Every time popular music is involved there is always that guy who has to make a comment like that. Probably the same guy who comments on the "poor choice" of music at parties instead of just having fun.
Popular music is popular for a reason guys. It is not meant to be refined, it is meant to make people happy, and it works. Respect that. Yes it is stupid, partying is stupid, having some mindless fun is stupid, but that's the kind of stupid that makes the world a better place.
Despite my criticisms of Tim Cook using Apple as his personal political platform, he and the company been vocal advocates of user privacy and rights.
Apple couldn't care less about your privacy and rights. They are only vocal about it when it serves as a way to attack their competitors business model (especially Android). Do you remember "the fappening" : hundreds of very personal pictures of celebrities stored on iCloud were leaked to the internet. If it is not a privacy violation, I don't know what is. Of course, we could argue that it was most likely a fishing attack and therefore not Apple's fault, but still, the pictures come from Apple, not the supposed "creeps" like Facebook or Google. Security, including making sure regular users don't do anything stupid is an often overlooked aspect of privacy.
I think they have improved, but still, their care for your privacy is simply an instance where what's good for you and what's good for them match. But I guarantee you that should they change their business model, all that will go out of the window. Not that you shouldn't take advantage of it right now of course.
As for user rights in general, while for Google and Facebook, privacy issues is the evil that's at the core of their business model, but it doesn't mean that Apple doesn't have its own evil. And in that case, it is planned obsolescence. Obviously, they are one of the biggest opponent to the "right to repair" bill.
My guess is that mind uploading is impossible with current technology and what is preserved by their process is insufficient for mind uploading with hypothetical future technology. I am not a neuroscientist but my understanding is that brain activity goes beyond connections between neurons. And I don't think any embalming process is able to preserve the entire chemical state of the brain.
Go to bank, hand over check and card, wait for cashier to pay cheque into your account? Thats incredible effort is it? Jeez, another bone idle millenial no doubt.
I don't know which country you are in but did you ever went to a bank? Banks are typically open only during business hours, which seriously reduce your options if you have a regular job. The rare time where you can find a slot where the bank is opened and you are available, chances are that it is the same for everyone else and the lines are huge. Furthermore, low level bank employees (i.e. the ones you hand the check to) seem to be there only to tell you how to do things by yourself and getting yelled at for things that are beyond their control. There isn't much they can do that you can't do by yourself. I consider "going to the bank" incredible effort (and banks make sure it is). I won't do it unless I'm negotiating a mortgage or something like that. Thankfully, banks usually accept checks by mail, but that's still much more effort than most other transactions.
There are countless demos showing realtime ray tracing, usually showing off what ray tracing does well, like reflection and refraction.
However, in practice, it doesn't do much that rasterization can't do better with the same budget. And raytracing doesn't solve the problem of global illumination, which is what most people are working on right now.
Actually, modern engines use a wide variety of techniques depending on what needs to be displayed, some of them close to ray tracing. It is much too early for general solutions like pathtracing. All engines, realtime or not, still rely on selecting the best approximation for the job.
What you seem to describe is the a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Newtonian_dynamics">MOND theory. The idea is that gravity works differently on large scales. The main goal is to stop relying on dark matter in order to explain galaxy movements.
It is a serious scientific theory, unfortunately, it has several issues. The biggest one being that in order to match all of our observations, dark matter is still needed.
The really bad stuff is actually the middle ground, such as cesium 137. Half lives are measured in decades. Radioactive enough to cause harm and it stays long enough for long term management. That's the stuff that turned the surroundings of Chernobyl and Fukushima into a desert (well, a desert for humans, because wildlife is thriving).
There are a lot of psychedelics with LSD-like effects. And they are all 5-HT2A agonists. Also, most effects disappear when an antagonist like ketanserin is given, as mentioned in the study.
Therefore, it can be deduced that 5-HT2A is where the magic lies. Of course, it can be helped by the other affinities, but it is much less clear than with the 5-HT. A rigorous study needs to eliminate external factors, and as you probably know since you tried LSD, psychedelic experiences are highly dependent on "set and setting", perhaps even more so than the actual substance used.
