Google is a surveillance company. That's what they do. That's how they make their money.
I had bought a Nest and two Protects before the sale was announced but I won't buy any more. If it gets discovered that they are harvesting any information from them, I will remove them immediately.
It was a good idea but adding the surveillance and data harvesting aspects makes it something I won't have in my home. Right now they are on probation but it won't take much for me to pull them.
I guess you missed the news that low latency in the time from head motion to change in display image eliminated the distortion, nausea, etc, for pretty much all but a very very sensitive few?
While hydrogen has a very high energy content by weight, it's tough to get much weight in a compact space. One way is compress the heck out of it which introduces pressure vessel requirements and high pressure gas liabilities. Compress it to a liquid and now you have cryogenic liquid issues, boil off, etc. Or use some kind of misch metal or other matrix to "dissolve" the hydrogen in except misch metal is very very heavy and pretty expensive. One other way of storing hydrogen is to store it in a chemical compound like a boron hydrate that you can reversibly remove it from for use and add it back for recharge. But all those are not nearly as simple as pumping a gallon of gas into a vented tank. But hydrogen generally does have range issues. It is hard to store a lot of it by weight in a small space.
Another issue with hydrogen is that it wrecks ozone and it moves easily into the upper atmosphere. It's not catalytic like chlorofluorocarbons, but get a few hundred million hydrogen vehicles refueling every week or three and even tiny little leaks will add up in the upper atmosphere and cream the ozone layer. It also doesn't help that hydrogen leaks out of metal fuel lines by dissolving and diffusing through the metal itself.
Garages and any kind of enclosed space would have to have special venting as well since hydrogen can pool on the ceiling if it escapes since it is lighter than air. Instead of floor drains in low places, there would have to be vents at high places to allow hydrogen a way out to prevent buildup.
It does have the advantage, however, of not pooling under a car and roasting the occupants if it catches fire. It goes up and dissipates very quickly. Also, hydrogen fires aren't loaded with carbon to make them incandescent and like raging radiant heaters. You can stand right next to a roaring hydrogen fire and barely feel it. Put a body part in the fire, however, and you'll feel it. But compared to gasoline, it's actually quite safe as far as fires are concerned. Hydrogen fires are also nearly invisible which can introduce another danger. When people look at fires like the Hindenburg, the dark billowing fire is because of the aluminum paint used to protect the fabric burning. It's not the hydrogen.
I've seen way too many internets-enabled things get orphaned and made inoperable when various service providers decide to end support. Some not even all that old.
They either need to guarantee some period of service (which will also call attention to the fact that support will one day be lost along with the ability to use whatever program or device), or allow users some alternative for when they do retire something.
I think it is unreasonable to demand that products be supported in perpetuity, but companies need to also understand it isn't right to orphan and render software or devices unusable. They need to open it up, remove DRM with a patch, or do whatever it takes to allow products people pay for to continue to be used. Or state very clearly (not in the fine print) that said device or software will likely cease to work past some date, but is guaranteed to work until that date.
There is precedence for this in DVD digital downloads. They clearly state the download is available until some time or other, and the buyer knows when that date is (if they read the package).
Good question seeing how there are image management companies that will do precisely what this person has done on behalf of companies with image problems such as Google.
I love the part where he says he has never had a virus. I wonder how he knows that. Does he md5sum his entire drive or otherwise fingerprint his system? Does he not know that virus scanners can give a system a clean bill of health if an infection is not in their library or if the scanner itself has been compromised?
It's not like the old days where you knew you had an infection because your computer started banging the hard drive heads against the stops or running your monitor at the wrong frequency to overheat it.
Anyone claiming they have never been compromised should always keep in mind and add "that I know of".
I run Linux at both work and home. At home I run multiple instances on multiple computers (4). No dual boot though I still have an XP partition hanging around with old data but it is no longer a dual boot partition.
"So altering the period of oscillation should be possible by influencing the production of calcium ions, perhaps using light or biochemistry."
Slime mold calls to submarines!
"Here's a hint as to how important the UI is to an OS, you can freely replace them with no real affect on the overall system barring resources used by the UI."
Without the UI, an OS is just a command line interface which is itself a UI, albeit not a very useful one for a lot of people.
I just recently broke down and installed 8.1 since some software I was needing to run simply would not run under Linux. While some things really run fast and well under 8.1, it is the most obnoxious interface I have ever used. Things that used to be two clicks or even one in XP and still are in Linux now take 8-10 clicks in and out of Metro to do the same thing. It's terrible.
I can navigate around it, but 8.1 gets in the way of everything most people would try to do on a desktop. My desktop doesn't have a touch screen, doesn't need giant fonts, doesn't need all the garish stupid tiles that are just a waste of space and really only a distraction.
Linux is so much better it isn't even funny - Gnome and KDE. Metro is for brain dead point and grunt types who need their chins wiped whenever they smell food.
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Google is a surveillance company. That's what they do. That's how they make their money.
I had bought a Nest and two Protects before the sale was announced but I won't buy any more. If it gets discovered that they are harvesting any information from them, I will remove them immediately.
It was a good idea but adding the surveillance and data harvesting aspects makes it something I won't have in my home. Right now they are on probation but it won't take much for me to pull them.
I guess you missed the news that low latency in the time from head motion to change in display image eliminated the distortion, nausea, etc, for pretty much all but a very very sensitive few?
