You have clearly never visited China and seen the quality of typical Chinese manufacturing.
The Chinese are neither worse nor better than anyone else at manufacturing. Cheap, crappy products that come from manufacturers there are such because of the price and quality constraints they were contracted to build at. Specify a higher quality standard and pay for it, and they're just as capable as anyone else of turning out a quality product. The Fender (Fender, not Squier) bass that I own was made under contract by Farida Guitars in Guangdong, China, and is every bit as good as the (more-expensive) basses that Fender makes in Mexico at their own plant. Fender's U.S. instruments *are* generally better than either the Chinese or Mexican instruments, but they also cost 2-3 times as much for the comparable product and even then QC can be kind of spotty at times.
Yes, it did - I owned a IIIc myself and was relatively quick with Graffiti. "Wasn't particularly successful" wasn't meant to imply "Graffiti didn't work", rather that it didn't fare well against newer smartphone entry systems and that it's unusual to find Graffiti in use today.
Perhaps a type of shorthand, written with a stylus
This was already tried and wasn't particularly successful with Palm's Graffiti and other earlier handwriting systems. Probably the fastest available entry device (short of some kind of imaginary telepathic device) would be a stenotype keyboard (good stenographers can average between 6-7 words per second), but the learning curve for those is rather steep. Gregg shorthand allows a skilled scribe to record text at comparable speeds with just a pen, but using a far more limited character set that's difficult to integrate into a lot of computing tasks. Other visually-driven systems like Dasher are quite efficient and especially suited for disabled users, but entry still isn't anywhere near as quick as a traditional keyboard.
Keyboards have become the dominant entry method not only because of history and commonality, but because we use our hands for so many things that the control loop between the brain and our hands becomes exceedingly refined over our lifetime. I'm not a particularly fast typist (about 80 wpm), but I don't really have to think at all about *what* I'm typing - the traditional keyboard does a good job of keeping your hands where they're supposed to be, and most touch typists get to the point where their hands more or less run on autopilot. This is even more so with a keyboard layout that attempts to optimize movement (like Dvorak). Chorded keyboards are more efficient still, but that's basically what a stenotype machine is. The more complex the key actions become, the closer data entry becomes akin to playing a piano, with the attendant difficulty.
Or, he wouldn't have found it so easy to build up that much speed
My beat-to-hell, 5500 pound pickup truck that's coming up on 200,000 miles will still hit 100 mph faster than a lot of cars will. That speed is a pretty low bar for modern cars, and my truck is about the least flashy thing anyone could hope to drive.
that's how Netflix has become as valuable as Disney in one tenth of the time
If you're just considering market cap, yes. By practically any other metric (particularly net income, i.e. profit), Disney and Comcast both dwarf Netflix, and that means a lot more money at their disposal for influencing legislation. Also, while Netflix's own programming has been successful, they're largely dependent on other content providers and on ISPs for their business.
Yeah, I've noticed that. Over the last couple of decades, it seems like the use of slang has become increasingly acceptable in journalism. I'm not militant about it, but it does tend to sound kind of unprofessional to me, and in particular it subjectively colors the headline/story. I thought journalists were supposed to be neutral in their reporting.
At least they finally finished the construction widening it to three lanes in each direction from Vero Beach north through Brevard County. The traffic dumping onto 95 North from Malabar Rd. and the backups on 95 South at the Palm Bay Rd. exit made it a real mess before they got that third lane added.
IBM didn't want the OS license because the BIOS was suppose to be the key that locked them in.
It wasn't very much of a key given that anyone that wanted the source could simply buy the Technical Reference manual and get it, along with full schematics.
I am willing to bet no one has ever gotten to the interview stage only to hear no correspondence anymore
I have. After a phone screen and two in-person interviews over two weeks that collectively took up about six hours of my time, the prospective employer went MIA, and wouldn't return calls or emails.
"5050" refers to the size of the package, which in this case is 5.0x5.0 mm. It has no bearing on the LED functionality itself (except possibly for brightness), and even single-color SMT LEDs are available in the 5050 size.
Go with the APA101/102. It's a better product in pretty much every way than the WS2812. Global brightness only runs at about 580 Hz, but the individual RGB values are set at 19.2 KHz, so it's quite easy to get a flicker-free experience with them if you set global brightness to full. On top of that, because they use synchronous 2-wire SPI, they don't have the sensitive timing requirements of the WS, so you can run them from a Raspberry Pi or other system where you can't guarantee solid timing.
2) Yes, you _can_ get all those materials (steel, paint, plastic, LEDs) in the U.S., but at least some of them are available at a substantially lower cost from other countries (e.g. steel from China).
And some aren't available at all. The popular WS8212 and APA101 RGB LEDs don't have a comparable US-made product that I'm aware of.
Well I'm sorry cupcake, but that's exactly the opposite of why copyright exists. The idea is to allow you to benefit from your work for a LIMITED time, in order to encourage you to create other works, with the end result of enriching society as a whole when it eventually becomes public domain. If you want to say "screw society", then maybe society should return the favor and just do away with the idea of copyright altogether, hmm? It's a right that SOCIETY grants to you, not a natural right.
