APRS is an amateur radio technology that uses AX.25 to report the position of objects, the weather, send and receive emails and messages, communicate with satellites, and so forth. Coverage is pretty good inside the USA and Canada, with other nations adding capability and more users every year. Devices range from tiny thumb-sized trackers to handheld transceivers and larger radios which implement messaging and location reporting.
Of course you have to be a ham to use this technology, but once you are, there is no monthly fee nor is there a commercial service to rely upon, as all the infrastructure is provided by other amateurs for free. So get out there, get your license, and join the party!
No, V8 no one. That is yet another stillborn technology that Google shat out for reasons which have nothing to do with advancing e state of the art, and everything to do with wanting to keep more of their sheckels.
"1 billion activated android devices and counting."
Who knows what this actually even means? Shit, half of them have been thrown away already, and of the other half most are simply just phones that spy on you. Another good way to make some geld, but nothing remarkable here.
Typical Google droid. Google's finished, their search has been poisoned for years, and there's nothing really of value to users except free web mail that spies on you.
Why not just release Mathematica for the home users too? There are hundreds of millions of potential users out there who would love to have Mathematica for non-commercial use on their home computers. It would benefit Wolfram tremendously to have such a huge user base that knows his software, instead of just a fraction of anoraks that happen to work in universities or as engineers.
If it's the full Mathematica on Pi, though, I'd probably have to buy one just for that. The home version is several hundred bucks, which is too much for something that I'd just be puttering around with.
I guess you, like most Obamacare supporters, never heard of Medicaid. We have had a free health plan for people who can't afford insurance for decades.
We could have simply opened the program to more people, and raised corporate taxes by a percent or two, but the goal of Obamacare isn't affordable health care - it's government control.
I didn't throw my hands up and say "it's impossible" I put my foot down and said "it's stupid."
And it is stupid. Every bit of this idea reeks of stupidity. It's just about the dumbest thing I ever heard, and I've heard a lot of stupid shit from futurist types.
Once Google's auto-car, which they admit they have been taking on illegal joyrides in public, kills its first victim you can kiss this idea goodbye. Humans do not need auto-piloting cars, we have trains that can take cargo to 95% of the places that long-haul trucks can go.
I don't want to be positive about stupid ideas. That's just silly and useless.
Robot cars sound neat and everything for a 20-something Google employee, but they are both impractical and undesirable for the rest of us for several reasons.
Many people like to drive on rarely-if-ever maintained roads in the back country. Driving on snow and ice is easy if you are skilled at it, and often must take into account your judgment of road conditions several hundred feet in front of the vehicle's current condition.
Bugs, glitches, hacking, all of these would decrease the reliability of a robot car. Reliance upon radar sounds great but there are many potential sources for interference there.
For people in the country, it doesn't make sense, and for people in the city, there are usually buses and trains already.
"In criminal law, entrapment is conduct by a law enforcement agent inducing a person to commit an offense that the person would otherwise have been unlikely to commit."
The evidence is that these researchers aren't law enforcement agents. Hence, not entrapment.
If you're not already aware of this, the CPUSA branched out in the early part of the 20th Century, and in order to gain more mainstream support (the word "communism" being poison) called themselves Progressives and declared themselves the extreme left of the Democratic party. Progressive Democrats are indeed spiritual Communists, donning a cloak that hides their true intentions.
Anyway I do know what Obama supporters are: people who think they have more right to my money than I do, and who think they know what's best for me better than I do. Classic Commie bullshit.
"Their global smart phone market share is around 80% and in some markets it's even higher."
That's not even remotely true. According to some estimates (Google's not saying how many Android phones actually sold into consumer hands and neither are most of their partners) Androids accounted for 80% or so of the global smartphone sales in the 3rd quarter of 2013, but this isn't the same as 80% of the global smartphone market. Wikipedia's usage statistics paint a totally different story, with 2/3rds of all their mobile traffic coming from Apple devices. Incidentally Apple's the only smartphone company that actually says how many of its phones are sold to actual customers.
In any event, regulators are unlikely to even both with this at this time because it's clear that there is plenty of competition in the marketplace according to most reasonable standards.
Somebody dig old Milton Friedman up and explain "need" to this nitwit. Also, I'm sure that Larry actually enslaved the Oracle employees, rather than fairly compensating them for their time.
Obama supporters / communists / progressive liberals (same things) are so stupid. It reminds me of something that one of the early American correspondents (and closet commie) in the newly-formed Soviet Union said: "Isn't it wonderful that everybody is equally shabby?"
They know they don't have any power, so they choose to "vote" in a non-binding resolution. Larry must be really scared now!
