Why should it be different in this era of cognitive enhancement?
Because when robots can do everything (or nearly everything) a person can do, what is the prospect for employment, let alone increased employment? Before, people always moved on to jobs that machines couldn't do. First from farming to manufacturing, then to services. The final refuges will probably be software development, some retail, and a little bit of hands on medicine. Also top corporate leadership, not because computer programs won't be better than they are at their jobs but because they're the ones in charge so will continue paying themselves enormous salaries for something a computer could do for free. If sexbots are legal, prostitution will diminish greatly. Pretty much everything else will be automated. This isn't happening in 10 years, but it's happening.
At least with android if you want to nerd out you can install whatever version of it you want. Not a suitable solution for the huge majority of users but it's out there.
Well of course the phone can upload photos to the web, but that is nothing new and has nothing to do with the camera. Whether or not you're OK with your phone's capabilities and security limitations, nothing will change if you decide to use this camera too. You'll just have more photos.
I thought the point of glassification is to embed the waste inside a shell of glass. If you grind it up, doesn't that lose the benefit? Or did I understand it wrong?
Chemical batteries will not be solution for large scale energy storage any time soon. But how much energy can be stored and recovered by pumping a lake up into the mountains?
The infrastructure isn't there to support it (I think we'd need a bunch of HVDC lines) but a solar array in Nevada 68 miles on a side could supply the US with all of its power needs. That ignores the need for storage for night time but the sun is pretty much always shining during the day there. I'm not saying that should be our sole source of power, but it puts the potential for solar power in perspective.
It sounds like it can't even connect to the internet. Rather it is a wifi hotspot and you connect your phone to the camera to download photos. Presumably some security researcher will check it out and make sure it can't do anything it's not supposed to.
The first is that everything on Clips happens locally. Nothing is synced with Google's cloud at all — except the photos you save into Google Photos. All the facial recognition happens on the device using its own processing power. None of it is paired up with whatever facial recognition you may have set up in Google Photos. It doesn't pair faces with names, it just recognizes faces it sees a bunch over time...
The clips the camera takes are also stored only on the camera itself. They don't try to sync over to your phone unless you ask for them. They're also encrypted on the camera, in case you lose it.
They do not advertise, nor are you paying them for, a specific bandwidth gateway to other people's networks.
I'm not really even paying them for a specific bandwidth to their own network - it's "up to" a number. Though for some reason I have occasionally seen speeds significantly above that number.
But let's remember the context here. Someone said that his ISP was not accepting speed test data from arbitrary outside sources when he was calling them about the internet connection to his home.
There needs to be something between "downloads from this random server are too slow" and "we will only accept speed tests from this service that we have artificially juiced to make sure you always get good speeds". Without actual competition between ISPs we will probably never get that though.
I have had great success buying one (or even two) generation old flagship phones. They are exactly what you describe: decent but not amazing specs, actually pretty high build quality because they used to be top of the line, and cost $200-350.
a use case that does not apply to 99.9999999999999999999999999999999% of the population
I assure you there are more than three people in the US who plug their phones in to multiple audio outputs, and would thus be inconvenienced by the lack of a headphone jack.
I don't know about robust because it hasn't really been abused, and it isn't right angled, but the USB-C on my Nexus 5X plugs in very securely. I would say more so than the headphones.
Anyone who is honestly trying to measure the bandwidth of their current network connection.
It could be useful in determining where a problem is if you're not getting the speeds you want. Beyond that I don't see the use. What do you use it for?
Do you want to verify that you have a gigabit connection, or just whine about it not being fast enough because other networks are slowing you down?
I want a useful measure of how fast my internet connection is. As I said, I don't care how fast my connection to my ISP is, because I don't pay them so I can get a connection to their network. I pay for a connection to the internet. That's what I care about.
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It doesn't sound like you're disagreeing with him. Why do you think it was a stupid thing to say?
Has any American taxpayer thought about how much that bailout cost the average taxpayer,
Apparently about $75 (straight average, ignoring tax brackets).
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Why should it be different in this era of cognitive enhancement?
