You obviously have no idea how realistic-looking a render someone who's skilled with an airbrush and the other tools of the trade can do, on paper, without using a computer at all. (That's apparently how it was traditionally done before computer 3D rendering was up to the task.)
The AmbioLight's not really going to be affected by these rule changes - they didn't need renders because had an actual product they could show off, since they were just reselling an existing product at a huge premium.
Also, wow that was blatent. You can get this kit on DealExtreme and eBay quite easily for a lot less than that.
The turnaround time for 4-layer boards on BatchPCB (and the other cheap services) are on the order of a couple of months. So basically you design your PCB, get it a couple of months later to find it doesn't work, spend some time diagnosing the problem, submit another order that will arrive in another couple of months... and before long you've spent the better part of a year just waiting for PCBs.
Doubt it. At a guess, the thermal conductivity to the PCB itself is probably going to be much better than the thermal conductivity up through the top of the package and through the RAM chip, possibly so much so that adding a heatsink to the top of the chip stack would make essentially no difference.
That apparently varies from board to board because in many cases it's the result of a hardware design flaw that was quietly fixed in the latest board revision. They screwed up and accidentally connected the output of the onboard 1.8 V regulator on the LAN chip to the 1.8 V power rail on the board. Depending on the actual voltage each of the two 1.8 V regulators is trying to regulate down to, the LAN chip's regulator winds up supplying some or all of the current for that rail. That regulator is not actually designed to power external components - its output is only connected to a pin because it needs an external capacitor - and overloading it causes the chip to get very hot. As per usual the RasPi Foundation banned the person who pointed this out from their forum.
The first law of thermodynamics says nothing about whether the levels of calorie intake required to lose weight are going to be healthy. (It doesn't even require them to be non-fatal!) From what I've heard, at least some people with hormonal imbalances actually found that when they tried to lose weight by cutting down on food it made them actually unable to function and work normally.
Any change in the law that makes it easier to kick out troublemakers will inevitably instead be used to kick out kids that don't cause any trouble, but are getting low test scores that are dragging the school's average grades down - because those kids are a lot easier to find and kicking them out provides more benefit to the school administrators. Happens here in the UK already.
1a) Using the "move" RPC command, bitcoin makes an instant transfer between two accounts that you control.
Except that isn't actually a transfer at all, and as one of the core Bitcoin developers you must know that. All the "move" RPC command does is update a note in your wallet which says that a particular number of bitcoins belong to a particular account name. It doesn't actually move any bitcoins - in fact, the bitcoins you're transferring don't even have to actually exist. If you want to actually transfer bitcoins from (for instance) your wallet to your Mt.Gox account, or your desktop to your mobile phone, or anything that goes beyond just adjusting numbers in a file on your PC you have to do it through the blockchain and wait for at least one confirmation.
No, ten minutes is the average time it takes for the next block to come along. In practice it takes longer than that to get a transaction confirmed on average because it may not actually get included in the next block.
It's also not unusual for there not to be any blocks for well over an hour, meaning that your transactions can actually take several hours to get their first confirmation. Plus, one confirmation isn't actually enough - there are various attacks that can be used against services which accept transactions after a single confirmation.
It explicitly allows companies to use an adapter in order to allow companies with existing proprietary charge connectors to sign up to the MoU. Creating a new proprietary connector may not explicitly be against the rules, but it certainly seems to go against the spirit of the agreement.
Actually, the iPhone is apparently still stuck at USB 2.0 speeds, and what's more there is a standard Micro USB 3.0 connector that's fully backwards compatible with all existing Micro USB cables.
Actually, I'm pretty sure that the standard USB 3 connector is fully backwards compatible with existing Micro USB cables. The only thing you can't do is connect a new USB 3.0 B or Micro B cable to an old USB 2.0 device.
Actually, the user interface element in question did exist before Apple "invented" it, it's just that it hadn't been used on touchscreen phones or tablets yet because they didn't actually exist (and neither did the technology required to make them). In fact, all of the iPhone and iPod user interface elements Apple has patents on were originally invented by someone else.
Apple considered all the other Samsung phones that also had slide-out keyboards similar enough to the iPhone's design to sue over, so they don't seem to reckon that matters.
Disappearing you to a secret torture center's a lot of effort and I imagine they'd have trouble getting the secret alien lizard overlords. Keeping the DNA records, on the other hand, just requires them to do nothing and has basically no downsides for them.
They also say that the data cannot legally be used for anything other than this investigation and will be destroyed afterwards, but this indeed boils down to trust.
There's a history of police forces around the world promising this and then keeping the information anyway. I think a number of people have even been arrested based on DNA records the police were meant to have destroyed.
The entire point of this article is that, due to really stupid cryptographic flaws in debit and credit cards, money can be stolen from your bank account too - and the banks will hold you liable because they've got rock-solid "proof" that the money must've been withdrawn using your card and your PIN.
If the site is so concerned about money and income, why don't they just use regular ads instead of tracking ads then?
Relevance. Companies aren't interested in paying money to show ads to people who aren't going to buy their product anyway, so if websites use regular ads they're going to make a lot less money.
Apparently, what they actually said is that the Wikitravel community is moving to Wikimedia. It'd be more like someone saying (for instance) that the Slashdot community was moving to Hacker News, or the Digg community moving to Reddit - they carefully never claimed that Wikitravel itself was moving.
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You obviously have no idea how realistic-looking a render someone who's skilled with an airbrush and the other tools of the trade can do, on paper, without using a computer at all. (That's apparently how it was traditionally done before computer 3D rendering was up to the task.)
The AmbioLight's not really going to be affected by these rule changes - they didn't need renders because had an actual product they could show off, since they were just reselling an existing product at a huge premium.
