Oddly enough, no one can replicate a fucking BB keyboard, and people still use the damn things JUST for that reason today.
Actually, they can't replicate it because BlackBerry has patents on it. The key shapes and feel have been heavily patented, and BlackBerry has sued many phone and PDA manufacturers over the years who attempted to copy the keyboard layout and design. (Did you know? BlackBerry has a patent on the way the keys are angled).
It's not that no one can replicate the feel of the BlackBerry keyboard, it's that it's so highly patented and BlackBerry has launched so many lawsuits over infringement that no one dares.
A bigger question might be why to morons fly drones in the approach path of airports?
The sad reason is, to get cool video of planes landing.
It's all for the shot - to get that cool video that you post on YouTube and hope goes viral and maybe even make some cash from YouTube's content creation policy.
So, in the end, it's all about money - get the cool video, get lots of money from YouTube (make original content, and YouTube will split ad revenue).
What's to stop Apple immediately releasing an update which 1. installs new keys, and 2. revokes the keys in possession of the FBI? i.e. before the FBI has enough time to modify and release their own version?
"Install this update NOW before law enforcement gets access to your phone?"
Or am I missing something?
If that's a feasible option, they're probably working on it right now.
The problem is the keys CAN'T be updated. They're burned into real ROM (as opposed to OTP), the reason being the boot ROM will verify a signature using the key it has. If the key was stored in alterable (e.g., flash) memory, then it would be possible to erase the key, program your own and jailbreak your device that way.
Of course, that also means third parties like the government can do so as well to have it run custom bootloaders and OS and not have to go through the process to get Apple's key which is the only way to create code that will run on the SoC.
Of course, I'm not entirely sure if the source code would have the key in it - it's possible after having the final IPSW file, Apple takes it on a USB key to a special Mac and has that Mac sign the IPSW. That Mac is airgapped and everything so to create an OS update requires physically going to the Mac and doing the signing there. For development, Apple most certainly has dev boards that don't require a signed image (it won't help the FBI to have these boards).
I suppose the bigger question is - don't the FBI realize what kind of stink they're making? So they acquire the iOS source code. But that immediately casts a huge shadow over the US's prime industry - IP. Because sooner or later, that iOS source code WILL leak from a hack of the FBI, which means any IP industry in the US (i.e., the only sectors making money - movies, music, books, TV, software, etc) is suddenly threatened - the government can seize your content and while they promise to keep it secure, it won't be (see IRS and other hacks) and it'll be a field day - get your Hollywood new theatrical releases the day of, courtesy of the FBI.
It seems like the FBI wants to win the battle, but lose the war. We used to mock China for their poor IP protection policies and state-sanctioned piracy, but it appears the US is going to do worse. At least the Chinese government protects Chinese IP while disregarding foreign IP.
Anyone who deals with IP should pay a lot of attention to this case - if you can be forced to give up your IP, and you know the entity forcing you can't protect it, well, all the copyrights of the world won't protect you.
Seriously - the level of silliness is getting absurd. Forcing Apple to give up their source code means the content industry and IP industry have a shot across the bow - the government will take what they want. And then hackers will have it too. Way to destroy one of the biggest industries in the US.
And I'm sure it will lead to a certain degree of reduced piracy, where some people will be happy to pay to have a good copy streamed to their TV, rather than download a low quality (and illegal) camera copy. But the impact likely won't be huge. I'm sure most will still just download the cemera copy, but at least the option would be there to allow you to purchase it for viewing, legally, and in Blu-Ray quality (or even 4K!)
It will result in reduced piracy. It sounds expensive, but when computed out, it's not too bad. You're not going to use it all the time, but maybe you and a bunch of friends will hang out for dinner, then go to your house and catch the blockbuster opening that very day? That's one heck of a day!
People have been wanting reduced theatre-to-home delays ever since home video came out back in the 80s. Back then it could take 6 months to a year before a movie came to VHS. These days, it's around 3 to 6 months, and there have been experiments where you could buy the disc the same day, at the end of the movie, where it came out on Netflix and theatres the same day, etc.
This seems to be the ultimate ending.
And to be honest, I only go to the movie theatre to experience the enhanced effects - either IMAX or the 3D, DBox or Atmos showings. Regular 2D showings don't impress me as it's just a larger screen. Theatre owners will have to innovate and make their places better than home. Not a bad thing.
Better have Dolby atoms and at least 4k at $50. Also the system should let you do offsite downloads just so the people with low caps can use other places to download at.
Probably not.
First off, not every movie has Atmos, or DTS:X. Plenty are just plain old 7.1 Dolby Digital or DTS. A lot of them, actually.
Secondly, even in the movie industry they may film with 4K+ cameras, but CGI is often still done in 2K, so the resulting output is actually 2K. Most movies are still released in 2K Digital Intermediate format - maybe only one or two are 4K Digital Intermediate, and this is the past 6-12 months of releases. (Star Wars is 2K DI, as is The Martian).
