There are many solutions proposed for dealing with the radiation. That isn't a useful question (by itself.)
You should be asking instead: Has Musk announced how he will provide sufficient sheilding while maintaining a workable delta-v, and mission cost projection?
For example, Musk could decide on an inner and outer hull design with a nice empty space between, into which polyvinylacrylate (those crystals inside diapers) powder and liquid water is introduced. The powder absorbs all the water, turns it into a thick gel that cannot flow well, and thus will mostly stay put if the tank depressurizes. That means micrometeorites and the like are not a problem, and the high hydrogen density of the gel and low dispersion means that harmful cosmic rays cant penetrate deeply, and irradiated water wont migrate throug h the gel all that quickly.
That means that once put into service, the sheilding can continue to used basically forever as long as the ship is in service and good quarantine is in effect.
The downside? water is heavy as fuck. The fuel to move it around is heavy as fuck. The ship will take for fucking ever to reach mars, and will cost a fortune to fuel and launch.
The issue isnt stopping the radiation. It's doing so efficiently without killing yourself financially that is the kicker.
..Need to see the mission charter, and a number of other things first.
History is awash in inescapable schemes like "company stores."
If any part of Musk's plan involves indenturement, or stakeholder value increase, and does not come out upfront say that the one and only purpose is colonization, for the sake of colonization, it needs to be treated with revulsion and derision.
The former is how you secure slaves in space based manufacturing.
The latter is a boondoggle, but has a chance of producing a free, autonomous colony.
Does the mechanism augment reference sound frequencies when incident light levels change?
I ask, because silicon dioxide is peizoelectric. Purposeful inclusions/application as a layer could possibly allow greater fidelity of photon detection if true.
If both are true, it may assist in electro-optical circuit designs, and a number of other useful applications-- but better light sensing in very poor light has a huge demand.
Look at the ubiquity of SDcard. Now, medidate on what the S in SDcard stands for, and why.
SDCard spec supports hardware DRM and encryption. These days there are 256gb SDCards. (course, they cost a pretty penny... but more reasonable sized cards are just a few bucks.) They lack physical seek time, have baked in protections against duplication, are surprisingly durable... the only downside is their small size makes them easy to lose or misplace.
Give it time. The choice to use sdcard instead of MO drive would allow a game console that is very rugged, very small, and less expensive.
You are approaching it from the position of a competent person, doing a task they are competent at, being needlessly hassled.
Instead, you have to see who the real target market is: incompetent people.
Imagine: You are assigned a task you have no clue about. Being likely to be either a software or networking guy, let's say it is a task completely outside that-- Perhaps interior decorating or fashion design. You are not a fashion designer nor an interior decorator, but through some horrible miscarriage of management, the task is placed on you.
As you start struggling, Office notices, offers you contacts to professionals in those feilds.
Ok then. Now, extrapolate further.
You are an office drone, who's one and only skillset revolves around using the copy machine. You know, your basic HR generalist, or secretary. You have been assigned a task where you actually have to do something besides format the margins. (god forbid!) Technology is secret magic to you. You have no clue about anything besides organizing schedules, making copies, and the like. MS offers you much needed help to do the job you clearly are not qualified for.
Hold that thought, and proceed even deeper down the rabbit-hole. You are an incompetent manager, who has been given a project to complete........
In short, this is enabling technology for people who think they are smart, creative, or important-- but really arent, and are instead just straight up frauds. MS has apparently noticed that there are huge numbers of these people in the workforce, and has started targeting them as a demographic.
Moreover, the implications--People that actually DO know how to do these things, get demoted to the fucking level 1 help desk for these people, most likely at extremely low levels of pay.
The irritation of being interrupted is not what you should find objectionable about this plan.
Your argument, as best I can determine, boils down to this canard:
It is made of gears, and as such it cannot perform computations.
This is patently false. Not only are there mechanical, gear ratio driven adding machines (as used in old fashioned cash registers from the early 1900s), there is also the INFAMOUS Babbage analytical engine!
There was. Research the "temple wonders" that were used in ancient Greek (and later, Roman) temples.
You will be surprised at the degree of engineering skill involved in their creation. Unlike in our modern world, ancient greek mathematics required detailed physical proofs of the predictions of the math, before it was considered true. You can see this in the reconstructed text of the archimedes palimpsest.
