There were only two manufacturers of professional TV monitor panels: Sony and Panasonic. Now there's one. Guess I'll grab another Sony before they realize they're a monopoly.
The irony of a Panasonic TV set with a Sony display is going to be great, though.
In other findings, federal officials say that the IQ level of Silicon Valley workers is significantly higher than employees in the rest of the country. "We cannot determine the reasons for that, and are continuing our studies to determine the root cause", said one spokesman.
They're really claiming that they don't know why this is happening?
Note to iTunes software engineers: grep through your code and find all calls to delete(). Investigate the code in those areas. If you can't add some basic debug code - or if you're unsure of what "grep" is - maybe you should consider a move to management.
Until now you'd often need to be following an issue in bugzilla to even know that an experimental feature exists
Until now new features like Pocket have been forcefully installed on your computer with no permission at all, and no obvious way of disabling them, forcing you to spend time googling what the heck they are, and how to get rid of them.
Unfortunately this new-features-on-demand-only idea only seems to apply to beta things; once they go gold they will still be forcefully rammed down our throats.
This is slashdot, not fark. Some minimal level of civility is common.
White space devices need type approval (and are quite complex, generally needing an internal GPS and a database). The "unlicensed" part means that the end purchaser does not need a FCC license to operate, not that the device doesn't need to be tested and approved prior to sale.
The FCC also explicitly bands the amateur broadcast of music for any purpose
You are talking about licensed Amateur Radio here, FCC Part 97. That is completely different from unlicensed low power transmissions under Part 15, which have no such restriction. Amateur transmissions are prohibited in the broadcast television frequencies.
The plug-in dongle to transmit from your iPod to the FM radio in your car, for example - a Part 15 device, and it clearly does allow music.
It would be a good question to research if this intentional radiator met the limits of a Part 15 device, like the unlicensed AM and FM broadcast transmitters that you can buy or build.
FCC OET Bulletin No. 63, October 1993: With the exception of intermittent and periodic transmissions, and biomedical telemetry devices, Part 15 transmitters are not permitted to operate in the TV broadcast bands.
Today, people who don't own a car and/or don't want to drive just take a taxi or Uber. If they buy a self-driving car instead, how does that lead to more trips and more pollution?
And Steam is designed to keep you from running the games that you've bought.
The state keeps me from driving the car I bought. Just because I drive 127 MPH in a school zone *ONE TIME*, now I'm no longer allowed to drive my own car.
I have issues with the statement "the cross-platform alternative to DirectX". OpenGL was a cross-platform graphics standard before DirectX even existed.
Of course, since this is Symantec, it won't happen.
I wouldn't be too sure of that. There are more than enough people out there with a simmering hatred of Symantec and the crapware they have foisted on the world.
We're talking cell phones here; every single thing about them is proprietary and non-interoperable. Heck, even the same manufacturer will make things incompatible with their own previous generation product, just for the fun of it.
External expansion also makes the phone incompatible with just about any case you can think of, and kills any hope of having a splash-proof or dust-proof phone; so you're in the position of needing a case (to protect it), but not being able to use a case (because then the expansion modules can't plug in).
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There were only two manufacturers of professional TV monitor panels: Sony and Panasonic. Now there's one. Guess I'll grab another Sony before they realize they're a monopoly.
The irony of a Panasonic TV set with a Sony display is going to be great, though.
In other findings, federal officials say that the IQ level of Silicon Valley workers is significantly higher than employees in the rest of the country. "We cannot determine the reasons for that, and are continuing our studies to determine the root cause", said one spokesman.
They're really claiming that they don't know why this is happening?
Note to iTunes software engineers: grep through your code and find all calls to delete(). Investigate the code in those areas. If you can't add some basic debug code - or if you're unsure of what "grep" is - maybe you should consider a move to management.
Until now you'd often need to be following an issue in bugzilla to even know that an experimental feature exists
Until now new features like Pocket have been forcefully installed on your computer with no permission at all, and no obvious way of disabling them, forcing you to spend time googling what the heck they are, and how to get rid of them.
