iPad 11" has screen area of 56.83 (sq in) and weighs 468 gram Samsung s5e has 49.6 and weighs 400 grams. So the screen size to weight ratio is identical. Yes, it is thinner but no, it is not lighter.
Exact opposite. You didn't read the article, did you? DST will worsen the situation. In fact, if the paper is correct, it is a strong case to abolish DST in US and other countries.
If later sunset is an issue then the DST is compounding that. Children at risk mentioned in this article still see sunset much earlier than in USA with DST. You see most of high latitude India falls near the center of the India and hence they are not affected. The only people affected are West zone mid latitude who may see about 30 minute time delay (95% of India population is within +- 30 min of mid longitude). So most people see sunset before 7:30 pm (95%). Now compare that to US with DST where more than 80% see sunset later than 7:30 pm.
The sumary says "half of those deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries"
Doesn't that mean half of those happen in rich countries? Why are they trying to shame low and middle income countries when the rate in rich countries is so high?
Failure of stupid users and coward media. Google claimed better battery life while watching Goodle videos and they fell for it. Is there any surprise here? What next? Will Chrome be declared as the only browser because it can view YouTube? The users should have realized that Google is using its own site to benchmark its own browser and that is fishy. But show me one site which questioned this?
Our duty as employee is to serve our shareholders. The shareholders with voting rights. The shareholders with majority rights. That is Mark if you didn't know.
I use FB, maybe even on a daily basis but rarely post anything. Comments, likes fine. No mobile app, only desktop. Single private session (not shared with any other browsing). Never clicked on any ad in 5+ years. I am the type of person, FB wishes shouldn't exist (besides those who don't use it at all). The only people I see in my "people you may know" are those with few mutual friends. No random entries. BTW, I am not an employee of FB.
Few years ago, I used to read satirical articles about how you can spend $2500 and convert your PC into $500 TV. Same thing goes for replacing cable with streaming for now. I have switched to Netflix and Amazon Prime couple of times only to go back again to cabal. Streaming is way too restrictive for live programs and quality depends on your internet service and too much lag time when switching shows.
Hi, Many of you are complaining about Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL for lack of 3.5 mm headphone jack, maximum 4 GB RAM, starting price $799, ugly notch, lack of storage expandability, non-removable battery and so on. Please understand that our team is very smart and busy copying all the features of iPhone and we have done an excellent job. If you have any complaint, please send it to Tim Cook. Once Apple fixes some of those, we will gladly fix them as well. The only thing we did different is that we put two cameras in the front instead of in the back as narcissistic Android users like selfies over regular photography. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google
Now Facebook can show extra $850 million in profit. Under GAAP, stock based compensations are counted as expenses, so this directly translates to profit.
A good driver is not just supposed to prevent at fault accident but should also do its best to prevent accident when the other party is at fault. If you replace all good drivers with self driving system, you are going to have lot more accidents than you have today if the self driving system is simply claims to have no at fault accident. Remember there is no reward for preventing accidents and so there is no tracking of it and we don't know how many of them are prevented daily.
Once I was on a divided road (divided by 2 feet concrete wall) driving on right lane. A car took left turn and entered in wrong way to the left of me thinking that it was a 1 lane undivided road and 2 feet divider was a barrier to some private property. It was not at all a danger to me and I would have just ignored it and let it have accident but I honked hard, stopped car, opened the window and alerted driver. He backed up and moved to the other side of divider. A self driving car would have just ignore this car. I can easily narrate dozen such incident and few more incidents where I was at fault.
We need self driving car which is not just not getting involved in at fault accident but also its at no fault accident rate is lower than average.
I'd at least like to hear Google's side of this first.
You heard google already. They told what they had to when they announced the security issue. Only then Epic has reacted. In this instance, Google is outright greedy and wants to kill anybody who wants to distribute software outside of Google Play store. So much for the open Android platform. Manufacturers cannot fork Android otherwise none of the phones can be connected to Play Store. They must install dozens of privacy invading Google apps in default settings otherwise no Play Store. Android are simply Google peeking devices. At least with FB, they get what you explicitly provide. Apple virtually does not use anything you provide and collects far little data. Google implicitly collects all data that you may not be aware of and sells them to the highest bidders even if they know that purchaser is using it illegally (one of the largest corporate fines ever was paid by Google to settle illegal drug ads).
