WOA will likely be for iPad knockoffs and the like. MS is just making a "AppStore" for those types of users. Heck Win 8 will have access to the "AppStore" on windows 8 as well making it an identical experience as the appstore on the OS X Lion. MS is really really trying to push apps so they can catch up to Apple on cool factor, can skim a percentage of everything and can have all the joy of being a gatekeeper for the platform. Their trying to make the arguement "why wouldn't you target WinRT and get everyone rather than Win32 and only get Intel/desktop people?".
A lot of people don't understand or are afraid of tech. Box stores give the illusion that they'll have someone to hold your hand and tell you want you need to get that home theater going. Online shopping only works for people when they are reasonably sure what they are looking for. This is why book stores are going the way of the dodo, people know the authors they like and can get the identical item online. For a computer you might have to stare for 10 minutes trying to figure out why two slightly different models are $200 difference in price. But you still don't get the goofy kid saying "oh that is a great computer it will plug right into your TV". For a lot of people not knowing and not even knowing how to properly search for the info online means they want a store.
These people will get rarer with time but I think we have 20 or so years before we've gotten rid of the generation that hasn't grown up with computers.
I think the two aren't exclusive. I might be wrong of course but in my mind FTL doesn't mean time has to go backwards. FTL just means more of space-time is accessible from any other point in spacetime in the forward direction. It still takes positive time to get somewhere FTL it is just when us slower than light guys look at it afterwards and assume it must be slower than light too and back project the cause further back in time than it actually was. Flying police boxes would be cool, though I'd like to get that shuttle from that episode of ST-TNG where the thief from the past visits with a several hundred year later piece of technology. Looked more comfortable.
Reminds me of a user that walking into my office once on a Thursday looking for 20TB of SAN space that didn't exist for the weekend I think it was. "Oh it isn't available when can you get it?" Lets see, get approval for 10k of hardware, order it, receive it format it, set it up and assign it to your group, ~3 weeks... not the answer they were looking for:-)
Another example of a boss where everything was trivial: I worked in a machine shop for about 6 months. Boss calculated how many parts per hour and then how many parts per shift based on the theoretical speed of the machine. Problem was every 15 minutes the machine had to be setup for the next batch of parts which took about 3 minutes ie ~20% of the time. Also breaks and lunch. Every day he'd come and say why did you only get 33 batches of parts done you should have gotten 40 and I'd tell him yeah but 33X3 minutes of setup time and 1hr of lunch and breaks and their you go I actually managed to get 3 or so parts done than I shouldn't have because I split my lunch in two to run the machine while I was eating. This douche also thought I should clean up the factory "in my spare time" while doing this theoretical amount of work. Super pointy headed boss.
Saves them driving around and trying to find people at home to ask them if they are still using that car or calling several times to get them at home. This way the cars come to them and they move half a mile at most to pull the guy over and do their thing. That said can also catch stolen vehicles, cars registered to people wanted on a warrant etc. The guys on the warrant are probably pretty popular since you might not know where they are living but they often will be stupid enough to continue to drive their cars (or give them to their girlfriends who will likely know where they are).
Why should it be the car that is insured, at least in the case of liability? I can see needing property insurance to cover things like theft and fire but for actual "I just hit a dude" insurance it should be the driver that is insured. They don't give you separate drivers test for each car that you drive so presumably they are assuming that you are equally qualified to drive any vehicle in the class you are licensed for. Than it would seem to imply that the risk of an accident is tied to the driver not to the car. A stupid driver in a mustang is approximately equal to the same stupid driver operating a F150 truck. It is not the truck or car that makes the guy a risk but the driving habits of the driver.
1) Resources that are limited and have a larger demand for them than resources exist. How often does a criminal get away because the police have to make a call and say 2 weeks of surveillance is all we can afford for this case before we need to move on?
