I know it's the hot thing to bring up drone related closings - but in this case, wasn't the road closed because there was some guy far above it that might have fallen or dropped things on the road from above, rather than the drone being a factor?
The drone doesn't seem to be a reason for the closure, at all.
All this talk of Apple having sales issues has been nonsense in the past and it is nonsense still.
We'll see the truth of the matter in the next earnings report.
The XR is a really nice phone, I would have upgraded to that myself if the X I got last year had not been holding up so well...
It also seems strange to me fact that Apple themselves have stated they are seeking longer upgrade cycles, so if that is happening it's pretty much expected.
Every point made here is just as true from the other side too. I know China is investing heavily in developing high-end microprocessor designs and manufacturing capability, but shouldn't it make strategic sense for them to also spend as much money as it takes to purge their country of Microsoft?
I'm sure the U.S. plays some games like this also.
However the U.S. is not at the same level of China. There's a huge difference between getting a private company in the U.S. to stealthily embed spying related aspects in hardware, and getting Chinesew companies to do so...
In a U.S. company, you not only have to convince a company to even let you do anything, you also have to keep the number of people involved in the addition very small lest something leak.
Contrast that with a Chinese company. If there is something the government wants to to do to your product, there is no pushback. If you did push back very likely you'd be sent for education, your family killed, or disappeared. There is no need to work about how many employees are involved in embedded malware or spyware modules because they know if they leak, they will all face similar fates if caught - and because of pervasive government monitoring way being what the NSA does, they WOUDL be caught.
If I were China I would indeed push to get rid of Microsoft related products, but there's simply not the same level of danger.
No, it's pretty much not. There are way more phones with 3D imaging abilities than standalone cameras.
The fact they mentioned Apple in the summary is a telling clue as well...
Lastly, it's something that a camera can do in order to make the things that cameras do (that you may care about) better.
In what way is this useful for cameras that is helpful?
Autofocus does not use 3D cameras - it's mostly phase related hardware, or contrast detection on-sensor.
On phones, some may be using a 3D camera for facial unlocking, or on front and rear for faking a narrower depth of field - but even phones with a single camera can do effect DOF faking now.
Lake Mercer is 64 miles wide, more than 30 feet deep. I think whatever small amount of sterilized water (melted from antarctic ice mind!) makes it in from the borehole is not going to have much of an effect...
The majority of FB traffic is consumed through their mobile apps (95% of it), and you can be sure that is not bot type activity.
I would argue that the other way - because so MCUH of Facebook traffic is from mobile apps, that is where most of the bot activity is likely to be from.
All it takes is an Android user logged into Facebook and some background app can have plenty of likes and other things they don't even see happening...
explain why any hotel would accept a reservation without ID and credit card
Pretty much any hotel I've stayed at does that, but then I don't stay at the places that are hourly and bill more for discretion than anything else...
and a pre-auth on the credit card of say 1,000 to 10,000 to cover damages
Sadly such a large pre-auth would lose probably about half of all hotel customers. Yes, even at $1k. Not to mention it's really pad PR as it panics most people to see such a large charge on the CC, they don't necessarily understand it will not actually go through.
I would have thought it was more like, the guest used a fake ID and also one of those temporary CC numbers you can't charge above a certain amount to (though how you'd go about using that in conjunction with a fake ID I'm not quite sure).
Ouch. At least there are no "smart"phone zombies so bad anywhere near me, neither among low-tech nor high-tech friends.
I am highly doubtful the people around you are as pure as you claim.
And that'll speed up that 14 words message... how?
Read again about actual message sizes instead of fixating on content size alone. You want to get that traffic up t the server ASAP and send only a rigger signal. Even if it WERE just 14 words it would still be... rather nice to have a few billion 14 word messages already transmitted to the server and ready for destination ahead of time.
I'm talking about the problem to solve not their implementation.
Article is literally about Facebook. That is the problem to solve for, given how it is built.
Of course Facebook runs a PHP script that runs a bunch of NPM modules to produce a 1.5MB response
The vast majority of messages avoid that peak: hardly anyone waits for the exact midnight to send a message. So the load gets smeared onto quite a chunk of time.
