... embedded C++ in the kernel without all that STL baggage or exception handling or multiple inheritance or RTTI or any of the other junk that makes the C++ runtime so bloated, and you end up with a halfway decent language for writing device driver stacks.
This reads like a real sob story for the recording industry.
Lot's of industries that introduce consumer products have high failure rates. Look at potato chip flavors and even electronics.
Recording and distributing an album is not that expensive. The part that has become expensive is promoting it, mostly due to trying to use advertising to tell the public what to listen to.
Rather than pushing 1 sound they like thru they would probably be better served making 10 recordings of different things and give them all 1/20th the play and let take off what takes off.
Maybe digital distribution will facilitate this and data mining will let studios release good music discovered by the masses again.
The decision said it was only 5% of breakage (stamps that were not redeemed for postal service). A large portion of breakage is assumed to be collecting for which the aesthetics is a key part of the value.
That mindset benefits Republicans, but I think the individual libertarian really has to look at which portion of the libertarian ideology they think is most important right now. Maybe legalizing marijuana seems immediately doable. Maybe someone is proposing modifying business regulations to encourage competition. Just always voting against incumbents is a great way to reduce consolidation of government power and as an off shoot cronyism.
That would be a pretty big strike against a future plausible deniability defense against political action. The only way the NSA has been able to stay as free of impact as they have is by claiming they didn't think what they were doing was illegal. If they start keeping two sets of books that becomes a lot harder to swallow.
Sometimes, I like to pretend that all the ACs on slashdot are foreign agents trying to undermine peoples faith in America in particular and western democracy in general.
I agree the FCC does an important job of keeping the bands organised. To anyone who says they don't serve a purpose I'd like to image a world where your favorite TV, radio, or WIFI devise needs to be tuned across the entire spectrum in order to find clear channels. actually TV is so wide bandwidth it probably never would have taken off without the FCC.
However, I wouldn't say they prevent fake distress calls. If anything one could say they facilitate them in the same way the phone company facilitates fake 911 calls, by making it easier to make distress calls. As the crime they are going to be charged with is more likely to fall under fraud/obstruction/wreckless endangerment than operating outside of approved band/power. That would be a crime even if there was no FCC, though I'm sure the FCC helps with the investigation if able. Unless these were some sort of noise misinterpreted as distress calls, in which case I'm going to request citation as it sounds interesting and I can't find it online.
If one wants to setup an FM transmitter for non-commercial use as part of a hobby. There is always the amateur radio license: https://www.eham.net/newham/wh...
Which allows for even higher power than the LPFM licenses which would probably be more fitting for use here.
There are also FRS and GMRS licenses that allow FM operation.
Only LPFM allows overlapping with the commercial FM spectrum though. So it would probably be good if the FCC opened another filing window, as it has been 5 years: https://www.fcc.gov/media/radi...
...life would have exhaled itself into extinction by climate change a long, long, long time ago.
Exhaling itself into mass extinction is kind of life's thing. It just requires an unbalanced adaptation in respiration efficiency (photosynthesis, methane, sulphur, cellulose, lignin digestion) . Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
All the carbon containing fossil fuels were also technically produced from CO2 captured by photosynthesis. Filthy plants polluting the world with their complex carbon chains and corrosive O2.
I hear a lot of people complain about the dropping bombs in space. and there are a couple things to keep in mind. 1) it was primarily an aesthetic choice because they wanted to quickly convey to viewers what was the role of this vehicle. 2) In space gravity is still in effect. 3) Star wars tech level is almost unimaginably high. The power output of their systems are unimaginably high. Their use of anti-gravity(or an apparently similar technology) is incredibly common place. Why make a wheel-barrel when you can make an anti-grav-barrel. 4) From 3 we see that ships in Wtar Wars are not in orbit around planetary bodies. They are just hovering above out in space as soon as they loose power they just fall out of the sky. As seen with capital ships in EP3 and EP6. 5) From 2 & 4, If you just make certain that your target is between the bomber and the planet, your bombs will fall on it. 6) This does let shine a bigger problem across Star Wars technical, shields are just plot armor. They have almost no discernible attributes.
