Microwave radiation? Possibility of the battery exploding? Possibility of the smartphone overheating when under humid conditions? My VR headsets do tend to get a bit "steamy" if I have just come home after climbing the stairs.
Even if they do not connect to the public Internet, any home user who has their own private internet for their appliances (smart TV, fridge, toaster, router, garage door and smartphone with bluetooth connectivity) still has the problem of someone trying to guess passwords through repeated attempted connections to each device via wireless connections. How many articles have there been on somebody creating a gadget that simply cycles through every single possible passcode combination?
Even with a personal wifi router, it seems crazy that every device including smartphones should only need to know the one wi-fi password, and that's likely to be backed up somewhere to a Samsung, Sony or Google server somewhere.
The Oculus Rift moves around as you tilt your head. But there are so many cables; USB, motion tracker, HDMI output. I found out that even a high-end gaming laptop won't be usable with this headset if it has Optimus technology on the GPU - this introduces a 15 millisecond time lag which is too much for VR/AR.
Some of the 360 video players will let you use a Bluetooth game controller to pan the view. Important because some 360 videos are actually back to front. I once watched a Storm/Tornado chaser video only to have the back of the car as the front view. It was only when I looked backwards that I saw the actual funnel cloud.
360 video is here if you have an Oculus Rift or Samsung VR Gear. You can get to watch 360 degree videos and interactive applications; travel through the solar system, walk on Mars, Pluto, dive through the clouds of Jupiter/Saturn, swim at the bottom of the ocean, a virtual shark cage, go inside a human brain or cell, a virtual forensic lab, plus a few games like Dreadhalls, Smash, virtual fishing, and other things.
But the headsets are a bit heavy for long term use, and who wants to risk having a hot smartphone right next to their eyes for a long time. So they are great for parties, when everyone else can see what you are seeing.
You can get 3D TV's for less than £500, but have to order the stereoscopic glasses specially, either off Ebay or from the manufacturer directly.
Probably they were just getting the thumbnail image sent back. The full size images stay on the cloud. 3D artist magazines are full of pay-as-you-go remote renderrfarm adverts.
That sounds like the demise of SGI - "people will always buy our expensive workstations because of the little shiny logo on the front". When they were coming out with the Indy workstations, start-up film production companies were building their own render-farms using clustered PC's. It didn't matter if one PC blew up or melted down, the others would pick up the load. Apple managed to edge in by buying up all the video editing software companies. Microsoft bought up Softimage, and SGI bought up Alias|Wavefront. Even then all their markets started moving to desktop PC's.
Performance users would look at cloud computing for extra horsepower. Apple did a presentation where they had hooked up a Mac Pro to a cloud computing server to do video editing in real-time. The old standalone system had a progress bar that moved slowly across the window. The new cloud computing system just did it in real time.
Because the other categories (money laundering, extortion) only applied when the files had been encrypted and a demand made. If the ransomware is loaded onto a computer system, but not activated, there's no crime committed using these categories.
Just the act of loading software onto a PC is now enough evidence for a crime to be considered committed.
For me. it was freaking amazing for me to see a Samsung S2 run 3D texture mapping using an micro-USB to HDMI cable to connect to a 40" widescreen. 20 years ago, you needed a $120K SGI workstation. Now one GPU core will fit into the die space of a single logic gate of a 6502.
Intel need to invest in anti-virus software in order to keep their architecture in use. How big are the virus definition files? 250 Megabytes of data to protect against everything from script kiddies to ransomware. That's more disk space than desktop PC's from the mid 1990's. They have to, otherwise alternative OS with different security models and hardware architectures could take over.
Driverless vehicles depends computer vision at the low level, which in turn depends on parallel processing and embedded supercomputing, and a high level accurate maps and traffic reports for dynamic route planning. Many taxi drivers already use a combination of route planning systems and local radio traffic reports for long distance journeys. They have to compete against Nvidia Jetson and other systems.
For Intel to get into automobile components, they have to compete against ARM CPU's and micro controllers on price/performance and power ratios. They need to provide a CPU that is cheaper than ARM processors that consume less power (watts) with a better performance.
