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Short answer is yes. Search for "Dolby" under "Author Affiliation" in the AES paper search [0] and you can see the research they publish. (the papers themselves are unfortunately behind the AES paywall, but if usually authors will send you the paper if you ask nicely).
Yes, but portions run near/under/over/alongside/in the median of roadway traffic. If you read the tweet thread you can see that a driver on the road was ejected into the BART ROW and was hit by a train.
Later testimony in the United States v. Microsoft Corp. case revealed that, at the time, Apple was threatening Microsoft with a multibillion-dollar lawsuit over the allegedly stolen code, and in return Bill Gates was threatening the cancellation of Microsoft Office for Mac.[2][3] In August 1997, Apple and Microsoft announced a settlement deal. Apple would drop all current lawsuits, including all lingering issues from the "Look & Feel" lawsuit and the "QuickTime source code" lawsuit, and agree to make Internet Explorer for Mac the default browser on the Macintosh unless the user explicitly chose the bundled Netscape browser.
BTW, if you are trying to save a protected PDF from Adobe reader that won't let you save it in an unprotected format that's compatible with Preview, there is "print" document trick you can try since Adobe Reader blocks the system print dialog: pause the queue for your printer (if you don't have a printer, just "install" a network postscript printer), and print the document. The document is then saved to a non-secured temp PDF file in /var/spool/cups, to a filename starting with "d" (ls -l -t to find the most recent file). That file is normally deleted after being sent to the printer, but my pausing the print queue, the file is there long enough to copy somewhere. Rename the document, and you're good to go.
This is a trick from the Mac OS X Hints days, and still works, as of at least Catalina.
Can you provide a specific example of a state where a protected class is limited to a specific "race" (as opposed to "race" in general)? There are states where minorities have a presumption of being discriminated against, but that's not the same thing.
YMMV, I get it far more from Republicans than Democrats. However it may be due in part to a GOP donor with a name similar to mine that lives in a state I haven't stepped foot in for over a decade.
Sitting at my desk at work, I get a phone call from my bank on by cell phone. "Mr. Anechoic, there appears to be a security issue with your bank account. We can resolve it for you. For security purposes, can you give your checking account number and the last four of you SSN"?
This is clearly a scam, right? I tell the guy there is no way I'm giving up that info for a random dude that calls me. He stresses again that there is an issue with my bank account, that the account will be frozen, and there is nothing he can do about it without the account and SSN information. I refuse again, and he tells me that I should go to a local bank to get it resolved. I hang up and go back to work. I log into my bank account website, and all seems fine.
After about 20 minutes, something is still bothering me, so I leave work to go to a local branch. I speak to a branch manager about what happened, and she agrees with me that it was clearly an attempted scam and the bank would never call me and ask for that information. But just to be safe, she checks my account on her computer. To our surprise, it turns out there was a security flag on my account!
She calls the bank security desk, they confirm that there was an attempt by someone in another branch a few states to get money from my account and the call I got was legit and logged in their system. We get the account locked out, and then the manager asks to talk to a security supervisor about the messed-up way they reached out to me. The security person basically said "this is how they do things" and didn't see the problem. The bank manager apologized, said it was messed up and she would try to run things up the chain to improve their process.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
In my case:
- one less battery to charge (on work trips in particular, I have a lot of devices/equipment that need daily charging)
- no worries about bluetooth synching or wireless interference
- less likely to lose
- better sound quality
To each their own.
Skeptical that would be effective for two reasons:
1. Pilots that have family back home probably won't be eager to take the offer
2. Russia has shown no qualms about targeted assassinations in foreign lands.
For DOT engineering design firms and environmental firms, a typical overhead rate is 165%-ish, I've seen ranges from 125% to 250%. Over 180% is considered "high".
The problem is that it used to work just fine, things broke with iOS 13. I would be happy if they reverted to the Podcasts app circa iOS 11 or 12.
And please remember that MLKJr was widely disliked in his time. [5]
[0] https://billmoyers.com/story/martin-luther-kings-fight-worke...
[1] https://www.theroot.com/exclusive-martin-luther-king-jr-talk...
[2] https://letterfromjail.com
[3] https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/beyond-vietn...
[4] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/how-mlks-...
[5] https://news.gallup.com/poll/20920/martin-luther-king-jr-rev...
