Because dealerships want to charge customers as much as possible for any work on the vehicle.
£200 for an electronic radio key is just daylight robbery. Then they'll also try and charge you for topping up your oil, doing a "30 point safety check" etc.
Frankly why they don't have a usb port the user can download firmware from the internet, then upload the new firmware to the engine management unit I don't know.
Hell they can sign the binaries so that ricers can't modify it... but then again, auto manufacturers aren't computer companies, and certainly won't buy in the crypto expertise to do it properly. sigh.
Have you actually seen the altitude reading on a GPS unit? It's terrible. It's much less accurate than the long/lat as you need to see more satellites to get a proper 3d fix *and* even then it's pretty crap.
Because otherwise, it's simply an RC aircraft. They've been around for 30+ years. "Drones" are new, "RC" is old. But the meanings are the same, depending on who you are talking to.
+1
Since there's a perfectly good word with an identical meaning, use "unmanned aircraft" for any without a human on board. Use "RC" to mean remotely controlled. And use "drone" to mean weaponized or self guided.
I'm of the opinion that "Drone" should refer to autonomous (flying) vehicle. The question of it having a weapons or surveillance payload is irrelevant.
I *do* like Win RT, once jailbroken. I still prefer my macbook though, I've never really been able to justify tablet usage.
My major gripe with the Dell (yes, I have one) is that - and I suspect this is true of all RT devices - it's not a tablet with decent low power suspend and instant on like android and iOS, so it runs out of juice quickly when in "suspend" mode. It's literally just locked down Windows 8 on ARM. So pretty much what would have happened on the desktop if TPM was accepted way back when.
Of course they're trying to bring it back again with this UEFI bollocks.
Yep, and it was pants, so they bought an equally half assed, but much more complete implementation of a posix subsystem called interix and rebranded it.
Middle click: Different OS, sorry. Clipboard: Oh wait... it's a different OS, sorry. FFM: I'm sure if you talk to the barman at your local hotel, you'll be able to sort out a FFM. Might cost you though. Thunderbolt/HDMI: works fine for me, and I've got a random mini-displayport -> HDMI cable that now works with audio now I've upgraded from my old 2009 mbpro.
I've had a bunch of monitors (Maximum three at the last count, though I probably could do four if I wanted to cope with bazillion cables attached to my laptop) set up without problems: 1. Air Display 2. Lenovo DisplayLink monitor 3. Another DisplayLink Adapter on a wide range of monitors (VGA/HDMI/DVI) 4. DisplayPort/ThunderBolt -> HDMI 5. DisplayPort/ThunderBolt -> DVI
Even that figure would be a revenue stream worth having.
Personally I only see adverts when I'm on a machine that doesn't run chrome and I stray off onto "consume this" type of sites. It's quite a shock seeing all the crap regular joe has to put up with.
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Because dealerships want to charge customers as much as possible for any work on the vehicle.
£200 for an electronic radio key is just daylight robbery. Then they'll also try and charge you for topping up your oil, doing a "30 point safety check" etc.
Frankly why they don't have a usb port the user can download firmware from the internet, then upload the new firmware to the engine management unit I don't know.
Hell they can sign the binaries so that ricers can't modify it ... but then again, auto manufacturers aren't computer companies, and certainly won't buy in the crypto expertise to do it properly. sigh.
Some of them even know how to spell 'think' properly.
That said, there's not been much thinking done in the states recently has there?
Have you actually seen the altitude reading on a GPS unit? It's terrible. It's much less accurate than the long/lat as you need to see more satellites to get a proper 3d fix *and* even then it's pretty crap.
If I had mod points AC, I would mod you up.
You are full of win.
I'm not sure it's quite so black and white.
That was a rubbish, buggy game.
Gartner is supposed to be into market research.
In reality they're nothing more than shills and bad "futurists" that Managers believe.
Last I looked, NaCl is moving to llvm bytecode, allowing on the fly JITting to x86, Arm, etc.
