So you think when we start seeing titles like "Concentration Camp Architect", "Preschool Dating Sim" or whatever that users will be happy? Perhaps a tiny % of libertarian idiots will be. The majority will not be. Not in the slightest.
The NES isn't "running" SNES games, the RPi is. The NES is basically acting as a dumb terminal with shims to the sound, display and inputs. Why even stop at SNES? Whack a few other emulators on there.
All it means in effect is that Tesla's own testing and QA is so shoddy that it took a 3rd party to point out how dangerously bad the braking distance was. It's good that it can be rectified over the air but it doesn't absolve them putting it out in that condition to begin with. What else did they not bother to test, or allowed to slip past QA for fear of missing their targets?
Busking & other street entertainment can be an honorable livelihood.
It can also be thinly disguised begging / harassment, e.g. those people who board a subway train and play a song to a captive audience whether they want to hear it or not. Or costumed characters who mill around tourist spots (e.g. people dressed as Romans around the Colluseum in Rome), causing trouble for tourists or each other on a regular basis.
The only way to separate legitimate performers from the rest is to require them to hold permits, abide by certain rules about where they may perform and have a system that prevents one group / performer from dominating a particular spot. Providing they have talent then none of these things should prove to be impediments.
When I see a character who is cool precisely we don't know much about him, or his motivations, the first thing I think is "let's give him a backstory!"
I thought the Essential phone was a really good looking device but it cost too much money and stumbled a few times during its launch window.
Frankly they would have been better off following the OnePlus model of offering a mostly-featured phone with a good screen at a price point that stood out compared to high end offerings.
Stick all the libertarian idiots on a floating pontoon in the middle of the Pacific, call it Rapture and wait for the whole thing to sink to the bottom of the sea.
If Ecuador knows who was meeting Assange and what they were talking about then the chances are the UK/US does too - by spying on Ecuador's spying.
What is funny to me is that Assange allegedly hacked through a firewall and gained access to the embassy's own personal network. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.
I would suggest the answer to that is "more than now". People already turn up to gigs and sporting events without tickets and hang around the entrance trying to buy them, or even to cause trouble. Now this system encourages those people to enter the grounds and try their luck. It is obvious it will happen.
I'm also being generous with the 1 in 100 false positive. Chances are in practice it's a lot worse.
Perhaps you can set it to minimize false positives but that increases the false negatives. Chances are it will be tuned to a sweet spot where accuracy is 99% or whatever. And naturally it will be totally screwed up for any venue where people wear facepaint, hats, scarves or other gear so the tolerance has to be turned down.
And now the law of unintended consequences kicks in. If this wonderful system gives anybody without a ticket a 1 in 100 chance of simply walking through (more if you bear a resemblance to somebody else going, e.g. a sibling) then you're going to have people trying to do just that. So you end up with more crowds, arguments, fights etc. than if you just scanned tickets.
Of course perhaps the venue could check tickets any way (e.g. a preclearing queue) or lay on extra security to deal with these virtual turnstile jumpers. But that defeats the purpose of the system in the first place.
If a Tesla truck sets on fire, the last thing that will leap to anyone's mind is "boy those wraparound windscreens make me think of a Nikola truck!".
Conversely if a Nikola truck goes up in smoke I doubt anyone will confuse it with a Tesla truck.
Aside from that, anyone who has paid attention to trucks, or played truck sim games knows that they're really a product of function over form - the cab is over the engine or behind it. Trucks are designed to largely interchange so vehicles can hitch to and haul different loads.
Exactly. Until such time as a vehicle is capable of performing every operation more safely than a driver, the driver MUST be engaged and paying attention to the road. The car handles the ordinary situations, but the human is there to hit the brakes or take action if the vehicle does something dumb.
But humans are easily distracted, particularly when they think the car is doing all the work so it is vital that the car monitors the human's engagement and forces compliance. Preferably the car could even detect signs of impairment or fatigue and disengage & pull over if the driver does not appear to be doing their part.
That depends on what the content was now doesn't it? If it is copyrighted materials, previously flagged, or if it was stuff like porn, child porn, snuff videos or other content that violates their T&Cs, then why shouldn't they remove that crap? It's their service and their rules.
I would be more interested in the false positives - where they took down videos that triggered the system because of a word, or a fair use clip or some other innocuous trigger and the amount of effort required for somebody to reinstate it without harm to their channel's standing.
Autoplay videos are intensely annoying, especially on many news websites that play a video and then continue playing *other* videos when the first one ends. Not only that, but they make the video follow you down the page when presumably you're just reading the article the video summarises. It is profoundly annoying.
