first it says it's intentional that the flights take longer.
then it says that they were consistently late with the old schedules.
clearly they adjusted it for the time it actually takes when taking into account the airport traffics etc? like how someone can even write that up and not notice that they're full of shit in at least one of the sentences involved?
just have them on the baltic sea. several months of the year you can even drive to them...hmm. hmm, oh wait most of finland is already unpopulated and it's right there. and if that fills up there's siberia to the east of finland right there that is even less populated.
this is neither a necessity or a pressing matter to invent. in fact it is quite stupid. most of arizona even is unpopulated. all of these are easier to populate than floating cities. just because you can make floating cities doesn't mean that you would have to.
furthermore if they can't actually produce all the tools etc anyways on premises, you could just put those 300 on a luxury liner and they would have quite a lot of space per people.
whats up with that? microsoft paid someone 2 million to look into the hack? or nintendo got someone on their payroll and paid 2 million in actual bills to someone to look at the logs?
supercaps aren't better than batteries for this. what you need/want is just maximum energy storage for the smallest amount of weight.
of course a battery pack system would be fairly trivial to develop. you could just hang it on the underside of the thing, or maybe have 3 different packs for redundancey. but you still have the energy density problem for the range of it vs. gasoline.
and after that, it's still just a helicopter with all the associated problems of one. you can have one today, even fairly cheaply, if you can deal with all the problems between the points you want to fly.
so the discussion is really about will we have electric helicopters and after that.. well, if you could have them cheap enough you would first fly them on fixed routes like busses. after that you can try to make them be a flying uber experience. skipping straight to flying uber is just.. it's just investor bullshitting quite frankly.
all the rich enough people have if they want to spend the requisite amount of money on it. it's fucking expensive and risky though, so most rich people opt not to have it - even the ultra rich.
we have had them for decades. it's not really just a cost issue about flying the thing itself or the cost of the flying thing itself. it's the cost of practicality arrangements between the places you want to land in.
I have no doubt that uber could start a helicopter route between the stated points, I'm highly skeptical of them making money with said route, especially if they intend to fly it "on demand".
like said, having the flying thing itself is not the problem or having it fly on autopilot most of the way(or even all of the way). it's having the places to land and take off and charge or refuel.
It seems like they choose not to investigate the pastor's version of events. This is very different than choosing to believe one or the other
this is quite common. just assume guilty and try to coerce a guilty plea - and they even went as far as to imply that he would not receive a fair trial so he would be better off just confessing.
that makes it a lot easier for police and usually works with the people they mainly deal with which is drug addicts coming down. it doesn't get the right crime allocated to the right perp of course, but it's not like that shows up in the statistics anyways. and once you've confessed in the hearing, well, good luck trying to turn that over in the actual trial because that ain't happening, even if you have proof that you didn't do it.
Because wells fargo provided wrong pictures and the police just went on with it with the premise that he should confess EVEN IF HE WAS INNOCENT because if it went to court he would be railroaded anyways and would get higher charges. he didn't do it but they were so ready to assume that it was him that they probably went more than a little bit too far with just trying to get him to confess.
it's worth suing both the police and wells fargo really, since it's in the usa. that it's in the usa is also why it can cause personal loss worth suing over as well as.. well, that's just what you gotta do in usa.
it's pinpointing a thing that is majorly wrong with the usa legal system at the moment and as such well worth suing for. It is the system trying to coerce you to give up your right for a fair trial(by pleading guilt on whatever they randomly choose as the crime that time) by pressuring on the fear that you will not receive a fair trial.
"you better plead guilty because otherwise you'll be convicted on stuff you didn't do anyways".
a lot of why that system got into the place at is today is the notion that "it only happens to people who deserve it" or that they did something anyways, so who cares, just convict them of something. it's barbaric and stupid. but somehow americans keep voting in people who base their campaigns on just doubling down on the stupidity.
--- and it is mugshot not a comparison photo, that it was him in the photo was never contested. it's not for that purpose. the mugshot and publishing them (before trial) is for shaming purposes, which again seems like a good idea as long as it never happens to you.
