Thanks, you've covered this far more eloquently than I did - I just get frustrated with the "And this is news?" style comments that consistently come up on any research articles on Slashdot, no matter what the subject.
And I agree - some, or much, of this kind of research may be useless. But there can often be more subtle and useful conclusions to be drawn than the headline and summary suggest. I'm just more interested in seeing comments which create a good discussion modded up than knee-jerk "everybody knew that already" quips.
In fact KERS (which has been in F1 since 2009) was surpassed by a completely new engine formula in 2014.
The electrical system is so integrated now (KERS was really just an add-on to the main engine) that they don't use the word "engine" any more, but rather "power unit".
So you think billions of dollars are being blindly spent annually on advertising by companies who haven't noticed that it's not actually making them a profit?
With analytics they can tell exactly how many sales they made through which clicks to which ads. I don't know what kind of evidence you're looking for, but I can't imagine it getting much better than that.
As always, it's a trade-off between security and convenience.
You could keep your passwords engraved on dog-tags and locked in various fire-proof safes in different basements, but that really ruins the convenience part of the trade-off.
Or you could just use the same password for all sites (if possible), but that really ruins the security part of the trade-off.
How about: you use a password manager to store your non-critical passwords and store your critical passwords somewhere else - especially the password to your email account from which you can reset all the others if they're stolen. Perhaps a more reasonable trade-off.
It is essential that we determine exactly where the breakdown in protocol occurred and whether similar activities could be ongoing at other federal facilities.
Sounds like the "protocol" might be changed from "treat everyone as suspicious" to "treat everyone as guilty".
Already fixed in the (preview) next OSX version - is that by luck or design?
Makes me wonder how many known vulnerabilities Microsoft / Apple / Google have on their buglist that will only be fixed when they become publicly known.
Why? Even individuals had many productive conversations on this planet when it took weeks to get a reply via snail mail.
Of course individual humans today couldn't have a conversation with 1000 year latency (at least form Earth's side - the aliens might live a lot longer). The invention of cryogenics of some kind, extreme life expectancy increases, or relativistic time dilation could fix that though.
But as a civilisation, I don't see why we couldn't converse. Especially as civilisation ages - after 1 million years of technological growth, 1000 years mightn't seem that long.
(See also "Dragon's Egg" by Robert L. Forward for some great sci-fi in this vein)
You can reduce the cost dramatically for a prototype - it's called a "shuttle run", where you share the mask costs with a group of other companies who put their chips on the same wafers. You can't go into mass production with this of course.
However, countermeasures exist in the form of specialized light sensors that can detect the light from the beam. Rippled glass can be used as a defense, as it provides a poor surface for a laser microphone.
You say "little different from a laser mic". Yes, innovation is incremental, this is an increment.
I propose that we boycott stories and only discuss the abomination that is Slashdot Beta until Dice abandons the project.
Easier and more effective: don't visit the site for a week. That will get their attention. I don't think any of the suits are actually reading the comments, do you?
A lot of people talk about leaving Slashdot for good, which they may or (more likely) may not do - why not leave it for a week?
Genuine question - if you live only 4.5 miles away, did you consider walking?
I know nothing about Atlanta, so I know there could be a genuine reason - just wondering if it was because there are no pavements on the route, because it was too cold, because you just thought walking might be more dangerous than driving, or something else??
Plus, it's fairly descriptive - it's almost 4000 pixels wide, and it's 4 x the resolution of HD.
I don't see the problem here, and I don't think it's "just marketing". People would come up with their own shorthand anyway if it was marketed at 3840x2160.
To put things in perspective :
Lenovo 2012 profits : $472 millions
Yang's share of that : $33 millions
Lenovo's employees : 27 000
Lenovo profit per employee : $17,481
Yang profit per employee : $1,222
What Yang offers them : $300
I added in what you left out.
Were you purposely being disingenuous?
Maybe because they don't know the context of the video he's making??
You really don't understand why people would be more concerned by a suspicious creep pointing a camera in their faces than a CCTV camera high up on a pole?
I get the point he's trying to make, but I think he's incredibly obnoxious in making it.
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Thanks, you've covered this far more eloquently than I did - I just get frustrated with the "And this is news?" style comments that consistently come up on any research articles on Slashdot, no matter what the subject.
And I agree - some, or much, of this kind of research may be useless. But there can often be more subtle and useful conclusions to be drawn than the headline and summary suggest. I'm just more interested in seeing comments which create a good discussion modded up than knee-jerk "everybody knew that already" quips.
There's a difference between anecdotal evidence and properly correlated research data.
Research that confirms an expected answer is not useless.
