These guys sicced a pitbull (The police, geared up and anticipating an armed perp) on innocent victims.
They deserve life sentences just as they would if they were responsible for a vicious dog attack.
As for the cop? Most certainly he ALSO has culpability in this. Where that lies is more complicated. Militarizing our police is part of the problem, though... along with many other factors. A pit bull can't stop being a pit bull, though... a police officer can, however, stop being a police officer and putting people's lives in jeopardy by his gross negligence in handling a situation.
I'm surprised Ben Heck wasn't involved in this project. I honestly don't know if this was an oversight, if Microsoft reached out to him and a deal fell through, or they decided to leave him out of the effort... but he's been doing this sort of thing for ages.
There are all sorts of things that are profitable... and illegal. This sort of reasoning is the result of pure psychopathic thinking, and should be a warning sign to the rest of us.
This isn't some sort of "bold strategic thinking" because it is a question that normal human beings simply shouldn't ask.
Nvidia Soundstorm did Dolby Digital encoding for PC audio. Deathmatches were awesome when you could hear an approach behind you.
So yes, it was 5.1, outputted digitally, encoded in Dolby - direct from the PC Audio, not just pre-encoded media streams.
Current motherboards have TOSLink and HDMI digital sound delivery - but only 2-channel PCM, or pre-encoded media streams, even though HDMI should support uncompressed 5.1 streams.
In theory, some high-end boards support DDL (or DTS) with 5.1 or better... but they are using very buggy - unusable - Creative Labs software to drive it.
Speaking of soundcards, though... why won't nvidia build a Soundstorm card? That tech was AWESOME in 2000... when I could run a TOSLink cable from my PC to my home theater A/V receiver for complete 5.1 PC audio (not that crappy passthrough or 2 channel PCM nonsense we have today with onboard sound).
Creative Labs' digital delivery is buggy and lousy (and that was on their highest end card). Asus Xonar has been working well enough for me, at least.
Microsoft already has AR pinned down. If Magic Leap can do it cheaper, fine, but I can't see it happening. They need to get at LEAST hololens quality and deliver it under $1000 a unit to be viable.
Having just tried a Hololens unit, I'm not even sure they are ready for enthusiasts anyways. I see some business uses, but the FOV is too limited for immersion.
I have them. 20+ dead Seagates... internals and externals. Only 2 drives in the past 10 years have survived... yet I have no dead Hitachis, one dead Samsung and a couple dead WDs.
Seagate and Maxtor merging combined the worst of both companies into one terrible behemoth.
Also, drive prices still suck. The floods in Thailand were an excuse to gouge customers as insurance companies funded the construction of shiny new plants capable of producing 10+TB drives as fast and as cheaply as they had been churning out 2TB drives (for around $45 - 7 years ago!). We should be getting 10TB drives for $50 by now.
If you break down the numbers, it's far less outrageous, but hey, why bother with the math? 20.8 million sounds like a crazy, impossible number, right? 20.8 million over 3650 days and 2900 people is less than 2 pills per person per day. Some people may be taking 4~6 pills a day on a regular basis (not saying that is good, but it is in line with a typical prescription), while others won't have any at all. It doesn't seem that unreasonable, given how opioids are prescribed these days.
I had lunch down at the Ren Cen, and took a few to look at GM's latest lineup. Knowing a number of engineers on their EV and Hybrid programs, I expected more... but again, no electric Corvette, no hybrid crossover (Equinox or Terrain). What a shame... an EV Corvette would be sexy and awesome - and not all that difficult to do. A hybrid crossover would sell like crazy, but instead, they concentrate on their poor selling Bolt and hybridizing big pickups.
Ah well.
Meanwhile, their autonomous Cruze looks like the Ghostbusters Gen 3 car... with a massive sensor pack occupying the entire roof. Good luck with that.
Why on earth would anybody want wires with biodegradable insulation? That makes zero sense.
Even without providing rodent buffets, cars will be shorting out in a few years due to the wire insulation BIODEGRADING. If these executives and engineers think it's such a great idea, let's see them use this wiring in their homes.
Personally, I think wiring should have insulation that can last through a century or more, if possible.
Clearly, this is proof that Jesus came to America, saved the white indians, who were wiped out by the brown people (because all the hardships are just tests by god to see if you were worthy). Praise Xenu or whatever it is they worship.
Back in the original Xbox homebrew days, I was the only one putting out an open source dashboard (Media X Menu, MXM), and the XBMP guys needed a quick and dirty FTP Server. I let them use my code, which got them by until they upgraded to another Open Source FTP Server that was a bit more robust than mine (I think they ended up with Filezilla).
Newflash: you can order eyeglasses and contacts without an actual prescription.
