Sounds related to making sure Windows S devices can be kept up to date. I'm thinking of devices in the Surface Go class (I don't know if that has an Intel GPU or not, but you get the idea - that kind of a device).
Joke taken and yes - that's what I want. But I also want it to respond to me saying "Siri, house off" at night so I don't have to get out of bed to check whether I've forgotten to turn the utility room light off. Again.
On a scale of 1 to world peace the problem is more at the 0.00001 level, but in the realm of home automation? I'm finding it limiting.
Should add - I'm in the UK and use LightwaveRF kit. Works well, but pure on/off is more complex and requires various relay installs etc.. I'd like a simple switch unit that is pure binary on/off, not dimmer. The reasons are as above - automation of things that do not accept dimming bulbs,
It's a compatibility thing a opposed to ease of use. For those to work, you need dimmer-compatible bulbs. Some circuits aren't - suppose I want to automate turning on/off a fluorescent lamp in a work area for instance.
There are also very few light switches. Plenty of dimmers, but straight on/of? Nope.
This is fine for lighting in your living room or whatever, but kind of useless for lighting in a utility room or bathroom or what have you. I like the home setup I have but it's definitely incomplete - I would like straightforward on/off switches to be easily available.
I can remember laughing at people who thought it was possible to get a virus through email. And then...yeah, not laughing quite so much anymore. What the hell is this one? Ye gods.
Another happy voice - used it for years without issue, connecting to a dual-booted Mac (yep...) running Windows for gaming in the study down through an old HomePlug connection.
Had very few issues - the main one I noticed is that often you'd want to make sure the game had been run at least once, or you could get into odd resolution-switching scenarios when various component installers popped up out of nowhere. But yep - worked fine and paired with a Steam Controller I got a lot of use out of that box.
I should add - this is all over some sampled speech that I use throughout the piece. Too long to be fair use, and it's the centre point of the music anyway.
Thanks for the question. It's because I can't identify all the rights holders, so cannot publish due to the risk of being sued for copyright later. I've tried - I contacted the BBC (it's a BBC programme from 1982), I contacted Getty who now administer it...everyone. They told me who might have a right and confirmed that others had rights than those I had already identified. But they couldn't tell me who, only that it would be breach of copyright to publish without identifying.
Oh, and Getty also wanted to charge me £500 to use it, after first insisting they would only deal with corporations anyway and not individuals like me. That would be £500 for one set of rights - the BBC. They then told me I would need to individually contact the presenter who read the script, and the scriptwriter. They also couldn't identify the scriptwriter.
Result? Impossible to publish. Financially a non-starter but let's assume for a moment it wasn't, and that I had some sure-fire hit that easily justified paying three sets of people at minimum £500 each after individually tracking down all contact details...still I couldn't publish, because I wouldn't know where the rights for the script were held. I assumed the BBC. Apparently not.
Does anyone remember Phoenix? It was the browser born from the bloat of Mozilla, created by someone outside the Mozilla organisation. Bloat stripped out - just a quick browser, with a couple of themes. After a series of naming contests and odd copyright disputes (Firebird) it became....Firefox.
Rules exist today though - look at my "can't publish" example, that's real and something I tried to do in all good faith. Whereas they're arguing they already have published something like that and shouldn't be held accountable for it.
No-one above the law. Look at this example: "Although YouTube has agreements with multiple entities to license and pay for the video, some of the rights holders remain unknown. ".
Yeah, that's the same with abandonware. Or even in hobbyist music I wrote which I can't release for exactly this reason. Same rules for everyone. Either campaign to remove those rules for everyone, or suck it up and comply. One or the other.
It exists in every country, it just seems to be actively marketed more in the States. What's happening is that a number of agencies aggregate data about your payments on things like credit cards, mortgages, cars, other loans etc.. They look at how much you owe and what your payment record for them is. They then assign a score for you - your 'credit rating'.
When this comes into play is when you want to get some form of credit. That might be anything from getting a mobile phone on a monthly payment plan, financing a car, or getting a mortgage for your house. The institution offering you that credit will likely look at your credit score from one of these agencies, decide how risky you are and then if you have a low score the may either deny or ask for a high rate of interest when giving the credit to you, or if you have a low score they may offer a low rate of interest or a higher amount of credit.
Oh yes, that's not what I meant at all. I'm just fed up of the hype trains for vapourware from various companies that appear just before an Apple event. Although these days, the Apple event itself can be slinging vapourware too - hello their wireless charging thingy.
Amazing how these Samsung foldable display things always turn up about a week away from the next Apple conference. Like their foldable phones etc. which magically reappeared in the press just before the release of the last iPhone batch.
