Fine, so you grandfather crap like wing dings and some other stuff in and you draw a line under it. End of story. If phone operators want to produce a standard to represent emojis they can go off and do it any way they please without bloating unicode any further than it is.
Okay, so what's the unicode character for a tank? Oh meant a Pershing tank. No I meant a Pershing tank facing left. No I meant a Pershing tank facing left in its Belgian configuration. No I meant a Pershing tank facing left in its Belgian configuration with a guy's head poking out the driver's hatch.
There are an infinite and arbitrary number of "emojis" that someone could think of. Unicode is not the place to put them.
That really depends if Pokemon start mysteriously appearing in Starbucks, or if you get ads for places in your vicinity. The game monetizes your activities as well as in-app purchases (which could also be tied to real-world promotions based on location). Therefore it is east to see a profit motive for Nintendo and for any network provider who cuts themselves a deal in return for some revenue.
It's fine to give out free data for an app which has no direct competition,
Even Pokemon Go has direct competition. It may masquerade as a game but its basically collecting monetizable data about your movements and habits. It also has in-app purchasing. Is it beyond the bounds of possibility that T-Mobile has cut itself a deal for a share of the profits in return for free bandwidth?
It violates net neutrality by incentivizing customers to prefer the app which doesn't hit their bandwidth allocation over the one that does. It is quite obvious how that could be detrimental.
Stop releasing fucking emojis for either sex. And Unicode Consortium, stop thinking it's your job to assign characters to arbitrary and ephemeral emojis because it isn't.
Other than Netflix gimped their web service so that other browsers are delivered lower resolution content. All browsers are capable of hardware accelerated video playback and all of them should be capable of 1080p output providing the hardware is up to it.
I wonder if it can tell the difference between breaking glass and someone playing a recording of breaking glass. Does griefing a robot count as a crime?
Well that's complete bollocks. Maintainability has little to do with the language and a lot to do with the design, discipline and rigor with which the code was written.
It is incredibly important to learn more than one programming language. The best way is to choose some non-trivial project that would be appropriate for a new language and implement it. Repeat and over time you will gain substantial knowledge and experience in a range of languages.
It's not just all about languages of course since claiming to be a C++ programmer says squat of your ability to write a GUI. And writing a GUI for a desktop is different from one on a phone or on the web for that matter. So breadth of experience is important and feeds into the next thing. It also demonstrates to prospective employers that you are capable of learning new and can adapt your thinking. Even if you haven't learned tech X, you make have skills from tech Y which are transferable.
Things like SafeSurf and PICS were supposed to rate the web. They failed. If people want their content filtered it's not hard to find services that will do it. And that should be precisely what happens in the UK too. It should not be hard to pass legislation to require ISPs to ASK explicitly yes or no does someone want filtering during sign up and provide online controls so they can toggle this setting at any point thereafter.
Theoretically a computer assisted driver should be safer in all circumstances than just a driver alone. e.g. the computer can spot a hazard and hit the brakes way sooner than the human, potentially avoiding death or serious injury. The driver can disengage or override the assistance if there is a reason to (e.g. the person sees flashing lights or roadworks ahead or whatever).
The problem here is the Tesla stuck in a feature which is a) flawed, and b) doesn't enforce driver attention. It's flawed because it appears to have a serious issue with trailers and perhaps other situations. Some reports say it masks out high elevation obstructions because of interference from overhead signage.
Some might say its the driver's fault for not paying attention but that is a natural consequence of a bad design. The car should enforce the driver's attention. If there is no enforcement then people will become inattentive and crashes will happen. This will be true for pretty much any self drive vehicle that requires a human for fallback. The human cannot be allowed to watch a movie, fall asleep or be passed out drunk if there is even a small chance they need to take back control with little notice.
Mercedes Benz has an attention assist feature though theirs is to look for driver fatigue by detecting driving patterns. Such a system wouldn't be applicable for a self-drive mode. I expect any system in a self-drive would require some kind of interactive command - jiggle wheel, tap accelerator, and if it wasn't performed in a timely fashion the auto pilot would disengage and if necessary the car would have to slow and pull over. It could also monitor the driver's eyes or head posture so someone constantly looking away from the road could trigger a disengagement.
Humans are great at circumventing safety. This has to be anticipated in the design of anything which has a safety critical function. And that includes autonomous vehicle activity.
Tesla's self-drive mode must *force* the driver to hold the wheel and potentially do other actions to ensure their complete attention. And if they can't do that then they have no business putting such a feature into the car. And that's assuming the feature works as intended, which it clearly doesn't if it ends up hitting another vehicle that it can't "see".
So there are two serious errors here, in the enforcement of driver attention and in the actual function. Tesla should withdraw or limit the mode until they fix both.
At least Tesla's ambitions are fairly modest - track lanes, model cars going the same direction, plan lane changes. The problems that mostly or fully autonomous vehicles face on the open road are far worse and far more intractable. If the car is going to take over all function then it *must* be safe in all circumstances and conditions. But being safe is orthogonal to other requirements like making good progress (i.e. driving at the correct speed, not blocking other vehicles). I don't see it happening tolerably or safely any time soon.