2) So? Making laws hard to enforce isn't the solution. Changing the laws are. You can argue that making laws easier to enforce is universally good. Good laws should be universally enforced. Bad laws that the police routinely ignore because they are inconvenient and only enforce when they feel like it (because they have a quota on the number of tickets they need to issue, someone got caught driving while black etc) again is a bad thing because it is a subjective enforcement of laws and not fair. If everyone was pulled over for doing something that shouldn't be illegal in the first place it would quickly become a political issue and the law would be changed.
Also rate of checks. If an officer has to look at the plate and type it in wait for a response and then act on it they can only look at a very small fraction of the cars that pass them in a day. If they can go about their business and have an alert whenever something interesting comes up it is a much better screening technique. It pisses me off how many drivers pull across crosswalks waiting for an opening for a right hand turn for example. I wish cops fined people more for that as it is insanely dangerous but most can't be bothered because of the paperwork. If the traffic lights just snapped a picture of someone doing that and mailed out the ticket it would be a better world: more revenue for the city, hopefully a reduction in people doing it, and if not at least the idiots would be paying the idiot tax.
As a later post alludes to they already can do that anyways. All they got to do is pull you over for a "random" chat to see if you are impaired and "smell weed'. If a cop is going to go out of their way to abuse your rights they can do it with a notepad and pen just as easy as they can with a computer being the one that reads your licence plate.
Let me guess you are from the US and are a republican.
Sure the police COULD do that but there are laws against them doing that already. Ie if they were systematically surveying people without cause they would have a problem. A one off (or two off in the case of determining if someone was speeding or not) doesn't go to the same level as storing things and following them around constantly. As long as the system doesn't store information for say longer than a days worth of travel at a time I don't care. If I sped than I deserve the fine whether it is a couple photos and a computer that determines I was speeding or a cop following me.
Should be a relatively easy thing to do as well since plates are all roughly standard number of characters, type of font etc. Much harder handling an unknown language and character count.
Ah but prove causality. A lot of physics starts from what we consider to be reasonable assumptions for how the universe works and than goes from there. That was the whole screwiness with quantum theory it removed a clear predictive chain of causality from the universe. You have things that are much more likely but you essentially have no certainty.
FTL can have causality it is just our mindset that would make it difficult for us to understand. For example if you know the concepts of light cones, where everything is inside the cone that is reachable at less than the speed of light (what we would consider possibility causal since light could get there to cause the state we see locally) and everything outside of the cone is "space-like" and not in causal contact with the events in the cone since light couldn't get to that space time coordinate from the points inside the cone. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_cone)
Now posit FTL travel, which is a valid solution of the relativitistic equations for a mass since it is just the negative root of a quadratic equation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyon). All that this would mean is that the slope of the sides of the causality cones goes to 0 since a tachyon with an infinite velocity is possible (actually it is the lowest energy tachyon possible since they gain energy by slowing down), thus everything potentially becomes causally linked to each other. You end up thinking things magically happen before their causes (sort of time travel) because we live in the slower than light solutions of the equations so are biased to assume everything causal has to be less than tXc distance away in space time to be linked, but that isn't actually the case.
Mah anyways a long tangent to say: what sounds reasonable and is used to form the bases of our exploration into physics and we assume to be provably true, are often not the case but just "true" from our biased standpoint.
Agreed and what people buy versus what is available is two different things too. Me having a 50Mbps connection makes the averages of 5 other people with 256kb connections average out to a decent 5Mbps but you still have 5 frustrated people and one happy person. Add to that most people buy relatively cheap plans so even if 50Mbps is available a lot of people still have 4-16Mbps because that is what is in the $50 range.
Oh and my night vision is pretty good too. I usually work with machines with the light out and my coworkers are stumbling around. Mah, helps me see the lasers better than with the lights on and everything being bright. Also was very useful when sneaking up on people when I was in the army:-)
In the video they said that a teacher noticed that he had to squint in the sunlight when playing. Question: how do you tell when a chinese kid is squinting? Seriously though how do you tell? Some asians have eyes that look more or less closed all the time so how do you tell the difference between someone with normally mostly closed eyes and one that squinting in normal light because it is too bright for them? Wouldn't it be more of the case that you'd notice it when the kid was in a darker room that, "oh look his eyes can open up more"?
