All I know is what I've read and heard from guys who actually know X11, particularly X.org inside and out. The talk I was trying to remember is by Daniel Stone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... . Well worth the watch. He claims to be only one of maybe four people that actually understand the nitty gritty details of X.org, it's architecture, and X11's weaknesses.
My brother has never had depth perception (the same issue that they think Da Vinci had). Yet he finds the HTC Vive very useful for visualizing architecture and designing houses and renovations. Just being able to move your head around and see different perspectives is very useful, even without depth perception. Being able to see recreations of ancient buildings and walk around them is also very interesting and educational side. I think this potential is far more interesting than gaming.
Have an HTC Vive. The real problem with flight simulation and VR is the lack of resolution. I've got a program (can't remember what it's called offhand) that can let you use MS flight simulator in VR to pretty good effect. The problem is that most aircraft I can't read the instrument console right in front of me because the goggles don't have enough resolution. But the effect of flying an airplane in VR is pretty darn amazing, I must say. The addition of depth queues is really nice, as well as the immersive nature of being able to just turn your head to look out a side window. It's a better experience than even a couple of 2D screens as far as frames of reference goes. If the goggles could use 4k that would help dramatically with the instrument panel problem.
Well they got some things right like the ability of apps to run remotely. The rest, well probably not. 90% of the old X11 features we don't use anymore at all but those things constrain the protocol and architecture of X11. Things like server-side widgets, server-side fonts, etc. Given the constraints at the time, X11 was amazing. I remember running X11 programs remotely over a modem. And they were usable.
Modern apps use X11 differently and the desire for modern features like anti-aliased fonts mean that much of time X11 is relegated to nearly the level of a frame buffer. Apps render and composite on the client side, and then sent pixmaps to the server which displays them. Although this was all done keeping the ability to run apps remotely (more or less... there are limitations with things like accessing OpenGL). The asynchronous nature of the X11 protocol also makes it more challenging to make redraws and window moves happen without tearing. There was a good talk a few years ago on the architectural problems with X11 and how wayland (developed by former X11 developers) aimed to solve many of those problems.
It's clear to me that Wayland is the future, but until app remoting is a part of the package as it were, I'm not at all interested. And they had better keep things like middle-click paste. I'm not at all interested in client-side decorations either. Keep my window manager separate! There's nothing more annoying that a window that can't be moved because the program has stopped responding to events! So far Wayland looks like a big step forward in some ways, a big step backwards in others.
Apparently removing the cowling to access the low beam bulbs is pretty common on crossover SUVs these days, regardless of make. Small hands to reach into these tight spots is always a bonus. This car was a Chevrolet Traverse SUV (same as the GMC Acadia. I'm not completely sure about the bumper removal for the other bulbs besides low beam, but that's what I gathered from the youtube videos on the subject. Was not terribly impressed.
My old GMC Envoy's headlight housings can remove with just a couple of clips to get access to the bulbs. Now if I could just keep it from burning out the plug going into the bulbs! Bad ground I suspect.
For farm machinery, parts are typically marked up 100%. Your average sensor, some of which are are just POTs, can be a couple hundred dollars a piece. Inductive sensors, about $400. A little bit of electronics knowledge can save a fair amount of money by making off-the-shelf parts from various automation retailers do the same job.
For cars, though, it's more complicated. The other day I learned that to change the headlight bulb on my sisters vehicle it requires removing part of the cowling inside the wheel well. And if you need access to the other lights, it requires removing the bumper!
Please can the slashdot editors fix the headline and summary to reflect the actual situation as per Ross Finlayson's post. Which is to say Mplayer and VLC Media Player were not vulnerable and there's no need to panic. The article linked to in the summary is plain wrong and really needs to be retracted.
