What irony! Once touted as the must-have toy for hipsters, Google Glass is now actually becoming a tool to steer and control human minimum-wage working drones in warehouses. Feel a pity for all who'll be obliged to wear such at work.
"at home, where already for significant time the image and audio quality is more pleasant than in most public theaters,"
What are 'most public theaters' like where you live?
Well, they sure have very large screens (but that doesn't improve on the viewing angle given that I can position myself whereever I want at home) and lots of speakers, but those speakers are usually "overdriven" to the effect of making awful noise, and I simply cannot stand the 24fps stuttering anymore, I'm used to watch on displays that interpolate frames to achieve smooth motion. (Yes I know, some people despise this as "non cinematic", but to me it looks much better).
I saw the trailer in a local theater and the deep rumbles made me shake in my seat. Can you do that at home?
Yes, my REL subwoofer does a very good job on this. And if want even more rumbling, I can switch on the massage functions of my Inada chair...;-)
And good for you that you can afford it.
Yes, and I didn't claim it was cheap. The most expensive part of my home theater is the house around it that is not populated by other people who could feel disturbed by the sound. But that house would be invaluable also if I didn't ever watch movies in it.
Congratulations on the successful marketing! And still, I'm in no rush to see this movie. I'll wait until I can rent a BluRay in my local video store, to watch it at home, where already for significant time the image and audio quality is more pleasant than in most public theaters, not to mention the comfort of having control over volume, play/pause etc., and the absent mob of other people.
That article is pretty old and pretty outdated. As he already mentions in his post-script, the EU issued an "has to be chargeable via USB" regulation, and most airlines operating in the EU have USB power outlets in the front seat even in coach on long-haul flights.
... for the environmental cost of dumping the toxic waste that is millions of perfectly fine but "obsolete" chargers every year, they might also rethink this pseudo-innovation stuff.
However, regulating the production seems to be just more practical than searching through all trash cans for illegal dumping of toxic waste.
As long as the law does not also forbid to bundle chargers with phones, also demanding that the phone+charger price has to be higher than the phone-only price, not much is gained.
Sure, people might save some money on secondary chargers, but I don't know many people who ever bought such.
Ah, and BTW, the fixed, proprietary, non-user replaceable batteries are even more of a problem than the chargers, as they allow manufacturers to limit the lifetime of their phones easily, if only by asking unreasonable prices for batteries (like it is also common amongst camera manufacturers).
If yes, I would wonder how much speed could it gain over yum... after all, whenever I used yum to update some OS, the vast majority of time was spent with the stuff "rpm" would do, not with the database maintainance yum adds.
... it's not even a prefix-code "per document", so only using buffered reads when parsing XML wouldn't even allow you to avoid reading into the data following the end of the XML document you actually want to parse.
If something is XML based and time criticial, I wouldn't bother to optimize the XML parsing, but rather exchange XML for a non braindead format to start with.
Once we have the ability to create tasty foods with effectively no caloric value, it doesn't matter how much our bodies tell us to eat....
I do have to wonder how our bodies will rebel against this latest way to eat-without-eating, but strictly in terms of energy-budgets, this seems like a win/win.
You can easily do an experiment on yourself to prove this would not be a win: Just start a free day without breakfast and perform some aerobic but exhausting activities for several hours, until significantly after your usual "lunch time". Then eat a meal consisting of lots of particulary low-energy dense food - like salad or vegetables.
You will experience then a situation where your stomach is really full - to the point where you really don't want to stuff more food into you, but at the same time you are still hungry, as in "craving for energy".
That feeling is quite unusual, I've tried it a few times. Normally there is no good reason to enter such a situation. But it's an interesting experience, because you can then really feel that "full stomach" and "being hungry" are not mutually exclusive.
And that is what it would feel like to eat fake, zero-energy food.
These noodles will help people to cut out energy dense material within their diet, and will therefore help obesity all other things being equal.
You'll see that energy-depleted fake noodles will not counter obesity, just like all the other "light" products, they will rather promote overweight than reducing it.