Many car companies subsidize their small cars and make more profit on large vehicles. They do this to meet the fleet efficiency. If you reduce the required efficiency standards then they will be able to meet the efficiency standards with large vehicles and will stop subsidizing small vehicles. This will result in more bigger vehicles on the road. It will cause chain reaction since once you reach critical mass of big vehicles, people in small vehicles will feel less safe. A collision between two vehicles is more deadly than collision between two small vehicles. Collision between large and small vehicle is more deadly to small vehicle. Already America is lagging behind Europe in road fatality because it has more percentage of large vehicles. This will make it even worse.
There is a diffraction limit which sets in when the pixel size is smaller than 1.22*wavelength*f_ratio. The wavelength range is 0.4-0.7 micron (let us take middle wavelength of 0.55 micron). Best f_ratio that I have seen is 1.8, so the limit kicks in at at around 1.2 micron pixel size. The limit is for far off objects and you get little better when nearby assuming you have a perfect lens.
In practice, it will be impossible to beat 16 MP SLR camera in terms of resolution. This is why mega zoom camera cannot give as good resolution of moon as some of the SLR with large lens can give.
The biggest autonomous "robots" deployment is going to be fully autonomous cars. Many pundits are predicting that autonomous cars are the future and once you have autonomous cars, owning a car would be lot more expensive than ride sharing services. They are predicting that US car ownership can reduce by 50-80% and ride sharing services running millions of autonomous cars. Imagine if someone can break into a large ride sharing service and start all the autonomous cars and direct them on pedestrians... It can be far worse than 9/11.
K was listed at number 10 in Nov-2017 benchmark and about 1/9th the speed of the fastest machine. But on HPCG benchmark (http://www.hpcg-benchmark.org ), it was listed number 1. Even now, it is number 2 behind the Summit in HPCG. Not bad for a computer debuted in 2011. Hope they can maintain performance on HPCG as well.
The proposed computer's LINPACK power efficiency is good but not that impressive. Summit is 8.8 MW and proposed computer is 8 times faster at about 4-5 times power consumption. So efficiency increase by a factor of 2 in 3 years (it is expected to be ready by 2021).
The supercomputers are measured using Linpack. This is a simple benchmark and can be done efficiently by large number of dumb cores in parallel. Though some workloads mimic Linpack, most workloads don't, so Linpack is not a good measure of supercomputer speed. Another benchmark which is gaining momentum nowadays is HPCG (see http://www.hpcg-benchmark.org/ ) which measures more broader performance and it shows quite a bit different picture. The top is still the 2011 K Computer. Some NEC computers which don't make in top500 are ranked in thirties. The Chinese computer is current top500 leader but it is ranked 5th on HPCG, even behind their own other computer which is 1/3rd the speed on Linpack.
Using the ancient paintings of eclipses and comparing with the predictions using Newton's laws of motions shows some discrepancy. If this is assumed due to shift of moon than conservation of angular momentum implies drifting of moon of 3 cm/yr. This was known for over a century ago. Using this knowledge and doing back of the envelope calculations game me almost same results. So there is nothing new here.
The problem with satellite internet is that you can either provide access to the service to everyone on earth or no one. There is no way to do cost saving and make service available to US or China. This means that initial cost will be very high. But then you get global coverage as well. In the past, the cost would have been too high compared to number of users, but now it is not so. With 4 billion plus mobile phones, the market is ready if you can provide affordable service. Even if 10% of these people pay 500 USD/yr, you get 200 billion USD/revenue. So it is definitely possible to make money. Sooner or later someone will get into this. The question is how soon.
