I suspect that Contributor will also disable ads on Google Maps... we'll have to wait and see.
BTW: I've been using Contributor for over a year now... it's a great way to support the sites I hit often (like Slashdot) while removing ads. It currently shows that I've contributed nearly $30 to Slashdot over the last year... which sounds just about right for what I would want to pay for Slashdot...
Been using Google Maps since the beginning... it's an awesome product that I've never paid a dime for (other than having Google scrape my geo-search related data). I don't mind seeing a few "sponsored pins" here and there.
Google has always done a good job with unintrusive ads... and I will give them the benefit of the doubt here.
I'm a professional developing high-performance, scientific simulation software. My entire development team (which is about 50 scientists) all use 15" MBPs and MacPro desktops... all backed by large linux clusters for the heavy lifting.
MBPs are just the perfect mix of power and portability.
As long as they keep battery life about the same I would love for mine to be thinner and lighter. We travel a lot for conferences and meetings and any weight savings is always a blessing.
I always find it funny that people think "pros" want a huge Dell brick of a laptop...
I agree with this. I use the the function keys as function keys and have it toggled as needing the Fn key for volume/brightness/etc. I have almost all of the Function keys mapped to things in Emacs...
That said... I wouldn't mind replacing the Function keys with a touch sensitive OLED strip. It would let me put my own icons there to represent what I want those "keys" to do.... it could even allow them to change depending on the application. Sounds pretty cool to me.
It's a good thought... but deep drilling is also very difficult and expensive... and while you may not need to maintain track... a borehole has just as many issues with cave-in.
I really hope they don't do it from a single perspective with an ability to move around. I would definitely pay for 10 minutes of walking around inside of a movie within a 15 ft x 15 ft space. That would be truly awesome.
Already being done. Voice over LTE (VoLTE) is a HUGE step up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... . It's been supported on iPhones for a few years now (and I'm sure Android as well, I just don't have any experience there) and it makes an enormous difference when you're talking to someone else that has the capability.
The next version of it is Wideband Audio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... . It's already available on Sprint and T-mobile in the US.
What I keep wondering is: why do we _never_ see a single political candidate say anything close to this? Is it really impossible for a decent, normal human being to want to be in politics?
I'm actually starting to think about running myself (and my views fit yours perfectly). It's crazy that the world has come down to the choices we currently have for President... all it shows is just how divided we truly are.
I've been saying this for years. I refuse to use any sort of "germ blowing" device in the bathroom. If there are no paper towels... i simply just dry my hands on my pants or move on with slightly moist hands. Only takes a couple of minutes for them to dry anyway...
It's already been stated many times - but $35k is the average selling price of a car in the US. If that isn't the mark of "affordability"... then what is?
$35k with financing is ~$600 a month. If you look at this advice from Consumer Reports ( http://www.consumerreports.org... ) it says you should be making ~$75k a year to afford this car. $75k for a household is not "rich" in my book. It's "doing well"... but MANY people will be able to "afford" this car.
They said "affordable"... they didn't say "cheap".
Nice! I haven't heard a first-hand story of winter travel in a Tesla yet. I figured it would work well with the 4WD system... but it's really interesting to hear about the battery issues.
Makes sense to me. If you watch some of the Periscopes that are going up with people riding in the car you can see that there is a special mode for the screen where it puts a speedometer and other instruments in the upper left hand corner.
I think it's going to be really nice not to have all of that "junk" right in your main view.
Also: remember that with things like adaptive cruise control and autopilot... we won't really need to look at the speedometer quite as much anymore...
I expect that MANY... very MANY people in the US can afford to buy this car.
Google has a "car payment calculator" (just google that and it will come up). It says the payments will be $600 for a 5 year loan at ~3% interest. That's only $7,200 a year. So anyone making more than that a year can "afford" one (that's the TRUE American way!:-)
This is all definitely making me happy I'm on Verizon FIOS. It is expensive... but I get full bi-directional 75 Mbps that is rock solid and with zero caps. I've had it for almost 2 years now and I can't list even one complaint (ok, it is pricey... but you get what you pay for!)
