I've heard Ham speak, he's not inexperienced. He is also in command of his facts and excels in making is point in easy to understand. I suspect that Nye will be at a disadvantage, unless he has studied the creationist positions and arguments well. I can assure you that Ham has studied evolution and is ready to debate the ideas and can articulate his position well. He's written a couple of books on this subject. Nye had better be prepared.
I expect that, as in politics, what observers will take away from this debate will be largely defined by what opinion and world view they bring in. Few will be swayed, although I expect many will be forced to think deeper about what they choose to believe on both sides. Which in my book, is generally a good thing.
If car can communicate, then the government can and WILL track you everywhere you go.
So you are turning off and removing the battery from your Cell Phone? No? And you are worried about your CAR?
They ALREADY can track you, even with out a warrant. It's called a stakeout and tailing somebody. They can watch you in public, any time they wish, no warrant required.
This would speed up the arrival of mainstream self-driving vehicles by making it easier for AI-controlled vehicles to react to human drivers.
And make it easier for me to tweak your self-driving car which is dependent on such unverified sources of information. I contend that any system that must be safe yet depends on unverified information is likely not as safe as you would expect.
I think this is a great idea. For all the articles about self-driving cars, this is obviously the first step to make this happen. It's much easier and more reliable than object detection. My only concern would be security lest some hacker starts blasting bad telemetry data.
Queue hackers in 3.... 2.... 1....
Seriously, they *will* be out there blasting bad telemetry, either on purpose (by hacking) or by malfunction. You can count on that. So everybody will have to take any information gleaned from such sources with a huge grain of salt unless it can be independently verified.
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And if you are on a metered internet connection, beware: While plugged in, the current ChromeCast pulls lots of large photos to display as the screensaver slideshow. It would be nice if it could be pointed to a local network share to display a slideshow with your own photos.
I wont buy one till the stupid thing works with android.. sheesh
-db
Works in *what* way with android? Maybe I'm missing the sarcasm tag, but I have one of these and it works just fine with my old android phone, at least for streaming vendors that have ported their stuff to android..
I know I've used Pandora on my Android with my Cromecast, do not recall if I tried Netfix or not. I know it worked with my old XP laptop, albeit at a reduced frame rate due to processing power available when displaying the Crome screen, but ran great when casting and streaming directly to the device.
Well, Only 20 North Koreans can afford an X-Box....
Actually, because they only use this new "system" on part of the DMZ, I figured they didn't use very many of them. Haven't a clue how many they actually used.
but that we'll move from internal combustion engines to engines driving a generator and electric motors (like trains).
Not really a good idea. The reason for diesel electric locomotives is more about convenience than efficiency. It is really hard to couple a few thousand horse power to the wheels using gears and clutches. Diesel electric setups allow you to do away with the clutch and gear box and the mechanical complexity of hooking up the drive wheels to a source of power. Diesel electric configurations let you run the engine at it's ideal efficiency RPM/Torque at a wide range of actual ground speeds, but it's more about how easy it is to control the electric part by varying the field currents of the generator and motors.
I don't think the same efficiency would be possible in an auto or truck. There is a LOT of acceleration and breaking when driving a car that is NOT done with a train. I also don't think there is that much gain to the total electric system in that situation or hybrid manufacturers would be doing it.
It wasn't Windows 8.1 sales that kept Microsoft out of the doldrums last year, they where selling X-Box/Kennect systems to the Koreans. All 20 of them.
I KNEW it wasn't that hokey "Pay us $45/year for Office" license scheme or that Windows 8.1 sales slump that was keeping them afloat. Remember Dell went private and PC vendors all where reporting 20% decreases in sales numbers. Oh no, they where cashing in on X-Box sales.
Sarcasm off now. What ever works, but using Kennect? Really?
If it happens to be earthquakey or spidery don't waste your time worrying because it'll be lost in the statistical noise.
At least until buildings fall on top of you and thousands of your neighbors.
It's like saying flying is safe. Yea, it is, but when there is a major incident and you are on board, chances are pretty good you are not walking away alive.
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Damn Global Warming .. Ahhem... climate change meetings. Why is it *always* snowing or something when they meet?
Oh wait.. You mean they where discussing something else?
Thus Ham's stock argument in the form of a question.. "Where you there?"
Seems to be a valid question. Nye can only say "no" which is not an ideal answer.
Long pointless debate now follows....
Only I don't think anybody in the ring will be faking it..
I've heard Ham speak, he's not inexperienced. He is also in command of his facts and excels in making is point in easy to understand. I suspect that Nye will be at a disadvantage, unless he has studied the creationist positions and arguments well. I can assure you that Ham has studied evolution and is ready to debate the ideas and can articulate his position well. He's written a couple of books on this subject. Nye had better be prepared.
I expect that, as in politics, what observers will take away from this debate will be largely defined by what opinion and world view they bring in. Few will be swayed, although I expect many will be forced to think deeper about what they choose to believe on both sides. Which in my book, is generally a good thing.