The fact that a simple 5-HT2A agonist produces life-changing experiences is not incompatible. The drug is just a trigger, the brain creates the experience.
As for research, LSD has been researched, a lot, and not much came out of it unfortunately. The issue with LSD is that in order for it to be used as a treatment, we need reproducible results, risk/benefits assessment, all that stuff. And LSD had none of these, too unpredictable. As a result, and because of its recreative use, they scheduled it as an illegal drug with no medical use. Maybe modern science can give psychedelics a second chance, but that's an uphill battle.
When it comes to aviation, feet (for altitude), nautical miles (for distance) and knots (for speed) are the international standard. And yeah, I hate it, but that's the way it is. And it leads to some weirdness in metric countries where ground legislation speaks in meters and air legislation speaks in feet.
Because a rocket flying 1875ft is within the realm of aviation, having the altitude specified in feet is not too shocking, even for people speaking metric.
It is not, but for your application, a Kinect may be what you need. iPhones are generally terrible for creative work anyways (it is not the Apple "Pro" line).
If you really want to use a phone, I think you can plug your Kinect on an Android device with a USB OTG connection. I don't think there is any kind of official support but you will probably have better luck than with an iPhone.
It already exists, it is called a Kinect, and it has many third party applications. The FaceID system is essentially a miniature Kinect coupled with proprietary software for face recognition.
Unleaded solder has a higher melting point. It requires a hotter iron, preferably a higher end model with an active tip. It also requires a better technique in order not to overheat components.
The industry had a hard time with unleaded solder. With joints cracking and all that. So much that for some time, critical components liked the ones used by the aerospace industry could use leaded solder despite the general ban.
In fact I believe that what drive theoretical physics is not the genius of a few scientists but precision and observation. A few centuries ago, there is no way we could have observed the effects of relativity, measurements weren't precise enough, and we had too many unknowns. If Newtonian physics give the right answer within the margins of error of the time, then there is no reason for another, more complex theory to exist. In order for science to advance, we first need data to disprove the theory of the time with reasonable certainty, and then, we can search for a better model. Usually, the new model comes relatively soon after the observation.
In fact, that's the problem we have now with the string theory. It explains everything, but we don't have enough data to refine it and test hypothesis.
Your ISP probably doesn't slow down anything. It's just that they didn't partner with the content delivery networks of some popular services. There are often disagreements on who is going to pay... As a result, all Netflix or whatever traffic goes through small pipes that are not designed to handle such heavy loads.
If you notice that speeds vary during the day, with prime time being the slowest, than that's must be what happens. The mitigation is to force the data to take a different path, one that is not saturated. The obvious way is to use a well connected VPN, but sometimes, just using DNS tricks in order to use a different server than the "closest" one can do the trick.
Hiring full time employees is a long term investment, it actually hurts short term profit. The first thing people do when milking a company for short term profit is to lay off as many people as they can.
Actually, water picks up very little lead from lead pipes unless the water is particularly soft/acidic. Scale prevents lead from getting into water. In fact, home diagnostics don't even consider lead pipes as a problem. Lead paints are a real issue though, they can flake off and get ingested.
That's the problem with big companies. There is no respect from either side. Big companies don't care about you, and in return people don't care about the well being of the company. The gap is so large that executives forget that customers and low rank employees are people not just profit making machines. And in return, customers who abuse the system don't seem to realize that by doing that, they hurt the small people (like other customers and employees) more than executives.
There is this idea that the browser is now an OS where all apps are essentially web pages. To make this work, apps need a way to access the hardware, just like executables can do in more traditional OSes.
Smart criminals give you what you paid for. It is a business, and the victims are like customers. All the rules that apply to legitimate companies apply too. They want your money, and for that, they need to make it clear that the best solution in order to recover your files is to pay the ransom. If people start thinking that paying is useless anyways, it will hurt their bottom line in the long run. From what I understood, mafias are very reliable. It you pay for "protection", they really protect you. Ineffective "protectors" aren't paid and are eventually replaced. Of course, the way they offer protection is by making sure that small criminals go to people who don't pay, but the key is, there is a real incentive to pay.
And just like legitimate companies, all criminals aren't smart.