I don't see how it can know all that without accessing personal content quite frankly.
of course what you count as personal content. but I would kinda like to know how it supposedly can check that you had a fb callscreen open without going into the logs to see if you called someone on fb? which is personal data?
tell that to the io scheduler on the mac mini siting on the corner of my desk.
the built in bloat crap just regularly goes haywire and makes all disk access super slow.
like an indexer wouldn't be bad, if it didn't hog all the resources and so on. or the weird thing thats supposed to help the home back functionality.
anyway, remember when microsoft said that you had only 1 month left for a free upgrade, like 2 years ago?... shouldn't speaking horseshit be illegal for a publicly traded company?
seriously 4 gigabytes for osx in 2019 is not enough to open 1 goddamned tab on safari and have it work decently. that does sound like bloat, yes?
you just need a wall of these around the kid and they'll reflect the sound back at the kid. I guess the size of the circles in the wall would need to depend on the frequency of the screeching. like, it's not an universal one size fits all(at least I don't see how it would be possible and they do speak about mathematically modelling for "any sound", needing different for different frequencies)
that's the theory anyways. still, it's fastcompany reporting. also it would need to be designed for the sound.
also I'm pretty sure you could still hear a speaker at 4%. the article doesn't make it quite clear what scale they were using. 0.05 out of.25 surely isn't 4% so maybe decibel.. the youtube demo video uses "microphone voltage level".
anyways, if it worked on with arbitrary soundforms on anything, surely a better demo would have been a harley - but it's supposed to reflect the sound back too, not absorb it into heat.
+I still want a real keyboard but manufacturers don't want to make them.
hell I just want real buttons, a scrollwheel or something or at least the home and back buttons as real buttons but noo.. that's too expensive component to put in a phone costing 500$+.
I hope they'll make a comeback as sales slow down and they figure out they can't just pump out the same model with cheaper assembly every year.
I don't think it's true unless he put his real name on the gamertag or whatever.
at most if the game was p2p they would have had his ip address.
it smells like bullshit so badly. it's not that easy to find phone numbers of two random people based on just some online nickname that quickly. at the very frigging least the story needs to show that _anyone_ called them at that time on their cellphones...because eh, who even calls anymore?
at this point blackberry is a patent troll quite typically. as this is a quite typical path to being a patent troll - maximizing revenue from every source possible is kinda the usual reason, when the method is riskily suing big money victims.
it was a really hubris company that got into a market by sidestepping standards and providing a service that was doable with standard networks just a few years after and really they didn't have anything really special about it even. their thing was hacking their push email system into place just _before_ data networks made it unnecessary to hack such a system in place.
I'm just surprised they didn't sue google for android along with sun since their earlier os had quite a bit in common with android being java and all - the reason is easily guessable though, since they tried making android based phones themselves.
and fwiw they failed because they couldn't compete on price on open market. their key markets were _only_ operator subsidized markets and their devices were _actually_ hideously expensive for what they were. same for palm. made a lot of money for a short while though, but they thought they were just so special and good, when they just had a good deal going for a short while of price gouging markets where the price of the device was hidden in a 100 bucks per month fee of using the mobile service(of which 80 bucks was paying for the "free" phone and as there was no way to _not_ be paying for a "free" phone people went along with it).
over a distance like that it makes pretty much 0 sense to use optical. even if you could put a powerline along with it. it just wouldn't be any faster and would need much more complex hw at either end. if you kept upping the complexity at either end of course you could go higher and higher with the speed.
like.. why not just do high speed irda then?
and look. how many 5gbps usb devices you have or are going to have any time soon anyways? I dont't have a single device. I don't have anything to max out the usb 3.0 even.
You generally either pay to be able to play music at all or maybe a cost per play so I can't see that the length of loop makes any difference.
if you're big enough you can license it directly and keep the inspectors for that stuff away, I suppose.
same for public domain music. note that this is not possible even in some countries if you don't find artists and composers not signed up on local riaa/mpaa equivalent. also they might play that crap on purpose to drive people away..
generally, in a western country, a place like that would just pay a fee per month depending on how many people there are place for(and the cache then gets distributed to top radio played artists regardless of what music was actually played in the bar. it's like a mafia really. level 3000.
if they actually read your appeal depends on how famous a) you already are and b) if you ever said "dick","manga", "maga" or "jew" on the channel(context not mattering).
the appeal is kinda late anyways if someone machinates enough strikes in a day that some doofus on youtube just deletes your channel and refuses to agree that they deleted it in error(because that would make them look stupid).
