So they need to spend thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars for a situation that crops up... virtually never? And you want to talk about "government waste"?
Nope. That's exactly the problem solved by a cloud. Pooling server resources between a large number of content providers averages the demand between all of them, so each content provider can pay for their average demand while also supporting their maximum demand.
Let's not overcomplicate this - it just means hosting your service on Amazon Web Service or somesuch.
If Apple itself wanted to upload data more stealthily, there is absolutely nothing to stop them - just wait until the next time you initiate a connection with apple.com, such as a software update. Devices are so connected now, with no real internal partitioning of data, it is all purely on the honor system (except the ToS generally say they can and will do whatever they want anyways!)
Huh!? There was just a major scandal involving privacy violations of Apple cloud data - the nude celebrity leaks. It was a big deal, reported everywhere,
I saw a documentary on these poor saps and they were scurrying around in snow tunnels and using rifles against huge manned robots. They managed to get one by tying a cable around its legs using one of the few little airplanes that they had, but in the end it was a rout.
I would take 5K any day. It will beat 4k for everyday computer usage because text will be sharper (and any other scalable UI elements). It is 220 ppi which is (only) the same pixel density as the Macbook Pro I'm looking at right now.
As for pixel resampling, unfortunately 4k doesn't have any particular definition, so you'll often have resampling even with 4k content on a 4k display. But at such resolutions, resampling isn't so bad anyways, especially with video/photo content (as opposed to computer-generated imagery - games - that are perfectly sharp).
Which "these things" are not autonomous? Do you think amazon's vision for drone delivery is to have a guy joysticking each drone? Even hobby drones are leaving behind RPV.
"The King has taken nothing from us peasants, all the land belonged to the Crown before we were born. If He were not so generous as to allow us to work the land (albeit at the cost of everything we can produce beyond bare subsistence) then we would have no way to survive at all, and so we praise and bless Him."
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday that it will send an Ebola response team within hours to any American hospital that admits a patient who tests positive for the deadly virus.
The teams will include epidemiologists and infection control experts who can assist hospital staffers in navigating the intricacies of Ebola patient care.
This reminds me of my Mom's position on global warming, which is, "Well, in the 1960s they were afraid there might be a sudden ice age!"
In other words, some people were wrong about something, therefore some other people must now be wrong about something else. It is just lazy thinking and overgeneralization, characterized by sloppy usage of words such as "they" (sorry Mom).
The 10,000 cycles might be a bigger deal than the fast charging, because an increase in longevity is almost equivalent to a proportional cost reduction (which is the real big deal). For example, the amortized cost of battery-backup for solar or wind goes down by nearly 50% if the battery lasts twice as long. If a car battery is going to last for 20 years, the high upfront cost of an electric car would be largely offset by its high residual value - if nothing else you could sell the battery when the car wore out to be used in another car, or for grid backup etc.
Legislation in both chambers of Congress would limit the Department of Defense's ability to buy alternative fuels, reflecting congressional Republicans' criticism of Pentagon efforts to green the military.
A $554 billion defense spending bill approved by the House earlier this month would limit DOD's ability to produce or procure biofuels if the cost exceeds the price of traditional fossil fuel.
Oh, you mean the opposite of that.
But seriously, as the other response said, the glut of oil from new extraction technology is pretty much the death knell for any serious efforts at diversifying the energy supply. Or, I guess, heading off global warming, although I think coal is the #1 problem there - coal is so cheap and unlimited and irresistible and deadly, it's like a free cigarette vending machine at the Jr High.
When did I say you were on the American right? Never. What I said was that Obama has actually done a lot to reduce standing armies and warfare. If an election were held today, he would probably lose for not jumping into Syria faster and deeper.
Is the problem that you were referring more to Yousafzay, and others who received the Peace Price for promoting human rights instead of minimizing conventional warfare? In that case, I simply think you are being overly pedantic. Peace and justice go hand in hand.
By the way, I do think Yousafzay is more deserving of the prize than Obama was - not so much for getting shot, but for subsequently taking up the cause despite being shot, and at the risk of being shot again. And although you contend that the political right is not fairly represented in awarding the Nobel Prize, I question whether you will find any of them (short of the aforementioned Taliban) to come out publicly against her receiving the prize?
And obviously the Taliban was not consulted on this award.
Actually your post is incredibly self-contradictory. You're miffed about Obama receiving the award, yet you think it should go to people who reduce warfare. Obama has been criticized constantly by the American right for not going to war often enough and hard enough. Your knee-jerk response will certainly be to list instances where Obama has used military force. But tally up the pile of corpses from this Presidency vs. the previous, and you will find a difference of twenty-fold or more.
(Personally I think Obama's award was not for anything he would do subsequently, but was more Nelson-Mandela-like, for ending the unbroken streak of apartheid in the office of the US Presidency.)
Yeah, it makes me wonder if phantom limb pains couldn't be alleviated with just a therapy session of random stimulation every once in a while. (Obviously this research in re-enabling some sense of touch/pressure is much greater than that.)
Tesla's electric Model S has proven a very technically advanced car, except in regards to driver assistance systems. All that changes now, as Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk announced at an event in Los Angeles that every car manufactured over the last two weeks comes with new sensor hardware to enable what he calls Autopilot capabilities.
The event on Thursday night also included an announcement about the D option, an all-wheel-drive Model S with motors at the front and rear wheels.
