Yup. I'd refine that though: targeted advertising. Not only does Google own a display in front of your eye, they own a sensor package attached to your head that knows where you are and what you're looking at.
No, it's power expensive because it needs to run the camera and GPS continuously. The glasses might be able to do without the camera, if the head tracking is good enough.
The actual computation is pretty trivial, and is also something graphics cards have been doing since 1996 or so.
Make it a little bigger yet and you'd have even BETTER battery life! Why, if you separated it from the handset and put the battery in some sort of bag with a shoulder strap, you could make the thing last practically forever.
Smartphones are made small and light, to be as easy and convenient to carry as possible, which is what the vast majority of people want. In something where you want the screen to be as big as possible, that means thin. My phone lasts long enough that it needs to be charged once a day, almost always over night. It doesn't require carrying around any more battery weight than necessary. That's efficient design, not "sacrificing on the altar of thin."
Apparently to get a +5 out of Slashdot now you just need to toss out some business-speak and make fun of Apple. Maybe just the latter.
What the hell is a "voice gatherer"? You mean a microphone? API? It's not an API. It's a pair of bulky glasses with a little display in one corner (and yes, a microphone). It looks very much like it's bound to be the next bluetooth headset - a phone accessory worn mostly by people who think it makes them look important.
In another five to ten years when it shrinks enough to be unobtrusive and the display area covers the entire field of view maybe it will find some non-niche uses. I doubt it will change any games though. Well, maybe golf.
Doable, but not in realtime without lag, particularly for massive numbers of users. You could probably use it to periodically correct for drift on an inertial tracker though.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if that distance is in nautical miles. Sailors assume when you say miles and you're talking about over water, it's nautical miles.
The combination makes perfect sense. In metric countries (i.e. almost everywhere) marine units are frequency metric except for distance and speed. Distance is measured in nautical miles because there's a real, navigation-related reason for doing so, and speed is measured in knots because it's a derived measurement dependent on distance.
Really? So if you were call officer for the emergency response system in your city and you got a notification that a North Korean missile was incoming, would you hop on Twitter and tell everyone what you knew? Or would you crack open the manual and see what you were supposed to do?
I should have been more specific - nobody wants to take sole responsibility for making public announcements. That's because all you hear about in the media is the failures. If you had taken the initiative and made the announcement that Yokohama was about to get nuked, in your official capacity as emergency response duty officer, the media would be stringing you up right now, and your bosses probably wouldn't be on your side. By following the book or, better, having an automated message, carefully worded by committee, individuals can deny responsibility. Even if Yokohama was about to get nuked you'd probably be criticized for making a typo or using unnecessary adjectives relating to North Korean ancestry.
Write it? Not long. Compose it, complete with ass covering? A long time.
I'm sure some committee agreed on the wording. They couldn't get one out in realtime without prewriting it because there doesn't seem to be anybody around anymore who will step up in an emergency and take responsibility.
He wants a bunch of little guys to come together and fund a PR stunt that draws people to their businesses.
BOTH of you need a dictionary. Socialism isn't corporate welfare, even if those corporations are bar and tourist trap owners around an airfield. It's also not a bunch of said bar and tourist trap owners chipping in to get some entertainers to draw crowds to their neighbourhood.
Partly. There's also more to it. I'm not of the Joust generation, but that was an awesome game. They still make Super Mario Brothers games, and Donkey Kong gets a remake every once in a while.
LucasArts, and earlier Sierra, really dominated the adventure game genre in a time when your game had to be creative because the hardware wasn't good enough to make it shiny.
The authorities are more likely to break the recipient (or the sender). Which is the approach they've been taking: in one of those incidents I mentioned somebody went to jail for nine months for not decrypting the message for the court.
As someone else pointed out, if the NSA or whoever could break RSA it would only make the drug dealers' messages more secure. They wouldn't want foreign governments and international baddies to stop using it because Joe Random got convicted for dealing after his computer was magically decrypted.
At first your list sounds horrifying. On closer examination, over 90% of Americans said they wouldn't have a problem voting for a black, female, catholic, hispanic or jewish candidate. The others ranked... lower. It's still pretty bad, but not quite as horrifying as at first glance.
I'm pretty sure you're wrong. PGP uses RSA and IDEA. If RSA was breakable, particularly in realtime, there would be a lot more screaming. Some older versions of PGP had some bugs that were theoretically exploitable, but I don't think any of them have actually been exploited, never mind reliably or in real time. There have been several incidents over the years suggesting that authorities cannot decrypt PGP encrypted data.
It's possible that some early RSA encrypted messages using very short keys are technically decryptable, but you'd have to be a highly motivated government agency to do so, and you still wouldn't be doing it in anything close to realtime.
