Yea, the Southern portion of the state (particularly the area you cite) is baked pretty thoroughly, but so is Southern Arizona. Just North of White Sands there's still huge rivers of dried lava flows that geologists just love and some areas that people come from around the world to bird-watch. Southern NM has it's own charm that a lot of people like, but it is largely desert. Ruidoso isn't bad at all. High plains in the center of the state that house the VLA, etc are beautiful. Sunrises like you wouldn't believe and some great big country and forests. Up North with Taos, Chama, Santa Fe, Red River, etc there are some great areas that compete for scenery with the best of them. I go elk hunting in a nice watersheld/caldera in the Northern portion and down in the central watersheds and when I post pictures online of my hunts, most people mistake it for Colorado, Wyoming, etc. El Paso to Cruces can be pretty bad (as can Albuquerque to Farmington), but every state has uninteresting stretches.
They have these installed on most, but not all aircraft. Malaysians obviously had some but not all installed. That said, nearly everything is controllable by the pilot. If a fire starts you don't want to continue providing electricity to the area burning. Sometimes the actual safety systems can smoke/light on fire (very, very rare but less rare than hijackings). So the pilot needs to be able to turn these systems off for safety's sake. Some breakers are in locations that you have to climb to to turn off, making it very unlikely that that would happen except by skilled operators in very rare circumstances.
The point is that life rafts have emergency satellite beacons on them that active once deployed. These have been thoroughly tested and work. The plane has many liferafts that would potentially be deployed. It is very, very unlikely that if liferafts were deployed that any or all of them also had faulty beacons. It is even more unlikely that the beacons would fail but that the water and other supplies would be intact. If liferaft had been deployed we would have known the location of the crash within minutes.
I currently access the Play Store on a forked Android derivative. There's nothing to keep me from doing so and Google makes no effort to keep me from doing so. But if you're a company and you want to ship the Google Play Store on your devices by default, Google does require some dollars and deals to ensure that your device is supported and to handle the development and bug squashing associated with supporting that device, etc. Basically, a company can't just install all of Google's apps and act like it's a supported configuration without it actually being supported....Seems reasonable to me.
From the rumor's going around, Comcast isn't laying down any extra wires that Apple owns or controls. It would literally be like a separate VPN on the wires already coming to your house that has enough bandwidth guaranteed to it to give you an "Apple" experience; aka quick start, no buffer, high quality, etc. So I doubt that this is the plan, and I sincerely doubt that Comcast would lay down extra wires at their expense and then just give them to Apple. I just don't see how your scenario is really plausible.
I've written hundreds of thousands of lines of statically typed code and I'd say that at no point in my career, from programming noob in college to anywhere else did I ever spend more than 1-2% of my effort "dicking around with static types, casts, etc and spinning my wheels chasing down type errors when I could be progressing rapidly towards a solution", much less anywhere near half my time. That includes projects where I've done 1k+ SLOC in a morning to get proof of concepts out. I just don't see how static typing really slows anyone down unless your approach is to run a function, see what you get out and then hope that you can do something else with the returned object which is just ugly and slow in its own right. I guess that I just think differently than some; maintaining in my brain's working set what the objects I actually have in front of me are, and what they do and support is not that much overhead and doesn't detract from anything else.
Also, when I work with dynamically typed languages I tend to spend similar amounts of times if not more figuring out what really is and is not supported with this dynamic object in front me. I personally just don't see the speed up.
In a couple hundred square feet in my back yard I get more tomatoes, more cucumbers, more yellow squash, more watermelons, more eggs, more pomegranates, more jalapenos, more green chiles, more strawberries and more herbs than I can eat in a growing season and can freeze enough to last a good chunk of the rest of the year and I'm a fairly lame farmer that just tossed together a couple of raised beds in the corner of a yard.
In a basic sense, you could get a lot of stuff from 20 acres. Definitely nowhere near enough for 452 families, and at $100/mo they are just getting ripped off, but acting like you need 20 acres or more to get into "Actual farming" may be true, but given what a family might need a couple hundred sq feet is enough to get a ton of veggies.