Despite all this talk of the theoretical danger posed to manned aircraft, and even demonstrations like this, the risk from "drones" still pales in comparison to the existing risk from civil aviation pilots doing stupid things which happen all the time. For example traditional regulation requires aircraft to stay above 500' AGL unless near an airport (descending). Yet small aircraft regularly incur below that altitude without waivers. Furthermore casual pilots often ignore or don't read NOTAMs, causing interesting incidents. Xjet documented with video a plane from a local flight school that ignored the posted NOTAM about the airport being closed for a drag race and attempted to land anyway. Only after noticing equipment on the runway did the plane land on the grass next to it, running over several strung-out electrical cables. The folks setting up for the drag race gave him quite a talking to. This is but one of many incidents. Point is, talking about regulating toy RC vehicles is a bit silly when the rules governing full-scale aviation are breached regularly, or at least enforced unevenly, especially when such breaches are a far greater risk to life and property. If a small plane flied below 500 feet and encounters an rc aircraft, who's at fault? Obviously they will come down hard on the toy's owner. But the pilot was doing something wrong.
There are folks doing absolutely inappropriate and illegal things with drones, and documenting them on youtube. I think we already have enough laws to go after them and hit them hard for endangering the public.
Previewing RSS feeds of web-related items is not browser related? Previewing an RSS feed is something I do on nearly a daily basis with Firefox. I do this so I can more efficiently browse some forums I participate in (in a browser).
RSS parsing simple thing and I don't understand why they feel it's such a burden, or why you feel this would be bloat. Parsing markup is what a browser does.
Mozilla is a strange organization. They are well funded now, but somehow can't find enough money to cover basic features?
At least, hopefully, there'll still be a plugin for viewing RSS feeds. After all what good is an RSS feed if you can't view it? And no I don't want to use a standalone RSS reader for handling RSS feeds that point back to web pages!
Ms isn't selling any of the surface stuff? Saying that doesn't make it so. From what I can see, the surface devices are selling and people do like them. MS wouldn't be shipping them if they weren't selling. Anecdotal I know of several family members preparing to buy MS devices because Apple has stopped appealing to them. If only Linux could run well on the surfaces (and if we could get decent battery life out of Linux generally), I'd be all over it!
In the business world I've seen a lot of surface pro tablets and they work very well for folks that use the full MS Office suite a lot.
I may think Apple's lineup completely sucks right now and has nothing to offer me, but what they do have is selling fairly well despite all of us naysayers on slashdot.
Sure, but it is for me a far easier burden to bear than getting seriously ill in the US seems to be for most people who get, say cancer. To say nothing of end of life health care needs as we all age. I'm completely okay with social contracts. American individualism is admirable, but we're all in this together.
And as for the tax rate, actually it's probably less than you might think. I'm assuming you live in the US from your comments. When I lived in the US, I was actually quite surprised how large the total tax burden was there. Income tax might be lower in the US than in Canada, but the overall combined tax burden (income plus other forms of taxation, as well as healthcare premiums) seemed just about the same. The result on my personal finances was about the same anyway.
Ahh. They definitely don't do that here. We have no Roundup ready forage crops here thank goodness. Keep that stuff out. That and Roundup ready wheat.
As for pr, Everything has a cost. That's what people don't realize. There's a cost to using herbicides and there's a cost to not using them. You can say I'm BS ing all you want but I see the effects good and bad on my fields day to day and month to month and year to year. There are things that worry me greatly (fungicides) and things that don't (Roundup).
This headline and the comments it has created have me scratching my head. I and other farmers use a fair amount of glyphosate but I can't think of any time I'v seen it used on flowering plants. Glyphosate use is fairly staggering in quantity but nearly all of that is used on glyphosate-resistant crops to control weeds, and this by definition must be done when the crop and weeds are very small. In other words, weeks or months before flowering. If glyphosate were sprayed on a crop that was flowering it would abort flowers and destroy yield, if not making the plants very sick. So it wouldn't make any sense for a farmer to use glyphosate in this way to begin with. Something smells funny.
By the way we also have our own bees that we use for pollinating a glyphosate-tolerant crop.
In yards and around homes also, glyphosate is typically not sprayed on glowering plants. Why would it be? You wouldn't use glyphosate to remove dandelions from your lawn for example (if you do, you're in for a very dead lawn).
This study is highly problematic for this reason. The findings may well be true about toxicity to bees, but if glyphosate isn't used typically on flowering plants or weeds, then the study is somewhat pointless, if interesting. Certainly it cannot inform any policies over the use of glyphosate, except to urge that it not be used on flowering plants, which it already isn't.