Now, 2K is 2048x1080, so the frame content is only slightly wider than 1080p. However, it is not 1080p as the letterboxing is absent - 2K DI is sent through an anamorphic lens that stretches things out to the 2.2:1-2.4:1 anamorphic format. A 1080p Blu-Ray has to be converted to maintain aspect, so those are letterboxed to around 900-odd pixels high.
As for downloads - the people this caters to are NOT the ones who have low caps. They're likely to have proper home theatre setups with stadium-style seating, properly tuned rooms and projection systems (holding 4-8 people). When you spend $100K+ on a home theatre, worrying about your internet caps is quite unlikely.
I'm not in academia, but I've published a bunch of (mostly IT security) research to be freely read by the public under my own copyright or the copyright of a company that's hired me. My serious question is: what is to prevent individual researchers from just publishing what they have as a PDF or WordPress article on a random site on the Internet? (e.g. are there rules in their contract that says they can only publish through so-and-so service, who has the copyright of academic research, etc.)
Easy - a lot of the journals demand exclusivity. And those are usually the journals you want to be published in (publish or die - your "worth" as a professor is often based on how often you appear in highly regarded journals which affects grants and job/tenure prospects).
It's why sites like ArXiV are called "preprint" - they put their papers up, but they haven't been reviewed or published yet. In the process of publishing there will be revisions to the text, etc., to which the final version of the paper is to appear only in the journal. Depending on the journal, they may allow self-publishing sometime later.
As for public - I'm not even going to say federal grants or anything. I'm going to say - if any taxpayer dollars went into the research, then it must be made publicly available.
Doesn't matter if it's a grant, or if it's a researcher at a publicly funded university operating on a shoestring (no grants, for example). The latter happens usually on an early stage test where you see a pattern and do a very small test to validate that it's not just randomness. You know the studies - the ones where the sample size is ridiculously small to be useful or other problems. Those are often used to bootstrap the research grants.
and it's a native USB drive, no SATA connectors. So that's pretty neat.
Actually, a lot of the USB 3 drives manufactured by WD ARE USB drives, there's no SATA interface exposed anywhere (maybe internally, but that's it).
They've been around for a couple of years now, if not longer, and are a complete PITA because if something goes wrong, you can't fix it by plugging the drive into a dock. Especially common human-based errors like the connector breaking off or distorted because they yanked it out crooked, dropped it with the connector attached, or pushed it in forcefully.
True. I'm not saying it is a good strategy. But they do have a massive mind and market share. Every kid knows "Youtube" at this point.
Yeah, but there's little network effect - if another provider popped up and people start using them, converting from YouTube takes little effort - all the embeds and links go to the new site quite trivially.
This is unlike Facebook or eBay where there are significant network effects that cause people to stay - Facebook in having many users which means their friends and family are on it (and thus trying to convince them to move to another site is nigh-impossible). eBay has lots of sellers and buyers, so sellers know they will likely get top dollar, and buyers know they probably will find it all on eBay. That's not to say there aren't alternative social network sites nor auction/marketplace sites, but they suffer from the network effect as well - those other sites are often desolate and with few people, or buyers and sellers are few and far between. And buyers know they only are coming for a deal - they made the effort to come and there are fewer buyers to compete with so lower prices. Seller do it for lower fees, but often complain they aren't getting "eBay prices" and are getting lowballed.
There's nothing that compels users to YouTube since most people probably get to it via deep links and not just browsing it.
Anyone who's actually taken a closer look at the relevant FCC regulation (or its equally restrictive ETSI counterpart) will struggle to come up with ways to fully comply with this regulation without locking down the firmware. If you have a WLAN chip that has efuses/internal EEPROM that contain country settings, and if the chip reads them instead of the driver, then all is good. In every other case, it's very difficult.
Of course, neither FCC nor ETSI care about that at all. And manufacturers will probably come up with intentionally lousy ways to lock down their firmware because they still want to sell their products and nobody really wants the default firmware:p
It's not difficult. All WLAN chips so far require firmware to operate, and practically none are open source. So all that needs to happen is the firmware reads the channel settings/country settings fuses from the OTP area and act accordingly. Add in a little firmware signing and you're done.
One firmware, all regions. What it does is based on what it reads from the chips.
About the only trick would be that probably most of the chipsets out there don't support this, something that will probably be resolved in a future chip revision.
Just remember to cycle your connection periodically - at least once a day if not longer.
Even if a VPN provider doesn't log, if the authorities are fast enough, they can query who might be on a machine at a particular time and request that information be saved.
All VPN providers will "log" to that extent - they need to know you're logged in after all, so if you're logged into a machine for days at a time, they do have that information available while you're connected. By cycling your connection (disconnect then reconnect), you destroy any record that you were previously on and only have information when you were on now.