I love how people are just ignoring the obvious reason for it - video calling.
they just want to charge , but didn't actually finish building the system and nobody would use it anyways for their prices.. much like "free wifi" on flights for 10 megs of data or whatever.
charging for calls and all that was always a wet dream for the airlines. problem is nobody wants to pay for it and the systems outdate themselves before they're even in use. like for video calls they would need to choose what app to use nowadays.
on many flights you can call or instant message another seat. another feature nobody uses ever.
my favorite useless feature was usb slot for viewing photos and pdf files on the crap screen. why no movies? because it was outdated already and they want you to view their inflight library, which they give you free anyways. but let's be honest who in their right mind would prepare to read pdf files off an usb stick on a plane? friggin nobody thats who.
this one flight had a smartphone looking wired remote for the inflight system. also totally useless and unly useful because the ui for skipping forward in a movie in the actual device was so goddamn laggy..
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first it says it's intentional that the flights take longer.
then it says that they were consistently late with the old schedules.
clearly they adjusted it for the time it actually takes when taking into account the airport traffics etc? like how someone can even write that up and not notice that they're full of shit in at least one of the sentences involved?
just have them on the baltic sea. several months of the year you can even drive to them. ..hmm. hmm, oh wait most of finland is already unpopulated and it's right there. and if that fills up there's siberia to the east of finland right there that is even less populated.
this is neither a necessity or a pressing matter to invent. in fact it is quite stupid. most of arizona even is unpopulated. all of these are easier to populate than floating cities. just because you can make floating cities doesn't mean that you would have to.
furthermore if they can't actually produce all the tools etc anyways on premises, you could just put those 300 on a luxury liner and they would have quite a lot of space per people.
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whats up with that? microsoft paid someone 2 million to look into the hack? or nintendo got someone on their payroll and paid 2 million in actual bills to someone to look at the logs?
UNFUCKING LIKELY.
it's just made up.
it's just two batteries.
think about it. sometimes the obvious solutions are the correct ones.
how much overall battery volume does each phone have inside it?
and that chargers like a laptop charger anyways.
supercaps aren't better than batteries for this. what you need/want is just maximum energy storage for the smallest amount of weight.
of course a battery pack system would be fairly trivial to develop. you could just hang it on the underside of the thing, or maybe have 3 different packs for redundancey. but you still have the energy density problem for the range of it vs. gasoline.
and after that, it's still just a helicopter with all the associated problems of one. you can have one today, even fairly cheaply, if you can deal with all the problems between the points you want to fly.
so the discussion is really about will we have electric helicopters and after that.. well, if you could have them cheap enough you would first fly them on fixed routes like busses. after that you can try to make them be a flying uber experience. skipping straight to flying uber is just.. it's just investor bullshitting quite frankly.
trump already has a flying taxi.
all the rich enough people have if they want to spend the requisite amount of money on it. it's fucking expensive and risky though, so most rich people opt not to have it - even the ultra rich.
we have had them for decades. it's not really just a cost issue about flying the thing itself or the cost of the flying thing itself. it's the cost of practicality arrangements between the places you want to land in.
I have no doubt that uber could start a helicopter route between the stated points, I'm highly skeptical of them making money with said route, especially if they intend to fly it "on demand".
like said, having the flying thing itself is not the problem or having it fly on autopilot most of the way(or even all of the way). it's having the places to land and take off and charge or refuel.
