This quote makes zero sense: "...reliance on Windows and DirectX (and to a lesser extent Mac OS), systems that cannot be relied upon in the long term."
Really, because my experience with Linux and backwards / forwards support for both software and hardware has been vastly worse than Windows from XP through 8. Sure before XP, Windows 9x was terrible, but are we really going to keep basing derp derp FUD on a 5 year window of hard lessons from nearly 15 years ago?
Can we just fess up and admit that SteamOS is an effort predicated on a personal beef Gabe Newell has with Microsoft and especially the fact that Windows 8 included it's own store and that store was not Steam. The story is well documented and the whole industry is going to blow a lot of money on development just to satisfy one man's ego.
I think that now that so much of internet access is becoming metered, I think we can revisit the validity of the 70's & 80's computer hacking laws that made advertising by third parties of questionable legality.
The general legal theory held that the use of computing cycles was purely up to the discretion of the owner / designated administrator (mainframe model) and that unauthorized / unwanted use of computing cycles was a form of theft as codified in the early computer hacking laws. This was often bandied around as a way to legitimize advertising, especially before anyone gave any credence to the drive-by EULA. Current EULA usage still doesn't pass common law of sniff tests, but we're stuck with an IP obsessed legal system that is going to back unnegotiated / unsigned contracts.
On the other hand, could we maybe get the FCC (at least in the US) to step in and say that consumers have the end say on data usage on devices on metered connections. You shouldn't need a rooted Android phone to control the wasteful bandwidth usage of some apps. Metered data and overage costs make this all the more relevant.
Imagine an alternate scenario. The jack-offs at E-sport League broke the law by installing Bitcoin mining software inside their application. Why do we consider bandwidth usage different? The argument that one agrees to a EULA with advertising terms does not spell out a known, measured bandwidth allocation for the advertising, and thus cannot be considered to be an expected cost by the consumer, nor would anyone consider a EULA that included CPU / GPU usage for Bitcoin mining to be legally valid.
It would be even easier to check for refined metal from the cutting face or a foreign object in the conveyer waste. Situations like these have me convinced that the contractors intentionally ignore warning signs so they can milk contracts for the overages.
It seems retarded that each day or during each little bit of down time that Bertha isn't cutting that the surveyors don't perform a forward looking ultrasound / radar / metal detection. They're cutting 50 feet a day, they can reasonably look forward and see if there is anything coming up that might be an issue.
People miss that another point of a library as a societal archive. We've invested as a society (the modern west that is) so very much in libraries partially because of how greatly their archaeological legacy from previous cultures impacted us.
I would much rather see a library with lots of books and let you either choose the book or scan the barcode to check it out. This also makes more sense for letting people wander into a good book. Even with a nice Netflix style browsing system, you'll never get the exposure to obscure, overlooked, or just out of your comfort zone books you get from walking the isles.
Consider that in many ways, electronic browsing of books actually plays to the current shit direction in IP based media... less variety, less experimenting, more guaranteed hits. We'll likely see many of the electronic browsing formats give "top picks" and such leaning ever increasingly in the direction of being direct advertising as well.
Grant is going to be pissed when the Russian one works better. His setup was a mess to operate and not particularly stable. Frankly, a lot of the robotics on Mythbusters are overblown for show and function poorly as a result.
Arguably, the NSA has hurt 5-7 orders of magnitude fewer innocents than Hitler.
I would even venture to say that like proposed large scale E85 adoption in L.A., Snowden has likely caused more unwarranted innocent deaths (via stress; i.e. heart attacks and blood pressure, arguments, fear, paranoia) than the NSA has previously per any equal time period.
Peeping toms (in the traditional sense) don't result in another person feeling genuinely raped. The Snowden/NSA is just public voyeurism about institutional voyeurism. One big circle jerk of the ignorant, where everyone gets off, but they all feel let down because that was the only way they could get off when they rather have a partner.
UPS still has a huge backlog of undelivered packages, that are by their own records late. These are items which for multiple days are listed as out for delivery at 7 AM, then around 3 PM listed as accidentally left at the distribution facility.
The turn is this: some of those same hubs are already being taken off weekend/late hours.... while listing the same package as now scheduled for Saturday delivery.
So the reason people are mad is ultimately dishonesty on UPS' part. Stop lying multiple days or weeks in a row with "I'll get it done tomorrow." Everyone hates that guy, just give an honest range of delivery dates with an honest guarantee.
It was meant to show off Blender. Like Blender, the movie is a mess. The difference in completeness, and usability between Blender and any of the big 3 animation packages is a greater disparity than Windows vs Linux for desktop usage.