Linux is bigger than Windows nowadays. Android is Linux, most servers run Linux, and it is pretty much the default option if you want an OS for your hardware. EEE only works if you have a following, which Microsoft doesn't when it comes to Linux. Even Google, who controls a huge part of the Linux ecosystem with Android doesn't get to decide what goes into the kernel.
As for running stuff natively, we all run VMs nowadays. Microsoft just follows the trend.
Don't mix audiophile equipment and pro equipment. Audiophile gear (the good kind, not the snake oil) is meant to produce the best experience for the listener. Pro gear is designed for work, it is meant to be accurate and unforgiving. In one case, you are trying to listen to everything that is right, on the other you are trying to listen to everything that is wrong (so that it can be fixed).
Just because it is expensive and good quality doesn't mean it is professional. In fact, I constantly battle against misapplied "pro" labels. If your "pro" stuff isn't designed to help customers make money, it isn't "pro".
There are loopholes because tax laws are complex, and tax laws are complex because the subject is complex. The problem with taxes is that you want the state to get the money it needs, with profitable businesses and some amount of self-reliance. And it needs to be done in an environment where actors are selfish. Furthermore, the law needs a semblance of fairness and respect for more treaties than you can count, you can't just tell Google "pay me 10 billions, because I said so".
Try to close a loophole and you may kill entire industries, half-ass it and you may as well do nothing. There are really smart people in governments working hard trying to fix all that mess. It is an impossibly hard problem even before you account for things like lobbying, popularity and corruption.
Probably not included. AFAIK, VRidge/RiftCat come with its own driver in SteamVR, so it is probably included in the ~7% of headsets that are neither the Vive nor the Rift. I am interested in VR and I didn't even know about VRidge/RiftCat, so I suppose it is kind of niche. The GearVR for my phone (Note4) is hard to find and way too expensive so I didn't really give it a thought and bought a Rift, I don't regret it.
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Every time popular music is involved there is always that guy who has to make a comment like that.
Probably the same guy who comments on the "poor choice" of music at parties instead of just having fun.
Popular music is popular for a reason guys. It is not meant to be refined, it is meant to make people happy, and it works. Respect that. Yes it is stupid, partying is stupid, having some mindless fun is stupid, but that's the kind of stupid that makes the world a better place.
Despite my criticisms of Tim Cook using Apple as his personal political platform, he and the company been vocal advocates of user privacy and rights.
Apple couldn't care less about your privacy and rights. They are only vocal about it when it serves as a way to attack their competitors business model (especially Android). Do you remember "the fappening" : hundreds of very personal pictures of celebrities stored on iCloud were leaked to the internet. If it is not a privacy violation, I don't know what is. Of course, we could argue that it was most likely a fishing attack and therefore not Apple's fault, but still, the pictures come from Apple, not the supposed "creeps" like Facebook or Google. Security, including making sure regular users don't do anything stupid is an often overlooked aspect of privacy.
I think they have improved, but still, their care for your privacy is simply an instance where what's good for you and what's good for them match. But I guarantee you that should they change their business model, all that will go out of the window. Not that you shouldn't take advantage of it right now of course.
As for user rights in general, while for Google and Facebook, privacy issues is the evil that's at the core of their business model, but it doesn't mean that Apple doesn't have its own evil. And in that case, it is planned obsolescence. Obviously, they are one of the biggest opponent to the "right to repair" bill.
My guess is that mind uploading is impossible with current technology and what is preserved by their process is insufficient for mind uploading with hypothetical future technology.
I am not a neuroscientist but my understanding is that brain activity goes beyond connections between neurons. And I don't think any embalming process is able to preserve the entire chemical state of the brain.
Go to bank, hand over check and card, wait for cashier to pay cheque into your account? Thats incredible effort is it? Jeez, another bone idle millenial no doubt.
I don't know which country you are in but did you ever went to a bank?
Banks are typically open only during business hours, which seriously reduce your options if you have a regular job. The rare time where you can find a slot where the bank is opened and you are available, chances are that it is the same for everyone else and the lines are huge. Furthermore, low level bank employees (i.e. the ones you hand the check to) seem to be there only to tell you how to do things by yourself and getting yelled at for things that are beyond their control. There isn't much they can do that you can't do by yourself.
