Suppose you hacked the GPS software stack to fake your location - e.g. shift it northeast by 50 miles. Would the various location-finding services use the GPS location, or the triangulated radio tower one? Or, would the software notice the discrepancy?
I'm not sure what the "naughty Montreal" comment is about; Montreal is an ideal location to get over this episode. Women in general, and women in industry in particular, are treated fairly and equitably. While there aren't 50% female developers, the numbers are higher than I've seen elsewhere in North America.
I just hope conference attendees are ready for 51% of the sessions to be held in French, and all printed materials being predominantly in French, as required by law.
Two employees, in public, on company time, wearing badges clearly identifying what company they work for, making totally inappropriate comments - they most certainly should be fired.
Firing Richards herself is the moronic thing. You don't fire the messenger. I have zero idea what SendGrid does - but "all publicity is good publicity" is a lie.
the simple fact of the matter is that entitlement spending dwarfs defense spending.
[citation needed]
The wikpedia page says the 2011 defense budget was $929 billion, out of a total $3,598 billion - or 26%. It's pretty hard to "dwarf" a budget item that large.
Well, there are millions of robots out there; I'm sure that more than a few have had surgery. I guess that in some cases, fixing the robot you own is cheaper than buying a new one.
"if your car is unlocked they can rummage through it legally without a warrant"
More like - if you are stopped for speeding, and you have a kilo on the back seat in plain view, they can seize it and arrest you. However, if you stashed the kilo in your trunk, they cannot open it to search without either your permission, or a warrant.
don't forgot : Michelin manufactures tyres in France (and abroad) and wins a lot of money.
Yes, which makes the entire letter pretty absurd. Give the average French consumer the choice between a domestically-made Michelin - arguably the best tyres in the world - and some imported US Goodyear crap, and which do you think they will buy?
That is the key question, though - is it "better" to have more stuff, or to have the time to enjoy it?
For the worker, I think the French system is superior. For the CEO, though - people such as Titan - the US system is far, far better.
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If there really is no optical drive then it's dead.
The Nintendo 64 seems to have done alright in the console market with no optical drive. So did the various Nintendo DS versions in the handheld market.
Seems like a whole lot of tablets being sold today with no optical drive either.
Yes, i know, Sony is an evil company. So is Microsoft. If I just want to play games, nothing you list affected me. The rootkit fiasco wasn't about games at all - it was about music CDs, which is basically a completely different division of Sony. Stripping Linux may have ticked off some geeks, but it wasn't anything useful for gaming at all. And while the George Hotz case may have been gaming related - if you just wanted to play legal games, not pirate them and cheat, then it wasn't of interest either.
So, yes - Sony may be evil, but not any more so than most large companies. I'm going to buy a PS4 anyway.
So if I sell a knife to someone who uses it to rob a bank, I am responsible?
The first time, no.
Around about the 100th time, if you don't start instituting some security measures - such as requiring a photo ID of knife purchasers, and saving a copy of the ID and a bill of sale for every purchase - then yes, you could be held responsible.
Modern cars with manual transmissions often have a drive-by-wire clutch, in the sense that the pedal is nothing more than a force-feedback joystick.
[citation needed]
I've never seen such an arrangement. What make/model are you talking of?
No dual-clutch automated manual has a pedal. All the single-clutch automated systems (e.g. BMW SMG) removed the pedal as well. In things like a WRC rally car, when driven normally, the clutch is completely automated with a computer and a hydraulic cylinder pressing the clutch - but the pedal on the floor still directly works the clutch by a typical hydraulic system, as a failsafe.
All the key does is telling the cars computer that the one having it is allowed to start it.
In almost all electronic key systems, the key is only needed to start the car. After that, the car will continue to run, key or no key.
When they first came out, there were numerous stories of person A starting the car, then person B driving away in it.... they were fine until they parked and shut down the engine; then they coudn't restart it. Now most such cars have a warning that goes off if the key is removed from the car - won't shut down the engine, but at least gives you a warning.
It's done this way for a reason - you don't want a momentary loss of contact (mechanical contact, or RF contact in a keyless system) to shut down the engine on the highway.
Not quite so awesome: it seems that you have to re-purchase the Steam games you already own on Windows.
Even less awesome: the state of graphics drivers under Linux. For the ATI system I tried Steam on, there are several proprietary drivers, several open-source drivers, zero indication from Steam as to what is the best one to use.... and experimentation says that *none* of them work right in games. The Steam client really needs to help the user out - detect the graphics that are present, phone home to a driver database machine, and let the user know if they have the optimal setup.
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Why not just make the choice of rendering engine user configurable?
Suppose you hacked the GPS software stack to fake your location - e.g. shift it northeast by 50 miles. Would the various location-finding services use the GPS location, or the triangulated radio tower one? Or, would the software notice the discrepancy?
Neither the X station nor the dumb terminal "receive pre-rendered content".
The iWatch, however.... to me this looks like a pre-emptive strike against Apple.
I'm not sure what the "naughty Montreal" comment is about; Montreal is an ideal location to get over this episode. Women in general, and women in industry in particular, are treated fairly and equitably. While there aren't 50% female developers, the numbers are higher than I've seen elsewhere in North America.
