It’s less damaging only if you’re not the person receiving those 7 million paper cuts. Otherwise: ouch. No, punching 50 people is not the same a beating 1 guy to death.
We have no expectation that we are part of something that makes us feel good to be alive
That's been the case for most of humaity throughout the ages. Most people do not derive a sense of meaning to their lives from the grand sweeping events of the day, instead they derive pleasure from the small things in life: seeing a good movie, enjoying a nice meal with friends, that trip to the Bahamas, an enjoyable hobby or your amateur soccer team's last match where you scored a nice goal. All pretty meaningless stuff. Which is fine as long as you don't let that bother you too much. If it does, you'll have to get off your arseL society is not going to provide your life with meaning, you have to do that yourself.
So have a prerecorded / preformatted "our bad, nothing going on" message.
Seriously, if you receive a missile warning over an official emergency broadcast channel that stresses "this is not a drill", would you trust an "all clear" message that's sent as a bloody tweet?
Besides, at that point the guy coming out of his house is not a criminal, not a "perp", but a member of the public. They have no idea what the guy is up to or if he is even armed, and his live comes before those of the responding officers. If the guy makes what they think might be a threatening move, their option is to take cover, maybe tase him, not shoot first on assuming the worst case scenario.
Blockchain could be useful except that the process of counting and verification is not transparent to the layman. That’s a requirement for democratic elections.
The real game changer here is convenient car rentals. As in: book a car when you need it, have it pull up by itself 30 minutes later, use it, and send it on its way when you are done with it (instead of having to go to the depot for pickup and dropoff, and navigate 5 billion insurance options with the guy at the desk). So when you buy your next car, maybe you will select that smaller electric (self driving or otherwise) that covers 95% of your driving needs, and rent a truck, van, 4x4 or large sedan for the other 5%. Access to convenient rental cars could mean a lot of families owning fewer cars, or selecting more economical ones.
It's not Kodi but the plugins to access these streams that facilitate piracy. Kodi has legitimate use, it's what I use to get (legal) TV, movies and music around the house.
Sounds more like T-Mobile told the FCC: “We don’t want this, please make sure it doesn’t happen, and oh: here’s a handy dandy argument that will help your bosses sell this to the public”.
The elderly & the blind (vision impaired) are all early candidates
Exactly. I don't understand why the authors of the article find it strange that the early adopters of self driving cars are people who have problems driving themselves. For them, there's a clear business case that justifies the expense. The fact that the Villages is a closed community filled with prospective clients makes it a perfect candidate for a pilot. Not strange at all...
I often leave my phone on the desk. To unlock it, I just touch my finger to the home button (this is an older model iPhone). If the scanner is on the back, I'd have to pick up the phone first. Which is of course a huuuge inconvenience...
But seriously, the Home button is a good place for the scanner, since that's what you click to wake up the phone; that way you unlock it at the same time. It's fast and completely seamless, as if there's no lock on the phone at all. Of course the new iPhone has no home button anymore...
Aren't optical scanners rather easy to fool? Some earlier scanners were vulnerable to a "replay attack" that was simply breathing on the scanner after someone else had used it. The iPhone scanner uses capacitance: not unhackable though it is a quite bit harder. I can imagine it's hard to integrate such a scanner in the screen though; apparently Apple gave up on that.
Shocking. And I don't mean the satellite but whatever happened to CNN: autoplaying video commercials and enormous popover ads. Not going to visit there again...
In my own experience with military and NATO people, "classified" in everyday parlance means "assigned a classification level other than Unclassified". And in some cases you may not want to disclose the actual classification level. "That is classified" is useful shorthand for "Sorry, you cannot have / share this, because reasons", and applies internally as well between departments or organisations, not just the press. It's not a term made up by Hollywood.
So, an always-on audio / video device connected to Facebook's servers. What could go wrong? Let's see: "Portal will be equipped with a wide-angle lens that is capable of recognizing individual faces and associating them with their Facebook accounts". Thanks, but I'll pass...
In gaming, lag or latency generally means the delay between your input and what happens on the server or the other way around. The delay between your actions and the visual feedback you get is rarely mentioned as because that delay is generally not an issue: a very low and fixed value (unless the game sends your commands straight to the server and only shows you what happens there).
