The Void was stunning. I expected it as a âoeeh, who knowsâ and I was blown away. Being able to look at your hand, turn it over, see details and reflections (faked, obviously, but immersive enough), move your fingers - amazing. Look at people and judge relative heights! Feel the heat against the back of your neck!
Yes, the core of it was a shooting gallery. But the immersion made it stunning.
That may be your limited experience. Not mine by a long shot.
Specifically, I was recently trying to buy a pair of wireless earbuds. Turns out there's a bug with iOS - the volume is too high. I went through about 4 pairs trying to find one that worked. Couldn't buy these brands locally, so I'd search reviews, ask a question "does it have this bug", order, test, email the vendor, return, and try again. The ones I settled on don't QUITE have the issue, but 1 volume is still a bit too loud.
Since they've been building datacenters for over 5 years, what are they using them for? Even the 500k square foot one in North Carolina was already overkill, more so if they're just holding metadata.
Fun task: on Windows, rip a new CD with iTunes, preferably something rare. Start Resource Monitor, go to Network, TCP Connections, Search for iTunes. Was trying to find a different network hog this weekend and saw iTunes uploading to AWS, which made no sense.
A couple points here: 1) It's not ALL of Fox, just 21st Century. Fox News and the Fox TV network aren't included 2) It still has to be approved. It's likely it will be, given the pro-business/anti-competition slant of the current administration. 3) "all the data that floods their network". To be fair, that's part of why people HAVE the internet. If your job is to provide me internet traffic for which I pay you, if you're my only option for broadband, and if you can't do it, then why do you have a monopoly and why are you preventing competition? 4) Netflix is quickly leaving the "other people's content" space and has been aggressively focusing on their own shows/movies (Marvel, Orange, House of, Bright, etc). It's actually getting hard to find movies/tv shows on Netflix that aren't created by Netflix. Netflix plans to spend $8 billion on programming next year.
FTFA: "The innovation lies in picking up EMG more precisely—including getting signals from individual neurons—than the previously existing technology, and, even more important, figuring out the relationship between the electrode activity and the muscles so that CTRL-Labs can translate EMG into instructions that can control computer devices."
Weird announcement - no dog and pony show, just a website update and some new info. And there's all the rumors about new hardware. As an Apple-head who wants to replace an older iPad, I'm torn. Get a mostly-better for less, or wait and hope they've got something coming in a month?
Thank you, Madame Secretary, but that's the other story (http://politics.slashdot.org/story/15/10/13/1951232/clinton-home-servers-had-ports-open#comments).
Honestly, the part that I dig the most is the tactile overlays. Interesting concept, but too limited for me for the price. That being said, I'd buy the heck out of a $15/$20 overlay that gives you the tactile sensation, but using my Tablet of Choice as a controller. I've seen them for keyboard replacements for the ipad; unsure what else is out there.
Actually, not that simple. Neither have egress costs if you use their VMs - it's only going to the internet. Amazon Glacier to Internet is free for the first 1GB, $.09/gb for the first 10tb, $.085/gb until 50tb (at between 10-50tb Nearline is cheaper), then $.07 until 150tb.
Both charge 1 cent/gb for reads, though AWS is free for the first 5%.
For the whippersnappers - it's an old (aka 80's) SNL skit. Jon Lovitz played a pathological liar, and the lies kept getting bigger.
Hello, my name is Tommy Flanagan, and I'm a member of Pathological Liars Anonymous. In fact.. I'm the president of the organization! [...] And then I got a job in journalism, writing for the National Enquire.. er, Geographic! Yeah.. I was making twenty thousand a ye.. month! In fact, I won the Pulitzer Prize that year! Yeah, that's the ticket. [...] Oh, you'd be surprised how many famous people belong. In fact.. at one of the meetings I met my wife - Morgan Fairchild!
I actually own a product that came out several years ago that did it. Two big problems with it: 1) buying replacement cables SUCKED. It's why I abandoned it. Something like 18$ each. 2) You do NOT. SAVE. ANY. SPACE. Look at how much room that takes up, then realize that even empty, it still uses about most of that.
