True. The integration of the blinker chip, crystal oscillator and LED onto a single board sure beats separate components such as a 555, an LED and a couple other parts.
Yes, that is true. A Pi to run higher level powerful abstractions. Micro controllers like Arduino to manipulate the physical world. Connect them all together with I2C or other means.
But on the other hand . . .
In 2030, if you want to blink an LED, it will take terabytes of code, including an Arduino emulator in interpreted python on Linux in another emulator. It will be the only option on the market for blinking an LED. But hey, it will be in a SOT-23 package, draw nanoamps, and cost five cents.
If you want to blink an LED, then a Raspberry Pi is the way to go!
Or, use a full blown tower PC with a serial or parallel port. It is possible in software to control the output of one or more pins of a serial or parallel port in order to blink an LED.
That is the attorney general's way of getting a headline. Filing a lawsuit.
A legislator's way of getting a headline is to redefine broadband so that the lower speeds now qualify and proclaim how many more people now have broadband.
Let's not forget Parallel Construction. A conspiracy of prosecutors and law enforcement to commit perjury by lying to the court and the defense about what their evidence actually is.
Based on what I've seen BMWs have way too many engineering problems. Turn signals never seem to work. Acceleration control problems when the traffic light turns green. Various control problems cause BMWs to follow too closely or swerve into other lanes. Especially carpool lanes or the road shoulder followed by sudden uncontrolled acceleration. They should all be recalled as unsafe.
Re: Every single request is proof they are untouchable
Accelerating toward a police state. With nobody to stop them, they can ignore FOIA. They can demand whatever information they want. Maybe they can even ignore the constitution. After all, who will stop them?
While your math is close enough, the statement presumes that all of the downloaders belong to a particular political party.
We may never know, but it would be genuinely interesting to know if there is any statistically interesting political distribution to copyright infringement.
The battle against home taping. Pricing CDs at double records and tapes. At first, pricing VHS and DVD movies in the stratosphere, when it turned out that they could make half their income by selling them at $20 or less.
Suing Diamond Rio, the maker of one of the first mp3 players, because -- Piracy! Why not also sue Sony for making the Walkman?
Then the lawsuits against their own customers. Then SOPA / PIPA. Geographical restrictions. Collection societies. The raid against Megaupload, and all the sleaze and corruption that surrounded that.
Calling everyone a pirate -- including in this very forum.
Somehow, Google is the enemy.
And they wonder why nobody likes them.
(And, yes, I realize I'm conflating the RIAA / MPAA together here. But there is substantial overlap.)
They have locked up our culture. Both music and movies. They begrudgingly let us have access to it at their pleasure. Nothing EVER goes out of ever-expanding copyright.
Now they wonder why people don't listen to the music or attend movies? Maybe access to "their" culture is too restrictive and expensive. You get treated like a criminal to attend a theater. People can, and I dare say have, found other forms of entertainment.
Now Netflix, HBO, Amazon and others are making and funding production of their own new original series. And making it easy and economical to access.
The MPAA / RIAA what a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
With theater attendance at a two-decade low and profits dwindling, the kind of disruption that hit music, publishing, and other industries is already reshaping the entertainment business. From A.I. Aaron Sorkin to C.G.I. actors to algorithmic editing, Nick Bilton investigates what lies ahead.
A few months ago, the vision of Hollywood’s economic future came into terrifyingly full and rare clarity. I was standing on the set of a relatively small production, in Burbank, just north of Los Angeles, talking to a screenwriter about how inefficient the film-and-TV business appeared to have become. Before us, after all, stood some 200 members of the crew, who were milling about in various capacities, checking on lighting or setting up tents, but mainly futzing with their smartphones, passing time, or nibbling on snacks from the craft-service tents. When I commented to the screenwriter that such a scene might give a Silicon Valley venture capitalist a stroke on account of the apparent unused labor and excessive cost involved in staging such a production—which itself was statistically uncertain of success—he merely laughed and rolled his eyes. “You have no idea,” he told me.
