We've reached peak buzzword for blockchain in the last 6 months. It'll balance our national debt, cure cancer, and make everyone happy according to all the con artists, errr, sales people pitching it as the be all end all.
So it's like... everything ever. Welcome to the Hype Cycle!
What they need as a starting point is something like AEGIS, but that is plug and play onto any vehicle. Something as simple as a turret that is radar-controlled and that uses 5.56 could shred consumer drones all day. It's be a foregone conclusion if they use 7.62.
They have those, and they use 20mm explosive rounds so it's basically like launching a shotgun shell that fires itself after leaving the gun, only much more spectacularly. The idea is to create a wall of high speed debris that a mortar or rocket can't get through without being impacted. They also have the added benefit of not raining down potentially lethal fire beyond the intended intercept range. Spraying thousands of ordinary rounds at a shallow angle (as the CRAM systems tend to do to get an intercept and keep the target away from the area you are protecting) could have some pretty bad consequences if you are dealing with an area with lots of civilians. Even if you don't like those civilians, there is the political fallout to consider.
I don't know of any such applications that would be best described as a national security issue.
One of the biggest government uses for super computers is modeling nuclear weapons. These models are used to create smaller, more powerful warheads and in the absence of actual tests (due to treaty bans) these are how we now maintain and upgrade our nuclear stockpile. Since the DOE is mentioned in the article, I'd imagine that is the national security issue they are concerned with.
It's actually supposed to be Psychic CEOs are rife in Silicon Valley experts say. Like all psychics, they are great at talking rich people out of their money.
Has anyone actually reported dead pixels? Everyone was spazing out over their dead pixel written policy (which is the same as just about every other LCD device manufacture's written policy) but I haven't seen any reports of people with actual dead pixels on their displays.
They have an app for the iphone, you have to go to the web if you want to buy content but you can view it on the device. I'm a whole lot more likely to buy content from their store if I can actually view it on my TV.
iPhone yes, but not Apple TV. I think iPhone is just too big for them to ignore it, unlike the TV platforms. Apple TV is also missing a few others like all of the Ultraviolet apps like VUDU (also available on iOS). Honestly Shield and Roku are the best streaming TV devices at the moment. The only major vendors missing on both of those are Apple and the new DirecTV Now, and those aren't going to make much difference to most people.
Plus the Apple TV remote makes me want to club baby seals.
Want to have fun? Tweet out "retweet to win a (something obviously bogus here)" with some giveaway hastags and watch the bots pour in. Some people actually make decent hauls with giveaway bots on twitter.
None of that is likely to happen. Amazon and Google don't play nice, Amazon wants to push their Fire devices, and Amazon doesn't want to pay Apple 30% to sell content in their apps. It's gone so far that Amazon doesn't even sell Chromecast or Apple TV anymore. The only right now options are FireTV, FireTV Stick, Roku, some TV's, and the latest NVidia Shield TV firmware, where there is an Amazon Video app side loaded in the firmware.
Maybe they meant, "Cyberfox Developer Proclaims Death of Their Web Browser"? Still... it's a bit melodramatic, don't you think?
Yea, but it makes for a great "Who on/. only reads the title and doesn't even bother with the summary" test, so at least we get something amusing out of it.
Well to be fair orange dingus as you call him (emperor Trumpatine - because he used a phantom menace to get elected - as other people call him) is really quite the narcissistic, sociopathic, demagogue, racist, xenophobic, misogynistic, troll. Since he called that federal judge who upheld the constitution a "So called judge" it has made it open season on #SoCalledPresident.
While all that may be true, unless he's also a timelord (please god tell me he isn't!) this isn't something we can lay completely at his feet.
I don't understand why people put secure things on their phone. Use a laptop instead and leave that at home, then there's no problem. You can even access it remotely if you want.
It's not just "secure things". Your contacts list and call history can tell heaps about you all by itself. Social media accounts (I know, no one here has them but lots of people in the real world do), photographs (which are conveniently geo-tagged), hell even your taste in music (have a stray ICP track in your music collection? Woops, you're a gang member and can be treated as such!) .
