They tried to get in touch with the CBS executive who is specifically quoted as saying that stuff like Stage 9 is OK and they won't go after them. They were never able to get a response.
Long story short, Desilu owned Star Trek at the start, a bunch of buyouts later Desilu turns into Paramount Television and ended up owned by Viacom, and then eventually Viacom split into CBS Paramount Television, and Viacom (which still owned Paramount Pictures).
In other words, for the purposes of television content, CBS *is* Paramount.
My perspective would be "I don't like doing this, but I'm making a mint, so I'm going to just keep doing it for as long as I can stand it and then retire on the tens of millions of dollars that I banked."
I think the idea of "I can just quit and retire in luxury any time I want" would help a lot with dealing with the stress of doing a job that I didn't like... And playing Fortnite on Twitch every day isn't exactly a soul crushing job.
If people aren't using TiVo over dialup by choice, then they probably already have dialup Intenet in their home, or if not, they can subscribe to one for five or six dollars a month.
Right now, you need to have a moderately powerful computer, you need to do setup on your computer, you need to plug a bunch of things in, you need to find places to mount cameras, you need to run wires. This is all a barrier to entry for the mainstream. Non-technically savvy people who don't know much about VR aren't going to go out of their way to upgrade their computers and make sure that they buy a video card with a VR link connector. They just want to buy something that they can put on and it works. Keep in mind that I'm not talking about the level required for success, I'm talking about broad mainstream appeal. The kind of adoption rates that you see from, if not smartphones and dvd players, then at least from videogame consoles.
Oculus Go was a good first step, being completely standalone, but the lack of positional tracking in either the headset or controllers is a critical flaw. Santa Cruz (which should be out within the next year, roughly) solves both of those problems (it uses inside-out camera tracking for the HMD and the controllers), but the expected displays may not be quite dense and fast enough to really offer a good experience. Even if it doesn't get there, it's an important step along the path.
I don't think it's quite there yet. True mass market appeal needs to be wireless and standalone, which nothing currently on the market achieves. Oculus's Santa Cruz will get a heck of a lot closer, being a standalone (no PC required) headset with 6DOF tracking of both the headset and controllers. I'm not sure that the performance or displays are good enough for true broad market appeal, but I think it represents the minimum bar for VR to be mainstream.
To even make a bid, a provider must maintain a distance of at least 150 miles between its data centers and provide "32 GB of RAM" -- specifications that few providers other than Amazon can meet.
Basically all major cloud providers can do that, even smaller ones. Linode? They top out at 300GB of RAM on their largest nodes, and have data centers in all four extremes of the US. DigitalOcean? They go up to 192GB and have data centers in NYC and SF. For an extreme case, Microsoft will do 3.8 TB of RAM on Azure.
They showed off both the controls and the interior in 2014. Neither were final at the time to be sure (the controls have changed dramatically and the wall panels were missing), but this is definitely not the first time they've shown the controls or the interior. The controls they're showing now don't appear to be final either, as the control panels aren't fully populated: one of them just has a pull ring instead of any actual controls.
They appear to have given up any illusions of manual piloting, as the most prominent part of the original control interface that is missing is the manual joystick.
They've got plenty of time. SLS was supposed to launch in 2017. After a series of delays, it was supposed to launch in 2020. Now that date is said to be "low confidence". The idea that we'll have an operational space station in lunar orbit in 2025 is kind of a bit unrealistic right now.
Chrome already deprecated support for v0, with support being entirely removed from Chrome around 9 months from now. So yes, it was a bad decision for them to use v0, but that particular decision is hardly anti-competitive. Their own browser is going to break the framework in a few months.
Apple Safari. Google Chrome. Mozilla Firefox. Microsoft Edge. Opera. There are plenty of browser options on iOS. They're all forced to use the same layout engine (WebKit), but that's an implementation detail that is transparent to the end-user... and three of the five browsers listed above use WebKit derived layout engines on non-Apple platforms anyhow.
Orbital mechanics often (but not always) dictate launch windows down to the second. A 7 minute delay for impacted flights (which are only low-altitude flights to begin with) is hardly an economic hardship.
There were probably not 563 commercial aviation flights impacted by the rather small restricted airspace (30-40 mile radius below 18k feet). That probably includes all general aviation... if not mostly general aviation, because I can't think of any commercial airliner, jet or turboprop, that has a cruise altitude of below 18k feet.