It really depends on where you are. This fall, we had our pick of vehicles in Chicago & Seattle, while we paid $5,000 for s 3-day minivan rental in Minneapolis. YMMV.
Those maps are generated by publicly available data (traffic, railway schedules, etc). In the case of airports/airbases, the data are generated with radar flight tracks. Military flight track data are often redacted (presumably because they can leak aircraft performance data) so it's not surprising that modeled noise from stealth aircraft was not calculated.
Note that while the position is appointed by POTUS, it is a Senate confirmed position - she was approved with a vote of 55-44 [0] (with five R votes).
[0] https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_...
By "he" I presume you're referring to the Biden administration. What "pipelines" have they closed? Biden pulled the permit for the Keystone XL, but that's not so much closing a pipeline as prohibiting a new one from being build (maybe you were including that under the umbrella of "closing"?). The other Keystone pipelines are still operating.
There is also news about possibility closing the Line 5 pipeline, but that hasn't happened and he recently indicated that he had no intention of closing it.
Is there another (or multiple other) pipelines that have been shutdown by the administration? A google search only comes up with the Keystone XL and Line 5 pipelines.
In the case of an instructional video, it can really be frustrating to watch 10-20 minutes of something before realizing that the maker did it wrong, didn't document it adequately etc. Those videos tend to have a high ratio of dislikes to likes and that can easily prevent one from wasting their time.
I've been doing a lot of home renovations this past summer and watching instructional videos to help guide me. There's a lot of trash out there and it's not always immediately obvious as so without watching for a decent chunk of time. Conversely, there are a lot of videos with low-production values that are highly useful, so judging alone based on ten seconds can be misleading.
The actual mic capsules are likly far cheaper than $1 a piece (probably closer to $0.10 than $1) but the mics in an array need to be phased-matched. The two approaches to getting phased microphones are 1) building them using precision techniques so they are phased-match from the start (which is expensive and why pro phase-matched mics are around $1,000 each), or 2) get a whole pile of cheap mic, test them one-by-one (or really, pair-by-pair) and select the mics that are best phased-match to use them in the array. The #2 approach is cheaper, but does add cost.
SD cards are used for a lot more than just cameras, especially among pros of many different stripes.
Development of a new runway at an existing (US) is a $billion* endeavor and can take decades.
Furthermore, for a given noise level, any number of surveys have shown that noise from planes is more annoying than from trains or roadways.
With Apple Configurator you can disable Music and Messages. It’s not the most user-friendly method, but it is possible.
What do you mean by "stability test holes kept failing inspection"? If you're referring to geotechnical boreholes, there's nothing to inspect - it's a test of (among other things) soil strength. It's certainly possible to have soft/loose/low-strength soils (soft/loose solis frequently cause the borehole to collapse on itself, that's not unusual) but that doesn't speak toward safety. The building just has to be designed & constructed to account for that, usually by stiffening the soil and/or using a pile foundation.
I’ve always wondered how many other buildings are in the same state.
Given the loose soils and relatively high-water table in Seattle? Pretty much all of them. Structures can be built on soft ground, it just needs to be done right.
The only reason you think there is (or was) an epidemic of police shootings of unarmed Black people [...]
This is unfair - note that the comment you are referring to didn't specially mention police unarmed shootings of blacks, the comment was about disportionate policing and killings (which presumably includes, but is not exclusive to shootings of unarmed citizens). I mention this because police shootings are not the only manifestation of institutional racism. There are also unjust arrests, accusations, beatings (remember, Rodney King wasn't shot), convictions, and general mistreatment. You might beat the rap, but you won't beat the ride.
As a relatively well-off, straight-laced black man, I'm not overly afraid of getting shot by police (although I think I got close to catching a bullet once), but I am terrified of a stop going bad in some way, not because of what I observed in the media, but because of my own personal experiences.
I live in a high-crime city in the northeast and as big component of my job is spending time in high-crime parts of cities all over the US (most recently, Chicago South Side, including Altgeld-Murray projects). The only times in my life where I thought my life or safety was in serious jeopardy involved interactions with police.
Furthermore, Black communities are often strong advocates of retaining or even increasing police presence
Absolutely true, and that reflects my feelings as well. But that is not the same as saying black communities trust police.
The comparison is with Walmart warehouse workers, not retail workers. See the actual report posted by others.