I'm betting this'll use 7nm chips, and Nintendo is mulling whether they should just improve the battery life, or improve the performance. Right now, when in portable mode, the SoC is underclocked in order to improve battery life, but it renders at 720p (for the 720p screen) and framerate is noticeably worse in many games (Doom and Xenoblade at least). It'd be tempting to have it run at the docked clock speed while in portable mode, slap a 1080p screen on there, and give owners the same experience in docked and portable mode. It's also worth noting that a new Switch revision is expected to fix the hardware bugs responsible for it being hacked, so there is that.
I'm still wondering where the 3rd party games are, considering how well the systems have sold. Hope it didn't Vita itself with high development costs.
You're conflating employment with revenue. Sure, the Fortune 500 may only employ 17.5% of the workforce, but what portion of GDP are they? Fortune says they're responsible for 2/3 of the US GDP, which is what they're primarily taxed on (revenue taxes, as opposed to payroll taxes).
Bonuses aka intermittent rewards are a stronger motivator than a constant reward e.g. salary/wages, which is probably why they were utilized. That doesn't mean people won't prefer a constant reward instead, though.
The potential agricultural workers are working in a different sector for better money, and won't consider an agricultural job because the pay is too low and work is too intense. The agricultural companies are wringing their hands saying "we can't find any Americans who want to do this work!!11one" because they want more visas and laxer immigration so they can hire cheap immigrants at wage-slavery pay levels. Agribusiness is competitive enough that those who raise wages to the point that actual American citizens will do it, go out of business (with some exceptions for Organic and boutique crops). The typical solution to this problem is some form of regulation, or to look the other way and let immigrants do it while labor and/or immigration laws are violated. Considering how many massive government handouts are given to the corn belt, the latter is likely to continue until robots are cheaper than migrant workers.
Back in 2011, Sandvine stated that BitTorrent accounted for 52.01% of upstream traffic on fixed broadband networks in North America. By 2015, BitTorrent's share of upstream traffic on these networks had dipped to 26.83 percent,
I suspect that Youtube/Facebook video uploads are a large portion of consumer uploads. Back in 2011, many more people were still using flip-phones that took 320x240 video. Now, most of those people have upgraded to phones that take 1080p or 4k video. The larger video file sizes makes Bittorrent data look smaller in comparison.
The likely objective of these measures is increasing media coverage of the fandom conflict, thereby adding to and further propagating a narrative of widespread discord and dysfunction in American society. Persuading voters of this narrative remains a strategic goal for the U.S. alt-right movement
Just curious why the alt-right movement would bother creating discord & dysfunction? I'd think every political movement would want to send a narrative of "things are broken, and only we can fix them" and there are always countless examples that already exist, so there's no reason to create new ones.
The 'dropping bombs' thing made me think 'wait a minute', and then a few seconds later I realized they were just propelled out the bomb bay. Which is how I'd expect bombs to be deployed in space. I think people are unnerved because missiles/rockets/torpedoes are the normal method of explosive delivery in space, in sci-fi.
More notably, for people with brand-spanking-new Geforce RTX video cards, this update adds DXR support. That is, DirectX Raytracing, and by extension Nvidia's RTX. Not sure if any games support it yet in public releases though.
Yes. Look into the bitrates required for light-field videos (~2 terabytes per minute IIRC). Mobile bandwidth caps are still going to suck in the USA a decade from now.
UHD Bluray and ATSC 3.0 (the upcoming US television broadcast standard) both use HEVC. Newer smartphones use it for encoding video taken with their cameras. AFAIK video sites like Youtube don't use it for distribution because software decoding is impractical on older mobile devices (and Google was pushing VP9 instead, which Youtube does use).
The report notes that "all calls" will still receive standard police response, whether or not any swatting concerns are filed.
So they'll still break down the wrong door, flashbang your baby, and charge you with assault/murder if you try and defend yourself from the shouting armed intruders. This also does nothing if the swatters get the address of their target wrong. That said, it's a tiny step forward, that the Seattle PD is even acknowledging swatting might be a problem.
They would if it weren't for all the tariffs Trump would slap on them. If California leaving would hurt the rest of the Union, then it's not going to be made painless/beneficial for them, or else it'd encourage other states to secede. Just like any oligarchy/bureaucracy, the first priority is to maintain itself.
Indeed, it's almost like the Arab Spring made leaders the world over running scared. Add in rumors of social media manipulation campaigns and they can almost hear the Sword of Damocles straining the fiber.
