'I would argue that Google took the only option available to them. The only truly scalable products of the future will be developer platforms. Facebook, Twitter, Twilio, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Arduino
Do you see that red mustache? He drank the cool-aid. The whole pitcher.
I'm also trying to figure out how online social networks, a software development company, a hardware / software company, and an experimental hardware board for hobbyists all fit together with Google Glasses in some way. That cool-aid was spiked with buzz words.
Researchers soon realized that some roaches had developed an aversion to glucose
How does a roach develop an aversion to glucose? Did they eat just a little - not enough for the poison to kill them - and thus learn from the resulting sickness that they shouldn't eat it again? If so how did they pass this knowledge onto their offspring?
Or did strains of cockroaches that already had an aversion to glucose become more prolific since they weren't killed by the roach traps?
Meant to be launched from above the water or submerged torpedo tubes, the Howell torpedo was made of brass, 11 feet long, driven by a 132-pound flywheel spun to 10,000 rpm before launch. It had a range of 400 yards and a speed of 25 knots.
Clever design. The energy in the flywheel was used for propulsion, but it also created a gyroscopic effect that helped it track in a straight line.
I presume there is a hardwired failsafe that requires the trigger to be held down for the gun to be able to fire. You just keep the trigger held while fine tuning the aiming.
At some points the Perl corresponds to the song. Like a clap(2) and commands to output Ahhs and stuff. Perhaps the meaning of the lyrics is more synchronized to what the code does, but mixing three languages (Perl, English and Hebrew) makes it harder to figure out for most of us.
Warnings don't seem to be very effective for cigarettes. I'm sure they would be much less effective when it comes to cell phones, especially when expressed in terms that 99% of the population doesn't understand (it's just some number). Actually, it might even have opposite effect - buyers might purchase cell phones that have a greater radiation level, with the assumption that more radiation means greater range.
Interesting idea, but I think there would be serious scalability problems. Imagine if this was in each room in your home, and the doors to the rooms were open. Whistling in one room would almost certainly trigger the lights in the adjacent rooms as well. You would run into similar issues trying to control multiple lights in the same room independently, unless you started getting into more complex whistle patterns then those shown in the video. In that case you would start to sound like a songbird, or maybe R2D2.
And finally two side notes... Not for use in emergency situations while eating saltine crackers. This method of controlling the lights would be extremely popular in the von Trapp house.
When Apple released the iPod Touch, it was game over for the Zune. Unlike the Zune, the Touch had the interface/design to be a portable computing device. Wireless wasn't a useless feature as users could surf or email with OOTB applications. It also had a strong 3rd party app ecosystem which Zune never had.
When the iPod touch was released in 2007, neither it nor the iPhone supported 3rd party apps. That wasn't added until a year later when iOS (then called iPhone OS) 2.0 came out. So like Apple, MS had a year to integrate an app ecosystem into their product, since Apple didn't have that either straight out of the gate.
Uh, and what does that accomplish when the device is shipped to you with the latest firmware already installed, which disables the "print anyway" option?
It's worse than that. You have 8pt and 12pt fonts embedded, but at what display DPI? The odds of being able to use the 8pt font bitmap at native 1:1 resolution and actually be the size an 8pt font should be is nearly zero.
The solution [Chris] went with still uses the cartridges to ‘trick’ the machine into printing. Basically the interface will tell you that you don’t have enough filament left, but as long as there’s a cartridge in place you can tell it to print anyway.
In other words, this hardware hack is only one firmware update away from being shut down. Once they remove the option to "tell it to print anyway" when the cartridge says it's empty, then the hack is no longer usable.
It sounds like the summary is mixing and matching two different things, which are insurance and warranty. Generally warranties don't cover "drops or spills". Insurance is usually better, because once you're done with the device, you stop paying the insurance on it. With extended warranty, you have to pay up-front for the service, with the obvious assumption that you're going to own and use the device (and not lose it, upgrade to something else, sell it, give it away, or have it stolen) for at least a certain amount of time to make it pay off.
A Predator has an operating ceiling of 25,000 feet. You think a raspberry pi and mic is going to hear a Predator drone in cruise mode that's 5 miles above? You can't even hear a massive passenger jet at that altitude! Now a quadcopter is a different story, as they are as loud as can be, but saying this system would work on something like a Predator is a stretch.
This "problem" already exists. All cell phones have a microphone designed to pick up ambient sound (aka "speakerphone") and comes with included software to allow arbitrary audio recording. The storage capability of phones allow pretty much non-stop audio recording for days (and recording software designed to pause recording when the sound level is below some threshold can go for months on a single storage card). Yet how many people do you know that does such a thing? One of the reasons people don't bother is because managing the data, and making any useful sense out of it, would be incredibly tedious and time consuming.
