""For law enforcement officers and community members, any type of weapon being carried, openly or concealed, could appear as a threat to their well-being and is regarded as a public safety threat,'' Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca said Monday."
Please tell me that LA County sheriff deputies no longer carry firearms, in accordance with the sheriff's beliefs.
Somehow, I suspect this is a case of "the rules apply to other people, not us."
First, the US Constitution affirms the rights of individuals against government interference.
Secondly, a private organization, such as MS, can tell their employees not to carry arms into the workplace, and it's perfectly OK.
Finally, if an argument is being made that there are "virtual arms," then one must refer to the "virtual Constitution." Seems to me that's the contract/TOS. I suspect it allows them to do what they want, and the user's option is to cancel their subscription. Really, does someone think they have rights when playing in MS's garden? Seems to me that it's only privileges, as provided by the contract.
"Throughout the 1990's all Windows Computer hardware was 1024x768, with a 101-key keyboard and 2-button mouse. They all had floppy drives, ran on x86 compatible chips (with or without MMX) and used a Frame-buffer-based GPU to display graphics."
"from what I can tell there isn't really an easy mechanism for doing this with phones"
Sure there is, in the case of Android. Since developers and users aren't forced to use the official Market, they can distribute beta versions all they want.
"Why do people think that giving a discount to incent someone to build something in a district means the company is paying no taxes. This is a net gain of millions of dollars per year in property taxes."
How do you figure that (property tax on $9B) - (100% discount) = (millions of dollars)? I'd like to see your math.
"IE is still easily number one at 50%, while Chrome has 25%."
What's it matter? I'm much more interested in what percentage of web sites are W3C compliant. When that approaches 100%, then browsers will compete on true merit (speed, UI, etc.), not their support of proprietary extensions and how well they put up with badly coded HTML.
I'm sick and tired of "browser x isn't supported," and "this site best viewed with..." crap, which is just indicative of clueless website developers.
It's not particularly hard to do on a chipset, using DDS technology. What is necessary, are external filters for the specific frequencies/bands, but stuffing different filters/antennas on essentially the same board doesn't really hurt economies of scale, when each band may represent millions of handsets. There's not much economy of scale gained between building 1 million of something, and building 2 million of the same thing, at least when you're talking about $50+ things (i.e. at that scale, you're saving pennies, not dollars).
"The number of combinations means economies of scale won't be as good"
Prices may be more than if there were fewer frequencies, but I'd expect frequency agile chipsets, able to handle the full range of LTE frequencies, to be manufactured. So it's not a case of economy of scale, but the COG being a bit higher because of more capability.
Construction is temporal. We're trying to _reduce_ energy usage, believe it or not. A billion dollars worth of chips really isn't that much to transport. You're assuming they weren't given massive tax breaks to build the plant there (they were - 100%).
To be fair, it looks like this actually created 500-700 jobs. That's still not what people might expect from a $9 billion plant, so the point of my facetious comment stands.
Don't try to make it out like I tried to make this political. That was the GP. The poster referenced some global, non-political, needs based charities he was interested in supporting. I replied to a blatantly political suggestion, myself suggesting a local, non-political, needs base charity might be a good option.
This is a Series 3 (HD). There are multiple, similar reports from other users. TiVo seems uninterested in fixing it.
Does the "back 10 seconds" work on your's, or does it have to stop and rebuffer? I can't remember if that was even supported by TiVo, it's been so long. On the Wii, you don't instantly go back, but you can select a key frame to go back to, then it rebuffers from there. The Roku has a "back 7 seconds" button, which works well, even going back multiple times.
The Wii has a pretty good Netflix client/interface. MUCH better than on my TiVo (which mostly just rebuffers and crashes). But, I recently got a Roku XD for $50, and that's better, still. Plus, it does HD and HDMI, which the Wii doesn't.
"What would be the purpose of giving your enemy a remote to detonate your drones?"
Because it's better than allowing their capture?
It might be reasonable to fallback to unencrypted signals, if they were also equipped with a compass and altimeter (which would be difficult to interfere with at a distance), and correlated the direction indicated by both compass and GPS. If dead reckoning based on speed, compass, and altimeter diverges too much from GPS, assume you're not on a reliably accurate course, and then self destruct.
was an expensive military drone using civilian GPS? The military has encrypted GPS signals (the P codes), which I very much doubt have been cracked. I'll bet someone made a decision to fallback to relying on unencrypted signals, instead of self-destructing after X minutes, upon loss of the encrypted signals.
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""For law enforcement officers and community members, any type of weapon being carried, openly or concealed, could appear as a threat to their well-being and is regarded as a public safety threat,'' Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca said Monday."
Please tell me that LA County sheriff deputies no longer carry firearms, in accordance with the sheriff's beliefs.
Somehow, I suspect this is a case of "the rules apply to other people, not us."
First, the US Constitution affirms the rights of individuals against government interference.
Secondly, a private organization, such as MS, can tell their employees not to carry arms into the workplace, and it's perfectly OK.
Finally, if an argument is being made that there are "virtual arms," then one must refer to the "virtual Constitution." Seems to me that's the contract/TOS. I suspect it allows them to do what they want, and the user's option is to cancel their subscription. Really, does someone think they have rights when playing in MS's garden? Seems to me that it's only privileges, as provided by the contract.
