Yes, and it would be so trivial to conduct a controlled study for this that there is no reason to release it at this point, when it is merely a correlation that popped out of a relatively small amount of data.
Not to try to discredit your opinion, but I bet you would if you were rushed and didn't know or realize it was a Tesla.
Well exactly. A lot of us here write software. There is not one of us who would look at a bug when pointed out to us and say, "yeah, I'd do it just like that!"
That really depends on workload. RAM disk cache doesn't help any with writes. It also doesn't help if you have any programs that read or write very large files, as the cache just fills up with that one large file. Even 18 GB is only a couple hours of recorded broadcast TV.
Some of this "fraud" is simply compensating for the distortions imposed by the TV (or whatever medium) in the first place. For example, it is very hard to understand speech recorded with a normal level of background noise. Why? I'm not sure, maybe because the viewer then has background noise in the TV sound, PLUS real background noise wherever they are sitting. Or maybe our brains just can't tune out sounds if we can't look over at the source to confirm they're irrelevant and non-threatening.
Lighting is the same. If you just haphazardly shoot video or photos with natural light it looks awful - you can't make out nearly the detail (especially in shadows) that you would have if you'd been standing there. Maybe because the cameras and TVs have less dynamic range than your eyes. So, artificial lighting (or careful use of natural lighting) looks more natural.
I don't use the heart rate strap on my Garmin watch too often either, although I use the GPS every day. Like you said, after a while you have a pretty good idea of what it would be saying based on how you feel.
So, I think successful gadgets will combine something practical that people will always need, with something new and "exciting" that may or may not have long-term utility. Millions of people already wear watches, so I think smartwatches have chance if they aren't too much additional hassle to charge. Just screening calls and texts would be a useful addition.
the real problem is that though out the lifetime of this plant, the expected costs for decommissioning have gone though the roof by a mass of changing rules, laws and policies which have conspired to not only raise the costs but shorten the useful lifespan of the plant.
What you call the "real" problem is actually re-stating the GP's point - that is, during the lifetime of the plant, some of the externalizations mentioned by the GP have been internalized through the rules you mentioned. Is that unfair? Perhaps, only in the sense that the gaping externalities of fossil fuels, by comparison, have not been internalized whatsoever.
I don't get it? If the person is is 'reasonably believed' to be a terrorist, then the FISA court would rubber-stamp a warrant so quick it would make heads spin. So why not get the warrant?
And why is this hard? About 10 years ago I had a credit card that offered a website. It would let you generate a new credit card number at any time that was only good for up to a certain amount. So you didn't have to give away the keys to the kingdom just to place a little purchase. But they shut it down and I haven't seen anything like it in years.
What I would like is a trusted hardware token (like a SecureID card) that I carry in my pocket. When the POS terminal requests a payment, it transmits the request to my token and I put in my PIN, which authorizes a payment but only for the specified amount! (Obviously the token could be a smartphone, to sacrifice some security for convenience.)
A bizarre comment, since the whole point is NOT to be stuck with the tiny lens. As for the shitty sensor, like it or not but smartphones get the newest and best sensor technology first because that is the mass market, for example the iPhone 4 was one of the first consumer products with a backside illumination sensor. The old conventional wisdom was that "physics is physics" so nothing mattered by sensor size; that has been disproven.
I'm not sure how you can say wifi is "awfully wasteful" with a straight face. Ignoring MIMO (which can double or triple the spectral efficiency), 802.11n achieves 3.61 bits/second/Hz which is right on par with other consumer wireless standards.
N is new and good. So the only way to do what the GP suggests is forcing older, less efficient devices off the air. "Cash for clunker APs!" or something. I'm not saying whether that's a great idea - but this new spectrum allocation adds 15%, whereas 802.11b is up to 100 times slower than ac.
I wouldn't rule out transcription. I find the automated speech transcription on my corporate voicemail very useful. The accuracy still isn't high, but I can usually get the gist of the message so I don't have to listen to it. I am so absent-minded that "note to self" would be really welcome.
The interesting thing is Elon made his fortune at PayPal. You think he'd know better.
If only he'd spent more time sitting around absorbing the endless stream of "what could possibly go wrong..." posts on slashdot, instead of building an empire.
