And Apple's hardware is crippled for the sake of Apple software. Not news.
It's the free market economy: manufacturers are free to make UEFI machines, or not make them. Consumers are free to buy them, or not buy them. This is supposedly a democracy - having the government interfere in which boot loaders are acceptable and which ones are not is a path we probably don't want to follow.
So, no bank account then. (Most bank computers run Solaris; the few that run Linux still run a lot of closed-source software). And no credit card.
Probably no cash, either - I hear that governments get very protective about their currency when people try to copy it.
Can't buy anything anyway - shops use closed-source cash registers.
Can't drive anywhere - cars use closed-source software, and so do traffic lights. Can't listen to the radio or watch television either. Can't make phone calls. All in all, a pretty dull existence.
Are you switching because you want to, or solely because of the move?
Why not just keep your current job, but work remotely? Or, if your current employer is not smart enough to allow that, find a job with an international company that cares more about what you do than where you happen to live.
The bill of rights is a poor example - it does not prohibit slavery, give blacks rights, or allow them to vote. The US Constitution (with all amendments) would be a better reason, but unfortunately even it does not guarantee equality under the law - ask any gay couple.
I think the question for Mr. Hansen is a good one. If "the will of the constituents" was the law of the land, slavery would never have been abolished, and being a Muslim would have been outlawed on 9/12/2001.
Since Ford sold them, they have completely redesigned their entire lineup. The truly bad car - the Ford Mondeo-based X series - is completely gone. They have a brand new mid-range sedan - the XF - which is selling well worldwide, competes head-on with the BMW 5-series, but is $10K less expensive. A lightly modified XF went over 225 MPH at Bonneville, and their cars are being raced in the LeMans series. A totally new sports car is being introduced this summer.
Yes, this was all done with Tata's credit card - but they've hardly been resting on their laurels.
So Pluto was deemed just another large chunk of space debris orbiting the earth, and hence not a planet. Vesta *is* just a large asteroid amongst a whole bunch of others, but it is a planet?
Elevators also have speed controls, and cannot go faster than a certain designed-in speed because of mechanical reasons, not CPU controlled ones.
Besides, most elevators (and most boilers) in NYC predate the internet. On the elevators that are more modern, the average New Yorker would greatly appreciate it if you could speed them up somehow.....
I guess this means that it's fine to lie to Yahoo when applying for a job.
Yahoo is a dying shell of a company with nothing innovative or interesting to work on. So in a way you have to lie - unless you put down "nobody else will hire me" as your reason for applying.
Maybe the Germans can exhibit a bit of self control behind the wheel while driving?
I think it is more the fact that the USA is a much, much larger market than Germany. Cars are designed to sell, so they need to be built with things that will sell in their largest markets - currently China and the USA.
Apropos cupholders: on the E46 BMW (3-series cars circa 2002) there were cupholders on the American cars, but none in the German/European versions. That way they sold more cars in the USA, but didn't annoy people and lose sales in Germany The smartphone app ability may not be built in world-wide either.
Portable is key when you want to resell your house. Unless you can find a like-minded nerd, anything screwed in to the walls is going to turn off buyers.
They are probably referring to transmitting a motion picture film on TV.
Regular television sends out (in the UK and in Europe) 50 distinct pictures every second.
A movie is 24 distinct pictures every second. You can cheaply and easily send it out on TV by speeding it up a little bit (4%), and transmitting each image twice. The slight speedup is not noticable, and you need no processing to the images. But, compared to video, there is a very subtle jerkiness to it.
Interestingly enough, movies in movie theatres are already shown at 48 Hz - but each picture is shown twice. In the early days they really did show film at 24 Hz - but the effect was very disturbing. The human eye can see something flashing at 24 Hz and perceive it as flashing, but something at 48 Hz is perceived as constantly on. So, motion picture projectors simply show each frame of the film twice, and the eye sees a constant image.
(The motion picture projectors today cannot, however, display 48 Hz source material - the speed would be too high for the reel motors, and the double-gate mechanism can't be turned off. Presumably if this film is released at 48 Hz, it will be as digital only).
