Ah, I thought it might have been something related to the military background, but figure that he might have just come prepared and brought a filter/mask.
Why? Carry lots of cash, and I can be mugged, it can be lost, etc. They can overcharge me, or screw up my order and respond to my complaint "meh"
Now if somebody steals my card or it is lost, I can cancel it. I can charge back any false charges, including in cases where the product wasn't as it should be.
What I wondered is: did the suspect have a gas mask? If not (I haven't seen anything that said he did), why not launch some tear gas - or even have the robot deploy it - rather than an explosive device?
If they took the guy alive, then perhaps they could have gotten information on accomplices etc.
"where you render detail based on where the eye is looking"
Just to understand this better, does that mean it has some for of eye/iris tracking and then essentially ups the AA and/or poly count wherever in the scene that is, but renders with less detail around the periphery, similar to how a photo would have a more detail image at the focus point and a more blurry background or surrounding?
I did google it but wanted to be clear from somebody in the know.
My current position started out as a short contract job. When I took it, I had high hopes of it becoming permanent, but there certainly wasn't anything definite over where a permanent position would be open. Instead of quitting my old position, I took some of the 6+ weeks holidays I had banked up. This also meant I was still getting medical (which the contractor didn't give me), and if I didn't feel like things were working out I could go back. I told my old boss and some co-workers in my department what was going on. I *didn't* tell HR. Near the end of my leave, it looked like chances of getting a permanent position at the new company was good, so I told my boss I wouldn't be coming back after holidays. I did offer to do some remote work in my free hours if they needed help, or to answer questions via email etc for free for the next while. They'd already known what was up, so they'd talked to some local talent and prepared for my departure. Thus they had somebody in mind already who filled my position after I left, and neither of us were worse for the wear.
Except he didn't *start* as upper management, but made it there from what sounds like exceptional performance. So not only does the company support its good/loyal employees, but it allows them to rise in the ladder.
In many situations it might help automatically correct a mistake of the driver (i.e. driver didn't notice the sudden braking of the vehicle ahead). However, you still need to be there in case it f***s up or doesn't notice some issue (like a white tractor-trailer).
content filtering was used by more people if it was automatically enabled
Uh, duh. Getting mild electrical shocks is used by more people if automatically enabled. Hell, getting kicked in the knackers would be used by more people - at least for a certain period of time - if you're doing it by f***ing default.
Lots of local companies have been using shitty patents to stifle competition or shake down others for some time. Often they have more success if the company they file against is foreign-owned. Perhaps that appeals to some perverse sense of nationalism in certain districts.
Except that this is an additional offering beyond what they already provide (which is a live-stream-only service), and roughly ~30m people seem to be pretty good with that. I highly doubt many would be dropping Netflix just because the DRM requires them to use the same device for both downloading and playback, as that's still functionality above-and-beyond what they can do now.
And some - like doing a lookup of a vehicle while off-duty - might not be mis-use. If a cop sees a vehicle that seems to be involved in a crime, does he/she have to be on duty at a time to look up information?
Yeah, that's the main concern. Hopefully the fact that it's a lot cheaper to product a standard signal/part will deter this (but seeing how car stereo's have gone, I won't hold my breath).
$200 or less for a powered mirror (no heat) that I replaced on my old car. All said it took under an hour to do, required unscrewing four bolts, and disconnecting/reconnecting a single cable.
Still, there's no reason a camera module shouldn't be similarly serviceable so long as it's in a removable housing.
I don't know why it should require that much. Backup cameras can be found for $100 or less, so I'd imagine that once these reach mainstream then replacement camera kits won't be exceptionally expensive (barring some nasty protocols/lock-in).
As for turning your head, newer model Hondas have a side-mirror camera which show you much more than the actual mirror - including the zone where you would normally need to blind-spot-check - and are activated by your turn signal. If anything, perhaps this will force people to use their signals more.
Who pays for false alarms (other than the taxpayer)?
It's not the police's job to stop by for any potential crime an automated system may have picked up. Certainly they don't come to my home if a burglar alarm goes off. Presumably this would work similar to an alarm company which would monitor an alarm and decide whether to dispatch a person (or possibly call police) , possibly with a fee for dispatches. That centralises the personnel required and allows the robot security company to have only a few staff in addition to many robots.
My local ISP and certain others do something similar. If I call in and their system is quite busy, it will give an option to enter a number for callback (with the estimated time). I still have to wait, but at least I can get on with my day without waiting "on hold"
Anti-cheating and DRM both have some performance implications, and - depending on how you do it - this may especially affect server vs client and network communication.
