Are the seagulls. They already attack drones and now they can claim pizza as their reward when they do. I bet it doesn't require much for a bird to tip a drone and send it crashing to the ground.
Aside from that it seems like a fundamentally expensive and risk laden application of technology. Is it going to be able to deliver at night, or in heavy rain / wind, or to urban buildings like apartments, or be able to detect wires, poles, trees that surround where most people live? Will pizza places have drone pads out front? Will staff be expected to charge / service these drones, and deal with whatever griefing / damage / vandalism they receive? Heaps of issues that it would be necessary to solve when the problem is already solved.
The Cell was a forerunner to GPGPU computing. You wrote a "kernel" for each SPE, streamed data in and gathered data coming out. Signal processing, crypto, physics, tweening, collision detection etc. It was basically what GPUs became in due course, providing a way to do general purpose computation in parallel and faster than a CPU could do by itself.
Personally if I were designing something, be it a building, bridge, machinery plant or whatever and I wanted to view what it looked like for real, I'd find far more use in a VR headset. That would let me look at the thing in full scale, allow me to fly around and view it from other angles, play around with scenery, lighting etc. Basically I could model the thing I'm designing and where it's going to go and have full freedom to do what I want in that space.
AR would just present some dinky version of the thing being designed fixed to a table top or similar. It might be cute but it doesn't seem as practical. It certainly seems a reach to pitch Hololens to such limited professional use and hope it will take off.
I don't mind Samsung providing their own apps but how they bake them into firmware. They could be preinstalled in the user partition or offered during device setup. They could even fetch the list of apps to promote / install at setup time rather than 6 months ago when the firmware was finalized meaning they'd be more relevant (e.g. this canned music service).
Either way it would let them shrink the firmware partition meaning more storage for user data and reduce the packaging / testing cycle for updates. I don't see it would hurt their branding or cross-promotion either since most people would choose the defaults anyway.
See, you can't even fairly paraphrase what I wrote either. I didn't write it was better for maintainers, though I'm sure it is. I wrote that dists didn't have a gun pointed to their heads when they adopted it. I expect that decision takes into account the benefits to everyone. And yes the response was a straw man.
I'm sure the extremely shrill and vocal minority who don't like systemd (or upstart) can throw their weight behind Devuan. It could do with all the help it can get.
Everyone else, maintainers and users can benefit from a pid 1 system that improves start up times, security, logging, concurrency, service dependencies and still lets people invoke sysvinit scripts if they have reason to. It is curious how dists like Ubuntu, RHEL / Fedora et al manage to function in a completely satisfactory and stable fashion considering how some people like to imply they're built on sand.
Samsung devices ship with a lot of crap all baked into firmware - their own apps and stubs for others. If they must preinstall then it should be to user partition where it can be removed. Better yet, ask during device setup and don't install it at all unless users answer in the affirmative. Same goes for all the junk that networks throw up on top.
I don't understand why this is so difficult to do. It probably makes their lives easier for firmware updates too since there is less to go wrong or test if the apps aren't part of the image.
Er, no you built a straw man argument. Proclaiming systemd to only be better for maintainers, that it couldn't possibly be better for users, making bizarre analogies between 747s and motorcycles (WTF) and attempting to conclude that because of this it couldn't better. None of which I said.
Dists didn't choose systemd because they had a gun pointed to their heads. They chose it because it is demonstrably better than either sysvinit or upstart.
No one is forced to do anything they don't want in Linux. If you don't like what one dist does, go to another. If no dist serves your need, then make your own. As it happens there is already a systemd-free dist called Devuan. Knock yourself out with it. Maybe you should even disable updates lest you inadvertently install some improvement.
Yes it is better as a read of the link would quickly show. It allows a user to plug in a USB stick, mount the device, mount the FS, schedule an fsck and reduce the danger if the user unplugs the stick without an explicit unmount.
Tested and they still require hundreds of human interventions to stop the car doing some immediately dangerous. That doesn't even count the thousands probably tens of thousands of inteventions where the car simply did something dumb.
Driverless vehicles are classified in 4 (or 5) levels. Level 4 is completely autonomous vehicles. Some define level 5 as being fully autonomous without even driver controls. Google's driverless car is barely level 4, possibly a high level 3 since it still requires driver assistance.
Exactly right for 2). There are lots of Pi-style clones out there, many of which are significantly higher spec than the Pi is. What the Pi enjoys is the community and support which means there are multiple dists, documentation, howtos, tutorials, magazines, books, peripherals, robot kits, cases etc. to use with it.
