They are a thing, as other posters have pointed out. I think you probably are underestimating the weight and bulk of this thing: 1. It needs to be heavy enough (or have anchor points) to resist the kick of the rifle. 2. It needs to be rugged enough to operate at least once after being exposed to the combat environment (impacts, dirt, water, etc) 3. The servos need to be strong enough to precisely orient a bulky rifle plus ammo. An m16 is around 4kg loaded with 20 rounds. Compare that to the roughly 1kg weight of a DSLR camera, and consider how large the gimbals they sell for those are. 4. Optics. You'd need a high-quality optics, calibrated to align with the rifle. If the optics were good enough and the viewing conditions optimal enough, you might be able to depend on the soldier to correct for bad aim, but either way you are talking more weight for optics and precise alignment of the firearm. The optics needs to be kept clean. 5. Power - a battery that either needs to be lugged around and/or charged periodically.
In short, a soldier can only carry, say, 40kg including all their body armor and such. If you offer them 10kg for this contrivance or the same weight in ammo or grenades, I suspect they will not opt for the rifle gimbal.
Having your identity stolen can suck, true. But at the end of the day it's a temporary inconvenience and I don't have to spend my entire life acting like a mouse hiding in a hole with a hawk circling overhead. Life is horrifyingly dangerous, and focusing so much energy on this single risk is just not rational.
Incognito ("New Private Window", "InPrivate", Porn Mode, etc) solves this "problem", does it not? Visit one site, log in, do your thing, close browser window. No fuss, no muss, no cross-site anything at all. Built in to every major browser AFAIK.
Honestly, it's probably because the margins are so low in mobile. Maybe they could compete with a $25 system-on-chip that implements an entire cell phone, but where is the profit?
Maybe it is nation-dependent? PC and now Mac sales have taken a bigger plunge in the US than worldwide. StatCounter unfortunately is counting all users, not just people who purchased a PC last year. One of my PCs at home is a Core2Duo, and I'm sure I'm not alone. My Mac is from 2009.
For instance, Windows 10 (a better proxy for recent machines sold vs ChromeOS) has a 25% web share - and that includes desktops.
Never gained widespread adoption? They outsell both Mac and Windows laptops in terms of unit sales. They are ubiquitous at schools. You can buy them at Walmart and Target. If you have more recent information showing a downward trend, by all means share it.
It's not really much of a merger anyway - ChromeOS is just Chrome and some glue running on a Linux kernel. Android is a much more full-featured OS also built on Linux that also happens to run a mobile version of Chrome as an app. Port the full version of Chrome and some of the glue over to Android and you have all of the functionality of a Chromebook. I could see them selling two versions of the same machine - a locked-down ChromeOS-branded machine for schools and such and a more open Android version for the kids to buy at home. They do have to be careful not to open up ChromeOS too much or a lot of the administrative appeal goes away.
Nah, they are better than netbooks. They have a reasonably-sized screen, their battery life is half a day, and they are inherently limited by running only a web browser. You don't get any delusions of grandeur and try to run Photoshop or Eclipse on it. If you have kids, the Chromebook is awesome. It costs around $200, does everything they need for school, and they quite literally cannot fuck up the software.
Only if you think they will stay distinct forever. How low does the Windows share need to go before people start to make the same old argument they always did: Why should I buy this other OS when it doesn't run all of my existing software?
If Android continues to mature and tablets get more capable, why not expand into PCs? Already you are seeing Chromebooks which can run Android software. Will Windows be forced to adopt an Android environment as well? Will Adobe make a Photoshop for Android laptops? I think the way things are quickly changing is very interesting, and these comparisons are interesting to see.
Far scarier than a letter from the copyright police. Those incidents all changed my behavior - like your acquaintance, I would just select all the files that matched a search term and download them without a thought. I'd come home from work and see what treasures I'd downloaded. Once I got some questionable pictures or videos, I was a lot more discerning. I used to run a usenet picture extraction tool - it would comb though usenet looking for - ahem - good pictures and download them to your hard drive. I stopped using that tool once it dutifully filled a directory with horrible images. The scary thing about that one is that I didn't even notice the folder for a couple of weeks or months... sometimes not having backups is a good thing! Freenet works by downloading the content on to your own PC. I get that you have a reasonable defense if you don't know what the encrypted files on your drive are... but once I visited the bad freenet site, I could no longer credibly say that I didn't know what was in the encrypted files. I stopped running freenet. Scary stuff, indeed. We've already started teaching our kids not to take any pictures of themselves or their friends naked or in revealing outfits, not because it is morally wrong but because prosecutors have demonstrated a willingness to use "child protection" statutes against children.
