Very true. In fact, I'm volunteering at Kettering University District Event #1 this weekend and the team I mentor will be competing at Kettering University District Event #2 next week.
The FIRST Robotics Competition is why I'm in technology in the first place.
The problem with unsigned time were mentioned by another commenter here. There are medical applications that use signed 32-bit time for patient dates of birth. That's a problem in and of itself since some of those patients were born before December 13, 1901 (back when the software was originally written at least, this isn't a problem anymore). However, there are certainly still people who were born before January 1, 1970 tooling around. For them, you'll need negative numbers to represent dates of birth in UNIX time.
Twenty years ago was 1999, my parents had cell phones in 1999 (on Verizon for that matter). To answer your question though, they probably called parents or people didn't get information at all. I know plenty of information my parents didn't get because of a forgetful child (me).
Google moved a not-insignificant amount of the core Android OS's services into the Google Play Services framework so that it could be updated regularly without requiring vendors to push device OS updates. Most of the resources that you see Google Play Services using on your device is attributable to some other application that is actually calling part of its API. And since most apps call some part of that massive API, it shows up as using a HUGE amount of resources.
I won't comment on your other claims but, I do know that Google moved location services (as well as many other services) from the OS to Google Play Services in order to make them updatable separate from the OS. We've all seen the complaints about Android fragmentation right? There's a reason that most apps will run on any version of Android newer than 4 or 5 now and that's because of the way Google Play Services works in more recent versions of Android.
I currently work with an after school group that, among other things, uses the JDK to help teach high schoolers to build and program a robot. Even our parent group is building an open version of the JDK from scratch for all of the teams to use and separate us from Oracle starting in January.
I think what they're saying is that they'll support Coretto 8 for free until June 2023 but at that point, you need to move on to a newer version of Java/Coretto which should still be free or pay for version 8 support.
A bit of both. First, back when the Internet Protocol was created, there weren't 4 billion people on Earth let alone 4 billion devices that needed to be connected to a network. Secondly, handling and transmitting 128-bit identifiers would have been a bit much for the computers and networks of that era.
So, as I said, very few (if any) people thought the internet would get as big as it is and systems 30 to 40 years ago wouldn't have been able to handle IPv6 the way systems now can.
I read the original Wired article in a waiting room a few weeks ago. He used a 3D scan of his infant daughter as the base for the bots face and, as it improves its abilities, he has it age in appearance as well. So, it started as an infant but, now its a toddler and its still growing up.
When I was a kid, before pre-teens had cell phones, I read books while walking home from school. I had a number of close calls with vehicles when crossing streets while reading Asimov or Clarke. I almost want to take a trip to Honolulu with a few paperbacks just to publicly mock the fact that this legislation doesn't actually fix the problem it tries to fix.
I'm seeing quite a lot of comments complaining about MSPaint going away because it's still useful for them and others noting that other graphics programs are better than MSPaint. All these things are true but, it's not like Microsoft is leaving machines without a graphics editor at all. Paint 3D can do 2D graphics editing. I run an Insider build on one machine and tested it just to be certain before posting. Anything you could do in MSPaint, you can still do in Paint 3D and then some.
What about just forcing the existing companies to share their lines, providing wires or bandwidth at wholesale cost? Well, that's a regulation, and we tried that in the 1990s and the existing companies threw a fit and got it overturned.
I think you just identified the real way to fix this competition issue completely. You simply allowed the signal of this paragraph to get lost in the noise of all the issues with Solandri's solution.
As far as I see it, there are a few ways to fix the issue of broadband competition in the United States. One way is the one we used in the past for the internet to start in the first place. Require the owners of the last mile networks to connect any ISP to customers at wholesale rates. It worked in the past, that's how we ended up with so many DSL providers originally over phone lines and the @Home company (and others) providing cable internet service before the cable companies got into the business themselves.
A second way would ask municipalities to build their own fiber networks that they manage and allow any ISP to connect to that network if they wish to connect to local customers for voice, video, or data service. We trust our local governments with our lives when we trust them to maintain the streets we drive on so, why wouldn't most communities be willing to deal with them maintaining the last mile of a fiber to the home/premises network?
