Some cars are able to monitor how tired the driver is. They do it by looking at the amount of torque they apply to the wheel, or by looking at their eyes with an IR camera (which can see through sunglasses). Some of them can even take action to wake you up, such as blasting you with cold air and vibrating the wheel while playing loud warning sounds.
Tesla actually has driver-facing IR cameras in the Model 3 but they are not active. They don't seem to be putting much engineering effort into making them work, when really they should be a priority.
A better comparison would be other cars with level 2 automation. They all check that the driver it attentive in various ways, and take action if they think the driver is asleep.
Some use IR cameras to check that the driver is paying attention to the road, for example.
There is also the issue of what to do if the driver is asleep. Some make more noise or vibrate the wheel/seat. Some like Tesla just stop in the middle of the road, others keep going on the assumption that it's better not to park in the fast lane of the motorway.
Basically all of them have limitations and none of them handle the driver asleep failure mode very well.
It's a shame they included that specific word because it's be misunderstood and quite damaging as a result.
Hugs depend a lot on context. Someone you are friends with hugging you is rather different to some creep randomly hugging you in the street. The latter is what it was supposed to be about, people trying use hugs to make unwanted contact and then claiming it was all perfectly innocent.
Except that this case proves the opposite is true. As long as you have a proper structure in place for making decisions and explaining them, these things can be resolved easily.
What fucked it up was the way so many people felt the need to pile in with their freeze peach warrior SJW panic, when really it just needed exactly one person to make a decision and point out that the rules were not retroactive.
The predicted SJW apocalypse and death of Linux has failed to materialize. No-one has been forced out by these new rules. It really is a storm in a teacup, good for shitty YouTube outrage videos and little else.
It's a table baked in to the BIOS that describes the available power states for the CPU, so that it can do energy saving. Apparently the ones for the Athlon were somehow fucked up.
In this case you get an 80 post thread on a high profile mailing list, you name plastered all over various news sites and people screaming "SJW" and calling you a fascist.
Everyone needs to calm the fuck down and lighten up. The guy made a mistake, no need to be a triggered snowflake about it.
Unfortunately this happens every time. Someone posts something questionable and the outrage merchants pile in to be offended and incensed that someone would disagree with them. It doesn't help that it's a lucrative business model, generating hefty YouTube profits, or an effective form of virtue signalling.
It depends on the material. For movies many people prefer 24 fps to give it that distinct look. For sport 120 FPS is great.
And actually it's not a binary choice between 120Hz motion on or off. Most TVs allow you to choose the "strength" of the effect, which mostly boils down to how far something can move before it isn't interpolated any more. I prefer a fairly low setting, so you don't get that "soap opera" effect but small motions are also clearer than an LCD can normally provide, resulting in a display that is as close to a CRT as possible.
I'm looking forward to affordable 8k monitors. 4k isn't enough for a decent size, say 28", as normal viewing distances. It's better than 1080p but you can still see the pixels and aliasing. 8k monitors are more like the kind of quality you get from a decent phone display.
Even if you sit too far away for your eyes to see every pixel, 8k resolution still has advantages. Due to the way digital sampling works the maximum frequency it can reproduce is half the sampling frequency, called the Nyquist frequency.
So a 1920 pixel wide image can only reproduce details with a frequency of 960 pixels, meaning that even if your eyes can't see every pixel they will still see the aliasing effects of any detail finer than 2 pixels wide. Increasing the resolution reduces the aliasing.
With 8k you also get the benefit of 120 frames per second motion, which many TVs already fake by interpolating 30 frames per second material (and thus introducing more aliasing, typically visible as halos around moving objects).
8k does include 12 bits per channel of colour information. 16 bits is pointless. It's colour model covers 76% of the human visible colour spectrum, compared to about 50% for digital cinema/Adobe RGB and 36% for HD.
It's a problem even for modern shows filmed in 8k. It also requires the camera operator to change the way they work a little, and directors to account for it. For example the cameras use auto-focus because with the small screen mounted on the camera itself there is zero chance of ever getting it focused enough for 8k.
Yeah, it's mostly of interest to companies that can make use if the core directly, rather than for hackers or consumers looking for a fully open processor.
You can buy RISC-V boards but they are very expensive.
The thing is it's just a CPU core. You still need peripherals, e.g. memory/PCIe/SATA/USB/network controllers and a GPU. So for producing an open computing platform it's not really got much of an advantage over ARM. You are replacing one small part of the system with one that is licence free but also less optimized and mature than ARM, which is already extremely cheap and well supported.
It's great if you need an embedded CPU core for your FPGA project or something, but we are not really much closer to a fully open computing platform. Maybe it could find use as a secure, more trusted co-processor of some kind.