The sense of a "full" or "empty" stomach is simply different from "becoming hungry" from a lack of energy supply. Actually, food leaves the stomach quite fast, and you can experience hours of not feeling hungry at all even after what was in your stomach has long traveled into the colon. Playing tricks on your sensation of a "full stomach" may have a short term effect on your energy intake during one meal - but sense of becoming hungry again depends on your available supply of engery, not on the fullness of your stomach.
If your food is highly energy dense, it is easy to overshoot.
It doesn't matter if you "overshoot", as it just means there will be a longer time until you get hungry. The human body is way more precise in long-term energy intake regulation than any bean-counting diet can ever be. Just have a look at groups of people who diet mostly on energy-dense food, like those on ketogenic diets or ethnic groups eating mostly fatty fish and whale meat etc. - those sure don't have an obesity epidemic because of that.
Combine artificial food with an artificial avoidance of motion, and you are much more likely to become obese.
These artificial noodles are as useless to fight obesity as are artificial sweeteners and "fat-substitutes" in dairy products.
How insanely orthorectic the world has become! Seriously, the very purpose of food is to supply energy to the body. If you don't want to supply energy, chew a gum or suck some stone candy. Neither this nor the noodle surrogate will trick your body to think it has been supplied with enough energy.
Time and again it strikes me how unbalanced media coverage is with regards to reports on fatalities and risks of life in general.
In contemporary Iraq, for example, more than a thousand civilians are killed by acts of terror _every_month_ for quite a while now. The last day with more than a hundred civilian fatalities in Iraq is just two days ago. (Source: https://www.iraqbodycount.org/... )
And other risks of getting killed - like traffic accidents or contracting diseases - remain vastly more probable than falling victim to terrorism in some western city.
And yet, the media coverage plays along both with the terrorists who, of course, appreciate the amplification of their publicity and it works in the hands of those in the west who want to abandon freedom, claiming that such was necessary to "keep us safe".
I would like to ask the media to spend the same amount of air time on every single human who dies from an unnatural cause, maybe people and politicians would then see what the actually relevant risks are and address them rather than fantasizing about "wars on terrorism".
German machine manufacturer Festo demonstrated an actually flying "Firefly" at the Hannover exhibition in 2013, see https://www.festo.com/group/de... for more information/videos.
But of course, some "old economy" company building such is not quite as "hip" with the crowd hipsters as some garage boys are;-)
I think John and Hans would be a really good team - both are probably 30 points more intelligent than the previous US presidents, plus they for sure killed less people!
Those of you who haven't watched any ponography before the 1980s might have well missed a true marvel of human culture: Scripted (and if from a foreign country lip-synchronized) dialoges in porno movies.
Back then, before "home video" became technically feasible and inexpensive, pornographic movies just like any other movie required expensive equipment/setup/production. So naturally, significant effort was also invested to script their soundtracks and dialoges. Much unlike today, where "porno" means nothing but primitive, barely edited shots of people having intercourse, where the soundtracks is nothing much beyond moans plus sometimes irrelevant background music.
I recently found an analog (sound-)tape from the 1970s with excerpts of pornographic movies (obviously cut together as an advertisement), and it was absolutely hilarious to listen to it. The actors where speaking texts so well written that you could be sure they didn't spontaneously invent them during intercourse. And they were sooo politically incorrect at the same time:-)
"... simply consolidate their children's educational data to a single 3rd party service." - There's not a single good reason to do that, other than to fulfil the fantasies of the founders of those "3rd party services".
If you want "personalized education", pay teachers for spending time on your children.
If you want colorful "management reports" on your childrens education project status, automatically derived from some formalized database entries, then of course, such a "consolidating 3rd party service" is great for you. I would then also advise to outsource the celebration of birthdays of your children to some event management company. And don't forget to hire a professional service to feed and bath them while they are young, before you can send them to boarding school. Consequentially, you should also outsource the fertilization and hire some mom-for-rent to hatch your offspring.
