The miniquad (drone) community relies on these apps to configure the flight controller software.
What makes them special when compared to a regular Web App is that these Chrome apps have access to the computer's USB/Serial interface so they can talk to the drone's flight controller.
For the small dev teams of these apps, Chrome is great because they only have to write one GUI to support all major platforms. Google achieved what Java was trying to achieve as far as run anywhere - the difference is Chrome apps don't suck.
There are also flight control black box readers that read log files in and overlay the data with flight video footage so you can diagnose tuning issues (though this could theoretically be done by uploading black box log data to a web app).
Check out Cleanflight, Betaflight, Raceflight, KissFC, Betaflight Blackbox Reader.
What happens when you insert the facebook or adsense code on your website is that you are actually including content hosted by the ad network.
Your browser is then loading that content from that ad network because in addition to loading mygreatwebsite.com, you are also loading ads.adcompany.com or whatever.
The cookie from the ad network is linked to ads.adcompany.com. The same cookie is being set for every website that serves content from that same ad network, and so they are able to build a profile on you.
The bigger an ad network gets, the more websites it is installed on, the more clear the profile becomes.
I guess (I don't know the details of it) what this feature is doing, is preventing any cookies that differ from the domain displayed in the URL from being loaded. I'm not sure how exactly this is different from private browsing.
As a 5" Mini Race Quad builder/pilot, your comment is interesting to me.
With mini quads, the largest weight is the battery (Typically 170 grams which is 50% of the craft weight). Because the battery has to be easily swapable, it is very often installed on top or on bottom of the frame, which puts it either above or below the center line of the props.
There is a long standing argument back and forth for which design is better, but because the power to weight ratio is so high and the PID loop in the flight controller is so good, both generally fly exactly the same. The only time you notice a difference is when doing a flip or roll, as the center of gravity heavily influences the pivot point.
So my question is, what is the main difference between what we are experiencing with Mini Quads vs full sized manned aircraft?
Is it simply due to the power to weight ratio? (Mini Quads are typically north of 7:1 power to weight, which I'm sure is much higher than a manned multirotor craft)
And countries stay dirt poor only so long. Eventually they have a revolution, kill the incompetent leaders and get competent leaders. So in the long run population always wins.
The USA is hundreds of years old (since it was discovered). China is thousands of years old.
To your point, I'm still using using a 30" Apple Cinema display HD.
I paid $1600 for it and I've used it every work day for the last 10 years. I only wish it didn't require dual link DVI - it's becoming a huge pain to find the necessary adapters to go from Thunderbolt3/USBC to Dual Link DVI.
Microsoft as a company has gotten quite good at defending an imperfect host from a relentless barrage of clever bad stuff. If any tech company is well suited to finding a cure for Cancer, its Microsoft.
The human body is the human body. You can't redesign it to make it cancer proof, much like Microsoft couldn't start over with Windows.
Cancer is myriad and ever changing, much like the viruses, trojans, etc that are created to exploit Microsoft's products.
This is precisely why I went with Insteon smart switches with an ISY994i and Homebridge for interfacing to my phone. It is completely and totally under my control and I have not trusted any outside company with the keys (literally) to my house.
The problem is that the above solution only works for a nerd such as myself. There is 0% chance your average home owner could get their smartphone to control their house without the help of the "cloud" (in this case a thermostat that phones home every so often).
The iPhones that have a thumbprint scanner have a "Secure Enclave". This hardware is used in conjunction with the software to make it impossible to unlock the device without the passcode.
Where can one buy a 65" 1080P monitor?
I don't want a tuner, speakers, wifi, voice control, quad core process or any other BS. All I want is a single HDMI or DVI in port and a RS232 or DC trigger for turning it on and off.
Is this too much to ask for?
I'll just leave this here (and probably get mod'd to hell).
Anyone who thinks "sales figures" are what determines who is winning the smartphone war needs a lesson in business. Apple is making 60% of the profit by selling 20% of the devices. And you think their making a mistake?
This wasn't shot on film. The exposure time in digital has nothing to do with the frame rate.
I didn't realize it was shot digitally, but you're statement isn't completely true. If you shoot something at 48FPS then the slowest possible frame rate you can have is 1/48th of a second in digital. Digital does give you the chance have a faster shutter speed though.