In the end, however, those calling for the end of glyphosate will probably get their wish as over-use of glyphosate is rapidly ending the effectiveness of that chemical. And everyone will end up paying for that in increased food costs.
Last time I ran Ubuntu under WSL it didn't use any init system at all. No upstart, no systemd. It's similar to how wine works. Wine does not actually go through a windows startup routine when you fire it up to run a program. Instead of creates an environment and spawns the executable.
Unless my Windows 10 install is hopelessly out of date (it could be), running a linux binary under WSL shows just 2 processes: init and the binary. And the init process is just something in the WSL emulation layer; it's not upstart or systemd.
So I guess I'm confused about this announcement. It's like how they advertise margarine as gluten free.
Sounds like you've never driven a piece of farm equipment.
Already things are highly automated. They drive themselves and now many machines can turn themselves around at the end of the field. So that's 90% of the way there to being autonomous right? Well, not quite. Turns out it's a lot more involved than that. A human operator continuously monitors conditions, and alters course to avoid potential hazards. Quite often I've noticed a spot that I think is pretty muddy underneath, but think it might be firm enough to hold me. Then as I get close I might find out I'm wrong and have to steer around that. Or frequently a rock will jam in a packer, causing dirt to pile up. Or a shovel might break. Or a seed run plugs and stops delivering seed. Or general breakdowns like a flat tire, busted or leaking cylinder, broken frame member, etc. There are hundreds of things that can and do go wrong, regularly. A human can spot them easily and quickly and take action. All of this is possible to do in an automated system, but it would take hundreds of sensors, with potential for problems that that entails, and sophisticated algorithms. All of this is in the pipeline, but it's not going to be as near as everyone thinks. For the foreseeable future, humans augmented with automation technology is still going to be cheaper and more reliable.
Besides all that, driving a tractor is still probably one of the most relaxing and enjoyable activities on modern farms! What will we do without a bit of recreational tillage?
Sure. But "Digital Rights Management" is just a euphemism as far as the end user is concerned. It is indeed about managing rights, but not the rights of the consumer. It's marketing doublespeak. No, this is entirely about the rights of the person "selling" (renting) the content, and a mechanism for doing an end-run around copyright terms and limitations. Thus the term is really dishonest, and deliberately misleading to end users. No, Digital Restrictions Management is actually far more accurate of a description of what DRM is and does. It's not an ignorant thing people say like those who use "M$." Rather it's an accurate depiction of what DRM is intended by vendors to do. I say "vendors," rather than content creators, because these days content creators get abused as much as consumers do.
Reading the book The Truth Machine right now, which touches on this issue. The solution mentioned in the book is digital certification and notarization of images and video. Security camera footage, for example, is all digitally signed (by whom, I don't know). Any modification of the footage breaks the signature and is thus inadmissible in a court, or easily detectable. Trusted services that can notarize images and video make a lot of money in this universe. The mechanics of how this all would happen is not explored.
Of course all of this is turned on its head in the book with the introduction to society of the Truth Machine, which makes it all unnecessary.
Nah the Trump vote came mainly from grumpy old white people. The youth vote would have gone to Bernie Sanders, but I suspect most of those who would have voted Bernie ended up not voting at all. The ideals of socialism seem to appeal most strongly to the youth, who are still idealistic, with a strong sense of morality (as they see it).
You don't. Why would you want to? We're talking about displaying a local, static file, not running a server-backed web-based application. If you need a web server, run a web server.
What does that have to do with mass transit? People simply die without access to affordable food. Hence grocery stores for most people, catering for the rich people, and meal ingredient delivery stores for the upper middle class. Doesn't relate at all to the economics and politics of mass transit.
Thank goodness Republicans are beyond reproach and come by their money honestly! But seriously, this is a very good idea. I'm unsure how wide a net to cast. Many elected people at local level donate much of their time to the public cause, perhaps receiving a per diem, and still maintain other forms of income (day jobs). Is that honest and legal? Depends on what the elected job is I suppose.
