as there is NO 4K content out there, nor will there be any for a long time.
Here's a list of major motion pictures available in 4K. There's no consumer medium for this yet, but theaters with 4K projectors can show this content.
This presents a new problem for the movie industry. They have no delivery format ready to go, yet YouTube can already handle 4K movies. Netflix can probably upgrade. This kills the movie industry's distribution channel.
Perhaps Linux needs a minimalist leader. Throw everything out. Then step by step, bring back features and see what works, and what doesn't. In the process make sure that everything has a consistent look and feel.
It wasn't a huge success, but it panicked Microsoft. For a brief moment, the future of mobile computing was Linux. Windows Vista wouldn't fit on the thing. Microsoft had to re-animate Windows XP to compete.
(It also had a terrible variant of Linux. I have two of the things. The WiFi code is unreliable, and the "union file system" which makes one read-only and one read-write file system appear to be in the same namespace leaks inodes. The hardware is solid, though.)
As someone else points out, it's possible to cram games into the PS3 if you architect them so that the independent parts of the computation are organized to fit in the 256K Cell processors. Converting a game that wasn't designed that way is a huge headache.
Conversion will probably affect gameplay.
Even Sony now admits that the Cell was a dud. The PS4 (if Sony ever gets it out the door) will have a more conventional shared-memory multiprocessor plus a GPU. The extra year or two required to make something run well on the Cell CPU means the Cell-based console lags the market.
The best outcome of a project I have ever been a part of was during a project for an unnamed automobile manufacturers website.
It's a web site. Web sites are rather routine jobs by now. For an auto web site, most of the effort should be going into the graphical design and marketing, not the underlying machinery. Some ridiculously fancy sites with interactive 3D models have been built, but they don't sell cars. Read Lutz's "Car Guys vs. Bean Counters".
There are times when you need really good developers. Real-time control. Advanced mobile robotics. Real-time financial trading. Optimizing compilers. Database internals. Digital signal processing. Speech recognition. Image processing. MMORPGs.
Web sites,no. 3-5 years of experience and a string of competently completed jobs.
Intel has a problem. All the growth in electronic devices is in areas where Intel doesn't dominate. Or even have a presence. They're desperately trying to force some Intel technology into the phone/tablet range of devices.
Wireless charging pads are a good idea, but there are at least three competing standards. The wireless charging industry needs to agree on a worldwide standard. Then get a pad into every business hotel room and every business class tray table.
Unfortunately, they're suffering from a massive case of survivor bias.
Yes. At one time, when the Computer Museum was being set up, I suggested having an "In Memorium" wall with the logos of thousands of failed Silicon Valley companies.
If you have a rackmount case full of big disk drives front-ended by a CPU, the CPU isn't using a big fraction of the power. Nor does it constitute a large fraction of the cost.
ARM is a 32-bit architecture. If you have a few terabytes in your disk array and 10Gb Ethernet going in and out. you might want more than 4GB of RAM in front of it.
The system you described, which is commonly known as "escrow", can be trivially implemented on top of Bitcoin. There are, in fact, several Bitcoin escrow providers already.
No. Escrow involves trusting a third party. That adds risk. Escrow agent fraud has been a big problem on eBay. Also, escrow involves identifying the parties to the escrow agent, so anonymity is lost.
It is even possible to incorporate escrow and arbitration directly into the existing transaction format using N-of-M multisignature transactions.
Multisignature transactions are being implemented, but I don't see that N of M transactions are. It's a good idea, though.
Linux on the desktop failed because free software can't do GUIs. Distributed hack-and-patch development has a long history of bad GUIs. It's hard to find a single open-source desktop GUI application that doesn't suck. From GIMP to Blender to Inkscape, they're all far worse than their commercial competitors.
Open source GUI programs tend towards a collection of random graphical elements in search of an architecture. Often, they're acting as a front end to something that, underneath, has a textual interface. "Buttons and an output text window" programs, like Tortoise CVS/SVN, are common. Wrong answer. The GUI has to understand what the back end is doing.
