The cameras have been known about, and indicate inside out tracking (where the device determines your position by analyzing the video feed of your movement). But the new image does show faint circles, which are indicators of Valve's outside-in tracking (the detectors for the base station infrared laser sweeps). So that's news... it'll offer both methods? Simultaneously perhaps, to allow for robust tracking even when the base station goes out of view? Outside-in is usually more accurate too, so this may allow for multiple price-points... high quality by adding some base stations in a fixed area, or adequate quality but able to be used anywhere, or without paying for the added base stations.
...because typing my 14 character pin every time I want to unlock is pretty excessive, since I lock my phone every time I turn it away from me.
If I ever need to turn my phone over to the police, I'll simply reboot it. Biometrics are disabled until you log in normally, so they can force mo to stick my finger on it all they like, it won't help.
No, the cause of our current political issues are largely tied to First-Past-the-Post voting and Gerrymandering. Switching to a Single Transferable Vote would be a far more powerful force for good than any other single change we could do, because it would allow a voice in congress for alternative viewpoints and eliminate the evil that is Gerrymandering.
And it's this echo-chamber of two parties (FPtP) that stay in office forever (Gerrymandering) that's strangling our democracy.
The one I work for has a Curriculum Committee for each course, and any instructor can suggest improvements (often relayed from the students). Most higher education institutions have a Program Chair or Division Chair that is responsible for the quality of the education in the area they are responsible for; find out who they are and email them or speak to them in person.
Different schools also have different refresh rates, and different procedures when they do. For my school a Subject Matter Expert (SME) will review the course, suggest updates, and either improve the course themselves or work with a Learning Design Specialist (LDS) to update the curriculum of the course. That improved course is signed off on by the Curriculum Committee, the responsible Chair, and perhaps more.
Higher Education is full of red tape, and they love procedures.
Getting content changed between reviews is hard; getting it changed when a review is due is easy. How the review process works, how often, and how complex it is all depends on the school. You could have an idiot SME, which results in a garbage course. A good school will take that negative feedback and schedule an early course review; a shitty school might just stay the course and use the bad course until the next five year review. It all depends.
I've done customer support for over two decades now (mixed in with admin level stuff; small companies can't separate the two), and it's only gotten easier over time. But I have another decade before cognitive decline is likely to set in seriously, so I'm not old enough to give a good answer yet.
Two-thirds of live support is remaining calm, supportive, and assertive. Even if I get worse at actually diagnosing complicated problems I doubt I'll get worse at reassuring the customer and keeping them entertained and calm while I work through the issue.
However nothing that exists or is in development can store energy as well, and as cheaply, as compressed air.
Pretty straightforward comparison to everything else, which includes batteries and pumped hydro.
The scholarly article that is the primary reference does not directly compare Wind/CAES to Wind/Battery, but the long-term costs per GW for a CAES plant vs a battery farm are very likely in favor of CAES due to the extremely low cost of storage. The GW storage of a large salt mine are tremendous, and don't cost more if you add more storage (because almost all the costs are in the pumps/generators outside).
My email address is my first name @gmail.com. A coworker had a blogger.com account back when the initial beta gmail invites only went to people who had one.
I get emails intended for various people all around the world, a couple a month. I always reply back and kindly let them know they sent it to the wrong person.
I've gotten tax papers, invitations to pick up Christmas decorations, recipes, receipts, and resumes. I've probably also gotten a couple amorous letters, but those are indistinguishable from spam so it's hard to tell.
Other than providing a less expensive SKU, one question I've seen is how they can afford to put a 75kWh battery in the car while only charging for 60kWh. There are a few reasons:
A 75kWh pack will last longer when never fully charged, reducing warranty costs.
A portion of the purchasers will upgrade at some point.
They don't lose money, they just don't make much (any?) on the software limited battery packs.
All the whining about Net Neutrality is garbage. Running an ISP is an inexpensive task, relatively, and it scales very well. The larger you are, the cheaper each additional customer is. I am literally baffled how large megacorps like Frontier, Spectrum nee Charter, and Comcast don't have 50% profit margins at their prices.