Browsers should by default not play any video but allow users to whitelist sites that they're okay about autoplay - streaming services and so on. It can be done discretely such as when the user first clicks to play some content that was set to autoplay.
I got a new laptop recently with a fingerprint reader integrated into it. It is very cool how I can just place a finger onto the laptop and Windows 10 automatically knows who I am and logs me in. There are obvious pros and cons to this, but it suits my purposes.
However... fingerprint setup requires me enter a secondary PIN code, presumably so if it can't read my print after a number of tries it can challenge for the PIN. This seems extraordinarily dumb to me because I already have a password it could prompt for, and a PIN is far weaker than a password. A chain is as strong as the weakest link. Even if I fail the fingerprint, it should challenge for the password next, or at least allow me to set my policy that way.
I wonder what logic MS is going through to use a PIN here. Are they thinking of integrating print readers into phones or payment systems something? I can see the merit of a PIN challenge there. I don't see the merit on a Windows device.
Ah but they're no longer "managers" in the agile world. Instead they're "scrum masters". You just have to change the title in front of a person's job and suddenly all the problems resolve themselves. And these people are newly indoctrinated on whatever week long course they been on for their new role and you'd better believe they are going to inflict that mindless process on everyone else regardless of it making sense or not.
The golden rule of all religions is "do no evil", to which they throw in some morals about life, death etc. and wrap it up into layers of aphorisms, sophisticated rituals, dogma, mantras etc. If you want to get to heaven you do what your religion says or else.
All these software methodologies are basically doing the same. They wrap up a few obvious truths of development (deliver what the customer wants on time) into aphorisms, rituals, dogma, mantra etc. and expect people to blindly follow it if they want to reach software heaven.
Yeah a process is better than nothing, and every methodology has a grain of truth about it. But don't take it too seriously. Things like scrum / agile work when people standup and say what they're doing and the release schedule is designed to iteratively get stuff out the door. But once you start sending people off on expensive training courses to be "scrum masters", or you start requiring devs to break tasks down into 15 fucking subtasks each with an estimate, or when someone starts bitching about "velocity" or the "definition of done", you're crossed straight over from pragmatism into process religious bullshit lalaland.
The idea of putting high definition, or high dynamic range onto vinyl is not new. In fact it was done in the 70s and 80s - CX, DBX etc.
It flopped then even when vinyl was the predominant format. Not least because you needed special noise reduction / amplifying circuitry to extract the audio from the format it was stored in.
It will flop now for the same reason. That and because vinyl is just a stupid hipster format that offers not a single advantage over digital audio except for audiophile wankage.
Tesla is slowly fulfilling the orders and I have full confidence in time that production will ramp up significantly. It's very likely in time the vehicle will be highly regarded and a classic. But not yet.
My point is really about the psychology of people who put themselves on a queue to receive an early production vehicle. Tesla isn't exactly noted for its high quality control. Compound that with a stupidly ambitious & unachievable launch schedule and it guaranteed the early vehicles would have problems. Aside from that, EVERY new vehicle platform has problems and it is only after a few years of production improvements in response to service issues & accidents that they become reliable.
The adage never buy version 1 of anything applies to motor vehicles. In the case of the Model 3, it's more like version 0.99.
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So you think when we start seeing titles like "Concentration Camp Architect", "Preschool Dating Sim" or whatever that users will be happy? Perhaps a tiny % of libertarian idiots will be. The majority will not be. Not in the slightest.
They're really going to reap what they sow with this policy.
I'm sure if they lost money its not as much as people think.
The NES isn't "running" SNES games, the RPi is. The NES is basically acting as a dumb terminal with shims to the sound, display and inputs. Why even stop at SNES? Whack a few other emulators on there.
All it means in effect is that Tesla's own testing and QA is so shoddy that it took a 3rd party to point out how dangerously bad the braking distance was. It's good that it can be rectified over the air but it doesn't absolve them putting it out in that condition to begin with. What else did they not bother to test, or allowed to slip past QA for fear of missing their targets?
Busking is an honorable livelihood.
Busking & other street entertainment can be an honorable livelihood.
It can also be thinly disguised begging / harassment, e.g. those people who board a subway train and play a song to a captive audience whether they want to hear it or not. Or costumed characters who mill around tourist spots (e.g. people dressed as Romans around the Colluseum in Rome), causing trouble for tourists or each other on a regular basis.
The only way to separate legitimate performers from the rest is to require them to hold permits, abide by certain rules about where they may perform and have a system that prevents one group / performer from dominating a particular spot. Providing they have talent then none of these things should prove to be impediments.