It is very possible that this object was such a proof, made to present findings to nearby scholars.
What it is not, is a universal computer, nor is it a reprogrammable computer.
Any universal computer can simulate any other computer, even other universal computers. A purpose built single purpose computer is only capable of performing the calculations it was designed for.
Compare: a modern universal computer against a mechanical cash register.
The cash register does computations; generally, it keeps a running tally of a customer's transaction, as well as a running tally of total exchanges made during the day. It cant really do other kinds of tasks. It was not made to do so.
Likewise, the antikythera mechanism is designed to perform computatuons: logically, when the sinusoid patterns of celestial objects will result in tangencies if overlaid. It really cant do other kinds of tasks. It was not made to do so.
A universal computer can do both tasks, and any other task a computer is capable of being built for, because it was made to do so.
The universal computer is fairly modern. purpose built computers are a very ancient thing. Do not try to conflate the two, or claim that one isnt a computer just because it is not a universal turing machine.
I dont know about iOS powered devices, but android devices have useful python interpreters on the playstore.
(iOS probably wouldnt be able to do this, given apple's prohibition on running non-native code. That's fine, there are very cheap android devices out there in the 30 to 60$ range that are burner smartphones that would work well as educational aides for kids. Try getting an apple product that cheap.)
Adding the support would be trivial: The hardware already has an HDMI input, and you (presumably) tell the xbox to change the channel for you. The hardware to process and manage a video stream is there. The system already has a filesystem on it that is both proprietary and digital signature enforced, meaning any files written on it will be difficult to read and then put somewhere else, and even if you did, another xbox wont play them because of the signature checking.
The console already can record video from games being played.
The hardware is ready and capable. The kernel has all the codecs needed to do this.
What is lacking, is permissions to do this from broadcasters. Until that permission is given, MS cant legally let you record live TV. If the XboxOne ever gets jailbroken, it will make an excellent KODI (XBMC) or mythtv box.
All MS needs to do is release an app on the market place, and the thing will work.
That they went through all that trouble to design, implement, and test all the other bits of hardware and software in the system needed for this to work, but are now abandoning the feature, tells me that you have "rights holders" afraid of modern VCRs. We just need some more "Jack the ripper" hyperbole, and its a dead ringer. It also tells me that MS was actually serious about wanting to deploy the feature.
The problem is not MS in this case. It is the dinosaur buggywhip salesmen.
In the US, there was a drive to fuse equity with law courts, but the ways they are tried and the kinds of relief that can be obtained are still seperate classes. Equity is still alive and well in the US court system.
As for your rebuttle: In many smaller municipalities, residential road maintenance outside of expected (budgeted) norms is frequently recouped by a direct levy against the residents who live on that street, with a defined dollar amount. This should meet the requirement for determining exactly how much Waze has unjustly profited from exploitation of the residential street.
1) Major highway upkeep is paid for predominantly by the fuel tax. By buying gasoline, you pay for the upkeep of major highways. That was the equitable decision found by the US court system for their upkeep.
2) Residential roads are not funded this way.
3) appropriate use of residential streets by non-citizens of the municipality is expected-- Visiting someone, dropping off a package, etc. The residents are appropriately tasked with paying for the upkeep of roads for this purpose.
4) Excessive through traffic that is not solicited by the residents of the city on residential roads is not an appropriate use.
5) Road deterioration rate is measured by number of axles driving over it in a given timeframe. The city assayer will investigate premature deterioration, and issue notices of excise to residents in the impacted area so that the roads can be maintained at the higher rate of use. This is unfair to the residents of the community being abused, and is unfair enrichment on the part of Waze. IT DOES NOT GET DISTIBUTED ACROSS THE TAX BASE IN MOST MUNICIPALITIES.
6) Waze has publicly demonstrated that it does not care that its actions cause undue burden to these citizens, demonstrating beligerance.
I realize that some people just dont comprehend Equity law, or why it exists, and have a hardon for anything that removes any perception of personal obstacle, (and as evidenced by all the "-1 troll" mods, which I might well point out is not a substitute for the purposefully missing "-1 disagree" moderation-- as well as the odd directive for people to kill themselves. Very classy.) and get personally emotional when confronted about the ethics of willfully violating it, that does not mean beligerance is the appropriate response.
