Wringing your hands like a worried old grandmother over media-driven bullshit isn't particularly smart either and I reject it entirely, and furthermore encourage everyone else to do the same. Everything anymore is all hype and bullshit intended to stir everyone up and it's usually over nothing. Clickbait, and spreading FUD for ratings. Screw all that.
You probably believe that 'AI will surpass humans' and that 'the Singularity is coming'.
READ MY LIPS: Nothing is ever as good as actually being there. Period.
Try getting out of the basement once in a while and going OUTSIDE; I hear the resolution is amazing.
I don't believe in this motherfucking 'robot revolution', it's all hype and nonsense, and nobody else should believe it either. Clickbait at best, fake news at worst. FUD in any event. Nothing to see here..
Because shit-quality streaming over some shitty phone is nothing like actually being there, and by the way that's a shitty example to start with. The article for once makes sense and I hope companies listen to it.
..But, AC, that would mean you're not drinking the corporate Kool-Aid that makes you want to pay, Pay, PAY every month forever and ever! You'll make the Baby Jesus cry! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!1!
All these 'cord cutters' who think they were so smart by moving to 'streaming' everything are now starting to see the potential for abuse inherent in it, and the bait-and-switch, first-taste-is-free strategy is turning on them. Streaming services are charging more and more, approaching the diminishing returns point for subscribers. Glad I never fell for that.
1. What TFA is describing sounds an awful lot, if I'm not mistaken, like the same techniques that GPS uses to acquire a position fix, except on a very much smaller scale, due to the extremely limited range of Bluetooth. A 'constellation' of Bluetooth 'satellite' transmitters within a defined area could be configured with appropriate 'ephemeris' data describing their physical situation within that space, which combined with the techniques described, would provide a very accurate position fix within that space. At least 3 'satellites' and you have a good 2D fix, and perhaps a reasonable 3D fix (more transmitters at different 'altitudes', perhaps?); more satellites placed properly, the better the accuracy.
2. Where this would be useful, you might ask? Some of the ideas other commentors in this thread have floated are: Virtual Reality, In-store position sensing of shoppers for purposes of serving specifically-targeted ads (depending on what aisle you're in, for instance), and (of course) gathering of marketing data on shoppers, based on where they go in the store, where they stop and for how long, and so on. Of course, how much this technology would invade your privacy would depend entirely on the implementation of the smartphone app and how much data it's collecting and transmitting, and of course what the receiver of that data decides to do with it.
Yes, this too, and it's the first thing I thought of. Another thing was what someone else thought of: VR.
In this case, considering the short range of BT in general, I'd think it'd be useful for determining the exact position of shoppers in, say, one of these unattended stores that companies like Amazon (?) are trying out. Also, feeding a shopper specific ads while in a store, and, of course, collecting more marketing data on shoppers while they're in a store, like what aisles they went to, how long they stayed there, where they stopped and for how long, and so on.
..VR controllers
Well, that answers one of my questions about this, at least: what this would be useful for.
True, if you have a constellation of at least 3 transmitters/antennas, preferably spaced about 120 degrees apart, then you'd at least have a 2D position fix within the coverage area, and if it's really centimeter accuracy, then that's probably close enough for consumer VR applications, although more than 3 would be better. Put them at different 'altitudes', and you'd likely have enough for a decent 3D position fix. Place antennas on hands and feet, and you'd have not only position fix for the person involved, but positioning for limbs. Place an entire group of antennas and BT transceivers on a person, say, as part of a suit, similar to how they do 3D motion capture for movies, and you'd have complete 3D modelling using this technology -- although rather expensively done, I'd think.
The 'story' as posted is more-or-less copypasted from TFS, so your posting a complaint about how 'nobody reads TFS', you're more-or-less admitting that you didn't read TFS, either.
We clearly and objectively need to collectively get over the Nuclear Boogie-man mentality, redesign fission reactors using more innovative designs to make them simpler, less expensive, and more foolproof, and start building them again.
Shit like this is their damned fault. You may not be able to legislate morality or religion, but you can for damned sure legislate criminal stupidity.
Give people one last chance to voluntarily vaccinate their kids, and after that, jail time, a fine, and you vaccinate the kid(s) anyway, by court order.
