Maybe blurring the screen? The example in the TFA isn't great and it implies when there is an eavesdropper, a view of the user and the highlighted image of the person looking over their shoulder comes into view.
I'm thinking that if the display is truly horrific and/or ruins the user experience, the phone's owner will probably disable the feature.
The problem with your argument is that only a quarter of the US states have CARB laws and other countries (like Canada) don't have them at all.
I think that Mr. Musk was brilliant in targeting the high end first where snob appeal generated interest/buzz/sales helping to build the company while developing the technology for the Model 3. Similarly for the Semi business - get in there and develop the technology and market acceptance.
The same thing with aircraft - start with smaller platforms and build/learn/develop from there.
Do these manufactures not realize just how much damage the crapware does to their brand?
They don't care because a big part of their business case for PC products which have razor thin margins and anything that brings in additional revenue is going to be implemented.
I've been using a MacBook Air for three years now as my primary business laptop and have been putting Mint on the few old Windows laptops I have hanging around and building my own systems to avoid the pre-installed malware of "Name" brands like HP. I can't say enough good things about my MacBook Air - I don't use it for code development but for email, presentations and/. posts, it's the best laptop I've ever owned. I just wish the Mac Pages, Numbers and Keynote (as well as Google Apps) worked as well as were completely compatible with the Office equivalents.
Unfortunately, at my daughter's college the faculty push Windows (10!) products with very significant discounts for the students. I've been trying to get her to do her programming work/assignments on a system that I have built and use a MacBook for classes.
Looking at the initial comments there are a lot of naysayers, but just like electric cars (and trucks) are becoming important market segments, electric aircraft will become a significant part of the market. Fuel cost continues to be a big uncertainty and is the major cost item of each flight - reducing this cost by any kind of double digits (ie going to electrical) would be a big win for airlines.
For some reason, the immediate response is that they will not replace the big iron, like B-777s or A-330s but that's not what the initial targets are - I wouldn't be surprised seeing the first electrically powered regional aircraft by 2025 with many flying in the 2030s. Going either further down, light aircraft fuel costs are major detriments for flying schools and air taxi services.
With the experience gained with regional aircraft, improvements in technology (ie battery energy density being the big one) will mean that the big iron aircraft will start going electric in the 2040s.
With old VCRs taping Black and White movies, you could detect a phase shift in the colour burst in the frame and that could be used to stop recording, but it was hit and miss. Another old system was to note an increase in volume (commercials were louder than the show they're being broadcast with).
So, other than needing a lot of CPU cycles, how does Plex do it?
Basically follow the Marvel model, of introducing characters in their own worlds (which in the original pre-Crisis books, there was some intermingling (ie the Flash's Cosmic Treadmill)), develop the characters and their rogue's gallery. Right now, they're throwing everybody together and basically letting God sort it out - "Suicide Squad" was an excellent example of this; Margo Robbie had the stand out performance and made the movie watchable at the expense of putting all the other characters in the shadows (which is unfortunate).
Also, Marvel has an excellent set of anchor hero characters; Iron Man, Captain America, Black Widow, Thor, Nick Fury while DC doesn't and often tends to focus on the villains instead (this is why Michael Keaton dropped out as Batman). Christian Bale wasn't bad as Batman and Nolan's movie followed the model of showing the character, but DC/Warner never figured out how to capitalize on that. They need a better Superman, Henry Cavil looks the part but seems overwhelmed at the size of the character - I always imagined the "real" Superman/Clark Kent/Kal El as being somewhat self-aware and self-deprecating. Gal Godot seems to be the right person for Wonder Woman. Personally, I'm not in love with the current incarnation of the The Flash and it just doesn't ring true to what I thought of the character (in the '70s up to his trial and disappearance). So, I would consider there to be four DC Anchor Heros, Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and The Flash. Unfortunately, I only think they have a Wonder Woman who's up to the task.
I would have thought that "The Crisis on Infinite Earths" would be an excellent point of bringing everybody together with an existential threat followed by everybody learning to working together followed by dealing with a multi-movie arc of dealing with Darkseid and maybe an invasion by Dominators.
If anybody from DC/Warner is reading and takes this to hear, I'd be happy to receive royalties on this concept in $10s and $20s.
IIRC correctly, a transit employee on the train was sufficient to deter and attack and at least mitigate one if it happens by moving to the car where the problem is happening.
Years ago, my brother was involved the design of a light rail program here in Toronto (the "Kenney Line" to Scarborough Town Centre) with the idea that they would run without any transit employees on board.