I've stumbled upon them. Playing with freenet I followed a link that I wish I hadn't. In the early days of the file sharing networks I would get the occasional nasty download. Downloading binaries from usenet many years ago would occasionally yield an image that I would have liked to excise from my brain. All you can do is purge the file the best you can and hope you weren't being set up by some kind of a sting operation.
If you consider me selfish, then so be it. I don't take mass transit because the hour+ it would take me to get to work on the train/bus combo would cost me 1.5 hours of time in the day. I could charge 1.5 hours less each day or see less of my family. I can't move closer to work because that would mean moving further away from my wife's job, increasing her commute. She can't take mass transit because her job is in a terrifying area of town and she has odd hours where it is not safe. I'm not going to be apologetic and neither is she.
In NY, you can choose your energy supplier - and you can pick 100% renewable. While it is true that you can't control where each individual electron comes from, you can certainly effect the balance of sources.
I guess it depends on what you are doing. I find it difficult to get the sleep and power settings to work well in Linux on laptops. You miss some accelerated graphics, I suppose. But a nice lightweight window manager inside of Virtual Box at full screen is quite a manageable work environment for me.
These days, it doesn't even need to be a "Linux" laptop... just so it can virtualize with decent performance. The underlying OS doesn't really matter too much.
Anyone can hear compression artifacts, that is true enough. You pretty much only have those in artificially contrived signals at 320kbps for any competent encoder. Back in the Hydrogen Audio blind test days, I don't think I ever saw anyone able to hear a difference between WAV and Lame encoded "extreme", let alone 320kbps.
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They are a thing, as other posters have pointed out. I think you probably are underestimating the weight and bulk of this thing:
1. It needs to be heavy enough (or have anchor points) to resist the kick of the rifle.
2. It needs to be rugged enough to operate at least once after being exposed to the combat environment (impacts, dirt, water, etc)
3. The servos need to be strong enough to precisely orient a bulky rifle plus ammo. An m16 is around 4kg loaded with 20 rounds. Compare that to the roughly 1kg weight of a DSLR camera, and consider how large the gimbals they sell for those are.
4. Optics. You'd need a high-quality optics, calibrated to align with the rifle. If the optics were good enough and the viewing conditions optimal enough, you might be able to depend on the soldier to correct for bad aim, but either way you are talking more weight for optics and precise alignment of the firearm. The optics needs to be kept clean.
5. Power - a battery that either needs to be lugged around and/or charged periodically.
In short, a soldier can only carry, say, 40kg including all their body armor and such. If you offer them 10kg for this contrivance or the same weight in ammo or grenades, I suspect they will not opt for the rifle gimbal.
Having your identity stolen can suck, true. But at the end of the day it's a temporary inconvenience and I don't have to spend my entire life acting like a mouse hiding in a hole with a hawk circling overhead. Life is horrifyingly dangerous, and focusing so much energy on this single risk is just not rational.
Why can't _I_ pick and choose?
Incognito ("New Private Window", "InPrivate", Porn Mode, etc) solves this "problem", does it not? Visit one site, log in, do your thing, close browser window. No fuss, no muss, no cross-site anything at all. Built in to every major browser AFAIK.
Make sure the creases in your aluminum hat are sharp and at a 60 degree angle.
Honestly, it's probably because the margins are so low in mobile. Maybe they could compete with a $25 system-on-chip that implements an entire cell phone, but where is the profit?
Maybe it is nation-dependent? PC and now Mac sales have taken a bigger plunge in the US than worldwide. StatCounter unfortunately is counting all users, not just people who purchased a PC last year. One of my PCs at home is a Core2Duo, and I'm sure I'm not alone. My Mac is from 2009.
For instance, Windows 10 (a better proxy for recent machines sold vs ChromeOS) has a 25% web share - and that includes desktops.
Never gained widespread adoption? They outsell both Mac and Windows laptops in terms of unit sales. They are ubiquitous at schools. You can buy them at Walmart and Target. If you have more recent information showing a downward trend, by all means share it.
