Think outside the box. Mount your camera at the top of a simple pole mount, then run the wires down to a box at the bottom where the cpu and guts are. Then dig a hole in the ground a few feet deep and bury the box. A few feet down it should stay cool/warm year round with no active cooling/heating.
That is what we use to do with water pipes to keep them from freezing over in winter in the colder climates.
When it comes to tractors, 99.5% of people don't care about tractor repairs.
Count me as one of the 0.5%. I grew up on a farm, not having a working tractor meant you did the work by hand or horse. Being able to take something apart, figure out how it worked, fix it, and put it back together again is essential to a farm. So being denied that really hurts farmers and without farms your nicely packaged foods or prepared meals don't happen.
Of course this is just a learning period for farms. Once they realize that the newest tractor won't allow you to take the cover off without some tech re-certifying the computer before it works again, well lets just say they'll buy from someone else or keep the old equipment around.
This also has bigger implications in that people like to tinker with things and make them better or just different. Using DRM to stop that only hurts the US in its ability to invent and improve.
Also I can't think of one appliance or equipment I have bought in the last 15 years I haven't torn apart once just to see how it worked. I saved myself a washer repair man visit the other day. It was leaking and by taking the panels off and watching how it worked I found the source of the leak and replaced it with a $5.00 seal. If the washer had stopped working because I took a panel off, and I had to pay the company to come out and reset it. I'd be asking for my money back, and would never buy another product from them again.
I remember almost two decades ago in my college days that the campus bookstore which sold Apple products was also an authorized Apple repair center. Having setup their network equipment (and run down computers with viruses on them), I happen to see them repair a few products in the back room. The part came with a link to a website where they could view a step by step tear down of whatever it was. The document the site had was very detailed and showed every single screw, plate, cover, etc and how exactly to remove it, and in what order everything needed to be done. I remember thinking lego instructions were not this detailed. I asked the tech how long he had been fixing Apple products, and he told me that this was his first time working on that model, but he didn't need to know, it was all in the document.
So if they had these documents that long ago, why haven't they made them public? Oh, never mind, allowing only a few repair shops added to the premium mentality which allowed them to charge more for the products, and the Apple Care plans they pushed.
Oracle believes Google destroyed its hopes of competing as a smartphone platform developer with the Java platform,
The only ones who destroyed their hopes of making a phone people would buy was Oracle. They have done a great job of getting their name out there in the market and setting expectations. The problem of course is that their name and those expectations are not well regarded. So if I were in the market for a phone and went into the store and saw an Oracle one I would definitely pass it up. But then again I was never of the normal, so maybe its just me.
Ok, ok, calm down now. Nobody has to re-invent the wheel, once invented everybody benefits. So I'm sure even they could have purchased the bike as most bikes aren't that expensive. There are also bike auctions where cities sell abandoned bikes, usually for as little as $10.
As for two people "stealing" a bike, maybe the owner had a problem with the bike. Then he left it somewhere where it would be safe and got help from a friend to get the bike home. Did you stop and ask them if they needed help? Or did we just assume they were up to no good?
See people, when we make assumptions we project our fears on other people. Maybe it is you who would have taken someones bike? These are good discussions and I think we are getting close to the heart of your problems. Lets talk about your desire to prevent stealing. Did people take things from you? Things your felt you earned? Did it make you angry? Do you want other people to hurt because they hurt you?
We have to let go of this pain and hurt or we can never heal.
I was going to post: because the machines keep making them money. Why stop selling something that makes you money because of some sill vulnerability thing?
Ok, did you see them? Did you file a police report? You have documentation to show you own the bike? Did you leave the bike in an area where it was readily available and not secured?
Why do you think they took your bike? Have you asked for it back? Do you really need a bike, could you lend it to them or let them have one your not using?
Good discussion here, I think were making progress.
Ok, this is a good start. So your upset that black and brown people live in your country. So why? Is it that they don't buy as much sunscreen? Do they speak a language you don't understand and that scares you? Maybe their customs are different and you don't know why they would have a BBQ in the park with 50 friends?