The airspace doesn't just get shut down while the rocket is physically passing through it. It gets shut down for the whole launch window, as well as some time leading up to the launch.
That said, the controlled airspace isn't all that large, and most of it only applies to low altitudes, so it's not really a big deal anyhow. It's generally something like a circle with a radius of 30-40 nautical miles, from the ground up to 18,000 feet. The launch schedules are known far in advance, the actual restrictions are announced days in advance, and even in the stated case of a 62 mile diversion (which would only apply at low altitudes), that's only an extra 7 minutes added to the length of a flight.
It has an Cortex-M0+ processor, which is a 32-bit ARMv6 processor using a variant of the Thumb instruction set. I'd be surprised if Doom hadn't already been ported to that... the problem would be RAM, of which there would only be a few kilobytes. So, no.
It was a Toshiba Portégé R700, what was then considered a thin-and-light. They advertised it as being a magnesium alloy chassis, but the chassis walls were incredibly thin, and when the drop happened, the area that took the impact and a bunch around it just shattered into chunks: none of the pieces (on the laptop or what came off) were bent in any way, it was just a bunch of shards.
There were a lot of other problems with that laptop, and Toshiba really screwed me over when I tried to get the thing repaired (directly contradicting things their salespeople told me when I bought the thing), so I've never bought any Toshiba product since.
I've had a lot of problems with Apple products (many device failures without physical damage), and I'm not a huge fan of OS X (I run Win10 on my Macbook), but I do have to say that I have received better support from them when it comes to repairs and warranty replacements than any other electronics company I've ever dealt with. Of course, if you don't live near an Apple store, you're not going to have as good an experience.
Basically, the reliability of Apple products is disappointing, but at least they make getting it fixed or replaced really painless.
What's the alternative to the aluminum chassis that gets a dent or a nick? A light impact caused the chassis of my magnesium laptop chassis (inside of a backpack that was dropped a foot onto a tiled floor) to simply shatter like glass. Meanwhile, I've dropped a macbook from a similar height onto tile with no protection at all and suffered from a cosmetic gouge that didn't impact the functionality of the laptop at all.
They replaced it at a discount, at least. It happened to my iPhone 6 out-of-warranty, and they replaced the entire phone for the cost of just the replacement screen. Of course, that was still a few hundred dollars.
Save a child today, don't save a child tomorrow because everybody turned off the alert system due to too many alerts from too far away.
That said, I see lots of Americans posting here about how they "turned off" amber alert notifications, but there is no option to do that in Canada. There is no option or setting to configure or control them, or at least, I've not seen any.
I hadn't even noticed there was an alert: an alert sent out by radio in this day and age isn't going to be widespread, and my cellphone never got any notification.
The CRTC's new alert system applies to Quebec too. It's a national system.
Thunder Bay is 870 miles away from Toronto by road. This is equivalent to setting off an amber alert in Pittsburgh or Washington because of a missing kid in Florida.
Too expensive, and it can't be used as a Bluetooth speaker. I was interested in it to get easier access to Siri and because it was reported to have excellent sound quality, but it cost more than I was willing to pay, and I wouldn't have been able to use it for things like playing music from my computer.
Apple and Google have no investment in Telegram, why should they be expected to solve this problem? You can use Safari and Chrome to download pirated stuff on your phone too, but I don't see anybody calling for Apple and Google to remove Safari and Chrome from telephones.
If creators have a beef with Telegram, take it up with Telegram Messenger LLP.
It was basically a driver/OS support limitation that stopped you from doing that. There were releases of System 7 that supported both most 68030 macs and the first generations of PowerPC macs (some requiring a system enabler). For example, 7.5.5 can run on both a Mac Plus (8MHz 68000) and the PowerMac 9600 (200MHz PowerPC 604e) with the appropriate system enabler.
I'd imagine that if you updated the 68030 mac to 7.5.5, installed any necessary system enablers as appropriate, removed any extensions or control panels that were specific to the 68030 mac, and then swapped the drive, you might be able to boot off it... assuming both systems used the same hard drive interface, which they probably didn't.
There was a long time when trying to move a hard drive between two dissimilar Windows machines didn't usually work either (usually just resulted in a bluescreen), so your dad may have been lucky.
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They tried to get in touch with the CBS executive who is specifically quoted as saying that stuff like Stage 9 is OK and they won't go after them. They were never able to get a response.