Who the hell is going to fish out a visa card, type a value into a reader, swipe / wave the card etc. instead of just tossing a coin in a guitar case?
When I see a character who is cool precisely we don't know much about him, or his motivations, the first thing I think is "let's give him a backstory!"
Frankly they would have been better off following the OnePlus model of offering a mostly-featured phone with a good screen at a price point that stood out compared to high end offerings.
Stick all the libertarian idiots on a floating pontoon in the middle of the Pacific, call it Rapture and wait for the whole thing to sink to the bottom of the sea.
What is funny to me is that Assange allegedly hacked through a firewall and gained access to the embassy's own personal network. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.
I'm also being generous with the 1 in 100 false positive. Chances are in practice it's a lot worse.
And now the law of unintended consequences kicks in. If this wonderful system gives anybody without a ticket a 1 in 100 chance of simply walking through (more if you bear a resemblance to somebody else going, e.g. a sibling) then you're going to have people trying to do just that. So you end up with more crowds, arguments, fights etc. than if you just scanned tickets.
Of course perhaps the venue could check tickets any way (e.g. a preclearing queue) or lay on extra security to deal with these virtual turnstile jumpers. But that defeats the purpose of the system in the first place.
That or he's a fucking idiot.
Conversely if a Nikola truck goes up in smoke I doubt anyone will confuse it with a Tesla truck.
Aside from that, anyone who has paid attention to trucks, or played truck sim games knows that they're really a product of function over form - the cab is over the engine or behind it. Trucks are designed to largely interchange so vehicles can hitch to and haul different loads.
But humans are easily distracted, particularly when they think the car is doing all the work so it is vital that the car monitors the human's engagement and forces compliance. Preferably the car could even detect signs of impairment or fatigue and disengage & pull over if the driver does not appear to be doing their part.
I would be more interested in the false positives - where they took down videos that triggered the system because of a word, or a fair use clip or some other innocuous trigger and the amount of effort required for somebody to reinstate it without harm to their channel's standing.
If its such a hassle to take cash, take 5% off the cost when people don't. Otherwise GTFO.
Kurweil specialises in futuristic bullshit. Personally if I would just throw darts at a board for the same hit rate.
Browsers should by default not play any video but allow users to whitelist sites that they're okay about autoplay - streaming services and so on. It can be done discretely such as when the user first clicks to play some content that was set to autoplay.
However... fingerprint setup requires me enter a secondary PIN code, presumably so if it can't read my print after a number of tries it can challenge for the PIN. This seems extraordinarily dumb to me because I already have a password it could prompt for, and a PIN is far weaker than a password. A chain is as strong as the weakest link. Even if I fail the fingerprint, it should challenge for the password next, or at least allow me to set my policy that way.
I wonder what logic MS is going through to use a PIN here. Are they thinking of integrating print readers into phones or payment systems something? I can see the merit of a PIN challenge there. I don't see the merit on a Windows device.
Ah but they're no longer "managers" in the agile world. Instead they're "scrum masters". You just have to change the title in front of a person's job and suddenly all the problems resolve themselves. And these people are newly indoctrinated on whatever week long course they been on for their new role and you'd better believe they are going to inflict that mindless process on everyone else regardless of it making sense or not.
All these software methodologies are basically doing the same. They wrap up a few obvious truths of development (deliver what the customer wants on time) into aphorisms, rituals, dogma, mantra etc. and expect people to blindly follow it if they want to reach software heaven.
Yeah a process is better than nothing, and every methodology has a grain of truth about it. But don't take it too seriously. Things like scrum / agile work when people standup and say what they're doing and the release schedule is designed to iteratively get stuff out the door. But once you start sending people off on expensive training courses to be "scrum masters", or you start requiring devs to break tasks down into 15 fucking subtasks each with an estimate, or when someone starts bitching about "velocity" or the "definition of done", you're crossed straight over from pragmatism into process religious bullshit lalaland.
It flopped then even when vinyl was the predominant format. Not least because you needed special noise reduction / amplifying circuitry to extract the audio from the format it was stored in.
It will flop now for the same reason. That and because vinyl is just a stupid hipster format that offers not a single advantage over digital audio except for audiophile wankage.
My point is really about the psychology of people who put themselves on a queue to receive an early production vehicle. Tesla isn't exactly noted for its high quality control. Compound that with a stupidly ambitious & unachievable launch schedule and it guaranteed the early vehicles would have problems. Aside from that, EVERY new vehicle platform has problems and it is only after a few years of production improvements in response to service issues & accidents that they become reliable.
The adage never buy version 1 of anything applies to motor vehicles. In the case of the Model 3, it's more like version 0.99.