The motion doesn't matter. PAL transmits 50 images every second. NTSC transmits (just under) 60 images per second. If you point your video camera at a painting, the picture content isn't changing, ever - but there are still 50 images transmitted every second.
Each image is, of course, 'compressed' by simply discarding every other horizontal row.
Navtec via manufacturer - $1200 navigation package plus $100/yr map update for once a year data through a dealership.
Navtec via iOS - $20-40 North American Maps and Google local search integration, $20/yr for subscription for quarterly map update subscription, delivered automatically.
The auto manufacturer provides the hardware. To be fair you need to add in the cost of an iPad to the Apple total.
For my car, all nav system updates are free. My last one included a free car wash and a free loaner for the day. You're paying $20 more for less service.
Yeah, it's a joke, but it's also awfully revealing about how behind-the-times Hollywood's business practices really are.
Hollywood distributes movies both digitally and on film. Not all theatres have converted - in fact only a small portion of them are fully digital. So this is a matter of Hollywood serving their customers - if they stopped film distribution, then most cinemas would close their doors.
Now that Kodak is bankrupt, and the future supply of film stock is uncertain, converting cinemas to digital may speed up - but it is still a very expensive process, and most local theatres don't have the cash to do it.
Elvish is a very poor example here. It is not a language; it is a portion of a larger work of fiction. Books can be copyrighted, so something that exists solely in a book is part of that copyright.
Assembly language is different for different processors. I'm pretty sure that Intel has a copyright on x86 assembly, but that doesn't stop ARM from using a completely different assembly language on their processor.
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And Apple's hardware is crippled for the sake of Apple software. Not news.
It's the free market economy: manufacturers are free to make UEFI machines, or not make them. Consumers are free to buy them, or not buy them. This is supposedly a democracy - having the government interfere in which boot loaders are acceptable and which ones are not is a path we probably don't want to follow.
So, no bank account then. (Most bank computers run Solaris; the few that run Linux still run a lot of closed-source software). And no credit card.
Probably no cash, either - I hear that governments get very protective about their currency when people try to copy it.
Can't buy anything anyway - shops use closed-source cash registers.
Can't drive anywhere - cars use closed-source software, and so do traffic lights. Can't listen to the radio or watch television either. Can't make phone calls. All in all, a pretty dull existence.
Are you switching because you want to, or solely because of the move?
Why not just keep your current job, but work remotely? Or, if your current employer is not smart enough to allow that, find a job with an international company that cares more about what you do than where you happen to live.
The bill of rights is a poor example - it does not prohibit slavery, give blacks rights, or allow them to vote. The US Constitution (with all amendments) would be a better reason, but unfortunately even it does not guarantee equality under the law - ask any gay couple.
I think the question for Mr. Hansen is a good one. If "the will of the constituents" was the law of the land, slavery would never have been abolished, and being a Muslim would have been outlawed on 9/12/2001.
If Ultramercial has a patent covering forced-viewing advertising, doesn't that cover virtually every DVD made?
Since Ford sold them, they have completely redesigned their entire lineup. The truly bad car - the Ford Mondeo-based X series - is completely gone. They have a brand new mid-range sedan - the XF - which is selling well worldwide, competes head-on with the BMW 5-series, but is $10K less expensive. A lightly modified XF went over 225 MPH at Bonneville, and their cars are being raced in the LeMans series. A totally new sports car is being introduced this summer.
Yes, this was all done with Tata's credit card - but they've hardly been resting on their laurels.
Shill (noun)
2. a person who publicizes or praises something or someone for reasons of self-interest, [...]
So Schilling is a shill. Are you sure the spelling is a mistake? He is, in fact, shilling.
A little bit of ketchup goes a long, long way.
This is another score for the government and a blow to the idea that provate industry always does everything best.
There is an entire political party that disagrees with you.
So Pluto was deemed just another large chunk of space debris orbiting the earth, and hence not a planet. Vesta *is* just a large asteroid amongst a whole bunch of others, but it is a planet?
I'm confused now.
Elevators also have speed controls, and cannot go faster than a certain designed-in speed because of mechanical reasons, not CPU controlled ones.