The idea got nixed when somebody asked what happens if a woman gets assaulted?
I would call these "alcoholic beverages" and not "different types of alcohol".
If I remember my high school chemistry, an "alcohol" is any molecule that ends in "OH" and the only type that doesn't kill a person is "ethanol" and is the active ingredient found in beer, wine, scotch, etc.
Regardless of the mood beverages derived from ethanol makes a person, the result of a person ingesting any of the other forms of alcohol is death. So, don't drink methanol to see what the difference in the high is to something like brandy.
Microwave transmitters do not emit ionizing radiation. Early Klystron based generators did produce X-Rays, but they were largely superseded by designs which did not produce X-Rays as this is a loss of useful output power/transmission inefficiency.
Regardless, in terms of danger; 25mW/cm^2 is where you start feeling heat on your skin after several minutes. Pain is at 1W/cm^2. Burning (ie skin temperature going above 42C) happens at 2.5W/cm^2 but that usually takes 5 minutes or more of exposure.
Radar systems used in cars typically have an output level of 10mW at the source - this decreases as the square of the distance.
A million cars != a million "ionising radiation units". Or maybe they do as I'm assuming "ionising" is a spelling mistake.
That can be simply listed as (in the order that I see them): - Microsoft as an OS vendor (I know I'll get attacks from various ACs that think any criticism of MS is unfair but they are putting 'way more energy into sucking user's personal data into their servers than protecting said personal data) - Large service companies with poor security for customer databases (I just saw Uber had a big hack last year that they've been trying to keep quiet). - The 10% of so of the user population at large which don't have the intelligence to question email/text/phone/Facebook/etc. requests for their personal information.
The remaining 10% would be poorly defined standards (for example IoT) where the possible vectors and impact of security intrusions have not been thought through.
What I was trying to do was bring in Elon Musk - nobody seriously thought about reusable boosters until he spent a few hours (days?) with a spreadsheet seeing if it could work.
We have the science to do many things; unfortunately many of them are dismissed out of hand because they don't seem feasible to the "experts".
The guy is 61 years old, seems to be holding down a job from which he is able to save for his hobby. He likes to make grandiose statements but if he's applying the "formulas" (rather than the "science") correctly, he should succeed which means that he's not trying to commit suicide publicly.
I don't think anybody can give odds on his success (especially from the article) but I think, as a society, we've become too risk averse and we need to encourage people like "Mad" Mike to go out there. Maybe there's something to a steam powered booster that makes it more attractive/economical than a traditional rocket - this could be the next 10x reduction in launch costs.
Or it could result in a smoking hole in the ground - but if large corporations (ie ULA) aren't creative enough to try radically new ideas like this, then we need the (slightly) nutty among us to push the ideas forwards even if it puts their lives at risk.
I think it's great that Uber is investing all this money into creating an autonomous driving fleet but I don't see how this will make money for the company in the long (not to mention the short) term. Along with the $1B+ for the Volvos at list price I think it would be fair to add at least another $1B for sensors and software.
So how does this make sense for a company that $6.6B as of June (https://venturebeat.com/2017/08/23/uber-is-still-burning-cash-at-a-rate-of-2-billion-a-year/) and is burning cash at a rate of $2B/year *before* doing this?
I know a couple of the PM's I've worked with on software projects in the past will be angry and disappointed at the subject line but I've never seen one that demonstrably added value to a software project/product I've been involved with - most have been detrimental to the overall effort. I can say that I do know a number of PMPs that are critical to hardware and marketing programs and have been vital to their success - I'm leading to a conclusion here.
First off, today it seems like getting a PMP certification is something somebody gets when they've been laid off and there are no jobs on the immediate horizon. I know that seems cynical but there seems a lot of truth to the statement - if you can demonstrate that you've worked slightly more than two years, take four or five courses and write an exam? In less than a month and a couple of thousand you too can have "PMP" on your LinkedIn profile.
I've taken the courses (through work) and they do have some value for general knowledge and if you are going to be managing a project which results in a physical object. Software is an entirely different beast and I believe it's impossible for really anybody to really properly plan out how a project will go. Unlike planning a piece of hardware, the required skills with efficiency are somewhat more nebulous (ie I can state with a high degree of confidence how many bricks at a certain quality level can be laid in an hour - I can't do the same for lines of code, it's highly dependent on the coder, development tools, libraries as well as pre-requisite work being done). To be fair, it's extremely hard to properly quantify coders - which makes planning and managing their progress difficult.
