Not hack. They have not infected computers using thermal energy. They just demonstrated slow (very slow) communication between two computers using heat and heat sensors. It uses a tremendous amount of battery power of little to no purpose, since both computers need to already have the software on them... stenography would be a more appropriate communication method (hiding communication in seemingly-innocuous em traffic).
One counter-point: because Tuesday is not a day of rest for any notable religion (that I am aware of), thus avoiding voter disenfranchisement if they are strongly religious.
Not saying it's a good reason. Just that such exists.
The Omni is what you were thinking about I believe. I'm not a backer (I don't Kickstart hardware; too risky) but assuming it comes out and works well, I'll be buying one. They are targeting a ~$400 price point, which is doable.
Someone paid to do a job they dislike, with people they don't know, are likely to do only as good a job as they need to get paid. When they are very far away, that could be very little at all.
Someone volunteering to do a job they enjoy with remote people who share the same hobby and ideals? Unsurprisingly, they tend to do a better job, despite the lower accountability you have when working remotely.
Ruby is an excellent scripting language, equivalent to Perl or Python... better in some ways, worse in others. Nobody bats an eye if something requires Perl, even though CPAN Gems are essentially equivalent.
Eye tracking with high latency is not hard... now please do it accurately in under 10ms, 90 times a second, so that the rendering pipeline can use that in the next frame.
A lot of 'solved' tasks become a lot harder under the constraints imposed by VR's need for speed.
Not quite. It will be muffled, but not missing. Simulators can accurately change the angle of acceleration force to match your expectation, even if they cannot change the magnitude. The result, when you have actuators that are fast enough, is amazingly immersive. Some users will have simulation sickness, but others will not; similar to other types of motion sickness it varies wildly.
What's the false positive and false negative rates of this cheap test, vs the normal one? While it's probably better to have a mediocre test rather than none at all, there are times when that's not true... high false positive rates for rare conditions can waste resources on healthy individuals. High false negative rates for common conditions can give patients a false sense of safety.
The specificity of the test matters a lot before you can judge its utility.
It's using augmented reality. It is doing so via additive transmission into each eye to allow for 3D images. Holograms are technically different technology, but I'll give MS a pass on this... it's personal 3D images.
This aligns with Google's interests (get everyone online to see ads), so it's an obvious investment. Elon has shown to be capable of getting shit done, so it's a safer investment than some previous attempts at low-orbit Internet (like Iridium) even ignoring the technical advancements we've had in the past decade. Plus, with the lifter and cargo owned by the same company (one that has proven capable of lower-cost-to-orbit) the economics work out better than ever.
Artist makes up stuff. We can't reliably entangle molecules, let alone making two macroscopic telescopes have any quantum relationship. In adition there is nothing special about the cosmic background radiation; the CCD could have had any quantum effects he is aiming for imbued on earth.
Nothing but a publicity stunt with no scientific backing.
I'm not an Android or iPhone fanboy, but I'd like to point out that (unlike iOS), there are new devices being released with Android 4.3 on them. 4.3 was released about a year ago. It's not old.
Google should be making a patch and publishing it to make it as easy as possible for phone manufacturers to patch their crap. It would be appropriate for Google to continue to provide security patches for any version of Android still in new devices.
While this is an obvious one you may have already checked, there is a developer setting to force wake on power. Have you made sure that's off? In case your dev menu is disabled, you can enable it in this manner:
After the developer options are on (if they were not already), you will see it near the bottom of the settings list. Make sure Stay awake is not selected.
Google Voice's transcription feature has changed me from 'never bothering' to always getting my voicemail. I'm very happy with it. And Voice does allow you to reduce or eliminate the call in delays, which I also like.
I suspect that as life goes deeper there are two strategies:
Coping mechanisms, where things such as trimethylamine oxide are used to allow biological processes evolved at shallower environments to function. This is probably more common, simply due to the disparity in the quantity of life (and thus genes) in shallow vs deep water.
New biology, where completely different proteins are used, ones that simply would not work at lower pressure. We won't find these until we sequence deep sea creatures and do simulations to see what proteins are encoded, and why they work at high depths. This is hard work, and will keep biologists in work for decades.
While I absolutely agree that A) most cops are good (or at least neutral), and B) excessive measures prevents them from doing their job, I am frustrated whenever the danger of being a cop is brought up. Being a cop is less dangerous than being a fucking roofer. Do we say 'Oh no, roofers have such a dangerous job... every day they risk their lives on roofs to keep our houses safe, he just was scared for his life and that's why he punched the guy in the throat. Cut him some slack'.
Fuck no. Police should not be immune from criticism or even shielded partially due to the danger of their job. I never read about how firemen get a pass on axing someone in the face due to the dangers of their job. But that's because people who take the job of fireman are not in it for the power; they genuinely want to help. Police duties, unfortunately, attract a disproportionate number of bullies.
