Really? Computer engineering here is filled with circuitry, microprocessors, signal processors, etc. I'm not sure if there is *any* "project management BS."
Maybe there is, but I haven't heard any discussion of it in any of the accreditation curriculum planning.
The biggest difference between CompSci and CE is a very strong emphasis in hardware. As a matter of fact, there is a much bigger gap between the CompSci curriculum and CE than there is between CE and EE. Electrical Engineering differs from Computer Engineering by maybe 2 or 3 classes.
They don't. Saturn went away in the great GM implosion, along with Pontiac. I had thought Oldsmobile as well, but Google tells me it went away in 2004.
One of the wonderful things about a treaty is that it bypasses piddling issues like whether it's Constitutional. If a treaty is signed that violates the Constitution (free speech? What is free speech?) then it's still enforceable. On Americans.
There may be hotels that don't have free parking, but I haven't run across them. If you need to drive up to the front and get out, then yes, you're going to need to pay for valet and parking. If you're willing to drive around the back and self-park, then it's free. Yes, on the Strip. At least the places I've tried.
I've never tried any of the paid transportation options in Vegas -- I pass through on my way to and from Colorado, so I'm always in my own car. Anything I want to do on the Strip (mainly involving food) just means parking in one of the free hotel parking areas and hiking along the Strip to wherever I want to go.
Paying for Windows is cheaper than not paying for Linux.
If they pre-installed Linux on it, they wouldn't have any bloatware available to defray the cost of the installation.
I don't know about Lenovo, but back when you could still get Linux pre-installed on a Dell, it cost more than the same hardware with Windows. Bloatware companies pay the vendors to include their crap, and it more than pays for the Windows license.
That's an argument I could get behind, but it's not the one I've been hearing.
All I've been hearing about was whether America's secrets were put at risk. If they were sent by email, then they were. If the State Department (or any other government agency) is using email to handle classified material, then they have been risking those secrets.
Mmm. Yeah, although listening to music *and* using the car's nav can be too much for it. A year or so ago I was driving in L.A. and using the car's nav as well as playing music from a USB drive when the music stopped and the map froze.
About 5 minutes later the "My Ford Touch" screen displayed a message indicating it was performing scheduled maintenance (Ford Speak for "WinCE is rebooting") and once it finished, it started working again. I chose not to resume the nav session and switched to using the phone for navigation instead.
I haven't had a recurrence, but that's probably because I mainly use the phone for all navigation now. The car does fairly well if all you want is to play music from USB.
My Fusion had *6* months of free Sirius/XM. I may have listened to it for a grand total of 15 minutes over that 6 months.
I don't have a physical Sirius button, it's simply a source on the entertainment list on the touchscreen.
On the other hand, I did pay for the Travelink service from Sirius, since I actually found that to be useful -- it provides traffic overlays on the nav system, weather and gas prices. Also sports scores, movie listings and ski reports, although I can't imagine any of those being useful.
It also came with 3 free years of Sync Services, which is a low budget variation of OnStar. It uses your phone to connect to the service -- not using your data connection, but by using your phone as a dialup *modem*.
Haven't seen anything about Firefox blocking NoScript, nor any plans to do so, and maybe my Google-fu is lacking, but can't find anything about it either.
If you read the comments on the kickstarter, most of the people who are saying "We never wanted DRM" have specific reasons for wanting a non-DRM device. Mostly having to do with playing from their own internal sources.
None of those were interested in Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon etc. for *this* device. Several commented that there are inexpensive devices available for that kind of content if they wanted it, but that wasn't why they backed this project.
So you're wrong that most of them did not understand what they wanted.
Maybe it's got better features, maybe not. But if you lean on me to force me to use it, I will dig in my heels. It offers nothing that I can't do without. Neither does Facebook, for that matter. But Facebook didn't use strong-arm tactics to force me to sign up.
I'm probably in Google+'s primary demographic, and I probably would have signed up if they hadn't tried so hard to force me.
That and their forced "real name" policy. If they hadn't tried so hard to force me into *that* I might have gone along with it too -- my name is very common and my real name is more anonymous than my usual "handle." But there were rumors of people losing their other Google services for violating the real name policy, and those other services were far more valuable to me than any social network.
Yes, Facebook has the same kind of real name policy, but if I lose all my Facebook services, oh well.
My first smartphone was a Motorola OG Droid with a side-out keyboard. it was one of the reasons I got that phone.
And then I discovered Swype and found that I never actually used the physical keyboard. Once I figured out that I could switch between the Hacker Keyboard for ssh sessions and Swype for everything else, the virtual keyboard became much less of a pain to deal with than the physical keyboard. Even with the tiny, low-res screen on the old Droid, the virtual keyboard was better. With newer phones that have better screens, the amount of screen real estate that gets covered by the virtual keyboard is not much of a problem.
Where did you hear that Lollipop was unaffected or that *any* non-stock AOSP ROMs are unaffected?
According to the article, there have been *some* mitigation features in all versions Jellybean and later, but that even the Nexus 6 with the latest firmware has only blocked *some* of the vulnerabilities.
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Really? Computer engineering here is filled with circuitry, microprocessors, signal processors, etc. I'm not sure if there is *any* "project management BS."
Maybe there is, but I haven't heard any discussion of it in any of the accreditation curriculum planning.
The biggest difference between CompSci and CE is a very strong emphasis in hardware. As a matter of fact, there is a much bigger gap between the CompSci curriculum and CE than there is between CE and EE. Electrical Engineering differs from Computer Engineering by maybe 2 or 3 classes.
They don't. Saturn went away in the great GM implosion, along with Pontiac. I had thought Oldsmobile as well, but Google tells me it went away in 2004.