This is not all that costly if you compare with land and undersea cables. The number of satellites you needs depends on the orbit. Too low orbit will need more satellites but will need weaker signal to operate, and too high will need fewer satellites but will need stronger signal for the same data rate. Maintenance is low as you don't need to worry about weather, flooding, theft. The installation is also quicker as you don't need local permits. The revenue will come from all over the world. Also because these satellites will be owned by a fewer companies, it will need lesser administrative costs. You want to be worldwide cellphone provider? Just one dotted line contract will make you one with virtually zero investment! So yes, this will happen. All that is needed is funding for the initial cost. It does not matter which of FB, AMZN, GOOG or a consortium of multiple telecom/IT companies do it.
By 2025, no one will be using traditional voice phone, even for mobile. All communications will be via SSL via end to end encryption and majority will be via custom apps (WhatsApp, Snap, FaceTime etc). Numbers will be used only as an identifier for the source and target devices. Many people already prefer such apps over phone number as they don't want to share phone numbers. The apps provide much richer control than standard telephone provides. What we lack is standardization and legal aspects (I have to provide my phone number to all govt and private businesses).
The third wold is not as illiterate as many Americans think they are. The OLPC project could only benefit those where at least the teachers knew how to use computer. But the schools where teachers knew how to use computer were already in the upper class in most third world countries. How to you give computer to village teachers? My sister is a teacher in a school which received computers from govt as part of pilot program. Two years later the teachers were fighting for playing solitaire on it during the period breaks. Not a single student had touched the computer. She herself had just learned how to switch on and switch off and create a doc in Notepad. No printing, no communication, nothing. This was in 2006-2008. Throwing a bunch of PC at students doesn't help them. They will benefit more if you give them money to buy books, notebooks, pencils, pen, chalk, dusters, musical instruments and so on. Almost all school students that I know, they waste more time on electronics gadgets then they use them. I wish the school had zero requirements for any electronics and these students would have done much better.
These camera will be thinner than standard camera. This will make it challenging to create optics. Anything you can do with this camera, you can do better with thicker camera. So unless there is a strong reason to make it popup (which I don't see), it won't fly. Unnecessarily adds a a moving part in otherwise essentially rigid device.
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iPad 11" has screen area of 56.83 (sq in) and weighs 468 gram Samsung s5e has 49.6 and weighs 400 grams. So the screen size to weight ratio is identical. Yes, it is thinner but no, it is not lighter.
Exact opposite. You didn't read the article, did you? DST will worsen the situation. In fact, if the paper is correct, it is a strong case to abolish DST in US and other countries.
If later sunset is an issue then the DST is compounding that. Children at risk mentioned in this article still see sunset much earlier than in USA with DST. You see most of high latitude India falls near the center of the India and hence they are not affected. The only people affected are West zone mid latitude who may see about 30 minute time delay (95% of India population is within +- 30 min of mid longitude). So most people see sunset before 7:30 pm (95%). Now compare that to US with DST where more than 80% see sunset later than 7:30 pm.
The sumary says "half of those deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries"
Doesn't that mean half of those happen in rich countries? Why are they trying to shame low and middle income countries when the rate in rich countries is so high?
Failure of stupid users and coward media. Google claimed better battery life while watching Goodle videos and they fell for it. Is there any surprise here? What next? Will Chrome be declared as the only browser because it can view YouTube? The users should have realized that Google is using its own site to benchmark its own browser and that is fishy. But show me one site which questioned this?
Our duty as employee is to serve our shareholders. The shareholders with voting rights. The shareholders with majority rights. That is Mark if you didn't know.
I use FB, maybe even on a daily basis but rarely post anything. Comments, likes fine. No mobile app, only desktop. Single private session (not shared with any other browsing). Never clicked on any ad in 5+ years. I am the type of person, FB wishes shouldn't exist (besides those who don't use it at all). The only people I see in my "people you may know" are those with few mutual friends. No random entries. BTW, I am not an employee of FB.
Few years ago, I used to read satirical articles about how you can spend $2500 and convert your PC into $500 TV. Same thing goes for replacing cable with streaming for now. I have switched to Netflix and Amazon Prime couple of times only to go back again to cabal. Streaming is way too restrictive for live programs and quality depends on your internet service and too much lag time when switching shows.
Google comparing its $799 phone with $449 iPhone. WOW.