Ignorance of the law is not a defense. Personal convenience is not a protected class under equity law, no matter how much one may wish it to be. Shooting the messenger does not make the reality of the message go away, and being belligerant accomplishes nothing constructive.
A class action civil suit brought by many municipalities under Equity law, or even by many enjoined private citizens who have recieved notifications by the city assayer that they will be levied an additional excise for road repair attributable to Waze's actions under equity law, would easily be able to demonstrate damages from Waze's actions, and would have the option of a court ordered compulsion to cease such redirection within the disputed area as injunctive relief.
If enough such cases are brought against Waze, (and even a single defeat would expose liability in other venues of litigation) it would quickly become very costly for them to persist.
Because Waze's actions will have impact on interstate commerce, (hah), there is even the potential for a federal level case instead of lots of local ones, but that's a stretch.
Residential road use already has centuries worth of precident linking it to law covering public commons.
Similar arguments were made concerning such things as grazing rights on empty pastoral fields back in the dark ages. The standing decision that guides equity law, is that convenience is not just grounds for abusing the public commons.
EG, "getting there faster" is not justification for causing excessive wear on a road not rated for that kind of traffic, any more than "It's convenient pasturage for my sheep!" was four hundred years ago.
Unless you pony up for the additional upkeep costs, you are forcing other people to pay for your convenience, and that is an unequitable transaction.
Forcing a municipal government to pony up will cause diversion of funds from other areas in the budget to cover the expense, which would mean reductions in public spending in such areas as food pantries, and other life sustaining services for the impoverished.
These unintended consequences are the reason why equity laws were created.
Just how much is your getting to your destination a little faster worth?
Bing's purpose for existing is not to provide simple search services.
Its purpose for existing is to get some of that delicious advertiser money, by being a gatekeeper to data useful to advertizers.
I did not have a problem with the OLD way that the 360 did searches. They were just searches. I was a user, not a product.
This implementation (bing everything, with hentai tentacles in every hole) neither asks me if I wish to be shown targeted advertisements, asks me if I want my searches included in metrics databases, nor gives me any option to opt out.
I am a product, not a user. I take exception to that.
The road atlas informs drivers of where a road is. it does not direct drivers down those roads actively. The atlas is only useful when:
You have business in the area in question (making a delivery, visiting someone, etc)
You are planning ahead of time, and wish to evade an area without knowing traffic conditions.
This latter is the closest to your argument making sense, but does not have the same incidence rate that active redirection does. What Waze is doing is more on par with a highway patrol officer waving people off the street and down a residential detour. That is only done with municipal approval. Waze is not getting nor even seeking that approval.
I challenge you to see how long it takes for you to be arrested for endangering people and criminal negligence by standing on the side of a busy street, and waving people down a residential area as a detour.
Residential streets are given lower roadway maintenance budgets because they are designed to handle significantly less traffic than a major roadway does.
A significant number of Waze users will not be city residents.
Major roadway maintenance is paid for, at least in part, by state traffic authority funds, extracted from fuel taxes. Residential roads are paid for mostly by taxes on local residents. It is very plausible that excessive redirection down residential streets will pose an undue burden on upkeep costs for the municipality that this happens to, especially with smaller towns.
Waze is acting in a manner that precludes equitability. It is not being considerate of the consequences of routing large amounts of traffic through residential areas, and further, their public response to the issue has been openly hostile to being considerate in this fashion.
This means that they need a court to tell them that they need to behave properly in respect to a public commons, or else.
THE MARKET APP IS POWERED BY BING. When you search for a game or addon, the search is processed by Bing. That is why Cortanna can integrate with it seamlessly. The XboxOne suggests social media based on your play habbits, regardless of your subscription level or history playing online games. You can see that on the right side of the home screen when you select a recently played title from the quick list. That social media is powered by Bing.
That will affect nearly all users. Unless you keep it off the internet, you are forced to use Bing. That's the skinny. There is no option to turn that shit off.
The smart TVs often have cameras in them too, for "light level control", but are much more than simple photodetectors. A thin smear of superglue fixes that problem too, and if thin enough, still allows light level detection.
I dont have a smart TV. That's what a settop box is for. It isnt like a Roku or apple tv eats a lot of space in the entertainment center.
My XboxOne is not easily jiggered with though. (has enough room around it for ventilation, but unplugging and replugging the kinect is a PITA.) I dont play online, and just have the kinect for motion control. Superglue is expedient and effective.
