In addition to that, without asking you, they uploaded all of your mobile phone contacts when you installed their mobile app: https://www.huffpost.com/entry...
This is why I only access facebook from the web on mobile
Due to custom compilation of hardware. The OS requires firmware for all of the interfaces and chips. While you may be able to get away with a "One size fits all" solution like Ubuntu on an AMD/Intel chip, there's a huge variety of ARM version chips out there, each with different clock speeds and (presumably) instruction sets. Not to mention all the different WiFi, Bluetooth, and GSM/Edge antennae.
The exact same can be said of Intel/AMD. Nearly single piece of hardware has a firmware and software driver component. The only difference between embedded and non-embedded is the size of flash available on the device to store the OS image, but in a few minutes it's easy to strip out unnecessary drivers from an OS image for deployment on a phone. Doing cross compilation for different ARM chips and placing a specific kernel in each OS image is also dirt easy.
As a matter of fact, Cyanogenmod does this exact thing when it does releases for all of its phones. It would be trivial for Google to do the same. Google just decided initially to let the OEMs do it so Android would spread like wildfire. Hopefully now they decide to reel it all back in.
Why are we selling these airwaves? We should be renting them by the month. This prevents the wastefulness and hoarding of resources by a company that never plans to use them. What if some company buys them all up and never uses them in hopes that they double in price in the next 10 years due to scarcity?
I said nearly the exact same thing as a solution for keeping the IPV4 address space from running out, as most of the space is currently being hoarded by large organizations that don't need full Class A blocks: https://slashdot.org/comments....
From glassdoor, it does seem like there's a troubling amount of people complaining about work-life balance, although not totally out of line with other tech companies: http://www.glassdoor.com/Revie...
Actually you can increase the speed of the speaking voice on Android in Settings -> Language & input -> Text-to-speech output -> Speech rate, that's what was done for this video. The recording is at normal speed.
Feel free to test it yourself, you'll notice the results are completely different from Wolfram Alpha: https://play.google.com/store/...
Just cleaning up the FUD, yes I work at SoundHound;)
I assume detecting the RF signature of the transmitter controlling the drone is the best way.
Of course there are these problems:
1. There are many signals on the bands used for RC.
2. It is possible to build an autonomous drone.
3. In these days of software defined radio, people can spin up non-off-the-shelf, non-standard radio control systems.
Won't work.
Nearly all current RC transmitters operate using frequency hopping on the 2.4Ghz wifi band. Try telling it apart from someone's phone scanning for wifi access points. Also the long range RC transmitters like EZUHF and Dragonlink that can do 10+ miles use frequency hopping on the 433MHz HAM radio bands, and you'll find it nearly impossible to detect those either without picking up a ton of HAM radio transmissions from far away.
I owned two PocketPC devices back in 1999. They ran linux horribly, and sucked at everything else. I can say one thing for sure: SELL THEM. I'm pretty sure you could get $20-40 for each of them. When you're done with that, buy a no contract ZTE Zinger and don't activate it, normally $40, but at one time they were $10. YES $10 without a contract: http://slickdeals.net/f/733309...
I own 2 of them as backups to my Nexus 5. Best dirt cheap phone ever. Dual core 1.2Ghz Snapdragon 200, 512M ram, near stock Android 4.4.2. Even Google Earth runs reasonably well.
I'm not sure I agree this is that bad a thing. Surely the congested routers will now improve because they are not being congested by shitty Netflix traffic?
Why should everyone else have to pay for Netflix to deliver their services?
Surely the analogy is a lot like a coal company driving their coal through New York and instead paying to have a train line built straight to the port.
Why are people arguing this is a bad thing?
It's more like your telephone company deciding that it wants to have your calls you place to your brother get choppy and drop unless your brother decides to pay your telephone provider for the privilege of clear calls. Why should your brother also have to pay when you're already paying your phone company for service?
Not picking a side. But it's kinda funny when you think about it:
* With an Apple device, you get regular updates to iOS, but your phone will continually become slower (planned obsolescence)
* With an Android device, the manufacturer outright abandons updating the phone the moment their next handset is on sale. (Samsung seems to be the worst about this, but, even Google has done it to stock Nexus phones.)
Pick your poison. Slow, or quick.....then get ready for your next pill.
ONLY buy phones that receive updates from your OS creator, not from a 3rd party manufacturer hackjob who will leave you high and dry with bugs and old software.
So this ends up being ONLY a Nexus device, any Iphone, or any Windows Mobile phone.
I've seen it time and time again, even Samsung can't get the software bugs out of their S-line phones, and other vendors like HTC and LG are much much worse. My boss complains all day and night about the bugs on his LG G2, and my Nexus 5 which runs basically the same hardware is great on all counts.
Umm, they are talking about leaning the car inward, not leaning outward. Go take a drive right now and see what happens when you corner due to physics.
Toyotas generally disable the traction control when there is a check engine light. You need to get a code reader to read out the error from your car so you can fix the problem which you seem to describe as a bad O2 sensor. A software update will NOT help you. You have a hardware problem.
