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The frameworks pretty much all have a policy decision that "unsuported" browsers will be disabled rather than partly-enabled. When you get that "upgrade your browser" message, it's determined by the framework in use, and happens when (for security reasons), the framework in use has been upgraded to the latest version.
Your telephone ran on a current loop, and could be several miles from the nearest exchange. Telegraphs ran hundreds of miles without repeaters. The same kind of technology ran refineries and oil wells, with control circuits instead of telephone handsets. Technology to do remote process control and remote communication has existed since the earliest days of electricity. RS232 is special in that it was specifically designed for short lengths rather than "normal" distances, but the technology to connect short RS232 lengths to each other existed before RS232 itself.
The way liability flows in these cases, each defendant found partly responsible for the loss is individually responsible for the whole judgement ('jointly and severally')
So if Google is found 0.5% liable, their insurance could still be paying a large lump sum. If it's a privately maintained public road (as happens in some parts of some states), there may not be any other money to pay the other 99.5%, and Google could be up for the lot.
I've had to deal with infected computers over the years. It's entirely reasonable to use a web interface for some apps, including system components, and it's entirely reasonable to lock down the interface for some of those system components. You click on the MS 'help' button for MS help on MS system apps, you get the MS help in the MS browser. The failing there is the MS help, not the MS browser.....
But MS did head off in the wrong direction: this has never been a feature of Apple products that everybody liked, and, unlike Apple, MS was fighting a history of being an open platform.
And by "heading off in the wrong direction" I really do mean they got into the swamps: I was using a "canary" build of Edge that saved Edge shortcuts on the desktop instead of Hyperlink shortcuts: in spite of the obvious security and usability justifications, that became a reason for not using Edge, which in the end is not the direction even MS wanted.
MS at the time was clearly operating as a number of separate silos. That may, perhaps, have been related to the stack ranking system: in any case the teams were obviously competing rather than working to a common goal. This showed up in other areas as well: MS office was built for compatibility with SQL Server 7, and the required functionality was destroyed for SQL Server 2000.
December 2020 (after the start of COVID), the "Institute For Government" recommended that:
• The prime minister and secretaries of state should prioritise developing strong working relationships with their scientific advisers, including through inductions and planning exercises.
• The government should strengthen science capability across the civil service, including by ensuring departmental chief scientific advisers have sufficient clout and resources.
I think this is part of the response -- they are trying to strengthen science capability across the civil service -- but it doesn't address the power or influence of scientific advisors -- it's still the same law/commerce/classics management class, upskilled so that they can do better at ignoring the boffins.
Hoover was never a populist president: calling him a "disaster" is just Democrat partisanship. His inability to control congress was partly due to not being a demagog, but it's shear fantasy to suppose that a Democrat leader, even Roosevelt, would have been able to do better with that (Republican, fiscally conservative) congress.
Although it is common ground that he was not a successful president, it's not easy to see how anybody else could have been more successful in that position. Different, yes, successful, no. He was pre-Keynesian like Roosevelt, but he wasn't populist like Roosevelt, and he was saddled with the start of the Great Depression, which he did not cause. His economic and foreign policies, where he was able to implement them were good.
It's possible to argue that Presidents should be career politicians, rather than self-made millionaires or technocrats, without calling Hoover a 'disaster'.
The association is made up of commercial companies that test for money. They don't go around randomly testing devices: you have to pay real money to get testing done. The governments generally have no ability to test and no process for doing so: the regulations provide that you have to initiate and pay for your own testing. Once the allegations have been made, the enforcement arms of government have budget for testing, but it's not something that happens automatically.
Who triggered this investigation? That's a human interest and commercial warfare story that would be fun to read.
You get your stuff tested by a certified tester, you submit/hold/certify the test results, you sell the product. Governments don't go around randomly testing devices for compliance: they don't even have that capability.
Somebody must have made the allegation that the device was not in compliance: somebody must have been investigating compliance or doing design comparisons.
Standards are primarily created by commercial interests, so it's never surprising to see attempts at evasion and enforcement: enforcement is triggered by commercial interests or by commercially funded "astroturf" grass-roots campaigns.
Apple has "woes", but somewhere, somebody is celebrating.
Door height in the A320 is around 6' 1'' -- 1854 mm. Some of us have to duck to get in. On the 777 its 6' 2" -- 1880. I still have to duck, but that extra inch is welcome.
