I suppose the problem *is* the incredibly optimized supply chain. They know exactly how the parts will go from the raw materials to the final location in the vehicle. Spare parts don't follow the same route.
I remember a story about a high tech warehouse, maybe from Amazon or a similar large company. Employees simply can't pick the stuff they want from the shelf, pay, and get away with it. They have to get it shipped though a transporter, even if they are the ones preparing the order. This is a system that is very efficient for one thing, and very inefficient for special cases.
- Carmack seems very happy with mobile VR. His skills at pushing the hardware to the limit really shine on mobile. Abrash maybe? - The Rift and the Vive are roughly on the same level, though I prefer the Rift. The Vive Pro is a little bit better, but much more expensive. They all can do room scale tracking just fine now, though the Vive is a bit easier to set up. - The Pimax has many issues. Optical distortion in particular. And it is extremely demanding GPU wise, I am not even sure a 2080ti can run everything at 90 FPS, full resolution. It is not revolutionary at all, it is just current gen VR scaled up beyond reasonable. We need foveated rendering to progress. - As much as I want new high end VR, I think that mobile VR, cheap, without wires and complex setup is what we need now. Beyond headsets, we need content, and for that we need to get studios interested, and for that we need VR to become mainstream, and $600 systems wired to $1200 gaming PCs won't get us that.
The automobile industry has elevated non-repairability to an art form, and for most parts, in a good way.
We don't want our cars to break, and we don't want to perform unnecessary maintenance. It is downtime, and downtime is bad. We also want to pay a reasonable price and have good performance. Cars are full of moving parts, making them last forever is impossible, at least not without ridiculously heavy and expensive over-engineering. So the solution is to set an expected lifetime (250000km is typical for personal cars) and make sure that everything fails at the same time. It it fails earlier, make it stronger, if it fails later, make it lighter/cheaper. The result is car that are not repairable, because there is nothing left to repair. I worked in aeronautics and while aircraft are much more maintainable than cars, there is still this idea of: that part will last forever, it is bad, let's make it weaker and save weight.
Deliberately making things hard to repair is bad, but good engineering should make it so that there is no need for repair.
If you want the "clean" gapps, you need to pay $40. But we can pay you $40 to install all the crapware that used to come with it.
I don't really think any manufacturer will want to add $40 to the cost of a phone. Especially considering that Google crapware is not that crappy and that many customers actually want it.
It is all about economics. I suppose that Germany found that importing nuclear electricity from France is cheaper than producing their own. Germany is very good at peak load, with all its coal plants. Good for absorbing the variations from all its renewable, good for exporting at high price. When the load is low, they buy cheap excess nuclear power from France. Nuclear power simply doesn't fit Germany's strategy.
Percentages outside the 0.1-1000 range can be very confusing, at least for westerners. We tend to group numbers by thousands, not hundreds, and percentages with a large number of digits are a mix of both. For example 10000% is x100, even though we spell it TEN thousand percent. And 0.00025 is less confusing than 0.025%, at least for me, because I can almost see the 100000 in the 0.00025 as they are both around the same length.
If you assume a Jewish/Christian/Muslim belief system, they sure, he probably believes in god now that he met him in the afterlife. But it is not Hawking's belief system, Hawking believes in AI and superhumans, not god.
So if we assume post-singularity AIs and advanced genetics, a more fitting variant of his afterlife would be to imagine a future (human?) civilization decides to recreate him with an AI and a new body. Because we don't have any perfect record of his state when he was still alive, the AI would most likely be fed indirect information. And because every information we have seem to point towards hardcore atheism, there is no reason to believe that the undead Hawking believes in god now.
In fact, stenotypists are the fastest. To become a court reporter, you need a minimum of 225 WPM, which is already more than the world record on a QWERTY/Dvorak keyboard.
You would be surprised. One early instance of this problem appeared when searching "jew" on Google led to an anti-semitic website. Here is an explanation, straight from Google in 2004 https://web.archive.org/web/20...
The relevant part
If you use Google to search for "Judaism," "Jewish" or "Jewish people," the results are informative and relevant. So why is a search for "Jew" different? One reason is that the word "Jew" is often used in an anti-Semitic context. Jewish organizations are more likely to use the word "Jewish" when talking about members of their faith.
Interestingly, Google refused to fix the results and most people understood the issue were fine with it, even the Anti-Defamation League. The ADL later contacted Google in order to find a solution that didn't involve censorship. IIRC the issue ended up being fixed with a Google bomb. People massively linked the word "jew" to the corresponding Wikipedia article, and it worked.