If this wasn't yuppie rip-off town, it might be interested. Some areas locally have put raised planter beds in abandoned or trashed lots that residents can claim if they just maintain them and it's really a good use of otherwise bad space. Same could be said about this versus having a golf course, if done right and not just a yuppy rip-off scam.
0? I routinely push a couple of TB around with my residential Comcast connection. The connection is a sunk cost since I live in the digital age and am going to have it anyways. Having it sync all photos, videos, etc between NAS's and generating backups, uploading them, etc during off-peak hours is minimal to no cost...
That's great and all, and I have NAS made of those at home, but I still backup all of my pictures at full resolution to Google's servers. That 1TB drive isn't going to do much for me for disaster recovery when it's sitting right next to my NAS. Then I also get the upside of my phone syncing thumbnails of everything I upload, the ability to see those pictures from everywhere and to also create albums and share them without having to physically send the pictures around.
I honestly could not care less about my pictures being data mined by Google. I'm posting a chunk of them online anyways. I don't think people pay for TB's of cloud storage to backup critical information. Critical information is typically pretty small in nature and compresses well anyways; no need for cloud storage, a 32GB usb stick in a fire/water proof lockbox is more than adequate for disaster recovery of that type of info.
That's not the case. I know a number of teachers whom improve their students by more than a grade year on the tests within a year, but still get rated horribly in these evaluations. When you're a 5th grade teacher and a number of your kids test below third grade level and you get them up to above 4th grade, but not quite passing 5th grade evaluations you still are very likely to get a bad ranking. Not the teacher's fault at all and I think that we should stop letting kids fail up to the next grade (that would introduce a whole other set of very large problems), but still a problem. You get a bad class, especially a mixed one with some students above grade level by a grade or two and some students below grade level by 3 years and you're going to look very bad during evaluations because those above grade level probably didn't move much and while those below grade level may have moved by more than a grade level, they're still likely not up to their grade level which also looks bad. Unless you have a fairly homogenous class that's near or at grade level, your evaluations are likely to suffer.
Firefox and others had plugins that would scan the webpage and turn text web addresses into clickable hyperlinks. A number of them let you configure things such that you could essentially auto-highlight whatever you want depending upon a regex and even link it to launching an external applicaiton with that text as a command-line argument. I fail to see how this is significantly different.
Free international texting. In some areas of the globe it's use is near universal, from grandmas to the little kids. In the Middle East and parts of Africa and Asia, a WhatsApp account is literally on over 75% of smart phones.
Here Here. This guy doesn't think that they exist because he isn't around any. I work with some amazing engineering managers day in and day out. In fact, I'd say that my organization (Fortune 500) company has done a good job of growing them from their engineering pool and has a huge backlog of people with the necessary skills. You're not going to find a grizzled program manager at some light-weight venture-capital company. But you will find them in the DoD, NASA, GE, Boeing, ULA, Ford, Toyota, Samsung, Raytheon and all of their first, second and third tier suppliers. You know, in businesses that have been around long enough that having good engineering managers becomes important enough to need them....
If Microsoft wants to be really tricky, they could go the route that some people are going with "Holofication" on Android. There are a number of Android apps that are just garbage ports from iOS, even from massive companies. It actually doesn't take much to pry open an Andoid application and change the way that it looks. I wonder if Microsoft could cut some sort of deal with individual app makers where they register, click "yes" and then a Microsoft team grabs the Android apk and "Metroizes" it, puts it on the market and gives the developer their cut. It wouldn't be ideal, but way better than just a direct port. They'd at least get to keep their style guidelines consistent, and app makers would start to see a revenue stream from Windows, which might then make them pay more attention to the ecosystem.
Right, but they're also talking about use in foreign countries. Often times the exchange rate provided by your bank is better than you can get in country. At my previous employer, the written policy when traveling abroad was to use your credit card to get cash from the ATM because you get advantageous exchange rates. Of course, we were using American Express which doesn't charge you a cash advance fee, so it made quite a bit of sense.