Perhaps I want to play a kinect exclusive title, but dont want to feed microsoft's marketing division? I refuse to purchase titles that demand I talk to the console, but motion control can possibly be a useful feature in some game genres. (the new hand tracking features of kinect could be used in some interesting ways, which may be useful in immersive rpgs. I dont know what the future of this console holds in that respect.)
The "needs to be on the internet all the damned time" thing is barely tolerable if the console is only logging time played and with what games-- when it starts giving "suggested advertisements" the line is crossed. MS does not need to know what my favorite soda is, or any other advertising related bullshit. They can fuck off, and let me play, and I will worry about what I want to purchase and when.
Sabotaging the mic ensures that MS never hears me say anything. I dont play online games, so I dont need fucking voice chat, and I dont watch TV, so I dont need cortana to change the channel for me. The microphone gives me precisely zero added value. To me, it begs for superglue.
I find this difficult to believe, honestly. Bing integration is quite possibly the first thing I saw after the initial setup update process. Literally EVERYTHING related to searching and downloading is done with bing as the backend.
Note the article is three years old. Can you imagine MS... reducing... its dependence on Bing, especially in light of putting Cortana on top, and locking down cortana to be bing exclusive on win10?
You must not be very attentive, or must not use any dlc/market features.
The whole xbox market is integrated with bing. The recorded videos and shared content features are powered by bing. There is an integrated version of Edge, that sits permanently at Bing as the home page.
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There are many solutions proposed for dealing with the radiation. That isn't a useful question (by itself.)
You should be asking instead: Has Musk announced how he will provide sufficient sheilding while maintaining a workable delta-v, and mission cost projection?
For example, Musk could decide on an inner and outer hull design with a nice empty space between, into which polyvinylacrylate (those crystals inside diapers) powder and liquid water is introduced. The powder absorbs all the water, turns it into a thick gel that cannot flow well, and thus will mostly stay put if the tank depressurizes. That means micrometeorites and the like are not a problem, and the high hydrogen density of the gel and low dispersion means that harmful cosmic rays cant penetrate deeply, and irradiated water wont migrate throug h the gel all that quickly.
That means that once put into service, the sheilding can continue to used basically forever as long as the ship is in service and good quarantine is in effect.
The downside? water is heavy as fuck. The fuel to move it around is heavy as fuck. The ship will take for fucking ever to reach mars, and will cost a fortune to fuel and launch.
The issue isnt stopping the radiation. It's doing so efficiently without killing yourself financially that is the kicker.
..Need to see the mission charter, and a number of other things first.
History is awash in inescapable schemes like "company stores."
If any part of Musk's plan involves indenturement, or stakeholder value increase, and does not come out upfront say that the one and only purpose is colonization, for the sake of colonization, it needs to be treated with revulsion and derision.
The former is how you secure slaves in space based manufacturing.
The latter is a boondoggle, but has a chance of producing a free, autonomous colony.
Does the mechanism augment reference sound frequencies when incident light levels change?
I ask, because silicon dioxide is peizoelectric. Purposeful inclusions/application as a layer could possibly allow greater fidelity of photon detection if true.
If both are true, it may assist in electro-optical circuit designs, and a number of other useful applications-- but better light sensing in very poor light has a huge demand.
There are other formats besides MO disc.
Look at the ubiquity of SDcard. Now, medidate on what the S in SDcard stands for, and why.
SDCard spec supports hardware DRM and encryption. These days there are 256gb SDCards. (course, they cost a pretty penny... but more reasonable sized cards are just a few bucks.) They lack physical seek time, have baked in protections against duplication, are surprisingly durable... the only downside is their small size makes them easy to lose or misplace.
Give it time. The choice to use sdcard instead of MO drive would allow a game console that is very rugged, very small, and less expensive.
MO Disc is a technology on life support.
You are not thinking about this the right way.
You are approaching it from the position of a competent person, doing a task they are competent at, being needlessly hassled.
Instead, you have to see who the real target market is: incompetent people.
Imagine: You are assigned a task you have no clue about. Being likely to be either a software or networking guy, let's say it is a task completely outside that-- Perhaps interior decorating or fashion design. You are not a fashion designer nor an interior decorator, but through some horrible miscarriage of management, the task is placed on you.
