Comment Hackers? (Score 3, Insightful) 89
Given the negative connotations of the word "hackers" - how about "dedicated engineers" instead?
Given the negative connotations of the word "hackers" - how about "dedicated engineers" instead?
This is how 'cablevision' used to work. They'd put up a big antenna that could pull down signals you couldn't
There is a huge difference: Cablevision put up *one* antenna and used that signal for thousands of users. Hence, public performance.
Aereo rents each individual user their own, private antenna. (Yes, if they have 10,000 subscribers, they have 10,000 antennas). Hence this is NOT a public performance; you are only watching what your own, private, rented equipment is receiving.
Linksys has working wireless drivers; the product ships with them. The only problem is the lawyers who won't open source those drivers.
It would take them a few seconds to just post the sources that the router ships with to their web site; there is no *technical* reason for the delay, they are just refusing to do so, even after promising that they would.
Quality bridge cameras ($300+ models) also have the ability to mimic a narrow depth of field.
If you have a real camera and lens, just shoot with the lens wide open and fast shutter speed; you'll have a narrow depth of field with no computer wizardry needed.
Why would I want to ruin large parts of a good image with this effect?
It's for camera phones: crappy, non-adjustable lens and cheap, noisy sensor. So it isn't a good image; deliberately blurring the picture can distract you from the fact that it is *not* a good image.
So, kid gathers evidence of bullying by other kids, gets charged?
When bullies grow up, they become policemen. The police protect their own.
Why satire? Given the current smartphone - is the prediction far off? Sure, the screen can do graphics *and* text, the keyboard is usually on-screen, and the removable storage is flash instead of floppy - but the basics are all there.
Plus, everyone is saying that the smartwatch is the 'future of wearable computing' - if true, the Byte prediction will be even closer to the truth.
They had me until "Silicon Valley".
They aren't building a computer - they are building a car first, an airplane second, with some computer bits inside it. So why choose some of the world's most expensive real estate? Why put your engineering far, far away from any place you could test the flying capabilities?
In several states (Colorado, Connecticut, for example) it is perfectly legal to drink a beer while driving.
Sadly, of course, there are many people who cannot drive safely even if they are not eating/drinking/phoning/etc - they are just bad drivers. And if they cause an accident, it will get written up in the papers as "lost control of their vehicle" and they will generally not be charged with anything. That needs to change too.
No... I believe the gaming all happens at the boarding gate. You're not allowed on the plane until you get a perfect score on the emergency testing.
In other news: airlines have banned everyone over the age of 40 from ever flying again.
"the much-maligned Google goggles"
They aren't maligned as a working tool; they're maligned as a geek toy.
Wearing a welding helmet while welding? OK. Wearing a welding helmet to the local bar? Expect some ridicule.
$1,995 for a laptop??
How does an open-source machine cost so much more than a closed, proprietary one sold by a for-profit corporation?
A D-shaped connector - instead of a square one - would not have cost any more, and would have eliminated a LOT of frustration over the past 18 years.
I wish people would stop using data ports and data cables for charging things.
This. NASA is not a political body and should not act like one.
If an anti-science President gets elected in 2016, will the world refuse to stop working with the USA? If they did, wouldn't we be upset?
Russia didn't refuse to work with the USA when America invaded Iraq, did they?
Chemist who falls in acid is absorbed in work.