Tesla is constantly saying how safe and survivable their car is and then putting inherently dangerous features in like self-drive, ludicrous mode and so forth. They say (wink, wink) that it's only in beta (wink, wink), and keep your hands on the wheel (wink, wink) and then allow the car to careen down the road without a driver in control. Can't have it both ways - they either strive to be safe or they don't. They must force the driver's attention even when self drive is on.
As for self drive in general, prepare to see a lot of incidents like this. Tesla's features are quite limited and basically amount to smart cruise control and lane tracking and even they haven't got that working. The more complex, autonomous solutions are going to face far more complex realtime scenarios where the car will do something unexpected resulting directly or indirectly in an accident.
I think if they were ultra paranoid they'd get one of the new modular phones and switch out any pieces they weren't happy with. Then they'd run a custom build of Android on top which excluded anything they didn't want and ran everything else through multiple layers of encryption and authentication.
To that we're in no doubt. Too bad you didn't find the time to critically appraise what you've read on some woo website before mindlessly parroting it..
Wherever he got his hair, It looks terrible. It doesn't even look like a bad hairpiece. It's so weird it's not even possible to see where it actually enters / leaves the head. It's like an elaborately stacked and woven combover which is hair sprayed and fixed into position somehow.
Of course if he weren't such a narcissist he wouldn't have resorted to such ludicrous measures in the first place.
An NFC chip would be extremely difficult to clone. The might be able to scrape some information off the NFC that is made public but it is highly doubtful that includes the PIN, the CVV2, the address or possibly even the name of the person. The NFC itself would implement challenge response so that wouldn't be much use either. It's not even obvious to me why point of sale terminals would even need to see what's on the magstripe but perhaps there is a reason. The obvious fix is if a payment card exposes this info then it should obfuscate it, or better yet not expose it at all. Whatever edge case requires it might not be a sufficient reason given any potential for theft.
Stopping selling 16GB phones when the space is clearly inadequate for the phone OS it is expected to hold. The only reason Apple even sell such shitty devices is so they can put a "from $649" when they know the device is sufficiently gimped that people will pay $100 more for a 64GB phone. It's easy money.
Aside from that, most phone operating systems have a partition for the system and a user partition. If an iPhone follows this kind of layout then I don't see how removing apps will help unless the device can be re-partitioned during an upgrade to reclaim the space. It's actually more likely to waste space because if Apple update these apps then the phone will hold the stock version in the system partition and a more recent one in the user partition. It's now wasted 2x the space. The same crap happens on Android phones where the firmware will often have burnt-in copies of Facebook, Gmail, Twitter etc which are immediately superseded.
Just because it does 4K doesn't mean it will support Bluray UHD. Supporting 4K could just mean more VRAM and support for HEVC in hardware. Supporting Bluray UHD means changing the drive to read 4-layer discs and other technical requirements which Microsoft might not feel so inclined to do when the main beneficiary is Sony.
It seems more likely that they'll toss in 4K support for streaming services and leave it at that.
Because downloading a 50GB file is not something people like doing. Aside from that, digital copies tend to cost more money and of course you can't sell, loan or donate them as you see fit.
Microsoft originally intended to embed a unique serial # into each disc so that it became bound to the first account that played the game. A bit like a product code. Turns out people really hated that idea. It was partly this and the Kinect debacle that gave the PS4 an early lead.
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Fine, so you grandfather crap like wing dings and some other stuff in and you draw a line under it. End of story. If phone operators want to produce a standard to represent emojis they can go off and do it any way they please without bloating unicode any further than it is.
There are an infinite and arbitrary number of "emojis" that someone could think of. Unicode is not the place to put them.
That really depends if Pokemon start mysteriously appearing in Starbucks, or if you get ads for places in your vicinity. The game monetizes your activities as well as in-app purchases (which could also be tied to real-world promotions based on location). Therefore it is east to see a profit motive for Nintendo and for any network provider who cuts themselves a deal in return for some revenue.
It's fine to give out free data for an app which has no direct competition,
Even Pokemon Go has direct competition. It may masquerade as a game but its basically collecting monetizable data about your movements and habits. It also has in-app purchasing. Is it beyond the bounds of possibility that T-Mobile has cut itself a deal for a share of the profits in return for free bandwidth?
It violates net neutrality by incentivizing customers to prefer the app which doesn't hit their bandwidth allocation over the one that does. It is quite obvious how that could be detrimental.
Stop releasing fucking emojis for either sex. And Unicode Consortium, stop thinking it's your job to assign characters to arbitrary and ephemeral emojis because it isn't.
Other than Netflix gimped their web service so that other browsers are delivered lower resolution content. All browsers are capable of hardware accelerated video playback and all of them should be capable of 1080p output providing the hardware is up to it.
I wonder if it can tell the difference between breaking glass and someone playing a recording of breaking glass. Does griefing a robot count as a crime?