Yesterday's munitions are... pretty much unchanged today, except that you can be extra paranoid and use longer keys now.
I can see the LEDs on my notebook perfectly well in a lit room. You probably wouldn't be able to coax 3 Gbps out of them, but most people don't use as much upstream bandwidth as down. Exceptions are mostly wired machines anyway - gamers and servers. You could also use IR LEDs for the upstream channel if you wanted to have a full duplex network.
The bottle the stuff comes in makes a pretty good weapon. Also, a bit of flaming booze thrown around a plane would cause quite a but of panic even if it didn't hurt anyone much. Certainly a few glass bottles of alcohol are more dangerous than my tube of toothpaste or that old lady's orange juice.
One of NASA's major roles has always been public relations and/or propaganda. Why do you think the US went to the moon in the first place? It was to inspire Americans and scare Soviets.
I'm pretty sure if I were into botnets I'd rather spend a weekend writing something to infect 20,000 machines than spend $15,000 on ASIC miners. That's using your numbers. Plus if someone comes along with a spam or DDOS job for you, you can switch to that, then back to mining when you're done.
If you've got a botnet lying around you might as well use it's off time.
I realize the American public education system is pretty bad, but perhaps fixing it is a better approach than sending children to coal mines. Perhaps if that had been done before you finished school (if you have), you wouldn't think that something a TV sitcom character said, which was meant to be satirical in the first place, supports your argument in any way.
A few hundred thousand or a million CPUs with someone else paying the electricity bill can still mine a few bitcoins. A $1500 ASIC setup does 40 or 50 thousand Mhash/s. If the average botnet machine does 50 Mhash/s on it's CPU/GPU you need a thousand infected machines to match that $1500 ASIC. If your botnet goes big and you get a hundred thousand machines, you've got a pretty nice mining setup.
"As well as revolutionising internet reception, it would put an end to the potentially harmful electromagnetic pollution emitted by wireless internet routers and has raised the prospect of ubiquitous wireless access, transmitted through streetlights." Herald Scotland
It's too bad you had to throw that one in. It's pretty funny though: "let's use flashing lights instead of electromagnetic radiation!"
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Yup. I'd refine that though: targeted advertising. Not only does Google own a display in front of your eye, they own a sensor package attached to your head that knows where you are and what you're looking at.
No, it's power expensive because it needs to run the camera and GPS continuously. The glasses might be able to do without the camera, if the head tracking is good enough.
The actual computation is pretty trivial, and is also something graphics cards have been doing since 1996 or so.
Make it a little bigger yet and you'd have even BETTER battery life! Why, if you separated it from the handset and put the battery in some sort of bag with a shoulder strap, you could make the thing last practically forever.
Smartphones are made small and light, to be as easy and convenient to carry as possible, which is what the vast majority of people want. In something where you want the screen to be as big as possible, that means thin. My phone lasts long enough that it needs to be charged once a day, almost always over night. It doesn't require carrying around any more battery weight than necessary. That's efficient design, not "sacrificing on the altar of thin."
Apparently to get a +5 out of Slashdot now you just need to toss out some business-speak and make fun of Apple. Maybe just the latter.
What the hell is a "voice gatherer"? You mean a microphone? API? It's not an API. It's a pair of bulky glasses with a little display in one corner (and yes, a microphone). It looks very much like it's bound to be the next bluetooth headset - a phone accessory worn mostly by people who think it makes them look important.
In another five to ten years when it shrinks enough to be unobtrusive and the display area covers the entire field of view maybe it will find some non-niche uses. I doubt it will change any games though. Well, maybe golf.
Doable, but not in realtime without lag, particularly for massive numbers of users. You could probably use it to periodically correct for drift on an inertial tracker though.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if that distance is in nautical miles. Sailors assume when you say miles and you're talking about over water, it's nautical miles.
The combination makes perfect sense. In metric countries (i.e. almost everywhere) marine units are frequency metric except for distance and speed. Distance is measured in nautical miles because there's a real, navigation-related reason for doing so, and speed is measured in knots because it's a derived measurement dependent on distance.
Some people like women who respond positively to "hey baby, wanna take a cruise to Antarctica?"
Most people, who don't have money to pay for creative accountants, or good lawyers if they get caught?
Really? So if you were call officer for the emergency response system in your city and you got a notification that a North Korean missile was incoming, would you hop on Twitter and tell everyone what you knew? Or would you crack open the manual and see what you were supposed to do?