When you go to work and put in your hours, you are not risking any money. You will get paid. 100% chance. You are not putting your neck (or assets) on the line.
No, you're putting your time on the line. Money and other assets? Those can be recovered or regenerated. Your time cannot, and wages are taxed as if your time had zero value. And by the way, there are plenty of folks that have gotten stiffed on paychecks, be it from a regular W-2 job, consulting/contracting, or whatever.
Yeah, Sam was great live. He came out on stage, dropped the mike, and screamed, "HOW THE FUCK ARE YOU, NORFOLK?!!!!". Could hear him clearly even in the nosebleed seats over all the applause.
I hadn't gotten to see John live, and I'm very sorry I missed him. I can console myself by having gotten to see Sam Kinison live a few weeks before his passing though, I suppose.
Does referring to it as "grey sources" make you feel better about the piracy you engage in?
Does referring to it as "piracy" make you feel better about the theft (actual deprivation of something) that excessive copyright terms commits upon society?
Sounds like they're rolling out the next feature of Manna. Seriously though, there's not much to worry about. If Walmart is going to be recording conversations at the checkout lines, that's only 2-3 employees even when the store is slammed, right?
but with no Jedi to maintain order and only evil force users the First Order rises out of the ashes
This would actually have been an interesting story. Who is Snoke and how did he gain power? Who paid for Starkiller Base (ugh, that name)? Why did the Rebellion continue to be such a tiny, continually underfunded activity after the fall of the Empire, instead of becoming a new secular version of the Jedi Knights? Why did the First Order rise to power in preference to the Rebellion in the immediate aftermath of the Empire, after 30 years of seeing what that kind of rule brought?
Answering those questions would have made the setting for "The Force Awakens" much less jarring, but would have made it more difficult to incorporate the original three actors of the first trilogy.
"VCS" is what Atari called it for the first five years of its existence, and was renamed "2600" at the same time the 5200 was released. The Sears re-brand was the Tele-Games Video Arcade, and my Sears box is still going strong after 41 years.:-)
I admire your restraint. I think I'd have probably responded to the judge's statement by replying that John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, disagreed with his statement.
I'm a bit surprised that Roberts voted as he did, but it's a happy surprise.
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You have clearly never visited China and seen the quality of typical Chinese manufacturing.
The Chinese are neither worse nor better than anyone else at manufacturing. Cheap, crappy products that come from manufacturers there are such because of the price and quality constraints they were contracted to build at. Specify a higher quality standard and pay for it, and they're just as capable as anyone else of turning out a quality product. The Fender (Fender, not Squier) bass that I own was made under contract by Farida Guitars in Guangdong, China, and is every bit as good as the (more-expensive) basses that Fender makes in Mexico at their own plant. Fender's U.S. instruments *are* generally better than either the Chinese or Mexican instruments, but they also cost 2-3 times as much for the comparable product and even then QC can be kind of spotty at times.
Yes, it did - I owned a IIIc myself and was relatively quick with Graffiti. "Wasn't particularly successful" wasn't meant to imply "Graffiti didn't work", rather that it didn't fare well against newer smartphone entry systems and that it's unusual to find Graffiti in use today.
Perhaps a type of shorthand, written with a stylus
This was already tried and wasn't particularly successful with Palm's Graffiti and other earlier handwriting systems. Probably the fastest available entry device (short of some kind of imaginary telepathic device) would be a stenotype keyboard (good stenographers can average between 6-7 words per second), but the learning curve for those is rather steep. Gregg shorthand allows a skilled scribe to record text at comparable speeds with just a pen, but using a far more limited character set that's difficult to integrate into a lot of computing tasks. Other visually-driven systems like Dasher are quite efficient and especially suited for disabled users, but entry still isn't anywhere near as quick as a traditional keyboard.
Keyboards have become the dominant entry method not only because of history and commonality, but because we use our hands for so many things that the control loop between the brain and our hands becomes exceedingly refined over our lifetime. I'm not a particularly fast typist (about 80 wpm), but I don't really have to think at all about *what* I'm typing - the traditional keyboard does a good job of keeping your hands where they're supposed to be, and most touch typists get to the point where their hands more or less run on autopilot. This is even more so with a keyboard layout that attempts to optimize movement (like Dvorak). Chorded keyboards are more efficient still, but that's basically what a stenotype machine is. The more complex the key actions become, the closer data entry becomes akin to playing a piano, with the attendant difficulty.
Or, he wouldn't have found it so easy to build up that much speed
My beat-to-hell, 5500 pound pickup truck that's coming up on 200,000 miles will still hit 100 mph faster than a lot of cars will. That speed is a pretty low bar for modern cars, and my truck is about the least flashy thing anyone could hope to drive.
I was speaking more of an ideal, really. I agree totally that there will always be some kind of bias, merely because journalists are people too.
that's how Netflix has become as valuable as Disney in one tenth of the time
If you're just considering market cap, yes. By practically any other metric (particularly net income, i.e. profit), Disney and Comcast both dwarf Netflix, and that means a lot more money at their disposal for influencing legislation. Also, while Netflix's own programming has been successful, they're largely dependent on other content providers and on ISPs for their business.