I agree with you, but most of the world doesn't - which is what really matters if you want to sell games.
Ah, so Gravity wasn't canon then?
The new engines are 100% mandated. It is a hybrid formula now, no exceptions.
See earlier comments - F1 has had kinetic energy recovery systems since 2009, and has since 2014 been very much a hybrid formula.
In fact KERS (which has been in F1 since 2009) was surpassed by a completely new engine formula in 2014.
The electrical system is so integrated now (KERS was really just an add-on to the main engine) that they don't use the word "engine" any more, but rather "power unit".
So you think billions of dollars are being blindly spent annually on advertising by companies who haven't noticed that it's not actually making them a profit?
With analytics they can tell exactly how many sales they made through which clicks to which ads. I don't know what kind of evidence you're looking for, but I can't imagine it getting much better than that.
Are you serious? Look at Google's advertising revenue - that's clear evidence that it works both for the advertising company and their customers.
Soulless performance by both the cops and the artist.
But you can't really blame a hologram for not having a soul!
As always, it's a trade-off between security and convenience.
You could keep your passwords engraved on dog-tags and locked in various fire-proof safes in different basements, but that really ruins the convenience part of the trade-off.
Or you could just use the same password for all sites (if possible), but that really ruins the security part of the trade-off.
How about: you use a password manager to store your non-critical passwords and store your critical passwords somewhere else - especially the password to your email account from which you can reset all the others if they're stolen. Perhaps a more reasonable trade-off.
Which I stated in the very next line: "Of course individual humans today couldn't have a conversation with 1000 year latency".
It is essential that we determine exactly where the breakdown in protocol occurred and whether similar activities could be ongoing at other federal facilities.
Sounds like the "protocol" might be changed from "treat everyone as suspicious" to "treat everyone as guilty".
Already fixed in the (preview) next OSX version - is that by luck or design?
Makes me wonder how many known vulnerabilities Microsoft / Apple / Google have on their buglist that will only be fixed when they become publicly known.
Chances of a "conversation" are nil.
Why? Even individuals had many productive conversations on this planet when it took weeks to get a reply via snail mail.
Of course individual humans today couldn't have a conversation with 1000 year latency (at least form Earth's side - the aliens might live a lot longer). The invention of cryogenics of some kind, extreme life expectancy increases, or relativistic time dilation could fix that though.
But as a civilisation, I don't see why we couldn't converse. Especially as civilisation ages - after 1 million years of technological growth, 1000 years mightn't seem that long.
(See also "Dragon's Egg" by Robert L. Forward for some great sci-fi in this vein)
You can reduce the cost dramatically for a prototype - it's called a "shuttle run", where you share the mask costs with a group of other companies who put their chips on the same wafers. You can't go into mass production with this of course.
Plus, they have a lot more than $100k in total.
Space is about the only place such clocks would be of any use.
Damn, that's only 99.99...% of the universe!
You say "little different from a laser mic". Yes, innovation is incremental, this is an increment.
I propose that we boycott stories and only discuss the abomination that is Slashdot Beta until Dice abandons the project.
Easier and more effective: don't visit the site for a week. That will get their attention. I don't think any of the suits are actually reading the comments, do you?
A lot of people talk about leaving Slashdot for good, which they may or (more likely) may not do - why not leave it for a week?
That's what I'm doing... from... now!
Genuine question - if you live only 4.5 miles away, did you consider walking?
I know nothing about Atlanta, so I know there could be a genuine reason - just wondering if it was because there are no pavements on the route, because it was too cold, because you just thought walking might be more dangerous than driving, or something else??
You know, if everyone took your advice, there would be no PS4s sold, and certainly no Rev. B!
It's easier to say.
Plus, it's fairly descriptive - it's almost 4000 pixels wide, and it's 4 x the resolution of HD.
I don't see the problem here, and I don't think it's "just marketing". People would come up with their own shorthand anyway if it was marketed at 3840x2160.
To put things in perspective :
Lenovo 2012 profits : $472 millions
Yang's share of that : $33 millions
Lenovo's employees : 27 000
Lenovo profit per employee : $17,481
Yang profit per employee : $1,222
What Yang offers them : $300
I added in what you left out.
Were you purposely being disingenuous?
Maybe because they don't know the context of the video he's making??
You really don't understand why people would be more concerned by a suspicious creep pointing a camera in their faces than a CCTV camera high up on a pole?
I get the point he's trying to make, but I think he's incredibly obnoxious in making it.
We don't know. But it's still worth detecting them.
Should we stop looking for planets until we have the capability to get satellite imagery of the cities on them?