Yes, but all of those patents to actually make mobile phones work are so valuable to the industry that they were made FRAND and hence useless as defense or offense. In various forms, it is less useful to patent the underlying technology than stuff associated with it; others will win court cases to make you license the underlying technology at little cost, but they can't do that with auxiliary patents.
Yes, we literally live in a world so fucked up that the patent on god-damn cell phone technology is worth thousands of times less than a patent on how to autocomplete a text box a special way or a patent on searching multiple sources at the same time (both patents that Apple leveraged against the Android ecosystem).
It's modulation depth (per the abstract) is only 38%, so it's not quite a broad-band as on-off-keying. More like a non-optimal AM modulation. Still, if you can do it at those speeds that's head and shoulders above and beyond what we have now.
Another key benefit would be the simplification of encoding/decoding hardware. Using coherent PSK, QAM and other schemes there's quite a bit of effort put into determining the channel, etc to be able to know your current place in the constellation which can be a problem in the presence of noise sources. There's the well-known algorithms, tons of proprietary ones and new research papers every day on ways to betermine estimate the transmission channel to allow for more points (bits) in a constellation. Some of the QAM's, after disruption take over 100,000 symbols to re-lock to the bit stream. But that's the price you pay to shove more data down the pipe. If this works well though, you can get rid of all of that logic, stringent requirements on the transmission media and improve immunity to noise because with a simple AM, it only takes one symbol to re-lock onto the bit stream. They're dead simple to implement and robust as can be.
I can definitely see some really big uses for this if all goes well.
If you pay more more, displays flex and PCBs flex. It's been a solved problem and lots of high end electronics have flex PCBs and some cell phones even have flex displays.
The issue has always been the chips; they don't flex. Having the transistors not fail when stretched/bent is a necessary step, but we also need flexible chips/chip packaging as well as making the pads and solder that hold it to the board maintain a very good electrical connection throughout the bendy process.
Because bad, bad, bad things happen when you miss a McAffee scan!!! Lots of computers are home/off or whatever over the weekend. At my previous place of employment, after being off the grid with my laptop for a couple of weeks, I came back and it couldn't update right since I was *SO* out of date, which we then fixed and got it to run. Then it ran back to back to back to back scans despite cancelling etc, the schedule would detect a missed scan and re-schedule a new one despite a fresh one having completed earlier in the day. My machine scanned continuously for over a week...IT eventually threw up their hands and just told me to deal with it.
I cheat, because I make it off at work where we have a hot water spigot. I get 175 degree water from the spigot (wait, dilute, whatever) and make the espresso/concentrate and then make an Americano/regular coffee with the super hot water from the hot spigot on the machine and it's hot enough that it'll burn my mouth and oh so yummy.
No, we call it vaporware where there isn't a single implementation of it or just one in a lab. We call things alpha or beta when there's been a couple of implementations and then things beta or stable when there are independent reviews confirming the meeting of general requirements.
Anyone who's driven the 101 has seen the Google self driving cars operating remotely, and there are a number of articles about blind people going out and getting take out by themselves in the car, as well as a number of reports from residents in small Nevada towns where Google is testing these.
They might not be ready for prime time, but they are far, far beyond VaporWare.
Doubt it. QNX is far better established & proven. See no reason for cars to switch to Android, when they could use QNX and put on a better UI if the current one is inadequate
Many auto makers have tried that and failed horribly. Then there's having good GPS applications, good radio streamers, etc that you then have to create. I think that's half the drive of using Android; Google is doing most of your software development and the app makers are doing the other 40%. The auto maker is left with a lot less of the workshare and a lot less of that support long tail.