The third way is VERY unlikely but could be done, it would have various State governments use eminent domain on the last mile networks and from there, it would look a lot like option two. The problems here are cost, (my state, Michigan, requires the government to pay 125% of fair market value for any property taken by eminent domain for example) the legal battle that would ensue from such an act and, the fact that effectively nationalizing an industry just feels un-American. Those factors make this solution the least likely of these options.
In short, there are ways to change this lack of competition, but, as they would all require some level of government action counter to the best interests of the large ISP's I can't see it happening anytime soon.
Where I grew up, we were required to take 2 years of a foreign language or 2 years of some form of technical education (in addition to half a year of "using computers" which was effectively a keyboarding class) in high school. The technical education could be computer programming, auto mechanics, wood shop, metal shop, etc. I graduated high school in Flint, MI back in 2003 so it's not like I went to a very well funded school district anytime recently. Hell, my younger brother took a technical design class and learned AutoCAD as a freshman at the same high school a couple years later.
Learning computer languages stimulates the same parts of the brain that learning human languages does and, unless you were going to use it right then, our high school language courses weren't very effective at teaching for retention anyway. I took a foreign language in high school for two years since I had an empty slot and needed an elective to fill it with, I almost never use it so I remember nearly nothing. I definitely remember how to code in Java, even though I only use it for a couple months every year on a specific project.
We have transparent aluminum already, the processes for making it, machining it, and improving its transparency were patented between 1980 and 1993. 1.6 inches of the stuff can stop.50 BMG rounds so it's generally used as transparent armor.
I feel almost prescient in the fact that I converted most of my BTC into goods by making purchases just before 4 AM EST. I made a bit of positive cash flow and didn't end up involved in the crash. It worked out for me.
I'm STILL waiting for the day when the whole keyboard surface is flat-but-springy (like, oh my god, a touchscreen!) so you can type on it, hold a pen on it, or use it as a giant trackpad in the keyboard layout of your choice (numpad or trackpad? Trackpad below and center or off to one side? etc.).
Tech moves SO SLOWLY in this regard until someone spots it after many years and puts out a mass-market device like that and everyone goes "at fucking last".
So, are you talking about the Lenovo Yoga Book that ships Monday? It's effectively a dual screen tablet with the second screen switching from an onscreen keyboard to a writing/drawing/trackpad surface (with an included Wacom pen.) It's being released in two forms, an Android tablet and a Windows 10 machine with identical specs (although the Windows version is $50 more expensive, presumably due to the licensing fee.)
My Charter bill doesn't. I'm considering jumping to Playstation Vue for video service and was examining my bill to see how much the internet service would increase by if I dropped video service ($6/month) and I noticed that there wasn't a modem rental charge (even though there are charges for the two DVR's).
Caffeine is an insecticide, it kills insects that eat too much of the plants leaves (it's bitter too). These bees seem to have built up a tolerance large enough to get the positive effects without dying. Don't forget that a few ounces (few dozen grams) of pure caffeine is enough to kill almost any human.
That's how I vote in Michigan. We've used that system since 2003 without any issues. In fact, the first election I voted in after turning 18 in 2003 (some local school board thing) was the first time my county used this system so, I've never actually voted using the old punch card system we used to have.
My question here is, is the recovery key at least encrypted (by whatever method) with your account password on their servers or is it in the clear to MS? If the latter is true, then that's another reason to use some other method of system encryption. If the former then, yes, it's somewhat troubling that this can't be disabled prior to uploading the key but, it's really not the worst problem.
So, I grew up in Flint and still live in the area (though outside of the city itself now) and I just wanted to provide another viewpoint on this.
Over the last couple decades, Detroit has been raising the rates for water it sells to other communities. Many communities in Genesee county purchased water from Detroit by way of a pipeline owned by the city of Flint. These communities decided that they'd had enough, set up a new water authority, and went about getting state approval to build their own pipeline to Lake Huron for water since, in the long run, it'd be much less expensive than continuing to buy from Detroit. This pipeline is scheduled for completion in June 2016 (it's even slightly ahead of schedule right now due to unseasonably good weather).