The delay between your input and visual feedback is indeed increased notably with a streaming solution. However in our empirical tests have shown up to 50ms latency (one way) to be still acceptable for 1st person shooters. I had the same experience on OnLive.
The (grand)parent post claims the 30ms lag is additional lag, but that wasn't clear from the original statement in the summary. The quote in the summary implies that the 30ms refers to either total latency or network latency, since the quote mentions the exceptions being people living fram from the data center. In our own testing, the streaming pipeline didn't add anywhere near 30ms latency.
As for network lag, my latency in BF4 is generally between 15-30ms.
It's not at all clear what that 30ms latency refers to. Is it 30ms latency on top of network latency, like you suggest? Or do they mean they want to locate their data centers in such a way as to offer 30ms network latency to customers, with the streaming tech adding only a small amount on top of that?
Around 8 years ago I got to test similar graphics streaming technology (from HP I believe). We wanted to be able to stream business-related 3D simulations and games to the typical shitty business laptops around our offices, since those laptops weren't able to run 3D games. We tested this by playing some rounds of Unreal Tournament in various setups: with streaming servers in 1 data center and players from around the world, and with servers in 3 local data centers. With a network latency of under 30ms to the streaming server, you wouldn't really notice that you were streaming the game. At 50ms we did notice a slight input lag but the game was still very much playable, though perhaps not to the exacting standards of a competitive gamer. Over 60ms latency would affect your combat performance in UT, and anything over 150ms made things unplayable.
If they can keep latency at around 30ms, performance will probably be good enough for most gamers. But the challenge is to keep that performance consistent. That was one issue with OnLive (which I tried at around the same time): some days it would run fine, but sometimes even non-action games were unplayable.
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It’s less damaging only if you’re not the person receiving those 7 million paper cuts. Otherwise: ouch. No, punching 50 people is not the same a beating 1 guy to death.
We have no expectation that we are part of something that makes us feel good to be alive
That's been the case for most of humaity throughout the ages. Most people do not derive a sense of meaning to their lives from the grand sweeping events of the day, instead they derive pleasure from the small things in life: seeing a good movie, enjoying a nice meal with friends, that trip to the Bahamas, an enjoyable hobby or your amateur soccer team's last match where you scored a nice goal. All pretty meaningless stuff. Which is fine as long as you don't let that bother you too much. If it does, you'll have to get off your arseL society is not going to provide your life with meaning, you have to do that yourself.
So have a prerecorded / preformatted "our bad, nothing going on" message.
Seriously, if you receive a missile warning over an official emergency broadcast channel that stresses "this is not a drill", would you trust an "all clear" message that's sent as a bloody tweet?
Besides, at that point the guy coming out of his house is not a criminal, not a "perp", but a member of the public. They have no idea what the guy is up to or if he is even armed, and his live comes before those of the responding officers. If the guy makes what they think might be a threatening move, their option is to take cover, maybe tase him, not shoot first on assuming the worst case scenario.
It sounds like this is more than just a UI change. Stories (ads) being injected in between private messages sounds an awful lot like spam.
Blockchain could be useful except that the process of counting and verification is not transparent to the layman. That’s a requirement for democratic elections.
No, you simply get out, remove the garbage can... at which point the car takes off without you.
Why do you have an ATM in your driveway?
The real game changer here is convenient car rentals. As in: book a car when you need it, have it pull up by itself 30 minutes later, use it, and send it on its way when you are done with it (instead of having to go to the depot for pickup and dropoff, and navigate 5 billion insurance options with the guy at the desk). So when you buy your next car, maybe you will select that smaller electric (self driving or otherwise) that covers 95% of your driving needs, and rent a truck, van, 4x4 or large sedan for the other 5%. Access to convenient rental cars could mean a lot of families owning fewer cars, or selecting more economical ones.
What if the autonomous cars get their own version of a Diamond Lane, where they can drive 180km/h bumper to bumper, unhindered by slow-ass meatbags?
Nice. Does Alexa say anything back?
It's not Kodi but the plugins to access these streams that facilitate piracy. Kodi has legitimate use, it's what I use to get (legal) TV, movies and music around the house.
