Eh, the phalanx and a cavalry wing used to be pretty great too. With automation comes the devaluing of labor, and if labor isn't valuable you can drone the serfs into submission if you're feeling generous or into extinction if they're being difficult. We probably aren't quite there yet, as it is still cheaper to control populations with propaganda, but small arms aren't relevant and won't help against someone willing to use total war doctrines.
There've been stories out lately about citizens getting rounded up and children separated, and attempts to denaturalize citizens. I haven't had the chance to look into the veracity of these claims, but if my spouse was an immigrant I'd be more motivated.
That's also the opposite of stealth, so your gear would have the choice of being hard to track for guided weapons or hard to destroy with a laser, but not both. We rarely arm our soldiers or equipment with only one weapon system...
The primary purpose of pigmentation in life forms is not related to being seen, but more often to shield from radiation damage. Bacteria will grow in all sorts of spectacular colors, but not because they have eyes or are trying to interact with things that do.
It does seem like something I could see getting my kids once they are old enough to move beyond their Fire tablets. I just got a HP 2in1 on clearance and it is a pretty fun form factor for portability and pen input (and unlike the Surface, it comes with the keyboard and pen). The battery life isn't super great, but it has a full i7 processor in it versus the atom processors in many of these products.
Does it? I have left those automated sigs on my emails sent from mobile devices because I figured it would be interpreted as "I typed this on a pretend computer, sorry the formatting sucks" Additionally, that way when they see "Sent from my Kindle Fire" they can think "oh, you poor bastard, traveling, forgot the chargers, and that was the last thing left?" and if they see "Sent from my iPhone" they can think "oh, nice of him to bother to write back when he wasn't home"
On the one hand, the competition and lower prices will be great. On the other, I'd trust Chinese corps even less than I trust normal, untrustworthy, international corps...
Lately I've found they have the foreign call center staff using a vocoder (or similar?) to disguise the accent. Everything sounds like it has a slight digital interference and only the diction and grammar gives you hints to the location of the call center.
They already have bots when you call in to many customer service lines, they're just not as slick and don't pretend to be a human. If this works better than those do, it certainly won't be any worse than the status quo.
I still have this feeling like all this data valuation is a bubble, it is hard enough to glean useful trends out of rigorously collected scientific data. How much does Charmin pay Samsung to find out that the basement TV primarily streams PJ Mask and use that info to try to influence whether I buy the store-brand generic at Kroger vs Sam's Club? My understanding is that the market for banner ads has mostly collapsed as a way to make money, what'll be the next fad after tracking metrics crashes?
Ever used PEX? Compared to sweating copper it is LEGO brick easy... the trades are a few building code changes away from the bottom dropping out as it all goes DIY and prefab. There'll still be demand for repair work, but that'll be a smaller market.
Adding or removing items as part of a custom order never changed the price, except for extra cheese or extra meat. Leftover food usually got pitched or taken home by the employees, at the time I worked there: the rules around donating food to the shelters was too onerous for restaurant leftovers to be accepted.
I think I've only run into a CD that couldn't be ripped once, and it was paired with an audio DVD that ripped and converted to MP3 just fine, so I don't think you need to worry too much. The only hardware with CD readers in them these days are probably off-the-shelf CDROMs inside anyway.
There's no compulsory licensing with streaming like there is with disk rental, so the jig was up once everyone realized streaming their back catalog was worth something. Recall when streaming Netflix was a free bonus to some disk plans rather than its own thing people decided was worth paying for.
I think the providers do get better data than they got with cable and are tailoring their expectations about whether folks will really subscribe to a cable bill's worth of services all at once all year long... we have a standing sub to Netflix and Amazon Prime, and rotate others. So right now we have Hulu and watch mostly just Handmaid's Tale on there. Once that is over, we'll cancel and do HBO Now to binge mostly Westworld, then cancel until GoT is on. The thing that made me think the providers are savvy to all this is the marketing email I got from HBO to point out that Westworld is done and ready to binge, since they can presumably tell that we watched GoT and then binged the first season of WW. Conversely, Kimmy Schmidt on Netflix is having its season split in two, to leave it bingeable but encourage you not to drop your sub for most of the year, I'd guess.
I would bet they are doing that because they foresaw demand dropping and it probably has higher overhead. Streaming is sometimes more convenient than watching movies you own on DVD, after all, if you're trying to help your kid watch it on a tablet... transcoding them and setting up a media server isn't for everyone.
I haven't tried, but I've read that you can kind of make an Alexa unit work with a Synology server. I got the impression that it involved some sorcery but I was just perusing their forum, I don't have a smart speaker so it could be easier than it appeared from the discussion.
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Eh, the phalanx and a cavalry wing used to be pretty great too. With automation comes the devaluing of labor, and if labor isn't valuable you can drone the serfs into submission if you're feeling generous or into extinction if they're being difficult. We probably aren't quite there yet, as it is still cheaper to control populations with propaganda, but small arms aren't relevant and won't help against someone willing to use total war doctrines.