The problem with that is, Flint's most recent contract for water from Detroit ran out in April 2014. At that time, both Flint and Detroit were run by Emergency Financial Managers appointed by the Governor and Detroit was in bankruptcy causing a conflict of interest for the state. Did Michigan want to strengthen Detroit's financial position by forcing Flint to continue buying water from them at a dramatically increased rate? Or, did the state allow Flint to switch to the Flint River as a water source for about 27 months to save money? The state, through its financial manager, decided to switch Flint to Flint River water in the interim.
Here is where the real trouble starts. There's evidence that the state informed Flint's mayor about the need for testing and possibly the adding of anti-corrosives to the water to keep it from leaching lead from pipework but, this information wasn't given to the EFM (who was actually in both executive and legislative control at the time) and it seems strange that said information wouldn't also be sent to whoever was running the actual water system. As I said before, I don't live in the city anymore so I don't tend to watch its politics all that closely now but, I do know that the city council voted to reconnect to Detroit's water system after Detroit made a more sensible offer concerning the price of said connection but, the vote was ignored by the EFM. The mayor at the time was voted out of office last month, primarily over this debacle, and I heard from my brother that the new mayor was on MSNBC last night talking about this situation.
In the meantime, Flint has reconnected to Detroit for its water supply (which they have to pay even more for since they sold the connecting pipeline to the county since the surrounding communities never switched away from Detroit in the first place), rates have gone up (my mother's bill tops $100 every month with minimal usage), and everybody is hoping that the city's water infrastructure wasn't too damaged by the corrosive river water since Flint's treatment plant is supposed to be used for everyone once the pipeline is finished.
Just to break your attempt to break his analogy, some school districts (mine was one of them) do teach drivers education on an opt-in basis. In fact, when I took it, (summer of 2000) it was free to any student in the district who was old enough.
You do know why the Galaxy Nexus isn't being supported anymore right? It has a TI OMAP processor and TI decided to stop supporting their CPU's when they stopped manufacturing them. Me (and the toroplus I'm using to listen to music right now) don't really like it much but, without support from the processor manufacturer to optimize drivers you can end up with a suboptimal experience. I'm using a 4.4 ROM right now and it's just not as fast as the last 4.3 update.
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Very true. In fact, I'm volunteering at Kettering University District Event #1 this weekend and the team I mentor will be competing at Kettering University District Event #2 next week. The FIRST Robotics Competition is why I'm in technology in the first place.
The problem with unsigned time were mentioned by another commenter here. There are medical applications that use signed 32-bit time for patient dates of birth. That's a problem in and of itself since some of those patients were born before December 13, 1901 (back when the software was originally written at least, this isn't a problem anymore). However, there are certainly still people who were born before January 1, 1970 tooling around. For them, you'll need negative numbers to represent dates of birth in UNIX time.
Twenty years ago was 1999, my parents had cell phones in 1999 (on Verizon for that matter). To answer your question though, they probably called parents or people didn't get information at all. I know plenty of information my parents didn't get because of a forgetful child (me).
Google moved a not-insignificant amount of the core Android OS's services into the Google Play Services framework so that it could be updated regularly without requiring vendors to push device OS updates. Most of the resources that you see Google Play Services using on your device is attributable to some other application that is actually calling part of its API. And since most apps call some part of that massive API, it shows up as using a HUGE amount of resources.
I won't comment on your other claims but, I do know that Google moved location services (as well as many other services) from the OS to Google Play Services in order to make them updatable separate from the OS. We've all seen the complaints about Android fragmentation right? There's a reason that most apps will run on any version of Android newer than 4 or 5 now and that's because of the way Google Play Services works in more recent versions of Android.
I currently work with an after school group that, among other things, uses the JDK to help teach high schoolers to build and program a robot. Even our parent group is building an open version of the JDK from scratch for all of the teams to use and separate us from Oracle starting in January.
I think what they're saying is that they'll support Coretto 8 for free until June 2023 but at that point, you need to move on to a newer version of Java/Coretto which should still be free or pay for version 8 support.
The battery won't last seven years. Until we have better energy storage technology, three makes much more sense.
A bit of both. First, back when the Internet Protocol was created, there weren't 4 billion people on Earth let alone 4 billion devices that needed to be connected to a network. Secondly, handling and transmitting 128-bit identifiers would have been a bit much for the computers and networks of that era.