I consider "going to the bank" incredible effort (and banks make sure it is). I won't do it unless I'm negotiating a mortgage or something like that. Thankfully, banks usually accept checks by mail, but that's still much more effort than most other transactions.
There are countless demos showing realtime ray tracing, usually showing off what ray tracing does well, like reflection and refraction.
However, in practice, it doesn't do much that rasterization can't do better with the same budget. And raytracing doesn't solve the problem of global illumination, which is what most people are working on right now.
Actually, modern engines use a wide variety of techniques depending on what needs to be displayed, some of them close to ray tracing. It is much too early for general solutions like pathtracing. All engines, realtime or not, still rely on selecting the best approximation for the job.
What you seem to describe is the a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Newtonian_dynamics">MOND theory. The idea is that gravity works differently on large scales. The main goal is to stop relying on dark matter in order to explain galaxy movements.
It is a serious scientific theory, unfortunately, it has several issues. The biggest one being that in order to match all of our observations, dark matter is still needed.
The really bad stuff is actually the middle ground, such as cesium 137.
Half lives are measured in decades. Radioactive enough to cause harm and it stays long enough for long term management. That's the stuff that turned the surroundings of Chernobyl and Fukushima into a desert (well, a desert for humans, because wildlife is thriving).
There are a lot of psychedelics with LSD-like effects. And they are all 5-HT2A agonists. Also, most effects disappear when an antagonist like ketanserin is given, as mentioned in the study.
Therefore, it can be deduced that 5-HT2A is where the magic lies. Of course, it can be helped by the other affinities, but it is much less clear than with the 5-HT. A rigorous study needs to eliminate external factors, and as you probably know since you tried LSD, psychedelic experiences are highly dependent on "set and setting", perhaps even more so than the actual substance used.
The fact that a simple 5-HT2A agonist produces life-changing experiences is not incompatible. The drug is just a trigger, the brain creates the experience.
As for research, LSD has been researched, a lot, and not much came out of it unfortunately. The issue with LSD is that in order for it to be used as a treatment, we need reproducible results, risk/benefits assessment, all that stuff. And LSD had none of these, too unpredictable. As a result, and because of its recreative use, they scheduled it as an illegal drug with no medical use. Maybe modern science can give psychedelics a second chance, but that's an uphill battle.
When it comes to aviation, feet (for altitude), nautical miles (for distance) and knots (for speed) are the international standard. And yeah, I hate it, but that's the way it is. And it leads to some weirdness in metric countries where ground legislation speaks in meters and air legislation speaks in feet.
Because a rocket flying 1875ft is within the realm of aviation, having the altitude specified in feet is not too shocking, even for people speaking metric.
The speed in mph is inexcusable though.
It is not, but for your application, a Kinect may be what you need. iPhones are generally terrible for creative work anyways (it is not the Apple "Pro" line).
If you really want to use a phone, I think you can plug your Kinect on an Android device with a USB OTG connection. I don't think there is any kind of official support but you will probably have better luck than with an iPhone.
It already exists, it is called a Kinect, and it has many third party applications.
The FaceID system is essentially a miniature Kinect coupled with proprietary software for face recognition.
Unleaded solder has a higher melting point. It requires a hotter iron, preferably a higher end model with an active tip. It also requires a better technique in order not to overheat components.
The industry had a hard time with unleaded solder. With joints cracking and all that. So much that for some time, critical components liked the ones used by the aerospace industry could use leaded solder despite the general ban.
In fact I believe that what drive theoretical physics is not the genius of a few scientists but precision and observation.
A few centuries ago, there is no way we could have observed the effects of relativity, measurements weren't precise enough, and we had too many unknowns. If Newtonian physics give the right answer within the margins of error of the time, then there is no reason for another, more complex theory to exist.
In order for science to advance, we first need data to disprove the theory of the time with reasonable certainty, and then, we can search for a better model. Usually, the new model comes relatively soon after the observation.
In fact, that's the problem we have now with the string theory. It explains everything, but we don't have enough data to refine it and test hypothesis.