Besides, most elevators (and most boilers) in NYC predate the internet. On the elevators that are more modern, the average New Yorker would greatly appreciate it if you could speed them up somehow.....
They've had rolls of wallpaper that blocks signals for decades. I've got a roll or two in my kitchen - it's labelled "aluminum foil".
I guess this means that it's fine to lie to Yahoo when applying for a job.
Yahoo is a dying shell of a company with nothing innovative or interesting to work on. So in a way you have to lie - unless you put down "nobody else will hire me" as your reason for applying.
Maybe the Germans can exhibit a bit of self control behind the wheel while driving?
I think it is more the fact that the USA is a much, much larger market than Germany. Cars are designed to sell, so they need to be built with things that will sell in their largest markets - currently China and the USA.
Apropos cupholders: on the E46 BMW (3-series cars circa 2002) there were cupholders on the American cars, but none in the German/European versions. That way they sold more cars in the USA, but didn't annoy people and lose sales in Germany The smartphone app ability may not be built in world-wide either.
Portable is key when you want to resell your house. Unless you can find a like-minded nerd, anything screwed in to the walls is going to turn off buyers.
They are probably referring to transmitting a motion picture film on TV.
Regular television sends out (in the UK and in Europe) 50 distinct pictures every second.
A movie is 24 distinct pictures every second. You can cheaply and easily send it out on TV by speeding it up a little bit (4%), and transmitting each image twice. The slight speedup is not noticable, and you need no processing to the images. But, compared to video, there is a very subtle jerkiness to it.
Interestingly enough, movies in movie theatres are already shown at 48 Hz - but each picture is shown twice. In the early days they really did show film at 24 Hz - but the effect was very disturbing. The human eye can see something flashing at 24 Hz and perceive it as flashing, but something at 48 Hz is perceived as constantly on. So, motion picture projectors simply show each frame of the film twice, and the eye sees a constant image.
(The motion picture projectors today cannot, however, display 48 Hz source material - the speed would be too high for the reel motors, and the double-gate mechanism can't be turned off. Presumably if this film is released at 48 Hz, it will be as digital only).
The motion doesn't matter. PAL transmits 50 images every second. NTSC transmits (just under) 60 images per second. If you point your video camera at a painting, the picture content isn't changing, ever - but there are still 50 images transmitted every second.
Each image is, of course, 'compressed' by simply discarding every other horizontal row.
Navtec via manufacturer - $1200 navigation package plus $100/yr map update for once a year data through a dealership.
Navtec via iOS - $20-40 North American Maps and Google local search integration, $20/yr for subscription for quarterly map update subscription, delivered automatically.
The auto manufacturer provides the hardware. To be fair you need to add in the cost of an iPad to the Apple total.
For my car, all nav system updates are free. My last one included a free car wash and a free loaner for the day. You're paying $20 more for less service.
Most car engineers are from countries that don't drink while driving - e.g. Japan, Germany.
Yeah, it's a joke, but it's also awfully revealing about how behind-the-times Hollywood's business practices really are.
Hollywood distributes movies both digitally and on film. Not all theatres have converted - in fact only a small portion of them are fully digital. So this is a matter of Hollywood serving their customers - if they stopped film distribution, then most cinemas would close their doors.
Now that Kodak is bankrupt, and the future supply of film stock is uncertain, converting cinemas to digital may speed up - but it is still a very expensive process, and most local theatres don't have the cash to do it.
'hoover' in this context means 'vacuum', or more commonly 'suck'.
It is, however, incorrect usage to say that "subby's writing skills for an international audience really hoover'.
So they show a 1.6 watt difference (LCD) on the same image, where their stated difference between google and blackie is 3.8 watts.
Actually, the expertsare divided on whether IPv4 addresses will be exhaused.
IPV4 addresses have already been exhausted for a year now.
Any so-called 'experts' claiming otherwise may not be reliable sources.
Elvish is a very poor example here. It is not a language; it is a portion of a larger work of fiction. Books can be copyrighted, so something that exists solely in a book is part of that copyright.
Assembly language is different for different processors. I'm pretty sure that Intel has a copyright on x86 assembly, but that doesn't stop ARM from using a completely different assembly language on their processor.