I already feared that every parent of today is on the "total surveillance" trip, teaching their children to kneel before their corporate overlords from their infancy.
But then again, maybe those parents were only concerned about the collecting of data associated with themselves, not their children...
The "advertisement" video they posted on youtube actually delivers all the reasons you need to know why not to buy this camera.
The resolution is way too bad even for display on an ordinary 1920x1080 display. Stair steps visible all over the place. The color rendering is horrible, like in some old mobile phone camera. Plus there are artefacts to see where details should be.
Seriously, this is still nothing more than a party gimmick. "Refocus" your first few snapshots, enjoy for a minute, then the "something new" effect is over and what stays is the terrible image quality.
The only resonable use cases for lightfield cameras are currently industrial applications, and those are addressed much better by the Raytrix product line.
Maybe it's another attempt to separate markets for "cheap" and "pricy" cabling. Just convince some less price-sensitve people that you belong to some kind of "elite" if they buy your more expensive product, and enjoy a small but profitable market niche, where nobody asks what the actual advantage of your product is.
Already worked well for other cabling standards...
Thunderbolt always reminds me of the TIFF "standard" for image files: Theoretically you can put anything in it, theoretically it supports every imaginable feature - but in practice, it's of little use - because there's almost no common denominator of what different implementations actually can deal with.
Plus, the idea of defining a "cabling" for the consumer market where every cable is on its own with regards to how it implements the physical layer is a very bad idea. It renders cables terribly expensive and you cannot be sure that the cable from vendor A will work well with the socket from vendor B.
Plus you can have a look at what the person who contributed the code and the reviewer programmed/did elsewhere in their lives, and by that you can judge whether you think it's likely they acted on purpose. In this case it seems to me the probability of this bug having been introduced intentionally is pretty low.
... such that everyone can watch your Facebook VR avatar from every perspective, and stick his "thumb up" in every orifice of yours. Next up: Sensor clothing you only have to wear such that when you fart, your avatar does, too. Imagine all the time you'll save typing to write about your latest fart on Facebook! Expect ads to jump on you from all directions.
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What irony! Once touted as the must-have toy for hipsters, Google Glass is now actually becoming a tool to steer and control human minimum-wage working drones in warehouses. Feel a pity for all who'll be obliged to wear such at work.
"at home, where already for significant time the image and audio quality is more pleasant than in most public theaters,"
What are 'most public theaters' like where you live?
Well, they sure have very large screens (but that doesn't improve on the viewing angle given that I can position myself whereever I want at home) and lots of speakers, but those speakers are usually "overdriven" to the effect of making awful noise, and I simply cannot stand the 24fps stuttering anymore, I'm used to watch on displays that interpolate frames to achieve smooth motion. (Yes I know, some people despise this as "non cinematic", but to me it looks much better).
I saw the trailer in a local theater and the deep rumbles made me shake in my seat. Can you do that at home?
Yes, my REL subwoofer does a very good job on this. And if want even more rumbling, I can switch on the massage functions of my Inada chair... ;-)
And good for you that you can afford it.
Yes, and I didn't claim it was cheap. The most expensive part of my home theater is the house around it that is not populated by other people who could feel disturbed by the sound. But that house would be invaluable also if I didn't ever watch movies in it.
Congratulations on the successful marketing! And still, I'm in no rush to see this movie. I'll wait until I can rent a BluRay in my local video store, to watch it at home, where already for significant time the image and audio quality is more pleasant than in most public theaters, not to mention the comfort of having control over volume, play/pause etc., and the absent mob of other people.
That article is pretty old and pretty outdated. As he already mentions in his post-script, the EU issued an "has to be chargeable via USB" regulation, and most airlines operating in the EU have USB power outlets in the front seat even in coach on long-haul flights.
However, regulating the production seems to be just more practical than searching through all trash cans for illegal dumping of toxic waste.
As long as the law does not also forbid to bundle chargers with phones, also demanding that the phone+charger price has to be higher than the phone-only price, not much is gained.
Sure, people might save some money on secondary chargers, but I don't know many people who ever bought such.
