Maybe the European government will do something similar to what they did for cellphone's charging ports (require all manufacturers to use micro USB). And as for the cellphone change, it would hopefully be applied mostly across the board by manufacturers (in USA too).

That bears the question of whether or not the law will select the right standard, or be able to change it when practical.

For instance, with USB Type-C coming out, with EU law be permissive of this transition? Or will the EU requirement adapt to allowing Micro-USB and Type-C for a while, and then eventually mandate Type-C?

This is a common misconception.

The way the EU's "common external power supply" standard was implemented allowed the manufacturers to pick the standard themselves.

Essentially the EU put a gun to manufacturer's heads, and said "pick a common standard together, or we will!" And they did. So the EU never picked micro-USB, the manufacturers did.

Additionally the original memorandum of understanding has since expired (2012) but it has been deemed a "success" as all major mobile phone manufacturers continue to utilise micro-USB.

So there's no specific reason why USB-C cannot become the new normal. And it seems manufacturers have actually become used to the status quo of having a common standard (except Apple of course).

I don't think you'd see the EU get involved if all of them together moved to USB-C (from micro-USB), they would only get involved if they started to developer proprietary ports again, or all had different incompatible ports/chargers.

Now they just need to do laptops...

That's a very helpful explanation, thank you.

1-year-old post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/2dpmma/is_there_a_p...

Do you go to 110x first for quadrupling?

Do they do this because they don't have the resources to enforce the law?

I don't know if it is true, but I think that many commercial receivers that you can buy nowadays don't allow you to listen to those frequencies

I don't know, but you probably won't be able to put groceries from some stores in that car... unless said stores shell out 30% or something crazy.

both in Canada and USA, there is plenty of house parties but you can get in trouble for drinking in the streets... but there is private beaches and such, at hotels for example.

Also, the pictures that you posted appear to be a private area...

I know the first two places in Lisbon:

1) Miradouro de Santa Catarina https://goo.gl/jwAE8A

2) Any street in Bairro Alto https://goo.gl/aN4isX

They are as public as places get. I spent plenty of nights there during my studies abroad :D

I'm not sure how long it would last but how about something like a bubblegram [1] (laser crystal)... You could use a flatter plastic block and create a 2D image inside. Also, maybe other materials can be used.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubblegram

backward C gives me a caret

Add your drawing as a template, and try again. The point of the $1-family of recognizers is not what they recognize 'out of the box' but that they're very simple to code, and it's easy to extend them by adding example gestures.

"Check" is detected as "left square bracket" if the end of the stroke curves up slightly.

I wish ad-hoc/mesh networks would be more popular... it would help if Google would not block ad-hoc WiFi on Android.