"Taliban Seizes and Burns PCs, Cell Phones To Stop Obscenity"
Contrast with:
US Government Seizes and Burns DNS domains, To Stop Copyright Infringement.
Discuss.
Thank you.
A 1:50 scale model of the LHC would involve a 172 m diameter circle of Legos, hardly something a single person could built in 81 hours.
"Throughout the 1990's all Windows Computer hardware was 1024x768, with a 101-key keyboard and 2-button mouse. They all had floppy drives, ran on x86 compatible chips (with or without MMX) and used a Frame-buffer-based GPU to display graphics."
Are you stupid, or just trolling?
I don't think they're including "app store" purchases, but web purchases through on-line retailers (Amazon, Target, Walmart, etc.).
"from what I can tell there isn't really an easy mechanism for doing this with phones"
Sure there is, in the case of Android. Since developers and users aren't forced to use the official Market, they can distribute beta versions all they want.
"Too many tablet models means application developers can't rely on as much being present and have to buy more tablets on which to test."
Just like PCs. I'd hate to be a PC developer these days, and have to buy thousands of them just to make sure my application was fully tested.
"The U.S. Government has classified some of the largest websites on the Internet as examples of sites which sustain global piracy."
Disney has pirated a lot from the brothers Grimm, Mark Twain, Hans Christian Anderson, etc. And, they continue to pirate our culture.
"Why do people think that giving a discount to incent someone to build something in a district means the company is paying no taxes. This is a net gain of millions of dollars per year in property taxes."
How do you figure that (property tax on $9B) - (100% discount) = (millions of dollars)? I'd like to see your math.
"IE is still easily number one at 50%, while Chrome has 25%."
What's it matter? I'm much more interested in what percentage of web sites are W3C compliant. When that approaches 100%, then browsers will compete on true merit (speed, UI, etc.), not their support of proprietary extensions and how well they put up with badly coded HTML.
I'm sick and tired of "browser x isn't supported," and "this site best viewed with..." crap, which is just indicative of clueless website developers.
It's not particularly hard to do on a chipset, using DDS technology. What is necessary, are external filters for the specific frequencies/bands, but stuffing different filters/antennas on essentially the same board doesn't really hurt economies of scale, when each band may represent millions of handsets. There's not much economy of scale gained between building 1 million of something, and building 2 million of the same thing, at least when you're talking about $50+ things (i.e. at that scale, you're saving pennies, not dollars).
but not quite.
"The number of combinations means economies of scale won't be as good"
Prices may be more than if there were fewer frequencies, but I'd expect frequency agile chipsets, able to handle the full range of LTE frequencies, to be manufactured. So it's not a case of economy of scale, but the COG being a bit higher because of more capability.
Regarding the expansion to support Apple chips, "Samsung has been an Austin-area employer since 1996...The company will also hire an additional 500 employees."
Construction is temporal. We're trying to _reduce_ energy usage, believe it or not. A billion dollars worth of chips really isn't that much to transport. You're assuming they weren't given massive tax breaks to build the plant there (they were - 100%).
To be fair, it looks like this actually created 500-700 jobs. That's still not what people might expect from a $9 billion plant, so the point of my facetious comment stands.
The 25 employees of the new automated plant will appreciate that fact.
Don't try to make it out like I tried to make this political. That was the GP. The poster referenced some global, non-political, needs based charities he was interested in supporting. I replied to a blatantly political suggestion, myself suggesting a local, non-political, needs base charity might be a good option.
"donate to a local Occupy movement"
Nope. They're where they are voluntarily. And, since it's not a formal non-profit organization, no tax credit.
Instead, donate to a local food bank (they can use cash contributions, too) which serves families which are involuntarily in need.
Parents who are too stupid to keep toys with small parts away from their kids on their own are also too stupid to read the warning labels.
This is a Series 3 (HD). There are multiple, similar reports from other users. TiVo seems uninterested in fixing it.
Does the "back 10 seconds" work on your's, or does it have to stop and rebuffer? I can't remember if that was even supported by TiVo, it's been so long. On the Wii, you don't instantly go back, but you can select a key frame to go back to, then it rebuffers from there. The Roku has a "back 7 seconds" button, which works well, even going back multiple times.
The Wii has a pretty good Netflix client/interface. MUCH better than on my TiVo (which mostly just rebuffers and crashes). But, I recently got a Roku XD for $50, and that's better, still. Plus, it does HD and HDMI, which the Wii doesn't.
"what's to say that they don't have a homegrown version of software that does the exact same thing"
Based on their website, if they did I would feel secure that it didn't work properly.
No. If they're in the signal, it also authenticates it. The lack of valid P codes makes the rest of the signal extremely suspect.
"What would be the purpose of giving your enemy a remote to detonate your drones?"
Because it's better than allowing their capture?
It might be reasonable to fallback to unencrypted signals, if they were also equipped with a compass and altimeter (which would be difficult to interfere with at a distance), and correlated the direction indicated by both compass and GPS. If dead reckoning based on speed, compass, and altimeter diverges too much from GPS, assume you're not on a reliably accurate course, and then self destruct.
was an expensive military drone using civilian GPS? The military has encrypted GPS signals (the P codes), which I very much doubt have been cracked. I'll bet someone made a decision to fallback to relying on unencrypted signals, instead of self-destructing after X minutes, upon loss of the encrypted signals.