VR will never not suck. Even if the technology allowed photo-realistic experiences and was accessible to all, you still have the problem of cutting some of your senses off from your surroundings. It is a totally niche technology that is only viable in very controlled environments like at an amusement park. VR at home will result in lots of broken things, injuries, and friends/family pranking you. VR in public will be a lot worse with all sorts of stupid deaths and a huge increase in muggings.
Robotic prep doesn't threaten their business and it could actually raise their quality. If you live in metropolitan areas then fast food franchises have some of the worst food you can find but they have one enormous strength - consistency. If you ever go on a long road trip and find yourself hungry in some population 5k town in the middle of nowhere with nothing for hundreds of miles then you can be fairly confident going into a McD's that it's going to taste how you expect and not give you food poisoning, but the same can not be said about the local restaurants. The reason it's consistent is because they dumb down the cooking so that it's nearly impossible to fuck up even by 16 yr olds. Robots would allow them to use more cooking techniques without some human burning it, undercooking it, putting too much of something, etc.
Even if it is manufactured and sold outside the country, lots of work inside the US helped to produce it (designing it, programing it, testing it) so shouldn't some portion of the profits still come back?
The bigger issue is that their offshore money is not only from offshore business but it does get "exported" as well. They set up a bunch of shell corporations and then one of their shell companies pays another for whatever reason they make up in order to move money from one country to another. For instance, Google US could take all their profits and pay it to Google Ireland for [insert any reason] and then Google US's taxable income would be $0 so they'd pay no taxes in the US. This is how literally every multinational corporation avoids paying taxes or at least significantly reducing them.
Just because someone works at a tech company doesn't mean they are doing tech related work. It's very contradictory that the media keeps pointing out how few women there are and making a fuss about it but then applauding the companies for trying to be more inclusive but ignoring the fact that the EEOC reports show that all the "women in tech" are actually "women in HR, middle management, and labor." The reports show that only 10-15% women are actually in any sort of tech related role at these companies.
I don't care if a gender likes a job or not but I'm sick of all the news that pretends to care just to get reactions.
Thanks for clarifying that they have to die to convert the lives into points but the OP's reference to 22 levels still seems to be completely irrelevant or at least lacking any context for why it is important.
Really? Really? Because I am familiar enough with several different alphabets, and they all have problems. English spelling (for example) is only somewhat related to pronunciation.
Do you have some examples? AFAICT English spelling is tied extremely close to pronunciation for the most part. The only exceptions I can think of are when words from other languages are converted to English and people decide they need to use letters to make sounds the letters don't normally make.
Take it a step further and don't pay for the first date at all. Still keep it cheap so that you're not using them for $$$, if they didn't bring any money because they were just using you then you can still pay, and if there is a next time then go somewhere a little nicer and pay. After that try to keep it alternating who pays so that nobody is getting used for money.
If it doesn't make sense to you then it might be that you're not considering that uber/lyft are already preparing to have fleets of driverless cars so the majority of cars would be either be run by businesses or possibly even government owned. It would be incredibly cheap and quick to pay with NFC to travel short distances and the streets would be full of driverless taxis to take you anywhere. With the current driver operated cars nobody really considers them to go a few blocks even if they're tired or walking or w/e because the wait to get a ride far outweighs the small convenience of it but if nearly every car is a driverless taxi then people would use them to go near or far.
There are also tunnels which are more aesthetically pleasing above ground but afaik they are even more expensive and have the added downside of being dangerous since they are out of sight (ie. you walk down into one and someone robs/hurts you).
During the transition to driverless cars I think updating the existing push buttons at crosswalks to communicate pedestrians' desire to cross to the car network along with having the cars identify pedestrians appearing to be about to cross at intersections without lights will be needed, but eventually pedestrian crossing could be completely eliminated since anyone could just hop in a driverless car and go a couple blocks away instead of walking and if you wanted to go for a walk/run then you would take a driverless car to a nearby park or gym.
