Free market means that governments or regulatory bodies cannot set the PRICE of goods and services. There's nothing wrong in setting minimum acceptable standards.
Ex: Sure.. mandate $150/Hr. then businesses can choose to either sell at existing price+$150, get rid or replace some employees and sell at same price.
Get it? the final PRICE is what's free to be decided by businesses.
Minimum wage and free markets can co-exist. Imagine if businesses said "Hurr-durr how dare government say I have to keep my premises clean huh? this is a free market dammit!"
The #1 cost of most things are the raw materials needed to product followed by the labor (and their benefits). Tech needs almost nothing to produce since it includes software and even then needs a fraction of the employees of most sectors. Tech has amazing ROI because you just plain don't need to invest very much.
The trouble is that a lot of tech is either useless (Twitter) or evil (Uber).
whoa whoa... twitter is both useless AND evil (on an average)
My name is Mahindresh Jalabahamatra* from India. I would like to apply for the Universal Translator job that you are offering. I am very skilled in Universal Translation and have many years of experience. I have done Universal Translation for many clients in the past, and I consider your offered job as Universal Translator to fit my skills perfectly.
Hoping to hear from you soon.
I'm Indian and I find this absolutely hilarious.. Should I be offended? Naa.. I've seen too many applicants use similar language... I will however laugh uncontrollably for the next 5 minutes at that name... Mahindresh Jalabahamatra
With the latest z3 series I truly feel sorry for sony. I have a z3 compact and I cant for the love of god understand why this phone isnt selling like the first gew iphones during their prime. from what I can see, it seems like their advertising and marketing strategy sucks donkey balls (yes that's what I said).
The new phones have features..useful ones at that..that no other phone has (by default.. obviously all features can be ported across in android).. like the glove mode in snowy weather.. the timeshift burst camera... the answering machine in the default phone app...
NOBODY seems to know about this stuff....
Instead, all their ads talk like hopped up fashion models... come on sony. learn from samsung..only their ad strategy,.. not their phone making skills..
hey that's right! so it would depend on just using the right pixels for the correct eye depending on the direction of the observers head.. recording-wise you'd just need one 360degree camera... right?
True.. I suppose we'd have to add restrictions for movies where you want the action is happening at a set minimum distance from the observer (camera) and anything that gets closer will have to.... well.. disappear... yeah i see what you mean by hacky.. I do think it might be sufficient for movies/stories....
partly yes.. though it may not be necessary for the system to "switch" between cameras since this isnt live (direct from the camera in real-time) 360degree 3d we're talking about...
you'd need one video stream for the sphere of view of the left eye.. and another stream for the sphere of view of the right eye they'd have to be constructed and stiched together like panorama or photosphere pictures beforehand (unless you have some really powerful computers doing the conversion in real time.. though not necessary for a movie)
So it would boil down to the system (occulus..gearVR etc) doing the calculation of which part of the sphere to be shown based on the orientation of the head of the viewer.. and do this fast enough that he/she cannot notice any lag between head motion and video motion...
This should be simple right? use 2 sets of cameras to record from 2 points of view lightly offset from each other to give the viewer some parallax and hence the illusion of 3D.... I mean 1 set(8..10..9000 how many ever necessary) of cameras for the left eye video, and another set for the right eye video...
NASA officials are not planning on resuming non-urgent spacewalks before addressing all 16 of the highest priority suggestions from the Mishap Investigation Board.
According to J, a member of the MIB, those spacesuits are old and busted.
They're supposed o hide in plain sight remember?
"Look into the red light people..*flash* right. You did not just see an alien space prank by teleporting water into your helmet. The water came from a faulty fan and pump assembly that extracts moisture. You will report this and find contaminants clogging the holes....."
Most headlight aiming specs are decided based on the height of the headlights from the ground and a certain angle downward from there. The angle is decided based on rated brightness etc. A brighter headlight will be aimed further away from the car whereas a lower powered one will be aimed closer to provide minimum illumination. I'm not completely sure how the minimum distance the driver should be able to see would be deicided. Probably the typical speed that the vehicle is going to be designed for so I guess that would be independant of the model or segment. A fast sedan will have brighter headlamps aimed further down the road from the driver than a slow moving SUV. That's just my guess though.. not too sure... I work in the QC dept so I just get to check the vehicles according to the spec that the design department provides but this is as much as i could gather from my interactions with other departments.
