If brake lights and turn signals had originally been proposed on slashdot, somebody would have complained that they're a horrible idea because they could be turned on at the wrong time thus creating total chaos. All the traffic hacker needs to do is press the hazard light button on his steering column! To say nothing of automated street lights -what if somebody re-wires them to be green both ways, HMMMM, didja think of that?! We'd better just stick with 4-way stop signs.
Bureaucrats have been fretting for years about how they are going to fund road construction and repair as we move towards non-gas tax paying electric cars
Just bureaucrats? I personally find roads to be very handy to have.
I just wonder if there is really a market for a watch that is merely an extra terminal for a pocket computer. Maybe there is, but like I said, my Garmin GPS watch is somewhat of a hassle to maintain due to frequent charging, so I wouldn't bother if I didn't have a particular need. Granted, wireless charging alone would make the Garmin a lot better - fouling of the contacts is a constant problem.
As the owner of a Garmin GPS watch, I disagree that the battery alone is adequate. GPS is a super useful function (especially when you're moving = energy to harvest), but a battery can only power a reasonably-sized GPS watch for about 5 hours. On very long runs I carry a AA-powered USB charger wired to my wrist. Not very apple-like.
Do you actually have Prime? Most small items in the $5 range are not prime-eligible, or are at best add-on items (i.e. find $20 of other stuff you don't really want...)
I have repeatedly had people tell me that electric cars are "new technology that needs to be given time to mature." They never react well when I point out that electric cars have been around more or less as long as internal combustion engine cars.
And how did you react when a good electric car was finally invented, thus proving your friends had been right all along?
Heh, I don't really know the specifics. I would be surprised if the Cessna can even generate enough electricity for the marine radar in question, or lift it, or fly high enough to use it to capacity. But there's no doubt you could cover a lot more ground with a Cessna with an IR camera like that, than just driving around in a patrol boat for example.
Why do we need such powerful military grade drones just to keep tabs on illegal aliens crossing our borders?
The fact that it ditched in the water while patrolling off the southern coast is a good indication that it was not patrolling for illegal immigrants, but rather for drug smugglers. They are very sophisticated, using not only fast boats, but also submarines. And the pacific ocean is way too big to patrol with toy quadrocopters.
What surprises me about all this coverage is that I don't remember the Mac being all that influential or popular at the time. I guess it was too expensive for the people around me. If you want to celebrate an Apple computer, celebrate the Apple II.
The technology developed for the F35 will certainly be used on future drones as well. None of the sensors, weapons, stealth, propulsion, VTOL... etc is specific to manned platforms.
Many of the accounts you are forced to create nowadays are for the benefit of whoever wants to track you, not for your own benefit. When I was forced to sign up for an Apple Developer or iTunes Store account to get software updates for my MacBook I hoped there would be a pool of shared profiles people had set up for anybody to re-use, but not finding them I assume Apple detects and de-activates them.
I don't think they're effective for that purpose, at least not any more. The actual structure of a network within each ASN is obscured (for network security and business propriety). And latency may well depend on the content of an individual packet, where it's to/from, whether it's part of a stream, etc due to traffic shaping.
Let's see, the summary contains: 1) the bit rate 2) the link length 3) the bit rate per Hz and 4) the percentage improvement over what they were using before.
What is it you're complaining about, exactly? Or is this just a pavlovian response to any story about bandwidth?
If you used video, rather than images (or frames from images taken in isolation), and the video showed how things are used, then you could get somewhere. For example each grape in a bowl of grapes is an "object" for eating purposes whereas each bump on a raspberry is not, despite how visually similar those are.
There is no way an image-based unsupervised algorithm can learn to recognize objects. "Shapes that frequently go together," yes. But what we consider "objects" is not an objective reality, it is a mental construct that is largely functionally-determined. It will never figure out all the different forms to which we ascribe the label "chair."
Sitting on a street, a "bicycle" is an object because it is most like to be operated on as a unit. But to a bicycle mechanic, a bicycle is a collection of objects, such as a frame, a seat.. and so on because they need to decompose the "bicycle" construct to do their job. To somebody on an assembly line putting together bicycle seats, a seat is (at least initially) several different objects.
So, truly unsupervised algorithms cannot do useful recognition - that is, classify objects the same way people do. (A robot that could experiment with its environment and learn to use "objects" could come closer).
You conveniently didn't quote what I quoted immediately before saying "yes it's global warming," so I'll repeat it:
"...a trend that has seen the number of hot days in Australia double and the duration and frequency of heatwaves increase in the period between 1971 and 2008."
