Also, ICBMs travel at suborbital velocities (up to 7 km/s), while meteors come in at escape velocities (more than 11 km/s, usually much more). If you can get a radar track they're easy to distinguish.
And no, a clever attacker can't just make their ICBMs "go faster".
Loud music is the aural equivalent of lasers and strobe lights. Unless you're operating a club please don't harass your employees and customers with it.
If silence is a problem, textured ambient sounds can give your business far more personality than blaring the Billboard Top 40.
These days everybody carries around earbuds and a smartphone. If people actually want to listen to music, they will.
nVidia screwed gamers twice, first by not raising production when demand spiked, then by maintaining their supracompetitive pricing even after the shock ended. Even when profiteering is legal it generates a lot of ill will with customers; in a few months, if AMD's Navi isn't complete garbage, expect a lot of formerly loyal nVidia users to switch camps.
To be fair, nVidia has become a sort of advanced douchebag boyfriend to its core market.
"Hey babe, you know how I treated you bad last year since I was busy with that side piece? Well the bitch went crazy and dumped me, so I'm going to need you to put out for me a lot more since I'm used to two girls now and I got standards to keep up. And on weeknights wear this blond wig and let me call you Crypto."
* some RAM is allocated to integrated video on these models
In Jobs' time the machines tended to get cheaper over time, even with new designs and incremental improvements every year. Once Cook took over, spec bumps have slowed and prices ratchet up with each redesign.
I bought a first generation Retina MBP for $2900. To get a replacement MBP today with the same clock speed, RAM, and storage, I'd pay about $2800. Six and a half years later. That's not progress.
Google is at fault for allowing unfettered access to data that 99.999% of honest apps would never need.
If an app has a valid need for SIM card info, or any private, exploitable, or uniquely identifiable data for your device, it can bloody well ask for it.
Letting apps apparently work on the honor system, and not even policing apps in their own store, puts the blame squarely in Google's lap.
Google Fi already uses both Sprint and T-Mobile’s networks. Many phone radios can communicate using either GSM or CDMA, and at this point LTE has largely replaced both of them. By the time the merger goes through and the new company is ready to start consolidating towers, 2G/3G will probably be a distant memory.
Funny you mention California, since the state recently passed a sweeping data privacy law which is scheduled to come into effect at the end of the year.
This bill seems to be a reaction to that, though it remains to be seen if the bill is meant to extend such state laws nationwide, or gut them.
And I'm curious as to the constitutionality of 'preempting' state consumer protection laws.
When I'm moving around I prefer the convenience of Bluetooth, and when I want quality I prefer a decent DAC+amp and nice headphones with a quarter inch jack.
From an engineering point of view digital earbuds/headphones could be great; the analog signal path could be a lot shorter and better shielded, while amplifiers could come tuned to the characteristics of the cans for ideal frequency response.
But from a practical point of view, a lot of decent cans would be ruined by crappy noisy DACs and quality cans would cost twice as much due to the extra hardware. And attaching expensive electronics that will last 50 years to earbuds that you'll throw away because of a frayed cord/blown driver/accidental run-in with a washing machine is simply a waste.
I'm not trying to downplay the danger of lasers in general; as the saying goes, do not stare into laser with remaining eye.
But it is also true that localized heating will damage most camera sensors faster than the human retina. Even an 'eye-safe' laser can leave spots and streaks on CMOS and CCDs.
The retina is submerged in a water bath while the camera sensor is surrounded by insulating air and plastic. The sensor may have a higher absolute temperature rating but it can't dissipate heat nearly as well as your retina.
So far "GeForce NOW" has just been a service that lets you play your own Steam/Blizzard library on nVidia's servers. The service could shut down and you could still play your games on your own hardware.
nVidia also makes their GameStream software available to users so you can send your own games from your PC to a nVidia console or tablet, or any device running the FOSS Moonlight client. Or you can cast your games using Steam's streaming protocol.
Mind you, I'm not a big nVidia fan for other reasons, but so far they've handled game streaming pretty well. Still, GeForce Now is a beta product so things could always change before (or after) release.