The best team lead I ever had, lived by the following set of rules for every project: 1. Set an expectation for the number of lines of working, debugged and documented code per day to something which seems ridiculously low (in his case it was 10 lines per day per coder) but is actually very realistic when you look at actual historical progress of the team/organization. 1.1. Plan contingency time at the end of the project (he liked 30% of the total project time) for new requirements and unexpected issues. 2. Coders work four days a week with one day for training and meetings. See "Management Time vs Maker Time". 3. Management can't talk to coders about their work. Ever. 4. Requirements/Specifications can't change through the project. That's what the contingency time is for at the end of the project. 5. Have an established test plan - In talking to him recently, he now insists upon implementing automated unit and functional tests that the entire software corpus runs through before any major release. 6. Base the plan and milestones on a reverse of the 80/20 rule - look doing what is going to be needed for the what is normally the last 20% and do it first 6.1. Pushing the requirement for the final UI design to the end of the project. Let marketing pay for prototypes and implement them at the end of the project. If the coders need a UI for testing, then they can cobble something together (and I know of two products where this became the final UI). 7. Accept that shit happens - I still get teased about putting in the statement "if (i = 1) {" thirty years ago in one of our projects which was discovered in testing in which the code mostly worked with the exception of one corner case that bugged a number of us (including him) into spending a week trying to figure out what the problem was.
You don't need a project manager to run a software project following these rules - you need a good, knowledgeable and forceful team lead.
The first thing the project management is responsible for is the product, I suppose. Or at least they should work together (closely) with the product manager.
I take exception to this statement - a project manager is not responsible for the product, a project manager is responsible for the process used to develop the product.
Bad project managers think they're responsible for the product and will try to steer the product to meet their goals (ie delivery on time with the initially set costs and resources) while bumping the needs of product management and the customers.
I dunno about that. I'm working on Eclipse Kepler for C/C++ (Build id: 20140224-0627) and I just checked the addresses of different threads over multiple restarts and they are at different addresses.
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Interesting - what is the difference between what is put on the PC originally and the ISO image?
Aren't they identical?
Maybe blurring the screen? The example in the TFA isn't great and it implies when there is an eavesdropper, a view of the user and the highlighted image of the person looking over their shoulder comes into view.
I'm thinking that if the display is truly horrific and/or ruins the user experience, the phone's owner will probably disable the feature.
The problem with your argument is that only a quarter of the US states have CARB laws and other countries (like Canada) don't have them at all.
I think that Mr. Musk was brilliant in targeting the high end first where snob appeal generated interest/buzz/sales helping to build the company while developing the technology for the Model 3. Similarly for the Semi business - get in there and develop the technology and market acceptance.
The same thing with aircraft - start with smaller platforms and build/learn/develop from there.
Do these manufactures not realize just how much damage the crapware does to their brand?
They don't care because a big part of their business case for PC products which have razor thin margins and anything that brings in additional revenue is going to be implemented.
I've been using a MacBook Air for three years now as my primary business laptop and have been putting Mint on the few old Windows laptops I have hanging around and building my own systems to avoid the pre-installed malware of "Name" brands like HP. I can't say enough good things about my MacBook Air - I don't use it for code development but for email, presentations and /. posts, it's the best laptop I've ever owned. I just wish the Mac Pages, Numbers and Keynote (as well as Google Apps) worked as well as were completely compatible with the Office equivalents.
Unfortunately, at my daughter's college the faculty push Windows (10!) products with very significant discounts for the students. I've been trying to get her to do her programming work/assignments on a system that I have built and use a MacBook for classes.
Looking at the initial comments there are a lot of naysayers, but just like electric cars (and trucks) are becoming important market segments, electric aircraft will become a significant part of the market. Fuel cost continues to be a big uncertainty and is the major cost item of each flight - reducing this cost by any kind of double digits (ie going to electrical) would be a big win for airlines.
For some reason, the immediate response is that they will not replace the big iron, like B-777s or A-330s but that's not what the initial targets are - I wouldn't be surprised seeing the first electrically powered regional aircraft by 2025 with many flying in the 2030s. Going either further down, light aircraft fuel costs are major detriments for flying schools and air taxi services.
With the experience gained with regional aircraft, improvements in technology (ie battery energy density being the big one) will mean that the big iron aircraft will start going electric in the 2040s.
With old VCRs taping Black and White movies, you could detect a phase shift in the colour burst in the frame and that could be used to stop recording, but it was hit and miss. Another old system was to note an increase in volume (commercials were louder than the show they're being broadcast with).