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Yea, the Southern portion of the state (particularly the area you cite) is baked pretty thoroughly, but so is Southern Arizona. Just North of White Sands there's still huge rivers of dried lava flows that geologists just love and some areas that people come from around the world to bird-watch. Southern NM has it's own charm that a lot of people like, but it is largely desert. Ruidoso isn't bad at all. High plains in the center of the state that house the VLA, etc are beautiful. Sunrises like you wouldn't believe and some great big country and forests. Up North with Taos, Chama, Santa Fe, Red River, etc there are some great areas that compete for scenery with the best of them. I go elk hunting in a nice watersheld/caldera in the Northern portion and down in the central watersheds and when I post pictures online of my hunts, most people mistake it for Colorado, Wyoming, etc. El Paso to Cruces can be pretty bad (as can Albuquerque to Farmington), but every state has uninteresting stretches.
They have these installed on most, but not all aircraft. Malaysians obviously had some but not all installed. That said, nearly everything is controllable by the pilot. If a fire starts you don't want to continue providing electricity to the area burning. Sometimes the actual safety systems can smoke/light on fire (very, very rare but less rare than hijackings). So the pilot needs to be able to turn these systems off for safety's sake. Some breakers are in locations that you have to climb to to turn off, making it very unlikely that that would happen except by skilled operators in very rare circumstances.
The point is that life rafts have emergency satellite beacons on them that active once deployed. These have been thoroughly tested and work. The plane has many liferafts that would potentially be deployed. It is very, very unlikely that if liferafts were deployed that any or all of them also had faulty beacons. It is even more unlikely that the beacons would fail but that the water and other supplies would be intact. If liferaft had been deployed we would have known the location of the crash within minutes.
I currently access the Play Store on a forked Android derivative. There's nothing to keep me from doing so and Google makes no effort to keep me from doing so. But if you're a company and you want to ship the Google Play Store on your devices by default, Google does require some dollars and deals to ensure that your device is supported and to handle the development and bug squashing associated with supporting that device, etc. Basically, a company can't just install all of Google's apps and act like it's a supported configuration without it actually being supported....Seems reasonable to me.
From the rumor's going around, Comcast isn't laying down any extra wires that Apple owns or controls. It would literally be like a separate VPN on the wires already coming to your house that has enough bandwidth guaranteed to it to give you an "Apple" experience; aka quick start, no buffer, high quality, etc. So I doubt that this is the plan, and I sincerely doubt that Comcast would lay down extra wires at their expense and then just give them to Apple. I just don't see how your scenario is really plausible.
I've written hundreds of thousands of lines of statically typed code and I'd say that at no point in my career, from programming noob in college to anywhere else did I ever spend more than 1-2% of my effort "dicking around with static types, casts, etc and spinning my wheels chasing down type errors when I could be progressing rapidly towards a solution", much less anywhere near half my time. That includes projects where I've done 1k+ SLOC in a morning to get proof of concepts out. I just don't see how static typing really slows anyone down unless your approach is to run a function, see what you get out and then hope that you can do something else with the returned object which is just ugly and slow in its own right. I guess that I just think differently than some; maintaining in my brain's working set what the objects I actually have in front of me are, and what they do and support is not that much overhead and doesn't detract from anything else.
Also, when I work with dynamically typed languages I tend to spend similar amounts of times if not more figuring out what really is and is not supported with this dynamic object in front me. I personally just don't see the speed up.
In a couple hundred square feet in my back yard I get more tomatoes, more cucumbers, more yellow squash, more watermelons, more eggs, more pomegranates, more jalapenos, more green chiles, more strawberries and more herbs than I can eat in a growing season and can freeze enough to last a good chunk of the rest of the year and I'm a fairly lame farmer that just tossed together a couple of raised beds in the corner of a yard.
In a basic sense, you could get a lot of stuff from 20 acres. Definitely nowhere near enough for 452 families, and at $100/mo they are just getting ripped off, but acting like you need 20 acres or more to get into "Actual farming" may be true, but given what a family might need a couple hundred sq feet is enough to get a ton of veggies.