The only thing that'll be really annoying is there will be no way to access hardware directly. I wrote a PC/SC plugin ages ago to do just this.
I guess the only way there now would be writing a signed Java applet...
But wait ... I can't do that on OSX, because ... Chrome is a 32bit app!
So say we all.
So instead of giving it to the border patrol, you tell them to get their own copy from the NSA.
There, fixed that for you.
Their fsked that four ewe
They're fdisked dat fer u
Because otherwise, it's simply an RC aircraft. They've been around for 30+ years. "Drones" are new, "RC" is old. But the meanings are the same, depending on who you are talking to.
+1
Since there's a perfectly good word with an identical meaning, use "unmanned aircraft" for any without a human on board. Use "RC" to mean remotely controlled. And use "drone" to mean weaponized or self guided.
I'm of the opinion that "Drone" should refer to autonomous (flying) vehicle. The question of it having a weapons or surveillance payload is irrelevant.
So instead of giving it to the border patrol, you tell them to get their own copy from the NSA.
There, fixed that for you.
Damn.
So did I.
More importantly, dear reader, so have YOU
We'll be okay.
We're on a nice island and probably already have the channel tunnel rigged with explosives, just in case.
Then there's KIK too
Yes, please ... why stop at 90% make it 100%. Hell I'll even help you pack.
Oh yes, take your goddamn nukes too.
At least this should help european states by upping our own defensive forces instead of reducing them.
What was wrong with 1st Jan 1970 ? :)
That's because it has a massive battery in it.
There's also a usb hub and hdmi out too.
I *do* like Win RT, once jailbroken. I still prefer my macbook though, I've never really been able to justify tablet usage.
My major gripe with the Dell (yes, I have one) is that - and I suspect this is true of all RT devices - it's not a tablet with decent low power suspend and instant on like android and iOS, so it runs out of juice quickly when in "suspend" mode. It's literally just locked down Windows 8 on ARM. So pretty much what would have happened on the desktop if TPM was accepted way back when.
Of course they're trying to bring it back again with this UEFI bollocks.
Yep, and it was pants, so they bought an equally half assed, but much more complete implementation of a posix subsystem called interix and rebranded it.
It was pretty good, but then again ... Windows NT
Chip & PIN has been designed to offload risk to the card owner.
Besides, it's broken, and has been for a while. Now they're using contactless cards for sub £20 purchases - sigh.
Oh linky: http://hackaday.com/2010/02/12/chip-and-pin-broken-and-other-security-threats/
For $deities sake!
Keep to SI units.
Middle click: Different OS, sorry. ... it's a different OS, sorry.
Clipboard: Oh wait
FFM: I'm sure if you talk to the barman at your local hotel, you'll be able to sort out a FFM. Might cost you though.
Thunderbolt/HDMI: works fine for me, and I've got a random mini-displayport -> HDMI cable that now works with audio now I've upgraded from my old 2009 mbpro.
I've had a bunch of monitors (Maximum three at the last count, though I probably could do four if I wanted to cope with bazillion cables attached to my laptop) set up without problems:
1. Air Display
2. Lenovo DisplayLink monitor
3. Another DisplayLink Adapter on a wide range of monitors (VGA/HDMI/DVI)
4. DisplayPort/ThunderBolt -> HDMI
5. DisplayPort/ThunderBolt -> DVI
None have "reset" even once a day.
No.
That's just wrong.
Java isn't support on iDevices.
You must be confusing Java with Javascript. Which ... ... IS NOTHING TO DO WITH JAVA AT ALL.
Please hand in your geek pass to the DHS official and make your way to gitmo. Oh wait. They only do that for leakers...
For Great Justice?
Even that figure would be a revenue stream worth having.
Personally I only see adverts when I'm on a machine that doesn't run chrome and I stray off onto "consume this" type of sites. It's quite a shock seeing all the crap regular joe has to put up with.