As you start struggling, Office notices, offers you contacts to professionals in those feilds.
Ok then. Now, extrapolate further.
You are an office drone, who's one and only skillset revolves around using the copy machine. You know, your basic HR generalist, or secretary. You have been assigned a task where you actually have to do something besides format the margins. (god forbid!) Technology is secret magic to you. You have no clue about anything besides organizing schedules, making copies, and the like. MS offers you much needed help to do the job you clearly are not qualified for.
Hold that thought, and proceed even deeper down the rabbit-hole. You are an incompetent manager, who has been given a project to complete........
In short, this is enabling technology for people who think they are smart, creative, or important-- but really arent, and are instead just straight up frauds. MS has apparently noticed that there are huge numbers of these people in the workforce, and has started targeting them as a demographic.
Moreover, the implications--People that actually DO know how to do these things, get demoted to the fucking level 1 help desk for these people, most likely at extremely low levels of pay.
The irritation of being interrupted is not what you should find objectionable about this plan.
Your argument, as best I can determine, boils down to this canard:
It is made of gears, and as such it cannot perform computations.
This is patently false. Not only are there mechanical, gear ratio driven adding machines (as used in old fashioned cash registers from the early 1900s), there is also the INFAMOUS Babbage analytical engine!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Not only was it intended to be made of gears, it was intended to be a universal computer on top of it all.
Babbage's engine is a universal turing maching. It is made of gears.
Fess up, you done goofed.
There was. Research the "temple wonders" that were used in ancient Greek (and later, Roman) temples.
You will be surprised at the degree of engineering skill involved in their creation. Unlike in our modern world, ancient greek mathematics required detailed physical proofs of the predictions of the math, before it was considered true. You can see this in the reconstructed text of the archimedes palimpsest.
It is very possible that this object was such a proof, made to present findings to nearby scholars.
It is a purpse built analog mechanical computer.
What it is not, is a universal computer, nor is it a reprogrammable computer.
Any universal computer can simulate any other computer, even other universal computers. A purpose built single purpose computer is only capable of performing the calculations it was designed for.
Compare: a modern universal computer against a mechanical cash register.
The cash register does computations; generally, it keeps a running tally of a customer's transaction, as well as a running tally of total exchanges made during the day. It cant really do other kinds of tasks. It was not made to do so.
Likewise, the antikythera mechanism is designed to perform computatuons: logically, when the sinusoid patterns of celestial objects will result in tangencies if overlaid. It really cant do other kinds of tasks. It was not made to do so.
A universal computer can do both tasks, and any other task a computer is capable of being built for, because it was made to do so.
The universal computer is fairly modern. purpose built computers are a very ancient thing. Do not try to conflate the two, or claim that one isnt a computer just because it is not a universal turing machine.
I dont know about iOS powered devices, but android devices have useful python interpreters on the playstore.
(iOS probably wouldnt be able to do this, given apple's prohibition on running non-native code. That's fine, there are very cheap android devices out there in the 30 to 60$ range that are burner smartphones that would work well as educational aides for kids. Try getting an apple product that cheap.)
Here's one such project-- QPython.
https://play.google.com/store/...
It offers a python execution environment for python scripts and projects, on android platforms. There's your candidate for modern qbasic. :)
Adding the support would be trivial: The hardware already has an HDMI input, and you (presumably) tell the xbox to change the channel for you. The hardware to process and manage a video stream is there. The system already has a filesystem on it that is both proprietary and digital signature enforced, meaning any files written on it will be difficult to read and then put somewhere else, and even if you did, another xbox wont play them because of the signature checking.
The console already can record video from games being played.
The hardware is ready and capable. The kernel has all the codecs needed to do this.
What is lacking, is permissions to do this from broadcasters. Until that permission is given, MS cant legally let you record live TV. If the XboxOne ever gets jailbroken, it will make an excellent KODI (XBMC) or mythtv box.
All MS needs to do is release an app on the market place, and the thing will work.
That they went through all that trouble to design, implement, and test all the other bits of hardware and software in the system needed for this to work, but are now abandoning the feature, tells me that you have "rights holders" afraid of modern VCRs. We just need some more "Jack the ripper" hyperbole, and its a dead ringer. It also tells me that MS was actually serious about wanting to deploy the feature.
The problem is not MS in this case. It is the dinosaur buggywhip salesmen.