Pretty sure if the data is carried over to the Internet it'd be counted as 'internet traffic'. However, you're right that they could zero-rate their own services and say that those services are sent over an intranet, rather than the internet, depending on the specific wording of these laws. If the wording is "ISPs that offer data services that do not count towards data caps" then no, if "zero-rated Internet data" then maybe.
Whoa, underage drinking. Noone cared with Clinton "I did not inhale" and George W.'s cocaine, or Obama's pot AND cocaine. It'd take daily deliriant usage for Americans to be likely to care. Source.
'State rights' as in 'race-to-the-bottom tax policies'. If they have a GOP governor/state govt. then 'states rights', otherwise they grit their teeth and preempt at a federal level as much they can. Not that I think other political parties are any different in that sense, TBH.
If the law doesn't also require at least one man on a board of directors, I don't see this passing a challenge that it violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.
All good points. OTOH, if you're able to put them going berserk on a timer, why not time it to coincide with when your intelligence says a VIP is going to be present? Bonus points if the killbot has IoT flaws that allow for backdoor access to the military network.
But... but... all it takes is 2 cans of Mountain Dew and 30 seconds of rapid-fire typing and then you say "I'm in!" and now your bar tab is in the negative and Terminatrices warm your bed at night.
And what would happen if killer robots got hijacked?
When killer humans (i.e. a military) gets 'hijacked', it's called a coup. It's unlikely the autonomous weapons would be hacked to fire on civilians. It'd be MUCH more effective to turn them into robotic sleeper agents that target military officials/visiting politicians (thanks to facial recognition). OTOH, firing on civilians would ensure a) civilians demand their removal, ensuring no further hacking can take place; b) their hacking is discovered immediately, ensuring the vulnerability is quickly patched, and c) an opportunity to take out more-important targets is squandered.
Next thing you know, Netherlands will ban talking on a phone while moving. Perhaps a technical solution can be found, like tethering phones to walls in houses; for convenience, small kiosks (with walls for privacy) can be put in various public places so you can use a phone when not at home. It'll be the next big thing!
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Almost all of those are indie games, and/or ports of older games. I meant exclusive titles. The Vita also has plenty of indie game ports.
I'm betting this'll use 7nm chips, and Nintendo is mulling whether they should just improve the battery life, or improve the performance. Right now, when in portable mode, the SoC is underclocked in order to improve battery life, but it renders at 720p (for the 720p screen) and framerate is noticeably worse in many games (Doom and Xenoblade at least). It'd be tempting to have it run at the docked clock speed while in portable mode, slap a 1080p screen on there, and give owners the same experience in docked and portable mode.
It's also worth noting that a new Switch revision is expected to fix the hardware bugs responsible for it being hacked, so there is that.
I'm still wondering where the 3rd party games are, considering how well the systems have sold. Hope it didn't Vita itself with high development costs.
You're conflating employment with revenue. Sure, the Fortune 500 may only employ 17.5% of the workforce, but what portion of GDP are they? Fortune says they're responsible for 2/3 of the US GDP, which is what they're primarily taxed on (revenue taxes, as opposed to payroll taxes).
Bonuses aka intermittent rewards are a stronger motivator than a constant reward e.g. salary/wages, which is probably why they were utilized. That doesn't mean people won't prefer a constant reward instead, though.
The potential agricultural workers are working in a different sector for better money, and won't consider an agricultural job because the pay is too low and work is too intense. The agricultural companies are wringing their hands saying "we can't find any Americans who want to do this work!!11one" because they want more visas and laxer immigration so they can hire cheap immigrants at wage-slavery pay levels. Agribusiness is competitive enough that those who raise wages to the point that actual American citizens will do it, go out of business (with some exceptions for Organic and boutique crops). The typical solution to this problem is some form of regulation, or to look the other way and let immigrants do it while labor and/or immigration laws are violated. Considering how many massive government handouts are given to the corn belt, the latter is likely to continue until robots are cheaper than migrant workers.
Back in 2011, Sandvine stated that BitTorrent accounted for 52.01% of upstream traffic on fixed broadband networks in North America. By 2015, BitTorrent's share of upstream traffic on these networks had dipped to 26.83 percent,
I suspect that Youtube/Facebook video uploads are a large portion of consumer uploads. Back in 2011, many more people were still using flip-phones that took 320x240 video. Now, most of those people have upgraded to phones that take 1080p or 4k video. The larger video file sizes makes Bittorrent data look smaller in comparison.