I mainly use IFTTT in concert with my Hue lighting (which is all through my house). Here are my main observations:
1. It is _really_ slow. Like terribly slow. I have a Recipe on there to change the color of my lights when my favorite football team starts a game... it usually changes the lights sometime during the second quarter! Useless
2. The fact that there is only one "if" clause damns it into being just a "toy". For instance, it can turn my lights on and off as I come and go from my house. Awesome, right? NO. It doesn't take into account that _other_ people live in the house! There is no way to say "if I come home and no one else is there turn on the lights". This leads to situations like me getting back from hanging out with my friends at 1AM and IFTTT happily blasting all the lights in our house while my wife is trying to sleep!
My advice: partner with one of the national labs. In the nuclear energy area we have NEUP proposals that give small research grants to universities... the other major thing it does is allows them to access the national lab's supercomputing facilities.
I'm sure that the department of energy has programs related to weather forecasting that would allow you to get access to the nation lab's computing facilities. Feel free to message me and I'll see if I can help find some resources. The resources definitely exist... just gotta get you hooked up with them.
Just went and read the article... looks like some great work! Very apt work too... my parent's (who live in the Dallas area) just shared a video of HUGE hail that hit them just tonight. Incredibly dangerous storms... so it's great to see that good, predictive simulation is being developed to forecast it!
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Possibly - but Google already has a way to pay to opt-out of ads across the internet: https://www.google.com/contrib...
I suspect that Contributor will also disable ads on Google Maps... we'll have to wait and see.
BTW: I've been using Contributor for over a year now... it's a great way to support the sites I hit often (like Slashdot) while removing ads. It currently shows that I've contributed nearly $30 to Slashdot over the last year... which sounds just about right for what I would want to pay for Slashdot...
Been using Google Maps since the beginning... it's an awesome product that I've never paid a dime for (other than having Google scrape my geo-search related data). I don't mind seeing a few "sponsored pins" here and there.
Google has always done a good job with unintrusive ads... and I will give them the benefit of the doubt here.
Why not? It's still hitting Google's infrastructure. Just because the outcome is somewhat "known" that doesn't mean it's any easier for Google...
Completely agree with your entire post.
I'm a professional developing high-performance, scientific simulation software. My entire development team (which is about 50 scientists) all use 15" MBPs and MacPro desktops... all backed by large linux clusters for the heavy lifting.
MBPs are just the perfect mix of power and portability.
As long as they keep battery life about the same I would love for mine to be thinner and lighter. We travel a lot for conferences and meetings and any weight savings is always a blessing.
I always find it funny that people think "pros" want a huge Dell brick of a laptop...
I agree with this. I use the the function keys as function keys and have it toggled as needing the Fn key for volume/brightness/etc. I have almost all of the Function keys mapped to things in Emacs...
That said... I wouldn't mind replacing the Function keys with a touch sensitive OLED strip. It would let me put my own icons there to represent what I want those "keys" to do.... it could even allow them to change depending on the application. Sounds pretty cool to me.
Not a terrible idea. MIT has been working on the opposite idea (capturing heat in boxes to heat houses) for a long time:
https://www.technologyreview.c...
http://web.mit.edu/solardecath...
Obviously it hasn't been awesome yet (we're not all using that in our houses yet!)... but many smart people still think this idea has some legs...
It's a good thought... but deep drilling is also very difficult and expensive... and while you may not need to maintain track... a borehole has just as many issues with cave-in.
I really hope they don't do it from a single perspective with an ability to move around. I would definitely pay for 10 minutes of walking around inside of a movie within a 15 ft x 15 ft space. That would be truly awesome.
Already being done. Voice over LTE (VoLTE) is a HUGE step up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... . It's been supported on iPhones for a few years now (and I'm sure Android as well, I just don't have any experience there) and it makes an enormous difference when you're talking to someone else that has the capability.
The next version of it is Wideband Audio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... . It's already available on Sprint and T-mobile in the US.
However, I wish there was some "opt in" filtering. I would turn off absolutely every post that in any way relates to the election.
I hate all of the candidates and really don't care to see both extremists going at it on Facebook...
Well said.
What I keep wondering is: why do we _never_ see a single political candidate say anything close to this? Is it really impossible for a decent, normal human being to want to be in politics?
