For some reason Gerry Anderson productions often used the trope of having characters who should have been experts act completely clueless for the sake of exposition. That and scientific illiteracy were hallmarks of their work.
Nevertheless they were quite entertaining and the production values were generally pretty high. Personally UFO was my favourite, followed by Captain Scarlet which had the best premise for a kids show ever.
Missing the point. How many Bollywood movies get a big western release with promotion on major networks? How many native English speakers are even willing to put up with subtitles?
The last big French sci-fi epic was in English, to make sure it reached a wide enough audience to cover the production costs. The best Japanese movies tend to be re-made in English with the setting changed to the west, e.g. The Ring or Seven Samurai or Godzilla. Nigerian films don't even register.
China could potentially change that. The money is there to rival Hollywood, and will keep growing as their home market does. Just like Hollywood tries to tailor their movies to a Chinese audience (like the random Chinese cities and kung fu experts in Transformers, or Donnie Yen in Rogue 1), the Chinese are thinking about how they can sell to western audiences now.
Why should we care about this remotely related species, when we don't even care about animals going extinct today, who are much closer related to us ?
Because there is no "we". The human race does not act as one, does not make rational decisions based on some overall plan or guiding principal.
Given how humans nearly screwed up this planet and can't really be trusted not to completely break it somehow, those of us with a bit of vision and desire to see humanity survive should make an effort to get to Mars and live up there.
Most progressives are broadly in favour of striking stuff like this down, e.g. the EFF and Stephen Fry.
More generally censorship has been used to repress and maintain the taboo status of certain topics, e.g. same sex relationships, so is opposed by progressives.
Biometrics are a massive security win for most people. You simply don't understand the threat model most people face: Laziness and imperfect human memory.
Having a decent password is obviously best, but also annoying to have to type it in every time, vulnerable to shoulder surfing when used in public, and the more secure it is the easier it is to forget. Most people re-use their passwords too.
So for the majority of customers the choice is between no security, crap security like a short PIN number or unlock pattern (vulnerable to observation and smudge detection), or relatively difficult to bypass biometrics. Sure, a determined attacker could clone your fingerprints with sufficient fidelity to fool the sensor, but given that even the police don't seem to be able to do that I doubt it's much of a concern for most people.
Face unlock is probably the worst, if you are worried about your partner using it on you while asleep, but a lot of people know their partner's passcode anyway.
The screen only acts as a transducer for calls. Basically a bone conduction system that makes it easier to hear the other person in a noisy environment. It can't be used as a speaker.
I'm waiting for the YouTube videos of people trying to lean on furniture that isn't really their and putting their heads through the TV. Like with VR but even more dangerous because the whole point is for it to interact with the real world.
You'd have to assume that Samsung put theirs through a 100,000 fold/unfold cycle on a sample of a few thousand of these displays before going into production with them. I'd have thought that the hinge would probably fail first.
OnePlus has clearly demonstrated that there is plenty of profit in mid-price phones, and there is no sign of the cheap end being abandoned due to lack of earnings.
In fact the more affordable end is where all the growth is, in China and India especially.
They didn't decide to ignore context, they were forced to because it crap lawyer didn't make the argument in his defence.
The court can't make the defence's argument for them. If the defence doesn't bring up the context, it has t be ignored. The shear level of incompetence almost makes you wonder if Dankula intended to lose to martyr himself.
That whole case is fucked up. The law as it standards does in fact allow for freedom of speech as a defence, but his defence was exceptionally shitty and didn't really argue it. So now we have a situation where we have this bad ruling, desperate need of clarification, and Dankula with £100,000 that was donated to him looking for a judicial review.
It's important to understand that UK courts can only decide matters based on basis of the defence put forward. Unless the defence makes a decent legal argument that free speech is the overriding factor the court can't use that to nullify the prosecution. Dankula's lawyer turned an opportunity into a complete fucking disaster.
The UK could certainly do with some clear protections for freedom of speech and a revision to this law in particular, because it keeps getting abused. Unfortunately the way the UK works this is unlikely to happen - instead it will just bumble along being slowly revised by courts and the CPS issuing guidance.
Niven's works tend to focus on the practical implications of hard sci-fi concepts, such as unmanaged ring-world societies or how humans could live on integral trees. No-one has really managed to bring that sort of thing to the screen so far. It's difficult to do that much world-building in a 2 hour movie, so maybe a miniseries would be a better option.