If this wasn't yuppie rip-off town, it might be interested. Some areas locally have put raised planter beds in abandoned or trashed lots that residents can claim if they just maintain them and it's really a good use of otherwise bad space. Same could be said about this versus having a golf course, if done right and not just a yuppy rip-off scam.
0? I routinely push a couple of TB around with my residential Comcast connection. The connection is a sunk cost since I live in the digital age and am going to have it anyways. Having it sync all photos, videos, etc between NAS's and generating backups, uploading them, etc during off-peak hours is minimal to no cost...
That's great and all, and I have NAS made of those at home, but I still backup all of my pictures at full resolution to Google's servers. That 1TB drive isn't going to do much for me for disaster recovery when it's sitting right next to my NAS. Then I also get the upside of my phone syncing thumbnails of everything I upload, the ability to see those pictures from everywhere and to also create albums and share them without having to physically send the pictures around.
I honestly could not care less about my pictures being data mined by Google. I'm posting a chunk of them online anyways. I don't think people pay for TB's of cloud storage to backup critical information. Critical information is typically pretty small in nature and compresses well anyways; no need for cloud storage, a 32GB usb stick in a fire/water proof lockbox is more than adequate for disaster recovery of that type of info.
That's not the case. I know a number of teachers whom improve their students by more than a grade year on the tests within a year, but still get rated horribly in these evaluations. When you're a 5th grade teacher and a number of your kids test below third grade level and you get them up to above 4th grade, but not quite passing 5th grade evaluations you still are very likely to get a bad ranking. Not the teacher's fault at all and I think that we should stop letting kids fail up to the next grade (that would introduce a whole other set of very large problems), but still a problem. You get a bad class, especially a mixed one with some students above grade level by a grade or two and some students below grade level by 3 years and you're going to look very bad during evaluations because those above grade level probably didn't move much and while those below grade level may have moved by more than a grade level, they're still likely not up to their grade level which also looks bad. Unless you have a fairly homogenous class that's near or at grade level, your evaluations are likely to suffer.
Firefox and others had plugins that would scan the webpage and turn text web addresses into clickable hyperlinks. A number of them let you configure things such that you could essentially auto-highlight whatever you want depending upon a regex and even link it to launching an external applicaiton with that text as a command-line argument. I fail to see how this is significantly different.
Free international texting. In some areas of the globe it's use is near universal, from grandmas to the little kids. In the Middle East and parts of Africa and Asia, a WhatsApp account is literally on over 75% of smart phones.
Here Here. This guy doesn't think that they exist because he isn't around any. I work with some amazing engineering managers day in and day out. In fact, I'd say that my organization (Fortune 500) company has done a good job of growing them from their engineering pool and has a huge backlog of people with the necessary skills. You're not going to find a grizzled program manager at some light-weight venture-capital company. But you will find them in the DoD, NASA, GE, Boeing, ULA, Ford, Toyota, Samsung, Raytheon and all of their first, second and third tier suppliers. You know, in businesses that have been around long enough that having good engineering managers becomes important enough to need them....
If Microsoft wants to be really tricky, they could go the route that some people are going with "Holofication" on Android. There are a number of Android apps that are just garbage ports from iOS, even from massive companies. It actually doesn't take much to pry open an Andoid application and change the way that it looks. I wonder if Microsoft could cut some sort of deal with individual app makers where they register, click "yes" and then a Microsoft team grabs the Android apk and "Metroizes" it, puts it on the market and gives the developer their cut. It wouldn't be ideal, but way better than just a direct port. They'd at least get to keep their style guidelines consistent, and app makers would start to see a revenue stream from Windows, which might then make them pay more attention to the ecosystem.
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Right, but they're also talking about use in foreign countries. Often times the exchange rate provided by your bank is better than you can get in country. At my previous employer, the written policy when traveling abroad was to use your credit card to get cash from the ATM because you get advantageous exchange rates. Of course, we were using American Express which doesn't charge you a cash advance fee, so it made quite a bit of sense.
