I dont know about Cancelling my Netflix, but I can tell you that I am one of the many, many Hulu subscribers that is willing to pay a 50% markup to my per month cost just to avoid Commercials ($11.99 vs $7.99).
Though in the case of Hulu it's not actually 100% Commercial Free. Certain shows start with a disclaimer that states "Due to streaming rights, the following is not included in our No Commercials plan and will play with a commercial before and after the show." But we are talking about seven very specific shows, and the commercial is usually 60 seconds or less (plus I always skip the one after the show). Per the current Hulu FAQ the exempt shows currently are: Grey’s Anatomy, Once Upon a Time, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Scandal, Grimm, New Girl, and How To Get Away With Murder. Still a vast improvement overall and one I'm willing to pay the up-charge for.
If Netflix ever introduces commercials, I anticipate they'd include some sort of No Commercials Premium account as well. Though Hulu started with Commercials and added the "upgrade" later; Netflix will be going in the other direction which will cause more uproar. The only way I see them getting away with it would be to offer the Account with Commercials at a lower cost than current subscriptions (as a way to attract new customers) and keep the current subscription price for No Commercials (at least at first). Granted I could be wrong, there was not near the subscriber exodus I would have expected when they split the streaming and the DVD-By-Mail services to separate accounts, effectively doubling the cost subscribers had to pay to get the same level of service.
I disagree. I think you are getting caught up in the semantics of it, rather than the actual functional requirements. Both Planes and Cars are designed to be Reliable, Safe, Fast, and Light (which has been one of the primary sources of increased fuel economy these days). Planes and cars of the same capacity are actually fairly comparable in terms of weight; a fueled Cessna 172 (4 seat) weighs about the same as a Honda Civic. And while Planes are (and rightfully should) be more expensive than an average car (they are a far more capable means of transportation after all), there are certainly automobiles out there that are more expensive than an airplane of equal occupant capacity. And to my mind a lot of that has to do with a)simple supply and demand limiting the sort of high-volume manufacturing that would drive costs down (a popular airplane model might only make 1000 craft, compared to the millions of a popular consumer car), b)the innate exclusivity of a plane under the current regulatory model, and c)the regulatory burden imposed on airplanes by the FAA.
If, on the other hand, you can introduce autonomous control, then you can entirely set aside the whole "Ease of Use vs Hands of an Expert" portion of the equation, which would in turn completely change the regulatory justifications (and ideally lead to a change in the actual Regulations, politics notwithstanding) for the constant inspections by licensed airport personnel and other overhead that drives the operating prices of aircraft up so high.
But of course, for any of that to really take a foothold, we have to not only build the autonomous consumer aircraft, but build and use enough of them for the Public and the various levels of Government to trust them. Which is why autonomous cars will be such an important stepping stone.
Nope, the device specifically does not work if the card is tied to a bank account, it only works on prepaid debit cards. From the the FAQ on the device from the manufacturer's website (https://www.erad-group.com/faqs):
I'm trying to determine the balance on a prepaid debit card but the response I receive from the ERAD-Prepaid Terminal says "Invalid Amount" or "Declined".
ERAD-Intel and ERAD-Recovery will only retrieve balances from open loop prepaid debit cards. Debit cards attached to a valid checking account or valid credit cards cannot be processed using the ERAD-Intel or ERAD-Recovery system.
The device specifically does not work if the card is directly tied to a bank account, it only works on prepaid debit cards, gift cards. From the the FAQ on the device from the manufacturer's website (https://www.erad-group.com/faqs):
Well....there is actually nothing wrong with the physical of air travel. We've kind of been doing it for over a century now. The issues with the perpetually promised "Flying Cars" (ie consumer-grade planes) are in regulation vs liability, and the need for autonomous control. And of course fuel prices. We can and have built Flying Cars/Drivable planes. The issue is that you still need to have a pilot's license. Otherwise you have some nimrod that is texting at the stick plow into the side of a building or crash into the middle of a suburb.
