I might piss off some people, but I am a prime member, and have no interest in this show whatsoever. I never even used Amazon video.
To be completely fair, I think I'd rather pirate the content than steam it from Amazon. I am not really fond of DRM, and I like to be able to do whatever I want with content I pay for.
Maybe the solution here would be to offer Amazon videos separately from the prime membership? Make it cheaper for people who don't want one of the two functionalities, and offer a combined discount to those who want both. That said, there is probably a reason (good or not, but well-thought in any case) behind the current offering.
I think that what's the most important here is not how simple or complex coding actually is; but rather getting people to know what it is, and not to fear it.
I often meet people (students, most of the time), that are frightened by the idea of creating a project bigger than a couple of C files. The trick in this case is to progressively increase the size or the complexity of the projects they are working on, developing their abstraction, design, and overview skills (as well as testing, documentation, etc.). But, of course, you have to start somewhere. And those projects are a perfect opportunity to do so.
I believe that I more or less started coding the day I started changing.ini files for some game configurations. Then I changed the.bat launchers a bit (in order to load different config files, for example). And increasingly complex, to the Linux kernel and beyond. And in my experience, the same is true for pretty much any field I am interested in (as well as the others). To reuse your example, say, Lego cars, can probably (indirectly, as a starter) bring someone into mechanical engineering.
We should have this on/. too. "Use of misleading language" Is Something I encounter here a bit too often to my liking, even if not straight up fake news.
And to achieve this goal, they buy electricity from France. A smart move, after all: you get the praise for how clean your energy production is, and you let the others deal with the dangers associated with its production.
This. I also want to add that Galileo is (to my knowledge) the only satellite system that's not designed with military usage in mind. That is, not as its primary usage.
They expect quite a lot of commercial contracts for full precision (I don't even know if this one is available to private parties with GPS), but I would be surprised if they were able to get the necessary return on investment, given the multiple setbacks the project went trough. I am all for the project regardless, as a taxpayer. It will improve "GPS" navigation for everyone (and the basic usage is free, AFAIK, with unencrypted signals). The only thing that bothers me is that we might have to replace our equipment to be able to enjoy this new system (not even sure about this one, it might depend on the manufacturer, but we were promised GNSS interoperability).
For triangulation; you need at least four satellite at any given time (3D triangulation + time synchronization). Hence, a lot more satellites. Plus, you want some for redundancy.
Concorde's reputation as a luxury plane might be a bit off, as well a the common perceived reason for its demise. I recently read this interesting post about interesting Concorde facts, although there are a lot more.
According to some sources, it was killed mostly because it was more profitable to operate a more conventional plane, not because it was not profitable at all.
This plane was such a marvelous piece of technology, and there is plenty of very interesting reads on it all over the net. I am glad some are trying to revive supersonic jets, although I hope they will make them in a "greener" fashion.
4.45 Newtons.
Just kidding. On earth, it is approximately 0.45kg, according to Google.
That makes 1.36 tons of trash, 453kg of experiments, for over 2.27 tons of cargo, and a contract for around 30 tons. That is, if we are speaking of earth-bound pounds, because those are meaningless in space; unless you take the more recent kilogram-aligned definition.
Man, units are complicated.
That's an interesting concept, and I am quite tempted to register. But I would like to have some additional guarantees. Having an open policy about finances would be a plus: I don't want some tax money, however little it is, to fall into an individual's hands, just to disappear the next day.
How about the community with all its great moders, designers, texturers, etc. work on its own game? Call it FreeSky or OpenSpace (maybe not), and implement every feature you wanted in the game from the start, instead of trying to force those down a game that's not designed for it.
Actually, I installed a modern version of Firefox a couple (was it 4?) years ago on Win95. It required some patched system libraries, though, and was quite slow.
Actually, IIRC, with OpenELEC you have to fiddle a bit to enable ssh access, and are only able to setup key-based authentication, which is arguably much more secure than any password. Since ssh is not enabled by default, I don't see an issue there. Have a sane configuration either way. Moreover, you are not tempted to leave root ssh access with a weak password, and beginners can easily access it.
And to OP: This is quite a bit more complex. Motion or lens blur is predictable, but it's harder to predict the blurring algorithm here. Plus, they do not technically "unblur" the picture.
Unblur would probably work with some deconvolutional neural network (or other), provided you have access to a large enough database of a specific blur algorithm. And then, you would be able to unblur only this specific algorithm.
I am using KDE right now, and am 21. I know a lot of other people under 25 that know KDE. I think their number is in fact a great deal more than the decade prior, and might even be more than the last decade. The way I see it, there is a whole new "hacker culture" spreading out, helped by the advent of versatile tools, especially some electronics boards, and the growth of the DIY community.
Maybe you are staying away from this community? In that case, if you stick with your old group and are unwilling to discover something new, you will see the number of hackers going down.