Also, don't be an idiot and use a machine as the only person on it. There are actually things called "real time DMCA" where they can deliver DMCA notices to users. But only if they can identify the user - so if you're the only person using a VPN server, makes life easy. Ditto if you use port-forwarding and such since while you're connected, that port is yours and can be accounted for.
The "no logging" part of any VPN means that the moment you disconnect, all trace of your activities as well as the fact you even logged in, are gone. But while you are connected, a temporary "log entry" is created for book-keeping and system upkeep purposes, and those "logs" can be subpoenaed. So cycling often (once a day or so) makes it harder to track you.
Then force them to provide free internet for a whole year to everyone, a fine that pays the customer instead of authorities.
Doesn't work. A lot of hotels already provide "free wifi" but also make money off it. What they do is the WiFi is definitely free - you don't have to pay for it. But it's like 1Mbps. You can then pay $10/night if you want to upgrade to "high speed" 10Mbps or so.
A lot of hotels do this. I wouldn't be surprised if those hotels named also did the same, trying to get people to pay for "premium wifi" over using their phones.
What exactly are the benefits of using an "unofficial app store"? Pirated apps? Apps the Play store won't carry? Because all I've seen about the "unofficial" ones is they seem to be a major source of malware.
Other than sticking your tongue out at iOS users, there are a couple of stores that are good.
I have the Amazon app store, which is nice since Amazon loves to give away paid apps for free - through their daily giveaways as well massive monthly giveaways and even their new one where the more you use it, the more you can get out of it (free paid DLC and stuff).
The other one would be Humble Bundle which lets you get paid android apps for cheap which can't be done on iOS, for example.
The other reason is China doesn't have the Play store, and their app stores are less... vetted, so pirated apps and infected apps are common.
Of course, the sketchier app stores are often used because well, piracy.
Exactly, and there's other apps too. I don't recall if it was in another slashdot discussion or somewhere else, but this topic came up recently and someone pointed to some sort of documentation or other official info on the matter. The gist of it was that apps only have a limited (short) amount of time to run in the background, and then they are forced to shut down. It then went on to say that certain apps that have permissions for certain things can continue to run.
So in summary, apps are not allowed to continue running in the background....unless they are allowed to do so. Which makes the entire argument of "you don't have to manually close them" complete bullshit. Maybe you don't need to for MOST apps, but there are still plenty that do have the permission to continue running.
Apps get around 5 minutes to finish off what they're doing. That's it.
The exceptions would be apps that need to be running in the background - e.g., audio players, navigation apps and VoIP apps.
Audio players are obvious - it would be quite annoying if you put your Spotify or Pandora or the music player or other thing in the background only to have the music stop. Navigation apps are similar - you need to be alerted when you get close. (Waze and other apps also have to keep the GPS active, so it's a double hit on the battery). And VoIP/IM apps need to be active to keep you signed in.
Those are the general classes of apps that can keep background processing. Some apps, like Facebook cheat - they open an audio stream and then play silence, keeping them alive because iOS thinks its a media player app.
Navigation apps can't cheat as they reveal GPS usage.
If your car gets 25 mpg and your odometer shows a change of 7,500 miles at renewal time, how much gas did you use?
The naÃve answer is 300 gallons.
But if you lived in the city, that could easily be 3000 gallons because being stuck in a traffic jam hurts mileage. Or maybe you're one of those people who keeps their car running 24/7 even when it's parked at home so you come to a nice cool car in the summer and a warm one in the winter.
The amount of gas consumed varies greatly. You can't even say 25mpg was the best - with good driving and lots of highways, you can probable get at least 30mpg, if not more.
I can't imagine Home Depot still being in business 10 or 15 years from now. Walking through Home Depot reminds me of every retail chain 6 months before filing for bankruptcy. Lumber is always in bad shape. Overpriced tools. Nursery can't compare to local mom and pop places. The only thing that makes sense to buy from Home Depot are consumables like nails and tape. I can't imagine nails and tape keeping them in business. Home Depot reminds me of Radio Shack circa 2010.
Home Depot is actually much larger than the warehouse you visit - they're a literal supply chain. There are contractor versions of Home Depot ("HD Supply" - guess what HD stands for?) whose sole purpose is to supply all the contractors with stuff, kinda-sorta like Costco, but also a one-stop shop for materials and everything.
Sure, you can find better - you can go to a local nursery for better plants, a lumber yard for better lumber, etc.,but building contractors don't typically want to make 100 stops for all their supplies. If they need more than a few cords of lumber they might contract with a lumber yard for that, but basic supplies they will do it at Home Depot or the contractor store. And yes, in a pinch, they will also go to Home Depot to pick up supplies - again, because they can make one stop to do it.
