Make no mistake this is serious and these people are paid.
The question is, paid by who? He's not just threatening the energy and automotive industries, as SpaceX also happens to be a major problem for competing launch entities, such as the ULA, Russian, and the PRC.
This is another "handle things yourself" situation. I have an Android Phone. No Google Account is attached to it.
I had a supervisor who started having problems with his Verizon android phone crashing frequently. Couldn't figure out why at first, but it turned out there was some aspect of the phone that would crash with no Google Account attached. He barely had any apps installed, so it was likely something that came in the ROM. No Google Account for him of course, he never made one not being a tech savvy person (he didn't even have his own e-mail address, his work e-mails went to his secretary, and any personal emails you had to send to his wife).
I doubt he would have wanted to root his phone to get rid of whatever crap was crashing (it would have been difficult to explain to him what "rooting" was in the first place), so I just showed him how to set up a Google Account (with everything turned off or forwarded elsewhere), and that fixed the problem.
Seriously though, this is only going to be good for VR headsets if it is well-optimized for low latency. Probably won't be, with all the need for error correction and multipath corrections and such that wireless transmission needs.
How can atheism be a religion? Be specific, and provide your definition of "religion"
There's a fable in Hinduism regarding this question. I don't know the details very well, but it concerns an atheist who, upon dying, suddenly found himself face-to-face with God (or maybe a god, I don't know). Startled by this turn of events, the man asked the god how this could be, and the explanation was given -- upon the moment of his death, his last thought was "There is no God".
Paradoxically this meant the concept of God was the foremost thing in his mind when he died, and this was sufficient to connect him to the realm of the gods in his afterlife.
Apple's special treatment I can understand, with Job's reality distortion field and behind-the-scenes arm twisting backed up by the Apple juggernaut. But what about all those little crappy little landfill Android makers back then? Somehow, they were getting smartphones on the market with functional GPS and functional E-mail, at no additional cost.
You sound like an engineering-type, and it sounds like the engineering side of things knew what were the right decisions that needed to be made. But I suspect the Blackberry upper management was busy "synergizing" with the telecomm upper management, and mutually cooperating to figure out how to extract extra value (value from their perspective, not from the customer's view) with each subscription.
I'm also guessing Blackberry management was also busy figuring out how to extract the maximum value from the telecomm companies at the same time, with the various licenses and special servers required to run Blackberries -- and then the carriers passed the cost on down, along with a nice mark-up. Meanwhile, Google was probably giving away all the needed support for "free", with everything being handled by their cloud.
Either way, when I first got my smartphone, the extra monthly cost of owning a Blackberry was simply too much. Early versions of Android were pretty crappy in various ways, but they were just so much cheaper to buy and cheaper to operate.
"it's possible Microsoft found it easier to impose its Android patent tax on Xiaomi as part of a broader deal that also involved a transfer of patents."
Perhaps "easier" in the sense that the PRC government hinted that Microsoft could find itself highly inconvenienced in China, if it acted otherwise? Or perhaps they didn't hint anything, and Microsoft is choosing to be pro-actively obsequious.
Something similar has already been happening to weeabos, who use the term Nico, meaning a smile. Usually either in context referring to the video website Nico Nico Douga or to Nico Tanigawa's catchphrase "Nico-Nico-nii".
Unfortunately, there's also some Iranian corporation by name of NICO, so the term ends up triggering a flag somewhere.
But the damn fool does not realize, his machines won't need food, would not buy entertainment, would not buy a home or pay for college. As more and more employers automate more and more functions and lay off more and more people, he will end up with lots of shiny new machines willing sell food at great profit.... if only there are people with money to buy them.
And this is the point at which he instead tasks his machines with making more and better machines (instead of now-worthless food).
Except most Chinatowns in the U.S. are where non-Chinese people go to eat exotic food, not a separate city-within-a-city where any non-Chinese who enter will be beaten (or worse).
Going back a century or more, Chinatowns were ethnic ghettos not that different from other examples. Brought together by the pull of being close together with familiar people with shared backgrounds -- and the push of being excluded from elsewhere.
Of course, what is different is that the Chinese opened businesses, and so they needed to welcome outsiders to come and spend money there. To the point that in some Chinatowns have become business districts where few Chinese actually still live: https://www.washingtonpost.com...
I"ve sometimes wondered if this behavior is similar to the mobbing behavior you see in certain species such as Monk Seals: http://www.pinnipeds.org/seal-...
