#2 If the device is already hardwired to allow it to shut down the LED without shutting down the camera then it's only one software update/hack away from transmitting while it appears to be off. (Assuming that such a "feature" hasn't already been included and is just waiting for a signal to activate.)
So? Even if the camera was being powered off, it would only be one software update/hack away from being able to transmit while turning off the LED.
To most of us, a camera that technically has power flowing to it but isn't actually doing anything is still off. This is like an epic pedantic troll comment, but it's a whole article.
Scrum was very useful. It was one of my imbecile tests for a long time. If an American said "scrum" instead of huddle, they were either just parroting what some idiot boss had read in a book or they themselves were the idiot. Americans have no idea what a scrum is unless they were one of the few who played rugby at some point.
The other imbecile test is the use of the word "A3" to describe a summary printed on tabloid-sized paper. Again, we do not have A3 paper in the US, so this was always a good indication that a person is using the word because they have to work under an idiot, or they themselves failed to grasp the lessons in the Toyota book that they read.
Another good one is a whole meeting room filled with sticky notes. Welcome to the 1980s.
While technically correct, your correction is not really relevant to the discussion... Add random noise to the ideal arc and you get the same result - error that always goes up, never down.
It's two means to the same end. We don't have a regulation problem with engineers in the US - we are quite competitive globally and when our infrastructure falls down it is from simple neglect and generally not from engineering deficiencies. Almost every profession in the US is regulated in the same way, and for the most part it works just fine. Doctors have the Medical Boards, lawyers have the Bar - it's a public-private hybrid, but it's still regulation and the entities are non-profit, bureaucratic, and very government-like. Like I said, it's not the most efficient way to do things, but sometimes efficiency takes a back seat. Moving it all over to some government agency would serve no purpose other than to crown a new Caesar.
But with Windows, you have no choice because it is installed on 90+ percent of all PCs. If you want to reach more than a few Mac users you need to write for Windows. Android does not have that position. If you are a game company, Apple still commands the vast majority of actual paying app buyers and most Android devices are the low-end variety that don't make great gaming devices. So, sure, a developer COULD support Android - but at greater cost and for lower return than iOS.
As I pass through middle age, I've come to terms with my "cheap" wine taste. I like the younger, fresher flavor of the less expensive wines. I still like dry wines, so the $3.98 bottles are generally not for me - but I can be quite happy for under $10. The aged and more expensive wines... I can taste the difference, but I have to confess that I don't actually like that flavor. If we are out at a fancy restaurant with $100 bottles and a sommelier or on a wine tasting tour, I am always a bit disappointed.
Their climate is not the same just because their latitudes are similar. Even neglecting temperature, the precipitation in New York is roughly even throughout the year, while Oregon has most of its rainfall in a 6-month period. So the rainfall totals are similar, but it's all scrunched into half of the year.
Oregon wines are generally good, New York wines are generally not.
I've never found "cores" to have anything of the sort.
It depends on the task. Once clock rate is tapped out, all you can do is run more cores. I have some very parallel tasks and some not-very-parallel tasks. The parallel tasks see almost linearly proportional improvement with core count. I've even rented time on Google and Amazon's clouds just to get more cores.
Apparently reflectors only work with led lighting.
I think because of the quality of light, they also get away with a lower number of lumens. I'm not entirely sure what the mechanism is, but I do know that they save money by reducing the power usage. LA is being aggressive with its role-out because of the power savings so far.
The question is does the cost of changing light bulbs more often outweigh cost of led lighting on society?
I don't know what the "cost to society is", but economically it probably depends on many local factors: whether you need union labor, how accessible the fixtures are, etc.
In disruption of sleep in humans and animals and blue light related eye damage?
I haven't seen any studies on any of these things. Animals would seem more likely than humans, but how many animals live near lit roadways? And eye damage? I find that very implausible - even a very bright LED fixture is a fraction of the brightness of the sun. And we got on with mercury lights for around 50 years before sodium lamps became predominant.
Commercial speech has a long tradition of being regulated. You can argue that this violates the First Amendment, but at the end of the day no one wants someone who simply claims to be "professional" signing off on engineering drawings and so you'll have little support.
No one is claiming that a PE is a government certification - it's self-regulation by the profession. It's just a certification that the government recognizes. You can call yourself a professional (lower case "p"), just not a "Professional Engineer" - because, like you say, that would be fraud.
