The gig economy is anathema to 'long term'. Practically speaking though, Uber won't get much more investment unless they promise new developments that could potentially increase their profitability. Long-term, it's likely they'll have to classify their workers as employees in more parts of the world, so human drivers are going to be LESS profitable over time. Replacing them is basically the only way to increase their efficiency. Don't worry, the increase in food distribution will mean more jobs in the food service industry, therefore there's absolutely nothing to worry about./s
The key question is if drone delivery is safer than putting a minimum-wage-paid teen in a car on public roadways to try to quickly deliver something to you in hopes of a larger tip. I think even Uber would have trouble being on the wrong end of that equation. Ringing a doorbell is no more necessary than using a buggy whip on the drone -- you get an alert on your smartphone app when it arrives. Avoiding obstacles is easy because it flies above them, then lands vertically onto a mat you place on the ground in an area with clear line of sight to the sky. If there's an overhang/power line/whatever straight above the mat, you're given a notification to move it. A better question is what the system is going to do about rain; presumably the delivered pizza boxes will get soaked if they're placed on the ground outside during/after rain.
Facebook obviously thinks standalone VR and walled gardens are the future. With no competition at the high end (aside from maybe Pimax), the next Vive is going to be quite a bit more expensive.
I had to read that a couple times to get it. That is, he joked about buying ownership of the IP/studio/control over the game's operation... and then shutting it all down. Fortnite makes so much money he might not actually be able to afford to do that, although if he did the players would go back to Minecraft or PUBG or something. Some kind of "how to not scream racial slurs at strangers 101" workshop would do more for their virginity than shutting down a game, though.
I don't recall the exact article I read, but here's one. Most of the articles I could quickly find said feminism was behind it, although this one was more neutral.
If you have warm hands, you reduce the risk of injury versus cold hands
I bet the soda companies are displeased. 'Grab an ice-cold Dew' has to be replaced with 'slurp an ice-cold Dew through a straw without touching it'. No pizza before morning practice seems odd, they're not specifically prohibiting pizza for breakfast. Also I guess pizza is popular in Sweden? I wonder if the article talks about RSI, but can't find out because it's paywalled.
Lol no. Advertisers were looking for even the tiniest excuse. If Microsoft hadn't enabled it by default, then the advertisers would say that noone knew about or was activating DNT, therefore they weren't going to waste time and money coding in a separate codepath to respect it. How many people were still using MS browsers at that time, anyhow? Honestly that excuse wasn't needed, since it was a simple "money lost from not supporting DNT | money lost from supporting DNT" calculus with the latter being much more costly since there wasn't nearly enough consumer push for DNT.
Their mission won't be complete until every gender-specific pronoun is replaced with 'he/she', 'his/hers', and 'him/her', thus ruining the flow and beauty of language.
Ironically, the 'do not track' bit can be used as a piece of data to help track people. All along, the hope was that governments would mandate respecting the 'do not track' flag. AFAIK no such thing has happened anywhere. If there are no big business interests behind it (a la Net Neutrality) it's very unlikely politicians will pay attention to it. OTOH, Congress is currently looking into privacy issues regarding Google and Facebook, so now would be the time to push the US govt. to mandate respecting the DNT flag.
Not sure why you're using 12 bits per pixel in that calculation instead of 24. Also, the Vive Pro and Samsung Odyssey are the highest-resolution VR headsets available, at 2880x1600 total input resolution. So that'd be 2880x * 1600y * 24bpp * 90fps = 9.95Gbps. That's scraping the ceiling of what this new standard can offer, probably more once overhead and undiagnosable "it's not working perfectly for some reason" are factored in. Of course that's assuming completely uncompressed video; TPCast and the Vive wireless adapter both use lossy compression via custom codecs, but double the bandwidth will reduce codec latency and visual artifacts.
nano SIM isn't that much smaller than microSD, and SD cards aren't known for mind-blowing performance. Samsung is the only one using UFS AFAIK but that's far faster and not proprietary.
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The gig economy is anathema to 'long term'. Practically speaking though, Uber won't get much more investment unless they promise new developments that could potentially increase their profitability. Long-term, it's likely they'll have to classify their workers as employees in more parts of the world, so human drivers are going to be LESS profitable over time. Replacing them is basically the only way to increase their efficiency. /s
Don't worry, the increase in food distribution will mean more jobs in the food service industry, therefore there's absolutely nothing to worry about.