I should have been more specific - nobody wants to take sole responsibility for making public announcements. That's because all you hear about in the media is the failures. If you had taken the initiative and made the announcement that Yokohama was about to get nuked, in your official capacity as emergency response duty officer, the media would be stringing you up right now, and your bosses probably wouldn't be on your side. By following the book or, better, having an automated message, carefully worded by committee, individuals can deny responsibility. Even if Yokohama was about to get nuked you'd probably be criticized for making a typo or using unnecessary adjectives relating to North Korean ancestry.
Write it? Not long. Compose it, complete with ass covering? A long time.
I'm sure some committee agreed on the wording. They couldn't get one out in realtime without prewriting it because there doesn't seem to be anybody around anymore who will step up in an emergency and take responsibility.
He wants a bunch of little guys to come together and fund a PR stunt that draws people to their businesses.
BOTH of you need a dictionary. Socialism isn't corporate welfare, even if those corporations are bar and tourist trap owners around an airfield. It's also not a bunch of said bar and tourist trap owners chipping in to get some entertainers to draw crowds to their neighbourhood.
"Dark": doesn't produce light (you can see). Seems pretty reasonable. I'd look to yourself for the silly biases.
Gamma and X-rays from lightning have been measured. There is direct evidence for them.
Partly. There's also more to it. I'm not of the Joust generation, but that was an awesome game. They still make Super Mario Brothers games, and Donkey Kong gets a remake every once in a while.
LucasArts, and earlier Sierra, really dominated the adventure game genre in a time when your game had to be creative because the hardware wasn't good enough to make it shiny.
The authorities are more likely to break the recipient (or the sender). Which is the approach they've been taking: in one of those incidents I mentioned somebody went to jail for nine months for not decrypting the message for the court.
As someone else pointed out, if the NSA or whoever could break RSA it would only make the drug dealers' messages more secure. They wouldn't want foreign governments and international baddies to stop using it because Joe Random got convicted for dealing after his computer was magically decrypted.
At first your list sounds horrifying. On closer examination, over 90% of Americans said they wouldn't have a problem voting for a black, female, catholic, hispanic or jewish candidate. The others ranked... lower. It's still pretty bad, but not quite as horrifying as at first glance.
I think you don't understand what "literally" means. Your post gets sillier from there.
I'm pretty sure you're wrong. PGP uses RSA and IDEA. If RSA was breakable, particularly in realtime, there would be a lot more screaming. Some older versions of PGP had some bugs that were theoretically exploitable, but I don't think any of them have actually been exploited, never mind reliably or in real time. There have been several incidents over the years suggesting that authorities cannot decrypt PGP encrypted data.
It's possible that some early RSA encrypted messages using very short keys are technically decryptable, but you'd have to be a highly motivated government agency to do so, and you still wouldn't be doing it in anything close to realtime.
Yesterday's munitions are... pretty much unchanged today, except that you can be extra paranoid and use longer keys now.
I can see the LEDs on my notebook perfectly well in a lit room. You probably wouldn't be able to coax 3 Gbps out of them, but most people don't use as much upstream bandwidth as down. Exceptions are mostly wired machines anyway - gamers and servers. You could also use IR LEDs for the upstream channel if you wanted to have a full duplex network.
The bottle the stuff comes in makes a pretty good weapon. Also, a bit of flaming booze thrown around a plane would cause quite a but of panic even if it didn't hurt anyone much. Certainly a few glass bottles of alcohol are more dangerous than my tube of toothpaste or that old lady's orange juice.
One of NASA's major roles has always been public relations and/or propaganda. Why do you think the US went to the moon in the first place? It was to inspire Americans and scare Soviets.
I'm pretty sure if I were into botnets I'd rather spend a weekend writing something to infect 20,000 machines than spend $15,000 on ASIC miners. That's using your numbers. Plus if someone comes along with a spam or DDOS job for you, you can switch to that, then back to mining when you're done.
If you've got a botnet lying around you might as well use it's off time.
Hey! An anecdote! From a fictional character!
I realize the American public education system is pretty bad, but perhaps fixing it is a better approach than sending children to coal mines. Perhaps if that had been done before you finished school (if you have), you wouldn't think that something a TV sitcom character said, which was meant to be satirical in the first place, supports your argument in any way.
A few hundred thousand or a million CPUs with someone else paying the electricity bill can still mine a few bitcoins. A $1500 ASIC setup does 40 or 50 thousand Mhash/s. If the average botnet machine does 50 Mhash/s on it's CPU/GPU you need a thousand infected machines to match that $1500 ASIC. If your botnet goes big and you get a hundred thousand machines, you've got a pretty nice mining setup.
Most computers have some LEDs in them. iPads would need a dongle or hardware revision.
It's too bad you had to throw that one in. It's pretty funny though: "let's use flashing lights instead of electromagnetic radiation!"