Is this step one in getting us used to accepting the visual uncanny valley (autotune has already done this for audio)? When it gets to the point where we cannot tell the difference between a real actor and an animation on the screen, will Hollywood go the same way as Detroit?
It's a solved challenge. You're probably thinking many of the solutions from current digital radio technology are not directly usable because they rely on spread spectrum to further increase the noise immunity and thus increase the bandwidth that can be carried, but there are still solutions in there that can be applied in fixed wavelength scenarios.
Paper straws instead of plastic is fine. But when the conversation in a shop goes: "do you want to sign up for our loyalty card"; "No" (I don't need more tracking, thanks); "OK, so what's your email address"; "Sorry? I said no"; "oh, I still need it, its for the receipt"... digital receipts are not about the environment I'm afraid.
I'm waiting to see what happens with a freeway full of cars with LIDARs, all flinging their beams at each other willy-nilly with direct beams and reflections all over the place. If you're unlucky you'll get a beam from another vehicle just after yours has sent a pulse out - resulting in a false return showing something right in front of you.
If only someone could come up with a way of encoding signals so that a desired signal can be distinguished amongst a mass of other signals using the same wavelength.
Republicans didn't support the wall either. Why do you think Trump waited until Democrats had control of the House to push hard on this? With a Republican majority house and senate it would have just been an embarrassment to him. With a Democrat house, he can use it to score a few points with his base, but I'm not sure his judgement on when to call it quits is going to help him in the long run, as the tougher things get for government employees, the more support he's going to lose.
The government heavily regulates what's grown and how it's grown via those subsidies. Before that we had over farming and farmers growing too much of the same, profitable crops until they market saturated and collapsed....
You didn't notice the irony as you typed that?
The truth is that subsidies are what distort the market to encourage over-production of certain crops, or in this case dairy products, while a truly free market would see farmers seeking other opportunities to make profit.
'Technological Unemployment' has been happening since at least the start of the Industrial Revolution. The impact over 2 centuries can be seen in our unemployment figures today. There have been periods of depression, and we may be in for another one soon, but people are more resilient than you give them credit for, even middle aged codgers like me, and we will get through it just like our ancestors did, probably for the better for our quality of life in the long run.
In the UK, once you've paid off your loan, you stop paying it back. I think the scheme they are looking for is to trick people into thinking they are not getting a loan so they can keep taking repayments until their die.
The rest of you aren't on the hook. The University graduate stayed in school to increase their future earning potential, and therefore increased their future tax payments. Sensible countries know that education pays for itself in the overall economy.
I thought the Consumer Electronics Show had gone downhill when they introduced a hall dedicated to the iPhone cases. But at least they had some relevance as an accessory to a consumer electronics product. But fake food? Unless it's ingredients include nefarious nanobots, I can't see any reason why it is being introduced at CES rather than one of the many Food Expo's that Las Vegas is host to.
Australia has a similar service called POLi (formerly Centricom). All major banks warn against using it, as it is basically operating as a phishing site to get your internet banking credentials and log onto your internet banking on your behalf to make payments on your behalf and give the retailer instant verification that the payment has been made.
These days any transfer made is instant anyway, so the retailer can get the verification from their own bank without this security nightmare. Banks are now officially setting up their own consumer payment system where you can register a phone number to accept payments to your account, which will result in an SMS to your phone informing you of successful transactions. So the lifespan of these third party security risk solutions is hopefully coming to an end. With the banks' apps integrated into Android and iOS payment APIs, the app side of making payments should be taken care of too.
You punch in your user name and password; Plaid checks those credentials with the financial institution and, if they're accurate, passes banking information back to the app.
I know there is a big dark market for these things, but a $3 billion valuation for a MITM exploit still seems a bit steep to me.
The innovation this time around is that they now have a screensaver of Banksy's Girl with Red Balloon that displays as it rolls up, so you can pretend you are in an auction house, in case you get sick of pretending you are at the end of an upside down 1970's slide show.
I don't think it is fair to pin the disaster on them, but any issues with the handling of the disaster and any cover up of information in the days and weeks afterward should certainly be on the management's shoulders.