CBS owns Star Trek.
Long story short, Desilu owned Star Trek at the start, a bunch of buyouts later Desilu turns into Paramount Television and ended up owned by Viacom, and then eventually Viacom split into CBS Paramount Television, and Viacom (which still owned Paramount Pictures).
In other words, for the purposes of television content, CBS *is* Paramount.
My perspective would be "I don't like doing this, but I'm making a mint, so I'm going to just keep doing it for as long as I can stand it and then retire on the tens of millions of dollars that I banked."
I think the idea of "I can just quit and retire in luxury any time I want" would help a lot with dealing with the stress of doing a job that I didn't like... And playing Fortnite on Twitch every day isn't exactly a soul crushing job.
If people aren't using TiVo over dialup by choice, then they probably already have dialup Intenet in their home, or if not, they can subscribe to one for five or six dollars a month.
Right now, you need to have a moderately powerful computer, you need to do setup on your computer, you need to plug a bunch of things in, you need to find places to mount cameras, you need to run wires. This is all a barrier to entry for the mainstream. Non-technically savvy people who don't know much about VR aren't going to go out of their way to upgrade their computers and make sure that they buy a video card with a VR link connector. They just want to buy something that they can put on and it works. Keep in mind that I'm not talking about the level required for success, I'm talking about broad mainstream appeal. The kind of adoption rates that you see from, if not smartphones and dvd players, then at least from videogame consoles.
Oculus Go was a good first step, being completely standalone, but the lack of positional tracking in either the headset or controllers is a critical flaw. Santa Cruz (which should be out within the next year, roughly) solves both of those problems (it uses inside-out camera tracking for the HMD and the controllers), but the expected displays may not be quite dense and fast enough to really offer a good experience. Even if it doesn't get there, it's an important step along the path.
I don't think it's quite there yet. True mass market appeal needs to be wireless and standalone, which nothing currently on the market achieves. Oculus's Santa Cruz will get a heck of a lot closer, being a standalone (no PC required) headset with 6DOF tracking of both the headset and controllers. I'm not sure that the performance or displays are good enough for true broad market appeal, but I think it represents the minimum bar for VR to be mainstream.
To even make a bid, a provider must maintain a distance of at least 150 miles between its data centers and provide "32 GB of RAM" -- specifications that few providers other than Amazon can meet.
Basically all major cloud providers can do that, even smaller ones. Linode? They top out at 300GB of RAM on their largest nodes, and have data centers in all four extremes of the US. DigitalOcean? They go up to 192GB and have data centers in NYC and SF. For an extreme case, Microsoft will do 3.8 TB of RAM on Azure.
They showed off both the controls and the interior in 2014. Neither were final at the time to be sure (the controls have changed dramatically and the wall panels were missing), but this is definitely not the first time they've shown the controls or the interior. The controls they're showing now don't appear to be final either, as the control panels aren't fully populated: one of them just has a pull ring instead of any actual controls.
They appear to have given up any illusions of manual piloting, as the most prominent part of the original control interface that is missing is the manual joystick.
They've got plenty of time. SLS was supposed to launch in 2017. After a series of delays, it was supposed to launch in 2020. Now that date is said to be "low confidence". The idea that we'll have an operational space station in lunar orbit in 2025 is kind of a bit unrealistic right now.
Chrome already deprecated support for v0, with support being entirely removed from Chrome around 9 months from now. So yes, it was a bad decision for them to use v0, but that particular decision is hardly anti-competitive. Their own browser is going to break the framework in a few months.
Apple Safari. Google Chrome. Mozilla Firefox. Microsoft Edge. Opera. There are plenty of browser options on iOS. They're all forced to use the same layout engine (WebKit), but that's an implementation detail that is transparent to the end-user... and three of the five browsers listed above use WebKit derived layout engines on non-Apple platforms anyhow.
Orbital mechanics often (but not always) dictate launch windows down to the second. A 7 minute delay for impacted flights (which are only low-altitude flights to begin with) is hardly an economic hardship.
There were probably not 563 commercial aviation flights impacted by the rather small restricted airspace (30-40 mile radius below 18k feet). That probably includes all general aviation... if not mostly general aviation, because I can't think of any commercial airliner, jet or turboprop, that has a cruise altitude of below 18k feet.