Also, wow that was blatent. You can get this kit on DealExtreme and eBay quite easily for a lot less than that.
The turnaround time for 4-layer boards on BatchPCB (and the other cheap services) are on the order of a couple of months. So basically you design your PCB, get it a couple of months later to find it doesn't work, spend some time diagnosing the problem, submit another order that will arrive in another couple of months... and before long you've spent the better part of a year just waiting for PCBs.
They probably got some CS undergrad to develop it for them for free.
Doubt it. At a guess, the thermal conductivity to the PCB itself is probably going to be much better than the thermal conductivity up through the top of the package and through the RAM chip, possibly so much so that adding a heatsink to the top of the chip stack would make essentially no difference.
That apparently varies from board to board because in many cases it's the result of a hardware design flaw that was quietly fixed in the latest board revision. They screwed up and accidentally connected the output of the onboard 1.8 V regulator on the LAN chip to the 1.8 V power rail on the board. Depending on the actual voltage each of the two 1.8 V regulators is trying to regulate down to, the LAN chip's regulator winds up supplying some or all of the current for that rail. That regulator is not actually designed to power external components - its output is only connected to a pin because it needs an external capacitor - and overloading it causes the chip to get very hot. As per usual the RasPi Foundation banned the person who pointed this out from their forum.
The first law of thermodynamics says nothing about whether the levels of calorie intake required to lose weight are going to be healthy. (It doesn't even require them to be non-fatal!) From what I've heard, at least some people with hormonal imbalances actually found that when they tried to lose weight by cutting down on food it made them actually unable to function and work normally.
It looks like Roger Bamkin has been convincing his clients that he's a powerful person regarding the management of Wikipedia sites, so...
Any change in the law that makes it easier to kick out troublemakers will inevitably instead be used to kick out kids that don't cause any trouble, but are getting low test scores that are dragging the school's average grades down - because those kids are a lot easier to find and kicking them out provides more benefit to the school administrators. Happens here in the UK already.
1a) Using the "move" RPC command, bitcoin makes an instant transfer between two accounts that you control.
Except that isn't actually a transfer at all, and as one of the core Bitcoin developers you must know that. All the "move" RPC command does is update a note in your wallet which says that a particular number of bitcoins belong to a particular account name. It doesn't actually move any bitcoins - in fact, the bitcoins you're transferring don't even have to actually exist. If you want to actually transfer bitcoins from (for instance) your wallet to your Mt.Gox account, or your desktop to your mobile phone, or anything that goes beyond just adjusting numbers in a file on your PC you have to do it through the blockchain and wait for at least one confirmation.
No, ten minutes is the average time it takes for the next block to come along. In practice it takes longer than that to get a transaction confirmed on average because it may not actually get included in the next block.
It's also not unusual for there not to be any blocks for well over an hour, meaning that your transactions can actually take several hours to get their first confirmation. Plus, one confirmation isn't actually enough - there are various attacks that can be used against services which accept transactions after a single confirmation.
Correct link.
It explicitly allows companies to use an adapter in order to allow companies with existing proprietary charge connectors to sign up to the MoU. Creating a new proprietary connector may not explicitly be against the rules, but it certainly seems to go against the spirit of the agreement.
Actually, the iPhone is apparently still stuck at USB 2.0 speeds, and what's more there is a standard Micro USB 3.0 connector that's fully backwards compatible with all existing Micro USB cables.
Actually, I'm pretty sure that the standard USB 3 connector is fully backwards compatible with existing Micro USB cables. The only thing you can't do is connect a new USB 3.0 B or Micro B cable to an old USB 2.0 device.
Actually, the user interface element in question did exist before Apple "invented" it, it's just that it hadn't been used on touchscreen phones or tablets yet because they didn't actually exist (and neither did the technology required to make them). In fact, all of the iPhone and iPod user interface elements Apple has patents on were originally invented by someone else.
Apple considered all the other Samsung phones that also had slide-out keyboards similar enough to the iPhone's design to sue over, so they don't seem to reckon that matters.
Disappearing you to a secret torture center's a lot of effort and I imagine they'd have trouble getting the secret alien lizard overlords. Keeping the DNA records, on the other hand, just requires them to do nothing and has basically no downsides for them.
They also say that the data cannot legally be used for anything other than this investigation and will be destroyed afterwards, but this indeed boils down to trust.
There's a history of police forces around the world promising this and then keeping the information anyway. I think a number of people have even been arrested based on DNA records the police were meant to have destroyed.
The entire point of this article is that, due to really stupid cryptographic flaws in debit and credit cards, money can be stolen from your bank account too - and the banks will hold you liable because they've got rock-solid "proof" that the money must've been withdrawn using your card and your PIN.
(it would be entirely feasible that they remove the watermark at full quality.. because it would be obvious then).
Not just entirely feasible - someone later in the thread claims to have found the code that disables the watermark on full-quality images and figured out how to patch it out, so that the watermark is present even in uncompressed TGA screenshots.
If the site is so concerned about money and income, why don't they just use regular ads instead of tracking ads then?
Relevance. Companies aren't interested in paying money to show ads to people who aren't going to buy their product anyway, so if websites use regular ads they're going to make a lot less money.
Advertisers and sites that depend on them don't want to admit that choosing to use a certain browser and allowing itts default settings *is* a choice.
When that browser is bundled with the OS installed on 95% of all PCs, it's not a choice at all - it's indifference. Complete, total indifference.
The Raspberry Pi developers are rude to everyone on their forum, even their own customers.
Apparently, what they actually said is that the Wikitravel community is moving to Wikimedia. It'd be more like someone saying (for instance) that the Slashdot community was moving to Hacker News, or the Digg community moving to Reddit - they carefully never claimed that Wikitravel itself was moving.