Your ISP probably doesn't slow down anything. It's just that they didn't partner with the content delivery networks of some popular services. There are often disagreements on who is going to pay... As a result, all Netflix or whatever traffic goes through small pipes that are not designed to handle such heavy loads.
If you notice that speeds vary during the day, with prime time being the slowest, than that's must be what happens. The mitigation is to force the data to take a different path, one that is not saturated. The obvious way is to use a well connected VPN, but sometimes, just using DNS tricks in order to use a different server than the "closest" one can do the trick.
Hiring full time employees is a long term investment, it actually hurts short term profit.
The first thing people do when milking a company for short term profit is to lay off as many people as they can.
Most plastics are chemically inert, they don't form tiny sharp needles like asbestos and the quantities are ridiculously small anyways.
So what is going to happen besides, well, shitting tiny plastic particles.
Actually, water picks up very little lead from lead pipes unless the water is particularly soft/acidic. Scale prevents lead from getting into water.
In fact, home diagnostics don't even consider lead pipes as a problem. Lead paints are a real issue though, they can flake off and get ingested.
That's the problem with big companies. There is no respect from either side.
Big companies don't care about you, and in return people don't care about the well being of the company. The gap is so large that executives forget that customers and low rank employees are people not just profit making machines. And in return, customers who abuse the system don't seem to realize that by doing that, they hurt the small people (like other customers and employees) more than executives.
It may be a relic from FirefoxOS.
There is this idea that the browser is now an OS where all apps are essentially web pages. To make this work, apps need a way to access the hardware, just like executables can do in more traditional OSes.
Smart criminals give you what you paid for.
It is a business, and the victims are like customers. All the rules that apply to legitimate companies apply too. They want your money, and for that, they need to make it clear that the best solution in order to recover your files is to pay the ransom. If people start thinking that paying is useless anyways, it will hurt their bottom line in the long run.
From what I understood, mafias are very reliable. It you pay for "protection", they really protect you. Ineffective "protectors" aren't paid and are eventually replaced. Of course, the way they offer protection is by making sure that small criminals go to people who don't pay, but the key is, there is a real incentive to pay.
And just like legitimate companies, all criminals aren't smart.
Too bad that many jobs where you earn enough to burn $20k on a TV won't leave you enough time to enjoy a trip around the world.
Linux is bigger than Windows nowadays. Android is Linux, most servers run Linux, and it is pretty much the default option if you want an OS for your hardware. EEE only works if you have a following, which Microsoft doesn't when it comes to Linux. Even Google, who controls a huge part of the Linux ecosystem with Android doesn't get to decide what goes into the kernel.
As for running stuff natively, we all run VMs nowadays. Microsoft just follows the trend.
Don't mix audiophile equipment and pro equipment.
Audiophile gear (the good kind, not the snake oil) is meant to produce the best experience for the listener.
Pro gear is designed for work, it is meant to be accurate and unforgiving.
In one case, you are trying to listen to everything that is right, on the other you are trying to listen to everything that is wrong (so that it can be fixed).
Just because it is expensive and good quality doesn't mean it is professional. In fact, I constantly battle against misapplied "pro" labels. If your "pro" stuff isn't designed to help customers make money, it isn't "pro".
There are loopholes because tax laws are complex, and tax laws are complex because the subject is complex.
The problem with taxes is that you want the state to get the money it needs, with profitable businesses and some amount of self-reliance. And it needs to be done in an environment where actors are selfish. Furthermore, the law needs a semblance of fairness and respect for more treaties than you can count, you can't just tell Google "pay me 10 billions, because I said so".
Try to close a loophole and you may kill entire industries, half-ass it and you may as well do nothing. There are really smart people in governments working hard trying to fix all that mess. It is an impossibly hard problem even before you account for things like lobbying, popularity and corruption.
Probably not included. AFAIK, VRidge/RiftCat come with its own driver in SteamVR, so it is probably included in the ~7% of headsets that are neither the Vive nor the Rift.
I am interested in VR and I didn't even know about VRidge/RiftCat, so I suppose it is kind of niche. The GearVR for my phone (Note4) is hard to find and way too expensive so I didn't really give it a thought and bought a Rift, I don't regret it.