I'm deaf and have been lipreading for more than 40 years. I can confirm these videos are not lip-readable - many words are only half formed (one syllable where there should be two) and the mouth transitions are too jerky. It's a good attempt and I'm positive the tech will just keep getting better, but right now, it's not there yet.
The scary part is that the 'yet' is probably only a couple of years away. Then imagine a world where anyone can create their own production of any person saying anything they like.
...and an Android phone is? (Hint: designed by Google in California)
Well the closest competitor to Apple phones right now is Samsung...
In China and India, half the mobile phone buying population on the planet, Oppo is taking over. I bought one to replace my Samsung Note4 which I ruined, and it does everything I need for 1/4 of the price of Apple/Samsung/Google etc. I think we've reached the 'good enough' level with phone tech, so phones designed and built in China will win the long game.
This is the problem that sums up the fake news phenomenon. "Russia is", "Russia says", What is Russia in this instance? It's not all 144 million Russians just as a Breitbart headline doesn't reflect all 320 millions Americas. It is equally ridiculous to quote America is...America says because something Kanye West thinks.
It is one editors opinion and that is all. Not worthy of wasting energy on, and shame on Slashdot for propagating such trash.
I don't think there's any hidden agenda here. There has to be some definition of urban, and that definition sounds ok to me. What definition would you prefer?
I lived on a farm when I was a kid and we pretty much had a similar definition as another poster in this thread. If you could throw a rock from your porch and reach your neighbours land it was too close. My parents live in a town just over 2500 people and it is urban. It has traffic lights, supermarket, pub and a restaurant or two. That is urban to me.
I've long been a fan of decentralizing electrical power as much as possible. Those long stretches of HV transmission lines with very few if any users is a symptom of a problem. I get into arguments with my NucE friends all the time about this. Smaller, less energy dense power generation is the way to go, without the kaboom risks. While they argued that the power generation must be balls to the wall, economy of scale or not at all; solar and wind have come along and started decentralizing power generation without them.
To a point, and it's all still relatively new so you can't expect new tech to take over immediately. In 50 years we'll look back and laugh at how some people tried to hang on to coal generation and centralised distribution, but for the next 5-10 years at least it's still the most reliable/efficient option.
Even in Asia, people would rather have large houses all else equal.
Well why aren't they living in them? There are plenty of cheaper larger houses out in the country, yet hundreds of millions of people choose to live in the cities and pay more for the privilege.
All things being equal, I'd have a private jet, but things aren't equal. And given things being not equal, which is how real life works, more people choose convenience over space.
Good for you! I lived in Shanghai for 6 years (Qibao town area), and met my wife there. We lived in a big, 80 sq meter apartment. Now we live back in the US, and she and I both greatly prefer having a nice, 220 sq meter house, a nice big backyard, and space around. So do all her friends and family when they come over to visit... Do not conflate "accepting" with "preferring"...
One example, I have examples too.. The point is that not everyone is the same. Millions of people prefer the convenience of high density living with everything at their door, just as millions of others prefer a big house and big yard out in the suburbs. The point is just because you like something, doesn't mean everyone else does.
And based on patterns of migration and average house sizes over the last 50 years, I'd say trend is towards convenience over space.
And it's 2500 for an urban clusters so you need to drill down into the stats and ask yourself, when someone is talking about urban, are they referring to only urban areas or is the statistic also including urban clusters. "Urban area" is easily an overloaded definition with both technical and non-technical definitions.
Non-one talked about urban areas in this thread, so it has no relevance and I'm not even sure why we're talking about it. The discussion is about which modes of transport are best. Clearly in any built environment where density is a factor, then vehicle size is also a factor.
If they trot out the line about most Americans live in an urban area, keep in mind that the definition for that requires only 2500 people. They changed the formal definition a while back, specifically for the census.
Oh wow, you lived in Asia for a few years. You're totally representative of the US population.
I was responding to the claim about "walkable communities" and "many people", so I contributed with my experience of a successful walkable communities with many people in them. Sorry if that rocks your world, but I also spent a short time in Manhattan which is in the US and had a similar experience, so it's not only Asians that can handle walking as part of their preferred mode of transport.
One thing to note is that Australia got to their sad state by using some of the alternatives.
Worth noting that the problems are mostly South Australia the state, not a general geographic area. And the reason is that unlike the US or Europe, Australia's population isn't evenly distributed, so the electricity 'grid' is more like a long string with South Australia at the end of it. When transmission lines went down, the people at the end of the string were screwed, regardless of generation type.
NOT the same thing as telling someone they're REQUIRED to die in the line of duty.
If it happens, it happens. Sure. But expect cops to do everything in their power to minimize the possibility of that happening.
Cops in every other developed nation seem to manage the task ok without routinely killing innocent citizens, what is about American cops that makes them so useless?
So the folks saying "Ha! See, Tesla can't compete with other cars without a special exemption!" are ignoring that Tesla is now working at a handicap, not a level playing field.