It seems like they choose not to investigate the pastor's version of events. This is very different than choosing to believe one or the other
this is quite common. just assume guilty and try to coerce a guilty plea - and they even went as far as to imply that he would not receive a fair trial so he would be better off just confessing.
that makes it a lot easier for police and usually works with the people they mainly deal with which is drug addicts coming down. it doesn't get the right crime allocated to the right perp of course, but it's not like that shows up in the statistics anyways. and once you've confessed in the hearing, well, good luck trying to turn that over in the actual trial because that ain't happening, even if you have proof that you didn't do it.
Because wells fargo provided wrong pictures and the police just went on with it with the premise that he should confess EVEN IF HE WAS INNOCENT because if it went to court he would be railroaded anyways and would get higher charges. he didn't do it but they were so ready to assume that it was him that they probably went more than a little bit too far with just trying to get him to confess.
it's worth suing both the police and wells fargo really, since it's in the usa. that it's in the usa is also why it can cause personal loss worth suing over as well as .. well, that's just what you gotta do in usa.
it's pinpointing a thing that is majorly wrong with the usa legal system at the moment and as such well worth suing for. It is the system trying to coerce you to give up your right for a fair trial(by pleading guilt on whatever they randomly choose as the crime that time) by pressuring on the fear that you will not receive a fair trial.
"you better plead guilty because otherwise you'll be convicted on stuff you didn't do anyways".
a lot of why that system got into the place at is today is the notion that "it only happens to people who deserve it" or that they did something anyways, so who cares, just convict them of something. it's barbaric and stupid. but somehow americans keep voting in people who base their campaigns on just doubling down on the stupidity.
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and it is mugshot not a comparison photo, that it was him in the photo was never contested. it's not for that purpose. the mugshot and publishing them (before trial) is for shaming purposes, which again seems like a good idea as long as it never happens to you.
I don't see how it can know all that without accessing personal content quite frankly.
of course what you count as personal content. but I would kinda like to know how it supposedly can check that you had a fb callscreen open without going into the logs to see if you called someone on fb? which is personal data?
Who cares? they will still have to comply if you ask them to delete your stuff and info about you.
It's not like that's optional for google to comply with, so there can't be a deadline like that.
to reach any of those indian call centers, you usually do not call an indian number.
instead you will call a number in usa. because they like to pretend like the call center is in usa.
tell that to the io scheduler on the mac mini siting on the corner of my desk.
the built in bloat crap just regularly goes haywire and makes all disk access super slow.
like an indexer wouldn't be bad, if it didn't hog all the resources and so on. or the weird thing thats supposed to help the home back functionality.
anyway, remember when microsoft said that you had only 1 month left for a free upgrade, like 2 years ago?... shouldn't speaking horseshit be illegal for a publicly traded company?
seriously 4 gigabytes for osx in 2019 is not enough to open 1 goddamned tab on safari and have it work decently. that does sound like bloat, yes?
it reflects the soundwaves back though, so you'll still need insulation somewhere on the box...
their demo video uses "microphone voltage".
0.05 with their damper and 0.25 without.
also the article quite clearly speaks of needing modelling for different sounds so it's not "any sound" but that it can be tuned for "any frequency".
you just need a wall of these around the kid and they'll reflect the sound back at the kid. I guess the size of the circles in the wall would need to depend on the frequency of the screeching. like, it's not an universal one size fits all(at least I don't see how it would be possible and they do speak about mathematically modelling for "any sound", needing different for different frequencies)
that's the theory anyways. still, it's fastcompany reporting. also it would need to be designed for the sound.
also I'm pretty sure you could still hear a speaker at 4%. the article doesn't make it quite clear what scale they were using. 0.05 out of .25 surely isn't 4% so maybe decibel.. the youtube demo video uses "microphone voltage level".
anyways, if it worked on with arbitrary soundforms on anything, surely a better demo would have been a harley - but it's supposed to reflect the sound back too, not absorb it into heat.
engine exhausts yeah and .. I guess there's some designs like that in some cars tail ends already.
what I'm more skeptical about is turbines and drones and such. as sound is generated on the airflow hitting the outside air anyways. and input side.
and surely if it worked for that well right now, they would have used that as a demo instead of a speaker. just silence a lawnmower or something.
is the 3 letter agency in palo alto some new meme since everyone seems to work there these days.
also who the f uses texts and calls anymore?
why do you even have trolls, wouldn't they need to use the system first to track who you are?