This is what happens when there's no architect. There's no conceptual unity.
Bitcoin is not a Ponzi scheme. Bitcoin is technically a pump-and-dump.
But that's not the real problem. Bitcoin enables anonymous non-revocable money transfer. That's the scammer's dream.
It's the "non-revocable" that's the problem. Bitcoin is a one-step process. A revocable system is technically possible. It would work like a database commit. A send N units to B, which locks those units for both A and B until A sends a commit or B sends a rollback. If neither event happens after some time limit, there's a disagreement. Either party can then send a ticket to an arbitration service (which arbitration services are allowed was set in the original transaction, in the form of a list of arbitration service public keys) and the arbitration service can make a decision and cause either a commit or a rollback. This could all be done in a distributed, anonymous fashion.
All the Bitcoin technology does is prevent double-spending. We now know that's not enough.
Modern systems don't handle multiple users working on the same thing very well. One of the big differences between most computing and military command and control systems is that screens aren't considered private to users. In most military command centers, staff can look at what other staff are doing. This started with the 1960s space program, where all the consoles were really TV screens, and all the screen data went out over an in-house cable TV network as video channels. Any console could look at any channel, and observers in other rooms could look at channels. SAC and NORAD were set up that way, with the same Philco consoles. That continues today. NORAD HQ today looks like a rather bland room with people at computers, but there's a big video switch so anybody can look at any display, and any display can be put on the big screens in front.
This leads to a style of work where one person is controlling a screen, and others are watching what they're doing. Someone will call out to the room that something important is happening on screen N, and other people will punch up that screen, watch, and take actions or give orders. This is rare in the civilian world, but common in the military one.
A few people with backgrounds in DoD programs work that way. Two well known programmers, Bob Boyer and J. Strother Moore, did this thirty years ago. They had a setup where they both worked at home, with a leased voice line and headsets between them. They were both looking at the same screen, remoted from a time sharing system.
Well, of course. He's a biologist. A full understanding of biology, to the level of understanding that physics provides to mechanical and electrical engineering, is a ways off.
On the genomic side, full genome sequencing for complex organisms is only about ten years old. That just provides the raw bits. Now the meaning and the expressive mechanisms have to be figured out. We're nowhere a tool like SPICE where you put in a DNA sequence and an organism simulation runs. People are still trying to figure out protein folding.
Biology isn't mysterious any more. Just big. Many of the basic small-scale biochemical mechanisms are well understood. That wasn't true fifty years ago. Work today often involves moving up the scale of complexity, trying to understand how the parts interact. There's a long way to go, but progress is rapid. Especially now that there's enough compute power to deal easily with the data sets involved. This is not an area that is stuck with some huge unsolved problem that impedes forward progress. (Compare fusion, rocketry, and the resolution of quantum mechanics with general relativity.)
Can you imagine the state of automobile development if these lawyers, judges, and juries had been around to rule that the first one out the door with a four-wheeled design incorporating an engine and a forward-facing screen owned the automotive universe?
That happened. See
Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers. And it happened with the telephone (Bell won big), radio (Marconi had a monopoly in the early days), copiers (Xerox), and ink-jet printers (HP).
Apple's claims are much weaker; there were phones with screens long before the iPhone, and a whole history of PDA devices.
It's silly that Android phones have to mimic the iPhone so closely. Why not cover the entire face of the phone with screen, get rid of the pushbutton, and move the speaker to the edge of the bezel? (Nikon makes cameras with screens out to the edge, and ASUS builds a phone like that.) And why not do something other than that stupid grid of square icons? (What is this mania for a grid of square icons as the UI for everything?) Or make a round phone, like a pocket watch? Not seeing much innovation here.
The trouble with crowdsourcing is that crowds can be sourced.