The bigger news is how hard it is to pry the prescriptions out of the hands of Luxotica-owned companies like Lenscrafters so you can actually order more affordable eyewear online.
The merits of TOSLink notwithstanding, why is it, in 2003, I had SoundStorm built into my motherboard, and it allowed me a 5.1 Dolby Digital sound path to my A/V Receiver from my computer for ALL of my audio, including game audio - yet in 2017, I need to buy a Xonar sound card (forget SoundBlaster, because their digital drivers suck ass and their high end card sits on a shelf here) to get the same functionality?
Likewise, we have 7.1 and greater speaker systems, but the stores all push 2.1 soundbars. Ugh. I've been enjoying surround sound since the early 90s. I like having noises behind me when watching shows.
They can't take what they dish out. What a surprise....yet Musk provided serious answers after having a little fun. He didn't have to provide real answers, but even doing that hurt the precious snowflakes' feelings.
Inadequate parking doesn't cause idiots with BMWs to park across two spots, or make people unable to put their car between lines. There is simply no excuse for most of that nonsense pictured.
All they had to do was take a trip out into their parking lot, find the employees responsible for some of the idiotic parking jobs collected on Instagram and other places on the internet, and fire them, because they are simply too stupid to hold a job that pays better than minimum wage.
At least Rotten Tomatoes still has user discussions, unlike IMDB, which trashed them for no better reason than California's "no age disclosure" nonsense.
It must be a hard life hating things and wanting others to hate the things you hate.
As far as being a snowflake, why yes, my DI used to sing me a lullaby every night in San Diego as I lay cradled in a fetal position. It was one of many concessions they made for me through boot camp. As a snowflake, I like to project on others, and spread my hateful views, so watch out! I may call you something that I am myself, just to troll and be in denial of my own shortcomings!
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If they had shorted Tesla, they'd probably have lost even more.
These guys sicced a pitbull (The police, geared up and anticipating an armed perp) on innocent victims.
They deserve life sentences just as they would if they were responsible for a vicious dog attack.
As for the cop? Most certainly he ALSO has culpability in this. Where that lies is more complicated. Militarizing our police is part of the problem, though... along with many other factors. A pit bull can't stop being a pit bull, though... a police officer can, however, stop being a police officer and putting people's lives in jeopardy by his gross negligence in handling a situation.
I'm surprised Ben Heck wasn't involved in this project. I honestly don't know if this was an oversight, if Microsoft reached out to him and a deal fell through, or they decided to leave him out of the effort... but he's been doing this sort of thing for ages.
Is that really a sustainable business model?
There are all sorts of things that are profitable... and illegal. This sort of reasoning is the result of pure psychopathic thinking, and should be a warning sign to the rest of us.
This isn't some sort of "bold strategic thinking" because it is a question that normal human beings simply shouldn't ask.
Nvidia Soundstorm did Dolby Digital encoding for PC audio. Deathmatches were awesome when you could hear an approach behind you.
So yes, it was 5.1, outputted digitally, encoded in Dolby - direct from the PC Audio, not just pre-encoded media streams.
Current motherboards have TOSLink and HDMI digital sound delivery - but only 2-channel PCM, or pre-encoded media streams, even though HDMI should support uncompressed 5.1 streams.
In theory, some high-end boards support DDL (or DTS) with 5.1 or better... but they are using very buggy - unusable - Creative Labs software to drive it.
Nvidia Soundstorm did Dolby Digital encoding for PC audio. Deathmatches were awesome when you could hear an approach behind you.
Yeah, this is a stupid name for a GPU.
Speaking of soundcards, though... why won't nvidia build a Soundstorm card? That tech was AWESOME in 2000... when I could run a TOSLink cable from my PC to my home theater A/V receiver for complete 5.1 PC audio (not that crappy passthrough or 2 channel PCM nonsense we have today with onboard sound).
Creative Labs' digital delivery is buggy and lousy (and that was on their highest end card). Asus Xonar has been working well enough for me, at least.
Microsoft already has AR pinned down. If Magic Leap can do it cheaper, fine, but I can't see it happening. They need to get at LEAST hololens quality and deliver it under $1000 a unit to be viable.
Having just tried a Hololens unit, I'm not even sure they are ready for enthusiasts anyways. I see some business uses, but the FOV is too limited for immersion.
I have them. 20+ dead Seagates... internals and externals. Only 2 drives in the past 10 years have survived... yet I have no dead Hitachis, one dead Samsung and a couple dead WDs.
Seagate and Maxtor merging combined the worst of both companies into one terrible behemoth.