The key question is if drone delivery is safer than putting a minimum-wage-paid teen in a car on public roadways to try to quickly deliver something to you in hopes of a larger tip. I think even Uber would have trouble being on the wrong end of that equation. Ringing a doorbell is no more necessary than using a buggy whip on the drone -- you get an alert on your smartphone app when it arrives. Avoiding obstacles is easy because it flies above them, then lands vertically onto a mat you place on the ground in an area with clear line of sight to the sky. If there's an overhang/power line/whatever straight above the mat, you're given a notification to move it. A better question is what the system is going to do about rain; presumably the delivered pizza boxes will get soaked if they're placed on the ground outside during/after rain.
Hope the drones aren't fixed-wing, otherwise it'll taste like airplane food.
Facebook obviously thinks standalone VR and walled gardens are the future. With no competition at the high end (aside from maybe Pimax), the next Vive is going to be quite a bit more expensive.
Brines suffused with the life-giving gas could offer hope for past and even present microbes
Tell it to the anaerobes
GitHub's resident Guru must Meditate before it can approve the acquisition.
If you'd been using SourceForge instead, you wouldn't have to deal with the outage.
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These researchers must be pretty poor. After paying out $10k, all they'd be able to afford to eat is Crow.
I had to read that a couple times to get it. That is, he joked about buying ownership of the IP/studio/control over the game's operation... and then shutting it all down. Fortnite makes so much money he might not actually be able to afford to do that, although if he did the players would go back to Minecraft or PUBG or something. Some kind of "how to not scream racial slurs at strangers 101" workshop would do more for their virginity than shutting down a game, though.
Oh, wait, nevermind. Thought you said something else.
Decadyslexia disease affects primarily tired editors.
I hear Viagra works pretty well for that.
I totally parsed that as "astronaut's documentation falls to the ground, is found by bystander".
I don't recall the exact article I read, but here's one. Most of the articles I could quickly find said feminism was behind it, although this one was more neutral.
If you have warm hands, you reduce the risk of injury versus cold hands
I bet the soda companies are displeased. 'Grab an ice-cold Dew' has to be replaced with 'slurp an ice-cold Dew through a straw without touching it'.
No pizza before morning practice seems odd, they're not specifically prohibiting pizza for breakfast. Also I guess pizza is popular in Sweden?
I wonder if the article talks about RSI, but can't find out because it's paywalled.
Actually there is currently a movement in Germany to make German a gender-neutral language (or was last I heard).
I agree. E.g. 'It puts the lotion on its skin, or it gets the hose again.'
Lol no. Advertisers were looking for even the tiniest excuse. If Microsoft hadn't enabled it by default, then the advertisers would say that noone knew about or was activating DNT, therefore they weren't going to waste time and money coding in a separate codepath to respect it. How many people were still using MS browsers at that time, anyhow?
Honestly that excuse wasn't needed, since it was a simple "money lost from not supporting DNT | money lost from supporting DNT" calculus with the latter being much more costly since there wasn't nearly enough consumer push for DNT.
Their mission won't be complete until every gender-specific pronoun is replaced with 'he/she', 'his/hers', and 'him/her', thus ruining the flow and beauty of language.
Ironically, the 'do not track' bit can be used as a piece of data to help track people.
All along, the hope was that governments would mandate respecting the 'do not track' flag. AFAIK no such thing has happened anywhere. If there are no big business interests behind it (a la Net Neutrality) it's very unlikely politicians will pay attention to it. OTOH, Congress is currently looking into privacy issues regarding Google and Facebook, so now would be the time to push the US govt. to mandate respecting the DNT flag.
That's because the MAFIAA whacked all their competitors. Remember MegaVideo? They got an offer they couldn't refuse.
I heard Shodan has links to livestreams of that.
Not sure why you're using 12 bits per pixel in that calculation instead of 24. Also, the Vive Pro and Samsung Odyssey are the highest-resolution VR headsets available, at 2880x1600 total input resolution. So that'd be 2880x * 1600y * 24bpp * 90fps = 9.95Gbps. That's scraping the ceiling of what this new standard can offer, probably more once overhead and undiagnosable "it's not working perfectly for some reason" are factored in.
Of course that's assuming completely uncompressed video; TPCast and the Vive wireless adapter both use lossy compression via custom codecs, but double the bandwidth will reduce codec latency and visual artifacts.
Was going to post this if noone else did.
nano SIM isn't that much smaller than microSD, and SD cards aren't known for mind-blowing performance. Samsung is the only one using UFS AFAIK but that's far faster and not proprietary.
That's why we need to move the fulcrum towards 'money' (which is, now that I think about it, a poor metaphor).