+I still want a real keyboard but manufacturers don't want to make them.
hell I just want real buttons, a scrollwheel or something or at least the home and back buttons as real buttons but noo.. that's too expensive component to put in a phone costing 500$+.
I hope they'll make a comeback as sales slow down and they figure out they can't just pump out the same model with cheaper assembly every year.
well insurance companies sure will imagine those rock hits and take care of upping the premiums.
I don't think it's true unless he put his real name on the gamertag or whatever.
at most if the game was p2p they would have had his ip address.
it smells like bullshit so badly. it's not that easy to find phone numbers of two random people based on just some online nickname that quickly. at the very frigging least the story needs to show that _anyone_ called them at that time on their cellphones. ..because eh, who even calls anymore?
at this point blackberry is a patent troll quite typically. as this is a quite typical path to being a patent troll - maximizing revenue from every source possible is kinda the usual reason, when the method is riskily suing big money victims.
it was a really hubris company that got into a market by sidestepping standards and providing a service that was doable with standard networks just a few years after and really they didn't have anything really special about it even. their thing was hacking their push email system into place just _before_ data networks made it unnecessary to hack such a system in place.
I'm just surprised they didn't sue google for android along with sun since their earlier os had quite a bit in common with android being java and all - the reason is easily guessable though, since they tried making android based phones themselves.
and fwiw they failed because they couldn't compete on price on open market. their key markets were _only_ operator subsidized markets and their devices were _actually_ hideously expensive for what they were. same for palm. made a lot of money for a short while though, but they thought they were just so special and good, when they just had a good deal going for a short while of price gouging markets where the price of the device was hidden in a 100 bucks per month fee of using the mobile service(of which 80 bucks was paying for the "free" phone and as there was no way to _not_ be paying for a "free" phone people went along with it).
over a distance like that it makes pretty much 0 sense to use optical. even if you could put a powerline along with it. it just wouldn't be any faster and would need much more complex hw at either end. if you kept upping the complexity at either end of course you could go higher and higher with the speed.
like.. why not just do high speed irda then?
and look. how many 5gbps usb devices you have or are going to have any time soon anyways? I dont't have a single device. I don't have anything to max out the usb 3.0 even.
You generally either pay to be able to play music at all or maybe a cost per play so I can't see that the length of loop makes any difference.
if you're big enough you can license it directly and keep the inspectors for that stuff away, I suppose.
same for public domain music. note that this is not possible even in some countries if you don't find artists and composers not signed up on local riaa/mpaa equivalent. also they might play that crap on purpose to drive people away..
generally, in a western country, a place like that would just pay a fee per month depending on how many people there are place for(and the cache then gets distributed to top radio played artists regardless of what music was actually played in the bar. it's like a mafia really. level 3000.
you can appeal, yes. but that's not the problem.
if they actually read your appeal depends on how famous a) you already are and b) if you ever said "dick","manga", "maga" or "jew" on the channel(context not mattering).
the appeal is kinda late anyways if someone machinates enough strikes in a day that some doofus on youtube just deletes your channel and refuses to agree that they deleted it in error(because that would make them look stupid).
I love how people are just ignoring the obvious reason for it - video calling.
they just want to charge , but didn't actually finish building the system and nobody would use it anyways for their prices.. much like "free wifi" on flights for 10 megs of data or whatever.
charging for calls and all that was always a wet dream for the airlines. problem is nobody wants to pay for it and the systems outdate themselves before they're even in use. like for video calls they would need to choose what app to use nowadays.
on many flights you can call or instant message another seat. another feature nobody uses ever.
my favorite useless feature was usb slot for viewing photos and pdf files on the crap screen. why no movies? because it was outdated already and they want you to view their inflight library, which they give you free anyways. but let's be honest who in their right mind would prepare to read pdf files off an usb stick on a plane? friggin nobody thats who.
this one flight had a smartphone looking wired remote for the inflight system. also totally useless and unly useful because the ui for skipping forward in a movie in the actual device was so goddamn laggy..