Unfortunately this new-features-on-demand-only idea only seems to apply to beta things; once they go gold they will still be forcefully rammed down our throats.
Exactly. If you want to know how well statistics fares at this, turn on any top-40 radio station.
I mean, no-one has ever faked ID. Or paid a kid $20 to go buy a couple of phones.
Or stolen a phone. Cheaper and easier than buying one.
It stands for "Denial Of Service". It's a nasty bit of software designed to prevent you from making full use of your computer.
I'm running Windows, so my computer has all the signs of Alzheimer's disease..... what does that say about me?
This is slashdot, not fark. Some minimal level of civility is common.
White space devices need type approval (and are quite complex, generally needing an internal GPS and a database). The "unlicensed" part means that the end purchaser does not need a FCC license to operate, not that the device doesn't need to be tested and approved prior to sale.
The FCC also explicitly bands the amateur broadcast of music for any purpose
You are talking about licensed Amateur Radio here, FCC Part 97. That is completely different from unlicensed low power transmissions under Part 15, which have no such restriction. Amateur transmissions are prohibited in the broadcast television frequencies.
The plug-in dongle to transmit from your iPod to the FM radio in your car, for example - a Part 15 device, and it clearly does allow music.
Maybe 8 people *did* report it as being a hazard..... but then 23 muggers reported it as perfectly safe.
So, two soldiers of one of the best-trained, best-equipped military forces on the planet were using a consumer-oriented phone app for navigation?
Something tells me that a certain two solders will be peeling a whole lot of potatoes over the next year or so.
It would be a good question to research if this intentional radiator met the limits of a Part 15 device, like the unlicensed AM and FM broadcast transmitters that you can buy or build.
FCC OET Bulletin No. 63, October 1993:
With the exception of intermittent and periodic transmissions, and biomedical telemetry devices, Part 15 transmitters are not permitted to operate in the TV broadcast bands.
Agreed - cool hack.
There *should* be a big, huge warning, though - about violating FCC rules. The hack broadcasts on restricted frequencies; replicate at your own risk.
Why should the removal of words such as "Gay" and/or "Lesbian" be deemed 'controversial'??
Because it will end up blocking The Flintstones - one of the greatest cartoons ever - just because it uses the word 'gay' in the theme song.
(Quickly scans list....) STILL no Half LIfe 3.
>> Google said its car's safety driver thought the bus would yield.
So Google is teaching their cars to drive like normal Californians: expect that the other guy will yield.
Today, people who don't own a car and/or don't want to drive just take a taxi or Uber. If they buy a self-driving car instead, how does that lead to more trips and more pollution?
The product is crap anyway.
Thankfully they're putting the Microsoft logo on it, to warn the consumer.
Now when I raise my middle finger in a game, I get banned. Wonderful. Just what I wanted.
What, you don't refer to the device you view slashdot on as a "Liquid Crystal Computer"?
And Steam is designed to keep you from running the games that you've bought.
The state keeps me from driving the car I bought. Just because I drive 127 MPH in a school zone *ONE TIME*, now I'm no longer allowed to drive my own car.
SteamOS != Steam.
I have issues with the statement "the cross-platform alternative to DirectX". OpenGL was a cross-platform graphics standard before DirectX even existed.
Of course, since this is Symantec, it won't happen.
I wouldn't be too sure of that. There are more than enough people out there with a simmering hatred of Symantec and the crapware they have foisted on the world.
We're talking cell phones here; every single thing about them is proprietary and non-interoperable. Heck, even the same manufacturer will make things incompatible with their own previous generation product, just for the fun of it.
External expansion also makes the phone incompatible with just about any case you can think of, and kills any hope of having a splash-proof or dust-proof phone; so you're in the position of needing a case (to protect it), but not being able to use a case (because then the expansion modules can't plug in).