If that's the case, then why is it that every single time I find out about some interesting software I have to jump through all sorts of hoops to get a reasonably up to date version of that software?
Permissions on Android are a bit more rudimentary, so it would be simple to make a background process that just sits and quietly listens to the gyro. You would need to ask for the permission to keep the device awake in order to keep the CPU and sensor chip alive and (in order for it to be practical) the permission to start on boot.
Basically an app can ask for permissions for the gyro only (if it even needs to) and be recording conversation.
Yeah, that's the thing. You don't need permissions for the gyro on Android and iOS, so any and all of the apps that you have on your phone or tablet could be using the gyro and you wouldn't know, except for an anomalous battery drain.
TFA says adding 1 mm of aluminium to the wheels would have added too much weight to the wheels. Silicon rubber is about half as dense as aluminium, so a couple of millimeters of that would also have been too heavy.
There are probably lots of other ways to improve durability, like for instance by making the chevrons on the wheels slightly less pointy.
1. That seems overly drastic. The flashlight apps are useful and kids love those silly apps. The solution might be to add more categories and force apps into the correct category. 2. What? No, that would be horrible. The definition of a smartphone used to be a phone that lets you replace some of its stock apps with custom apps. 3. That is actually a great idea. 4. That would kill something like 95% of the serious app businesses. 5. Yes, again that is a good idea. 6. This might be necessary in order to comply with regulation in many countries, but it would not be very useful in practice in most cases. It would lead to things like...
if timeSinceInstall > 30 min : disable niceMode enable normalMode start asking for more money end if
If they're not a transportation provider then I don't see why banning them from providing transport would be a problem, since that's supposedly not what they're doing.
I got a 256GB MX100. I haven't done any testing, but the day to day experience is that it's good enough for everyday use. Small apps take about a second to launch and become responsive.
You'd think these cars would have a sensor in the seat to detect if there's a driver or not. I mean, newish cars already have them in the passenger seat to enable/disable the passenger side air bags.
They would need something better than that, like a camera that monitors the eyes of the driver and correlates the eye movements with the road and the traffic to determine if the driver is actively aware of the situation.
One solution might be to have cars that are always in one of two modes:
Mode 1: Fully autonomous. Mode 2: Fully manual. A warning signal will sound if the driver does something that the computer wouldn't do, or fails to do something that the computer would do. The computer may decide to switch to mode 1 if it determines that the driver is asleep or drunk.
Why is it our media (even this post) always seems to portray Hamas in a positive light?
This conflict would end the SECOND Hamas stopped their aggression. The moment Hamas stops shooting, IDF stops shooting, period. Hamas lies and has no moral honor, they betray everything, and want nothing less than to wipe other people off the face of the earth. How is that humanitarian and moral? And yet the western media doesn't portray that side of the story!
Your naivete would be cute if it wasn't for all the dead children!
Israel will not stop when Hamas stops firing rockets. I suspect Israel will stop the slaughter the moment when the Palestinians cede ownership of their natural gas fields to Israel for free. http://www.globalresearch.ca/w...
Also, how do you know these things about Hamas if the medias doesn't cover it? Of course the media covers Hamas's acts of terror. The part that is lacking is the fact that vast majority of Hamas's terror is aimed at Palestinians who belong to rival factions or who don't pay their protection dues on time.
I forgot: If Israel nukes Gaza, they would in effect nuke them selves. It's like New Jersey nuking New York.
Israel's nuclear weapons are likely to be fission or hydrogen bombs in the 50-500 kt range. These bombs would not harm anyone in Israel if they were dropped on the main population centers inside Gaza. There might be a tiny bit of fallout, but nothing too serious.
New Jersey and New York are closer to one another, but you could still nuke central Jersey City without seriously injuring many people in New York if you used a 100 kt bomb. Window panes would be in high demand on Manhattan following the strike and many people would have superficial wounds from shattered glass. A tiny number of people on Manhattan might die on streets and sidewalks in accidents involving unusually aerodynamic pieces of shattered glass falling from tall buildings.
I don't recharge every night. I get a good night's sleep maybe twice a week my phone should be able to do at least as well.