I get greater than 5MBps on my 50Mbps Rogers connection (so pretty close to theoretical max and the rest is probably overhead anyways). But that is only for a dedicated download server that is fast. Trying to pull something from a torrent best I've done is about 1.5MBps on something really popular (like a House episode), more typical is about 500KBps. But that said 500KBps is fast enough that I can download 720p faster than I can watch it so it doesn't really matter much to me.
The beauty is though in Canada most of the population is in big cities. About half of our population lives in the top 10 cities. Heck nearly a third of the country lives in the bottom half of Ontario. So comparing the "average" canadian we might look pretty good but mainly because we for the most part live in large cities. For the 30% or so not in a big city life can suck, 25Mbps on a LTE dongle for $91 for a 9GB monthly cap assuming you can get a signal in the hicks.
I don't know about "almost nothing". I have 50/2 Mbps cable for ~$100 a month. 250 cap I think it is. 50c per GB after up to an extra $50. So in practice me and the two other guys I live with download as much as we want and it costs $150 a month. Not bad compared to actually having to pay for all that porn but still not cheap. I write off the 2/3rds of the internet though because the other guys are tenants and it is operating expense:-)
Agreed. For example it depends what you are interested in. If you want to prove copyright infringement you might need to store enough of the file to be able to prove that it wasn't fair use. But if you are looking for a terrorist chances are their stuff is going to be relatively small: emails, a few pictures, not a 4GB DVD rip. Buffer crap when you see things like bomb, die, american scum etc save the whole thing. Otherwise ignore.
Just to screw with NSA every once in a while I through in a "Hail Hitler, death to America jerka jerka Jihad" just to waste their time.
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WOA will likely be for iPad knockoffs and the like. MS is just making a "AppStore" for those types of users. Heck Win 8 will have access to the "AppStore" on windows 8 as well making it an identical experience as the appstore on the OS X Lion. MS is really really trying to push apps so they can catch up to Apple on cool factor, can skim a percentage of everything and can have all the joy of being a gatekeeper for the platform. Their trying to make the arguement "why wouldn't you target WinRT and get everyone rather than Win32 and only get Intel/desktop people?".
A lot of people don't understand or are afraid of tech. Box stores give the illusion that they'll have someone to hold your hand and tell you want you need to get that home theater going. Online shopping only works for people when they are reasonably sure what they are looking for. This is why book stores are going the way of the dodo, people know the authors they like and can get the identical item online. For a computer you might have to stare for 10 minutes trying to figure out why two slightly different models are $200 difference in price. But you still don't get the goofy kid saying "oh that is a great computer it will plug right into your TV". For a lot of people not knowing and not even knowing how to properly search for the info online means they want a store.
These people will get rarer with time but I think we have 20 or so years before we've gotten rid of the generation that hasn't grown up with computers.
Might be even better: sell it at a discount "as is".
But not for a baritone I take it?
I think the two aren't exclusive. I might be wrong of course but in my mind FTL doesn't mean time has to go backwards. FTL just means more of space-time is accessible from any other point in spacetime in the forward direction. It still takes positive time to get somewhere FTL it is just when us slower than light guys look at it afterwards and assume it must be slower than light too and back project the cause further back in time than it actually was. Flying police boxes would be cool, though I'd like to get that shuttle from that episode of ST-TNG where the thief from the past visits with a several hundred year later piece of technology. Looked more comfortable.