I'm actually starting to think about running myself (and my views fit yours perfectly). It's crazy that the world has come down to the choices we currently have for President... all it shows is just how divided we truly are.
I've been saying this for years. I refuse to use any sort of "germ blowing" device in the bathroom. If there are no paper towels... i simply just dry my hands on my pants or move on with slightly moist hands. Only takes a couple of minutes for them to dry anyway...
lol.
That is all. I just needed to let you know that I was literally laughing-out-loud at this.
Absolutely spot on. It felt great to see one of these asshats with the ridiculous negative hyperboles around here get called out.
Well done.
Where did you see that? I haven't seen anything like that and my bill certainly hasn't changed (yet!).
It's already been stated many times - but $35k is the average selling price of a car in the US. If that isn't the mark of "affordability"... then what is?
$35k with financing is ~$600 a month. If you look at this advice from Consumer Reports ( http://www.consumerreports.org... ) it says you should be making ~$75k a year to afford this car. $75k for a household is not "rich" in my book. It's "doing well"... but MANY people will be able to "afford" this car.
They said "affordable"... they didn't say "cheap".
Nice! I haven't heard a first-hand story of winter travel in a Tesla yet. I figured it would work well with the 4WD system... but it's really interesting to hear about the battery issues.
Thanks for the post!
Makes sense to me. If you watch some of the Periscopes that are going up with people riding in the car you can see that there is a special mode for the screen where it puts a speedometer and other instruments in the upper left hand corner.
I think it's going to be really nice not to have all of that "junk" right in your main view.
Also: remember that with things like adaptive cruise control and autopilot... we won't really need to look at the speedometer quite as much anymore...
Here's a fairly recent article that says ~$35k is the average selling price of a new car: http://www.usatoday.com/story/...
I expect that MANY... very MANY people in the US can afford to buy this car.
Google has a "car payment calculator" (just google that and it will come up). It says the payments will be $600 for a 5 year loan at ~3% interest. That's only $7,200 a year. So anyone making more than that a year can "afford" one (that's the TRUE American way! :-)
There will be an all-wheel-drive version. With some snow tires I would expect it to do well.
That said - it does sit rather low... so you won't be driving it through very deep snow!
This is all definitely making me happy I'm on Verizon FIOS. It is expensive... but I get full bi-directional 75 Mbps that is rock solid and with zero caps. I've had it for almost 2 years now and I can't list even one complaint (ok, it is pricey... but you get what you pay for!)
I mainly use IFTTT in concert with my Hue lighting (which is all through my house). Here are my main observations:
1. It is _really_ slow. Like terribly slow. I have a Recipe on there to change the color of my lights when my favorite football team starts a game... it usually changes the lights sometime during the second quarter! Useless
2. The fact that there is only one "if" clause damns it into being just a "toy". For instance, it can turn my lights on and off as I come and go from my house. Awesome, right? NO. It doesn't take into account that _other_ people live in the house! There is no way to say "if I come home and no one else is there turn on the lights". This leads to situations like me getting back from hanging out with my friends at 1AM and IFTTT happily blasting all the lights in our house while my wife is trying to sleep!
IFTTT is a toy. It's a poor toy at that.
mdsolar: He must submit hundreds of anti-nuclear stories a day...
My advice: partner with one of the national labs. In the nuclear energy area we have NEUP proposals that give small research grants to universities... the other major thing it does is allows them to access the national lab's supercomputing facilities.
I'm sure that the department of energy has programs related to weather forecasting that would allow you to get access to the nation lab's computing facilities. Feel free to message me and I'll see if I can help find some resources. The resources definitely exist... just gotta get you hooked up with them.
Just went and read the article... looks like some great work! Very apt work too... my parent's (who live in the Dallas area) just shared a video of HUGE hail that hit them just tonight. Incredibly dangerous storms... so it's great to see that good, predictive simulation is being developed to forecast it!
Good story to read while I'm waiting on my current job on 9600 procs on my local supercomputer :-)
Currently working on scalability of a new algorithm that will ultimately get applied to nuclear reactor simulation.
As for the this story... being a graduate of University of Texas I do have to snicker a bit that Oklahoma has to use our supercomputer ;-)