For all I know they do have 50% profit margins, and all this garbage about rising costs is just that... garbage.
The only reason that this has lasted so long, and the incumbent idiocy has not been ousted by competition, is because they don't have competition in most of their markets. Monopoly pricing has become the norm rather than the exception in the US. In the EU, which is no easier or more difficult to provide Internet to, consumer internet costs 1/2 to 1/4 what it does in the US. As far as I can tell the primary driver between the difference in price is that the EU municipalities never created monopoly markets for Internet.
It's a zombie survival game, cartoonish graphics but well designed, in the style of the DayZ mod. Free to play, with $5 buy in to gold servers (essentially a fee to avoid more rampant cheating) and cosmetics.
Not particularly amazing or awe inspiring, but well made and with a huge young-player following. Parents don't ban it because it's so non-threatening looking with it's lo-fi cartoonish graphics, though the gameplay is the usual find or craft guns, kill zombies, and kill your fellow humans if you think they looked at you funny.
The interesting thing is that it's pretty much the work of a single dev... a kid who started work on it at around 14 or 15, and who I suspect is a millionaire already, though I don't think he can drink yet. What's the drinking age in Canada?
We often get angry with lawmakers for being slow on the uptake, and having laws that don't fit with reality.
This is an example of the law being forward-thinking, and being on the books early before it's needed. We should be applauding its timeliness (even if we also criticise its implementation).
Nothing wrong with protecting speech, even reprehensible speech. I'd probably be labeled an SJW on/. (which has the highest number of Gamergaters and Trumpers of any community I interact with), but I'm a libertarian. I believe in free speech, even shitty speech. Unless someone is specifically attacking an individual, or calling for violence, it's protected speech in my opinion.
Reddit has specifically banned several subreddits over speech-type grounds, but they have all been areas that specifically attacked individuals, called for violence, or engaged in unlawful activity (or really-narrowly-lawful-if-you-don't-look-too-closely-but-it's-a-gray-area like technically-SFW ephibophilia image sharing). They are moderating in the least harmful way they can and still stay within the law, and that's exactly what they should be doing.
I'm all for Reddit's policies, and I applaud their restraint. They protect speech they don't like, and that's exactly the American way.
I'm sure many Parkinson's patients would prefer a small chance of death for a severe reduction in symptoms. It's a very painful and debilitating disease. I'm not saying that deaths are a good thing, or that it shouldn't be investigated carefully... but sometimes quality of life is more important than not dying.
My roommate has a masters in oriental medicine. She got a full time job as an acupuncturist a year ago, and surprise surprise... the owner there followed a different acupuncture school, and they use different acupuncture points for the same symptoms.
I'm not an acupuncturist, so I don't know HOW different they are, but she spent a month learning her new bosses' methods because that's how you keep a job.
Wait... what? Are you seriously arguing that "competition is bad" and that we should only allow existing car companies to make cars?
I'm... I don't even understand how you can say that. Are you also mad that IBM didn't stay dominant in the home PC market in the early 80s? Are you upset that Linus Torvalds made his own OS in the early 90s rather than going to work at Sun or Microsoft? What about that fucking Apple company, thinking they could create a phone that was better than Nokia's? I mean, obviously they should have just partnered with Nokia since they knew how to make a phone and Apple was new to the table.
Are you mad that about that Henry Ford guy, fucking up the incumbant transportation companies with his stupid shitty vehicle that constantly broke down?
NRK is the show that ran a suprisingly popular 24/7 stream of a ferry that went up and down the coast, right? I remember reading about that and how popular the seemingly boring video was, partly because many who played it were reminiscing about their own memorable rides on the same ferry.
The eye gaze is tracked 250 times a second. Nowhere did it state that the scene needed to be rendered at 250Hz for the system to work. Sadly the NVIDIA report is paywalled, so I didn't read it... until now (thank you sci-hub). They demonstrated the technique using a standard Rift DK2, which means it rendered at a refresh rate of just 75Hz.