The summary obviuosly also covers health care and infrastructure. Those three could easily cover anything they would wan't to spend the money on. A giant gold statue of the governor sounds like a infrastructure project to me, not a particularly useful one. Buying a copy of the governor's combo autobiography/geometry text for every school for education. Huge contract to an "exercise coach" cousin for health care services. I think keeping these tax payments more local to the masses is better to keep the wealth distributed. Instead of the taxes going to the state that happens to have the company incorporated. My greater concern is states double dipping and both charging sales tax. A better outcome would probably be legislation that all sales across state lines occur in the buyer's (not seller's) state. It would prevent what I think of as consumer colonialism. Where the company sits quietly in its tax haven state and from there rules over the commerce of many other states. Concentrating tax revenue in the state with the lowest taxes. Mostly I'm thinking of Amazon here.
This was the point of my last sentence. We, technophiles, would suffer so it won't happen. You and your roommate are heavy internet users as the average household uses 190GB/month. In fact you are on average each above the average household usage. There is nothing wrong with that. http://www.telecompetitor.com/...
This data is from 2016, but it was the easiest to find. Many Americans would see much lower monthly internet costs than the average $60-$80 (surprisingly difficult to nail down) .
I chose the number because it is a little below revenue neutral for the ISP market. At half to double the price, the principle of having the internet paid for by the people who use it seems more fair. And should encourage the ISPs to get everyone the fattest pipe they can.
Raising a city 6" at a time is probably not worth it. Raising it 200ft all at once is probably also a no go, but raising it 10 feet every couple centuries to keep the floor from getting wet is probably do able. And probably what we would see over time if a better solution is not reached.
An interesting thing is if the water level rose 200' the George Washington Bridge would still be above the water, just barely.
This is sort of the real key to getting better internet in an open market. On one side you need competition, but on the other side you have to charge for use. If the ISPs get paid more if you use more it becomes in their best interest to make sure you have as much throughput available to you as possible. Other utilities are very interested in making sure you have all the supply you want, the more you take the more they get. It even encourages the ISP to improve throughput in places where there isn't competition.
It doesn't beat competition to keep the prices down, but if users throttle their own usage due to expense it may become worth it to the ISP to drop the price to sell more.
Setting the price is where things get tough, but if you look at average internet usage and average cost for residential plans $0.30/GB isn't too bad. ISPs would take a hit assuming usage stayed the same, but I'm sure they could weather the resettling. This brings up the question what would be the impact to video sites which make up 95% of the internet traffic? Would stopping using netflix, youtube, etc be worth a 95% saving on ISP costs to you? What would the ISPs do to try to make sure you keep using it? What about ads? Would it push up ad block usage when you pay to download ads? In the end though it is kind of academic because people will sacrifice a lot for the convenience of fixed expenditures and the people with the most influence over supporting this, i.e media and technical types, are the ones who would probably be the most hurt by it.
I have to say I had a very different experience. I took it with me on a vacation to manage photos and check the web. I used it pretty extensively as an e-reader which I would say was its real primary design purpose. The high visibilty display was great for reading in very diverse conditions. It was not a work horse by any means, and I phased it out completely when android devices entered the picture. I dual booted mine with debian and used for a while to do a number of fun things. It couldn't handle the modern web, but I enjoyed it and was actually trying to reconfigure it for my niece when the screen finally suffered a mechanical failure.
I think you also want to look at smoking rate, not cigarette consumption. I wouldn't be surprised if American smokers smoke more. As they say "Go big or go home." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I think USB-C cleans up the mess that was USB 3/3.1 have you seen the abomination that is micro USB3 ports? I'm really chomping at the bit to get my hands on a good USB-C android phone so I can start my transition to USB-C.
There seems to be a lot of apple haters on this thread, but you guys lashed yourselves to that beast. You could have not bought the USB-C devices, and waited for the transition to stabilize. Or drop $200 on a compatible computer with the HW features you want and run an OS that gives you some freedom.
I constructed a simple pin-hole camera based on the standard cereal box design, but used a larger amazon box. It had a really nice clear image.
I was more impressed with my more simple viewing experiment. I just put a white piece of paper down and got a piece of cardboard, with a pin hole in it to cast its shadow over the paper. I was surprised how visible the image was and it allowed a bunch of people to watch at once.
One of my coworkers stacked a bunch of welding glass lens to build a monocle that I also tried out for direct viewing.
Here in NJ we didn't get totality, but it was still a very interesting experience.
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... embedded C++ in the kernel without all that STL baggage or exception handling or multiple inheritance or RTTI or any of the other junk that makes the C++ runtime so bloated, and you end up with a halfway decent language for writing device driver stacks.
so C?
This reads like a real sob story for the recording industry.
Lot's of industries that introduce consumer products have high failure rates. Look at potato chip flavors and even electronics.