I agree that Rails is a fad. But touting PHP as better is... odd. PHP is a dismal language, with horrible coding practices and duplicate commands (some are bad, some are good, who knows which is which). Using a library, you have no idea what code they used... did they use the old string routine that's vulnerable to buffer overflows, or the new one? Why does PHP even KEEP the broken commands, it's insane!
Ruby is good (despite performance issues), PHP is bad. I'll take any framework built around Ruby over any framework built around PHP.
This could be a thing, but would be uninteresting with a hitscan game. When your shots are point and kill (headshot from extreme range) then computer reflexes trump interesting play. But if it's only slow moving projectiles it's possible more interesting gameplay could result.
I rotate my screens vertically at work (where I don't watch videos, I work on documents and sites, and horizontal space is often a waste). A square screen is a similar trade-off, but I find the utility of choice that rotation offers probably outweighs the value of a square form-factor.
This is bullshit. That's why 'communication skills' are part of being an awesome programmer... otherwise you're just a lone wolf. Read through the open source Quake code and tell me it's unreadable... being a rockstar (such as Carmack) does not mean making horrible code.
To be perfectly blunt, I think you have never worked with a rockstar programmer.
I'm not trying to say 'anyone not hiring a rockstar is wasting money'. Instead, I'm saying that programming is very difficult, and those the right mix of communication skills, technical experience, and plain intelligence are extremely rare and valuable. They have been there, written that, and groked the algorithm. They don't just know the library, they recognize the functions they are traversing from the debugger output. There is an incredible amount of time wasted looking stuff up, and if you have internalized that knowledge you can just code instead.
I am not a rockstar, but I've worked with one. In his particular domain (coding multithreaded, networked, redundant communication systems) he was a god. Outside that area, he was merely very good. The value that intelligence and experience brings to the table is underrated. I can see why Agents can bring value by finding jobs that fit with the skills of their clients.
There is a reason that alternatives to WIMPs are listed under Alternative Theories in Wikipedia. Claiming that the collective brainpower of most scientists has not focused on that particular theory is disingenuous.
This is unnecessary. All they need to do is add in the 'under penalty of perjury' wording to submitting a DMCA request. A DMCA rebuttal has the threat of perjury associated with it, but the DMCA takedown does not. It's asinine. A few very expensive lawsuits would quickly reign in DMCA abuse.
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Not hack. They have not infected computers using thermal energy. They just demonstrated slow (very slow) communication between two computers using heat and heat sensors. It uses a tremendous amount of battery power of little to no purpose, since both computers need to already have the software on them... stenography would be a more appropriate communication method (hiding communication in seemingly-innocuous em traffic).
One counter-point: because Tuesday is not a day of rest for any notable religion (that I am aware of), thus avoiding voter disenfranchisement if they are strongly religious.
Not saying it's a good reason. Just that such exists.
I miss that sound card. Being called a cheater in Counter Strike because I could tell exactly where people were was so satisfying.
The Omni is what you were thinking about I believe. I'm not a backer (I don't Kickstart hardware; too risky) but assuming it comes out and works well, I'll be buying one. They are targeting a ~$400 price point, which is doable.
Someone paid to do a job they dislike, with people they don't know, are likely to do only as good a job as they need to get paid. When they are very far away, that could be very little at all.
Someone volunteering to do a job they enjoy with remote people who share the same hobby and ideals? Unsurprisingly, they tend to do a better job, despite the lower accountability you have when working remotely.
This isn't rocket science.
Ruby is an excellent scripting language, equivalent to Perl or Python... better in some ways, worse in others. Nobody bats an eye if something requires Perl, even though CPAN Gems are essentially equivalent.
Ruby != Rails.
Eye tracking with high latency is not hard... now please do it accurately in under 10ms, 90 times a second, so that the rendering pipeline can use that in the next frame.
A lot of 'solved' tasks become a lot harder under the constraints imposed by VR's need for speed.
Not quite. It will be muffled, but not missing. Simulators can accurately change the angle of acceleration force to match your expectation, even if they cannot change the magnitude. The result, when you have actuators that are fast enough, is amazingly immersive. Some users will have simulation sickness, but others will not; similar to other types of motion sickness it varies wildly.
What's the false positive and false negative rates of this cheap test, vs the normal one? While it's probably better to have a mediocre test rather than none at all, there are times when that's not true... high false positive rates for rare conditions can waste resources on healthy individuals. High false negative rates for common conditions can give patients a false sense of safety.
The specificity of the test matters a lot before you can judge its utility.
It's using augmented reality. It is doing so via additive transmission into each eye to allow for 3D images. Holograms are technically different technology, but I'll give MS a pass on this... it's personal 3D images.