I've been pointing this out for several years now. My "Social is bad for search, and search is bad for social" paper covers this. Some review spam is remarkably inept. My favorite, in the paper, is a set of three restaurant reviews that were clearly scraped from reviews of a car wash. Carpet cleaning reviews on Yelp tend to be amusing. The same phrases reappear in many reviews. Many reviews mention a company different than the one being reviewed. We know, of course, that over 80 million Facebook accounts are fake. Many of those fake accounts are being driven by 'bots posting fake reviews and social stats.
Social spam has been around for years, but went big-time in 2010. In Q4 2010, Google merged Google Places results into main web search. Google Places results could be easily spammed with fake reviews before that, but few people had bothered until those results boosted rankings in web search. Then the spam floodgates opened. Google was so heavily spammed that the mainstream press noticed. Google had to back off a bit on using Places results in web search to get their search quality back up.
The legacy of that debacle is that it became widely known that social spam was a safe, almost respectable SEO activity. Link farms, the previous way to spam Google, are expensive to run, and when Google detects one and blacklists it, an entire server farm suddenly becomes useless. Social spam doesn't put SEO operators at risk. The social networks even host the spam for free!
There's a potential winner in this - Amazon. Amazon knows if you actually paid money for the thing. They have identity data from credit cards. Amazon can still be spammed, but the spammer has to spend money, so the cost per spam is high.
Of course Microsoft is spying. They have admitted that they are receiving the data they were accused of receiving. At best they're saying that they won't use the data for advertising purposes.
If they wanted to do this without spying, they could load the signatures of the top 10,000 known-good executables into a file sent out with Windows Update. Those wouldn't need to be checked. Only when some unknown executable showed up would a remote check be necessary.
When a remote check is necessary, Microsoft only needs to see the hash. They don't have a need to know the URL from which the executable came. Only when the user is presented with a dialog indicating that a never-before-seen executable has been found is there any need to send a URL to Microsoft. At that point the user should have the option to delete the executable and not send the URL to Microsoft.
Instead, Microsoft has designed this system to tell Microsoft more than it needs to know to do this job. Thus, it is spying.
If the vehicle had the sensors for parking assist, this could be useful. It's a relatively large car, and with this, you could put it into a compact car space. Parking spaces in major Chinese cities are very expensive and hard to obtain, so there's real value in being able to use a smaller one.
There's nothing wrong with the Raspberry Pi that can't be fixed if you have a digital voltmeter, a scope, an adjustable bench power supply, a surface mount soldering station, and a copy of The Art of Electronics.
If you're not into hardware debugging and are building some kind of "media center", get one of the low-end set-top boxes with an Allwinner A10 Cortex inside. Those will run Linux. They usually come with Google TV/Android installed, but you can flush that and put in something else. They're around $60, for which you get a device in a case and probably a WiFi antenna.
What they're probably going to have is a dollar-denominated debit card. The "Bitcoin" feature will probably just be some way to sell Bitcoins on some exchange and have the dollars credited to the account behind the card. One question is how fast, how reliable, and how non-reverseable the Bitcoin to dollars transactions are. Another question is who stands behind the dollar balances stored in those cards. Is there a separate account in a real bank for each card, or are the funds pooled? If the funds are pooled, the failure of BitInstant will lose you money.
Update - the 3-day prediction cone hasn't reached Tampa yet, but the storm track prediction has moved left. Right now, it looks like Tampa will be on the outer edge of the storm. Probably not too bad.
The National Hurricane Center shows the 3 and 5 day prediction cones. The 3 day cone is just now touching the tip of Florida. Miami is well inside the 5 day cone, and Miami will definitely be inside the 3 day cone shortly. 5 day cones are somewhat speculative, but once an area is within the 3-day cone, assume it will get hit. The NWS says that they have two hurricane hunter planes up taking observations, and the data from those will feed into the prediction computation for 0000 UTC, in less than 2 hours. So check back then.