Blah blah blah WORDS blah blah blah INSULTS blah blah blah AD HOMINEM blah blah blah
Ah, shut the fuck up, Trump voter. You were so compulsively focused on "sticking it to the liberals" that you didn't bother to vet your own fucking candidate before voting for him, and now he's junglefucking the country and it's YOUR FAULT as much as his and you damned well know it. Go kill yourself.
Oh, not to worry, climate-change deniers, religious types, greedy bastards, and whoever else effectively doesn't give a fuck about what happens to the Earth, it's got it's own failsafe plan to save itself: the die-back of the Human species. You people keep going the way all of you are going, and at some point there won't be enough resources to sustain everyone, and there will be a massive die-back of our species, along with the fall of our civilization -- likely hastened by the wars that you'll fight over what usable land and resources are left. So, eventually, the Earth will survive and recover -- but we'll either not be here to see it, or there'll be only a fraction of us left. I won't be here to see that happen, none of us will, but I almost wish I would be just to see the look on the religious zealots' faces when they realize that Zombie Jesus ain't coming to 'take them home' and that they have to live with the mess they've made of things...
...or, you can all stop being idiots about this and stop fucking everything up, starting now. Your choice.
Mister Trump, you must be choking a little right now from the smell of all the smoking guns that surround you. I'd be panicking more than a little if I were you, too.
How can you know the overall agenda doesn't include 'owning' open-source everything to the point where they just turn around and invalidate all the open-source licensing and own it outright, or more likely, control open-source to the point where if you're not Microsoft, then you can't do anything of value with it anymore? Seriously when you have a whole fleet of attorneys at your disposal you can do just about anything.
'Open source' is a threat to Microsoft profits therefore acquiring and destroying Open Source is on their 'to do' list. Microsoft wants to be the one and only source of an operating system and software in the world and they don't care what they have to do to achieve that.
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Wringing your hands like a worried old grandmother over media-driven bullshit isn't particularly smart either and I reject it entirely, and furthermore encourage everyone else to do the same. Everything anymore is all hype and bullshit intended to stir everyone up and it's usually over nothing. Clickbait, and spreading FUD for ratings. Screw all that.
Get the fuck out of our lives you assholes.
You probably believe that 'AI will surpass humans' and that 'the Singularity is coming'.
READ MY LIPS: Nothing is ever as good as actually being there . Period.
Try getting out of the basement once in a while and going OUTSIDE; I hear the resolution is amazing.
I don't believe in this motherfucking 'robot revolution', it's all hype and nonsense, and nobody else should believe it either. Clickbait at best, fake news at worst. FUD in any event. Nothing to see here..
Because shit-quality streaming over some shitty phone is nothing like actually being there, and by the way that's a shitty example to start with. The article for once makes sense and I hope companies listen to it.
..But, AC, that would mean you're not drinking the corporate Kool-Aid that makes you want to pay, Pay, PAY every month forever and ever! You'll make the Baby Jesus cry! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!1!
All these 'cord cutters' who think they were so smart by moving to 'streaming' everything are now starting to see the potential for abuse inherent in it, and the bait-and-switch, first-taste-is-free strategy is turning on them. Streaming services are charging more and more, approaching the diminishing returns point for subscribers. Glad I never fell for that.
1. What TFA is describing sounds an awful lot, if I'm not mistaken, like the same techniques that GPS uses to acquire a position fix, except on a very much smaller scale, due to the extremely limited range of Bluetooth. A 'constellation' of Bluetooth 'satellite' transmitters within a defined area could be configured with appropriate 'ephemeris' data describing their physical situation within that space, which combined with the techniques described, would provide a very accurate position fix within that space. At least 3 'satellites' and you have a good 2D fix, and perhaps a reasonable 3D fix (more transmitters at different 'altitudes', perhaps?); more satellites placed properly, the better the accuracy.
2. Where this would be useful, you might ask? Some of the ideas other commentors in this thread have floated are: Virtual Reality, In-store position sensing of shoppers for purposes of serving specifically-targeted ads (depending on what aisle you're in, for instance), and (of course) gathering of marketing data on shoppers, based on where they go in the store, where they stop and for how long, and so on. Of course, how much this technology would invade your privacy would depend entirely on the implementation of the smartphone app and how much data it's collecting and transmitting, and of course what the receiver of that data decides to do with it.