Hi,
Many of you are complaining about Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL for lack of 3.5 mm headphone jack, maximum 4 GB RAM, starting price $799, ugly notch, lack of storage expandability, non-removable battery and so on. Please understand that our team is very smart and busy copying all the features of iPhone and we have done an excellent job. If you have any complaint, please send it to Tim Cook. Once Apple fixes some of those, we will gladly fix them as well. The only thing we did different is that we put two cameras in the front instead of in the back as narcissistic Android users like selfies over regular photography.
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google
Now Facebook can show extra $850 million in profit. Under GAAP, stock based compensations are counted as expenses, so this directly translates to profit.
A good driver is not just supposed to prevent at fault accident but should also do its best to prevent accident when the other party is at fault. If you replace all good drivers with self driving system, you are going to have lot more accidents than you have today if the self driving system is simply claims to have no at fault accident. Remember there is no reward for preventing accidents and so there is no tracking of it and we don't know how many of them are prevented daily.
Once I was on a divided road (divided by 2 feet concrete wall) driving on right lane. A car took left turn and entered in wrong way to the left of me thinking that it was a 1 lane undivided road and 2 feet divider was a barrier to some private property. It was not at all a danger to me and I would have just ignored it and let it have accident but I honked hard, stopped car, opened the window and alerted driver. He backed up and moved to the other side of divider. A self driving car would have just ignore this car. I can easily narrate dozen such incident and few more incidents where I was at fault.
We need self driving car which is not just not getting involved in at fault accident but also its at no fault accident rate is lower than average.
Google does not provide level of details that id did for Epic flaw immediately after the patch is made generally available.
I'd at least like to hear Google's side of this first.
You heard google already. They told what they had to when they announced the security issue. Only then Epic has reacted. In this instance, Google is outright greedy and wants to kill anybody who wants to distribute software outside of Google Play store. So much for the open Android platform. Manufacturers cannot fork Android otherwise none of the phones can be connected to Play Store. They must install dozens of privacy invading Google apps in default settings otherwise no Play Store. Android are simply Google peeking devices. At least with FB, they get what you explicitly provide. Apple virtually does not use anything you provide and collects far little data. Google implicitly collects all data that you may not be aware of and sells them to the highest bidders even if they know that purchaser is using it illegally (one of the largest corporate fines ever was paid by Google to settle illegal drug ads).
Many car companies subsidize their small cars and make more profit on large vehicles. They do this to meet the fleet efficiency. If you reduce the required efficiency standards then they will be able to meet the efficiency standards with large vehicles and will stop subsidizing small vehicles. This will result in more bigger vehicles on the road. It will cause chain reaction since once you reach critical mass of big vehicles, people in small vehicles will feel less safe. A collision between two vehicles is more deadly than collision between two small vehicles. Collision between large and small vehicle is more deadly to small vehicle. Already America is lagging behind Europe in road fatality because it has more percentage of large vehicles. This will make it even worse.
There is a diffraction limit which sets in when the pixel size is smaller than 1.22*wavelength*f_ratio. The wavelength range is 0.4-0.7 micron (let us take middle wavelength of 0.55 micron). Best f_ratio that I have seen is 1.8, so the limit kicks in at at around 1.2 micron pixel size. The limit is for far off objects and you get little better when nearby assuming you have a perfect lens.
In practice, it will be impossible to beat 16 MP SLR camera in terms of resolution. This is why mega zoom camera cannot give as good resolution of moon as some of the SLR with large lens can give.
The biggest autonomous "robots" deployment is going to be fully autonomous cars. Many pundits are predicting that autonomous cars are the future and once you have autonomous cars, owning a car would be lot more expensive than ride sharing services. They are predicting that US car ownership can reduce by 50-80% and ride sharing services running millions of autonomous cars. Imagine if someone can break into a large ride sharing service and start all the autonomous cars and direct them on pedestrians... It can be far worse than 9/11.
K was listed at number 10 in Nov-2017 benchmark and about 1/9th the speed of the fastest machine. But on HPCG benchmark (http://www.hpcg-benchmark.org ), it was listed number 1. Even now, it is number 2 behind the Summit in HPCG. Not bad for a computer debuted in 2011. Hope they can maintain performance on HPCG as well.