The two of you have "glass half empty vs half full" arguments. On devices supported by Cyanogenmod, they usually provide more recent version of Android than stock ROM's do, BUT usually they need to find updated devices drivers out of updated stock ROM's for other phones with the same hardware as yours. Usually after 2-3 years no manufacturer provides updates and so without updated device drivers, support totally dies off. This is also the reason why there are delays before older phones are updated for newer OS's, old hardware is usually the last to get updates rolled out from the manufacturers which means delayed device drivers.
Part of it is that Google is cherry-picking the easiest locations to deploy fiber in because they already have the infrastructure (underground conduit, possibly with dark fiber already in it) ready to go and a local government that isn't bound by contracts to the existing monopolies. The conditions that make it easy for Google to deploy fiber also make it easy for other ISP's to as well but the existing ISP only do it when they are threatened with the loss of business that Google Fiber presents.
Sonic.net is an independent ISP that has been slowly rolling out fiber to the SF Bay Area even before Google Fiber started but it has been incredibly slow because they only do it to areas where they have high customer density AND all the other ideal conditions. It's difficult to tell how much of it depends on existing infrastructure VS regulatory red tape VS existing customer base.
Someone needs to proofread the terribly written submissions and actually edit them to be better grammatically like what used to happen here in the 90's. For the past 10 years stories have been posted with what appears to have been zero proofreading and editing.
First of all, remote surgery is stupid. Having a remote doctor advising while a local doctor does the procedure is all fine and good, but having some expensive robot do the work that a remote doctor tells it to do is dumb for a variety of reasons, the most obvious being cost. How many hospitals would waste money on a remote surgery robot rather than hiring more doctors or better doctors...
Assuming that remote surgery robots ever did become popular, why the fuck would they even consider connecting them over any form of wireless communication? No matter what codecs or protocols you used they would still be susceptible to frequency jamming. I can't imagine any scenario where a surgery robot would need to be located somewhere without a stable and secure wired connection where it would still have a 5G connection.
You fail at basic reading comprehension. They bought a modem brand new on amazon, they used it for a while in one state, then they moved to another state and tried to keep using it but weren't able to because comcast's systems are shit.
Their "Technical Requirements" document is very lacking in the technical details department. It basically just says don't use UDP, use adaptive bit rates, and if you use https to protect your users then we reserve the right to tell you to fuck off but if we like you then it's okay. It doesn't even mention what video formats are supported for their automatic signature detection or if there is a way to force traffic to be flagged as video.
Tom Wheeler can praise zero rated services all he wants, it is still without a doubt the opposite of net neutrality. Go look up the definition of net neutrality because you clearly do not know what it is. Even if any video service can sign up to be included (I've been unable to find any clear application process or technical requirements), they are still giving one content type preferential treatment over others. Why should people watching 480p video stream get the data for free but people that want to download an app, listen to some net radio, browse websites, etc. all have to pay for it? Net neutrality means all packets get treated equally even if that means pipes get saturated and service suffers. Too many people want to redefine it as something along the lines of "make all MY packets fast."
At least they finally changed the name to Radeon Software Crimson Edition and the settings app is now called Radeon Settings. People will finally be able to connect the name on the box/sticker with the name of the software for it.
At face value quadrupled prices seems bad but it incentivized drivers to pick up people, putting their own lives at risk in the process, rather than just leaving everyone stranded there. It may have even enticed some drivers to head towards the danger rather than staying comfortably away. Depending on local laws they sometimes have to cap the surge pricing in disaster/emergency situations so if you don't like the idea inflated prices during these events then perhaps you should try to get your laws changed.
IMO surge pricing for cell networks would be fine as long as there were a small buffer before the surge pricing kicked in and that it notify you beforehand. Say it's a 1MB grace allotment, you could upload one picture, talk for a couple mins, or send hundreds of text messages. That last option is key, if you really need to communicate information then texting is the most efficient way to do it.
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VR will never not suck. Even if the technology allowed photo-realistic experiences and was accessible to all, you still have the problem of cutting some of your senses off from your surroundings. It is a totally niche technology that is only viable in very controlled environments like at an amusement park. VR at home will result in lots of broken things, injuries, and friends/family pranking you. VR in public will be a lot worse with all sorts of stupid deaths and a huge increase in muggings.