Technically we can already do the same thing with video with our phones, and record video all the time too (I've used "security" type software that only records when motion is detected, which vastly reduces the amount of data that needs to be stored). Again, 99.99% of people don't bother. It won't be any different with hardware that is shaped like glasses. The same issues will exist when the hardware is in a different form factor. It's not an issue now, and it won't be an issue in the future.
The only exception I can think of is if Google, etc, are actively receiving and buffering the video to their servers by default. For starters that isn't possible until some major revolution in mobile bandwidth occurs, and some tiny, magical portable power source is invented that can power a transmitter non-stop as well. Someday if that is even a possibility, then anytime there is a car wreck, or someone stumbles and falls, or even hiccups, attorneys will be subpoena Google digging for media to prove or disprove the case. Google won't store video or audio data for that simple reason alone.
It appears to me that the algorithm is trying to maintain entropy or disorder, or at least keep open as many pathways to various states of entropy as possible. In the physics simulations, such as balancing and using tools, this essentially means that it is simply trying to maximize potential energy (in the form of stored energy due to gravity or repulsive fields - gravity in the balancing examples, and repulsive fields in the "tools" example).
While this can be construed as "intelligence" in these very specific cases, I don't think it is nearly as generalized or multipurpose as the author makes it out to be.
How come they can't roll this out to web browsers more generically? Getting the DRM binary blob installed in the client's web browser is an issue or something?
The purpose of this engine is to generate a very high speed ionized spray of lithium in a specific direction. How would that be converted into electrical energy? Generating kinetic energy (especially in space where waste byproducts just kinda go away) is extremely easy compared to generating electrical power.
On the other hand, more and more content is being consumed by mobile devices, which are vastly more energy efficient than desktop computers. Even desktop computers are more efficient than 10 years ago, primarily due to the complete abandonment of power hungry CRT monitors. So the good news is the part that's hard to control, which is the diverse and eclectic individuals who consume the content, are already many times more energy efficient than they were 10-15 years ago.
The Android App harvests information (contacts, SMS messages, location, SIM data) and reports it back only when ordered to by the reception of a SMS message command. The location is particularly troubling because they can just keep pinging the phone to track the individual in real-time, then who knows what could happen next.
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'I would argue that Google took the only option available to them. The only truly scalable products of the future will be developer platforms. Facebook, Twitter, Twilio, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Arduino
Do you see that red mustache? He drank the cool-aid. The whole pitcher.
I'm also trying to figure out how online social networks, a software development company, a hardware / software company, and an experimental hardware board for hobbyists all fit together with Google Glasses in some way. That cool-aid was spiked with buzz words.
Researchers soon realized that some roaches had developed an aversion to glucose
How does a roach develop an aversion to glucose? Did they eat just a little - not enough for the poison to kill them - and thus learn from the resulting sickness that they shouldn't eat it again? If so how did they pass this knowledge onto their offspring?
Or did strains of cockroaches that already had an aversion to glucose become more prolific since they weren't killed by the roach traps?
Meant to be launched from above the water or submerged torpedo tubes, the Howell torpedo was made of brass, 11 feet long, driven by a 132-pound flywheel spun to 10,000 rpm before launch. It had a range of 400 yards and a speed of 25 knots.
Clever design. The energy in the flywheel was used for propulsion, but it also created a gyroscopic effect that helped it track in a straight line.
I presume there is a hardwired failsafe that requires the trigger to be held down for the gun to be able to fire. You just keep the trigger held while fine tuning the aiming.
Here's to a safe return journey back to earth tomorrow.
Kind of sounds like a database with a proprietary web API controlling access. Quite impressive what's being done these days.
At some points the Perl corresponds to the song. Like a clap(2) and commands to output Ahhs and stuff. Perhaps the meaning of the lyrics is more synchronized to what the code does, but mixing three languages (Perl, English and Hebrew) makes it harder to figure out for most of us.
Warnings don't seem to be very effective for cigarettes. I'm sure they would be much less effective when it comes to cell phones, especially when expressed in terms that 99% of the population doesn't understand (it's just some number). Actually, it might even have opposite effect - buyers might purchase cell phones that have a greater radiation level, with the assumption that more radiation means greater range.
Interesting idea, but I think there would be serious scalability problems. Imagine if this was in each room in your home, and the doors to the rooms were open. Whistling in one room would almost certainly trigger the lights in the adjacent rooms as well. You would run into similar issues trying to control multiple lights in the same room independently, unless you started getting into more complex whistle patterns then those shown in the video. In that case you would start to sound like a songbird, or maybe R2D2.
And finally two side notes...
Not for use in emergency situations while eating saltine crackers.
This method of controlling the lights would be extremely popular in the von Trapp house.
When Apple released the iPod Touch, it was game over for the Zune. Unlike the Zune, the Touch had the interface/design to be a portable computing device. Wireless wasn't a useless feature as users could surf or email with OOTB applications. It also had a strong 3rd party app ecosystem which Zune never had.