Yes, this too, and it's the first thing I thought of. Another thing was what someone else thought of: VR.
In this case, considering the short range of BT in general, I'd think it'd be useful for determining the exact position of shoppers in, say, one of these unattended stores that companies like Amazon (?) are trying out. Also, feeding a shopper specific ads while in a store, and, of course, collecting more marketing data on shoppers while they're in a store, like what aisles they went to, how long they stayed there, where they stopped and for how long, and so on.
..VR controllers
Well, that answers one of my questions about this, at least: what this would be useful for.
True, if you have a constellation of at least 3 transmitters/antennas, preferably spaced about 120 degrees apart, then you'd at least have a 2D position fix within the coverage area, and if it's really centimeter accuracy, then that's probably close enough for consumer VR applications, although more than 3 would be better. Put them at different 'altitudes', and you'd likely have enough for a decent 3D position fix. Place antennas on hands and feet, and you'd have not only position fix for the person involved, but positioning for limbs. Place an entire group of antennas and BT transceivers on a person, say, as part of a suit, similar to how they do 3D motion capture for movies, and you'd have complete 3D modelling using this technology -- although rather expensively done, I'd think.
The 'story' as posted is more-or-less copypasted from TFS, so your posting a complaint about how 'nobody reads TFS', you're more-or-less admitting that you didn't read TFS, either.
Now shut down the rest of it, and burn it all to cinders.
Blah blah blah WORDS blah blah blah INSULTS blah blah blah AD HOMINEM blah blah blah
Do you actually think you're clever or smart or something? LOL.
We clearly and objectively need to collectively get over the Nuclear Boogie-man mentality, redesign fission reactors using more innovative designs to make them simpler, less expensive, and more foolproof, and start building them again.
Shit like this is their damned fault. You may not be able to legislate morality or religion, but you can for damned sure legislate criminal stupidity.
Give people one last chance to voluntarily vaccinate their kids, and after that, jail time, a fine, and you vaccinate the kid(s) anyway, by court order.
'nuff said.
..then burn the pieces and scatter the ashes. Zuckerberg, too.
Blah blah blah WORDS blah blah blah INSULTS blah blah blah AD HOMINEM blah blah blah
Ah, shut the fuck up, Trump voter. You were so compulsively focused on "sticking it to the liberals" that you didn't bother to vet your own fucking candidate before voting for him, and now he's junglefucking the country and it's YOUR FAULT as much as his and you damned well know it. Go kill yourself.
Sez you. We'll see won't we?
Oh, not to worry, climate-change deniers, religious types, greedy bastards, and whoever else effectively doesn't give a fuck about what happens to the Earth, it's got it's own failsafe plan to save itself: the die-back of the Human species. You people keep going the way all of you are going, and at some point there won't be enough resources to sustain everyone, and there will be a massive die-back of our species, along with the fall of our civilization -- likely hastened by the wars that you'll fight over what usable land and resources are left. So, eventually, the Earth will survive and recover -- but we'll either not be here to see it, or there'll be only a fraction of us left. I won't be here to see that happen, none of us will, but I almost wish I would be just to see the look on the religious zealots' faces when they realize that Zombie Jesus ain't coming to 'take them home' and that they have to live with the mess they've made of things...
...or, you can all stop being idiots about this and stop fucking everything up, starting now. Your choice.
Mister Trump, you must be choking a little right now from the smell of all the smoking guns that surround you. I'd be panicking more than a little if I were you, too.
Okay that worked but it won't read the COM port it needs to read to work. :-(
Oh look the Microsoft shills have mod points! Assholes.
How can you know the overall agenda doesn't include 'owning' open-source everything to the point where they just turn around and invalidate all the open-source licensing and own it outright, or more likely, control open-source to the point where if you're not Microsoft, then you can't do anything of value with it anymore? Seriously when you have a whole fleet of attorneys at your disposal you can do just about anything.
Nothing to see here..
'Open source' is a threat to Microsoft profits therefore acquiring and destroying Open Source is on their 'to do' list. Microsoft wants to be the one and only source of an operating system and software in the world and they don't care what they have to do to achieve that.