It's not really much of a merger anyway - ChromeOS is just Chrome and some glue running on a Linux kernel. Android is a much more full-featured OS also built on Linux that also happens to run a mobile version of Chrome as an app. Port the full version of Chrome and some of the glue over to Android and you have all of the functionality of a Chromebook. I could see them selling two versions of the same machine - a locked-down ChromeOS-branded machine for schools and such and a more open Android version for the kids to buy at home. They do have to be careful not to open up ChromeOS too much or a lot of the administrative appeal goes away.
Nah, they are better than netbooks. They have a reasonably-sized screen, their battery life is half a day, and they are inherently limited by running only a web browser. You don't get any delusions of grandeur and try to run Photoshop or Eclipse on it. If you have kids, the Chromebook is awesome. It costs around $200, does everything they need for school, and they quite literally cannot fuck up the software.
Only if you think they will stay distinct forever. How low does the Windows share need to go before people start to make the same old argument they always did: Why should I buy this other OS when it doesn't run all of my existing software?
If Android continues to mature and tablets get more capable, why not expand into PCs? Already you are seeing Chromebooks which can run Android software. Will Windows be forced to adopt an Android environment as well? Will Adobe make a Photoshop for Android laptops? I think the way things are quickly changing is very interesting, and these comparisons are interesting to see.
Far scarier than a letter from the copyright police. Those incidents all changed my behavior - like your acquaintance, I would just select all the files that matched a search term and download them without a thought. I'd come home from work and see what treasures I'd downloaded. Once I got some questionable pictures or videos, I was a lot more discerning. I used to run a usenet picture extraction tool - it would comb though usenet looking for - ahem - good pictures and download them to your hard drive. I stopped using that tool once it dutifully filled a directory with horrible images. The scary thing about that one is that I didn't even notice the folder for a couple of weeks or months... sometimes not having backups is a good thing! Freenet works by downloading the content on to your own PC. I get that you have a reasonable defense if you don't know what the encrypted files on your drive are... but once I visited the bad freenet site, I could no longer credibly say that I didn't know what was in the encrypted files. I stopped running freenet. Scary stuff, indeed. We've already started teaching our kids not to take any pictures of themselves or their friends naked or in revealing outfits, not because it is morally wrong but because prosecutors have demonstrated a willingness to use "child protection" statutes against children.
Just stay on the side of the earth not facing the sun.
I've stumbled upon them. Playing with freenet I followed a link that I wish I hadn't. In the early days of the file sharing networks I would get the occasional nasty download. Downloading binaries from usenet many years ago would occasionally yield an image that I would have liked to excise from my brain. All you can do is purge the file the best you can and hope you weren't being set up by some kind of a sting operation.
If you consider me selfish, then so be it. I don't take mass transit because the hour+ it would take me to get to work on the train/bus combo would cost me 1.5 hours of time in the day. I could charge 1.5 hours less each day or see less of my family. I can't move closer to work because that would mean moving further away from my wife's job, increasing her commute. She can't take mass transit because her job is in a terrifying area of town and she has odd hours where it is not safe. I'm not going to be apologetic and neither is she.
No you can't?
Here are the choices available on the Upper East Side
And Poughkeepsie, just to keep it interesting.
Both have 100% green options.
I think you need to also include oil exploration, extraction, and refining for ICE cars. Lithium mines suck, but so to refineries.
NY has progressive income tax - net flow of subsidy is decidedly down.
In NY, you can choose your energy supplier - and you can pick 100% renewable. While it is true that you can't control where each individual electron comes from, you can certainly effect the balance of sources.
I guess it depends on what you are doing. I find it difficult to get the sleep and power settings to work well in Linux on laptops. You miss some accelerated graphics, I suppose. But a nice lightweight window manager inside of Virtual Box at full screen is quite a manageable work environment for me.
Well, if you care about that keep on keepin' on.
These days, it doesn't even need to be a "Linux" laptop... just so it can virtualize with decent performance. The underlying OS doesn't really matter too much.
As they only focus on iPhone fun toys, ... and not on professional tools anymore, ...
Your argument would have more teeth if they weren't getting spanked by cheap-as-dirt Chromebooks running nothing but a browser on buttoned-down Linux.
I don't know about where you work, but our generator (and every other one I've seen) sits in a giant sheetmetal enclosure.
Oh, you'd normally be right about the snark... sarcastic bastard born and raised in the northeast US... :)
Anyone can hear compression artifacts, that is true enough. You pretty much only have those in artificially contrived signals at 320kbps for any competent encoder. Back in the Hydrogen Audio blind test days, I don't think I ever saw anyone able to hear a difference between WAV and Lame encoded "extreme", let alone 320kbps.