Now obvious one rule if you want something to be *really* secure is "never trust the client." However, in gaming the client is going to be the one with the fancy video card and/or other hardware. If you can't run something on the client, you need to run it on the server, which means * Potentially really beefy server/hardware requirements * Increased network traffic (for all the extra data that's not processed locally)
Too much of the above, and you have a platform that's simply cannot run in real-time. The only way you'd have a game that's 100% uncheatable would be if it essentially ran it all on the remote server and did remote display, which would obviously be crazy in terms of bandwidth and lag.
It's different from something like banking, email, etc where you essentially have a transactional experience. In those cases the client can be almost like a dumb terminal and you can do all your checks-and-balances on the server side.
Not exactly - because Torrents don't detract from the quality of the product - so in some cases a download will equal a lost sale if the person has limited funds or the product quality is bad, but in others it will spur other sales as word of the game being good spreads.
But yeah, I know one of the reasons myself and many others have pretty much abandoned certain FPS's is the toxic community of cheaters, trolls, and generally shitty experience not necessarily related to the core of the game itself. Overwatch may do a bit better in this regard because it doesn't have the stupid "levelling unlocks" seen in games like Battlefield etc, so a bunch of us can get together and play anytime, but I'm not sure how well it works for LAN/group play.
"And your honor, my peeing on feet at the urinals and spilling my beer on everyone in the stands at the hockey game did absolutely NOTHING to ruin sales from current attendees, as they had already bought their tickets"
Something that detracts from the quality of a product/service tends to discourage future purchases from the same vendor, or new users from purchasing once it becomes common and word gets around.
I wouldn't put all the blame with the trucks. A lot of this comes from *BAD* highway/road design. The problem is that when everybody circumvents the design in unsafe ways, it doesn't always come to light until there are multiple incidents and/or fatalities.
Now if traffic was routinely getting backed up for miles because a truck couldn't (and refused to) make a safe left turn due to lack of proper signage/lights... that would probably become fairly apparently without getting people killed.
I don't see anything particularly wrong about the search for extraterrestrial (alien) life. I think the contrast would be that locally some of the religo-nuts would strongly object if that were the primary purpose of such a large and expensive instrument.
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Ah, I thought it might have been something related to the military background, but figure that he might have just come prepared and brought a filter/mask.
Why?
Carry lots of cash, and I can be mugged, it can be lost, etc.
They can overcharge me, or screw up my order and respond to my complaint "meh"
Now if somebody steals my card or it is lost, I can cancel it. I can charge back any false charges, including in cases where the product wasn't as it should be.
What I wondered is: did the suspect have a gas mask? If not (I haven't seen anything that said he did), why not launch some tear gas - or even have the robot deploy it - rather than an explosive device?
If they took the guy alive, then perhaps they could have gotten information on accomplices etc.
"where you render detail based on where the eye is looking"
Just to understand this better, does that mean it has some for of eye/iris tracking and then essentially ups the AA and/or poly count wherever in the scene that is, but renders with less detail around the periphery, similar to how a photo would have a more detail image at the focus point and a more blurry background or surrounding?
I did google it but wanted to be clear from somebody in the know.
My current position started out as a short contract job. When I took it, I had high hopes of it becoming permanent, but there certainly wasn't anything definite over where a permanent position would be open. Instead of quitting my old position, I took some of the 6+ weeks holidays I had banked up. This also meant I was still getting medical (which the contractor didn't give me), and if I didn't feel like things were working out I could go back.
I told my old boss and some co-workers in my department what was going on. I *didn't* tell HR. Near the end of my leave, it looked like chances of getting a permanent position at the new company was good, so I told my boss I wouldn't be coming back after holidays. I did offer to do some remote work in my free hours if they needed help, or to answer questions via email etc for free for the next while. They'd already known what was up, so they'd talked to some local talent and prepared for my departure. Thus they had somebody in mind already who filled my position after I left, and neither of us were worse for the wear.
Except he didn't *start* as upper management, but made it there from what sounds like exceptional performance. So not only does the company support its good/loyal employees, but it allows them to rise in the ladder.
That's not a bad thing.
In many situations it might help automatically correct a mistake of the driver (i.e. driver didn't notice the sudden braking of the vehicle ahead). However, you still need to be there in case it f***s up or doesn't notice some issue (like a white tractor-trailer).
content filtering was used by more people if it was automatically enabled
Uh, duh. Getting mild electrical shocks is used by more people if automatically enabled. Hell, getting kicked in the knackers would be used by more people - at least for a certain period of time - if you're doing it by f***ing default.
Most of the stores around here are similarly out of stock on the RX 480.
Lots of local companies have been using shitty patents to stifle competition or shake down others for some time. Often they have more success if the company they file against is foreign-owned. Perhaps that appeals to some perverse sense of nationalism in certain districts.