In my state, PA, I believe the only two legal terms are "engineer-in-training" and "professional engineer", where an engineer-in-training is someone on track to become a professional engineer. Technically, since I sat for the PE test, I guess I'm a perpetual engineer-in-training. As a practical matter, I have long since abandoned that track.
The claim is that while sodium is more efficient per lumen, LEDs put out a directional light and so total lumens used is lower. This is also supposed to make the skies darker. LEDs are also supposed to have a longer life, reducing maintenance costs.
It varies a little from state to state, but in general the PE is only necessary for certain regulated work (e.g. civil engineering, building systems, etc.) and if you plan to offer your services to the general public. If you are building assembly equipment for a factory like I do, you won't find a PE anywhere except the building maintenance guys.
Then it occasionally goes over the edge and there are random dropouts.
That would fall into the "doesn't work" category.
A nice and clean high-quality cable has more headroom.
If you are stretching the limits of the technology you are using, you may need the headroom. An audio signal through a 6' cord will not come anywhere close. If we're talking ethernet, then yeah - you might have trouble after dozens of meters (close to the 100 meter spec) at gigabit speeds. If you are talking HDMI, maybe 10 meters or so for 4k video. Lower bandwidth will have less strenuous requirements. If you have no dropouts, it's working fine. You can run tests if you are super paranoid - but it will either work, or it won't. There is not measured or perceived quality difference so long as it is working. The sensible thing to do would be to try a decent-quality cable first and upgrade only if you experience problems. Any conforming cable should be just fine, even over the long term.
such as corrosion and radio interference.
The amount of oxide in a cable won't impact radio interference. The oxide in a cable will not get worse over time unless the cable is exposed to the air (i.e., more oxygen is needed to grow the oxide).
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#2 If the device is already hardwired to allow it to shut down the LED without shutting down the camera then it's only one software update/hack away from transmitting while it appears to be off. (Assuming that such a "feature" hasn't already been included and is just waiting for a signal to activate.)
So? Even if the camera was being powered off, it would only be one software update/hack away from being able to transmit while turning off the LED.
To most of us, a camera that technically has power flowing to it but isn't actually doing anything is still off. This is like an epic pedantic troll comment, but it's a whole article.
Oh, look! One of the imbeciles down-modded me. They must have read a book.
It's not very common. You can buy all of the European standards - I even have some A4 at home that I bought on clearance for the kids to doodle on.
Scrum was very useful. It was one of my imbecile tests for a long time. If an American said "scrum" instead of huddle, they were either just parroting what some idiot boss had read in a book or they themselves were the idiot. Americans have no idea what a scrum is unless they were one of the few who played rugby at some point.
The other imbecile test is the use of the word "A3" to describe a summary printed on tabloid-sized paper. Again, we do not have A3 paper in the US, so this was always a good indication that a person is using the word because they have to work under an idiot, or they themselves failed to grasp the lessons in the Toyota book that they read.
Another good one is a whole meeting room filled with sticky notes. Welcome to the 1980s.
No, measurement error will actually bend space time.
Yes, but random errors will increase the total distance traveled, independent from this kind of inherent estimation error.
While technically correct, your correction is not really relevant to the discussion... Add random noise to the ideal arc and you get the same result - error that always goes up, never down.
Yes, but this one is not - it is a V-4 piston engine. So it'll sound like a piece of lawn equipment.
I was a tiny bit disappointed that they were ducted fans and not jets.
Until we invent flying monkeys, these will have to do.
It's two means to the same end. We don't have a regulation problem with engineers in the US - we are quite competitive globally and when our infrastructure falls down it is from simple neglect and generally not from engineering deficiencies. Almost every profession in the US is regulated in the same way, and for the most part it works just fine. Doctors have the Medical Boards, lawyers have the Bar - it's a public-private hybrid, but it's still regulation and the entities are non-profit, bureaucratic, and very government-like. Like I said, it's not the most efficient way to do things, but sometimes efficiency takes a back seat. Moving it all over to some government agency would serve no purpose other than to crown a new Caesar.
But with Windows, you have no choice because it is installed on 90+ percent of all PCs. If you want to reach more than a few Mac users you need to write for Windows. Android does not have that position. If you are a game company, Apple still commands the vast majority of actual paying app buyers and most Android devices are the low-end variety that don't make great gaming devices. So, sure, a developer COULD support Android - but at greater cost and for lower return than iOS.