RTFA. He wasn't talking about Apple's position on encryption. He was saying the argument that the government should be allowed to force Apple to break the iPhone security. He said on Constitutional grounds the government possess the authority to force Apple to break the iPhone security. However, on cyber security grounds, the government should not do that because it would weaken our cyber security. Government's right versus Cyber Security, that's what is close. Law enforcement would gain but we would lose some cyber security. So the balancing act would err on the side of cyber security.
Exactly. The government can, but whether it should is a different matter.
Because once they do, it weakens cybersecurity for all, INCLUDING THE GOVERNMENT. Secrets that were protected, aren't anymore.
So the price of unlocking one phone means potentially losing data on ALL phones. And who are you going to lose the data too? Economic competitors mostly, but also to spy on others. Once the tool is created, any government may request Apple help them. China would love it - they'd "inspect" every iPhone of every high level executive passing through the border to get access to email and other strategic information, which will be passed onto China's local industries.
It was believed that one of the solar energy manufacturers in the US was hacked by China - purely to get at strategic plans. The plans basically made it clear that China needed to flood the PV market with cheap cells, push them into bankruptcy and then scoop up the technology for cheap.
But basically the gist is - for one iPhone, you're basically putting the entire US intelligence and industry at risk
Most motherboards with 2 or 3 x16 slots really only have all 16 lanes hooked into one slot - the others are usually 8 lanes or less - 16-8-4 iisn't even an uncommon configuration (PCIe tip - the slots are really just physical - you can put x16 slots even though it's hooked up to x1 so you can fit in any PCIe card, albeit only running at x1 speeds. It's why Apple's old Mac Pros used x16 slots - that way they can accept ANY PCIe card).
So now what to do... GPU in x16 slot, and slow down my fast SSD by putting it in a x8? Or have my SSD be nice and fast by putting it in the x16 slot and slow down my FPS by putting the GPU in the s8 slot?
Nevermind if you want to do SLI or CrossFire and now have to deal with 2 x16 GPUs and 1 x16 SSD...
You can't buy these certificates. You have to get one from Apple, who will hopefully check out the company. In this case the company that Apple checked was careless and I hope they'll pay the price for that.
Apple doesn't check out the company. They shouldn't - after all, Apple should not be censoring programs on OS X as a general purpose PC. What buying a certificate does is validate the payment chain - in order to bill a credit card, you now have the billing address and name of the owner. Presumably the credit card issuer has been able to verify it as a legitimate mailing address (since the card was sent there), etc.
Basically, paying the money means that Apple now has a legitimate address and a way of identifying the developer. In addition, while $99 is not a lot of money, it's still money you hope not to pay again, so when a certificate is cancelled, the developer now has to pony up ANOTHER $99 to pay for a new one. Which is incentive to protect it.
In that vein, the current pain-point for the ODroid-2 is the fact that the AMLogic S905 SoC it is based on has no mainline kernel support; and the current vendor fork is of a version heading toward EOL uncomfortably quickly. There is supposed to be a mainlining effort that will fix this before the current option actually goes EOL; but that remains to be seen.
I must admit that (having come into linux back in the delightful days when Broadcom wireless meant screwing around with NDISwrapper) it's a bit of a shock; but the rPi actually has an atypically high plays-well-with-others factor. You can get them cheaper; and you can get them better; but until the 'every ARM SoC is its own dysfunctional port' issue gets ironed out, some very promising hardware can end up hobbled by neurotic and antique software.
In other words, the rPi may not be the best, but it has mainline support, and community behind it. So yes, you can do a lot better, but you run the risk of being stuck. Whereas a board like the rPi has the advantage of community and longer term support. Honestly, I'd take the longer term support over flash-in-the-pan boards which are released then forgotten about.
That's why the rPi is still around despite better hardware being available - the support available is way better than what is available elsewhere. Too many vendors are simply kicking out boards and that's it - make some profit and run away.
Then a realistic estimate for the real development costs is USD 99 x 5 + USD 1300 MacBook Pro 13 + USD 249 Apple Care for MacBook Pro 13 for a total of USD 2044 / 5 years or USD 409 per year, not including any software, online storage and backup, web services, backup software and storage, etc.
Well, if you were a shareware developer that was hard up, I'd ditch the laptop and get a Mac Mini, which can be had for around $500 and updated far less often. I'd also ditch the AppleCare plan and self-insure, which should bring the cost down considerably. Yes, you need to supply a keyboard, mouse and monitor, but if you're resourceful, those can be had for practically free. So your total cost is around $200 a year, or half o what you figured going the economy route. Though if you're really trying to skimp, I would suggest finding a regular day job to pay the bills and do the shareware stuff on the side, like most developers out there.
You can develop on Macs on even the most low end of Macs.
Be careful about dropping it into a base while half asleep. Putting it in backwards will shut down the phone and throw an overcurrent on the USB port.
Did in once on my Z1, they might have fixed it. Bridge rectifiers aren't expensive.