Now, do people suddenly get more interested in global warming when it's hot outside? Sure! Why? Because people are essentially irrational, and don't live very long relative to the planet. That includes me and people I agree with, too. But it doesn't change the facts of a 35+ year trend.
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If brake lights and turn signals had originally been proposed on slashdot, somebody would have complained that they're a horrible idea because they could be turned on at the wrong time thus creating total chaos. All the traffic hacker needs to do is press the hazard light button on his steering column! To say nothing of automated street lights -what if somebody re-wires them to be green both ways, HMMMM, didja think of that?! We'd better just stick with 4-way stop signs.
I just wonder if there is really a market for a watch that is merely an extra terminal for a pocket computer. Maybe there is, but like I said, my Garmin GPS watch is somewhat of a hassle to maintain due to frequent charging, so I wouldn't bother if I didn't have a particular need. Granted, wireless charging alone would make the Garmin a lot better - fouling of the contacts is a constant problem.
As the owner of a Garmin GPS watch, I disagree that the battery alone is adequate. GPS is a super useful function (especially when you're moving = energy to harvest), but a battery can only power a reasonably-sized GPS watch for about 5 hours. On very long runs I carry a AA-powered USB charger wired to my wrist. Not very apple-like.
Do you actually have Prime? Most small items in the $5 range are not prime-eligible, or are at best add-on items (i.e. find $20 of other stuff you don't really want...)
And how did you react when a good electric car was finally invented, thus proving your friends had been right all along?
Heh, I don't really know the specifics. I would be surprised if the Cessna can even generate enough electricity for the marine radar in question, or lift it, or fly high enough to use it to capacity. But there's no doubt you could cover a lot more ground with a Cessna with an IR camera like that, than just driving around in a patrol boat for example.
Don't forget to integrate a marine radar and optical/infrared sensor ball into your Cessna.
The fact that it ditched in the water while patrolling off the southern coast is a good indication that it was not patrolling for illegal immigrants, but rather for drug smugglers. They are very sophisticated, using not only fast boats, but also submarines. And the pacific ocean is way too big to patrol with toy quadrocopters.
What surprises me about all this coverage is that I don't remember the Mac being all that influential or popular at the time. I guess it was too expensive for the people around me. If you want to celebrate an Apple computer, celebrate the Apple II.
On the news they showed Russian police near the Olympics pulling up man-hole covers to inspect the sewers. So they are mindful of that kind of thing.
When we have truly adapted to gigabit Internet, there won't even be "pages" to "load" faster.
The technology developed for the F35 will certainly be used on future drones as well. None of the sensors, weapons, stealth, propulsion, VTOL... etc is specific to manned platforms.
Well, there's the alternative of host extinction.
But yeah. Just because two things grow similarly does NOT mean they dissipate similarly.
If you ask me food isn't all that location-specific any more.
Many of the accounts you are forced to create nowadays are for the benefit of whoever wants to track you, not for your own benefit. When I was forced to sign up for an Apple Developer or iTunes Store account to get software updates for my MacBook I hoped there would be a pool of shared profiles people had set up for anybody to re-use, but not finding them I assume Apple detects and de-activates them.
I don't think they're effective for that purpose, at least not any more. The actual structure of a network within each ASN is obscured (for network security and business propriety). And latency may well depend on the content of an individual packet, where it's to/from, whether it's part of a stream, etc due to traffic shaping.
...and reduced their bandwidth and server costs by about 98%.
What is it you're complaining about, exactly? Or is this just a pavlovian response to any story about bandwidth?
Let's say it's Sunday evening and Netflix is getting choppy. How would you even know if the problem is the last mile or backbone?
If you used video, rather than images (or frames from images taken in isolation), and the video showed how things are used, then you could get somewhere. For example each grape in a bowl of grapes is an "object" for eating purposes whereas each bump on a raspberry is not, despite how visually similar those are.
Sitting on a street, a "bicycle" is an object because it is most like to be operated on as a unit. But to a bicycle mechanic, a bicycle is a collection of objects, such as a frame, a seat.. and so on because they need to decompose the "bicycle" construct to do their job. To somebody on an assembly line putting together bicycle seats, a seat is (at least initially) several different objects.
So, truly unsupervised algorithms cannot do useful recognition - that is, classify objects the same way people do. (A robot that could experiment with its environment and learn to use "objects" could come closer).
Now, do people suddenly get more interested in global warming when it's hot outside? Sure! Why? Because people are essentially irrational, and don't live very long relative to the planet. That includes me and people I agree with, too. But it doesn't change the facts of a 35+ year trend.
I'm sorry but you're just hopeless.
Maybe Nest should reproduce google in a few hours: wget -r -O -http:/ /yahoo.com | grep boobies