If however you are willing to let this new generation of talent a chance (or even the benefit of the doubt), you will find something probably completely different, but I doubt it will be worse than what came before.
3D printers, cheap development boards, a really good working Linux kernel. Times have changed, people too.
And no, I don't think KDE is dying. I count 35 GSOC projects for KDE vs. 20 for GNOME, if that tells anything.
My thought exactly. A surface RT might actually be a great device without windows on it.
Now, give me this golden key. Or just a damn tool to disable secure boot. I honestly don't want to fiddle much with this Microsoft stuff.
Signing is a good thing. Even for kernel drivers. It guarantees authenticity.
BUT, the difference is: who can sign it. In the case of Microsoft's kernel, only they have the required key for signing, and if they refuse to sign your driver, you're screwed up. They essentially remove the ability to tamper with the operating system if you want to; which is both a good (increases security, reliability) and bad (complexifies development, distribution, upgradeability, and basically creates a walled garden) thing.
On Firefox's case, now. It retains the good things, but also gives the user the ability to:
- Disable mandatory signing (this might be quite complex, but I believe it should be possible)
- Add your own certificate and sign your extensions yourself (I beleive this is a thing; that way, companies could create an "addon whitelist")
- And if those options aren't enough/available, you can always look at the source code, scrap this feature entirely, or add the aforementioned options (either do it yourself, or pay a fellow developer to do it). Then, live on with your fork, or contribute those patches upstream.
This is the difference. Mozilla's Firefox has always been about choice. The windows NT kernel, not so much.
Sent from my chrome desktop application (not my choice, actually)
Starting by reducing minimum brightness on our phones?
Even at the minimum brightness setting, my phone still hurts my eyes at night. And it's getting worse at every phone generation. I now have to use a "blue light filter" to dim the brightness by 80-95% more. Oh, and a red-colored one. I don't know whether blue light is worse or not, but I am sure that red is better for night vision, and I like to be able to see my surroundings at night.
Maybe manufacturers do this to show more accurate colors at a lower brightness setting; but I honestly don't really care about color fidelity in these cases. If that's the case, how about making some color correction profiles that are function of brightness?
And lastly, I sometimes adjust brightness manually on my desktop monitor, but it's quite a pain to fiddle with the hardware buttons. Is is just for my old and cheap monitor, or has no manufacturer yet figured out how to put a light sensor/software brightness control in these $180+ monitors?
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I might piss off some people, but I am a prime member, and have no interest in this show whatsoever. I never even used Amazon video.
To be completely fair, I think I'd rather pirate the content than steam it from Amazon. I am not really fond of DRM, and I like to be able to do whatever I want with content I pay for.
Maybe the solution here would be to offer Amazon videos separately from the prime membership? Make it cheaper for people who don't want one of the two functionalities, and offer a combined discount to those who want both. That said, there is probably a reason (good or not, but well-thought in any case) behind the current offering.
I think that what's the most important here is not how simple or complex coding actually is; but rather getting people to know what it is, and not to fear it.
.ini files for some game configurations. Then I changed the .bat launchers a bit (in order to load different config files, for example). And increasingly complex, to the Linux kernel and beyond. And in my experience, the same is true for pretty much any field I am interested in (as well as the others).
I often meet people (students, most of the time), that are frightened by the idea of creating a project bigger than a couple of C files. The trick in this case is to progressively increase the size or the complexity of the projects they are working on, developing their abstraction, design, and overview skills (as well as testing, documentation, etc.). But, of course, you have to start somewhere. And those projects are a perfect opportunity to do so.
I believe that I more or less started coding the day I started changing
To reuse your example, say, Lego cars, can probably (indirectly, as a starter) bring someone into mechanical engineering.
We should have this on /. too. "Use of misleading language" Is Something I encounter here a bit too often to my liking, even if not straight up fake news.
As always, the IT seems to be in power here.
And to achieve this goal, they buy electricity from France. A smart move, after all: you get the praise for how clean your energy production is, and you let the others deal with the dangers associated with its production.
The future is [may be] fusion.
This. I also want to add that Galileo is (to my knowledge) the only satellite system that's not designed with military usage in mind. That is, not as its primary usage.
They expect quite a lot of commercial contracts for full precision (I don't even know if this one is available to private parties with GPS), but I would be surprised if they were able to get the necessary return on investment, given the multiple setbacks the project went trough. I am all for the project regardless, as a taxpayer. It will improve "GPS" navigation for everyone (and the basic usage is free, AFAIK, with unencrypted signals). The only thing that bothers me is that we might have to replace our equipment to be able to enjoy this new system (not even sure about this one, it might depend on the manufacturer, but we were promised GNSS interoperability).
For triangulation; you need at least four satellite at any given time (3D triangulation + time synchronization). Hence, a lot more satellites. Plus, you want some for redundancy.
Concorde's reputation as a luxury plane might be a bit off, as well a the common perceived reason for its demise. I recently read this interesting post about interesting Concorde facts, although there are a lot more.