My first reaction was that this was ridiculous, but on second thought the concept itself is not actually all that wrong. It simply relies on a very specific barrier that has not been overcome yet: Gravity. Industrial endeavors of any kind are all very heavy, and current launch methods are all horribly inefficient (the best currently is the Ariane 5 at a little under 39% payload/vehicle weight, but it's still more or less a one-use/disposable vehicle). So for industry of any scale the cost of actually getting the necessary equipment far outweighs, massively outweighs, dare I say it, even ASTRONOMICALLY outweighs any savings you'd have from doing the work in space with a Zero-G environment and 24-hour solar power available (both very real but not immense savings). There is a reason that the International Space Station is the single most expensive object ever created by mankind (at $157 billion it comes in at more than 6 times the cost of the #2 object, the Itaipu Dam).
That being said, if we can manage to get a cheap method of reacting orbit, the primary barrier would be circumvented and it would make all kinds of sense to migrate such things to orbit. As the OP suggested, energy is abundant (both from solar sources and from various theoretical designs of orbital tethers tapping electrostatic energy in the atmosphere or electrodynamic magnetic harvesting. At that point the Zero-G environment would make large scale industrial and manufacturing endeavors much easier, especially if you can accept the idea that by that time the bulk of the raw materials would be harvested from non-terrestrial sources like asteroids, comets, and meteoroids.
Currently the most promising concept on tap seems to be the Orbital Space Elevator. We have basically all the fundamental technologies required with the advent of Carbon Nanotubes (as opposed to more theoretical solutions involving gravity manipulation, for example). It has come down largely to a manufacturing challenge of creating the 22 mile cable required, when currently nothing longer than about one meter has been achieved.
Though to be fair, I dont delve into the comments sections nearly as often, particularly in posts relating to the OS wars which tend to have an above average population of snarky trolls and conversation that more resembles a political riot than cogent discourse. But in this case I wanted to get the specific conversation going to pull out people's personal experiences, both Good and Bad. Overwhelmingly the response has been that as an OS in it's own right it's lackluster at best, a buggy BSOD nightmare at worst, and otherwise just a frustrating and underhanded marketing tool, which explains why all the discussion I had seen had focused on the Bad with little mention of any redeeming qualities. I had hopes (small though they may have been) that it would shake out as a worthwhile performance upgrade, and that some reasonable methods for disabling or circumventing all the various adware/trojan/telemetry/MSOverlord aspects in a lasting way would have emerged but that does not seem to be the case.
I really wanted to say yes, but there are a lot of issues with this concept. It benefits the readers but hurts society at large, (undermining ownership rights, lowering the number of copies floating around for non-owners to discover, use).
The used market is predicated on depreciation preventing people from competing with the original sellers. You buy X brand new for $Y, use it up some, then sell it for $Y - z.
Without depreciation, what you are doing is more similar to renting a book, rather than buying and reselling it. You get full use of it, but it is returned in practically the same state, with only time being gone.
The Depreciation of value after the initial use is an excellent point. A CD (as so many folks are using as their example) is instantly recognizable as being used after it's initial use because it has been removed from it's original packaging. Even if the CD/Case/etc is in perfectly new condition it has lost some value for that reason alone. If they could find a reasonable way to accomplish something similar, flagging the E-book as Used after it's initial sale/purchase so it is recognizable as pre-used, it could accomplish the same thing. Ideally in a way that didnt require you to dial in to some database or other common DRM system. One way Ive seen it done with Video is to add a Watermark with the initial owner/purchaser's identity/screen-name to it. Video streaming services would allow you to download for offline viewing, but it added a string of text in the corner that said who'd downloaded it the first time, so it couldnt be easily repackaged, and so out-of-control duplication would be traceable.
A better question would be to clarify ownership after Death. I bought ebooks, and both they and my account should be inheritable after death.
This is an issue with a ton of Digital media. iTunes had some issues for not allowing next-of-kin access to their late loved-one's music libraries.
I should have the right to sell an commodity I own. Digital or not. Any problem assosiated with that is the original manufacturers problem not mine! Look at DVD's or CD's. They are digital. I can sell a CD, but could have easily copied the songs. How is that any different?
I think that is technically Illegal as well, just inherently limited by the physicality enough that they dont bother fighting it. Though as somebody else noted above, the re-selling markets of physical media all hinge on the idea of depreciated value after it's initial use. Even if the CD is in otherwise perfect condition, it's still not in it's original packaging (usually shrink wrap) and is recognizable as such, so you dont ever get the full value. And if you could get the full value, there wouldnt be any drive for whomever you are selling it to to buy it from you rather than the original supplier/creator/publisher. In my father's time you could resell old comic books back to the store, but they were required to rip off the front cover to prove it had been done. At the time the kids didnt mind they just wanted the story; now there are collectors that would cry over the practice.