Well that's complete bollocks. Maintainability has little to do with the language and a lot to do with the design, discipline and rigor with which the code was written.
It's not just all about languages of course since claiming to be a C++ programmer says squat of your ability to write a GUI. And writing a GUI for a desktop is different from one on a phone or on the web for that matter. So breadth of experience is important and feeds into the next thing. It also demonstrates to prospective employers that you are capable of learning new and can adapt your thinking. Even if you haven't learned tech X, you make have skills from tech Y which are transferable.
Things like SafeSurf and PICS were supposed to rate the web. They failed. If people want their content filtered it's not hard to find services that will do it. And that should be precisely what happens in the UK too. It should not be hard to pass legislation to require ISPs to ASK explicitly yes or no does someone want filtering during sign up and provide online controls so they can toggle this setting at any point thereafter.
Oh there is. It's called chip and pin. There is no requirement for any retailer to hold credit card information for over the counter transactions.
The problem here is the Tesla stuck in a feature which is a) flawed, and b) doesn't enforce driver attention. It's flawed because it appears to have a serious issue with trailers and perhaps other situations. Some reports say it masks out high elevation obstructions because of interference from overhead signage.
Some might say its the driver's fault for not paying attention but that is a natural consequence of a bad design. The car should enforce the driver's attention. If there is no enforcement then people will become inattentive and crashes will happen. This will be true for pretty much any self drive vehicle that requires a human for fallback. The human cannot be allowed to watch a movie, fall asleep or be passed out drunk if there is even a small chance they need to take back control with little notice.
Mercedes Benz has an attention assist feature though theirs is to look for driver fatigue by detecting driving patterns. Such a system wouldn't be applicable for a self-drive mode. I expect any system in a self-drive would require some kind of interactive command - jiggle wheel, tap accelerator, and if it wasn't performed in a timely fashion the auto pilot would disengage and if necessary the car would have to slow and pull over. It could also monitor the driver's eyes or head posture so someone constantly looking away from the road could trigger a disengagement.
False equivalence
Tesla's self-drive mode must *force* the driver to hold the wheel and potentially do other actions to ensure their complete attention. And if they can't do that then they have no business putting such a feature into the car. And that's assuming the feature works as intended, which it clearly doesn't if it ends up hitting another vehicle that it can't "see".
So there are two serious errors here, in the enforcement of driver attention and in the actual function. Tesla should withdraw or limit the mode until they fix both.
At least Tesla's ambitions are fairly modest - track lanes, model cars going the same direction, plan lane changes. The problems that mostly or fully autonomous vehicles face on the open road are far worse and far more intractable. If the car is going to take over all function then it *must* be safe in all circumstances and conditions. But being safe is orthogonal to other requirements like making good progress (i.e. driving at the correct speed, not blocking other vehicles). I don't see it happening tolerably or safely any time soon.
As for self drive in general, prepare to see a lot of incidents like this. Tesla's features are quite limited and basically amount to smart cruise control and lane tracking and even they haven't got that working. The more complex, autonomous solutions are going to face far more complex realtime scenarios where the car will do something unexpected resulting directly or indirectly in an accident.
I think if they were ultra paranoid they'd get one of the new modular phones and switch out any pieces they weren't happy with. Then they'd run a custom build of Android on top which excluded anything they didn't want and ran everything else through multiple layers of encryption and authentication.
I could go on and on
To that we're in no doubt. Too bad you didn't find the time to critically appraise what you've read on some woo website before mindlessly parroting it..
Of course if he weren't such a narcissist he wouldn't have resorted to such ludicrous measures in the first place.
An NFC chip would be extremely difficult to clone. The might be able to scrape some information off the NFC that is made public but it is highly doubtful that includes the PIN, the CVV2, the address or possibly even the name of the person. The NFC itself would implement challenge response so that wouldn't be much use either. It's not even obvious to me why point of sale terminals would even need to see what's on the magstripe but perhaps there is a reason. The obvious fix is if a payment card exposes this info then it should obfuscate it, or better yet not expose it at all. Whatever edge case requires it might not be a sufficient reason given any potential for theft.
Aside from that, most phone operating systems have a partition for the system and a user partition. If an iPhone follows this kind of layout then I don't see how removing apps will help unless the device can be re-partitioned during an upgrade to reclaim the space. It's actually more likely to waste space because if Apple update these apps then the phone will hold the stock version in the system partition and a more recent one in the user partition. It's now wasted 2x the space. The same crap happens on Android phones where the firmware will often have burnt-in copies of Facebook, Gmail, Twitter etc which are immediately superseded.
Did these UPS employees think it was amazing liquid fire? If not then there is some kind of truth in advertising charge to be answered too.
It seems more likely that they'll toss in 4K support for streaming services and leave it at that.
Microsoft originally intended to embed a unique serial # into each disc so that it became bound to the first account that played the game. A bit like a product code. Turns out people really hated that idea. It was partly this and the Kinect debacle that gave the PS4 an early lead.