I doubt if any OEM is planning on using lasers directly to illuminate the road. I remember Audi introduced a concept at CES 2014 with laser headlights and a similar debate had ensued then. I work for an auto-OEM and I can tell you that all cars are aimed to avoid the beam going UP i.e into other driver's eyes (unless he's in a go-kart or something.. Ariel atom maybe???). There's not much that can be done when someone gets the headlight reaimed higher which is never recommended by the OEMs
This article http://spectrum.ieee.org/green-tech/advanced-cars/bmw-laser-headlights-slice-through-the-dark(ieee spectrum) shows the actual working using very powerful but very small laser beam which is then diffused into a headlight's non-laser non-coherent beam. The only advantage of this is that a higher power level can be achieved with a very small form factor (smaller reflectors at the back of headlamps means lower costs) which is why OEM's are even trying it out.
Did you know that if indisns shake their head from left to right that it means they agree with you ?
The difference is small... Let me clear this for the un-initiated..
if you consider an axis through the center of your head and the centre of your...nether region, and if the head shaking is about this axis, then it means "No"
If you consider an axis through the tip of your nose and the back of your head, and if the head shaking is about THIS axis, then it means "Alright" or "affirmative"(especially if the indian you're talking to happens to be a terminator). Not to be confused with "yes".
Source: I'm Indian
-"... using nothing but a single, multi-core machine with 20GB of RAM"
Phew.. here i was thinking it'd need some unrealisticalll high specs from my PC!!
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You misunderstand what a free market is.
Free market means that governments or regulatory bodies cannot set the PRICE of goods and services. There's nothing wrong in setting minimum acceptable standards.
Ex: Sure.. mandate $150/Hr. then businesses can choose to either sell at existing price+$150, get rid or replace some employees and sell at same price.
Get it? the final PRICE is what's free to be decided by businesses.
Minimum wage and free markets can co-exist. Imagine if businesses said "Hurr-durr how dare government say I have to keep my premises clean huh? this is a free market dammit!"
The #1 cost of most things are the raw materials needed to product followed by the labor (and their benefits). Tech needs almost nothing to produce since it includes software and even then needs a fraction of the employees of most sectors. Tech has amazing ROI because you just plain don't need to invest very much.
The trouble is that a lot of tech is either useless (Twitter) or evil (Uber).
whoa whoa... twitter is both useless AND evil (on an average)
..... to a real life skyrim experience
Dear Sir,
My name is Mahindresh Jalabahamatra* from India. I would like to apply for the Universal Translator job that you are offering. I am very skilled in Universal Translation and have many years of experience. I have done Universal Translation for many clients in the past, and I consider your offered job as Universal Translator to fit my skills perfectly.
Hoping to hear from you soon.
I'm Indian and I find this absolutely hilarious.. Should I be offended? Naa.. I've seen too many applicants use similar language... I will however laugh uncontrollably for the next 5 minutes at that name... Mahindresh Jalabahamatra
So, which drawer of "No shit" should I file this under?
S for Sherlock please
nearest loo located.. 15Km away.. only 2 hrs walk.. would you like to turn on navi-oh you already shit ur pants.. ok nvm
This name pattern just works.
If investors are seeing unicorns frolicking everywhere, Silicon valley has a dope ass medical-grade LSD supply goin on.
*first few..
With the latest z3 series I truly feel sorry for sony. I have a z3 compact and I cant for the love of god understand why this phone isnt selling like the first gew iphones during their prime. from what I can see, it seems like their advertising and marketing strategy sucks donkey balls (yes that's what I said). The new phones have features..useful ones at that..that no other phone has (by default.. obviously all features can be ported across in android).. like the glove mode in snowy weather.. the timeshift burst camera... the answering machine in the default phone app... NOBODY seems to know about this stuff.... Instead, all their ads talk like hopped up fashion models... come on sony. learn from samsung ..only their ad strategy,.. not their phone making skills..
hey that's right! so it would depend on just using the right pixels for the correct eye depending on the direction of the observers head.. recording-wise you'd just need one 360degree camera... right?