There've been stories out lately about citizens getting rounded up and children separated, and attempts to denaturalize citizens. I haven't had the chance to look into the veracity of these claims, but if my spouse was an immigrant I'd be more motivated.
That's also the opposite of stealth, so your gear would have the choice of being hard to track for guided weapons or hard to destroy with a laser, but not both. We rarely arm our soldiers or equipment with only one weapon system...
These sorts of tablet 2in1s have a little kickstand, they work just fine in a lap.
Settings > Battery > she can see what is eating it. With it needing charged that often, though, it probably just needs the battery replaced.
This is biological pigmentation, not people digging up yellow ochre and painting a cave hyena with it.
The primary purpose of pigmentation in life forms is not related to being seen, but more often to shield from radiation damage. Bacteria will grow in all sorts of spectacular colors, but not because they have eyes or are trying to interact with things that do.
It does seem like something I could see getting my kids once they are old enough to move beyond their Fire tablets. I just got a HP 2in1 on clearance and it is a pretty fun form factor for portability and pen input (and unlike the Surface, it comes with the keyboard and pen). The battery life isn't super great, but it has a full i7 processor in it versus the atom processors in many of these products.
The point is that an HBO that is making quantity over quality is just another Netflix.
Does it? I have left those automated sigs on my emails sent from mobile devices because I figured it would be interpreted as "I typed this on a pretend computer, sorry the formatting sucks" Additionally, that way when they see "Sent from my Kindle Fire" they can think "oh, you poor bastard, traveling, forgot the chargers, and that was the last thing left?" and if they see "Sent from my iPhone" they can think "oh, nice of him to bother to write back when he wasn't home"
On the one hand, the competition and lower prices will be great. On the other, I'd trust Chinese corps even less than I trust normal, untrustworthy, international corps...
The business plan was probably to draw a decent VC salary and double mortgage some property in the corp's name until the seed money ran out.
Lately I've found they have the foreign call center staff using a vocoder (or similar?) to disguise the accent. Everything sounds like it has a slight digital interference and only the diction and grammar gives you hints to the location of the call center.
They already have bots when you call in to many customer service lines, they're just not as slick and don't pretend to be a human. If this works better than those do, it certainly won't be any worse than the status quo.
I still have this feeling like all this data valuation is a bubble, it is hard enough to glean useful trends out of rigorously collected scientific data. How much does Charmin pay Samsung to find out that the basement TV primarily streams PJ Mask and use that info to try to influence whether I buy the store-brand generic at Kroger vs Sam's Club? My understanding is that the market for banner ads has mostly collapsed as a way to make money, what'll be the next fad after tracking metrics crashes?
Ever used PEX? Compared to sweating copper it is LEGO brick easy... the trades are a few building code changes away from the bottom dropping out as it all goes DIY and prefab. There'll still be demand for repair work, but that'll be a smaller market.
Adding or removing items as part of a custom order never changed the price, except for extra cheese or extra meat. Leftover food usually got pitched or taken home by the employees, at the time I worked there: the rules around donating food to the shelters was too onerous for restaurant leftovers to be accepted.
I think I've only run into a CD that couldn't be ripped once, and it was paired with an audio DVD that ripped and converted to MP3 just fine, so I don't think you need to worry too much. The only hardware with CD readers in them these days are probably off-the-shelf CDROMs inside anyway.
"Big Mac, no meat" was a surprisingly common order when I worked there, easier to eat than a salad while driving I'd guess.
A polarized filter might work well over e-ink to make it invisible at various angles, though
There's no compulsory licensing with streaming like there is with disk rental, so the jig was up once everyone realized streaming their back catalog was worth something. Recall when streaming Netflix was a free bonus to some disk plans rather than its own thing people decided was worth paying for.
I think the providers do get better data than they got with cable and are tailoring their expectations about whether folks will really subscribe to a cable bill's worth of services all at once all year long... we have a standing sub to Netflix and Amazon Prime, and rotate others. So right now we have Hulu and watch mostly just Handmaid's Tale on there. Once that is over, we'll cancel and do HBO Now to binge mostly Westworld, then cancel until GoT is on. The thing that made me think the providers are savvy to all this is the marketing email I got from HBO to point out that Westworld is done and ready to binge, since they can presumably tell that we watched GoT and then binged the first season of WW. Conversely, Kimmy Schmidt on Netflix is having its season split in two, to leave it bingeable but encourage you not to drop your sub for most of the year, I'd guess.
I would bet they are doing that because they foresaw demand dropping and it probably has higher overhead. Streaming is sometimes more convenient than watching movies you own on DVD, after all, if you're trying to help your kid watch it on a tablet... transcoding them and setting up a media server isn't for everyone.
Better start working on your swordsmanship, there can be only one!
I haven't tried, but I've read that you can kind of make an Alexa unit work with a Synology server. I got the impression that it involved some sorcery but I was just perusing their forum, I don't have a smart speaker so it could be easier than it appeared from the discussion.