Well, it seems true so I'm going to claim it is because it feels right.
If car can communicate, then the government can and WILL track you everywhere you go.
So you are turning off and removing the battery from your Cell Phone? No? And you are worried about your CAR?
They ALREADY can track you, even with out a warrant. It's called a stakeout and tailing somebody. They can watch you in public, any time they wish, no warrant required.
This would speed up the arrival of mainstream self-driving vehicles by making it easier for AI-controlled vehicles to react to human drivers.
And make it easier for me to tweak your self-driving car which is dependent on such unverified sources of information. I contend that any system that must be safe yet depends on unverified information is likely not as safe as you would expect.
I think this is a great idea. For all the articles about self-driving cars, this is obviously the first step to make this happen. It's much easier and more reliable than object detection. My only concern would be security lest some hacker starts blasting bad telemetry data.
Queue hackers in 3.... 2.... 1....
Seriously, they *will* be out there blasting bad telemetry, either on purpose (by hacking) or by malfunction. You can count on that. So everybody will have to take any information gleaned from such sources with a huge grain of salt unless it can be independently verified.
. And if you are on a metered internet connection, beware: While plugged in, the current ChromeCast pulls lots of large photos to display as the screensaver slideshow. It would be nice if it could be pointed to a local network share to display a slideshow with your own photos.
I think you have your first app idea....
I wont buy one till the stupid thing works with android.. sheesh
-db
Works in *what* way with android? Maybe I'm missing the sarcasm tag, but I have one of these and it works just fine with my old android phone, at least for streaming vendors that have ported their stuff to android..
I know I've used Pandora on my Android with my Cromecast, do not recall if I tried Netfix or not. I know it worked with my old XP laptop, albeit at a reduced frame rate due to processing power available when displaying the Crome screen, but ran great when casting and streaming directly to the device.
So what doesn't work on Android for you?
Well, Only 20 North Koreans can afford an X-Box....
Actually, because they only use this new "system" on part of the DMZ, I figured they didn't use very many of them. Haven't a clue how many they actually used.
but that we'll move from internal combustion engines to engines driving a generator and electric motors (like trains).
Not really a good idea. The reason for diesel electric locomotives is more about convenience than efficiency. It is really hard to couple a few thousand horse power to the wheels using gears and clutches. Diesel electric setups allow you to do away with the clutch and gear box and the mechanical complexity of hooking up the drive wheels to a source of power. Diesel electric configurations let you run the engine at it's ideal efficiency RPM/Torque at a wide range of actual ground speeds, but it's more about how easy it is to control the electric part by varying the field currents of the generator and motors.
I don't think the same efficiency would be possible in an auto or truck. There is a LOT of acceleration and breaking when driving a car that is NOT done with a train. I also don't think there is that much gain to the total electric system in that situation or hybrid manufacturers would be doing it.
It wasn't Windows 8.1 sales that kept Microsoft out of the doldrums last year, they where selling X-Box/Kennect systems to the Koreans. All 20 of them.
I KNEW it wasn't that hokey "Pay us $45/year for Office" license scheme or that Windows 8.1 sales slump that was keeping them afloat. Remember Dell went private and PC vendors all where reporting 20% decreases in sales numbers. Oh no, they where cashing in on X-Box sales.
Sarcasm off now. What ever works, but using Kennect? Really?
Maybe it simultaneously both is and isn't a Quantum computer? :-P
Here kitty kitty!
Woof!
Just like a write off? They know!
Apparently opening one of these things and looking at its innards violates the warranty really bad.
Yea, the manufacturer has kittens when you open it..
Not until you run out of stack space....
Recursion for the masses!
If it happens to be earthquakey or spidery don't waste your time worrying because it'll be lost in the statistical noise.
At least until buildings fall on top of you and thousands of your neighbors.
It's like saying flying is safe. Yea, it is, but when there is a major incident and you are on board, chances are pretty good you are not walking away alive.
They where doing that in 1911-2? Wow, Fracking has been going on a LONG time then..
No it was the OZONE hole back in 1811... Get your history straight...
Those from MO would ask you to show them why...
Depends on what you are IN for... If you are an X-cop or a pedophile, you'd rather be next on death row...
the black market might put a hit on him
If he sold it without taking proper steps to hide his identity, sure. The man's a security expert, though, so...
Well, this "security expert" just took a highly publicized payment from Facebook for showing them the exploit.
I'm thinking "security expert" in this case might not mean what you think it means...
I find it fairly interesting how a lot of things labelled as the "first" to do something are really not.
Yet you get the award for "first post" on this thread... There has to be irony in this...
It's not the coin really, it's the wallet keys. The Transaction will be hashed in the coin for life and tied to the wallet that spent it.
Having a stash of bitcoins on your computer doesn't mean they where ever yours. You could have been mining or something.
Most meals are just an inconvenience.
So you are a "eat to live" type. This product is for you.