i'd guess, most "lost tools" end up in a co-workers toolbox anyway, so those $ 35.000 are probably exaggerated. then it's more about organizing and making inventory once a year.
and if it's about theft - put rfid-tags into the tools, and cover the exits with scanners. that's cheaper and less prone to fail than lots of expensive toolboxes with embedded computers (btw. - i'd steal the toolbox as a whole, if they were that nerdy)
"Particularly alarming was the number of camera feeds of sleeping babies, which people often set up to protect them, but, being unaware of the risks, don't change the username or password from the default options that came with the cameras."
so, where exactly is the risk of someone seeing my sleeping baby - unless i'm a pedophile and doing dirty things to it live on camera?
btw., as this/. story arrived shortly after some currentC retailers were criticized for disabling the already working apple pay at their shops, this is probably a targeted pr-effort to reduce bad word of mouth in the tech-/early adopters - comunity. judging by the comments here, it looks like it backfired. hehe
no way in hell this has any chance of beating "place your finger on the home button for about a second" - even paying with credit card is much more convenient. there won't be any success with a more cumbersome process.
because a moderately high iq (say around 120) unfornunately doesn't make you socially competent - there are plenty of assholes around that range.
i'd argue that if you were smart enough - say 140 or above - you'd see the futility of being a total dick. but you'd probably have no energy problems anyways if you gas anybody below that. also, tv would be better.
since Descent, there have not been a lot of games where you have to navigate through 3d space without a sense of "up" or down". loved it, back in the day - gimme a kickstarter-remake to back. a new game would be even better (as long as they don't dumb down the level-design)
obviously, under ideal conditions for the samsung (brightly lit, mounted to a tripod, canon lens stopped down, canon footage graded in post to match the overly sharp look & oversaturated colors of the galaxy), they will produce similar videos.
but that's the one exception, not the rule.
they already got the software - i'd shell out 300 for the wiiU in a heartbeat if i'd get a huge library of vintage games for free.
and then get talking to third party devolopers about downloadable software - wiiU and 3ds don't need multimillion $ AAA titles where they can't compete in terms of hardware with ps4/xboxo/pc anyway. but they good enough to compete with smartphines & tablets, they even got the physical controller as an advantage (sure you can buy a clunky controller for your ipod - but it's probably not widely supported, and drives the cost far beyond a dedicated gaming device like the 3ds - as lomg as you don't take cheaper software from e app store i to account)
i guess at a time where most cars are robotic, they'd have an "emergency mode" that would allow them to drive to the hospital at the top possible speed. also, other robotic cars would make way for a car in emergency mode. so it would probably be safer and faster.
I hated that point as well. especially as you more or less know from the beginning that clooney has to die and then this obviously necessary plot point is executed with blatant violation of the same physics that are plot devices for the rest of the movie.
why couldn't clooney&bullock at least rotate around the iss tethered by elastic cables?
they had a footnote next to the "up to 1.3 Gbps" claim, explaining that it's "Based on theoretical peak speeds. Actual speeds will be lower.".
so, thanks for this enlightening article for us people who have no clue about technology whatsoever - and don't know how a footnote works or what the phrase "up to" means either.
internal flash isn't a bad thing for a video editor - you wouldn't want to have your footage on your system drive anyway.
I can't see any relevant pluses (besides silent operation) too - size doesn't matter that much - pros would rather not spend a lot of money for new enclosures or replacements for their now homeless red rocket cards, video I/O Cards, LTO controllers, internal hdds,...
also, a lot of people use adobe software (after effects, premiere,...) which gets a huge performance boost from nvidia CUDA cards (think times 30-100 for some rendering-jobs) .
the small form factor would make sense if it was rack-mountable - otherwise not so much. also there's no connectivity on the front - you have to turn around the whole thing every time you want to plug in an external harddrive - good luck with tons of cables already sticking out of it.
i could see myself buying one if i'd also had the money for an external thunderbolt raid and if adobe would port their mercury-engine to openCL (or if apple offered a BTO Mac-Pro with Nvidia Cards)
there are some field monitors for video/film work out there that have fullhd resolution. you'd still need an external battery and they are probably way more expensive than anything you'd want to spend on a monitor (think 1-3 13inch MBPs), but still...
maybe - with a little bit of hacking - you could get something like an ipad retina display and hook it up to your computer. have a look at this:
http://emerythacks.blogspot.co.at/2013/04/connecting-ipad-retina-lcd-to-pc.html
the raw-codec-party is quite a different thing than the exchangable-lens-mount-party. if it's about some quick ENG-style filming, i'd choose the sony in a heartbeat. but when it comes to budget movie shooting/color-grading, the bolex (and the black magic camera) are definitely something to take into consideration. also, you can use old c-mount lenses which probably won't cover the whole sensor of a sony.
asking customers politely to buy the software after trying, providing an unlock-code for those who do, or limit your demo in an insignificant - but in the long run: annoying - way. (e.g., disable drag 'n drop - import). don't use any copy-protection. this way customers can try your product, but will get annoyed by the friendly "buy me"-pop-up if they like it and use it on a regular basis. pirates on the other hand probably won't bother removing only the pop-up/slight limitation if the product is otherwise fully functional.
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i'd guess, most "lost tools" end up in a co-workers toolbox anyway, so those $ 35.000 are probably exaggerated. then it's more about organizing and making inventory once a year. and if it's about theft - put rfid-tags into the tools, and cover the exits with scanners. that's cheaper and less prone to fail than lots of expensive toolboxes with embedded computers (btw. - i'd steal the toolbox as a whole, if they were that nerdy)
no, it's about default passwords. in your analogy, that would be like looking for the keys under the doormat or in other obvious hiding places.
guess what - my door is never locked, but i'll give you a good-hiding if you come and try whether it is locked.