Also, drive prices still suck. The floods in Thailand were an excuse to gouge customers as insurance companies funded the construction of shiny new plants capable of producing 10+TB drives as fast and as cheaply as they had been churning out 2TB drives (for around $45 - 7 years ago!). We should be getting 10TB drives for $50 by now.
If you break down the numbers, it's far less outrageous, but hey, why bother with the math? 20.8 million sounds like a crazy, impossible number, right? 20.8 million over 3650 days and 2900 people is less than 2 pills per person per day. Some people may be taking 4~6 pills a day on a regular basis (not saying that is good, but it is in line with a typical prescription), while others won't have any at all. It doesn't seem that unreasonable, given how opioids are prescribed these days.
I had lunch down at the Ren Cen, and took a few to look at GM's latest lineup. Knowing a number of engineers on their EV and Hybrid programs, I expected more... but again, no electric Corvette, no hybrid crossover (Equinox or Terrain). What a shame... an EV Corvette would be sexy and awesome - and not all that difficult to do. A hybrid crossover would sell like crazy, but instead, they concentrate on their poor selling Bolt and hybridizing big pickups.
Ah well.
Meanwhile, their autonomous Cruze looks like the Ghostbusters Gen 3 car... with a massive sensor pack occupying the entire roof. Good luck with that.
Why on earth would anybody want wires with biodegradable insulation? That makes zero sense.
Even without providing rodent buffets, cars will be shorting out in a few years due to the wire insulation BIODEGRADING. If these executives and engineers think it's such a great idea, let's see them use this wiring in their homes.
Personally, I think wiring should have insulation that can last through a century or more, if possible.
Clearly, this is proof that Jesus came to America, saved the white indians, who were wiped out by the brown people (because all the hardships are just tests by god to see if you were worthy). Praise Xenu or whatever it is they worship.
Back in the original Xbox homebrew days, I was the only one putting out an open source dashboard (Media X Menu, MXM), and the XBMP guys needed a quick and dirty FTP Server. I let them use my code, which got them by until they upgraded to another Open Source FTP Server that was a bit more robust than mine (I think they ended up with Filezilla).
...stopping a heist of gold bars being shipped through the airport. All he was doing was catching a flight home for the holidays.
Geez.
Newflash: you can order eyeglasses and contacts without an actual prescription.
The bigger news is how hard it is to pry the prescriptions out of the hands of Luxotica-owned companies like Lenscrafters so you can actually order more affordable eyewear online.
My impression was that your previous searches would influence your autocompletes. I don't get the same results, mine are quite innocuous.
That being the case, I have to wonder about the people reporting this.
The merits of TOSLink notwithstanding, why is it, in 2003, I had SoundStorm built into my motherboard, and it allowed me a 5.1 Dolby Digital sound path to my A/V Receiver from my computer for ALL of my audio, including game audio - yet in 2017, I need to buy a Xonar sound card (forget SoundBlaster, because their digital drivers suck ass and their high end card sits on a shelf here) to get the same functionality?
Likewise, we have 7.1 and greater speaker systems, but the stores all push 2.1 soundbars. Ugh. I've been enjoying surround sound since the early 90s. I like having noises behind me when watching shows.
eBay is just playing catch up.
They can't take what they dish out. What a surprise. ...yet Musk provided serious answers after having a little fun. He didn't have to provide real answers, but even doing that hurt the precious snowflakes' feelings.
Geez, What have we come to?
Inadequate parking doesn't cause idiots with BMWs to park across two spots, or make people unable to put their car between lines. There is simply no excuse for most of that nonsense pictured.
Obviously....
All they had to do was take a trip out into their parking lot, find the employees responsible for some of the idiotic parking jobs collected on Instagram and other places on the internet, and fire them, because they are simply too stupid to hold a job that pays better than minimum wage.
Yes, that would help with morale, too.
At least Rotten Tomatoes still has user discussions, unlike IMDB, which trashed them for no better reason than California's "no age disclosure" nonsense.
It must be a hard life hating things and wanting others to hate the things you hate.
As far as being a snowflake, why yes, my DI used to sing me a lullaby every night in San Diego as I lay cradled in a fetal position. It was one of many concessions they made for me through boot camp. As a snowflake, I like to project on others, and spread my hateful views, so watch out! I may call you something that I am myself, just to troll and be in denial of my own shortcomings!
Amazon Echo lets you "Play music until ..." just fine. A timer plug is a rather blunt and technologically brutish way to solve the problem.
At any rate, I listen to music, others may listen to natural sounds. Lots of people like some white noise to sleep to. Lots of people don't.
As for hacking one of these devices, they are actually made for it. For Echo, it's called a "skill" and not all that hard to do.
Not everybody exists in your hive mind. /I haven't ordered a single thing with my Echo devices, but we use them daily.