Foveated rendering is held back by lack of gaze sensors in headsets, and probably patent and licensing costs... not technology or processing power.
As proven by all the research done in VR since Occulus : the main drawback would be rendering speed/feedback loop. Will this eyesight tracking work fast enough so the image rendering doesn't lag too much behind the eye motion ?
Already solved... nearly two years ago. It hasn't been used yet because no mainstream headset has installed the eye tracking sensors needed. I'm sure patents or cost are a factor. But the tech works, and the higher resolution we get the more important foveated rendering will be. So it's only a matter of time.
This is not false, but it is not quite true either.
How often do you look as far left as possible? Rarely. We only actively look around directly within about 30-50% of our full view capability, except in the rare cases when we're trying to look at something without others knowing (ie, side-eye). So only the central visual field needs this level of pixel density to be nearly indistinguishable from real life's resolution. The visual fidelity could drop to 1/2 or even 1/4 outside this and you'd barely notice. Now, that's still 12-15000 pixels across. It's still massively higher than we're capable of now. But about a quarter of the pixels Solandri posited would be necessary.
In addition, we can render even fewer pixels with eye tracking. This has already been successfully tested on current equipment with eye tracking and foveated rendering... rendering the center at full resolution, but increasingly fewer pixels per inch as you go away from the center of vision. And it already workes very well, quartering the rendering power needed. With a massive full-vision FOV, it would reduce rendering by needs by 20-40 times.
So that gargantuan 24k by 18k panel becomes a 16k by 12k panel (with a detailed center, and slightly fuzzier edges), with foveated rendering reducing the practical rendering needs down to 4k by 3k.
That's still a huge ask for a modern system, but give it five years and that kind of rendering will be cake. We have fun times ahead of us.
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The cameras have been known about, and indicate inside out tracking (where the device determines your position by analyzing the video feed of your movement). But the new image does show faint circles, which are indicators of Valve's outside-in tracking (the detectors for the base station infrared laser sweeps). So that's news... it'll offer both methods? Simultaneously perhaps, to allow for robust tracking even when the base station goes out of view? Outside-in is usually more accurate too, so this may allow for multiple price-points... high quality by adding some base stations in a fixed area, or adequate quality but able to be used anywhere, or without paying for the added base stations.
...because typing my 14 character pin every time I want to unlock is pretty excessive, since I lock my phone every time I turn it away from me.
If I ever need to turn my phone over to the police, I'll simply reboot it. Biometrics are disabled until you log in normally, so they can force mo to stick my finger on it all they like, it won't help.
No, the cause of our current political issues are largely tied to First-Past-the-Post voting and Gerrymandering. Switching to a Single Transferable Vote would be a far more powerful force for good than any other single change we could do, because it would allow a voice in congress for alternative viewpoints and eliminate the evil that is Gerrymandering.
And it's this echo-chamber of two parties (FPtP) that stay in office forever (Gerrymandering) that's strangling our democracy.
The one I work for has a Curriculum Committee for each course, and any instructor can suggest improvements (often relayed from the students). Most higher education institutions have a Program Chair or Division Chair that is responsible for the quality of the education in the area they are responsible for; find out who they are and email them or speak to them in person.
Different schools also have different refresh rates, and different procedures when they do. For my school a Subject Matter Expert (SME) will review the course, suggest updates, and either improve the course themselves or work with a Learning Design Specialist (LDS) to update the curriculum of the course. That improved course is signed off on by the Curriculum Committee, the responsible Chair, and perhaps more.
Higher Education is full of red tape, and they love procedures.
Getting content changed between reviews is hard; getting it changed when a review is due is easy. How the review process works, how often, and how complex it is all depends on the school. You could have an idiot SME, which results in a garbage course. A good school will take that negative feedback and schedule an early course review; a shitty school might just stay the course and use the bad course until the next five year review. It all depends.