You can speak up, this is a safe zone.
Why do you think that those people can possibly be reasoned with?
Have you even tried? Or have you argued with the mob and got nowhere?
banning posts, photos and other content that reference white nationalism and white separatism
The bigger problem is who will judge what is a "reference" to white nationalism and white separatism? What about someone speaking out against such things, are they referencing it? What happens when the words become banned and people just move on to new ones; do we ban those to? When will it stop?
Seriously, stop trying to be thought police and address the real issues. You know, like why are people even talking about nationalism and separatism in the first place. How about we rationally talk about why people are upset and what can be done about it rather than just outright ban everything.
California, New York, London, and Tokyo are at work or not!
Each office has posted hours, those hours would be the same as the ones on your watch, no matter where you were in the world. No more having to think, well it's 5:00pm here in California right now, so that's -7GMT (standard time zone rules apply, -8GMT a month ago), Tokyo is +9GMT, so that means Tokyo is 16 hours ahead. 5:00pm is really 17:00; and 17:00 + 16 hours = 33:00; 33:00 is tomorrow; so subtract 24:00 to get 9:00. So it's 9:00am tomorrow in Tokyo, so yes they probably just opened there because I know they open around 8:00am Tokyo time.
Using one timezone the calculation would be like this: business hours in Tokyo are posted from 11:00pm to 8:00am UTC. I'm in California and my watch says its 12:00pm, yep they are open. The "in California" part is a trick question, because it would also be 12:00pm in NY, London, everywhere, no conversion needed. You just need to look up the business hours and call during that time. Take a flight somewhere, get off the plane, your watch is right. Amazing!
but the time itself should be set based on some concept of sunrise, sunset, or high noon.
But that is exactly the problem. Unless you live exactly on the equator the sun doesn't rise/set at the same time each day. For example where I live we are now heading into spring/summer, so the sun comes up about 1 minute earlier than the day before. After a month, sun rise is a whole 30 minutes ahead. By the time this pattern shifts and I start loosing a minute (when heading into fall and winter) the sun is coming up at least an hour and a half earlier than it did before. So unless you reset your clock every morning, your hosed. Let's not even get started how you would make this work for business. You would need logic to add/subtract a minute each day to find out how many hours have passed since some event. And then based upon your location, it isn't even a minute, it could be more, it could be less. The math hurts my head just thinking about it.
You want a real solution, wake up and realize the sun does not revolve around you! A 24 hour day is based on how long it takes the earth to turn one full revolution. This has nothing to do with the sun, so stop basing the whole thing on the sun. Instead, pick some point, GMT is fine with me. Call that 0:00 when the sun first rises on January 1st at that point. All times in the world would then use that as the same starting point, all areas in the world would have the exact same time, no time zones.
Now that means your whole concept of I get up at 7:00 when the sun rises and go to bed at 10:00 when the sun goes down is shot. Depending upon where you are on the earth the sun may come up at 3:00, it may come up at 14:00, who cares its just a number. Your employer sets the work day, and if you work from 4:00 to 13:00 in one place thats fine; in another it may be that you work from 15:00 to 0:00, those are just numbers and you don't need an act from congress (or the EU) to change it. If your employer wants to shift the time you start in the summer or winter, again they can do so.
No daylight savings, no timezones! Next we need to tackle this whole year thing or we will never make it off this rock and our limited understanding of time!
Hardware vs Software. You can clone the hardware, but that doesn't mean it is running the same software.
Now find a way to scan a brain and then implant that on another brain and you might save 5 years of training. But unless the dogs had the exact same experience, all your saving is the burden of dogs who don't have the temperament for the job. You also miss out on the random chance that a change in genes might produce something better. I mean who would have thought a 100 years ago that you could send the text of an entire book all the way around the world in mere seconds.
This should be easy to test, or at least noticed in cloned mice. Ie train a mouse to run a maze (or perform some task they normally wouldn't), then clone it and see if the clone performs any better or worse than its predecessor. I smell a government grant opportunity for someone.