Everyone tends to forget the jobs that have already disappeared over the decades:
elevator operators - a person who would start and stop a vertical elevator of a high-rise office block manually. Would have the experience to anticipate when an important person would need to use the elevator. telephone operators - people who would connect long distance and international phone calls manually. There is a mp4 file of a dozen or more operators all contacting each other to connect someone in Los Angeles to New York traffic lights - these replaced the need to have a police officer at every junction and crossroads automated digital textile looms - these replaced the need for manual operators and allow a digital design artist and a technician to operate 15 multi-color textile machines print workers and the Wapping Street dispute - this is the classic case of what happens when unions refused to accept gradual change. Print workers were employed to place metal typeset onto giant barrel drum printers. One group would create the typeset from shorthand notes made by journalists. Another would strip it down and put the letters back into their relevant pigeonhole boxes ready for the next print. When digital technology came along with WYSIWYG workstations and laser printers, both groups of people wanted equivalent jobs (typing in the shorthand notes into the computer), but that was going to be done by the journalists. If the internet had come along first, they could have moved gradually onto HTML design. work processors and PDF files - these have replaced the need to hire a typist or print shop to do small or medium runs of printing documents servers and mainframes - these replaced the need for large rooms filled with senior and junior clerks who would spend all day operating electric calculators More reliable hardware has eliminated the need for large pools of technicians to maintain IT departments (running around swapping coaxial cable when the flash memory of a network card has a melt down). Fly-by-wire avionics replace the need for a flight engineer Modern navy ships (missile ships/destroyers) have more automated systems, reducing the crew size by over a half
Early Sci-Fi authors worked in the military and academic research, and could see how technology was evolving. The earliest screens in the 1960's used CRT's and light pens to select menus on screens for CAD:
Finger controlled touch-screens became available for infotainment and training systems back in the 1980's. The whole point was that you could update the user interface would having to rewire control panels. All you had to do was update the GUI script files. That was a big improvement over all those dials, meters and levers over those systems from the 1960's and before. Desktop PC innovation in the 1980's was going from CGA to EGA, VGA, SVGA and up to programmable graphics boards (TI TMS340 range). That was getting close to avionics displays where pilots actually preferred the digitally rendered flght instruments rather than the real mechanical systems. VR helmets still consisted of little CRT screens.
If anything, tech companies were far ahead. I remember seeing Sun workstations in the 1980's that had PostScript displays. GUI Windows could be any shape (circular, oval, concave) along with fonts being any size.
If the computers on Star Trek were run by Google, then every time someone activated the main view screen, there would be a 10 second advert, followed by smaller adverts running along the bottom. Whenever someone activated a desktop screen, there would be the spinning disc of downloading.
If they were run by Microsoft, then there would be an "updates available" message appearing every time someone activated a desktop view screen.
Maybe self-driving cars will reduce the need for organ transplants because there will be fewer people with damaged organs. How many people turned to drug or alcohol abuse after being involved in a car accident?
Even the greybeards in my office don't want to use Windows 10 - they don't trust why Microsoft is do determined and hell-bent on getting Windows 10 on every computer system and then install updates willy-nilly along with calling home all the time. Now, there is this incredible pressure to have everything integrated into a network based system accessible from a smartphone or tablet. Even the little gadgets that cyclists or hanglglider pilots use. Everything can be recorded, saved, logged and played back.
Visual Studio is still used for console game development (PS4 and XBox). But that was VS 2012. I've used all the different versions and it is "mutating". It used to be a simple code and compile environment like Turbo C++. Now, there is all the enterprise level code development, cross-compilation. There were always options to use third party compilers, so it has become more of a framework GUI than a compiler.
Why are all user ID's and article scores in binary notation? Is there some option to change the base to decimal, octal, hexadecimal or some other language like Vai?
Companies like Sun, Google, Facebook wanted to get people off the desktop because it helped Microsoft and Linux. Get everyone onto smartphones, that helps push Java, kills off the desktop (X-windows/Windows along with C++ development and those horrible pointers), Once applications are on the browser, they are cross-platform on everything.
Now, Microsoft wants to push a development environment that allows cross-platform applications development (Xamarin) using the desktop. That's their way of fighting back.
Spaghetti and all types of pasta - manufactured by machines, pasta gets squeezed through various shaped nozzles and turned into shapes. Bolognaise - made from mince which in turn is made from meat that has been automatically sliced up. Other items are canned automatically. Ordering of cooking ingredients used by the kitchen is done through electronic systems. The payment of meals is done automatically through the banking system. Some restaurants have the wireless credit card readers. Ordering of meals can be done electronically or through a waiter/waitress.
But the sheer number of combinations of meals, ingredients, spices, proportions of ingredients, cooking times, placement on a plate is so large that no one chef can know them all. So they have job security.
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Microwave radiation? Possibility of the battery exploding? Possibility of the smartphone overheating when under humid conditions? My VR headsets do tend to get a bit "steamy" if I have just come home after climbing the stairs.
A firewall around every single wi-fi/bluetooth connected device?
Even if they do not connect to the public Internet, any home user who has their own private internet for their appliances (smart TV, fridge, toaster, router, garage door and smartphone with bluetooth connectivity) still has the problem of someone trying to guess passwords through repeated attempted connections to each device via wireless connections. How many articles have there been on somebody creating a gadget that simply cycles through every single possible passcode combination?