In the US, there was a drive to fuse equity with law courts, but the ways they are tried and the kinds of relief that can be obtained are still seperate classes. Equity is still alive and well in the US court system.
As for your rebuttle: In many smaller municipalities, residential road maintenance outside of expected (budgeted) norms is frequently recouped by a direct levy against the residents who live on that street, with a defined dollar amount. This should meet the requirement for determining exactly how much Waze has unjustly profited from exploitation of the residential street.
Your typical navigation app suggests major roadways with higher priority than residential areas.
From the sounds of it, Waze does not. It suggests whichever road will result in the shortest commute time, as determined by GPS tracking of its users.
Waze can avoid being douchebags by suggesting major roadways first, like they should be, as that is the ethical and equitable course of action.
1) Major highway upkeep is paid for predominantly by the fuel tax. By buying gasoline, you pay for the upkeep of major highways. That was the equitable decision found by the US court system for their upkeep.
2) Residential roads are not funded this way.
3) appropriate use of residential streets by non-citizens of the municipality is expected-- Visiting someone, dropping off a package, etc. The residents are appropriately tasked with paying for the upkeep of roads for this purpose.
4) Excessive through traffic that is not solicited by the residents of the city on residential roads is not an appropriate use.
5) Road deterioration rate is measured by number of axles driving over it in a given timeframe. The city assayer will investigate premature deterioration, and issue notices of excise to residents in the impacted area so that the roads can be maintained at the higher rate of use. This is unfair to the residents of the community being abused, and is unfair enrichment on the part of Waze. IT DOES NOT GET DISTIBUTED ACROSS THE TAX BASE IN MOST MUNICIPALITIES.
6) Waze has publicly demonstrated that it does not care that its actions cause undue burden to these citizens, demonstrating beligerance.
Why do you support Waze in this?
As a resident of NYC, you should be aware of what the taxi medallion thing is all about, and why NYC hates Uber with a firey passion.
Can we at least pretend to be civil in here?
I realize that some people just dont comprehend Equity law, or why it exists, and have a hardon for anything that removes any perception of personal obstacle, (and as evidenced by all the "-1 troll" mods, which I might well point out is not a substitute for the purposefully missing "-1 disagree" moderation-- as well as the odd directive for people to kill themselves. Very classy.) and get personally emotional when confronted about the ethics of willfully violating it, that does not mean beligerance is the appropriate response.
Ignorance of the law is not a defense. Personal convenience is not a protected class under equity law, no matter how much one may wish it to be. Shooting the messenger does not make the reality of the message go away, and being belligerant accomplishes nothing constructive.
A class action civil suit brought by many municipalities under Equity law, or even by many enjoined private citizens who have recieved notifications by the city assayer that they will be levied an additional excise for road repair attributable to Waze's actions under equity law, would easily be able to demonstrate damages from Waze's actions, and would have the option of a court ordered compulsion to cease such redirection within the disputed area as injunctive relief.
If enough such cases are brought against Waze, (and even a single defeat would expose liability in other venues of litigation) it would quickly become very costly for them to persist.
Because Waze's actions will have impact on interstate commerce, (hah), there is even the potential for a federal level case instead of lots of local ones, but that's a stretch.
Naturally, IANAL and all that.
You might wish to familiarize yourself with the legal concept of Equity, which is in force in US courts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The class action suit against Waze would be unfair enrichment, a subset of US equity laws.
Residential road use already has centuries worth of precident linking it to law covering public commons.
Similar arguments were made concerning such things as grazing rights on empty pastoral fields back in the dark ages. The standing decision that guides equity law, is that convenience is not just grounds for abusing the public commons.
EG, "getting there faster" is not justification for causing excessive wear on a road not rated for that kind of traffic, any more than "It's convenient pasturage for my sheep!" was four hundred years ago.
Unless you pony up for the additional upkeep costs, you are forcing other people to pay for your convenience, and that is an unequitable transaction.
Forcing a municipal government to pony up will cause diversion of funds from other areas in the budget to cover the expense, which would mean reductions in public spending in such areas as food pantries, and other life sustaining services for the impoverished.
These unintended consequences are the reason why equity laws were created.
Just how much is your getting to your destination a little faster worth?
Bing's purpose for existing is not to provide simple search services.
Its purpose for existing is to get some of that delicious advertiser money, by being a gatekeeper to data useful to advertizers.
