middle of the cycle and prefer to wait for the new unit. But even at a carrier store, sales of the "old models" generally fall flat - people want the latest and greatest, and carriers have to push the old models for free just to get any movement on them.
Indeed.
Think about it for a second - apparently a popular use of Let's Encrypt is to provide SSL certificates for Paypal phishing sites - something like 14,000 certificates have been issued.
If it wasn't for the fact that many top-notch organizations back Let's Encrypt like the EFF, one reasonable approach might be to mark all Let's Encrypt sites as untrusted.
Link deleted because it's just installing Plex and showing how to use that. A bit of brilliant SEO though - it mentions installing Kodi and only when you get to the actual instructions it says "You're going to use Plex because Kodi is not available".
The only real way to get Kodi on PS3 is hacked firmware, while Xbox One has an official you can install it right from the Microsoft Store app.
That's potential fees. But it doesn't include costs to handle cash.
For example, if a business does a lot of cash business, instead of sending someone to the bank with the wallet to deposit it, they may have to hire an armored truck to move the cash to the bank. It doesn't make sense for most small businesses who deposit under $1000 daily, but if your typical haul is $10,000, a sudden release or big shopping day can bring that to $50,000 or more. This can also be a big problem for businesses that typically rely on credit but get a cash payment like hotels - cash is typically only used on small amounts and credit used everywhere else, so having a customer settle a large tab in cash may mean a larger than normal amount of cash on hand requiring a deposit.
Another cost is register training. Small stores may not do rigorous checks, but chains often do. Basically the cashier walks out to the register with the cash box, which contains a pre-measured amount of money. That money is input into the till when the cashier logs into it. The cashier does all the business, while the till records the transactions. The till notes cash transactions and updates the cash box balance. At the end of the shift, the cashier logs out, and the till prints out a receipt which totals the sales during the period - including the expected amount in the cash box. The cashier then takes the cash box and the receipt to the back room and gets the box counted - the amounts likely will be off - due to errors made, potential currency rounding (e.g., elimination of pennies), etc, but usually only by a small amount. Even the rounding is often taken care of by the till in case the balance tips one way or the other (e.g., fast food place may notice everyone buys a popular combo, but the rounding means they keep an extra couple of cents every time).
It's why when you see cashiers asking one another if they can make change, they always equalize the change - e.g., if they need $20 in quarters, they always bring $20 to trade with someone with a roll of quarters. And also why commerce stops during a power outage - the till is recording everything, and the cashier cannot perform transactions because it won't update the back end inventory and will screw up the register balance.
Better yet - what is behind the payments?
It's an important question, because you need to follow the money and why Amazon is doing this.
And unless Amazon is sticking ads on everyone's unit everytime you use a popular skill, it means Amazon is doing this temporarily and just because you have a popular skill making you money every month, well, Amazon could simply pull the program after deciding they have enough of the things to satisfy users and developers of less popular skills are rounding out the missing pieces.
This is important because just because the guy made $30K in a few months, doesn't mean a year later Amazon will still pay him. Anyone's who used Amazon Underground knows they can pull those things that are no longer needed to meet their goals (Amazon Underground made free apps and DLC and paid developers based on the time the app was used, letting Amazon have apps that cost money be completely free, even the smurfberries). No matter, because Amazon killed that program this year after a couple of years of running it because they have their app stronghold now.
There are rules for this, because people get killed and injured because of things like this.
First, signs have a background color. If it's white on green, it's generally a navigation sign - next exit is a road, stay in this lane for destination, etc. White on blue is generally informational - next stop has these services, etc. Black on white is regulatory - speed limits,information (merge) etc. Even the slant on the black-and-white striped signs are important (the slant down to point to valid traveling lanes - if you see a chevron pointing up, it means both sides of the sign are for traveling, but if it's like a "\", that means the right of the sign is valid, and rarely in North America, a "/" would mean keep to the left of the sign)
Then there's the one-offs, like Yield and Stop signs that are distinctive because they are conveying very important information, so there is no other sign that will be the same color.
The ONE exception is black on orange. This means the sign is a temporary construction sign. And on the sign is anything - it could be any of the above (it's temporary), or it can indicate there's a flagger ahead (many places require indication to prepare people to look for them and understand their direction), or a speed limit change, etc.In general, you will never encounter a flagger in a high-speed zone - the speed limit will be temporarily reduced through the construction site for everyone's safety - and usually if there's a flagger, there will be further reductions in speed limit so you're not going to suddenly encounter a stop sign at 80kph (50mph). To help indicate work zones, those red and orange plastic markers are used to delineate lanes.
These rules are codified in the traffic code and through North America, are standard (it's what allows a Canadian to drive in the US and vice versa without many problems, and what allows everyone to travel through different states and provinces without issue).