I've got ~170 failed Seagate Enterprise 500G drives sitting here in my cube. That's pretty close to a 50% failure rate after 4 years of that fleet. Sadly Dell who branded them won't warranty them after 1 year. I'm pretty close to playing hard drive dominoes with them and posting that on youtube. Also noteworthy, we have almost as many Western Digital drives of that same generation with just one failure. Due to this, my company refuses to buy any more Seagates until we see things get better.
What does it say when I trust a bunch of random coders on the internet to give me a better performing, more secure, and overall more pleasing experience with my smartphone than the company that created it.
We refer to that as the "Open Source" development model
This is the way I see it. I currently run a company with a very very large install base of machines.
My machines are all running Centos 5.x. For me, getting 5.6 out to production is the HIGHEST priority. I could give a crap about 6.0, especially since everyone knows that the first RHEL x.0 release will be completely buggy anyway. For deploy-able stable products, RHEL 4.3 and RHEL 5.1 were the first in their series to be decent enough to run in production from our testing and bug reports back to Redhat's bugzilla. I completely expect RHEL 6.0 to be completely unstable and bug ridden, and hopefully 6.1 has ironed most of them out.
I'd be perfectly happy if CentOS never released a RHEL x.0 release.
I personally think Scientific Linux has their priorities backward, and CentOS is in the right. I'd rather have 5.6 before 6.0.
The only real way to ensure that we don't run out of IP space is to rent them, not sell them. Charge a "property tax" of $1 per IP a month and you'll see tons of organizations with class A blocks give back IP space that they weren't using anyway because they can't afford $16M a month. No organization should ever need more than a few class Cs of publicly routable IP space.
There's a very simple solution to this. We should be renting IP addresses, not handing them out. Make publicly routable IP addresses cost $1 a month. Many class A owners would be dying to give back address space that they aren't using. Isn't that the answer to a limited supply of anything? Set a value to them so they aren't wasted.
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In addition to that, without asking you, they uploaded all of your mobile phone contacts when you installed their mobile app: https://www.huffpost.com/entry...
This is why I only access facebook from the web on mobile
https://www.huffingtonpost.com...
With full steering controls and pedals, it's likely they don't want a passenger sitting in the drivers seat
Due to custom compilation of hardware. The OS requires firmware for all of the interfaces and chips. While you may be able to get away with a "One size fits all" solution like Ubuntu on an AMD/Intel chip, there's a huge variety of ARM version chips out there, each with different clock speeds and (presumably) instruction sets. Not to mention all the different WiFi, Bluetooth, and GSM/Edge antennae.
The exact same can be said of Intel/AMD. Nearly single piece of hardware has a firmware and software driver component. The only difference between embedded and non-embedded is the size of flash available on the device to store the OS image, but in a few minutes it's easy to strip out unnecessary drivers from an OS image for deployment on a phone. Doing cross compilation for different ARM chips and placing a specific kernel in each OS image is also dirt easy.
As a matter of fact, Cyanogenmod does this exact thing when it does releases for all of its phones. It would be trivial for Google to do the same. Google just decided initially to let the OEMs do it so Android would spread like wildfire. Hopefully now they decide to reel it all back in.
Why are we selling these airwaves? We should be renting them by the month. This prevents the wastefulness and hoarding of resources by a company that never plans to use them. What if some company buys them all up and never uses them in hopes that they double in price in the next 10 years due to scarcity?
I said nearly the exact same thing as a solution for keeping the IPV4 address space from running out, as most of the space is currently being hoarded by large organizations that don't need full Class A blocks:
https://slashdot.org/comments....
Good luck with the side impact regulations from 2007 that you need to pass:
http://www.edmunds.com/car-saf...
From glassdoor, it does seem like there's a troubling amount of people complaining about work-life balance, although not totally out of line with other tech companies:
http://www.glassdoor.com/Revie...
Feel free to give it a try yourself, it's available in the Android Market:
https://play.google.com/store/...
We're currently on an invite system and anyone can request one, but the wait for one shouldn't be too long.
Yes I work for SoundHound ;)
Actually you can increase the speed of the speaking voice on Android in Settings -> Language & input -> Text-to-speech output -> Speech rate, that's what was done for this video. The recording is at normal speed.
Feel free to test it yourself, you'll notice the results are completely different from Wolfram Alpha:
https://play.google.com/store/...
Just cleaning up the FUD, yes I work at SoundHound ;)
Feel free to give it a try yourself:
https://play.google.com/store/...
Currently we are on an invite system, but a lot of people have received invites.
Yes I work for SoundHound ;)
I assume detecting the RF signature of the transmitter controlling the drone is the best way.
Of course there are these problems:
1. There are many signals on the bands used for RC.
2. It is possible to build an autonomous drone.
3. In these days of software defined radio, people can spin up non-off-the-shelf, non-standard radio control systems.
Won't work.
Nearly all current RC transmitters operate using frequency hopping on the 2.4Ghz wifi band. Try telling it apart from someone's phone scanning for wifi access points. Also the long range RC transmitters like EZUHF and Dragonlink that can do 10+ miles use frequency hopping on the 433MHz HAM radio bands, and you'll find it nearly impossible to detect those either without picking up a ton of HAM radio transmissions from far away.
