No. They're describing it as a watchmaker's sonic screwdriver (after the fictional device which gets the Doctor out of scrapes each week, but doesn't work on wood), not (as the summary has it) comparing it to one.
"If the large-scale acoustic vortex devices were thought of as sonic screwdrivers, we have invented the watchmakers sonic screwdriver."
The brain adapts very well to lag. If you rig up a button and a light, so the light lights up when you push the button, then gradually introduce a delay, the brain will - up to a certain point - adapt and you'll still think the button push and light are happening at the same time. Remove the delay without warning, and you'll be convinced that the light lit up before you pushed the button.
Surgery isn't like a first-person shooter, cries of "but the lag!" notwithstanding. Surgeons aren't, for the most part, waiting for the right bit of aorta to bob into their crosshairs so they can jab it with a scalpel, nor are they competing against other surgeons to get the first stitch in.
Of course spikes in lag - and connections dropping entirely - are a big concern. But I don't think anyone's suggesting hospitals all move to remote working just because they can just yet.
but when you're playing World of Tanks, 50ms is the difference between getting the first shot in and losing.
And when you're trying to collide protons in the LHC, 0.0001ms is the difference between discovering the Higgs and not.
Remote surgery is about as similar to FPS gameplay as FPS gameplay is to running the LHC.
when the one thing that the whole shebang relies on (POWER) is the one thing that's out of control of any person directly involved in the operation.
Modern hospital surgery has relied on power for decades, and they usually get by without an electrician in the room. It's connectivity that's going to cause the problems here.
I tried Paradox. No idea what's going on. Click, drag, click, something happens. Yay! What?
I tried dynamakr as well. Even less of a clue. "Left Seek Similar Patterns!" "Enhance Energy!" And then it turns into some weird shoot 'em up. It feels like the game equivalent of a book translated from Swahili to English via Japanese.
Not on my bloody computer it doesn't. Might be because I have an Optimus system (switches between Intel for most things, Nvidia when required). Oh well.
So, you're saying the problem is that there are currently too many messaging apps, and no agreed upon standard?
I'm saying it's a problem, sometimes, but nothing that keeps me awake at night.
And the solution to that problem is to create yet another messaging app?
It's not a messaging app. There's no login, no authentication, no friend requests. It's for sharing generic data, not authenticated messages, with someone in your physical vicinity. It fulfils a pretty different purpose which, when attempted over the various messaging channels out there, leads to issues such as I outlined.
As a Chrome extension, or even integrated into Chrome, I'm not sure it'll make many waves, and possibly more useful between one person's multiple devices (phone to laptop etc) than between people. Built in to Android? That might be useful. Not too convinced really.
Apps like Bump have been around for years.
Bump is no more. It required centralised servers, which Tone doesn't.
Let me send you this link on Skype. Oh wait, you don't have Skype. No, I don't have WhatsApp. Facebook? No. Okay, I'll email it to you. Wait, what's your address? Okay, I'll just type that in. Damn you, autocorrect! Okay, sent.
Not got it yet? Did you check your spam folder? Okay, there you go. Haha, what a funny kitty. Totally worth all that screwing around working out how to send the link to you when we could have just each pressed one or two buttons in Chrome*.
~~~
That's not to say that Google Chrome isn't a solution looking for a problem.
*And of course, it could then easily continue with "Wait, do you have Chrome?" and so on.
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No. They're describing it as a watchmaker's sonic screwdriver (after the fictional device which gets the Doctor out of scrapes each week, but doesn't work on wood), not (as the summary has it) comparing it to one.
"If the large-scale acoustic vortex devices were thought of as sonic screwdrivers, we have invented the watchmakers sonic screwdriver."
Hungry Hungry Hippos?
Android, Chromecast To Get HBO Now
Would it kill you to use the word "and"? Commas instead are so 20th-Century-print-media.
Who would have thought the story has nothing to do with trees or shrubs? Anyone who read it, for a start...
if (headline contains "hack") clickbait_score++;
if (headline contains "your") clickbait_score+=5;
You know what they say about assuming...
It makes an ass out of u... and... Ming?
The brain adapts very well to lag. If you rig up a button and a light, so the light lights up when you push the button, then gradually introduce a delay, the brain will - up to a certain point - adapt and you'll still think the button push and light are happening at the same time. Remove the delay without warning, and you'll be convinced that the light lit up before you pushed the button.
