Also, at 73% accurate for 'touch log' events, it will only capture an average of 2.92 characters of a four digit pin.
It depends how the accuracy is divided. I would suspect the biggest divide is between people who touch type, and those who hunt and peck. It is possible that 73% of people hunt and peck, and for these individuals, it's easier to record their entire pin. For the touch-typers, it will be much less likely to accurately record any portion of the pin.
Most people wear watches on their off hand, so it won't be a problem.
I'm left handed, and wear a watch on my right hand. I also tend to use my right hand to type on numeric keypads, since they're generally located on the right side of a standard keyboard.
I don't know if my behavior is standard for left handed people or not. But your point is still generally valid since most people are right handed.
When I type my pin, I use at least 3 fingers, and my wrist barely moves at all. Many people use one finger, and move their entire arm between each keypress. I assume this technology is better at the second style of typing.
Do you think electricity is free or that Teslas run on pink unicorn flatulation?
It is free if you use Tesla's charging stations (though you already paid a lot for that car). At least, that's true today - I'm sure it won't be this way forever.
Come on Elon. You think coast-to-coast autonomous car is possible in 2 years but you can't give us a 40K car in 2 years?
Actually, if I can summon a car to come to my house, then the idea of shared car ownership becomes a lot more realistic. Several people can co-own a car, and then whoever needs it can just call for it. Ideally, there could be some sort of co-op that owns a bunch of cars. If this can happen, then I could get by owning 25% of a Tesla, which would surely be below $40K.
“It’s not going to be a vacation jaunt,” Musk said in interviews. “It’s going to be saving up all your money and selling all your stuff, like when people moved to the early American colonies.”
This seems like a fair comparison. Yet the author or the article seems to ignore it, and assumes only the rich will go to Mars. Was it European nobility who went to America in search of a better life? Somehow the author seems under the impression that 40 years from now, Mars will be a better place to live than Earth. This is way too optimistic about our colonization and terraforming abilities, and much too pessimistic of our ability to prevent Earth from completely self-destructing in the short term.
And the thing is, if things do ever go wrong on Earth, we as a species had better have colonies in places elsewhere, otherwise we may die out. Putting all our eggs in one basket might make us more careful of that particular basket, but it is not a guarantee that we won't drop that basket.
Encryption backdoors? Sure, we've got nothing to hide. A woman's body? Better let the government handle that. Healthcare? There's no way we can trust the government to do that! Gun control? Not a chance - we need to be able to defend ourselves!
There have been times when I've had multiple bank accounts. However, eventually, one bank ended up buying the other, leaving me with two accounts at the same bank.
So people on the internet can figure out what shutter speed I was using when I took a photo? I sure hope they can't find any other identifying information like the copyright note with my name that my camera is configured to add.
I'll never post a picture to facebook again! (Oh wait, facebook actually removes all the metadata, which I find rather annoying)
At this point, we don't have enough data to know if it'll be good or not. I believe it has potential to be good - I just hope it can live up to that potential.
Moves and TV are fundamentally different. Movies are way higher budget per minute. TV shows actually have time to develop characters, and don't need to keep the audience excited for every second. If there's good writing and development, the specifics won't be very important.
I am curious about story arcs. TNG episodes do a good job standing on their own, with the specific character development happening in the background. DS9 (at least in the end) became very story-arc driven, such that episodes were good because they were building on an overall plot. There is a definite trend in TV today towards large story arcs, with frequent cliffhangers. I'm not sure either style is necessarily better than the other, as long as it's well played. (Though it does mean if I'm looking for an hour's worth of entertainment, I'm more likey to watch a random episode of TNG than something like DS9 or BSG)
In January, 2017, a new series will begin. The first episode will air on CBS, and subsequent episodes will appear on CBS's online platform
Wow, that shows a lot of confidence, doesn't it?
If it takes off, great - syndicate it and broadcast it. If not, well, it was just a web thing which we can pretend never happened when the next reboot comes along.
Actually, my interpretation was overconfidence. They're showing the pilot on CBS. They think that it'll be good enough to hook people, and that these people will be willing to pay money to watch future episodes.
But I do cringe when I hear they want to make adaptions of things like foundation series, that a clearly not written in such a way as to make good movies.
I think Prelude to Foundation has potential. But I'm forced to agree that as a whole, the Foundation Series won't translate well to movie form.
Well in that case. Why call it Star Trek when it is not Star Trek.
Two words: name recognition.
Trekkies will watch it because it's Star Trek. Even if they hate it, they'll still watch it so they can complain. Non-trekkies will watch it because they've at least heard Star Trek is good, but they're not willing to watch some old TV series from 20 or 40 years ago. Whether it deserves it or not, it'll get a lot of publicity when it starts.