"Mobbing" refers to a pathological behavior that occurs when the gender ratio becomes skewed, with an excess of males versus females. The adult males become increasingly aggressive towards females (and immature pups), and will injure and even kill them, as multiple males gang up to play out a violent parody of their normal mating behavior. This problem becomes self-perpetuating as females are hunted down, with natural populations having observed to be driven into ratios as extreme as 3 males for every 1 surviving female.
The ideal location for a wireless base station is up high, centrally located in the home.
Not necessarily. Some antenna designs will have poor signal above and below the unit (as an example, a simple dipole antenna has dead spots there).
And it's not a bad idea to off-load as many things to physical ports as possible (TV streaming device, SAN) when location is not an issue, and when the airspace is already congested, especially for gadgets that are 2.4 GHz only and non-upgradeable. I recently fixed a friend's smart-TV Netflix stuttering problem by switching to a physical line -- her router was only a few feet away but had intermittent problems due to being in a crowded apartment complex.
When they make a full product to sell to consumers, it's always sub-par, and usually has something in there to screw over the user somehow.
I figure that is one of the consequences of being both a media company and a hardware company. The media side of things can't help but keep trying to screw over the consumer.
Why is it cheaper? Don't ask me. But it reportedly is.
Along with the other reasons already listed, I'd say vandalism resistance is important. Large areas of shade cloth could be disabled by people chucking a few heavy rocks into the resevoir. On the other hand, the balls will just move out of the way and then float back.
Sure you could steal some of them, but it'll be difficult to hold more than a few dollar's worth at a time, and they'll be gross and slimy after floating around for a few weeks so I doubt they'd have any value to anyone.
When you mention your weight, that actually brought up a good point. The increasing levels of obesity in this country probably means that those workers need a cooler temperature as well. Many large individuals don't seem to cope well with heat, probably because of their lower surface area to mass ratios.
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Make no mistake this is serious and these people are paid.
The question is, paid by who? He's not just threatening the energy and automotive industries, as SpaceX also happens to be a major problem for competing launch entities, such as the ULA, Russian, and the PRC.
This is another "handle things yourself" situation. I have an Android Phone. No Google Account is attached to it.
I had a supervisor who started having problems with his Verizon android phone crashing frequently. Couldn't figure out why at first, but it turned out there was some aspect of the phone that would crash with no Google Account attached. He barely had any apps installed, so it was likely something that came in the ROM. No Google Account for him of course, he never made one not being a tech savvy person (he didn't even have his own e-mail address, his work e-mails went to his secretary, and any personal emails you had to send to his wife).
I doubt he would have wanted to root his phone to get rid of whatever crap was crashing (it would have been difficult to explain to him what "rooting" was in the first place), so I just showed him how to set up a Google Account (with everything turned off or forwarded elsewhere), and that fixed the problem.
Seriously though, this is only going to be good for VR headsets if it is well-optimized for low latency. Probably won't be, with all the need for error correction and multipath corrections and such that wireless transmission needs.
Only problem is it can not penetrate walls making it essentially line of sight.
In that case, what makes using the 60GHz band better than using Infrared? This is looking like a new higher-bandwidth IrDA.
toDSaH
Wow, Klingons have a word for everything. They're like Space Germans.
How can atheism be a religion? Be specific, and provide your definition of "religion"
There's a fable in Hinduism regarding this question. I don't know the details very well, but it concerns an atheist who, upon dying, suddenly found himself face-to-face with God (or maybe a god, I don't know). Startled by this turn of events, the man asked the god how this could be, and the explanation was given -- upon the moment of his death, his last thought was "There is no God".
Paradoxically this meant the concept of God was the foremost thing in his mind when he died, and this was sufficient to connect him to the realm of the gods in his afterlife.
Apple's special treatment I can understand, with Job's reality distortion field and behind-the-scenes arm twisting backed up by the Apple juggernaut. But what about all those little crappy little landfill Android makers back then? Somehow, they were getting smartphones on the market with functional GPS and functional E-mail, at no additional cost.
You sound like an engineering-type, and it sounds like the engineering side of things knew what were the right decisions that needed to be made. But I suspect the Blackberry upper management was busy "synergizing" with the telecomm upper management, and mutually cooperating to figure out how to extract extra value (value from their perspective, not from the customer's view) with each subscription.
I'm also guessing Blackberry management was also busy figuring out how to extract the maximum value from the telecomm companies at the same time, with the various licenses and special servers required to run Blackberries -- and then the carriers passed the cost on down, along with a nice mark-up. Meanwhile, Google was probably giving away all the needed support for "free", with everything being handled by their cloud.
Either way, when I first got my smartphone, the extra monthly cost of owning a Blackberry was simply too much. Early versions of Android were pretty crappy in various ways, but they were just so much cheaper to buy and cheaper to operate.