I find it hilarious that the fix for overloading caused in part by people resending messages which don't appear to have gone through, is to discard read receipts. Did anyone in the New York office that is going to be held responsible for the inevitable outage think this through? I wish you luck, Facebook.
In the old days, Universities used to train people for jobs that didn't exist yet by giving them a broad education that was focused on the learning process, not on specific job training. Then technical institutes and community colleges decided they would call themselves universities and give out degrees too, and the whole tertiary education system became dumbed down to their level. So now, when we need old fashioned university graduates that can adapt to whatever is thrown at them, all we have is millennials who can't wipe their own ass without being sent on a training course.
Yes, it sounds very much like Microsoft's "hardware acceleration fast-path" was a hack that relied on very specific HTML layout of the YouTube site, and when Google changed it (by adding an empty hidden div no less - something that should have absolutely no effect on a standards compliant layout engine not to mention the video hardware acceleration) it broke their precious benchmark cheat.
The same way that the nuclear ceasefire between 1945 and now has been enforced.
The countries that signed this understand the consequences of not meeting their obligations, so we rely on them to act in their own best interests. Unfortunately there is one important country missing from the table that is still in denial due to corrupt politics that places politicians squarely in the pockets of oil corporations and religious zealotry that dismisses the opinions of scientists, ruled by a wannabe dictator who signs away any progress made by his predecessors without even seeking the backing of his ineffective government. It is truely amazing that such countries still exist in the 21st century, but sadly that is the world we live in.
No they weren't addressable in the same way, but Panasonic (National at the time) marketed "Quintrex" TVs in the 1970's, which had the mask arranged in a honeycomb shape to avoid the vertical colored stripes that were starting to appear on TVs due to improvements in the sharpness of CRT masks at the time. I guess they had to make adjustments to the scanline timing, which would have been entirely analog, but I'm not sure that they really had 5 subpixels for every 2 pixels as the name would suggest, as a honeycomb shape would still have 6 hexagons in each group.
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Ghandi is currently polling 23%, against Modi at 41%. The era of the Ghandi family dynasty is not about to be revived.
Is this step one in getting us used to accepting the visual uncanny valley (autotune has already done this for audio)? When it gets to the point where we cannot tell the difference between a real actor and an animation on the screen, will Hollywood go the same way as Detroit?
It's a solved challenge. You're probably thinking many of the solutions from current digital radio technology are not directly usable because they rely on spread spectrum to further increase the noise immunity and thus increase the bandwidth that can be carried, but there are still solutions in there that can be applied in fixed wavelength scenarios.
Paper straws instead of plastic is fine. But when the conversation in a shop goes: "do you want to sign up for our loyalty card"; "No" (I don't need more tracking, thanks); "OK, so what's your email address"; "Sorry? I said no"; "oh, I still need it, its for the receipt"... digital receipts are not about the environment I'm afraid.
I'm waiting to see what happens with a freeway full of cars with LIDARs, all flinging their beams at each other willy-nilly with direct beams and reflections all over the place. If you're unlucky you'll get a beam from another vehicle just after yours has sent a pulse out - resulting in a false return showing something right in front of you.
If only someone could come up with a way of encoding signals so that a desired signal can be distinguished amongst a mass of other signals using the same wavelength.
Or, the guy deliberately pointed his camera directly at the laser at short range hoping to see it.
Republicans didn't support the wall either. Why do you think Trump waited until Democrats had control of the House to push hard on this? With a Republican majority house and senate it would have just been an embarrassment to him. With a Democrat house, he can use it to score a few points with his base, but I'm not sure his judgement on when to call it quits is going to help him in the long run, as the tougher things get for government employees, the more support he's going to lose.
The government heavily regulates what's grown and how it's grown via those subsidies. Before that we had over farming and farmers growing too much of the same, profitable crops until they market saturated and collapsed....
You didn't notice the irony as you typed that?
The truth is that subsidies are what distort the market to encourage over-production of certain crops, or in this case dairy products, while a truly free market would see farmers seeking other opportunities to make profit.
New Zealand has a currency problem.
NZD is quite stable over the past 15 years averaging around 0.70 against the USD. It had a problem in 2008, but had recovered by the end of 2009.