Don't forget that Google is keeping the Motorola advanced R&D "moonshot" division that has some top end talent and is also worth something.
Yes, but all of those patents to actually make mobile phones work are so valuable to the industry that they were made FRAND and hence useless as defense or offense. In various forms, it is less useful to patent the underlying technology than stuff associated with it; others will win court cases to make you license the underlying technology at little cost, but they can't do that with auxiliary patents.
Yes, we literally live in a world so fucked up that the patent on god-damn cell phone technology is worth thousands of times less than a patent on how to autocomplete a text box a special way or a patent on searching multiple sources at the same time (both patents that Apple leveraged against the Android ecosystem).
That then requires N people to be in on the leak, making the bar to anonymously leak information even higher. Still doesn't stop a Snowden though :)
It's modulation depth (per the abstract) is only 38%, so it's not quite a broad-band as on-off-keying. More like a non-optimal AM modulation. Still, if you can do it at those speeds that's head and shoulders above and beyond what we have now.
Another key benefit would be the simplification of encoding/decoding hardware. Using coherent PSK, QAM and other schemes there's quite a bit of effort put into determining the channel, etc to be able to know your current place in the constellation which can be a problem in the presence of noise sources. There's the well-known algorithms, tons of proprietary ones and new research papers every day on ways to betermine estimate the transmission channel to allow for more points (bits) in a constellation. Some of the QAM's, after disruption take over 100,000 symbols to re-lock to the bit stream. But that's the price you pay to shove more data down the pipe. If this works well though, you can get rid of all of that logic, stringent requirements on the transmission media and improve immunity to noise because with a simple AM, it only takes one symbol to re-lock onto the bit stream. They're dead simple to implement and robust as can be.
I can definitely see some really big uses for this if all goes well.
If you pay more more, displays flex and PCBs flex. It's been a solved problem and lots of high end electronics have flex PCBs and some cell phones even have flex displays.
The issue has always been the chips; they don't flex. Having the transistors not fail when stretched/bent is a necessary step, but we also need flexible chips/chip packaging as well as making the pads and solder that hold it to the board maintain a very good electrical connection throughout the bendy process.
Depends upon the winds. I bow hunt, and pretty much pack it even even with small to moderate gusts. Accuracy and repeatability just goes all to hell.
Because bad, bad, bad things happen when you miss a McAffee scan!!! Lots of computers are home/off or whatever over the weekend. At my previous place of employment, after being off the grid with my laptop for a couple of weeks, I came back and it couldn't update right since I was *SO* out of date, which we then fixed and got it to run. Then it ran back to back to back to back scans despite cancelling etc, the schedule would detect a missed scan and re-schedule a new one despite a fresh one having completed earlier in the day. My machine scanned continuously for over a week...IT eventually threw up their hands and just told me to deal with it.
I cheat, because I make it off at work where we have a hot water spigot. I get 175 degree water from the spigot (wait, dilute, whatever) and make the espresso/concentrate and then make an Americano/regular coffee with the super hot water from the hot spigot on the machine and it's hot enough that it'll burn my mouth and oh so yummy.
No, we call it vaporware where there isn't a single implementation of it or just one in a lab. We call things alpha or beta when there's been a couple of implementations and then things beta or stable when there are independent reviews confirming the meeting of general requirements.
Anyone who's driven the 101 has seen the Google self driving cars operating remotely, and there are a number of articles about blind people going out and getting take out by themselves in the car, as well as a number of reports from residents in small Nevada towns where Google is testing these.
They might not be ready for prime time, but they are far, far beyond VaporWare.
Doubt it. QNX is far better established & proven. See no reason for cars to switch to Android, when they could use QNX and put on a better UI if the current one is inadequate
Many auto makers have tried that and failed horribly. Then there's having good GPS applications, good radio streamers, etc that you then have to create. I think that's half the drive of using Android; Google is doing most of your software development and the app makers are doing the other 40%. The auto maker is left with a lot less of the workshare and a lot less of that support long tail.