I have the HTC Vive. I don't do much gaming at all, but the one thing I do use it for, and the reason for which it was purchased, is for architectural modeling. Used it to show me my kitchen remodel long before it was even started. Just a few minutes in VR showed me that the layout chosen would work very well, given the space constraints. When we built and installed the cabinets, everything looked exactly as I expected, because I'd seen it many times in VR. This is one area that I think is perfect for VR. AR would also be a good fit for this type of thing, as you could stand in the actual room you want to remodel and overlay the new design over what's already there. But straight VR is pretty great for this also, particularly for things that don't exist yet, like a house you'd like to build.
We've modeled several new houses in Sketchup and viewed them in VR. Great for someone trying to design and build a house as you can walk through it and immediately see what works well and what doesn't. It's a natural extension to 3D design. Given a large enough room (say a warehouse floor), a person could walk around an entire house plan. I could see this being incredibly valuable for architecture firms, or even local home building companies.
I have also used VR to model mechanical mechanisms (static at this point), which is pretty cool. It's interesting to create some mechanism or piece of farm machinery and then see it in VR. In one instance, due to a setting in the viewer software, I noticed that a shaft was 1/8" offset from the bearing it was supposed to go through. So you can see little details like that.
It's also very interesting to see reconstructions of long-lost, ancient architecture in VR. So it can be an educational tool also. But there's no real money in educational uses, so there's not much being produced in this vein, at least the kind of exploratory, fully-immersive recreations that I'd love to use. Just exploring ancient Rome would be amazing I think.
So VR is very much applicable to engineering, architecture, and historical uses. Gaming, well, that loses its novelty quickly.
I understand all that quite well, or so I thought. I was just wondering what I was missing in my analysis of the energy calculations. And that was the energy produced by the generator from the first fall through the turbines. Once that's taken into account, then clearly there is not an equivalence with simply waiting for the water. I knew I had to be missing something. Maybe the milk I just drank helped me see it!
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All I know is what I've read and heard from guys who actually know X11, particularly X.org inside and out. The talk I was trying to remember is by Daniel Stone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... . Well worth the watch. He claims to be only one of maybe four people that actually understand the nitty gritty details of X.org, it's architecture, and X11's weaknesses.
My brother has never had depth perception (the same issue that they think Da Vinci had). Yet he finds the HTC Vive very useful for visualizing architecture and designing houses and renovations. Just being able to move your head around and see different perspectives is very useful, even without depth perception. Being able to see recreations of ancient buildings and walk around them is also very interesting and educational side. I think this potential is far more interesting than gaming.
Have an HTC Vive. The real problem with flight simulation and VR is the lack of resolution. I've got a program (can't remember what it's called offhand) that can let you use MS flight simulator in VR to pretty good effect. The problem is that most aircraft I can't read the instrument console right in front of me because the goggles don't have enough resolution. But the effect of flying an airplane in VR is pretty darn amazing, I must say. The addition of depth queues is really nice, as well as the immersive nature of being able to just turn your head to look out a side window. It's a better experience than even a couple of 2D screens as far as frames of reference goes. If the goggles could use 4k that would help dramatically with the instrument panel problem.
Well they got some things right like the ability of apps to run remotely. The rest, well probably not. 90% of the old X11 features we don't use anymore at all but those things constrain the protocol and architecture of X11. Things like server-side widgets, server-side fonts, etc. Given the constraints at the time, X11 was amazing. I remember running X11 programs remotely over a modem. And they were usable.
Modern apps use X11 differently and the desire for modern features like anti-aliased fonts mean that much of time X11 is relegated to nearly the level of a frame buffer. Apps render and composite on the client side, and then sent pixmaps to the server which displays them. Although this was all done keeping the ability to run apps remotely (more or less... there are limitations with things like accessing OpenGL). The asynchronous nature of the X11 protocol also makes it more challenging to make redraws and window moves happen without tearing. There was a good talk a few years ago on the architectural problems with X11 and how wayland (developed by former X11 developers) aimed to solve many of those problems.