Liberal means favoring individual liberty. Liberalism is antithetical to authoritarianism. It's not the same as left- vs. right-wing, or progressive vs. reactionary. Like most authoritarians, fascists oppose liberalism, believing the individual must suppress his own "selfish and materialistic" desires in favor of the "superior morality" of his leaders.
While it is true that the world is not simply divided into fascists and liberals (there are many forms of authoritarianism besides fascism), for the sake of a game it seems a reasonable simplification.
In the United States, despite the political rhetoric both parties range from very liberal to moderately liberal on most issues. Indeed, the modern western world is founded on the principles of liberalism, and it is disturbing that anyone of any political persuasion would use 'liberal' as a derogatory term. If liberalism is a negative it is because the term is being used incorrectly, like favoring the "rights" of corporations and capital over those of persons, or preserving the "liberty" of one individual to deny the liberty of another.
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Also, ICBMs travel at suborbital velocities (up to 7 km/s), while meteors come in at escape velocities (more than 11 km/s, usually much more). If you can get a radar track they're easy to distinguish.
And no, a clever attacker can't just make their ICBMs "go faster".
The US has fast aircraft carriers. Any world government that is not concerned about us must be utter fools.
Hans...are we the baddies?
Loud music is the aural equivalent of lasers and strobe lights. Unless you're operating a club please don't harass your employees and customers with it.
If silence is a problem, textured ambient sounds can give your business far more personality than blaring the Billboard Top 40.
These days everybody carries around earbuds and a smartphone. If people actually want to listen to music, they will.
The 20xx series aren't bad cards, but the prices are ridiculous.
780ti launch price: $699
980ti launch price: $649
1080ti launch price: $699
2080ti launch price: $1199
nVidia screwed gamers twice, first by not raising production when demand spiked, then by maintaining their supracompetitive pricing even after the shock ended.
Even when profiteering is legal it generates a lot of ill will with customers; in a few months, if AMD's Navi isn't complete garbage, expect a lot of formerly loyal nVidia users to switch camps.
To be fair, nVidia has become a sort of advanced douchebag boyfriend to its core market.
"Hey babe, you know how I treated you bad last year since I was busy with that side piece? Well the bitch went crazy and dumped me, so I'm going to need you to put out for me a lot more since I'm used to two girls now and I got standards to keep up. And on weeknights wear this blond wig and let me call you Crypto."
Here's base model MBPs by year:
2006: $1999 / 2.0GHz x 2 Core 2 / 1GB RAM / 120GB HDD / Classic
2007: $1999 / 2.2GHz x 2 Core 2 / 2GB RAM / 120GB HDD / Classic
2008: $1999 / 2.4GHz x 2 Core 2 / 2GB RAM / 250GB HDD / Unibody
2009: $1699 / 2.56GHz x 2 Core 2 / 4GB* RAM / 250GB HDD / Unibody
2010: $1799 / 2.4GHz x 2 i5 / 4GB RAM / 320GB HDD / Unibody
2011: $1799 / 2.2GHz x 4 i7 / 4GB RAM / 500GB HDD / Unibody
--- Tim Cook becomes CEO
2012: $2199 / 2.3GHz x 4 i7 / 8GB RAM / 256GB SSD / Retina
2013: $1999 / 2.0GHz x 4 i7 / 8GB* RAM / 256GB SSD / Retina
2014: $1999 / 2.2GHz x 4 i7 / 16GB* RAM / 256GB SSD / Retina
2015: $1999 / 2.2GHz x 4 i7 / 16GB* RAM / 256GB SSD / Retina
2016: $2399 / 2.4GHz x 4 i7 / 16GB RAM / 256GB SSD / Touch Bar
2017: $2399 / 2.8GHz x 4 i7 / 16GB RAM / 256GB SSD / Touch Bar
2018: $2399 / 2.2GHz x 6 i7 / 16GB RAM / 256GB SSD / Touch Bar
* some RAM is allocated to integrated video on these models
In Jobs' time the machines tended to get cheaper over time, even with new designs and incremental improvements every year.
Once Cook took over, spec bumps have slowed and prices ratchet up with each redesign.
I bought a first generation Retina MBP for $2900. To get a replacement MBP today with the same clock speed, RAM, and storage, I'd pay about $2800. Six and a half years later. That's not progress.
The MacBook Pro Pro. Starting at $3999.
