>Who would make a piece of hardware with no support for any other media software? The cable industry. They only produced CableCard under the direct order of the FCC, and even then deliberately made a product so bad that it was nearly unusable.
The foot-dragging and sabotage by the cable industry is so bad, that even Wikipedia acknowledges it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
[Citation Needed] Rockets are not coins. So far, the failure rate seems to be 5%. If the one failure was a statistically early event and/or the issue around that one failure is fixed, the true failure rate will be much lower.
We need a larger data set to firmly set the real failure rate, but there is no evidence of 50/50.
In fact, if a per launch odds really were 50/50, the probability of 19 successful launches would be 1/(2^n) or 0.00000190734 or 0.000190734%
TLDR; you have no idea what you're talking about. Take a stats class.
The first 2 are the reasons I stopped contributing to Wikipedia. Today, article contents reflect the most stubborn editors with the most free time on their hands - not people who actually know what they're talking about.
Someone has to pay for the Liberal Arts majors to hike through Nepal.
Really, what this is going to do is encourage people to get degrees with no marketable value, then wait out the repayment period. Sounds perfect for the "but I'm entitled to a free degree" crowd. Like everything else that is free, this is going to get real expensive, real quick,
Yes. It will be called a monitor. They all take the same cable standard these days, and depending on what's sending a signal to the display, a monitor may have better resolution & features anyway.
I was doing superconductor levitation back in the 1980's, as a kids's science fair project. Now, at the time, I shouldn't afford enough materials to stand on, but this is exactly the same thing.
In an ideal world, yes. Those of us with jobs, children who need to go to school, and any other activity that is scheduled in the evening or morning don't have that luxury.
The premise behind these simulations is that giving directions to crowds will improve flow of people.
It's a mighty big assumption that the folks in the crowds would follow a signal to "slow down". Between the culture in general (ever see a tidy British style queue in the middle east?), and the general human dynamics of large crowds of people, I don't have much hope of this being a success.
Perhaps a better solution would be to increase the time window for this event- spread the crowd over a few months instead of a few days.
OP said the forum owner was not within the US, so it's a fair guess that the hosting site isn't either. A DCMA request will be met with either a "Aww, how cute. [delete]" - or a new round of "Hey everyone, check out Op's attempt to stop us! Let's get him!"
In either case, a DCMA takedown request has done nothing positive.
Not sure how to attack this problem, but a couple ideas:
Like you said, you can't change your name, and you probably don't want to move. Said information is therefore static. If you fight it, you risk the Barbra Streisand effect. Raising a ruckus and loudly complaining will only draw more attention.
I think your best bet is to wait it out. The best way to become invisible is to be boring. Lay low, wait for the mob to some some new, more interesting person to bother.
Or one better - why are brake lights digital? There's no way to tell if the guy in front of you is lightly tapping the brakes or stomping on it hard.
Brake lights should be a "progress bar" style light, showing how hard the car is decelerating.
Once driving get totally automated, cars will be wirelessly sending that value to everyone around them, probably with some legacy old style brake lights for the few human driver holdouts...
Sure, there could be some optimizations for reducing damage in an imminent crash scenario. That's just fine tuning. Google's real goal is to get a machine driving a little bit better than the average human. It's looking like, at least in known, well mapped cities, they have achieved that.
As for letting off the brakes when getting rear-ended, that may not be a good idea - the guy in front of you may not appreciate turning a 2 car wreck into a 3 car wreck. Especially if said impact pushed them into crossing traffic.
There's some room for "can I dash out of the way" thinking, but in general that's probably a bad idea too. Being predictable to other cars is better than flitting around erratically, possibly causing other accidents.
Mangers! Learn this lesson from history: Intel lost one of the word's greatest computer chip designers, and created their own competition by making arbitrary work requirements, and not recognizing work-life balance.
Employees are people, not machines. Your greatest talent will, at some point, say "screw you" - and start competing with you. Unless you take care of them like human beings.
Your post seems to indicate that you're turning your whole phone off & on to solve the problem. There's an easier, faster way- just cycle the wireless on & off. Procedure for those that may not yet know: -At any iPhone screen, do a "swipe up" gesture. (Put your finger on the home button, and drag a line to the middle of the phone) -At that pull-up menu, there are buttons to turn off & on wireless, bluetooth, etc.
And ya, what everyone else is saying. The phones are stable. It's the junk you put on them that make them unstable.
Technology changes are making the mega-city areas more desirable. Is rural America going to be slowly boarded up?
Hu? I could live in Nowhere, Wyoming and, via Amazon Prime, get the exact same products at the same price and delivery speed as a guy in New York City.
I can, living at my semi-rural home, buy anything I need - and have it hand delivered to me. Why would I want to go to a city? What shopping is there that I can't get now?
A few years ago, for my wife's birthday, I had 50 gerber daisies shipped from central america, direct from the grower. (Surprisingly cheap, for the impact) I don't think a shop in my entire state could sell me those on short notice.
The Internet, and Amazon, has made living in rural settings more convenient and practical than ever.
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>Who would make a piece of hardware with no support for any other media software?
The cable industry. They only produced CableCard under the direct order of the FCC, and even then deliberately made a product so bad that it was nearly unusable.
The foot-dragging and sabotage by the cable industry is so bad, that even Wikipedia acknowledges it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
[Citation Needed]
Rockets are not coins. So far, the failure rate seems to be 5%. If the one failure was a statistically early event and/or the issue around that one failure is fixed, the true failure rate will be much lower.
We need a larger data set to firmly set the real failure rate, but there is no evidence of 50/50.
In fact, if a per launch odds really were 50/50, the probability of 19 successful launches would be 1/(2^n) or 0.00000190734 or 0.000190734%
TLDR; you have no idea what you're talking about. Take a stats class.