Look around you at the next NYE party and you will see just how wrong you are. Most people queue them up ahead of time and lots of people are hitting Send as the ball drops... (hint to devs, if someone has typed a partial message transmit that to the server in case they come back and hit send later - course Facebook was just screwed by that recently when it was found they had cached images on the server from never sent messages...).
At least it is spread across time zones but that is still a LOT of people, especially from the U.S. coasts.
The engineering problem boils down to: send short messages between pairs of arbitrary sources and destinations (although usually the source and destination are close to each other), with message size usually within 50-100 bytes. Let's be generous and say that with metadata they fit within 1500 bytes
Come on man, you know that modern web API's are not that compact, and we are talking Facebook here. You are off by an order of magnitude at least, way more when you stop to think that on NYE way more people are sending images also... One single response to a post on Facebook I just did with 14 words had a 9.5kb body going out, and a 21.2 k response.
Let's estimate the flow: after everyone raises the toast, exchanges hugs and kisses, says greetings, then sits down with the phone -- sending, let's say, 10 messages. This should take around half an hour. You get 300K messages per second. Not so impressive...
Think MILLIONS, possibly BILLIONS and you might be closer to the mark. On a *normal* day, Messenger and Whats App process over 60 billion messages a day... so that is 2.5billion messages every hour *normally*.
And that was from 2016. Do you think people send more, or fewer messages now than then!
How many years did we all have to suffer through Twitter Fail Whales while they were flush with cash?
There are plenty of examples of giant well funded enterprises with websites that utterly suck and can handle just about no load - especially if you look at websites where tech is secondary, any kind of unexpected load and BAM they are usually down.
Money can indeed help to buy the servers you may really need to handle load. Money can even help hire the people that understand how to handle load.
But money does not ENSURE you will have either thing.
"The solution appears to be..." Stuff we've known since 1999?
It's one thing to say you know how to do it...
Quite another when literally BILLIONS of people are using your services all at once - especially around NYE where it's not even spread through the day, it's a huge DDOS equivalent with billions of messages at midnight exactly...
Planning for that kind of load and super-extreme bursting is not easy, at all. No matter how much you "know".
I was a little surprised the guy did not have a neighbor that called him up, if I were renting a place out I'd let the houses on either side know and give them my number to let me know if anything seems strange...
As you say, some kind of precautions would have been warranted, especially around NYE.
It was probably good to be apologetic in that case but... why didn't he call around 15 minutes after the appointment was set to check on if you were coming?
Not that he should have had to do that, but it's what U would have done in his place instead of getting mad and calling the next day... I'd personally be very understanding of someone having lost a number.
he reads many novels and enjoys quiet moments of reflection and watching the world go by.
Hey you know what - I do that too! Only I'm generally reading on my smartphone. And while I might grab a picture once in a while, I too love to just sit sometimes and watch the world.
It's fully up to you how much and just plain HOW you use a smartphone. But it seems incredibly short-sighted to get rid of them because you lack self-control - that is a value that can be self-taught, and brings benefits to all areas of life.
No way would I go without a smartphone if I could help it because I find it very useful. What I don't find is that it uses *me*, because I do not let it.
Since if you include even a second of any commercial music in a YouTube video your work WILL be claimed and someone else will get all your ad revenue for your entire original work, I'm sure that the original owner of the domino video must be getting all of the ad revenue from the video YouTube ripped off wholesale...
Do feel free to humor me, what the hell do you even mean here. This made zero sense.
Also, HBO is huge and won't be shady and be difficult to stop.
Ask me how I know you have never had cable.
Also, there's a credit card chargeback, even then.
Even when? What on earth are you talking about here?
If I subscribe to HBO on iTunes there is no "chargeback". If I cancel HBO when I choose, it finishes out the month I paid for and then it's over - HBO never had my card so they cannot charge anything, Apple simply stops handing over my money to them at that point.
It is so easy to do in fact I will pretty much never subscribe to anything again without going through iTunes...
Netflix and Amazon get grandfathered in since I subscribed to them before they offered IOS paths for payment (Ok, Amazon never did) and I don't force ever canceling either. Other services I use from time to time and might subscribe for a few months, then decide I don't need it anymore.
That's not true. Bureaucrats don't pass laws, they enforce them.
My god you are so ignorant.
Who do you think helps drafts the laws...
There Edith the lesson. I'll let you have the last response, since you cannot learn new things - I merely educate others using your own blank mind as a foil. Enough has been learned I would say.