Wide-body jets have a wider, flatter tube. That means there is less difference between the aisle height and the clearance height at the window.
My memory is that on the 777 I didn't have to crouch as much to get into the seat, as I do on the A320.
The most irritating thing about using Edge is the way Google (gmail and search) keeps trying to ram Chrome down my throat.
I use Bing search in Edge unless I actually need to find something. Then I switch to Google (which pops up dialog suggesting I switch to Chrome).
Bing is OK if I see something in the top 5 results. I does tend to return pages and pages of hits from the same source, which is never what I want to see.
A battery has to have that temperature maintained constantly by external means, which requires expending energy for the entire time it's in storage.
Yes, with an IC engine, unless you keep your lead-acid battery fully charged, it will freeze at -20C. There are drivers who have to deal with temperatures below -20C. At those temperatures, you do need to act differently (including leaving your block heater on all night). That isn't a problem that is unique to EV vehicles.
Yes, resistance increases with low temperatures. So the batteries warm up in use.
FWIW, they try to keep the battery below 55C. Over the working temperature range, cold ambient temperatures help keep the battery cool.
There is a significant decrease in range if you are running the Air Conditioning and Seat Heater to keep warm. That isn't a 'battery' problem, and it can only be solved the old-fashioned way: long underwear with coat and gloves.
There are a lot of people observing that they get short range in cold weather. They aren't quoting 'battery temperature' in their claims. For good reason: whatever the cause, it's mostly not down to "battery temperature".
Batteries don't like the cold
Thats less important for a modern EV, down to 0F / -20C
When we say "Batteries don't like the cold", what we mean is that "loads which depend on battery regulation don't like the cold". That is a traditional battery system and load: your incandescent lights (including torch / flashlight / headlights / brake lights), but also your camera and tape-recorder and starter motor, depend on the battery voltage as well as on the battery charge.
At cold temperatures, lead-acid battery voltage drops more rapidly with discharge, so your regulation-dependent load drops out sooner, while the battery is still full of charge.
But for an EV designed to run Li batteries right down to low voltage, system voltage regulation is not important: they are designed to run at every battery voltage from high to almost nothing, and temperature dependence of the input voltage is not very important.
0F is also cold for a lot of IC engines: that's why we have block heaters. EV that are designed for cold climates have something similar.
It would also work for those who can't see the terminal
And for that reason, not an entirely unknown feature in any other (but generally more expensive) POS terminal found anywhere in the world.
For a start, the device provided by my bank: The Commbank SmartTerminal: https://www.commbank.com.au/content/dam/commbank-assets/business/merchants/2021-10/transcript-methods-to-activate-accessibility-mode.pdf. Also a headphone jack, so that when you type out your PIN, the whole world doesn't hear.
And then there are PC's and iPads --both widely used as POS terminals with POS software providing "accessibility" services for the blind/print handicapped.
The unusual feature about this one, that I haven't seen before, is the provision for background music. iPads and PC's will do that, but who uses that capability? To me, it suggests street traders (portability and music as a form of increased visibility), and "increased visibility" immediately leads to the observation that with the music turned on, the device will be harder to lose, harder to steal, and easier to find.
People who don't use POS terminals are sometimes surprised at the features they provide.
I think this device from India is pretty cool because it's so damn cheap. At that price, the basic functionality is impressive. Including a speaker adds to the size of the device without adding much to the cost, but in manufacturing, every cent counts.
rich text component in the programming api
Yes, just a wrapper around the rich text component.
Which begs the question: are they retiring the rich text component? It's not .NET, it's not web/cloud, it's not in most supported applications and tools now. It's an attack surface written a long time ago by people who have retired or moved out of coding, so it doesn't have any internal champions.
Who the hell relies on early TLS still?
Per the article, people using SQL Server 2016.
This won't affect me. Our SQL Server 2000 on Win 2000 won't be updated by this change. Running on a private network, with 3 automation clients.
Personally, I just wish that web sites using TLS would just switch to HTTP. That would solve all my TLS problems.
and just one or two extra characters would greatly enhance its resiliency in the cases of tranmission or transcription errors.
Which is exactly what W3W does.
I don't have a dog in this race. I'm not a user or provider of emergency services. As Shannon pointed out, natural language has enormous redundancy, and as forensic analysts have pointed out, natural language is constantly self correcting (it's easy to just cherry-pick communications to get any meaning you want). W3W may be a good system or a bad system, but a feature is the enhanced resiliency in the case of transmission or transcription errors, due added redundancy and error checking.