So, other than needing a lot of CPU cycles, how does Plex do it?
Basically follow the Marvel model, of introducing characters in their own worlds (which in the original pre-Crisis books, there was some intermingling (ie the Flash's Cosmic Treadmill)), develop the characters and their rogue's gallery. Right now, they're throwing everybody together and basically letting God sort it out - "Suicide Squad" was an excellent example of this; Margo Robbie had the stand out performance and made the movie watchable at the expense of putting all the other characters in the shadows (which is unfortunate).
Also, Marvel has an excellent set of anchor hero characters; Iron Man, Captain America, Black Widow, Thor, Nick Fury while DC doesn't and often tends to focus on the villains instead (this is why Michael Keaton dropped out as Batman). Christian Bale wasn't bad as Batman and Nolan's movie followed the model of showing the character, but DC/Warner never figured out how to capitalize on that. They need a better Superman, Henry Cavil looks the part but seems overwhelmed at the size of the character - I always imagined the "real" Superman/Clark Kent/Kal El as being somewhat self-aware and self-deprecating. Gal Godot seems to be the right person for Wonder Woman. Personally, I'm not in love with the current incarnation of the The Flash and it just doesn't ring true to what I thought of the character (in the '70s up to his trial and disappearance). So, I would consider there to be four DC Anchor Heros, Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and The Flash. Unfortunately, I only think they have a Wonder Woman who's up to the task.
I would have thought that "The Crisis on Infinite Earths" would be an excellent point of bringing everybody together with an existential threat followed by everybody learning to working together followed by dealing with a multi-movie arc of dealing with Darkseid and maybe an invasion by Dominators.
If anybody from DC/Warner is reading and takes this to hear, I'd be happy to receive royalties on this concept in $10s and $20s.
The Doc told me so.
If it's enough power to move through time, then there's enough power there to create new isotopes!
IIRC correctly, a transit employee on the train was sufficient to deter and attack and at least mitigate one if it happens by moving to the car where the problem is happening.
Years ago, my brother was involved the design of a light rail program here in Toronto (the "Kenney Line" to Scarborough Town Centre) with the idea that they would run without any transit employees on board.
The idea got nixed when somebody asked what happens if a woman gets assaulted?
I would call these "alcoholic beverages" and not "different types of alcohol".
If I remember my high school chemistry, an "alcohol" is any molecule that ends in "OH" and the only type that doesn't kill a person is "ethanol" and is the active ingredient found in beer, wine, scotch, etc.
Regardless of the mood beverages derived from ethanol makes a person, the result of a person ingesting any of the other forms of alcohol is death. So, don't drink methanol to see what the difference in the high is to something like brandy.
Microwave transmitters do not emit ionizing radiation. Early Klystron based generators did produce X-Rays, but they were largely superseded by designs which did not produce X-Rays as this is a loss of useful output power/transmission inefficiency.
Regardless, in terms of danger; 25mW/cm^2 is where you start feeling heat on your skin after several minutes. Pain is at 1W/cm^2. Burning (ie skin temperature going above 42C) happens at 2.5W/cm^2 but that usually takes 5 minutes or more of exposure.
Radar systems used in cars typically have an output level of 10mW at the source - this decreases as the square of the distance.
A million cars != a million "ionising radiation units". Or maybe they do as I'm assuming "ionising" is a spelling mistake.
That can be simply listed as (in the order that I see them):
- Microsoft as an OS vendor (I know I'll get attacks from various ACs that think any criticism of MS is unfair but they are putting 'way more energy into sucking user's personal data into their servers than protecting said personal data)
- Large service companies with poor security for customer databases (I just saw Uber had a big hack last year that they've been trying to keep quiet).
- The 10% of so of the user population at large which don't have the intelligence to question email/text/phone/Facebook/etc. requests for their personal information.
The remaining 10% would be poorly defined standards (for example IoT) where the possible vectors and impact of security intrusions have not been thought through.
What I was trying to do was bring in Elon Musk - nobody seriously thought about reusable boosters until he spent a few hours (days?) with a spreadsheet seeing if it could work.
We have the science to do many things; unfortunately many of them are dismissed out of hand because they don't seem feasible to the "experts".
Manned or unmanned, which gets more public interest/press?
The guy is 61 years old, seems to be holding down a job from which he is able to save for his hobby. He likes to make grandiose statements but if he's applying the "formulas" (rather than the "science") correctly, he should succeed which means that he's not trying to commit suicide publicly.