I'm just curious about how AI can fill an airplane seat. Otherwise, what's the point of AI booking a seat?
If an AI can book a seat, a travel agent can get cheaper/hotter tickets before others and resell them.
I've already seen some ticket places that offer presale tickets for events that are not yet selling anything, where they give you a rough idea of what the agent will be trying to buy for you...
Also, you should start to question why you're so deeply opposed to bureaucracy. Why the word has such a negative connotation.
Start to question? This is from years of learned experience pal.
Specifically, what has a bureaucrat done to you? The cop who gave you that ticket is not a bureaucrat.
Here I'll help you understand: The cop was not a bureaucrat. But the people who set the speed limit deliberately much lower than traffic was. The people who mandated the cops had to get a certain number of tickets at the end of the month were.
The clerk who made you wait at the DMV isn't the one who decided how many clerks they'd be. That's your state legislature.
Wrong. They merely set budget - it's again bureaucrats who decide they are better off getting a nice large paycheck rather than adding more front line DMV personnel...
Unseen: The countless ways bureaucrats have hurt you very much indeed by preventing things that might have been.
Netflix has a name for itself. 15% is way too much for a service with that much name behind it.
I agree that at this point Netflix is so big they probably do not need iTunes...
But I do wonder if they will loose some subscribers as a result, for those who simply do not want to use other billing methods...
I would never have subscribed to HBO for example without iTunes, because of the risk of canceling being too annoying. But even though iTunes obscures where you go to cancel subscriptions, I feel a LOT better paying for something where I don't have to give a company like HBO any of my payment details, and know that canceling will work properly without fuss.
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I know it's the hot thing to bring up drone related closings - but in this case, wasn't the road closed because there was some guy far above it that might have fallen or dropped things on the road from above, rather than the drone being a factor?
The drone doesn't seem to be a reason for the closure, at all.
All this talk of Apple having sales issues has been nonsense in the past and it is nonsense still.
We'll see the truth of the matter in the next earnings report.
The XR is a really nice phone, I would have upgraded to that myself if the X I got last year had not been holding up so well...
It also seems strange to me fact that Apple themselves have stated they are seeking longer upgrade cycles, so if that is happening it's pretty much expected.
Every point made here is just as true from the other side too. I know China is investing heavily in developing high-end microprocessor designs and manufacturing capability, but shouldn't it make strategic sense for them to also spend as much money as it takes to purge their country of Microsoft?
I'm sure the U.S. plays some games like this also.
However the U.S. is not at the same level of China. There's a huge difference between getting a private company in the U.S. to stealthily embed spying related aspects in hardware, and getting Chinesew companies to do so...
In a U.S. company, you not only have to convince a company to even let you do anything, you also have to keep the number of people involved in the addition very small lest something leak.
Contrast that with a Chinese company. If there is something the government wants to to do to your product, there is no pushback. If you did push back very likely you'd be sent for education, your family killed, or disappeared. There is no need to work about how many employees are involved in embedded malware or spyware modules because they know if they leak, they will all face similar fates if caught - and because of pervasive government monitoring way being what the NSA does, they WOUDL be caught.
If I were China I would indeed push to get rid of Microsoft related products, but there's simply not the same level of danger.
Well, first, it's not phones, it's cameras. It's something cameras "can do".
No, it's pretty much not. There are way more phones with 3D imaging abilities than standalone cameras.
The fact they mentioned Apple in the summary is a telling clue as well...
Lastly, it's something that a camera can do in order to make the things that cameras do (that you may care about) better.
In what way is this useful for cameras that is helpful?
Autofocus does not use 3D cameras - it's mostly phase related hardware, or contrast detection on-sensor.
On phones, some may be using a 3D camera for facial unlocking, or on front and rear for faking a narrower depth of field - but even phones with a single camera can do effect DOF faking now.
Lake Mercer is 64 miles wide, more than 30 feet deep. I think whatever small amount of sterilized water (melted from antarctic ice mind!) makes it in from the borehole is not going to have much of an effect...
The majority of FB traffic is consumed through their mobile apps (95% of it), and you can be sure that is not bot type activity.
I would argue that the other way - because so MCUH of Facebook traffic is from mobile apps, that is where most of the bot activity is likely to be from.