The guy built that company up from a two-bit hole in the wall operation into one of the largest computer empires known to man. He could fairly ask for a billion bucks a year as a salary and he would deserve it all!
I don't like Oracle and think their products are suck-ass bloatware, but Larry Ellison made that company. He should be able to profit from it to his heart's content! Plus he likes to play with toys all the time. Wouldn't you just say "fuck all" and go sailing for a while if you had billions of dollars in net worth?
What kind of place doesn't have a piddly "$3k+ RIP upgrade"? That sort of shit pays for itself in a week. The other option is simply getting a workstation with Photoshop and converting customer files manually, which is the road most two-bit operations take.
It's really not an issue unless you're talking about serious legacy junk, half-assed regional newspapers from Bumfuck, AR and suchlike, and those guys don't give a shit about accurate color anyway.
Your first mistake is using "exclusively linux/FOSS" when you need an OS that implements good color profiling. Unfortunately, Windows sucks at this (despite what some shills will say) and it doesn't even exist in a workable form in X, so the Mac is about your only option if you care about accurate color.
CMYK has nothing to do with this, any decent output device these days will do RGB / LAB / HSV to CMYK conversion on the fly.
Governments and corporations always had "our" tubes. The Internet was a US DOD project, which then became popular with universities (government run mainly) and some high tech companies, and eventually the phone companies started selling bandwidth to small ISPs, and later joined in the fun themselves.
It's total revisionism to claim that somehow "our" tubes were taken over by the government and corporations. It seems unlikely that you could come up with a more backwards, incorrect view of the history of the net.
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APRS is an amateur radio technology that uses AX.25 to report the position of objects, the weather, send and receive emails and messages, communicate with satellites, and so forth. Coverage is pretty good inside the USA and Canada, with other nations adding capability and more users every year. Devices range from tiny thumb-sized trackers to handheld transceivers and larger radios which implement messaging and location reporting.
Of course you have to be a ham to use this technology, but once you are, there is no monthly fee nor is there a commercial service to rely upon, as all the infrastructure is provided by other amateurs for free. So get out there, get your license, and join the party!
"V8 anyone?"
No, V8 no one. That is yet another stillborn technology that Google shat out for reasons which have nothing to do with advancing e state of the art, and everything to do with wanting to keep more of their sheckels.
"1 billion activated android devices and counting."
Who knows what this actually even means? Shit, half of them have been thrown away already, and of the other half most are simply just phones that spy on you. Another good way to make some geld, but nothing remarkable here.
Typical Google droid. Google's finished, their search has been poisoned for years, and there's nothing really of value to users except free web mail that spies on you.
Why not just release Mathematica for the home users too? There are hundreds of millions of potential users out there who would love to have Mathematica for non-commercial use on their home computers. It would benefit Wolfram tremendously to have such a huge user base that knows his software, instead of just a fraction of anoraks that happen to work in universities or as engineers.
If it's the full Mathematica on Pi, though, I'd probably have to buy one just for that. The home version is several hundred bucks, which is too much for something that I'd just be puttering around with.
I guess you, like most Obamacare supporters, never heard of Medicaid. We have had a free health plan for people who can't afford insurance for decades.
We could have simply opened the program to more people, and raised corporate taxes by a percent or two, but the goal of Obamacare isn't affordable health care - it's government control.
Let's see, he *does* have the personality of a damp rag and the appearance of a low grade bank clerk.
Most hard drives these days are rated for a 500G shock when powered down. The actual PS4 would be in tiny fragments before the hard drive was damaged.
You're also a member of the DART team and a Google employee no doubt! Hooray for AstroTurf!
I hope this counts toward your ten posts per week quota.
Gosh I thought I had seen the end of these. How much does it cost to get a front page video Slashvertisement?
Slashdot's decline is almost as wretched as Microsoft's.
You shouldn't have to reboot a Linux box because of a memory leak in software, killing and restarting the process always does the trick.
I guess if you're a Windows admin thrust into this unfamiliar world you stick with what you know, though. Kind of a knee-jerk reaction.
I didn't throw my hands up and say "it's impossible" I put my foot down and said "it's stupid."
And it is stupid. Every bit of this idea reeks of stupidity. It's just about the dumbest thing I ever heard, and I've heard a lot of stupid shit from futurist types.
Once Google's auto-car, which they admit they have been taking on illegal joyrides in public, kills its first victim you can kiss this idea goodbye. Humans do not need auto-piloting cars, we have trains that can take cargo to 95% of the places that long-haul trucks can go.
I don't want to be positive about stupid ideas. That's just silly and useless.
Robot cars sound neat and everything for a 20-something Google employee, but they are both impractical and undesirable for the rest of us for several reasons.