Amazon/Kindle now has a system in place to allow you to Loan your books to others, which temporarily disables it to you while giving them access to it. Logically its not different to simply transfer ownership permanently. I use this as an example, there is obvious technological challenge at play. And while it certainly imposes a very tangible and continuing cost on the provider (amazon in my example), I see that as the price they pay for having avoided the costs of physical manufacturing in the first place.
The hololens still operates on the concept of more traditional if transparent displays mounted in glasses/goggles. It's big claim to fame is that they are transparent and have the processing chops to integrate and overlay the display onto objects in your actual environment, like the demo when they build a minecraft world on top of a nearby table. It's still limited by the pixel resolution of the display hardware.
Magic Leap's system can do similar things from what Ive read, but the key difference is the display is actually projecting the image directly onto your retinas, which they claim achieves a far superior display quality, one not limited by a pixel screen that you are simply viewing through.
I expect that I'd respond much differently to a picture of a slice of pizza (to use their example) from one day to the next, or even before vs after lunch time. Hell, if Im craving greasy food vs feeling ill/hungover that day, my responses could be all over the place. Having played with the emotiv EEG headsets before, I know how hard if can be to get a repeatable trigger state without significant sysem training.
Though it would be interesting to discover if a properly motivated infiltrator could actually train themselves to mimic another person's neural response profile, given enough time.
"That's not how they live their life." Aron believes that AMC needs "to reshape our product in some concrete ways so that millennials go to movie theaters with the same degree of intensity as baby boomers went to movie theaters throughout their lives.""
"That's not how they live their life" is precisely why they won't ever go to the movie theater "with the same degree of intensity as Baby Boomers", regardless of whether you give them a dedicated room or any other accommodation. And the same reason their families will never all sit around the dinner table and talk about their days the same way, or gather for a favorite TV show at the same prime time hour each week. Anybody who cannot unplug themselves from their constant flow of input will never lock in to the movie with the intensity of those that actually focus on it.
This is interesting. Duke University has an immersive VR room that works on similar principles but does it a bit better. Rather than a top-only dome with an external display, it is a 3 meter cube, with the display projected on all six sides including the floor. It even tracks your point of view (via a set of lightweight powered VR glasses) to calculate the proper perspective so that object that are supposed to appear inside the room do so properly. It's really an amazing experience, and just a little bit creepy.
http://virtualreality.duke.edu...
I don't actually think it was, it says it was an "After-Party" as in a late night event where there are booze and whatnot, the sort of "What Happens Here Stays Here" event that have always been common for the wrap-up of Conventions where these people who have been under tremendous pressure are allowed to let loose in a safe and company subsidized environment. Kind of like the stereotypical corporate Christmas Party.
There are two separate issues here, as I see it: 1)They hired scantily clad dancers for their after-party, and so long as it was non-mandatory that's probably ok, if not precisely in good taste. Let's be honest, if the conference happened to be in Las Vegas instead of San Fransisco, this would never have made the news. 2)They showed a ridiculous lack of awareness by hiring a bunch of/women/ dancers only, reinforcing the overwhelming Bro-tastic public image that the entire industry has as a misogynistic frat-boy's club that is callous and insensitive to women. On that score they should have known better; it's a real problem and one that they need to be making a better effort to reverse, especially in as public setting as a conference. An equal ratio of Male eye-candy would have been all they needed to avoid the furor. Still not in great taste, but it would have avoided the sexism aspect.
It's not just about childish embarrassment. Often times it's legitimately unsafe behavior. Kids these days are steeped in the internet, but also being taught from a very early age about safe practices, and those are lessons that many of their parent's are simply not exposed to until they see some horror story on Dateline. I recently had to inform a friend that it wasn't a good idea to post a full scan of her son's new Drivers License on Facebook, no matter how proud she was of his milestone accomplishment. In a few years when that kid discovers he has outstanding warrants in some other state because his identity has been stolen and somebody was driving around using his License, it wont be his Fault, but it Will be his problem.
I think you may have misread the OP. It didnt say that they decay into Isotopes of themselves, just that they decayed into previously unknown isotopes of other "slightly lighter elements" which need to be measured and quantified separately.