True.. I suppose we'd have to add restrictions for movies where you want the action is happening at a set minimum distance from the observer (camera) and anything that gets closer will have to .... well.. disappear... yeah i see what you mean by hacky.. I do think it might be sufficient for movies/stories ....
partly yes.. though it may not be necessary for the system to "switch" between cameras since this isnt live (direct from the camera in real-time) 360degree 3d we're talking about... you'd need one video stream for the sphere of view of the left eye.. and another stream for the sphere of view of the right eye they'd have to be constructed and stiched together like panorama or photosphere pictures beforehand (unless you have some really powerful computers doing the conversion in real time.. though not necessary for a movie) So it would boil down to the system (occulus..gearVR etc) doing the calculation of which part of the sphere to be shown based on the orientation of the head of the viewer.. and do this fast enough that he/she cannot notice any lag between head motion and video motion...
This should be simple right? use 2 sets of cameras to record from 2 points of view lightly offset from each other to give the viewer some parallax and hence the illusion of 3D.... I mean 1 set(8..10..9000 how many ever necessary) of cameras for the left eye video, and another set for the right eye video...
NASA officials are not planning on resuming non-urgent spacewalks before addressing all 16 of the highest priority suggestions from the Mishap Investigation Board.
According to J, a member of the MIB, those spacesuits are old and busted.
They're supposed o hide in plain sight remember? "Look into the red light people..*flash* right. You did not just see an alien space prank by teleporting water into your helmet. The water came from a faulty fan and pump assembly that extracts moisture. You will report this and find contaminants clogging the holes....."
Most headlight aiming specs are decided based on the height of the headlights from the ground and a certain angle downward from there. The angle is decided based on rated brightness etc. A brighter headlight will be aimed further away from the car whereas a lower powered one will be aimed closer to provide minimum illumination. I'm not completely sure how the minimum distance the driver should be able to see would be deicided. Probably the typical speed that the vehicle is going to be designed for so I guess that would be independant of the model or segment. A fast sedan will have brighter headlamps aimed further down the road from the driver than a slow moving SUV. That's just my guess though.. not too sure... I work in the QC dept so I just get to check the vehicles according to the spec that the design department provides but this is as much as i could gather from my interactions with other departments.
I doubt if any OEM is planning on using lasers directly to illuminate the road. I remember Audi introduced a concept at CES 2014 with laser headlights and a similar debate had ensued then. I work for an auto-OEM and I can tell you that all cars are aimed to avoid the beam going UP i.e into other driver's eyes (unless he's in a go-kart or something.. Ariel atom maybe???). There's not much that can be done when someone gets the headlight reaimed higher which is never recommended by the OEMs
This article http://spectrum.ieee.org/green-tech/advanced-cars/bmw-laser-headlights-slice-through-the-dark(ieee spectrum) shows the actual working using very powerful but very small laser beam which is then diffused into a headlight's non-laser non-coherent beam. The only advantage of this is that a higher power level can be achieved with a very small form factor (smaller reflectors at the back of headlamps means lower costs) which is why OEM's are even trying it out.
"......discovered the oldest known star in the Universe"
Thanks submitter for using a scientifically accurate description rather like in TFA where they say it's the oldest star in the Universe..
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Did you know that if indisns shake their head from left to right that it means they agree with you ?
The difference is small... Let me clear this for the un-initiated.. if you consider an axis through the center of your head and the centre of your...nether region, and if the head shaking is about this axis, then it means "No" If you consider an axis through the tip of your nose and the back of your head, and if the head shaking is about THIS axis, then it means "Alright" or "affirmative"(especially if the indian you're talking to happens to be a terminator). Not to be confused with "yes". Source: I'm Indian
-"... using nothing but a single, multi-core machine with 20GB of RAM" Phew.. here i was thinking it'd need some unrealisticalll high specs from my PC!!