"Last I checked blackberries don't allow tethering via bluetooth or wifi, and while they do email real well, they didn't do much else all that well"
You haven't checked in a while I tethered via bluetooth on my Bold 9000 (2008), and the 9900 could tether via wi-fi in January 2012 (though a few months later, depending on carrier). They STILL do email better than any other phone or app I've used. On-device filters, Level 1 notifications, blacklist/whitelist, ultra-configurable alarms, settings, profiles, etc, etc. Holy crap I miss it for email.
"Blackberries didn't evolve, and they died, a lesson Apple had best pay attention to."
THAT last point is valid.. to a point. I'm on an iPhone because corporate replaced Blackberries with the "Mediocre" app. (it's supposed to be called "Good", which is highly dubious at best).
And they decide to take it at age 20? I took a full year of COBOL in college in the 90s (the last class forced to take a full year), and made sure that it never showed up on my Resume - even the hypothetical 10k wasn't enough to have to deal with COBOL for a living..
The overall design is... Nice. A couple clever bits. But custom printing and all that? Nonsense. They're showing the worst of the CPAP masks. I tried them too, they suck. Then you inevitably complain, and the company selling you supplies give you Nasal Pillows (image for the confused: http://www.soundoxygen.com/wp-...). Works great, comes in 3 sizes. Bam, done.
Technically, anti-trust cases ARE usually retroactive. And if they can compete with higher prices, more power to them. But I'm willing to bet right now Hachette would much rather have competition than be bent over by Amazon. The fact that Hachette did it to themselves (via their insistence on DRM) just makes the schadenfreude pie even more delicious.
I automated this a while ago, using Powershell to query the RSS feed, pull out the details, and send the proper parties an email if there's a new message relevant to us.
It probably seems like reinventing the wheel, but allowed us to split out the emails to relevant for each group, rather than one monolithic email. Which meant each affected party was liable to actually read it.
Overall though, anything that shows how useful RSS is, is a good thing.
Slashdot Mirror
The Void was stunning. I expected it as a âoeeh, who knowsâ and I was blown away. Being able to look at your hand, turn it over, see details and reflections (faked, obviously, but immersive enough), move your fingers - amazing. Look at people and judge relative heights! Feel the heat against the back of your neck!
Yes, the core of it was a shooting gallery. But the immersion made it stunning.
You think you're being funny.... https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RorDlgu...
That may be your limited experience. Not mine by a long shot.
Specifically, I was recently trying to buy a pair of wireless earbuds. Turns out there's a bug with iOS - the volume is too high. I went through about 4 pairs trying to find one that worked. Couldn't buy these brands locally, so I'd search reviews, ask a question "does it have this bug", order, test, email the vendor, return, and try again. The ones I settled on don't QUITE have the issue, but 1 volume is still a bit too loud.
You assume they would have listened and learned.
This (iTunes Match) is correct. My statement "which makes no sense" was them backing up to AWS, as opposed to their own datacenters.
Since they've been building datacenters for over 5 years, what are they using them for? Even the 500k square foot one in North Carolina was already overkill, more so if they're just holding metadata.
Fun task: on Windows, rip a new CD with iTunes, preferably something rare. Start Resource Monitor, go to Network, TCP Connections, Search for iTunes. Was trying to find a different network hog this weekend and saw iTunes uploading to AWS, which made no sense.
A couple points here:
1) It's not ALL of Fox, just 21st Century. Fox News and the Fox TV network aren't included
2) It still has to be approved. It's likely it will be, given the pro-business/anti-competition slant of the current administration.
3) "all the data that floods their network". To be fair, that's part of why people HAVE the internet. If your job is to provide me internet traffic for which I pay you, if you're my only option for broadband, and if you can't do it, then why do you have a monopoly and why are you preventing competition?
4) Netflix is quickly leaving the "other people's content" space and has been aggressively focusing on their own shows/movies (Marvel, Orange, House of, Bright, etc). It's actually getting hard to find movies/tv shows on Netflix that aren't created by Netflix. Netflix plans to spend $8 billion on programming next year.
Motherfsckers.
Well, this could be a fun Slashdot poll.
Anybody know how I object to this, besides filling out the NY form?
FTFA: "The innovation lies in picking up EMG more precisely—including getting signals from individual neurons—than the previously existing technology, and, even more important, figuring out the relationship between the electrode activity and the muscles so that CTRL-Labs can translate EMG into instructions that can control computer devices."