Even with a personal wifi router, it seems crazy that every device including smartphones should only need to know the one wi-fi password, and that's likely to be backed up somewhere to a Samsung, Sony or Google server somewhere.
The Oculus Rift moves around as you tilt your head. But there are so many cables; USB, motion tracker, HDMI output. I found out that even a high-end gaming laptop won't be usable with this headset if it has Optimus technology on the GPU - this introduces a 15 millisecond time lag which is too much for VR/AR.
Some of the 360 video players will let you use a Bluetooth game controller to pan the view. Important because some 360 videos are actually back to front. I once watched a Storm/Tornado chaser video only to have the back of the car as the front view. It was only when I looked backwards that I saw the actual funnel cloud.
360 video is here if you have an Oculus Rift or Samsung VR Gear. You can get to watch 360 degree videos and interactive applications; travel through the solar system, walk on Mars, Pluto, dive through the clouds of Jupiter/Saturn, swim at the bottom of the ocean, a virtual shark cage, go inside a human brain or cell, a virtual forensic lab, plus a few games like Dreadhalls, Smash, virtual fishing, and other things.
But the headsets are a bit heavy for long term use, and who wants to risk having a hot smartphone right next to their eyes for a long time. So they are great for parties, when everyone else can see what you are seeing.
You can get 3D TV's for less than £500, but have to order the stereoscopic glasses specially, either off Ebay or from the manufacturer directly.
Probably they were just getting the thumbnail image sent back. The full size images stay on the cloud. 3D artist magazines are full of pay-as-you-go remote renderrfarm adverts.
Then just send an attachment as a picture or a PDF document, or a link to an online PDF document.
That sounds like the demise of SGI - "people will always buy our expensive workstations because of the little shiny logo on the front". When they were coming out with the Indy workstations, start-up film production companies were building their own render-farms using clustered PC's. It didn't matter if one PC blew up or melted down, the others would pick up the load. Apple managed to edge in by buying up all the video editing software companies. Microsoft bought up Softimage, and SGI bought up Alias|Wavefront. Even then all their markets started moving to desktop PC's.
Performance users would look at cloud computing for extra horsepower. Apple did a presentation where they had hooked up a Mac Pro to a cloud computing server to do video editing in real-time. The old standalone system had a progress bar that moved slowly across the window. The new cloud computing system just did it in real time.
Because the other categories (money laundering, extortion) only applied when the files had been encrypted and a demand made. If the ransomware is loaded onto a computer system, but not activated, there's no crime committed using these categories.
Just the act of loading software onto a PC is now enough evidence for a crime to be considered committed.
For me. it was freaking amazing for me to see a Samsung S2 run 3D texture mapping using an micro-USB to HDMI cable to connect to a 40" widescreen. 20 years ago, you needed a $120K SGI workstation. Now one GPU core will fit into the die space of a single logic gate of a 6502.
Intel need to invest in anti-virus software in order to keep their architecture in use. How big are the virus definition files? 250 Megabytes of data to protect against everything from script kiddies to ransomware. That's more disk space than desktop PC's from the mid 1990's. They have to, otherwise alternative OS with different security models and hardware architectures could take over.
Driverless vehicles depends computer vision at the low level, which in turn depends on parallel processing and embedded supercomputing, and a high level accurate maps and traffic reports for dynamic route planning. Many taxi drivers already use a combination of route planning systems and local radio traffic reports for long distance journeys. They have to compete against Nvidia Jetson and other systems.
For Intel to get into automobile components, they have to compete against ARM CPU's and micro controllers on price/performance and power ratios. They need to provide a CPU that is cheaper than ARM processors that consume less power (watts) with a better performance.
Everyone tends to forget the jobs that have already disappeared over the decades:
elevator operators - a person who would start and stop a vertical elevator of a high-rise office block manually. Would have the experience to anticipate when an important person would need to use the elevator.
telephone operators - people who would connect long distance and international phone calls manually. There is a mp4 file of a dozen or more operators all contacting each other to connect someone in Los Angeles to New York
traffic lights - these replaced the need to have a police officer at every junction and crossroads
automated digital textile looms - these replaced the need for manual operators and allow a digital design artist and a technician to operate 15 multi-color textile machines
print workers and the Wapping Street dispute - this is the classic case of what happens when unions refused to accept gradual change. Print workers were employed to place metal typeset onto giant barrel drum printers. One group would create the typeset from shorthand notes made by journalists. Another would strip it down and put the letters back into their relevant pigeonhole boxes ready for the next print. When digital technology came along with WYSIWYG workstations and laser printers, both groups of people wanted equivalent jobs (typing in the shorthand notes into the computer), but that was going to be done by the journalists. If the internet had come along first, they could have moved gradually onto HTML design.
work processors and PDF files - these have replaced the need to hire a typist or print shop to do small or medium runs of printing documents
servers and mainframes - these replaced the need for large rooms filled with senior and junior clerks who would spend all day operating electric calculators
More reliable hardware has eliminated the need for large pools of technicians to maintain IT departments (running around swapping coaxial cable when the flash memory of a network card has a melt down).