Seeing as several phones I have owned have lasted on a full charge for days if not weeks that is not an unreasonable expectation for the average smart phone to live up to.
The average Android Phone actually does live up to this if you set the backlight to the lowest setting, turn off WiFi and uninstall any apps that launch background services. Turning off WiFi and removing apps that do stuff automatically pretty much renders it not a smartphone, but you do get good battery life.
The car companies themselves will be building the charger networks, perhaps with some minor subsidies from local governments. And it doesn't have to be all that fancy and probably not particularly expensive either if you build a network of bare minimum unassuming chargers. The car maker can indirectly offer their customers food and other services by placing the chargers next to shopping malls and restaurants with long opening hours.
Here is one of Teslas supercharge stations in Norway for example: http://infratekgroup.com/en/me... I'm sure it cost a good deal of money to wire it up to the grid, but apart from that it couldn't have been too expensive to build.
It is probably just corporate stupidity. It would be cheap and easy to work out a deal to bundle a leading keyboard app with the phone, but some bright executive somewhere probably had a different idea.
An ad like that has an expected return of about $10 per 1000 views, so it ought to cost you about $0.01 to skip it. Are you sure you would rather watch the ad than pay $0.01 and save 10 seconds? If you watch 10 videos a day that adds up to a mere $37 a year to never have to wait for the ad to end.
There is of course no payment system that would let you pay $0.01, but theoretically speaking, if such a system existed I think a lot of people would press the $0.01 skip button.
Yeah, by "rednecks and other idiots" I was precisely referring to the Russia-aligned separatists in Eastern Ukraine.
These weapons are designed to be part of a complex system with military radar, civilian radar / ATC and central command in addition to the missile launcher itself. Airliners do get shot down by mistake even with such a system in place. Now imagine that a launcher has fallen into the hands of a bunch of enthusiastic guys who aren't the sharpest tools in the shed and who at best maybe have some training on the launchers from back when they were conscripts, who don't understand the complexity and intricacies of telling hostile aircraft apart from civilian aircraft and who don't have the resources to do that anyway since they don't have access to civilian radar and ATC. If these weapons fall into the hands of poorly organized rebels it's only a matter of time before a civilian aircraft gets shot down.
Russia already has a history of, at the very least, being a prime suspect for taking down a plane. The only difference now is that the world is actually watching this show more carefully.
The only real lesson is that surface to air missiles are way to dangerous to be put into the hands of the military. Now think about putting them into the hands of rednecks and other idiots who fancy themselves rebels. In retrospect it is pretty obvious that this had to happen sooner or later.
Singapore experimented with it in the 1970's, but the news is that it is now possible to do it at competitive price point. This means that cities like Phoenix and Los Angeles will not have to be abandoned when their natural water supplies run out.
I imagine that if the technology can be miniaturized and made to work in lower than Earth gravity it could also be hugely important for human space flight and colonization of other bodies in the solar system.
That hiss you get is probably noise from the amplifier in the Logitech system before it detects that there's no input signal and turns itself off. Try playing an extremely quiet audio track (make one in audacity) and see if that triggers the same hiss.
They want a low wattage test system for doing embedded dev. Period. Don't skirt around it, don't try to poke and make fun of anything he says in the comment, either you can't help him or you can. MOVE ON.
The person doesn't really provide a power budget. Low power compared to what?
Are we talking a device that's going to need to run off of battery power for hours or days? Are we talking about a device that's going to be silent (no cooling fan)? Are we talking about a device that can have a cooling fan as long as it delivers good performance per watt? Who knows, the question doesn't specify.
That if you REALLY want to eliminate fossil fuel usage, the big spending is going to have to be on dams and nuclear reactors.
Hydro power won't do. The world technical potential for hydro power is about 16 PWh, while the world demand for energy is something like 500 PWh, so there is no way that those 16 PWh could ever make a significant contribution.
Nuclear power's technical potential is only limited by the effectiveness of the technology, so nuclear could be a viable replacement given the right advances in nuclear technology. It is unfortunately possible to rule out current nuclear technology because it simply takes too long and costs too much to build a power plant using that technology. If the US government or state governments began funneling money into current state of the art nuclear power now then the first new nuclear energy due to that investment would come online in the 2030's and it would probably take centuries to replace fossil fuel that way.