One of the wonderful things about a treaty is that it bypasses piddling issues like whether it's Constitutional. If a treaty is signed that violates the Constitution (free speech? What is free speech?) then it's still enforceable. On Americans.
There may be hotels that don't have free parking, but I haven't run across them. If you need to drive up to the front and get out, then yes, you're going to need to pay for valet and parking. If you're willing to drive around the back and self-park, then it's free. Yes, on the Strip. At least the places I've tried.
I've never tried any of the paid transportation options in Vegas -- I pass through on my way to and from Colorado, so I'm always in my own car. Anything I want to do on the Strip (mainly involving food) just means parking in one of the free hotel parking areas and hiking along the Strip to wherever I want to go.
Paying for Windows is cheaper than not paying for Linux.
If they pre-installed Linux on it, they wouldn't have any bloatware available to defray the cost of the installation.
I don't know about Lenovo, but back when you could still get Linux pre-installed on a Dell, it cost more than the same hardware with Windows. Bloatware companies pay the vendors to include their crap, and it more than pays for the Windows license.
If they can find a buyer. I thought I heard they were already looking.
Beat me to it.
That's an argument I could get behind, but it's not the one I've been hearing.
All I've been hearing about was whether America's secrets were put at risk. If they were sent by email, then they were. If the State Department (or any other government agency) is using email to handle classified material, then they have been risking those secrets.
But even that doesn't always work all that well.
The Asiana 214 crash in San Francisco in 2013 has been blamed to a large extent on an over-reliance on automation.
The question is not whether an email server at home is less (or more) secure than one hosted by the NSA. It doesn't matter.
Email is a fscking postcard! nothing of a classified nature should be sent unencrypted, no matter who is hosting it.
No value whatsoever. Although it is free for 3 years, you're required to renew it each year. No charge, but you have to go through the motions.
I never bothered.
Mmm. Yeah, although listening to music *and* using the car's nav can be too much for it. A year or so ago I was driving in L.A. and using the car's nav as well as playing music from a USB drive when the music stopped and the map froze.
About 5 minutes later the "My Ford Touch" screen displayed a message indicating it was performing scheduled maintenance (Ford Speak for "WinCE is rebooting") and once it finished, it started working again. I chose not to resume the nav session and switched to using the phone for navigation instead.
I haven't had a recurrence, but that's probably because I mainly use the phone for all navigation now. The car does fairly well if all you want is to play music from USB.
My Fusion had *6* months of free Sirius/XM. I may have listened to it for a grand total of 15 minutes over that 6 months.
I don't have a physical Sirius button, it's simply a source on the entertainment list on the touchscreen.
On the other hand, I did pay for the Travelink service from Sirius, since I actually found that to be useful -- it provides traffic overlays on the nav system, weather and gas prices. Also sports scores, movie listings and ski reports, although I can't imagine any of those being useful.
It also came with 3 free years of Sync Services, which is a low budget variation of OnStar. It uses your phone to connect to the service -- not using your data connection, but by using your phone as a dialup *modem*.
Hmm? Got a source for that about Firefox?
Haven't seen anything about Firefox blocking NoScript, nor any plans to do so, and maybe my Google-fu is lacking, but can't find anything about it either.
"Friends don't let friends buy inkjets."
I've been telling people (and employers) this, not for years, but for decades.
Unfortunately, I haven't gotten my sister to listen, but who do you suppose she calls when she has a problem with hers? :)
Your link is broken.
Try http://www.matchstick.tv/developer/hardware/
If you read the comments on the kickstarter, most of the people who are saying "We never wanted DRM" have specific reasons for wanting a non-DRM device. Mostly having to do with playing from their own internal sources.
None of those were interested in Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon etc. for *this* device. Several commented that there are inexpensive devices available for that kind of content if they wanted it, but that wasn't why they backed this project.
So you're wrong that most of them did not understand what they wanted.
Maybe it's got better features, maybe not. But if you lean on me to force me to use it, I will dig in my heels. It offers nothing that I can't do without. Neither does Facebook, for that matter. But Facebook didn't use strong-arm tactics to force me to sign up.
That's why I no longer rate apps in the Play Store.
I'm probably in Google+'s primary demographic, and I probably would have signed up if they hadn't tried so hard to force me.
That and their forced "real name" policy. If they hadn't tried so hard to force me into *that* I might have gone along with it too -- my name is very common and my real name is more anonymous than my usual "handle." But there were rumors of people losing their other Google services for violating the real name policy, and those other services were far more valuable to me than any social network.
Yes, Facebook has the same kind of real name policy, but if I lose all my Facebook services, oh well.
I did. I posted something on another site (Yahoo answers maybe?) and a notice and a link appeared in my Facebook page.
That prompted a careful look at Facebook's privacy options and and a "logout unless you're actually using it" policy for Facebook logins.
My first smartphone was a Motorola OG Droid with a side-out keyboard. it was one of the reasons I got that phone.
And then I discovered Swype and found that I never actually used the physical keyboard. Once I figured out that I could switch between the Hacker Keyboard for ssh sessions and Swype for everything else, the virtual keyboard became much less of a pain to deal with than the physical keyboard. Even with the tiny, low-res screen on the old Droid, the virtual keyboard was better. With newer phones that have better screens, the amount of screen real estate that gets covered by the virtual keyboard is not much of a problem.
Where did you hear that Lollipop was unaffected or that *any* non-stock AOSP ROMs are unaffected?
According to the article, there have been *some* mitigation features in all versions Jellybean and later, but that even the Nexus 6 with the latest firmware has only blocked *some* of the vulnerabilities.
So, the 1st Amendment clearly applies only to Congress, not city governments (especially if you're being a conservative literalist)
Who rejects the 14th amendment. Which may include most conservative literalists.
Gee. Only my printers are ever on fire.