I owned two PocketPC devices back in 1999. They ran linux horribly, and sucked at everything else. I can say one thing for sure: SELL THEM. I'm pretty sure you could get $20-40 for each of them. When you're done with that, buy a no contract ZTE Zinger and don't activate it, normally $40, but at one time they were $10. YES $10 without a contract:
http://slickdeals.net/f/733309...
I own 2 of them as backups to my Nexus 5. Best dirt cheap phone ever. Dual core 1.2Ghz Snapdragon 200, 512M ram, near stock Android 4.4.2. Even Google Earth runs reasonably well.
I'm not sure I agree this is that bad a thing.
Surely the congested routers will now improve because they are not being congested by shitty Netflix traffic?
Why should everyone else have to pay for Netflix to deliver their services?
Surely the analogy is a lot like a coal company driving their coal through New York and instead paying to have a train line built straight to the port.
Why are people arguing this is a bad thing?
It's more like your telephone company deciding that it wants to have your calls you place to your brother get choppy and drop unless your brother decides to pay your telephone provider for the privilege of clear calls. Why should your brother also have to pay when you're already paying your phone company for service?
Not picking a side. But it's kinda funny when you think about it:
* With an Apple device, you get regular updates to iOS, but your phone will continually become slower (planned obsolescence)
* With an Android device, the manufacturer outright abandons updating the phone the moment their next handset is on sale. (Samsung seems to be the worst about this, but, even Google has done it to stock Nexus phones.)
Pick your poison. Slow, or quick. ....then get ready for your next pill.
Umm, no. Nexus devices are supported for 18 months as they specifically say:
https://support.google.com/nex...
I've owned nearly all the Nexus devices and cannot think of one that didn't get an update to the latest OS within that time frame.
There's an easy solution.
ONLY buy phones that receive updates from your OS creator, not from a 3rd party manufacturer hackjob who will leave you high and dry with bugs and old software.
So this ends up being ONLY a Nexus device, any Iphone, or any Windows Mobile phone.
I've seen it time and time again, even Samsung can't get the software bugs out of their S-line phones, and other vendors like HTC and LG are much much worse. My boss complains all day and night about the bugs on his LG G2, and my Nexus 5 which runs basically the same hardware is great on all counts.
Umm, they are talking about leaning the car inward, not leaning outward. Go take a drive right now and see what happens when you corner due to physics.
Toyotas generally disable the traction control when there is a check engine light. You need to get a code reader to read out the error from your car so you can fix the problem which you seem to describe as a bad O2 sensor. A software update will NOT help you. You have a hardware problem.
I've got ~170 failed Seagate Enterprise 500G drives sitting here in my cube. That's pretty close to a 50% failure rate after 4 years of that fleet. Sadly Dell who branded them won't warranty them after 1 year. I'm pretty close to playing hard drive dominoes with them and posting that on youtube. Also noteworthy, we have almost as many Western Digital drives of that same generation with just one failure. Due to this, my company refuses to buy any more Seagates until we see things get better.
What does it say when I trust a bunch of random coders on the internet to give me a better performing, more secure, and overall more pleasing experience with my smartphone than the company that created it.
We refer to that as the "Open Source" development model
This is the way I see it. I currently run a company with a very very large install base of machines.
My machines are all running Centos 5.x. For me, getting 5.6 out to production is the HIGHEST priority. I could give a crap about 6.0, especially since everyone knows that the first RHEL x.0 release will be completely buggy anyway. For deploy-able stable products, RHEL 4.3 and RHEL 5.1 were the first in their series to be decent enough to run in production from our testing and bug reports back to Redhat's bugzilla. I completely expect RHEL 6.0 to be completely unstable and bug ridden, and hopefully 6.1 has ironed most of them out.
I'd be perfectly happy if CentOS never released a RHEL x.0 release.
I personally think Scientific Linux has their priorities backward, and CentOS is in the right. I'd rather have 5.6 before 6.0.
http://qaweb.dev.centos.org/qa
ISOs of 6.0 should be available in a week. I doubt that 6.1 will be too far behind.
You missed the next month:
http://qaweb.dev.centos.org/qa/calendar/view/2011-6
"6.0 begin sync to external mirrors" is June 6.
Maybe a release within a week of that.
If we're so worried about global warming just counteract it by increasing global dimming:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_dimming
Ironically, the United States currently imprisons more people than China
Because China killed them all already?
The only real way to ensure that we don't run out of IP space is to rent them, not sell them. Charge a "property tax" of $1 per IP a month and you'll see tons of organizations with class A blocks give back IP space that they weren't using anyway because they can't afford $16M a month. No organization should ever need more than a few class Cs of publicly routable IP space.
There's a very simple solution to this. We should be renting IP addresses, not handing them out. Make publicly routable IP addresses cost $1 a month. Many class A owners would be dying to give back address space that they aren't using. Isn't that the answer to a limited supply of anything? Set a value to them so they aren't wasted.