Surgery isn't like a first-person shooter, cries of "but the lag!" notwithstanding. Surgeons aren't, for the most part, waiting for the right bit of aorta to bob into their crosshairs so they can jab it with a scalpel, nor are they competing against other surgeons to get the first stitch in.
Of course spikes in lag - and connections dropping entirely - are a big concern. But I don't think anyone's suggesting hospitals all move to remote working just because they can just yet.
but when you're playing World of Tanks, 50ms is the difference between getting the first shot in and losing.
And when you're trying to collide protons in the LHC, 0.0001ms is the difference between discovering the Higgs and not.
Remote surgery is about as similar to FPS gameplay as FPS gameplay is to running the LHC.
when the one thing that the whole shebang relies on (POWER) is the one thing that's out of control of any person directly involved in the operation.
Modern hospital surgery has relied on power for decades, and they usually get by without an electrician in the room. It's connectivity that's going to cause the problems here.
or record & monitor multitrack audio above a 6-8 ms delay.
Do you mean because of the delay between the "live" sound and the monitor sound? Just move 2 metres further away from the live sound. Problem solved!
I tried Paradox. No idea what's going on. Click, drag, click, something happens. Yay! What?
I tried dynamakr as well. Even less of a clue. "Left Seek Similar Patterns!" "Enhance Energy!" And then it turns into some weird shoot 'em up. It feels like the game equivalent of a book translated from Swahili to English via Japanese.
Just one shop. It's inside another, slightly larger, shop.
So is every single other human being on the planet.
If you're talking about being descended from Charlemagne, it's only exceedingly (if not astronomically) likely - it's not an absolute certainty.
Gene Testing Often Gets It Wrong
Maybe Mr Testing should pay more attention to his work.
that gotta raise some eyebrows.
And you gotta learn how to use apostrophes. And not write "gotta."
As such the Nazi regime forbid
Forbade, or possibly forbad. If you don't know the correct tense of the verb you want to use, either look it up or think of another one.
But even at 13 TeV, what are the prospects for testing String Theory, considering that the string energy scale should be up at around 10^19 GeV or so?
Why the switch to GeV? Stick with a prefix and call it 10^16 TeV.
Never lost a single SSD. That's 4 in the last two years.
Anecdote annihilated.
Asteroid Risk Greatly Overestimated By Almost Everyone
Number of people who overestimated asteroid risk greatly overestimated by headline.
This thing is a suborbital. It's not going to space.
I don't think anyone is claiming it was going to.
Pah. Next you'll be telling me it's got nothing to do with Javascript.
DNA On Pizza Crust Leads To Quadruple Murder Suspect
Police are searching for a tomato.
which means silky smooth playback
Not on my bloody computer it doesn't. Might be because I have an Optimus system (switches between Intel for most things, Nvidia when required). Oh well.
Australian ISP Offers Pro-bono Legal Advice To Accu r sed Pirates
Yarrgh, that be better.
So, you're saying the problem is that there are currently too many messaging apps, and no agreed upon standard?
I'm saying it's a problem, sometimes, but nothing that keeps me awake at night.
And the solution to that problem is to create yet another messaging app?
It's not a messaging app. There's no login, no authentication, no friend requests. It's for sharing generic data, not authenticated messages, with someone in your physical vicinity. It fulfils a pretty different purpose which, when attempted over the various messaging channels out there, leads to issues such as I outlined.
As a Chrome extension, or even integrated into Chrome, I'm not sure it'll make many waves, and possibly more useful between one person's multiple devices (phone to laptop etc) than between people. Built in to Android? That might be useful. Not too convinced really.
Apps like Bump have been around for years.
Bump is no more. It required centralised servers, which Tone doesn't.
Look, just pretend it's a seed, okay?
Let me send you this link on Skype. Oh wait, you don't have Skype. No, I don't have WhatsApp. Facebook? No. Okay, I'll email it to you. Wait, what's your address? Okay, I'll just type that in. Damn you, autocorrect! Okay, sent.
Not got it yet? Did you check your spam folder? Okay, there you go. Haha, what a funny kitty. Totally worth all that screwing around working out how to send the link to you when we could have just each pressed one or two buttons in Chrome*.
~~~
That's not to say that Google Chrome isn't a solution looking for a problem.
*And of course, it could then easily continue with "Wait, do you have Chrome?" and so on.