For nuclear to be a viable replacement for fossil fuels I think we would need to imagine a nuclear reactor the size of a shipping container that could be made in a factory, or at least a reactor that could be assembled on site from a small number of components all of which are small enough to fit inside shipping containers. This could probably lead to dramatic reductions in the time it takes to build a reactor, which I think would allow nuclear power to come online rapidly enough to match the depletion rates of dwindling fossil fuel reserves.
The main reason why many governments have regulations for how much fireworks you can fire off in one night is that fireworks produce toxic smoke. Reykjavik is a relatively small city situated in what I believe is a windy area far away from any other major urban centers, so I would think that the potential for humans to be exposed being exposed to smoke from fireworks is unusually low there.
Or perhaps the city just wants to live up to its name...
If you're going to do something like this, why not build a system that harvests and concentrates the energy? Modern wind turbines are already not far from 1000 feet from the ground to the tip of the turbine blade. A little bit of R&D on stronger lightweight materials could probably lead to turbines taller than 1000 feet.
Start simple - very simple. Try breakout, tetris, a board game, etc, then start adding features to learn about those features. Then make the game you really want to do in the same approach - minimum viable product, then flesh it out like stone soup. When the soup's done, ship it!
This.
Except, start with what you know. If you're good at audio, start by writing a program that can receive and handle requests to play sounds. Now, in a complex game like an RTS the sound effects will need to overlap. So for instance in a space-based RTS the roar of a rocket launch may need to overlap with multiple bangs och zaps of plasma rifles and lasers. Once you have a sound program that works well enough you can call that your sound engine.
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If that's the case, then why is it that every single time I find out about some interesting software I have to jump through all sorts of hoops to get a reasonably up to date version of that software?
This is on the latest version of Ubuntu.
Permissions on Android are a bit more rudimentary, so it would be simple to make a background process that just sits and quietly listens to the gyro. You would need to ask for the permission to keep the device awake in order to keep the CPU and sensor chip alive and (in order for it to be practical) the permission to start on boot.
Basically an app can ask for permissions for the gyro only (if it even needs to) and be recording conversation.
Yeah, that's the thing. You don't need permissions for the gyro on Android and iOS, so any and all of the apps that you have on your phone or tablet could be using the gyro and you wouldn't know, except for an anomalous battery drain.
TFA says adding 1 mm of aluminium to the wheels would have added too much weight to the wheels. Silicon rubber is about half as dense as aluminium, so a couple of millimeters of that would also have been too heavy.
There are probably lots of other ways to improve durability, like for instance by making the chevrons on the wheels slightly less pointy.
I would expect it's more likely that it picked the stuff up during launch. Water vapor in the air at low altitudes?
Yeah, or perhaps more likely: water droplets carried by the wind inside the bay where they loaded the space station module into the shuttle.
1. That seems overly drastic. The flashlight apps are useful and kids love those silly apps. The solution might be to add more categories and force apps into the correct category.
2. What? No, that would be horrible. The definition of a smartphone used to be a phone that lets you replace some of its stock apps with custom apps.
3. That is actually a great idea.
4. That would kill something like 95% of the serious app businesses.
5. Yes, again that is a good idea.
6. This might be necessary in order to comply with regulation in many countries, but it would not be very useful in practice in most cases. It would lead to things like...
if timeSinceInstall > 30 min :
disable niceMode
enable normalMode
start asking for more money
end if
It says in their Berlin page, under fine print: "Uber is not a transportation provider." https://www.uber.com/cities/be...
If they're not a transportation provider then I don't see why banning them from providing transport would be a problem, since that's supposedly not what they're doing.
I got a 256GB MX100. I haven't done any testing, but the day to day experience is that it's good enough for everyday use. Small apps take about a second to launch and become responsive.
You'd think these cars would have a sensor in the seat to detect if there's a driver or not.
I mean, newish cars already have them in the passenger seat to enable/disable the passenger side air bags.