"Particularly alarming was the number of camera feeds of sleeping babies, which people often set up to protect them, but, being unaware of the risks, don't change the username or password from the default options that came with the cameras." so, where exactly is the risk of someone seeing my sleeping baby - unless i'm a pedophile and doing dirty things to it live on camera?
btw., as this /. story arrived shortly after some currentC retailers were criticized for disabling the already working apple pay at their shops, this is probably a targeted pr-effort to reduce bad word of mouth in the tech-/early adopters - comunity. judging by the comments here, it looks like it backfired. hehe
no way in hell this has any chance of beating "place your finger on the home button for about a second" - even paying with credit card is much more convenient. there won't be any success with a more cumbersome process.
because a moderately high iq (say around 120) unfornunately doesn't make you socially competent - there are plenty of assholes around that range. i'd argue that if you were smart enough - say 140 or above - you'd see the futility of being a total dick. but you'd probably have no energy problems anyways if you gas anybody below that. also, tv would be better.
but regarding the first question - how long were the ramp-times of your plants?
since Descent, there have not been a lot of games where you have to navigate through 3d space without a sense of "up" or down". loved it, back in the day - gimme a kickstarter-remake to back. a new game would be even better (as long as they don't dumb down the level-design)
obviously, under ideal conditions for the samsung (brightly lit, mounted to a tripod, canon lens stopped down, canon footage graded in post to match the overly sharp look & oversaturated colors of the galaxy), they will produce similar videos. but that's the one exception, not the rule.
and releasing a half-baked galaxy gear mark II with pulse and oximetry measuring.
power isn't that much of an issue, when you take it from the perspective that they are competing with smartphones&tablets and hot with the ps4/xbone
they already got the software - i'd shell out 300 for the wiiU in a heartbeat if i'd get a huge library of vintage games for free. and then get talking to third party devolopers about downloadable software - wiiU and 3ds don't need multimillion $ AAA titles where they can't compete in terms of hardware with ps4/xboxo/pc anyway. but they good enough to compete with smartphines & tablets, they even got the physical controller as an advantage (sure you can buy a clunky controller for your ipod - but it's probably not widely supported, and drives the cost far beyond a dedicated gaming device like the 3ds - as lomg as you don't take cheaper software from e app store i to account)
no, it still wouldn't be a safe car, it would just be safer than in the hands of an inexperienced driver.
and stop worrying for another three years.
i guess at a time where most cars are robotic, they'd have an "emergency mode" that would allow them to drive to the hospital at the top possible speed. also, other robotic cars would make way for a car in emergency mode. so it would probably be safer and faster.
I hated that point as well. especially as you more or less know from the beginning that clooney has to die and then this obviously necessary plot point is executed with blatant violation of the same physics that are plot devices for the rest of the movie. why couldn't clooney&bullock at least rotate around the iss tethered by elastic cables?
GottLIEB (which means "loves god" or "loved by god), not Gottleib (which would mean "god's body" or "god's loaf"
they had a footnote next to the "up to 1.3 Gbps" claim, explaining that it's "Based on theoretical peak speeds. Actual speeds will be lower.". so, thanks for this enlightening article for us people who have no clue about technology whatsoever - and don't know how a footnote works or what the phrase "up to" means either.
internal flash isn't a bad thing for a video editor - you wouldn't want to have your footage on your system drive anyway. I can't see any relevant pluses (besides silent operation) too - size doesn't matter that much - pros would rather not spend a lot of money for new enclosures or replacements for their now homeless red rocket cards, video I/O Cards, LTO controllers, internal hdds, ...
also, a lot of people use adobe software (after effects, premiere,...) which gets a huge performance boost from nvidia CUDA cards (think times 30-100 for some rendering-jobs) .
the small form factor would make sense if it was rack-mountable - otherwise not so much. also there's no connectivity on the front - you have to turn around the whole thing every time you want to plug in an external harddrive - good luck with tons of cables already sticking out of it.
i could see myself buying one if i'd also had the money for an external thunderbolt raid and if adobe would port their mercury-engine to openCL (or if apple offered a BTO Mac-Pro with Nvidia Cards)
there are some field monitors for video/film work out there that have fullhd resolution. you'd still need an external battery and they are probably way more expensive than anything you'd want to spend on a monitor (think 1-3 13inch MBPs), but still... maybe - with a little bit of hacking - you could get something like an ipad retina display and hook it up to your computer. have a look at this: http://emerythacks.blogspot.co.at/2013/04/connecting-ipad-retina-lcd-to-pc.html
now we just need to wait for someone to finally build the world's first dirty bomb.
the raw-codec-party is quite a different thing than the exchangable-lens-mount-party. if it's about some quick ENG-style filming, i'd choose the sony in a heartbeat. but when it comes to budget movie shooting/color-grading, the bolex (and the black magic camera) are definitely something to take into consideration. also, you can use old c-mount lenses which probably won't cover the whole sensor of a sony.
asking customers politely to buy the software after trying, providing an unlock-code for those who do, or limit your demo in an insignificant - but in the long run: annoying - way. (e.g., disable drag 'n drop - import). don't use any copy-protection. this way customers can try your product, but will get annoyed by the friendly "buy me"-pop-up if they like it and use it on a regular basis. pirates on the other hand probably won't bother removing only the pop-up/slight limitation if the product is otherwise fully functional.
this only fragments documentation and support. any web developer should know english anyways.