Secondly, it requires a custom USB device. Even many experienced developers are not in a position to craft such things. You're basically talking about embedded developers.
So what? All it takes is one or two embedded developers to craft such things with a barely usable management UI, flood Baidu or eBay with their wares, and then every man and his dog has access to one.
We used to just have a mailbox big enough for packages. If it ain't gonna fit in that get it delivered to your workplace. Come on people, is it really that difficult???
It can have my wi-fi password. It's just getting a non-routable address, like every other non-computing device I have, so all it can do is play content from my network.
I don't know why they even bothered to mention the Envy 5600 in the story:
Instead of building a specialized printer from scratch, HP recommended the HP Envy 5600.
Except they removed the fax capability, removed the copy capability, removed the scan capability, removed the glass, 3D printed a whole new paper handling mechanism, changed the rod+printer carriage system so it would operate in zero G, replaced a whole slew of parts with fire-retardant plastic and added a bunch of absorbent pads to capture any stray ink drops.
Sounds to me like they built a specialized printer from scratch.
Any language that has a hard-to-read, terse syntax by definition is more likely to produce difficult to read code compared to a language that was designed to be expressive with readability in mind.
What exactly do you find hard to read in Perl? If you said "regular expressions" then guess what? They're just as hard to read in any modern language that uses them. So far Perl is the only regex capable language I've seen that supports the/x or/xx modifiers that allow you to spread your expression out over multiple lines so you can have inline comments for Future You.
That said, I hardly touch Perl any more. Most of my time these days is spent in SQL, C# and TypeScript+Javascript+HTML+CSS with the ocassional smattering of Python, Java and C++.
I really wish a lot of it would just go away. I'm sick to death of scumbag aggregation sites appearing near the top of Google search results - existing just to serve Google ads on top of content stolen from reputable sites.
Why not just use KeePassX? If your password manager is stored in your browser, that makes it harder to export cross-platform. Also, the browser is the most vulnerable program in the OS; why put all your passwords there?
Totally this.
It's common for users, especially in IT circles, to install and use multiple browsers for development, testing or even (still) backwards compatibility for ActiveX controls. Another advantage for KeePass/KeePassX is that it can integrate with all these browsers on Windows, Linux and macOS so you're keeping a single secure password store instead of potentially dozens.
It was a key design goal to have people coding against Microsoft's APIs instead of coding to the hardware.
Then they failed. Fucking utterly failed.
Anyone who's written DirectX shader code for the Xbox knows about the limitations of the hardware and the optimizations you had to make for it, let alone the custom texture compression scheme that was used on no other platform (DXT != S3 despite Shawn Hargreaves saying otherwise).
Then you had XACT, the "Cross Platform" Audio Creation Tool, creating collections of.xgs (Xbox Global Settings),.xsb (Xbox Sound Bank) and.xwb (Xbox Wave Bank) files with custom audio compression schemes just for the Xbox audio hardware. They gave excellent results, but it was in no way portable to Windows nor any other gaming platform.
VLC reigns supreme on the desktop... but is completely useless on mobile. Especially for DLNA. I'm guessing a different team created the mobile version.
The World Solar Challenge is supposed to be a biennial race held in the "odd years" but they've missed a couple along the way. 2017 will actually be the 14th race.
It is implausible that this will be any worse than the existing system.
It's also not going to improve any system. You'll still have zero control over how merchants are handling the CC details at their end - they're probably still going to store them in an unencrypted Acces or MySQL database with an Admin portal using an admin:admin username/password.
I don't store passwords in my browser. I'm sure as heck not storing CC info in my browser, either.
Banks and businesses require customers to hand over their SSN, despite it being tagged "Not for use as identification", and then subsequently lose them in breaches. Government says let's replace SSN with something else - let's call it SSN2. What do you think will happen next?
If you're one of those weirdos that like to put a dollar value on peoples' lives then obviously the cost in human life would be relatively low in a Hyperloop car versus a train. For the rest of us the costs come in repairing the tunnel damage, re-certifying the tunnel for use again, plus the monetary costs in lost ticket sales and secondary impacts while the tunnel is offline.