When the iPod touch was released in 2007, neither it nor the iPhone supported 3rd party apps. That wasn't added until a year later when iOS (then called iPhone OS) 2.0 came out. So like Apple, MS had a year to integrate an app ecosystem into their product, since Apple didn't have that either straight out of the gate.
Uh, and what does that accomplish when the device is shipped to you with the latest firmware already installed, which disables the "print anyway" option?
It's worse than that. You have 8pt and 12pt fonts embedded, but at what display DPI? The odds of being able to use the 8pt font bitmap at native 1:1 resolution and actually be the size an 8pt font should be is nearly zero.
The solution [Chris] went with still uses the cartridges to ‘trick’ the machine into printing. Basically the interface will tell you that you don’t have enough filament left, but as long as there’s a cartridge in place you can tell it to print anyway.
In other words, this hardware hack is only one firmware update away from being shut down. Once they remove the option to "tell it to print anyway" when the cartridge says it's empty, then the hack is no longer usable.
It sounds like the summary is mixing and matching two different things, which are insurance and warranty. Generally warranties don't cover "drops or spills". Insurance is usually better, because once you're done with the device, you stop paying the insurance on it. With extended warranty, you have to pay up-front for the service, with the obvious assumption that you're going to own and use the device (and not lose it, upgrade to something else, sell it, give it away, or have it stolen) for at least a certain amount of time to make it pay off.
A Predator has an operating ceiling of 25,000 feet. You think a raspberry pi and mic is going to hear a Predator drone in cruise mode that's 5 miles above? You can't even hear a massive passenger jet at that altitude! Now a quadcopter is a different story, as they are as loud as can be, but saying this system would work on something like a Predator is a stretch.
What is your current location (at least 5 decimal precision)? Thanks!
This "problem" already exists. All cell phones have a microphone designed to pick up ambient sound (aka "speakerphone") and comes with included software to allow arbitrary audio recording. The storage capability of phones allow pretty much non-stop audio recording for days (and recording software designed to pause recording when the sound level is below some threshold can go for months on a single storage card). Yet how many people do you know that does such a thing? One of the reasons people don't bother is because managing the data, and making any useful sense out of it, would be incredibly tedious and time consuming.
Technically we can already do the same thing with video with our phones, and record video all the time too (I've used "security" type software that only records when motion is detected, which vastly reduces the amount of data that needs to be stored). Again, 99.99% of people don't bother. It won't be any different with hardware that is shaped like glasses. The same issues will exist when the hardware is in a different form factor. It's not an issue now, and it won't be an issue in the future.
The only exception I can think of is if Google, etc, are actively receiving and buffering the video to their servers by default. For starters that isn't possible until some major revolution in mobile bandwidth occurs, and some tiny, magical portable power source is invented that can power a transmitter non-stop as well. Someday if that is even a possibility, then anytime there is a car wreck, or someone stumbles and falls, or even hiccups, attorneys will be subpoena Google digging for media to prove or disprove the case. Google won't store video or audio data for that simple reason alone.
It appears to me that the algorithm is trying to maintain entropy or disorder, or at least keep open as many pathways to various states of entropy as possible. In the physics simulations, such as balancing and using tools, this essentially means that it is simply trying to maximize potential energy (in the form of stored energy due to gravity or repulsive fields - gravity in the balancing examples, and repulsive fields in the "tools" example).
While this can be construed as "intelligence" in these very specific cases, I don't think it is nearly as generalized or multipurpose as the author makes it out to be.
More gimmicks equals more expensive ticket prices. Yep, we'll see this happen in the US for sure.
Netflix is already using HTML5 for Chromebook. It was already discussed here on Slashdot.
How come they can't roll this out to web browsers more generically? Getting the DRM binary blob installed in the client's web browser is an issue or something?
The purpose of this engine is to generate a very high speed ionized spray of lithium in a specific direction. How would that be converted into electrical energy? Generating kinetic energy (especially in space where waste byproducts just kinda go away) is extremely easy compared to generating electrical power.
You're welcome.
On the other hand, more and more content is being consumed by mobile devices, which are vastly more energy efficient than desktop computers. Even desktop computers are more efficient than 10 years ago, primarily due to the complete abandonment of power hungry CRT monitors. So the good news is the part that's hard to control, which is the diverse and eclectic individuals who consume the content, are already many times more energy efficient than they were 10-15 years ago.
The Apple Popup Museum website does not load correctly on an Apple iPad. Mildly ironic.
The Android App harvests information (contacts, SMS messages, location, SIM data) and reports it back only when ordered to by the reception of a SMS message command. The location is particularly troubling because they can just keep pinging the phone to track the individual in real-time, then who knows what could happen next.