MagSafe isn't polarized, either. A clever arrangement of 6 pins (2 for power, 2 for ground), and an offset set of pins for data will ensure it is possible to charge either orientation, though data will only work one way. If you go with 7 pins, you can make data work non-polarized as well.
Real-time mirroring or other fault tolerance scheme might become the only reasonable solution to data assurance.
They're not reasonable solutions. An accidental "rm -rf/" will see its effects rippled into the "backup" in real time.
And what's wrong with that? Because if you wanted to undo that, you just use the backup of the filesystem as it was before you executed the fateful command.
Are we stuck in the thinking that we can only have one complete copy of something? Must suck for daily backups where we lose yesterday's backup after today's was made.
Oh wait, no, we can have multiple backups - and even with a continual backup system, it means we have multiple time-separated copies. Heck, Time Machine does this! It backs up every 15 minutes by default. Delete a file, and you simply go back to the last backup before the deletion and recover it. (Time machine aware apps can even use it to see how a document evolves over time, even use it to get back passages that were removed).
Indeed, a continuous backup starts blurring the lines between backup and versioning.
So is anyone actually selling these inexpensive computers?
If you look up the open compute project in Wikipedia and look at the OCP solution providers, none of them lists any pricing for OCP hardware, just "consult with us for a quote" buttons (at best).
Maybe they are cheaper if you're buying a floor's worth of racks, but it's hard to see how they would be much cheaper than SuperMicro cases and standard motherboards at quantities below that, or necessarily even cheaper than low-budget Dell systems.
Well, this is really for Google- or Facebook- or other sized data centers where density and efficiency are key. If you're not planning on outfitting an entire data center, then OCP isn't really for you - if you're just going to be a colo or renting colo space, a "standard" rackmount will be cheaper and more standard in industry.
Hence why it's all "call for quote" - they're not going to sell you one server, or even a rack of servers - they're wanting to deal with 10s of racks at a minimum. You're also going to want to engineer your datacenter for these racks - power, cooling and other demands are likely to be quite different from the standard rackmounts.
Came here to read/make this comment. Apparantly Sony are dropping the mag port. USB sockets are fragile as fuck, and anyone who puts a mag port or some other alternative method of charging that obviates the need to use the usb port a few thousand times over the life of the device (when they only last a few hundred) gets my money.
Probably because people are complaining about a "proprietary" USB port on those phones incompatible with any cable you can buy cheaply.
We hear it all the time with Apple - despite Apple only having had two different USB compatible connectors (30 pin dock and lightning) used on their whole range of products, people still complain how Apple is "proprietary". How do you think people react when Sony, who ships far less units than Apple will react? Apple used it on all their products and people still complained how they weren't micro-USB compatible. Or mini USB compatible way back when. Or USB-C compatible now.
So yeah. Standards rock. Except when they don't. (Incidentally, proper lightning cables the ones with the Made for iPhone/iPod logo, actually are completely waterproof, as are the ports).
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Actually, they can't replicate it because BlackBerry has patents on it. The key shapes and feel have been heavily patented, and BlackBerry has sued many phone and PDA manufacturers over the years who attempted to copy the keyboard layout and design. (Did you know? BlackBerry has a patent on the way the keys are angled).
It's not that no one can replicate the feel of the BlackBerry keyboard, it's that it's so highly patented and BlackBerry has launched so many lawsuits over infringement that no one dares.
The sad reason is, to get cool video of planes landing.
It's all for the shot - to get that cool video that you post on YouTube and hope goes viral and maybe even make some cash from YouTube's content creation policy.
So, in the end, it's all about money - get the cool video, get lots of money from YouTube (make original content, and YouTube will split ad revenue).
The problem is the keys CAN'T be updated. They're burned into real ROM (as opposed to OTP), the reason being the boot ROM will verify a signature using the key it has. If the key was stored in alterable (e.g., flash) memory, then it would be possible to erase the key, program your own and jailbreak your device that way.
Of course, that also means third parties like the government can do so as well to have it run custom bootloaders and OS and not have to go through the process to get Apple's key which is the only way to create code that will run on the SoC.
Of course, I'm not entirely sure if the source code would have the key in it - it's possible after having the final IPSW file, Apple takes it on a USB key to a special Mac and has that Mac sign the IPSW. That Mac is airgapped and everything so to create an OS update requires physically going to the Mac and doing the signing there. For development, Apple most certainly has dev boards that don't require a signed image (it won't help the FBI to have these boards).
I suppose the bigger question is - don't the FBI realize what kind of stink they're making? So they acquire the iOS source code. But that immediately casts a huge shadow over the US's prime industry - IP. Because sooner or later, that iOS source code WILL leak from a hack of the FBI, which means any IP industry in the US (i.e., the only sectors making money - movies, music, books, TV, software, etc) is suddenly threatened - the government can seize your content and while they promise to keep it secure, it won't be (see IRS and other hacks) and it'll be a field day - get your Hollywood new theatrical releases the day of, courtesy of the FBI.