Ah, and BTW, the fixed, proprietary, non-user replaceable batteries are even more of a problem than the chargers, as they allow manufacturers to limit the lifetime of their phones easily, if only by asking unreasonable prices for batteries (like it is also common amongst camera manufacturers).
... and perfectly covered the use case of which you say XML is good for. FrameMaker was one practical evidence to this.
If yes, I would wonder how much speed could it gain over yum... after all, whenever I used yum to update some OS, the vast majority of time was spent with the stuff "rpm" would do, not with the database maintainance yum adds.
If something is XML based and time criticial, I wouldn't bother to optimize the XML parsing, but rather exchange XML for a non braindead format to start with.
... so the Unicode consortium should introduce the Five Mullah Facepalm emoji in response.
Once we have the ability to create tasty foods with effectively no caloric value, it doesn't matter how much our bodies tell us to eat. ...
I do have to wonder how our bodies will rebel against this latest way to eat-without-eating, but strictly in terms of energy-budgets, this seems like a win/win.
You can easily do an experiment on yourself to prove this would not be a win: Just start a free day without breakfast and perform some aerobic but exhausting activities for several hours, until significantly after your usual "lunch time". Then eat a meal consisting of lots of particulary low-energy dense food - like salad or vegetables.
You will experience then a situation where your stomach is really full - to the point where you really don't want to stuff more food into you, but at the same time you are still hungry, as in "craving for energy".
That feeling is quite unusual, I've tried it a few times. Normally there is no good reason to enter such a situation. But it's an interesting experience, because you can then really feel that "full stomach" and "being hungry" are not mutually exclusive.
And that is what it would feel like to eat fake, zero-energy food.
These noodles will help people to cut out energy dense material within their diet, and will therefore help obesity all other things being equal.
You'll see that energy-depleted fake noodles will not counter obesity, just like all the other "light" products, they will rather promote overweight than reducing it.
And cooked noodles aren't even particulary energy dense to start with - as they consist of more water than carbohydrates. Walnuts, for example contain far more energy per mass and per volume, and still recent studies showed a long-term decrease of body weight when spoilt first-world people ate 75g of them per day, rendering their diet "more energy dense" than before.
The sense of a "full" or "empty" stomach is simply different from "becoming hungry" from a lack of energy supply. Actually, food leaves the stomach quite fast, and you can experience hours of not feeling hungry at all even after what was in your stomach has long traveled into the colon. Playing tricks on your sensation of a "full stomach" may have a short term effect on your energy intake during one meal - but sense of becoming hungry again depends on your available supply of engery, not on the fullness of your stomach.
If your food is highly energy dense, it is easy to overshoot.
It doesn't matter if you "overshoot", as it just means there will be a longer time until you get hungry. The human body is way more precise in long-term energy intake regulation than any bean-counting diet can ever be. Just have a look at groups of people who diet mostly on energy-dense food, like those on ketogenic diets or ethnic groups eating mostly fatty fish and whale meat etc. - those sure don't have an obesity epidemic because of that.
Combine artificial food with an artificial avoidance of motion, and you are much more likely to become obese.
These artificial noodles are as useless to fight obesity as are artificial sweeteners and "fat-substitutes" in dairy products.
How insanely orthorectic the world has become! Seriously, the very purpose of food is to supply energy to the body. If you don't want to supply energy, chew a gum or suck some stone candy. Neither this nor the noodle surrogate will trick your body to think it has been supplied with enough energy.
Time and again it strikes me how unbalanced media coverage is with regards to reports on fatalities and risks of life in general.
In contemporary Iraq, for example, more than a thousand civilians are killed by acts of terror _every_month_ for quite a while now. The last day with more than a hundred civilian fatalities in Iraq is just two days ago. (Source: https://www.iraqbodycount.org/... )
And other risks of getting killed - like traffic accidents or contracting diseases - remain vastly more probable than falling victim to terrorism in some western city.