Also worth mentioning, most people in Hong Kong don't need cars anyway. The public transport is world class and being so small you can train/bus/walk or even taxi pretty much everywhere quicker and cheaper than driving.
So you didn't view any of the videos published by many bright and informed people because of your snap judgement from a single statement that might be read out of context, by one person?
Higher Education has a long history of being rather left leaning. It is well known that most who are on the left when they are at University become less left wing as they grow older.
True, but it's probably less to do with college and more to do with coming of age. When you reach your late teens you suddenly realise old people have everything and you have nothing, and that's not fair! Equality for all!
Then you get old and accumulate wealth over your life and realise that you earned it and it not fair someone else should take it off you.
I lean further right every year I get older, but I still value higher education as a foundation of any civilised society.
and you'll find far more nuanced interpretations. Some believe that "days" in the Genesis account mean lengthy eras of time...
Who cares. All information is treated equally, ie it is worthless until proven otherwise. The bible has provided zero use so sits in the same pile as the Hungry Caterpillar for scientific value. Regardless of how you interpret the Hungry Caterpillar it will always remain a child's fable.
If a non-profit acts in the public interest, there's an argument for exempting it from taxes. Food banks, homeless shelters, and the like are plainly done for the good of humanity. When it builds giant restricted-access granite buildings to baptize dead people, why do I have to subsidize it?
And molest children. Don't forget the child molestation bit..
That probably wouldn't apply to the NF originals, since they release a whole season at a time.
The Returned was a really good NF original that got cut halfway through the first season. It's extremely disappointing to invest in 10 episodes only to be left hanging...
In other words, people don't want to live in a small apartment, they want a decent sized house, even if it means driving more.
Speak for yourself. I spent a few years in Asia where larger cities have fully adapted to the high density public transport model and a lot of people there prefer it. After living with the convenience of shops, schools, work and transport at your door, I never want to own a car again.
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I'm deaf and have been lipreading for more than 40 years. I can confirm these videos are not lip-readable - many words are only half formed (one syllable where there should be two) and the mouth transitions are too jerky. It's a good attempt and I'm positive the tech will just keep getting better, but right now, it's not there yet.
The scary part is that the 'yet' is probably only a couple of years away. Then imagine a world where anyone can create their own production of any person saying anything they like.
about 25. (25.4)
about 90. (91.44)
And noone except historians use furlongs, chains, cubits, bolts, barleycorn...
Fathoms, however, we still use. In the Navy, possibly in the merchant marine as well. About 1.8m per....
So instead of just remembering 10, I have to now remember 12, 25.4, 91.44, 1.8, 28, 14, 7, 4, 3.8 etc etc. As I said, stupid...
"p>Or compare performance and battery life of the iPhone SE against Chinese 4" phones.
I have an Oppo F1S and it shits on everything my daughters iPhone5S does. And the Oppo was cheaper.
...and an Android phone is? (Hint: designed by Google in California)
Well the closest competitor to Apple phones right now is Samsung...
In China and India, half the mobile phone buying population on the planet, Oppo is taking over. I bought one to replace my Samsung Note4 which I ruined, and it does everything I need for 1/4 of the price of Apple/Samsung/Google etc. I think we've reached the 'good enough' level with phone tech, so phones designed and built in China will win the long game.
This is the problem that sums up the fake news phenomenon. "Russia is", "Russia says", What is Russia in this instance? It's not all 144 million Russians just as a Breitbart headline doesn't reflect all 320 millions Americas. It is equally ridiculous to quote America is...America says because something Kanye West thinks.
It is one editors opinion and that is all. Not worthy of wasting energy on, and shame on Slashdot for propagating such trash.
I don't think there's any hidden agenda here. There has to be some definition of urban, and that definition sounds ok to me. What definition would you prefer? I lived on a farm when I was a kid and we pretty much had a similar definition as another poster in this thread. If you could throw a rock from your porch and reach your neighbours land it was too close. My parents live in a town just over 2500 people and it is urban. It has traffic lights, supermarket, pub and a restaurant or two. That is urban to me.
I've long been a fan of decentralizing electrical power as much as possible. Those long stretches of HV transmission lines with very few if any users is a symptom of a problem. I get into arguments with my NucE friends all the time about this. Smaller, less energy dense power generation is the way to go, without the kaboom risks. While they argued that the power generation must be balls to the wall, economy of scale or not at all; solar and wind have come along and started decentralizing power generation without them.
To a point, and it's all still relatively new so you can't expect new tech to take over immediately. In 50 years we'll look back and laugh at how some people tried to hang on to coal generation and centralised distribution, but for the next 5-10 years at least it's still the most reliable/efficient option.
Even in Asia, people would rather have large houses all else equal.
Well why aren't they living in them? There are plenty of cheaper larger houses out in the country, yet hundreds of millions of people choose to live in the cities and pay more for the privilege. All things being equal, I'd have a private jet, but things aren't equal. And given things being not equal, which is how real life works, more people choose convenience over space.