When motorcars became popular the buggy whip manufacturers regarded it as a trade war. They tried to get rules and taxes imposed to make motorcars less attractive, but it didn't work and they went bust.
The world is constantly evolving and there is nothing you can do to stop it.
The solution is to help people adapt, to re-train and get new jobs, and to encourage creation of those jobs. Unfortunately helping people directly like that is un-American, it looks too much like welfare and socialism. In America you have to make rich people richer in the hope that they employ those people, e.g. by propping up their failing outdated business.
Not sure how you could enforce that, how are you going to monitor wage levels at factories in other countries? And at what point in the supply chain do you monitor? If one resistor is made by a low paid person does the whole iPhone get hammered with the tax?
And what about robots? They get paid $0.
The only way to compete is to offer something different. Local service, higher quality, expertise and experience. Build up working relationships. In my industry you can buy the same stuff from China for a fraction of the price, but good luck getting phone support at 3 PM on a Tuesday or reporting issues directly to the engineering staff.
Android Messages doesn't have video chat. Google Allo does, but there is no desktop client.
Hangouts is great. Video, voice and text chat all in one place on mobile and desktop. Nothing else offers that.
Hangouts has some other unique features, like the way it handles group chats. It shows the webcam/avatar of whoever is talking using the volume level of each participant, and it really helps stop people talking over each other.
Damn it Google, why do you kill everything good? None of your other stuff comes close to Hangouts!
How about people who don't have fingerprints? Due to burns or missing fingers. Seems a like discrimination if such people cannot be provided some accessible means of entering the building.
In Europe my understanding of the GDPR is that they can't tie to this kind of data use to your employment, so must offer an alternative.
The survey doesn't just take their word for it, it requires evidence of how Google has been stifling them.
For example, by requiring Google search to be the default on Android phones. Doesn't matter how much rivals offer to pay, because the phone needs Google Play and all the other stuff the default has to be Google search.
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Some cars are able to monitor how tired the driver is. They do it by looking at the amount of torque they apply to the wheel, or by looking at their eyes with an IR camera (which can see through sunglasses). Some of them can even take action to wake you up, such as blasting you with cold air and vibrating the wheel while playing loud warning sounds.
Tesla actually has driver-facing IR cameras in the Model 3 but they are not active. They don't seem to be putting much engineering effort into making them work, when really they should be a priority.
A better comparison would be other cars with level 2 automation. They all check that the driver it attentive in various ways, and take action if they think the driver is asleep.
Some use IR cameras to check that the driver is paying attention to the road, for example.
There is also the issue of what to do if the driver is asleep. Some make more noise or vibrate the wheel/seat. Some like Tesla just stop in the middle of the road, others keep going on the assumption that it's better not to park in the fast lane of the motorway.
Basically all of them have limitations and none of them handle the driver asleep failure mode very well.
It's a shame they included that specific word because it's be misunderstood and quite damaging as a result.
Hugs depend a lot on context. Someone you are friends with hugging you is rather different to some creep randomly hugging you in the street. The latter is what it was supposed to be about, people trying use hugs to make unwanted contact and then claiming it was all perfectly innocent.
How do you tell someone's sex over the internet anyhow?
Linux kernel submissions require your real name, which tends to reveal your gender.
Except that this case proves the opposite is true. As long as you have a proper structure in place for making decisions and explaining them, these things can be resolved easily.
What fucked it up was the way so many people felt the need to pile in with their freeze peach warrior SJW panic, when really it just needed exactly one person to make a decision and point out that the rules were not retroactive.
The predicted SJW apocalypse and death of Linux has failed to materialize. No-one has been forced out by these new rules. It really is a storm in a teacup, good for shitty YouTube outrage videos and little else.
It's a table baked in to the BIOS that describes the available power states for the CPU, so that it can do energy saving. Apparently the ones for the Athlon were somehow fucked up.
What would be sad is if it took him more than 5 minutes to run sed and git on the kernel tree.
but what happens if someone does?
In this case you get an 80 post thread on a high profile mailing list, you name plastered all over various news sites and people screaming "SJW" and calling you a fascist.
Everyone needs to calm the fuck down and lighten up. The guy made a mistake, no need to be a triggered snowflake about it.
Unfortunately this happens every time. Someone posts something questionable and the outrage merchants pile in to be offended and incensed that someone would disagree with them. It doesn't help that it's a lucrative business model, generating hefty YouTube profits, or an effective form of virtue signalling.
You mean like people who massively over-react to a mistake, screaming "SJW!" and "freeze peach!" all over YouTube and Twitter and Slashdot?
Talk about a storm in a teacup.
It depends on the material. For movies many people prefer 24 fps to give it that distinct look. For sport 120 FPS is great.