They would need something better than that, like a camera that monitors the eyes of the driver and correlates the eye movements with the road and the traffic to determine if the driver is actively aware of the situation.
One solution might be to have cars that are always in one of two modes:
Mode 1: Fully autonomous.
Mode 2: Fully manual. A warning signal will sound if the driver does something that the computer wouldn't do, or fails to do something that the computer would do. The computer may decide to switch to mode 1 if it determines that the driver is asleep or drunk.
Why is it our media (even this post) always seems to portray Hamas in a positive light?
This conflict would end the SECOND Hamas stopped their aggression. The moment Hamas stops shooting, IDF stops shooting, period. Hamas lies and has no moral honor, they betray everything, and want nothing less than to wipe other people off the face of the earth. How is that humanitarian and moral? And yet the western media doesn't portray that side of the story!
Your naivete would be cute if it wasn't for all the dead children!
Israel will not stop when Hamas stops firing rockets. I suspect Israel will stop the slaughter the moment when the Palestinians cede ownership of their natural gas fields to Israel for free. http://www.globalresearch.ca/w...
Also, how do you know these things about Hamas if the medias doesn't cover it? Of course the media covers Hamas's acts of terror. The part that is lacking is the fact that vast majority of Hamas's terror is aimed at Palestinians who belong to rival factions or who don't pay their protection dues on time.
I forgot: If Israel nukes Gaza, they would in effect nuke them selves. It's like New Jersey nuking New York.
Israel's nuclear weapons are likely to be fission or hydrogen bombs in the 50-500 kt range. These bombs would not harm anyone in Israel if they were dropped on the main population centers inside Gaza. There might be a tiny bit of fallout, but nothing too serious.
New Jersey and New York are closer to one another, but you could still nuke central Jersey City without seriously injuring many people in New York if you used a 100 kt bomb. Window panes would be in high demand on Manhattan following the strike and many people would have superficial wounds from shattered glass. A tiny number of people on Manhattan might die on streets and sidewalks in accidents involving unusually aerodynamic pieces of shattered glass falling from tall buildings.
I don't recharge every night. I get a good night's sleep maybe twice a week my phone should be able to do at least as well.
Seeing as several phones I have owned have lasted on a full charge for days if not weeks that is not an unreasonable expectation for the average smart phone to live up to.
The average Android Phone actually does live up to this if you set the backlight to the lowest setting, turn off WiFi and uninstall any apps that launch background services. Turning off WiFi and removing apps that do stuff automatically pretty much renders it not a smartphone, but you do get good battery life.
The car companies themselves will be building the charger networks, perhaps with some minor subsidies from local governments. And it doesn't have to be all that fancy and probably not particularly expensive either if you build a network of bare minimum unassuming chargers. The car maker can indirectly offer their customers food and other services by placing the chargers next to shopping malls and restaurants with long opening hours.
Here is one of Teslas supercharge stations in Norway for example: http://infratekgroup.com/en/me... I'm sure it cost a good deal of money to wire it up to the grid, but apart from that it couldn't have been too expensive to build.
7. Ha ha ha did you think you could launch a long-running task and not babysit it to prevent Windows from restarting edition...
Oh wait, I have that one on my laptop.
It is probably just corporate stupidity. It would be cheap and easy to work out a deal to bundle a leading keyboard app with the phone, but some bright executive somewhere probably had a different idea.
An ad like that has an expected return of about $10 per 1000 views, so it ought to cost you about $0.01 to skip it. Are you sure you would rather watch the ad than pay $0.01 and save 10 seconds? If you watch 10 videos a day that adds up to a mere $37 a year to never have to wait for the ad to end.
There is of course no payment system that would let you pay $0.01, but theoretically speaking, if such a system existed I think a lot of people would press the $0.01 skip button.
Yeah, by "rednecks and other idiots" I was precisely referring to the Russia-aligned separatists in Eastern Ukraine.
