This is amazing news!I’m glad I’ve kept my all my pebbles. The pebbles were my first smartwatches and still my favorite. Thanks for bringing them back. I wish you all the best!
This news is really disappointing to me because as a C# dev I am losing a quality native editor. Guess I’m either fully moving to vim or begrudgingly dealing with VSCode.
> To see your trips and travel research, turn on these settings: Private results, Web & app activity
This is the main reason why I will never be able to use www.google.com/travel. I used to use the Trips app with no search history, but Google is shutting down Trips in favor of forcing people to loosen privacy settings. It is very disappointing because Trips worked very well.
Ah yes, same as my new Pixel. Apparently to be able to give me temperature in Celsius instead of Fahrenheit, Google would like to know every app activity and usage as well as everywhere I have been. This sort of privacy bundling really should not be allowed.
That's not strictly true. The GDPR contains language that potentially requires you to actually need the data you ask for to "enable" a feature. You could claim you need location to determine Temperature and Currency units for example, but not access to my contacts. Now, how all this holds up, I'm not sure
> Consent is presumed not to be freely given if it does not allow separate consent to be given to different personal data processing operations despite it being appropriate in the individual case, or if the performance of a contract, including the provision of a service, is dependent on the consent despite such consent not being necessary for such performance.
How do you want Google to show you your trips and your travel research (e.g search queries) if you disable search history?
If you don't want to see your search history (since you seem adamant on disabling it), then just use the other features on google.com/travel (destination/hotel/flight search).
It's ridiculous because they don't need your location history to search for static content that they already have saved in their databases. The exact same behavior happens with maps: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19809432
Google is shameless about gimping their services unless you hand over gross amounts of irrelevant personal information.
You realize that's a ridiculous framing of reasonable objection? The real question is why do they "need" things like your location and web search history to offer this for your past flight searches.
TripIt is a lifesaver for me. I'm sure I'd mess up a lot more than I do if I didn't have an app like TripIt.
My only material beef is that I think it could do a better job of flagging possible oversights in your itinerary. "Umm Dave, I'm afraid you don't seem to have anyplace to stay on Wednesday night."
On complicated trips, I actually print out a calendar grid and make notes by hand. It would be nice if TripIt had a month calendar view that let you look at things that way.
2. Forward booking confirmation to plans@tripit.com.
3. Now all those details are in my calendar.
What’s particularly useful is how it handles time zones. Flights seem to ‘just work’, and in the notes for any appointment it’ll tell you the local arrival & departure times anyway.
New business model: have an AI generate every chord progression in every tempo, release the "songs" on your own label, and sue everyone who releases a song after you.
I've always wondered if someone could copyright strike most of YouTube by having a channel filled with permutations of various sorts of ambient background noise.
Unfortunately you'd be opening yourself up to lawsuits for any of your songs that have a passing resemblance to existing songs, since after all, you've created every chord progression and tempo!
Maybe if you keep a low profile and insisted on NDA's for settlements, you wouldn't get sued as much for "stealing" from every piece of music made prior to your [Mega Album] dropping. I'd also recommend getting the copyright registered, but remaining out of every music database you possibly could, to enhance the obscurity of it all.
Also, if you know someone is infringing on your work and you don't actively pursue it, you could lose your rights to the copyright, so you need to find a cabin in the woods to lay low for awhile until you're ready to sue everyone in existence.
Nah, just settle out of court for a percentage of the earnings of your "song". So, you get sued for one of your "songs" and they get 2.3% of your profits. Problem is that "song" has only earned you $0.000001.
You’d need to show some likelihood of the defendant hearing the music they’re allegedly copying, though — and I sure wouldn’t listen to the channel you’re proposing!
There are tons of legal counters, almost any of which would be a slam dunk case for having the AI-generated company's copyright revoked and the company disbanded.
But patent trolls are smart enough to have blazed a trail where you sue small time record labels that can't afford to fight you in court and are willing to settle. Any fight that goes to court, you just dismiss the suit to avoid losing and setting a precedent.
Defending patent trolls here for a moment but agreeing nonetheless.
Patent trolls have a higher bar since they at least need a patent which is somewhat difficult to get. You actually have to prosecute, that's the legal term, your patent application through the patent system and nowadays survive an inevitable IPR challenge from the FAANG companies. It takes a year or two and a bit of money.
A copyright by comparison is utterly effortless, meaning that this sort of suit is also utterly trivial. Not good.
It could actually lead to a musical renaissance, where composition would favour longer non-repeating segments, rather than a verse-chorus-middle8 kind of thing that is the staple of all pop music. It could lead to more music like the classical (in which some have no repeated segments, eg Bach's Tocatta and Fugue in Dm, or Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata). Imagine a song that actually unfurled like a novel does...
Especially with electronic music... simply use AI to release 20 million songs that nobody ever heard of, and copyright them all. Then just sit back and wait for a hot song to have similar-sounding segments and rake in the cash.
The songs don't even need to have lyrics or be enjoyable. They just need to cover enough possible sounds that can be made with modern electronic music tools.
The author seems to be talking up his portfolio. Although there may be truth to this article, it seems the author is attempting to move the stock price with negitive press.
So, in other words, you have no idea what the end to end latency is. That is a non-starter for pro audio professionals who need to compensate for latency to keep things in phase.
I owned a 2013 Ford Focus as well. In the nine months of ownership, the transmission was replaced twice. Every transmission worked fairly well and then after about a month would start to stutter on acceleration and acceleration would lag then accelerate quickly startling me.
Cannot say if it is exactly the same issue, but it seems that the Ford mechanics (at least here) are not trained to repair them and are not even capable of finding what the actual "root" issue is.
Additionally it seems that Ford has not found a good procedure to revive the transmission (i.e. new or rehauled transmission fail the same way).
A number of out-of-warranty cars (not that having Ford do anything effective within the warranty period is in any way easy) here in Italy (Focus and S-Max) have been seemingly recovered by using a special procedure to wash/clean the transmission of the old fluid, put in new "special" one + additives (and replace the filter) , then there is the need (via ODB2) to reset/calibrate the gearbox electronics.
The same or similar issue affects/affected also the DSG-7 gearbox mounted on many VW's/small Audi's (and Sjoda's/Seat's).