If Miami is in the 3-day cone after the next update, it's going to get hit. Remember, hurricanes are typically about 300 miles across.
The question is then how bad things will get. Current prediction is it hitting as a Category 1 hurricane, which is not too bad. It might reach Category 2.
The convention starts a day after the hurricane hits, so many people will be arriving just as the storm hits on Sunday. Flight cancellations are likely. The "Welcome event" at the ballpark, scheduled for Sunday, will probably be cancelled. (It's a domed ballpark, so maybe not. But attendance will be down.) Probably by Tuesday or Wednesday, Tampa will be cleaned up and running again. The convention schedule, though, calls for the official vote on the Republican presidential nomination to be made Monday evening. Don't be surprised if that slips to Tuesday.
The convention center is right on the waterfront ("awesome waterfront views"), so flooding from storm surges is a strong possibility. There are probably crews placing sandbags right now.
This is actually rather neat. It's a steerable phased array antenna without the phase shifters or delay lines.
If this technology could be adapted to millimeter and submillimeter radar for automotive collision avoidance, it could accelerate the adoption of automatic driving technology. This is a technology that allows conformal antennas, so antennas can be placed behind plastic body parts. For automatic driving to be acceptable automotive design, the sensor suite has to be almost invisible. The Velodyne rotating scanner on the roof is not going to be acceptable. But if the forward looking long range gear was behind the rear view mirror, and the side and rear looking sensors were conformal arrays under body panels, the technology would be almost invisible.
Meanwhile, the technology can be used to replace those mechanically steered TV satellite dishes found on top of RVs.
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as there is NO 4K content out there, nor will there be any for a long time.
Here's a list of major motion pictures available in 4K. There's no consumer medium for this yet, but theaters with 4K projectors can show this content.
This presents a new problem for the movie industry. They have no delivery format ready to go, yet YouTube can already handle 4K movies. Netflix can probably upgrade. This kills the movie industry's distribution channel.
Perhaps Linux needs a minimalist leader. Throw everything out. Then step by step, bring back features and see what works, and what doesn't. In the process make sure that everything has a consistent look and feel.
EEEpc 2G Surf, from 2007. The first "netbook".
It wasn't a huge success, but it panicked Microsoft. For a brief moment, the future of mobile computing was Linux. Windows Vista wouldn't fit on the thing. Microsoft had to re-animate Windows XP to compete.
(It also had a terrible variant of Linux. I have two of the things. The WiFi code is unreliable, and the "union file system" which makes one read-only and one read-write file system appear to be in the same namespace leaks inodes. The hardware is solid, though.)
As someone else points out, it's possible to cram games into the PS3 if you architect them so that the independent parts of the computation are organized to fit in the 256K Cell processors. Converting a game that wasn't designed that way is a huge headache. Conversion will probably affect gameplay.
Even Sony now admits that the Cell was a dud. The PS4 (if Sony ever gets it out the door) will have a more conventional shared-memory multiprocessor plus a GPU. The extra year or two required to make something run well on the Cell CPU means the Cell-based console lags the market.
The best outcome of a project I have ever been a part of was during a project for an unnamed automobile manufacturers website.
It's a web site. Web sites are rather routine jobs by now. For an auto web site, most of the effort should be going into the graphical design and marketing, not the underlying machinery. Some ridiculously fancy sites with interactive 3D models have been built, but they don't sell cars. Read Lutz's "Car Guys vs. Bean Counters".
There are times when you need really good developers. Real-time control. Advanced mobile robotics. Real-time financial trading. Optimizing compilers. Database internals. Digital signal processing. Speech recognition. Image processing. MMORPGs.
Web sites,no. 3-5 years of experience and a string of competently completed jobs.
Intel has a problem. All the growth in electronic devices is in areas where Intel doesn't dominate. Or even have a presence. They're desperately trying to force some Intel technology into the phone/tablet range of devices.