If your auto dealer installed a camera in your car to snoop on you, an when you complain they say "we updated the EULA", are you going to just accept it?
It is not acceptable to do that in other industries. Why give Microsoft a pass?
GM customers seemed happy to keep doing business with GM after they did just that (well, audio, not video) for OnStar - there were several incidents, from police snooping to bored operators.
I'm OK with laws to enforce privacy, but it's a democracy and if most people don't care, well, we get the government we deserve. In the meantime, consumers also have a duty to stop doing business with assholes. Legal or not, when a company makes an asshole move like this, and you decide to keep doing business with them, well, decisions have consequences.
Well, that would be an option for almost any other industry. But this is the dominant Operating System on the entire planet. To walk away from Windows means either embracing Apple's Walled Garden approach, or delving into the tangled world of Linux. In either case there is a strong possibility that you'll be unable to use most of the Non-Microsoft software you own.
In other words, they are holding your Software hostage by virtue of the culture of prevalent cross-platform incompatibility.
The TMT project evaluated Five locations, with the Cerro Amazones site being the runner up.
- Cerro Armazones, Antofagasta Region, Republic of Chile
- Cerro Tolanchar, Antofagasta Region, Republic of Chile
- Cerro Tolar, Antofagasta Region, Republic of Chile
- Mauna Kea, Hawaii, United States (This site was chosen and approval granted in April 2013, but subsequently revoked in December 2015)
- San Pedro Mártir, Baja California, Mexico
Not to mention the simple technical challenges of operating an actual sensor network at those depths and distances. If it were easy, they wouldn't be waiting on the Telecoms to foot the bill
I do industrial control systems, and while most of it is modern SCADA systems, we still occasionally use good old fashion ice-cube Relay Logic. As in actual magnetic coils pulling mechanical contacts closed, stuck in a box somewhere and arranged in tangled-looking webs to create basic AND/OR Control Logic. This is often the preferred method any time Life-Safety what's being controlled. You have to limit possible Failure Modes, and in those environments the complexity of any modern computer system is actually working against you.
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I dont know about Cancelling my Netflix, but I can tell you that I am one of the many, many Hulu subscribers that is willing to pay a 50% markup to my per month cost just to avoid Commercials ($11.99 vs $7.99).
Though in the case of Hulu it's not actually 100% Commercial Free. Certain shows start with a disclaimer that states "Due to streaming rights, the following is not included in our No Commercials plan and will play with a commercial before and after the show." But we are talking about seven very specific shows, and the commercial is usually 60 seconds or less (plus I always skip the one after the show). Per the current Hulu FAQ the exempt shows currently are: Grey’s Anatomy, Once Upon a Time, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Scandal, Grimm, New Girl, and How To Get Away With Murder. Still a vast improvement overall and one I'm willing to pay the up-charge for.
If Netflix ever introduces commercials, I anticipate they'd include some sort of No Commercials Premium account as well. Though Hulu started with Commercials and added the "upgrade" later; Netflix will be going in the other direction which will cause more uproar. The only way I see them getting away with it would be to offer the Account with Commercials at a lower cost than current subscriptions (as a way to attract new customers) and keep the current subscription price for No Commercials (at least at first). Granted I could be wrong, there was not near the subscriber exodus I would have expected when they split the streaming and the DVD-By-Mail services to separate accounts, effectively doubling the cost subscribers had to pay to get the same level of service.
I disagree. I think you are getting caught up in the semantics of it, rather than the actual functional requirements. Both Planes and Cars are designed to be Reliable, Safe, Fast, and Light (which has been one of the primary sources of increased fuel economy these days). Planes and cars of the same capacity are actually fairly comparable in terms of weight; a fueled Cessna 172 (4 seat) weighs about the same as a Honda Civic. And while Planes are (and rightfully should) be more expensive than an average car (they are a far more capable means of transportation after all), there are certainly automobiles out there that are more expensive than an airplane of equal occupant capacity. And to my mind a lot of that has to do with a)simple supply and demand limiting the sort of high-volume manufacturing that would drive costs down (a popular airplane model might only make 1000 craft, compared to the millions of a popular consumer car), b)the innate exclusivity of a plane under the current regulatory model, and c)the regulatory burden imposed on airplanes by the FAA.