I don't think anybody can give odds on his success (especially from the article) but I think, as a society, we've become too risk averse and we need to encourage people like "Mad" Mike to go out there. Maybe there's something to a steam powered booster that makes it more attractive/economical than a traditional rocket - this could be the next 10x reduction in launch costs.
Or it could result in a smoking hole in the ground - but if large corporations (ie ULA) aren't creative enough to try radically new ideas like this, then we need the (slightly) nutty among us to push the ideas forwards even if it puts their lives at risk.
I think it's great that Uber is investing all this money into creating an autonomous driving fleet but I don't see how this will make money for the company in the long (not to mention the short) term. Along with the $1B+ for the Volvos at list price I think it would be fair to add at least another $1B for sensors and software.
So how does this make sense for a company that $6.6B as of June (https://venturebeat.com/2017/08/23/uber-is-still-burning-cash-at-a-rate-of-2-billion-a-year/) and is burning cash at a rate of $2B/year *before* doing this?
If you have a bunch of programmers that can't focus and are looking at their phones every five minutes - why do they have a job in your company?
I've been Yoda coding since 1986, when I first made that mistake.
I know a couple of the PM's I've worked with on software projects in the past will be angry and disappointed at the subject line but I've never seen one that demonstrably added value to a software project/product I've been involved with - most have been detrimental to the overall effort. I can say that I do know a number of PMPs that are critical to hardware and marketing programs and have been vital to their success - I'm leading to a conclusion here.
First off, today it seems like getting a PMP certification is something somebody gets when they've been laid off and there are no jobs on the immediate horizon. I know that seems cynical but there seems a lot of truth to the statement - if you can demonstrate that you've worked slightly more than two years, take four or five courses and write an exam? In less than a month and a couple of thousand you too can have "PMP" on your LinkedIn profile.
I've taken the courses (through work) and they do have some value for general knowledge and if you are going to be managing a project which results in a physical object. Software is an entirely different beast and I believe it's impossible for really anybody to really properly plan out how a project will go. Unlike planning a piece of hardware, the required skills with efficiency are somewhat more nebulous (ie I can state with a high degree of confidence how many bricks at a certain quality level can be laid in an hour - I can't do the same for lines of code, it's highly dependent on the coder, development tools, libraries as well as pre-requisite work being done). To be fair, it's extremely hard to properly quantify coders - which makes planning and managing their progress difficult.
The best team lead I ever had, lived by the following set of rules for every project:
1. Set an expectation for the number of lines of working, debugged and documented code per day to something which seems ridiculously low (in his case it was 10 lines per day per coder) but is actually very realistic when you look at actual historical progress of the team/organization.
1.1. Plan contingency time at the end of the project (he liked 30% of the total project time) for new requirements and unexpected issues.
2. Coders work four days a week with one day for training and meetings. See "Management Time vs Maker Time".
3. Management can't talk to coders about their work. Ever.
4. Requirements/Specifications can't change through the project. That's what the contingency time is for at the end of the project.
5. Have an established test plan - In talking to him recently, he now insists upon implementing automated unit and functional tests that the entire software corpus runs through before any major release.
6. Base the plan and milestones on a reverse of the 80/20 rule - look doing what is going to be needed for the what is normally the last 20% and do it first
6.1. Pushing the requirement for the final UI design to the end of the project. Let marketing pay for prototypes and implement them at the end of the project. If the coders need a UI for testing, then they can cobble something together (and I know of two products where this became the final UI).
7. Accept that shit happens - I still get teased about putting in the statement "if (i = 1) {" thirty years ago in one of our projects which was discovered in testing in which the code mostly worked with the exception of one corner case that bugged a number of us (including him) into spending a week trying to figure out what the problem was.
You don't need a project manager to run a software project following these rules - you need a good, knowledgeable and forceful team lead.
What you're describing is what I would consider a good first line manager/team leader - not a project manager.
The first thing the project management is responsible for is the product, I suppose. Or at least they should work together (closely) with the product manager.
I take exception to this statement - a project manager is not responsible for the product, a project manager is responsible for the process used to develop the product.
Bad project managers think they're responsible for the product and will try to steer the product to meet their goals (ie delivery on time with the initially set costs and resources) while bumping the needs of product management and the customers.
Golly. You shure use dem big words. You a perfesser?
Mebbe you kin splain how's a dummy like can tell the difrence?
I dunno about that. I'm working on Eclipse Kepler for C/C++ (Build id: 20140224-0627) and I just checked the addresses of different threads over multiple restarts and they are at different addresses.
Interesting...