So your saying Kaspersky will win in a Russian court, but will lose in a US court? Hmm, something sounds fishy there. If this was a cut and dry issue both courts should rule the same unless there is some bias. So this sounds less like a legal issue and more like a political issue.
And again, the Apple store is their own store. They can choose what products they want there and what products they don't want. US store, Russian store, it doesn't matter. If Apple doesn't want to offer it they are under no obligation to stock it. The same is true of your corner store, if the owner doesn't want to stock the foreign beer you like you can't force him to stock it, and neither can the courts. If all the corner stores in the world suddenly decided to stop carrying your foreign beer, well your tough out of luck.
If your argument is that the Apple store is the only way to legally load software and you have no other choice, well your right you don't. You knew that going in and you still bought the device. If your thinking that because it is a device that can run software and anyone should be able to write software for it, again your mistaken. Take a modern car for example, you could write new software to supercharge your car (or modify the settings to get around some imposed restrictions). If you then go to the manufacturer and tell them that because you have software that will run on their car that they must offer it as an option to buyers; well I'm pretty sure they will laugh themselves silly, then they will sue for breaking their DRM and causing a safety issue.
Now does this stop Kaspersky from using some jailbreak hack to side load the software; no. Will Apple support the product or offer to repair the device if the software causes problems; no. Can Kaspersky offer their software for other devices, sure. Apple isn't forcing them out of business, they just don't want to do business with them because Kaspersky wants special exceptions for their software. If you want in the garden you play by their rules, if you want to throw a fit because your not getting your way, tough.
Lastly, I don't own an Apple device and never will. Partly because of the walled garden, partly because of other reasons. In the end though, they are right. Its their product and they can control what software they will support on it. Can you modify it to do something else? Heck yes, but it won't be supported, and they sure as heck won't promote it.
*Side note: Somehow this reminds me of some little kid on the play ground going to their mom crying that some other kids won't play with them, and she needs to make them.
Funny thing is, I don't align myself with Apple. I have owned exactly one Apple product, a usb charger (because at the time it supplied the highest amperage and I got a %33 discount on it as I knew the store owner). Other than that, I will never own another Apple product. In my view Apple products are over priced, dumbed down, and force consumer lock down to such a degree that it just isn't worth it for me.
Now if my grandma said she wanted a computer, I might recommend she get an Apple as it would suit her needs (used would be my recommendation).
And for all my disdain, Apple will win this case. Nothing anti-trust about this, its their store and if they don't want to carry a product, they don't have to.
Again, it is their garden, they are under no obligation to let you in to play. The courts can't order them to list your software, just as a court can't order a retailer to carry a product because the company wills it.
As for loosing millions, again a court can't fine them for not carrying a product. If you meant that Apple will loose out on millions in possible sales; considering Apple is expecting revenue of $89Billion in just the first quarter, I think a few million is chump change to them.
Pretty sure they won't win. It is Apple's garden, you want in you do what they want. They reserve the right to kick you out at any time for any reason, including no reason at all.
I've thus far been unable to find a "show only this layer" feature from the program.
Hold [shift] and click on the eye in the layer panel, of the layer you want to edit, all other layers are hidden. Do it again and all layers are shown.
I can fish for a lifetime without ever knowing how my rod and reel were made.
Until the reel breaks and you have use your hands to pull in the line, cutting up your hands. Or until the line breaks and you don't know how to re-thread the line.
And you do know how to prove 2x2=4, you just don't think about it that way. Ie, 2 sets of 2 items = 4 items. Unless you just blindly see every 2x2 and replace it with 4 you do understand the concept.
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Think outside the box. Mount your camera at the top of a simple pole mount, then run the wires down to a box at the bottom where the cpu and guts are. Then dig a hole in the ground a few feet deep and bury the box. A few feet down it should stay cool/warm year round with no active cooling/heating.
That is what we use to do with water pipes to keep them from freezing over in winter in the colder climates.
When it comes to tractors, 99.5% of people don't care about tractor repairs.