Here's the kicker though, in film you have to double it. So 24fps would give you 1/48th shutter speed (half open half closed) meaning the motion blur for 48fps digital vs 24fps film should be the same, which explains why they picked 48fps - it afforded them the option to do either 48fps, slow motion or 24fps in post without giving anything up (except disk space).
Because the shutter is fixed, the exposure time of each frame is directly related to the frame rate. Lower frame rate = longer exposure = more motion blur in the frame. Shorter frame rate = shorter exposure = less motion blur in each frame. You need more light to shoot at a higher frame rate to keep the same aperture setting.
So, if they do project this at 24 frames per second (by throwing away half the frames in post), the frames will not have the necessary motion blur and it will actually look worse because half the frames are missing. This could also probably be fixed in post, but that would be a pretty big hack for such a large production.
hell they did worse than they did last quarter which, although still good, is a sign they're slowing somewhat, right?
Wrong. The holiday quarter and quarters containing new product launches have a huge influence over revenue. You can't measure things quarter to quarter, you have to go to the year ago quarter to check growth and even then you have to take into consideration if one or the other was a launch quarter.
If you want to know why certain people (yours truly included) are betting big on AAPL, consider this:
âoeJust two years after we shipped the initial iPad, weâ(TM)ve sold 67 million. To put that in some context, it took us 24 years to sell that many Macs, and five years for that many iPods, and over three years for that many iPhones
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And also realize that the phone market is a billion+ handsets per year. Their customers love the iPhone more than any other phone and so the growth potential is huge.
But there's no great support for music, movie/tv, or podcast content that way.
Sure there is. iTunes + iTunes match is the best music in the cloud implementation out there. Movies and TV shows work fine as long as you bought them from iTunes (problem with non iTunes video of course is the studios).
So have two apps, iCloud control panel and iTunes as a library manager for Audio/Video media.
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The miniquad (drone) community relies on these apps to configure the flight controller software.
What makes them special when compared to a regular Web App is that these Chrome apps have access to the computer's USB/Serial interface so they can talk to the drone's flight controller.
For the small dev teams of these apps, Chrome is great because they only have to write one GUI to support all major platforms. Google achieved what Java was trying to achieve as far as run anywhere - the difference is Chrome apps don't suck.
There are also flight control black box readers that read log files in and overlay the data with flight video footage so you can diagnose tuning issues (though this could theoretically be done by uploading black box log data to a web app).
Check out Cleanflight, Betaflight, Raceflight, KissFC, Betaflight Blackbox Reader.
It's trickier than that...
What happens when you insert the facebook or adsense code on your website is that you are actually including content hosted by the ad network.
Your browser is then loading that content from that ad network because in addition to loading mygreatwebsite.com, you are also loading ads.adcompany.com or whatever.
The cookie from the ad network is linked to ads.adcompany.com. The same cookie is being set for every website that serves content from that same ad network, and so they are able to build a profile on you.
The bigger an ad network gets, the more websites it is installed on, the more clear the profile becomes.
I guess (I don't know the details of it) what this feature is doing, is preventing any cookies that differ from the domain displayed in the URL from being loaded. I'm not sure how exactly this is different from private browsing.
As a 5" Mini Race Quad builder/pilot, your comment is interesting to me.
With mini quads, the largest weight is the battery (Typically 170 grams which is 50% of the craft weight). Because the battery has to be easily swapable, it is very often installed on top or on bottom of the frame, which puts it either above or below the center line of the props.
There is a long standing argument back and forth for which design is better, but because the power to weight ratio is so high and the PID loop in the flight controller is so good, both generally fly exactly the same. The only time you notice a difference is when doing a flip or roll, as the center of gravity heavily influences the pivot point.
So my question is, what is the main difference between what we are experiencing with Mini Quads vs full sized manned aircraft?
Is it simply due to the power to weight ratio? (Mini Quads are typically north of 7:1 power to weight, which I'm sure is much higher than a manned multirotor craft)
Apple addressed this.
If you click the sleep button five times, touch / face id is disabled and you have to enter a pin code to unlock the phone.
The problem is that you have to know this and remember to do it if you are being arrested or mugged.
Have you been drinking?