But ocean currents give England a more moderate climate than New York.
As I pass through middle age, I've come to terms with my "cheap" wine taste. I like the younger, fresher flavor of the less expensive wines. I still like dry wines, so the $3.98 bottles are generally not for me - but I can be quite happy for under $10. The aged and more expensive wines... I can taste the difference, but I have to confess that I don't actually like that flavor. If we are out at a fancy restaurant with $100 bottles and a sommelier or on a wine tasting tour, I am always a bit disappointed.
Their climate is not the same just because their latitudes are similar. Even neglecting temperature, the precipitation in New York is roughly even throughout the year, while Oregon has most of its rainfall in a 6-month period. So the rainfall totals are similar, but it's all scrunched into half of the year.
Oregon wines are generally good, New York wines are generally not.
They grow wine grapes in New York and Canada... it's not very good most of the time, but they do it. "Nice bottle" is the key.
I've never found "cores" to have anything of the sort.
It depends on the task. Once clock rate is tapped out, all you can do is run more cores. I have some very parallel tasks and some not-very-parallel tasks. The parallel tasks see almost linearly proportional improvement with core count. I've even rented time on Google and Amazon's clouds just to get more cores.
Apparently reflectors only work with led lighting.
I think because of the quality of light, they also get away with a lower number of lumens. I'm not entirely sure what the mechanism is, but I do know that they save money by reducing the power usage. LA is being aggressive with its role-out because of the power savings so far.
The question is does the cost of changing light bulbs more often outweigh cost of led lighting on society?
I don't know what the "cost to society is", but economically it probably depends on many local factors: whether you need union labor, how accessible the fixtures are, etc.
In disruption of sleep in humans and animals and blue light related eye damage?
I haven't seen any studies on any of these things. Animals would seem more likely than humans, but how many animals live near lit roadways? And eye damage? I find that very implausible - even a very bright LED fixture is a fraction of the brightness of the sun. And we got on with mercury lights for around 50 years before sodium lamps became predominant.
Commercial speech has a long tradition of being regulated. You can argue that this violates the First Amendment, but at the end of the day no one wants someone who simply claims to be "professional" signing off on engineering drawings and so you'll have little support.
No one is claiming that a PE is a government certification - it's self-regulation by the profession. It's just a certification that the government recognizes. You can call yourself a professional (lower case "p"), just not a "Professional Engineer" - because, like you say, that would be fraud.
In my state, PA, I believe the only two legal terms are "engineer-in-training" and "professional engineer", where an engineer-in-training is someone on track to become a professional engineer. Technically, since I sat for the PE test, I guess I'm a perpetual engineer-in-training. As a practical matter, I have long since abandoned that track.
The claim is that while sodium is more efficient per lumen, LEDs put out a directional light and so total lumens used is lower. This is also supposed to make the skies darker. LEDs are also supposed to have a longer life, reducing maintenance costs.
It varies a little from state to state, but in general the PE is only necessary for certain regulated work (e.g. civil engineering, building systems, etc.) and if you plan to offer your services to the general public. If you are building assembly equipment for a factory like I do, you won't find a PE anywhere except the building maintenance guys.
Then it occasionally goes over the edge and there are random dropouts.
That would fall into the "doesn't work" category.
A nice and clean high-quality cable has more headroom.
If you are stretching the limits of the technology you are using, you may need the headroom. An audio signal through a 6' cord will not come anywhere close. If we're talking ethernet, then yeah - you might have trouble after dozens of meters (close to the 100 meter spec) at gigabit speeds. If you are talking HDMI, maybe 10 meters or so for 4k video. Lower bandwidth will have less strenuous requirements. If you have no dropouts, it's working fine. You can run tests if you are super paranoid - but it will either work, or it won't. There is not measured or perceived quality difference so long as it is working. The sensible thing to do would be to try a decent-quality cable first and upgrade only if you experience problems. Any conforming cable should be just fine, even over the long term.
such as corrosion and radio interference.
The amount of oxide in a cable won't impact radio interference. The oxide in a cable will not get worse over time unless the cable is exposed to the air (i.e., more oxygen is needed to grow the oxide).
You can grow on a vine and ripen but you still aren't a Concord grape unless you were grown in Concord. What the hell are we talking about?