It's clear to me that Wayland is the future, but until app remoting is a part of the package as it were, I'm not at all interested. And they had better keep things like middle-click paste. I'm not at all interested in client-side decorations either. Keep my window manager separate! There's nothing more annoying that a window that can't be moved because the program has stopped responding to events! So far Wayland looks like a big step forward in some ways, a big step backwards in others.
Apparently removing the cowling to access the low beam bulbs is pretty common on crossover SUVs these days, regardless of make. Small hands to reach into these tight spots is always a bonus. This car was a Chevrolet Traverse SUV (same as the GMC Acadia. I'm not completely sure about the bumper removal for the other bulbs besides low beam, but that's what I gathered from the youtube videos on the subject. Was not terribly impressed.
My old GMC Envoy's headlight housings can remove with just a couple of clips to get access to the bulbs. Now if I could just keep it from burning out the plug going into the bulbs! Bad ground I suspect.
For farm machinery, parts are typically marked up 100%. Your average sensor, some of which are are just POTs, can be a couple hundred dollars a piece. Inductive sensors, about $400. A little bit of electronics knowledge can save a fair amount of money by making off-the-shelf parts from various automation retailers do the same job.
For cars, though, it's more complicated. The other day I learned that to change the headlight bulb on my sisters vehicle it requires removing part of the cowling inside the wheel well. And if you need access to the other lights, it requires removing the bumper!
Please can the slashdot editors fix the headline and summary to reflect the actual situation as per Ross Finlayson's post. Which is to say Mplayer and VLC Media Player were not vulnerable and there's no need to panic. The article linked to in the summary is plain wrong and really needs to be retracted.
Despite all this talk of the theoretical danger posed to manned aircraft, and even demonstrations like this, the risk from "drones" still pales in comparison to the existing risk from civil aviation pilots doing stupid things which happen all the time. For example traditional regulation requires aircraft to stay above 500' AGL unless near an airport (descending). Yet small aircraft regularly incur below that altitude without waivers. Furthermore casual pilots often ignore or don't read NOTAMs, causing interesting incidents. Xjet documented with video a plane from a local flight school that ignored the posted NOTAM about the airport being closed for a drag race and attempted to land anyway. Only after noticing equipment on the runway did the plane land on the grass next to it, running over several strung-out electrical cables. The folks setting up for the drag race gave him quite a talking to. This is but one of many incidents. Point is, talking about regulating toy RC vehicles is a bit silly when the rules governing full-scale aviation are breached regularly, or at least enforced unevenly, especially when such breaches are a far greater risk to life and property. If a small plane flied below 500 feet and encounters an rc aircraft, who's at fault? Obviously they will come down hard on the toy's owner. But the pilot was doing something wrong.
There are folks doing absolutely inappropriate and illegal things with drones, and documenting them on youtube. I think we already have enough laws to go after them and hit them hard for endangering the public.
Previewing RSS feeds of web-related items is not browser related? Previewing an RSS feed is something I do on nearly a daily basis with Firefox. I do this so I can more efficiently browse some forums I participate in (in a browser).
RSS parsing simple thing and I don't understand why they feel it's such a burden, or why you feel this would be bloat. Parsing markup is what a browser does.
Mozilla is a strange organization. They are well funded now, but somehow can't find enough money to cover basic features?
At least, hopefully, there'll still be a plugin for viewing RSS feeds. After all what good is an RSS feed if you can't view it? And no I don't want to use a standalone RSS reader for handling RSS feeds that point back to web pages!
Ms isn't selling any of the surface stuff? Saying that doesn't make it so. From what I can see, the surface devices are selling and people do like them. MS wouldn't be shipping them if they weren't selling. Anecdotal I know of several family members preparing to buy MS devices because Apple has stopped appealing to them. If only Linux could run well on the surfaces (and if we could get decent battery life out of Linux generally), I'd be all over it!
In the business world I've seen a lot of surface pro tablets and they work very well for folks that use the full MS Office suite a lot.
I may think Apple's lineup completely sucks right now and has nothing to offer me, but what they do have is selling fairly well despite all of us naysayers on slashdot.