I did not have a problem with the OLD way that the 360 did searches. They were just searches. I was a user, not a product.
This implementation (bing everything, with hentai tentacles in every hole) neither asks me if I wish to be shown targeted advertisements, asks me if I want my searches included in metrics databases, nor gives me any option to opt out.
I am a product, not a user. I take exception to that.
That does not follow.
The road atlas informs drivers of where a road is. it does not direct drivers down those roads actively. The atlas is only useful when:
You have business in the area in question (making a delivery, visiting someone, etc)
You are planning ahead of time, and wish to evade an area without knowing traffic conditions.
This latter is the closest to your argument making sense, but does not have the same incidence rate that active redirection does. What Waze is doing is more on par with a highway patrol officer waving people off the street and down a residential detour. That is only done with municipal approval. Waze is not getting nor even seeking that approval.
I challenge you to see how long it takes for you to be arrested for endangering people and criminal negligence by standing on the side of a busy street, and waving people down a residential area as a detour.
The cities need to sue Waze.
Residential streets are given lower roadway maintenance budgets because they are designed to handle significantly less traffic than a major roadway does.
A significant number of Waze users will not be city residents.
Major roadway maintenance is paid for, at least in part, by state traffic authority funds, extracted from fuel taxes. Residential roads are paid for mostly by taxes on local residents. It is very plausible that excessive redirection down residential streets will pose an undue burden on upkeep costs for the municipality that this happens to, especially with smaller towns.
Waze is acting in a manner that precludes equitability. It is not being considerate of the consequences of routing large amounts of traffic through residential areas, and further, their public response to the issue has been openly hostile to being considerate in this fashion.
This means that they need a court to tell them that they need to behave properly in respect to a public commons, or else.
Are you being purposefully obtuse?
THE MARKET APP IS POWERED BY BING. When you search for a game or addon, the search is processed by Bing. That is why Cortanna can integrate with it seamlessly. The XboxOne suggests social media based on your play habbits, regardless of your subscription level or history playing online games. You can see that on the right side of the home screen when you select a recently played title from the quick list. That social media is powered by Bing.
That will affect nearly all users. Unless you keep it off the internet, you are forced to use Bing. That's the skinny. There is no option to turn that shit off.
The smart TVs often have cameras in them too, for "light level control", but are much more than simple photodetectors. A thin smear of superglue fixes that problem too, and if thin enough, still allows light level detection.
I dont have a smart TV. That's what a settop box is for. It isnt like a Roku or apple tv eats a lot of space in the entertainment center.
My XboxOne is not easily jiggered with though. (has enough room around it for ventilation, but unplugging and replugging the kinect is a PITA.) I dont play online, and just have the kinect for motion control. Superglue is expedient and effective.
Perhaps I want to play a kinect exclusive title, but dont want to feed microsoft's marketing division? I refuse to purchase titles that demand I talk to the console, but motion control can possibly be a useful feature in some game genres. (the new hand tracking features of kinect could be used in some interesting ways, which may be useful in immersive rpgs. I dont know what the future of this console holds in that respect.)
The "needs to be on the internet all the damned time" thing is barely tolerable if the console is only logging time played and with what games-- when it starts giving "suggested advertisements" the line is crossed. MS does not need to know what my favorite soda is, or any other advertising related bullshit. They can fuck off, and let me play, and I will worry about what I want to purchase and when.
Sabotaging the mic ensures that MS never hears me say anything. I dont play online games, so I dont need fucking voice chat, and I dont watch TV, so I dont need cortana to change the channel for me. The microphone gives me precisely zero added value. To me, it begs for superglue.
I find this difficult to believe, honestly. Bing integration is quite possibly the first thing I saw after the initial setup update process. Literally EVERYTHING related to searching and downloading is done with bing as the backend.
www.webpronews.com/heres-how-bing-works-on-xbox-one-2013-11/
Note the article is three years old. Can you imagine MS... reducing... its dependence on Bing, especially in light of putting Cortana on top, and locking down cortana to be bing exclusive on win10?
I didnt think so.
You must not be very attentive, or must not use any dlc/market features.
The whole xbox market is integrated with bing. The recorded videos and shared content features are powered by bing. There is an integrated version of Edge, that sits permanently at Bing as the home page.
Do I need to continue, or is this sufficient?