The likely objective of these measures is increasing media coverage of the fandom conflict, thereby adding to and further propagating a narrative of widespread discord and dysfunction in American society. Persuading voters of this narrative remains a strategic goal for the U.S. alt-right movement
Just curious why the alt-right movement would bother creating discord & dysfunction? I'd think every political movement would want to send a narrative of "things are broken, and only we can fix them" and there are always countless examples that already exist, so there's no reason to create new ones.
The 'dropping bombs' thing made me think 'wait a minute', and then a few seconds later I realized they were just propelled out the bomb bay. Which is how I'd expect bombs to be deployed in space. I think people are unnerved because missiles/rockets/torpedoes are the normal method of explosive delivery in space, in sci-fi.
More notably, for people with brand-spanking-new Geforce RTX video cards, this update adds DXR support. That is, DirectX Raytracing, and by extension Nvidia's RTX. Not sure if any games support it yet in public releases though.
Yes. Look into the bitrates required for light-field videos (~2 terabytes per minute IIRC). Mobile bandwidth caps are still going to suck in the USA a decade from now.
UHD Bluray and ATSC 3.0 (the upcoming US television broadcast standard) both use HEVC. Newer smartphones use it for encoding video taken with their cameras. AFAIK video sites like Youtube don't use it for distribution because software decoding is impractical on older mobile devices (and Google was pushing VP9 instead, which Youtube does use).
The report notes that "all calls" will still receive standard police response, whether or not any swatting concerns are filed.
So they'll still break down the wrong door, flashbang your baby, and charge you with assault/murder if you try and defend yourself from the shouting armed intruders.
This also does nothing if the swatters get the address of their target wrong. That said, it's a tiny step forward, that the Seattle PD is even acknowledging swatting might be a problem.
They would if it weren't for all the tariffs Trump would slap on them. If California leaving would hurt the rest of the Union, then it's not going to be made painless/beneficial for them, or else it'd encourage other states to secede. Just like any oligarchy/bureaucracy, the first priority is to maintain itself.
Once we pass Peak Hyperbole, then civilization really WILL collapse!!!111oneeleven
Indeed, it's almost like the Arab Spring made leaders the world over running scared. Add in rumors of social media manipulation campaigns and they can almost hear the Sword of Damocles straining the fiber.
Pretty sure if the data is carried over to the Internet it'd be counted as 'internet traffic'. However, you're right that they could zero-rate their own services and say that those services are sent over an intranet, rather than the internet, depending on the specific wording of these laws. If the wording is "ISPs that offer data services that do not count towards data caps" then no, if "zero-rated Internet data" then maybe.
Whoa, underage drinking. Noone cared with Clinton "I did not inhale" and George W.'s cocaine, or Obama's pot AND cocaine. It'd take daily deliriant usage for Americans to be likely to care.
Source.
'State rights' as in 'race-to-the-bottom tax policies'. If they have a GOP governor/state govt. then 'states rights', otherwise they grit their teeth and preempt at a federal level as much they can. Not that I think other political parties are any different in that sense, TBH.
If the law doesn't also require at least one man on a board of directors, I don't see this passing a challenge that it violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.
So you're saying that in Russia, killer robots hack YOU?!
All good points. OTOH, if you're able to put them going berserk on a timer, why not time it to coincide with when your intelligence says a VIP is going to be present?
Bonus points if the killbot has IoT flaws that allow for backdoor access to the military network.
But... but... all it takes is 2 cans of Mountain Dew and 30 seconds of rapid-fire typing and then you say "I'm in!" and now your bar tab is in the negative and Terminatrices warm your bed at night.
And what would happen if killer robots got hijacked?
When killer humans (i.e. a military) gets 'hijacked', it's called a coup.
It's unlikely the autonomous weapons would be hacked to fire on civilians. It'd be MUCH more effective to turn them into robotic sleeper agents that target military officials/visiting politicians (thanks to facial recognition). OTOH, firing on civilians would ensure a) civilians demand their removal, ensuring no further hacking can take place; b) their hacking is discovered immediately, ensuring the vulnerability is quickly patched, and c) an opportunity to take out more-important targets is squandered.
the substrate is first coated with a layer of hydrogen lead triiodide incorporated with a small amount of chlorine ions and methylamine gas
Great, now smurfs will be stealing solar cells so they can be used in methamphetamine production.
Next thing you know, Netherlands will ban talking on a phone while moving. Perhaps a technical solution can be found, like tethering phones to walls in houses; for convenience, small kiosks (with walls for privacy) can be put in various public places so you can use a phone when not at home. It'll be the next big thing!