This is stupid. Moving a physical token is easier, faster, and more intuitive than digging around for credentials to some website or worse yet, dealing with your mobile provider to transfer an account. It's nice to know if my phone breaks, I can grab my previous model on the spot and shove the sim in and have a working phone without trying to deal with the provider. Even more so if I am playing with ROMs and hacking away at a couple pieces of hardware.
Doing things online to physical devices is usually slower, less efficient, and less intuitive.
Too bad so many of those providers have insufficient backhaul. For every small town with reportedly good line of sight wireless, there are 5 with ISDN like peak daytime speeds due to congestion and crap equipment.
Umm, no, the issue is how the air flows over the windshield. The air that strikes your windshield when traveling 40 MPH is only going 20-30 MPH at some obtuse angle. Understand that the air already pushed by the windshield slows relative velocity of the air ahead of the car. An air nozzle would be designed to remove laminar flow characteristics via pressure, velocity and spray geometry, effectively scooping under the water. Most of the velocity of air striking a windshield actual helps hold the water against the glass, but you don't see this until you break the velocity into parallel and perpendicular components to the windshield.
The ultrasonic approach the article speaks of operates because it bubbles the water off the surface of the windshield, breaking the Van der Waals bond and friction that is keeping the water from being pulled into the flow of air passing over the car.
Lastly, I was just throwing out an idea that has likely been tried using existing technology, possibly as far back as 40-50 years ago.
Too bad it generally works poorly below 40-50 MPH for most windscreen angles. It's really the poorest quality hydrophobic treatment available. Regular carnuba wax works equally well.
Surely someone at the automotive companies has already tested a tiny, high pressure air nozzle that sweeps across from just below the windscreen. It's nice that McLaren is driving new technology, but face it, our cars could be much better. The issue is always budgets, and the $1 here, $4 there for better components supposedly adds up to automobiles costing 2-4x what they currently do. At least that is what the accountants that turn down the engineers ideas say. Sometimes that is true, sometimes I want to yell bullshit as I whack someone upside the head with a baseball bat.
He forgot to include the parts of the installation where a series of cameras and mics watch your eye movement, page number, and breathing to compile a short list of password roots from which to compromise your other accounts.
Valve forked the graphics subsystem. Keep forking and letting everyone be their own little fiefdom of incompatibility Linux... That's the way to the desktop (set top?)
I think you clearly validated their hyperbole regarding U.S. work culture. As someone who is also pressured by work to a degree of questionable ethical limits, I'm a bit disappoint to see another person standing up for the work place culture that is demonstrably wrong (not entirely about the coffee thing, but with regards to hustle and bustle).
No cup of coffee should need to sit around more than 30 minutes. If you're doing hours of reading or socializing, you should be having more than one cup, sized appropriately to your preferences and tolerance.
Hell, part of the social ritual is the host refilling the beverage, a demonstration of their ability to provide an abundance to a guest.
Might be more necessary than you would think with the change from a solid rear axle to a IRS. IRS is well known for being much hoppier and letting the wheels launch into the wheel well during burnouts and hard launches.
Not digging this device, and especially not the Arduino fans trying to pimp an even more expensive variation. I'm all for kit electronics, but e-mail / smartphone notifications are the way to go for computer notifications remotely. And the comms down argument against fails if you setup some form of heartbeat system. As for the Arduino is the bestest crowd... ummm, your community is already well aware of how to wire in notification LEDs to the kit.
Sorry, you're wrong from a vehicle control and engineering standpoint. Stability control is any system that increases the control and behavior of the vehicle. ABS systems specifically increase control of the braking AND every traction / stability control system uses the ABS subsystem specifically to monitor and control wheel speed, in addition to other sensors and controls. Even in the ignorant way you tie EFI into stability control, you are wrong for trying to be obtuse and correct; throttle, fuel, and timing are all used by stability control systems to meter power output.
Many cars made as far back as the last 10 years don't even have a conventional dedicated ABS system in the manner you are implying. The pumps, solenoids, and wheel sensors are similar to older designs, but the control logic is entirely built in the stability / traction control logic and the original ABS algorithms are just minor functions. The fact that there are per wheel solenoids to pulse the brakes pretty well describe a traction control / stability control role rather than just ABS.
I have noticed similar trends of brand / model specifics for a wide array of jobs in both the white collar and skilled blue collar trades. The reason seems to be not just to get people who are instantly productive, but also for liability, both managerial and liability. Think about it, what better coverage is there when things go tits up than to able to say you hired someone who claimed to be an expert in their field. Traditional engineering has been rife with such micro-scoped hiring for years to the point that you have experts in minutia like air conditioning condenser side pipe layout who jump from job to job fleshing out architectural designs.
IT is vaguely moving many jobs to having less to do with skill sets and more to being a purpose specific drone.
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This quote makes zero sense:
"...reliance on Windows and DirectX (and to a lesser extent Mac OS), systems that cannot be relied upon in the long term."