Weird announcement - no dog and pony show, just a website update and some new info. And there's all the rumors about new hardware. As an Apple-head who wants to replace an older iPad, I'm torn. Get a mostly-better for less, or wait and hope they've got something coming in a month?
For the Apple Music thing, I had the same thing happen - I suspect it was reenabled as part of an iOS update.
Go into Settings - > Music -> Show Apple Music. That should fix it.
Thank you, Madame Secretary, but that's the other story (http://politics.slashdot.org/story/15/10/13/1951232/clinton-home-servers-had-ports-open#comments).
Honestly, the part that I dig the most is the tactile overlays. Interesting concept, but too limited for me for the price. That being said, I'd buy the heck out of a $15/$20 overlay that gives you the tactile sensation, but using my Tablet of Choice as a controller. I've seen them for keyboard replacements for the ipad; unsure what else is out there.
Actually, not that simple. Neither have egress costs if you use their VMs - it's only going to the internet. Amazon Glacier to Internet is free for the first 1GB, $.09/gb for the first 10tb, $.085/gb until 50tb (at between 10-50tb Nearline is cheaper), then $.07 until 150tb.
Both charge 1 cent/gb for reads, though AWS is free for the first 5%.
For the whippersnappers - it's an old (aka 80's) SNL skit. Jon Lovitz played a pathological liar, and the lies kept getting bigger.
Hello, my name is Tommy Flanagan, and I'm a member of Pathological Liars Anonymous. In fact.. I'm the president of the organization!
[...]
And then I got a job in journalism, writing for the National Enquire.. er, Geographic! Yeah.. I was making twenty thousand a ye.. month! In fact, I won the Pulitzer Prize that year! Yeah, that's the ticket.
[...]
Oh, you'd be surprised how many famous people belong. In fact.. at one of the meetings I met my wife - Morgan Fairchild!
I actually own a product that came out several years ago that did it. Two big problems with it:
1) buying replacement cables SUCKED. It's why I abandoned it. Something like 18$ each.
2) You do NOT. SAVE. ANY. SPACE. Look at how much room that takes up, then realize that even empty, it still uses about most of that.
"Last I checked blackberries don't allow tethering via bluetooth or wifi, and while they do email real well, they didn't do much else all that well"
You haven't checked in a while I tethered via bluetooth on my Bold 9000 (2008), and the 9900 could tether via wi-fi in January 2012 (though a few months later, depending on carrier). They STILL do email better than any other phone or app I've used. On-device filters, Level 1 notifications, blacklist/whitelist, ultra-configurable alarms, settings, profiles, etc, etc. Holy crap I miss it for email.
"Blackberries didn't evolve, and they died, a lesson Apple had best pay attention to."
THAT last point is valid.. to a point. I'm on an iPhone because corporate replaced Blackberries with the "Mediocre" app. (it's supposed to be called "Good", which is highly dubious at best).
And they decide to take it at age 20? I took a full year of COBOL in college in the 90s (the last class forced to take a full year), and made sure that it never showed up on my Resume - even the hypothetical 10k wasn't enough to have to deal with COBOL for a living..
The overall design is... Nice. A couple clever bits. But custom printing and all that? Nonsense. They're showing the worst of the CPAP masks. I tried them too, they suck. Then you inevitably complain, and the company selling you supplies give you Nasal Pillows (image for the confused: http://www.soundoxygen.com/wp-...). Works great, comes in 3 sizes. Bam, done.
Technically, anti-trust cases ARE usually retroactive. And if they can compete with higher prices, more power to them. But I'm willing to bet right now Hachette would much rather have competition than be bent over by Amazon. The fact that Hachette did it to themselves (via their insistence on DRM) just makes the schadenfreude pie even more delicious.
I automated this a while ago, using Powershell to query the RSS feed, pull out the details, and send the proper parties an email if there's a new message relevant to us.
It probably seems like reinventing the wheel, but allowed us to split out the emails to relevant for each group, rather than one monolithic email. Which meant each affected party was liable to actually read it.
Overall though, anything that shows how useful RSS is, is a good thing.
I laughed, and I'm a DBA. Yeah, the joke doesn't parse exactly, but it's still funny.
And Developers. Anything to keep those damn DBAs away.
(Yes, I'm a DBA)
Came for the Black Mirror reference. The tone is black as pitch, but the writing is damnably good.
Yeah, but that was intelligent jam. Totally different.