I'm reminded of some horrible movies "based upon" (but not really) popular books. For example, Starship Troopers, or I, Robot. I'm not sure if a new Star Trek will be horrible - I hope it won't, but by using the Star Trek franchise, its producers are playing it safe, rather than trying to make something really good that could stand on its own.
Enterprise was awesome as all the technology from the original Star Trek series wasn't fully developed yet. The transporters were still experimental for human transport.
I've been re-watching TNG and DS9 recently, and one of my complaints is how they have so much magic available (transporters, replicators, etc.) that plots are sometimes contrived so as to have problems that these devices can't solve. Oh, uh, we'd just beam him up, but this particular planet has some weird rocks that we can't beam through. If transporters didn't exist in the first place, they wouldn't have to make up so much convenient tech babble.
I'll have to give Enterprise another look.
Oh, and don't even get me started on the Holodeck. I think it had 2 purposes: 1. To impress audiences with all the cool stuff during the first episode of TNG. 2. To give writers a way to quickly come up with a really lame episode.
The problem with movies is they don't have enough time for significant character development. Assuming a movie tells a good story, at best, you're talking one good story every few years. The Next Generation thrived as a tv series, but failed miserably in movie form.
In my opinion, the most recent movies have too much action, without much storytelling. I'm hopeful that a TV series simply won't have the special-effects budget to make the episodes non-stop eye-candy, and will instead try to tell good stories with only as many special effects as are required.
You mention using a stamp to identify your books. That sounds adequate to me, but I don't know your situation. Can you tell us in what way(s) this solution is incomplete for your needs?
As soon as the warranty ended, I never went back. My local shop is much better then the dealer. If yours is not, find another one.
Agreed. I bought my car used (no warranty left), so I never brought it to the dealer. Then, there was recall, so naturally, I brought it to the dealer to have that work done for me. They tried to upsell me on so many services I definitely didn't need -- I got tired of saying "I only want the recall work done". The work ended up taking 2 days instead of the originally estimated 4 hours. That was over a year ago, and they sill regularly call me and send me junkmail telling me I should have service performed by them, or buy a new car from them.
I have yet to find a non-prescription cough medicine that works, yet plenty are available for purchase. Oh, and how about all those homeopathic choices on the shelves?
“It's mostly iron oxides. And iron makes stuff red, like rust. So it would be pretty hard to just take soil the way he did in the movie and put a little bit of composted human waste on the plants, and magically grow these great potatoes."
I'm not a botanist, so maybe I need the remedial version, but what does iron making stuff red have to do with any of this? Are there other qualities of Martian soil that would make it bad for growing things besides the red color?
But in the Chevy Volt, for the 2nd gen (2016), the knobs and buttons have made a comeback. The space-age tactile feedback flat buttons were pretty well shunned by the community. And for good reason, they were clunky, and not usable in cold months with gloves on. I've owned the car for 3 years and for even simple buttons like seek takes an extra few seconds compared to other vehicles.
I'm so glad to hear this. I loved everything about the Volt until I test drove one last year. That horrible dashboard turned me off to the car completely. Perhaps I'll give it another look now.
Jokes on them, after living in Europe for an extended amount of time I can safely say that the American leftard romanticization of European public transportation and mobile phone service is complete crap. Buses here suck just as much as you'd expect in any major American city and cell coverage is even worse (at least it is cheap)! There is no way in hell I'd take a bus into work every day and for the first time ever I miss Verizon.
Out of curiosity, what part of Europe are you talking about? I'm an American who spent a few years in Poland, and I would give almost anything to have the kind of cheap and reliable public transit I did while in Europe again.
While we're on the subject of unrealistic counterfactuals... If each American had to choose between keeping their cellphone or their gun, how many would choose which?
I'll give you my smartphone when you pry it from my cold dead hands.
I actually find public transport to be expensive (far above the combined costs of owning and using a car), highly inconvenient (unless you happen to live near the busstop, always want to go near a busstop and everything runs on time; which is almost never) and -most importantly- physically and mentally draining; it's not enjoyable to be packed like a sardine in a can in a subway or train. Traffic jams aren't fun either, but atleast I have some room to move.
Let me guess, you're in America? I am too, and I can't believe the cost of public transport here. I'm fortunate that where I live it's much more convenient than driving, but several times more expensive. I've actually considered enrolling in the local university because they give out free bus passes to full-time students, and tuition would actually cost me about the same as buying the bus pass alone.
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Also, at 73% accurate for 'touch log' events, it will only capture an average of 2.92 characters of a four digit pin.