Sure, but it is for me a far easier burden to bear than getting seriously ill in the US seems to be for most people who get, say cancer. To say nothing of end of life health care needs as we all age. I'm completely okay with social contracts. American individualism is admirable, but we're all in this together.
And as for the tax rate, actually it's probably less than you might think. I'm assuming you live in the US from your comments. When I lived in the US, I was actually quite surprised how large the total tax burden was there. Income tax might be lower in the US than in Canada, but the overall combined tax burden (income plus other forms of taxation, as well as healthcare premiums) seemed just about the same. The result on my personal finances was about the same anyway.
Is this the VR version? The latest version I downloaded a few months ago didn't have VR support for whatever reason.
Ahh. They definitely don't do that here. We have no Roundup ready forage crops here thank goodness. Keep that stuff out. That and Roundup ready wheat.
As for pr, Everything has a cost. That's what people don't realize. There's a cost to using herbicides and there's a cost to not using them. You can say I'm BS ing all you want but I see the effects good and bad on my fields day to day and month to month and year to year. There are things that worry me greatly (fungicides) and things that don't (Roundup).
This headline and the comments it has created have me scratching my head. I and other farmers use a fair amount of glyphosate but I can't think of any time I'v seen it used on flowering plants. Glyphosate use is fairly staggering in quantity but nearly all of that is used on glyphosate-resistant crops to control weeds, and this by definition must be done when the crop and weeds are very small. In other words, weeks or months before flowering. If glyphosate were sprayed on a crop that was flowering it would abort flowers and destroy yield, if not making the plants very sick. So it wouldn't make any sense for a farmer to use glyphosate in this way to begin with. Something smells funny.
By the way we also have our own bees that we use for pollinating a glyphosate-tolerant crop.
In yards and around homes also, glyphosate is typically not sprayed on glowering plants. Why would it be? You wouldn't use glyphosate to remove dandelions from your lawn for example (if you do, you're in for a very dead lawn).
This study is highly problematic for this reason. The findings may well be true about toxicity to bees, but if glyphosate isn't used typically on flowering plants or weeds, then the study is somewhat pointless, if interesting. Certainly it cannot inform any policies over the use of glyphosate, except to urge that it not be used on flowering plants, which it already isn't.
In the end, however, those calling for the end of glyphosate will probably get their wish as over-use of glyphosate is rapidly ending the effectiveness of that chemical. And everyone will end up paying for that in increased food costs.
Last time I ran Ubuntu under WSL it didn't use any init system at all. No upstart, no systemd. It's similar to how wine works. Wine does not actually go through a windows startup routine when you fire it up to run a program. Instead of creates an environment and spawns the executable.
Unless my Windows 10 install is hopelessly out of date (it could be), running a linux binary under WSL shows just 2 processes: init and the binary. And the init process is just something in the WSL emulation layer; it's not upstart or systemd.
So I guess I'm confused about this announcement. It's like how they advertise margarine as gluten free.
Sounds like you've never driven a piece of farm equipment.
Already things are highly automated. They drive themselves and now many machines can turn themselves around at the end of the field. So that's 90% of the way there to being autonomous right? Well, not quite. Turns out it's a lot more involved than that. A human operator continuously monitors conditions, and alters course to avoid potential hazards. Quite often I've noticed a spot that I think is pretty muddy underneath, but think it might be firm enough to hold me. Then as I get close I might find out I'm wrong and have to steer around that. Or frequently a rock will jam in a packer, causing dirt to pile up. Or a shovel might break. Or a seed run plugs and stops delivering seed. Or general breakdowns like a flat tire, busted or leaking cylinder, broken frame member, etc. There are hundreds of things that can and do go wrong, regularly. A human can spot them easily and quickly and take action. All of this is possible to do in an automated system, but it would take hundreds of sensors, with potential for problems that that entails, and sophisticated algorithms. All of this is in the pipeline, but it's not going to be as near as everyone thinks. For the foreseeable future, humans augmented with automation technology is still going to be cheaper and more reliable.
Besides all that, driving a tractor is still probably one of the most relaxing and enjoyable activities on modern farms! What will we do without a bit of recreational tillage?