The airspace doesn't just get shut down while the rocket is physically passing through it. It gets shut down for the whole launch window, as well as some time leading up to the launch.
That said, the controlled airspace isn't all that large, and most of it only applies to low altitudes, so it's not really a big deal anyhow. It's generally something like a circle with a radius of 30-40 nautical miles, from the ground up to 18,000 feet. The launch schedules are known far in advance, the actual restrictions are announced days in advance, and even in the stated case of a 62 mile diversion (which would only apply at low altitudes), that's only an extra 7 minutes added to the length of a flight.
It has an Cortex-M0+ processor, which is a 32-bit ARMv6 processor using a variant of the Thumb instruction set. I'd be surprised if Doom hadn't already been ported to that... the problem would be RAM, of which there would only be a few kilobytes. So, no.
It was a Toshiba Portégé R700, what was then considered a thin-and-light. They advertised it as being a magnesium alloy chassis, but the chassis walls were incredibly thin, and when the drop happened, the area that took the impact and a bunch around it just shattered into chunks: none of the pieces (on the laptop or what came off) were bent in any way, it was just a bunch of shards.
There were a lot of other problems with that laptop, and Toshiba really screwed me over when I tried to get the thing repaired (directly contradicting things their salespeople told me when I bought the thing), so I've never bought any Toshiba product since.
I've had a lot of problems with Apple products (many device failures without physical damage), and I'm not a huge fan of OS X (I run Win10 on my Macbook), but I do have to say that I have received better support from them when it comes to repairs and warranty replacements than any other electronics company I've ever dealt with. Of course, if you don't live near an Apple store, you're not going to have as good an experience.
Basically, the reliability of Apple products is disappointing, but at least they make getting it fixed or replaced really painless.
What's the alternative to the aluminum chassis that gets a dent or a nick? A light impact caused the chassis of my magnesium laptop chassis (inside of a backpack that was dropped a foot onto a tiled floor) to simply shatter like glass. Meanwhile, I've dropped a macbook from a similar height onto tile with no protection at all and suffered from a cosmetic gouge that didn't impact the functionality of the laptop at all.
They replaced it at a discount, at least. It happened to my iPhone 6 out-of-warranty, and they replaced the entire phone for the cost of just the replacement screen. Of course, that was still a few hundred dollars.
Save a child today, don't save a child tomorrow because everybody turned off the alert system due to too many alerts from too far away.
That said, I see lots of Americans posting here about how they "turned off" amber alert notifications, but there is no option to do that in Canada. There is no option or setting to configure or control them, or at least, I've not seen any.
I hadn't even noticed there was an alert: an alert sent out by radio in this day and age isn't going to be widespread, and my cellphone never got any notification.
The CRTC's new alert system applies to Quebec too. It's a national system.
Thunder Bay is 870 miles away from Toronto by road. This is equivalent to setting off an amber alert in Pittsburgh or Washington because of a missing kid in Florida.
Like the second example on their blog, where it tries to make a reservation at a Chinese restaurant, and the lady has a thick accent?
And the hardware in the PS4 is virtually identical, so...
Too expensive, and it can't be used as a Bluetooth speaker. I was interested in it to get easier access to Siri and because it was reported to have excellent sound quality, but it cost more than I was willing to pay, and I wouldn't have been able to use it for things like playing music from my computer.
Apple and Google have no investment in Telegram, why should they be expected to solve this problem? You can use Safari and Chrome to download pirated stuff on your phone too, but I don't see anybody calling for Apple and Google to remove Safari and Chrome from telephones.
If creators have a beef with Telegram, take it up with Telegram Messenger LLP.
It was basically a driver/OS support limitation that stopped you from doing that. There were releases of System 7 that supported both most 68030 macs and the first generations of PowerPC macs (some requiring a system enabler). For example, 7.5.5 can run on both a Mac Plus (8MHz 68000) and the PowerMac 9600 (200MHz PowerPC 604e) with the appropriate system enabler.
I'd imagine that if you updated the 68030 mac to 7.5.5, installed any necessary system enablers as appropriate, removed any extensions or control panels that were specific to the 68030 mac, and then swapped the drive, you might be able to boot off it... assuming both systems used the same hard drive interface, which they probably didn't.
There was a long time when trying to move a hard drive between two dissimilar Windows machines didn't usually work either (usually just resulted in a bluescreen), so your dad may have been lucky.