Count me as one of the 0.5%. I grew up on a farm, not having a working tractor meant you did the work by hand or horse. Being able to take something apart, figure out how it worked, fix it, and put it back together again is essential to a farm. So being denied that really hurts farmers and without farms your nicely packaged foods or prepared meals don't happen.
Of course this is just a learning period for farms. Once they realize that the newest tractor won't allow you to take the cover off without some tech re-certifying the computer before it works again, well lets just say they'll buy from someone else or keep the old equipment around.
This also has bigger implications in that people like to tinker with things and make them better or just different. Using DRM to stop that only hurts the US in its ability to invent and improve.
Also I can't think of one appliance or equipment I have bought in the last 15 years I haven't torn apart once just to see how it worked. I saved myself a washer repair man visit the other day. It was leaking and by taking the panels off and watching how it worked I found the source of the leak and replaced it with a $5.00 seal. If the washer had stopped working because I took a panel off, and I had to pay the company to come out and reset it. I'd be asking for my money back, and would never buy another product from them again.
I remember almost two decades ago in my college days that the campus bookstore which sold Apple products was also an authorized Apple repair center. Having setup their network equipment (and run down computers with viruses on them), I happen to see them repair a few products in the back room. The part came with a link to a website where they could view a step by step tear down of whatever it was. The document the site had was very detailed and showed every single screw, plate, cover, etc and how exactly to remove it, and in what order everything needed to be done. I remember thinking lego instructions were not this detailed. I asked the tech how long he had been fixing Apple products, and he told me that this was his first time working on that model, but he didn't need to know, it was all in the document.
So if they had these documents that long ago, why haven't they made them public? Oh, never mind, allowing only a few repair shops added to the premium mentality which allowed them to charge more for the products, and the Apple Care plans they pushed.
I think it was just about the money. Fame and glory they could make up later, how they saved java from the evil hands of Google. All praise be Oracle!
Oracle believes Google destroyed its hopes of competing as a smartphone platform developer with the Java platform,
The only ones who destroyed their hopes of making a phone people would buy was Oracle. They have done a great job of getting their name out there in the market and setting expectations. The problem of course is that their name and those expectations are not well regarded. So if I were in the market for a phone and went into the store and saw an Oracle one I would definitely pass it up. But then again I was never of the normal, so maybe its just me.
Ok, ok, calm down now. Nobody has to re-invent the wheel, once invented everybody benefits. So I'm sure even they could have purchased the bike as most bikes aren't that expensive. There are also bike auctions where cities sell abandoned bikes, usually for as little as $10.
As for two people "stealing" a bike, maybe the owner had a problem with the bike. Then he left it somewhere where it would be safe and got help from a friend to get the bike home. Did you stop and ask them if they needed help? Or did we just assume they were up to no good?
See people, when we make assumptions we project our fears on other people. Maybe it is you who would have taken someones bike? These are good discussions and I think we are getting close to the heart of your problems. Lets talk about your desire to prevent stealing. Did people take things from you? Things your felt you earned? Did it make you angry? Do you want other people to hurt because they hurt you?
We have to let go of this pain and hurt or we can never heal.
I was going to post: because the machines keep making them money. Why stop selling something that makes you money because of some sill vulnerability thing?
Ok, did you see them? Did you file a police report? You have documentation to show you own the bike? Did you leave the bike in an area where it was readily available and not secured?
Why do you think they took your bike? Have you asked for it back? Do you really need a bike, could you lend it to them or let them have one your not using?
Good discussion here, I think were making progress.
No, no, they caught me. I'm a troll, no need to hide it any longer. I live under a bridge and grind bones to dust for my soup. It's a fair cop.
I'm also off topic, please mark me for that too.
You can speak up, this is a safe zone.
Why do you think that those people can possibly be reasoned with?
Have you even tried? Or have you argued with the mob and got nowhere?
Plus, people are still buying them. Don't like a product, don't buy it. That sends a clear message to the company to fix their product.