It seems like the FBI wants to win the battle, but lose the war. We used to mock China for their poor IP protection policies and state-sanctioned piracy, but it appears the US is going to do worse. At least the Chinese government protects Chinese IP while disregarding foreign IP.
Anyone who deals with IP should pay a lot of attention to this case - if you can be forced to give up your IP, and you know the entity forcing you can't protect it, well, all the copyrights of the world won't protect you.
Seriously - the level of silliness is getting absurd. Forcing Apple to give up their source code means the content industry and IP industry have a shot across the bow - the government will take what they want. And then hackers will have it too. Way to destroy one of the biggest industries in the US.
It will result in reduced piracy. It sounds expensive, but when computed out, it's not too bad. You're not going to use it all the time, but maybe you and a bunch of friends will hang out for dinner, then go to your house and catch the blockbuster opening that very day? That's one heck of a day!
People have been wanting reduced theatre-to-home delays ever since home video came out back in the 80s. Back then it could take 6 months to a year before a movie came to VHS. These days, it's around 3 to 6 months, and there have been experiments where you could buy the disc the same day, at the end of the movie, where it came out on Netflix and theatres the same day, etc.
This seems to be the ultimate ending.
And to be honest, I only go to the movie theatre to experience the enhanced effects - either IMAX or the 3D, DBox or Atmos showings. Regular 2D showings don't impress me as it's just a larger screen. Theatre owners will have to innovate and make their places better than home. Not a bad thing.
Probably not.
First off, not every movie has Atmos, or DTS:X. Plenty are just plain old 7.1 Dolby Digital or DTS. A lot of them, actually.
Secondly, even in the movie industry they may film with 4K+ cameras, but CGI is often still done in 2K, so the resulting output is actually 2K. Most movies are still released in 2K Digital Intermediate format - maybe only one or two are 4K Digital Intermediate, and this is the past 6-12 months of releases. (Star Wars is 2K DI, as is The Martian).
Now, 2K is 2048x1080, so the frame content is only slightly wider than 1080p. However, it is not 1080p as the letterboxing is absent - 2K DI is sent through an anamorphic lens that stretches things out to the 2.2:1-2.4:1 anamorphic format. A 1080p Blu-Ray has to be converted to maintain aspect, so those are letterboxed to around 900-odd pixels high.
As for downloads - the people this caters to are NOT the ones who have low caps. They're likely to have proper home theatre setups with stadium-style seating, properly tuned rooms and projection systems (holding 4-8 people). When you spend $100K+ on a home theatre, worrying about your internet caps is quite unlikely.
Easy - a lot of the journals demand exclusivity. And those are usually the journals you want to be published in (publish or die - your "worth" as a professor is often based on how often you appear in highly regarded journals which affects grants and job/tenure prospects).
It's why sites like ArXiV are called "preprint" - they put their papers up, but they haven't been reviewed or published yet. In the process of publishing there will be revisions to the text, etc., to which the final version of the paper is to appear only in the journal. Depending on the journal, they may allow self-publishing sometime later.
As for public - I'm not even going to say federal grants or anything. I'm going to say - if any taxpayer dollars went into the research, then it must be made publicly available.
Doesn't matter if it's a grant, or if it's a researcher at a publicly funded university operating on a shoestring (no grants, for example). The latter happens usually on an early stage test where you see a pattern and do a very small test to validate that it's not just randomness. You know the studies - the ones where the sample size is ridiculously small to be useful or other problems. Those are often used to bootstrap the research grants.
Exactly.
Perhaps they shouldn't take down his sites, but distribute the movie that Trump himself suppressed. He threatened to sue any broadcaster who aired the movie, which was really created to show celebrity businessmen.
And that was 25 years ago. Either it's a bunch of lies and Trump is right, or there's some real content in there that perhaps shouldn't be released?
Actually, a lot of the USB 3 drives manufactured by WD ARE USB drives, there's no SATA interface exposed anywhere (maybe internally, but that's it).
They've been around for a couple of years now, if not longer, and are a complete PITA because if something goes wrong, you can't fix it by plugging the drive into a dock. Especially common human-based errors like the connector breaking off or distorted because they yanked it out crooked, dropped it with the connector attached, or pushed it in forcefully.
Yeah, but there's little network effect - if another provider popped up and people start using them, converting from YouTube takes little effort - all the embeds and links go to the new site quite trivially.
This is unlike Facebook or eBay where there are significant network effects that cause people to stay - Facebook in having many users which means their friends and family are on it (and thus trying to convince them to move to another site is nigh-impossible). eBay has lots of sellers and buyers, so sellers know they will likely get top dollar, and buyers know they probably will find it all on eBay. That's not to say there aren't alternative social network sites nor auction/marketplace sites, but they suffer from the network effect as well - those other sites are often desolate and with few people, or buyers and sellers are few and far between. And buyers know they only are coming for a deal - they made the effort to come and there are fewer buyers to compete with so lower prices. Seller do it for lower fees, but often complain they aren't getting "eBay prices" and are getting lowballed.