So, as I said, very few (if any) people thought the internet would get as big as it is and systems 30 to 40 years ago wouldn't have been able to handle IPv6 the way systems now can.
I read the original Wired article in a waiting room a few weeks ago. He used a 3D scan of his infant daughter as the base for the bots face and, as it improves its abilities, he has it age in appearance as well. So, it started as an infant but, now its a toddler and its still growing up.
When I was a kid, before pre-teens had cell phones, I read books while walking home from school. I had a number of close calls with vehicles when crossing streets while reading Asimov or Clarke. I almost want to take a trip to Honolulu with a few paperbacks just to publicly mock the fact that this legislation doesn't actually fix the problem it tries to fix.
I'm seeing quite a lot of comments complaining about MSPaint going away because it's still useful for them and others noting that other graphics programs are better than MSPaint. All these things are true but, it's not like Microsoft is leaving machines without a graphics editor at all. Paint 3D can do 2D graphics editing. I run an Insider build on one machine and tested it just to be certain before posting. Anything you could do in MSPaint, you can still do in Paint 3D and then some.
What about just forcing the existing companies to share their lines, providing wires or bandwidth at wholesale cost? Well, that's a regulation, and we tried that in the 1990s and the existing companies threw a fit and got it overturned.
I think you just identified the real way to fix this competition issue completely. You simply allowed the signal of this paragraph to get lost in the noise of all the issues with Solandri's solution.
As far as I see it, there are a few ways to fix the issue of broadband competition in the United States. One way is the one we used in the past for the internet to start in the first place. Require the owners of the last mile networks to connect any ISP to customers at wholesale rates. It worked in the past, that's how we ended up with so many DSL providers originally over phone lines and the @Home company (and others) providing cable internet service before the cable companies got into the business themselves.
A second way would ask municipalities to build their own fiber networks that they manage and allow any ISP to connect to that network if they wish to connect to local customers for voice, video, or data service. We trust our local governments with our lives when we trust them to maintain the streets we drive on so, why wouldn't most communities be willing to deal with them maintaining the last mile of a fiber to the home/premises network?
The third way is VERY unlikely but could be done, it would have various State governments use eminent domain on the last mile networks and from there, it would look a lot like option two. The problems here are cost, (my state, Michigan, requires the government to pay 125% of fair market value for any property taken by eminent domain for example) the legal battle that would ensue from such an act and, the fact that effectively nationalizing an industry just feels un-American. Those factors make this solution the least likely of these options.
In short, there are ways to change this lack of competition, but, as they would all require some level of government action counter to the best interests of the large ISP's I can't see it happening anytime soon.
Where I grew up, we were required to take 2 years of a foreign language or 2 years of some form of technical education (in addition to half a year of "using computers" which was effectively a keyboarding class) in high school. The technical education could be computer programming, auto mechanics, wood shop, metal shop, etc. I graduated high school in Flint, MI back in 2003 so it's not like I went to a very well funded school district anytime recently. Hell, my younger brother took a technical design class and learned AutoCAD as a freshman at the same high school a couple years later.
Learning computer languages stimulates the same parts of the brain that learning human languages does and, unless you were going to use it right then, our high school language courses weren't very effective at teaching for retention anyway. I took a foreign language in high school for two years since I had an empty slot and needed an elective to fill it with, I almost never use it so I remember nearly nothing. I definitely remember how to code in Java, even though I only use it for a couple months every year on a specific project.
We have transparent aluminum already, the processes for making it, machining it, and improving its transparency were patented between 1980 and 1993. 1.6 inches of the stuff can stop .50 BMG rounds so it's generally used as transparent armor.
I feel almost prescient in the fact that I converted most of my BTC into goods by making purchases just before 4 AM EST. I made a bit of positive cash flow and didn't end up involved in the crash. It worked out for me.
I'm STILL waiting for the day when the whole keyboard surface is flat-but-springy (like, oh my god, a touchscreen!) so you can type on it, hold a pen on it, or use it as a giant trackpad in the keyboard layout of your choice (numpad or trackpad? Trackpad below and center or off to one side? etc.).
Tech moves SO SLOWLY in this regard until someone spots it after many years and puts out a mass-market device like that and everyone goes "at fucking last".