Wireless charging pads are a good idea, but there are at least three competing standards. The wireless charging industry needs to agree on a worldwide standard. Then get a pad into every business hotel room and every business class tray table.
Unfortunately, they're suffering from a massive case of survivor bias.
Yes. At one time, when the Computer Museum was being set up, I suggested having an "In Memorium" wall with the logos of thousands of failed Silicon Valley companies.
If you have a rackmount case full of big disk drives front-ended by a CPU, the CPU isn't using a big fraction of the power. Nor does it constitute a large fraction of the cost. ARM is a 32-bit architecture. If you have a few terabytes in your disk array and 10Gb Ethernet going in and out. you might want more than 4GB of RAM in front of it.
This sounds like some ARM fanboy thing.
So does arbitration.
Only if things get that far. Unless there's a disagreement between the parties, only the parties know about the transaction.
The system you described, which is commonly known as "escrow", can be trivially implemented on top of Bitcoin. There are, in fact, several Bitcoin escrow providers already.
No. Escrow involves trusting a third party. That adds risk. Escrow agent fraud has been a big problem on eBay. Also, escrow involves identifying the parties to the escrow agent, so anonymity is lost.
It is even possible to incorporate escrow and arbitration directly into the existing transaction format using N-of-M multisignature transactions.
Multisignature transactions are being implemented, but I don't see that N of M transactions are. It's a good idea, though.
Linux on the desktop failed because free software can't do GUIs. Distributed hack-and-patch development has a long history of bad GUIs. It's hard to find a single open-source desktop GUI application that doesn't suck. From GIMP to Blender to Inkscape, they're all far worse than their commercial competitors.
Open source GUI programs tend towards a collection of random graphical elements in search of an architecture. Often, they're acting as a front end to something that, underneath, has a textual interface. "Buttons and an output text window" programs, like Tortoise CVS/SVN, are common. Wrong answer. The GUI has to understand what the back end is doing.
This is what happens when there's no architect. There's no conceptual unity.
Bitcoin is not a Ponzi scheme. Bitcoin is technically a pump-and-dump.
But that's not the real problem. Bitcoin enables anonymous non-revocable money transfer. That's the scammer's dream.
It's the "non-revocable" that's the problem. Bitcoin is a one-step process. A revocable system is technically possible. It would work like a database commit. A send N units to B, which locks those units for both A and B until A sends a commit or B sends a rollback. If neither event happens after some time limit, there's a disagreement. Either party can then send a ticket to an arbitration service (which arbitration services are allowed was set in the original transaction, in the form of a list of arbitration service public keys) and the arbitration service can make a decision and cause either a commit or a rollback. This could all be done in a distributed, anonymous fashion.
All the Bitcoin technology does is prevent double-spending. We now know that's not enough.
Modern systems don't handle multiple users working on the same thing very well. One of the big differences between most computing and military command and control systems is that screens aren't considered private to users. In most military command centers, staff can look at what other staff are doing. This started with the 1960s space program, where all the consoles were really TV screens, and all the screen data went out over an in-house cable TV network as video channels. Any console could look at any channel, and observers in other rooms could look at channels. SAC and NORAD were set up that way, with the same Philco consoles. That continues today. NORAD HQ today looks like a rather bland room with people at computers, but there's a big video switch so anybody can look at any display, and any display can be put on the big screens in front.
This leads to a style of work where one person is controlling a screen, and others are watching what they're doing. Someone will call out to the room that something important is happening on screen N, and other people will punch up that screen, watch, and take actions or give orders. This is rare in the civilian world, but common in the military one.
A few people with backgrounds in DoD programs work that way. Two well known programmers, Bob Boyer and J. Strother Moore, did this thirty years ago. They had a setup where they both worked at home, with a leased voice line and headsets between them. They were both looking at the same screen, remoted from a time sharing system.
Well, of course. He's a biologist. A full understanding of biology, to the level of understanding that physics provides to mechanical and electrical engineering, is a ways off.