There's nothing that compels users to YouTube since most people probably get to it via deep links and not just browsing it.
It's not difficult. All WLAN chips so far require firmware to operate, and practically none are open source. So all that needs to happen is the firmware reads the channel settings/country settings fuses from the OTP area and act accordingly. Add in a little firmware signing and you're done.
One firmware, all regions. What it does is based on what it reads from the chips.
About the only trick would be that probably most of the chipsets out there don't support this, something that will probably be resolved in a future chip revision.
Just remember to cycle your connection periodically - at least once a day if not longer.
Even if a VPN provider doesn't log, if the authorities are fast enough, they can query who might be on a machine at a particular time and request that information be saved.
All VPN providers will "log" to that extent - they need to know you're logged in after all, so if you're logged into a machine for days at a time, they do have that information available while you're connected. By cycling your connection (disconnect then reconnect), you destroy any record that you were previously on and only have information when you were on now.
Also, don't be an idiot and use a machine as the only person on it. There are actually things called "real time DMCA" where they can deliver DMCA notices to users. But only if they can identify the user - so if you're the only person using a VPN server, makes life easy. Ditto if you use port-forwarding and such since while you're connected, that port is yours and can be accounted for.
The "no logging" part of any VPN means that the moment you disconnect, all trace of your activities as well as the fact you even logged in, are gone. But while you are connected, a temporary "log entry" is created for book-keeping and system upkeep purposes, and those "logs" can be subpoenaed. So cycling often (once a day or so) makes it harder to track you.
Doesn't work. A lot of hotels already provide "free wifi" but also make money off it. What they do is the WiFi is definitely free - you don't have to pay for it. But it's like 1Mbps. You can then pay $10/night if you want to upgrade to "high speed" 10Mbps or so.
A lot of hotels do this. I wouldn't be surprised if those hotels named also did the same, trying to get people to pay for "premium wifi" over using their phones.
Other than sticking your tongue out at iOS users, there are a couple of stores that are good.
I have the Amazon app store, which is nice since Amazon loves to give away paid apps for free - through their daily giveaways as well massive monthly giveaways and even their new one where the more you use it, the more you can get out of it (free paid DLC and stuff).
The other one would be Humble Bundle which lets you get paid android apps for cheap which can't be done on iOS, for example.
The other reason is China doesn't have the Play store, and their app stores are less ... vetted, so pirated apps and infected apps are common.
Of course, the sketchier app stores are often used because well, piracy.
Apps get around 5 minutes to finish off what they're doing. That's it.
The exceptions would be apps that need to be running in the background - e.g., audio players, navigation apps and VoIP apps.
Audio players are obvious - it would be quite annoying if you put your Spotify or Pandora or the music player or other thing in the background only to have the music stop. Navigation apps are similar - you need to be alerted when you get close. (Waze and other apps also have to keep the GPS active, so it's a double hit on the battery). And VoIP/IM apps need to be active to keep you signed in.
Those are the general classes of apps that can keep background processing. Some apps, like Facebook cheat - they open an audio stream and then play silence, keeping them alive because iOS thinks its a media player app.
Navigation apps can't cheat as they reveal GPS usage.
The naÃve answer is 300 gallons.
But if you lived in the city, that could easily be 3000 gallons because being stuck in a traffic jam hurts mileage. Or maybe you're one of those people who keeps their car running 24/7 even when it's parked at home so you come to a nice cool car in the summer and a warm one in the winter.
The amount of gas consumed varies greatly. You can't even say 25mpg was the best - with good driving and lots of highways, you can probable get at least 30mpg, if not more.
Home Depot is actually much larger than the warehouse you visit - they're a literal supply chain. There are contractor versions of Home Depot ("HD Supply" - guess what HD stands for?) whose sole purpose is to supply all the contractors with stuff, kinda-sorta like Costco, but also a one-stop shop for materials and everything.
Sure, you can find better - you can go to a local nursery for better plants, a lumber yard for better lumber, etc.,but building contractors don't typically want to make 100 stops for all their supplies. If they need more than a few cords of lumber they might contract with a lumber yard for that, but basic supplies they will do it at Home Depot or the contractor store. And yes, in a pinch, they will also go to Home Depot to pick up supplies - again, because they can make one stop to do it.
Exactly. The government can, but whether it should is a different matter.
Because once they do, it weakens cybersecurity for all, INCLUDING THE GOVERNMENT. Secrets that were protected, aren't anymore.
So the price of unlocking one phone means potentially losing data on ALL phones. And who are you going to lose the data too? Economic competitors mostly, but also to spy on others. Once the tool is created, any government may request Apple help them. China would love it - they'd "inspect" every iPhone of every high level executive passing through the border to get access to email and other strategic information, which will be passed onto China's local industries.