There is also the True Player Games "Totem".
Exactly. Now if only we could get the same peer review process in place at certain media outlets that pretend to be news...
Say hi to all our friends at the API, will you?
You must be from the American Petroleum Institute...
While hydrogen has a very high energy content by weight, it's tough to get much weight in a compact space. One way is compress the heck out of it which introduces pressure vessel requirements and high pressure gas liabilities. Compress it to a liquid and now you have cryogenic liquid issues, boil off, etc. Or use some kind of misch metal or other matrix to "dissolve" the hydrogen in except misch metal is very very heavy and pretty expensive. One other way of storing hydrogen is to store it in a chemical compound like a boron hydrate that you can reversibly remove it from for use and add it back for recharge. But all those are not nearly as simple as pumping a gallon of gas into a vented tank. But hydrogen generally does have range issues. It is hard to store a lot of it by weight in a small space.
Another issue with hydrogen is that it wrecks ozone and it moves easily into the upper atmosphere. It's not catalytic like chlorofluorocarbons, but get a few hundred million hydrogen vehicles refueling every week or three and even tiny little leaks will add up in the upper atmosphere and cream the ozone layer. It also doesn't help that hydrogen leaks out of metal fuel lines by dissolving and diffusing through the metal itself.
Garages and any kind of enclosed space would have to have special venting as well since hydrogen can pool on the ceiling if it escapes since it is lighter than air. Instead of floor drains in low places, there would have to be vents at high places to allow hydrogen a way out to prevent buildup.
It does have the advantage, however, of not pooling under a car and roasting the occupants if it catches fire. It goes up and dissipates very quickly. Also, hydrogen fires aren't loaded with carbon to make them incandescent and like raging radiant heaters. You can stand right next to a roaring hydrogen fire and barely feel it. Put a body part in the fire, however, and you'll feel it. But compared to gasoline, it's actually quite safe as far as fires are concerned. Hydrogen fires are also nearly invisible which can introduce another danger. When people look at fires like the Hindenburg, the dark billowing fire is because of the aluminum paint used to protect the fabric burning. It's not the hydrogen.
Coaster brake?
I've seen way too many internets-enabled things get orphaned and made inoperable when various service providers decide to end support. Some not even all that old.
They either need to guarantee some period of service (which will also call attention to the fact that support will one day be lost along with the ability to use whatever program or device), or allow users some alternative for when they do retire something.
I think it is unreasonable to demand that products be supported in perpetuity, but companies need to also understand it isn't right to orphan and render software or devices unusable. They need to open it up, remove DRM with a patch, or do whatever it takes to allow products people pay for to continue to be used. Or state very clearly (not in the fine print) that said device or software will likely cease to work past some date, but is guaranteed to work until that date.
There is precedence for this in DVD digital downloads. They clearly state the download is available until some time or other, and the buyer knows when that date is (if they read the package).
What's that, LaSSL? Timmy fell down the well? ;-)
Good question seeing how there are image management companies that will do precisely what this person has done on behalf of companies with image problems such as Google.
I love the part where he says he has never had a virus. I wonder how he knows that. Does he md5sum his entire drive or otherwise fingerprint his system? Does he not know that virus scanners can give a system a clean bill of health if an infection is not in their library or if the scanner itself has been compromised?
It's not like the old days where you knew you had an infection because your computer started banging the hard drive heads against the stops or running your monitor at the wrong frequency to overheat it.
Anyone claiming they have never been compromised should always keep in mind and add " that I know of ".
I run Linux at both work and home. At home I run multiple instances on multiple computers (4). No dual boot though I still have an XP partition hanging around with old data but it is no longer a dual boot partition.
Whoever marked this as off topic didn't read the source material. This comment was really quite funny!
"So altering the period of oscillation should be possible by influencing the production of calcium ions, perhaps using light or biochemistry." Slime mold calls to submarines!
I see what you did there. That's funny!
"Here's a hint as to how important the UI is to an OS, you can freely replace them with no real affect on the overall system barring resources used by the UI."
Without the UI, an OS is just a command line interface which is itself a UI, albeit not a very useful one for a lot of people.
I just recently broke down and installed 8.1 since some software I was needing to run simply would not run under Linux. While some things really run fast and well under 8.1, it is the most obnoxious interface I have ever used. Things that used to be two clicks or even one in XP and still are in Linux now take 8-10 clicks in and out of Metro to do the same thing. It's terrible.
I can navigate around it, but 8.1 gets in the way of everything most people would try to do on a desktop. My desktop doesn't have a touch screen, doesn't need giant fonts, doesn't need all the garish stupid tiles that are just a waste of space and really only a distraction.
Linux is so much better it isn't even funny - Gnome and KDE. Metro is for brain dead point and grunt types who need their chins wiped whenever they smell food.
Exactly.
They say 100 watts at 5 volts. This new cable will carry 20 amps?
I loved "The first iteration will have a 5 volt power transfer rate".
Classic.
The fish is nice too...
All of them?
Here is what the corona discharges look like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Pretty amazing, really.
Bet you only get to count to one...
How much to write your name in Mars dust using the gripper?
Or draw gripper drawings in the Mars dust.
Or drive around and leave tracks that spell out a message in cursive...
It has the added ability of being readable by eye if your opto-mechanical reader ever fails.
But I suggest punch cards as they seem more durable.