I've done customer support for over two decades now (mixed in with admin level stuff; small companies can't separate the two), and it's only gotten easier over time. But I have another decade before cognitive decline is likely to set in seriously, so I'm not old enough to give a good answer yet.
Two-thirds of live support is remaining calm, supportive, and assertive. Even if I get worse at actually diagnosing complicated problems I doubt I'll get worse at reassuring the customer and keeping them entertained and calm while I work through the issue.
From the article, paragraph 3:
Pretty straightforward comparison to everything else, which includes batteries and pumped hydro.
The scholarly article that is the primary reference does not directly compare Wind/CAES to Wind/Battery, but the long-term costs per GW for a CAES plant vs a battery farm are very likely in favor of CAES due to the extremely low cost of storage. The GW storage of a large salt mine are tremendous, and don't cost more if you add more storage (because almost all the costs are in the pumps/generators outside).
My nickname here is obvious, but my nickname on gaming sites is Dreaming Demon... lifted from the same stanza you adapted here.
Bravo
My email address is my first name @gmail.com. A coworker had a blogger.com account back when the initial beta gmail invites only went to people who had one.
I get emails intended for various people all around the world, a couple a month. I always reply back and kindly let them know they sent it to the wrong person.
I've gotten tax papers, invitations to pick up Christmas decorations, recipes, receipts, and resumes. I've probably also gotten a couple amorous letters, but those are indistinguishable from spam so it's hard to tell.
Other than providing a less expensive SKU, one question I've seen is how they can afford to put a 75kWh battery in the car while only charging for 60kWh. There are a few reasons:
All the whining about Net Neutrality is garbage. Running an ISP is an inexpensive task, relatively, and it scales very well. The larger you are, the cheaper each additional customer is. I am literally baffled how large megacorps like Frontier, Spectrum nee Charter, and Comcast don't have 50% profit margins at their prices.
For all I know they do have 50% profit margins, and all this garbage about rising costs is just that... garbage.
The only reason that this has lasted so long, and the incumbent idiocy has not been ousted by competition, is because they don't have competition in most of their markets. Monopoly pricing has become the norm rather than the exception in the US. In the EU, which is no easier or more difficult to provide Internet to, consumer internet costs 1/2 to 1/4 what it does in the US. As far as I can tell the primary driver between the difference in price is that the EU municipalities never created monopoly markets for Internet.
It's a zombie survival game, cartoonish graphics but well designed, in the style of the DayZ mod. Free to play, with $5 buy in to gold servers (essentially a fee to avoid more rampant cheating) and cosmetics.
Not particularly amazing or awe inspiring, but well made and with a huge young-player following. Parents don't ban it because it's so non-threatening looking with it's lo-fi cartoonish graphics, though the gameplay is the usual find or craft guns, kill zombies, and kill your fellow humans if you think they looked at you funny.
The interesting thing is that it's pretty much the work of a single dev... a kid who started work on it at around 14 or 15, and who I suspect is a millionaire already, though I don't think he can drink yet. What's the drinking age in Canada?
This is not a reply to a wrong thread... this is a gibberish nonsense post, probably computer generated.
We often get angry with lawmakers for being slow on the uptake, and having laws that don't fit with reality.
This is an example of the law being forward-thinking, and being on the books early before it's needed. We should be applauding its timeliness (even if we also criticise its implementation).
Nothing wrong with protecting speech, even reprehensible speech. I'd probably be labeled an SJW on /. (which has the highest number of Gamergaters and Trumpers of any community I interact with), but I'm a libertarian. I believe in free speech, even shitty speech. Unless someone is specifically attacking an individual, or calling for violence, it's protected speech in my opinion.
Reddit has specifically banned several subreddits over speech-type grounds, but they have all been areas that specifically attacked individuals, called for violence, or engaged in unlawful activity (or really-narrowly-lawful-if-you-don't-look-too-closely-but-it's-a-gray-area like technically-SFW ephibophilia image sharing). They are moderating in the least harmful way they can and still stay within the law, and that's exactly what they should be doing.
