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I junked (binned, for you who speak English) my TV in 1997; I hadn't much used it since 1993 anyway. This sort of an article makes me glad I did so, though I'll grant that my library is more expensive than a Smart TV.
On the other hand, books don't stop working when the Net goes down – or the power goes out.
If only I'd gone into a different field of electronics! I was 11 or 12 when a very perceptive young teacher, noting I had turned in an essay on using something like a cathode Ray tube for propulsion in space, had me talk to the Seventh Grade science class about ion propulsion. If-only department: if only I'd been steered to something other than radio when my home-made "rail-gun" stuck steel ball bearings into my bedroom wall! But no, Dad and the landlord had to buy me a radio kit. Heh!
Some years ago, I interviewed with a New York transportation agency for an engineering position. It was a very strange interview, with the interviewer doing everything he could to discourage me from applying for work there; it quickly became obvious the reason for the interview was not that they thought me a good candidate, but that they had to reject a certain number of applicants in order to be allowed to bring in the Japanese engineer a seller of railcars insisted be included in the deal.
Blame 16:9 screens being cheaper due to the large number made for HDTV. But you're on-target about the utility of a sufficiently high-resolution wide display; I use a Dell 6410 with one and no longer need two monitors to accommodate all the windows I need open at the same time.
My original ($884 in 1984) Model 100 was still working as of some time last year, and a 102; I have a Model 200 as well, and that one I actually used while I was being laid off in 2001. I'm not saying I use it now, and I only used it then to poke fun at another engineer in our layoff group, whose clamshell Apple laptop was only good for a couple of hours on its battery.
The Model 100's, 102's, and 200's could typically get 40 hours on one set of penlight batteries.
I also have an expanded Model 100 with 96 kB of available memory. Using it is like having three different Model 100s with 32 kB each.
A US firm I won't name sold laptop computers to a news organization quite a few years ago, and ended up in court when that organization bought the wrong overseas power adapters.
Apparently working on the "cheaper is better, who needs to read the instructions?" theory, the organization bought 220/240 to 110/120 VAC adapters for resistive devices - irons, hair dryers and the like - instead of transformer based adapters meant for electronic applications. As I recall, there was at least one fire due to the decision.
We are today asking the court for a warrant to search the GPS history of Hargli bin Tawkin, and others as yet unnamed.
Yes, sir.
Extremists are relying less on the Internet and e-mail to pass plans, schedules and target data to each other. Conspirators now avoid email because post-Snowden, they know we read it; we've lost track of a number of cell's lately simply because they meet personally in places they're unlikely to attract attention. Location metadata from cellphones has already let us connect the dots in several cases,and GPS manufacturer databases will extend our ability to follow to terrorists to their headquarters before they can strike.
In a more physical manner, we are asking the Court to allow coded graphite nanoparticles to be placed in writing instruments, so we can use laser fluorescence to follow people who leave cryptic Post-It notes on public bulletin boards.
Yessir; we'll track them by the lead in their pencils, ha ha.
Thank you, Your Honor.
... are disgusted. Heck. I've glued together free-flight balsa gliders heavy enough to require registration*, and I suspect this will result in a temporary injunction until all the conflicting regulations (say, tethered flight - there's already an FAA exemption for that) and law sorted out, IDEALLY, common sense can take over. Good luck.
*Give or sell any heavy enough "model airplane" capable of sustained flight and that that transaction has to be reported as well.
Oh, that kinetic-energy-derived standard? What about the traditional "half brick inna sock?" Or a ladies handbag?
Fun.
WRT "No Party shall require the transfer of, or access to, source code of software owned by a person of another Party, as a condition for the import, distribution, sale, or use of such software" then, if it means what it says, it prevents looking at the source code to detect (for example) BIOS malware, backdoors and other interesting stuff.
"Through the wall" active ultra-wide-band microwave sensing has been permitted only to police and public safety agencies on privacy grounds. Considering that much of what UWB does can be accomplished with (basically) a few extra antennas and some software, this could could break even that slight protection.
O, rave new whirled, that had such critters in it.
- Spl Czhkcr
I don't much care about leap seconds when I reset a cuckoo clock from Daylight time.
"measure it with a micrometer, mark it with chalk, and cut it with an axe"
Anyone who leaves his accounting and management programs vulnerable to one second errors deserves what happens. If you INSIST on mm accuracy from a bloke with a spade you may find he's accurate enough to lay it, as we say here, up alongside your head.