St. Louis to Kansas City is a 248-mile route that takes around three hours and 40 minutes by car, or about 55 minutes by plane (not including time spent traveling to the airport, security lines, etc.). Hyperloop One claims the trip would just take 31 minutes using its system of aerodynamic pods traveling through nearly airless tubes at speeds of up to 760 mph.
I do believe you're kidding yourself if you think TSA will allow very expensive Hyperloops to operate without forcing security checkpoints and security screening on everyone using them.
Most reasonable people would conclude that the Obama-era "net neutrality" rule barring internet service providers from slowing or blocking rivals' content is what they've asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn.
I'll take that bait... Why are Electron-based apps a thing on the desktop? e.g.: For each Team that you're subscribed to the #Slack desktop app gobbles up around 1GB of RAM. In other words after just two or three teams it's consuming more memory than your entire Visual Studio development environment working on a million-line solution.
The answer, of course, is that companies are cheap asses. (And they need to be to stay in business.) They want their app out the door as cheaply as possible so they're using the cheapest possible resources (web developers overtly familiar with smell of basic Javascript syntax) to get a "Write Once Run Everywhere" solution. They could be using multitudes of other cross-platform languages and solutions involving EFL, GTK+, Guiliani, Qt, wxWidgets, etc., but they don't want to pay qualified developers and want their WhORE solution to run inside Cordova/PhoneGap on mobile devices as well.
I agree. These one pixel borders that can't be adjusted in Display Settings are the pits, especially when you want to grab the top-right corner of the window to resize it - oops, closed again!
TFA also mentions that. Doesn't always work though if the application has persisted its stale data in local storage, i.e.: Android/iOS uninstall-reinstall is the new new Refresh.
My wife has a Dyson V8 "Animal" at home. It works really well - as long as you have one of the two power heads on it (it comes with one for carpets, the other for hard floors). On its own the V8 actually sucks at sucking - it can't pick up dust and hair from furniture without a power head fitted.
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Secondly, it requires a custom USB device. Even many experienced developers are not in a position to craft such things. You're basically talking about embedded developers.
So what? All it takes is one or two embedded developers to craft such things with a barely usable management UI, flood Baidu or eBay with their wares, and then every man and his dog has access to one.
Or you could just rsync bookmarks.html
We used to just have a mailbox big enough for packages. If it ain't gonna fit in that get it delivered to your workplace. Come on people, is it really that difficult???
No WAY it gets my wifi password.
It can have my wi-fi password. It's just getting a non-routable address, like every other non-computing device I have, so all it can do is play content from my network.
I don't know why they even bothered to mention the Envy 5600 in the story:
Except they removed the fax capability, removed the copy capability, removed the scan capability, removed the glass, 3D printed a whole new paper handling mechanism, changed the rod+printer carriage system so it would operate in zero G, replaced a whole slew of parts with fire-retardant plastic and added a bunch of absorbent pads to capture any stray ink drops.
Sounds to me like they built a specialized printer from scratch.
What exactly do you find hard to read in Perl? If you said "regular expressions" then guess what? They're just as hard to read in any modern language that uses them. So far Perl is the only regex capable language I've seen that supports the /x or /xx modifiers that allow you to spread your expression out over multiple lines so you can have inline comments for Future You.
That said, I hardly touch Perl any more. Most of my time these days is spent in SQL, C# and TypeScript+Javascript+HTML+CSS with the ocassional smattering of Python, Java and C++.
I really wish a lot of it would just go away. I'm sick to death of scumbag aggregation sites appearing near the top of Google search results - existing just to serve Google ads on top of content stolen from reputable sites.
Why not just use KeePassX? If your password manager is stored in your browser, that makes it harder to export cross-platform. Also, the browser is the most vulnerable program in the OS; why put all your passwords there?
Totally this.
It's common for users, especially in IT circles, to install and use multiple browsers for development, testing or even (still) backwards compatibility for ActiveX controls. Another advantage for KeePass/KeePassX is that it can integrate with all these browsers on Windows, Linux and macOS so you're keeping a single secure password store instead of potentially dozens.
Then they failed. Fucking utterly failed.
Anyone who's written DirectX shader code for the Xbox knows about the limitations of the hardware and the optimizations you had to make for it, let alone the custom texture compression scheme that was used on no other platform (DXT != S3 despite Shawn Hargreaves saying otherwise).