If, on the other hand, you can introduce autonomous control, then you can entirely set aside the whole "Ease of Use vs Hands of an Expert" portion of the equation, which would in turn completely change the regulatory justifications (and ideally lead to a change in the actual Regulations, politics notwithstanding) for the constant inspections by licensed airport personnel and other overhead that drives the operating prices of aircraft up so high.
But of course, for any of that to really take a foothold, we have to not only build the autonomous consumer aircraft, but build and use enough of them for the Public and the various levels of Government to trust them. Which is why autonomous cars will be such an important stepping stone.
I'm trying to determine the balance on a prepaid debit card but the response I receive from the ERAD-Prepaid Terminal says "Invalid Amount" or "Declined". ERAD-Intel and ERAD-Recovery will only retrieve balances from open loop prepaid debit cards. Debit cards attached to a valid checking account or valid credit cards cannot be processed using the ERAD-Intel or ERAD-Recovery system.
Forbes has a slightly more informative write-up: http://www.forbes.com/sites/in...
Forbes has a slightly more informative write-up: http://www.forbes.com/sites/in...
Well....there is actually nothing wrong with the physical of air travel. We've kind of been doing it for over a century now. The issues with the perpetually promised "Flying Cars" (ie consumer-grade planes) are in regulation vs liability, and the need for autonomous control. And of course fuel prices. We can and have built Flying Cars/Drivable planes. The issue is that you still need to have a pilot's license. Otherwise you have some nimrod that is texting at the stick plow into the side of a building or crash into the middle of a suburb.
You are both correct, 22,000 miles. My bad.
My first reaction was that this was ridiculous, but on second thought the concept itself is not actually all that wrong. It simply relies on a very specific barrier that has not been overcome yet: Gravity. Industrial endeavors of any kind are all very heavy, and current launch methods are all horribly inefficient (the best currently is the Ariane 5 at a little under 39% payload/vehicle weight, but it's still more or less a one-use/disposable vehicle). So for industry of any scale the cost of actually getting the necessary equipment far outweighs, massively outweighs, dare I say it, even ASTRONOMICALLY outweighs any savings you'd have from doing the work in space with a Zero-G environment and 24-hour solar power available (both very real but not immense savings). There is a reason that the International Space Station is the single most expensive object ever created by mankind (at $157 billion it comes in at more than 6 times the cost of the #2 object, the Itaipu Dam).
That being said, if we can manage to get a cheap method of reacting orbit, the primary barrier would be circumvented and it would make all kinds of sense to migrate such things to orbit. As the OP suggested, energy is abundant (both from solar sources and from various theoretical designs of orbital tethers tapping electrostatic energy in the atmosphere or electrodynamic magnetic harvesting. At that point the Zero-G environment would make large scale industrial and manufacturing endeavors much easier, especially if you can accept the idea that by that time the bulk of the raw materials would be harvested from non-terrestrial sources like asteroids, comets, and meteoroids.
Currently the most promising concept on tap seems to be the Orbital Space Elevator. We have basically all the fundamental technologies required with the advent of Carbon Nanotubes (as opposed to more theoretical solutions involving gravity manipulation, for example). It has come down largely to a manufacturing challenge of creating the 22 mile cable required, when currently nothing longer than about one meter has been achieved.
Does the submitter even read Slashdot?
Yup, I sure do, Mr AC :-)
Though to be fair, I dont delve into the comments sections nearly as often, particularly in posts relating to the OS wars which tend to have an above average population of snarky trolls and conversation that more resembles a political riot than cogent discourse. But in this case I wanted to get the specific conversation going to pull out people's personal experiences, both Good and Bad. Overwhelmingly the response has been that as an OS in it's own right it's lackluster at best, a buggy BSOD nightmare at worst, and otherwise just a frustrating and underhanded marketing tool, which explains why all the discussion I had seen had focused on the Bad with little mention of any redeeming qualities. I had hopes (small though they may have been) that it would shake out as a worthwhile performance upgrade, and that some reasonable methods for disabling or circumventing all the various adware/trojan/telemetry/MSOverlord aspects in a lasting way would have emerged but that does not seem to be the case.
I really wanted to say yes, but there are a lot of issues with this concept. It benefits the readers but hurts society at large, (undermining ownership rights, lowering the number of copies floating around for non-owners to discover, use).