Fly-by-wire avionics replace the need for a flight engineer
Modern navy ships (missile ships/destroyers) have more automated systems, reducing the crew size by over a half
Early Sci-Fi authors worked in the military and academic research, and could see how technology was evolving. The earliest screens in the 1960's used CRT's and light pens to select menus on screens for CAD:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse...
Finger controlled touch-screens became available for infotainment and training systems back in the 1980's. The whole point was that you could update the user interface would having to rewire control panels. All you had to do was update the GUI script files. That was a big improvement over all those dials, meters and levers over those systems from the 1960's and before. Desktop PC innovation in the 1980's was going from CGA to EGA, VGA, SVGA and up to programmable graphics boards (TI TMS340 range). That was getting close to avionics displays where pilots actually preferred the digitally rendered flght instruments rather than the real mechanical systems. VR helmets still consisted of little CRT screens.
If anything, tech companies were far ahead. I remember seeing Sun workstations in the 1980's that had PostScript displays. GUI Windows could be any shape (circular, oval, concave) along with fonts being any size.
If the computers on Star Trek were run by Google, then every time someone activated the main view screen, there would be a 10 second advert, followed by smaller adverts running along the bottom. Whenever someone activated a desktop screen, there would be the spinning disc of downloading.
If they were run by Microsoft, then there would be an "updates available" message appearing every time someone activated a desktop view screen.
"Bright Eyes" - that song is one of the strongest sad songs that I know of.
Maybe self-driving cars will reduce the need for organ transplants because there will be fewer people with damaged organs. How many people turned to drug or alcohol abuse after being involved in a car accident?
Then there is Repo! The Genetic Opera
There are some people with prosthetic ears that are held in place with magnets. How will those interact?
Even the greybeards in my office don't want to use Windows 10 - they don't trust why Microsoft is do determined and hell-bent on getting Windows 10 on every computer system and then install updates willy-nilly along with calling home all the time. Now, there is this incredible pressure to have everything integrated into a network based system accessible from a smartphone or tablet. Even the little gadgets that cyclists or hanglglider pilots use. Everything can be recorded, saved, logged and played back.
Visual Studio is still used for console game development (PS4 and XBox). But that was VS 2012. I've used all the different versions and it is "mutating". It used to be a simple code and compile environment like Turbo C++. Now, there is all the enterprise level code development, cross-compilation. There were always options to use third party compilers, so it has become more of a framework GUI than a compiler.
Why are all user ID's and article scores in binary notation? Is there some option to change the base to decimal, octal, hexadecimal or some other language like Vai?
Companies like Sun, Google, Facebook wanted to get people off the desktop because it helped Microsoft and Linux. Get everyone onto smartphones, that helps push Java, kills off the desktop (X-windows/Windows along with C++ development and those horrible pointers), Once applications are on the browser, they are cross-platform on everything.
Now, Microsoft wants to push a development environment that allows cross-platform applications development (Xamarin) using the desktop. That's their way of fighting back.
There is the H-R diagram - it's a graph of luminosity vs. temperature in Kelvin
http://www.universetoday.com/5...
A white dwarf is anywhere between 1/10,000th the size of our Sun and the size of the Sun. It can also be the same temperature or five times hotter.
Astronomers do look at the electromagnetic spectrum of the star, but only certain elements show up at different temperatures:
http://www.pic2fly.com/viewima...
Oxygen only shows up at 7000K and below 3000K
... It used to upload your local username as well as your network name to their systems.
Spaghetti and all types of pasta - manufactured by machines, pasta gets squeezed through various shaped nozzles and turned into shapes. Bolognaise - made from mince which in turn is made from meat that has been automatically sliced up. Other items are canned automatically. Ordering of cooking ingredients used by the kitchen is done through electronic systems. The payment of meals is done automatically through the banking system. Some restaurants have the wireless credit card readers. Ordering of meals can be done electronically or through a waiter/waitress.
But the sheer number of combinations of meals, ingredients, spices, proportions of ingredients, cooking times, placement on a plate is so large that no one chef can know them all. So they have job security.