"it's possible Microsoft found it easier to impose its Android patent tax on Xiaomi as part of a broader deal that also involved a transfer of patents."
Perhaps "easier" in the sense that the PRC government hinted that Microsoft could find itself highly inconvenienced in China, if it acted otherwise? Or perhaps they didn't hint anything, and Microsoft is choosing to be pro-actively obsequious.
Palmer Luckey: "I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it further."
"Emperor Zuckerberg is not as forgiving as I am."
Whups, mistake. It's Yazawa Nico: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Something similar has already been happening to weeabos, who use the term Nico, meaning a smile. Usually either in context referring to the video website Nico Nico Douga or to Nico Tanigawa's catchphrase "Nico-Nico-nii".
Unfortunately, there's also some Iranian corporation by name of NICO, so the term ends up triggering a flag somewhere.
But the damn fool does not realize, his machines won't need food, would not buy entertainment, would not buy a home or pay for college. As more and more employers automate more and more functions and lay off more and more people, he will end up with lots of shiny new machines willing sell food at great profit.... if only there are people with money to buy them.
And this is the point at which he instead tasks his machines with making more and better machines (instead of now-worthless food).
And that's how the singularity happens.
As long as they never take our waifus.
But sir, what happens if an AI becomes the waifu?
http://www.wired.com/2015/03/n...
Sounds like an interesting progression of the many-small-propellers concept.
So when does the victim ... become the monster? At 15? 18?
When they're no longer small and cute enough to trigger parental instincts.
Except most Chinatowns in the U.S. are where non-Chinese people go to eat exotic food, not a separate city-within-a-city where any non-Chinese who enter will be beaten (or worse).
Going back a century or more, Chinatowns were ethnic ghettos not that different from other examples. Brought together by the pull of being close together with familiar people with shared backgrounds -- and the push of being excluded from elsewhere.
Of course, what is different is that the Chinese opened businesses, and so they needed to welcome outsiders to come and spend money there. To the point that in some Chinatowns have become business districts where few Chinese actually still live:
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
I"ve sometimes wondered if this behavior is similar to the mobbing behavior you see in certain species such as Monk Seals:
http://www.pinnipeds.org/seal-...
"Mobbing" refers to a pathological behavior that occurs when the gender ratio becomes skewed, with an excess of males versus females. The adult males become increasingly aggressive towards females (and immature pups), and will injure and even kill them, as multiple males gang up to play out a violent parody of their normal mating behavior. This problem becomes self-perpetuating as females are hunted down, with natural populations having observed to be driven into ratios as extreme as 3 males for every 1 surviving female.
In some other country somewhere, I'm sure there there will be an official looking at this and thinking Red Star OS is a very good idea.
Liberal Arts Guys Think Engineers are All Killbots
Hoho! How little do those liberal arts guys know -- Engineers aren't killbots themselves, they merely design and build them. For fun.
"Ladies and gentlemen, my killbot has Lotus Notes and a machine gun. It is the finest available."
Speaking of schoolgirls, the Japanese even made a curling manga, title is "Orange Delivery":
http://www.crunchyroll.com/ani...
Looking forward to the many eulogies to be delivered by strangers who did not actually attend her funeral.
The ideal location for a wireless base station is up high, centrally located in the home.
Not necessarily. Some antenna designs will have poor signal above and below the unit (as an example, a simple dipole antenna has dead spots there).
And it's not a bad idea to off-load as many things to physical ports as possible (TV streaming device, SAN) when location is not an issue, and when the airspace is already congested, especially for gadgets that are 2.4 GHz only and non-upgradeable. I recently fixed a friend's smart-TV Netflix stuttering problem by switching to a physical line -- her router was only a few feet away but had intermittent problems due to being in a crowded apartment complex.
When they make a full product to sell to consumers, it's always sub-par, and usually has something in there to screw over the user somehow.
I figure that is one of the consequences of being both a media company and a hardware company. The media side of things can't help but keep trying to screw over the consumer.
Why is it cheaper? Don't ask me. But it reportedly is.
Along with the other reasons already listed, I'd say vandalism resistance is important. Large areas of shade cloth could be disabled by people chucking a few heavy rocks into the resevoir. On the other hand, the balls will just move out of the way and then float back.
Sure you could steal some of them, but it'll be difficult to hold more than a few dollar's worth at a time, and they'll be gross and slimy after floating around for a few weeks so I doubt they'd have any value to anyone.
When you mention your weight, that actually brought up a good point. The increasing levels of obesity in this country probably means that those workers need a cooler temperature as well. Many large individuals don't seem to cope well with heat, probably because of their lower surface area to mass ratios.