Slashdot editors have been trained to cross-promote in every story rather than actually contributing their own thoughts.
Robotic prep doesn't threaten their business and it could actually raise their quality. If you live in metropolitan areas then fast food franchises have some of the worst food you can find but they have one enormous strength - consistency. If you ever go on a long road trip and find yourself hungry in some population 5k town in the middle of nowhere with nothing for hundreds of miles then you can be fairly confident going into a McD's that it's going to taste how you expect and not give you food poisoning, but the same can not be said about the local restaurants. The reason it's consistent is because they dumb down the cooking so that it's nearly impossible to fuck up even by 16 yr olds. Robots would allow them to use more cooking techniques without some human burning it, undercooking it, putting too much of something, etc.
Even if it is manufactured and sold outside the country, lots of work inside the US helped to produce it (designing it, programing it, testing it) so shouldn't some portion of the profits still come back?
The bigger issue is that their offshore money is not only from offshore business but it does get "exported" as well. They set up a bunch of shell corporations and then one of their shell companies pays another for whatever reason they make up in order to move money from one country to another. For instance, Google US could take all their profits and pay it to Google Ireland for [insert any reason] and then Google US's taxable income would be $0 so they'd pay no taxes in the US. This is how literally every multinational corporation avoids paying taxes or at least significantly reducing them.
Just because someone works at a tech company doesn't mean they are doing tech related work. It's very contradictory that the media keeps pointing out how few women there are and making a fuss about it but then applauding the companies for trying to be more inclusive but ignoring the fact that the EEOC reports show that all the "women in tech" are actually "women in HR, middle management, and labor." The reports show that only 10-15% women are actually in any sort of tech related role at these companies.
I don't care if a gender likes a job or not but I'm sick of all the news that pretends to care just to get reactions.
The OP is about a robot but the editor note is about TPU's which are never mentioned in the OP or article.
That would just create a new problem of mass garbage edits to discredit the page/editor.
Not to worry, Wolf Blitzer and the acronym alphabet soup primetime police crime dramas will find great ways to distort reality with these displays.
Thanks for clarifying that they have to die to convert the lives into points but the OP's reference to 22 levels still seems to be completely irrelevant or at least lacking any context for why it is important.
Really? Really? Because I am familiar enough with several different alphabets, and they all have problems. English spelling (for example) is only somewhat related to pronunciation.
Do you have some examples? AFAICT English spelling is tied extremely close to pronunciation for the most part. The only exceptions I can think of are when words from other languages are converted to English and people decide they need to use letters to make sounds the letters don't normally make.
Amazon's actual numbers here: https://images-na.ssl-images-a...
"PROFESSIONALS" = 74.5% male
"TECHNICIANS" = 88.8% male
"LABORERS & HELPERS" = 54.6% male
Because the majority of Amazon's employees work at their warehouses and have nothing to do with tech.
Take it a step further and don't pay for the first date at all. Still keep it cheap so that you're not using them for $$$, if they didn't bring any money because they were just using you then you can still pay, and if there is a next time then go somewhere a little nicer and pay. After that try to keep it alternating who pays so that nobody is getting used for money.
If it doesn't make sense to you then it might be that you're not considering that uber/lyft are already preparing to have fleets of driverless cars so the majority of cars would be either be run by businesses or possibly even government owned. It would be incredibly cheap and quick to pay with NFC to travel short distances and the streets would be full of driverless taxis to take you anywhere. With the current driver operated cars nobody really considers them to go a few blocks even if they're tired or walking or w/e because the wait to get a ride far outweighs the small convenience of it but if nearly every car is a driverless taxi then people would use them to go near or far.
There are also tunnels which are more aesthetically pleasing above ground but afaik they are even more expensive and have the added downside of being dangerous since they are out of sight (ie. you walk down into one and someone robs/hurts you).
During the transition to driverless cars I think updating the existing push buttons at crosswalks to communicate pedestrians' desire to cross to the car network along with having the cars identify pedestrians appearing to be about to cross at intersections without lights will be needed, but eventually pedestrian crossing could be completely eliminated since anyone could just hop in a driverless car and go a couple blocks away instead of walking and if you wanted to go for a walk/run then you would take a driverless car to a nearby park or gym.