Reminds me of a user that walking into my office once on a Thursday looking for 20TB of SAN space that didn't exist for the weekend I think it was. "Oh it isn't available when can you get it?" Lets see, get approval for 10k of hardware, order it, receive it format it, set it up and assign it to your group, ~3 weeks ... not the answer they were looking for :-)
Another example of a boss where everything was trivial: I worked in a machine shop for about 6 months. Boss calculated how many parts per hour and then how many parts per shift based on the theoretical speed of the machine. Problem was every 15 minutes the machine had to be setup for the next batch of parts which took about 3 minutes ie ~20% of the time. Also breaks and lunch. Every day he'd come and say why did you only get 33 batches of parts done you should have gotten 40 and I'd tell him yeah but 33X3 minutes of setup time and 1hr of lunch and breaks and their you go I actually managed to get 3 or so parts done than I shouldn't have because I split my lunch in two to run the machine while I was eating. This douche also thought I should clean up the factory "in my spare time" while doing this theoretical amount of work. Super pointy headed boss.
Saves them driving around and trying to find people at home to ask them if they are still using that car or calling several times to get them at home. This way the cars come to them and they move half a mile at most to pull the guy over and do their thing. That said can also catch stolen vehicles, cars registered to people wanted on a warrant etc. The guys on the warrant are probably pretty popular since you might not know where they are living but they often will be stupid enough to continue to drive their cars (or give them to their girlfriends who will likely know where they are).
Why should it be the car that is insured, at least in the case of liability? I can see needing property insurance to cover things like theft and fire but for actual "I just hit a dude" insurance it should be the driver that is insured. They don't give you separate drivers test for each car that you drive so presumably they are assuming that you are equally qualified to drive any vehicle in the class you are licensed for. Than it would seem to imply that the risk of an accident is tied to the driver not to the car. A stupid driver in a mustang is approximately equal to the same stupid driver operating a F150 truck. It is not the truck or car that makes the guy a risk but the driving habits of the driver.
Any girls in blue willing to give you a tug?
1) Resources that are limited and have a larger demand for them than resources exist. How often does a criminal get away because the police have to make a call and say 2 weeks of surveillance is all we can afford for this case before we need to move on?
2) So? Making laws hard to enforce isn't the solution. Changing the laws are. You can argue that making laws easier to enforce is universally good. Good laws should be universally enforced. Bad laws that the police routinely ignore because they are inconvenient and only enforce when they feel like it (because they have a quota on the number of tickets they need to issue, someone got caught driving while black etc) again is a bad thing because it is a subjective enforcement of laws and not fair. If everyone was pulled over for doing something that shouldn't be illegal in the first place it would quickly become a political issue and the law would be changed.
Also rate of checks. If an officer has to look at the plate and type it in wait for a response and then act on it they can only look at a very small fraction of the cars that pass them in a day. If they can go about their business and have an alert whenever something interesting comes up it is a much better screening technique. It pisses me off how many drivers pull across crosswalks waiting for an opening for a right hand turn for example. I wish cops fined people more for that as it is insanely dangerous but most can't be bothered because of the paperwork. If the traffic lights just snapped a picture of someone doing that and mailed out the ticket it would be a better world: more revenue for the city, hopefully a reduction in people doing it, and if not at least the idiots would be paying the idiot tax.
As a later post alludes to they already can do that anyways. All they got to do is pull you over for a "random" chat to see if you are impaired and "smell weed'. If a cop is going to go out of their way to abuse your rights they can do it with a notepad and pen just as easy as they can with a computer being the one that reads your licence plate.
Let me guess you are from the US and are a republican.
Sure the police COULD do that but there are laws against them doing that already. Ie if they were systematically surveying people without cause they would have a problem. A one off (or two off in the case of determining if someone was speeding or not) doesn't go to the same level as storing things and following them around constantly. As long as the system doesn't store information for say longer than a days worth of travel at a time I don't care. If I sped than I deserve the fine whether it is a couple photos and a computer that determines I was speeding or a cop following me.
Should be a relatively easy thing to do as well since plates are all roughly standard number of characters, type of font etc. Much harder handling an unknown language and character count.
And our penises are larger, don't for get the penises.
Ah but prove causality. A lot of physics starts from what we consider to be reasonable assumptions for how the universe works and than goes from there. That was the whole screwiness with quantum theory it removed a clear predictive chain of causality from the universe. You have things that are much more likely but you essentially have no certainty.