They've been saying it for years. Don't get bye wrong - I'm sure they actually are working on them and I'd like to see one. I'm just bored of the whole crank-out-a-foldable-display-story-one-week-before-an-Apple-conference routine.
Anyone else remember Ananova? Was a news site that optionally used an avatar to read the news, very early one. I bookmarked that site for years, and in fact when the domain was expiring I tried to buy it simply in order to keep my bookmarks the same.
It's not the same product, but with it being news industry related and so similar a name, I wonder if it might have any of the same people around.
That's exactly how VICE on the desktop works. You change the image in the menus and press whatever the game is telling you to. Essential for playing Psi 5 Trading Company.
To be fair, you say 'Anyone asserting Woz has not "done" anything since the ][ and its disk operating system has not read enough about what the ][ was', which directly talks about the Apple II. You don't mention anything he's done since, but let's be quick - all of them were as an investor except one (Wheels of Zeus - tags to track your kids) and to my knowledge at least all of them have been commercial failures.
Woz was a great 8 bit circuit board engineer, but so were many others. Remember Woz couldn't actually get the board to boot and needed Chuck Peddle to intervene - even then you had to boot it twice to clear the memory. Being a great circuit layout guy doesn't qualify you (or disqualify you) from being able to run a university. I'm sticking with it - I've seen nothing he's done since that has been a great advance.
To be fair, you say 'Anyone asserting Woz has not "done" anything since the ][ and its disk operating system has not read enough about what the ][ was', which directly talks about the Apple II. You don't mention anything he's done since, but let's be quick - all of them were as an investor except one (Wheels of Zeus - tags to track your kids) and to my knowledge at least all of them have been commercial failures.
Woz was a great 8 bit circuit board engineer, but so were many others. Remember Woz couldn't actually get the board to boot and needed Chuck Peddle to intervene - even then you had to boot it twice to clear the memory. Being a great circuit layout guy doesn't qualify you (or disqualify you) from being able to run a university. I'm sticking with it - I've seen nothing he's done since that has been a great advance.
Annoyingly last gen round it was pot luck - you could get a Qualcomm or Intel and there was no way of knowing which you'd end up with. Guess who got the Intel...
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Sounds related to making sure Windows S devices can be kept up to date. I'm thinking of devices in the Surface Go class (I don't know if that has an Intel GPU or not, but you get the idea - that kind of a device).
Very informative - thank you.
Joke taken and yes - that's what I want. But I also want it to respond to me saying "Siri, house off" at night so I don't have to get out of bed to check whether I've forgotten to turn the utility room light off. Again.
On a scale of 1 to world peace the problem is more at the 0.00001 level, but in the realm of home automation? I'm finding it limiting.
Should add - I'm in the UK and use LightwaveRF kit. Works well, but pure on/off is more complex and requires various relay installs etc.. I'd like a simple switch unit that is pure binary on/off, not dimmer. The reasons are as above - automation of things that do not accept dimming bulbs,
It's a compatibility thing a opposed to ease of use. For those to work, you need dimmer-compatible bulbs. Some circuits aren't - suppose I want to automate turning on/off a fluorescent lamp in a work area for instance.
There are also very few light switches. Plenty of dimmers, but straight on/of? Nope.
This is fine for lighting in your living room or whatever, but kind of useless for lighting in a utility room or bathroom or what have you. I like the home setup I have but it's definitely incomplete - I would like straightforward on/off switches to be easily available.
I can remember laughing at people who thought it was possible to get a virus through email. And then...yeah, not laughing quite so much anymore. What the hell is this one? Ye gods.
Another happy voice - used it for years without issue, connecting to a dual-booted Mac (yep...) running Windows for gaming in the study down through an old HomePlug connection.
Had very few issues - the main one I noticed is that often you'd want to make sure the game had been run at least once, or you could get into odd resolution-switching scenarios when various component installers popped up out of nowhere. But yep - worked fine and paired with a Steam Controller I got a lot of use out of that box.
I should add - this is all over some sampled speech that I use throughout the piece. Too long to be fair use, and it's the centre point of the music anyway.
Thanks for the question. It's because I can't identify all the rights holders, so cannot publish due to the risk of being sued for copyright later. I've tried - I contacted the BBC (it's a BBC programme from 1982), I contacted Getty who now administer it...everyone. They told me who might have a right and confirmed that others had rights than those I had already identified. But they couldn't tell me who, only that it would be breach of copyright to publish without identifying.
Oh, and Getty also wanted to charge me £500 to use it, after first insisting they would only deal with corporations anyway and not individuals like me. That would be £500 for one set of rights - the BBC. They then told me I would need to individually contact the presenter who read the script, and the scriptwriter. They also couldn't identify the scriptwriter.