In 2012, the U.S. Congress passed the Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 which calls on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and other agencies, to make a number of changes to the way the NFIP is run. As the law is implemented, some of these changes have already occurred, and others will be implemented in the coming months. Key provisions of the legislation will require the NFIP to raise rates to reflect true flood risk, make the program more financially stable, and change how Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) updates impact policyholders. The changes will mean premium rate increases for some - but not all - policyholders over time.
They already did something much more sophisticated than that in the 1970's. Operation GUNMAN:
The monograph reveals that beginning in 1976, the KGB successfully installed sophisticated miniaturized electronic eavesdropping equipment and burst transmitters inside 16 IBM Selectric typewriters used by the staffs of the Moscow embassy and Leningrad consulate, which copied everything being typed on the machines, then periodically broadcast their take to KGB engineers manning listening posts just outside.
The KGB bugs were discovered eight years later in 1984 by a NSA operation codenamed Project GUNMAN
I am not sure how tit-for-tat can be directly generalized to large populations - the problem is there is always a large number defectors. But now that you mention it, perhaps "tragedy of the commons" is more correct than "prisoner's dilemma." As I look at the connection between the two on wikipedia, I find: "Many real-life dilemmas involve multiple players. Although metaphorical, Hardin's tragedy of the commons may be viewed as an example of a multi-player generalization of the PD: Each villager makes a choice for personal gain or restraint."
This can reduce waiting times in "taxi rush hour" - would you prefer to wait 15 minutes for "your own" taxi, or share one that comes in 5 minute?
It's a Prisoner's Dilemma situation. If everybody were willing to wait the 5 minutes, that would be better for everybody. But the ideal situation for an individual is if everybody else shares while they themselves do not, thus avoiding even the 5 minute wait. Each person acting in their best interest individually leads to a poor outcome for everybody.
The bus is the same. If everybody decided (at once) to start riding the bus, it would be faster than everybody driving cars because there would be so little congestion on the streets, and so many bus routes. But since only a few people take the bus, the busses slog thorough the congestion, AND (being busses) have to stop all the time. So the situation persists.
I agree that things seem to be freeing up more lately. I have been waiting until contract-free Android phones were affordable. Are they really not 'locked' in some way? How do they stop you from tethering, for example? Not that they should care since I would rather pay per Megabyte transferred, but I thought Android or the phones themselves were still DRM'd at some level, not true? If so then I am glad.
Well I want to decide for myself what to plug my goggles into, and not have it be a Facebook Accessory. That's my big beef with smart phones and why I still don't have one. The idea of a pocket computer sounded awesome 15 years ago, but they're so wrapped up with the carriers and walled gardens that the appeal is lost to me. You are monitored at every step. And now that's the future of OR.
Wow, what a great point. Are you very consistent in applying this logic? Next time O'Reilly asks about Benghazi, Obama could try something like, "Ambassador Stephens was 52, so it's really only like 1/3 of a death."
Even if he declined to accept any offers obtained by lying about a degree, it would be interested to see if it helped him to get more offers. As it stands, it could be anything - a declining market in his technical specialty, or in the region where he lives, or a slip in the freshness of his skills, or age discrimination.
Yes, Carter lost the presidency over the hostage crisis. And how many ended up dying? ZERO.
Carter would have been re-elected if he'd ordered a rescue/strike that had ended up rescuing 2/3 of the hostages and got the rest killed. I am certain of it.
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You are muddling together millions of people with a bunch of different motivations and ideas.
Yes, and it would be so trivial to conduct a controlled study for this that there is no reason to release it at this point, when it is merely a correlation that popped out of a relatively small amount of data.
Well exactly. A lot of us here write software. There is not one of us who would look at a bug when pointed out to us and say, "yeah, I'd do it just like that!"
That really depends on workload. RAM disk cache doesn't help any with writes. It also doesn't help if you have any programs that read or write very large files, as the cache just fills up with that one large file. Even 18 GB is only a couple hours of recorded broadcast TV.
Lighting is the same. If you just haphazardly shoot video or photos with natural light it looks awful - you can't make out nearly the detail (especially in shadows) that you would have if you'd been standing there. Maybe because the cameras and TVs have less dynamic range than your eyes. So, artificial lighting (or careful use of natural lighting) looks more natural.
So, I think successful gadgets will combine something practical that people will always need, with something new and "exciting" that may or may not have long-term utility. Millions of people already wear watches, so I think smartwatches have chance if they aren't too much additional hassle to charge. Just screening calls and texts would be a useful addition.