I don't know how good these mice really are but $130 for a good mouse is not too shocking for me. Compared to a $1500 PC, it is not that much, it will probably last longer, and it can really make your life better. Same thing for keyboards. I have some friends who bring their old Razer mice with them when they have to use a computer, even at work. Personally I have a MX Revolution that maybe costed me $100 but it has outlasted thousands of dollars of hardware and it is still going strong. No matter the brand, if the mouse that feels the best to you is $130, buy it.
The French law affects all forms of storage capable of storing audio and video: CD, DVD, USB drives, smartphones, tapes, memory cards, DVR with built-in storage... It is just that the tax is particularly high, and often evaded on CD-R and DVD-R.
And it means we are free to copy music we already bought, but not to share it, also, DRM circumvention is still illegal. As you might imagine, this tax is very controversial.
In France, the tax on CD-R is on top of the usual VAT. And as the price of the media went down, it became more expensive than the disk itself. The funny part is that most pirates (or should I say "private backup copy makers") bought their CDs in illegal shops or imported them in order to avoid paying the tax.
I think it is more likely to be the opposite. If sharp motion is detected before the fall, it most likely means that your are bracing yourself, minimizing the damage even with a hard fall. It happens naturally. If you don't, it means you may have fainted or that you are too weak to control your fall. And that's the worst case.
Patents prevent commercialization of those copies for a limited* period.
* For practically infinite values of "limited".
Patents are limited to 20 years, hardly unlimited. We are seeing the result of expired patent everyday. If you see a barrage of knockoffs of a popular product seemingly appearing out of nowhere, it usually mean its patent has expired. Another well discussed result of expiring patents are generic drugs.
You may be confusing patents with copyright, for with every work published after and including Mickey Mouse gets effectively unlimited protection.
Why is there a conference about gender in CERN? Did CERN open a sociology branch?
Only two things can happen in such a conference. Either it turns into a politically correct echo chamber with nothing worthwhile coming out of it. Or it turns into a massive controversy that is equally unproductive. Do you ask sociologists to do quantum physics? No, because if you do, all you are going to get are time travelling cats or whatever bullshit people tend to think of when quantum physics is mentioned. So why would you ask particle physicists to do a conference about gender roles in society?
Physicists are free to discuss gender between themselves, and sociologists are free to talk about quantum physics, but to organize a conference in a reputable scientific institution, one would expect experts in their fields.
The regions you can select in Google Maps are limited in size, you can't select entire countries. Not good it your plan is to use it for a long road trip.
The question is not about why did matter win, but why there is a winner at all.
The quantum butterfly could explain why we are in a pocket of matter, as opposed to a pocket of antimatter, but I think the hypothesis of matter and antimatter co-existing has been disproven. There really seems to be only matter, antimatter is nowhere to be found in significant quantities, and as a result, that matter is fundamentally different from antimatter.
Or if you want to commit a crime, don't turn on features that call the cops.
As for the example (a joint), if you are doing drugs and fall and can't stop the alert within 15 seconds, maybe you really need help. Sure, you will get into legal trouble, but that's still better than being dead.
Still agree with the idea of a used defined contact, especially since phones already have "ICE" contacts that can be called from a locked screen for that reason.
It would be interesting to see what the middle east is going to do when the buried treasure that's kept them afloat so long is worth about the same as the rocks that bury it.
No need to speculate because they are already doing it. They use the money to make investments. Dubai is building a resort city to attract business owners, while Qatar buys everything related to sports, football (soccer) in particular.
It's actually interesting because the current cultural idea is that it's mainly the oldsters falling for scams, and that the youngsters are so much more sophisticated, etc.
I think the kind of scam oldster and youngsters fall into are different. Oldsters are more likely to respond to things like price gouging. Sell them a TV for $1000 when it is worth $100. Scammers play on the fact that the old people are tired, have a hard time thinking clearly, and just let go. Youngsters are more likely to fall for classic scams. The basis of classic scams is to let the victims feel like they are in charge. They play on their ambitions, lack of experience, and dishonesty.
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I suppose the problem *is* the incredibly optimized supply chain. They know exactly how the parts will go from the raw materials to the final location in the vehicle. Spare parts don't follow the same route.
I remember a story about a high tech warehouse, maybe from Amazon or a similar large company. Employees simply can't pick the stuff they want from the shelf, pay, and get away with it. They have to get it shipped though a transporter, even if they are the ones preparing the order. This is a system that is very efficient for one thing, and very inefficient for special cases.