But for most people owning an Apple product its a point of pride, not necessity.
banning posts, photos and other content that reference white nationalism and white separatism
The bigger problem is who will judge what is a "reference" to white nationalism and white separatism? What about someone speaking out against such things, are they referencing it? What happens when the words become banned and people just move on to new ones; do we ban those to? When will it stop?
Seriously, stop trying to be thought police and address the real issues. You know, like why are people even talking about nationalism and separatism in the first place. How about we rationally talk about why people are upset and what can be done about it rather than just outright ban everything.
work for eternity in an Amazon warehouse for 7 Zimbabwean dollar an hour
Seems fair. That's at least twice what McDonalds is paying.
How are the medical benefits?
California, New York, London, and Tokyo are at work or not!
Each office has posted hours, those hours would be the same as the ones on your watch, no matter where you were in the world. No more having to think, well it's 5:00pm here in California right now, so that's -7GMT (standard time zone rules apply, -8GMT a month ago), Tokyo is +9GMT, so that means Tokyo is 16 hours ahead. 5:00pm is really 17:00; and 17:00 + 16 hours = 33:00; 33:00 is tomorrow; so subtract 24:00 to get 9:00. So it's 9:00am tomorrow in Tokyo, so yes they probably just opened there because I know they open around 8:00am Tokyo time.
Using one timezone the calculation would be like this: business hours in Tokyo are posted from 11:00pm to 8:00am UTC. I'm in California and my watch says its 12:00pm, yep they are open. The "in California" part is a trick question, because it would also be 12:00pm in NY, London, everywhere, no conversion needed. You just need to look up the business hours and call during that time. Take a flight somewhere, get off the plane, your watch is right. Amazing!
Will it take some adjustment, yes.
but the time itself should be set based on some concept of sunrise, sunset, or high noon.
But that is exactly the problem. Unless you live exactly on the equator the sun doesn't rise/set at the same time each day. For example where I live we are now heading into spring/summer, so the sun comes up about 1 minute earlier than the day before. After a month, sun rise is a whole 30 minutes ahead. By the time this pattern shifts and I start loosing a minute (when heading into fall and winter) the sun is coming up at least an hour and a half earlier than it did before. So unless you reset your clock every morning, your hosed. Let's not even get started how you would make this work for business. You would need logic to add/subtract a minute each day to find out how many hours have passed since some event. And then based upon your location, it isn't even a minute, it could be more, it could be less. The math hurts my head just thinking about it.
You want a real solution, wake up and realize the sun does not revolve around you! A 24 hour day is based on how long it takes the earth to turn one full revolution. This has nothing to do with the sun, so stop basing the whole thing on the sun. Instead, pick some point, GMT is fine with me. Call that 0:00 when the sun first rises on January 1st at that point. All times in the world would then use that as the same starting point, all areas in the world would have the exact same time, no time zones.
Now that means your whole concept of I get up at 7:00 when the sun rises and go to bed at 10:00 when the sun goes down is shot. Depending upon where you are on the earth the sun may come up at 3:00, it may come up at 14:00, who cares its just a number. Your employer sets the work day, and if you work from 4:00 to 13:00 in one place thats fine; in another it may be that you work from 15:00 to 0:00, those are just numbers and you don't need an act from congress (or the EU) to change it. If your employer wants to shift the time you start in the summer or winter, again they can do so.
No daylight savings, no timezones! Next we need to tackle this whole year thing or we will never make it off this rock and our limited understanding of time!
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Where are my mod points from Friday!
Funny, you know, I"ve found it entirely possible to pay my monthly credit card bills in full, and never have to pay a cent in interest fees.
And your exactly the kind of person the Credit Card Industry calls a "Deadbeat".
https://www.nationaldebtrelief.com/credit-card-revolver-hacker/
It's not a bad thing, but your not the customer they want as your not making them the profit they want.
Hardware vs Software. You can clone the hardware, but that doesn't mean it is running the same software.
Now find a way to scan a brain and then implant that on another brain and you might save 5 years of training. But unless the dogs had the exact same experience, all your saving is the burden of dogs who don't have the temperament for the job. You also miss out on the random chance that a change in genes might produce something better. I mean who would have thought a 100 years ago that you could send the text of an entire book all the way around the world in mere seconds.