Smart phones have a high concentration of information about us that, individually may seem innocuous but when looked at on the whole can tell volumes.
So we traded black Jesus for orange dingus and suddenly everyone is upset about something that has been happening for years that many of us have been trying to raise awareness of? Well if that's what it takes then at least something good may come of it, but pretending this is a Trump thing is, well, make believe. Stories of travelers, including US citizens, having phones and laptops searched, even demands for social media accounts, upon entry have been coming out for over a decade now. Glad the mainstream media may finally be catching the fuck on.
They should do like other platforms do and require devs to have a publisher. That way indie devs don't have to pay a fee, and Valve doesn't need to take on the responsibility of reviewing every single game that is submitted to them.
Probably not. If you are, for example, going from distribution center to distribution center, now making multiple stops it's probably not very useful. But then again you don't need expensive routing software to plan those routes. The use case for my customer was routing trucks to multiple retail locations from their distribution centers. The idea being to make the most efficient routes possible to increase the number of stops per truck, reduce time between stops, etc. It was part of a larger set of projects to make sure those locations always had the shelves stocked for the company products. I don't know how much the right-turn routing helped in the overall scheme specifically but I'm sure it had an impact.
No, you haven't posted any proof. Proof = numbers. You say it's faster, I say it's doesn't make enough difference to matter. If you don't even know how much faster it is, then it's obvious you haven't really put much effort into it.
Something not mentioned in the summary is that reducing left turns also reduces traffic accidents, so it can still be beneficial to reduce them when possible even if it doesn't have a huge time benefit. It is one of the stronger selling points of doing this type of routing.
UPS actually sells their route planning software to third parties. I was working for a large consumer products company a while back and they purchased it. Huge PITA to setup but it worked.
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We've reached peak buzzword for blockchain in the last 6 months. It'll balance our national debt, cure cancer, and make everyone happy according to all the con artists, errr, sales people pitching it as the be all end all.
So it's like... everything ever. Welcome to the Hype Cycle!
So go on the "dark web" trade your bit-coin for drugs. Sell drugs to locals and take cash. Bingo! Really, this isn't a difficult situation at all.
What they need as a starting point is something like AEGIS, but that is plug and play onto any vehicle. Something as simple as a turret that is radar-controlled and that uses 5.56 could shred consumer drones all day. It's be a foregone conclusion if they use 7.62.
They have those, and they use 20mm explosive rounds so it's basically like launching a shotgun shell that fires itself after leaving the gun, only much more spectacularly. The idea is to create a wall of high speed debris that a mortar or rocket can't get through without being impacted. They also have the added benefit of not raining down potentially lethal fire beyond the intended intercept range. Spraying thousands of ordinary rounds at a shallow angle (as the CRAM systems tend to do to get an intercept and keep the target away from the area you are protecting) could have some pretty bad consequences if you are dealing with an area with lots of civilians. Even if you don't like those civilians, there is the political fallout to consider.
I don't know of any such applications that would be best described as a national security issue.
One of the biggest government uses for super computers is modeling nuclear weapons. These models are used to create smaller, more powerful warheads and in the absence of actual tests (due to treaty bans) these are how we now maintain and upgrade our nuclear stockpile. Since the DOE is mentioned in the article, I'd imagine that is the national security issue they are concerned with.
It's actually supposed to be Psychic CEOs are rife in Silicon Valley experts say. Like all psychics, they are great at talking rich people out of their money.
Has anyone actually reported dead pixels? Everyone was spazing out over their dead pixel written policy (which is the same as just about every other LCD device manufacture's written policy) but I haven't seen any reports of people with actual dead pixels on their displays.
Yea that's weird. Maybe now that they launched prime video up there they will get the Fire devices out as well.
They have an app for the iphone, you have to go to the web if you want to buy content but you can view it on the device. I'm a whole lot more likely to buy content from their store if I can actually view it on my TV.
iPhone yes, but not Apple TV. I think iPhone is just too big for them to ignore it, unlike the TV platforms. Apple TV is also missing a few others like all of the Ultraviolet apps like VUDU (also available on iOS). Honestly Shield and Roku are the best streaming TV devices at the moment. The only major vendors missing on both of those are Apple and the new DirecTV Now, and those aren't going to make much difference to most people.