Sure. But "Digital Rights Management" is just a euphemism as far as the end user is concerned. It is indeed about managing rights, but not the rights of the consumer. It's marketing doublespeak. No, this is entirely about the rights of the person "selling" (renting) the content, and a mechanism for doing an end-run around copyright terms and limitations. Thus the term is really dishonest, and deliberately misleading to end users. No, Digital Restrictions Management is actually far more accurate of a description of what DRM is and does. It's not an ignorant thing people say like those who use "M$." Rather it's an accurate depiction of what DRM is intended by vendors to do. I say "vendors," rather than content creators, because these days content creators get abused as much as consumers do.
Reading the book The Truth Machine right now, which touches on this issue. The solution mentioned in the book is digital certification and notarization of images and video. Security camera footage, for example, is all digitally signed (by whom, I don't know). Any modification of the footage breaks the signature and is thus inadmissible in a court, or easily detectable. Trusted services that can notarize images and video make a lot of money in this universe. The mechanics of how this all would happen is not explored.
Of course all of this is turned on its head in the book with the introduction to society of the Truth Machine, which makes it all unnecessary.
Nah the Trump vote came mainly from grumpy old white people. The youth vote would have gone to Bernie Sanders, but I suspect most of those who would have voted Bernie ended up not voting at all. The ideals of socialism seem to appeal most strongly to the youth, who are still idealistic, with a strong sense of morality (as they see it).
You don't. Why would you want to? We're talking about displaying a local, static file, not running a server-backed web-based application. If you need a web server, run a web server.
What does that have to do with mass transit? People simply die without access to affordable food. Hence grocery stores for most people, catering for the rich people, and meal ingredient delivery stores for the upper middle class. Doesn't relate at all to the economics and politics of mass transit.
Thank goodness Republicans are beyond reproach and come by their money honestly! But seriously, this is a very good idea. I'm unsure how wide a net to cast. Many elected people at local level donate much of their time to the public cause, perhaps receiving a per diem, and still maintain other forms of income (day jobs). Is that honest and legal? Depends on what the elected job is I suppose.
But why? Seems a bit daft to fire up a server when the file:// uri would do nicely and does the same thing with the same level of security.
I have the HTC Vive. I don't do much gaming at all, but the one thing I do use it for, and the reason for which it was purchased, is for architectural modeling. Used it to show me my kitchen remodel long before it was even started. Just a few minutes in VR showed me that the layout chosen would work very well, given the space constraints. When we built and installed the cabinets, everything looked exactly as I expected, because I'd seen it many times in VR. This is one area that I think is perfect for VR. AR would also be a good fit for this type of thing, as you could stand in the actual room you want to remodel and overlay the new design over what's already there. But straight VR is pretty great for this also, particularly for things that don't exist yet, like a house you'd like to build.
We've modeled several new houses in Sketchup and viewed them in VR. Great for someone trying to design and build a house as you can walk through it and immediately see what works well and what doesn't. It's a natural extension to 3D design. Given a large enough room (say a warehouse floor), a person could walk around an entire house plan. I could see this being incredibly valuable for architecture firms, or even local home building companies.
I have also used VR to model mechanical mechanisms (static at this point), which is pretty cool. It's interesting to create some mechanism or piece of farm machinery and then see it in VR. In one instance, due to a setting in the viewer software, I noticed that a shaft was 1/8" offset from the bearing it was supposed to go through. So you can see little details like that.
It's also very interesting to see reconstructions of long-lost, ancient architecture in VR. So it can be an educational tool also. But there's no real money in educational uses, so there's not much being produced in this vein, at least the kind of exploratory, fully-immersive recreations that I'd love to use. Just exploring ancient Rome would be amazing I think.
So VR is very much applicable to engineering, architecture, and historical uses. Gaming, well, that loses its novelty quickly.
I understand all that quite well, or so I thought. I was just wondering what I was missing in my analysis of the energy calculations. And that was the energy produced by the generator from the first fall through the turbines. Once that's taken into account, then clearly there is not an equivalence with simply waiting for the water. I knew I had to be missing something. Maybe the milk I just drank helped me see it!