Many people like to drive on rarely-if-ever maintained roads in the back country. Driving on snow and ice is easy if you are skilled at it, and often must take into account your judgment of road conditions several hundred feet in front of the vehicle's current condition.
Bugs, glitches, hacking, all of these would decrease the reliability of a robot car. Reliance upon radar sounds great but there are many potential sources for interference there.
For people in the country, it doesn't make sense, and for people in the city, there are usually buses and trains already.
"In criminal law, entrapment is conduct by a law enforcement agent inducing a person to commit an offense that the person would otherwise have been unlikely to commit."
The evidence is that these researchers aren't law enforcement agents. Hence, not entrapment.
Well done, a tour de force, this year's blockbuster, one to beat, something to show the grandchildren.
If you're not already aware of this, the CPUSA branched out in the early part of the 20th Century, and in order to gain more mainstream support (the word "communism" being poison) called themselves Progressives and declared themselves the extreme left of the Democratic party. Progressive Democrats are indeed spiritual Communists, donning a cloak that hides their true intentions.
Anyway I do know what Obama supporters are: people who think they have more right to my money than I do, and who think they know what's best for me better than I do. Classic Commie bullshit.
"Their global smart phone market share is around 80% and in some markets it's even higher."
That's not even remotely true. According to some estimates (Google's not saying how many Android phones actually sold into consumer hands and neither are most of their partners) Androids accounted for 80% or so of the global smartphone sales in the 3rd quarter of 2013, but this isn't the same as 80% of the global smartphone market. Wikipedia's usage statistics paint a totally different story, with 2/3rds of all their mobile traffic coming from Apple devices. Incidentally Apple's the only smartphone company that actually says how many of its phones are sold to actual customers.
In any event, regulators are unlikely to even both with this at this time because it's clear that there is plenty of competition in the marketplace according to most reasonable standards.
Somebody dig old Milton Friedman up and explain "need" to this nitwit. Also, I'm sure that Larry actually enslaved the Oracle employees, rather than fairly compensating them for their time.
Obama supporters / communists / progressive liberals (same things) are so stupid. It reminds me of something that one of the early American correspondents (and closet commie) in the newly-formed Soviet Union said: "Isn't it wonderful that everybody is equally shabby?"
They know they don't have any power, so they choose to "vote" in a non-binding resolution. Larry must be really scared now!
The guy built that company up from a two-bit hole in the wall operation into one of the largest computer empires known to man. He could fairly ask for a billion bucks a year as a salary and he would deserve it all!
I don't like Oracle and think their products are suck-ass bloatware, but Larry Ellison made that company. He should be able to profit from it to his heart's content! Plus he likes to play with toys all the time. Wouldn't you just say "fuck all" and go sailing for a while if you had billions of dollars in net worth?
He's implying that iAMT and vPro are both hardware backdoors inserted by Intel at the behest of the NSA.
And I think it's pretty obvious to any person who takes a look at these things, that their main function is surveillance.
What kind of place doesn't have a piddly "$3k+ RIP upgrade"? That sort of shit pays for itself in a week. The other option is simply getting a workstation with Photoshop and converting customer files manually, which is the road most two-bit operations take.
It's really not an issue unless you're talking about serious legacy junk, half-assed regional newspapers from Bumfuck, AR and suchlike, and those guys don't give a shit about accurate color anyway.
Your first mistake is using "exclusively linux/FOSS" when you need an OS that implements good color profiling. Unfortunately, Windows sucks at this (despite what some shills will say) and it doesn't even exist in a workable form in X, so the Mac is about your only option if you care about accurate color.
CMYK has nothing to do with this, any decent output device these days will do RGB / LAB / HSV to CMYK conversion on the fly.
Oh come on, they probably accelerated their download with the Adobe Download Manager.
No need to go back to the 60s, just back to the late 90s / early 2000s when the process was likely too large to include large chunks of hidden logic.
The "investigations" into Climategate were mostly an attempt to vindicate the AGW theory by presenting them as merely venting steam.
I suppose "redefining the meaning of peer review" is OK as long as it is done by the side you happen to agree with.
Anybody who actually read the emails sees how damning they are to the team at the CRU.
I think they meant to say that the first RECOVERED bone tools were used by neanderthals.
After all, lack of evidence of bone tools is not evidence of the lack of them.
Governments and corporations always had "our" tubes. The Internet was a US DOD project, which then became popular with universities (government run mainly) and some high tech companies, and eventually the phone companies started selling bandwidth to small ISPs, and later joined in the fun themselves.
It's total revisionism to claim that somehow "our" tubes were taken over by the government and corporations. It seems unlikely that you could come up with a more backwards, incorrect view of the history of the net.