Because when robots can do everything (or nearly everything) a person can do, what is the prospect for employment, let alone increased employment? Before, people always moved on to jobs that machines couldn't do. First from farming to manufacturing, then to services. The final refuges will probably be software development, some retail, and a little bit of hands on medicine. Also top corporate leadership, not because computer programs won't be better than they are at their jobs but because they're the ones in charge so will continue paying themselves enormous salaries for something a computer could do for free. If sexbots are legal, prostitution will diminish greatly. Pretty much everything else will be automated. This isn't happening in 10 years, but it's happening.
At least with android if you want to nerd out you can install whatever version of it you want. Not a suitable solution for the huge majority of users but it's out there.
That makes sense.
Well of course the phone can upload photos to the web, but that is nothing new and has nothing to do with the camera. Whether or not you're OK with your phone's capabilities and security limitations, nothing will change if you decide to use this camera too. You'll just have more photos.
I thought the point of glassification is to embed the waste inside a shell of glass. If you grind it up, doesn't that lose the benefit? Or did I understand it wrong?
How much does it cost to bury stuff at the bottom of the ocean?
If it can't connect to the internet, you can just not update it.
Chemical batteries will not be solution for large scale energy storage any time soon. But how much energy can be stored and recovered by pumping a lake up into the mountains?
The infrastructure isn't there to support it (I think we'd need a bunch of HVDC lines) but a solar array in Nevada 68 miles on a side could supply the US with all of its power needs. That ignores the need for storage for night time but the sun is pretty much always shining during the day there. I'm not saying that should be our sole source of power, but it puts the potential for solar power in perspective.
It sounds like it can't even connect to the internet. Rather it is a wifi hotspot and you connect your phone to the camera to download photos. Presumably some security researcher will check it out and make sure it can't do anything it's not supposed to.
Read the article for an example of photos that you could not have gotten that way.
There is a way to find the answer to at least the second question. It involves a hyperlink in the summary.
It would be interesting to see what photos that brain would snap.
We can get a pretty good idea already.
http://images.google.com/image...
Personally identifying information.
You can tell from the outside if your door is locked?
Unless you think Google is straight up lying about it, this camera uploads nothing to Google.
You didn't actually read the article, did you?
The first is that everything on Clips happens locally. Nothing is synced with Google's cloud at all — except the photos you save into Google Photos. All the facial recognition happens on the device using its own processing power. None of it is paired up with whatever facial recognition you may have set up in Google Photos. It doesn't pair faces with names, it just recognizes faces it sees a bunch over time...
The clips the camera takes are also stored only on the camera itself. They don't try to sync over to your phone unless you ask for them. They're also encrypted on the camera, in case you lose it.
That is EXACTLY what you are paying them for.
Nope. If that's all I got, I wouldn't pay for it.
They do not advertise, nor are you paying them for, a specific bandwidth gateway to other people's networks.
I'm not really even paying them for a specific bandwidth to their own network - it's "up to" a number. Though for some reason I have occasionally seen speeds significantly above that number.
But let's remember the context here. Someone said that his ISP was not accepting speed test data from arbitrary outside sources when he was calling them about the internet connection to his home.
There needs to be something between "downloads from this random server are too slow" and "we will only accept speed tests from this service that we have artificially juiced to make sure you always get good speeds". Without actual competition between ISPs we will probably never get that though.
I have the Moto E4. Finger print sensor. Replaceable Battery. SD Card Slot. $130.
Nice!
I have had great success buying one (or even two) generation old flagship phones. They are exactly what you describe: decent but not amazing specs, actually pretty high build quality because they used to be top of the line, and cost $200-350.
a use case that does not apply to 99.9999999999999999999999999999999% of the population
I assure you there are more than three people in the US who plug their phones in to multiple audio outputs, and would thus be inconvenienced by the lack of a headphone jack.
I don't know about robust because it hasn't really been abused, and it isn't right angled, but the USB-C on my Nexus 5X plugs in very securely. I would say more so than the headphones.
Anyone who is honestly trying to measure the bandwidth of their current network connection.
It could be useful in determining where a problem is if you're not getting the speeds you want. Beyond that I don't see the use. What do you use it for?
Do you want to verify that you have a gigabit connection, or just whine about it not being fast enough because other networks are slowing you down?
I want a useful measure of how fast my internet connection is. As I said, I don't care how fast my connection to my ISP is, because I don't pay them so I can get a connection to their network. I pay for a connection to the internet. That's what I care about.