The USA is hundreds of years old (since it was discovered). China is thousands of years old.
I don't think this argument holds up.
To your point, I'm still using using a 30" Apple Cinema display HD.
I paid $1600 for it and I've used it every work day for the last 10 years. I only wish it didn't require dual link DVI - it's becoming a huge pain to find the necessary adapters to go from Thunderbolt3/USBC to Dual Link DVI.
Microsoft as a company has gotten quite good at defending an imperfect host from a relentless barrage of clever bad stuff. If any tech company is well suited to finding a cure for Cancer, its Microsoft. The human body is the human body. You can't redesign it to make it cancer proof, much like Microsoft couldn't start over with Windows. Cancer is myriad and ever changing, much like the viruses, trojans, etc that are created to exploit Microsoft's products.
The fact that the FBI isn't complaining about Android should tell you something.
A new version of iOS can be be uploaded to a phone when it's put into DFU mode without a passcode and without wiping out the data.
Have a read here for more info.
This is precisely why I went with Insteon smart switches with an ISY994i and Homebridge for interfacing to my phone. It is completely and totally under my control and I have not trusted any outside company with the keys (literally) to my house.
The problem is that the above solution only works for a nerd such as myself. There is 0% chance your average home owner could get their smartphone to control their house without the help of the "cloud" (in this case a thermostat that phones home every so often).
I did not mean to post the above as AC.
The iPhones that have a thumbprint scanner have a "Secure Enclave". This hardware is used in conjunction with the software to make it impossible to unlock the device without the passcode.
Just buy a Tesla already
Battery based cars tend to do very poorly in very cold countries.
And has anyone done the math on how much pollution is created during the lifecycle of those lithium ion batteries?
They have to be made (hint, they're not made from daisies and dandelions). Recharged (fossil fuel fired plants) and disposed of.
See RenderMan
#2015-03-26 AIRBUS firmware patch:
if(plane_is_in_dive && security_code_entered){
open_fucking_door()
}
I too have a professional panasonic plasma monitor (42"), but the problem is they've gone out of the TV business.
Where can one buy a 65" 1080P monitor? I don't want a tuner, speakers, wifi, voice control, quad core process or any other BS. All I want is a single HDMI or DVI in port and a RS232 or DC trigger for turning it on and off. Is this too much to ask for?
I'll just leave this here (and probably get mod'd to hell).
Anyone who thinks "sales figures" are what determines who is winning the smartphone war needs a lesson in business. Apple is making 60% of the profit by selling 20% of the devices. And you think their making a mistake?
Reprehensible.
I didn't realize it was shot digitally, but you're statement isn't completely true. If you shoot something at 48FPS then the slowest possible frame rate you can have is 1/48th of a second in digital. Digital does give you the chance have a faster shutter speed though.
Here's the kicker though, in film you have to double it. So 24fps would give you 1/48th shutter speed (half open half closed) meaning the motion blur for 48fps digital vs 24fps film should be the same, which explains why they picked 48fps - it afforded them the option to do either 48fps, slow motion or 24fps in post without giving anything up (except disk space).
Because the shutter is fixed, the exposure time of each frame is directly related to the frame rate. Lower frame rate = longer exposure = more motion blur in the frame. Shorter frame rate = shorter exposure = less motion blur in each frame. You need more light to shoot at a higher frame rate to keep the same aperture setting.
So, if they do project this at 24 frames per second (by throwing away half the frames in post), the frames will not have the necessary motion blur and it will actually look worse because half the frames are missing. This could also probably be fixed in post, but that would be a pretty big hack for such a large production.
Wrong. The holiday quarter and quarters containing new product launches have a huge influence over revenue. You can't measure things quarter to quarter, you have to go to the year ago quarter to check growth and even then you have to take into consideration if one or the other was a launch quarter.
If you want to know why certain people (yours truly included) are betting big on AAPL, consider this:
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And also realize that the phone market is a billion+ handsets per year. Their customers love the iPhone more than any other phone and so the growth potential is huge.
Sure there is. iTunes + iTunes match is the best music in the cloud implementation out there. Movies and TV shows work fine as long as you bought them from iTunes (problem with non iTunes video of course is the studios). So have two apps, iCloud control panel and iTunes as a library manager for Audio/Video media.