That would the the one instance where that data is put to good use then. Because everywhere else I'm seeing more advertising, not less.
If it's the base of a mountain and prices are only going to go up, every day will be a good buying opportunity.
Sounds more like T-Mobile told the FCC: “We don’t want this, please make sure it doesn’t happen, and oh: here’s a handy dandy argument that will help your bosses sell this to the public”.
The elderly & the blind (vision impaired) are all early candidates
Exactly. I don't understand why the authors of the article find it strange that the early adopters of self driving cars are people who have problems driving themselves. For them, there's a clear business case that justifies the expense. The fact that the Villages is a closed community filled with prospective clients makes it a perfect candidate for a pilot. Not strange at all...
I often leave my phone on the desk. To unlock it, I just touch my finger to the home button (this is an older model iPhone). If the scanner is on the back, I'd have to pick up the phone first. Which is of course a huuuge inconvenience...
But seriously, the Home button is a good place for the scanner, since that's what you click to wake up the phone; that way you unlock it at the same time. It's fast and completely seamless, as if there's no lock on the phone at all. Of course the new iPhone has no home button anymore...
Aren't optical scanners rather easy to fool? Some earlier scanners were vulnerable to a "replay attack" that was simply breathing on the scanner after someone else had used it. The iPhone scanner uses capacitance: not unhackable though it is a quite bit harder. I can imagine it's hard to integrate such a scanner in the screen though; apparently Apple gave up on that.
Shocking. And I don't mean the satellite but whatever happened to CNN: autoplaying video commercials and enormous popover ads. Not going to visit there again...
In my own experience with military and NATO people, "classified" in everyday parlance means "assigned a classification level other than Unclassified". And in some cases you may not want to disclose the actual classification level. "That is classified" is useful shorthand for "Sorry, you cannot have / share this, because reasons", and applies internally as well between departments or organisations, not just the press. It's not a term made up by Hollywood.
AMDs are bricked, didn't you read the earlier news?
So, an always-on audio / video device connected to Facebook's servers. What could go wrong? Let's see: "Portal will be equipped with a wide-angle lens that is capable of recognizing individual faces and associating them with their Facebook accounts". Thanks, but I'll pass...
In gaming, lag or latency generally means the delay between your input and what happens on the server or the other way around. The delay between your actions and the visual feedback you get is rarely mentioned as because that delay is generally not an issue: a very low and fixed value (unless the game sends your commands straight to the server and only shows you what happens there).
The delay between your input and visual feedback is indeed increased notably with a streaming solution. However in our empirical tests have shown up to 50ms latency (one way) to be still acceptable for 1st person shooters. I had the same experience on OnLive.
The (grand)parent post claims the 30ms lag is additional lag, but that wasn't clear from the original statement in the summary. The quote in the summary implies that the 30ms refers to either total latency or network latency, since the quote mentions the exceptions being people living fram from the data center. In our own testing, the streaming pipeline didn't add anywhere near 30ms latency.
As for network lag, my latency in BF4 is generally between 15-30ms.
It's not at all clear what that 30ms latency refers to. Is it 30ms latency on top of network latency, like you suggest? Or do they mean they want to locate their data centers in such a way as to offer 30ms network latency to customers, with the streaming tech adding only a small amount on top of that?
Around 8 years ago I got to test similar graphics streaming technology (from HP I believe). We wanted to be able to stream business-related 3D simulations and games to the typical shitty business laptops around our offices, since those laptops weren't able to run 3D games. We tested this by playing some rounds of Unreal Tournament in various setups: with streaming servers in 1 data center and players from around the world, and with servers in 3 local data centers. With a network latency of under 30ms to the streaming server, you wouldn't really notice that you were streaming the game. At 50ms we did notice a slight input lag but the game was still very much playable, though perhaps not to the exacting standards of a competitive gamer. Over 60ms latency would affect your combat performance in UT, and anything over 150ms made things unplayable.
If they can keep latency at around 30ms, performance will probably be good enough for most gamers. But the challenge is to keep that performance consistent. That was one issue with OnLive (which I tried at around the same time): some days it would run fine, but sometimes even non-action games were unplayable.