Really, because my experience with Linux and backwards / forwards support for both software and hardware has been vastly worse than Windows from XP through 8. Sure before XP, Windows 9x was terrible, but are we really going to keep basing derp derp FUD on a 5 year window of hard lessons from nearly 15 years ago?
Can we just fess up and admit that SteamOS is an effort predicated on a personal beef Gabe Newell has with Microsoft and especially the fact that Windows 8 included it's own store and that store was not Steam. The story is well documented and the whole industry is going to blow a lot of money on development just to satisfy one man's ego.
I think that now that so much of internet access is becoming metered, I think we can revisit the validity of the 70's & 80's computer hacking laws that made advertising by third parties of questionable legality.
The general legal theory held that the use of computing cycles was purely up to the discretion of the owner / designated administrator (mainframe model) and that unauthorized / unwanted use of computing cycles was a form of theft as codified in the early computer hacking laws. This was often bandied around as a way to legitimize advertising, especially before anyone gave any credence to the drive-by EULA. Current EULA usage still doesn't pass common law of sniff tests, but we're stuck with an IP obsessed legal system that is going to back unnegotiated / unsigned contracts.
On the other hand, could we maybe get the FCC (at least in the US) to step in and say that consumers have the end say on data usage on devices on metered connections. You shouldn't need a rooted Android phone to control the wasteful bandwidth usage of some apps. Metered data and overage costs make this all the more relevant.
Imagine an alternate scenario. The jack-offs at E-sport League broke the law by installing Bitcoin mining software inside their application. Why do we consider bandwidth usage different? The argument that one agrees to a EULA with advertising terms does not spell out a known, measured bandwidth allocation for the advertising, and thus cannot be considered to be an expected cost by the consumer, nor would anyone consider a EULA that included CPU / GPU usage for Bitcoin mining to be legally valid.
It would be even easier to check for refined metal from the cutting face or a foreign object in the conveyer waste. Situations like these have me convinced that the contractors intentionally ignore warning signs so they can milk contracts for the overages.
It seems retarded that each day or during each little bit of down time that Bertha isn't cutting that the surveyors don't perform a forward looking ultrasound / radar / metal detection. They're cutting 50 feet a day, they can reasonably look forward and see if there is anything coming up that might be an issue.
People miss that another point of a library as a societal archive. We've invested as a society (the modern west that is) so very much in libraries partially because of how greatly their archaeological legacy from previous cultures impacted us.
I would much rather see a library with lots of books and let you either choose the book or scan the barcode to check it out. This also makes more sense for letting people wander into a good book. Even with a nice Netflix style browsing system, you'll never get the exposure to obscure, overlooked, or just out of your comfort zone books you get from walking the isles.
Consider that in many ways, electronic browsing of books actually plays to the current shit direction in IP based media... less variety, less experimenting, more guaranteed hits. We'll likely see many of the electronic browsing formats give "top picks" and such leaning ever increasingly in the direction of being direct advertising as well.
Grant is going to be pissed when the Russian one works better. His setup was a mess to operate and not particularly stable. Frankly, a lot of the robotics on Mythbusters are overblown for show and function poorly as a result.
Arguably, the NSA has hurt 5-7 orders of magnitude fewer innocents than Hitler.
I would even venture to say that like proposed large scale E85 adoption in L.A., Snowden has likely caused more unwarranted innocent deaths (via stress; i.e. heart attacks and blood pressure, arguments, fear, paranoia) than the NSA has previously per any equal time period.
Peeping toms (in the traditional sense) don't result in another person feeling genuinely raped. The Snowden/NSA is just public voyeurism about institutional voyeurism. One big circle jerk of the ignorant, where everyone gets off, but they all feel let down because that was the only way they could get off when they rather have a partner.
UPS still has a huge backlog of undelivered packages, that are by their own records late. These are items which for multiple days are listed as out for delivery at 7 AM, then around 3 PM listed as accidentally left at the distribution facility.
The turn is this: some of those same hubs are already being taken off weekend/late hours.... while listing the same package as now scheduled for Saturday delivery.
So the reason people are mad is ultimately dishonesty on UPS' part. Stop lying multiple days or weeks in a row with "I'll get it done tomorrow." Everyone hates that guy, just give an honest range of delivery dates with an honest guarantee.
It was meant to show off Blender. Like Blender, the movie is a mess. The difference in completeness, and usability between Blender and any of the big 3 animation packages is a greater disparity than Windows vs Linux for desktop usage.
This is stupid. Moving a physical token is easier, faster, and more intuitive than digging around for credentials to some website or worse yet, dealing with your mobile provider to transfer an account. It's nice to know if my phone breaks, I can grab my previous model on the spot and shove the sim in and have a working phone without trying to deal with the provider. Even more so if I am playing with ROMs and hacking away at a couple pieces of hardware.