All it takes is an Android user logged into Facebook and some background app can have plenty of likes and other things they don't even see happening...
explain why any hotel would accept a reservation without ID and credit card
Pretty much any hotel I've stayed at does that, but then I don't stay at the places that are hourly and bill more for discretion than anything else...
and a pre-auth on the credit card of say 1,000 to 10,000 to cover damages
Sadly such a large pre-auth would lose probably about half of all hotel customers. Yes, even at $1k. Not to mention it's really pad PR as it panics most people to see such a large charge on the CC, they don't necessarily understand it will not actually go through.
I would have thought it was more like, the guest used a fake ID and also one of those temporary CC numbers you can't charge above a certain amount to (though how you'd go about using that in conjunction with a fake ID I'm not quite sure).
Ouch. At least there are no "smart"phone zombies so bad anywhere near me, neither among low-tech nor high-tech friends.
I am highly doubtful the people around you are as pure as you claim.
And that'll speed up that 14 words message... how?
Read again about actual message sizes instead of fixating on content size alone. You want to get that traffic up t the server ASAP and send only a rigger signal. Even if it WERE just 14 words it would still be... rather nice to have a few billion 14 word messages already transmitted to the server and ready for destination ahead of time.
I'm talking about the problem to solve not their implementation.
Article is literally about Facebook. That is the problem to solve for, given how it is built.
Of course Facebook runs a PHP script that runs a bunch of NPM modules to produce a 1.5MB response
Not really.
The vast majority of messages avoid that peak: hardly anyone waits for the exact midnight to send a message. So the load gets smeared onto quite a chunk of time.
Look around you at the next NYE party and you will see just how wrong you are. Most people queue them up ahead of time and lots of people are hitting Send as the ball drops... (hint to devs, if someone has typed a partial message transmit that to the server in case they come back and hit send later - course Facebook was just screwed by that recently when it was found they had cached images on the server from never sent messages...).
At least it is spread across time zones but that is still a LOT of people, especially from the U.S. coasts.
The engineering problem boils down to: send short messages between pairs of arbitrary sources and destinations (although usually the source and destination are close to each other), with message size usually within 50-100 bytes. Let's be generous and say that with metadata they fit within 1500 bytes
Come on man, you know that modern web API's are not that compact, and we are talking Facebook here. You are off by an order of magnitude at least, way more when you stop to think that on NYE way more people are sending images also... One single response to a post on Facebook I just did with 14 words had a 9.5kb body going out, and a 21.2 k response.
Let's estimate the flow: after everyone raises the toast, exchanges hugs and kisses, says greetings, then sits down with the phone -- sending, let's say, 10 messages. This should take around half an hour. You get 300K messages per second. Not so impressive...
Think MILLIONS, possibly BILLIONS and you might be closer to the mark. On a *normal* day, Messenger and Whats App process over 60 billion messages a day... so that is 2.5billion messages every hour *normally*.
And that was from 2016. Do you think people send more, or fewer messages now than then!
Yeah, it's called money. All you need is money.
How many years did we all have to suffer through Twitter Fail Whales while they were flush with cash?
There are plenty of examples of giant well funded enterprises with websites that utterly suck and can handle just about no load - especially if you look at websites where tech is secondary, any kind of unexpected load and BAM they are usually down.
Money can indeed help to buy the servers you may really need to handle load. Money can even help hire the people that understand how to handle load.
But money does not ENSURE you will have either thing.
"The solution appears to be ..." Stuff we've known since 1999?
It's one thing to say you know how to do it...
Quite another when literally BILLIONS of people are using your services all at once - especially around NYE where it's not even spread through the day, it's a huge DDOS equivalent with billions of messages at midnight exactly...
Planning for that kind of load and super-extreme bursting is not easy, at all. No matter how much you "know".
I was a little surprised the guy did not have a neighbor that called him up, if I were renting a place out I'd let the houses on either side know and give them my number to let me know if anything seems strange...
As you say, some kind of precautions would have been warranted, especially around NYE.
It was probably good to be apologetic in that case but... why didn't he call around 15 minutes after the appointment was set to check on if you were coming?
Not that he should have had to do that, but it's what U would have done in his place instead of getting mad and calling the next day... I'd personally be very understanding of someone having lost a number.
he reads many novels and enjoys quiet moments of reflection and watching the world go by.
