If any company could lay cable in a town, there would be more competition and better prices.
There is little justification for that position. Instead, it is far more likely that there would be no cable laid or prices would be higher. This sort of infrastructure is known as a Natural Monopoly.
Oh yes in the 1960s all "lab" grade electronics like power supplies, oscilloscopes, whatevers, came with thick manuals with schematics, part lists and theory of operation as well as the basic user manual.
That's still the norm for many Amateur Radio products. What is missing from many products supplied by the big name manufacturers these days is source code for the embedded MCUs.
Many radios and test equipment used to be available in kit form too. But that has gone away since the advent of surface mount technology. Most Amateurs don't have the equipment, patience or eyesight to do SMT at home. Besides, pick and place robots will assemble a circuit board in minutes, reducing labor cost to a few cents per board. So, instead of saving a bunch of money on hand-built hardware as it used to, it actually costs more to offer kits than it does fully assembled boards. The technical support costs for kits is pretty high.
Coming from Boulder to Chicago, the difference is insane. The drivers in Chicago are, by and large, a "me first" crowd. They cut off other cars by driving in the bike lanes. Even Chicago's police regularly park and drive on bike lanes, setting an excellent example for the citizens to follow. Delivery vehicles think nothing of blocking a bike lane. But the issue doesn't end with bad drivers. The city streets are so littered with signs (business signs, parking, no parking, street sweeping, snow route, speed limit, school zone, bus stop, pedestrian crossing, tow zone, one way, no left turn, and then two names plus a state route for some streets!) that it is impossible to read them all, making it very likely that you'll miss an important one (was that a stop sign?!?). Lanes appear and disappear without warning. Did I miss a sign that said this lane was ending? No -- there is no sign. (There was no room for that sign.) And some stop lights are placed where it is almost impossible to see until it is too late to stop. It's really insane. And the natives have no clue how bad it is. Drivers are so distracted by the insane signage and roads, that a bicyclist will get lost in the noise.
That article jerked around from one disjoint topic to another, and appears to have been written by someone who is functionally illiterate in computer technology.
Right. So the regulations were clear about Knight's responsibilities. The Knight board hired executives to run the company. Either those executives are negligent because he did not meet their obligations under the law or they was prevented from meeting those obligations by actions of the board. If you are saying one or more executives were ignorant of the law, then the board was negligent in their duty to hire competent executives with the proper industry knowledge. The idea that ignorance or willful negligence is an excuse in white-collar crimes is absurd.
If board members and directors are found "personally liable" then why bother incorporating in the first place?
Are you telling me that all I have to do to get away with murder is form "Murder Inc." -- sorry, I meant "Loving Hands, Inc."? And then as chairman I can just hire a hit man and shield myself from liability? Shweet!!
Why the heck would I want UHD when most HD content is so compressed that the artifacts are easily discernible from across the room. At least that is my experience with every HD medium I have seen OTA, cable, satellite, and to a much lesser degree in Blu-ray.
I'm sure he's exactly as Michelangelo painted him on the Sistine Chapel's ceiling in one of the other universes. And one of those universes in our multiverse is a place called hell.
It is a solid, falsifiable theory. At least as solid as any of the other multiverse theories I've come across so far.
If we can navigate our space probes to Kuiper Belt objects using multiple slingshot maneuvers, I think our models of planetary motion are "good enough".
I disagree. I have been playing around lately with GNU Radio Companion, designing SDR (software-defined radio) tools using a cheap DVB dongle. The transformations of the signal into a human-digestible format is made very easy. I am a software engineer -- I have written a lot of code. But there is a certain class of problems that lend itself to flow-based programming. GRC is one. And ETL tools are another. That is not to say that one does not, from time to time, have to write one's own code block. I have done that for GRC and for some ETL tools. But for 99% of what I have needed, a simple flow graph was all that was required.
There is one key reason why we were able to decipher hieroglyphics. We had a cheat sheet containing a language we understood. Unless we can provide something like that, it will be very difficult. Perhaps we could include a primer with the text.