- Carmack seems very happy with mobile VR. His skills at pushing the hardware to the limit really shine on mobile. Abrash maybe?
- The Rift and the Vive are roughly on the same level, though I prefer the Rift. The Vive Pro is a little bit better, but much more expensive. They all can do room scale tracking just fine now, though the Vive is a bit easier to set up.
- The Pimax has many issues. Optical distortion in particular. And it is extremely demanding GPU wise, I am not even sure a 2080ti can run everything at 90 FPS, full resolution. It is not revolutionary at all, it is just current gen VR scaled up beyond reasonable. We need foveated rendering to progress.
- As much as I want new high end VR, I think that mobile VR, cheap, without wires and complex setup is what we need now. Beyond headsets, we need content, and for that we need to get studios interested, and for that we need VR to become mainstream, and $600 systems wired to $1200 gaming PCs won't get us that.
The automobile industry has elevated non-repairability to an art form, and for most parts, in a good way.
We don't want our cars to break, and we don't want to perform unnecessary maintenance. It is downtime, and downtime is bad. We also want to pay a reasonable price and have good performance.
Cars are full of moving parts, making them last forever is impossible, at least not without ridiculously heavy and expensive over-engineering. So the solution is to set an expected lifetime (250000km is typical for personal cars) and make sure that everything fails at the same time. It it fails earlier, make it stronger, if it fails later, make it lighter/cheaper. The result is car that are not repairable, because there is nothing left to repair.
I worked in aeronautics and while aircraft are much more maintainable than cars, there is still this idea of: that part will last forever, it is bad, let's make it weaker and save weight.
Deliberately making things hard to repair is bad, but good engineering should make it so that there is no need for repair.
If you want the "clean" gapps, you need to pay $40.
But we can pay you $40 to install all the crapware that used to come with it.
I don't really think any manufacturer will want to add $40 to the cost of a phone. Especially considering that Google crapware is not that crappy and that many customers actually want it.
It should be easy to identify the blood on what's left of the gun after being shot.
It is all about economics. I suppose that Germany found that importing nuclear electricity from France is cheaper than producing their own.
Germany is very good at peak load, with all its coal plants. Good for absorbing the variations from all its renewable, good for exporting at high price. When the load is low, they buy cheap excess nuclear power from France.
Nuclear power simply doesn't fit Germany's strategy.
Percentages outside the 0.1-1000 range can be very confusing, at least for westerners. We tend to group numbers by thousands, not hundreds, and percentages with a large number of digits are a mix of both. For example 10000% is x100, even though we spell it TEN thousand percent.
And 0.00025 is less confusing than 0.025%, at least for me, because I can almost see the 100000 in the 0.00025 as they are both around the same length.
If you assume a Jewish/Christian/Muslim belief system, they sure, he probably believes in god now that he met him in the afterlife.
But it is not Hawking's belief system, Hawking believes in AI and superhumans, not god.
So if we assume post-singularity AIs and advanced genetics, a more fitting variant of his afterlife would be to imagine a future (human?) civilization decides to recreate him with an AI and a new body. Because we don't have any perfect record of his state when he was still alive, the AI would most likely be fed indirect information. And because every information we have seem to point towards hardcore atheism, there is no reason to believe that the undead Hawking believes in god now.
In fact, stenotypists are the fastest. To become a court reporter, you need a minimum of 225 WPM, which is already more than the world record on a QWERTY/Dvorak keyboard.
You would be surprised. One early instance of this problem appeared when searching "jew" on Google led to an anti-semitic website.
Here is an explanation, straight from Google in 2004 https://web.archive.org/web/20...
The relevant part
If you use Google to search for "Judaism," "Jewish" or "Jewish people," the results are informative and relevant. So why is a search for "Jew" different? One reason is that the word "Jew" is often used in an anti-Semitic context. Jewish organizations are more likely to use the word "Jewish" when talking about members of their faith.
Interestingly, Google refused to fix the results and most people understood the issue were fine with it, even the Anti-Defamation League. The ADL later contacted Google in order to find a solution that didn't involve censorship. IIRC the issue ended up being fixed with a Google bomb. People massively linked the word "jew" to the corresponding Wikipedia article, and it worked.
Input devices are underrated.