On the genomic side, full genome sequencing for complex organisms is only about ten years old. That just provides the raw bits. Now the meaning and the expressive mechanisms have to be figured out. We're nowhere a tool like SPICE where you put in a DNA sequence and an organism simulation runs. People are still trying to figure out protein folding.
Biology isn't mysterious any more. Just big. Many of the basic small-scale biochemical mechanisms are well understood. That wasn't true fifty years ago. Work today often involves moving up the scale of complexity, trying to understand how the parts interact. There's a long way to go, but progress is rapid. Especially now that there's enough compute power to deal easily with the data sets involved. This is not an area that is stuck with some huge unsolved problem that impedes forward progress. (Compare fusion, rocketry, and the resolution of quantum mechanics with general relativity.)
Can you imagine the state of automobile development if these lawyers, judges, and juries had been around to rule that the first one out the door with a four-wheeled design incorporating an engine and a forward-facing screen owned the automotive universe?
That happened. See Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers. And it happened with the telephone (Bell won big), radio (Marconi had a monopoly in the early days), copiers (Xerox), and ink-jet printers (HP).
Apple's claims are much weaker; there were phones with screens long before the iPhone, and a whole history of PDA devices.
It's silly that Android phones have to mimic the iPhone so closely. Why not cover the entire face of the phone with screen, get rid of the pushbutton, and move the speaker to the edge of the bezel? (Nikon makes cameras with screens out to the edge, and ASUS builds a phone like that.) And why not do something other than that stupid grid of square icons? (What is this mania for a grid of square icons as the UI for everything?) Or make a round phone, like a pocket watch? Not seeing much innovation here.
Is Tata (a major company) announcing this, or is it that nut in France saying that Tata is announcing this?
If this idea actually worked, it would be in wide use for indoor forklifts.
The trouble with crowdsourcing is that crowds can be sourced. I've been pointing this out for several years now. My "Social is bad for search, and search is bad for social" paper covers this. Some review spam is remarkably inept. My favorite, in the paper, is a set of three restaurant reviews that were clearly scraped from reviews of a car wash. Carpet cleaning reviews on Yelp tend to be amusing. The same phrases reappear in many reviews. Many reviews mention a company different than the one being reviewed. We know, of course, that over 80 million Facebook accounts are fake. Many of those fake accounts are being driven by 'bots posting fake reviews and social stats.
Social spam has been around for years, but went big-time in 2010. In Q4 2010, Google merged Google Places results into main web search. Google Places results could be easily spammed with fake reviews before that, but few people had bothered until those results boosted rankings in web search. Then the spam floodgates opened. Google was so heavily spammed that the mainstream press noticed. Google had to back off a bit on using Places results in web search to get their search quality back up.
The legacy of that debacle is that it became widely known that social spam was a safe, almost respectable SEO activity. Link farms, the previous way to spam Google, are expensive to run, and when Google detects one and blacklists it, an entire server farm suddenly becomes useless. Social spam doesn't put SEO operators at risk. The social networks even host the spam for free!
There's a potential winner in this - Amazon. Amazon knows if you actually paid money for the thing. They have identity data from credit cards. Amazon can still be spammed, but the spammer has to spend money, so the cost per spam is high.
Of course Microsoft is spying. They have admitted that they are receiving the data they were accused of receiving. At best they're saying that they won't use the data for advertising purposes.
If they wanted to do this without spying, they could load the signatures of the top 10,000 known-good executables into a file sent out with Windows Update. Those wouldn't need to be checked. Only when some unknown executable showed up would a remote check be necessary.
When a remote check is necessary, Microsoft only needs to see the hash. They don't have a need to know the URL from which the executable came. Only when the user is presented with a dialog indicating that a never-before-seen executable has been found is there any need to send a URL to Microsoft. At that point the user should have the option to delete the executable and not send the URL to Microsoft.