It's going to be hard though, especially these days when we have reached a kind of CGI saturation where it's difficult to make anything look actually impressive any more.
Well, the the other issue with Ringworld is the amount of casual sex in it, which is somewhat important to the plot. It's not so much the depiction of sex on screen, it's the way it is portrayed as a mixture of consequence/risk free fun and currency that the main character participates in without any apparent second thought.
I'm hoping that the next Pixel is foldable like this, but also more reasonably priced. The form factor is finally a really compelling reason to upgrade.
There is a difference between, say, using chemical weapons and using conventional weapons. Someone willing to work on a conventional bomb design may be unwilling to work on one designed to deliver a chemical warhead.
Given what we have seen of how drones are being used and abused, I can see why they are reluctant to develop this technology for the military.
Testing nuclear weapons on civilians doesn't sound like trying to avoid collateral damage. Pretty sure that ruined the US scorecard, not that anyone is really keeping track.
Great point. Unless you have at least 100,000 followers on Twitter your opinion is basically worthless. Never mind that you are one of the key engineers on that project, they will effortlessly replace you if you quit. Remember that next time you think about asking for a raise.
Good point, anyone who ever changes their opinion on anything is a hypocrite and should be condemned. Never learn or evolve your ethics, figure them out when you are a kid and stick to them no matter what.
Oh, and whatever you do don't think anything is less than black and white. There is literally no difference between typing up orders in Word and using a Hololens in the field to direct drone strikes.
Good point about China and Russia too. The ICBMs and the hypersonic cruise missiles won't deter them, but Hololens is sure to make them think twice. And that's definitely what it will be used for.
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like it came out of the ass of Michael Bay or something
So it's gonna make Netflix rich?
For some reason Gerry Anderson productions often used the trope of having characters who should have been experts act completely clueless for the sake of exposition. That and scientific illiteracy were hallmarks of their work.
Nevertheless they were quite entertaining and the production values were generally pretty high. Personally UFO was my favourite, followed by Captain Scarlet which had the best premise for a kids show ever.
Missing the point. How many Bollywood movies get a big western release with promotion on major networks? How many native English speakers are even willing to put up with subtitles?
The last big French sci-fi epic was in English, to make sure it reached a wide enough audience to cover the production costs. The best Japanese movies tend to be re-made in English with the setting changed to the west, e.g. The Ring or Seven Samurai or Godzilla. Nigerian films don't even register.
China could potentially change that. The money is there to rival Hollywood, and will keep growing as their home market does. Just like Hollywood tries to tailor their movies to a Chinese audience (like the random Chinese cities and kung fu experts in Transformers, or Donnie Yen in Rogue 1), the Chinese are thinking about how they can sell to western audiences now.
Why should we care about this remotely related species, when we don't even care about animals going extinct today, who are much closer related to us ?
Because there is no "we". The human race does not act as one, does not make rational decisions based on some overall plan or guiding principal.
Given how humans nearly screwed up this planet and can't really be trusted not to completely break it somehow, those of us with a bit of vision and desire to see humanity survive should make an effort to get to Mars and live up there.
More recently Passengers, which was supposed to be a romantic movie but ended up being creepy. Both sci-fi fans and romance fans were disappointed.
Most progressives are broadly in favour of striking stuff like this down, e.g. the EFF and Stephen Fry.
More generally censorship has been used to repress and maintain the taboo status of certain topics, e.g. same sex relationships, so is opposed by progressives.
Dankula is a shitty person who hangs around with far right asshats like Tommy Robinson. What he did is worthy of criticism and condemnation.
It just shouldn't be illegal.
Biometrics are a massive security win for most people. You simply don't understand the threat model most people face: Laziness and imperfect human memory.
Having a decent password is obviously best, but also annoying to have to type it in every time, vulnerable to shoulder surfing when used in public, and the more secure it is the easier it is to forget. Most people re-use their passwords too.
So for the majority of customers the choice is between no security, crap security like a short PIN number or unlock pattern (vulnerable to observation and smudge detection), or relatively difficult to bypass biometrics. Sure, a determined attacker could clone your fingerprints with sufficient fidelity to fool the sensor, but given that even the police don't seem to be able to do that I doubt it's much of a concern for most people.