It was believed that one of the solar energy manufacturers in the US was hacked by China - purely to get at strategic plans. The plans basically made it clear that China needed to flood the PV market with cheap cells, push them into bankruptcy and then scoop up the technology for cheap.
But basically the gist is - for one iPhone, you're basically putting the entire US intelligence and industry at risk
Crap. Now what to do here for my new PC build?
Most motherboards with 2 or 3 x16 slots really only have all 16 lanes hooked into one slot - the others are usually 8 lanes or less - 16-8-4 iisn't even an uncommon configuration (PCIe tip - the slots are really just physical - you can put x16 slots even though it's hooked up to x1 so you can fit in any PCIe card, albeit only running at x1 speeds. It's why Apple's old Mac Pros used x16 slots - that way they can accept ANY PCIe card).
So now what to do... GPU in x16 slot, and slow down my fast SSD by putting it in a x8? Or have my SSD be nice and fast by putting it in the x16 slot and slow down my FPS by putting the GPU in the s8 slot?
Nevermind if you want to do SLI or CrossFire and now have to deal with 2 x16 GPUs and 1 x16 SSD...
Apple doesn't check out the company. They shouldn't - after all, Apple should not be censoring programs on OS X as a general purpose PC. What buying a certificate does is validate the payment chain - in order to bill a credit card, you now have the billing address and name of the owner. Presumably the credit card issuer has been able to verify it as a legitimate mailing address (since the card was sent there), etc.
Basically, paying the money means that Apple now has a legitimate address and a way of identifying the developer. In addition, while $99 is not a lot of money, it's still money you hope not to pay again, so when a certificate is cancelled, the developer now has to pony up ANOTHER $99 to pay for a new one. Which is incentive to protect it.
In other words, the rPi may not be the best, but it has mainline support, and community behind it. So yes, you can do a lot better, but you run the risk of being stuck. Whereas a board like the rPi has the advantage of community and longer term support. Honestly, I'd take the longer term support over flash-in-the-pan boards which are released then forgotten about.
That's why the rPi is still around despite better hardware being available - the support available is way better than what is available elsewhere. Too many vendors are simply kicking out boards and that's it - make some profit and run away.
Well, if you were a shareware developer that was hard up, I'd ditch the laptop and get a Mac Mini, which can be had for around $500 and updated far less often. I'd also ditch the AppleCare plan and self-insure, which should bring the cost down considerably. Yes, you need to supply a keyboard, mouse and monitor, but if you're resourceful, those can be had for practically free. So your total cost is around $200 a year, or half o what you figured going the economy route. Though if you're really trying to skimp, I would suggest finding a regular day job to pay the bills and do the shareware stuff on the side, like most developers out there.
You can develop on Macs on even the most low end of Macs.
MagSafe isn't polarized, either. A clever arrangement of 6 pins (2 for power, 2 for ground), and an offset set of pins for data will ensure it is possible to charge either orientation, though data will only work one way. If you go with 7 pins, you can make data work non-polarized as well.
And what's wrong with that? Because if you wanted to undo that, you just use the backup of the filesystem as it was before you executed the fateful command.
Are we stuck in the thinking that we can only have one complete copy of something? Must suck for daily backups where we lose yesterday's backup after today's was made.
Oh wait, no, we can have multiple backups - and even with a continual backup system, it means we have multiple time-separated copies. Heck, Time Machine does this! It backs up every 15 minutes by default. Delete a file, and you simply go back to the last backup before the deletion and recover it. (Time machine aware apps can even use it to see how a document evolves over time, even use it to get back passages that were removed).
Indeed, a continuous backup starts blurring the lines between backup and versioning.
Well, this is really for Google- or Facebook- or other sized data centers where density and efficiency are key. If you're not planning on outfitting an entire data center, then OCP isn't really for you - if you're just going to be a colo or renting colo space, a "standard" rackmount will be cheaper and more standard in industry.
Hence why it's all "call for quote" - they're not going to sell you one server, or even a rack of servers - they're wanting to deal with 10s of racks at a minimum. You're also going to want to engineer your datacenter for these racks - power, cooling and other demands are likely to be quite different from the standard rackmounts.
Probably because people are complaining about a "proprietary" USB port on those phones incompatible with any cable you can buy cheaply.
We hear it all the time with Apple - despite Apple only having had two different USB compatible connectors (30 pin dock and lightning) used on their whole range of products, people still complain how Apple is "proprietary". How do you think people react when Sony, who ships far less units than Apple will react? Apple used it on all their products and people still complained how they weren't micro-USB compatible. Or mini USB compatible way back when. Or USB-C compatible now.
So yeah. Standards rock. Except when they don't. (Incidentally, proper lightning cables the ones with the Made for iPhone/iPod logo, actually are completely waterproof, as are the ports).