Given the broad move towards content streaming, and Kindle Unlimited, I'm not hopeful that people will increasingly move towards ownership of what media they consume. Noone cares about DRM of Netflix streams because they accept that they can't do whatever they want with the stream. Steam now allows refunds, so if the DRM prevents the game from working, you can refund it. Legally it's the EULA and not the DRM that prevents you from owning your media, and that practice is a larger problem that doesn't seem to be going anywhere either.
if we have close elections, then we compare ballots to machines.
So a hacker just needs to make sure it's an apparent landslide, and then the ballots will never be checked. You'd want to at least check a random sample of votes.
A computerized voting machine can print out an unambiguously-marked official ballot, which you hand to an election official who places it in a box and then hand-counts it later. This is different from a machine doing a $candidate++ operation and storing the result to an offsite database over an unencrypted connection. The REAL problem is that hand recounts are discouraged because cost is 'more important' than election integrity, so the electronic recount is preferred.
It became common knowledge among game devs that metrics proved game demos lower sales numbers. Why spend money to make a demo that's going to lower your revenue?
For the most part, my family only has the TV on as background noise, paying periodic attention to news or whatever. They don't often attentively watch TV shows. Looking at it that way, why pay a large bill each month for background noise? The quality of broadcast shows doesn't even matter since they functionally equally well as noise. IMO that's what almost all of it is good for anyway.
Furthermore, people's time is worth more now, what with all the media out there, and increased working hours. Why should I roll the dice on some new, unproven show, when I can wait for the season to end and the reviews/word of mouth to roll in, and binge only the stuff that stayed strong rather than sputtering and getting shitcanned after episode 6?
That might be reasonable if the contested behavior were 'forwarding Nexus phone GPS location to e911', however that's not the issue. The issue is that running various Google apps on your phone causes your location to be stored on Google servers, even when Google explicitly claims they would not store your location on Google servers. Even if you're on an iPhone, in which case Google is in no way responsible for e911 location forwarding.
Older games are unlikely to add raytracing support (a couple like FF15 are, though) so that won't affect those titles. Most indie games/VR titles won't have the budget for adding nvidia-specific graphics options. If the RT cores can be used for audio tracing that might be compelling for VR. It's unclear what the tensor cores would be used for in games aside from antialiasing and raytracing denoising. Unless the next consoles support it, it'll likely remain a niche feature only supported by a handful of AAA games.
The RTX 2080Ti has 19% more FLOPS than the 1080Ti... and costs 54% more money. NVIDIA emphasized the new raytracing performance, presumably to deflect that fact.
Even more interestingly, out of body experiences can be easily induced with a VR headset. Just show the wearer a human that is being poked with a stick, as an assistant simultaneously pokes the wearer with a stick (in the same manner) in reality. The wearer then feels that the avatar is 'their body' and that their point of view lies outside of their body.
Wireless already exceeds wired speed, at least on iPhones. Their Lightning connector uses USB 2.0 speeds, which is far slower than what even 802.11ac supports. Most Android phones use USB 2.0 over micro-USB, and even the USB-C connector can use USB 2.0 speeds. Most likely this is to encourage buying apps/media through stores in which the manufacturer receives a commission, rather than sideloading them.
You're thinking about it all wrong. With 3G and LTE, congestion prevents people from using their metered connections as much as they want to. With 5G, people will be able to consume their allotment even faster, thus encouraging spending more for a higher cap. Why would they spend $billions on 5G rollout/spectrum purchase just to give people greater benefit for the same price? What's that you say, they have to because of the competition? Bahahahaha!
Why not bury the houses while you're at it, the wildfires would pass right over them. Use firebug drones to start controlled burns. Or we could just do nothing, which is the cheapest option.
Houses tend not to be built on extreme grades, we can let the cliffs burn and just make firebreaks on level areas. The edge of the other side is a good place to concentrate fire retardant and extinguishing capacity. Why risk lives and worry about number of firefighters when extinguishing aircraft can be drones? We're half-assing the problem because politicians want to say they're doing something while spending as little as possible, lots of improvements in efficiency and efficacy can be made.
If bombs won't win the war against fire, we just need bigger bombs. What Americans wouldn't get behind that logic?
Seriously though, how about razing, and paving or salting strips of land to act as permanent firebreaks? Sure there'd be some vegetation loss due to that, but the reduction in burns would more than make up for it.
OTOH, couldn't the tariffs' disruption be seen as a selection pressure, weeding out the weakest areas of our economy, the businesses teetering on the brink that were likely going to go under anyways?
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Given the broad move towards content streaming, and Kindle Unlimited, I'm not hopeful that people will increasingly move towards ownership of what media they consume. Noone cares about DRM of Netflix streams because they accept that they can't do whatever they want with the stream. Steam now allows refunds, so if the DRM prevents the game from working, you can refund it. Legally it's the EULA and not the DRM that prevents you from owning your media, and that practice is a larger problem that doesn't seem to be going anywhere either.
if we have close elections, then we compare ballots to machines.
