I have a big bedroom. And a 120" TV 'screen'. Screen is quoted, because it's a projector aimed at a blank wall. I can actually put the TV set in my pocket.
Get a cable box with an RF modulator, a splitter and run some coax around your house. You can slave a bunch of analog TV sets off the program you are watching in the family room. Not a perfect solution since all the TV sets can only get the same program. But that's how I run a couple of sets that I can watch while going back and forth in my house.
I'm shocked by the number of people who don't realize that this option still exists (and was the way we consumed TV for decades). The cable industries brain washing campaign has been quite effective in teaching people to automatically sign up for a $100/month service whenever they want television.
Microsoft clients can do that regardless of what physical protocol you use to connect to the Internet. My guess is that the telecoms don't like free WiFi bypassing their service. And Microsoft has some reason to play nicely with them (Yet another run at Windows Phone?)
In the perfect world, clients shouldn't need to know how they are connected so long as the bandwidth, latency and QoS are sufficient to support the application layer.
I'm OK with this sort of preliminary news. First, I'll assume that the well informed reader can differentiate between a lawsuit being filed and a verdict being handed down. So they will take this story with a grain of salt. Second, and much more important; this is material information that could affect the bottom line of the company. It's public information that, absent a news story, would go unnoticed by the average investor not having access to the kinds of research firms and pricey newsletters that the big shots use to get the jump on the small fry. And finally, this news gives me a heads up to watch for a verdict or other outcome. The suit may be dismissed as groundless, but very often an out of court settlement will be made, with the terms kept private. We may never hear any more about this and, in my opinion, that could be the most important information I could find about a prospective investment or employer.
Companies that settle out of court and in secret often do not add their reputation's value of being acquitted to the calculation of a settlement. There is more than the avoided court costs to be considered when negotiating a settlement. It is worth something to be found not guilty. So when I see a lawsuit 'disappear' off the public's radar, I suspect that there may be some guilt. And I've been on the inside of a company that cut a huge settlement that, had the investment community been aware of the circumstances, many people may have made more informed decisions with their life savings before the outfit finally went under.
This is going to be an EPA regulation, nationwide. Lest some shade-tree mechanic decides he'd like to tune his car for performance and fuck the emissions up.
But do you believe that, under these circumstances, it was reasonable to handcuff him,
Yes. It's called "detained pending an investigation". And since it's a common practice in law enforcement, Turner may be able win a suit against the department, but the individual officers were acting in accordance with standard policies.
I've also worked for outfits that do a very good job scaling processes up. They think ahead. Boeing's problem (when I was there) was tradition. They still had people who remembered the way things were done on the Superfortress. And things were not going to change until they were gone.
20 years ago, I worked in a building in Renton. One corner of that building was a computer room that housed an ancient (even at that time) mainframe. They did batch processing for some engineering functions, with everyone getting weekly paper printouts as output. As time went by, the facilities were sold off (a shopping center is there now). And that building has been demolished.... except for the corner where that mainframe sits. It's still there, sitting in an otherwise empty field. Because the old farts won't port the process to anything newer and refuse to work with anything other then weekly paper printouts. Surrounding processes can't go faster than they do without generating piles of interim revision notices (which are a nightmare to reconcile).
Given the current regulatory climate governments are going to hold manufacturers' feet to the fire for failures caused by their software. Better to keep the risk cost in house where decisions can best be made about how to cover them than get third parties involved.
From what I saw at my time with Boeing, they don't do well when they are under pressure. Things get rushed, forgotten or hastily slapped together. There was an anonymous thread a few weeks ago on an aircraft discussion board as to whether it was OK to use hardware store grade fasteners on aircraft structures. I shuddered. Because I've seen it come close to that when they ran out of approved parts.
Boeing (also known as the Lazy-B) builds good stuff when it's done at a leisure pace. But try to accelerate things and they go to hell pretty quickly.
I wouldn't worry about it too much. The professors probably set up a couple of bots to mine data looking for interesting research topics and publish articles.
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it is possible to actually talk to your family
Not everyone has an unlimited cellular plan.
I have a big bedroom. And a 120" TV 'screen'. Screen is quoted, because it's a projector aimed at a blank wall. I can actually put the TV set in my pocket.
Get a cable box with an RF modulator, a splitter and run some coax around your house. You can slave a bunch of analog TV sets off the program you are watching in the family room. Not a perfect solution since all the TV sets can only get the same program. But that's how I run a couple of sets that I can watch while going back and forth in my house.
a TV antenna
This.