I don't know how good these mice really are but $130 for a good mouse is not too shocking for me. Compared to a $1500 PC, it is not that much, it will probably last longer, and it can really make your life better. Same thing for keyboards. I have some friends who bring their old Razer mice with them when they have to use a computer, even at work. Personally I have a MX Revolution that maybe costed me $100 but it has outlasted thousands of dollars of hardware and it is still going strong. No matter the brand, if the mouse that feels the best to you is $130, buy it.
The French law affects all forms of storage capable of storing audio and video: CD, DVD, USB drives, smartphones, tapes, memory cards, DVR with built-in storage... It is just that the tax is particularly high, and often evaded on CD-R and DVD-R.
And it means we are free to copy music we already bought, but not to share it, also, DRM circumvention is still illegal. As you might imagine, this tax is very controversial.
In France, the tax on CD-R is on top of the usual VAT. And as the price of the media went down, it became more expensive than the disk itself.
The funny part is that most pirates (or should I say "private backup copy makers") bought their CDs in illegal shops or imported them in order to avoid paying the tax.
I think it is more likely to be the opposite. If sharp motion is detected before the fall, it most likely means that your are bracing yourself, minimizing the damage even with a hard fall. It happens naturally.
If you don't, it means you may have fainted or that you are too weak to control your fall. And that's the worst case.
I suggest that we call planet 9 "Pluto". There is another object called "Pluto" but since it isn't a planet, it should be no problem, right?
Patents prevent commercialization of those copies for a limited* period.
* For practically infinite values of "limited".
Patents are limited to 20 years, hardly unlimited. We are seeing the result of expired patent everyday. If you see a barrage of knockoffs of a popular product seemingly appearing out of nowhere, it usually mean its patent has expired. Another well discussed result of expiring patents are generic drugs.
You may be confusing patents with copyright, for with every work published after and including Mickey Mouse gets effectively unlimited protection.
Why is there a conference about gender in CERN? Did CERN open a sociology branch?
Only two things can happen in such a conference. Either it turns into a politically correct echo chamber with nothing worthwhile coming out of it. Or it turns into a massive controversy that is equally unproductive. Do you ask sociologists to do quantum physics? No, because if you do, all you are going to get are time travelling cats or whatever bullshit people tend to think of when quantum physics is mentioned. So why would you ask particle physicists to do a conference about gender roles in society?
Physicists are free to discuss gender between themselves, and sociologists are free to talk about quantum physics, but to organize a conference in a reputable scientific institution, one would expect experts in their fields.
The regions you can select in Google Maps are limited in size, you can't select entire countries.
Not good it your plan is to use it for a long road trip.
We already have the dog part. If the bitch isn't on the board, her son is.
The question is not about why did matter win, but why there is a winner at all.
The quantum butterfly could explain why we are in a pocket of matter, as opposed to a pocket of antimatter, but I think the hypothesis of matter and antimatter co-existing has been disproven. There really seems to be only matter, antimatter is nowhere to be found in significant quantities, and as a result, that matter is fundamentally different from antimatter.
Servers represent only 6% of Wikimedia foundation operating expenses. Staff is about 50%. For the details, see for yourself.
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Or if you want to commit a crime, don't turn on features that call the cops.
As for the example (a joint), if you are doing drugs and fall and can't stop the alert within 15 seconds, maybe you really need help. Sure, you will get into legal trouble, but that's still better than being dead.
Still agree with the idea of a used defined contact, especially since phones already have "ICE" contacts that can be called from a locked screen for that reason.
It would be interesting to see what the middle east is going to do when the buried treasure that's kept them afloat so long is worth about the same as the rocks that bury it.
No need to speculate because they are already doing it. They use the money to make investments. Dubai is building a resort city to attract business owners, while Qatar buys everything related to sports, football (soccer) in particular.
They're lucky they didn't get sent back in time.
They did. And they continued their research in Russia.
the strongest magnetic field produced in history belongs to some Russian researchers who created a 2,800 Tesla magnetic field in 2001
It's actually interesting because the current cultural idea is that it's mainly the oldsters falling for scams, and that the youngsters are so much more sophisticated, etc.
I think the kind of scam oldster and youngsters fall into are different.
Oldsters are more likely to respond to things like price gouging. Sell them a TV for $1000 when it is worth $100. Scammers play on the fact that the old people are tired, have a hard time thinking clearly, and just let go.
Youngsters are more likely to fall for classic scams. The basis of classic scams is to let the victims feel like they are in charge. They play on their ambitions, lack of experience, and dishonesty.