Those scenarios are just the tip of the iceberg. Well they might have a human supervising the car because it's extremely unlikely that by itself could deal with many intractible scenarios that a human driver would barely have to think about.
Oracle is just throwing money at this because it knows if some sticks it might get a huge payout and sink its claws into Android. Cynics might even think that the only reason they bought Sun in the first place was to acquire Java and sue Google for this opportunity.
Sadly for them it seems Google have been very careful about what they did, and Oracle are basically scraping the bottom of the barrel. The whole nonsense with SCO demonstrates that it could take a while yet before they give up.
Meego would have flopped as surely as webOS, Blackberry, FirefoxOS, Tizen and Windows Phone did. It's no good to throw a phone OS out there if there are no decent 3rd party apps for it.
Uhuh, sure thing. Come back to me when self driving cars are capable of driving without any human intervention or supervision whatsoever (not even Google's car is level 4), fail to safe, refuels / recharges itself, can extricate itself in every situation, can follow traffic signals, cop hand signals, road diversions, road works, floods, snow, sleet, ice, pothole and deal with hundreds of unique and intractible problems that a human taxi driver would cope with any given day.
Then and only then we'll see if your assertion true. A more rational person who thought about the complexities of the problem would realise it won't be happening in 5 years and if it happens at all it will be in the limited form I suggest.
Is on a closed circuit loop, e.g. between airport terminals and hotels, or convention centre buildings. The roads can be dedicated and one-way, the cars don't have to drive fast and there can be some guy in a booth to take over if the system breaks down.
Yes Nokia was screwed but there was a sane way out of their predicament - dump Symbian, dump side projects like Meego, rationalise their divisions and adopt Android. Nokia would have kept their devs happy with a Symbian / QT layer, would have kept customers happy by offering a platform with apps, and have still the control to craft the hardware and software experience that matched their corporate ambitions.
Instead they pissed off the devs, pissed off the users, demoralised their workforce and chose to bet the farm on a lame duck OS called Windows Phone. While Windows Phone did get better in time, it never approached a fraction of the popularity of Android.
The main test of extradition in Ireland is whether the charges are reciprocal, i.e would Ireland seek to extradite and charge a person if they were abroad and an offence had been committed in Ireland. It doesn't matter if they were physically present in Ireland when the offence was made. A simple example would be someone ringing up and making a credible threat to murder somebody. I'm sure the US feels the same way, especially for cyber crime, wirefraud etc.
This isn't the first time extradition has been asked for. A scumbag called Eric Eoin Marques is fighting extradition to the US for running one of the world's largest darknets for kiddie porn. That particular extradition is still ongoing AFAIK on appeal but apparently the guy wants to be tried in Ireland. Presumably because the maximum sentence he can expect to receive is far less that the throw-away-the-key-and-fuck-you-until-you-die sentence he can expect to enjoy if the US lay their hands on him.
This isn't a feature, it's a few seconds of footage. And it's not uncommon for a movie to differ from the trailer in a myriad of ways because the trailer is made first, often not by the director, before all the effects or score are made and before the director has finished editing.
I don't go complaining that the trailer for Romancing the Stone has an entire phone conversation not in the movie, or that Liam Neeson attacks wolves with glass taped to his hands in the Grey in the trailer but not the movie. I don't complain that sometimes an author like GRR Martin release text from a forthcoming novel that differs from the final copy.
Anyone so upset by a few seconds change is an idiot, not a victim.
Exactly. Human inattentiveness is a forseeable and obvious consequence of automation in cars. Unless manufacturers address the issue then people will die as a result. At the very least a car should require the driver hold the wheel with two hands even when automated driving is engaged but it could probably go further and monitor their face for signs of inattention / drowsiness.
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Aside from that it seems like a fundamentally expensive and risk laden application of technology. Is it going to be able to deliver at night, or in heavy rain / wind, or to urban buildings like apartments, or be able to detect wires, poles, trees that surround where most people live? Will pizza places have drone pads out front? Will staff be expected to charge / service these drones, and deal with whatever griefing / damage / vandalism they receive? Heaps of issues that it would be necessary to solve when the problem is already solved.
The Cell was a forerunner to GPGPU computing. You wrote a "kernel" for each SPE, streamed data in and gathered data coming out. Signal processing, crypto, physics, tweening, collision detection etc. It was basically what GPUs became in due course, providing a way to do general purpose computation in parallel and faster than a CPU could do by itself.
AR would just present some dinky version of the thing being designed fixed to a table top or similar. It might be cute but it doesn't seem as practical. It certainly seems a reach to pitch Hololens to such limited professional use and hope it will take off.