I miss the days when minor new features and upgraded components were part of a normal product refresh and didn't justify a new name and pricing tier.
Google is at fault for allowing unfettered access to data that 99.999% of honest apps would never need.
If an app has a valid need for SIM card info, or any private, exploitable, or uniquely identifiable data for your device, it can bloody well ask for it.
Letting apps apparently work on the honor system, and not even policing apps in their own store, puts the blame squarely in Google's lap.
"Everybody good? Plenty of slaves for my robot colony?"
13 bits of weeks = 157.5 years. It's safe to assume there will be entirely new navigation systems by the year 2175.
Google Fi already uses both Sprint and T-Mobile’s networks. Many phone radios can communicate using either GSM or CDMA, and at this point LTE has largely replaced both of them. By the time the merger goes through and the new company is ready to start consolidating towers, 2G/3G will probably be a distant memory.
He follows the UK standard practice of using Fahrenheit for high temperatures and Celsius for lows.
You really think they're two different people?
Funny you mention California, since the state recently passed a sweeping data privacy law which is scheduled to come into effect at the end of the year.
This bill seems to be a reaction to that, though it remains to be seen if the bill is meant to extend such state laws nationwide, or gut them.
And I'm curious as to the constitutionality of 'preempting' state consumer protection laws.
When I'm moving around I prefer the convenience of Bluetooth, and when I want quality I prefer a decent DAC+amp and nice headphones with a quarter inch jack.
From an engineering point of view digital earbuds/headphones could be great; the analog signal path could be a lot shorter and better shielded, while amplifiers could come tuned to the characteristics of the cans for ideal frequency response.
But from a practical point of view, a lot of decent cans would be ruined by crappy noisy DACs and quality cans would cost twice as much due to the extra hardware. And attaching expensive electronics that will last 50 years to earbuds that you'll throw away because of a frayed cord/blown driver/accidental run-in with a washing machine is simply a waste.
An implausible clip of a so-called "Promobot"...built by a promotions firm...may, in fact, be a promotional video?
I'm not trying to downplay the danger of lasers in general; as the saying goes, do not stare into laser with remaining eye.
But it is also true that localized heating will damage most camera sensors faster than the human retina. Even an 'eye-safe' laser can leave spots and streaks on CMOS and CCDs.
The retina is submerged in a water bath while the camera sensor is surrounded by insulating air and plastic. The sensor may have a higher absolute temperature rating but it can't dissipate heat nearly as well as your retina.
We should start a conspiracy theory claiming Q has hidden vital messages inside critical thinking textbooks.
https://xkcd.com/720/
So far "GeForce NOW" has just been a service that lets you play your own Steam/Blizzard library on nVidia's servers. The service could shut down and you could still play your games on your own hardware.
nVidia also makes their GameStream software available to users so you can send your own games from your PC to a nVidia console or tablet, or any device running the FOSS Moonlight client. Or you can cast your games using Steam's streaming protocol.
Mind you, I'm not a big nVidia fan for other reasons, but so far they've handled game streaming pretty well. Still, GeForce Now is a beta product so things could always change before (or after) release.
Which raises the question of why ChromeOS would be vulnerable to such an attack while the machine is locked.
Also https://xkcd.com/605/
Liberal means favoring individual liberty. Liberalism is antithetical to authoritarianism. It's not the same as left- vs. right-wing, or progressive vs. reactionary. Like most authoritarians, fascists oppose liberalism, believing the individual must suppress his own "selfish and materialistic" desires in favor of the "superior morality" of his leaders.
While it is true that the world is not simply divided into fascists and liberals (there are many forms of authoritarianism besides fascism), for the sake of a game it seems a reasonable simplification.
In the United States, despite the political rhetoric both parties range from very liberal to moderately liberal on most issues. Indeed, the modern western world is founded on the principles of liberalism, and it is disturbing that anyone of any political persuasion would use 'liberal' as a derogatory term. If liberalism is a negative it is because the term is being used incorrectly, like favoring the "rights" of corporations and capital over those of persons, or preserving the "liberty" of one individual to deny the liberty of another.
We can finally put an end to those terrible weed smokers and migrant workers.
Well, probably not.
But all it cost us was our rights and our privacy.
And somewhere north of a trillion dollars.