So, are you talking about the Lenovo Yoga Book that ships Monday? It's effectively a dual screen tablet with the second screen switching from an onscreen keyboard to a writing/drawing/trackpad surface (with an included Wacom pen.) It's being released in two forms, an Android tablet and a Windows 10 machine with identical specs (although the Windows version is $50 more expensive, presumably due to the licensing fee.)
My Charter bill doesn't. I'm considering jumping to Playstation Vue for video service and was examining my bill to see how much the internet service would increase by if I dropped video service ($6/month) and I noticed that there wasn't a modem rental charge (even though there are charges for the two DVR's).
Caffeine is an insecticide, it kills insects that eat too much of the plants leaves (it's bitter too). These bees seem to have built up a tolerance large enough to get the positive effects without dying. Don't forget that a few ounces (few dozen grams) of pure caffeine is enough to kill almost any human.
That's how I vote in Michigan. We've used that system since 2003 without any issues. In fact, the first election I voted in after turning 18 in 2003 (some local school board thing) was the first time my county used this system so, I've never actually voted using the old punch card system we used to have.
My question here is, is the recovery key at least encrypted (by whatever method) with your account password on their servers or is it in the clear to MS? If the latter is true, then that's another reason to use some other method of system encryption. If the former then, yes, it's somewhat troubling that this can't be disabled prior to uploading the key but, it's really not the worst problem.
So, I grew up in Flint and still live in the area (though outside of the city itself now) and I just wanted to provide another viewpoint on this.
Over the last couple decades, Detroit has been raising the rates for water it sells to other communities. Many communities in Genesee county purchased water from Detroit by way of a pipeline owned by the city of Flint. These communities decided that they'd had enough, set up a new water authority, and went about getting state approval to build their own pipeline to Lake Huron for water since, in the long run, it'd be much less expensive than continuing to buy from Detroit. This pipeline is scheduled for completion in June 2016 (it's even slightly ahead of schedule right now due to unseasonably good weather).
The problem with that is, Flint's most recent contract for water from Detroit ran out in April 2014. At that time, both Flint and Detroit were run by Emergency Financial Managers appointed by the Governor and Detroit was in bankruptcy causing a conflict of interest for the state. Did Michigan want to strengthen Detroit's financial position by forcing Flint to continue buying water from them at a dramatically increased rate? Or, did the state allow Flint to switch to the Flint River as a water source for about 27 months to save money? The state, through its financial manager, decided to switch Flint to Flint River water in the interim.
Here is where the real trouble starts. There's evidence that the state informed Flint's mayor about the need for testing and possibly the adding of anti-corrosives to the water to keep it from leaching lead from pipework but, this information wasn't given to the EFM (who was actually in both executive and legislative control at the time) and it seems strange that said information wouldn't also be sent to whoever was running the actual water system. As I said before, I don't live in the city anymore so I don't tend to watch its politics all that closely now but, I do know that the city council voted to reconnect to Detroit's water system after Detroit made a more sensible offer concerning the price of said connection but, the vote was ignored by the EFM. The mayor at the time was voted out of office last month, primarily over this debacle, and I heard from my brother that the new mayor was on MSNBC last night talking about this situation.
In the meantime, Flint has reconnected to Detroit for its water supply (which they have to pay even more for since they sold the connecting pipeline to the county since the surrounding communities never switched away from Detroit in the first place), rates have gone up (my mother's bill tops $100 every month with minimal usage), and everybody is hoping that the city's water infrastructure wasn't too damaged by the corrosive river water since Flint's treatment plant is supposed to be used for everyone once the pipeline is finished.
If you have dozens or hundreds of tabs in one process you may indeed use over 2 GB of RAM in a web browser.
Just to break your attempt to break his analogy, some school districts (mine was one of them) do teach drivers education on an opt-in basis. In fact, when I took it, (summer of 2000) it was free to any student in the district who was old enough.
You do know why the Galaxy Nexus isn't being supported anymore right? It has a TI OMAP processor and TI decided to stop supporting their CPU's when they stopped manufacturing them. Me (and the toroplus I'm using to listen to music right now) don't really like it much but, without support from the processor manufacturer to optimize drivers you can end up with a suboptimal experience. I'm using a 4.4 ROM right now and it's just not as fast as the last 4.3 update.