Doing things online to physical devices is usually slower, less efficient, and less intuitive.
Too bad so many of those providers have insufficient backhaul. For every small town with reportedly good line of sight wireless, there are 5 with ISDN like peak daytime speeds due to congestion and crap equipment.
Umm, no, the issue is how the air flows over the windshield. The air that strikes your windshield when traveling 40 MPH is only going 20-30 MPH at some obtuse angle. Understand that the air already pushed by the windshield slows relative velocity of the air ahead of the car. An air nozzle would be designed to remove laminar flow characteristics via pressure, velocity and spray geometry, effectively scooping under the water. Most of the velocity of air striking a windshield actual helps hold the water against the glass, but you don't see this until you break the velocity into parallel and perpendicular components to the windshield.
The ultrasonic approach the article speaks of operates because it bubbles the water off the surface of the windshield, breaking the Van der Waals bond and friction that is keeping the water from being pulled into the flow of air passing over the car.
Lastly, I was just throwing out an idea that has likely been tried using existing technology, possibly as far back as 40-50 years ago.
Too bad it generally works poorly below 40-50 MPH for most windscreen angles. It's really the poorest quality hydrophobic treatment available. Regular carnuba wax works equally well.
Surely someone at the automotive companies has already tested a tiny, high pressure air nozzle that sweeps across from just below the windscreen. It's nice that McLaren is driving new technology, but face it, our cars could be much better. The issue is always budgets, and the $1 here, $4 there for better components supposedly adds up to automobiles costing 2-4x what they currently do. At least that is what the accountants that turn down the engineers ideas say. Sometimes that is true, sometimes I want to yell bullshit as I whack someone upside the head with a baseball bat.
What exactly is the 10x commentary about? Makes it sound like Windows is relatively efficiently coded.
He forgot to include the parts of the installation where a series of cameras and mics watch your eye movement, page number, and breathing to compile a short list of password roots from which to compromise your other accounts.
Valve forked the graphics subsystem. Keep forking and letting everyone be their own little fiefdom of incompatibility Linux... That's the way to the desktop (set top?)
No resource management and no interrupt system. Screw that, your average 9 year old is going to be bored with such an oversimplified model.
I think you clearly validated their hyperbole regarding U.S. work culture. As someone who is also pressured by work to a degree of questionable ethical limits, I'm a bit disappoint to see another person standing up for the work place culture that is demonstrably wrong (not entirely about the coffee thing, but with regards to hustle and bustle).
No cup of coffee should need to sit around more than 30 minutes. If you're doing hours of reading or socializing, you should be having more than one cup, sized appropriately to your preferences and tolerance.
Hell, part of the social ritual is the host refilling the beverage, a demonstration of their ability to provide an abundance to a guest.
Might be more necessary than you would think with the change from a solid rear axle to a IRS. IRS is well known for being much hoppier and letting the wheels launch into the wheel well during burnouts and hard launches.
Not digging this device, and especially not the Arduino fans trying to pimp an even more expensive variation. I'm all for kit electronics, but e-mail / smartphone notifications are the way to go for computer notifications remotely. And the comms down argument against fails if you setup some form of heartbeat system. As for the Arduino is the bestest crowd... ummm, your community is already well aware of how to wire in notification LEDs to the kit.
Sorry, you're wrong from a vehicle control and engineering standpoint. Stability control is any system that increases the control and behavior of the vehicle. ABS systems specifically increase control of the braking AND every traction / stability control system uses the ABS subsystem specifically to monitor and control wheel speed, in addition to other sensors and controls. Even in the ignorant way you tie EFI into stability control, you are wrong for trying to be obtuse and correct; throttle, fuel, and timing are all used by stability control systems to meter power output.
Many cars made as far back as the last 10 years don't even have a conventional dedicated ABS system in the manner you are implying. The pumps, solenoids, and wheel sensors are similar to older designs, but the control logic is entirely built in the stability / traction control logic and the original ABS algorithms are just minor functions. The fact that there are per wheel solenoids to pulse the brakes pretty well describe a traction control / stability control role rather than just ABS.
I have noticed similar trends of brand / model specifics for a wide array of jobs in both the white collar and skilled blue collar trades. The reason seems to be not just to get people who are instantly productive, but also for liability, both managerial and liability. Think about it, what better coverage is there when things go tits up than to able to say you hired someone who claimed to be an expert in their field. Traditional engineering has been rife with such micro-scoped hiring for years to the point that you have experts in minutia like air conditioning condenser side pipe layout who jump from job to job fleshing out architectural designs.
IT is vaguely moving many jobs to having less to do with skill sets and more to being a purpose specific drone.
Bonus with facial recognition, they also have clues as to your mood, disposition, and intentions.