And actually it's not a binary choice between 120Hz motion on or off. Most TVs allow you to choose the "strength" of the effect, which mostly boils down to how far something can move before it isn't interpolated any more. I prefer a fairly low setting, so you don't get that "soap opera" effect but small motions are also clearer than an LCD can normally provide, resulting in a display that is as close to a CRT as possible.
I'm looking forward to affordable 8k monitors. 4k isn't enough for a decent size, say 28", as normal viewing distances. It's better than 1080p but you can still see the pixels and aliasing. 8k monitors are more like the kind of quality you get from a decent phone display.
Even if you sit too far away for your eyes to see every pixel, 8k resolution still has advantages. Due to the way digital sampling works the maximum frequency it can reproduce is half the sampling frequency, called the Nyquist frequency.
So a 1920 pixel wide image can only reproduce details with a frequency of 960 pixels, meaning that even if your eyes can't see every pixel they will still see the aliasing effects of any detail finer than 2 pixels wide. Increasing the resolution reduces the aliasing.
With 8k you also get the benefit of 120 frames per second motion, which many TVs already fake by interpolating 30 frames per second material (and thus introducing more aliasing, typically visible as halos around moving objects).
8k does include 12 bits per channel of colour information. 16 bits is pointless. It's colour model covers 76% of the human visible colour spectrum, compared to about 50% for digital cinema/Adobe RGB and 36% for HD.
It's a problem even for modern shows filmed in 8k. It also requires the camera operator to change the way they work a little, and directors to account for it. For example the cameras use auto-focus because with the small screen mounted on the camera itself there is zero chance of ever getting it focused enough for 8k.
Yeah, it's mostly of interest to companies that can make use if the core directly, rather than for hackers or consumers looking for a fully open processor.
Relatively slow but also low transistor count and therefore decently low power. Also free to embed in your ASIC as Western Digital is doing.
On-shore wind in the UK is profitable without subsidy now. Off-shore will take a few more years.
But a better question is how much of the subsidy is necessary to keep the lights on and how much is enabling unnecessary environmental damage.
You can buy RISC-V boards but they are very expensive.
The thing is it's just a CPU core. You still need peripherals, e.g. memory/PCIe/SATA/USB/network controllers and a GPU. So for producing an open computing platform it's not really got much of an advantage over ARM. You are replacing one small part of the system with one that is licence free but also less optimized and mature than ARM, which is already extremely cheap and well supported.
It's great if you need an embedded CPU core for your FPGA project or something, but we are not really much closer to a fully open computing platform. Maybe it could find use as a secure, more trusted co-processor of some kind.
You didn't lose a trade war, you failed to adapt.
When motorcars became popular the buggy whip manufacturers regarded it as a trade war. They tried to get rules and taxes imposed to make motorcars less attractive, but it didn't work and they went bust.
The world is constantly evolving and there is nothing you can do to stop it.
The solution is to help people adapt, to re-train and get new jobs, and to encourage creation of those jobs. Unfortunately helping people directly like that is un-American, it looks too much like welfare and socialism. In America you have to make rich people richer in the hope that they employ those people, e.g. by propping up their failing outdated business.
Not sure how you could enforce that, how are you going to monitor wage levels at factories in other countries? And at what point in the supply chain do you monitor? If one resistor is made by a low paid person does the whole iPhone get hammered with the tax?
And what about robots? They get paid $0.
The only way to compete is to offer something different. Local service, higher quality, expertise and experience. Build up working relationships. In my industry you can buy the same stuff from China for a fraction of the price, but good luck getting phone support at 3 PM on a Tuesday or reporting issues directly to the engineering staff.
Android Messages doesn't have video chat. Google Allo does, but there is no desktop client.
Hangouts is great. Video, voice and text chat all in one place on mobile and desktop. Nothing else offers that.
Hangouts has some other unique features, like the way it handles group chats. It shows the webcam/avatar of whoever is talking using the volume level of each participant, and it really helps stop people talking over each other.
Damn it Google, why do you kill everything good? None of your other stuff comes close to Hangouts!
The headlines says they measured it, but then the summary says they estimated it.
How about people who don't have fingerprints? Due to burns or missing fingers. Seems a like discrimination if such people cannot be provided some accessible means of entering the building.
In Europe my understanding of the GDPR is that they can't tie to this kind of data use to your employment, so must offer an alternative.
They are hiring PR firms to try to bullshit Congress and the public about their data handling.
The survey doesn't just take their word for it, it requires evidence of how Google has been stifling them.
For example, by requiring Google search to be the default on Android phones. Doesn't matter how much rivals offer to pay, because the phone needs Google Play and all the other stuff the default has to be Google search.