I just hope conference attendees are ready for 51% of the sessions to be held in French, and all printed materials being predominantly in French, as required by law.
Two employees, in public, on company time, wearing badges clearly identifying what company they work for, making totally inappropriate comments - they most certainly should be fired.
Firing Richards herself is the moronic thing. You don't fire the messenger. I have zero idea what SendGrid does - but "all publicity is good publicity" is a lie.
the simple fact of the matter is that entitlement spending dwarfs defense spending.
[citation needed]
The wikpedia page says the 2011 defense budget was $929 billion, out of a total $3,598 billion - or 26%. It's pretty hard to "dwarf" a budget item that large.
Absolutely. In this case the data was collected with the owner's permission, since the car's owner was, and still is, Tesla Motors.
Well, there are millions of robots out there; I'm sure that more than a few have had surgery. I guess that in some cases, fixing the robot you own is cheaper than buying a new one.
Dinosaurs survived 135 million years without being annihilated. Their last words were "Damn, I wish we'd done something".
Speaking about anonymous contributors..... how about a filter, so anything posted anonymously is limited in size, and cannot have embedded links?
You mean just the BSA?
Why are the Boy Scouts interested in this anyway?
If he had a DVR security system and multiple cameras.... well, they'd be gone too, wouldn't they?
"if your car is unlocked they can rummage through it legally without a warrant"
More like - if you are stopped for speeding, and you have a kilo on the back seat in plain view, they can seize it and arrest you. However, if you stashed the kilo in your trunk, they cannot open it to search without either your permission, or a warrant.
don't forgot : Michelin manufactures tyres in France (and abroad) and wins a lot of money.
Yes, which makes the entire letter pretty absurd. Give the average French consumer the choice between a domestically-made Michelin - arguably the best tyres in the world - and some imported US Goodyear crap, and which do you think they will buy?
That is the key question, though - is it "better" to have more stuff, or to have the time to enjoy it?
For the worker, I think the French system is superior. For the CEO, though - people such as Titan - the US system is far, far better.
If there really is no optical drive then it's dead.
The Nintendo 64 seems to have done alright in the console market with no optical drive. So did the various Nintendo DS versions in the handheld market.
Seems like a whole lot of tablets being sold today with no optical drive either.
Why exactly would I give money to Sony?
Because I want to play games?
Yes, i know, Sony is an evil company. So is Microsoft. If I just want to play games, nothing you list affected me. The rootkit fiasco wasn't about games at all - it was about music CDs, which is basically a completely different division of Sony. Stripping Linux may have ticked off some geeks, but it wasn't anything useful for gaming at all. And while the George Hotz case may have been gaming related - if you just wanted to play legal games, not pirate them and cheat, then it wasn't of interest either.
So, yes - Sony may be evil, but not any more so than most large companies. I'm going to buy a PS4 anyway.
It is illegal to pay a H1B worker less than the prevailing rate.
So, the entire space station only has *one* single radio communications device, with no redundant/emergency backup?
So if I sell a knife to someone who uses it to rob a bank, I am responsible?
The first time, no.
Around about the 100th time, if you don't start instituting some security measures - such as requiring a photo ID of knife purchasers, and saving a copy of the ID and a bill of sale for every purchase - then yes, you could be held responsible.
Modern cars with manual transmissions often have a drive-by-wire clutch, in the sense that the pedal is nothing more than a force-feedback joystick.
[citation needed]
I've never seen such an arrangement. What make/model are you talking of?
No dual-clutch automated manual has a pedal. All the single-clutch automated systems (e.g. BMW SMG) removed the pedal as well. In things like a WRC rally car, when driven normally, the clutch is completely automated with a computer and a hydraulic cylinder pressing the clutch - but the pedal on the floor still directly works the clutch by a typical hydraulic system, as a failsafe.
All the key does is telling the cars computer that the one having it is allowed to start it.
In almost all electronic key systems, the key is only needed to start the car. After that, the car will continue to run, key or no key.
When they first came out, there were numerous stories of person A starting the car, then person B driving away in it.... they were fine until they parked and shut down the engine; then they coudn't restart it. Now most such cars have a warning that goes off if the key is removed from the car - won't shut down the engine, but at least gives you a warning.
It's done this way for a reason - you don't want a momentary loss of contact (mechanical contact, or RF contact in a keyless system) to shut down the engine on the highway.
Not quite so awesome: it seems that you have to re-purchase the Steam games you already own on Windows.
Even less awesome: the state of graphics drivers under Linux. For the ATI system I tried Steam on, there are several proprietary drivers, several open-source drivers, zero indication from Steam as to what is the best one to use.... and experimentation says that *none* of them work right in games. The Steam client really needs to help the user out - detect the graphics that are present, phone home to a driver database machine, and let the user know if they have the optimal setup.
It would be worth the airfare to Brazil to buy one and use it in the USA... especially if you lived in Cupertino.
Is that little green robot on the box displaying it's middle finger?
First thing that could go wrong is a power cut. A traditional radar system can easily be run on a backup generator.
A power outage in Guildford shouldn't cause flight delays (or worse) at Heathrow.