Of course, that's not to say you don't have problems - on smaller highways between towns truckers have been known to excessively speed through construction zones and create very unsafe conditions (and that's with ample warning that they need to slow down) - if this happens too much they close off an entire side of the road and resort to everyone's favorite "single lane alternating" traffic, and in danger zones, single lane with a lead car setting the pace so even if everyone in front wishes to race, there's a car that will drive at a slow pace and regulate the speed through the work site.
If any signage is going to cause any vision system problems, it's construction signage.
Funny thing, I have the same watch with the Waveceptor thing (sets itself). Oddly, the battery suddenly died out on it one day (I wear it daily). I then realized the battery on it dated way beyond what it was supposed to be - I got it way back in 1996, and I know I've done 2 battery changes on it - about every 5 years or so. Turns out the battery was changed around 2008 or so, so the battery was well beyond the battery life. It was a bit odd since I usually get a low battery alarm. Instead, it was working in the morning, and I noticed when I got home it was dead.
Yes, changing the battery fixed it - it was measuring around 0.2V or so. Danged watch pretty used up the entire battery.
True.
However, I would contend that "Christmas" is less of a Christian thing and now more of a secular thing. After all, how many times have you heard "Christmas is so commerciallized these days".
Basically it's an orgy of gift-giving and overspending and visiting family and friends, and Christmas Day is more about gift giving.
Oh sure, perhaps a few people attend Mass on the 24th, but I'm sure the vast majority of the population does not. (And for a lot of people, Mass was the only time they'd go to church).
So really, I'm guessing since it's really more a secular thing (I've seen Muslims, Hindus and others participate) that "Merry Christmas" is in reference to secular Christmas. Perhaps if we rewound the clock 30-40 years when there was a religious tinge to it still that Happy Holidays was more appropriate to be inclusive. Today? It's a nice gift-giving and sharing and generally universal peace-on-earth type day.
I've noticed many more businesses and all that saying Merry Christmas these days, and many immigrants participate because it's one of the few things people can be inclusive about. Just because your religion doesn't celebrate doesn't exclude me from inviting you in and giving gifts. And I'm sure your religion doesn't mind you doing same. Heck, many Syrian refugees get surprised at the tradition (being Muslim, of course) but are always appreciative and eager to learn about the culture of the people that "adopted" them.
The Colas Wattway generates electricity at about 9 times the cost for half the power of a nearby solar farm - https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The problem is that is the biggest installation available, and it still sucks - when you can have a solar farm installed for way less money ($1.57/watt for the solar farm - the solar roadway costs $6/watt for the panels themselves, the manufacturer expect its to cost $3/watt. So you're already losing because the solar roadway panels cost nearly twice as much as a solar farm installed).
But fine, maybe you're willing to pay 3 times as much per watt (in the future). Except the power generation is about half as much for the roadway over the solar farm. And this is part of the trial run.
And we're not even going into maintenance - of which the solar far has little, while the roadway needs to be cleaned regularly to get rid of the crap traffic lays down on it
It's a solution looking for a problem - even in car-friendly US, there just aren't enough roads to justify it. In fact, it's probably cheaper to build a frame and put solar panels on that covering the roads and have the panels on top generating full power than under the roads at half or less power.
The only reason it really exists is because too many people got duped into investing into a product that is pretty much all hype and no results. Between commercial solar farms, rooftop solar and even sticking solar panels over roadways, solar panels underneath roadways are just a load of bunk. And the Colas Wattway is probably the best refinement of the technology offering the cheapest installation and lowest cost per unit, and it still costs a ton of money. (It's why they have a 1km test site versus about 50m for the others, or just a sidewalk).
SlySoft is DEAD. The company founder was jailed and the company was forced to shut down. (Slysoft was either a company based in Antigua). The company wiped all the front-end servers during the shut down, including customer databases. That company is dead. USTR and AACS LA forced them to close and they folded.
Now, RedFox is composed of the developers of the company - they discovered when SlySoft shut down, and the servers wiped, the source code servers and build machines were very much alive. So they basically stole it all - source code and everything, shut down the old Slysoft servers because the company is legally dead.
For a time, they hosted Slysoft data - at their expense. Remember, the financial assets of Slysoft were seized during the shutdown.
So RedFox guys got together and incorporated in Belize, again, with their own money (they didn't even do a Kickstarter, which is the trendy thing these days). As a goodwill measure, they offered recent licensees a whopping 50% discount off new licenses (including lifetime). This was on top of the 20% discount they were offering to get seed money started, and you can get another 10% if you pay in bitcoin.
They didn't have to do any of it - because legally speaking, Slysoft's assets are no more. They are two completely independent companies. In fact, AnyDVD's source code is technically stolen from Slysoft, but I'm sure SlySoft will not be suing them for the theft.