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But on the other hand . . .
In 2030, if you want to blink an LED, it will take terabytes of code, including an Arduino emulator in interpreted python on Linux in another emulator. It will be the only option on the market for blinking an LED. But hey, it will be in a SOT-23 package, draw nanoamps, and cost five cents.
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Arduino can't run a full blown OS
Or, use a full blown tower PC with a serial or parallel port. It is possible in software to control the output of one or more pins of a serial or parallel port in order to blink an LED.
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But if that is the case, he isn't so 'smart' as he thinks. And what value and favor he accumulates may not be so safe as he thinks.
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Best idea maybe?
Having a government agency regulate journalism is a great first step.
But I am perplexed why this would fall under the FTC? Can't Trump sign an executive order to create a newly formed Ministry of Truthiness?
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A legislator's way of getting a headline is to redefine broadband so that the lower speeds now qualify and proclaim how many more people now have broadband.
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Based on what I've seen BMWs have way too many engineering problems. Turn signals never seem to work. Acceleration control problems when the traffic light turns green. Various control problems cause BMWs to follow too closely or swerve into other lanes. Especially carpool lanes or the road shoulder followed by sudden uncontrolled acceleration. They should all be recalled as unsafe.
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Customer Satisfaction Policy (short version)
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The Internet has given a printing press to anyone who wants one.
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We may never know, but it would be genuinely interesting to know if there is any statistically interesting political distribution to copyright infringement.
Or, to copyright maximallists.
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Winning the Hearts and Minds
The battle against home taping. Pricing CDs at double records and tapes. At first, pricing VHS and DVD movies in the stratosphere, when it turned out that they could make half their income by selling them at $20 or less.
Suing Diamond Rio, the maker of one of the first mp3 players, because -- Piracy! Why not also sue Sony for making the Walkman?
Then the lawsuits against their own customers. Then SOPA / PIPA. Geographical restrictions. Collection societies. The raid against Megaupload, and all the sleaze and corruption that surrounded that.
Calling everyone a pirate -- including in this very forum.
Somehow, Google is the enemy.
And they wonder why nobody likes them.
(And, yes, I realize I'm conflating the RIAA / MPAA together here. But there is substantial overlap.)
They have locked up our culture. Both music and movies. They begrudgingly let us have access to it at their pleasure. Nothing EVER goes out of ever-expanding copyright.
Now they wonder why people don't listen to the music or attend movies? Maybe access to "their" culture is too restrictive and expensive. You get treated like a criminal to attend a theater. People can, and I dare say have, found other forms of entertainment.
Now Netflix, HBO, Amazon and others are making and funding production of their own new original series. And making it easy and economical to access.
The MPAA / RIAA what a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
"My heart just bleeds for them." -- Londo Mollari
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Is that more than the entire global economic output for a year, I think?
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Why Hollywood as We Know It Is Already Over
Why Hollywood as We Know It Is Already Over
With theater attendance at a two-decade low and profits dwindling, the kind of disruption that hit music, publishing, and other industries is already reshaping the entertainment business. From A.I. Aaron Sorkin to C.G.I. actors to algorithmic editing, Nick Bilton investigates what lies ahead.
A few months ago, the vision of Hollywood’s economic future came into terrifyingly full and rare clarity. I was standing on the set of a relatively small production, in Burbank, just north of Los Angeles, talking to a screenwriter about how inefficient the film-and-TV business appeared to have become. Before us, after all, stood some 200 members of the crew, who were milling about in various capacities, checking on lighting or setting up tents, but mainly futzing with their smartphones, passing time, or nibbling on snacks from the craft-service tents. When I commented to the screenwriter that such a scene might give a Silicon Valley venture capitalist a stroke on account of the apparent unused labor and excessive cost involved in staging such a production—which itself was statistically uncertain of success—he merely laughed and rolled his eyes. “You have no idea,” he told me.
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