These weapons are designed to be part of a complex system with military radar, civilian radar / ATC and central command in addition to the missile launcher itself. Airliners do get shot down by mistake even with such a system in place. Now imagine that a launcher has fallen into the hands of a bunch of enthusiastic guys who aren't the sharpest tools in the shed and who at best maybe have some training on the launchers from back when they were conscripts, who don't understand the complexity and intricacies of telling hostile aircraft apart from civilian aircraft and who don't have the resources to do that anyway since they don't have access to civilian radar and ATC. If these weapons fall into the hands of poorly organized rebels it's only a matter of time before a civilian aircraft gets shot down.
Russia already has a history of, at the very least, being a prime suspect for taking down a plane. The only difference now is that the world is actually watching this show more carefully.
So does the US: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...
And Ukraine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
The only real lesson is that surface to air missiles are way to dangerous to be put into the hands of the military. Now think about putting them into the hands of rednecks and other idiots who fancy themselves rebels. In retrospect it is pretty obvious that this had to happen sooner or later.
Singapore experimented with it in the 1970's, but the news is that it is now possible to do it at competitive price point. This means that cities like Phoenix and Los Angeles will not have to be abandoned when their natural water supplies run out.
I imagine that if the technology can be miniaturized and made to work in lower than Earth gravity it could also be hugely important for human space flight and colonization of other bodies in the solar system.
That hiss you get is probably noise from the amplifier in the Logitech system before it detects that there's no input signal and turns itself off. Try playing an extremely quiet audio track (make one in audacity) and see if that triggers the same hiss.
They want a low wattage test system for doing embedded dev. Period. Don't skirt around it, don't try to poke and make fun of anything he says in the comment, either you can't help him or you can. MOVE ON.
The person doesn't really provide a power budget. Low power compared to what?
Are we talking a device that's going to need to run off of battery power for hours or days? Are we talking about a device that's going to be silent (no cooling fan)? Are we talking about a device that can have a cooling fan as long as it delivers good performance per watt? Who knows, the question doesn't specify.
That if you REALLY want to eliminate fossil fuel usage, the big spending is going to have to be on dams and nuclear reactors.
Hydro power won't do. The world technical potential for hydro power is about 16 PWh, while the world demand for energy is something like 500 PWh, so there is no way that those 16 PWh could ever make a significant contribution.
Nuclear power's technical potential is only limited by the effectiveness of the technology, so nuclear could be a viable replacement given the right advances in nuclear technology. It is unfortunately possible to rule out current nuclear technology because it simply takes too long and costs too much to build a power plant using that technology. If the US government or state governments began funneling money into current state of the art nuclear power now then the first new nuclear energy due to that investment would come online in the 2030's and it would probably take centuries to replace fossil fuel that way.
For nuclear to be a viable replacement for fossil fuels I think we would need to imagine a nuclear reactor the size of a shipping container that could be made in a factory, or at least a reactor that could be assembled on site from a small number of components all of which are small enough to fit inside shipping containers. This could probably lead to dramatic reductions in the time it takes to build a reactor, which I think would allow nuclear power to come online rapidly enough to match the depletion rates of dwindling fossil fuel reserves.
The main reason why many governments have regulations for how much fireworks you can fire off in one night is that fireworks produce toxic smoke. Reykjavik is a relatively small city situated in what I believe is a windy area far away from any other major urban centers, so I would think that the potential for humans to be exposed being exposed to smoke from fireworks is unusually low there.
Or perhaps the city just wants to live up to its name...
Expensive and dumb.
If you're going to do something like this, why not build a system that harvests and concentrates the energy? Modern wind turbines are already not far from 1000 feet from the ground to the tip of the turbine blade. A little bit of R&D on stronger lightweight materials could probably lead to turbines taller than 1000 feet.
Start simple - very simple. Try breakout, tetris, a board game, etc, then start adding features to learn about those features. Then make the game you really want to do in the same approach - minimum viable product, then flesh it out like stone soup. When the soup's done, ship it!
This.
Except, start with what you know. If you're good at audio, start by writing a program that can receive and handle requests to play sounds. Now, in a complex game like an RTS the sound effects will need to overlap. So for instance in a space-based RTS the roar of a rocket launch may need to overlap with multiple bangs och zaps of plasma rifles and lasers. Once you have a sound program that works well enough you can call that your sound engine.