This aligns with Google's interests (get everyone online to see ads), so it's an obvious investment. Elon has shown to be capable of getting shit done, so it's a safer investment than some previous attempts at low-orbit Internet (like Iridium) even ignoring the technical advancements we've had in the past decade. Plus, with the lifter and cargo owned by the same company (one that has proven capable of lower-cost-to-orbit) the economics work out better than ever.
Artist makes up stuff. We can't reliably entangle molecules, let alone making two macroscopic telescopes have any quantum relationship. In adition there is nothing special about the cosmic background radiation; the CCD could have had any quantum effects he is aiming for imbued on earth.
Nothing but a publicity stunt with no scientific backing.
I'm not an Android or iPhone fanboy, but I'd like to point out that (unlike iOS), there are new devices being released with Android 4.3 on them. 4.3 was released about a year ago. It's not old.
Google should be making a patch and publishing it to make it as easy as possible for phone manufacturers to patch their crap. It would be appropriate for Google to continue to provide security patches for any version of Android still in new devices.
I worked at a small ISP with 30 lines. None of our physical, separate, user-grade incoming modems was silenced. The sound kinda grows on you.
While this is an obvious one you may have already checked, there is a developer setting to force wake on power. Have you made sure that's off? In case your dev menu is disabled, you can enable it in this manner:
http://www.androidcentral.com/how-enable-developer-settings-android-42
After the developer options are on (if they were not already), you will see it near the bottom of the settings list. Make sure Stay awake is not selected.
Google Voice's transcription feature has changed me from 'never bothering' to always getting my voicemail. I'm very happy with it. And Voice does allow you to reduce or eliminate the call in delays, which I also like.
I suspect that as life goes deeper there are two strategies:
While I absolutely agree that A) most cops are good (or at least neutral), and B) excessive measures prevents them from doing their job, I am frustrated whenever the danger of being a cop is brought up. Being a cop is less dangerous than being a fucking roofer. Do we say 'Oh no, roofers have such a dangerous job... every day they risk their lives on roofs to keep our houses safe, he just was scared for his life and that's why he punched the guy in the throat. Cut him some slack'.
Fuck no. Police should not be immune from criticism or even shielded partially due to the danger of their job. I never read about how firemen get a pass on axing someone in the face due to the dangers of their job. But that's because people who take the job of fireman are not in it for the power; they genuinely want to help. Police duties, unfortunately, attract a disproportionate number of bullies.
I agree that Rails is a fad. But touting PHP as better is... odd. PHP is a dismal language, with horrible coding practices and duplicate commands (some are bad, some are good, who knows which is which). Using a library, you have no idea what code they used... did they use the old string routine that's vulnerable to buffer overflows, or the new one? Why does PHP even KEEP the broken commands, it's insane!
Ruby is good (despite performance issues), PHP is bad. I'll take any framework built around Ruby over any framework built around PHP.
This could be a thing, but would be uninteresting with a hitscan game. When your shots are point and kill (headshot from extreme range) then computer reflexes trump interesting play. But if it's only slow moving projectiles it's possible more interesting gameplay could result.
I rotate my screens vertically at work (where I don't watch videos, I work on documents and sites, and horizontal space is often a waste). A square screen is a similar trade-off, but I find the utility of choice that rotation offers probably outweighs the value of a square form-factor.
This is bullshit. That's why 'communication skills' are part of being an awesome programmer... otherwise you're just a lone wolf. Read through the open source Quake code and tell me it's unreadable... being a rockstar (such as Carmack) does not mean making horrible code.
To be perfectly blunt, I think you have never worked with a rockstar programmer.
I'm not trying to say 'anyone not hiring a rockstar is wasting money'. Instead, I'm saying that programming is very difficult, and those the right mix of communication skills, technical experience, and plain intelligence are extremely rare and valuable. They have been there, written that, and groked the algorithm. They don't just know the library, they recognize the functions they are traversing from the debugger output. There is an incredible amount of time wasted looking stuff up, and if you have internalized that knowledge you can just code instead.
I am not a rockstar, but I've worked with one. In his particular domain (coding multithreaded, networked, redundant communication systems) he was a god. Outside that area, he was merely very good. The value that intelligence and experience brings to the table is underrated. I can see why Agents can bring value by finding jobs that fit with the skills of their clients.
There is a reason that alternatives to WIMPs are listed under Alternative Theories in Wikipedia. Claiming that the collective brainpower of most scientists has not focused on that particular theory is disingenuous.
This is unnecessary. All they need to do is add in the 'under penalty of perjury' wording to submitting a DMCA request. A DMCA rebuttal has the threat of perjury associated with it, but the DMCA takedown does not. It's asinine. A few very expensive lawsuits would quickly reign in DMCA abuse.