So a hacker just needs to make sure it's an apparent landslide, and then the ballots will never be checked. You'd want to at least check a random sample of votes.
Pottery industry actually.
A computerized voting machine can print out an unambiguously-marked official ballot, which you hand to an election official who places it in a box and then hand-counts it later.
This is different from a machine doing a $candidate++ operation and storing the result to an offsite database over an unencrypted connection.
The REAL problem is that hand recounts are discouraged because cost is 'more important' than election integrity, so the electronic recount is preferred.
You keep using quotes. I do not think they "work" like you "think" they work.
FTFY
It became common knowledge among game devs that metrics proved game demos lower sales numbers. Why spend money to make a demo that's going to lower your revenue?
For the most part, my family only has the TV on as background noise, paying periodic attention to news or whatever. They don't often attentively watch TV shows. Looking at it that way, why pay a large bill each month for background noise? The quality of broadcast shows doesn't even matter since they functionally equally well as noise. IMO that's what almost all of it is good for anyway.
Furthermore, people's time is worth more now, what with all the media out there, and increased working hours. Why should I roll the dice on some new, unproven show, when I can wait for the season to end and the reviews/word of mouth to roll in, and binge only the stuff that stayed strong rather than sputtering and getting shitcanned after episode 6?
That might be reasonable if the contested behavior were 'forwarding Nexus phone GPS location to e911', however that's not the issue. The issue is that running various Google apps on your phone causes your location to be stored on Google servers, even when Google explicitly claims they would not store your location on Google servers. Even if you're on an iPhone, in which case Google is in no way responsible for e911 location forwarding.
Older games are unlikely to add raytracing support (a couple like FF15 are, though) so that won't affect those titles. Most indie games/VR titles won't have the budget for adding nvidia-specific graphics options. If the RT cores can be used for audio tracing that might be compelling for VR. It's unclear what the tensor cores would be used for in games aside from antialiasing and raytracing denoising.
Unless the next consoles support it, it'll likely remain a niche feature only supported by a handful of AAA games.
AMD: your market share is going to be rising with these prices.
Ryzen, surely?
The RTX 2080Ti has 19% more FLOPS than the 1080Ti... and costs 54% more money.
NVIDIA emphasized the new raytracing performance, presumably to deflect that fact.
You misunderstand. Misbehaving silicon is warned to mend its ways or else it'll be joining the other grains. It's rehabilitation sand.
Rolls-Royce Launches New Battery System To Electrify Ships
That'll take care of those stowaways!
In other news, Australian authorities now requiring safe manufacturers to provide backdoor access, says they are 'too secure'.
Who is Matthew Gault?
Even more interestingly, out of body experiences can be easily induced with a VR headset. Just show the wearer a human that is being poked with a stick, as an assistant simultaneously pokes the wearer with a stick (in the same manner) in reality. The wearer then feels that the avatar is 'their body' and that their point of view lies outside of their body.
Wireless already exceeds wired speed, at least on iPhones. Their Lightning connector uses USB 2.0 speeds, which is far slower than what even 802.11ac supports. Most Android phones use USB 2.0 over micro-USB, and even the USB-C connector can use USB 2.0 speeds. Most likely this is to encourage buying apps/media through stores in which the manufacturer receives a commission, rather than sideloading them.
You're thinking about it all wrong. With 3G and LTE, congestion prevents people from using their metered connections as much as they want to. With 5G, people will be able to consume their allotment even faster, thus encouraging spending more for a higher cap.
Why would they spend $billions on 5G rollout/spectrum purchase just to give people greater benefit for the same price? What's that you say, they have to because of the competition? Bahahahaha!
Minors are taking suffrage into their own hands, I see.
Why not bury the houses while you're at it, the wildfires would pass right over them. Use firebug drones to start controlled burns. Or we could just do nothing, which is the cheapest option.
Houses tend not to be built on extreme grades, we can let the cliffs burn and just make firebreaks on level areas. The edge of the other side is a good place to concentrate fire retardant and extinguishing capacity. Why risk lives and worry about number of firefighters when extinguishing aircraft can be drones? We're half-assing the problem because politicians want to say they're doing something while spending as little as possible, lots of improvements in efficiency and efficacy can be made.
If bombs won't win the war against fire, we just need bigger bombs. What Americans wouldn't get behind that logic?
Seriously though, how about razing, and paving or salting strips of land to act as permanent firebreaks? Sure there'd be some vegetation loss due to that, but the reduction in burns would more than make up for it.
OTOH, couldn't the tariffs' disruption be seen as a selection pressure, weeding out the weakest areas of our economy, the businesses teetering on the brink that were likely going to go under anyways?
Guess they weren't oracles after all, at least regarding their stock performance.
Politicians won't care, because they're cawcasian.
I'll see myself out.
If they are smoking there is a good chance they are unable to extinguish themselves.