This should be easy to test, or at least noticed in cloned mice. Ie train a mouse to run a maze (or perform some task they normally wouldn't), then clone it and see if the clone performs any better or worse than its predecessor. I smell a government grant opportunity for someone.
So your saying Kaspersky will win in a Russian court, but will lose in a US court? Hmm, something sounds fishy there. If this was a cut and dry issue both courts should rule the same unless there is some bias. So this sounds less like a legal issue and more like a political issue.
And again, the Apple store is their own store. They can choose what products they want there and what products they don't want. US store, Russian store, it doesn't matter. If Apple doesn't want to offer it they are under no obligation to stock it. The same is true of your corner store, if the owner doesn't want to stock the foreign beer you like you can't force him to stock it, and neither can the courts. If all the corner stores in the world suddenly decided to stop carrying your foreign beer, well your tough out of luck.
If your argument is that the Apple store is the only way to legally load software and you have no other choice, well your right you don't. You knew that going in and you still bought the device. If your thinking that because it is a device that can run software and anyone should be able to write software for it, again your mistaken. Take a modern car for example, you could write new software to supercharge your car (or modify the settings to get around some imposed restrictions). If you then go to the manufacturer and tell them that because you have software that will run on their car that they must offer it as an option to buyers; well I'm pretty sure they will laugh themselves silly, then they will sue for breaking their DRM and causing a safety issue.
Now does this stop Kaspersky from using some jailbreak hack to side load the software; no. Will Apple support the product or offer to repair the device if the software causes problems; no. Can Kaspersky offer their software for other devices, sure. Apple isn't forcing them out of business, they just don't want to do business with them because Kaspersky wants special exceptions for their software. If you want in the garden you play by their rules, if you want to throw a fit because your not getting your way, tough.
Lastly, I don't own an Apple device and never will. Partly because of the walled garden, partly because of other reasons. In the end though, they are right. Its their product and they can control what software they will support on it. Can you modify it to do something else? Heck yes, but it won't be supported, and they sure as heck won't promote it.
*Side note: Somehow this reminds me of some little kid on the play ground going to their mom crying that some other kids won't play with them, and she needs to make them.
Funny thing is, I don't align myself with Apple. I have owned exactly one Apple product, a usb charger (because at the time it supplied the highest amperage and I got a %33 discount on it as I knew the store owner). Other than that, I will never own another Apple product. In my view Apple products are over priced, dumbed down, and force consumer lock down to such a degree that it just isn't worth it for me.
Now if my grandma said she wanted a computer, I might recommend she get an Apple as it would suit her needs (used would be my recommendation).
And for all my disdain, Apple will win this case. Nothing anti-trust about this, its their store and if they don't want to carry a product, they don't have to.
Again, it is their garden, they are under no obligation to let you in to play. The courts can't order them to list your software, just as a court can't order a retailer to carry a product because the company wills it.
As for loosing millions, again a court can't fine them for not carrying a product. If you meant that Apple will loose out on millions in possible sales; considering Apple is expecting revenue of $89Billion in just the first quarter, I think a few million is chump change to them.
Pretty sure they won't win. It is Apple's garden, you want in you do what they want. They reserve the right to kick you out at any time for any reason, including no reason at all.
So its bad to eat eggs this week, got it.
I hope this clears up soon as easter is about 4 weeks away and me needs my dyed eggs!
I've thus far been unable to find a "show only this layer" feature from the program.
Hold [shift] and click on the eye in the layer panel, of the layer you want to edit, all other layers are hidden. Do it again and all layers are shown.
I can fish for a lifetime without ever knowing how my rod and reel were made.
Until the reel breaks and you have use your hands to pull in the line, cutting up your hands. Or until the line breaks and you don't know how to re-thread the line.
And you do know how to prove 2x2=4, you just don't think about it that way. Ie, 2 sets of 2 items = 4 items. Unless you just blindly see every 2x2 and replace it with 4 you do understand the concept.