Plus the Apple TV remote makes me want to club baby seals.
Want to have fun? Tweet out "retweet to win a (something obviously bogus here)" with some giveaway hastags and watch the bots pour in. Some people actually make decent hauls with giveaway bots on twitter.
None of that is likely to happen. Amazon and Google don't play nice, Amazon wants to push their Fire devices, and Amazon doesn't want to pay Apple 30% to sell content in their apps. It's gone so far that Amazon doesn't even sell Chromecast or Apple TV anymore. The only right now options are FireTV, FireTV Stick, Roku, some TV's, and the latest NVidia Shield TV firmware, where there is an Amazon Video app side loaded in the firmware.
Maybe they meant, "Cyberfox Developer Proclaims Death of Their Web Browser"? Still... it's a bit melodramatic, don't you think?
Yea, but it makes for a great "Who on /. only reads the title and doesn't even bother with the summary" test, so at least we get something amusing out of it.
Neither. It's Australian summer.
OK, you're crazy.
A "Treasure Trove" this is not...
See if you still feel that way when there is another story in 6 months or so where these pulled 5 figures at auction.
Looks like something they developed internally for their own use and decided to open source.
Well to be fair orange dingus as you call him (emperor Trumpatine - because he used a phantom menace to get elected - as other people call him) is really quite the narcissistic, sociopathic, demagogue, racist, xenophobic, misogynistic, troll. Since he called that federal judge who upheld the constitution a "So called judge" it has made it open season on #SoCalledPresident.
While all that may be true, unless he's also a timelord (please god tell me he isn't!) this isn't something we can lay completely at his feet.
I don't understand why people put secure things on their phone. Use a laptop instead and leave that at home, then there's no problem. You can even access it remotely if you want.
It's not just "secure things". Your contacts list and call history can tell heaps about you all by itself. Social media accounts (I know, no one here has them but lots of people in the real world do), photographs (which are conveniently geo-tagged), hell even your taste in music (have a stray ICP track in your music collection? Woops, you're a gang member and can be treated as such!) .
Smart phones have a high concentration of information about us that, individually may seem innocuous but when looked at on the whole can tell volumes.
So we traded black Jesus for orange dingus and suddenly everyone is upset about something that has been happening for years that many of us have been trying to raise awareness of? Well if that's what it takes then at least something good may come of it, but pretending this is a Trump thing is, well, make believe. Stories of travelers, including US citizens, having phones and laptops searched, even demands for social media accounts, upon entry have been coming out for over a decade now. Glad the mainstream media may finally be catching the fuck on.
They should do like other platforms do and require devs to have a publisher. That way indie devs don't have to pay a fee, and Valve doesn't need to take on the responsibility of reviewing every single game that is submitted to them.
Probably not. If you are, for example, going from distribution center to distribution center, now making multiple stops it's probably not very useful. But then again you don't need expensive routing software to plan those routes. The use case for my customer was routing trucks to multiple retail locations from their distribution centers. The idea being to make the most efficient routes possible to increase the number of stops per truck, reduce time between stops, etc. It was part of a larger set of projects to make sure those locations always had the shelves stocked for the company products. I don't know how much the right-turn routing helped in the overall scheme specifically but I'm sure it had an impact.
It's part of the route planning already. And for the price they charge it damn well should be.
No, you haven't posted any proof. Proof = numbers. You say it's faster, I say it's doesn't make enough difference to matter. If you don't even know how much faster it is, then it's obvious you haven't really put much effort into it.
Something not mentioned in the summary is that reducing left turns also reduces traffic accidents, so it can still be beneficial to reduce them when possible even if it doesn't have a huge time benefit. It is one of the stronger selling points of doing this type of routing.
UPS actually sells their route planning software to third parties. I was working for a large consumer products company a while back and they purchased it. Huge PITA to setup but it worked.
So what is the lookup time delta in ms?