Face unlock is probably the worst, if you are worried about your partner using it on you while asleep, but a lot of people know their partner's passcode anyway.
The screen only acts as a transducer for calls. Basically a bone conduction system that makes it easier to hear the other person in a noisy environment. It can't be used as a speaker.
I'm waiting for the YouTube videos of people trying to lean on furniture that isn't really their and putting their heads through the TV. Like with VR but even more dangerous because the whole point is for it to interact with the real world.
Samsung said that it's some kind of plastic. I guess you will want a screen protector.
You'd have to assume that Samsung put theirs through a 100,000 fold/unfold cycle on a sample of a few thousand of these displays before going into production with them. I'd have thought that the hinge would probably fail first.
OnePlus has clearly demonstrated that there is plenty of profit in mid-price phones, and there is no sign of the cheap end being abandoned due to lack of earnings.
In fact the more affordable end is where all the growth is, in China and India especially.
They didn't decide to ignore context, they were forced to because it crap lawyer didn't make the argument in his defence.
The court can't make the defence's argument for them. If the defence doesn't bring up the context, it has t be ignored. The shear level of incompetence almost makes you wonder if Dankula intended to lose to martyr himself.
That whole case is fucked up. The law as it standards does in fact allow for freedom of speech as a defence, but his defence was exceptionally shitty and didn't really argue it. So now we have a situation where we have this bad ruling, desperate need of clarification, and Dankula with £100,000 that was donated to him looking for a judicial review.
It's important to understand that UK courts can only decide matters based on basis of the defence put forward. Unless the defence makes a decent legal argument that free speech is the overriding factor the court can't use that to nullify the prosecution. Dankula's lawyer turned an opportunity into a complete fucking disaster.
The UK could certainly do with some clear protections for freedom of speech and a revision to this law in particular, because it keeps getting abused. Unfortunately the way the UK works this is unlikely to happen - instead it will just bumble along being slowly revised by courts and the CPS issuing guidance.
Niven's works tend to focus on the practical implications of hard sci-fi concepts, such as unmanaged ring-world societies or how humans could live on integral trees. No-one has really managed to bring that sort of thing to the screen so far. It's difficult to do that much world-building in a 2 hour movie, so maybe a miniseries would be a better option.
It's going to be hard though, especially these days when we have reached a kind of CGI saturation where it's difficult to make anything look actually impressive any more.
Well, the the other issue with Ringworld is the amount of casual sex in it, which is somewhat important to the plot. It's not so much the depiction of sex on screen, it's the way it is portrayed as a mixture of consequence/risk free fun and currency that the main character participates in without any apparent second thought.
I'm hoping that the next Pixel is foldable like this, but also more reasonably priced. The form factor is finally a really compelling reason to upgrade.
https://youtu.be/E8aUUmybjEg
https://youtu.be/hCv_Ha0oWjE
https://youtu.be/5gQgQzTwnPk
I imagine getting the airbags reset will be pretty expensive too. The only benefit is reduced harm to the passengers.
Yeah that's what I was referring to. They did a pilot, there was outrage... Hopefully it gets killed off.
Where do you get this rubbish from?
There is a difference between, say, using chemical weapons and using conventional weapons. Someone willing to work on a conventional bomb design may be unwilling to work on one designed to deliver a chemical warhead.
Given what we have seen of how drones are being used and abused, I can see why they are reluctant to develop this technology for the military.
Testing nuclear weapons on civilians doesn't sound like trying to avoid collateral damage. Pretty sure that ruined the US scorecard, not that anyone is really keeping track.
Great point. Unless you have at least 100,000 followers on Twitter your opinion is basically worthless. Never mind that you are one of the key engineers on that project, they will effortlessly replace you if you quit. Remember that next time you think about asking for a raise.
Good point, anyone who ever changes their opinion on anything is a hypocrite and should be condemned. Never learn or evolve your ethics, figure them out when you are a kid and stick to them no matter what.
Oh, and whatever you do don't think anything is less than black and white. There is literally no difference between typing up orders in Word and using a Hololens in the field to direct drone strikes.
Good point about China and Russia too. The ICBMs and the hypersonic cruise missiles won't deter them, but Hololens is sure to make them think twice. And that's definitely what it will be used for.