Our 'old' science museum used to have endless rooms of display cases showing 'rocks'. Filled in the 1800's, when geology was both "rocket science" and "brain surgery": the cutting edge of scientific endeavor that all pseudo-sciences like "chemistry" wished to be. Geology explained where we came from and where we are going (it's the father of Darwin's theory of the "origin of species'), and, once we'd classified and studied the "rocks" enough, would one day explain "mal-airia" and "miasma" (the causes of sickness), replacing naive theories about "God" and "evil spirits" still held by "Roman Catholics" and ignorant "natives"
Mostly gone now: just a large glass wall display in the new building.
The point is, that a flight plan is a program. It's not "developer written source code", it's generated source code, or "pilot written source code". That program is eventually executed by a pilot in an airplane, but it goes through a transform in the route scheduling system.
Formal definition of programs is a thing, but it's not the same as schema validation.
XML validation only validates the schema. The next step is execution of the content. That data-program may crash because you have coded a stack overflow, not because of syntax error. It may even be the case that the transform crashed because of an edge case in its physical model, rather than in the input program.
FWIW, I think the actual use case for AWS lamda is "when there are lots of service requests, quickly spin up new servers and share the load". AWS charges per lamda call, so yes, they are counting the calls and can manage the load. AWS doesn't have to spin down lamda servers at the end of each request: it just has to follow the curve up and then down.
micro jobs are typically run by clients, not servers, so 'connection' is just normal overhead. Conversely, if your process takes 2 seconds, connection and 25 ms spin-up is not critical, and you save money on the flexible load demand.
It's pretty much irrelevant now. Like the Chinese certification, the two points really requiring approval were interference (maximum signal level) and electrical isolation. Once you have all your devices connected to ADSL or FTTP or whatever, signal level and electrical isolation are given.
But, I honestly don't get the point
Well, I can answer that. Because, for some problems, the spread sheet is the preferred/appropriate user interface.
I did my "Mathlab" problems in Fortran. My Dad did his 'accounting' in BASIC. But that was because Mathlab and Lotus 123 weren't options at the time. I totally understand programmers wanting to program in /whatever language/, but programming a spreadsheet user interface in python just because you don't want a LO dependency is a sub-optimal solution
What LIbreOffice can't do is VBA. If OO had ever got an effective VBA implementation, there wouldn't have been any interest in python macros.
FWIW, two problems LO has with VBA, that python solves: LO can only do "declare" on Windows and Mac, and, even on those platforms, it doesn't do stack protection (required both for stability and to prevent clusters of CVA's). That means you can't do external calculations and interfaces on linux -- one of the required use cases both for VBA and python.
One thing missing from LO, that Excel will probably have: proper integration into the Excel environment. The LO implementation of python is effective on supported platforms (how much effort it takes to get it to work on linux depends on which distribution you have), but the integration into the LO programming environment is half-assed. I find myself saving the spreadsheet, unzipping it, opening and editing the python files in vi or notepad++, then saving, zipping, and re-opening in LO.
The biggest selling point of 5g -- which hasn't even been mentioned here -- was that it was going to permit high-density phone networks. Lots and Lots of phones in a small area. That's a lot of network development, and it mostly hasn't happened yet. Around here, after testing, some of the femto-cell and pico-cell stations were just switched off. There is no femto-cell or pico-cell network around here. This has had two effects:
1) To maintain phone connections, your phone probably runs a 4g phone network and a 5g data network. At the same time. If you 'connect on 5g', you aren't 'disconnecting 4g'. 4g means your phone runs one network: 5g means you power up two radio networks
2) To maintain data connections, your phone is probably at the edge of the small 5g cell. Your 5g is probably running at maximum transmit power most of the time
5g is designed as a low-power network. It can run at lower power than 4g. But that promise depends on being close to a 5g transmitter, and with a 5g data provider that is providing a 5g phone system instead of 4g phone system.
We would of charged an arm and a leg for source code, but escrow was cheap or nothing to us. If the client wanted to pay for escrow, they could do that.
But (1) If clients could do anything with source code, they wouldn't have contracted us in the first place, and (2), escrow is an ongoing cost nobody wants to pay.
Slightly more common was a requirement for business-continuity insurance. That probably wouldn't have helped them, but for some companies it was just a standard contract term.
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