'Technological Unemployment' has been happening since at least the start of the Industrial Revolution. The impact over 2 centuries can be seen in our unemployment figures today. There have been periods of depression, and we may be in for another one soon, but people are more resilient than you give them credit for, even middle aged codgers like me, and we will get through it just like our ancestors did, probably for the better for our quality of life in the long run.
Airplay is DRM over Wi-Fi.
In the UK, once you've paid off your loan, you stop paying it back. I think the scheme they are looking for is to trick people into thinking they are not getting a loan so they can keep taking repayments until their die.
The rest of you aren't on the hook. The University graduate stayed in school to increase their future earning potential, and therefore increased their future tax payments. Sensible countries know that education pays for itself in the overall economy.
I thought the Consumer Electronics Show had gone downhill when they introduced a hall dedicated to the iPhone cases. But at least they had some relevance as an accessory to a consumer electronics product. But fake food? Unless it's ingredients include nefarious nanobots, I can't see any reason why it is being introduced at CES rather than one of the many Food Expo's that Las Vegas is host to.
These days any transfer made is instant anyway, so the retailer can get the verification from their own bank without this security nightmare. Banks are now officially setting up their own consumer payment system where you can register a phone number to accept payments to your account, which will result in an SMS to your phone informing you of successful transactions. So the lifespan of these third party security risk solutions is hopefully coming to an end. With the banks' apps integrated into Android and iOS payment APIs, the app side of making payments should be taken care of too.
You punch in your user name and password; Plaid checks those credentials with the financial institution and, if they're accurate, passes banking information back to the app.
I know there is a big dark market for these things, but a $3 billion valuation for a MITM exploit still seems a bit steep to me.
The innovation this time around is that they now have a screensaver of Banksy's Girl with Red Balloon that displays as it rolls up, so you can pretend you are in an auction house, in case you get sick of pretending you are at the end of an upside down 1970's slide show.
I don't think it is fair to pin the disaster on them, but any issues with the handling of the disaster and any cover up of information in the days and weeks afterward should certainly be on the management's shoulders.
I find it hilarious that the fix for overloading caused in part by people resending messages which don't appear to have gone through, is to discard read receipts. Did anyone in the New York office that is going to be held responsible for the inevitable outage think this through? I wish you luck, Facebook.
Yes, but until the disaster strikes, they don't bother filtering it, so it looks the right color for lager and has a foamy head on it.
In the old days, Universities used to train people for jobs that didn't exist yet by giving them a broad education that was focused on the learning process, not on specific job training. Then technical institutes and community colleges decided they would call themselves universities and give out degrees too, and the whole tertiary education system became dumbed down to their level. So now, when we need old fashioned university graduates that can adapt to whatever is thrown at them, all we have is millennials who can't wipe their own ass without being sent on a training course.
Even running Linux you are not in full control on any recent laptop that ships with Intel Management Engine or the AMD equivalent.
Yes, it sounds very much like Microsoft's "hardware acceleration fast-path" was a hack that relied on very specific HTML layout of the YouTube site, and when Google changed it (by adding an empty hidden div no less - something that should have absolutely no effect on a standards compliant layout engine not to mention the video hardware acceleration) it broke their precious benchmark cheat.
How is it going to be enforced?
The same way that the nuclear ceasefire between 1945 and now has been enforced.
The countries that signed this understand the consequences of not meeting their obligations, so we rely on them to act in their own best interests. Unfortunately there is one important country missing from the table that is still in denial due to corrupt politics that places politicians squarely in the pockets of oil corporations and religious zealotry that dismisses the opinions of scientists, ruled by a wannabe dictator who signs away any progress made by his predecessors without even seeking the backing of his ineffective government. It is truely amazing that such countries still exist in the 21st century, but sadly that is the world we live in.
No they weren't addressable in the same way, but Panasonic (National at the time) marketed "Quintrex" TVs in the 1970's, which had the mask arranged in a honeycomb shape to avoid the vertical colored stripes that were starting to appear on TVs due to improvements in the sharpness of CRT masks at the time. I guess they had to make adjustments to the scanline timing, which would have been entirely analog, but I'm not sure that they really had 5 subpixels for every 2 pixels as the name would suggest, as a honeycomb shape would still have 6 hexagons in each group.