The Autopilot hardware includes forward-looking radar and camera, combined with all-around long-range ultrasonic sensors. A software update being sent out to cars as an over-the-air update will enable driver assistance features such as adaptive cruise control, lane-keeping assist and automated parking.
Confirmed by independent sensors over a period of 10 years:
SCIAMACHY measured greenhouse gases from 2002 to 2012. The atmospheric hot spot persisted throughout the study period. A ground station in the Total Carbon Column Observing Network, operated by the Department of Energyâ(TM)s Los Alamos National Laboratory, provided independent validation of the measurement.
I think it's both. It was a common sentiment among hippie-era drug users, like people on slashdot blaming the RIAA for prompting them to pirate music. People on the defensive tend to retaliate with accusations of their own.
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Nope. That's exactly the problem solved by a cloud. Pooling server resources between a large number of content providers averages the demand between all of them, so each content provider can pay for their average demand while also supporting their maximum demand.
Let's not overcomplicate this - it just means hosting your service on Amazon Web Service or somesuch.
If Apple itself wanted to upload data more stealthily, there is absolutely nothing to stop them - just wait until the next time you initiate a connection with apple.com, such as a software update. Devices are so connected now, with no real internal partitioning of data, it is all purely on the honor system (except the ToS generally say they can and will do whatever they want anyways!)
Huh!? There was just a major scandal involving privacy violations of Apple cloud data - the nude celebrity leaks. It was a big deal, reported everywhere,
I saw a documentary on these poor saps and they were scurrying around in snow tunnels and using rifles against huge manned robots. They managed to get one by tying a cable around its legs using one of the few little airplanes that they had, but in the end it was a rout.
As for pixel resampling, unfortunately 4k doesn't have any particular definition, so you'll often have resampling even with 4k content on a 4k display. But at such resolutions, resampling isn't so bad anyways, especially with video/photo content (as opposed to computer-generated imagery - games - that are perfectly sharp).
Which "these things" are not autonomous? Do you think amazon's vision for drone delivery is to have a guy joysticking each drone? Even hobby drones are leaving behind RPV.
I think envying somebody is wanting to be them... wanting neither yourself nor anybody else to do what they are doing is not envious.
It's only envy if you want to keep the pyramid scheme, but with yourself at the top.
"The King has taken nothing from us peasants, all the land belonged to the Crown before we were born. If He were not so generous as to allow us to work the land (albeit at the cost of everything we can produce beyond bare subsistence) then we would have no way to survive at all, and so we praise and bless Him."
In other words, some people were wrong about something, therefore some other people must now be wrong about something else. It is just lazy thinking and overgeneralization, characterized by sloppy usage of words such as "they" (sorry Mom).
I doubt not marrying changes the relationship dynamics of cheating by much. It's like trying to eradicate greed by abolishing property rights.
The 10,000 cycles might be a bigger deal than the fast charging, because an increase in longevity is almost equivalent to a proportional cost reduction (which is the real big deal). For example, the amortized cost of battery-backup for solar or wind goes down by nearly 50% if the battery lasts twice as long. If a car battery is going to last for 20 years, the high upfront cost of an electric car would be largely offset by its high residual value - if nothing else you could sell the battery when the car wore out to be used in another car, or for grid backup etc.
Conducting that much electricity, that fast, does seem almost unfathomable though.
Oh, you mean the opposite of that.
But seriously, as the other response said, the glut of oil from new extraction technology is pretty much the death knell for any serious efforts at diversifying the energy supply. Or, I guess, heading off global warming, although I think coal is the #1 problem there - coal is so cheap and unlimited and irresistible and deadly, it's like a free cigarette vending machine at the Jr High.
According to that website the password KimKardashian would take 161,000 years to crack.
If that "Linux server in a datacenter" is a VPS, you can get one for like $7/mo.
Is the problem that you were referring more to Yousafzay, and others who received the Peace Price for promoting human rights instead of minimizing conventional warfare? In that case, I simply think you are being overly pedantic. Peace and justice go hand in hand.
By the way, I do think Yousafzay is more deserving of the prize than Obama was - not so much for getting shot, but for subsequently taking up the cause despite being shot, and at the risk of being shot again. And although you contend that the political right is not fairly represented in awarding the Nobel Prize, I question whether you will find any of them (short of the aforementioned Taliban) to come out publicly against her receiving the prize?
Actually your post is incredibly self-contradictory. You're miffed about Obama receiving the award, yet you think it should go to people who reduce warfare. Obama has been criticized constantly by the American right for not going to war often enough and hard enough. Your knee-jerk response will certainly be to list instances where Obama has used military force. But tally up the pile of corpses from this Presidency vs. the previous, and you will find a difference of twenty-fold or more.
(Personally I think Obama's award was not for anything he would do subsequently, but was more Nelson-Mandela-like, for ending the unbroken streak of apartheid in the office of the US Presidency.)
Yeah, it makes me wonder if phantom limb pains couldn't be alleviated with just a therapy session of random stimulation every once in a while. (Obviously this research in re-enabling some sense of touch/pressure is much greater than that.)
The logic is that plummeting natural gas prices have undercut the demand for coal, which was even worse. This resulted in an overall reduction in US CO2 emissions.
I think it's both. It was a common sentiment among hippie-era drug users, like people on slashdot blaming the RIAA for prompting them to pirate music. People on the defensive tend to retaliate with accusations of their own.