According to some sources, it was killed mostly because it was more profitable to operate a more conventional plane, not because it was not profitable at all.
This plane was such a marvelous piece of technology, and there is plenty of very interesting reads on it all over the net. I am glad some are trying to revive supersonic jets, although I hope they will make them in a "greener" fashion.
4.45 Newtons. Just kidding. On earth, it is approximately 0.45kg, according to Google. That makes 1.36 tons of trash, 453kg of experiments, for over 2.27 tons of cargo, and a contract for around 30 tons. That is, if we are speaking of earth-bound pounds, because those are meaningless in space; unless you take the more recent kilogram-aligned definition. Man, units are complicated.
Does it really come with Pico, or is it plain old GNU Nano ?
Already possible with Kodi and the likes? If there's a difference, I'd be curious to know it.
That's an interesting concept, and I am quite tempted to register. But I would like to have some additional guarantees.
Having an open policy about finances would be a plus: I don't want some tax money, however little it is, to fall into an individual's hands, just to disappear the next day.
I was planning for at least one more RC, looks like I will have to hurry to catch the merge window.
I'm So Meta, Even This Acronym
How about the community with all its great moders, designers, texturers, etc. work on its own game? Call it FreeSky or OpenSpace (maybe not), and implement every feature you wanted in the game from the start, instead of trying to force those down a game that's not designed for it.
Actually, I installed a modern version of Firefox a couple (was it 4?) years ago on Win95. It required some patched system libraries, though, and was quite slow.
Actually, IIRC, with OpenELEC you have to fiddle a bit to enable ssh access, and are only able to setup key-based authentication, which is arguably much more secure than any password. Since ssh is not enabled by default, I don't see an issue there. Have a sane configuration either way. Moreover, you are not tempted to leave root ssh access with a weak password, and beginners can easily access it.
Actually, I think he was talking about this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...
And to OP: This is quite a bit more complex. Motion or lens blur is predictable, but it's harder to predict the blurring algorithm here. Plus, they do not technically "unblur" the picture. Unblur would probably work with some deconvolutional neural network (or other), provided you have access to a large enough database of a specific blur algorithm. And then, you would be able to unblur only this specific algorithm.
Honestly, I have no clue what those values mean.
For the curious among you:
According to google, it is 5.33m long * 1.68m wide* 45.7cm tall. It weights approximately 748.4 kg.
Made this one, right?
(they tend to name a lot of things with Octo- from their logo)
Partying on the day you were conceived would just feel very awkward, I guess.
I am using KDE right now, and am 21. I know a lot of other people under 25 that know KDE. I think their number is in fact a great deal more than the decade prior, and might even be more than the last decade. The way I see it, there is a whole new "hacker culture" spreading out, helped by the advent of versatile tools, especially some electronics boards, and the growth of the DIY community.
Maybe you are staying away from this community? In that case, if you stick with your old group and are unwilling to discover something new, you will see the number of hackers going down.
If however you are willing to let this new generation of talent a chance (or even the benefit of the doubt), you will find something probably completely different, but I doubt it will be worse than what came before.
3D printers, cheap development boards, a really good working Linux kernel. Times have changed, people too.
And no, I don't think KDE is dying. I count 35 GSOC projects for KDE vs. 20 for GNOME, if that tells anything.
My thought exactly. A surface RT might actually be a great device without windows on it. Now, give me this golden key. Or just a damn tool to disable secure boot. I honestly don't want to fiddle much with this Microsoft stuff.
BUT, the difference is: who can sign it. In the case of Microsoft's kernel, only they have the required key for signing, and if they refuse to sign your driver, you're screwed up. They essentially remove the ability to tamper with the operating system if you want to; which is both a good (increases security, reliability) and bad (complexifies development, distribution, upgradeability, and basically creates a walled garden) thing.
On Firefox's case, now. It retains the good things, but also gives the user the ability to:
This is the difference. Mozilla's Firefox has always been about choice. The windows NT kernel, not so much.
Sent from my chrome desktop application (not my choice, actually)
Starting by reducing minimum brightness on our phones? Even at the minimum brightness setting, my phone still hurts my eyes at night. And it's getting worse at every phone generation. I now have to use a "blue light filter" to dim the brightness by 80-95% more. Oh, and a red-colored one. I don't know whether blue light is worse or not, but I am sure that red is better for night vision, and I like to be able to see my surroundings at night. Maybe manufacturers do this to show more accurate colors at a lower brightness setting; but I honestly don't really care about color fidelity in these cases. If that's the case, how about making some color correction profiles that are function of brightness? And lastly, I sometimes adjust brightness manually on my desktop monitor, but it's quite a pain to fiddle with the hardware buttons. Is is just for my old and cheap monitor, or has no manufacturer yet figured out how to put a light sensor/software brightness control in these $180+ monitors?