Instead, Microsoft has designed this system to tell Microsoft more than it needs to know to do this job. Thus, it is spying.
If the vehicle had the sensors for parking assist, this could be useful. It's a relatively large car, and with this, you could put it into a compact car space. Parking spaces in major Chinese cities are very expensive and hard to obtain, so there's real value in being able to use a smaller one.
There's nothing wrong with the Raspberry Pi that can't be fixed if you have a digital voltmeter, a scope, an adjustable bench power supply, a surface mount soldering station, and a copy of The Art of Electronics.
If you're not into hardware debugging and are building some kind of "media center", get one of the low-end set-top boxes with an Allwinner A10 Cortex inside. Those will run Linux. They usually come with Google TV/Android installed, but you can flush that and put in something else. They're around $60, for which you get a device in a case and probably a WiFi antenna.
Specifically one re-loadable with Bitcoins.
No, probably one re-loadable from Bitcoins.
What they're probably going to have is a dollar-denominated debit card. The "Bitcoin" feature will probably just be some way to sell Bitcoins on some exchange and have the dollars credited to the account behind the card. One question is how fast, how reliable, and how non-reverseable the Bitcoin to dollars transactions are. Another question is who stands behind the dollar balances stored in those cards. Is there a separate account in a real bank for each card, or are the funds pooled? If the funds are pooled, the failure of BitInstant will lose you money.
Update - the 3-day prediction cone hasn't reached Tampa yet, but the storm track prediction has moved left. Right now, it looks like Tampa will be on the outer edge of the storm. Probably not too bad.
The National Hurricane Center shows the 3 and 5 day prediction cones. The 3 day cone is just now touching the tip of Florida. Miami is well inside the 5 day cone, and Miami will definitely be inside the 3 day cone shortly. 5 day cones are somewhat speculative, but once an area is within the 3-day cone, assume it will get hit. The NWS says that they have two hurricane hunter planes up taking observations, and the data from those will feed into the prediction computation for 0000 UTC, in less than 2 hours. So check back then.
If Miami is in the 3-day cone after the next update, it's going to get hit. Remember, hurricanes are typically about 300 miles across. The question is then how bad things will get. Current prediction is it hitting as a Category 1 hurricane, which is not too bad. It might reach Category 2.
The convention starts a day after the hurricane hits, so many people will be arriving just as the storm hits on Sunday. Flight cancellations are likely. The "Welcome event" at the ballpark, scheduled for Sunday, will probably be cancelled. (It's a domed ballpark, so maybe not. But attendance will be down.) Probably by Tuesday or Wednesday, Tampa will be cleaned up and running again. The convention schedule, though, calls for the official vote on the Republican presidential nomination to be made Monday evening. Don't be surprised if that slips to Tuesday.
The convention center is right on the waterfront ("awesome waterfront views"), so flooding from storm surges is a strong possibility. There are probably crews placing sandbags right now.
This is actually rather neat. It's a steerable phased array antenna without the phase shifters or delay lines.
If this technology could be adapted to millimeter and submillimeter radar for automotive collision avoidance, it could accelerate the adoption of automatic driving technology. This is a technology that allows conformal antennas, so antennas can be placed behind plastic body parts. For automatic driving to be acceptable automotive design, the sensor suite has to be almost invisible. The Velodyne rotating scanner on the roof is not going to be acceptable. But if the forward looking long range gear was behind the rear view mirror, and the side and rear looking sensors were conformal arrays under body panels, the technology would be almost invisible.
Meanwhile, the technology can be used to replace those mechanically steered TV satellite dishes found on top of RVs.
Compare with the Polaroid logo.
This tiled-rectangle thing is getting completely out of hand. Even on phones it looks stupid.
Ebay insists you opt-out by paper mail:
You must mail the Opt-Out Notice to eBay Inc., c/o National Registered Agents, Inc., 2778 W. Shady Bend Lane, Lehi, UT 84043.
This appears to be somebody's house.