I totally agree - this should be an arrest-able offence, under reckless endangerment.
I have driven around people doing this (laying on the horn appropriately), and merged into traffic just fine. "Pick a spot & go."
Absolutely - change must be aggressively defended against.
Precedent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The first 2 are the reasons I stopped contributing to Wikipedia. Today, article contents reflect the most stubborn editors with the most free time on their hands - not people who actually know what they're talking about.
Someone has to pay for the Liberal Arts majors to hike through Nepal.
Really, what this is going to do is encourage people to get degrees with no marketable value, then wait out the repayment period. Sounds perfect for the "but I'm entitled to a free degree" crowd. Like everything else that is free, this is going to get real expensive, real quick,
Yes. It will be called a monitor.
They all take the same cable standard these days, and depending on what's sending a signal to the display, a monitor may have better resolution & features anyway.
Sure, why not? What does the arcade community lose by preserving related devices?
I'm all for the Google approach - more data is better. Pile on the devices!
I was doing superconductor levitation back in the 1980's, as a kids's science fair project. Now, at the time, I shouldn't afford enough materials to stand on, but this is exactly the same thing.
Lots of techno-babble in TFS & TFA.
For those who haven't seen it in action, random youtube link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I'm happy to be available to a previous employer - at my standard consulting rate. They can pay the going rate, just like everyone else.
The notion that I should be available to work for free, after leaving, for 2 years? Insane.
In an ideal world, yes.
Those of us with jobs, children who need to go to school, and any other activity that is scheduled in the evening or morning don't have that luxury.
The premise behind these simulations is that giving directions to crowds will improve flow of people.
It's a mighty big assumption that the folks in the crowds would follow a signal to "slow down". Between the culture in general (ever see a tidy British style queue in the middle east?), and the general human dynamics of large crowds of people, I don't have much hope of this being a success.
Perhaps a better solution would be to increase the time window for this event- spread the crowd over a few months instead of a few days.
Came here to say exactly this.
OP said the forum owner was not within the US, so it's a fair guess that the hosting site isn't either. A DCMA request will be met with either a "Aww, how cute. [delete]" - or a new round of "Hey everyone, check out Op's attempt to stop us! Let's get him!"
In either case, a DCMA takedown request has done nothing positive.
Not sure how to attack this problem, but a couple ideas:
Like you said, you can't change your name, and you probably don't want to move. Said information is therefore static. If you fight it, you risk the Barbra Streisand effect. Raising a ruckus and loudly complaining will only draw more attention.
I think your best bet is to wait it out. The best way to become invisible is to be boring. Lay low, wait for the mob to some some new, more interesting person to bother.
Doxxing, by definition, is the public release of private information. Op didn't release the info. Nefarious 3rd parties did.
Making a moral equivalence between a riot that killed 1,000 and an app that defaults to "on" for location tracking.... um, not even close.
India has a loooong way to go to catch up to the ethics of even the worst Silicon Valley startup. Pushing for them to advance is a good thing.
Or one better - why are brake lights digital? There's no way to tell if the guy in front of you is lightly tapping the brakes or stomping on it hard.
Brake lights should be a "progress bar" style light, showing how hard the car is decelerating.
Once driving get totally automated, cars will be wirelessly sending that value to everyone around them, probably with some legacy old style brake lights for the few human driver holdouts...
Sure, there could be some optimizations for reducing damage in an imminent crash scenario. That's just fine tuning. Google's real goal is to get a machine driving a little bit better than the average human. It's looking like, at least in known, well mapped cities, they have achieved that.
As for letting off the brakes when getting rear-ended, that may not be a good idea - the guy in front of you may not appreciate turning a 2 car wreck into a 3 car wreck. Especially if said impact pushed them into crossing traffic.
There's some room for "can I dash out of the way" thinking, but in general that's probably a bad idea too. Being predictable to other cars is better than flitting around erratically, possibly causing other accidents.
http://www.damninteresting.com...
Mangers! Learn this lesson from history: Intel lost one of the word's greatest computer chip designers, and created their own competition by making arbitrary work requirements, and not recognizing work-life balance.
Employees are people, not machines. Your greatest talent will, at some point, say "screw you" - and start competing with you. Unless you take care of them like human beings.
Your post seems to indicate that you're turning your whole phone off & on to solve the problem. There's an easier, faster way- just cycle the wireless on & off. Procedure for those that may not yet know:
-At any iPhone screen, do a "swipe up" gesture. (Put your finger on the home button, and drag a line to the middle of the phone)
-At that pull-up menu, there are buttons to turn off & on wireless, bluetooth, etc.
And ya, what everyone else is saying. The phones are stable. It's the junk you put on them that make them unstable.
Technology changes are making the mega-city areas more desirable. Is rural America going to be slowly boarded up?
Hu? I could live in Nowhere, Wyoming and, via Amazon Prime, get the exact same products at the same price and delivery speed as a guy in New York City.
I can, living at my semi-rural home, buy anything I need - and have it hand delivered to me. Why would I want to go to a city? What shopping is there that I can't get now?
A few years ago, for my wife's birthday, I had 50 gerber daisies shipped from central america, direct from the grower. (Surprisingly cheap, for the impact) I don't think a shop in my entire state could sell me those on short notice.
The Internet, and Amazon, has made living in rural settings more convenient and practical than ever.
You and the IAU can take a hike. I'm looking forward to seeing up close photos of the planet Pluto.
And yes, I have mod points, and am posting anyway.
Imagine a red hot piece of iron from a blacksmith, and he puts it in a lake. Water boils around the iron, not the whole lake.
Plus it's not water.
Plus it's at a very, very low atmospheric pressure.