The used market is predicated on depreciation preventing people from competing with the original sellers. You buy X brand new for $Y, use it up some, then sell it for $Y - z.
Without depreciation, what you are doing is more similar to renting a book, rather than buying and reselling it. You get full use of it, but it is returned in practically the same state, with only time being gone.
The Depreciation of value after the initial use is an excellent point. A CD (as so many folks are using as their example) is instantly recognizable as being used after it's initial use because it has been removed from it's original packaging. Even if the CD/Case/etc is in perfectly new condition it has lost some value for that reason alone. If they could find a reasonable way to accomplish something similar, flagging the E-book as Used after it's initial sale/purchase so it is recognizable as pre-used, it could accomplish the same thing. Ideally in a way that didnt require you to dial in to some database or other common DRM system. One way Ive seen it done with Video is to add a Watermark with the initial owner/purchaser's identity/screen-name to it. Video streaming services would allow you to download for offline viewing, but it added a string of text in the corner that said who'd downloaded it the first time, so it couldnt be easily repackaged, and so out-of-control duplication would be traceable.
A better question would be to clarify ownership after Death. I bought ebooks, and both they and my account should be inheritable after death.
This is an issue with a ton of Digital media. iTunes had some issues for not allowing next-of-kin access to their late loved-one's music libraries.
I should have the right to sell an commodity I own. Digital or not. Any problem assosiated with that is the original manufacturers problem not mine! Look at DVD's or CD's. They are digital. I can sell a CD, but could have easily copied the songs. How is that any different?
I think that is technically Illegal as well, just inherently limited by the physicality enough that they dont bother fighting it. Though as somebody else noted above, the re-selling markets of physical media all hinge on the idea of depreciated value after it's initial use. Even if the CD is in otherwise perfect condition, it's still not in it's original packaging (usually shrink wrap) and is recognizable as such, so you dont ever get the full value. And if you could get the full value, there wouldnt be any drive for whomever you are selling it to to buy it from you rather than the original supplier/creator/publisher. In my father's time you could resell old comic books back to the store, but they were required to rip off the front cover to prove it had been done. At the time the kids didnt mind they just wanted the story; now there are collectors that would cry over the practice.
Amazon/Kindle now has a system in place to allow you to Loan your books to others, which temporarily disables it to you while giving them access to it. Logically its not different to simply transfer ownership permanently. I use this as an example, there is obvious technological challenge at play. And while it certainly imposes a very tangible and continuing cost on the provider (amazon in my example), I see that as the price they pay for having avoided the costs of physical manufacturing in the first place.
The hololens still operates on the concept of more traditional if transparent displays mounted in glasses/goggles. It's big claim to fame is that they are transparent and have the processing chops to integrate and overlay the display onto objects in your actual environment, like the demo when they build a minecraft world on top of a nearby table. It's still limited by the pixel resolution of the display hardware.
Magic Leap's system can do similar things from what Ive read, but the key difference is the display is actually projecting the image directly onto your retinas, which they claim achieves a far superior display quality, one not limited by a pixel screen that you are simply viewing through.
I expect that I'd respond much differently to a picture of a slice of pizza (to use their example) from one day to the next, or even before vs after lunch time. Hell, if Im craving greasy food vs feeling ill/hungover that day, my responses could be all over the place. Having played with the emotiv EEG headsets before, I know how hard if can be to get a repeatable trigger state without significant sysem training.
Though it would be interesting to discover if a properly motivated infiltrator could actually train themselves to mimic another person's neural response profile, given enough time.
"That's not how they live their life." Aron believes that AMC needs "to reshape our product in some concrete ways so that millennials go to movie theaters with the same degree of intensity as baby boomers went to movie theaters throughout their lives."" "That's not how they live their life" is precisely why they won't ever go to the movie theater "with the same degree of intensity as Baby Boomers", regardless of whether you give them a dedicated room or any other accommodation. And the same reason their families will never all sit around the dinner table and talk about their days the same way, or gather for a favorite TV show at the same prime time hour each week. Anybody who cannot unplug themselves from their constant flow of input will never lock in to the movie with the intensity of those that actually focus on it.