I'm shocked by the number of people who don't realize that this option still exists (and was the way we consumed TV for decades). The cable industries brain washing campaign has been quite effective in teaching people to automatically sign up for a $100/month service whenever they want television.
No more reason for me to use AOL. Please come and take all your floppy disks back.
mine your data and monitor your conversations
Microsoft clients can do that regardless of what physical protocol you use to connect to the Internet. My guess is that the telecoms don't like free WiFi bypassing their service. And Microsoft has some reason to play nicely with them (Yet another run at Windows Phone?)
In the perfect world, clients shouldn't need to know how they are connected so long as the bandwidth, latency and QoS are sufficient to support the application layer.
Jay Z
Rap's not even music
I'm OK with this sort of preliminary news. First, I'll assume that the well informed reader can differentiate between a lawsuit being filed and a verdict being handed down. So they will take this story with a grain of salt. Second, and much more important; this is material information that could affect the bottom line of the company. It's public information that, absent a news story, would go unnoticed by the average investor not having access to the kinds of research firms and pricey newsletters that the big shots use to get the jump on the small fry. And finally, this news gives me a heads up to watch for a verdict or other outcome. The suit may be dismissed as groundless, but very often an out of court settlement will be made, with the terms kept private. We may never hear any more about this and, in my opinion, that could be the most important information I could find about a prospective investment or employer.
Companies that settle out of court and in secret often do not add their reputation's value of being acquitted to the calculation of a settlement. There is more than the avoided court costs to be considered when negotiating a settlement. It is worth something to be found not guilty. So when I see a lawsuit 'disappear' off the public's radar, I suspect that there may be some guilt. And I've been on the inside of a company that cut a huge settlement that, had the investment community been aware of the circumstances, many people may have made more informed decisions with their life savings before the outfit finally went under.
Because I'd lose my Candy Crush high score.
Now where will they learn "Try turning it off and then on again"?
Yes. Or we'll build a wall.
In states?
This is going to be an EPA regulation, nationwide. Lest some shade-tree mechanic decides he'd like to tune his car for performance and fuck the emissions up.
Just poor writing on the part of Arse Technica.
But do you believe that, under these circumstances, it was reasonable to handcuff him,
Yes. It's called "detained pending an investigation". And since it's a common practice in law enforcement, Turner may be able win a suit against the department, but the individual officers were acting in accordance with standard policies.
Does this same vulnerability exist in the org.apache.commons.net.ftp stuff?
I don't want to get stuck in traffic behind someone messaging more than 140 characters at a time.
Boeing can't afford to have that much headroom. This is the fault of unions.
Welcome to South Carolina, Boeing.
You know, little things like the wings.
That would be Japan, not China.
I don't think it would be a problem having planes built in China for the Chinese domestic market.
Boeing did use off-the-shelf fasteners for the 787s roll out
That is pretty well known. But the question was brought up recently (a few weeks ago). Which makes me wonder what motivated it this time.
It's hardly Boeing
I've also worked for outfits that do a very good job scaling processes up. They think ahead. Boeing's problem (when I was there) was tradition. They still had people who remembered the way things were done on the Superfortress. And things were not going to change until they were gone.
20 years ago, I worked in a building in Renton. One corner of that building was a computer room that housed an ancient (even at that time) mainframe. They did batch processing for some engineering functions, with everyone getting weekly paper printouts as output. As time went by, the facilities were sold off (a shopping center is there now). And that building has been demolished .... except for the corner where that mainframe sits. It's still there, sitting in an otherwise empty field. Because the old farts won't port the process to anything newer and refuse to work with anything other then weekly paper printouts. Surrounding processes can't go faster than they do without generating piles of interim revision notices (which are a nightmare to reconcile).
Portland OR
Enlighten us. Is there something special about motor vehicle liability in Portland? Or did you just get clipped by a Tesla there?
Given the current regulatory climate governments are going to hold manufacturers' feet to the fire for failures caused by their software. Better to keep the risk cost in house where decisions can best be made about how to cover them than get third parties involved.
From what I saw at my time with Boeing, they don't do well when they are under pressure. Things get rushed, forgotten or hastily slapped together. There was an anonymous thread a few weeks ago on an aircraft discussion board as to whether it was OK to use hardware store grade fasteners on aircraft structures. I shuddered. Because I've seen it come close to that when they ran out of approved parts.
Boeing (also known as the Lazy-B) builds good stuff when it's done at a leisure pace. But try to accelerate things and they go to hell pretty quickly.
Do you mean estimated or actual? Because (at least with Boeing) you can count on tacking on a couple of years.
I wouldn't worry about it too much. The professors probably set up a couple of bots to mine data looking for interesting research topics and publish articles.