It depends how the accuracy is divided. I would suspect the biggest divide is between people who touch type, and those who hunt and peck. It is possible that 73% of people hunt and peck, and for these individuals, it's easier to record their entire pin. For the touch-typers, it will be much less likely to accurately record any portion of the pin.
Most people wear watches on their off hand, so it won't be a problem.
I'm left handed, and wear a watch on my right hand. I also tend to use my right hand to type on numeric keypads, since they're generally located on the right side of a standard keyboard.
I don't know if my behavior is standard for left handed people or not. But your point is still generally valid since most people are right handed.
When I type my pin, I use at least 3 fingers, and my wrist barely moves at all. Many people use one finger, and move their entire arm between each keypress. I assume this technology is better at the second style of typing.
Do you think electricity is free or that Teslas run on pink unicorn flatulation?
It is free if you use Tesla's charging stations (though you already paid a lot for that car). At least, that's true today - I'm sure it won't be this way forever.
Come on Elon. You think coast-to-coast autonomous car is possible in 2 years but you can't give us a 40K car in 2 years?
Actually, if I can summon a car to come to my house, then the idea of shared car ownership becomes a lot more realistic. Several people can co-own a car, and then whoever needs it can just call for it. Ideally, there could be some sort of co-op that owns a bunch of cars. If this can happen, then I could get by owning 25% of a Tesla, which would surely be below $40K.
From the article:
“It’s not going to be a vacation jaunt,” Musk said in interviews. “It’s going to be saving up all your money and selling all your stuff, like when people moved to the early American colonies.”
This seems like a fair comparison. Yet the author or the article seems to ignore it, and assumes only the rich will go to Mars. Was it European nobility who went to America in search of a better life? Somehow the author seems under the impression that 40 years from now, Mars will be a better place to live than Earth. This is way too optimistic about our colonization and terraforming abilities, and much too pessimistic of our ability to prevent Earth from completely self-destructing in the short term.
And the thing is, if things do ever go wrong on Earth, we as a species had better have colonies in places elsewhere, otherwise we may die out. Putting all our eggs in one basket might make us more careful of that particular basket, but it is not a guarantee that we won't drop that basket.
Encryption backdoors? Sure, we've got nothing to hide.
A woman's body? Better let the government handle that.
Healthcare? There's no way we can trust the government to do that!
Gun control? Not a chance - we need to be able to defend ourselves!
I'm sure he can do something about it, while he's doing working on closing up the internet.
Indeed. Without the sun, global warming would not be a problem.
There have been times when I've had multiple bank accounts. However, eventually, one bank ended up buying the other, leaving me with two accounts at the same bank.
So people on the internet can figure out what shutter speed I was using when I took a photo? I sure hope they can't find any other identifying information like the copyright note with my name that my camera is configured to add.
I'll never post a picture to facebook again! (Oh wait, facebook actually removes all the metadata, which I find rather annoying)
At this point, we don't have enough data to know if it'll be good or not. I believe it has potential to be good - I just hope it can live up to that potential.
Moves and TV are fundamentally different. Movies are way higher budget per minute. TV shows actually have time to develop characters, and don't need to keep the audience excited for every second. If there's good writing and development, the specifics won't be very important.
I am curious about story arcs. TNG episodes do a good job standing on their own, with the specific character development happening in the background. DS9 (at least in the end) became very story-arc driven, such that episodes were good because they were building on an overall plot. There is a definite trend in TV today towards large story arcs, with frequent cliffhangers. I'm not sure either style is necessarily better than the other, as long as it's well played. (Though it does mean if I'm looking for an hour's worth of entertainment, I'm more likey to watch a random episode of TNG than something like DS9 or BSG)
In January, 2017, a new series will begin. The first episode will air on CBS, and subsequent episodes will appear on CBS's online platform
Wow, that shows a lot of confidence, doesn't it?
If it takes off, great - syndicate it and broadcast it. If not, well, it was just a web thing which we can pretend never happened when the next reboot comes along.
Actually, my interpretation was overconfidence. They're showing the pilot on CBS. They think that it'll be good enough to hook people, and that these people will be willing to pay money to watch future episodes.
But I do cringe when I hear they want to make adaptions of things like foundation series, that a clearly not written in such a way as to make good movies.
I think Prelude to Foundation has potential. But I'm forced to agree that as a whole, the Foundation Series won't translate well to movie form.
Well in that case. Why call it Star Trek when it is not Star Trek.
Two words: name recognition.