Result? Impossible to publish. Financially a non-starter but let's assume for a moment it wasn't, and that I had some sure-fire hit that easily justified paying three sets of people at minimum £500 each after individually tracking down all contact details...still I couldn't publish, because I wouldn't know where the rights for the script were held. I assumed the BBC. Apparently not.
Yep, I agree. It's why I have no sympathy for their attempt at moralising here.
Does anyone remember Phoenix? It was the browser born from the bloat of Mozilla, created by someone outside the Mozilla organisation. Bloat stripped out - just a quick browser, with a couple of themes. After a series of naming contests and odd copyright disputes (Firebird) it became....Firefox.
It's time for another Phoenix project.
Rules exist today though - look at my "can't publish" example, that's real and something I tried to do in all good faith. Whereas they're arguing they already have published something like that and shouldn't be held accountable for it.
No-one above the law. Look at this example: "Although YouTube has agreements with multiple entities to license and pay for the video, some of the rights holders remain unknown. ".
Yeah, that's the same with abandonware. Or even in hobbyist music I wrote which I can't release for exactly this reason. Same rules for everyone. Either campaign to remove those rules for everyone, or suck it up and comply. One or the other.
So submit the patch instead of waiting for someone else to for 15 months.
It exists in every country, it just seems to be actively marketed more in the States. What's happening is that a number of agencies aggregate data about your payments on things like credit cards, mortgages, cars, other loans etc.. They look at how much you owe and what your payment record for them is. They then assign a score for you - your 'credit rating'.
When this comes into play is when you want to get some form of credit. That might be anything from getting a mobile phone on a monthly payment plan, financing a car, or getting a mortgage for your house. The institution offering you that credit will likely look at your credit score from one of these agencies, decide how risky you are and then if you have a low score the may either deny or ask for a high rate of interest when giving the credit to you, or if you have a low score they may offer a low rate of interest or a higher amount of credit.
Oh yes, that's not what I meant at all. I'm just fed up of the hype trains for vapourware from various companies that appear just before an Apple event. Although these days, the Apple event itself can be slinging vapourware too - hello their wireless charging thingy.
Amazing how these Samsung foldable display things always turn up about a week away from the next Apple conference. Like their foldable phones etc. which magically reappeared in the press just before the release of the last iPhone batch.
They've been saying it for years. Don't get bye wrong - I'm sure they actually are working on them and I'd like to see one. I'm just bored of the whole crank-out-a-foldable-display-story-one-week-before-an-Apple-conference routine.
Anyone else remember Ananova? Was a news site that optionally used an avatar to read the news, very early one. I bookmarked that site for years, and in fact when the domain was expiring I tried to buy it simply in order to keep my bookmarks the same.
It's not the same product, but with it being news industry related and so similar a name, I wonder if it might have any of the same people around.
That's exactly how VICE on the desktop works. You change the image in the menus and press whatever the game is telling you to. Essential for playing Psi 5 Trading Company.
Apologies - paragraphs:
To be fair, you say 'Anyone asserting Woz has not "done" anything since the ][ and its disk operating system has not read enough about what the ][ was', which directly talks about the Apple II. You don't mention anything he's done since, but let's be quick - all of them were as an investor except one (Wheels of Zeus - tags to track your kids) and to my knowledge at least all of them have been commercial failures.
Woz was a great 8 bit circuit board engineer, but so were many others. Remember Woz couldn't actually get the board to boot and needed Chuck Peddle to intervene - even then you had to boot it twice to clear the memory. Being a great circuit layout guy doesn't qualify you (or disqualify you) from being able to run a university. I'm sticking with it - I've seen nothing he's done since that has been a great advance.
To be fair, you say 'Anyone asserting Woz has not "done" anything since the ][ and its disk operating system has not read enough about what the ][ was', which directly talks about the Apple II. You don't mention anything he's done since, but let's be quick - all of them were as an investor except one (Wheels of Zeus - tags to track your kids) and to my knowledge at least all of them have been commercial failures. Woz was a great 8 bit circuit board engineer, but so were many others. Remember Woz couldn't actually get the board to boot and needed Chuck Peddle to intervene - even then you had to boot it twice to clear the memory. Being a great circuit layout guy doesn't qualify you (or disqualify you) from being able to run a university. I'm sticking with it - I've seen nothing he's done since that has been a great advance.
Please ignore. Post started insightful and became flame bait - seems I jumped the gun in rewarding it.
Annoyingly last gen round it was pot luck - you could get a Qualcomm or Intel and there was no way of knowing which you'd end up with. Guess who got the Intel...