Personally, I prefer the term "Human Rights Management" since the free and open communication of ideas is a human right. This right extends to the public domain and to fair use. But it is much easier to swallow if we "manage" those rights, rather than just violate them outright.
The problem with virtually every DRM scheme I have seen pushed by industry is that they make no provision for fair use or for the limited terms of copyright. DRM is seen as a way to protect from the vagaries and limitations of copyright by silently removing "copying" as an option.
Here's an option: if you want to use DRM, you no longer get copyright protection. It becomes a trade secret.
I was hoping to find someone that mentioned this already and mod them up, but no one has as yet.
Source Control
Ask any software developer worth his salt and he will tell you that they use source control.
When programming for fun or profit, this is how I start:
Create the repo.
Create a test.
Write the code to pass the test.
Commit the code.
Go to step 2.
You may disagree about the rest (TDD), but step 1 stands. With all the great free source control tools available, there is no excuse for not using source control.
Chicago does have a free "maker" lab at its main public library, and they are creating more. Those are free/nominal fee to use.
As a Chicago tax-payer, if the CPL maker space continues beyond it's $250K start-up grant, it will not be free to me. I should also add that I am a member of a Chicago maker space. Someone always pays; whether donors or taxpayers or members.
I'm all for putting maker spaces in high schools. We called them "shop class" when I went to school. (BTW, get off my lawn!)
I am not yet convinced a maker space belongs in a library.
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I uninstall apps when they change permissions to grab my identity, contacts, camera, etc. There's only one reason for that and it ain't good.
I say in religion class.
A field trip to Somalia.
What about its'? Everybody forgets about its'
I don't always use those three letters and punctuation together in one word, but when I do, I prefer 'tis.
Sure it is off-topic. But you have to admit that this is a far more interesting topic of discussion than the article. Blackberry. Yawn.
If any company could lay cable in a town, there would be more competition and better prices.
There is little justification for that position. Instead, it is far more likely that there would be no cable laid or prices would be higher. This sort of infrastructure is known as a Natural Monopoly.
Leave it to a geneticists to clean up the sloppy work of fathers and genealogists.
Oh yes in the 1960s all "lab" grade electronics like power supplies, oscilloscopes, whatevers, came with thick manuals with schematics, part lists and theory of operation as well as the basic user manual.
That's still the norm for many Amateur Radio products. What is missing from many products supplied by the big name manufacturers these days is source code for the embedded MCUs.
Many radios and test equipment used to be available in kit form too. But that has gone away since the advent of surface mount technology. Most Amateurs don't have the equipment, patience or eyesight to do SMT at home. Besides, pick and place robots will assemble a circuit board in minutes, reducing labor cost to a few cents per board. So, instead of saving a bunch of money on hand-built hardware as it used to, it actually costs more to offer kits than it does fully assembled boards. The technical support costs for kits is pretty high.
Coming from Boulder to Chicago, the difference is insane. The drivers in Chicago are, by and large, a "me first" crowd. They cut off other cars by driving in the bike lanes. Even Chicago's police regularly park and drive on bike lanes, setting an excellent example for the citizens to follow. Delivery vehicles think nothing of blocking a bike lane. But the issue doesn't end with bad drivers. The city streets are so littered with signs (business signs, parking, no parking, street sweeping, snow route, speed limit, school zone, bus stop, pedestrian crossing, tow zone, one way, no left turn, and then two names plus a state route for some streets!) that it is impossible to read them all, making it very likely that you'll miss an important one (was that a stop sign?!?). Lanes appear and disappear without warning. Did I miss a sign that said this lane was ending? No -- there is no sign. (There was no room for that sign.) And some stop lights are placed where it is almost impossible to see until it is too late to stop. It's really insane. And the natives have no clue how bad it is. Drivers are so distracted by the insane signage and roads, that a bicyclist will get lost in the noise.
That article jerked around from one disjoint topic to another, and appears to have been written by someone who is functionally illiterate in computer technology.