Recording and distributing an album is not that expensive. The part that has become expensive is promoting it, mostly due to trying to use advertising to tell the public what to listen to.
Rather than pushing 1 sound they like thru they would probably be better served making 10 recordings of different things and give them all 1/20th the play and let take off what takes off.
Maybe digital distribution will facilitate this and data mining will let studios release good music discovered by the masses again.
A few pennies(say 3) on 50 cents is more than 5%.
The decision said it was only 5% of breakage (stamps that were not redeemed for postal service). A large portion of breakage is assumed to be collecting for which the aesthetics is a key part of the value.
That mindset benefits Republicans, but I think the individual libertarian really has to look at which portion of the libertarian ideology they think is most important right now. Maybe legalizing marijuana seems immediately doable. Maybe someone is proposing modifying business regulations to encourage competition. Just always voting against incumbents is a great way to reduce consolidation of government power and as an off shoot cronyism.
I ran LineageOS on a Note II for a long time. it was great. I actually recently passed it to a friend of mine and he is still using it.
That would be a pretty big strike against a future plausible deniability defense against political action. The only way the NSA has been able to stay as free of impact as they have is by claiming they didn't think what they were doing was illegal. If they start keeping two sets of books that becomes a lot harder to swallow.
Sometimes, I like to pretend that all the ACs on slashdot are foreign agents trying to undermine peoples faith in America in particular and western democracy in general.
So long and thanks for all the fish.
I like to imagine this reporter had a deadline, but wanted to see Incredibles 2.
So they just wrote up a defense of the philosophy of the villain.
I heard "books" weigh in on the order of a Kg. Now, they have no electrons. That sounds too hazardous a technology to allow outside the lab.
I agree the FCC does an important job of keeping the bands organised. To anyone who says they don't serve a purpose I'd like to image a world where your favorite TV, radio, or WIFI devise needs to be tuned across the entire spectrum in order to find clear channels. actually TV is so wide bandwidth it probably never would have taken off without the FCC.
However, I wouldn't say they prevent fake distress calls. If anything one could say they facilitate them in the same way the phone company facilitates fake 911 calls, by making it easier to make distress calls. As the crime they are going to be charged with is more likely to fall under fraud/obstruction/wreckless endangerment than operating outside of approved band/power. That would be a crime even if there was no FCC, though I'm sure the FCC helps with the investigation if able. Unless these were some sort of noise misinterpreted as distress calls, in which case I'm going to request citation as it sounds interesting and I can't find it online.
Recent examples:
https://www.justice.gov/usao-e...
https://detroit.cbslocal.com/2...
Unfortunately there hasn't been an open filing window since 2013.
If one wants to setup an FM transmitter for non-commercial use as part of a hobby. There is always the amateur radio license:
https://www.eham.net/newham/wh...
Which allows for even higher power than the LPFM licenses which would probably be more fitting for use here.
There are also FRS and GMRS licenses that allow FM operation.
Only LPFM allows overlapping with the commercial FM spectrum though. So it would probably be good if the FCC opened another filing window, as it has been 5 years:
https://www.fcc.gov/media/radi...
...life would have exhaled itself into extinction by climate change a long, long, long time ago.
Exhaling itself into mass extinction is kind of life's thing. It just requires an unbalanced adaptation in respiration efficiency (photosynthesis, methane, sulphur, cellulose, lignin digestion) . Example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
All the carbon containing fossil fuels were also technically produced from CO2 captured by photosynthesis.
Filthy plants polluting the world with their complex carbon chains and corrosive O2.
I hear a lot of people complain about the dropping bombs in space. and there are a couple things to keep in mind.
1) it was primarily an aesthetic choice because they wanted to quickly convey to viewers what was the role of this vehicle.
2) In space gravity is still in effect.
3) Star wars tech level is almost unimaginably high. The power output of their systems are unimaginably high. Their use of anti-gravity(or an apparently similar technology) is incredibly common place. Why make a wheel-barrel when you can make an anti-grav-barrel.
4) From 3 we see that ships in Wtar Wars are not in orbit around planetary bodies. They are just hovering above out in space as soon as they loose power they just fall out of the sky. As seen with capital ships in EP3 and EP6.
5) From 2 & 4, If you just make certain that your target is between the bomber and the planet, your bombs will fall on it.
6) This does let shine a bigger problem across Star Wars technical, shields are just plot armor. They have almost no discernible attributes.
Put malware in the location referred to as android?