I'm all for Reddit's policies, and I applaud their restraint. They protect speech they don't like, and that's exactly the American way.
This is Samsung's fault, not Google's.
I'm sure many Parkinson's patients would prefer a small chance of death for a severe reduction in symptoms. It's a very painful and debilitating disease. I'm not saying that deaths are a good thing, or that it shouldn't be investigated carefully... but sometimes quality of life is more important than not dying.
My roommate has a masters in oriental medicine. She got a full time job as an acupuncturist a year ago, and surprise surprise... the owner there followed a different acupuncture school, and they use different acupuncture points for the same symptoms.
I'm not an acupuncturist, so I don't know HOW different they are, but she spent a month learning her new bosses' methods because that's how you keep a job.
Wait... what? Are you seriously arguing that "competition is bad" and that we should only allow existing car companies to make cars?
I'm... I don't even understand how you can say that. Are you also mad that IBM didn't stay dominant in the home PC market in the early 80s? Are you upset that Linus Torvalds made his own OS in the early 90s rather than going to work at Sun or Microsoft? What about that fucking Apple company, thinking they could create a phone that was better than Nokia's? I mean, obviously they should have just partnered with Nokia since they knew how to make a phone and Apple was new to the table.
Are you mad that about that Henry Ford guy, fucking up the incumbant transportation companies with his stupid shitty vehicle that constantly broke down?
99% Invisible covered it last December as one of its mini stories. About 15 minutes long, and worth a listen. It's a very well edited podcast.
NRK is the show that ran a suprisingly popular 24/7 stream of a ferry that went up and down the coast, right? I remember reading about that and how popular the seemingly boring video was, partly because many who played it were reminiscing about their own memorable rides on the same ferry.
The eye gaze is tracked 250 times a second. Nowhere did it state that the scene needed to be rendered at 250Hz for the system to work. Sadly the NVIDIA report is paywalled, so I didn't read it... until now (thank you sci-hub). They demonstrated the technique using a standard Rift DK2, which means it rendered at a refresh rate of just 75Hz.
Foveated rendering is held back by lack of gaze sensors in headsets, and probably patent and licensing costs... not technology or processing power.
Already solved... nearly two years ago. It hasn't been used yet because no mainstream headset has installed the eye tracking sensors needed. I'm sure patents or cost are a factor. But the tech works, and the higher resolution we get the more important foveated rendering will be. So it's only a matter of time.
This is not false, but it is not quite true either.
How often do you look as far left as possible? Rarely. We only actively look around directly within about 30-50% of our full view capability, except in the rare cases when we're trying to look at something without others knowing (ie, side-eye). So only the central visual field needs this level of pixel density to be nearly indistinguishable from real life's resolution. The visual fidelity could drop to 1/2 or even 1/4 outside this and you'd barely notice. Now, that's still 12-15000 pixels across. It's still massively higher than we're capable of now. But about a quarter of the pixels Solandri posited would be necessary.
In addition, we can render even fewer pixels with eye tracking. This has already been successfully tested on current equipment with eye tracking and foveated rendering... rendering the center at full resolution, but increasingly fewer pixels per inch as you go away from the center of vision. And it already workes very well, quartering the rendering power needed. With a massive full-vision FOV, it would reduce rendering by needs by 20-40 times.
So that gargantuan 24k by 18k panel becomes a 16k by 12k panel (with a detailed center, and slightly fuzzier edges), with foveated rendering reducing the practical rendering needs down to 4k by 3k.
That's still a huge ask for a modern system, but give it five years and that kind of rendering will be cake. We have fun times ahead of us.
Doesn't even need geo-tagging. That's sheep grazing land... the close cropped grass is indicitive of sheep.
How much you want to bet that the Antminer S5 has no FCC ID, because they never bothered to get one.
He could turn it back on, he just needs to put his miner inside a faraday cage of some kind.