Right. So the regulations were clear about Knight's responsibilities. The Knight board hired executives to run the company. Either those executives are negligent because he did not meet their obligations under the law or they was prevented from meeting those obligations by actions of the board. If you are saying one or more executives were ignorant of the law, then the board was negligent in their duty to hire competent executives with the proper industry knowledge. The idea that ignorance or willful negligence is an excuse in white-collar crimes is absurd.
If board members and directors are found "personally liable" then why bother incorporating in the first place?
Are you telling me that all I have to do to get away with murder is form "Murder Inc." -- sorry, I meant "Loving Hands, Inc."? And then as chairman I can just hire a hit man and shield myself from liability? Shweet!!
Why the heck would I want UHD when most HD content is so compressed that the artifacts are easily discernible from across the room. At least that is my experience with every HD medium I have seen OTA, cable, satellite, and to a much lesser degree in Blu-ray.
Perhaps you need to freshen up your understanding of falsifiable?
Perhaps you need to tune up your sarcasm detector?
I'm sure he's exactly as Michelangelo painted him on the Sistine Chapel's ceiling in one of the other universes. And one of those universes in our multiverse is a place called hell.
It is a solid, falsifiable theory. At least as solid as any of the other multiverse theories I've come across so far.
We're still refining models of planetary motion.
If we can navigate our space probes to Kuiper Belt objects using multiple slingshot maneuvers, I think our models of planetary motion are "good enough".
Who here thinks Experian will be held accountable? Anyone?
They probably do not treat the subway lines as a homeless shelter like the CTA in Chicago does.
I disagree. I have been playing around lately with GNU Radio Companion, designing SDR (software-defined radio) tools using a cheap DVB dongle. The transformations of the signal into a human-digestible format is made very easy. I am a software engineer -- I have written a lot of code. But there is a certain class of problems that lend itself to flow-based programming. GRC is one. And ETL tools are another. That is not to say that one does not, from time to time, have to write one's own code block. I have done that for GRC and for some ETL tools. But for 99% of what I have needed, a simple flow graph was all that was required.
What would it take to translate "Moby Dick" or "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" into such a language?
There is one key reason why we were able to decipher hieroglyphics. We had a cheat sheet containing a language we understood. Unless we can provide something like that, it will be very difficult. Perhaps we could include a primer with the text.
Personally, I prefer the term "Human Rights Management" since the free and open communication of ideas is a human right. This right extends to the public domain and to fair use. But it is much easier to swallow if we "manage" those rights, rather than just violate them outright.
The problem with virtually every DRM scheme I have seen pushed by industry is that they make no provision for fair use or for the limited terms of copyright. DRM is seen as a way to protect from the vagaries and limitations of copyright by silently removing "copying" as an option.
Here's an option: if you want to use DRM, you no longer get copyright protection. It becomes a trade secret.
I was hoping to find someone that mentioned this already and mod them up, but no one has as yet.
Source Control
Ask any software developer worth his salt and he will tell you that they use source control.
When programming for fun or profit, this is how I start:
You may disagree about the rest (TDD), but step 1 stands. With all the great free source control tools available, there is no excuse for not using source control.
Don't you Americans read news or watch newspapers? I am shocked with the level of misinformation when it comes to your own laws.
Absolutely we do! Where do you think all the misinformation comes from???
Ignorance is easy. Being that badly misinformed takes real effort.
I think I've heard that song before.
Maybe one day we'll all be named Bob.
I'm one step ahead of you.
Chicago does have a free "maker" lab at its main public library, and they are creating more. Those are free/nominal fee to use.
As a Chicago tax-payer, if the CPL maker space continues beyond it's $250K start-up grant, it will not be free to me. I should also add that I am a member of a Chicago maker space. Someone always pays; whether donors or taxpayers or members.
I'm all for putting maker spaces in high schools. We called them "shop class" when I went to school. (BTW, get off my lawn!)
I am not yet convinced a maker space belongs in a library.