FTL can have causality it is just our mindset that would make it difficult for us to understand. For example if you know the concepts of light cones, where everything is inside the cone that is reachable at less than the speed of light (what we would consider possibility causal since light could get there to cause the state we see locally) and everything outside of the cone is "space-like" and not in causal contact with the events in the cone since light couldn't get to that space time coordinate from the points inside the cone. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_cone)
Now posit FTL travel, which is a valid solution of the relativitistic equations for a mass since it is just the negative root of a quadratic equation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyon). All that this would mean is that the slope of the sides of the causality cones goes to 0 since a tachyon with an infinite velocity is possible (actually it is the lowest energy tachyon possible since they gain energy by slowing down), thus everything potentially becomes causally linked to each other. You end up thinking things magically happen before their causes (sort of time travel) because we live in the slower than light solutions of the equations so are biased to assume everything causal has to be less than tXc distance away in space time to be linked, but that isn't actually the case.
Mah anyways a long tangent to say: what sounds reasonable and is used to form the bases of our exploration into physics and we assume to be provably true, are often not the case but just "true" from our biased standpoint.
Agreed and what people buy versus what is available is two different things too. Me having a 50Mbps connection makes the averages of 5 other people with 256kb connections average out to a decent 5Mbps but you still have 5 frustrated people and one happy person. Add to that most people buy relatively cheap plans so even if 50Mbps is available a lot of people still have 4-16Mbps because that is what is in the $50 range.
Two statements not one. Half of population in 10 cities scattered across. Second statement 1/3 in bottom half (Ottawa and south).
Oh and my night vision is pretty good too. I usually work with machines with the light out and my coworkers are stumbling around. Mah, helps me see the lasers better than with the lights on and everything being bright. Also was very useful when sneaking up on people when I was in the army :-)
In the video they said that a teacher noticed that he had to squint in the sunlight when playing. Question: how do you tell when a chinese kid is squinting? Seriously though how do you tell? Some asians have eyes that look more or less closed all the time so how do you tell the difference between someone with normally mostly closed eyes and one that squinting in normal light because it is too bright for them? Wouldn't it be more of the case that you'd notice it when the kid was in a darker room that, "oh look his eyes can open up more"?
post 20 instead, yep that is about right ;-)
I get greater than 5MBps on my 50Mbps Rogers connection (so pretty close to theoretical max and the rest is probably overhead anyways). But that is only for a dedicated download server that is fast. Trying to pull something from a torrent best I've done is about 1.5MBps on something really popular (like a House episode), more typical is about 500KBps. But that said 500KBps is fast enough that I can download 720p faster than I can watch it so it doesn't really matter much to me.
The beauty is though in Canada most of the population is in big cities. About half of our population lives in the top 10 cities. Heck nearly a third of the country lives in the bottom half of Ontario. So comparing the "average" canadian we might look pretty good but mainly because we for the most part live in large cities. For the 30% or so not in a big city life can suck, 25Mbps on a LTE dongle for $91 for a 9GB monthly cap assuming you can get a signal in the hicks.
I don't know about "almost nothing". I have 50/2 Mbps cable for ~$100 a month. 250 cap I think it is. 50c per GB after up to an extra $50. So in practice me and the two other guys I live with download as much as we want and it costs $150 a month. Not bad compared to actually having to pay for all that porn but still not cheap. I write off the 2/3rds of the internet though because the other guys are tenants and it is operating expense :-)
Agreed. For example it depends what you are interested in. If you want to prove copyright infringement you might need to store enough of the file to be able to prove that it wasn't fair use. But if you are looking for a terrorist chances are their stuff is going to be relatively small: emails, a few pictures, not a 4GB DVD rip. Buffer crap when you see things like bomb, die, american scum etc save the whole thing. Otherwise ignore.
Just to screw with NSA every once in a while I through in a "Hail Hitler, death to America jerka jerka Jihad" just to waste their time.