And yet, the media coverage plays along both with the terrorists who, of course, appreciate the amplification of their publicity and it works in the hands of those in the west who want to abandon freedom, claiming that such was necessary to "keep us safe".
I would like to ask the media to spend the same amount of air time on every single human who dies from an unnatural cause, maybe people and politicians would then see what the actually relevant risks are and address them rather than fantasizing about "wars on terrorism".
German machine manufacturer Festo demonstrated an actually flying "Firefly" at the Hannover exhibition in 2013, see https://www.festo.com/group/de... for more information/videos. But of course, some "old economy" company building such is not quite as "hip" with the crowd hipsters as some garage boys are ;-)
I think John and Hans would be a really good team - both are probably 30 points more intelligent than the previous US presidents, plus they for sure killed less people!
Those of you who haven't watched any ponography before the 1980s might have well missed a true marvel of human culture: Scripted (and if from a foreign country lip-synchronized) dialoges in porno movies.
Back then, before "home video" became technically feasible and inexpensive, pornographic movies just like any other movie required expensive equipment/setup/production. So naturally, significant effort was also invested to script their soundtracks and dialoges. Much unlike today, where "porno" means nothing but primitive, barely edited shots of people having intercourse, where the soundtracks is nothing much beyond moans plus sometimes irrelevant background music.
I recently found an analog (sound-)tape from the 1970s with excerpts of pornographic movies (obviously cut together as an advertisement), and it was absolutely hilarious to listen to it. The actors where speaking texts so well written that you could be sure they didn't spontaneously invent them during intercourse. And they were sooo politically incorrect at the same time :-)
"... simply consolidate their children's educational data to a single 3rd party service." - There's not a single good reason to do that, other than to fulfil the fantasies of the founders of those "3rd party services".
If you want "personalized education", pay teachers for spending time on your children.
If you want colorful "management reports" on your childrens education project status, automatically derived from some formalized database entries, then of course, such a "consolidating 3rd party service" is great for you. I would then also advise to outsource the celebration of birthdays of your children to some event management company. And don't forget to hire a professional service to feed and bath them while they are young, before you can send them to boarding school. Consequentially, you should also outsource the fertilization and hire some mom-for-rent to hatch your offspring.
I already feared that every parent of today is on the "total surveillance" trip, teaching their children to kneel before their corporate overlords from their infancy.
But then again, maybe those parents were only concerned about the collecting of data associated with themselves, not their children...
The "advertisement" video they posted on youtube actually delivers all the reasons you need to know why not to buy this camera.
The resolution is way too bad even for display on an ordinary 1920x1080 display. Stair steps visible all over the place. The color rendering is horrible, like in some old mobile phone camera. Plus there are artefacts to see where details should be.
Seriously, this is still nothing more than a party gimmick. "Refocus" your first few snapshots, enjoy for a minute, then the "something new" effect is over and what stays is the terrible image quality.
The only resonable use cases for lightfield cameras are currently industrial applications, and those are addressed much better by the Raytrix product line.
Maybe it's another attempt to separate markets for "cheap" and "pricy" cabling. Just convince some less price-sensitve people that you belong to some kind of "elite" if they buy your more expensive product, and enjoy a small but profitable market niche, where nobody asks what the actual advantage of your product is.
Already worked well for other cabling standards...
Plus, the idea of defining a "cabling" for the consumer market where every cable is on its own with regards to how it implements the physical layer is a very bad idea. It renders cables terribly expensive and you cannot be sure that the cable from vendor A will work well with the socket from vendor B.
Plus you can have a look at what the person who contributed the code and the reviewer programmed/did elsewhere in their lives, and by that you can judge whether you think it's likely they acted on purpose. In this case it seems to me the probability of this bug having been introduced intentionally is pretty low.
... such that everyone can watch your Facebook VR avatar from every perspective, and stick his "thumb up" in every orifice of yours. Next up: Sensor clothing you only have to wear such that when you fart, your avatar does, too. Imagine all the time you'll save typing to write about your latest fart on Facebook! Expect ads to jump on you from all directions.