The proposed computer's LINPACK power efficiency is good but not that impressive. Summit is 8.8 MW and proposed computer is 8 times faster at about 4-5 times power consumption. So efficiency increase by a factor of 2 in 3 years (it is expected to be ready by 2021).
"cost of this system at between $3 and $161 per ton of captured CO2". With a range like this, who wants to read the article?
The supercomputers are measured using Linpack. This is a simple benchmark and can be done efficiently by large number of dumb cores in parallel. Though some workloads mimic Linpack, most workloads don't, so Linpack is not a good measure of supercomputer speed. Another benchmark which is gaining momentum nowadays is HPCG (see http://www.hpcg-benchmark.org/ ) which measures more broader performance and it shows quite a bit different picture. The top is still the 2011 K Computer. Some NEC computers which don't make in top500 are ranked in thirties. The Chinese computer is current top500 leader but it is ranked 5th on HPCG, even behind their own other computer which is 1/3rd the speed on Linpack.
Using the ancient paintings of eclipses and comparing with the predictions using Newton's laws of motions shows some discrepancy. If this is assumed due to shift of moon than conservation of angular momentum implies drifting of moon of 3 cm/yr. This was known for over a century ago. Using this knowledge and doing back of the envelope calculations game me almost same results. So there is nothing new here.
The problem with satellite internet is that you can either provide access to the service to everyone on earth or no one. There is no way to do cost saving and make service available to US or China. This means that initial cost will be very high. But then you get global coverage as well. In the past, the cost would have been too high compared to number of users, but now it is not so. With 4 billion plus mobile phones, the market is ready if you can provide affordable service. Even if 10% of these people pay 500 USD/yr, you get 200 billion USD/revenue. So it is definitely possible to make money. Sooner or later someone will get into this. The question is how soon.
This is not all that costly if you compare with land and undersea cables. The number of satellites you needs depends on the orbit. Too low orbit will need more satellites but will need weaker signal to operate, and too high will need fewer satellites but will need stronger signal for the same data rate. Maintenance is low as you don't need to worry about weather, flooding, theft. The installation is also quicker as you don't need local permits. The revenue will come from all over the world. Also because these satellites will be owned by a fewer companies, it will need lesser administrative costs. You want to be worldwide cellphone provider? Just one dotted line contract will make you one with virtually zero investment! So yes, this will happen. All that is needed is funding for the initial cost. It does not matter which of FB, AMZN, GOOG or a consortium of multiple telecom/IT companies do it.
By 2025, no one will be using traditional voice phone, even for mobile. All communications will be via SSL via end to end encryption and majority will be via custom apps (WhatsApp, Snap, FaceTime etc). Numbers will be used only as an identifier for the source and target devices. Many people already prefer such apps over phone number as they don't want to share phone numbers. The apps provide much richer control than standard telephone provides. What we lack is standardization and legal aspects (I have to provide my phone number to all govt and private businesses).
The third wold is not as illiterate as many Americans think they are. The OLPC project could only benefit those where at least the teachers knew how to use computer. But the schools where teachers knew how to use computer were already in the upper class in most third world countries. How to you give computer to village teachers? My sister is a teacher in a school which received computers from govt as part of pilot program. Two years later the teachers were fighting for playing solitaire on it during the period breaks. Not a single student had touched the computer. She herself had just learned how to switch on and switch off and create a doc in Notepad. No printing, no communication, nothing. This was in 2006-2008. Throwing a bunch of PC at students doesn't help them. They will benefit more if you give them money to buy books, notebooks, pencils, pen, chalk, dusters, musical instruments and so on. Almost all school students that I know, they waste more time on electronics gadgets then they use them. I wish the school had zero requirements for any electronics and these students would have done much better.
These camera will be thinner than standard camera. This will make it challenging to create optics. Anything you can do with this camera, you can do better with thicker camera. So unless there is a strong reason to make it popup (which I don't see), it won't fly. Unnecessarily adds a a moving part in otherwise essentially rigid device.