I'm sure the US Government might try to seize the source code back, but I'm sure that would lead to thornier issues since the wrong move might make it available to all as part of a FOIA.Or who knows what else - treat it wrongly and it might end up through some legislative loopholes to be a US government supported piece of software.
It is drained. Trump replaced the stuff that was hidden behind secret deals and simply made it public. I mean, look at all the leaders of the departments - they're run by industry nowadays.
The FCC is run by basically a Verizon shill. The EPA is run by what, an oil exec? Etc.
Trump said he'd drain the swamp. He didn't promise to clean it up. Everything everyone does can be traced to corruption, but it's out in the open now. Tax cuts for the rich? Well, that's plainly obvious. No need for analysts to figure out this tax cut which looks good for the poor actually funnels money to the 1% - now we just make it all about cutting taxes on the rich.
Easy. Trump's drained the swamp alright. You can see the corruption happening now, when before it all took place behind closed doors.
Well, you can buy the stuff you need online to replace the battery yourself. It only takes a few minutes - Apple has made battery changes super easy to do it yourself. Buy a kit for around $25.
If you don't want to do yourself, you can take it to your local cellphone repair shop - not one of those run by the big guys, but you know the place - a little hole in the wall in some oddball shopping center or strip mall and pay them. Hell, it probably will be $25 as well. Unlike screen repairs, battery replacements require no Apple touchy-feely calibration or anything.
Oh yeah, those are the places that advertise phone screen repairs, too.
Apple offers it at a higher price, and there are very market solutions to it as well. In fact, one could argue Apple is stuck - if they wanted to offer it at $35, they couldn't because they'd put all the little guys out of business, which is generally a very bad thing to do.
So there you have your options, and there are literally thousands of them. You shouldn't have to exit your city because almost all of them have at least a dozen. Pay Apple $80. Do it yourself for $25-35 (I'm sure Amazon sells you a kit with free Prime). Or visit (almost always Asian run) shop doing cellphone repairs for the same price. Best part is those store almost always congregate together so if one person is rude to you, you walk out and go next door. You'll often get better-than-Apple-store treatment.
Oh, they advertise too - usually in local newspapers or Craigslist. Go for the ones that give you the address right there in the ad - there's no reason you must call them to "make an appointment" or "get the address". It will be there right in the ad, if not, move on to the next guy.
The problem is a print engine consists of two pieces - there's the mechanical bits that handle the paper and the drum and the other little things involved with printing, and more importantly, there's all the software behind it. And that's the tricky part - the software behind the print engine controls when the motors turn on and off, the sequencing of the motors, the laser itself, and all sorts of other real-time tasks. And each engine is slightly different enough that it always needs to be tweaked for each engine design. Now, they used to run on microcontrollers, but modern ones run some sort of real-time OS, and the timing is generally done by busy waiting.
And all that stuff is either copyrighted, for for a processor no on e makes anymore and then has to be reverse-engineered.
The test is generally "in the public interest".
A journalist who reports on how $SOME_RICH_GUY paid $30M in order to get his building approved, is in the public interest - it exposes corruption in government. A story about $SOME_RICH_GUY's sex life, or who they're seeing as a girlfriend? Not generally in the public interest unless the choice affects government or people in some way.
And no, "in public interest" does not mean "the public is interested" - reporting on Apple rumors doesn't fall under public interest even if most people are interested in them.
Reporting of news not in public interest generally means you're not a journalist, but an entertainment product creator. You're create a product that titillates, fascinates and interests people ,but is generally not news.
Well, that information is what Lyft tells fares - since Lyfts and Ubers are not uniformly painted and distinctive (like taxis), you need to know what car the driver drives so you can catch your ride. Maybe even a photo, if it's a lesser known vehicle.
For a while, you had a pink thing on the front of your vehicle to help identify it, but I guess it's not used anymore.
Exactly. If you don't know the 30,000 foot view of what you're doing, that's a huge problem. You should know what your software does overall.
"I program videogames" is such a statement. Or "I write medical software". What is your software doing? I work on the Android BSP, so I often say "I work on the Android OS". If they have an Android smartphone, I can add, "like the Android running on your smartphone". That's the high level gist of what I do, and it answers everyone's question succinctly. They don't care I type on the computer, or I work in C/C++/Java or I was working on the Camera HAL code (or the LInux kernel). As far as anyone sees, that is "Android OS".
If you work on a device driver for Windows, it's just as easy to say "I write Windows drivers for our hardware".
I don't understand why it's so hard to explain what you do. No one cares about the individual details - people want to know what you do in a general sense. If they want more details, they'll ask. My auto mechanic will say he's an auto mechanic, even if what he does is balances tires and does car alignments to pay the bills.
Even doctors say they are doctors, regardless of their specialty. Same as surgeons
Even if you write software, you can often describe the type of software - "I work on medical software" or "I work on office software" Or, if you write firmware, "I write the software that runs on your router".etc.