Hey you know what - I do that too! Only I'm generally reading on my smartphone. And while I might grab a picture once in a while, I too love to just sit sometimes and watch the world.
It's fully up to you how much and just plain HOW you use a smartphone. But it seems incredibly short-sighted to get rid of them because you lack self-control - that is a value that can be self-taught, and brings benefits to all areas of life.
No way would I go without a smartphone if I could help it because I find it very useful. What I don't find is that it uses *me*, because I do not let it.
But they do have a lot of opiate addicts up there, so you'll fit right in.
I live clean man - I don't even drink. MY mind is just the right level of warped, that requires neither enhancement nor intervention.
Nor do I live in Vermont, but I have been to most of the states now multiple times... so I have some idea of where is nice to live and where is not.
There are many reasons why California is way down my list of places to live.
I have a few questions:
You forgot to ask the most important question, that will shut down Vermont as a possible option to live over California:
4) Do they have human feces covering the sidewalks and outdoor walls in major cities?
Since if you include even a second of any commercial music in a YouTube video your work WILL be claimed and someone else will get all your ad revenue for your entire original work, I'm sure that the original owner of the domino video must be getting all of the ad revenue from the video YouTube ripped off wholesale...
And then I disable Javascript and the site is public domain... :-)
Use a gift card? Man, you fan boys are stupid.
Do feel free to humor me, what the hell do you even mean here. This made zero sense.
Also, HBO is huge and won't be shady and be difficult to stop.
Ask me how I know you have never had cable.
Also, there's a credit card chargeback, even then.
Even when? What on earth are you talking about here?
If I subscribe to HBO on iTunes there is no "chargeback". If I cancel HBO when I choose, it finishes out the month I paid for and then it's over - HBO never had my card so they cannot charge anything, Apple simply stops handing over my money to them at that point.
It is so easy to do in fact I will pretty much never subscribe to anything again without going through iTunes...
Netflix and Amazon get grandfathered in since I subscribed to them before they offered IOS paths for payment (Ok, Amazon never did) and I don't force ever canceling either. Other services I use from time to time and might subscribe for a few months, then decide I don't need it anymore.
Now THAT is what you can truly call -
SpyWear
That's not true. Bureaucrats don't pass laws, they enforce them.
My god you are so ignorant.
Who do you think helps drafts the laws...
There Edith the lesson. I'll let you have the last response, since you cannot learn new things - I merely educate others using your own blank mind as a foil. Enough has been learned I would say.
I'm just curious about how AI can fill an airplane seat. Otherwise, what's the point of AI booking a seat?
If an AI can book a seat, a travel agent can get cheaper/hotter tickets before others and resell them.
I've already seen some ticket places that offer presale tickets for events that are not yet selling anything, where they give you a rough idea of what the agent will be trying to buy for you...
And it wasn't a bureaucrat who created the speed trap, it was, again, a politician
No, the people that dictate what police do with their days are the bureaucrats that run the police force.
Again, your anger is misplaced.
I am puzzled you think there is anger involved. I am simply telling you how the world works.
Also, you should start to question why you're so deeply opposed to bureaucracy. Why the word has such a negative connotation.
Start to question? This is from years of learned experience pal.
Specifically, what has a bureaucrat done to you? The cop who gave you that ticket is not a bureaucrat.
Here I'll help you understand: The cop was not a bureaucrat. But the people who set the speed limit deliberately much lower than traffic was. The people who mandated the cops had to get a certain number of tickets at the end of the month were.
The clerk who made you wait at the DMV isn't the one who decided how many clerks they'd be. That's your state legislature.
Wrong. They merely set budget - it's again bureaucrats who decide they are better off getting a nice large paycheck rather than adding more front line DMV personnel...
Unseen: The countless ways bureaucrats have hurt you very much indeed by preventing things that might have been.
Netflix has a name for itself. 15% is way too much for a service with that much name behind it.
I agree that at this point Netflix is so big they probably do not need iTunes...
But I do wonder if they will loose some subscribers as a result, for those who simply do not want to use other billing methods...
I would never have subscribed to HBO for example without iTunes, because of the risk of canceling being too annoying. But even though iTunes obscures where you go to cancel subscriptions, I feel a LOT better paying for something where I don't have to give a company like HBO any of my payment details, and know that canceling will work properly without fuss.