This is interesting. Duke University has an immersive VR room that works on similar principles but does it a bit better. Rather than a top-only dome with an external display, it is a 3 meter cube, with the display projected on all six sides including the floor. It even tracks your point of view (via a set of lightweight powered VR glasses) to calculate the proper perspective so that object that are supposed to appear inside the room do so properly. It's really an amazing experience, and just a little bit creepy. http://virtualreality.duke.edu...
I don't actually think it was, it says it was an "After-Party" as in a late night event where there are booze and whatnot, the sort of "What Happens Here Stays Here" event that have always been common for the wrap-up of Conventions where these people who have been under tremendous pressure are allowed to let loose in a safe and company subsidized environment. Kind of like the stereotypical corporate Christmas Party.
/women/ dancers only, reinforcing the overwhelming Bro-tastic public image that the entire industry has as a misogynistic frat-boy's club that is callous and insensitive to women. On that score they should have known better; it's a real problem and one that they need to be making a better effort to reverse, especially in as public setting as a conference. An equal ratio of Male eye-candy would have been all they needed to avoid the furor. Still not in great taste, but it would have avoided the sexism aspect.
There are two separate issues here, as I see it:
1)They hired scantily clad dancers for their after-party, and so long as it was non-mandatory that's probably ok, if not precisely in good taste. Let's be honest, if the conference happened to be in Las Vegas instead of San Fransisco, this would never have made the news.
2)They showed a ridiculous lack of awareness by hiring a bunch of
It's not just about childish embarrassment. Often times it's legitimately unsafe behavior. Kids these days are steeped in the internet, but also being taught from a very early age about safe practices, and those are lessons that many of their parent's are simply not exposed to until they see some horror story on Dateline. I recently had to inform a friend that it wasn't a good idea to post a full scan of her son's new Drivers License on Facebook, no matter how proud she was of his milestone accomplishment. In a few years when that kid discovers he has outstanding warrants in some other state because his identity has been stolen and somebody was driving around using his License, it wont be his Fault, but it Will be his problem.
I think you may have misread the OP. It didnt say that they decay into Isotopes of themselves, just that they decayed into previously unknown isotopes of other "slightly lighter elements" which need to be measured and quantified separately.
Because the support structure required to be able to park UNDER the solar panels is a massive expenditure.
...It will slide through and pass without difficulty.
Huzzah...
If your auto dealer installed a camera in your car to snoop on you, an when you complain they say "we updated the EULA", are you going to just accept it?
It is not acceptable to do that in other industries. Why give Microsoft a pass?
GM customers seemed happy to keep doing business with GM after they did just that (well, audio, not video) for OnStar - there were several incidents, from police snooping to bored operators.
I'm OK with laws to enforce privacy, but it's a democracy and if most people don't care, well, we get the government we deserve. In the meantime, consumers also have a duty to stop doing business with assholes. Legal or not, when a company makes an asshole move like this, and you decide to keep doing business with them, well, decisions have consequences.
Well, that would be an option for almost any other industry. But this is the dominant Operating System on the entire planet. To walk away from Windows means either embracing Apple's Walled Garden approach, or delving into the tangled world of Linux. In either case there is a strong possibility that you'll be unable to use most of the Non-Microsoft software you own.
In other words, they are holding your Software hostage by virtue of the culture of prevalent cross-platform incompatibility.
The TMT project evaluated Five locations, with the Cerro Amazones site being the runner up. - Cerro Armazones, Antofagasta Region, Republic of Chile - Cerro Tolanchar, Antofagasta Region, Republic of Chile - Cerro Tolar, Antofagasta Region, Republic of Chile - Mauna Kea, Hawaii, United States (This site was chosen and approval granted in April 2013, but subsequently revoked in December 2015) - San Pedro Mártir, Baja California, Mexico
Without at least two able to view overlapping chunk of sky, there is a lot we cannot do and learn from them, or so Im told.
Not to mention the simple technical challenges of operating an actual sensor network at those depths and distances. If it were easy, they wouldn't be waiting on the Telecoms to foot the bill
I do industrial control systems, and while most of it is modern SCADA systems, we still occasionally use good old fashion ice-cube Relay Logic. As in actual magnetic coils pulling mechanical contacts closed, stuck in a box somewhere and arranged in tangled-looking webs to create basic AND/OR Control Logic. This is often the preferred method any time Life-Safety what's being controlled. You have to limit possible Failure Modes, and in those environments the complexity of any modern computer system is actually working against you.