Yeah, I've noticed that. Over the last couple of decades, it seems like the use of slang has become increasingly acceptable in journalism. I'm not militant about it, but it does tend to sound kind of unprofessional to me, and in particular it subjectively colors the headline/story. I thought journalists were supposed to be neutral in their reporting.
At least they finally finished the construction widening it to three lanes in each direction from Vero Beach north through Brevard County. The traffic dumping onto 95 North from Malabar Rd. and the backups on 95 South at the Palm Bay Rd. exit made it a real mess before they got that third lane added.
IBM didn't want the OS license because the BIOS was suppose to be the key that locked them in.
It wasn't very much of a key given that anyone that wanted the source could simply buy the Technical Reference manual and get it, along with full schematics.
I am willing to bet no one has ever gotten to the interview stage only to hear no correspondence anymore
I have. After a phone screen and two in-person interviews over two weeks that collectively took up about six hours of my time, the prospective employer went MIA, and wouldn't return calls or emails.
"5050" refers to the size of the package, which in this case is 5.0x5.0 mm. It has no bearing on the LED functionality itself (except possibly for brightness), and even single-color SMT LEDs are available in the 5050 size.
Go with the APA101/102. It's a better product in pretty much every way than the WS2812. Global brightness only runs at about 580 Hz, but the individual RGB values are set at 19.2 KHz, so it's quite easy to get a flicker-free experience with them if you set global brightness to full. On top of that, because they use synchronous 2-wire SPI, they don't have the sensitive timing requirements of the WS, so you can run them from a Raspberry Pi or other system where you can't guarantee solid timing.
2) Yes, you _can_ get all those materials (steel, paint, plastic, LEDs) in the U.S., but at least some of them are available at a substantially lower cost from other countries (e.g. steel from China).
And some aren't available at all. The popular WS8212 and APA101 RGB LEDs don't have a comparable US-made product that I'm aware of.
Well I'm sorry cupcake, but that's exactly the opposite of why copyright exists. The idea is to allow you to benefit from your work for a LIMITED time, in order to encourage you to create other works, with the end result of enriching society as a whole when it eventually becomes public domain. If you want to say "screw society", then maybe society should return the favor and just do away with the idea of copyright altogether, hmm? It's a right that SOCIETY grants to you, not a natural right.
When you go to work and put in your hours, you are not risking any money. You will get paid. 100% chance. You are not putting your neck (or assets) on the line.
No, you're putting your time on the line. Money and other assets? Those can be recovered or regenerated. Your time cannot, and wages are taxed as if your time had zero value. And by the way, there are plenty of folks that have gotten stiffed on paychecks, be it from a regular W-2 job, consulting/contracting, or whatever.
Yeah, Sam was great live. He came out on stage, dropped the mike, and screamed, "HOW THE FUCK ARE YOU, NORFOLK?!!!!". Could hear him clearly even in the nosebleed seats over all the applause.
I hadn't gotten to see John live, and I'm very sorry I missed him. I can console myself by having gotten to see Sam Kinison live a few weeks before his passing though, I suppose.
Does referring to it as "grey sources" make you feel better about the piracy you engage in?
Does referring to it as "piracy" make you feel better about the theft (actual deprivation of something) that excessive copyright terms commits upon society?
Sounds like they're rolling out the next feature of Manna. Seriously though, there's not much to worry about. If Walmart is going to be recording conversations at the checkout lines, that's only 2-3 employees even when the store is slammed, right?
but with no Jedi to maintain order and only evil force users the First Order rises out of the ashes
This would actually have been an interesting story. Who is Snoke and how did he gain power? Who paid for Starkiller Base (ugh, that name)? Why did the Rebellion continue to be such a tiny, continually underfunded activity after the fall of the Empire, instead of becoming a new secular version of the Jedi Knights? Why did the First Order rise to power in preference to the Rebellion in the immediate aftermath of the Empire, after 30 years of seeing what that kind of rule brought?
Answering those questions would have made the setting for "The Force Awakens" much less jarring, but would have made it more difficult to incorporate the original three actors of the first trilogy.
The original Sith don't need to be even remotely human, and could make for some creative backstory.
[Scene: a laboratory on an ancient world]
"Hey Bob, come look at this."
[camera pans down into a microscope]
"Huh, that's strange. Never seen black midichlorians before."
I didn't think anything could be worse than a Voldemort political metaphor.
Really? Come live in Florida, where Voldemort is the actual governor. He did get his nose back, so at least he has that going for him.
"VCS" is what Atari called it for the first five years of its existence, and was renamed "2600" at the same time the 5200 was released. The Sears re-brand was the Tele-Games Video Arcade, and my Sears box is still going strong after 41 years. :-)
I admire your restraint. I think I'd have probably responded to the judge's statement by replying that John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, disagreed with his statement.
I'm a bit surprised that Roberts voted as he did, but it's a happy surprise.
My slide rule laughs at your dependence on electricity! I'd use my abacus, but it's harder to do square roots on it.