FYI they do have their own ROM, it's called Cyanogen OS (not to be confused with CyanogenMod).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The two of you have "glass half empty vs half full" arguments. On devices supported by Cyanogenmod, they usually provide more recent version of Android than stock ROM's do, BUT usually they need to find updated devices drivers out of updated stock ROM's for other phones with the same hardware as yours. Usually after 2-3 years no manufacturer provides updates and so without updated device drivers, support totally dies off. This is also the reason why there are delays before older phones are updated for newer OS's, old hardware is usually the last to get updates rolled out from the manufacturers which means delayed device drivers.
Part of it is that Google is cherry-picking the easiest locations to deploy fiber in because they already have the infrastructure (underground conduit, possibly with dark fiber already in it) ready to go and a local government that isn't bound by contracts to the existing monopolies. The conditions that make it easy for Google to deploy fiber also make it easy for other ISP's to as well but the existing ISP only do it when they are threatened with the loss of business that Google Fiber presents.
Sonic.net is an independent ISP that has been slowly rolling out fiber to the SF Bay Area even before Google Fiber started but it has been incredibly slow because they only do it to areas where they have high customer density AND all the other ideal conditions. It's difficult to tell how much of it depends on existing infrastructure VS regulatory red tape VS existing customer base.
Someone needs to proofread the terribly written submissions and actually edit them to be better grammatically like what used to happen here in the 90's. For the past 10 years stories have been posted with what appears to have been zero proofreading and editing.
First of all, remote surgery is stupid. Having a remote doctor advising while a local doctor does the procedure is all fine and good, but having some expensive robot do the work that a remote doctor tells it to do is dumb for a variety of reasons, the most obvious being cost. How many hospitals would waste money on a remote surgery robot rather than hiring more doctors or better doctors...
Assuming that remote surgery robots ever did become popular, why the fuck would they even consider connecting them over any form of wireless communication? No matter what codecs or protocols you used they would still be susceptible to frequency jamming. I can't imagine any scenario where a surgery robot would need to be located somewhere without a stable and secure wired connection where it would still have a 5G connection.
You fail at basic reading comprehension. They bought a modem brand new on amazon, they used it for a while in one state, then they moved to another state and tried to keep using it but weren't able to because comcast's systems are shit.
Their "Technical Requirements" document is very lacking in the technical details department. It basically just says don't use UDP, use adaptive
bit rates, and if you use https to protect your users then we reserve the right to tell you to fuck off but if we like you then it's okay. It doesn't even mention what video formats are supported for their automatic signature detection or if there is a way to force traffic to be flagged as video.
Tom Wheeler can praise zero rated services all he wants, it is still without a doubt the opposite of net neutrality. Go look up the definition of net neutrality because you clearly do not know what it is. Even if any video service can sign up to be included (I've been unable to find any clear application process or technical requirements), they are still giving one content type preferential treatment over others. Why should people watching 480p video stream get the data for free but people that want to download an app, listen to some net radio, browse websites, etc. all have to pay for it? Net neutrality means all packets get treated equally even if that means pipes get saturated and service suffers. Too many people want to redefine it as something along the lines of "make all MY packets fast."
At least they finally changed the name to Radeon Software Crimson Edition and the settings app is now called Radeon Settings. People will finally be able to connect the name on the box/sticker with the name of the software for it.
At face value quadrupled prices seems bad but it incentivized drivers to pick up people, putting their own lives at risk in the process, rather than just leaving everyone stranded there. It may have even enticed some drivers to head towards the danger rather than staying comfortably away. Depending on local laws they sometimes have to cap the surge pricing in disaster/emergency situations so if you don't like the idea inflated prices during these events then perhaps you should try to get your laws changed.
IMO surge pricing for cell networks would be fine as long as there were a small buffer before the surge pricing kicked in and that it notify you beforehand. Say it's a 1MB grace allotment, you could upload one picture, talk for a couple mins, or send hundreds of text messages. That last option is key, if you really need to communicate information then texting is the most efficient way to do it.