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But you still need to be able to send the link, so the receiving party needs some way to be able to receive the link. It is then either some form of local messenger or ... an app. So, yeah, the receiving party needs an app, if the app is not build-in into the OS like Airdrop in iOS.

Did you read the post till the end?

"But then, in the 1990s, Robert Pearlman says, the insurance autographs started showing up in space memorabilia auctions. An Apollo 11 insurance autograph can cost as much as $30,000."

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/08/30/160267398/what...

Such car exists. It is basically any modern car. Even your beloved Tesla. It needs an activation by Tesla and they can revoke that and lock it up at will.

You beloved Porsche is this way as a theft prevention, when you bought the right options.

IRC Renault doesn't sell you the battery for your electric car. You need to rent it. Then it is in the contract, that if you miss your payment that they can lock down the battery and as such the car.

Normally, in any country of the world, you do not pay taxes on things, you import just temporary.

I doesn't matter if it is an Ferrari just for pleasure or if it is a new machine you bring in for a trade show for your business. The thing is, that you need to make a customs declaration (and not the easy one that you normally do at the airport as a traveller). You do the full declaration including information for which reason you are importing, when you will export it again, including all the tax codes. Then when you leave you need to declare the export.

The trick is not to go to the main registration side but to the small local offices in the outer areas. Like in Nuremberg not going into the city center but to Katzwang or Großgründlach.

Sometimes you can got there without appointment and you can go in, because they have nothing to do and they are waiting happily for you and they are very friendly.

That is the argument of the first MVP by a startup and then it is their onlien product.

I have this seen also in automotive. "This is no problem, because this is not connected to the Internet." Then a few years later you have a DefCon presentation "GM hack, you can control the whole car via the Internet".

Just look for the many documentations that exists, just quick search: https://exiftool.org/TagNames/GPS.html

Apple Maps lets you download maps offline? How?

Google Maps can download whole regions of maps to use offline.

That's why there are regulations. In Germany, for example, cabs can't deny a ride because you look weired, you smell, your are drunk, and similar things. They are required to take any ride. The levels are very high for them to deny a ride. The punshment would be to cancel their cab license.

Cabs are even required to take kids with proper safety and to take people with disablities like wheel chairs.

Why, if it is encrypted?

Microsoft Outlook is already a web app at its core: "The point here being that Mail and Calendar are native Windows applications, whereas the new Outlook for Windows is essentially a web app at its core, from what we can tell."

Native is dead as it seems, at least for he Microsoft Office Team.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/20/microsoft_calendar_ma...

Because I don't want to have my Emails in the cloud. That is true for many companies.

Remind you, that Microsoft wants go get rid of its Microsoft Office and will make it a Website only.

Yes, in millions of millions of cars. It power most of the HMI systems in cars, except some newer ones, which are based on Android Auto and very view exceptions based on Windows Embedded/Auto.

Not directly related to this. I own a CTEK one car battery charger. CTEK is not some Chinese company but a very reputable Swedish company. Their car battery chargers are very reputable.

But the CTEK one has an accompanying App. Both are connected via Bluetooth like in this reversed battery monitor. You can add the battery charger to the app only, when you have a CTEK cloud account. Just this weekend, their cloud servers had problems. So you I was unable to connect to the local device in front of me.

What I'd like to say: CTEK requires a working cloud account to access their latest device via Bluetooth from within their app.

It seems you assume, that IP runs on Ethernet. But what IP that runs on a different data link layer that uses different address and doesn't know what a MAC address is?

Same problem here with ordering from AliExpress to Germany.

They try to make some localization and validation and fail greatly with that.

The province doesn't matter in German addresses at all. But when entering the ZIP code it always presented me the city as the main city in the province, which is not my city. My city is 20km away.

At the end I put everything again into the second address field, which allowed some free form input.

Really? Think another way: MVP. MVP is a big in the startup scene. No startup tells you how they made there MVP. Most of them think, if I get enough investment, if I get enough customers, then I will make it better. But until now the other way is just enough for my MVP.

So some would call it MVP and others would call it fraud. Until it is really being implemented as advertised.

It is exactly that. We are putting it deep into the ground and ignoring the problem.

I agree to in way that this is currently the only viable way to handle the situation. But it is not a solution.

The thing is, that to human knowledge it is currently the only viable way to handle the situation. But still it is not a solution.

A solution would be to make it non-hazardous. But there is no viable way to do it right now.

Burying things in the ground is not a solution. It's more an Ostrich policy.

The downfall of ARM?

You know that ARM is used in a number of microcontrollers? There are over a 100 of them in every modern car, also in Chinese ones. So there are a billion a year alone in that area. Then all the peripherals which use either 8051 or ARM based microcontrollers, like simple things like the keyboard controller.

While I think Risc-V has its benefits. I don't know how it compares today to the scalability of the Cortex-M series starting with the M0 and then following the Cortex-A series. But I see that it is still a long way to go par.

> > Namely, 5,000 patents filed over the past few years and an enormous base of talent and capital to work with.

> It was mentionned in the keynote as well...should Apple really brag about their patent minefield in a field that is in need of more players and more efforts to push it forward ?

That I didn't understood. Should that be a message to the competition? What should that tell me as a developer? What should that message tell me as a consumer?

As a consumer may I don't care how many patents are there. Because I don't have a benefit at all.

As a developer may it means, that a develop for a consumer base, but it is hard to predict how big that will be. Competition needs to work around those patents or will not exists at all because of possible licensing fees. So, should I start development or not?

Actually, in case of Google it is, because they still do business within the EU.

Which is interesting, because if they can't comply within the EU, then how do they comply outside of the EU. With that I mean, if they have concerns that there is private data of EU citizens somewhere in that, then that is also in there for users outside of the EU. That said, they do not comply with GDPR anyway. If that its not the case, then they could also enable it for users within the EU.

Wheel mounted electric motors are not that new. The problem of wheel mounted electric motors is the problem of the unsprung mass[0]. The thing is, that you don't want such things, at least for higher speeds. Also Schaeffler was working its version of the E-drive wheel for years. Just another release of another (new) version about 10 years ago[1].

Also working on inductive charging is nothing new. Just from the release, it is unknown how god that worked. I new research that is more than 10 years old on inductive charging for cars like in parking spots or at a traffic light. The problem of inductive charging still today is, if you are not perfectly aligned you will waste a lot of energy. That is why the charging in the smart phone are all have magnets. That's to guarantee a perfect position. Should car snap in place, when you are in your parking spot?

So while this release is interesting, it should not be to exaggerated.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsprung_mass [1] https://www.greencarcongress.com/2013/04/schaeffler-and-ford...

Coming not from the background of IT but from electrical engineering and industrial control systems, like programmable logic controllers (PLC) and embedded control, I learned that 1990ish.

Fuzzy logic was in favor to the relative new field of neural nets (ML as we know it today). Because from the limitations in industrial control neural nets were too costly. Yes, we had already things like the first i386embedded. But that was way too expansive. Most of the PLCs were based on 16-bit microcontrollers and even those were more on the expansive side.

So if you think commercially in terms of industrial control systems, then Fuzzy Logic was implemented and used. I assume old systems can be found anywhere even today. Remember that in industrial control 20 years is no time.

Today, everybody in industrial control is also about ML. But here again, that is still on the expansive side. Such Nvidia Jetsons do not come for cheap.