Good for you! I lived in Shanghai for 6 years (Qibao town area), and met my wife there. We lived in a big, 80 sq meter apartment. Now we live back in the US, and she and I both greatly prefer having a nice, 220 sq meter house, a nice big backyard, and space around. So do all her friends and family when they come over to visit... Do not conflate "accepting" with "preferring"...
One example, I have examples too.. The point is that not everyone is the same. Millions of people prefer the convenience of high density living with everything at their door, just as millions of others prefer a big house and big yard out in the suburbs. The point is just because you like something, doesn't mean everyone else does.
And based on patterns of migration and average house sizes over the last 50 years, I'd say trend is towards convenience over space.
This said by someone who can handle dividing by 10 (SI), but has trouble with dividing by 12 (inches to feet)....
What about mm to inches, or cm to yards, or furlongs, chains, cubits, bolts, fathom, barleycorn or....
And it's 2500 for an urban clusters so you need to drill down into the stats and ask yourself, when someone is talking about urban, are they referring to only urban areas or is the statistic also including urban clusters. "Urban area" is easily an overloaded definition with both technical and non-technical definitions.
Non-one talked about urban areas in this thread, so it has no relevance and I'm not even sure why we're talking about it. The discussion is about which modes of transport are best. Clearly in any built environment where density is a factor, then vehicle size is also a factor.
If they trot out the line about most Americans live in an urban area, keep in mind that the definition for that requires only 2500 people. They changed the formal definition a while back, specifically for the census.
50000 for an urban area, https://www.census.gov/geo/ref...
Oh wow, you lived in Asia for a few years. You're totally representative of the US population.
I was responding to the claim about "walkable communities" and "many people", so I contributed with my experience of a successful walkable communities with many people in them. Sorry if that rocks your world, but I also spent a short time in Manhattan which is in the US and had a similar experience, so it's not only Asians that can handle walking as part of their preferred mode of transport.
One thing to note is that Australia got to their sad state by using some of the alternatives.
Worth noting that the problems are mostly South Australia the state, not a general geographic area. And the reason is that unlike the US or Europe, Australia's population isn't evenly distributed, so the electricity 'grid' is more like a long string with South Australia at the end of it. When transmission lines went down, the people at the end of the string were screwed, regardless of generation type.
NOT the same thing as telling someone they're REQUIRED to die in the line of duty. If it happens, it happens. Sure. But expect cops to do everything in their power to minimize the possibility of that happening.
Cops in every other developed nation seem to manage the task ok without routinely killing innocent citizens, what is about American cops that makes them so useless?
So the folks saying "Ha! See, Tesla can't compete with other cars without a special exemption!" are ignoring that Tesla is now working at a handicap, not a level playing field.
Also worth mentioning, most people in Hong Kong don't need cars anyway. The public transport is world class and being so small you can train/bus/walk or even taxi pretty much everywhere quicker and cheaper than driving.
So you didn't view any of the videos published by many bright and informed people because of your snap judgement from a single statement that might be read out of context, by one person?
Yep because that's how credibility works...
Higher Education has a long history of being rather left leaning. It is well known that most who are on the left when they are at University become less left wing as they grow older.
True, but it's probably less to do with college and more to do with coming of age. When you reach your late teens you suddenly realise old people have everything and you have nothing, and that's not fair! Equality for all!
Then you get old and accumulate wealth over your life and realise that you earned it and it not fair someone else should take it off you.
I lean further right every year I get older, but I still value higher education as a foundation of any civilised society.
and you'll find far more nuanced interpretations. Some believe that "days" in the Genesis account mean lengthy eras of time...
Who cares. All information is treated equally, ie it is worthless until proven otherwise. The bible has provided zero use so sits in the same pile as the Hungry Caterpillar for scientific value. Regardless of how you interpret the Hungry Caterpillar it will always remain a child's fable.
If a non-profit acts in the public interest, there's an argument for exempting it from taxes. Food banks, homeless shelters, and the like are plainly done for the good of humanity. When it builds giant restricted-access granite buildings to baptize dead people, why do I have to subsidize it?
And molest children. Don't forget the child molestation bit..
The Returned
That probably wouldn't apply to the NF originals, since they release a whole season at a time.
The Returned was a really good NF original that got cut halfway through the first season. It's extremely disappointing to invest in 10 episodes only to be left hanging...
I take it you have no understanding of the word "most".
Either him or you. My money is it's you.
Just buy 700C wheels. Even though they're bigger than 26" it's metric so stupid Americans will never work it out...
In other words, people don't want to live in a small apartment, they want a decent sized house, even if it means driving more.
Speak for yourself. I spent a few years in Asia where larger cities have fully adapted to the high density public transport model and a lot of people there prefer it. After living with the convenience of shops, schools, work and transport at your door, I never want to own a car again.