Trekkies will watch it because it's Star Trek. Even if they hate it, they'll still watch it so they can complain. Non-trekkies will watch it because they've at least heard Star Trek is good, but they're not willing to watch some old TV series from 20 or 40 years ago. Whether it deserves it or not, it'll get a lot of publicity when it starts.
I'm reminded of some horrible movies "based upon" (but not really) popular books. For example, Starship Troopers, or I, Robot. I'm not sure if a new Star Trek will be horrible - I hope it won't, but by using the Star Trek franchise, its producers are playing it safe, rather than trying to make something really good that could stand on its own.
Enterprise was awesome as all the technology from the original Star Trek series wasn't fully developed yet. The transporters were still experimental for human transport.
I've been re-watching TNG and DS9 recently, and one of my complaints is how they have so much magic available (transporters, replicators, etc.) that plots are sometimes contrived so as to have problems that these devices can't solve. Oh, uh, we'd just beam him up, but this particular planet has some weird rocks that we can't beam through. If transporters didn't exist in the first place, they wouldn't have to make up so much convenient tech babble.
I'll have to give Enterprise another look.
Oh, and don't even get me started on the Holodeck. I think it had 2 purposes: 1. To impress audiences with all the cool stuff during the first episode of TNG. 2. To give writers a way to quickly come up with a really lame episode.
The problem with movies is they don't have enough time for significant character development. Assuming a movie tells a good story, at best, you're talking one good story every few years. The Next Generation thrived as a tv series, but failed miserably in movie form.
In my opinion, the most recent movies have too much action, without much storytelling. I'm hopeful that a TV series simply won't have the special-effects budget to make the episodes non-stop eye-candy, and will instead try to tell good stories with only as many special effects as are required.
You mention using a stamp to identify your books. That sounds adequate to me, but I don't know your situation. Can you tell us in what way(s) this solution is incomplete for your needs?
As soon as the warranty ended, I never went back. My local shop is much better then the dealer. If yours is not, find another one.
Agreed. I bought my car used (no warranty left), so I never brought it to the dealer. Then, there was recall, so naturally, I brought it to the dealer to have that work done for me. They tried to upsell me on so many services I definitely didn't need -- I got tired of saying "I only want the recall work done". The work ended up taking 2 days instead of the originally estimated 4 hours. That was over a year ago, and they sill regularly call me and send me junkmail telling me I should have service performed by them, or buy a new car from them.
I have yet to find a non-prescription cough medicine that works, yet plenty are available for purchase.
Oh, and how about all those homeopathic choices on the shelves?
“It's mostly iron oxides. And iron makes stuff red, like rust. So it would be pretty hard to just take soil the way he did in the movie and put a little bit of composted human waste on the plants, and magically grow these great potatoes."
I'm not a botanist, so maybe I need the remedial version, but what does iron making stuff red have to do with any of this? Are there other qualities of Martian soil that would make it bad for growing things besides the red color?
But in the Chevy Volt, for the 2nd gen (2016), the knobs and buttons have made a comeback. The space-age tactile feedback flat buttons were pretty well shunned by the community. And for good reason, they were clunky, and not usable in cold months with gloves on. I've owned the car for 3 years and for even simple buttons like seek takes an extra few seconds compared to other vehicles.
I'm so glad to hear this. I loved everything about the Volt until I test drove one last year. That horrible dashboard turned me off to the car completely. Perhaps I'll give it another look now.
Jokes on them, after living in Europe for an extended amount of time I can safely say that the American leftard romanticization of European public transportation and mobile phone service is complete crap. Buses here suck just as much as you'd expect in any major American city and cell coverage is even worse (at least it is cheap)! There is no way in hell I'd take a bus into work every day and for the first time ever I miss Verizon.
Out of curiosity, what part of Europe are you talking about? I'm an American who spent a few years in Poland, and I would give almost anything to have the kind of cheap and reliable public transit I did while in Europe again.
While we're on the subject of unrealistic counterfactuals... If each American had to choose between keeping their cellphone or their gun, how many would choose which?
I'll give you my smartphone when you pry it from my cold dead hands.
I actually find public transport to be expensive (far above the combined costs of owning and using a car), highly inconvenient (unless you happen to live near the busstop, always want to go near a busstop and everything runs on time; which is almost never) and -most importantly- physically and mentally draining; it's not enjoyable to be packed like a sardine in a can in a subway or train. Traffic jams aren't fun either, but atleast I have some room to move.
Let me guess, you're in America? I am too, and I can't believe the cost of public transport here. I'm fortunate that where I live it's much more convenient than driving, but several times more expensive. I've actually considered enrolling in the local university because they give out free bus passes to full-time students, and tuition would actually cost me about the same as buying the bus pass alone.