The summary obviuosly also covers health care and infrastructure. Those three could easily cover anything they would wan't to spend the money on. A giant gold statue of the governor sounds like a infrastructure project to me, not a particularly useful one. Buying a copy of the governor's combo autobiography/geometry text for every school for education. Huge contract to an "exercise coach" cousin for health care services.
I think keeping these tax payments more local to the masses is better to keep the wealth distributed. Instead of the taxes going to the state that happens to have the company incorporated.
My greater concern is states double dipping and both charging sales tax.
A better outcome would probably be legislation that all sales across state lines occur in the buyer's (not seller's) state. It would prevent what I think of as consumer colonialism. Where the company sits quietly in its tax haven state and from there rules over the commerce of many other states. Concentrating tax revenue in the state with the lowest taxes. Mostly I'm thinking of Amazon here.
This was the point of my last sentence. We, technophiles, would suffer so it won't happen. You and your roommate are heavy internet users as the average household uses 190GB/month. In fact you are on average each above the average household usage. There is nothing wrong with that.
http://www.telecompetitor.com/...
This data is from 2016, but it was the easiest to find. Many Americans would see much lower monthly internet costs than the average $60-$80 (surprisingly difficult to nail down) .
I chose the number because it is a little below revenue neutral for the ISP market. At half to double the price, the principle of having the internet paid for by the people who use it seems more fair. And should encourage the ISPs to get everyone the fattest pipe they can.
They raised a lot of Chicago about a whole story in the 1850's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Raising a city 6" at a time is probably not worth it. Raising it 200ft all at once is probably also a no go, but raising it 10 feet every couple centuries to keep the floor from getting wet is probably do able. And probably what we would see over time if a better solution is not reached.
An interesting thing is if the water level rose 200' the George Washington Bridge would still be above the water, just barely.
This is sort of the real key to getting better internet in an open market. On one side you need competition, but on the other side you have to charge for use. If the ISPs get paid more if you use more it becomes in their best interest to make sure you have as much throughput available to you as possible. Other utilities are very interested in making sure you have all the supply you want, the more you take the more they get. It even encourages the ISP to improve throughput in places where there isn't competition.
It doesn't beat competition to keep the prices down, but if users throttle their own usage due to expense it may become worth it to the ISP to drop the price to sell more.
Setting the price is where things get tough, but if you look at average internet usage and average cost for residential plans $0.30/GB isn't too bad. ISPs would take a hit assuming usage stayed the same, but I'm sure they could weather the resettling.
This brings up the question what would be the impact to video sites which make up 95% of the internet traffic? Would stopping using netflix, youtube, etc be worth a 95% saving on ISP costs to you? What would the ISPs do to try to make sure you keep using it? What about ads? Would it push up ad block usage when you pay to download ads? In the end though it is kind of academic because people will sacrifice a lot for the convenience of fixed expenditures and the people with the most influence over supporting this, i.e media and technical types, are the ones who would probably be the most hurt by it.
I have to say I had a very different experience. I took it with me on a vacation to manage photos and check the web. I used it pretty extensively as an e-reader which I would say was its real primary design purpose. The high visibilty display was great for reading in very diverse conditions. It was not a work horse by any means, and I phased it out completely when android devices entered the picture. I dual booted mine with debian and used for a while to do a number of fun things. It couldn't handle the modern web, but I enjoyed it and was actually trying to reconfigure it for my niece when the screen finally suffered a mechanical failure.
I think you also want to look at smoking rate, not cigarette consumption. I wouldn't be surprised if American smokers smoke more. As they say "Go big or go home."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
for a good USB-C hub.
I think USB-C cleans up the mess that was USB 3/3.1 have you seen the abomination that is micro USB3 ports? I'm really chomping at the bit to get my hands on a good USB-C android phone so I can start my transition to USB-C.
There seems to be a lot of apple haters on this thread, but you guys lashed yourselves to that beast. You could have not bought the USB-C devices, and waited for the transition to stabilize. Or drop $200 on a compatible computer with the HW features you want and run an OS that gives you some freedom.
I constructed a simple pin-hole camera based on the standard cereal box design, but used a larger amazon box. It had a really nice clear image.
I was more impressed with my more simple viewing experiment. I just put a white piece of paper down and got a piece of cardboard, with a pin hole in it to cast its shadow over the paper. I was surprised how visible the image was and it allowed a bunch of people to watch at once.
One of my coworkers stacked a bunch of welding glass lens to build a monocle that I also tried out for direct viewing.
Here in NJ we didn't get totality, but it was still a very interesting experience.
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