Then you had XACT, the "Cross Platform" Audio Creation Tool, creating collections of .xgs (Xbox Global Settings), .xsb (Xbox Sound Bank) and .xwb (Xbox Wave Bank) files with custom audio compression schemes just for the Xbox audio hardware. They gave excellent results, but it was in no way portable to Windows nor any other gaming platform.
Apple wants $700 to fix a single broken key (by replacing the whole top case)? I'll use an external keyboard, thanks!
VLC does a whole lot better job.
VLC reigns supreme on the desktop... but is completely useless on mobile. Especially for DLNA. I'm guessing a different team created the mobile version.
What needs to happen is some cracking down on this.
Good luck with that. In case you failed to notice there's an ex-telco lawyer running the FCC.
The World Solar Challenge is supposed to be a biennial race held in the "odd years" but they've missed a couple along the way. 2017 will actually be the 14th race.
It is implausible that this will be any worse than the existing system.
It's also not going to improve any system. You'll still have zero control over how merchants are handling the CC details at their end - they're probably still going to store them in an unencrypted Acces or MySQL database with an Admin portal using an admin:admin username/password.
I don't store passwords in my browser. I'm sure as heck not storing CC info in my browser, either.
Banks and businesses require customers to hand over their SSN, despite it being tagged "Not for use as identification", and then subsequently lose them in breaches. Government says let's replace SSN with something else - let's call it SSN2. What do you think will happen next?
If you're one of those weirdos that like to put a dollar value on peoples' lives then obviously the cost in human life would be relatively low in a Hyperloop car versus a train. For the rest of us the costs come in repairing the tunnel damage, re-certifying the tunnel for use again, plus the monetary costs in lost ticket sales and secondary impacts while the tunnel is offline.
St. Louis to Kansas City is a 248-mile route that takes around three hours and 40 minutes by car, or about 55 minutes by plane (not including time spent traveling to the airport, security lines, etc.). Hyperloop One claims the trip would just take 31 minutes using its system of aerodynamic pods traveling through nearly airless tubes at speeds of up to 760 mph.
I do believe you're kidding yourself if you think TSA will allow very expensive Hyperloops to operate without forcing security checkpoints and security screening on everyone using them.
Most reasonable people would conclude that the Obama-era "net neutrality" rule barring internet service providers from slowing or blocking rivals' content is what they've asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn.
And due to their apparent lack of being able to communicate effectively to the public, the public perceives this as "screw competitors".
Come on, they're Communications Providers. You'd think that being able to communicate effectively is a core requirement of their business.
Or, prove me wrong and explain what you mean.
I'll take that bait... Why are Electron-based apps a thing on the desktop? e.g.: For each Team that you're subscribed to the #Slack desktop app gobbles up around 1GB of RAM. In other words after just two or three teams it's consuming more memory than your entire Visual Studio development environment working on a million-line solution.
The answer, of course, is that companies are cheap asses. (And they need to be to stay in business.) They want their app out the door as cheaply as possible so they're using the cheapest possible resources (web developers overtly familiar with smell of basic Javascript syntax) to get a "Write Once Run Everywhere" solution. They could be using multitudes of other cross-platform languages and solutions involving EFL, GTK+, Guiliani, Qt, wxWidgets, etc., but they don't want to pay qualified developers and want their WhORE solution to run inside Cordova/PhoneGap on mobile devices as well.
I agree. These one pixel borders that can't be adjusted in Display Settings are the pits, especially when you want to grab the top-right corner of the window to resize it - oops, closed again!
TFA also mentions that. Doesn't always work though if the application has persisted its stale data in local storage, i.e.: Android/iOS uninstall-reinstall is the new new Refresh.
It's not the owner of the VW that has the problem, it's the person driving behind them.
How to win friends and influence enemies, hey?
My wife has a Dyson V8 "Animal" at home. It works really well - as long as you have one of the two power heads on it (it comes with one for carpets, the other for hard floors). On its own the V8 actually sucks at sucking - it can't pick up dust and hair from furniture without a power head fitted.
Anyone downloading without using a VPN client is risking a $3,000 fine and possible loss of their internet connection.
Maybe in USA. Everyone else in the world can watch it via Netflix - it's streaming, not free-to-air, so it has to be downloaded to be watched.