What you call the "real" problem is actually re-stating the GP's point - that is, during the lifetime of the plant, some of the externalizations mentioned by the GP have been internalized through the rules you mentioned. Is that unfair? Perhaps, only in the sense that the gaping externalities of fossil fuels, by comparison, have not been internalized whatsoever.
I already cited an example of a specific improvement in sensitivity for a given sensor size.
I don't get it? If the person is is 'reasonably believed' to be a terrorist, then the FISA court would rubber-stamp a warrant so quick it would make heads spin. So why not get the warrant?
What I would like is a trusted hardware token (like a SecureID card) that I carry in my pocket. When the POS terminal requests a payment, it transmits the request to my token and I put in my PIN, which authorizes a payment but only for the specified amount! (Obviously the token could be a smartphone, to sacrifice some security for convenience.)
A bizarre comment, since the whole point is NOT to be stuck with the tiny lens. As for the shitty sensor, like it or not but smartphones get the newest and best sensor technology first because that is the mass market, for example the iPhone 4 was one of the first consumer products with a backside illumination sensor. The old conventional wisdom was that "physics is physics" so nothing mattered by sensor size; that has been disproven.
The "pro" model you linked is $250, not $179 as cited above!
The Dell Venue 8 has a Clover Trail Atom, not Bay Trail. Bay Trail was a big step forward for the Atom!
N is new and good. So the only way to do what the GP suggests is forcing older, less efficient devices off the air. "Cash for clunker APs!" or something. I'm not saying whether that's a great idea - but this new spectrum allocation adds 15%, whereas 802.11b is up to 100 times slower than ac.
I wouldn't rule out transcription. I find the automated speech transcription on my corporate voicemail very useful. The accuracy still isn't high, but I can usually get the gist of the message so I don't have to listen to it. I am so absent-minded that "note to self" would be really welcome.
If only he'd spent more time sitting around absorbing the endless stream of "what could possibly go wrong..." posts on slashdot, instead of building an empire.
Here is the NSA's own writeup. Anybody who thinks the Russians are being "paranoid" is a real fool.
I am not sure how tit-for-tat can be directly generalized to large populations - the problem is there is always a large number defectors. But now that you mention it, perhaps "tragedy of the commons" is more correct than "prisoner's dilemma." As I look at the connection between the two on wikipedia, I find: "Many real-life dilemmas involve multiple players. Although metaphorical, Hardin's tragedy of the commons may be viewed as an example of a multi-player generalization of the PD: Each villager makes a choice for personal gain or restraint."
It's a Prisoner's Dilemma situation. If everybody were willing to wait the 5 minutes, that would be better for everybody. But the ideal situation for an individual is if everybody else shares while they themselves do not, thus avoiding even the 5 minute wait. Each person acting in their best interest individually leads to a poor outcome for everybody.
The bus is the same. If everybody decided (at once) to start riding the bus, it would be faster than everybody driving cars because there would be so little congestion on the streets, and so many bus routes. But since only a few people take the bus, the busses slog thorough the congestion, AND (being busses) have to stop all the time. So the situation persists.
I agree that things seem to be freeing up more lately. I have been waiting until contract-free Android phones were affordable. Are they really not 'locked' in some way? How do they stop you from tethering, for example? Not that they should care since I would rather pay per Megabyte transferred, but I thought Android or the phones themselves were still DRM'd at some level, not true? If so then I am glad.
Well I want to decide for myself what to plug my goggles into, and not have it be a Facebook Accessory. That's my big beef with smart phones and why I still don't have one. The idea of a pocket computer sounded awesome 15 years ago, but they're so wrapped up with the carriers and walled gardens that the appeal is lost to me. You are monitored at every step. And now that's the future of OR.
Wow, what a great point. Are you very consistent in applying this logic? Next time O'Reilly asks about Benghazi, Obama could try something like, "Ambassador Stephens was 52, so it's really only like 1/3 of a death."
Even if he declined to accept any offers obtained by lying about a degree, it would be interested to see if it helped him to get more offers. As it stands, it could be anything - a declining market in his technical specialty, or in the region where he lives, or a slip in the freshness of his skills, or age discrimination.
Carter would have been re-elected if he'd ordered a rescue/strike that had ended up rescuing 2/3 of the hostages and got the rest killed. I am certain of it.