What's good for the goose...
Except that this is an additional offering beyond what they already provide (which is a live-stream-only service), and roughly ~30m people seem to be pretty good with that. I highly doubt many would be dropping Netflix just because the DRM requires them to use the same device for both downloading and playback, as that's still functionality above-and-beyond what they can do now.
Can it sign up people who text-and-drive automatically? How about those who wander across crosswalks against the signal while glued to their phone?
At that point you're dead, there's no so much forcing as making use of what's left of your earthly remains.
It would have to allow playback on a device that is different from the device that d/l the content.
Not a chance that's going to happen. It will almost assuredly be a DRM'ed version of whatever tied to the device it was loaded on.
And some - like doing a lookup of a vehicle while off-duty - might not be mis-use. If a cop sees a vehicle that seems to be involved in a crime, does he/she have to be on duty at a time to look up information?
Yeah, that's the main concern. Hopefully the fact that it's a lot cheaper to product a standard signal/part will deter this (but seeing how car stereo's have gone, I won't hold my breath).
$200 or less for a powered mirror (no heat) that I replaced on my old car. All said it took under an hour to do, required unscrewing four bolts, and disconnecting/reconnecting a single cable.
Still, there's no reason a camera module shouldn't be similarly serviceable so long as it's in a removable housing.
I don't know why it should require that much. Backup cameras can be found for $100 or less, so I'd imagine that once these reach mainstream then replacement camera kits won't be exceptionally expensive (barring some nasty protocols/lock-in).
As for turning your head, newer model Hondas have a side-mirror camera which show you much more than the actual mirror - including the zone where you would normally need to blind-spot-check - and are activated by your turn signal. If anything, perhaps this will force people to use their signals more.
Who pays for false alarms (other than the taxpayer)?
It's not the police's job to stop by for any potential crime an automated system may have picked up. Certainly they don't come to my home if a burglar alarm goes off. Presumably this would work similar to an alarm company which would monitor an alarm and decide whether to dispatch a person (or possibly call police) , possibly with a fee for dispatches. That centralises the personnel required and allows the robot security company to have only a few staff in addition to many robots.
My local ISP and certain others do something similar. If I call in and their system is quite busy, it will give an option to enter a number for callback (with the estimated time). I still have to wait, but at least I can get on with my day without waiting "on hold"
Anti-cheating and DRM both have some performance implications, and - depending on how you do it - this may especially affect server vs client and network communication.
Now obvious one rule if you want something to be *really* secure is "never trust the client." However, in gaming the client is going to be the one with the fancy video card and/or other hardware. If you can't run something on the client, you need to run it on the server, which means
* Potentially really beefy server/hardware requirements
* Increased network traffic (for all the extra data that's not processed locally)
Too much of the above, and you have a platform that's simply cannot run in real-time. The only way you'd have a game that's 100% uncheatable would be if it essentially ran it all on the remote server and did remote display, which would obviously be crazy in terms of bandwidth and lag.
It's different from something like banking, email, etc where you essentially have a transactional experience. In those cases the client can be almost like a dumb terminal and you can do all your checks-and-balances on the server side.
Not exactly - because Torrents don't detract from the quality of the product - so in some cases a download will equal a lost sale if the person has limited funds or the product quality is bad, but in others it will spur other sales as word of the game being good spreads.
But yeah, I know one of the reasons myself and many others have pretty much abandoned certain FPS's is the toxic community of cheaters, trolls, and generally shitty experience not necessarily related to the core of the game itself. Overwatch may do a bit better in this regard because it doesn't have the stupid "levelling unlocks" seen in games like Battlefield etc, so a bunch of us can get together and play anytime, but I'm not sure how well it works for LAN/group play.
"And your honor, my peeing on feet at the urinals and spilling my beer on everyone in the stands at the hockey game did absolutely NOTHING to ruin sales from current attendees, as they had already bought their tickets"
Something that detracts from the quality of a product/service tends to discourage future purchases from the same vendor, or new users from purchasing once it becomes common and word gets around.
I wouldn't put all the blame with the trucks. A lot of this comes from *BAD* highway/road design. The problem is that when everybody circumvents the design in unsafe ways, it doesn't always come to light until there are multiple incidents and/or fatalities.
Now if traffic was routinely getting backed up for miles because a truck couldn't (and refused to) make a safe left turn due to lack of proper signage/lights... that would probably become fairly apparently without getting people killed.
I don't see anything particularly wrong about the search for extraterrestrial (alien) life. I think the contrast would be that locally some of the religo-nuts would strongly object if that were the primary purpose of such a large and expensive instrument.