Either way it would let them shrink the firmware partition meaning more storage for user data and reduce the packaging / testing cycle for updates. I don't see it would hurt their branding or cross-promotion either since most people would choose the defaults anyway.
I'm sure the extremely shrill and vocal minority who don't like systemd (or upstart) can throw their weight behind Devuan. It could do with all the help it can get.
Everyone else, maintainers and users can benefit from a pid 1 system that improves start up times, security, logging, concurrency, service dependencies and still lets people invoke sysvinit scripts if they have reason to. It is curious how dists like Ubuntu, RHEL / Fedora et al manage to function in a completely satisfactory and stable fashion considering how some people like to imply they're built on sand.
I don't understand why this is so difficult to do. It probably makes their lives easier for firmware updates too since there is less to go wrong or test if the apps aren't part of the image.
Er, no you built a straw man argument. Proclaiming systemd to only be better for maintainers, that it couldn't possibly be better for users, making bizarre analogies between 747s and motorcycles (WTF) and attempting to conclude that because of this it couldn't better. None of which I said.
Read the link genius.
Wow that's some straw man argument you built up there.
Dists didn't choose systemd because they had a gun pointed to their heads. They chose it because it is demonstrably better than either sysvinit or upstart.
No one is forced to do anything they don't want in Linux. If you don't like what one dist does, go to another. If no dist serves your need, then make your own. As it happens there is already a systemd-free dist called Devuan. Knock yourself out with it. Maybe you should even disable updates lest you inadvertently install some improvement.
Yes it is better as a read of the link would quickly show. It allows a user to plug in a USB stick, mount the device, mount the FS, schedule an fsck and reduce the danger if the user unplugs the stick without an explicit unmount.
Driverless vehicles are classified in 4 (or 5) levels. Level 4 is completely autonomous vehicles. Some define level 5 as being fully autonomous without even driver controls. Google's driverless car is barely level 4, possibly a high level 3 since it still requires driver assistance.
Sex dolls that are connected to the cloud. What could possibly go wrong?
Exactly right for 2). There are lots of Pi-style clones out there, many of which are significantly higher spec than the Pi is. What the Pi enjoys is the community and support which means there are multiple dists, documentation, howtos, tutorials, magazines, books, peripherals, robot kits, cases etc. to use with it.
Those scenarios are just the tip of the iceberg. Well they might have a human supervising the car because it's extremely unlikely that by itself could deal with many intractible scenarios that a human driver would barely have to think about.
Sadly for them it seems Google have been very careful about what they did, and Oracle are basically scraping the bottom of the barrel. The whole nonsense with SCO demonstrates that it could take a while yet before they give up.
Meego would have flopped as surely as webOS, Blackberry, FirefoxOS, Tizen and Windows Phone did. It's no good to throw a phone OS out there if there are no decent 3rd party apps for it.
Then and only then we'll see if your assertion true. A more rational person who thought about the complexities of the problem would realise it won't be happening in 5 years and if it happens at all it will be in the limited form I suggest.
Is on a closed circuit loop, e.g. between airport terminals and hotels, or convention centre buildings. The roads can be dedicated and one-way, the cars don't have to drive fast and there can be some guy in a booth to take over if the system breaks down.
Elop did have a choice. Android was a far, far, far more suitable choice for a phone OS.
Instead they pissed off the devs, pissed off the users, demoralised their workforce and chose to bet the farm on a lame duck OS called Windows Phone. While Windows Phone did get better in time, it never approached a fraction of the popularity of Android.
This isn't the first time extradition has been asked for. A scumbag called Eric Eoin Marques is fighting extradition to the US for running one of the world's largest darknets for kiddie porn. That particular extradition is still ongoing AFAIK on appeal but apparently the guy wants to be tried in Ireland. Presumably because the maximum sentence he can expect to receive is far less that the throw-away-the-key-and-fuck-you-until-you-die sentence he can expect to enjoy if the US lay their hands on him.
I don't go complaining that the trailer for Romancing the Stone has an entire phone conversation not in the movie, or that Liam Neeson attacks wolves with glass taped to his hands in the Grey in the trailer but not the movie. I don't complain that sometimes an author like GRR Martin release text from a forthcoming novel that differs from the final copy.
Anyone so upset by a few seconds change is an idiot, not a victim.
Exactly. Human inattentiveness is a forseeable and obvious consequence of automation in cars. Unless manufacturers address the issue then people will die as a result. At the very least a car should require the driver hold the wheel with two hands even when automated driving is engaged but it could probably go further and monitor their face for signs of inattention / drowsiness.